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
101	BANCKS (W.)	A Letter on the Proposed New Colonial Funding System. To the Editor of the Upper Canadian Herald.	Toronto	[1836]	USD -	Unknown
102	BANCROFT (GEORGE)	History of the United States. (Author's last revision.)	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
103	[BANCROFT (GEORGE).]	On the Nomination of Agents formerly appointed to Act in England for the Colonies of North America; and, ...	[London]	[1844]	USD -	Unknown
104	BARHAM (FRANCIS)	The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero.	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
105	BARTHE (J. G.)	Le Canada Reconquis par la France.	Paris	1855	USD -	Unknown
106	BARTHE (J. G.)	Souvenirs d'un Demi-Siecle (Rebellion of 1837, etc.)	Montreal	1885	USD -	Unknown
107	BARTLETT (W. H.)	American Scenery. With descriptive text by N. P. Willis.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
108	BARTLETT (W. H.)	Canadian Scenery Illustrated. Descriptive text by N. P. Willis.	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
109	BATTY (D. T.)	Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain and Colonies.	Manchester (England)	1895	USD -	Unknown
110	BAUDONCOURT (J. DE)	Histoire Populaire du Canada.	Paris	[1886]	USD -	Unknown
111	BAXTER (J. P.)	The Pioneers of New France in New England, with contemporary Letters and Documents, and a copious Index.	Albany	1894	USD -	Unknown
112	BEAZLEY (C. R.)	Prince Henry the Navigator. The Hero of Portugal, etc., 1394-1460.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
113	BEDARD (T. P.)	Histoire de Cinquante Ans (1791-1841): Annales Politiques de Bas-Canada depuis la Constitution jusqu'a l'Union.	Quebec	1869	USD -	Unknown
114		BEHRING SEA FISHERIES. Correspondence, 1886-90. Documents of the Imperial Parliament.	London	[1890]	USD -	Unknown
115	BELKNAP (JEREMY)	The History of New Hampshire.	Philadelphia; Boston	1784; 1791	USD -	Unknown
116	BELKNAP (JEREMY)	American Biography.	Boston	1794-98	USD -	Unknown
117	BELMONT (ABBE DE)	Histoire du Canada (1608-1700), from the original MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roi, Paris.	Quebec	1886	USD -	Unknown
118	BENGOUGH (J. W.)	A Caricature History of Canadian Politics.	Toronto	1886	USD -	Unknown
119	BENTHAM (JEREMY)	A Fragment on Government; edited, with Introduction, by F. C. Montague.	Oxford.	1891	USD -	Unknown
120	BEYARD (COL. NICHOLAS) and LODOWICK (LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES)	Journal of the Late Actions of the French at Canada; with the Manner of their being Repulsed ...	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
121	BIBAUD (MAX)	Les Institutions de l'Histoire du Canada, jusqu'a l'an 1819.	Montreal	1855	USD -	Unknown
122	BIBAUD (MAX)	Les Institutions de l'Histoire du Canada, jusqu'a Pan 1819.	Montreal	1855	USD -	Unknown
123	BIBAUD (MAX)	Histoire du Canada sous la Domination Francaise; Histoire du Canada et des Canadiens sous la Domination Anglaise.	Montreal	1843-44	USD -	Unknown
124	BIBAUD (MAX)	Histoire du Canada et des Canadiens, sous la Domination Anglaise.	Montreal	1878	USD -	Unknown
125	BIGGAR (H. P.)	The Early Trading Companies of New France: A Contribution to the History of Commerce and Discovery in North America.	Toronto	1901	USD -	Unknown
126	Edited by J. G. Wilson and John Fiske	BIOGRAPHY. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography.	New York	1887-89	USD -	Unknown
127	Hawks (Francis L.)	BIOGRAPHY. The Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography, American edition.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
128	Morgan (H. J.)	BIOGRAPHY. The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Hand-Book of Canadian Biography.	Toronto	1898	USD -	Unknown
129	Rose (G. M.)	BIOGRAPHY. A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, being chiefly men of the time.	Toronto	1888	USD -	Unknown
130		BIOGRAPHY. Defoe, by Wm. Minto, Lond. 1879; Wolfe, by A. G. Bradley, Lond. 1895; ...			USD -	Unknown
131		BIOGRAPHY. Gen. Anthony Wayne, by Gen. De Peyster; Sir George Carteret, ...			USD -	Unknown
132		BIOGRAPHY. Pierre Bedard [by Dionne]; John Brown in Canada [by J. C. Hamilton]; ...			USD -	Unknown
133	BISSELIUS (JOANNIS)	Argonauticon Americanorum, sive Historiae Periculorum, Petri de Victoria, ac Sociorum Ejus.	Monachi [Munich]	1647	USD -	Unknown
134	BLACKMAR (F. W.)	Spanish Institutions of the South-West.	Baltimore	1891	USD -	Unknown
135	Edited by C. Annandale	BLAIKIE'S MODERN CYCLOPAEDIA OF UNIVERSAL INFORMATION.	Toronto and Edinburgh	1889-90	USD -	Unknown
136	BLAINE (JAMES G.)	Twenty Years of Congress.	Norwich, Connecticut	1884-86	USD -	Unknown
137	BLAINE (JAMES G.)	Biography of James G. Blaine, by Gail Hamilton.	Norwich, Connecticut	1895	USD -	Unknown
138	BLAKE (E. V.)	Arctic Experiences. Containing Capt. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice Floe; a History of the Polaris Expedition, etc.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
139	[BLOME (RICHARD).]	L'Amerique Angloise, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre dans l'Amerique.	Amsterdam	1688	USD -	Unknown
140	BOLINGBROKE (HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT).]	Remarks on the Histoiy of England.	London	n. d. [ca. 1740]	USD -	Unknown
141	[BOLLAN (WILLIAM).]	The Ancient Right of the English Nation to the American Fishery, and its various diminutions examined and stated.	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
142	BONNYCASTLE (SIR R. H.)	The Canadas in 1841.	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
143	BONNYCASTLE (SIR R. H.)	Canada and the Canadians in 1846.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
144	BONNYCASTLE (SIR R. H.)	Canada: As it Was, Is and May Be; with an Account of Recent Transactions, by Sir J. E. Alexander.	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
145	[BOUCHER (PIERRE).]	Histoire Veritable et Naturelle des Moeurs et Productions du Pays de la Nouvelle France vulgairement dite le Canada.	Paris	1664	USD -	Unknown
146	BOUCHETTE (JOSEPH)	A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, Remarks upon Upper Canada, and their relative connection with the United States of America.	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
147	BOUCHETTE (JOSEPH)	The British Dominion in North America. Topographical and Statistical Description, with the Supplementary volume.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
148	BOUNIOL (B.)	Les Marins Francais, Vies . . . d'apres les Documents originaux.	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
149	BOURASSA (ABBE)	M. Chauveau et l'Idee Nationale.	Montreal	[1895]	USD -	Unknown
150	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	Letter to the Secretary of State from the Canal Commissioners respecting the Improvement of the Inland Navigation of the Dominion of Canada.	Ottawa	1871	USD -	Unknown
151	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	Parliamentary Procedure and Practice.	Montreal	1884	USD -	Unknown
152	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	Parliamentary Procedure and Practice.	Montreal	1892	USD -	Unknown
153	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	Local Government in Canada. An Historical Study (Royal Soc'y. of Canada Trans.)	Montreal	1886	USD -	Unknown
154	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	A Canadian Manual of the Procedure at Meetings of Municipal Councils, Shareholders and Directors, etc.	Toronto	1894	USD -	Unknown
155	[BOURINOT (SIR JOHN G.)]	The XIXth Century: A Review of Progress.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
156	BOUTMY (E.)	The English Constitution.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
157	BOWEN (E.)	Complete System of Geography. Vol. II. (only). Containing the American Portion of the Work.	London	1747	USD -	Unknown
158	BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG (ABBE E. C.)	Histoire du Canada, de son Eglise, et de ses Missions, depuis la Decouverte de l'Amerique jusqu'a nos jours; ecrite sur documents inedits.	Paris	1852	USD -	Unknown
159	J. B. A. Ferland	BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG (ABBE E. C.) Observations sur un Ouvrage intitule Histoire du Canada par M. l'Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg.	Quebec	1853	USD -	Unknown
160	BRAYLEY (E. W.) and BRITTON (JOHN)	The History of the Ancient Palace and late Houses of Parliament at Westminster, etc.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
161	BRETON (P. N.)	Illustrated History of Coins and Tokens relating to Canada, with their approximate Current Prices, Degrees of Rarity, etc.	Montreal	[1894]	USD -	Unknown
162		BRITISH-AMERICAN LEAGUE. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates of the British-American League. Held at Toronto, Nov. 1, 1849.	Toronto	1849	USD -	Unknown
163		BRITISH COLONIES. Colored Map of the World, showing the Distribution of the British Colonies (size 4 ft. 6 ins. by 5 ft.)	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
164		BRITISH COLUMBIA. Papers relating to the Affairs of British Columbia	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
165	Bancroft (H. H.)	BRITISH COLUMBIA. History of British Columbia, 1792-1887.	San Francisco	1890	USD -	Unknown
166	Begg (A.)	BRITISH COLUMBIA. History of British Columbia, from its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time.	Toronto	1894	USD -	Unknown
167	Macfie (M.)	BRITISH COLUMBIA. Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Their Histoiy, Resources, and Prospects.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
168	St. John (Molyneux)	BRITISH COLUMBIA. The Sea of Mountains; Lord Dufferin's Tour through British Columbia in 1876.	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
169		BRITISH EMPIRE SERIES. India, Borneo, Hong-Kong, etc., by Sir J. B. Lyall, Sir C. Grant, etc., ...			USD -	Unknown
170	BROOKE (FRANCIS)	The History of Emily Montague.	London	1769	USD -	Unknown
171	BROOM (H.)	The Philosophy of Law: being Notes of Lectures delivered in the Inner Temple Hall, London, 1852-75.	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
172	BROWN (ALEX.)	The Genesis of the United States. A Series of Historical MSS., now first printed, with Bibliographical Memoranda, Biographies, etc.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
173	BROWN (ALEX.)	The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of the Nation, ...	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
174	BRYCE (G.)	A Short History of the Canadian People.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
175	BRYCE (JAMES)	The American Commonwealth.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
176	BRYCE (JAMES)	The American Commonwealth.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
177	BRYCE (JAMES)	Impressions of South Africa.	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
178	BRYMNER (DOUGLAS)	Report on Canadian Archives for the years 1872-74, 1883-1900.	Ottawa	1873-1901	USD -	Unknown
179		BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Publications. Vol. I.	Buffalo	1879	USD -	Unknown
180	[BURKE (EDMUND).]	Account of the European Settlements in America: Manners and Customs of the Original Inhabitants, Productions, Trade, Political and Commercial Views, etc.	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
181	BURY (VISCOUNT)	Exodus of the Western Nations.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
182	[BUTEL-DUMONT (G. M.)]	Histoire et Commerce des Colouies Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Ou l'on trouve l'etat actuel de leur population, etc.	London	1755	USD -	Unknown
183	BUTLER (W. F.)	The Wild North Land: A Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America.	Montreal	1874	USD -	Unknown
184	BEAZLEY (C. R.)	John and Sebastian Cabot. The Discovery of North America.	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
185	BIDDLE (R.)	Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery.	Philadelphia	1831	USD -	Unknown
186	BIDDLE (R.)	The English Edition of the same.	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
187		CABOT CELEBRATION OF 1897.	Bristol, etc.	1897, etc.	USD -	Unknown
188	CHYTRAEUS (N.)	Variorum in Europa Itinerum Deliciae: sen, ex Variis Manuscriptis Selectiora Tantum Inscriptionum ...	Herborn (Nassau)	1591	USD -	Unknown
189	D'AVEZAC (M.)	Les Navigations Terre-Neuviennes de Jean and Sebastian Cabot. pp. 20: Examen Critique (Nicholl's Life of Sebastian Cabot), pp. 7.	Paris	1869	USD -	Unknown
190	HARRISSE (HENRY)	John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America, and Sebastian his Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England, 1496-1557.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
191	HARRISSE (HENRY).	The Discovery of North America.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
192	HARRISSE (HENRY)	The Date of Cabot's Discovery of the American Continent, and an Alleged Forgery of Chatterton; Cabot's Discovery of North America.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
193	HORSFORD (E. N.)	John Cabot's Landfall and the Site of Norumburga (Amer. Geog. Soc'y), 6 facsimile maps, N. Y. 1885...			USD -	Unknown
194	MAJOR (R. H.)	The True Date of the English Discovery of the American Continent under John and Sebastian Cabot.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
195	NICHOLLS (J. F.)	Life and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot of Bristol, Discoverer of America, etc.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
196	SCOTT (E.--Translator)	The Cabot Roll: The Customs Roll of the Port of Bristol, A. D. 1496-99.	Bristol	1897	USD -	Unknown
197	STEVENS (HENRY)	Sebastian Cabot-John = O.	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
198	TARDUCCI (F.)	John and Sebastian Cabot: A Biographical Notice, with an Appendix of Documents, etc.	Detroit	1893	USD -	Unknown
199	WEARE (G. E.)	Cabot's Discovery of North America.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
200	WINSHIP (G. P.)	Cabot Bibliography.	[Providence, R. I.]	1897	USD -	Unknown

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