Bangs: Catalogue of Large and Valuable Library of L. D. Alexander, Esq. Part the First. To Be Sold At Auction, Monday and Five Following Days, March, 25-30, 1895 By Bangs & Co. 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue, New York, 25Mar1895,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 25, 1895 - March 25, 1895

Page Size: 2396 items in 24 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
901		ART. Suite D'Estampes Dessinees par Lancret, Pater, Eisen, Boucher, Vleughels, etc	Paris	1883	USD -	10.40
902	ARTHUR, WM.	An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names	N. Y.	1857	USD -	1.00
903		A SHORT AMERICAN TRAMP IN THE FALL OF 1864. By the Editor of Life in Normandy.	Edinburgh	1865	USD -	Unknown
904	ASHTON, JOHN	English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I	N. Y.	1884	USD -	3.25
905	ASHTON, JOHN	Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, 84 illustrations	Lond.	1882	USD -	2.50
906	ATHENAEUS	The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athensaeus	Lond.	1853	USD -	1.65
907	ATKINSON, THOS. W.	Oriental and Western Siberia. A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, &c	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.25
908	ATKINSON, THOS. W.	Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China	Lond.	1860	USD -	1.50
909	ATLANTIC TALES	A Collection of Stories from the Atlantic Monthly	Bost.	1867	USD -	Unknown
910		ATLAS. General Compose de Trente Sept Cartes coloriees et gravees sur cuivre	Gotha	1886	USD -	Unknown
911	AUSTEN'S (JANE)	AUSTEN'S (JANE) Works	Lond.	1882	USD -	12.75
912		AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an English Soldier in the United States Army	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
913	AYRES, J. A.	The Legends of Montauk, Long Island, with An Historical Appendix	Hartford	1849	USD -	12.50
914	AYTOUN, WM. E. (Editor)	Ballads of Scotland	Edinburgh	1858	USD -	500.00
915	AYTOUN, WM. E.	Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems	Edinburgh	1863	USD -	2.50
916	BACON'S (FRANCIS)	BACON'S (FRANCIS) Works	Cambridge	1863	USD -	31.50
917	BACON, FRYER ROGER	The Mirror of Alchymy; also a most excellent and learned discourse of the admirable force and Efficacy of Art and Nature	Lond.	1597	USD -	2.60
918	BADEN-POWELL, GEO. S.	New Homes for the Old Country; Experience of Political and Domestic Life, Natural History, &c, of Australia and New Zealand	Lond.	1872	USD -	Unknown
919	BADHAM, CHAS. D.	A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England	Lond.	1863	USD -	1.00
920	BAILEY, P. J.	Festus: a Poem	Bost.	1853	USD -	1.10
921	BAILEY, P. J.	Festus: a Poem	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
922	BAIN, ALEXANDER	Minor Works of George Grote	Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
923	BAKER, SIR S. W.	Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources	Lond.	1866	USD -	2.20
924	BAKER, SIR S. W.	Eight Years in Ceylon	Lond.	1874	USD -	Unknown
925	BAKER, SIR S. W.	Ismaili'a: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa	Lond.	1874	USD -	2.50
926	BAKER, SIR S. W.	Nile (The) Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs	Rondout	1867	USD -	Unknown
927	BALDWIN, JOSEPH G.	Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi	N. Y.	1854	USD -	1.13
928	BALDWIN, JOS. G.	The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
929	BALDWIN, THOMAS	Narrative of the Massacre, by the Savages, of the wife and children of Thos. Baldwin	N. Y.	1835	USD -	2.50
930	BALE, JOHN.	BALE, JOHN. The Apology of	Lond.	1550	USD -	10.50
931	BALLANTINE, SERJEANT	Some Experiences of a Barrister's Life	Lond.	1882	USD -	2.50
932	BALTIMORE (LORD)	A Tour to the East, 1763-1764	Lond.	1767	USD -	1.25
933	BANCROFT, EDWARD	An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana in South America	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
934	BARBOU, ALFRED	Le Chien, son Histoire, ses Exploits, ses Aventures	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
935	BARCLAY, J. T.	City of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as It Was, Is, and Is to Be	Phil.	1857	USD -	Unknown
936	BARDSLEY, CHAS. W.	Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature	N. Y.	1880	USD -	Unknown
937	BARDSLEY, CHAS. W.	Our English Surnames: Their Source and Significations	Lond.	1873	USD -	3.50
938	BARHAM, THOS. H.	Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire	Lond.	1855	USD -	10.12
939	BARING-GOULD, S.	Book of Were-Wolves. Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition	Lond.	1865	USD -	2.50
940	BARING-GOULD, S.	Curiosities of Olden Times	Lond.	1869	USD -	1.00
941	BARING-GOULD, S.	Curious Myths of the Middle Ages	Phil. (Lond.)	1869	USD -	1.10
942	BARING-GOULD, S.	Ireland: Its Scenes and Sagas	Lond.	1863	USD -	9.00
943	BARING-GOULD, REV. S.	Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets, and other Old Testament Characters	Lond.	1871	USD -	1.88
944	BARING-GOULD, S.	Strange Survivals. Some Chapters in the History of Man	Lond.	1892	USD -	1.40
945	BARING-GOULD, S.	The Tragedy of the Caesars. A Study of the Characters of the Caesars of the Julian and Claudian Houses	Lond.	1892	USD -	4.25
946	BARING-GOULD, S.	Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events	Lond.	1874	USD -	2.00
947	BERNERS, DAME JULIANA	An Older Form of the Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
948	BARNUM, P. T.	The Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles of the World. The Story of their Capture	Chicago and N. Y.	1888	USD -	1.30
949		BARONIAL HALLS OF ENGLAND, and Ancient Picturesque Edifices, with Descriptions by S. C. Hall	Lond.	1858	USD -	25.00
950	BARRIE, J. M.	Auld Licht Idylls	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
951	BARRIE, J. M.	A Window at Thrums	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
952	BARRIE, J. M.	My Lady Nicotine	Lond.	1890	USD -	1.40
953	BARRIE, J. M.	The Little Minister	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
954	BARRIE, J. M.	When a Man's Single. A Tale of Literary Life	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
955	BARRINGTON, GEORGE.	An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales. With Life of the Author, &c	Lond.	1803	USD -	Unknown
956	BARRINGTON, SIR JONAH	Personal Sketches of His Own Times	Lond.	1871	USD -	2.40
957	BARTLETT, GEO. B.	The Concord Guide Book	Bost.	1880	USD -	Unknown
958	BARTLETT, JOHN	Familiar Quotations. Passages and Phrases in Common Use	Bost.	1868	USD -	Unknown
959	BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL	Dictionary of Americanisms: a Glossary of Words and Phrases Peculiar to the U. S	Bost.	1859	USD -	Unknown
960	BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL	Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua	N. Y.	1854	USD -	5.50
961	BARTLETT (W. H.)	Illustrated Works, viz.: Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apostles...	Lond.	1851-55	USD -	21.00
962	BARTOLI, PIETRO SANTI	Le Antiche Lucerne Sepolcrali Figurate Racolte dalle Cano Sotterranee, e Grotte di Roma, Nelle quali si	In Roma	1729	USD -	2.37
963	BARTON, PROF.	A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty which has been Ascribed to Various Species of Serpents	Phil.	1814	USD -	1.00
964	BARTON, WM. P. C.	Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or, Medical Botany	Phil.	1825	USD -	3.00
965	BASTIAT, FREDERIC	Economic Sophisms	Edinburgh and Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
966	BAUER, KAROLINE	BAUER, KAROLINE. Memoirs. From the German	Lond.	1885	USD -	2.60
967		BAUMBACH'S Sacred Quartetts: Words and Music	Bost.	1862	USD -	Unknown
968	BAYLE, Mr.	Miscellaneous Reflections, occasioned by the Comet which appeared in Dec, 1680	Lond.	1708	USD -	1.50
969	BEATTY-KINGSTON, W.	A Journalist's Jottings	Lond.	1890	USD -	2.50
970	BEATTY-KINGSTON, W.	A Wanderer's Notes	Lond.	1888	USD -	1.75
971	BEATTY-KINGSTON, W.	Monarchs I have Met	Lond.	1887	USD -	1.00
972	BEARD, GEO. M.	American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
973		BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER'S Works	Lond.	1843-6	USD -	36.85
974	BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER	The Account of the Lives and Writings of Beaumont and Fletcher, and Addenda and Corrigenda are to be placed immediately after the title-page of Vol. 1	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	1.25
975	BECKER, PROF.	GALLUS; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus...	Lond.	1866	USD -	7.50
976	T. D. Bonner	BECKWOURTH'S (JAS. P.). Life and Adventures. Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians	N. Y.	1858	USD -	1.50
977	BEDDOE, THOS. LOVELL	BEDDOE, THOS. LOVELL. Poetical Works	Lond.	1890	USD -	2.50
978	BEDE, CUTHBERT	Glencreggan; or, A Highland in Cantire	Lond.	1861	USD -	4.00
979		BEE (THE) AND THE WASP	Lond.	1861	USD -	1.00
980	BEECHER, H. W.	Lectures to Young Men	N. Y.	1873	USD -	Unknown
981	BEECHER, LYMAN	Remedy for Duelling. A Sermon Preached at Aquebogue, L. I., Apl. 16th, 1806	N. Y.	1809	USD -	1.10
982		BEETON'S Great Book of Poetry, from Caedmon and King Alfred's Boetheus to Browning and Tennyson	Lond.	1871	USD -	5.50
983	BELCHER, JOSEPH	Historical Sketches of Hymns: their Writers, and their Influence	Albany	1865	USD -	Unknown
984	BELTON, JOHN DEVOE	A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
985	BELZONI, G.	Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia	Lond.	1822	USD -	5.00
986	BENGER, Miss	Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, with Anecdotes of the Court of Henry II	Lond.	1823	USD -	3.50
987	BENJAMIN, S. G. W.	Persia and the Persians	Bost.	n. d.	USD -	1.75
988	BENTON, JOEL	Emerson as a Poet	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
989	BERKELEY, G. F.	Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand, their Legends and their Lives	Lond.	1867	USD -	3.80
990	BERKELEY, HON. G. F.	My Life and Recollections	Lond.	1865	USD -	1.10
991	BERKELEY, REV. J. M.	Hand-book of British Mosses, comprising all that are known to be Natives of the British Isles	Lond.	1863	USD -	1.50
992	BERKELEY, REV. J. M.	Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany	Lond.	1857	USD -	1.55
993	BERKELEY, REV. J. M.	Outlines of British Fungology	Lond.	1860	USD -	3.50
994	BERNARD, BAYLE	Life of Samuel Lover	Lond.	1874	USD -	7.00
995	BESANT, WALTER	Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
996	Rev. A. R. Van Nest, D.D.	BETHUNE, REV. G. W. Memoir	N. Y.	1867	USD -	2.38
997	BEWICK	BEWICK. Life and Works of Thomas Bewick	Lond.	1882	USD -	3.75
998	Thos. and J. Bewick	BEWICK'S Select Fables, with Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thos. and J. Bewick	Newcastle	1820	USD -	5.50
999		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Ballad Book...	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
1000		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Bibliographical Sketch of the Aldine Press at Venice: a Catalogue of all the Works by Aldus and his successors	Edinburgh	1887	USD -	3.60

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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