Writings of John Burroughs; 15 Volumes; includes original Burroughs Nature Club mailings from the publisher, Houghton Mifflin; top edges gilt.  $375.00

The Alhambra by Washington Irving with illustrations by Pennell; London, MacMillan, 1896; beautiful gilt-designed boards; all edges gilt; $110.

Horace Greeley; The American Conflict.  Hartford, Case, 1865, 1866.  Two volumes; volume 2 recently rebacked.  $195.00

Bayle St. John; The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon.  London, Chapman 7 Hall, 1857.  Four volumes; 1/2 red morocco with raised bands, gilt spines and boards, marbled endpapers and boards.  $425.00

Sir Walter Scott; The Vision of Don Roderick;  John Ballantyne and Longman, et al., 1811; 1st edition, 1st issue.  In scarce original cloth boards; deckled edges.  Missing advertisements at end.    $150.

Selected Speeches on Foreign Policy:  1738 -1914.  Speeches by Pitt, Sheridan, Canning, Peel, Russell, Palmerston, Brougham, Gladstone, Bright, Disraeli and others.  London, Humphrey Milford,  [no date].  $15  SOLD

Washington Irving; Life of Mahomet and Lives of the Successors of Mahomet; two volumes in one.  Mahomet; Bell & Daldy, London, 1864; Successors, Bohn, New York, 1859.  Frontispiece. Half leather, marbled boards, new gilt lettering piece on spine.    Irving used the Spanish source by Abu al-Fida as well as the works of Gagnier and Weil for his life portrayal.  $100

Washington Irving; A Tour of the Prairies.  London, John Murray1835, 1st edition.  Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, marbled boards; rebacked.   May be missing half title.   $275.00

Lord Henry Brougham; Historical Sketches of Statesmen of George III.  London, Charles Knight 1839-1843.  3 volumes; half red morocco, gilt spines with raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.    Contains many engravings including George Washington, Lord North, The Emperor Joseph, Madame de Stael, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin.  $275

Frederick Floyd;  History of the Fortieth (Mozart) Regiment, New York Volunteers; Boston, Gilson Co., 1909.  "A Superior unit history, based on wartime letters and diaries; highly useful for personal insights into the Army of the Potomac."  $135  SOLD

Thomas Frognall Dibdin;   The Library Companion.  London, Harding et al.; 1824; 1st edition.  Half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers; gilt spine; tope edge gilt.  $310.00  SOLD

Lord Macaulay; The Lays of Rome.  London; Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer.  Illustrations by George Scharf, Jun.  Binding by Bickers and Son, London.  Green leather with intricate gilt decoration; All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles , with five raised bands with gilt devices in compartments.  $75

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Annotated Sherlock Holmes:  The Four Novels and Fifty-Six Short Stories; Edited by William S. Baring-Gould.  Two larges volumes with dust jackets.  $75 

Taine, Hippolyte; History of English Literature; NY, Worthington, 1891 (originally published in French in 1863); raised bands, top edge gilt, half morocco with marbled boards; 4 volumes.  $150

John Robinson; An Abridgement of Hume & Smollet's History of England; New York, Robinson & Pratt. contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece and several wood engravings.  1839.  $60

Arthur James Balfour by Blanche  E.C. Dugdale; London, Hutchinson & Co., cloth with dust jackets; 1939; 2 volumes.  $65

The Poems, Letters and Land of Robert Burns:  Pictures and Portraits of the Life and land of Burns; Illustrated by Bartlett and others.  London, Virtue & Co.  Maroon cloth, marbled end papers; 91 plates including frontispieces.  Ex-library.  2 volumes.  $400. 

The Illustrated Exhibitor "Comprising Sketches by Pen and Pencil of the Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations 1851"; 30 issues bound in original blue cloth with gilt medallion on top board; 10 foldout engravings and hundreds of drawings.  All edges gilt.  $250

Samson and Delila; Saint-Saens; Paris, circa 1872.  Half Morocco, marbled boards and end papers; raised bands, gilt spine, some fixing throughout.  The book is a piano transcription of the Opera and is printed in German and French.  This copy contains an engraved dedication to Madame Viardot-Garcia from the composer and librettist.  In addition, this copy belonged to Madame Marthe Duvivier.  The initials "M.D." are impressed in gilt on the spine.  The book is sold along with a framed photograph  and manuscript letter of Madame Viardot.  $750

Bachelder's History of the Battle of Gettysburg;  John Bachelder;  Edited by David and Audrey Ladd; Morningside House, Dayton, Ohio; 1994-1995.  A reprint of the worked of John Bachelder, the leading historian of the battle of Gettysburg.  Accompanied by 7 maps, keyed to Volume I (January 5, 1863-July 27, 1880);  Volume II (September6, 1880 - April 12, 1886); Volume III (April 12, 1886 - December 22, 1894).   $175

Edgar A. Poe - Memorial edition; The Muse Anthology, "Commentary, Studies, Essays and Poetic Tributes".  Blue Cloth, 866 pp, incl. several facsimiles.  Deluxe edition, #606 of 3,000.  Inscribed by the Compiler, Devora Lovell, to Christopher Morley.  $250.00

A Commentary on Newton's Principia; J.M.F. Wright.  Contemporary calf, gilt spine with gilt-edged boards and gilt medallion; marbled edges, new lettering pieces.  Tegg, 1833.  2 Volumes.  $300                                                 

Garibaldi and the Thousand; Garibaldi and the Making of Italy; Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic;  George Macaulay Trevelyan.  All 3 volumes in red cloth.  London, Longmans, 1910-1911.  $100

Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic;  George Macaulay Trevelyan.;   ull blue calf leather; prize binding; gilt dentelles, marbled end pages.  London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1914.     $125 

G. Rossini Il Barbieri de Siviglia (the Barber of Seville); Transcribed for Piano and vocal 1/2 Morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine Marquiere Freres, Paris, 1859.  $150 

John Brady; Clavis Calendaria; Half morocco w/ marbled boards London; Longman, Hurst 1st ed. 1812. $200 

Tymms and Wyatt; The Art of Illuminating;  Cloth with elaborate boards with beveled edges, a.e.g., 104 pages of text with elaborate borders and 99 chromolithographed plates; Day and Sons, 1860.   $650

Mathews; The Golden Flower Chrysanthemum;  elaborate gilt boards; a.e.g.; tissue protected color plates.  Prang, 1890.    $300  SOLD

Sir Walter Scott; The Waverly Novels; Beautifully bound set in half leather with marbled boards;  Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1871; 25 volumes.  $1,250

Charles Dickens; Bleak House;  1st edition; One-half green calf with gilt spine, red lp., marbled boards and edges; 39 engravings, incl. frontis. by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"); London; Bradbury & Evans, 1853.  $600  SOLD

Charles Dickens; Dombey and Son;  1st edition.  Half contemporary calf with gilt spine and black letter piece, marbled boards, 2 engraved frontispieces and title page, 35 engraved plates by Phiz.  Bradbury & Evans, 1848.  $600

Charles Dickens; Nicholas Nickleby;  1st edition.  Half burgundy calf with burgundy boards, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering pieces, with rare half-title.  39 engraved plates by Phiz.  $600.  

George Head; Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America Being a Diary of a Winters Route from Halifax to the Canadas; 1/2 contemporary leather; marbled boards and edges, gilt spine. John Murray, London, 1829.  $200 

James Mills; The History of British India; 6 vols. Publisher's boards w/printed labels; deckled edges, uncut; large foldout maps vols. 1 and 3;  Baldwin et al.; 1826; 3rd edition.  $475 

Washington Irving; A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; 4 vols. Cont. diced calf w/gilt boards & spine; rebacked; two foldout maps. John Murray; 1828; 1st edition.  $500 

Washington Irving; The Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of  Christopher Columbus.  Leather, spine illegible; joints cracked; edges worn.  No half title.  Philadelphia; Carey, :ea & Blanchard, 1835.  2nd edition.  $140

Thomas Ashe; Travels in America in 1806; Recently recovered in 1/2 calf w/ raised bands and gilt spine; marbled boards, new eps. Richard Phillips; 1809; 2nd edition. $395

Washington Irving; The Alhambra; Recently rebacked Colburn  & Bentley 1832; 1st Edition.  $215 

George Bernard Shaw;  Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant; 1/2 green morocco; gilt spines; TEG Herbert Stone; NY; 1904. $80 

Henry Ellis;  The Elgin and Phigelian Marbles; 2 vols. in 1 Cont. red calf prize binding Nattali; 1846. $195

Swinburne;  Erectheus; Cont. dark green calf; gilt spine; marbled eps and edges Chatto & Windus; 1876; 1st edition. $155 

Wm. H. Russell; The British Expedition to the Crimea; Cont. calf; gilt bordered boards; gilt spine; 10 maps; Routledge; 1858.  $295   SOLD

Patrick Tyler; Historical View of the Progress of Discovery of the More Northern Coasts of America; Recently re-backed din 1/2 brown morocco, w/gilt spine and raised bands; marbled edges; fold-out map and 9 engravings. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1833.  $200

William Roberts; Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More; Contemp. half calf, gilt spine w/ brown and black lps; marbled boards, edges and eps.; bookplate of Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron of Ashton & Hyde. Seely & Burnside; 1834; probable 1st ed.  $200