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
801		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1837	USD -	2.20
802		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With Notes and Lives of the Authors	Lond.	1839	USD -	3.12
803		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With Notes, Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors	Lond.	1842	USD -	2.00
804		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	1.40
805	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1844	USD -	1.50
806	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1844	USD -	1.38
807	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1844	USD -	16.00
808		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. Set of India proof woodcut illustrations to Major's 1844 edition of the Angler			USD -	8.50
809	edited by J. Rennie	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. Lives and Notes by Hawkins, edited by J. Rennie	Manchester	1846	USD -	1.00
810	the American Editor (Rev. G. W. Bethune)	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With Copious Notes. A Bibliographical Preface giving an Account of Fishing and Fishing Books, and a Notice of Cotton and his Writings, by the American Editor (Rev. G. W. Bethune.)	N. Y. and Lond.	1847	USD -	16.00
811	WALTON, IZAAK	Lives of Dr. Donne, Sir H. Wotton, Mr. R. Hooker, Mr. G. Herbert and Dr. Sanderson	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
812		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With Notes, Preface, an Account of Fishing and Fishing Books, and Notice of Cotton and His Writings, by the American Angler (Rev. G. W. Bethune)	N. Y.	1847	USD -	1.75
813	Edited by James Rennie	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Manchester	1847	USD -	5.00
814	by the American Editor (Rev. G. W. Bethune)	WALTON AND COTTON'S Complete Angler. With Notes and a Biographical Preface, giving an Account of Fishing and Fishing Books, a Notice of Cotton and His Writings, by the American Editor (Rev. G. W. Bethune)	N. Y. and Lond.	1847	USD -	2.50
815		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With a new Introduction and Notes	Lond.	1851	USD -	2.50
816		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler		1851	USD -	2.50
817		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With a new Introduction and Notes	Lond.	1851	USD -	3.50
818		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler		1852	USD -	Unknown
819		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
820	Edited by Ephemera.	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
821	Edited by Edwd. Jesse	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1856	USD -	2.25
822	Edited by Edward Jesse	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1856	USD -	1.25
823	edited by James Rennie	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Halifax	1857	USD -	Unknown
824		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1858	USD -	2.12
825	Edited by Ephemera	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1859	USD -	2.63
826		WALTON AND COTTON'S Der Voll Kommene Angler herausgegeben Von Ephemera ubersetzt Von T. Schumacher	Hamburg	1859	USD -	3.12
827		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. Memoir and Notes by Sir H. Nicolas	Lond.	1860	USD -	6.25
828	Edited by E. Jesse	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1861	USD -	1.75
829		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1863	USD -	1.30
830		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1864	USD -	2.50
831		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. Index to the Original, and inserted Illustrations contained in The Complete Angler, Pickering, Publisher	N. Y.	1866	USD -	4.00
832		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Bost.	1866	USD -	3.75
833	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Bost.	1866	USD -	16.00
834	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Bost.	1867	USD -	1.60
835	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Bost.	1870	USD -	3.25
836		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1875	USD -	1.60
837	The American Editor (G. W. Bethune)	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	N. Y.	1880	USD -	1.90
838	the American Editor (G. W. Bethune, D.D.)	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. With Copious Notes, for the most part Original. A Bibliographical Preface and a Notice of Cotton and his Writings	N. Y.	1880	USD -	12.50
839	Edited by Ephemera.	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1881	USD -	1.00
840	Edited by Ephemera.	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1881	USD -	2.30
841	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	1883	USD -	3.25
842	Edited and arranged by R. B. Marston	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler. (Lea and Dove Edition -the 100th.)	Lond.	1888	USD -	19.00
843		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Bost.	1889	USD -	8.50
844		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	2.13
845		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.37
846	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
847		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler (Chandos Library)	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
848	Edited by John Major	WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	4.25
849		WALTON AND COTTON'S Angler	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
850	WEBER, J. C.	Die Fische Deutschlands und der Schweiz in 67 colorirten abbildungen nach der natur. Zweite Auflage mit Systematisch Geordnetem Text von Dr. C. A. Kranz	Munchen	1870	USD -	2.25
851	WEBSTER, DAVID	The Angler and the Coop-Rod. Portrait and colored files	Lond.	1885	USD -	Unknown
852	WELLS, HENRY P.	Fly-Rod and Fly-Tackle	N. Y.	1885	USD -	3.75
853	WELLS, HENRY P.	Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
854	WELLS, HENRY P.	The American Salmon Fisher	N. Y.	1886	USD -	1.10
855	WESTWOOD, T.	A New Bibliotheca Piscatoria; or, A General Catalogue of Angling and Fishing Literature, with Bibliographical Notes and Data	Lond.	1861	USD -	Unknown
856	WESTWOOD, T.	The Ouaest of the Sanc-greall...	Lond.	1868	USD -	1.80
857	WESTWOOD, T.	The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Chas. Cotton	Lond.	1864	USD -	Unknown
858	WESTWOOD, T.	The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Chas. Cotton	Lond.	1883	USD -	2.25
859		WESTWOOD AND SATCHELL'S Bibliotheca Piscatoria	Lond.	1883	USD -	2.63
860		WESTWOOD AND SATCHELL'S Bibliotheca Piscatoria: a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture	Lond.	1883	USD -	1.30
861	WHEATLEY, H.	The Rod and Line	Lond.	1849	USD -	1.00
862	WHITNEY, JOHN	The Genteel Recreation; or, The Pleasure of Angling: a Poem	Lond.	1700	USD -	3.00
863	WHITNEY, JOHN	The Genteel Recreation; or, The Pleasure of Angling	Lond.	1700	USD -	2.75
864		WHOLE ART OF FISHING (THE). TO which is added the Laws of Angling	Lond.	1714	USD -	1.60
865	WILCOCKS, J. C.	The Sea Fisherman	Lond.	1884	USD -	Unknown
866	WILLIAMSON, JOHN	British Angler (The); or, A Pocket Compendium for Gentlemen Fishers	Lond.	1740	USD -	2.50
867	WILLIAMSON, CAPT. T.	The Complete Angler's Vade-Mecum, being a perfect Code of Instruction on the above pleasing Science	Lond.	1808	USD -	2.00
868	WILLIAMSON, CAPT. T.	The Complete Angler's Vade-Mecum	Lond.	1808	USD -	1.10
869	WOOLSEY, CHAS. WM.	A Fishery Imbroglio. Treating of a Question in the Domain of Intersexual Politics	N. Y.	1886	USD -	6.25
870	WRAXALL, LASCELLES	Life in the Sea: the Nature and Habits of Marine Animals	Lond.	1860	USD -	1.75
871	WRIGHT, W.	Fishes and Fishing. Artificial Breeding of Fish	Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown
872	YARRELL, WILLIAM	A History of British Fishes	Lond.	1859	USD -	8.50
873	YARRELL, WM.	On the Growth of the Salmon in Fresh Water	Lond.	1839	USD -	2.00
874	YOUNG, L. J. H.	Sea-Fishing as a Sport	Lond.	1872	USD -	Unknown
875	YOUNGER, JOHN	River Angling for Salmon and Trout, with a Memoir of the Author	Kelso	1860	USD -	Unknown
876	YOUNGER, JOHN	River Angling for Salmon and Trout	Kelso	1860	USD -	Unknown
877	ZOUCH, THOMAS	The Life of Isaac Walton, including Notices of his Contemporaries	Lond.	1824	USD -	113.50
878	ZOUCH, THOMAS	The Life of Isaac Walton, including Notices of his Contemporaries	Lond.	1824	USD -	16.50
879	ANSTEY, F.	Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen	N. Y.	1893	USD -	Unknown
880		A PORTFOLIO OF PROOF IMPRESSIONS (of the Engravings) selected from Scribner's Monthly and St. Nicholas	N. Y.	1880	USD -	1.70
881		ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT. The Book of...	Lond.	1882-1889	USD -	65.00
882	ARNOLD, EDWIN	Indian Idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahi Charata	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
883	ARNOLD, SIR E.	Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation: being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, as told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist	Lond.	1890	USD -	3.50
884	ARNOLD, EDWIN	Pearls of the Faith; or, Islam's Rosary	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
885	ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN	Seas and Lands	N. Y.	1891	USD -	1.35
886		ARNOLD'S (MATTHEW) Birthday Book	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
887	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Discourses in America	Lond.	1885	USD -	Unknown
888	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Poems	N. Y.	1883	USD -	2.50
889	ARNOLD (MATTHEW)	ARNOLD'S (MATTHEW) Poetical Works	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
890	ARNOLD (DR. THOMAS)	Works, comprising: History of Rome...	Lond.	v. y.	USD -	33.75
891	ARNOLD, THOS.	Christian Life: its Course, its Hindrances, and its Helps	Lond.	1849	USD -	1.87
892	ARNOLD, THOS J.	Reynard the Fox, after the German Version of Goethe	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
893		ART JOURNAL (THE). Complete, from its Commencement, 1849, to 1877; with the addition of the Art Union Illustrated Catalogues of the Universal Exhibitions	Lond.	1849-1876	USD -	34.30
894		ART (THE) TREAURES OF AMERICA: being the Choicest Works of Art in Public and Private Collections			USD -	25.50
895		ART. Audsley and Bowes' Keramic Art of Japan	Lond.	1881	USD -	3.50
896	Clark, Jr., Wm. J.	ART. Great American Sculptures	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
897		ART. Donato Palais de San Donato Catalogue des Objets D'Art et D'Ameublement Tableaax Dont La Vente aux encheres Publiques Auraleen A Florence, au Palais de San Donato, le 15 Mars, 1880, et les jours suivant	Bruxelles and Paris	1880	USD -	17.00
898	Dunlap, William	ART. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States	N. Y.	1834	USD -	12.00
899	Jacquemart, Albert	ART. History of the Ceramic Art: a Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the Pottery of all Ages and all Nations	Lond.	1873	USD -	8.00
900		ART. Societe D'Aquarellistes Francais (Complete), Ouvrage D'Art Publie avec le Concours Artistique de tous les Societaires	Paris	1883	USD -	20.00

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