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THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM
The Time Traveller Collection
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Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, in Three Acts,
acting edition.
London and New York, Samuel French, c. 1900, later Impression of the first acting edition, printed
wrappers (Softcover). Few marginal notes in the text and some underlining in ink. On the Character -
page below the title it correctly reads: ‘Played for the first time at the St.James’s Theatre, on Thursday,
February 14th, 1895’; together with Stuart Mason - Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. With a Note by Robert
Ross. Illustrated. London, T.Werner Laurie, 1914, 605 pages, red cloth. (2)
Estimate €400-€600 (approx £340-£510)
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Wilson, James. The History of Egypt - From the
earliest accounts of that country,
till the expulsion of the French from Alexandria in
the year 1801. Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.,
1805, in three volumes (complete). 8vo, XIV, (folded
map of Egypt and the Sinai), 421, VI, 477, VI, 487
pages. full leather-binding, gilt lettering on spine.
Estimate €250-€350 (approx £212-£297)
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