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Anderson Galleries: The Library of William Nelson of Paterson, N. J. PART I. To be sold in Seven Sessions on October 13, 14, 15 and 16, 1913. The Anderson Auction Company. New York. U.S.A., 1005,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 13, 1913 - October 13, 1913

Page Size: 1989 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	Marat (Jean Paul)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Polish Letters.	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
202		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Third Year Book. 1904.	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
203		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Fourth Year Book. 1905.	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
204		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Henry the Leper (Der Arme Heinrich), Paraphrased by Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
205	Jones (John Paul)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Letters of John Paul Jones printed from the unpublished originals in Mr. W. K ...	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
206	Edited by H. A. Metcalf	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus.	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
207	Thoreau (Henry D.)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, lately discovered among his Unpublished ...	Boston	1905	USD -	Unknown
208		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Fifth Year Book. 1906.	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
209		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Fourth Annual Banquet of The Bibliophile Society, New Algonquin Club, Boston ...	Boston	1906	USD -	Unknown
210		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Sixth Year Book. 1907.	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
211		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving.	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
212	Edited by Albert H. Hart	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Varick Court of Inquiry to investigate the implication of Colonel Varick ...	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
213		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau; Musings by William Cullen Bryant ...	Boston	1907	USD -	Unknown
214		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Seventh Year Book. 1908.	Boston	1908	USD -	Unknown
215	Fiske (John)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Unpublished Orations. The Discovery of the Columbia River, and the Whitman ...	Boston	1909	USD -	Unknown
216		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Speech of Charles Dickens delivered at Gore House, Kensington, May 10, 1851.	Boston	1909	USD -	Unknown
217	Peacock (Thomas Love)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy Bysshe Shelley, with Fragments of ...	Boston	1910	USD -	Unknown
218	Harper (Henry Howard)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Bob Hardwick: the Story of his Life and Experiences.	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
219		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Tenth Year Book. 1911.	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
220		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Eleventh Year Book. 1912.	Boston	1912	USD -	Unknown
221	Goldsmith (Oliver)	BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Deserted Village.	Boston	1912	USD -	Unknown
222		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after Howard Pyle. Five etchings, with a set of ...			USD -	Unknown
223		BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Miscellaneous Announcements, specimen pages, correspondence, charge memoranda ...			USD -	Unknown
224		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Journey Round My Room (De Maistre); The Famous History of Fryer Bacon, 2 vols ...	Edinburgh	1885-91	USD -	Unknown
225		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Devils of Loudon, The Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the ...			USD -	Unknown
226		BIOGRAPHY. George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and Journals (Cross), 3 vols. N. Y. 1885 ...			USD -	Unknown
227		BIOGRAPHY. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Kennedy), Bost. 1883; Life of Henry Clay (Greeley), N. Y. 1856 ...			USD -	Unknown
228		BIOGRAPHY. Life and Times of David Zeisberger (Schweinitz), Phila. 1871; The Life and Times of Alex ...			USD -	Unknown
229		BIOGRAPHY. Famous Americans of Recent Times. (Parton), Bost. 1868; Lives of the Chief Justices of ...			USD -	Unknown
230		BIOGRAPHY. Biographical Notice of Daniel Drake (Meigs), Phila. 1853; Charles Hammond (Smith), 1885 ...			USD -	Unknown
231		BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL. Illustrated Life of Washington (Headley), N. Y. 1859; Pictorial ...			USD -	Unknown
232	Brisson	BINDING. Ornithologie, ou Methode contenant la division des Oiseaux.	Paris	1760	USD -	Unknown
233	BINGHAM (W.)	A Letter from an American on the Subject of Restraining Proclamation and containing Strictures on ...	Phila.	1784	USD -	Unknown
234	BLACKET (W. S.)	Researches into the Lost Histories of America; or the Zodiac shown to be an old Terrestrial Map, etc ...	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
235	BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM)	Commentaries on the Laws of England.	Oxford	1766-69	USD -	Unknown
236	BLAIKIE (JOHN)	Among the Goths and Vandals.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
237	BLAVATSKY (H. P.)	Isis Unveiled.	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
238		BLITHEDALE ROMANCE (Hawthorne), Bost. 1852; Lotus-Eating (Curtis), N. Y. 1852; A Visit to India ...			USD -	Unknown
239	[BLOME (RICHARD).]	The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, S ...	London	1687	USD -	Unknown
240	[BLOME (RICHARD).]	The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, S ...	London	1687	USD -	Unknown
241	[BLOME (RICHARD).]	L'Amerique Angloise, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre, dans l'Amerique. Avec ...	Amsterdam	1688	USD -	Unknown
242	[BLOOMFIELD (JOSEPH).]	The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, containing the ...	Phila.	1789	USD -	Unknown
243	BLOUNT (CHARLES)	The Two First Books of Philostratus, concerning the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus: written originally ...	London	1680	USD -	Unknown
244		BLUE LAWS. The Blue Laws of New Haven, usually called Blue Laws of Connecticut; Quaker Laws of ...	Hartford	1838	USD -	Unknown
245		BLUE LAWS. The Code of 1650, being a Compilation on the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General ...	Hartford	1843	USD -	Unknown
246	BLUNT (JOHN J.)	Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily.	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
247		BODY AND SOUL (Dearmer), N. Y. 1909; The Perfect Light (Olin), N. Y. 1866; Memoirs of the Church ( ...			USD -	Unknown
248		BOETIUS de Consolationae Philosophiae. The Boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or ...	[Imprinted at London in Paules Churche Yarde by Jhon Cawoode]	1556	USD -	Unknown
249		BONAPARTE-PATTERSON Marriage (Saffell), Phila. 1873; The Murdered Maiden (Keeler), 1878; The Life of ...			USD -	Unknown
250		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Book Hunter in Paris (Uzanne), Lond. 1895; The Early History of English ...			USD -	Unknown
251		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Enemies of Books (Blades), N. Y. 1888; How to Form a Library (Wheatley), Lond ...			USD -	Unknown
252		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Books in Chains (Blades), N. Y. 1892; Old Cookery Books (Hazlitt), N. Y. 1886 ...			USD -	Unknown
253		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Book Auctions in England (Lawler), Lond. 1898; Book-Verse (Roberts), Lond. 1896 ...			USD -	Unknown
254		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Great Book-Collectors (Elton), Early Printed Books (Gordon Duff), Early ...	London	1893-4	USD -	Unknown
255		BOOKS AND BOOKMEN (Lang), N. Y. 1886; Field of Honor (Truman), N. Y. 1884; Curious Myths of the ...			USD -	Unknown
256		BOOK CATALOGUES. The Baker Collection of Washington's Books, 1891; M. A. Stickney, Rare Americana ...			USD -	Unknown
257		BOOK FANCIER (Fitzgerald), Lond. 1886; Book-Bills of Narcissus (Le Gallienne), Lond. 1892; Ballads ...			USD -	Unknown
258		BOOK OF GEMS (Edited by S. C. Hall), Lond. 1837; Later Leaves (Williams), Lond. 1891; The Baronet ...			USD -	Unknown
259		BOOK OF SCOUNDRELS (Whibley), N. Y. 1894; Book of Ghosts (Baring-Gould), Lond. n. d.; Zanzibar Tales ...			USD -	Unknown
260		BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS (Clouston), Lond. 1893; a Monograph on Privately-Illustrated Books (Tredwell ...			USD -	Unknown
261		BOOK ON EGYPT and Chaldaea (Budge), 3 vols. Lond. 1899; Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (Bonwick ...			USD -	Unknown
262	Vinycomb (John)	BOOK PLATES. Fifty Bookplates (Ex Libris).	[Belfast]	1906	USD -	Unknown
263		BOOK PLATES. Das Exlibris-Werk Emil Preetorius', mit einem Geleitwort von Franz Dulberg.	Darmstadt	1909	USD -	Unknown
264	Miner (William H.)	BOONE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Contribution toward a Bibliography of Writings concerning Daniel Boone.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
265	BOPP (PROFESSOR F.)	A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic ...	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
266	BORTHWICK (WILLIAM)	An Inquiry into the Origin and Limitations of the Feudal Dignities of Scotland.	Edinb.	1775	USD -	Unknown
267	BOSWORTH (REV. J.)	The Origin of the Dutch: with a Sketch of their Language and Literature, and short examples, tracing ...	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
268		BOTANY. School and Field Book of Botany (Gray), N. Y. 1869; Climbing Plants (Darwin), N. Y. 1884 ...			USD -	Unknown
269	BOTERO (GIOVANNI)	Mundus Imperiorum sive Relationes de Praecipuis Mundi Imperiis, Regnis et Dynastiis.	Ursellis	1603	USD -	Unknown
270	BOTERO (GIOVANNI)	Le Relationi universali di Botero, Benese, divise in sette parti. Con le Figure, & due copiosissime ...	Venetia	1618-17	USD -	Unknown
271	BOUCHOT (HENRI)	The Book: its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders from Gutenberg to the present time.	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
272	BOUDINOT (ELIAS)	A Star in the West: or, a Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, preparatory ...	Trenton, N. J.	1816	USD -	Unknown
273	BOURKE (CAPT. JOHN G.)	Scatalogic Rites of all Nations.	Washington	1891	USD -	Unknown
274	BOWDITCH (N. I.)	Suffolk Surnames.	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
275	BOWLES (SAMUEL)	Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean.	Hartford, Connecticut	1869	USD -	Unknown
276	BRACKENRIDGE (H. H.)	Modern Chivalry: containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, his servant.	Pittsburg	1819	USD -	Unknown
277	[Edited by Horatio Gates Jones]	BRADFORD PRAYER BOOK. Some Account of The Book of Common Prayer, Printed A. D. 1710, by William ...	[New York]	1870	USD -	Unknown
278	BRADLEY (CHARLES WILLIAM)	Patronomatology: from an Essay on the Philosophy of Surnames.	Baltimore	1842	USD -	Unknown
279	BRAINERD (CEPHAS and (EVELINE WARNER)	The New England Society Orations. Addresses, Sermons, and Poems Delivered before the New England ...	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
280	BRERETON (JOHN)	A Brief and True Relation of the Discoverie of the North Part of Virginia.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
281		BRIDGEWATER TREATISES. On the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man (Chalmers), 2 vols ...	London	1833-34	USD -	Unknown
282		BRINCKERHOFF GENEALOGY. The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, 1638.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
283	BRINTON (DANIEL G.)	Notes on the Floridian Peninsula, its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities.	Phila.	1859	USD -	Unknown
284	BRINTON (DANIEL G.)	A Grammar of the Cakchiquel Language of Guatemala.	Phila.	1884	USD -	Unknown
285	BRINTON (DANIEL G.)	The Myths of the New World, N. Y. 1868; A Guide Book of Florida and the South. Map. Phila. 1869 ...			USD -	Unknown
286	BRINTON (DANIEL G.)	The Religious Sentiment, Its Source and Aim, N. Y. 1876; Races and Peoples, N. Y. 1890; The American ...			USD -	Unknown
287	BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (J. P.) and CLAVIERE (E.)	Nouveau Voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale, fait en 1788; [et] De la France et ...	Paris	1791	USD -	Unknown
288	BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (J. P.) and CLAVIERE (E.)	New Travels in the United States of America, Performed in 1788.	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
289	BRISTED (JOHN)	The Resources of the United States.	New York	1818	USD -	Unknown
290		BRITISH POETRY. Library Edition of the British Poets. Edited by Rev. G. Gilfillan; Poetical Works of ...	Edinb.	1853-5	USD -	Unknown
291		BRITISH POETRY. Poems (Wild), First American Edition, Bost. 1881; The Drama of Kings (Buchanan ...			USD -	Unknown
292		BRITISH POETRY. Laus Veneris and other Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), N. Y. 1866; The Poetical Works ...			USD -	Unknown
293		BRITISH POETS. Samuel Coleridge, 3 vols.; Thomas Hood, 4 vols.; Edmund Spencer, 5 vols.; Thomas ...	Bost	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
294		BROADSIDE containing the printed text of General George B. McClellan's platform upon which he ...			USD -	Unknown
295	BRONSON (WILLIAM WHITE)	The Inscriptions in St. Peter's Church Yard, Philadelphia.	Camden	1879	USD -	Unknown
296	BROWN (GEORGE S.)	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell's History.	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
297	BROWN (THOMAS)	The Elements of Conchology; or Natural History of Shells, according to the Linnaean System.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
298	BROWN (WILLIAM H.)	The History of the first Locomotives in America.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
299	BROWNE (J. ROSS)	Resources of the Pacific Slope. A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the Mines, Climate, etc.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
300	BRUGSCH-BEY (DR. HENRY)	A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs.	London	1881	USD -	Unknown

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