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LOT OF 36 ANTIQUE LEATHER BOOKS

186: LOT OF 36 ANTIQUE LEATHER BOOKS

Includes four sets plus one, 36 volumes total:
Universal Classics Library, published by M. Walter Dunne, NY & London, 1901, EDITOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, signed Robert Arnot. Seventeen volumes in total, all 8vo and full calf:
Grotius, 'The Rights of War and Peace.' Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, 'The Federalist, Being a Collection of Essays,' two volumes. Niccolo Machiavelli, 'History of Florence: and of the Affairs of Italy.' Plato, 'The Republic' and 'The Statesman.' David Shea & Anthony Troyer, 'Oriental Literature.' E.J.W. Gibb, 'Ottoman Literature: The Poets and Poetry of Turkey.' Spinoza, 'Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza.' Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 'Government of Dependencies.' Goethe, 'Conversations With Eckermann.' Walter Savage Landor, 'Classical (Imaginary) Conversations.' Rosseau, 'Ideal Empires and Republics.' Montesquieu, 'Persian and Chinese Letters,' Arthur Schopenhauer, 'The Wisdom of Life, and Other Essays.' 'English Belles-Lettres.' French Belles-Lettres.' Earl of Chesterfield, 'Letters to His Son.'
Charles Rollin, 'The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians,' seven volumes of eight, missing vol. 4, published by Robinson, Pratt & Co., New York, 1843, 8vo, full calf. Thomas Moore, 'The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life,' 6 volumes, 12mo, half calf with marbled boards and green spines.
Six volumes of 'George Eliot's Works,' published by James B. Lyon and Co., Albany, 1888, 8vo, half calf with marble boards, 'Middlemarch,' Adam Bede, Helix Holt,' The Mill on the Floss,' Romola, Silas Marner,' Daniel Deronda,' and 'Essays, Theophrastus Such, Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob.'
Also a copy of 'The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate,' illustrated edition, published by R. Worthington, New York, 1882, green cloth boards with impressed illustration, 8vo.

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All show some measure of wear and age, toning. A couple with loose preliminaries and some damage to leather spines. Average - good condition overall.
$150 - $250

The Nineteenth Century Sale

Sunday, May 21st 2017


SOLD - $300

Sold Price does not include Buyer's Premium