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
899 HUNT (GAILLARD) The Life of James Madison. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
900 INDIANS. Romance of Natural History, by C. W. Webber, 1853; Richardson (Wm.), Poems, with The ...

USD - Unknown
901 INDIANS. A New Moral System of Geography, containing an account of the different nations, ancient ... London

1790

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902 Brownell (Charles De Wolf) INDIANS. The Indian Races of North and South America; comprising an Account of the Principal ... New York

1854

USD - Unknown
903 Hon. Charles Aug. Murray INDIANS. The Prairie-Bird. (A Tale of the Ohio Indians.) London

1863

USD - Unknown
904 INDIANS. Dress of the Inhabitants of California (small folio), various views from the Universe ...

USD - Unknown
905 H. E. Ludewig INDIAN LANGUAGES. The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages. London

1858

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906 INSTRUMENTATION, &c., by Hector Berlioz; Coral Reefs; Journal of Researches, by Charles Darwin; Life ... v. p.

v. d.

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907 INTERNATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London

n. d.

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908 Molloy (J. F.) IRISH STAGE. The Romance of the Irish Stage, with pictures of the Irish capital in the eighteenth ... London

1897

USD - Unknown
909 IRELAND (Lionel Johnson), 1897; The School of Life (Van Dyke), 1905; The Vision of Sir Launfal ( ... v. p.

v. d.

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910 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Salmagundi, with introductory essay and explanatory notes by John Lambert (author of Travels in ... London

1811

USD - Unknown
911 Diedrich Knickerbocker IRVING (WASHINGTON). A History of New York. New York

1824

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912 IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Alhambra; a Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. Phila.

1832

USD - Unknown
913 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Life of George Washington. New York

1856-7

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914 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Salmagundi. Edited by E. A. Duyckinck. New York

1860

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915 IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon. New York

1895

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916 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Works of Irving. New York

1908

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917 JEWITT (LLEWELLYN) The Ceramic Art of Great Britain. London

[1883]

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918 JEWITT (LLEWELLYN). and HALL (S. C.) The Stately Homes of England. London

n. d. and 1877

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919 JEFFERSON (THOMAS) Memoirs, Correspondence, and Papers. London

1829

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920 JEFFERSON (THOMAS) The Writings; being his Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, etc. New York

1854-56

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921 JEFFERSON (THOMAS) The Writings. Library Edition containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Official Papers, etc. Washington

1903

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922 JEFFERSON on Public Education (Henderson), 1890; Power of Religion (Murray), 1868; Religion in ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
923 JONES (GEORGE--the Count Joannes) The History of Ancient America, proving the identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and ... London

1843

USD - Unknown
924 JONSON (BEN) Works. London

1756

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925 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) The Lives of the most eminent English Poets, with critical observations on their Works. London

1790-91

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926 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) The Works; with an Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy. London

1792

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927 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, now first gathered from magazines and other literary journals. London

1804

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928 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) Works. Boston and New York

1809 and 1811-12

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929 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) The Life; together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell. London

1888

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930 JUSTINUS. Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio Lib. XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii. Title engraved by Duysent. Lugd. Batav.

1640

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931 JUVENILE. Pleasant Surprises; Bible Stories; Only for Very Good Children; Our Little People's Book. London

v. d.

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932 Gladstone (T. H.) KANSAS. Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the Far West. London

1857

USD - Unknown
933 KEEP (A. B.) History of the New York Society Library, with an Introductory Chapter on Libraries in Colonial New ... New York

1908

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934 [KENNEDY (JOHN P.)] Quodlibet, containing some Annals thereof. Phila.

1840

USD - Unknown
935 KENNEDY (JOHN P.) Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney-General of the United States. Phila.

1849

USD - Unknown
936 J. A. Williams KEMBLE. Memoirs of John Philip Kemble. London

1817

USD - Unknown
937 KEMBLE (FRANCES ANNE) Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-39. London

1863

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938 KEMPIS (THOMAS A) De Imitatione Christi. Gothic character double columns, 67 leaves. Venetiis

1486

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939 KEMPIS (THOMAS A) Opera omnia ad autographa eiusdem emendata, aucta, et in tres tomos distributa opera ac studio H ... Colonise Agrippinae

1759

USD - Unknown
940 KITTO (JOHN) Bible Illustrations. Edinb.

1854-9

USD - Unknown
941 KNIGHT (CHARLES) The Popular History of England. London

1856-62

USD - Unknown
942 KROEBER (A. L.) Languages of the Coast of California; Shoshonean Dialects of California; Uhle's Emeryville ... Berkeley

v. d.

USD - Unknown
943 LADY OF THE BLUE MOTOR (Paternoster), 1907; Cecilia (Crawford), 1902; Judith Garden (Bassett), 1902 ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
944 LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) Fables. Edition accompagnee d'une notice historique et de notes, par le Baron Walckenaer. Paris

1839

USD - Unknown
945 LAHONTAN (BARON DE) Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. La Haye

1703

USD - Unknown
946 LA MARCHE (OLIVIER) Memoires, touchant les souveraines maisons, pour la plus part d'Austrice, Bourgougne, France, etc. Lovain

1659

USD - Unknown
947 LAMB (CHARLES) Essays of Elia. New York

1883

USD - Unknown
948 LAMB (CHARLES) The Life of Lamb, by E. V. Lucas. London

[1907]

USD - Unknown
949 LAMB (CHARLES) Works. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
950 LANG (ANDREW) Lost Leaders. London

1889

USD - Unknown
951 LATHROP (FRANCIS) A Collection of Original Drawings, Sketches of Furniture, Vases, Practice Sketches, etc.

USD - Unknown
952 LATIMER (HUGH) Certayne Godly Sermons made uppon the Lords Prayer, preached by the right reverende Father, and ... London

1562

USD - Unknown
953 Jarman (Thomas) LAW. A Treatise on Wills. Boston

1881

USD - Unknown
954 LAW. American Probate Reports. New York

1881-90

USD - Unknown
955 Gerard (James W.) LAW. A Digested Treatise and Compendium of Law applicable to Titles to Real Estate. New York

1889

USD - Unknown
956 Ram (James) LAW. Treatise on Facts as Subjects of Inquiry by a Jury. New York

1890

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957 LAW. Bills, Notes and Checks. Toronto

1904

USD - Unknown
958 LAW. Modern Jury Trials (Donovan), 1881; Great Speeches by Great Lawyers (Snyder), 1881; The Laws ... v. p.

USD - Unknown
959 LAW. Distinguished American Lawyers (Scott), 1891; History of Landholding in Ireland (Fisher), 1877 ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
960 LAW. Jessup's Surrogate Practice, 1899; Addison on Torts, Vol. 2, 1882; Marshall, Complete ...

USD - Unknown
961 LAW. Dillon's Municipal Corporations, 2 vols., 1890; Morawetz on Private Corporations, 2 vols., 1886 ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
962 LAW. and Government. Carter's Law, Its Origin and Growth; Kovalesky's Russian Political Institutions ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
963 LAW. and Lawyers, 1840; Curiosities of Law and Lawyers (James), 1883; Bench and Bar (Bigelow); A ... v. p.

USD - Unknown
964 LAWRENCE GENEALOGY. Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of Amos Lawrence; Memoir of Abbott ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
965 LEFRANC (EM.) La Duchesse de Berri. Paris

1832

USD - Unknown
966 LE ROUX (PHILIBERT JOSEPH) Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre et Proverbial. Vignette on title. Amsterdam

1750

USD - Unknown
967 LE SAGE The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. London

1764

USD - Unknown
968 LEWIS (M. G.) The Monk: A Romance. London

undated

USD - Unknown
969 LIBRARY of Religious Poetry by Schaff and Gilman; For those who Seek by Samuel Stevenson; The Voice ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
970 LIFE OF DICKENS (Mackenzie); Life of Charles Dickens (Forster); Henry W. Longfellow (Kennedy). v. p.

v. d.

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971 LIFE OF DICKENS Washington (Sparks); Life of S. P. Chase (Schuckers); Memoirs of General Sherman ... v. p.

v. d.

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972 LIFE OF DICKENS William Wilberforce, portrait, 2 vols., 1846; Life of Sir John Macdonald, portrait ...

USD - Unknown
973 LIFE'S VERSES, illustrations by Atwood and McVicar, 1885; In the 400 and Out (Taylor ... v. p.

v. d.

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974 LITERARY SHRINES (Wolfe), 2 vols., 1895; Garden Mosaics (Simson), 1903; Beecher as a Humorist, 1887 ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
975 LITTLE MASTERPIECES. Selections from American and English Authors. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
976 LIVINGSTONE'S Last Journals, 1875; Bunyan's Holy War; Law of Civilization and Decay (Adams), 1898 ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
977 Arnaud (A.) LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). Abraham Lincoln, sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort, avec un recit de la Guerre d' ... Paris

1865

USD - Unknown
978 LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) Complete Works, comprising his Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and miscellaneous Writings. New York

1902

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979 LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) Complete Works of Lincoln edited by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay, with a general Introduction by R. W ... New York

[1905]

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980 LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) The Table Talk of Abraham Lincoln edited by William O. Stoddard, illustrated, 18mo, silk cloth, gilt ... New York

1908

USD - Unknown
981 LOMBARDUS (PETRUS) Sententiorum libri IV. Parisiis

1564

USD - Unknown
982 LONGWORTH'S TELEMACHUS. The Adventures of Telemachus, from the French of Fenelon, by Dr. Havkesworth ... New York

1796

USD - Unknown
983 LONGUS. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe (traduites par Amyot). [Paris]

1745

USD - Unknown
984 LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. From the Greek of Longus. Paris

n. d.

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985 LOVEDAY (ROBERT) Hymen's Praeludia, or Love's Masterpiece. Being the much admir'd Romance intituled Cleopatra ... London

1654

USD - Unknown
986 LOVE POEMS of Browning and Hunt; Marcus Aurelius' Golden Book, decorative borders. New York

n. d.

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987 Clichtoueus (Judocus) LUTHER (MARTIN). Anti Lutherus, tres libros complectens. Coloniae

1525

USD - Unknown
988 LUTHER (MARTIN) A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paule to the Galathians * * * * now ... London

1580

USD - Unknown
989 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM (Locker); Recollections of a Literary Life (Mitford); The Iron Woman (Deland ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
990 MADISON (JAMES) Letters and other Writings. New York

1884

USD - Unknown
991 MAGNY (A. L. DRIGON DE) Nouveau Traite historique et Archeologique de la vraie et parfaite science des Armoiries. Paris

[1846]

USD - Unknown
992 MALVEZZI (VIRGILIO) Tyrannus, eiusque arcana in vita Tarquinii Superbi repraesentata. Lugd. Batav.

1636

USD - Unknown
993 MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) History of England, from the Accession of James II. London

1849-1855-1861

USD - Unknown
994 MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) Works of Macaulay. [New York]

1907

USD - Unknown
995 MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) Miscellaneous Works of Macaulay. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
996 MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) The History of England, 5 vols., 1861; Essays and Poems, 3 Vols., 1884; Speeches, 2 vols., n. d. v. p.

USD - Unknown
997 MACKINTOSH (SIR JAMES) Memoirs of the Life; edited by his son Robert James Mackintosh. Bost

1853

USD - Unknown
998 M'CLINTOCK (CAPT.) The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John ... Boston

1860

USD - Unknown
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