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Auction Details

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
101 BULLEN (A. H.) Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration. N. p.

1895

USD - Unknown
102 BULLEN (A. H.) Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration.

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103 BULLEN (A. H.) Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century. N. p.

1895

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104 BULWER (EDWARD, LORD LYTTON) Novels. Edinburgh

v. d.

USD - Unknown
105 BURKE (THOMAS) Whispering Windows. Tales of the Waterside. London

1921

USD - Unknown
106 BURNET (GILBERT) History of the Reformation of the Church of England. A New Edition. London

1820

USD - Unknown
107 BURNEY (CHARLES) A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period. London

1789

USD - Unknown
108 BURNS (ROBERT) Poems. Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh

1787

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109 BURTON (ISABEL, LADY) The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton. . . . Told in part by herself and in part by W. H. Wilkins. New York

1897

USD - Unknown
110 BURTON (RICHARD) The New American Drama, 1913; Wisdom and Destiny (Maeterlinck), 1898; A Tale of the House of the ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
111 BURTON (SIR RICHARD F.) The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London

1894

USD - Unknown
112 BUSINESS MAN'S LIBRARY. Chicago

1909

USD - Unknown
113 BUTLER (SAMUEL) Hudibras, a Poem. With Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, selected from Grey & other ... London

1822

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114 BUTLER (SAMUEL) Poetical Works. New York

1854

USD - Unknown
115 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) The Corsair, a Tale. London

1814

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116 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. London

1814

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117 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Works, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore. London

1832

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118 CABELL (JAMES BRANCH) Taboo. New York

1921

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119 CALDECOTT ILLUSTRATIONS. Jack and the Beanstalk, by Hallam Tennyson, London, 1886; Randolph ... London

v. d.

USD - Unknown
120 CALDECOTT ILLUSTRATIONS. R. Caldecott's Picture Book (No. 2) containing The Three Jovial Huntsmen ... London

n. d.

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121 CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR. Atlanta (Cox); The Mississippi (Greene); The Army of the Cumberland ( ... New York

1882-95

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122 CAMPBELL (DOUGLAS) The Puritan in Holland, England, and America. New York

1892

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123 CARLYLE (THOMAS) Collected Works. New York and London

v. d.

USD - Unknown
124 CARMAN (BLISS) Behind the Arras. Boston

1895

USD - Unknown
125 CARROLL (LEWIS) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London

1866

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126 CARROLL (LEWIS) Phantasmagoria, and Other Poems. London

1869

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127 CARROLL (LEWIS) Sylvie and Bruno. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London

1889-1893

USD - Unknown
128 CARTE (THOS.) The Life of James, Duke of Ormond; containing an Account of the most Remarkable Affairs of his Time ... Oxford

1851

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129 CARY (ELIZABETH L.) The Rossettis, Dante Gabriel and Christina. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
130 CAXTON CLUB. The Caxton Club Scrap-Book. Early English Verses, 1250-1650. Chicago

1904

USD - Unknown
131 Bohn (H. G.) CERAMICS. A Guide to the knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain and other subjects of vertu. London

1857

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132 CERVANTES The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Dublin

1796

USD - Unknown
133 CERVANTES The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. London

1821

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134 CERVANTES The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote. Edinburgh

1879

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135 CERVANTES The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. London

1888

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136 CHESTERFIELD (EARL OF) Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. London

1847-53

USD - Unknown
137 Currey (J. Seymour) CHICAGO. Chicago: Its History and Its Builders. Chicago

1912

USD - Unknown
138 CHURCH (R. W.) Bacon. London

1884

USD - Unknown
139 CIVIL WAR. Photographic History of the Civil War. New York

1911

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140 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) Roughing It. Hartford

1872

USD - Unknown
141 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) Following the Equator. Hartford

1897

USD - Unknown
142 CLEMENT (CLARA ERSKINE) The Queen of the Adriatic; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Genoa the Superb (Johnson). Boston

n. d.

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143 COCKBURN (JAMES) A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Italy, in 1810 and 1811. London

1815

USD - Unknown
144 COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR) Condones ad Populum, or, Addresses to the People. [Bristol]

1795

USD - Unknown
145 COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR) Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: the Plains of Sleep. London

1816

USD - Unknown
146 [COLLIER (JOHN PAYNE)] An Old Man's Diary, Forty Years Ago: for the first six months of 1832 (down to and including 1833). London

1871-2

USD - Unknown
147 [COLLIER (JOHN PAYNE)] History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the ... London

1879

USD - Unknown
148 COLORED PLATES. A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London

1815

USD - Unknown
149 Mawe (John) CONCHOLOGY. The Linnaean System of Conchology, describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells ... London

1823

USD - Unknown
150 CONFUCIANISM. The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism. Oxford

1899

USD - Unknown
151 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
152 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Lord Jim. A Romance. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
153 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Youth: A Narrative, and two other stories. Edinburgh

1902

USD - Unknown
154 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Falk. Amy Poster. To-Morrow. New York

1903

USD - Unknown
155 The Mirror of the Sea. New York

1906

USD - Unknown
156 CONRAD (JOSEPH) 'Twixt Land & Sea Tales. London

1912

USD - Unknown
157 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Chance, A Tale in Two Parts. Garden City

1914

USD - Unknown
158 CONRAD (JOSEPH) Within the Tides. Tales. London

1915

USD - Unknown
159 CONRAD (JOSEPH) The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes. London

[1919]

USD - Unknown
160 CONRAD (JOSEPH) AND HUEFFER (F. M.) Romance. A Novel. New York

1904

USD - Unknown
161 Tabb (John B.) CRAFTSMAN'S GUILD. Two Lyrics. Boston

[1900]

USD - Unknown
162 Booth (George G.) CRANBROOK PRESS. Cranbrook Tales. Detroit

1902

USD - Unknown
163 F. S. Ellis CRANE ILLUSTRATIONS. The History of Reynard the Fox. Turned into English Verse by F. S. Ellis. London

1897

USD - Unknown
164 [CRANMER (THOMAS)] AND OTHERS Reformatio Legum, ex Ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum Regis Henrici. Londini

1571

USD - Unknown
165 CRIME. Crime, its Causes and Remedy (Rylands), 1889; Chapters on Prisons and Prisoners (Kingsmill ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
166 CROCKETT (S. R.) The Stickit Minister and Some Common Men. London

1894

USD - Unknown
167 CROKER (T. CROFTON) Researches in the South of Ireland, Illustrative of Scenery, Architecture, Manners and Superstitions ... London

1824

USD - Unknown
168 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) Talpa: or, the Chronicles of a Clay Farm. London

1852

USD - Unknown
169 John Bunyan CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Pilgrim's Progress. London

1903

USD - Unknown
170 CUNNINGHAM (PETER) The Story of Nell Gwyn; and the Sayings of Charles the Second. London

1852

USD - Unknown
171 CUTHELL (EDITH E.) Wilhelmina. Margravine of Baireuth. New York

1907

USD - Unknown
172 Robert Bridges DANIEL PRESS. Poems by Robert Bridges. Oxford

1884

USD - Unknown
173 D'ANNUNZIO (GABRIELE) Francesca da Rimini. Tragedia rappresentata in Roma. Ornamental woodcuts and initials printed in red ... Milan

1902

USD - Unknown
174 DAVENPORT (CYRIL) English Embroidered Bookbindings. London

1899

USD - Unknown
175 DAVIDSON (JOHN) The Great Men and a Practical Novelist. London

1891

USD - Unknown
176 DAVIDSON (JOHN) Plays. Being: An Unhistorical Pastoral, A Romantic Farce, Bruce a Chronicle Play, Smith a Tragic ... London

1894

USD - Unknown
177 DAVIDSON (JOHN) A Random Itinerary. London

1894

USD - Unknown
178 DAVIDSON (JOHN) A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, which lasted One Night and One ... London

1895

USD - Unknown
179 DAVIES (WILLIAM H.) The Soul's Destroyer and other Poems of the Author. Farmhouse, Marshalsea Road, S. E.

n. d.

USD - Unknown
180 DAVIES (WILLIAM H.) New Poems, First Edition, 1907; Nero and Other Plays, unexpurgated edition, 1888; Georgian Poetry ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
181 DEMAUS (R.) William Tyndale. A Biography. London

1886

USD - Unknown
182 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London

1837

USD - Unknown
183 DICKENS (CHARLES) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. London

1841

USD - Unknown
184 DICKENS (CHARLES) American Notes for General Circulation. London

1842

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185 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Entirely New and Original Drama in Three Parts, entitled, The Cricket on the Hearth, a Fairy ... London

1845

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186 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Story of Little Dombey. London

1858

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187 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Uncommercial Traveller. London

1861

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188 DICKENS (CHARLES) Our Mutual Friend. Illustrations by Marcus Stone. London

1864-5

USD - Unknown
189 DICKENS (CHARLES) Works. New York

1873

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190 DIO (CASSIUS) Rome. An Historical Narrative, originally composed in Greek and now translated by Herbert B. Foster. Troy

1905-6

USD - Unknown
191 DORR (JULIA C. R.) Afterglow. Later Poems. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
192 DORAN (DR.) 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-86. London

1876

USD - Unknown
193 DOVER (LORD) The Life of Frederic the Second, King of Prussia. London

1832

USD - Unknown
194 DOVES PRESS. Cornelii Taciti de Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae Liber. Hammersmith

1900

USD - Unknown
195 DRAKE (FRANCIS S.) Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major-General in the American Revolutionary War. Boston

1873

USD - Unknown
196 DRAPER (J. W.) Intellectual Development of Europe, 2 vols.; Religion and Science. New York

1875-6

USD - Unknown
197 DRINKWATER (JOHN) Lincoln. The World Emancipator. Boston

[1920]

USD - Unknown
198 DRYDEN (JOHN) The History of the League. Written in French by Monsieur Maimbourg. London

1684

USD - Unknown
199 DRYDEN (JOHN) The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, Aeneis. London

1730

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200 DU BOS (ABBE) Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music. London

1748

USD - Unknown
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