SETS AND BINDINGS

114 SCHWABE, CHARLES Hesperus. By Catulle Mendes. Paris: Societe de Propagation des Livres d’Art, 1904. 4to, contemporary 1/2 green morocco by Devarenne, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine, original wrappers bound in, top edge gilt. One of 25 “exemplaires nominatifs” printed on Japon paper, this one presented to “Monsieur J. Duval.” With 34 illustrations and decorations by Carlos Schwabe, of which 14 are full-page hand-colored woodcuts, including the front cover. Very minor foxing on the binder’s blank endleaves; one endleaf with a neatly repaired tear; moderate fading to spine; otherwise the interior is clean and bright. A fine copy. $2,500-3,500

115 SCHWABE, CHARLES Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloe. By Longus (trans. by Jacques Amyot). Paris: L’Edition d’Art H. Piazza, (1926). 4to, in custom silk boards with green leather spine label, silk page marker. One of 111 copies, of which this is number VI printed for Jacques Chabannes, one of 31 on japon imperial. With 24 color pochoir engravings by Charles Schwabe, 12 full-page. Without a suite of plates in black and white (called for by the limitation statement); small chip to foreedge of binding; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000

116 TING, WALLASSE One-Cent Life. Edited by Sam Francis. (Berne): E.W. Kornfeld, (1964). Portfolio, loose as issued in pictorial cloth folder by Roy Lichtenstein and Pierre Alechinsky, pictorial dust jacket, blue slipcase. Limited edition of 2,000 number copies. The most important book of Pop Art and the CoBrA movements in the 1960s. With 62 original color lithographs, 29 of which are double-page, by Alan Davie (2), Alfred Jansen (3), Sam Francis (6), Walasse Ting (6), James Rosenquist, Pierre Alechinsky (5), Kimber Smith (6), Alfred Leslie (2), Antonio Saura, Kiki O.K., Asger Jorn (2), Robert Indiana (2), Jean-Paul Riopelle (2), Karel Appel (5), Tom Wesselmann (2), Bram van Velde, Joan Mitchell, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Roy Lichtenstein, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Reinhoud, Claes Oldenburg (2), Jim Dine, Mel Ramos (2), Enrico Baj (2), and 19 reproductions. Fading to slipcase with some edgwear; foxing throughout concentrated at the lower corner of pages; chipping to dust jacket with some loss to foot of spine; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

117 VILLON, JACQUES Les Travaux et les Jours. By Hesiode. Paris: (Editions Verve), (1962). Folio, loose as issued in printed wrappers and matching chemise and slipcase. One of 200 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with four color and nineteen black and white etchings by Villon, 15 of which are double-page. 1 inch tear to foot of slipcase; otherwise a very fine livres d’artiste. $1,000-2,000

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118 WUNDERLICH, PAUL Lithographies 1959-1973. By Fritz Raddatz. Paris: Editions Vilo, (1974). Folio, cloth, gilt title to spine, with pictorial dustwrapper, in matching slipcase with extra suite of lithographs in cloth chemise. One of 60 copies of the French edition with an extra suite of five original lithographs, each one signed and numbered by the artist. A fine copy. $1,000-2,000

119 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Landscape Book. By American Artists and American Authors. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1868. Large 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles to spines, gilt-stamped decorations to boards, all edges gilt. With 15 (of 16) steel engravings reproducing the landscapes of Huntington, Talbot, Beckwith, Smillie, Durand, Kensett, Gignoux, Talbot, Cropsey, Church, Richards, Weir and Miller with tissue guards. Accompanied by the writings of Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Whittier and others. Rubbing to extremities of boards with some loss to upper edge of front cover; previous owner’s inscription to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $100-200

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120 ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO Orlando Furioso. Translated by John Hoole. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1785. 5 vols. 8vo, full calf, black and green leather spine lables, gilt tooling to spines. Second edition of Hoole translation. Illustrated with engraved plates throughout. Frontispiece portraits to each volume. Minor age darkening to endpapers and first few pages; slight soiling to boards; hinges starting to separate on some volumes; otherwise a very fine set. $200-400

121 BELL, JOHN The Poets of Great Britain . . . from Chaucer to Churchill. By John Bell. Edinburgh: Published at the Apollo Press by the Martins, 1777-1787. 109 vols. (Complete). 18mo, full mottled calf, red and green leather spine labels, gilt tooling to spines, two edges stained yellow, with black silk ties, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portraits and engraved plates to each volume. Minor rubbing to boards; some chipping at spine heads; otherwise a very fine set. $800-1,200 122* BYRON, LORD Works. Philadelphia: Henry Carey, 1854. 8 vols. 3/4 calf over marbled boards, 4 raised bands, black leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Wear to spines; some rubbing to extremities of boards; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200

123 CARLYLE, THOMAS Works. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (1971-1974). 16 vols. (of 19) only. 12mo, 1/2 green morocco over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered spine and tooling to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With numerous engraved portraits and folding maps. Rubbing to backstrip; hinges split to some volumes; boards curling; first few pages detached to some volumes; otherwise a fine set. $200-400

124* (CLASSICAL LITERATURE) A group of two works in three volumes bound in leather. Includes: Metamorphoseon Libri XV. Interpretatione & Notis Illustravit Daniel Chrispinus Helvetius Ad Usum Serenissimi Delphini. By Ovid. Oxonii: printed at the Theatro Sheldoniano, 1696. 8vo, full calf. The Letters of Pliny the Consul. Translated by William Melmoth. London: printed for R. Dodsley, 1751. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 leather. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200

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125 (CLASSICAL LITERATURE) A group of 11 works in 24 volumes in fine leather bindings. Includes: The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero. London, 1753. 3 vols. The Commentaries of Caesar. Translated by William Duncan. London, 1755. 2 vols. The Elements of Euclid. By Robert Simson. Edinburgh, 1775. Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by William Melmoth. London, 1753. 3 vols. 8vo. The General History of Polybius. Translated by (James) Hampton. London, 1761. 4 vols. The Expedition of Cyrus. By Xenophon. Translated by Edward Spelman. London, 1742. 2 vols. The Idylliums of Theocritus. Translated by Francis Fawkes. London, 1767. 8vo. The Works of Virgil. Translated by Joseph Warton, et al. London, 1753. 4 vols. The Comedies of Terence. Translated by Geoge Colman. London, 1768. 2 vols. L’Eneide di Virgilio. Translated by Annibal Caro. Paris, 1760. 2 vols. $400-600

126 (CLASSICAL LITERATURE) A group of 18 volumes uniformly bound in embossed vellum. Includes: Historiarum ab urbe condita libri, qui supersunt, omnes . . . . By Livius. Cura A. Drakenborch. Amstelaedami; (etc.): J. Wetstein, (etc.), 1738-1746. 6 vols. P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, cum Integris et Emendatioribur Commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii. By Virgil. Edited by Nicolai Heinsii and Petrus Burmannus. Amstelodami: Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746. 2 vols. Caji Silii Italici Punicorum Libri Septemdicim. Edited by Arnoldo Drakenborch. Trajecti ad Rhenum: Guilielmum Vande Water, 1742. Afri Comoediae Sex . . . . By Terence. Edited by Arn. Henr. Westerhousius. Hagae-Comitum: Petrum Gosse, 1726. Vol. 2 only. De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompejano. By C. Julii Caesaris. Cura Dionysii Vossii, Joannis Davisii, and Samuelis Clarkii. Lugd. Bat.: Samuelem Luchtmans; Rotterodami: Johannem Danielem Beman, 1737. C.L. Aeliani Sophistae Varia Historia, cum Notis Integris Conradi Gesneri . . . . Cura Abrahamo Gronovio. Lugd. Bat.; Amstelodami; (etc.): S. Luchtmans and J.A. Langerak, (etc.), 1731. C. Crispi Sallustii Quae Exstant. Cura Sigeberti Havercampi. Amstelaedami: Changuion, et al, 1742. 2 vols. Metamorphoseon. By Apuleius. Ineditis Francisci Oudendorpii. Lugduni Batavorum: Van Der Eyk et Vygh, 1786. De Antro Nympharum. By Porphyry. Translated by R.M. Van Goens. Lugduni Batavorum; Amstelodami: D. et J. Honkoop; Petrum den Hengst, 1792. Institutione Oratoria, Libri Duodecim. By M. Fabii Quinctiliani. Summa Cura Petrum Burmannum. Lugduni Batavorum: Joannem de Vivie, 1720. 2 vols. Cracking to spine of volume 1. $800-1,200 127 (COLLECTED WORKS) A group of four sets of “works” in 15 volumes bound in leather, comprising the works of Holmes, Hamilton, Burns, and Turgenieff. $200-400

128 (COLLECTED WORKS) A group of five sets of “works” in 21 volumes bound in leather, comprising the works of Henry Lord Lyttleton, Joseph Addison, Francis Bacon, John Sheffield (Duke of Buckingham), and Henry St. John (Lord Viscount Bolingbroke). All 4to. $300-500

129* (COLLECTED WORKS) A group of two sets of “works” in 37 volumes. The Complete Works of George Meredith. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909. 27 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco, gilt titles to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. The Memorial Edition. Illustrated throughout with gravure plates. Some rubbing to boards; otherwise a fine set. The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe. New York; London: George Putnam and the Knickbocker Press, 1902. 10 vols. The Annabel Edition. (37) Property from the Estate of Nancy Wald, Chicago, Illinois $200-400