Grinnell, George Bird. Blackfoot lodge tales: the story of a prairie people. London: David Nutt, 1893.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 36 (part; sold for 16s.). — Unlocated.
Grinnell, George Bird. Blackfoot lodge tales: the story of a prairie people. London: David Nutt, 1893.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 36 (part; sold for 16s.). — Unlocated.
May 19, 2014
Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier. The history of the bucaniers of America, from their first original down to this time. London: printed for Thomas Newborough, John Nicholson, and Benjamin Tooke, 1699.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 404 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 13s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
References: ESTC. — MS catalogue (2), no. 759 (with three X’s beside it).
April 22, 2014
Catlin, George. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians. 2 vols. 4th ed. London: David Bogue, 1844.
“With several hundred illustrations from the author’s original paintings.”
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 208 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 9s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 553.
Digital version: HathiTrust [vol. 1].
Sotheby 1898:
April 8, 2014
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed. Harvard memorial biographies. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Sever and Francis, 1866.
Presentation copy to Morris from Charles Eliot Norton. “This is a series of memoirs of those graduates and former undergraduates of Harvard University who fell in battle during [the Civil War], or who died in consequence of services rendered in the contest” (pp. iii–iv).
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 429 (sold to Thomson for £3 4s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 830.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 8, 2014
Nichol, John. American literature: an historical sketch, 1620–1880. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1885.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 656 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 596.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
September 17, 2015
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