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
596		Italian Art. The Masterpieces of Italian Art.	Philadelphia	1886	USD -	2.50
597		Italian Art. Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of the Renaissance.	London	1912	USD -	2.50
598		James (Henry). Daisy Miller and An International Episode. Illustrated from Drawings by Harry W ...			USD -	5.00
599	James (William)	A Pluralistic Universe.	New York	1909	USD -	1.50
600	Jameson (Mrs. Anna)	Sacred and Legendary Art.	London	1848	USD -	1.50
601		Japan. Bird (Isabella L.). Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Illustrated. 2 vols. New York, 1881; The ...			USD -	3.00
602	Bing (S.)	Japan. Le Japon Artistique. Documents d'Art et d'Industrie reunis par S. Bing. [Nos. 1 to 36, May ...	Paris	[1888-1891]	USD -	9.00
603	Stewart (B.)	Japanese Color Prints. Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints. A Collector's Guide to all the ...	New York	1922	USD -	9.00
604	Jefferson (Thomas)	The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.	Washington	1904	USD -	8.50
605	Jeaffreson (John C.)	A Book About the Table.	London	1875	USD -	4.00
606		Jerrold (Walter). The Danube. N. Y., n.d.; Motley (J. L.). The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 3 vols. N ...			USD -	6.50
607		Jesse (John Heneage). Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians. 2 vols. London, 1875; Molloy (Fitzgerald). The ...			USD -	4.00
608		Joline (Adrian H.). Peapack Papers. [N. Y.] Privately Printed, 1911. Autograph Inscription by Joline ...			USD -	2.50
609	Johnson (Lionel)	Poems.	London	1895	USD -	5.00
610	[Johnson (Samuel)]	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.	London	1775	USD -	5.00
611	Johnson (Samuel)	The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works.	London	1781	USD -	6.00
612		Johnson (Samuel). Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. 2 vols. New York, 1857; Chesterfield ( ...	New York and Boston	1857-1871	USD -	3.00
613		Johnston (Mary). Audrey. Boston, 1902; Lucas (E. V.). London Lavender. London [1912]; Noyes (Alfred ...			USD -	2.50
614	Joyce (James)	Dubliners.	London	[1914]	USD -	3.00
615	Joyce (James)	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.	London	[1916]	USD -	6.00
616	Joyce (James)	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.	London	[1916]	USD -	5.50
617		Junius. Letters. Portraits. 2 vols. T. Bensley, 1805; [Steele (Richard).] The Tatler. 3 vols. 1710.	London	1710-1805	USD -	4.00
618	Keats (John)	Endymion. Beautifully illustrated by W. St. John Harper, reproduced in photo-etchings by Frank E ...	Boston	[1888]	USD -	4.00
619	Morris (William)	Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, which has been also called the Land of Living ...	Hammersmith	1891	USD -	22.00
620	William Morris	Kelmscott Press. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press . . .	Hammersmith	1898	USD -	23.00
621	[Kennedy (John P.)]	Rob of the Bowl: a Legend of St. Inigoe's.	Philadelphia	1838	USD -	2.00
622	Townsend (J. W.)	Kentucky. Kentucky in American Letters. 1784-1912.	Cedar Rapids	1913	USD -	4.00
623	Baker (Sir Richard)	Kings of England. A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman's Government until ...	London	1674	USD -	1.50
624	Knight (Charles--Editor)	London.	[London]	1841-1844	USD -	2.50
625	Knight (Charles)	Old England.	London	circa 1845	USD -	2.50
626	Knight (Charles)	Half-Hours with the Best Authors. With Short Biographical and Critical Notices.	Philadelphia	No date	USD -	4.00
627	Koerner (Gustave)	Memoirs of Gustave Koerner. 1809-1896.	Cedar Rapids	1909	USD -	3.50
628	Koopman (Harry Lyman)	Woman's Will: a Love-Play in Five Acts; with other Poems.	Buffalo	1888	USD -	1.00
629	Palliser (Mrs. Bury)	Lace. A History of Lace. [With a Bibliography of Pattern Books for Lace and Embroidery.]	London	1875	USD -	3.50
630	Lacroix (Paul)	The Arts in the Middle Ages. London, 1875; Manners and Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages ...			USD -	22.00
631	La Fontaine (Jean de)	Fables Inedites des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe Siecles.	Paris	1825	USD -	1.50
632	La Fontaine (Jean de)	Fables: avec un nouveau Commentaire litteraire et grammatical, par Ch. Nodier.	Paris	1828	USD -	1.00
633		Lamb (Charles). Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare: With ...			USD -	10.00
634	Hone (William)	[Lamb (Charles).] Complete Set of the Every-Day Book; The Table Book; and The Year Book.	London	1826-1832	USD -	5.00
635	Lamb (John)	Hebrew Characters Derived from Hieroglyphics. The Original Pictures Applied to the Interpretation of ...	London	1835	USD -	1.00
636		Lambert (Catholina). Catalogue of the Notable Paintings and Sculptures. Numerous reproductions. N. Y ...			USD -	1.50
637		[Landor (Walter Savage).] The Pentameron. London, 1837; Scott (Sir Walter). Rokeby. Edinburgh, 1813 ...			USD -	4.00
638	Landseer (Thomas)	Monkeyana; or Men in Miniature.	London	1828	USD -	3.00
639	Landseer (Thomas)	Ten Etchings, illustrative of the Devil's Walk.	London	1831	USD -	3.00
640	Lang (Andrew)	The Library.	London	1881	USD -	4.50
641	Lang (Andrew)	Ballads of Books.	London	1888	USD -	2.50
642	Lanier (Sidney)	Poems.	Philadelphia	1877	USD -	2.00
643	Lanier (Sidney)	The English Novel and the Principle of its Development. First Edition. 1883; Poems, edited by his ...	New York	1883-1894	USD -	3.50
644	Larcom (Lucy)	Similitudes from the Ocean and the Prairie.	Boston	1854	USD -	1.50
645	Layard (Austen H.)	Nineveh and its Remains.	New York	1849	USD -	4.00
646	Lazarus (Emma)	Songs of a Semite and other Poems.	New York	1882	USD -	3.00
646a	Trollope (Mrs.)	Leech Illustrations. Jessie Phillips. A Tale of the Present Day.	London	1843	USD -	7.00
647	[Hole (Samuel R.)]	Leech Illustrations. A Little Tour in Ireland.	London	1859	USD -	2.50
648	A'Beckett (Gilbert A.)	Leech Illustrations. The Comic History of Rome.	London	undated	USD -	2.50
649	Lemoine (Jean)	Madame de Montespan et la Legende des Poisons.	Paris	1908	USD -	1.00
650	L'Enclos (Ninon de)	The Story of Ninon de l'Enclos, the celebrated Aspasia of France. With her remarkable works on the ...	Boston	1843	USD -	3.00
651		L'Estrange (H.). The Reign of King Charles. Portrait. London, 1856; Zouch (T.). Memoirs of Sir ...			USD -	1.00
652	L'Estrange (Roger)	Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press: together with Diverse ...	London	1663	USD -	3.50
653	Lever (Charles)	Roland Cashel. London, 1850; The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin, 1839; Tom Burke of Ours ...			USD -	10.00
654		Lewis (Sinclair). Main Street. The Story of Carol Kennicott. New York, 1920; Babbitt. New York [1922 ...			USD -	1.00
655	[Blunt (Charles)]	Liberty of the Press. A Just Vindication of Learning: or, An Humble Address to the High Court of ...	London	1679	USD -	4.00
656	Blunt (Charles)	Liberty of the Press. A Just Vindication of Learning and the Liberty of the Press.	London	1695	USD -	2.50
657		Library of Home Economics (The). A Complete Home-Study Course on the New Profession of Home-Making ...	Chicago	1907	USD -	1.00
658		Library of Universal History, containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Period to the ...	New York	1897	USD -	2.00
659	Holland (J. G.)	Lincoln (Abraham). The Life of Abraham Lincoln.	Springfield, Massachusetts	1866	USD -	2.00
660	Pabst (B.) and Kretzschmar (A.)	Lithography. Das Gesammtgebiet der Lithographie, oder theoretische unde practische Anleitung zur ...	Leipzig	1843	USD -	3.00
661	Locke (William J.)	Far-Away Stories; The Glory of Clementina Wing; Stella Maris.	New York and London	1909-1913	USD -	2.50
662	Locker-Lampson (Frederick)	Poems.	London	1868	USD -	7.00
663		Locker-Lampson (Frederick). London Lyrics. With portrait. London, 1889; Carman (Bliss). A Winter ...			USD -	3.00
664	[Lodge (Edmund)]	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.	[London]	[1821-1834]	USD -	30.00
665	Longfellow (Henry W.)	Syllabus de la Grammaire Italienne.	Boston	1832	USD -	3.00
666	[Longfellow (Henry W.)]	Hyperion, a Romance.	New York	1839	USD -	6.00
667	Longfellow (Henry W.)	Life.	Boston	1886	USD -	1.00
668		Longus. Daphnis and Chloe; Dusejour (Dionis). The Origin of the Graces; Pezay (Marquis de). Delia ...	London	undated	USD -	8.50
669		Lorenzini (Niccolo). Il Peccator Contrito. In Fiorenza, per Filippo Givnto, 1591. From the Jesuit ...			USD -	6.00
670	Bayle Bernard	Lover (Samuel). The Life of: Artistic, Literary, and Musical; with Selections from his unpublished ...	London	1874	USD -	1.00
671	[Lowell (James Russell)]	The Liberty Bell. 1839-1858 inclusive.	Boston	1839-1858	USD -	4.00
672		Lowell (James Russell). The Vision of Sir Launfal. Illustrations on India paper by Bruce Crane and ...	Boston	1886-1888	USD -	2.00
672	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.	London	1858-1859	USD -	10.00
673	Lowell (James Russell)	The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell.	Cambridge	1904	USD -	21.00
674		Lytton (Edward, Earl of--Owen Meredith). A. L. S.: Lytton. 3pp. 8vo, France, Sept. 6, 1867. To ...			USD -	4.50
675		Mabie (Hamilton W.). Backgrounds of Literature. Illustrated. N. Y., 1903. Limited to 123 copies on ...			USD -	11.00
676	Machen (Arthur)	The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War; Things Near & Far.	London	1915-[1923]	USD -	3.00
677	Machiavelli (Niccolo)	The works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence.	London	1695	USD -	3.00
678		Manning (Ann). The Household of Sir Thomas More. Colored Illustrations by C. E. Brock. London, 1906 ...			USD -	5.00
679		Manuscript. Arabic Manuscript.		1196 A.H. (circa 1780 A.D.)	USD -	16.00
680	Westwood (J. O.)	Manuscripts. Fac-Similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts.	London	1868	USD -	9.00
681		Manuscripts. International Manuscripts.	New York	circa 1900	USD -	3.00
682	Maxime de la Rocheterie	Marie Antoinette. The Life of Marie Antoinette.	New York	1893	USD -	11.00
683	Marlorate (Augustine)	A Catholike exposition vpon the Reuelation of Sainct Iohn. London, 1574; Biblia Sacra. Coloniae [ ...			USD -	2.00
684	Milton (John)	Martin Illustrations. The Paradise Lost.	London	1846	USD -	3.00
685	Marmont (Marechal)	De l'Esprit des Institutions Militaires.	Paris	1845	USD -	1.00
686	Reyner (Edward)	Marriage. Considerations Concerning Marriage, the Honour, Duties, Benefits, Troubles of it.	London	1657	USD -	4.00
687	Dargaud (J. M.)	Mary Stuart. Histoire de Marie Stuart.	Paris	1850	USD -	2.50
688	Edited by Annie Rix Militz	Master Mind (The). [Magazine]. October 1911 to March 1919.	Los Angeles	1911-1919	USD -	10.00
689		Masters (Edgar Lee). Mitch Miller. Illustrated. New York, 1920; Thoreau (Henry D.). Excursions ...			USD -	7.50
690	Maupassant (Guy de)	Works of Guy de Maupassant.	New York	1908	USD -	15.00
691	Thou (Jacques-Auguste de)	Mazarin's (Cardinal) Copy. Memoirs de la Vie de Jacques-Auguste de Thou . . .	Rotterdam	1711	USD -	7.50
692		McCoan (J. C.). Egypt as It Is. Map. New York, 1877; Rowe (George Stringer). Fiji and the Fijians ...			USD -	5.00
693	Melville (Herman)	Mardi: and a Voyage thither.	New York	1849	USD -	4.00

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