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
801	ROUSSEAU, JEAN J.	Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise.	Paris	1845	USD -	27.50
802		ROYAL GALLERY OF ART, THE.	London	n.d.	USD -	7.50
803	Walter A. Hawley	RUGS. Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern.	New York	1913	USD -	12.50
804	RUSKIN, JOHN	Modern Painters.	London	1846-60	USD -	30.00
805	RUSKIN, JOHN	Fors Clavigera.	Sunnyside	1871-87	USD -	7.50
806	RUSKIN, JOHN	Fors Clavigera.	Sunnyside	1871-87	USD -	7.50
807	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Stones of Venice.	London	1874	USD -	5.00
808	RUSKIN, JOHN	Poems.	London	1891	USD -	7.50
809	Thomas J. Wise and James P. Smart	[RUSKIN, JOHN.] A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin.	London	1893	USD -	7.50
810	RUSKIN, JOHN	Praeterita.	Oppington	1900	USD -	5.00
811	SAINT-PIERRE, J. H. BERNARDIN DE.	Paul et Virginie. [Also] La Chaumiere Indienne.	Paris	1838	USD -	45.00
812	SAINTE-CROIX, LE ROY DE.	Le Chant de Guerre pour l'Armee du Rhin ou La Marseillaise.	Strasbourg	1880	USD -	60.00
813	SALERNO, A. DE.	Regimen Sanitatis Salerni: or, the Schools of Salernes Regiment of Health . . .	London	1634	USD -	8.00
814	SALLUSTIUS, CRISPUS C.	Historia Conjuratio Catilinae et Belli Jugurthini.	Italy (?)	1430	USD -	210.00
815	SAMAIN, ALBERT	Xanthis ou La Vitrine Sentimentale.	Paris	1917	USD -	Unknown
816	SAVONAROLA. HIERONYMUS	Epistola a Madonna Magdalena Contessa della Mirandola.	[Firenze]	[1497]	USD -	Unknown
817	SCATTAGIA, INNOCENT AND PIETRO	Descrizioni deglie Corrispondenti alle cinquanta Figure contenute in questo . . . de' Quadrupedi.	Venezia	1771-5	USD -	55.00
818		SCHOLEMASTER, THE (Assham), London, 1571; The Third [and] Fourth Part of the Soveraigne Power of ...			USD -	45.00
819	SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY R.	Historical and Statistical Information respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian ...	Philadelphia	1851-4	USD -	Unknown
820		SCOTLAND. Scotland Delineated.	Edinburgh	1854	USD -	Unknown
821	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising specimens of Architecture and Sculpture ...	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
822		SCOTTISH BURGH RECORDS SOCIETY.	Edinburgh and Glasgow	1869-82	USD -	Unknown
823	[SCRIPTORES ASTRONOMICI VETERES]	Aratus Solensis Phaenomena cum commentariis.	[Venice]	[1499]	USD -	Unknown
824	[Edited by Georgius Menila]	SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Cato. Varro. Columella.	[Venetiis]	[1472]	USD -	Unknown
825		SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE veteres Latini Cato, Varro, Colvmella, Palladivs . . . cum notis variorum et ...	Lipsiae	1735	USD -	Unknown
826		SCULPTURE. Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: Selected from ...	London	1809-35	USD -	Unknown
827	SEEBOHM, HENRY	A History of British Birds.	London	1883-5	USD -	Unknown
828		SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY of the Principal Modern Presses, Public and Private in Great Britain and Ireland ...			USD -	Unknown
829		SELECT VIEWS IN GREECE (Williams), 2 vols. in one, 1829; Italian Scenery, from Drawings made in 1817 ...	London.	1820-9	USD -	Unknown
830	SENECA, L. A.	Workes.	London	1614	USD -	Unknown
831	SENECA, L. A. L.	Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera Qvae Exstant Omnia: a Ivsto Lipsio Emendata et Scholiis Illvstrata.	Antverpiae	1652	USD -	Unknown
832	[SEPTUAGINTA GRAECA]	Divinae Scripturae, ueteris noueq; omnia.	Argentorati	1526	USD -	Unknown
833	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Dramatic Works.	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
834	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	The Plays of William Shakespeare.	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
835	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
836	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Shakespeare as put forth in 1623. A Reprint of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories ...	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
837	SHARPE, R. BOWDLER	Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-Birds.	London	1891-8	USD -	Unknown
838	SHARPE, R. BOWDLER	Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae or Bower-Birds.	London	1891-8	USD -	Unknown
839	[SHAW, G. BERNARD]	Fabian Tracts, nos. 1 to 219 (irregular), about 70 nos. bound in 1 vol, and 4 loose nos, Westminster ...			USD -	Unknown
840	SHAW, HENRY	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
841	SHAW, HENRY	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
842	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, in Twelve Cantos, 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by ...	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
843	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Queen Mab.	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
844	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Queen Mab.	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
845	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Posthumous Poems.	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
846	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
847	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
848	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Poetical Works.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
849	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose . . .	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
850	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Poetical Works, 3 vols, 1885; one of 200 copies; The Life of Percy B. Shelley (Dowden), 2 vols, 1886 ...	London	1885-6	USD -	Unknown
851	SHELLEY. PERCY B.	The Complete Poetical Works, 3 vols, 1894; Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy B ...	London	1892-4	USD -	Unknown
852	SILIUS ITALICUS, CAIUS	Punicorum. Libri Septemdecim . . . curante Arnoldo Drakenborch.	Trajecti ad Rhenum	1717	USD -	Unknown
853		SILVER AND VELVET BINDING. [Evangel.]	[Lemberg]	[1690]	USD -	Unknown
854	SILVESTRE, M. J. V.	Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of all Nations and Periods. Translated from the ...	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
855	SKELTON, SIR JOHN	Charles i. Colored frontispiece and other plates.	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
856	SKELTON, JOSEPH	Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata, 2 vols.; Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of ...	Oxford	1823	USD -	Unknown
857	SMITH, ADAM	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.	London	1776	USD -	Unknown
858	SMITH, HENRY S.	The History of the Art of Writing.			USD -	Unknown
859	SMITH, SIR JAMES A. and JOHN ABBOT	The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia . . .	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
860	SMITH, WILLIAM, Editor	A Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols., 1863; A Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1878; A ...	London	1863-80	USD -	Unknown
861	Francis C. Penrose	SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI, THE. An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture.	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
862		SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON. Vetusta Monumenta: quae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam ...			USD -	Unknown
863	SOPHOCLES	Tragoediae septem, cum commentariis.	[Venetiis]	[1502]	USD -	Unknown
864	SOPHOCLES	Quae Exstant Omnia, cum Veterum Grammaticorum Scholiis . . .	Argentorati	1786	USD -	Unknown
865	[Edited by] Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck . . .	SOPHOCLES. Sophoclis quae exstant omnia cum veterum Grammaticorum Scholiis. Superstites Tragoedias ...	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
866	SOPHOCLES	Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem; ad optimorum exemplarium fidem ac praecipue Codicis Vetustissimi ...	Oxford	1826	USD -	Unknown
867	SOPHOCLES	Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem . . . cum annotatione tantum non integra Brunckii et Schaeferi . . .	Oxford	1826	USD -	Unknown
868		SPECTATOR, THE, 8 vols, n.d.; Poems (Ossian), 3 vols, 1805; Works (Byron), 6 vols., 1817; Works ( ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
869		SPEECHES (Erskine), 4 vols., London, 1810; Caroli Sigonii de Antiquo Jure Civium Romanorum, Venetiis ...			USD -	Unknown
870	SPEED, JOHN	The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.	London	1611	USD -	Unknown
871	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Faerie Queene, Disposed into xiii.	London	1609	USD -	Unknown
872	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, Edm ...	London	1611	USD -	Unknown
873	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, Edm ...	[London]	1617	USD -	Unknown
874	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmund Spenser . . . Whereunto is added An Account of his ...	London	1679	USD -	Unknown
875	SPENSER, EDMUND	A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie.	London	1896-7	USD -	Unknown
876	SPENSER, EDMUND	Epithalamion and Amoretti.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
877	William Y. Ottley, and Peltro W. Tomkins	STAFFORD COLLECTION. Engravings of the Most Noble The Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures ...	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
878	William Y. Ottley, and Peltro W. Tomkins	STAFFORD GALLERY. Engravings of the Most Noble The Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in ...	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
879	STATHAM [or STRATHAM], NICHOLAS	Abridgement of Cases. [Anglo-French of the Law Courts].	[Rouen:]	[1490]	USD -	Unknown
880		STATUES AND PAINTINGS. A collection of 98 engravings of famous paintings and statues, engraved by ...			USD -	Unknown
881	STAUNFORDE, SIR WILLIAM	An exposition of the Kinges Prerogatiue collected out of the great abridgement of Iustice ...	London	1573	USD -	Unknown
882	STEPHANUS, HENRICUS	Thesaurus Graecae Linguae.	London	1816-23	USD -	Unknown
883	STIRLING-MAXWELL, SIR WILLIAM	Annals of the Artists of Spain.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
884	STRABO	Strabonis Rervm Geographicarvm. Libri xvii . . .	Lutetiae	1620	USD -	Unknown
885	STRABO	[Portion of title in Greek.] Rerum geographicum, libri xvii.	Amstelaedami	1707	USD -	Unknown
886	STUART, JAMES and NICHOLAS REVETT	The Antiquities of Athens.	London	1762-1316	USD -	Unknown
887	STUART, JAMES, and NICHOLAS REVETT	The Antiquities of Athens.	London	1825-30	USD -	Unknown
888	SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS	Vitae xii Caesarum.	[Venice]	[1471]	USD -	Unknown
889	SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS	De Vita xii Caesarum.	[Venetiis]	[1506]	USD -	Unknown
890	SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS	Opera.	Leovardiae	1714-5	USD -	Unknown
891		SUIDAS. Lexicon Graecum [Greek].	Milan	November 15, 1499	USD -	Unknown
892	SWAN, JOSEPH	The Lakes of Scotland . . .	Glasgow	1834	USD -	Unknown
893	TACITUS, C. CORNELIUS	Opera.	[Venice]	[circa 1470]	USD -	Unknown
894	TACITUS, C. CORNELIUS	Opera Qvae Exstant a Ivsto Lipsio . . .	Antverpiae	1668	USD -	Unknown
895	TEMMINCK, C. J. and M. LAUGIER DE CHARTROUSE	Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriees d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complement aux Planches ...	Paris	1838	USD -	Unknown
896	TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD	The Princess; a Medley.	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
897	TERENCE. P.	Terentii Afri Comoediae Sex . . . Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius.	Hagae-Comitum	1726	USD -	Unknown
898	TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS S.	Tertvlliani Apologeticvs Adversus Gentes.	[Florentiae]	[1513]	USD -	Unknown
899		THEATRE DU MONDE (Richer), 4 vols, Paris, 1788; with half-titles in vols. I and II; Les Crimes des ...			USD -	Unknown
900	THEOCRITUS	[Eclogae. With Other Tracts. Title in Greek.]	[Venetiis]	[1495]	USD -	Unknown

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