SALE NUMBER 1654 ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM MONDAY, APRIL SEVENTEENTH THE TYPOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY OF THE LATE ALEXANDER W. COLLINS OF PITTSBURGH, PA. TOGETHER WITH AN UNUSUAL COLLECTION OF TRIALS THE PROPERTY OF AN EMINENT NEW YORK JURIST AND A REMARKABLE GATHERING OF EARLY AND CURIOUS MEDICAL TRACTS WITH OTHER INTERESTING BOOKS FROM VARIOUS CONSIGNORS TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION THE ANDERSON GALLERIES PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK 1922 CONDITIONS OF SALE All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue. The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorporated, will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. TERMS CASH. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. Unsettled accounts are subject to interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECOND-HAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Maga. zines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, without recourse. Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for fifty cents for each session of the sale. SALE MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH, AT 2:30 FIRST SESSION q Unless otherwise described, all books are in original cloth binding and in good, second-hand condition. 1. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Letters addressed to John Sergeant, Manuel Eyre, Lawrence Lewis, Clement C. Biddle, and Joseph P. Norris, Authors of An Address to the People of Pennsylvania. Containing Strictures on their Address by The Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia. 8vo, half red morocco. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia: Printed by William Stavely, 1828 2. ADAMS (THOMAS F.). Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art, 1837; Typographia: or the Printer's Instructor, 1851; Another edition, 1858. 3 vols., 12mo, calf and cloth. Philadelphia, 1837-58 3. ALBEMARLE (DUKE OF). D. s., 1 p., 4to, July 21, 1668 (mutilated); Leach (J.) A. L. s., 4 pp., 12mo, June 20, 1847; Ashburton (Lord). A. N. s., 1 p., 12mo, n. d.; Thornton (Edward). A. L. s., 1 p., 8vo, July 9, 1875; and 22 others. Together 26 pieces. 3A. ALBUM. A collection of Colonial and Confederate Currency of different denominations, 83 pieces; and a variety of Civil War envelopes, about 50 pieces. 4to, half leather album. An interesting collection. 4. ALDIS (HARRY G.). A List of Books Printed in Scotland before 1700, including those printed furth of the Realm for Scottish Booksellers. 4to, boards, linen back. Edinburgh, 1904 Printed for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. 5. AMERICAN AUTHORS. Holmes (Mary J.). Signature and newspaper clippings; Horatio King, Samuel Blatchford, and others. Together 23 pieces. 6. AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Portraits and facsimile signatures. 6 vols., royal 8vo. New York, 1888 6A. AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Harte (Bret). Poems, Boston, 1871; Riverby (Burroughs), Boston, 1894; Among the Hills (Whittier), Boston, 1869; and others. 17 vols., 8vo and 12mo (four vols. worn). 7. AMERICAN PAMPHLETS. Hart (Oliver). America's Remembrancer. Phila., 1791; Morris (Commodore). A Defence of the Conduct of, During His Command in the Mediterranean. N. Y., 1804; and 7 others. Bound together in one vol., 8vo, boards, calf back (names on some of the titles, some pages foxed). V. p., 1791-1811 8. AMERICAN POLITICIANS. A miscellaneous collection of Autograph Letters, etc. 50 pieces. 9. AMERICAN PRINTING. Thomas (Isaiah). The History of Printing in America. Wtih a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. Plates and facsimiles. 2 vols., 8vo, calf (rubbed). Worcester, 1810 FIRST EDITION. With 2 portraits of Thomas inserted. 10. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. CHERRY VALLEY. Centennial Celebration of Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 4th, 1840. Addresses of W. W. Campbell and Gov. Seward. Historical Notes, biographical data, etc. 12mo, half roan. New York, 1840 Very scarce. 11. [ANDRE (JOHN).] The American Register; or, Summary Review of History, Politics and Literature. [Edited by Robert Walsh, Jr.] 2 vols., 8vo, boards, morocco backs, uncut. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817 Contains much information regarding Major André; The Conspiracy of Arnold and Sir Henry Clinton; The French in the Revolution; etc. 12. ART CATALOGUE. Catalogue of the Private Collections of Modern Paintings belonging to Jordan L. Mott and Edward Kearney. Illustrated. 4to, wrappers. New York, 1888 LARGE PAPER COPY. 13. Catalogue of Mr. Louis R. Ehrich's Collection of Paintings of the Old Dutch and Flemish Schools. Numerous plates. 4to, boards. New York, [1895] 14. LARGE PAPER COPY. Early English and Barbizon Paintings belonging to William H. Fuller. Plates. 4to, boards, uncut. New York, 1898 EDITION DE LUXE, one of 250 copies. 15. —— Illustrated Catalogue of Master Works of the Early English, Dutch, French and Flemish Schools, belonging to Eugene Fischhof and T. J. Blakeslee. Plates. 4to, boards, uncut. 16. LARGE PAPER COPY. One of 300 copies. New York, 1900 Catalogue of American Paintings belonging to William T. Evans. Numerous plates. 4to, boards, uncut. 17. New York, 1900 Illustrated Catalogue of the Blakeslee Collection of Valuable Paintings. Plates. 8vo, wrappers uncut. New York, 1902 |