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11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
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[INCUNABLES.]

Group of 28 leaves, most of which appear to be 15th century, including:
1. Dante Alighieri. [Divine Comedy.] No place, [circa 15th century]. 5 ll.
2. Sacchi. Vitae Pontificum. Venice: J. Rubeus, 1485. 1 l.
3. Lactantius, Firmianus. Opera. Venice: Johannes de Colonia & Johannes Manthen, 1478. 1 l.
4. Voragine, Jacobus de. Leben der Heiligen.... Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1488. 1 l.
5. Tortellius, Johannes. Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia…. Treviso: for Michael Manzolus [by Hermannus Liechtenstein], Apr 2, 1477. 1 l.
6. Plus numerous other leaves including 8 ll. from an early German folio edition of Holbein’s Dance of Death, all illustrated with woodcuts.

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A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.