Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, 1964, AT 2 P. M., Exhibition from November 9th To Time of Sale. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, A COMPLETE RUN OF T, 658,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 12, 1964 - November 12, 1964
Page Size: 335 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 LOTI, PIERRE An Iceland Fisherman

1931

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202 LUCRETIUS De Rerum Natura; Of the Nature of Things

1957

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203 MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO The Prince

1954

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204 MALORY, SIR THOMAS Le Morte Darthur: the Story of King Arthur & of his Noble Knights of the Round Table

1936

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205 MANZONI, ALESSANDRO I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)

1951

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206 MARAN, RENE Batouala

1932

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207 MARCO POLO The Travels

1934

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208 MARCUS AURELIUS The Meditations

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209 MASTERS, EDGAR LEE Spoon River Anthology

1942

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210 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage

1938

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211 MAUPASSANT, GUY de A Woman's Life

USD - Unknown
212 MELVILLE, HERMAN Typee

1935

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214 MELVILLE, HERMAN Omoo

1961

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215 MEREDITH, GEORGE The Shaving of Shagpat

1955

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216 MERIMEE, PROSPER Carmen

1941

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217 MILTON, JOHN Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd

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218 MILTON, JOHN L'Allegro...

1954

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219 MILTON, JOHN The Masque of Comus; & the Airs by Henry Lawes

1954

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220 MOLIERE Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite

1930

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221 MONTAIGNE, MICHEL de MONTAIGNE, MICHEL de. Essays

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222 MORE, SIR THOMAS Utopia

1946

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223 MORIER, J. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

1947

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224 NIBELUNGENLIED

1960

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225 NORDHOFF and HALL. Mutiny on the Bounty

1947

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226 OMAR KHAYYAM The Rubaiyat

1935

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227 OVID Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

1958

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228 PAINE, THOMAS Rights of Man

1961

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229 PARKMAN, FRANCIS The Oregon Trail

1943

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230 PEATTIE, DONALD CULROSS An Almanac for Moderns

1938

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231 PEPYS, SAMUEL The Diary, 1660-69

1942

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232 PLATO The Republic

1944

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233 PLUTARCH The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

1941

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234 POE, EDGAR ALLAN The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

1930

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235 POE, EDGAR ALLAN Tales of Mystery & Imagination

1941

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236 POE, EDGAR ALLAN POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems

1943

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237 PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. History of the Conquest of Peru, 1524-1550

1957

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238 PROUST, MARCEL Swann's Way

1954

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239 PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER Eugene Onegin

1943

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240 PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER The Golden Cockerel

1950

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241 QUARTO-MILLENARY: the First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-54 of the Limited Editions Club

1959

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242 RABELAIS, FRANCOIS Gargantua and Pantagruel

1936

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243 RASPE, RUDOLPH The Travels of Baron Munchausen

1929

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244 RASPE, RUDOLPH; and others The Singular Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1952

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245 READE, CHARLES The Cloister and the Hearth

1932

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246 RIGGS, LYNN Green Grow the Lilacs

1954

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247 ROSTAND, EDMOND Cyrano de Bergerac

1936

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248 ROSTAND, EDMOND Cyrano de Bergerac

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249 ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES The Confessions

1955

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250 SAINT-SIMON, DUC de The Memoirs, 1691-1723

1959

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251 SAXO GRAMMATICUS The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark

1954

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252 SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH von William Tell

1951

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253 SCHREINER, OLIVE The Story of an African Farm

1961

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254 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Ivanhoe

1940

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255 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Ivanhoe

1951

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256 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Waverley

1961

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257 SEVEN VOYAGES of Sindbad the Sailor

1949

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258 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Comedies, Histories & Tragedies

1939

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259 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

1933

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260 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Life of King Henry V

1951

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261 SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD Back to Methuselah

1939

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262 SHELLEY, MARY W. Frankenstein

1934

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263 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY The School for Scandal

1934

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264 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY The Rivals

1953

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265 SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK Quo Vadis? Translated by Jeremiah Curtin

1959

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266 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

1935

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267 SONG OF ROLAND. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

1938

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268 SOPHOCLES. Oedipus the King; Greek text, with translation by Francis Storr

1955

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269 SPENSER, EDMUND The Faerie Queene

1953

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270 STEINBECK, JOHN The Grapes of Wrath

1940

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271 STENDHAL The Red and the Black

1947

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272 STENDHAL The Charterhouse of Parma

1955

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273 STEPHENS, JAMES The Crock of Gold

1942

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274 STERNE, LAURENCE The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy

1935

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275 STERNE, LAURENCE A Sentimental Journey Through, France and Italiy: Introduction by Wilbur L. Cross

1936

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276 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Two Mediaeval Tales

1930

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277 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Kidnapped

1938

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278 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Treasure Island

1941

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279 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS A Child's Garden of Verses

1944

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280 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1952

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281 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS The Beach of Falesa

1956

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282 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Travels with a Donkey

1957

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283 STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom's Cabin

1938

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284 SURTEES, ROBERT S. The Jaunts and Jollities of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks

1932

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285 SWITH, JONATHAN The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver

1929

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286 SWIFT, JONATHAN Voyage to Lilliput

1950

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287 TALMUD. The Living Talmud: the Wisdom of the Fathers and its Classical Commentaries

1960

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288 TARKINGTON, BOOTH Monsieur Beaucaire

1961

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289 TEGNER, ESAIAS Frithiof's Saga

1953

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290 TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD Idylls of the King

1952

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291 THACKERAY, W. M. Vanity Fair

1931

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292 THACKERAY, W. M. The Rose and the Ring

1942

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293 THACKERAY, W. M. The Newcomes, Introduction by Angela Thirkell

1954

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294 THACKERAY, W. M. The History of Henry Esmond

1956

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295 THACKERAY, W. M. The History of Pendennis

1961

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296 THOREAU, HENRY D. Walden

1936

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297 TOLSTOY, LEO Anna Karenina

1933

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298 TOLSTOY, LEO Anna Karenina

1951

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299 TOLSTOY, LEO War and Peace

1938

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300 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY The Warden

1955

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301 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY Barchester Towers

1958

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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