Swann Galleries: CHILDRENS BOOKS., 1102,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 11, 1978 - May 11, 1978

Page Size: 522 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Groot A/B/C/Boek, zeer bekwaam voor de Jonge Rinderen te Leeren.	Amsterdam	1781	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
2	ABBOTT, JACOB	Rollo's Travels ...	Boston	1840	USD 200.00 - 300.00	80.00
3	ADAM, VICTOR; Schmith; Alhoy	Le Chapitre des Accidents, Le Cure Conteur, traduits par Desvosges.	Paris	1845, circa 1845	USD 60.00 - 90.00	19.00
4		ADVENTURES OF TIMOTHY DUMP, AND HIS DOG TOBY.	London	circa 1830	USD 50.00 - 75.00	95.00
5	Charles Hoole	AESOP'S FABLES, ENGLISH AND LATIN; every one whereof is divided into it's distinct periods, marked with Figures ...	London	1689	USD 200.00 - 300.00	375.00
6	AESOP	Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists, in Three Books	London	1765	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
7	AESOP	The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood	Newcastle	1818	USD 150.00 - 200.00	80.00
8	AESOP	The Little Esop.	Philadelphia	1845	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
9	AESOP	The Little Esop.	Philadelphia	1845	USD 35.00 - 50.00	30.00
10	AESOP	A Hundred Fables, from the English Version of Sir Roger L'Estrange.	London & New York	1899	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
11	AESOP; Chambaud; Clarke; Ross; Perrin	Fables Choisies, a l'Usage des Enfans., Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop., Fabulae Aesopi Selectae ... with an English Translation., Fables Amusantes ... carefully revised and corrected by a competent person.	Phila, Walpole, N.H., Lancaster, Pa., N.Y., Vp	1796, 1802, 1804, 1817	USD 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
12	AIKIN, JOHN; and BARBAULD, MRS	Evenings at Home, or the Juvenile Budget Opened.	Glasgow	1828	USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
13	ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY	An Old-Fashioned Girl.	Boston	1870	USD 30.00 - 40.00	12.00
14	ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY	Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag: Shawl-Straps., ditto: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc., Under the Lilacs., Jo's Boys.	Boston	1872, 1882, 1878, 1886	USD 35.00 - 50.00	13.00
15	ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY; Cornelia Meigs	Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag: My Boys, etc., Jo's Boys. Two copies, one thicker than the other., Invincible Louisa	Boston	1872, 1886, 1933	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
16	Ednah D. Cheney; ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY	the Children's Friend.	Boston	1888	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
17	ALPHABETS	Het Nederlandsch Leesboek, beheizende in het kort voor de Jeugs. Engraved title; folding colored map of Holland	Dordrecht	circa 1820-30	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
18		ALPHABET BOOKS.		Late 19th century	USD 35.00 - 50.00	80.00
19	Goodrich; Murray; Shelton; Percy; Evans	AMERICAN JUVENILES., Life of Washington., Short System of Polite Learning., English Exercises., Salander and the Dragon., Robin Hood., Little Picture Bible., Story of Joan of Arc. 1847 * and others.	Babcock, Vp	1840, 1820, 1803, 1851, 1855, 1841	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
20	Burnett; Wiggin; Gate; Field; James	AMERICAN JUVENILES., Little Lord Fauntleroy., Bluebeard., The Broom Fairies., Eliza and the Elves., Smoky.	New Haven, New York	1886, 1914, 1917, 1926, 1929, 1917	USD 35.00 - 50.00	20.00
21	Crofton; Lanier; Knox; Knox	AMERICAN JUVENILES., Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax, Boy's King Arthur, Wide Awake * Butterworth. Zigzag Journeys in the Occident, Boy Travellers in Central Europe, Voyage of the "Vivian" to the North Pole and Beyond.	Vp	1880's	USD 35.00 - 50.00	14.00
22	Wells; Wiggin; Browne; Wilcox; Irving	AMERICAN JUVENILES., The Jingle Book, Timothy's Quest, Two American Boys in Hawaii, The Beautiful Land of Nod, American Tract Society., Views from Nature, Rip Van Winkle * and three others.	Vp	chiefly 1890's	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
23	Harris; Peck; Rich; Weeden; Frost; Cooke; Raymond	AMERICAN JUVENILES., Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann, Sunbeams, Tony's White Room, Bandanna Ballads, A Happy Summer, Their First Formal Call, The Merry-Go-Round * and others.	Vp		USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
24	Sophie May; Alcott; Optic; Whittier	AMERICAN JUVENILES. Sidney. Phronsie Pepper, Quinnebasset Girls, Hospital Sketches, Outward Bound, Child Life in Prose * and others.	Vp		USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
25	Baldwin; Stevenson; Stevenson; Bryson; Leaf; Brown; Juster	AMERICAN JUVENILES--MODERN., Song of Roland. Illus. Peter Hurd, David Balfour., Treasure Island., Twenty Miracles of Saint Nicolas, Grammar can be Fun, The So-and-So Family, The Phantom Tollbooth * and others.	Vp		USD 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
26	Meigs; Davenport; Boyd; Pogany; White; Roberts	AMERICAN JUVENILES--MODERN., Call of the Mountain, The Country Boy, Drums, Magyar Fairy Tales, Arizona Nights, The House in the Water * and others.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
27	McClintock; Maloy & Dalgliesh; Hanson; Shulevitz; Ungerer; Porter	AMERICAN JUVENILES--MODERN. Nordell. Little Faces from Far Places, Story of the Mississippi, Wooden Shoes in America, Pierpont the Foxhound, Rain Rain Rivers, I Am Papa Snap, Tell-a-Tinkle Tales * and others.	New York, etc.		USD 35.00 - 50.00	20.00
28		AMERICAN RELIGIOUS ENGRAVED BOOK.	American	circa 1810	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
29		AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. The Golden Ladder., Little Willie.	New York	1864	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
30		AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.	New-York	circa 1830-40	USD 60.00 - 90.00	27.50
31	ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN	The True Story of My Life: a Sketch.	London	1847	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
32		APPLETON'S SPANISH-TEXT COLOR PLATE JUVENILES.	Nueva York	circa 1905	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
33		APPLETON'S SPANISH-TEXT ILLUMINATED JUVENILES.	Nueva York	1864-65	USD 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
34		APPLETON'S SPANISH-TEXT JUVENILES.	Nueva York	1860's-90's	USD 60.00 - 90.00	70.00
35	ARGUS, ARABELLA	The Adventures of a Donkey, Further Adventures of Jemmy Donkey; interspersed with Biographical Sketches of the Horse.	London	1815, 1821	USD 60.00 - 90.00	50.00
36	ASCHAM, ROGER	The Scholemaster, shewing a Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching the Learned Languages.	London	1743	USD 60.00 - 90.00	19.00
37	ASPIN, JEHOSHAPHAT	A Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Pastimes, of the Inhabitants of England, from the Arrival of the Saxons down to the Eighteenth Century. 24 fine copperplates, printed in pairs.	London	1825	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
38	AULNOY, COMTESSE D'	A Collection of Novels and Tales of the Fairies, written by that Celebrated Wit of France, the Countess d'Anois.	London	1749	USD 250.00 - 350.00	160.00
39	BAKER, J. C.	My Trundle Bed: Ballad.	Chicago	1860	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
40	BARHAM, R. H.	The Smuggler's Leap: a Legend of Thanet	London	1877	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
41		BATTLEDORES	English	late 19th century	USD 100.00 - 150.00	85.00
42		BATTLES OF THE FROGS AND MICE, AFTER HOMER.	London	1851	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
43	BAUM, L. FRANK	The Master Key: an Electrical Fairy Tale.	Indianapolis	1901	USD 70.00 - 100.00	25.00
44	BAUM, L. FRANK	Dot and Tot of Merryland.	Indianapolis	1901	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
45	BAUM, L. FRANK	Interesting group of 5 volumes, as below.	Vp		USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
46	BAUM, L. FRANK	The Uplift of Lucifer; in which is included The Corrugated Giant, etc.	Los Angeles	1963	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
47	BELSON, MARY	My Brother.	London	May 19, 1812	USD 60.00 - 90.00	55.00
48	BELSON, MARY	Grateful Tributes; or, Recollections of Infancy.	London	Jun., 1817	USD 50.00 - 75.00	55.00
49	BENNETT, CHARLES H.	Lightsome, and the Little Golden Lady.	London	1867	USD 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
50	BENNETT, CHARLES H.	The Fables of Aesop and Others, translated into Human Nature, Designed and Drawn on the Wood.	London	1875	USD 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
51	BENNETT, CHARLES H.	Proverbs with Pictures.	London	1877	USD 60.00 - 90.00	25.00
52	BERQUIN, ARNAUD	The Looking-Glass for the Mind, or Intellectual Mirror ...	London	1787	USD 50.00 - 75.00	75.00
53	BERQUIN, ARNAUD	The Looking-Glass for the Mind, or Intellectual Mirror ...	London	1794	USD 70.00 - 100.00	75.00
54	BERQUIN, ARNAUD	The Looking-Glass for the Mind, or Intellectual Mirror, translated from that much admired work L'Ami des Enfans.	London	1800	USD 60.00 - 90.00	30.00
55		BESSIE & JESSIE'S SECOND BOOK IN EASY WORDS of not more than Six Letters.	London	1862	USD 35.00 - 50.00	16.00
56	BEWICK	A Natural History of British Birds.	Alnwick	circa 1814	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
57	BEWICK, THOMAS	Group of 25 proofs, on China paper, of his wood-engravings for NEWCASTLE STREET CRIES.			USD 350.00 - 500.00	325.00
58	BLANCHARD, PIERRE	Le Nouveau La Bruyere, ou les Enfans Bien Eleves.	Londres	1805	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
59	Novello, Sabilla; BLUEBEARD	The Story of Blue-Beard, from Perrault.	Lawrence & Bullen, London	1877, 895	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
60	BOKUM, HERMANN, Editor	The Stranger's Gift: a Christmas and New Year's Pres ent.	Boston	1836	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
61	Bon Gaultier	BOOK OF BALLADS	London	1849	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
62		BOOK OF TRADES.	Philadelphia	circa 1840-50	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
63		BOY SCOUTS		Circa 1910	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
64		BOY'S AND GIRL'S LIBRARY.	New-York	1837-40	USD 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
65	BUNYAN, JOHN	The Heavenly Footman: or, a Description of the Man that gets to Heaven ... and some directions how to run so as to obtain.	London	1777	USD 60.00 - 90.00	19.00
66	BUNYAN, JOHN	The Heavenly Footman: or a Description of the Man that gets to Heaven ... and some Directions how to run so as to obtain.	London	1782	USD 50.00 - 75.00	17.00
67	BUNYAN, JOHN	The Heavenly Footman, or a Description of the Man that gets to Heaven ... also, Some Directions how to run, so as to obtain.	London	circa 1815	USD 40.00 - 60.00	15.00
68	BURNE-JONES, SIR EDWARD	Letters to Katie.	London	1925	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
69	BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON	Little Lord Fauntleroy.	London	1900	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
70		BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASS-HOPPER'S FEAST.	London & Edinburgh	circa 1860	USD 50.00 - 75.00	95.00
71	CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH	Old Christmas, Bracebridge Hall.	London	1876, 1877	USD 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
72	CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH	Omnibus volume containing 4 books for young people, as below, printed in triple columns.	London	1882	USD 35.00 - 50.00	100.00
73	CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH	The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs * The Complete Collection of Contributions to the "Graphic."	London	1887, 1888	USD 100.00 - 150.00	300.00
74	CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH; Tennyson, Hallam	Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters.	London	1886	USD 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
75	CALDECOTT	Randolph Caldecott's Painting Book.	London	nd	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
76		CALLIGRAPHY	Edinburgh	1794-95	USD 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
77	William P. Wright	CALLIGRAPHY	British	1857	USD 100.00 - 150.00	70.00
78	CAMERON & FERGUSON	The Bandit's Daughter, or Mountain Gid the Free Ranger * The Skeleton Scout, or Yankee Seth's Adventures.	Glasgow & London	circa 1890	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
79	CAMPE, J. H.	Le Nouveau Robinson, pour servir a l'Amusement et a l'Instruction des Enfans.	Paris	1783	USD 60.00 - 90.00	20.00
80	CAMPE, J. H.	Recueil de Voyages Interessans pour l'Instruction et l'Amusement de la Jeunesse.	Francfort sur le Mein	1792-93	USD 80.00 - 120.00	45.00
81	CAMPE, J. H.	Cortez; or, the Conquest of Mexico, as related by a Father to his Children.	London	1799	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
82	CAMPE, J. H.	Pizarro, or the Conquest of Peru, being a Continuation of the Discov ery of America, for the use of Children and Young Persons.	Birmingham	1800	USD 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
83	CAMPE, J. H.	Le Nouveau Robinson, pour servir a l'Amusement et a l'Instruction des Enfans.	Francfort	1804	USD 60.00 - 90.00	16.00
84	CAMPE, J. H.	Decouverte de l'Amerique, Ouvrage propre a l'Instruction et a l'Amusement de la Jeunesse.	Paris	1822	USD 40.00 - 60.00	13.00
85	CAREY, JOHN	Learning Better than House and Land, as exemplified in the History of Harry Johnson and Dick Hobson.	London	1813	USD 40.00 - 60.00	18.00
86	CARROLL, LEWIS	The Hunting of the Snark	London	1876	USD 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
87	CARROLL, LEWIS	Doublets a Word-Puzzle by Lewis Carroll [caption-title]	Oxford	1879	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
88	CARROLL, LEWIS	A Tangled Tale	London	1885	USD 50.00 - 75.00	20.00
89	CARROLL, LEWIS	Group of 4 volumes, as below.	London, Ithaca	1903-32-34, 1974	USD 30.00 - 40.00	14.00
90	CARROLL, LEWIS	Bibliography of the Writings.	London	1924	USD 100.00 - 150.00	62.50
91	CARROLL, LEWIS	The Life and Letters of.	London	1898	USD 60.00 - 90.00	25.00
92	CATECHISMUS	oder Anfaenglicher Unterricht Christlicher Glaubens-Lehre, allen Christlichen Glaubens-Schuelern, Jung oder Alt, Nothig und Nuetzlich sich drin zu ueben.	Philadelphia	1763	USD 80.00 - 120.00	27.50
93		CATECISMO MEXICANO ... en Castellano el Padre Geronymo de Ripalda ... traduxo del Castellano, en el puro, y proprio Idioma Mexicano el Padre Ignacio de Paredes.	Mexico	1758	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
94	James Anthony Froude	CAT'S PILGRIMAGE, THE	Edinburgh	1870	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
95	CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE	The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	1809	USD 35.00 - 50.00	16.00
96		CHAPBOOKS	Chiefly English	early 19th century	USD 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
97	CHILD, ISABELLA	The Child's Picture Bible * The Child's Picture Testament.	New Haven, Philadelphia	circa 1845	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
98		CHILDREN'S MISCELLANY, consisting of Select Stories, Fables, and Dialogues ... for Young Persons.	London	1796	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
99		CHILD'S OWN BOOK.	Paris	1837	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
100	CLARKE, JOHN	Discourses to Young Persons.	Boston	1804	USD 30.00 - 40.00	13.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.