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
201 CURRIER AND IVES. Mother's Wing.

1866

USD - Unknown
202 CURRIER AND IVES. Sale of the Pet Lamb. New York

Undated

USD - Unknown
203 CURRIER AND IVES. The Soldiers Dream of Home.

Undated

USD - Unknown
204 CURRIER AND IVES.

1852 and 1868

USD - Unknown
205 COLORED TROTTING PRINT. Going to the Trot. New York

1870

USD - Unknown
206 NEW YORK. New York from Heights near Brooklyn.

1828

USD - Unknown
207 NEW YORK. New York from Weehawk. New York, Bourne

USD - Unknown
208 WHALING. Original Watercolor Drawing of a Whaling Scene.

USD - Unknown
209 WHALING. Les Glaces. Paris

USD - Unknown
210 WHALING. Sperm Whaling and its Varieties. Boston

1870

USD - Unknown
211 WHALING. Sperm Whaling: No. 1. -- The Chase; No. 2. -- The Capture.

1859 and 1862

USD - Unknown
212 WHALING. Sperm Whaling. No. 2. The Conflict. New Bedford

1858

USD - Unknown
213 WHALING. Northern Whale Fishery. London

1829

USD - Unknown
214 CUSTIS, JOHN PARKE Autograph Manuscript of his Latin exercises in Roman history.

[1772]

USD - Unknown
215 DANIEL, SAMUEL The First Part of the Historie of England. London

1612

USD - Unknown
216 DARWIN, CHARLES The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. London

1868

USD - Unknown
217 DECKER, THOMAS AND JOHN WEBSTER North-Ward Hoe. London

1607

USD - Unknown
218 [DEFOE, DANIEL] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Engraved frontispiece, 1719; The ... London

1719-20

USD - Unknown
219 DEKKER, THOMAS The Wonder of A Kingdome. London

1636

USD - Unknown
220 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS Collected Writings. Edinburgh

1889-90

USD - Unknown
221 DIBDIN, THOMAS F. Utopia; written . . . by the Right Worthy and Famous Sir Thomas More. London

1808

USD - Unknown
222 DICKENS, CHARLES The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London

1836-7

USD - 70.00
223 DICKENS, CHARLES Master Humphrey's Clock. London

1840-1

USD - 30.00
224 DICKENS, CHARLES Master Humphrey's Clock. London

1840-1

USD - 15.00
225 DICKENS, CHARLES The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London

1843-4

USD - 35.00
226 DICKENS, CHARLES A Christmas Carol, 1843; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846; The Haunted Man, 1848; a few small cover ... London

1843-8

USD - 12.50
227 DICKENS, CHARLES The Extra Numbers issued with All the Year Around, and Household Words. London

1850-67

USD - 10.00
228 DICKENS, CHARLES Bleak House. London

1852-3

USD - 15.00
229 DICKENS, CHARLES Little Dorrit. London

1855-7

USD - 30.00
230 DICKENS, CHARLES A Tale of Two Cities. London

1859

USD - 90.00
231 DICKENS, CHARLES The Letters of Charles Dickens. London

1880-2

USD - 10.00
232 Frederick Barnard [DICKENS, CHARLES.] Charles Dickens. London

n. d.

USD - 12.50
233 [DICKENS, CHARLES] Illustrations to the Pickwick Club, 24 plates by F. W. Pailthorpe, proofs on India paper, 1882 ... London

v. d.

USD - 35.00
234 [DISRAELI, ISAAC] An Inquiry into the Literary and Political Character of James the First. London

1816

USD - 5.00
235 [DISRAELI, BENJAMIN] The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. London

1828

USD - 4.00
236 DISRAELI, BENJAMIN The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. New York

[1904]

USD - 45.00
237 DOUGLAS, NORMAN Autograph Manuscript and corrected proof sheets of The Mad Englishman, unsigned.

USD - 9.00
238 Algernon C. Swinburne DOVES BINDERY. Songs Before Sunrise. Londo

1871

USD - 55.00
239 John Milton DOVES PRESS. Paradise Regain'd, A Poem in IV Books to which are added Samson Agonistes & Poems both ... Hammersmith

1905

USD - 30.00
240 Ralph Waldo Emerson DOVES PRESS. Essays. Hammersmith

1906

USD - 22.50
241 [T. J. Cobden-Sanderson] DOVES PRESS. London. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Art Workers Guild March 6, 1891. [Hammersmith]

[1906]

USD - 15.00
242 William Shakespeare DOVES PRESS. Shake-speares Sonnets. [Hammersmith]

[1909]

USD - 22.50
243 William Shakespeare DOVES PRESS. The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. [Hammersmith]

[1909]

USD - 22.50
244 John Keats DOVES PRESS. Poems. [Hammersmith]

1914

USD - 30.00
245 DRAMA. Group photograph of famous actors and actresses.

1912

USD - 3.00
246 DRAMATIC LIBRARY, etc. Works (Beaumont and Fletcher), 2 vols., 1840; Works (Jonson), 1846; Dramatic ... London

1840-52

USD - 10.00
247 DRAYTON, MICHAEL Poems. London

[1619]

USD - 3.00
248 DRESSER, HENRY E. A History of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaertic Region. London

1871-96

USD - 90.00
249 DRINKWATER, JOHN Abraham Lincoln. A Play, London, 1918; Another edition. Boston, 1919. London and Boston

1918-9

USD - 10.00
250 Edward Davies DRUIDS. The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids. London

1809

USD - 37.50
251 DRURY, D. Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are Exhibited Figures of Exotic Insects, according to ... London

1770-82

USD - 27.50
252 DRYDEN, JOHN Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe. A Tragedy. London

1692

USD - 7.50
253 DRYDEN, JOHN The Poetical Works of John Dryden. London

1832-3

USD - 7.50
254 DUMAS, ALEXANDRE Celebrated Crimes. London

1895

USD - 3.00
255 DU MAURIER, GEORGE Peter Ibbetson. London

1892

USD - 28.00
256 DU MAURIER, GEORGE The Martian. New York

1897

USD - 5.00
257 D[URFEY], T[HOMAS] The Fool Turn'd Critick: A Comedy: As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royall. London

1678

USD - 15.00
258 F. A. Moore [EDDY, MARY BAKER.] Gems for You; from New Hampshire Authors. Manchester, N. H.

1850

USD - 5.00
259 EDGEWORTH, MARIA Harry and Lucy Concluded. London

1825

USD - 3.00
260 EGAN, PIERCE Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend ... London

1821

USD - 25.00
261 EGAN, PIERCE Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant Friend ... London

1821

USD - 24.00
262 EGAN, PIERCE The Life of an Actor. London

1825

USD - 10.00
263 EGAN, PIERCE Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life in ... London

1830

USD - 45.00
264 EGAN, PIERCE Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life in ... London

n. d.

USD - 17.50
265 EGERTON, D. T. [The Necessary Qualifications of a Man of Fashion.] [London]

[1823]

USD - 27.50
266 Mandell Creighton [ELIZABETH, QUEEN.] Queen Elizabeth. London

1896

USD - 7.50
267 ELZEVIR and ALDINE PRESSES. C. Ivlii Caesaris quae extant. Ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri. Lvgdvni ... Venetijs

[1519]

USD - 15.00
268 ENGLISH AUTHORS. Poems (Churchill), 2 vols., 1766; The Life of Joseph Addison (Aiken), 2 vols., 1843 ... London

1766-1843

USD - 8.00
269 ENGLISH PORTRAITS. A large collection of portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain ... [London]

n. d.

USD - 4.00
270 William Shakespeare ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. The Poems of William Shakespeare. [London]

[1899]

USD - 12.50
271 EVELYN, JOHN Navigation and Commerce, Their Original and Progress. London

1674

USD - 20.00
272 EVERETT, EDWARD, Statesman and author 5 A. L. s., 6 pp., Charlestown and Washington, April 28, 1831-June 20, 1834; Manuscript poem, 56 ...

USD - 5.00
273 FAIRFAX, THOMAS, LORD A. D. s. Greenway Court

1768

USD - 4.00
274 Sir Richard F. Burton FALCONRY. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. London

1852

USD - 12.50
275 Francis H. Salvin, and William Brodrick FALCONRY. Falconry in the British Isles. London

1855

USD - 25.00
276 James E. Harting FALCONRY. Bibliotheca Accipitraria. A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry ... London

1891

USD - 15.00
277 FALCONRY. Hints on the Management of Hawks. To which is added Practical Falconry (Harting), 1898 ... London

v. d.

USD - 37.00
278 FARQUHAR, GEORGE The Twin-Rivals. A Comedy. London

1703

USD - 10.00
279 FILLMORE, MILLARD, Thirteenth President A. L. s. Washington

1841

USD - 15.00
280 FISKE, JOHN A collection of the Historical Writings of John Fiske. Cambridge

1892-1904

USD - 15.00
281 FITZGERALD, EDWARD Letters & Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald. London

1902

USD - 35.00
282 FLETCHER, PHINEAS Locvstae, vel Pietas Iesviticia. [Cambridge]

1627

USD - 50.00
283 FLETCHER, JOHN The Elder Brother. A Comedie. London

1637

USD - 20.00
284 FLETCHER, JOHN The Coronation. A Comedy. London

1640

USD - 12.50
285 FLOYD, WILLIAM D. s., 1 p., folio, September 17, 1770. A list of bonds and notes belonging to the estate of Charles ...

USD - 20.00
286 FLOYD, WILLIAM A. L. s., docketed Copy. Philadelphia

1766

USD - 65.00
287 FLOYD, WILLIAM A. L. s. Philadelphia

1776

USD - 75.00
288 FLOYD, WILLIAM D. s.

1779

USD - 25.00
289 [FLOYD, WILLIAM] 2 D.s. by George Clinton, Governor of New York. 2 pp., folio, March 22, 1781 and October 25, 1782 ...

USD - 45.00
290 FLOYD, WILLIAM A. L. s. Western

1817

USD - 40.00
291 FLOYD, WILLIAM D. s.

1817

USD - 60.00
292 FORD, WORTHINGTON C. George Washington. New York

1900

USD - 25.00
293 FORSYTH, WILLIAM Hortensius, London, 1849; History of Trial by Jury, London, 1852; The History of Lawyers, N. Y ...

USD - 10.00
294 FRANCE, ANATOLE The Works of Anatole France. New York

1924

USD - 100.00
295 FRANKAU, JULIA The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton. London

1911

USD - 12.50
296 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN A. D. s. Passy

1777

USD - 125.00
297 FRANKLIN IMPRINT. M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or his Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes. Philadelphia

1744

USD - 230.00
298 [John Armstrong] FRANKLIN IMPRINT. The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem. London, Printed; Philadelphia, Re-printed

1745

USD - 45.00
299 FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, Manuscript Orderly Book kept by Gen. Phineas Lyman at his Headquarters at ...

USD - Unknown
300 Marius Vachon FRENCH ART. Jules Breton. Paris

1899

USD - 7.50
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