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Saducismus Triuphatus: Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions....by Joseph Glanvil. London: Printed for J. Collins, at his shop under the Temple Church, and S. Lownds at his shop by the Savoy-gate, 1681. First Edition. Lauriat signed calf  leather binding circa 1920.

Travel Holy Bible in tooled crimson Moroccan leather, gilt page edges embossed with thistles, brass clasp engraved with: George H. Ball, Psalms 22nd 1st. Philadelphia, 1858.

13 volumes: History of England by David Hume, completed by Tobias Smollett, full crimson Moroccan leather bindings, gilt tooled, page tips gilt, good condition, London 1832. SOLD

A Pinch of Snuff: composed of Curious Particulars and Original Anecdotes of Snuff Taking; as well as a Review of Snuff, Snuff-Boxes, Snuff-Shops, Snuff-Takers, and Snuff-Paper; with The Moral and Physical Effects of Snuff. By Dean Snift of Brazen-Nose. London: Robert Tyas, So. Cheapside.1840. First edition, with a signed C.E. Lauriat & Co. of Boston acid-etched leather binding circa 1900. Six hand-colored lithographs.

Seymour's Humorous Sketches, Comprising Eighty-Six Caricature Etchings. Illustrations in Prose and Verse, By Alfred Crowquill. New Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 1872. Signed NOR REM. BINDING, c. 1920, calf leather, with the original decorative cloth binding tipped in.

"You needn't be alarmed, Sir. I ant ahaiming at you."

Two volumes: George Catlin, North American Indians. Edinburgh: John Gant, 31 George IV. Bridge, 1926. "Three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings."  Very clean and in excellent condition with tight bindings. There is a small puncture in the spine of volume II.

SOLD