9V Collectible Books ANTIQUE HISTORY Palestine Japan Decorative Bindings Gilt Leather Illustrated Plates Signed Lispenard Seabury Crocker Death Masks Animals Cleopatra Queen Elizabeth Stockholm Sweden

Book Details: This group consists of nine antique volumes featuring history, as shown in the corresponding images. Tiles found in this collection include:

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion, by Lyndon Orr, complete, vols. I-IV; red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering; illustrated.
Legends of Palestine, by Zev Vilnay, 1932; blue cloth-covered boards, blue lettering; illustrated.
We Japanese: Being Descriptions of many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japanese Besides Numerous Other Subject, by Frederic de Garis, c1935; decorative paper wrapper; 355 illustrations; An inscription written by Lispendard Seabury Crocker, the wife of Edward S. Crocker, American Ambassador to Iraq, appears on the front endpaper.
Das Ewige Antlitz: Eine Sammlung von Totenmasken mit Eimen Geleitwort von George Kolbe, by Ernst Benkard, 1927; black cloth-covered boards, Gilt lettering and spine ornamentation; illustrated plates.
Von Tieren un Menschen by Carl Hagenbeck; decorative debossed cloth binding, gilt ornament and lettering; decorative illustrated endapers, illustrated plates, some color.
Ur Svenska Hjartans Djup: Bilder fran Oscar II’s Stockholm, by Gotthard Johansson, Mats Rehnberg, and Gosta Selling, 1953; decorative paper and leather, gilt lettering; many illustrations, paperback professionally bound in decorative binding.
Condition / Notes: These antique volumes show well with some typical indications of age and wear including sheflwear and rubbing. Text and illustrations are clear and crisp through mild to moderate age toning. “Von Tieren und Menschen†has a cracked front hinge and loose endpaper. “We Japanese†exhibits chipping and tears to the delicate paper wrapper.

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