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[Dealer Catalogue] Peter Harrington, Anitiquarian Bookseller.
| Title | Catalogue 111: Fifty Rare Books & Manuscripts. |
|---|---|
| Date | London: 2015 |
| Publisher | Peter Harrington, |
Description
An illustrated and fully described catalogue of fifty rare books including: John Audubon's 'The Birds of America' [the first octavo edition in five volumes, 1839-44], the first edition of Robert Burns' 'Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect' inscribed to William Wordsworth (1786), an inscribed first edition of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1885), a first edition of Charles Darwin and Others' 'The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle' (1838-43), a presentation copy of 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' inscribed by Charles Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1842), Graham Greene's 'Rumour at Nightfall' (first edition in dust jacket, 1931, 'Das Kapital' by Karl Marx (first edition of the first volume (1867), the first edition of Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516/17), the Third Folio Edition, second enlarged issue of Shakespeare's 'Comedies, Histories and Tragedies...' (1664) and forty-one others rare books. Quarto, pp. 77.
Condition
A catalogue in Fine condition.


