Anderson Galleries: The Choice Private Library of Miss Eleanor Barry (of the Richard Mansfield Company) with some equally choice additions and a Collection of Autograph Letters. For Sale at Auction Wednesday Evening, May 9, Thursday Afternoon, May 10, Thursday Evening May 10, 458,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 10, 1906 - May 10, 1906

Page Size: 868 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY)	Life in a New England Town, 1787-1788; Diary of J. Q. Adams	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
2		ADDISON AND STEELE. The Spectator, 8 vols.; The Tatler, 4 vols	London and Boston	[recent]	USD -	Unknown
3	AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON)	Windsor Castle; an Historical Romance	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
4	Edward Young	ALDINE POETS. The Poetical Works of Edward Young	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
5	ALDRICH (THOMAS B.) AND OLIPHANT (M. O. W)	The Second Son; a novel	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
6	ALKEN (HENRY).	ALKEN (HENRY). The Chase, the Turf, and the Road	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
7	ALKEN (HENRY).	ALKEN (HENRY). The Horse and the Hound, their various Uses and Treatment, including Practical Instructions in Horsemanship and a Treatise on Horse-Dealing	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
8	ALKEN (HENRY)	The Book of Sports; British and Foreign. A series of articles by eminent writers-Nimrod, Captain Harris and others-on Sporting subjects	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
9	ALKEN (HENRY).	Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq., with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
10	ALKEN (HENRY).	Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that renowned sporting citizen Mr. John Jorrocks	London	[1869]	USD -	Unknown
11	ALKEN (HENRY)	The Beauties and Defects of the Horse, comparatively delineated	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
12	ALKEN (HENRY).	The Life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire, with his Hunting, Racing, Shooting, Driving and Extravagant Exploits	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
13	Forbes (James D.)	ALPINE TRAVEL. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on Glaciers	Edinburgh	1845	USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
15		AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
16		AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
17	Captains Portlock and Dixon	AMERICANA. A Voyage Round the World, but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America, 1785-88	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
18		Documents relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana; The Limits and Bounds, by Thomas Jefferson; The Exploration of the Red and Black and the Washita Rivers, by William Dunbar	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
19	L. F. Baum	AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS. Father Goose: His Book Verse	Chicago	[1899]	USD -	Unknown
20	Christopher Caustic	AMERICAN POETRY. [Fessenden (Thos. G.)] Democracy Unveiled; or, Tyranny Stripped of the Garb of Patriotism	Boston	1805	USD -	Unknown
21	[Alfred Wheeler]	AMERICAN POETRY. Immortality; or, The Pilgrim's Dream (delivered before the New York Soc. of Literature); and other Poems	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
22	David Ramsay	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The History of the American Revolution	Dublin	1793	USD -	Unknown
23	Henry Onderdonk	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Documents and Letters intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
24	Henry Onderdonk	Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties, with an Account of the Battle of Long Island and the British Prisons and Prison Ships at New York	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
25	R. B. Douglas, Editor	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A French Volunteer of the War of Independence (the Chevalier de Pontgibaud)	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
26	George O. Seilhamer	AMERICAN THEATRE. History of the American Theatre before the Revolution	Philadelphia	1888-89	USD -	Unknown
27	Fred. S. Cozzens	Yachts and Yachting (the History of American Yachting, from the earliest period, the Mayflower and Galatea Races of 1886, etc.)	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
28	ANDREWS (W. L.)	Jean Grolier de Servier Viscount d'Aguisy.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
29	ANDREWS (W. L.)	The Treatyse of Fysshinge wyth an Angle, from the Book of St. Albans, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, at Westminster in the year MCCCCLXXXXVI	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
30	William Henderson	ANGLING. Notes and Reminiscences of My Life as an Angler	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
31	Pritt (T. E.)	The Book of the Grayling: Being a description of the Fish, and the art of angling for him, as practised chiefly in the Midlands, and the North of England	Leeds	1888	USD -	Unknown
32	APPERLEY (CHARLES JAMES)	Nimrod's Hunting Tours, interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, â?¦	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
33	APPERLEY (CHARLES JAMES)	Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses and their Management, in a series of familiar Letters, originally published in the Sporting Magazine, between 1822 and 1828	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
34	APPERLEY (CHARLES JAMES)	Nimrod, author of The Life of Mytton, etc	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
35	Fridtjof Nansen	ARCTIC EXPLORATION. Farthest North	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
36	ARNOLD (MATTHEW)	The Works of Matthew Arnold: Poems, Essays, Literature and Dogma, God and the Bible, Letters, Irish Essays, Essays in Criticism, etc., etc	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
37		ART OF THE WORLD (THE). Illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary, and Architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
38		AUTOGRAPHS.			USD -	Unknown
39	Maria Parloa	Home Economics. How to Guide a Household, etc	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
40	BANGS (J. K.)	The Pursuit of the House-Boat	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
41		BACCACCIO. Contes et Nouvelles de Bocace	Amsterdam	1699	USD -	Unknown
42	BACON (FRANCIS)	Essays and Colours of Good and Evil	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
43	BAKER (HENRY BARTON)	History of the London Stage and its Famous Players (1576-1903)	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
44	BALZAC	The Works of Honore de Balzac	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
45	BANCROFT (GEORGE)	History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the Continent	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
46	BARHAM (R. H.)	BARHAM (R. H.) The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
47	BARHAM (R. H.)	BARHAM (R. H.) Life and Letters, with a selection from his Miscellaneous Poems	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
47*	BARRIE (J. M.)	The Little Minister	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
48		BARTOLOZZI ENGRAVINGS AFTER STOTHARD.	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
49		BASKERVILLE'S ORLANDO FURIOSO, ILLUSTRATED BY BARTOLOZZI. Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
50	Capt. (Wm.) Jesse	BEAU BRUMMELL. Life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
51	BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER	BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The Works of	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
52	Alfred Howard	BEAUTIES OF LITERATURE (THE). Consisting of Classic Selections from the most eminent British and Foreign Authors	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
53		BEAUX AND BELLES OF ENGLAND, including Capt. Jesse's Life of Beau Brummell,â?¦	London, New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
54	BEDDOES (THOS. L.)	Political Works	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
55	BEDDOES (THOS. L.)	BEDDOES (THOS. L.) Letters of	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
56	BEDE (CUTHBERT).	The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, 2 vols.; Little Mr. Bouncer and Tales of College Life	Boston	1893	USD -	Unknown
57		BELL'S BRITISH THEATRE ON LARGE PAPER.	London	1791, etc.	USD -	Unknown
58		BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.	London	1837-47	USD -	Unknown
59	BEWICK (T.)	A General History of Quadrupeds, the figures (over 300) engraved by T. Bewick	Newcastle	1800	USD -	Unknown
60	BEWICK (T.)	Select Fables, with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previous to the year 1784,â?¦	Newcastle	1820	USD -	Unknown
61	BEWICK (T.)	A History of British Birds (Land and Water)	Newcastle	1821	USD -	Unknown
62	BEWICK (T.)	A History of British Birds (Land and Water)	Newcastle	1821	USD -	Unknown
63	R. Wood, Engraver	BIBLE IN FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New	Edinburgh	1722	USD -	Unknown
64		BIBLE. The New Testament	Atlanta (Gorgia)	1862	USD -	Unknown
65		BIBLE. The Holy Bible	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
66		BIBLIOGRAPHICA: Papers on Books, their History and Art.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
67		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue des Livres rares et precieux composant la bibliotheque de feu M. Jacques-Charles Brunet, premiere partie; printed table and price-list added	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
68		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the Dramatic Library of Henry Herman, â?¦		1890-98	USD -	Unknown
69		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Four Private Libraries of New York	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
70		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Charles B. Foote Collections-namely, English Literature, with facsimiles of rare titles and the two pages of Pickwick MS. by Dickens; American Authors; Modern English Authors	New York	1894-95	USD -	Unknown
71	A. O. Bierstadt	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Library of Robert Hoe	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
72		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of Valuable Books and Manuscripts		1896	USD -	Unknown
73		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue des Livres Espagnoles rares et precieux	Paris	1899	USD -	Unknown
74		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Book Illustration in the Middle Ages and in Modern Time until the 16th Century, a Catalogue (No. 27) of Choice MSS. and printed books, described in full detail by Jacques Rosenthal	Munchen	n. d., [1901]	USD -	Unknown
75		BINDING. A Case Especially Constructed for one of the fashionable Almanacks published about 1790, â?¦			USD -	Unknown
76	Robert Blair	BINDING. The Grave: A Poem	London	1782	USD -	Unknown
77	Thomas Campbell	BINDING. The Pleasures of Hope, with other Poems	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
78	S. T. Coleridge	BINDING. EARLY AMERICAN. Christabel; Kubla Khan; etc	Boston	1816	USD -	Unknown
79		BINDING BY DEROME. Ã®uvres Dramatiques de Nericault Destouches	Paris	1758	USD -	Unknown
80	Robert Mudie	BIRDS. The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
81	BLADES (WILLIAM)	The Enemies of Books	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
82	BLANCHAN (NELTJE)	Nature's Garden: An aid to knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
83	BLANCHAN (NELTJE)	Birds that Hunt and are Hunted; Life Histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water fowls	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
84	BLIGH (ADMIRAL WILLIAM)	Voyage to the South Seas for the purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in H. M. S. BOUNTY, â?¦	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
85	Frederick Tolfrey	BOAR HUNTING. The Sportsman in France, containing a Sporting Ramble through Picardy and Normandy and Boar Shooting in Lower Brittany	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
86	BONER (CHARLES)	Forest Creatures (accounts of the Hunting of the Wild Boar, the Red Deer, the Golden Eagle, etc., with the habits, etc.)	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
87	Brander Matthews	BOOKBINDING. Book-Bindings, Old and New	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
88		BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA. American Bookbindings in the Library of Henry William Poor	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
89	William Younger Fletcher	BOOK COLLECTORS. English Book Collectors	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
90	Henry H. Harper	BOOK LOVERS, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs	Cambridge	1904	USD -	Unknown
91		BOOK LOVER'S ALMANAC (THE), for 1896	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
92		BOOK LOVER'S ALMANAC (THE), The same for 1897	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
93		BOOK OF JOB (THE) according to the Authorized Version	New York, [London]	1903	USD -	Unknown
94		BOOK OF SPORT (THE).	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
95	Charles Brandling	BOOKPLATE. A beautiful Chippendale		[Circa 1789.]	USD -	Unknown
96		BOOKPLATE.		[Circa 1830.]	USD -	Unknown
97	Chas. Dexter Allen	American Book-Plates. A Guide to their Study; with Examples. By Chas. Dexter Allen. With Bibliography by Eben N. Hewins	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
98	Henry W. Fincham	Artists and Engravers of British and American Book Plates	New York [Printed in London]	1897	USD -	Unknown
99		The Studio. Special Winter No., 1898-99	London	1899	USD -	Unknown

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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.
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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.

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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.