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
201 GRESSET, J. B. L. Les Oeuvres Geneve

1744

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
202 GUILMARD, DESIRE Les Maitres Omemanistes: Dessinateurs, Peintres, Architectes, Sculpteurs et Graveurs Paris

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
203 GUMUCHIAN & CIE. Les Livres de l'Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siecle Paris

1930

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
204 (GUSTAV VI ADOLF, KING OF SWEDEN) Henriksson. Med Sveriges Kronprinspar genom Amerika...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
205 HAMMER, VICTOR A Theory of Architecture: the Second Chapter from a Platonic Dialog New York

1952

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
206 HANGMAN Memoires du Bourreau de Londres, ecrits par lui-meme, et publies par le Chirurgien de Newgate Paris

1839

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
207 HAY, JOHN Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches Boston

1871

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
208 HAYWARD, N. College Scenes Boston

1850

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
209 Elizabeth Bisiand HEARN, LAFCADIO: Life and Letters of Boston

1906

USD 125.00 - 175.00 Unknown
210 Samuel Laing HEIMSKRJNGLA, THE: OR THE SAGAS OF THE NORSE KINGS. From the Icelandic of Snorre Sturlason London

1889

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
211 HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST A Book of Verses London

1888

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
212 HEPPLEWHITE, A. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide London

1897

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
213 Joseph Wood Krutch HERBAL New York

1965

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
214 HERFORD, OLIVER The Bashful Earthquake, & Other Fables and Verses New York

1898

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
215 HERFORD, OLIVER An Alphabet of Celebrities Boston

1899

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
216 HERFORD, OLIVER More Animals New York

1901

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
217 HERFORD, OLIVER A Child's Primer of Natural History New York

1902

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
218 HERFORD, OLIVER The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten New York

1904

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
219 HERFORD, OLIVER The Fairy Godmother-in-Law New York

1905

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
220 HERFORD, OLIVER The Astonishing Tale of a Pen & Ink Puppet, or the Genteel Art of Illustrating New York

1907

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
221 HERFORD, OLIVER The Peter Pan Alphabet New York

1907

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
222 HERFORD, OLIVER The Simple Jography, or How to Know the Earth Boston

1908

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
223 HERFORD, OLIVER The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom few 1903... San Francisco

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
224 HERFORD, OLIVER (with John Cecil Clay) Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
225 HERFORD, OLIVER Artful Anticks... New York

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
226 HOLT, WINIFRED A Beacon for the Blind: Life of Henry Fawcett...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
227 HOMMAGE DES ARTISTES & DES ECRIVAINS FRANCAIS Aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique Paris

1915

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
228 HOOVER, HERBERT The Challenge to Liberty New York

1934

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
229 HOOVER, HERBERT; AND GIBSON, HUGH The Problems of Lasting Peace Garden City

1942

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
230 (HORACE Essai d'une Nouvelle Traduction d'Horace, en Vers Francois, par Divers Auteurs... Amsterdam

1727

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
231 HOUSE, COLONEL E. M. HOUSE, COLONEL E. M. The Intimate Papers of Boston

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
232 HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN The Rise of Silas Lapham Boston

1885

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
233 HULL, CORDELL. Memoirs... New York

1948

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
234 Crawford H. Greenewalt HUMMINGBIRDS Garden City

1960

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
235 HUXLEY, ALDOUS Heaven and Hell New York

1956

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
236 HYDE, CHARLES CHENEY International Law Boston

1922

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
237 IBELS, H. G. Les Demi-Cabots: le Cafe-Concert, le Cirque, les Forains Paris

1896

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
238 Harrsen Meta ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. The Nekcsei-Lipocz Bible: a 14th Century Manuscript from Hungary in the Library of Congress Washington

1949

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
239 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. The Horizon Book of Ancient Rome... New York, etc.

1960

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
240 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Reynolds. Baroque Splendour...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
241 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Andrews. On the Trail of Ancient Man...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
242 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Jusserand. With Americans of Past and Present Days...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
243 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Peattie. The Road of a Naturalist...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
244 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Romulo. Crusade in Asia...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
245 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Steed. The Hapsburg Monarchy...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
246 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Group of 20 volumes, including books by W. J. Locke...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
247 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Group of 20 volumes, including books by Lord Dufferin...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
248 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Group of 20 volumes, including books by Hamilton Fish Armstrong...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
249 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Group of 20 volumes, induding books by John Masefidd...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
250 INSCRIBED BOOKS. Group of 25 volumes in French, on many subjects Paris

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
251 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ETC. Acheson. Sketches from Life...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
252 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ETC. Bonsal. Unfinished Business...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
253 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ETC. Root. Latin America and the United States...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
254 IRVING, WASHINGTON. Tour in Scotland, 1817... New Haven

1927

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
255 ITALIAN ART. Focillon. Piero della Francesca...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
256 ITALIAN ART. Phillips. The Leadership of Giorgione...

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
257 Montecchi, Ettore ITALIAN UNIFICATION. Mattia Montecchi nel Risorgimento Italiano Roma

1932

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
258 JAMES, HENRY The Letters London

1920

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
259 JAMES, HENRY. William Wetmore Story...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
260 (JAMES, HENRY) The Book of France London & Paris

1915

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
261 Coolidge, Harold Jefferson (JEFFERSON). Thoughts on Thomas Jefferson, or What Jefferson was not Boston

1936

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
262 JEKYLL, GERTRUDE Garden Ornament London

1918

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
263 JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD Remembered Yesterdays...

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
264 Ralph Pendleton, editor JONES, ROBERT EDMOND: The Theatre of Middletown, Conn.

1958

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
265 JUDAICA. Altman, A., Editor Between East and West: Essays dedicated to the Memory of Bela Horovitz London

1958

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
266 JUSSERAND, J. J. Histoire Litteraire du Peuple Anglais Paris

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
267 KEATS, JOHN Poesies. Traduites de la Marquise de Clermont-Tonnerre... Paris

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
268 Hyder E. Rollins, editor KEATS CIRCLE, THE: Letters and Papers, 1816-1878 Cambridge

1948

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
269 Sir Rennell Rodd and H. Nelson Gay, editor KEATS-SHELLEY MEMORIAL, ROME. Bulletin, Nos. 1 and 2 London & New York

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
270 KEITELL, RUSSELL HAWES, Editor Early American Rooms . . . changes in Style between the Arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War Portland

1936

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
271 KIPLING, RUDYARD The New Army Garden City

1914

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
272 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Fringes of the Fleet Garden City

1915

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
273 KREISLER, FRITZ Four Weeks in the Trenches: the War Story of a Violinist Boston

1915

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
274 KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK; AND STEVENSON, C. H. The Book of the Pearl: the History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems New York

1908

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
275 (LA BRUYERE) Les Caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere

1783

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
276 LACROIX, PAUL, Editor Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance: Histoire et Description des Moeurs et Usages, du Commerce et de l'Industrie, des Sciences, des Arts, des Literatures et des Beaux-Arts en Europe Paris

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
277 LACROIX, PAUL Ma Republique Paris

1902

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
278 Thenault, Capt. Georges LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE. The Story of the LaFayette Escadrille Boston

1921

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
279 James Norman Hall & C. B. Nordhoff, editor LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS, THE Boston

1920

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
280 LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE Oeuvres Inedites. Recueillies pour la Premiere Fois par PAUL LACROIX Paris

1863

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
281 LAKING. GUY FRANCIS The Furniture of Windsor Castle London

1905

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
282 LATHAM, CHARLES In English Homes: the Internal Character, Furniture & Adornments of some of the Most Notable Houses of England London

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
283 LATIN AMERICA. Crichfield. America's Supremacy...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
284 LATIN AMERICA. Noel. Contribution a la Historia de la Arquitectura Hispano-Americana...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
285 LATIN AMERICA. Teran. El Nacimiento de la America Espanola...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
286 (LAURENCIN) Poemes de Sapho, traduits par Edith de Beaumont Paris

1950

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
287 Shaw-Ede: T. E. LAWRENCE, T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935

1942

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
288 (LAWRENCE, T. E) Ocampo, Victoria Buenos Aires

1942

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
289 LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in Three Volumes Philadelphia

1796

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
290 LE CORBUSIER Creation is a Patient Search New York and Zurich

1960

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
291 LEE, CUTHBERT Early American Portrait Painters: the Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-Born Painters New Haven

1929

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
292 LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD Prose Fancies, Second Series Chicago & London

1896

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
293 LENYGON, FRANCIS The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the 17th and 18th Centuries London

1909

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
294 LENYGON, FRANCIS Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770... London

1920

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
295 LEONARDO DA VINCI New York

1963

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
296 LIPPMANN, WALTER. U. S. Foreign Policy...

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
297 LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. Reid. Richard Monckton Milnes...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
298 LOCKWOOD, LUKE V. A Collection of English Furniture of the XVII & XVIII Centuries New York

1907

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
299 LOCKWOOD, LUKE V. Colonial Furniture in America New York

1913

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
300 LONGUS Daphnis et Chloe: Traduction d'Amyot Londres

1878

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
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