Decorative Bindings, Sets, Approximately Sixty-eight Volumes.

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Decorative Bindings, Sets, Approximately Sixty-eight Volumes. A variety of sets in half leather bindings with gilt tooled and lettered spines, mostly octavo format, including: Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, London: Bentley, 1885; Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Stothard, London: Cadell & Davies, 1820; Macaulay's History of England, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875; Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature, London: Murray, 1817; Bire's Diary of a Citizen of Paris, 1896; Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England, Boston: Brown & Taggard, 1860; Hare's Story of My Life, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1896; The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs, London: Knight, 1833; and others.
Estimate $300-500

Some bindings scuffed and worn, the leather somewhat dry, a few volumes with spines becoming detached, presents well as a group.


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