Group of Approximately 60 Books, consisting of 13 volumes of the Works of Charles Dickens with leather spines and corners and marbled covers; 10 volum

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Important Spring Estates Auction: Session I

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May 8, 2021

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Featuring Property from the Collection Of Nicholas Burke (1834-1905), located at 5809 St. Charles Ave. (The Wedding Cake House), and thence by descent to present consignor; the Estate of Dr. Sue LeBlanc, Hammond, LA; a Lower Garden District Collector, and a Distinguished Garden District Collector. Crescent City Auction Gallery info@crescentcityauctiongallery.com

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  Group of Approximately 60 Books, consisting of 13 volumes of the Works of Charles Dickens with leather spines and corners and marbled covers; 10 volumes of "The Masterpieces and the History of Literature," 1899, with leather spines and corners and marbled covers; 8 volumes of Washington Irvings' books, with leather spines and corners and marbled covers; 7 volumes of George Eliot's works, with cloth covers and gilt decoration; "The Life of Pope Leo XIII, by Bernard O'Reilly, 1887; 3 volumes of "Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church, 1888, full leather covers; "Poetical Works of Thomas More," 1852; 5 volumes of "The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints," 1854, with cloth covers; 3 volumes of "The Human Comedy" by Balzac, with cloth covers; "The Home Book of Poetry and Song," 1884; Standard Dictionary by Funk and Wagnalls, Vol. II, 1902; 2 volumes of "History of Ireland," by Thomas Mooney, 1857, full leather; "The Ecclesiastical Year," 1864, by Rev. B. G. Bayerle, in gilt and leather binding; "Our Christaia Heritage," 1889, by James Cardinal Gibbons; "Journet," by James Michener, 1989, cloth cover; Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary, 1860, with cloth covers; "The Little Chevalier," 1903, by M. E. M. Davis; "The Garden of Allah" 1904 by Robert Hitchens; Appleton's Instruction, 1841; "Life of Stephen Girard," 1832, by Stephen Simpson; "Precis Elementaire de Mythologie," 1883; "Records of Woman," 1853, by Felices Hemans, gilt decorated full leather, aeg; "The Catholic Christian Instructed," 1844; "Thompson's Teacher's Examiner," 1878, cloth covers; "Exercises Elementaires," 1873, by M. Chapsal; "First Report of the Secretary of Agriculture," 1889; "The Poetry of Flowers" selected by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland with gilt decorated cloth covers; "Lecons Francaises de Literature," 1841, by M. Noel, in full leather covers with marbled frontis pages; and "Abrege de la Gramaire Francaise, by M. Noel. Provenance: Property from the Collection Of Nicholas Burke (1834-1905), located at 5809 St. Charles Ave. (The Wedding Cake House), and thence by descent to present consignor. Note: Burke was president of the Nicholas Burke Company, a Retail Grocer and one of the founders of Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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