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
2188	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Calendar of the Shakespearean Rarities, Drawings, and Engravings preserved at Hollingsbury Copse, near Brighton	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
2189	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	Regnal Years, List of Law Terms, etc., during the Shakespearean Period	Brighton	1883	USD -	Unknown
2190	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	Memoranda intended for the Use of Amateurs, who are sufficiently interested in the pursuit, â?¦	Brighton	1884	USD -	Unknown
2191		HUNDRED MERRY TALES (A). The Earliest English Jest-Book. Now First Reproduced in Photo-Lithography from the Unique copy of 1526 in the Royal Library in Gottingen	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
2192	INGLEBY (C. M.)	The Shakspeare Fabrications; or, The MS. Notes of the Perkins Folio shown to be of Recent Origin, with an Appendix on the Ireland Forgeries	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
2193	LEE (SIDNEY)	A Life of William Shakespeare	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
2194	MACKAY (CHARLES)	A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and his Contemporaries	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
2195		MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The Second Quarto, 1600 : A Facsimile in Photo-Lithography by William Griggs	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
2196	O'CONNOR (E. M.)	An Index to the Works of Shakespere, giving references by Topics to Notable Passages and Significant Expressions, Brief Histories of the Plays, etc., etc	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
2197		The Sonnets of Shakspere, when, to whom, and by whom, written	[New York]	[1883]	USD -	Unknown
2198		SONNETS (THE). The Sonnets of Shakespeare now newly imprinted from the First Edition of 1609	New Rochelle	1901	USD -	Unknown
2199	STOKES (H. P.)	An Attempt to determine the Chronological Order of Shakespeare's Plays. (The Harness Essay, 1877.)	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
2200	THACHER (JOHN BOYD)	Charlecote; or, the Trial of William Shakespeare	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
2201	WINSOR (JUSTIN)	A Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare, with particular reference to copies in America	Boston	1876	USD -	Unknown
2202	WINSOR (JUSTIN)	Shakespeare's Poems. A Bibliography of the Earlier Editions	Cambridge, Mass.	1879	USD -	Unknown
2203		WORKS. The Works of William Shakespeare in reduced facsimile from the famous First Folio edition of 1623	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
2204	WYMAN (W. H.)	Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy, with Notes and Extracts	Cincinnati	1884	USD -	Unknown
2205	SHARMAN (JULIAN)	A Cursory History of Swearing	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
2206	FORMAN (H. BUXTON)	SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Shelley Library. An Essay in Bibliography	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2207	W00DBERRY (C. E.)	SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Notes on the MS. Volume of Shelley's Poems in the Library of Harvard College	Cambridge, Mass.	1889	USD -	Unknown
2208	SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)	Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of The Skylark.	Cambridge, Mass.	1888	USD -	Unknown
2209		SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR (THE).	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
2210	SHUCKBURGH (E. S.)	The A B C both in Latyn and Englishe: being a Facsimile reprint of the earliest extant English Reading Book	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
2211	SIEVERS (S.) AND COOK (A. S.)	An Old English Grammar	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
2212	SKEAT (W. W.)	Specimens of English Literature, from the Ploughman's Crede to the Shepherd's Calendar, A.D. 1394-1579	Oxford	1871	USD -	Unknown
2213	SKEAT (W. W.)	An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language	Oxford; New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
2214	SKEAT (W. W.)	Principles of English Etymology. First Series--The Native Element	Oxford	1887	USD -	Unknown
2215	SKEAT (W. W.)	A Primer of English Etymology	Oxford	1892	USD -	Unknown
2216	SKEAT (W. W.)	Twelve Facsimiles of Old English Manuscripts	Oxford	1892	USD -	Unknown
2217	SKOTTOWE (B. C.)	A Short History of Parliament	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2218	SMITH (EDWARD)	Foreign Visitors in England, and What they have Thought of Us: being some Notes on Books and their Opinions during the last Three Centuries	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
2219	SMITH (G. BARNETT)	History of the English Parliament, together with an Account of the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
2220		SMITH'S MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS.	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
2221	SMYTH (ADMIRAL W. H.)	The Sailor's Word Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including some more especially Military and Scientific	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
2222	SPALDING (T. A.)	The House of Lords: A Retrospect and a Forecast	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
2223	KITCHIN (G. W.)	SPENSER. Book I. of the Faery Queene	Oxford	1888	USD -	Unknown
2224	STAUNTON (HOWARD)	The Great Schools of England, an Account of ... Eton, Winchester, Westminster, the Charter-house, Harrow, etc	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
2225	STEDMAN (EDMUND C)	Victorian Poets. (Literary and Biographical Criticisms.)	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
2226	STEVENS (HENRY)	Catalogue of My English Library	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
2227	STOUGHTON (JOHN)	Ecclesiastical History of England, from the opening of the Long Parliament to the death of Cromwell	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
2228	STOUGHTON (JOHN)	Ecclesiastical History of England. The Church of the Restoration	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
2229	STRATMANN (F. H.)	A Dictionary of the Old English Language, compiled from Writings of the XII., XIII., XIV., and XV	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
2230	STUBBS (W.)	Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, an Attempt to Exhibit the Course of Episcopal Succession in England from the Records and Chronicles of the Church	Oxford	1858	USD -	Unknown
2231	STUBBS (W.)	Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, an Attempt to Exhibit the Course of Episcopal Succession in England from the Records and Chronicles of the Church	Oxford	1897	USD -	Unknown
2232	STUBBS (W.)	Select Charters and other illustrations of English Constitutional History from the earliest times to the reign of Edward I	Oxford	1870	USD -	Unknown
2233	STUBBS (W.)	Select Charters and other illustrations of English Constitutional History from the earliest times to the reign of Edward I	Oxford	1884	USD -	Unknown
2234		SUSSEX. MURRAY'S Handbook for Sussex. Maps and plans	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
2235	SWEET (HENRY)	A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
2236	SWEET (HENRY)	First Middle English Primer. Extracts from the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum. With Grammar and Glossary	Oxford	1884	USD -	Unknown
2237	SWIFT (AUGUSTUS M.)	Derwent Coleridge, Scholar, Pastor, Educator. An Address	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
2238	[SHEPHERD (R. H.)]	SWINBURNE. The Bibliography of Swinburne. A Bibliographical List ... in chronological order of the published writings [1857-1887]	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
2239	TAINE (H.)	History of English Literature	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
2240	TASWELL-LANGMEAD (T. P.)	English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2241	TAYLOR (HANNIS)	The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. An Historical Treatise in which is drawn out by the light â?¦	Boston	1889-98	USD -	Unknown
2242	TAYLOR (ISAAC)	Words and Places: or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
2243	TEN BRINK (BERNHARD)	English Literature. (Vol. 1, Early English Literature; Vols. * and 3, Wyclif to Surrey.)	New York	1883-1896	USD -	Unknown
2244	[GROLIER CLUB]	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Chronological List of the Works of Lord Tennyson .... exhibited at the Grolier Club, Nov. 5-20, 1897	[New York]	[1897]	USD -	Unknown
2245	[LIVINGSTON (LUTHER S.)]	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). A Bibliography of the First Editions, in Book Form, of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
2246	[SHEPHERD (RICHARD HERNE).]	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Tennysoniana. Notes, Bibliographical and Critical, on the Early Poems of A. and C. Tennyson; Opinions of Contemporary Writers; Various Readings; Bibliographical List; etc	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
2247	[SHEPHERD (RICHARD HERNE).]	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Tennysoniana. Notes, Bibliographical and Critical, on the Early Poems of A. and C. Tennyson; Opinions of Contemporary Writers; Various Readings; Bibliographical List; etc	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
2248		TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Drake's Drum, by Henry Newbolt; and the Revenge, a Ballad of the Fleet, by Alfred Tennyson	Jamaica	1898	USD -	Unknown
2249	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD).	WORKS. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Boston and New York	n. d. [1899]	USD -	Unknown
2250	THACKERAY (F, ST. JOHN)	Eton College Library, re-printed from Notes and Queries.	Eton	1881	USD -	Unknown
2251	JOHNSON (C. P.)	THACKERAY (W. M.) Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
2252	[SHEPHERD (R. H.)]	THACKERAY (W. M.) Bibliography of Thackeray. A Bibliographical List, arranged in Chronological Order, of his published writings	London	[1880]	USD -	Unknown
2253	THOMPSON (SIR EDWARD MAUNDE)	English Illuminated Manuscripts. Facsimiles, one in colors and gold	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
2254	THOMPSON (PISHEY)	History and Antiquities of Boston and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, â?¦	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
2255	THOMSON (RICHARD)	An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, to which are added the Great Charter in Latin and English, â?¦	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
2256	THORNTON (PERCY M.)	Foreign Secretaries of the XlXth Century	London	1881-83	USD -	Unknown
2257	TODD (ALPHEUS)	On Parliamentary Government in England, its Origin, Development, and Practical Operation	London	1867-69	USD -	Unknown
2258	TODD (ALPHEUS)	Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
2259	TOOKE (J. HORNE)	The Diversions of Purley	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
2260	TORRENS (W. M.)	History of Cabinets, from the Union with Scotland to the Acquisition of Canada and Bengal	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
2261	TUCKERMAN (BAYARD)	A History of English Prose Fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
2262	DEMAUS (REV. R.)	TYNDALE (WILLIAM). William Tyndale. A Biography. A Contribution to the Early History of the English Bible	London	n. d. [1871?]	USD -	Unknown
2263	TYNDALE (WILLIAM)	TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT. The First Printed New Testament, translated by William Tyndale	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
2264	TYNDALE (WILLIAM).	TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT. Three New Testaments of William Tyndale compared with each other and with the First Edition of Thomas Matthews	[Bristol	1875]	USD -	Unknown
2265	UNDERWOOD (F. H.)	A Handbook of English Literature	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
2266		UTRECHT PSALTER. Reports addressed to the Trustees of the British Museum on the Age of the Manuscript, by E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson, Sir M. Digby Wyatt, Prof. Westwood, and others	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
2267	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY)	UTRECHT PSALTER. The History, Art, and Palaeography of the Manuscript styled the Utrecht Psalter	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
2268	WACE.	Le Roman de Brut. Par Wace, poete du XII. Siecle.	Rouen	1836-38	USD -	Unknown
2269	WALKER (JOHN)	An Attempt towards recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England, â?¦	London	1714	USD -	Unknown
2270	WALLACE (ROBERT)	Antitrinitarian Biography; or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Distinguished Antitrinitarians ...	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
2271	WALPOLE (SPENCER)	History of England from the Conclusion of the great war in 1815	London	1878-86	USD -	Unknown
2272	WARD (T. H.)	Men of the Reign. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Persons of British and Colonial Birth who have died during the reign of Queen Victoria	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
2273	WARTON (THOMAS)	The History of English Poetry from the close of the Eleventh to the commencement of the Eighteenth Century	London	1775-90	USD -	Unknown
2274	WARTON (THOMAS)	History of English Poetry. Edited by W. C. Hazlitt	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
2275	WATERS (ROBERT)	How to Get On in the World, as demonstrated by the Life and Language of William Cobbett; to which is added Cobbett's English Grammar, with Notes	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
2276	WATT (ROBERT)	Bibliotheca Britannica; or, a General Index to British and Foreign Literature	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
2277	WEBSTER (NOAH)	An American Dictionary of the English Language.	Springfield	1881	USD -	Unknown
2278	WEDGWOOD (H.)	Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
2279	WELSFORD (HENRY)	On the Origin and Ramifications of the English Language	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
2280	WESTCOTT (BROOKE FOSS)	A General View of the History of the English Bible	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
2281		WESTE RN ANTIQUARY (THE), OR, DEVON, CORNWALL, AND SOMERSET NOTE BOOK. Fifth and Sixth Series. June, 1885, to June, 1886	Plymouth	1885-86	USD -	Unknown
2282		WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH.	Edinburgh	1874	USD -	Unknown
2283	WHEELER (W. A.)	An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including, also, Familiar Pseudonyms, etc	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
2284	WHITE (RICHARD GRANT)	Words and their Uses, Past and Present. A Study of the English Language.	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
2285	WHITE (RICHARD GRANT)	Every-Day English. A Sequel to Words and their Uses	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
2286	WHITNEY (WILLIAM DWIGHT)	Essentials of English Grammar	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
2287	BUDDENSIEG (RUDOLF)	WICLIF (JOHN). John Wiclif, Patriot and Reformer	London	1884	USD -	Unknown

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