Catalogue of Rare Books Comprising the Valuable Library of the Late Col. Charles L.F. Robinson, of Hartford, Conn. ...Anderson Galleries, 1917 - Rare books |
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... Folio Shakespeare ; Dryden's Fables , excessively rare with the plates colored ; Swift's Gulliver ; La Fontaine's Fables ; Baker's Portraits of Washington , with eighty additional portraits of great rarity ; magnificent copies of the ...
... Folio Shakespeare ; Dryden's Fables , excessively rare with the plates colored ; Swift's Gulliver ; La Fontaine's Fables ; Baker's Portraits of Washington , with eighty additional portraits of great rarity ; magnificent copies of the ...
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... folio , vellum within half vellum portfolio ; vols . 2-5 , square 8vo , brown boards ) , all uncut . Bost . 1905 Edition limited to 470 copies , on Dutch Hand - made paper . Vol . I. ( folio ) , contains a portrait of Lamb , in two ...
... folio , vellum within half vellum portfolio ; vols . 2-5 , square 8vo , brown boards ) , all uncut . Bost . 1905 Edition limited to 470 copies , on Dutch Hand - made paper . Vol . I. ( folio ) , contains a portrait of Lamb , in two ...
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... Folio , blue levant morocco , gilt centre ornaments of leaf sprays on the sides , gilt edges , by Trautz - Bauzonnet . Paris : Denis Ianot , 1542 First French Edition . The Hoe copy . 113. BOCCACCIO ( GIOVANNI ) . Genealogiæ decorum ...
... Folio , blue levant morocco , gilt centre ornaments of leaf sprays on the sides , gilt edges , by Trautz - Bauzonnet . Paris : Denis Ianot , 1542 First French Edition . The Hoe copy . 113. BOCCACCIO ( GIOVANNI ) . Genealogiæ decorum ...
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... folio , ORIGINAL DRAWINGS , one large general map measuring 2234 by 1734 inches , finished in gold and colours , and 130 pictorial charts measuring 22 by 171/4 inches , finished in colours and with MS . notes to assist navigation , etc ...
... folio , ORIGINAL DRAWINGS , one large general map measuring 2234 by 1734 inches , finished in gold and colours , and 130 pictorial charts measuring 22 by 171/4 inches , finished in colours and with MS . notes to assist navigation , etc ...
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... folio , original vellum ( a few repairs ) . Mexico : en la imprenta de Francisco Salbago , 1637. Collation : Title and a preliminary leaf ; 31 numbered leaves ( A - P2 , A1 ) ; 41 leaves numbered 1-42 , leaf 39 being omitted ( Aa - Vv2 ...
... folio , original vellum ( a few repairs ) . Mexico : en la imprenta de Francisco Salbago , 1637. Collation : Title and a preliminary leaf ; 31 numbered leaves ( A - P2 , A1 ) ; 41 leaves numbered 1-42 , leaf 39 being omitted ( Aa - Vv2 ...
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Page 117 - A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States to the Commencement of the Late War; together with an Appendix, not before added to this history.
Page 119 - Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
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