Bindings & Periodicals. European belles-lettres and misc...

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Bindings & Periodicals. European belles-lettres and miscellaneous non-fiction, late 18th c and later, including Lettres de la Marquise du Deffand à Horace Walpole, four volume set, first edition thus, Paris: Chez Ponthieu, Libraire, 1824, contemporary English quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, red speckled edges, 8vo; [music] Laub (Thomas), Om Kirkesangen, first edition, København: C.A. Reitzels, 1887, half-title, contemporary speckled calf gilt over cloth, 8vo; [bibliography & bibliophily] Koenig (Robert), Deutsche Litteraturgeschichte, Bielefeld & Leipzig: Delhagen & Klasing, 1883, colour and monochrome folding or full-page plates of medieval manuscripts, incunabula and other books, in-text illustrations, contemporary brown quarter morocco over cloth, 4to; Periodicals. Cruikshank (George, illustrator), The Comic Almanack for 1835, London: Charles Tilt, black-ruled, illustrated, split but holding, original publisher's cloth, twist, 12mo; Dickens (Charles), The Household Narrative of Current Events, London, 1852, black-ruled double-column, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Pearson's Magazine, volumes I-II, January-December, 1896, & volume VIII, July-December, 1899, original publisher's cloth, the last volume including the first appearance in print of Cutcliffe Hyne (C.J.), The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; The Strand Magazine, July-December, 1893 only, including five of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, contemporary red roan gilt over cloth, 8vo; The Imperial Journal, two volume set, Manchester: James Ainsworth, n.d. [1850], black-ruled double-column, plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary calf over cloth boards, worn, 4to; The Sunday Magazine, Christmas 1872: One New-Year's Night and other Christmas Stories, illustrations and adverts, original pictorial wrappers, 8vo; [newspaper] The London Gazette, Number 19093, Tuesday, October 15, 1833, duty stamps, 4to, others, mixed bindings and sizes, (38)

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Sold as a collection of bindings and as such not subject to return. Some volumes are ex-lib, with their corresponding bindings, numbering to other bindings, internal stamps, and/or bookplates & labels.

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Auction Date: 5th Nov 2024 at 10am

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