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
200	DRAGENDORFF (DR. G.)	Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Pharmacognosie, Pharmacie, Toxicologie. Vols. 10, 12, 13, 14	Gottingen	1876-79	USD -	Unknown
201	FONTANA (FELIX)	Traité sur le Venin de la Vipère sur les Poisons Américains sur le Laurier-Cerise, et sur quelques autres Poisons Végétaux	Florence	1781	USD -	Unknown
202		INDEX-CATALOGUE of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army	Washington	1880-95	USD -	Unknown
203		INDEX MEDICUS: A Monthly Classified Record of the Current Medical Literature of the World. Vols. 1-13 COMPLETE (1879 to 1891)	New York	1879-91	USD -	Unknown
204	Geo. J. Engelmann	LABOR AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLE, showing the Development of the Obstetric Science of to-day from the Natural and Instinctive Customs of all Races, Civilized and Savage, Past and Present	St. Louis	1883	USD -	Unknown
205	MILLSPAUGH (C. F.)	Index to the Hom?opathic Remedies	Binghamton, New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
206	ORFTLA (M. P.)	Traité des Poisons tirés des Règnes Minéral, Végétal et Animal or Toxicologie Générale, etc	Paris	1818	USD -	Unknown
207		PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL and Transactions.	London	1842-67	USD -	Unknown
208	Duhring (Louis A.)	SKIN DISEASES. Atlas of Skin Diseases	Philadelphia	1876	USD -	Unknown
209		SKIN DISEASES. Taylor (Robert), A Clinical Atlas of Venereal and Skin Diseases, with colored plates (one pt. lacks cover and 2 pp. torn), Philadelphia 1889; An Atlas of Illustrations of Pathology, issued by the N. S. S. of London, in parts (not quite perf	London, etc.	1877-89	USD -	Unknown
210	FREY (HEIN.)	Das Mikroskop und die Mikroskopische Technik	Leipzig	1871	USD -	Unknown
211		JOURNAL of the Royal Microscopical Society, containing its Transactions and Proceedings, with other Microscopical Information.	London	1878-91	USD -	Unknown
212	LANKESTER (EDWIN) AND BUSK (GEORGE, Editors)	Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. From Vol. 8, N. S. [1868], to Vol. 21, N. S. [1881], inclusive	London	1868-81	USD -	Unknown
213	LAWSON (HENRY, Editor)	The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society and Record of Histological Research, at home and abroad	London	1869-77	USD -	Unknown
214		PHOTOGRAPHS.			USD -	Unknown
215		AUDUBON'S BIRDS. Twenty-five of the finely colored plates to the 1860 edition of Audubon's Birds of America, ?			USD -	Unknown
216		PRINT CABINET. A handsome and well-made black wood print cabinet, the interior measurement 40 1/2 x 30 in., on easel stand with brass supports			USD -	Unknown
217	BLACKBURN (MRS. H.)	Birds from Moidart and Elsewhere	Edinburgh	1895	USD -	Unknown
218	BREE (C. R.)	A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles	London	1866-67	USD -	Unknown
219	KEULEMANS (J. G.)	A Natural History of Cage Birds	London	[1871]	USD -	Unknown
220	William H. Emory	MEXICO. Report of the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey	Washington	1857-59	USD -	Unknown
221	MURRAY (ANDREW, Editor)	The Journal of Travel and Natural History (containing orig. articles on birds, etc.)	London	[circa 1875]	USD -	Unknown
222	Annie Martin	OSTRICH FARMING. Home Life on an Ostrich Farm	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
223	SEEBOHM (HENRY)	The Birds of Siberia. A Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchara and Yenesei	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
224	WHEELOCK (I. G.)	The Birds of California (over 300)	Chicago	1904	USD -	Unknown
225	YARRELL (WILLIAM)	A History of British Birds	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
226		ART FOLIO (THE): A Popular Monthly Magazine	Providence	1883	USD -	Unknown
227		ATLANTIC MONTHLY (THE). Vols. 51, 52, 53, 51, 59 and 60	Boston	1883-87	USD -	Unknown
228		BANJO AND GUITAR. Holland's Method for Guitar, Melodies, etc., etc	Boston, etc.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
229	Andrew W. Tuer	BARTOLOZZI. Bartolozzi and his Works	London	[1881]	USD -	Unknown
230	BOOTH (EDWIN)	Memorial Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Birth of Edwin Booth (at the Players' Club)	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
231		CENTURY MAGAZINE. Nov. 1881-April 1882; May-Oct. 1882; Nov. 1882-April 1883; May-Oct. 1883; Nov. 1883-Apl. 1884; May-Oct. 1884; Nov. 1884-Apl. 1885; being Vols XXIII.-XXIX., inclusive	New York	1881-85	USD -	Unknown
232	CERVANTES	The History of Don Quixote	London		USD -	Unknown
233		CIVIL WAR. Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
234	CLARKSON (L.)	The Rag Fair, and other Reveries	Philadelphia	1879	USD -	Unknown
235		CLASSICAL DICTIONARY (A), [Lempriere]; The Vicar of Wakefield. [Goldsmith], illust.; The Ladies' Guide to Perfect Beauty [Walker], 1867; and others			USD -	Unknown
236	Dagley (R.)	DANCE OF DEATH. Death's Doings: Original Compositions in Prose and Verse, etc	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
237	Ed. Goldsmid, Editor	DEVILS OF LOUDUN (The History of the), the Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the Trial and Execution of Urbain Grandier	Edinburgh	1887	USD -	Unknown
238	Skeat (Walter W.)	DICTIONARY. Etymological Dictionary of the English Language	Oxford	1882	USD -	Unknown
239	T. E. Pemberton	DRAMA. A Memoir of Edward Askew Sothern	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
240	[ECLECTIC MAGAZINE]	ECLECTIC MAGAZINE, N. S. Vols. 37-40	New York	1883-84	USD -	Unknown
241	Brugsch-Bey (Henry)	EGYPT. A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, derived entirely from Monuments	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
242		ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. A Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences and Literature	Boston (Edinburgh-printed)	1875	USD -	Unknown
243		ENCYCLOPAEDIA. Chambers's Encyclopedia	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
244		ETCHINGS. Catalogue of the Art Collection of Henry T. Chapman	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
245		EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS to ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean	Washington	1855, etc.	USD -	Unknown
246	Littré (E.)	FRENCH DICTIONARY. Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 4 vols., and THE SUPPLEMENT, 1 vol	Paris	1875-77	USD -	Unknown
247	Joel Chandler Harris	GRADY (HENRY W.) Life, including his Speeches and Writings	New York	[1890]	USD -	Unknown
248		HARPER'S BAZAAR, Jan 1, 1891-Dec 31, 1891, Vol. 24	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
249		HARPER'S WEEKLY, Jan., 1886-Dec., 1886; Jan.-Dec., 1887; Jan.-Dec., 1888; Jan.-Dec., 1889; Jan.-Dec., 1890; Jan.-Dec., 1891; Jan.-Dec., 1892; being Vols. 30-36 inclusive	New York	1886-1892	USD -	Unknown
250		HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Vols. 64-85 inclusive (not consecutive)	New York	1881-1892	USD -	Unknown
251	Anatole France	HEARN (LAFCADIO). The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Member of the Institute)	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
252	Charlotte M. Yonge	HISTORY OF THE WORLD. A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations	New York	[1882]	USD -	Unknown
253	W. Kennet	HOLBEIN PLATES. The Praise of Folly, made English from the Latin of Erasmus, by W. Kennet	London	1740	USD -	Unknown
254		HUMAN LIFE, Jan.-June, 1883; June-Dec., 1883; June-Dec., 1885; and other years			USD -	Unknown
255		HUMAN LIFE, Puck, Sept., 1885, to Feb., 1886; being Vol. XVIII	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
256		ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN (THE), Vols. 3-7	New York	1890-1891	USD -	Unknown
257		MAGAZINE OF ART (THE), (Cassell's) Enlarged Series, Vols. 5-9 inclusive	London	1882-86	USD -	Unknown
258	James Grant Wilson, Editor	NEW YORK. The Memorial History of the City of New York, from its First Settlement to the year 1892	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
259	James Grant Wilson, Editor	NEW YORK. The Memorial History of the City of New York, from its First Settlement to the year 1892	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
260	Charas (Moyse)	OLD CHEMISTRY. Pharmacopée Royale Galenique et Chymique	Paris	1782	USD -	Unknown
261		OLD PRINTS.	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
262	[OUTING]	OUTING, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation, Vols. 6, 8 and 9	Boston	1885-87	USD -	Unknown
263	Philip Gilbert Hamerton	PARIS, in Old and Present Times	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
264	Mary Olmsted Stanton	PHYSIOGNOMY. A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy; or, How to Read Faces	Philadelphia	1890	USD -	Unknown
265	SCHIEBLE (J.)	Die Fliegenden Blätter des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts, in sogenannten Ginblatt-Drucke mit Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten, etc	Stuttgart	1850	USD -	Unknown
266		SCHOOL-BOY (THE) [O. W. Holmes], ?			USD -	Unknown
267	Mrs. Cowden-Clarke	SHAKESPEARE. The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare: A Verbal Index to all the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
268		SIR PERCIVAL [Shorthouse], 1887, FIRST EDN.; Country Cousins, Short Studies in U. S. Natural History [Ingersoll], illust., 1884; and others			USD -	Unknown
269		THOMAS FAMILY. Genealogical Notes, containing the Pedigree of the Thomas Family of Maryland	Baltimore	1877	USD -	Unknown
270	WYCHERLEY	The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar	London	[circa 1885]	USD -	Unknown
271		YOUTH'S COMPANION.	Boston	1883-1895	USD -	Unknown
272	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	Albertus Magnus de Secretis Muliorum (and Michaelis Scoti de Secretis Naturae, and Francisco Barbaro de Re Uxoria)	Amsterdam	1648	USD -	Unknown
273	M. Hieronymo Braunschweigen Colligiert	DISTILLING. Distilierbuch der rechten Kunst, etc	Frankfurt	1551	USD -	Unknown
274	FABER (JOHANN MATTHEUS)	Strychnomania explicans Strychni Manici antiquorum vel Solani Furiosi recentiorum Historié monumentum, Indolis nocumentum, Antidoti documentum	[Augsburg]	1677	USD -	Unknown
275		POISONOUS PLANTS. Neues Vollständiges Giftbuch, worin Gelehrte und Ungelehrte etwas zu ihrem Nutzen finden werden	Chur	1835	USD -	Unknown
276		RARE GERMAN HERBAL ILLUSTRATED.	Franckfurt a/M	1588	USD -	Unknown
277	MATTHIOLUS (P. A.)	RARE GERMAN HERBAL ILLUSTRATED.	Basle	1678	USD -	Unknown
278	Neander (J.)	TOBACCO. Tobacologia: Hoc est, Tabaci, seu Nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-phar-maceutica, etc	[Leyden]	[1622]	USD -	Unknown
279		TOBACCO. Jo. Chrysostomi Magneni... Exercitationes de Tabaco, (also) de Manna			USD -	Unknown
280		TOBACCO AND TEA. Simonis Paulli, Commentarius de abusu Tabaci Americanorum veteri, et Herbae Thee Asiaticorum in Europa novo	Argentorati Strasburg	1665	USD -	Unknown
281	WEPFER (JOHANN JACOBO)	Cicutæ Aquaticæ Historia et Noxæ	Basle	1679	USD -	Unknown
282	WITTICH (JOHANN)	Von den wunderbaren Bezoardischen Steinen, etc	Leipzig	1589	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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.