SALE NUMBER 1544 ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1920 THE ANDERSON GALLERIES PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK 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. Magazines 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 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANY. FIFTH, AT TWO-THIRTY O'CLOCK FIRST SESSION LOTS 1-282 1. A'BECKETT (GILBERT A.). Quizziology of the British Drama. Engraved half-title by John Leech, and woodcuts throughout text. 16mo, original cloth, gilt edges. London, 1846 2. FIRST EDITION. The Comic History of England. With 20 colored etchings and 200 woodcuts by John Leech. 8vo, cloth (one hinge cracked), gilt edges. Published at the Punch Office, 1864 3. ABELL (FRANCIS). Prisoners of War in Britain. Oxford, 1914; Our Waterways (Forbes and Ashford), London, 1906; A Middy's Recollections (Montagu), London, 1898. Together 3 vols. 8vo and 12mo, cloth. 4. AELIANUS. De Natura Animalium, libri XVII. Cum animadversionibus Conradi Gesneri, Danielis W. Trilleri; curante Abraham Gronovio. 2 vols. 4to, calf (hinges weak and worn). 5. ÆSCHYLUS. Agamemnon. John S. Harford. Outline plates. back and sides, gilt top. With the bookplate of A. J. Cox. London, 1744 Translated from the Greek by 8vo, full brown morocco, gilt London: John Murray, 1831 6. AGASSIZ (LOUIS). His Life and Correspondence. Edited by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Illustrated with portraits. 2 volumes, 8vo. original cloth, gilt tops, uncut. Boston, 1886 7. ALDRICH (THOMAS BAILEY). Poems. 16mo, original cloth, gilt edges. Boston, 1865 FIRST ISSUE of this collected edition, with the omission of "been" on page 102. 8. The Poems. Illustrated. Boston, 1882; Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book. Boston, 1896. 2 vols. 8vo, parchment wrappers and boards. 9. Poems. Revised and complete. Portrait and illustrations. 12mo, cloth. Boston, n. d. Household Edition. With autograph of the author on fly-leaf. Inserted is the Sonnet "Andromeda" in the author's autograph, and signed. |