• Auction 22475

    The Bruce M. Lisman Collection of Important American Literature: Part Two

    2 June 2023 - 16 June 2023, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 471,618 (USD)
171 Lots for Sale 22475
Lot 161
A very early survey
George Washington, 9 April 1751
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$56,700
Lot 162
The Christian Rapture
Andrew Le Mercier, 1747
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 163
Urania
James Lyon, 1761
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 164
The Prince of Parthia
Thomas Godfrey, 1765
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 165
Poems on Several Occasions
Nathaniel Evans and Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, 1772
estimate
$200 - $500

Lot 166
The American Hero
Nathaniel Niles, 1781
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 167
McFingal: a Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos
John Trumbull
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 168
A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College
Return Jonathan Meigs, 1784
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 169
The Conquest of Canaan, Greenfield Hill, and two other works
Timothy Dwight, 1785-1794
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 170
The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania
Peter Markoe, 1787
estimate
$10,000 - $12,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 171
The Vision of Columbus, Charles Pinckney's copy
Joel Barlow, 1787
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$756
Lot 172
The Power of Sympathy
William Brown, 1789
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 173
The Better Sort: or, The Girl of Spirit. An Operatical, Comical Farce.
William Hill Brown, 1789
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

Lot 174
The Father; or, American Shandy-ism
William Dunlap, 1789, also with his 1798 Andre: a Tragedy
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 175
Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous
Mercy Otis Warren, 1790
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 176
The Contrast
Royall Tyler, 1790
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 177
The Yankey in London & The Algerine Captive
Royall Tyler, 1809 and 1816
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 178
Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family & The Farmer's Friend
Two novels by Enos Hitchcock, 1790 and 1793
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

Lot 179
The Foresters, an American Tale
Jeremy Belknap, 1792
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$630
Lot 180
The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings
Francis Hopkinson, 1792
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 181
Posthumous Works
Ann Eliza Bleecker, 1793
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 182
American Poems
The first anthology of American poetry, 1793
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 183
A Poem on Industry
David Humphreys, 1794
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$504
Lot 184
The Inquisitor
Susanna Rowson, 1794
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 185
Every One Has His Fault
Susanna and William Rowson, 1794
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 186
Mentoria
Susanna Rowson, 1794
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 187
Charlotte, the first American edition
Susanna Rowson, 1794
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 188
Trials of the Human Heart
Susanna Rowson, 1795
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 189
Reuben & Rachel
Susanna Rowson, 1798
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 190
An Abridgment of Universal Geography
Susanna Rowson, 1806
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 191
Spelling Dictionary
Susanna Rowson, 1807
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 192
Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson, 1815
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 193
\"Orphan Nosegay Girl\"
Words by Susanna Rowson
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 194
Count Roderic's Castle
Anonymous, 1795
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 195
Miscellaneous Works
John Blair Linn, 1795
estimate
$300 - $500

Lot 196
Yankee Doodle
New York and Boston, [1796]
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,772
Lot 197
An Address to a Deist
Joseph Vaill
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 198
The Lay Preacher & The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum
Two works by Joseph Dennie, 1796 and 1801
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

Lot 199
The Merry Fellow's Companion
Harrisburgh, PA; 1797
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 200
The American Bee
Charles Prentiss, 1797
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 201
The Coquette
Hannah Foster, 1797
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 202
The Boarding School
Hannah Webster Foster, 1798
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 203
Beacon Hill, uncut
Sarah Morton, 1797
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,890
Lot 204
Infidelity; or the Victims of Sentiment
Samuel Relf, 1797
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 205
The History of Constantius & Pulchera
Printed in Leominster MA, 1797
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 206
Edwin and Angelina, or the Banditti
Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1797
estimate
$200 - $300

Lot 207
The Ladies' Philosophy of Love
Charles Stearns, 1797
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$252
Lot 208
The Fortunate Discovery
By a Young Lady of the State of New-York, 1798
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 209
Amelia; or, The Faithless Briton
With Anna Seward's Monody on Major Andre, 1798
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 210
Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs
Stephen Burroughs, 1798
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 211
The American Musical Miscellany
Northampton, MA, 1798
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 212
Poems and Compositions in Prose
William Munford, 1798
estimate
$200 - $400

price realized
$378
Lot 213
Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown, 1798
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 214
Ormond; or the Secret Witness
Charles Brockden Brown, 1799
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 215
Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793
Charles Brockden Brown, 1799 and 1800
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 216
Jane Talbot
Charles Brockden Brown, 1801
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 217
Fortune's Foot-ball: or, the Adventures of Mercutio
James Butler, 1797-98
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 218
Essays on Various Subjects: to Which is added, a Short Treatise on the Art of...
Abijah Bigelow, 1801
estimate
$500 - $800

Lot 219
Physiognomy, a Poem
Joseph Barlett, 1799
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 220
Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects: Many of which have...
Philip Freneau, 1799; with two other works by Freneau
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 221
A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington
Richard Aslop, 1800
estimate
$300 - $500

Lot 222
The Oriental Philanthropist
Henry Sherburne, 1800
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$252
Lot 223
Julia, and the Illuminated Baron
Sally Keating Wood, 1800
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 224
Original Poems
Paul Allen, 1801
estimate
$500 - $800

Lot 225
The Parnassian Pilgrim
William Lake, 1807
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$126
Lot 226
Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo
Leonora Sansay, 1808
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 227
Laura
Leonora Sansay, 1809
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 228
The Lawyer; or Man as he ought not to be
George Watterston, 1808
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 229
The Wandering Philanthropist and Extracts from a Journal of Travels in America
George Fowler, 1810; Samuel Knapp, 1818.
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$3,780
Lot 230
One of his earliest poems
William Cullen Bryant, May 1809
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 231
To a Waterfowl, Translation of a Fragment of Simonides, and To a Friend on his...
William Cullen Bryant, 1818
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 232
The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times, with ALS
William Cullen Bryant, 1809
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 233
Manuscript for two Hymns
William Cullen Bryant, ca 1820
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 234
Poems
William Cullen Bryant, 1821
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 235
The White-Footed Deer and other Poems
William Cullen Bryant, 1844
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 236
Thirty Poems
William Cullen Bryant, 1864
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 237
Kelroy
Rebecca Rush, 1812
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 238
The Star. A Collection of Songs
Pittsburgh, 1818
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$3,528
Lot 239
An Essay on American Poetry
Solyman Brown, 1818
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$3,276
Lot 240
Modern Chivalry
Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 1819
estimate
$200 - $400

price realized
$126
Lot 241
The Battle of Plattsburgh: A poem
Samuel Woodworth, 1819
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,512
Lot 242
New-England Tale
Catharine Sedgwick, 1822
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 243
Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times
Lydia Maria Child, 1824
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 244
Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages
R.W. Emerson, 1822
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 245
Nature
R.W. Emerson, 1836
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 246
To the poet Christopher Cranch
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1 October 1841
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 247
Presentation Copies of the Essays, First and Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841 and 1844
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 248
Emerson
Amos Bronson Alcott, 1865
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 249
Letters and Social Aims
R.W. Emerson, 1876
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 250
The Tennessean, uncut in original boards
Anne Royall, 1827
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 251
Rachel Dyer
John Neal, 1828
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 252
Mary's Lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 253
The Lecturess
Sarah Josepha Hale, 1839
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 254
Nacoochee; or, The Beautiful Star
Thomas Holley Chivers, 1837
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$504
Lot 255
Pocahontas
Robert Dale Owen, 1837
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$378
Lot 256
Poems by a \"pen printer\"
James Johns, n.d.
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 257
Legends of New-England
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1831
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,386
Lot 258
Moll Pitcher
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1832
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 259
Snow-Image, Whittier's copy
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 260
Snow-bound, first and second issues with ALSs
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1866
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 261
Protesting the removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi
Anonymous, 8 June 1832
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 262
Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1835
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 263
Miriam Coffin; or, The Whale-Fisherman
Joseph C. Hart, presentation copy
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 264
Poems
McDonald Clarke, 1836
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 265
Class Poem
J.R. Lowell, 1838
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 266
Sending a poem for publication
James Russell Lowell, 16 July 1845
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 267
To Emerson on The Atlantic
James Russell Lowell, 11 November 1857
estimate
$6,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 268
Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard...
J.R. Lowell, 1865
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 269
The manuscript for \"On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners\"
James Russell Lowell, ca. 1869
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 270
The manuscript for \"An Apology for a Preface\"
James Russell Lowell, 1888
estimate
$1,500 - $3,000

Lot 271
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana, Jr, 1841
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 272
The Mysteries and Miseries of New York
E.Z.C. Judson, 1848
estimate
$1,500 - $3,000

price realized
$1,512
Lot 273
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the Parsons-Engelhard copy
Henry David Thoreau, 1849
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 274
Walden
Henry D. Thoreau, 1854
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 275
Passion-Flowers
Julia Ward Howe, 1854
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,008
Lot 276
Poems
Emily Dickinson, 1890, 1891 & 1896
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$21,420
Lot 277
Flower Fables
Louisa May Alcott, 1855
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

Lot 278
Part of the manuscript for his poem \"Urania\"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, ca. 1846 & 1893
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 279
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
O.W. Holmes, 1858
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 280
Elsie Venner & Songs in Many Keys, two presentation copies
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, 1861 and 1862
estimate
$1,200 - $2,200

price realized
$1,386
Lot 281
Soundings from the Atlantic, presentation copy
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, 1864
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 282
A poem for Whittier's 80th birthday
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 17 December 1887
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 283
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale, 1865
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 284
Specimens
Joaquin Miller, 1868
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 285
Deephaven and inscribed King of Folly Island
Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,008
Lot 286
Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris, 1881
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 287
\"The Old Swimmin'-hole,\" and 'Leven More Poems
James Whitcomb Riley, 1883
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$630
Lot 288
Working autograph manuscript for a short story
Bret Harte, ca. 1890s
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 289
The Torrent and the Night Before
E.A. Robinson, 1896
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,520
Lot 290
Inchiquin, 1810
Hawthorne's copy
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 291
Mudie’s Natural History of Birds
Hawthorne’s copy
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Lot 292
\"The Young Provincial\" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Token, 1830
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,008
Lot 293
Fifteen first printings by Hawthorne
The Token, 1831-33
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 294
Sixteen first printings by Hawthorne
The Token, 1836-38
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 295
\"Little Annie's Ramble\" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Youth's Keepsake, 1835
estimate
$300 - $500

Lot 296
The New-England Magazine
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1834-35
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 297
Burying-Grounds in Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne's copy, 1837
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 298
Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather and Salem Witch Trial judge
John Hathorne, 2 January 1703
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 299
A leaf from his 1839 diary
Nathaniel Hawthorne, [15] & 19 February [1839].
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 300
The Gentle Boy, the Chrysler copy
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Lot 301
The Picturesque Pocket Companion through Mount Auburn
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$630
Lot 302
Grandfather's Chair and Famous Old People
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1841
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 303
The Celestial Railroad
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1843
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Lot 304
First printings in literary magazines
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1841-44
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$378
Lot 305
La Lettre rouge and Trois contes d'Hauthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1853
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 306
The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851-52
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 307
\"The Snow-Image,\" first printing
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 150
estimate
$300 - $500

price realized
$252
Lot 308
A passage from \"A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys\"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1851
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 309
Barry Cornwall's Essays
Hawthorne's copy, signed by him
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Lot 310
Bemoaning his \"ungainly autograph\"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 29 March 1853
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 311
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1853
estimate
$500 - $1,000

price realized
$756
Lot 312
Up-Country Letters
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 7 January 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 313
To a future Confederate spy
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 5 May 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 314
To Mary Howitt
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 11 May 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 315
A Month in England by H. Tuckerman
Presentation copy for Hawthorne, 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 316
True Stories from History and Biography, The Snow-Image, and A Wonder-Book for...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851-52
estimate
$500 - $1,000

price realized
$504
Lot 317
On his family's absence from Liverpool
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 18 July 1854
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 318
A consular passport and other signed documents
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1848-1856
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,386
Lot 319
A visit to a Liverpool workhouse
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 25 February 1856
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 320
Cantus Hibernici from Hawthorne's library, the Wakeman copy
Thomas Moore, 1856
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 321
Arranging his summer visit to Florence
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 16 May 1858
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 322
Soliciting a submission from Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Russell Lowell, 18 July 1859
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$6,048
Lot 323
From his journals, with an allusion to the Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne, August and December 1858
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 324
On his London social engagements
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 15 May [1860]
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 325
On Lincoln's removal of McClellan
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 12 November 1862.
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

Lot 326
The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 and 1860
estimate
$500 - $1,000

Lot 327
\"Letter from Hawthorne\"
The Weal-Reaf, 1860
estimate
$500 - $1,000

Lot 328
An annoyed response to an autograph seeker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,386
Lot 329
A draft manuscript from his visit to Warwick
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1863
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 330
Nonfiction and reference, including Love Letters
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852-1910
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

Lot 331
Pansie, Septimus Felton, and The Dolliver Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864-72.
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
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