Anderson Galleries: The Private Library of Wilberforce Eames Part II The History Literature etc. of Great Britain and Ireland. For Sale at Auction Thurseday and Friday, March 8th and 9th 1906. The Anderson Auction Company. 5 West 29th Street, New York., 441,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 08, 1906 - March 08, 1906

Page Size: 1320 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1288	ADDISON (JOSEPH)	The Spectator. A new edition, reproducing the Original Text, with Introduction, Notes and Index, by Henry Morley	London	n. d. [1887]	USD -	Unknown
1289	AIRY (OSMUND)	Text-Book of English History	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
1290	ABBOTT (JACOB)	History of King Alfred the Great of England	London	n. d. [1889]	USD -	Unknown
1291		ASSER. Annales Rerum Gestarum AElfredi Magni, auctore Asserio Menevensi, Recensuit F. Wise	Oxford	1722	USD -	Unknown
1292	BESANT (WALTER)	The Story of King Alfred	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
1293	BICKNELL (A.)	The Life of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
1294	BICKNELL (A.)	The Life of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
1295	BOSWORTH (G. F.)	Alfred the Great, his Life and Times. Introduction by F. S. Marvin	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1296	BOWKER (ALFRED)	Alfred the Great. Chapters on his Life and Times, by Frederic Harrison, the Lord Bishop of Bristol, Prof. C. Oman, Sir C. Markham, Rev. Prof. Earle, etc	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
1297	BURROWS (MONTAGU)	King Alfred the Great	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
1298	CONYBEARE (EDWARD)	Alfred in the Chroniclers	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
1299	COOKE (J. HUNT)	Life of King Alfred the Great	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
1300	DRAPER (W. H.)	Alfred the Great: A Sketch and Seven Studies	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1301	DRAPER (W. H.)	Alfred the Great: A Sketch and Seven Studies	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1302	EARLE (JOHN)	The Alfred Jewel. An Historical Essay	Oxford	1901	USD -	Unknown
1303	GILES (J. A.)	The Life and Times of Alfred the Great	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1304	GILES (J. A.)	The Life and Times of Alfred the Great	Oxford	1854	USD -	Unknown
1305	GUIZOT (W.)	Alfred le Grand	Paris	1888	USD -	Unknown
1306	HALLER (ALBRECHT VON)	Alfred Konig der Angel-Sachsen	Gottingen und Bern	1773	USD -	Unknown
1307	HALLER (ALBRECHT VON)	Alfred Konig der Angel-Sachsen	Reuttiingen	1779	USD -	Unknown
1308	HALLER (ALBERT VON.)	The Moderate Monarchy; or Principles of the British Constitution described in a Narrative of the Life and Maxims of Alfred the Great and his Counsellors	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1309	HARRISON (FREDERIC)	The Writings of King Alfred, d.901. (Address delivered at Harvard, March 1901.)	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
1310	HAWKINS (W.) AND SMITH (E. T.)	The Story of Alfred the Great	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
1311	HUGHES (THOMAS)	Alfred the Great	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1312	JEFFERY (F. B.)	A Perfect Prince. (Alfred the Great.) The Story of England a Thousand Years Ago	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1313	LORENTZ (DR. FRIEDRICH)	Geschichte Alfreds des Groszen, uebertragen aus Turner's Geschichte der Angelsachsen, nebst der Lodbrokar-Quida	Hamburg	1828	USD -	Unknown
1314	LUBECK (REV. H.)	The Investment of Life. The Substance of a Sermon delivered in St Paul's Chapel, ...	New York	[1901]	USD -	Unknown
1315	MACFADYEN (DUGALD)	Alfred the West Saxon King of the English	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1316	MOLENAAR (DR. H.)	Alfred der Grosse	n. p. [Leipzig]	n. d. [1901?]	USD -	Unknown
1317	PAGE (JESSE)	Alfred the Great, the Father of the English	London	n. d. [1900]	USD -	Unknown
1318	PAULI (DR. REINHOLD)	The Life of King Alfred	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1319	PAULI (DR. REINHOLD)	The Life of Alfred the Great	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1320	SPELMAN (JOHN)	AElfredi Magni Anglorum Regis invictissimi Vita Tribus libris comprehensa a clarissimo Dno. Johanne Spelman	Oxford	1678	USD -	Unknown
1321	SPELMAN (JOHN)	Life of Alfred the Great from the Original MS	Oxford	1709	USD -	Unknown
1322	STOLBERG (FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, GRAFEN ZU)	Leben Alfred des Grosse, Koniges in England	Munster	1815	USD -	Unknown
1323	STOLBERG (FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, GRAFEN ZU)	Leben Alfred des Grosse, Koniges in England	Munster	1836	USD -	Unknown
1324	SWANN (J. H.)	Alfred the Great and his Times. Millenary-Celebration, 1901. An Annotated Study-list of Books in the Reference Library	Manchester	1900	USD -	Unknown
1325	WALL (J. C.)	Alfred the Great, his Abbeys of Hyde, Athelney,. and Shaftesbury	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
1326	WEISZ (DR. J. B.)	Geschichte Alfreds des Groszen	Schaffhausen	1852	USD -	Unknown
1327		WILL OF KING ALFRED (THE). (Anglo-Saxon Text, with Literal and Free Translations.)	Oxford	1788	USD -	Unknown
1328		WILL OF KING ALFRED (THE). Reprinted from the Oxford Edition of 1788, with a Preface and Additional Notes	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
1329		KING ALFRED'S JEWEL.			USD -	Unknown
1330	ALLIBONE (S. AUSTIN)	A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors,â?¦	Philadelphia	1859-9D	USD -	Unknown
1331		AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY. Dialect Notes, Parts D. to 8.	Boston; Norwood, Mass.	1890-94; 1895	USD -	Unknown
1332	AMES (JOSEPH)	A Catalogue of English Heads ; or, An Account of about 2,000 Prints, describing what is peculiar on each, the name of Painter or Engraver, etc	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
1333	[ANDERSON (ADAM).]	An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts ...	London	1777-89	USD -	Unknown
1334	ANDERSON (J. P.)	The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1335	ANDREWS (C. McLEAN)	The Old English Manor. A Study in English Economic History	Baltimore	1892	USD -	Unknown
1336	ELSTOB (ELIZABETH)	An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory, anciently used in the English-Saxon Church	London	1709	USD -	Unknown
1337	ELSTOB (ELIZ.) AND JOSCELYN (JOHN)	Some Testimonies of Learned Men in favor of the intended edition of the Saxon Homilies, ...			USD -	Unknown
1338	LANGLEY (L.)	Principia Saxonica; or, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Reading, comprising AElfric's Homily	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
1339	LISLE (W.)	A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament, written about the Time of King Edgar (700 years agoe) by AElfricus Abbas ...	London	1623	USD -	Unknown
1340	LISLE (W.)	A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament, written about the Time of King Edgar (700 years agoe) by AElfricus Abbas ...	London	1638	USD -	Unknown
1341	PHILLIPS (SIR T.)	Fragment of AElfric's Grammar, AElfric's Glossary, and a Poem on the Soul and Body in the Orthography of the 12th Century, Discovered among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1342	THOMSON (E.)	Select Monuments of the Doctrine and Worship of the Catholic Church in England before the Norman Conquest, consisting of AElfric's Paschal Homily, etc., with English translation	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1343	THORPE (B.)	The Homilies of AElfric, with an English translation	London	1843-46	USD -	Unknown
1344	ZUPITZA (JULIUS)	AElfric's Grammatik und Glossar. Erste Abteilung Text und Varianten	Berlin	1880	USD -	Unknown
1345	AKERMAN (JOHN YONGE)	Remains of Pagan Saxondom	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1346	ALLEN (GRANT)	Anglo-Saxon Britain	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1347	BAYE (BARON J. DE.)	The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1348		BEDE. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum, libri V., a Venerabili Presbytero scripti ... ab ...	Cantabrigiae	1644	USD -	Unknown
1349		BEDE. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum ... una cum reliquis ejus Operibus Historicis in unum Volumen collectis. Cura Johannis Smith	Cantabrigiae	1722	USD -	Unknown
1350		BEDE. St. Augustine in England. (From Bede's History.)			USD -	Unknown
1351	SCHMIDT (AUGUST).	BEDE. Untersuchungen uber Konig AElfred's Bedaubersetzung	Berlin	[1889]	USD -	Unknown
1352	ARNOLD (THOMAS)	Beowulf. A Heroic Poem of the Eighth Century, with a Translation, Notes and Appendix	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1353	ARNOLD (THOMAS)	Notes on Beowulf	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
1354		BEOWULF. Beowulf, and the Fight at Finnsburg; a Translation into modern English prose, with Introduction and Notes	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
1355	DEDERICH (HERMANN)	Historische und Geographische Studien zum Angelsachsischen Beovulfliede	Koeln	1877	USD -	Unknown
1356	EARLE (J.)	The Deeds of Beowulf. An English Epic of the Eighth Century done into Modern Prose	Oxford	1892	USD -	Unknown
1357	GARNETT (J. M.)	Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem, and the Fight at Finnsburg	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
1358	GREIN (C. W. M.)	Beovulf nebst den Fragmenten Finnsburg und Valdere, in kritisch bearbeiteten Texten neu herausgegeben, mit Worterbuch	Cassel	1867	USD -	Unknown
1359	GREIN (C. W. M.)	Beowulf. Stabreimend ubersetzt von Prof. Grein. Zweite Auflage	Kassel	1883	USD -	Unknown
1360	HALL (J. L.)	Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
1361	HARRISON (J. A.) AND SHARP (R.)	Beowulf; and the Fight at Finnsburgh. Text and Glossary on the basis of M. Heyne	Boston	1901	USD -	Unknown
1362	HEYNE (MORITZ)	Beovulf. Mit ausfuhrlichem Glossar herausgegeben, von Moritz Heyne	Paderborn	1863	USD -	Unknown
1363	HEYNE (MORITZ)	Fourth Edition of Beovulf, with new Preface and enlarged Glossary	Paderborn	1879	USD -	Unknown
1364	HEYNE (MORITZ)	Fifth Edition of Beovulf	Paderborn	1888	USD -	Unknown
1365	HEYNE (MORITZ)	Beowulf. Ubersetzt	Paderborn	1863	USD -	Unknown
1366	HEYNE (MORITZ)	Second Edition of Beowulf. Ubersetzt	Paderborn	1898	USD -	Unknown
1367	HOFFMAN (P.)	Beowulf. Aus dem Angelsachsischen ubertragen	Hannover	1900	USD -	Unknown
1368	HOLDER (ALFRED)	Beowulf, herausgegeben von Alfred Holder.	Freiburg im Breisgau	n. d. [1884?]	USD -	Unknown
1369	KEMBLE (J. M.)	The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, the Traveller's Song, and the Battle of Finnes-Burh	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
1370	KEMBLE (J. M.)	A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf, with a copious Glossary, Preface, and Philological Notes	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1371	MORRIS (WM.) AND WYATT (A. J.)	The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
1372	MULLENHOFF (KARL)	Beovulf. Untersuchungen uber das Angelsachsische Epos und die alteste Geschichte der Germanischen Seevolker	Berlin	1889	USD -	Unknown
1373	RAGOZIN (Z. A.)	Siegfried, the Hero of the North; and Beowulf, the Hero of the Anglo-Saxons	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
1374	SCHALDEMOSE (F.)	Beowulf og Scopes Widsid to Angelsaxiske Digte, med Oversaettelse og oplysende Anmaerkninger. Anden Udgave	Copenhagen	1851	USD -	Unknown
1375	SIMONS (DR. L.)	Beowulf. Angelsaksisch Volsepos Vertaald in stafrijm en met Inleiding en Aanteekeningen Voorzien	Gent	1896	USD -	Unknown
1376	SIMROCK (DR. KARL)	Das alteste deutsche Epos. Uebersetzt und erlautert von Dr. Karl Simrock	Stuttgart und Augsburg	1859	USD -	Unknown
1377	STEINECK (H.)	Altenglische Dichtungen in wortgetreuer Uebersetzung von H. Steineck	Leipzig	1898	USD -	Unknown
1378	THOMSON (C.)	The Adventures of Beowulf. Translated ... and adapted for Schools	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
1379	THORPE (BENJAMIN)	The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, the Scop or Gleeman's Tale, and the Fight at Finnesburg	Oxford	1855	USD -	Unknown
1380	WOLZOGEN (HANS VON)	Beowulf. Aus dem Angelsachsischen	Leipzig	[1872]	USD -	Unknown
1381	WYATT (A, J.)	Beowulf. Edited with textual Foot-notes, Index of Proper Names, and Alphabetical Glossary	Cambridge	1898	USD -	Unknown
1382	ZUPITZA (JULIUS)	Beowulf. Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS. [Vitellius A.xv] in the British Museum	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1383	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY)	Fasti Monastici AEvi Saxonici; or an Alphabetical List of the Heads of Religious Houses in England previous to the Norman Conquest	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1384	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY)	Cartularium Saxonicum : A Collection of Charters relating to Anglo-Saxon History	London	1885-1893	USD -	Unknown
1385	CARDALE (J. S.)	King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, with an English Translation, and Notes	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1386	FOX (SAMUEL)	King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius, with an English Translation, and Notes	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1387	LEICHT (ALFRED)	Ist Koenig AEelfred der Verfasser der Alliterierenden Metra des Boetius?	Halle	1882	USD -	Unknown

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