Anderson Galleries: Rare Books and Autographs from the Libraries of Mrs. May C. Smith and the late Edwin Davis French. To be sold March 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 1913. The Anderson Auction Company, New York. U.S.A., 991,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 17, 1913 - March 17, 1913
Page Size: 1246 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 A'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOT) The Quizziology of the British Drama. London

1846

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2 A'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOT) The Comic History of England. London

1847-53; and n. d.

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3 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY) and CLAY (HENRY) Letters Patent issued to Horace Baker, for improvements in a Loom for weaving Carpets, etc.

1826

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4 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY) and CLAY (HENRY) Document signed. Letters Patent issued to John S. Phillips for improvements in the construction of ...

1828

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5 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM H.) Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance. London

1843

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6 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM H.) Old St. Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire. London

1847

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7 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM H.) The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest. London

1854

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8 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Specimens of Riding near London, drawn from Life by Henry Alken. London

1823

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9 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Alken's Sporting Scrap Book. [London]

[1824]

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10 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. A Few Ideas; being Hints to all Would-Be Meltonians. London

1825

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11 [Surtees (Robert Smith)] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Analysis of the Hunting Field: being a Series of Sketches of the Principal ... London

1846

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12 Hinds (John) ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Grooms' Oracle and Pocket Stable-Directory. London

1829

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13 [Apperley (C. J.)] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Life of John Mytton, with his Hunting, Racing, Shooting, Driving, and ... London

1877

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14 Nimrod ALKEN ILLUSTRATIONS. [Apperley (C. J.).] The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. London

1837

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15 Edited by Horace E. Scudder AMERICAN COMMONWEALTHS. Boston

1888-1904

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16 Murray (James) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. An Impartial History of the War in America; from its First Commencement, to the ... Newcastle-upon-Tyne

[ca. 1782]

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17 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The American Military Pocket Atlas; being an approved Collection of correct ... London

[1776]

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18 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Rights of Great-Britain Asserted against the Claims of America; being an ... Edinb.

1776

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19 Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. AMERICAN STATESMEN. Boston

1892-3

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20 Cary (John) AMERICAN TRADE. A Discourse on Trade, and other Matters relating to it . . . Tobacco, . . . Of our ... London

1745

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21 AMERICAN VOYAGES. Du Perier. A General History of all Voyages and Travels throughout the Old and New ... London

1708

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22 AMMAN (JOST) Neuve livische Figuren.

1573

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23 Mitchell (Lucy M.) ANCIENT SCULPTURE. A History of Ancient Sculpture. New York

1888

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24 ANDERSEN (HANS) Stories from Hans Andersen. New York and London

[1911]

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25 ANDERSON'S WOOD CUTS. Oeconomy oder Haushaltungskunst des menschlichen Lebens. Philadelphia

1809

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26 Halford (Frederic M.) ANGLING. Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Fly Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing ... New York

[1910]

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27 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War. New York

1896

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28 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Fragments of American History. New York

1898

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29 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Sextodecimos et infra. New York

1899

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30 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Sextodecimos et infra. New York

1899

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31 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) James Lyne's Survey, or, as it is more commonly known the Bradford Map. A plan of the City of New ... New York

1900

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32 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) The Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden. New York

1901

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33 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Paul Revere and his Engravings. New York

1901

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34 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects. New York

1902

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35 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects. New York

1902

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36 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle fro the Book of Saint Albans. New York

1903

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37 Nimrod [APPERLEY (C. J.).] The Chace, the Turf and the Road. London

1837

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38 Nimrod [APPERLEY (C. J.).] Hunting Reminiscences; comprising Memoirs of Masters of Hounds; Notices of Crack ... London

1843

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39 APULEIUS The New Metamorphosis; or the Pleasant Transformation; being the Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius of ... London

1708

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40 APULEIUS The Metamorphosis; or Golden Ass and Philosophical Works of Apuleius. London

1822

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41 ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled ... [Denver, Colo.]

[1900]

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42 Gardner (J. Starkie) ARMOUR. Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First. London

1897

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43 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) On Translating Homer, Three Lectures, Lond. 1861; On Translating Homer, last words, Lond. 1862. London

1861-2

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44 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Friendship's Garland; being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the late Arminus, Baron von ... London

1871

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45 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) A. L. S.

1884

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46 ART CATALOGUES. Collection de M. Paul Tash-ard, 4 plates; Collection de Mad. la Comtesse Beneditte ... Paris

1911-12

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47 ASHENDENE PRESS. Horace. Quinti Horati Flacci Carmina Sapphica. Hornby

1903

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48 ASHENDENE PRESS. Un Mazzetto Scelto di certi Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo San Francesco ... Chelsea

1904

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49 ASHENDENE PRESS. A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Chelsea

1904

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50 ASPLUND (JOHN) The Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North-America; to the First of November, 1790. [Preface] Virginia

July 14, 1791

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51 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York

1840-44

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52 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) and BACHMAN (JOHN) The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York

1845-8

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53 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) and BACHMAN (JOHN) The Quadrupeds of North America. New York

1851-4

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54 AUSTEN (JANE) Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. A ... London

1885-91

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55 AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES.

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56 BACON (LORD) The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. London

1825-34

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57 BAINBRIDGE (WILLIAM--American Commodore) A. L. S.

1819

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58 BALZAC (HONORE DE) Comedie Humaine. London

1895-98

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59 BALZAC (HONORE DE) The Works of Balzac now for the First Time Completely Translated into English by the best French and ... Phila.

n. d.

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60 BANCROFT (GEORGE) History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. Boston

1867-74

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61 BARBEY D'AUREVILLEY. Poesies de Jules Bar-bey D'Aurevilley commentees par lui-meme. Bruxelles

1870

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62 BARRY (COUNTESS DU--Favorite of Louis XV) L. S. Lonveciennes

1783

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63 BATES (E. S.) Touring in 1600. A Study of the Development of Travel as a Means of Education. Boston

1911

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64 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) A. L. S.

1896

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65 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) The Story of Venus and Tannhauser. A Romantic Novel. London

1907

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66 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher. London

1711

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67 BEAUMONT (E.) L'Epee et Les Femmes, par E. de Beaumont. Paris

1881

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68 [BECKFORD (WILLIAM)] An Arabian Tale [Vathek], from an Unpublished Manuscript; with Notes, critical and explanatory. London

1786

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69 Klaproth (Julius Von) BECKFORD'S COPY, with MS. Notes. Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia, performed in the years 1807-8 ... London

1814

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70 Graham (Maria) BECKFORD'S COPY, with MS. Notes. Letters on India. London

1814

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71 Cox (Hiram) BECKFORD'S COPY, with MS. Notes. Journal of a Residence in the Burmhan Empire, and more particularly ... London

1821

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72 C. H. Bennett and R. B. Brough BENNETT (CHARLES H.). Shadow and Substance. London

1860

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73 BERANGER (PIERRE JEAN DE) Chansons. a Paris

1821

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74 [BETHEL (SLINGSBY)] Britannia Languens; or, A Discourse of Trade, shewing the Grounds and Reasons of the Increase and ... London

1680

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75 Fiske (John) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Unpublished Orations; Discovery of the Columbia River; and the Whitman ... Boston

1909

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76 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Speech of Charles Dickens delivered at Gore House, Kensington, May 10, 1851. Boston

1909

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77 Peacock (Thomas Love) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley, with fragments of unpublished ... Boston

1910

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78 Shelley (Percy Bysshe) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Note Books. From the original in the library of W. K. Bixby. Deciphered ... Boston

1911

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79 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Tenth Year Book, 1911. Boston

1911

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80 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Eleventh Year Book. 1912. Boston

1912

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81 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after Howard Pyle.

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82 Lincoln (Abraham) [BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY.] Etched Portrait, bust, by W. H. W. Bicknell.

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83 BIBLIOPHILIST'S LIBRARY. Comprising Boccaccio's Decameron, 2 vols.; Rabelais, 2 vols.; Rousseau's ... Phila.

n. d.

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84 BINDING. Francois I. Moriae Enconium, id est Stulticiae laudatio, ludica declamatione tracata per ... Basel

1532

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85 BINDING. Canevari Binding. C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiae Prima pars. Aldine Anchor and ...

1536

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86 Senault (J. Fr.) BINDING. De 1'Usage des Passions. Paris

1643

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87 BINDING. Fenelon. Les Avantures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse par Messire Francois de Salignac de la ... A Amsterdam

1734

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88 Smith (Albert) BINDING. Leech Illustrations. The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad ... London

1848

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89 Macaulay (Lord) BINDING. Lays of Ancient Rome. London

1863

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90 Longfellow (Henry W.) BINDING. The Skeleton in Armor. Boston

1877

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91 Shakespeare (William) BINDING. Romeo and Juliet, with an introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard and illustrations by ... New York

1892

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92 Shakespeare (William) BINDING. Anthony and Cleopatra, with an introduction by W. J. Rolfe, and 17 illustrations by Paul ... New York

1891

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93 BINDING OF SILVER. Richly ornamented in repousse designs of scrolls, ornaments and figures.

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94 BINGHAM (CAPT. THE HON. D.) The Bastille. London

1888

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95 BLACKMORE (R. D.--Author of Lorna Doone) A. L. S. Teddington

1880

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96 BLACKMORE (R. D.) A. L. S.

1881

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97 Hayley (William) BLAKE (WILLIAM). The Triumphs of Temper, a Poem. Chichester

1803

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98 Edited by Captain Prout BOB NORBERRY; or, Sketches from the Note Book of an Irish Reporter. Dublin

1844

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99 [Walpole (Horace)] BODONI PRESS. The Castle of Otranto, a Story. Parma

1791

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100 BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUMES. Decameron; Heptameron; Rabelais, 2 vols.; Hamilton's Fairy Tales; Cervantes ... London

1846-64

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