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
601 SUCKLING, SIR JOHN Fragmenta Avrea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces written by Sir John Svckling and ... London

1648

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602 SUE, EUGENE The Wandering Jew. London

1844-5

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603 SULLY, DUKE OF. Memoirs. London

1810

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604 [SURTEES, ROBERT S.] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. 13 colored plates, and wood engravings by John Leech. 1853; Mr. Facey ... London

1853-65

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605 B. Dean SWORDS. Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords, including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs ... New York

1929

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606 B. Dean SWORDS. Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords, including the Ellis, De Dino, and ... New York

1929

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607 SYMONDS, JOHN A. Wine, Women, and Song. London

1884

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608 TAINE, H. A. History of English Literature. Edinburgh

1873

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609 TALE OF A TUB [Swift], London, 1710; Fables (Gay), 2 vols., London, 1733; Works of Peter Pindar [ ...

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610 M. Fenaille TAPESTRIES. Etat Generale des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins depuis son origine jusqu'a ... Paris

1903-12

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611 E. Guichard and A. Darcel TAPESTRIES. Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble. Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs. Paris

n.d.

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612 TAYLOR, JOHN All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water Poet, Being in number collected into one volum [sic] By the ... [London]

1630

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613 TERENCE Terence in English. Fabvlate Comici's Facetissimi et Elegantissimi Poetae Terentii Omnes Anglicae ... Cantabrigiae

1607

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614 THACKERAY, W. M. L'Abbaye de Penmarch, . . . [Paris]

[1840]

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615 THACKERAY, W. M. The Book of Snobs, London, 1848; Ballads, London, 1855; Denis Duval, London, 1867; A Shabby Genteel ...

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616 THACKERAY, W. M. Works. Boston

n.d.

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617 THOMAS AQUINAS Summa, secunda secundae. 394 leaves [should be 396, lacks the first blank and a leaf of text ... Mantua

undated, but about 1475

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618 THOMAS JEFFERSON AS AN ARCHITECT AND A DESIGNER OF LANDSCAPES (Lambeth and Manning), Boston, 1913 ...

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619 THOMSON, JAMES The Seasons, A Poem. By Mr. Thomson. London

1730

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620 THOREAU, HENRY D. Walden. Map. Boston

1854

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621 TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, H. DE Au Cirque. [Second Series.] Paris

n.d.

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622 TOWER OF BABEL, THE (Austin), Edin., 1874, presentation copy from the author; The Life of Pizarro ( ...

USD - Unknown
623 TOWNSEND, JOHN K. Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River. Philadelphia

1839

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624 TURCI Tractatus quidam de Turcis. Nuremberg

1481

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625 TURKEY. Histoire Generale des Turcs, contenant l'Histoire de Chalcondyle, traduite par Blaise de ... Paris

1662

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626 TYNDALE, WILLIAM The Prophete Jonas. London

1862

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627 [UDALL, WILLIAM] The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Qveene of Scotland. London

1624

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628 J.-B. de La Faille [VAN GOGH, VINCENT.] L'Oeuvre de Vincent Van Gogh. Catalogue Raisonne. Paris and Bruxelles

1928

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629 J. Meier-Graefe [VAN GOGH, VINCENT.] Vincent. [German text.] Munchen

n.d.

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630 [VAN GOGH, VINCENT] Vincent Van Gogh der Zeichner (Meier-Graefe), Berlin, 1928; Vincent Van Gogh (Uhde), Wien [1936 ... V.p.

v.d.

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631 [VAN GOGH, VINCENT] A collection of 11 reproductions of water-colors and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh, of which 4 are in ...

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632 VEGA, GARCILASO DE Historie des Yncas Rois du Perou . . . on a joint a cette Edition l'Histoire de la Conquete de la ... Amsterdam

1737

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633 VIRGILIUS, PUBLIUS, MARO Eclogae Virgilii, Calphurnii, Nemesiani, Franc. [Florentiae]

[1504]

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634 VISITS AND SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD (Jameson), 2 vols., 1830; The Life and Letters of Frances ... London

v.d.

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635 [WALKLEY, THOMAS] A Catalogve of the names of the Knights for the Counties, Citizens, Burgesses for the Boroughs, and ... London

1628

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636 A. Dobson [WALPOLE, HORACE.] Horace Walpole. London

1893

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637 WALPOLE, HORACE Works and Memoirs of Horace Walpole. London

1806-59

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638 WALPOLE, HUGH Rogue Herries. London

1930

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639 WALTON, IZAAK The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln. Portrait. London

1678

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640 [WALTON, IZAAK] The Life of Mr. Rich. Hooker. Portrait, London, 1665, First Edition; The Compleat Angler, London ...

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641 WALTON, IZAAK The Compleat Angler, the Lives of Donne, etc., Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929, Limited Edition ...

USD - Unknown
642 WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation . . . Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris ... London

1860

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643 WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON The Complete Angler. Boston

1866

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644 WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON The Complete Angler . . . and a Notice of Cotton and his Writings by the American Editor [George W ...

USD - Unknown
645 WARNER, CHARLES D. The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner. Edited by Thomas R. Lounsbury. Hartford

1904

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646 WASHINGTON, GEORGE A.L.s.

1785

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647 C. H. Hart [WASHINGTON, GEORGE]. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington. New York

1904

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648 WASHINGTON, MARTHA A.L.s. Martha Washington. n.p.

n.d.

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649 WELLS, G. Gentle Reactions, Garden City, 1923; Appeal to Common Sense, Lond., n.d.; What is Truth? Lond., 1924 ...

USD - Unknown
650 WEST INDIES. Jamaica: its Past and Present State (Phillippo), London, 1843; A Twelvemonth's ...

USD - Unknown
651 E. G. Kennedy [WHISTLER, JAMES A. McN.] The Etched Work of Whistler. New York

1910

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652 [WHITTIER, JOHN G.] Moll Pitcher. Boston

1832

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653 WHITTIER, JOHN G. Writings. 7 vols. [1892]; Life and Letters, by Samuel T. Pickard, 2 vols. [1894]. Boston

[1892-4]

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654 [WHITTY, J.] Tales of Irish Life. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank, in 2 states, one state in color; some foxing. London

1824

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655 WILLISON, JOHN Fair and Impartial Testimony essayed in name of a Number of Ministers, Elders, and Christian People ... Pittsburgh

1808

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656 [WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM] Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London

1798

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657 WORDSWORTH, C. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical. London

1859

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658 WORLD'S PROGRESS, THE. N.p.

n.d.

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659 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Harvey), Oxford, n.d.; The Home ...

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660 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

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661 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

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