To The Anderson Auction Company, 12 East 46th Street, New York. Please buy for me at your Auction Sale No... ..on. 190....... the following lots at not exceeding the prices named, which are so much per Lot. The Payment of $3.00 will assure the mailing of all our catalogues for one year. Make your bid on this sheet for one sale only, with full name and address. All goods 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 article may be returned, but notice of such defects must be given promptly upon receipt of the goods, which must be returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exception will be made to this rule. Terms Cash. References or cash deposit required with orders from strangers. POOR'S BOOKS SELL HIGH, 19/08 H. W. POOR LIBRARY SALE. Total of $200,000 for Library Expected Total Receipts Realized for Part I. Were $46,897. John Drew, intent on buying a collection of letters and memoranda made by Augustin Daly in regard to the conception and foundation of the Players' Club, went to the sale of Henry W. Poor's library at Anderson's yesterday, but arrived after the item had been knocked down to George D. Smith for $180. Daly made the collection to prove that he, and not Edwin Booth, deserved the credit for the idea of the Players' Club. It is said that the item was bought for the club. The session of yesterday brought to an end Part I. of the library. The total for he day was $10,249. The total for the three days is $46,897. The highest figure of the day was $490, fetched by two items, one of which was a copy of the extremely rare "History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians," by Samuel Penhallow, published in 1726. This is a record price. A first edition of "The Downfall of Robert Earle of Huntington, Afterward Called Robin Hood of Merrie Sherwodde," by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, quarto, London, fetched $152. This is the McKee copy. Only three copies of this rare play have been sold at auction in the last eighteen years, Pierre De Nolhac's "Louis XV. et Marie Leczinska," one of the Goupil series of historical monographs, and a remarkable example of modern bookbinding, sold for $190. Robert Southey's annotated and corrected copy of "The Famous History of the Valiant Prince Palmerin of England," used by the poet in making his English edition, published in 1807, fetched $127. Other rareties sold as follows: "Marius, the Epicurean: His Sensatlons and Ideas," by Walter Pater, two volumes, 8vo, the Club Bindery, Portland, Me., 1900, $170. Pliny's Natural History, folio, Venice, 1472, considered to be the grandest book prinied by Nicolaus Jenson, $300, -Yesterday's Receipts $36,588. The second day's sale of the Henry W. Poor library at Anderson's yesterday realized $18,200, making the total so far $36,588. It is now believed that the grand total will be more than $200,000, or more than $50,000 over the famous Thomas J. McKee library sale. There was another large attendance have been executed in Paris at the be- For an editio princeps of the famous 'Imitation of Christ," by Thomas Kempis, folio, Augsburg, circa 1471, in binding by Riviere, $960 was paid by Mr. Morris. "A Roman Missal," manuscript on vel- Among the other rarities of the day's John Milton's "Paradise Lost," the first edition, with the fourth title page, London, 1668, $410. The Passion, a series of 15 plates engraved on copper by Albert Durer, 4to, 1508-12, $300. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward Fitz Gerald, the rare first edition, original wrappers, $330. Portraits, playbills, and obituaries of Edwin Forrest, collected and arranged for Augustin Daly by Augustus Toedteberg, in two volumes, binding by Stikeman, $425. |