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
701 WALTON AND COTTON The Complete Angler. London

1810

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702 WALTON AND COTTON The Complete Angler. London

1822

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703 WALTON AND COTTON The Compleat Angler. London

1896

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704 WARD (MRS. HUMPHRY) Robert Elsmere. London

1888

USD - Unknown
705 WARD (MRS. HUMPHRY) The Story of Bessie Costrell. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
706 WASHINGTON (GEORGE) Columbia's Legacy; or, Washington's valuable advice to his Fellow Citizens, etc. Philadelphia

1796

USD - Unknown
707 WASHINGTON (GEORGE) Some Account of Gibbs-Channing Portrait of George Washington, Painted by Gilbert Stuart. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
708 WASHINGTON (GEORGE) Journal of my Journey Over the Mountains. Albany, 1892; Catalogues of Washington's Books and Relics ...

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709 WATSON (WILLIAM) The Eloping Angels. A Caprice. London

1893

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710 WATTS (ALARIC A.) Lyrics of the Heart, with other Poems. London

1851

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711 WELLS (H. G.) The Time Machine. An Invention. London

1895

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712 WELLS (H. G.) The Sea Lady. A Tissue of Moonshine. London

1902

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713 WELLS (H. G.) The War in the Air. London

1908

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714 WELLS (H. G.) The New Machiavelli. London

1911

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715 WELLS (H. G.) Marriage, 1912; The Passionate Friends, 1913; The Wife of Sir Isaac Barman, 1914; Mr. Britling Sees ... New York

1912-17

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716 WELLS (H. G.) Mr. Britling Sees it Through. London

[1916]

USD - Unknown
717 WELLS (PERCY A.) AND HOOPER (JOHN) Modern Cabinet Work, Furniture and Fitments. London

[1909]

USD - Unknown
718 WESLEY (REV. JOHN) Journal, enlarged from Original MSS, with Notes from unpublished Diaries, Annotations, etc. London

1909-16

USD - Unknown
719 WHARTON (GRACE and PHILIP) Queens of Society. 2 vols.; Wits and Beaux of Society, 2 vols. Philadelphia

n. d.

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720 WHITMAN (WALT) Two Rivulets. Including Demo cratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden

1876

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721 Frank Shay WHITMAN (WALT). The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. New York

1920

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722 [WHITNEY (W. C.)] The Whitney Stud. New York

1902

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723 WHYMPER (EDWARD) Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892; Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (Fea), 1913 ... V. p.

v. d.

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724 WILDE (OSCAR) A House of Pomegranates. London

1891

USD - Unknown
725 WILDE (OSCAR) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other Stories. New York

1891

USD - Unknown
726 WILDE (OSCAR) The Picture of Dorian Gray. London

1891

USD - Unknown
727 WILDE (OSCAR) Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman. London

1893

USD - Unknown
728 WILDE (OSCAR) Dublin Verses. London

1895

USD - Unknown
729 WILDE (OSCAR) Essays, Criticisms and Reviews. London

1901

USD - Unknown
730 WILDE (OSCAR) Plays. Boston & London

1905-7

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731 Robert H. Sherard WILDE (OSCAR). The Life of Oscar Wilde. London

1906

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732 WILDE (OSCAR) Intentions. The Decay of Lying. Pen, Pencil and Poison. The Critic as Artist. The Truth of Masks. New York

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733 WILLIAMS (H. NOEL) Henry II., 1910; Stonewall Jackson (Henderson), 2 vols., 1903; Renascence Portraits (Van Dyke), 1905 ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
734 WILLIAMS (HENRY SMITH) The Historian's History of the World. Edited by Henry S. Williams. New York

[1907]

USD - Unknown
735 WINKLE'S English Cathedrals. 3 vols. London, 1836: National Portrait Gallery. 3 vols. London, 1830 ... V. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
736 WINSOR (JUSTIN) The Memorial History of Boston. Boston

1880-81

USD - Unknown
737 WOLTMANN (ALFRED) AND WOERMANN (KARL) History of Ancient, Early Christian and Mediaeval Painting. New York

1880

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738 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse. Frontispiece engraved by J. C. Bromley after a painting by Sir George ... London

1819

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739 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Ode, Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Sixth of July, 1847. At the First Commencement ...

[1847]

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740 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Poetical Works, 3 vols.; Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso), 1867; The Poet's Journal (Taylor), 1863; and ...

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741 Edited by Rossiter Johnson, and others WORLD'S GREAT BOOKS. New York

1898-1901

USD - Unknown
742 WRAXALL (SIR N. W.) Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time. London

1836

USD - Unknown
743 WRIGHT (ROBERT) The Life of Major-General James Wolfe. London

1864

USD - Unknown
744 WRIGHT (THOMAS) Caricature History of the Georges. London

[1867]

USD - Unknown
745 WYNDHAM (HENRY SAXE) The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897. London

1906

USD - Unknown
746 YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) Two Plays for Dancers. Dublin

1919

USD - Unknown
747 YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Stratford-on-Avon

1908

USD - Unknown
748 YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) Poetical Works, 2 vols., 1908; The Cutting of an Agate, 1912; Essays Irish and American, 1918. New York

1908-18

USD - Unknown
749 ZENGER (JOHN PETER) The Tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New York, Printer, who was lately Try'd and Acquitted for ... London

1738

USD - Unknown
750 ZIMMERN (HELEN) Shah Nameh. Stories retold from Firdusi. New York

1906

USD - Unknown
751 ZOLA (EMILE) The Assommoir. London

1885

USD - Unknown
752 ZOLA (EMILE) L'Assomuioir, La Terre, La Curee, Nana, Germinal, and Pot-Bouille. London

1894-5

USD - Unknown
753 ZOLA (EMILE) Works. Comprising l'Assommoir, Pot-Bouille, La Terre, La Curee, Germinal, and Nana. Philadelphia

n. d.

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