American Art Association: FINE SETS AND FIRST EDITIONS. THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE LATE J. BARTON TOWNSEND, PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY ORDER OF CASPAR W. B. TOWNSEND AND THE PROVIDENT TRUST CO. OF PHILADELPHIA EXECUTORS. UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE NOVEMBER 26, 27 AND 28. AMERICAN ART ASS, 1928Nov26,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 26, 1928 - November 26, 1928

Page Size: 769 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Adams (Charles Francis)	A Cycle of Adams Letters 1861-1865. Illustrations. 2 vols. 1920; Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915. An ...	Boston and New York	1916-1920	USD -	12.00
2	Addison (Joseph)	Poems on Several Occasions. With a Dissertation upon The Roman Poets.	London	1719	USD -	15.00
3	Aiken (Lucy)	Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. 2 vols. 1819; Memoirs of the Court of King James First. 2 ...	London	1819-1833	USD -	18.00
4	Ainsworth (William Harrison)	The Historical Romances of William Harrison Ainsworth.	Philadelphia	no date	USD -	35.00
5	Aldrich (Thomas Bailey)	The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.	Cambridge	1907-1908	USD -	65.00
6	Aleman (Mateo)	The Life of Guzman d'Alfarache: or, The Spanish Rogue.	London	1708	USD -	12.00
7		America. Preble (G. H.). Origin and History of the American Flag. Illustrated. 2 vols. Philadelphia ...	Various places	1889-1917	USD -	14.00
8		America. Lodge (H. C.). The Story of the Revolution. 2 vols. New York, 1898; Villard (O. G.). John ...	Various places	1898-1910	USD -	14.00
9	Thwaites (Reuben Gold--Editor)	America. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition, 1804-1806.	New York	1904-1905	USD -	70.00
10	La Follette (R. M.--Editor)	America. The Making of America.	Philadelphia	[1905]	USD -	4.00
11	Heckewelder (John)	America. A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethern among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians ...	Cleveland	1907	USD -	14.00
12	Dunbar (Seymour)	America. A History of Travel in America.	Indianapolis	[1915]	USD -	20.00
13		American Humor. [Smith (Seba).] The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing. . . Woodcuts. 1834 ...	Boston and Philadelphia	1834-[1856]	USD -	6.00
14		American Pamphlets. Proceedings of the Union League of Philadelphia regarding the Assassination of ...	Various places	1797-1909	USD -	10.00
15		American Statesmen. Edited by John T. Morse Jr. [First Series.] 32 vols. Second Series. 8 vols ...	Boston	1898-1917	USD -	42.50
16		American Trade Cards. Early American Trade Cards from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer ...	Various places	1904-1927	USD -	6.00
17		American Travel. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive. By J. S. Buckingham. 2 vols. New ...	New York	1841-1906	USD -	8.00
18		Americana. Power (Tyrone). Impressions of America. With frontispieces. 2 vols. London, 1836; Michaux ...	Various places	1805-1856	USD -	17.00
19		Americana. Wood (John). The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams. With ...	Various places	1808-1876	USD -	14.00
20		Americana. Baldwin (J. G.). The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. San Francisco, 1876 Hoffman ...	Various places	1811-1876	USD -	10.00
21		Americana. Paul Pry's Journal of a Residence at Little Pedlington. Philadelphia, 1836; Thirteen ...	Various places	1836-1863	USD -	4.00
22		Americana. Kelly (Fanny). Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians. Chicago, 1891; Hall (A ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	5.00
23		Americana. Wilson (Alexander). The Foresters. West Chester, Pa., 1838; [Hoffman (C. F.).] A Winter ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	10.00
24		Ancient Worship.	London	1891	USD -	12.00
25	Anderson (Sherwood)	Dark Laughter.	New York	1925	USD -	8.00
26	Anderson (Sherwood)	Sherwood Anderson's Notebook.	New York	1926	USD -	9.00
27	Andre (Major John)	Andre's Journal. An Authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the British Army in America ...	Boston	1903	USD -	15.00
28	Hicks (Thomas)	[Andrews (William Loring).] Eulogy on Thomas Crawford.	New York	1865	USD -	4.00
29	Halleck (Fitz-Greene)	[Andrews (William Loring).] Lines to the Recorder.	New York	1866	USD -	3.00
30	Andrews (W. L.)	The Journey of the Iconophiles around New York in search of the Historical and Picturesque.	New York	1897	USD -	7.00
31	Andrews (W. L.)	New Amsterdam New Orange New York. A Chronologically arranged account of Engraved Views of the City ...	New York	1897	USD -	22.50
32	Andrews (W. L.)	Gossip about Book Collecting.	New York	1900	USD -	22.50
33	Andrews (W. L.)	Paul Revere and his Engraving.	New York	1901	USD -	27.50
34	Andrews (W. L.)	Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects.	New York	1902	USD -	11.00
35	Andrews (W. L.)	New York as Washington Knew It after the Revolution.	New York	1905	USD -	20.00
36	Andrews (W. L.)	An English XIX Sportsman, Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books.	New York	1906	USD -	45.00
37	Andrews (W. L.)	Catalogue of the Engravings issued by the Society of Iconophiles of the City of New York 1894-1908.	New York	1908	USD -	4.00
38	Andrews (W. L.)	The Heavenly Jerusalem. A Mediaeval Song of the Joys of the Church Triumphant.	New York	1908	USD -	5.00
39	Andrews (W. L.)	Jacob Steendam, noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland.	New York	1908	USD -	5.00
40	Angelo (Henry)	The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo.	Philadelphia and London	1904	USD -	8.00
41	P. Fisher	Angling. The Angler's Souvenir by P. Fisher.	London	1835	USD -	24.00
42		Antique Gems. A Collection of the Works of Ancient Writers of Greece and Rome.	Philadelphia	[1901-1902]	USD -	17.00
43		Arctic. Problems of Polar Research. 1928; Peary (R. E.). The North Pole. 1910; Scott (Capt. R. F ...	New York	various dates	USD -	9.00
44	Ariosto (Ludovico)	Orlando Furioso.	Parigi	1795	USD -	16.00
45	Ariosto (Ludovico)	Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto; with Notes: By John Hoole.	London	1799	USD -	12.00
46	Ariosto (Ludovico)	The Orlando Furioso translated into English Verse from the Italian.	London	1823-1831	USD -	17.50
47	Arlen (Michael)	The Green Hat. [1924]; The London Venture. 1920; May Fair. New York [1925].	London and New York	1920-[1925]	USD -	10.00
48	Armstrong (Archie)	Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests.	Edinburgh	1872	USD -	11.00
49	Arnaud (M. D')	Oeuvres D'Arnaud.	Paris	1772-1775	USD -	16.00
50	John Codman	Arnold (Benedict). Arnold's Expedition to Quebec.	New York	1903	USD -	5.00
51	Arnold (Thomas)	History of Rome. 3 vols.; History of the Later Roman Commonwealth. 2 vols.	London	1845	USD -	5.00
52	Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart	Arnold's Treason. The Varick Court of Inquiry to investigate The Implication of Colonel Varick ( ...	Boston	1907	USD -	8.00
53		Art. A History of Engraving & Etching. With illustrations. Boston, 1923; The Modern Poster. With ...	New York and Boston	1895-1923	USD -	9.00
54		Art. Catalogue of Paintings in the Private Collection of W. L. Elkins. Elstowe, Elkins, Montg. Co ...		[1900]	USD -	32.50
55		Art. Catalogue [John G. Johnson] of a Collection of Paintings and some Art Objects.	Philadelphia	1913	USD -	45.00
56		Art. L'Album. Les Maitres de la Caricature. With numerous reproductions. Paris, no date; Der Nackte ...	Munchen and Paris	1913 and no date	USD -	12.00
57		Art. Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition.	San Francisco	[1915]	USD -	10.00
58		Arts and Science. International Congress of Arts and Science.	London	[1907]	USD -	5.00
59	Ashton (John)	Social England under. the Regency. With 90 illustrations. 2 vols 1890; Gossip of the Century ...	London	1890-1892	USD -	13.00
60		Ashton (John). Modern Street Ballad. 56 illustrations. 1888; Eighteenth Century Waifs. 1887; Timbs ( ...	London	various dates	USD -	11.00
61		Autobiography. Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino. With illustrations. 3 vols. New York, 1909; Sir A ...	New York and London	1903-1909	USD -	5.00
62	Balzac (Honore de)	Oeuvres Completes de H. De Balzac.	Paris	1895	USD -	10.00
63	Balzac (Honore de)	Droll Stories.	New York	1928	USD -	12.00
64	Balzac (Honore de)	Les Contes Drolatiques.	Paris	No date	USD -	12.00
65	Banning (Kendall)	Bypaths In Arcady.	Chicago	1915	USD -	4.00
66	Barclay (Alexander)	The Ship of Fools.	Edinburgh	1874	USD -	8.00
67	Barrie (J. M.)	The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie.	New York	1896-1900	USD -	17.50
68		Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer . . .	Cambridge	1760	USD -	16.00
69		Baudelaire (Charles). Les Fleurs Du Mal. With portrait. Paris, no date; Louys (Pierre). Les Chansons ...	Paris	1885-1906	USD -	9.00
70	Bayle (Peter)	An Historical and Critical Dictionary, selected and abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle.	London	1826	USD -	15.00
71		Bayly (Thomas Haynes). Weeds of Witchery. London, 1837; Mackenzie (Kenneth). The Marvellous ...	Various places	1837-1860	USD -	6.00
72	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Bee. The Magazine of the Blackburn Technical School. Vol. 2--Part 2. November, 1891.	Blackburn	1891	USD -	6.00
73	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Studio. An illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Vol. I, No. 1.	London	1893	USD -	9.00
74	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur . . . and in the End Le Morte d'Arthur . . .	London	1893-1894	USD -	42.50
75	Beardsley (Aubrey)	Lucian's True History.	London	1894	USD -	33.00
76	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. Vols. I to XIII. From April, 1894 to April, 1897 ...	London	1894-1897	USD -	40.00
77	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Cambridge A.B.C. June, 1894. Cover design by Beardsley. Cambridge, 1894; Baron Verdigris. By J ...	Various places	1894-1911	USD -	4.00
78		Beardsley (Aubrey). Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley. With an Introductory Note by the Rev. John ...	London	1894-1904	USD -	7.00
79	Beardsley (Aubrey)	A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender . . . By John Davidson ...	London	1895-1899	USD -	11.00
80	Beardsley (Aubrey)	Pierrot's Library.	London	1896	USD -	6.00
81	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Rape of the Lock.	London	1896	USD -	35.00
82	Beardsley (Aubrey)	[The Savoy. A Periodical of an Exclusively Literary and Artistic Kind.]	London	1896	USD -	70.00
83	Beardsley (Aubrey)	Ben Ionson his Volpone: or the Foxe.	London	1898	USD -	30.00
84	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley. 1899; The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley. 1901.	London and New York	1899-1901	USD -	40.00
85	Oscar Wilde	Beardsley (Aubrey). Salome.	London	1907	USD -	10.00
86	Beardsley (Aubrey)	The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley. With a portrait and 156 reproductions. 1912; Nineteen Early ...	London	1912-1919	USD -	14.00
87	Beardsley (Aubrey)	Drawings to Illustrate the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.	New York	no date	USD -	4.00
88	Beardsley (Aubrey)	An Issue of Five Drawings illustrative of Juvenal and Lucian.		Undated	USD -	6.00
89		Beaux and Belles of England and Days of the Dandies.	London	undated	USD -	42.50
90		Beebe (William). The Arcturus Adventure. Illustrated. 1926; Doughty (C. M.). Arabia Deserta ...	New York and London	1879-1926	USD -	8.00
91	Beebe (William)	Edge of the Jungle. 1921; Pheasant Jungles. Illustrated. 1927.	New York	1921-1927	USD -	5.00
92	[Behn (Mrs.)]	An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.	London	1696	USD -	5.00
93		Behn (Mrs. Aphra). The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and ...	London	1871-1873	USD -	25.00
94	Berenger (P. J. de)	Oeuvres de Berenger.	Paris	1860	USD -	12.00
95		Bernard. Oeuvres de Bernard With frontispieces. 5 vols. Paris, 1803; Pogge. Les Faceties de Pogge. 2 ...	Paris	1803-1878	USD -	14.00
96	Berquin (Arnaud)	Idylles par M. Berquin.	Paris	1775	USD -	14.00
97	Berry (Mary)	Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. From the Year 1783 to 1852.	London	1865	USD -	8.00
98	Besdel (Monsieur)	Abrege de Causes Celebres & Interessantes, avec Les Jugemens Qui Les Ont Decidees. 3 vols. Bath ...	Bath and Paris	1784-1793	USD -	7.00
99	Beveridge (Albert J.)	The Life of John Marshall.	Boston and New York	1919	USD -	45.00
100		Bible. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and the New Testament & The Apocrypha.	London	[1911]	USD -	7.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

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

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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