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SANDBURG, CARL Slabs of the Sunburnt West. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922. Thin 8vo, orange cloth with green titles. Signed by Sandburg. Wear to boards with minor soiling; hinges starting; otherwise fine. With two other poetry works signed by their authors. Comprising: Being There: Poetry, 1977-1980. By Robert Penn Warren. New York: Random House, n.d. 8vo, cloth in slipcase. First Edition. One of 250 copies signed by Warren to limitation page. Some fading to slipcase and spine; otherwise fine. Stolen Apples. By Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. 8vo, cloth in slipcase. One of 250 copies signed by Yevtushenko. In English and Russian. Fine. $100-200 214*
(SCOTLAND) Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his friend in London. London: printed for Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 1815. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo, cloth, manuscript label to spine. From the library of famous Scotch painter, Noel Paton, with his signature to title page. Boards detached but housed in mylar wraps; some age darkening to pages; otherwise a fine association copy. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $80-120 215
SECRET MEMOIRS OF THE COURTS OF EUROPE
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By Multiple Authors. Philadelphia: George Barrie, (1900). 24 vols. (Complete) 8vo, blue cloth with paper labels to spines. Illustrated with hand-colored portrait frontispieces. One of 1,000 printed on Japanese vellum. Spines uniformly sunned; wear to pastedown label; edges bumped; otherwise interiors are very clean and bindings are tight. A fine set, rare in complete form. $800-1,200
QUINTLIANUS, (MARCUS FABIUS) M. Fabij Quintiliani oratoriarum Institutionum Lib. XII Castgati ad fidem optimorum exemplarium, insignita lecionis distinctione, et additis in marginum adnotationibus percomode illustrati. Parisii: Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1541. [Bound with:] Oratoris Eloquentissimi Declamtiones diligenter recognitae. Parisiis: Apud Simonem Caolinaeum, 1542. 2 works in one volume. 4to, full contemporary calf, 5 bands, manuscript titles to spine, in custom archival box. Soiling to binding; 1 inch split to foot of spine; bookplate tipped in front endpaper; marginalia to title page and various leaves in early hand; age darkening to extremities of leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $400-600 211
(PLATE BOOKS) ROBIN, M. Travestissements. (Paris: Hautecoeur-Martinet, c. 1868). Folio, 3/4 morocco, gilt titles to spine, 5 raised bands. An elaborate costume book, with 104 beautifully hand-colored lithographed plates of women’s fashions. Some styles appear to be pure fantasy or perhaps theatrical, such as the dancing “Bacchante” in lion skins, decked in grapes and leaves, or the “Diablotin,” pulling the fiery orange, horn-like attachments of her tiara upward to demonstrate her character. Occasional offsetting to pages; slight wear to boards; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000 212*
ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES Emile ou de l’education. Paris: Le Prieur, 1794. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 (of 4) only. 16mo, quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt-lettered backstrip. With engraved frontispieces. Edges bumped; wear to boards and backstrip; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Collection of Dr. Harriet McNeal, Terra Haute, Indiana $80-120
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SEWARD, WILLIAM Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries. London: printed for Cadell, Jun and W. Davies, 1796. 3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to spine, red leather spine labels. Third edition. Wear to binding; otherwise interior is tight and pages are clean. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400 217*
(SPORTING) BECKFORD, PETER Thoughts on Hunting, in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. London: D. Bremner, 1798. 8vo, 3/4 leather over marbled boards. A very rare edition. Engraved frontispiece and engraved plated throughout. Front board detached; wear to spine; otherwise sound. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200 218*
(SPORTING) BADEN-POWELL, R.S.S. Pigsticking or Hoghunting: A complete account for Sportsmen and others. London: Harrison and Sons, 1889. 8vo, 3/4 morocco, top edge gilt. First edition. Illustrated throughout with photogravure reproductions of the author’s rendering of this unique sport. Minor foxing; otherwise fine. With four other titles pertaining to Pigsticking: Hog-hunting in the East. By J.T. Newall. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867. 8vo, cloth. Sporting in Both Hemispheres. By J. Dewes. London: G. Routledge, 1858. 12mo, cloth. Reminiscences of Twenty Years’ Pigsticking in Bengal. By Raoul. Calentta: Thancker, Spink, 1893. 12mo, cloth. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
