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Thu, Sep 15, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 114

Group of 41 Leatherbound Books

Estimate: $200 - $400

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

including: Collection of British Authors, Leipzig: Tauchnitz Edition, 1875, 30 volumes, including works by Annie Keary, Miss Thackeray, William Black, and others, bound in three quarter red leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, marbled endpapers; Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, Lepizig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1856, five volumes; Land and Sea Tales by "The Old Sailor", London: Effingham Wilson, 1836, two volumes; and four other titles

Provenance: Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection

Condition

wear to extremities, some bumped corners, a few boards starting or detached, scattered light staining and toning throughout