Parke Bernet: Four Centuries of French Literature, mainly in superb bindings by old and modern masters illuminated manuscripts, Incunabula Drawings, Miniatures, Americana and other choice items. Collection of Mrs Henry Walters. Public Sale April 23, April 24, April 25., 278,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 23, 1941 - April 23, 1941
Page Size: 1267 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 A'BECKETT, GILBERT A. The Comic History of England, 2 vols. extended from one, n.d.; The Comic History of Rome, n.d. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
2 ABOUT, EDMOND Le Roi des Montagnes. Paris

1883

USD - Unknown
3 ABOUT, EDMOND Le Nez d'un Notaire. Paris

1886

USD - Unknown
4 ABOUT, EDMOND Les Manages de Paris. Paris

1887

USD - Unknown
5 ACOSTA, S. J. JOSEPH D' De Natvra Novi Orbis Libri Dvo, et de Promvlgatione Evangelii Apvd Barbaras, siue, De Procvranda ... Cologne

1596

USD - Unknown
6 AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H. A collection of the writings of William H. Ainsworth. London

1836-81

USD - Unknown
7 A'KEMPIS, THOMAS De Imitatione Christi. Lyons

circa 1652

USD - Unknown
8 A'KEMPIS, THOMAS De Imitatione Christi. Lvgdvni

n. d.

USD - Unknown
9 Jean Gerson [A'KEMPIS, THOMAS] De Limitation de Jesus-Christ. Paris

1869

USD - Unknown
10 ALAMANNI, LUIGI La Coltivatione al Christianissimo Re Francesco Primo. Paris

1546

USD - Unknown
11 ALCIATUS, ANDREAS Los Emblemas Traducidos en rhimas Espanolas Anadidos de figuras y de nueuos Emblemas en la tercera ... Lyons

1549

USD - Unknown
12 ALCIATUS, ANDREAS Emblemata denuo ab ipso Autore recognita, ac, quae desiderabantur, imaginibus locupletata ... Lyons

1551

USD - Unknown
13 ALCIATUS, ANDREAS Omnio Andreae Alciati V. C. Emblemata: Cum commentariis, quibus Emblematum omnium aperta origine ... Parisiis

1583

USD - Unknown
14 ALCIPHRON. Epistle's; in which are described the Domestic Manners, the Courtesans, and Parasites of ... London

1791

USD - Unknown
15 ALDEGREVER, HEINRICH Hercules. N. p.

[1550]

USD - Unknown
16 ALDINE POETS A Complete Set of the Pickering Editions of the Aldine Poets. London

1830-45

USD - Unknown
17 ALDUS CLASSICS. London

1903

USD - Unknown
18 ALDUS PRESS. Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica. Venice

1523

USD - Unknown
19 ALEXANDER AB ALEXANDRO Genialium dierum Libri sex. Editio Vltima. Lyons

1616

USD - Unknown
20 N. Kondakow [ALEXANDER III OF RUSSIA] Histoire et Monuments des Emaux Byzantins. Francfort-sur-Mein

1892

USD - Unknown
21 ALEXIS, PAUL Le Collage. Brussels

1883

USD - Unknown
22 ALISON, ARCHIBALD History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons ...

USD - Unknown
23 ALLEN, CHARLES D. A Classified List of Early American Book-Plates. New York

1894

USD - Unknown
24 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee MDCCXLII. Paris

1742

USD - Unknown
25 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee M.DCCXLII. Paris

1742

USD - Unknown
26 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee M.DCC.LXII. Paris

1762

USD - Unknown
27 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee M.DCC.LXXIX. Paris

1779

USD - Unknown
28 ALMANAC. Les Muses ou Porte-Feuille d'une Jolie Femme avec Tablettes Economiques Perte et Gain. Paris

[1779]

USD - Unknown
29 ALMANAC. Etrennes Mignonnes, curieuses et utiles pour l'Annee 1779. Paris

1779

USD - Unknown
30 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee M.DCC.LXXXVI. Paris

[1787]

USD - Unknown
31 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Annee M.DCC.LXXXIX. Paris

[1789]

USD - Unknown
32 ALMANAC. Goettinger Taschen Calender vom Jahr 1789. [Gottingen]

1789

USD - Unknown
33 ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Anne Bissextile M.DCCXCII. Paris

[1792]

USD - Unknown
34 ALMANACS. Almanach de Normandie pour l'Annee 1751. Engraved title-page. Rouen [1751]; Almanach de la ...

USD - Unknown
35 ALMANACS. Protogiornale. Ad uso della Serenissima Dominante Citta' di Venezia, 1759-68, 10 vols ... Venezia

[1759-97]

USD - Unknown
36 ALMANACS. A collection of 26 American Almanacs, described below. V. p.

[1791-1810]

USD - Unknown
37 ALTAR BOOK, THE. Containing the Order for the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist according to the use ... [Boston]

[1896]

USD - Unknown
38 AMERICAN MINIATURES. 1730-1850 (Wehle), Garden City, 1927; Early American Portraiture (Sherman), N ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
39 AMERICAN PAINTERS. Fifty-Eight Paintings by Homer D. Martin (Carroll), N. Y., 1923; 2 copies; George ... New York

v. d.

USD - Unknown
40 J. Chas and Lebrun AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Histoire Politique et Philosophique de la Revolution de l'Amerique ... Paris

An IX [1801]

USD - Unknown
41 William L. Andrews AMERICAN REVOLUTION. An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War. New York

1896

USD - Unknown
42 AMICO, FRA BERNARDINO, da Gallipoli (ord. Min) Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa Disegnate in Ierusalemme secondo le ... Florence

1620

USD - Unknown
43 AMOUR, BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'. Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs a l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage et ... Turin

1871

USD - Unknown
44 AMOURS OF THE CHEVALIER DE FAUBLAS, THE (Louvet de Couvray), 4 vols., London, 1822 [reprint]; The ...

USD - Unknown
45 AMOURS (LES) du Grand Alcandre (Mlle. de Guise), 2 vols., 1786; folding table at end (repaired); L' ... Paris

1786-92

USD - Unknown
46 ANACREON Sapho, Bion et Moschus, Traduction nouvelle en Prose, suivie de la Veillee des Fetes de Venus, et d' ... Paphos, et se trouve a Paris

1773

USD - Unknown
47 John Carter ANCIENT SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. Specimens of the Ancient Sculpture and Painting, now remaining in ... London

1786-7

USD - Unknown
48 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. Roger Payne and his Art. A Short Account of his Life and Work as a Binder. New York

1892

USD - Unknown
49 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. The Bradford Map. New York

1893

USD - Unknown
50 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
51 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
52 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War. New York

1896

USD - Unknown
53 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War. New York

1896

USD - Unknown
54 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York. New York

1897

USD - Unknown
55 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York. New York

1897

USD - Unknown
56 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in England. . . . New York

1897

USD - Unknown
57 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. Fragments of American History. New York

1898

USD - Unknown
58 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature. New York

1898

USD - Unknown
59 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. Sextodecimos et infra. New York

1899

USD - Unknown
60 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. James Lyne's Survey; or, as it is more commonly known The Bradford Map. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
61 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. The Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden. New York

1901

USD - Unknown
62 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. Paul Revere and his Engraving. New York

1901

USD - Unknown
63 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. The Treatyse of Fysshinge wyth an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans. [New York]

[1903]

USD - Unknown
64 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution. New York

1905

USD - Unknown
65 ANDREWS, WILLIAM L. An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole, and Binder of Angling Books. New York

1906

USD - Unknown
66 ANNALS OF ENGLAND, THE. 3 Vols., Oxford, 1855; Works (Rabelais), 2 vols., London, 1854; Works ( ...

USD - Unknown
67 ANNEE Chretienne contenant les messes des Dimanches, Feries & Fetes de toute l'Annee. Paris

1712

USD - Unknown
68 [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA] Florilegivm Diversorvm Epigrammatvm in Septem Libros. [Venetiis]

[1503]

USD - Unknown
69 ANTIQUE GEMS FROM THE GREEK AND LATIN. Philadelphia

[1901]

USD - Unknown
70 APOLLON et les Muses. Calendrier pour l'Annee 1807. Paris

1806

USD - Unknown
71 APULEIUS, LUCIUS Les Metamorphoses ou l'Asne d'Or. Paris

1648

USD - Unknown
72 APULEIUS, LUCIUS The New Metamorphosis; or, the Pleasant Transformation. London

1708

USD - Unknown
73 APULEIUS, LUCIUS The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works, of Apuleius. London

1822

USD - Unknown
74 APULEIUS, LUCIUS The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, of Apuleius. London

1822 [1893]

USD - Unknown
75 ARABIAN NIGHTS. London

1802

USD - Unknown
76 ARABIC MANUSCRIPT.

Probably late XIX Century

USD - Unknown
77 ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO Orlando Fvrioso de M. Ivdovico Ariosto, Tradvzido en Romance Castel . . . En Leon

1556

USD - Unknown
78 ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto. Birmingham

1773

USD - Unknown
79 ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO Roland Furieux. Paris

1844

USD - Unknown
80 ARISTIDES Orationes [graece, edente Euphrosyno Bonino]. [Florentiae]

[1517]

USD - Unknown
81 Joseph Skelton ARMOR. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick ... London

1830

USD - Unknown
82 Sir Guy Francis Laking ARMOR. A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries. London

1920-2

USD - Unknown
83 Oswald F. Trapp ARMOR. The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg. London

[1929]

USD - Unknown
84 ARMORIAL BINDING. Versi di Giuseppe Ceva Grimaldi a Raffaele Petra. Naples

1833

USD - Unknown
85 Bashford Dean ARMS. Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords, including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs ... New York

1929

USD - Unknown
86 Bashford Dean ARMS. Catalogue of European Daggers, including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York

1929

USD - Unknown
87 ARMS AND ARMOR. Sammlung Henri Moser-Charlottenfels. Leipzig

1912

USD - Unknown
88 Erich Haenel ARMS AND ARMOR. Kostbare Waffen aus der Dresdener Rustkammer. Leipzig

1923

USD - Unknown
89 ARREST DE LA COURT DE PARLEMENT, Portant condemnation capitale contre Symon du May: Et declaration d ... Lyons

1566

USD - Unknown
90 ART. Apercu General de l'Evolution de la Sculpture (Sambon), Paris, 1931; Scarabs (Hall), London ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
91 W. Roberts ART SALES. Memorials of Christie's. A Record of Art Sales from 1766 to 1896. London

1897

USD - Unknown
92 ASHBURNHAM, EARL OF. Catalogue of the Portion of Manuscripts known as the Appendix made by the ... London

1899-1901

USD - Unknown
93 Antonio Zatta ATLAS. Atlante Novissimo. Vols. 1, 3, and 4, only. Venezia

1779-84

USD - Unknown
94 [AUBIGNE, THEODORE-AGRIPPA D'.] Les Avantvres dv Baron de Faeneste, Comprinses en quatre Parties. Les trois premieres reveues ...

1630

USD - Unknown
95 AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE. Chantefable du Douzieme Siecle. Paris

1878

USD - Unknown
96 AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE. London

1888

USD - Unknown
97 AUDUBON, JOHN J. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York

1856

USD - Unknown
98 AUDUBON, JOHN J. AND JOHN BACHMAN The Quadrupeds of North America. New York

1856

USD - Unknown
99 AVENTURES ROMANESQUES (LES) d'un Comte d'Artois. D'apres un ancien Manuscrit. Paris

1883

USD - Unknown
100 BADAUDERIES PARISIENNES. Les Rassemblements Physiologies de la Rue. Paris

1896

USD - Unknown
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