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343 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) The Sixty Series. Franklin Center, PA, various dates.
A group of 59 (of 60) vols. of Franklin Library’s signed Sixty Series, featuring signed first editions by prominent authors such as James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Simone De Beauvoir, John Fowles, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Irving Stone, John Updike, and Herman Wouk. $2,000-4,000
344 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) CHRICHTON, MICHAEL A group of seven first editions, six signed. Franklin Center, PA, various dates.
Airframe, 1996. Disclosure, 1993. The Lost World, 1995. Travels, 1988. Rising Sun, 1992. Jurassic Park, 1990. Congo, 1980. Unsigned. $200-400 345 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) HELLER, JOSEPH A group of three signed first editions, one first edition. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. (4 total)
Now and Then. From Coney Island to Here, 1998. Closing Time, 1994. God Knows, 1984. Good as Gold, 1979. Unsigned. $200-400
346 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) UPDIKE, JOHN A group of seven first editions, six signed. Franklin Center, PA, various dates.
In the Beauty of the Lillies, 1996. Rabbit at Rest, 1990. Roger’s Version, 1986. Toward the End of Time, 1997. The Witches of Eastwick, 1984. Memories of the Ford Administration, 1992. Marry Me, 1976. Unsigned. $200-400

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347 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) VONNEGUT, KURT A group of two signed first editions, three first editions. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. (5 total)
Bluebeard, 1987. Signed. Galapagos, 1985. Jailbird, 1979. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!, 1976. Hocus Pocus, 1990. $200-400
348 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) EUROPEAN AND CANADIAN A group of 27 signed first editions by European and Canadian authors including Mortimer and Weisel. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
349 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) FEMALE AUTHORS A group of 22 signed first editions by American female authors including Alice Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Tyler. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
350 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) FEMALE AUTHORS A group of nine signed first editions by notable female authors including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Amy Tan. Franklin Center, PA, various dates.
Allende, Isabel. The Infinite Plan, 1993. Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna, 1988. Angelou, Maya. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, 1986. Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride, 1993. Hoffman, Alice. Turtle Moon, 1992. Morrison, Toni. Jazz, 1992. Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover, 1992. Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife, 1991. Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses, 1995. $200-400 351 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER A group of 20 signed first editions by authors of the mystery, crime and thriller genre including Ray Bradbury, Richard Condon, Dean Koontz, Norman Mailer, and John le Carre. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
352 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) NONFICTION A group of 25 signed first editions by authors such as Tim O’Brien, Arthur Schleisinger, Paul Theroux, Scott Turow and Gore Vidal. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
353 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) US AUTHORS A group of 16 signed first editions by American authors including Philip Roth, Wallace Stegner, Leon Uris and Robert Penn Warren. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
354 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) US AUTHORS A group of 18 signed first editions by American authors, including James Michener, Arthur Miller and John Irving. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500
355 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, SIGNED FIRSTS) US AUTHORS A group of 20 signed first editions by American authors including E.L. Doctorow, J.P. Donleavy, and Dominick Dunne. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $300-500 356 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) CLASSICS A group of 23 classic titles by authors with names beginning with R through W and eight first edition collected work of Emile Zola, W.H. Auden, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Eudora Welty, and James Thurber. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. (31 total) $200-400
357 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) CLASSICS A group of 36 classic titles by authors with names beginning with A through E, including Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $100-200
358 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) CLASSICS A group of 37 classic titles by authors with names beginning with F through P, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, Herman Melville, Eugene O’Neill, and Marcel Proust. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $100-200
359 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, FIRST EDITIONS) A group of 18 first editions by authors with names beginning with S through Z, including William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Robert Penn Warren and Thornton Wilder. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $100-200
360 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, FIRST EDITIONS) A group of 19 first editions by authors with names beginning with K through S, including Bernard Malamud, James Michener, Toni Morrison and Percy Walker. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $100-200
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361 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY, FIRST EDITIONS) A group of 18 first editions by authors with names beginning from A through J, including Saul Bellow, E.L. Doctorow, Graham Greene, and John Hersey. Franklin Center, PA, various dates. $100-200
362 (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 13 Franklin Library books. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, various dates. $200-400
363* (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 17 books. 16 from Franklin Center, PA, and one from the Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, various dates. Property from the Collection of Paul Mavros and David Valkema, Long Beach, Indiana $100-200
364* (EASTON PRESS) A group of 34 presidential biographies and autobiographies from the Easton Press’s “The Library of Presidents.” The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, various dates. Property from the Collection of Paul Mavros and David Valkema, Long Beach, Indiana $100-200
365 (EASTON PRESS) A group of 13 books published by the Easton Press. $100-200 366 (EASTON PRESS) A group of 17 books published by the Easton Press. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, various dates. $100-200
367 (EASTON PRESS) A group of 20 books published by the Easton Press. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, various dates. $100-200
368 (EASTON PRESS) A group of 22 books published by the Easton Press. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, various dates. $100-200
369 No lot
370* (HERITAGE PRESS) A group of 14 slipcased volumes. New York: The Heritage Press, various dates. Property from the Collection of Paul Mavros and David Valkema, Long Beach, Indiana $100-200
371* (HERITAGE PRESS) A group of 14 slipcased volumes, 13 of which are published by the Heritage Press. New York, various dates. Property from the Collection of Paul Mavros and David Valkema, Long Beach, Indiana $100-200 372 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of five books published by the Limited Editions Club. New York, various dates.
Tender is the Night. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York, (1982). A Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. New York, 1982. Lacking slipcase. The Circus of Dr. Lao. By Charles G. Finney. New York, 1982. The Iceman Cometh. By Eugene O’Neill. New York, 1982. 2 copies. $300-500
373 (PENNYROYAL PRESS) TWAIN, MARK Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985.
Folio, publisher’s green gilt-lettered morocco, slipcase. Illustrated with 49 wood engravings by Barry Moser, additional suite in linen chemise. Centenary edition, number 172 of 350 copies signed by Moser. Light wear to boards and soiling to slipcase. $500-700
374 (ROYCROFT PRESS) HUBBARD, ELBERT The Complete Writings. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft, 1908.
20 vols. 4to, original 3/4 blind-stamped red morocco, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Author’s edition, number 943 of 1,000 sets signed by Hubbard in each volume. Light rubbing to boards; signature faded on most vols. $500-700

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375 (BEARDSLEY, AUBREY) MALORY, SIR THOMAS The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End le Morte d’Arthur, with the Dolorous Death and Departing of this World of Them All. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1927.
4to, original gilt-decorated cloth, untrimmed, t.e.g. With 20 full page plates by Aubrey Beardsley, including two from etchings and 18 from woodcuts, with tissue guards, and numerous in-text woodcut chapter headings, initials, borders and ornaments. Third Beardsley edition, the first to include 11 designs omitted from the previous editions, one of 1600 copies. Wear to spine ends; hinges slightly tender; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. $400-600
376* (BURGESS, GELETT) A group of 10 books by Gelett Burgess, one signed.
The Lark. No 1, September 1895. San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. With Burgess’s signature and monogram to front cover.
[Together with:] Gelett Burgess Behind the Scenes. Glimpses of Fin de Siecle San Francisco. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Bayside Bohemia. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1954. The Nonsense Almanack for 1900. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1900. The Purple Cow! San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1904). Vivette. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. The Maxims of Methuselah. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1907). Why Men Hate Women. New York: Payson & Clarke, (1927). The Romance of the Commonplace. San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1902). Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200 377* BURGESS, GELETT Vivette, or The Memoirs of the Romance Association. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897.
Small 8vo, original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, map endpapers. Inscribed and signed by Burgess on the f.f.e.p. with his monogram. Light fading to boards; ends bumped. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
378* BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE A group of 12 titles, together with 10 Tarzan BigLittle Books and a collection of bibliographical and biographical works. [30 items total] Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $200-400
378A* BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE A collection of Science Fiction serials with original works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, including Tarzan and the City of Gold in Argosy, May-April 1932, Synthetic Men of Mars, in Argosy, January 1939, Carson of Venus, in Argosy, August 1938 and February 1939; seven additional issues of Argosy; nine issues of Amazing Stories; an issue of Amazing Stories; three issues of Fantastic Adventures; three issues of the Blue Book of Fiction and Adventure; and one issue of Triple-X Magazine, featuring Tarzan Returns. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $300-500 379* HARTE, BRET Two first editions of Gabriel Conroy.
Gabriel Conroy. Hartford, Conn: American Publishing, 1876. 8vo, original gilt-decorated brown cloth. First edition, second state with “copyrighted” instead of “copyright” to verso of title page, first state binding. Light wear and soiling. [Together with:] Gabriel Conroy. Hartford, Conn: American Publishing, 1876. 8vo, original blindstamped brown cloth. First edition, second state with “copyrighted” instead of “copyright” to verso of title page, second state binding. Light wear to boards. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
380* HARTE, BRET A group of five works in six volumes by or about Bret Harte, comprising A Sappho of Green Springs. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1890). Santa Claus at Simpson’s Bar. Cincinnati: Houghton & Mifflin, [1939]. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country. By Thomas Dykes Beasley. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1914. The Lectures of Bret Harte. London: Charles Meeker Kozlay, 1909. Overland Monthly: Bret Harte Edition. September 1902 and December, 1916. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
381* HARTE, BRET A collection of literary periodicals, pamphlets and smaller published works by Bret Harte, comprising three issues of The English Illustrated Magazine (October-December, 1892), two issues of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, (September-October, 1893), and a binder of pamphlets and smaller works by Harte such as The Outcasts of Poker Flat, (1931), Overland Monthly, (October, 1932), The Improved Aesop, (1946), and Lothaw, (1871), among others. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200

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382 KENT, ROCKWELL Fifty Years, 1884-1934, A.B. Dick Company. Chicago: Privately Printed at the Lakeside Press, 1934.
Folio, gilt-lettered blue cloth, gilt endpapers, portrait frontispiece. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Fine. $100-200
382A (PARRISH, MAXFIELD) YUTANG, LIN The Importance of Living. New York: John Day, (1937).
8vo, publisher’s black cloth stamped in red. Maxfield Parrish copy. Ownership inscription on the f.f.e.p. by Maxfield Parrish indicating who gifted the book to him, signed “Maxfield Parrish, from K.O.” Light wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200
383 PAX MUNDI Livre d’or de la paix, pax mundi. Geneva: Societe Paxunis, 1932.
Folio, original pictorial wraps, plates loose as issued. Limited edition, number 189 of 245 copies. Minor wear to wraps; light intermittent foxing. $100-200
384* SETON-THOMPSON, ERNEST A group of three books and an envelope of ephemera, comprising The Gospel of the Redman. An Indian Bible. London: Methuen, 1937. 8vo, black cloth, dust jacket, clipped. The Trail of the Sandhill Stag. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth. Lives of the Hunted. . . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901. 8vo, publisher’s decorative cloth. Together with an envelope containing a black and white photograph, signed by Seton; a pamphlet for “Seton Books;” and a catalogue search result listing the works of Seton. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200 385 BAUM, FRANK L. Three books from the “Oz” series, one first printing.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1908). 8vo, original light blue cloth with pictorial cover label. First edition, first printing, first state binding. First printing, with advertisement on verso of half-title listing three titles and captioned color plates, first binding, with “The Reilly &/Britton Co.” in capitals at foot of spine. Wear and soiling to boards. [Together with:] The Land of Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1904). 8vo, original green cloth with pictorial cover label. Later printing. Wear and soiling to boards; hinges starting. The Lost Princess of Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1917). Original blue cloth with pictorial cover label. Later printing. Wear to boards; hinges starting. $200-400
386* GREENAWAY, KATE A group of 13 16mo-sized books comprising 11 Almanacks and two Alphabet books, together with three 8vo-sized books illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
387 ROWLING, J.K. A group of seven books from the Harry Potter series including three first American editions (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), three first printings (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), and Harry Potter, the Tales of Beedle the Bard, (2008). $300-500 388 (CHILDREN’S) UPTON, FLORENCE K. The Golliwogg’s Desert-Island. Verses by Bertha Upton. London, et al.: Longmans and Green, 1906.
Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. First edition, profusely illustrated. Some dampstaining to boards and toning to pages. $100-200
389 (CHILDREN’S) YEATS, JACK B. The Treasure of the Garden. One of Jack B. Yeats’s Plays for the Miniature Stage. London: Elkin Mathews, [1902].
4to, original blue printed pictorial wrappers. Complete with seven plates and cover illustration colored by the author. Rare. $800-1,200
390* (CHILDREN’S) COX, PALMER A group of 17 children’s books including five illustrated by Palmer Cox, including Juvenile Budget. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, [c. 1918]. Queer People. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, n.d. Meddlesome Peter. New York: Hurst, [1897]. Monkey Jack. New York: Hurst, [1897]. Funny Animals. Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1903. With 12 others. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
391* (CHILDREN’S, DIME NOVELS) A group of 29 Dime Novels. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
392* (CHILDREN’S) A collection of 25 children’s books listen in Peter Parley to Penrod. By Jacob Blanck. Waltham, Mass.: Mark Press, 1974. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200

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393 (CHILDREN’S, ILLUSTRATED) A collection of five illustrated children’s books.
$100-200
394 (MINIATURE) A group of four 19th century albums of miniature portraits, comprising two with carte-de-visite portraits of European royalty, red morocco stamped in blind, brass clasp, a.e.g., and two with black and white photographs of children and family members, 30 x 30 mm and 43 x 34 mm, both fur covered with brass clasps. Dimensions of largest 1 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches. $100-200
395 (COLLECTED WORKS) ELIOT, GEORGE The Works of George Eliot. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. [c. 1895]
21 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled and lettered spines. Standard edition. Rubbing to boards at extremities; ends chipped on some vols.; otherwise good. $100-200
396 (VELLUM) A vellum-bound journal, with multiple blank signatures of parchment. Folio, full vellum, leather spine piece exposing the leather ties that are holding in the parchment and holding the vellum to the boards. Lightly soiled; interior in fine condition. $50-100
397 (VELLUM) A group of five 16-17th century works in rolltooled vellum, together with one example in full contemporary calf.
Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani, sive lexicon Lucianeum. . . By Car. Conr. Reitzio. S.l.: Hermanni Besseling, 1746. Epithetorum Ioan. Ravisii... By Georgii Sabini de Versibus. Basil: Andream Cellarium, 1600. Enchiridion Historia. By Martini Aichmanni. Tubinga: Georgium Gruppenbachium, 1591. Thesaurus Graecae... By Nicolao Caussino. Mainz: Bernardi Gualtheri, 1614. Thesaurus Vocum omnium Latinarum. S.l.: (Guillelmus Laemarius), (1594). Codex Germaniae Diplomaticus... By Johann Christian Lunig. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Friedrich Lanctischens Erben, 1733. $200-400 398 (VELLUM) A group of 16th and 17th-century works, three in contemporary vellum binding. $200-400
399 No lot
400* (BINDINGS) A group of 16 leather-bound books, 12mo-8vo, including A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands, (6 vols., London, 1782) and The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague (5 vols., London, 1805); together with two miniature cloth-bound books and one vellum bound book. (19 total) Property from the Alice Welsh Skilling and Raymond Skilling Collection, Chicago, Illinois $100-200
401 (BINDINGS) A group of 29 leather bound books. $400-600
402 (BINDINGS) A group of eight books bound in varying shades of green gilt-tooled leather, comprising Lowell’s Works, 4 vols., Green, A Short History of the English People, 3 vols., and Ludwig, The Son of a Man. $80-120
403* (BINDINGS) A group of 13 leatherbound books, including The Works of Lord Bacon (2 vols., London, 1871), History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, (3 vols., London, 1853), and The Works of Wm. Chillingworth. (3 vols., London, 1820). Property from the Alice Welsh Skilling and Raymond Skilling Collection, Chicago, Illinois $100-200
403A (BINDINGS) A group of nine 16th-19th century works in contemporary leather binding. $100-200 404 (VELLUM) A group of 16th and 17th-century works, three in contemporary vellum binding. $200-400
405 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, BINDING) MICHON, LOUISMARIE Les reliures mosaiquees de XVIII siecle. Paris: Societe de la Reliure Originale, 1956.
4to, publisher’s printed wraps, slipcase, glassine. Illustrated with 45 plates in color and black and white. Fine. $100-200
406 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, BINDING) A group of books pertaining to bookbinding, including ABC of Bookbinding. By Jane Greenfield. (New York:) Oak Knoll Press, (1998). New Directions in Bookbinding. By Philip Smith. (London:) Studio Vista, (1974). Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings in Cloth and Leather. By Ruari McLean. London: Gordon Fraser, 1974. Pictorial Manual of Bookbinding. By Manly Banister. New York: Ronald Press, (1958). And seven other similar works (11 total) $100-200
407 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, BINDING) A group of 21 books pertaining to the history of bookbinding, including La Legatura artistica. By Pio Colombo. Rome: Editrice Raggio, (1952). Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. By Ruari McLean. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1972). Bookbinders and Their craft. By S.T. Prideaux. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903. Leben und werk Jakob Krauses. By Ilse Schunke. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, n.d. Early Spanish Bookbindings, XI-XV Centuries. By Henry Thomas. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1939. With 16 others. (21 total) $100-200

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408 BOOKS ON BOOKS A group of ten books about books, including Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640. By Ronald B. McKerrow. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1949. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A Catalog of the Gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943-1975. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1977. Great Books and Book Collectors. By Alan G. Thomas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1975). 2 copies. The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle. By Adrian Wilson. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, (1976). The Book in Italy. By William Dana Orcutt. London: George G. Harrap, (1928). The Kingdom of Books. By William Dana Orcutt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927. The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. By A. Edward Newton. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1918. 2 copies. The Magic of the Book. By William Dana Orcutt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. $100-200
409 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, CARTOGRAPHY) A group of five books on map-making and mapmakers, including Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries. By R.A. Skelton. London: Staples Press, (1952). Mercator. By A.S. Osley. New York: Watson-Guptill, (1969). Maps and Map-Makers. By R.V. Tooley. New York: Bonanza Books, n.d. Blaeu’s The Grand Atlas of the 17th-Century World. Introduction and Selection by John Goss. New York: Rizzoli, (1990). Landmarks of Mapmaking. Maps chosen and displayed by R.V. Tooley. Amsterdam and Brussels: Elsevier, 1967. $100-200
410 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MSS) A group of 11 books on manuscript illumination, including Les tres belles miniatures de la Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique. By Eugene Bacha. Brussels and Paris: Librairie Nationale D’Art et D’Histoire: G. Van Oest, 1913. The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. By Marcel Thomas. Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, (1971). Miniatures des premieres siecles du Moyen-Age. Paris: Librairie Plon, (1951). The Illuminated Manuscript. By Janet Backhouse. Oxford: Phaidon, (1979). Illuminations of Heaven and Earth. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1988). And six others. (11 total) $100-200 411 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MSS) A group of 16 books on manuscript illumination, including Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting. Book Illumination in the British Isles, 600-800. By Carl Nordenfalk. New York: George Braziller, (1977). Carolingian Painting. Introduction by Florentine Mutherich. New York: George Braziller, (1976). Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination. By John Williams. New York: George Braziller, (1977). Holzschnitte des Hans Baldung Grien. Munich: Allgemeine Verlagsanstalt, n.d. [c. 1924] Italian Miniatures. By Mario Salmi. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1954). And 11 others. (16 total) $100-200
412 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, ILLUMINATION) A group of 15 books on illuminated manuscripts, including Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450. By Laurence B. Kanter et al. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, (1994). Illuminierte handschriften aus der Slowakei. By Alzbeta Guntherova and Jan Misianik. (Prague:) Artia, (1962). The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. Introduction by James H. Marrow. New York: George H. Braziller, (1990). Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis. By Robert Branner. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1977). Mittelalterliche Miniaturen. By L.M. J. Delaisse. Koln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1959. And 10 others. (15 total) $100-200
413 (INCUNABULA) Two works on important collections of incunabula.
Incunabula typographica. A Description Catalogue of the books printed in the Fifteenth Century (14601500) in the Library of Henry Walters. Baltimore: [The Walters Art Gallery], 1906. 4to, period-style full calf binding with raised fleur-de-lis shaped bands, giltlettered spine and upper board, t.e.g., others uncut. Bookseller’s sticker to rear pastedown; otherwise fine. Library of Congress: Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher Collection of Incunabula. Compiled by Frederick W. Ashley. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915. 4to, quarter tan morocco over linen boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., others uncut. $100-200 414 (INCUNABULA) WALTERS, HENRY Incunabula Typographica. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (14601500) in the Library of Henry Walters. Baltimore: [Walters Art Museum], 1906.
4to, period-style full calf binding with raised fleurde-lis shaped bands, gilt-lettered spine and upper board, t.e.g., others uncut. Bookseller’s sticker to rear pastedown; otherwise fine. $50-100
415 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, NATURAL HISTORY) A group of seven books on natural history prints, including The Birds of the World. By Maureen Lambourne. New York: Rizzoli, (1992). Australian Marsupials and Monotremes: John Gould. With modern commentaries by Joan M. Dixon. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. Beautiful Flowers and Fruits, by Pierre Joseph Redoute. New York: Harrison House, (1985). Edward Lear’s Birds. By Susan Hyman. New York: William Morrow, 1980. The Art of Bird Illustration. By Maureen Lambourne. Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet, (1990). Fine Bird Books, 1700-1900. By Sacheverell Sitwell et al. New York: Atlantic Monthly, (1990). The Bird Illustrated, 1550-1900. By Joseph Kastner. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1988). $100-200
416 (BOOKS ON BOOKS, TYPOGRAPHY) A collection of books pertaining to typography, including An Atlas of Typeforms. By James Sutton and Alan Bartram. (Secaucus, NJ:) Chartwell Books, (1968). An Alphabet Source Book. By Oscar Ogg. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1940). The Decorated Letter, from the VIIIth to the XIIth Century. By Emile A. Von Moe. Paris: Editions du Chene, 1950. The Art of Calligraphy: Western Europe & America. By Joyce Irene Whalley. London: Bloomsbury Books, (1980). The Art of Written Forms. By Donald M. Anderson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). The Studio. Special Winter Number. S.l., 1899-1900. And five other similar works (11 total) $100-200