Memoirs and literary notices span Saint-Simon to Poland
A survey of European memoirs and histories, including Saint-Simon and Madame de Montespan, lists works on Louis XIV and courts across Europe. It cites Swinburne, Josephine, Napoleon, and Austria, and notes American editions of Napoleon in Exile. Readers seek sources on Gil Blas, bungalows, and Polish topics with various bibliographic tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michel Levassor
London
Europe
Louis XIII
Henry III
Louis XIV
Saint-Simon’s
Madame de Montespan
Margaret de Valois
Navarre
Saint-Simon
Marie Antoinette
St. Petersburg
Sweden
Denmark
William II
Francis Joseph
Swinburne
Josephine
Napoleon
France
Berlin
Louis XV
Austria
Frank Cooper
Japan
Poland
the Independent
Prussia
Westminster Review
the Forum
Prussian Poland
Russia
Sienkiewicz
Bookman
Austrian
the Dial
The
Chautauquan
Baltimore
Charities Review
Pole
New England
America
the Outlook
Value story of Valentines Manuals and Washington painting
The note surveys prices for Valentines Manuals from 1857 to 1866 and mentions a George Washington oil painting. It lists auction results: 1857 manuals about 7.25 dollars, 1861 to 1862 manuals 3 to 5 or 4.25, 1864 1965 1866 manuals 1 to 2, and a large 1849–66 eighteen-volume set at 24 dollars in 1899. The painting is deemed imperfectly described and its value not stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WBC
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Washington
Stearns
Regnier
Imp
Lemercier
New York
Eens
Berlin
Ireland
Romance and Instruction The Car and the Lady
A cross continent motor race romance by Megargel and Mason features Jerry Fleming on a twenty horsepower American car and rivals Italian noble Vanuccia. Betty Albright, daughter of a wealthy automobile maker, motivates the contest with excitement and peril as both cars face deserts and mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy F. Megargel
Grace Sartwell Mason
New York
The
Baker & Taylor Company
Betty Albright
Jerry Fleming
Jerry
Vanuccia
American Desert
Rocky Mountains
Stuory
Davis's Book Store Offers Vast Library Bargains
Davis's Book Store at 41 W 42nd St lists numerous literary sets and encyclopedias with prices in the 18th to 60s range. Notable offers include Arner's Library of the World's Best Literature and Encyclopaedia Americana with various vol counts and leather bindings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arner
Humboldt
Library of Science
Brehm
Tierleben
International Library of Manuscripts
Encyclopaedia Americana
Morocco
Davis’s Book Store
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St. Helena
de Carey
Philadelphia
Barry Edward O’meara
Sir Hudson Lowe
Napoleon Bonaparte
St. Eee
Cape of Good Hope
Lowe
O'Meara
Hudson Wit
St Helena
Séaie
FR. San- Serson
D. C. Heath & Co
Fourth Avenue
R. A. Briggs
W. J. Comstock
Warren Street
W.T. Comstock
R. N. Lambreth &Co
Los Angeles
Cal
F. Hodgson
F. J. Drake
Chicago
H. L. Wilson
KM. G. B
St. Paul's
D. Astley
Peter
Telton
Ton
Thomas
Lord Lyttelton
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Princess Royal
England
Ward
Germany
Kaiser
Daniel Margowitz
Review of Books
Jessie M. Banning
Dumas
Aramis
Vicomte de Bragelonne
Son of
Porthos
Harriet Stevens
Mary Kitchel
Ben Ezra
Rabbi
Govet
Vail
Lenaunge
Hak Boah
Renee Witantes
Jura
Mona’s
Victor
Canadian
Exzequibo
Jamsica
Missouri
Ozark
Oregon
California
Borneo
Ganges
Bombay
Adan
Sydney
Anne
Nieuveld
Sacca
Cataumet
Mass
Near
Musical Windmill
Moses
Mary
Louisa Alcott
Aene
M. Gillies
Eeestanza
E. R
Han
L. A. Pickett
Jasper Stome
St. John
Garner
Renee
McGuffey
L. P
Shakespeare
Milton
Alfred
Newton
Earth
Romance and Instruction
Book Exchange
NEW York Times Saturday Review
Whiting
New St
H. R. Huntting Co
Springfield
Rolins
Manual of
Moody’s
Dixie Book Shop
Liberty St
Gerard
Nassau St
Old Brooks
Rose
West
157Th St
W. G. Snow
Meriden
Ann
Manhattan
Dargecon’s
East 23d St
Gramercy
Cochrane
Adelphi St
Brooklyn
Sherman
39Th St
N. Y. City
Cortlandt St
Broadway
Malkan
New &T
BARTS
Sherwood
Maiden Lane
John
Thomson-Pitt
Ave
New Yorks
Vis
Bryant
Barty
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