Parke Bernet: BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MSS OF SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. THE SPLENDID COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE ALAN N. MENDLESON, NEW YORK. TOGETHER WITH STANDARD SETS, FINE BINDINGS, FIRST EDITION, PRESS AND OTHER BOOKS. BELONGING TO ESTATE OF A DECEASED CALIFORNIA COLLECTO, 1719,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 11, 1956 - December 11, 1956
Page Size: 553 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ADVIS FIDELLE aux Veritables Hollandois. [Amsterdam]

1673

USD 7.50 - 7.50 Unknown
2 Richard E. Byrd AERONAUTICS. Skyward, 1928; Little America, 1930; Discovery. The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic ... New York

1928-38

USD 32.50 - 32.50 Unknown
3 AERONAUTICS. We (Lindberg, 1928; 20 Hrs. 40 Min.--Our Flight in the Friendship (Earhart), 1928 ... New York

1928

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
4 C. Cochelet AFRICA. Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Sophia, on the 30th of May, 1819, on the Western Coast of ... London

1822

USD 4.00 - 4.00 Unknown
5 ALBUM. Album containing 31 original drawings in pencil and watercolor representing portraits of ... France

circa 1880

USD 210.00 - 210.00 Unknown
6 ALBUM. Album containing about 97 items, of which about 85 arc original drawings of various kinds in ...

USD 110.00 - 110.00 Unknown
7 ALLEMAGNE, H. R. D. Le Noble Jeu de l'Oie en France, de 1840 a 1950. Paris

1950

USD 8.00 - 8.00 Unknown
8 F. Kimball AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver, The Architect of Salem. Portland, Maine

1940

USD 32.50 - 32.50 Unknown
9 AMERICAN HUMOR. Manuscript entitled Adventures of General Corilanus Flam, or Humours of Camp ... (Mendleson)

1862

USD 27.50 - 27.50 Unknown
10 ANTHROPOLOGY. Bulletins de la Societe d'Anlhropologic de Paris. First Series, vols. 2-6. 5 vols ... Paris

1861-1900

USD 130.00 - 130.00 Unknown
11 APULEIUS. De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis. [London]

[1901]

USD 22.50 - 22.50 Unknown
12 Capt. F. W. Beechey ARCTIC. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait. London

1831

USD 25.00 - 25.00 Unknown
13 Lieut. E. Chappell ARCTIC. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador. London

1818

USD 12.50 - 12.50 Unknown
14 John, Franklin ARCTIC. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London

1823

USD 15.00 - 15.00 Unknown
15 Capt. K. Koldewey ARCTIC. The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa in the ... London

1874

USD 15.00 - 15.00 Unknown
16 A. MacKenzie ARCTIC. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to ... London

1801

USD 32.50 - 32.50 Unknown
17 Capt. W. E. Parry ARCTIC. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to ... London

1824

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
18 Sir J. Ross ARCTIC. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the ... London

1835

USD 17.50 - 17.50 Unknown
19 Capt. Sir James C. Ross ARCTIC. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years ... London

1847

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
20 W. Scoresby ARCTIC. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on ... Edinburgh

1823

USD 27.50 - 27.50 Unknown
21 ARMS CONFERENCE MEMORIAL PORTFOLIO. [World War I]

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
22 [AUSTEN, JANE] Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. London

1818

USD 140.00 - 140.00 Unknown
23 AUSTEN, JANE Novels. Edinburgh

1911

USD 60.00 - 60.00 Unknown
24 BACON, SIK FRANCIS, and F. Godwin The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary. London

1676

USD 7.50 - 7.50 Unknown
25 BALZAC, HONORE DE Novels. Philadelphia

n.d.

USD 70.00 - 70.00 Unknown
26 BATTLE OF THE BIG HOLE (Shields), Chicago, 1889; Sketches of the Naval History of the United States ...

USD 17.00 - 17.00 Unknown
27 Sir T. Malory [BEARDSLEY, A.] The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table. [London]

1893-94

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
28 BEERBOHM, MAX Zuleika Dobson. London

1911

USD 37.50 - 37.50 Unknown
29 BEOWULF. Verse translation by W. E. Leonard. 8 lithographs by Rockwell Kent. N. Y., 1932; limited ...

USD 5.00 - 5.00 Unknown
30 BEWICK, T. Figures of British Land Birds, engraved on wood by T. Bewick, to which are added, a few Foreign ... Newcastle Upon Tyne

1800

USD 22.50 - 22.50 Unknown
31 BIBLE IN ROMANSCH. La Sacra Biblia; quai ais Tuot la Sancta Scrittuera. Scuol

1679-78

USD 27.50 - 27.50 Unknown
32 I. Walton and C. Cotton BINDING. The Complete Angler . . . London

1815

USD 125.00 - 125.00 Unknown
33 Charles Pickering BINDING. The Races of Man. London

1850

USD 17.50 - 17.50 Unknown
34 Charles, Kingsley BINDING. The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. London

1909

USD 250.00 - 250.00 Unknown
35 S. Pepys BINDING. Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. London

1927

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
36 BINDING. The Beauties of the Bosphorus; by Miss Pardoe, from drawings by William H. Bartlett. London

circa 1850

USD 5.00 - 5.00 Unknown
37 Eleazar Albin BIRDS. A Natural History of Birds . . . to which are added, Notes and Observations by W. Derham. London

1738-40

USD 110.00 - 110.00 Unknown
38 M. P. Boitard and Corbie BIRDS. Les Pigeons de Voliere et de Colombier, ou Histoire Naturelle et Monographie des Pigeons ... Paris

1824

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Unknown
39 G. J. Broinowski BIRDS. The Birds of Australia . . . with a Descriptive Account of the Life and Characteristic Habits ... Melbourne

1890-91

USD 175.00 - 175.00 Unknown
40 William L. Dawson BIRDS. The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and ... New York

1940

USD 47.50 - 47.50 Unknown
41 Daniel G. Elliot BIRDS. A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise. [London]

1873

USD 800.00 - 800.00 Unknown
42 E. H. Forbush BIRDS. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England States. [Boston]

1925-29

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Unknown
43 F. Du C. Godman BIRDS. A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubin-ares). London

1907-10

USD 225.00 - 225.00 Unknown
44 John Gould BIRDS. A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains. London

1831

USD 450.00 - 450.00 Unknown
45 F. Levaillant BIRDS. Histoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amerique et des Indes. Paris

1801

USD 55.00 - 55.00 Unknown
46 J. G. Millais BIRDS. British Diving Ducks. London

1913

USD 75.00 - 75.00 Unknown
47 James Wilson BIRDS, ETC. Illustrations of Zoology, being Representations of New, Rare or Remarkable Subjects of ... Edinburgh

1831

USD 150.00 - 150.00 Unknown
48 William Hayley [BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. Chichester

1803-4

USD 7.50 - 7.50 Unknown
49 BOISSARD, JANUS JACOBUS De divinatione & magicis praestigiis. Oppenheimi

[circa 1615]

USD 65.00 - 65.00 Unknown
50 C. Roger-Marx [BONNARD, P.] Bonnard Lithographe. Monte Carlo

1952

USD 17.50 - 17.50 Unknown
51 J. G. T. Graesse BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Tresor de Livres Rares et Precieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique. Milano

[1950]

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
52 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Book-Lover's Enchiridion. London

1888

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
53 Thomas J. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Wise in the Original Cloth (Partington), Lond. [1916]; Letters of Thomas J. Wise ...

USD 9.00 - 9.00 Unknown
54 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Description of the Early Printed Books owned by the Grolier Club, 1895 ... New York

1895-1952

USD 15.00 - 15.00 Unknown
55 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Bibliographical Catalogue . . . of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Locke), 1928; A ... London

v.d.

USD 5.00 - 5.00 Unknown
56 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Check List of Fifteenth Century Books in the Newberry Library (Butler), Chicago ...

USD 13.00 - 13.00 Unknown
57 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens (Eckel), N. Y., 1932; The ...

USD 9.00 - 9.00 Unknown
58 BOOK FANCIER, THE (Fitzgerald), Lond., 1886; Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers (Cooper ...

USD 25.00 - 25.00 Unknown
59 BOOK OF POETRY (Markham), 2 vols., N. Y., 1927; Geography; the Story of the World We Live In (Van ...

USD 17.50 - 17.50 Unknown
60 BOSWELL, JAMES The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD. London

1791

USD 85.00 - 85.00 Unknown
61 BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator; being an Epitome of Navigation . . . From the Best Authorities ... Newburyport

1802-04

USD 160.00 - 160.00 Unknown
62 BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New Practical Navigator . . . New York

Aug. 1817

USD 40.00 - 40.00 Unknown
63 BRONTE SISTERS. Novels. Edinburgh

1911

USD 65.00 - 65.00 Unknown
64 Rolf Bolderwood [BROWNE, T. A.] Robbery Under Arms. A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and the Goldfields of ... London

1888

USD 70.00 - 70.00 Unknown
65 BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. Poetical Works. London

1889

USD 27.50 - 27.50 Unknown
66 BROWNING, ROBERT Complete Works. With an Introductory Essay by W. Y. Phelps. New York

n.d.

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
67 Samuel Silvestre de Sacy Dix Legendes en Marge du Livre. Paris

1930

USD 17.50 - 17.50 Unknown
68 BUDGE, SIR E. A. W., Translator Legends of Our Lady Mary the Perpetual Virgin & her Mother Hanna. London

n.d.

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
69 BULLEN, A. H., Editor Musa Proterva: Love Poems of the Restoration. London

1889

USD 52.50 - 52.50 Unknown
70 BULWER, LYTTON, E. Works. London

n.d.

USD 20.00 - 20.00 Unknown
71 BURKE, EDMUND Works. London

1815-16

USD 25.00 - 25.00 Unknown
72 BUTLER, SAMUEL The Genuine Poetical Remains of Samuel Butler. London

1827

USD 5.00 - 5.00 Unknown
73 BYRON, GEORGE G., LORD Works. London

1832

USD 45.00 - 45.00 Unknown
74 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, THE, 14 vols., N. Y., n.d.; The Cambridge History of ...

USD 52.50 - 52.50 Unknown
75 Edited by A. W. Ward and others CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY, THE. Planned by the late Lord Acton. New York

1902-12

USD 55.00 - 55.00 Unknown
76 [CAMPION, EDMUND] A particular declaration of testimony, of the undutiful and traiterous affection borne against her ... Imprinted at London

1582

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
77 CARDAN, GIROLAMO Somniorum Synesiorum, omnis generis insomnia explicantes, Libra IIII. [etc.]

[1562]

USD 70.00 - 70.00 Unknown
78 CARLYLE, THOMAS Works. New York

1903

USD 70.00 - 70.00 Unknown
79 CELLINI, BENVENUTO Life. New York

[1906]

USD 12.50 - 12.50 Unknown
80 W. Chaffers CERAMICS. The New Kermanic Gallery . . . London

1926

USD 12.00 - 12.00 Unknown
81 CHAPBOOKS. A collection of about 260 works. V.p.

v.d.

USD 85.00 - 85.00 Unknown
82 W. Sinstanley CHARLES I. The Loyall Martyrology . . . As also, Dregs of Treachery. London

1665

USD 3.00 - 3.00 Unknown
83 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY Canterbury Tales. Oxford

1798

USD 22.50 - 22.50 Unknown
84 CHESTERFIELD, P. D. S. EARL OF. Letters. N.p.

1932

USD 15.00 - 15.00 Unknown
85 Jean Cocteau [CHIRICO, GIORGIO DE.] Le Mystere Laic. Essai d'Etude Indirecte. Paris

[1928]

USD 10.00 - 10.00 Unknown
86 R. Browning CHIVERS BINDING. Dramatis Personae & Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. [London]

1909

USD 65.00 - 65.00 Unknown
87 CIVIL WAR. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York

1911

USD 47.50 - 47.50 Unknown
88 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] A.L.s. Mark Twain, New York

1867

USD 120.00 - 120.00 Unknown
89 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. A.L.s. S L C. Elmira

1889

USD 50.00 - 50.00 Unknown
90 CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. A.L.s. Mark Twain alias Sam L. Clemens. San Francisco

1868

USD 140.00 - 140.00 Unknown
91 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Autograph Manuscript The Paradise of the Rheumatics, (Aix-les-Bains), signed Mark Twain at the ...

USD 1,300.00 - 1,300.00 Unknown
92 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Autograph Manuscript To Heidelberg on a Raft. Comprising chapter XIV of a Tramp Abroad, 24 pp ...

USD 450.00 - 450.00 Unknown
93 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Ledger of the American Publishing Company, with paper label on the front cover, inscribed Books ... [Hartford]

1866-79

USD 900.00 - 900.00 Unknown
94 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Printed sheets of an Article on Christian Science, with autograph manuscript corrections and ...

USD 475.00 - 475.00 Unknown
95 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland. London

1854

USD 55.00 - 55.00 Unknown
96 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog. [In The New York Saturday Press, vol. IV. No. 16, Nov. 18, 1865.] New York

1865

USD 250.00 - 250.00 Unknown
97 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. New York

1867

USD 160.00 - 160.00 Unknown
98 A. J. Marsh [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Marsh's Manual of Phonetic Short-Hand. San Francisco

1868

USD 15.00 - 15.00 Unknown
99 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] The Galaxy, vol. 9, nos. 5 and 6, May and June, 1870, vol. 10, nos. 1-6, July-Dee., 1870, vol. XI ... New York

1870-1

USD 35.00 - 35.00 Unknown
100 [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.] Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York

[1871]

USD 30.00 - 30.00 Unknown
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