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Auction Date
December 20, 1922 - December 20, 1922
Page Size: 753 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABBOT (GEORGE) Cases of Impotency and Divorce, as Debated in England, in that remarkable Tryal, 1613, between ... London

1737

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2 ADAMS (W. H. DAVENPORT) Works. London

1878-86

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3 ADOLPHUS (JOHN) Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, 2 vols., 1799; History of the Expedition to Russia ( ...

USD - Unknown
4 AINSWORTH (W. H.) Rookwood: A Romance. London

1836

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5 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Cloth of Gold and Other Poems. Boston

1874

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6 ALGER (R. A.) The Spanish American War, 1901; The Capitals of Spanish America (Curtis), 1888; The Story of the ...

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7 Compiled and Edited by E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson AMERICAN LITERATURE. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ... New York

1889

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8 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) The Bradford Map. The City of New York at the time of the Granting of the Montgomery Charter. New York

1893

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9 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) James Lyne's Survey. New York

1900

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10 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) James Lyne's Survey. New York

1920

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11 APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. The Argonautics. London

1780

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12 ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, now first completely done into English ... London

1884-9

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13 R. M'Cormick ARCTIC. Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas. By R. M'Cormick, 2 vols., 1884; The ... London

v. d.

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14 ARNOLD (EDWIN) The Light of the World, or the Great Consummation. London

1891

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15 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Poetical Works. London

1908

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16 ART. Great Engravers--Rembrandt, Holbein, Hogarth, Van Dyke, 4 vols.; Art Teaching of the Primitive ...

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17 ART JOURNAL (THE). Profusely illustrated with fine engraved plates. For the years 1849-59. London and New York

1849-59

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18 ASIATIC SOCIETY. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. London

1824-1906

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19 ASSOCIATION COPIES. The Woman Errant (Wright), 1904; The Main Chance (Meredith Nicholson), 1903 ... V. p.

v. d.

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20 AUSTEN (JANE) Novels. London

1892

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21 BAIN (F. W.) A Collection of First Editions of his Writings. London

v. d.

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22 BALZAC (HONORE DE) Novels. Translated by James Waring, with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London

n. d.

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23 BANNATYNE CLUB. Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland, from the ... Edinburgh

1839-45

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24 BARATARIANA. A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published during the Administration ... Dublin

1777

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25 BARBOU (ALFRED) Victor Hugo and his Time, 1882; The Black Prince (Dunn-Pattison), 1910: Tennyson, Ruskin and ...

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26 BARING-GOULD (SABINE) The Book of Werewolves: being an Account of a Terrible Superstition. London

1865

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27 BARING-GOULD (SABINE) Cheap Jack Zita. London

1893

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28 BARRUEL (ABBE) History of the Clergy during the French Revolution. London

1794

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29 Farr (Florence) BEARDSLEY. The Dancing Faun. London

1894

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30 Farr (Florence) BEARDSLEY. The Dancing Faun. London

1894

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31 BEARDSLEY. The Keynote Series. A Child of the Age (Adams); The Dancing Faun (Farr); The Girl from ... London

1894-7

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32 O'Sullivan (Vincent) BEARDSLEY. The Houses of Sin. Cover design by Beardsley. London

1897

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33 BEARDSLEY. Last Letters. London

1904

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34 BEARDSLEY. The Story of Venus and Tannhauser. A Romantic Novel. London

1907

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35 BECKE (LOUIS) The Adventures of Louis Blake. London

1913

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36 BECKE (LOUIS) AND JEFFERY (WALTER) Admiral Phillip. The Founding of New South Wales. London

1899

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37 BEERBOHM (MAX) And Even Now. London

1920

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38 BEGNI (ERNESTO) The Vatican. Its History and Its Treasures. New York

[1914]

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39 BELOE (WILLIAM) Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. London

1807-12

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40 BENNETT (ARNOLD) Paris Nights and other Impressions of Places and People, Illustrations by E. A. Rickards. New York

1913

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41 BERANGER (P. J. DE) OEuvres Completes. Edition Unique Revue par l'Auteur. Paris

1834

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42 BERNARD (AUGUSTE) Geofroy Tory, Peintre et Graveur, Premier Imprimeur Royal, reformateur de l'Orthographie et de la ... Paris

1865

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43 BERTRAM (JAMES) AND RUSSELL (F.) The Starlit Mire. London

1911

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44 BERTRAND DE MOLEVILLE (A. F.) Private Memoirs Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Lewis XVI of France. London

1797

USD - Unknown
45 BERTRAND DE MOLEVILLE (A. F.) Annals of the French Revolution; or, A Chronological Account of its principal events; with a variety ... London

1800-2

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46 BEWICK (THOMAS) A General History of Quadrupeds. Second Edition. Newcastle, 1791; History of British Birds, 2 vols ... Newcastle

1791-1820

USD - Unknown
47 BIBLIOGRAPHICA. Papers on Books, Their History and Art. London

1895-7

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48 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliomania in the Present Day in France and England. New York

1880

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49 Burns (Robert) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Cotter's Saturday Night. Boston

1915

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50 Payne (John Howard) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Early Life. Boston

1913

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51 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Speech of Charles Dickens, delivered at Gore House, Kensington, May 10, 1851. Boston

1909

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52 Swinburne (A. C.) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art. Manuscript Facsimile. Boston

n. d.

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53 BIBLIOPHILIST'S LIBRARY. With fine etched plates in two states. Philadelphia, Barrie

n. d.

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54 BICKERDYKE (JOHN) The Curiosities of Ale and Beer: an Entertaining History. London

1889

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55 BIERCE (AMBROSE) The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays. San Francisco

1909

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56 BIERCE (AMBROSE) The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays. San Francisco

1909

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57 Josephine Clifford McCracken [BIERCE (AMBROSE).] The Woman Who Lost Him, and Tales of the Army Frontier. Pasadena

1913

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58 [BIERCE (AMBROSE).]. The Woman Who Lost Him. By Josephine C. McCracken. With an introduction by ...

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59 BINGHAM (HIRAM) Across South America, 1911; The Road in Tuscany (Hewlett), 2 vols., 1909; A Book of South Wales ( ... V. p.

v. d.

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60 BIOGRAPHY. Life of Rossetti (Knight), 1887; Lincoln in the Telegraph Office (Bates), 1907; Clarence ... V. p.

v. d.

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61 BIOGRAPHY. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, 1886; Last Days of Marie Antoinette (Gower), 1885 ... V. p.

v. d.

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62 BIOGRAPHY. Some Eminent Victorians (Carr), 1908; Life of Philip Schaff (Schaff), 1897; Lord Chatham ... V. p.

v. d.

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63 BLACK AND WHITE SERIES. Three Weeks in Politics (Bangs); The Japanese Bride (Tamura); Slavery and ... New York

1893-8

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64 BLADES (WILLIAM) The Biography and Typography of William Caxton. London

1882

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65 BLASHFIELD (EVANGELINE W.) Masques of Cupid, 1901; The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby (Macdonnell), 1910; Letters from England (Mrs ... V. p.

v. d.

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66 BLUNT (WILFRID SCAWEN) Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus. Boston

1895

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67 BLUNT (WILFRID SCAWEN) My Diaries. Being a Personal Narrative of Events. Part Two. 1900-14. London

1920

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68 BOCCACCIO. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio. London

1820

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69 BOCCACCIO. The Decameron. London

1893

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70 BOLTON (HENRY C.) The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children. Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution. New York

1888

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71 H. Kirchenhoffer BOOK OF FATE, formerly in the possession of Napoleon. From a German Translation of an Ancient ... London

1828

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72 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Book-Hunter (Burton), 1863; The Binding of Books (Home), 1915; Excursions in ...

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73 BOOKWORM (THE). An Illustrated Treasury of Old Time Literature. New York

1890-4

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74 BOOTH (MARY L.) History of the City of New York. New York

1866

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75 [BORROW (GEORGE)] Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful. London

1825

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76 BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. London

1846

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77 BOURGEOIS (MAURICE) John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre. London

1913

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78 BRADFORD (WILLIAM) History of Plymouth Plantation. Boston

1856

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79 BRADLEY (A. G.) The Fight with France for North America, 1902; The Other Americans (Ruhl), 1908; Yesterdays in a ... V. p.

v. d.

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80 BRIDGES (ROBERT) The Growth of Love. Portland

1913

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81 BRILLAT-SAVARIN. A Handbook of Gastronomy. A New and Complete Translation. London

1884

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82 Currer Bell BRONTE (CHARLOTTE). Shirley. A Tale. London

1849

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83 BRONTE (CHARLOTTE) Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters. London

1872

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84 BRONTE (CHARLOTTE) Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel. A Poem. London

1912

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85 BROOKE (RUPERT) Poems. London

1911

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86 BROOKE (RUPERT) Lithuania, a Drama in One Act. The Chicago Little Theatre

1915

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87 BROWN (CHARLES BROCKDEN) Wieland; Edgar Huntly; Jane Talbot; Ormond, and Clara Howard; Arthur Mervyn, 2 vols. Philadelphia

1887

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88 BROWN (THOMAS) Physick lies a Bleeding, or the Apothecary turned Doctor. A Comedy, Acted every Day in most ... London

1697

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89 BROWN (THOMAS) Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. Edinburgh

1824

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90 BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) Poems bofore Congress. London

1860

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91 BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) Poetical Works. New York

1885

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92 Mrs. Sutherland Orr BROWNING (ROBERT). Life and Letters. Cambridge

1891

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93 BROWNING (ROBERT) Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. 2 vols., N. Y., 1899; Letters of Robert Louis ...

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94 BRYCE (JAMES) The American Commonwealth. London

1888

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95 BRYCE (JAMES) The American Commonwealth. London

1888

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96 BRYCE (JAMES) The American Commonwealth.

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97 BUCHANAN (ROBERT) The Piper of Hamelin. Fantastic Opera in two Acts. London

1893

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98 BUCK (MITCHELL S.) Ephemera. Greek Prose Poems. Philadelphia

1916

USD - Unknown
99 BUELL (AUGUSTUS C.) History of Andrew Jackson, 2 vols., 1904; Paul Jones, 2 vols., 1901; The American Merchant Marine ( ...

USD - Unknown
100 BULLEN (A. H.) Anacreon: With Thomas Stanley's Translation. London

1893

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