Lot #61: Lot of Antique Books - Library of Universal History 1897, Military Heroes 1899, Great Republic 1902

Lot of antique and vintage books. Highlights: two worn red leather volumes of the "Library of Universal History" compiled by Israel Smith Clare, with Volume II, "Ancient Oriental Nations and Greece," by Moses Coit Tyler, Professor of American History at Cornell University (New York: R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, 1897; illustrated with maps, portraits and views; a set complete in eight volumes, this lot the volumes pictured); "The Great Republic by the Master Historians," Volume I, edited by Charles Morris, illustrated (The R. S. Belcher Co., New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago, 1902; frontispiece "English Puritans Escaping to America"); Hartwell James, "Military Heroes of the United States: From Lexington to Santiago," with ninety-four illustrations (Altemus' Young People's Library; copyright 1899 by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia; pictorial cover); Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels into Some Remote Regions of the World," fully illustrated (Charles E. Graham & Co., New York); Clara E. Laughlin, "So You're Going to England!" (Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1926; frontispiece "The Strand in 1547"); "The Big Little Things," a salesmanship volume (copyright 1922 by LaSalle Extension University, Chicago); "Handbook of Industrial Loss Prevention: Factory Mutual System," second edition (McGraw-Hill, FM diamond mark); "A Nation of Sheep" (Lederer; W. W. Norton); Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories" (Washington Square Press paperback, introduction by Quentin Anderson); Wallace and Srb, "Adaptation," second edition (Foundations of Modern Biology Series); "Alistair Cooke's America"; Frank Rowsome, Jr., "They Laughed When I Sat Down..." - an informal history of advertising in words and pictures; "Abdominal and Genito-Urinary Injuries" (Military Surgical Manuals, National Research Council); "Westward the Nation" (California State Series); "California People" by Carol Dunlap; and Joseph Wambaugh, "The Golden Orange." Several volumes heavily worn with damaged spines and covers - a true antique as-is lot, as pictured. Local pickup only, per auction terms. Pickup category timeslot {A}