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
201		MILITARY. A Critical Inquiry into the Constitution of the Roman Legion, with some Observations on the Military Art of the Romans, compared with that of the Modem	Edinburgh	1773	USD -	Unknown
202	MILL, JOHN STUART	A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
203	ABBOTT, JACOB	MINIATURE BOOKS. Group of 9 tiny volumes, as below	London and Edinburgh		USD -	Unknown
204		MINIATURE BOOKS. ALMANAC DELETAT, pour l'Annee 1769	Amsterdam	1769	USD -	Unknown
205		MINIATURE BOOKS. ALMANAC. Etrennes Mignonnes pour l'An 1772	Liege	1771	USD -	Unknown
206		MINIATURE BOOKS. AMERICAN GIFT ANNUALS. The Flower Vase...	American	1844	USD -	Unknown
207		MINIATURE BOOKS. ANTHOLOGIES. Gems from the American Poets...			USD -	Unknown
208	ARIOSTO, LODOVICO	MINIATURE BOOKS. L'Orlando Furioso	Firenze	1856	USD -	Unknown
209		MINIATURE BOOKS. AUGUSTINE, ST. Meditationes...			USD -	Unknown
210		MINIATURE BOOKS. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments			USD -	Unknown
211		MINIATURE BOOKS. BRYCE MINIATURES. Group of 6 volumes, comprising Tennyson's Poetical Works...	Glasgow		USD -	Unknown
212	DEMOUSTIER, C. A.	MINIATURE BOOKS. Lettres a Emilie sur la Mythologie	Paris	1826	USD -	Unknown
213		MINIATURE BOOKS. DEVOTIONAL BOOKS. Group of 11 volumes	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
214		MINIATURE BOOKS. DICTIONARIES, ETC. The Little Lexicon of the English Language...			USD -	Unknown
215	EYMERY, ALEXIS	MINIATURE BOOKS. Group of 8 of his publications, as below, each with numerous choice copperplates	Paris	1826	USD -	Unknown
216		MINIATURE BOOKS. FRENCH. Prieres et Joumelle Chretienne des Fideles Francois Emigres...			USD -	Unknown
217		MINIATURE BOOKS. GAZETTEERS. The Little Gazetteer...			USD -	Unknown
218		MINIATURE BOOKS. GERMAN. Taschen-Kalender fur 1846...			USD -	Unknown
219	GRETSER, JACOB, S.J.	MINIATURE BOOKS. Rudimenta Linguae Graecae, ex Primo Libro Institutionum Gretseri, pro infima & pro media Schola Grammaticae	Venetiis	1653	USD -	Unknown
220		MINIATURE BOOKS. GROUP OF 6 VOLUMES, As below	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
221		MINIATURE BOOKS. JONES & Co., PUBLISHER. Group of 9 tiny volumes, as below	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
222		MINIATURE BOOKS. MANZONI, ALESSANDRO. I Promessi Sposi	Firenze	1829	USD -	Unknown
223		MINIATURE BOOKS. MARCUS WARD. Group of 4 devotional volumes, all with text printed within colored floral and other borders, as below	London		USD -	Unknown
224	Slight, Henry	MINIATURE BOOKS. MARINE. True Stories of H. M. Ship Royal George...			USD -	Unknown
225		MINIATURE BOOKS. MISCELLANEOUS. Stories of Natural History: Beasts...	London, etc.		USD -	Unknown
226		MINIATURE BOOKS. PETRARCH. Il Petrarca, nuovamente ristampato e diligentemente corretto	Venetia	1624	USD -	Unknown
227		MINIATURE BOOKS. PSALMI DAVIDIS, Vulgata Editione . . . A. G. Genebrardo exomati	Antverpiae	1591	USD -	Unknown
228		MINIATURE BOOKS. SCOTTISH LITERATURE, ETC. Group of 7 volumes...			USD -	Unknown
229	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	MINIATURE BOOKS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Works	New York		USD -	Unknown
230	TILT, CHARLES	MINIATURE BOOKS. Group of 6 of his publications for children, as below	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
231		MINIATURE BOOKS. VICTORIAN HUMOR. Recollections of the Sea Side	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
232	MOORE, GEORGE	Heloise and Abelard...	London		USD -	Unknown
233	MORAVIAN HYMNAL	A Collection of Hymns of the Children of God in all Ages, from the Beginning till Now	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
234	Zinzendorf, Count	MORAVIANS. Sixteen Discourses on Jesus Christ Our Lord, being an Exposition of the Second Part of the Creed	London	1751	USD -	Unknown
235	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	The Arrow...			USD -	Unknown
236		MOXON'S MECHANICK EXERCISES, or the Doctrine of Handy Works applied to the Art of Printing	New-York	1896	USD -	Unknown
237		MUSEUM, THE: Or the Literary and Historical Register	London	1746	USD -	Unknown
238	Charles Gould	MYTHICAL MONSTERS	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
239		NAPOLEONIC MEMOIRS, comprising Hazlitt's Life...	New York		USD -	Unknown
240	Buxbaum, Edwin C.	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Collector's Guide to the National Geographic Magazine	Wilmington	1962	USD -	Unknown
241		NATURAL HISTORY. Two volumes of Chenu's "Encyclopedie d'Histoire Naturelle"--Carnassiers and, Quadrumanes	Paris	1870	USD -	Unknown
242		NAVIRE D'ARGENT. Numbers 1-11, lacking 3 and 6	Paris	1925	USD -	Unknown
243	NEAL, DANIEL	The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists, from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth	London	1732	USD -	Unknown
244	NECKER, JACQUES	State of the Finances of France, laid before the King, January 1781	London	1781	USD -	Unknown
245	Henry C. Murphy	NEW NETHERLAND. Anthology of New Netherland, or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York, with Memoirs of their Lives	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
246		NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Collections, for 1809	New-York	1811	USD -	Unknown
247	Lawrence Labree, editor	NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE ANNUAL, 1847	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
248	NIKITIN, AFANASY	Voyage Beyond Three Seas, 1466-1472	Moskva	1960	USD -	Unknown
249	NORTH, ROGER	The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North, Baron of Guilford...	London		USD -	Unknown
250	Langwith, Benjamin	NUMISMATICS. Observations on Doctor Arbuthnot's Dissertations on Coins, Weights, and Measures	London	1747	USD -	Unknown
251		OHIO. Men of Northwestern Ohio	Bowling Green & Toledo	1898	USD -	Unknown
252	(PAINE, THOMAS)	An Answer to the Second Part of Rights of Man, in Two Letters to the Author	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
253	PAINE, THOMAS	PAINE, THOMAS. Life and Writings	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
254	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	PARKMAN, FRANCIS. Works	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
255		PARLIAMENT. Debates of the House of Commons, from 1667 to 1694	London	1763	USD -	Unknown
256	PENNANT, THOMAS	A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor	London		USD -	Unknown
257	PENNELL, JOSEPH	Etchers and Etching: Chapters in the History of the Art	New York	1919	USD -	Unknown
258	PENNELL, JOSEPH	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen: their Work and their Methods	New York	1920	USD -	Unknown
259	PENNELL, JOSEPH	The Adventures of an Illustrator	Boston	1925	USD -	Unknown
260	PEPYS, SAMUEL	PEPYS, SAMUEL. Diary and Correspondence	Philadelphia	1855	USD -	Unknown
261		PHENIX, THE: Or a Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces from the Remotest Antiquity down to the Present Time ... no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious	London		USD -	Unknown
262		PHILADELPHIA ARMORY FAIR. The Guardsman: a Daily Journal of the First Regiment Armory Fair	Philadelphia	1880	USD -	Unknown
263	PICART, BERNARD	A Dissertation on the Americans, and the Conformity of their Customs with those of other Nations, Antient and Modern	London	1734	USD -	Unknown
264	Girton, Daniel	PIGEONS. The New and Complete Pigeon-Fancier, or Modem Treatise on Domestic Pigeons	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
265	PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.	PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. Works	Philadelphia	1904	USD -	Unknown
266		PRINT COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY	London, etc.		USD -	Unknown
267	Ray, John	PROVERBS. A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Languages . . . also a Collection of English Words Not Generally Used	London	1737	USD -	Unknown
268	Story, Thomas	QUAKER. A Journal of [his] Life, containing an Account of his Remarkable Convincement of, and embracing the Principles of Truth, as held by the People called Quakers	Newcastle upon Tyne	1747	USD -	Unknown
269	REYNOLDS, GEORGE W. M.	REYNOLDS, GEORGE W. M. Works: Mysteries of the Court of London	London & Boston		USD -	Unknown
270	RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB	RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Complete Works: Memorial Edition	New York	1916	USD -	Unknown
271	Jack Randall, P.G.A	RIVAL MANAGERS: or the Elements of Horsewhipping. A Serio Comic, Operatic, Gymnastic, Hudibrastic Poem	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
272	ROBERTS, KENNETH	Sun Hunting...			USD -	Unknown
273	ROBERTSON, WILLIAM	The History of America, Books IX. and X, containing the History of Virginia to 1688 and of New England to 1652	Philadelphia	1799	USD -	Unknown
274	ROGERS, THOMAS J.	Lives of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and Statesmen of America	New-York	1834	USD -	Unknown
275	ROSCOMON, EARL OF	ROSCOMON, EARL OF. Poems	London	1717	USD -	Unknown
276	John M. Wilson	RURAL CYCLOPEDIA, or a General Dictionary of Agriculture, and of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice	Edinburgh	1854	USD -	Unknown
277	SANDYS, GEORGE	A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems	London	1676	USD -	Unknown
278		SCOTLAND. Lovat. Memoirs of...			USD -	Unknown
279	(SECKER, THOMAS)	An Answer to Dr. Mayhews Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
280		SEVEN ARTS, THE. Issues for May, July, August, September, and October 1917	New York	1917	USD -	Unknown
281	Dr. B. Tarnowsky	SEXUAL INSTINCT, THE, And its Morbid Manifestations, from the Double Standpoint of Jurisprudence and Psychiatry	Paris	1898	USD -	Unknown
282	SHADWELL, THOMAS	SHADWELL, THOMAS. Complete Works	London	1927	USD -	Unknown
283		SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY. Volumes 7-20, plus Volume 21, Numbers 1 and 2	New York		USD -	Unknown
284	SHENSTONE, WILLIAM	SHENSTONE, WILLIAM. Works in Verse and Prose	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
285	SIDNEY, MARGARET	Five Little Peppers Midway...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
286		SIGNED LARGE-PAPER EDITIONS. Masefield. Tristan and Isolt...			USD -	Unknown
287	Matsell, George W.	SLANG. Vocabulum, or the Rogue's Lexicon	New-York	1875	USD -	Unknown
288	Dehon, Theodore	SOUTH CAROLINA. Sermons on the Public Means of Grace, the Fasts and Festivals of the Church, on Scripture Characters, and Various Practical Subjects	Charleston	1821	USD -	Unknown
289	M. S. Gent, L. M., J. Lambert, and Others	SPORTING. The Country man's Jewel, or the Jockey's Master-Piece ...	(London)	1700	USD -	Unknown
290	Browne, Capt. T. H.	SPORTING. History of the English Turf, 1904-1930	New York	1931	USD -	Unknown
291	Cook, Theodore A.	SPORTING. A History of the English Turf	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
292	Millais, John G.	SPORTING. British Deer and their Horns	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
293	Radcliffe, F. P. Delme	SPORTING. The Noble Science: a Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
294		SPORTING. Steeplechasing and Hunt Racing in America			USD -	Unknown
295	Thornton, Col. Thomas	SPORTING. A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England, and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
296	Thornton, Col. Thomas	SPORTING. A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France, in the Year 1802, including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting and other Field-Amusements . . .	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
297		SPORTING. The Whitney Stud	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
298		SPORTING. Bryden. Kloof and Karroo ... in Cape Colony...	London		USD -	Unknown
299		SPORTING. Stonehenge. The Horse in the Stable and the Field...	London		USD -	Unknown
300	Tolfrey	SPORTING. The Sportsman in France...	London		USD -	Unknown

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