Parke Bernet: FIRST EDITIONS, STANDARD SETS ART MONOGRAPHS, INCUNABULA AMERICANA & OTHER BOOKS. PROPERTY OF MR & MRS CHARLES J. LIEBMAN NEW YORK, MRS ELSIE L. MILLIKEN, NEW YORK, MRS SCREVEN LORILLARD FAR HILLS, NEW JERSEY AND OTHER OWNERS. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE TUESDAY , 1762,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 21, 1957 - May 21, 1957
Page Size: 674 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ADAMS, ANSEL Sierra Nevada. The John Muir Trail. Plates. Berkeley

1938

USD - Unknown
2 [ADAMS, HENRY] Mont Saint Michel and others. Washington

1912

USD - Unknown
3 ADVENTURES OF AN ILLUSTRATOR (Pennell), Boston, 1925, limited edition, signed by the author; Reynard ...

USD - Unknown
4 E. D. Clarke AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.

USD - Unknown
5 AINSWORTH, W. H. Historical Romances. Philadelphia

n.d.

USD - Unknown
6 ALEXANDER DE HALES Super tortium sententiarum. Venice

1475

USD - Unknown
7 G. Esquer ALGERIAN ICONOGRAPHY. Iconographie Historique de l'Algerie Depuis le XVIe Siecle jusqu'a 1871. Paris

1929

USD - Unknown
8 AMERICAN AUTHORS. Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers (Lowell), Cambridge, 1848; Poems (Harte ...

USD - Unknown
9 William Strickland AMERICAN CANALS. Reports on Canals, Railways, Roads, and other Subjects. Philadelphia

1826

USD - Unknown
10 AMERICAN PAINTING. Modern American Painters (Kootz), n.p., n.d.; Art in America in Modern Times, N ...

USD - Unknown
11 AMERICAN SALES CATALOGUES. The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Art, 1943; The Frank ...

USD - Unknown
12 AMERICAN STUD BOOK, THE. Vols. i-v, 5 vols., N. Y., 1875-89; Addenda. Annals of the Turf and ...

USD - Unknown
13 ANACREON, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, Traduction nouvelle en Prose. A Paphos

1773

USD - Unknown
14 [ANGELO, FRA] Les Fresques de Fra Angelico au Convent Saint-Marc de Florence. Preface de Jacques Maritain. Paris

[1948]

USD - Unknown
15 APULEIUS, LUCIUS Asinus aureus. [Edited, with commentary, by Philippus Beroaldus.] Bologna

1500

USD - Unknown
16 ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. London

1897

USD - Unknown
17 ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments . . . with ... N.p.

n.d.

USD - Unknown
18 Sir R. Burton, translator ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 10 vols.; [also] Supplement Nights, 6 ... N.p.

n.d.

USD - Unknown
19 ARCHITECTURE. Decorations Exterieures empruntees a des Edifices Francais du Commencement de la ... Paris

[circa 1900]

USD - Unknown
20 ARISTOPHANES. Women in Love. Done into English by Jack Lindsay, and a Foreword by E. Rickword. London

[1929]

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

USD - Unknown
22 ART ET DECORATION. Vols. 55-63. Paris

1929-34

USD - Unknown
23 ARTIBUS ASIAE Curat Editionem Alfred Salmony. Ascona

1948-53

USD - Unknown
24 ART PERIODICALS, ART CATALOGUES, ETC., including monographs.

USD - Unknown
25 ASIATISCHE PLASTIK (Cohn), Berlin, 1932; Urformen der Kunst (Blossfeldt), Berlin, n.d.; Oskar ...

USD - Unknown
26 ATHANASIUS Contra haereticos et gentiles. [Translated by Omnibonus Leonicenus.] Vicenza

1482

USD - Unknown
27 ATLAS PORTATIF, pour servir a l'Inteligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique. Amsterdam

1773

USD - Unknown
28 AUGUSTINUS De academicis. [With other tracts. Edited by Thaddeus Ugoletus.] Venice

1491

USD - Unknown
29 AUSTEN, JANE Novels and Letters. Edited by R. B. Johnson. New York

1906

USD - Unknown
30 AUTOGRAPHS. Autograph survey, signed by Moses Kirkland, 1771; D.s. by C. Montagu, G. Saunders and ...

USD - Unknown
31 AUTOGRAPHS OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.

USD - Unknown
32 G. F. Warner, editor AUTOGRAPHS. Facsimiles of Royal Historical Literary and other Autographs in the Department of ... London

1899

USD - Unknown
33 AVENTURES, LES, de l'Infortune Napolitain, ou Memoires du Seigneur Rozelli, 4 vols., 1781; La Poupee ... A Londres

1781-82

USD - Unknown
34 BACON, SIR FRANCIS The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London

1625

USD - Unknown
35 BANCROFT, GEORGE History of the Colonization of the United States. Boston

1837-75

USD - Unknown
36 BAPTISTA MANTUANUS. De patientia. Venice

1499

USD - Unknown
37 BARONS OF THE POTOMACH AND THE RAPPAHANNOCK (Conway), N. Y., 1892; limited issue; The Treason of ...

USD - Unknown
38 BARRIE, JAMES M. The Little Minister. London

1891

USD - Unknown
39 Joseph Addison BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works. Birmingham

1761

USD - Unknown
40 BASKERVILLE PRESS. C. Crispus; et L. Annaeus Florus. Birmingham

1773

USD - Unknown
41 BAUHAUSBUCHER (Gropius and Moholy-Nagy), vols. 1, 2, 4, 7-13, 10 vols., Munchen [1925-28]; Max Weber ...

USD - Unknown
42 BAUM, L. FRANK By The Candelabra's Glare. Chicago

1898

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

1893-94

USD - Unknown
44 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS and J. FLETCHER Works . . . With notes and a Biographical Memoir by the Rev. A. Dyce. London

1843

USD - Unknown
45 BEDE, THE VENERABLE. The History of the Church of Englande.

USD - Unknown
46 BERENGER, J. P. Raccolta di tutti i Viaggi fatti intorno al Mondo da diverse Nazioni dell'Europa. Venezia

1794-6

USD - Unknown
47 BERNARDUS. Modus bene vivendi. Venice

1492

USD - Unknown
48 BIBLE. Biblia, cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos ... Strassburg

1492

USD - Unknown
49 BIBLE IN LATIN. [With commentary by Hugo de Sancto Charo.] Part IV only. [Nuremberg]

[1498-1502]

USD - Unknown
50 BIBLIOTHECA GASTRONOMICA (Simon), Lond., 1953; Verzierte Gotische Einbande im alten Deutschen ...

USD - Unknown
51 BICKHAM, GEORGE The British Monarchy: or a New Chorographical Descriptions of all the Dominions ... [London]

1748

USD - Unknown
52 E. Deville BINDINGS. La Reliure Francaise. Paris

1930-31

USD - Unknown
53 BINYON, L. Painting in the Far East. London

1913

USD - Unknown
54 E. T. Booth BIRDS. Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-Fives' Shooting and Collecting in the British ... London

1881-87

USD - Unknown
55 BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS (Lawrence), London: Cresset Press, 1930, limited edition; The Tragedy of ...

USD - Unknown
56 BLAKE, WILLIAM Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & Engraved by William Blake. London

1825

USD - Unknown
57 J. G. Stedman [BLAKE, WILLIAM.] Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in ... London

1796

USD - Unknown
58 M. Wilson [BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Life of William Blake. London

1927

USD - Unknown
59 Dante Alighieri [BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Inferno from la Divina Comedia. As translated by . . . H. F. Cary. New York Cheshire House

1931

USD - Unknown
60 BLOUNT, SIR THOMAS POPE De Re Poetica: Or, Remarks upon Poetry. London

1694

USD - Unknown
61 BLUMENTHAL COLLECTION. Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, New York. Paris

1926-7

USD - Unknown
62 BOADEN, JAMES Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble. London

1825

USD - Unknown
63 BOCCACCIO, G. Decameron. London

1906

USD - Unknown
64 BOCCHIUS, ACHILLES Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum Quaestionum, De vniuerso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri ... Bononiae

1574

USD - Unknown
65 BOCK, ELFRIED and JAKOB ROSENBERG Die Niederlandischen Meister. Frankfurt am Main

1931

USD - Unknown
66 E. R. J. G. Howe BOOKPLATES. Catalogue of British and American Book Plates bequeathed to the Trustees of the British ... [London]

1903

USD - Unknown
67 A. Wegmann BOOKPLATES. Schweizer Exlibris bis zum Jahre 1900. Zurich

1933

USD - Unknown
68 Thomas J. Holmes BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Cotton Mather. A Bibliography of his Works, 3 vols., Cambridge, 1940; Increase ...

USD - Unknown
69 A. F. Johnson BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. German Renaissance Title-Borders. [Oxford]

1929

USD - Unknown
70 M. Louis Polain BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Catalogue des Livres Imprimes au Quinzine Siecle des Bibliotheques de Belgique. Bruxelles

1932

USD - Unknown
71 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Le Bibliophile. Revue Artistique et Documentaire du Livre Ancien et Modern. Paris

1931-33

USD - Unknown
72 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. L'Oeuvre de Moreau Le Jeune (Maherault), 1880; Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a ... Paris

1875-80

USD - Unknown
73 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. La Bibliotheque de feq Edouard Rahir. Parts I and II, 2 vols., Paris, 1930-31 ...

USD - Unknown
74 BOSWELL, JAMES The Life of Samuel Johnson. London

1791

USD - Unknown
75 BRANT, SEBASTIAN Stultifera Navis. [Basel]

[August, 1497]

USD - Unknown
76 BRATHWAITE, RICHARD The English Gentleman . . . London

1630

USD - Unknown
77 BRETON, ANDRE Arcane 17. [New York]

1944

USD - Unknown
78 Edited by Temple Scott BRONTE, SISTERS. Novels. Edinburgh

1905

USD - Unknown
79 Samuel Silvestre de Sacy [BRULLER, JEAN.] Dix Legendes en Marge du Livre. Paris

1930

USD - Unknown
80 BUCHER BEWEGTEN DIE WELT (Schottenloher), 2 vols., 1951; Der Romanfuhrer (Olbrich and Weitzel), 3 ... Stuttgart

1951-52

USD - Unknown
81 BUDE, GUILLAUME Guillielmi Budaei Parisiensis secretarij Regij libri V de Asse. [Venetiis]

[1522]

USD - Unknown
82 BUNJES, H. Les Chateaux de la Loire. Monaco

n.d.

USD - Unknown
83 BURNETT, FRANCES H. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York

1889

USD - Unknown
84 BURNETT, FRANCES H. Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories. New York

1890

USD - Unknown
85 [BURNEY, FRANCES] Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. Edited by her Niece. London

1843-46

USD - Unknown
86 BURNS, ROBERT Works. With his Life by Allan Cunningham. London

1834

USD - Unknown
87 [BUTLER, SAMUEL] Hudibras. London

1726

USD - Unknown
88 [BYRON, GEORGE G. LORD] Life of Lord Byron. London

1854

USD - Unknown
89 CAHIERS D'ART: Pablo Picasso 1930-35 (Zervos and others), Paris, [1936]; Cahiers d'Art 1945-1946 ... Paris

[1936-46]

USD - Unknown
90 CAMERA WORK. An illustrated quarterly magazine devoted to Photography. Edited and published by ... New York

1903-17

USD - Unknown
91 CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS Sermones de laudibus sanctorum 210 leaves, gothic type. Venice

1489

USD - Unknown
92 CARTOGRAPHY. Atlas de Fernao Vaz Dourado. Porto, Portugal

[1948]

USD - Unknown
93 CASANOVA, J. Memoirs . . . Translated into English by Arthur Machen, with an Introduction by A. Symons. N.p.

1925

USD - Unknown
94 CATHEDRALS AND CLOISTERS of the South of France (Rose), 2 vols., 1906; A History of Aesthetic ( ...

USD - Unknown
95 CELLINI, BENVENUTO The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Translated by J. A. Symonds. [London]

[1900]

USD - Unknown
96 [CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE] The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant Don-Quixote, of the Mancha, 1652; The same ... London

1652-87

USD - Unknown
97 CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. London

1755

USD - Unknown
98 [CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE] The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha. Edinburgh

1879

USD - Unknown
99 CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha. A Translation . . . by J. Ormsby. New York

1887

USD - Unknown
100 CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha. Edinburgh

1902

USD - Unknown
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