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New York, Sotheby's, 1990, First edition. . original pictorial cloth with mounted colored plate in gilt border, gilt title on cover and spine, fine, clean, with the prices realized on loose sheet. . 4to [27.5 x 21.5 cm]; unpaginated, portrait of Martin, colored plates and other illustrations, black and white photos. . A very well-illustrated auction sale of 325 lots, described in detail, sale held 14 June 1990. The sale includes books and manuscripts related to natural history, science, literature, economics, atlases, travels, etc dating from 1455. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

New York, Sotheby's, 1989, First edition. . original pictorial cloth with mounted colored plate in gilt border, gilt title on cover and spine, fine, clean, with the prices realized on loose sheet, and the loose prospectus of the full library of Martin with portrait & illustrations. . 4to [27.5 x 21.5 cm]; unpaginated, portrait of Martin, colored plates and other illustrations, black and white photos. . A very well-illustrated auction sale of 38 lots, described in detail, sale held 6 June 1989. The sale includes Audubon's books and manuscripts, letters related to Birds of America, with illustrations of his manuscripts, etc. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

London, Sotheby's, 2000, First edition. . original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title on cover and spine, few pages with small ink mark, fine and clean, with the list of prices achieved and buyers. . 4to [27 x 21 cm]; 119, [ii, ads] pp, over 100 fine colored illustrations, plates, bibliography, index. . Sale LO0201, held 15 March 2000 of 86 of some of the finest color plate books, including travels, natural history, birds, botany, etc. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928, First edition. . original gilt decorated cloth, gilt title lettering, dj (lightly rubbed, spine ends slightly chipped, not price clipped), near fine in very good dj. . 8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; x, 298 pp, numerous illustrations including full-page, frontis. . Interesting work including temperance novels, propaganda novels, making the eagle scream, unfortunate lovers, side whiskers and seduction, a yankee Casanova, genteel behaviour, etc. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Houston, Beta Phi Mu, 1967, First Edition. . original cloth, near fine. . 8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xv, 142 pp, frontis, facsimiles. . Relates to the founding of the American Library Association, with letters from prominent librarians. A picture of this book is available on request by email.