Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. RUSTAING DE SAINT?JORY, Louis. Les femmes militaires; relation historique d?une isle nouvellement decouverte? Paris: Didot, 1750. 8vo (159 x 95 mm). 18th century French mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red morocco lettering?piece gilt, gilt floral centerpieces in remainder, all edges stained red, concealing a DOUBLE FORE?EDGE PAINTING of French military scenes (joints rubbed with a bit of separation to front joint). Provenance: Zola E. Harvey (gilt leather bookplate); Jean Gigodat (bookplate with French military designs); Gladys McKenney Molony presented to the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (inscription dated 3 August 1982); sold at the Robert Brown Auction in 2007 at the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library sale.