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
701	OVID	Metamorphoseos . . .	[Lugduni]	[1516]	USD -	Unknown
702	OVID	P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorvm Libri diligenti Emendatione . . .	[Impressum Tusculani]	[1527]	USD -	Unknown
703	OWEN, ROBERT	The Book of the New Moral World, 1836; presentation copy from the author; Lectures on the Rational ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
704	PAINE, THOMAS	A.L.s. T. Paine, with postscript signed with initials.	Lancaster	1778	USD -	Unknown
705	[PAINE, THOMAS]	The American Crisis.	[Philadelphia]	[1776]	USD -	Unknown
706	PAINE, THOMAS	Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, 1791: [And] Part the ...	London	1791-2	USD -	Unknown
707	[PAINE, THOMAS]	Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly.	Philadelphia	[1797]	USD -	Unknown
708	PAINE, THOMAS	Thomas Paine's Letters to the Citizens of the United States of America.	New York	1802	USD -	Unknown
709	[PAINE, THOMAS and others]	Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabitants of America (Paine), Phila, 1776; Plain Truth; addressed ...	V.p	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
710	PAINTER, WILLIAM	The Palace of Pleasure.	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
711		PAINTERS. Old Italian Masters (Stillman), 1892; Old Dutch and Flemish Masters (Van Dyke), 1895; Old ...	London	1892-1902	USD -	Unknown
712		PAINTERS, etc. Raphael (Crowe and Cavalcaselle), 2 vols., London, 1882; History of Art (Lubke), 2 ...			USD -	Unknown
713	John Chamberlaine	PAINTINGS. Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and ...	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
714		PAINTINGS, ARCHITECTURE, etc. The National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh, n.d.; The Alhambra ( ...			USD -	Unknown
715	Edited by B. Moritz	PALEAOGRAPHY. Arabic Palaeography. A Collection of Arabic Texts from the First Century of the Hejira ...	Cairo	1905	USD -	Unknown
716	PALLADIO, ANDREAS	The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books . . .	London.	1715	USD -	Unknown
717		PALLIDA, PETRUS DE . . . quartus sententiaru . . . [1518]; [blasius ortiz.] Hadriani ...	Parisiis	15[-18]28	USD -	12.50
718	PARK, MUNGO	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa . . .	London	1799	USD -	17.50
719	PAUSANIAS	With the Aldine anchor device on title-page and last page.	[Venetiis]	[1516]	USD -	70.00
720	PERROT, GEORGES and CHARLES CHIPIEZ	History of Ancient Egyptian Art, 2 vols., 1883; A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, 2 vols, 1884 ...	London.	1883-92	USD -	15.00
721		PERSIAN LITERATURE. A History of Persian Literature under the Tartar Dominion (Browne), Cambridge ...			USD -	15.00
722	PERSIUS, AULUS FLACCUS	Satirae. Cum Glossis Scipionis Ferrarii filii de Monteferrato.	[Venice]	[circa 1500, but assigned by the Gesamtkatalog to the xvi century]	USD -	40.00
723	PETRARCH, FRANCESCO	Triumphs.	London	1906	USD -	12.50
724	Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert S. Lanier	PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE.	New York	1911	USD -	30.00
725	PICART, BERNARD	Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, 9 vols., 1735-43; Superstitions ...	Amsterdam	1733-43	USD -	30.00
726	PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO	Della Institvtion Morale.	Venetia	1575	USD -	15.00
727	Edited by Sir Charles Wilson, and others	PICTURESQUE PALESTINE, Sinai and Egypt.	London	n.d.	USD -	7.50
728	PINDAR	[Portion of title in Greek.] Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia . . .	[Venetiis]	[1513]	USD -	47.50
729	PINDAR	[Portion of title in Greek.] Pindari. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachi hymni . . .	[Venetiis]	[1513]	USD -	20.00
730	PINDAR	[Title in Greek: Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, etc.]	Romae	[1515]	USD -	35.00
731	PINDAR	Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia.	Paris	1558	USD -	17.50
732	PIRANESI, G. B.	Le Antichita Romane Opera di Giambatista Piranesi Architetto.	Rome.	1756	USD -	60.00
733	PIRANESI, G. B. and F.	Opera.	Rome and Paris	1756-1807	USD -	200.00
734	PIRANESI, G. B. and F.	A collection of Works by G. B. and F. Piranesi.	Rome and Paris	1761-1804	USD -	100.00
735	PISTOLESI, ERASMO	Real Museo Borbonico. Descritto ed Illustrato. With numerous fine line engravings. 8 vols., 1838-44 ...	Roma	1836-44	USD -	17.50
736		PLANTIN PRESS. Biblia Hebraica.	Antverpiae	1584	USD -	20.00
737		PLANTIN PRESS. L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera, qvae exstant omnia: a Ivsto Lipsio, emendata, et ...	Antverpiae	1605	USD -	35.00
738	PLATO	[Part of title in Greek.] Omnia Platonis Opera.	[Venetiis]	[1513]	USD -	140.00
739	PLATO	[Portion of title in Greek.] Platonis Omnia Opera. Cvm Commentariis Procli in Timaeum & Politica ...	Basileae	1534	USD -	5.00
740	PLATO	[Title in Greek followed by:] Platonis Omnia Opera . . .	Basle	1534-9	USD -	15.00
741	PLATO	[Portion of title in Greek.] Platonis Opera quae extant Omnia.	[Paris:]	1578	USD -	50.00
742	PLATO	Dialogues of Plato.	Sandby	1767-80	USD -	22.50
743	PLATO	The Dialogues of Plato.	Oxford	1871	USD -	52.50
744	PLAUTUS, MARCUS ACCIUS	Comoediae xx recens ex collatione multorum codicum . . . diligentia recognitae.	Venice	August 14, 1511	USD -	65.00
745	PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS	Historia naturalis.	[Venice]	[(before 18 Sept.) 1469]	USD -	330.00
746	PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS	Naturae Historiarum libri xxxvii.	Venice	1497 [but not before February 13, 1498]	USD -	30.00
747	PLUMIER, P. CAROLO	Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera.	Parisiis	1703	USD -	17.50
748	PLUTARCH	Opuscula.	Venice	June 8, 1496	USD -	77.50
749	PLUTARCH	Opuscula.	Venice	March 1509	USD -	165.00
750	PLUTARCH	Sapientissimi Plutarchi parallelum, Vitae Romanorum & Graecorum Quadraginta nouem.	[Florentiae]	[1517]	USD -	170.00
751	PLUTARCH	Parallela. Hoc est Vitae illustrium Virorum Graeci Nominis ac Latini.	Venice	August 1519	USD -	67.50
752	PLUTARCH	La Prima [e secondo] Parte delle vite di Plvtarcho . . .	[Vinegia]	1537	USD -	10.00
753	PLUTARCH	Plutarchi Chaeronensis Vitae Parallelae cum singulis aliquot Graece et Latine.	Londini	1723-9	USD -	Unknown
754		POETAE GRAECI PRINCIPES Heroici Carminis, & alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Theocrit. &c ...	Paris	1566	USD -	Unknown
755		POETAE GRAECI PRINCIPES heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli. 717 leaves, the last a genuine blank ...			USD -	Unknown
756		POETAE GRAECI VETERES Carminis Heroici Scriptores, qvi extant, Omnes . . .	Avreliae Allobrogvm	1606	USD -	Unknown
757		POETRY. Poems and Letters in the Handwriting of Robert Burns. Saint Louis, 1908; The Poems of Sappho ...			USD -	Unknown
758		POLITICAL ECONOMY. Treatises and Essays on Subjects Connected with Economical Policy (McCulloch ...	Edinburgh and London	1853-1915	USD -	Unknown
759	POLYBIUS	Historiarvm.	Haganoae	1530	USD -	Unknown
760		POMPEII. Sir William Gell, and John P. Candy. Poemeiana, 2 vols., 1824; Another edition, 2 vols ...	London	1824-32	USD -	Unknown
761	POPE, ALEXANDER	The Iliad of Homer.	London	1715-26	USD -	Unknown
762	POPE, ALEXANDER	Translator. The Iliad of Homer.	London	1716-20	USD -	Unknown
763	POPE, ALEXANDER	Poetical Works.	Glasgow	1785	USD -	Unknown
764	POPE CLEMENT VI	Il Museo Pio-Clementino.	Roma	1732-92	USD -	Unknown
765	Edouard Garnier	PORCELAIN. The Soft Porcelain of Sevres.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
766		PORCELAIN. Festive Publication to commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory ...	[Meissen]	1910	USD -	Unknown
767		POTTERY AND PORCELAIN (Hannover), London, 1925; Japanese Marks and Seals (Bowes), London, n.d.; A ...	London	1910-25	USD -	Unknown
768		PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, A (Wood), London, [1838]; History and Description of the Ancient ...			USD -	Unknown
769		PRESSES. Echoes from the City of the Sun (Ashbee) [London: Essex House Press, 1905]; De Cupidinis et ...			USD -	Unknown
770		PRESSES. The Little Flowers of S. Francis of Assisi. London: Florence Press, 1909; Volsunga Saga ( ...			USD -	Unknown
771	PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH	Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, throughout Great Britain ...	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
772		PRINCE, OR MAXIMS OF STATE, THE. (Raleigh), London, 1642; His Majesties Declaration to All His ...			USD -	Unknown
773	S. L. Sotheby	PRINTING. The Typography of the Fifteenth Century.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
774		PRIVATE PRESSES, etc. Comus, a Mask (Milton) [London: Essex House, 1901]; one of 115 copies on ...			USD -	Unknown
775		PSALMS OF DAVID. Illuminated by Owen Jones [London], n.d.; Missale Romanum, London, 1869; in sheets ...			USD -	Unknown
776		PSALTERIUM Graece et Latine . . .	Basileae	1549	USD -	Unknown
777		PSALTERIUM QUINCUPLEX. Qvincvplex Psalterium. Gallicum. Romanum. Hebraicum. Vetus. Conciliatu.	[Parisiis]	[1509]	USD -	Unknown
778		PUNICORUM LIBRI SEPTEMDECIM . . . Curante Arnoldo Drakenborch (Silius Italicus), Traject, 1717 ...			USD -	Unknown
779	QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS F.	Institutionum Oratoriarum libri xii diligentius recogniti MDXXII . . .	[Venetiis]	[1514] [1522?]	USD -	Unknown
780	QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS F.	Oratoriaru institutionu Liber primus probe castigatus.	[Lipsiae]	[1518]	USD -	Unknown
781	QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS F.	M. Fabii Quinctiliani de Institutione Oratoria. Libri Duodecim, cum Notis et Animadversionibus ...	Lugduni Batavorum	1720	USD -	Unknown
782	RALEIGH, SIR WALTER	The Historie of the World.	London, [Colophon]	1614, [1634]	USD -	Unknown
783	RAPHAEL	Delle Logee di Raffael nel Vaticano.	Romae	17[72-]90	USD -	Unknown
784	RAPHAEL	Suite d'Etudes calquees et dessinees d'apres Cinq Tableaux de Raphael . . .	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
785		RECORDS OF THE PAST: being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, 12 vols. [ ...	London	[1873-92]	USD -	Unknown
786		REGIMONTANUS, JOHANNES [Johannes Muller from Konigsberg].	Venice	August 31, 1496	USD -	Unknown
787	Edited by Llewellynn Jewitt	RELIQUARY, THE.	London	[1861]	USD -	5.00
788	RENOUARD, ANTOINE A.	Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs Editions.	Paris	1803	USD -	7.50
789	RENOUARD, ANTOINE A.	Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de leurs Editions.	Paris	1834	USD -	45.00
790		RHETORES, GRAECI, scilicet: Apthonii Sophistae progymnasmata; Hermogenis ars Rhetorica; Aristotelis ...	[Venetiis]	[1508-9]	USD -	100.00
791	RICARDO, DAVID	On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation.	London	1817	USD -	22.50
792		RICCARDI PRESS. Qvinto Horati Flacci Opera Omnia.	[London]	[1910]	USD -	5.00
793	ROBERTS, DAVID	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. With Historical Descriptions by the Rev. George ...	London	1842-9	USD -	200.00
794	ROBERTSON, WILLIAM	Works.	London	1851	USD -	20.00
795	ROGERS, BRUCE	The Banquet of Plato.	[Cambridge:]	1909	USD -	32.50
796	Frederic G. Kenyon	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries.	Chicago	1927	USD -	12.50
797		ROGUE, THE, or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache (Aleman), London, 1656; The Roman Campagna (Cervesato ...			USD -	Unknown
798	ROSSINI, LUIGI	L'Antichita Romane.	[Rome]	[1820-3]	USD -	17.50
799	ROUSSEAU, JEAN J.	Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondemens de l'Inegalite parmi les Homines.	Amsterdam	1755	USD -	10.00
800	ROUSSEAU, JEAN J.	Du Contract Social; ou, Principes du Droit Politique.	Amsterdam	1762	USD -	130.00

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