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
2248	OLIPHANT, Laurence	Minnesota and the Far West	Edinburgh	1855	USD -	Unknown
2249	OLIPHANT, Mrs.	Makers of Venice...	London		USD -	Unknown
2250	OLIVER, Andrew	View of Lower Canada...			USD -	Unknown
2251	OLIVER, Peter	The Puritan Commonwealth; an historical review of the Puritan government in Mass.	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
2252	OLMSTED, F. L.	Journey in the Seaboard Slave States	New York	1861	USD -	Unknown
2253	OMAR Khayyam	Quatrains from Omar Khayyam	Oxford	1901	USD -	Unknown
2254	O'MEARA, B. E.	Napoleon in Exile	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
2255		OPERA Glass (The); a musical and dramatic magazine	Boston	1894	USD -	Unknown
2256	OPPER, F.	Bill Nye's History of the United States	Phila.	1894	USD -	Unknown
2257	OPPER	Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes	Phila.	1890	USD -	Unknown
2258	O'REILLY, John Boyle	Songs, Legends and Ballads	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
2259	J. J. Roche	O'REILLY. Life of	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
2260		OSSIAN. Poems of Ossian	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
2261	William Tudor	OTIS, James. Life of	Boston	1823	USD -	Unknown
2262	OVID	Caroli Neapolis Anaptyxis ad P. Ovidii Nasonis, Libros VI, Fastorum	Antverpiae	1639	USD -	Unknown
2263		OVID'S Metamorphoses	London	1717	USD -	Unknown
2264	OVID	Metamorphoses...	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
2265	OWEN, Mary A.	Voodoo Tales; as told among the Negroes of the South-west	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
2266	PACKARD, A. S.	Guide to the Study of Insects	Salem	1868	USD -	Unknown
2267	PACKARD, A. S., Jr.	Half Hours with Insects	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
2268	PAGE, T. N.	Elsket, 1891...	New York		USD -	Unknown
2269	PAINE, Thomas	The American Crisis	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
2270	PAINE	The American Crisis and a Letter to Sir Guy Carleton on the Murder of Capt. Huddy	London		USD -	Unknown
2271	PAINE	The Bible Needs No Apology, etc.	Portsmouth	1796	USD -	Unknown
2272	PAINE	Rights of Man	London	1791	USD -	Unknown
2273	PAINE	PAINE. Writings of	Albany		USD -	Unknown
2274	PALFREY, J. G.	History of New England	Boston	1859	USD -	Unknown
2275	PALFREY	History of New England, 1689-1765	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
2276	PALMER, J. W.	Folk Songs	New York	1861	USD -	Unknown
2277	PALMER, P. S.	History of Lake Champlain, from Its Earliest Exploration by the French in 1609 to 1814	Albany	1866	USD -	Unknown
2278	PALTOCK, Robert	Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
2279	PALUSTRE, Leon	La Renaissance en France	Paris	1879	USD -	Unknown
2280		PARIS. Collection de Vues de Paris. Prises au Daguerreotype. Grave par Chamouin	Paris		USD -	Unknown
2281		PARIS. Mabille Unmasked; a lurid panorama of the night life of Paris	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
2282	W. B. Lapham and S. P. Maxim	PARIS, Me. History of	Paris	1884	USD -	Unknown
2283	PARKER, J. H.	Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
2284	John Weiss	PARKER, Theodore. Life and Correspondence of	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
2285	PARKMAN, Francis	PARKMAN, Francis. Works of	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
2286	PARKMAN	California and the Oregon Trail	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
2287	PARKMAN	Discovery of the Great West	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
2288	PARKMAN	Half Century of Conflict	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
2289	PARKMAN	History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the war of the North American tribes against the English colonies after the conquest of Canada	Boston	1851	USD -	Unknown
2290	PARKMAN	Jesuits of North America	Boston	1867	USD -	Unknown
2291	PARKMAN	Montcalm and Wolfe	Boston	1899	USD -	Unknown
2292	PARKMAN	Pioneers of France in the New World	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
2293	PARKMAN	Vassall Morton	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
2294	PARSONS, T. W.	The First Canticle (Inferno) of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri	Boston	1867	USD -	Unknown
2295	[PARSONS]	The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri	Boston	1843	USD -	Unknown
2296	J. T. Fields, Archibald Forbes and others	PARTON, James. Some Noted Princes, Authors and Statesmen of our Time	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
2297	PASQUIER	Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
2298		PASQUIN'S Comical Oration of Pope Clement the XI and the Romans upon the late dreadful inundations and earthquakes that have happened in Italy this present year 1703	London	1703	USD -	Unknown
2299	PATTON, J. H.	Concise History of the American People	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
2300	[PAULDING, J. K.]	Westward Ho	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
2301	C. H. Brainard	PAYNE, John Howard. A Biographical Sketch of the author of "Home, Sweet Home"	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
2302	PAYNE, Thomas	PAYNE, Thomas. Political and Theological Works of	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
2303	PECK, George	Wyoming; its history, stirring incidents, etc.	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
2304	Adams and Mackintosh	PELTIER. Trial of John Peltier for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, Feb. 21, 1803	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
2305	PENN, William	PENN, William. Collection of the Works of, to which is prefixed a journal of his life, with many original letters and papers, not before published	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
2306	Thomas Clarkson	PENN. Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of	Dover	1827	USD -	Unknown
2307	PENNANT, Thomas	Some Account of London	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
2308		PENNSYLVANIA. Coleman's Reprint of William Penn's original proposal and plan for the founding and building of Phila., Pa., in 1683	New London	1881	USD -	Unknown
2309		PENNSYLVANIA Magazine of History and Biography	Phila.	1877	USD -	Unknown
2310		PENNSYLVANIA. Minutes of the Provincial Council, 1683-1736	Harrisburg	1838	USD -	Unknown
2311	PEPPER, C. M.	PEPPER, C. M. To-morrow in Cuba	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
2312	Usher Parsons	PEPPERELL, Sir William. Life of	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
2313	PEPYS, Samuel	PEPYS, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence of	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
2314	PERCY	Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
2315	[PERCY, Thomas]	Relics of Ancient English Poetry	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
2316	PERCY	Relics of Ancient English Poetry	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2317	PERRY, G. G.	History of the Church of England	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
2318	J. N. Niles	PERRY, Oliver H. Life of; with biographical memoir of Capt. James Lawrence	Hartford	1821	USD -	Unknown
2319	PERRY, W. C.	Greek and Roman Sculpture	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
2320	Albert Smith	PETERBOROUGH, N. H. History of	Boston	1876	USD -	Unknown
2321	PETERS, Samuel	General History of Connecticut	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
2322	PETERSON, Edward	History of Rhode Island	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
2323	PETO, S. Morton	Resources and Prospects of America	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
2324	Mrs. Dobson	PETRARCH. Life of	London	1805	USD -	Unknown
2325	PETRIE, Alexander	A Compendious History of the Catholick Church, from 600 until the year 1600	Hague	1662	USD -	Unknown
2326	PEYRE, Roger	Napoleon I et Son Temps; histoire militaire, gouvernement interieur, lettres, sciences et arts	Paris	1888	USD -	Unknown
2327		PHALLIC Worship; fishes, flowers and fire as elements and Deities in the Phallic faith and worship of the ancient religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, etc.	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
2328	PHELAN, James	History of Tennessee; the making of a state	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
2329	J. F. Watson	PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Annals of	Phila.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2330	J. F. Watson	PHILADELPHIA. Annals of	Phila.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2331	D. W. Belisle	PHILADELPHIA. History of Independence Hall	Phila.	1859	USD -	Unknown
2332	F. D. Millet	PHILIPPINES. The Expedition to the Philippines	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
2333	Samuel Phillips	PHILLIPS. Massachusetts Election Sermon, May 30, 1750	Boston	1750	USD -	Unknown
2334	PHILLIPS	Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia C. Phillips, more particularly that part of it which relates to her marriage with an eminent Dutch Merchant	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
2335		PHILOBIBLION. A Monthly Bibliographical Journal, containing critical notices of, and extracts from rare, curious and valuable old books	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
2336		PICKERING'S Diamond Edition. Petrarca	Londra	1832	USD -	Unknown
2337		PICKERING'S Diamond Edition. Terence	Londini	1823	USD -	Unknown
2338	[PIERCE, Augustus]	The Rebelliad; or, terrible transactions at the seat of the muses, a poem	Cambridge	1863	USD -	Unknown
2339	PIGOTT, Grenville	Manual of Scandinavian Mythology	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
2340	PILSBURY, Parker	Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles	Concord	1883	USD -	Unknown
2341	PINELLI	Istoria Romana Inventata ed Incisa da Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1821	Roma		USD -	Unknown
2342	PIOZZI	Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi; a sketch of her life	New York (London)	1891	USD -	Unknown
2343		PIRATES. Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Notorious Pirates, their Trials and Executions, including correct accounts of those who were executed at Boston in 1835	Hartford	1836	USD -	Unknown
2344	Amasa Loring	PISCATAQUIS County, Me. History of	Portland	1880	USD -	Unknown
2345	PITKIN, Timothy	Political and Civil History of the United States of America	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
2346	PLANCHE, James R.	Cyclopaedia of Costumes; or, dictionary of dress	London		USD -	Unknown
2347		PLUTARCH'S Essays. Preface by A. P. Peabody	Boston	1881	USD -	Unknown

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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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.