CF Libbie: CATALOGUE OF THE, Extensive Private Library, OF A WELL KNOWN, BOSTON COLLECTOR. COMPRISING OVER 12,000 VOLUMES, RARE AMERICANA. Franklin Imprints. Works of Cotton and Increase Mather. Town and State Histories. Civil War and Confederate Publications. NAPOL, 1910Apr26,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 26, 1910 - April 26, 1910

Page Size: 2989 items in 30 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	F. L. Hawkes	APPLETON'S Cyclopaedia of Biography	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
102	APULEIUS	Metamorphoses of Apuleius	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
103		ARABIAN Nights. Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
104		ARABIAN Nights. Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
105		ARABIAN Nights Entertainments	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
106		ARABIAN Nights Entertainments	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
107		ARABIAN Nights. The Thousand and One Nights	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
108		ARABIAN Nights. The Thousand and One Nights	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
109	ARBER, Edward	An English Garner; ingathered from our history and literature	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
110	ARBER, Edward	The English Scholars' Library of Old and Modern Works. Nos. 1-12	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
111	Richard Eden	ARBER, Edward. The First Three English Books on America, 1511-1555. Being chiefly translations, compilations, etc.	Birmingham	1885	USD -	Unknown
112	ARBER, Edward	The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
113		ARCHAEOLOGIA Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Soc.	Worcester	1820	USD -	Unknown
114	ARIOSTO, Ludovico	Orlando Furioso	London	1799	USD -	Unknown
115	ARISTOTLE	The Organon...	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
116		ARISTOTLE'S Secret of Secrets Contracted; being the sum of his advice to Alexander the Great about the Preservation of Health and Government	London	1702	USD -	Unknown
117	ARMIN, Robert	The Italian Tailor and his Boy	London	1609	USD -	Unknown
118	ARMSTRONG, A. N.	Oregon; a brief history and full description of the territories of Oregon and Washington	Chicago	1857	USD -	Unknown
119	ARMSTRONG, Walter	Scottish Painters; a critical study	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
120	ARNDT, Johann	Samtliche Bucher vom Wahren Christenthum	Leipsic	1747	USD -	Unknown
121	ARNOLD, Benedict	Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun; with accurate accounts of the capture of Groton Fort		1840	USD -	Unknown
122	I. N. Arnold	ARNOLD, Benedict. Life of, his Patriotism and his Treason	Chicago	1880	USD -	Unknown
123	ARNOLD, Matthew	The Study of Celtic Literature	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
124	ARNOLD, S. G.	History of the State of Rhode Island	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
125	A. P. Stanley	ARNOLD, Thomas (Head master of Rugby School). Life and Correspondence of	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
126	ARNOLD, W. H.	First Report of a Book Collector	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
127	ARNOLD and Samuels	The Living World; containing description of the several races of men and the different groups of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc.	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
128		ART and Letters; an illustrated review for 1889	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
129		ART Year Book, 1884. N. E. Institute	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
130		ARTIST Biographies	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
131	ASHE, Thomas	The Spirit of "The Book;" or, memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hasburgh, a political and amatory romance	Phila.	1812	USD -	Unknown
132	ASHE, Thomas	Travels in America in 1806 for the purpose of exploring the rivers Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi	London (Reprinted, Newburyport)	1808	USD -	Unknown
133	ASHTON, John	Chap Books of the 18th Century	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
134	ASHTON	Humor, Wit and Satire of the 17th Century, 1884...	New York and London		USD -	Unknown
135	ASHTON	The Fleet; its river, prison and marriages	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
136	ASHTON	Social England under the Regency	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
137		ATLAS. Carey's General Atlas Improved and Enlarged	Phila.	1814	USD -	Unknown
138		ATLAS of Suffolk County	Phila.	1874	USD -	Unknown
139	J. L. Peyton	AUGUSTA County, Va. History of	Staunton	1882	USD -	Unknown
140	AUSTIN, Alfred	A Vindication of Lord Byron	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
141		AUTOGRAPHIC Mirror. Inedited Autographs of Illustrious and Distinguished Men of Past and Present Times	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
142	Charles Cowley	AYER, Mass. Reminiscences of James C. Ayer and of the Town of Ayer	Lowell		USD -	Unknown
143	BACKUS, Isaac	History of New England, with particular reference to the Denomination of Christians called Baptists...			USD -	Unknown
144	BACKUS	History of New England; with proper reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists	Newton	1871	USD -	Unknown
145	BACON, Sir Francis	Essays; a discourse on the Wisdom of the Ancients	London	1696	USD -	Unknown
146	BACON	The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
147	BACON, Henry	Parisian Art and Artists	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
148	BACON, Leonard	The Genesis of the New England Churches	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
149		BAHAMA Islands. Stark's History and Guide to the Bahama Islands	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
150	W. S. Bartlett	BAILEY. The Frontier Missionary; a memoir of Rev. Jacob Bailey	Boston	1853	USD -	Unknown
151	BAIRD, C. W.	History of the Huguenot Immigration to America	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
152	BAIRD, H. M.	History of the Rise of the Huguenots	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
153	BAKER, Henry B.	English Actors from Shakespeare to Macready	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
154	BAKER	Our Old Actors	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
155	BALCH, Thomas	The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783	Phila.	1891	USD -	Unknown
156	BALLANTYNE, R. M.	Photographs of Edinburgh	Glasgow		USD -	Unknown
157	T. W. Griffith	BALTIMORE, Md. Annals of	Baltimore	1824	USD -	Unknown
158	J. T. Scharf	BALTIMORE. Chronicles of Baltimore	Baltimore	1874	USD -	Unknown
159	BALZAC, H. de	Comedie Humaine	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
160	BALZAC	La Comedie Humaine	Phila.	1897	USD -	Unknown
161	BALZAC	BALZAC. Novels of	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
162	BALZAC	At the Sign of the Cat and Racket...	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
163	BALZAC	Droll Stories	London		USD -	Unknown
164	BALZAC	The Duchesse de Langeais	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
165	BALZAC	Pere Goriot; scenes from Parisian Life	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
166	BANCROFT, George	History of the United States	Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
167	BANCROFT	Literary and Historical Miscellanies	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
168	BANCROFT, H. H.	History of Utah	San Francisco	1890	USD -	Unknown
169	BANCROFT	The New Pacific	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
170	BARBER, E. A.	American Glassware, Old and New	Phila.	1900	USD -	Unknown
171	BARBER, J. W.	Connecticut Historical Collections	New Haven	1838	USD -	Unknown
172	BARBER	Massachusetts Historical Collections	Worcester	1839	USD -	Unknown
173	BARBER	History and Antiquities of New England, New York and New Jersey	Worcester	1841	USD -	Unknown
174	BARBER, J. W., and Henry Howe	Historical Collections of the State of New York	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
175	BARBER and Howe	Our Whole Country; or, the past and present of the U. S.	Cinn.	1861	USD -	Unknown
176	BARCLAY, Alexander	The Ship of Fools	Edinburgh	1874	USD -	Unknown
177	[BARHAM, R.]	Ingoldsby Legends	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
178	[BARHAM]	Ingoldsby Legends	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
179	[BARHAM]	Old English Ballads and Legends	London		USD -	Unknown
180	BARING-GOULD, S.	Curious Myths of the Middle Ages	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
181	BARLOW, Joel	The Columbiad	Phila.	1809	USD -	Unknown
182	BARLOW	The Vision of Columbus; to which is added the Conspiracy of Kings	Paris	1793	USD -	Unknown
183	BARNUM, P. T.	BARNUM, P. T. Life of	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
184	BARRAS	Memoirs of Barras, Member of the Directorate	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
185	T. W. Bicknell	BARRINGTON, R. I. Historical Address and Poem, June 17, 1870	Providence	1870	USD -	Unknown
186	BARRY, John S.	The History of Massachusetts	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
187	BARSTOW, George	History of New Hampshire	Concord	1842	USD -	Unknown
188	BARTLETT, John	Familiar Quotations	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
189	BARTLETT	Dictionary of Americanisms	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
190	BARTLETT, W. H.	Pilgrim Fathers; or, founders of New England	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
191	BARTLETT	The Pilgrim Fathers; or, the founders of New England in the reign of James the First	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
192	BARTOLOZZI	The Birth and Triumph of Love	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
193	D. D. Addison	BASS, Edward (First Bishop of Mass.). Life and Times of	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
194		BATCHELOR'S Directory; being a treatise of the excellence of marriage, of its necessity and the means to live happy in it, together with an apology for the women against the calumnies of men	London	1694	USD -	Unknown
195	BATES, Arlo	The Puritans	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
196	Fox, John	BATTLE-DOOR. A Battle-Door for Teachers and Professors to Learn Plural and Singular	London	1660	USD -	Unknown
197	BAUER, Karoline	BAUER, Karoline. Posthumous Memoirs of	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
198	BAXTER, J. P.	The Pioneers of New France in New England	Albany	1894	USD -	Unknown
199	[BAXTER, Thomas]	Smale Handfull of Fragrant Flowers	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
200	BEARD, G. M.	Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692	New York	1882	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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