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Cowboy Kate & other stories
1967
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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Cowboy Kate & other stories 1967 Illustrated monograph catalog 18 x 10.5 cm Bantam Gallery Edition Without number of pages Defects

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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Cowboy Kate & other stories 1967 Illustrated monograph catalog 18 x 10.5 cm Bantam Gallery Edition Without number of pages Defects

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Estim. 130 - 300 EUR

DUBOIS (Alphonse): Synopsis avium. New ornithology manual. Bruxelles, H. Lamertin, 1902-1904. 2 parts in 2 volumes. 18 by 28 cm. Continuous pagination of XV-(1)-1339 pages + 16 color plates + IX-(1) pp. (faux-titre, title, afterword and table). Contemporary half-percaline bradel, red basane titles on spines, covers preserved. Delivery plates (17 in all) are bound at the end of each volume. The two general covers and their spines have also been preserved. Very good condition (two corner leaves restored, without missing, at the end of volume 2). Important work for determining all known birds, by Belgian naturalist A. Dubois (1839-1920). It is illustrated with 16 beautiful color hors-texte plates, based on the author's drawings, depicting different kinds of birds. Fasc. XV and XVI-XVII contain "tables of genera" and "alphabetical tables of species and systematic tables of orders and families". C.A. Wood, An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology, p. 325.

Estim. 100 - 250 EUR

[curiosa] [HARAUCOURT (Edmond)] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY: la légende des sexes. Hysterical poems. Brussels, for the author, s.d. (1923). One volume. 18 by 28 cm. 144 pages, with 26 hors-texts. Contemporary half brown basane, 4 ribbed spine. Some rubbing to binding, two small tears in margins. Good condition. One of 350 numbered copies on vergé (the only suitable paper) (N°71). One of the versions of this classic curiosa, here illustrated with reproductions by several engravers (Von Bayros, Willette, Van Maele, etc.), in very different styles, but each in harmony with the poems they illustrate.

Estim. 250 - 450 EUR

CALMET (dom Augustin): Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible, enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce, qui représentent les Antiquitez Judaïques. Paris, Emery, Emery, Saugrain, Pierre Martin, 1722. Two volumes. 25.5 by 38 cm. Frontispiece-(18)-CVIII-505 pages, 7 maps including 4 on double page, 36 engravings including 16 on double page; (4)-564-(2)CXXXV-(1) pages and 65 engravings, including 22 on double page. Full contemporary binding, 6-rib spine, decorated boards, with some defects (particularly to the headpieces and corners). Interior in fair condition (one quire unbound, title pages damaged but not missing, various minor paper defects). A decent copy nonetheless. First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, 7 maps (4 of them double) and 101 engraved plates (38 of them double). Complete. A renowned book, here in average condition, but complete.

Estim. 100 - 200 EUR

Collection of Howard Pyle Books Description: A large group of books, nearly all written or illustrated by Howard Pyle, to include 'Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle (1995)', 'Otto of the Silver Hand (1967 Dover)', 'The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1965 Dover)', a slipcased set of 2 books containing 'The Wonder Clock, or twenty four marvelous tales', and 'Pepper & Salt, or seasoning for young folk' - 2006 National Review ISI Special Editions, 2 First Ed. copies of Pepper and Salt or Seasoning for Young Folk, and Dorothy Q Together With a Ballad of The Boston Tea Party, and Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle - First Edition 1892 Houghton Mifflin, 'Otto Of the Silver Hand' 1916 Scribner's, 'The Wonder Clock' 1915 Harper Brothers, and 'Wonder Clock Plays' 1925 1st. Ed. Harper Brothers - Signed / Inscribed by Sophie Goldsmith, Otto of The Silver Hand 1888, Granny's Wonderful Chair 1916, The Wonder Clock 1887, and Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates 1949. Type: Book Materials: Paper Markings & Inscriptions: One signed by Sophie Goldsmith Date: Late 19th - early 21st century Publisher: Various Dimensions: 8.75" x 5.75" (Grandmother's Story), 9.25" x 6.25" (King Arthur / Silver Hand), 10.75" x 7.5" (slipcased set). Provenance: From a Lansdale, Pennsylvania collection Condition varies from poor to very good.

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