Lot Details & Additional Photographs
(15) volumes, various sizes, all quarter, half, three-quarter or full leather, to include:
one Victorian album with moire endpapers gilt-stamped "Anna" and "1829," pages mostly unfilled, one page with original artwork;
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland... (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1834. Bound by John Bird); (3) volumes of Archibald Alison's
History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847-1848. Seventh edition. Vols. 1, 9, 17.);
The Warrior Brothers...,
Paul the Rover...,
Ripperda the Renegade..., and
The White Queen and the Mohawk Chief all bound in one volume (Glasgow: Cameron and Company and Cameron and Ferguson, n.d. [ca. mid 1800s]); Victor Hugo's
Notre-Dame de Paris (Paris, n.d. Nouvelle Édition Illustrée. Text in French.); (5) volumes of
Bayard Taylor's Works (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883-1885. Household edition; some revised edition); Virginia W. Johnson's
Genoa the Superb: The City of Columbus (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892.); Guy Chantepleure's
Ma Conscience en Robe Rose (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [ca. early 1900s]. Text in French.);
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Household edition.).
Largest 11 1/4 x 8 in.
General age and shelf wear with scuffing to boards, rubbed extremities, and occasional peeling of the leather and joint cracking starting; interiors with light to moderate toning, light scattered foxing, and with occasional hinge cracking, edge tear, offsetting, ownership stamp or writing, and small loss or fold; one volume with blank page removed and Longfellow's works with small repair to spine and reinforced rear hinge. All about very good condition.