Historic Manuscripts & Rare Books Online
Description:
Nine Books. Including Thomas Taylor, The Practice of Repentance, third edition, London: J. Bartlet, 1632, 395 numbered pages bound with A Man in Christ, third edition, London: J. Bartlett, 1632, 131 numbered pages and Meditations from the Creatures, third edition, London: John Bartlet, 1632, 104 numbered pages, bound in vellum boards, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.; Andrew Gifford, Eighteen Sermons Preached by the Late Rev. George Whitefield, A.M., Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1797, 366 numbered pages, full leather board, (incomplete),7 x 4 1/4 in.; a late 18th century religious book lacking title page, (front board separating),8 1/2 x 5 in.; The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, London: William Pickering, 1831, full green leather board with gilt stamping the inside of the front board with inset miniature portrait of Goldsmith, (front board detached, silk covered endpaper degraded) 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1824, rebound in black leather boards with gilt stamping, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.; S. Weir Mitchell, A Madeira Party, New York: The Century Co., 1897, embossed leather boards, 5 x 3 in.; George Wharton Edwards, Thumb-nail Sketches, New York: The Century Co., 1893, embossed boards, 5 x 3 in.; Diamond Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland, fifth edition, London: Allan Bell and Co. and T. Tegg and Son, 1835, rebound in black and brown leather with gilt stamping, (frontispiece map detached but present),3 1/4 x 2 in.; and Sandford E. Rich, The Endless Length, Farmington, Connecticut: Sandmarc Press, [1975], blue and red leather boards with gilt stamping, 3 x 2 in.
Estimate $200-400
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Keywords
Thomas Taylor, Walter Scott, William Pickering, Oliver Goldsmith, George Wharton Edwards, George Whitefield, John Bartlet, J., S. Weir Mitchell, Sandford E. Rich, Andrew Gifford, Philadelphia, United Kingdom, Farmington, London, NewburyportJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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