New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-08
$4,95O MANUSCRIPT
SOLD AT ives SALE
Bid Contest on Work Done
for Anne of Austria
DAYS Total S38,911.

Seldom has there been such spon-
taneous bidding at an auction sale OF
high class literary works as that OF
last night az the third session OF the
Brayton Ives sale at the American Art
Galleries. The bidding was very brisk
for some Of the choicest specimens OF
the printers and bookbnder's art. The
229 items dispersed in the evening
brought a total of s25,i55, which, add
ed to the afternoons session. made
1921 for the day and S55,302 for the
sale TO date.
The storm centre Of the bidding last
night was a manuscript, one of the
ten on 1856 pages of pure veilum. in
black. carmine and blue. each page be-
ing framed with n gold band The first
bid was 81 900 and in less than a min
ute the figures had jumped 70 $4,000.
A. Swan. as agent FOR a well known
collector, stayed in until the $4,000
mark was passed, leaving J. +. Drake
and G.. 5. Hellman 20 fight It out for
the possession Of this coveted art
treasure, which was sold in 1909 at the
Henry w. Poor sale for 1880. IL was
finally knocked down by Mr.. Kirby 10
G.. S. Hellman for S4,950, the top price
Of the evening and OF the sale 30 far.
larry was the caligrapher Of LOUIS
XIII and Louis XIV, and he executed
this manuscript for Anne Of Austria,
Queen OF Louis MIL The Trautz-Pau-
zonnet binding was the fourth eXecut-
ed by him, and was considered by him
one Of the finest Of the twenty-five he
created. The manuscript was writ
ten in Paris in 1864.
The next best price Of the evening
($1,175) was paid By J. F. Drake for
Book Of Hours the manuscript Of
which is written on vellum in Gothic
characters on 1874 leaves 36S pages
with the calendar in gold, blue and
red. It is embelished with fifteen fine
miniatures. }lr. Drake also gave 800
for another Book of Hours" printed
in red and black, in Paris in 154l.
This is the Robert Hoe copy, with
bookplate.
For first edition, with all the titles,
Of John Keats's poems, in the original
boards the Rowfant COPY. {. Har-
per gave 1850. It was this edition that
was found in the bosom Of the dead
Shelley.
Mr. Harper also paid S34O for the
Rowfant copy Of Keats's LAMA:
George D. Smith gave 1915 for Amyot's
translation. on large paper, of the
Daphne and Chloe" Of Longus, with
the title and twenty-nine plates en-
graved by Audran. He also paid 500
for Book of Hours"-the Robert Hoe
copy-printed in Paris in 1900, and
$3.50 for another, printed in 1907.
A fine specimen of binding, executed
for Grolier with his name, 40. Groliern
ct Amicorum," in the lower part OF the
front cover, and his motto, Porto Mea
Domino Sit in Terra Viventivm,' IN the
centre of the back cover, brought the
TOP price at the afternoon session. w.
T. Wallace gave $500 for it. This IS
the Leon Techener- Maghone-
Robert Hoe copy, with the book plate
of the last named.
J.F. Drake gave $3.50 for q collection
of thirty-seven portraits engraved by
! Fioquet, all brilliant impressions, scme
/ in two, some in three states, artists
/ proofs before the letters, or proofs be-
/ fore letters, executed between 1888 and
/ 1874. The same buyer paid $3.50 for a
complete collection of the portraits en-
graved by j. B. Grateloup. The process
/ by which this artist produced his work
has remained entirely unknown, and
the prints were never offered for sale
by himself. These nine include one
1 of Adrienne Lee as "COrnella,'
/ a brilliant proof before all letters.
! A first edition, apparently the Louis
NJ. Dllman copy of "0mar Khayyam.
translated irto English verse by Ed
ward Fitzgerald, inclosed in green
! levant morocco solander case by Doves
/ bindery, was sold to A. Swan, as agent,
/ for s425. Gabriel Weis gave S4OO for
the Henry w. Poor copy of Goldsmith )
"Vicar of Wakefield" in two volumes,
printed in 1916, and bound in full olive
| ievant, Ly Riviere. He also paid S4O5
| for the earliest is e of the first edi-
ton of Dickenss American Notes for
} General Circulation" in two volumes.
| This is the thor's presentation copy.
with autograph ms ,ription on The half
title. "The Hon. Josiah Quincy, from
Charles Dickens, Nineteenth October,
1912"