April 12, 2012
Live Auction104 East 25th Street
New York, NY, 10010 USA
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Viewing NotesExhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2275 - Fine Books: Including Incunabula & Early Printing; 19th & 20th Century Literature; Press & Illustrated Books; Sets & Bindings; Travel - begins at 10:30am in New York on Thurs, April 12. All material in Sale 2275 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, April 7: 10am to 4pm - Mon, April 9: 10am to 6pm - Tues, April 10: 10am to 6pm - Wed, April 11: 10am to 6pm - No exhibition on day of sale.
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Lot 1: ALMANAC. Ferreira, Vicente. Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal. 1836. In contemporary embroidered binding.
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Description: (ALMANAC.) Ferreira, Vicente. Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal, principalmente para a Cidade de Lisboa para o Anno de 1837. 128, xl pages. 24mo, 197x51 mm, contemporary cream satin over pasteboard embroidered with metallic thread and sequins to show stylized royal arms of Portugal within border of leafy sprays incorporating small quartz ornaments on covers, slight wear affecting decoration in a few places; line of text excised from D8; contemporary tree sheep pull-off case. Cf. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift III, 408. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1836
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Lot 2: ALMANACH DU BIBLIOPHILE. 6 vols. [all published]. 1898-1903
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Description: ALMANACH DU BIBLIOPHILE. Illustrations and decorations by or after Bellery-Desfontaines, Florian, Steinlen, Grasset, Colin, and Dunki. Half-titles. 6 volumes. Square 8vo, contemporary 1/2 red morocco gilt, flat spines divided by false bands into 6 compartments, lettered in one with simple design of vertical and curving fillets in the rest, original wrappers bound in (except for Volume 1 rear wrapper), light wear to spine ends, Volume 4 spine scuffed, Volume 6 front rubbed with small portion worn through; contents clean. Paris: Édouard Pelletan, 1898-1903
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Lot 3: ARABIAN NIGHTS. Lane, Edward William, translator. The Thousand and One Nights. 3 vols. 1839-41
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Description: (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) Lane, Edward William, translator. The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called . . . the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic. Engraved additional titles and numerous text illustrations after William Harvey. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial black morocco, joints rubbed, small dent at top of Volume 3 spine; contents clean. George Heath Viner armorial bookplates. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-41
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Lot 4: ÁRNASON, JÓN, Bishop. Dactylismus ecclesiasticus; edur Fingra-rím, vidvikjandi kyrkju-arsins Tímum. 1838
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Description: ÁRNASON, JÓN, Bishop. Dactylismus ecclesiasticus; edur Fingra-rím, vidvikjandi kyrkju-arsins Tímum. Icelandic text. 17 full-page woodcuts of hand mnemonics. 256 pages. 12mo, contemporary wooden boards with leather back and corners, somewhat worn; occasional light soiling, few minor stains. Copenhagen: P. Jónssyni for S. L. Møller, 1838
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Lot 5: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La Prima[-Quarta] Parte delle Novelle. 4 vols. 1740
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Description: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La Prima[-Quarta] Parte delle Novelle. 4 volumes. 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century light brown morocco in the style of Douglas Cockerell, spines slightly faded and scuffed; scattered foxing. Bookplates of Charles Henry St. John Hornby, founder of the Ashendene Press, with occasional pencil marginalia in his hand. London: S. Harding, 1740
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