Parke Bernet: THE FINE LIBRARY OF THE LATE CHARLES H. MORSE. PUBLIC AUCTION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 AND 22. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES, INC. 980 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK. 1961., 2025,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 21, 1961 - March 21, 1961

Page Size: 454 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300		GROLIER CLUB. One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature. Introduction by Woodberry. Facsimiles ...	New York	1902, 1903	USD -	165.00
301	HAMILTON, ANTHONY	Memoirs of Count Grammont. Colored frontispiece.	London	1906	USD -	180.00
302	HEAD, SIR FRANCIS B.	The Emigrant. Cover drawings after Cruikshank.	London	1846	USD -	35.00
303	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Stray Leaves from Strange Literature.	Boston	1884	USD -	40.00
304	HENRY, O.	The Complete Writings.	New York	1917	USD -	65.00
305	C. H. Von Gelbke	HERALDRY. Abbildungen der Wappen saemmtlicher Europaeischen Souveraine, der Repuhliken und freien ...	Berlin	c. 1840	USD -	40.00
306	HERBERT, GEORGE	Herbert's Remains. Or. Sundry Pieces Of that Sweet Singer of the Temple, . . .	London	1652	USD -	40.00
307		HISTORIC HOUSES of Early America (Lathrop). New York. 1927; A History of the English House (Lloyd ...			USD -	20.00
308		HOLBEIN, HANS, the Younger. A group of 10 Nineteenth Century prints, hand-colored.			USD -	35.00
309	HOLBEIN and RUBENS	Some Account of the Life and Works of Hans Holbein, Painter, of Augsburg (Wornum). London. 1867 ...			USD -	55.00
310	Georgius Agricola	[HOOVER, HERBERT CLARK and LOU HENRY.] De Re Metallica.	London	1912	USD -	75.00
311		HOROLOGY. Watches [and] Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World (Baillie). 2 vols.; Old Clocks and ...	London & New York	v.d.	USD -	200.00
312	HUDSON, W. H.	Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest.	London	1901	USD -	60.00
313		ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF HOURS ON VELLUM. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Ecclesiae ...	French	XV Century	USD -	300.00
314		ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Psalter, with Calendar and Canticles. Written in Latin (with a few ...	French	XIII century	USD -	3,100.00
315	Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis	ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.	The Netherlands	XV Century	USD -	175.00
316	Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis	ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.	French	XV Century	USD -	1,400.00
317		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. The Tutor's Assistant, or Comic Figures of Arithmetic (Crowquill). Illustrated by ...	London and Edinburgh	v.d.	USD -	37.50
318		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Queen Summer (Walter Crane). Illustrated by the author; Immensee (Storm). 2 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
319		ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS. The Cooper Vignettes. From Drawings by F. O. C. Darley. India Proofs ...			USD -	40.00
320		INSCRIBED COPIES. Afterwhiles (Riley). Indianapolis, 1888; later stale, with four lines of verse ...			USD -	30.00
321	IRVING, WASHINGTON	Life of George Washington.	New York	1855-59	USD -	180.00
322	JAMESON, MRS ANNA	The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second.	London	1833	USD -	50.00
323	JESSE. J. HENEAGE	London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places. extra-illustrated with 300 portraits, views ...	London	1871	USD -	40.00
324	H. C. Bainbridge	JEWELRY AND OBJETS DE VERTU. Peter Carl Faberge, Goldsmith and Jeweller.	London	[1929]	USD -	45.00
325	[JORDAN, MRS DOROTHY]	The Great Illegitimates!! Public and Private Life of that Celebrated Actress, Mrs. Bland, otherwise ...	London	c. 1830	USD -	75.00
326	[Duchesse D'Abrantes]	JUNOT, MADAME. Memoirs.	London	n.d.	USD -	55.00
327	JUVENILES, R.	Caldecott's Collection [Second Collection] of Songs. 2 vols.; R. Caldecott's Picture Book (No. 2 ...		1868, 1928, and n.d.	USD -	30.00
328	KEATING, WILLIAM H.	Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek. Lake of the Woods, &c ...	London	1825	USD -	25.00
329	KEATS, JOHN	Endymion: A Poetic Romance.	London	1818	USD -	120.00
330	KEATS, JOHN	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.	London	1820	USD -	100.00
331	Jane Austen	KELLIEGRAM BINDING. Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.	London	1894	USD -	65.00
332	[KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT]	National Songster; or. A Collection of the Most Admired Patriotic Songs . . . From the best American ...	Hagerstown [Md.]	and May, 1814	USD -	600.00
333	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Narrow 8vo, original wrappers; wrapper defects; lower fore- ...	Lahore	[1886]	USD -	65.00
334	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Plain Tales from the Hills. Calcutta, 1888; first edition, later binding and ads; Soldier Tales ...			USD -	Unknown
335	LACROIX, PAUL	A group of 5 vols. on European cultural history.	London	1870-78, n.d.	USD -	Unknown
336		LANDAUER COLLECTION. Early American Trade Cards from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer.	New York	1927	USD -	Unknown
337	LAWRENCE, D. H.	England, My England. first english edition; St. Mawr Together with The Princess, first edition; the ...	London; Florence	[1924-28]; [1929]	USD -	32.50
338	LAWRENCE, T. E.	Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph.	Garden City	1935	USD -	35.00
339	LEAN, VINCENT STUCKEY	Collections . . . of Proverbs (English & Foreign), Folk Lore, and Superstitions, etc.	Bristol	1902-4	USD -	22.50
340		LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. The Old Wives' Tale (Bennett). 2 vols. Illustrated by John Austen.; The Tales ...	Oxford, New York	1911, 1943	USD -	20.00
341		LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley (Curtis). 2 vols.; John Addington ...			USD -	80.00
342		LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. The Life of Goethe (Bielschowsky). 3 vols. bound in 6; The Life of Shelley ( ...			USD -	85.00
343		LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Spiller et al.) 3 vols.; Washington Irving: A Sketch (Curtis ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	40.00
344	LODGE, EDMUND	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.	London	1821-34	USD -	75.00
345	LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	Ballads and Other Poems.	Cambridge	1842	USD -	100.00
346	LUTHER, MARTIN	Das dise wort Christi (das ist mein leib &c.) noch fest stehen wyder die Schwerm geister. [Nuremberg ...			USD -	100.00
347	MABERLY, J.	The Print Collector. An Introduction to the Knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of Ancient ...	New York	1880	USD -	500.00
348		MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT. William Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist and Man.	New York	1900	USD -	65.00
349	MACKENZIE, KENNETH	The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass.	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
350		MADAME DE STAEL: Her Friends, and Her Influence in Politics and Literature (Blennerhassett). 3 vols ...	London	1888-89, 1853	USD -	65.00
351	[William Burgoyne?]	MANUSCRIPT EXERCISES. Gymnasmata Graeca, Latine, et plerunque versibus translata, literarum ...	English	17th Century	USD -	70.00
352	MASSON, FREDERIC	L'Imperatrice Marie-Louise.	Paris	1902	USD -	45.00
353		MEMOIRS of Francois Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Sometime Ambassador to England. 6 vols. London ...			USD -	Unknown
354		MEMOIRS OF THE COURT AND CABINETS of George III, The Regency, George IV, William IV, and Victoria ( ...	London; Philadelphia	1853-61; n.d.	USD -	55.00
355	MERLE, WILLIAM HENRY	Odds and Ends. In Verse and Prose.	London	1831	USD -	10.00
356	MILLLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Huntsman, What Quarry?	New York	1939	USD -	35.00
357	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	The Buck in the Snow. New York, 1928; first trade edition; The Princess Marries the Page. New York ...			USD -	25.00
358	MILTON, JOHN	Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books.	London	1669	USD -	120.00
359	Eben F. Thompson	MINI ATURE BOOK. The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam. Founded on the Persian. By Eben F. Thompson. Size ...	Worcester	1932	USD -	110.00
360	[Charles J. Apperley]	MINIATURE PAINTING ON IVORY. Sporting, edited by Nimrod.	London	1838	USD -	500.00
361		MODERN ART. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures (Bourgeois ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	30.00
362	MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE	The Essayes Or Morall, Polilike and Millitarie Discourses . . . now done into English By Iohn Florio ...	London	1603	USD -	100.00
363	G. C. Williamson	[MORGAN, J. PIERPONT]. Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art. The Properly ...	London	1910	USD -	625.00
364	G. C. Williamson	[MORGAN. J. PIERPONT.] Catalogue of the Collection of Watches, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan.	London	1912	USD -	325.00
365	MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS	Partitions des cinq principaux Quintetti pour deux Violons, deux Altos, et Violoncelle.	Offenbach	no date	USD -	20.00
366	MUDFORD, WILLIAM	An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under his Grace the Duke of ...	London	1817	USD -	190.00
367	NAPOLEON I.	History of Napoleon (Bussey). 2 vols.; English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon 1 (Ashton); A ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
368	NAPOLEON I.	Napoleon: The Last Phase (Roseberry). Extra-illustrated; The Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena ( ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
369	NEWTON A. EDWARD	Derby Day. Boston, 1934; limited edition, signed; Doctor Johnson. Boston, 1923; inscribed copy; The ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
370	NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH	Also Sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen.	Leipzig	1908	USD -	Unknown
371		NINETEENTH CENTURY GENRE PAINTING. Choice Selection of Masterpieces from the World's Great Galleries ...	No place or publisher	[c 1890]	USD -	20.00
372	NOLHAC, PIERRE DE	J.-M. Nattier, Peintre de la Cour de Louis XV. Illustrated.	Paris	1905	USD -	Unknown
373	NOLHAC, PIERRE DE	Francois Boucher. Premier Peintre du Roi, 1703-1770.	Paris	1907	USD -	Unknown
374		OLD COURT LIFE IN FRANCE (Elliot). 2 vols.; Old Court Life in Spain (Elliot). 2 vols.; Memoirs of ...	London	1853-61, 1873, 1893	USD -	45.00
375	OMAR KHAYYAM	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.	London	1859	USD -	700.00
376	O'NEILL, EUGENE	The Plays. Illustrated.	New York	[1934-35]	USD -	85.00
377	OPPE, ADOLF PAUL	Thomas Rowlandson: His Drawings and Water colours.	London	1923	USD -	30.00
378	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.	Antwerp	1574	USD -	585.00
379	PAGE, THOMAS N.	Works.	New York	1906-12	USD -	95.00
380	PARKER, GILBERT	Works.	New York	1912-17	USD -	75.00
381	PARKER, THEODORE	Works.	Boston	n.d.	USD -	130.00
382		PASTELS AND MINIATURES. Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch ...			USD -	50.00
383		PORTRAITS. A Gallery of Distinguished English and American Female Poets.	Philadelphia	1860	USD -	45.00
384		PORTRAITS AND VIEWS. Nuova Raccolta di Ritratti de' Pittori, Scultori, e Architetti Insigni ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	50.00
385	RASPE, RUDOLPHE ERIC]	Gulliver Revived: or, The Vice of Lying Properly Exposed; Containing singular Travels Campaigns ...	Hamburg [?]	1790	USD -	20.00
386	[RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB]	The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone.	Indianapolis	1883	USD -	140.00
387	RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB	Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers.	New York	1897	USD -	20.00
388	ROGERS, BRUCE, Typographer	Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries (Kenyon).	Chicago	1927	USD -	27.50
389	ROGERS, BRUCE. Typographer	Hydriotaphia or Urne-Burialle (Browne). one of 385 copies; Paul et Virginie (Saint-Pierre). Text in ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	30.00
390	ROGERS, BRUCE	Typographer. Democracy (Lowell). one of 500 copies; ournal of a Tour in the Netherlands (Southey ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	12.00
391	ROGERS, BRUCE. Typographer	A Collection of the Facts and Documents, relative to the Death of Major-General Hamilton (Coleman ...	Boston	v.d.	USD -	30.00
392	ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA	Goblin Market and other poems.	London	1862	USD -	70.00
393	[Combe. Papworth & Wrancham]	ROWLANDSON COLOR PLATES.	London	1813	USD -	25.00
394		ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES. Queen Victoria (Holmes). London, 1897: a D.s. by Victoria tipped in; Queen Anne ( ...			USD -	60.00
395		RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Fitzgerald's translation. Reproduced from a manuscript written and ...			USD -	60.00
396	SANDBURG, CARL	Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.	New York	1939	USD -	110.00
397	SANDBURG, CARL	Remembrance Rock. 2 vols. [1948]; one of 1.000 copies, signed by the author, the recipient's name ...	New York	[1948, 1953]	USD -	25.00
398	Sir Francis Bacon	SANGORSKI MANUSCRIPT. Of Gardens: An Essay.	[London]	n.d.	USD -	260.00
399	SARGENT, JOHN S.	The Work of John S. Sargent, R.A. Introductions by Manson and Mrs. Mevnell.	London	1927	USD -	25.00

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