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
101	MILLER (P.)	The Gardener's Dictionary, containing the Method of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, etc	London	1743	USD -	Unknown
102	MILLSPAUGH (CHARLES F.)	American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants used as Hom?opathic Remedies, their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects	New York	[1887]	USD -	Unknown
103	MILLSPAUGH (CHARLES F.)	American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants used as Hom?opathic Remedies, their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects	New York	[1887]	USD -	Unknown
104		MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 1890	[St. Louis]	[1890]	USD -	Unknown
105	MOQUIN-TANDON (A.)	Éléments de Botanique Médicale	Paris	1875	USD -	Unknown
106	MULLER (HERMANN)	Alpenblumen ihre Befruchtung Durch Insekten und Hire Anpassungen an Dieselben	Leipzig	1881	USD -	Unknown
107	NICHOLSON (GEORGE)	The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists	London	1887-89	USD -	Unknown
108	BATEMAN (JAMES)	ORCHIDS. A Monograph of Odontoglossum	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
109		ORCHIDS. BEGONIAS. The Tuberous Begonia: Its History and Cultivation	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
110	BROOKE (JAMES)	ORCHIDS. The Fairfield Orchids: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Species and Varieties grown by James Brooke & Co.; with a History of the Plants, etc	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
111	BURBIDGE (F. W.)	ORCHIDS. Cool Orchids, and how to grow them	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
112	GODEEROY-LEBEUF (A.) and BROWN (N. E.)	ORCHIDS. Les Cypripediées. Part I	[Paris]	[ca. 1880]	USD -	Unknown
113	HENSHALL (J.)	ORCHIDS. A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of Orchidaceous Plants; with a Select Catalogue of the best kinds in cultivation	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
114	LINDEN (J. and L.), and RODIGAS (E.)	ORCHIDS. Lindenia: Iconographie des Orchidées, directeur J. Linden rédacteurs en chef; Lucien Linden & Elile Rodigas, avec la collaboration de spécialistes eminents	Gand and Brussels	1885-April, 1895	USD -	Unknown
115		ORCHIDS. LINDEN and RODIGAS			USD -	Unknown
116		ORCHIDS. LINDEN and RODIGAS			USD -	Unknown
117		ORCHIDS. LOTHIAN (MARQUIS OF). The Genus Masdevallia, issued by the Marquis of Lothian, with additional Notes by Consul F. C Lehmann	London	1891-93	USD -	Unknown
118	MINER (HARRIET STEWART)	ORCHIDS. Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
119	[ORCHID REVIEW (THE)]	ORCHIDS. Illustrated Monthly Journal devoted exclusively to Orchidology in all its branches	London	1893-95	USD -	Unknown
120	[ORCHID REVIEW (THE)]	ORCHIDS. Illustrated Monthly Journal devoted exclusively to Orchidology in all its branches	London	1893-95	USD -	Unknown
121	F. Sander	ORCHIDS. SANDER (F.) Reichenbachia: Orchids illustrated and described	St. Albans	1888	USD -	Unknown
122	Robert Warner	ORCHIDS. WARNER (ROBERT). Select Orchidaceous Plants	London	1862-78	USD -	Unknown
123	WATSON (W.) and BEAN (W.)	ORCHIDS. ORCHIDS: Their Culture and Management, with descriptions of all the kinds in general cultivation	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
124	WEBSTER (A. D.)	ORCHIDS. British Orchids, an exhaustive description of each species	Bangor (Wales)	1886	USD -	Unknown
125	Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton	ORCHIDS. PAXTON'S Flower Garden	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
126	PESTEL (FRID. GUIL.)	ORCHIDS. Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Cortice Geoffraese Surinamensis, etc	Lugduni	1788	USD -	Unknown
127		ORCHIDS. PHARMACOLOGY of the Newer Materia Medica, embracing the Botany, Chemistry, etc., of the New Remedies	Detroit	1892	USD -	Unknown
128		ORCHIDS. PORTLAND SOCIETY of Natural History (Proceedings), Vol. 1 (containing a list of the Flowering Plants of Maine, etc.)	Portland, Maine	1862	USD -	Unknown
129	PRINGSHEIM (DR. N.)	ORCHIDS. Jahrbucher für Wissenschaftliche Botanik. Dritter Band	Berlin	1863	USD -	Unknown
130	RABINHORST (DR. L.)	ORCHIDS. Hedwigia: Ein Notizblatt für Kryptogamische Studien nebst Repertorium für Kryptogamische Literatur	Dresden	1867-71	USD -	Unknown
131	RAFINESQUE (C. S.)	ORCHIDS. Medical Flora; or, Manual of Medical Botany of the United States of N. America. Description of Medical Plants, their Names, Qualities, etc., etc	Philadelphia	1828-30	USD -	Unknown
132	RATTRAY (J.)	FORESTRY and Forest Products (Prize Essays on the Culture of Trees, etc.)	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
133		RECORD OF CURRENT BOTANICAL LITERATURE: Books, Pamphlets, etc., in all Countries	[? Washington]	1888	USD -	Unknown
134		RECUEIL des Mémoires et des Travaux, publies par La Société Botanique	Lumembourg	1886	USD -	Unknown
135	RILEY (C. V.) AND VASEY (GEO., Editors)	The American Entomologist and Botanist: An Illustrated Magazine of Popular and Practical Botany and Entomology	St. Louis	1870	USD -	Unknown
136	ROBINSON (W.)	The English Flower Garden: Style, Position and Arrangement, with description of all the plants best suited for its embellishment, etc	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
137	ROQUES (JOSEPH)	Phytographie Médicale, Histoire des Substances Héroïques et des Poisons tirés du Regne Vegetal	Paris	1855	USD -	Unknown
138	SCHOEPF (DAVID, Eminent German Naturalist)	Materia Medica Americana potissimum Regni Vegetabilis	Erlangæ (Bavaria)	1787	USD -	Unknown
139	SCHWEINFURTH (GEORG)	Beitrag zur Flora Æthiopiens	Berlin	1867	USD -	Unknown
140	SCOTT (FRANK J.)	The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy Trees and Shrubs	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
141	SMITH (JOHN)	A Dictionary of the Popular Names of the Plants which furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man; their History, Products and Uses	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
142	SMITH (JOHN)	Domestic Botany; the Structure and Classification of Plants	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
143	SULLIVANT (WILLIAM S.)	The Musci and Hepaticæ of the U. S. East of the Mississippi	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
144	THOMÉ (OTTO W.)	Text-Book of Structural and Physiological Botany	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
145		TOBACCO. Lizars (John), Practical Observations on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco, colored plates, Edinburgh, 1868; and other pamphlets (mainly microscopical)			USD -	Unknown
146	Short (Thomas)	TOBACCO. Discourses on Tea, Sugar, Spirits, Tobacco, etc., with plain and useful rules for Gouty People	London	1750	USD -	Unknown
147	Szerlecki (Vlad. Al.)	TOBACCO. Monographie über den Tabak, dessen Einwirkung auf den menschlichen Organismus, etc		1840	USD -	Unknown
148	TORREY (JOHN)	A Flora of the State of New York, comprising a full description of all the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants hitherto discovered in the State, with Remarks of their Medicinal Properties, etc	Albany	1813	USD -	Unknown
149	TORREY (JOHN)	Phanerogamia of the Pacific Coast, fine-folding plates, small folio, boards, uncut; Wilkes' Explor. Exped. (?)	Philadelphia	1862-74	USD -	Unknown
150	TORRET (JOHN) AND GRAY (ASA)	A Flora of North America; The Naturalized Plauts growing North of Mexico arranged according to the Natural System	New York	1838-40	USD -	Unknown
151		TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB (THE). Bulletin of the Club	New York	1872-73	USD -	Unknown
152	TRELEASE (WM.)	The Species of Epilobium occurring North of Mexico	[St. Louis]	1891	USD -	Unknown
153	TRELEASE (WM.)	Botanical Observations on the Azores	[St. Louis]	1897	USD -	Unknown
154	TRELEASE (WM.)	The Yucceæ	[St. Louis]	1902	USD -	Unknown
155	UHLWORM (DR. OSCAR)	Botanisches Centralblatt, Referirendes Organ für das Gesammtgebiet der Botanik des In-und Auslandes			USD -	Unknown
156	ULRICH (WILHELM)	Internationales Wörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, etc., 8vo, half morocco	Leipzig	1872	USD -	Unknown
157	VASEY (GEO.)	Grasses of the Southwest; Plates and Descriptions of the Grasses of the Desert Region of Western California, New Mexico, etc., etc	Washington	1890-91	USD -	Unknown
158	VASEY (GEO.)	Grasses of the Pacific Slope; Plauts and Descriptions of Grasses of California, Oregon, Washington, etc., etc	Washington	1892-93	USD -	Unknown
159	VASEY (GEO.)	Grasses of the Pacific Slope	Washington	1892-93	USD -	Unknown
160	VOCHTING (HERMANN)	Über Transplantation am Pflanzenkorper; Untersuchungen zur Physiologie und Pathologie	Tubingen	1892	USD -	Unknown
161	WAGNER (HERM.)	Illustrirte Deutsche Flora	Stuttgart	1871	USD -	Unknown
162	WILKINSON (G.)	Experiments and Observations on the Cortex Salicis Latifolise, or Broad-leafed Willow Bark	Newcastle	[1803]	USD -	Unknown
163	WILLIAMS (B. S.)	Select Ferns and Lycopods; British and Exotic	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
164	WILLIAMS (B. S.)	Choice Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants, with descriptions of 1,000 Species	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
165	WITTSTEIN (G. C.)	The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances and their Chemical Analysis	Melbourne (Australia)	1877	USD -	Unknown
166		SAGACITY AND MORALITY OF PLANTS (THE) [Taylor], illust., London 1891; Book of the Country and Garden (A) [Batson], illust., London 1903; and another			USD -	Unknown
167		ANNALS OF BOTANY, Dec., 1896; Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptofamen-Flora, 5 parts only, Leipzig, 1897; Botany of N. America, Asa Gray, 1882; and other pamphlets, some botanical			USD -	Unknown
168	ADAMS (HENRY AND ARTHUR)	The Genera of Recent Mollusca, arranged according to their Organization	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
169	CLARK (WILLIAM)	A History of the British Marine Testaceous Mollusca	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
170	FORBES (EDWARD) AND HANLEY (SYLVANUS)	A History of British Mollusca, and their Shells	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
171	MOQUIN-TANDON (A.)	Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France	Paris	1855	USD -	Unknown
172		AMERICAN NATURALIST (THE): A Popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History. Edited by A. S. Packard, E. S. Morse, E. D. Cope, etc., etc	Salem, Massachusetts, Philadelphia	1869, 1885	USD -	Unknown
173	BATE (C. S.) AND WESTWOOD (J. O.)	A History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
174	BUFFON (COUNT DE)	Natural History, General and Particular, comprising Man and History of Quadrupeds, 10 vols.; History of Birds, 10 vols	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
175	CHADBOURNE (P. A.)	Instinct: Its Office in the Animal Kingdom	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
176	CHENE (DR.)	Encyclopédie d'Histoire Naturelle: Quadrumanes	Paris	[ca. 1875]	USD -	Unknown
177	Wheeler (Geo. M.)	GEOLOGY. Geology of the Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian	Washington	1875	USD -	Unknown
178	Sir Wm. Jardine, Editor	JARDINE'S NATURALISTS' LIBRARY. Comprising valuable treatises on Mammalia, Ornithology, and every branch of Animated Nature	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
179	JOHNSTON (GEO.)	A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
180	JOHNSTON (GEO.)	History of British Zoophytes	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
181	KREFFT (GERARD)	The Snakes of Australia: An illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of all the Known Species Numerous fine plates	Sydney, Australia	1869	USD -	Unknown
181*	LEIDY (J.)	The Fresh-Water Rhizopods of North America	Washington	1879	USD -	Unknown
182	MOQUIN-TANDON (A.)	Elements do Zoologie Médicale	Paris	1862	USD -	Unknown
183		NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Comprising Zoology, 5 vols.; Botany, 2 vols.; Mineralogy, 1 vol.; Geology, 4 vols.; Agriculture, 4 vols.; Palaeontology, 2 vols	Albany	1842-52	USD -	Unknown
184	OWEN (RICHARD)	Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates	London	1866-68	USD -	Unknown
185	PRITCHARD (ANDREW)	A History of Infusoria, including the Desmidiacese and Diatomacea?, British and Foreign	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
186	TENNEY (S.)	A Manual of Zoology	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
187	VAN DER HOEVEN (J.)	Handbook of Zoology	Cambridge (England)	1856	USD -	Unknown
188	WOOD (J. G.) AND HOLDER (J. B.)	Animate Creation. A Popular Edition of Our Living World, a Natural History	New York	[1885]	USD -	Unknown
189	WOOLE (FRANCIS)	Diatomacese of North America	Bethlehem (Pennsylvania)	1890	USD -	Unknown
190	YARRELL (WILLIAM)	A History of British Fishes	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
191		TREASURY OP NATURAL HISTORY (THE), [Maunder], illust., 1874; A Manual of Human Microscopic Anatomy [Kolliker], illust., 1860; and others			USD -	Unknown
192	Dr. Edwin Klebs, Dr. B. Nauuyn, Dr. O. Schiniedeberg, etc.	ARCHIV FÜR EXPERIMENTELLE PATHOLOGIE UND PHARMAKOLOGIE, herausgegeben von Dr. Edwin Klebs, Dr. B. Nauuyn, Dr. O. Schiniedeberg, etc	Leipzig	1873-93	USD -	Unknown
193	BECKURTS (HEINRICH)	Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Pharmacognosie, Pharmacie und Toxicologie	Gottingen	1884-89	USD -	Unknown
194	BECKURTS (HEINRICH)	Jahresbericht der Pharmacie. 1893, 4, 5, 7, 8, and one part of 1891	Gottingen	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
195		BOWDOIN SCIENTIFIC REVIEW (THE): A Fortnightly Journal. Vols. 1-2 (all issued?)	Brunswick, Maine	1870-72	USD -	Unknown
196	Baxter (J. H.)	CIVIL WAR. Statistics, Medical and Anthropological, derived from Records of the Examination for Military Service, etc	Washington	1875	USD -	Unknown
197		CIVIL WAR. Medical and Surgical History of the War. Surgical, 3 vols., and Medical, Vol. I., with Appendix	Washington	1883, etc.	USD -	Unknown
198	CULLERIER (M. A.)	Atlas of Venereal Diseases	Philadelphia	1868	USD -	Unknown
199	Henry Power and L. W. Sedgwick	DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences (based on Mayne's Lexicon)	London	1879-92	USD -	Unknown

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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.

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