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[Norman Kane]

GUTTIEREZ DEL HOYO, Gaetano.  LE STAGIONI CON ALTRE POESIE DEL CANONICO DON GAETANO GUTTIEREZ DEL HOYO, ACCADEMICO TRASFORMATO.  Milan, 1760. First edition.  Quarto, old heavy wrappers, 180, [1] pages, nicely printed on heavy paper, full margins, light spine wear, an attractive copy.  Six nice plates.  Small label on end paper: "Ex Libris Leonis Olschki, Bibliopolae Veneti."  OCLC locates only 2 copies in the U.S.: Harvard & Duke, and one in Switzerland.  A scarce book with a distinguished provenance.  ($200)  $100

COPPARD, A. E.  TAPSTER'S TAPESTRY.  ENGRAVINGS BY GWENDA MORGAN.  Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.  1 of 75 copies signed by author and artist.  8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, quarter leather with red cloth.  Light sun fading to bottom inch of front cover.  A nice copy of a scarce title.  ($150)  $65

MOTT, Frank Luther.  A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES [5 VOLUMES].  Harvard Univ. Press, v.d. 5 volume set of the original edition in dust wrappers (2 d. w’s with internal repairs).  Vol. I, 1741 - 1850: 3rd ptg, 1957,  NYT obituary of Mott laid-in.  Vol. II, 1850 - 1865: 2nd ptg, 1957.  Vol. III, 1865 - 1885: 2nd ptg, 1957.  Vol. IV, 1885 - 1905: 1st ptg, 1957.  Vol. V, Sketches of 21 Magazines 1905 - 1930: 1st ptg, 1968.  Each volume measures 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches.  Contains a mass of easily retrievable information and comment.  The only comprehensive work like it. NOT EX LIBRARY.  IN PRINT FOR OVER $600.00.  ($375)  $200

FOCH, General F[erdinand].  DES PRINCIPES DE LA GUERRE.  CONFERENCES FAITES EN 1900 A L'ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE GUERRE.  Paris, 1917.  Original printed wraps and spine bound in half-leather with marbled end papers, 10 x 7 inches.  25 folding maps.   Provenance:  Ulysses S. Grant III, Major General USA,  a participant in WWI. 
(Marshall Foch became famous for his role in the first and second Battles of the Marne, and was made Commander of the Allied armies.  For his role in WW ONE and the peace negotiations, Grant was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre.)  ($110)  $75

CONWELL, Col. Russell H.  HISTORY OF THE GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER 9 AND 10, 1872.  Boston, 1873.
First edition.  Green cloth stamped in gold 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.  Very light wear to covers.  Frontispiece and 9 other illustrations including a color plate and a map.  Previous owner signature to end paper.  ($55)  $30

CREVEL, Rene.  LES PIEDS DANS LE PLAT.  Paris, 1933.  First edition of this surrealistic novel.  Printed wraps, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches.  In excellent shape with the expected age-toning to pages and wraps.  ($75)  $35

GOULD, Geo. M., et al.  OPHTHALMOLOGICAL OFFPRINTS [20 TITLES].  A collection of 20 offprints by Geo. M. Gould.  All published in the late 19th century from a variety of sources.  All are printed wraps or disbound, removed articles.  One is signed "With Dr. Gould's Compliments."  Titles such as "The Statistics and Lessons of Fifteen Hundred Cases of Refraction," "The Psychological Influence of Errors of Refraction and of Their Correction," and "The Practical Adjustment of Spectacles."  Gould was Lafcadio Hearn's ophthalmologist and friend.  Hearn had lost the vision in his left eye in a playground accident as a youth.  The two were friends for a time but later feuded over some of Hearn's possessions which had been left with Gould.  ($150)  $70

BELL, John and CONDIE, D. Francis.  ALL THE MATERIAL FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF EPIDEMIC CHOLERA: BEING A REPORT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA . . . THE CAUSES, POST MORTEM APPEARANCES, AND TREATMENT      . . .  ($135)  $75

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