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Balzac, Honore de. DROLL STORIES. 3 Volumes $125.00 Limited Editions Club, 1932. Printed by Dwiggins. Signed by Dwiggins. Slip case.

Burton, Sir Richard, translator. THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Heritage Press edition. $150.00 6 volumes in three books. In slip cases. 1962. Very good.

THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 3/4 leather. 5 volumes. $275.00 Edited by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge. Century History Company, NY. (1915)

CICERO. OPERA OMNIA. 11 Volumes Complete. In Latin. 1819 & 1820. $1200.00 Compiled & edited by Jo. Augusti Ernesti. London, 1819. 4 volumes in 8 books which includes an index. Plus 3 volumes: Lexicon Ciceroniaum 1820. By Marii Nizolii. Index & editing of Lexicon by Alexander Scoti. Full Leather.

Cooper, James Fenimore. SEA TALES. Set of 5 volumes. $150.00 Uniform red cloth decorated gold. A.L. Burt, no date, circa 1915. Original box.

Dante. THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. 3 volume set. $575.00 Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Full velum bindings. Bernhard Tauchnitz edition, 1867. In English.

De Tocqueville, Alexis. DE LA DEMOCRATIE EN AMERIQUE. 4 volumes. Paris. 1840. Early printing of the famous book on Democracy in America .$2000.00

Diderot. "Diderot's Encyclopedia"... 32 folio volumes. bound in vellum.

Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne Des Sciences, Des Arts et Des Metiers Par Une Societe De Gens De Lettres. Second edition. 1758-1776. In French. Printed in Italy. 2,606 single, double & triple page copper engravings of the arts, crafts & sciences o f the period. 17 volumes text. 11 volumes plates. 4 vol. supplement.

Goldsmith, Oliver. THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 3/4 leather, marbled boards. 1859. 4 volumes. Sold.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE & POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. 3 volumes.1889-1890. 3/4 leather. $125.00

Hugo, Victor. LES MISERABLES. In French. 4 volume set. $250.00 3/4 Leather with marbled boards and end papers. Circa 1890.

Latin-Italian Dictionary. LEXICON LATINI ITALIQUE SERMONIS In Usum Scholarum. 1851-1853 . Two Volumes. Full Velum. $400.00

Milton, John. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.3 volumes $275.00 from The British Poets. Chiswick, 1822. Full dark maroon leather, decorated gold.

Morison, Samuel. Complete Set History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Little Brown, 1950 - 1962. Mixed editions. No jackets. $300.00 Illustrated with photos, maps, and charts. All very good condition. From the Library of John Gilpin, a junior officer aboard the Destroyer Monaghan at Pearl Harbor, which sailed just after the time of the attack & sunk a Japanese midget submarine just outside the harbor.

Muir, John. THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR. 10 volumes. Sierra Edition. Green cloth decorated gold. Houghton Mifflin, 1916. SOLD

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON. 17 Volumes. deluxe edition. Limited to 1000. $275.00 Grolier Society, London. no date, circa 1900. Cloth, Illustrated. 3 authors: Hazlitt, Bourrienne, & Junot + Autobiographical volume.

Oz Books. A Complete Collection of the 40 original Oz Books with Additions

A Total of 72 items. NOW SOLD SEPARATELY SEE OZ BOOK PAGEstrong>

Paine, Thomas. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE. 10 volume set. $475.00 Patriot Edition, 1925. Illustrated. Cloth with red leather labels.

Prescott, William H. HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND And ISABELLA. 14^th edition. Boston, 1858. 3 Volume set $225.00 2 maps & facsimile autographs. 3/4 Leather with marbled boards & end papers.

Pepys, Samuel. PEPYS' DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. 4 volumes. $175.00 No date, circa 1890. 3/4 leather & marbled boards. Transcribed by Rev.Smith. Notes by Braybrook. Nottingham Society edition, Philadelphia.

THE PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Cloth, 1938. Cloth. Very good. 5 volumes. $195.00

Roosevelt, Theodore. WINNING THE WEST. 3 volumes. cloth. $450.00 Memorial Edition, limited. 1924. Neat ex-library.

Scott, Sir Walter. The Works of Sir Walter Scott. 24 volumes complete. $850.00 De Luxe Edition, Limited 1 of 1000 copies. Philadelphia, no date, circa 1895. 3/4 Leather with marbled boards & end papers. Each volume with 10 illustrations

Shakespeare. COMEDIES, TRAGEDIES, HISTORIES. 3 volumes. $425.00 Profusely illustrated with engravings by Henry Courtland Selous. Cassells, Circa 1865. Full rich leather bindings decorated in gold. All edges gold.

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the WEALTH OF NATIONS. "New Edition" Philadelphia, 1796. 3 volumes. $2500.00 2nd American edition from the 3rd & 4th British edition. Full leather.