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,

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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
995	Maittaire (Michael)	Typography. Annales Typographici ab Anno MDXXXVI ad Annum MDLVII. Continuati cum Appendice.	Amsterdam	1727	USD -	8.00
996	Wolfius (J. C.)	Typography. Monumenta Typographica.	Hamburgi	1740	USD -	5.00
997	[Marchand (Prosper)]	Typography. Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progres de l'Imprimerie.	La Haye	1740	USD -	5.00
998	[Marchand (Prosper)]	Typography. Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progres de l'Imprimerie.	La Haye	1740	USD -	6.00
999	Meerman (Gerardo)	Typography. Origines Typographicae.	Hagae	1765	USD -	8.00
1000	Meerman (Gerardo)	Typography. Origines Typographicae.	Hagae	1765	USD -	8.00
1001	[Nichols (John--Editor)]	Typography. Biographical Memoirs of William Ged: including a particular account of his progress in ...	London	1781	USD -	9.50
1002		Typography. Ringwood (T.). An Address, delivered before the Franklin Typographical Association of ...			USD -	4.00
1003		Typography. Partington (C. F.). The Printer's Complete Guide. Engravings. London, 1825; Russell (J ...			USD -	2.50
1004	Meerman (M.)	Typography. De l'Invention de l'Imprimerie ou Analyse des Deux Ouvrages.	Paris	1809	USD -	4.00
1005	Lambinet (P.)	Typography. Origine de l'Imprimerie.	Paris	1810	USD -	1.50
1006	Bodoni (G.)	Typography. Vita del Cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni, Tipografio Italiano e Catalogo Cronologico delle ...	Parma	1816	USD -	7.00
1007		Typography. Van Winkle (C. S.). The Printers' Guide; or, an Introduction to the Art of Printing. N ...			USD -	15.50
1008		Typography. Greswell (E.--Editor). A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press. 2 vols. Oxford, 1833 ...			USD -	4.00
1009	Johnson (J.)	Typography. Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor, including an Account of the Origin of Printing ...	London	[1824]	USD -	7.00
1010	Schaab (C. A.)	Typography. Die Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst durch Johann Gansfleisch genannt ...	Mainz	1830-1831	USD -	4.00
1011		Typography. Histoire de l'Invention de l'Imprimerie par les Monuments.	Paris	1840	USD -	8.00
1012	Timperley (C. H.)	Typography. A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and ...	London	1839	USD -	2.50
1013		Typography. Gutenbergs-Album. Herausgegeben von Dr. Heinrich Meyer.	Braunschweig	[1840]	USD -	3.00
1014	William Savage	Typography. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing.	London	1841	USD -	3.00
1015	Renouard (A. A.)	Typography. Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne et de ses Editions.	Paris	1843	USD -	3.00
1016	Falkenstein (Constantin Karl)	Typography. Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst, ihrer Entstchung und Ausbildung.	Leipzig	1856	USD -	4.00
1017		Typography. Coster (L. J.). The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing. 1871; Bohn (H. G.). The ...	London and no place	[1857]-1897	USD -	3.00
1018	Sotheby (S. L.)	Typography. Specimen of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby's Principia Typographica, an extensively illustrated ...	London	1858	USD -	7.50
1019		Typography. Hoe (R. M.). A Catalogue of the Library Illustrative of the History and Art of ...			USD -	2.00
1020	Sotheby (S. L.)	Typography. Principia Typographica. The Block-Books, of Xylographic Delineations of Scripture ...	London	1858	USD -	32.50
1021		Typography. Speculum Humanae Salvationis: Le Plus Ancien Monument de la Xylographie et de la ...	London	1861	USD -	5.00
1022	Ottley (W. Y.)	Typography. An Inquiry Concerning the Invention of Printing: in which the Systems of Meerman ...	London	1863	USD -	4.00
1023	Humphreys (H. N.)	Typography. A History of the Art of Printing, from its invention to its wide-spread development in ...	London	1867	USD -	15.00
1024	Humphreys (H. N.)	Typography. A History of the Art of Printing. From its Invention to its Wide-Spread Development in ...	London	1868	USD -	17.50
1025	Humphreys (H. N.)	Typography. Masterpieces of the Early Printers & Engravers.	London	1870	USD -	22.50
1026	Edited by J. Luther Ringwalt	Typography. American Encyclopaedia of Printing.	Philadelphia	1871	USD -	2.00
1027		Typography. A Bibliography of Printing.	London	1880	USD -	4.00
1028		Typography. An Index to Dibdin's Edition of the Typographical Antiquities. London, 1899; Cleland (T ...			USD -	2.00
1029	Hessels (H. J.)	Typography. Gutenberg: Was he the Inventor of Printing? An Historical Investigation embodying a ...	London	1882	USD -	4.00
1030	Hawkins (Rush C.)	Typography. Titles from the First Books of the Earliest Presses . . . with Brief Notes upon their ...	New York	1884	USD -	10.00
1031	Talbot Baines Reed	Typography. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, with Notes, Historical and ...	London	1887	USD -	6.00
1032		Typography. Havens (M. A.). Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. 1757-1789. Canton, Pa ...			USD -	5.00
1033	De Vinne (T. L.)	Typography. Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp.	New York	1888	USD -	9.00
1034	Petzendorfer (Ludwig)	Typography. Schriften Atlas. Line Hammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und ...	Stuttgart	1889	USD -	4.00
1035	Bouchot (Henri)	Typography. The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time.	London	1890	USD -	7.00
1036	Dickson (Robert) and Edmond (John P.)	Typography. Annals of Scottish Printing from the Introduction of the Art in 1507 to the Beginning of ...	Cambridge	1890	USD -	4.00
1037	Philippe (Jules)	Typography. Guillaume Fichet. Sa Vie, Ses Oeuvres.	Annecy	1892	USD -	2.00
1038	Heitz (Paul)	Typography. Elassische Buchermarker bis Anfang des 18 Jahrhunderts. 1892; Basler Buchermarken bis ...	Strassburg	1892-1898	USD -	24.00
1039	[Ongania (Ferd.)]	Typography. Early Venetian Printing Illustrated.	Venice, London, New York	1895	USD -	10.00
1040	Hildeburn (C. R.)	Typography. Sketches of printers and printing in Colonial New York.	New York	1895	USD -	2.50
1041		Typography. Moxon's Mechanick Exercises.	New York	1896	USD -	11.00
1042	Heckethorn (Charles W.)	Typography. The Printers of Basle in the XV and XVI Centuries.	London	1897	USD -	7.50
1043		Typography. [Imperial Typographical Commission. Work on special advertising and type designs by O. L ...	St. Petersburgh and Moscow	circa 1900	USD -	1.00
1044		Typography. Typographie Iberique du Quinzieme Siecle.	La Haye	1901	USD -	8.00
1045	Edited by Paul Leicester Ford	Typography. The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer.	New York	1902	USD -	5.00
1046	Hunnewell (James F.)	Typography. Triumphs of Early Printing. A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Club of Odd ...	Boston	1902	USD -	6.00
1047		Typography. L'Art Typographique dans les Pays-Bas (1500-1540).	La Haye	1902-[1918]	USD -	19.00
1048	Green (S. A.)	Typography. John Foster. The Earliest American Engraver and the First Boston Printer.	Boston	1909	USD -	4.50
1049	Charles Holme, Editor	Typography. The Art of the Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography ...	London	1914	USD -	5.50
1050		Typography. John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer. 1706-1775.	Boston	1914	USD -	10.50
1051	Goudy (Frederic W.)	Typography. The Alphabet.	New York	1918	USD -	10.00
1052	Schottenloher (Dr. Karl)	Typography. Flugblatt und Zeitung ein Wegweiser durch das Gedruckte Taggeschrifttum.	Berlin	1922	USD -	3.00
1053		Typography. A collection of 12 pamphlets issued by Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany ...			USD -	4.00
1054	Uchard (Mario)	My Uncle Barbassou.	London	1888	USD -	10.50
1055		Universal Classics Library.	Washington and London	[1901]	USD -	4.50
1056	Uzanne (Octave)	La Francaise du Siecle. Modes--Mceurs--Usages.	Paris	1886	USD -	4.00
1057	Uzanne (Octave)	The Mirror of the World.	London	1889	USD -	2.00
1058	Charles Ricketts	Vale Press. A Defence of the Revival of Printing.	London	1899	USD -	7.00
1059	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Vale Press. Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other Essays.	London	1902	USD -	9.00
1060	Wordsworth (William)	Vale Press. Poems From Wordsworth.	London	no date	USD -	5.50
1061	Holmes (Richard R.)	Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria.	New York	1897	USD -	1.00
1062		Victorian Songs. Lyrics of the Affections and Nature.	Boston	1895	USD -	5.00
1063	Morris (William) and Walker (Emery)	Village Press. Printing.	Park Ridge (Ill.)	1903	USD -	22.00
1064	Virgil	Opera. Mauri Seruii Honorati grammatici in eadem commentarii. . . .	Parisiis	1532	USD -	2.50
1065	Warton (Joseph)	Virgil. The Works of Virgil, In English Verse.	London	1763	USD -	5.00
1066		Voltaire (Francois Arouet de). The Age of Louis XIV. With Notes by R. Griffith. 2 vols. London, 1779 ...			USD -	3.00
1067	Vest (Hon. G. C.)	Wall (Bernhardt) Etchings. Man's Best Friend. A Plea to a Jury.	New York	1920	USD -	5.00
1068	Wallace (Lew)	The Fair God. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico.	Boston	1899	USD -	12.00
1069	Walton (Izaak)	The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert ...	London	1825	USD -	8.00
1070	Washington (George)	Knight (F.--Editor). Letter on Agriculture from his Excellency George Washington. Illustrated ...			USD -	1.00
1071	Washington (George)	The History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First ...	New York	1892	USD -	6.00
1072		Wey (Francis). Rome. With an Introduction by W. W. Story. With 345 woodcuts, and a plan. London ...	London and New York	1872-1876	USD -	1.00
1073	Whistler (James McNeill)	Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict.	New York	1899	USD -	2.50
1074	Whistler (James McNeill)	MacFall (H.). Whistler. Frontispiece, Boston, 1906; Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock. Chicago ...			USD -	4.00
1075	Campbell Dodgson	Whistler (James McNeill). The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler.	London	1922	USD -	5.00
1076	White (Gleeson)	English Illustration. 'The Sixties': 1855-70.	Westminster	1903	USD -	6.00
1077	Whittier (John G.)	Poems written during the Progress of the Abolition Question, 1830-38. 1837; The Tent on the Beach ...	Boston	1837-1892	USD -	1.00
1078	Whittier (John G.)	Original Poems and other Contributions: 4th Annual Report A. S. Society. 1837; The Boston Mob of ...			USD -	2.50
1079		Whittier (John G.). Songs of Labor and Other Poems. Boston, 1851. Shipwrecks. A Collection of ...			USD -	1.00
1080	Whittier (John G.)	Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.	Boston	1850	USD -	2.50
1081	Whittier (John G.)	The Panorama, and other Poems.	Boston	1856	USD -	2.50
1082	Whittier (John G.)	Child Life, a Collection of Poems; Child Life in Prose.	Boston	1872-1874	USD -	1.00
1083		Wiedemann (A.). Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. With 73 illustrations. London, 1897; Engel (Carl ...			USD -	2.00
1084		Winter (William). Mary of Magdala, by Paul Heyse. Translated by William Winter. New York, 1903 ...			USD -	4.00
1085		Winthrop (R. C.). Memoir of Hon. Nathan Appleton. Portrait. Boston. 1861. Autograph Presentation ...			USD -	1.00
1086	Daly (Augustin)	Woffington (Peg). Woffington. A Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.	Troy	[1891]	USD -	5.00
1087	Wither (George)	Britain's Remembrancer. Containing a Narrative of the Plague lately past; a Declaration of the ...		1628	USD -	52.00
1088	Wolf (Simon)	Mordecai Manual Noah. A Biographical Sketch.	Philadelphia	1897	USD -	1.00
1089	Wolff (Albert)	Cent Chefs-d'OEuvre. The Choice of the French Private Galleries.	Paris and New York	[1883]	USD -	1.00
1090		[Wollaston (William).] The Religion of Nature Delineated. 1738; [English (Harriet).] Conversations ...	London	1738-1845	USD -	2.00
1091	Kavanagh (Julia)	Woman in France. Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century.	New York	1893	USD -	3.00
1092	[Woodhead (A.)?]	The Art of Contentment.	Oxford	1677	USD -	1.50
1093		Wood Engraving. A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical.	London	1839	USD -	4.00
1094	Didot (Ambroise F.)	Wood Engraving. Essai Typographique et Bibliographique sur l'Histoire de la Gravure sur Bois. Pour ...	Paris	1863	USD -	10.00

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