Anderson Galleries: First Editions and Private Press Books, The Library Formed by Abraham Goldsmith, sold by order of his daughter. Books, Autographs, and Mementos from the James Whitcomb Riley Homestead, selections from the collections of George B. Thummel and Jahu Dewitt M, 4150,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 07, 1935 - February 07, 1935
Page Size: 605 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 A'BECKETT (GILBERT A.) The Comic History of England, colored illustrations by John Leech, 2 vols. in one, London, n.d.; The ...

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2 ADAMS (HENRY) History of the United States of America, 9 vols., N. Y., 1889-91; Robin Hood: A Collection of all ... New York and London

1795-1891

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3 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY) Poems of Religion and Society. New York

1848

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4 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON) Windsor Castle, illustrated by Cruikshank, Johannot, and Delamotte, 1843; Old Saint Paul's ... London

1843-7

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5 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON) The Miser's Daughter. London

1848

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6 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON) The Works of William H. Ainsworth. London

n. d.

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7 ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Symptoms of Being Amused. London

1822

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8 ALDUS CLASSICS, 12 vols., London: Aldus Society, 1903; bindings worn; Courtiers and Favourites of ...

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9 Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. AMERICAN STATESMEN. A Collection of 31 Volumes of the American Statesmen Series. Boston

1882-1900

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10 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York. New York

1897

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11 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England, 1897, printed on Japan vellum; A Short ... New York

v. d.

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12 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Gossip About Book Collecting, 2 vols., 1900; Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects ... New York

v. d.

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13 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Paul Revere and his Engraving, 1901; A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in ... New York

v. d.

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14 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution, 1905; Fragments of American History, 1898 ... New York

v. d.

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15 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) An English XIX Century Sportsman, Bibliophile, and Binder of Angling Books. New York

1906

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16 [APPERLEY (C. J.)] Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq., colored plates by Henry Alken, London, n.d.; The ...

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17 ARIOSTO (LODOVICO) Orlando Furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto. Venice

1572

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18 ARIOSTO (LODOVICO) The Orlando Furioso; Translated into English Verse from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto; with Notes ... London

1823-31

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19 ARISTOTLE. Ethics, 2 vols., London: Humphreys, 1902; The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Cust), 2 vols ...

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20 ARNOLD (WILLIAM H.) First Editions of Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, etc., Jamaica, 1901; Books and Letters (Arnold ...

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21 ARNOLD (WILLIAM H.) First Report of a Book-Collector; comprising a Brief Answer to the frequent question Why First ... Jamaica, New York

1897-8

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22 ASCHAM (ROGER) Toxophilus, The Schole, or Partitions of Shooting. . . . Wrexham

1788

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23 ATHERTON (GERTRUDE) The Conqueror. New York

1902

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24 AUSTEN (JANE) Works, 6 vols., London, 1886-1901; Plutarch's Lives, 4 vols., Phila., 1822; The Chronicles of Crime ... V. p.

v. d.

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25 AUSTEN (JANE) The Works of Jane Austen. Boston

1892

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26 AUTHORS and others. Autograph Manuscript Sermon by Samuel Mather, Aug. 14, 1791; L. s. by William ...

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27 Edited by George F. Warner AUTOGRAPHS. Facsimiles of Royal Historical, Literary, and Other Autographs in the Department of ... London

1899

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28 BEAUMARCHAIS (M. DE) La Folle Journee, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, Comedie en cinq Actes, en Prose. [Paris] Chez Ruault

1785

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29 BALZAC (HONORE DE) The Comedie Humaine. Philadelphia

1898

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30 BALZAC (HONORE DE) A Collection of Works by Honore de Balzac. Boston

v. d.

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31 BANCROFT (HUBERT HOWE) The Book of the Fair, with hundreds of illustrations, Chicago, 1893; Recent Ideal of American Art ( ... Chicago and New York

189[0-]3

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32 [BARHAM (RICHARD H.)] The Ingoldsby Legends, illustrated, 2 vols., London, n.d.; Milton's Paradise Lost [and other ... London and Paris

v. d.

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33 [BARKSDALE (CLEMENT)] Nympha Libethris: or the Cotswold Muse, Presenting some extempore Verses to the Imitation of yong ... London

1651

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34 BARON (ROBERT) 'EPOTOIIAITNION or the Cyprian Academy. London

1648

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35 BARRAS (PAUL F.) Memoirs, 4 vols., N. Y., 1895; Memoirs of Napoleon, his Court and Family (Duchess d'Abrantes), 2 ...

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36 Addison (Joseph) BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works. Birmingham

1761

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37 Pope (Alexander) BEARDSLEY ILLUSTRATIONS. The Rape of the Lock; an Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. London

1896

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38 BECKFORD (WILLIAM) Vathek, illustrated, London, 1893, one of 600 copies; The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney ... V. p.

v. d.

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39 BEECHER (HENRY WARD) Norwood; or, Village Life in New England. London

1867

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40 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A Collection of Publications of the Bibliographical Society. London

1893-1931

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41 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Unpublished Poem to his Sister Fanny (Keats), 1909, printed on vellum; The ... Boston

v. d.

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42 BICKNELL (W. H. W.) Etchings. [Boston]

n. d.

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43 BIERCE (AMBROSE) Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco

1891

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44 BINYON (LAURENCE) The Engraved Designs of William Blake, London, 1926; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Clemens), New ...

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45 BIOGRAPHY. A Collection of Biographical Works by Lawton, Parkman, Thayer, Bowers, Wilstach, Krutch ... V. p.

v. d.

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46 BIOGRAPHY. A Collection of about 100 vols. of Biography. V. p.

v. d.

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47 BIOGRAPHY. V. p.

v. d.

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48 BLACKMORE (R. D.) Lorna Doone, illustrated, 2 vols., Phila., n.d.; The Works of Thomas Otway, portrait, 2 vols. London ... V. p.

v. d.

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49 BLAKE (WILLIAM) Illustrations of the Book of Job. London

1825

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50 Young (Edward) BLAKE ILLUSTRATIONS. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. London

1797

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51 BLANC (CHARLES) The Masterpieces of Italian Art, fully illustrated, 2 vols., Phila., n.d.; Ideals of Life in France ... Philadelphia and New York

n.d. [and 1890]

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52 [BLUMENTHAL (GEORGE AND FLORENCE)] Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal. Paris

1926-30

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53 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci Cittadino Fiorentino. Sicome lo diedero alle stampe gli ... Amsterdam

1665

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54 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) The Decameron, London, 1845; Lalla Rookh (Moore), illustrated, N. Y., 1890; Lays of Ancient Rome ( ... V. p.

v. d.

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55 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Decameron. Now First Completely done into English . . . by John Payne, 3 vols., London, 1886 ...

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56 [BOHN (HENRY G.)] A Collection of 27 vols. from the various Bohn Libraries. London

v. d.

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57 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century (Ashton), London, 1882; The Philobiblon of ... V. p.

v. d.

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58 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Books About Books. Edited by Alfred W. Pollard. Comprising: The Great Book- ... London

1893-4

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59 Hoe (Robert) BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Catalogue of Books by English Authors who lived before the Year 1700. Forming a ... New York

1903

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60 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Fine Books (Pollard), N. Y., 1912; Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages ... V. p.

v. d.

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61 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Amenities of Book-Collecting (Newton), Boston, n.d.; This Book-Collecting ... V. p.

v. d.

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62 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Points, 1874-1930 (Muir), London, 1931; Collecting American First Editions (Curie ... V. p.

v. d.

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63 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKPLATES. American Book-Plates (Allen), N. Y., 1894; English Book-Plates (Castle ... V. p.

v. d.

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64 Sarre (F.) BOOKBINDING. Islamic Bookbindings. London

n. d.

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65 BOOK OF HISTORY (THE). New York

n. d.

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66 Edited by Henry B. Wheatley BOOK-LOVER'S LIBRARY (THE). A Collection of 25 Volumes of the Book-Lover's Library. London and New York

v. d.

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67 BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, 1887-1906, and Index for 1887-96. London

1888-1906

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68 BOOKWORM (THE), 7 vols., 1888-94; The Bibliographer, 15 parts, 1902-3; Bibliographical Society of ... New York

1888-1931

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69 BOSSUS (MATTHAEUS) Recuperationes Faesulanae. Bologna

1493

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70 [BOSWELL (JAMES)] Dorando, A Spanish Tale. London

1767

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71 BOSWELL (JAMES) The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London

1785

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72 BOSWELL (JAMES) Life of Johnson. New York

1889

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73 [BOSWELL (JAMES)] Letters between The Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell, Esq. London

1763

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74 BRACKENBRIDGE (HENRY M.) Views of Louisiana, Pittsburgh, 1814; Western Wanderings (Boddam-Whetham), London, 1874; Letters ... V. p.

v. d.

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75 BROME (ALEXANDER) Songs and Other Poems. London

1661

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76 BRONTES (THE). The Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters, illustrated, 6 vols., 1889-91; The ... London

1889-91

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77 BRYAN (WILLIAM) Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged under the supervision of ... New York

1903-5

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78 BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN) The Iliad of Homer, 2 vols., 1881; The Odyssey of Homer, 2 vols., 1877. Boston

1877-81

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79 BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN) A. L. s. (twice). Roslyn, Long Island

1874

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80 BRYCE (JAMES) The American Commonwealth, 2 vols., London, 1888; South America: Observations and Impressions, N. Y ... V. p.

v. d.

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81 BURNETT (FRANCES HODGSON) Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York

1886

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82 BURNETT (FRANCES HODGSON) Louisiana. New York

1892

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83 BURROUGHS (JOHN) Wake Robin. New York

1871

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84 BURROUGHS (JOHN) Ways of Nature. Boston

1905

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85 BURROUGHS (JOHN) Alaska (with Muir, Grinnell, and others), illustrated, partly in color, 2 vols., N. Y., 1901; The ... V. p.

1901-15

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86 BURTON (RICHARD F.) A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled, The Book of ... [London]

n. d.

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87 [BUTLER (SAMUEL)] Erewhon or Over the Range, London, 1872; Evolution, Old and New, Salem, 1879. London and Salem

1872-9

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88 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) The Works of Lord Byron. London

1832-3

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89 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Poetical Works, 10 vols. in five, Boston, n.d.; North Italian Folk (Carr), illustrations by ... V. p.

v. d.

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90 CABELL (JAMES BRANCH) The High Place, illustrations by Frank C. Pape, N. Y., 1923; Jurgen and the Censor, N. Y.: Privately ...

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91 CABLE (GEORGE W.) Madame Delphine. New York

1881

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92 CABLE (GEORGE W.) Old Creole Days, N. Y., 1897; The Grandissimes (Cable), N. Y., 1899; The Vicar of Wakefield ( ... V. p.

v. d.

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93 [CAMOENS.] Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads). London

1880-4

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94 CAMPBELL (THOMAS) The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. London

1837

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95 CAREW (THOMAS) Poems. London

1640

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96 CARROLL (LEWIS) Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found there. New York and London

1872

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97 CARROLL (LEWIS) Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; inner hinges cracked; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893; The Song Book of ... London

v. d

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98 CARVER (JONATHAN) Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, London, 1778 ...

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99 CATHER (WILLA) My Antonia. Boston

1918

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100 CATHER (WILLA) One of Ours, 1922; April Twilights and Other Poems, 1923; The Professor's House, 1925. New York

1922-5

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