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TRUE 1ST EDITION 1ST STATE OF MARK TWAIN'S LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI; Boston,
Osgood, 1883. With over 300 illustrations; 3/4 leather with marbled
endpapers. $1,000.00.

1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S BOOK OF THE HUDSON; New
York, Putnam, 1849. Contains, among other stories, "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Green embossed cloth.
$250.00.

Tryals for High-Treason, and Other Crimes with Proceedings on Bills
of Attainder, and Impeachments for Three Hundred Years Past to Which are
Pre-fixed A Preface Giving an Account of the Nature and Usefulness of the Work
and an Alphabetical Table of the Respective Persons Try'd, and the Points of Law
Debated and Adjudg'd" "By the Same Hand that Prepared the Folio
Edition for the Press." London; Browne, Strahan, Mears, Gosling &
Clay, 1720. 6 volumes, full leather. $2,400.00.

Lures - The Guide to Sport Fishing; Keith S, Schuyler; The
Stackpole Co, PA., 1955. Three-quarter leather; raised bands. $50.00



The Fly-Fishers Entomology - Trout and Grayling
Fishing; Alfred Ronalds; London, Longmans, Green; 1877; either
edition; with 20 color plates (all present). $375.00


A Handbook of the Order Lepidoptera; Lloyd's natural History; W.F.
Kirby, F.L.S.; London, Edward Lloyd, Ltd. 1896; 5 volumes with 158 color plates
(all present); spines sunned. $595.00

Heinrich Schliemann; TIRYNS; TROY AND ITS REMAINS; TROJA; ILIOS;
MYCENAE. Arno Press, NY, reprinted in 1976. All 5 volumes in
matching orange-brown cloth covers with black & gilt print on spines.
All 5 volumes $200.00. We hate to sell this one - it will be hard to
replace!

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster In The Great Sermon Handicap
in 91 languages in 6 volumes. Heineman, Inc., NY, 1993; illustrated
by William Hewison. All 6 volumes with dust jackets and al in near perfect
condition. All 6 volumes for $100.00. This is an unusual set too -
for the Jeeves fan who thinks he already has seen it all! SOLD


God Is My Co-Pilot by Col. Robert L. Scott. Inscribed by Scott:
"To: Alice and Di Gates - We were happy to have Colonel Whitney with
us on our Bomb Tokio Mission. Sincerely Robert L. Scott, Jr."
Scribner's, NY, 1943. $275.00 SOLD
FIRST
EDITION OF JOHN BROWN'S BODY - NO. 66 OF 201; SIGNED BY STEPHEN
VINCENT BENET; Doubleday Doran, 1928, with slip case. $1,000.00



Rollin's
Ancient History: The Ancient History of the Egyptians,
Carthaganinians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and
Grecians; Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1869. 4 volumes; three-quarter
leather with marbled boards and endpapers. $200.00 SOLD

Souvenirs
Entomologiques; J.-H. Fabre; "Edition Illustre" 10 volumes
complete; three-quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers; Paris,
Delagrave, 1925. Does not include the Supplemental volume on the Life of
Fabre. $1,000.00.

The History of
Don Quixote de la Mancha; Cervantes; translated by Thomas Shelton.
Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey
Darton. Limited edition printed by the Navarre Society, 1923. Two
volumes; illustrated with two portraits and 20 plates; all plates present with
tissue guards, top edges gilt. $200.00.

The Letters of Gertrude Bell;
Selected and Edited by Lady Bell, D.B.E.. London, Ernest Benn, 1927.
Two volumes, cloth, with foldout map in rear of Vol. II. $200.00.

The Writings of George Washington; edited by Jared Sparkes, Little,
Brown & Co., 1858. 12 volumes, 3/4 leather with marbled boards,
endpapers and edges. A lovely and unusual set. $500.00.


The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge;
New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. Green cloth. Inscribed
by Calvin Coolidge: "To the Grandson of Mrs. Al. C. Blodget
With Best Wishes Calvin Coolidge." $1,000.00

In Darkest Africa or the Quest,
Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M.
Stanley. New York, Scribner's and Toronto, Presbyterian News Co.,
1890. Printed and bound by James Murray and Co., Toronto.
Three-quarter calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Two volumes
with all three color maps present in pockets in the rear of each
volume. $375.00

Platonis Dialogi [Plato]; Reimer,
Oxford or Berlin, 1816-1823; Edited by Bekker; 10 volumes in Latin and Greek;
consisting of 8 volumes of Plato's Work and 2 volumes of commentaries.
Half leather, spine gilt, with red and black lettering pieces, marbled boards,
newly rebacked preserving original backstrips. $750.00.



Aelian; Variae Historiae Libri XIII; Johannes
Tornaesium, Frankfort, 1604; Greek and Latin. Newly recovered in
half-calf with paper boards, raised bands, 2 lettering pieces, gilt spine.
$500.00.


SYRIAC BIBLE - New Testament in Syrian
(1663) plus Syriac Lexicon (1667). Hamburg, 1663, 1667. Vellum with
all edges gilt. $1,000.00.


EUSEBIUS; Ecclesiastical History and The
Life of Constantine in 6 Books; Henry Valesius. Greek and Latin.
Folio, Mainz, 1672. 18th Century tree-calf; gilt emblem of the City of Delft on
both front and rear boards; 6 raised bands. $500.00.


LUCRETIUS - The nature of Things; edited by
John Mason Good. London, Longman, et al., 1804. Two volumes, large
Quarto, half-leather, marbled boards and endpapers. $450.00.

JOSEPHUS- Opera Omnia. Edited by
Havercamp. Schwickert, 1782, 1783, 1784. Three volumes, half calf,
blue lettering pieces. In Greek and Latin. $400.00.

The Works of Tobias Smollett,
8 volumes, London, Law, Johnson, and Dilly, et al., 1797. Zaehnsdorf
binding, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Two boards re-attached.
Beautiful binding. $750.00

Baron Jomini's Life of Napoleon; D. Van
Nostrand, N. Y., 1864. Hard Bound. First American Edition. 10" x
6.75". Five volumes: Translation & notes by H. W. Halleck. Scarce
with Atlas; from the Library of The Commandery of the State of Illinois; Inscribed
by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General. $1,250.00
THE HAGGADAH; ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR
SZYK; 1956; Massadah & Magen, Jerusalem. Printed in multiple colors on
double-folded leaves; text in English and Hebrew; purple velvet boards with gilt
design and blue velvet lining to book case. $350.00 SOLD






More than 200 Classics Published by the LIMITED EDITIONS AND
HERITAGE PRESS. From the Library of Esther Brautman, Queens, New York, who
worked for the Press for 25 years.




