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
401	CORNELII, GEORGII	Piscatio Philosophica Excellentiae Illme Reuerendissime D.D. Georgii Cornelii Ecclesie Patauine Episcopi Dicata			USD -	13.00
402	COUCH, JONATHAN	A History of the Fishes of the British Islands	Lond.	1868-67	USD -	11.50
403		C(ox), N(ICHOLAS). Gentlemen's (The) Recreation. In four parts: Hunting, Hawking, Fowling and Fishing	Lond.	1677	USD -	2.25
404	CRAWHALL, Jos.	A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers	Newcastle	1842	USD -	1.87
405	CRAWHALL, Jos.	A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers	Newcastle-on-Tyne	1864	USD -	Unknown
406	CRAWHALL, JOSEPH	A Collection of Right Merry Garlands for North Country Anglers	Newcastle-on-Tyne	1864	USD -	2.50
407	CRAWHALL, JOSEPH	The Compleatest Angling booke that euer was writ, being done out of Ye Hebrewe and other Tongves, by a Person of Honor		(MDCCCXXXXXVIIII)	USD -	35.00
408	CRAWHALL, JOSEPH	The Compleatist Angling booke, &c		MDCCCLXXXI	USD -	19.00
409	CRAWHALL, JOSEPH	Border Notes, and Mixty-Maxty		1880	USD -	50.00
410	CUTLIFFE, H. C.	The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
411	C***, J.	Pisciceptologie ou L'Art De La Peche A La Ligne...	Paris	1823	USD -	1.25
412	DAVY, HUMPHRY	Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing	Lond.	1828	USD -	2.75
413	DAVY, SIR H.	Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing	Lond.	1828	USD -	1.00
414	DAVY	Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
415	DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY	Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing. First American from the Second London Edition	Phil.	1832	USD -	30.00
416	DAVY	Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
417	DAVY, JOHN	Angler (The) and his Friend; or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
418	DAVY, JOHN	Angler in the Lake District; or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
419	DAWSON, GEORCE	Angling Talks: Being the Winter Talks on Summer Pastimes	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
420	DAWSON, GEO.	Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
421	DAY, FRANCIS	British and Irish Salmonidae	Lond.	1887	USD -	1.50
422	DAY, FRANCIS	The Fishes of Malabar	Lond.	1865	USD -	3.25
423	D(ENNYS), J(OHN)	The Secrets of Angling, 1613	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
424	DEYEUX, TH.	Le Vieux Pecheur	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown
425	DIGBY, K. H.	Evening on the Thames; or, Serene Hours and What they Require	Lond.	1864	USD -	2.25
426	DICK, ST. JOHN	Flies and Fly Fishing for White and Brown Trout, Grayling and Coarse Fish	Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
427		DONAVAN'S Natural History of British Fishes	Lond.	1803-8	USD -	2.75
428	DOUGALL, JAS. D.	Salmon and Trout Angling	Glasgow	1843	USD -	Unknown
429	ENGELMANN, W.	Bibliotek der Forst-und Iagd-Wissenschaft. Uber die Fischerie und den Vogelfang	Leipzig	1843	USD -	Unknown
430	ELLACOMBE, REV. H. N.	Shakespeare as an Angler	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
431	ELLIOTT, H. W.	A Monograph of the Seal-Islands of Alaska. (U. S. Fish and Fisheries Comn.)	Wash.	1882	USD -	Unknown
432	ELY, BEN-EZRA STILES	There She Blows: a narrative of a Whaling Voyage	Phil.	1849	USD -	1.00
433	EVANS, W.	The Art of Angling; or, Complete Fly-Fisher	Uxbridge	n.d.	USD -	2.00
434	EYTON, T. C.	A History of the Oyster and Oyster Fisheries	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.13
435	EYTON, T. C.	Fishing Literature	Wellington, Salop	1871	USD -	1.80
436	FABER, G. L.	Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
437	FENNELL, G.	The Book of the Roach	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
438	FENNELL, G.	Book of the Roach	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
439		FISH AND FISHERIES. Report of the Commissioners for 1873-74, and 1874-75	Wash.	1876	USD -	Unknown
440		FISH AND FISHERIES. Report of the Commissioners on Food-Fishes: their propagation, &c., in the waters of the United States	Wash.	1884	USD -	1.40
441	Edited by D. Herbert	FISH AND FISHERIES. Prize Essays of the International Fisheries Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1882	Edinburgh	1883	USD -	Unknown
442		FISH LAW OF KENTUCKY. With Extracts from U. S. and State Reports on Fish Culture by Artificial Propagation	Louisville, Ky.	1876	USD -	2.37
443		FISH. Magazines containing articles on Fish and Fishing. Scribner's, Atlantic, Lippincott's, &c			USD -	Unknown
444		FISHERMAN'S (THE) OWN BOOK. Valuable Statistics of the Fisheries, Notable Fares, Narrow Escapes, Startling Adventures, Ballads, &c	Gloucester	1882	USD -	4.75
445		FISHES, ETC. A Natural History of Fishes-British, Foreign, and Water Birds, British and Foreign Quadrupeds, and of Reptiles, Serpents and Insects	Alnwick	n.d.	USD -	9.63
446	R. Lowe	FISHES OF MADEIRA. History of, by R. Lowe	Lond.	1843-60	USD -	3.25
447	FISHER, JAMES	A Spring Day; or, Contemplations of Several Occurrences which naturally strike the eye in that Delightful Season	Liverpool	1819	USD -	1.20
448	FISHER, P., i. e., W. A. Chatto	The Angler's Souvenir	Lond.	1831	USD -	4.00
449		FISHERIES EXHIBITS at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893			USD -	4.05
450	George Brown Goode	FISHERIES (THE) AND FISHERY INDUSTRIES of the United States	Wash.	1887	USD -	1.35
451		FISHERIES. Handbooks Issued in Connection with the Great International Exhibition, by various authors	Lond.	1883	USD -	1.08
452		FISHERIES. Hand Books Issued in Connection with the Great International Exhibition, by various authors	Lond.	1883	USD -	4.30
453		FISHERIES. Papers of the Conferences of the Great International Fisheries Exhibition	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
454		FISHERIES REPORTS: Maryland, 1878...			USD -	Unknown
455		FISHER'S Anglers' Souvenir		1835	USD -	Unknown
456		FISHERY HANDBOOKS, Vol. 1. Containing 10 Articles on Fishing and kindred subjects	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
457	FITZGIBBON, EDWARD	Book of the Salmon	Lond.	1850	USD -	3.12
458	FITZGIBBON, EDWARD	A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing and Salmon Fishing	Lond.	1847	USD -	2.25
459	FITZGIBBON, EDWARD	Handbook of Angling	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
460	FITZGIBBON, EDWARD	The Book of the Salmon	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.25
461	FLETCHER, PHINEAS	The Purple Island; or, The Isle of Man. Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies		1633	USD -	26.00
462		FLY-FISHING IN SALT AND FRESH WATER	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
463	FOSTER, DAVID	Scientific Angler: being a General and Instructive Work on Artistic Angling	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
464	FOSTER, DAVID	Scientific Angler	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
465	FOSTER, DAVID	The Scientific Angler	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
466	FOSTER, W. A.	Songs on Angling, &c. (Twenty-five copies privately printed from Whistle-Binkie, and the Book of Scottish Songs.)	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
467	FRANCIS, FRANCIS	A Book on Angling	Lond.	1867	USD -	Unknown
468	FRANCIS, FRANCIS	A Book on Angling	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.00
469	FRANCIS, FRANCIS	A Book on Angling	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
470	FRANCIS, F.	The Practical Management of Fisheries	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
471	FRANCK, RICHD.	Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland...	Lond.	1694	USD -	35.00
472	FRANCK, RICHARD	Northern Memoirs; to which is added, The Contemplative Angler, writ in the year 1658	Edinburgh	1821	USD -	3.50
473	FRANCK, RICHARD	Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland; to which is added, THE CONTEMPLATIVE AND PRACTICAL ANGLER	Lond.	1821	USD -	2.00
474	FRASER, ALEXANDER	Natural History of the Salmon, Herrings, Cod, Ling, &c	Inverness	1833	USD -	Unknown
475	S. A. Kilbourne	GAME FISHES oF THE UNITED STATES	N. Y.	1879	USD -	22.00
476		GARLICK. Artificial Propagation of Fish	Cleveland	1857	USD -	Unknown
477	GARLICK. THEODATUS	A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Fish	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
478	GILL, PROF. THEODORE	Report on Ichthyology	Wash.	1876	USD -	1.87
479	GIRARD, CHARLES	Fishes: from the Pacific R.R. Reports	Wash.	1858	USD -	Unknown
480		GLENFIN. The Fishing Rod and How to Use It...	Lond.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
481	GLENFIN (pseud)	The Fishing Rod and How to Use It	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
482	GOLDSMITH, WM.	A Lecture on the Raising of Trout before the Rutland Co. Agricultural Club...			USD -	Unknown
483	GOODE, G. BROWNE	The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States	Wash.	1884	USD -	5.25
484	GOODE, G. BROWNE	American Fishes: a Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America	N. Y.	1888	USD -	2.12
485	GOOGE, BARNABY	The Whole Art and Trade of Husbandry, contained in foure Bookes	Lond.	1614	USD -	5.00
486	GOSSE, PHILIP H.	Aquarium: an Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea	Lond.	1856	USD -	1.25
487	GRAY'S (DR. JOHN E.)	Synopsis of the Species of Whales and Dolphins	Lond.	1868	USD -	2.50
488	GREEN, SETH	Trout Culture	Rochester, N. Y.	1870	USD -	2.00
489		GREGO COLLECTION. 1,001 Books on Angling: being a Description of a most remarkably complete Collection	Lond.	1882	USD -	2.75
490	GREVILLE (LADY, Editor)	The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports: Trout, Salmon, Saithe-Fishing, and Bass and Tarpon-Fishing	Lond.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
491	GUNTHER, A. C. L. G.	An Introduction to the Study of Fishes	Edinburgh	1880	USD -	1.88
492	HALE, CAPTAIN	How to Tie Salmon Flies	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
493	HALFORD, FRED. M.	Dry-Fly Fishing, in Theory and Practice	Lond.	1889	USD -	1.60
494	HALFORD, FREDERIC M.	Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. A Treatise on the most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling	N. Y. (Lond.)	1886	USD -	2.50
495	HALFORD	Floating Flies. The Same as above, except that it has the London Imprint of Samson, Low & Co., 1886		1886	USD -	2.70
496	HALLOCK, CHAS.	The Fishing Tourist. Angler's Guide and Reference Book	N. Y.	1873	USD -	Unknown
497	HALLOCK, CHAS.	The Salmon Fisher	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
498	HAMILTON, EDWARD	Recollections of Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout and Grayling	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
499	HAMILTON, EDW'D.	Recollections of Fly-Fishing	Lond.	1884	USD -	2.12
500	Ephemera (i. e., Edward Fitzgibbon)	HANDBOOK OF ANGLING: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, and Salmon Fishing	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown

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