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Items listed are from auctions held during 1999. Prices do not include the 15% buyer's premium.
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16TH CENTURY VOLUMES

6TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME16TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME. "Herodiani Historaie de Imperio Post Marcvm, vel de Svistemporibvs, e'Graeco Translatae, Angelo Politiano Interprete. Paris:  1544. 181 pp. 6 3/4" x 4 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #730. $125.00.
 
 

16TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME16TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME. "Ciceron li Offici 1528' 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" Three gilt edges.  Red moroccan tooled leather with marbelized end papers. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #775. $500.00.
 
 

 

17TH CENTURY VOLUMES
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18TH CENTURY VOLUMES

MINIATURE LATIN VOLUMESASSORTED MINIATURE LATIN  VOLUMES. Seven (most 18th century) including "Cicero de Officilis" (1773) "Ciceronis de Amicitia" (1721); "Ciceronis de Amicitia Dialogus", "Titus Lucretius" (1726) , "Phaedra Fabulae et Publii Suri Sententiae" (1729) , "Quintus Horatius Flaccus" (1824), "Cato Major" (1758). April 16-17, 1999. Lot #1754. $165.00.
 

BODONI PRESSBODONI PRESS. Parma.  "Manuale de Eppitteto".  Limited edition of 100 copies printed on handmade paper.  Greek text and Italian texts.  Polished calf tooled and gilt, raised gilt bands, gilt lettered green and red levant morocco lables. 1793.  5 7/8" x 4". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #780A. $185.00.
 
 

PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCHPIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH. "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, L.L.D." First Edition.  London:  T. Cadell, 1786.  Half calf. 7 1/4" x 4 1/2". 306 pp. With the scarce "Postscript" leaf at the end. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #765. $145.00.
 
 

VOLTAIREVOLTAIRE. "Treatise Upon Toleration".  Glasgow:  Printed for Robert Urie, 1765.  Leather bound with gilt tooling. 6 7/8" x 4 3/8". April 16-17, 1999. $90.00.

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19TH CENTURY VOLUMES


BUNYAN, JOHNBUNYAN, JOHN. "Pilgrm's Progress".  Pt. I collated from the earlier editions by Janet E. Ashbee, and printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, Ltd. Limited edition 94/750. 1899.  6" x 4 1/2". 426 pp. (Note: this is the third book printed at the Essex House Press.) April 16-17, 1999. Lot #766. $135.00.
 
 

DICKENS, CHARLESDICKENS, CHARLES. "Dicken's Works". Thirty volumes.  London:  Chapman & Hall, Ltd. Various printers and illustrators including H.K. Browne. (Note:  volume I-David Copperfield is similar to, but not a match to volume II.) Bound in red marbleized paper with scarlet leather, gold tooled spines.  Gilt top edges. 90" x 6". April 16-17th, 1999. Lot #731. $500.00.
 
 

DICKENS, CHARLESDICKENS, CHARLES. "Master Humphrey's Clock."  London:  Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1840 and 1841.  Three full tool calf bound volumes each with three gilt edges.  Printers:  London:  Bradbury and Evans. 10" x 6 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #749. $215.00.
 
 

DICKENS, CHARLESDICKENS, CHARLES. "The Battle of LIfe A Love Story".  Frontispiece, piectorial title and woodcuts by Leech, Doyle et. al.  Original red cloth gilt, gilt edges, as issued.  London:  1846. . 175 pp. 7" x 6 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #764. $175.00.
 
 

DICKENS, CHARLESDICKENS, CHARLES. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". First edition.  With illustrations.  1870.  London:  Chapman & Hall. Brown morocco, by Zaehnsdorf.  7" x 6". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #776. $145.00.
 
 

FRENCH VOLUMESASSORTED FRENCH VOLUMES. "Le Souffle de Zephire, 1809, 90 pp. 4 1/2" x 3"; "Oeuvres de Francois Villon: 1742. 6 1/2" x 4". "Oeuvres Poetiques Completes-Alfred Jarry limited edition 900/2200. 254 pp. 7" x 4"; Emile Zola "Ed. Manet" Paris: 1807, 48 pp. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Rimbaud, Arthur "Les Illuminations de la Vogue 1886, 9" x 6" and Catalogue Raisonne de Toutes Les Estampes D'Etienne Fioquet, Pierre Savart. 1864. 10" x 6" 104 pp. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #738. $550.00.
 
 

MINIATURE VOLUMESASSORTED MINIATURE VOLUMES.  Nine total: including three in English. Izaak Walton, The Plays of Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, Omhpoy Odysseia,  Omhpy Ilias, Novum Testamentum, Dante Divina  and Comedia Le Rime Del Petrarca. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #753. $145.00.
 
 

ASSORTED MINIATURE VOLUMES.   Five including "Publius Virgilius Maro" (1921); "Catullus Tibullus et Propertius" (1824); "M.T. Circeronis de Officilis de Senectute et de Amicitia (18921); "Publius Terentius After" (1892); and "Quintus Horatius Flaccus" (1824). April 16-17, 1999. Lot #755. $145.00.
 
 

MILTON, JOHNMILTON, JOHN. "The Poetical Works of John Milton". Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. London:  John Macrone. 1835.) Six volumes bound in red morocco.  Gilt tooled. 6 7/8" x 4 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #782. $185.00.
 

MORRIS, WILLIAMMORRIS, WILLIAM. "News from Nowhere" or "An Epoch of Rest, being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance". 1892. 305 pp. 8 1/4" x 6". 32 chapters. Ribbon closures. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #740. $900.00.
 
 

19TH CENTURY VOLUME19TH CENTURY VOLUME - "The Pageant". London:  Henry and Co. 1896. 243 pp. 10 1/4" x 8". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #761. $115.00.
 
 
 

RUSSIAN 19TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME.RUSSIAN 19TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME. In Cyrillic. Entitled "POCCINCKON NMIIEPIN". (sic.) Contains hundreds of color illustrations and text of various coats of arms from the Russian Empire. 1818. 365 p. 8 1/2" x 5". (Note:  cover worn, edges worn, slight water staining, and some corners creased.) March 12-14, 1999. Lot #3000. $700.00.
 
 

RUSSIAN CORONATION BOOK OF EMPEROR ALEXANDER III.RUSSIAN CORONATION BOOK OF EMPEROR ALEXANDER III. 1883.  Leather binding with gold leaf trim.  Full color illustrations.  Provenance:   Prince Koudacheff, Ambassador to Belgium.  With wooden box. March 12-14, 1999. Lot #3004. $9,500.00.
 
 

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHESHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Four volumes.  "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley." London:  Edward Moxon, 1839. Scarlet moroccan leather with ornate gilt tooled embellishment and marbelized end papers.  Gilt top edge.  6 3/4" x 4 5/8". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #784. $185.00.
 
 

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISSTEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Two leather bound volumes:  "Memories & Portraits" Lmtd. Edition 2/50 and "Studies of Men and Books" 77/100.  London:  Chatto and Windus, 1887 and 1888.  9 3/4" x 8".  Red morroco leather with gilt tooling and gilt top edge.  Marbelized end papers. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #742. $205.00.
 
 

TENNYSON, ALFREDTENNYSON, ALFRED. Four volumes including "The Princess, 1848. "Maud and Other Poems, 1855. "Idylls of the King, 1859. and "Enoch Arden" 1864. London:  Edward Moxon.  Full blue morocco cover with gilt tooling and lettering.  Three gilt edges.  6 3/4" x 4 1/4". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #750. $125.00.
 
 

THOREAU, HENRY D.THOREAU, HENRY D. Three volumes. "Letters to Various Persons" (1865). First Edition."Excursions" (1868), and "Night and Moonlight" (1921). April 16-17, 1999. Lot #777. $215.00.
 
 

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. "The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth." New Edition in Six volumes.  (Note:  first volume missing.) London:  Edward Moxon, 1841.  Five tooled tan calf volumes with gilt stampings.  Gilt tops. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #783. $125.00.

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20TH CENTURY VOLUMES



 
 
 
 
 
 

EARLY 20TH CENTURY VOLUMESASSORTED EARLY 20TH CENTURY VOLUMES. Four including "The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife-a Poem (1903); Oscar Wilde "Sebastian Melmoth" (1905) Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, "The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (1906); Morse, Richard Ely "Winter Garden" (1931). April 16-17, 1999. Lot #774.
$95.00.
 

GREENBERG, CLEMENT. Joan MiroGREENBERG, CLEMENT. Joan Miro. New York:  1948.  11 1/4" x 8 7/8". Six color plates and over 100 monochrome illustrations. With original dust cover. April 16-17, 1999. $55.00.
 
 

GUERIN, MARCEL.GUERIN, MARCEL. Volume I & II. "L'Oeuvre Grave de Gauguin" Paris. 1927. and "Noa Nooa" by Paul Gauguin" Translated from French by O.F. Theis. New York:  Nicholas L. Brown, 1920. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #733. $75.00.
 
 
 

HOWELLS, L. WILLIAM. Venetian Life". Cambridge:  Riverside Press, 1907.  Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett.  Limited edition in two volumes-63/550. Bound in gold and white paper with cloth back-strip. 10" x 6 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #732. $175.00.
 

MELLERIO, ANDREMELLERIO, ANDRE. Two volumes including Odilon Redon. "Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur. Paris:  Henri Floury, Editeur 2...and Odilon Redon-Paris:  Secretariat: 144,.....1913. 11" x 9". Both in red leather with gold tooling. April 16-17, 1999. Lot #723. $165.00.
 

BOOK. "Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly".  By Harriet Beecher Stowe.  First American edition. Illustrated.  Complete in one volume.  Boston.  John. P. Jewett & Co.,; Cleveland, OH. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. 1853.  Sept. 1998. Lot #3. $475.00.
 
 

MIRO & BRAQUEMIRO & BRAQUE LIMITED EDITION VOLUMES. Two miniature volumes. Miro:  edition 31/61 signed "Miro" in pencil on last page. 8 pp. 2 3/4" x 3 1/2". Braque: "Par Rene Char" 82/99. 10 pp. 3 1/4" x 3 1/2". April 16-17, 1999. Lot #721. $325.00.
 
 
 
 

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