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Louis Taylor Fine Art Auctioneers
Lot 802

A Lady`s Gold Evening Purse, mesh decorated, 2ins, 23 grams approx.

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Lot 803

A 15 ct Gold Bangle - set with a Stone, c 1912, 12 grams approx, together with a 9 ct Gold Brooch, (2).

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Lot 804

A 9 ct Gold Charm Bracelet with Half Sovereign attached, dated 1913.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 31

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963), Ephemera Archive, 1961-1965. Including invitations, tickets, programs, and other ephemera relating to the 1961 inauguration of JFK, inaugural galas and balls; invitations to Lyndon B. Johnson`s inauguration, and other related ephemera, including two special 1965 presidential inauguration license plates issued by the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles, unused, with the accompanying certificate; Kennedy`s inaugural address printed as a miniature book by St. Onge of Worcester, in a gold-tooled leather binding; two invitations to JFK`s birthday celebration on May 29, 1961; the plastic-comb-bound brochure produced for the All New England Salute Dinner to Kennedy, held in Boston on October 19, 1963; a bracelet with a medallion made to commemorate the christening of the U.S. Navy`s aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy; and other related items. Provenance: By descent through the family of Joseph T. Benedict (1912-1995), former president and chairman of Worcester Federal Savings Bank and Kennedy family friend.

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Lot 56

Vitelleschi, Mutio (1563-1645) Illuminated Parchment Document Signed. Rome, 3 February 1624. Jesuit honorarium, perhaps a copy of Vitelleschi`s diploma, as it refers to another date in December, 1584, which could align with his graduation, the present document with the 1624 date, and signed by Vitelleschi at the foot, painted illuminations of flowers in the borders, rondelles with the Virgin Mary and an angel in the top corners, and the Jesuit emblem at the center top, some loss of the surface, old folds, rumpled, a piece torn away at the foot, the Pope`s name written in gold; framed, 26 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.

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Lot 64

Arabic Manuscript Fragment, Prayers. Six paper leaves, written in a small, semi-Maghribi hand, in gold and colors, from the Newberry Library and the Henry Probasco collection by way of Sam Fogg, in green paper wraps, and custom clamshell box, 4 x 4 in.

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Lot 72

Beardsley, Aubrey, Illustrator (1872-1898) Sir Thomas Malory`s Le Morte D`Arthur. London: Dent, 1893-1894. Three volumes, limited edition, preceding the trade edition, number 227 of 300 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, initials and pages with borders printed in red and black, illustrated with twenty-four full page prints by Beardsley on French etching paper, with the prospectus inserted; bound in full publisher`s cloth, stamped in gold, corners bumped, some toning to interior pages, deckle edges throughout, ex libris John Platt, with his Clifton Lodge book plate, dated Christmas 1892, in each volume, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (3).

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Lot 74

Benayi Divani Manuscript. [Istanbul, 1570]. Text in Ottoman Turkish and Persian, 39 leaves, written in black and red ink on tinted papers, with gold and colored accents, bound in smooth red sheepskin with a gilt compartment on each board and a blind-tooled floral decoration inside; thumbing to text, water stains, old stamps, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

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Lot 77

Biblia Latina, with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo. [Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg, not after 1480]. First printed edition of the Latin Bible with the Glossa Ordinaria, or commentary, bound in four imperial folio volumes; 1,210 of 1,211 leaves, lacking only the penultimate blank, the other two blanks present; two gold-illuminated initials: one at the beginning of Genesis, the other at the beginning of the Psalms, all other initials supplied in alternating red and blue contemporary lombardic initials, larger initials enhanced with yellow tracery embellishments inside and around the letters, red and blue capital strokes and paragraph marks throughout, some contemporary notes, the set presented to an unnamed convent by Johannes Schreier in 1482, with the original notes to that effected inside the back board of each volume, and another similar notice on the front board of each volume; bound in uniform contemporary German alum-tawed pigskin bindings over wooden boards, tooled in blind; later hardware added; front boards detached, some worming, some discoloration to text pages, generally a large, fresh copy, with contemporary manuscript annotations (at times trimmed away) to help the binder assemble the pages, which would have been challenging because of the confusing signature marks used by the printer in this work; contemporary printer`s waste and text manuscript leaves used as pastedowns in all four volumes; ex libris the Franciscan Library of Ingoldstadt, with inscriptions; page size: 19 x 13 in.; bindings: 20 x 13 1/2 x 4 in.; the four together occupy 18 inches of shelf space; collation available upon request. (4).

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Lot 89

Bury, Thomas Talbot (1809-1877) Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. London: Ackermann, 1833. Large quarto, title page, thirteen full-paged colored plates, three folding plates, seven pages of text, and a final blank, bound in contemporary marbled boards, inexpertly rebacked with buckram, housed in a gold chemise and slipcase, red morocco label on front board; faults to sewing structure due to repair, 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. [with] The Centenary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1830-1930, Liverpool: Libraries Museums and Arts Committee, 1930, bound in blue buckram.

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Lot 95

Catlin, George (1796-1872) The North American Indians. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. Two large octavo volumes, illustrated with maps and 320 colored illustrations from the original paintings; in the original red publisher`s pictorial cloth, stamped in black and gold on spines and front boards, t.e.g.; spines slightly sunned, one corner bumped, with book ticket of Henry Southeran, 10 x 6 in. (2).

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Lot 102

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965) Four Volumes: My African Journey, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, first edition, illustrated, in publisher`s pictorial red cloth, stamped with an image of Churchill beside a slain rhinoceros, in a plastic jacket, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. London to Lady Smith via Pretoria, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, first American edition, illustrated, bound in publisher`s red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, spine sunned, board surfaces lightly rubbed, in a plastic jacket, 4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. Ian Hamilton`s March, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, first edition, with portrait frontispiece, maps, and plans, in red publisher`s binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board, and black end papers; binding somewhat bumped, scratched, spine sunned, in a plastic jacket, 7 1/2 x 5 in. Savrola, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, octavo, half-title, twelve leaves of publisher`s advertisements after the text, in publisher`s blue cloth lettered in gilt on front board and spine, endcaps rubbed, bookplate removed from inside cover leaving adhesive behind, leaning slightly; 7 1/2 x 5 in.

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Lot 118

Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952) The North American Indian [Volume Fourteen: The Kato, Wailaki, Yuki, Pomo, Wintun, Maidu, Miwok, and Yokut Peoples]. Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press, [1924]. Single text volume and accompanying portfolio of thirty-six prints, numbered 472 to 507, text volume also illustrated throughout; ex library, with perforated stamps, ink stamps, and pencil annotations; in the plate volume, every plate is stamped on the bottom edge of the image; on images where the bottom edge is dark, the stamp is hard to discern, when the bottom is light, the stamp is visible, intruding onto the image by approximately 1/8 inch or less; limited edition set numbered 97 of 500; bound in matching three-quarter morocco and buckram, one tie missing a ribbon; portfolio: 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.; text volume: 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Curtis`s project documenting North American Indian tribes in photographic portraits and scenes of daily life brought him, for the purposes of this volume, to the coast of northern California, from San Francisco Bay up to Humboldt Bay, and inland from Mount Shasta to the Tehachapi range. This area includes the redwood forests, the Napa and Sonoma valleys, and the gold boom region of the Sierras. (2).

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Lot 124

Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry. [Afghanistan or India, 18th century]. Illuminated manuscript on paper, text in black with embellishments in gold and colors, approximately 100 pages, with full page miniatures of Mecca and Medina, contemporary blindstamped red goatskin; some paper damage in text due to acid ink eating through the paper along the compartment ruling, repairs in places, 3 1/2 x 6 in.

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Lot 125

Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry. [North Africa, ?18th century]. Miniature manuscript on paper, with gilt illuminated stylized miniatures of Mecca and Medina, and other decorations in colors; text in black, red, and blue, written within a red double-ruled border, contemporary notes in brown ink on endleaves, marbled paper paste downs, wallet-style sheepskin binding with flap, tooled in gold, with some slight losses, rebacked; contents slightly spotted, 3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.

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Lot 132

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Folio, limited edition copy number 1077 of 1475, printed in parallel columns in English and Italian throughout, embellished with forty-two illustrations after Botticelli, bound in full bright orange parchment, tooled in gold, 12 x 8 in.

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Lot 137

Decorative Bindings, Sets, Thirty-seven Volumes: Robert Browning`s Complete Works, Camberwell edition, New York: Thomas Crowell, [1898], twelve volumes, housed in the original publisher`s box, red cloth bindings, with brightly stamped gold spines. [and] Sir Walter Scott`s Waverley Novels, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862, in twenty-five volumes, bound in bright green three-quarter morocco and marbled paper boards, very good. (37).

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Lot 138

Decorative Bindings, Thirty-nine Volumes: Sets of Chaucer, Trollope, Goethe, Smollett, and Dryden`s Virgil, dating from 1803-1926, leather spines, gold tooling, generally good, some damage, all in English, the Smollett a limited edition numbered set; the lot occupying 4 1/2 feet of shelf space.

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Lot 139

Decorative Bindings, Thirty-four Volumes: Two sets: Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty, and Stoddard`s Lectures, in red and tan leather, spines tooled in gold, good condition, occupying approximately four feet of shelf space. (34).

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Lot 143

Dickinson Emily (1830-1886) First [and Second] Series of Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890 [and 1892]. Two 12mo volumes, first editions, in publisher`s boards, the first series with half gray cloth terminating in a wavy line accented with gold, the title and author`s name stamped in gold, the Indian pipe plant blocked in silver; the second series in full gray cloth, the cover with the same basic motif, stamped completely in gold, slight rubbing at head and tail, both volumes, front board of volume one with light foxing, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. each. (2).

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Lot 150

Egan, Pierce (1772-1849) Sporting Anecdotes. London: for Sherwood and Jones, 1825. Octavo, new edition, enlarged and improved, illustrated with engraved frontispiece, five plates, including three hand-colored, one folding; all but one by Cruikshank, one after Samuel Alken, in three-quarter calf by Root and Son, spine with sporting-themed gold tooling, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.

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Lot 151

English Theological Books, Three, 1653-1733. The Holy Bible [Old and New Testaments, and Psalms, 1669], London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660, octavo, bound in full contemporary red morocco, tooled ornately in gold over spine and both boards, incorporating the classic English drawer pull tool, and others, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, expertly rebacked, text ruled in red throughout. [with] Victorinus Bythner`s (1605?-1670) Davidis Regis sive Analysis Critico-Practica Psalmorum, London: Flesher and Bee, 1653, quarto, title printed in red and black, text printed in Latin and Hebrew, contemporary boards, blind-tooled and rebacked, some stains and tears. [and] Thomas a Kempis`s The Christian`s Pattern: or a Treatise on the Imitation of Christ, London: Ilive for Knapton, et al., 1733, large octavo, translated by George Stanhope, engraved frontispiece of the crucifixion and full-page engraving of the last supper, water stain, contemporary boards, rebacked. (3).

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Lot 158

Exotic Manuscript Lot: Persian, Afghani, Palm Leaf, and African Horn Book. Small octavo poetry manuscript on paper in Persian, 18th century, 18 leaves, in black ink with gold and other colored embellishments, bound in three-quarter red leather and marbled paper boards; paper repairs to text leaves throughout, worming, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; manuscript prayer book, Afghanistan, 19th century, with strongly colored ink illumination, contemporary crude local binding with parchment-like goatskin dyed red (faded), with metallic embellishments and blind stamping, a provincial binding originally fabricated out of two separate pieces of leather; text is water stained with ink transfer throughout, 5 x 2 1/2 in.; palm leaf manuscript in Pali, Sri Lanka, 18th century, with lacquered painted boards, painted polychrome Buddhas inside both boards, sewing perished, some chipping to leaves, boards oxidized on the outside, 17 x 2 in.; African horn book in Arabic inscribed on a handled wooden board, perhaps reused from an existing piece of furniture, with an old nail, text is Bismillah, a school writing exercise, 16 x 8 in. (4).

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Lot 168

Frederick I of Prussia (1657-1713) Memoires pour Servir a L`Histoire de la Maison de Brandebourg. Berlin and The Hague: Neaulme, 1751. Octavo, title page printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title, engraved privilege leaf, two folding maps, two folding tables, in contemporary sponged calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endleaves, head chipped, 6 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.

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Lot 180

Greece, Four Volumes: Christopher Wordsworth`s Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical, London: Orr, 1840, illustrated, three-quarter morocco, scattered water stains. Allom`s Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Church of Asia Minor, London: Fisher, [n.d.], illustrated, in gold-stamped green morocco binding, a.e.g. Williamson`s Gods and Mortals in Love, London, [n.d.], illustrated by Edmund Dulac, in publisher`s cloth. [and] Puaux`s Grece, Terre Aimee des Dieux, Paris, 1932, publisher`s printed paper wraps, limited edition, number 287 of 400, illustrated. (4).

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Lot 190

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) A Farwell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner`s Sons, 1929. Octavo, first trade edition, first issue, without the legal disclaimer, in a first issue dust jacket, with the "Katharine Barclay" misspelling inside the front flap; bound in publisher`s black cloth with gold labels on spine and front board, some surface abrasion and fading to dust jacket, spine of jacket sunned, back evenly toned; offsetting to endleaves, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

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Lot 191

Herbarium Albums, Europe, 1865-1866. Two albums compiled by Boston-born Eliza Gill Bradlee Winchester (1830-1896), who married Henry Shroeder Taylor (1824-1886) in 1848. One in dark green pebbled leather, a.e.g., the other in full parchment with gold tooling and inlaid leather embellishments; each page contains pressed botanical specimens tacked minutely to the page with thread; a thinner sheet of paper has been pasted over the verso of each leaf, to hide the knots, some specimens are displayed in separate mountings, sometimes several to a page, bouquets and other artful combinations of plants are present throughout, all nicely preserved; the plants were picked while Eliza toured Europe in 1865 and 1866, culminating in the birth of her daughter Louisa Schroeder Taylor on June 9, 1866, in Paris, which Eliza celebrates by spelling out her daughter`s initials in moss, once in each album. Specimens are from England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, and Italy; leather album: 11 x 8 in.; parchment album: 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

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Lot 202

Illuminated Letter, c. 1450. Large initial C clipped from a large parchment musical manuscript, with the IHS emblem surmounted by an angel, and two angelic supplicants beneath, painted in red, green, and blue, with grotesque faces worked into the blue stylized acanthus that makes up the letter itself, gold ground, highlighted in translucent white, plaitwork border, and an interesting stylized log painted in green at the foot, in a carved, gilt, double-glazed frame, with the music visible on the verso, 3 3/4 x 5 in., 8 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. overall, with frame.

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Lot 219

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1963) The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First edition, with frontispiece, illustrated throughout by Kipling, Drake, and Frenzeny, bound in publisher`s blue cloth with gold stamping, three elephants with riders on the front cover; Rikki Tikki and Nagaina on the spine, a.e.g., bookplate inside front board and an inscription dated 1894 on ffep, "Jack Alden, Paris"; text block shifted forward slightly, outer cloth cracking a little along the back joint, some scattered foxing to title and occasionally to text leaves, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

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Lot 227

Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) An American Exodus. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1939]. First edition, illustrated with 112 black and white photographs, bound in publisher`s blue cloth, lettered in gold, in the dust jacket, slight water damage to binding and jacket, jacket rubbed, with an abrasion at the bottom of the front panel, and other marginal surface abrasions, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

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Lot 235

Lilienthal, Otto (1848-1896) Der Vogelflug. Berlin: Gaertners, 1889. First edition, illustrated with colored frontispiece of birds flying, text illustrations, and eight folding tables in the back; in very good blind and gold-stamped publisher`s brown cloth, ex libris Greeley Stevenson Curtis (1871-1947) with his signature on ffep and notes in the text, with an off-print of an article by Lilienthal presented to Greeley, from the Journal for Airship Flight & Atmospheric Physics, February/March, 1895; and a German stamp featuring Lilienthal, 9 1/4 x 6 in. An early practitioner of gliding flight, Lilienthal pioneered a hang glider design that allowed him to make sustained flights lasting as long as five hours from jumping-off places around Berlin. A fellow enthusiast, Harvard graduate Greeley visited Lilienthal and glided with him in Germany. Lilienthal`s valuable experiments were cut short when he crashed while gliding and sustained a serious cervical break that ended his life prematurely at the age of forty-eight.

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Lot 240

Magic, Early 20th Century, Two Volumes: T. Nelson Downs`s The Art of Magic, Buffalo: Downs-Edwards, [1909], inscribed by the author on front pastedown, To my friend R. H. Huntley, the first copy off the press," illustrated, bound in publisher`s red cloth blocked with a fanciful art nouveau winged fairy. [and] Maskelyne and Devant`s Our Magic, New York: Dutton, [1911], first American edition, illustrated, in publisher`s blue cloth, front board stamped in gold, with a rabbit coming out of a hat in white; a clean, tight copy, binding rubbed, with loss of surface to joints, tips rubbed. (2).

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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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Lot 253

Middle Eastern Manuscripts, Five Volumes: Risalah fi Fann al-Munazarah [Epistle on the Art of Debating]. [?Damascus, 15th Century], ten glossy laid paper leaves, small quarto format, text in black ink with some red, approximately nineteen lines per page; later inscriptions in purple ink, some side notes slightly trimmed in later marbled paper wrappers, 8 x 5 3/4 in. [Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry], manuscript on paper in Arabic, Ottoman Turkey, with gilt and colored illuminations of Mecca and Medina, and embellishments,18th century, rebound in later red goatskin, stamped in gold, with flap, first leaf mounted, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. Dervis Ahmet Manuscript by Mehmet, Arabic manuscript on paper, six leaves, early 18th century, attributed to the court calligrapher to Sultan Ahmet III, in gilt morocco binding; some leaves with holes repaired, some leaves mounted, all guarded, resewn, 6 1/4 x 4 in. Arabic calligraphy, approximately thirty-three leaves removed from various Arabic manuscripts from 16th to 19th centuries, condition and sizes vary. Burmese Parabaik, astrological or tattoo manuscript, 20th century, single sheet accordion-style text block with lightweight blackened wood covers carved with an image of a man on one side and a cat on the other, twelve openings accessible from both sides, with polychrome images throughout, images and text in pen and ink, enhanced with crayon and colored pencil throughout, depicting mainly tigers and humans; outer covers 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 in., the sheet measuring 9 3/4 feet when the accordion is fully extended; text leaves with minor smudging throughout. (5).

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Lot 261

Modern Firsts, Five Titles: Thomas Wolfe`s (1900-1938) Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner`s, 1929, publisher`s emblem on copyright page, publisher`s blue cloth, no dust jacket; Hemingway`s The Old Man and The Sea, New York: Scribner`s, 1952, with "A" on the copyright page, in a price clipped dust jacket with a photo credit on the back panel; Hemingway`s A Farewell to Arms, New York: Scribner`s, 1929, with publisher`s emblem on copyright page, no dust jacket; Hemingway`s The Sun Also Rises, New York: Scribner`s, 1926, with publisher`s emblem on copyright page, no dust jacket; and Steinbeck`s Cup of Gold, New York: Covici Friede, [1936], in a good dust jacket. (4).

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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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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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Lot 265

Morand, Paul (1888-1976) Le Voyage. New York: Heron Press, [1930]. Octavo, illustrated with tipped in silhouettes by Ugo Mochi (1889-1977), limited edition of fifty printed on handmade Roma paper, numbered 50, signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page, in publisher`s green cloth binding, with a gilt-stamped silhouette of a covered wagon pulled by oxen on the cover, the gold with a large scratch, spine sunned, 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.

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Lot 269

Neo-Latin Poetry, Classics, Early Modern Thought, 17th Century, Five Volumes: Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski`s (1595-1640) Lyricorum Libri Tres, Antwerp: Cnobbari, 1630, engraved title, Polish Jesuit author, third edition, later calf, gilt and gauffered edges. Dominicus Baudius`s (1561-1613) Poematum Nova Editio, Leiden: Basson, 1616; in speckled calfskin binding of Abbot Charles de Castellan dated 1663, with his gold emblem on both boards, monograms and title tooled in compartments on the spine; [bound with] Lelio Capilupi`s (1497-1560) Cento ex Virgilio, Venice: [n.p.], 1550, signatures A and B only, fore edges badly trimmed. Joseph Scaliger`s (1540-1609) Epistolae, Leiden: Elzevir, 1627, ex libris Tanaquillus Faber (1615-1672), occasional notes, contemporary parchment binding. Petronius`s Satyricon, Paris: Audinet, 1677, engraved title, browning, contemporary parchment, torn. Justus Lipsius`s (1547-1606) Monita et Exempla Politica, Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1668, small format, engraved title, contemporary boards, worn, gilt edges, marbled end leaves, lacking ffep. (5).

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Lot 285

Pinero, Arthur Wing (1855-1934) Trelawny of the "Wells," Author`s Presentation Copy to Madge [Margaret] Kendal Grimston (1848-1935). London: Heinemann, 1899. In full custom crushed green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt in intricate patterns on the spine and both boards, inner gilt dentelles, silk end leaves, signed by the individual binder with a small black pictorial stamp depicting a binder at his work bench within an oval impressed at the foot inside the back board, on the silk paste down; with the recipient`s interwoven initials tooled in gold on the front board, a.e.g., in very good condition, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. The inscription reads: "To Madge Kendal Grimston, this fanciful history of the rise of the Robertsonian drama, from her old friend and faithful servant, Arthur W. Pinero, March, 1899.".

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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 291

Quackenbos, John D. (1848-1926) Geological Ancestors of the Brook Trout. New York: by Tobias A. Wright for the Anglers` Club of New York, 1916. Limited edition, number 225 of 300, inscribed by Quackenbos`s daughter on ffep, unopened, in full green leather, gold-stamped inscription on front board, small photograph inset (torn), illustrated with frontispiece and plates of fish at the back, some in color, 8 1/4 x 6 in.

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Lot 292

Qur`an, Manuscript on Paper, Arabic, ?Istanbul (Late 18th-Early 19th Century) Octavo, with gold embellishments and calligraphy, bound in blind-stamped goatskin, with flap; flap with old fabric reinforcement, splitting slightly, front board starting, 6 1/8 x 4 in.

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Lot 294

Qur`an, Illuminated Arabic Manuscript, Twenty-eighth Section. [Azerbaijan, c. 1787]. Twenty leaves, chapters 58 to 66, text written in black ink on glossy laid paper, within ornamental borders with gold; chapter headings in white or red ink on a gold background, lacquered boards with floral design; binding chipped, rebacked, thumbing to text leaves and other wear, 8 3/4 x 6 in.

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Lot 296

Racinet, Auguste (1825-1893) Le Costume Historique. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1888. Quarto edition in six volumes, illustrated with hundreds of brightly colored lithographs throughout, individual plates not counted, without obvious signs of plate loss or removal from the set, bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco, tooled in gold, a.e.g., bookplate of Shepherd Brooks (1837-1922) pasted inside the front board of each volume; spines a bit stiff, some marginal damp stains to gutters of preliminaries in some volumes, plates generally unaffected, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 11 in.

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Lot 297

Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator (1867-1939) Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb. London: Dent, 1909. Large paper edition, number 643 of 750, signed by Rackham on the limitation page, illustrated with thirteen tipped-in color plates and two black and white prints, in publisher`s white cloth, stamped in gold, ties lost, spine dirty, front board with some foxing, 11 1/4 x 8 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 324

Tchou-Kia-Kien (fl. circa 1920) Le Theatre Chinois. Peking: Albert Nachbaur, 1927. Folio, limited edition numbered 140 of 500, illustrated with a full-paged plate of musical instruments, a colored full-paged plate of the mask work by General Kaing Wei, and five folding plates of theatre scenes printed in black and dramatically finished by hand and pochoir with vibrant colors, highlighted with gold stamping, on rice paper, one with a tear without loss, the rice paper mounted on stiffer stock, bound in publisher`s salmon-colored paper boards, with a color print of a mask set into the front board, letters stamped in gilt, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
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 344

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1876. Later edition, illustrated, printed on laid paper, half-title printed on verso of frontispiece, four pages of advertisements at the end dated December 1, 1876; two contents pages numbered xii and xiii, list of illustrations numbered xvi, bound in publisher`s blue cloth, stamped in black and gold, a.e.g., worn at head and tail, sewing structure shaken, spine sunned, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.

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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 348

Vernet, Carle (1758-1835) Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes d`Italie. Paris: Auber, 1806. Folio, portrait of Napoleon on a horse; twenty-three plates of battles from the Italian campaign; a hand-colored double page map of Italy; one plate of a battle in Egypt; a separate sub-title for the coronation of Napoleon with portrait medallions of the Emperor and Josephine; an account of the campaigns in Germany, and a supplement to the Italian and German campaigns illustrated with four additional full-paged plates, some scattered spots and minor foxing, in contemporary marbled leather, gold tooled, front joint starting to crack, corners worn, a.e.g., red spine label, 19 3/4 x 13 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 361

Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Five imperial octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, some spotting, bound in uniform publisher`s gold- and blind-stamped cloth. Wilkes surveyed the Northwest coast of the United States by sea, over a four-year period, making inland forays at regular intervals.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 439

Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673) Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate. [and] Novum ac Magnum Teatrum Urbium Belgicae Regiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, [1649]. Two large folio volumes, each with engraved title with typographical title in inner compartment printed on a separate slip and pasted onto the sheet, over a blank compartment, as found in other copies; illustrated with maps, views, and plans as called for in the index: 171 plates in the Foederate, and 142 plates in the Regiae; bound in full uniform contemporary gold-tooled red morocco with later repairs to spines and edges, a.e.g.; some of the repairs loosening, and becoming detached, boards rubbed, contents good, ex libris Baron Leverhulme [William Lever] (1851-1925) and Henry B.B. Beaufoy (1750-1795), with their bookplates, 20 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (2).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 444

Colorado. Louis Nell, Nell`s Topographical Map of the State of Colorado. Denver: Hamilton & Kendrick, 1895. Large colored map printed on onion-skin paper, pasted into the original gold lettered brown publisher`s cloth covers, with printed statement of Hamilton and Kendrick pasted inside the front board, as issued; folded; paper very stiff, with tears at folds, delicate to unfold, 32 1/2 x 40 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 455

New York City. Ensigns & Thayer, A Map of the City and County of New York. New York: Ensigns & Thayer, 1849. 12mo, including twenty-eight page typographical street directory, single leaf of ads, and folding engraved map printed on onion skin paper, hand-colored, including sections of Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Williamsburg; bound in publisher`s cloth boards, title stamped in gold on front, some breaks along the folds of the map, rodent chewed section, 1 x 1 1/2 in., with loss of streets in Chinatown, south of Bayard Street.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 459

North Pole. Frederick de Wit (1610-1698) Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima. Amsterdam, [c. 1670]. Double-page folio, copper engraving, with contemporary colored shading around the land masses, and gold highlights to the cartouches; the map area is circular, and surrounded by four scenes of arctic whaling, walrus hunting, and blubber processing, these vignettes with no added color; evenly toned, slightly rumpled, damp stains to lower blank margin, old folds, small internal tear one inch from the center of the map; framed, not examined outside of the frame, glass cracked in lower right corner, 19 x 21 in. Arctic exploration and cartography were in a state of active development during the 17th century. This map includes several uncharted areas, as explorers continued to actively seek a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. It would take another 250 years of arctic exploration before such a journey was successfully completed.

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London Coins
Lot 1084

Gold Crown Charles I Group D Tower Mint under Parliament S.2715 Mintmark Crown Good Fine

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London Coins
Lot 1085

Gold Crown Charles I Tower Mint under Parliament mintmark (R) S.2716 North 2185 NVF comes with old collectors ticket stating `X-Osborne 108. Bt.Spink 1967 £55`

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London Coins
Lot 1086

Gold Crown Charles I Tower Mint under the King Bust 3 more elongated bust mintmark Heart S.2712 NVF for wear with many contact marks

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London Coins
Lot 260

Germany Bielefeld silk notgeld (2) 25 mark healing pool & 50 mark in blue & gold with WW1 references, both about UNC to UNC

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