New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; covers worn, lacking part of spine, inner front joint crudely glued, first signature detached and chipped, etc, etc. SOLD-AS-IS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Myers 56)

The Novels of Jane Austen. 12 volumes.

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. 8vo, cloth, dust jackets (frayed); moderate wear.

Persuasion. Volume II (only). Tall 12mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, paper spine-label, uncut; front inner joint crudely repaired, some foxing and soiling, etc. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Gilson B3).

History of Woman Suffrage. (4) volumes. 1889-1902.

Paradise Lost. A Poem. 2 volumes. Full leather.

Oxonia Depicta sive collegiorum met Aularum in inclyta AcademiaOxoniensi. 58 (of 66) engraved plates, most double-page. Folio, loose in portfolio; some margin stains, lacking several plates. SOLD-AS-IS.

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated with folding maps. 8vo or 12mo, contemporary leather or sheep; shelf-worn, last lacking maps.

Dood-dans in Zeven Tempo's (Death in Seven Days). Woodcut Title & 7 Woodcuts Printed on Japanese Toshi. SIGNED & Numbered in Pencil on Bottom Edge of Last Woodcut. Image 6" x 10.75". Published in Paris.

Vues des Cordilleres, et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de L'Amerique. 19 engraved plates, some colored. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary acid-dyed calf; spines split and text partially disbound, some foxing. (Sabin 33750; Palau 117027).

Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 2 volumes. Ex library.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 1st US Edition. (1971). * Ariel Poems by Sylvia Plath. Later Printing. * Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. 6th Printing. (1973).

Archives de la Commission des Monuments Historiques. 500 heliogravure plates. 5 volumes. Folio, gilt-lettered morocco-backed boards; rubbed, generally clean and sound.

The Tournament; or, Days of Chivalry. With 24 Color Plates. Full leather.

Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. Star Spangled Banner (page 31).

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps. 12 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf; rebacked and endpapers renewed, some foxing, etc. (Norton 56).

Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. 24 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and blind; front cover detached, some offsetting of plates, generally sound otherwise.

A Room of One's Own. 8vo, cloth (soiled); moderate wear. FIRST EDITION. (Kirkpatrick A12b).

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; inner joints split, lacking free endpapers, some soiling, etc.

De Rebus gestis Alexandri magni Macedonum regis historia. Woodcut device on title. 436, [27] pages. 12mo, old calf ruled in blind; lacking spine, front cover and title partially detached and frayed, some marginalia, a few margins trimmed close, ink ex-lib

Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. (2) volumes. 3/4 leather.

White Mountain Guide. 1935, 1952, 1955 & 1960. Together 4 volumes. Folding maps. 8vo, cloth; moderate wear.

Eleonora. [in:] The Gift. Frontispiece, additional title, engraved plates. 8vo, original straight grain morocco gilt, all edges gilt; lacking part of spine, bottom margin stained, etc. FIRST APPEARANCE.

The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. Lithograph illustrations. 80 pages. Oblong 8vo, contemporary cloth; crude cloth tape on spine, some soiling, margin tears, etc.

Copy of Codex Cotton Ms. Nero D. IV. Full leather.