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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[FRENCH HISTORY & LITERATURE]. LAMARTINE, Alphonse de (1790?1869). Histoire des Girondins. Paris: Furne, 1848. 8 volumes, 8vo. Half?titles. (Occasional spotting). Early quarter dark green morocco, pebbled sides, spines gilt (some rubbing or tiny chipping at heads). Third edition. ?? [With:] GUENOT, C. Le Comte de Tyrone. Tours: Ad Mame et cie, 1863. Royal 8vo. Half?title, several engraved plates (some spotting). Early quarter red morocco gilt, pebbled cloth sides (ends and corners a bit worn, some staining to covers). Provenance: J.J. Joyce (dated signature, 1889). ?? [With:] LEPPER, John Heron, translator. The Testaments of Francois Villon. London: privately printed for the Casanova Society, 1924. Royal 8vo. Half morocco gilt. Provenance: Vincent Lloyd?Russell (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 72 of 775 copies on rag paper. ?? Together, 3 works in 10 volumes.