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
101 Ruhle, Otto CURIOSA. Illustrierte Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats Berlin

1930

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
102 CURIOSA. Miller. Tropic of Cancer...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
103 CURIOSA. Ploss & Bartels. Woman in the Sexual Relation...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
104 Zom, Friedrich Albert DANCE. Grammar of the Art of Dancing, Theoretical and Practical Boston

1920

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
105 DANTE La Divine Comedie Paris

1776

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
106 DAUDET, ALPHONSE DAUDET, ALPHONSE. (Oeuvres) Paris

1890

USD 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
107 DE FOE, DANIEL DE FOE, DANIEL: Life and Times of London

1859

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
108 DICKENS, CHARLES Dombey and Son London

1848

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
109 DICKENS, CHARLES Our Mutual Friend London

1865

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
110 DICKENS MEDAL. A bronze medal of Charles Dickens by JOHN s. CONWAY (New York)

1912

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
111 Alexander Tolhausen DICTIONARY. Technological Dictionary in French, German and English New York

1880

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
112 DOCKSTADER, FREDERICK J. Indian Art in America... Greenwich, Conn.

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
113 DODGE, COL. RICHARD IRVING Our Wild Indians: 33 Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West Hartford

1882

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
114 G. Caiger DOLLS ON DISPLAY: Japan in Miniature Tokyo

1933

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115 DOUGLAS, NORMAN Nerinda (1901) Florence

1929

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116 DRINKWATER, JOHN Two unusual autograph items, as below

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
117 Gourmont, Remy de DUFY ILLUSTRATIONS. M. Croquant Paris

1918

USD 40.00 - 70.00 Unknown
118 DUNCAN, ISADORA: The Dance of Paris

1952

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
119 DWIGGINS, W. A. 22 Printers' Marks and Seals Designed or Redrawn by Dwiggins New York

1929

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
121 DWIGHT'S AMERICAN [PENNY] MAGAZINE, and Family Newspaper New York

1846

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
122 EGYPT. Galassi. Tehcnu e le Origini Mediteranee della Civilta Egizia...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
123 Harold E. Wethey EL GRECO AND HIS SCHOOL Princeton

1962

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
124 EMBLEMATIC WOODCUTS. The Heart of Man, either a Temple of God or a Habitation of Satan, represented in Ten Emblematical Figures Carlisle, Pa.

1826

USD 40.00 - 50.00 Unknown
125 ENGLAND, BISHOP JOHN A Brief Account of the Introduction of the Catholic Religion into the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, U. S., of the Creation of the Diocess [sic] of Charleston, etc. Dublin

1832

USD 40.00 - 50.00 Unknown
126 ENGLISH LITERATURE. Group of 7 volumes of collected works, as below London

USD 40.00 - 50.00 Unknown
127 Charles Godfrey Leland ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS IN POPULAR TRADITION London

1892

USD 25.00 - 40.00 Unknown
128 EUCLID. The English Euclide, being the First Six Elements of Geometry Oxford

1705

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
129 FELLOWS, CHARLES An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor, 1840 London

1841

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
130 FIRE. The Bryant and May Museum of FireMaking Appliances London

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
131 FIRE AND FIREFIGHTING. Bulau. Footprints of Assurance...

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
132 FOLEY, EDWIN The Book of Decorative Furniture: its Form, Colour, & History London

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
133 FOUNTAIN, PAUL The Great Deserts and Forests of North America... London

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
134 (FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN) Memorial of the Inauguration of the Statue of Franklin Boston

1857

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
135 FREEMAN, DOUGLAS SOUTHALL. R. E. Lee: a Biography... New York

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
136 FRENCH ART. Dilke, Lady. French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth Century... London

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
137 FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Gibbon. The Branch of Hawthorn Tree...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
138 FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of 9 volumes in French, mostly prose fiction Paris

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
139 FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of 18 volumes of French novels, poetry, and plays, mostly modern Paris, etc.

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
140 FRENCH POETRY. Ferrieres. Chansons et Saluts d'Amour... Paris, etc.

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
141 FURNISHINGS. Jourdain. English Decoration and Furniture of the Later XVIIIth Century (1760-1820)...

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142 GARFIELD CAMPAIGN. Broadside--Workingmen, Read! A Tariff for Protection vs. a Tariff for Revenue only . . .

1880

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
143 GARGIAREUS, J. B. Tractatus de Aquis...

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
144 Thomas Baldwin and J. Thomas, M.D. GAZETTEER. A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States Philadelphia

1854

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
145 Rene Menard GEOGRAPHIE ARTISTIQUE: le Monde Vu par les Artistes Paris

1881

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
146 Cooney, Loraine M. GEORGIA. Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933: Georgia Bicentennial Edition Atlanta

1933

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
147 GERMAN ART BOOKS. Wanckel. Sammlung des Konigl...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
148 GERMANISCHE FRUHKUNST: herausgegeben von Karl Mohrmann und Ferd Eichwede Leipzig

USD 20.00 - 25.00 Unknown
149 GIBRALTAR. A Circumstantial Journal of the Long and Tedious Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-83 Manchester

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
150 GIDE, ANDRE Recits, Roman, Soties Paris

1948

USD 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
151 GREEK ENGLISH LEXICON. Compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott

1901

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
152 GUILHERMY, M. F. DE Inscriptions de la France du Ve Siecle au XVIIIe Paris

1873

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153 Hazard, Samuel HAITI. Santo Domingo Past and Present, with a Glance at Hayti London

1873

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154 HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT The Intellectual Life East Aurora, N. Y.

1899

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
155 HARDIE, MARTIN Water-Colour Painting in Britain London

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
156 Maginness, James HARRISBURG IMPRINT. The Family Clerk and Students' Assistant, containing a Neat, Concise, and Plain Method of Book-Keeping by Single Entry . . . Harrisburg

1817

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
157 Bunyan, John HAWAII. Ka Hele Malihini Ana mai Keia ao Aku a Hiki i Kela Ao . . . na Joane Buniana, i kakau mua Honolulu

1842

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
158 Marcel Guiot HEINTZELMAN, ARTHUR WM.: Aquafortiste Paris

1928

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
159 HELMOLT, HANS F., Editor Weltgeschichte Leipzig

1923

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
160 HERKOMER, SIR HUBERT VON The Herkomers London

1910

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161 HISTORY. Capefigue. Madame de Pompadour...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
162 Huizinga, J. Erasmus (HOLBEIN). Deutsch von Werner Kaegi Basel

1928

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163 HUGUENOT HYMNAL La Liturgie, ou Formulaire des Prieres Publiques, selon l'Usage de l'Eglise Anglicane

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
164 HUME, DAVID Private Correspondence with Several Distinguished Persons, 1761-1776, now First Published from the Originals London

1820

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
165 HUME, DAVID The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to 1688 London

1824

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
166 ILLUMINATED BOOKS. Group of 8 volumes printed by Elbert Hubbard, as below East Aurora

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
167 Leslie Webber Jones and C. R. Morey ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. The Miniatures of the Manuscripts of Terence, prior to the Thirteenth Century

1931

USD 65.00 - 90.00 Unknown
168 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Gibbs. Rowlandson's Oxford...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
169 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Winckler. Der Tolle Bomberg...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
170 INDIANS. (Goodrich, Samuel G.). Lives of Celebrated American Indians Boston

1843

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
171 (INGRAHAM, JOSEPH HOLT). The South-West New-York

1835

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
172 INVENTIONS. Wilson. American Science and Invention: a Pictorial History...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
173 IPEK: Jahrbuch fur Prahistorische & Ethnographische Kunst, for 1925 Leipzig

1925

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
174 Selfridge, Commander T. O. ISTHMIAN CANAL. Reports of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by way of the Isthmus of Darien Washington

1874

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
175 ISTHMIAN CANAL. Shufeldt, Capt. Robert W. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal ... Washington

1872

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
176 Sullivan, Lt. John T. ISTHMIAN CANAL. Report of Historical and Technical Information relating to the Problem of Interoceanic Communication by way of the American Isthmus Washington

1883

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
177 A. E. Popham and Philip Pouncey ITALIAN DRAWINGS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS in the British Museum, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries London

1950

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178 Jacob Kainen JACKSON, JOHN BAPTIST: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut (Washington)

1962

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179 Lt.-Col. G. F. R. Henderson JACKSON, STONEWALL: and the American Civil War London

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
180 Mitford, A. B. JAPAN. Tales of Old Japan London

1871

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181 JAPANESE PRINTS. Collection of about 40 auction catalogues of Japanese color prints sold by Sotheby... London

USD 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
182 JAPANESE PRINTS OF THE PRIMITIVE PERIOD in the Collection of LOUIS V. LEDOUX New York

1942

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
183 Tuer, Andrew W. JAPANESE STENCILS. The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs, being One Hundred Facsimile Illustrations of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter London

USD 40.00 - 50.00 Unknown
184 (JEFFERSON). Rayner. Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
185 (JOBERT, LOUIS) La Science des Medailles, pour l'Instruction de ceux qui Commencent a s'appliquer a la Connoissance des Medailles Antiques & Modernes Paris

1692

USD 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
186 JOHNSON, SAMUEL The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets London

1781

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
187 JOHNSON, SAMUEL A Dictionary of the English Language Philadelphia

1819

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188 Droste-Hulshoff JUDAICA. Die Judenbuche: ein Sittengemalde aus dem gebirgigten Westfalen Stuttgart

1923

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189 Graetz, Heinrich JUDAICA. Volkstumliche Geschichte der Juden Berlin & Wien

1923

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190 London, Hannah R. JUDAICA. Portraits of Jews by Gilbert Stuart and other Early American Artists New York

1927

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191 KITTLE, ROBERT Original manuscript of a proposed "Text Book on Systematic Geology of the Two Hemispheres, for Explorators, Teachers and Students"

1894

USD 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
192 LARGE-PAPER COPIES. Lang. The Library... London

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
193 LARNED, J. N. History for Ready Reference: from the Best Historians, Biographers, and Specialists, WITH: Recent History (1894-1901) Springfield

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
194 LATIN-AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY. Estado Actual de los Principales Ediicios Arqueologicos de Mexico...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
195 LAW, ERNEST The History of Hampton Court Palace London

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
196 (LE BRUN, PIERRE) Histoire Critique des Pratiques Superstitieuses, qui ont seduit le Peuple & embarasse les Scavans Rouen

1701

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Unknown
197 LEONARDO DA VINCI The Notebooks New York

1938

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
198 LIGHTING. Hayward. Colonial Lighting...

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
199 Henry Martin, Andre Blum, Ch. Mortet, Frantz Calot, et al LIVRE FRANCAIS, LE: Des Origines a la Fin du Second Empire Paris et Bruxelles

1924

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200 LLOYD, NATHANIEL A History of the English House, from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period London

1931

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201 LOUVET DE COUVRAY, J. B. Les Aventures du Chevalier de Faublas Paris

1842

USD 20.00 - 30.00 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.