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20th Century Literature, Three Volumes:
Lot: 1Unsold20th Century Literature, Three Volumes: Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, 1920, in blue publisher's cloth with orange printing, spine sunned; John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down, 1942, in a good dust more ...
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American History and Kennedys, Six Boxes.
Lot: 2Sold for: $30$30American History and Kennedys, Six Boxes. Including: Zad Rust's Teddy Bare, the Last of the Kennedy Clan, Belmont, MA: Western Islands, [1971], in the dust jacket; Jack Olsen's The Bridge at more ...
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Americana Lot: Ephemera and Two Pamphlets.
Lot: 3Sold for: $200$200Americana Lot: Ephemera and Two Pamphlets. Seven printed documents, late 18th and early 19th century, filled out and signed by hand, mostly judgments of the court in Suffolk County; and more ...
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Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) Rerum sub Impp. Constantio, Iuliano, Iouiano, Valentiniano & Valente, per xxvj. annos gestarum
Lot: 4Sold for: $200$200Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) Rerum sub Impp. Constantio, Iuliano, Iouiano, Valentiniano & Valente, per xxvj. annos gestarum Historia Libris XVIII. Lyons: Le Preux, 1591. Octavo, with a more ...
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Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274) Quaestiones Dispvtatae
Lot: 5Sold for: $650$650Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274) Quaestiones Dispvtatae. Lyons: Rouillium, 1569. Folio, large printer's device on title page, text printed in two columns throughout, bound in full contemporary blind more ...
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Art Books, Two Volumes:
Lot: 6UnsoldArt Books, Two Volumes: Richter's The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art, London: Duckworth, 1904; and Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1907, both in publishers' more ...
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Atlas of Worcester County Massachusetts from Actual Surveys
Lot: 7Sold for: $225$225Atlas of Worcester County Massachusetts from Actual Surveys. New York: F.W. Beers & Co., 1870. Folio, with ninety-five colored town and village plans of the fifty-eight cities and towns in more ...
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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lapland Long-spur
Lot: 8Sold for: $175$175Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lapland Long-spur. Plate CCCLXV, no. 73, Fringilla Laponica, Male spring plumage, male in winter, female; not examined outside of frame, watermark not visible, more ...
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Avedon, Richard (1923-2004) An Autobiography
Lot: 9Sold for: $100$100Avedon, Richard (1923-2004) An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1993. Folio, publisher's cloth with acetate dust jacket, 284 black and white images with visual and textual index and a brief more ...
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Baldwin, Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer
Lot: 10Sold for: $125$125Baldwin, Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. Octavo, 1364 pages, with the large folding map of the United States pasted inside the front board, more ...
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Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) Six Volumes.
Lot: 11Sold for: $60$60Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) Six Volumes. The Gorilla Hunters, London: Patridge, [n.d.]; Digging for Gold, London: Nisbet & Co., [n.d.]; The Young Trawler, London: Nisbet & Co., 1886; The more ...
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Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) The Novels.
Lot: 12Sold for: $650$650Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) The Novels. Philadelphia: Barrie & Son, [1896]. Forty-one volumes, translated by Gertrude Fosdick, illustrated, limited edition, number 283 of 1,000, bound in full more ...
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Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Works.
Lot: 13Sold for: $250$250Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Works. London: J. M Dent & Co., [1905-1908]. Forty volumes, translated by Clara Bell, with prefaces by George Saintsbury, limited edition numbered 349 of 410, more ...
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Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) A General History of Quadrupeds
Lot: 14Sold for: $150$150Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) A General History of Quadrupeds, illus. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Newcastle upon Tyne: Hodgson et al., 1790. First edition, octavo, 456 pages, wood engravings throughout, more ...
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Belasco, David (1853-1931) Two copies: A Souvenir of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum T
Lot: 15Sold for: $150$150Belasco, David (1853-1931) Two copies: A Souvenir of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922, New York, printed more ...
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Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier (1771-1802) Pathological Anatomy, the Last Course of Xavier Bichat
Lot: 16Sold for: $90$90Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier (1771-1802) Pathological Anatomy, the Last Course of Xavier Bichat. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1827. Octavo, publisher's half cloth and paper boards, worn, leaves more ...
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Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890.
Lot: 17UnsoldBlaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890. Two inscribed pages on a single wove paper bifolium. To Charles Randall (1824-1904), member of the House of Representatives more ...
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Blunt, Edmund March (1770-1862) The American Coast Pilot.
Lot: 18Sold for: $90$90Blunt, Edmund March (1770-1862) The American Coast Pilot. New York: Edmund Blunt for William Hooker, 1822. Octavo, stated tenth edition, signature of Captain Thomas Higgins on ffep, lacking pages more ...
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Book Catalogs, Eleven Volumes:
Lot: 19Sold for: $80$80Book Catalogs, Eleven Volumes: Lord Mostyn's Plays, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Printed Books auction catalogs in three volumes, 1919-1920; Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, more ...
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Book Catalogs, Five Volumes:
Lot: 20Sold for: $40$40Book Catalogs, Five Volumes: London: 1801-1833. Bibliotheca Brandiana, 1807, lacking the title page, and all after page 368, in limp cloth wraps; Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice, and Curious more ...
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Book Catalogs, Seven Volumes:
Lot: 21Sold for: $100$100Book Catalogs, Seven Volumes: Bound volumes of 19th century book catalogs, including a catalogue of the Reverend Alexander Dyce collection, given to the South Kensington Museum, 1875; part four of more ...
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Book Catalogs, Thirteen in Wrappers:
Lot: 22Sold for: $30$30Book Catalogs, Thirteen in Wrappers: miscellaneous 20th century book and auction catalogs in soft paper covers, including the collections of Moss, Leighton, Huntington, and the Earl of Pembroke. more ...
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Book Catalogs, Twelve Volumes:
Lot: 23Sold for: $80$80Book Catalogs, Twelve Volumes: Auction catalog of Lord Amherst of Hackney's collection, 1908-09; Catalogue of the Collection of English and French Literature of the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century, more ...
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Buchanan, James, British Consul to New York (1772-1851) Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, wi
Lot: 24Sold for: $150$150Buchanan, James, British Consul to New York (1772-1851) Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, with a Plan for their Melioration. New York: Published by William more ...
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Burchett, Josiah (1666?-1746) Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and ending in 1697
Lot: 25Sold for: $130$130Burchett, Josiah (1666?-1746) Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and ending in 1697. London: Sold by John Nutt near Stationer's-hall, 1703. Octavo, first more ...
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Burgh, James (1714-1775) The Art of Speaking
Lot: 26Sold for: $150$150Burgh, James (1714-1775) The Art of Speaking. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1775. 12mo in 6s, several text leaves torn, last leaf of the index torn with loss; leaves toned throughout, with signs of more ...
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Campbell, Thomas (d. 1844) Letters from the South, Written During a Journey to Algiers
Lot: 27Sold for: $50$50Campbell, Thomas (d. 1844) Letters from the South, Written During a Journey to Algiers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. Octavo, first American edition, occasional internal spotting, more ...
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Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits
Lot: 28Sold for: $150$150Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits. University of California Press, [1983]. Illustrated by Barry Moser, signed by Moser in pencil on the title page, in more ...
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Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC), Tibullus (c. 55 BC-19 BC), Propertius (50 BC-15), and Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 BC-c. 26 BC). [Opera]
Lot: 29Sold for: $375$375Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC), Tibullus (c. 55 BC-19 BC), Propertius (50 BC-15), and Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 BC-c. 26 BC). [Opera]. Lyons: Gryphius, 1548. 16mo in 8s, 316 pps., woodcut printer's more ...
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Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.
Lot: 30Sold for: $175$175Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. trans. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) London: for Osborne, Hitch, Hawes, et al., 1765. 12mo, in four volumes, more ...