November 10, 2011 Auction
    
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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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Lot 191A :
SPORTING/FISHING: (on 4)
Henry Phillips, The True Enjoyment of Angling, London: Wm. Pickering, 1843, inscribed,To Mr. Smith with the best compliment and thanks of the author, 1844; Thomas Doubleday, The Coquet-dale Fishing Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1852;W.J. Turrell, Ancient Angling Authors, London: Guerney…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 192 :
SPORTING: WALTON, ISAAC and COTTON, CHARLES
The Complete AnglerLondon: Printed for Samuel Bagster in the Stand, 1808, 6th ed., 8vohalf leather, spine with gilt lettering and embossed fish (very good, leather faded)Estate of a Madison, New Jersey collector  
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $75 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 193 :
SPORTING/FOX HUNT: (on 12)
THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF FOX-HUNTING, 2 vols., Radcliffe, 1911; HOUNDS AND HUNTING THROUGH THE AGES, J. B. Thomas, 1929, Derrydale Press; MY IRISH SKETCH BOOK and MY HUNTING SKETCH BOOK, L. Edwards, 1938, [discoloration and mildew]; HUNTING SONGS, by R.…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $65 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 194 :
ORNITHOLOGY: (on 6)
Elon H. Eaton, Birds of New York, 2 vols., Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910, 4to; Portraits of New England Birds, Drawn in Color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Allan Brooks, Published by the Commonwealth of Mass.,…  MORE
Estimate: $150 - $250

Realized: $20 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 195 :
SPORTS/BASEBALL: (on 3)
Chicago Cubs 1941 Player's History and Record Book 10c, pamphlet;Who's Who In The Major Leagues, Chicago: B. E. Callahan, 1940, paper book; andBaseball Register The Game's "400" All-Star Edition, 1941, The Sporting News, blue cloth boards, (new binding) (minor corner…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $80

Realized: $35 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 196 :
LITERATURE/16TH C.: OVID
Le Metamorphosi D'Ovidio in Ottave Rima Colestro LatinoVenice: 1570, 8vo(old vellum rebind, scattered spotting)  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $250 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 197 :
LITERATURE: THE RESTORED MAIDEN-HEAD
A NEW SATYR AGAINST WOMAN: OCCASION'D by an INFANT, who was the Cause of the Death of my Friend.London: H. Smith, 1691, half leather with marbleized boards (old rebinding)(roughness to corners and spine with normal spotting to pages)  
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $425 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 198 :
DICTIONARY/LITERATURE: (on 2)
Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, in MiniatureLondon: Printed for John Creswick and Co., 1795, 2nd ed., 32mo(orig. leather binding, cover worn at hinge; some folds in lower page corners) Dr. Samuel Garth, The Dispensary, A Poem in Six…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $25 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 199 :
PROSE/18TH C. EDITIONS: (on 17)
Aesop, The Fabes of..., with a Life of the Author and Embellished with One Hundred & twelve Plates, 2 vols., London: Printed for John Stockdale, c. 1793, 8vo., full brown leather, full (binding rubbed and bumped, random foxing with fade-through…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $250

Realized: $225 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 200 :
17TH C. TITLES/MATHEMATICS/RELIGION: (on 4)
Josias Dewye, This Manuel of Arithmetick, as is, 32moCapt. Thomas Rudd, Practical Geometry, London: 1650, 12mo, (no cover, as is)Richard Bernard, Looke Beyond Luther, London: 1623, 12mo, (no cover, as is)Wilhelmo Schikardo, Regum Persiae, Ab Ardschir- Babekan..., Tubingae: 1628(rebound in…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $300 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 201 :
HISTORICAL/MISC.: (on 11) 18/EARLY 19TH C.
Plutarch's Lives, London: 1727; Considerations sur les Oeuvres de Dieu, Alahaye: 1777; Works of Nicholas Rowe, London: 1766; Scotts Works, London: 1812; History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, London: 1777; Platonis Opera, Lipsiae: 1820, 32mo; The Minstral…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $90 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 202 :
ARCHITECTURE/18TH C.: EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)
A Parallel of Ancient Architecture with Modern with the addition of The Elements of Architecture: Collected by Sir Henry WottonLondon: printed by T.W. for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter....and D. Browne, 1733, 4th ed. 4to, full brown leather, (some splitting at…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $250 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 203 :
ARCHITECTURE/ARTIST AUTOGRAPH: BIDDLE, OWEN and HARNETT
The Young Carpenter's Assistant or A System of Architecture, Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, 1805, fully illus., full leather, 8vo (as is, spine broken, rough, serious foxing throughout) however:end page inscribed in ink To E. T. Snow Yours Truly Wm M. HarnettAmerican…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $700 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 204 :
LITERATURE/AUTOGRAPH: (on 5) HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (one signed)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Tableinscribed on flyleaf: Mrs. Sarah J. Hale from her old friend and fellow boarder, O.W. HolmesBoston: Phillips, Sampson, 1859, 2nd ed., 8vo, red cloth (rough, spine broken, needs rebinding); along with 4 vols., various titles, partial…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $80

Realized: $175 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 205 :
LITERATURE/AUTOGRAPH: (on 2) LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Victorian autograph card signed Henry W. Longfellow, October 16,.1888, 5" by 3"; along withThe Poetical Works of Longfellow, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press, 1885, embosssed cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo(spine with roughness at top and bottom, some corner…  MORE
Estimate: $75 - $150

Realized: $200 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 206 :
LITERATURE/AUTOGRAPH: (on 2) WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
Victorian autograph card signed, John G. Whittier, 5" by 3"; along withThe Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885, brown embossed cloth with gilt framed title(spine wear at top and bottom and with…  MORE
Estimate: $50 - $100

Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 207 :
DECORATIVE BINDINGS/LITERATURE: (on 8) COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE
The Works of..., 8 vols.Mohawk Edition, New York: J.P. Putnam, The Knickerbocker Press, undated, 8vothree quarter leather and marble boards (good, edges slightly rubbed)  
Estimate: $100 - $200

Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 208 :
DECORATIVE BINDINGS/LITERATURE: (on 25) EMERSON and HOLMES
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, Emerson's Works, 12 vols.Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903three quarter leather, marbelized boards, 8vo, (very good)HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, The Complete Writings of..., 13 vols., Autocrat EditionCambridge: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin, 1892, 8vo, three quarter blue leather…  MORE
Estimate: $150 - $250

Realized: $225 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 209 :
LITERATURE: (on 16) DICKENS, CHARLES
The Works of..., 16 vols.London: Chapman and Hall, 1874illus. H.K. Browne and G. CattermolePhila.: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 8vo, three quarter red leather, Charles Lauriat, Boston(close to pristine)Ex: library of Edgar V. Seeler, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $200 - $300

Realized: $550 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 210 :
LITERATURE: (on 3)
Hazlitt, William, Liber Amoris or the New Pygmalion with Additional Mater Now Printed for the First Time from the Original Manuscript, introduction by Richard Le GalliennePrivately Printed, 1894, limited Ed., 22/400 copies for English, and 100 copies for American subscribers,…  MORE
Estimate: $40 - $80

Realized: $10 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 211 :
LITERATURE: LUM, BERTHA (American, 1869-1954)
Gods, Goblins and Ghosts. The Weird Legends of the Far EastPhiladelphia/London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1922, autographed edition, Hand bound with paper boards and in a triple fold folio case with double ties(folio with normal wear to edges and corners,…  MORE
Estimate: $200 - $400

Realized: $175 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 212 :
MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATED (on 3)
Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book, Photographs from my CameraLondon: The Daily Telegraph, 1908, white cloth, 4to (dirty);S. Meriwether, The Playbook of Troy, illus. by, E. Peck, 1927, Harper & Bros., 4to;Rene D'Anjou, Le Livre Des Tovrnosis Dv Roi Rene, Paris:…  MORE
Estimate: $60 - $90

Realized: $50 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 213 :
LITERATURE: (on 5)
Dante's Inferno and The Dore Bible Gallery, illus. Dore, New York: Cassell & Co., embossed green and brown cloth, 4to; Droll Stories By Balzac, illus. Dore, London:1874, gilt embossed on red cloth, 8vo; Don Quixote, London: H. G. Bohn, 1841,…  MORE
Estimate: $80 - $100

Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 214 :
LITERATURE: (on 2) CARROLL, LEWIS
The Hunting of the Snark and other Poems and Versesillus. by Peter Newell, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903red cloth with gilt decoration; along withAlice's Adventures in Wonderland illus. by Peter Newell, New York and London: Harper &…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $60 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 215 :
DECORATIVE BINDINGS/LITERATURE: (on 15)
Lord Byron, various works, 9 vols.London: 1841, 32mo, full leather (edges rubbed slightly) along with;Victor Hugo, Complete Works of...., 6 vols. (in French), Paris, undated, 12mo, half red leather and marbelized boards (edges slightly rubbed)  
Estimate: $150 - $200

Realized: $200 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 216 :
LITERATURE: (on 5) HUGO, VICTOR
Les Miserables, (5 vols.)Philadelphia: David McKay, undated (late 19th c.), three quarter leather and marbleized boards (good, minor edge rubEx: library of Peter Sigourney, Cambridge, MA  
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $90 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 217 :
LITERATURE: (on 2) DUMAS, ALEXANDER
The Three Musketeers, 2 vols., illus. by Maurice LeleoirNew York: D. Appleton & Co., 1894, Edition Duluxe, 701/7502-tone embossed cloth, 4to (quite good, minor rub and spine fade)  
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $40 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 218 :
LITERATURE: (on 6) illus. KENT, ROCKWELL
MOBY DICK, New York: Random, 1930, 8vo; VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN, New York: Halsyon, 1924, 4to; (2) CANTERBURY TALES, New York: Garden City, 1934, 8vo; WORLD-FAMOUS PAINTINGS, edited by Kent, 1939, 4to; and N BY E, 1933,…  MORE
Estimate: $100 - $150

Realized: $100 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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