Anderson Galleries: Catalogue of an Unusually Choice Collection of Books and Pamphlets many of which ralate to American History & Genealogy, Bibliography, Poetry, etc. For Sale at Auction Nov. 9, 10, 1903. The Anderson Auction Company 5 West 29th Street, New York., 232,

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November 09, 1903 - November 09, 1903
Page Size: 645 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ACTS and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America. Vol. 1. Embracing from 1771 to 1812. New York

1859

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2 ADAMS (CHAS. F.) Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England. Cambridge

1891

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3 ADAMS (JOHN) Defence of the American Constitution; The Political History of the Italian Republics. London

1787

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4 ADAMS (JOHN) A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the U. S. of America. New York

1787

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5 ADAMS AND JEFFERSON A Selection of Eulogies pronounced in the several States in honor of those illustrious patriots and statesmen. Hartford

1826

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6 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY) Eulogies, Discourses, Life of, etc., by George W. Hosmer, Wm. P. Lunt, Edward Everett, Wm. H. Seward, etc.

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7 ADDISON (JOSEPH) Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, with some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Mr. Tickell. London

1765

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8 ALASKA. Report on the Population and Resources of Alaska, 1890 (11th Census). Washington

1893

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9 ALBIN (ELEAZAR) A Natural History of English Insects. London

1720

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10 ALGONQUIN DIALECTS, Comparative Vocabulary of. From Heckewelder's Manuscripts. Cambridge

1887

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11 AMERICAN ALMANAC and Repository of Useful Information respecting the United States, from 1832 to 1861 inclusive. New York

1832-61

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12 [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.] Thurlow Weeds Letter from Europe, 1861-62. n. p.

n. d.

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13 AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY QUARTERLY REGISTER AND JOURNAL. (A sketch of the History of Yale College, by Prof. Kingsley; Complete list of the Congregational Ministers in Norfolk Co ... Andover

1829-37

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14 Mercantile Man AMERICAN MEMORANDA, by a Mercantile Man, during a short tour in the Summer of 1843. Glasgow

1844

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15 AMERICAN INDIANS. Researches on America, being an attempt to settle some points relative to the Aborigines of America, etc. Baltimore

1816

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16 Curwen (Samuel) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Journals and Letters. An American in England from 1775 to 1783. Boston

1864

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17 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Histoire de La Dernière Guerre entre L'Angleterre, Les Etats-Unis de L'Amerique, La France, L'Espagne et La Hollande, depuis son commencement en 1775 jusqu'a sa fin en 1783. Paris

1788

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18 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Incidents of the Revolution. Tales illustrating the events of the American Revolution. Bath

1841

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19 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Minutes of a Conspiracy against the Liberties of America. Philadelphia

1865

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20 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Battles of the United States by Sea and Land: embracing the Revolutionary and Indian Wars, War 1812 and the Mexican War. New York

n. d.

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21 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Virginia Conventions. Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates held at Richmond, March 20th, 1775, pp. 8, Richmond, 1816; ditto, held July 17th and Dec. 1st ... Richmond

1816

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22 AMERICAN STATE PAPERS. Claims. Invalid Pension Claims, for Services during the Revolution, Georgia Militia Claims, etc. Washington

1834

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23 AMERICA, 1602. Thresor De Chartes, Contenant Les Tableaux de Tovs les Pays du Monde, enrichi de belles descriptions, reveu and augmenté.

1602

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24 AMERICAN WANDERER through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to A Lady, by a Virginian. Dublin

1783

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25 AMES (JOHN G.) Comprehensive Index to U. S. Government Publications, 1889-1893. Washington

1894

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26 ANCIENT RHYMES AND SAYINGS. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandly, by Thomas Tusser (printed in 1573), exhibiting the Customs, Manners and Agriculture of the 16th Century. London

1812

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27 Reynolds (John) ANCIENT ROMANCES. The Triumph of God's Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of Murther, in 30 Tragicall Histories, which containe a great variety of mournfull and ... London

1640

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28 Maundrell (Henry) ANCIENT TRAVELS. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, 1697, with account of a Journey to the Banks of Euphrates. Oxford

1714

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29 ANCKETILL (W. R.) The Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P.: a Story of Home Rule and the De Burghor. Toronto

1875

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30 Benson (Egbert) ANDRE. Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre. New York

1865

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31 ANDRÉ Oration delivered in a grove near the ground on which Major Andre was taken at Tarrytown, July 4th, 1839, by Chas. H. Lyon, paper, N. Y. 1839; an Oration before the Young Men of ...

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32 ANDREWS Washington County and the Early Settlement of Ohio, Cinn. 1877; Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, with Life by Josiah Quincy, portrait, Bost. 1847; Bowditch, N. I., Suffolk Surnames ...

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33 ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY, from 1817 to 1838. London

1817-37

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34 ANTIQUARY (The): a Magazine devoted to the study of the Past. London

1880

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35 ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL CABINET, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 6; a Series of 400 ... London

1817

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36 Parry (Wm. E.) ARCTIC. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, 1821-23, in H. M. S. Fury and Hecla. Maps and numerous fine plates by Finden. Appendix with Scientific Reports, etc. London

1824-25

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37 John S. Harford ART. Michael Angelo Buonarroti. London

1857

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38 W. Buchanan ART. Memoirs of Painting, with a chronological history of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution. London

1824

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39 Penley (Aaron) ART. Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours. London

n. d.

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40 ART. The London Art-Union Prize Annual of 1845. London

[1845]

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41 ART. Thirty-five Sketches and Designs in Crayon intended for Artists, Lond. 1863; Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Reminiscences and Opinions, 1813-85, Lond. 1886; Thomas Campbell's ...

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42 ASHER (DR. G. M.) Sketch of Henry Hudson, the Navigator. Brooklyn

1867

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43 ASHBOURN, ENGLAND. The History and Topography of Ashbourn, the Valley of the Dove and the Adjacent Villages. Ashbourn

1839

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44 ATHENIANS. A Dissertation on the Assemblies of the Athenians. Cambridge

1838

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45 Carnegie (Hon. David W.) AUSTRALIA. Spinifex and Sand: a narrative of five years' pioneering and exploration in Western Australia. New York [London]

1898

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46 Reid (G. H.) AUSTRALIA. An Essay on New South Wales, the Mother Colony of the Australias. Sydney

1878

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47 Richard Whately, D. D. BACON'S ESSAYS: with Annotations. Boston

1861

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48 BAILEY (JOHN J.) Waldimar: a Tragedy, in five acts. New York

1834

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49 BAINES (EDWARD.) History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the war in 1792 to 1815. London

1824

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50 BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, History of, the first bank chartered in the United States, prepared by Lawrence Lewis, Jr. (Early Banking in the U. S., 1763-80; Financial Condition of the ... Philadelphia

1882

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51 BARLOW (JOEL.) The Columbiad: a Poem. Paris

1813

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52 BARNES (WM. H.) The Fortieth Congress of the United States: Historical and Biographical. New York

1869

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53 BARNEY (COMMODORE JOSHUA) Biographical Memoir from Notes and Journals. Boston

1832

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54 BARRINGTON (SIR JONAH) Personal Sketches of his Own Times, 3 vols., Lond. 1830, old calf; Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, 1676-82, map, Harrisburg, 1879; Allen's Defence of Rhode Island's system of ...

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55 BARTLETT (S. R.) Concord Fight: a Poem. Boston

1860

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56 BARTLETT (W. H.) The Pilgrim Fathers, or Founders of New England. London

1864

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57 BARTLEY (G. C. T.) The Rhine, from its Source to the Sea. London

n. d.

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58 BAXTER (RICHARD) One Sheet for the Ministry against the Maylignants of all Sorts, Lond. 1657; A Second Sheet, Justifying our Calling against Quakers, Seekers and Paptists, Lond. 1657; One Sheet ...

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59 BAYLE (PETER) An Historical and Critical Dictionary, selected and abridged from the great work of Peter Bayle. London

1826

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60 BELL, Some Red River Settlement History; Marcou, Nouvelles Recherehes sur L'Origine du Nom D'Amerique, Paris, 1888; Poor Will's Pocket Almanack for 1799, Phil.; Memoirs of James ...

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61 BENNETT (JAMES GORDON, the elder) A one-page broadside. n. p.

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62 BENTLEY (WM.) Oration in Commemoration of the Birthday of Washington, delivered Feby. 22d, 1793. Morrisania

1870

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63 Tennis G. Bergen BERGEN FAMILY, or the Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, one of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn, and other Long Island Families. New York

1866

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64 Edited by E. B. Sargent and Bernhard Whishaw BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Guide Book to Books. London

1891

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65 Ben. Perley Poore BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Descriptive Catalogue of U. S. Government Publications, 1774-1881. Washington

1885

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66 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Brooklyn Library Catalogue. Brooklyn

1877

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67 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Brunet Manuel du Libraire et de L'Amateur de Livres. Bruxelles

1821

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68 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue Astor Library, 5 vols. paper, uncut, 1858; Quaritch Catalogue of Books, 1868; Catalogue Brown University, 1843; N. Y. State Library Catalogue of their ...

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69 Lowndes (Wm. T.) BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, containing an account of rare, curious and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from ... London

1834

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70 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Revue Bibliographique Universelle. Paris

186S

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71 Stevens (Henry) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of American Books in the British Museum; also separate Catalogue of Canadian and other British North American Books (maps), West Indian Books, etc. London

1866

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72 BINDING. Baskerville's Edition of the Book of Common Prayer.

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73 BINDLEY (JAS.) Catalogue of the very valuable collection of British Portraits, from the reign of Egbert to 1688. London

1819

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74 BLAKE Aphorisms on Man. London

1794

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75 BLAKE (WM. P.) Report of a Geological Reconnaissance in California, with descriptions by Agassiz, Gould, Prof Torrey, and others. New York

1858

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76 BLANK BOOKS.

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77 BLANK BOOKS.

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78 BLOOD (BENJ.) The Colonnades: a Poem. Amsterdam

1868

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79 BOSWELL (JAMES) Life of Samuel Johnson, with Malone's Notes, and for the first time, Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. London

1826

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80 Baldwin (James) BOOKS. The Book-Lover; Wheatley, H. B., The Dedication of Books; Knight, Life of Wm. Caxton.

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81 BOONE Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky, interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country by Timothy Flint. Cincinnati

1833

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82 BOWNAS (SAML.) Life, Travels and Christian Experiences. Stanford

1805

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83 BRITISH ANTHOLOGY; or, Poetical Library. London

1824

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84 BROTHERHEAD (WM.) Autograph-Holographiani. Philadelphia

1857

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85 BROWN (CAPT. THOMAS) The Taxidermist's Manual, Glasgow, 1837; Trubner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, Lond. 1855; Remarkable Shipwrecks, or a Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval ...

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86 BROWN (TOM) The Works of M. Voiture. Containing his Letters to Gentlemen and Ladies, and Facetious Letters out of Greek, Latin and French, to which is added A Pacquet of Letters from Wills, a ... London

1705

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87 BRYANT (WM. CULLEN) The Bryant Memorial Meeting of the Century. New York

1878

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88 BUDDINGH (D) De Kerk, School en Wetenschap, in de Verenigde Staten van Noord-Amerika. Utrecht

1852

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89 BUNKER HILL. Swett, Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?, with Reply by Frothingham; Addresses on Bunker Hill by Edward Everett, Webster. etc. Boston

1825-57

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90 Willard (S.) BUNKER HILL. Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with Details of Experiments made in Quarrying the Granite. Boston

1843

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91 BURK (JOHN) History of the late War in Ireland, with an Account of the United Irish Association. Philadelphia

1799

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92 BURKE (JOHN BERNARD) The Roll of Battle Abbey, Annotated, coats-of-arms in gold and colors, Lond. 1848; J. O. Halliwell, Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Lond.: Warton Club, 1855 ...

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93 Peter Burke BURKE (EDMUND), Wisdom and Genius of, from his Writings and Speeches. London

1845

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94 McMahon (Lt.-Col. A. R.) BURMAH. The Karens of the Golden Chersonese. (Mythology, Folk-Lore, etc., of the unknown region.) London

1876

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95 BURNET (GILBERT) History of the Reformation of the Church of England. London

1837

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96 BURNS, Gray, Goldsmith, Dante, Crabbe, etc., Poetry; Handbuch Deutschen Nationallitteratur, 1883; Forsyth's Antiquities, Arts and Letters in Italy, 1802-1803; etc.

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97 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1637. London

1637

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98 BYRON (LORD) Works. London

1819-21

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99 BYRON BYRON'S Works, Illustrations to, 117 fine engraved Portraits and Views. n. p.

n. d.

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100 BYRON (LORD) Finden's Landscape Illustrations to Mr. Murray's first complete and uniform edition of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. London

1832-34

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