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
1301	Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon	CHESTERFIELD'S (EARL OF) Letters, including numerous Letters now first published from the Original MSS	Lond.	1845-53	USD -	35.00
1302	Edited, with Memoir, by the Earl of Carnwood	CHESTERFIELD. Letters of Philip Dormer, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, to his Godson and Successor	Oxford	1890	USD -	1.13
1303	CHILD, FRANCIS J.	English and Scottish Popular Ballads	Bost.	1882-1892	USD -	14.00
1304	Gray, John H.	CHINA. China: a History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People	Lond.	1878	USD -	3.00
1305	Huc, M. l'Abbe.	CHINA. Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet	Lond.	1857-58	USD -	3.37
1306	Hue, M. l'Abbe	CHINA. The Chinese Empire	Lond.	1855	USD -	2.00
1307		CHINA. Letters from Geraldine Guinness in China	Lond.	1889	USD -	Unknown
1308	Williams, S. Wells	CHINA. The Middle Kingdom: Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants	N. Y.	1883	USD -	4.00
1309	Sirr, Henry Chas.	CHINA. China and the Chinese, their Religion, Character, Customs and Manufactures, the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
1310	Martin, R. M.	CHINA. China, Political, Commercial and Social	Lond.	1847	USD -	1.20
1311	Lin-Le	CHINA. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh. The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution, including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures	Lond.	1866	USD -	8.75
1312	Coltman, Robert	CHINESE. The Chinese, their Present and Future, Medical, Political and Social	Phil.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1313		CHINA HUNTER'S CLUB (THE)	N. Y.	1878	USD -	1.12
1314	CHITTENDEN, L. E.	Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890 including some not hitherto published of Lincoln and the War	N. Y.	1893	USD -	1.85
1315	CHOATE, RUFUS	A Series of Articles on him...			USD -	1.35
1316	Edited by Rev. Wm. Ellis	CHRISTIAN KEEPSAKE (THE) and Missionary Annual	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
1317	CHRISTMAS TYDE	A Series of Sacred Songs and Poetical Pieces, suited to the Season	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
1318	CHURCHILL, LORD RANDOLPH S.	Men, Mines and Animals	N. Y.	1892	USD -	Unknown
1319	CHURCHILL'S (T. O.)	Life of Lord Nelson	Lond.	1808	USD -	3.00
1321	ALLAN, WM.	The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, with an Introduction by John C. Roper	Bost.	1892	USD -	1.75
1322	BEVIER, R. S.	History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, 1861-1865, and from Wakarusa to Appommatox	St. Louis	1879	USD -	1.63
1323	BINGHAM, WM.	A Grammar of the Latin Language for the Use of Schools, with Exercises and Vocabularies	Greensboro, N. C.	1863	USD -	Unknown
1324	BORCKE, HEROS VON	Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence	Edinburgh and Lond.	1866	USD -	2.10
1325	BRITTON, WILEY	The Civil War on the Border, 1861-2	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
1326	BROCK, MISS SALLIE A. (Editor)	The Southern Amaranth. A carefully selected collection of poems growing out of and in reference to the late war	N. Y.	1869	USD -	1.50
1327	BROWNE, FRANCIS F.	Bugle-Echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War, Northern and Southern	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1328	BULLOCH, JAS. D.	The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe	Lond.	1883	USD -	2.50
1329	BULLOCH, JAS. D.	The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe	N. Y. (Lond.)	1884	USD -	2.40
1330		CONFEDERATE STATES (THE) Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1862			USD -	Unknown
1331	COOKE, JOHN ESTEN	Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War	N. Y.	1867	USD -	1.37
1332	COOKE, JOHN ESTEN	Wearing of the Gray	N. Y.	1867	USD -	1.10
1333	CUMMING, KATE	A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War	Louisville, Ky.	1866	USD -	1.40
1334	his widow, Madeleine V. Dahlgren	DAHLGREN, JOHN A. Memoir of	Bost.	1882	USD -	Unknown
1335	DAVIS, JEFFERSON	Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government	N. Y.	1881	USD -	5.25
1336	FAIRFAX, RANDOLPH	A Sketch of His Life. Confederate Soldier in First Regiment Virginia Light Artillery	Culpeper, Va.	1878	USD -	1.38
1337		FORT-LA-FAYETTE LIFE, 1863-64, In Extracts from the Right Flanker.	Lond.	1865	USD -	1.15
1338	Goss, WARREN LEE	Recollections of a Private: A Story of the Army of the Potomac	N. Y.	1890	USD -	1.25
1339	HARRISON, WALTER	Pickett's Men: A Fragment of War History	N. Y.	1870	USD -	Unknown
1340	HENTY, G. A.	With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1341	HOOD, J. B.	Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies	New Orleans	1880	USD -	Unknown
1342	JAMISON, D. F.	Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin: A History of the 14th Century	Lond. and Charleston (S. C.)	1864	USD -	1.25
1343	JOHNSON, JOHN	Defence of Charleston Harbor, including Fort Sumter and Adjacent Islands, 1863-5	Charleston, S. C.	1890	USD -	1.12
1344	JONES, J. B.	A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital	Phil.	1866	USD -	2.25
1345	KIRKE, EDMUND	The Rear Guard of the Revolution	N. Y.	1886	USD -	1.00
1346	Chas. C. Jones, Jr.	LEE. Reminiscences of the Last Days, Death and Burial of General Henry Lee	Albany	1870	USD -	1.00
1347	LEE, ROBT. E.	His Early Life, Campaigns and Public Services. With a Record of Campaigns and Heroic Deeds of his Companions in Arms	N. Y.	1871	USD -	2.00
1348	his Nephew, Edward Lee Childe	LEE'S (GENL.) Life and Campaigns	Lond.	1875	USD -	Unknown
1349	LONG, A. L.	Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his Military and Personal History. Together with Incidents relating to his Private Life	Lond.	1866	USD -	1.75
1350	MCCARTHY, CARLTON	Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865	Richmond, Va.	1882	USD -	1.30
1351	MCCLELLAN, CARSWELL	The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant versus the Record of the Army of the Potomac	Bost. and N. Y.	1887	USD -	Unknown
1352	MCCLELLAN, H. B.	The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart, Commander of the Cavalry of Northern Virginia	Bost. and N. Y.	1885	USD -	1.75
1353	MOORE, FRANK	Personal and Political Ballads...	N. Y.	1864	USD -	2.40
1354		MOSBY'S (J. S.). War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns, Bost. 1887...			USD -	Unknown
1355	NICOLAY, J. G., AND HAY, J.	Abraham Lincoln: A History	N. Y.	1890	USD -	18.00
1356	PALFREY, FRANCIS W.	Antietam and Fredericksburg	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
1357		PALMETTO DICTIONARY (THE). Exhibiting a Pure and Correct Pronunciation	Richmond, Va.	1864	USD -	Unknown
1358	POLLARD, E. A.	The Lost Cause. A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates	N. Y.	1867	USD -	4.25
1359	PORTER, ADMIRAL	Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1360	Ford, Sally R.	REBELLION. Raids and Romance of Morgan and his Men	N. Y.	1864	USD -	1.00
1361	Owen, W. M.	REBELLION. In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery of New Orleans	Bost.	1885	USD -	1.25
1362		REBELLION. Spirit of the Fair. 17 numbers, froms April 5 to April 23, 1864			USD -	Unknown
1363	Wilmer, Richd. H.	REBELLION. The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint	N. Y.	1877	USD -	Unknown
1364	SCHARF, J. THOMAS	History of the Confederate States Navy from its Organization to the Surrender of its Last Vessel	N. Y.	1887	USD -	2.37
1365	SEMMES, RAPHAEL	Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States	Baltimore	1869	USD -	2.25
1366	SEMMES, R.	Service Afloat; or, the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers, Sumter and Alabama	Lond.	1887	USD -	1.50
1367	SMITH, CHAS. H.	Bill Arp, so called. A side-show of the Southern side of the war	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
1368	SNOW, CAPT. WM. P.	Lee and his Generals. Numerous portraits on steel	N. Y.	1867	USD -	2.63
1369	SNOW, WM. P.	Southern Generals, their Lives and Campaigns	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
1370	TAYLOR, RICHD.	Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War	N. Y.	1879	USD -	Unknown
1371		VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN (THE) of General Pope in 1862	Bost.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1372		WAR LYRICS OF THE SOUTH	Lond.	1866	USD -	1.00
1373		WAR OF THE REBELLION. Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies	Wash.	1880-89	USD -	Unknown
1374	WATSON, WM.	The Adventures of a Blockade Runner; or, Trade in Time of War	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
1375		CLANS OF SCOTLAND (THE). Their Origin, Seat and Characteristics	Bost.	n. d.	USD -	1.00
1376		CLARENDON'S (EARL OF) History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...	Oxford	1849-57	USD -	6.30
1377	CLARK, EDWARD L.	Daleth; or, the Homestead of the Nations	Bost.	1864	USD -	1.12
1378	CLARK, W. P.	The Indian Sign Language	Phil.	1845	USD -	Unknown
1379	CLARKE, EDWARD D.	The Tomb of Alexander. A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus Brought from Alexandria and now in the British Museum	Cambridge	1805	USD -	Unknown
1380	CLARKE MCDONALD	The Elixir of Moonshine: Being a collection of Prose and Poetry by the Mad Poet	Gotham	A. M. 5822	USD -	3.30
1381	CLARKE MCDONALD	The Mad Poet. Afara III.; Christ in the Desert	N. Y.	Easter Eve, 1829	USD -	2.50
1382	CLARKSON, L.	Violet Among the Lillies	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
1383	CLAY, CASSIUS M.	Life, Memoirs, Writings and Speeches	Cinn.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1384	G. D. Prentice	CLAY'S (HENRY) Biography	Hartford	1831	USD -	Unknown
1385	CLAY'S (HENRY)	Speeches at the Lexington Mass Meeting, 13th Nov., 1847	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
1386		CLAY. The Clay Code; or, Text-Book of Eloquence. A Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments. Gathered from the Speeches of Henry Clay	N. Y.	1844	USD -	1.40
1387	CLAYTON, ELLEN C.	Queens of Song: Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists	Lond.	1863	USD -	3.00
1388	CLEVELAND, N.	Greenwood Cemetery: A History of the Institution, from 1838 to 1864	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
1389	Mark Twain	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Lond.	1884	USD -	1.00
1390	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Lond.	1876	USD -	1.20
1391	Mark Twain	(CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.) Autobiography (Burlesque). First Romance and Memoranda	Toronto	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1392	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress	Hartford	1869	USD -	2.50
1393	Mark Twain	(CLEMENS, S. L.) Innocents Abroad. A Book of Travel in Pursuit of Pleasure	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1394	CLEMENS, S. L.	Mark Twain's Library of Humour	N. Y.	1888	USD -	1.25
1395	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old	Hartford and Chicago	1881	USD -	Unknown
1396	CLEMMER, MARY	Ten Years in Washington; or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital	Hartford	1882	USD -	1.00
1397	CLINTON, GEO.	Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron	Lond.	1831	USD -	1.25
1398	CLOQUET, M. JULES	Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette	Lond.	1835	USD -	3.00
1399	CLOUSTON, W. A.	Literary Coincidences; A Bookstall Bargain; and other papers	Glasgow	1892	USD -	1.10
1400	CLOUSTON, W. A.	Popular Tales of Fictions. Their Migrations and Transformations	N. Y. (London)	1887	USD -	8.00
1401	COATES, H. T.	Fireside Book of Poetry	Phil.	1878	USD -	Unknown

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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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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.

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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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