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October 26, 2002 11:00 AMCalender

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  • (Colonial Imprint)

    (Colonial Imprint)

    Lot: 136
    Sold for: $1,293$1,100

    (Colonial Imprint),Rogers, John, Death, the Certain Wages of Sin to the Impenitent Life, Boston, printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1701, 12mo, calf, (very chipped, losses around more ...

  • (Conchology)

    (Conchology)

    Lot: 137
    Sold for: $588$500

    (Conchology),Crouch, Edmund, An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology, London, 1827, 4to, shell pictorial cloth, with twenty-two full page plates, more ...

  • (Cookbook, 18th century)

    (Cookbook, 18th century)

    Lot: 138
    Unsold  

    (Cookbook, 18th century),Interesting unbound cookbook from circa 1760, small 8vo, manuscript, with a plethora of recipes, (no binding, chipped and more ...

  • Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

    Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

    Lot: 139
    Sold for: $5,875$5,000

    Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851),The Spy; A Tale of The Neutral Ground, New York, 1821, 1st edition, two volumes, printed for Wiley & Hallsted by William Grattan, old calf, (chipped and bumped, more ...

  • Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

    Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

    Lot: 139A
    Sold for: $411$350

    Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) The Red Rover,, London, 1827, three volumes, more ...

  • (Costumes)

    (Costumes)

    Lot: 140
    Sold for: $411$350

    (Costumes),Costumes of Naples Naples, 1833, 8vo, gilt tooled straight grain morocco, with fifty hand colored plates, most by Palizzi, (very more ...

  • Crafts, William A.

    Crafts, William A.

    Lot: 141
    Sold for: $176$150

    Crafts, William A., The Southern Rebellion; being a History of the United States...from Buchanan's Adminstration to...Grant as President, Boston, 1869, two volumes, 4to, gilt lettered and tooled more ...

  • Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

    Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

    Lot: 142
    Sold for: $823$700

    Crane, Hart (1899-1932),The Bridge: A Poem, Paris, 1930, Black Sun Press, first edition, 4to, with original wraps and glassine protectors, one of 200 on Holland Paper, with three photographs by more ...

  • (Cruikshank, George)

    (Cruikshank, George)

    Lot: 143
    Sold for: $176$150

    (Cruikshank, George),The Comic Almanack...Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities, London, [n.d.], First Series 1835-1843 and, Second Series 1844-1853, two volumes, 8vo, half green calf, more ...

  • Cuming, Fortescue (1762-1828)

    Cuming, Fortescue (1762-1828)

    Lot: 144
    Sold for: $1,293$1,100

    Cuming, Fortescue (1762-1828),Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country through the States of Ohio, and Kentucky, Pittsburgh, 1810, 12mo, old calf, (flyleaf lacking ?, chipped and bumped). Howes more ...

  • Daventer, Henry a

    Daventer, Henry a

    Lot: 145
    Sold for: $529$450

    Daventer, Henry a, The Art of Midwifery Improved, London, 1716, 8vo, calf, with five folding plates, (chipped, bumped and shaken with scattered foxing, one board more ...

  • (Decorative Bindings)

    (Decorative Bindings)

    Lot: 146
    Unsold  

    (Decorative Bindings),The Immortals; Masterpieces of Fiction Crowned by the French Academy, Paris, 1905, twenty volumes, 8vo, gilt lettered three quarter blue morocco, the spine with fleur-de-lys more ...

  • (Dickens, Charles, 1812-70)

    (Dickens, Charles, 1812-70)

    Lot: 147
    Sold for: $1,058$900

    (Dickens, Charles, 1812-70),Kitton, Frederic, Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil, including Anecdotes and Reminiscences Collected from his Friends and Contemporaries, London, 1890-92, three more ...

  • Dickens, Charles (1812-70)

    Dickens, Charles (1812-70)

    Lot: 148
    Sold for: $5,875$5,000

    Dickens, Charles (1812-70),The Works of Charles Dickens, London, 1881-82, Chapman and Hall, thirty volumes extended to sixty, Edition De Luxe, with gilt lettered three quarter blue levant, extra more ...

  • Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving

    Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving

    Lot: 149
    Sold for: $206$175

    Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving, Our WIld Indians: Thirty-three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West, Hartford, Connecticut, 1883, 8vo, gilt pictorial cloth, with five more ...

  • Eliot, George (1819-80)

    Eliot, George (1819-80)

    Lot: 151
    Sold for: $7,050$6,000

    Eliot, George (1819-80),The Works of George Eliot, Boston, 1887, Edition De Grande Luxe, one of 100, twelve volumes extended to twenty-four, 8vo, gilt tooled and lettered red levant with cobalt more ...

  • Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)

    Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)

    Lot: 152
    Sold for: $764$650

    Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965),Journey of the Magi, London, [1927], signed, pictorial boards and prints by E. McKnight Kauffer, in a cloth and blue morocco slip-case, (very good). Gallup more ...

  • Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

    Evelyn, John (1620-1706)

    Lot: 154
    Sold for: $470$400

    Evelyn, John (1620-1706),Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber, York, 1801, third edition, 4to, later gilt tooled and lettered purple moroccan extra, with more ...

  • Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

    Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

    Lot: 155
    Unsold  

    Fielding, Henry (1707-1754),The Works of Henry Fielding, New York, 1903, the Hand Made Edition, George Sproul, one of 150, twelve volumes, 8vo, gilt tooled and lettered blue levant with yellow and more ...

  • Ford, Worthington Chauncey (1858-1941)

    Ford, Worthington Chauncey (1858-1941)

    Lot: 156
    Sold for: $441$375

    Ford, Worthington Chauncey (1858-1941),George Washington, Paris and New York, 1900, two volumes, 4to, gilt lettered and tooled three-quarter crushed red morocco, one of 1250, with twelve full page more ...

  • (Fore-edge Painting)

    (Fore-edge Painting)

    Lot: 157
    Sold for: $176$150

    (Fore-edge Painting),Galignani's New Paris Guide, Paris, 1848, small octavo, 582 pages, with painting of Notre-Dame and the more ...

  • France, Anatole (1844-1924)

    France, Anatole (1844-1924)

    Lot: 158
    Unsold  

    France, Anatole (1844-1924),The Novels and Short Stories of Anatole France, New York, the Versailles Edition, one of twelve, signed by the publisher, nineteen volumes, with pictorial red morocco more ...

  • Franklin, Sir John & May, Commander Walter W.

    Franklin, Sir John & May, Commander Walter W.

    Lot: 159
    Sold for: $5,875$5,000

    Franklin, Sir John & May, Commander Walter W., A Series of Fourteen Sketches made during the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, London, 1855, folio, original gilt cloth, more ...

  • Frost, Robert (1874-1963)

    Frost, Robert (1874-1963)

    Lot: 161
    Sold for: $999$850

    Frost, Robert (1874-1963),Four Signed titles; comprising, Selected Poems, New York, 1923, 8vo, cloth; New Hampshire, New York, 1923, 8vo, cloth; West-Running Brook, New York, 1928, 8vo, cloth; and more ...

  • German Manuscript Prayer Book

    German Manuscript Prayer Book

    Lot: 162
    Sold for: $176$150

    German Manuscript Prayer Book, bound group of manuscript prayers for Louis Welcher, the title page dated September, 1846, on a gilt calf binding with needlework panel of St. Anne on more ...

  • Graves, Robert

    Graves, Robert

    Lot: 164
    Sold for: $88$75

    Graves, Robert, Ten Poems More Paris, 1930, printed by Hours Press, marbled boards, one of 200, signed by the author more ...

  • Greenleaf, Joseph

    Greenleaf, Joseph

    Lot: 165
    Sold for: $176$150

    Greenleaf, Joseph, An Abridgment of Burns' Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer Boston, 1773, first edition, 4to, old calf, (lacking title and losses to last leaf, more ...

  • (Harvard University)

    (Harvard University)

    Lot: 166
    Sold for: $323$275

    (Harvard University),Mather, Cotton, Sal Gentium. The Fourth Book of the New English History, Containing an Account of the University, London, 1702, more ...

  • Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)

    Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)

    Lot: 167
    Sold for: $5,288$4,500

    Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961),A Farewell to Arms, New York, 1929, half vellum and boards, one of 510, signed, (spine label missing, fading, minor soiling). Hanneman more ...

  • Homer

    Homer

    Lot: 168
    Sold for: $441$375

    Homer, Two titles; The Odyssey of Homer, London, 1725-26, six volumes, 8vo, translated by Alexander Pope; and The Iliad of Homer, London, 1720, five volumes, 8vo, translated by Alexander Pope; all more ...