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
498		BOSTON. Memorial of Joshua Bates...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
499		BOSTON. Metropolitan Park Commission. Annual Reports, 1893-1911	Boston		USD -	Unknown
500	Midgley, R. L.	BOSTON. Sights in Boston and Suburbs...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
501		BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts. Bulletins, Nos. 18 to 45 1906-10			USD -	Unknown
502		BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts...			USD -	Unknown
503		BOSTON. Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
504		BOSTON Record Commissioner's Reports	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
505	Robbins, Chandler	BOSTON. History of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston, to which is added a history of the New Brick Church	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
506		BOSTON. Scrap Book of Newspaper Clippings relating to the widening of Tremont Street, 1895			USD -	Unknown
507	Shaw, Charles	BOSTON. A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston	Boston	1817	USD -	Unknown
508		BOSTON. Some Account of the Medical School in Boston and of the Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	1824	USD -	Unknown
509		BOSTON. Street Railway Map of Boston and Vicinity, 1898			USD -	Unknown
510		BOSTON Subway Literature. A notable collection which consists of separately published material relating to the Boston Subway....			USD -	Unknown
511		BOSTON Tea Party	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
512		BOSTON Tea Party. Recollections of the Private Centennial Celebration of the Overthrow of the Tea at Griffin's Wharf, in Honor of Samuel Howard, Cambridge, Dec. 1873	Cambridge	1874	USD -	Unknown
513		BOSTON Transit Commission. Annual Reports, 1st to 19th	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
514		BOSTON. Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
515	Winsor, Justin	BOSTON. Memorial History of Boston	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
516		BOSTONIAN Society. Proceedings of...			USD -	Unknown
517		BOSTONIAN Society. Publications of	Boston	1886	USD -	Unknown
518	BOWEN, A.	Naval Monument. Contains accounts of all Battles fought between the Navies of the United States and Great Britain	Boston	1816	USD -	Unknown
519	BOWRING, John	Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
520		BRADFORD'S History "of Plimoth Plantation," from the original manuscript	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
521	BRAUNS, David	Japanische Marchen und Sagen	Leipzig	1885	USD -	Unknown
522	BRERETON, John	A Briefe and True Relation of the Discouerie of the North Part of Virginia	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
523	BRIDIER, Abbe	A Papal Envoy during the Reign of Terror	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
524	BRISSOT de Warville, J. P.	The Commerce of America with Europe	New York	1795	USD -	Unknown
525	BROWN, Alexander	The Genesis of the United States; a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-16	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
526	BROWN, Hattie	Catoninetales, a domestic epic	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
527	BROWN	Reminiscences of Old John Brown	Rockford	1880	USD -	Unknown
528	BROWNE, Francis	Granny's Wonderful Chair, and its tales of fairy times	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
529	BRYAN, Michael	Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
530	BRYCE, James	The American Commonwealth	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
531	BUCKINGHAM, J. T.	Specimens of Newspaper Literature	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
532	BUDGE, E. A. Wallis	The Book of the Dead	British Museum	1895	USD -	Unknown
533	BULFINCH, Thomas	Age of Chivalry, or legends of King Arthur	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
534	BULFINCH	Age of Chivalry; or, King Arthur and his Knights	Phila.	1900	USD -	Unknown
535	BULLEN, A. H.	Antient Drolleries	London and Oxford	1890	USD -	Unknown
536	BULLEN	Musa Proterva: Love-poems of the Restoration	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
537	BULLEN	Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
538	BUNKER Hill	Sketches of the Battle and Monument...			USD -	Unknown
539	BURTON, John H.	Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland	Edinburgh		USD -	Unknown
540	BURTON, Richard	The Anatomy of Melancholy	Phila.	1855	USD -	Unknown
541	BUTLER, W. F.	The Wild Northland	Phila.	1874	USD -	Unknown
542	BUTTERFIELD, C. W.	History of Brule's Discoveries and Explorations, 1610-1626 of Lakes Huron, Ontario and Superior	Cleveland	1898	USD -	Unknown
543	BYRON, Lord	BYRON, Lord. Poetical Works of	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
544	BYRON	Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence at Pisa, 1821-2	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
545	CAFFIN, Charles H.	The Story of French Painting	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
546		CAINE, Hall. The Bondman...	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
547	CALLAWAY, Rev. Canon	Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in their own words	Natal	1868	USD -	Unknown
548	CAMPBELL, Douglas	The Puritan in Holland, England and America, an introduction to American History	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
549		CANALS. Official Reports of the Canal Commissioners of New York and the Acts of the Legislature respecting navigable communications between the great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean	New York	1817	USD -	Unknown
550		CARICATURES. Colored Newspaper Caricatures taken from the Boston Sunday Post			USD -	Unknown
551	CARLYLE, Thomas	CARLYLE, Thomas. Works of	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
552	CARRYL, Guy W.	Fables for the Frivolous	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
553		CARUS. Portfolio of Buddhist Art, Historical and Modern	Chicago	1906	USD -	Unknown
554	CASANOVA, Jacques	CASANOVA, Jacques. Memoirs of		1894	USD -	Unknown
555	CATLEY	Life of Miss Anne Catley, celebrated singing performer of the last Century and her various adventures and intrigues	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
556		CATLIN, George. O-Kee-Pa, a religious ceremony and other customs of the Mandans	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
557		CATULLUS. The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
558		CAXTON Club Publications. Uzanne, Octave	Chicago	1904	USD -	Unknown
559		CAXTON Club. La Salle. Relation of the Discovery of the Mississippi River. Written from the narrative of Nicolas de la Salle	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
560		CAXTON Club Publication. La Salle. Relation of Henri de Tonty concerning the Explorations of La Salle from 1678-1683	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
561	Anderson, Melville B.	CAXTON Club Publication. Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavalier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681	Chicago	1901	USD -	Unknown
562	Kinzie, Mrs. John H.	CAXTON Club. WauBun the "Early Day " of the North-West	Chicago	1901	USD -	Unknown
563		CAXTON Club Publications. Berthelet. Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England	Chicago	1901	USD -	Unknown
564		CENTURY Dictionary. Prepared under the Superintendence of W. D. Whitney	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
565	B. E. Smith	CENTURY Dictionary. Century Atlas of the World	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
566		CERVANTES. History of the Ingenious Gentlemen Don Quixote of La Mancha	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
567		CERVANTES. The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
568	CHAMBERLAIN, Alexander F.	The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
569	CHAMBERS, Robert	Traditions of Edinburgh			USD -	Unknown
570		CHAP Books. History of Tom White...	Phila.	1800	USD -	Unknown
571	Janeway, James	CHAP Book. A Token for Children, with a Token for the Children of New England	Boston	1771	USD -	Unknown
572	CHAPIN, Willis O.	The Masters and Masterpieces of Engraving	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
573	Reed, Rebecca T.	CHARLESTOWN. Narrative of Six Months' Residence in a Convent	Glasgow	1835	USD -	Unknown
574	CHARLTON, E. A.	New Hampshire as It is	Claremont	1856	USD -	Unknown
575	William C. Smith	CHATHAM, Mass. History of	Hyannis	1909	USD -	Unknown
576	CHEVIGNE, Louis de	Les Contes Remois	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
577		CHICAGO. Table of Post Offices in the United States as they were Oct. 1, 1830	Washington	1831	USD -	Unknown
578		CHICAGO. The Great Fires in Chicago and the West	Chicago	1871	USD -	Unknown
579	CHILDS, Lydia M.	The Rebels; or, Boston before the Revolution	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
580	CHRISTENSEN, A. H. H.	Afro-American Folk Lore. Told round cabin fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
581	CIBBER	Account of the Life of that Celebrated Actress Mrs. Susannah M. Cibber	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
582	CLARK, Jonas Gilman	In Memoriam	Worcester	1900	USD -	Unknown
583	CLARK, Kate McCosh	A Southern Cross, a fairy tale	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
584	CLARK	Maori Tales and Legends	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
585	CLELAND, John	Memoirs of a Coxcomb	London	1751	USD -	Unknown
586	CLEMENS	Merry Tales	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
587	W. D. Howells, Mark Twain and others	CLEMENS. The Niagara Book, containing sketches, stories, essays, etc.	Buffalo	1893	USD -	Unknown
588		CLIVE. Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
589	CLODD, Edward	Myths and Dreams	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
590	CLOUSTON, W. A.	Popular Tales and Fictions, their migrations and transformations	Edinburgh	1887	USD -	Unknown
591		CLUB of Colonial Reprints of Providence	Providence	1903	USD -	Unknown
592	ASHBEE	The Private Press; a study in idealism	Gloucestershire	1909	USD -	Unknown
593		BENNETT'S View of Boston. "Boston from the Ship House, West End of the Navy Yard"			USD -	Unknown
594		CATALOGUE of a Loan Exhibition of Book Plates and Super Libros at the Museum of Fine Arts, 1898	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
595		CONSTITUTION and By-Laws with a list of the officers and members	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
596	CRUIKSHANK	The Works of George Cruikshank in Oil, Water Colors, Original Drawings, Etchings, Woodcuts, etc.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
597		EARLY American Poetry	Boston	1894	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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