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Cosway Style Bindings

Vanity Fair by Wm.Thackeray, Cosway Style Binding, First Edition, First Issue
Located in Middletown, NY
150 woodcuts and illustrated capitals in the text by Thackeray. COSWAY-STYLE BINDING by BAYNTUM of
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Books

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Leather, Paper

1 Volume. Hilaire Belloc, Marie Antoinette.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Hilaire Belloc, Marie Antoinette. First Edition. A lovely Cosway-style binding by Bayntun
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Antique Early 1900s English Books

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Leather

1 Volume, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese. A lovely Cosway-style binding by
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20th Century English Books

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Leather

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Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Four young English girls with flowers are shown in a line and moving from left to right. They are pushed forward on the picture plane as if they were on a stage with a simple indica...
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1890s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Cluny by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Service Massive Set with Vintage Chest
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in Big Bend, WI
The academic nature in which designer Antione Heller looked to the past for inspiration also stems from the Beaux Arts movement. Cluny takes its name and inspiration from a real plac...
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Antique Late 19th Century Tableware

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Sterling Silver

Novels 'Works' of Jane Austen. Winchester Edition, 10 Vols, 1906 Leather Bound
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: AUSTEN, Jane. TITLE: The Novels (Works) of Jane Austen. PUBLISHER: Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. DESCRIPTION: THE WINCHESTER EDITION. 10 vols., 8-3/8" x 6-1/8", fron...
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Antique Early 1900s British Books

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Leather

Extensive Assembled Meissen Blue and White Bird Model Dinner Service, circa 1890
Located in New York, NY
Each piece painted in underglaze-blue and heightened in gilding with an exotic bird perched upon peony branches, comprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and two stands, an 18" oval pl...
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Antique 1890s German Dinner Plates

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Porcelain

Pearl Royale 18K White Gold, Diamond, Sapphire and South Sea Pearl Chess Set
By Colin Burn Art
Located in Halls Head, Western Australia
The Pearl Royale chess set stands as one of the world’s finest jewelry artworks ever created. This masterpiece is hailed as the most valuable and opulent chess set in the world and l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Australian Victorian Games

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Gold

President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian Tea Table
By Albert Hadley, Sister Parish
Located in St. Louis, MO
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian tea table Quite possibly the most important tea table in American History The famed, English Victorian tea ta...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Card Tables and Tea Tables

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Lacquer

Antique French Sevres Cobalt Blue Porcelain Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous antique French Sevres porcelain Cobalt Blue ormolu mounted casket, Circa 1880 in date. The shaped hinged cover decorated with a hand painted floral spray in a ri...
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Antique 1880s French Porcelain

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Porcelain

6 Volumes. Edgar Allan Poe, the Complete Works
Located in New York, NY
6 Volumes. Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and linen boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, bordering, floral panel detailin...
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Antique Late 19th Century American Books

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Leather

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Blakiston Edition, 1940
By Ernest Hemingway
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1940. First Blakiston Edition. Rebound in quarter navy leather and cloth boards, with gilt titles, gi...
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Vintage 1940s American Books

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Leather, Paper

The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans ...
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1890s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper, Pen

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloan, in Four Volumes, 1896
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Sloane, William Milligan. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York: Century Co, 1896. Four volume quarto set. Handsomely bound in half red Moroccan leather and cloth boards, spines r...
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Antique 1890s American Books

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Paper

1813 The Plays of William Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
Located in Bath, GB
An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shakespeare, supplemented with a wealth of comments and critical notices. The very scarce co...
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Antique 1810s British Books

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Paper

8 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Plays of Shakespeare.
Located in New York, NY
8 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Plays of Shakespeare. Bound in full tan calf with covers displaying gilt bordering. Raised band spine with panels displaying beautiful gilt detail...
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Antique 1830s English Books

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Leather

The Works of William Cowper. 15 volumes, 1835, IN A FINE LEATHER BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: COWPER, William. Title: The Works of William Cowper, comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. Publisher: London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. Description...
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Antique 1830s British Books

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Leather

Milton, John, Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve-Books, 'Third Edition, 1678'
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILTON, John. TITLE: Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve-Books. The Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author. PUBLISHER: London: by S. Simmons, 1678. DES...
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Antique 1670s British Books

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Leather

Charles DICKENS. A Christmas Carol - FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE - 1843
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. ...
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Antique 1840s British Books

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Leather

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Robert Burns, Poems, in a Fine Cosway Style Binding, by a Noted 19th C Artist
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
. Description: In A Fine Cosway Style Binding. 1 vol., 9" x 5-3/4", facsimile of the 1786 "Kilmarnock" edition
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Vintage 1920s British Books

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Leather

Dilke, French Painters of the 18th Century, in an Outstanding Cosway Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
: An excellent example of a Cosway-style binding with five miniatures (though not signed, these are
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Antique 1890s British Books

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Leather

"My Early Life" by Winston Churchill, First Edition, Cosway-Style Asprey Binding
By Winston Churchill
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Bound in full red crushed Morocco leather with Cosway-style
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Vintage 1930s British Books

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Leather, Paper

Books, Nathaniel W. Stephenson's "An Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln" Cosway
Located in New York, NY
-style binding! Americana, Biography, Cosway Binding, Fine Bindings and Collected Sets, Single Volume.
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Vintage 1920s American Books

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Leather, Paper

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Located in New York, NY
Dickens on Front Cover by Bayntun “Cosway Style Binding”, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt on spine and
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Antique 1850s Books

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Leather

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
H 8.5 in W 2 in L 8.5 in
1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke. A Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Bound in full red morocco
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Vintage 1930s English Books

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Leather

1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke.
1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke.
H 9.5 in W 2.25 in D 6 in
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