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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 55

BOSWELL (JAMES)
An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to that Island, FIRST EDITION, various sizes; and approximately 45 others by or about James Boswell (c.70)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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BOSWELL (JAMES)

An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to that Island, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on title, folding engraved map (old tear), modern calf gilt, Glasgow, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768; The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, sixth edition, engraved portrait, later half calf, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813; idem, limited to 2000 copies, publisher's quarter morocco, slipcase, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1974; The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., edited by Roger Ingpen, red crushed half morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, t.e.g., George Bayntun, 1925; Private papers from Malahide Castle in the collection of Ralph Heyward Isham, 18 vol. (of 19, lacking volume 4, and with "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides"), bookplate of Sir Frederick Richmond, publisher's cloth-backed boards, paper label on spines, volume 4 lacking spine, some fading, Privately Printed, [1928-1934-1936]--James Boswell's Book of Company at Auchinleck 1782-1795. Edited by The Viscountess Eccles [Mary Hyde] and Gordon Turnbull, publisher's cloth, Roxburghe Club, 1995--POTTLE (FREDERICK A.) Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay, limited to 500 copies, publisher's cloth-backed boards, slipcase, New York, Viking Press, 1917, various sizes; and approximately 45 others by or about James Boswell (c.70)

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Provenance: The Library of the late A.J. Karter.

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