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
101	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	The Poetical Works of A Lord Byron. A New Edition.	London	1879	USD -	20.00
102	CALVIN, JOHN	An Abridgement of the Institvtion of Christian Religion, written by M. Ihon Caluin. . . .	Edinburgh	1585	USD -	190.00
103	CAREY, DAVID	Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity ...	London	1822	USD -	17.50
104	CAREY, HENRY	Poems on Several Occasions.	London	1729	USD -	4.00
105	CALYLE, THOMAS	Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations.	London	1845-6	USD -	4.00
106	CARLYLE, THOMAS	Thomas Carlyle's Complete Works.	London	1870-2	USD -	35.00
107	CARLYLE, THOMAS	The Works of Thomas Carlyle.	New York	n. d.	USD -	27.50
108	CARROLL, LEWIS	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.	London	1866	USD -	85.00
109	CARROLL, LEWIS	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.	London	1866	USD -	70.00
110	CARROLL, LEWIS	Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.	London	1872	USD -	5.00
111	CARROLL, LEWIS	Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.	London	1872	USD -	10.00
112	CARROLL, LEWIS	Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893.	London	1889-93	USD -	30.00
113	CARROLL, LEWIS	The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case; [also] Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing, Oxford ...	Oxford	1890	USD -	4.00
114		CASE OF THE PLANTERS OF TOBACCO IN VIRGINIA, London, 1773; Account of the European Settlements in ...			USD -	22.50
115	E. Cordon Duff	[CAXTON, WILLIAM.] William Caxton.	Chicago	1905	USD -	37.00
116	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	1819	USD -	35.00
117	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	1837-9	USD -	10.00
118	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.	London	1879-84	USD -	77.50
119	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha, 4 vols.; Miguel de Cervantes, his Life & Works ( ...	London	1895	USD -	4.00
120	CHAPMAN, GEORGE, and JAMES SHIRLEY	The Tragedie of Chabot Admirall of France.	London	1639	USD -	5.00
121		CHARLES I. Basilika. The Workes of King Charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations ...	London	1662	USD -	10.00
122		CHARLES II. (Airy), London, 1901; Josephine (Masson), Paris, 1899.	V. p.	1899-1901	USD -	10.00
123	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	Workes.	London	1602	USD -	12.50
124	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer.	London	1913	USD -	115.00
125	CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANDHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD	Miscellaneous Works . . .	London	1777	USD -	7.00
126	[CHETHAM, JAMES]	The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, A Compendious, yet full, Discourse of Angling.	London	1681	USD -	8.00
127	CHODERLOS DE LACLOS, P. A. F.	Les Liaisons Dangereuses.	Paris	1929	USD -	15.00
128		CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC ENVELOPES. A Collection of 41 unused Envelopes of the Civil War with Portraits ( ...		1860-4	USD -	11.00
129	CLAY, HENRY	Works.	New York	1904	USD -	22.50
130	[CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]	The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, 1900, inscribed by Merle Johnson; The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, 1893 ...	New York	1893-1909	USD -	7.50
131	CLEVELAND, GROVER, Twenty-Second President	A. L. s.	Washington	1885	USD -	7.00
132	COLDEN, CADWALLADER	The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which are dependent On the Province of New-York in ...	London	1747	USD -	5.00
133	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T.	Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep.	London	1816	USD -	120.00
134	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T.	Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep.	London	1816	USD -	20.00
135	F. C. J. Fischer	COLERIDGE'S COPY, SAMUEL T. De Prima Expeditione Attilae Regis Hvnnorvm in Gallias . . .	Lipsiae	1780	USD -	6.00
136	P. S. Pallas	COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years ...	London	1812	USD -	22.50
137		COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815 ...	London	[1815]	USD -	37.50
138		COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and ...	London	[1818]	USD -	50.00
139	Samuel Butler	COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Hudibras, A Poem. With Notes, selected from Grey and other Authors: To ...	London	1819	USD -	14.00
140	[George H. Mason]	COLORED COSTUME PLATES. The Punishments of China. With Explanations in English and French.	London	1801	USD -	17.50
141	[Edward Harding]	COLORED COSTUME PLATES, Costume of the Russian Empire.	London	1810	USD -	17.50
142		COLORED COSTUME PLATES. A collection of fine Costume Works.	London	v. d.	USD -	90.00
143		COLORED PLATES. The Looking-Glass; or, Caricature Annual, 1830. Vol. I, nos. 1-12.	London	1831	USD -	30.00
144		COLORED PORTRAITS. A Series of the Kings and Queens of England, from Egbert to George III.	London	1817	USD -	22.50
145		COLORED PORTRAITS. A collection of 21 colored portraits of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II ...	[London]	[1833]	USD -	Unknown
146	[COMBE, WILLIAM]	The Life of Napoleon.	London	1815	USD -	22.50
147	[COMBE, WILLIAM, and W. H. PYNE]	The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the ...	London	1816	USD -	90.00
148	[COMBE, WILLIAM]	The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis.	London	1820	USD -	12.50
149	[COMBE, WILLIAM]	The [First] Second and Third Tour[s] of Doctor Syntax.	London	1855	USD -	12.50
150		COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer.	New York	1893	USD -	10.00
151		CONFEDERATE BROADSIDE POEM. New-Year's Address of the carrier of The Patriot & Mountaineer. January ...	[Greensboro, N. C.]	[1864]	USD -	7.50
152	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Chance; Lord Jim; Youth; Victory; and other works by Conrad.	Garden City	1926	USD -	47.50
153	COOPER, C. S., and W. PERCIVAL WESTELL	Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles, Native & Acclimatised.	London	1909	USD -	3.00
154	COOPER, JAMES F.	A portion of Chapter 6 of the Original Manuscript of The Prairie.			USD -	120.00
155	COOPER, JAMES F.	A portion of Chapter 10 of the Original Manuscript of The Water-Witch.			USD -	80.00
156	COOPER, JAMES F.	3 A. D. s.		1822 and 1822	USD -	80.00
157	COOPER, JAMES F.	D. s. by James Cooper and Charles Wiley.		1825	USD -	110.00
158	COOPER, JAMES F.	A. L. s.	Rome	1830	USD -	65.00
159	COOPER, JAMES F.	Autograph Copy of a Letter, unsigned.	Paris	1831	USD -	30.00
160	COOPER, JAMES F.	A. L. s.	New York	1833	USD -	30.00
161	COOPER, JAMES F.	A. L. s.	Cooperstown	1836	USD -	35.50
162	[COOPER, JAMES F.]	The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground; referring to some particular occurrences during the American ...	London	1822	USD -	5.00
163		COTTON'S COPY, CHARLES. Poems, With the Muses Looking-Glass, and Amyntas.	London	1664	USD -	10.00
164	CRASHAW, RICHARD	Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with The Delights of the Muses.	London	1648	USD -	25.00
165	CRISP, FRANK	Medieval Gardens.	London	[1924]	USD -	16.00
166	CROMWELL, OLIVER	Broadside proclamation Prohibiting the Disturbing of Ministers and other Christians in their ...	London	1654	USD -	3.00
167	CROWNE, JOHN	The Countrey Wit.	London	1675	USD -	7.00
168	CROWNE, JOHN	City Politiques.	London	1683	USD -	6.00
169		CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. The Humorist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes ...	London	1819-20	USD -	Unknown
170		CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. The Humorist: A Collection of entertaining Tales, Anecdotes ...	London	1822, 1819, 1819, 1820	USD -	Unknown
171	David Carey	CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick ...	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
172	William H. Ainsworth	CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. The Tower of London. A Historical Romance.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
173	William H. Ainsworth	CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. Windsor Castle. New Edition.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
174	William H. Ainsworth	CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. Windsor Castle. An Historical Romance. New Edition.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
175		CURRIER AND IVES. The Express Train.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
176		CURRIER AND IVES. The Route to California. Truckee River Sierra-Nevada.	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
177		CURRIER AND IVES. Through to the Pacific.	New York	1870	USD -	Unknown
178		CURRIER AND IVES. Central Park, the Drive.	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
179		CURRIER AND IVES. The Grand Drive, Central Park N. Y.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
180		CURRIER AND IVES. The Road, -- Summer.	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
181		CURRIER AND IVES. The Road, -- Winter.		1853	USD -	Unknown
182		CURRIER AND IVES. Sunday Morning. In the Olden Time.	New York	undated	USD -	Unknown
183		CURRIER AND IVES. Summer Shades.	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
184		CURRIER AND IVES. Sunnyside. The Residence of the late Washington Irving, near Tarrytown, N. Y.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
185		CURRIER AND IVES. Winter Morning. Feeding the Chickens.	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
186		CURRIER AND IVES. American Feathered Game. Mallard and Canvas Back Ducks.	New York	1854(?)	USD -	Unknown
187		CURRIER AND IVES. American Field Sports. A chance for both barrels.	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
188		CURRIER AND IVES. The Celebrated Trotting Stallion Woodford Mambrino.	New York	1787	USD -	Unknown
189		CURRIER AND IVES. Fox-Hunting: The Meet; The Find; Full Cry; The Death.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
190		CURRIER AND IVES. James Hammill, and Walter Brown, in their Great Five Mile Rowing Match for $4,000 ...	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
191		CURRIER AND IVES. Mating -- In the Woods. Ruffed Grouse.	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
192		CURRIER AND IVES. More Frightened than Hurt.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
193		CURRIER AND IVES. On a Point.		1855	USD -	Unknown
194		CURRIER AND IVES. On a Point.		1855	USD -	Unknown
195		CURRIER AND IVES. The Return from the Woods.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
196		CURRIER AND IVES. The Wounded Bittern.	New York	Undated	USD -	Unknown
197		CURRIER AND IVES. Clipper Ship Adelaide. Off Sandy Hook, Hove to for a Pilot.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
198		CURRIER AND IVES. Discharging the Pilot.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
199		CURRIER AND IVES. The Great Ocean Yacht Race. Between the Henrietta, Fleetwing & Vesta. The Good ...	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
200		CURRIER AND IVES. A Choice Bouquet.	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown

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