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
501	HANSARD, GEO. A.	Trout and Salmon Fishing in Wales	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
502	HARRIS, WM. C.	The Fishes of North America	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	2.40
503		HARRIS' Angler's Guide	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
504	HARRISON, GEORGE	TWO Months in Brittany with my Knapsack and Fly-Rod	Lond.	1868	USD -	Unknown
505	HARVEY, W. H.	The Sea Side Book: Being an Introduction to the Natural History of the British Coast	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
506	HARVEY, W. H.	The Sea-Side Book. Natural History of the British Coast	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
507	HASSELL, J.	Excursions of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames	Lond.	1823	USD -	3.25
508	HENDERSON, WM.	My Life as an Angler	Lond.	1879	USD -	3.75
509	HENDERSON, WM.	My Life as an Angler	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.00
510	HENSHALL, JAS. A.	Book of the Black Bass	Cinn.	1881	USD -	1.00
511	HENSHALL, JAS. A.	Book of the Black Bass. Comprising its complete Scientific and Life History. Together with a practical Treatise on Angling and Fly Fishing	Cinn.	1889	USD -	6.25
512	HENSHALL, JAS. A.	More About the Black Bass	Cinn.	1889	USD -	2.50
513	HERBERT, H. W.	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing	Lond.	1849	USD -	3.00
514	HERBERT, H. W.	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America	N. Y.	1850	USD -	1.70
515	HERBERT, H. W.	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
516	HERBERT	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing	N. Y.	1866	USD -	1.55
517	HICKS, J.	Wanderings by the Lochs and Streams of Assynt and the North Highlands of Scotland	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
518	HILL, GEORGIANA	HOW to Cook Fish in a Hundred Different Ways	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	2.25
519	Palmer Hackle	HINTS ON ANGLING. With suggestions for angling excursions in France and Belgium, by Palmer Hackle	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
520	HOFLAND, T. C.	British Angler's Manual; or, The Art of Angling	Lond.	1839	USD -	1.75
521	HOFLAND, T. C.	British Angler's Manual; or, Art of Angling	Lond.	1839	USD -	4.50
522	HOFLAND, T. C.	British Angler's Manual	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
523	HOLBERTON, W.	The Art of Angling	N. Y.	1887	USD -	Unknown
524	HOLBERTON, WAKEMAN	The Art of Angling, how and where to catch fish	N. Y.	1887	USD -	2.38
525	HOLBROOK, JOHN E.	Ichthyology of South Carolina	Charleston, S. C.	1860	USD -	10.50
526	HOLDBROOK, JOHN E.	Ichthyology of South Carolina	Charleston	1860	USD -	9.00
527		HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS OF A NATURALIST (Fish, &c.)	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.00
528	HOUGHTON, REV. W.	British Fresh-Water Fishes	Lond.	1879	USD -	3.25
529	HOWITT, S.	The Angler's Manual; or, Concise Lessons of Experience	Liverpool	1808	USD -	2.63
530	HUGHES, WM.	The Practical Angler, by Piscator	Lond.	1842	USD -	1.50
531	H. C. Esquire	(IRELAND, S. W. H.) The Fisher Boy: A Poem, comprising his several avocations during the four seasons of the year	Lond.	-1808	USD -	2.62
532	ISYS, COTSWOLD	An Angler's Strange Experiences: A Whimsical Medley and An Of-Fish-all Record without A-Bridge-Ment	Lond.	1883	USD -	1.20
533	JACKSON, JOHN	Practical Fly-Fisher, more particularly for Grayling or Umber	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.50
534	JACKSON, JOHN	The Practical Fly-Fisher, more particularly for Grayling or Umber	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.10
535	JACKSON, JOHN	Practical Fly-Fisher. For Grayling and Umber	Lond.	1880	USD -	Unknown
536		JAPANESE BOOKS ON FISH AND FISHING, &C	n. p.	n. d. (as far as I know)	USD -	2.40
537	JARDINE, SIR WM.	British Salmonidae; atlas folio, comprising 12 large and splendidly colored plates of the salmon species, and three beautiful vignettes, with descriptive letterpress, in a portfolio		1839-41	USD -	10.50
538	JARDINE, SIR W.	The Perch Family	Edinburgh	1835	USD -	1.10
539	JESSE, EDWARD	An Angler's Rambles	Lond.	1836	USD -	3.00
540	KEENE, J. H.	The Practical Fisherman, Dealing with Natural History, Capture of Fresh Water Fish, &c	Lond.	1881	USD -	1.20
541	KEENE, J. H.	Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout, &c	N. Y.	1887	USD -	1.25
542	KING, JOHN LYLE	Trouting on the Brule River, in the Northern Wilderness	N. Y.	1880	USD -	1.00
543	KINGSLEY, CHARLES	Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore	Cambridge	1855	USD -	Unknown
544	KIRKBRIDE, JOHN	The Northern Angler; or, FlyFisher's Companion	Carlisle	1837	USD -	1.30
545	KIRKBRIDE, JOHN	The Northern Angler; or, FlyFisher's Companion	Carlisle	1837	USD -	1.25
546	KNOX, DR.	Fish and Fishing in the Lone Glens of Scotland	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
547	KREYSIG, GEORGE CHRISTOPH	Bibliotheca Scriptorum Venaticorum Continens Avctores, Qvi De Venatione, Sylvis, Avcvpio Piscatvra et Aliis eo Spectantibus commentati Svnt	Altenbvrgi	1750	USD -	2.00
548	LAKELAND, R.	The Teesdale Angler	Barnard Castle	1858	USD -	Unknown
549	LAMBERT, OSMUND	Angling Literature in England, and descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients	Lond.	1881	USD -	Unknown
550	LANG, ANDREW	Angling Sketches	Lond.	1891	USD -	2.63
551	LANG, ANDREW	Angling Sketches	Lond.	1891	USD -	5.75
552	LANMAN, CHAS.	Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States	Lond.	1848	USD -	1.25
553	LATHY, T. P.	The Angler: a Poem	Lond.	1820	USD -	2.50
554	LATHY	Angler (The): a Poem	Lond.	1822	USD -	Unknown
555		L'HISTOIRE ENTIERE DES POISSONS, Composee premierement en Latin par Maistre Guilaume Rondelet Docteur regent en Medecine en l'universite de Montpelier		M.D.LVIII	USD -	3.25
556	LITTLE, G.	Angler's Complete Guide and Companion	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
557	LOVELL, M. S.	The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland, with Recipes for Cooking them	Lond.	1867	USD -	Unknown
558		LOWER (THE) ST. LAWRENCE; or, Quebec to Halifax via Gaspe and Pictou	Quebec	1862	USD -	4.00
559	MACKINTOSH, ALEXANDER	The Driffield Angler, in two parts, to which are added Instructions on Shooting	Gainsborough and Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.13
560	MAC VINE, JOHN	Sixty-three Years' Angling	Lond.	1891	USD -	Unknown
561	MANLEY, J. J.	Notes on Fish and Fishing	Lond.	1877	USD -	Unknown
562	MANS, PIERRE BELON DU	La Nature & diuersite des Poissons	A Paris	M.D.LV.	USD -	2.50
563	MARCH, JAMES	The Young Angler's Companion, giving a description of all the different Methods of Angling	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	2.50
564	MARCH, J.	The Jolly Angler	Lond., n. p.		USD -	Unknown
565	MARCH, J.	Jolly Angler	Lond., n. p.		USD -	Unknown
566	MARSTON, E.	An Amateur Angler's Days in Dovedale	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
567	MARSTON, E.	An Amateur Angler's Days in Dove Dale	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
568	MARSTON, E.	Days in Clover	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
569	MARSTON, E.	Fresh Woods and Pastures New	Lond.	1887	USD -	1.75
570	MARTIN, J. W.	Float Fishing and Spinning in the Nottingham Style, including a Chapter on Pike Fishing	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
571	MARTIN	Float Fishing and Spinning		1885	USD -	Unknown
572	MARTIN, REV. JAS.	The Angler's Guide	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
573	MARTIN, REV. JAS.	The Angler's Guide	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
574	M.[ASCALL] L.[EONARD]	A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
575		MASS. Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts	Bost.	1839	USD -	1.05
576	MCALPINE, D.	Zoological Atlas (including Comparative Anatomy)	Edinburgh and Lond.	1881	USD -	2.50
577	MCLELLAN, ISAAC	Poems of the Rod and Gun; or, Sports by Flood and Field, with Memoir by Will Wildwood	N. Y.	1886	USD -	1.00
578	MEDWIN, THOS.	Angler in Wales; or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen	Lond.	1834	USD -	1.50
579		MEMOIRS of the Wernerian Natural History Society for the Years 1831-7, being Vol. 7 of the Series, containing Dr. Parnell's Essay on the Fishes of the District of the Forth	Edinburgh	1838	USD -	Unknown
580	E. M. E.	(MILLARD, E. M.) Random Casts; or, Odds and Ends from an Angler's Note Book	N. Y.	1878	USD -	3.00
581	MILFORD, JOHN	Norway and Her Laplanders in 1841, with a few Hints to the Salmon Fisher	Lond.	1842	USD -	1.30
582	MILNOR, WILLIAM	An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill, from its Establishment on the Romantic Stream near Philadelphia in the Year 1732 to the Present Time	Phil.	1830	USD -	15.00
583	MITCHELL, J. M.	The Herring	Edinburgh and Lond.	1864	USD -	Unknown
584	MOFFAT, A. S.	The Secrets of Angling	Edinburgh	1865	USD -	Unknown
585	MOULE, THOMAS	Heraldry of Fish, notices of the principal families bearing fish in their arms	Lond.	1842	USD -	2.75
586	MOULE, THOS.	Heraldry of Fish	Lond.	1842	USD -	4.25
587	James E. De Kay	NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Reptiles and Amphibia, by James E. De Kay	Albany	1842	USD -	5.75
588		NEIL'S Complete Angler, Fifteenth Edition...	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.30
589	NETTLE, RICHD.	The Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence and its Tributaries	Montreal	1857	USD -	Unknown
590	NEWLAND, REV. HENRY	The Erne, its Legends and its Fly-Fishing	Lond.	1851	USD -	1.38
591	NEWLAND,'REV. H.	The Erne, its Legends and its FlyFishing	Lond.	1851	USD -	2.12
592	NEWLAND, REV. HENRY	Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden...	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
593		NEW YORK. Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries for 1874, 1877, 1881, 1886, 1887, 1888			USD -	Unknown
594		NEW YORK. Report of Commissioners of Fisheries for 1889-91, inclusive. Numerous plates of fish, &c	Albany	1890-92	USD -	1.50
595	NICOLS, ARTHUR	The Acclimatisation of the Salmonidae at the Antipodes	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
596	NOBBES, Ro.	The Compleat Troller; or, The Art of Trolling; also a Brief Account of most of the principal rivers of England	Lond.	1682	USD -	9.50
597	NORRIS, THAD.	American Angler's Book	Phil.	1865	USD -	1.75
598	NORRIS, THAD.	American Angler's Book	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	1.25
599	NORRIS, THAD.	American Fish-Culture; Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout, Salmon, Shad, &c	Phil.	1868	USD -	Unknown
600		NORTH (THE) COUNTRY ANGLER; or, The Art of Angling, as practised in the Northern Counties of England	Lond.	1817	USD -	1.25

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