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
1101 BROWNING, ROBT. Fifine at the Fair Lond.

1872

 USD - 1.10
1102 BROWNING, ROBT. Jocoseria Lond.

1883

 USD - 1.20
1103 BROWNING, ROBT. Jocoseria Bost.

1883

 USD - Unknown
1104 BROWNING, ROBT. La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisia Lond.

1878

 USD - Unknown
1105 Mrs. Sutherland Orr BROWNING. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Lond.

1891

 USD - Unknown
1106 E. Berdoe BROWNING'S Message to His Time N. Y.

1891

 USD - Unknown
1107 BROWNING, ROBT. Pacchiarotto, and How he Worked in Distemper, with Other Poems Lond.

1876

 USD - 1.10
1108 BROWNING, ROBT. Parleyings with Certain People Lond.

1887

 USD - 1.10
1109 BROWNING, ROBT. BROWNING, ROBT. Poetical Works Lond.

1868

 USD - 13.20
1110 BROWNING, ROBT. BROWNING, ROBT. Poetical Works Lond.

1883

 USD - 6.60
1111 BROWNING, ROBT. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society Lond.

1871

 USD - 1.00
1112 BROWNING, ROBT. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers Lond.

1873

 USD - 1.75
1113 BROWNING, ROBT. Selections from his Poetry N. Y.

1883

 USD - 1.13
1114 BROWNING, ROBT. The Agamemnon of AEschylus Lond.

1877

 USD - 1.40
1115 BROWNING, ROBT. The Inn Album Lond.

1875

 USD - 6.00
1116 BROWNING, ROBT. The Ring and The Book Lond.

1872

 USD - 1.20
1117 BRUGSCH-BEY, HENRY History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs. Derived entirely from the Monuments Lond.

1879

 USD - 4.50
1118 BRUNEL, ISAMBARD Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunei, Civil Engineer Lond.

1870

 USD - Unknown
1119 BRYANT, WM. C. A Library of Poetry and Song. Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets N. Y.

1871

 USD - 3.60
1120 BRYANT, WM. C. Hymns n. p.

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
1121 BRYANT, WM. C. The Iliad of Homer Bost.

1870

 USD - 5.00
1122 BRYANT, WM. C. Poems Cambridge

1821

 USD - 6.75
1123 BRYANT, WM. C. BRYANT, WM. C. Poetical Works N. Y.

1883

 USD - 3.00
1124 BRYANT WM. C. The Fountain, and Other Poems N. Y.

1842

 USD - 2.50
1125 BRYDGES, SIR E. Imaginative Biography Lond.

1834

 USD - 3.25
1126 BRYDGES, SIR E. Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron Lond.

1824

 USD - Unknown
1127 BRYDGES, SIR E. Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived Lond.

1814

 USD - 10.50
1128 His Brother-in-law, Geo. C. Bompas BUCKLAND'S (FRANK) Life Lond.

1885

 USD - Unknown
1129 BUCKLE, HENRY THOS. Exhibition of Female Flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World Lond.

1777

 USD - 26.25
1130 BUCKLE'S (HENRY THOS.) Works: History of Civilization in England... Lond.

v. y.

 USD - 45.50
1131 BULFINCH, THOS. Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers Bost.

1866

 USD - Unknown
1132 BULLEN, A. H. (Editor) More Lyrics from the Song books of the Elizabethan Age Lond.

1888

 USD - 4.25
1133 BUNNER, H. C. Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere N. Y.

1884

 USD - Unknown
1134 BUNSEN, C. C. J., BARON God in History. Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World Lond.

1868

 USD - 7.80
1135 BUNYAN, JOHN A True Relation of the Holy War, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 1.00
1136 BUNYAN, JOHN Pilgrim's Progress Lond.

1875

 USD - 1.12
1137 BUNYAN, JOHN The Pilgrim's Progress Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 1.30
1138 BUNYAN, JOHN Profitable Meditations: a Poem, written whilst confined in Bedford Jail Lond.

Reprint, 1860

 USD - Unknown
1139 BURKE (EDMUND) BURKE'S (EDMUND) Works, complete Lond.

1815

 USD - 26.40
1140 BURNABY, CAPT. FRED. On Horseback Through Asia Minor Lond.

1877

 USD - 3.60
1141 BURNAND, F. C. Quite at Home... Lond.

1890

 USD - 1.20
1142 James Currie and Gilbert Burns BURNS' (ROBERT) Poetical Works, complete, with Glossary, Notes and Life by James Currie and Gilbert Burns Lond.

1817-20

 USD - 36.25
1143 BURNS (ROBERT) BURNS' (ROBERT) Poetical and Prose Works Edinburgh

1877-79

 USD - 7.50
1144 Wm. Jolly BURNS, ROBERT. At Mossgiel: with Reminiscences of the Poet by His Herd-Boy Paisley

1881

 USD - 1.25
1145 BURNS, ROBT. Auld Lang Syne; Illustrated Songs, and The Soldier's Return n. p.

1857-61

 USD - 3.00
1146 BURNS, ROBT. A Winter with Robert Burns: being Annals of his Patrons and Associates in Edinburgh during the year 1786-87 Edinburgh

1846

 USD - 1.00
1147 BURNS, ROBT. Correspondence between Burns and Clarinda. With a Memoir of Mrs. McLehose (Cla-rinda) Edinburgh

1843

 USD - Unknown
1148 BURNS, ROBT. Kilmarnock Editions of the Poems... Kilmarnock

1869

 USD - 6.40
1149 BURNS, ROBT. Letters Lond.

1819

 USD - 1.50
1150 BURNS, ROBT. Reliques. Consisting chiefly of Original Letters, Poems and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs Lond.

1817

 USD - Unknown
1151 BURNS, ROBT. Selected Poems Lond.

1891

 USD - 3.25
1152 BURNS, ROBT. The Burns Calendar: a Manual of Burnsiana. A Concise Bibliography and Record of Burns' Relics Kilmarnock

1874

 USD - Unknown
1153 BURRITT, ELIHU A Walk from London to John O'Groat's, with notes by the way Lond.

1864

 USD - Unknown
1154 BURROUGHS, JOHN Birds and Poets, with other Papers N. Y.

1878

 USD - Unknown
1155 BURROUGHS, JOHN Fresh Fields Edinburgh

1885

 USD - Unknown
1156 BURROUGHS, John Locusts and Wild Honey Bost.

1879

 USD - 1.00
1157 BURROUGHS, JOHN Wake-Robin. (Riverside Aldine Series.) Bost.

1885

 USD - Unknown
1158 BURROUGHS, JOHN Winter Sunshine N. Y.

1877

 USD - Unknown
1159 BURROUGHS, JOHN, Pepacton, Lond. 1881...

USD - Unknown
1160 BURTON, ISABEL A. E. I. Arabia, Egypt, India: a Narrative of Travel Lond.

1879

 USD - Unknown
1161 BURTON, ISABEL The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine and the Holy Land Lond.

1875

 USD - 1.00
1162 BURTON, ISABEL The Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton N. Y. (Lond.)

1893

 USD - 3.80
1163 BURTON (LADY) Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights Lond.

1886

 USD - 10.50
1164 BURTON, JOHN HILL History of Scotland, from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688 Lond.

1867

 USD - 12.60
1165 BURTON, JOHN HILL The Book-Hunter, &c Edin.

1863

 USD - 1.63
1166 BURTON, JOHN HILL The Book-Hunter N. Y.

1863

 USD - 1.25
1167 BURTON, JOHN HILL The Book-Hunter, &c Edinburgh and Lond.

1882

 USD - 6.25
1168 BURTON, RICHARD F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El. Medinah and Meccah Lond.

1855

 USD - 14.25
1169 BURTON, RICHD. F. Utima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland Lond.

1875

 USD - 1.50
1170 Democritus, Junior BURTON, ROBT. Anatomy of Melancholy: what it is, the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, &c Bost.

1861

 USD - 4.12
1171 Democritus, Junior (BURTON, ROBT.) Anatomy of Melancholy: what it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, &c Cambridge

1861

 USD - 13.05
1172 BUTLER, SAM'L Hudibras Chiswick

1818

 USD - Unknown
1173 BUTLER'S Hudibras Lond.

1819

 USD - 9.00
1174 BUTLER (SAMUEL) Hudibras Lond.

1835

 USD - 3.50
1175 BUTLER, WM. A. Nothing to Wear: an Episode of City Life N. Y.

1857

 USD - Unknown
1176 BYRNE, MRS. WM. PITT. Curiosities of the Search Room: a Collection of Serious and Whimsical Wills Lond.

1880

 USD - Unknown
1177 BYRON (LORD) Don Juan Paris

1819

 USD - 1.50
1178 Emilio Castelar BYRON'S (LORD) Life, and other Sketches, by Emilio Castelar Lond.

1875

 USD - Unknown
1179 BYRON, The Home and Grave of Byron...

USD - Unknown
1180 CABLE, GEORGE W. Old Creole Days N. Y.

1879

 USD - Unknown
1181 CABLE, GEO. W. The Creoles of Louisiana N. Y.

1844

 USD - Unknown
1182 CABLE, GEO. W. The Creoles of Louisiana N. Y.

1889

 USD - Unknown
1183 CABLE, GEO. W. The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life N. Y.

1880

 USD - Unknown
1184 CAGLIOSTRO (COUNT). Life of. Dedicated to Madame La Comtesse de Cagliostro Lond.

1787

 USD - 1.88
1185 CALCOTT (LADY). Little Arthur's History of England... v. p.

v. y.

 USD - 1.25
1186 CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH More, and Last Lond.

1887-1888

 USD - 1.00
1187 CAMPAN, JEANNE L. H. The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre Lond.

1883

 USD - 6.00
1188 CAMPBELL, DONALD A Treatise on the Language, Poetry and Music of the Highland Clans Edinburgh

1862

 USD - 1.75
1189 CAMPBELL'S (THOS.) CAMPBELL'S (THOS.) Poetical Works Lond.

1837

 USD - 28.00
1190 CAMPBELL, THOS. CAMPBELL, THOS. Poetical Works Phil.

1867

 USD - 1.50
1191 CAMPBELL, COL. WALTER My Indian Journal Edinburgh

1864

 USD - 1.75
1192 Aquarius CARDS. Advanced Whist, Easy Whist, The Hands at Whist Lond.

1889

 USD - Unknown
1193 CARDS. Backgammon: Its History and Practice, by the Author of Whist. Lond.

1844

 USD - Unknown
1194 Blyth, Lieut.-Col. CARDS. The Whist Player Lond.

1866

 USD - Unknown
1195 Boutcher, C. S. CARDS. Whist Sketches. Review and Sketches of the First American Whist Congress.S Easton, Pa.

1892

 USD - Unknown
1196 CARDS. Cavendish. Card Essays, Clay's Decisions and Card Table Talk Lond.

1879

 USD - Unknown
1197 CARDS. Cavendish. Patience Games, with examples Played Through Lond.

1890

 USD - 1.00
1198 CARDS. Cavendish. The Laws and Principles of Whist Lond.

1888

 USD - Unknown
1199 CARDS. Cavendish. The Laws and Principles of Whist Lond.

1891

 USD - Unknown
1200 CARDS. Cavendish. Whist Developments, 1885... Lond.

USD - Unknown
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