Sale 19CN02 | Lot 286

[BINDINGS] Group of approximately seventy volumes, being mostly finely bound sets.

Catalogue: English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters
[BINDINGS]  Group of approximately seventy volumes, being mostly finely bound sets.

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Lot 286
[BINDINGS] Group of approximately seventy volumes, being mostly finely bound sets.
Various dates and publishers, most in modern half morocco, a few in contemporary binding. Includes BEWICK, THOMAS. A History of British Birds..., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bernard Quaritch, 1885. Memorial Edition (out of series from edition of 750 sets). 5 volumes; CONRAD, JOSEPH. Works. Garden City: Doubleday, 1925. 27 volumes; CHURCHILL, WINSTON. The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. 6 volumes; and miscellaneous volumes of Theodore Roosevelt, Flaubert, Spark's Works of Benjamin Franklin, Life of Nelson (1808, folio, contemporary binding), and others. The Franklin set stained, minor chips to bindings, an attractive group overall, sold as is.


Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

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English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters

Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10am EDT
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