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
1888	RYE (WALTER)	GENEALOGY. Records and Record Searching. A Guide to the Genealogist and Topographer	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1889	SIMS (R.)	GENEALOGY. A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor, consisting of Descriptions of Public Records; Parochial and other Registers; Wills; County and other Histories; etc	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1890		GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. EDITIO PRINCEPS. Britanie utriusqz \| regu et pricipu Ori \| go et gesta insignia â?¦	[Paris]		USD -	Unknown
1891		GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The British History, translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth	London	1718	USD -	Unknown
1892		GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The British History, translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth	London	1718	USD -	Unknown
1893	GILES (J. A.)	GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1894	MURRAY (JOHN, Editor)	GIBBON (EDWARD). The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
1895	PROTHERO (ROWLAND E., Editor)	GIBBON (EDWARD). Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, 1753-1794	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
1896	GILES (J. A.)	Scriptores Rerum Gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1897	GILES (J. A.)	History of the Ancient Britons from the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons, â?¦	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1898	GILES (J. A.), (Editor)	Six Old English Chronicles, of which two are now first translated: Ethelwerd's Chronicle-Asser's Life of Alfred-Geoffrey â?¦	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1899	GLASS (H. A,.)	The Story of the Psalters. A History of the Metrical Versions of Great Britain and America from 1549 to 1885	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1900	GLENNIE (J. S. S.)	Arthurian Localities; their Historical Origin, Chief Country, and Fingalian Relations, with a map of Arthurian Scotland	Edinburgh	1869	USD -	Unknown
1901	GOMME (G. L.)	The Literature of Local Institutions	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
1902	GOSSE (EDMUND)	A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1903	GOSSE (EDMUND)	A Short History of Modern English Literature	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
1904	GRAY (THOMAS)	A Catalogue briefly descriptive of various Books and Original Manuscripts of the poet Gray	[London]	1851	USD -	Unknown
1905	GRAY (THOMAS)	Catalogue of some Choice and Fine Books, comprising a further selection from a valuable Library ...	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
1906	GREEN (J. R.)	A Short History of the English People	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1907	GREENWELL (W.)	British Barrows. A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in various parts of England	Oxford	1877	USD -	Unknown
1908	[GROLIER CLUB]	Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Langland to Wither.	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
1909	[GROLIER CLUB]	ENGLISH LITERARY PORTRAITS. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, Nov. 1898	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
1910	[GROLIER CLUB]	TITLE-PAGES AND FRONTISPIECES OF THE I6TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, April 1898	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
1911	[GROLIER CLUB]	POETS LAUREATE. (Catalogue of) an Exhibition of the Works of the Poets Laureate. Exhibited at the Grolier Club, Jan. 25 to Feb. 16, 1901	New York	[1901]	USD -	Unknown
1912	GROSS (CHARLES)	A Classified List of Books relating to British Municipal History	Cambridge, Mass.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1913	GROSS (CHARLES)	A Bibliography of British Municipal History, including Guilds and Parliamentary Representation	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
1914	HALDEMAN (S. S.)	Affixes in their Origin and Application, exhibiting the Etymologic Structure of English Words	Phila.	1865	USD -	Unknown
1915	HALKETT (S.) AND LAING (J.)	A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain, including the Works of Foreigners written in, or translated into, the English Language	Edinburgh	1882-88	USD -	Unknown
1916	HALL (FITZEDWARD)	Two Trifles: I., A Rejoinder; II., Scientist, with a Preamble	[London]	1895	USD -	Unknown
1917	HALL (REV. PETER)	Reliquiae Liturgicae, and Fragmenta Liturgica.	Bath	1847-48	USD -	Unknown
1918	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	Some Account of the Popular Tracts formerly in the Library of Captain Cox, A.D. 1575	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1919	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Brief Account of an Unique Edition of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia	[London]	1854	USD -	Unknown
1920	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Brief Account of Theological Manuscripts in the Library of James O. Halliwell	[London]	1854	USD -	Unknown
1921	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	Brief Notices of Bibliographical Rarities in the Library of James Orchard Halliwell	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1922	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Catalogue of an Unique Collection of Ancient English Broadside Ballads, with Notes of the Tunes and Imprints	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1923	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Dictionary of Old English Plays, existing either in Print or in Manuscript, â?¦	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1924	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Hand-List of Early English Literature preserved in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library, selected from the printed Catalogue	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1925	Justin Winsor	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.) Halliwelliana: A Bibliography of the Publications of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	Cambridge	1881	USD -	Unknown
1926	HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J. O.)	A Dictionary of Misprints found in Printed Books of the 16th and 17th Centuries, compiled ...	Brighton	1887	USD -	Unknown
1927	HAMPSON (R. T.)	Origines Patriciae; or, A Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and Dignified Offices from their Primitive Sources	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1928	HAMST (OLPHAR)	Handbook of Fictitious Names: being a Guide to Authors, chiefly in the Lighter Literature of the XlXth Century, â?¦	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1929	HARDY (THOMAS DUFFUS)	Monumenta Historica Britannica; or, Materials for the History of Britain from the Earliest Period. â?¦	[London]	1848	USD -	Unknown
1930	HARDY (THOMAS DUFFUS)	Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Reign of Henry VII	London	1862-1871	USD -	Unknown
1931	HART (REV. RICHARD)	Ecclesiastical Records of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from the Fifth Century till the Reformation.	Cambridge	1846	USD -	Unknown
1932	HASLEWOOD (JOSEPH)	Catalogue of the Curious and Valuable Library of the late Joseph Haslewood	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
1933	HAYDN (JOSEPH)	The Book of Dignities, containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, etc., etc	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1934	HAYDN (JOSEPH)	The Book of Dignities, containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Diplomatic, Heraldic, Judicial, etc., from the Foundation of their Respective States	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
1935	HAYNES (J. E.)	Pseudonyms of Authors, including Anonyms and Initialisms	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
1936	HAZLITT (W. C.)	Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1937		HAZLITT'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS AND NOTES. Collections and Notes, 1867-1876	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1938		HAZLITT'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS AND NOTES. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1939		HAZLITT'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS AND NOTES. Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1940		HAZLITT'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS AND NOTES. Supplements to the Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1474-1700	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
1941	HAZLITT (W. C.)	Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1474-1700	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1942	G. J. Gray	HAZLITT (W. C.) A General Index to Hazlitt's Handbook and his Bibliographical Collections (1867-1889)	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
1943	HAZLITT (W. C.)	Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature made during the years 1893-1903	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
1944	HAZLITT (W. C.)	Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays,â?¦	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
1945	HEARNE (THOMAS)	Liber Niger Scaccarii, nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum Anglicarum	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
1946	[HERBERT (HON. ALGERNON).]	Britannia after the Romans; being an attempt to illustrate the Religious and Political Revolutions â?¦.	London	1836-41	USD -	Unknown
1947	[HERBERT (HON. ALGERNON).]	Cyclops Christianus; or, an Argument to disprove the supposed Antiquity of the Stonehenge and other Megalithic Erections in England and Britanny	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1948	HERRTAGE (SIDNEY J. H.)	English Charlemagne Romances. The Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce Charles the Grete	London	1880-81	USD -	Unknown
1949	HERTSLET (SIR EDWARD)	The Foreign Office List, 1894, forming a complete British Diplomatic and Consular Handbook	London	[1894]	USD -	Unknown
1950	HEYLYN (PETER)	A Help to English History, containing the succession of the Kings of England, English, Saxon and Britonsâ?¦.	London	1773	USD -	Unknown
1951	HEYWOOD (THOMAS)	The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius, his Prophecies and Predictions interpreted and their truth made good by our English Annals	Carmarthen	1812	USD -	Unknown
1952	HIGGINS (GODFREY)	The Celtic Druids; or, an Attempt to shew that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies who emigrated from India,â?¦	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1953	HOARE (E. N.)	Exotics; or, Englirh Words derived from English Roots	Dublin	1863	USD -	Unknown
1954	HODGETTS (J. F.)	Older England, illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon Antiquities in the British Museum, to which is added a paper on the Myth of the Week	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
1955	HODGETTS (J. F.)	The English in the Middle Ages, from the Norman Usurpation to the Days of the Stuarts, their Mode of Life, Dress, Arms, Occupations and Amusements	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
1956	HODGSON (W. B.)	Errors in the Use of English	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
1957	HOE (ROBERT)	A Catalogue of Early English Books forming a portion of the Library of Robert Hoe. (Authors before 1700.)	New York	1903-1905	USD -	Unknown
1958	WEITENKAMPF (F.)	HOGARTH (WILLIAM). A Bibliography of William Hogarth	Cambridge, Mass.	1890	USD -	Unknown
1959	HOLE (REV. C.)	A Manual of the Book of Common Prayer, showing its History and Contents	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
1960	HOOKER (RICHARD).	Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity	Oxford	1876	USD -	Unknown
1961	HORE (REV. A. H.)	The Church in England from William III. to Victoria	Oxford	1886	USD -	Unknown
1962	HORSTMANN (C.)	Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden, grosstentheils zum ersten male herausgegeben	Heilbronn	1878	USD -	Unknown
1963	HOSMER (JAMES K.)	The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, Governor of Massachusetts Bay and leader of the Long Parliament; with a Consideration of the English Commonwealth as a Forecast of America	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
1964	HUME (REV. A.)	The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom-their Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1965	HUNTER (REV. JOSEPH)	English Monastic Libraries. A catalogue of the Library of the Priory of Bretton in Yorkshire; and Notices of the Libraries belonging to other Religious Houses	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
1966	HUNTER (REV. JOSEPH)	Three Catalogues describing the Contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, of the Dodsworth Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and of the Manuscripts in Lincoln's Inn	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1967	HUNTINGTON (REV. W. R.)	A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer	New York	[1893]	USD -	Unknown
1968	HUTH (HENRY)	Prefaces, Dedications, Epistles, selected from Early English Books, 1540-1701	[London]	1874	USD -	Unknown
1969	INDERWICK (F. A.)	The King's Peace. A Historical Study of the English Law Courts	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
1970	INMAN (THOMAS)	History of the English Alphabet	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1971	IRVING (JOSEPH)	The Annals of Our Time. A Diurnal of Events from the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837, to the Jubilee, June 20, 1887	London	1880-89	USD -	Unknown
1972	JACOBS (HENRY E.)	The Lutheran Movement in England during the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and its Literary Monuments	Philadelphia	1890	USD -	Unknown
1973	JAMES I. OF ENGLAND	The Essayes of a Premise, in the Divine Art of Poesie	Edinburgh	1814	USD -	Unknown
1974	JEWITT (LLEWELLYNN)	Grave Mounds and their Contents, ... as exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon Periods	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1975	JOHNSON (FRANKLIN)	The Dies Irae. An English Version in double rhymes, with an Essay and Notes	Cambridge, Mass.	1883	USD -	Unknown
1976		ANECDOTES of Junius, to which is prefixed the King's Reply (the author is assumed to be Burke), â?¦			USD -	Unknown
1977	BARKER (E. H.)	The Claims of Sir Philip Francis ... disapproved: Some Enquiry into the Claims of the late Chas. Lloyd: Observations on ... Edmund Burke: And extracts from several eminent philologists	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
1978	BOYD (HUGH)	The Miscellaneous Works of Hugh Boyd, the author of the Letters of Junius	London	1800	USD -	Unknown
1979	BRITTON (JOHN)	The Authorship of the Letters of Junius Elucidated, including a Biographical Memoir of Lt.-Col. Isaac Barre.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1980	BRITTON (JOHN)	The Authorship of the Letters of Junius Elucidated, including a Biographical Memoir of Lt.-Col. Isaac Barre.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1981	BUSBY (THOMAS)	Arguments and Facts demonstrating that the Letters of Junius were written by J. L. De Lolme ... accompanied with Memoirs of that Most Ingenious Foreigner.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
1982	CHABOT (CHARLES)	The Handwriting of Junius Professionally Investigated by C. Chabot, expert	[London]	1871	USD -	Unknown
1983	CHALMERS (GEORGE)	An Appendix to the Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the suppositious Shakspeare-Papers, being the Documents for [the opinion that Hugh McAuley Boyd wrote Junius' Letters	London	1800	USD -	Unknown
1984	CHALMERS (GEORGE)	The Author of Junius Ascertained from Direct Proofs and a concatenation ef circumstances amounting to Moral Demonstration.	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1985		COLLECTION (A) of the Letters of Atticus, Lucius, Junius, and others, with Observations and Notes	London	1769	USD -	Unknown
1986	COVENTRY (GEORGE)	A Critical Enquiry regarding the real Author of the Letters of Junius, proving them to have been written by Lord Viscount Sackville	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
1987	[CRAMP (WILLIAM).]	The Author of Junius discovered in the person of the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield	London	1821	USD -	Unknown

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