Signed, Numbered, First & Rare Edition Books 2018-01-10 Auction - 105 Price Results - Jasper52 in NY
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The Democratic Book variousCastelli e Ponti di Maestro Niccola ZabagliaLes Travaux et Les Jours Hesiod
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“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”― T.S. Eliot. It is a restorative pause, this inactive action of stepping outside the hornet's nest, of letting ourselves share the speculations, observations, humor and sadness of others. If these messages have been clothed in fine bindings, printed on quality papers, with carefully chosen type, so much the better.
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Typee Herman Melville: This is the 1846 revision of the first hardcover american publication of Herman Melville’s first book Typee (307 pages). This revised state, published months after the first state hardcover, in
0004: Typee Herman MelvilleEst. $400-$500Lot Passed
Oeuvres de Buffon Buffon: This is the elegant, complete, six-volume H. Fournier et Cie printing, for Chez Furne et Cie. of the french language publication, dated 1837 through 1839, of Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Avec des
0008: Oeuvres de Buffon BuffonEst. $500-$600Lot Passed
Les Travaux et Les Jours Hesiod: This is number 80 of a limited, 200-copy Tériade (Paris) 1962 french language publication of Hesiode’s Les Travaux et Les Jours (Works and Days). This poem, by one of the earliest (circa 750-650
0014: Les Travaux et Les Jours HesiodEst. $2,000-$2,200Lot Passed
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Tales of the Genii James Kenneth Ridley: This is the Henry G. Bohn 1857 publication of The Tales of the Genii: or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam The Son of Asmar (420 pages), by Sir Charles Morell (pseudonym of James Ridley), recovered by
0016: Tales of the Genii James Kenneth RidleyEst. $100-$150
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Amadis of Gaul Vasco Lobeyra: This is the complete 4-volume first edition, published by Longman & Rees in 1803, of Robert SoutheyÂ’s translation of the fifteenth century spanish classic, Amadis of Gaul (288, 371, 336 & 336
0018: Amadis of Gaul Vasco LobeyraEst. $300-$400Lot Passed
The Democratic Book various: This is a limited printing of The Democratic Book 1936 (384 pages), signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt under a color rendering of the White House, with the copy number 192 at the bottom of
0019: The Democratic Book variousEst. $1,400-$1,600Lot Passed
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The Works of Francois Rabelais: This is set number 155 of the Covici-Friede 1929 limited publication of 1300 sets, All the Extant Works of François Rabelais, illustrated by Jean de Bosschère, with all text in english translated
0023: The Works of Francois RabelaisEst. $75-$100
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