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
1687		CAXTON'S ADVERTISEMENT. Photo-lithograph of the copy preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, being one of the only two copies known	London	[1892]	USD -	Unknown
1688		CRISTYNE DE PISAN. Morale Proverbes, translated by the Earl Rivers, and reprinted from the original edition of William Caxton, A. D. 1478	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1689		DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book printed in England by William Caxton in 1477	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1690		DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. The beautifully printed Cranbrook Press edition, printed with special type on hand-made paper	Detroit	1901	USD -	Unknown
1691	late W. T. Culley and F. J. Furnivall, Editors	ENEYDOS. Caxton's Eneydos, 1490. Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
1692		FIFTEEN O'S AND OTHER PRAYERS (THE). Printed by command of the Princess Elizabeth ... by William Caxton, circa 1490	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1693		GAME OF CHESSE (THE). Reproduction in Exact Facsimile from a copy in the British Museum	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1694		PARIS AND VIENNE. The storye of the Noble Ryght Valyant and Worthy Knyght Parys and of the Fayr Vyenne the Daulphyns Doughter of Vyennoys	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1695		STATUTES OF HENRY VII. Exact facsimile from the rare original printed by Caxton in 1489. With Notes and Introduction by John Rae	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
1696	CHAMBERS (ROBERT)	Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A History of British Authors, Biographicaland Critical, with Specimens of their writings	Edinburgh	1879	USD -	Unknown
1697	CHANCELLOR (E. BERESFORD)	CHARLES I. The Life of Charles I., 1600-1625. Taken from Authentic Sources	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1698	FURNIVALL (F. J.)	The Harleian MS. 7334, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1699	[GROLIER CLUB.]	[Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Original and Other Editions, Portraits and Prints, commemorative of the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Geoffrey Chaucer	New York	Jan.-Feb.1900	USD -	Unknown
1700	[GROLIER CLUB.]	[Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Original and Other Editions, Portraits and Prints, commemorative of the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Geoffrey Chaucer			USD -	Unknown
1701	MORRIS (RICHARD)	Chaucer's Translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae, edited from MS. in the British Museum and at Cambridge	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1702	MORRIS (RICHARD)	The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale	Oxford	1889	USD -	Unknown
1703	POLLARD (A. W.)	Chaucer	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1704	SKEAT (W. W.)	The Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, and the Squieres Tale	Oxford	1873	USD -	Unknown
1705	SKEAT (W. W.)	The Tale of Gamelyn, from the Harleian MS., edited with Notes and Glossarial Index	Oxford	1884	USD -	Unknown
1706	SKEAT (W. W.)	The Tale of Gamelyn. Edited by W. W. Skeat	New Rochelle	1901	USD -	Unknown
1707	SKEAT (W. W.)	Chaucer. The Legend of Good Women. (With Notes, Introduction, Glossary, etc.)	Oxford	1889	USD -	Unknown
1708	SKEAT (W. W.)	The Tale of the Man of Lawe, the Pardoner's Tale, Second Nonne's Tale, the Chanouns Yemannes Tale	Oxford	1889	USD -	Unknown
1709	SKEAT (W. W.)	The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. (With Notes, etc.)	Oxford	1891	USD -	Unknown
1710	SWEET (HENRY)	Second Middle English Primer. Extracts from Chaucer	Oxford	1886	USD -	Unknown
1711	SWEET (HENRY)	Second Middle English Primer. Extracts from Chaucer	Oxford	1886	USD -	Unknown
1712	WEYMOUTH (R. F.)	On Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Chaucer, in opposition to the views maintained by Mr. A. J. Ellis	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1713	CHEKE (SIR JOHN)	The Gospel according to St. Matthew, and part of the First Chapter of St. Mark, translated into English by Sir John Cheke [circa 1550] from the original manuscript	Cambridge	1843	USD -	Unknown
1714	CLARKE (W.)	Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, An Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1715		CLERGY LIST. The Clergy List for 1888, containing Alphabetical List of the Clergy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland; List of Benefices, Cathedral Establishments, etc., etc	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1716	CLERGY LIST	Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1890, being a Statistical Book of Reference for Facts relating to the Clergy and the Church	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
1717	J. H. Lupton	COLET (JOHN). A Life of John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's and Founder of St. Paul's School, with an Appendix of some of his English Writings	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1718	COLLIER (J.PAYNE)	A Catalogue of Heber's Collection of Early English Poetry, the Drama, Ancient Ballads, Broadsides, Rare and Curious Books, etc	London	n. d. [1834]	USD -	Unknown
1719	COLLIER (J.PAYNE)	A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
1720		COLLIER (J.PAYNE). Notes on his Life, with a Complete List of his Works, etc	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
1721	COMENIUS (J. A.)	Janua Linguarum Reserta. The Gate of Languages Unlocked: or, a Seed-Plot of all Arts and Tongues, containing a ready way to learn the Latine and English Tongue	London	1652	USD -	Unknown
1722	COOKE (G. W.)	The History of Party, from the Rise of Whig and Tory Factions in the Reign of Charles II. to the Passing of the Reform Bill	London	1836-38	USD -	Unknown
1723	COPINGER (W. A.)	A Treatise on Predestination, Election, and Grace; Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1724	COPINGER (W. A.)	On the Authorship of the First Hundred Numbers of the Edinburgh Review	Manchester	1895	USD -	Unknown
1725	I. D'Israeli	CORNEY (BOLTON). Curiosities of Literature	Greenwich	[1837]	USD -	Unknown
1726	I. D'Israeli	CORNEY (BOLTON). Curiosities of Literature	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1727	BANNISTER (REV. J.)	CORNWALL. A Glossary of Cornish Names, Ancient and Modern, Local, Family, Personal, etc. 20,000 Celtic and other names, now or formerly in use in Cornwall, with derivations, etc	London	n. d. [1871?]	USD -	Unknown
1728	Borlase (W. C.)	CORNWALL. Naenia Cornubiae: A Descriptive Essay illustrative of the Sepulchres and Funereal Customs of the Early Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1729	JAGO (F. W. P.)	CORNWALL. An English-Cornish Dictionary	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1730	JENNER (HENRY)	CORNWALL. A Handbook of the Cornish Language, chiefly in its Latest Stages; with some Account of its History and Literature	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
1731		CORNWALL. MAGAZINE ARTICLES.			USD -	Unknown
1732	NORRIS (EDWIN)	CORNWALL. The Ancient Cornish Drama	Oxford	1859	USD -	Unknown
1733	STOKES (WHITLEY)	CORNWALL. Gwreans An Bys. The Creation of the World. A Cornish Mystery	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1734	TRENOODLE (UNCLE JAN)	CORNWALL. Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect, collected and arranged by Uncle Jan Trenoodle	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1735	WILLIAMS (ROBERT)	CORNWALL. Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum : A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, â?¦	Llandovery	1865	USD -	Unknown
1736	CORSER (REV. THOMAS)	Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, or a Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry, with occasional Extracts and Remarks, Biographical and Critical	[Manchester]	1860-83	USD -	Unknown
1737		CORSER (REV. THOMAS) The Catalogue of the Auction Sale of the Library (the first eight parts, sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge; the ninth by Capes, Dunn, and Pilcher)	London; Manchester	1868-73; 1876	USD -	Unknown
1738	COURTHOPE (W. J.)	A History of English Poetry. Vol. I. (The Middle Ages, Encyclopaedic Education of the Church, etc )	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
1739	COVERDALE (MYLES)	Memorials of the Right Reverend Father in God Myles Coverdale ... who First Translated the whole Bible into English,â?¦	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1740	CRAIK (G. L.)	A Compendious History of the English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, with numerous specimens	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1741	CUSHING (W.)	Anonyms, a Dictionary of Revealed Authorship	Cambridge, Mass.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1743	DANIEL (GEORGE)	An Elizabethan Garland, being a Descriptive Catalogue of 70 Black-Letter Ballads, printed between the years 1559 and 1597, in the possession of George Daniel of Canonbury	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1744	DANIEL (GEORGE)	Catalogue of the most Valuable, Interesting, and Highly Important Library of George Daniel ... together with his collection of Original Drawings and Water-Colors....	London	July 1864	USD -	Unknown
1745	[DAVIES (MYLES)]	... sive Icon Libellorum, or a Critical History of Pamphlets, tracing out the Rise, Growth, and Different Views of all sorts of small Tracts or Writings, etc	London	1715	USD -	Unknown
1746	DAWKINS (W. BOYD)	Cave Hunting. Researches on the Evidence of Caves respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1747	DAWKINS (W. BOYD)	Early Man in Britain, and his Place in the Tertiary Period	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1748	DE FOE (DANIEL)	An Alphabetical Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of the Writings of Daniel De Foe, and of the Different Publications for and against that very extraordinary Writer	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
1749	LEE (W.)	DE FOE (DANIEL). A Chronological Catalogue of the Works of Daniel Defoe	[London]	1869	USD -	Unknown
1750	WRIGHT (THOMAS)	DE FOE (DANIEL). The Life of Daniel Defoe	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1751	DE LOLME (J. L.)	The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1752	BRUSHFIELD (T. N.)	DEVONSHIRE. Description of a Perforated Stone Implement found in the Parish of Withycombe Raleigh	[England]	[1890]	USD -	Unknown
1753	BRUSHFIELD (T. N.)	DEVONSHIRE. Notes on the Parish of East Budleigh	[England]	[1890]	USD -	Unknown
1754	BRUSHFIELD (T. N.)	DEVONSHIRE. Andrew Brice and the early Exeter Newspaper Press, and who wrote the Exmoor Scolding and Courtship.	[England]	[July, 1888]	USD -	Unknown
1755	DICKENS MEMENTO.	DICKENS (CHARLES). Catalogue, with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realized, of the Pictures, â?¦	London	n. d. [1872?]	USD -	Unknown
1756	KITTON (F. G.)	DICKENS (CHARLES). Dickensiana. A Bibliography of the Literature relating to Charles Dickens and his writings	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1757	PIERCE (GILBERT A.)	DICKENS (CHARLES). The Dickens Dictionary. A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
1758	WILLIAMSON (E. S.)	DICKENS (CHARLES). Illustrated Catalogue of Works by, and Literature relating to Charles Dickens	Toronto	1896	USD -	Unknown
1759	J. L. G. Mowat, Editor	ALPHITA, A Medico-Botanical Glossary from the Bodleian Manuscript, Seiden B. 35	Oxford	1887	USD -	Unknown
1760	BAILEY (N.)	An Universal Etymological English Dictionary; also the Supplementary volume	London	1731-33	USD -	Unknown
1761	BLOUNT (THOMAS)	Glossographia; or, a Dictionary of Hard Words of whatsoever Language, now used in our refined English Tongue ... etc	London	1681	USD -	Unknown
1762	BLOUNT (THOMAS)	A Law-Dictionary and Glossary interpreting such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms as are found either in our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern Laws	[London]	1717	USD -	Unknown
1763	BULLOKAR (JOHN).	An English Expositor; teaching the Interpretation of the hardest words used in our Language	London	1656	USD -	Unknown
1764	[COCKERAM (HENRY).]	The English Dictionarie; or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words, enabling as well Ladies and Gentlewomen, â?¦	London	1632	USD -	Unknown
1765	COLERIDGE (HERBERT)	A Glossarial Index of the Printed English Literature of the 13th Century	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1766	COLES (ELISHA)	An English Dictionary: explaining the difficult Terms in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, etc	London	1677	USD -	Unknown
1767	COWELL (JOHN)	The Law Dictionary; or, Interpreter; or Booke containing the Signification of Words. Wherein is set forth the true meaning of ... such words and Termes as are mentioned in the Law Writers	London	1637	USD -	Unknown
1768	COWELL (JOHN)	A Law Dictionary; or, the Interpreter of Words and Terms used ... in the Common or Statute Laws	[London]	1727	USD -	Unknown
1769	DAVIES (T. L. O.)	A Supplementary English Glossary. (Archaic and Provincial words with illustrative quotations.)	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1770		EPINAL GLOSSARY (THE). The Epinal Glossary, Latin and Old English, of the 8th Century	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1771	FENNELL (C. A. M.)	The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases	Cambridge	1892	USD -	Unknown
1772		GLOSSOGRAPHIA Anglicana Nova; or, a Dictionary interpreting such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English Tongue, with their Etymologies, Definitions, etc	London	1707	USD -	Unknown
1773	[GROSE (FRANCIS).]	A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1774	HERRTAGE (SIDNEY J. H.)	Catholicon Anglicum. An English-Latin Word-book dated 1483	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1775	JODRELL (R. P.)	Philology on the English Language	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
1776		LAW-FRENCH. The Law-French Dictionary... to which is added the Law-Latin Dictionary, â?¦	[London]	1718	USD -	Unknown
1777		LAW-FRENCH. The Law-French Dictionary... to which is added the Law-Latin Dictionary, â?¦		1718	USD -	Unknown
1778	LEVINS (PETER)	Manipulus Vocabulorum. A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language [1570]	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1779	LEVINS (PETER)	Manipulus Vocabulorum. A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language [1570]	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1780	MATSELL (G. W.)	Vocabulum; or, The Rogue's Lexicon	New York	[1859]	USD -	Unknown
1781	MURRAY (JAMES A. H.)	A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, founded mainly on the Materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by J. A. H. Murray, with the assistance of many Scholars and Men of Science	Oxford	1884-1904	USD -	Unknown
1782	NARES (R.)	A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., â?¦	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1783		Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps, auctore Fratre Galfrido Grammatico dicto ...	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1784	[RASTELL (WILLIAM).]	Les Termes de la Ley; or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use, expounded and explained	London	1671	USD -	Unknown
1785	J. L. G. Mowatt, Editor	SINONOMA BARTHOLOMEI. A Glossary from a 14th Century Manuscript in the Library of Pembroke College, Oxford	Oxford	1882	USD -	Unknown
1786	SOULE (R.) AND CAMPBELL (L. J.)	Pronouncing Handbook of Words often Mispronounced	Boston	[1873]	USD -	Unknown
1787	SPELMANN (SIR HENRY)	Glossarium Archaiologicum, continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, etc., Novatae Significationis Vocabula	London	1687	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.