Parke Bernet: An important selection of incunabula, Americana, literary & scientific classics, duplicates from the Lilly Library, Indiana University, 2140,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 08, 1962 - November 08, 1962

Page Size: 149 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
001	ACOSTA, JOSE DE	Geographische und Historische Beschreibung der uberauss grosser Landtschafft America; welche auch West India . . . die New Welt genennet wirt. . .	Cologne	1598	USD -	2,000.00
002	ALTAMIRANO, DIEGO	[Caption title] Por Don Jvan de Benavides Bacan . . . General de la Flota de Nueva-Espana, con El senor Fiscal. Vignette on 1st page.	No place or date,	assigned by Palau to ca. 1650, possibly earlier	USD -	300.00
003	APOLLONIUS, LEVINUS	De Peruviae, Regionis, inter Noui Orbis prouincias celeberrimae, inuentione: & rebus in eadem gestis, libri V. . . . Breuis, exactaque Noui Orbis, & Peruuiae regionis chorographia. With folding map of North and South America.	Antwerp	1567	USD -	125.00
004	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America.	New York & Philadelphia	1840--1844	USD -	800.00
005	AVISI	Particolari delle Indie di Portugallo Riceuuti . . . 1551 & 1552 da li Reuere[n] di Padri de la Co[m]pagnia de Iesu. . . .	Rome	1552	USD -	350.00
006	BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion.	Plattsburgh, N.Y.	1833	USD -	400.00
007	BENZONI, GIROLAMO	Novae Novi Orbis Historiae . . . Libri Tres, Vrbani Calvetonis opera . . . Latini facti . . . adiuncta est, De Gallorum in Floridam expeditione . . . Brevis Historia.	[Geneva]	1581	USD -	275.00
008	BIBLE IN LATIN	Biblia Latina	Leipzig	1913--1914	USD -	900.00
009	BROCARDUS. AND PETER MARTYR	Descriptio Terrae Sanctae exactissima, autore Brocardo Monacho [and] . . . De Novis Insulis nuper repertis, & de moribus incolarum earundem, per Petrum Martyrem. . . .	Antwerp	1536	USD -	110.00
010	BRY, THEODORE DE	Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem. XXV Partibus Comprehensae a Theodoro, Joan-Theodoro de Bry, et a Matheo Merian Publicatae. [Petits Voyages in Latin]	Frankfurt	1598--1628	USD -	3,100.00
012	[BUTEL-DUMONT, G. M.]	Histoire et Commerce des Colonies Angloises, dans I'Amerique Septentrionale.	London and Paris	1755	USD -	60.00
013	CASAS, BARTOLOME DE LAS	A complete set of the nine famous tracts by Las Casas, "The Apostle to the Indians."	Seville	1552--1553	USD -	2,500.00
014	CASAS, BARTOLOME DE LAS	Tyrannies et Crvavtez des Espagnols, perpetrees es[sic] Indes Occidentales, qu'on dit le Nouueau Monde . . . traduites par Iaqves de Miggrode.	Paris	1582	USD -	180.00
015	CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE	II Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione.	Venice	1528	USD -	375.00
016	CHANNING, WALTER	A Treatise on Etherization in Childbirth.	Boston	1848	USD -	80.00
017	CHARLEVOIX, P. DE	Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal Historique d'un Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionnale.	Paris	1744	USD -	120.00
018	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	[The Canterbury Tales.]	[Westminster]	[1478]	USD -	47,500.00
019	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The workes of Geoffray Chaucer newly printed/with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere.	London	1532	USD -	1,200.00
020	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.	Hammersmith	1896	USD -	1,000.00
021	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	Troilus and Criseyde.	Waltham St. Lawrence	1927	USD -	325.00
022	COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER	De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis. [Preceded by] VERARDUS, CAROLUS. In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispania . . . obsidio victoria & triumphus.	Basel	1494	USD -	7,500.00
023	[COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER]	Psalterium, Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, et Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus et glossis.	Genoa	1516	USD -	350.00
024	[COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER.] ROBERTUS MONACHUS	Bellvm Christianorvm Principvm. . .contra Saracenos. . .Carolvs Verardus de expugnatione regni Granatae . . .Christophorus Colom de prima insulaium, in mari Indico sitarum, lustratione, quae sub rege Ferdinando Hispaniarum facta est. . . .	Basel	1533	USD -	250.00
025	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.	London	1895	USD -	60.00
026	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Chance. A Tale in Two Parts.	London	[1913]	USD -	600.00
027	CONRAD, JOSEPH, AND FORD M. HUEFFER	The Inheritors An Extravagant Story.	New York	1901	USD -	25.00
028	COPERNICUS, NICOLAUS	De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI.	Nuremberg	1543	USD -	11,000.00
029	CORTES, HERNANDO	Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio.	Nuremberg	1524	USD -	2,900.00
030	CORTES, HERNANDO	Tertia Ferdinandi Cortesii . . . Narratio.	Nuremberg	1524	USD -	850.00
031	CORTES, HERNANDO	De Insulis nvper inventis . . . ad Carolum V . . . Narrationes . . . Epistolae duae, de felicissimo apud Indios Evangelii incremento . . . Epitome de inuentis nuper Indiae populis idolatris . . .	Cologne	1532	USD -	750.00
032	CORTES, HERNANDO	Von dem Newe [n] Hispanien . . .	Augsburg	1550	USD -	80.00
033	COTUGNO, DOMENICO	De Ischiade Nervosa Commentarivs.	Naples	1764	USD -	300.00
034	DALTON, JOHN	A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I, 1808. Part II, 1810. Part I of Vol. II, 1827.	Manchester	1808--1827	USD -	1,800.00
035	DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.	London	1859	USD -	600.00
036	DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM	The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the press: now published out of the authors original copies.	London	1673	USD -	70.00
037	DAWSON, MOSES	A Historical Narrative of the Civil and Military Services of Major-General William H. Harrison . . .	Cincinnati	1824	USD -	90.00
038	DEFOE, DANIEL	A Journal of the Plague Year . . . Never made publick before.	London	1722	USD -	200.00
039		DESCRIPTION EXACTE De tout ce qui s'est passe dans les Guerres Entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Estats des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & L'Evesque de Munster. Commencant de l'An 1664. & finissant avec la conclusion de Paix, faite a Breda	Amsterdam	1668	USD -	70.00
040		DICTA PHILOSOPHORUM, in the French Version of GUILLAUME DE TIGNONVILLE: Les dicts moraulz des philosophes.	Bruges	[c. 1477]	USD -	48,500.00
041	DOVES PRESS	The English Bible.	Hammersmith	1903--1905	USD -	375.00
042	DRAKE, DANIEL	A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America . . .	Cincinnati	1850	USD -	200.00
043	DUMAS, ALEXANDER (1802--1870)	Les Trois Mousquetaires.	Paris	1844	USD -	450.00
044	ELIOT, JOHN, TRANSLATOR	Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament . . .	Cambridge	1663, 1661	USD -	10,500.00
045	EUCLID	Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi in artem Geometrie incipit . . . Diagrams.	Venice	1482	USD -	1,700.00
046	EXQUEMELIN, A. C.	The Historie of the Bucaniers . . . made English from the Dutch copy . . .	London	1684	USD -	25.00
047	FEDERMANN, NICOLAUS	Indianische Historia. Ein Schoene kurtzweilige Historia Niclaus Federmanns des Juengern von Ulm erster raise so er von Hispania und Andalosia auss in Indias des Occeanischen Moers gethan hat. . . .	Hagenau	1557	USD -	3,400.00
048	[FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDES, GONZALO]	L'histoire de la Terre Nevve dv Peru en l'Inde Occidentale, qui est la principale mine d'or du monde . . . Traduitte d'Italien en Francoys.	Paris	1545	USD -	500.00
049	FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDES, GONZALO	Coronica de las Indias. La hystoria general de las Indias. . . . [Together with] FRANCISCO DE XERES. Conquista del Peru.	Salamanca	1547	USD -	1,300.00
050	FERNANDEZ PIEDRAHITA, LUCAS	Historia General de las Conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada . . . Primera Parte [all published].	Antwerp	1688	USD -	325.00
051	[FITZGERALD, EDWARD]	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse.	London	1859	USD -	3,700.00
052	FLAMINIUS, JOHN ANTHONY (i.e. ZARRABINI DE COLIGNOLA)	Epistola ad Paulum III . . . eiusdem belli recentis Aphricani descriptio . . . eiusdem de quibusdam memorabilibus novi Orbis nuper ad nos transmissis. . . .	Bologna	1536	USD -	250.00
053	FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	Salammbo.	Paris	1863	USD -	90.00
054	FLOREZ DE OCARIZ, JUAN	Libro Primero [Segundo] de las genealogias del Nuevo Reyno de Granada.	Madrid	1674	USD -	225.00
055	GALILEI, GALILEO	Dialogo . . . sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano.	Florence	1632	USD -	1,100.00
056	GALILEI, GALILEO	Discorsi e Dimostrazioni mathematiche intorno a due nuoue scienze Attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali.	Leyden	1638	USD -	1,300.00
057	[GALSWORTHY, JOHN]	Jocelyn by John Sinjohn.	London	1898	USD -	80.00
058	GIRAVA, JERONIMO	Dos Libros de Cosmographia.	Milan	1556	USD -	5,500.00
059	GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON	Faust. Eine Tragodie von Goethe.	Tubingen	1808	USD -	325.00
060	GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON	Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden. Ein Roman von Goethe. Erster Theil [all published].	Stuttgart and Tubingen	1821	USD -	150.00
061	GONZALEZ DAVILA, GIL	Teatro Eclesiastico de la Primitiva Iglesia de las Indias Occidentales, vidas de sus Arzobispos, Obispos, y cosas memorables de sus sedes. . . .	Madrid	1649	USD -	475.00
062	GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA, JUAN	Histoire dv Grand Royavme de la Chine . . . trois voyages . . . en l'an 1577, 1579 & 1581 . . . ensemble vn Itineraire du Nouueau Monde, & le descouurement du nouueau Mexique en l'an 1583.	Paris	1588	USD -	110.00
063	GRAY, ASA	Elements of Botany.	New-York	1836	USD -	225.00
064	GRAY, HENRY	Anatomy, descriptive and surgical.	London	1858	USD -	500.00
065	GREW, NEHEMIAH	The Anatomy of Plants with an Idea of the Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other lectures read before the Royal Society.	London	1682	USD -	225.00
066	[GRYNAEUS, SIMON]	Novvs Orbis Regionvm ac Insvlarvm . . . cum tabula cosmographica.	Basel	March 1532	USD -	900.00
067	[GRYNAEUS, SIMON]	Novvs Orbis Regionum ac Insvlarvm . . . cum tabula cosmographica.	Basel	1537 [at end: 1536]	USD -	325.00
068	HAGGARD, SIR RIDER	She: A History of Adventure.			USD -	75.00
069	HAKLUYT, RICHARD	The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres. . . .	London	1598--1600	USD -	900.00
070	HALES, STEPHEN	Vegetable Staticks; or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap of Vegetables. . . .	London	1727	USD -	45.00
071	HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, ET AL.	The Federalist: A Collection of Essays. . . .	New-York	1788	USD -	725.00
072	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	The Old Man and the Sea.	New York	1952	USD -	300.00
073	HENNEPIN, FATHER LOUIS	Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres Grand Pays Situe dans l'Amerique entre Le Nouveau Mexique et La Mer Glaciale. . . .	Utrecht	1697	USD -	625.00
074	HENNEPIN, FATHER LOUIS	Aenmerckelycke Historische Reys-Beschryvinge door verscheyde Landen veel grooter als die van geheel Europe onlaughs ontdeckt. . .	Utrecht	1698	USD -	80.00
075	HERRERA TORDESILLAS, ANTONIO DE	Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano.	Madrid	1601--1615	USD -	850.00
076	HERRERA TORDESILLAS, ANTONIO DE	Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano. . . .	Madrid	1726--1730	USD -	275.00
077	HILL, SIR ROWLAND	Post Office Reform; Its Importance and Practicability. At head of title: Private and confidential.	London	1837	USD -	500.00
078	HOUSMAN, A. E.	A Shropshire Lad.	London	1896	USD -	225.00
079	HOUSMAN, A. E.	“O thou that from thy mansion. . . .''	[Cambridge]	4 May 1936	USD -	80.00
080	HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN	Traite de la Lumiere. Ou sont expliquees Les causes de ce qui luy arrive Dans la Reflexion, & dans la Refraction. Et particulierement dans l'etrange Refraction dv cristal d'Islande. . . .	Leyden	1690	USD -	700.00
081	IBSEN, HENRIK	Four plays, in first edition form, as below			USD -	100.00
082	IRVING, WASHINGTON, AND OTHERS	Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others.	New York	1807--1808	USD -	2,000.00
083	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.	London	1755	USD -	440.00
084	JOUTEL, HENRI	A Journal of the Last Voyage perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the Mouth of the Missisipi River....	London	1714	USD -	400.00
085	LE CLERCQ, CHRESTIEN	Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, qui contient Les Moeurs & la Religion des Sauvages Gaspesiens Porte-Croix, adorateurs du Soleil, & d'autres Peuples de l'Amerique Septentrionale, dite le Canada.	Paris	1691	USD -	225.00
086	LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM	Nathan der Weise. Ein Dramatisches Gedicht, in Funf Aufzugen.	[Berlin]	1779	USD -	80.00
087	LOCKE, JOHN	An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books.	London	1690	USD -	1,000.00
088	LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO	La Historia General de las Indias....	Antwerp	1554	USD -	175.00
089	MARTYR, PETER	De Orbe Nouo Decades.	Alcala	1516	USD -	3,500.00
090	MARTYR, PETER	De nvper svb D, Carolo repertis Insulis, simulque incolarum moribus, R. Petri Martyris, Enchiridion.	Basel	1521	USD -	500.00
091	MARTYR, PETER	De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe Nouo decades tres...eivsdem Legationis Babylonicae Libri tres...	Basel	1533	USD -	200.00
092	MARTYR, PETER, and GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO	Libro Primo (Secondo & Ultimo) della Historia de l'Indie Occidentali.	Venice	1534	USD -	275.00
093	[MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS AND F. A. PIGAFETTA]	Il Viaggio fatto da gli Spagnivoli a torno a'l mondo.	[Venice?]	1536	USD -	2,400.00
094	MEDINA, PEDRO	L'Arte del Navegar.	Venice	1554	USD -	300.00
095	MELA, POMPONIUS	De Orbis Sitv Libri tres...cum Commentariis Joachimi Vadiani.	Basel	1522	USD -	425.00
096	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Renascence and Other Poems.	New York	1917	USD -	110.00
097	MONTALBODDO, FRACANZANO	Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde in Occidentem et demum ad Aquilonem.	Milan	1508	USD -	1,300.00
098	[MONTALBODDO, FRACANZANO]	Newe vnbekanthe landte und ein newe weldte...erfunden.	Nuremberg	1508	USD -	900.00
099	[MONTALBODDO, FRACANZANO]	Paesi nouamente ritrouati per la Nauigatione di Spagna in Calicut. Et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino intitulato Mondo Nouo. Nouamente Impresso.	Venice	1521	USD -	400.00
100	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Parnassus on Wheels.	Garden City	1917	USD -	60.00
101	NEW TESTAMENT IN ENGLISH	The four Gospels of Jesus Christ.	Waltham St. Lawrence	1931	USD -	225.00

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.