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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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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