Anderson Galleries: Fine Sets of Renowned Authors Sporting and Colored Plate Books First Editions. Including sets of the sporting magazine and Baily's magazine of sports and pastimes. The collection formed by the late H. Tener Langstroth, Glenside, Pennsylvania. Sold by Orde, 4164,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 28, 1935 - March 28, 1935
Page Size: 440 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABELARD AND HELOISE Eloisa en Dishabille: being A New Version of that Lady's Celebrated Epistle to Abelard. London

1801

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2 ACTORS AND MUSICIANS. Autograph Album containing the signatures of over 450 Actors, Actresses ...

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3 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY, sixth President of the United States) A. L. s., 1 p., 4to, Quincy, July 20, 1844, to the Rev. Henry A. Miles Lowell, on theological ...

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4 [ADDISON (JOSEPH) AND STEELE (SIR RICHARD)] A Collection of 75 fine Engraved Plates for The Spectator, The Tatler, and The Guardian. [London]

[1803-4]

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5 AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON) Historical Romances of William H. Ainsworth. Philadelphia

n.d.

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6 ALDINE POETS. A Complete Set of the Original Issues of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets. London

1830-45

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7 [Egan (Pierce)] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Real Life in Ireland; or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and ... London

1821

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8 [Apperley (C. J.)] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Chase, The Turf, and The Road. London

1837

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9 [Surtees (Robert S.)] ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The Analysis of the Hunting Field; being a Series of Sketches of the Principal ... London

1846

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10 ALKEN COLORED PLATES etc. Jorrocks's Jaunts & Jollities (Surtees), colored plates by Alken, n.d ... London

n.d. and 1796

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11 ALLIBONE (S. AUSTIN) A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. Philadelphia

1897

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12 Foley (P. K.) AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. American Authors 1795-1895. Boston

1897

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13 Willard (John W.) AMERICAN CLOCKS. A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker. N.p.

1911

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14 AMERICAN ENGRAVERS. American Engravers upon Copper and Steel (Stauffer), 2 vols., N. Y.: Grolier ...

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15 Edited by Charles F. Mills, Alexander Galbraith, and others AMERICAN CLYDESDALE STUD BOOK. Vols. 1-20. Springfield

1882-1917

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16 AMERICAN STUD BOOK (THE). Vols. 1-7, 9-11. New York

1873-1925

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17 AMERICAN SHOOTER'S MANUAL (THE), comprising such plain and simple Rules, as are necessary to ... Philadelphia

1827

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18 AMERICAN STATESMEN, Edited by John T. Morse, Jr., 32 vols., 1898-1900; The same, Second Series, 8 ... Boston

1898-1917

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19 Hamerton (Philip G.) AMERICAN WOOD ENGRAVING. The Art of the American Wood-Engraver. New York

1894

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20 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York, profusely illustrated, partly in color, 1897; New York as ... New York

1897-1905

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21 Edited by the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell ANGLING. Fishing at Home & Abroad. London

1913

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22 ANGLING. The Sea-Trout (Lamond), London, 1916; A Book of Fishing Stories (Aflalo), London, 1913; The ...

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23 ANTIQUE GEMS from the Greek and Latin. Philadelphia

[1901-2]

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24 Burton (Sir Richard F.) ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled ...

n.d.

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25 ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. London

1923

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26 [James Beresford] ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS). Sixteen Scenes from the Miseries of Human Life [by James Beresford]. London

1807

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27 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) Barred Owl, 1828; Great horned-Owl, 1829; Shore Lark, n.d.; Solitary Sandpiper, 1835. London

1828-35

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28 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) Stanley Hawk, 1828; Whip-poor-will, 1830; Black Warrior, n.d.; Black Tern, 1835. London

1828-35

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29 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) Black Vulture, 1832; Turkey Buzzard, 1832; Wilson's Phalarope, 1835; Red-backed Sandpiper, 1835. London

1832-5

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30 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) Chuck will's widow, 1829; Red Phalarope, 1835; Ivory Gull, 1835; Brown, or Norway Rat, 1845. London and Philadelphia

1829-45

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31 AUSTEN (JANE) The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen. New York

1906

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32 AXE (J. WORTLEY) The Horse, its Treatment in Health and Disease. With a complete guide to Breeding, Training and ... London

1906

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33 Edited by Alfred E. T. Watson BADMINTON MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES (THE). Vols. 1-56. London

1895-1921

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34 BAILY'S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES. Vols. 1-116. London

1860-1921

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35 BALZAC (HONORE DE) La Comedie Humaine, now for the First Time Completely Translated into English. Philadelphia

[1900]

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36 [BANCROFT (HUBERT HOWE)] The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vols. I-XXII and Vols. XXIV-XXXIX. San Francisco

1883-90

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37 [BARHAM (ROBERT H.)] The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Myth and Marvel. London

1840-7

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38 BAXTER (RICHARD) The Saints Everlasting Rest: or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of ... London

1650

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39 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY) Under the Hill, 1904; Aubrey Beardsley (Symons), 1898; The Yellow Book, Vols. I-V, and XI, 6 vols ... London

v.d.

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40 BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) AND FLETCHER (JOHN) The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher; the text formed from a new collation of the Early Editions. London

1843-6

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41 BIBLE. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. Boston

n.d.

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42 BIBLE IN LATIN. Sacrae Scripturae et Divinarum Literarum Byblia Universa. Leipzig

1544

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43 BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the Curtis Publishing Company ( ...

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44 BIBLIOPHILIST'S LIBRARY (THE). Philadelphia

n.d.

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45 BIRCH (THOMAS) The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr. Houbraken, and Mr. Vertue. With ... London

1756

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46 Blair (Robert) [BLAKE (WILLIAM).] The Grave, A Poem. London

1808

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47 BLAKE (WILLIAM) Illustrations of the Book of Job. [London]

[1825]

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48 BLOME (RICHARD) Autograph Manuscript of The Art of Heraldry.

Circa 1684

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49 [BLOME (RICHARD) AND COX (NICHOLAS)] The Gentleman's Recreations: In Three Parts. London

1710

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50 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) The Decameron. London

n.d.

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51 BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) De consolatione philosophae. De disciplina scholarium. [With the commentary of Thomas Aquinas.] Venice

1489

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52 Lowndes (William T.) BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. London

1834

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53 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Ashley Library. London

1922-30

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54 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Library of Robert Hoe. New York

1903-9

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55 Smith (Harry B.) BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Sentimental Library. Privately Printed

1914

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56 [Thackeray (William M.)] BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Thackeray Library. New York

1919

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57 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Browne), Boston, 1905, one of 550 copies ...

USD - Unknown
58 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. American Book-Prices Current, 1927, N. Y., 1927; A Lecture on Bookbinding as a ...

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59 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Books and Bookmen (Lang), 1887; The Library (Lang),1887; A Handy-Book about Books ... London and Derby

v.d.

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60 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS etc. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books (Lewine), London ... V.p.

v.d.

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61 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens (Eckel), N. Y., 1932; Sir ... V.p.

v.d.

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62 BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Collection of Catalogues issued by these Galleries. New York

v.d.

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63 Johnson (Merle) BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. High Spots in American Literature, 1929; American First Editions, 1932. New York

1929-32

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64 BORROW (GEORGE) Two Autograph Manuscripts: The Gypsies, 1 p., 4to, 16 lines, with another version on the back, 16 ...

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65 BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and the Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. London

1885

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66 BOSWELL (JAMES) Private Papers from Malahide Castle. New York

1928-34

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67 BRANGWYN (FRANK) AND SPARROW (WALTER S.) A Book of Bridges. London

1916

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68 BRITISH HUNTS AND HUNTING: Containing a short History of each Fox and Stag Hunt in the British Isles ... London

1908-11

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69 BRITISH NOVELISTS (THE). London

1820

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70 BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN, Past & Present, illustrated with portraits, 2 vols., 1908; British ... London

1908-12

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71 BROWNE (JAMES) The History of Scotland: Its Highlands, Regiments, and Clans. Edinburgh

1909

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72 BUDGE (SIR E. A. WALLIS) The Gods of the Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology. London

1904

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73 BUNNER (H. C.) The Runaway Browns, illustrated by C. J. Taylor, 1892; The Suburban Sage, illustrated by H. C ... New York

1892-6

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74 BUNYAN (JOHN) The Pilgrims Progress from this world to that which is to come. London

1849

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75 BURNEY (FRANCES, MADAME D'ARBLAY) Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. London

1821

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76 BURNS (ROBERT) Invocation to Melpomene. To which is added, Winter. A Song and A Prologue to the Gentle Shepherd. Glasgow

[circa 1795]

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77 Wandell (Samuel H.) and Minnigerode (Meade) BURR (AARON). Aaron Burr: A Biography written, in large part, from original and hitherto unused ... New York

1925

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78 BURROUGHS (JOHN) The Writings of John Burroughs. Boston

1904-22

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79 BURTON (RICHARD F.) A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled, The Book of ... Benares

1885-8

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80 BYRNE (DONN) Messer Marco Polo. New York

1921

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81 BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) The Works of Lord Byron. London and Boston

n.d.

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82 CABELL (JAMES BRANCH) The Line of Love, illustrations in color by Howard Pyle, 1905; The High Place, illustrated by Frank ... New York

1905-24

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83 CALDECOTT (RANDOLPH) Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs. With a Preface by Austin Dobson, 1887; Complete Collection ... London

1887-8

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84 [CARLYLE (THOMAS)] Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: a Novel from the German of Goethe. Edinburgh

1824

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85 CARLYLE (THOMAS) Thomas Carlyle's Works, illustrations, 17 vols., 1885-95; Translations from the German, 3 vols ... London

1885-95

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86 CARROLL (LEWIS) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York

1866

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87 CARROLL (LEWIS) The Harp of a Thousand Strings, illustrated, N. Y. [1858]; The Hunting of the Snark, illustrated by ... New York and London

1858-93

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88 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) Don Quixote de la Mancha. London

1842

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89 CLARKE WOODCUTS. [London]

[circa 1840]

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90 [CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York

1885

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91 [CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)] A. L. s. in pencil, 1 p., 4to, Buffalo Express, August 14 [1869], to Elisha Bliss, Clemens ...

USD - Unknown
92 Sketchley (W.) COCKFIGHTING. The Cocker; containing Every Information to the Breeders and Amateurs of that noble ... London

1814

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93 COLE (TIMOTHY) Old Spanish Masters, with numerous proofs on Japan paper, each signed by the artist, N. Y., 1907 ...

USD - Unknown
94 COLOPHON (THE). A Book Collector's Quarterly. Parts I-XII. New York

[1930-2]

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95 Porter (Robert Ker) COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807 ... London

1809

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96 COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Historical Sketch of Moscow. London

1813

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97 Fielding (T. H.) COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. A Picturesque Description of the River Wye, from its Source to its Junction ... London

1841-6

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98 Pugin (Augustus) COLORED AQUATINT PLATES. Gothic Furniture, with 27 fine colored aquatint plates from designs by A ... London

[circa 1835-40]

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99 COOPER (JAMES FENIMORE) The History of the Navy of the United States of America. Philadelphia

1839

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100 COOPER (JAMES FENIMORE) The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper. New York

1883

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