Anderson Galleries: The Library of the late Sir John Bourinot. (Clerk of the House of Commons, Conada). For Sale at Auction. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday February 19th, 20th and 21st. The Anderson Auction Company. 5 West 29th, Street, New York., 437,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 1906 - February 19, 1906

Page Size: 1576 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADAM (G. M.)	The Canadian Northwest: Its History and Troubles, from the days of the Fur-trade, with the Narrative of the Three Insurrections.	Toronto	1885	USD -	Unknown
2	ADAMS (SIR F. O.) and C. D. CUNNINGHAM	The Swiss Confederation.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
3	ADAMS (HENRY)	A History of the United States, 1801-17.	New York	1890-91	USD -	Unknown
4	ADLER (J. G.)	Dictionary of the German and English Languages.	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
5	AKINS (THOS. B.)	A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Church of England in the British North American Provinces.	Halifax, N. S.	1849	USD -	Unknown
6		ALASKA IN 1898. United States Geological Survey, 1898-99. C. D. Walcott, Director.	Washington	1900	USD -	Unknown
7	ALEXANDER (SIR J. E.)	L'Acadie; or, Seven Years' Explorations in British America.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
8	[ALMON (JOHN).]	A Review of the Reign of George the Second, in which a new light is thrown on the transactions, and the effects of Ministerial influence are traced and laid open.	London	1762	USD -	Unknown
9		AMERICAN ACADEMY. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1890-1900.	Philadelphia	1890-1900	USD -	Unknown
10		AMERICAN ACADEMY. May, 1901, July and Sept., 1902 (2 copies of each); and Jan. and Nov., 1901.			USD -	Unknown
11		AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.	Worcester, Massachusetts	1895-1902	USD -	Unknown
12	Brown (G. W.)	AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Baltimore and the 19th April, 1861: A Study of the War.	Baltimore	1887	USD -	Unknown
13		AMERICAN COMMONWEALTHS.	Boston and New York	1884-88	USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Various numbers from Vol. 21, No. 2 June 30, 1889, to 1901.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
15		AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Papers of the Association, from its Commencement, Sept., 1884, to Oct., 1891, ...	New York, London and Washington	1884-1900	USD -	Unknown
16		AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Duplicates of the above Reports, 1895 and 1896 (in 2 vols.)			USD -	Unknown
17		AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (The).			USD -	Unknown
18		AMERICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.			USD -	Unknown
19	Edited by C. D. Warner; Poe, by Geo. R. Woodberry; Emerson, by O. W. Holmes; Irving, by C. D. Warner; Webster, by H. E. Scudder; Franklin, by J. B. MacMaster; and 8 others	AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS.	Boston and New York	1883-94	USD -	Unknown
20		AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. Some Account of American Newspapers, particularly of the Eighteenth Century.	Paterson, New Jersey	1894-98	USD -	Unknown
21	ADAMS (JOHN) and LEONARD (DANIEL)	Novanglus, and Massachusettensis; or, Political Essays published in the years 1774 and 1775 . . . the former by John Adams, the latter by Jonathan Sewall (i. e., D. Leonard).	Boston	1819	USD -	Unknown
22	BEACH (A. C.)	The Centennial Celebration of the State of New York.	Albany	1879	USD -	Unknown
23	BOUCHER (JONATHAN)	A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution.	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
24	CLINTON (SIR HENRY)	Observations on Mr. Stedman's History of the American War.	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
25	COFFIN (V.)	The Province of Quebec and the early American Revolution: A Study in English-American History, 1760-1776.	Madison	1896	USD -	Unknown
26	CURWEN (SAMUEL)	Journal and Letters of an American in England from 1775 to 1783.	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
27	DePEYSTER (J. WATTS)	Life and Misfortunes and the Military Career of Brig.-Gen. Sir John Johnson (including his Indian Campaigns, 1776-1780; the Battle of Oriskany, Ft. Stanwix, Fox Mills, etc.)	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
28	DUNCAN (MAJOR F.)	History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (including Service in America during the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, at Waterloo, etc.)	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
29	ETHIER (M.)	Narration authentique de l'Exchange des Prisonniers, faits aux Cedres, pendant la Guerre Americaine do 1775.	Montreal	1873	USD -	Unknown
30	FANNING (DAVID)	The Narrative of Col. David Fanning (a Tory in the Revolution), giving an Account of his Adventures in North Carolina, 1775-1783.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
31	FLICK (A. C.)	Loyalism in New York during the American Revolution.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
32	GALLOWAY (JOSEPH)	The Examination of Joseph Galloway . . . . before the House of Commons in a Committee on the American Papers.	London	1779	USD -	Unknown
33	GALLOWAY (JOSEPH)	Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq., by a Committee of the House of Commons.	Philadelphia	1855	USD -	Unknown
34	[GALLOWAY (JOSEPH).]	Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion, 1780...	London	1780-81	USD -	Unknown
35	[GALLOWAY (JOSEPH).]	The Claim of the American Loyalists, Reviewed and Maintained.	London	1788	USD -	Unknown
36	GORDON (W.)	History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America;...	London	1788	USD -	Unknown
37	GREEN (S. A.--Editor)	Three Military Diaries; Lieutenant Dudley Bradstreet at the Siege of Louisbourg, 1745-1746;...	Groton, Massachusetts	1901	USD -	Unknown
38	HENRY (J. J.)	An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775.	Lancaster	1812	USD -	Unknown
39	[INGLIS (REV. CHARLES).]	Letters of Papinian: In which the Conduct, present State, and Prospects of the American Congress are examined.	New York printed; London reprinted	1779	USD -	Unknown
40	JOHNSTON (E. L.)	Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, written in 1836.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
41	JOHNSON (SIR JOHN)	Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson during the Oriskany Campaign of 1776-77, annotated by W. L. Stone. ...	Albany	1882	USD -	Unknown
42	JOHNSTON (H. P.)	Observations on Judge Jones' Loyalist History of the American Revolution.	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
43	JONES (C. H.)	History of the Campaigns for the Conquest of Canada in 1776.	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
44	JONES (T.)	History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and of the leading events in the other Colonies at that period.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
45	KIDDER (F.)	Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution, chiefly compiled from the Journals and Letters of Col John Allan, with Notes and Memoir.	Albany	1867	USD -	Unknown
46	LAMB (R.)	An Original and Authentic Journal of Occurrences during the late American War, from its commencement to the year 1783.	Dublin	1809	USD -	Unknown
47	LODGE (H. CABOT)	The Story of the Revolution (Scribner's Magazine, Vols. XXIII. and XXIV.)	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
48	LORIMER (M. de)	Mes Services pendant la Guerre Americaine de 1775 (Letters written during the American Invasion in 1775-76).	Montreal	1871	USD -	Unknown
49	LOSSING (BENSON J.)	Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution.	New York	1851-52	USD -	Unknown
50		LOYALISTS. The Case and Claim of the American Loyalists impartially Stated and Considered.	n. p. [London]	n. d. [1783]	USD -	Unknown
51		LOYALISTS. Claims of the Loyalists.	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
52	MACAULAY (CATHERINE)	An Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs.	Bath	1775	USD -	Unknown
53	MOODY (LIEUT. JAMES)	Narrative of the Exertions and Sufferings of Lt. J. Moody in the Cause of Government since the year 1776.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
54	MOORE (FRANK)	Diary of the American Revolution, from Newspapers and Original Documents.	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
55	PAINE (THOMAS)	Common Sense, addressed to the Inhabitants of America, New edn., with additions, Phil. 1776 ...	Philadelphia	1776	USD -	Unknown
56	PHELPS (R. H.)	History of the Newgate of Connecticut, at Simsbury, now East Granby; its Insurrections and Massacres, the Imprisonment of the Tories of the Revolution, and the Working of its Mines.	Albany	1860	USD -	Unknown
57	RAMSAY (DAVID).	The History of the American Revolution.	Dublin	1793	USD -	Unknown
58	RAYMOND (W. O.--Editor)	Winslow Papers, 1776-1826; edited, with Introduction and Notes.	St. John, N. B.	1901	USD -	Unknown
59	READ (D. B.)	Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe, with some Account of Major Andre and Capt. Brant.	Toronto	1890	USD -	Unknown
60	RYERSON (E.)	The Loyalists of America and their Times; from 1620 to 1816.	Toronto	1880	USD -	Unknown
61	SABINE (LORENZO)	Biographical Sketches of the Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay.	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
62	[SARGENT (WINTHROP).]	The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution.	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
63	[SARGENT (WINTHROP).]	The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor Jonathan Odell; relating to the American Revolution.	Albany	1860	USD -	Unknown
64		SIMCOE'S JOURNAL. A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps called the Queen's Rangers, commanded by Lieut.-Col. J. G. Simcoe.	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
65	STEDMAN (C.)	The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War.	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
66	STONE (E. M.)	The Invasion of Canada in 1775; including the Journal of Capt. Simeon Thayer, ...	Providence	1867	USD -	Unknown
67	STRYKER (W. S.)	The New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists) in the Revolutionary War. (A list of names, with biographical notes and historical introduction.)	Trenton	1887	USD -	Unknown
68	VAN SCHAACK (H. C.)	Life of Peter Van Schaack; including his Correspondence during the American Revolution.	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
69	VERNON (THOMAS)	The Diary of Thomas Vernon, a Loyalist, banished from Newport in 1776; with Notes by S. S. Rider.	Providence	1881	USD -	Unknown
70	VERREAU (ABBE)	Invasion du Canada: Collection de Memoires; recueillis et annotes, par M. l'Abbe Verreau.	Montreal	1873	USD -	Unknown
71	VON EELKING (MAX)	The German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783; transl. and edited by J. G. Rosengarten.	Albany	1893	USD -	Unknown
72		MONTGOMERY AND ARNOLD'S EXPEDITION IN 1776, Quebec, 1887; Memorial to Capt. Cochrane, British Officer 1774-81,...			USD -	Unknown
73		AMERICAN STATESMEN SERIES.	Boston and New York	1884-1899	USD -	Unknown
74	AMES' ALMANACK	Astronomical Diary, or, an Almanack for the year . . . 1746.	Boston	1746	USD -	Unknown
75	ANDERSON (DR. W. J.)	The Life of Edward, Duke of Kent, with some unpublished correspondence, 1791-1814.	Ottawa and Toronto	1870	USD -	Unknown
76	ANDREWS (C. McLEAN)	The Old English Manor. A Study in English Economic History.	Baltimore	1892	USD -	Unknown
77	ANSON (SIR WM. R.)	The Law and Custom of the Constitution.	Oxford	1892	USD -	Unknown
78	ARMSTRONG (LORD)	Electric Movement in Air and Water, with Theoretical Inferences.	London	1897-99	USD -	Unknown
79	ASHTON (JOHN)	Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, taken from Original Sources.	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
80	ATKINSON (T. W.)	Travels in Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions bordering on India and China.	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
81	BLACKMORE (E. G.)	The Law of the Constitution of South Australia: A Collection of Imperial Statutes, Local Acts, etc.	Adelaide	1894	USD -	Unknown
82	BRIDE (THOS. F.)	Letters from Victorian (Australia) Pioneers to Ch. J. La Trobe.	Melbourne	1898	USD -	Unknown
83		EXPLORATION. Journal of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1894, by C. Winnecke, with a portfolio of maps...			USD -	Unknown
84		EXPLORATION. Journal of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1894, by C. Winnecke, with a portfolio of maps...			USD -	Unknown
85		FEDERATION. Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention.	Melbourne	1888	USD -	Unknown
86		FEDERATION. Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, held at Melbourne, 1890; The same, held at Sydney, 1891; Proceedings of the same, held at Melbourne, 1898.			USD -	Unknown
87		FEDERATION. Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention, Adelaide, March to May, 1897; Second Session of the same, Sydney, Sept., 1897.	Adelaide and Sydney	1897	USD -	Unknown
88	GILL (THOS.)	Bibliography of South Australia.	Glen Osmond (Aus.)	1885	USD -	Unknown
89	LIVERSIDGE (A.)	The Minerals of New South Wales, etc.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
90	PARKES (SIR HENRY)	Fragmentary Thoughts. Poems.	Sydney	1889	USD -	Unknown
91		PICTURESQUE ATLAS OF AUSTRALASIA. [Descriptions by W. H. Traill, Sir T. Cockburn-Campbell H. Brett, H. T. Burgess, and many others.].	[Sydney]	[1889-90]	USD -	Unknown
92	Edited by Douglas B. W. Sladen	POETS. Australian Poets, 1788-1888, with Selections and brief Notes.	London and Sydney	1889	USD -	Unknown
93	Gordon (Adam Lindsay)	POETS. Poems. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, etc.	Melbourne	1892	USD -	Unknown
94		POETS. Convict Once, and other Poems, by J. Brunton Stephens, Melbourne, 1888; Rhymes from the Mines, by E. Dyson, Sydney, 1896; Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall, Melbourne, 1890; and others.			USD -	Unknown
95	QUICK (J.) and GARRAN (R. R.)	The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth.	Sydney	1901	USD -	Unknown
96		ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA.			USD -	Unknown
97		AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION, by Sir John A. Cockburn; South Australia, by J. P. Stow; While the Billy Boils, by Henry Lawson; and 3 others.			USD -	Unknown
98	BACK (CAPT. G.)	Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River (etc.), 1833-35.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
99	BAILLAIRGE (CHAS.)	Nouveau Dictionnaire Francais. Rimes, Consonnances, Homonymes, Decomposition des Mots, Combinaisons Variees, Jeux de Mots, etc.	Quebec	1888	USD -	Unknown
100	BAILLAIRGE (G. F.)	Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, Arctic Voyages, Voyages of Discovery in the North, etc.	[Ottawa]	[1891]	USD -	Unknown

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