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
2002	BUXTON, EDWARD N.	Short Stalks; or, Hunting Camps, North, South, East and West	N. Y. and Lond.	1892	USD -	1.13
2003	BYNG AND STEPHENS	Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper (John Wilkins)	N. Y.	1892	USD -	Unknown
2004		CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS	Phil.	1830-33	USD -	11.62
2005	CAMPBELL, LIEUT.-COL. JAS	Excursions, Adventures and Field-Sports in Ceylon	Lond.	1843	USD -	1.30
2006	CAMPBELL, MAJOR W.	The Old Forest Ranger; or, Wild Sports of India	N. Y.	1853	USD -	1.10
2007		CAMPING OUT, &c. Gould, How to Camp Out, illustrated...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	1.80
2008	CAMPION, J. S.	On the Frontier: Reminiscences of Wild Sports, Personal Adventures and Strange Scenes	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.25
2009	CARLETON, CAPT. J. W.	Recreations in Shooting	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2010	CARLETON, JOHN W.	The Sporting Sketch Book: Papers by the most distinguished Sporting Writers of the Day	Lond.	1842	USD -	1.00
2011	CASUS, JOHANNES	Of Englishe Dogges the Diuersities, the names, the natures, &c	Lond.	1576 (Reprint)	USD -	Unknown
2012	CATON, JOHN D.	A Summer in Norway, with Notes on Industries, Habits, &c., and an Account of the Red Deer, Reindeer and Elk			USD -	Unknown
2013	CHENEY, SIMEON P.	Wood Notes Wild. Notations of Bird Music	Bost.	1892	USD -	1.20
2014	CLEMENTS, LEWIS	Shooting Adventures, Canine Lore, and Sea-Fishing Trips	Lond.	1879	USD -	1.00
2015	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	Rocks and Rivers; or, Highland Wanderings over Crag and Correl, Flood and Fell.	Lond.	1849	USD -	1.10
2016	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	The Moor and the Loch. With an Essay on Loch Fishing	Edinburgh and Lond.	1840	USD -	1.10
2017	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	The Moor and the Loch. With an Essay on Loch-Fishing	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2018	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	The Moor and the Loch	Edinburgh and Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2019	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	The Moor and the Loch			USD -	2.50
2020	COOK, CHAS	The Dandie Dinmont Terrier: its History and Characteristics	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	3.25
2021	COOPER, A.	Impressions of a Series of Animals, Birds, &c., illustrative of British Field Sports	Lond.	1821	USD -	1.00
2022	CORBALLIS, JAS. HENRY	Forty-five Years of Sport	Lond.	1891	USD -	Unknown
2023	COUES, ELLIOTT	Birds of the Colorado Valley	Wash.	1878	USD -	1.13
2024	COUES, ELLIOTT	Birds of the North-West: a HandBook of American Ornithology	Bost.	1877	USD -	1.87
2025	COUES, ELLIOTT	Key to North American Birds. Living and Fossil Birds	Salem and N. Y.	1872	USD -	5.50
2026	COUES, ELLIOTT	Key to North American Birds; General Ornithology; Field Ornithology	Bost.	1884	USD -	3.50
2027	Cox, NICHOLAS	Gentleman's Recreation. In Four Parts, viz. : Hunting, Hawking, Fowling and Fishing	Lond.	1706	USD -	1.50
2028		CREALOCK, LIEUT.-GENERAL HENRY HOPE	Lond.	1892	USD -	32.00
2029	CUMMING, R. GORDON	A Hunter's Life in South Africa	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.30
2030	CUMMING, R. G.	Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa	Lond.	1855	USD -	4.50
2031	CUMMING, LIEUT.-COL. G.	Wild Men and Wild Beasts. Scenes in Camp and Jungle	Edinburgh	1871	USD -	Unknown
2032	DANIEL, REV. WM. B.	Rural Sports: Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, Fowling, Angling, &c	Lond.	1813	USD -	10.50
2033	DAUMAS, E.	Horses of the Sahara (The), and the Manners of the Desert	Lond.	1863	USD -	Unknown
2034	DAVIES, G. C.	Mountain, Meadow and Mere, illustrated...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	1.63
2035	DAVIS, WM. M.	Nimrod of the Sea; or, The American Whaleman	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
2036	DE KAY, JAS. E.	Zoology of New York Reptiles and Fishes	Albany	1842	USD -	7.50
2037	DE KAY, JAS. E.	Zoology of New York; or the New York Fauna	Albany	1843	USD -	8.50
2038	DE KAY, JAS. E.	Zoology of NewYork	Albany	1843	USD -	Unknown
2039	Dix, JOHN	Sportsman in Ireland, with His Summer Route Trough the Highlands of Scotland	Lond.	1840	USD -	2.10
2040	DOBSON, WM.	Kunopsedia. A Practical Essay on Breaking and Training the English Spaniel or Pointer	Lond.	1817	USD -	1.00
2041	DODD, REV. J. W.	Ballads of Archery, Sonnets, &c. Head and tail pieces	Lond.	1818	USD -	Unknown
2042	DONOVAN, E.	Natural History of British Birds	Lond.	1794-1819	USD -	11.50
2043	DOUGALL, JAS. D.	Shooting: Its Appliances, Practice, and Purpose	Lond.	1875	USD -	Unknown
2044	DOUGALL, J. D.	Shooting Simplified: a Treatise on Guns and Shooting	Lond.	1865	USD -	Unknown
2045	DRAYSON, CAPT. ALFRED W.	Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.00
2046	DRAYSON, CAPT. A. W.	Tales of the Outspan; or, Adventures in the Wild Regions of Southern Africa	Lond.	1865	USD -	1.00
2047	DRUMMOND, HON. W. H.	Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa	Edinburgh	1875	USD -	1.62
2048	DUNLOP, R. H. W.	Hunting in Himalaya	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
2049	EGAN, PIERCE	Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected	N. Y.	1823	USD -	1.10
2050	ELLIOTT, DANIEL GERAUD	A Monograph of the Pittidae; or, Family of Ant-Thrushes	N. Y.	1861-1863	USD -	35.00
2051	ELLIOTT, DANIEL GIRAUD	A Monograph of the Tetraoninae; or, Family of the Grouse	N. Y.	1865	USD -	21.00
2052	ELLIOTT, HON. WM.	Carolina Sports, by Land and Water	Charleston	1846	USD -	2.00
2053	ELLIOTT, HON. WM.	Carolina Sports, by Land and Water	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.10
2054	ENAULT, LOUIS	The Captain's Dog	N. Y.	1888	USD -	Unknown
2055		ESSAY ON HUNTING	Lond.	1820	USD -	2.50
2056	EYTON, T. C.	A History of the Rarer British Birds	Lond.	1836	USD -	1.10
2057	EYTON T. C.	Fox-Hunting Literature: a Bibliography	Wellington, Salop	1871	USD -	1.38
2058	G. E. Freeman and F. H. Salvin	FALCONRY: Its Claims, History and Practice	Lond.	1859	USD -	1.80
2059		FALCONRY. Latham's Falconry; or, The Falcon's Lure and Cure	Lond.	1658	USD -	3.50
2060	FARNHAM, THOS. J.	Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory	Lond.	1843	USD -	1.60
2061	FARRAR, CAPT.	Down the West Branch; or, Camp and Tramps Around the Katahdin	Bost.	1886	USD -	Unknown
2062	FARRAR, CAPT.	From Lake to Lake; or, A Trip Across the Country	Jamaica Plain, Mass.	1887	USD -	Unknown
2063	FARRAR, CAPT. C. A. J.	Illustrated Guide Book to Androscoggin Lake	Bost. and N. Y.	1887	USD -	Unknown
2064	FARRAR, CAPT.	Up the North Branch; or, A Summer Outing	Bost.	1889	USD -	Unknown
2065	FARRAR, CAPT.	Wild Woods Life; or, A Trip to Parmachenee	Bost.	1884	USD -	Unknown
2066		FITT, Covert-Side Sketches, duplicate, cloth, 1879...			USD -	1.35
2067	FITZGERALD, R. A.	Wickets in the West; or, Twelve in America	Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
2068	FLACK, CAPTAIN	A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America	Lond.	1866	USD -	Unknown
2069	FOLKARD, H. C.	The Wild Fowler: a Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling	Lond.	1859	USD -	2.00
2070	FOLKARD, H. C.	The Wild-Fowler: A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling	Lond.	1864	USD -	1.38
2071		FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c	Lond.	1813	USD -	24.00
2072		FOREST SKETCHES. Deer-Stalking and other Sports in the Highlands Fifty Years Ago	Edinburgh	1865	USD -	1.37
2073	FORSYTH, CAPTAIN J.	Highlands of Central India. Notes on their Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History and Sports	Lond.	1871	USD -	1.55
2074	FORSYTH, J. S.	Modern Art of Fencing	Lond.	1822	USD -	1.75
2075	FOUILLOUX, JACQUES DU.	La Venerie, Precedee de Quelques Notes Biographique et d'une Notice Bibliographique	Angers	1844	USD -	1.75
2076		Fox-HUNTER'S ALBUM			USD -	3.75
2077		FRANCIS, Saddle and Mocassin	Lond.	1887	USD -	1.20
2078	GALE, FREDERICK	Modern English Sports	Lond.	1885	USD -	1.13
2079	GALLWEY, SIR R. P.	Letters to Young Shooters. Both Series: The Choice and Use of a Gun...	Lond.	1890-92	USD -	2.40
2080		GAMONIA; or, The Art of Preserving Game, and an Improved method of Making Plantation and Covers, explained and illustrated by Lawrence Rawstone	Lond.	1837	USD -	5.50
2081		GARDENS AND MENAGERIE (THE) of the Zoological Society Delineated	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2082	GAY, JOHN	Rural Sports: a Georgic in two Cantos	Cambridge	1880	USD -	Unknown
2083	GENTRY, T. G.	House Sparrow (The) at Home and Abroad; Its Usefulness, &c	Phil.	1878	USD -	1.25
2084	GERSTACKER, F.	Western Lands and Western Waters	Lond.	1864	USD -	Unknown
2085	GIBSON, W. H.	Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making	N. Y.	1881	USD -	1.00
2086	GIBSON, WM. H.	Complete American Trapper; or, the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making	N. Y.	1876	USD -	1.30
2087	GILMOR, COL. HARRY	Four Years in the Saddle	Lond.	1866	USD -	Unknown
2088	GILLMORE, PARKER	Prairie and Forest: a Description of the Game of North America	Lond.	1874	USD -	Unknown
2089	GILLMORE, PARKER	The Hunter's Arcadia	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
2090	GILLMORE, PARKER	Travel, War and Shipwreck	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.00
2091	GIRAUD, J. P., JR.	The Birds of Long Island	N. Y.	1844	USD -	6.75
2092	GLOVER, H. C.	Glover's Album : A Treatise on Canine Diseases	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
2093	GOSSE, P. H.	British Ornithology: Containing a Description of the Birds of the British Isles	Lond.	1849	USD -	1.40
2094	GODMAN, JOHN D.	American Natural History	Phil.	1826	USD -	1.65
2095	GOSSE, PHILIP H.	An Introduction to Zoology	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2096	GOSSE, PHILIP H.	Birds of Jamaica	Lond.	1847	USD -	1.90
2097	GOSSE, PHILIP H.	Romance of Natural History	Lond.	1840-62	USD -	6.37
2098	GOULD, JOHN	A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the adjacent Islands	Lond.	1837-1838	USD -	13.50
2099	GREEN, REV. G. C.	Collections and Recollections of Natural History and Sport	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
2100	GREENER, W. W.	Choke Bore Guns, and how to load for all kinds of Game	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
2101	GREENER, W. W.	Gunnery in 1858: a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon and Sporting Arms	Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown

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