LOT #92225 |
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Lot of Thirteen Mostly British Novels, Including Six Bentley Standard Novels.... (Total: 13 Items)
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Description
Lot of Thirteen Mostly British Novels, Including Six Bentley Standard Novels.All books in this lot are sixteenmo and twelvemo, and, unless noted otherwise, all are in very good condition. Titles include: Hans Christian Andersen. The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy. London: Richard Bentley, 1847. Translated by Mary Howitt. Half leather. Front hinge broken. Bookplate. Good. [and:] J. Fenimore Cooper. The Two Admirals: A Tale of the Sea. London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Half leather. Bookplate. [and:] Maria Edgeworth. Helen, A Tale. London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Half leather. Bookplate. [and:] George Eliot. The Mill On the Floss - In Two Volumes. New York: Home Book Company, [n.d.]. The "Venetian Edition." Full blue cloth decorated with gilt peacock feathers. First signature of volume I detached, but present. Hinges broken or tender. Inked name, rubber stamped name, bookplates. Good. [and:] Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary. London: Collins Clear-Type Press, [n.d.]. Translated by Henry Blanchamp. Rubbed flexible boards. Chipped spine. Good. [and:] Thomas Colley Grattan. The Heiress of Bruges; A Tale. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. Half leather. Bookplate. [and:] Thomas Ingoldsby. Some Account of My Cousin Nicholas. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Half leather. Bookplate. [and:] Lord Lytton. Last Days of Pompeii. [No place]: T. Nelson & Son, [n.d.]. Red cloth with illustrated inset. Binding faded. Joints splitting. Spine and boards all but detached; binding loose. Pages brown and brittle. Fair. [and:] A. E. W. Mason. The Philanderers. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926. Full leather with gilt spine and top. Head of spine chipped. [and:] Horace Mayhew [editor]. The Comic Almanack For 1848: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest. London: David Bogue Bibliopolist, 1848. Full gilt leather. [and:] A. Sewell. Black Beauty, The Autobiography of a Horse. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1895]. Full plaid cloth with paper labels to front board and spine. [and:] Albert Smith. The Marchioness of Brinvilliers, the Poisoner of the Seventeenth Century - A Romance of Old Paris. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Half leather. Bookplate.
Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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