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Lot 118
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$750
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Lot Description
[BINDINGS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). Poetical Works. London: William Pickering, 1852.
6 volumes, 8vo (160 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispieces. 20th-century calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
The Aldine Edition of English Poets.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York