FINE BINDINgS AND SETS | LOTS 328-344

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328 BEMELMANS, LUDWIG Madeline. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.

4to, finely rebound by Monique Lallier in full crushed green morocco with red, yellow, and green onlays and tooling to boards, with yellow morocco doublures with yellow and red, green and black onlays depicting characters from the story. House in custom red cloth clamshell folding case with giltlettered leather spine label. First edition. With original title page, and front and rear pastedown preserved and bound in at front and back. Minor separation at hinges at title and last page; otherwise very fine. $1,000-2,000

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329 DORAT, CLAUDE JOSEPH Les Baisers, ou collection de petits poemes erotiques. The Hague and Paris: Sebastien Jorry, 1770.

8vo, bound in full levant red morocco with blue morocco insets and gilt roll-tooling, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine, blue morocco doublures with giltfloral borders, silk endpapers, a.e.g. Housed in black silk clamshell case. With 47 engraved vignettes and culs-de-lampe on Japanese vellum, most attributed to Charles Eisan. Light soiling to boards; upper board threatening to detach. $1,000-2,000 330 FITZGERALD, EDWARD, trans. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: George Harrup, 1930.

4to, finely bound in full turquoise morocco with giltstamped to upper cover. Limited edition, 375 of 750 copies, signed by Willy Pogany. Some light rubbing to spine ends. $600-800 331 GRAVIER, GABRIEL L’Abbe Petitot sous le Cercie Polaire. Rouen: Imprimerie D’Esperance Cagniard, 1889.

8vo, bound by Vannutelli St. Georges in full green crushed morocco with white leather onlays meant to resemble icebergs. Original wrappers bound in. Light soiling to boards. $300-500

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332 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, with a Life, Glossarial Notes... London: A.J. Valpy, 1832-1834.

15 vols. Small 8vo, bound by Zaehnsdorf in full maroon calf, gilt-ruled boards, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, navy morocco spine labels, gilt-inner dentelles, t.e.g. Minor edgewear; offsetting from frontispiece. $800-1,200 333 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Shakespeare’s Comedy As You Like It. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1909]

4to, gilt-stamped and -lettered vellum, t.e.g., string ties, slipcase. Illustrated by Hugh Thompson. Limited edition, number 362 of 500 copies, signed by Thompson on the limitation page. With 40 mounted color plates after Thompson throughout. Wear and soiling to slipcase; light soiling to boards; scattered foxing. $200-400 334* (COLLECTED WORKS) DICKENS, CHARLES [Works.] Boston: Dana Estes, 1905.

48 vols. 8vo, full red morocco ruled in gilt with giltfloral devices stamped to corners of boards, gilt and green inlaid floral device to center of boards, gilt-stamped and -lettered spines, t.e.g., green silk endpapers. New Century Edition, number 470 of 1,000 copies. With engraved frontispieces (some hand-colored), and plate illustrations throughout, captioned tissue guards. Minor edgewear; slight darkening to spines. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $2,000-4,000

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335* (COLLECTED WORKS) DUMAS, ALEXANDRE Works. London: J.M. Dent, 1893-1894.

60 vols. 8vo, bound by Morell in 3/4 maroon morocco over cloth, gilt-stamped and -lettered spines. Illustrated Library edition, number 48 of 50 copies printed in English. Minor edgewear; extremities of some leaves toned. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $300-500

336* (COLLECTED WORKS) VOLTAIRE, MARIE AROUET DE Oeuvres completes. Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1820-1826.

60 (of 70) vols. 8vo, straight-grain tan morocco, gilt-borders, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates. Boards darkened; spines chipped; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; intermittent foxing. $500-700

337* (COLLECTED WORKS) PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. Works. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, (1904).

22 vols. 8vo, gilt-stamped red morocco, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Aztec edition, number 117 of 250 copies. Fine. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $200-400 338 (COLLECTED WORKS) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Chiswick Shakespeare. London: George Bell & Sons, 1899-1902.

39 vols. Small 8vo, original gilt-decorated and -lettered white cloth. Limited to 200 copies printed on Japanese vellum, this being number 24. With engraved frontispieces, titles, and plates by Byam Shaw. Boards soiled and rubbed; leaves toned at extremities. $200-400

339* (EASTON PRESS) DURANT, WILL The Story of Civilization. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1992.

11 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in gilt-decorated and -lettered light brown leather, a.e.g., silk endpapers. Fine. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $200-400

340* FRANKLIN LIBRARY The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1970.

100 vols., with editorial note booklets. 8vo, giltdecorated multi-colored leather, a.e.g. With titles from authors including Austen, Bronte, Chaucer, Darwin,, Emerson, Faulkner, Hardy, Hemingway, Ibsen, Joyce, Kafka, Melville, Plato, Poe, Shakespeare, Thoreau, Twain, and others. Light edgewear; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Myron Carpenter, St. Louis, Missouri $1,500-2,500 341* (BINDINGS) A group of 30 books finely bound by Zaehnsdorf, Bayntun of Bath, Riviere, Monastery Hill, Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Donnelley, and others. Property from the Estate of Denise Selz, Chicago, Illinois $400-600

342* (BINDINGS) A group of 44 leather bound books including The Works of Lord Macaulay, (London, 1854), 13 vols., Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, (New York, n.d.), and various others. Property from the Estate of Denise Selz, Chicago, Illinois $300-500

343* (BINDINGS) A group of 53 leather bound books, including Myths and Legends, (Boston, n.d.), 5 vols., The Works of Lord Byron, (London, 1833), 7 vols. only, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (London, 1862), 5 vols. only, and others. $300-500

344* ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA Cambridge: The University Press, 1910-1911.

29 vols. 4to, full burgundy morocco, gilt-stamped and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Eleventh edition. Fine. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $300-500