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[Frances Clayton, illustrator]. SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.
London: Faber and Faber, 1931. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies.
Signed by the illustrator.
Original cloth binding and slipcase. Slipcase torn, in poor condition. Else very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91122 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$1,750.00
[Featured Lot]. [Woodrow Wilson]. SIGNED.
Address of the President of the United States Delivered at a Joint Session of the Houses of Congress April 2, 1917.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. First edition.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91222 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$1,750.00
[Featured Lot] John Stowe.
The Annales of England.
London: Ralfe Newberry, 1592. Superb modern paneled calf with refreshed endpapers. Open tearing to title page reinforced. A few other pages with small open or closed tears reinforced. Textblock toned. Bookplate. Very good.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91211 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$1,062.50
Walter Scott.
The Waverly Novels
.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, and London: Whittaker, 1830-33. Forty-eight volumes. Twelvemo. (Total: 48 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91063 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$1,000.00
[Featured Lot]. [Books about Books]. [Early Printing]. Joseph Ames.
Typographical Antiquities: Being an Historical Account of Printing in England: with Some Memoirs of our Antient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them from the Year MCCCCXXI to the Year MDC, et al.
London: Printed by W. Faden, 1749.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91093 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$687.50
James Murdoch.
A History of Japan.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925-26. Three volumes in six. Octavo. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91181 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$600.00
[Signed by Roy Lichtenstein] Lawrence Alloway.
Roy Lichtenstein.
New York: Abbeville Press, [1983]. Fourth printing.
Signed by Lichtenstein on the FFEP.
Publisher's original stiff wrappers. Very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91090 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$525.00
Make Offer to Owner
$788 or more
[Medicine]. [Harvey Cushing]. INSCRIBED. Group of Six Books by or About Harvey Cushing.
Various Publishers and dates. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91242 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$525.00
[George Cruikshank, illustrator] Henry Mayhew.
1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up To London To "Enjoy Themselves," and To See the Great Exhibition.
London: David Bogue, [1851]. First edition, in eight monthly parts. Nine folding plates, as called for, by Cruikshank. Mispaginated, lacking pages 63-64, as issued. Original blue wrappers, a few with some staining. Edgewear and soiling. Some tearing to spines. Overall, a very good set housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91041 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$500.00
[Featured Lot] [Thomas Aquinas].
Aurea Divi Thome Aquinatis de Ordine Predicatorum Doctoris Angelici Summa Contra Gentiles...
[N.p., n.d., ca. 1521]. Contemporary stiff vellum. Vellum peeling at spine, exposing spine bands. Biopredation to front cover and throughout textblock. Ink notations to rear endpapers and front pastedown. Good.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91098 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$475.00
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$712 or more
Walter Scott.
The Poetical Works of Walter Scott.
Edinburgh
: Printed for Archibald Constable, et al., 1820. Twelve volumes. Twelvemo. (Total: 12 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91062 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$468.75
[Napoleon.] Walter Scott.
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution. By the Author of "Waverly," &c.
Edinburgh and London: for Longman et al, 1827. First Edition. Nine volumes bound as six. Small octavo. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91203 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$450.00
Eugene O'Neill.
SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Emperor Jones.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Limited to 775 numbered copies, of which this copy is "335."
Signed by the author.
Slim quarto.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91046 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$425.00
Humphrey Prideaux.
The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, From the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ.
London: for R. Knaplock and J. Tonson, 1724.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750.
"Seventh Edition." Folio. 345 x 210mm. 2 vols. A4, a-b4, c1, B-3M4, 3N-3Q2; A4, a4, b1, B-3Uuu4, 3X-4M2. xxvi, 453, [15]; xviii, 518, [62]p. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91198 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$400.00
Gabriele D'Annunzio
.
Adolfo de Carolis, illustrations.
Francesca da Rimini
.
Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. First Edition. Small quarto.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91018 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$325.00
Servatius Galle [Sibylline Oracles]. [Greek Title:]
Sibyllina Oracula...Accedunt etiam Oracula Magica Zoroastris, Jovis, Apollinis, &c. Astrampsychi Oneiro-Criticum...
[with]
Dissertationes de Sibyllis, Earumque Oraculis cum figuris aeneis.
Amsterdam: Heinrick & widow of Theodore Boom, 1688-9.
Krown & Spellman retail: $1000.
First Editions. 4to. 2 works in 2 vols. *-3*4,4*2,a-5K4,5L1,A-Q4. *-2*4,a-c4,A-4R4. [38], 791, [27], 127. [38],658.[26]pp (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91144 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$325.00
Emanuel Swedenborg.
De Telluribus In Mundo Nostri Solari, Quae Vocantur Planetae: et de Telluribus In Coelo Astrifero.
London: [John Lewis,] 1758.
Krown & Spellman retail: $1000.
First Edition. 4to. A - I (4). [2], 3-72pp.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91214 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$325.00
Lodovico Domenichi.
Facetie, Motti, Et Burle...
Venice: Domenico Farri, 1584.
Krown & Spellman retail : $500.
8vo. a-b8,A-Ff8 [lacks Ff8, blank except for colophon?] [32],460pp.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91022 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$312.50
Mark Twain. Group of Six Books.
Lot includes:
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress
.
Hartford: American Publishing, 1869. First edition, second state. Original cloth binding, rebacked with original spine strip laid over.
Sketches New and Old.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition, second state. Original cloth binding.
A Tramp Abroad
.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition, second state. Original cloth binding.
Mark Twain's
New York: Sheldon, [1871]. First edition. Original cloth binding.
Saint Joan of Arc.
New York: Harpers, [1919]. With color illustrations by Howard Pyle. Original cloth binding.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
New York: Heritage Press, [1936]. Illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Original cloth binding.
Some volumes may exhibit bookplates, ownership signatures, edgewear, etc. Generally very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91072 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$312.50
Peter Lombard.
Episcopi Parisiensis Sententiarum...
Paris: Guil. Morelium, 1550. Slightly later mottled calf. Ink notations to ffep and title page. Scuffing and scratches to leather. Bookplate. Very good.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91169 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$312.50
George Gordon Byron.
The Works
.
London: John Murray, 1832-3. Seventeen volumes. Twelvemo. (Total: 17 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91010 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$300.00
Anthony Hope. LIMITED.
The Works of Anthony Hope.
New York: D. Appleton, (1901-02). Fifteen volumes. Limited "Author's Edition" of Hope's works, number 138 of 250 sets. Octavo. (Total: 15 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91033 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$300.00
[Featured Lot] Ray Bradbury. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Fahrenheit 451.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies.
Signed by the author and the illustrator, Joseph Mugnaini.
Original aluminum binding and slipcase. Both binding and slipcase with some scuffing and scratches. Very good.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91080 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$300.00
Erich Wolfgang Korngold. INSCRIBED.
Violanta: Oper in Einem Akt.
Leipzig: B. Schott's Sohne, Mainz, [1916]. Quarto.
Inscribed by the author
on verso of title page
.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91162 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$300.00
Emanuel Swedenborg.
De Nova Hierosolyma Et Eius Doctrina Coelesti: Ex Auditis e Coelo. Quibus praemittitur aliquid de Novo Coelo & nova Terra.
London: [John Lewis,] 1758.
Krown & Spellman retail: $1000.
First Edition. 4to. A-T4,U2. 156pp. [Lacks errata]
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91213 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$300.00
Make Offer to Owner
$460 or more
Raymond Carver. SIGNED/LIMITED.
At Night the Salmon Move
.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. Limited to 100 numbered copies.
Signed by the author.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91015 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$275.00
Make Offer to Owner
$425 or more
Girolamo Muzio.
Il Gentilhuomo Del Mutio Iustinopolitano. In questo volume distinto in tre dialoghi si tratta la materia della nobilta...
Venice: Giovanni Andrea Valvassor, 1571.
Krown & Spellman retail: $650.
First Edition. 4to. (-2(4,A-2N4. [16],287p.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91045 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$275.00
Horatio Lutio Calliensi.
Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici...
Venice: Iordani Ziletti, 1566. Contemporary stiff vellum. Open tearing to title page reinforced. Bookplate to ffep and front pastedown. Very good.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91118 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$275.00
Make Offer to Owner
$425 or more
Richard Morton. [Greek text: Pyretologias]:
Seu Exercitationes De Morbis Universalibus A Cutis.
[with:]
Pars Altera: Sive, Exercitatio De Febrius Infammatoriis Universalibus.
London: Samuel Smith (& Benj Walford), 1692, 1694.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750.
First Editions. 8vo. 2 vols. A8, a-d8, B-2F8;A8, a-b8, B-2L8. [80],430,[18];[48],511,[1],[16]p. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91179 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$275.00
Make Offer to Owner
$425 or more
[Cartoons]. Comic Periodical Entitled,
Fun by Rail
.
[N.p., n.d., circa 1868].
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91189 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$262.50
James Pettit Andrews.
The History of Great Britain, Connected with The Chronology of Europe: With Notes, &c. Containing Anecdotes of the Times, Lives of the Learned, and Specimens of Their Works.
Vol.I.
From Caesar's Invasion, to hte Deposition and Death of Richard II.
[and:]
Vol.II.
From the Deposition and Death of Richard II to the Accession of Edward VI
.
London: T. Burton and Co. for T. Cadell, 1794-5.
Krown & Spellman retail: $300.
First edition. 4to. 2 vol. a1-4, *A1-4, A-32, 3O-3Q4, [1]; [1], A-2Z4. vii, 7, 477, [1]; [1], 367pp. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91094 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$250.00
Optatus Milevitanus & Victoris Uticens.
Delibatio Africanae historiae ecclesiaticae, sive libri VII ad Parmenianum de Schismate Donatistarum. Victoris Uticensis libri III. de Persecutione Vandalica in Africa,Cum annotationibus ex Fr. Balduini I. C. Commentariis rerum Ecclesiasticarum.
Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1569.
Krown & Spellman retail: $550.
8vo. a8, e4, A-2G8 [2G8 blank, present]. [24],170,[4],55pp.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91177 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$250.00
Maurice Sendak. SIGNED. Poster Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of "New York is Book Country" Event, September, 27th, 1998.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91270 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$390 or more
Thomas Parnell.
Poems on Several Occasions.
London: B. Lintot, 1722. [together with:]
Poems on Several Occasions...to which is prefixed The Life of Dr. Parnell by Dr. Goldsmith.
London: T. Davies, 1770. [and:]
An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry.
London: Benjamin Tooke, 1713. Two in contemporary calf bindings. One in a modern parchment-backed paper over boards. Two with bookplates. General edgewear. Very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91048 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$237.50
Jacopo Sannazzaro.
Opera Omnia, Latine Scripta.
Venice: Dominic & Johanni Baptista Guerre, 1568.
Krown & Spellman retail: $500.
Small 8vo. *8,A-M8,N4. [16],98f=196p.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91059 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$225.00
Rockwell Kent. SIGNED/LIMITED.
N by E.
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition, limited to 900 numbered copies.
Signed by the author.
Original cloth binding and glassine dust jacket. Glassine is heavily torn and in poor condition, else near fine in matching, numbered slipcase with some scuffing and wear.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91035 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$212.50
William Makepeace Thackeray.
The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. Two volumes. Octavo. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91070 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$200.00
Antoine-Yves Goguet & Alexandre Conrad Fugère.
De L'Origine Des Loix, Des Arts, Et Des Sciences; Et De Leurs Progrès Chez Les Anciens Peuples.
Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant, 1758. First Edition. 4to. 3 vols. xxviii,401,[1]. viii,438. viii,368,[3],[1]pp. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91147 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$200.00
[World War I]. Dan Smith. Original Lithographic WWI Poster, "Knowledge Wins."
Issued by the American Library Association. Designed and printed by Thomsen-Ellis Company. 1918.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91318 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$200.00
Nicolaus de Grouchy [Gruchius].
De Comitiis Romanorum Libri Tres
.
Venice: Francesco Bindoni, 1559. 8vo. A-V8,X4. 272,[54]pp.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91149 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$187.50
[Medicine]. [Sir William Osler]. Group of Nine Books (in Eleven Volumes) by or About Sir Richard Osler.
Various Publishers and dates. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91255 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$187.50
Salvatore Rosa.
Satire Di Salvator Rosa Dedicate A Settano.
Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1719.
Krown & Spellman: $750.
First Dated Edition. 8vo. A-N8,M6. 186,[1],[1]p.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91056 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$175.00
Adrien Michel Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore; Sebastien Mercier; Marquis De Pezay; Claude Joseph Dorat; Sainmore:
Lettre De Sapho A Phaon, Precedee D'Une Epitre A Rosine, D'une vie de Sapho & suive d'une Traduction en Vers des Ouvrages de ce Poete.
Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1766.
[with:]
Sebstien Mercier.
Lettre De Dulis A Son Ami...
London & Paris: Widow of Duchesne, 1767.
[with:]
Marquis De Pezay.
Lettre D'Alcibiade A Glicere, Bouquetiere D'Athenes, Suive D'Une Lettre De Venus A Paris, Et D'Une Epitre A LaMaitresse Que J'Aurai.
Geneva & Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1764.
[Second edition]
[with:]
Dorat:
Selim Et Selima, Poeme Imite De L'Allemand, Suivi Du Reve DUn Musulman, Traduit D'Une Poete Arabe, Et Precede De quelques Reflexions sur la Poesie Allemande.
Leipzig & Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1769.
[with:]
Dorat:
Les Cerises Et La Double Meprise, Contes En Vers, Pour Servir De Suite A Ceux D'Alphonse Et De L'Isle Merveilleuse.
The Hague [Paris]: 1769.
[with:]
Dorat.
Lettre De Zeila, Jeune Sauvage, Esclave A Constantinople, A Valcour, Officier Francois; Precedee D'une Lettre A Madame De C**.
Troisieme Edition.
Geneva & Paris: Chez Bauche, 1766.
[with]
Dorat.
Reponse De Valcour A Zeila, Precedeee D'Une Lettre De L'Auteur A Une Femme Qu'il Ne Connoit Pas
.
Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1766. First Editions, except as stated. 8vo. 7 works in 1 vol. 32;34;36;68;42;59;42;[1 ads].
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91058 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$175.00
Charles Ball.
The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India.
New York: S. D. Brain, [n.d., ca. 1850s]. Two volumes. Later half cloth (ex-library). Inkstamps to frontispiece. Bookplates. Corners bumped. Very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91102 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$175.00
[Featured Lot] James Ussher.
The Answer to a Challenge Made by a Iesuite of Ireland.
London: R. Young, 1631. Modern full brown morocco with refreshed endpapers.Textblock trimmed. Bookplate. Near fine.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91217 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$175.00
Kurt Vonnegut. SIGNED.
Galapagos
. Franklin Library, 1985.
Signed by the author.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91074 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$162.50
Martin & Guillaume Du Bellay.
Les Memoires De Messire Martin Du Bellay, Seigneur de Langey... & quelques fragmens des Ogdoades de Messire Guillaume Du Bellay.
Paris: Abel L'Angelier, 1586.
Krown & Spellman retail: $600.
8vo. ‡10, a-z,A-Z,2A-2X7 [Lacks 2X8 blank] [20],528ff [with errors],[14]pp.
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91104 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$162.50
[Sydney Owenson]. Lady Morgan.
The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa.
London: Henry Colburn, 1824. Two volumes. Later morocco ruled in gilt. Marbled edges. A bit of scuffing and edgewear. Bookplates, with some offsetting to ffeps. Very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201510
| Lot: 91182 | Mar 5, 2015
Sold For:
$162.50
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