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
600		CHARLESTOWN, S. C., in 1883	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
601	CHARLTON, E. A.	New Hampshire as It Is	Claremont	1855	USD -	Unknown
602	CHASE, Francis	Gathered Sketches from the Early History of N. H. and Vermont	Claremont	1856	USD -	Unknown
603	CHATTO, W. A.	Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
604	CHAUCER	Canterbury Tales of Chaucer	London	1741	USD -	Unknown
605	CHAUCER	CHAUCER. Poetical Works of	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
606	[CHENEY, Mrs. H. B.]	A Peep at the Pilgrims	Boston	1826	USD -	Unknown
607		CHESS Made Easy	Phila.	1802	USD -	Unknown
608	CHESTERFIELD, Earl of	Letters Written to His Son	London	1787	USD -	Unknown
609	CHESTERFIELD	CHESTERFIELD. Life of	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
610	CHEVALIER, Michael	Society, Manners and Politics in the United States	Boston	1839	USD -	Unknown
611	Rufus Blanchard	CHICAGO, Ill. Discovery and Conquest of the North-West	Wheaton	1881	USD -	Unknown
612	[CHILD, F. J.]	Four Old Plays	Cambridge	1848	USD -	Unknown
613	CHILD, F. S.	An Old New England Town	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
614	CHILD, Major John	New England's Jonas Cast up at London, 1647	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
615	CHILD, L. Maria	Letters from New York, First and 2nd series	New York	1843	USD -	Unknown
616	S. G. Brown	CHOATE, Rufus. Works of	Boston	1862	USD -	Unknown
617	E. G. Parker	CHOATE. Reminiscences of	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
618	W. A. Purrington	CHRISTIAN Science. An Exposition of Mrs. Eddy's Wonderful Discovery	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
619	CHRISTIE, James	Disquisitions upon the Painted Greek Vases and the Probable Connection with the Shows of the Eleusinian and other Mysteries	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
620	CHRISTIE, Robert	History of the Late Province of Lower Canada	Montreal	1866	USD -	Unknown
621	CHURCH, A. J.	The Chantry Priest of Barnet; a tale of the two Roses	New York (London)	1885	USD -	Unknown
622	CHURCH	Stories from Homer	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
623	CLAP, Nathaniel	Preacher of the Gospel at Newport, R. I. The Lord's Voice Crying to His People	Boston	1715	USD -	Unknown
624	CLAPP, Henry Jr.	The Pioneer	Lynn	1846	USD -	Unknown
625	CLAPP, W. W., Jr.	Record of the Boston Stage	Boston	1853	USD -	Unknown
626	CLARENDON, Edward (Earl of)	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...	Oxford	1826	USD -	Unknown
627	CLARK, E. L.	Daleth; Egypt Illustrated	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
628	CLARKE, J. B.	Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men	Manchester	1882	USD -	Unknown
629	CLARKE, Mary Cowden	My Long Life	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
630	CLARKE	Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke collected during a Captivity of more than Twenty Years among the Slave-Holders of Kentucky	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
631	CLAY, Henry	CLAY, Henry. Life and Speeches of	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
632	CLEMENS, S. L.	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
633	[CLEMENS]	Mark Twain's (burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
634	CLEMENS	Following the Equator	Hartford	1897	USD -	Unknown
635	CLEMENS	Life on the Mississippi	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
636	[CLEMENS, S. L.]	Punch, Brothers, Punch	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
637	CLEMENS, S. L.	A Tramp Abroad	Hartford	1880	USD -	Unknown
638	CLEMENS	A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
639	CLEMENT, Clara E.	Angels in Art	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
640	CLEMENT	Handbook of Christian Symbols	Boston	1886	USD -	Unknown
641	CLEMENT	History of Art	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
642	CLEMENT	Painters, Sculptors. Architects, Engravers and their Works, 1879...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
643	J. L. Whittle	CLEVELAND. Grover Cleveland (a biography)	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
644	CLEVELAND, John	CLEVELAND, John. Works of	London	1687	USD -	Unknown
645	[CLEVELAND, R. J.]	Voyages and Commercial Enterprises of the Sons of New England	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
646	CLOUSTON, W. A.	Flowers from a Persian Garden, and other Papers	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
647	CLOUSTON	Popular Tales and Fictions	New York (Edinburgh)	1887	USD -	Unknown
648	Cruikshank	CLUB of Odd Volumes. Works of George Cruikshank in Oil, Water-colors, Original Drawings, Etchings, Woodcuts, Lithographs and Glyphographs	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
649	Littlefield, George Emery	CLUB of Odd Volumes. Early Boston Booksellers, 1642-1711	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
650	CIBBER, Colley	CIBBER, Colley. Plays of	London	1721	USD -	Unknown
651	CIBBER	CIBBER. An Apology for the Life of	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
652	Conyers Middleton	CICERO, Marcus T. History of the Life of	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
653	ABBOTT, J. S. C.	History of the Civil War in America	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
654	BIGELOW, John	France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-68	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
655	BOKER, G. H.	Poems of the War	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
656	BROWNE, J. H.	Four Years in Secessia	Hartford	1865	USD -	Unknown
657		CAMPAIGNS of the Civil War	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
658		CONFEDERATE Etchings. Collection of etchings by Dr. A. J. Volck, Baltimore			USD -	Unknown
659		CONFEDERATE. "Fort-La-Fayette Life," 1863-64. Extracts from the "Right Flanker;" a MS. sheet circulated among the Southern prisoners in Fort-La-Fayette, 1863-64	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
660		CONFEDERATE. Public Laws of the State of North Carolina. Adjourned Session of 1863	Raleigh	1863	USD -	Unknown
661		CONFEDERATE. Public Laws of the State of North Carolina. Adjourned Session of 1864	Raleigh	1864	USD -	Unknown
662		CONFEDERATE. Virginia Primiere	Richmond	1864	USD -	Unknown
663	DAVIS, Jefferson	Rise and of the Confederate Government	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
664	DOUBLEDAY, Abner	Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie, 1860-66	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
665	Henry Coppee	GRANT and his Campaigns	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
666	GREELEY, Horace	The American Conflict	Hartford	1885	USD -	Unknown
667	JONES, J. B.	A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate State Capital	Phila.	1866	USD -	Unknown
668	HEADLEY, J. T.	The Great Rebellion	Hartford	1863	USD -	Unknown
669	W. H. Cudworth	MASSACHUSETTS First Regiment. History of	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
670	G. W. Powers	MASSACHUSETTS. 38th Regiment. Story of	Cambridge	1866	USD -	Unknown
671		NARRATIVE of the Privations and Sufferings of U. S. Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the hands of the Rebel Authorities	Phila.	1864	USD -	Unknown
672	STEPHENS, J. H.	Constitutional View of the late War between the States	Phila.	1868	USD -	Unknown
673	SWINTON, Wm.	Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-65	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
674	TOMES and Smith	The Great Civil War; a history of the late Rebellion	New York		USD -	Unknown
675	WAITE, O. F. R.	New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion	Claremont	1870	USD -	Unknown
676	WILSON, Henry	History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
677		CLUB of Odd Volumes. First and Tenth Anniversary Exhibitions	Boston	1889	USD -	Unknown
678	COATES, H. T.	Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry	Phila.	1881	USD -	Unknown
679	[COBBETT, William]	A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats; to which is prefixed a Rod for the Backs of the Critics	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
680	COBBETT	The Pride of Britannia Humbled; or, the Queen of the Ocean Unqueen'd "by the American Cock Boats"	Phila.	1815	USD -	Unknown
681	CODMAN, John	The Round Trip by way of Panama through California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, etc.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
682	COFFIN, Charles	History of the Battle of Breed's Hill	Portland	1835	USD -	Unknown
683	COFFIN, C. C.	Building the Nation...	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
684	COFFIN	Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times, 1769-1776	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
685	COLBURN, Jeremiah	Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
686	COLEMAN, George	Broad Grins	London		USD -	Unknown
687	COLERIDGE, S. T.	The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
688	COLLETTA, General Pietro	History of the Kingdom of Naples	Edinburgh	1858	USD -	Unknown
689	COLLIER, J. P.	Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
690	COLLIER	A Book of Roxburgh Ballads	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
691	COLLIER	The Poetical Decameron	Edinburgh	1820	USD -	Unknown
692	COLLIS, Mrs. C. H. T.	A Woman's Trip to Alaska	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
693		COLONIAL Monographs. The Quaker Colony...	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
694		COLUMBUS. Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America	Boston	1827	USD -	Unknown
695	Victor A. Searles	COLUMBUS. Life of Columbus in Pictures	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
696	J. C. Hutton	COMBE, William. Dr. Syntax's Three Tours	London		USD -	Unknown
697	J. C. Hotten	COMBE. Dr. Syntax's Three Tours; complete and unabridged, with a life of the author	London		USD -	Unknown
698	COMBE	The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque	New York		USD -	Unknown
699		COMBINAISON-Collection de l'Art Unique. Les Cinq Sens. Choisies par Georges Bebegi	Phila.	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.
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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