Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts. From the Estate of JOHN F. FLEMING., 18Nov1988,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 1988 - November 18, 1988

Page Size: 373 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Second Jungle Book	New York	1895	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,500.00
202	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Light that Failed	London	1900	USD 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
203	KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS	China Monumentis	Amsterdam	1667	USD 400.00 - 500.00	715.00
204	KLINKOWSTROM, AXEL	Bref om de Fórenta Staterne, forfattade under en resa till Amerika, aren 1818, 1819, 1820	Stockholm	1824	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,300.00
205	KNOX, HENRY	Six letters signed ("HKnox") as Secretary of War to Samuel Hodgedon, Superintendant of the Military Stores of the United States, War Department	Washington	7 July to 27 November 1794	USD 500.00 - 700.00	550.00
206	LACROIX, PAUL	The Arts in the Middle Ages, The XVIII Century. Its Institutions, Customs and Costumes., Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages, Science and Literature in the Middle Ages, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages	France	1875, 1700-1789, 1876, 1876, 1878, n.d.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
207	LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER, Marquis DE.	Seven autograph letters signed ("L.F.") to "Citoyen Mascles," Chavaniac and La Grange	France, n.y.	1802-3	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	2,750.00
208	LAMB, CHARLES	Album Verses, with a Few Others	London	1830	USD 500.00 - 700.00	770.00
209	LAMB, CHARLES	The Last Essays of Elia. Being Essays Published Under That Name	London	1833	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	770.00
210	LEE, General ROBERT E.	Autograph letter signed to "my dear Cousin Molly" [Custis], Old Point		15 June 1831	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,980.00
211	LEREBOURS, NOEL-MARIE; Luden Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef	Excursions Daguerriennes. Vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe, The Truthful Lens	Paris, New York	1841-1842, 1980	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
212	LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. PEAT, HAROLD R.	Private Peat, Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Reproductions Taken at the Front. Also with Scenes from the Photo-Play of the Same Name Released by Famous-Players-Lasky Corporation	New York	1917	USD 350.00 - 450.00	385.00
213	LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	The Spanish Student. A Play, in three Acts, The Estray: a Collection of Poems	Cambridge, Boston	1843, 1847	USD 250.00 - 350.00	440.00
214	LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	The Golden Legend	Boston	1851	USD 500.00 - 700.00	2,750.00
215	LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	The Song of Hiawatha	Boston	1855	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	3,300.00
216	LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	Autograph manuscript of the poem "Saga of The Skeleton in Armor,"	n. p.	n.d., 1840	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,620.00
217	LOPES DE CASTANHEDA, FERNAM	The first Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias	London	1582	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,500.00
218	LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO	The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne	London	1578	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,280.00
219	LOUIS XIV	Medailles sur les principaux evenements du Regne de Louis Le Grand, avec des explications historiques ...	Paris	1702	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,850.00
220	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	A Year's Life	Boston	1841	USD 250.00 - 350.00	715.00
221	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL; James Russell Lowell	Our Contributors.--No. XVII. Edgar Allan Poe.			USD 250.00 - 350.00	1,100.00
222	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	My Study Windows	Boston	1871	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,870.00
223	LUTHER, MARTIN	Autograph letter signed ("Martinus Luther") to Johann Lang	n.p., Wittenberg	29 July 1520	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	66,000.00
224	MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON	Autograph manuscript of his extended review of "Thackeray's History of the Earl of Chatham,"	n.p.	n.d., 1834	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	7,700.00
225	MACDONALD, GEORGE	Within and Without: a Dramatic Poem	London	1855	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,980.00
226	McFEE, WILLIAM	Letters from an Ocean Tramp	London	1908	USD 250.00 - 350.00	660.00
227	MANDEVILLE, Sir JOHN	Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose, & piu notabile che si trouino nelle parte del mondo scripte & racolte dallo strenuissimo Caualiere asperondoro Giovanni Mandavilla Franzese che uisito quasi tutte le parti del mondo habitabile ridocto in li	Florence	n.d., 1505	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,870.00
228	MANSFIELD, KATHERINE	The Doves' Nest and Other Stories	London	1923	USD 400.00 - 600.00	550.00
229	MASEFIELD, JOHN	Salt-Water Ballads	London	1902	USD 350.00 - 450.00	198.00
230	MASTERS, EDGARLEE	A Book of Verses	Chicago	1898	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	935.00
231	MATHER, COTTON	Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of our Lord		1698	USD 1,880.00 - 2,200.00	3,850.00
232	MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET	Of Human Bondage		1915	USD 250.00 - 350.00	462.00
233	MEARNE, SAMUEL, binder. ANDREWS, LANCELOT	A Manual of the Private Devotions and Meditations of the Right Reverend Father in God.	both London	by T. N. for Anne Mosely	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
234	MELVILLE, HERMAN. ANONYMOUS	The Poetry of Love, From the Most Celebrated Authors, With Several Original Pieces.	Philadelphia	1844	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,620.00
235	MELVILLE, HERMAN. BURNS, ROBERT	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Kilmarnock's, Newport, Rhode Island	1786, 1870	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	4,180.00
236	MELVILLE, HERMAN. COWLEY, ABRAHAM	The Works ... Volume the First	London	and Charles Harper, vol. 3, 1707-07-11	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	7,150.00
237	MERARD DE SAINT-JUST, ANNE-JEANNE-FÉLICITÉ D'ORMOY, Madame	La Corbeille de Fleurs	Paris	1796	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,300.00
238	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Farina: a Legend of Cologne	London	1857	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
239	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth	London	1883	USD 400.00 - 600.00	638.00
240	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Renascence and Other Poems	New York	1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,200.00
241	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Renascence and Other Poems	New York	1917	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
242	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Renascence. A Poem	New York	1924	USD 400.00 - 600.00	880.00
243	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Flowers of Evil.	New York	1936	USD 700.00 - 900.00	605.00
244	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	A Few Figs from Thistles	Frank Shay	1920	USD 250.00 - 350.00	385.00
245	MILNE, A.A.	The Red House Mystery	London	1922	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	6,600.00
246	MILNE, A. A.	When We Were Very Young	London	1924	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	15,400.00
247	MILNE, A. A.	Winnie-the-Pooh	London	1926	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	13,200.00
248	MILNE, A. A.	Now We Are Six	London	1927	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,870.00
249	GOODFELLOW, ROBIN, pseudonym	MINIATURE BOOK., The Fairy Annual	London	1838	USD 100.00 - 150.00	275.00
250	MOORE, GEORGE	Pagan Poems	London	1881	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	6,050.00
251	MOORE, GEORGE	Confessions of a Young Man	London	1888	USD 350.00 - 450.00	242.00
252	MOORE, GEORGE	Impressions and Opinions	London	1891	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
253	MOORE, GEORGE	Modern Painting.	London	1893	USD 350.00 - 450.00	165.00
254	MOORE, GEORGE	Memoirs of My Dead Life	London	1906	USD 700.00 - 900.00	2,750.00
255	MOORE, GEORGE	Peronnik the Fool	Mount Vernon, N.Y.	1926	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
256	MOORE, Sir JONAS	Modern Fortification: or, Elements of Military Architecture	London	1673	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,500.00
257	MORE, Sir THOMAS	De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia (--Epigrammata ... Thomae Mori--Epigrammata Des. Erasmi Roteradami)	Basel	November-March-December 1518	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,760.00
258	MORGAN, J. PIERPONT	Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, Fourth Earl of Ashburnham and other Sources Now Forming Portion of the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan. Early Printed Books	London	1907	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,950.00
259	MORGAN, J. PIERPONT	Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan at Princes Gate & Dover House, London.	London	1907	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
260	MUNBY, ALAN NOEL LATIMER	Phillipps Studies	Cambridge	1951-60	USD 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
261	MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN	Cosmographei [sic] oder bescreibung aller länder ... jetztunder aber biss auff das M.D. LXI ....	Basel	1561	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
262		Tenth Series. Numb. I. An Abstract of some special Forreigne Occurrences	London	1638	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,750.00
263	NEWTON, A. EDWARD	The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections	Boston	1919	USD 350.00 - 450.00	440.00
264	NEWTON, A. EDWARD	Autograph letter signed to his wife Babette (addressed as "Dear Old Woman"), Looe, Cornwall	England	3 April 1936	USD 400.00 - 600.00	462.00
265	NEWTON, A. EDWARD. TINKER, CHAUNCEY BREWSTER; NEWTON, A. EDWARD	The Good Estate of Poetry, Bibliography and Pseudo-Bibliography	Boston, Philadelphia	1929, 1936	USD 250.00 - 350.00	715.00
266		Engraved view, "The South Prospect of the City of New York in North America," with legend at top "Engraved For the London Magazine 1761,"			USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	770.00
267		Notes on Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not	London	n.d.	USD 250.00 - 350.00	825.00
268	O'NEILL, EUGENE	Three autograph letters signed TO THE IRISH PLAYWRIGHT ST. JOHN ERVINE	New York and Provincetown, Mass.	22 February, 8 April and 18 November 1920	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,400.00
269	PALATINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Libro Nel qual S'insegna à Scriver ogni sorte lettera, antica, & moderna, di qualun que natione, con le sue regole, & misure, & esempe	Rome	1548	USD 600.00 - 800.00	2,090.00
270	PASQUILL	The Returne of the renowned Caualiero Pasquill of England, from the other side of the Seas, and his meeting with Masorius at London upon the Royall Exchange	London	1589	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,180.00
271	PAYNE, ROGER, binder. HEINSIUS, DANIEL	Cras Credo, Hodie nihil. Sive, Modus tandem sit ineptiarum. Satyra Menippaea	Leiden	1621	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
272	PAYNE, ROGER, binder. OVID	Opera	London	1715	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
273	PEIRESC, NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE. MARTIAL, VALERIUS. M.	Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum libri XV	Paris	1607	USD 500.00 - 700.00	715.00
274	PENNSYLVANIA	Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania.	Philadelphia	1752-53-54 and 1774-75-76	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	5,500.00
275	PETITOT, JEAN	Les Émaux de Petitot du Musée Imperial du Louvre. Portraits de Personnages Historiques et de Femmes Celebres du Siecle de Louis XIV	Paris	1862-64	USD 500.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
276	PFORZHEIMER, CARL H., collection. JACKSON, WILLIAM A.	The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. English Literature 1475-1700	New York	1940	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	13,200.00
277	PFORZHEIMER, CARL H, collection. JACKSON, WILLIAM A.	The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. English Literature 1475-1700	New York	1940	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	17,600.00
278	PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH	Autograph letter signed ("H.L.P.") to Mrs. Lewis [most probably Charlotte Lewis, wife of the Dean of Ossory]	Streatham	8 December 1790	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,080.00
279	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket	New York	1838	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,980.00
280	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket	New York	1838	USD 400.00 - 500.00	2,200.00
281	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	Eureka: a Prose Poem	New York	1848	USD 400.00 - 600.00	3,300.00
282		The Cabinet of Momus; A Choice Selection of Humorous Poems, From P. Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Penwarne, Humphreys, Taylor, Colman, Hopkinson, Harrison, Pitt, &c. &c.	Philadelphia	1809	USD 150.00 - 200.00	275.00
283	POPE, ALEXANDER	Autograph letter signed ("A. Pope") to his patron and friend George, First Baron Lyttleton	Bath	12 December 1739	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,750.00
284	PROLIANUS, CHRISTIANUS	Astrologia	Naples	25 August 1477	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,200.00
285	PUCKLE, JAMES	The Club: Or, A Dialogue Between Father and Son. In Vino Veritas	London	1711	USD 600.00 - 800.00	352.00
286	PULCI, LUCA	Ciriffo Calvaneo ... Con la Giostra del Magnifico Lorenzo de Medici... con le epistole composte dal medesimo Pulci	Florence	1572	USD 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
287	QUARITCH, BERNARD, booksellers	A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices	London	1887-98	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,200.00
288	RALEIGH, Sir WALTER	A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Return	London	1618	USD 500.00 - 800.00	990.00
289	REYNOLDS, Sir JOSHUA	A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the Prizes, Dec. 10, 1790	London	1791	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,045.00
290	ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO, BERNERS, JULIANA	A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle.	London	1880	USD 350.00 - 450.00	1,100.00
291	ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO, TROLLOPE, ANTHONY; EGLESTON, NATHANIEL H.	The Warden, Hand-Book of Tree-Planting	New York's	n.d., 1900	USD 250.00 - 350.00	605.00
292	ROSENBACH, Dr. ABRAHAM SIMON WOLF	Central Manual Training School. The Record of the Class of '94	Philadelphia	1894	USD 250.00 - 350.00	385.00
293	ROSENBACH, Dr. A.S.W. JOHNSON, SAMUEL	Samuel Johnson's Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane in 1747 with Garrick's Epilogue. A Facsimile of the Hitherto Undiscovered First Edition.	New York	1902	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,430.00
294	ROSENBACH, Dr. A.S.W. JOHNSON, SAMUEL	Samuel Johnson's Prologue			USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
295	ROSENBACH, Dr. A.S.W.	Early American Children's Books	Portland	1933	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
296	ROSENBACH, Dr. A.S.W. WOLF, EDWIN, 2nd and JOHN F. FLEMING	Rosenbach. A Biography	Cleveland and New York	1960	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
297	ROSENWALD, LESSING, J.	Treasures from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. An exhibit honoring Mr. Rosenwald's eighty-second birthday	Washington	1973	USD 200.00 - 300.00	418.00
298	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Poems	London	1870	USD 600.00 - 800.00	2,420.00
299	ROUGET DE LISLE, CLAUDE JOSEPH	Essais en Vers et en Prose	Paris	1796	USD 250.00 - 350.00	1,320.00
300	RUSKIN, JOHN	Cover title: Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy: 1875	Orpington, London	1875	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	990.00

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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