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
600 STRICKLAND, H. E., and A. G. MELVILLE The Dodo and its Kindred, or, the History, Affinities and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and ... London

1848

USD - 7.00
601 [SURTEES, ROBERT] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. London

1853

USD - 30.00
602 [SURTEES, ROBERT S.] The Sporting Novels of Robert S. Surtees. London

1853-65

USD - 65.00
603 Lemuel Gulliver [SWIFT, JONATHAN.] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. London

1726

USD - 140.00
604 [SWIFT, JONATHAN] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. Engraved ... London

1726-7

USD - 170.00
605 TAFT, WILLIAM H., Twenty-Seventh President A. L. s. New Haven

1913

USD - 19.00
606 TATLER, THE, 4 vols., 1898; Lorna Doone (Blackmore), n.d. London

1808 and n.d.

USD - 15.00
607 TAYLOR, ZACHARY, Twelfth President A. L. s. Louisville, Kentucky

1834

USD - 13.00
608 TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD The Life and Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. London

1898-9

USD - 27.50
609 [THACKERAY, WILLIAM M.] The Snob: A Literary and Scientific Journal. Not Conducted by Members of the University. Vol. I ... Cambridge

1829-30

USD - 7.50
610 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Book of Snobs. London

1848

USD - 3.00
611 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. Vanity Fair. London

1848

USD - 55.00
612 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The History of Pendennis. London

1848-50

USD - 30.00
613 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Newcomes. London

1853-5

USD - 15.00
614 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Virginians. London

1858-9

USD - 60.00
615 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Virginians. London

1858-9

USD - 7.50
616 [THACKERAY, WILLIAM M.] Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates, and the Garrick Club. The Correspondence and Facts. [London]

1859

USD - 10.00
617 [THACKERAY, WILLIAM M.] The Gorilla Fight. He Awoke the next Morning and found Himself Famous. London

[1860]

USD - 7.00
618 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. Haud Immemor. A Few Personal Recollections of Mr. Thackeray in Philadelphia. [Philadelphia]

1864

USD - 12.50
619 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Works of William M. Thackeray. London

1869-86

USD - 15.00
620 THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. London

1869

USD - 37.50
621 THOMSON, JAMES The Seasons. London

1730

USD - 4.00
622 THOREAU, HENRY D. Walden. Boston

1854

USD - 12.50
623 TIMAEUS, JOAN Anagrammatum. Glogoviae

1607

USD - 4.00
624 [George Borrow] TRIALS. Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence. London

1825

USD - 30.00
625 TYLER, JOHN, Tenth President A. L. s. Sherwood Forest

1853

USD - 9.00
626 UTOPIA (More), 1684; The Victorious Reigne of King Edward the Third (May), 1635; Madagascar ( ... London

v. d.

USD - 32.00
627 VAN BUREN, MARTIN, Eighth President A. L. s. Albany

1828

USD - 37.50
628 VARICK, RICHARD, Aide-de-Camp to Washington A. L. s. New York

1804

USD - 7.00
629 Eugenius Philalethes [VAUGHAN, THOMAS.] Magia Adamica: or, The Antiquitie of Magic, and the Descent thereof from Adam ... London

1650

USD - 25.00
630 VINCENT DE PAUL, SAINT D. s. Vincent De Paul.

USD - 37.50
631 VINTON, LT. JOHN R. A.L.s., 1 p., 4to, Augusta Arsenal, Nov. 9, 1845; Four original pencil sketches, each 7 1/2 by 4 ...

USD - 7.00
632 WAGNER, RICHARD A. L. s. Zurich

1857

USD - 50.00
633 WAGNER, RICHARD Autograph Manuscript Poem signed. Bayreuth

1873

USD - 50.00
634 WAGNER, RICHARD A. L. s., 2 pp., 8vo, about 140 words. Bayreuth, July 30, 1872. To Count von Krockow. Sending a set ...

USD - 32.50
635 WAGNER, RICHARD A Collection of Autograph Letters and other material relating to Richard Wagner and his family and ...

USD - 17.50
636 WAGNER, RICHARD Photographs and other material relating to Wagner and his family and friends.

USD - 12.50
637 [WAGNER (RICHARD)] Embroidered Table Cover.

USD - 5.00
638 WAGNER THEATRE. 9 Stubs of Tickets of Admission to the first Festival of the Bayreuth Wagner Theatre ...

USD - 4.00
639 WAGNER THEATRE. Wagner's First and Third Reports on the Festival Theatre, May and July, 1873 ...

USD - 4.00
640 WAGNER, COSIMA, wife of Richard Wagner 5 A. L. s.

1870 to 1881

USD - Unknown
641 WALPOLE, HORACE A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with a List of their ... London

1806

USD - Unknown
642 WALPOLE, HORACE Anecdotes of Painting in England; with Some Account of the Principal Artists. London

1888

USD - Unknown
643 WALPOLE, HORACE Letters. London

1891

USD - Unknown
644 WALPOLE, HORACE Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third. London

1894

USD - Unknown
645 WARBURTON, ELIOT Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers. London

1849

USD - Unknown
646 WARD, WILLIAM The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession. London

1903

USD - Unknown
647 WAR OF 1812. D.s. by Col. William King, Adjutant General to Gen. Wade Hampton. Chateaugay

1813

USD - Unknown
648 Elizabeth Wetherell [WARNER, SUSAN B.] Queechy. New York

1852

USD - 3.00
649 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A. D. s.

1751

USD - 105.00
650 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A. D.

1752

USD - 65.00
651 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A. L. s. Mount Vernon

1770

USD - 90.00
652 WASHINGTON, MARTHA A. L. s. Mount Vernon

1784

USD - 210.00
653 WASHINGTON, GEORGE L. s. United States

1789

USD - 55.00
654 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A. L. from which the signature.

1796

USD - 27.50
655 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A. L. s. Mount Vernon

1797

USD - 105.00
656 [WASHINGTON, GEORGE.] Earl Of Chesterfield Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his ... London Printed, New-York, Re-printed

1775

USD - 2,850.00
657 WAY OF THE WORLD, THE (Congreve) London, 1700; The Lawyer's Fortune (Grimson), London, 1705; The ...

USD - 25.00
658 WEBSTER, DANIEL The Works of Daniel Webster. Boston

1851

USD - 4.00
659 [WESTMACOTT, CHARLES M.] The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and ... London

1825-6

USD - 90.00
660 WHALING LOG BOOKS. Autograph Manuscript Logbooks of 4 Whaling Voyages in the ship Clematis of New ...

1837 to 1842

USD - 57.50
661 WHISTLER, JAMES A. McN. 2 A. L. s., J. McNeill Whistler, and with the butterfly. [February 10, 1896], April, 1898. One ...

USD - 7.50
662 [WHISTLER, JAMES A. McN.] The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. New York

1890

USD - 11.00
663 [WHITMAN, WALT] Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn

1855

USD - 400.00
664 [WHITMAN, WALT] Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn

1855

USD - 60.00
665 WIERZBICKI, FELIX P., California pioneer A. L. s. San Francisco

1860

USD - 25.00
666 WILDE, OSCAR Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman. London

1893

USD - 25.00
667 WILLIAMSON, GEORGE C. The History of Portrait Miniatures. London

1904

USD - 22.50
668 WILLUGHBY, FRANCIS The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick, Esq. In Three Books ... London

1678

USD - 35.00
669 WILSON, WOODROW, Twenty-Eighth President A. L. s. Middletown, Connecticut

1890

USD - 27.50
670 WILSON, WOODROW Executive Order. An Executive Order Concerning Certain Sales to be Conducted by the Alien Property ...

USD - 3.00
671 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM The Waggoner. London

1819

USD - 5.00
672 WRITINGS (Jefferson), 20 vols. in 10, Wash., 1905; Works (Irving), 21 vols., N. Y., 1861; and others ...

USD - 5.00
673 YOUNG SEA OFFICER'S SHEET ANCHOR; or a Key to the Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship ... V. p.

1805-53

USD - 12.00
674 ZOLA, EMILE The Works of Emile Zola. New York

1924

USD - Unknown
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