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
298	SONNENSCHEIN, W. S.	Bibliography of Mythology and Folklore, being, the sections relating to those subjects in the "Best Books" and "The Reader's Guide"	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
299	STEVENS, Henry	Bibliotheca Historica; or, a catalogue of five thousand volumes relating chiefly to the history and literature of North and South America	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
300	STEVENS	Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana; or, a description of my collection of rare books relating to America	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
301	W. F. Prideaux	STEVENSON, Robert L. Bibliography of the Works of	London and New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
302	STREAMER, Volney	Book Titles from Shakespeare	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
303	TENNYSON, Alfred	Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Works of	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
304	THACKERAY, W. M.	Sultan Stork and other stories and sketches	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
305	THOMAS	Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas	Phila.	1907	USD -	Unknown
306	Francis H. Allen	THOREAU, Henry D. Bibliography of	Boston	1908	USD -	Unknown
307	THWAITES, Reuben G.	The Ohio Valley Press before the War of 1812-15	Worcester	1909	USD -	Unknown
308	TREDWELL, Daniel M.	Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books; a plea for Bibliomania	Flatbush	1892	USD -	Unknown
309		UNITED States Catalogue. Book in Print, 1899	Minneapolis	1899	USD -	Unknown
310	Elizabeth H. West	VAN BUREN. Calendar of the Papers of Martin Van Buren from the Original Manuscripts in the Library of Congress	Washington	1910	USD -	Unknown
311	Worthington C. Ford	VERNON-WAGNER Manuscripts. List of, in the Library of Congress	Washington	1904	USD -	Unknown
312		VIRGINIA State Library	Richmond	1908	USD -	Unknown
313	WARD, Gilbert O.	The Practical Use of Books and Libraries	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
314	Herbert Friedenwald	WASHINGTON Manuscripts; a calendar of, in the Library of Congress	Washington	1902	USD -	Unknown
315	WATT, Robert	Bibliotheca Britannica; or, a general index to British and Foreign literature	Edinburgh	1827	USD -	Unknown
316	WEGELIN, Oscar	Early American Poetry; a compilation of the titles of volumes of verse and broadsides written by writers born or resident in North America and issued during the 17th and 18th Centuries	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
317	WEGELIN	Early American Plays	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
318	WEGELIN	Early American Poetry, 1800-1820	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
319	WELSH, Charles	On Coloured Books for Children. Read before the Sette of Odd Volumes, London, May 6, 1887	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
320	WHEELER, William A.	Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction; including also familiar pseudonyms, surnames, etc.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
321	WHITTIER	Catalogue of Manuscripts, Books and Autographs from the Library of J. G. Whittier...	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
322	WOOD, Anthony A.	Athenae Oxoniensis; an exact history of all the writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
323	WOODBURY, C. J. H.	Bibliography of the Cotton Manufacture	Waltham	1909	USD -	Unknown
324	Charles L. Nichols	WORCESTER, Mass. Bibliography of a List of Books, Pamphlets, Newspapers and Broadsides printed in Worcester, 1775-1848	Worcester	1899	USD -	Unknown
325		BIBLE. Hieroglyphick Bible; or, selected passages in the Old and New Testaments	Boston	1814	USD -	Unknown
326	Bivero, Petro	BIBLE Prints. Sacrum Sanctuarium Crucis et Patientiae Crucifixorum et Cruciferorum emblematics imaginibus laborantium et aegrotantium ornatum		1634	USD -	Unknown
327		BIBLIOPHILE Society			USD -	Unknown
328		BIBLIOPHILE Society. 6th Year Book	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
329		CAXTON at his Press			USD -	Unknown
330		ROGER Bacon			USD -	Unknown
331		IZAAK Walton			USD -	Unknown
332		RICHARD Du Bury and Young Edward III			USD -	Unknown
333		ERASMUS, Colet and More			USD -	Unknown
334		BIBLIOPHILE Society...			USD -	Unknown
335	BRYANT	Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau With introduction by Curtis H. Page	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
336	DICKENS	Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell "Dora"	St. Louis	1908	USD -	Unknown
337		SHELLEY. Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
338	Sir Thomas North	BIDPAI. The Earliest English Version of the Fables of Bidpai	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
339	BIRDS. Sage, J. H., Bishop, L. B., and Bliss, W. P.	The Birds of Connecticut	Hartford	1913	USD -	Unknown
340		BIRRELL, Augustine. In the Name of the Bodleian and other Essays	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
341	Arthur Symons	BLAKE. William Blake an account of his life and writings	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
342	BLODGETT, Mabel F.	Fairy Tales	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
343	BLOODGOOD, S. D. W.	The Sexagenary; or, reminiscences of the American Revolution	Albany	1866	USD -	Unknown
344		BLUE Sky Press, Chicago. The Bashful Man...	Chicago		USD -	Unknown
345		BOCCACCIO. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
346		BOCCACCIO. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
347		BOCCACCIO. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
348	BOLTON, Henry C.	Counting-Out Rhymes of Children, their antiquity, origin and wide distribution; a study in folk-lore	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
349		BOOK Binding. Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae juxta formam Missalis et Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. Rubricated throughout	Urbini	1731	USD -	Unknown
350	Battershall, Fletcher	BOOK Binding. Book Binding for Bibliophiles	Greenwich	1905	USD -	Unknown
351		BOOK Binding. Gibson, Strickland. Early Oxford Bindings	Oxford	1903	USD -	Unknown
352	Matthews, Brander	BOOK Binding. Book Bindings Old and New	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
353	Prideaux, S. T.	BOOK Binding. Modern Book Bindings; their design and decoration	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
354		BOOK Bindings of Tomorrow; a record of the work of the Guild of the Women Binders and of the Hampstead Binders	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
355	Nathan Haskell Dole, editor	BOOK Culture	Boston	1899	USD -	Unknown
356	ALLEN, Charles Dexter	American Book Plates; a guide to their study	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
357	ALLEN	A Classified List of Early American	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
358	ALLEN	A Classified List of Early American	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
359	ALLEN	A Classified List of Early American	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
360	ALLEN	Ex-Libris, Essays of a Collector	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
361	ANSON, W. S. W.	Mottoes and Badges of Families, Regiments, Schools, Colleges, States, Towns, Livery Companies, Societies British and Foreign	London		USD -	Unknown
362	Edward Walford, editor	ANTIQUARIAN Magazine and Bibliographer			USD -	Unknown
363		ART Amateur, 1894-5. Series of 16 articles on Book-Plates			USD -	Unknown
364		ARTISTIC Book-Plates, a quarterly pictorial record and review of modern book-plates	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
365		ARTISTIC Book-Plates, New series	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
366	BAKER, W. S.	American Engravers and their Works	Phila.	1875	USD -	Unknown
367	BARRINGTON, Archibald	Familiar Introduction to Heraldry	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
368	BATES, Albert C.	An Early Connecticut Engraver and his Work	Hartford	1906	USD -	Unknown
369	BIRD, Elisha Brown	A Booklet Devoted to the Book-Plates of Elisha Brown Bird	Arlington, Mass.	1907	USD -	Unknown
370	Henry Black-well and F. E. Marshall	BOOK Buyer, 1894-95	New York		USD -	Unknown
371		BOOK Buyer, 1886-1894			USD -	Unknown
372		BOOK of Book-Plates	Edinburgh	1903	USD -	Unknown
373		BOOK Plate Annual and Armorial Year Book, 1894, '95, '96 all published	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
374		BOOK Plate Catalogues. English Auction Sales of the Collections of Col. A. C. Havelock, Sir Frederick Madden...			USD -	Unknown
375		BOOK Plate Catalogues. Same priced in ink with purchaser's names			USD -	Unknown
376		BOOK Plate Catalogues			USD -	Unknown
377	H. A. Fowler, editor	BOOK Plate Booklet	Kansas City	1911	USD -	Unknown
378		BOOK Plates. American and English Booksellers' Catalogues containing Book Plates, issued by W. A. Butterfield, B. & J. Meehan, Edmund Lester, A. Saffrey, etc.			USD -	Unknown
379		BOOK Plates. Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Book Plates, duplicates of A. W. Franks Collection			USD -	Unknown
380		BOOK Plates. General Catalogue, compiled by James Dorman, Part I, London...			USD -	Unknown
381		BOOK Plates. Prospectuses of Books on Book Plates, etc....			USD -	Unknown
382		BOOK Plates. Their origin, design, execution and cost...			USD -	Unknown
383		BOOK Plates. Typewritten Price Lists issued by Dodd, Mead & Co.			USD -	Unknown
384		BOOKS and Book Plates; a quarterly for collectors	Edinburgh	1905	USD -	Unknown
385	BOUCHOT, Henri	Les Ex-Libris et les Marques de Possession du Livre	Paris	1891	USD -	Unknown
386	BOWDOIN, W. G.	The Rise of the Book Plate; being an exemplification of the art signified by various book plates from its earliest to its most recent practice	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
387	BURKE, John Bernard	A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
388	BURKE, Sir Bernard Ulster King of Arms	Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
389	BURKE	Examples of Irish Book Plates from the Collections of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
390		CANADIAN Book Plates. A Manuscript List of 830 Book Plates used by People who have resided in Canada			USD -	Unknown
391		CANADIAN Book Plates. Acadiensis, April, 1901			USD -	Unknown
392		CAXTON Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Ex-Libris interesting through their Associations	Chicago		USD -	Unknown
393		CAXTON Club. An Exhibition of Book Plates, Feb. 1898	Chicago		USD -	Unknown
394	CARLANDER, C. M.	Svenska Bibliotek och Ex-Libris	Stockholm	1889	USD -	Unknown
395	CARVER, Clifford N.	Book Plates of Well Known Americans	Princeton	1911	USD -	Unknown
396	CASTLE, Egerton	English Book Plates; an illustrated hand book for students of Ex-Libris	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
397	CASTLE	English Book Plates; an illustrated hand book for students of Ex-Libris	London	1892	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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