Sotheby Parke Bernet: Autographs, Travel and Americana, Literature, Fine Books and Hebrew Books., 3677,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 15, 1974 - October 15, 1974

Page Size: 382 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
195	[CHINESE ART]	Freer Gallery of Art. A descriptive and illustrative catalogue of Chinese bronzes.	Washington	1946	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
196	[CHINESE ART]	Famous Chinese Paintings. Chung Kuo Ming Hua Chi.	Shanghei	(1909)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
197	[CHINESE ART]	Famous Chinese Paintings. Chung Kuo Ming Hua Chi.	Shanghei	(1909)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	225.00
198	[CHINESE ART]. Hackney, L. W., and Yau Chang-Foo	A Study of Chinese Paintings in the Collection of Ada Small Moore.	London	1940	USD 150.00 - 200.00	90.00
199	[CHINESE ART]. Nott, Stanley Charles	Chinese jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection.	West Palm Beach	1942	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
200	[CHINESE ART]. Pope-Hennessy, Una	Early Chinese Jades.	New York	1923	USD 125.00 - 175.00	70.00
201	[CHINESE ART]. Siren, Osvald	A History of later Chinese Painting.	London	1938	USD 400.00 - 600.00	275.00
202	COOK, JOHN	Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds.	London	1826	USD 150.00 - 200.00	70.00
203	[COSTUME] SMITH, CHARLES, H.	Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1814	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
204	CRANE, WALTER	The First of May	London	1881	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
205	DERRYDALE PRESS. Grand, Gordon	The Silver Horn.	New York	1932	USD 125.00 - 175.00	70.00
206	DOHME, ROBERT	Barock- und Rococo-Architektur.	Berlin	1892	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
207		THE DOLPHIN: a Journal of the making of books.	New York	1933--1941	USD 300.00 - 400.00	300.00
208	EGAN, PIERCE	Life in London.	London	1821	USD 200.00 - 300.00	90.00
209	[EGE, OTTO]	Original leaves from famous books.			USD 400.00 - 600.00	650.00
210	EISENBERG, Baron D'.	L'art de monter a cheval ou description du manege moderne.	The Hague	1737	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,100.00
211	[ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE & FURNITURE]	A group of six works			USD 175.00 - 225.00	90.00
212	[ERASMUS]. Jerome, St.	Catalogus sanctorum ecclesiasticorum, authore Divo Hieronymo, ex novissima recognitione D. Erasmi Rot.	Frankfurt	1549	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
213	ESTIENNE, CHARLES	La dissection des parties du corps humain.	Paris	1546	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	600.00
214	ESTIENNE, ROBERT	Dictionarium latinogallicum.	Paris	1546	USD 150.00 - 250.00	70.00
215	[EXTRA ILLUSTRATED]	Bouille. Memoirs relating to the French Revolution. London 1797. Full red morocco. Thornbury. British Artists. London, 1861			USD 150.00 - 200.00	90.00
216	FORE-EDGE PAINTING, DOUBLE. Irving, Washington	Bracebridge Hall: the Humorist.	London	1822	USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
217	[FUGGER, MARCUS]	Wie und wa [sic] man ein Gestut von gutten edlen Kriegsrossen auffrichten underhalten . . . erziehen soll.	[Augsburg]	1587	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
218	[FURNITURE, AMERICAN]. Hornor, W. P.	Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture.	Philadelphia	1935	USD 350.00 - 450.00	300.00
219	[GOLDEN COCKERELL PRESS]. Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales.	Waltham	1929--1931	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	750.00
220	GUICCARDINI, LODOVICO	Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti Germani Inferiore.	Antwerp	1567	USD 200.00 - 300.00	400.00
221		The HAGGADAH: executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth.	London	1939	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
222	HUOT, F.	A group of 18 pen and ink and brown wash drawings, (each about 14 x 9 cm.). Circa 1800--1810.			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,000.00
223	[ILLUSTRATED]	A'Beckett, Gilbert A. The Comic History of England. London [1849]. 2 vols. The Comic History of Rome. London [1852]. Illustrations by John Leech. Contemporary tree calf (hinge cracking). The 3 volumes in one half morocco case. With *Defoe, D. Robinson C			USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
224	[INCUNABULUM]. Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccoeomini)	Epistola ad Mahumetam.	[Cologne]	[circa 1469/1472]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	750.00
224a	[INCUNABULUM]	Seneca Lucius Annaeus. Opera philosophica et epistolae.	Treviso	1478	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	600.00
224b	[INCUNABULUM]	Psalterium Graeco-Latinum cum canticus, ed. Joannes Crastonus.	Milan	20 September 1481	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
224c	[INCUNABULUM]. Hyginus, C. Julius	Poeticon Astronomicon (ed. J. Sentinus and J. L. Santritter).	Venice	14 October 1482	USD 350.00 - 500.00	650.00
225	[INCUNABULUM]	Sallustius. Opera.	Venice	23 April 1485	USD 150.00 - 250.00	325.00
226	[INCUNABULUM]. Rolewinck, Werner	Fasciculus Temporum.	Strassburg	1488	USD 700.00 - 900.00	550.00
226a	[INCUNABULUM]. Homer	Poieisis Hapasa [Opera]. (ed. Demetrius Chalcondylas).	Florence	not before 13 January 1488/1489	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	7,000.00
226b	[INCUNABULUM]. Plutarch	Vitae Illustrium Virorum (in the Spanish version of Alfonso de Palencia). Seville: Paulus de Colonia, Johannes Pregntzer, Magnus Herbst and Thomas Glockner.		2 July 1491	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
226c	[INCUNABULUM]. Isokrates	Logoi [Orationes]. (ed. Demetrius Chalcondylas).	Milan	24 January 1493	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
227	[INCUNABULUM]. Alphonus de Spina	Fortalitium fidei contra judeos, saracenos aliosque christiane fidei inimicos.	Nuremberg	1494	USD 200.00 - 300.00	375.00
227a	[INCUNABULUM]	Anthologia dia phoron Epigrammaton (The Planudean Anthology), ed. Janus Lascaris.	Florence	11 August 1494	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
228	[INCUNABULUM]	Gregory The Great, Saint. Liber q(ua)dranginta omelioru(m). Paris, Georg Wolff 1491. Bound with his: Pastorale.	Paris	1498	USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	1,100.00
228a	[INCUNABULUM]. Theophrastos	Peri phuton historias [De historia plantarum] [and] peri phuton aition [De causis plantarum].	Venice	1 June 1497	USD 650.00 - 850.00	700.00
228b	[INCUNABULUM]. Aristophanes	Komodiai Ennea [Comoediae novem] (with the scholia, edited by Marcus Musurus).	Venice	15 July 1498	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,600.00
228c	[INCUNABULUM]	EPISTOLAI diaphoron philosophon rheitoron sophiston [Epistolae diversorum philosophorum]. (ed. M. Musurus).	Venice	March-April 1499	USD 350.00 - 500.00	450.00
229	[IRELAND]. Malton, James	A Picturesque and Descriptive view of the City of Dublin.	London	1792 [circa 1815]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,700.00
230	[JAPANESE ART]	Catalogue of the Imperial Treasures in the Shosoin.	Tokyo	1929--1942	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,700.00
231	LAWRENCE, T. E.	Crusader Castles. The Golden Cockerel Press.		1936	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
232	LEONARDO DA VINCI	A Treatise of Painting.		1721	USD 150.00 - 250.00	200.00
232a	[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]	A group of works published by the Limited Editions Club.			USD -	375.00
233	MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO	The Works. . . Written Originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English.	London	1675	USD 125.00 - 150.00	225.00
234	MACQUOID, PERCY, and RALPH EDWARDS	The dictionary of English furniture.	London	1924--1927	USD 300.00 - 400.00	175.00
235	[MAILLOL, ARISTIDE]. Virgil	Les Georgiques; texte latin et version francaise de l'abbe Jacques Debille.	Paris	1937--1943 (1950)	USD 700.00 - 800.00	850.00
236	[MANUSCRIPT]	GOSPEL OF ST. MARK, in Greek.	[Byzantine]	[11th or 12th century]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,100.00
237	[MANUSCRIPT]	ILLUMINATED INITIAL. On a vellum leaf from a choral book.	Bologna	second half of the 13th century	USD 400.00 - 600.00	300.00
238	[MANUSCRIPT]	[Hours of the Virgin], with calendar, in Latin and French.	Northern France (Paris?)	circa 1390--1400	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
239	[MANUSCRIPT]	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. With calendar in Latin. Roman use (Horae Beatae Mariae secundum usum romanae curiae).	Flemish	ca. 1430--1440	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,700.00
240	[MANUSCRIPT]	ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH MINIATURE, from a Book of Hours in Latin.	Northern France	Circa 1470--1480	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
241	[MANUSCRIPT]	BIBLE WITH COMMENTARY (LATIN). EPISTLES (JAMES, PETER, JOHN, JUDE), APOCALYPSE and SONG OF SONGS. NETHERLANDS?		3d quarter of XVth century	USD 600.00 - 800.00	275.00
242	[MANUSCRIPT]	St. Gregory, The Great. Moralia in Job.	Germany (Schaerding am Inn)	1497	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	700.00
243	[MANUSCRIPT]	The Pentecost. Miniature cut from an illuminated choral manuscript.	German, probably Lower Rhenish (Cologne?)	circa 1500	USD 250.00 - 350.00	175.00
244	[MATISSE, HENRI]. Charles d'Orleans	Poemes.	Paris	1950	USD 400.00 - 500.00	550.00
244a	[MATISSE, HENRI]. Joyce, James	Ulysses.	New York	1935	USD 650.00 - 850.00	800.00
245	MICHAELIS, JOHANNES	Opera medico-chirurgica.	Nuremberg	1688	USD 150.00 - 250.00	150.00
246	MINIATURE BOOKS	A group of 14 miniature books of the 17th century			USD 600.00 - 800.00	600.00
246a	[MIRO]. Prevert, J., and G. Ribemont-Dessaignes	Joan Miro.	Paris	1956	USD 125.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
247	[MISCELLANEOUS]	A group of three works:			USD 125.00 - 225.00	Not Sold
248	MOSES, HENRY	A collection of vases, altars, paterae, tripods, candelabra, sarcophagi, &tc.	London	1814	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
249	MUSIC. Willaert, Adrian	[The Alto parts of 6 works]: Musica quatuor vocum (motecta vulgo appellant). Liber Primus [Secundus] Venice, Gardane, 1545.--- Del primo libro de i motetti a quattro voci. --- Motetti di Adrian Vuillaert libro secondo. --- Contratenor modulationum quatuor			USD 100.00 - 1,500.00	650.00
250		THE NEW COLOPHON: A Book-Collectors' Quarterly.	New York	1948	USD 125.00 - 175.00	80.00
251	[NONESUCH PRESS]. Shakespeare, William	The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon.	New York	1929	USD 450.00 - 600.00	325.00
252	PAIN, WILLIAM, and JAMES	British Palladio.	London	1790	USD 125.00 - 225.00	70.00
252a	[PHOTOGRAPHY]	OLD CLOSES AND STREETS, A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAVURES, 1868--1899.	Glasgow	1900	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,600.00
253	PICART, BERNARD	The religious ceremonies and customs of the several nations of the known world.	London	1733--1736	USD 300.00 - 400.00	650.00
253a	[PICASSO, PABLO]	Aristophanes. Lysistrata.	New York	1934	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	750.00
254	[PICASSO, PABLO]. Cocteau, Jean	Picasso de 1916 a 1961.	Monaco	1962	USD 400.00 - 600.00	500.00
255	[PICASSO, PABLO]. Paul Eluard	A Pablo Picasso.	Geneve-Paris	[1944]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	750.00
256	PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Lapides capitolini sive fasti consulares.	Rome	1762	USD 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
257	PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Della magnificenza ed architettura de' romani.	Rome	1760	USD 400.00 - 500.00	500.00
258	[PORCELAIN]	A group of 3 works:			USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
259	[PORCELAIN]. Hofmann, Friedrich H.	Frankenthaler Porzellan.	Munich	1911	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
261	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE	Le costume historique.	Paris	[1876]--1888	USD 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
263	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. ANDERSEN, HANS	Fairy Tales.	London	1932	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
264	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE	THE ARTHUR RACKHAM FAIRY BOOK.	London	1933	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
265	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. BARRIE, Sir JAMES M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.	London	1906	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	1,100.00
266	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. EVANS, C. S.	Cinderella, retold by C. S. Evans.	London	1919	USD 150.00 - 250.00	80.00
267	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. EVANS, C. S.	The Sleeping Beauty, told by C. S. Evans.	London	1920	USD 150.00 - 250.00	90.00
268	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. GRAHAME, KENNETH	The Wind in the Willows.	New York	1940	USD 150.00 - 250.00	275.00
269	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. IBSEN, HENRIK	Peer Gynt.	London	1936	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	850.00
270	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE	LAMOTTE-FOUQUE. Undine.	London	1909	USD 150.00 - 250.00	110.00
271	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. LAMB, CHARLES and MARY	Tales from Shakespeare.	London	1909	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
272	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE, MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Where The Blue Begins.	London	1922	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
273	RACINET, M. AUGUSTE. WAGNER, RICHARD	The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.	London	1910--1911	USD 350.00 - 500.00	225.00
274		REMBRANDT: The Complete Work of Rembrandt by Wilhelm Bode and C. Hofstede de Groot.	Paris	1897--1906	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
275		LA REPRESENTATIONE & FESTA DELLA ANNUNTIATIONE DI NOSTRA DONNA.	Florence	1554	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
276	RHEAD, LOUIS	Fine pen and ink drawing, an illustration for J. F. Cooper's The Deerslayer.			USD 200.00 - 300.00	80.00
277	RHEAD, LOUIS	Three pen and ink drawings, probably book ornaments (borders, and head and tail pieces).			USD 125.00 - 175.00	50.00
278	RHEAD, LOUIS	Six engravings of a fish on the line			USD 150.00 - 250.00	90.00
279	RHEAD, LOUIS	Two pen and ink drawings of anglers casting.			USD 150.00 - 250.00	375.00
280	ROWLANDSON, THOMAS	Cries of London	London	1820	USD 400.00 - 600.00	350.00
281	[ROWLANDSON]. [Combe, William]	The Dance of Life.	London	1817	USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00

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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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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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