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
794	Poe (Edgar Allan)	The Literati: some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits, with occasional Words of ...	New York	1850	USD -	5.00
795	Woodberry (George E.)	Poe (Edgar Allan). Edgar Allan Poe. Frontispiece. Boston, 1885; Stevenson (Robert Louis). R. L. S ...			USD -	2.00
796	Henry Coppee	Poets. The Gallery of Famous English and American Poets.	Philadelphia	1874	USD -	9.00
797		Pope (Alexander). Poetical Works. Portrait. 2 vols. London, 1821; Orrery (John, Earl of). Remarks on ...			USD -	9.00
798	Pope (Alexander)	An Essay on Man.	London	1819	USD -	4.00
799		Popes. Manuscript Indulgences, Etc. Innocent XI, Feb. 15, 1676. Signed by M. de Merquita and ...			USD -	6.00
800	Binns (R. W.)	Porcelain. A Century of Potting in the City of Worcester, being the History of the Royal Porcelain ...	London	1865	USD -	8.00
801	Burton (William)	Porcelain. A General History of Porcelain.	London	1921	USD -	7.50
802	Adolphus (John)	Portraits. The British Cabinet; containing Portraits of Illustrious Personages engraved from ...	London	1799-1800	USD -	7.50
803		Portraits. A collection of 42 engraved portraits of Americans and Englishmen of note, some ...			USD -	1.50
804	Joseph Marryat	Pottery. Collections towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain, in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th ...	London	1850	USD -	5.00
805	Birch (Samuel)	Pottery. History of Ancient Pottery.	London	1858	USD -	6.00
806	Fortnum (C. D. E.)	Pottery. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus and Rhodian ...	London	1873	USD -	6.00
807	Burton (William)	Pottery. A General History of Porcelain.	London	1921	USD -	10.00
808		Pottery. Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries.	New York	1914	USD -	6.00
809	Chaffers (W.--Editor)	Pottery and Porcelain. Chefs-d'Oeuvre of the Industrial Arts.	London	1869	USD -	2.50
810		Prescott (William H.). History of the Conquest of Mexico. Frontispieces. 3 vols. New York, 1844 ...			USD -	2.00
811		Presidents. Parchment Document Signed by James Monroe. 1820; Parchment Document Signed by James ...			USD -	4.00
812		Press Publications. Mosher Press. The Letters of a Portuguese Nun. Translated by Edgar Prestage ...	Various places	1900-1908	USD -	5.50
813		Press Publications. Cranbrook Press. Cranbrook Papers. First Book. With title-page, page-heading ...	Detroit and London	1901-1904	USD -	13.00
814	Bouchot (Henri)	Prints. Bibliotheque Nationale. Musee Cabinet des Estampes: (1) Chefs-d'oeuvre de Pieces uniques; (2 ...	Paris	No date	USD -	8.00
815	Rogers (Charles)	Prints. A Collection of Prints, in Imitation of Drawings.	London	[1778]	USD -	10.00
816		Prints, Etc. A Collection of about 50 caricatures and prints, Many Being in Color, also about 35 ...		XIXth Century	USD -	12.50
817	William Hughes Willshire	Prints. An Introduction to the Study & Collection of Ancient Prints.	London	1877	USD -	7.50
818		Prints. Sammlung des Herrn Prof. W. L. Schreiber. Monumenta Xylographica.	Wien	1909	USD -	4.00
819		Psalms. Pseavmes de David, mis en Rime Francoise par Clement Marot & Theodore de Besze.	[Paris] Mathieu de la Roche	1559	USD -	3.50
820	Pyle (Howard)	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.	New York	1884	USD -	5.00
821	Quatrefages (A. de)	Hommes Fossiles et Hommes Sauvages, Etudes d'Anthropologie.	Paris	1884	USD -	2.00
822	Quiller-Couch (M. and L.)	A Book of Children's Verse.	London	No date	USD -	10.00
823	Rabelais (Francois)	Writings.	London	1892	USD -	11.00
824	Irving (Washington)	Rackham Illustrations. Tales of a Traveller.	New York	1895	USD -	4.00
825	Ramsay (Allan)	The Gentle Shepherd.	Edinburgh	1808	USD -	1.00
826	Bigot (Charles)	Raphael. Raphael et la Farnesine.	Paris	1884	USD -	2.50
827		Reade (C. L. and Rev.--Editors). A Memoir of Charles Reade. 2 vols. London, 1887. With autograph ...			USD -	2.50
828	Michel (Emile)	Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn. A Memorial of his Tercentenary.	New York	1906	USD -	7.50
829		Rhode Island. Newport. Deed of Sale of Farm Land in Jamestown County, Newport, R. I., from Jonathan ...			USD -	1.00
830		Riccardi Press. The Revival of Printing.	[London]	[1912]	USD -	17.00
831	Riley (James Whitcomb)	The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley.	New York	[1916]	USD -	11.00
832	Ritson (Joseph)	Ancient Songs and Ballads: from the Reign of Henry II to the Revolution.	London	1877	USD -	3.50
833		Riverside Press. Sonnets and Madrigals of Michelangelo Buonarroti.	[Cambridge]	1900	USD -	31.00
834		Riverside Press. Emerson (Ralph Waldo). Success; [Also] Lowell (James Russell). Democracy. An ...	[Cambridge] and Boston	1902 and 1912	USD -	2.00
835	Lambeth (W. A.) and Manning (W. H.)	Riverside Press. Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.	Boston	1911	USD -	4.00
836	Gutch (J. M.--Editor)	Robin Hood. A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode with other Ancient & Modern Ballads and Songs relating to ...	London	1847	USD -	5.00
837	Rodin (Auguste)	L'Art. Entretiens.	Paris	1911	USD -	2.50
838		Rodin (Auguste). Art. Translated from the French of Paul Gsell by Mrs. Romilly Fedden. Boston [1912 ...			USD -	6.00
839	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	Of Friendship. An Essay from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.	Boston	1901	USD -	9.00
840	Ames (Azel)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The May-Flower and her Log, July 15, 1620--May 6, 1621.	Boston	1901	USD -	19.00
841	Southey (Robert)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands, in the Autumn of 1815.	Boston	1902	USD -	11.00
842	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Compensation. An Essay.	Boston	1903	USD -	3.50
843	Hawthorne (Nathaniel)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The Old Manse.	Boston	1904	USD -	6.00
844	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey.	Boston	1905	USD -	17.00
845	Murdock (H.)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Earl Percy's Dinner-Table.	Boston	1907	USD -	9.00
846	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	A Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau.	Boston	1908	USD -	3.00
847	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	A Poet in Exile. Early Letters of John Hay.	Boston	1910	USD -	2.00
848	Lamb (Charles)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Old China.	Boston	1912	USD -	16.00
849	Thoreau (Henry D.)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Walking.	Cambridge	1914	USD -	12.00
850	Sir Philip Sidney	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Certaine Sonets Written by Sir Philip Sidney.	[Boston]	No date	USD -	13.00
851	Rogers (Samuel)	Human Life. A Poem.	London	1819	USD -	4.50
852	Rogers (Samuel)	Two Autograph Letters Signed. 2 1/2pp. and 1 1/2pp. 12mo. February 24th, 1835, and Oct. 22, 1841. To ...			USD -	9.00
853	Rollin (Charles)	The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians ...	London	1827	USD -	1.50
854		Roman Catholic Church Ceremonies. Sacrarvm Caeremoniarvm sive Ritvvm Ecclesiasticorvm S. Rom ...	Venetiis	1582	USD -	6.00
855		Roman History. Abrege de l'Histoire Romaine.	Paris	An XIII--1805	USD -	2.50
856	Wey (Francis)	Rome. Rome. Description et Souvenirs.	Paris	1880	USD -	1.00
857	Davies (Randall)	Romney (George). Romney.	London	1914	USD -	2.50
858		Ronner (Henriette). Cats and Kittens. A Series of plates from the Works of Henriette Ronner. A ...			USD -	5.00
859	Roscoe (William)	The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth.	Liverpool	1805	USD -	2.50
860		Rossetti (Dante Gabriel). Ballads and Sonnets. 1881; Southey (Robert). Oliver Newman: A New-England ...	London, Boston, and New York	Various dates	USD -	5.00
861	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	Ballads and Sonnets.	London	1881	USD -	2.00
862	Rousseau (Jean Jacques)	Les Confessions.	Paris	1889	USD -	14.00
863		Rowfant Club. Auction Prices of American Book-Club Publications. 1857-1901.	Cleveland	1904	USD -	1.50
864	Rowlandson (Thomas)	Chesterfield Travestie; or, School for Modern Manners.	London	1808	USD -	2.00
865	Rowlandson (Thomas)	Hudibras, in Three Parts . . . corrected and amended.	London	1810	USD -	2.50
866	Grego (Joseph)	Rowlandson (Thomas). Rowlandson the Caricaturist. A Selection from his Works, with Anecdotal ...	London	1880	USD -	7.50
867	Oppe (A. P.)	[Rowlandson (Thomas).] Thomas Rowlandson, His Drawings and Water-Colours.	London	1923	USD -	8.00
868		Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Grosset, N. Y., n.d.; The same (with Some Side-Lights by E. Heron-Allen ...			USD -	3.00
869	Mumford (J. K.)	Rugs. Oriental Rugs.	New York	1901	USD -	8.00
870	[Humphries (Sydney)]	Rugs. Oriental Carpets, Runners and Rugs and Some Jacquard Reproductions.	London	1910	USD -	6.00
871	Ruskin (John)	The Stones of Venice: Vol. I. The Foundations. 1851; Vol. II. The Sea-Stories. 1853; Vol. III. The ...	London	1851-1853	USD -	8.00
872	Ruskin (John)	On the Nature of Gothic Literature.	London	1854	USD -	9.00
873	Ruskin (John)	The Works of John Ruskin.	Boston	No date	USD -	13.00
874		Russell (George W.--A.E.). The Dublin Strike. Dublin [1913]; Symons (Arthur). A Book of Twenty ...			USD -	3.00
875	[Russell (George W.--A. E.)]	Homeward: Songs by the Way.	Dublin	1894	USD -	6.00
876	[Ryan (Abram J.)]	Father Ryan's Poems.	Mobile	1879	USD -	2.50
877	Saint-Aubain (Augustin de)	Catalogue Raisonne des Estampes, Vignettes, Eaux-Fortes, Pieces en Couleur au Bistre et au Lavis.	Paris	1879	USD -	3.00
878		Sainte-Beuve (C. A.). Portraits of the Seventeenth Century. Historic and Literary. Translated by ...			USD -	9.00
879	Saint Francis	The Little Flowers of Saint Francis.	New York	1919	USD -	2.00
880	Saint-Simon (Duc de)	The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency.	London	1876	USD -	10.00
881	Sand (George)	The Masterpieces of George Sand.	Philadelphia	[1892]	USD -	4.50
882		San Donato Art Catalogue. Palais de San Donato. Catalogue des Objets d'Art et d'Ameublement ...	Paris	1880	USD -	1.00
883	Wharton (H. T.--Translator)	Sappho. Sappho. Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation.	London	1895	USD -	9.00
884	Sattler (Joseph)	Durcheinander. Allerlei Zeichnungen und Skizzen von Ex-Libris, Titleblatter, Zierlesiten, Vignetten ...	Berlin	1897	USD -	1.50
885		[Saunders (Frederic).] Salad for the Social. 1856; Davies (T.). Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick ...	London	1784-1889	USD -	2.50
886	Savonarola (Io. Michaelis)	Practica Maior Philosophi ac Medici coeleberrimi in qua Morbos omnes, quibus singule humani corporis ...			USD -	1.00
887		Schofield (William Henry). Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace. Cambridge, 1920; Michie ( ...			USD -	2.50
888	Gray (John M.)	[Scott (David).] David Scott, R. S. A. and his Works.	Edinburgh	1884	USD -	2.00
889		Scott (Sir Walter). The Doom of Devorgoil, a Melo-Drama. Auchindrane; or, The Ayrshire Tragedy ...	Various places	1830-[1864]	USD -	3.50
890	Hutton (R. H.)	Scott (Sir Walter). Sir Walter Scott.	London	1878	USD -	7.00
891	Scott (Sir Walter)	Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland.	London	No date	USD -	1.50
892		Scriptures. [New Testament. Rhemes, 1582.] First Edition in English of the R. C. Version. Imperfect ...			USD -	6.00
893		Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe.	Paris and Boston	No date	USD -	17.50

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