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
401	Hunt (Leigh)	The Town; its Memorable Characters and Events. With illustrations. 2 vols. London, 1848; Juvenilia ...	London and Philadelphia	1804-1848	USD -	15.00
402	Huxley (Aldous)	Antic Hay. 1923; Those Barren Leaves. 1925; Jesting Pilate. Illustrated. New York [1926].	London and New York	1923-[1926]	USD -	3.00
403		Illustrated Books. Weeds of Wichery. By T. H. Bayly. With 12 etchings in Cruikshank's manner. 1837 ...	London and Boston	1803-1887	USD -	6.00
404		Invenire. Aungervyle Society Reprints.	Edinburgh	1881-1886	USD -	3.00
405		Irving (Washington). The Letters of Washington Irving to Henry Brevoort. Portraits. 2 vols. New York ...	Boston and New York	1904-1915	USD -	3.00
406	Irving (Washington)	The Journals of Washington Irving.	Boston	1919	USD -	9.00
407	Irving (Washington)	Abu Hassan; The Wild Huntsman.	Boston	1924	USD -	3.00
408	Jackson (Lady)	The Writings of Lady Jackson.	Paris and Boston	No date	USD -	24.00
409	Jacobs (Joseph--Editor)	The Earliest English version of the Fables of Bidpai.	London	1888	USD -	15.00
410	Janson (Charles William)	The Stranger in America: containing Observations made during a long Residence in that Country.	London	1807	USD -	26.00
411	Brinkley (Captain F.)	Japanese Art.	Boston	[1897-1901]	USD -	27.50
412		Jeanne D'arc. La Pucelle D'Orleans, Poeme, Divise en Vingt et un Chants, Avec Les Notes De Mr. De ...	[Paris]	1773	USD -	46.00
413	[Jebb (Samuel)]	The Life of Robert Earl of Leicester, the Favourite of Queen Elizabeth: Drawn from original Writers ...	London	1727	USD -	2.50
414	Jerrold (Douglas)	Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.	London	1845-1848	USD -	7.50
415	Jesse (John Heneage)	The Complete Works of John Heneage Jesse.	Boston	[1900]	USD -	27.50
416		Jesuit Relations. Relations Des Jesuites contenant ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable dans les ...	Quebec	1858	USD -	19.00
417	Johnson (Samuel)	Footsteps of Dr. Johnson.	London	1890	USD -	4.00
418	Johnson (Samuel)	The Works of Samuel Johnson.	Troy	1903	USD -	32.00
419	Johnstone (Charles)	The Adventures ofa Guinea. 3 vols. 1822; The Reverie. 2 vols. 1763; and others.	London	1763-1822	USD -	6.00
420		Jones (John Paul). Letters of John Paul Jones. With portrait and facsimiles. 1905; Burns (Robert ...	Boston	1905-1916	USD -	8.00
421	Josephus	The Works of Flavious Josephus.	London	1825	USD -	22.50
422	Kaempfer (Engelbert)	The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. 1609-92.	Glasgow	1906	USD -	15.00
423	[Keats (John)]	Hyperion. A Facsimile of Keat's Autograph Manuscript.	Oxford	1905	USD -	3.00
424	Keats (John)	John Keats Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny. April 1818.	Boston	1909	USD -	5.00
425		Kent Decorations. Americana Esoterica.		1927	USD -	5.00
426	Voltaire (J. F. M. Arouet de)	Kent Decorations. Candide.	New York	1928	USD -	32.50
427	Kingsley (Charles)	The Novels and Poems of Charles Kingsley.	New York	1899	USD -	14.00
428	William Nicholson	Kipling (Rudyard). An Almanac of Twelve Sports.	New York	1898	USD -	1.00
429	Kirk (Robert)	The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & fairies. A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research.	London	1893	USD -	20.00
430		Klose (C. L.). Memoirs of Prince Charles Stuart. 2 vols. 1845; Perey (L.). Memoirs of the Princesse ...	London and Boston	1840-1913	USD -	10.00
431	Kock. (Charles Paul de)	The Writings of Charles Paul de Kock.	Boston	[1902-1909]	USD -	65.00
432	Laclos (Choderlos de)	Les Liaisons Dangereuses, or Letters Collected in a Private Society and Published for the ...	London	1898	USD -	10.00
433	La Fontaine (J. de)	Fables Choisies, Mises En Vers Par J. De La Fontaine.	Paris	1783	USD -	35.00
434	La Fontaine (J.)	OEuvres Complettes De J. La Fontaine.	Paris	1814	USD -	20.00
435	La Fontaine (J. de)	Tales and Novels in Verse.	Paris	1884	USD -	22.00
436	[Lamb (Charles)]	Original Letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff, selected from Genuine Manuscripts which have been in the ...	Philadelphia	1813	USD -	17.50
437	Lamb (Charles)	The Life and Works of Charles Lamb.	Boston	[1888]	USD -	67.50
438	Lamb (Charles)	The Letters of Charles Lamb in which many mutilated Words and Passages have been restored to their ...	Boston	1905	USD -	15.00
439		La Motte (M. de). Fables Nouvelles. With engravings. Paris, 1719; L'Hermite (Tristan). Poesies ...	Paris	1662-1719	USD -	20.00
440	Larned (J. L.)	History for Ready Reference from the best Historians, Biographers and Specialists.	Springfield, Massachusetts	1901-1910	USD -	7.50
441	Larwood (Jacob)	The Story of the London Parks.	London	No date	USD -	5.00
442	Lawrence (D. H.)	Women in Love. New York, 1920; Kangaroo. New York, 1923; The Plumed Serpent. New York, 1926; David ...	Various places	1920-1926	USD -	5.00
443		Layard (A. H.). Nineveh and its Remains. 2 vols. 1849; Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and ...	London	1849-1869	USD -	10.00
444	Lecky (William E. H.)	Poems.	London	1891	USD -	12.50
445		Le Gallienne (Richard). The Quest of the Golden Girl. Presentation Copy. Second edition. 1896; The ...	London and New York	various dates	USD -	2.50
446		Legouve. Le Merite des Femmes. Paris, 1824; Le Voyage et La Conqueste de l'isle D'Amour. Paris, 1675 ...	Paris	1675-1824	USD -	4.00
447	Legrand (Louis)	Louis Legrand Peintre-Graveur. Paris, 1896; Cours De Danse Fin De Siecle. Paris, 1892; and others.	Paris	1892-1896	USD -	25.00
448	Leland (C. G.)	Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition. Reproductions. London, 1892; Songs of the Sea and Lays ...	Various places	1892-1914	USD -	5.00
449	Lennox (Lord William Pitt)	My Recollections from 1806 to 1873.	London	1874	USD -	10.00
450	Lenotre (G.)	Vielles Maisons, Vieux Papiers.	Paris	1910	USD -	4.00
451	Edited by W. F. Wagner	Leonard's Narrative. Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836. Reprinted from ...	Cleveland	1904	USD -	6.00
452		Letters. Lettres d'une Fille a son Pere.	France	1772	USD -	7.00
453	[Lever (Charles)]	Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men and Women and other Things in General.	London	1864-1865	USD -	3.00
454	Levine (J.)	Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books.	London	1898	USD -	8.00
455		Lewis (John Frederick). The Redemption of the Lower Schuylkill. With illustrations. Philadelphia ...	Various places	1865-1924	USD -	5.00
456	Lewis (M. G. Monk)	The Monk. 3 vols. London, 1832; Tales of Wonder. 2 vols. New York, 1801.	New York and London	1801-1832	USD -	7.00
457	Lewis (M. G. Monk)	The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis.	London	1839	USD -	2.00
458	Lincoln (Abraham)	The Writings of Abraham Lincoln.	New York	1905	USD -	25.00
459	Lincoln (Abraham)	Letters.	[Boston]	[1913]	USD -	2.50
460	Lomenie (Louis de)	Beaumarchais and his Times. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished ...	London	1856	USD -	9.00
461	Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth)	The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	Boston	1904	USD -	65.00
462		Longfellow (William Wadsworth). The Hanging of the Crane. Boston, 1907; Rotch (William). Memorandum ...	Boston	1907-1916	USD -	1.00
463	Longus	Daphnis and Chloe.	Boston and Paris	no date	USD -	17.00
464	Fortier (Alcee)	Louisiana. A History of Louisiana.	New York	1904	USD -	17.50
465	Louys (Pierre)	Ariane ou Le Chemin De La Paix Eternelle; La Maison sur le Nil, ou les Apparences de la Vertu.	Paris	1904	USD -	35.00
466	Louys (Pierre)	The Songs of Bilitis.	London and New York	1904	USD -	55.00
467	Lover (Samuel)	The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover.	Boston	1901-1902	USD -	14.00
468	Lowell (Amy)	John Keats.	Boston and New York	1925	USD -	15.00
469	Lowell (James Russell)	The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell.	Cambridge	1904	USD -	22.50
470	Lowndes (William Thomas)	The Bibliographers Manual or English Literature. . . .	London	1864	USD -	17.50
471		Lunois (A.). La Legende Doree. With numerous illustrations, many in Colors, by A. Lunois. Mucha (A ...	Paris	1896-1897	USD -	11.00
472	Macaulay (Lord)	The Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay.	New York	[1898]	USD -	36.00
473	Machen (Arthur)	The Chronicle of Clemendy.	Carbonnek	1923	USD -	6.00
474	Machen (Arthur)	Fantastic Tales or the Way to Attain. . . .	Carbonnek	1923	USD -	12.50
475	Machen (Arthur)	One Hundred Merrie & Delightful Stories.	Carbonnek	1924	USD -	15.00
476	Machen (Arthur)	Dreads and Drolls.	London	1926	USD -	4.00
477		Mackay (Charles). The Thames and Its Tributaries. Woodcuts. 2 vols. 1840; Holberg (L ...	London, London and Boston	1798-1897	USD -	2.00
478		[Mackenzie (Henry).] The Man of Feeling. London, 1771; Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Anecdotes. With ...	London	1771-1832	USD -	8.00
479		[Madan (Martin).] Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin . . . 3 vols. 1780-1781; Hill (Richard ...	London	1780-1781	USD -	7.50
480	Marryat (Captain)	Complete Writings.	London	1895	USD -	50.00
481		Maspero (C.). History of Egypt Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. With over 1200 colored plates ...	London	[1903-1906]	USD -	30.00
482	Mathews (Charles)	Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian.	London	1839	USD -	2.50
483	Maxwell (W. H.)	Life of Field-Marshal His Grace The Duke of Wellington.	London	1862	USD -	3.00
484		Memoirs. An Authentic Detail of Particulars relative to the late Dutchess of Kingston. Portraits ...	London and Philadelphia	1788-1808	USD -	3.00
485		Memoirs. The Castle of the Tuileries. From the French. 2 vols. 1803; Memoirs of Celebrated Women ...	London	1803-1838	USD -	13.00
486		Memoirs. Hazlitt (W. C.). The Hazlitt Memoirs. 2 vols. 1897; Barbeau (A.). Life and Letters at Bath ...	London and New York	1897-1925	USD -	3.00
487		Memoirs. Smith (James). Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies. Portrait. 2 vols. 1840; Burney ( ...	London	various dates	USD -	10.00
488		Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of the Courts of Europe.	New York	[1901]	USD -	32.50
489	Miller (Joe)	Jest Book and Merry Companion. With folding frontispiece in Colors. No date; Wit and Humor for Town ...	London	various dates	USD -	5.00
490	Milton (John)	Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained.	Birmingham	1758	USD -	20.00
491	Mitchell (Donald G.)	The Works of Donald G. Mitchell.	New York	1907	USD -	50.00
492		Montagne (Edouard). La Feuille a L'Envers. With illustrations in Colors. Paris, 1885; Bertheroy ( ...	Paris	1885-1905	USD -	3.00
493	Montaigne (Michael, Seigneur de)	The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, Translated into English.	London	1759	USD -	25.00
494	Montifaud (Marc de)	Les OEuvres de Montifaud.	Paris	1880	USD -	20.00
495	Moore (George)	A Mummer's Wife.	London	1885	USD -	9.00
496	Moore (George)	A Mere Accident. 1887; Evelyn Innes. 1898; Untilled Field. 1903.	London	1887-1903	USD -	9.00
497	Moore (George)	Esther Waters. 1894; Spring Days. 1888.	London	1888-1894	USD -	11.00
498	Moore (George)	Mike Fletcher.	London	1889	USD -	9.00
499	Moore (George)	The Strike at Arlingford. 1893; Esther Waters. 1894; The Bending of the Bough. 1900.	London	1893-1900	USD -	10.00
500	Moore (George)	Sister Teresa. Portrait after Whistler on Japan Paper. London, 1901; Same. Philadelphia, 1901.	London and Philadelphia	1901	USD -	5.00

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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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.