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  • (Railroadiana),Pawtuxet Valley, Rhode Island Railroad

    (Railroadiana),Pawtuxet Valley, Rhode Island Railroad

    Lot: 530
    Sold for: $593$500

    (Railroadiana),Pawtuxet Valley, Rhode Island Railroad, Group of printed and manuscript material concerning the formation of this railway, including twelve manuscript plans showing the progress of more ...

  • Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

    Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

    Lot: 531
    Sold for: $237$200

    Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618),The Prerogative of Parliament in England, Midelburge, 1628, first edition, later limp morocco, 4to, (incomplete with 64 pages only, browning). more ...

  • (Ricettario)

    (Ricettario)

    Lot: 532
    Sold for: $1,185$1,000

    (Ricettario),Ricettario Fiorentino di nuovo illustrato, Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1623, with engraved titlepage, three quarter vellum, folio, (binding somewhat soiled, scattered soiling and more ...

  • Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916),Presentation Copy

    Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916),Presentation Copy

    Lot: 533
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    Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916),Presentation Copy, Old-Fashioned Roses, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, original half vellum, extensively inscribed and dated "Indianapolis: Nov. 7: 1904. more ...

  • Roberts, David (1796-1864)

    Roberts, David (1796-1864)

    Lot: 534
    Sold for: $14,220$12,000

    Roberts, David (1796-1864),The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, London: F.G. Moon, 1843, Volume II and III only bound in one volume, contemporary gilt tooled and lettered crushed more ...

  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)

    Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)

    Lot: 535
    Sold for: $119$100

    Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935),The Children of the Night: A Book of Poems, Boston: Richard G. Badger & Company, 1897, first edition, original pictorial cloth, one of 500, 12mo, (fading and more ...

  • Rockwell, Norman, Signed Copy

    Rockwell, Norman, Signed Copy

    Lot: 536
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    Rockwell, Norman, Signed Copy, The Norman Rockwell Storybook, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969, second printing, original cloth with dust jacket, assisted by Jan Wahl, signed on flyleaf and with a more ...

  • (Roman History),Various Authors

    (Roman History),Various Authors

    Lot: 537
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    (Roman History),Various Authors, Scriptores Historiae Romanae Latini Veteres, qui Extant Omnes, Notis Variis Illustrate, a Carolo Henrico de Klettenberg et Wildeck..., Heidelberg: J.J. Haener, more ...

  • (Salmon Fly Fishing),Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803-1857)

    (Salmon Fly Fishing),Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803-1857)

    Lot: 538
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    (Salmon Fly Fishing),Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803-1857),The Book of the Salmon, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850, contemporary pictorial morocco by Andrew Grieve, Edinburgh, with nine more ...

  • Saverien, Alexandre

    Saverien, Alexandre

    Lot: 539
    Sold for: $59$50

    Saverien, Alexandre, Dictionnaire Universel de Mathematique et de Physique, Paris: Rolly and Jombert, 1753, Volume I only, contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering, with fifty folding plates, more ...

  • Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)

    Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)

    Lot: 540
    Sold for: $237$200

    Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498),Compendium totius philosophie tam naturalis quam moralis, Venice: Aurelio Pincio, 1534, contemporary vellum, 8vo, (title page with patched losses, interior very more ...

  • Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965),Signed Presentation Copy

    Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965),Signed Presentation Copy

    Lot: 541
    Sold for: $107$90

    Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965),Signed Presentation Copy, Civilization and Ethics, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1946, third edition, original green cloth, inscription in French and thanking John more ...

  • (Science)

    (Science)

    Lot: 542
    Sold for: $326$275

    (Science),Saggi di naturali esperienze..., Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691, second edition, vellum, folio, (lacking portrait plate, soiling to covers, light soiling within). more ...

  • (Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832))

    (Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832))

    Lot: 543
    Sold for: $59$50

    (Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832)),The Flowers of Scott, London: Ackermann & Co., 1852, illustrated by Emma Bartlett, with thirty-five hand colored plates (including title),three quarter red more ...

  • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) and Knight, Charles

    Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) and Knight, Charles

    Lot: 544
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    Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) and Knight, Charles, The Works of Shakspere with Notes, London: Virtue & Company, [c. 1865], two volumes, gilt pictorial and stamped morocco, illustrated with steel more ...

  • Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834-1903)

    Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834-1903)

    Lot: 545
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    Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834-1903),John Inglesant, London: Macmillan and Co., 1881, first trade edition, in two volumes, red cloth, with slipcase, 8vo, (ex-library with library labels to front more ...

  • (Silversmiths, Antique)

    (Silversmiths, Antique)

    Lot: 546
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    (Silversmiths, Antique),Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths' Work of European Origin, London: Chiswick Press for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1901, original gilt lettered cloth, with 120 more ...

  • Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

    Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

    Lot: 547
    Sold for: $47$40

    Southey, Robert (1774-1843),Poems by Robert Southey, Boston: Manning & Loring, 1799, first American edition, contemporary calf, 8vo, (covers heavily worn and chipped, title page chipped and flyleaf more ...

  • (Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture),Cervantes, Enrique A.

    (Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture),Cervantes, Enrique A.

    Lot: 548
    Sold for: $148$125

    (Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture),Cervantes, Enrique A., Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla, Mexico, 1939, two volumes, gilt pictorial red calf, number 1032 of 2000, profusely illustrated with more ...

  • Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)

    Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)

    Lot: 549
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    Steinbeck, John (1902-1968),Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937, first edition, second issue, original beige cloth with dust jacket, 8vo, (dust jacket tattered and with losses more ...

  • Stout, Rex (1886-1925)

    Stout, Rex (1886-1925)

    Lot: 550
    Sold for: $1,007$850

    Stout, Rex (1886-1925),Six titles: Prisoner's Base, In The Best Families, The Black Mountain, The Second Confession, Before Midnight, and Curtains for Three, New York, 1950-55, all first editions, more ...

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Lot: 551
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    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896),Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852, first edition, one hundredth thousand, with Hobart & Robbins slug on verso of more ...

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

    Lot: 552
    Sold for: $148$125

    Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896),A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853, first edition, first printing, with the single Hobart & Robbins imprint, green cloth with gold more ...

  • Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877)

    Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877)

    Lot: 553
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    Thiers, Louis Adolphe (1797-1877),History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon, London: Henry Colburn, 1845-61, twenty volumes in ten, three-quarter tan calf, 8vo, (bumped, more ...

  • Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

    Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

    Lot: 554
    Sold for: $2,370$2,000

    Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862),A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849, first edition, first printing, pagination: [2 blank pages], [1-7], more ...

  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) and Joyant, Maurice

    Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) and Joyant, Maurice

    Lot: 555
    Sold for: $5,629$4,750

    Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) and Joyant, Maurice, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Peintre and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dessins-Estampes-Affiches, Paris: H. Floury, 1926-1927, two volumes, more ...

  • Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)

    Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)

    Lot: 556
    Sold for: $30$25

    Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580),Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, London: James Tregaskis & Son, 1931, one of 500, with foreword by E.V. Lucas, full Hermitage calf by Bain and Company, 4to, more ...

  • Verne, Jules (1828-1905)

    Verne, Jules (1828-1905)

    Lot: 557
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    Verne, Jules (1828-1905),Le Superbe Orenoque, Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie., [1898], with illustrations illustration by George Roux in color and monotones, with eight pages of ads bearing date 1898-99, more ...

  • Verne, Jules (1828-1905)

    Verne, Jules (1828-1905)

    Lot: 558
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    Verne, Jules (1828-1905),Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours, Paris: Librairie Hachette, for Collection Hetzel, with illustrations by De Neuville and L. Benett, pictorial embossed red cloth, 4to, more ...

  • Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel (1814-1879)

    Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel (1814-1879)

    Lot: 559
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    Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel (1814-1879),Dictionnaire raisonne du L'Architecture Francaise..., Paris: Morel, 1876-[75], ten volumes, half red morocco, 8vo, (edge wear, bumped, some chipping, more ...