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Democracy in America

"THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT AMERICA"

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. London, 1835, 1840. Four volumes.

First editions in English of both parts of Tocqueville's important and influential analysis of American democracy, one of the most outstanding intellectual achievements of the 19th century—"one of the most important texts in political literature" (PMM)—with very scarce folding map colored in outline, handsomely housed in half morocco clamshell boxes. $60,000.

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L'Antiquite Expliquee, et Representee en Figures

“FOUNDATION STONES OF SCIENTIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY”

MONTFAUCON, Bernard de. L'Antiquite Expliquee, et Representee en Figures. Paris, 1722, 1724. Five volumes in ten, and five volume supplement. Fifteen volumes in all. Second edition, revised and corrected from the 1719 first, with the five-volume 1724 supplement. Magnificent set of Montfaucon’s landmark work on classical archaeology, with nearly 1400 engraved plates (including approximately 250 double-page and folding plates). A splendid copy in beautiful full contemporary calf-gilt. $18,500.

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Novels and Letters

LARGE-PAPER LIMITED EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED

AUSTEN, Jane. Novels and Letters. Oxford, 1923. Seven volumes.

Lovely large-paper limited edition of Austen’s novels and letters, one of only 1,000 sets produced, illustrated with over forty plates, with frontispieces in color, very attractively bound. $8500.

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Le Theatre

32-VOLUME SET OF THE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PARISIAN THEATRE MAGAZINE LE THÉATRE

BOUSSOD, Jean, et al., editors. Le Theatre. Paris, 1898-1921. Thirty-two volumes. Complete 24-year run of this Parisian bimonthly illustrated theater magazine, reporting in lengthy articles on all of the most popular and avant-garde plays and actors of the era, accompanied by rich color and photographic illustrations, in 32 folio volumes handsomely bound in three-quarter morocco-gilt. Text in French. $5500.

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Novels and Stories

"ALL GALLEGHER KNEW HAD BEEN LEARNT ON THE STREETS"

DAVIS, Richard Harding. The Novels and Stories. New York, 1916. Twelve volumes.

“Crossroads” edition, number 2 of only 256 sets, with an autograph manuscript page bound in Volume I, beautifully illustrated and signed by five of the illustrators, including Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Chandler Christy, handsomely bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery. $5500.

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Complete Writings

MAGNIFICENTLY PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE ROYCROFT PRESS

HUBBARD, Elbert. Complete Writings. East Aurora, New York, 1908-15. Twenty volumes. Author’s edition of the collected Little Journeys, number 894 of 1000 sets, finely printed and bound by Hubbard’s prestigious Roycroft Press, each volume signed by Hubbard. With two pages of Hubbard’s original manuscript for one of the “journeys” bound into Volume I. $5200.

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Works

DAUDET’S WORKS, AUTOGRAPH EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 25 SETS

DAUDET, Alphonse. Works. New York, 1899-1900. Twenty-four volumes. “Autograph” edition, number 2 of only 25 sets printed for America, with 100 plates (including 24 frontispieces in double-suite, one of each hand-colored), with a signed and inscribed carte-de-visite tipped into Volume I. $4800.

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Novels and Tales

"SCOTT'S INFLUENCE AS A NOVELIST WAS INCALCULABLE"

SCOTT, Walter. Novels and Tales. Edinburgh, 1819, 1822, 1824, 1827, 1833. Together, 41 volumes.

First collected edition of the beloved novels of Sir Walter Scott, each volume with lovely engraved title-page vignette, handsomely bound in full calf-gilt. $4800.

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