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Sale 453: Rare Books & Manuscripts with Science & Medicine (#453) 05/05/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/05/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #86 Carlyle's Complete Works

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(Fine Bindings)

Title:

Carlyle's Complete Works

Author:

Carlyle, Thomas

Place Published:

Boston

Publisher:

Aldine Book Publishing

Date Published:

No date [c.1889]

Description:

11 volumes. (8vo), half black morocco and boards, gilt spines, top edges gilt.

Each with the bookplate of Louis Ellsworth Laflin & Josephine Knowland Laflin, a few of which are place upside-down, on front pastedowns.

Condition:

Mild to moderately rubbed extremities and joints; many hinges cracked; offsetting from binding to endpapers, many with a neat 1889 inscription on early blank leaf; pages yellowed with age (printed on cheap paper); else very good.

Item#:

216111

Headline:

Carlyle's Complete Works 11 vols.
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