Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(BINDINGS.) Group of 12 titles in 25 volumes of 19th century literature. Includes sets. Most illustrated. Small and larger 8vo, contemporary leather gilt bindings, condition varies but generally very good. should be seen. sold as is. Vp, vd
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Oudry. Chasse. 16 engraved plates. No text. Handsome green morocco with gilt borders and animals of the hunt stamped in corners. [Paris, circa 1725] Bewick. Bound book of wood engravings of images from Scripture designed by W. M. Craig cut by Bewick. No text. Contemporary navy straight-grain morocco gilt. [London, 1806] With a letter from the British Museum concerning the edition Hamilton. Memoirs of Count Grammont. Second revised edition. 3 vols. Hand-colored illustrations. Polished brown calf gilt by Bayntun. London, 1809 Another set of the same, bound in navy morocco gilt by Riviere & Son Goldsmith. Miscellaneous Works. 4 volumes. Hand-colored illustrations. Tan calf gilt with red and brown calf spine labels, rebacked, some covers loose. London: Otridge et al., 1812 La Fontaine. Tales: Imitated in English Verse. 2 volumes. Extra-illustrated with an additional colored suite of the plates. The first complete English edition. London, 1814 Cervantes. The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. 4 vols. Proof plates by Richard Westfall. London, 1820 Tales of the Genii. 2 vols. Hand-colored plates. Speckled calf gilt by Wallis. London, 1820 Middleton. The Life of M. Tullius Cicero. 2 volumes. Ex-library. Red morocco gilt extra. London, 1823 Shakespeare. The Dramatic Works. 12mo, red morocco gilt extra by Bedford. London: Pickering, 1826 Aesop's Fables: A New Version . . . by Rev. Thomas James. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Full mauve morocco gilt. London, 1848 Version Book of Common Prayer . . . according to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 12mo blue velvet with gold metal cross on front cover and gold metal borders with beads, all edges trimmed and gilt, with clasp. New York: Appleton, 1853.