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The Black Arrow; A Tale of the Two Roses (1955)

Lot #5 (Sale Order 4 of 47)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1955) good condition, the yellow end pages color is leaking on some pages (see pic). Decorated endpapers and pastedowns (also done by Wyeth). Illustrated with a pictorial title page and with fourteen color plates by N.C. Wyeth.

The Lady Of The Aroostook (1879) by William Dean Howells

Lot #6 (Sale Order 5 of 47)

Published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston, 1879. Good condition if not better hardcover as shown.

Decorative 1843 New Testament

Lot #7 (Sale Order 6 of 47)

As shown, New York (1842) good condition very nice covers for shelf.

1940's Gilbert GAS BLOWING Booklet

Lot #8 (Sale Order 7 of 47)

As shown good condition with wear, cover looks like child is smoking out of a bong - but I digress.

Gil Elvgren: the Complete Pin-Ups - Large Hardcover

Lot #9 (Sale Order 8 of 47)

Published by TASCHEN, 2008. Hardcover very good condition. Called the Norman Rockwell of cheesecake, this little volume celebrates the work of Gil Elvgren. From the private collection of photographer, John Running.

Ray Land of the Tank Corps U. S. A. (Better Little Book #1447)

Lot #10 (Sale Order 9 of 47)

Good+ condition with some cover wear. Published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, 1942.

Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British Sport (1908)

Lot #11 (Sale Order 10 of 47)

Published by Fores, London, 1908. 8vo. original gilt pictorial crimson red cloth, all edges gilt, brown endpapers. With 32 tinted full page illustrations.

The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of American Achievement (1923)

Lot #12 (Sale Order 11 of 47)

Good condition, with some wear. Published by Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1924. "Tales of the American square-rigged sailing ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, working out of Salem, Massachusetts."

Smugglers and Smuggling by A. Hyatt Verrill (1924)

Lot #13 (Sale Order 12 of 47)

Published by Dunfield & Co., New York, 1924. Green cloth binding. Gilt title to front cover & spine. Raised embossed illustration of a small boat. 16 pages of illustrations.

RARE The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter (1923)

Lot #14 (Sale Order 13 of 47)

Published by Country Life, London, 1923. Good to very good condition hardcover. "Born in 1880, Bell left school at 14 to make his way to Africa on a cargo ship. After working briefly on the Ugandan railway he was off to join the Klondike gold rush. After fighting with the Canadian volunteers in the Boer War he remained in Africa hunting elephants in the African interior until the First World War. It was then that he perfected the use of the high-velocity rifle. During the War he fought for the British as a fighter pilot. After the War he returned to Africa and continued to make a successful living out of elephant. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is one of the great big game hunting books written by the greatest of all African hunters. "

Home Memories; or, Social Half-Hours with the Household (1878)

Lot #15 (Sale Order 14 of 47)

Good to very good condition, hardcover. Features inspirational stories and poems. Illustrated with steel-engravings and images.

The Household Guide or Domestic Cyclopedia: Also A Complete Cook Book (c.1900)

Lot #16 (Sale Order 15 of 47)

Published by Coles Publishing, Toronto, c.1900. Has some exterior wear - the interior is very good.

ESSAYS. SECOND SERIES (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson with Additional 1844 Edition

Lot #17 (Sale Order 16 of 47)

As shown, both in very good condition. Smaller sized hardcovers. Very scarce.

The Works of Samuel Johnson (1787) TEN VOLUMES

Lot #18 (Sale Order 17 of 47)

Published by J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, 1789 As shown, all with some spine wear. Volume I has a loose board, and this eleven volume set is missing one. Volumes showing some general expected overall wear.

Scientific American BOUND (1866)

Lot #19 (Sale Order 18 of 47)

As shown, June to December 1866, filled with wood engravings and information. A couple of pages have a tear, otherwise very nice.

A Deep Water Voyage by Paul Eve Stevenson (1897)

Lot #20 (Sale Order 19 of 47)

Good to very good condition, small hardcover. Published by J.B. Lippincott Co. 1st printing, Philadelphia, 1897.

Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson by WASHINGTON IRVING (1841)

Lot #21 (Sale Order 20 of 47)

Published by Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1841. Good condition hardcover, some spotting.

The Blue Poetry Book (1891) by Andrew Lang

Lot #22 (Sale Order 21 of 47)

Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York, 1891. Edited by Andrew Lang. With Numerous Illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Prints contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Blake, Wordsworth, Burns, Shakespeare, Moore, Milton, Coleridge, Dryden, Keats, Shelley, and others. Good condition, the spine is faded (see pic)

RARE A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1792) by John Means

Lot #23 (Sale Order 22 of 47)

Published by Boston, 1792. Rebound professionally as shown. "The author describes his journey as well as visits to Venice (Island of Murano glass factory, St. Mark's Square, origins of Venice, gondoleers), Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, Ancona, Loretto, Rome (St. Peter's, Pantheon, Coliseum, Via Sacra, Tarpean Rock, Trajan's Column, being presented to the Pope, Roman women compared to those in England), Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Florence, Modena, Parma, Milan. Also interspersed with reflections on foreign travel, effect of the climate on the constitution of nuns, state of the common people, observations on pulmonary consumption, etc."

SIGNED The Log of a Limejuicer: The Experiences Under Sail of James P. Barker, Master Mariner (1933)

Lot #24 (Sale Order 23 of 47)

Published by Huntington Press, 1933, good- condition because of wear on the covers, the interior pages are very good. he experiences under sail of James P. Barker, Master Mariner as told to Roland Barker.

1960 Squaw Valley California Stamps & First Day Cover

Lot #25 (Sale Order 24 of 47)

As shown, all in good condiiton.

Martin the Skipper by James F Cobb (c.1890)

Lot #26 (Sale Order 25 of 47)

J.B. Young New York (c.1890) good condition, smaller sized hardcover. "A Tale For Boys And Seafaring Folk"

The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) Wheel Craftsmen in the Late 19th Century

Lot #27 (Sale Order 26 of 47)

Published by Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1923. Good condition. Hardcover. Some light spotting. "George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology"

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside. With the Life of the Author (1804) Two Volume Set

Lot #28 (Sale Order 27 of 47)

Good condition, Collected poetry of English poet and physician. Includes Odes, Hymns, Inscriptions, and The Pleasures of the Imagination. Complete in two volumes. Small hardcovers.

RAREST The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs (1675)

Lot #29 (Sale Order 28 of 47)

Published by Printed by E. Flesher, J Streater, and H. Twyford [etc.], London, 1675. Good to very good condition as shown. Early calf, gilt lettered, all edges marbled, the spine rubbed. "Final edition of the first treatise by a named author on the coroner and on the sheriff" Signed inside by someone in 1675, also stamped inside by Edward Wooler a antiquarian dealer who comes up on Wikipedia if you want to take a look. "The Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs. With Directions how and in what manner to execute the said Offices . . . Together with an easie and plain Method for the Keeping of Court Leets, Court Barons, and Hundred Courts."

RAREST Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions (1832)

Lot #30 (Sale Order 29 of 47)

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796-1856). Published by Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. Good condition, rebacked boards as shown. Amazing book - can be found on line $1000+ INSCRIBED inside "Seamen's Library / OAHU" - This book was bought in auction in 1842 by Josiah Spalding who was PRESIDENT of the Sandwich Islands for 18 years! HISTORIC

The Confessions of a Beachcomber (1924) Australia!

Lot #31 (Sale Order 30 of 47)

Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1924. Natural history --Queensland. Botany - Geographical - Australasia. Good condition hardcover.

Roaming in Hawaii (1937) by Harry A. Franck

Lot #32 (Sale Order 31 of 47)

Published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1937. This book was custom covered by some cloth that - could come off but it would destroy it, so I decided to keep it on and let you decide. Else good condition with some spotting.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas (1921)

Lot #33 (Sale Order 32 of 47)

Published by New York : The Century Co., 1921. Illustrated with more than 75 black-and-white photographs, and a fold-out map. Good condition hardcover with some spotting.

The Works of Mrs. Amelia Opie, Complete in Three Volumes (1848)

Lot #34 (Sale Order 33 of 47)

Very good condition as shown. Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, [1841]. First Edition. Three tall octavo volumes. "Amelia Opie (1769-1853), radical reformer, dissenter, abolitionist, and prolific novelist, author of more than thirty full-length works of Romantic fiction."

RARE Dealings with the Dead Narratives From "La Légende de la Mort en Basse Bretagne" (1898)

Lot #35 (Sale Order 34 of 47)

Good with spotting. "Very scarce translation from Celtic Lore about the "Otherworld" La Légende de la mort en Basse-Bretagne, 1893. compiled by Braz. the "Bard of Brittany" (1859 - 1926), was a Breton poet, folklore collector and translator."

SIGNED Manual of Spiritual Fortification: Being a Choice of Meditative and Mystic Poems (1910)

Lot #36 (Sale Order 35 of 47)

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1910, good condition, signed inside by Louise Collier Willcox who was a was an American author, editor, anthologist, translator, and suffragist.

Many Waters by Sally Bruce Kinsolving (1942)

Lot #37 (Sale Order 36 of 47)

Good condition hardcover with some spotting on the front cover, inside someone wrote some poetry.

John and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough 1660-1744 (1915)

Lot #38 (Sale Order 37 of 47)

Scarce title none on line I could find, John Murray (1915) very good condition hardcover as shown.

The Last Voyage by Alfred Noyes (1930)

Lot #39 (Sale Order 38 of 47)

Good condition, hardcover, the end pages show a slight sign of water damage but I liked the cover enough to list it anyway.

Antiquarian Book Lot - Browning - Dickens - Keats

Lot #40 (Sale Order 39 of 47)

As shown, all in hardcover, good condition. Nice for shelf.

Old Peking: The City and Its People

Lot #41 (Sale Order 40 of 47)

Published by Hai Feng Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 1993. Very good condition hardcover. "Profusely illustrated. In part the foreword says: "We hope our readers can catch some glimpse of old Peking-the buildings, the streets, the life style of the people, and the sceneries-that they no longer exist today."

Elements of Civil Liberty, or the Way to Maintain Free Institutions (1853)

Lot #42 (Sale Order 41 of 47)

Fair/Good because of the loss on the spine (see pic). Published by Andus, Gauntlett & Co, Ithaca, 1853. Steel mezzotint frontispiece portrait by A. H. Ritchie. work on American government as "an ordinance of God," with a chapter on the "Liquor Traffick" and temperance.

Frank Matsura : Frontier Photographer (1981)

Lot #43 (Sale Order 42 of 47)

Very Good. First Edition. "Here, for the first time, is a selection of the finest of Frank Matsura's work, photographs whose existence was almost unknown until their recent discovery. Selected from hundreds of flawless glass plates that had been preserved largely by luck, and reproduced in duotone to retain the precision and astonishing clarity of the originals, these photographs linger in the imagination: Indians posing in full regalia, cowboys clowning in Matsura's studio, solid citizens at play, and much more. Matsura was a photographer who arrived from Japan in the Okanogan country of the Pacific northwest, straddling the Canadian-US border, in 1903. He died of tuberculosis in 1913. Why this apparently well-educated and sophisticated man cast his lot with the miners, merchants, farmers, ranchers, and Indians of the area remains a mystery."

Beauty In The Household (1882)

Lot #44 (Sale Order 43 of 47)

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1882. Good condition small hardcover.

Beauty In Dress (1881) by Miss Oakey - FASHION

Lot #45 (Sale Order 44 of 47)

Published by New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. good- condition small hardcover, cracked hinge, comes with design pattern on the back. " "The object of dress may be said to be threefold - to cover, to warm, to beautify. It is from the point of beauty that we shall chiefly consider it. Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it." (p. 19) Miss Oakey discusses best colors to be worn by women of different hair and eye color and complexion, appropriate fabrics, gray hair, the corset, flattering looks for short and tall women and for women with different facial shapes and features, jewelry, shoes and hats, the fancy ball, and children's dress."

Three Tales AT SEA by B. Nason Hamlin (1949) SIGNED

Lot #46 (Sale Order 45 of 47)

As shown, pamphlet from "Milton".

The Country Diary by Edith Holden with Slipcase

Lot #47 (Sale Order 46 of 47)

As shown, very good condition. This particular issue also came with a slipcase, did not see this nice edition online anywhere.

The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (1905) with Leather Binding

Lot #48 (Sale Order 47 of 47)

As shown, very good condition. Nice binding as shown outside. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905


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