Anderson Galleries: The Libraries of Elmer H. Close of Toledo, Ohio and the late Andrew L. Gardiner of New York City. Afternoons and Evenings of Thursday and Friday, April 4 and 5 1912. The Anderson Auction Company, New York. U.S.A., 952,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 04, 1912 - April 04, 1912

Page Size: 1296 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABBOTT (J. S. C.)	History of the State of Ohio: from the Discovery of the Great Valley, to the Present Time.	Detroit	1875	USD -	Unknown
2		AFRICA. With Kitchener to Khartoum; From Capetown to Ladysmith; Livingston's Travels; Livingston's ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
3	AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON)	The Historical Romances of Ainsworth.	Phila.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
4	ALBACH (J. R.)	Annals of the West: embracing a concise account of principal events which have occurred in the ...	Pittsburgh	1858	USD -	Unknown
5	ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY)	The Works of Aldrich.	Cambridge	1897	USD -	Unknown
6	John Burroughs, John Muir, G. B. Grinnell, W. H. Dall, etc	ALASKA. Harriman Alaska Expedition, with cooperation of Washington Academy of Sciences.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
7		AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Life of Samuel Cox by Cox, 1899; An Indiana Man by Armstrong, 1891; Life of ...			USD -	Unknown
8	Coues (Elliott)	AMERICAN EXPLORATION. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer; The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces ...	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
9		AMERICAN HISTORY. The Illuminated History of the United States; Things as they Are in America; The ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
10	Desmond (H. W.) and Croly (H.)	AMERICAN HOMES. Stately Homes in America, from Colonial Times to the Present Day.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
11	Chittenden (H. M.)	AMERICAN NAVIGATION. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
12	Paullin (Charles O.)	AMERICAN NAVY. Commodore John Rodgers, Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy ...	Cleveland (O.)	1910	USD -	Unknown
13		AMERICAN PIONEER (The): A Monthly Periodical devoted to the Objects of the Logan Historical Society.	Ciun.	1842-3	USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICAN PIONEER (The): A Monthly Periodical devoted to the Objects of the Logan Historical Society.	Ciun.	1842-3	USD -	Unknown
15		AMERICAN RACING CALENDAR and Trotting Record, from Sept. 1, 1856, to Jan. 1, 1858.	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
16		AMERICAN RAILWAY (The): Report on European Stockyards; Science of Political Economy; The New Right ( ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
17	John Clark Ridpath; James W. Buel; J. F. Jameson, etc	AMERICAN REFERENCE LIBRARY.	Washington	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
18		AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY. Busbey's Trotting and Pacing Horse in America; The Deer Family ( ...	New York	1902-04	USD -	Unknown
19	Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Lodge's George Washington; Schurz's Henry Clay; Roosevelt's Gouverneur Morris; Morse's Thomas Jefferson, and others	AMERICAN STATESMAN.	Boston	1895, etc.	USD -	Unknown
20		AMERICAN TURF REGISTER and Sporting Magazine.	New York	1829-44	USD -	Unknown
21		AMERICAN TURF REGISTER and Racing Calendar.	New York	1871-72	USD -	Unknown
22	Edited by Rasmus B. Anderson	ANGLO-SAXON CLASSICS. Norroena; Embracing Saxo Grammaticus; Teutonic Mythology; Heimskringla; The ...	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
23	Edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill	ANGLO-SAXON REVIEW. A Quarterly Miscellany.	London	1899-1901	USD -	Unknown
24	J. G. Wood	ANIMATE CREATION. Popular Edition of Our Living World, by J. G. Wood.	New York	[1898]	USD -	Unknown
25		APPLETON'S SCIENTIFIC CYCLOPEDIAS. Applied Mechanics, 2 vols., 1895; Modern Mechanism, 1892 ...	New York		USD -	Unknown
26		APPLETON'S SCIENTIFIC SERIES.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
27		ARCHAEOLOGIA AMERICANA.	Worcester	1820	USD -	Unknown
28		ARCHITECTURAL ANNUAL, 1900 and 1901; Lafever's Modern Architecture, and others similar.	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
29	Pope (William F.)	ARKANSAS. Early Days in Arkansas. Personal Recollections of an Old Settler.	Little Rock	1895	USD -	Unknown
30	ARNOLD (MATTHEW)	Essays in Criticism, both series; Celtic Literature; Mixed Essays; Poems; Culture and Anarchy; and ...	London	1894-1900	USD -	Unknown
31		ART AND LETTERS. An Illustrated Review.	London	1888-89	USD -	Unknown
32		ART. Crowned Masterpieces of Painting, 3 sections; The Art of the World, 1 section. Reproductions ...			USD -	Unknown
33		ART. English Water-Colour, with reproductions of drawings by Eminent Painters.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
34		ART. One Hundred Crowned and Laurelled Masterpieces of Modern Painting.	Phila.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
35		ART. The Art of the World illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary and Architecture of the World's ...	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
36		ART. The Art of the World illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary and Architecture of the World's ...	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
37		ART. The Great Masters in the Louvre Galleries.	New York [Paris]	1898-1900	USD -	Unknown
38	ATHERTON (WILLIAM)	Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, under General Winchester.	Frankfort, Kentucky	1842	USD -	Unknown
39	ATWATER (CALEB)	Writings; Western Antiquities; Tour to Prairie du Chien; Scioto Valley.	Columbus	1833	USD -	Unknown
40		AUDUBON'S Western Journal, 1847-1850. Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, etc.	Cleveland	1906	USD -	Unknown
41	AUSTEN (JANE)	The Novels of Jane Austen.	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
42	Edited by Rossiter Johnson	AUTHOR'S DIGEST. The World's Great Stories in brief, prepared by a staff of Literary Experts, with ...	[New York]	[1908]	USD -	Unknown
43	AVERY (ELROY M.)	A History of the United States and its People.	Cleveland	1904-1910	USD -	Unknown
44	BAILEY (L. H.)	Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
45	BAIRD (HENRY M.)	History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France, 2 vols.; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the ...	New York	1886-1895	USD -	Unknown
46	BALZAC (HONORE DE)	The Works of Balzac.	Phila.	[1899]	USD -	Unknown
47	BANCROFT (GEORGE)	History of the United States of America. The Author's Last Revision.	New York	1892-95	USD -	Unknown
48		BANKING. A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
49	BARRIE (JAMES M.)	The Novels, Tales and Sketches.	New York	1896-1911	USD -	Unknown
50	Pope (Alexander)	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.] The Rape of the Lock: an heroi-comical poem.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
51	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.]	The Savoy, an Illustrated Quarterly, edited by Arthur Symons.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
52	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.]	A Second Book of Fifty Drawings.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
53	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.]	The Early Works of Aubrey Beardsley.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
54	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.]	List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, compiled by A. E. Gallatin.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
55	[BEARDSLEY AUBREY.]	The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
56		BEACON BIOGRAPHIES. Whittier, by Richard Benton; Lowell, by E. E. Hale, Jr.; Webster, by Norman ...	Boston	1899, etc.	USD -	Unknown
57	[BENTON (THOMAS H.).]	Thirty Years' View; or, A History of the Workings of the American Government.	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
58	BEYLE (MARIE-HENRI--De Stendhal)	La Chartreuse de Parme. Translated from the French, by E. P. Robins.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
59		BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha.	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
60	BIGELOW (JOHN)	Life of Samuel J. Tilden.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
61	BIGELOW (POULTNEY)	History of the German Struggle for Liberty.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
62		BIBLIOPHILIST'S LIBRARY. Gil Blas, 3 vols.; Prose Romances of Voltaire, 3 vols.; Don Quixote, 4 vols ...	Phila.	[1898]	USD -	Unknown
63	BLAINE (JAMES G.)	Twenty Years of Congress; from Lincoln to Garfield.	Norwich, Connecticut	1884	USD -	Unknown
64	BLANCHAN (NELTJE)	Bird Neighbors, Introduction by John Burroughs; Birds that Hunt and are Hunted, Introduction by G. O ...	New York	1898-9	USD -	Unknown
65	BLOIS (J. T.)	Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, containing a General View of the State, with a succinct history.	Detroit	1838	USD -	Unknown
66	BLUNT (WILFRED S.)	Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: With the Love Sonnets of Proteus.	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
67		BOHEMIAN Paris of To-day, by Morrow and Cucuel; Military Europe, by Gen. Nelson Miles; The Rulers of ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
68	BROUGHAM (JOHN--Editor)	Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Essays, and Poems.	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
69	BROWN (CHARLES BROCKDEN)	The Novels.	Phila.	1887	USD -	Unknown
70	BROWNE (G. W.)	The St. Lawrence River: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
71	BULLEN (A. H.)	Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration.		1895	USD -	Unknown
72	BULLEN (A. H.)	Speculum Amantis: Love-Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century.		1895	USD -	Unknown
73	BULLOCH (J. D.)	The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe; or, How the Confederate Cruisers were ...	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
74	BULWER-LYTTON (EDWARD)	The Novels of Bulwer-Lytton.	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
75	BURNET (JACOB)	Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-Western Territory.	Cincinnati	1847	USD -	Unknown
76	BURNS (ROBERT)	The Complete Works of Robert Burns.	Phila.	1895-96	USD -	Unknown
77		BURR MCINTOSH MONTHLY.	New York	1903-1910	USD -	Unknown
78	BURROUGHS (JOHN)	The Writings of John Burroughs.	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
79	BUSCH (MORITZ)	Bismarck. Some Secret Pages of His History.	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
80	BUTTERFIELD (CONSUL W.)	History of Seneca County, N. Y.	Sandusky	1848	USD -	Unknown
81	BYRON (LORD)	The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore.	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
82		CANALS. History of the Ohio Canals. Their construction, cost, use and partial abandonment.	Columbus	1905	USD -	Unknown
83	CAPEFIGUE (M.)	A King's Mistress, or Charles VII and Agnes Sorel.	Edinb.	1887	USD -	Unknown
84	CAPEN (OLIVER BRONSON)	Country Homes of Famous Americans.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
85		CARTOONS by McCutcheon; The Dickens Aquarelles; Polliwog's Bicycle Club; Drawings by A. B. Frost.	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
86	CARLYLE (THOMAS)	The French Revolution.	New York	[1893]	USD -	Unknown
87		CATALOGUE of Rare and Choice Books, principally Americana.	Cleveland	1909-12	USD -	Unknown
88	Kinzie (Mrs. John H.)	CAXTON CLUB. WauBun, the Early Day of the North-West.	Chicago	1901	USD -	Unknown
89	Edited by William Dwight Whitney	CENTURY DICTIONARY, an Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
90	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)	Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated by Thomas Shelton, with an Introduction by J. H. McCarthy.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
91	CHAMBERS (CHARLOTTE)	Memoir, by her grandson, L. H. Garrard.	Phila.	1856	USD -	Unknown
92		CHARACTER SKETCHES of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama. Colored frontispieces and other illustrations ...	New York	1892 & [1894]	USD -	Unknown
93		CHEFS-D'OEUVRES of the Exposition Universelle, 1900; Applied Art, by V. Champier; Centennial and ...	Phila.	[1900]	USD -	Unknown
94	CHITTENDEN (HIRAM M.)	The American Fur Trade of the Far West: a History of Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies ...	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
95		CHINA. The Break-Up of China, by Lord Charles Beresford, maps; Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
96	CIBBER (COLLEY)	An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, written by himself.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
97	CIST (CHARLES)	Cincinnati Miscellany, or Antiquities of the West, etc.	Cincinnati	1845-46	USD -	Unknown
98		CIVIL WAR. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
99		CIVIL WAR. Logan's The Great Conspiracy; Livermore's The Story of the War; Butler's Book; Longstreet ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
100	CLEMENS (S. L.)	Following the Equator, a Journey Around the World.	Hartford	1897	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.

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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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.

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