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Thirteen works bound in snakeskin by J. Franklin Mowery.
All books bound by J. Franklin Mowery Binders in half python or rattlesnake over cloth with gilt lettered spine labels except where noted. Sold as bindings and not subject to return. Provenance : Harry & Virginia Walton. Il Miracolo della Sacra Imagine di Maria detta della Rondini Successo il di 10 Ottobre 1501. Bologna: Giacomo Monti, n.d. 4to (215 x 150 mm). Girolamo Accoramboni. Tractatus utilissimus de natura & lactis. N.p.: 1538. Half rattlesnake over cloth. Cicero. Commentariorum Xysti Betulen in de Natura Deorum in Paradoxa Anotations. Basileae: Ioannenn Oporinum, 1550. 2 volumes in one. 8vo (170 x 95 mm). Python over African antelope backstrip. A bound group of 9 printed funeral orations. Mostly Paris: 1626-1687. 4to (215 x 170 mm). Selection of plates from Abraham Bosse's Sur La Distinction des Manieres des Peinture. N.p: c. 1649 . Small folio (180 x 105 mm). 27 engraved double-page plates. La Vie et la Mort du Cardinal de Sante Cecile. Paris: 1648. 4to (210 x 150 mm). 6pp pamphlet numbered 149 and paginated 1329-1340. Moliere. La Critique de l'escole des femmes. Paris: 1674. 12mo (130 x 80 mm). [Bound with:] Le Festin de Pierre and L'Escole des Maris , 1679. Full python. Condition: second work inlaid with large losses. Samuel Johnson. An Argument Proving, That the Abrogation of King James … London: 1692. 4to (195 x 150). A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of her late Majesty Queen Mary… London: 1695. 4to (190 x 150 mm ). Petite Traite de l'Amour des Femmes pour les Sots. [Bound with:] Petit Commentaire sur le titre de la petite brochure; Petite Traite de l'Amour des Femmes pour les Sots. Bagatelle: 1788. 8vo (200 x 120 mm). Half rattlesnake over cloth. Vox Stellarum: or, A Royal Almanack for the Year … 1790. London: 1790. 8vo (175 x 115 mm). M. Gregoire. Observations Critiques sur le Poeme de M. Joel Barlow, The Columbiad … Paris: 1809. 8vo (185 x 125 mm). [Bound with:] M. Gregoire. De la Constitution Francaise d'l'an 1814. Paris: 1814. Le Bonne Petit Souris … Troyes: n.d. 12mo (145 x 85 mm).