Anderson Galleries: Rare and Fine Books including A Portion of the Library of CHAS. BELDEN VAN NOSTRAND New York City, To be Sold Thursday and Friday Evenings February 13 and 14, 1908, The Anderson Auction Company, 5 West 29th Street, New York., 632,

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Auction Date
February 13, 1908 - February 13, 1908
Page Size: 602 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Boutet (Henri) DRY POINT ETCHINGS. Graveur et pastelliste, by Laon Maillard. Paris

1894-95

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202* DUCROS (EMMANUEL) Une Cigale au Salon de 1885. Paris

[1885]

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202 DU BIOSGOBEY (F.) Sealed Lips. London

1887

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203 EARLY AMERICAN COMIC ILLUSTRATORS. Boston

1834-49

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204 EGAN (PIERCE) Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees ... London

1823

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205 EGAN (PIERCE). Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho and his Cousin Hon. Tom Dashall through the Metropolis. Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable ... London

1823-24

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206 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVINGS. Histoire d'Angleterre. Paris

1784

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207 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVINGS. Dorat. Les Tourterelles de Zelmis Poème en trois chants. Paris

1880

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208 Abbé de Favre EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVINGS. Beauty's Day (Les Quatre Heures de la Toilette des Dames). London

n. d.

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209 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVINGS. Delia Bathing (Zelis au Bain), by the Marquis de Pezay; Celia's Doves (Les Tourterelles de Zelmis), by Claude Joseph Dorat. London

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210 Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVINGS. The Temple of Gnidus. London

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211 EISEN.

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212 ELLIS (GEORGE) Specimens of the Early English Poets; to which is prefixed an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Language and Poetry. London

1803

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213 EMERSON (R. W.) A Sermon delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins, by Rev. H. Ware With the hymn We love the Venerable House, by Emerson. Boston

1833

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214 EMERSON (R. W.) Nature. Boston

1826

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215 EMERSON (R. W.) Essays. Boston

1841

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216 EMERSON (R. W.) Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (by J. F. Clarke, R. W. Emerson and W. H. Channing). Boston

1852

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217 EMERSON (R. W.) English Traits. Boston

1856

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218 EMERSON (R. W.) The Conduct of Life, Bost. 1860; May Day and Other Poems, Bost. 1867.

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219 Garnett (Richard) and Gosse (Edmund) ENGLISH LITERATURE. English Literature: An Illustrated Record. New York

1903

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220 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. London

1898

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221 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. The poems of William Shakespeare according to the Text of the Original copies, including the Lyrics, Songs and Snatches found in his Dramas. London

1899

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222 C. R. Ashbee ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. American Sheaves and English Seed Corn: Being Addresses mainly delivered in the United States, 1900-1901, by C. R. Ashbee. London

1901

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223 C. R. Ashbee ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. An endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris, by C. R. Ashbee. London

1901

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224 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, relating to the Conduct of Human Life, by William Penn. London

1901

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225 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. The Praise of Folie. MoriÅ? Enconium, a Booke made in Latin by that Great Clerke Erasmus Roteradame. London

1901

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226 Woolman (John) ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman in the Service of the Gospel. London

1901

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227 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. The Masque of the Edwards of England: Being a Coronation Pageant to Celebrate the Crowning of the King. . . written by C. R. Ashbee. . . and Printed under his ... London

1902

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228 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF LA PUCELLE. Voltaire. Ã? Londres

1780

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229 Walker (Alexander) EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF WALKER'S BEAUTY. Beauty Illustrated, chiefly by au Analysis on Classification of Beauty in Woman, preceded by a Critical View of the general hypotheses ...

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230 FAMOUS HORSES. With Portraits, Pedigrees, Principal Performances, Descriptions of Races, and various interesting items, extending over a period of nearly two centuries, by Theo. Taunton. Lond

1901

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231 FAMOUS PAINTERS. Lives of, and Essays on Rembrandt, Dürer, Leonardo Da Vinci, W. M. Rossetti and Frederick Walker. London

[recent]

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232 FARMER'S SLANG AND ITS ANALOGIES: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, from the earliest Times, on Historical Principles, including Synonyms in English, French and other ... London

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233 FAUBLAS. The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas, by J. B. Louvet de Couvray. London

1898

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234 FIELD (EUGENE) Poems of Childhood. New York

1904

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235 FIELDING (HENRY) Select Works. To which is prefixed an original account of the Life and Writings of the author. Edinburgh

1807

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236 FIELDING (HENRY) Complete Works of Fielding. With an Essay on his Life, Genius and Achievements, by Wm. E. Henley. New York

[1902]

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237 FISKE (JOHN) The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789. Boston

1898

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238 FISKE (JOHN) The American Revolution. Boston

1896

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239 FISKE (JOHN) Writings of John Fiske. Cambridge

1902

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240 FLAUBERT (GUSTAVE) Works of Gustave Flaubert. Philadelphia

n. d.

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241 FOXE (JOHN) Acts and Monuments of Matters most Speciall and Memorable happening in the Church, now againe as it was recognised, perused and recommended by the Author the eight time newly Imprinted. London

1641

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242 FRANKAU (MRS. JULIA). Eighteenth Century Colour Prints. Stipple Engravers and their work. London

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243 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et Adresses à son fils, etc. Á Paris

1791

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244 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Het Leven van Benjamin Franklin, door hem zelven beschreven. Bevenens deszelfs zede, staat-letter-kundige en geestige schriften. Te Groningen

1798 [1800]

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245 William Dell FRANKLIN IMPRINT. The Trial of Spirits, both in Teachers and Hearers. Wherein is held forth the clear Discovery, and certain Downfal of the Carnel and Anti-Christian Clergy of ... Philadelphia

1760

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246 FRENCH AUTHORS. Collection des Classiques Français (in prose and verse, being Selections from Voltaire, Rousseau, La Fontaine, Molière, Racine, Corneille, Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère ... Paris

1828

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247 FRENCH AUTHORS. Contes et Nouvelles par Karr, 1857; Nuits Espagnoles par Méry, 1859; Histoire de Famille par le même, 1859; Sous les Tilleuls, 1861; Voyage Autour de mon Jardin ...

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248 FRENCH AUTHORS. Dumas. Les Trois Mousquetaires, 2 vols.; Vingt Ans Après, 3 vols. Paris

1860-62

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249 FRENCH AUTHORS. Histoire de Jules César par Napoléon III., 1865; Souvenir d'un Musicien par Adam, 1857; Sophie Printemps par Dumas fils; Scènes des Alpes par Souvestres, 1857 ...

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250 FRENCH AUTHORS. Voyage en Orient par Lamartine, 2 vols., 1849; Contes, Satires, �pitres, etc., par Voltaire, 1850; Madame Chrysanthème par Loti, 1897; Allemagne par Mme. de Staël ...

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251 FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Letter to an Honourable Brigadier-General, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in Canada. London

1760

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252 [Benjamin Franklin] FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. The Interest of Great Britain Considered with Regard to her Colonies, and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe. Boston

1760

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253 GARNETT (R.) and GOSSE (E.) English Literature; an illustrated Record from the Beginnings to the age of Tennyson. London

1903

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254 GAUTIER (TH�OPHILE) Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier. Paris

1873

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255 GAUTIER (THÃ?OPHILE) Works of Gautier. New York

1900-1903

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256 GAVARNI. Å?uvres Choisies De Gavarni Revues, Corrigées et nouvellement classées par l'Auteur. Ã?tudes de MÅ?urs Contemporaines. Paris

1846-48

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257 GAY (JOHN) The Shepherd's Week. London

1714

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258 Howell (G. R.) GENEALOGY. The Early History of Southampton, L. I., N. Y., with genealogies. Albany

1887

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259 GIBBON (EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with notes by D. Milman and M. Guizot, edited with additional notes by William Smith, portraits and maps, 8 vols., Lond ...

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260 GILBERT (W. S.) The Bab Ballads, Much Sound and Little Sense, by W. S. Gilbert, with illusts. by the author, Lond., John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1869; More Bab Ballads, Much Sound and ... London

1869

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261 [Winston (C.)] GLASS PAINTING. An Inquiry into the Difference of Style observable in Ancient Glass Paintings, especially in England. Oxford

1847

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262 GOETHE (WOLFGANG VON) The Sorrows of Werther. London

1802

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263 GOLDSMITH (OLIVER) The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East. London

1762

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264 GOLDSMITH (OLIVER) The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq., extracted principally from his original papers. London

1762

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265 GOLDSMITH (OLIVER) She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night, a Comedy. London

1773

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266 GOLDSMITH (OLIVER) The Vicar of Wakefield; with first impressions of the 32 fine woodcuts, by William Mulready. London

1843

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267 GOSDEN. Songs of the Chase, etc. An extensive collection relative to the Sports of the Field, Hunting, Racing, Coursing, Angling, Hawking, etc. London

1811

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268 GRAPHIC (The). London

1869-71

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269 GRAY (THOMAS) Odes by Mr. Gray. Vignette on title of Strawberry Hill. Printed at Strawberry Hill

1757

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270 GRAY (THOMAS) Elegy written in a Country Church yard. London

1900

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271 William Mitford GREECE. The History of Greece, by William Mitford, with his final additions and corrections, best large type library edition, edited, with Life of the Author, by Lord Redesdale ... London

1838

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272 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered. New York

1889

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273 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. The Life of Charles Henry Count Hoym [1694-1736]. Written by Baron Jerome Pichon, etc., etc. New York

1889

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274 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither, with collations and notes. New York

1893

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275 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Transactions of the Grolier Club. New York

1894

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276 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. A Description of the Early Printed Books owned by the Grolier Club, with a brief account of their printers and a History of Typography in the Fifteenth Century. New York

1895

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277 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. The Poems of John Donne. New York

1895

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278 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Catalogue of Etchings and Dry Points by Rembrandt. New York

1900

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279 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Catalogue of an Exhibition of First and other Editions, of the Works of John Dryden. New York

1900

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280 GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, with Facsimiles of the title-pages and an Introduction by George E. Woodberry. New York

1902

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281 Kent (Henry W.) GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS. Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature. New York

1903

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282 HABINGTON (WILLIAM) Castara. London

1640

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283 HALL MARKS ON GOLD AND SILVER PLATE. London

1905

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284 HALL (S. C.) The Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain. London

1840

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285 HALL (S. C.) The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England. New York

n. d.

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286 HALLAM'S WORKS. Large Type Library Edition, well printed throughout in large type on good paper. With copious notes, indexes, etc. View of the State of Europe during the Middle ... London

1837

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287 HAMERTON (P. G.) Etching and Etchers. London

1868

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288 HAMERTON (P. G.) The Present State of the Fine Arts in France. London

1892

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289 HAMERTON (P. G.). Man in Art. Studies in Religious and Historical Art, Portrait and Genre. London

1892

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290 HAMILTON (ANTHONY) Memoirs of Count Grammont. Philadelphia

1889

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291 HAMILTON (ANTHONY) The Four Facardins. A Fairy Tale. London

1899

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292 HAMILTON (LADY ANNE) Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the death of George the Fourth. Including among other important matters full particulars of the ... London

1832

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293 HAWTHORNE (N.) Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair. Boston

1841

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294 HAWTHORNE (N.) A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Boston

1852

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295 HAWTHORNE (N.) The Blithedale Romance. Boston

1852

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296 HAWTHORNE (N.) Life of Franklin Pierce. Boston

1852

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297 HAWTHORNE (N.) Passages from the American Note Books. Boston

1868

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298 HAWTHORNE (N.) Passages from the French and Italian Note Books. London

1871

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299 HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) Our Old Home: A Series of Sketches, with advts., Bost. 1863; Septimius Felton, Bost. 1872.

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