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Emporium Auction | November 10, 2022

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 09:00AM EST
Lot 311

15 Leatherbound World Literature Books

Estimate: $200 - $400

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$3,000 $250
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15 volumes total, including: La Gerusalemme by Torquato Tasso, Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822, four volumes, bound in full leather, covers with gilt borders, gilt lettering to spines, marbled endpapers and edges; Oeuvres de J. Racine, Paris: Pissot, 1760, three volumes, bound in full leather; and others, including works by Hoole, Rabelai, Voltaire, etc.

Provenance: Collection of a Southern Gentlemen

Condition

all with light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs, scratches, and small losses to leather, scattered light staining throughout, Voltaire volume with front board detached but retained

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