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
1001		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Commonwealth of Women...	Edinburgh	1885-86	USD -	Unknown
1002	E. Goldsmid	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Complete Catalogue of all the Publications of the Elzevier Presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, with Notes, &c., by E. Goldsmid	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	4.40
1003		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. An Account of King Charles the Second's Escape...	Edinburgh	1883-84	USD -	Unknown
1004		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A King's Mistress....	Edinburgh	1887	USD -	1.00
1005		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A New Book of Old Ballads...	Edin.	1884-85	USD -	Unknown
1006	Xavier de Maistre	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room	Edinburgh	1886	USD -	Unknown
1007		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. Edward Webbe, His Trauailes, 1590...	Edinburgh	1885-86	USD -	1.05
1008		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. History of Reynard the Fox	Edinburgh	1884	USD -	1.40
1009		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. Norwegian Account of King Haco's Expedition...	Edinburgh	1884-85	USD -	Unknown
1010		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Apology of George Brisset...	Edinburgh	1884-85	USD -	Unknown
1011		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Famous History of Fryer Bacon...	Edinburgh	1886-87	USD -	Unknown
1012		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Political Songs of England...	Edinburgh	1884-85	USD -	Unknown
1013		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Pretty Gentleman...	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
1014		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Trial of Francis Ravaillac for the Murder of King Henry the Great	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
1015		BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. Trial of Francis Ravaillac for the Murder of King Henry...	Edinburgh	1885-7	USD -	1.80
1016		BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA. A Selection of the Most Valuable Books Relating to the Devil	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
1017	BIGELOW, JACOB	American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States	Bost.	1817-1820	USD -	12.75
1018	BIGELOW, JACOB, M.D.	American Medical Botany	Bost.	1818-79	USD -	2.50
1019		Bijou (THE); or, Annual of Literature and the Arts	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
1020	BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Notes on a Journey through France, from Dieppe through Paris and Lyons	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
1021	BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE	Obiter Dicta	N. Y.	1890	USD -	2.50
1022	BISHOP, MRS.	Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region, &c	Lond.	1891	USD -	1.20
1023	BISHOP, WM. H.	Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
1024	BLACKBURN, HENRY.	Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1025	BLACKBURN, HENRY	Travelling in Spain in the Present day	Lond.	1866	USD -	Unknown
1026	BLACKBURNE, E. O.	Illustrious Irishwomen. Being Memoirs of some of the most noted Irishwomen from earliest ages to the present time	Lond.	1877	USD -	2.25
1027		Black letter. Ballads and Broadsides. A Collection of Seventy-nine, printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1559-1597	Lond.	1870	USD -	1.30
1028	BLACKMORE, R. D.	Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor	Chicago (Lond.)	1883	USD -	2.50
1029	BLADES, WM.	HOW to Tell a Caxton, with some hints where and how the same might be found	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
1030	BLAQUIERRE, EDWARD	Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece, including facts connected with the last days of Lord Byron	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
1031		BLESSINGTON (COUNTESS OF). The Confessions of an Elderly Lady	Lond.	1838	USD -	1.35
1032		BLESSINGTON (COUNTESS OF). The Idler in Italy: a Journal of her Residence in the Italian States	Lond.	1839	USD -	3.30
1033	R. R. Madden	BLESSINGTON (COUNTESS OF). The Literary Life and Correspondence of	Lond.	1855	USD -	6.75
1034	BLOOMFIELD, ROBT.	Farmer's Boy, Eleventh Edition...	Lond.	1809-10	USD -	2.00
1035	BLUNT (LADY ANNE)	Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates	N. Y.	1879	USD -	Unknown
1036	BLUNT, WILFRID S.	In Vinculis	Lond.	1889	USD -	1.50
1037	BOHN, H. G.	A Hand-Book of Proverbs	Lond.	1855	USD -	1.40
1038	BOLDREWOOD, ROLF.	Robbery Under Arms...	Lond.	1890-1891	USD -	Unknown
1039		BOLD RE WOOD, ROLF, The Squatter's Dream, Lond. 1890...			USD -	1.13
1040	BOLLES, FRANK	At the North of Bearcamp Water	Bost.	1893	USD -	Unknown
1041	BOMBAUGH, C. C.	Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature	Baltimore	1870	USD -	Unknown
1042	BOMBAUGH, C. C.	The Literature of Kissing, Gleaned from History, Poetry, Fiction and Anecdote	Phil.	1876	USD -	Unknown
1043		BONAPARTE-PATTERSON MARRIAGE IN 1803, and the Secret Correspondence on the subject never before made public	Phil.	1873	USD -	1.12
1044	BONNER, JOHN	A Child's History of Greece...	N. Y.	1874-78	USD -	2.10
1045	BONOMI, Jos.	Nineveh and Its Palaces. Discoveries of Botta and Layard	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
1046	BONVALOT, GABRIEL	Across Thibet: being a Translation of De Paris au Tonking a Travers Le Tibet ln-connu.	N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.20
1047		BOOK OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. A Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms from best authors' works	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
1048	Edited by G. A. Bell and H. P. Main	BOOK OF PRAISE. For the Sunday School	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1049		BOOK OF PSALMS	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
1050	BORROW'S (G.)	Bible in Spain; or, Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures	Lond.	1843	USD -	6.30
1051	BORROW, G.	Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsey, The Priest	Lond.	1851	USD -	6.75
1052	BORROW, GEORGE	Romano Lavo-Lil: Wordbook of the Romany, or English Gypsy Language	Lond.	1874	USD -	2.00
1053	BORROW, G.	Romany Rye: a Sequel to Lavengro.	Lond.	1857	USD -	6.50
1054	BORROW, G.	Wild Wales: its People, Language and Scenery	Lond.	1862	USD -	20.25
1055	BORROW, G.	Word Book of the Romany, or English Gypsy Language	Lond.	1874	USD -	2.10
1056	BORROW, G.	Zincali: an Account of the Gypsies in Spain, with Collection of their Songs and Poetry and Copious Dictionary of their Language	Lond.	1841	USD -	4.50
1057	BOSGOED, D. MULDER	Bibliothecae Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. Catalogue de livres et d'ecrits sur l'his-toire naturelle des Poissons et des Cetaces, La Pisicul-ture, les peches, la legislation des peches, etc	Haarlem	1874	USD -	Unknown
1058		BOSWELL'S Life of Dr. Johnson, with their Tour to the Hebrides, greatly enlarged, with Notes by the Right Hon. J. Wilson Croker	Lond.	1831	USD -	22.50
1059	J. Wilson Croker	BOSWELL'S Life of Dr. Johnson, much improved by J. Wilson Croker	Lond.	1859	USD -	23.00
1060	Edited by Birkbeck Hill	BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales	Oxford	1887	USD -	6.90
1061	BOURKE, JOHN G.	On the Border with Crook	N. Y.	1891	USD -	1.75
1062	BOWDITCH, N. I.	Suffolk Surnames	Lond.	1861	USD -	1.00
1063		BOYDELL'S Shakespeare Gallery	Lond.	1803	USD -	82.00
1064	BOYLE, FREDERICK	Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo	Lond.	1865	USD -	1.25
1065	BOYLE, FREDERICK	Chronicles of No-Man's Land: a Third Series of Camp Notes	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
1066	BOYLE, F.	OU the Borderland Betwixt the Realms of Fact and Fancy	Lond.	1884	USD -	1.25
1067	BRACKENRIDGE, H. H.	Modern Chivalry, containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Reagan, his Servant	Richmond, Virginia	1803-7	USD -	3.00
1068	BRADLAUGH, C, AND BESANT, ANNIE	Fruits of Philosophy: an Essay on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton, M.P	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1069	BRADLEY, EDWARD	College Life: a Series of Original Etchings	Oxford	n. d.	USD -	1.25
1070	BRADY, JAS. T.	A Christmas Dream	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
1071	BRAITHWAITE, R.	Barnabee Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal	Lond.	1820	USD -	4.25
1072	BRANDRETH, THOS. S.	Homeri Ilias cum Notis Apud	Londini	1841	USD -	Unknown
1073	BRASSEY, SIR THOMAS	The British Navy (and) British Seaman	Lond.	1882-83	USD -	3.75
1074	BRASSEY (LADY)	The Last Voyage, 1887	Lond.	1889	USD -	1.62
1075	BRATHWAYTE, RICHARD	Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, in Latin and English Metre; together with Bessy Bell; to which is added, Chevy Chase	Lond.	1822	USD -	1.50
1076	BREWSTER, SIR DAVID	The Martys of Science; or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler	Lond.	1870	USD -	1.50
1077	BRIDGES, ROBERT	Promethevs: The Fire Giver	n. p.		USD -	11.50
1078	BRIFFAULT, F. T.	Prisoner (The) of Ham: Authentic Details of the Captivity and Escape of Prince Napoleon Louis	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
1079	BRIGHTWELL, CECILIA LUCY	Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. Selected and arranged from her Letters, Diaries, and other Manuscripts	Norwich	1854	USD -	Unknown
1080	BRINLEY, FRANCIS	Life of Wm. T. Porter, Editor of Porter's Spirit	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
1081		BRITISH POETS. Pickering's Beautiful Aldine Edition, Complete. With Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, J. Mitford, A. Dyce, and others	Lond.	1839, &c.	USD -	111.30
1082	Augustine Birrell	BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. Life of, by Augustine Birrell	Lond.	1887	USD -	Unknown
1083	BROUGHAM, HENRY, LORD	Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III...	Lond.	1839-45	USD -	22.50
1084	BROUGHAM, JOHN	Humorous Stories	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
1085	BROUGHAM, JOHN	Humorous Stories	N. Y.	1860	USD -	1.00
1086	BROWN, JOHN	Bibliomania.	Bost.	1866	USD -	1.20
1087	BROWN, DR. JOHN	Horae Subsecivae, new edition...	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	7.13
1088	BROWN, JOHN, M.D.	John Leech, and other Papers	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
1089	BROWN, JOHN	Rab and his Friends	N. Y.	1875	USD -	Unknown
1090	BROWN, SAML. G.	The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of his Life	Bost.	1862	USD -	5.00
1091	BROWN, SAML. G.	The Works of Ruf us Choate, with a Memoir of his Life	Bost.	1862	USD -	4.75
1092	BROWNE, CHAS. F.	BROWNE, CHAS. F. The Complete Works of	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.50
1093	BROWNE, H. K.	Illustrations of the five senses, by Phiz' (colored)	Lond.	1852	USD -	3.50
1094	BROWNE, IRVING	Iconoclasm and White-Wash, and other Papers	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
1095	BROWNE (SIR THOS.)	Works, including his Life and Correspondence	Lond.	1836	USD -	16.50
1096	BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT	BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Poetical Works	Lond.	1866	USD -	7.50
1097	BROWNING, ROBERT	Aristophanes' Apology, including A transcript from Euripides, being the Last Adventure of Balaustion	Lond.	1875	USD -	1.00
1098	BROWNING, ROBT.	Balaustion's Adventure	Lond.	1881	USD -	Unknown
1099	BROWNING, ROBT.	Dramatic Idyls	Lond.	1879	USD -	1.75
1100	BROWNING, ROBT.	Dramatic Idyls	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.25

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Rare Books Signature Auction
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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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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