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Auction archive: Lot number 83

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL]. HAWTHORNE, JULIAN. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the University Press 1884. 2 vols. extended to 4 large, thick 8vo, brown morocco gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, brown morocco gi...

Auction 09.06.1992
9 Jun 1992
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$3,080
Auction archive: Lot number 83

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL]. HAWTHORNE, JULIAN. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the University Press 1884. 2 vols. extended to 4 large, thick 8vo, brown morocco gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, brown morocco gi...

Auction 09.06.1992
9 Jun 1992
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$3,080
Beschreibung:

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL]. HAWTHORNE, JULIAN. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the University Press 1884. 2 vols. extended to 4 large, thick 8vo, brown morocco gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, brown morocco gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spines a trifle faded. FIRST EDITION, no. 94 of 350 numbered copies, illustrated, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by John Page Woodbury WITH THE INSERTION OF 352 PORTRAITS AND VIEWS, ETC., AND 22 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, ONE AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, AND ONE DOCUMENT SIGNED, including letters of Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( 4 pp., 8vo, literary), Julian Hawthorne (to John Page Woodbury), Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and his daughters Rose and Una, Oliver Wendell Holmes ( 1 p., 8vo ), Mary Howitt ( 4 pp., 8vo, literary) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1 p., 8vo ), James Russell Lowell ( 1 p., 8vo ), and Mrs. Henry Wood ( 2 pp., 8vo, literary), and an autograph note signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay ( 1 p., oblong 8vo , a legal note dated 19 Sept. 1655), and a document signed by Henry Stevens of Vermont (a charming invitation); calligraphic contents pages by Woodbury. BAL, vol. 4, p. 35. Bookplate of John Page Woodbury. A Franklin Pierce letter to his brother and a Nathaniel Hawthorne letter to Pierce have been removed from this set and are offered in lots and . (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL]. HAWTHORNE, JULIAN. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the University Press 1884. 2 vols. extended to 4 large, thick 8vo, brown morocco gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, brown morocco gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spines a trifle faded. FIRST EDITION, no. 94 of 350 numbered copies, illustrated, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by John Page Woodbury WITH THE INSERTION OF 352 PORTRAITS AND VIEWS, ETC., AND 22 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, ONE AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, AND ONE DOCUMENT SIGNED, including letters of Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( 4 pp., 8vo, literary), Julian Hawthorne (to John Page Woodbury), Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and his daughters Rose and Una, Oliver Wendell Holmes ( 1 p., 8vo ), Mary Howitt ( 4 pp., 8vo, literary) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1 p., 8vo ), James Russell Lowell ( 1 p., 8vo ), and Mrs. Henry Wood ( 2 pp., 8vo, literary), and an autograph note signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay ( 1 p., oblong 8vo , a legal note dated 19 Sept. 1655), and a document signed by Henry Stevens of Vermont (a charming invitation); calligraphic contents pages by Woodbury. BAL, vol. 4, p. 35. Bookplate of John Page Woodbury. A Franklin Pierce letter to his brother and a Nathaniel Hawthorne letter to Pierce have been removed from this set and are offered in lots and . (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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