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Lot 223
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$7,680
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Lot Description
[BINDINGS]. A group of 5 finely-bound works in 44 volumes by American authors, comprising:
1) EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Complete Works. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. 12 volumes. Contemporary red half calf.
2) HARTE, Bret. Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 19 volumes. Later brown quarter calf.
3) IRVING, Washington. A History of New York... London: John Murray, 1820. Later full calf.
4) THOREAU, Henry David. Cape Cod. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1896. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf.
5) WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Writings. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. 10 volumes. Contemporary half calf.
Together, 5 works in 44 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally very fine.
This lot is located in Chicago.