CF Libbie: AUCTION SALE: WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, NOV. 8-9, 1916. Each day at 10 and 2 o'clock, PART III, SECTION II, M to Z, CATALOGUE OF THE EXTENSIVE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOHN B. PEARSE of Roxbury, Mass., COMPRISING, ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN LITERATURE. I, 1916Nov08,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 08, 1916 - November 08, 1916

Page Size: 1165 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2745	WILLIAMS, Alfred M.	Poets and Poetry of Ireland	Boston	1881	USD -	Unknown
2746	WILLIAMS, Charles	The Alps, Switzerland and the North of Italy	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
2747	WILLIAMS, John G.	Adventures of a Seventeen Year Old Lad and the Fortunes he Might Have Won	Boston	1894	USD -	Unknown
2748	WILLSHIRE, William H.	Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
2749	WILLISON, St. J. B. W.	Lucian's Wonderland; being a translation of the "Vera Historia"	Edinburgh	1899	USD -	Unknown
2750	WILSON, Charles H.	Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarotti	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
2751	WILSON	"Christopher North"; a memoir of John Wilson	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
2752	WILSON	Lands of the Bible Visited and Described	Edinburgh	1847	USD -	Unknown
2753	WILSON	Noctes Ambrosianae	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
2754	WILSON	Phrasis; a treatise on the history and structure of different languages of the world	Albany	1867	USD -	Unknown
2755	WILSON, Joseph	French and English Dictionary	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
2756	WILSON, Victor T.	Free-Hand Lettering; a treatise on plain lettering from the practical standpoint	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
2757	WINDLE, B. C. A.	Life in Early Britain; being an account of the early inhabitants and the memorials which they have left behind them	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
2758	WINKELMAN, F. W.	Nederduitsch en Fransch Woordenboek	Utrecht	1783	USD -	Unknown
2759	WINKELMANN, Johan	Samtliche Werke	Donanoschingen	1825	USD -	Unknown
2760	WINKELMANN	Geschichte der kunst des Alterthums	Wien	1776	USD -	Unknown
2761	WINKELMANN	History of Ancient Art among the Greeks	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
2762	WINTERFELD, A.	Ein Fahnrich mit einem Fehler und andere Militarhumoresken			USD -	Unknown
2763	WISTER, Owen	A Journey in Search of Christmas	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
2764	WITHROW, W. H.	Our Own Country; Canada, scenic and descriptive, being an account of Nova Scotia, Quebec, North-West Territory, etc.	Toronto	1889	USD -	Unknown
2765	WOILLEZ	Le Robinson de Demoiselles	Paris		USD -	Unknown
2766		WOLF. Le Breviaire de l'Amour dans le Manage ou l'Homme et la Femme	Paris		USD -	Unknown
2767	WOLTMANN, Alfred, and Woermann, K.	History of Ancient, Early Christian and Mediaeval Painting	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
2768	WOLTMANN, Alfred, and Woermann, K.	History of Ancient, Early Christian and Mediaeval Painting	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
2769		WOMAN. The Art of Beauty...			USD -	Unknown
2770		WOMAN. The Science of Dress...			USD -	Unknown
2771		WOMEN. The Ways of Women in their Physical, Moral and Intellectual Relations	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
2772	WOOD, J. G.	The Dominion of Man	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
2773	WOODBURN, S.	Catalogue of a Splendid and Capital Collection of Engraved British Portraits	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
2774	WOODROW, G.	Biographical Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Persons of All Nations	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
2775	WOOLNOTH, Thomas	Facts and Faces; with a dissertation on personal and relative beauty	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
2776	WORCESTER, Joseph E.	Dictionary of the English Language	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
2777	Henry Bircks	WORCESTER, Marquis of. Life, Times and Scientific Labours of	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
2778	WORDSWORTH, Christopher	Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
2779	WORTH, R. N.	History of Devonshire	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2780	WRANGELL	Le Nord de la Siberie; voyage parmi les peuplades de la Russie Asiatique	Paris	1843	USD -	Unknown
2781	WREDE, Ernest	Taschenworterbuch der schwe-dischen und deutschen Sprache	Berlin		USD -	Unknown
2782	WREN, Christopher	WREN, Christopher. Memoirs of the Life and Works of	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
2783	WRIGHT, Caleb	Lectures on India; also descriptions of remarkable customs and personages in other pagan and Mohammedan countries	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
2784	WRIGHT, G. F.	Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament History	Oberlin	1906	USD -	Unknown
2785	WRIGHT, and Upham, W.	Greenland Ice Fields and Life in the North Atlantic	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
2786	WRIGHT, Helen S.	The Great White North; the story of Polar explorations from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
2787	WRIGHT	Life and Works of Joseph Wright, commonly called "Wright of Derby"	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
2788	WRIGHT, Thomas	Anglo Saxon and Old English Vocabularies	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
2789	WRIGHT	Biographia Britannica Literaria (Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Periods)	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
2790	WRIGHT	Womankind in Western Europe from the Earliest Time to the 17th Century	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
2791	WYLIE, I. A. R.	Rambles in the Black Forest	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
2792	WYNNE, James	Private Libraries of New York	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
2793	WYNTER, Andrew	Our Social Bees; or, pictures of town and country life and other papers	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
2794	XENOPHON	Cyrupaedia; the Institution and Life of Cyrus, first of that name, King of Persians	London	1632	USD -	Unknown
2795	XENOPHON	Cyropaedia; or, the institution of Cyrus	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
2796		YACHT Voyage Round England...			USD -	Unknown
2797	YEATS, W. B.	Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
2798	YONGE, Charlotte M.	History of Christian Names	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
2799	YOUMAN, A. E.	Dictionary of Every Day Wants	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
2800	YOUNG, Edward	Night Thoughts	London		USD -	Unknown
2801		YOUNGHUSBAND. Kashmir	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
2802	YULE, Henry	Book of Ser Marco Polo concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
2803	ZANI, D. P.	Enciclopedia medotica Critico-Ragionata delle Belle Arti	Parma	1819	USD -	Unknown
2804	ZOGBAUM, Rufus F.	Horse, Foot and Dragoons; sketches of army life at home and abroad	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
2805	ZOLA, Emile	OEuvres	Paris	1885	USD -	Unknown
2806	Robert H. Sherard	ZOLA. Emile Zola; a biographical and critical study	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
2807	ZSCHOKKE, Heinrich	Ausgewahlte Dichtungen Erzahlungen und Novellen	Aarau	1830	USD -	Unknown
2808	ZSCHOKKE	Ausgewahlte Novellen und Dichtungen	Aarau	1836	USD -	Unknown
2809		ZURICH. Die Eidgenossische Polytechnische Schule in Zurich	Zurich	1889	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.
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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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