thirteen-19th-and-early-20th-century-books
Lot 2240
Thirteen 19th and Early 20th Century Books
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
A diverse grouping, to include: La Guide Des Supérueures, ou Avis A Une Superieure (Lyon and Paris, 1826); Ellen Middleton (Paris, 1841); The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare (Philadelphia, n.d., circa 1860), 4to; Defoe, Daniel. The adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London, n.d., 1860s); Scott, Walter. The Lady of the Lake Edinburgh (1871), a school prize from Leeds; Anne Bronte's A Tenant of Wildfell Hall (n.d., circa 1880); The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri (London, 1892), illustrated by Gustave Doré, a school prize from Islington (spine lifting) from base); Three works by Henry Van Dyke (1903 and two 1905), one with disbound top board (present); Letters of Madame de Sévigné (London, 1937), two volumes; For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway (New York, 1940), lacking jacket, not first printing.

Tallest 11 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Wear and aging; overall good condition.