Twelve volumes to include "AccountTwelve volumes to include "Account of European Settlements", 1758, two vols, map, married set; "Relic of the Revolution", Livesy, Bos 1854; An American Lady: of General Weedon' etc.
VICE ADMIRAL THOMAS 'TEX' SETTLE'SVICE ADMIRAL THOMAS 'TEX' SETTLE'S BOOKS ON CHINAVICE ADMIRAL THOMAS 'TEX' SETTLE'S BOOKS ON CHINA, titles include: Yutang, Lin, Moment in Peking, NY: John Day, 1939, Second Impression. Fitzgerald, C.P. China: A Short Cultural History, NY: Frederick Praeger, 1954. Crow, Carl, Handbook for China, 1933. Shanghai: High Lights Low Lights Tael Nights, Shanghai: Tridon Press, 1936. Reynolds, Quentin, Officially Dead: The Story of Commander C.D. Smith, signed and inscribed by Smith on affixed bookplate/note and affixed sheet of paper, dated 1946 and 1965. Hobart, Alice Tisdale, River Supreme, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. Tolley, Kemp. Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China. Signed and inscribed by Tolley. Charon. "Excelsior": Being an Inadequate Description of the Upper Yangzte... Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd. 1934. Sm 8vo. 50pp. Blue Cloth.(8)
A part set of four Russian booksA part set of four Russian books quarter leather bound on Pushkin together with two linen bound volumes on Tolstoy.
Set of 40 red leather bound books.Set of 40 red leather bound books. 19th century. Published by JM Dent & Co London Doubleday & McClure Co New York 1899. All Charles Dickens. Condition: good some discoloration with age see images. Each book measures 6'' x 3.75''. Shipping weight 13.7 lbs.
NAVY AND AIRSHIP BOOKS FROM THENAVY AND AIRSHIP BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF VICE ADMIRAL THOMAS 'TEX' SETTLENAVY AND AIRSHIP BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF VICE ADMIRAL THOMAS 'TEX' SETTLE, titles include: Allen, Hugh, The Story of the Airship (1932, Eight Edition), signed on front free endpaper by men Settle served with, with affixed photograph to front paste down with note 'My Copy/Francis Hook Gilmer/Lieut. Comdr USN.' A second copy of The Story of the Airship, signed and inscribed by Allen, dated 1931. U.S.S. Louisville: Man of War, brown cloth, 1946. The History and Cruises of the United States Ship Whipple, Destroyer Number 217, Vol. 1, 1920 (two copies), included inside is a U.S.S. Whipple Christmas Card 1935, five U.S.S. Whipple telegrams and a log of their Short Range Battle practices in January 1937 in the Philippines. Plant, Cornell, Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges, 1926 (Second Edition). Stehling, Kurt, Bags Up!, uncorrected advance proof, with letter from Playboy Book Division asking Settle to write comments, there are a few pages with text underlined in blue, presumably by Settle, further there is a copy of Settle's handwritten letter to publisher. Vaeth, Gordon J. Langley: Man of Science and Flight, signed and inscribed by Vaeth. 1939 copy of Christian Service Songs. Robinson, Douglas H. and Keller, Charles L. "Up Ship!": U.S. Navy Rigid Airships 1919-1935, signed and inscribed by Robinson. Hook, Thom. Sky Ship: The Akron Era... signed and inscribed by Hook. Knausel, Hans. Zeppelin and the United States...inscribed by F. W. "Willy" von Meister. Vaeth, Gordon J. Graf Zeppelin: The Adventures of an Aerial Globetrotter. 1958 first edition, inscribed by Vaeth. Robinson, Douglas. The Dangerous Sky: A History of Aviation Medicine. Signed and inscribed by Robinson. Hook, Thom. 'Shenandoah' Saga. Signed and inscribed by Hook. The Romance of Ballooning: The Story of the Early Aeronauts. Funk & Wagnell's Practical Standard Dictionary, 1930, soft leather covers, gilt lettering 'Thomas G.W. Settle, U.S. Navy'. And two heavily worn books, one a small Bible from Settle's father, and Vol. II of Incidents of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and The Holy Land, 1838, with letter dated 1856. (19)
22 leather bound books22 leather bound books
Sundry booksSundry books
TWO SETS OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKSeachTWO SETS OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKSeach set in Swedish; one set approximately 16 linear inches, the other 10 1/2 linear inches Condition:
SET OF LEATHER BOUND ENGLISH HISTORYSET OF LEATHER BOUND ENGLISH HISTORY BOOKSSET OF LEATHER BOUND ENGLISH HISTORY BOOKS, (15)
Books- The Waverly Novels 26 volumeBooks- The Waverly Novels 26 volume set.
Books. Four shelves of generalBooks. Four shelves of general stock, including Dickens (Charles), The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, two-volume set bound as one, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842, portrait frontispiece, 19th c cloth over marbled boards, 8vo, Virgil, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Londini, 1912, Eton presentation volume signed by the then headmaster Edward Lyttelton, original green-stained parchment over boards, school arms to upper-cover, all edges gilt, uncut, 8vo, hardback non-fiction, including art history, antique reference, etc., some literature, mixed sizes
SET OF APPROXIMATE 100 EASTON PRESSSET OF APPROXIMATE 100 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, LEATHER BOUN...Set of Approximate 100 Easton Press Books, leather bound binding, average 8" - 10", Roger Tory Peterson Set, History of America, The Story of Civilization, Ex Libris, R. Lichter und M. Strohmaier.
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[Sets] Assorted complete and partial[Sets] Assorted complete and partial leather-bound sets comprising historical and literary works notably: The Works of James Russell Lowell (Cambridge: Riverside Press 1904) 16 vols. 8vo Estimate $ 250-350
Set of Sixteen Leather-Bound VolumesSet of Sixteen Leather-Bound Volumes of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Works, published by J. B. Lippencott and Company, Philadelphia, 1867, the gilt-tooled leather bindings in a stone-colored leather, the covers in black and white marbled papers, h. 7-1/4".
SETTLE. American or English earlySETTLE. American or English early 19th century pine. Of typical form retaining an older dark green over light green paint. Minor imperfections. 17 1/2''h. seat 59 1/4''h. overall 49 1/4''l. Age cracks minor losses.
A Set of Cloth-Bound Books LibraryA Set of Cloth-Bound Books Library of the World's Best Literature Ancient and Modern New York J. A. Hill & Company 45 volumes.
Three sets and partial sets makingThree sets and partial sets making 24 books in all, c/o The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans.), (The Heritage Press, New York, 1934; complete as six volumes bound as three, in original slipcases); The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (New York and London, 1904; The Cameo Edition, complete in ten volumes); and 11 volumes of The Everyman's Library including works by Ibsen, Tolstoy, Sir Thomas Malory and Robert Browning (London and New York, 1910).
SET OF APPROXIMATELY 100 EASTONSET OF APPROXIMATELY 100 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, ALL LEATHE...Set of Approximately 100 Easton Press Books, all leather bound bindings, average 9" - 10", Tales of Poe Odyssey of Homes, Moby Dick, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, etc.
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SEVENTEEN VOLUME LEATHER BOUNDSEVENTEEN VOLUME LEATHER BOUND BOOK SETSEVENTEEN VOLUME LEATHER BOUND BOOK SET BY EASTON PRESS, "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night," each gilt stamped and edged.
A Lot of Leather Bound Books LotA Lot of Leather Bound Books Lot includes; four volumes "Lady of the Manor" or "The Works of Mrs. Sherwood" New York: Harpers & Brothers 1835 hard bound full leather 12mo stereotype edition. Two volumes of "Venice Under the Yoke of France and of Australia" London: Whittaker 1824. full leather hard bound 8vo and lastly "Our HUndred Days in Europe" by Oliver WEndell Holmes Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1887 hard bound 8vo in full red leather fully illustrated with engraved plates.
COLLECTION OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKScomprisingCOLLECTION OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKScomprising approximately 24 volumes, including six bolted together in a stack Condition:
A box of 25 leather bound booksA box of 25 leather bound books
THREE SETS OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKSThreeTHREE SETS OF LEATHER BOUND BOOKSThree Sets of Leather Bound Books, to include 23 volumes of The Works of F. Hopkinson, 30 volumes of Carlyle's works and 31 volumes of The Novels of Charles Lever, etc.. sold as is, lot has condition issues and odor, Provenance: Estate of Cyril H. Moore Jr, Kent, Connecticut.
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FOUR SETS OF BOOKSFour sets ofFOUR SETS OF BOOKSFour sets of books, to include five volumes of Chamber's Papers for the People, published by J. W. Moore; four works by Imbert De Saint-Amand, published by Charles Scribner's Sons; three works by Charlotte M. Yonge, published by Macmillan and Co.; three works by Zane Grey, published by Walter J. Black; and two works by Jeffery Farnol, published by Little, Brown, and Company.
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THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE 20 VOLUMETHE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE 20 VOLUME SETThe Book of Knowledge 20 Volume Set
Brown (Robert) The Book of theBrown (Robert) The Book of the Landed Estate, 1st edition, London 1869, 4to, decorative quarter leather binding, with 7 others relating to estate management, tenancy, leases etc
A quantity of leather bound volumes,A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 90, in four boxes/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Sundry leather bound books, 17Sundry leather bound books, 17 vols
SET OF DECORATIVE LEATHER BOUNDSET OF DECORATIVE LEATHER BOUND SWEDISH BOOKSSet of Decorative Leather Bound Swedish Books
A quantity of leather bound volumes,A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 120, in four boxes/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Books. Six shelves of general stock,Books. Six shelves of general stock, including Eliot (George) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), Scenes of Clerical Life, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906, colour and b/w plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 8vo, vintage Penguin Classics paperbacks, further literature, Osbert Lancaster, non-fiction, including Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900, double-column, original Oxford University examinations prize morocco binding, gilt, a trifle rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation bookplate, 8vo, The Falloden Papers illustrated by Robert Gibbings, Price's The Story of the Salonica Army, 1918, 8vo, New Naturalist, dj, hb and other natural history, Folio Society, etc., mostly hardback, mixed sizes
A quantity of leather bound volumes,A quantity of leather bound volumes, approximately 70, in four boxes/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Books. Twelves shelves of generalBooks. Twelves shelves of general stock, including Rackham (Arthur, illustraor), The Ingoldsby Legends, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Fishe (John), The American Revolution, two-volume set, London: Macmillan and Co., 1891, ex-library copies, labelled and stamped, original cloth, 8vo, [travel] Lane (Edward William), An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 1890, original cloth, 8vo, [binding] Gissing (George), By the Ionian Sea, 1901, contemporary black calf gilt prize binding, 4to, Hooley (Teresa), Selected Poems, first edition, 1947, dj, hb, 8vo, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, BCA edition, 1971, dj, hb, 8vo, Lord Granby's Trout, 1898, original cloth, 8vo, two Badminton Library Shooting volumes, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Rowntree (B. Seebohm), Poverty: A Study of Town Life, 4th edition, 1902, cloth, 8vo, Savage on Rural Housing, miscellaneous volumes from Joseph Conrad's Uniform Edition, further literature, other fiction and non-fiction, principally hardback, some vintage paperbacks, mixed sizes
Twenty-six volume set of leather-boundTwenty-six volume set of leather-bound and gilt embossed classics London William Pickering 1852 Burns Milton Spenser Chaucer etc. 6.5"x4.5"
Twenty leather bound books, mostlyTwenty leather bound books, mostly 8vo
1 vol. Maugham, W. Somerset. The1 vol. Maugham, W. Somerset. The Summing Up. London: W. Heinemann, (1938). First edition. 8vo, orig. black cloth, gilt; light wear, d/j (minor wear), in custom 1/4 dark blue morocco slipcase & chemise. Presentation copy, inscribed & signed on title page, "W. Somerset Maugham for dear Reggie, This record of his old friends life. Florence, April 22, 1938." Bright, attractive copy in slightly scuffed slipcase. Stott A53a