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
99	Bowdler (Henrietta Maria)	Binding. Poems and Essays.	Bath	1787	USD -	4.00
100	Horne (Thomas H.)	Binding. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.	London	1823	USD -	11.00
101		Biography. Field (Eugene). By Slason Thompson. 2 vols. New York, 1901; Morris (William). The Life of ...			USD -	6.00
102	Blades (William)	Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's first Printer.	London	1877	USD -	4.00
103	Blair (Robert)	Blake (William). The Grave. A Poem.	London	1813	USD -	7.50
104	Blondeau (Claude)	La Bibliotheque Canonique.	Paris	1689	USD -	1.00
105	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	The Decameron.	London	1886	USD -	45.00
106	Bodin (Jean)	Six Bookes of a Commonweale.	London	1606	USD -	4.00
107	Hendley (T. H.)	Bookbinding. The Journal of Indian Art and Industry. Persian and Indian Bookbinding.	[London]	[circa 1880]	USD -	12.00
108	Fletcher (W. Y.)	Bookbinding. English Bookbindings in the British Museum.	London	1895	USD -	22.00
109	Fletcher (W. Y.)	Bookbinding. Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum.	London	1896	USD -	10.00
110		Books About Books. The British Librarian: Exhibiting a Compendious Review or Abstract of our most ...	London	1738-1891	USD -	3.00
111		Books About Books. Brown (Mary E.--Compiler). Dedications. An Anthology of the Forms Used from the ...	New York and London	1758-1913	USD -	5.00
112	Dibdin (T. F.)	Books About Books. Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the ...	London	1814-1823	USD -	26.00
113		Books About Books. Lang (A.). Books and Bookmen. First Edition. London, 1887; Greswell (Rev. W. P ...	Various places	1818-1894	USD -	4.00
114	Mendibil (P.) and Silvela (M.)	Books About Books. Biblioteca Selecta de Literatura Espanola, o Modelos de Elocuencia y Poesia.	Burdeos	1819	USD -	2.00
115	Dibdin (T. F.)	Books About Books. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany ...	London	1825-1829	USD -	2.00
116		Books About Books. Dibdin (T. F.). An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of ...	London	1827-1833	USD -	2.00
117		Books About Books. Proceedings of the Librarians' Convention held in New York City September 15, 16 ...	London, etc.	1837-1915	USD -	2.50
118		Books About Books. Stevens (H.). Bibliotheca Americana. 2 vols. London, 1862; Lovejoy (J. C. and O ...	New York, London, etc.	1838-1862	USD -	4.00
119	Hazlitt (W. C.)	Books About Books. Collections and Notes. 1867-1876. 1876; Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and ...	London	1867-1876	USD -	2.00
120		Books About Books. Gribble (F.). Lake Geneva and Its Literary Landmarks. Westminster, 1901; Macray ( ...	London, etc.	1868-1907	USD -	4.00
121		Books About Books. Arnold (W. H.). First Report of a Book-Collector. Portrait, and facsimiles of ...	Various places	1876-1898	USD -	4.00
122		Books About Books. Brinley Catalogue. Catalogue of the American Library of the late Mr. George ...	Hartford	1878-1893	USD -	15.00
123	Blades (William)	Books About Books. The Enemies of Books.	London	1880	USD -	12.50
124		Books About Books. Tredwell (D. M.). A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books. A Plea for ...	Brooklyn, etc.	1881-1901	USD -	3.50
125		Books About Books. Prideaux (S. T.). An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding. With a Chapter on Early ...	London	1882-1897	USD -	9.00
126	Muther (Richard)	Books About Books. Die deutsche Bucherillustrations der Gothik und Fruhrenaissance (1460-1530).	Munchen	1884	USD -	5.00
127	Cushing (William)	Books About Books. Initials and Pseudonyms; A Dictionary of Literary Disguises.	New York	1885	USD -	13.00
128		Books About Books. Woods (James Chapman). Old and Rare Books. An Elementary Lecture. London, 1885 ...	London and New York	1885-1898	USD -	7.50
129		Books About Books. Kettle (D. W.). Pens, Ink, and Paper. A Discourse upon the Caligraphic Art ...	London and New York	1885-1904	USD -	6.00
130	Bauchart (E. Q.)	Books About Books. Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France (XVI, XVII, & XVIII Siecles).	Paris	1886	USD -	12.50
131	Locker-Lampson (Frederick)	Books About Books. The Rowfant Library. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph ...	London	1886-1900	USD -	17.50
132		Books About Books. Catalogue of the Valuable and Very Extensive Library of the late James T. Gibson ...	London	1887	USD -	10.00
133	Cohen (Henry)	Books About Books. Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siecle.	Paris	1887	USD -	7.00
134	Lang (A.)	Books About Books. Letters on Literature. 1889; Books and Bookmen. 1887.	London	1887-1889	USD -	3.00
134a		Books About Books. The Bibliography of Thackeray. (From 1829 to 1880.)	London	[1889]	USD -	2.50
135	Ruskin (John)	Books About Books. Wise (Thomas J.--Editor). A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse. 18 ...	London	1889-1893	USD -	9.00
136	Brassington (W. S.)	Books About Books. Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.	London	1891	USD -	11.00
137	Pollard (Alfred W.)	Books About Books. Last Words on the History of the Title-Page with Notes on Some Colophons.	London	1891	USD -	31.00
138		Books About Books. Layard (G. S.). Suppressed Plates, etc. 1907; Rogers (W. T.). A Manual of ...	London	1891-1907	USD -	7.50
139	Rivoli (Le Duc de)	Books About Books. Bibliographie des Livres a Figures Venitiens de la Fin du XVe Siecle et du ...	Paris	1892	USD -	7.00
140	Tredwell (D. M.)	Books About Books. A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books. A Plea for Bibliomania.	[Brooklyn]	1892	USD -	9.00
141		Books About Books Series.	London	1893-1894	USD -	12.00
142	Jacobi (Charles T.)	Books About Books. On the Making and Issuing of Books.	London	1896	USD -	3.00
143		Books About Books. Zeitschrift fur Bucherfreunde. [For the years 1897-1909 inclusive.]	Bielefeld	1897-1908	USD -	27.50
144	Foley (P. K.)	Books About Books. American Authors. 1795-1895.	Boston	1897	USD -	12.00
145	Lewine (J.)	Books About Books. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books: being a Guide to ...	London	1898	USD -	5.00
146		Books About Books. Three Hundred Notable Books added to the Library of the British Museum under the ...	[London]	1899	USD -	5.00
147		Books About Books. The Bindings of To-morrow. A Record of the Work of The Guild of Women-Binders and ...	London	1902	USD -	5.00
148	Prideaux (S. T.)	Books About Books. Bookbinders and Their Craft.	New York	1903	USD -	2.50
149	Haebler (C.)	Books About Books. Bibliografia Iberia del Siglo XV. Enumeracien de Todos los Libros Impresos en ...	La Haya and Leipzig	1904-1917	USD -	10.00
150	De Ricci (Seymour--Compiler)	Books About Books. Amherst Catalogue. A Hand-List of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts belonging ...	Cambridge	1906	USD -	5.00
151	Pollard (Alfred W.)	Books About Books. Shakespeare Folios and Quartos. A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's ...	London	1909	USD -	10.00
152	Levis (Howard C.)	Books About Books. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Most Important Books in the English Language ...	London	1912-1913	USD -	8.00
153		Books About Books. Humphreys (Arthur L.). A Handbook to County Bibliography. London, 1917; Wead ( ...	London and Ann Arbor	1917-1919	USD -	1.00
153a	Shay (Frank)	Books About Books. The Bibliography of Walt Whitman.	New York	1920	USD -	3.00
154	Booth (Edwin)	A Series of Eight Playbills, 4 of which are of Philadelphia Theatres announcing Performances by ...	Philadelphia	1859-1863	USD -	4.00
155		Booth (Junius Brutus). Passages, Incidents, and Anecdotes of the Life of Junius Brutus Booth (The ...			USD -	6.50
156		Boston Miscellany (The) of Literature and Fashion. Edited by Nathan Hale, Jr. Vol. I. January to ...			USD -	1.00
157		Botticelli. Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina Commedia. Reduced facsimiles after the ...	London	1896	USD -	6.00
158	Bouchot (Henri)	La Restauration.	Paris	No date	USD -	9.00
159	Leon Maillard	Boutet (Henri). Graveur et Pastelliste.	Paris	1894-1895	USD -	11.00
160	Bradford (William)	History of Plymouth Plantation. 1620-1647.	Boston	1912	USD -	6.50
161	Cuthbert Bede	[Bradley (Edward).] Nearer and Dearer: a Tale out of School.	London	1857	USD -	1.00
162	Braithwaite (Wm. Stanley)	Lyrics of Life and Love.	Boston	1904	USD -	1.00
163	Shaw-Sparrow (W.)	Brangwyn (Frank). Frank Brangwyn and His Work. 1910.	London	1915	USD -	6.00
164	Bridges (Robert)	Eros & Psyche. A Poem in Twelve Measures. The Story Done into English from the Latin of Apuleius; [ ...	London	1885-1916	USD -	2.00
165	Britton (John)	The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral of Salisbury . . .	London	1814	USD -	5.00
166		Bronte (The Sisters). Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters.	London	1872	USD -	21.00
167		Bronte (The Sisters). Works of: with Biography by Mrs. Gaskell.	London	1872-1873	USD -	17.00
168		Brothers of the Book. Confessio Amantis (Richard Le Gallienne). 1898; Valentine for a Little Girl ( ...	Gouvernier, New York	1898-1900	USD -	6.00
169	Browning (Robert)	Sordello.	London	1840	USD -	6.00
170	Browning (Robert)	Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. A Poem.	London	1850	USD -	2.00
171	Bryant (William Cullen)	Celebrations, Proceedings, etc., containing contributions by Bryant. New York: Tribute to Sir Walter ...			USD -	1.50
172	Bryant (William Cullen)	The Fountain and Other Poems.	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
173	Bryant (William Cullen)	Prose and Poetical Works, edited by Parke Godwin. 4 vols.; Life of, by Parke Godwin. 2 vols.	New York	1883-1884	USD -	5.00
174	Bryce (James, Lord)	The American Commonwealth.	London	1888	USD -	3.50
175	Bryce (James, Lord)	The American Commonwealth.	London	1889	USD -	3.00
176		Buchanan (Robert). The Fleshly School of Poetry. 1872. First Edition. Original wrappers bound in ...	London	1807-1920	USD -	13.00
177	Buchanan (Robert)	Ballad Stories of the Affections. From the Scandinavian; North Coast and other Poems.	London	1867-1868	USD -	2.00
178	Buffon (G. L. L., Count de)	The Natural History of Birds. From the French.	London	1792-1793	USD -	10.00
179	Bullen (A. H.)	Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century.	London	1889	USD -	2.50
180	Bulwer-Lytton (Edward, Lord Lytton)	The Works of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.	Boston and New York	no date	USD -	10.00
181		Bunner (H. C.). Short Sixes. New York, 1891; Harte (Bret). Under the Redwood. Boston, 1901; Tales of ...	Boston and New York	1867-1898	USD -	3.50
182	Burns (Robert)	Celebration of 100th Anniversary of his Birth. Boston, 1859; Centennial Birth-Day. New York, 1860 ...			USD -	1.00
183	Burroughs (John)	Signs and Seasons. 1886; Whitman: a Study. 1896; Essays from The Critic by John Burroughs (3 ...	Boston	1883-1896	USD -	3.50
184	[Burton (Robert)]	The Anatomy of Melancholy.	London	1826	USD -	5.00
185	Busch (Wilhelm)	Kunstlerischer Nachlass.	Munchen	no date	USD -	9.00
186	Butler (Samuel)	Hudibras . . .	London	1801	USD -	4.00
187		[Butler (Samuel).] Hudibras. Engravings by T. Rowlandson. 2 vols. London, 1810; Shuckburgh (E. S.-- ...			USD -	12.00
188	Kappel (A. W.) and Kirby (W. E.)	Butterflies. British and European Butterflies and Moths.	London	circa 1885	USD -	5.00
189		Byron (George Gordon, Lord). Poems. Original and Translated. Frontispiece. Newark, 1808; Gamba ( ...			USD -	4.00
190	Millet (Gabriel)	Byzantine Art. Le Monastere de Daphni, Histoire, Architecture, Mosaiques. Text illustrations, and 19 ...	Paris	1899-1910	USD -	3.00
191		Cabell (James Branch). The Jewel Merchants. 1921; Lang (Andrew). How to Fail in Literature. 1890 ...			USD -	12.00
192	Callot (Jacques)	De Droeve Ellendigheden van den Oorloogh seer aerdigh en konstigh afgebeeldt. Loreijns Edelman, en ...			USD -	7.00
193		Camoens (Luis de). Memoirs of the Life and Times of Luis de Camoens. By John Adamson. Engraved ...			USD -	2.00
194	Campion (Thomas)	The Works of.	London	1889	USD -	5.50
195	Canova (Antonio)	The Works of Antonio Canova in Sculpture and Modelling, engraved in outline by Henry Moses.	London	1824	USD -	12.50
196	(Edited) By Bennett Palmer	Canzonet (The): A Selection of Poems.	Montpelier	1849	USD -	2.00

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