Parke Bernet: George Washington's copy of Chesterfield's Letters (three volumes autographed, four with bookplates). Keats' Poems and Lamia, Superb Copies in Original Boards. First Editions Color Plate and other Books, Property of A New York Lady. Important Autograph Le, 272,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 02, 1941 - April 02, 1941
Page Size: 675 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT The Comic History of England, 2 vols., 1847-8; The Comic History of Rome [1852]. London

1847[-52]

USD - 27.50
2 [ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH] The Microcosm of London. London

[1808-12]

USD - 155.00
3 [ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH] A Complete Series of Ackermann's University, College and Abbey Series. London

1812-16

USD - 210.00
4 ADAMS, JOHN, Second President and Signer from Massachusetts A. L. s. Amsterdam

1781

USD - 45.00
5 ADAMS, JOHN Q., Sixth President A. L. s. Washington

1830

USD - 7.50
6 AESOP'S FABLES. [The] Fables of Aesop. With a Life of the Author. London

[1793]

USD - 19.00
7 [AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H.] Jack Sheppard. London

[1840]

USD - 10.00
8 AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H. Guy Fawkes. London

1841

USD - 12.50
9 AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H. Old St. Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire. London

1847

USD - 12.50
10 AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H. The Historical Romances of William Harrison Ainsworth. Philadelphia

n. d.

USD - 110.00
11 ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Little Women. Part Second, 1869; A Garland for Girls, 1888; Comic Tragedies, 1893; Aunt Jo's Scrap- ... Boston

v. d.

USD - 7.50
12 ALDINE EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS, THE. London

1853 etc.

USD - 27.50
13 Lucius Apuleius ALDINE PRESS. Metamorphoseos . . . Venice

1521

USD - 22.50
14 ALDINE PRESS. Demosthenis Orationes. Venetiis

1554

USD - 32.50
15 ALDRICH, THOMAS B. The Story of a Bad Boy. Boston

1870

USD - 60.00
16 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Moments of Fancy. London

1823

USD - 17.50
17 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and ... London

1821-2

USD - 12.50
18 [Charles J. Apperley] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. London

1837

USD - 17.50
19 [Charles J. Apperley] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Life of a Sportsman. London

1842

USD - 25.00
20 [Robert S. Surtees] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London

1840

USD - 16.00
21 ALMANAC. Greenleaf's New York, Connecticut & New Jersey Almanack, for . . . 1801. Brooklyn

[1800]

USD - 9.00
22 ALMANACH HISTORIQUE DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCOIS. Pour l'Annee 1792. Paris

[1791]

USD - 13.00
23 ALMANACH ROYAL. Annee Bissextile M. DCC. LIII. Paris

[1753]

USD - 55.00
24 ALSTON, JOSEPH, Governor of South Carolina A. L., unsigned. Georgetown

1809

USD - Unknown
25 ALSTON, ROBERT F. W., Governor of South Carolina Autograph Manuscript. Signed.

Circa, 1847

USD - 4.00
26 AMERICAN AUTHORS. The Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow), Boston, 1855, First Issue; The Marble Faun ( ...

USD - 7.50
27 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York, 1897; New York as Washington Knew It after the Revolution, 1905 ... New York

1897-1905

USD - 10.00
28 ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. London

1897

USD - 35.00
29 ARISTOPHANES Aristophanis comoediae novem. Venice

1498

USD - 225.00
30 ARISTOPHANES The Eleven Comedies. New York

1928

USD - 15.00
31 ARNOLD'S TRIAL. William Floyd's Copy. Proceedings of a General Court Martial of the line, held at ... Philadelphia

1780

USD - 160.00
32 ARTHUR, CHESTER A., Twenty-First President A. L. s. New York

1862

USD - 19.00
33 ASCHAM, ROGER The Scholemaster. At London

1570

USD - 70.00
34 Dante Alighieri ASHENDENE PRESS. Lo Inferno. [Chelsea]

1902

USD - 47.50
35 AUSTEN, JANE The Novels of Jane Austen. Edinburgh

1906

USD - 35.00
36 AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES, ETC. Album containing about 125 autograph signatures, and a few A.L.s., of ...

USD - 17.50
37 BACHELLER, IRVING D'ri and I, Boston [1901]; Silas Strong. N. Y., 1906; Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing, N. Y., 1907 ...

USD - 4.00
38 David Grayson [BAKER, RAY STANNARD.] Adventures in Friendship. Garden City

1910

USD - 3.00
39 BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE, THE (Dobson), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1892; second issue; Strange ... London

1861-92

USD - Unknown
40 BALZAC, HONORE DE La Comedie Humaine of Honore de Balzac. Philadelphia

[1896]

USD - 105.00
41 BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First. Philadelphia

1799

USD - 27.50
42 BASAN, P. F. Recueil d'Estampes gravees d'apres les Tableaux du Cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul par les ... Paris

1771

USD - 35.00
43 BEACH, REX E. The Spoilers, N. Y., 1906; The Silver Horde, N. Y., 1909; The Begum's Daughter (Bynner), Boston ...

USD - 7.50
44 [BEATTY, A. CHESTER] The Library of A. Chester Beatty. [London]

1927-30

USD - 47.50
45 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and JOHN FLETCHER Cupids Revenge. London

1635

USD - 10.00
46 BELL, ALEXANDER G., Inventor A. L. s. Salem, Massachusetts

1874

USD - 7.50
47 BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER Le Cahier Jaune. Poems. Eton

1892

USD - 3.00
48 BEWICK, THOMAS History of British Birds. Newcastle

1797-1804

USD - 9.00
49 A. F. Barbie du Bocage BIBLE. La Sainte Bible en Latin et en Francais, suivie de Dictionnaires Etymologique, Archeologique ... Paris

1828-34

USD - 12.50
50 F. O. Morris BIRDS. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London

1875

USD - 7.50
51 BIRDS. Catalogue of Canadian Birds (Macoun), Ottawa, 1909; The English Sparrow (Passer Domesticus ...

USD - 7.50
52 BLACK BOOK, THE. The Black Book; or, Corruption Unmasked. London

1828

USD - 5.00
53 Robert Blair [BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Grave. London

1808

USD - 9.00
54 BOETHIUS, ANICIUS M.T.S. Boetivs de Consolatinae philosophiae. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or ... [London]

1556

USD - 55.00
55 BONNEVILLE, FRANCOIS Portraits des Personnages Celebres de la Revolution avec Tableau Historique et Notices de P. Quenard ... Paris

1796-7

USD - 12.50
56 BOONE, DANIEL, Frontiersman A. D. s.

1786

USD - 40.00
57 [BORROW, GEORGE] Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence from the Earliest Records to the ... London

1825

USD - 75.00
58 BORROW, GEORGE The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt ... London

1843

USD - Unknown
59 BORUWALSKI, JOSEPH Memoirs of Count Boruwalski: containing a Sketch of his Travels, with an Account of his Reception at ... Durham

1820

USD - 4.00
60 BOSSCHERE ILLUSTRATIONS. Ten Droll Tales (Balzac), 1926; Love Books (Ovid), 1925; Golden Asse ( ... London

v. d.

USD - 45.00
61 [BOSWELL, JAMES] A Summary of the Speeches, Arguments, and Determinations of the Right Honourable the Lords of ... London

1767

USD - 35.00
62 [BOSWELL, JAMES] Ode by Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their supposed approaching Nuptials. London

1784 [actually 1788]

USD - 25.00
63 BOSWELL, JAMES The Life of Samuel Johnson. London

1791

USD - 70.00
64 BOSWELL, JAMES The Life of Samuel Johnson . . . London

1839

USD - 7.00
65 BOSWELL, JAMES The Life of Samuel Johnson. London

1901

USD - Unknown
66 BOURBON FAMILY OF FRANCE.

USD - Unknown
67 BOURGEOIS, EMILE France under Louis XIV (Le Grand Siecle), its Arts, its Ideas. New York

1897

USD - Unknown
68 BOURRIENNE, LOUIS A. F. DE Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. London

1836

USD - Unknown
69 Cuthbert Bede [BRADLEY, EDWARD.] Glencreggan. London

1861

USD - Unknown
70 BRIDGES, ROBERT Ode for the Bicentenary Commemoration of Henry Purcell, with other Poems and a Preface on the ... London

1896

USD - Unknown
71 BRIGHAM, ELIJAH, Representative from Massachusetts A. L. s. Washington

1812

USD - Unknown
72 BROOKE, RUPERT 1914 and Other Poems. London

1915

USD - Unknown
73 Currer Bell [BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.] The Professor. A Tale. London

1857

USD - Unknown
74 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, EMILY, AND ANNE Novels of the Bronte Sisters. Edinburgh

1905

USD - Unknown
75 BROWNE, HABLOT K. [Hunting Bits.] [London]

[1862]

USD - Unknown
76 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. London

1658

USD - Unknown
77 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS Works. London

1928-31

USD - Unknown
78 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT A. L. s. Elisabeth B. Barrett. Wimpole Street

1842

USD - 15.00
79 [BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT] Poems. London

1844

USD - 9.00
80 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Aurora Leigh. London

1857

USD - 25.00
81 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Poems Before Congress. London

1860

USD - 30.00
82 BROWNING, ROBERT Dramatis Personae. London

1864

USD - 7.00
83 BROWNING, ROBERT The Ring and the Book. London

1868-9

USD - 5.00
84 BROWNING, ROBERT The Flight of the Duchess. [London]

[1905]

USD - Unknown
85 BUCHANAN, JAMES, Fifteenth President A. L. s. Wheatland

1849

USD - Unknown
86 BURNETT, FRANCIS H. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York

1886

USD - Unknown
87 James Mylne [BURNS, ROBERT.] Poems, consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, and Two Tragedies. Edinburgh

1790

USD - Unknown
88 BURNS, ROBERT Works. London

1802

USD - Unknown
89 BURNS, ROBERT Works. London

1891

USD - Unknown
90 BURTON, HENRY The Grand Impostor Unmasked. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
91 [BURTON, ROBERT] The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford

1621

USD - 30.00
92 BUTLER, SAMUEL Hudibras. London

1793

USD - 6.00
93 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated. Newark

1807

USD - 15.00
94 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD The Corsair, A Tale. London

1814

USD - 8.00
95 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD The Corsair, a Tale. London

1814

USD - 7.00
96 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD Hebrew. Melodies, 1815; Marino Faliero, 1821. London

1815-21

USD - 12.50
97 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD The Prisoner of Chillon, 1816; Mazeppa, 1819. London

1816-9

USD - 12.50
98 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD Don Juan [Cantos I and II], 1 vol., 4to, 1819; Don Juan [Cantos I to XVI], 6 vols., 8vo, 1819-24. London

1819-24

USD - 65.00
99 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD The Island, or Christian and his Comrades, 1823; The Parliamentary Speeches of Lord Byron, 1824. London

1823-4

USD - 5.00
100 Thomas Moore BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD. The Works of Lord Byron: with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by ... London

1832-3

USD - 27.50
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