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
1388	RAWLINSON (CHRISTOPHER)	An. Manl. Sever. Boethi Consolationis Philosophiae, Libri V. Anglo-Saxonice redditi ab Alfredo inclyto Anglo-Saxonum Rege	Oxford	1698	USD -	Unknown
1389	SEDGEFIELD (W. J.)	King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae	Oxford	1899	USD -	Unknown
1390	SEDGEFIELD (W. J.)	King Alfred's Version of the Consolations of Boethius. Done into Modern English, with an Introduction	Oxford	1900	USD -	Unknown
1391	TUPPER (MARTIN F.)	King Alfred's Poems [from Boethius] now first turned into English Metres	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1392	ZIMMERMAN (OTTO)	Ueber den Verfasser der altenglischen Metren des Boethius	Griefswald	1882	USD -	Unknown
1393	BOSWORTH (REV. J.)	The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar ... with a Grammatical Praxis and literal English version, etc	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1394	BOSWORTH (REV. J.)	A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1395	BOSWORTH (REV. J.)	A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1396	BOSWORTH (REV. J.)	A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1397	BRIGHT (JAMES W.)	The Gospel of St. Luke in Anglo-Saxon	Oxford	1893	USD -	Unknown
1398	BRIGHT (JAMES W.)	An Anglo-Saxon Reader, with Notes, Glossary, and outlines of Anglo-Saxon Grammar		1894	USD -	Unknown
1399	BRUCE (J. DOUGLAS)	The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Book of Psalms, commonly known as the Paris Psalter	Baltimore	1894	USD -	Unknown
1400	BOUTERWEK (K. W.)	CAEDMON. Caedmon's des Angelsachsen Biblische Dichtungen	Gutersloh	1854	USD -	Unknown
1401	[GOTZINGER (ERNST).]	CAEDMON. Ueber die Dichtungen des Angelsachsen Caedmon und deren Verfasser. Inaugural Dissertation	Gottingen	1860	USD -	Unknown
1402	GREIN (C. W. M.)	CAEDMON. Exodus and Daniel. Edited from Grein [with Glossary]	Boston	1893	USD -	Unknown
1403	STEPHENS (PROF. G.)	CAEDMON. The Ruthwell Cross, Northumbria, from about A. D. 680,	London and Copenhagen	1866	USD -	Unknown
1404	THORPE (BENJAMIN)	CAEDMON. Caedmon's Metrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures in Anglo-Saxon, with an English Translation, Notes, and a Verbal Index	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
1405	WATSON (R. S.)	CAEDMON. Caedmon, the First English Poet. (A Biographical and Historical Essay)	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1406	COLLEN (G. W.)	Britannia Saxonica.	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
1407	CONYBEARE (J. J.)	Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Edited, with additional notes, etc., by W. D. Conybeare	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
1408	COOK (ALBERT S.)	Judith: An Old English Epic Fragment	Boston	1889	USD -	Unknown
1409	CROW (C. L.)	Maldon and Brunnaburh. Two Old English Songs of Battle (Text, with introduction, notes and glossary)	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
1410	BASKERVILL (W. M.)	Andreas: A Legend of St. Andrew. With critical Notes and Glossary	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
1411	COOK (ALBERT S.)	The Christ of Cynewulf. A Poem in three parts	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
1412	GOLLANCZ (ISRAEL)	Cynewulf's Christ. An Eighth Century English Epic	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1413	GRIMM (JACOB)	Andreas und Elene. (Text with critical Introduction, and Notes.)	Cassel	1840	USD -	Unknown
1414	KENT (C. W.)	Elene. An Old English Poem. With Introduction, Latin Originals (the Vita Quiriaci of the Acta Sanctorum, May 4th), Notes, and Glossary	Boston	1897	USD -	Unknown
1415	WHITMAN (C. H.)	The Christ of Cynewulf. A Poem in three parts	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
1416	WULKER (DR. RICHARD)	Codex Vercellensis. Die Angelsaechsische Handschrift zu Vercelli in getreuer nachbildung	Leipzig	1894	USD -	Unknown
1417	ZUPITZA (JULIUS)	Elene mit einem Glossar	Berlin	1877	USD -	Unknown
1418	ZUPITZA (JULIUS)	Second edition of the same. (Revised.)	Berlin	1883	USD -	Unknown
1419		DESCRIPTION of the Ancient Vessel recently found under an old branch of the River Rother in Kent, with various conjectures respecting her antiquity, etc	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1420	EARLE (JOHN)	Anglo-Saxon Literature	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
1421	EARLE (JOHN)	A Hand-Book to the Land Charters, and other Saxonic Documents	Oxford	1888	USD -	Unknown
1422	ETTMULLER (LUDOVIC)	Vorda Vealhstod Engla and Seaxna. Lexicon Anglosaxonicum ex Poetarum Scriptorumque Prosaicorum Operibus ... cum Synopsis Grammatica	Quedlinburgii et Lipsiae	1851	USD -	Unknown
1423	GARNETT (J. M.)	Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood. Anglo-Saxon Poems translated. Enlarged edition	Boston	1901	USD -	Unknown
1424	GILES (J. A., Editor)	The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1425	GILES (J. A., Editor)	Memorials of King Alfred, being Essays on the History and Antiquities of England during the Ninth Century, the Age of King Alfred	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
1426	DEWITZ (ALBERT)	Untersuchungen uber Alfreds des Grossen westsachsische Ubersetzung der Cura Pastoralis Gregors, und ihr Verhaltnis zum Originale	Bunzlau	1889	USD -	Unknown
1427	FLEISCHAUER (W.)	Ueber den Gebrauch des Conjunctivs in Alfred's altenglischer Uebersetzung von Gregor's Cura Pastoralis	Goettingen	1885	USD -	Unknown
1428	GIESCHEN (LUDWIG)	Die Charakterischen Unterschiede der einzelnen Schreiber im Hatton MS. der Cura Pastoralis	Greifswald	1887	USD -	Unknown
1429	WACK (GUSTAV)	Uber des Verhaltnis von Konig AElfreds Ubersetzung der Cura Pastoralis zum Original	Greifswald	1889	USD -	Unknown
1430	WULFING (ERNST)	Darstellung der Syntax in Konig Alfred's Ubersetzung von Gregor's des Grossen Cura Pastoralis	Bonn	1888	USD -	Unknown
1431	GREIN (C. W. M.)	Dichtungen der Angelsachsen stabreimend ubersetz	Cassel and Gottingen	1863	USD -	Unknown
1432	GROPP (ERNESTUS)	On the Language of the Proverbs of Alfred	Halis Saxonum	1829 (?)	USD -	Unknown
1433	HAIGH (DANIEL H.)	The Conquest of Britain by the Saxons. A Harmony of the Historia Britonum, the writings of Gildas, the Brut, and the Saxon Chronicle, with references to the events of the 5th and 6th Centuries	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1434	HAIGH (DANIEL H.)	The Anglo-Saxon Sagas; an Examination of their value as Aids to History	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1435	HALL (J. R. C.)	A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the use of Students	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1436	HARRISON (J. A.) AND BASKERVILL (W. M.)	A Handy Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, based on Groschopp's Grein	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1437	HARSTRICK (AUGUST)	Untersuchung uber die Praepositionen bei Alfred dem Grossen	Kiel	1890	USD -	Unknown
1438	HICKES (GEORGE)	Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae	Oxford	1689	USD -	Unknown
1439	HICKES' THESAURUS.	Antiquae Literaturae Septentrionalis. Cura Georgii Hickesii, Andreae Fountaine, et Humfredi Wanleii	Oxonii	1705	USD -	Unknown
1440	KEMBLE (J. M.)	The Dialogue of Solomon and Saturnus, with an Historical Introduction, 1848; â?¦	London	1843-48	USD -	Unknown
1441	KEMBLE (J. M.)	The Saxons in England. A History of the English Commonwealth till the Period of the Norman Conquest	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1442	KEMBLE (J. M.)	New Edition of the same	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1443	KEMBLE (J. M.)	The Gospel according to St. Matthew in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions synoptically arranged, with collations of the Best Manuscripts	Cambridge	1858	USD -	Unknown
1444	KLIPSTEIN (L. F.)	Analecta Anglo-Saxonica. Selections in Prose and Verse from the Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay and Notes, critical and explanatory	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
1445	LAPPENBERG (DR. J. M.)	A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1446	LEO (PROF. HEINRICH)	Treatise on the local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, as exhibited in the Codex Diplomaticus AEvi Saxonici.	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1447		LEOFRIC MISSAL. The Leofric Missal as used in the Cathedral of Exeter during the Episcopate of its First Bishop, A. D. 1050-1072, â?¦	Oxford	1883	USD -	Unknown
1448	LINGARD (REV. JOHN)	The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church; containing an account of its Origin, Government, Doctrines, Worship, Revenues, and Clerical and Monastic Institutions	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
1449	MARCH (FRANCIS A.)	A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language, in which its Forms are illustrated by those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Saxon, etc	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1450	MARCH (FRANCIS A.)	An Anglo-Saxon Reader, with Philological Notes, a Brief Grammar and a Vocabulary	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
1451	MARCH (FRANCIS A.)	The Study of Anglo-Saxon	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1452	MERBOT (REINHOLD)	AEsthetische Studien zur Angel-sachischen Poesie	Breslau	1883	USD -	Unknown
1453	MICHEL (FRANCISQUE)	Bibliotheque Anglo-Saxonne	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown
1454	NILSSON (L. G.)	Judith, Fragment aff ett Fornengelskt Ouade. Med Svensk Ã?fversattning och Glossarium	Copenhagen	1858	USD -	Unknown
1455		ALFRED'S (KING) Description of Europe. (The first chapter of King Alfred's Orosius, translated.)	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1456	[BARRINGTON (DAINES).]	The Anglo-Saxon Version from the historian Orosius by Alfred the Great; together with an English Translation from the Anglo-Saxon	London	1773	USD -	Unknown
1457	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	A Description of Europe, and the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, written in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred the Great, â?¦.	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1458	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	Large and Thick Paper copy of A Description of Europe, and the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, written in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred the Great, â?¦.	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1459	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	A Literal English Translation of a Description of Europe and the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, â?¦	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1460	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	A Description of Europe, and the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, written in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred the Great; â?¦	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1461	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	A Literal English Translation of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendious History of the World by Orosius.	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1462	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendious History of the World by Orosius.	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1463	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendious History of the World by Orosius. Containing Fac-simile specimens of the text, a Preface describing the MSS., an Introduction on Orosius and his Work, a printed Anglo-Saxon text...	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1464	BOSWORTH (REV. JOSEPH)	The History of the Lauderdale Manuscript of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Orosius	Oxford	1858	USD -	Unknown
1465	RASK (R.)	Ottars og Ulfstens korte Rejseberetninger med dansk Oversaettelse, kritiske Anmaerkninger og andre Oplysninger af R. Rask	Kjobenhavn	1816	USD -	Unknown
1466	SCHILLING (HUGO)	Konig AElfred's Angelsachsische Bearbeitung der Weltgeschichte des Orosius	Halle a S.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1467	SWEET (HENRY)	King Alfred's Orosius. Part I., the Old-English Text and Latin Original	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1468	SWEET (HENRY)	Extracts from Alfred's Orosius	Oxford	1893	USD -	Unknown
1469	PETHERAM (JOHN)	An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in England	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1470	PRIESE (OSCAR)	Die Sprache der Gesetze AElfreds des Grossen und Konig Jnes	Strassburg	1883	USD -	Unknown
1471	RASK (ERASMUS)	A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue, with a Praxis	Copenhagen	1830	USD -	Unknown
1472	RASK (ERASMUS)	Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1472	CUTTS (E. L.)	Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1473		ST. GUTHLAC. The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Life of St. Guthlac, Hermit of Crowland. Originally written ... by Felix (commonly called of Crowland)	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1474	EARLE (REV. J.)	ST. SWITHIN. Facsimile of some leaves in Saxon Handwriting on Saint Swithin, copied by Photozincography	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1475		ANCIENT HISTORY, English and French, exemplified in a regular Dissection of the Saxon Chronicle; preceded by a Review of Wharton's Utrum Elfricus Grammaticus, Malmesbury's Life of St. Wulstan, and Hugo Candidus' Peterborough History...	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
1476	DAVIS (J. F.)	Anglo-Saxon Chronicles from 800-1001, A. D. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1477	EARLE (JOHN)	Two of the Saxon Chronicles parallel, with supplementary Extracts from the others	Oxford	1865	USD -	Unknown
1478	GIBSON (EDMUND)	Chronicon Saxonicum ex MSS. Codicibus nunc Primum Integrum edidit	Oxford	1692	USD -	Unknown
1479	GURNEY (ANNA)	A Literal Translation of the Saxon Chronicle	Norwich	1819	USD -	Unknown
1480	INGRAM (REV. J.)	The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation, and Notes Critical and Explanatory, Indices, etc	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1481	PLUMMER (C.)	Two of the Saxon Chronicles parallel (the Laud, and Parker MSS.)	Oxford	1889	USD -	Unknown
1482	PLUMMER (C.) AND EARLE (J.)	Two of the Saxon Chronicles parallel, with supplementary extracts from the others. A revised text, with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Glossary	Oxford	1892-99	USD -	Unknown
1483	STEVENSON (REV. J.)	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : And The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1484	SCHMID (DR. REINHOLD)	Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. In der Ursprache mit Uebersetzung, Erlauterungen, und einem antiquarischen Glossar	Leipzig	1858	USD -	Unknown
1485	SHELTON (MAURICE)	Wotton's Short View of George Hickes' Grammatico-Critical and Archaeological Treasure of the Ancient Northern Languages	London	1735	USD -	Unknown
1486	SIEVERS (EDUARD)	Angelsachsische Grammatik. 2e. Auflage	Halle	1886	USD -	Unknown

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