Laster's Fine Art & Antiques

Winston-Salem, NC

Interested particularly in estates of high net worth and fine quality items - Collections professionally, discreetly and effectively sold since 1973 - Always interested in acquiring and accepting consignments of fine antiques

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John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet. Garden City, New York, 1928: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. First Edition After the Printing of 201 De Luxe Copies. Dust jacket is toned with stains and tearing along the sides and particularly on the spine edge. Interior pages are toned but clean of marks and complete at 377 pages. 8 1/4" tall. - $125

 

La Liturgie, Ou Formulaire Des Prieres Publiques, Selon L'usage de L'Eglise Anglicane. Nouvelle Edition. London: Paul Valliant, 1764. 5 1/2" Tall. - $450

 

The League of the Alps, The Siege of Valencia, The Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems by Felicia Hemans. Two Volumes in One. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. Good condition. - $180

 

Le Grant Testament Et La Petit by Francois Villon. 1957 Facsimile of the 1489 book. This is #251 of an edition of 5000. Bound in full vellum; cover has a blind-embossed emblem; chip at top hinge. 8 5/8" tall. - $125

 

Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd. London (1929), with illustrations after water-colour drawings by William Russell Flint. Signed Riviere binding of full red calf, gilt-ruled covers and heavily decorated spine. Very light wear. All edges gilt. Interior clean and tight. One exception of a single fingerprint (from Flint?) on plate between pages 304 & 305; otherwise very nice. 8 5/8" tall. - $450

 

Les Edicts Et Ordonnances Des Tres-Chrestiens Roys, Francois I, Henry II, Francois II, Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV & Louys XIII; Quatriesme Edition, In Two Volumes. Vols. I & II 1304 pages plus 63-page Index. Paris, 1627; Chez Jean & Estienne Richer. Both Volumes bound in full tan Morocco leather with gilt ruled and ornamented covers and spines with five raised hubs and six compartments. All fore-edges gilt. Bindings are signed "Asper Freres." Bindings are very attractive with some light wear to the extremities; corners bumped. Interiors are tight and clean. 7" tall. - $1250

 

Les Pseaumes de David. A Paris chez Lefevre, Libraire Rue de L'Operen, 1817. Full green straight-grain leather; gilt-decorated spine and both covers. All foredges gilt; includes slipbox. 4" Tall. - $175

 

The Life and Works of William Cowper by Robert Southey. Complete in Fifteen Volumes. London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835. Bound in full green morocco leather; blind and gilt-tooled on covers and spines in signed bindings by Cedric Chivers. There is some light wear to the extremities with Vols. XI and V having light chipping at the spine top and scratches on the front cover of Vol. XI. Otherwise, a very attractive set. Interiors are tight and clean except for some foxing and toning focused at the first few and last few plates. Residual signs of past bookplates inside on paste-downs. Vol. I contains an original watercolor of the Cowper home as the frontispiece. Overall an attractive set. 6 5/8" tall. - $950

 

Liposuction: The Franco-American Experience by Yves-Gerard Illouz. Volume 1, 1985. Medical Aesthetics, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA. Bound in full black leather. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs. 438 pages. Excellent condition. 11 1/4" tall. - $450

 

The Lives Of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton. London: John Major, 1825. Signed Riviere binding in full red Morocco leather, with gilt ruling on front and rear covers and gilt fish on the spine, and along the edges inside each cover; all fore-edges gilt. 6 5/8" tall. - $350

 

Livingstone, der Missionar I and II by David Livingstone. Leipzig, Berlag von Otto Spamer, 1869. Volume I has a damaged spine and a few loose papers in the book, with some foxing; Volume II also has loose pages and a nearly detached spine, and some foxing. 8" Tall. - $100 for the pair.

 

Livre Des Orateurs by Timon. Treizieme Edition, Paris: Pagnerre, Editeur, 1844. Includes 27 engraved portraits. 1/2 smooth blue leather and mottled paper binding, spine gilt-ruled with two black labels, six compartments. First free flyleaf imprinted at bottom: "Docteur Lancevin, Havre" in oval stamp. Foxed throughout, binding is tight. 10 1/4" tall. - $125

 

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