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
894	Seeger (Alan)	Letters and Diary.	New York	1917	USD -	1.50
895		Severus (A.). Opera Omnia. Amstelodami, apud Elzevirios, 1665; Barclay (John). Argenis. Parisiis ...			USD -	4.00
896	Bancroft (Frederic)	Seward (William H.). The Life of William H. Seward.	New York	1900	USD -	2.50
897	Shakespeare (William)	Romeo and Juliet. A Tragedy.	London	[1785]	USD -	1.00
898	Shakespeare (William)	Account of, and Extracts from, the newly discovered Shakespeare Manuscripts. (Massachusetts Magazine ...	Boston	1796	USD -	7.00
899		Shakespeare (William). A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c., in the Shakespeare Gallery (Boydell's ...			USD -	1.00
900		Shakespeare (William). Douce (Francis). Illustrations on Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners. 2 vols ...	London	1807-1824	USD -	2.50
901	Shakespeare (William)	The First Edition of the Tragedy of Hamlet.	Pall-Mall	1825	USD -	3.00
902	James Rush	Shakespeare (William). Hamlet, a Dramatic Prelude in Five Acts.	Philadelphia	1834	USD -	1.00
903	Shakespeare (William)	Julieta y Romeo. Montescos y Capeletes.	Habana . . .	1845	USD -	1.00
904	Shakespeare (William)	Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Dedication of the Fountain at Stratford-on-Avon presented by ...	[Cambridge]	[1887]	USD -	2.00
905	Shakespeare (William)	Comedies of William Shakespeare.	New York	1896	USD -	13.00
906	Winsor (Justin)	Shakespeare (William). Was Shakespeare Shapleigh? A Correspondence in Two Entanglements.	Boston	1887	USD -	6.00
907	Shakespeare (William)	The Works of Shakespeare.	Boston	1901	USD -	14.00
908	Shakespeare (William)	The Works of Shakespeare.	New York	[1906-1909]	USD -	5.00
909	Shakespeare (William)	The Handy Volume Shakspeare.	London	no date	USD -	2.00
910		Shakespeare's Library: a Collection of the Romances, Novels, Poems, and Histories, used by ...	London	[1843]	USD -	3.50
911		Shaw (George Bernard). The Quintessence of Ibsenism. 1891; Peace Conference Hints. 1919; Stories of ...	Various places	Various dates	USD -	3.00
912	[Shelley (Percy Bysshe)]	History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with ...	London	1817	USD -	10.00
913	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Miscellaneous Poems.	London	1826	USD -	10.00
914	Jeaffreson (J. C.)	Shelley (Percy Bysshe). The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life.	London	1885	USD -	9.00
915	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to J. H. Leigh Hunt.	London	1894	USD -	10.00
916		Shenstone (William). Works. 2 vols. London, 1776; Anacreon. Poeta Lyricus. Cambridge, 1721; A ...			USD -	7.50
917		Shipp (John). The Military Bijou; or, The Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo, half ...			USD -	3.00
918	Larwood (Jacob) and Hotten (John C.)	Signboards. The History of Signboards from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.	London	1867	USD -	5.00
919	[Simms (Wm. Gilmore)]	The Yemassee: a Romance of Carolina.	New York	1835	USD -	2.50
920		Singleton (Esther). Social New York under the Georges. N. Y., 1902; Blanchan (N.). The American ...			USD -	5.00
921		Smirke Illustrations. The Adventure of Hunch-back, and the Stories Connected with It. (From the ...	London	1814	USD -	2.50
922	Smith (John Thomas)	An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, with Anecdotes of their more Celebrated Residents.	London	1846	USD -	4.50
923		Smollett (Tobias). The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. N. Y ...			USD -	2.50
924	Smollett (Tobias)	Miscellaneous Works.	New York	1857	USD -	7.50
925		Society of the Dofobs. The First Book of the Dofobs.	Chicago	1907	USD -	20.00
926		Society of the Dofobs. Poems and Letters of Lord Byron.	Chicago	1912	USD -	13.00
927		Southey (Robert). A. L. S.: Robert Southey. One page 12mo, Keswick, Dec. 15, 1829; Ruskin (J.). A ...			USD -	7.00
928	Everard (John)	Sower Imprint. Some Gospel Treasures, or the Holiest of all Unvailing; discovering yet more the ...	London printed . . . And now Reprinted in Germantown	1653 and 1757	USD -	1.50
929		Sower Imprints. Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing Negroes. Second Edition ...	Germantown	1759-1763	USD -	3.50
930		Spanish-American Printing. Estimulo de Amor Divino . . . Mexico, 1765; Sermon. Guatemala, 1817 ...			USD -	3.00
931	Deloney (Thomas)	Spanish Armada. Thomas Deloney, His Thomas of Reading and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada.	New York	1903	USD -	1.00
932		Spanish Newspapers. La Carcajada. Twenty Nos., from January 17, to October 26, 1872. Double-page ...			USD -	1.00
933	Spence (Joseph)	Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr ...	London	1820	USD -	14.00
934		Sport. Sketchly (J. A.). Melinda the Caboceer; or Sport in Ashanti. Illustrated. New York, 1876 ...			USD -	3.00
935		Sport. Turbervile's Booke of Hunting. 1576.	[Oxford]	1908	USD -	2.00
936	Stanyan (Temple)	The Grecian History.	London	1781	USD -	5.50
937	Famianus Strada	Stapylton (Sir Robert--Translator). The History of the Low Countrey Warres. Relating the Battles ...	London	1667	USD -	5.00
938	Batty (Capt.)	Steel Engravings. French, Sicilian, Italian, German and Swiss Scenery.	London	1822, etc.	USD -	2.00
939	Bryant (W. C.--Editor)	Steel Engravings. Picturesque America.	New York	[1872]	USD -	1.00
940	Addison (William)	[Steele (Sir Richard).] Autograph Letter Signed,--Wm. Addison.		1722	USD -	8.00
941	Stephens (Henry)	Francofordiense Emporivm, sive Francofordienses Nvndinae.	[Geneva]	1574	USD -	12.00
942	Sterne (Laurence)	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.	New York	1884	USD -	2.50
943	[Sterne (Laurence)]	Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.	London	[1885]	USD -	22.00
944	Dobson (Austin)	Stevenson's (Robert Louis) Copy. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Second Series.	London	1894	USD -	16.00
945	Strickland (Agnes)	Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts, now first ...	Boston	1863	USD -	3.50
946	Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William)	Annals of the Artists of Spain. 4 vols.; The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V; Miscellaneous ...	London	1891	USD -	9.00
947	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	South-Sea Idyls. (Hawaiian customs, experiences, etc.)	Boston	1873	USD -	5.00
948	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	The Lepers of Molokai.	Notre Dame, Indiana	[1886]	USD -	3.00
949	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	Exits and Entrances. A Book of Essays and Sketches.	Boston	[1903]	USD -	2.00
950	Stoddard (Charles Warren)	Poems Collected by Ina Coolbrith.	New York	1917	USD -	3.00
951	John L. Stoddard	Stoddard Library.	Chicago	1914	USD -	6.00
952		Stoddard (Richard H.). Poems. Boston, 1852. (Library stamp on title.) Laid in is an A. L. S. by the ...			USD -	1.00
953	Bray (Mrs. A. E.)	Stothard (Thomas). Life of Thomas Stothard, R. A.	London	1851	USD -	9.00
954		Strang (William). The Earth Fiend. A Ballad made & etched by William Strang. Etched title-page and ...	London	1885-1892	USD -	5.00
955	John Milton	Strang (William). Paradise Lost.	New York	1896	USD -	5.00
956		Straparola. The Facetious Nights of Straparola.	London	1898	USD -	13.00
957	[Walpole (Horace)]	Strawberry Hill Press. Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose.	Printed at Strawberry-Hill	1758	USD -	13.00
958	Lucanus (M. Annaeus)	Strawberry Hill Press. Pharsalia. Cum Notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii.	Strawberry-Hill	1760	USD -	10.00
959	[Walpole (Horace)]	Strawberry Hill Press. Miscellaneous Antiquities, or a Collection of Curious Papers: Either ...	Strawberry-Hill	MDCCLXXII	USD -	12.50
960		Swift (Jonathan). Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrees Lointaines. Illustrations by Grandville. 2 ...			USD -	1.50
961		Swinburne (Algernon C.). The Tale of Balen. 1896; A Channel Passage, and Other Poems. 1904; Tennyson ...	London and Boston	1852-1904	USD -	3.50
962	Swinburne (Algernon C.)	A Collection of First Editions, excepting 2 vols. mentioned below.	London, (1) Paris, (2) New York	1866-[1920]	USD -	26.00
963		Swinburne (Algernon C.). A Song of Italy. 1867; Fletcher (J. S.). The Paths of the Prudent. 1899 ...	London	1867-1912	USD -	2.00
964		Symons (Arthur). London. A Book of Aspects. London: Privately Printed, 1909; Love Ballads of the ...			USD -	4.50
965	Taber (C. A. M.)	Rhymes from a Sailor's Journal.	[Cambridge]	1873	USD -	1.50
966		Tacitus. Annals. 2 vols. Dublin, 1728; Hale (M.). Contemplations. London, 1679; Voerthusio (J ...			USD -	3.50
967	Tasso (Torquato)	Jerusalem Delivered; An Heroic Poem.	London	1803	USD -	3.00
968	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Morte d'Arthur. A Poem.	[London]	[1912]	USD -	9.00
969	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.	Boston	No date	USD -	8.00
970		Thackeray (William Makepeace). Thackerayana. Notes and Ancedotes. Illustrated with Hundreds of ...			USD -	3.50
971	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.	London	1849	USD -	10.00
973	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The Mahogany Tree.	Boston	1887	USD -	10.00
974	[Thackeray (William Makepeace)]	The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. . . .	London	1898	USD -	18.00
975		Theater. A Collection of 21 Autograph Letters and an Account Sheet, mainly of the Early Nineteenth ...			USD -	5.00
976	Thomas (Joseph)	Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. New Edition, Thoroughly Revised and ...	Philadelphia	1893	USD -	2.50
977	Thomson (James)	The Works of James Thomson.	London	1762	USD -	6.00
978	Thomson (James)	The Seasons.	London	1780	USD -	4.50
979	Thoreau (Henry D.)	Walden; or, Life in the Woods.	Boston	1854	USD -	14.00
980	Thoreau (Henry D.)	Summer.	Boston	1884	USD -	1.50
981	Thoreau (Henry D.)	Early Spring in Massachusetts. 1881; Winter. 1888.	Boston	1881-1888	USD -	2.50
982	[Thoreau (Henry D.)]	The Personality of Thoreau. By F. B. Sanborn; [Also] The Service. By Henry David Thoreau. Edited by ...	Boston	1901-1902	USD -	2.00
983	Timperley (C. H.)	A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern ...	London	1839	USD -	5.00
984	Edward G. Ward, Editorial Director	Traffic Library (The).	Chicago	[1917]	USD -	1.00
985		Trials. The Black Kalendar of Scotland. Records of Notable Scottish Trials, by A. H. Millar. Dundee ...			USD -	2.50
986		Trollope (Anthony). The Vicar of Bull-Hampton. Illustrations by H. Woods. 1870; Trollope (Frances ...	London	1836-1870	USD -	4.50
987	Trollope (Anthony)	He Knew He Was Right.	London	1869	USD -	11.00
988	Trollope (Frances)	The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy.	London	1840	USD -	7.00
989	Tuckerman (Henry T.)	Poems.	Boston	1851	USD -	1.50
990	[Mayer (Luigi)]	Turkey. A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Celebrated Collection of Views ...	London	1811	USD -	5.00
991		Turkish Manuscript. Munyat Al-Musalli.			USD -	10.00
992		Tuscan Songs.	Cambridge	1897	USD -	6.50
993	[Tyler (Royall)]	The Algerine Captive; or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six Years a Prisoner ...	Hartford	1816	USD -	1.50
994	Maittaire (Michael)	Typography. Annals Typographici.	Hagae-Comitum	1719-1722	USD -	11.00

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