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
301 FULTON, ROBERT A. L. s. New York

1812

USD - 50.00
302 Percy Macquoid FURNITURE. A History of English Furniture. London

1904-8

USD - 7.50
303 GALSWORTHY, JOHN Soames and the Flag. London, 1930; Another edition, N.Y., 1930.

USD - Unknown
304 GALSWORTHY, JOHN The Works of John Galsworthy. London

1923-9

USD - 115.00
305 Batty Langley GARDENING. New Principles of Gardening: or, The Laying out and Planting Parterres, Groves ... London

1728

USD - 6.00
306 GARDNER, SAMUEL R. Oliver Cromwell. London

1899

USD - 6.00
307 GARFIELD, JAMES A., Twentieth President A. L. s. Mentor, Ohio

1800

USD - Unknown
308 GARLAND, HAMLIN Main-Travelled Roads. Boston

1891

USD - 9.00
309 GIBBON, EDWARD The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 12 vols., 1820; Miscellaneous Works. 5 vols ... London

1814-20

USD - Unknown
310 [GOETHE, JOHANN W. VON] Werther. Maestricht

1776

USD - 12.00
311 GOETHE, JOHANN W. VON Faust. Ein Fragment. Leipzig

1790

USD - 15.00
312 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER She Stoops to Conquer: or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. London

1773

USD - 55.00
313 GONCOURT, EDMOND and JULES DE Renee Mauperin. Paris

1884

USD - 22.50
314 [GOSDEN, THOMAS] Impressions of a Series of Animals, Birds, &c. illustrative of British Field Sports: From a Set of ... London

1821

USD - 20.00
315 Thomas Zouch GOSDEN, THOMAS. The Life of Isaac Walton; including Notices of his Contemporaries. London

1823

USD - 30.00
316 GRANT, ULYSSES S., Eighteenth President A. L. s. Chatanooga, Tennessee

1863

USD - 35.00
317 GRANT, ULYSSES S., Eighteenth President A. L. s. City Point, Virginia

1865

USD - 80.00
318 GRANT, ULYSSES S., Eighteenth President A. D. No place

circa 1866.

USD - 10.00
319 GRANT, ULYSSES S., Eighteenth President Teakwood paperweight used by General Grant.

USD - 3.00
320 GRAY, THOMAS Manuscript notes of travel in the East.

USD - 9.00
321 GRAY, THOMAS Odes by Mr. Gray. Printed at Strawberry Hill

1757

USD - 30.00
322 GRAY, THOMAS Odes by Mr. Gray. Printed at Strawberry Hill

1757

USD - 17.50
323 GRAY, THOMAS Poems. London

1768

USD - 7.50
324 GRAY, THOMAS An Elegy in a Country Churchyard. [Boston]

[1901]

USD - 17.50
325 GREENAWAY, KATE Almanack for 1883-95, 197. London

[1883-97]

USD - 375.00
326 GUILLIM, JOHN A Display of Heraldrei: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the Knowledge thereof. London

1638

USD - 25.00
327 GUTENBERG BIBLE. A Noble Fragment Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455. [Moguntiae]

[circa 1450-5]

USD - 190.00
328 HALLAM, ARTHUR H. Poems. [London]

[1830]

USD - Unknown
329 HALSEY, R. T. HAINES Pictures of Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery. Together with Pictures of Boston and ... New York

1899

USD - Unknown
330 HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY A. L. N. p.

[1791]

USD - Unknown
331 HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY A. L. s. Emma Hamilton. Bond Street

USD - Unknown
332 HAMPTON, GEN. WADE 3 A. L. s. Milwood and Columbia, S. C.

1840 and 1842

USD - 7.50
333 HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer from Massachusetts A. L. s. Boston

1782

USD - 45.00
334 HARDING, WARREN G., Twenty-Ninth President A. L. s. Marion, Ohio

[1909]

USD - 35.00
335 HARDY, THOMAS The Works of Thomas Hardy. London

1919-20

USD - 135.00
336 HARINGTON, SIR JOHN HARINGTON, SIR JOHN. [Ariosto] Orlando Fvrioso in English Heroical Verse, by Sr. Iohn Harinton. London

1607

USD - 17.50
337 HARINGTON, SIR JOHN, Translator Orlando Furioso In English Heroical Verse. By Sir John Harrington. Now thirdly revised and amended ... London

1633-4

USD - 5.00
338 HARRIS, CAPTAIN W. CORNWALLIS Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, delineated from Life in their Native ... London

1840

USD - 45.00
339 HARRISON, BENJAMIN, Twenty-Third President A. L. s. Washington

1881

USD - 12.50
340 HARRISON, WILLIAM H., Ninth President A. L. s. North Bend

1799

USD - 25.00
341 HARTE, BRET The Luck of Roaring Camp. Boston

1870

USD - 45.00
342 HAUSTED, PETER The Rivall Friends. London

1632

USD - 12.50
343 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Twice-Told Tales. Boston

1837

USD - 32.50
344 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Scarlet Letter. Boston

1850

USD - 15.00
345 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston

1852

USD - 40.00
346 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys; Being a Second Wonder-Book. Boston

1853

USD - 15.00
347 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop ... Boston

1890-1

USD - 5.00
348 HAYES, RUTHERFORD B., Nineteenth President A. L. s. Washington

1878

USD - 6.00
349 HENRY, O. The Complete Writings of O. Henry. Garden City

1917

USD - Unknown
350 HENRY, PATRICK, Governor of Virginia and Member of the Continental Congress A. L. s. Williamsburgh

1778

USD - Unknown
351 HEYWOOD, THOMAS The Hierarchie of the blessed Angels. London

1635

USD - Unknown
352 HEYWOOD, THOMAS Pleasant Dialouves and Drammas, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. London

1637

USD - Unknown
353 HIND, ARTHUR M. A History of Engraving & Etching from the 15th Century to the Year 1914. Boston

1923

USD - Unknown
354 HOLINSHED, RALPH The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, with their Descriptions. London

[1577]

USD - Unknown
355 [HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL] The Harvard Register. Nos. 1-9, and no. XII (lacks nos. 10 and 11), March, 1827 to February, 1828. Cambridge

1827-8

USD - Unknown
356 HOMER The Iliad of Homer. London

1813

USD - Unknown
357 [HOMER] Friedrich Preller's Figuren-Fries zur Odyssee. Sechzehn Compositionen in Vierundzwanzig Farbigen ... Lepizig

1875

USD - Unknown
358 HONTERUS, JOANNES Rvdimentorum Cosmographicorum . . . libri III. cum tabellis Geographicis . . . N. p.

1581

USD - Unknown
359 HOOVER, HERBERT, Thirty-first President D. s.

1930

USD - Unknown
360 HOPPE, E. O. Romantic America. Picturesque United States. New York

[1927]

USD - Unknown
361 HOUSMAN, A. E. 4 A. L. s. (one on a card). Oxford

1919

USD - Unknown
362 HOWITT, SAMUEL A New Work of Animals: Principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus. London

1811

USD - Unknown
363 HUME, ALLEN O. and C. H. T. MARSHALL The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. Calcutta

[1878-80]

USD - Unknown
364 HUNT, LEIGH The Story of Rimini, a Poem. London

1816

USD - Unknown
365 HUNT, LEIGH Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries. London

1828

USD - Unknown
366 HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, Signer from Connecticut L. s. Philadelphia

1781

USD - Unknown
367 Alfred, Lord Tennyson ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Morte d'Arthur. [London]

[circa 1910]

USD - Unknown
368 INNOCENTS ABROAD, THE (Clemens), 2 vols., Boston, 1895; Little Journeys to the Homes of Great ... V. p.

1876-1903

USD - 5.00
369 IRELAND, WILLIAM The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London

1823-8

USD - 90.00
370 IRVING, WASHINGTON Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia

1836

USD - Unknown
371 IRVING, WASHINGTON Life of George Washington. New York

1856-9

USD - Unknown
372 Diedrich Knickerbocker [IRVING, WASHINGTON.] A History of New York. New York

1886

USD - Unknown
373 ITALIAN AND FRENCH NOVELISTS. Decameron (Boccaccio), translated by John Payne, 2 vols., 1893 ... London

v. d.

USD - 10.00
374 JACKSON, ANDREW, Seventh President A. L. s. Washington City

1819

USD - Unknown
375 JACKSON, ANDREW, Seventh President A. L. s. Hermitage

1828

USD - Unknown
376 T. F. Henderson [JAMES I. and VI.] James I. and VI. Paris

1904

USD - 3.00
377 JAMESON, MRS. ANNA The Beauties of the Court of King James the Second. London

1833

USD - Unknown
378 George A. Audsley and James Lord Bowes JAPANESE ART. Keramic Art of Japan. Liverpool

1875

USD - Unknown
379 JEFFERSON, THOMAS, Third President A. L. s. Monticello

1817

USD - 80.00
380 JESSE, JOHN H. A collection of first editions of the Writings of John H. Jesse. London

1840-75

USD - 17.50
381 JOHNSON, ANDREW, Seventeenth President A. L. s. Washington City

1852

USD - 35.00
382 [JOHNSON, SAMUEL] The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. London

1747

USD - 5.00
383 JOHNSON, SAMUEL The Works of Samuel Johnson. Oxford

1825

USD - 20.00
384 JONES, ADM. JOHN P. A. L. s. Amsterdam

1789

USD - 150.00
385 JOYCE, JAMES 5 A.L.s. (three on post cards). V. p.

1908

USD - 22.50
386 JOYCE, JAMES Ibsen's New Drama; James Clarence Mangan. London

[1930]

USD - 15.00
387 KALM, PETER Travels into North America; containing its Natural History . . . Warrington and London

1770-1

USD - 42.50
388 KEATS, JOHN Poems. London

1817

USD - 4,000.00
389 KEATS, JOHN Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London

1818

USD - 350.00
390 KEATS, JOHN Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems. London

1820

USD - 1,400.00
391 KEATS, JOHN Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London

1820

USD - 1,000.00
392 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Love-Lyrics & Songs of Proteus. With the Love-Sonnets of Proteus. [Hammersmith]

[1892]

USD - 25.00
393 William Morris KELMSCOTT PRESS. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson. [Hammersmith]

[1892]

USD - 15.00
394 Raoul Lefevre KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [Hammersmith]

[1892]

USD - 37.50
395 Sir Thomas More KELMSCOTT PRESS. Utopia. [Hammersmith]

[1893]

USD - 25.00
396 Dante G. Rossetti KELMSCOTT PRESS. Ballads and Narrative Poems. [Hammersmith]

[1893]

USD - 20.00
397 William Shakespeare KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems. [Hammersmith]

[1893]

USD - 30.00
398 [Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani] KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Book of Wisdom & Lies. [Hammersmith]

[1894]

USD - 15.00
399 Dante G. Rossetti KELMSCOTT PRESS. Sonnets and Lyrical Poems. [Hammersmith]

[1894]

USD - 20.00
400 A. C. Swinburne KELMSCOTT PRESS. Atalanta in Calydon. [Hammersmith]

[1894]

USD - 40.00
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