GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 20VOL. Various Sizes Leather bound with gilt trim, including: Sir Francis Bacon, ""Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis"; Charles Darwin, "The Origins of Species...
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PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AFTERGILBERT STUART(American, 1755-1828)
A fine copy of Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum type portraits, unsigned, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; period carved gilt wood frame, 36-1/2...
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DESCRIPTION DE L EGYPTE, PANCKOUCKE,1820-1830Description de l Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l expedition de l Egypte. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1820-1830...
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ROMAN IRON SELLA CASTRENSIS STOOL, EX-ROYALATHENARoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A rare ancient iron campaign folding stool known as a sella castrensis, a seat reserved for Roman officers and signifies...
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES (1785-1851). THEBIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY J.J. AUDUBON AND J.B. CHEVALIER, 1840-1844.Audubon,...
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BOOKS: (8) VOLS 19TH C., LEATHER BINDINGSIncludes: Despatches...of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, Vol. 6, John Murray, 1877; Johnsoniana or Supplement to Boswell, John Murray, 1836; William Hone, The Table...
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(7) VOLS. DECORATIVE BINDINGS, INCL.RIVIERE & SON Includes: 1) Robert Louis Stevenson. Poems Vol. One. Heinemann, 1927, bound by Riviere & Son for Marshall Field; 2) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Richards Press; 3)...
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(10) VOLS., 19TH C. LIT., FINE LEATHERBINDINGS Includes: Cervantes. Don Quixote. Gibbings./Lippincott, 1895, illus. by Frank Brangwyn, in 4 vols., 7"h x 4.5"w; William Cullen Bryant. The Odyssey of Homer. Houghton...
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DECORATIVE LEATHER BINDINGS, (7) VOLS.Includes: 1) Mary Langdon. Ida May; Story of Things Actual and Possible. Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1854; 2) Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici. Ticknor and Fields, 1862; 3)...
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(10) VOLS. VINTAGE NON-FICTION, SOMESIGNED Includes: 1) Father Paul Schulte "The Flying Priest". The Flying Cross over the Arctic. Harper & Brothers, 1940, ADVANCE COPY signed by the author, contains only the...
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THREE SETS OF 19TH CENTURY LEATHER ANDCLOTH BOUND BOOKS Lot of (35) half bound books. Includes a set of books by Thomas Babington Macaulay, various editions (London: Longman, 1846-77); Diary and Correspondence...
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LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, (8) VOLS., 1930-1940(8) titles in 16 vols., each in slipcase unless noted, numbered, and signed as indicated in (),: 1) Defoe, The...Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 1930, #214, (Edward A. Wilson);...
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(20) BOOKS: WORKS OF HUME & FIELDING,18TH C.(lot of 20) Books by eighteenth-century British authors, all leather bound, with gilt lettering and accents, marbleized interior covers, including: (10 vols) "The History...
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Homer Works of, 7 vols, full calf, Fielding(H) Selected Works, 5 vols. and Dryden (J) Poetical Works, 2 vols....
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Johnson (Samuel) Works, 12 vols., Baldwinetc. 1801 and Fielding (Henry) Works, 10 vols., Johnson etc. 1806, New Editions, 8vo., cont. calf...
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ATLANTIC MONTHLY (VOL. 6 AND 7)AtlanticMonthly (Vol. 6 and 7) Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields Year: 1860, 1861...
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GROUP, 12 BOOKS BY SIR WALTER SCOTTWaverlyNovels, Household Edition: Waverly (Vol. 1 and 2), Guy Mannering (Vol 1. and 2), Antiquary (Vol. 1 and 2), Rob Roy (Vol. 1 and 2), Old Mortality (Vol. 1 and 2), Tales of My...
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RARE IRISH MILITIA FIELD OFFICER'S REDCLOTH UNIFORM COATEE, THE ROYAL QUEEN'S COUNTY MILITIA
CIRCA 1793-1810 with bullion shoulder epaulettes, black facings with hook and eye front fasteners with silver buttons...
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COLLECTION OF 20 BOOKS RELATED TO CUBA.TOINCLUDE: 5 VOLS THE HISTORY OF CUBA BY WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, 1920, PUBLISHED BY B. F. BUCK & CO. INC., NY, LEATHER SPINES AND CORNERS, MARBLED BOARDS, 9 1/2" X 6 1/4",...
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James Guy Evans (English b. 1810; activeNew Orleans 1843-1853) "Arrival of Gen. Z. Taylor & Staff at Balize on the U. S. Steam Ship Monmouth B. T. Willse Commander / November 30th 1847" oil on canvas signed lower...
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Presentation Field Desk of Oliver P.Gooding 31st Massachusetts Infantry Burl walnut wood box 10 x 17.75 x 7.25 in. high closed. Top of lid has a Presentation plaque: Presented To Col O. P. Gooding (31st Reg...
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2 vols. Eugene Field: Field, Eugene& Roswell M. Echoes from The Sabine Farm: Being Certain Horatian Lyrics now... Done into English Verse. New Rochelle: Francis Wilson, 1891. First edition, 1/70 (of 100), out-of-series...
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Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. ConfederateCivil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
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Pair Vanderbilt drawing room armchairsby Herter Brothers designed by Christian Herter New York circa 1883-84 lady's and gentleman's chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid and carved giltwood concave crestrails leading...
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2 vols. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. 12mo, orig. blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated spines, a.e.g.; edge wear, spine ends frayed. Front free endpaper...
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John Ruskin (British 1819-1900) "A CaveSeen in Sunlight" and "A Cave Seen in Shade": a pair of drawings probably c. 1830s graphite watercolor and gouache on light buff wove papers (both sheets laid down) unsigned...
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2 vols. Fielding, Henry. The Historyof The Adventures of Joseph Andrews. London: A. Millar, 1743. Third edition. 12mo, contemp. speckled calf, gilt, morocco spine labels; rubbed, joints stressed, cover detached...
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Lot. Fine Art & Illustrated Books:(Matisse, Henri, illustrator.) Ronsard, Pierre de. Florilege des Amours. Paris, 1948 [but later facsimile authorized by Skira]. 2 vols., orig. wrappers, loose as issued, in...
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4 vols. American & British 19th-CenturyLiterature: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The New-England Tragedies. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st Am. trade ed., early ptg. 12mo, orig. purple-brown cloth, gilt; scuffed,...
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[Sets & Bindings Georgian England] Threeitems comprising thirteen leatherbound volumes 1) L. Stephen ed. The Works of Henry Fielding (London: Smith Elder 1882) 9 of 10 vols. (lacks vol. III) 4to half morocco marbled...
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2 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The MarbleFaun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American edition, presumed first issue. 12mo, orig. blind stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; corners bumped, light edge...
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1 vol. Field, Eugene. A Little Bookof Western Verse. New York: Scribner's, 1890. First trade edition. 8vo, contemp. or slightly later full gilt-paneled crushed blue niger morocco, gilt-lettered & paneled spine,...
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2 vols. (Fielding, Henry.) The Historyof The Adventures of Joseph Andrews...London: A. Millar, 1742. First edition. 12mo, contemp. calf; joints tender, covers of vol. 1 detached but present, contemp. morocco...
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2 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The MarbleFaun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition, second printing. 12mo, orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines; occasionally scuffed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped....
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7 vols. Read, Thomas Buchanan: Poems...Illustrated by Kenny Meadows. London: Delf and Trubner, 1852. 1st ed. Sm. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, edges untrimmed; occasionally scuffed. Inscribed in...
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1 vol. Biddle, Edward; Fielding, Mantle.The Life and Works of Thomas Sully. Philadelphia, 1921. #185/450 (of 500) signed by Biddle & Fielding. 4to, orig. 1/2 blue cloth & bds., rough trimmed edges; light wear....
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