WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23, LOTS 1-334
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, LOTS 335-667

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES [MITCHELL KENNERLEY, PRESIDENT] 489 PARK AVENUE, 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.

SELECTIONS

from the

PURCHASES AND STOCK

OF THE LATE

GEORGE D. SMITH

[PART FOUR]

SALE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23D

AT TWO-THIRTY O'CLOCK

FIRST SESSION

LOTS 1-334

1. A'BECKETT (G. A.). The Comic Blackstone. New illustrated edition. Illustrations in Colour and otherwise by Harry Furniss. 9 parts, 8vo, original wrappers, uncut (backs slightly torn).

London, 1886-1887

2. ADAM (LUCIEN). Examen Grammatical Comparé de Seize Langues Américaines. 8vo, boards, original wrappers bound in. Paris, 1878

3. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis on the Present State of our National Affairs, etc. 8vo, half levant morocco, gilt top.

Boston, 1808

4. ALMANAC. Le Petit Almanach de nos Grands Hommes. Nouvelle Edition, Revue, Corrigée et augmentée. Année 1788. Small 8vo, old red morocco, gilt top, uncut, with arms of Le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand on sides.

5.

With bookplate of Le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand.

N. p., 1788

An Astronomical Diary; or, An Almanack for 1760. By Roger Sherman. 24 pp. 12mo, half morocco (some leaves worn and stained, particularly on the very wide margins).

Boston, 1760

Very scarce. Contains an account of the reduction of the City of Quebeck by the forces under the command of Major-General Wolfe.

6. Hutchins Improved: Almanacks for 1786, 1788, 1789, 1790 and 1793. 5 vols. 12mo, sewn (some numbers damaged). Scarce. New York: Hugh Gaine, [1785-1792]

7. ALEXANDER (JAMES EDWARD). An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa, etc. Map and illustrations. 2 vols. 12mo, half morocco, gilt tops. London: Colburn, 1838

8. ALEXANDER (WILLIAM). Poetical Works. With a memoir and notes. 3 vols., original cloth, uncut. Glasgow, 1870-72

9. AMERICAN BINDING. Treatise on Martial Law and Courts-Martial as Practised in the United States of America. Published by order of the U. S. Military Philosophical Society by Major Alexander Macomb. 8vo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, yellow edges.

Charleston, S. C.: Printed and Published for the Author, 1809 Inscribed in gold on the side: "Secretary of the Navy. From the Author, Major Macomb." An interesting specimen of American binding.

10. AMERICAN PRIVATEERS. Kapergrausamkeit gegen die Neutralen. Zwey sehr merkwurdige Ereignisse aus der neuesten Geschichte der Kaperey, betreffend das Nord-Amerikanische Schiff, Enterprise und Triton von Bremen. 12mo, half roan, original wrappers bound in, uncut.

Rare.

11. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). Infra. Reproductions in color and otherwise.

uncut.

N. p., 1801

Sextodecimos et 8vo, paper covers, New York, 1899

One of 12 copies printed on Imperial Japan Paper. With the E. D. Church bookplate.

12. ANGLING. Essay on the Right of Angling in the River Thames, and in all other public Navigable Rivers. 8vo, half levant morocco, gilt top. Reading: Smart & Cowslade, n. d.

A scarce little work on angling laws. Bound with a copy of Goldsmith's Deserted Village. 1784.

13. APULEIUS. The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works. Translated from the original Latin by Thomas Taylor. 8vo, original cloth, uncut (binding shaken).

London, 1822

SCARCE. Contains "Suppressed Passages" at the end of the volume. 14. ARNOLD (SAMUEL GREENE). History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Maps, etc. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf, antique style (rubbed). New York, 1874

On the fly-leaf is the inscription: "W. B. Greene, Jr., from Aunt Louisa, Sept. 2d, 1880." Laid in is an A. L. s. of Louisa G. Arnold to W. B. Greene, Jr., 3 pps., dated Aug. 13th, 1880. 15. ARTISTS. A Century of Artists. A Memorial of the Loan Collection of Painting and Sculpture at the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888. With Historical and Biographical Notes by William E. Henley and Descriptions of the Pictures by Robert Walker. Folio, new half light brown levant gilt, gilt top, uncut. Glasgow, 1889

A magnificent Art Catalogue limited to 215 copies with the full page plates on Japan Paper. In the exhibition were works by Alma Tadema, Bastien Lepage, Boehm, the Sculptor, Rosa Bonheur, Bonington, Rodin, Rossetti, Rousseau, and many others. Inserted is an interesting two page autograph letter from W. E. Henley and another from William Hole the etcher.