Swann Galleries: SWANN GALLERIES, INC., AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF Books, Autographs, Prints, Literary Properties. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1973 at 1:30 PM, Exhibition from November 5th to Time of Sale. AMERICANA * AUTOGRAPHS, FIRST EDITIONS * BINDING, 933,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 08, 1973 - November 08, 1973

Page Size: 344 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABOUT, EDMOND	Le Nez d'un Notaire	Paris	1886	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
2	William Turner, editor	ADAMS, WILLIAM: an Old English Potter, with some Account of his Family and their Productions	London	1904	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
3	La Landelle, G. de	AERONAUTICS. Pigeon Vole: Aventures en l'Air	Paris	1868	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
4	AESOP	Some of Aesop's Fables with Modem Instances	London	1883	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
5	Junod, Henri A.	AFRICA. The Life of a South African Tribe	Neuchatel	1913	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
6	Thomson, Robert S.	AFRICA. Fondation de l'Etat Independant du Congo: un Chapitre de l'Histoire du Partage de l'Afrique	Bruxelles	1933	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
7		AFRICA. Basden. Among the Ibos of Nigeria...			USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
8	Beart, Charles	AFRICAN GAMES. Jeux et Jouets de l'Ouest Africain	Ifan-Dakar	1955	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
9		ALASTAIR. Fifty Drawings	New York	1925	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
10	Thomas Spofford	ALMANAC. The Yankee, or Farmers Almanack, for 1831	Boston	1830	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
11		AMERICA IN PICTURES. Simkin. Currier and Ives' America...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
12		AMERICAN ANTIQUES, ETC. Van Rensselaer. Early American Bottles and Flasks...			USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
13		AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Palliser's Model Homes...			USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
14	Charles E. Pratt	AMERICAN BICYCLER: a Manual for the Observer, the Learner, and the Expert	Boston	1880	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
15		AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT Index, 1960-1965	New York	1968	USD 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
16		AMERICAN GIFT ANNUAL. The Premium: a Present for All Seasons . . . elections from British and American Writers of the Nineteenth Century	Philadelphia	1833	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
17		AMERICAN NAVY. Tomquist. Naval Campaigns of Count de Grasse...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
18		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Arret du Conseil d'Etat du Roi...	Paris	1780	USD 50.00 - 70.00	Unknown
19		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. History of the Fight at Lexington, April 19, 1775, from the Best Authorities	(Boston)	1875	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
20		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Washington and his Generals...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
21		AMERICAN SONG BOOK: a Choice Collection of Modern and Popular Love, Sentimental, Comic and Naval Songs	Baltimore	1829	USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
22		AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME, or Principles of Domestic Science: by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe	New-York	1869	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
23		AMERICANA. Cleveland. Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private...			USD 20.00 - 25.00	Unknown
24		AMERICANA. James. The Life of Andrew Jackson...	New York, etc.	1932	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
25		AMERICANA. Nevins. American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
26	W. M. Calder and Josef Keil, editor	ANATOLIAN STUDIES PRESENTED TO WILLIAM HEPBURN BUCKLER		1939	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
27	Quackenbos, John D.	ANGLING. Geological Ancestors of the Brook-Trout, and Recent Saibling Forms from which it Evolved	New York	1916	USD 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
28	Palmer, A. H.	ANIMAL PAINTER. The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter	London	1895	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
29	ANSPACH, PETER	Day Book, Sept. 10, 1781 to May 17, 1782	Washington	1941	USD 20.00 - 25.00	Unknown
30		ANTHROPOLOGY. Renooz. L'Ere de Vente, Books IITV: Le Monde Ancien...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
31		ANTIQUES, ETC. Lister. Decorative Cast Ironwork in Great Britain...	London		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
32	APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL	The Life of Simon Barjona, (surnamed Cephas, or Peter,) a Native of Galilee, and the Apostle of the Circumcision	London	1818	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
33	Charles G. Rupert	APOSTLE SPOONS: their Evolution from Earlier Types, and the Emblems used by the Silversmiths for the Apostles	London	1929	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
34		ARCHEOLOGY, ETC. Hoemes. Urgeschichte der Bildenden Kunst in Europa, bis um 500 vor Christi...			USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
35		ARCHITECTURE. Small and Woodbridge. Houses of the Wren and Early Georgian Periods...			USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
36		ART. Designers in Britain...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
37		ART. El Greco...			USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
38		ART. Mueller. Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them...			USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
39		ART AUCTIONS. Splendid collection of about 75 magnificent, richly illustrated catalogues...			USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
40	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America	New York	1937	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
41	AUGIER, EMILE	Theatre Complet	Paris		USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
42	Burton, William Westbrooke	AUSTRALIA. The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales	London	1840	USD 40.00 - 70.00	Unknown
43		AUSTRALIA. Group of 3 official broadsides of the Council of NEW SOUTH WALES	Council Chamber	1835	USD 30.00 - 50.00	Unknown
44		AUSTRALIA. Group of 6 official Reports, as below, of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria	Melbourne	1864	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
45		AUSTRALIA. Royal Commission on the Aborigines	Melbourne	1877	USD 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
46		AZORES AND CANARIES. Godman, Frederick DuCane. Natural History of the Azores, or Western Islands...	London		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
47	[John Dye Collier]	BANKING. The Life of Abraham Newland, late Principal Cashier at the Bank of England, with some Account of that Great National Establishment	London	1808	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
48	BARNUM, P. T.	Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' Recollections	Buffalo	1872	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
49	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY	The Story of Venus and Tannhauser	London	1907	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
50	BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND	Life Histories of North American Birds	Washington		USD 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
51	BENZONI, GIROLAMO	History of the New World...	London		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
52	BERANGER, P. J. DE	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1851	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
53		BIBLICAL HISTORY, ETC. Conder. Syrian Stone-Lore...	New York, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
54		BIBLICAL HISTORY, ETC. Wilson. In Scripture Lands...	New York, etc.		USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
55		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Dyce Collection: a Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manu-scripts bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce	London	1875	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
56	Mill, John Stuart	BINDING. Dissertations and Discussions, Political, Philosophical, and Historical	London	1875	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
57		BINDINGS. Guhl and Koner. Life of the Greeks and Romans...	New York, Paris, etc.		USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
58		BINDINGS. Muhlfeld. L'Associee...	Paris, New York, etc.		USD 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
59	Rameau, Jean	BINDINGS. Tendre Folie...	Paris		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
60	Elon Howard Eaton	BIRDS OF NEW YORK	Albany		USD 40.00 - 70.00	Unknown
61	BLAKE, WILLIAM	America: a Prophecy		1947	USD 20.00 - 25.00	Unknown
62	BLAKE, WILLIAM	The Gates of Paradise			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
63	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	Il Decameron, di nuovo ristampato . . . & alla sua vera lettione ridotto dal Lionardo Salviati	Venetia	1597	USD 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
64		BOOKBINDING. Small broadside--A Voice from the Worldshop, established in Chelsea, 186		1862	USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
65	Petit-Radel, Louis-Charles-Francois	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Recherches sur les Bibliotheques Anciennes et Modernes, jusqu'a la Fondation de La Bibliotheque Mazarine	Paris	1819	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
66		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Uzanne. Nos Amis Les Livres...			USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
67	l'Auteur du Traite des Renoncules	BOTANY. (Ardene, J. P. R. d'.). Traite sur la Connoissance et la Culture des Jacintes	Avignon	1765	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
68	Ponsort, Baron de	BOTANY. Monographie du Genre Oeillet, et Principalement de l'Oeillet Flamand	Paris	1844	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
69		BRITISH ART, ETC. Lavery. The Life of a Painter...	London		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
70	BROWN, JOHN	A Historical, Geographical, Chronological, Etymological, and Critical Dictionary of the Bible	Dublin		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
71	BROWNING, ROBERT	The Ring and the Book	London		USD 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
72	BUNYAN, JOHN	Eincs Christen Reise nach der Seligen Ewigkeit ...	Germantaun	1796	USD 30.00 - 50.00	Unknown
73		BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. Annual Reports--10th, 11th, 12th, 17th (in 2 volumes), 20th, 21st, and 22d (in 2 volumes)	Washington	1893	USD 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
74	BURNET, JOHN	Group of 4 of his valuable manuals on painting, as below	London		USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
75	Matthew L. Davis	BURR, AARON: Memoirs of	New-York		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
76	BURROUGHS, STEPHEN	Sermon delivered in Rutland, on a Hay-Mow, to his Auditory, the Pelhamites . . . with a Weapon of Defence in his Hand, with which he kept off his Pursuers at Pleasure	Boston	1832	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
77	BUSCH, WILHELM	Das Gesamtwerk des Zeichners und Dichters	Olten	1959	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
78	Dugmore, A. Radclyffe	CANADA. The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou	London	1913	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
79		CARICATURE. Everitt. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century...	London		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
80	Wauwermans, Lt.-Gen.	CARTOGRAPHY. Histoire de l'Ecole Cartographique Beige et Anversoise du XVIe Siecle	Bruxelles	1895	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
81	Giacommotti, Jeanne	CERAMICS. French Faience	London	1963	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
82	Grant, Capt M. H.	CERAMICS. The Makers of Black Basaltes	(London)	1967	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
83	CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE	The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha	London	1910	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
84		CHINA. Yutang. The Wisdom of China and India...	New York, etc.		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
85	CHRISTY, HOWARD CHANDLER	The American Girl...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
86	CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.	A History of the English-Speaking Peoples	London		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
87		CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE SONGS. Collection of about 20 small broadsides		1860	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
88	Peter Porcupine	(COBBETT, WILLIAM). The Bloody Buoy, thrown out as a Warning to the Political Pilots of America, or a Faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of Horrid Bar barity ...	Paradise	1823	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
89	Robert F. Harper	CODE OF HAMMURABI, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C. Autographed Text, Transliteration, Translation, Glossary, etc.	Chicago	1904	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
90	COHEN, HENRY	Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siecle	Paris	1886	USD 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown
91	(COLLIER, JANE)	An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art	London	1757	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
92		COLONIAL. Andrews. The Colonial Period of American History...			USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
93		COLOR. Monographs on Color...	New York	1935	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
94		COLORED PANORAMA. Fashion and Folly, or the Buck's Pilgrimage	London	1822	USD 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
95	McAllister, J. Gray	CONFEDERATE. Sketch of Captain Thomson McAllister, Col. A, 27th Virginia Regiment	Petersburg	1896	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
96	Hurd, D. Hamilton, Editor	CONNECTICUT. History of Fairfield County, Conn.; with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers	Philadelphia	1881	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
97	(COOPER, JAMES FENNIMORE [sic])	Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a Commander in the Navy of the United States, &c. ...	New York	1844	USD 30.00 - 50.00	Unknown
98	Defontaine, Henri	COSTUME. Du Costume Civil Officiel, et de Funiforme Militaire des Officiers a la Cour . . . depuis 1804 jusqu'a nos jours	Paris	1908	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
99	Maran, Rene	COVARRUBIAS ILLUSTRATIONS. Batouala		1932	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
100		(CRANE, WALTER). Spenser. The Shepheards Calender...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.