Lot of 4 books. The Instructive Picture Book Sketches From Nature or Pictures of Animal & Vegetable Life in All Lands, with 23 of 24 numbered plates (46/48 total images), plate XXIV missing, second edition, 1877, Edward Stanford, London; The Instructive Picture Book Quadrapeds, fourth edition, 1878, Edward Stanford, London, with 58/60 numbered plates, plates LIX and LX missing, . With The Picture Alphabet, McLoughlin Bros, New York; and The Story of Reynard the Fox, with six illustrations, Willis P. Hazard, Philadelphia, 1852. All as is, including fraying, wear and tears to spines, Picture Alphabet with tears to covers and pages, Instructive Picture Books and Reynard all with warping and discoloration to covers, corners bumped and chipped on all, foxing and discoloration to pages on all, Reynard covers separating.
From the estate of Maurice Binder. Born in 1918, Maurice Binder was an American film title designer, best known for his work on 14 James Bond films, including Dr. No. He died in 1991 at the age of 72.

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