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
197		Caradoc Press. Quia Amore Langueo.	London	1902	USD -	5.00
198	Carey (Alice)	Lyra and other Poems.	New York	1852	USD -	3.00
199	Carey (Matthew)	Miscellaneous Trifles in Prose.	Philadelphia	1796	USD -	3.00
200		Caricature. Wright (Thomas). A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art ...	New York and London	1875-[1895]	USD -	3.50
201		Caricatures. A Collection of about 85 fine caricatures, many of which are in Color.	[London]	1786-1805, etc.	USD -	17.50
202		Caricatures. A Collection of about 65 caricatures, Mainly in Color, by Isaac Cruikshank, Woodward ...	[London]	1799, etc.	USD -	17.50
203	[Carlyle (Thomas--Translator)]	Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. A Novel. From the German of Goethe.	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	7.00
204	Carlyle (Thomas)	Works of Carlyle.	Boston	No date	USD -	8.00
205	Lawson (John)	Carolina. The History of Carolina; containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that ...	London	1718	USD -	45.00
206	Humphries (Sydney)	Carpets. Oriental Carpets, Runners and Rugs and Some Jacquard Reproductions.	London	1910	USD -	6.00
207		Cather (Willa S.). Youth and the Bright Medusa. New York, 1920; Holmes (Oliver Wendell). Mechanism ...			USD -	10.00
208		Cather (Willa S.). Youth and the Bright Medusa. New York, 1920; Lancelot and Guenevere. New York [ ...			USD -	9.00
209	Cather (Willa S.)	One of Ours.	New York	1922	USD -	6.00
210	Catlin (George)	North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies ...	London	1844	USD -	60.00
211	Catlin (George)	Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: In a Series of ...	London	1848	USD -	11.00
212		Catullus. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus.	London	1894	USD -	8.00
213		Caxton Club. The French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century.	Chicago	1904	USD -	10.00
214	E. Gordon Duff	Caxton Club. William Caxton.	Chicago	1905	USD -	77.50
215	Howard Mansfield	Caxton Club. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler ...	Chicago	1909	USD -	24.00
216		Century (The) Cyclopedia of Names.	New York	[1897]	USD -	5.00
217		Century Dictionary. The Century Dictionary.	New York	[1906]	USD -	11.00
218	Audsley (G. A.) and Bowes (J. L.)	Ceramics. Kcramic Art of Japan.	London	1881	USD -	5.00
219	Cesnola (A. P. di)	Salaminia: The History, Treasures, and Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus.	London	1884	USD -	2.00
220	Champney (Elizabeth W.)	Romance of the Renaissance Chateaux. 1901; Romance of the Feudal Chateaux. 1903; Romance of the ...	New York	1901-1903	USD -	6.00
221		Chapone (Mrs.). Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. 2 vols. London, 1774; Butler (S.). Hudibras ...			USD -	5.00
222	Chateaubriand (Auguste-Francois de)	Memoirs of Chateaubriand, from his Birth in 1768 till his Return to France in 1800.	London	1849	USD -	4.00
223		Chatterton (Thomas). Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton. With an Essay on the Rowley Poems, by the ...			USD -	7.00
224		Chinese Punishments. Punishments of China.	London	1808	USD -	12.50
225		Chiswick Press. Mackail (J. W.). The Parting of the Ways: An Address; [Also] Cobden-Sanderson (T. J ...	Hammersmith	1902-1903	USD -	3.00
226	Sydney C. Cockerell	Chiswick Press. The Gorleston Psalter. A Manuscript of the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century in ...	London	1907	USD -	6.00
227	Levis (Howard C.)	Chiswick Press. A Bibliography of American Books relating to Prints and the Art and History of ...	London	1910-1915	USD -	6.00
228	[Cibber (Theophilus)]	Patie and Peggy: or the Foundling. A Scotch Ballad Opera. . . .	London	1731	USD -	2.00
229	[Cibber (Colley)]	Damon and Phillida. A Ballad Opera in One Act . . .	London	1737	USD -	2.00
230	Cibber (Colley)	An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber.	London	1889	USD -	10.00
231	Middleton (Conyers)	Cicero. The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.	London	1750	USD -	6.00
232		Cicero. The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends.	London	1789	USD -	3.50
233	Clapp (Henry, Jr.)	The Pioneer: or Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio.	Lynn	1846	USD -	1.00
234	Max Adeler	[Clark (Charles H.).] Out of the Hurly-Burly; or Life in an odd Corner.	Philadelphia	1874	USD -	1.00
235	Clarke (Edward D.)	Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.	London	1816	USD -	4.00
236	Clarke (McDonald--The Mad Poet)	The Elixir of Moonshine. Being a Collection of Prose and Poetry, by The Mad Poet.	Gotham	A. M. 5822 [1822]	USD -	3.50
237	Clarke (McDonald--The Mad Poet)	Sketches.	New York	1826	USD -	3.00
238	Clemens (Samuel L.)	Following the Equator. First Edition. Hartford, 1897; Lotus Leaves. Boston, 1875. Contains ...			USD -	4.00
239	[Clemens (Samuel L.)]	Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World.	Hartford	1897	USD -	5.00
240		Club of Odd Volumes. Historie of the Life and Death of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight ...	Boston	1906	USD -	22.00
241	[Cobb (Enos)]	Fame and Fancy, or Voltaire Improved.	Boston	1826	USD -	1.50
242	[Coffey (Charles)]	The Devil to Pay: or the Wives metamorphos'd. An Opera . . .	London	1738	USD -	1.50
243	Cole (Timothy)	Old Italian Masters.	New York	1892	USD -	4.00
244	Coleridge (Samuel T.)	A Moral and Political Lecture, delivered at Bristol.	Bristol	[1795]	USD -	16.00
245	Coleridge (Samuel T.)	Specimens of the Table Talk.	London	1835	USD -	15.00
246	C. T. Courtney Lewis	Color Printing. The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Century. George Baxter. 1804-1867.	London	1911	USD -	6.00
247	Combe (William)	Doctor Syntax. The Three Tours.	London	circa 1875	USD -	12.00
248		Comic Magazine (The).	London	[1840]	USD -	1.00
249	Comines (Philippe de)	Memoires: contenans l'Histoire des Rois Louis XI. & Charles VIII.	Brusselle	1723	USD -	3.00
250	Perry (G.)	Conchology. Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells.	London	1811	USD -	7.00
251		Confederate Letters. A collection of Autograph Letters Signed, written by Officers in the ...			USD -	1.00
252	Conkling (Alfred R.)	Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling.	New York	1889	USD -	1.00
253	Conrad (Joseph)	Chance. A Tale in Two Parts.	London	[1914]	USD -	10.00
254	Conrad (Joseph)	The Shadow-Line. A Confession.	London	[1917]	USD -	5.00
255		Costume Plates. Restif de la Bretonne. Histoire des Moeurs et du Costume des Francais dans le Dix- ...	Paris	1878	USD -	29.00
256		Costume Plates in Color. Russia. The Costume of the Russian Empire.	London	1803	USD -	5.00
257	Busby (T. L.)	Costume Plates in Color. Costume of the Lower Orders of London.	London	[1820]	USD -	13.00
258	Meyrick (S. R.) and Smith (C. H.)	Costume Plates in Color. British. Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Island from the ...	London	1821	USD -	15.00
259	Douville (Gaspard)	Costume Plates in Color. Persia. Voyage en Perse, fait en 1812 et 1813.	Paris	1825	USD -	11.00
260		Costume Plates in Color. A Series of 200 German lithographs in color, all picturesque costumes of ...	No place	circa 1835	USD -	12.50
261		Costume Plates in Color. Turkey. Sketches of Character & Costume in Constantinople, Ionian Islands & ...	London	1854	USD -	11.00
262	Edited by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, and Louis A. Godey	Costume Plates in Color. Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine. For 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864.	Philadelphia	1861-1864	USD -	22.50
263	Challamel (Augustin)	Costume Plates in Color. The History of Fashion in France; or, The Dress of Women from the Gallo- ...	New York	1882	USD -	9.00
264	Stuart (John S. S. and Charles Edward)	Costume Plates in Color. The Costume of the Clans. With Observations upon the Literature, Arts ...	Edinburgh	1892	USD -	17.50
265	Uzanne (Octave)	Costume Plates in Color. Fashion in Paris. The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Aesthetics from ...	London	1898	USD -	7.00
266		Court Memoirs (Secret). Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, by Mme. Ducrest. 2 vols.; Secret Memoirs ...	London	1895	USD -	22.50
267		Court of Spain. The Intrigues of the Queen of Spain. With the Prince of Peace and others.	Boston	1809	USD -	3.00
268	Cousin (Charles)	Racontars Illustres d'un Vieux Collectionneur.	Paris	1887	USD -	7.00
269		Cowley (Abraham). Prose Works. London: Pickering, 1826; Collins (William). Poetical Works. With the ...			USD -	9.00
270	Cozzens (Frederic S.)	The Sparrowgrass Papers.	Philadelphia	1865	USD -	1.00
271	Lewis (Alfred Henry)	Croker (Richard). Richard Croker.	New York	1901	USD -	2.00
272		Crowquill Illustrations. Comic Arithmetic.	London	1844	USD -	6.00
273	Cruikshank (George)	Peter Schlemihl: From the German of LaMotte Fouque.	London	1824	USD -	13.00
274	Cruikshank (George)	Illustrations of Popular Works by George Cruikshank (6), No. 1 (all published). London: Published ...			USD -	1.00
275	Bowring (John)	Cruikshank (George). Minor Morals for Young People.	London and Edinburgh	1834-1839	USD -	5.00
276	Pettigrew (T. J.)	Cruikshank (George). A History of Egyptian Mummies.	London	1834	USD -	1.00
277	Cruikshank (George)	Illustrations by Cruikshank.	London	No date	USD -	2.50
278	De Foe (Daniel)	Cruikshank (George). A Journal of the Plague Year; or, Memorials of the Great Pestilence in London ...	London	1839	USD -	4.00
279	Cruikshank (George)	The Works of George Cruikshank in Oil, Water Colors, Original Drawings, Etchings, Woodcuts ...	Boston	1890	USD -	5.00
280	Westmacott (Charles)	Cruikshank (Robert). Points of Misery; or Fables for Mankind: Prose and Verse. Chiefly Original.	London	1823	USD -	3.00
281	Cuitt (George)	Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time.	London	1855	USD -	4.00
282	Curtis (George William)	The Potiphar Papers. Illustrated; Prue and I.	New York	1853-1856	USD -	1.00
283	Curtius (F. C.)	Virorvm Illvstrivm ex Ordine Eremitarvm D. Avgvstini . . . Engravings. Antverpiae, 1636; Sanctissimi ...			USD -	1.00
284	[Dana (Richard H., Jr.)]	Two Years before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.	New York	1840	USD -	35.00
285	Dana (Richard H., Jr.)	The Seaman's Friend; containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; a Dictionary of Sea ...	Boston	[1841]	USD -	7.00
286	Dana (Richard H., Jr.)	Poems and Prose Writings (The Idle Man, etc.).	New York	1850	USD -	2.00
287		Dance of Death. La Grande Dance Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes. Profusely illustrated. Paris, n. d ...			USD -	3.00
288		Daniel Press. Tusser (Thomas). The Months Remembrances; Bourdillon (F. W.). Ailes d'Alouette. Second ...	Oxford	1883-1919	USD -	7.00
289	Webster (John)	Daniel Press. Love's Graduate. A Comedy.	Oxford	1885	USD -	4.00
290		D'Arblay (Fanny Burney, Mme.). Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay. Revised and ...			USD -	7.00
291	Day (Thomas F.)	Songs of Sea and Sail.	New York	1898	USD -	2.00
292		Decanter and Glasses. Decanter and Glasses enclosed in a case resembling books.			USD -	22.00
293	[De Foe (Daniel)]	La Vie et les Aventures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe.	Amsterdam	1790	USD -	3.00
295	Dennis (John)	The Select Works of.	London	1721	USD -	3.00
296	De Ricci (Seymour)	A Hand-list of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of ...	Cambridge	1906	USD -	1.00
297		Dial (The): A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.	Boston	1840-1844	USD -	16.00

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