Swann Galleries: BOOKS FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE, MILDRED BARNES BLISS, bequeathed to Harvard University. Public Auction Sale Number 942, February 14, 1974 at 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., EXHIBITION FROM FEBRUARY ELEVENTH TO TIME OF SALE. EXHIBITION AND SALE AT, SWANN GALLER, 942,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 14, 1974 - February 14, 1974

Page Size: 551 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADAMS, HENRY	Letters to a Niece, and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres	Boston	1920	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
2	ADAMS-ACTON, MURRAY	Domestic Architecture & Old Furniture	London		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
3	Pinedo, Francesco de	AERONAUTICS. Il Mio Volo attraverso l'Atlantico e le due Americhe	Milano	1928	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
4	Galton, Francis	AFRICA. The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa	London	1853	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
5	Rosen, Eric von	AFRICA. Traskfolket: Svenska Rhcdesja-Kong-Expeditionens Etnografiska Forskningsresultat	Stockholm	1916	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
6	Rosen, Eric von	AFRICA. Fran Kap till Alexandria...	Stockholm		USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
7	Richard P. Strong, editor	AFRICAN REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, AND THE BELGIAN CONGO	Cambridge	1930	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
8	ALLEN, B. SPRAGUE	Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): a Background for the Study of Literature	Cambridge	1937	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
9		AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Hamlin. Greek Revival Architecture in America...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
10	Waldron P. Belknap, Jr.	AMERICAN COLONIAL PAINTING: Materials for a History	Cambridge	1959	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
11	Jose Ignacio Rodriguez	AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS: a Compilation of the Political Constitutions of the Independent Nations of the World	Washington		USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
12	Renack, Auguste	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Aux Etats-Unis: Episodes de la Guerre d'Independance	Paris	1915	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
13	Edward Stanwood	AMERICAN TARIFF CONTROVERSIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	Boston	1904	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
14	Berners, Dame Juliana	ANGLING. The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle	New York	1903	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
15	Grey, Sir Edward	ANGLING. Fly Fishing	London	1899	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
16		ARABIAN NIGHTS. Histoire d'Aladdin et de la Lampe Magique, selon le texte de J. C. Mardrus	Peking	1914	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
17		ARGENTINA. Gaceta de Buenos Aires: Reimpresion Facsimilar	Buenos Aires	1910	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
18	Sarmiento, Nicanor	ARGENTINA. Historia del Libro y de las Bibliotecas Argentinas	Buenos Aires	1930	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
19	Uriburu, General Jose Felix	ARGENTINA. La Palabra del . . . Discursos, Manifiestos, Declaraciones y Cartas publicadas durante su Gobiemo	(Buenos Aires)	1933	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
20		ARGENTINA. Ayarragaray. La Anarquia Argentina y el Caudillismo...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
21		ARGENTINA. Bioy Casares. La Nueva Tormenta...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
22		ARGENTINA. Denis. La Republique Argentine...			USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
23		ARGENTINA. Ibarguren. Juan Manuel de Rosas...	Buenos Aires		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
24		ARGENTINA. Kurtz. La Argentina ante Estados Unidos...	Buenos Aires	1920	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
25		ARGENTINA. Marquez. Artistimo...	Buenos Aires	1920	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
26		ARGENTINA. Pinero. Sobre Educacion e Instruction...	Buenos Aires	1910	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
27	Torres Frias, Tomatis, Valdes Lopez de Miro, Del Campo, Montes de Oca, Diaz Leguizamon, Dominguez and Ramon Jimenez	ARGENTINA. Group of 10 volumes of poetry	Buenos Aires		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
28		ARCHITECTURE. Richardson & Gill. Regional Architecture of the West of England...	London		USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
29		ARCHITECTURE. Simson. The Gothic Cathedral...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
30		ART. Bazin. A History of Art...	New York, etc.	1960	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
31		ART. Kramrisch. The Art of India...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
32		ART HISTORY. Laurin, et al. Scandinavian Art...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
33		ART POPULAIRE: Travaux Artistiques et Sdentifiques du ler Congres International des Arts Populaires, Prague 1928...	Paris	1931	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
34	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America	New York	1937	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
35	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Original Water-Color Paintings for The Birds of America, reproduced in Color for the First Time	New York	1966	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
36		AUDUBON NATURE ENCYCLOPEDIA	Philadelphia	1965	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
37	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	The Essays	London	1907	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
38	BANKART, GEORGE P.	The Art of the Plasterer . . . chiefly in England from the XVIth to the XVIIIth Century	London	1908	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
39	BAUCHART, ERNEST QUENTIN	Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France (XVIe, XVIIe & XVIIIe Siecles)	Paris	1886	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
40	BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES	Les Epaves: Pieces Condamnees, Galanteries, Epigraphes, Pieces Diverses, Bouffonneries	Brussels	1874	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
41	BEATON, CECIL	The Wandering Years...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
42	(BECKFORD, WILLIAM)	An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript, with Notes Critical and Explanatory	London	1809	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
43		BENES, EDUARD. Bound volume of 4 position papers, in French, presented at the Peace Conference in support of Czechoslovakian claims	(Paris)	1918	USD 75.00 - 125.00	Unknown
44	BENES, EDUARD	My War Memoirs	London	1928	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
45	BENNETT, ARNOLD	Don Juan de Marana: a Play in Four Acts	London	1923	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
46	BERANGER, P. J. DE	Oeuvres Completes...	Paris	1857	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
47	Jules Janin	BERANGER ET SON TEMPS	Paris	1866	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
48	BERENSON, BERNARD	L'Arco di Costantino, o della Decadenza della Forma	Milano	1952	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
49	BERENSON, BERNARD	Viaggio in Sicilia	Milano	1955	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
50	BERENSON, BERNARD	Estetica, Etica e Storia nelle Arti...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
51	BERNHARDI, GENERAL VON	La Guerre d'Aujourd'hui	Paris	1913	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
52		BIBELOT, THE: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers	Portland		USD 50.00 - 75.00	Unknown
53	BIBESCO, PRINCESSE	Catherine-Paris...	Paris	1931	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
54	Flaubert, Gustave	BINDING. Herodias. Preface par Anatole France	Paris	1892	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
55	Marcus Aurelius	BINDING. The Thoughts	London	1923	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
56		BINDINGS. Lagerlof. Gosta Berlings Saga...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
57		BINDINGS. Rosebery. Dr. Johnson...	London and New York		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
58		BINDINGS. Group of 7 volumes, as below, all in French, on American subjects	Paris		USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
59		BIRD & BULL PRESS. Three Erfurt Tales, 1497-1498	(North Hills, Pa.)	1962	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
60		BIRDS. Armstrong. Study of Bird Song...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
61		BIRDS. Audubon. The Birds of America...			USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
62		BIRDS. Griscom. Modem Bird Study...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
63	Lader, Lawrence	BIRTH CONTROL. The Margaret Sanger Story, and the Fight for Birth Control	Garden City	1955	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
64	BLAKE, WILLIAM	BLAKE, WILLIAM. Letters	New York	1906	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
65	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Songs of Innocence	London	1954	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
66	BLAKE, WILLIAM	Songs of Innocence and of Experience	London	1955	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
67	BLAKE, WILLIAM	The Book of Urizen	London	1958	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
68	Alexander Gilchrist	BLAKE, WILLIAM: Life	London	1880	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
69	Percival, Milton O.	(BLAKE). William Blakes Circle of Destiny	New York	1938	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
70		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Cleland. Harsh Words...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
71		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Rosenbach, by Wolf and Fleming...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
72		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Symons. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry...			USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
73	BOSWELL, JAMES	An Account of Corsica: the Journal of a Tour of that Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli	Glasgow	1768	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
74		BOTTEGHE OSCURE. Numbers 1-4, 6-9, and 18-20	Roma		USD 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
75	BOWEN, ELIZABETH	The House in Paris	New York	1949	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
76	BRIMONT, RENEE DE	Psyche...	Paris		USD 35.00 - 50.00	Unknown
77	Jones, E. Willis	BRUCE ROGERS. A Visit to October House	New York	1952	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
78	B. N. Fryer James Johnson	BRUCE ROGERS AND THE FIGUREHEAD OF THE JOSEPH CONRAD	San Francisco	1938	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
79	BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS	BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS. Speeches	New York	1909	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
80	BRYCE, JAMES	The American Commonwealth	London	1888	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
81	BUCHAN, JOHN	A History of the Great War	Boston	1922	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
82	BULNES, GONZALO	1810: Nacimiento de las Republicas Americanas	Buenos Aires	1927	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
83	BURKE, THOMAS	The London Spy: a Book of Town Travels	London	1922	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
84	(BURNEY, FANNY)	Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay	London	1893	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
85	BYNNER, WITTER	Book of Lyrics	New York	1955	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
86	Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan	(BYNNER, WITTER; AND FICKE, A. D.). Spectra, a Book of Poetic Experiments	New York	1916	USD 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
87	Howe, Maud	CALIFORNIA. The San Rosario Ranch	Boston	1884	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
88	A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller, editor	CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE	New York	1933	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
89	Webster, John C.	CANADA. Acadia at the End of the 17th Century: Letters, Journals and Memoirs of Joseph Robineau de Villebon	Saint John, N. B.	1934	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
90	CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N.	Law and Literature...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
91	(CARDOZO)	Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court ... in Memory of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, November 26, 1938	Washington	1938	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
92	Mayorcas, M. J.	CARPETS. English Needlework Carpets, 16th to 19th Centuries	Leigh-on-Sea	1963	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
93	CARTER, JOHN; AND POLLARD, GRAHAM	An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets	London New York	1934	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
94	CELLINI, BENVENUTO	CELLINI, BENVENUTO. Life	London	1910	USD 25.00 - 35.00	Unknown
95	Jaccaci, Auguste F.	(CERVANTES). Au Pays de Don Quichotte	Paris	1901	USD 35.00 - 45.00	Unknown
96	CESCINSKY, HERBERT	English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century	London	1911	USD 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
97	L. Petit de Julleville	CHANSON DE ROLAND: Traduction Nouvelle, avec Introduction et Notes	Paris	1878	USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown
98	CHAPMAN, FRANK M.	My Tropical Air Castle: Nature Studies in Panama	New York	1929	USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
99	CHAPMAN, FRANK M.	Color Key to North American Birds...			USD 20.00 - 30.00	Unknown
100	CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, H. C.	The Land of the Castanet...			USD 30.00 - 40.00	Unknown

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