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
501 VEDDER, ELIHU Miscellaneous Moods in Verse Boston

1914

 USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
502 Paul Claudel VERLAINE Paris

1922

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
503 VILLON, FRANCOIS The Jargon, being Seven Ballads from the Thieves' Argot of the XVth Century (Boston)

1918

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
504 (Mason, Emily V.) VIRGINIA. Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 Baltimore

1871

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
505 VOLTAIRE La Ligue, ou Henry le Grand, Poeme Epique Amsterdam

1724

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
506 (VOLTAIRE) Histoire de Charles XII, Roy de Suede Basle

1732

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
507 Paillet-de-Warcy, L. (VOLTAIRE). Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Voltaire Paris

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
508 WARREN, CHARLES Group of 11 pamphlets and off prints

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
509 WATERMAN, THOMAS T. The Mansions of Virginia, 1706-1776... Chapel Hill

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
510 WEDDELL, ALEXANDER, W. A Description of Virginia House in Henrico County, near Richmond Richmond

1947

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
511 WELLESZ, EGON 5. Sinfonia, op. 75 Hamburg

1957

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
512 WELLS, H. G. Anticipations London

1902

 USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
513 Mansfield, Howard (WHISTLER, J. A. McN.). Whistler as a Critic of his own Prints... New York

1935

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
514 (WHISTLER). Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: the Catalogue London

1905

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
515 (WHISTLER) The Gentle Art of Resenting Injuries New York

1904

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
516 WHITMAN, WALT Calamus: a Series of Letters written 1868-1880 to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle) Boston

1897

 USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
517 WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS Penelope's Progress Boston

1898

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
518 WILDE, OSCAR The Picture of Dorian Gray Philadelphia

1890

 USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
519 WILDE, OSCAR The Picture of Dorian Gray Paris

1908

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
520 WILDE, OSCAR The Birthday of the Infanta New York

1929

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
521 WILSON, WOODROW Pourquoi Nous Sommes en Guerre: Six Messages au Congres et au Peuple Americain Paris

1917

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
522 WISE, LT. HENRY A. Los Gringos: or an Inside View of Mexico and California London

1849

 USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
523 WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD Ideal Passion: Sonnets

1917

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
524 WOOLF, VIRGINIA The Voyage Out London

1915

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
525 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM The Excursion, a Poem London

1853

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
526 Fouqueray, Charles WORLD WAR I. Le Front de Mer Paris

1918

 USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
527 Louis Gille, Alphonse Ooms, Paul Delandsheere WORLD WAR I. Cinquante Mois d'Occupation Flamande Bruxelles

1919

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
528 WORLD WAR I. History of the American Field Service in France, 1914-1917 Boston

1920

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
529 WORLD WAR I. RED CROSS, ETC. Derby. "Wade In, Sanitary!"...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
530 WORLD WAR I. Group of 11 volumes

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
531 WORLD WAR I. Baldwin. American Neutrality...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
532 WORLD WAR I. Baruch. American Industry in the War...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
533 WORLD WAR I. Bemhardi. Germany and the Next War... London and New York

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
534 WORLD WAR I. Jellicoe. The Grand Fleet, 1914-16...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
535 WORLD WAR I. Page. Italy and the World War...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
536 WORLD WAR I. Sarolea. The Anglo-German Problem... London and New York

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
537 WORLD WAR I. Group of 20 volumes in French on the war Paris

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
538 WORLD WAR I. Group of over 20 volumes in French on the war Paris

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
539 WORLD WAR I. Group of over 20 volumes in French on the war Paris

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
540 WORLD WAR II. Tabouis. They Called Me Cassandra...

USD 40.00 - 50.00 Unknown
541 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Modem Architecture: the Kahn Lectures for 1930 Princeton

1931

 USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
542 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Architecture: Man in Possession of his Earth Garden City

1962

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
543 Drexler, Arthur (WRIGHT). The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright New York

1962

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
544 Hitchcock, Henry-Russell (WRIGHT). In the Nature of Materials: the Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1887-1941 New York

1942

 USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
545 WURDEMANN, AUDREY Testament of Love: a Sonnet Sequence New York

1938

 USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
546 Rollinson, John K. WYOMING. Pony Trails in Wyoming: Hoofprints of a Cowboy and U. S. Ranger Caldwell, Idaho

1941

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
547 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. Poetical Works New York

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
548 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses, and a Play in Verse Churchtown

1917

 USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
549 Voinovitch, Comte L. de YUGOSLAVIA. La Dalmatie, l'Italie et l'Unite Yougoslave (1797-1917) Geneve, etc.

1917

 USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
550 (ZERVOS, CHRISTIAN). L'Art de la Catalogne, de la Seconde Moitie du Neuvieme Siecle a la fin du Quinzieme Siecle Paris

1937

 USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
551 ZULOAGA, IGNACIO: La Vida y el Arte de San Sebastian

1950

 USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
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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.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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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    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
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    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.