New-York tribune., 1915-12-25
BOOKS AT AUCTION
Fine Bindings, First Editions
Scarce Items.

The years last auction sale Of books
at the Anderson Galleries will take
place on the afternoons Of next Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, Decem-
Der 27, 2s and 20, when the library of
the late William S. Mead, of Knoxville,
Tenn, will be dispersed. Among the
important items IN the catalogue may
be mentioned an extensive collection
Of first editions Of John Ruskin and a
number Of frst editions of Borrow,
among them the scarce "Targum; or
Metrical Translations from Thirty
Languages and Dialects" and "The
Talisman," from the Russian OF Push
kin, both published at st. Petersburg in
1885. There are, further, some note
worthy Caldecott items; a complete set
of Grove and Cavalcaselle; first editions
of Landor, Hazlitt. Philip Gilbert Ham
erton and James Russell Lowell, and
such desirable rarities as a copy OF
"Orvieto Cathedral" Rome: l79D, with
thirty-seven of the original thirty
eight engraved plates, and an extra-il-
lustrated copy of Mrs. Charles Heaton's
History Of the Life Of Albrecht Do
rer of Nurnberg," in which the regu-
lar illustrations have been replaced
with photo-process fac-simile plates.
The Anderson Auction Company will
open the new year on the afternoons OF
January 4 and 5 with a sale Of rare
editions, Americana and fine bindings
First place in this sale belongs prob
ably to a copy, in excellent condition
of the exceedingly rare first edition of
"Esquemelin" in Dutch Amsterdam
1879. The original subtitle of the
book states that il is "a pertinent &C
count of all the robberies and inhuman
cruelties which the English and French
pirates have committed against the
Spaniards in America"-s statement
that was toned down considerably OH
the title-page Of the English transla-
ton. A copy of the first edition Of this
translation London: 1880 is also Of
fered at this sale.
Fitzgerald collectors will be inter.
ested in fine, fresh copy of the almost
unknown "The Two Generals: Aemiliu:
Paullus and Sir Charles Napier" g
small quarto, eight pages, n. p, n. d..
privately printed after the poems had
been refused by "Macmillan's Maga
zine" Their date of composition 4:
placed between 1883 and 1889. This i;
apparently the first copy offered al
auction in many years.
A collection of eighty-two coloret
caricatures, by James Gillray, Is another
| item worth naming. There are also
in this sale remarkable collections o.
Kelmscott Press publications and Tudor
Translatons; a copy of Las Casas':
"Narratio" frankfort: 1899; and 6
curious eighteenth-century "MedalliC
/ History of Holland" covering the his.
toric events of the country from the
| fifteenth TO the eighteenth century, the
medals drawn by hand and text ir
manuscript.
The recent death Of Stephen Phil
| lips gives n new Importance 10 a mum
/ Der of first editions OF his works
among them a copy of the first edition
of his first book, privately printed IL
/ London in 1854, "Orestes, and Othel
POEMS" The note on this item in tn,
catalogue says: "The crude printing
Of this little volume suggests the worl
of an amateur. and this theory Is
strengthened by the unknown imprint
on the last page: Printed at the A. D
+ p. Press The verses contained here
none Of which appears in the edition Of
l Poems 1896, were written at the age
of 10, Is and 10, and display remark
able strength and sense Of rhythm"