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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Auction Date
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
901 RIVERSIDE PRESS.--The May-Flower and her Log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621. Boston

1901

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902 Gabriel Naudeus RIVERSIDE PRESS.--Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library, Presented to My Lord the President ... Cambridge

1903

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903 RIVERSIDE PRESS.--Page (C. H.). Songs and Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard. Boston

1903

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904 Higginson (T. W.) RIVERSIDE PRESS.--Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch. Boston

1903

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905 Mackail (J. W.) RIVERSIDE PRESS.--Georgics of Virgil. Boston

1904

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906 RIVERSIDE PRESS.--The Old Manse. [Cambridge]

1904

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907 RIVERSIDE PRESS.--A Consolatorie Letter or Discourse sent by Plutarch of Chaeronea unto his own Wife ... Boston

1905

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908 Norton (C. E.) RIVERSIDE PRESS.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a Sketch of his Life, together with Long-fellow's ... Boston

1907

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909 RIVIUS (W. H.) Bawkunstder Architectur aller furnensten Vothwendigsten angehorigen mathematischen und mechanischen ... Basil

1582

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910 [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE).] Histoire natu-relle et morale des lies Antilles de l'Amerique, avec un Vocabulaire Caraibe. Rotterdam

1658

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911 ROCHESTER (EARL OF) The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, etc. London

1721

USD - Unknown
912 ROMA ILLUSTRATA, sive Antiquitatum Roman-arum Breviarium. Amstelodami

1657

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913 ROUSE (HENRY CLARK) Traveling Around the World with General Nelson A. Miles. Extracts of Home Letters of H. C. Rouse ... New York

1904

USD - Unknown
914 ROWFANT CLUB. Landor's Letter to Emerson. Cleveland

1895

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915 ROWLANDS (SAMUEL) The Bride, reprinted for the first time from a copy of the original edition of 1617, with an ... Boston

1905

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916 [RUGGLES (GEORGE).] Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Maiestate Iacobi Regis Angliae, etc. Londini

1630

USD - Unknown
917 RYCAUT (PAUL) History of the Turkish Empire from 1623 to 1677, containing the Reigns of the three last Emperours ... London

1680

USD - Unknown
918 [SALICETUS (NICOLAUS DE).] Antidotarius animarum. Initials printed in red and blue. Lovanii

[ca. 1485]

USD - Unknown
919 SAVILIUS (H.) In Taciti Histor. Agricolae Vitam, et Commentarius de Militia Romaua. Amstelodami

1649

USD - Unknown
920 SAXE (JOHN G.) Clever Stories of Many Nations rendered in Rhyme. Boston

1865

USD - Unknown
921 SAXE (JOHN G.) The Money-King, and other Poems, portrait, Bost. 1860; The Masquerade, and other Poems, Bost. 1866 ... Boston

1860-72

USD - Unknown
922 SAXON CHRONICLES. Two of the Saxon Chronicles parallel with supplementary extracts from the others. Oxford

1892-99

USD - Unknown
923 SCHEDIUS (ELIAS) De Diis Germanis. Amsterodami

1648

USD - Unknown
924 SCRIBANIUS (CAROLUS) Origines Antuerpiensium. Antuerpiae

1610

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925 SCUDDER (HORACE ELISHA) James Russell Lowell, a Biography. Cambridge

1901

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926 SELDEN (JOHN) Titles of Honor. London

1614

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927 SELDEN (JOHN) Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his Sence of Various Matters of Weight and ... London

1689

USD - Unknown
928 SETTLE (ELKANAH) Sacellum Honoris: a Congratulatory Poem to the Marquis of Tavistock. London

1700

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929 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Sullen Lovers; or, The Impertiuents. A Comedy acted by his Highness the Duke of Yorkes Servants. London

1668

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930 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Sullen Lovers; or, The Impertinents. A Comedy acted by his Highness the Duke of York's Servants. London

1670

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931 SHADWELL (THOMAS) Psyche: a Tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre. London

1675

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932 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Virtuoso: a Comedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre. London

1676

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933 SHADWELL (THOMAS) Epsom Wells. A Comedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre. London

1676

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934 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Woman Captain. A Comedy Acted by His Royal Highness's Servants. London

1680

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935 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest. A Comedy Acted at the Dukes Theatre. London

1682

USD - Unknown
936 SHADWELL (THOMAS) The Amorous Bigotte, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly. A Comedy. London

1690

USD - Unknown
937 SHAFTESBURY (ANTHONY, EARL OF) Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. [London]

1732

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938 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Plays of Shakespeare. London

1825

USD - Unknown
939 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, portraits and ... London

1866 and 1839

USD - Unknown
940 SHELTON (THOMAS) The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. London

1652

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941 SHELTON (THOMAS) The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. London

1652

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942 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Triumph of Peace. A Masque, presented by the Foure Honourable Houses, or Innes of Court. London

1633

USD - Unknown
943 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Young Admirall. As it Was Presented by Her Majesties Servants, at the Private House in Drury ... London

1637

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944 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Brothers, a Comedie, as it was Acted at the Private House in Black Fryers. London

1652

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945 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Impostvre, a Tragi-Comedie, as it was Acted at the Private House in Black Fryers. London

1652

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946 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Cardinal, a Tragedie, as it was acted at the Private House in Black Fryers. London

1652

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947 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Court Secret, a Tragicomedy, never acted, but prepared for the Scene of Black Friers. London

1653

USD - Unknown
948 SHIRLEY (JAMES) The Humorous Courtier, a Comedy, as it hath been Presented with good Applause at the Private House ... Loud.

1640

USD - Unknown
949 SHURTLEFF (NATHANIEL B.) Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eugland. Boston

1853-4

USD - Unknown
950 SHURTLEFF (NATHANIEL B.) Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, printed by order of the Legislature of the ... Boston

1855

USD - Unknown
951 SIBBES (R.) A Fountaine Sealed; or, The Duty of the Sealed to the Spirit, and the worke of the Spirit in Sealing ... London

1637

USD - Unknown
952 SIDNEY (SIR PHILIP) The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia. London

1627

USD - Unknown
953 SIDNEY (SIR PHILIP) The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia, now the eighth time published, with some new additions. London

1633

USD - Unknown
954 SINDIBAD. The Book of Sindibad; or, The Story of the King, his Son, the Damsel, and the Seven Vazirs ... Glasgow

1884

USD - Unknown
955 SLATYER (WILLIAM) The Psalmes of David in 4 Languages and in 4 Parts. London

1643

USD - Unknown
956 SMITH (WILLIAM) The History of the Province of New York, from the First Discovery to the Year 1732. London

1757

USD - Unknown
957 SMITH (WILLIAM) History of Canada, from the First Discovery to the Peace of 1763 (the second volume reads to the ... Quebec

1815

USD - Unknown
958 SPENSER (EDMUND) The Works, with a Glossary explaining the old and obscure words. London

1750

USD - Unknown
959 SPENSER (EDMUND) Epithalamion. With imaginative drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
960 STAPYLTON (ROBERT) Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men described in sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal. London

1660

USD - Unknown
961 [STAPYLTON (ROBERT).] The Stepmother: a Tragi-Comedy, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields by the Duke of York's servants. London

1664

USD - Unknown
962 STENDHAL (MME.) [Marie-Henri Beyle]. La Chartreuse de Parme. Paris

1885

USD - Unknown
963 STEPHENS (JOHN) Satyrical Essayes, Characters and others. Or Accurate and quick Descriptions, fitted to the life of ... London

1615

USD - Unknown
964 Mr. Yorick STERNE (LAURENCE). A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. London

1794

USD - Unknown
965 STOEFFLER (JOANNES) Calendarium Romanum Magnum. Oppenheym

1518

USD - Unknown
966 Rev. Mr. Spence STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS.--A Parallel in the Manner of Plutarch, between a most Celebrate Man of ...

1758

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967 STUBBE (HENRY) A Further Justification of the Present War against the United Netherlands. London

1673

USD - Unknown
968 SULPICIUS SEVERUS. Opera Quae Extant, cum Notis, Illustrata a Victore Giselino. (Sacrae Historiae ... Antwerp

1574

USD - Unknown
969 SWIFT (JONATHAN) A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. London

1704

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970 [SWIFT (JONATHAN).] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, with Copious Notes; A Life of ... London

[1840]

USD - Unknown
971 Lemuel Gulliver SWIFT (JONATHAN). Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London

1894

USD - Unknown
972 TACITUS (C. CORNELIUS) Opera quae extant. Justus Lipsius postremum recensuit. Additi Commentarii aucti emendatique ab ...

1627

USD - Unknown
973 TAYLOR (JOHN) All the Workes of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. At London

1630

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974 TERENTIUS. Comoediae ex emendatissimis ac fide dignissimis codicibus summa diligentia castigatas ... Parisiis

1552

USD - Unknown
975 THIERS (A.) History of the French Revolution, transl., with notes and illustrations, from the most authentic ... London

1838-62

USD - Unknown
976 TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE) OEuvres Completes. De la Democratie en Amerique, 3 vols., 1874-88; L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution ... Paris

1861-88

USD - Unknown
977 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Valerii Maximi Dietorum Faetorvmque memorabilium Libri IX. Amsterdam

1626

USD - Unknown
978 VARENIUS (BERNH.) Geographia Generalis. Amstelodami

1664

USD - Unknown
979 VASARI (GEORGIO) Lives of Seventy of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. New York

1896

USD - Unknown
980 [VENN (HENRY).] The Whole Duty of Mourning, and the great concern of preparing ourselves for Death, by the Author of ... London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
981 VERGILIUS (POLYDORUS) De Rerum Inventoribus libri VIII. Et de Prodigiis libri III. Cum indieibus locupletissimis. Lugd. Batavorum

1644

USD - Unknown
982 VILLES (LES) D'ART CElEBRES Gand & Tournai par H. Hymans, 1902; Cordoue et Grenade par C. E. Schmidt, 1902; Bruges et Ypres par ... Paris

1903-7

USD - Unknown
983 VILLON SOCIETY.--The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour now first completely done into English ... London

1898

USD - Unknown
984 VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) Lettres de M. de Voltaire a ses Amis du Parnasse. Avec des Notes Historiques et Critiques. a Geneve

1766

USD - Unknown
985 VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) OEuvres Completes de Voltaire (avec des avertissements et des Notes par Condorcet, imprimees aux ...

1785-89.

USD - Unknown
986 WALLACE (A. R.) A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes. London

1853

USD - Unknown
987 WALLACE (A. R.) The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a Study of the Revelations of Living and Extinct ... London

1876

USD - Unknown
988 WALLACE (A. R.) Tropical Nature, and other Essays. London

1878

USD - Unknown
989 WALLACE (A. R.) Island Life; or, The Phenomena and Causes of insular Faunas and Floras. London

1880

USD - Unknown
990 WALLACE (A. R.-- Editor) Australasia, with Ethnological Appendix by A. H. Keane. London

1880

USD - Unknown
991 WALLACE (A. R.) Darwinism: an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its Applications. London

1889

USD - Unknown
992 WALLER (EDMUND) Poems, &c. Printed by a copy of his own hand-writing. London

1645

USD - Unknown
993 WALLER (EDMUND) Poems, etc., written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons. London

1664

USD - Unknown
994 WALLER (EDMUND) The Maid's Tragedy Altered. London

1690

USD - Unknown
995 WALPOLE (HORACE) A Collection of the Writings of Horace Walpole, all of which are uniformly bound, comprising A ... London

v. d.

USD - Unknown
996 WHARTON (H. T.) Sappho: Memoir, Text, selected Renderings and a Literal Translation. Medallion portrait engraved by ... London

1887

USD - Unknown
997 WILDE (OSCAR) The Happy Prince and other Tales. London

1888

USD - Unknown
998 WILDE (OSCAR) The Picture of Dorian Gray. London

1891

USD - Unknown
999 WILDE (OSCAR) Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman. London

1893

USD - Unknown
1000 WILDE (OSCAR) A Woman of No Importance. London

1894

USD - Unknown
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