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Lot 501

Group of 11 Leatherbound Books, Religion and Philosophy

Estimate: $500 - $700

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The Dialogues of Plato, by B. Jowett, London: Macmillan, 1871, three quarter vellum binding, Vol. I through IV, considered by many to be the best translation of Plato's dialogues; The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, London: Longman, Green, Roberts, Longman, and Green, 1865, red morocco, decorative gilt spine, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, aeg, signed Zaehnsdorf binding, with engravings on wood from designs of Fra Angelico to Raphael; The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments..., Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham, 1745, aeg, six raised bands; Wesley's Sermons, New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1836, Vol. I and II; The Warrior King, by J.R. Macduff, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895, marbled edges, five raised bands; A Dictionary in Latin and Greek, by H.T. Riley, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870; Iliad of Homer, by Alexander Pope, London: George Bell and Sons, 1886, marbled edges, five raised bands

Provenance: Private Bluffton, South Carolina Collection

Condition

wear to cover and spine of most, some bumped corners, light staining and foxing, Dictionary of Latin and Greek... without boards or spine; Book of Common Prayer... and The New Testament... each with partial front board separation, some with bookplates and inscriptions