The New York herald., 1922-04-13
Notable Literary
Sale Ends With
Total of S57,979
Charles Lambs Commonplace
Book Brings $3.50 at
Aftern0o nSessi0n.

High prices continued TO be the
feature Of the closing sessions yester-
day OF sales at the American Art Cal
leries OF the collection OF library sets.
first editions. manuscripts, &c, recently
gathered there from the library of the
late Louis Mohr or Chicago. Mary l..
Rogers Of Boston and other sources.
This proved to be one OF the best book
sales OF the season and great interest
was shown at all sessions by both deal
ers and private buyers.
The outstanding price of the after
noon was paid for one of the most inn
portant manuscripts known of Charles
Lamb. his Commonplace Book" written
in his autograph on seventy small quarto
leaves and consisting OF extracts from
Garrick's plays; No. % to 4S, and
other poems, with some original notes
or comments by Lamb. The bid which
obtained it was $3.50. and was made
by c. Sessler. a Philadelphia dealer. The
afternoon total was $13.629, and that Of
the evening S19.SSS. The entire sale OF
924 items realized S57,979
Another literary treasure sold in the
afternoon, magnificent set OF he Life
and Memoirs of Napoleon Bo1aparte,'
thirty three volumes in all. extra Illus
trated with about 700 portraits, battle
scenes. maps and views, each volume
with hand illuminated title page. was
bought by A. Willis for $500.
Bernet, agent, paid $40 for set Of
the log cabin edition of the complete
works of Abraham Lincoln. extra Illus
trated by the insertion of about 325
portraits and views, and 26 autograph
letters, signatures and documents. The
same bidder gave s34O for John Gould's
Monograph of the Trochilida or Fam
lily of the Humming Birds $3.50 for the
book lovers Arnheim edition OF the
works of Edgar Allen Poe and $3.50 for
a set OF the works of w. T.. II. Lecky.
A. W. Morse paid $500 for set OF
the supreme edition Of the 'I.iie Work
of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant."
and Gabriel Wells paid 1910 for an ex
ira illustrated set of Capt. F. o. Brink
ley's "Orental Series. Japan, Its His
tory, Arts and Literature" IL eight
volumes.
At the evening session the highest bid
$1.025, was made by Bernet. agent. for
the original manuscript OF Robert Louis
Stevenson's THE Young Chevaler." The
same bidder paid 1915 for a copy OF
Joel Barlows THE Vision of Colum-
bus" which had been presented by
George Washington to Mrs Elizabeth
Clymer, wife of one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence $3.50
for set of the original issue of the
edition de luxe of the works of William
Makepeace Thackeray. $725 for a special
extra illustrated set of the centennial
edition with illuminated title pages of
Washington Irving's THE Life of George
Washington $50 for set of the con-
noisseur's edition of the extra illustrated
Henley Shakespeare and $420 for a set
of the edition de luxe of the life and
works of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The original manuscript of an un-
published fable by Robert Louis Steven
son, "The Clockmaker," was knocked
down to w. NJ. Ifl for $500. Charles
Scribner's Sons paid S525 for Edward
G. Kennedys 1.-The Etched Work OF
Whistler and DIR. A. S. w. Rosenbach
gave $3.50 for Japanese vellum edi-
tion of the writings of Oscar Wilde.
Gabriel Wells paid $3.50 for portrait In
oils of William Shakespeare. unsigned,
S430 for a set of the uniform edition
of the writings of Theodore Roosevelt
and $500 for the first edition in the
original parts of Thackeray's Vanity
Fair"
Swami agent gave S425 for a large
copy of the Fourth Folio Shakespeare
and 1910 for copy of the first Ameri-
can edition of Lloyd Osbourne and
Robert Louis Stevenson's "The WI eng
Box" W. NJ. Thackeray's Ballads =
published in London in 1879, sold to Il.
Bandler for s320, and Robert Smith
Surtees's 'The Analysis of the Hunting
Field" went to Robert C. Smith for $500.
A set of the authors manuscript edition
of the complete writings of Walt Whit
man was knocked down to ]. Chem for
$500