Anderson Galleries: THE LIBRARY of Henry W. Poor of New York City. Part III. Afternoons and Evenings January 12, 13, 14, 1909. The Anderson Auction Company. 12 East 46th. Treet, New York., 715,

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January 12, 1909 - January 12, 1909
Page Size: 1015 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABBOTT (C. C.) Primitive Industry; or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in stone, bone and clay, of the Native Races ... Salem

1881

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2 ACADEMY (A NEW) of Compliments; or, The Lover's Secretary, being Wit and Mirth improved in the Art ... London

[circa 1740]

USD - Unknown
3 ADAMS (J. Q.) Report upon Weights and Measures. Prepared in Obedience to a Resolution of the Senate of the Third ... Washington

1821

USD - Unknown
4 ADAMS (OSCAR FAY) A Dictionary of American Authors. Boston and New York

1905

USD - Unknown
5 ADDISON (JOSEPH) Works. London

1721

USD - Unknown
6 AGASSIZ (LOUIS) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Boston

1857-62

USD - Unknown
7 ALAIN DE LILLE Anti Claudiani singulari festivitate, lepore et elegantia poetae; libri IX. Basileae

1536

USD - Unknown
8 ALBERUNI'S INDIA. An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs ... London

1887

USD - Unknown
9 ALDINE PRESS.--Politianus (Angelus). Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna. Venetiis

1498

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10 ALDINE PRESS.--Valerius Maximus. Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem. Venetiis

1502

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11 ALDINE PRESS.--Suida. Lexicon Graecum. Venetiis

1514

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12 ALDINE PRESS.--Lactantius. L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani divinarum institutionum libri septem. De ira ... Venetiis

1515

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13 ALDINE PRESS.--Svetonius. C. Svetonii Tranquilli XII. Caesares. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a D. Caesare ... Venetiis

1516

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14 ALDINE PRESS.--Sallustius. Opera. Venetiis

1521

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15 Ilias (graece) ALDINE PRESS.--Homerus. Venetiis

1524

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16 Fortunio (Francesco) ALDINE PRESS.--Regole Grammaticali Della Volgar Lingua. Vinegia

1545

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17 ALDINE PRESS.--Florilegium diversorum Epigraminatum (graece). Venetiis

1550

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18 Parisetus (Ludovicus) ALDINE PRESS. -- Ad Valium Toloinaeuin fratrem Theopoeiae, libri sex. Venetiis

1550

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19 Manutius (Paulus) ALDINE PRESS.--Antiquitatum Romanarum Pauli Manutii Liber de Legibus. Venetiis

1559

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20 ALDINE PRESS.--Sallustius. Coniuratio Catilinae et Bellum Jugurthinum, et Fragmenta eiusdem ... Venetiis

1567

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21 ALDINE PRESS.--Caesar. C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii, cum scholiis Errici Glareani. Venetiis

1569

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22 ALDINE PRESS.--Terentius. P. Terentius Afer a M. A. Mureto emendatus. Eiusdem Mureti Argumenta et ... Venetiis

1575

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23 ALDINE PRESS.--Audebertus (Germanus). Venetiae. Venetiis

1583

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24 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Poems (including 9 pieces now first collected). Boston

1865

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25 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Jubilee Days. An Illustrated Daily Record of the Humorous Features of the World's Peace Jubilee. Boston

1872

USD - Unknown
26 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Prudence Palfrey. A Novel. Boston

1875

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27 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) The Queen of Sheba. Boston

1877

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28 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Baby Bell, with illusts., 1878; From Ponkapog to Pesth, 1883; Unguarded Gates, and other Poems, 1895 ... Boston

1878-1895

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29 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) The Stillwater Tragedy, 1880; Later Lyrics, 1896; Another Copy of Later Lyrics, vellum wrappers ... Boston

1880-96

USD - Unknown
30 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY--with M. O. W. Oliphant) The Second Son, 1888; The Sisters' Tragedy, with other Poems, 1881; Unguarded Gates, and other Poems ... Boston

1888-95

USD - Unknown
31 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Two Bites at a Cherry, with other Tales. Boston

1894

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32 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book. Boston

1896

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33 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston

1897

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34 ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY) A Sea Turn and other Matters. Boston

1902

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35 ALEXANDER DE ALES Summa Universae Theologke. Pars I. Initials printed in blue and red. Nurenbergae

1482

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36 ALISON (ARCHIBALD) History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons ... Edinburgh

1849-59

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37 AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Transactions. Vols. I and II. New York

1845-48

USD - Unknown
38 ANACREON. Anacreontis Carmina cum Sapphonis, et Alcaei Fragmentis. Graece et Latine. Philadelphiae

1810

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39 ANACREON. The Odes of Anacreon, literally translated into English Prose. York

1796

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40 Edited by A. H. Bullen ANACREON. The Odes of Anacreon. New York

1901

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41 ANDERSEN (H. C) Stories and Fairy Tales. London

1893

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42 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Madame Eliza B. Jumel. Obituary in the New York Times of July 18th, 1865. New York

1865

USD - Unknown
43 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Fanny: A Poem by Fitz-Greene Halleck. New York

1866

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44 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) and MATTHEWS (W.) Bookbinding. New York

1895

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45 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Fragments of American History, illustrated solely by the Works of those of our own Engravers who ... New York

1898

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46 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Eugravers of Portraits in Miniature. New York

1899

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47 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden. New York

1901

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48 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Bibliopegy in the United States and kindred Subjects. New York

1902

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49 APULEIUS. The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works of Apuleius. London

1822

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50 Charles Stuttaford APULEIUS. The Story of Cupid and Psyche. London

1903

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51 [ARNOLD (MATTHEW).] The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems. Loud.

1849

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52 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Poems, 1853; On Translating Homer. London

1853-61

USD - Unknown
53 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Merope, a Tragedy. London

1858

USD - Unknown
54 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) On the Study of Celtic Literature (binding loose), 1867; Literature and Dogma, 1873. Both First edns ... London and New York

1867-96

USD - Unknown
55 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Literature and Dogma. London

1874

USD - Unknown
56 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) God and the Bible. London

1875

USD - Unknown
57 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Poems. Narrative, Lyric, Dramatic, and Elegiac, with Early and Later Poems. London

1881

USD - Unknown
58 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Isaiah of Jerusalem in the authorised English version. London

1883

USD - Unknown
59 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Empedocles on Etna, a Dramatic Poem. Portland, Me.

1900

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60 ARNOLD (WILLIAM HARRIS) First Report of a Book-Collector, comprising a Brief Answer to the frequent Question Why First ... Jamaica, New York

1897-98

USD - Unknown
61 ASHENDENE PRESS.--The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolete. Chelsea

1900

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62 ASHENDENE PRESS.--The Boke of the Revelacion off Sanct John the Divine, done into English by William ... Chelsea

1901

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63 ASHEMDEXE PRESS.--Lo Inferno Di Dante Alighieri Florentine With woodcuts by C. Keats, after the ... Chelsea

1902

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64 ASHENDENE PRESS.-- Quinti Horati Flacci Carruina Alcaica. Chelsea

1903

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65 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Quinti Horati Flacci Carmini Alcaica. Chelsea

1903

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66 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Quinti Horati Flacci Carmina Sapphica. Chelsea

1903

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67 ASHENDENE PRESS--A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners. Chelsea

1904

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68 ASHENDENE PRESS.--A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Chelsea

1904

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69 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Lo Purgatorio di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino. Chelsea

1904

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70 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Lo Purgatorio Di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino. Chelsea

1904

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71 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Un Mazzetto Scelto di certi Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo San ... Chelsea

1904

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72 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Chelsea

1904

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73 ASITENDENE PRESS.--Lo Paradiso Di Dante Alighieri. Chelsea

1905

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74 ASHENDENE PRESS.--Lo Paradiso Di Dante Alighieri. Chelsea

1905

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75 AUBERT (CHARLES) Les Nouvelles Amoureuses. Paris

n. d.

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76 AUBERTIN (J. J.) Seventy Sonnets of Camoens. London

1881

USD - Unknown
77 AUGUSTINE (ST.) The Confessions in ten books. London

1900

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78 BACON (FRANCIS) The | Two Bookes of | Francis Bacon | Of the Proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and ... London

1605

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79 BACON (FRANCIS) Certain Miscellany Works of the Right Honovrable Francis Lo. London

1629

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80 BACON (FRANCIS) The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Coulors of Good and Evil, and a ... London

1706

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81 Ruskin (John) BALLANTYNE PRESS.--Of Kings Treasuries. London

1902

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82 BALZAC (HONORIE DE) Les Contes Drolatiques, collegez Abbayes de Touraine, et mis en Lumiere par le Sieur de Balzac. Paris

1855

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83 BALZAC (HONORE DE) A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitants. New York

1900

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84 BANVILLE (THEODORE DE) OEuvres: Les Cariatides, Roses de Noel, Les Stalactites, Le Sang de la Coupe, Les Exiles, Idylles ... Paris

1889-91

USD - Unknown
85 BARBERA'S ITALIAN AUTHORS. Poesie di Lorenzo de' Medici, 1859; Rime e Lettere di Vittoria Colonna ... Firenze

1859-89

USD - Unknown
86 BARLOW (JOEL) The Columbiad. A Poem. Philadelphia

1807

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87 BASKERVILLE PRESS.--Select Fables of Esop, and other Fabulists, in three Books. Birmingham

1764

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88 BATTDOIN (JEAN) Mythologie ou Explication des Fables. Oeuvre cy-devant traduite (from the Latin of Natalis de ... Paris

1627

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89 BEAMISH (N. L.) The Discovery of America by the Northmen in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements ... London

1841

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90 BEHA-ED-DINZOHEIR. Poetical Works. The Original Text, with a metrical English translation, notes and ... London

1877

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91 BERNARD (SAINT) Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis. Bruxelles

1481

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92 BIBLE: ENGLISH. The Bible transl. according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best ... London

1611

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93 BIBLE: FRENCH. La Sainte Bible traduite en Francois (par Sacy), le Latin de la Vulgate a cote, avec ... Liege

1701

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94 BIBLE: LATIN. Biblia Latina. Nuremberg

1477

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95 BIBLE: LATIN. Biblia Latina. Biblia integra, summata, distincta, accuratius reemendata, utriusque ... Basileae

1495

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96 BIBLIOTHECA ANGLO-POETICA; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of Early ... London

1815

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97 BIGELOW (JOHN) The Mystery of Sleep. New York

1903

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98 Toland (J.) BINDING.--The Life of John Milton with Amyntor; or, A Defense of Milton's Life. London

1761

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99 BINDING.--Riccoboni (Mme.). Histoire d'Aloise de Livarot. Paris

1780

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100 Rossi (Ignatius) BINDING.--Commentationes Laertianae. Romae

1788

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