Anderson Galleries: The Choice Private Library of JAMES R. PITCHER (of Short Hills, N.J.) with a Selection from the Library of DR. PAUL ALLEN (of New York City) comprising Rare Books and Orchidsand on Botanical and Natural Sciences, together with a Handsome Print Cabinet. Fo, 503,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 07, 1907 - January 07, 1907

Page Size: 283 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ALLEN (TIMOTHY F.)	The Charace? of America	Boston	[ca. 1885]	USD -	Unknown
2		ALLEN Contributions to Japanese Characese	[New York]	[ca. 1889]	USD -	Unknown
3		AMERICAN FLORIST (THE), a semi-monthly Journal for the Trade. Vols. 1-2	Chicago	1886-87	USD -	Unknown
4	Isaac Bayley Balfour, Sidney H. Vines and William G. Farlow, Editors	ANNALS OF BOTANY	London	1887-92	USD -	Unknown
5	BAILLON (M. H.)	Dictionnaire de Botanique	Paris	1876-92	USD -	Unknown
6	BARTON (WILLIAM P. C.)	Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or, Medical Botany	Philadelphia	1817	USD -	Unknown
7	BENTHAM (G.) ET HOOKER (J. D.)	Genera Plantarum ad Exemplaria Imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus Servata Definita	Londoni	1852-83	USD -	Unknown
8	BENTLEY (ROBERT) AND TRIMEN (HENRY)	Medical Plants, being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal Plants employed in Medicine	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
9	BERKELEY (M. J.)	Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
10	BIGELOW (JACOB)	American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, containing their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts	Boston	1817-20	USD -	Unknown
11	BRAUN (A.)	Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species, etc., fine plates; Über Parthenogenesis bei Pflanzen, fine plates	Berlin	1852-57	USD -	Unknown
12	BREBISSON (A.)	Flore de la Normandie	Caen	1879	USD -	Unknown
13	BRENNING (M.)	Die Vergiftungen Durch Schlangen	Stuttgart	1895	USD -	Unknown
14	BRITTON (N. L.)	A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey	New Brunswick	1881	USD -	Unknown
15	BRITTON (N. L.)	A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey	New Brunswick	1881	USD -	Unknown
16	BRITTON (N. L.)	A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey	New Brunswick	1881	USD -	Unknown
17	BRITTON (N. L.)	A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey	New Brunswick, New Jersey	1881	USD -	Unknown
18	BRITTON (N. L.)	Catalogue of Plants found in New Jersey	Trenton	1889	USD -	Unknown
19	BRITTON (NATHANIEL) AND BROWN (ADDISON)	An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada, and the British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the S. Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian	New York	1896-98	USD -	Unknown
20	BRITTON (NATHANIEL) AND BROWN (ADDISON)	Vol. 1 only, complete in itself, Ophioglossacese to Aizoace?	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
21	BURMANN (JOANNES)	Plantarum Americanarum fasciculus primus, Continens Plantas, quas olim Carolus Plumierius Botanicorum Princeps Detexit, Eritque atque in Insulis Antillis ipse depinxit, etc	Amsterdam	1755	USD -	Unknown
22		CACAO. The Chocolate Plant and its Products	Dorchester, Massachusetts	1891	USD -	Unknown
23	CHAPMAN (A. W.)	Flora of the Southern U. S.; Plants of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, etc	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
24	CONNOLD (E. T.)	British Vegetable Galls: An Introduction to their Study	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
25	COOKE (M. C.)	Rust, Smut, Mildew and Mould. The Study of Microscopic Fungi	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
26	COOKE (M. C.)	Fungo Britannici exsiccati	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
27	COOKE (M. C.)	A Plain and Easy Account of the British Fungi	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
28	COOKE (M. C.)	Handbook of British Fungi, with full Descriptions of all the Species	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
29	COULTER (JOHN M. AND M. S., Editors)	The Botanical Gazette: A Paper of Botanical Notes	Crawfordsville and Bloomington, Ind.	1875-1892	USD -	Unknown
30	COULTER (J. M.)	Manual of the Botany of the Rocky Mountain Region from New Mexico to the British Boundary	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
31	CULPEPPER (N.)	The British Herbal, and Family Physician, with a Dispensatory	Halifax	[ca. 1810]	USD -	Unknown
32	CURTIS (W.)	Flora Londonensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as grow wild in the Environs of London	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
33	DE-TONI (J. BAPT.)	Sylloge Algarum omnium Hucusque Cognitarum. Vol. I., in 2 sections	Patavii	1889	USD -	Unknown
34	DIERBACH (JOHANN H.)	Abhandlung über die Arzneikräste der Pflanzen, etc	Lemgo	1831	USD -	Unknown
35	DRUDE (OSCAR)	Atlas der Pflanzenverbreitung: Europa, Amerika, etc	Gotha	1887	USD -	Unknown
36	DUTT (UDOY CHAND)	The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works	Calcutta	1877	USD -	Unknown
37	EATON (AMOS)	A Manual of Botany for the Northern and Middle States of America, with a Grammar and Vocabulary	Albany	1824	USD -	Unknown
38		ELLIOTT SOCIETY of Natural History of Charlestown, S. C. (Proceedings.) Vol. 1, Nov., 1853-Dec, 1858	Charlestown	1859	USD -	Unknown
39	ELLWANGER (H. B.)	The Rose: A Treatise on its Cultivation, etc	New York	[1882]	USD -	Unknown
40	ELLWANGER (H. B.)	The Rose: A Treatise on its Cultivation, etc	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
41	ENGLER (A.)	Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie	Leipzig	1881-83	USD -	Unknown
42	Lena Lowis	FAMILIAR INDIAN FLOWERS. Text and numerous finely colored plates by Lena Lowis	London	[1878]	USD -	Unknown
43	FARLOW (W. J.)	Marine Algæ of New England and Adjacent Coast	Washington	1881	USD -	Unknown
44		FERNS. The Book of Choice Ferns for the Garden, Conservatory, and Stove, describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking Ferns and Selaginellas in cultivation	New York [London-printed]	recent	USD -	Unknown
45	C. R. Dodge, Editor	FIELD AND FOREST, devoted to General Natural History	Washington	1876-78	USD -	Unknown
46	FIGUEIREDO (JERONYMO JOAQUIM DE)	Flora Pharmaceutica e Alimentär Portugueza, ou Tractado daquelles vegataes indigenas de Portugal e outros nelle cultivados, etc		1825	USD -	Unknown
47	FIGUIER (LOUIS)	Histoire dos Plantes	Paris	1874	USD -	Unknown
48	C. L. Flint	FLINT (C. L.) Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
49		FLORIST'S EXCHANGE (THE), a weekly medium of interchange for the trade	New York	1889-90	USD -	Unknown
50	FLÜCKIGER (F. A.)	Pharmakognosie der Pflanzenreiches	Berlin	1891	USD -	Unknown
51	FLÜCKIGER (F. A.) AND HANBURY (D.)	Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin met with in Great Britain and British India	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
52	GRAY (ASA)	All in 1 vol. Plantæ Wrightianæ, an Account of a Collection of Plants made by Charles Wright in an Expedition from Texas to New Mexico, 1849, with Critical Notices and Characters of other new or interesting Plants from adjacent regions, ..	Washington	1852	USD -	Unknown
53	GRAY (ASA)	Synoptical Flora of North America; the Gamopetalse, and Gamopetalse after Compositse	New York	1886	USD -	Unknown
54		GREVILLEA: A Monthly Record of Cryptogamic Botany and its Literature	London	1872-85	USD -	Unknown
55	GRISEBACH (A. H. R., noted German Prof, of Botany at Gottingen)	Flora of the British West Indian Islands	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
56	GRISEBACH (A. H. R., noted German Prof, of Botany at Gottingen)	Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, exhibens Collectionem Wrightianam Aliasque Minores ex insula Cuba Missas	Lipsiæ	1866	USD -	Unknown
57	HALLIER (ERNST)	Die Pflanzlichen Parasiten des Menschlichen Korpers, 1866, and other similar Treatises by the same writer	Leipzig		USD -	Unknown
58	HARDY (L. H.)	The Nursery-Book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication, and Pollination of Plants	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
59	HASSELT (A. W. M) AND HENKEL (J. B.)	Allgemeine Giftlehre und die gifte des Pflanzenreichs, etc.; and another in same vol	Braunschweig	1868	USD -	Unknown
60	HEMSLEY (W. BOTTING)	Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America	London	1879-1888	USD -	Unknown
61	HENDERSON (PETER)	Henderson's Handbook to Plants	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
62	HENDERSON (PETER)	Garden and Farm Topics	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
63	HERAUD (DR.)	Nouveau Dictionnaire des Plantes Médicinales	Paris	1875	USD -	Unknown
64	HIBBERD (SHIRLEY)	New and Rare Beautiful Leaved Plants	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
65	HIBBERD (SHIRLEY)	New and Beautiful Leaved Plants	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
66	HOOKER (J. D.)	The Student's Flora of the British Isles	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
67	HOOKER (J. D.)	The Flora of British India	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
68	HOOKER (SIR WILLIAM JACKSON)	Flora Boreali-Americana; or, the Botany of the Northern Parts of British America, compiled principally from the Plants collected by Dr. Richardson and Mr. Drummond on the late Northern Expeditions under command of Sir John Franklin	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
69	HOOKER (SIR WILLIAM JACKSON)	Niger Flora; or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
70	HOOKER (W. J.) AND ARNOTT (G. A. W.)	The British Flora, containing the Flowering Plants and the Ferns	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
71	HOWELL (THOMAS)	A Flora of Northwest America, containing brief descriptions of Plants growing without Cultivation N. of Cal., W. of Utah, etc	Portland, Ore	1897-98	USD -	Unknown
72	HUMBOLDT (BARON), ETC.	An Illustration of the Genus Cinchona, comprising Descriptions of all the Officinal Peruvian Barks. Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona Forests of S. America, etc	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
73	HUSEMANN (AUG. AND THEOD.)	Die Pflanzenstoffe in Chemischer, Physiologischer, Pharmakologischer and Toxikologischer Hinsicht	Berlin	1871	USD -	Unknown
74	HUSEMANN (AUG.), HILGER (A.) AND HUSEMANN (THEO.)	Die Pftanzenstoffe in Chemischer, Physiologischer, etc	Berlin	1882-84	USD -	Unknown
75		INDEX PLANTARUM, quæ Continentur in Linnæani Systematis, etc	Viennæ	1785	USD -	Unknown
76	JACKSON (JOSEPH)	Catalogue of the Phænogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester Co., Massachusetts (with List of the Trees, Shrubs, etc.)	Worcester	1883	USD -	Unknown
77	JOHNSON (G. W.) AND BROWN (N. E.)	The Gardener's Dictionary. The Plants, Fruits and Vegetables desirable for the Garden, etc	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
78	JOSSELYN (JOHN)	New England's Rarities Discovered	[? New York]	[ca. 1840]	USD -	Unknown
79	Henry Trimeu and James Britten, Editors	JOURNAL OF BOTANY (THE), British and Foreign	London	1878-1893	USD -	Unknown
80	JUST (LEOPOLD)	Botanischer Jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes Repertorium der Botanischen Literatur aller Lander, etc	Berlin	1874-84	USD -	Unknown
81	KOCH (DAN. JOS.)	Synopsis Floræ Germanicæ et Helvetica?, exhibons Stirpes Phanerogams et Vasculares Cryptogamas rite Cognitas, etc	Lipsias	1857	USD -	Unknown
82	KÜNZING (FRIEDRICH TRAUGOTT)	Phycologia Generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange	Leipzig	1843	USD -	Unknown
83	LENNIS (JOHANNES)	Synopsis der Pflanzenkunde, gin Handbuch für höhere Lehranstalten, etc	Hanover	1877	USD -	Unknown
84	LINDEN (I.) AND ANDRÉ (E.)	The Illustrated Horticole: An Illustrated Monthly Review of New and Interesting Plants, with their Description and Culture	Ghent	1874-75	USD -	Unknown
85	LINDLEY (JOHN)	Flora Medica: A Botanical Account of all the more important Plants used in Medicine	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
86	LINDLEY (JOHN) AND MOORE (T.)	The Treasury of Botany, with a Glossary of Botanical Terms	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
87	LINNÆUS (CAROLI VON)	Materia Medica per Régna Tria Naturæ, etc	Lipsiæ	1772	USD -	Unknown
88		LIST of the Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without cultivation in N. E. North America	New York	1893-94	USD -	Unknown
89	LLOYD (J. U. AND C. G.)	Drugs and Medicines of North America; the Botany, Chemistry, etc., of the Medicinal Plants of N. America	Cincinnati	1884-85	USD -	Unknown
90	LOCHMAN (C. L.)	A Collection of about 50 fine Photos, of Medical Plants from Natural Specimens			USD -	Unknown
91	LOUDON (J. C.)	TREES AND SHRUBS. An Abridgement of the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, containing the Hardy Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
92		LYCEUM OF NATURAL HIST., New York Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History	New York	1870	USD -	Unknown
93	MACMILLAN (CONWAY)	The Metasperm? of the Minnesota Valley	Minneapolis	1892	USD -	Unknown
94	MAOUT (EMM. LE) AND DECAISNE (JH.)	Traité General de Botanique, descriptive et analytique; d'Organo-graphie, Iconographie, Histoire des Familles, etc., etc	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
95	MARTIUS (C. F. P.)	Specimen Materiæ Medicæ Brasiliensis, exhibens Plantas Médicinales, etc	No place	1824	USD -	Unknown
96	MAYR (HEINRICH)	Monographie der Abietineen des Japanischen Reiches (Tannen, Fichten, Tsugen, Farcben und Kiesern)	München	1890	USD -	Unknown
97	MEEHAN (THOMAS, Editor)	The Gardener's Monthly, and Horticultural Advertiser	Philadelphia	1875-87	USD -	Unknown
98	MEEHAN (THOMAS)	The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural and Popular Aspects	Boston	[1878]	USD -	Unknown
99	L. Menard	MENARD (L.) Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents connected with Horticultural Affairs, etc	Albany	1892	USD -	Unknown
100	MICHAUX (ANDREAS)	Flora Boreali-Americana sistens caractères Plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit	Paris	1803	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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