Parke Bernet: INCUNABULA MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS, FIRST EDITIONS AND OTHER BOOKS, PROPERTY OF R. H. MULL MRS EDWIN M. BEROL, AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOHN P. C. ALDEN AND OTHER OWNERS. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE FEBRUARY 6 AND 7. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES, INC. 980 MA, 1125,

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Auction Date: February 06, 1950 - February 06, 1950

Page Size: 661 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	E. V. Lucas	[ABBEY, EDWIN A.] Edwin Austin Abbey, Royal Academician. The Record of his Life and Work.	New York	1921	USD -	Unknown
2	[ABINGTON, MRS. FRANCES]	The Life of Mrs. Abington.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
3	Plautius	ALDINE PRESS. Italic type.	[Venetiis]	[1522]	USD -	Unknown
4		AMERICAN ART. Charles Demuth (Gallatin, ed.), N. Y., 1927; one of 450 copies; Ernest Lawson ...			USD -	Unknown
5		AMERICAN ART PORTFOLIOS. SERIES ONE.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
6		AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. The Life and Career of Major John Andre (Sargent), Bost., 1861; The Public Life ...			USD -	Unknown
7		AMERICAN (LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer . . . According to the Use of ...	Boston	1794	USD -	Unknown
8		AMERICAN PAINTERS. A collection of works forming part of the American Artists Series published by ...	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
9		AMERICAN PAINTERS. A collection of works forming part of the American Artists Series published by ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
10	[J. Parke]	AMERICAN POETRY. The Lyric Works of Horace, translated into English Verse: to which are added, a ...	Philadelphia	1786	USD -	Unknown
11	S. V. Grancsay	AMERICAN POWDER HORNS. American Engraved Powder Horns.	New York	1945	USD -	Unknown
12		AMERICAN SHOOTER'S MANUAL, THE, comprising Such Plain and Simple Rules, as are necessary to ...	Philadelphia	1827	USD -	Unknown
13	ANDRE, JOHN	Andre's Journal. Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge.	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
14	ANDREWS, WILLIAM L.	James Lyne's Survey, 1900; The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, 1908; The Heavenly Jerusalem ...	New York	1900-8	USD -	Unknown
15		ANNALS OF THE ARTISTS OF SPAIN (Stirling), 3 vols., 1848; The Great Civil War of Charles I. and the ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
16	E. Guimet	ANTINOE PORTRAITS. Les Portraits d'Antinoe au Musee Guimet.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
17		ANTIQUES, etc. The Book of Antiques (Shackleton), Phila. [1938]; The Story of Snuff and Snuff Boxes ...			USD -	Unknown
18		APHRODITE (Louys), n.p., 1919; Works (Aretino), 2 vols., Chicago,; The Story of Venus and Tannhauser ...			USD -	Unknown
19		ARABIAN NIGHTS, THE. Translated by Edward Forster.	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
20		AREOPAGITICA (Milton), 1890; Poems (Donne), 2 vols., 1895; Peg Woffington (Reade), 2 vols., 1887 ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
21	E. Fromentin	ARMAND ILLUSTRATIONS. Dominique.	Paris	1924	USD -	Unknown
22		ARMOR. Le Musee de l'Armee. Armes & Armures Anciennes et Souvenirs Historiques le plus Precieux ...	Paris	1917	USD -	Unknown
23	Sir Guy F. Laking	ARMOR. A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries.	London	1920-2	USD -	Unknown
24	Sir Guy F. Laking	ARMOR. A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries.	London	1920-2	USD -	Unknown
25	F. H. Cripps Day	ARMOR. A Record of Armour Sales, 1881-1924.	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
26	O. G. Trapp	ARMOR. The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg.	London	[1929]	USD -	Unknown
27		ARMOR. The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms and Armour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...	Portland, Maine	1933	USD -	Unknown
28	G. C. Stone	ARMOR. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour in All Countries and in ...	Portland, Maine	1934	USD -	Unknown
29		ARMOR AND FIREARMS. Handbook of Arms and Armour, European and Oriental (Dean), 1930; Handbook of ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
30		ARMOR AND FIREARMS. Die Kriegswaffen in ihren Geschichtlichen Entwickelungen, etc. (Demmin), Leipzig ...			USD -	Unknown
31		ARMOR, FIREARMS, etc. [Sales Catalogues.] A collection of Foreign Catalogues on Armour, Firearms ...			USD -	Unknown
32		ARMOR, etc. [Sales Catalogues.] A collection of Foreign Catalogues of Armor, etc. Includes the ...			USD -	Unknown
33		ARMOR, etc. [Sales Catalogues.] A collection of Sales Catalogues, mainly of armor, includes the ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
34		ARMOR, etc. Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour, 2 vols., London, 1924; Notes on ...			USD -	Unknown
35		ARMOR, etc. [Sales Catalogues.] A collection of American and English Catalogues of Armor, etc ...			USD -	Unknown
36		ART OF THE FAR EAST; Landscapes, Flowers and Animals. Introduction by R. Grousset. N. Y. [1936]; Ko ...			USD -	Unknown
37		ART SALES CATALOGUES. A collection of Art Sales Catalogues, including: Professor Luigi Grassi, N. Y ...			USD -	Unknown
38		ART SALES CATALOGUES. A collection of 18 Art Sales Catalogues, including the collections of Henry ...			USD -	Unknown
39		ART SALES CATALOGUES. A collection of 29 Art Sales Catalogues, etc. of Paintings, Porcelain, Tiles ...			USD -	Unknown
40	J. C. Houzeau and A. Lancaster	ASTRONOMY. Bibliographie Generale de l'Astronomie.	Bruxelles	1887	USD -	Unknown
41		AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PERSONAGES. A collection of about 170 A.L.s., autograph signatures and other ...			USD -	Unknown
42	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	The two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon, of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and ...	Oxford	1633	USD -	Unknown
43	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	The Elements of the Common Lavves of England.	London	1639	USD -	Unknown
44	BANCROFT, GEORGE	Poems.	Cambridge	1823	USD -	Unknown
45	[BARHAM, R. H.]	The Ingoldsby Legends.	London	1840-7	USD -	Unknown
46		BALLADS. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Border Ballads.; Ode to Mazzini &c. (Swinburne); Verse and ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
47	BALZAC, HONORE DE	Works.	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
48		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis.	Birmingham	1766	USD -	Unknown
49		BATTLE SCENES. A collection of five views of battles in the Napoleonic wars, and one of the ...			USD -	Unknown
50	BEAUMONT, F. and J. FLETCHER	Works . . .	London	1843-6	USD -	Unknown
51		BEAUTIES OF THE COURT of King Charles the Second (Jameson), 1833; with A.L.s., third person, by Mrs ...	London	1800-33	USD -	Unknown
52		BEAUX ARTS CLASSICS.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
53	BENEDICTUS PAENTIUS, ALEXANDER	Diaria De Bello Carolino.	[Venice]	[after 27 August 1496]	USD -	Unknown
54	C. Baudelaire	BERNARD ILLUSTRATIONS. Les Fleurs du Mal.	Paris	1916	USD -	Unknown
55	BERNARDUS DE LUTZENBURGO	Expositio Fratris Bernhardi de Lutzenburgo: ordinis pdicatoru couent Colonien magistri ac sacre ...	[Cologne]	[1510]	USD -	Unknown
56		BIBLE. The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: in whych are cotayned the Olde and New ...	Imprynted at London	1549	USD -	Unknown
57		BIBLIA LATINA. 475 leaves [should have 476], printed in double collmns, gothic type, 50 lines to the ...	Venice	1483	USD -	Unknown
58		BIBLIA LATINA. Biblia integra: summata: distincta: supemedata . . . Printed in double columns.	Basel	1491	USD -	Unknown
59		BIBLIA LATINA. With numerous interesting woodcuts, historiated and decorative initial woodcut ...	Venetiis	Mdxiv	USD -	Unknown
60		BIBLIOPHILIST SERIES. Illustrations.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
61		BINDING. Le Nouveau Testament de Nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ, Traduit en Francois, selon l'Edition ...	Mons	1667	USD -	Unknown
62		BINDING. Konung Davidz Psaltare.	Stockholm	1707	USD -	Unknown
63	J. Gould and W. Hart	BIRDS. Casuarius Westermanni.			USD -	Unknown
64	J. J. Audubon	BIRDS. House Wren.			USD -	Unknown
65	J. J. Audubon	BIRDS. Barn Swallow.			USD -	Unknown
66	J. J. Audubon	BIRDS. Labrador Falcon.			USD -	Unknown
67	J. J. Audubon	BIRDS. Labrador Falcon. Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell 1834; Barn Owl. Engraved, Printed ...			USD -	Unknown
68		BIRDS. A collection of 193 engravings of birds after designs by Eleazar Albin and his daughter ...	London	1731-8	USD -	Unknown
69		BIRDS. A collection of 213 lithographs of birds, drawn and lithographed by Henry L. Meyer. colored ...	[London]	[1835-50]	USD -	Unknown
70	J. P. Giraud	BIRDS. The Birds of Long Island.	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
71	M. C. Perry	BIRDS. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in ...	Washington	1856	USD -	Unknown
72	W. P. Turnbull	BIRDS. The Birds of East Lothian.	Glasgow	1867	USD -	Unknown
73	W. P. Turnbull	BIRDS. The Birds of East Lothian, 1867; The Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1869.	Glasgow	1867-9	USD -	Unknown
74	E. Coues	BIRDS. Birds of the Northwest, 1874; Birds of the Colorado Valley, Part I (all published), 1878.	Washington	1874-8	USD -	Unknown
75		BIRDS. Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. [By Lieut. P. H. Ray ...	Washington	1885-6	USD -	Unknown
76		BIRDS, etc. Report upon Natural History Collections made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881 ...	Washington	1887	USD -	Unknown
77	H. H. Warren	BIRDS. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania.	Harrisburg	1890	USD -	Unknown
78	N. S. Goss	BIRDS. History of the Birds of Kansas.	Topeka	1891	USD -	Unknown
79	C. J. Maynard	BIRDS. Handbook of the Sparrows, Finches, etc. of New England.	Newtonville	1896	USD -	Unknown
80	J. and J. M. Macoun	BIRDS. Catalogue of Canadian Birds.	Ottawa	1909	USD -	Unknown
81	E. H. Forbush	BIRDS. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States.	N.p.	1912	USD -	Unknown
82	J. M. Gillis	BIRDS, etc. The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere during the Years 1849 ...	Washington	1855	USD -	Unknown
83	W. H. Emery	BIRDS, etc. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary.	Washington	1857-9	USD -	Unknown
84		BIRDS, etc. Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. With ...	Washington	1881-9	USD -	Unknown
85	BOADEN, JAMES	The Life of Mrs. Jordan; including Original Private Correspondence, etc.	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
86	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nvovamente Corretto et con Diligentia Stampato.	[Firenze]	1527	USD -	Unknown
87	[Thomas A'Kempis]	BODONI PRESS. De Imitatione Christi.	Parmae	1793	USD -	Unknown
88		BONAVENTUBA. Meditationes vitae Christi.	Ulm	undated, circa 1487	USD -	Unknown
89	BONANNI, P.	S. J. Recreatio Mentis et Oculi in Observatione Animalium Testaceorum.	Rome	1684	USD -	Unknown
90	BONNARD, CHEVALIER DE	Poesies Diverses. Avec une Notice bio-bibliographique par H. Martin-Dairvault.	Paris	1884	USD -	Unknown
91		BOOK OF BRITISH BALLADS, THE (Hall, ed.), London, 1842; The Poems, Letters, and Land of Robert Burns ...			USD -	Unknown
92		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, THE; The Whole Book of Psalmes.	London	1632	USD -	Unknown
93	Marius Michel	BOOKBINDING. La Reliure Francaise.	Paris	1880	USD -	Unknown
94	Octave Uzanne	BOOKBINDING. La Reliure Moderne, Artistique et Fantaisiste.	Paris	1887	USD -	Unknown
95	Henri Bouchot	BOOKBINDING. Les Reliures d'Art a la Bibliotheque Nationale.	Paris	1888	USD -	Unknown
96	Justin Winsor	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare . . . Facsimiles ...	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
97	Theodore De Vinne	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Title-Pages as Seen, by a Printer.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
98		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Catalogue of Books illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, 1916; Catalogue . . . of ...	New York	1914-6	USD -	Unknown
99		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Series of Catalogues issued by William H. Robinson, nos. 39, 50, 55, 58-60, 62 ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
100		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. An Introduction to Bibliography (McKerrow); Manual of Bibliography (Rogers); The ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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