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EARLY & RARE BOOKS AND RELATED ITEMS AUCTION
6:00 AM PT - Nov 10th, 2007

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604 Items

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2352 Lot 2352

THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA; THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES BASED CHIEFLY ON THE COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSEUM OF THE SMIT...

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2353 Lot 2353

STUDER'S POPULAR ORNITHOLOGY. THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Theodore Jasper, edited & published by Jacob H. Stude...

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2354 Lot 2354

(Box Lot) 19 various vols., mostly 19th century literature and periodicals, including a bound vol. of the EDINBURG...

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2355 Lot 2355

(Box Lot) 14 various 19th century volumes related to American & British history. SHOULD BE SEEN

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2356 Lot 2356

(Box lot) 15 various mostly 19th century incomplete sets and other vols., mostly leather. SHOULD BE SEEN.

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2357 Lot 2357

(2 on literature and the arts) 2 illustrated periodicals, incl. THE LADIES' COMPANION, A MONTHLY MAGAZINE…VOLUME ...

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2358 Lot 2358

(2 Early American lit reviews) AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW (bound volume of 2 issues, September, 1835, vol. XXXV and...

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2358A Lot 2358A

Symmons, Charles. THE PROSE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON; WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, INTERSPERSED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND...

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2359 Lot 2359

Fielding, Henry. SELECT WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING IN TWO VOLUMES. ill. Frontis Portrait. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, &...

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2359A Lot 2359A

Swift, Jonathan. THE WORKS OF THE REVEREND JONATHAN SWIFT, DD Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Arranged by Thomas S...

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2360 Lot 2360

Addison, Joseph. THE FREE-HOLDER. OR, POLITICAL ESSAYS. London: Printed for J and T Tonson, 1744. 24mo, Full Leath...

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2361 Lot 2361

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). ADDISONIANA. Fleet Street: Printed for Richard Phillips, 16mo. 3/4 Leather. Very Good...

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2362 Lot 2362

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS, ALLEGORIES, ESSAYS, AND POETICAL FRAG...

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2363 Lot 2363

Addison, Joseph. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, ESQ; IN FOUR VOLUMES. ill. Illustrated. London:...

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2364 Lot 2364

(Addison and Steele) SPECTATOR. With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, and Explanatory Notes in Eight Volumes...

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2365 Lot 2365

(writings of ) THE WORKS OF …MR. JOHN BUNYAN, London, printed by Richard Edwards, 1805-1806, 8vo, complete in thre...

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2366 Lot 2366

Irving, Washington, THE WORKS OF…Phila, Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1838-37, 12 volumes, 12mo, lacking only volume ...

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2366A Lot 2366A

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathro...

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2367 Lot 2367

(Illustrated by Robida) Rabelais, Francoise (ca 1490-1553). EUVRES DE RABELAIS EDITION CONFORME AUX DERNIERS TEXTE...

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2367A Lot 2367A

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. ELOISA: OR A SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS COLLECTED BY MR. JJ ROUSSEAU, CTIZEN OF GENEVA, i...

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2368 Lot 2368

Sterne, Laurence. THE BEAUTIES OF STERNE; INCLUDING ALL HIS TALES AND MOST DISTINGUISHED OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE. Lon...

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2369 Lot 2369

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. London: Printed for M. Cooper...

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2369A Lot 2369A

(Jonathan Swift) Gulliver, Lemuel. TRAVELS INTO SEVERALREMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. London, for Charles Bathurst...

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2370 Lot 2370

(Lancaster Patriot John Hubley ownership) Jonson (Johnson), Ben (1573?-1637). THE WORKS OF BEN JOHNSON IN SIX VOL...

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2371 Lot 2371

Parnell, Thomas. POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS . London: Printed for John Bell, 1774. 24mo. Full Leather. Very Good...

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2372 Lot 2372

(Italian Poet) Firenzuola, Agnolo (1493-1543). LE RIME DI M. AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA FIORENTINO. Fiorenza: Bernardo Giun...

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2373 Lot 2373

Cooper, James Fenimore. THE PIONEERS, OR THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA; A DESCRIPTIVE TALE. New York: Collins and...

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2374 Lot 2374

Cooper, James Fenimore. THE SEA TALES. NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1856. 8vo. 3/4 Leather. Very Good-. 5 volumes comp...

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2374A Lot 2374A

Thoreau, Henry D. WORKS OF HENRY D. THOREAU, 11 vols, illustrated frontis. Boston and NY, Houghton Mifflin. Rive...

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2375 Lot 2375

Burns, Robert. THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, AND A CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS. ill. Front...

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2376 Lot 2376

Bryant, Jacob. A NEW SYSTEM, OR, AN ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY:. ill. Illus. London: Printed for T. Payne, et a...

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2377 Lot 2377

Echard, Laurence. THE ROMAN HISTORY FROM THE BUILDING OF THE CITY, TO THE PERFECT SETTLEMENT OF THE EMPIRE, BY AUG...

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2378 Lot 2378

Wallace, Robert. A DISSERTATION ON THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES. Edinburgh: Printed for Arch...

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2379 Lot 2379

Kennett, Basil. ROME ANTIQUE NOTITIA: OR, THE ANTIQUITIES OF ROME.. ill. Several Illus. London: Printed for R. Kna...

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2379A Lot 2379A

Ellis, Lewis. THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY OF HISTORIANSL (VIZ) THE ORIENTAL, GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITA...

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2380 Lot 2380

Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Phila, Printed by Abraham Small, Phila, 1...

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(English History, illustrated) 3 item, incl. TAVERN ANECDOTES, AND REMINISCENCER OF THE ORIGIN OF SIGNS, CLUBS, C...

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2381 Lot 2381

(Extra Illustrated) Macaulay, Thomas Babington. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND. Lon...

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2382 Lot 2382

(True crime) Villette, John. THE ANNALS OF NEWGATE; OR, MALEFACTORS REGISTER...VOLUMES I-IV. ill. Several Illus. L...

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2383 Lot 2383

(5 on World Travel/Voyages) Fisk, Wilbur, TRAVELS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE, NY, Harper & Bros., 1838, 1st editio...

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2384 Lot 2384

Waller, Horace, THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA, NY, Harper & Bros., 1875, 1st American ...

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2385 Lot 2385

Anson, George. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS M,DCC,XL,I,II,III,IV. Kilmarnock, Scotland: J Wilson, 1785. ...

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2386 Lot 2386

(English Civil War) A SHORT VIEW OF THE LATE TROUBLES IN ENGLAND;.... Oxford: Published Anonymously, 1681. First E...

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2387 Lot 2387

Russell, William. THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE: WITH A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY FROM THE RISE OF THE MODERN...

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2388 Lot 2388

Stow, John (1525?-1605). A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER: CONTAINTING THE ORIGINAL, ANTIQUITY, IN...

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2389 Lot 2389

Birch, Walter de Grey. CATALOGUE OF SEALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Published in 6 ...

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2390 Lot 2390

Seymour, Robert (John Mottley). A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, AND PARTS ...

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2391 Lot 2391

Smollett, Tobias. A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, DEDUCED FROM THE DESCENT OF JULIUS CAESAR, TO THE TREATY OF AIX ...

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2392 Lot 2392

Bray, William. DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN, ESQ., FRS TO WHICH ARE ADDED A SELECTION FROM HIS FAMILIAR LETTERS AND THE PR...

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2393 Lot 2393

(French royalty) Campan, Jeanne-Louise Henriette (1752-1822). THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF MADAME CAMPAN COMPRISING ORI...

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