New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-20
j1.6O8,256 REALIZED
FROM BORDEN SALE
Pare First Folio of Shakes.
ueare. with SO Plays,
Brings $500.
NEW YORK VIEWS S2O.1 100
remarkable Collection Of Pict
ures of City Goes to F. w.
Morris After Lively
Bidding.

When Thomas T. Kirby brought his
lille hammer down at the American Art
Galleries last night and sold the last lot
n the Eorden collection the total receipts
,oo,ed Up s..o0S 80 90 Last nights total
vas s69i1 30; that from the PAINTINGS
ossN,.iA7Zj; from the art objects $1,000
While the grand total was about s40O. 900
sss than tie Yerkes sale the Borden
auction VII. so on record as one Of the
ls-gest and most important disoersals OF
a private collection of ant treasures in
this country.
Those present yesterday afternoon Wit
messed sensational bidding bout during
he sale Of the Borden library when Nh
KIRBY knocked down Tho Daly-Eordcn
election Of views Of New York CITY 10
W. Morris cor $4,000.
There was a throng of booS,oterS rr..-
,nt. as well - all the principal dealers.
most OF whom put in bids for this re
markable collection. one OF the Borden
family waS said 10 hc the underbidder
Tie collection. which is in twelve VOL
mes. bound i'm fun red crushed lcyaut
morocco. contains las rare maps. oiiSi-
nal drawings Autographs In color, aros T.
.des deeds and documents. tradesmen's
ards historical scenes. portraits and
Y.vs the collection. when put W at the
DAILY sale. was bought. IT is said. bv +.
T. Bonaycnture FOR s2,47c. lie added many
tens 10 It and sold i Ia M Borden.
Tie collection was recently appraised as
being 7oith S22.0O5.
Nnother important work sold was tn
rare first folio OF Shakespeare. printed .D
London in is22 It is one Of FIVE nuudIcl
copies estimated to have been originally
ssued and o, the thirty-six PLAYS II cor.
isins sixteen 0: them had never Jefogc
been issued W. T. Wallace. Of this city.
psid s so for the volume. which Is in Al
Imperfect condition. \ copy IN perfect
condition recently brcCsut ES.HND at .
ssle in London.
". W. seaman. . agent io- wei
known collector. paid $3.50 for the orig
nal autograph manuscript memoir ot
LORD Nelson's birth. life and services -
his country 10 ana including the yea"
~ written BY himself. ana published IN
~ in Clarl, and McArthur's Life ~
Lord Nelson" III two volumes. For d
lsrge and perfect copy OF the third folir
u Shakespeare !. =. Drake paid 500.
and W. NJ. iii gave s. .425 for a first is
sse Of tho first edir'cn Of Milton's Para
ise Lost"
The highest price AT the evening session
Vss $500, paid by Eosenbach & 60. for
Robert Louis Stevensons original auto
graph manuscript OF "Catriona." In let
el 20 Mrs sitweli. written from Nailims,
samoa. in April. 1924. Stevenson says: 81
,hsll never do a better book than 'CatIi-
ma; that is my high water mark.
George j. Smith gave $500 for the
,riginsl manuscript copy Of Tennysons
'Ninue." afterwarI renamed "Yivien.'
7, consists 81 twenty-five leaves Of thirty
yne written PAGES on blue paper. FOR
irst edition Of Waltons The Complea;
Angler" printed in London in 1853. The
Lexington Book shop paid 5000. and for
IN excessively rarc pamphlet OF Rob
ut Louis Steyenson's. entitled Penny
Whistles" The Hosenbach Company gave
s. 800. Tho Scribners obtained for $1,000
Swinburue's original manuscript; OF "Chas-
ielard y Tragedy George -. Smith
save $3.50 FOR Thackeray's unpublished
verses. with two draw ngs by E.a In
serted