FiNE BiNDiNgS AND COllECTED WORkS

Lots 498 - 519

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498* (COSWAY BINDING) TALLEYRAND, CHARLES MAURICE The Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand de Perigord. London: H. S. Nichols, 1895.

2 vols. 8vo, bound by Bayntun in blue gilt-stamped morocco with two Cosway-style miniatures of Talleyrand and his mistress on upper covers under glass, silk endpapers, blue morocco doublures, a.e.g., matching slipcases. Extra-illustrated edition with 60 additional plates, limited to 500 copies. Fading to spines. Property from the Estate of Lee Blake, Chicago, Illinois $4,000-6,000

499* (EASTON PRESS) A collection of 30 volumes published by the Easton Press bound in gilt-stamped leather. Property from the Jose Sanchez Trust, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 500* (EASTON PRESS) A collection of 30 volumes published by the Easton Press bound in gilt-stamped leather. Property from the Jose Sanchez Trust, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

501* (EASTON PRESS) A collection of 30 volumes published by the Easton Press bound in gilt-stamped leather. Property from the Jose Sanchez Trust, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

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502* (MONASTERY HILL BINDERY) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. London: George Bell & Sons; Edinburgh: The Abbey Press, 1902.

8vo, yellow morocco gilt-decorated by the Monastery Hill Bindery, ruled in gilt with floral motif to boards and spine in compartments, five raised bands, silk endpapers. Number 349 of 500 copies on handmade paper. Housed in buckram clamshell case. Light soiling and rubbing to edges of folding case; otherwise very fine. Property from the Collection of Shirley M. Petry, Kenilworth, Illinois $400-600

502A (KELLIEGRAM) CARROLL, LEWIS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by John Tenniel. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1914.

8vo, green crushed morocco with onlaid “Tea Party” scene to upper cover and Alice with the Gryphon and Mock Turtle to rear, each framed by four character portraits and elaborate floral and card-themed gilt, inner boards illustrating the court of the King and Queen and Alice and the Deck of Cards, each surrounded by elaborate floral border, silk endpapers, two metal clasps. Number 9 of 10 copies for sale printed on Vellum paper, from a total edition of 1,024 printed by the Riccardi Press. Fine. $1,000-2,000

503 (SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE) CARROLL, LEWIS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1927.

2 vols. 8vo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Marshall Field in full red gilt-decorated calf, decorative endpapers, spine labels, a.e.g. Light rubbing to boards at spine; joints cracked; otherwise fine. $200-400 503B (SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE) BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Sonnets of the Portuguese. London: Dean & Son, n.d.

16mo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Marshall Field and Company in full dark purple leather, giltstamped front board, gilt-stamped tan leather label to spine with five raised bands, a.e.g., in original feltlined purple publisher’s slipcase, marbled endpapers, portrait frontispiece. Minor wear to slipcase; otherwise fine. $150-250

504* (ZAEHNSDORF) EBSWORTH, J. WOODFALL Westminster Drolleries [and] Choyce Drollery [and] Merry Drollery. Boston, Lincolnshire: Printed by Robert Roberts, 1875, 1876.

3 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf in smooth green calf ruled in gilt with gilt-tooled and lettered spines, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Large paper editions of each title, limited to 50 copies printed for sale, signed by the publisher to the verso of the half-title in each title. Spines lightly faded; small chip to head of Choyce Drollery; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

505 SWIFT, JONATHAN The Works. London: Bickers and Son, 1883-1884.

19 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this set out of series and unsigned (signature of the publisher printed to limitation page). Some light edgewear; otherwise a fine set. $200-400 506 SUE, EUGENE [Works.] Boston: Nicholls, 1899-1900.

19 (of 20) vols. only. 8vo, full crushed brown morocco, spine in six compartments, lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, t.e.g., frontispieces. Illustrated throughout with etchings by Adrian Marcel, with tissue guards. Editions des Amateurs, limited to 50 sets with plates in two states, this one is out of a series. Some offsetting from plates; light rubbing to raised bands to some vols.; otherwise fine. $200-400

507 (BINDINGS) A group of seven folio-sized books, some eighteenthcentury.

R.P.F. Vincentii, Contenson, Ordinis praedicatorum sacrae theologiae professoris, theologia mentis et cordis... Leiden, 1687. Vol. 2 only. L’illustrazione Italiana. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1904. Z. Bernardi Van Espen, Opera... Louvain, 1721.Dictionnaire de geographie ancienne et moderne a l’usage du libraire et l’amateur de libres... Paris: Librairie Firmin didot Freres, 1870. Nouveau dictionnaire, pour servir de supplement aux dictionnaires des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une societe des gens de lettres. Livourne: L’Imprimerie des Editeurs, 1778. Joanne Dominicos Mansi, Prolegomena, et dissertationes in omnes, et singulos sacrae scripturae libros. Venice, 1755. 2 vols. $100-200

508 (BINDINGS) A group of 22 leather bound books, including The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon... By John, Lord Sheffield. London: John Murray, 1814. 5 vols. Recueil des lettres de Madame la Marquise de Sevigne, a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa fille. Paris: La Compagnie des Librairies, 1785. 7 vols. Anthologie Poetique Francaise, XVIe Siecle. By Maurice Allem. Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, n.d. 2 vols. The Spectator. London: Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson, 1757. 8 vols. $200-400

509 (BINDINGS) A group of 11 leatherbound books.

The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha. Translated by Motteux. Edinburgh: Hurst, Robinson, 1822. 4 vols. Together with John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, A History, 3 vols. and The History of the United Netherlands. 3 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. $200-400

510* (BINDINGS) A group of eight leatherbound books. $100-200

511 (BINDINGS) A set of two leatherbound works comprising, Queen Victoria, by Edward Strachey, New York, 1921, and The Golden Treasury, by Francis T. Palgrave, London, 1913. $100-200

512 BURTON, RICHARD The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Chicago, c. 1910.

17 vols., including seven “Supplemental Nights” volumes. 8vo, original grey cloth, pastedown spine labels, some pages uncut. Number 588 of 1,000 copies of the “Luristan Edition.” Fading to spine; some wear to spine ends. $100-200

513 (COLLECTED WORKS) The Works of Daniel Defoe, 1904, 16 vols. together with The Works of Henry Fielding, 1903, 12 vols.

8vo, uniformly bound in full maroon cloth, printed paper spine labels, t.e.g., frontispieces. Fading to spines; light wear to boards; chipping to spine labels; ends bumped. (28) $100-200 513A DE MAUPASSANT The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant. Akron, Ohio: St. Dunstan Society, (1902).

17 vols. 8vo, blue cloth, printed paper spine labels, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., frontispieces. Illustrated. Edition de Luxe, number 302 (of an unstated number) signed by the artist. Spine ends bumped; some chipping to spine labels; otherwise fine. $200-400

514 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Works. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.

33 vols. 8vo, original gilt-ruled red cloth, circular inlay to front boards, spines lettered in gilt, frontispieces. Spine ends chipped; boards faded to some vols.; otherwise fine. $100-200

514A KIPLING, RUDYARD The Collected Works. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941.

28 vols. 8vo, red cloth, gilt-stamped, original dust jackets, t.e.g. The Burwash Edition, limited to 1,010 sets signed by Kipling to vol. 1. Chipping to dust jackets with some loss to spines; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

515 MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE The Works. New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1910.

10 vols. original quarter cloth over blue paper boards, spine labels, t.e.g. Portrait frontispieces and numerous illustrations. Emerson edition, limited to 1,050 copies, this one number 303. Light soiling to boards; spine ends chipping; otherwise fine. $100-200 516* MOORE, THOMAS The Poetical Works. London: Longman, 1853.

10 vols. Sm. 8vo, half leather over green cloth, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispieces. Hinges lightly cracked; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Shirley M. Petry, Kenilworth, Illinois $200-400

517 TOLSTOY, LEO The Complete Works. New York and Boston: Colonial Press, 1904.

24 vols. 8vo, original green cloth, printed paper spine labels, t.e.g., frontispieces. Beacon edition. Fading to boards; spines bumped; light soiling to spine labels; otherwise fine. $100-200

518 WILDE, OSCAR The Works. London: The Edinburgh Society, 1911.

14 vols. 8vo, publisher’s tan cloth, printed paper spine labels, t.e.g., frontispieces, uncut. Magdalen Edition, number 130 of 480 copies. Spine ends bumped; light soiling to spine labels; hinges tender; otherwise fine. $200-400

519* YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Collected Works in Prose and Verse. StratfordOn-Avon: Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1908.

8 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown buckram lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Portrait frontispieces to four vols. First collected edition of Yeats’ works. Some light rubbing to boards; spine ends and corners bumped; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $200-400

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