American Art Association: 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 , 1925Mar10,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 10, 1925 - March 10, 1925

Page Size: 1112 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Addison (John)	Works.	London	1906	USD -	2.50
2		Ainsworth (W. H.). The Tower of London. Illustrated by George Cruikshank; Surtees (Ralph). Soapey ...	London	no date	USD -	3.00
3		Alcott (A. B.). Concord Days. 1872; Emerson (R. W.). Conduct of Life. 1860; Holmes (O. W.). Over the ...	Boston	1860-1899	USD -	2.00
4		Aldine Press. Quintillian.	Venetiis	1514	USD -	9.00
5		Aldine Press. Justinus. Trogi Pompei externae Historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae. [Colophon ...	Venice	1522	USD -	3.00
6	[Allstree (Richard)]	The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of The Whole Duty of Man.	Printed at the Theatre in Oxford	1704	USD -	3.00
7	Bryant (William Cullen)	America (Picturesque). Picturesque America, or, The Land We Live in.	New York	[1874]	USD -	3.00
8		American Art Review (The). A Journal Devoted to the Practice, Theory, History, and Archaeology of ...	Boston	1880-1881	USD -	8.00
9		American Expansion. The Official and Pictorial Record of the Story of American Expansion. Portraying ...	Washington	1904	USD -	1.00
10	Barber (E. A.)	American Glassware. American Glassware, Old and New. A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United ...	Philadelphia	[1900]	USD -	8.00
11	Winsor (Justin)	American History. Narrative and Critical History of America.	Boston	[1886-1889]	USD -	11.00
12		American Humor. Prismatics, by Richard Haywarde (F.S. Cozzens). N. Y. 1853; Cove Cut (Connecticut ...			USD -	2.00
13		American Imprints. Dickinson (J.). The True Scripture-Doctrine Concerning Some Important Points of ...			USD -	2.00
14		American Silver. The Work of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths. Exhibited at the ...	Boston	1906	USD -	3.00
15	Schmidt (Friedrich)	Americana. Versuch uber den politischen Zustand der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America.	Stuttgart und Tubingen	1822	USD -	7.00
16		Americana. Diocese of Massachusetts. Journal of the Annual Meeting of the Convention. 1910 to 1918 ...			USD -	2.00
17	McClellan (R. G.)	Americana. The Golden State: A History of the Region west of the Rocky Mountains; embracing ...	Philadelphia	[1872]	USD -	6.00
18	Amiel (Henri-Frederic)	Amiel's Journal. . . .	London	1885	USD -	3.00
19	Andrews (William Loring)	Sextodecimos et infra.	New York	1899	USD -	11.00
20	Andrews (William Loring)	The Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden.	New York	1901	USD -	5.00
21	Andrews (William Loring)	Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects.	New York	1902	USD -	22.50
22	Andrews (William Loring)	The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle from the Book of Saint Albans with an Introductory Essay by ...	New York	1903	USD -	12.50
23	Andrews (William Loring)	New York as Washington Knew It After the Revolution.	New York	1905	USD -	17.00
24	Andrews (William Loring)	An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books.	New York	1906	USD -	32.00
25	[Andrews (William Loring)]	The Heavenly Jerusalem. A Mediaeval Song of the Joys of the Church Triumphant.	New York	1908	USD -	10.00
26	[Andrews (William Loring)]	Jacob Steendam, Noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland.	New York	1908	USD -	5.00
27	Mitchill (Wm. Andrew)	Angling. On the Pleasure and Utility of Angling: a Paper read to the Waltonian Club, of Newcastle on ...	Newcastle on Tyne	[1824]	USD -	3.00
28		Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellany intended to Preserve and Illustrate several Remains of Old Times ...	London	1775	USD -	4.00
29	Apuleius (Lucius)	The New Metamorphosis; or, the Pleasant Transformation: Being the Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius of ...	London	1794	USD -	3.00
30	Apuleius (Lucius)	The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works, of Apuleius.	London	1822	USD -	12.50
31		Arabian Nights. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: now Completely done into English ...	London	1882-1884	USD -	20.00
32	C. A. Wheelwright	Aristophanes. The Comedies of Aristophanes: translated into familiar blank Verse, with Notes ...	Oxford	1827	USD -	1.00
33		Art. Cheltenham Gravures. The Gallery of Art.	London	circa 1890	USD -	2.00
34	Vever (Henri)	Art in France. La Bijouterie Francaise au XIXe Siecle (1800-1900).	Paris	1906-1908	USD -	2.50
35	Hefner (J. von)	Art of the Middle Ages. Trachten des christlichen Mittelalters.	Mannheim	No date	USD -	7.50
36	Butsch (A. F.)	Art of the Renaissance Period. Die Bucher-Ornamentik der Renaissance.	Leipzig	1878	USD -	15.00
37	Ashton (John)	A righte Merrie Christmasse! ! !	London	circa 1895	USD -	2.50
38	Laborde (Leon de)	Asia Minor. Voyage de l'Asie Mineure par Mrs. Alexandre de Laborde, Becker, Hall, et Leon de Laborde ...	Paris	1838	USD -	3.00
39		Association Volume. (1) A Translation of such Parts of the Rolls of Parliament, etc. London, 1788; ( ...			USD -	5.00
40	Pickering (Timothy)	Association Volume. Review of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams . . . and the late ...	Salem	1824	USD -	5.00
41	William Newcome	Association Volume. Observations on our Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor.	Charlestown	1810	USD -	4.00
42	Cowper (William)	Austen's (Jane) Copy. Poems.	London	1808	USD -	45.00
43		Australian Scrap Book. An Album containing about 40 finely engraved portraits; about 35 Finely ...		XVIIIth-XIXth Centuries	USD -	12.50
44		Autographs. A Collection of One Hundred Autograph Letters Signed by Celebrated Authors, Actors, etc.			USD -	20.00
45		Autographs. A Collection of 4 Autograph Letters Signed and one Letter Signed.		1872-1905	USD -	15.00
46	Aytoun (William E.)	Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.	Edinburgh	1865	USD -	10.00
46a		Aytoun (William E.). Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Illustrated by J. Noel Paton. Edin., 1870 ...			USD -	12.00
47	[Bacon (Delia)]	The Bride of Fort Edward: (a drama) founded on an Incident of the Revolution.	New York	1839	USD -	3.00
48	Bacon (Sir Francis)	Works of Bacon . . .	London	1753	USD -	3.00
49	Ballantine (James)	The Gaberlunzie's Wallet.	Edinburgh	1869	USD -	7.50
50		Balzac (Honore de). The Correspondence of Honore de Balzac . . . Translated by C. L. Kenney ...			USD -	5.00
51	Balzac (Honore de)	The Works of Honore de Balzac.	Philadelphia	[1897-1899]	USD -	42.50
52	Balzac (Honore de)	The Works of Honore de Balzac.	New York	No date	USD -	10.00
53	Banning (Kendall)	Bypaths in Arcady. A Book of Love Songs.	Chicago	1915	USD -	10.00
54	Bartlett (W. H.)	Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc. Illustrated . . . With descriptions of the plates by John ...	London	1836 and no date	USD -	8.00
54a		Bartolozzi (Francesco). A Biographical Essay by J. T. Herbert Baily. 1907. Connoisseur's Extra ...	London	1868-1910	USD -	4.00
55	Milton (John)	Baskerville Press. Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. From the Text of Thomas Newton; Paradise ...	Birmingham	1758	USD -	9.00
56		Baskerville Press. A Vocabulary, or Pocket Dictionary. To which is prefixed, a Compendious Grammar ...	Birmingham	1765	USD -	11.00
57		Baskerville Press. The Works of Virgil, Englished by Robert Andrews.	Birmingham	1766	USD -	10.00
58		Baskerville Press. Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae.	Birminghamiae	1772	USD -	2.00
59		Baskerville Press. Titi Lucretii Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex; Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae.	Birmingham	1772	USD -	8.00
60		Baskerville Press. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	21.00
61	Elliott (Jesse Duncan)	Battle of Lake Erie. Speech delivered in Hagerstown, Md. on 14th November, 1843.	Philadelphia	1844	USD -	1.50
62		Bay Psalm Book. A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book: being the Earliest New England Version of ...	Cambridge	1862	USD -	5.00
63		Bay Psalm Book (The): being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, printed by Stephen Daye, at ...	New York	1903	USD -	2.00
64	Davidson (John)	Beardsley Illustrations. Plays.	London	1894	USD -	7.00
65		Beardsley Illustrations. The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. Vols. I to IV inclusive and Vols ...	London	1894-1897	USD -	11.00
66	Ben Ionson	Beardsley Illustrations. His Vol pone: or the Foxe.	New York	1898	USD -	4.50
67	Beardsley (Aubrey)	Fifty Drawings.	New York	1920	USD -	7.00
68		Beattie (James). The Minstrel. 1858; Quarles (Francis). Emblems, Divine and Moral. 1859; Bowring ( ...	London	1827-1859	USD -	2.00
69	Behn (Mrs. Aphra)	The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part of the Confession of the New Married Couple.	London	1922	USD -	4.00
70	Bellamy (Daniel)	Ethic Amusements.	London	1768	USD -	2.50
71	Belloc (Hilaire)	The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. London, n. d.; More Beasts for Worse Children. London, n. d.	London	no date	USD -	3.00
72	Bennett (Arnold)	Clayhanger; Hilda Lessways; Over There. War Scenes on the Western Front. Illustrated: These Twain. [ ...	London and New York	1910-[1916] and no date	USD -	6.00
73	Bennett (Charles)	Proverbs with Pictures.	London	1877	USD -	2.00
74		Benson (A. C.). Life of Edward White Benson, Some Time Archbishop of Canterbury, by His Son, Arthur ...	London	1883-1900	USD -	5.00
75	Beraldi (Henri)	Les Graveurs du XIXe Siecle. Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes.	Paris	1885-1892	USD -	20.00
76	Jullien (Adolphe)	Berlioz (H.). Hector Berlioz. Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres.	Paris	1888	USD -	7.00
77	Bettens (Louise E.)	Three privately printed volumes containing letters by or pertaining to Louise E. Bettens.	[New York]	[1918]	USD -	2.00
78		Bewick (Thomas). Bewick's Select Fables. Illustrated. London, n. d.; Wilson (C. H.). Life and Works ...			USD -	4.00
79	Edited by J. Potter Briscoe	Bibelots (The).	London	1903	USD -	5.00
80		Bible, Italian. New Testament. [Il Nuouo Testamento, di Greco nuouamente tradotto in linqua Toscana ...	[Colophon] in Vinegia . . .	Del Mese di Giulio MDXXXVIIII (1539)	USD -	5.00
81		Bible. The Old and New Testament and Book of Common Prayer.	London	1706	USD -	6.00
82		Bible Plates. Historise Celebriores Veteris et Novi Testamenti Scoribus Representatre.	No place	circa 1708	USD -	4.00
83		Bibliographical Society. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society.	London	1893-1904	USD -	4.00
84	Marche (O. de la)	Bibliographical Society. Le Chevalier Delibere.	London	1898	USD -	3.00
85		Bibliographical Society Publications, as below described.	London	1892-1921	USD -	37.00
86	Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge	Bibliophile Society. Andre's Journal. An Authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the ...	Boston	1903	USD -	26.00
87	Edited by F. B. Sanborn	Bibliophile Society. The First and Last Journey of Thoreau and Sir Walter Raleigh.	Boston	1905	USD -	9.00
88	Edited by Henry Aiken Metcalf	Bibliophile Society. The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus.	Boston	1905	USD -	7.00
89	Lamb (Charles)	Bibliophile Society. The Letters of Charles Lamb in which many mutilated words and passages have ...	Boston	1905	USD -	35.00
90		Bibliophile Society. Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau. 1907. Printed on Vellum; Rossetti (D ...	Boston	1905-1907	USD -	4.00
91		Bibliophile Society. Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Year Books.	Boston	1905-1907	USD -	6.00
92		Bibliophile Society. Letters of John Paul Jones. With Remarks by Horace Porter and F. B. Sanborn ...	Boston	1905-1907	USD -	6.00
93		Bibliophile Society. The Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving; Hanson ...	Boston	1913, etc.	USD -	10.00
94		Bibliophile Society.	Boston	No date	USD -	40.00
95		Bibliotheca Curiosa. The History of Reynard the Fox.	Edinburgh	1884	USD -	5.00
96	Frischlinus (Nicodemus)	Binding. Arms of de Thou. Paralipomena: ex Recensione Valentini Clessii P. O. Continentur Hoc Opere ...	Darmostadii	MDCX	USD -	7.50
97	Florio (John)	Binding by Mearne. Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary, Italian and English.	London	1688	USD -	52.00
98		Binding. L'Animo Eroe. Attioni Historiche . . . di Fernando Terzo.	Venetia	1689	USD -	4.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s
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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