November 10, 2011 Auction
    
414 - Lots Found Go to lot:  < 0 48 99 148 191A 240 522 571 621 > 
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Lot 148 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 11) LATE 19TH C.
Robinson Crusoe; Hector The Dog; Billie Taylor; Johnny Headstrong's Coney Island; Beauty and the Beast; Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp Cinderella or the Glass Slipper; Ali Baba or the Forty Thieves, all New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1881-1891; withThe Three Bears…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $160 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 148A :
CHILDREN'S: (on 21) VARIOUS ILLUSTRATED
PETER PAN AND WENDY, 1930; ADVENTURES OF PERRINE, 1934; KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS, 1927; ROBINSON CRUSOE, TREASURE ISLAND, 1915; TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, 1925; THE STORY OF MANKIND, 1926; THE PETERKIN PAPERS, 1924; THE CHILDREN'S BIBLE, 1925; and THE BOY…  MORE
Estimate: $50 - $75

Realized: $130 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 149 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 18) LATE 19TH C. & EARLY 20TH C.
A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear, London/NY: F. Warne & Scribner, 19th c.; Northern Fairy Tales; Sammy Goes A'Hunting; Oh! Poor Amelia Jane; Peter Pan; Peter Rabbit At The Farm; Keeper Jocko; Beatrix Potter (4); Brave Little Boys; The Little…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 150 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 3) ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
The Arabian Nights, illus. Maxfield Parrish, Scribner's,1909;When She Was About Sixteen, illus. Howard Chandler Christy, Bobbs-Merrill,1911; Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling, 1910, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910all 8vo (rough corners, Kipling has loose pages)Prov.: collection of Henry Sigourney,…  MORE
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $15 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 151 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 16 ) LATE 19TH, EARLY 20TH C. CLASSICS
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus; Man In The Moon Stories Told Over The Radio-Phone; Don Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures of Ulysses; Stories of King Arthurs' Knights Told To Children; Sunday Reading for the Young and Old; Jessica's First…  MORE
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 152 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 6)
Brownie Year Book, Palmer Cox, New York: McLoughlin,1895; The Adventures of A Brownie, John Neill, illus, Chicago: 1908, Reilly & Britton, 1908; along withAfternoon Tea, London, F. Warne & Co.; At Home; The Horkey, London:1882; Mr. Bunny His Book, Saalfield…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $90

Realized: $85 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 153 :
CHILDREN'S: NAST, THOMAS, illus.
A Visit from St. NicholasNew York: McLoughlin Bros., 1869lithographed paper, 8vo1st printing, later to become The Night Before Christmas(vivid, spine with wear, corners slightly bumped)  
Estimate: $50 - $75

Realized: $600 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 153A :
CHILDREN'S: (on 2)
The Night Before Christmas"Linenette", lithographed board, revised ed. with new illustrations, New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons, 1947 (corners bumped, spine good) along with;The Little Red Hen, same publisher, 1948 (cover off, edges worn, well used)  
Estimate: $50 - $100

Realized: $40 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 154 :
CHILDREN'S: MILNE, A. A.
Winnie-The-Poohwith decorations by Ernest H. ShepardE. P. Dutton & Company, 1926, 1st ed., 8vogreen cloth with gilded lettering (missing dust jacket and with minor corner roughness)  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 155 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 7) VARIOUS, illus. RACKHAM
The Rhinegold & The Vallkyrie, London: Heinemann, NY: Doubleday, 1910, 1st British Trade ed.;Gulliver's Travels, London: Dent, NY: Dutton, 1909;Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens, London: MacMillan, 1920, 1st ed.Rip Van Winkle by Irving, London:Heinemann, N: Doubleday, Page, 1908, 3rd…  MORE
Estimate: $300 - $500

Realized: $375 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 156 :
CHILDREN'S: (on 21) in. GREENAWAY, KATE, illus.
Under the Window, London, Frederick Warne & Co. & New York;Marigold Garden, orig. dust jacket, London, Frederick Warne & Co. & New York; andMarigold Garden, well-used, some torn and taped pages; along with(18) various children's books inc Jolly-Jump Ups Zoo…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 157 :
CIRCUS RELATED: (on 3)
Struggles and Triumphs; or Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum, autobiography,Buffalo, NY: 1873, Warren, Johnson & Co., embossed cloth, 8vo (rough spine);Illustrations of Shcoenhut's Marvelous Toys, 1904; and The Circus, Clara Knecht, a souvenir book, New York: Saalfield Publ.,…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $80

Realized: $100 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 158 :
CHILDREN'S: ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN
Danish Fairy Legends and TalesLondon: William Pickering, 1846, 1st English ed.leather and cloth, 12mo (spine rubbed)  
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $225 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 159 :
OCCULT/FANTASY: (on 4)
History of the Devil, Daniel Defoe, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1854, ebossed cloth, 12mo(spine very weak, some foxing throughout);The Coming of Fairies, Arthur Conan Doyle, New York:George Doran, 1922, 2nd ed., 8vo;Ghost Land, Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism, Emma…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 160 :
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 16)
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1800-1823, 16 vols.First Series, I, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI; Second Series, I, II, III, X; Third Series, II, IV, VIIBoston: Monroe and Francis; cloth, 8vo, (rough spines, foxing)Ex: Henry P. Fairbanks…  
Estimate: $60 - $80

Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 161 :
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 5)
Barber, John W., Historical Collections...of Every Town in Massachusetts, illus. 200 engravings, fold-out colored map, Worcester: Dorr Howland, 1839, 1st ed., 8vo, full leather (rough edges); Minot, George R., Continuation of the History of the Province of Massachustts Bay from…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 162 :
AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 2)
William Wallar Henning, The New Virginia Justice, ....in the Commonwealth of VirginiaRichmond, T. Nicolson, 1795, 8vo, full leatherinscribed: To Richard W. Hale, Esq. (founder of Hale and Doer, Boston)(spine roughness, board separated; overall toning); along withLetters from a Farmer in…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $3,500 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 163 :
AMERICAN HISTORY: HALE, SALMA (sgn. by author)
History of the United States from the First Settlements to the Close of the War with Great Britain, 1815London: John Milly, 1826, 1st ed., 8voEarly editions did not include the authors name. He as added it to this edition in…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 164 :
18TH C. AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 3)
Thomas Hutchinson, Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts-BayBoston, New-England: Thomas and John Fleet, 1769leather and marbelized board, 8vo (spine and edges rubbed)William Douglass, A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive…  MORE
Estimate: $300 - $500

Realized: $350 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 165 :
AMERICAN HISTORY: (on 2) 'Library of Benjamin Franklin'
Journal of the United States In Congress Assembled: Containing the Proceedings from the Third Day of November, 1783 To the Third Day of June, 1784, vol. IXPhila.: Printed by John Dunlap, no date, prob. 1784, 8vo, paper boards (no spine,…  MORE
Estimate: $150 - $200

Realized: $1,700 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 166 :
HISTORY/NEW YORK: (on 2) DANKERS, J. AND SLUYTER, P., etc.
Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Coloniesin 1679-80, Brooklyn: 1867, half red leather and gilt, many various fold-out maps and engravings at conclusion, 8vo (minor edge roughness); along withGertrude L. Vanderbilt,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $90 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 167 :
AMERICAN HISTORY/NEW JERSEY: (on 13)
Thomas F. Gorden, History of New Jersey...,Trenton: 1834, half green leather and gilt, 8vo; Edgar J. Fisher, New Jersey as a Royal Province 1738-1776, NY: Columbia Univ., 1911, three quarter red leather with gilt, 8vo; Edwin P. Tanner, The Province…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $100 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 168 :
18TH/19TH C. AMERICANA: (on 6) SIGOURNEY FAMILY BOOKS
A Survey of Boston And Its Vicinity, John G. Hales, Boston:1821; Three Years Travel through The Interior Parts of North America, Capt. Jon. Carver, Phila. 1789; The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working The Five Orders of Architecture, Peter Nicholson,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 169 :
HISTORICAL/BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: (on 6)
T. Bridgman, Memorials of The Dead In Boston, Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1852, gilt brown cloth; J. H. Stark, Antique Views of ye Towne of Boston, Boston: Morse-Purce, 1907, gold and red embossed on golden cloth; King's Handbook of Boston,…  MORE
Estimate: $50 - $100

Realized: $55 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 170 :
ART: ST. MEMIN and GURNEY, J.
St. Memin Collection of Portraits, Consisting of 760 Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans, Photographed by J. Gurney, New York...New York: Elias Dexter, 1862, folio, three quarter red leather(spine split, edges bumped, Seeler notation on end page)Ex: library of Edgar…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $525 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 171 :
(on 8) LITERATURE: 20TH C. 1ST ED.
Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock, New York: Knopf, 1931; Joseph Conrad, The Rover, New York: Doubleday, 1923; Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet, 2 vols., New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942; Noel Coward, Autobiography, New York: Doubleday, 1937; Thorton…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 172 :
19TH C. JAPANESE WOODBLOCK BOOK
Illustrations to the Epitome of Ancient History of Japan, collected and arranged by McLeod, Kyoto, 1878, 10" by 7"inc. ancient Israelites march to Japan.....Estate of Carol Ishimoto, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 173 :
(on 2) KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)
black and white woodblock, Winter In Aizu, sgn. in plate and in pencil, Kiyoshi Saito, 17 by 23 in. (minor surface and edge dirt with minor folds in margins); unframed; along with a signed (?) colored woodblock of blossoms 8/300,…  MORE
Estimate: $150 - $250

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 174 :
FINE ART/JAPAN: (on 4) AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN
The Ornamental Arts of Japan, two volumes bound in four booksLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, foliocolored plates and black and white platesfull brown leather with gilt edging, inside covers with tooled leather edges and decorative paper, pages…  MORE
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Realized: $600 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 174A :
JAPANESE GARDENING/IKEBANA: (on 11)
inc. The Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement, by Alfred Koehn, Japan/London, 1933; Flower Arrangement Art of Japan, by Mary C. Wood, Tokyo, 1952; Japanese Orthodox Flower Arrangement by Tsujii Koshu, NY: Yamanaka & Co., 1938, cloth bound, in slip case;…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $130 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 175 :
FINE ARTS/CHINA: GORER, EDGAR and BLACKER, J.F.
Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, 2 vols.illustrated by 254 Pages of Gems...., Described by Edgar Gorer and J.F. BlackerLondon: Bernard Quaritch, 1911, limited ed. 817/1000, foliopictorial white buckram with gilt onlay (soiling at edges of cover, very good)Ex: library of…  MORE
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

Realized: $7,500 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 175A :
JAPANESE ART/PRINTS AND PRINTMAKING: (on 10)
inc., Japanese Prints, James A. Michener, Rutland, Vt./Tokyo, 1959, in slip case;A Treasury Of Japanese Woodblock Prints, S. Kikuchi, New York, 1969;Japanese Wood-Block Printing, H. Yoshida, Tokyo, 1939; Japanese Scroll Painting, K. Toda, Chicag, 1935; Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $200 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 175B :
JAPANESE PROSE AND POETRY: (on 3)
Birds of Sorrow - A No Play, by Motokiyo Zeami, trans. by Meridith Weatherby & Bruce Rogers, Tokyo: 1947, printed in black and white on rice paper, bound by hand;Sword and Blossom Poems From The Japanese, 2 vols., done in…  MORE
Estimate: $50 - $100

Realized: $110 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 176 :
FINE ARTS/JAPAN:(on 5)
Kawakita, Michiaki, Contemporary Japanese Prints, Tokyo,/Palo Alto, California: Kodansha International, 1970, tipped-in plates, embossed cloth with original dust band, folio; along with Modern Japanese Prints, an Art Reborn, Oliver Statler, Vermont/Tokyo: Tuttle,1960 (two of same book, orig. sleeves); Kenzo Tange,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $55 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 177 :
LITERATURE: (on 5) LEVER, CHARLES (1806-1872)
Works of...., 5 vols., Harry L'Orrequer; Barrington; The Knight of Gwynne; The O'Donoghue; One of Them, illus. by Phiz, Dublin: Wm. Curry, 1839, three quarter green leather and green marbled boards, 8vo. (very good)  
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 178 :
DECORATIVE BINDINGS: (on 21)
Letters of Walpole, 9 vols., London:1857, three quarter leather and marbelized board, 8vo (good, 2 boards loose); John L. Stoddard's Lectures, 5 vols., Boston: Balch Bros., 1903, three quarter leather, 8vo (good); along with Scribner's Monthly, 7 various vols., 1874-1885,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 179 :
DECORATIVE BINDINGS/HISTORY: (on 13)
Wm. E.H. Lecky, 6 vols., Democracy and Liberty, Rationalization in Europe, and European Morals (2 vols of each title), London: 1866, 1869, 1896, three quarter leather, 8vo, bound by Wood (good condition); J.R. Green, A Short History of the English…  MORE
Estimate: $150 - $200

Realized: $85 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 180 :
POETRY/GARDENING/MISC.: (on 5)
Poetical Works of Will. Shenstone, 2 vols., Edinburg: Apollo Press, 1778, 32mo, full leather (edges rubbed, age-typical wear); Miller, Philip, The Gardeners Kalendar, London:1760, fold-out engravings at end, 8vo, full leather (spine and hinge separating, age-typical)Fry, John, An Alphabetical Extracts…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $80

Realized: $70 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 181 :
WAR/WWI: (on 3) SKETCH BOOKS, LUCIEN JONAS
Les Armee's De L'Est, Mars Avril 1915Armee Anglaise, Juin 1915,Verdun, Avril 1915Paris: Librairie Dorbon-Aine, limited ed., 101 and 306 of 300-450linen wrapped with handle and pen holder simulating actual field sketch books (minor staining)Ex: library of Peter Sigourney, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $150 - $200

Realized: $70 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 182 :
WAR/WWI: (on 2) L'ALBUM DE LA GUERRE, 1914-1919
vols. 1 & 2, Paris: L'Illustration, 13, rue Saint-Georges, 1924extensve photographic record of World War I with tipped in color portraits, foliobrown leather with gilt oval title(abraised edges, corners and spine, some loose pages)Ex: library of Peter Sigourney, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $150 - $200

Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 183 :
WAR/NAVAL: (on 5) JANE, FRED T.
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1906-07, 1933, 1939, 1946-47, and 1952-53London: published for the Naval Syndicate by Sampson Low, Marstson & Co., blue clotheach volume preceeded by advertisements (some roughness to edges and spine, one with dust jacket)Ex: library of Peter Sigourney,…  MORE
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $65 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 184 :
WAR/NAVAL: (on 9)
Scrapbook of World War I Ships; Our Fighting Ships, Katz, Lee, Levy, New York: Harper & Bros., 1942; E. S. Maclay, History Of The Navy, 3 vols., 1901, New York: D. Appleton, blue cloth; Specifications For Twin-Screw Steel Torpedo Boat…  MORE
Estimate: $50 - $100

Realized: $10 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 185 :
WAR/NAVAL: COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE
The History Of The Navy Of The United States Of AmericaPhiladelphia: Thos. Cowperthwait & Co., 1847, orange cloth with gilt decoration, 8vo(corner and spine roughness and some staining)Ex: library of Peter Sigourney, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $50 - $100

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Lot 186 :
GARDENING: (on 9) VARIOUS
Charles Latham, The Gardens of Italy 2 vols., pub. at the offices of Country Life, and Charles Scribners NY, large folio, green cloth with gilt; Henry James, Italian Hours; illus. in color by Joseph Pennell, Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $160 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 187 :
SPORTING: (on 2) BECKFORD, PETER
Thoughts of Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend, c. 1820London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones. Publisher's advertisement at the end,good full red leather with gilt decoration, bound by Birdsall, Northampton and London; along with a 1929 fascimile,…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $45 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 188 :
SPORTING: (on 7)
Lionel Edwards, MY HUNTING SKETCHBOOK, 2 vols., London /NY: 1928, tan cloth (water damage to binding, pages good); Ralph Nevill, OLD ENGLISH SPORTING BOOKS (1287 of 1500) 1924; and OLD ENGLISH SPORTING PRINTS, (129 of 1500) 1923, London & NY,…  MORE
Estimate: $75 - $125

Realized: $15 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 188A :
SPORTING/DOG/HORSE: (on 9)
Edward Ash, Dogs, Their History and Development, 2 vols., Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, no date, cloth, 4to (vol I with dark cover stain and broken spine); Bert Cobb, Hunting Dogs, NY: Crafton Collection, 1931, limited 999 ed., 4to (spine leather dry,…  MORE
Estimate: $80 - $120

Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 189 :
SPORTING/FISHING: (on 4)
Francis Francis, Book of Angling, London: Longman's Green & Co., 1885, full blue leather, 16mo; along with Van Campen Heilner, Salt Water Fishing, Phil.; Ray Bergman, 1937, 8vo; Just Fishing, Phil.; D.S. Jordan and B.W. Evermann, 1935, 8vo; American Food…  MORE
Estimate: $40 - $80

Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 190 :
SPORTING/FISHING: (on 2) JOHNSON, FRANK M.
Forrest, Lake and Rivery, The Fishes of New England and Eastern Canada, 2 vols.Limited 1st ed., 12/350 copiesBoston: printed for subscribers, University Press, Cambridge, 1902embossed soft leather, hand-painted fly on cover, 8vo (good, normal wear, some spotting)  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 191 :
SPORTING/FISHING: MAXWELL, SIR HERBERT, ed.
Fishing at Home and Abroadlimited ed., 387/750, London: The London & Counties Press, 1913hand-colored and black and white photogravures, 4to, full embossed and gilt leather(condition very good)  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $65 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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