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
501	Moore (George)	Memoirs of My Dead Life.	London	1906	USD -	26.00
502	Moore (George)	Hail and Farewell. Ave; Salve; Vale.	London	1911-1912-[1914]	USD -	12.50
503	Moore (George)	The Coming of Gabrielle. 1920; Esther Waters. 1920; The Brook Kerith. 1916.	London	1916-1920	USD -	10.00
504	Moore (George)	A Story-Teller's Holiday.	London	1918	USD -	15.00
505	Moore (George)	Avowals.	London	1919	USD -	12.50
506	Moore (George)	Heloise and Abelard.	New York	1921	USD -	7.50
507	Moore (George)	In Single Strictness.	New York	1922	USD -	5.00
508	Moore (George)	Ulick and Soracha.	London	1926	USD -	16.00
509	Moore (George)	The Making of an Immortal.	New York	1927	USD -	5.00
510	Moore (Thomas)	The Poetical Works Of Thomas Moore.	London	1841	USD -	14.00
511		More (Sir Thomas). Utopia. With plates. Boston, 1878; Apuleius. The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass ...	London and Boston	various dates	USD -	5.00
512		Morley (Christopher). Full and By. Illustrated in Color. 1925; Gauguin (Paul). Intimate Journals ...	New York	1921-1925	USD -	4.00
513		Morley (Christopher). The Romany Stain. Limited and Signed. 1926; Pennell (Joseph). A Little Book ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	8.00
514	Morris (William)	The Earthly Paradise.	London	1884-1886	USD -	35.00
515	Morris (William)	The Collected Works of William Morris.	London	1910-1915	USD -	110.00
516	Moryson (Fynes)	An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland ...	Glasgow	1907-1908	USD -	10.00
517		Mosher Books. The Bibelot, a Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Booklovers. Chosen in Part from Scarce ...	New York	[1925]	USD -	15.00
518	Motley (John Lothrop)	The Works of John Lothrop Motley.	New York and London	1900	USD -	12.50
519	Muir (John)	The Writings of John Muir.	Boston	1916	USD -	55.00
520	Munchausen (Baron)	Sequel to the Adventures of Baron Munchausen.	London	1809	USD -	20.00
521		Murdock (Harold). The Nineteenth of April 1775. With copperplates. 1923; Hart (F. R.). Admirals of ...	Boston and New York	1915-1923	USD -	4.00
522		Musset (Alfred de). Oeuvres Completes de Alfred De Musset. With 28 engravings by Flemeng after ...	Paris	1876-1881	USD -	20.00
523		Myths and Legends.	Boston	No date	USD -	12.50
524		Nathan (G. J.). The House of Satan. 1926; Bocace (John). Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and Delectable ...	New York	1920-1927	USD -	10.00
525		Nature Library (The). Complete Set of the Nature Library as below enumerated.	New York	1905-1912	USD -	60.00
526	Navarre (Reine de)	Contes et Nouvelles. With illustrations. 4 vols. Paris, 1807; Bandello. Nouvelles de Bancello. 2 ...	Paris	1807-1879	USD -	16.00
527	Navarre (Reine de)	L'Heptameron des Nouvelles de tres haute at tres illustre Princesse Marguerite D'Angouleme, Reine De ...	Paris	1880	USD -	1.00
528		Nelson (Lord). The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton. 2 vols. 1814; Smiles (samuel). Memoir ...	London	1800-1891	USD -	9.00
529		New Decameron. Le Nouveau Decameron.	Paris	No date	USD -	22.50
530	Newton (A. Edward)	The Amenities of Book-Collecting.	Boston	1918	USD -	35.00
531	Newton (A. Edward)	A Magnificent Farce.	Boston	[1921]	USD -	12.50
532	Newton (A. Edward)	Doctor Johnson. A Play.	Boston	1923	USD -	17.50
533	Newton (A. Edward)	The Greatest Book in the World.	Boston	[1925]	USD -	20.00
534	Sargent (George H.)	Newton (A. Edward). The Writings of A. Edward Newton. A Bibliography.	Philadelphia	1927	USD -	40.00
535	Newton (A. Edward)	The Format of the English Novel.	Cleveland	1928	USD -	35.00
536		New York City. Miller (John). New York Considered and Improved, 1695. Cleveland, 1903; Shelton (W. H ...	Cleveland and Boston	1903-1916	USD -	16.00
537	Clinton (George--Governor of N. Y.)	New York State. Document Signed,--Geo. Clinton.	New York	1787	USD -	1.00
538	Rasmus B. Anderson, Editor-in-Chief	Norroena. The History and Romance of Northern Europe.	London	1906	USD -	17.50
539		Occultism. Madden (R. R.). Phantasmata or Illusions and Fanaticisms. With illustrations. London ...	London	1857-1884	USD -	6.00
540	Oldham (John)	The Works of Mr; John Oldham, Together with his Remains.	London	1684	USD -	10.00
541		Otway (Thomas). Works. Portrait. 2 vols. 1812; Browne (Sir Thomas). Works. Portrait. 4 vols. 1836.	London	1812-1836	USD -	7.00
542	Ovid	Metamorphoses D'Ovide En Robeaux.	Paris	1676	USD -	11.00
543	M. Bayeux	Ovid. Traduction des Fastes D'Ovide . . .	Paris	1783-1788	USD -	11.00
544	Ovid	Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide.	Paris	1806	USD -	22.50
545	Ovid	Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide.	Paris	1807	USD -	8.00
546	Ovid	Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide, Traduit en Vers, Avec Des Remarques et des Notes, Par M. Desaintage.	Paris	1808	USD -	15.00
547		Ovid. Ovyde Hys Booke of Methamorphose Books X-XV. Boston, 1924; Swift (Dean). Gulliver's Travels ...	Various places	1921-1926	USD -	6.00
548	Hendrick (Burton J.)	Page (Walter H.). The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page.	Garden City, New York	1922-1925	USD -	20.00
549	Muther (Richard)	Panting. The History of Modern Painting.	London	1895	USD -	15.00
550		Painting and Sculpture. Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of the Principal Pictures ...	London	1828-1839	USD -	35.00
551	France (Anatole)	Pape Illustrations. At The Sign of the Reine Pedauque.	London	1922	USD -	5.00
552	Cabell (James Branch)	Pape Illustrations. The High Place.	New York	1923	USD -	12.50
553	France (Anatole)	Pape Illustrations. The Revolt of the Angels.	London	[1924]	USD -	5.00
554	France (Anatole)	Pape Illustrations. Penguin Island.	London	[1925]	USD -	4.00
555		Pape Illustrations. The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais.	[New York]	[1927]	USD -	11.00
556	Cabell (James Branch)	Pape Illustrations. The Cream of the Jest.	New York	1927	USD -	5.00
557	Pardoe (Julia)	The Writings of Julia Pardoe.	New York	1905	USD -	20.00
558		Paris. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day.	Philadelphia	[1899]	USD -	15.00
559		Pearls. The Book of the Pearl. By Kunz and Stevenson. Numerous plates, many in Color. 1908; Hurley ( ...	New York and London	1908-1924	USD -	11.00
560	Penn (John--Signer of Declaration of Independence.)	Document Signed,--John Penn.	Philadelphia	1770	USD -	4.00
561		Penn (John). Poems. 2 vols. 1801; Ireland (W. H.). Neglected Genius. 1812; Lewis (F. C.--Engraver ...	London	1801-1822	USD -	2.00
562	Penn (William)	Document Signed,--Wm. Penn.	Philadelphia	1681	USD -	5.00
563	Pennell (E. R.) and (J.)	The Life of James McNeill Whistler.	Philadelphia	1909	USD -	30.00
564	Pennell (Joseph)	Our Philadelphia.	Philadelphia	1914	USD -	17.50
565	Pennell (Joseph)	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen.	New York	1920	USD -	12.50
566	Pennell (E. R.) and (J.)	The Whistler Journal.	Philadelphia	1921	USD -	10.00
567	Pennell (Joseph)	The Adventures of an Illustrator mostly in following his Authors in America & Europe.	Boston	1925	USD -	10.00
568	Pennell (Joseph)	The Glory of New York.	New York	1927	USD -	7.50
569	Edgar Saltus	Pennell Culb. The Gardens of Aphrodite.	Philadelphia	1920	USD -	45.00
570	George Gissing	Pennell Club. An Heiress on Condition.	Philadelphia	1923	USD -	12.50
571	Joseph Pennell	Pennell Club. Aubrey Beardsley and other Men of the Nineties.	Philadelphia	1924	USD -	30.00
572		Pennell Club.	[Philadelphia]	1925	USD -	10.00
573	Elizabeth Robins Pennell	Pennell Club. Italy's Garden of Eden.	[Philadelphia]	1927	USD -	15.00
574	Proud (Robert)	Pennsylvania. The History of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the Original Institution and ...	Philadelphia	1797	USD -	9.00
575		Pennsylvania. Gibbons (P. E.). Pennsylvania Dutch. With Autograph Mounted in. 1882; Gummere (A. M ...	Philadelphia	1882-1917	USD -	27.50
576	Pepys (Samuel)	The Diary of Samuel Pepys.	New York	[1892]	USD -	84.00
577		Petronius. The Satyricon of Petronius. London, 1899; Flaubert (G.). The Temptation of St. Anthony ...	London and New York	1899-1915	USD -	7.00
578	Petronius (Arbiter)	The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter.	New York	1922	USD -	11.00
579		Philadelphia. Paris (J. T.). Old Roads out of Philadelphia. [1917]; Lippincott (H. M.). Early ...	Philadelphia	1900-1918	USD -	10.00
580		Philadelphia. Faris (J. T.). The Romance of Old Philadelphia. 1918; Seeing Pennsylvania. 1919 ...	Philadelphia and London	1912-1919	USD -	7.00
581		Philadelphia. Picture of Philadelphia. Frontispiece and folding map. 1835; Narrative of Patrick Lyon ...	Philadelphia	various dates	USD -	5.00
582		Philadelphia. Frauds in Philadelphia. 1837; The Group. 1796; Philadelphia and Her Merchants. 1860 ...	Philadelphia	various dates	USD -	5.00
583		Pirates. The Lives and Exploits of the most Noted Robbers, Buccaneers, and Pirates of all Countries.	Philadelphia	1849	USD -	6.00
584		Piron (Alexis). OEuvres Choisies. With frontispiece. 2 vols. Geneve, 1777; Nogaret (Felix). OEuvres ...	Various places	1777-1805	USD -	3.00
585		Platt (William). Women, Love and Life. With frontispiece. London, 1895; Tales of the Supernatual ...	London	1697-1895	USD -	9.00
586		Pliny. The Epistles of Pliny.	Boston	1925	USD -	8.00
587		Poe (E. A.). The Raven. With frontispiece. 1927; Bryant (W. C.). Thanatopsis. 1927; Fiske (John ...	Boston	1909-1927	USD -	5.00
588		Poetry. The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Philadelphia, 1823; Pieces of Ancient Poetry. Bristol ...	Various places	1797-1889	USD -	2.50
589		Political History. Histoire Philosophique et Politique.	La Haye	1774	USD -	1.00
590		Pope (Alexander). Pope's Epistle Eloisa to Abelard. With illustrations. 1923; Fielding (Henry). The ...	Boston	1910-1923	USD -	5.00
591	Porter (Sydney W.--O. Henry)	The Complete Works of O. Henry.	Garden City	1912-1917	USD -	180.00
592	Maindron (Ernest)	Posters. Les Affiches illustrees.	Paris	1896	USD -	13.00
593		Printing. A History of the Art Of Printing From Its Invention to its Widespread Development in the ...	London	1868	USD -	14.00
594		Prisons. The World's Famous Prisons. An Account of the State of Prisons from the Earliest Times to ...	London	no date	USD -	25.00
595	Psalmanaazaar (George)	An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, An Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan ...	London	1705-1764	USD -	30.00
596	Edited by Thomas B. Reed	Public Speaking. Modern Eloquence.	Philadelphia	1901	USD -	17.50
597	Purchas (Samuel)	Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas, His Pilgnmes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and ...	Glasgow	1905-1907	USD -	70.00
598		Querlon. Les Graces.	Paris	1769	USD -	75.00
599		Rabelais (Francois). Les Songes Drolatiques. With numerous illustrations. Geneve, 1868; Barrett ( ...	Various places	1868-1890	USD -	10.00
600	Rabelais (Francis)	Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.	London	1904	USD -	20.00

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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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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