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
701	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The Students' Quarter. With illustrations in Color. London, no date; Thackerayana. With numerous ...	London	1849-1875	USD -	13.00
702	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The Students' Quarter or Paris Five-And-Thirty-Years Since.	London	No date	USD -	12.50
703	Thompson (Slason)	Eugene Field. A Study in Heredity and Contradictions.	New York	1901	USD -	3.00
704	Thoreau (H. D.)	The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau. Lately Discovered among his Unpublished Journals and ...	Boston	1905	USD -	14.00
705	Henry David Thoreau	Thoreau (H. D.). Sir Walter Raleigh.	Boston	1905	USD -	6.00
706	Thoreau (H. D.)	The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.	Boston	1906	USD -	85.00
707	Thoreau (H. D.)	Walden, or Life in the Woods.	Boston	1809	USD -	15.00
708		Thornbury (Walter). Haunted London. With illustrations. London, 1865; Grenville-Murray (E. C.). High ...	London	1865-1899	USD -	7.00
709		Times History of the War (The).	London	1914-1921	USD -	27.50
710	Torrey (William)	Torrey's Narrative: or, the Life And Adventures of William Torrey. . . .	Boston	1848	USD -	90.00
711	Trollope (Anthony)	The Writings of Anthony Trollope.	Philadelphia	1900-1902	USD -	90.00
712		Universal History. Great Events by Famous Historians.	London and New York	1904	USD -	10.00
713		Universal History. A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times Being a Universal Historical ...	Philadelphia	[1905]	USD -	12.50
714	Updike (D. B.)	Printing Types their History, Forms and Use.	Cambridge	1922	USD -	22.00
715		Uzanne (Octave). La Chronique Scandaleuse. With frontispiece. Paris, 1879; Lux (Jean). Sarah, La ...	Paris	1879	USD -	8.00
716	Uzanne (Octave)	L'Evantail. With illustrations and marginal decorations. Paris, 1882; L'Ombrelle. With illustrations ...	Paris	1882-1888	USD -	7.00
717	Uzanne (Octave)	Fashion in Paris. The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Aesthetics from 1797 to 1897.	London	1898	USD -	7.00
718	Chatterton (Thomas)	Vale Press. The Rowley Poems.	[London]	[1898]	USD -	4.00
719	Blake (William)	Vale Press. Poetical Sketches.	[London]	[1899]	USD -	9.00
720	Van Vechten (Carl)	The Tattooed Countess.	New York	1924	USD -	12.00
721	Van Vechten (Carl)	Firecrackers.	New York	1925	USD -	6.00
722	Van Vechten (Carl)	Nigger Heaven.	New York	1926	USD -	7.00
723	Van Vechten (Carl)	Spider Boy.	New York	1928	USD -	4.00
724	Van Vechten (Carl)	Peter Whiffle. 1922; Excavations. 1926; The Merry-Go-Round. 1918; In the Garret. 1920; and others ...	New York	various dates	USD -	15.00
725	Vedder (Elihu)	The Digressions of V. Written for his own Fun and that of his Friends.	Boston	1910	USD -	11.00
726		Verlaine (Paul). OEuvres Posthumes De Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1903; Villon (Francois). OEuvres ...	Paris	1770-1903	USD -	7.00
727	Verne (Jules)	The Works of Jules Verne.	New York and London	No date	USD -	40.00
728	Videl (Sieur)	Le Melante Du Sieur Videl.	Paris	1624	USD -	5.00
729	Robert A. Lancaster, Jr.	Virginia. Historic Virginia Homes and Churches.	Philadelphia	1915	USD -	57.50
730	Voltaire (J. F. M.)	La Pucelle the Maid of Orleans.	London	1899	USD -	12.00
731	Voltaire (J. F. M.)	The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version.	Paris	[1901]	USD -	35.00
732	Walpole (Robert)	Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford.	London	1816	USD -	19.00
733		Walton (Izaak). The Complete Angler. Plates on India paper. No date; The Incompleat Angler ...	Philadelphia and London	1874--1887	USD -	5.00
734	Warner (Charles Dudley)	The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner.	Hartford	1904	USD -	12.00
735	[Warren (Samuel)]	Ten Thousand A-Year.	Edinburgh	1841	USD -	40.00
736	Baker (W. S.)	Washington (George). Bibliotheca Washingtoniana. 1889; Character Portraits of Washington. 1887.	Philadelphia	1887-1889	USD -	4.00
737	Weber (Henry)	Metrical Romances of the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries.	Edinburgh	1810	USD -	20.00
738	Meteyard (Eliza)	Wedgwood (Josiah). The Life of Josiah Wedgwood.	London	1865-1866	USD -	5.00
739	Wells (H. G.)	A Collected Set of First Editions, except for a few, as below enumerated.	London and New York	1895-1919	USD -	22.50
740		Whistler (J. McN.). Way (T. R.). Memories of James McNeill Whistler. With reproductions. 1912 ...	London and New York	1896-1912	USD -	3.00
741	Mortimer Menpes	Whistler (James McNeill). Whistler as I Knew Him.	London	1904	USD -	16.00
742	Whistler (James McNeil)	The Lithographs by Whistler.	New York	1914	USD -	22.50
743		Whitman (Walt). Good-Bye My Fancy. Portrait. Philadelphia, 1891; In re Walt Whitman: Edited by his ...	Various places	1883-1916	USD -	9.00
744	Whitman (Walt)	The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.	New York	1902	USD -	90.00
745	Whittier (John Greenleaf)	The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier.	Boston	[1892]	USD -	40.00
746	Whyte-Melville (G. J.)	The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville.	London	1901	USD -	110.00
747	Wiggin (Kate Douglas)	The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin.	Boston	1917-1923	USD -	37.50
748	Rennell Rodd	Wilde (Oscar). Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf, by Rennell Rodd.	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	20.00
749	[Wilde (Oscar)]	La Conque. March, April, June, 1891.	Paris	1891	USD -	22.00
750	Wilde (Oscar)	Salome A Tragedy In One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde.	London	1894	USD -	35.00
751	Barbey d'Aurevilly	[Wilde (Oscar).] What Never Dies. A Romance by Barbey d'Aurevilly.	Paris	1902	USD -	9.00
752		Wilde (Oscar). The Portrait of Mr. W. H. New York, 1921; Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried. London, no ...	London and New York	1906-1921	USD -	6.00
753	Wilde (Oscar)	The Writings of Oscar Wilde.	London and New York	1907	USD -	100.00
754	Wilde (Oscar)	The Sphinx.	New York and London	1920	USD -	12.50
755	Wilde (Oscar)	Impressions of America. 1906; The Rise of Historical Criticism. 1905; Ravenna. Oxford, 1878; Four ...	Various places	various dates	USD -	11.00
756	Wilkins (W. H.)	A Queen of Tears. 2 vols. 1904; Caroline the Illustrious. 2 vols. 1901.	London	1901-1904	USD -	20.00
757	Williams (H. Noel)	Madame Recamier and Her Friends.	London and New York	1901	USD -	10.00
758	Wilson (G. H.)	The Eccentric Mirror.	London	1806-1807	USD -	5.00
759	Winsor (Justin--Editor)	Narrative and Critical History of America.	Boston	[1885]	USD -	17.50
760		Women. Les Contemporaines, ou Avantures des plus jolies Femmes De l'age present: Recueillies par N ...	Leipsick	1780	USD -	17.50
761		Woman: in all ages and in all countries.	Philadelphia	[1908]	USD -	35.00
762		World's Great Classics (The). Library Committee, Justin McCarthy, Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur R ...	New York	[1900]	USD -	17.50
763	George H. Allen, and others	World War. The Great War.	Philadelphia	[1915-1921]	USD -	10.00
764		World War. The Great Events of The Great War.	[New York]	[1920]	USD -	20.00
765	Wraxall (Sir N. William)	Historical Memoirs of My Own Time. With portrait. 2 vols. 1815; Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time ...	London	1815-1836	USD -	5.00
766	Wright (Thomas)	The Glory of God's Revenge against the Bloody and Detestable Sins of Murther and Adultery, Express'd ...	London	1685	USD -	9.00
767	Wylie (Elinor)	The Venetian Glass Nephew. 1925; Jennifer Lorn. 1923; The Orphan Angel. 1926.	New York	1923-1926	USD -	8.00
768	Zola (Emile)	The Writings of Emile Zola.	Philadelphia	No date	USD -	95.00
769	Asplund (Dr. Karl)	Zorn (Anders). Anders Zorn. His Life and Work.	London	1921	USD -	17.00

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
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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