Anderson Galleries: THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF M. PIERRE BUTTNER late of Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine. Embracing a Remarkable Collection of Scarce Works on Costumes with thousands of Colored Plates; Finely Illustrated Works; Typography, Bibliography and Engraving; Curious and Out-, 692,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 12, 1908 - June 12, 1908

Page Size: 355 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ALPHABETS. Echantillons d'Alphabets a l'usage des artistes.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
2		ALSACE-LORRAINE. Die Alteste Teutsche so wol Allgemeine als insonderheit Elsassische und Straszburgische Chronicke von Jacob von Koningshoven; von Anfang der Welt bisz 1386 ...	Straszburg	1698	USD -	Unknown
3	Rene Menard	ALSACE-LORRAINE. L'art de.	Paris	1876	USD -	Unknown
4		ALSACE-LORRAINE. Chronicum Abbatis Urspergensis, a Nino Rege Assyriorum Magno, usque ad Fridericum II., Romanorum Imperatorem, ex optimi autoribus, Josepho, Eusebio, Orosio, etc.	Agentorati; apud Cratonem Mylium	1537	USD -	Unknown
5	C. M. Engelhardt	ALSACE-LORRAINE. Herrad von Landsperg, Uebtissin zu Hohenburg, oder St. Odilien, im Elsasz, im Zwolften Jahrhundert; und ihr Werk.	Stuttgart	1828	USD -	Unknown
6		ALSACE. Nouveau voyage de Grece, de Palestine, d'Egypte, d'Italie, de Suisse, d'Alsace, et des Pais-Bas, 1721-23.	A La Haye	1724	USD -	Unknown
7		ALSACE. Bibliotheque Alsatique. Catalogue des livres, manuscrits, dessins, gravures, etc., de feu M. F. C. Heitz.	Strasbourg	1868	USD -	Unknown
8	E. Tuefferd et H. Ganier	ALSACE. Recits et legendes d'.	Paris	n. d. [circa 1875]	USD -	Unknown
9		ALSACE-LORRAINE. Vues pittoresques des environs de la Montagne de Ste. Odile, dessinees d'apres nature et lithographiees par un Amateur. (51 views, including some inserted.)	Strassbourg	circa, 1830	USD -	Unknown
10		ALSATICA, Catalogue des, de la bibliotheque de Oscar Berger-Levranlt.	Nancy	1886	USD -	Unknown
11		ALSATISCHE SAITENKLANGE. Sammtliche Gedichte von C. F. Hartmann.	Straszburg	1848	USD -	Unknown
12	Vasco Lobeira	AMADIS OF GAUL. By Vasco Lobeira. From the Spanish Version of Garciodonez de Montalvo, by Robert Southey.	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
13	J. A. Doyle	AMERICA, English Colonies in.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICA. Weltbuch \| spiegel und bildenis des gantzen Erdtbodens \| von Sebastiano Franco Wordensi inn vier bucher \| namlich in Asiam \| Aphricam \| Europam und Americam, etc.	n. p.	1542	USD -	Unknown
15		AMERICAN ART REVIEW (The). Hundreds of choice etchings and other engravings.	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
16	[Seba Smith.]	AMERICAN HUMOR. Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, to Mr. Dwight.	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
17		AMERICAN HUMOR. Quodlibet: Some Annals Thereof, etc.	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	Unknown
18	F. S. Cozzens	AMERICAN HUMOR. The Sparrowgrass Papers.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
19	Gen. Louis P. di Cesnola	ARCHAEOLOGY. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples.	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
20	P. Lacombe	ARMES et les Armures (Les.)	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
21		ARMS AND ARMOR. Der Rittersaal. Eine Geschichte des Ritterthums, seines Eutstehens und Fortgangs, seiner Gebrauche und Sitten. Artistisch erlautert von Friedrich Martin von ...	Stuttgart	1842	USD -	Unknown
22	Alexandre Gueyton, orfevre	ARMURERIE, L'Art dans l'.	Paris	1850	USD -	Unknown
23		ART. Die Kunstsachen, Waffen, Mobielien, Gemalde, etc. (Catalogue.)	Koln	1890	USD -	Unknown
24		AUTOGRAPHS. Ceci c'est l'Albnm et Abibi Bibi c'est Buttner.			USD -	Unknown
25		BAILEY'S DICTIONARY of the English Language.	London		USD -	Unknown
26	Tom Taylor	BALLADS AND SONGS of Brittany.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
27		BALZAC. Contes drolatiques. 425 dessins par Gustave Dore. 6e ed.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
28	Ferdinand Reiber	BEER. Eludes Gambrinales. Histoire et archeologie de la biere et principalement de la biere de Strasbourg.	Paris	1882	USD -	Unknown
29	BENYOWSKY (M. A., COUNT DE)	Memoirs and Travels (Poland, Kamchatka, Japan, Formosa, China, and Madagascar).	Dublin	1790	USD -	Unknown
30	M. P. Louisy	BIBLIOGRAPHY. L'Ancienne France. Le livre et les arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siecle.	Paris	1886	USD -	Unknown
31	Geo. Haven Putnam	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
32		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Geschichte der Manesse'schen Handschrift.	Paris	1850	USD -	Unknown
33	Richard De Bury, Bp	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Philobiblon: a Treatise on the Love of Books.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
34	le Sieur Le Gallois	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Traite des plus belles bibliotheques de l'Europe. Des premiers Livres; l'lnvention de l'lmprimerie; Imprimeurs; etc.	Paris	1680	USD -	Unknown
35		BLACK LETTER. Romische Keyser abcontrauegt vom ersten Caio Julio, etc.	Straszburg	1526	USD -	Unknown
36	BOLINGBROKE (LORD.)	Works.	Dublin	1793	USD -	Unknown
37		BUNYAN. The Pilgrim's Progress.	Hartford	1824	USD -	Unknown
38		CANADA. Loose Leaves, from the Portfolio of a Late Patriot Prisoner in Canada.	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
39		CARICATURE. Der Hans im Schnokeloch.	[Strasburg]	1860	USD -	Unknown
40	CHATEAUBRIAND.	Recollections of Italy, England, and America, with Essays.	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
41	John Davis	CHATTERTON (THOMAS). Life.	London	n. d. [ca. 1810]	USD -	Unknown
42	le Baron de Bonstetten	CHEVALERESQUES, Romans et Epopees, de l'Allemagne au Moyen Age.	Paris	1847	USD -	Unknown
43	M. de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye	CHE VALERIE, Memoires sur l'ancienne.	Paris	1781	USD -	Unknown
44	J. S. C. Abbott	CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, History of the.	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
45	CLEMENS.	Roughing It.	Hartford	1872	USD -	Unknown
46	[Hon. Algernon Bourke.]	CLUBS. The History of White's, with the Betting Book from 1743 to 1878, and a List of Members from 1736 to 1892.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
47	Henry Garnier	COSTUMES des regiments et des milices recrutes dans les anciennes provinces d'Alsace et de La Sarre, le Duche de Lorraine, etc., pendant les XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles.	Epinal	1882	USD -	Unknown
48		COSTUMES Alsace franÃ§oise ou nouveau recueil de ce qu'il y de plus curieux dans la Ville de Strasbourg.	Strasbourg	1706	USD -	Unknown
49		COSTUMES d'Alsace et du Grand-Duche de Bade.	Strasbourg	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
50	August Demmin	COSTUME, Ancient Military. Die Kriegswaffen in ihrer historischen Entwickelung von der Steinzeit bis zur Erflndung des Zundnadesgewehrs.	Leipzig	1869	USD -	Unknown
51		COSTUMES. Armee FranÃ§aise. Nouvel Alphabet Militaire.	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
52		COSTUMES. Blatter fur Kostumkunde, Historisch und Volks-Trachten. Texte von Carl Emil Doepler.	Berlin	1877	USD -	Unknown
53		COSTUMES. Encyclopedie methodique. Recueil d'antiqnites. 97 plates of costumes, armor, weapons, etc.; over 600 figures.	Paris	1804	USD -	Unknown
54	Joachim Ambert	COSTUMES. Esquisses historiques, psychologiques et critiques l'Armee FranÃ§aise.	Saumur	1837	USD -	Unknown
55		COSTUMES. Evidens designatio receptissimarum, etc.	Argentorati	1606	USD -	Unknown
56		COSTUMES. Das Goldene Ehrenbucb der Gewerbe und Zunfte, etc.	Nurnberg	1834	USD -	Unknown
57		COSTUMES. Kosmopolitischen Museum. Abtheilung Elsasz.	Paris.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
58		COSTUMES. De gentuum aliquot migrationibus, etc.	Francofurti	1600	USD -	Unknown
59		COSTUMES. Einzug Ludwig XV. in Strassburg, 1744. Consisting of 59 very neat and spirited original pencil and pen-and-ink Strasburg costume sketches, one hand-colored; drawn by ...		1744	USD -	Unknown
60		COSTUMES. Manuel des authories constituees de la Republique FranÃ§aise.	Paris	1797	USD -	Unknown
61		COSTUMES. Modes franÃ§aises.			USD -	Unknown
62		COSTUMES. Military Journal de Marche du Sergent Fricasse, 1792-1802.	Paris	1882	USD -	Unknown
63	Emanuel Herrmann	COSTUMES. Naturgeschichte der Kleidung.	Wien	1878	USD -	Unknown
64		COSTUMES. Original Photographien. Volkstrachten im Bad Schwarzwald.	Tryberg	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
65		COSTUMES. Representation des modes en Alsace.			USD -	Unknown
66		COSTUMES. Representants du Peuple FranÃ§ais, 1796. 26 superb costume plates of the French Revolutionary period, all strikingly colored by hand.		1796	USD -	Unknown
67	J. Malliot	COSTUMES. Recherches sur les costumes, les moeurs, les usages, etc., des anciens peuples.	Paris	1804	USD -	Unknown
68		COSTUMES. 22 fantastic colored plates of ball costumes.			USD -	Unknown
69		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of 23 colored and illuminated antique costume plates, embracing numerous figures.			USD -	Unknown
70		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of 38 theatrical plates, mounted, mostly hand-colored.			USD -	Unknown
71		COSTUMES. Le theatre illustre.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
72		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of 62 plates, mostly colored, some illumed, comprising hundreds of figures.			USD -	Unknown
73		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of 82 colored costume plates, comprising hundreds of figures.			USD -	Unknown
74		COSTUMES. Costumes de Travissement, Album de; Ebhardt's Masken-Album; etc. (odd parts).	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
75		COSTUMES. 118 plates, mostly colored, some hand-colored, with a few originals.			USD -	Unknown
76		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of about 200 costume plates, mainly colored, with some originals.			USD -	Unknown
77		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of over 200 colored and other costume plates, some hand-colored, including colored and other original drawings.			USD -	Unknown
78		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of 242 plates, many colored and hand-colored, including a few originals, and comprising many hundreds of figures.			USD -	Unknown
79		COSTUMES. Hundreds of engravings depicting costumes, arms and armor, objects of art, etc., including some original drawings, and a very curious colored folding plate (German ...			USD -	Unknown
80		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book containing over 250 costume and military engravings, many colored, and including some originals, tracings, etc.			USD -	Unknown
81		COSTUMES. Scrap-Book of nearly 300 costume plates, mostly colored, many hand-colored, with a number of original paintings, drawings and tracings.			USD -	Unknown
82		COSTUMES. Two extremely choice and elegant original paintings, most superbly colored in many shades, and illumined, depicting Chinese male and female costume of the higher classes.			USD -	Unknown
83		COSTUMES. Costumes Strasbourgeois. Twenty-seven very neat mounted miniature Strasbourg costume plates, in black and white.			USD -	Unknown
84	Ad. Seyboth	COSTUMES. Essai historique sur le service des incendies et des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Strasbourg.	Strasbourg	1883	USD -	Unknown
85		COSTUMES. Extract aus der Stadt Straszburg Kleider-Ordnung, De Anno 1660 & 1678.	[Straszburg]	1685	USD -	Unknown
86		COSTUMES. Costumes des Femmes de Strasbourg (XVIIe et et XVIIIe Siecles).	Strasbourg	1880	USD -	Unknown
87		COSTUMES. Costumes Strasbourgeois (Homines) (XVIe, XVIIe & XVIIIe Siecles).	Strasbourg	1881	USD -	Unknown
88		COSTUMES. Strosburrjer Helje.			USD -	Unknown
89		COSTUMES. Strassburger Frachten Buchlein.	Strasbourg	1881	USD -	Unknown
90	J. Badoul	COSTUMES. Supplement au Dictionnaire d'Alsace.	Strasbourg	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
91		COSTUMES. Theatres de Paris, Vol. 7.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
92	Carl Kohler	COSTUMES. Die Trachten der Volker in Bild und Schuitt.	Dresden	1873	USD -	Unknown
93	A. L. Castellan	COSTUMES. Turkey: a Description of the Manners, Customs, Dresses, etc.	Philadelphia	1829	USD -	Unknown
94	CRANE (WALTER)	Renascence: a Book of Verse. Woodcuts.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
95		CURIOUS. De l'abus des nudites de gorge. Attribue a l'Abbe J. Boileau.	Paris	1858	USD -	Unknown
96		CURIOUS. Chronique du Cercle Vicieux de Strasbourg, 1867-76, compilee par le Frere Coleo (privately printed and limited to 50 copies); [and] E. Klaan's Audenke (Poem), illust.; [ ...	Strasburg	1876-9	USD -	Unknown
97	[Coleo.]	CURIOUS. Montague Verte, Au Cercle Vicieux en Souvenir de l'inauguration de son il a la Montagne-Verte.	[Strasbourg]	[1877]	USD -	Unknown
98		CURIOUS. Montagne Verte.	[Strasbourg]	[1877]	USD -	Unknown
99		CURIOUS. La Comedie des tromperies, finesses, et subtilitez de Maitre Pierre Patelin, Advocat a Paris, Piece Comique.	Rouen	1656	USD -	Unknown
100		CURIOUS. Contes et nouvelles en vers, de La Fontaine. Front., title-vignettes, and a choice miniature plate to each tale, all unsigned and engraved on copper.	Amsterdam	1776	USD -	Unknown

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