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
100	Wilbur Macey Stone	Women Designers of Book-Plates	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
101		Jay Chambers: His Book-Plates	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
102		Harold Nelson: His Book of Bookplates	Edinburgh	1904	USD -	Unknown
103	Frederick Garrison Hall	BOOKPLATE. Book-Plates	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
104		Books and Bookplates	Edinburgh	1895	USD -	Unknown
105		The Muse, Acadiensis, The Literary Review and Book-Plate Collector, and other periodicals containing original articles on bookplates		v. d.	USD -	Unknown
106	E. Gordon Duff	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Early Printed Books	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
107	BOOTH (EDWIN).	In Twelve Dramatic Characters	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
108	BOOTH (EDWIN)	Recollections of his Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossman, and Letters to her and his Friends	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
109	BOOTH (MARY L.)	History of the City of New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
110	Drake (S. G.)	BOSTON. History and Antiquities of Boston, from its Settlement in 1630 to 1770	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
111		BOSWELL'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, including the Tour to the Hebrides, â?¦	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
112	BOURGET (PAUL)	Cosmopolis: Roman, edition du Figaro	Paris	1893	USD -	Unknown
113	BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD)	A Comment upon Two Tales of our Ancient, Renowned and Ever-Living Poet, Sr Jeffrey Chaucer	London	1665	USD -	Unknown
114		BRAUN-The Iconoclast. Braun's Scrap-Book: Speeches and Lectures	Waco (Texas)	[1895-97]	USD -	Unknown
115		BREVIARY TREASURES (THE).	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
116	RRONTâ?¦ (CHARLOTTE)	Jane Eyre	Philadelphia	1884	USD -	Unknown
117	BROWNE (SIR THOMAS)	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, including his Life and Correspondence	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
118	BROWNE (SIR THOMAS)	Religio Medici	New York, [London]	1903	USD -	Unknown
119	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Fifine at the Fair	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
120	BROWNING (ROBERT)	The Agamemnon of â??schylus	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
121	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Dramatic Idyls	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
122	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Asolando: Fancies and Facts	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
123	BROWNING (ROBERT)	The Poetical Works of Browning	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
124	BRYANT (W. C.)	Poems. (Including Thanatopsis, To a Water Fowl, Green River, etc.)	Cambridge	1821	USD -	Unknown
125	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Thirty Poems	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
126	BROWNING (ROBERT)	A.L.S.	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
127	BUCHANAN (GEORGE)	The Witty and Entertaining Exploits of George Buchanan, commonly called the King's Fool	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
128	BUCKINGHAM (GEORGE, DUKE OF).	Miscellaneous Works. Also State Poems on the Late Times, by Dryden, Congreve, Etheridge, etc., etc	London	1704-05	USD -	Unknown
129	Joseph Jacobs, Editor	BUDDHISM. Barlaam and Josaphat. English Lives of Buddha	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
130	Palmer Boyd	BUDDHIST DRAMA. NÎ±gÎ±nanda; or, The Joy of the Snake World: A Buddhist Drama in Five Acts	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
131	BULLEN (A. H.)	Musa Proterva, Love-Poems of the Restoration	[London]	1895	USD -	Unknown
132	BULLEN (A. H.)	Speculum Amantis. Love-Poems from Rare Song-Books of the Seventeenth Century	[London]	1895	USD -	Unknown
133		BUNBURY ILLUSTRATIONS.	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
134	BURKE (EDMUND)	The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
135	BURKE (S. HUBERT)	Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period	London	1879-83	USD -	Unknown
136	BURKE (SIR BERNARD)	Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
137	BURNET (BISHOP)	The History of the Reformation of the Church of England	London	[1830]	USD -	Unknown
138	BURROUGHS (JOHN)	Wake-Robin	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
139	BUTLER (GEORGE F.)	The Isle of Content and other Waifs of Thought	Concord (Massachusetts)	1902	USD -	Unknown
140	BYRON (LORD).	The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
140*	BYRON (LORD)	Lara, a Tale; Jacqueline, a Tale	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
141	BYRON (LORD)	The Corsair: A Tale	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
142	BYRON (LORD)	Poems (on his Domestic affairs, etc.)	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
143	BYRON (LORD)	The Prisoner of Chiilon and other Poems	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
144	BYRON (LORD)	Manfred: A Dramatic Poem	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
145	BYRON (LORD)	Poetical Works	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
146	BYRON (LORD)	The Complete Works of Byron, including his Letters, Journals, and Life	London	1832-33	USD -	Unknown
147		CALDECOTT. Some of â??sop's Fables, with Modern Instances	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
148	BYRON (LORD)	Sketches	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
149	BYRON (LORD)	The Mad Dog	London		USD -	Unknown
150	[CARADOC PRESS]	The Old Ballad of the Boy and the Mantle, from the Text of Bp. Percy	Chiswick	1900	USD -	Unknown
151	[CARADOC PRESS]	The Collects from the Book of Common Prayer	Chiswick	1901	USD -	Unknown
152	R. Seymour and Chas. Johnson	CARDS. The Complete Gamester. Easy instructions how to play Whist, Ombre, Quiiitille, All-Fours, Put, Lottery, with Card Tricks, etc., etc	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
153	CAREW (THOMAS)	The Poems of Carew	Lond and New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
154	CARLYLE (THOMAS)	The Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle; The French Revolution; â?¦	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
155	Charles L. Eastlake	A History of the Gothic Revival; the taste for Mediaeval Architecture which lingered in England during the two last centuries has been developed	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
156	George Catlin	CATLIN'S INDIANS. The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians	London	1841 (later impression)	USD -	Unknown
157	CATULLUS (CAIUS VALERIUS)	CATULLUS (CAIUS VALERIUS). The Attis of	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
158	James Caulfield	CAULFIELD'S REMARKABLE CHARACTERS. Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, 1888 to the Reign of George II	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
159	Edmund Gosse, Editor	CENTURY OF FRENCH ROMANCE (A)	New York	[1901]	USD -	Unknown
160	CHANLER (AMELIE RIVES, author of The Quick or the Dead?)	A.L.S.,	Cobham, Virginia	1889	USD -	Unknown
161	CHANNING (ELLERY)	Poems of Sixty-five Years	Philadelphia	1902	USD -	Unknown
162	CHARKE (CHARLOTTE, MRS.)	A Narrative of the Life of (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.)	London	1755	USD -	Unknown
163	Osmund Airy	CHARLES II.	London, Paris and New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
164	CHILD (FRANK SAMUEL)	An Old New England Town: Sketches of Life, Character and Scenery	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
165		CHILDREN'S BOOKS. A Curious Collection of 76 items		About 1840	USD -	Unknown
166		CHILDREN'S COLORED PICTURE PLATES.		[1837]	USD -	Unknown
167	William Robertson	CHISWICK PRESS. The Works of William Robertson: History of America, Scotland, etc	Chiswick	1824	USD -	Unknown
168	F. B. De Berard, Editor	CLASSIC LIBRARY OF FAMOUS LITERATURE. Complete Selections from the World's Best Authors, with Biographical and Synoptical Notes	New York	[1902]	USD -	Unknown
169	CLAY (HENRY)	The Works of Henry Clay, comprising his Life, Correspondence and Speeches	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
170	CLEMENS (S. L.)	Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
171	C. T. S. Birch Reynardson	COACHING. Down the Road; or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
172	Captain Malet	COACHING. Annals of the Road; or, Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
173	Stanley Harris	COACHING. The Coaching Age	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
174	John D. Champlin	COACHING. Chronicles of the Coach (an Account of the Road from Charing Cross to Ilfracombe)	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
175	Hissey (James John)	COACHING. A Holiday on the Road; an Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
176	Edward Corbett	COACHING. An Old Coachman's Chatter, with some Practical Remarks on Driving	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
177	Charles G. Harper	COACHING. The Brighton Road: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
178	Tristram (W. Outram)	COACHING. Coaching Days and Ways	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
179	COBDENS-ANDERSON (T. J.)	Ecce Mundus: Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful	Hammersmith	1902	USD -	Unknown
180	W. Sketchley	COCK-FIGHTING, BREEDING OF GAMECOCKS, ETC. The Cocker: Containing every Information to Breeders and Amateurs of that Noble Bird, the Game Cock, etc	Burton-on-Trent	(a later issue with old date) 1814	USD -	Unknown
181	COLERIDGE (S. T.)	Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
182	COLLIER (JEREMY)	A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage	London	1698	USD -	Unknown
183	John Anster	COLORED PLATES. Goethe's Faust, from the German by John Anster	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
184		COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND. History of the Commonwealth of England, from its commencement to the Restoration of Charles II	London	1824-28	USD -	Unknown
185		CONFEDERATE. Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the C. S. A. at Richmond, Va	Richmond	1801	USD -	Unknown
186		CONFEDERATE. Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States held at Montgomery, Ala	Richmond	1861	USD -	Unknown
187		CONFEDERATE. Rules of the District Courts of the Confederate States for the Districts of Georgia, with the Act of Congress	Savannah	1861	USD -	Unknown
188		CONFEDERATE. Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States	Richmond	1861	USD -	Unknown
189		CONFEDERATE. General Orders No. 30 of the C. S. War Department. An Act to organize Bands of Partisan Rangers	Richmond	1882	USD -	Unknown
190		CONFEDERATE. General Orders No. 51 of the C. S. War Department, commending Gen. Van Dorn and Lieut. â?¦	Richmond	1862	USD -	Unknown
191		CONFEDERATE. Broadside. General Orders No. 75	n. p.	1862	USD -	Unknown
192		CONFEDERATE. General Orders No. 87 Headquarters, Dept. of No. Va., July 27, 1802	n. p.	1862	USD -	Unknown
193		CONFEDERATE. Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1862	Richmond	1862	USD -	Unknown
194		CONFEDERATE. Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina, held May 20th, 1861	Raleigh	1862	USD -	Unknown
195		CONFEDERATE. Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina, held May 20th, 1861	Raleigh	1862	USD -	Unknown
196		CONFEDERATE. Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina, held May 20th, 1861	Raleigh	1862	USD -	Unknown
197		CONFEDERATE. Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina, held May 20th, 1861	Raleigh	1862	USD -	Unknown
198		CONFEDERATE. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, 1863	Richmond	1863	USD -	Unknown

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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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