Parke Bernet: The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, 1969yr,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 21, 1969 - October 21, 1969

Page Size: 1094 items in 11 pages

Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
BLOMFIELD, JAMES	Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies Being a record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land of the Red Gods By James Blomfield. 26 cm. Original half pigskin, and boards, title in gilt on front. Covers soiled, edges scraped.	Chicago	1914	USD -	20.00
DIARY OF THE WYOMING BEAR HUNT	Diary of the Wyoming Bear Hunt. [Vignette.] 23 cm. Original printed stiff paper wrappers, cloth spine. Covers worn; inscription on front free end paper.	[Brooklyn, New York]	[ca. 1914]	USD -	100.00
ELLSWORTH, LINCOLN	The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt By Lincoln Ellsworth. 21.5 cm. Original cloth, leather label on spine, t.e.g. Offsetting on title.	New York	1916	USD -	60.00
ACUGNA, CHRISTOVAL DE, et alii	Voyages and Discoveries in South-America. The First up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, perform'd at the Command of the King of Spain. By Christopher d'Acugna. The Second up the River of Plata, and thence by Land to the Min	London	1698	USD -	325.00
DUBROCA, LOUIS	La Vie de Toussaint-Louverture, Chef des Noirs Insurges de Saint-Domingue; Contenant Son origine, les particularites les plus remarquables de jeunesse, sa reunion aux fameux Biasson, Bouckmant, et Jean Francois, les atrocites de la guerre qu'il fit aux fr	Paris	1802	USD -	500.00
PUERTO RICO. GOVERNOR. (Toribio Montea)	Leales y Valerosos Espanoles Puerto-Riquenos. [Text begins:] Ya sabeis, que con motivo de la perfida conducta que ha manitestado ultimamente el Emprerador Napoleon Bonaparte arrebatandonos a nuestro amado Soberano el Senor Don Fernando VII ... [Announces	[San Juan]	[1808]	USD -	110.00
LIMONADE, JULIEN PREVOST, Comte de	Relation des Glorieux Evenemens Qui ont porte Leurs Majestes Royales sur le Trone d'Hayti, Suivie de l'Histoire du Couronnement et du Sacre du roi Henry ler, et de la reine, Marie-Louise. Par le Comte de Limonade, Secretaire du Roi. [Woodcut of Royal arms	Au Cap-Henry	1811	USD -	350.00
JOHNSTON, SAMUEL B.	Letters Written During a Residence of Three Years in Chili, Containing an Account of the Most Remarkable Events in the Revolutionary Struggles of that Province---With an Interesting Account of the Loss of a Chilian Ship, and Brig of War, By Mutiny, and th	Erie (Pa.)	1816	USD -	500.00
HONDURAS ALMANACK	The Honduras Almanack, For the Year of Our Lord 1826, Being the Second after Bissextile or Leap Year. Calculated to the meridian of Belize, Latitude 17°, 28 North. Longitude 88°, 31 West. [Royal arms.] 17.3 cm. Morocco-backed marbled stiff paper	Belize	1826	USD -	140.00
SAMOAN GROUP OF ISLANDS. PRINCIPAL CHIEFS	Commercial Regulations, Made by the Principal Chiefs of the Samoa Group of Islands, after full consideration in Council on the fifth day of November, 1839. [Caption title. Docket title on p. [4] same.] 28.2 cm. Browned.	Samoan Group of Islands	1840	USD -	350.00
BIBLE. New Testament. Gospel of St. John	Navagalia vai Iesu Kristo natimarid uja is aged a Joanes. [Three lines from Mark.] [In Aneityum language.] 22.5 cm., untrimmed. Stitched as issued. Title-leaf frayed along inner edge with 2 1/2 inch tear across blank portion. In a contemporary oil-cloth w	Anteiteum	1857	USD -	375.00
GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY	Kosoi Saraui Potapot Akai Men Katitikion Kit en Kot a Kot en Wiawia Kailanaio Koto. Puk I. Kosoi en moa en Krais me mi er nan Puk uet. 18.3 cm., untrimmed. Stitched as issued. One small tear repaired with paper tape. In a cloth case.	Salon, Ponape	1858	USD -	375.00
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT	Correspondence Respecting the Island of San Juan. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 1860. 31.6 cm. Later half leather. Title slightly browned at corners.	London	[1860]	USD -	10.00
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. (Revolutionary Government). PRESIDENT. (Emilio Aguinaldo)	A los Gobiernos Extrageros [At head.] Dated at Bacoor in the province of Cavite Aug. 6, 1898, and signed: El Presidente del G. R. Emilio Aguinaldo. Broadside, 26.1 x 18 cm., printed on both sides, verso numbered "2". Browned, tear in right margin through	[Bacoor?]	[1898]	USD -	250.00
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. (Revolutionary Government)	A Los Honorables Representantes del Congresso de los Estados-Unidos. 29.5 cm. Red cloth, gilt-stamped on front: The Honourable The President. House of Representatives Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Light stain on front cover, inside front hinge cracked.	Islas Filipinas	1899	USD -	190.00
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. U.S. Philippine Commissions, 1899--1900 (or Schurman Commission)	Proclamation. [Caption title. Text begins:] To the People of the Philippine Islands: The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, ratified several weeks ago by the former, having on March 20th been ratified by the latter, the cession to the Un	[Manila?]	[1899]	USD -	175.00
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899--1900 (or Schurman Commission)	The Philippine Commission. [Caption title. Text begins:] To the President:---Sir: the undersigned Commissioners ... to investigate affairs in the Philippine Islands ... submit the following preliminary statement ... [Dated and signed at end:] Washington,	[Washington]	[1899]	USD -	60.00
SHACKLETON, ERNEST H., Editor	1908--09. Aurora Australis [Colored lithograph] [On recto of following leaf:] Published at the Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, During the Winter Months of April, May, June, July, 1908. Illustrated with Lithographs and Etchings;	[Antarctica]	[1908]	USD -	500.00
GRABHORN, MARJORIE & EDWIN	Figure Prints of Old Japan: a Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn With an Introduction by Harold P. Stern. 38.3 cm., untrimmed. Cloth-backed decorated	San Francisco	1959	USD -	100.00
GRABHORN, MARJORIE & EDWIN	Landscape Prints of Old Japan from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Illustrated from Original Prints in the Collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn Introduction and Descriptive Text written by Jack Hillier.	San Francisco	1960	USD -	80.00
MATHER, INCREASE	Kountoypalphaphiialpha. Or a Discourse Concerning Comets; wherein the Nature of Blazing Stars is Enquired into: With an Historical Account of all the Comets which have appeared from the Beginning of the World unto this present Year, M.DC.LXXXIII. Expressi	Boston	1683	USD -	1,700.00
FOTHERGILL, JOHN	Some Account of the Late Peter Collinson, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries, in London, And of the Royal Societies in Berlin and Upsal. In a Letter to a Friend. 27 cm. Rebound in modern plain wrapper; red speckled edges. Offse	London	1770	USD -	125.00
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. (Three works.)	Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, and Communicated in several Letters to Mr. P. Collinson, of London, F. R. S. 22.1 cm. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, red speckled edges.	London	1751	USD -	4,250.00
LEDYARD, ISAAC	An Essay on Matter. In Five Chapters. [Eight lines from Pope.] 19.8 cm. Contemporary marbled wrappers, contemporary printed label on cover reading: "Essay on Matter." Scattered foxing.	Philadelphia	1784	USD -	100.00
SMELLIE, WILLIAM	An Abridgement of the Practice of Midwifery: And a Set of Anatomical Tables With Explanations. Collected From the Works of the Celebrated W. Smellie, M. D. A New Edition. 19.4 cm. Contemporary mottled calf. Former owners' inscriptions on front end papers,	Boston	1786	USD -	450.00
DEWEY, SHERMAN	Account of a Hail Storm, Which Fell on Part of the Towns of Lebanon, Bozrah and Franklin, on the 15th of July, 1799; Perhaps never equalled by other ever known, not even in Egypt. By Sherman Dewey. [Copy Right Secured]. 19 cm., untrimmed. Stitched, as iss	Walpole, New Hampshire	1799	USD -	110.00
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. By William Beaumont, M. D. Surgeon in the U. S. Army. 22.2 cm. Original boards, cloth backstrip with fragments of paper label. Backstrip somewhat frayed at top and bottom.	Plattsburgh	1833	USD -	1,700.00
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	The Physiology of Digestion, with Experiments on the Gastric Juice. By William Beaumont, M. D. Surgeon in the U. S. Army. Second Edition. Corrected by Samuel Beaumont, M. D. 19.2 cm. Original blind-stamped cloth. Covers worn and stained; water-stained and	Burlington, Vermont	1847	USD -	250.00
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM	Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. By William Beaumont, M. D. Surgeon in the United States' Army. Reprinted from the Plattsburgh Edition, with Notes by Andrew Combe, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Phy	Edinburgh	1838	USD -	300.00
MAURY, MATTHEW FONTAINE	The Physical Geography of the Sea. By M. F. Maury, LL. D. Lieut. U. S. Navy. 24.6 cm. Original ribbed cloth, gilt ship vignette in center of front cover. Backstrip chipped, old paper ms. library label on backstrip; heavily foxed.	New York	1855	USD -	175.00
HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT	The Care and Feeding of Children. A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses. By L. Emmett Holt, M. D. Professor of Diseases of Children in the New York Polyclinic Attending Physician to the Babies' Hospital and the Nursery and Child's Hospi	New York	1894	USD -	200.00
KNAPP, FRANCIS	Gloria Britannorum: Or, The British Worthies. A Poem. Being An Essay on the Characters of the Most Illustrious Persons in Camp or Cabinet, Since the Glorious Revolution to this present Time. More Particularly Of the present Ministry, under our most renown	Boston	1723	USD -	325.00
ASTON, ANTHONY	The Fool's Opera; or The Taste of the Age. Written by Mat. Medley. And Performed by His Company in Oxford. [Two lines of nonsense] To which is prefix'd A Sketch of the Author's Live, Written by Himself. 18.8 cm. Modern morocco, g. e., by Riviere. Fine.	London	1731	USD -	1,100.00
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS	M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes. 20 cm. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper sides. Tiny hole in blank margin of title; owner's signature and dustsoiling on title. In a morocco-backed slipcase.	Philadelphia	1744	USD -	1,400.00
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM	Philosophic Solitude: Or, The Choice of a Rural Life. A Poem. By a Gentleman educated at Yale College. [Two lines of quotations.] 19.6 cm. Modern quarter morocco. Large light waterstain on title-leaf and top of all others, light foxing and staining, early	New York	1747	USD -	475.00
EDWARDS, JONATHAN	A careful and strict Enquiry Into The modern prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, Which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A. M. Pastor of the Church in Stockb	Boston, N. E.	1754	USD -	375.00
HILL, SIR RICHARD	An Address to Persons of Fashion, Containing some Particulars relating to Balls: And a few occasional Hints concerning Play-houses, Card-tables, &c. In which is introduced The Character of Lucinda, A Lady of the very best Fashion, and of most extraordinar	Boston	1767	USD -	250.00
WEST, BENJAMIN	Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1769. ... [Woodcut vignette.] 16 cm. Disbound, foxed and stained, few margins shaved.	Boston	[1768]	USD -	125.00
BARCLAY, ANDREW, Bookbinder	A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches. By N. Brady, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq. Poet-Laureate to His Majesty. Boston: W McAlpine & J. Fleeming, 1765. (Evans 9914) &unknown; A Collection of Hymns, from	Bound in Boston	before 1775	USD -	900.00
WARREN, Mrs. MERCY OTIS	The Motley Assembly, a Farce. Published for the Entertainment of the Curious. 17.5 cm. New half morocco.	Boston	1779	USD -	900.00
WILKINS, CHARLES, translator	The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes. Translated from the Original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient language of the Brahmans, by Charles Wilkins, Senior Merchant in the Service of the Honourable the East In	London	1785	USD -	1,800.00
UNITED STATES. CONGRESS	Congress of the United States: at the Second Session, Begun and held at the city of New-York, on Monday the Fourth of January, one-thousand seven hundred and ninety. An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Book	[New York]	[1790]	USD -	700.00
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	Memoires de la Vie Privee de Benjamin Franklin, Ecrits par Lui-Meme et Adresses a son Fils; Suivis d'un Precis historique de sa Vie politique, et de plusieurs Pieces, relatives a ce Pere de la Liberte. 19.4 cm. Marbled boards. Notes in French on verso of	Paris	1791	USD -	300.00
THOMAS, ROBERT BAILEY	(No. 1.) The Farmer's Almanac, calculated on a new and improved plan for the year of our Lord 1793 ... by Robert B. Thomas. ... Published according to Act of Congress. 21 cm., untrimmed. Stitched, as issued. Dampstained, presentation inscription on title.	Boston	[1792.]	USD -	350.00
BRUCE, DAVID	Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Originally Written Under the Signature Of the Scots-Irishman, By a Native of Scotland. With Notes and Illustrations. 17.8 cm. Contemporary calf, leather label. Lacquered front hinge cracked at bottom; inside hinge (w	Washington, [Pennsylvania]	1801	USD -	200.00
BIDDLE, OWEN	The Young Carpenter's Assistant; or, a System of Architecture, adapted to the Style of Building in the United States. By Owen Biddle, house carpenter, and teacher of architectural drawing, Philadelphia. 25.2 cm. Original morocco. Worn; inside hinges crack	Philadelphia	1805	USD -	300.00
NICHOLS, FRANCIS D.	A Guide to Politeness; or, A System of Directions for the Acquirement of Ease, Propriety and Elegance of Manners. Illustrated by a Large Number of Figures, Representing Graceful Attitudes, Especially Engraved for the Work. Together with a Variety of Appro	Boston	1810	USD -	225.00
THOMAS, ISAIAH	The History of Printing in America, With a Biography of Printers, And an Account of Newspapers. To Which is prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World. In Two Volumes. By Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Worcester,	Worcester	1810	USD -	350.00
CRAMER'S MAGAZINE ALMANACK	Cramer's Magazine Almanack, for the year of our lord 1817. ... Calculated by the Rev. John Taylor, for the meridian of Pittsburgh ... but will serve without any sensible variation for the states of Chio, Virignia, Kentucky, &c. Fourteenth Number. 17.5 cm.	Pittsburgh	[1816]	USD -	70.00
MASI, VINCENT	The Cotillion Party's Assistant; and Ladies Musical Companion. Containing Six New Sets of Cotillions, and Six Contra-Dances in a New Style; With The Original Music For the Violin German Flute and adapted to the Piano Forte. For the Use of the Ladies. Desi	Boston	[ca. 1816--1818]	USD -	100.00
LITTLEFORD, Mrs.-----	The Wreath: or, Verses on Various Subjects. By a Lady of Lexington. [Single line quotation.] 15 cm. Contemporary morocco-backed boards. Small hole in spine, boards scraped; third of front flyleaf torn away; ink inscriptions on front paste-down and free en	Lexington, Kentucky	1820	USD -	375.00
KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON	Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. [Three-line quotation.] Vol. I [-II]. 19.5 cm., untrimmed. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper labels. Backstrips faded, labels chipped, cover lightly stained, edges rubbed; initials,	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	80.00
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Autograph manuscript of the hymn beginning "We love the venerable house," signed at end, "R. Waldo Emerson." 2 pp., 7 stanzas, 28 lines, 4to; with integral blank leaf.		ca. 1833	USD -	1,100.00
WARE, REV. HENRY, JR	A Sermon Delivered At the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins, Over the Second Congregational Church in Boston, December 4, 1833. By Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. 24.2 cm. Stitched as issued. First and last pages soiled in margins, edges worn, lightly foxed.	Boston	1833	USD -	30.00
	DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANACK	Nashville	1834	USD -	525.00
	DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANACK	Nashville	[1835]	USD -	200.00
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. (Three works.)	An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Published by request. 24 cm., untrimmed. Modern boards; printed brown wrappers bound in, the front cover with upper right corner repaired, affec	Boston	1837	USD -	150.00
GRAHAM, SYLVESTER	A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making. By Sylvester Graham. [Single line quotation.] 15.5 cm. Original printed yellow paper wrappers. Covers soiled, signature on front; light foxing; library blind-stamp on front and on first three leaves, "withdrawn" stam	Boston	1837	USD -	150.00
	DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANAC	Nashville	[1838]	USD -	150.00
THE HESPERIAN, Columbus, Ohio	The Hesperian; or, Western Monthly Magazine. Edited by William D. Gallagher and Otway Curry. [Two lines of quotation.] Volume I [-II] 23.5 cm. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, speckled edges. Covers of Vol. I scraped, and leather at back becomin	Columbus, Ohio	1838	USD -	110.00
	DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANAC	Nashville	[1838]	USD -	125.00
DRAPER, G. H.	St. Louis Grand March Composed & Respectfully dedicated to the St. Louis Greys By G.H. Draper. [At bottom:] Entered ... in the year 1839, by N. Phillips, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Missouri. 32 cm. Folio sheet, music printed on pp. [2]	St. Louis	[1839]	USD -	100.00
GOURAUD, FRANCOIS	[Lithographic facsimile of autograph letter, with blanks accomplished in ms. and with the genuine signature of Francois Gouraud.] Broadside, 25 x 20 cm.	New York	29 November 1839	USD -	110.00
SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE	Border Beagles; A Tale of Mississippi. By the Author of "Richard Hurdis." [Four-line quotation.] In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. 18.3 cm. Original cloth-backed boards with printed paper labels. Covers lightly soiled, labels lightly chipped, corners worn; fo	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	200.00
POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Raven and Other Poems. By Edgar A. Poe. 19 cm., untrimmed. Original printed wrapper. Backstrip chipped at foot and upper section partly detached from back and split in two; front cover detached with part of blank upper right corner torn away; covers l	New York	1845	USD -	1,250.00
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Poems. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 17.8 cm. Yellow glazed boards. Backstrip detached and in two pieces, paper label intact.	Boston	1847	USD -	175.00
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A. M., Pastor of the First Church in Jaalam, and (Prospective) Member of many Literary, Learned and Scientific Societies, (for which	Cambridge	1848	USD -	200.00
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau. 19.8 cm. Original dark brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. 5 cm. tear at center of front hinge, small piece supplied to top and foot of backstrip; piece (probably owner's signature) cut	Boston and Cambridge	1849	USD -	300.00
A BOSTON ARTIST	Manuscript travel diary of an anonymous Boston artist, written on versos of 87 leaves, 16.5 x 23.5 cm., with pencil or watercolor sketches illustrating the descriptions on rectos of 81 of the leaves. Removed from sketchbook and bound in two vols., oblong		1851--63	USD -	500.00
DAVY CROCKETT'S ALMANAC	Crockett Almanac 1852. ... With Handsome Illustrations. [At head: two line quotation.] 20.8 cm., untrimmed. Stitched, as issued. Stained, final leaf becoming detached and with 5 cm. tear near bottom.	Boston	[1851]	USD -	110.00
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID	Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry D. Thoreau, Author of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." [Woodcut scene.] [Two-line quotation from p. 92.] 18 cm. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. Head and foot of backstrip split.	Boston	1854	USD -	425.00
WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass. 28 cm. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles on backstrip and covers. Portrait frontispiece foxed, title-leaf lightly foxed, spine cracked. With the Arthur Swann bookplate. In a morocco case.	Brooklyn, New York	1855	USD -	9,000.00
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	The Conduct of Life. By R. W. Emerson. 18 cm. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. Head and foot of backstrip frayed; wrinkled throughout from damp, waterstaining on first and last few leaves. With the G. C. F. Williams (1924) bookplate.	Boston	1860	USD -	Not Sold
FLASH, HENRY LYNDEN	Poems by Henry Lynden Flash. 18.5 cm. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth.	New York	1860	USD -	15.00
DE BOW'S REVIEW, New Orleans	De Bow's Review. Industrial Resources, etc. J.D.B. De Bow, Editor and Proprietor. [Wrapper title. At top:] New Series. January, 1861 [-'May-August', 1862, and 'July and August', 1864]. Vol. V, No. I [-Vol. VIII, No. I, and Vol. XXXV [i.e., XXXIV]. Nos. I	New Orleans	1861--1864	USD -	125.00
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University, July 21, 1865. By James Russell Lowell. 24.5 cm. Grey boards, printed paper label on front cover. Backstrip and corners rubbed. In a board case.	Cambridge	1865	USD -	850.00
MICHAUX, FRANCOIS ANDRE	The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most	Philadelphia	1865	USD -	325.00
LINCOLN, MARY JOHNSON (BAILEY)	Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What To Do and What Not To Do in Cooking. By Mrs. D.A. Lincoln, of the Boston Cooking School. 19 cm. Half cloth and marbled boards. Covers rubbed, hinges partly cracked; front cover (with title) loose with backstrip; brown	Boston	1884	USD -	175.00
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago. By Mark Twain. With One Hundred and Seventy-four Illustrations. 21.3 cm. Original decorated green cloth. Edges and corners worn, shaken,	New York	1885	USD -	125.00
KIPLING, RUDYARD	Departmental Ditties and Other Verses [Printed vertically:] No. 1 of 1886. On Her Maje[...]s Service One [:Crossed out.] To All Heads of Depa[...] and all Anglo-Indians Rudyard Kipling Assistant. Department of Public Journalism, Lahore District. [Wrapper	Lahore	[1886]	USD -	375.00
NEWTON, A. EDWARD	The Homes of the Poets. Illustrated with Photographs from Original Negatives, with Descriptive Sketches. By Edward Swift. 18.9 cm. Original tan boards with title in silver on front. Soiled, lacking the silk bow on cover (stained from paste).	Philadelphia	[1887]	USD -	190.00
BELLAMY, EDWARD	Looking Backward 2000--1887. By Edward Bellamy Author of "Miss Ludington's Sister"; "Dr. Heidenhorr's Process": "A Nantucket Idyl," &c., &c. 19 cm. Cloth-backed marbled boards, leather label. Worn; shaken. In a cloth case.	Boston	1888	USD -	30.00
KIPLING, RUDYARD	Plain Tales from the Hills. By Rudyard Kipling, author of "Departmental Ditties and other verses." 18.5 cm. Original pictorial cloth. Slightly shaken; covers rubbed.	Calcutta	1888	USD -	50.00
DICKINSON, EMILY. (Three works.)	Poems by Emily Dickinson. Edited by two of her Friends Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. 17.6 cm. Original decorated gray and white cloth, t. e. g. Stained, lightly soiled, shaken; inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Hills With love from Mabel	Boston	1890	USD -	1,100.00
FORD, PAUL LEICESTER	The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him. By Paul Leicester Ford. 18.9 cm. Original decorated red cloth. Top and bottom of backstrip frayed, edges rubbed, back hinge cracked, shaken. With the Frank J. Hogan leather book-plate. In a moro	New York	1894	USD -	60.00
KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling. With Illustration by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. 18.5 cm. Original decorated cloth, gilt edges. Slightly shaken; corners rubbed; moderately foxed.	London	1894	USD -	60.00
KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Second Jungle Book. By Rudyard Kipling. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. 18.5 cm. Original decorated cloth, gilt edges. Corners rubbed; foxed.	London	1895	USD -	30.00
REMINGTON, FREDERIC SACKRIDER	Pony Tracks. Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington. 22.3 cm. Original decorated orange cloth. Covers lightly soiled, shaken.	New York	1895	USD -	70.00
GALSWORTHY, JOHN	From the Four Winds. By John Sinjohn. 19 cm. Original green cloth with title in gilt on front and spine. Corners and spine rubbed, front and back hinges cracking; dealer's blind stamp on front flyleaf.	London	1897	USD -	125.00
LEWIS, ALFRED HENRY	Wolfville By Alfred Henry Lewis (Dan Quin) Illustrated by Frederic Remington [Cut] 18.8 cm. Original decorated red cloth, glassine jacket. In a cloth case.	New York	[1897]	USD -	60.00
TARKINGTON, BOOTH	Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington Illustrated by C. D. Williams. 19 cm., top edge trimmed. Original red cloth, t. e. g.	New York	1900	USD -	20.00
ADAMS, HENRY	The Education of Henry Adams. 32 cm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered leather label. Inner front hinge cracking 2 cm. at top; ink inscription on half-title: "Evelyn Adams---Boston, 1907" [Mrs. Brooks Adams].	Washington	1907	USD -	1,000.00
FROST, ROBERT	A Boy's Will by Robert Frost. 19 cm. Bronze cloth. Backstrip and lower edges rubbed, three light scratches and one light stain on front cover; manuscript monogram and number on flyleaf: FMJ-B-194.	London	1913	USD -	525.00
FROST, ROBERT	North of Boston by Robert Frost Author of "A Boy's Will." 19 cm. Green cloth. Ink inscription on flyleaf: "Margaret Lindall [?] Towle A. W. H. Boston, April 1915." Fine copy.	London	1914	USD -	700.00
HARTSHORNE, RICHARD, and others	A Further Account of New Jersey, In an Abstract of Letters Lately Writ from thence, By several Inhabitants there Resident. [Printer's device.] 18.5 cm. Disbound, red edges. Title and last (blank) page dust-soiled, small tears at inside margins, ink markin	[London]	Printed in the Year 1676	USD -	11,000.00
GREAT BRITAIN. Treaty	Articles of Peace Between The Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles II. By the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. And Several Indian Kings and Queens, &c. Concluded the 29th day of May, 1677. Published	London	1677	USD -	2,600.00
WEST, BENJAMIN	Scriptural Cautions Against Embracing a Religious Scheme, Taught by a number of Europeans, who came from England to America, in the Year 1776, and stile themselves the Church, &c. &c. By Benjamin West, Who has been deluded by them, to the great injury of	Hartford	1783	USD -	1,100.00
DECALVES, ALONSO, Pseudonym	Travels to the Westward, or the Unknown Parts of America: In the Years 1786 and 1787. Containing an account of the Country to the Westward of the River Mississippi [sic], together with its Productions, Animals, Inhabitants, Vegitables [sic], Curiosities,	Windsor, Vt.	1794	USD -	500.00
DECALVES, ALONSO, Pseudonym	New Travels to the Westward, or Unknown Parts of America: Being a tour of almost fourteen months. Containing, An account of the Country upwards of two thousand miles west of the Christian parts of North-America; with an account of White Indians, their Man	N.p.	1795	USD -	375.00
DECALVES, ALONSO, Pseudonym	New Travels to the Westward; or, Unknown Parts of Columbia. Being a Tour of almost Fourteen Months. Containing, An Account of the Country, upwards of two Thousand Miles West of the Known Parts of North-Columbia; with an Account of white Indians, their Man	Greenwich, Mass.	1805	USD -	80.00

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.
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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