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
401	MALORY, SIR THOMAS	The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of his Noble Knights of the Round Table . . .	[London]	1893-4	USD -	Unknown
402	[MANET, EDOUARD]	Manet. Introduction par Paul Jamot. Catalogue critique par Paul Jamot et Georges Wildenstein avec la ...	Paris	[1932]	USD -	Unknown
403	MANWOOD, JOHN	A Treatise and Discovrse of the Lawes of the Forrest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as ...	London	1598	USD -	Unknown
404	[MANUTIUS, ALDUS]	[Inscriptionis Gordianae Vicet iae Effosae Explicatio.]	N.p.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
405		MANUSCRIPT. [Heysiorum Album Amicorum.]		Saec. XVI and XVII	USD -	Unknown
406		MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Codex Manuscriptus. [Vocabulorum Formicarus Speculi Historialis.]		XV Century	USD -	Unknown
407		MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Psalterium Latinum.]	Germany (?)	XV Century	USD -	Unknown
408		MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Officia Varia et Hymni.] Manuscript written in Latin and in German on 70 ...	Germany	XVI Century	USD -	Unknown
409		MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Manuscript engrossed in Latin upon 115 leaves of vellum, each leaf measuring 5 ...		Late XVI Century	USD -	Unknown
410		MAP. Le Royaume de France, distingue suivant l'estendue de Toutes ses Provinces . . . Par Sr. Sanson ...			USD -	Unknown
411	MARLOWE, C.	Works.	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
412	G. Besson	[MARQUET, ALBERT.] Marquet, with 39 plates, [Paris, 1920]; Marquet, with 102 plates, some in color [ ...			USD -	Unknown
413	[MARSIGLI, ANTONIO FELICE]	A. F. M. Relazione del Ritrovamento dell' Uova di Chioccole, in una Lettera al Sig. Marcello ...	Bologna	1683	USD -	Unknown
414	MATHER, COTTON	A Family Well-Ordered, or an Essay to render Parents and Children Happy in one another.	Boston	1699	USD -	Unknown
415	[MATHER, COTTON]	Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised ...	Boston	1726	USD -	Unknown
416	MATHER, INCREASE	Kometographia; or, a Discourse concerning Comets . . . With an Historical Account of all the Comets ...	Boston	1683	USD -	Unknown
417	MATHER, INCREASE	Meditations on the Sanctification of the Lord's Day . . . To which is added, Seasonable Meditations ...	Boston	1712	USD -	Unknown
418		MATHER, INCREASE. Coelestinus.	Boston	1723	USD -	Unknown
419	[MATHER, SAMUEL]	[The Self Justiciary Convicted.]	[Boston]	[1707]	USD -	Unknown
420		MAUVE DECADE, THE (Beer), N. Y., 1926; The Story of San Michele (Munthe), London [1929]; with slip ...	V.p.	1924[-9]	USD -	Unknown
421	D. Martino Schurigo	MEDICAL. Parthenologia Historico-Medica, Hoc est, Virginitatis Consideratio qua ad earn pertinentes ...	Dresdae & Lipsiae	1729-32	USD -	Unknown
422	MEIER-GRAEFE, J.	Die Kunst der Gegenwart. Zweiundvierzig Facsimiles nach Aquarellen und Zeichnungen Zeitgenossischer ...	Munchen	[1923]	USD -	Unknown
423	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
424	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby Dick or The Whale.	Chicago	1930	USD -	Unknown
425	MERIVALE, CHARLES	History of the Romans under the Empire.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
426		MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, THE (Shakespeare), N. Y., 1910, one of 350 copies, signed by the illustrator ...			USD -	Unknown
427		MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES. Homenaje a Cristobal Colon. Antiguedades Mexicanes.	Mexico	1892	USD -	Unknown
428		MEXICAN IMPRINTS. Catecismo Mexicano que contiene toda la Doctrina Christiana . . . (Ripalda ...			USD -	Unknown
429	MICHELANGELO	Michelangelo Mappe des Kunstwarts. (1) Plastische Einzelwerke. (2) Die Propheten und Sibyllen.	Munchen	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
430	MILNE, A. A.	When We Were Very Young. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.	London	[1924]	USD -	Unknown
431	MILNE, A. A.	Winnie-the-Pooh.	London	[1926]	USD -	Unknown
432	MILTON, JOHN	Paradise Regain'd. A Poem.	London	1671	USD -	Unknown
433	MILTON, JOHN	Poetical Works.	Boston	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
434	J. J. Foster	MINIATURE PAINTERS. Miniature Painters, British and Foreign, with some Account of those who ...	London and New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
435		MODERN ART. 35 plates in color. Text in Russian.	Moscow, recent	[1935]	USD -	Unknown
436	MOLINA, ALONSO DE	Vocabulario en lengua Castellana y Mexicana, compuesto por el muy Reuerendo Padre Fray Alonso de ...	En Mexico	1571	USD -	Unknown
437	MORGAN, LEWIS H.	The American Beaver and his Works.	Philadelphia	1868	USD -	Unknown
438	F. R. Halsey	[MORGHEN, RAPHAEL.] Raphael Morghen's Engraved Works: Being a Descriptive Catalogue.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
439	MORLEY, J.	The Life of William Ewart Gladstone.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
440	MOTLEY, JOHN L.	History of the United Netherlands, 4 vols., 1867; Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vols., 1869-75; John ...	London	1867-78	USD -	Unknown
441	MOTLEY, JOHN L.	The Dutch Republic, 3 vols., 1880; History of the United Netherlands, 4 vols., 1880; The Life and ...			USD -	Unknown
442	[MUNDEN, JOSEPH S.]	Memoirs of Joseph Shepherd Munden, Comedian.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
443		MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI . . . Pictorial title-page, numerous portraits ...	[Basil]	[1554]	USD -	Unknown
444	NAPOLEON I.	Nascendo il primo figlio a Napoleone il Grande. Ode di Antonio Buttura recitata in un' ode francese ...	[Paris]	1811	USD -	Unknown
445		NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, AND INSECTS, A (Bigland), colored plates, Phila., 1831 ...			USD -	Unknown
446		NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER, IMPROVED; or, An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading. To which is ...	Boston	[1815-30]	USD -	Unknown
447		NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER, IMPROVED; THE, or, An Easy and Pleasand Guide to the Art of Reading.	Hartford	1820	USD -	Unknown
448		NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER, IMPROVED, THE; for the more easy attaining the true reading of English.	New York	1829	USD -	Unknown
449	[NEWTON, A. EDWARD]	This Book-Collecting Game, Boston, 1928; A Magnificent Farce, Boston, n.d.; Derby Day and other ...			USD -	Unknown
450		NEW YORK. Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Maiesties Province of New ...	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
451		NEW YORK. Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Maiesties Province of New ...	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
452	R. Ruzicka	NEW YORK CITY. New York. A Series of Wood Engravings in Colour.	New York	1915	USD -	Unknown
453	NONIUS MARCELLUS	De proprietate Latini sermonis.	Venice	1476	USD -	Unknown
454	E. Damoreau	NUMISMATICS. Traite des Negociations de Banque, et des Monnoyes Etrangeres . . .	Paris	1728	USD -	Unknown
455		NUMISMATICS. Collection R. Jameson. Monnais, Grecques, Antiques.	Paris	1913-32	USD -	Unknown
456	G. F. Hill	NUMISMATICS. L'Art dans les Monnaies Grecques.	Paris	1927	USD -	Unknown
457	H. Schedel	NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Liber chronicarum.	Augsburg	1497	USD -	Unknown
458		ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON (Tennyson), London 1852, First Edition; writing on bound ...			USD -	Unknown
459		OEUVRES COMPLETES (La Fontaine), 6 vols., Paris, 1814; Souvenirs Pittoresques de Havre et de ses ...			USD -	Unknown
460		OLD SAILOR'S JOLLY BOAT, THE (Barker); The Bachelor's Own Book, First Issue.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
461	OMAR KHAYYAM	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
462	C. H. A. Bjerregaard	[OMAR KHAYYAM.] Sufi Interpretations of The quatrains of Omar Khayyam and Fitzgerald.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
463		ORATION on the Life and Public Services of Daniel Webster . . . Dec. 16, 1852, by Alphonso Taft ...			USD -	Unknown
464		ORDERS APPOINTED BY HIS MAIESTIE to be straitly obserued, for the preuenting and remedying of the ...	London	1630	USD -	Unknown
465	OWEN, DAVID D.	Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of ...	Washington	1852	USD -	Unknown
466	PAINE, THOMAS	Rights of Man. [Part One, and] Part the Second.	London	1791-2	USD -	Unknown
467		PAINTERS. Tizian (Waldmann), [1922]; Sandro Botticelli (Bode), [1921]; Giotto (Hausenstein), n.d ...	Berlin	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
468	J. Meier-Graeffe	PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS. Entwickelungsge-schichte der Modernen Kunst.	Stuttgart	1904	USD -	Unknown
469	J. Burnet	PAINTING. A Practical Treatise on Painting.	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
470		PAINTING. A New History of Painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI Century (Crowe & Cavalcaselle ...			USD -	Unknown
471	Fiernes-Gevaert	PAINTINGS. La Peinture a Bruges.	Bruxelles	1922	USD -	Unknown
472		PAINTINGS. Flemish Painting in the XVIIth Century (Michel), Paris and N. Y. [1939]; A Treasury of ...			USD -	Unknown
473		PAINTINGS. Phaidon Press Publications: Velazquez, London [1943]; Raphael, N. Y. [1941]; The ...			USD -	Unknown
474	Haldane MacFall	PAINTINGS. A History of Painting.	Boston	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
475		PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. Matthias Griinewald (Mayer), Munchen, 1920; Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers ( ...			USD -	Unknown
476		PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. Paintings in the South Kensington Museum (Redgrave); Fine Prints (Wedmore ...	v.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
477		PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE. John Quinn 1870-1925, Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings ...			USD -	Unknown
478		PAINTINGS, etc. Meisterwerke Europaischer Malerei in Amerika (Tietze), Wien [1935]; 5000 Years of ...			USD -	Unknown
479		PAINTINGS, etc. Contemporary Mexican Artists (Chavez), N. Y. [1937]; Anders Zorn als Radierer ( ...			USD -	Unknown
480		PAINTINGS, etc. [Sales catalogues.] Die Sammlung Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin. [Sold, March 21, 1918 ...			USD -	Unknown
481		PAINTINGS, etc. The Modern Movement in Painting (Earp), London, 1935; La Cathedrale de Chartres et ...			USD -	Unknown
482		PALMERIN OF ENGLAND (De Moraes), 3 vols., 1807; The Life and Times of Charles James Fox (Russell), 3 ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
483	[PAPWORTH, J. B. and others]	Poetical Sketches of Scarborough. 21 colored aquatints etched by Rowlandson after J. Green.	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
484	PATER, WALTER	Works.	London	1900-1	USD -	Unknown
485	PAYNE, JOHN H.	A.L.s.		1848	USD -	Unknown
486	PEABODY, JOSEPHINE P.	The Piper. A Play in Four Act.	Boston	1909	USD -	Unknown
487	PEACHMAN, HENRY	The Compleat Gentleman . . . also certain necessarie Instructions concerning the Art of Fishing ...	London	1627	USD -	Unknown
488		PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN Illuminated Manuscripts (Borneman), Norristown, 1937; Pennsylvania Dutch ...			USD -	Unknown
489	H. B. Wheatley	[PEPYS, SAMUEL.] Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In.	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
490		PERAMBULATION OF KENT (A) Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Written ...			USD -	Unknown
491	PERCY, THOMAS	Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript.	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
492		PERICLES & ASPASIA (Landor), 1903; The Golden Ass (Apuleius), 1904; The Lives of Doctor John Donne ...	New York	1903-4	USD -	Unknown
493	PETRARCH	The Triumphs of Francesco Petrarch.	Cambridge	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
494	PETRUS LOMBARDUS	Liber Sententiarum.	Venice	10th March, 1477	USD -	Unknown
495		PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN LITERATURE, Changing Trends from 1683 to 1942 (Robacker), Phila., 1943; The ...			USD -	Unknown
496		PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS (Strassburger), 3 vols., Norristown, 1934; Pennsylvania Dutch, and ...			USD -	Unknown
497		PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN SOCIETY.	V.p.	1909-48	USD -	Unknown
498		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. The Adventures of Alphonso, after the Destruction of Lisbon, related by ...	Philadelphia	1787	USD -	Unknown
499		PHOTOGRAPHY. Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864-1946. Tributes--In Memoriam.	New York	[1947]	USD -	Unknown
500	H. Kayser and C. Runge	PHYSICS. Uber die Spectren der Elemente.	Berlin	1888-93	USD -	Unknown

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