Catalogue of the Library of Edwin N. Lapham of Chicago, Ill: A Remarkable Collection, Principally of English Authors of the Georgian and Victorian Eras, in Specially Choice Condition, with a Number of Autograph Letters and Original Manuscripts. To be Sold December 1, 2, 3, 1908 ...Anderson Auction Company, 1908 - 189 pages |
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Page 172 - Gallic neighbours seem to have engrossed both the word and the quality — 'elles sont piquantes,' to the highest degree. If you read but a sentence, you feel yourself spell-bound till you have read the volume."— Quarterly Review. WALPOLE'S (Horace) ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND; with Lists of their Works. A New Edition, Annotated, considerably Enlarged, and brought down to the Present Time.
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Page 21 - The Story of Burnt Njal ; Or, Life in Iceland at the end of the Tenth Century.
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Page 180 - All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECOND-HAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned.
Page 58 - The Round Table. A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners.
Page 107 - History of the Battle of Agincourt, and of the Expedition of Henry the Fifth into France, in 1415; to which is added "The Roll of the Men at Arms, in the English Army ;
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