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Lot 215
Sale 1350 - Property of a Chicago Lady
Dec 15, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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$700 -
900
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$1,512
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Lot Description
[HISTORY & LITERATURE]. A group of 4 leather-bound works in 37 volumes relating to history and literature, comprising:
CREIGHTON, M. History of the Papacy. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882. 5 volumes, octavo. Contemporary tan armorial calf gilt, red and green lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled.
WARD, Mrs. Humphrey. Works. Boston, New York, and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press, 1912. 16 volumes, octavo. Frontispieces. Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
KINGLAKE, Alexander William. The Invasion of the Crimea. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. 6 volumes, octavo. Contemporary brown calf gilt, green and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled. Provenance: 1 1/4 pp. contemporary manuscript annotations relating to the history of the invasion bound in; 4pp. pamphlet, "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel" bound in.
SPOFFORD, A. R. The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events. Philadelphia: William Finley & Co., 1894. 10 volumes, octavo. Frontispieces and plates. 20th-century half tan morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. The "Standard Edition."






