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
101	DOYLE, J. A.	The English in America, Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas	Lond.	1882	USD -	1.50
102	DWIGHT, TIMOTHY	Travels in New-England and New-York	Lond.	1823	USD -	4.50
103	ESQUEMELING, JOHN. B.	ucaniers of America; or, A True Account of Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French	Lond.	1684	USD -	11.00
104	ESQUEMELING	Historie Der Boecaniers, of VRYBUYTERS Van America. Van haar eerste Beginzelen tot deze tegenwoordige tyd toe	Amsterdam	1700	USD -	1.87
105	ESQUEMELING	History of the Bucaniers, Free-Booters, and Pyrates of America	Lond.	1741	USD -	15.50
106	ETTING, FRANK M. A.	n Historical Account of the Old State House of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of Independence	Bost.	1876	USD -	3.50
107	EVERETT, EDWARD	Life of George Washington	N. Y.	1860	USD -	4.00
108	FINDLAY, WM.	History of the [Whiskey] Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania in the Year 1794, with a recital of the circu mstances specially connected therewith	Phil.	1796	USD -	7.25
109	FLINT, TIMOTHY	Indian Wars of the West, containing Biographical Sketches of those Pioneers who headed the Western Settlers in Repelling the Attacks of the Savages	Cinn.	1833	USD -	2.50
110	FRENEAU, PHILIP	Poems, written chiefly during the late war	Phil.	1786	USD -	4.75
111	FRENEAU, PHILIP	Poems, written and published during the American Revolutionary War	Phil.	1809	USD -	7.00
112	FROST, JOHN	Life of Maj.-General Zachary Taylor. Notices of the War in Mexico, California, &c	N.Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
113	GARRAUD, LEWIS H.	Wah-To-Yah and The Taos Trail; or, Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Camp Fire	Cinn.	1850	USD -	1.70
114	GIDDINGS, JOSHUA R.	The Exiles of Florida; or, The Crimes Committed by our Government against the Maroons	Columbus, O.	1858	USD -	Unknown
115	GLEIG, G. R.	A Subaltern in America: comprising his Narrative of Campaigns of the British Army at Baltimore, Washington, &c., during the late War	Phil.	1833	USD -	Unknown
116	GLEIG, REV. G. R.	The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans in the Years 1814-1815. By the author of the Subaltern	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
117	GRAHAM, J. A.	A Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont, one of the United States of America	Lond.	1797	USD -	6.00
118	GREEN, THOS. J.	Journal of the Texian Expedition against Mier, with Reflections upon the future Relations of Texas, Mexico and the United States	N. Y.	1845	USD -	3.25
119	GREG, PERCY	History of the United States from the Foundation of Virginia to the Reconstruction of the Union	Lond.	1887	USD -	4.25
120	GRISWOLD, R. W.	Poets and Poetry of America, with Additions by R. H. Stoddard. Carefully revised, &c	N. Y.	1873	USD -	1.25
121	GRIFFIS, WM. E.	Matthew Calbraith Perry, a Typical American Naval Officer	Bost. and N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
122	GRISWOLD, R. W.	The Republican Court; or, American Society in the Days of Washington	N. Y. and Lond.	1855	USD -	4.50
123	Don Ferdinando De Soto	HAKLUYT, RICH'D (Translator). Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida	Lond.	1851	USD -	4.00
124	Edited by R. H. Major	HAKLUYT SOCIETY. Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia. Cosmographie and Commodities of the Country, &c., by Wm. Strachey	Lond.	1849	USD -	6.50
125	HAKLUYT, RICH'D	Diuers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent	Lond.	1850	USD -	3.50
126	HALL, JAMES	The Romance of Western History; or, Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the West	Cinn.	1857	USD -	2.37
127	HAMILTON	Observations on Certain Documents contained in Nos. V. and VI. of The History of the United States for the Year 1796, in which the Charge of Speculation against ALEXANDER HAMILTON, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted	Phil.	1797	USD -	5.25
128	Edited by John C. Hamilton	HAMILTON. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising His Correspondence and His Political and Official Writings	N. Y.	1851	USD -	32.38
129	HARIOT, THOMAS	A Brief and True Report of the New foundland of Virginia	At Franckfort	MDXC	USD -	4.25
130	Moses Dawson	HARRISON. Historical Narrative of the Civil and Military Service of Major-General Wm. H. Harrison	Cinn.	1824	USD -	5.75
131	HARRISON, WM. HENRY	A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio, with some Remarks on the Study of History	Cinn.	1838	USD -	3.50
132	Chas. S. Todd and Benj. Drake	HARRISON. Sketches of the Civil and Military Services of William Henry Harrison, by Chas. S. Todd and Benj. Drake	Cinn.	1840	USD -	Unknown
133	HEADLEY, J. T.	Washington and his Generals	N. Y.	1856	USD -	4.00
134	HEATH	Memoirs of Major-General Heath, containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles and other Military Events during the American War	Boston	Aug., 1798	USD -	10.50
135	Wm. W. Henry	HENRY, PATRICK. Life, Correspondence and Speeches	N. Y.	1891	USD -	7.50
136	HERNDON'S (WM. H.)	Lincoln: the True Story of a Great Life, the History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln	Chicago	1889	USD -	3.00
137	HILDRETH, RICHARD	History of the United States of America, from the Discovery to the Federal Constitution	N. Y.	1849	USD -	1.50
138	HINTON, JOHN HOWARD	History and Topography of the United States	Lond.	1830	USD -	6.00
139	HUDSON, CHAS.	Doubts concerning the Battle of Bunker's Hill. Addressed to the Christian Public	Bost.	1857	USD -	Unknown
140	HUNTER, JOHN D.	Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America: Anecdotes, Manners and Customs	Lond.	1823	USD -	2.10
141		INDIANS. The Tears of the Indians: being an Historical and True Account of the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of above Twenty Millions of Inocent People; Committed by Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c	Lond.	1656	USD -	32.00
142		INDIANS. Tracts (Captivities, Travels, and Theories)...	Louisville, Ky.	1848	USD -	22.00
143	a Fur Trader	INDIANS. Traits of American. Indian Life and Character	Lond.	1853	USD -	1.00
144	McKenney and Hall	INDIAN TRIBES of North America, and their History, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, by McKenney and Hall	Phil.	1838	USD -	72.00
145	Diedrich Knickerbocker	IRVING, WASHINGTON. A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
146	IRVING, WASHINGTON	IRVING, WASHINGTON. Life of George Washington	N. Y.	1855-1859	USD -	61.25
147	John H. Eaton	JACKSON'S (ANDREW). Life, comprising a History of the War in the South, from the Commencement of the Creek Campaign to the Termination of Hostilities before New Orleans	Phil.	1824	USD -	1.25
148	JAMES, WM. D.	A Sketch of the Life of Brig.-Gen. Francis Marion: a History of his Brigade, with Descriptions of Characters and Scenes	Charleston, S. C.	1821	USD -	33.00
149	JOHNSTON, DR. JAMES	A History of the Haunted Caverns of Magdelania, an Indian Queen of South America	Phil.	1821	USD -	1.38
150	JONES, CHAS. C., JR.	Antiquities of the Southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia Tribes	N. Y.	1873	USD -	3.50
151	JONES, JAS. A.	Tales of an Indian Camp	Lond.	1829	USD -	7.12
152	JONES, JAS. A.	Traditions of the North American Indians, being a Second and Revised Edition of Tales of an Indian Camp.	Lond.	1830	USD -	9.75
153	Filson, John	KENTUCKY. Filson, John. The Discovery, Settlement and Present State...	Wilmington	1784	USD -	Unknown
154	Fitzroy, Alexander	KENTUCKY. Fitzroy, Alexander. The Discovery, Purchase and Settlement of the Country of Kentuckie in North America, so famous for its fertility of soil, produce, climate, minerals,quadrupedes, curiosities, trade, rapid population, religion, &c	Lond.	1786	USD -	20.00
155		KENTUCKY. History of Daviess County, Kentucky	Chicago	1883	USD -	3.50
156	Rankin, Adam	KENTUCKY. A Review of the Noted Revival in Kentucky, commenced in the year of our Lord, 1801, by A. R. Pastor at Lexington. A Member of the Associate reformed Synod		1803	USD -	3.10
157	Williamson, John	KENTUCKY. Ferns of Kentucky	Louisville, Ky.	1878	USD -	4.00
158	KETTLE, SAMUEL	Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices	Bost.	1829	USD -	4.20
159	LATROBE, J. H. B.	The History of Mason and Dixon's Line; and Address delivered before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania	Phil.	1855	USD -	2.60
160	LAURENS, JOHN	Army Correspondence of Col. John Lawrence in the Years 1777-8	N. Y.	1867	USD -	1.75
161	LONG	Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains in 1819-1820, under the Command of Stephen H. Long. Compiled by Edwin James	Lond.	1823	USD -	12.00
162	LOSKIEL, GEO. H.	History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America	Lond.	1794	USD -	5.50
163	LOVE, CHARLES	A Poem on the Death of George Washington	Alexandria, Virginia	1800	USD -	4.00
164	MACKAY, CHAS.	Life and Liberty in America...	Lond.	1859	USD -	Unknown
165	MACKENZIE, A. S.	The Life of Paul Jones	Bost.	1841	USD -	1.20
166	MACKENZIE, ALEX. S.	Life of Stephen Decatur, a Commodore in the Navy of the United States	Bost.	1846	USD -	1.60
167	MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK; or, Black Hawk	MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK; or, Black Hawk. Life of. With an Account of the Late War	Bost.	1834	USD -	1.00
168	MARSHALL, HUMPHRY	Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove; or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States	Phil.	1785	USD -	5.00
169	MARTINEAU, HARRIET	Society in America	Lond.	1839	USD -	5.25
170		MARTYRS TO THE REVOLUTION in the British Prison-ships in the Wallabout Bay. Diagram of Wallabout Bay, &c., from 1776-1783	N. Y.	1855	USD -	3.13
171	MATHER, COTTON	Magnalia Christi-Americana; or, the Eclesiastical History of New-England, from Its first Planting in the year 1620 unto the year of our Lord 1698	Lond.	MDCCII	USD -	27.00
172	MATHER, COTTON	Life of the Rev. John Eliot, the first Missionary to the Indians in North America	Lond.	1820	USD -	1.25
173	MAYER, BRANTZ	Mexico as It Was and Is	N. Y.	1844	USD -	1.50
174	MEEKER, N. C.	Life in the West; or, Stories of the Mississippi Valley	N. Y.	1868	USD -	Unknown
175	MORGAN, LEWIS H.	League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee; or, Iroquois	Rochester	1854	USD -	14.00
176	MURRAY, HUGH	Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America, with Observations on Emigration	Lond.	1829	USD -	1.00
177	MURRAY, HON. CHAS. A.	Travels in North America, including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Tribe of Indians	Lond.	1854	USD -	2.50
178		NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER, Improved; or, An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading	Bost.	n.d.	USD -	1.12
179		NEW-ENGLAND (THE) PRIMER, Improved. For the more easy Attaining the True Reading of English, to which is Added the Assembly of Divines and Mr. Cotton's Catechism	Bost.	1777	USD -	Unknown
180	J. A. Paxton	NEW-ORLEANS DIRECTORY AND REGISTER. Names, Professions and Residences of Heads of Families, &c., of the City and Suburbs	New-Orleans	1822	USD -	1.75
181	Drs. Hawks, Swain and Graham	NORTH CAROLINA. Revolutionary History in Three Lectures, by Drs. Hawks, Swain and Graham, and Sketch of the Battle of Alamance	Raleigh and N. Y.	1853	USD -	2.12
182		NOVA BRITANNIA. Offering most excellent Fruits by Planting in Virginia	London, Reprinted New York	1609, 1867	USD -	5.50
183	PARTON'S (JAMES)	Life of Andrew Jackson	N. Y.	1860	USD -	3.75
184	PARTON, J.	Life and Times of Aaron Burr	N. Y.	1859	USD -	1.00
185	PARTON, JAMES	Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin	N. Y.	1865	USD -	4.75
186	PEARSON, PROF. J.	A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times. Being a History of the Lower Mohawk Valley	Albany	1883	USD -	4.50
187	PICKERING, JOHN	A Vocabulary; or, Collection of Words and Phrases peculiar to the United States of America	Bost.	1816	USD -	Unknown
188	PIDGEON, WM.	Traditions of De-Coo-Dah, and Antiquarian Researches. The Traditions of the Last Prophet of the Elk Nation. Evidence of Ancient Population more numerous than the present Aborigines	N. Y.	1858	USD -	1.37
189	PIERSON, REV. H. W.	In the Brush; or, Old Time Social, Political and Religious Life in the Southwest	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
190	PIKE, ALBERT	Prose Sketches and Poems	Bost.	1834	USD -	5.00
191	POWNELL, T.	A Topographical Description of such parts of North America as are contained in the annexed Map of the Middle British Colonies, &c., in North America	Lond.	1776	USD -	9.00
192	RAMSEY, ALBERT C.	The Other Side; or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States	N. Y.	1850	USD -	2.10
193	REID, SAML. C, JR.	Scouting Expedition of McCulloch's Texas Rangers	Phil.	1848	USD -	2.75
194	RIPLEY, R. S.	The War with Mexico. Plans of Battles	N. Y.	1849	USD -	11.00
195	SANDERSON, JOHN	Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence	Phil.	1823-1827	USD -	42.75
196	SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY R.	Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge. Containing all the original papers laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions and mythology of the Indian tribes of the United States	Phil.	1860	USD -	66.00
197	SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY R.	Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas	Phil.	1853	USD -	1.20
198	SCHULTZ, CHRISTIAN	Travels on an Inland Voyage through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee	N. Y.	1810	USD -	3.25
199	SEMMES, LIEUT. R.	Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War	Cinn.	1851	USD -	1.25
200	SIMMS, J. R.	The American Spy; or, Freedom's Early Sacrifice	Albany	1857	USD -	2.00

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.

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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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
Book Week
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.