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
201	Clemens (S. L.)	The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts by Pedro Carolino.	Boston	1883	USD -	4.00
202	Clemens (S. L.)	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).	New York	1885	USD -	35.00
203	Clemens (S. L.)	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.	New York	1889	USD -	27.50
204	Clemens (S. L.)	The American Claimant.	New York	1892	USD -	3.00
205	Clemens (S. L.)	What is Man? London, 1910; Extracts from Adam's Diary. 1904; Mark Twain's Speeches. [1923]; The ...	New York and London	1904-[1923]	USD -	4.00
206		Clemens (S. L.). Mark Twain's Autobiography. With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. Portraits ...	Boston and New York	1916-1926	USD -	8.00
207	Cobb (Irvin S.)	The Works of Irvin S. Cobb.	New York	[1918]	USD -	5.00
208	Cohen (Henri)	Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siecle.	Paris	1912	USD -	32.00
209	Cohen (Henri)	Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siecle.	Par2is	1912	USD -	44.00
210		Conrad (Joseph). The Works of Joseph Conrad. With A Preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. With ...	New York	1920-1928	USD -	210.00
211	Conrad (Joseph)	The Rover.	Garden City, New York	1923	USD -	32.50
212		Conrad (Joseph). Tales of Hearsay. [1925]; De La Mare (W.). Alone. Woodcuts. No date; [Poe (E. A ...	London and New York	various dates	USD -	12.00
213	Conway (William Martin)	Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas. With maps and 300 illustrations. 2 vols.; Also ...	London	1894	USD -	20.00
214	[Cooper (James Fenimore)]	Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor.	London	1828	USD -	7.50
215		Copper-plates. Recueil D'Estampes Gravees D'Apres les Tableaux du Cabinet de Monseigneur Le Duc ...	Paris	1771	USD -	10.00
216		Coryat (Thomas). Coryat's Crudities. 2 vols. 1905; Lithgow (William). The Totall Discourse of The ...	Glasgow	1905-1906	USD -	12.50
217	Coues (Elliott--Editor)	The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and of David Thompson. 1799-1814.	New York	1897	USD -	7.50
218		Courtiers and Favorites of Royalty.	Paris	No date	USD -	20.00
219	Crashaw (Richard)	Steps to Temple Poems, With other Delights of the Muses.	London	1646	USD -	370.00
220		Crime. Pike (L. O.). A History of Crime in England. 2 vols. 1873; Voltaire (M. A. de). An Essay on ...	London and New York	1767-1859	USD -	12.00
221	Cruikshank (George)	Wood-cut Engraving, A View of the field and Pit, where Mary Ashford, was Murdered.		[1817]	USD -	22.50
222	Cruikshank (George)	A Memoir of Charles Louis Sand; including a Narrative of the Circumstances attending the Death of ...	London	1819	USD -	12.50
223	Cruikshank (George)	Illustrations of Popular Works, by George Cruikshank. Part I.	London	[1830]	USD -	22.50
224	Dr. Trusler	[Cruikshank (George).] Hogarth Moralized; A Complete Edition of all the Most Capital and Admired ...	London	1831	USD -	15.00
225	Cruikshank (George)	George Cruikshank's Magazine. Edited by Frank E. Smedley (Frank Fairlegh). Nos. 1 and 2, January and ...	London	1854	USD -	42.50
226	Cruikshank (George)	The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth forming The Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable ...	London	No date	USD -	10.00
227	Cruikshank (Robert)	Football. Engraved by George Hunt, in Colors, after the drawing by Robert Cruikshank. London, 1827 ...			USD -	12.50
228		Cruikshank Plates. Birch (A. C.). Fifty One Original Fables, with Morals. With 85 woodcuts by Robert ...	London	1833-1892	USD -	4.00
229	Daly (Augustin)	Woffington. A Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.		1888	USD -	3.00
230	Dana, Jr. (Richard Henry)	Two Years Before the Mast.	Boston	1911	USD -	23.00
231	Vuillier (Gaston)	Dancing. A History of Dancing. From the Earliest Ages to our own Times. With 20 full-page plates ...	New York and London	1898-1911	USD -	9.00
232		Daniel Press. Sixe Idillia.	Oxford	1883	USD -	11.00
233	D'Aurevilly (J. Barbey)	Oeuvres de Barbey D'Aurevilly.	Paris	1782	USD -	7.00
234	David (John)	Travels of John Davis in the United States of America 1798-1802.	Boston	1910	USD -	5.00
235	Defoe (Daniel)	Romances and Narratives by Daniel Defoe.	[London]	[1899]	USD -	30.00
236		Delicado (Francisco). La Gentille Andalouse. 2 vols. Paris, 1888; Gourdan (Madame). Correspondance ...	Various places	1818-1888	USD -	5.00
237	De Maupassant (Guy)	The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant.	New York	[1903]	USD -	45.00
238	De Quincy (Thomas)	The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincy.	London	1896	USD -	15.00
239	Dibdin (Thomas Frognall)	The Bibliomania or Book-Madness. History Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease.	Boston	1903	USD -	13.00
240	Dickens (Charles)	The Village Coquettes. A Comic Opera. In Two Acts. London, 1836 [reprint]; Change for the American ...	London and New York	1836-1843	USD -	3.00
241	[Dickens (Charles)]	Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell. Private Correspondence.	Boston	1908	USD -	13.00
242	[Dickens (Charles)]	The Dickens-Kolle Letters.	Boston	1910	USD -	8.00
243	Eckel (John)	Dickens (Charles). The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values. A ...	London	1913	USD -	25.00
244	Dickens (Charles)	Dickens in Cartoon and Caricature.	Boston	1924	USD -	9.00
245		Dio. Dio's Annals of Rome.	Troy	1905	USD -	11.00
246	Disraeli (Benjamin)	The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beacons-field.	New York and London	[1904]	USD -	85.00
247	Doran (Dr. John)	The Complete Writings of Doran.	Boston	recent	USD -	15.00
248	Dorat (C. J.)	Les Sacrifices de L'Amour. 1772; Theatre. 1778; Les Malheurs de L'Inconstance. 1772; Melanges et ...	Various places	1772-1792	USD -	10.00
249	[Dorat (C. J.)]	Le Celibataire, Comedie en Cinq Actes et en Vers.	Paris	1776	USD -	12.50
250	Douglas (Norman)	Experiments.		1925	USD -	10.00
251	Douglas (Norman)	In the Beginning.		1927	USD -	9.00
252	Doyle (Conan)	The Works of Conan Doyle.	New York	[1902]	USD -	30.00
253		Drama. Etheredge's Plays. With frontispiece. London, 1723; A Short View of the Immorality and ...	London	1698-1825	USD -	17.50
254		Drama. Webster (John). Dramatic Works. 4 vols. 1857; Bernard (John). Retrospections of the Stage. 2 ...	London and Boston	1805-1857	USD -	5.00
255		Drama. The London Stage. Illustrated. 3 vols. (should be 4). No date; Horgarth (G.). Memoirs of the ...	London and Philadelphia	1838-1902	USD -	2.50
256		Drama. The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.	London	1887-1888	USD -	12.00
257		Drama. Aristophanes The Eleven Comedies. 2 vols. London, 1922; Footlights and Spotlights. By Otis ...	London and Indianapolis	1922-1924	USD -	15.00
258		Drama. Dramatic Library.	Various places	various dates	USD -	5.00
259	Dreiser (Theodore)	The Genius. 1915; The Titan. 1914; A Traveller at Forty. 1914; A Hossier Holiday. 1916.	New York	1914-1916	USD -	12.50
260		Drinkwater (John). The Pilgrim of Eternity. London [1925]; Cover (J. P.). Notes on Jurgen. N. Y ...	New York and London	1915-1928	USD -	3.00
261	Dryden (John)	The Poetical Works of John Dryden.	London	1832	USD -	8.00
262	Dumas (Alexandre)	Celebrated Crimes.	Philadelphia	[1895]	USD -	12.50
263	Du Maurier (George)	Trilby. [As originally published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January to June, 1894.]	New York	1894	USD -	17.50
264	Dupont (Pierre)	Chants et Chansons (Poesie et Musique).	Paris	1851	USD -	5.00
265	D'Urfey (Thomas)	Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy.	London	1720 [reprint]	USD -	15.00
266	D'Urfry (Thomas)	Stories, Moral and Comical. Portrait in facsimile. No date; The Cambridge Tart. Engraved title. 1823 ...	London	various dates	USD -	8.00
267	[Dyce (Alexander)]	Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers.	London	1856	USD -	10.00
268	M. Le Grand	Early French Stories. Fabliaux Or Tales Abridged From French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth ...	London	1815	USD -	13.00
269		Early Printing. La Vita et Metamorfoseo d' Ovidio. With woodcut illustrations and borders. Lione ...	Various places	1584-1683	USD -	20.00
270	Ebers (George)	The Historical Romances of George Ebers.	New York	[1893]	USD -	25.00
271	Ebsworth (J. Woodfall--Editor)	Westminster Drolleries, Both Parts, of 1671, 1672. 1875; Merry Drollery Compleat. 1875; Choyce ...	Boston, Lincolnshire	1875-1876	USD -	11.00
272	Edgeworth (Maria)	Tales and Novels.	London	1832-1833	USD -	62.50
273		Egan (Pierce). The Show Folks. Illustrated. 1831; Mayhew (H.). Model Men. Illustrated. 1848 ...	London, New York and Boston	various dates	USD -	5.00
274		Eighteenth Century French Engravings. A Collection of the fine Reprints of the below mentioned texts ...	London	undated	USD -	11.00
275		Eighteenth Century French Raconteurs. Petits Conteurs du XVIIIe Siecle.	Paris	1879	USD -	50.00
276	Eliot (George)	The Works of George Eliot.	New York and Boston	No date	USD -	32.50
277		Elisabeth (Queen). Letters and Poems of Queen Elisabeth. With frontispieces. 2 vols. 1920; Marat ( ...	Boston	1904-1920	USD -	3.00
278		Elzevir Press. M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera. Cum optimus exemplaribus accurate collata.	Lugd. Batavorum	1642	USD -	15.00
279		Emerson (James). Letters from the Aegean. New York, 1829; Henderson (John). Letters and Poems, with ...	Various places	1785-1901	USD -	2.50
280	Emerson (Ralph Waldo)	The Complete Works of Emerson. With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson ...	Cambridge	1903-1914	USD -	150.00
281	Editor-in-chief, Frederick Converse Beach	Encyclopedia. The Americana. A Universal Reference Library.	New York	1912	USD -	35.00
282		English Ballads. A Collection of old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies Extant ...	London	1723 [1871, Reprint]	USD -	30.00
283		English Biography. Arthur (Sir George). Life of Lord Kitchener. With portraits, facsimiles, folding ...	New York and London	1907-1920	USD -	5.00
284		English Poetry. The Amatory Works of Tom Shuffleton. London, 1815; Poems on Several Occasions. By ...	London	1734-1815	USD -	22.00
285		English Rogue. The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, A Witty Extravagant.	London	1665 [reprint]	USD -	11.00
286		Engravings. Catalogue of the Engravings issued by the Society of Iconophiles of the City of New York ...	New York	1908	USD -	3.00
287	Villon (Francois)	Eragny Press. Ballades. 1900; Autres Poesies. 1901.	London	1900-1901	USD -	5.00
288		Essays. The Muses Recreation, Wit Restored, and Wit's Recreations. 2 vols. London, 1817; A Burlesque ...	London	1797-1846	USD -	16.00
289	Etherege (Sir George)	The Works of Sir George Etherege: containing His Plays and Poems.	London	1704	USD -	13.00
290	Farmer (John S.)	Merry Songs and Ballads.	[London]	1897	USD -	20.00
291		Farquhar (George). Dramatic Works. 2 vols. 1892; Vanbrugh (Sir John). [Dramatic Works.] 2 vols. 1893 ...	London	1892-1893	USD -	8.00
292	Faublas (Chevalier de)	Une Annee De La Vie du Chevalier De Faublas.	Paris	1790	USD -	6.00
293	Field (Eugene)	The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field.	New York	1896	USD -	20.00
294	Field (Eugene)	Verse and Prose. With portrait and facsimiles. 1917; Penn-Yan Bill's Wooing. 1914; The Yankee Abroad ...	Boston	1914-1917	USD -	4.00
295	Fielding (Henry)	The Works of Henry Fielding.	New York	1898	USD -	22.50
296		First Editions. Saxe (John G.). The Masquerade. With A.L.S. Boston, 1866; Emerson (R. W.). Fortune ...	Various places	1866-1925	USD -	5.00
297	Fiske (John)	The Writings of John Fiske. Illustrated with portraits and views, some on India paper, maps, etc ...	Cambridge	1902-1917	USD -	80.00
298		Forbes (Esther). A Mirror for Witches. Woodcuts. Boston, 1928; Johnson (M.). Safari. New York, 1928 ...	Various places	1893-1928	USD -	6.00
299	Ford (Paul L.)	The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer.	New York	1902	USD -	6.00
300	Ford (Worthington C.)	George Washington.	New York	1900	USD -	45.00

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.

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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.
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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.