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  • (Illuminate Manuscripts)

    (Illuminate Manuscripts)

    Lot: 169
    Sold for: $235$200

    (Illuminate Manuscripts),Leaf from a 14th Century Breviary, two leaves, Latin script, with two gilt initial letters, small sketched design about one letter, 5 1/4 by 3 1/4 more ...

  • Iluminated Manuscript Page from a New Testament

    Iluminated Manuscript Page from a New Testament

    Lot: 170
    Sold for: $1,880$1,600

    Iluminated Manuscript Page from a New Testament, French, 13th century, from the Gospel of St. John, having two columns of script, one large gilt, blue and red initial letter and a small miniature more ...

  • Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

    Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

    Lot: 171
    Sold for: $441$375

    Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826),Jefferson's Notes, on the State of Virginia; with teh Appendixes-complete and...A Sublime and Argumentative Dissertation, on Mr. Jefferson's Religiour more ...

  • Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Presentation Copy

    Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Presentation Copy

    Lot: 172
    Sold for: $588$500

    Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Presentation Copy, The Second Jungle Book, New York, 1895, 8vo, cloth, signed and with extensive inscription, "now these are the laws of the Jungle, and scary and more ...

  • Lawrence, T. E.

    Lawrence, T. E.

    Lot: 173
    Sold for: $588$500

    Lawrence, T. E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph Garden City, New York, 1935, first trade edition, large 8vo, gilt lettered calf spine (minor more ...

  • Lever, Charles James (1806-72)

    Lever, Charles James (1806-72)

    Lot: 175
    Sold for: $1,116$950

    Lever, Charles James (1806-72),The Novels of Charles Lever, Boston, 1902-10, thirty-two volumes, 8vo, crushed half green morocco, with illustrations by Phiz, (very more ...

  • Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-74)

    Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-74)

    Lot: 176
    Sold for: $1,058$900

    Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-74),We New York, 1927, 8vo, gilt tooled and lettered, boards, one of 100, signed by Lindbergh and publishers more ...

  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, (1807-1882) Presentation Copy

    Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, (1807-1882) Presentation Copy

    Lot: 177
    Sold for: $323$275

    Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, (1807-1882) Presentation Copy, The Longfellow Birthday Book, [n.d], printed by George Routledge and Sons, 12mo, pictorial cloth, with pasted in photograph opposite title more ...

  • (Maillol, Aristide, illustrator)

    (Maillol, Aristide, illustrator)

    Lot: 178
    Sold for: $1,293$1,100

    (Maillol, Aristide, illustrator),Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, London, 1937, 8vo, vellum, one of 250, signed by Maillol and with an extra suite of woodblock prints loose as issued on a folding more ...

  • (Maritime History, England)

    (Maritime History, England)

    Lot: 179
    Sold for: $2,703$2,300

    (Maritime History, England),Bound Collection of Eighteen Original Watercolors for Two Popular Titles together with the published titles; Duncan, Archibald, The British Trident, London, 1804-1806, more ...

  • (Midwifery)

    (Midwifery)

    Lot: 181
    Sold for: $646$550

    (Midwifery),Beach, Wooster, An Improved System of Midwifery, New York, 1848, 4to, calf, illustrated with numerour colored plates, more ...

  • Montanus, Arnoldus (1625?-83)

    Montanus, Arnoldus (1625?-83)

    Lot: 183
    Sold for: $8,225$7,000

    Montanus, Arnoldus (1625?-83),America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World...Empires of Mexico and Peru...Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns...etc, London, 1671, more ...

  • Montgomery of Alamain, Field Marshal

    Montgomery of Alamain, Field Marshal

    Lot: 184
    Sold for: $118$100

    Montgomery of Alamain, Field Marshal, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Cleveland and New York, 1958, first edition, 8vo, cloth, inscribed on more ...

  • Morris, Beverley Robinson

    Morris, Beverley Robinson

    Lot: 185
    Unsold  

    Morris, Beverley Robinson, British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London, 1855, first edition, 4to, with half red morocco with pictorial boards, with sixty hand-colored plates, (good, covers scuffed and more ...

  • Morris, Reverend F.O.

    Morris, Reverend F.O.

    Lot: 186
    Sold for: $382$325

    Morris, Reverend F.O., Castles and Halls of England. Forming a New Series of "Ancestral Homes", London, [n.d.], 4to, tooled morocco, with approximately forty colored plates, more ...

  • (Mount Everest) Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. Charlest Kenneth, Bruce &Others

    (Mount Everest) Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. Charlest Kenneth, Bruce &Others

    Lot: 187
    Sold for: $999$850

    (Mount Everest) Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. Charlest Kenneth, Bruce &Others, The Everest Expedition, three titles; Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921, London, 1922, with three folding maps; The more ...

  • (Natural History)

    (Natural History)

    Lot: 188
    Unsold  

    (Natural History),The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, Edinburgh, c. 1835, 4to, half calf and boards, with text and fifty-nine hand-colored plates, (covers loose, more ...

  • (Nonesuch Press)

    (Nonesuch Press)

    Lot: 190
    Sold for: $999$850

    (Nonesuch Press),The Works of Shakespeare, New York, 1929, seven volumes, gilt lettered brown morocco, one of 1600, edited by Herbert Farjeon, (very more ...

  • (Nonesuch Press)

    (Nonesuch Press)

    Lot: 191
    Sold for: $176$150

    (Nonesuch Press),Two Titles, Don Quixote de la Mancha, London, 1930, two volumes, 8vo, crushed brown morocco, one of 1475, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer; Montaigne's Essays, Florio's more ...

  • Ovid, (43 B.C.-17 A.D.?)

    Ovid, (43 B.C.-17 A.D.?)

    Lot: 192
    Sold for: $411$350

    Ovid, (43 B.C.-17 A.D.?),Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures, An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis, London, 1640, printed by J.L. for more ...

  • Ovid (43 B.C.-17? A.D.

    Ovid (43 B.C.-17? A.D.

    Lot: 193
    Sold for: $823$700

    Ovid (43 B.C.-17? A.D., Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the Eminent Hands, London, 1717, printed for Jacob Tonson, 4to, later tree calf with gilt tooling and lettering, with more ...

  • Park, Mungo

    Park, Mungo

    Lot: 194
    Sold for: $235$200

    Park, Mungo, Travels in the Interior of Africa,...1795,1976 & 1797 London, 1799, 8vo, calf, with frontispiece and one full plate (good condition, bumped with repaired more ...

  • Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858)

    Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858)

    Lot: 195
    Unsold  

    Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858),Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the South China Seas and Japan, Washington, 1856, three volumes, (uncollated, bindings frayed and with more ...

  • (Providence, Rhode Island)

    (Providence, Rhode Island)

    Lot: 197
    Sold for: $1,880$1,600

    (Providence, Rhode Island),Providence. Illustrated. Published in Twelve Parts, [Providence], 1891, large 4to, tooled and gilt letttered morocco, containing photogravures of the city's more ...

  • Racinet, Auguste

    Racinet, Auguste

    Lot: 198
    Sold for: $1,410$1,200

    Racinet, Auguste, L'Ornement Polychrome, Paris, 1888, folio, two volumes, later half gilt lettered green morocco, with 220 color chromolithographed plates depicting samplings of ormentation from more ...

  • Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

    Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

    Lot: 199
    Sold for: $940$800

    Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618),The History of the World, London, 1621, printed by William Iaggard for Walter Burre, folio, old calf, with engraved title, portrait and seven double page maps, more ...

  • (Renaissance and Ancient Artists)

    (Renaissance and Ancient Artists)

    Lot: 201
    Unsold  

    (Renaissance and Ancient Artists),Sandrart, Joachim (1606-1688),The Noble Academy of Artists, Academia Noblissimae Artis Pictoriae, Nuremburg, 1683, folio, vellum, with full page and folding more ...

  • (Rhode Island Law, 18th Century)

    (Rhode Island Law, 18th Century)

    Lot: 202
    Sold for: $118$100

    (Rhode Island Law, 18th Century),Acts and Laws of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Attleborough, printed by Solomon Southwick, folio, disbound, twenty-four pages, with state more ...

  • (Rhode Island Newspaper)

    (Rhode Island Newspaper)

    Lot: 203
    Sold for: $206$175

    (Rhode Island Newspaper),The Newport Mercury, June 19, 1775, number 876, printed by Solomon Southwick, four pages, folio, with woodcut masthead, containing relevent depatches and letters concerning more ...

  • Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

    Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

    Lot: 205
    Sold for: $1,058$900

    Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919),The Works of Theodore Roosevelt New York, 1923-26, twenty-four volumes, 8vo, each gilt red cloth with slip case, the Memorial Edition, one of 1,050, volume I signed more ...