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
599 [BARRETT (E. S.)] The Rising Sun, a Serio-Comic Satiric Romance by Cervantes Hogg, F. S. M. 3 folding satyrical ... London

1807

USD - Unknown
600 BAYNE (PETER) Martin Luther: His Life and Works. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
601 BEECHER (HENRY WARD) Speeches on the American Rebellion and on Slavery, delivered in the leading cities of Great Britain. Manchester

1864

USD - Unknown
602 BENNETT (FRANK M.) The Steam Navy of the United States. Pittsburgh

1896

USD - Unknown
603 BENSON (EGBERT) Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York. Jamaica

1825

USD - Unknown
604 BERGUER (LIONEL T.) Trifles in Verse: including some experiments in Latin Rhyme. Edinb.

1817

USD - Unknown
605 BEWICK (THOMAS) A General History of Quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle

1792

USD - Unknown
606 BEWICK (THOMAS) A History of British Birds. Figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. Newcastle

1804-5

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607 BEWICK (THOMAS) A History of British Birds. Figures engraved on wood by Bewick. Newcastle

1809

USD - Unknown
608 BEWICK (THOMAS) The Fables of AEsop, and others. Newcastle

1818

USD - Unknown
609 R. Robinson BEWICK (THOMAS). His Life and Times. Newcastle

1887

USD - Unknown
610 BIBLE. The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New testament. London

1607

USD - Unknown
611 BIBLE. The Pictorial Bible; being the Old and New Testament. London

1847-49

USD - Unknown
612 BIBLE BEAUTIFUL (Hurll), 1905: Life of Christ (Farrar); Life and Words of Christ (Geikie), 1880 ... v. p.

USD - Unknown
613 M. d'Herbelot BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliotheque Orientale, ou Dictionnaire Universel. Paris

1781-83

USD - Unknown
614 BIBLIOGRAPHY. List of Works relating to North, South, and Central America, extracted from Ferrario's ...

1816

USD - Unknown
615 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogues of the two collections of Americana, formed and sold by D. B. Warden, bound ... Paris

1820-1831

USD - Unknown
616 Wm. Dunn Macray BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Manual of British Historians to A D. 1600, containing a Chronological Account of the ... London

1845

USD - Unknown
617 Beriah Botfield BIBLIOGRAPHY. Notes on the Cathedral Libraries of England. London

1849

USD - Unknown
618 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Sale Catalogue of the collection of Thos. J. McKee. Books, MSS., Engravings ... New York

1900-1906

USD - Unknown
619 BINDING. Terentius, in quem triplex edita est P. Antesignani Rapistaguensis Commentatio. Lugduni

1560

USD - Unknown
620 John Sanderson BIOGRAPHY of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Phila.

1823

USD - Unknown
621 BLAINE (JAMES G.) Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield. Norwich, Ct.

1884-93

USD - Unknown
622 BLOOMFIELD (ROBERT) The Farmer's Boy: a Rural Poem. London

1800

USD - Unknown
623 BLUE LAWS. The Code of 1650, commonly called the (Connecticut) Blue Laws. Hartford

1822

USD - Unknown
624 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Decameron. Londra

1762

USD - Unknown
625 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) The Decameron, illustrated; The Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre, illustrated; Gil Blas, translated ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
626 BOLLAERT (WM.) Antiquarian, Ethnological and other researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chili, etc. London

1860

USD - Unknown
627 Karl Emich Count zu Leiningen-Westerburg BOOKPLATES. German Bookplates. A Handbook of German and Austrian Ex Libris. London

1901

USD - Unknown
628 BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With copious Notes and Biographical Illustrations by Malone. London

1823

USD - Unknown
629 BOURDALOUE (P. LOUIS) Oeuvres. Paris

1837

USD - Unknown
630 BOURDIGNE (CHARLES) Legende de Maistre Pierre Faifeu mise en vers.--OEuvres de Jean Marot.--Poesies de Guillaume Cretin ... Paris

1723-24

USD - Unknown
631 BOURRIENNE (M. DE) The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London

1831

USD - Unknown
632 BRACTON (HENRICUS DE) De Legibus & Consuetudinibus Angliae Libri quinque in varios tractatus distincti, ad diversorum et ... Londini

1569

USD - Unknown
633 BRINK (B. M.) The Early History of Saugerties, N. Y., 1660-1825. Kingston

1902

USD - Unknown
634 BRITISH ESSAYISTS (THE). London

1823

USD - Unknown
635 BRITISH PLUTARCH, containing The Lives of the most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statesmen, Warriors ... London

1816

USD - Unknown
636 BROUGHAM (HENRY, LORD) Works. London

1855-61

USD - Unknown
637 BROWN (CAPT. THOS.) Popular Natural History. London

[ca. 1845]

USD - Unknown
638 BROWNING (ELIZABETH B.) Complete Works, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. New York

1901

USD - Unknown
639 BROWNING (ELIZABETH B.) Poems. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
640 BRUCE (JAMES) Travels to Discover the Scource of the Nile in the Years 1768 to 1773. Edinb.

1790

USD - Unknown
641 BRUSCAMBILLE. Les Fantasie de Bruscambille. Contenant plusieurs Discours, Paradoxes, Harangues ... Paris

1615

USD - Unknown
642 BRUTUS (STEPHANUS JUNIUS) Hubert Languet. Vindiciae, contra tyrannos: sive de principis in populum, populique in Principem ... Edimburgi

anno 1579

USD - Unknown
643 BURKE (EDMUND) The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. London

1803-13

USD - Unknown
644 BURKE (EDMUND) The Works of Edmund Burke. Boston

1839

USD - Unknown
645 Edited by Earl Fitzwilliam and Sir R. Bourke BURKE (EDMUND). Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke between 1744 and 1797. London

1844

USD - Unknown
646 BURKE (J. BERNARD) The Historic Lands of England. London

1849

USD - Unknown
647 BURR (AARON) Memoirs, with miscellaneous selections from his correspondence, by Matthew L. Davis. New York

1836

USD - Unknown
648 BURR (AARON) The Private Journal of Aaron Burr during his Residence of four years in Europe. New York

1838

USD - Unknown
649 BURR (AARON) The Trial of Aaron Burr for High Treason in the circuit court of the United States, by J. J. Coombs. Washington

n. d.

USD - Unknown
650 BUTLER'S BOOK, 1892; A Short History of the Confederate States of America (Davis), 1890. New York and Boston

USD - Unknown
651 BUTLER (SAMUEL) Poems. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
652 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Works, With his Letters and Journals, and his Life by Thomas Moore. London

1837

USD - Unknown
653 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Tales and Poems. London

1848

USD - Unknown
654 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Works of Byron, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life by Thomas Moore. Boston

[1900]

USD - Unknown
655 CABOTS. Sebastian and John Cabot. Boston

1870

USD - Unknown
656 CAESAR Warhafftige Beschreibung aller namhafften furtrefflichen Kriege, jetzt auffs newe nach M. Ringmanni ... Frankfurt

1565

USD - Unknown
657 CAHU (THEODORE) Theo-Crit a Saumur. Paris

1889

USD - Unknown
658 CALDECOTT (RANDOLPH) Picture Book, containing John Gilpin's ride, The House that Jack built, Babes in the Wood, etc. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
659 Coulter (John) CALIFORNIA. Adventures on the Western Coast of South America, and the Interior of California, etc. London

1847

USD - Unknown
660 Le Moine (J. M.) CANADA. Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence. Quebec

1863

USD - Unknown
661 Robinson (John Beverley) CANADA. Canada and the Canada Bill, being an examination of the proposed measure for the future ... London

1840

USD - Unknown
662 CANADA. and the Canadian Question, by Goldwin Smith; The Races of the Old World, by Charles L. Brace ...

USD - Unknown
663 CANNING (GEORGE) The Political Life, from 1822 to 1827. London

1831

USD - Unknown
664 CARNEGIE (ANDREW) Home Rule in America, an address delivered in St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, Sept. 13, 1887, Glasgow ...

USD - Unknown
665 CARTHAGE and Her Remains (Davis), 1861; The Source of the Nile (Speke), 1864; Household Book of ... v. p.

USD - Unknown
666 CARY (ELISABETH L.) The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
667 CATTERMOLE (GEORGE) The Great Civil War. London

[ca. 1845]

USD - Unknown
668 CELLINI (BENVENUTO) Memoirs, written by himself. Containing a variety of information respecting the arts, and the ... London

1823

USD - Unknown
669 CERVANTES. Don Quixote. London

1793

USD - Unknown
670 Caballero (Fermin) CERVANTES. Pericia Geografica de Miguel de Cervantes demostrada con la historia de D. Quijote de La ... Madrid

1840

USD - Unknown
671 CERVANTES. Exemplary Novels. London

1865

USD - Unknown
672 CHAMPFLEURY. Le Violon de Faience. Paris

1877

USD - Unknown
673 CHANDOS (HEROLD) Life and Feats of Arms of Edward the Black Prince: a Metrical Chronicle with an English translation ... London and Paris

1883

USD - Unknown
674 [CHANNING (WALTER).] New and Old. [Poems].

[1851]

USD - Unknown
675 CHANSONS JOYEUSES. Mises au jour par un aneonyme, ouissime. Nouvelle edition. Paris

1765

USD - Unknown
676 Edited by John Bradshaw CHESTERFIELD (EARL OF). Letters. New York

1892

USD - Unknown
677 CHIEF JUSTICES. Lives of the Chief Justices of England, by Lord Campbell, continued by Sir Joseph ... New York

USD - Unknown
678 CHOATE (JOSEPH H.) Address delivered in England while American Ambassador, on Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton. London

1903-4

USD - Unknown
679 [CHOUX (JULES)] Le Petit Citateur. Notes erotiques et pornographiques. Recueil de mots et d'expressions anciens et ... Paphos (Bruxelles)

1869

USD - Unknown
680 CHRONICLES (The) of Camberwell; or, the remarkable adventures of John Sandeland. [n. p.]

[c. 1750]

USD - Unknown
681 CHURCH HISTORY (Milner), 2 vols.; Pulpit Eloquence (Fish), 2 vols.; Beecher's Life of Christ; Schaff ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
682 CHURCHILL (CHARLES) The Rosciad and the Apology, edited by R. W. Lowe. London

1891

USD - Unknown
683 CIBBER. Four original letters, viz.: Two from a Husband to a Gentleman (Theophilus Cibber to Wm ... London

1739

USD - Unknown
684 CIBBER. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, written by Himself. London

1889

USD - Unknown
685 CIBBER-SLOPER. Tryals of two causes between Theophilus Cibber aud William Sloper. London

1740

USD - Unknown
686 CIVIL WAR. Southern History of the War. The First Year of the War, by Edward A. Pollard. New York

1863

USD - Unknown
687 CIVIL WAR. Sherman vs. Hood, A Low Tart, inclined to be Very Sweet. Something for Douglas ... [New York]

[1864]

USD - Unknown
688 CLARENDON (EDWARD, EARL OF). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 6 vols.; The ... Oxford

1761-1819

USD - Unknown
689 CLARENDON (EDWARD, EARL OF). History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford

1839

USD - Unknown
690 CLARKE (SAMUEL) A Geographical Description of all the Countries in the Known World . . . London

1671

USD - Unknown
691 CLAY (HENRY) Mallory's Life and Speeches of Henry Clay, 2 vols, 1844; Colton's Life and Times of Henry Clay, 2 ... New York

USD - Unknown
692 CLEMENS (S. L.--Mark Twain) The Celebrated Jumping Frog. London

[1867]

USD - Unknown
693 CLEMENS (S. L.--Mark Twain) The Innocents Abroad. Hartford

1869

USD - Unknown
694 Sketchley (W.) COCK-FIGHTING. The Cocker. . . Information. . . of the Game Cock. Burton

1814 [reprint]

USD - Unknown
695 COLORED PLATES. Taschen Calendar fur das Schalt Jahr 1828. Augsburg

[1827]

USD - Unknown
696 COLTON (CALVIN) The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, 1855; The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay, 1856 ... New York

USD - Unknown
697 COOK (JOEL) England. Picturesque and Descriptive Reminiscences of Foreign Travel. Phila.

1900

USD - Unknown
698 COOPER (J. FENIMORE) History of the Navy of the United States of America. Phila.

1839

USD - Unknown
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