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
601		Raemaekers' Cartoons. The Century Edition De Luxe of Raemaekers' War Cartoons. With Descriptive ...	New York	1917	USD -	12.50
602		Realism. Library of Classic Realism.	London	1901	USD -	47.50
603		Religious Paintings. La Legende de Sainte Ursule. With numerous plates in Colors. 1860; La Vie Des ...	Paris	1860	USD -	5.00
604		Reprints. Shakespeare's Sonnets. 1609. 1862; A North Countrie Garland, 1891; Ancient Popular Poetry ...	London and Edinburgh	1862-1891	USD -	5.00
605	Restif de la Bretonne (E.)	L'Ecole des Peres.	Paris	1776	USD -	15.00
606	Restif de la Bretonne (E.)	Contes A Rire. 3 vols. Paris, 1781; Le Paysan et La Paysane. With illustrations. 4 vols. La Haye ...	Various places	1781-1786	USD -	35.00
607	Restif de la Bretonne (E.)	A Set of 36 proof plates before letters for La Paysanne Pervertie of Restif De La Bretonne.	[La Haye]	[1784]	USD -	35.00
608	Restif De La Bretonne (E)	Monsieur Nicolas ou Le Coeur Humain Devoile Memoires intimes de Restif De La Bretonne.	Paris	1883	USD -	22.50
609	Reynolds (George)	The Mysteries of the Court of London. 8 vols.; The Mysteries of London. 2 vols.	London	no date	USD -	14.00
610	Reynolds (George M. W.)	The Works of George M. W. Reynolds.	London and Boston	No date	USD -	35.00
611		Rhodes (James Ford). History of the United States from The Compromise of 1850. 5 vols. 1902 ...	New York	1892-1902	USD -	15.00
612	Riccoboni (Mme.)	Oeuvres completes de Mme. Riccoboni.	Paris	1818	USD -	6.00
613	Richardson (Samuel)	The Novels of Samuel Richardson. Complete and Unabridged.	New York	[1902]	USD -	25.00
614	Rimmer (Alfred)	A Collected Set of his Works in First Editions, as below described.	London	1875-1892	USD -	27.50
615		Riverside Press. George Washington's Accounts of Expenses while Commander-in-Chief of the ...	Boston and New York	1917	USD -	5.00
616	Spenser (Edmund)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Prothalamion: Epithalamion.	Boston	1902	USD -	10.00
617	Cavendish (George)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey.	Boston	1905	USD -	9.00
618	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.	Boston and New York	1906	USD -	32.00
619	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer)	Paul et Virginie par Bernardin de SaintPierre.	Boston	1906	USD -	22.50
620	Butler (Isabel--Translator)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The Song of Roland.	[Cambridge]	[1906]	USD -	245.00
621	Howell (J.)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Epistolae-Ho-Elianae. The Familiar Letters of James Howell.	Boston	1907	USD -	12.00
622	Howells (W. D.)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Venetian Life.	Cambridge	1907	USD -	16.00
623	Defoe (Daniel)	Roger (Bruce--Typographer). The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.	Boston and New York	1908	USD -	27.00
624	Haultain (Arnold)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The Mystery of Golf.	Boston	1908	USD -	35.00
625	Stevenson (R. L.)	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). Pan's Pipes.	[Boston]	1910	USD -	10.00
626	Humbert Wolfe	Rogers (Bruce--Typographer). The Silver Cat and Other Poems by Humbert Wolfe.	[New York and London]	[1928]	USD -	6.00
627		Roman Contemporain. Chefs d'oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. [The Romanticists and Realists.]	Philadelphia	[1897]	USD -	60.00
628		Roman Empresses. The Roman Empresses; or, the History of the Lives and Secret Intrigues of the Wives ...	London	1899	USD -	11.00
629	Roosevelt (Theodore)	The Winning of the West.	New York	1900	USD -	20.00
630	Roosevelt (Theodore)	African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.	New York	1910	USD -	42.50
631	Roosevelt (Theodore)	African Game Trails. With illustrations. New York, 1910; Through the Brazilian Wilderness. New York ...	Various places	1910-1920	USD -	12.50
632	Rops (Felicien)	Etudes sur quelques Artistes originaux. Felicien Rops. L'homme et l'artiste. With portrait and ...	Paris	1905-1908	USD -	21.00
633		Rossetti (D. G.). The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With frontispieces. 2 vols. London, 1904 ...	New York and London	1893-1904	USD -	5.00
634		Rowlandson Plates. The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature.	New York	1904	USD -	11.00
635	Rowley (Hugh)	Puniana: or, Thoughts Wise and Other-wise. 1867; Sage Stuffing for Green Goslings. 1872 ...	London	1867-1875	USD -	10.00
636		Roycroft Press. A Collection of Books printed by Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Press, as below ...	East Aurora, New York	various dates	USD -	20.00
637		Roycroft Press. A Collection of Books printed by Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Press, as below ...	East Aurora	N. Y.	USD -	20.00
638		Roycroft Press. A Collection of Books printed by Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Press.	East Aurora, New York	various dates	USD -	20.00
639		Richelieu (Marechal de). Vie Privee Du Marechal De Richelieu. 3 vols. Paris, 1791; Borel (Petrus ...	Paris and Amsterdam	1791-1877	USD -	5.00
640		Riley (J. W.). Love Letters of The Bachelor Poet. With frontispiece and facsimiles. 1922; Harper (H ...	Boston	1922-1923	USD -	3.00
641	Ritson (J.)	Robin Hood. With 80 woodcuts and 9 etchings in Two States, one on Whatman paper and one on India ...	London and Boston	1885-1906	USD -	7.00
642	Rugs Mumford (John K.)	Oriental Rugs.	New York	1901	USD -	14.00
643	Rush (Richard)	Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London, 1833-1845; Memoirs ...	Philadelphia and London	1833-1853	USD -	12.00
644	Russel (William Augustus)	New and Authentic History of England. From the most remote period of Genuine Historical Evidence, to ...	London	1777	USD -	15.00
645	[Russell (G. W. E.)]	Collections & Recollections.	London	1898	USD -	14.00
646		Sacred Books. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East.	New York	[1917]	USD -	27.00
647	Saint-Aubin (Gabriel de)	L'Oeuvre Grave de Gabriel De Saint-Aubin.	Paris	1915	USD -	10.00
648	Saint-Lambert (Ch.-Fr. de)	Les Saisons.	Paris	1822	USD -	32.00
649	Scott (Sir Walter)	The Writings of Sir Walter Scott, in Prose and Verse.	Edinburgh	1829-1836	USD -	150.00
650		Secret Memoirs. Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century.	Philadelphia	[1900]	USD -	65.00
651	Sevigne (Madame de)	The Letters of Madame De Sevigne.	Philadelphia	1927	USD -	17.50
652	Shaftesbury (Anthony, Earl of)	Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	70.00
653	Shakespeare (William)	The Works of Shakespeare.	New York	1888	USD -	10.00
654		Shakespeariana. The Shakespearean Miscellany: containing a Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts ...	London	1804	USD -	12.00
655	Shelley (M. W.)	The Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving. 1907; Letters of Mary W ...	Boston	1907-1918	USD -	7.00
656	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.	Cambridge	1892	USD -	75.00
657	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 8 vols. [1904]; The Complete Works of John Keats. 4 vols ...	London and Boston	[1904-1906]	USD -	50.00
658	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Note Books of Percy Bysshe Shelley.	Boston	1911	USD -	13.00
659	Shippen (Edward,--Chief Justice of Pennsylvania)	Document Signed,--Edw. Shippen jr.	Philadelphia	1765	USD -	7.00
660	Smedley (Frank E.)	Lewis Arundel. With 42 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne from the original plates; Frank Fairlegh ...	London	1899	USD -	2.50
661	Smith (F. H.)	The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith.	New York	1902-1915	USD -	11.00
662		Smith (F. H.). In Dickens's London. Illustrated. 1914; Boccaccio (G.). Pasquerella and Madonna ...	London and New York	1897-1927	USD -	4.00
663	Smith (Harry B.)	A Sentimental Library.	[New York]	1914	USD -	19.00
664	[Smith (James)]	Gaieties and Gravities. A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries.	London	1825	USD -	13.00
665	Smith (T. R.)	Poetica Erotica.	New York	1921	USD -	12.50
666	Smyth (J. F. D.)	A Tour in the United States of America: containing an Account of the present State of that Country ...	London	1784	USD -	30.00
667	Smollett (Tobias)	The Works of Tobias Smollett.	New York	1900	USD -	20.00
668		Sommerville (Maxwell). Engraved Gems. Profusely illustrated. Philadelphia, 1889; [Cabell (J. B ...	New York and Philadelphia	1884-1928	USD -	15.00
669	[Southey (Robert)]	The Doctor, &c.	London	1834-1847	USD -	30.00
670	Lea (H. C.)	Spanish Inquisition. A History of the Inquisition of Spain.	New York	1906	USD -	10.00
671	Spenser (Edmund)	The Faerie Queen.	London	1897	USD -	11.00
672	Harris (Captain W. C.)	Sporting. The Wild Sports of Southern Africa.	London	1852	USD -	30.00
673	Dixon (W. S.)	Sporting. Hunting in the Olden Days. With reproductions. Boston, no date; The Encyclopedia of Sport ...	New York and Boston	1898 and no date	USD -	3.00
674	Howes (C. A.)	Stamp Collecting. Canada. Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery. With plates of reproductions ...	Boston, New York and London	1896-1926	USD -	7.00
675		Steinmetz (Andrew). History of the Jesuits. Portraits. 3 vols. 1848; Segur (Count). Memoirs and ...	London	1825-1848	USD -	8.00
676		Stephens (J. L.). Incidents of Travel in Central America. Maps and illustrations. 2 vols. New York ...	Various places	1820-1841	USD -	6.00
677	Sterne (Laurence)	The works of Laurence Sterne.	London	1808	USD -	10.00
678	Stevenson (Robert Louis)	The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.	New York	[1906]	USD -	10.00
679	Stevenson (R. L.)	Poems By Robert Louis Stevenson Hitherto Unpublished.			USD -	6.00
680	Stevenson (R. L.)	Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings. With portrait frontispiece and facsimiles; Stevenson's Workshop ...	Boston	1921	USD -	8.00
681	Stevenson (R. L.)	When The Devil Was Well; Poems.	Boston	1921	USD -	7.00
682	Stockton (Frank R.)	The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton.	New York	1899-1904	USD -	32.50
683	Stokes (I. N. Phelps)	The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909.	New York	1915-1926	USD -	525.00
684	Strachey (Lytton)	Eminent Victorians. 1918; Queen Victoria. 1921; Books and Character. 1922.	New York	1918-1922	USD -	3.00
685	Strutt (Joseph)	The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England: Containing The Representations of all the ...	London	1793	USD -	8.00
686	Sue (Eugene)	The Works of Eugene Sue.	Boston	No date	USD -	26.00
687	[Surtees (Robert Smith)]	Sporting Novels.	London	1899	USD -	45.00
688	[Swift (Jonathan)]	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World.	London	1726	USD -	85.00
689	Swift (Jonathan)	The Works of Jonathan Swift.	London	1900	USD -	17.50
690	Swinburne (Algernon Charles)	The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne.	New York	1904	USD -	25.00
691		Swinburne (A. C.). Border Ballads. 1913; Ode To Mazzini. 1913; Swinburne Manuscript Facsimiles. In ...	Boston	1905-1913	USD -	5.00
692	Symonds (J. A.)	The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. 1890; The Memoirs of Carlo Gozzi. 1890.	New York	1890	USD -	5.00
693	Symonds (John Addington)	Renaissance in Italy. With frontispieces. 7 vols.; Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece. With ...	London	1905-1906	USD -	20.00
694		Symons (Arthur). Parisian Nights. Colored vignette. [Westminster, 1926]; Amoris Victima. 1897 ...	London and Westminster	1897-1926	USD -	11.00
695	Tagore (Rabindranath)	A Collected Set of his Works in First Editions, as below enumerated.	London	1912-1917	USD -	25.00
696		Tassoni (A.). La Secchia Rapita; or, the Rape of the Bucket. 2 vols. 1825; Oliphant (T.). La Musa ...	London	various dates	USD -	15.00
697		Telemaque. Les Aveatures de Telemaque. With plates. Maestricht, 1782; Galenteries d'une Demoiselle ...	Various places	1782-1833	USD -	8.00
698	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Poet Laureate.	Boston	[1895]	USD -	22.50
699	Mr. M. A. Titmarsh	[Thackeray (W. M.).] The Second Funeral of Napoleon: In Three Letters to Miss Smith, of London, and ...	London	1841 [reprint]	USD -	15.00
700	[Thackeray (W. M.)]	Our Street. 1848; The History of Samuel Titmarsh. 1849.	London	1848-1849	USD -	15.00

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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