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Lot 7
ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS A miscellany of antiquarian books in fine or contemporary bindings.
Comprises a two-volume set of The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus..., London: circa 1810; IRELAND, JOHN. Hogarth Illustrated. Three volumes, period straight grain blue morocco gilt, slipcased. One board detached at the front joint, rubbing, wear; [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte... Philadelphia: 1827. Three volumes in old three-quarters brown morocco. Uncut copy, a bit stained; FOURNIER, AUGUST. Napoleon I. A Biography. Longmans: 1914. Two volumes, three-quarters red morocco A fresh set; RUFUS, QUINTUS CURTIUS. The Life of Alexander the Great. London: 1687. Period brown calf; McGUFFEY, WILLIAM HOLMES. The Eclectic Fourth Reader... Cincinnati: Truman & Smith, 1838. Period sheep. Some foxing; and The Political Beacon or the Life of Oliver Cromwell... London: 1770. Period paste paper, calf spine. Front board detached. Contains a dedication "To the Sons of Liberty ... and the Free-Spirited Bostonians in Particular"; DOYLE, JAMES. A Chronicle of England, 1864, three-quarters morocco gilt; RHODES, JAMES FORD. The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1922, first edition, full brown morocco gilt; and a later edition of Moby Dick with illustrations by Warren Chappell nicely bound in three-quarters green morocco gilt.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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