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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 246

Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1458-1500); Hieronymus Angerianus (d. 1535); and Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) Poetae Tres Elegantissimi. Paris: Du-Puys, 1582. First edition, octavo, lacking the last two leaves of text. [with a separate title page for] Girolamo Angeriano`s Erotopaegnion, Paris: Duuallium, 1582. [and] Johannes Secundus`s Poetae Elegantissimi, Paris: Duuallium, 1582; bound in contemporary stiff parchment, yapp edges, title page folded to preserve extensive manuscript note, worming, some toning, 4 1/2 x 3 in.

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Lot 247

Mason, George C. (fl. circa 1870) Newport and Its Cottages. [Boston: Osgood & Co., 1875]. First edition, folio, 109 hinged leaves, text printed on the rectos only, illustrated with forty-five full-paged heliotype plates and other text illustrations, in the original blind tooled, and gold-lettered publisher`s morocco binding, with chamfered edges and inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., taffeta-textured endleaves and paste downs, binding intact without repairs, surface abrasions, corners bumped, foxing to fly leaves, 14 x 10 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 254

Miller, Henry (1891-1980) Quiet Days in Clichy. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First edition, illustrated by Brassaï (1899-1984), in original boldly printed graphic black, gray, yellow, and white limp paper wraps designed by Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009), illustrated throughout with Brassaï`s photographs; light softening of corners, 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 259

Mixed Lot: 1816-1921, Fine Bindings, Signed Copies, First Editions, Five Volumes. William Warden`s Letters Written on Board His Majesty`s Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint Helena; in which the Conduct and Conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte [.] are Faithfully Described and Related, London: for the author, by Ackerman, 1816, third edition, portrait, three-quarter red morocco, spotting and dampstaining. George Moore`s (1852-1933) Confessions of a Young Man, London: Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1888, portrait, cloth from original covers and spine bound in at back, three-quarter rust-colored calf and buckram, spine sunned, dry. Walter de la Mare`s (1873-1956) Songs of Childhood, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1902, first edition of author`s first book, in publisher`s half cream cloth and blue cloth boards, with gilt emblem, inscribed by de la Mare on ffep, in custom stiff buckram chemise and half-morocco slipcase. de la Mare`s Memoirs of a Midget, London: Collins, [1921], publisher`s cloth, inscribed by the author to Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) on ffep, photograph of the medallion portrait Simson made of de la Mare pasted inside the front board, with Simson`s signature, in custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise, white spotting to case and chemise. William Henry Hudson`s (1841-1922) Green Mansions, London: Duckworth & Co., 1904, first edition, publisher`s green cloth, housed in half green morocco slipcase, spine faded to a tan color. (5).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 262

Modern Poetry and Literature, Eight Volumes: Wallace Stevens`s (1879-1955) Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Cummington Press, 1942, in publisher`s white cloth boards, lettered on both boards and spine; Dylan Thomas`s Under Milk Wood, London: Dent & Sons, [1954], with dust jacket; The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New York: New Directions, 1971, third printing, in a signed morocco binding by Maurin; T.S. Eliot`s After Strange Gods, London: Faber & Faber, 1934, first trade edition, in publisher`s cloth; Aldous Huxley`s Words and Their Meanings, Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1940], with the dust jacket; Lawrence Durrell`s Two Excursions into Reality, [Berkeley]: Circle Edition, 1947, with the dust jacket; E.E. Cummings`s W, New York: Horace Liveright, 1931, publisher`s binding, first leaf with pencil notes; The Collected Sonnets of John Keats, illustrated by John Buckland Wright, Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. (8).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 263

Monconys, Balthasar de (1611-1665) Journal des Voyages. Lyons: Boissat & Remeus, 1665-1666. First edition, three quarto volumes, illustrated with thirty engraved plates by Claude Debarge, bound in contemporary speckled sheepskin bindings intact, some losses to leather spines, most of the gold has rubbed away. Monconys` was one of the earliest journeys taken in the name of science. He traveled to England, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and east to Turkey, Syria, and Egypt.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 264

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Essays, Illustrated and Signed by Salvador Dali (1904-1989). Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947. First edition, number 359 of 1,000 copies, signed by Dali on the limitation page, illustrations in black and white and color, bound in original publisher`s blue cloth, stamped in gold, with newer Mylar wrapper, t.e.g., 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 266

Morris, Earl H.; Jean Charlot; Ann Axtell. The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1931. First edition, two folio volumes, illustrated with photographs, colored plates, and folding plans, in publisher`s light blue cloth, slightly reflexed, 12 1/4 x 9 in. (2).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 270

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. London: for H.D. Symonds, 1803. Octavo, three volumes bound as one, first complete edition of Newton`s Principia, with his "System of the World," a comment by Emerson, and other additions, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Newton, seventy-four folding engravings and two folding tables, rebound in modern calf, some pages with paper repairs, browning, other slight defects, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 274

Olmsted, Timothy (1759-1848) The Musical Olio. Northampton, Massachusetts: Andrew Wright, 1805. First edition, oblong format, 112 pages, old boards, worn, spine repaired with old masking tape, boards detached, front board cracked, title page and preliminaries loose, title page with old yellow highlighting the title and author`s name, contents evenly toned, occasional spotting, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. Timothy Olmsted played fife in the Lexington Alarm in 1775. He served as a musician during the Revolutionary War, fought in the Battle of White Plains, and later reenlisted to fight in the War of 1812.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 278

Parker, Ann and Avon Neal. Early American Stone Sculpture. New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. First edition, copy number seven of 175 bound in full calf, housed in a clamshell box, signed by Neal and Parker on the limitation page, with one original gravestone rubbing taken directly from the Pompey Brenton marker in Newport, Rhode Island, signed and numbered by Parker and Neal, and two selenium-toned silver prints taken, processed, signed and numbered by Parker, very good, 17 x 11 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 279

Parker, Ann, and Avon Neal. Los Ambulantes, the Itinerant Photographers of Guatemala. North Brookfield, Massachusetts: Thistle Hill Press, [1982]. First edition, number ninety-one of 100 copies signed by Parker and Neal on limitation page, with an original signed silver print by Parker, matted, in publisher`s folder, the book bound in Guatemalan fabric, in a custom clamshell case, one corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good, 14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. overall.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 283

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Toreros, ed. Jaime Sabartes (1881-1968). New York: Braziller, [1961]. First edition, with four original lithographs (one in color), oblong format, bright publisher`s red cloth binding, stamped in black, with the dust jacket, spine slightly sunned, very good, 10 x 13 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 287

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) The Rape of the Lock, Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers [Chiswick Press], 1896. First edition, quarto, seven full-paged cuts by Beardsley, and two vignettes, title printed in red and black, bound in publisher`s turquoise cloth blocked in gold with a design by Beardsley, spine slightly sunned; some spotting, not affecting the plates, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

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Lot 288

Potter, Eliza (fl. circa 1850) A Hairdresser`s Experience in High Life. Cincinnati: for the Author, 1859. First edition, octavo, in publisher`s red cloth, block in blind on the boards, in gilt on the spine, spot on title page, and other light spotting, spine slightly torn, corners bumped, boards with a few stains, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. In a classic upstairs/downstairs confessional, Potter describes the lives of her clients. She describes old New York (upper Fifth Avenue was woods), winters in New Orleans, and shares her abolitionist views. She also struggles with her conscience. "I made up my mind to settle down and be quiet--to see and not see, to hear and not hear--but I found it was impossible to do this and continue my occupation as a hair-dresser.".

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 289

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) Provença. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [1910]. First edition, first issue, with "Laudante" on pages 53 and 55, partially unopened, in the dust jacket, split along front joint of jacket, and half-inch piece missing from head, bound in publisher`s tan paper covered boards, title printed on spine and front board, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 298

Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800) Description d`Une Machine pour Diviser. Paris: Didot, 1790. First edition in French, large quarto, title page dusty and water stained, illustrated with seven large folding engravings bound after the text; original limp paper wrappers, stab sewn, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, marginal water stains to first thirteen pages of text. Ramsden was a maker of mathematical instruments; this work is a description of his "dividing engine," which was used to accurately scribe lines onto measuring devices like astrolabes, sextants, and protractors. Setting circles are the graded measurements etched onto dials on telescopes; these enable the observer to find objects in the sky by the equatorial coordinates used in celestial charts.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 299

Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, [1957]. First edition, in green publisher`s cloth and the dust jacket with George Salter`s illustration on the front cover, and the black and white portrait of Rand on the back, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. [and] a first edition, mixed issue of The Fountainhead, Philadelphia: Blakiston Co., [1943], no dust jacket, the page number on page nine looks like a zero; on page 321, line 5, the word referred is spelled "refrred"; "Dominique" is spelled correctly on page 480; in green publisher`s cloth, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 301

Ribadeneira, Pedro de (1527-1611) Vita del P. Ignatio Loiola. Venice: Giolito, 1586. First Italian edition, with elaborate woodcut title compartment, portrait of Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), and printer`s device on colophon, head and tail pieces and initials, bound in parchment, worming to several signatures in the interior with loss of text, water stains, first signature sprung and detached, title page with short tear, text spotted, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. This biography of the founder of the Jesuit order was composed by a Spanish member of the order who was admitted at the age of thirteen by Ignatius himself.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 306

Russia, 18th Century, Orthodox Church, Law, Three Volumes: Orthodox Liturgical Book in Church Slavonic, c. 1762, octavo, lacking title page, printed in red and black throughout, with woodcut headpieces, bound in a later leather blind tooled binding with a large cross on the front cover, and "Heilige Schrift" tooled on the spine, this binding likely taken from a German bible and applied to this book; later light blue end leaves, spine reflexed. Alexi of Russia (1629-1676) Ulozhenie po kotoromu sud i rosprava (title and all text in Russian language/Cyrillic alphabet), Saint Petersburg: Printer of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1759, quarto, third edition, engraved portrait of Alexi, three-quarter leather and decorated paper boards, worn, rubbed, spotting, some minor water stains. Catherine II`s (1762-1796) Blagochestivi, Saint Petersburg: Royal Typographers, 1785, quarto, two parts in one volume, with separate title page, pagination continuous, 260 pages, half leather, marbled paper boards, some tears, old signature cut from the blank margins of the first title, repaired, some pencil underlining. (3).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 308

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de (1900-1944) The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1943] Limited edition, first edition in English, signed by the author, copy number 298 of 500, translated by Katherine Woods, in publisher`s peach-colored cloth binding, stamped in red, and the original dust jacket, price-clipped, torn with loss at the head of the spine and a larger section torn with loss on the back cover, other wear and minor tears, edge wear, spine sun-faded, early ownership inscription on ffep, ticket of Des Forges, Books de Luxe of Milwaukee, pasted inside the back board, 8 3/4 x 7 in. Saint-Exupery disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission on German troop movements on July 31, 1944.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 314

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Works. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Bioren & Madan, 1795. Volume one only, of eight; first American edition, octavo, not collated, 384 pages; title page and frontispiece present, at least two text leaves torn with loss, a large copy, with deckle edges throughout, with browning and spotting; disbound, lacking the front board, original back board present, covered in blue paper, in an old paper cover, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 316

Speculum Ecclesiae, sive Sermones aliquot Evangelici. Cologne: Quentel, 1531. Octavo, stated first edition, contributing authors: Honorius of Autun (1080-1154); Saint Caesarius, Bishop of Arles (470-542); edited by Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475-1537); 343 leaves, nine-line woodcut initial L depicting a cherub with snakes used at the opening of the first sermon; contemporary marginal notes and underlining throughout, with a lengthy note on the colophon leaf, bound in illuminated manuscript waste, showing a large initial with gilt background on the front cover, and text in a gothic hand, and a round humanistic script visible inside the binding, behind the spine, where the covering material has become detached from the slips of the sewing supports, some toning and spotting to the text leaves, holes in the covering material, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 317

St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector (1735-1813) Letters from an American Farmer, Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, and Conveying Some Idea of the State of the People of North America. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. First American edition, 12mo, lacking both folding maps, bound in contemporary sheepskin, boards detached, worn, spine leather split, ex library with stamps at the foot of the title and at the foot of several text leaves, text evenly toned, one leaf torn, a readable and usable copy, with its original margins, that could be restored, 6 3/4 x 4 in. Chapters entitled, "What is an American," "An Account of the Whale Fishery," Distresses of a Frontier Man," and "Horrid Treatment of a Negro Slave," are included, along with descriptions of Martha`s Vineyard and Nantucket, notably, "Peculiar Customs of Nantucket.".

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Lot 320

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, [1939]. First edition, with the phrase "First published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page, octavo, 619 pages, beige publisher`s cloth with brown stamped illustration and lettering; in the original dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader with the price ($2.75) and "First Edition" intact inside the front flap. Inner edges of dust jacket clipped, both flaps, not affecting the text as mentioned above, inner flap browned, along with ffep; back flap of dust jacket with slight chipping along bottom edge, spine of jacket sunned; old paperclip rust mark and browning to half title, slight foxing to title, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 323

Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio (1465/70-after 1527) Lo Presente Libro Insegna La Vera Arte delo Excellent Scrivere de Diverse Varie Sorti de Litere. [?Venice: c. 1553]. Quarto, a fragment, consisting of sixteen leaves only of twenty-eight, a single signature, the first half lettered G through O, the unlettered conjugates attached, except in the case of the outermost bifolium, in later paste-paper wrappers, spotting, last leaf with some small losses, repaired, 8 1/4 x 6 in. Shelton, Thomas (1601-1650?) Tachygraphy. The Most Exact and Compendious Method of Short and Swift Writing, that Hath Ever Yet Been Published by Any, London: by Milbourn for Newman, 1691, octavo, forty-four pages, engraved title and eleven other pages in the text are printed from copperplate engravings, other pages printed by normal letterpress, bound in modern calf; some old tape and spotting to engraved title, last few leaves with repaired marginal paper damage, 6 x 3 1/2 in. New York Public is the only American library listed as holding this edition in ESTC. (2).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 328

The Gorham Golf Book, illustrated by John Hassall (1868-1948) New York: Gorham Manufacturing, 1903. First edition, small format, 2 1/2 x 4 in., illustrated with sixteen tipped-in color plates, title printed in color, along with numerous printed color vignettes throughout the text, 148 pages, in original limp suede with blind-stamped golfer on the front cover, t.e.g., red ribbon bookmark; leather disintegrating, front cover detached, minor offsetting to endleaves at front and last leaf of text and illustration at the back.

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Lot 330

The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. Portland: Sanborn & Carter, 1844. Octavo, illustrated with many wood engravings of pirate characters and adventures, in publisher`s brown blind-stamped cloth, with the title blocked on the spine in gold with the skull and cross bones, somewhat worn, one signature sprung, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. [with] Lewis H. Morgan`s League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois, Rochester: Sage & Brother, 1851, first edition, illustrated with frontispiece, large folding map of the Iroquois nation (New York state), and numerous text illustrations, many full-paged, folding table, etc.; in worn publisher`s cloth, blocked in blind, with gilt-stamped spine, sewing supports attaching back board broken, de-cased, binding worn and rubbed, head cap torn, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (2).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 331

The Thousand and One Nights` Entertainments, trans. Edward William Lane (1801-1876). London: Charles Knight & Co., 1839-1841. First edition of Lane`s translation, three large octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with fine wood engravings from original designs by William Harvey, bound in uniform full green calfskin, gilt tooled spines and boards, marbled edges and end leaves; spines sunned to a tan color, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (3).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 336

Thorley, John (fl. circa 1740) Melisselogia [Greek], or the Female Monarchy. Being an Enquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees. London: for the Author, sold by N. Thorley and J. Advidson, 1744. First edition, octavo, illustrated by Loveday with a folding frontispiece and four additional folding plates, as called for in the explanation at the end of the text, in contemporary speckled sheepskin boards, rebacked, new end leaves, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.

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Lot 337

Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) Deche di Tito Livio Vulgare Hystoriate. [Venice: Bartolomeo de Zannis de Portesio for L.A. Giunta, 1511]. Folio, translated by Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444), title page printed in red and black, with woodcut and large printer`s mark; large woodcut border on the first page of text, and the first page of the third book, lacking the divisional page for book two with the large woodcut compartment and five other text leaves; ex libris Nathan Comfort Starr, with his bookplate inside the front board and penciled name on ffep, in a later binding, water stains, ink spots, small burn marks, tears, worming, and other damage to the leaves throughout, later marginal notes, some pages loose, title page thumbed, later parchment over boards, defective, 11 1/2 x 8 in. The text is illustrated with more than 400 cartoon-like woodcuts, originally created for the 1493 edition of the same Bruni translation, re-used in 1502 and again in this edition.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 340

Travels, Tasmania, India, The Malay Archipelago, Four Volumes: Captain H. Butler Stoney`s Residence in Tasmania, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1856, illustrated, in original half pebbled leather and textured boards. Alfred Russel Wallace`s The Malay Archipelago, New York: Harper Brothers, 1869, first American edition, in a later binding incorporating the orangutan from the original boards. Charles Mac Farlane`s Our Indian Empire, London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844, in two volumes, illustrated, ex library, in three-quarter calf, with labels. (4).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 346

Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Castle of the Carpathians. New York: The Merriam Company, [1894]. Octavo, first American edition, illustrated with wood engravings, bound in maroon publisher`s cloth, with the titular castle and the dragon-like nyctalop on the front board, binding somewhat shaken, preliminaries starting, head chipped, contents good.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 347

Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. First edition, second issue, with Captain Nemo holding a sextant block in gold on the front cover and without "the end" on page 303, illustrated throughout, bound in publisher`s decorated cloth binding, brown end papers, text block shifting slightly, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 353

Warhol, Andy (1928-1987) Andy Warhol`s Index Book. New York: Random House, 1967. Soft printed silver covers, first edition, with fold-outs, pop-ups, removable pieces to construct, a record with an image of Lou Reed, and other bits and pieces, including the original balloon, now dried up and stuck between two pages; some adhesive residue from an old price sticker on front cover.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 358

White, E.B. (1899-1985) Charlotte`s Web. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952]. First edition, with "I-B" on the copyright page, octavo, 184 pages, in tan publisher`s cloth with the title written in spider webs on the front board and spine, in a first issue dust jacket with four blurbs for Stuart Little on the back panel, minor abrasions, torn along spine and into front panel without loss (could be repaired), corners slightly worn, stray pencil marks, small book ticket from the original retailer, the Personal Book Shop in Boston pasted on the ffep, 8 x 5 1/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 363

Wimpey, Joseph (1739-1808) Rural Improvements: or Essays on the Most Rational Methods of Improving Estates; accommodated to the Soil, Climate, and Circumstances of England. London: for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1775. First edition, octavo, inscription on ffep indicating that this copy was presented to the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) on September 22, 1812 by William Augustus Miles (1753?-1817), with a stamp on the title page incorporating intertwined cursive initials and Lafayette`s motto, "Cur Non?"; bound in contemporary speckled calf, dry, somewhat rubbed, label has flaked away, leather at joints beginning to crack, 8 x 5 1/4 in. Miles was involved in the French Revolution and a known associate and correspondent of Lafayette. "Wishing Mr. Miles`s best compliments to his old & honourable friend, the Marquis de LaFayette, the friend of mankind, of rational well destin`d liberty & of a limited* monarchical government. 22 Sept: 1812" *limited added later, with a caret.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 366

Zavattini, Cesare (1902-1989) Un Paese. [Milan & Torino]: Guilio Einaudi, 1955. First edition, photographs, bound in publisher`s pale gray cloth, and dust jacket, the binding slightly rubbed, but bright, the jacket with several short closed tears repaired with tape on the verso, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 406

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of America. New York: by J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840. First edition, seven large octavo volumes, inscribed by Audubon in volume one, to "Miss Lydia E.E. Greene with the affectionate good wishes of her friend and servant, John J. Audubon," dated Boston, June 8, 1844; and again in volume two, "Miss Lydia, E.E. Greene; and may God bless her, with the sincerest wishes of her old friend and servant, John J. Audubon," same date, the set bound in uniform plum-colored morocco; illustrated with 500 color lithographs of birds, plates 187 and 188 are bound out of order, plate 220 is bound in upside down, and plate 471 is misbound between plates 475 and 476; half-titles are present in volumes one, four, five, and six; no subscriber lists; with the book tickets of Little & Brown, Booksellers and Importers of Boston, and the tags of Plow, a bookbinding firm on the corner of Water and Devonshire Streets also in Boston; contents clean throughout, without spotting; bindings intact; spines and corners slightly worn, although all volumes were bound by Plow in a uniform style and leather, volumes two and three have slightly faded spines, 10 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. The Boston Athenaeum lists a Lydia E.E. Greene as a member in 1854. (7).

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Lot 442

Cary, John (c. 1754-1835) Cary`s New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland. London: Publish`d June 11th 1794 by J. Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No. 181 Strand. First edition, large quarto, engraved title and dedication, the hand-colored gridded General Map, and seventy-six hand-colored full page panel maps for each grid section, numbered 1-81, excluding numbers 62, 63, 71, 72, and 80, all of which contain only open ocean [seventy-seven maps in total], 85 pages of index, and three pages of subscribers; bound in contemporary speckled boards, edges and spine gilt, front board re-hinged, back board detached, some offsetting, 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 466

The English Pilot. Describing the West India Navigation from Hudson`s Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating the Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a New Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. London: Printed for Mount and Davidson, on Tower Hill, 1794. Folio, 66 pages of typographical text, and a total of twenty-five maps, twenty-one on separate sheets, all but one folding, and five full-page engraved maps printed on text pages. Lacking map eleven, of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and East and West New Jersey. Contemporary sheepskin on the front board, back board missing, last two signatures with some stains, water stains, some maps with minor tears. The following maps are included: A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans; North America from Newfoundland to Hudson`s Bay; the West Indies; the Atlantic Ocean with Europe and Africa to the west and east to North and South America and the West Indies; Casco Bay; Newfoundland; the Southeast coast of Newfoundland; New England; another of New England with an inset map of Boston; New York Harbor; Virginia; St. Christopher`s; Barbados; South Carolina and Georgia; Antigua; the Caribbean islands; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico and Zachee (one folding edge damaged with loss); Cuba; Cuba`s Bay of Matanzas; Jamaica; Guiana with the mouths of the Oronoco and Amazon rivers; and the Trading Part of the West Indies; in addition to numerous smaller woodcut maps and sketches of coastal features, and one woodcut of swimming penguins: Note, these fowls never fly, for their wings are very short, and most like the fins of fish, having nothing upon them but a sort of down and short feathers. An extraordinary collection of maps and piloting instructions for 18th century navigation in the Atlantic, The English Pilot went through six editions between 1755 and 1794, all are rare. Only one copy exists of the first, second, and third editions, two copies of the fourth edition are known, three copies of the fifth edition, and five copies of this particular edition.

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Willingham Auctions
Lot 1423

A collection of English literature books mostly in leather bindings including Syntax`s tour with coloured plates, George Orwell`s 1984 First Edition (without dust jacket) and `The Rambler` in four volumes

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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 276

Shakespeare (William) - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (First Folio edition), 13 volumes, t.e.g., original cloth gilt

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British Bespoke Auctions
Lot 195

TWO LIMITED EDITION BESWICK FIGURES RUPERT BEAR AND PODGY PIG TO CELEBRATE RUPERT`S FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE DAILY EXPRESS, BOXED WITH CERTIFICATE

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Morgan Evans & Co.
Lot 510

A Limited Edition Coloured Print Titled "First Snow" After An Original By Keith Andrew, Signed And Numbered In Pencil

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Sworders
Lot 212

Cowell, W.S.: A Colour Lithograph album presentation album to Thomas Moy. 1909. Full leather. and Darley, Felix: Compositions in Outline from Judd`s Margaret. Redfield, New York, 1856. First Edition. Oblong folio, full leather, and Gustave Doré (illustrator), five works, Don Quixote (1/2 leather), Enid, Guinevere, Vivien, and Elaine (original pictorial cloth)

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Special Auction Services
Lot 727

Wrenn 00 Gauge group of locomotive and rolling stock: W2205 0-6-0 BR Tank no. 31340, Pullman cars W6000A ‘Car 79’, ‘Vera’ in a W6002A box, W6002H ‘Hazel’, Goods Wagons W4318X Ventilated Van and W4652 Machine Wagon Lowmac, Wrenn Catalogue First Edition and product leaflet. G-E in VG boxes (8)

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Whyte's
Lot 94

Flora H. Mitchell (1890-1973) VANISHING DUBLINlimited edition book; (from an edition of 600)P11.5 by 8.5in., 28.75 by 21.25cm.Allen and Figgis, Dublin, 1966. First and only edition; the plates were destroyed after printing. A glimpse of old Dublin with fifty full colour plates and an introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Quarto; original green cloth with gilt titled spine and dust jacket; protected in glassine sleeve. Many of the 600 copies of this book have subsequently been broken up for the prints which were then sold individually. Other editions remain in public and special collections, thus Vanishing Dublin is a highly rare and desirable collectors item.

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Whyte's
Lot 111

Bono" (Paul Hewson)" (b.1960) BONO: PETER & THE WOLF, 2003limited edition portfolio of giclée prints; (each no. 22 from an edition of 200)signed and numbered by the artist on introductory pageL12.5 by 31.5in., 31.25 by 78.75cm.An excellent portfolio of illustrations by Bono for a 2003 edition of Sergei Prokofiev`s Peter and the Wolf printed by Bloomsbury and sold in aid of hospice care worldwide. Comprising of 6 prints, the first signed by Bono, and a copy of the book itself contained within a linen presentation case.

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 34

Three Mercedes-Benz reference books: `Portrait of a Legend` by Ingo Seiff, `Three Pointed Star`, the revised edition by Moncreiff and a rare 1956 first edition of `Mercedes-Benz` by S.C.H. Davies, reputedly his own personal copy, signed and dated to the inside cover.

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Richard Edmonds Auctions
Lot 142

A Triumph TR250 workshop manual supplement, first edition and a TR6 workshop manual supplement.

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Clevedon Salerooms
Lot 597

J.K. Rowling-Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, first edition, first impression, published by Bloomsbury, 1998, with dust jacket Please see images. Telephone department for further information

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Clevedon Salerooms
Lot 606

Lucy Dawson-Dogs, Rough And Smooth, published by Collins, first edition 1937 together with K.F. Barker-Just Dogs, published by Country Life Ltd, first edition 1933 Please see images. Telephone department for further information

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Wellers Auctioneers
Lot 1320

"Robert Louis Stevenson - Island Nights` Entertainments, London 1893, first edition; Catriona, London 1893, first edition, blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, last pages uncut; Kidnapped, London 1886, blue cloth; and The Black Arrow, London 1888 (4)"

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Wellers Auctioneers
Lot 1325

"Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World, Hodder & Staughton, London 1912, original blue cloth with lizard tracks to boards and spine, twelve glued illustrations, first edition, first issue"

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Wellers Auctioneers
Lot 1328

"Charles Dickens - Great Expectations, London 1862, Chapman & Hall, first one-volume edition published in the year after its initial publication in three volumes, original brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering; Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Sons, London 1848; and Dion Calthorp, the Dickens Souvenir, 1912"

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Wellers Auctioneers
Lot 1332

"Bram Stoker - The Lady of the Shroud, London, William Rider & Son, first edition, red cloth with blind stamped cover"

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Wellers Auctioneers
Lot 1335

"Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island, London 1885, first illustrated edition; Master of Ballantrae, London 1889, first edition; and Prince Otto, first edition"

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Hansons Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd
Lot 614

A collection of First Aid Principles etc, a first edition, 1970 of Florence Nightingale in Harley Street, Wartime 1940s navy magazine; three embroidered and framed pictures, 1951, and tray (parcel lot)

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Hansons Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd
Lot 617

Books - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, First Edition, Edited by 'Boz' with illustrations by 'Phiz', weekly issues (incomplete)

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