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Auction Info

Sale Name: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1965, at 2 P. M., Exhibition From February 15th to Time of Sale. EARLY PRINTINGS, THEOLOGY, AMERICANA &
Auction Date: 02/18/1965 - 02/18/1965
Year of Sale: 1965
Sale Number: #667
Total Lots: 332
Sold Lots: 0
Lots Sold: 0.0%
Unsold Lots: 0
Price Unknown: 332

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Currency: USD
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Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
14		AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Wolfe. The Story of a Novel...		USD -	Unknown
266	Lyles, James H.	RAILROADS. Official Railway Manual of the Railroads of North America for 1870-71	1870	USD -	Unknown
270	RICHARDS, LYSANDER S.	Incidents in [his] Life and Times, 1835-1925	1925	USD -	Unknown
185		IRISH IN AMERICA. Emmet. Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, with their Ancestors and Immediate Family...		USD -	Unknown
183		INDIANS. Meacham. Wi-ne-ma and her People. Signed...		USD -	Unknown
181	Browne, Irving	ILLUSTRATED BOOK. In the Track of the Bookworm	1897	USD -	Unknown
180	HUNT, LEIGH	Leigh Hunt's London Journal	1834	USD -	Unknown
182		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Pyle. Pepper & Salt...		USD -	Unknown
184		INDIANS' BOOK, The: an Offering by the American Indians of Indian Lore, Musical and Narrative	1923	USD -	Unknown
186	IRVING, WASHINGTON	IRVING, WASHINGTON. Works	1881	USD -	Unknown
267		RAILROADS. Remarkable collection of about 80 photographic negatives on glass of railroad locomotives of circa 1900		USD -	Unknown
268		REGENCY PERIODICALS. Sunday Review, Jan. 3, 1813 through Sept. 25, 1814...		USD -	Unknown
271		RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES. Group of 7 volumes, as below...		USD -	Unknown
94	Burns, Robert	BINDING. Songs...	1901	USD -	Unknown
13	J. M. Field	AMERICAN FICTION. Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw, containing the Whole of the Quarter Race in Kentucky, and Bob Herring, the Arkansas Bear Hunter. .. to which is added the Drama in Pokerville, and Other Stories	1875	USD -	Unknown
12	Bennett, Emerson	AMERICAN FICTION. Clara Moreland, or Adventures in the Far South-West	1853	USD -	Unknown
11	Benjamin Mayo	AMERICAN COPPERPLATES. Macloc, J. New, Complete and Universal Natural History. . . much improved and enlarged, particularly an account of the Great Sea Serpent, seen in the Harbour of Gloucester, Mass.	1821	USD -	Unknown
10		AMERICAN BROADSIDE. Public Notice, Friday the Fourth day of November next, is the day appointed by law, for the People to meet. . .	1796	USD -	Unknown
9		AMERICAN ART. Sheldon. American Painters, with 83 Examples engraved on wood...		USD -	Unknown
269	Delle Lettere di Claudio Tolomei, Libri Sette	RENAISSANCE LETTERS. Di Nuovo Ristampata & Corrette	1576	USD -	Unknown
332	YARRANTON, ANDREW	England's Improvement by Sea and Land...		USD -	Unknown
99	BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON	BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of. . .	1834	USD -	Unknown
98	Rollins, Hyder E., editor	BROADSIDE BALLADS. Cavalier and Puritan: Ballads and Broadsides Illustrating the Period of the Great Rebellion, 1640-60	1923	USD -	Unknown
97		BRIDGER, JAMES: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide	1925	USD -	Unknown
98	BREWSTER, SIR DAVID	A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope	1819	USD -	Unknown

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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.