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
2102	GREENER, W. W.	The Gun; or, A Treatise on the Various Descriptions of small Fire-arms	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2103	GREENER, W. W.	The Gun and its Development	Lond.	1881	USD -	1.00
2104	GREENER, W. W.	Modern Breech-Loaders, Sporting and Military	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
2105	GURNEY, J. H.	Rambles of a Naturalist in Egypt and other Countries	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
2106	HALL, HENRY (Editor)	The Tribute Book of Open-Air Sports	N. Y.	1887	USD -	Unknown
2107	HALL, H. B.	Exmoor; or, The Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
2108	HALL, H. B.	Highland Sports and Highland Quarters	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	2.25
2109	HALL, H. B.	Scottish Sports and Pastimes	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.10
2110	HALL, H. B.	Scottish Sports and Pastimes	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2111	HALLOCK, CHAS	Camp Life in Florida: a Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
2112	HALLOCK, CHAS	Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, portrait of Hallock...	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2113	HAMILTON, COL. J. P.	Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman	Lond.	1860	USD -	2.10
2114	HAMILTON, COL. J. P.	Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman	Lond.	1860	USD -	1.00
2115	HAMMOND, S. H.	Hills, Lakes and Forest Streams; or, A Tramp in the Chateaugay Woods. Tinted engravings	N. Y.	1854	USD -	1.30
2116	HAMMOND, S. H.	Wild Northern Scenes; or, Sporting Adventures with Rifle and Rod	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
2117	HANSARD, GEO. AGAR	Book of Archery	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2118	HAREWOOD, HARRY	Dictionary of Sports: Racing, Shooting, Hunting, Fishing, &c	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2119	HARRIS, CAPT. WM. C.	The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope to the Tropic of Capricorn	Lond.	1844	USD -	5.25
2120	HARRISON, A. P.	The Science of Archery: showing its Affinity to Heraldry	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
2121	HARTING, JAS. E.	British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
2122	HARTING, JAS. E.	Essays on Sport and Natural History	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
2123	HARTING, JAS. E.	Ornithology of Shakespeare. Critically Examined, Explained and Illustrated	Lond.	1871	USD -	Unknown
2124	HARTING, JAS. E.	Sketches of Bird Life, from Twenty Years' Observation of their Haunts and Habits	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
2125	HAWES, W. P.	Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches	N. Y.	1842	USD -	1.50
2126	HAWES, WM. P.	Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches of J. Cyprus, Jr	N. Y.	1842	USD -	2.20
2127	HAWKER, LT.-COL. P.	Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2128	HAWKER, LT.-COL. P.	Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2129	HAWKER'S (LIEUT.-COL. P.)	Instructions to Young Sportsmen	Phil.	1846	USD -	1.00
2130	HAWKER, COL. PETER	HAWKER, COL. PETER. The Diary of	Lond.	1893	USD -	2.00
2131	HEAD, SIR F.	The Horse and His Rider	Lond.	1861	USD -	Unknown
2132	HEATH, H.	The Sporting Alphabet	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	5.13
2133	HENSHALL, J. A.	Camping and Cruising in Florida	Cinn.	1884	USD -	Unknown
2134	HERBERT, H. W.	American Game in Its Seasons	N. Y.	1853	USD -	2.20
2135	Frank Forester	(HERBERT.) Field Sports in the United States	Lond.	1848	USD -	4.00
2136	HERBERT	Frank Forester's Complete Book of Sporting Scenes and Characters	Phil.	1857	USD -	1.50
2137	HERBERT	Frank Forester's Field Sports	N. Y.	1860	USD -	2.50
2138	HERBERT, H. W.	Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship in the United States and British Provinces of North America	N. Y.	1857	USD -	9.70
2139	HERBERT, H. W.	Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Characters	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	2.00
2140	HERBERT	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour	N. Y.	1856	USD -	1.75
2141	Frank Forester	(HERBERT.) The Complete Manual of Young Sportsmen	N. Y.	1856	USD -	1.37
2142	Frank Forester	(HERBERT.) The Deerstalkers; or, Circumstantial Evidence	Phil.	1849	USD -	2.00
2143	Frank Forester	(HERBERT.) Warwick Woodlands	N. Y.	1851	USD -	3.75
2144	Frank Forester	(HERBERT.) Warwick Woodlands; or, Things as they were there Twenty Years Ago, by Frank Forester	N. Y.	1851	USD -	1.75
2145	HOFFMAN, C. F.	Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie, with Sketches of American Life	N. Y.	1843	USD -	4.63
2146	HOLDEN, GEO. H.	Canaries and Caged Birds	N. Y.	1883	USD -	1.30
2147		HOOPER, J. J., Dog and Gun...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	Unknown
2148	HORNADAY, W. T.	Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, with Chapters on Collecting and Preserving Insects, by W. J. Holland		1891	USD -	1.10
2149	HORNADAY, W. T.	TWO Years in the Jungle: the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist	N. Y.	1885	USD -	2.12
2150	HUBBARD, L. L.	Woods and Lakes of Maine: a Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a BirchBark Canoe	Bost.	1884	USD -	1.00
2151	HUDSON, W. H.	The Naturalist in La Plata	Lond.	1892	USD -	2.10
2152		HUNTING, SHOOTING AND FISHING, with Anecdotic Chapters about Horses and Dogs	Lond.	1877	USD -	Unknown
2153	Edited by J. N. Fitt	HUNTING, STEEPLE-CHASING AND RACING SCENES	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.50
2154		HUTCHINSON, W. N., Dog-Breaking, illustrated, Lond. 1876...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	Unknown
2155	IDLE, CHRISTOPHER (Psued.)	Hints on Shooting and Fishing, &c., both on Sea and Land and in the Fresh water Lochs of Scotland	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2156	Nimrod, Tom Oakleigh and others	ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SPORTS (THE): a Series of Articles on every description of Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Deerstalking, Angling, &c.,	Lond.	1844	USD -	4.50
2157	INGLIS,JAS.	Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier; or, Twelve Years' Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter, by Maori	Lond.	1878	USD -	Unknown
2158	IRVING, JOHN B.	South Carolina Jockey Club (The)	Charleston	1857	USD -	Unknown
2159	JARDINE'S (SIR W.)	Naturalists' Library, complete	Edinburgh	1833	USD -	36.00
2160	JESSE, EDWARD	Anecdotes of Dogs	Lond.	1846	USD -	2.12
2161	JESSE, EDWARD	Anecdotes of Dogs	Lond.	1846	USD -	2.75
2162	JESSE, EDWARD	Anecdotes of Dogs	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.10
2163	JESSE, EDWARD	Scenes and Tales of Country Life, with Recollections of Natural History	Lond.	1844	USD -	1.05
2164	JESSE, GEO. R.	Researches into the History of the British Dog, from Ancient Laws, Charters and Records	Lond.	1866	USD -	6.00
2165	JOHNSON, DANIEL	Sketches of Indian Field Sports. The Art of Catching Serpents	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
2166	JOHNSON, T. B.	Sportsman's Cyclopaedia: a Complete Elucidation of the Science of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, &c	Lond.	1848	USD -	1.63
2167	JOHNSON, T. B.	The Shooter's Companion	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
2168	JOHNSON, JOHN B.	The Dog and How to Break Him, with his Diseases and Methods of Cure	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2169		JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST (THE)	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2170	KARR, H. W. SETON	Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands	Lond.	1889	USD -	Unknown
2171	KEMP, JOHN	Shooting and Fishing in Lower Brittany	Lond.	1859	USD -	Unknown
2172	KENNEDY J. P.	Narrative of an Expedition of Five Americans into a Land of Wild Animals	Lond.	1854	USD -	1.75
2173	KING, MAJ. W. R.	Sportsman (The) and Naturalist in Canada. Notes on Natural History of Game, Game Birds and Fish	Lond.	1866	USD -	2.75
2174	KIPLING, JOHN L.	Beast and Man in India	Lond.	1891	USD -	2.50
2175	KLAPP, H. M.	Krider's Sporting Anecdotes	Phil.	1853	USD -	2.40
2176	KNOX, A. E.	Autumns on the Spey	Lond.	1872	USD -	Unknown
2177	KNOX, A. E.	Game Birds and Wild Fowl. Their Friends and their Foes	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.00
2178	KNOX, A. E.	Game Birds and Wild Fowl	Lond.	1850	USD -	2.20
2179		LACEPEDES. Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, Comprenant Les Cetaces, Les Quadrupedes Ovipares, Les Serpents et Les Poissons	Paris	1855	USD -	3.50
2180		LA CHASSE et La Peche en Angleterre et sur le Continent Traduit de divers Ouvrages Anglais	Bruxelles	1842	USD -	1.37
2181	LAMONT, JAS.	Seasons with the Sea Horses; or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas	N. Y.	1861	USD -	Unknown
2182	LAMONT, JAS.	Yachting in the Arctic Seas; or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighborhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zembya	Lond.	1876	USD -	1.13
2183	LANDSEER, THOMAS	Monkey-Ana; or, Men in Miniature	Lond.	1827	USD -	2.62
2184	LANMAN, CHARLES	Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces	Phil.	1856	USD -	2.20
2185	LAVERACK, EDWARD	The Setter, with Notices of the Most Eminent Breeds Extant	Lond.	1872	USD -	1.30
2186	LEES AND CLUTTERBUCK	British Columbia, 1887. A Ramble in British Columbia	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
2187	LEFFINGWELL, W. B.	Shooting on Uplands, Marsh and Stream	Chicago	1890	USD -	1.30
2188	LENNOX, LORD WM. P.	Fashion Now and Then. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Social, Practical, Dramatic and Sporting	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.00
2189	LEVESON, H. A.	Sport in Many Lands	Lond.	1877	USD -	1.30
2190	H. A. L. The Old Shekarry.	(LEVESON, H. A.). The Forest and the Field	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.20
2191	LEWIS, E. J.	American Sportsman	Phil.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2192	LEWIS, E. J.	American Sportsman, containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting and Habits of Game Birds and Wild Fowl of America	Phil.	1874	USD -	1.30
2193	LEWIS, E. J.	American Sportsman. Hints to Sports- men, Notes on Shooting, &c	Phil.	1885	USD -	3.50
2194	LLOYD, L.	Scandinavian Adventures during a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years	Lond.	1854	USD -	4.25
2195	LLOYD, L.	Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway	Lond.	1867	USD -	3.13
2196	LORD, JOHN K.	The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia	Lond.	1866	USD -	2.20
2197	LORD AND BAINES	Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration	Lond.	1876	USD -	3.37
2198	LUCAS, THOS. J.	Camp Life and Sport in South Africa. Kaffir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles	Lond.	1878	USD -	Unknown
2199	MACGREGOR, J.	The Rob Roy on the Baltic. A Canoe Cruise	Lond.	1867	USD -	Unknown
2200	MACGREGOR, J.	The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea and Gennesareth, &c	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
2201	MAGRATH, T. W.	Authentic Letters from Upper Canada	Dublin	1883	USD -	Unknown

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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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