Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1971 at 2 PM, Exhibition from November 8th to Time of Sale. ENGLISH LITERATURE & HISTORY, FIRST EDITIONS * SET, 862,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 11, 1971 - November 11, 1971

Page Size: 337 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Streeter, Edwin W.	DIAMONDS. The Great Diamonds of the World: their History and Romance	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
102		DICKENS PORTFOLIO: De Luxe Collection...			USD -	Unknown
103	DOW, LORENZO	The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil, as exemplified in the Life, Experience, and Travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a Period of More than a Half Century	Norwich	1833	USD -	Unknown
104	DUMAS, ALEXANDRE	Romances: D'Artagnan Edition	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
105	DU MAURIER, GEORGE	Trilby	(New York)	1894	USD -	Unknown
106	DUNLOP, JOHN	The History of Fiction: a Critical Account of the most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
107	Taylor, James N.	ECONOMICS. Sketch of the Geography, Political Economy, and Statistics of France, from the Original Work in Seven Volumes by Peuchet, Sonnini, and others	Washington City	1815	USD -	Unknown
108		EGYPT. Wiedemann. Religion of the Ancient Egyptians...	London		USD -	Unknown
109		EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. The History of Female Favourites...			USD -	Unknown
110		EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. Orleans. History of the Revolutions in England...	London		USD -	Unknown
111		ELECTRICITY. The Description and Use of [Edward] Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine	London	1783	USD -	Unknown
112		ELECTRICITY. Dary. La Navigation Electrique...			USD -	Unknown
113		ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS. Collection of some 400 copperplates for this early 19th century reference work...			USD -	Unknown
114		ENGLISH HISTORY. Clarke. The Life of James the Second...	London		USD -	Unknown
115		ENGLISH HISTORY. (Gutch). Collectanea Curiosa, or Miscellaneous Tracts...			USD -	Unknown
116		ENGLISHWOMAN'S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. New Series, Volumes I-V	London		USD -	Unknown
117	ENTICK, JOHN	The General History of the Late War, containing it's Rise, Progress, and Event, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America	London		USD -	Unknown
118	Marcade, Jean	EROTIC ART. Roma Amor: Essay on Erotic Elements in Etruscan and Roman Art	Geneva	1961	USD -	Unknown
119	EYMA, XAVIER	Excentridtes Americaines	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
120		FAMILY LYCEUM: designed for Instruction and Entertainment	Boston	1833	USD -	Unknown
121	FARADAY, MICHAEL	Chemical Manipulation, being Instructions to Students in Chemistry	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
122		FARMER'S ALMANACK, AND OLD FARMER'S ALMANACK. Large collection, covering the years 1798 to 1844 [and] 1864 to 1908	Boston and Providence		USD -	Unknown
123	Wells, Oliver, Editor	(FAULKNER, WILLIAM). An Anthology of the Younger Poets	Philadelphia	1932	USD -	Unknown
124	FICORONI, FRANCESCO DE	Le Maschere Sceniche e le Figure Comiche d' Antichi Romani	Roma	1736	USD -	Unknown
125	FIELD, EUGENE	FIELD, EUGENE. Writings in Prose and Verse	New York	1914	USD -	Unknown
126	FIELDING, HENRY	FIELDING, HENRY. Works	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
127	FISKE, JOHN	FISKE, JOHN. Miscellaneous Writings	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
128		FLORAL CABINET, AND MAGAZINE OF EXOTIC BOTANY	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
129	(FORD, RICHARD)	A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
130		FORES'S SPORTING NOTES & SKETCHES: a Quarterly Magazine descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
131	FOX, SIR STEPHEN	FOX, SIR STEPHEN: Memoirs of the Life of	(London)	1807	USD -	Unknown
132		FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Preliminary Articles of Peace, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the Catholick King, signed at Fontainebleau, the 3d Day of November, 1762	London	1762	USD -	Unknown
133		FRENCH ART. Group of 3 volumes, as below	Paris and New York	1945	USD -	Unknown
134	FULLER, THOMAS	The Holy State; The Profane State	London	1652	USD -	Unknown
135	GALSWORTHY, JOHN	Five Tales	London	1918	USD -	Unknown
136	GALSWORTHY, JOHN	GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Works: Compact Edition	New York	1929	USD -	Unknown
137		GAMES. Gutsmuths. Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Korpers und Geistesr die Jugend, ihre Erzieher und alle Freunde Unschuldiger Jugendfreuden	Schnepfenthal	1802	USD -	Unknown
138	Forsyth, William	GARDENING. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees, in which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
139	GAUTIER, THEOPHILE	GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. Works	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
140		GEOGRAPHY. A Compendious Geographical Dictionary	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
141	GIBBON, EDWARD	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
142	Drinkwater, John	GIBRALTAR. A History of the late Siege of Gibraltar, with a Description and Account of that Garrison, from the Earliest Periods	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
143	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Works	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
144		GOODSPEED'S BOOK SHOP. The Month at Goodspeed's	Boston		USD -	Unknown
145	GORDON, ALEXANDER	Itinerarium Septentrionale, or a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
146	GREEN, SAMUEL A.	Ten Fac-simile Reproductions relating to New England	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
147	HAGGARD, H. RIDER	King Solomon's Mines...	London		USD -	Unknown
148	HAGGARD, H. RIDER	She...	London		USD -	Unknown
149		(HALE, NATHAN). Johnson. Nathan Hale, 1776...			USD -	Unknown
150		(HALE, NATHAN). Stuart. Life of Captain Nathan Hale...			USD -	Unknown
151	(HALE, NATHAN)	Collection of over 100 portraits, etc., assembled for an extraillustrated copy of Lessing's "The Two Spies: Hale and Andre," the text of which is also here in loose sheets			USD -	Unknown
152		HARLEIAN MISCELLANY: a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, found in the late Earl of Oxford's Library	London	1744	USD -	Unknown
153	HEINE, HEINRICH	HEINE, HEINRICH. Poetical Works	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
154	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	The Undefeated	New York	1929	USD -	Unknown
155		HERALDRY. The Laws of Honour, or a Compendious Account of the Ancient Derivations of all Titles, Dignities, Offices, &. as well Spiritual as Temporal, Civil or Military	London	1714	USD -	Unknown
156	Lodge, John	HERALDRY. The Peerage of Ireland, or a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
157	Nicolas, Sir Harris	HERALDRY. The Historic Peerage of England	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
158	HERNE, SAMUEL	Domus Carthusiana, or an Account of the Most Noble Foundation of the Charter-House, both Before and since the Reformation, with the Life and Death of Thomas Sutton	London	1677	USD -	Unknown
159	HILLARD, E. B.	The Last Men of the Revolution	Hartford	1864	USD -	Unknown
160	HINDLEY, CHARLES, Editor	The Old Book Collector's Miscellany: a Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities during the 16th and 17th Centuries	London		USD -	Unknown
161	HONCE, CHARLES	Notes from a Bookman's Cuff...			USD -	Unknown
162		HORSES. Megargee. Horses...	New York		USD -	Unknown
163		HORSES. (Weatherby). The General Stud Book...	London		USD -	Unknown
164		HOUND AND HORN. Volumes 1-7	Concord, etc.	1927	USD -	Unknown
165	(HUDDESFORD, WILLIAM)	The Lives of those eminent Antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony a Wood, with an authentick Account of their respective Writings and Publications	Oxford	1772	USD -	Unknown
166		ILLUMINATED BOOK. Life Songs, being Original Poems, Illustrated and Illuminated by Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, and the Countess of Tankerville	(London)	1884	USD -	Unknown
167	Peter Parley	INDIAN CAPTIVITY. Faggots for the Fireside, or Fact and Fancy	New-York	1855	USD -	Unknown
168	(Donaldson, Thomas C.)	INDIANS. Report on Indians Taxed and Not Taxed in the United States (except Alaska)	Washington	1894	USD -	Unknown
169	IRVING, WASHINGTON	IRVING, WASHINGTON. Works	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
170		(JACKSON, ANDREW). A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson	Boston	1831	USD -	Unknown
171	James A. Michener	JAPANESE PRINTS: from the Early Masters to the Modem	Rutland & Tokyo	1959	USD -	Unknown
172	Hillier, Jack	JAPANESE PRINTS. Landscape Prints of Old Japan, from the Beginning of the 18th to the Middle of the 19th Century	San Francisco	1960	USD -	Unknown
173	Netto, Isaac	JUDAICA. A Sermon preached in the Jews Synagogue, February 6, 1756, for a General Fast, vi	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
174		KIPLING, RUDYARD. Stalky & Co....	London		USD -	Unknown
175	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Benefactors	New York	1930	USD -	Unknown
176	S. Woodworth, editor	LADIES' LITERARY CABINET	New-York	1819	USD -	Unknown
177	LANGTOFT, PETER	Chronicle (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) . . .	Oxford	1725	USD -	Unknown
178	LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT, DUC DE	Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797	Paris	1799	USD -	Unknown
179		LIMERICK, THE: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index	Paris	1953	USD -	Unknown
180		LIMITED LARGE-PAPER EDITIONS. McFee. A Six-Hour Shift...			USD -	Unknown
181	John G. Nicolay and John Hay	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM: a History	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
182		LITTLE MAGAZINES. Group of 10 issues, comprising two each of the five magazines listed below			USD -	Unknown
183		LITTLE MAGAZINES. Transatlantic Review...			USD -	Unknown
184	LODGE, EDMUND	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, engraved from Authentic Pictures	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
185	(LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.)	The Estray: a Collection of Poems	Boston	1847	USD -	Unknown
186	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	The Song of Hiawatha	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
187	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL	LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Complete Writings	Cambridge	1904	USD -	Unknown
188	MACPHERSON, JAMES	Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with several other Poems	London	1762	USD -	Unknown
189		MAP. Cary's Reduction of his large Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
190	MARLBOROUGH, DOWAGER DUCHESS OF	An Account of [her] Conduct, from her first coming to Court, to the Year 1710	London	1742	USD -	Unknown
191	MARTIN, THEODORE	The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort	London		USD -	Unknown
192	Forsyth, A. R.	MATHEMATICS. Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable		1893	USD -	Unknown
193	Ward, John	MATHEMATICS. The Young Mathematician's Guide, being a Plain and Easie Introduction to the Mathematicks, in Five Parts	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
194	Woodhouse, Robert	MATHEMATICS. A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations	Cambridge	1810	USD -	Unknown
195		MATRIMONIAL PRECEPTOR: a Collection of Examples and Precepts relating to the Married State	London	1759	USD -	Unknown
196	MAUNDRELL, HENRY	A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A. D. 1697	Oxford	1732	USD -	Unknown
197	Kraus, Ludwig August	MEDICAL. Kritisch-Etymologisches Medicinisches Lexikon, oder Erklaerung des Ursprungs der . . . Kunstausdrucke, zugleich als Beispielsammlung fur jede Physiologie der Sprache	Gottingen	1844	USD -	Unknown
198	Townsend, Peter S.	MEDICAL. An Account of the Yellow Fever, as it prevailed in the City of New-York in the Summer and Autumn of 1822	New-York	1823	USD -	Unknown
199		MEDICAL. The Semi-Centennial of Anaesthesia, 1846-1896	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
200	Duppa, Richard	(MICHELANGELO). The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti, with his Poetry and Letters	London	1807	USD -	Unknown

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