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
301	HAKLUYT, RICHARD	A Selection of Curious, Rare, and Early Voyages, and Histories of Interesting Discoveries, Chiefly ...	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
302	[HALE, EDWARD EVERETT]	The Man Without a Country.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
303	HALE, SIR MATTHEW	Lord Chief Justice of England.			USD -	Unknown
304	HALSEY, R. T. H.	The Boston Port Bill As Pictured By A Contemporary London Cartoonist.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
305	HAMERTON, P. G.	Etching & Etchers.	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
306	HARTE, BRET	The Heathen Chinee.	Chicago	1870	USD -	Unknown
307	HAWKINS, RUSH C.	Titles of the First Books from the Earliest Presses, established in different Cities, Towns, and ...	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
308	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Scarlet Letter.	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
309	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Marble Faun.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
310	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Life of Franklin Pierce.	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
311	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Marble Faun.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
312	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Writings.	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
313	HAY, JOHN	Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
314	HAYWARD, SIR JOHN	The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt.	London	1630	USD -	Unknown
315	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Stray Leaves from Strange Literature.	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
316	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Some Chinese Ghosts.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
317	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Youma, N. Y., 1890; Fantastics and Other Fancies, Boston, 1914, one of 550 copies; The Romance of ...			USD -	Unknown
318	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist, Boston, 1911, one of 575 copies. First Edition; Japan: An ...			USD -	Unknown
319	HEBREW SCROLL	Religious texts in Hebrew engrossed on 123 feet of vellum, 19 inches wide.			USD -	Unknown
320	HEBREW SCROLL	Religious texts engrossed upon 25 inches of vellum, 2 inches wide.			USD -	Unknown
321	HEBREW SCROLL	Religious texts skilfully engrossed upon about 69 feet of vellum 10 1/2 inches wide.			USD -	Unknown
322	HENRY, PATRICK	D.s.		1786	USD -	Unknown
323		HENRY THE LEPER. Paraphrased by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 2 vols.; The Idylls and Epigrams of ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
324	HEYWOOD, THOMAS	Tynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women: Inscribed by ye names of ye Nine ...	London	1624	USD -	Unknown
325	HEYWOOD, THOMAS	The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells.	London	1635	USD -	Unknown
326		HISTOIRE DE LA CONJURATION de Louis-Phillippe-Joseph d'Orleans [de Montjoye], Paris, 1796; First ...			USD -	Unknown
327		HISTORIC PRINTING TYPES (De Vinne), 1886; Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered (Matthews), 1889 ...	New York	1886-9	USD -	Unknown
328		HISTORY OF AMERICA (Winsor), 8 vols., n.d.; History of the United States (Bancroft), 6 vols., Boston ...			USD -	Unknown
329		HISTORY OF GREECE (Mitford), 10 vols., 1835-6; Works (Sterne), 8 vols., 1799.	London	1799-1836	USD -	Unknown
330	HOBBES, THOMAS	Le Corps Politique, ou les Elements de la Loy Morale & Civile.	Leyden	1653	USD -	Unknown
331	HOGARTH, WILLIAM	Works. From the Original Plates restored by James Heath.	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
332	HOGG, JAMES	The Jacobite Relics of Scotland.	Edinburgh	1819-21	USD -	Unknown
333	[HOLMES, OLIVER W.]	The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
334	HOLMES, OLIVER W.	Works.	Boston	[1892-6]	USD -	Unknown
335	HOLMES, OLIVER W.	Works.	Boston	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
336	HOLMES, OLIVER W.	Works.	Boston	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
337	HOMER	Homeri Ilias.	Venetiis	1537	USD -	Unknown
338		HOMES OF OUR ANCESTORS (Halsey and Tower), Garden City, 1937; De Luxe Edition; From an Old House ( ...			USD -	Unknown
339	HORACE	Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.	Londini	1733-7	USD -	Unknown
340		HORSE-RACING. The General Stud Book, containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. from the earliest ...	London	1808-1906	USD -	Unknown
341	HUDSON, W. H.	Green Mansions.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
342		HUMOROUS MASTERPIECES from American Literature (Mason, ed.), 3 vols., N. Y., 1889; Representative ...			USD -	Unknown
343		IDEA de un Principe Politico Christiano. Engraved title-page and 102 copperplate emblematic ...			USD -	Unknown
344		IN MEMORIAM (Tennyson), London, 1910; An Anthology of Modern Verse (Methuem, compiler), London, n.d ...			USD -	Unknown
345		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Our Village (Mitford), London, 1893, one of 475 copies on Large Paper; The ...			USD -	Unknown
346	IRVING, WASHINGTON	A.L.s.	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
347	[IRVING, WASHINGTON]	A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.	New York	1809	USD -	Unknown
348	IRVING, WASHINGTON	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
349	IRVING, WASHINGTON	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
350	IRVING, WASHINGTON	Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
351	[IRVING, WASHINGTON]	Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
352	IRVING, WASHINGTON	Notes and Journal of Travel in Europe, 1804-1805. 3 vols.; The Writers of Knickerbocker New York ( ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
353		ITALIAN PAINTING. Italienische Malerei (Delogue), Zurich [1939]; The Leadership of Giorgione ( ...			USD -	Unknown
354	JACKSON, LADY	Works.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
355		JAMAICA. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (Browne), map and plates; foxed, London, 1789 ...			USD -	Unknown
356	JAMES, HENRY	The Portrait of a Lady.	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
357	J. Kurth	JAPANESE ART. Sharaku.	Munchen	1922	USD -	Unknown
358	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and ...	London	1755	USD -	Unknown
359	JOHNSON, THOMAS B.	The Shooter's Companion.	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
360	JOHNSON, THOMAS B.	The Shooter's Companion, 1830; The Shooter's Guide, 1826.	London	1826-30	USD -	Unknown
361		JOURNALS OF WASHINGTON IRVING, THE. 3 vols.; The Early Life of John Howard Payne (Hanson); The Raven ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
362		KANN COLLECTION. Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection.	Paris	1907	USD -	Unknown
363		KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea.	[Hammersmith]	[1894]	USD -	Unknown
364	S. T. Coleridge	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.	[Hammersmith]	[1896]	USD -	Unknown
365	KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT	A.L.s.	Washington	1841	USD -	Unknown
366	[KLEE, PAUL]	Paul Klee (Grohman), Paris [1929]; one of 900 copies; Paul Klee: Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to ...			USD -	Unknown
367	KOCK, PAUL DE	Works.	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
368		LADY NUGENT'S JOURNAL (Cundall, ed.), London, 1834; A Gentleman Rebel, the Exploits of Anthony Wayne ...			USD -	Unknown
369	LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE	A.L.s.	Valley Forge Camp	1778	USD -	Unknown
370	LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE	A.L.s.		1830	USD -	Unknown
371	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers.	Amsterdam [Paris]	1764	USD -	Unknown
372	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Fables.	Paris	1842-3	USD -	Unknown
373	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Tales and Novels.	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
374	LAMB, CHARLES	The Letters of Charles Lamb.	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
375	Sir Francis Montefiore	[LAMBALLE, PRINCESS DE.] The Princesse de Lamballe.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
376	LAMBARD, WILLIAM	Eirenarcha: or of the office of the Iustices of Peace in foure Bookes . . . Title within woodcut ...	London	1592	USD -	Unknown
377	LANDOR, WALTER S.	Imaginary Conversations, vols. I-II, 2 vols., 1824; Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare ...	London	1824-34	USD -	Unknown
378	LANG, ANDREW	Helen of Troy.	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
379	LANG, ANDREW, Ed.	The Red Fairy Book.	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
380	L. ANNAEI SENECAE	Cordvbensis Tragoediae, Antverpiae: Christophori Plantini, 1588; La Virtud en el Estrado. Visitas ...			USD -	Unknown
381	LAWRENCE, JOHN	The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening.	London	1716	USD -	Unknown
382		LE CIEL. Notions d'Astronomie (Guillemin), 1866; Cosmopolis. (Bourget), 1893.	Paris	1866-93	USD -	Unknown
383	G. A. A'Beckett	LEECH ILLUSTRATIONS. The Comic History of Rome.	London	[1851]	USD -	Unknown
384		LESSONS OF THRIFT. Published for General Benefit.	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
385	Charles D. Warner, ed.	LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Charles D. Warner, ed.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
386	LIECHTENSTEIN, PRINCESS MARIE	Holland House.	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
387	LILLY, W. S.	Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
388		LIMITED EDITIONS. Dandies and Men of Letters (Vincent), Boston, 1913; Hans Breitmann's Ballads ( ...			USD -	Unknown
389	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM	A.L.s.	Springfield, Ill.	1860	USD -	Unknown
390	LONDON, JACK	White Fang. colored plates.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
391	[LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.]	Hyperion.	New York	1939	USD -	Unknown
392	LORD, JOHN	Beacon Lights of History.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
393	[LOWELL, JAMES R.]	A Fable for Critics.	[New York]	18[48]	USD -	Unknown
394	LOWELL, JAMES R.	Complete Writings.	Cambridge	1904	USD -	Unknown
395	Valerius De Valeriis	LULL, RAMON. Aureum Sane Opus . . .	Augsburg	1589	USD -	Unknown
396	LUTHER, MARTIN	Ein brieff an die zu Franckfort am Weyn.	Wittemberg	1533	USD -	Unknown
397	LUTHER, MARTIN	Entschuldigung der Diener am Evangelio Jesu Christi du Franckfurt am Meyn auff ainen Sendfrieff ...	[Frankfort am Main]	[1533]	USD -	Unknown
398	LUTHER, MARTIN	Das newe Testament.	Wittemberg	1594-1606	USD -	Unknown
399	MACAULAY, THOMAS B., LORD	Complete Works.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
400	MAGASIN PITTORESQUE, LE	Publie sous la Direction de M. Charton. 1837.	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown

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