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
694	Melville (Herman)	Israel Potter: his Fifty Years of Exile.	New York	1855	USD -	2.50
695		Menpes (Mortimer). Rembrandt. With an Essay on the Life and Work of Rembrandt by C. Lewis Hind. Full ...			USD -	7.50
696	Merimee (Prosper)	Les Ames du Purgatoire.	Paris	1910	USD -	10.00
697	Merimee (Prosper)	The Novels, Tales, and Letters of Prosper Merimee.	Boston	1915	USD -	12.00
698	Dodgson (C.)	Meryon (Charles). The Etchings of Charles Meryon.	London	1921	USD -	12.00
699	De Solis (Antonio)	Mexico. The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards.	London	1724	USD -	4.00
700	Meynell (Alice)	Mary, the Mother of Jesus: An Essay.	[London]	1912	USD -	3.00
701	[Michel (F.)]	The Story of the Stick in all Ages and Lands.	New York	1875	USD -	3.00
702	Miller (Fred)	The Training of a Craftsman.	London	1898	USD -	3.00
703	Miller (Joaquin)	Songs of the Sun-Lands, 1873; The Ship in the Desert, 1875; Songs of the Mexican Seas, 1887.	Boston	1873-1887	USD -	2.50
704		Miller (T.). English Country Life. London, 1861; Wharton (A. H.). Colonial Days and Dames. Phila ...			USD -	7.00
705	Millet (J.-F.)	La Vie et l'OEuvre de J.-F. Millet par Alfred Sensier.	Paris	1881	USD -	5.50
706		Milton (John). Areopagitica. 1819; [Jewsbury (M. J.).] Phantasmagoria; or, Sketches of Life and ...	London	1819-1887	USD -	2.50
707	Milton (John)	L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.	London	1859	USD -	4.00
708	Milton (John)	The Paradise Lost of Milton.	London	1866	USD -	5.00
709	Mitchell (Donald G.)	A Collection of First Editions.	New York	1847-1899	USD -	17.00
710	Ik Marvel	[Mitchell (Donald G.).] Reveries of a Bachelor: or a Book of the Heart.	New York	1850	USD -	3.00
711		Mitford (A. B. Freeman). The Attache at Peking. London, 1900; Lanier (Sidney). The Boy's Froissart ...			USD -	2.50
712	Mitford (William)	The History of Greece.	London	1795-1810	USD -	4.00
713		Modern Art. Masterpieces of Modern Art.	London	recent	USD -	3.50
714		Modern Oriental Languages. Centenaire de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1795-1895.	Paris	1895	USD -	1.00
715	Houssaye (Arsene)	Moliere (J.-B. Poquelin de). Moliere, Sa Femme et Sa Fille.	Paris	1880	USD -	5.00
716	Moliere (J.-B. Poquelin de)	The Dramatic Works of Moliere.	New York	no date	USD -	8.50
717	Montaigne (Michael de)	Works.	Boston	1880	USD -	6.00
718	Montorgueil (Georges)	La Parisienne.	Paris	1897	USD -	3.00
719	Moore (George)	Impressions and Opinions.	London	1891	USD -	6.00
720	Moore (George)	Celibates; Lewis Seymour and Some Women.	London	1895-[1917]	USD -	4.00
721	Moore (George)	'Hail and Farewell!'	London	1911-[1914]	USD -	12.00
722	Moore (George)	The Brook Kerith. A Syrian Story.	Edinburgh	1916	USD -	4.00
723	Moore (George)	Avowals.	London	1919	USD -	6.00
724	Moore (George)	The Coming of Gabrielle. A Comedy.	London	1920	USD -	4.00
725	Moore (George)	Esther Waters.	London	1920	USD -	6.00
726	Moore (George)	Heloise and Abelard.	London	1921	USD -	17.00
727	Moore (George)	In Single Strictness.	London	1922	USD -	7.00
728	Moore (George)	The Apostle. A Drama in a Prelude and Three Acts.	London	1923	USD -	5.00
729	Moore (Thomas)	Two Autograph Letters Signed. 2pp. and one page 4to. Nov. 17th, 1804, and July 24th, 1818. To My ...			USD -	12.50
730		Moore (Thomas). The Epicurean. A Tale, and Alciphron, A Poem. Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner ...			USD -	5.50
731	Moore (Thomas)	Moore's Irish Melodies.	London	1845	USD -	9.00
732		More (Sir Thomas). Utopia. N. Y., 1913. Limited to 210 copies; Hubbard (Elbert). Contemplations ...			USD -	1.50
733	Seidl (Anton--Editor)	Music. The Music of the Modern World.	New York	[1895]	USD -	4.00
734	Napoleon I	The London Gazette, Extraordinary.	London	1815	USD -	6.00
735	Napoleon I	The Napoleon Myth, by H. R. Evans. Illustrated. Chicago, 1905; Pike (James S.). The New Puritan. New ...			USD -	3.00
736	Napoleon I	Ireland (W. H.--Editor). The Napoleon Anecdotes: Illustrating the Mental Energies of the Late ...			USD -	7.50
737		Nash (Joseph). The Mansions of England in the Olden Time. Profusely illustrated. 1906; Mew (J ...	London	1884-1911	USD -	1.50
738		National Gallery. Collection of 110 Engraved Reproductions of the Work, of the Masters from the ...	London	undated	USD -	2.50
739		Natural History. Spectacle de la Nature, or, Nature Displayed.	London	1735	USD -	2.00
740	Jeaffreson (John Cordy)	Nelson (Lord). Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson. An Historical Biography Based on Letters and Other ...			USD -	5.50
741		New Testament. The Parables from the Gospel.	[London]	1903	USD -	12.00
742	Newell (R. H.--O. C. Kerr)	Original Autograph Manuscript of,--There was Once a Man.			USD -	20.00
743	Stokes (I. N. Phelps)	New York. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909.	New York	1915-1922	USD -	325.00
744	Nicolls (Mary)	Autograph Poem titled,--Country.			USD -	9.00
745		Norris (Frank). The Pit. New York, 1903; Rossetti (Christina). Speaking Likenesses. Illustrated by ...			USD -	7.00
746		Nugae Venales, sive Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres ...	No place [Holland?]	1689	USD -	7.00
747	Ogilby (John)	The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro.	London	1654	USD -	17.00
748	Ollier (Edmund)	Three Autograph Letters Signed: Edmund Oilier.	[London]	1880 and 1881	USD -	2.50
749	Omar Khayyam	Fitzgerald (Edward--Translator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.	London	[1910]	USD -	11.00
750		Only Once.	New York	1862	USD -	1.50
751		Opera. Verdi (G.). La Traviata; Rigoletto; Un Ballo in Maschera. Partitura d'Orchestra. [Words and ...			USD -	2.50
752	O'Reilly (John Boyle)	Songs, Legends and Ballads. 1878; The Statues in Block and other Poems. 1881; In Bohemia. [1886.]	Boston	1881-1886	USD -	3.00
753		Oriental Carpets. The Yerkes Collection of Oriental Carpets.	New York	1910	USD -	19.00
754	Ward (James)	Ornament. Historic Ornament. Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament.	New York	1897	USD -	3.50
755	Shaw (Henry)	Ornament. The Encyclopaedia of Ornament.	Edinburgh	1904	USD -	5.50
756		Ornament in Applied Art.	New York	1924	USD -	26.00
757	Osborn (Selleck)	Poems.	Boston	[1823]	USD -	1.00
758	Ovid	P. Ovidii Nasonis. Der Sinnrenchen . . . Metamorphoses. . . .	Frankfurt am Main	1571	USD -	5.00
759		Ovid's Epistles: with his Amours. Translated into English Verse. Adorned with curious copperplates ...			USD -	11.00
760	Conway (Moncure D.)	Paine (Thomas). The Life of Thomas Paine. To which is added a Sketch of Paine, by William Cobbett ( ...			USD -	7.50
761		Painters. The Works of Rafaelle, Domenichino, Poussin, and Albana, consisting of Four Hundred and ...	London	1819	USD -	5.00
762	Spooner (S.)	Painters. A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, or Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent ...	New York	1865	USD -	10.00
763	Nagler (Dr. K. G.)	Painters, Engravers, Etc. Neuese Allegemeines Kunster-Lexico oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den ...	Munchen	1835-1852	USD -	26.00
764		Painters. Vasari (G.). Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Translated ...	London	1866-1883	USD -	6.00
765	Edited by John Denison Champlin, Jr., Critical Editor Charles C. Perkins	Painters. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings.	New York	1886	USD -	16.00
766	Gosse (Edmund)	Painters. Peintres et Graveurs Anglais du XVIIIe Siecle (de Kneller a. Reynolds).	Paris	1906	USD -	11.00
767	Edited by W. J. Stillman	Painting and Sculpture. Venus and Apollo in Painting and Sculpture.	London	1897	USD -	15.00
768		Paintings. Beauties of Claude Lorraine. Consisting of Twenty Four Land-scapes, selected from the ...	London	1825	USD -	8.00
769		Paintings. The Century Gallery. Selected Proofs from the Century Magazine and St. Nicholas. [With ...			USD -	2.50
770		Paintings. La Collection Royale des Peintures de S. M. le Roi Edouard VII. Palais de Buckingham.	Paris	circa 1900	USD -	7.00
771		Paintings. Salon for 1894 (2 copies), 1895 and 1898.	Paris	1894-1898	USD -	2.00
772		Paintings. Catalogue de Luxe of Ancient and Modern Paintings belonging to the estate of the late ...	New York	1910	USD -	8.00
773	Palissy (Bernard)	OEuvres de Bernard Palissy.	Paris	1777	USD -	6.00
774	Fry (Edmund)	Pantographia. Pantographia; containing Accurate Copies of all the known alphabets in the World ...	London	1799	USD -	7.50
775	Montorgueil (Georges)	Paris. La Vie des Boulevards. Madeleine-Bastille.	Paris	1896	USD -	2.00
776	Parkman (Francis)	Vassall Morton. A Novel.	Boston	1856	USD -	2.00
777	Parkman (Francis)	The Book of Roses.	Boston	1866	USD -	1.00
778	Parkman (Francis)	The Jesuits in North America; The Old Regime in Canada.	Boston	1867-1874	USD -	3.00
779		Patmore (Coventry). A. L. S.: Coventry Patmore. One page 12mo, [London] Jan. 4, 1864. To A. Vogue ...			USD -	1.00
780	Penn (William)	A Collection of the Works of William Penn. One vol. only. London, 1726; Biblia Sacra. 2 vols ...			USD -	1.00
781	[Pennant (Thomas)]	History of Quadrupeds.	London	1781	USD -	10.00
782	Pennell (E. R. and J.)	A. Canterbury Pilgrimage.	New York	1885	USD -	1.00
783		Periodicals. A Collection of Special Articles extracted from the Book Worm, The Galaxy, Current ...	Various places	1870-1908	USD -	15.00
784	Petrarch (Francesco)	The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoirs pour la Vie de Petrarch.	London	1775	USD -	2.50
785	[James (G. P. R.)]	Phiz Illustrations. The Commissioner: or, de Lunatico Inquirendo.	Dublin	1843	USD -	8.00
786	Picart (Bernard)	The Temple of the Muses.	Amsterdam	1733	USD -	3.00
787	Piozzi (Mrs. H. L.)	Autograph Letter Signed,--H. L. Piozzi.	Brynbella	1800	USD -	26.00
788	Lipsius (Justus)	Plantin Press. Opera Omni Qvae Criticam Proprie Spectant.	Lvgdvni	1585	USD -	2.50
789		Plantin Press. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Argumentis Breuioribus ex Luctatio Grammatico collectis ...		[1591]	USD -	11.00
790	Pliny	Historiae Naturalis. N.p., 1510. Lacks title; Biblia Sacra. Coloniae, 1659; Cicero. Le Epistole ...			USD -	11.00
791	Plutarch	Plutarch's Romane Questions.	London	1892	USD -	7.00
792	Poe (Edgar Allan)	The American Whig Review. No. 2: February, 1845.	New York	1845	USD -	7.00
793	Poe (Edgar Allan)	The Works of: with Notices of his Life and Genius, by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold ...	New York	1850-1856	USD -	23.00

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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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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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