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
1845		MURRAY'S Family Library	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1846	G. B. Grundy, editor	MURRAY'S Small Classical Atlas	Oxford	1904	USD -	Unknown
1847	MYRICK, Herbert	Cache la Poudre; a romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
1848	NAPIER, Sir William	NAPIER, Sir William. Life of	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1849	NAPIER, W. F. P.	History of the War in the Peninsula and the South of France, 1807-14	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1850	Abbott, J.S.C.	NAPOLEON. History of Napoleon Bonaparte	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
1851	Bussey, George M.	NAPOLEON. History of Napoleon	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1852	Gibbs, M. B.	NAPOLEON. Napoleon's Military Career; an account of the remarkable campaigns of "The Man of Destiny"	Chicago	1895	USD -	Unknown
1853	Hazlitt, William	NAPOLEON. Life of Napoleon	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1854	Jones, George	NAPOLEON. The Battle of Waterloo, with those of Ligne and Quatre Bras	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1855	Junot, Madame	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of Napoleon, his court and Family	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
1856	L'Ardeche, Laurent	NAPOLEON. Histoire de l'Empereur Napoleon	Paris	1839	USD -	Unknown
1857	Laurent, P. M.	NAPOLEON. Histoire de l'Empereur Napoleon	Paris	1839	USD -	Unknown
1858	Masson, Frederic	NAPOLEON. Napoleon and the Fair Sex	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1859	Saint-Hilaire, E. M. de	NAPOLEON. Histoire Populaire Anecdotique et Pittoresque de Napoleon	Bruxelles	1845	USD -	Unknown
1860	Vieusseux, A.	NAPOLEON. Napoleon Bonaparte, his Sayings and Deeds	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1861	NAPOLEON III	Histoire de Jules Cesar	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
1862	NAPOLEON III	History of Julius Caesar	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
1863	NARES, George S.	Seamanship	London		USD -	Unknown
1864	NARES, Robert	Glossary; or, collection of words, phrases, names, etc., in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare and his Contemporaries	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1865	NARJOUX	Notes and Sketches of an Architect	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
1866		NARRATIVE of the Cruise of the Yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in 1854	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1867	Mary Elliott	NARRATIVE. The English Hermit; or, the adventures of Philip Quarll, who was discovered upon an uninhabited Island where he had lived about fifty years without any human assistance	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1868		NATIONAL Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1869		NATIONAL Gallery of Pictures by Great Masters	London		USD -	Unknown
1870		NATIONAL Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the 19th Century	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
1871	Burchett, Josiah	NAVAL. Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea from the Earliest Accounts of Time	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
1872		NAVAL. The Cruiser; a quarterly magazine of cruising tales and adventures	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
1873		NAVAL. Die Schiffs und Kustengeschutze der deutschen Marine	Berlin	1876	USD -	Unknown
1874		NAVAL Encyclopaedia; comprising a dictionary of nautical words and phrases, biographical notices and records of naval officers	Philadelphia	1881	USD -	Unknown
1875		NAVAL. Glossary of Navigation...	Portsmouth		USD -	Unknown
1876		NEDERLANDSCHE Jaerboeken, 1747-1755 and 1760-1783	Amsterdam		USD -	Unknown
1877	NEIHARDT, John G.	The River and I	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
1878	T. O. Churchill	NELSON. Life of Lord Viscount Nelson	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
1879	J. S. Clarke, and J. M'Arthur	NELSON, Horatio. Life and Services of	London		USD -	Unknown
1880	Robert Southey	NELSON, Lord. Life of	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
1881	NERI, Antoine	Art de la Verrerie	Paris	1752	USD -	Unknown
1882		NETHERLANDS. Nederlandsch-Engelsch Woor denboek. Door I. M. Calisch	Tiel	1875	USD -	Unknown
1883	NETHERCLIFT, G. F.	Handbook of Autographs; being a ready guide to the handwriting of distinguished men and women of every Nation	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
1884		NEUMAN and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1885	NEUMANN, Ludwig	Der Schwarzwald in Wort und Bild	Stuttgart	1897	USD -	Unknown
1886	NEUMANN	Der Schwarzwald in Wort und Bild	Bielefeld	1911	USD -	Unknown
1887	NEWHALL, Captain J. T.	Scottish Moors and Indian Jungles	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1888		NEW DICTIONARY of Quotations from the Greek, Latin and Modern Languages	Philadelphia	1869	USD -	Unknown
1889		NEW POCKET Dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian Languages	Leipzig	1900	USD -	Unknown
1890		NEW TESTAMENT. The English Hexapla Exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
1891		NEW TESTAMENT in Greek	Oxonii	1863	USD -	Unknown
1892		NEW TESTAMENT. Nouveau Testament avec Notes d'apres M. O. de Gerlach	Paris	1846	USD -	Unknown
1893	William Tyndale	NEW TESTAMENT, published in 1526; being the first translation from the Greek into English	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
1894	F. T. Hill	NEW YORK CITY. Story of a Street; the narrative history of Wall Street from 1644-1908	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
1895		NEW YORK Imprint. The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket	N. Y.	1796	USD -	Unknown
1896	NICHOLS, John	Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century...	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
1897	NICHOLSON, E. B., and Tedder, Henry R.	Transactions and Proceedings of the Conference of Librarians in London, October, 1877	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
1898	NICHOLSON, James B.	Manual of the Art of Bookbinding also the Art of Marbling Book Edges and Paper	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
1899		NICHOLSON'S Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture, Building, Carpentry, etc.	London		USD -	Unknown
1900	NISARD, D.	Histoire de la Litterature Frangaise	Paris	1879	USD -	Unknown
1901	NODIER, Charles	OEuvres de	Bruxelles	1832	USD -	Unknown
1902	NODIER	Smarra, ou les Demons de la Nuit, Songes Romantiques	Paris	1821	USD -	Unknown
1903	NODIER	Vocabulaire de la Langue Francaise	Bruxelles	1836	USD -	Unknown
1904	NOEL, F.	Dictionnaire de la Fable	Bruxelles	1828	USD -	Unknown
1905	NOEL, et De la Place	Legons Francaises de Litterature et de Morale	Bruxelles	1851	USD -	Unknown
1906	NORDAU, Max	Degeneration	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
1907	NORMAN, Henry	The Real Japan; studies of contemporary Japanese manners, morals, etc.	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
1908	NORMAN	London Vanished and Vanishing	London	1905	USD -	Unknown
1909		NORWAY. Official Publication for the Paris Exhibition, 1900	Kristiania	1900	USD -	Unknown
1910		NORWAY. The Viking Bodleys...			USD -	Unknown
1911		NOTES and Queries	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1912	C. L. F. Panckoucke, editor	NOVA Scriptorum Latinorum Bibliotheca	Paris	1836	USD -	Unknown
1913	NOYES, Rufus K.	Views of Religion	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
1914	NUTTALL, P. A.	Classical and Archaeological Dictionary of the Celebrated Nations of Antiquity and the Middle Ages	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1915	Porta, J. B.	OCCULT. De Occultis Literarum Notis	Argentorati	1606	USD -	Unknown
1916	OETTINGER, Eduard M.	Moniteur des Dates	Leipzig	1869	USD -	Unknown
1917	O'FLANAGAN, J. R.	The Black Water in Munster	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
1918	OHRLANDER, C. N., and Leffler, Q. E.	Tetraglott-Lexikon for Ofversattningar fran Svenskan	Stockholm	1852	USD -	Unknown
1919	OMAN, V. E.	Swedish-English Dictionary	London		USD -	Unknown
1920	OPIE, Amelia (Wife of the Famous Painter)	OPIE, Amelia (Wife of the Famous Painter). Works of	Philadelphia	1843	USD -	Unknown
1921	C. L. Bright well	OPIE. Memorials of the Life of, with Selections from her Letters, Diaries and Manuscripts	Norwich	1854	USD -	Unknown
1922		OPPERMAN. Le Propagateur des Traveaux en Fer	Paris	1867	USD -	Unknown
1923	OPPERT, Gustav	Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsa, or India	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1924	O'REILLY, John B.	Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
1925		ORIGIN and Antiquity of Engraving, with some Remarks on the Utility and Pleasures of Prints	Philadelphia	1872	USD -	Unknown
1926		ORIGINAL Methode Toussaint-Langescheidt	Leipzig		USD -	Unknown
1927	ORME, Edward	Essay on Transparent Prints and Transparencies in General	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
1928	ORME, William	Bibliotheca Biblica; a select list of books on sacred literature, with notices	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
1929	OSIANDRUM, Lucam	Enchiridion oder Hand buchlein Streittiger Religions	Frankfort	1608	USD -	Unknown
1930	OTTLEY, William Y.	Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon Copper and in Wood, with an account of engravers and their works	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
1931	OTTLEY	A series of plates engraved after the paintings and sculptures of the most eminent masters of the early Florentine School; intended to illustrate the history of the Restorations of the arts of Design in Italy	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
1932	W. H. Dawson, editor	OUR NEIGHBORS Series	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
1933	OVID	Publius Ovidius Naso	Paris	1820	USD -	Unknown
1934	OWEN, Mary A.	Voodoo Tales as Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
1935		OXFORD Pocket Classics	Oxonii		USD -	Unknown
1936	PAGE, John L. W.	Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1937	PALGRAVE, W. G.	Ulysses; or, scenes and studies in many lands	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1938	PALLAS	Voyages du Professor Pallas dans Plusieurs Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1939		PALLISER'S American Cottage Homes	Bridgeport	1878	USD -	Unknown
1940	PALMER	Catalogue of the Collection of Etchings and Engravings formed by C. J. Palmer (priced in ink with buyer's names)	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1941	PALMER, E. H.	The Desert of Exodus	Cambridge	1871	USD -	Unknown
1942	PALMER, Roundell	Book of Praise from the Best English Hymn Writers	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1943	Bonny Scotland	PALMER. Painted by Sutton Palmer	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
1944		PALMISTRY. Niblo's The Complete Palmist	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown

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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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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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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.