Anderson Galleries: BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF THE LATE DR. GEORGE T. STEVENS OF NEW YORK CITY. MRS. B. K. SONDHEIM OF NEW YORK CITY AND OTHER PRIVATE OWNERS. TO BE SOLD WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY FRIDAY AFTERNOONS, DECEMBER TWENTIETH, TWENTY-FIRST, TWENTY-SECOND. THE ANDERSON GAL, 1696,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 20, 1922 - December 20, 1922
Page Size: 753 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
601 SERVIEZ (J. R. DE) The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Caesars of Rome. London

1723

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602 SEVIGNE (MADAME DE) The Best Letters of Madame de Sevigne. Chicago

1896

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603 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Plays and Poems. London

1832-3

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604 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Shakespeare's Library. A Collection of the Ancient Novels, Romances, Legends, Poems, and Histories ... London

1850

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605 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Works. Edited, with a scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. London

1874

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606 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Poems. London

1885

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607 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakespeare from 1594 to 1694. London

1886

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608 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Complete Works. London

n. d.

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609 SHANACHIE (THE). An Irish Miscellany. Dublin

1906-7

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610 SHAW (G. BERNARD) Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. London

1898

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611 SHAW (G. BERNARD) Love among the Artists. Chicago

1900

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612 SHAW (G. BERNARD) John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband. London

1907

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613 SHAW (G. BERNARD) Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. London

1914

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614 SHELLEY (P. B.) The Revolt of Islam. London

1818

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615 SHELLEY (P. B.) Rosalind and Helen. A Modern Eclogue; with other Poems. London

1819

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616 SHELLEY (P. B.) Posthumous Poems. London

1824

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617 SHELLEY (P. B.) Poetical Works. With Notes, and a Memoir by William M. Rossetti. London

1870

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618 SMITH (ALBERT) The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad. London

1848

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619 SMITH (F. HOPKINSON) A White Umbrella in Mexico, [1889]; A Gentleman Vagabond, 1895; The Under Dog, 1903; Peter, 1908.

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620 SMITH (JOHN THOMAS) An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London. London

1846

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621 SMOLLETT (TOBIAS) Works, with Memoirs of his Life. New Edition, edited by James P. Browne. London

1872

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622 SORBIERE (SAMUEL) Sorberiana, ou Bons Mots, Recontres Agreables, Pensees Judicieuses, et Observations Curieuses, de M ... Paris

1694

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623 SPENCER (HERBERT) Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Ethics, Synthetic Philosophy, Recent Discussions, Pacts and Comments ... New York

1890-1902

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624 SPOFFORD (A. R.) The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of all Nations and all Ages. Philadelphia

1894

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625 STAEL (MADAME DE) Germany, by the Baroness Stael Holstein. London

1813

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626 STEDMAN (E. C.) Victorian Poets. Revised and Extended. Cambridge

1887

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627 STEPHENS (JAMES) The Crock of Gold. London

1912

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628 STEPHENS (JOHN L.) Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Greece, etc. 4 vols., 1853; Roba di Roma (Story), 1871 ... V. p.

v. d.

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629 STEREOGRAPHS for Use in the Stereoscope showing Scenes in Central and South America, Mexico, Russia ...

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630 STERNE (LAURENCE) Works. With a Life of the Author, written by himself. London

1873

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631 STEVENS (FRANK E.) The Black Hawk War. Chicago

1903

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632 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) The Essay on Wait Whitman. With a Little Journey to the Home of Whitman, by Elbert Hubbard. East Aurora

1900

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633 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Letters, to His Family and Friends. London

1901

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634 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Three Short Poems. Chicago

1902

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635 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Verses by R. L. S.

1912

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636 Clayton Hamilton STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). On the Trail of Stevenson. New York

1916

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637 STILES (HENRY REED) Bundling; its Origin, Progress and Decline. Albany

1871

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638 STOCKTON (FRANK R.) The Late Mrs. Null, 1886; Tales out of School, 1887; The House of Martha, 1891; The Great Stone of ... New York

1886-1902

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639 STOCKTON (FRANK R.) The Late Mrs. Null, 1886; Over The Teacups (Holmes), 1891; In War Time (Whittier), 1864; and others.

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640 STRACHEY (LYTTON) Queen Victoria. London

1921

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641 STRAPAROLA. The Nights. London

1894

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642 STRAPAROLA. The Facetious Nights of Straparola. London

1901

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643 STREET (JULIAN) Abroad at Home, 1914; The Governance of London (Gomme), 1907; Chinese Characteristics (Smith), n. d ... V. p.

v. d.

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644 STRICKLAND (AGNES) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. London

1854

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645 STUART-GLENNIE (JOHN S.) Pilgrim-Memories. New York

1875

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646 SUE (EUGENE) The Mysteries of Paris. London

1845-46

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647 SUE (EUGENE) The Mysteries of Paris. London

1845-6

USD - Unknown
648 SUE (EUGENE) The Wandering Jew. London

1846

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649 SULLY (DUKE OF) Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. London

1778

USD - Unknown
650 [SURTEES (R. S.)] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. London

1838

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651 SWIFT (JONATHAN) The Works of Jonathan Swift. With Notes and a Life of the Author by Walter Scott. Edinburgh

1814

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652 SWIFT (JONATHAN) Works. Containing additional letters, tracts and poems not hitherto published. Edinburgh

1824

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653 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Notes on Poems and Reviews. London

1866

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654 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Dolores. London

1867

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655 Marzials (Theo.) [SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES).] The Gallery of Pigeons, and Other Poems. London

1873

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656 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Auguste Vacquerie. Paris

1875

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657 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) The Ballad of Bulgarie. London

1893

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658 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Grace Darling. London

1893

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659 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) The Heptalogia. Portland

1898

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660 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Laus Veneris, Poems and Ballads. Portland

1899

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661 SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) A Catalogue of First Editions of the Works of Swinburne, in the Library of Edward K. Butler. Boston

1921

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662 TASSO (TORQUATO) Jerusalem Delivered. London

1811

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663 TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD) Poems. London

1845

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664 TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD) Works. London

1874

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665 TENNYSON (FREDERICK) Days and Hours. London

1854

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666 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) The History of Pendennis. London

1849-50

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667 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) The History of Pendennis. London

1849-50

USD - Unknown
668 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century. London

1858-9

USD - Unknown
669 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) Works. Illustrations by the author. London

1869

USD - Unknown
670 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) Thackerayana: Notes and Anecdotes. London

1875

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671 Charles P. Johnson THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). The Early Writings of William M. Thackeray. London

1888

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672 THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.) Mr. Thackeray's Writings in The National Standard and Constitutional. London

1899

USD - Unknown
673 THESPIAN DICTIONARY (THE); or Dramatic Biography of the Eighteenth Century. London

1802

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674 THOMAS (ISAIAH) The History of Printing in America, with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. Albany, New York

1874

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675 THORNBURY (WALTER) The Life of J. M. W. Turner. London

1862

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676 THORNBURY (WALTER) Old London and New. London

n. d.

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677 THRUPP (JOHN) The Anglo-Saxon Home: a History of the Domestic Institutions and Customs of England from the Fifth ... London

1862

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678 TIGHE (MRS. HENRY) Psyche, with Other Poems. London

1811

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679 TIMBS (JOHN) Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of The Great Town. London

1865

USD - Unknown
680 Pritchett (R. T.) TOBACCO. Smokiana: Historical, Ethnographical. [London]

1890

USD - Unknown
681 Penn (W. A.) TOBACCO. The Soverane Herbe. London

1902

USD - Unknown
682 Prince Adelbert of Prussia TRAVEL. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, by Major Denham ...

USD - Unknown
683 TREMAYNE (ELEANOR E.) Margaret of Austria, 1908; The Great Infanta Isabel (Klingenstein), 1910; Lady Login's Recollections ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
684 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) The Vicar of Bullhampton. London

1870

USD - Unknown
685 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) The Way We Live Now. London

1875

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686 TRUMBULL (JOHN) Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters. New York

1841

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687 TUDOR TRANSLATIONS. Celestina, or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea. London

1894

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688 Johnson (J.) TYPOGRAPHY. Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor. London

1824

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689 UPHAM (CHARLES W.) Salem Witchcraft; with an account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and ... Boston

1867

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690 Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman VALE PRESS. Hero and Leander. London

1894

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691 VOLTAIRE (AROUET DE) La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans. London

1899

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692 VOLTAIRE (AROUET DE) The Works of Voltaire. Paris

[1901]

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693 VUILLIER (GASTON) A History of Dancing. London

1898

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694 WALLACE (LEW) The Prince of India, 2 vols. N. Y., 1893; First Edition; Ben Hur. Illustrated. 2 vols. N. Y., 1892.

USD - Unknown
695 WALLER (EDMUND) Poems, &c. London

1664

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696 WALLON (H.) Jeanne d'Arc. Paris

1892

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697 WALTERS (H. B.) The Art of the Romans, 1911; The New Spirit in Drama and Art (Carter), 1913; One Hundred ... V. p.

v. d.

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698 WALTON (ISAAC) The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln. London

1678

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699 WALTON (ISAAC) Waltoniana, 1878; Every Man his Own Poet (Mallock), one of 25 copies on Japan paper, 1903 ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
700 WALTON AND COTTON The Complete Angler. London

1808

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