Two (2) Harriet Beecher Stowe related books. 1st item: Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1st Edition, by Charles Edward Stowe, 1890. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Boston. Octavo, 530 pages including index and illustrations, steel engraved frontispiece of Stowe and facsimile handwritten letter by Harriet Beecher Stowe, hardbound in tooled blue covers […]
Lot 812: A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, 1st Ed.
The House at Pooh Corner, 1st Edition, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, 1928. Published by Methuen and Company, Ltd. London. Octavo, 178 pages with illustrations, hardbound in tooled pink cloth covers with gilt lettering and pictorial design to front cover and spine, original dust jacket, gilt top edged paper. Includes […]
Lot 813: Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1st Ed., 1883
Life on the Mississippi, 1st Edition, by Mark Twain, 1883. Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. Octavo, 624 pages including illustrations and appendices, steel plate engraved frontispiece, hardbound in tooled brown cloth covers with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. Includes "Clemens in flames" illustration on page 441, […]
Lot 809: Kate Greenaway, Signed De Luxe Edition, 1905
Kate Greenaway, Signed De Luxe Edition, by M. H. Spielman and G. S. Layard, 1905. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London. Includes an original pencil sketch by Grenaway depicting a young girl with a basket, signed below by John Greenaway, additionally signed by John Greenaway and numbered 400/500. Octavo, 301 pages including index, 52 […]
Lot 810: Picture of Dorian Gray 1st Pub., plus Happy Prince
Two (2) Oscar Wilde publications. 1st item: First printing of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July, 1890. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Softcover, 174 pages, Dorian Grey on pages 3-100, with advertisements to front and back and "With the Wits" feature. 9 3/8" H x 6 1/4" […]
Lot 811: J. Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, 1st ed., 1873
Around the World in Eighty Days, 1st Edition, by Jules Verne, 1873. Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. Octavo, 315 pages with illustrations, steel engraved frontispiece, hardcover in tooled brown cloth board with with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. 7 7/8" H x 6 1/8" W x […]
Lot 807: A. B. Strong, American Flora Vol. I & II, 1847-48
The American Flora, Vol. I-II, by Asa B. Strong, 1847 and 1848. Volume I: Published by J. C. Burdick, New York. Octavo, 142 pages including index and advertisement, lithographic additional title, frontispiece, and 50 plates, printed in colors and finished by hand, hardbound in tooled red cloth covers with with gilt lettering and pictorial design […]
Lot 808: Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, Vol. I-II, 1813
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden During the Years 1805-1806, 1807, 1808, Vol. I-II, 2nd Edition, by Robert Ker Porter, 1813. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London. Quarto, 296 pages including index, 41 copper plate engraved plates (3 folding, 28 hand-coloured, 12 sepia-tinted aquatints) and 1 etching of Gustav Vasa, both volumes hardbound together in […]
Lot 805: Wilson, American Ornithology, Vol. II & V, 1812
American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. III & V, by Alexander Wilson, 1812. Published by Bradford and Inskeep, Philadelphia. Quarto, III – 120 pages, 9 engravings, V – 122 pages, 7 engravings, including index and copper plate engravings with hand coloring, hardbound, half-binding with red leather covers […]
Lot 806: V. Shaw, Book of the Dog, Circa 1881
The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Shaw, with Appendix on Canine Medicine and Surgery by W. Gordon Stables, circa 1881, no indication of edition. Published by Cassel, Petter, Galpin and Company, London, Paris, and New York. Quarto, 664 pages including appendix, 28 chromolithographic plates with additional illustrations, hardbound in tooled blue cloth covers […]