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
1702	Quiz	DICKENS. Sketches of Young Ladies, in which these Interesting Members of the Animal Kingdom are Classified According to their Several Instincts, Habits and General Characteristics	Lond.	1837	USD -	16.00
1703	DICKENS	The Strange Gentleman: a Comic Burletta, in Two Acts	Lond.	1837	USD -	20.00
1704	Timothy Sparks	DICKENS. Sunday under Three Heads...	Lond.	1836	USD -	56.00
1705	Editor (Charles Dickens)	DICKENS. The Lamplighter's Story	Lond.	1833-1879	USD -	6.50
1706	DICKENS	The Letters of Charles Dickens	Lond.	1880	USD -	5.00
1707	DICKENS	The Letters of Charles Dickens	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.60
1708	DICKENS	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Lond.	1839	USD -	10.00
1709	John Forster	DICKENS. The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster	Lond.	1872-1874	USD -	6.60
1710	John Forster	DICKENS, The Life of, by John Forster	Lond.	1872-1874	USD -	3.38
1711	DICKENS	The Life of Martin Chuzzlewit	Lond.	1844	USD -	12.00
1712	DICKENS	The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
1713	DICKENS	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Lond.	1870	USD -	3.25
1714	DICKENS	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Lond.	1850	USD -	13.00
1715	Edited by Charles Dickens, Esq.	DICKENS. The Pic Nic Papers		1841	USD -	10.50
1716	DICKENS	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Lond.	1837	USD -	17.00
1717		DICKENS, CHARLES. The Story of his Life, by the author of the Life of Thackeray.	Lond.	1870	USD -	1.00
1718	DICKENS	The Uncommercial Traveller	Lond.	1861	USD -	11.00
1719	DICKENS	The Village Coquettes: a Comic Opera in two acts	Lond.	1836	USD -	26.00
1720		DICTIONARY (A) of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. By a London Antiquary	Lond.	1860	USD -	1.25
1721	DILKE, CHAS. W.	Greater Britain: a Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries in 1866-1867	Lond.	1868	USD -	3.80
1722	DILKE, SIR CHAS. W.	Problems of Greater Britain. Second Edition	Lond.	1890	USD -	3.50
1723	DIXON, B. HOMER	Surnames. For Private Distribution	Bost.	1857	USD -	1.60
1724		DIXON'S (WM. H.) Works. Comprising: New America, 2 vols., 1867...	Lond.	v. y.	USD -	24.50
1725	DIGBY, KENELM H.	Broad Stone of Honour. . . . GODEFRIDUS	Lond.	1844	USD -	1.25
1726	DUBRIZHOFFER, MARTIN	An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay	Lond.	1822	USD -	5.25
1727	DOBSON, AUSTIN	Eighteenth Century Essays, Selected and Annotated	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
1728	DOBSON, AUSTIN	Old-World Idylls, and other Verses	Lond.	1883	USD -	2.35
1729	DOBSON, AUSTIN	William Hogarth	Lond.	1891	USD -	1.50
1730	DODGE, THEODORE A.	(Great Captains.) Alexander: a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War	Bost.	1890	USD -	2.00
1731	DODGE, THEODORE A.	Patroclus and Penelope: a Chat in the Saddle	Bost.	1885	USD -	Unknown
1732	DOMETT, ALFRED	Flotsam and Jetsam: Rhymes, old and new	Lond.	1877	USD -	Unknown
1733	DOMETT, HENRY W.	A History of the Bank of New York, 1784-1884	N. Y.	1884	USD -	2.00
1734	DORE, GUSTAVE	The Legend of the Wandering Jew, illustrated by Gustave Dore....	Lond.	1857	USD -	2.75
1735	DOUBLEDAY, THOS.	Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs	Edinburgh and Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
1736	DOUGLAS, WM.	Duelling Days in the Army	Lond.	1887	USD -	Unknown
1737	DOUGLASS, FREDERICK	My Bondage and My Freedom	N. Y. and Auburn	1855	USD -	Unknown
1738	Peggy Dow	Dow. The Life, Travels, Labors and Writings of Lorenzo Dow, and Supplementary Reflections by Peggy Dow	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
1739	DOWNING, A. J.	Rural Essays	N. Y.	1857	USD -	1.50
1740	DOYLE, A. CONAN	The Great Shadow	N. Y.	1893	USD -	Unknown
1741	DOYLE, SIR F. H.	Reminiscences and Opinions, 1813-1885	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
1742	DRAKE, S. A.	Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast	N. Y.	1875	USD -	1.50
1743		DRAMA. The British Drama. Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language	Lond.	1804	USD -	7.50
1744		DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION. Comprising: Dramatic Works of Wm. D'Avenant...	Edin. and Lond.	1872-1879	USD -	24.50
1745	DRAGOON, MAJ.-GEN. A. W.	From Keeper to Captain	Lond.	1889	USD -	Unknown
1746	DRAYTON, MICHAEL	Poems, collected into one Volume. Newly corrected	Lond.	1637	USD -	35.00
1747	DRUMMOND, HENRY	Natural Law of the Spiritual World	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
1748	DRURY, H.	Arundines Cami sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus Canori	Cantab	1843	USD -	Unknown
1749	Du BARRY (LA COMTESSE)	Sa Vie Amoureuse le Gazetier Cuirasse...	Paris	1878	USD -	11.50
1750	Du BARTAS	His Deume Weekes and Works		1613	USD -	15.00
1751	Sylvester	Du BARTAS. His Divine Weekes and Works. By Sylvester, (and) History of Judith, by Hudson	Lond.	1613	USD -	10.75
1752	Du Bois, HENRI PENE	Four Private Libraries of New York. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America	N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.50
1753	DUBOURG, GEO.	The Violin: some Account of that Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors	Lond.	1852	USD -	1.50
1754	DUNLOP, JOHN	History of Roman Literature, from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age	Lond.	1823	USD -	1.00
1755	Du MAURIER, GEORGE	English Society at Home, from the Collection of Mr. Punch	Lond.	1880	USD -	5.50
1756	DUNCAN, P. MARTIN	The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.88
1757	DUNCAN, SARA J.	An American Girl in London	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1758	DUNCAN, SARA J.	A Social Departure. How Orthodocia and I went Round the World by Ourselves	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1759	DUNDONALD, THOS., EARL OF	Autobiography of a Seaman	Lond.	1860	USD -	5.25
1760		DUNS. Hints on the Nature and Management of Duns. By the Honorable -----, a younger son	Lond.	1845	USD -	1.00
1761	DURER	History (The) of the Life of Albrecht Durer, of Nuremberg	Lond.	1870	USD -	3.00
1762	DURER, ALBERT	Passio Christi. Die Kleine Passion. The Little Passion of Albert Durer, reproduced in facsimile	N. Y.	1868	USD -	1.25
1763	DUFFERIN (LORD)	Letters from High Latitudes during a yacht voyage to Iceland, &c	N. Y.	1878	USD -	Unknown
1764	DUFOUR, PIERRE	Histoire de la Prostitution...	Paris	1851	USD -	10.80
1765	DYCE, ALEXANDER	Specimens of British Poetesses. Selected and chronologically arranged	Lond.	1825	USD -	6.50
1766	DYCE, REV. ALEX	Specimens of English Sonnets. Selected by A. D. Head and tail pieces	Lond.	1883	USD -	2.00
1767	DYCHE, THOS.	Youth's Guide to the Latin Tongue, wherein the rules are made plain and easy to the capacity of young learners	Lond.	1748	USD -	Unknown
1768	DYER, G.	A Restoration of the Ancient Modes of Bestowing names on the Rivers, Hills, Vallies, Plains and Settlements of Britain	Exeter and Lond.	1805	USD -	1.75
1769	DYER, T. F. T.	The Folk-Lore of Plants	N. Y.	1889	USD -	1.10
1770	EAGAN, PIERCE	The Life of an Actor. Dedicated to Edmund Kean	Lond.	1824	USD -	6.00
1771	EATON, PROF. DANIEL C.	Ferns of North America	Bost.	1879-1880	USD -	12.50
1772	EASTLAKE, CHAS. L.	Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details	Lond.	1869	USD -	Unknown
1773	EASTLAKE, CHAS. L.	History of the Gothic Revival. An Attempt to Show how the Taste for Mediaeval Architecture has been Encouraged and Developed	Lond.	1872	USD -	1.37
1774	EASTMAN, MRS. MARY	Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling	N. Y.	1849	USD -	1.00
1775	EBERS, GEORGES	L'Egypte. Alexandrie et Le Caire. Traduction de Gaston Maspero	Paris	1880	USD -	Unknown
1776	EPSTEIN, DR. W.	Corpulence and Its Treatment...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	Unknown
1777	EDGEWORTH, MARIA	Tales and Novels	Lond.	1848	USD -	12.50
1778	EDWARDS, CHAS.	History and Poetry of Finger-Rings	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
1779	EDWARDS, S.	Polish Captivity: An Account of the Present Expedition of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, &c	Lond.	1863	USD -	2.50
1780	EGEDE, HANS	A Description of Greenland	Lond.	1818	USD -	Unknown
1781	EGERTON, MARY M.	Book of Costume; or, Annals of Fashion	Lond.	1847	USD -	1.25
1782	EGGLESTON, EDWARD	The Mystery of Metropolisville, 13 illustrations, FIRST EDITION, N. Y. 1873...			USD -	1.25
1783	EHA.	The Tribes on My Frontier. An Indian Naturalist's Foreign Policy	Calcutta	1883	USD -	1.25
1784		EIGHTEENTH CENTUR ESSAYS	Lond.	1882	USD -	3.63
1785	ELLIOTT, ARTHUR H.	The Witty and Humourous Side of the English Poets	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.20
1786	ELLIOTT, CHARLES WYLLYS	Pottery and Porcelain, from Early Times down to the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876	N. Y.	1878	USD -	3.50
1787	ELLIOTT, CHAS. W.	The Book of American Interiors, from Existing Houses, with Preliminary Essays and Letterpress Descriptions	Bost.	1876	USD -	1.75
1788	ELLIOTT, SARAH B.	Jerry: A Novel	N. Y.	1891	USD -	Unknown
1789	ELLIS, WM.	Polynesian Researches during a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands	Lond.	1829	USD -	1.00
1790	ELLWANGER, G. H.	The Story, of My House, frontispiece, N. Y. 1891...			USD -	Unknown
1791	ELDER, WM.	Biography of Elisha Kent Kane	Phil.	1858	USD -	Unknown
1792	ELDRIDGE, ELLEANOR	Memoirs of, and Elleanor's Second Book	Providence	1841	USD -	1.80
1793	ELIOT'S (GEORGE)	ELIOT'S (GEORGE) Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals	Lond.	1885	USD -	3.15
1794	ELZE, KARL.	Lord Byron: A Biography, with a Critical Essay on his Place in Literature	Lond.	1872	USD -	Unknown
1795	EMANUEL, HARRY	Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value and Distinguishing Characteristics	Lond.	1865	USD -	2.12
1796	EMERSON'S (RALPH W.)	EMERSON'S (RALPH W.) Complete Works	Cambridge	1883	USD -	34.10
1797	EMMONS, E.	Agriculture of New York. The more Common and Injurious Species of Insects	Albany	1854	USD -	2.10
1798	EMORY, W. H.	Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego	Washington	1848	USD -	Unknown
1799		ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature	Edinburgh	1875, &c.	USD -	37.50
1800	ENGEL, LOUIS	From Handel to Halle. Biographical Sketches, with Autobiographies of Prof. Huxley and Prof. Herkomer	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
1801	Edited by Oswald Crawfurd	ENGLISH COMIC DRAMATISTS	Lond.	1883	USD -	5.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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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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.

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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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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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