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
1788	WHEATLEY (HENRY B.)	Chronological Notices of the Dictionaries of the English Language	London	n. d. [circa 1866]	USD -	Unknown
1789	WILLIAMS (R. O.)	Our Dictionaries and other English Language Topics	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
1790	WRIGHT (THOMAS)	Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, containing Words from English Authors previous to the 19th Century .... etc	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1791	Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, Editors	DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY	New York	1885-1904	USD -	Unknown
1792	D'ISRAELI (ISAAC)	The Illustrator Illustrated	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1793	D'ISRAELI (ISAAC)	Curiosities of Literature. With a View of the Life and Writings of the Author by his Son (Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield)	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1794	DODD (CHARLES).	Dodd's Church History of England from the commencement of the 16th Century to the Revolution in 1588 (chiefly with regard to Catholics)	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
1795		DOMESDAY BOOK. DEVONSHIRE. Facsimile--in photozincography--of that part relating to Devonshire	Southampton	1862	USD -	Unknown
1796	BIRCH (WALTER DE GRAY)	Domesday Book; a popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript so called, with Notes of the Principal Points of Interest which it contains	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1797	DOYLE (JAMES E.)	The Official Baronage of England, showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of every Peer from 1066 to 1885	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1798	DRYDEN (JOHN)	(Catalogue of an) Exhibition of First and Other Editions of the Works of John Dryden, together with a few engraved portraits, &c	New York	Mar-00	USD -	Unknown
1799	DUFF (E. GORDON)	Early English Printing. A Series of Facsimiles of all the types used in England during the XVe Century, with some of those used in the Printing of English Books abroad	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
1800	DUFFIELD (S.W.)	English Hymns: Their Authors and History	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
1801	DYKES (OSWALD)	English Proverbs with Moral Reflexions ... familiarly accommodated to the Humour and Manners of the Present Age	London	1713	USD -	Unknown
1802	EARLE (JOHN)	The Philology of the English Tongue	Oxford	1871	USD -	Unknown
1803	ECCLESTON (JAMES)	An Introduction to English Antiquities	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1804	EDWARDS (W. F.)	Recherches sur les Langues Celtiques	Paris	1844	USD -	Unknown
1805		EIKON BASILIKE. Who wrote EIK\Omega N BA\Sigma By Christopher Wordsworth, London, 1824; â?¦	London	1824-29	USD -	Unknown
1806	E. J. L. Scott	EIKON BASILIKE. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings.	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1807	ALMACK (EDWARD)	EIKON BASILIKE. A Bibliography of the King's Book, or Eikon Basilike	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
1808	ELTON (CHARLES)	Origins of English History	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1809	ELTON (CHARLES)	Origins of English History	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
1810	ELYOT (SIR THOMAS)	The Boke named The Governour, devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1811		DURHAM. A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Teesdale, in the County of Durham	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1812		GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Glossary of the Cotswold Dialect	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1813	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	An Historical Sketch of the Provincial Dialects of England, illustrated by numerous examples	Albany	1863	USD -	Unknown
1814	MORRIS (RICHARD)	KENTISH. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt; or, Remorse of Conscience, 1340 A.D.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
1815	BAMFORD (SAMUEL)	LANCASHIRE. Dialect of South Lancashire; or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary,	Manchester	1850	USD -	Unknown
1816	STATON (J. T.)	LANCASHIRE. Kestor un Betty; or, The Adventures un Mischoances uv a Yewood Felly	Manchester	1865	USD -	Unknown
1817	MORRIS (RICHARD)	Early English Poems in the West-Mid-land Dialect of the 14th Century. Copied and edited from a unique MS. in the British Museum, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index	Lond.	1864	USD -	Unknown
1818	BAKER (A. E.)	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases,	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
1819	STERNBERG (THOMAS)	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. The Dialect and Folk Lore of Northamptonshire	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1820	BROCKETT (J. T.)	NORTHUMBERLAND. A Glossary of North Country Words in Use, from an Original Manuscript in the Library of John George Lambton, with considerable additions		1825	USD -	Unknown
1821	ROLLE (RICHARD, OF HAMPOLE)	NORTHUMBERLAND. The Pricke of Conscience. A Northumbrian Poem, by Richard Rolle de Hampole	Berlin	1863	USD -	Unknown
1822	ROLLE (RICHARD, OF HAMPOLE)	NORTHUMBERLAND. The Pricke of Conscience. A Northumbrian Poem, by Richard Rolle de Hampole	Berlin	1863	USD -	Unknown
1823	ROLLE (RICHARD, OF HAMPOLE)	NORTHUMBERLAND. The Psalter or Psalms of David and certain Canticles, with a translation and Exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole	Oxford	1884	USD -	Unknown
1824	ROLLE (RICHARD, OF HAMPOLE)	NORTHUMBERLAND. Richard Rolle of Hampole, an English Father of the Church and his Followers	London	1895-96	USD -	Unknown
1825	SMALL (JOHN)	NORTHUMBERLAND. English Metrical Homilies from Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century	Edinburgh	1862	USD -	Unknown
1826	POOLE (JACOB)	A Glossary, with some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1827	SKEAT (W. W.) AND NODAL (J. H.)	A Bibliographical List of the Works that have been published, or are known to exist in manuscript, illustrative of the various dialects of English	London	1873-77	USD -	Unknown
1828	JENNINGS (J.)	SOMERSETSHIRE. The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a Glossary of Words now in use there; also, with Poems and other Pieces exemplifying the Dialect	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
1829	WHEELER (MRS. ANN)	WESTMORELAND. The Westmoreland Dialect in Four Familiar Dialogues	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1830	SALISBURY (JESSE)	WORCESTERSHIRE. A Glossary of Words and Phrases used in S. E. Worcestershire, together with some of the Sayings, Customs, Superstitions, Charms, etc., common in that District	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1831	ATKINSON (REV. J. C.)	YORKSHIRE. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative and Critical	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1832	HUNTER (REV. JOSEPH)	YORKSHIRE. The Hallamshire Glossary	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1833	HUNTER (REV. JOSEPH)	YORKSHIRE. The Hallamshire Glossary	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1834	ESCOTT (T. H. S.)	England: Its People, Polity, and Pursuits	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1835	EVANS (JOHN)	The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1836	EVANS (JOHN)	The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1837	EVERITT (GRAHAM)	English Caricaturists and Graphic Humorists of the 19th Century, how they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1838	FAITHORNE (WILLIAM).	A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1839	FALLOWS (S.)	Hand-book of Abbreviations and Contractions, current, classical and mediaeval	Chicago	1883	USD -	Unknown
1840	ARTHUR (WILLIAM)	An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, with an Essay on their Derivation and Import	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
1841	BARDSLEY (C. W.)	English Surnames, their Sources and Significations	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1842	BARDSLEY (C. W.)	Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1843	CHARNOCK (R. S.)	Ludus Patronymicus; or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1844	CHARNOCK (R. S.)	Praenomina; or, The Etymology of the Principal Christian Names of Great Britain and Ireland	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1845	FERGUSON (R.)	English Surnames and their Place in the Teutonic Family	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
1846	FERGUSON (R.)	Surnames as a Science	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1847	LOWER (MARK ANTONY)	English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological, and Humorous	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1848	LOWER (MARK ANTONY)	A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1849	SIMS (C. S.)	The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames, with a Vocabulary of Christian Names	Albany	1862	USD -	Unknown
1850	FERGUSON (ROBERT)	The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1851	FISCHEL (DR. E.)	The English Constitution	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
1852	FISHER (GEORGE)	A Companion and Key to the History of England, consisting of copious details of the British Sovereigns ....	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
1853	BOURNE (HENRY)	Antiquitates Vulgares; or, The Antiquities of the Common People, giving an Account of several of their Opinions and Ceremonies... . etc	Newcastle	1725	USD -	Unknown
1854	BRUSHFIELD (T. N.)	The Salmon Clause in the Indentures of Apprentices	Chester	1897	USD -	Unknown
1855	DUFF (E. GORDON)	The Dialogue or Communing between the Wise King Salomon and Marcolphus	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1856	GLYDE (J.)	The Norfolk Garland: A Collection of the Superstitions, Beliefs and Practices, Proverbs, Curious Customs, Ballads and Songs of the People of Norfolk, with Anecdotes	London	n. d. [1872]	USD -	Unknown
1857	GOMME (G. L.)	Primitive Folk-Moots; or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1858	GOMME (G. L.)	Folk-Lore Relics of Early Village Life	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1859	GOMME (G. L.)	The History of Thomas Hickathrift. Printed from the earliest extant copies and edited, with an Introduction	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1860	GOMME (G. L.)	The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1861	McRITCHIE (DAVID)	The Testimony of Tradition	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
1862	McRITCHIE (DAVID)	Fians, Fairies, and Picts	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1863	NORTHALL (G. F.)	English Folk Rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses relating to Places and Persons, Customs, Superstitions, etc	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1864	NUTT (ALFRED)	Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail, with especial reference to the Hypothesis of its Celtic Origin	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1865	RHYS (JOHN)	Studies in the Arthurian Legend	Oxford	1891	USD -	Unknown
1866		ROBERT THE DEVIL AND VERGILIUS, The Lyfe of Robert the Deuyll, from Wynkyn de Worde's edition; also, The Lyfe of Virgilius, from Jan Doesborch's edition	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
1867	FORSTER (JOHN)	Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First. A Chapter of English History re-written	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1868	FOSS (EDWARD)	Biographia Juridica. A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1869	FOX-BOURNE (H. R.)	English Seamen under the Tudors	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1870	FREEMAN (EDWARD A.)	The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1871	FROUDE (JAMES A)	The Divorce of Catharine of Aragon. The Story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
1872	[FRY (JOHN).]	Bibliographical Memoranda in illustration of Early English Literature	Bristol	1816	USD -	Unknown
1873	FURNIVALL (F. J.)	Education in Early England	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1874	GAIRDNER (JAMES)	England	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1875	GARDINER (S. R.) AND MULLINGER (J. B.)	Introduction to the Study of English History	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1876	GARDINER (SAMUEL R.)	A Student's History of England, from the Earliest Times to 1885	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1877	GARDINER (SAMUEL R.)	What Gunpowder Plot was	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
1878	GARDINER (SAMUEL R.)	A School Atlas of English History	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
1879	GARNIER (RUSSELL M.)	Annals of the British Peasantry	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
1880	GASQUET (FRANCIS AIDAN)	Monk of the Order of St. Benedict. Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries. An Attempt to Illustrate the History of their Suppression	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1881	GASQUET (FRANCIS AIDAN) AND BISHOP (E.)	Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer. An examination into its Origin and Early History, with an Appendix of Unpublished Documents	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
1882		GAZETTEER. The National Gazetteer. A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1883		GENEALOGY. The Ancestor. A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, April, 1902, to July, 1904	London	1902-4	USD -	Unknown
1884	BRIDGER (CHARLES)	GENEALOGY. An Index to the Printed Pedigrees contained in County and Local Histories, the Herald's Visitations, and in the more important Genealogical Collections	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1885	GRIMALDI (STACEY)	GENEALOGY. Origines Genealogicae; or, The Sources whence English Genealogies may be traced from the Conquest to the Present Time, accompanied by Specimens of Antient Records, Rolls and Manuscripts, etc	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
1886	PHILLIMORE (W. P. W.)	GENEALOGY. HOW to Write the History of a Family. A Guide for the Genealogist	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1887	PHILLIMORE (W. P. W.)	Pedigree Work. A Handbook for the Genealogist, with a new Date Book, 1066 to 1900	[London]	[1900]	USD -	Unknown

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