Nine Books

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Historic Manuscripts & Rare Books

By Bonhams Skinner

May 13, 2021 - May 25, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Nine Books. Including Thomas Taylor, The Practice of Repentance, third edition, London: J. Bartlet, 1632, 395 numbered pages bound with A Man in Christ, third edition, London: J. Bartlett, 1632, 131 numbered pages and Meditations from the Creatures, third edition, London: John Bartlet, 1632, 104 numbered pages, bound in vellum boards, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.; Andrew Gifford, Eighteen Sermons Preached by the Late Rev. George Whitefield, A.M., Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1797, 366 numbered pages, full leather board, (incomplete), 7 x 4 1/4 in.; a late 18th century religious book lacking title page, (front board separating), 8 1/2 x 5 in.; The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, London: William Pickering, 1831, full green leather board with gilt stamping the inside of the front board with inset miniature portrait of Goldsmith, (front board detached, silk covered endpaper degraded) 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1824, rebound in black leather boards with gilt stamping, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.; S. Weir Mitchell, A Madeira Party, New York: The Century Co., 1897, embossed leather boards, 5 x 3 in.; George Wharton Edwards, Thumb-nail Sketches, New York: The Century Co., 1893, embossed boards, 5 x 3 in.; Diamond Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland, fifth edition, London: Allan Bell and Co. and T. Tegg and Son, 1835, rebound in black and brown leather with gilt stamping, (frontispiece map detached but present), 3 1/4 x 2 in.; and Sandford E. Rich, The Endless Length, Farmington, Connecticut: Sandmarc Press, [1975], blue and red leather boards with gilt stamping, 3 x 2 in.

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