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Auction 6085 | Lot 36009 » Books » Americana & American History

Alexander Gardner. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Washington, D.C.: Philp and Solomons, [1865-66]. Two oblong folio volumes. Approximately 12 x 16 inches.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36237 » Books » Science & Technology

Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. With two quotations on p. [ii]. Octavo in twelves (7 13/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 197 x 125 mm.). ix, [1], 502 pages.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36058 » Books » Natural History Books & Prints

John Gould. The Birds of Europe. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, [1832-] 1837. Five imperial folio volumes measuring 21.5 x 14.25 inches each. 449 hand-colored illustrations on 448 lithographed plates printed by Charles Hullmandel. Majority of the plates by Elizabeth Gould from sketches by Gould, with the remainder by Edward Lear. With all title pages, dedication page, preface, introduction, and subscriber's list present. Bound in contemporary full green morocco with rich decorative gilt-stamped ornamentation and borders by Hering with his stamp. Spine in six compartments with gilt-stamped borders, decorations, and titles. Gilt-rolled edges and rich inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Covers lightly rubbed and with some wear to edges and extremities. Spines somewhat faded with ends and joints a bit worn. Some shelfwear to corners and bottom edges. Interiors generally clean with scattered instances of mostly marginal foxing and occasional offsetting of images. Plates otherwise clean and with bright color and detail throughout. Volume one with the armorial bookplate of Algernon Peckover and the verso of the front free endpaper bearing the name of William Peckover, 1842 and a small tipped-in catalog clipping. Slight bumping to bottom of block of Vol. IV, barely affecting corner. First gathering of Vol. V slightly overopened with the list of plates with a wrinkle down the middle. A magnificently bound set with wonderful hand-colored plates by the British ornithological master. (Total: 5 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36228 » Books » Philosophy

Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776. First edition. Two large quarto volumes. Approximately 10.75 x 8.25 inches. [12], 510, [2, blank]; [4], 587, [1, ads] pages. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36256 » Books » World History

T. E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [London: For the Author by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson, 1926]. Extremely scarce privately printed edition, one of only 170 complete copies, so initialed by Lawrence at p. xix: "Complete copy i.xii.26 T. E. S."

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36262 » Books » Americana & American History

[Presidents of the United States]. Charles H. Grosvenor [biographical sketches]. The Book of the American Presidents. Washington: Continental Press, 1902. First edition. Large folio (15.5 x 12 inches; 393 x 305 mm.). [2], 124 pages.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36214 » Books » Business & Economics

[Thomas Robert Malthus]. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society. With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36030 » Books » Americana & American History

[American Revolution]. Treaties of Amity and Commerce, and of Alliance Eventual and Defensive, between his most Christian Majesty and the Thirteen United States of America. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1778. First edition. Quarto (approximately 9.5 x 8 inches. ). [2], 10, [2], 12-34 pages. Contemporary plain wrappers rebacked, original stabholes. Some foxing to general title-page. Chemised in quarter morocco clamshell case. Near fine.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36242 » Books » Science & Technology

Sir Isaac Newton. Opticks, or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, 1704.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36240 » Books » Science & Technology

Sir Isaac Newton. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added The Laws of the Moon's Motion, according to Gravity. By John Machin. London: Benjamin Motte, 1729. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36171 » Books » Literature 1900-up

James Joyce. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, number 513 of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper (out of a total edition of 1,000 copies).

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36229 » Books » Philosophy

Adam Smith. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759. First edition of author's first book. Octavo. [xii], 1-316, [337], 338-551, [1, errata] pages.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36040 » Books » Maps & Atlases

[Maps] William Janszoon Blaeu. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36041 » Books » Maps & Atlases

[Maps] Theodore De Bry / John White. Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, Equestris ordinis Viri, Anno Dni. MDLXXXV.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36185 » Books » Literature 1900-up

Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Viking, [1973]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by Pynchon on the half-title page, "10/86 / To Michael Urban, / Best Wishes, / Thomas Pynchon."

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36033 » Books » World History

Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. First edition. Six quarto volumes. Approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. Second issue of Volume I, first issue of the other volumes. (Total: 6 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36037 » Books » Philosophy

Arthur Schopenhauer. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: vier Bucher, nebst einem anhange, der die Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie enthalt. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1819. First edition,

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36113 » Books » Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition, one of 200 copies, of which this is number 36, signed by Bradbury and bound in "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis."

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36088 » Books » Illuminated Manuscripts

[Illuminated Manuscript]. Two Full-Page Miniatures in Grisaille, attributed to The Master of Girarde Acarie, cut from Poème Sur La Passion, a manuscript by Jacques le Lieur. [Rouen, France, ca. 1530]. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36210 » Books » Philosophy

David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Vol. I. Of the Understanding [- Vol. II. Of the Passions]. London: Printed for John Noon, 1739. (Total: 2 Items)

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36120 » Books » Horror & Supernatural

Stephen King. Carrie. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.

Advance proof of the first edition, with "Special Edition Not for Sale" printed at the bottom of the back cover. With an amazing inscription signed by King to his former college roommate, Phil "Flip" Thompson,

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36077 » Books » Art & Architecture

Antonio Visentini. Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal Tabulis XL Aere Expressi. Venetiis: Theodorum Viero, [1742]. Second edition. Oblong folio. Lacking seven of the thirty-eight plates called for, otherwise complete. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with rubbing and scuffing to extremities. Joints splitting and two-inch portion lacking at head of spine. Thumbing to plate edges with some scattered foxing to preliminary pages and occasionally affecting images. Collating notations in pencil to Tabularum leaf. Overall, very good condition.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36031 » Books » Biography & Memoir

[George Washington]. Thomas Thornton. A True and Authentic History of His Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army during the late War, and present President of the United States. Also, of the Brave Generals Montgomery and Greene. And the Celebrated Marquis de La Fayette. To Which Is Added, an Ode on General Washington's Birth Day. Philadelphia: Printed by Peter Stewart, in Second-street, ninth Door above Chesnut-street, for Robert Stewart, travelling Bookseller, 1790.

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36062 » Books » Music & Sheet Music

George Gershwin, et al. Porgy and Bess, An Opera in Three Acts. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. New York: Random House, 1935. Limited edition, number 83 of 250 copies, signed by George Gershwin,

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Auction 6085 | Lot 36099 » Books » Children's Books

L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition, first state of the text, with the following points:

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