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Posted by Pacific Book Auction Galleries on October 14, 1998 at 17:55:20:
Hello-
Sale 172, Fine & Rare Books, including Rare Children's Literature, is
now online at our website at http://www.pacificbook.com. This sale
will take place on Thursday, October 15th at 1:00pm PST.
Highlights of the Children's section include The Emerald City of Oz in
dust jacket, Ozma of Oz in first state; The Woggle-Bug Book; Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland signed by Alice Hargreaves; The Adventure of
Mickey mouse, Book 1; a collection of Kate Greenaway Almanacks; several
by Elmer and Berta Hader; a number of signed/limited A.A. Milne Books,
including Winnie-the-Pooh 108/200; several early pop-up books; a
selection of Beatrix Potter titles, including The Tale of Timmy
Tiptoes; a large collection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
including ens' The Chimes; Teddy B. & Teddy G. The Roosevelt Bears
Abroad in jacket; On Beyond Zebra, inscribed by Dr. Seuss.
The second section includes Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia Libri
Tres; some of Aubrey Beardsley's first publications in Past and
Present magazine; Jacob Boehme's Theosophick Philosophy Unfolded;
Skyward by Richard Byrd, signed; Boccaccio's Vita de Dante Alighieri
Poetica Fiorentino (1544); finely bound copies of en's Christmas
Works; Views & Descriptions of Cyclopean or, Pelasgic Remains by
Edward Dodwell from 1834; George Eliot's Middelmarch; Fortune of the
Republic inscribed by Emerson to Thomas Carlyle; several by William
Everson; two examples of Fore-Edge paintings; Voyage Pittoresque de
la France in 4 vols. Guillen'sNocturnos e altre Poesie 21/170; Joel
Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus; Hennepin's A New Discovery of a Vast
Country in America (1698); the greatest latin work on the Kabbala,
Kabbala Denudata seu Doctrina Hebraeum... in 3 vols.; a collection of
Limited Edition Club titles; Tutti le Opere di Nicolo Machiavelli
(1550); a nice selection of maps by Blaue, Chatelain, De Vaugondy,
De Wit, Hondius, Jansson and Speedl; The Book of Mormon, second editon;
La Nave by Pablo Neruda, signed; Matthew Perry's Narrative with the
rare bathing plate; a run of the first year of Playboy bound in
one vol.; Heinrich Schleimann Ithaka der Peloponnes...; Illustrations
of Robert Burns' Works by William Scott; the first Irish edition of
Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations in 3 vols.; The Works of William Tery in 52 vols.; 6
erotic engravings and one handprinted greeting card by Clara Tice; a
few by Twain, including The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County; Owen Wister's The ian; Isaac Weld Jr's Travels Through
the States of North America, and many other titles.
For more infomation please contact us through email or call the
galleries at 415-989-2665.
Kris Sherman, Operations