Holbrook T. Mitchell Collection, Early Books and Illuminated Manuscripts

4 Books on Antiquities and the Classical World (one in Italian): 1. DYER, THOMAS H. [ED.] Pompeii. Its History, Buildings, and Antiquities. An Account

1. MOSES, HENRY. A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c. From Various Museums and Collections,...

GOSCHEN, VISCOUNT. The Life and Times of Georg Joachim Goshen, Publisher and Printer of Leipzig, 1752-1828. In 2 Volumes Illustrated. New York: G. P.

Four books on books: 1. BURTON, JOHN HILL. The Book-Hunter. A New Edition with a Memoir of the Author. Edinburgh and London: William B

KENYON, FREDERIC G. Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1927.  4to. Vellum-backed marble boards, gilt lettering on

Five books on art and architecture: 1. PHILADELPHIA N. A. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION [ALBUM OF ENGRAVINGS]. No date or other publication information. C

FINDENS' GALLERY OF MODERN ART: BEING A SERIES OF HIGHLY-FINISHED STEEL ENGRAVINGS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHARACTER, BEAUTY, AND COSTUME OF MANY L...

Lot of 4 books: 1. HARRISON, FREDERIC. Annals of an Old Manor-House, Sutton Place, Guildford. London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1893. Il

Lot of 4 books: 1.  MURPHY, THOS D. In Unfamiliar England with a Motor Car, the Record of Fifteen Thousand Mile Tour Among the Unfrequented No

WALKER, MARY ADELAIDE. Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. First edition. Large octavo. Original green pe

Lot of 6 books: 1. ADAMS, WILLIAM T. [OLIVER OPTIC]. Up the Baltic--Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. A Story of Travel and Adventure.

[STORER, J., AND I. GRIEG.] Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity i

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895-1897. 8vo. Original red cl...

Lot of 4 books on castles, abbeys, and cathedrals in England and Wales: 1. JAMES, M. R. Abbeys. London: The Great Western Railway, 1926. 4to. Red pape

Group of 9 books of Americana: 1. [CONGRESSIONAL REPORT.] A report of the 25th Congress, 1st Session [1937], Document No. 52. 8vo. Full calf, red moro

1.  VALENTINE, D. T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1863. New York: City of New York, 1863. 12mo. Decorative embossed and

Lot of 3 books: 1. AUSTEN, MARY. California, The Land of the Sun. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First American edition. With 32 tipped-in colo

STANLEY, HENRY, M. Through the Dark Continent, or, the Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River

NEWTON, C. T. Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, Vols. I-II. London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. 4to. Original blind-stamped green cloth,...

Lot of 6 books on Middle East: 1. TYNDALE, WALTER. Below the Cataracts. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company; and London: William Heinmann, 1907. 8v

1. DENYS, F. WARD. Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir. Washington, D. C.: James William Bryan Press, 1915. Limited Edition de Luxe. Black and white pho

Lot of 3 books: 1. NEUES PANORAMA DES RHEINS VON MAINZ BIS CoLN. Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp's Verlage, n.d. [c. 1850s]...

5 books on Europe" 1. KONODY, P. G. Through the Alps to the Apennines. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1911. 8vo. Original ...

Lot of 6 books on Philosophy and Religion: 1. COMBE, GEORGE. The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects. New York: Collins, Ke

ROGERS, SAMUEL. Poems. London: T. Cadell, 1834. 8vo. Full green leather, gilt embossed, raised bands on spine, red leather label is detached (but pres

5 books of literature with fine bindings: 1. SMOLLETT, TOBIAS [CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS].  The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, Complet

5 volumes of Americana, including Library for My Young Countrymen Series: 1. THE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONS, THE KENTUCKY RIFLEMAN. By the author of...

COLLINS, W. WILKIE. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot. With illustrations by Henry Brandling. London: Richard Bentle

Lot of 11 books of Literature and Belles-Lettres: 1. ARISTOPHANES [HICKIE, WILLIAM JAMES].  The Comedies of Aristophanes. A New and Literal Tr

REYNOLDS, GEORGE W. M. Pickwick Abroad; or, the Tour in France. London: Thomas Tegg; Glasgow: R. Griffin and Co.; Dublin: Tegg and Co.; Sidney and Hob

Lot of 4 books on Literature/Criticism: 1.-2. LANIER, SIDNEY. Shakspere and His Forerunners, Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and its development from Ea

ALEXANDER, GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA. Twilight of Royalty. New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt to s...

2 Fine Press Volumes: 1. [CAXTON CLUB.] WILKINS, ERNEST HATCH. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923

[MARIE LOUISE, DUCHESS OF PARMA/NAPOLEON.] De L'Emploi du Temps. Par Mme. La Comtesse de Genlis. Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, 182...

WEEVER, JOHN. Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Island adjacent, with the dissolved Monasteries

Lot of 4 Folio/4to Fine Bindings: 1.-2 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Whole Historical Dramas of William Shakspeare. Illustrated by an Assemblage o

[LITERARY SCRAPBOOK; THE POETS LAUREATE OF ENGLAND.] Hamilton, Walter, 1878. 4to. Full brown calf with gilt borders, gilt edges, marbled endpa

CAESAR [CAIUS JULIUS]. The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War. 

ANDERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM [ED.]. New, Authentic, and a Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Con

RHODIGINI, LODOUICI CAELII. Antiquarum Lectionum Commentarious. Sixteen Books of Selections from the Ancients. Venice: Aldine Press, 1516. 4to

XENOPHON. Xenophontis de Cyri Expeditione Libri Septem. Graeca recognovit, cum Codicibus MStis & omnibus fere libris editis contulit, plurimis i...

Group (3) of 18th Century Books: 1. FORTIS, ALBERTO. Travels Into Dalmatia; Containing General Observations on the Natural History of that Cou

[FRENCH LEGAL BOOK.] Chenu, Jean, de Bourges (Advocat en Parlement). Livre Des Offices de France, ou Continuation du Recueil d'Edicts faits sur ...

TWAIN, MARK [CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE].  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and

5 Vols. of Mark Twain, sheepskin with leather labels, Poor-Good: TWAIN, MARK [CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE]. 1. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R.

2 volumes in similar embossed vellum bindings: 1. [SOCRATES AND SOZOMENI.] Socratis Scholastici et Hermiae Sozomeni Historia Ecclesias

A volume published by William Pickering, which appears to have been the personal copy of American publisher, Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923).

[CHOIR BOOK; ILLUMINATED INITIALS.] Large Latin choir book, tooled leather binding. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.). Calf over wood boards, tooled

MOROSINI, PAOLO. Historia Della Citta e Republica di Venetia di Paolo Morosini, Senatore Venetiano. Distinta in Libri Vintiotto. Con Tauola co

BUONARROTI, FILIPPO. Osservazioni Istoriche Sopra Alcuni Medaglioni Antichi All'Altezza Serenissima di Cosimo III, Granduca di Toscana. Rom...

Four volumes in Italian: 1.-2. LETI, GREGORIO. Vita di Don Pietro Giron, Duca D'Ossuna, Vicere di Napoli, E di Sicilia, sotto il Regno di Filipp...

Five Volumes: A COLLECTION OF THE MOST REMARKABLE TRIALS OF PERSONS FOR HIGH-TREASON, MURDER, RAPES, HERESY, BIGAMY, BURGLARY; AND OTHER CRIMES AND MI

Three 16th century volumes: 1. ENNIUS. Poetae Cum Primis Censendi, Annalium, Libb. XIIX, Quae apud various Auctores superant, Fragmenta: conlecta, com

QU'RAN . A Persian Qu'ran, c. 19th century. In Arabic, illuminated on paper. 18mo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.). Brown embossed morocco, the central ...

[BOOK OF HOURS.] Manuscript, Illuminated Book of Hours, c. 15th-16th Century, in Latin. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.). Full brown blindstamped moro

WATSON, FREDERIC. A New and Complete Geographical Dictionary. Containing a full and accurate Description of the several Parts of the Known World, as d

Two large folio volumes: MONTFAUCON, M. DE.  A Collection of Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities in France, in Upwards of Three Hundred large

VIRGIL. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex Editione Petri Burmanni. 2 Vols. in one. Folio (15 x 10 in.). Glasgow: Andre

MAXIMUS  , VALERIUS.  Nuper Editus. Index Copiosissimus rerum omnium, & personarum, de quibus in his libris agit

CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS. [Edited by Aldus Manutius and Girolamo Avancio]. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1515. 16mo (6 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.). F

ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA. Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septum Libros. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1521. 16mo (6 11/16 x 4 in.). Full r

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. M. T. Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Atticus, ad Brutum, ad Quintum Fratrem, Libri XX Nuper Exacta Reco Gniti Cura. Venice:

QUINTILIANI, M. F. Institutionum Oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1522 (on title page)/15

JUSTINI. Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium AB IV Stino Re-Dactae. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1522. 16mo (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.).

GELLIUS. Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Li-Bri Unevi-Ginti. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1515. 16mo (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.). Full vellum, four raised bands, gi

OPUSCULA MYTHOLOGICA PHYSICA ET ETHICA. GRAECE ET LATINE. Seriem eorum sistit pagina Praesationem proxime sequens. Th. Gale S. Amsterdam: Henricum Wet

TENTZELII, W. E. Saxonia Numismatica Lineae Ernestinae. German and Latin. Dresden: Joh. Riedeln, 1705. 8vo (8 x 7 in.). Full vellum, gilt-stamped titl

WILLIS, THOMAE. Cerebri Anatome: Cui Accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus. Studio Thomae Willis, Ex Aede Christi Oxon. M. D. & in ista Celeberir...

CHARDIN, JOHN, SIR. The Travels of Sir John Chardin Into Persia and the East Indies, The First Volume, Containing the Author's Voyage from Paris...

1. RICAUT, PAUL. The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the Maxims of the Turkish Polity, the most Material Points of the

FUNCK-BRENTANO, FRANTZ. La Regence 1715-1723. Paris: Goupil & Cie; Manzi, Joyant & Cie, 1909. No. 17 of a Limi

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF E

THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATIONS OF THE SACRAMENTS. AND OTHER PARTS OF DIVINE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Ed

Three 17th century volumes: 1. SCALIGERI, IOSEPHI. Epistolae omnes quae reperiri potuernunt, nune primum collectae ac editae. Leiden: Bonavent

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A vellum manuscript leaf depicting a scene from the Book of Hours. Possibly late 15th/early 16th century. The miniature

GUTENBERG AND THE CATHOLICON OF 1460. A Bibliographic Essay by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Together with an Original Leaf of the Catholicon. N

[EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS.] 11 papyrus fragments, likely all from a single leaf, lettered/drawn in black. At least two sets of three fragments appea

[INDIAN MINIATURES.] Three Indian miniature paintings, matted and framed to match. One measures 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (site), and depicts a procession wit

[EARLY PRINTING.] A rubricated leaf identified as being "from a Royal Copy of the First Hand Bible, Basel, 1491." Two columns of Gothic sc...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A vellum leaf from a 14th-century breviary. Latin text, written in a large Gothic hand. Early notations on the side, ar

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A single leaf of small illuminated Latin text in two columns, both sides of leaf. There are two initial

[QU'RAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] Manuscript leaf on paper, having Arabic black script in blocked borders, with larger script in three ...

[FRENCH DECREE.] Arrest du Conseil D'Estat du Roy, qui decharge du Droit de Controlle les Quittances qui seront donnes au Tresor Royal pour rais...

[NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.] A single illustrated leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel. The visible side (the leaf is currently shrink-wra

[ILLUMINATED CHOIR BOOK LEAVES.] Eight illuminated vellum leaves from large choir books. Sizes range from approximately 19 1/2 x 30 in. to 32