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
501	W. M. Watts	PHYSICS. Index of Spectra. Appendix B-T, V and X.	Manchester and London	1891-1917	USD -	Unknown
502		PICASSO ILLUSTRATIONS, PABLO. Umelecky Mesicnik.	[Prague]	[1913]	USD -	Unknown
503	PICHON, BARON JEROME	The Life of Charles Henry Count Hoym.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
504		PICTURES OF LIFE, 2 vols., London, 1790; Rejected Addresses (Smith), London, 1839, with some ...			USD -	Unknown
505	PINKERTON, JOHN	A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World ...	London	1808-14	USD -	Unknown
506		PLAYS. A Select Collection of Old Plays (Dodsley), 13 vols., 1825; bindings in poor condition ...	London	1777-25	USD -	Unknown
507		PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a ...	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
508	POE, EDGAR A.	Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	Unknown
509		POEMS OF MR. GRAY. To which are prefixed Memoirs of His Life and Writings by W. Mason. Second ...			USD -	Unknown
510	E. Garnier	PORCELAINS. La Porcelaine Tendre de Sevres.	Paris	[1891]	USD -	Unknown
511		PORCELAINS, etc. La Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sevres (Lechevallier-Chevignard), Paris, 1908; La ...			USD -	Unknown
512		PORTRAITS. National Portrait Gallery of Illustratious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth ...	London	1830-4	USD -	Unknown
513		PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED PAINTERS (Corner), London, 1825; Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor ...			USD -	Unknown
514		PRESSES. The Praise of Folly (Erasmus) [London, 1901]; American Sheaves and Corn (Ashbee) [London ...			USD -	Unknown
515	H. N. Humphreys	PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Masterpieces of the Early Printers & Engravers.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
516	T. F. Dibdin	PRINTING. Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland ...	London	1810-19	USD -	Unknown
517	H. Noel Humphreys	PRINTING. A History of the Art of Printing.	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
518		PRINTING. A Degree of Star Chamber concerning Printing, Made July 11, 1637.	[New York]	[1884]	USD -	Unknown
519	A. Warren	The Charles Whittinghams Printers.	New York	1886	USD -	Unknown
520	T. L. Devinne	PRINTING. Notable Printers of Italy During The Fifteenth Century. Facsimiles.	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
521		PROVIDENCE IN COLONIAL TIMES (Kimball), Boston, 1912; The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783- ...			USD -	Unknown
522	[PULTON, FERDINAND]	A Kalender, or Table, Comprehending the effect of all the Statutes that haue beene made and put in ...	London	1606	USD -	Unknown
523		PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! (Clemens), N. Y. [1878)1 First Edition, second issue; Comic Sketches from ...			USD -	Unknown
524	PURCHAS, SAMUEL	Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in al [sic] Ages and ...	London	1617	USD -	Unknown
525		QUINN COLLECTION. John Quinn, 1870-1925.	Huntington, New York	[1926]	USD -	Unknown
526	RABELAIS, FRANCIS	Works.	London	1784	USD -	Unknown
527	RAYMOND, GEORGE	Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian, 1774 to 1810. [First Series.] Illustrated by George ...	London	1844-5	USD -	Unknown
528		REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS (Waite), London, 1887; A Dissertation on the Celestial Sign of the ...			USD -	Unknown
529		REMARKABLE BINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Wheatley), London, 1889; La Reliure Ancienne et Moderne ...			USD -	Unknown
530	[REMBRANDT VAN RIJN]	Rembrandt Gemalde (Bredius), [Vienna, 1935]; Rembrandt (Verhaeren), Leipzig, 1920; Rembrandt ...			USD -	Unknown
531	[RENOIR, AUGUSTE]	A collection of 15 reproductions of drawings and watercolors by Auguste Renoir.			USD -	Unknown
532	J. E. De Kay	REPTILES AND AMPHIBIA. Zoology of New-York, or the New-York Fauna: Reptiles and Amphibia.	Albany	1842	USD -	Unknown
533	[REYNOLDS, JOHN]	Perfet [sic] Directions for all English Gold, now currant in this Kingdome . . .	London	1631	USD -	Unknown
534	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	RICCARDI, PRESS. Thoughts. Translated by George Long.	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
535		RICCARDI PRESS. Everyman. colored plates by John H. Amschewitz.	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
536	C. Kingsley	RICCARDI PRESS. The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children.	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
537	RIDEING, W. H.	Thackeray's London.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
538	ROBINSON, HENRY C.	Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence . . . Selected and Edited by Thomas Sadler.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
539	Michel De Montaigne	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Essays . . . done into English by John Florio.	Boston	1902-4	USD -	Unknown
540	E. R. Pennell	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] My Cookery Books.	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
541	G. Chaucer	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] The Parlement of Foules.	[Boston]	[1904]	USD -	Unknown
542	G. Herbert	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] English Works. Edited by George Herbert Palmer.	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
543	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	The Song of Roland. [Translated by Isabel Butler.]	[Cambridge]	[1906]	USD -	Unknown
544	B. De Saint-Pierre	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Paul et Virginie.	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
545	B. Franklin	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Autobiography.	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
546	D. Defoe	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.	Boston	1908	USD -	Unknown
547	A. Bernard	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Geofroy Tory, Painter and Engraver . . . Translated by George B. Ives.	[Boston]	1909	USD -	Unknown
548	A. Durer	[ROGERS, BRUCE.] Of the Just Shaping of Letters.	New York	1917	USD -	Unknown
549	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	The History of Oliver and Arthur, [Cambridge] 1903; Earl Percy's Dinner-Table (Murdock), Boston ...			USD -	Unknown
550	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Idylls (Theocritus), Boston, 1906; Georgies of Virgil [Boston, 1904]; A Consolatorie Letter ( ...			USD -	Unknown
551	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Ives), Boston, 1907; Poems (Sill), Cambridge, 1902; A Poet ...			USD -	Unknown
552	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Abraham Lincoln (Schurz), 1907; The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Cavendish), 1905; The ...	Boston	1905-9	USD -	Unknown
553	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Sonnets and Madrigals (Michelangelo) [Cambridge] 1900; Fifteen Sonnets (Petrarch), Boston, 1903 ...			USD -	Unknown
554	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Sonnets (Longfellow), Boston, 1907; John Green-leaf Whittier (Perry), Boston, 1907; Poems (M. Lowell ...			USD -	Unknown
555	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Life of Dante (Boccaccio) [Boston] 1904; Prothalamion (Spenser), Boston, 1902; A Report of the Truth ...			USD -	Unknown
556	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Anti-Slavery Papers (Lowell), 2 vols., 1907; Documents relating to the Purchase & Exploration of ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
557	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy (Sterne), Boston, 1905; The Journal of a Voyage to ...			USD -	Unknown
558	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Obermann (De Senacour), 2 vols., Cambridge, 1901; Venetian Life (Howells), 2 vols., 1907; English ...			USD -	Unknown
559	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library (Naudeus), Cambridge, 1903; The Old Manse (Hawthorne ...			USD -	Unknown
560	[ROGERS, BRUCE]	Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre (De Maistre), Cambridge, 1901; Sions Sonets (Quarles), Cambridge, 1905 ...			USD -	Unknown
561	ROGERS, SAMUEL	Italy, 1830; Poems, 1834. Illustrated after J. M. W. Turner, T. Stothard, and others.	London	1830-4	USD -	Unknown
562	A. Dyce	[ROGERS, SAMUEL.] Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers, to which is added Porsoniana.	New Southgate	1887	USD -	Unknown
563	ROLLIN, CHARLES	The Ancient History of the Egyptians . . . and Grecians.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
564		ROMANSCH. La Gloria Della Religivn Christiana nell' Adorabla Persuna da Christi . . . Composta ...	Stampa in Scuol	1761	USD -	Unknown
565	ROSCOE, THOMAS	The German Novelists: Tales selected from Ancient and Modern Authors in that Language . . . With ...	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
566	L. Venturi	[ROUAULT, GEORGES.] Georges Rouault. [Text in French.]	New York	1940	USD -	Unknown
567		ROYAL PRIMER THE.	Boston	1796	USD -	Unknown
568	RUSKIN, JOHN	Modern Painters, 5 vols., 1846-60; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849; The Stones of Venice, 3 ...	London	1846-60	USD -	Unknown
569		RUSSIA. The Russian Ballet (Johnson), Boston, 1913; The Russian School of Painting (Benos), N. Y ...			USD -	Unknown
570	SAMUEL, RABBI	Epistola ad Rabbi contra Judaeorum errores [Translated by Alphonsus Boni Hominis], 22 leaves ...	[Rome]	about 1480	USD -	Unknown
571	SAVAGE, JAMES	A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England showing three Generations of those ...	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
572	SENECA, LUCIUS A.	Senecae Tragoediae.	[Florence]	[1513]	USD -	Unknown
573	W. Sharp	[SEVERN, JOSEPH.] The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
574	SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY	Characteristicks or Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	[London]	1732	USD -	Unknown
575	SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM	Plays. . . . accurately printed from the text of the Corrected Copies left by the late Geqrge ...	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
576	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Venus and Adonis; Sonnets; Pericles; Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim. Each work with an Introduction ...	Oxford	1905	USD -	Unknown
577	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Works.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
578	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	History of a Six Weeks Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
579	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Poetical Works.	London	1876-7	USD -	Unknown
580	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Note Books of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . . Edited by H. Buxton Forman.	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
581	[SHERIDAN, RICHARD B.]	The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed.	London	1781	USD -	Unknown
582		SILVER. Chats on Old Silver (Lowes), N. Y., n.d.; Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers ( ...			USD -	Unknown
583	[SMITH, JOHN]	Works, 1608-1631 . . . Edited by Edward Arber. Maps.	Birmingham	1884	USD -	Unknown
584	SMITH, JOHN	The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles.	Glasgow	1907	USD -	Unknown
585	SMITH, THOMAS E. V.	The City of New York in the Year of Washington's Inauguration 1789.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
586	[SMOOT, REED]	Proceedings before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate in the ...	Washington	1906	USD -	Unknown
587	M. Aurelius	SOUTHEY, ROBERT. The Golden Boke of Marcvs Avrelius.	Londini	1546	USD -	Unknown
588	SOUTHEY, ROBERT	[and S. T. Coleridge.] Joan of Arc.	Bristol	1796	USD -	Unknown
589		SPECTATOR, THE (Various authors), plates and engraved title-pages, 8 vols., 1797; Works (Southey ...	London	1797-1818	USD -	Unknown
590		SPECTATOR, THE; with Illustrative Notes.	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
591	SPENSER, EDMUND	Poetical Works.	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
592	M. Maxwell	SPORT. Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa.	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
593		SPORTS. Jorricks' Jaunts and Jollities [Surtees], sixteen colored plates after Alken, London, 1869 ...	London and New York	1869[-1937]	USD -	Unknown
594		STANDARD WORKS. Waverley Novels (Scott), 12 vols., n.d.; Works (Ruskin), 13 vols., n.d.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
595	STAUFFER, D. MCNEELY	American Engravings upon Copper and Steel.	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
596	STEPHEN, LESLIE	Hours in a Library.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
597	STEVENSON, ROBERT L.	When The Devil Was Well (Trent); Prose Writings (Harper); Poems (Heilman & Trent); and another ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
598	STOCKTON, F. R.	Novels and Stories.	New York	1899-1903	USD -	Unknown
599	STONE, ELIZABETH	Chronicles of Fashion.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
600	STOWE, HARRIET B.	Uncle Tom's Cabin.	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown

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