- 4VOL GEORGE ELIOT, DANIEL DERONDA, FIRST
ISSUE Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot. Published 1876 by William Blackwood and Sons. First issue without inserted "contents" leaves. Volume I, page 83, line 2 with misprint...
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EX-CHRISTIE'SIt's not often we start a listing by stating the provenance, but in this case the pedigree is almost as impressive as the piece. Sold - Christies, December 1996;...
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IVORY AND EBONY MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BLAKE & CO.
CIRCA 1848 The circular tilt top with a central marquetry panel with two interlocking L's and lilies...
[more like this] - 9 vols. Leather Bindings - English
and American Poetry: Hartshorne, Charles H., editor. Ancient Metrical Tales. London: W. Pickering, 1829. 1st ed. 8vo, late 19th-Century 3/4 blue calf & marbled bds., gilt,...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Leather Bindings - English
Poetry: (The Muses' Library.) Gay, John. The Poetical Works. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. #95/200. Edited by John Underhill. 1st ed. thus. 2 vols. 12mo, slightly later...
[more like this] - 3 vols. (Barham, Richard Harris.) The
Ingoldsby Legends. London: Richard Bently, 1840, 1842, 1847. First edition. 8vo, early 20th-Century full gilt-paneled, richly gilt floral & geometrical decorated covers,...
[more like this] - 5 vols. Illustrated Children's Books:
(Hughes, Thomas.) (Doyle, Richard, illustrator.) The Scouring of The White Horse. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. 1st ed. Early 20th-Century full triple-gilt fillet paneled polished...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Floral & Botanical American
Color Plate Books: Clarkson, L. The Gathering of Lilies. Philadelphia: J.L. Sibole, (1877). 4to, orig. gilt-lettered & pictorial brown cloth, a.e.g.; corners bumped, spine...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Scrope, William. Days and Nights
of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition. Tall 8vo, contemp. full gilt-paneled red morocco, gilt & floral corner decorations, gilt & floral...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Roycroft Printing Shop - East
Aurora, New York: Lee, Vernon. On Art and Life. 1896. #249/352 initialed by Hubbard. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 scarlet morocco & marbled bds, gilt-lettered & floral spine, t.e.g.;...
[more like this] - 2 vols. (Spenser, Edmund.) Spenser's
Faerie Queene. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758. A New Edition with A Glossary and Notes Explanatory and Critical by John Upton. 4to, contemp. full speckled calf, gilt, floral...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Exposicion de los Evangelicos
con Sermones. Seville: Martin de Montesdoca, 1558. 4to, old full calf, richly gilt floral & geometric spine compartments, maroon morocco spine label (chipped); scuffed. Two...
[more like this] - 13 vols. Shakespeare, William. The
Works of. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1866. #19/50. Edited by Richard Grant White. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 green crushed levant morocco & marbled bds., richly gilt lettered,...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Leather Bindings: Owen, Meredith
[Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George]. Lucile. New York: F.A. Stokes, (1897). 8vo, mid 20th-Century 3/4 blue polished crushed morocco, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., raised bands;...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Leather Bindings - Belles Lettres:
Lamb, Charles. The Works. Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird, 1857. Thick 8vo, contemp. 1/2 brown calf & marbled bds., raised bands, brown morocco spine label, marbled endpapers...
[more like this] - 2 vols. Leather Bindings - English
Literature: Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill. London: Macmillan, 1906. 1st ed. 8vo, contemp. full double-fillet gilt-paneled polished red calf, richly gilt-paneled spine,...
[more like this] - 20 vols. Eliot, George [Works.] Boston:
Little, Brown, (1900). 8vo, contemp. 3/4 scarlet morocco & cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered, decorated & floral spines, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; occasionally scuffed, a few...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Fitch, John Nugent, illustrator.)
Warner, Robert, et al. The Orchid Album, Coloured Figures and Descriptions. London: B.S. Williams, 1885. Vol. IV only. 4to, orig. gilt-paneled, gilt-lettered, blind floral...
[more like this] - 1 vol. History of the First Troop
Philadelphia City Cavalry... November 17th, 1774 to... November 17th, 1874. Trenton; Princeton, (1875). 4to, orig. full blind floral-stamped brown morocco, gilt-lettered...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Mortimer, Alfred, The Reverend.
S. Mark's Church Philadelphia and Its Lady Chapel. New York, 1909. #36/400. 4to, contemp. full crushed blue morocco, triple gilt-fillet paneled covers, with embossed figural...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Mortimer, Alfred, The Reverend.
S. Mark's Church Philadelphia and Its Lady Chapel. New York, 1909. 1/400, out-of-series copy. 4to, contemp. full crushed blue morocco, triple gilt-fillet paneled covers,...
[more like this] - Post-Civil War Presentation Cane for
1st Lieutenant Co. I 40th Regt. U.S. Vols. 34.25 in. ln. with modern rubber tip; gold-filled handle with scroll and floral adornment one side engraved with the following:...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Singleton, Esther. The Furniture
of Our Forefathers. New York: Doubleday Page, 1900-1901. #47/50 on Imperial Japan paper. 8 parts in 4 vols. 4to, orig. 3/4 green morocco & cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered & decorated...
[more like this] - 6 vols. Bound Illustrated Mid 19th-Century
Periodicals & Annuals - American & British: The Christian Parlor Magazine. [New York] & Boston, 1846. Vol. 2. 8vo, orig. publisher's gilt floral & blind-paneled brown morocco,...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Cather, Willa: The Song of
The Lark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. 1st ed., 2nd issue. 12mo, orig. blue cloth, gilt; light to occasionally moderate wear. Crane A8.a.i.b. * April Twilights and Other...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Carte-de-Visite & Cabinet Card
Photo Album, ca. 1880. Full embossed floral decorated black morocco, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., metal clasp. Chromolithographic internal floral decorations. Internally...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Poems.
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. First published edition. 8vo, orig. gilt floral & circular decorated blue green cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated spine; edges untrimmed; corners...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Hardy, Thomas. The Return of
The Native. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. First edition in book form, first issue. 8vo, slightly later 3/4 crushed brown levant morocco, gilt, gilt-lettered, floral-paneled...
[more like this] - 4 vols. Literature & Fiction - American
Authors: Tarkington, Booth. Monsieur Beaucaire. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1900. 1st ed., 1st issue. 12mo, orig. red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; light edge...
[more like this] - 1 vol. (Extra-Illustrated Book.) [Gosden,
Thomas.] Essay on Hunting. London: Edward Jeffery and Son, 1820. Third edition. 4to, late 19th-century full straight-grained brown morocco, gilt-paneled & decorated with...
[more like this] - 1 vol. [Forester, Brooke ?] The Pocket
Farrier, or Approved Receipts Collected from Different Authors. Birmingham: S. Aris, n.d. [ca. 1770]. 24mo, modern full gilt-paneled calf,gilt-floral paneled spine, morocco...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Egan, Pierce. Sporting Anecdotes.
London: for Sherwood Jones & Co., 1825. "A New Edition,... enlarged and improved." 8vo, late 19th-Century full polished gilt-paneled tan calf, richly floral gilt spine compartments,...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur: A Tale
of The Christ. New York: Harper's, 1880. First edition, first printing. Sm. 8vo, 20th-Century triple gilt fillet paneled crushed blue niger morocco, gilt floral corner decorations,...
[more like this] - 11 vols. American & British Illustrators
- Bibliography & Biography: Masse, Gertrude C.E. A Bibliography of First Editions of Books Illustrated by Walter Crane. London: Chelsea, 1923. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. bds.; light...
[more like this] - 16 vols. Byron, (George Gordon Noel),
Lord. The Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by Thomas Moore. Boston: Francis & Niccolls, 1900. #34/150 signed by the editor, Richard Henry Stoddard. 8vo, contemp....
[more like this] - 23 vols. (Leather Bindings.) Doran,
(John). [English Subjects]: Habits and Men. London: R. Bentley, 1855. 3rd ed. * Queens of England. London: R. Bentley, 1855. 2 vols. Frontispieces. * Knights and Their Days....
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