Parke Bernet: ORNITHOLOGICAL BOOKS INCUNABULA, PRESS PUBLICATIONS FIRST EDITIONS, STANDARD SETS ORIENTAL & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS MANY IN FINE BINDINGS. COLLECTED BY THE LATE ALBERT MAY TODD, KALAMAZOO, MICH. SOLD BY ORDER OF THE HEIRS OF HIS ESTATE THE PRESENT OWNERS. PUBL, 313,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 12, 1941 - November 12, 1941
Page Size: 975 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
901 THEOCRITUS [Title in Greek: Theocriti castigatissima opera omnia.] [Florentiae]

[1515]

 USD - Unknown
902 THEOCRITUS [Title-page in Greek.] [Opera, Graece, cum scholis Graecis.] [Rome]

[1516]

 USD - Unknown
903 THEODORUS OF BAZA. Introdvctionis Grammaticae . . . Basileae

1529-35

 USD - Unknown
904 THEOPHRASTUS De historia plantarum. Theodoro Gaza interprete. N.p.

n.d.

 USD - Unknown
905 THESAURUS CORNUCOPIAE et Horti Adonidis. Venice

August 1496

 USD - Unknown
906 THIERS, LOUIS A. The History of the French Revolution. London

1838

 USD - Unknown
907 THOMSON, JAMES The Seasons. London

1797

 USD - Unknown
908 THOMSON, JAMES The Seasons. London

1807

 USD - Unknown
909 THORESBY, RALPH Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the Topography Of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leeds ... London

1715

 USD - Unknown
910 THUCYDIDES [De bello Peloponnesiaco, libri viii.] [Venetiis]

[1502]

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911 THUCYDIDES [Portion of title in Greek.] De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri viii. Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione ... [Geneva:]

1588

 USD - Unknown
912 THUCYDIDES [This portion of the title in Greek.] Amstelaedami

1731

 USD - Unknown
913 THUCYDIDES Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco . . . Oxonii

1821

 USD - Unknown
914 TODD FAMILY IN AMERICA or the Descendants of Christopher Todd, 1637-1919. Compiled by J. E. Todd ... Y

1876-1920

 USD - Unknown
915 TOURNEUX, MAURICE Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Paris pendant la Revolution Frangaise. Paris

1890-1913

 USD - Unknown
916 TRIALS. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason, and other Crimes ... London

1726-31

 USD - Unknown
917 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA . . . A Tragedy (Dryden), London, 1679; First Edition; The Rose Garden of ...

USD - Unknown
918 TUER, ANDREW W. History of the Horn-Book. London

1896

 USD - Unknown
919 Charles Rieu TURKISH MANUSCRIPTS. Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum. [London]

1888

 USD - Unknown
920 TURNER, J. M. W. A collection of 60 vignette engravings, proofs on India paper, by Edward Goodall, after the ...

Circa 1833

 USD - Unknown
921 TURNER, J. M. W. The Turner Gallery. London

1875

 USD - Unknown
922 TURNER, J. M. W. The Turner Gallery . . . London

1875

 USD - Unknown
923 TYNDALL, JOHN The Glaciers of the Alps. London

1860

 USD - Unknown
924 Georges Lepreux TYPOGRAPHY. Gallia Typographica, ou Repertoire Biographique et Chronoligique de tous les Imprimeurs ... Paris

1909-14

 USD - Unknown
925 ULSTADIUS, PHILLIPUS Coelvm Philosophorvm, sev liber de Secretis Naturae. Lvgduni

1572

 USD - Unknown
926 UPDIKE, DANIEL B. Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. A Study in Survivals. Cambridge

1922

 USD - Unknown
927 UZANNE, OCTAVE Son Altesse La Femme. Paris

1885

 USD - Unknown
928 Percy B. Shelley VALE PRESS. Poems. [London]

[1901-2]

 USD - Unknown
929 VALLA, LAURENTIUS Elegantiae linguae latinae. Rome

[before July 26], 1471

 USD - Unknown
930 VALLA, LAURENTIUS De Linguae Latinae Elegantia. Venice

1480

 USD - Unknown
931 VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS under Domestication, The (Darwin), 2 vols., London, 1868; First ...

USD - Unknown
932 VASI, GIUSEPPE Delle Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna . . . Roma

1747-61

 USD - Unknown
933 VATICAN GALLERY. Il Vaticano. Descritto ed Illustrato da Erasmo Pistoiesi. Roma

1829

 USD - Unknown
934 VERLAINE, PAUL Quinze Jours en Hollande. La Haye

n.d.

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935 VERNON GALLERY. The Vernon Gallery of British Art. London

circa 1860

 USD - Unknown
936 VERNON GALLERY. The Vernon Gallery of British Art. London

n.d.

 USD - Unknown
937 VETUSTA MONUMENTA: quae ad Rerum Britannicarum memorian conservandam Societas Antiquarie-rum Londini ...

USD - Unknown
938 VINCI, LEONARDO DA. Trattato della Pittura. Parigi

1651

 USD - Unknown
939 VIRGIL Opera. Milan

July 25, 1475

 USD - Unknown
940 VIRGIL Opera [with the commentary of Servius.] Venice

May 23, 1487

 USD - Unknown
941 VIRGIL Omnia opera: diligenti castigatione exculta: aptissimisque ornata figuris. Venice

August 3, 1508

 USD - Unknown
942 VIRGIL In hoc volvmine continentvr Opera Vergiliana Inferivs Scripta. [Lugduni (?)]

[circa 1511]

 USD - Unknown
943 VIRGIL Virgilivs. [Venetiis]

1541

 USD - Unknown
944 VIRGIL P. Virgilivs Maro Pavli Manvtii Notationibvs in Libri Margine . . . Venetiis

1573

 USD - Unknown
945 VIRGIL P. Vergilii Maronis Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia: cvm veris in Bvcolica, Georgica & Aeneida ... [Basileae]

[1575]

 USD - Unknown
946 VIRGIL Works. London

1654

 USD - Unknown
947 VIRGIL Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera. Londini

1658

 USD - Unknown
948 VIRGIL Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. Ex. Cod. Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta ab Antonio Ambrogi Florentino. Romae

1763

 USD - Unknown
949 VIRGIL P. Virgilii Maronis Opera. Parmae

1793

 USD - Unknown
950 VIRGIL P. Virgilivs Maro Varietate Lectionis et Perpetva Adnotatione Illvstratvs a Chr. Cotti. Heyne ... Lipsiae

1800

 USD - Unknown
951 VIRGIL Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta. Londini

1827

 USD - Unknown
952 VIRGIL Opera. Added engraved title-pages and other engravings. Lugduni Batavorum; apud Jacobum Hackium ...

USD - Unknown
953 VITRUVIUS POLLIO De Architectura Libri Decern traducti de latino in Vulgari affigurati. Como

July 15, 1521

 USD - Unknown
954 VITRUVIUS POLLIO Vitrvvivs Itervm et Frontinvs a Iocvndo Revisi Repvrgatiqve Qvantvm ex Collatione Licvit. [Florentiae]

[1513]

 USD - Unknown
955 VOLNEY, C. F. Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785, illustrated, 2 vols., 1787; New ... London

1787-1822

 USD - Unknown
956 VOULLIEME, ERNST Die Deutschen Drucker des Funfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin

1922

 USD - Unknown
957 VOULLIEME, ERNST Der Buchdruck Kolns bis zum ende des Funfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Bonn, 1903; Die Inkunabeln der ...

USD - Unknown
958 WALES. Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales . . . [London]

1841

 USD - Unknown
959 WALTON, IZAAK, and CHARLES COTTON The Compleat Angler. London

1888

 USD - Unknown
960 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s, with Postscript signed G. W--n,. Phila

1792

 USD - Unknown
961 Eliza Meteyard WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH. Life. From his Private Correspondence and Family Papers. London

1865-6

 USD - Unknown
962 WHEATLEY, HENRY B. Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum. London

1889

 USD - Unknown
963 WHERRY, E. M. A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran. London

1896

 USD - Unknown
964 WILKINSON, JOHN G. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. London

1837-41

 USD - Unknown
965 [WOOD, ROBERT] The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, 1753; The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise ... London

1753-7

 USD - Unknown
966 W. A. Chatto WOOD ENGRAVING. A Treatise on Wood Engraving. London

1861

 USD - Unknown
967 W. J. Linton WOOD ENGRAVING. The Masters of Wood-Engraving. New Haven

1889

 USD - Unknown
968 WYATT, M. DIGBY The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. London

1851

 USD - Unknown
969 XENOPHON [Title in Greek.] Xenophontis, Philosophi et Imperatoris Clarissimi, qvae exstant opera, in dvos ... Lvtetiae Parisiorvm

1625

 USD - Unknown
970 XENOPHON [This portion of the title in Greek.] Xenophontis. Opera. Quae extant Omnia. Oxonii

1703

 USD - Unknown
971 Jo. Gottlob Schneider XENOPHON. [Title in Greek.] Xenopnontis de Cyri Expeditione Commentarii. 1813; [Title in Greek ... Oxford

1810-7

 USD - Unknown
972 ZENOPHON Zenophontis quae Extant . . . et Interpretatus est Jo. Gottlob Schneider. Oxford

1810-7

 USD - Unknown
973 YARRELL, WILLIAM A History of British Birds. London

1839-46

 USD - Unknown
974 YEATS, WILLIAM B. Poems. London

1895

 USD - Unknown
975 ZOEGA, GIORGIO Li Bassirilievi Antichi di Roma. Roma

1808

 USD - Unknown
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
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