Lots 121 - 130
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Lot #121: HISTORICAL SETS IN FRENCH
69 volumes, octavo. Bound in 1/2 calf, most black, 15 volumes in brown leather. Includes Guizot "Cours D'Histoire Moderne." 1829-1832, 5vols.; Thiers. "Revolution Francais." 1823-1827, 10 vols.; "Revolution D'Angleterre." 25 volumes.; Sismondi and "Historie de Francais." 29 volumes and many smaller sets.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 Sold at $500 |
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Lot #122: GROUP OF NICELY BOUND BOOKS
(1) "Comedies of Shakespeare." New York, 1899. 4 volumes, quarto. Illustrated by Edwin Abbey. 1 of 750 copies. (2) Billy, Andre. "Paris Viecup & Neuf." Paris, 1909. 2 volumes, bound in full morocco. Together with eight others.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 |
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Lot #123: GROUP OF FINE BINDINGS WITH GOOD CONTENT
(1) Wordsworth, Christopher. "Greece." London, 1853. Bound in full gilt calf. (2) Cundall, H.M. "Birket Foster." London,1906. 1 of 500 on large paper. Bound in 3/4 red morocco. (3) Havard, Henry. "Historie de L'Orfevrerie Francaise." Paris, 1896. Folio. Bound in 3/4 red morocco. (4) Stanley, Arthur. "Historical Memorial of the Westminster Abbey." Bound in full tree calf. (5) "Dictionnarie des Femmes." Paris, 1788. 2 volumes, octavo. Bound in full calf. (6) Milton, John. Early edition of his works. 1711 and 1713, 2 volumes, sextodecimo. Together with 9 other volumes.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $600 |
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Lot #124: FIVE LEATHER BINDINGS
(1) Whymper, Edward. "Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69." London, 1871. Second edition. Folding plate and five folding maps. Bound in 3/4 gilt vellum. (2) 2 books in full gilt vellum. (3) Volume in full green gilt morocco, octavo. (4) Volume in full green gilt morocco, duodecimo.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Sold at $425 |
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Lot #125: (CALIFORNIA & TEXAS) ALAMAN, LUCAS. "MEMORIA DE LA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO Y DEL DESPACHO DE RELACIONES INTERIORES Y EXTERIORES."
Mexico City, 1831, small quarto. Bound in contemporary red gilt morocco. Appears to be annual report on the Mexican government and resources. Includes a section on California and mentions Texas.
Estimate: $ 800.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $1100 |
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Lot #126: GROUP OF EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PAMPHLETS
(1) Bound volume - includes orations at death of Alexander Hamilton and an address by John Q. Adams. (2) Bound volume - John Q. Adams oration at death of Lafayette; along with a pamphlet on the 100th anniversary of Lafayette's death. (3) Loose pamphlets: (A) Samuel Clement "Truth is no Slander" Natchez, 1827, regarding the battle of New Orleans. (B) Joel Barlow "Letters," 1806. (C) David Everett. "An Essay ... to the Affair of the Chesapeak," 1807. (D) John Q. Adams - 6 pamphlets, includes "Jubilee of the Constitutuion," 1839 with frontispiece. (E) Francis Blake. "An Examination of the Constitutionality of the Embargo Laws," 1808. (F) "Politics and Views of a Certain Party Displayed," 1792. Together with approximately 20 others.
Estimate: $ 750.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $4250 |
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Lot #127: CLINTON, GEORGE (1739-1812). PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
New York, 1789. Size: 13 1/2 x 19" (sight). Land grant in Montgomery County to Peter Van Burgh Livingston. Includes the state seal. Minor damage at one fold crease. Framed and matted.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Sold at $100 |
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Lot #128: (SIGNED) LILIUOKALANI. "HAWAII'S STORY."
Boston, Lee & Shephard, 1899. Second printing, octavo. Illustrated with photographs. Bound in light blue gilt decorated cloth. Inscribed on the front paste down, "Compliments of Liliuokalani."
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 Sold at $450 |
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Lot #129: GROUP OF BOOKS ON HAWAII
This lot also includes Colton, Walter "Three Years in California" and Dickens, Charles "Pickwick Papers." 15 volumes.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $300 |
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Lot #130: JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES. "1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT BILL SIGNING PEN."
Washington, D.C., 8/6/1965. The Esterbrook pen with a clear and black acrylic barrel and nib. Barrel reads "The President - The White House." Framed with a photograph of Johnson and a typed explanation of the Act. The Voting Rights Act was a landmark constitutional and civil rights piece of legislation.
Estimate: $ 750.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $750 |
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