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
301	Fouilloux (Jacques du)	La Venerie.	Angers	1844	USD -	3.00
302		France (Anatole). Sur La Voie Glorieuse. Paris, 1916; Willette (A.). Feu Pierrot. With plates ...	Paris	1898-1919	USD -	3.00
303	Franklin (Benjamin)	The Works of Benjamin Franklin.	New York	1904	USD -	40.00
304		French Color Prints. French Colour-Prints of the XVIII Century.	Philadelphia and London	1913	USD -	14.00
305		French Engravers. Dilke (Lady). French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth Century. With ...	London	1902	USD -	12.50
306		Frere (J. H.). Works in Verse and Prose. Portrait. 2 vols. 1872; Landor (W. S.). Works. 2 vols. 1846 ...	London	1846-1872	USD -	11.00
307	Furness (Horace Howard)	A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare.	Philadelphia	Various dates	USD -	35.00
308	Garnett (R.) and Gosse (E.)	English Literature. An Illustrated Record.	New York	1903	USD -	16.00
309		Gauguin (Paul). Paul Gauguin By Charles Morice. With numerous reproductions of the paintings of ...	Paris	1914-1919	USD -	15.00
310	Gautier (Theophile)	The Works of Theophile Gautier.	[Cambridge]	1905	USD -	22.50
311		Gavarni. Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni.	Paris	1846-1847	USD -	8.00
312		Gay (John). The Beggar's Opera. 1921; Polly. 1923; Lewis (D. B. W.). Francois Villon. New York, 1928 ...	London and New York	1921-1928	USD -	6.00
313	Davids (Richard Wister)	Geneology. Wister Family. The Wistar Family. With facsimile. Philadelphia, 1896; Anonymous ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	22.50
314	Huish (Robert)	George IV. Memoirs of George The Fourth.	London	1831	USD -	7.00
315		Gessner (Solomon). The Works of Solomon Gessner. With engravings. 2 vols. London, 1805; Lillo ( ...	London and New York	1775-1805	USD -	9.00
316	Gessner (Salomon)	Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner. With numerous engravings. 4 vols. Paris, 1795; Ovid. Le Metamorfosi di ...	Various places	1605-1795	USD -	15.00
317	Gibran (Kahlil)	Twenty Drawings.	New York	1919	USD -	5.00
318	Gissing (George Robert)	The Unclassed.	London	1884	USD -	12.50
319	Gissing (G. R.)	Demos. A Story of English Socialism.	London	1886	USD -	7.50
320	Gissing (G. R.)	Isabel Clarendon.	London	1886	USD -	17.50
321	Gissing (G. R.)	Thyrza. A Tale.	London	1887	USD -	12.50
322	Gissing (G. R.)	A Life's Morning.	London	1888	USD -	12.50
323	Gissing (G. R.)	The Nether World.	London	1889	USD -	27.50
324	Gissing (G. R.)	The Emancipated.	London	1890	USD -	33.00
325	Gissing (G. R.)	New Grub Street.	London	1891	USD -	35.00
326	Gissing (G. R.)	Born in Exile.	London	1892	USD -	16.00
327	Gissing (G. R.)	Denzil Quarrier. 1892; Our Friend the Charlatan. Illustrated. 1901.	London	1892-1901	USD -	15.00
328	Gissing (G. R.)	The Odd Women.	London	1893	USD -	7.50
329	Gissing (G. R.)	In the Year of Jubilee.	London	1894	USD -	7.50
330	Gissing (G. R.)	The Paying Guest; Sleeping Fires.	London	1895	USD -	8.00
331	Gissing (G. R.)	The Whirlpool.	London	1897	USD -	4.00
332	Gissing (G. R.)	Charles Dickens. A Critical Study.	London	1898	USD -	6.00
333	Gissing (G. R.)	Human Odds and Ends.	London	1898	USD -	3.00
334	Gissing (G. R.)	The Town Traveller; The Crown of Life.	London	1899	USD -	9.00
335	Gissing (G. R.)	By the Ionian Sea.	London	1901	USD -	5.00
336	Gissing (G. R.)	The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.	Westminster	1903	USD -	27.50
337	Swinnerton (Frank)	Gissing (G. R.). George Gissing. A Critical Study. Portrait. 1912; Forster's Life of Dickens ...	London	1903-1912	USD -	3.00
338	Gissing (G. R.)	Veranilda. 1904; The House of Cobwebs. Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. 1906.	London	1904-1906	USD -	11.00
339	Gissing (G. R.)	Will Warburton.	London	1905	USD -	11.00
340	Goldsmith (Oliver)	The Works of Oliver Goldsmith.	New York	1900	USD -	14.00
341	Goldsmith (Oliver)	The Deserted Village.	Boston	1912	USD -	10.00
342	Gosse (Edmund)	Firdausi in Exile and other Poems.	London	1885	USD -	40.00
343	Gower (John)	Confessio Amantis.	London	1857	USD -	11.00
344	Gray (Thomas)	Gray's Elegy.	Boston	1918	USD -	20.00
345	Grazzini (Anton Francesco)	Les Soupers Du Lasca. 2 vols. Paris, 1882; Anonymous. Lettres Historiques et Galantes. With ...	Various places	1732-1882	USD -	12.50
346	Edited by Marion Mills Miller	Greek and Roman Literature. The Classics, Greek and Latin.	[New York]	[1909]	USD -	55.00
347		Greek Tragedy. Attic Tragedies. Sophocles Euripides Aeschylus.	Boston	1927	USD -	12.50
348	Greenaway (Kate)	The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated in Color by Kate Greenaway. No date; Pan Pipes. Illustrated ...	London	1883 and no date	USD -	15.00
349	Mabie (H. W.)	Grolier Club. The Writers of Knickerbocker New York.	New York	1912	USD -	12.50
350	H. C. Levis	Grolier Club. Bazilioldgia. A Booke of Kings. Notes on a Rare Series of Engraved English Royal ...	New York	1913	USD -	8.00
351		Grolier Club. Franklin and his Press at Passy.	New York	1914	USD -	60.00
352		Grolier Club. New York, A Series of Wood Engravings in Colour and a Note on Colour Printing by ...	New York	1915	USD -	31.00
353		Grolier Club. First Editions of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 and other ...	New York	1915	USD -	9.00
354		Grolier Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition Illustrative of the Text of Shakespeare's Plays.	New York	1916	USD -	1.00
355		Groome (F. H.). Gypsy Folk-Tales. 1899; Chodzko (A.). Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia ...	London	1842-1899	USD -	4.00
356	Hakluyt (Richard)	The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or ...	Glasgow	1903-1905	USD -	70.00
357	Hall (James)	Legends of the West.	Philadelphia	1829	USD -	10.00
358	Hanger (Col. George)	Life, Adventures, and Opinions.	London	1801	USD -	8.00
359	[Hardy (Thomas)]	The Book of the Homeless.	New York and London	1916	USD -	4.00
360	Hardy (Thomas)	The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse.	New York and London	No date	USD -	45.00
361	Harper (H. H.)	The Stumbling Block. 1912; Bob Hardwick. 1911; The Psychology of Speculation. 1926; A Journey in ...	Boston	1910-1926	USD -	3.00
362	Harper (H. H.)	The Tides of Fate. 1918; The Story of a Nephrectomy. 1927; Random Verses. 1914; Library Essays. 1924 ...	Boston	1914-1927	USD -	3.00
363	Harper (H. H.)	The Codicil. 1915; The Unexpected Hodgkins. 1915; Highlights of Foreign Travel. [1925]; Booklovers ...	Boston	1915-1925	USD -	3.00
364	Harris (Frank)	Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions.	New York	1916	USD -	13.00
365	Harris (Sir William C.)	Illustrations of the Highlands of Aethiopia.	London	No date	USD -	2.50
366	Harte (Bret)	The Heathen Chinee.	Chicago	1870	USD -	3.00
367	Harte (Bret)	The Heathen Chinee.	Boston	1871	USD -	3.00
368	Harte (Bret)	The Argonauts of North Liberty. 1888; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh. 1889; In a Hollow of the Hills ...	Boston	1888-1895	USD -	9.00
369	Harte (Bret)	The Writings of Bret Harte.	Boston	[1914]	USD -	31.00
370	Hawthorne (Nathaniel)	The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.	Boston	1900-1905	USD -	110.00
371		Hay (John). Complete Poetical Works. Portrait. Boston, 1896; Thayer (W. R.). Life and Letters of ...	Boston and New York	1896-[1915]	USD -	5.00
372		Hecht (Ben). The Kingdom of Evil. 12 illustrations. Chicago, 1924; Fantazius Mallare. 10 ...	Various places	1909-1924	USD -	11.00
373	Herbert (Henry William--Frank Forester)	The Magnolia. 1836; The Magnolia. 1837.	New York	[1836-1837]	USD -	3.00
374	[Herbert (H. W.)]	Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches; Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress, Jr.	New York	1842	USD -	2.00
375	Herbert (H. W.)	Ringwood the Rover. A Tale of Florida. 1843; The Lord of the Manor; or Rose Castleton's Temptation ...	Philadelphia	1843-1844	USD -	20.00
376	Herbert (H. W.)	The Roman Traitor. Philadelphia [1853]; Marmaduke Wyvil. New York [1843]; My Shooting Box ...	Philadelphia and New York	[1843-1853]	USD -	12.50
377	Herbert (H. W.)	Matilda; or, the Memoirs of a Young Woman. A Novel, by Eugene Sue.	New York	1844	USD -	2.00
378	Herbert (H. W.)	The Prometheus and Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Cambridge, 1849; Wager of Battle. New York, 1855.	Cambridge and New York	1849-1855	USD -	12.50
379	Herbert (H. W.)	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States. . . .	New York	1851	USD -	1.00
380	Herbert (H. W.)	The Knights of England, France, and Scotland. 1852; Persons and Pictures from the Histories of ...	New York	1852-1854	USD -	15.00
381	Major Walter Campbell	[Herbert (H. W.).] The Old Forest Ranger; or, Wild Sports of India . . .	New York	1853	USD -	1.00
382	Chas. M. Weiss	[Herbert (H. W.).] History of the French Protestant Refugees.	New York	1854	USD -	25.00
383	Herbert (H. W.)	The Captains of the Roman Republic. Woodcut frontispiece. New York, 1854; The Roman Traitor. 2 vols ...	New York and Philadelphia	1854 and no date	USD -	7.50
384	Herbert (H. W.)	Poems of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert).	New York	1888	USD -	2.00
385	Herbert (H. W.)	Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Characters.	Philadelphia	No date	USD -	15.00
386	Herbert (H. W.)	The Deer Stalkers. No date; Quorndon Hounds. No date.	Philadelphia	No date	USD -	3.00
387	Herodotus	Euterpe: Being the Second Book of the Famous History of Herodotus.	London	1888	USD -	16.00
388	Higginson (Thomas Wentworth)	The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.	Cambridge	1900	USD -	12.50
389	George Barrington	History. The History of New South Wales. By George Barrington. With illustrations in Color. London ...	London	1713-1802	USD -	9.00
390	[Hogg (James)]	The Royal Jubilee. A Scottish Mask.	Edinburgh	1822	USD -	6.00
391	Holmes (Oliver Wendell)	The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes.	Boston	[1892]	USD -	60.00
392	Hood (Thomas)	The Works of Thomas Hood. Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse. Edited with Notes by His Sou. 7 ...	London	1860-1862	USD -	12.00
393	Hope (Anthony)	The Works of Anthony Hope.	New York	1902	USD -	24.00
394	Horace (Q. Flaccus)	The Odes and Epodes of Horace.	Boston	1901-1904	USD -	90.00
395	Horace	A Thousand Horatian Quotations. 1904; Theocritus. The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus Bion and ...	Boston	1904-1905	USD -	10.00
396	Hubbard (Elbert)	Little Journeys To the Homes of Good Men and Great.	New York	[1916]	USD -	32.50
397		Humor. A Collection of Humorous Stories.	London	1847-1848	USD -	4.00
398		Humorous Storoes. Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage. Haya, 1726; Les Solitaires en Belle Humeur. Utrecht ...	Various places	1726-1761	USD -	15.00
399	Huneker (James G.)	A Collected Set of First Editions, as below enumerated.	New York	1902-1924	USD -	25.00
400	Huneker (James)	Painted Veils.	New York	[1920]	USD -	35.00

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
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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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