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Auction archive: Lot number 176

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays. [First Series]. Boston: Munroe, 1841. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped, spine gilt lettered, rebacked with part of the original spine laid down; broken. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5189 -- EMERSON. Nature. Boston: ...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,990
Auction archive: Lot number 176

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays. [First Series]. Boston: Munroe, 1841. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped, spine gilt lettered, rebacked with part of the original spine laid down; broken. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5189 -- EMERSON. Nature. Boston: ...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,990
Beschreibung:

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays. [First Series]. Boston: Munroe, 1841. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped, spine gilt lettered, rebacked with part of the original spine laid down; broken. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5189 -- EMERSON. Nature. Boston: Munroe, 1836. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped with gilt lettering on upper cover. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5181. Presentation copy inscribed by: "W.A. White 8 April, 1885 to William Emerson May 11, 1920" -- EMERSON. May-Day and other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, light wear to spine ends and corners. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5250 -- CABOT, JAMES ELLIOT. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston, 1887. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, some wear to spines -- SMITH, HUNTINGTON, editor. An Emerson Calendar. New York, 1905. 8vo, original cloth -- ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston, 1882. Photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cloth, decorated in black and gilt, t.e.g., minor wear to spine ends. Large paper edition. Henry Scott Miller, bookplate -- [ANON.]. The Emerson Centenary in Concord. 1903. 8vo, original wrappers, spine faded, detached from binding. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO CHARLES E. GOODSPEED on preliminary blank: "C.E. Goodspeed with the compliments of Edward W. Emerson Concord December, 1903" -- EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO. Emerson in Concord. A Memoir. Boston, 1889. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt lettered -- EMERSON. An April Day. Cambridge, 1900. 8vo, original wrappers, chipping to edges. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front cover: "Mrs Julia Ward Howe with kind regards of Edward W. Emerson." -- and 17 other volumes (including 11 books regarding the history of Concord, Myerson's, Bibliography and 3 related booklets). (27)

Auction archive: Lot number 176
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Essays. [First Series]. Boston: Munroe, 1841. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped, spine gilt lettered, rebacked with part of the original spine laid down; broken. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5189 -- EMERSON. Nature. Boston: Munroe, 1836. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers blind stamped with gilt lettering on upper cover. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5181. Presentation copy inscribed by: "W.A. White 8 April, 1885 to William Emerson May 11, 1920" -- EMERSON. May-Day and other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, light wear to spine ends and corners. FIRST EDITION. BAL 5250 -- CABOT, JAMES ELLIOT. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston, 1887. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, some wear to spines -- SMITH, HUNTINGTON, editor. An Emerson Calendar. New York, 1905. 8vo, original cloth -- ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston, 1882. Photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cloth, decorated in black and gilt, t.e.g., minor wear to spine ends. Large paper edition. Henry Scott Miller, bookplate -- [ANON.]. The Emerson Centenary in Concord. 1903. 8vo, original wrappers, spine faded, detached from binding. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO CHARLES E. GOODSPEED on preliminary blank: "C.E. Goodspeed with the compliments of Edward W. Emerson Concord December, 1903" -- EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO. Emerson in Concord. A Memoir. Boston, 1889. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt lettered -- EMERSON. An April Day. Cambridge, 1900. 8vo, original wrappers, chipping to edges. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front cover: "Mrs Julia Ward Howe with kind regards of Edward W. Emerson." -- and 17 other volumes (including 11 books regarding the history of Concord, Myerson's, Bibliography and 3 related booklets). (27)

Auction archive: Lot number 176
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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