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,

Auction Details

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
101		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Early Printed Books (Duff); The Great Book-Collectors (Elton); Bibliotheca ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
102		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Catalogue of Books . . . to Illustrate the History of English Prose Fiction ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
103		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Catalogue of the American Library of . . . George Brinley.	Hartford	1873-93	USD -	Unknown
104		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Warren); Kingdom Of Books (Orcutt ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
105		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Library (Lang); Bookbinding (Zaehnsdorf); The Book-Hunter (Burton ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
106		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Books and Bidders (Rosenbach), Boston,; An Introduction to Bibliography (McKerrow ...			USD -	Unknown
107		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Book Hunter's Holiday (Rosenbach), N. Y., 1936; A Primer of Book Collection ( ...			USD -	Unknown
108	[BORRHAUS, M.]	Elementale Cosmographicum, quo totius & Astronomiae & Geographiae rudimenta docentur.	Paris	1551	USD -	Unknown
109	BORROW, GEORGE	The Works of George Borrow.	London	1923-4	USD -	Unknown
110	BOSTON. J. WINSOR, ed.	The Memorial History of Boston.	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
111	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Life of Samuel Johnson.	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
112		BRITISH MUSICAL MISCELLANY or, the Delightful Grove. Engraved frontispieces and engraved text ...			USD -	Unknown
113		BRITISH POETS. Works of: Thomas Moore, 8 vols., 1865; Thomas Hood, 5 vols., 1866; John Gay, 2 vols ...	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
114		BRITISH POETS AND ESSAYISTS. Writings of the British Poets, 125 vols.; Writings of the British ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
115		BRITISH THEATRE, THE; or, A Collection of Plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane ...	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
116	BROWNING, ELIZABETH B.	Poems and Stories (Forman & Harper) 2 vols.; Letters and Poems of Queen Elizabeth (Carmen Sylva) 2 ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
117	BROUGH, ROBERT B.	The Life of Sir John Falstaff.	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
118	BROWNING, ROBERT	Strafford.	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
119	BRUEGEL, THE ELDER, PIERRE	Pierre Bruegel l'Ancien. Trent-Sept Chromophototypographies d'apres ses Principales Oeuvres a Vienne ...	Vienne	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
120	BUNSEN, C. J. F.	Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books.	London	1848-67	USD -	Unknown
121	BURNS, ROBERT	Poetical Works.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
122	BURY, RICHARD DE	Philobiblon. [Edited from the best Manuscripts and Translated into English with an Introduction and ...	[New York]	1889	USD -	Unknown
123	BURKE, E.	Works.	Boston	1868	USD -	Unknown
124	[BYRON, GEORGE G., LORD]	Lara. A Tale. Jacqueline. A Tale. [By Samuel Rogers.]	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
125	BYRON, GEORGE G., LORD	Works. With his Letters and Journals, and his Life. By Thomas Moore.	London	1832-3	USD -	Unknown
126	CALATAYUD, PEDRO DE	Juizio de los Sacerdotes. Doctrina Practica, y Anatomia de sus Conciencias, dispuesta en seis ...		1753	USD -	Unknown
127	CAMPAN, J. L. H.	Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
128	CAMPBELL, THOMAS	Poetical Works.	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
129	CANIVELL, FRANCISCO	Tratado De Vendages, y Apositos para el uso de los Reales Colegios de Cirurgia.	Madrid	1785	USD -	Unknown
130	CAPELLA, MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX	De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. [Edited by Franciscus Vitalis Bodianus.]	Vicenza	16 December, 1499	USD -	Unknown
131		CARICATURES. A collection of colored caricatures by I. R. Cruikshank, Woodward, Williams, and others ...		Circa 1820	USD -	Unknown
132		CARICATURES BY GILLRAY. A collection of colored caricatures by James Gillray.		Circa 1800-1808	USD -	Unknown
133	CASE, JOHN	Compendium Anatomicum Nova Methodo Institutum.	Amsterdam	1696	USD -	Unknown
134	CASTAIGNE, GABRIEL	L'Or Potable qui guarit de tous maux. Dedie a la Reyne Marie de Medicis.	Paris	1660	USD -	Unknown
135		CATHEDRALE DE CHARTRES (Houvet), vols. I-II, 2 vols., n.p., n.d.; Early Virginia Gunlocks (Mayer ...			USD -	Unknown
136	CATON, JOHN N.	The Antelope and Deer in America.	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
137		CECELIA, or Memoirs of an Heiress [Burney], 5 vols., 1786; The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; in ...	London	1784-6	USD -	Unknown
138	[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE]	The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now ...	London	1687	USD -	Unknown
139	L. Venturi	[CEZANNE, PAUL.] Cezanne, son Art, son Oeuvre.	Paris	1936	USD -	Unknown
140	CHAPTAL, J. A.	Elemens de Chymie.	Paris	1796	USD -	Unknown
141		CHARTERS AND ACTS OF ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Vol. I, pp. 1-82. Philadelphia ...			USD -	Unknown
142	A. F. De Fourcroy	CHEMISTRY. Lecons Elementaires d'histoire Naturelle et de Chimie.	Paris	1782	USD -	Unknown
143		CHINAWARE, etc. Practical Book of China (Eberlein & Ramsdell), Garden City [1932]; The Old China ...			USD -	Unknown
144	P. Houo-Ming-Tse	CHINESE ANTIQUITIES. Preuves des Antiquites.	Pekin	1930	USD -	Unknown
145		CHRONICLE OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST (Wace), London, 1837; On a Raft and through the Desert (Ellis), 2 ...			USD -	Unknown
146	CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.	Marlborough, his Life and Times.	New York	1933-8	USD -	Unknown
147	M. Tvllii Ciceronis	CICERO. Questionum Tusculanarum libri quinq; nuper recogniti et typis diligenter excusi.	Florence	1532	USD -	Unknown
148	CIRILLO, DOMENICO	Osservazioni Pratiche intorno alia Lue Venerea.	Venice	1786	USD -	Unknown
149		CIVIL WAR. The Story of the Guard (Fremont), Boston, 1863; Home Letters of General Sherman (Howe, ed ...			USD -	Unknown
150		CLASSIC NOVELS. Works (Smollett), 6 vols., 1904; Works (Fielding), 6 vols., n.d.	London	1904 and n.d.	USD -	Unknown
151		CLASSICS. The Epistles of Pliny. As Translated by Wm. Melmoth. 3 vols.; Attic Tragedies: Sophocles- ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
152	CLAUDINUS, JULIUS CAESAR	De Ingressu Ad Infirmos.	Bologna	1619	USD -	Unknown
153	[CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
154	G. H. Baillie	CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World [1929]; Watches, their History ...	London	[1929]	USD -	Unknown
155	E. Jaquet and A. Chapius	CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Histoire et Technique de La Montre Suisse de ses Origines a nos Jours.	Bale	1945	USD -	Unknown
156	H. Cescinsky and M. R. Webster	CLOCKS AND WATCHES. English Domestic Clocks.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
157	F. J. Britten	CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Old Clocks and Watches & their Makers. [1932]; Sixth Edition, much enlarged; The ...	London	19 [32-] 38	USD -	Unknown
158		CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Old English Master Clockmakers and their Clocks, 1670-1820 (Cescinsky), London [ ...			USD -	Unknown
159		CLOCKS AND WATCHES. American Clocks and Clockmakers (Dreppard), Garden City, 1947; Practical Watch ...			USD -	Unknown
160		CLOCKS AND WATCHES. The Clock Book (Nutting), Garden City [1935]; It's About Time (Chamberlain), N ...			USD -	Unknown
161		CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London ( ...			USD -	Unknown
162		CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Curiosities of Clocks and Watches from the Earliest Times (Wood), London, 1866 ...			USD -	Unknown
163		CODEX NUTTALL. Facsimile of an Ancient Mexican Codex belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England ...	Cambridge, Massachusetts	1902	USD -	Unknown
164	COLERIDGE, S. T.	Literary Remains.	London	1836-9	USD -	Unknown
165		COLLECTION OF ENGLISH FURNITURE of the XVII & XVIII Centuries (Lockwood), N. Y., 1907; catalogue of ...			USD -	Unknown
166	[Thomas Gainsborough]	COLOR PRINTS. A collection of 19 color prints after landscapes painted by Thomas Gainsborough.			USD -	Unknown
167	V. Petit	COLORED PLATES. Parcs et Jardins des Environs de Paris.	Paris	circa 1840	USD -	Unknown
168	Fernando Colombo	[COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER.] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo Nelle quali s'ha particolare, & vera ...	Venetia	1571	USD -	Unknown
169	[COMBE, WILLIAM]	The First, Second and Third Tour[s] of Doctor Syntax.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
170		CONNECTICUT. The Code of 1650 being a compilation of the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General ...	Hartford	1822	USD -	Unknown
171		CONVERSATIONS IN A STUDIO (Story), 2 vols., 1899; Charles Dickens (Whipple), 2 vols., 1912; In a ...			USD -	Unknown
172	CONWAY, MONCURE D.	Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
173	[COOPER, JAMES F.]	Afloat and Ashore; or the Adventures of Miles Wallingford.	Philadelphia	1844	USD -	Unknown
174	CORNIELLE, PIERRE	Oeuvres.	Paris	1827	USD -	Unknown
175	COTUGNO, DOMENICO	De sedibus Variolarum Syntagma.	Naples	1775	USD -	Unknown
176		COUNTRY HOUSE, THE (Hooper), 1905, 2 copies; Stately Homes in America (Desmond and Croly), 1903.			USD -	Unknown
177	CRABBE, GEORGE	Poetical Works . . . with His Letters, Journals and Life, by His Son.	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
178	CRISCI, GIO. BATTISTA	Lucerna de Corteggiana.	Naples	1634	USD -	Unknown
179	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
180		CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (Disraeli), Greenwich, n.d. Presentation copy from the author; America ( ...			USD -	Unknown
181		CURIOUS HISTORY OF MUSIC BOOKS (Mosoriak), Chicago [1943]; Antique Collector's Guide and Reference ...			USD -	Unknown
182	CURTE, JACOBUS DE	Oratio de obsidione urbis Rhodiae.	Venice	but after 18 August, 1480	USD -	Unknown
183	Bashford Dean	DAGGERS. Catalogue of European Daggers, including the Ellis, De Dino, and Reubell Collections.	New York	1929	USD -	Unknown
184	Bashford Dean	DAGGERS. Catalogue of European Daggers, including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections ...	New York	1929	USD -	Unknown
185	DAUMIER, HONORE	Zeichnungen. Vorrede von W. Hausenstein.	Munchen	1918	USD -	Unknown
186	[DEAN, BASHFORD]	The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.	Portland, Maine	1933	USD -	Unknown
187	DEGAS, EDGAR	Les Dessins de Degas.	Paris	1922-3	USD -	Unknown
188	[DE QUINCEY, THOMAS]	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
189	DESCARTES, RENE	Les Meditations Metaphisiques, touchant la Premiere Philosophic.	Paris	1661	USD -	Unknown
190	DIBDIN, THOMAS	Reminiscences.	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
191	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
192	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
193	DICKENS, CHARLES	Master Humphrey's Clock.	London	1840-1	USD -	Unknown
194	DICKENS, CHARLES	Works.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
195		DICTIONARY. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles . . . Edited by James A. H. Murray ...	Oxford	1884-9	USD -	Unknown
196		DIRECTORY FOR THE PUBLIQUE WORSHIP OF GOD, A. Through out the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland ...	London	1644	USD -	Unknown
197	DOD, JOHN	Manuscript entitled Dods Droppings. A few of them as at severall times they have beene gathered ...			USD -	Unknown
198		DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS (Trollope), 2 vols., London, 1832; The Secrets of the Great City ...			USD -	Unknown
199		DOUCET COLLECTION. [Sales catalogue of:] Collection Jacques Doucet: Catalogue des Dessins & Pastels ...	Paris	1912	USD -	Unknown
200		DOVES PRESS. Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press 1900-1911.	[Hammersmith]	1911	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.