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
398		Essex House Press. An Endeavour Towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris.	London	1901	USD -	5.00
399	Hamerton (P. G.)	Etching. Examples of Modern Etching.	London	1875	USD -	7.00
400	Carr (J. C.)	Etching. Examples of Contemporary Art.	London	1878	USD -	2.50
401		Etching. Recent American Etchings.	New York	1885	USD -	2.50
402	Ritchie (G. W. H.)	Etching. English Etchers.	New York	1885	USD -	2.50
403	Hamerton (Philip Gilbert)	Etching. Etching & Etchers.	Boston	1905	USD -	7.00
404	Paff (A. E.)	Etching.	Boston	1917	USD -	145.00
405		Etching and Caricature. Singer (H. W.) and Strang (W.). Etching, Engraving and other methods of ...	London	1865-1897	USD -	9.00
406	Boutet (Henri)	Etchings. Pointes Seches.	Paris	No date	USD -	5.00
407	Maillard (Leon)	Etchings. Henri Boutet, Graveur et Pastelliste. 1894; Catalogue Raisonne. 1895.	Paris	1894-1895	USD -	8.00
408	Gray (Thomas)	Etching Club. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.	London	1847	USD -	3.00
409		Etchings. A Collection of Fifty Etchings . . .	London	1819	USD -	5.00
410		Etchings. Galerie Durand-Ruel. Recueil d'Estampes Gravees a l'eau-forte.	Paris	1873	USD -	11.00
411	Marvy (Louis)	Etchings. Ecole de Barbizon. 20 etchings by Marvy. Two Copies. 2 vols. Paris, 1875; Ecole de ...	Paris	1875	USD -	2.50
412		Etchings. Ecole de Barbizon.	Paris	1875	USD -	3.00
413	Skinner (Stephan)	Etymology. Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae.	Londini	1671	USD -	2.50
414	Fagan (Louis)	Collector's Marks.	London	1883	USD -	11.00
415		Falconer (William). The Shipwreck. A Poem. With a Life of the Author, by J. S. Clarke. Illustrated ...			USD -	8.50
416		Fenelon. Les Adventures de Telemaque. Paris, 1819; Beattie (James). The Minstrel. London: John ...			USD -	15.00
417	Field (Eugene)	Culture's Garland.	Boston	1887	USD -	19.00
418		Field (Eugene). Florence Bardsley's Story. The Life and Death of a Remarkable Woman. Portraits and ...			USD -	4.00
419	Field (Michael)	The Tragic Mary [Stuart]. (A Drama.)	London	1890	USD -	3.00
420	Fielding (Henry)	The Works of Henry Fielding.	New York	1908	USD -	10.00
421		Finely Printed Books. A Collection of Books Finely Printed, as described below.			USD -	10.00
422		First Editions. Shaw (George Bernard). The Common Sense of Municipal Trading. London, 1904; Dell ( ...			USD -	7.50
423		First Editions. Tennyson (Lord). Enoch Arden; Queen Mary; Aldrich (Thomas Bailey). Friar Jerome's ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	9.00
424	Fitzgerald (Francis--Translator)	The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. From the French of Messire Francois Salignac de la ...	London	1792	USD -	12.00
425	Flaxman (John)	Anatomical Studies of the Bones and Muscles, for the Use of Artists.	London	1833	USD -	4.00
426	Forman (H. Buxton)	The Hermit of Marlow. A Chapter in the History of Reform. With frontispiece; The Vicissitudes of ...	London	1887-1896	USD -	2.00
427		Forster (John). A. L. S.: John Foster. 2pp. 12mo, Jan. 4th, 1852. To John Leech; Fitzgerald (P ...			USD -	4.00
428	[Franklin (Benjamin)]	The Religion of Nature Delineated.	London	1726	USD -	3.00
429		French Art. Societe d'Aquarellistes Francais. Ouvrage d'Art Publie avec le concours artistique de ...	Paris	1883	USD -	7.00
430	About (Edmond)	French Illustrated Books. Tolla.	Paris	1889	USD -	3.00
431		French Lithographs.	[Paris]	circa 1890	USD -	2.00
432	Freneau (Philip)	Unpublished Freneauana.	New York	1918	USD -	2.00
433	Fuller (George)	George Fuller. His Life and Works.	Boston	1886	USD -	6.00
434	Jacquemart (A.)	Furniture. A History of Furniture.	London	circa, 1890	USD -	5.00
435	Singleton (Esther)	Furniture. French and English Furniture. Distinctive Styles and Periods Described and Illustrated.	New York	1903	USD -	5.00
436	Symonds (R. W.)	Furniture. The Present State of Old English Furniture.	New York	recent	USD -	5.00
437	Menpes (Mortimer)	Gainsborough. Gainsborough.	London	1909	USD -	14.00
438	Louis Bardi	Galerie du Palais Pitti. Gravee sur Cuivre par les Meilleurs Artistes Italiens et Illustree par une ...	Florence	1842-1845	USD -	20.00
439	Galsworthy (John)	The Dark Flower; [Also] Beyond.	London	1913-[1917]	USD -	8.00
440	Galsworthy (John)	The Dark Flower; [Also] Beyond.	London	1913-[1917]	USD -	6.00
441	[Gay (John)]	The Captives. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane by His Majesty's Servants.			USD -	1.00
442	Atkinson (J. B.)	German Art. Schools of Modern Art in Germany.	London	1880	USD -	1.00
443	Gerome (Jean Leon)	The Life and Works of Jean Leon Gerome.	[New York]	no date	USD -	3.00
444	Gibbon (Edward)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.	London	1813	USD -	7.50
445	[Gilder (Richard Watson)]	Inscriptions for the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, 1901.	[New York]	[1901]	USD -	1.00
446	Giovanni (Ser)	The Pecorone.	London	1898	USD -	8.00
447	Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von)	Reynard the Fox.	London	1855	USD -	5.00
448	Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von)	Faust.	London	circa, 1880	USD -	5.00
449	[Goldsmith (Oliver)]	The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale.	London	1770	USD -	7.00
450		Goldsmith (Oliver). Roman History. 2 vols. London, 1776; Baxter (W.). Reliquiae Baxterianae. Londini ...			USD -	5.00
451	[Goldsmith (Oliver)]	The Citizen of the World.	London	1793	USD -	4.50
452	Goldsmith (Oliver)	The Vicar of Wakefield.	London	1886	USD -	17.00
452a	Goncourt (Edmond and Jules de)	Renee Mauperin.	Paris	1884	USD -	2.00
453	Yriarte (Charles)	Goya y Lucientes (Francisco). Goya. Sa Biographie, Le Fresques, Les Toiles, Les Tapisseries, Les ...	Paris	1867	USD -	5.00
454		Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture.	London	1901-1912	USD -	20.00
455	Millingen (James)	Greek Vases. Ancient Unedited Monuments.	London	1822	USD -	10.00
456	Greenwood (Nicholas)	Astronomia Anglicana: containing an Absolute and Entire Piece of Astronomy. . . . Fitted to the ...	London	1699	USD -	1.50
457	Graham (James)	A Lecture on the General Increase, and Improvement of the Species.	London	[1783]	USD -	5.00
458	Granville (George)	The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne.	London	1732	USD -	1.50
459	Glaser (Curt)	Graphic Art. Die Graphik der Neuzeit, vom Anfang des XIX. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart.	Berlin	1923	USD -	4.50
460	Gray (Thomas)	The Poems of Mr. Gray. [London] circa 1775; The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are Prefixed Memoirs of ...			USD -	2.50
461		Gray (Thomas). Poetical Works. Portrait. William Pickering, 1853; Timbs (J.). Clubs and Club Life in ...	London	1810-[1872] and no date	USD -	7.00
462		Grimm (Herman). Life of Michael Angelo. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. Illustrated. 2 vols ...	Boston and New York	1896-1919	USD -	4.00
463		Grolier Club. Transactions of the Grolier Club from its Foundation, January 1884 to July 1885. Part ...	New York	1885-1894	USD -	1.00
464	Theo. L. De Vinne	Grolier Club. Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp.	New York	1888	USD -	31.00
465		Grolier Club. The Catalogue of Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles ...	New York	1895	USD -	3.00
466		Grolier Club. The Catalogue of Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles ...	New York	1895	USD -	3.00
467		Grolier Club. The Poems of John Donne.	New York	1895	USD -	6.00
468	Arthur Warren	Grolier Club. The Charles Whittinghams, Printers.	New York	1896	USD -	17.00
469	Baron Jerome Pichon	Grolier Club. The Life of Charles Henry, Count Hoym . . . 1694-1736.	New York	1899	USD -	9.00
470	De Vinne (Theodore Low)	Grolier Club. Title-Pages as Seen by a Printer . . .	New York	1901	USD -	37.00
471		Grolier Club. Stauffer (David McNeely). American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel. 2 vols.; Gage ( ...	Various places	1907-1921	USD -	110.00
472	Thackeray (W. M.)	Grolier Club. Reading a Poem.	New York	1911	USD -	6.00
473	Levis (H. C.)	Grolier Club. Baziliologia. A Booke of Kings.	New York	1913	USD -	10.00
474		Grolier Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by John Leech (1817-1864). Held at The Grolier ...	New York	1914	USD -	7.00
475		Grolier Club. New York.	New York	1915	USD -	25.00
476		Grolier Club. A Catalogue of Books Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson.	New York	1916	USD -	2.50
477	Durer (Albrecht)	Grolier Club. Of the Just Shaping of Letters. From the Applied Geometry of Albrecht Durer. Book III.	New York	1917	USD -	60.00
478		Grolier Club. A Catalogue of Books in First Editions Selected to Illustrate The History of English ...	New York	1917	USD -	7.50
479	Geoffrey Keynes	[Blake (William).] Grolier Club. A Bibliography of William Blake.	New York	1921	USD -	65.00
480	Guiney (Louise Imogen)	A Roadside Harp. A Book of Verses.	Boston	1893	USD -	2.00
481	Guiney (Louise Imogen)	Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their True Stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott ...	Boston	1894	USD -	1.00
482	Guiney (Louise Imogen)	Nine Sonnets written at Oxford.	[Boston]	Christmas, 1895	USD -	3.00
483	Guiney (Louise Imogen)	Lovers, Saint Ruth's, and three other Tales.	Boston	1895	USD -	3.00
484	Merimee (Prosper)	Guiney (Louise Imogen). Carmen.	Boston	1896	USD -	5.00
485	Guiney (Louise Imogen)	James Clarence Mangan.	Boston	1897	USD -	2.50
486	[Guiney (Louise Imogen)]	The Sermon to the Birds and the Wolf of Gubbio.	[Boston]	Christmas, 1898	USD -	2.00
487	Gwyn (Nell)	Cunningham (Peter). The Story of Nell Gwyn; and the Sayings of Charles the Second. Related and ...			USD -	4.50
488	Haden (Sir Francis Seymour)	The Relative Claims of Etching and Engraving to Rank as Fine Arts, and to be Represented as such in ...	London	1883	USD -	5.00
489	Haig (Axel Herman)	Axel Herman Haig and His Work.	London	1905	USD -	11.00
490		Hale (Matthew). The Primitive Origination of Mankind. 1677; Buckingham (Duke of). Works. 2 vols ...	London	1677-1723	USD -	4.50
491	Halevy (Ludovic)	The Abbe Constantin.	London	1888	USD -	5.00
492	Hall (Major H. Byng)	The Adventures of a Bric-a-Brac Hunter.	London	1868	USD -	1.00
493		Hall (S. C.--Editor). The Book of Gems. Engraved vignettes. 2 vols. 1836-1837. Original Edition ...	London	1744-1837	USD -	2.50
494	Hallays (Andre)	En Flanant a travers la France. Paris.	Paris	1913	USD -	1.50
495	Hamerton (Philip Gilbert)	Imagination in Landscape Painting.	London	1887	USD -	3.00
496	Hamerton (Philip Gilbert)	Man in Art. Studies in Religious and Historical Art, Portrait, and Genre.	London	1892	USD -	8.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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