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(Botanicals, Asian)
Lot: 148Unsold(Botanicals, Asian), Icones Plantarum Omeiensium, edited by Wen-Pei Fang, Szechuan: The National Szechuan University, 1942, Volume I, Number 1, with numerous woodcut botanical plates on rice paper, more ...
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(Botanical Illustration), Sargent, Charles Sprague (1841-1927)
Lot: 149Sold for: $415$350(Botanical Illustration), Sargent, Charles Sprague (1841-1927), The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin more ...
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(Botanical Illustration), Sweet, Robert (1783-1835)
Lot: 150Sold for: $593$500(Botanical Illustration), Sweet, Robert (1783-1835), Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, London: James Ridgway, 1824-1826, Volume III only (of five), gilt lettered and tooled moss green calf, more ...
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(Botanical Management), Burbank, Luther (1849-1926)
Lot: 151Sold for: $267$225(Botanical Management), Burbank, Luther (1849-1926), Luther Burbank, His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application, New York and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914-1915, twelve more ...
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(Botanical Illustration, Medicine), Barton, William P.C., Presentation Copy
Lot: 151AUnsold(Botanical Illustration, Medicine), Barton, William P.C., Presentation Copy, Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or Medical Botany, Philadelphia: Matthew Carey & Son, 1817, first edition, more ...
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Burney, Frances (1752-1840)
Lot: 152Sold for: $237$200Burney, Frances (1752-1840), Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, London: Henry Colburn, 1842, seven volumes, three quarter pink morocco, 8vo, (Vol. I with frontis portrait torn and chipped, and more ...
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Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Lot: 153Sold for: $1,778$1,500Burns, Robert (1759-1796), Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787, first Edinburgh edition, first issue, with "Boxburgh" instead of more ...
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Bush, George (b. 1924)
Lot: 154Sold for: $296$250Bush, George (b. 1924), All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings, New York: Scribner, 1999, first edition, signed bookplate laid onto flyleaf, 8vo, (very good to more ...
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Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel (1788-1824)
Lot: 155Sold for: $474$400Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel (1788-1824), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt., London: John Murray, 1841, with sixty-one steel engravings plus frontis portrait and folding map, gilt tooled full more ...
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Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921), Original Drawing
Lot: 156Sold for: $593$500Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921), Original Drawing, Key, Pierre V. R., Enrico Caruso, A Biography, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922, De Luxe Edition, numbered 59 of 99 copies, with subscriber's more ...
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Catlin, George (1796-1872)
Lot: 157Sold for: $88,875$75,000Catlin, George (1796-1872), Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America.....Forty-eight of the Wildest and Most Remote more ...
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Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959)
Lot: 158Sold for: $4,740$4,000Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959), The Big Sleep, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939, first edition, first issue, original orange cloth with blue lettering, with dust jacket and unclipped price, 8vo, more ...
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(Chemistry), Leonhard, Carl Caesar von (1779-1862)
Lot: 159Unsold(Chemistry), Leonhard, Carl Caesar von (1779-1862), Handbuch der Oryktognosie, Heidelberg: Mohr und Winter, 1821, original boards, with six of seven folding plates, 8vo, (spine lacking, spotting and more ...
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(Chinese Exploration), Nieuhoff, Jan
Lot: 160Sold for: $1,185$1,000(Chinese Exploration), Nieuhoff, Jan, L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie..., Leiden: Jacob de Meurs, 1665, first edition more ...
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Clampitt, Amy
Lot: 161Sold for: $59$50Clampitt, Amy, A Homage to John Keats, [Louisville, Kentucky]: Sarabande Press, 1984, original wraps with cloth slipcase, one of 250 unnumbered copies, signed by author, folio, (very good). more ...
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)
Lot: 161ASold for: $533$450Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885, first edition, first issue, with all first issue points more ...
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)
Lot: 162Sold for: $770$650Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910), The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress, London: Chatto & Windus, 1899, two volumes from The Writings of Mark Twain, Author's Edition De Luxe, more ...
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Colvocoresses, George M.
Lot: 163Sold for: $119$100Colvocoresses, George M., Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition; commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes . . ., New York: R.T. Young, 1853, second edition, gilt pictorial cloth, 8vo, (bumped more ...
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Combe, Charles, Illustrator, Original Drawings
Lot: 164UnsoldCombe, Charles, Illustrator, Original Drawings, Black and brown illustrations drawn into Le Baron Ch. Davillier's L'Antiquaire, Paris: 1870, profusely illustrated, original wraps, slipcased, 12mo, more ...
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Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933), Signed Copy
Lot: 165Sold for: $444$375Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933), Signed Copy, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929, first trade edition, signed on leaf after half title "To Russell H. more ...
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Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Lot: 166Sold for: $59$50Cowper, William (1731-1800), Table Talk, and Other Poems, London: John Sharpe, 1825, three volumes, gilt tooled and lettered purple calf, 12mo, (chipped and bumped, hinges weak, spotting to more ...
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(Crowninshield Family Bible)
Lot: 167Sold for: $178$150(Crowninshield Family Bible), The Holy Bible, Containing Old and New Testaments, Oxford: University Press, 1859, original gilt decorated and lettered crushed morocco, with family register filled in, more ...
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Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
Lot: 168UnsoldSalvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship/Book with an Original Drawing, 1948, published by New York: The Dial Press, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, numbered 6 of more ...
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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Lot: 169Sold for: $39,105$33,000Darwin, Charles (1809-1882), On The Origin Of Species By Means of Natural Selection, London: John Murray, 1859, first edition, first issue, original gilt lettered and stamped green pebbled cloth in more ...
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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Lot: 170Sold for: $326$275Darwin, Charles (1809-1882), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, London: John Murray, 1872, sixth edition, gilt lettered half calf with cloth prize binding by Sangorski and more ...
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(Decorative Binding)
Lot: 171Sold for: $30$25(Decorative Binding), The Crown Book of the Beautiful, the Wonderful and the Wise, Philadelphia: John C. Winston & Co., 1887, gilt tooled, lettered and paneled morocco, 8vo, (spine lightly more ...
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(Decorative Bindings), Alison, Sir Archibald (1792-1867)
Lot: 172Sold for: $356$300(Decorative Bindings), Alison, Sir Archibald (1792-1867), The History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons, Edinburgh and London: William more ...
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(Decorative Bindings)
Lot: 173Sold for: $267$225(Decorative Bindings), Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, New York: Samuel L. Hall, 1878-1888, twenty-four volumes, three-quarter morocco, 4to, (edges more ...
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(Decorative Bindings)
Lot: 174Sold for: $178$150(Decorative Bindings), Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850), Works, Philadelphia: Gebbie & Company, 1901, thirty-five volumes, burgundy cloth, 8vo, (with minor bumping, chipping, and wear, toning). more ...
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(Decorative Bindings), Newman, John Henry Cardinal (1801-1890)
Lot: 175Sold for: $1,007$850(Decorative Bindings), Newman, John Henry Cardinal (1801-1890), The Works of Cardinal Newman, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903-1911, thirty-nine volumes, gilt lined and more ...