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
401 Percy Bysshe Shelley KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poetical Works. [Hammersmith]

[1894-5]

USD - Unknown
402 Robert Herrick KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick. [Hammersmith]

[1895]

USD - 50.00
403 Robert Herrick KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick. [Hammersmith]

[1893]

USD - 22.00
404 William Morris KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Life and Death of Jason, a Poem. [Hammersmith]

[1895]

USD - 30.00
405 Samuel Taylor Coleridge KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. [Hammersmith]

[1896]

USD - 25.00
406 William Morris KELMSCOTT PRESS. Love is Enough. [Hammersmith]

[1897]

USD - Unknown
407 Geoffrey Chaucer KENT ILLUSTRATIONS. The Canterbury Tales. New York

1920

USD - 12.50
407a [KING, HENRY] Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonets. London

1664

USD - 20.00
408 KING OF SIAM--S. P. Pawarendeeamese, Second King of Siam A collection of 6 letters from the King of Siam to Com. Andrew H. Foote, who commanded the sloop ...

1862

USD - 7.50
409 KINGSLEY, CHARLES The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley. London

1901-3

USD - 57.50
410 KING'S MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROES (Draper), Cin., 1881, First Edition; Reminiscences and Recollections ...

USD - 7.50
411 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895. London

1894-5

USD - 40.00
412 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. New York

1899-1926

USD - 80.00
413 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Horse Marines, 1910; Mesopotamia, 1917; Justice, 1918; Great-Heart, 1919; The Gods of the ... Garden City

1910-26

USD - 25.00
414 KIPLING, RUDYARD Three Poems, 1911; The Spies' March, 1911; Tales of The Trade. Parts I-III. 3 vols., 1916 ... Garden City

1911-28

USD - 12.50
415 KIPLING, RUDYARD Some Aspects of Travel, 1914; The Scholars, 1919; The War in the Mountains. Part II only, 1917 * The ... Garden City

1914-29

USD - 25.00
416 KIPLING, RUDYARD The New Army. Parts I-VI. 6 vols., 1914; Destroyers at Jutland. Parts I-IV. 4 vols., 1916; The Nerve ... Garden City

1914-29

USD - 17.50
417 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Fringes of the Fleet. Parts I, II, V and VI only. 4 vols., 1915; The Neutral, 1916; A Nativity ... Garden City

1915-17

USD - 8.00
418 KNAPP, ANDREW, and WILLIAM BALDWIN The Newgate Calendar. London

1824-8 [reprint]

USD - Unknown
419 LACES. Ornamentale und Kunstgewerblich Sammelmappe: Serie IX [and] X. Die Wiener Spitzenausstellung ... Leipzig

1906

USD - 10.00
420 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE A. L. s. in English. [Paris]

[1828]

USD - 12.50
421 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE L. s. in English.

1834

USD - 7.50
422 LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE Oeuvres. Paris

1821-2

USD - 57.50
423 LAHONTAN, N., BARON DE Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. La Haye

1703

USD - 40.00
424 [LAMB, CHARLES] Mrs. Leicester's School: or, the History of Several Young Ladies, related by Themselves. London

1809

USD - 45.00
425 LAMB, CHARLES The Works of Charles Lamb. London

1818

USD - 5.00
426 LAMB, CHARLES Album Verses, with a Few Others. London

1830

USD - 5.00
427 LAMB, CHARLES and MARY Tales from Shakespeare. London

1807

USD - 30.00
428 LAMB, CHARLES and CHARLES LLOYD Blank Verse. London

1798

USD - 12.50
429 [LAUD, ARCHBISHOP] An Elegie on the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; attatched [sic ... N. p.

1644

USD - 5.00
430 LAWRENCE, COL. T. E. An Essay on Flecker; Crusader Castles. With a Preface by Mrs. Lawrence; The Diary of T. E. Lawrence. Garden City

1927

USD - 25.00
431 Gilbert A. A'Beckett LEECH ILLUSTRATIONS. The Comic History of England, 2 vols., 1847-8; The Comic History of Rome [1852 ... London

1847[-52]

USD - 10.00
432 LE GROS, N. A series of 28 copperplate engravings, displaying various styles of hairdress. [Paris]

[circa 1765]

USD - 25.00
433 LEVER, CHARLES The O'Donoghue. Dublin

184[4-]5

USD - 5.00
434 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, THE (Defoe), 2 vols., London, 1882; Ingoldsby Legends ( ... V. p.

1882-[99]

USD - Unknown
435 LILLY, JOHN Evphves and his England. London

1605

USD - 30.00
436 LILY, JOHN Sixe Court Comedies. London

1632

USD - 22.50
437 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, Sixteenth President A. L. s.

1861

USD - 92.50
438 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, Sixteenth President Autograph Endorsement signed, about 25 words, March 4, 1863.

1863

USD - 25.00
439 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, Sixteenth President A. L. s. Washington

1864

USD - 92.50
440 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Writings. New York

1905

USD - 5.00
441 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. New York

1905

USD - 17.50
442 LISLE, WILLIAM The Faire Aethiopian. London

1631

USD - 25.00
443 LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS. A.L.s., by Robert L. Stevenson, initials, 1 1/4 pp., n.p., n.d. To Mr ...

USD - 12.50
444 LOTI, PIERRE Madame Chrysantheme; Le Mariage de Loti. [Paris]

[1936]

USD - 12.50
445 LOVE BOOKS (Ovid), Privately Printed, 1930, with an original signed drawing by A. King; Sappho ( ...

USD - Unknown
446 [LOWELL, JAMES R.] Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Bigelow Papers. Second Series. Boston

1867

USD - Unknown
447 LYDGATE, JOHN The Life and Death of Hector. At London

1614

USD - Unknown
448 LYTTLETON, GEORGE, LORD Works. London

1774

USD - 3.00
449 McKINLEY, WILLIAM, Twenty-Fifth President A. L. s. Canton, O.

1896

USD - 15.00
450 MADISON, JAMES, Fourth President A. L. s. Montpelier

1820

USD - 20.00
451 MALORY, SIR THOMAS The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. [London]

1893-4

USD - 42.50
452 MALORY, SIR THOMAS Le Morte d'Arthur. The Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. London

1910-11

USD - 120.00
453 MARKHAM, GERVASE Country Contentments; or the Husbandmans Recreations. London

1631

USD - 13.00
454 George Conaeus MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Vita Mariae Stvartae Scotiae Reginae. Romae

1624

USD - 32.50
455 MASSINGER, PHILIP The Roman Actor. London

1629

USD - 15.00
456 MASSINGER, PHILIP The Renegado. London

1630

USD - 22.50
457 MASSINGER, PHILIP The Emperour of the East. London

1632

USD - 15.00
458 MASSINGER, PHILIP The Maid of Honour. London

1632

USD - 30.00
459 MASSINGER, PHILIP The Fatall Dowry. By P[hilip] M[assinger] and N[athaniel] F[ield], 1632; first word on title-page ... London

1632-6

USD - 27.50
460 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage. London

[1915]

USD - 25.00
461 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET The Magician, 1908; The Trembling of a Leaf, 1921. London

1908-21

USD - 7.50
462 MELTON, JOHN Astrologaster; or, the Figure-Caster. Imprinted at London

1620

USD - 20.00
463 MELVILLE, HERMAN Redburn. New York

1849

USD - 10.00
464 MELVILLE, HERMAN Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. New York

1852

USD - 5.00
465 MEMOIRS OF THE SANSONS (Sanson), 2 vols., London, 1876; Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie ...

USD - 12.50
466 [MEREDITH, GEORGE] Aeschyli Tragoediae. Lipsiae

1823

USD - 5.00
467 MERIAN, MATTHEW Topographia Alsatia, &c. Frankfort

1643

USD - 20.00
468 MICROCOSM OF LONDON, THE. London

[1808-10]

USD - 165.00
469 MIDDLETON, THOMAS The Mayor of Quinborough. London

1661

USD - 7.00
470 MILLSPAUGH, CHARLES F. American Medicinal Plants. An illustrated and descriptive Guide to Plants indigenous to and ... New York

[1887]

USD - 17.50
471 MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young [1924]; Winniethe-Pooh [1926]; Now We Are Six [1927]; The House at Pooh ... London

[1924-8]

USD - 57.50
472 MIVART, ST. GEORGE A Monograph of the Lories, or Brushtongued Parrots, composing the family Loriide. London

1896

USD - 17.50
473 MOLIERE, JEAN B. P. DE Pursoniak. Komedia. [Warsaw]

[1790]

USD - 4.00
474 MOLIERE, JEAN B. P. DE Oeuvres de Moliere, avec des Remarques Grammaticales, des Avertissemens et des Observations sur ... Paris

1804

USD - 16.00
475 MOLIERE, JEAN B. P. DE The Dramatic Works of Moliere. Edinburgh

1875-6

USD - 7.50
476 MONROE, JAMES, Fifth President A. L. s. London

1803

USD - 25.00
477 MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne. London

1908

USD - 13.00
478 MOORE, THOMAS The Loves of the Angels, a Poem. London

1823

USD - 10.00
479 MOREAU LE JEUNE Collection of 69 plates, 26 of which are duplicate needle proofs before the titles, illustrating the ... [Paris]

[1789]

USD - 15.00
480 MORRIS, WILLIAM Works. [London]

[1901-2]

USD - Unknown
481 MOZART, WOLFGANG Requiem. Nachbildung der Originalhand-schrift Cod. 17561 der K. K. Hofbibliothek in Wien in ... Wien

[1913]

USD - 4.00
482 MUNNINGS, A. J. Pictures of Horses and English Life. London

1927

USD - 30.00
483 MUSAEUS The Loves of Hero and Leander. London

1797

USD - 7.50
484 NABBES, THOMAS Microcosmus, 1637; initials on title-page; The Bride, 1640; writing on title-page, and some slight ... London

1637-40

USD - 17.50
485 NAPOLEON I L. s. Nap. 1 p., small 4to, Saint Cloud, June 18, 1811, about 60 words, written in French to his ...

USD - 30.00
486 NAPOLEON I NAPOLEON I. Ternisien De Haudricourt. Festes de la Nation Francaise Ouvrage presente au Roi et ... Paris

[1815]

USD - 30.00
487 NAPOLEON I NAPOLEON I. Manuscrit venu de St. Helene, d'une Maniere Inconnue. London

1817

USD - Unknown
488 Auguste de Chambure [NAPOLEON I.] Napoleon et ses Contemporains. Paris

1824

USD - 35.00
489 NAPOLEON I. Memoires sur Madame la Duchesse de St. Leu, Ex-Reine de Hollande. Suivis des Romances ... Londres

1832

USD - 22.50
490 Louis A. F. de bourrienne NAPOLEON. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. London

1885

USD - 75.00
491 William M. Sloane NAPOLEON I. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York

1896

USD - 470.00
492 NATURAL HISTORY. Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum ( ... London

1903-22

USD - 27.50
493 NELSON, HORATIO, LORD D. s. Nelson & Bronte. 2 pp., folio, about 400 words. November 12, 1801; the second leaf inlaid ...

USD - 25.00
494 NELSON, HORATIO, LORD A. L. s. N (in the body of the letter).

USD - 145.00
495 NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL Apologia Pro Vita Sua. London

1864

USD - 47.50
496 NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet entitled What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean? London

1864

USD - 21.00
497 NEWTON, SIR ISAAC Autograph Genealogical Chart, with the name Newton appearing a few times in the manuscript.

circa 1704

USD - 37.50
498 NICHOLSON, ADM. JAMES A. A collection of about 145 A.L.s., L.s., and a few D.s., addressed to Admiral Nicholson when a ...

1873-1881

USD - 20.00
499 C. Hart Merriam, T. S. Palmer, E. W. Nelson, and others NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. Washington

1889-1931

USD - 30.00
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