CF Libbie: CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON FOLK-LORE, FORMED BY, B. E. HELMAN, CLEVELAND, OHIO., TOGETHER WITH A Large Collection of Books and Pamphlets relating to BOOK PLATES. COLLECTION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. Nearly complete collection of Literature relating to, 1914Dec02,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 02, 1914 - December 02, 1914

Page Size: 1541 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1098	Horace E. Scudder	LOWELL. James Russell Lowell; a biography	Cambridge	1901	USD -	Unknown
1099	LOWELL, Maria	LOWELL, Maria. Poems of	Cambridge	1855	USD -	Unknown
1100	Benjamin Floyd	LOWELL, Mass. Supplement to the Lowell Directory; containing names of the females employed in the mills	Lowell	1836	USD -	Unknown
1101	LUMMIS, Charles F.	The Man who Married the Moon, and other Pueblo Indian Folk-stories	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
1102	LYTTON, Edward, Lord	The Wooing of Master Fox	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1103	McANALLY, D. R., Jr.	Irish Wonders; the ghosts, giants, pookas, leprechawns, banshees, fairies, witches, widows, old maids and other marvels of the Emerald Isle	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
1104	McCLINTOCK, W. D.	Song and Legend from the Middle Ages	Meadville	1893	USD -	Unknown
1105	McCULLOCH, Hugh	Men and Measures of Half a Century	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
1106	MACDONALD, George	Dealings with the Fairies	New York		USD -	Unknown
1107		MACDONALD. The Light Princess and other fairy tales	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
1108	MACKAY, Charles	Memoirs of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1109	MACKAY, Charles	Memoirs of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1110	McKEE, Thomas H.	Presidential Inaugurations from George Washington to Grover Cleveland	Washington	1893	USD -	Unknown
1111	MACLANE	The Story of Mary Maclane	Chicago	1902	USD -	Unknown
1112	MACQUOID, Thomas and Katharine	Pictures and Legends from Normandy and Brittany	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
1113	MACRITCHIE, David	Fians, Fairies and Picts	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1114	MADDEN, R. R.	Phantasmata, or illusions and fanaticisms of protean forms productive of great evils	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1115		MAGYARLAND; being the narrative of our travels through the Highlands and Lowlands of Hungary	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1116	MAJOR, Albany F.	Sagas and Songs of the Norsemen	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1117	Syr Thomas Malory	MALORY. Le Morte Darthur	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1118		MAPS of Boston and New England			USD -	Unknown
1119	Martha W. Freer	MARGUERITE D'Angouleme. Author of the Heptameron. Life of	Cleveland	1895	USD -	Unknown
1120		MARTINENGO-CESARESCO, Countess. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1121		MASCULINE Cross, or a history of ancient and Modern crosses and their connection with the mysteries of sex worship, phallic faiths and practices	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
1122	MASON, Edward T.	Songs in Fairy Land	New York		USD -	Unknown
1123	Cross, Jeremy L.	MASONIC. The Templar's Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor	New Haven	1821	USD -	Unknown
1124		MASONIC. Cross. The True Masonic Chart; or hieroglyphic monitor	New Haven	1824	USD -	Unknown
1125		MASONIC. The Amaranth or Masonic Garland	Boston	1828	USD -	Unknown
1126		MASONIC. View of the New England Illuminati	Phila.	1799	USD -	Unknown
1127		MASSACHUSETTS. Colonial Land Marks of the Old Bay State	Lynn	1896	USD -	Unknown
1128		MASSACHUSETTS. Constitution of Massachusetts and the United States...			USD -	Unknown
1129		MASSACHUSETTS. Map of Massachusetts compiled from actual surveys made by order of the General Court by Osgood Carleton	Boston	1801	USD -	Unknown
1130		MASSACHUSETTS Historical Society Proceedings	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
1131		MASSACHUSETTS Horticultural Society. History of, 1829-78			USD -	Unknown
1132		MASSACHUSETTS. Lectures delivered in a Course before the Lowell Institute, by members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, on subjects relating to the early history of Massachusetts	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
1133	Whitmore	MASSACHUSETTS. Bibliographical sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colonies from 1630 to 1686	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
1134	Whitmore	MASSACHUSETTS. Colonial Laws of Massachusetts	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
1135	Whitmore	MASSACHUSETTS. The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts	Boston	1889	USD -	Unknown
1136	MASSEY, Gerald	A Book of the Beginnings, containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1137		MASSEY. The Natural Genesis, or A second part of a Book of the Beginnings	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1138	MATHER, Cotton	Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620	Hartford	1855	USD -	Unknown
1139	MATHER, Frank J.	The Collectors; being cases mostly under the 9th and 10th Commandments	New York	1912	USD -	Unknown
1140	MATHEW, Frank	At the Rising of the Moon, Irish stories and studies	New York		USD -	Unknown
1141		MATRIMONIAL Ceremonies Displayed, various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks, etc.	London		USD -	Unknown
1142		MEDIEVAL Legends	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1143	MEEHAN, Thomas	Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural and Popular Aspects	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
1144		MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy. Brittany	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
1145		MENPES. Venice	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
1146		MENDOZA. Life and Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1147		MENTAL Science. Paranoia...			USD -	Unknown
1148	MERRICK, George B.	Old Times on the Upper Mississippi	Cleveland	1909	USD -	Unknown
1149	MEYER, Kuno	Aislinge Meic Conglinne	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1150	MICHAUX, F. A., and T. Nuttall	The North American Sylva; or, a description of the Forest Trees of the United States	Phila.	1871	USD -	Unknown
1151	MIDDLEMORE, S. G. C.	Spanish Legendary Tales	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1152	MIJATOVIES, Madame C.	Serbian Folk-Lore	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1153	MILLER, John	New York Considered and Improved, 1695	Cleveland	1903	USD -	Unknown
1154	MONCRIEFFE, Margaret	Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
1155	MONIER-WILLIAMS, M.	Buddhism in its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and its contrast with Christianity	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
1156	Coelho	MONTEIRO, Henriqueta. Tales of Old Lusitania from the Folk-Lore of Portugal	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1157	MONTEIRO, Mariana	Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
1158	John Davidson	MONTESQUIEU. Persian Letters. Newly translated into English, with notes and a memoir of the author	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1159	MOORAT	Ye Booke of Nursery Rhymes	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
1160	MOORE, A. W.	The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man, being an account of the myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
1161	MOORE, James H.	Defence of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence	Raleigh	1908	USD -	Unknown
1162	MOORE, Thomas	Epistles, Odes and other Poems	Phila.	1809	USD -	Unknown
1163	MORE, Thomas, Michael Drayton and others	The Unfortunate Royal Mistresses, Rosamond Clifford and Jane Shore, Concubines to Henry II and Edward IV	London		USD -	Unknown
1164	MORLEY, Henry	Fairy Tales	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1165	MORLEY, Henry	Mediaeval Tales	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1166	MORLEY, John	English Men of Letters	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
1167	Stenhouse, T. B. H.	MORMONS. The Rocky Mountain Saints	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
1168	MORRIS, Charles	Aryan Sun-Myths, the origin of Religions	Troy	1889	USD -	Unknown
1169	MORRIS, William	Address at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Feb. 21, 1894			USD -	Unknown
1170	MORRIS, William	Art and its Producers and the Arts and Crafts of To-day			USD -	Unknown
1171	MORRIS, William	The Story of the Glittering Plain	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
1172	J. W. Mackail	MORRIS. William Morris; an address at Kelmscott House Nov. 11, 1900	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
1173		MORSE. American Universal Geography	Boston	1796	USD -	Unknown
1174	MORSE, Edward S.	The Older Forms of Terra Cotta Roofing Tiles...			USD -	Unknown
1175	MORTON, Mrs. Perez	The Power of Sympathy; or the triumph of nature founded in truth	Boston	1894	USD -	Unknown
1176	MOTLEY, John L.	MOTLEY, John L. Works of	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
1177	MOULTRIE, William	Memoir of the American Revolution, so far as it related to the States of North and South Carolina and Georgia	New York	1802	USD -	Unknown
1178	MULLER, F. Max	Contributions to the Science of Mythology	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
1179	MULLER, F. Max	Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the sacred hymns of the Brahmans, translated and explained	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
1180	MURDOCK, Harold	Earl Percy's Dinner Table	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
1181	MURRAY, James	Impartial History of the War in America		1782	USD -	Unknown
1182	MURRAY	Impartial History of the Present War in America	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
1183		MUSIC. The Federal Harmony	Boston	1792	USD -	Unknown
1184		MUSIC. The Musical Olio; containing an introduction to the art of singing by note	Northampton	1805	USD -	Unknown
1185		MYER, Isaac. Scarabs, the history, manufacture and religious symbolism of the Scarabaeus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
1186		NANTUCKET Historical Association Bulletin...			USD -	Unknown
1187	the Count De Las Cases	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of the Life, Exiles and Conversations of	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
1188		NARRATIVE of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston	New York	1815	USD -	Unknown
1189		NASHUA, N. H. Gill's Nashua and Nashville Directory for 1843	Nashville	1843	USD -	Unknown
1190		NATURE Worship, an account of Phallic faiths and practices, ancient and modern, including the adoration of the male and female powers in various nations	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
1191	W. B. Meany	NAVAL. Barry. Commodore John Barry, the father of the American Navy	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
1192		NAVAL. John Paul Jones Commemoration at Annapolis, April 24, 1906	Washington	1907	USD -	Unknown
1193		NAVAL Temple, containing a complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of the United States from its establishment in 1794 to the present time	Boston	1816	USD -	Unknown
1194		NESBITT, E. Book of Dragons	New York, London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1195	John J. Currier	NEWBURY, Mass. "Quld Newbury;" historical and biographical sketches	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
1196		NEWBURYPORT, Mass. Articles and Regulations of the Relief Fire Society in Newburyport, formed March 21, 1775			USD -	Unknown
1197	J. J. Currier	NEWBURYPORT. History of, 1764-1905	Newburyport	1906	USD -	Unknown

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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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