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
400 [SARGENT, JOHN S.] The Work of John S. Sargent, R.A. Introductions by J. B. Manson and Mrs. Mevnell. London and New York

1927

USD - 50.00
401 [SCHEDEL, HARTMANN] Liber cronicarum. Woodcuts by Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff. Nuremberg

1493

USD - 450.00
402 [SCOTT, SIR WALTER] Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. Edinburgh

1815

USD - 35.00
403 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Journal . . . from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford. 2 vols.; Familiar Letters. 2 vols. London

1890, 1894

USD - 30.00
404 SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY. EARL OF. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. London

1727

USD - 25.00
405 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London

1632

USD - 525.00
406 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare, Gent. London

1640

USD - 4,100.00
407 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is Now Acted at the Theatre Royal. London

1684

USD - 525.00
408 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Works. Edinburgh

1901

USD - 340.00
409 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes. London

1813

USD - 600.00
410 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: etc. London

1818

USD - 70.00
411 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Revolt of Islam. London

1818

USD - 25.00
412 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Italy

1819

USD - 120.00
413 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems. London

1819

USD - 65.00
414 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Prometheus Unbound . . . With other Poems. London

1820

USD - 850.00
415 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Prometheus Unbound . . . With Other Poems. London

1820

USD - Unknown
416 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. London

1822

USD - Unknown
417 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Sensitive Plant. London

1899

USD - Unknown
418 Bowman and Irwin [SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH.] Sherman and His Campaigns: A Mililary Biography. extra-illustrated with ... New York

1865

USD - 55.00
419 SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York

1896

USD - 850.00
420 SMITH, F. HOPKINSON Works. New York

1902-15

USD - 50.00
421 SMITH, JOHN A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. London

1908

USD - 85.00
422 SMITH, REV. SAMUEL FRANCIS America. Los Angeles

n.d.

USD - 80.00
423 SPENSER, EDMUND The Faerie Queene . . . with the fragment Mutabilitie. London

1897

USD - 350.00
424 SPORT. Veiled Horizons (Bandini). New York: Derrydale [1939]; limited edition; Photography for the ...

USD - 30.00
425 Mr. Yorick [STERNE, LAURENCE]. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. London

1768

USD - 65.00
426 STEVENSON, ROBERT L. War in Samoa. London

1893

USD - 20.00
427 STOCKTON, FRANK R. The Novels and Stories. New York

1899-1901

USD - 60.00
428 STRACHEY, LYTTON Queen Victoria. extra-illustrated with plates and autograph material. New York

1921

USD - 65.00
429 STRUVENS, BURCARD GOTTHELFF Vollstandige Teutsche Reichs-Historie. Jena

1732

USD - 20.00
430 [STUART, GILBERT] Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, Compiled by Lawrence Park. New York

1926

USD - 160.00
431 ST. URSULA The Legend of St. Ursula and Her Companions. Colored illustrations, after the originals ascribed to ... London

1869

USD - 35.00
432 SYMONS, ARTHUR, editor The Savoy. London

Jan.-Dec. 1896

USD - 12.50
433 [TENNYSON, ALFRED] In Memoriam. London

1850

USD - Unknown
434 TENNYSON, ALFRED. LORD The Lover's Tale. London

1879

USD - 17.50
435 TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD Morte d'Arthur; Dora; and Other Idyls. London, 1842; A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie ... London

1842-74

USD - 55.00
436 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The Virginians. London

1853-55

USD - 20.00
437 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE The Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkin's Ball, Our Street, Doctor Birch & his young friends, The ... London

1847-55

USD - 75.00
438 THEATER. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian (Adolphus). 2 vols.; The Mapleson Memoirs 1818-1888. 2 ... V.p.

v.d.

USD - 35.00
439 THEATER AND MLSIC. A History of Music in Pictures (Kinsky); The Metropolitan Opera 1883-1935 ( ...

USD - 60.00
440 THOREAU, HENRY D. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston

1854

USD - 225.00
441 TRAVEL. Coryat's Crudities, Reprinted from the Edition of 1611 . . . to which are now added. His ... V.p.

v.d.

USD - 50.00
442 TULLY, RICHARD Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa. Seven color plates, and a map. London

1817

USD - 10.00
443 VIRGIL, P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata. a Chr. Gotti. Heyne. London

1793

USD - 10.00
444 WAGNER, RICHARD Parsifal. Ein Buhnenweihfestspiel . . . Vom Orchester fur das Klavier ubertragen von Joseph ... Mainz

[1882]

USD - 20.00
445 WALPOLE, HORACE The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. London

1857

USD - 375.00
446 WALTON, WILLIAM World's Columbian Exposition: Art & Architecture. Philadelphia

[1893]

USD - 45.00
447 WARD, MRS HUMPHRY Works by and about Mrs. Ward. V.p.

v.d.

USD - 60.00
448 WELBY, ADLARD A Visit to North America and The English Settlements in Illinois, etc. London

1821

USD - 60.00
449 WHARTON, GRACE and PHILIP The Wits and Beaux of Society. London

n.d.

USD - Unknown
450 Whistler (Duret) WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL. Philadelphia, 1917; The Works of James McNeill Whistler (Cary). New York ...

USD - Unknown
451 WILLIAMS, HENRY SMITH The History of the Art of Writing. Over 200 plates, some in color. 28 original parts, folio ... New York and London

[1902]

USD - Unknown
452 WILLIAMSON, GEORGE C. The History of Portrait Miniatures. 104 full-page plates, each displaying several subjects. London

1901

USD - Unknown
453 WILSON, ALEXANDER, and BONAPARTE. C. L. American Ornithology . . . and Life of Wilson, by Sir William Jardine. Over 100 figures of birds, in ... London

1832

USD - Unknown
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