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(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 28 leather bound books, including Burke’s History of England, (6 vols., London, 1825), and The Works of Abraham Cowley, (3 vols., London, 1707-1708). $100-200 137
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 14 leather bound books, including The Life of Benevuto Cellini, (2 vols., New York, 1906), and Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, (London, 1755). $200-400 138*
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CONAN DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR [Works]. London: Smith, Elder, 1903. 12 vols. 8vo, bound by Bayntun in half red calf over red boards, gilt titles to spines, 5 raised bands, top edges gilt. Author’s Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author, this being number 261. Bound by Bayntun. Photogravure frontispieces and plates throughout with captioned tissue guards. Together with The Canterbury Tales. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Translated into Modern English by Nevill Coghill. With woodcuts by Edna White. London: The Folio Society, 1984. In matching binding by Bayntun. All in fine condition. (13) $1,000-2,000 131
(EASTON PRESS) HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway. Norfolk, CT: Easton Press, 1980-1990. 19 vols. 8vo, in decorative leather. A fine set. Property of a Gentleman, Racine, Wisconsin $300-500
A group of 11 leather bound volumes and one set of 4 cloth bound volumes with elaborate gilt tooling to spines, including The Life of William Pitt, by Earl Stanhope. London: John Murray, 1861-1862. 4 vols. 8vo, full calf. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400 139*
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 23 books in leather bindings, including Boswell’s A Method of Study, (London, 1738) and The Critical Works of Monsieur Rapin, (2 vols., London, 1706). Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400 140
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 31 leather bound books, all 12mo, including Tassoni’s La Secchia Rapita, (Parigi, 1768) and The Works of Spenser, (6 vols., London, 1750). $300-500 141
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GIBBON, EDWARD The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: John Murray, 1854. 8 vols. 8vo, polished calf gilt by Riviere, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Dampstaining to rear endpapers of some volumes; otherwise a fine set. $100-200 133
GROTE, GEORGE A History of Greece. London: John A. Murray, 1846-1856. 12 vols. (complete). 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, top edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments. First edition. Minor wear to boards; otherwise fine. First edition of Grote’s celebrated history of Greece. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait in Volume XII and with numerous engraved maps and plans, many folding and several hand-colored in outline. Minor wear to boards; otherwise a fine set. $800-1,200 134
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of six leather bound books, including The Secret History of the Court of France under Louis X. By Dr. Challice. London, 1861. 2 vols. 8vo, full calf. $80-120 135
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 12 leather bound books, including Ranke’s History of Popes, (2 vols., London, 1847), and Deniston’s Memoirs of the Duke of Urbino, (3 vols., London, 1919). $100-200 30
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FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 20 leather bound books, including Joseph Marshall’s Travels, (3 vols, London, 1772) and The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, (4 vols., London, 1760). $300-500 142
(BINDINGS, LEATHER) A group of 20 leather bound books, including The Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, London: printed for A. Millar and R. and J. Dodsley, 1756. 3 vols. 4to, full calf. First edition. $300-500
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