FiNE BiNDiNGS AND SETS

Lots 414–448

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414* (KELLIEGRAM) BROTHERS GRIMM German Popular Stories. Illustrated by George Cruickshank. London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. [1868]

8vo, bound by Kelliegram in black crushed morocco, with onlaid polychrome leather design after Cruickshank’s illustration of the fable “The Golden Bird” to upper board. Rubbing to boards; onlaid design faded significantly; hinges slightly tender. Property from the Estate of Bernard Rost, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

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415* (KELLIEGRAM) MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL Our Village. London: Macmillan, 1893.

8vo, bound by Kelliegram in black moroccco with onlaid polychrome character portrait to upper cover, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; spine lightly sunned. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $800-1,200

416 (KELLIEGRAM) DOYLE, JAMES A Chronicle of England. London: Longman, Green, et al, 1864.

4to, Kelliegram-style binding bound by Bayntun in red morocco with an onlaid polychrome illustration of two figures, framed by stamped black and gilt geometric design, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, original boards bound at rear. Light scratch to upper cover; minor rubbing to boards. $600-800

417* (FORE EDGE PAINTING) BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The Book of Common Prayer. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1762.

4to, red morocco, gilt fillets in corners and scrollwork border design, a.e.g. With a fore edge painting of “Temple Street and Temple Church, Bristol.” Rubbing to boards; hinges cracked; fore edge painting heavily faded. Property from the Collection of Herman Blum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $100-200

418* (FORE EDGE PAINTING) FOSTER, BIRKET, illust. Poems by Thomas Hood. London: E. Moxon, Son, 1872.

4to, red morocco decorated and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Fore edge painting of pastoral scene. Illustrated with numerous engravings throughout. Rubbing to boards with chipping to edges; intermittent foxing; offsetting from engravings. Property from the Collection of Harris Perlstein, Glencoe, Illinois $200-400 419* (FORE EDGE PAINTING) MEREDITH, OWEN Lucille. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1884.

4to, maroon morocco ruled in gilt, blue silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fore edge painting depicting a horse and carriage. Hinges cracked with separation to lower half of rear board; corners bumped; loss to spine ends; silk endpaper detached to f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Harris Perlstein, Glencoe, Illinois $200-400

420 (FORE EDGE PAINTING) SHAKESPEARE THE WORKS The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. London: Bickers and Son, 1864.

8vo, green morocco decorated in gilt, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece, a.e.g. Fore edge painting portrait of Shakespeare. Rubbing to boards; corners bumped; offsetting from frontispiece and light ghosting to verso; scattered brownspotting. $300-500

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421 (PAPAL PRESENTATION BINDING, INNOCENT XI) Instruttione Cristiana per i principie regnanti cauata dalla Scrittura Sacra da Carlo Carafa. Mazzarino: Barbera, 1687.

8vo, contemporary red calf with gilt tooling and gilt central embossed panel shield with the arms of Innocent XI (1676-1689), bookplate of Innocent XI to front pastedown, half title, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title page. Minor age wear; some toning to leaves. $1,000-2,000

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422 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 21 leather-bound volumes published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates. $100-200

423 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 11 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates.

Moby Dick. By Herman Melville, 1974. Women in Love. By D.H. Lawrence, 1979. The Iliad. By Homer, 1974. The Plays. By Euripides, 1979. Tess d’Urbervilles. By Thomas Hardy, (1982). Gulliver’s Travels. By Jonathan Swift, 1974. Six Tragedies. By William Shakespeare, 1975. The Canterbury Tales. By Geoffrey Chaucer, 1974. The Sound and the Fury. By William Faulkner, 1976. Plays. By Henrik Ibsen, 1977. The Brothers Karamazov. By Fyodor Dostoevsky, (1985). $100-200

424 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates.

The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1978. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain, 1975. Plays. By Anton Chekov, 1976. A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway, 1976. Four Plays. By Eugene O’Neill, 1978. Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, 1974. Stories. By Rudyard Kipling, (1980). Black Beauty. By Anna Sewell, (1982). Moll Flanders. By Daniel Defoe, 1978. Humboldt’s Gift. Saul Bellow, (1983). Tom Jones. By Henry Fielding, 1979. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson, 1975. Poems. By John Donne, 1978. The Reivers. By William Faulkner, 1983. The Return of the Native. By Thomas Hardy, 1978. The Red and the Black. By Stendhal, 1979. The Aeneid of Virgil, 1975. Faust. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1979. Vanity Fair. By William Makepeace Thackeray, (1977). The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. By Francois Rabelais, 1978. $200-400 425 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates.

The Divine Comedy. By Dante Alighieri, 1977. Comedies. By William Shakespeare, 1978. The Three Musketeers. By Alexandre Dumas, 1980. The Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan, 1976. Five Stories. By Thomas Mann, 1977. The Flowers of Evil. By Charles Baudelaire, 1977. Aesop’s Fables, (1982). Barchester Towers. By Anthony Trollope, (1982). The Prince. By Niccolo Machiavelli, 1978. The Aeneid of Virgil, 1975. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson, 1975. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, 1976. My Antonia. By Willa Cather, 1981. Walden. By Henry David Thoreau, 1976. Tales from the Arabian Nights. By Sir Richard Burton, 1977. Pere Goriot. By Honore de Balzac, 1977. The Republic. By Plato, 1975. Candide. By Voltaire, 1978. Nine Tales. By Henry James, 1977. Politics. By Aristotle, 1977. $200-400

426 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 17 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates.

The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin, 1975. Rhetoric and on Poetics. By Aristotle, (1981). The Magic Mountain. By Thomas Mann, (1981). Ulysses. By James Joyce, 1986. The Federalist. By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, 1977. Political Writings. By Thomas Paine, 1978. The Decameron. By Giovanni Boccaccio, 1979. Waverly. By Sir Walter Scott, 1981. The Trial. By Franz Kafka, 1977. David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens, 1976. Selected Poems. By William Butler Yeats, 1979. The Yearling. By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1983. Don Quixote De La Mancha. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1976. Two Years Before the Mast. By Richard Henry Dana, 1983. Little Women. By Louisa May Alcott, (1982). The Odyssey. By Homer, 1976. Basic Works. By Sigmund Freud, 1978. $200-400

427 No Lot

428* (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 19 leather-bound books issued by the Franklin Center. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates. Some signed. Property from the Estate of Beverly Blettner, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

429* (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 13 leather-bound volumes. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates. Some signed. Property from the Estate of Beverly Blettner, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

430* (FRANKLIN LIBARY) A group of 22 leather-bound books issued by the Franklin Center. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center, various dates. Most signed. Property from the Estate of Beverly Blettner, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

431 (EASTON PRESS) A collection of 81 leather-bound books from the 100 Greatest Books series. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, various dates. $600-800

432* (COLLECTED WORKS) BERGUER, LIONEL THOMAS The British Essayists; With Prefaces Biographical, Historical, and Critical. London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1823.

45 vols. 12mo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Edgewear; corners bumped; renewed endpapers; intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400

433 (COLLECTED WORKS) DOBSON, ARTHUR A group of 12 uniformly bound books by, or with contributions by, Arthur Dobson.

8vo, blue morocco, gilt decorated spines and inner dentelles, t.e.g. Boards worn; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; ex-libris to f.f.e.p. all vols. $200-400

434 (COLLECTED WORKS) GOETHE Goethes Werke. Edited by Karl Heinemann. Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institute, n.d.

30 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, red spine labels. Rubbing to boards; ends chipped on some vols. $200-400

435* (COLLECTED WORKS) JESSE, JOHN [Works.] Historical Memoirs of... Boston: 1901-1902.

30 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over blue cloth. Number 2 of 100 copies of the Edition Grand Deluxe, with handcolored plates. Spines worn and partially detached on some vols.; hinges rubbed and starting. Property from the Collection of Herman Blum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $100-200

436* (COLLECTED WORKS) READE, CHARLES Works. Boston: Dana Estes, n.d.

14 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, red spine labels, marbled endpapers, frontispieces. Illustrated Cabinet edition. Rubbing and light soiling to boards; corners bumped; bookplates tipped to f.f.e.p. all vols.; offsetting from frontispieces to tissue guards. Property from the Estate of Mrs. Price Morgan Davis, Jr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin $100-200

437* (COLLECTED WORKS) SCOTT, SIR WALTER The Waverly Novels. Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, 1831.

48 vols. 12mo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, titles in gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Rubbing to boards at edges, intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400

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438* (COLLECTED WORKS) SCOTT, SIR WALTER The Prose Works. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1830-1834.

40 vols. 12mo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Rubbing to boards at edges; intermitted foxing; scattered brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400

439* (COLLECTED WORKS) SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Complete Works. Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter Peck. London: Ernest Benn Limited; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.

10 vols. 8vo, quarter vellum over green cloth, title in gilt to navy spine labels, t.e.g. The Julian Edition, one of 495 sets printed for sale in Great Britain. Light rubbing to boards; soiling to spines and edges; hinges tight and interiors clean. Property from the Collection of Harris Perlstein, Glencoe, Illinois $400-600

440 (COLLECTED WORKS) THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Two sets of collected works in 20 volumes.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. New York, 1899. 14 vols. The Works of Tobias Smollett. New York, n.d. 6 vols. $200-400

441 (COLLECTED WORKS) THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The History of Pendennis. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. Boards rubbed; intermittent foxing; offsetting from plates. [Together with:] The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over cloth, title in gilt to leather spine label. Boards rubbed; intermittent brownspotting; manuscript inscriptions to f.f.e.p. both vols. $100-200 442* (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 13 works bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe and Riviere, including one set of collected works. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400

443 (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 12 folio, primarily art books.

Ben Shahn. By Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Harry N. Abrams, (1964). Treasures of American Folk Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1979). 2 copies. Road Atlas. United States, Canada, Mexico. New York: Rand, McNally, 1958. Faberge Eggs. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1980). Edward Hopper. By Lloyd Goodrich. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. Georgia O’Keefe: One Hundred Flowers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Georgia O’Keefe: The New York Years. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Georgia O’Keefe: Art and Letters. By Jack Coward and Juan Hamilton. Washington: National Gallery of Art, (1988). Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator. By Thomas S. Buechner. New York: Abradale/Harry N. Abrams, (1970). Leonardo DaVinci. New York: Reynal, (1956). Atlas of Early American History. The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. S.l.: Newberry Library, 1976. $200-400

444* (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 12 volumes bound in nineteenth-century gilt-tooled calf.

[The Works of Thomas Babington Macaulay.] Boston: Estes and Lauriat, n.d. 7 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, tooling to spines, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By M. de Bourrienne. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 4 vols. Thin 8vo, full calf, gilt-tooling to spines, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels. The Comic History of England. By Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett. Illustrated by John Leech. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooling to spines, black leather gilt-lettered spine label. Property from the Collection of Herman Blum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $100-200

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445 (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 10 books.

Flora, the Beauty of the Scottish Border: being the life of the Countess of Linford. Edited by Her Niece, The Hon. Lady Julia Drummond. London: G. Virture, 1830. A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont. London: John Murray, 1831. 3 vols. Diary of Mary, Countess Cowper... London: John Murray, 1864. The Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple. London: J.M. Dent, n.d. The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. Vol. 1 only. The Instructor: or, Young Man’s Best Companion. By George Fisher. London: J. Johnson, 1798. Paris Revisited, in 1815, By Way of Brussels... By John Scott. London: 1816. Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar. By James Harris. London: Printed for John Nourse and Paul Vaillan, 1771. $100-200

446* (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 14 books bound in brown or red leather, including three sets. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400 447* (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of 25 leather bound volumes, including eight bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe: The Koran and Sale’s Preliminary Discourse, n.d., Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, (1930), Vanity Fair, (1924), The Travels of Marco Polo, (1928), Genghis Khan, (1931), The Old Curiosity Shop, (1930), The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, vol. 1, (1906), The Brownings, (1929); two bound by Arthur Herzburg: Memoires of Marechal Joffre, (1939), 2 vols., and Fumeurs d’opium, (1909); two bound by Riviere: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, (1926), The Private Life of Catherine the Great, by Lucien Murat, (1928); and 15 others. (25 total) Property from the Estate of Beverly Blettner, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 448 (LEATHER BINDINGS) A group of eight leather bound books.

Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales. By John Timbs. London, n.d. 3 vols. 12mo, bound by Zaehsdorf in 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards. The Tales of a Traveller. By Washington Irving. New York, 1895. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over blue cloth. The Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. By Henry Morley. London, 1859. 8vo, bound by Frost in 3/4 red morocco over red cloth. A Johnson Sampler. Henry Dacy Curwen, editor. Cambridge, 1963. 8vo, 3/4 morocco with foliate stamped design extending from raised bands to boards. L’Aiglon, drame en six actes, en vers. By Edmond Rostand. Paris, 1900. 8vo, quarter navy morocco over marbled boards. $100-200