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
301	BEALE, THOMAS	The Natural History of the Sperm Whale. To which is added, A Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
302	BENNETT'S (JOHN W.)	Fishes of Ceylon	Lond.	1834	USD -	3.00
303	BENNETT, J. W.	A Selection of Rare and Curious Fishes of Ceylon. From drawings made in that island, and colored from life, with letter-press descriptions	Lond.	1851	USD -	2.00
304	BERNERS, DAME JULIANA	The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Reprinted from the Book of St. Alban's	Lond.	1827	USD -	3.75
305	BERNERS, DAME JULIANA	An American Edition of The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle	N. Y.	1875	USD -	Unknown
306	BERNERS, DAME JULIANA	A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Book on the Subject of Fishing. Printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde, at Westminster, in 1496	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.50
307	BERTRAM, J. G.	The Harvest of the Sea. Natural and Economic History of British Food Fishes	N. Y. (Lond.)	1866	USD -	1.10
308	BEST, THOS.	Art of Angling	Lond.	1822	USD -	Unknown
309	BEWICK, THOMAS	A Natural History of British Quadrupeds, Foreign Quadrupeds, British Birds, Water Birds, Foreign Birds, FISHES, Reptiles, Serpents and Insects	Alnwick	1809	USD -	9.00
310	Dame Juliana Berners	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Treatise of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, by Dame Juliana Berners	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
311	Dame Juliana Berners	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, by Dame Juliana Berners	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
312	Edited by Piscator	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. The Secrets of Angling: by J. D., Esqr	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
313	BICKERDYKE, JOHN	Angling for Coarse Fish	Lond.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
314	BICKERDYKE, JOHN	Angling for Game Fish	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
315	BICKERDYKE, JOHN	Angling for Pike	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
316	BICKERDYKE, JOHN	Angling in Salt Water	Lond.	1887	USD -	Unknown
317	BICKERDYKE, JOHN	The Book of the Ail-Round Angler: a Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in both Fresh and Salt Water		1888	USD -	2.37
318	BISCHOFF, WILHELM	Anleitung zur Angel-Fischerei mit Abbildung und Beschriebung der hiezu sich eignenden Fischarten	Munchen	-1859	USD -	1.38
319	BLACKER (W.)	Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly-Making	Lond.	1842	USD -	1.10
320	BLACKER'S (WM.)	Art of Fly Making, &c	Lond.	1855	USD -	2.50
321		BLACKER'S Art of Fly-Making	Lond.	1855	USD -	2.12
322		BLACKER'S Art of Fly-Making	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
323	BLAKEY, ROBT.	Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of England	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
324	Palmer Hackle	(BLAKEY, R.) Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium	Lond.	1846	USD -	1.00
325	BLAKEY, ROBT.	Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations, and a Bibliographical List of Writers on Angling	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
326	BLAKEY, ROBT.	The Angler's Song Book	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
327	BLAKEY, ROBT.	The Angler's Song Book	Lond.	1855	USD -	1.10
328	BLANCHERE, H. DE LA	La Peche en Eau Douce	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
329	BLANCHERE, H. DE LA	Nouveau Dictionnaire General Des Peches Publie sous les Auspices de L. L. E. E. M. M. le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, etc	Paris	1868	USD -	4.50
330	BLEECKER, M. P.	Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises, Publie sous les Auspices du Governement Colonial Neerlandais, Illustrated with 193 chromolithographic plates of fish	Amsterdam	1862-1864	USD -	30.00
331	BOAZ, HERMAN	The Angler's Progress: a Poem Developing the Pleasures the Angler Receives from the period of his becoming a Complete Angler	Lond.	1820	USD -	1.37
332	Boccius, GOTTLIEB	A Treatise on the Management of Fresh-Water Fish	Lond.	1841	USD -	1.90
333	BOCCIUS, GOTTLIEB	Fish in Rivers and Streams: a Treatise on the Production and Management of Fish in Fresh Waters	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
334		BOOK (THE) Containing the Treatises of Hawking...	Lond.	MDCCCX	USD -	21.00
335	BOOSEY, THOS.	Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by an Old Angler and Bibliopolist, to which is added a Catalogue of Books on Angling	Lond.	1835	USD -	2.00
336		BORDER (THE) ANGLER: a Guide Book to the Tweed and its Tributaries	Edinburgh	1858	USD -	Unknown
337	BOWLKER, CHARLES	The Art of Angling; or, Complete Fly-Fisher, describing the different Kinds of Fish	Birmingham	1788	USD -	3.50
338		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1814	USD -	Unknown
339		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1826	USD -	Unknown
340	BOWLKER	Art of Angling	Ludlow	1826	USD -	Unknown
341		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1829	USD -	1.10
342		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1829	USD -	Unknown
343	BOWLKER, CHAS. (of Ludlow)	Art of Angling	Ludlow	1833	USD -	25.00
344		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1833	USD -	Unknown
345	BOWLKER	Art of Angling	Ludlow	1839	USD -	1.20
346	BOWLKER, CHAS.	The Art of Angling	Ludlow	1839	USD -	Unknown
347		BOWLKER'S Art of Angling	Ludlow	1854	USD -	1.20
348		BOYS'OWN JOLLY ANGLING BOOK...			USD -	2.10
349	BREVOORT, JAS. CARSON	Notes on some Figures of Japanese Fish	n. p.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
350		BRITISH ANGLING FLIES (for every month in the year)	Lond.	1862	USD -	Unknown
351	BROOKES, R.	Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing, with Natural History of River, Pond and Sea Fish	Lond.	1740	USD -	2.30
352	BROOKES, R., M.D.	Art (The) of Angling, now Improved with Additions and formed into a Dictionary	Lond.	1766	USD -	3.75
353		BROWN'S Angler's Almanac for 1848-1849	N. Y.	1848-9	USD -	4.50
354	BROWN, JOHN J.	American (The) Angler's Guide	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
355	BROWN, JOHN J.	American Angler's Guide	N. Y.	1850	USD -	2.38
356	BROWN'S (J. J.)	American Angler's Guide		1857	USD -	Unknown
357	BROWN, J. J.	American Angler's Guide	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
358	BROWNE, MOSES	Compleat Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation	Lond.	1772	USD -	2.10
359	BROWNE, MOSES	Angling Sports in Nine Piscatorial Eclogues	Lond.	1773	USD -	Unknown
360	BUCKLAND, FRANK	Fish Hatching	Lond.	1863	USD -	Unknown
361	BUOKLAND, FRANK	Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist	Lond.	1875	USD -	Unknown
362	BUCKLAND, FRANK	Natural History of British Fishes. Cultivation of Fish-Ponds	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
363	BUCKLAND, FRANK	Notes and Jottings from Animal Life	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
364	BUFFON	Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Avec les figures dessinees d'apres nature par Bloch	A Paris	An IX	USD -	4.00
365		BULLETIN of the United States Fish Commission for 1881-2	Wash.	1882	USD -	1.10
366	BURKE, ULICK J.	The Boy's Walton. A Discourse on Fishing	Lond.	1878	USD -	Unknown
367	CAIRNCROSS, DAVID	The Origin of the Silver Eel, with Remark on Bait and Fly Fishing	Lond.	1862	USD -	1.70
368	CAMPBELL, LADY COLIN	A Book of the Running Brook and of Still Waters	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
369	CAMPBELL, LADY COLIN	A Book of the Running Brook	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
370	CARPENTER, WM.	The Angler's Assistant	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
371	CARROLL, W.	Angler's Vade Mecum. Account of Water-Flies	Edinburgh	1818	USD -	1.37
372	CARROLL, W.	Angler's Vade Mecum, containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies	Edinburgh	1818	USD -	1.25
373	CARTWRIGHT, REV. W.	Facts and Fancies of Salmon Fishing	Lond.	1874	USD -	Unknown
374	CARTWRIGHT, REV. W.	Rambles and Recollections of a Fly-Fisher	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
375		CHAP BOOKS. Robinson Crusoe...	v. p.	v.y.	USD -	1.00
376	CHATTO, W. A.	The Angler's Souvenir, by Paul Fisher	Lond.	1835	USD -	1.75
377	CHATTO	Angler's Souvenir		1835	USD -	1.00
378	Stephen Oliver the Younger	(CHATTO, W. A.) Scenes and Recollections of Fly Fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by Stephen Oliver the Younger	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
379	CHETHAM, JAS.	Angler's (The) Vade Mecum	Lond.	1700	USD -	1.87
380	CHETHAM, JAS.	Angler's Vade Mecum, a Discourse of Angling	Lond.	1700	USD -	Unknown
381	CHEEK, J.	The Young Angler's Guide	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
382	CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H.	Can Fish Feel Pain? with a few Words on Angling	Lond.	1870	USD -	2.13
383	CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H.	The Fisherman's Magazine and Review	Lond.	1864	USD -	2.00
384	CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H.	The Modern Practical Angler: Fly-Fishing, Bottom Fishing and Trolling	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
385	CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H.	The Sporting Fish of Great Britain, with Notes on Ichthyology	Lond.	1886	USD -	2.75
386	CLARKE, KIT.	The Practical Angler	N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.40
387	CLARKE, KIT.	Where the Trout Hide	N. Y.	1889	USD -	1.10
388	CLARKE, CAPTAIN R. M.	The Angler's Desideratum, containing the best and fullest directions for dressing the artificial fly	Edinburgh	1839	USD -	Unknown
389	CLARKE, SAMUEL C., AND VAN DOREN, L. O.	The Fishes of the East Atlantic Coast which are caught with hook and line	N. Y.	1884	USD -	1.30
390	CLEMENTS, LEWIS	Shooting, Yachting and Sea-Fishing Trips	Lond.	1877	USD -	Unknown
391	CLIFFE, JOHN H.	Notes and Recollections of an Angler	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
392	CLIFFE, JOHN H.	Notes and Recollections of an Angler	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
393	COAD, J.	Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford and Cavan, with additions by G. Greydrake (i. e., Thos. Ettingsall)	Dublin	1832	USD -	Unknown
394	COLE, RALPH	The Young Angler's Pocket Companion; or, A New and Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling, as may be practised with success in every river in England during both the Winter and Summer seasons	Lond.	1795	USD -	2.00
395	COLE, RALPH	The Young Angler's Pocket Companion; or, A New and Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling	Lond.	1795	USD -	Unknown
396		COLORADO. With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters	Denver	1884	USD -	1.90
397	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	The Moor and the Loch, containing minute instructions in all Highland Sports	Edinburgh and Lond.	1878	USD -	1.80
398	COLQUHOUN, JOHN	Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots	Edinburgh and Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown
399	CONRAD, T. A.	New Fresh Water Shells of the U. S	Phil.	1834	USD -	Unknown
400	COPE, E. D.	Synopsis of the Fishes of Fresh Waters of North Carolina		1870	USD -	Unknown

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