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Sale Name
THE LUTHER A. BREWER. COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON PRINTING AND BOOKMAKING DOVES PRESS AND OTHER FINE PRESS ISSUES DUPLICATES FROM HIS FAMOUS LEIGH HUNT COLLECTION: FIRST EDITIONS ART MONOGRAPHS AND REFERENCE WORKS. ALSO THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF
Auction Date
03/10/1925 - 03/10/1925
Year of Sale
1925
Sale Number
#1925Mar10
Total Lots
1112
Sold Lots
1110
Lots Sold
99.8%
Unsold Lots
0
Price Unknown
2
Total Sales (USD)
8,737.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
585,179.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
743 Stokes (I. N. Phelps) New York. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909.

1915-1922

 USD - 325.00
404 Paff (A. E.) Etching.

1917

 USD - 145.00
471 Grolier Club. Stauffer (David McNeely). American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel. 2 vols.; Gage ( ...

1907-1921

 USD - 110.00
214 E. Gordon Duff Caxton Club. William Caxton.

1905

 USD - 77.50
479 Geoffrey Keynes [Blake (William).] Grolier Club. A Bibliography of William Blake.

1921

 USD - 65.00
210 Catlin (George) North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies ...

1844

 USD - 60.00
477 Durer (Albrecht) Grolier Club. Of the Just Shaping of Letters. From the Applied Geometry of Albrecht Durer. Book III.

1917

 USD - 60.00
97 Florio (John) Binding by Mearne. Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary, Italian and English.

1688

 USD - 52.00
1087 Wither (George) Britain's Remembrancer. Containing a Narrative of the Plague lately past; a Declaration of the ...

1628

 USD - 52.00
333 Keats (John) Doves Press.

1914

 USD - 50.00
334 Doves Press. Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Selected Poems; [Also] Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.). Note on a ...

1914

 USD - 50.00
205 Lawson (John) Carolina. The History of Carolina; containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that ...

1718

 USD - 45.00
42 Cowper (William) Austen's (Jane) Copy. Poems.

1808

 USD - 45.00
105 Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron.

1886

 USD - 45.00
51 Balzac (Honore de) The Works of Honore de Balzac.

[1897-1899]

 USD - 42.50
94 Bibliophile Society.

No date

 USD - 40.00
520 Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Scarlet Letter, A Romance.

1850

 USD - 38.00
470 De Vinne (Theodore Low) Grolier Club. Title-Pages as Seen by a Printer . . .

1901

 USD - 37.00
85 Bibliographical Society Publications, as below described.

1892-1921

 USD - 37.00
284 [Dana (Richard H., Jr.)] Two Years before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.

1840

 USD - 35.00
317 Shakespeare (William) Doves Press. The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.

1909

 USD - 35.00
89 Lamb (Charles) Bibliophile Society. The Letters of Charles Lamb in which many mutilated words and passages have ...

1905

 USD - 35.00
1020 Sotheby (S. L.) Typography. Principia Typographica. The Block-Books, of Xylographic Delineations of Scripture ...

1858

 USD - 32.50
543 Hodgkin (John Eliot) Rariora. Being Notes of Some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Historical Documents, Medals ...

[1900]

 USD - 32.50
24 Andrews (William Loring) An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books.

1906

 USD - 32.00
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    Book Week
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
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