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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $1,225.00

Publisher: Bath, George Bayntun: 1925

Seller ID: 462B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Inv. #462B. 2 volumes. 3/4 brown morocco over brown boards, bound by Bayntun-Reviere of Bath. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Newly edited and with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 photogravures. This is a beautifully illustrated edition of Boswell's classic biography of Johnson, with portraits of all the major persons in the work.; Photo-gravure; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Works of John Doran

By: Doran, John

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Boston, Francis A. Niccolls & Co.: N.D.

Seller ID: 452A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#452A. 18 vol. 3/4 turquoise leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Pages untrimmed at side and bottom. Connoisseur Edition. #22 of 150 copies.; 8vo
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Letters of Junius

By: Junius

Price: $700.00

Publisher: London, G. Woodfall: 1814

Seller ID: 030919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Inv. # 030919. 3 volumes bound in full tan leather by Zaehnsdorf; marbled endpapers, all edges yellow; brown labels on spine. "Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, under other signatures, (now first collected.) To which are added, his Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his Private Letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall. With a Preliminary Essay, Notes, Fac-similes, &c." According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this is "the first new edition [since the 1772 Stat nominis umbra authorized edition] of real importance [and] was issued by the Woodfall Family in 1...
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The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

By: Montagu, Lady Mary

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1837

Seller ID: P-030701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#P-030701. 3 volumes. 3/4 red leather, with marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Signed binding by W. Worsfold, London. Edited by her Great-Grandso n, Lord, Wharncliffe. Lady Mary Montagu was one of the most fascinating women in hstory. She married the richest man in England, then left him to live in Italy with a handsome young lover. She also lived in Turkey. She has been credited with first suggesting that smallpox could be prevented by injecting people with a small dose of the disease. Later, Jenner improved on this suggestion by using cowpox instead of smallpox. ; 8vo
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

By: Pepys, Samuel

Price: $750.00

Publisher: NY, Random House: N.D.

Seller ID: 4385D

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

#4385D. 2 vol. 3/4 red leather over red cloth boards. T.E.G.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall
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The History of Scotland

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $1,050.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green: 1830

Seller ID: 1226N

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

#1226N. 2 vol. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Part of "The Cabinet Cyclopaedia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., assisted by Eminent Literary and Scientific Men." This is The History of Scotland, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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Lives of the Queens of England

By: Strickland, Alice

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1893

Seller ID: P-040517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

#P-040517. 8 vol. 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Black and red leather labels with gilt lettering. Gilt decoration on spine.; Etching; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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History of English Literature

By: Taine, H.A.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890

Seller ID: T-444B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

#T-444B. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards & endpapers. T.E.G. Signed binding by Chas. E. Lauriat. Translated from the French by H. van Laun. A classic history of English literature by a Frenchman.; 8vo
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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second

By: Walpole, Horace

Price: $875.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1847

Seller ID: 3775B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # 3775B. 3 vol. bound in full tan leather, with marbled edges and endpapers, leather labels, and spine decorated in gilt. Horace Walpole was "the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford." This is the second revised edition of the Memoirs, edited, from the original manuscripts by Lord Holland. Six illustrations, two in each volume. ; 8vo
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A Memoir of Field-Marshall the Duke of Wellington

By: [Wilson]

Price: $775.00

Publisher: London, A. Fullarton & Co.:

Seller ID: 459A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. #459A. 2 volumes. 3/4 red leather over marbled boards; marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Illustrated with engravings of Wellington's contemporaries. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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