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
401 PYLE, HOWARD The Story of the Champions of the Round Table New York

1905

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
402 QUESADA, VICENTE G. Recuerdos de mi Vida Diplomatica Buenos Aires

1904

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
403 RABELAIS, FRANCOIS Oeuvres, publiees sous le Titre de Faits et Dits du Geant Pantagruel et de son fils Pantagruel; avec la Prognostication Pantagrueline

1732

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
404 (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) King Albert's Book: a Tribute to the Belgian King and People . . . New York

1915

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
405 REINACH, JOSEPH La Guerre de 1914-1918: les Commentaires de Polybe Paris

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
406 REINACH, JOSEPH Original manuscript of "De l'Amerique et Joffre," signed "Polybe"

1917

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
407 REMINGTON, FREDERIC The Way of an Indian New York

1906

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
408 REPINGTON, LT. COL. C. A COURT The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences Boston

1920

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
409 REWALD, JOHN Post-Impressionism, from Van Gogh to Gauguin New York

1956

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
410 REYES, ALFONSO Group of 10 volumes by this noted Mexican author

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
411 RILKE, RAINER MARIA Mir zu Feier: Gedichte. Floral and other text decorations Berlin

1899

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
412 Bertrand H. Bronson RITSON, JOSEPH: Scholar-at-Arms Berkeley

1938

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
413 ROBERTS, KENNETH Sun Hunting Indianapolis

1922

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
414 ROBERTS, KENNETH L. Why Europe Leaves Home (Indianapolis)

1922

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
415 ROBERTSON, W. Designs in Architecture, for Garden Chairs, Small Gates for Villas, Park Entrances, Aviarys, Temples, Boat Houses, Mausoleums, and Bridges London

1800

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
416 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON The Children of the Night... New York

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
417 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Lancelot, a Poem New York

1920

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
418 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Collected Poems New York

1922

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
419 ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Sonnets, 1889-1927 New York

1928

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
420 ROGERS, SAMUEL Italy, a Poem London

1830

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
421 ROOSEVELT, NICHOLAS The Philippines: a Treasure and a Problem...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
422 Henry Cabot Lodge ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Boston

1919

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
423 (ROOSEVELT) T. R. in Cartoon Akron

1910

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
424 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, JR. Beyond the Call of Duty

1947

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
425 ROSEN, ERIC VON En Forgangen Varld: Forskningar och Aventyr Bland Andernas Hogfjall... Stockholm

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
426 ROSSI, FILIPPO Chefs-d'Oeuvre de l'Orfevrerie (Milano)

1956

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
427 ROSTAND, EDMOND Cyrano de Bergerac Paris

1898

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
428 J. Poisle Desgranges ROUGET DE LISLE ET LA MARSEILLAISE Paris

1864

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
429 (ROUSSEL, P. J. A.) Correspondance Secrette de Plusieurs Grands Personnages Illustres, a la fin du XVIIIe Londres et se trouve a Paris

1802

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
430 ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS. Catalogue of the Library London

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
431 RUSSIA. Tchemavin. Escape from the Soviets...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
432 Nevinson, Henry W. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. The Dawn in Russia, or Scenes in the Russian Revolution London

1906

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
433 Hamilton, Lt. Gen. Sir Ian RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. A Staff Officer's Scrap Book during the Russo-Japanese War London

1907

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
434 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. James. The Siege of Port Arthur: Records of an Eye-Witness...

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
435 MacVeagh, Mrs. Charles (RUZICKA, RUDOLPH). Fountains of Papal Rome New York

1915

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
436 Wilde, Oscar (RUZICKA, RUDOLPH). The Happy Prince, and Other Tales Stamford

1936

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
437 Paul & Virginie SAINT-PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE. Avec Notices et Notes par Anatole France Paris

1876

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
438 SALVERTE, COMTE FRANCOIS DE Les Ebenistes du XVIIIe Siecle: leurs Oeuvres et leurs Marques Paris

1927

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
439 SCULPTURE. Daridian. Sept Siecles de Sculpture Japonaise...

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
440 SEVIGNE, MADAME DE Recueil des Lettres a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa Fille Paris

1763

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
441 SHAW, HENRY Details of Elizabethan Architecture Edinburgh

1898

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
442 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE La Sensitiva. Traduzione di Adolfo de Bosis (Roma)

1892

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
443 Kenneth Neill Cameron, editor SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE, 1773-1822 Cambridge

1961

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
444 SHIEL, M. P. Shapes in the Fire London & Boston

1896

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
445 SIERRA CLUB. Moser. The Peninsula: a Story of the Olympic Country... San Francisco

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
446 SIERRA CLUB. Muir. Gentle Wilderness: the Sierra Nevada... San Francisco

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
447 Larwood, Jacob; & Hotten, J. C. SIGNBOARDS. The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day London

1900

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
448 SITWELL, EDITH SITWELL, EDITH. Collected Poems London

1957

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
449 SITWELL, SIR OSBERT Four Songs of the Italian Earth

1948

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
450 SITWELL, SACHEVERELL German Baroque Art London

1927

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
451 SITWELL, SACHEVERELL Bridge of the Brocade Sash: Travels and Observations in Japan London

1959

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
452 SITWELL, SACHEVERELL Journey to the Ends of Time London

1959

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
453 Florence M. A. Hilbish SMITH, CHARLOTTE: Poet and Novelist (1749-1806) Philadelphia

1941

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
454 Kobbe, Gustav SOCIETY OF ICONOPHILES. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909 New York

1910

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
455 SODERHJELM, WERNER La Nouvelle Franchise au XVe Siecle Paris

1910

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
456 Smith, Alice R. Huger SOUTH CAROLINA. Twenty Drawings of the Pringle House on King Street, Charleston, S. C.

1913

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
457 Sanchez Canton, F. J. SPANISH ART. Los Retratos de los Reyes de Espana Barcelona

1948

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
458 SPANISH ART. Lafuente Ferrari. Breve Historia de la Pintura Espanola...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
459 SPENDER, STEPHEN SPENDER, STEPHEN. Collected Poems, 1928-1953 New York

1955

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
460 SPENSER, EDMUND Epithalamion and Amoretti London

1903

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
461 Scholz, Janos, editor STAGE. Baroque and Romantic Stage Design New York

1950

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
462 STANHOPE, LADY HESTER STANHOPE, LADY HESTER. Memoirs London

1845

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
463 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems Boston

1869

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
464 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE Victorian Poets Boston

1876

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
465 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE Songs and Ballads

1884

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
466 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE Songs and Ballads New-York

1884

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
467 STEIN, GERTRUDE Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia (Firenze)

1912

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
468 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Vailima Letters: Correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin, 1890-1894 London

1895

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
469 STEWART, JAMES, & COMPANY A Century in Construction: an Historical Account, 1844-1944 New York & Chicago

1944

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
470 STOKES, ANSON PHELPS Church and State in the United States: a Historical Survey . . . New York

1950

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
471 STRATTON, ARTHUR The English Interior: a Review of the Decoration of English Homes from Tudor Times to the XIXth Century London

1920

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
472 Jardine, Sir William SUN-BIRDS. Nectariniadae, or Sun-Birds Edinburgh

1843

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
473 SWEDISH ART. Stockholms Slott och dess Konstskatter, av Ake Setterwali, Stig Fogelmarck och Lennart af Petersens Stockholm

1950

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
474 Soderberg, Bengt G. SWEDISH CHURCH ART. Svenska Kyrkomalningar fran Medeltiden Stockholm

1951

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
475 SWIFT, JONATHAN Le Conte du Tonneau, contenant tout ce que les Arts et les Sciences ont de plus Sublime et de plus Mysterieux; avec plusieurs autres Pieces tres-curieuses Amsterdam

1757

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
476 SWINBURNE, A. C. The Queen-Mother and Rosamond London

1868

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
477 SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON Studies of the Greek Poets London

1893

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
478 Horatio F. Brown SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON: a Biography London

1895

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
479 SYMONDS, R. W. English Furniture from Charles II to George II London

1929

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
480 TAINE, HIPPOLYTE Les Origines de la France Contemporaine Paris

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
481 TARBELL, IDA M. He Knew Lincoln... New York

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
482 TENNESSEE. History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee Nashville

1936

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
483 (THACKERAY, W. M.) The Newcomes London

1855

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
484 THOMPSON, FRANCIS Shelley London

1909

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
485 THOMSON, JAMES Biographical and Critical Studies London

1896

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
486 THOREAU, HENRY D. The Maine Woods Boston

1864

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
487 THOREAU, HENRY D. Cape Cod Boston

1865

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
488 THOREAU, HENRY D. Journal New York

1962

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
489 TINKER, EDWARD LAROCQUE The Horsemen of the Americas, and the Literature They Inspired New York

1953

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
490 TIPPING, H. AVRAY, Editor English Homes of the Early Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses and Gardens London

1910

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
491 TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE De la Democratic en Amerique Paris

1888

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
492 Edmund R. Murphy TONTY, HENRY DE: Fur Trader of the Mississippi Baltimore

1941

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
493 TOUSSAINT, FRANZ La Flute de Jade: Poesies Chinoises... Paris

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
494 UNITED NATIONS. Charter of the United Nations, and Statute of the International Court of Justice San Francisco

1945

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
495 UZANNE, OCTAVE Dictionnaire Bibliophilosophique: Typologique, Iconophilesque, Bibliopegique et Bibliotechnique Paris

1896

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
496 Marlowe and Chapman VALE PRESS. Hero and Leander London

1894

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
497 Campion, Thomas VALE PRESS. Fifty Songs London

1896

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
498 VAN GOGH, VINCENT The Complete Letters, with Reproductions of all the Drawings in the Correspondence Greenwich, Conn.

1960

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
499 VAUDONCOURT, GENERAL GUILLAUME DE Histoire des Campagnes de 1814 et 1815 en France Paris

1826

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
500 VALTVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE VALTVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE. Oeuvres Completes... Paris

1821

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
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