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
598	Rev. Wm. Morrell	EARLY American Poetry. No. II. England, or a briefe narration of the Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish and Fowles of that country, with a description of the natures, orders, habits and religion of the natives, in Latine and English Verse, London, 1625	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
599		EARLY American Poetry	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
600		EARLY American Poetry	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
601		EARLY American Poetry	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
602		FACSIMILE Reproduction of the Present State of the New English Affairs			USD -	Unknown
603		FIRST Annual Exhibition...			USD -	Unknown
604	HUNNEWELL	Triumphs of Early Printing; a paper read, December 26th, 1901, by the President, James Frothingham Hunnewell	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
605	LITTLEFIELD, George Emery	Early Boston Booksellers, 1642-1711	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
606	LITTLEFIELD	The Early Massachusetts Press: 1638-1711	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
607	MERRITT, Edward P.	Horace Walpole, Printer. Paper Read April 17, 1907	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
608	MURDOCK, Harold	Historie of the Life and Death of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
609	MURDOCK	Earl Percy's Dinner-Table	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
610		MURDOCK. 1872, Letters written by a Gentleman in Boston to his Friend in Paris, describing the Great Fire	Boston	1909	USD -	Unknown
611	Nathaniel Morton	NEW England Memorial	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
612		PORTRAIT of Francis Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts, 1760-69			USD -	Unknown
613	REMICK	Landing of British Troops at Boston, October, 1768	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
614	REMICK	Christian Remick, early Boston Artist	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
615	SAINT-AMAND	The Last Years of Louis XV	Boston	1893	USD -	Unknown
616	SAINT-AMAND	The Women of the Court of Louis XV	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
617	WILSON, John	The Importance of the Proofreader	Cambridge	1901	USD -	Unknown
618	WINSHIP, G. P.	Early Mexican Printers, a letter from George Parker Winship	Cambridge	1899	USD -	Unknown
619	Chaucer, Geoffrey	WINSHIP. Paper read by George Parker Winship on the 500th Anniversary of Chaucer's Death	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
620	William Caxton	WINSHIP. A paper read at a meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, Jan. 1908		1909	USD -	Unknown
621	COFFIN, Robert S.	Oriental Harp. Poems of the Boston Bard	Providence	1826	USD -	Unknown
622	COLESWORTHY, D. C.	John Tileston's School	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
623	H. P. Curran	COLLINS, Patrick A. Mayor of Boston. Life of	Norwood	1906	USD -	Unknown
624	COLLINS, V. L.	The Continental Congress at Princeton	Princeton	1908	USD -	Unknown
625		COLONIAL History. Miscellaneous pamphlets relating to			USD -	Unknown
626		COLONIAL Society of Massachusetts. Publications of	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
627	COMPTON, Margaret	Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and other American Indian tales	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
628		CONCORD, N. H. Dedication of the Remodeled State House, Oct. 25, 1910	Concord	1911	USD -	Unknown
629		CONFESSION of Faith Put Forth by the Elders and Brethren of many Congregations of Christians of London and the Country			USD -	Unknown
630	CONGDON, Charles T.	Reminiscences of a Journalist	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
631		CONNECTICUT Blue Laws. The Code of 1650	Hartford	1822	USD -	Unknown
632	CONWAY, Moncure D.	Demonology and Devil Lore	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
633	CONWAY, W. Martin	The Alps. Painted by A. D. McCormick	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
634	CONWELL, Russell H.	History of the Great Fire in Boston, Nov. 1872	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
635	COOPER, Samuel Pastor of a Church in Boston	Sermon upon the death of George II, preached in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Jan. 1, 1761	Boston	1761	USD -	Unknown
636		COPELAND and Day. Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford...	Cambridge		USD -	Unknown
637		CORNHILL Booklet, Sept. 1900, to Dec. 1901 irregular			USD -	Unknown
638		COSMOPOLITAN The; a monthly illustrated magazine	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
639	COTTON, Charles	Scarronides; or, Virgil Travestie, a mock poem on the first and fourth books of Virgil's AEneis	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
640	COUES, Elliott	The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to Head-Waters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory and New Spain, 1805 to 1807	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
641	COX, Sir George W.	Mythology of the Aryan Nations	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
642	COX	Popular Romances of the Middle Ages	New York	1886	USD -	Unknown
643	COX, George W. and E. H. Jones	Tales of Teutonic Lands	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
644	COX, Marian R.	An Introduction to Folk-Lore	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
645	CRAIK, Dinah Muloch	The Fairy Book. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
646	CRANE, Thomas F.	Italian Popular Tales	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
647	CRAWFORD, John M.	The Kalevala, the Epic Poem of Finland into English	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
648	CRAWFORD, Lucy	History of the White Mountains from the first Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket	White Hills	1846	USD -	Unknown
649	CREVECOUR, J. H. St. J.	Letters from an American Farmer describing the British Colonies of North America	London	1782	USD -	Unknown
650	CREVECOUR	Letters from an American Farmer	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
651	Robert de Crevecour	CREVECOUR. Sa Vie et ses Ouvrages, 1735-1813	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
652	Hammond, W. A.	CRIME. Insanity in its Relations to Crime	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
653		CRITIC The; a weekly review of Literature and the Arts	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
654		CROSS, Anna and Blanche Atkinson	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
655	CUNDALL, Joseph	A Brief History of Wood Engraving from its Invention	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
656	CUNNINGHAM, Allan	Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
657	CUNNINGHAM, W. H.	Arctic World and its Explorers...			USD -	Unknown
658		CURIOUS Stories about Fairies and other Funny People	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
659	CURTIN, Jeremiah	Hero-Tales of Ireland	Boston	1894	USD -	Unknown
660	CURTIN	Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
661	CURTIN	Myths and Folk-Tales, of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
662	CURTIN	Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, collected from oral tradition in Southwest Munster	Berlin	1895	USD -	Unknown
663	CUTLER, James	Topographical Description of Ohio, Indiana Territory and Louisiana	Boston	1812	USD -	Unknown
664	DANA, Charles A.	German Fairy Tales	Phila.		USD -	Unknown
665	DAS, Nobin C.	Legends and Miracles of Buddha, Sakya Sinha	Calcutta	1895	USD -	Unknown
666	DASENT, George W.	Popular Tales from the Norse	Edinburgh	1859	USD -	Unknown
667	DASENT	Popular Tales from the Norse	New York Edinburgh	1888	USD -	Unknown
668	DASENT	Tales from the Field, a series of popular tales from the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjornsen	New York London	1896	USD -	Unknown
669	D'ARGENSON, Marquis	Essays Written after the Manner of De Montagne	Worcester	1797	USD -	Unknown
670	DAUDET, Alphonse	The Fig and the Idler	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
671	D'AULNOY	Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy, newly done into English	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
672	DAVIES, Edward	Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Language of the Ancient Britons, with some introductory sketches on primitive society	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
673		DAVIES. Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, ascertained by National Documents, and compared with the general traditions and customs of Heathenism	London	1809	USD -	Unknown
674	DAVIES, John H.	Some Welsh Legends and other poems	Sudbury	1893	USD -	Unknown
675	DAVIES, R. R.	Cambrian Sketch-Book, tales, scenes and legends of Wild Wales	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
676	DAVIS, Charles H.	Egyptian Book of the Dead, the most ancient and the most important of the extant religious texts of ancient Egypt	New York London	1894	USD -	Unknown
677		DAVIS, Richard Harding. Cinderella and other stories	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
678	DEARBORN, Nathaniel	Boston Notions, 1630-1847	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
679	Baldwin	DE BURIANS. Revolutionary Journal of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, 1775-78	Bangor	1906	USD -	Unknown
680	DE BURIANS	Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first map maker; a biography	Bangor	1902	USD -	Unknown
681	DE BURIANS	Peter Edes, pioneer printer in Maine	Bangor	1901	USD -	Unknown
682	DEFOE, Daniel	The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders who was born in Newgate	London	1722	USD -	Unknown
683	DELANO, Amasa	Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres	Boston	1817	USD -	Unknown
684	Andrew Lang, C. C. Hayden and H. A. Clarke	DE MUSSET, Alfred. Complete Writings of	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
685	DE MUSSET, Paul	The Last Abbe. Preface by Anatole France	Paris		USD -	Unknown
686	DENNYS, N. B.	The Folk-Lore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races	Hongkong	1876	USD -	Unknown
687		DERRAH'S Trolley Guides for New England, 1900-05			USD -	Unknown
688	DOANE, T. W.	Bible Myths and their Parallels in other religions, being a comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those Heathen Nations of Antiquity	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
689	DOBSON, Austin	A Paper of Verses; being selections from "At the Sign of the Lyre	Boston	1899	USD -	Unknown
690	Lewis Carroll	DODGSON. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
691	DODGSON	Alice's Adventures under Ground	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
692	DOLE, Nathan H.	The Pilgrims and other Poems	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
693		CERVANTES. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
694		DORCHESTER Heights. Record of the Dedication of the Monument, March 17, 1902	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
695	DOUGLAS, Sir George	Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, selected and edited with an introduction	London		USD -	Unknown
696	DOYLE, J. A.	English Colonies in America	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
697	DOYLE, Richard and J. R. Planche	An Old Fairy Tale	London	1868	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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