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  • Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

    Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

    Lot: 311
    Sold for: $178$150

    Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849),"The Purloined Letter," Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845, printed in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, gilt embossed calf, 8vo, (bumped, losses more ...

  • (Poetry),Six Titles, Five Signed

    (Poetry),Six Titles, Five Signed

    Lot: 312
    Sold for: $36$30

    (Poetry),Six Titles, Five Signed, Bredon, Chinese Shadows, 1922; The Lone Swan, translated by George Kin Leung, (dust jaacket with tears); Graham and Bennett, Brush Strokes on the Fan of a more ...

  • (Poetry),Six Titles, Signed

    (Poetry),Six Titles, Signed

    Lot: 313
    Sold for: $47$40

    (Poetry),Six Titles, Signed, Wallace, Edna Kingsley, two titles, Feelings and Things, 1916, and Wonderings and Other Things, 1919; Bogan, Louise, three titles, Poems and New Poems, 1941, Collected more ...

  • (Poetry),Four Titles, Signed

    (Poetry),Four Titles, Signed

    Lot: 314
    Sold for: $385$325

    (Poetry),Four Titles, Signed, Yeats, Jack B., Sligo, London: Wishart & Company, 1931, second impression, inscribed on flyleaf dated 1931, with dust jacket; Robinson, Edwin Arlington, two titles, more ...

  • (Poetry),Sixteen Titles, Signed

    (Poetry),Sixteen Titles, Signed

    Lot: 315
    Sold for: $237$200

    (Poetry),Sixteen Titles, Signed, including: Hodgson, The Skylark, 1959; Rowley, Selected Poems, 1931 and The City of Refuge, 1917; Cousins, The Renaissance in India, [1918]; Miles, Annotations, more ...

  • Polybius (205?-125? B.C.)

    Polybius (205?-125? B.C.)

    Lot: 316
    Sold for: $385$325

    Polybius (205?-125? B.C.),The History of Polybius the Megalopolitan, London: Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1634, translated by Edward Grimeston, original calf, with folding plate loosely more ...

  • Porter, David (1780-1843)

    Porter, David (1780-1843)

    Lot: 317
    Sold for: $385$325

    Porter, David (1780-1843),Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1822, two volumes in one, with one folding map, one fragmentary map, and several interesting more ...

  • (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)

    (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)

    Lot: 318
    Sold for: $504$425

    (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766),The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr. Houbraken, with their Lives and Characters, London: John and Paul Knapton, 1747-1751, two more ...

  • (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)

    (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)

    Lot: 318A
    Sold for: $415$350

    (Portraiture),Birch, Thomas (1705-1766),The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain engraved by Mr. Houdbraken and Mr. Vertue, London: William Baynes, 1813, contemporary gilt tooled calf, more ...

  • (Presidents, United States)

    (Presidents, United States)

    Lot: 319
    Sold for: $681$575

    (Presidents, United States),The White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents, New York and Washington: Gravure Company of America, 1906, original morocco with large brass roundel of more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Aesop (c. 620-560 B.C.)

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Aesop (c. 620-560 B.C.)

    Lot: 320
    Sold for: $148$125

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Aesop (c. 620-560 B.C.),Aesop's Fables, London: William Heinemann, 1929, pictorial gilt tooled and lettered crushed blue morocco, in slip case, with colored more ...

  • Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)

    Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)

    Lot: 321
    Sold for: $1,067$900

    Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939),Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, London: William Heinemann, 1913, original gilt cloth, with forty-four plates, number 309 of 1,030, signed by the author, 4to, (spine more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

    Lot: 322
    Sold for: $1,778$1,500

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Dickens, Charles (1812-1870),A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann, [1915], gilt pictorial vellum, number 184 of 525, more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich H. C. de (1777-1843)

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich H. C. de (1777-1843)

    Lot: 323
    Sold for: $652$550

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich H. C. de (1777-1843),Undine, London: William Heinemann, 1909, translated by W.L. Courtney, original gilt pictorial boards with glassine more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

    (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

    Lot: 324
    Sold for: $83$70

    (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745),Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909, first trade edition, gilt cloth, with eleven more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator) and The Brothers Grimm

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator) and The Brothers Grimm

    Lot: 324A
    Unsold  

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator) and The Brothers Grimm, Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales, London: Constable & Co., 1917, original gilt lettered cloth with inset gilt tooled and lettered more ...

  • (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Two Titles

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Two Titles

    Lot: 325
    Unsold  

    (Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator),Two Titles, Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Heritage Press, 1940, original cloth with dust jacket; The Vicar of Wakefield, Philadelphia: David more ...

  • Redoute, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840)

    Redoute, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840)

    Lot: 326
    Sold for: $3,081$2,600

    Redoute, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840),Les Roses, Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1835, volumes II and III only, three quarter red morocco, 8vo, together with four decorative bindings from a Scott Works more ...

  • (Riverside Press)

    (Riverside Press)

    Lot: 327
    Sold for: $2,015$1,700

    (Riverside Press),A Book of the Tile Club, Boston and New York: The Riverside Press, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886, numbered 14 of 100 copies on Japanese paper, text by Edward Strahan and F. more ...

  • Robinson, W. Heath (1873-1944)

    Robinson, W. Heath (1873-1944)

    Lot: 328
    Sold for: $593$500

    Robinson, W. Heath (1873-1944),Bill the Minder, written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, London: Constable & Co., 1912, original vellum gilt, number 347 of 380 large paper copies, signed by more ...

  • Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962),Signed Copy

    Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962),Signed Copy

    Lot: 329
    Sold for: $326$275

    Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962),Signed Copy, This is My Story, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937, first edition, signed and numbered 157 of 250 large paper copies, cloth, 4to, (lacking more ...

  • Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

    Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

    Lot: 330
    Sold for: $89$75

    Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718),Lucan's Pharsalia, London: Jacob Tonson, 1718, contemporary calf, with full page engraved frontis and numerous small text vignettes, folio, (cover detached, scattered more ...

  • Ruskin, John (1819-1900),Works

    Ruskin, John (1819-1900),Works

    Lot: 330A
    Unsold  

    Ruskin, John (1819-1900),Works, assembled group of thirty uniformly bound titles and two others, London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1890-1903, various edition, each in three-quarter green more ...

  • Saint German, Christopher

    Saint German, Christopher

    Lot: 331
    Sold for: $2,252$1,900

    Saint German, Christopher, The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in Lawes of England, Newlie corrected and Imprinted, with new Additions, London: Richard Tottill, more ...

  • (Salmon)

    (Salmon)

    Lot: 331A
    Sold for: $326$275

    (Salmon),Haig-Brown, Roderick L., The Salmon, Ottowa, 1974, includes text volume, cloth, 4to, and four folders containing twenty plates, loose as issued, in clamshell box and slipcase, (good, minor more ...

  • Sandburg, Carl and MacLeish, Archibald, Presentation Copy

    Sandburg, Carl and MacLeish, Archibald, Presentation Copy

    Lot: 332
    Unsold  

    Sandburg, Carl and MacLeish, Archibald, Presentation Copy, Home Front Memo, New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943, first edition, original cloth, inscription to flyleaf "Dear Archie, this is more ...

  • (Schooling, Early),Rare Cast Brass Horn Book

    (Schooling, Early),Rare Cast Brass Horn Book

    Lot: 333
    Unsold  

    (Schooling, Early),Rare Cast Brass Horn Book, inscribed St. Paul's, A.D. 1729 to verso, with raised alphabet to recto, with circular hole for suspension, 5 5/8 by 2 1/2 in., (worn). more ...

  • Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

    Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

    Lot: 333A
    Sold for: $119$100

    Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor of the French, Edinburgh: Ballantyne adn Co., 1827, first edition, nine volumes, contemporary gilt calf, 8vo, (bindings heavily more ...

  • Sendak, Maurice (1928- ),Illustrator, Signed Copy

    Sendak, Maurice (1928- ),Illustrator, Signed Copy

    Lot: 334
    Sold for: $326$275

    Sendak, Maurice (1928- ),Illustrator, Signed Copy, Stockton, Frank R., The Griffin and the Minor Canon, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, singed and inscribed March '63 on flyleaf, with more ...

  • (Sevres Porcelain)

    (Sevres Porcelain)

    Lot: 335
    Sold for: $652$550

    (Sevres Porcelain),Garnier, Edouard, The Soft Porcelain of Sevres, London: John C. Nimmo, 1889, with fifty colored plates, loose as issued, cloth, folio, (spine detached, edge chipping, losses and more ...

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