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
298	Dibdin (T. F.)	The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and The Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a ...	London	1825	USD -	2.50
299	[Dibdin (T. F.)]	Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade ...	London	1832	USD -	2.50
300	Dibdin (T. F.)	Reminiscences of a Literary Life.	London	1836	USD -	5.00
301	Dibdin (T. F.)	The Bibliomania or Book-Madness. History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease.	Boston	1903	USD -	11.00
302	Dickens (Charles)	Nicholas Nickleby. 1839; Bleak House. 1853.	London	1839-1853	USD -	8.00
303	Dickens (Charles)	Account of the Ball Given in Honor of Charles Dickens in New York City, February 14, 1842 from the ...	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	1908	USD -	4.00
304	Dickinson (Emily)	Poems. Second Series.	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
305	Dickinson (Emily)	Original Manuscript of her Poem Called Back.			USD -	11.00
306		Dictionary. The Century Dictionary. An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.	New York	1889	USD -	4.00
307	Dobson (Austin)	Eighteenth Century Vignettes. First, Second, and Third Series.	London	1892, 1894, 1896	USD -	13.00
308		Doran (Dr.). London in the Jacobite Times. 2 vols. London, 1877; Charles I. The Court and Times of ...	London and Edinburgh	1846-1877	USD -	2.00
309		Doran (Dr.). Their Majesties' Servants. Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to ...	London	1864-1881	USD -	7.00
310	[Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)]	Doves Press. The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy Printing and Illustration & on ...	Hammersmith	1900	USD -	16.00
311	Milton (John)	Doves Press. Paradise Regain'd . . . To which are added Samson Agonistes & Poems both English and ...	Hammersmith	1905	USD -	26.00
312		Doves Press. London. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Art Workers Guild, by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson ...	Hammersmith	1906	USD -	7.00
313	Milton (John)	Doves Press. Areopagitica; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parliament of ...	Hammersmith	1907	USD -	14.00
314		Doves Press. Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press No. 1 The Terrace ...	Hammersmith	1908	USD -	4.00
315	George Parker Winship	Doves Press. William Caxton. A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston ...	Hammersmith	1909	USD -	15.00
316		Doves Press. Shake-speares Sonnets.	Hammersmith	1909	USD -	25.00
317	Shakespeare (William)	Doves Press. The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.	Hammersmith	1909	USD -	35.00
318	Browning (Robert)	Doves Press. Dramatis Personae.	Hammersmith	1910	USD -	25.00
319	Edition by Dr. Erich Schmidt	Doves Press. Faust. Eine Tragoedie von Goethe.	Hammersmith	1910	USD -	17.50
320		Doves Press. Laudes Creaturarum.	Hammersmith	1910	USD -	20.00
321		Doves Press.	Hammersmith	1911	USD -	3.00
322		Doves Press. Die Leiden des Jungen Werther von Goethe.	Hammersmith	1911	USD -	20.00
323	[Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)]	Doves Press. Shakespearian Punctuation.	[Hammersmith]	[1911]	USD -	1.50
324		Doves Press. In Principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. From the ...	Hammersmith	1911	USD -	17.00
325	Wordsworth (William)	Doves Press. A Decade of Years.	Hammersmith	1911	USD -	14.00
326		Doves Press. Iphigenie auf Tauris, Ein Schauspiel von Goethe. [In German.]	Hammersmith	1912	USD -	18.00
327	Shakespeare (William)	Doves Press. Venus and Adonis.	Hammersmith	1912	USD -	15.00
328		Doves Press. Torquato Tasso. Ein Schauspiel von Goethe.	Hammersmith	1913	USD -	17.50
329		Doves Press. Shakespeare (William). The Tragedie of Julius Caesar; [Also] Cobden-Sanderson (T. J ...	Hammersmith	1913	USD -	10.00
330		Doves Press. Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends. 1864-1867.	Hammersmith	1914	USD -	27.50
331	Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)	Doves Press. Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry. Reprinted from the Westminster Gazette . . .	[Hammersmith]	[1914]	USD -	2.50
332	[Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)]	Doves Press. The New Science Museum.	Hammersmith	1914	USD -	2.50
333	Keats (John)	Doves Press.	Hammersmith	1914	USD -	50.00
334		Doves Press. Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Selected Poems; [Also] Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.). Note on a ...	Hammersmith	1914	USD -	50.00
335	Shakespeare (William)	Doves Press. The Rape of Lucrece.	Hammersmith	1915	USD -	18.00
336	Wordsworth (William)	Doves Press. The Prelude. An Autobiographical Poem. 1799-1805.	Hammersmith	1915	USD -	13.00
337		Doves Press.	Hammersmith	1916	USD -	16.00
338	Goethe	Doves Press. Auserlesene Lieder Gedichte und Balladen. Ein Strauss.	Hammersmith	1916	USD -	20.00
339	Shakespeare (William)	Doves Press. The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra.	[Hammersmith]	[no date]	USD -	15.00
340	Shakespeare (William)	Doves Press. The Tragedy of Coriolanus.	Hammersmith	no date	USD -	16.00
341		Doyle (Sir A. Conan). Tragedy of the Korosko. London, n.d.; The Upper Berth (F. Marion Crawford ...			USD -	7.00
342	Doyle (James E.)	A Chronicle of England. B.C. 55-A.D. 1845.	London	1864	USD -	6.00
343		Drake (Samuel G.). History of Philip's War. Illustrated. Exeter, 1843. Laid in, is a one page ...			USD -	2.00
344	[Howard (Bronson)]	Drama. In Memoriam. Bronson Howard, 1842-1908.	New York	1910	USD -	2.00
345	Drummond (Alexander)	Travels Through Different Parts of Germany, Italy, Greece and Several Parts of Asia.	London	1754	USD -	1.00
346		Dryden (John). Satires of Juvenal. Illustrated. 1735; Shenstone (W.). Works. Illustrated. 2 vols ...	London	various dates	USD -	6.00
347	Dryden (John)	Fables.	London	1797	USD -	4.00
348	Fitzgerald (Edward)	Dulac Illustrations. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.	London	recent	USD -	8.00
349	Dumas (Alexandre, Fils)	The Lady with the Camelias.	Philadelphia	1889	USD -	11.00
350	Dumas (Alexandre, Fils)	La Dame aux Came1ias.	Paris	recent	USD -	6.00
351	Dunbar (Paul Laurence)	Oak and Ivy.	Dayton, Ohio	1893	USD -	5.50
352	[Dunton (John)]	Religio Bibliopole. In Imitation of Dr. Browns Religio Medici.	London	1691	USD -	4.00
353	Durer (Albrecht)	Passio Christi. Die kleine Passion. The Little Passion of Albert Durer.	New York	1868	USD -	2.00
354	Thausing (Moriz)	Durer (Albrecht). Albert Durer. His Life and Works.	London	1882	USD -	6.00
355	Thausing (Moriz)	[Durer (Albrecht).] Albert Durer, His Life and Works.	London	1882	USD -	5.00
356	Ephrussi (Charles)	Durer (Albrecht). Albert Durer et ses Dessins.	Paris	1882	USD -	2.00
357	Duruy (Victor)	History of Greece and the Greek People from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest.	Boston	[1889]	USD -	13.00
358	Earle (Alice Morse)	Two Centuries of Costume in America. MDCXX-MDCCCXX. 2 vols. 1903; Old Time Gardens. 1901.	New York	1901-1903	USD -	12.00
359		Early Printing by Badius Ascensius. Enchiridion Pietatis amatorum, ex Variis sanctorum libris ...	[Paris]	[VI. Calen. April. Anno. MDXXI]	USD -	9.00
360	Bede (Venerable)	Early Printing. De Temporibvs svis sive de sex aetatibvs hvivs secvli. Woodcut initials. [Venice ...			USD -	8.00
361		Early Printing, Etc. El Mes de Julio consagrado a las Glorias de San Ignacio de Loyola . . . Por el ...			USD -	2.50
362		Edward VII's Prayer Book. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments & Other ...	[New York]	[1904]	USD -	2.00
363	[Egan (Pierce)]	Real Life in London. The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tally-Ho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom ...	London	1821-1824	USD -	22.50
364	Speleers (Louis)	Egyptian Sculptures. Les Figurines Funeraires Egyptiennes.	Bruxelles	1923	USD -	1.00
365	Eliot (George)	The Writings of George Eliot.	Cambridge	[1907-1908]	USD -	27.00
366		Elston Press. Browning (Elizabeth Barrett). Sonnets from the Portuguese; Rossetti (Dante Gabriel ...	New Rochelle	1900-1902	USD -	5.00
367		Elston Press. The Sonnets of Shakespeare, now Newly Imprinted from the First Edition of 1609; Morris ...	New Rochelle	1901-1902	USD -	11.00
368		Elston Press. Keats (John). Endymion; Milton (John). Comus. A Maske.	New Rochelle	1902	USD -	6.00
369		Elston Press. Greene (Robert). Pandosto, or The Historie of Dorastus and Fawnia; Morris (William ...	New Rochelle	1902	USD -	5.00
370	Ovid	Elzevir Press. Opera. Daniel Heinsius textum recensuit. Accedunt Breves Notae ex collatione codd ...	Lvgd	1629	USD -	9.00
371	Alciati (Andreas)	Emblems. Emblemata V. C. Andreae Alciati Mediolanensis Ivrisconsvlti . . . per Clavdivm Minoem.	Antuerpiae	1676	USD -	4.00
372	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	A Sermon. Delivered at the ordination of Hersey Bradford Goodwin as Colleague Pastor with Ezra ...	Concord	1830	USD -	27.50
373	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	Nature.	Boston	1836	USD -	3.00
374	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July ...	Boston	1838	USD -	1.50
375	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	Lectures on the Times. Introductory Lecture, Dec. 2, 1841. (In The Dial, no. 9. pp.1-18.)	Boston	July, 1842	USD -	1.50
376	[Emerson (Ralph Waldo)]	Our Pastor's Offering. A Compilation from the writings of the Pastors of the Second Church.	Boston	1845	USD -	1.00
377	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims.	Boston	1870	USD -	1.00
378		Emerson (Ralph Waldo). Fortune of the Republic. Boston, 1878; Lang (Andrew). Adventures Among Books ...			USD -	5.00
379		Emerson (Ralph Waldo) and Sterling (John). A Correspondence between John Sterling and Ralph Waldo ...			USD -	2.50
380	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	Autograph Letter Signed,--R. W. Emerson.	Boston	no year	USD -	5.00
381		English Historical Portraits and Scenes.			USD -	5.00
382		English History. The History of England.	London	1723	USD -	2.00
383		Engraving. Landseer (John). Lectures on the Art of Engraving, delivered at the Royal Institution of ...	London and New York	1807-1879	USD -	2.50
384	Ottley (W. Y.)	Engraving. An Inquiry into the Origin of Engraving, upon Copper and in Wood, with an Account of ...	London	1816	USD -	8.00
385	Ottley (W. Y.)	Engraving. A Collection of One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Fac-Similes of Scarce and Curious Prints by ...	London	1828	USD -	6.00
386		Engraving. Proofs of the London Talisman.	[London]	1831	USD -	2.50
387	Brulliot (F.)	Engraving, Etc. Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Marques Figurees, Lettres, Initiales, Noms Abreges ...	Munich	1832-1834	USD -	5.00
388	Passavant (J. D.)	Engraving. Le Peintre-Graveur.	Leipsic	1860	USD -	9.00
389	Duplessis (Georges)	Engraving. Histoire de la Gravure en Italie, en Espagne, . . . et en France, suivie d'Indications ...	Paris	1880	USD -	5.00
390	Cust (Lionel)	Engraving. The Master E. S. and the 'Ars Moriendi'. A Chapter in the History of Engraving during the ...	Oxford	1898	USD -	3.00
391	Bourcard (Gustave)	Engraving. Graveurs et Gravures. France et Etranger. Essai de Bibliographie 1540-1910.	Paris	1910	USD -	7.00
392	Bartsch (Adam)	Engraving. Le Peintre Graveur. Nouvelle Edition. 21 vols. in 18. 1920; [Also] Zusatze zu Adam ...	Wursburg	1920-1922	USD -	21.00
393		Engravings. A Collection of 12 engravings on Biblical subjects.			USD -	5.00
394	Milton (John)	Eragny Press. Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing . . .	London	1904	USD -	10.00
395	Jonson (Ben)	Eragny Press. Songs by Ben Jonson. A Selection from the Plays, Masques, and Poems, with the Earliest ...	Hammersmith	1906	USD -	9.00
396	Knight (Samuel)	Erasmus. The Life of Erasmus, more particularly that part of it which he spent in England; wherein ...	Cambridge	1726	USD -	8.00
397	Ervine (St. John G.)	Mixed Marriage: a Play in Four Acts.	Dublin	1911	USD -	1.00

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