GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 20VOL. Various Sizes Leather bound with gilt trim, including: Sir Francis Bacon, ""Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis"; Charles Darwin, "The Origins of Species...
[more like this]
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AFTERGILBERT STUART(American, 1755-1828)
A fine copy of Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum type portraits, unsigned, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; period carved gilt wood frame, 36-1/2...
[more like this]
DESCRIPTION DE L EGYPTE, PANCKOUCKE,1820-1830Description de l Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l expedition de l Egypte. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1820-1830...
[more like this]
ROMAN IRON SELLA CASTRENSIS STOOL, EX-ROYALATHENARoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A rare ancient iron campaign folding stool known as a sella castrensis, a seat reserved for Roman officers and signifies...
[more like this]
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES (1785-1851). THEBIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY J.J. AUDUBON AND J.B. CHEVALIER, 1840-1844.Audubon,...
[more like this]
BOOKS: (8) VOLS 19TH C., LEATHER BINDINGSIncludes: Despatches...of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, Vol. 6, John Murray, 1877; Johnsoniana or Supplement to Boswell, John Murray, 1836; William Hone, The Table...
[more like this]
(7) VOLS. DECORATIVE BINDINGS, INCL.RIVIERE & SON Includes: 1) Robert Louis Stevenson. Poems Vol. One. Heinemann, 1927, bound by Riviere & Son for Marshall Field; 2) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Richards Press; 3)...
[more like this]
(10) VOLS., 19TH C. LIT., FINE LEATHERBINDINGS Includes: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Gibbings./Lippincott, 1895, illus. by Frank Brangwyn, in 4 vols., 7"h x 4.5"w; William Cullen Bryant. The Odyssey of Homer. Houghton...
[more like this]
DECORATIVE LEATHER BINDINGS, (7) VOLS.Includes: 1) Mary Langdon. Ida May; Story of Things Actual and Possible. Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1854; 2) Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici. Ticknor and Fields, 1862; 3)...
[more like this]
(10) VOLS. VINTAGE NON-FICTION, SOMESIGNED Includes: 1) Father Paul Schulte "The Flying Priest". The Flying Cross over the Arctic. Harper & Brothers, 1940, ADVANCE COPY signed by the author, contains only the...
[more like this]
THREE SETS OF 19TH CENTURY LEATHER ANDCLOTH BOUND BOOKS Lot of (35) half bound books. Includes a set of books by Thomas Babington Macaulay, various editions (London: Longman, 1846-77); Diary and Correspondence...
[more like this]
(8) MINIATURE BOOKS, LITERATURE, GILTBINDINGS Including: Fine Leather Binding "The Poetical Works of John Keats", Notes by Francis T. Palgrave, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1929; (2) Gilt Leatherbound Blank...
[more like this]
LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, (8) VOLS., 1930-1940(8) titles in 16 vols., each in slipcase unless noted, numbered, and signed as indicated in (),: 1) Defoe, The...Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1930, #214, (Edward A. Wilson);...
[more like this]
(20) BOOKS: WORKS OF HUME & FIELDING,18TH C.(lot of 20) Books by eighteenth-century British authors, all leather bound, with gilt lettering and accents, marbleized interior covers, including: (10 vols) "The History...
[more like this]
Homer Works of, 7 vols, full calf, Fielding(H) Selected Works, 5 vols. and Dryden (J) Poetical Works, 2 vols....
[more like this]
Johnson (Samuel) Works, 12 vols., Baldwinetc. 1801 and Fielding (Henry) Works, 10 vols., Johnson etc. 1806, New Editions, 8vo., cont. calf...
[more like this]
ATLANTIC MONTHLY (VOL. 6 AND 7)AtlanticMonthly (Vol. 6 and 7) Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields Year: 1860, 1861...
[more like this]
GROUP, 12 BOOKS BY SIR WALTER SCOTTWaverlyNovels, Household Edition: Waverly (Vol. 1 and 2), Guy Mannering (Vol 1. and 2), Antiquary (Vol. 1 and 2), Rob Roy (Vol. 1 and 2), Old Mortality (Vol. 1 and 2), Tales of My...
[more like this]
RARE IRISH MILITIA FIELD OFFICER'S REDCLOTH UNIFORM COATEE, THE ROYAL QUEEN'S COUNTY MILITIA
CIRCA 1793-1810 with bullion shoulder epaulettes, black facings with hook and eye front fasteners with silver buttons...
[more like this]
COLLECTION OF 20 BOOKS RELATED TO CUBA.TOINCLUDE: 5 VOLS THE HISTORY OF CUBA BY WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, 1920, PUBLISHED BY B. F. BUCK & CO. INC., NY, LEATHER SPINES AND CORNERS, MARBLED BOARDS, 9 1/2" X 6 1/4",...
[more like this]
James Guy Evans (English b. 1810; activeNew Orleans 1843-1853) "Arrival of Gen. Z. Taylor & Staff at Balize on the U. S. Steam Ship Monmouth B. T. Willse Commander / November 30th 1847" oil on canvas signed lower...
[more like this]
Presentation Field Desk of Oliver P.Gooding 31st Massachusetts Infantry Burl walnut wood box 10 x 17.75 x 7.25 in. high closed. Top of lid has a Presentation plaque: Presented To Col O. P. Gooding (31st Reg...
[more like this]
2 vols. Eugene Field: Field, Eugene& Roswell M. Echoes from The Sabine Farm: Being Certain Horatian Lyrics now... Done into English Verse. New Rochelle: Francis Wilson, 1891. First edition, 1/70 (of 100), out-of-series...
[more like this]
Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. ConfederateCivil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
[more like this]
Pair Vanderbilt drawing room armchairsby Herter Brothers designed by Christian Herter New York circa 1883-84 lady's and gentleman's chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid and carved giltwood concave crestrails leading...
[more like this]
2 vols. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. 12mo, orig. blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated spines, a.e.g.; edge wear, spine ends frayed. Front free endpaper...
[more like this]
Field Hospital of 81st Penn. Vols. NearFalmouth VA Original Pencil Drawing Plus Shred of Battle Flag Original pencil drawing by Surgeon John Houston Jr. 81st Pennsylvania titled in the lower margin Hospital of...
[more like this]
John Ruskin (British 1819-1900) "A CaveSeen in Sunlight" and "A Cave Seen in Shade": a pair of drawings probably c. 1830s graphite watercolor and gouache on light buff wove papers (both sheets laid down) unsigned...
[more like this]
2 vols. Fielding, Henry. The Historyof The Adventures of Joseph Andrews. London: A. Millar, 1743. Third edition. 12mo, contemp. speckled calf, gilt, morocco spine labels; rubbed, joints stressed, cover detached...
[more like this]
Lot. Fine Art & Illustrated Books:(Matisse, Henri, illustrator.) Ronsard, Pierre de. Florilege des Amours. Paris, 1948 [but later facsimile authorized by Skira]. 2 vols., orig. wrappers, loose as issued, in...
[more like this]
4 vols. American & British 19th-CenturyLiterature: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The New-England Tragedies. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st Am. trade ed., early ptg. 12mo, orig. purple-brown cloth, gilt; scuffed,...
[more like this]
[Sets & Bindings Georgian England] Threeitems comprising thirteen leatherbound volumes 1) L. Stephen ed. The Works of Henry Fielding (London: Smith Elder 1882) 9 of 10 vols. (lacks vol. III) 4to half morocco marbled...
[more like this]
2 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The MarbleFaun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American edition, presumed first issue. 12mo, orig. blind stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; corners bumped, light edge...
[more like this]
2 vols. (Fielding, Henry.) The Historyof The Adventures of Joseph Andrews...London: A. Millar, 1742. First edition. 12mo, contemp. calf; joints tender, covers of vol. 1 detached but present, contemp. morocco...
[more like this]
2 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The MarbleFaun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition, second printing. 12mo, orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines; occasionally scuffed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped....
[more like this]
7 vols. Read, Thomas Buchanan: Poems...Illustrated by Kenny Meadows. London: Delf and Trubner, 1852. 1st ed. Sm. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, edges untrimmed; occasionally scuffed. Inscribed in...
[more like this]
