Bangs: First Editions of American Authors from the Library of a Private Collector. To Be Sold At Auction, Wednesday and Thursday, January, 22d and 23d, 1902. By Bangs & Co. 91 & 93 Fifth Ave., New York, 22Jan1902,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 22, 1902 - January 22, 1902
Page Size: 500 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABBOTT (GEORGE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY) A Briefe Description of the Whole World London

1620

USD - 3.00
2 ADDISON (ALEXANDER) An Oration on the Rise and Progress of the United States of America, to the Present Crisis;... Philadelphia

1798

USD - 1.00
3 ALEXANDER (WILLIAM, EARLE OF STIRLING) Recreations with the Muses London

1637

USD - 7.00
4 ALEXANDRA (QUEEN) A Welcome. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales London

1863

USD - 1.88
5 ALMANAC. The Universal Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1773 Philadelphia

[1772]

USD - 0.25
6 Osgood Carleton ALMANACK. An Astronomical Diary... Boston

[1790]

USD - 0.15
7 AMERICAN MISSIONARIES. An Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, from its Commencement in 1709 Edinburgh

1774

USD - 0.55
8 Schiller (Frederick) AMERICAN PLAY. The Robbers: a Tragedy New York

1793

USD - 1.50
9 Mr. Addison AMERICAN PLAY. Cato: a Tragedy Boston

1767

USD - 0.25
10 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The A, B, C. With the Church of England Catechism Philadelphia

1785

USD - 1.50
11 Abingdon (Earl of) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq., to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America Lancaster

1778

USD - 1.25
12 Adams (Samuel) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. An Oration Delivered at the State-House in Philadelphia to a very numerous Audience on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776 Philadelphia

1776

USD - 5.50
13 Allen (William) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The American Crisis... London

1774

USD - 15.00
14 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Caricature: News from America, with text, signed A Bye-stander. London

1776

USD - 1.00
15 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Claim and Answer, in the Case of William Cunningham & Co. against The United States Philadelphia

1798

USD - 0.62
16 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Columbian Magazine for July, 1789 Philadelphia

[1789]

USD - 0.62
17 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. De Tumultibus Americanis Deque Eorum Concilatoribus Meditatio Senilis Oxford

1776

USD - 14.00
18 Dickinson (John) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain over the Colonies in America, with the Resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania, etc Philadelphia

1774

USD - 11.00
19 [Draper (Sir William)] AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Thoughts of a Traveller upon our American Disputes London

1774

USD - 7.00
20 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Frankfurter Mess-Relation. Das ist Halfjahrliche Erzehlungen Der neuenste Statts und Welt-Geschichten Frankfurt-am-Mayn

[1776]

USD - 3.50
21 [Harvey (Edward)] AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Manual Exercise, as Ordered by His Majesty in the Year 1764, together with Plans and Explanations of the Method generally Practised at Reviews and Field-Days Philadelphia

1775

USD - 2.00
22 Johnson (Samuel) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Taxation no Tyranny... London

1775

USD - 2.00
23 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774 Philadelphia

1774

USD - 4.25
24 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Journal of the Proceedings of Congress, held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775 London

1776

USD - 2.25
25 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A Letter from a Virginian, to the Members of the Congress, to be held at Philadelphia on the first of September, 1774 London

1774

USD - 2.25
26 Morris (Gouverneur) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Observations on the American Revolution Philadelphia

1779

USD - 6.00
27 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Literary Amusements; or, Evening Entertainer London

1782

USD - 1.00
28 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Plain Question upon the Present Dispute with our American Colonies London

1776

USD - 6.50
29 Robinson (Matthew) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A Further Examination of our Present American Measures Bath.

1776

USD - 3.00
30 Price (Richard) AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America London

1776-77

USD - 1.00
31 [Priestley (Joseph)] AMERICAN REVOLUTION. An Address to Protestant Dissenters of all Denominations, on the Approaching Election of Members of Parliament, with respect to the State of Public Liberty in General, and of American Affairs in Particular Philadelphia

1774

USD - 16.00
32 [Serle (Ambrose)] AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Americans against Liberty;... London

1776

USD - 3.00
33 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A Speech Intended to have been Spoken on the Bill for Altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay London

1774

USD - 2.00
34 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Three Letters Addressed to the Public on the following Subjects... Philadelphia

1783

USD - 3.25
35 ANDRE. Andreana Record of the Trial of Joshua Hett Smith, Esq., for alleged Complicity in the Treason of Benedict Arnold, 1780 Morrisania

1866

USD - 1.88
36 ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING) Roger Payne and his Art. Plates New York

1892

USD - 82.00
37 ANDREWS Eulogy on Thomas Crawford by Thomas Hicks New York

1865

USD - 10.50
38 ANDREWS A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England New York

1897

USD - 38.00
39 ANDREWS Gossip about Book Collecting New York

1900

USD - 39.00
40 ANGLING The Fishmonger's Pageant, On Lord Mayor's Day, 1616 London

1844

USD - 3.50
41 ANGLING. Sage (Dean) The Ristigouche and its Salmon Fishing, with a Chapter on Angling Literature Edinburgh

1888

USD - 135.00
42 Robbins (Ammi R.) ARNOLD (BENEDICT). Journal of the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, a Chaplain in the American Army in the Northern Campaign of 1776 New Haven

1850

USD - 2.00
43 Partridge (John) ASTROLOGY. Opus Reformatum; or, A Treatise of Astrology London

1693

USD - 2.00
44 ATLAS. Mappe-Monde Dresse sur les Observations de Mrs. de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens Amsterdam

[about 1696]

USD - 10.00
45 ATWATER (EDWARD E.) History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut New Haven

1881

USD - 1.50
46 Asplund (John) BAPTISTS IN AMERICA. The Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North-America

[1791]

USD - 0.30
47 BARBARY WARS A Short Account of Algiers, containing a Description of the Climate of that Country, of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants Philadelphia

1794

USD - 0.50
48 BARING (ALEXANDER) An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, and an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain towards the Neutral Commerce of America New York

1808

USD - 1.50
49 BAUCHER (F.) A Method of Horsemanship, founded upon new principles Philadelphia

1861

USD - 0.10
50 BEVERLEY (ROBERT) Histoire de la Virginie. Traduite de l'Angloise Amsterdam

1707

USD - 1.50
51 BIBLE. Biblia, Das 1st: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments Germantown

1763

USD - 5.50
52 BIBLIOMANIA. Bibliomania in the Present Day in France and England New York

1880

USD - 1.00
53 BOCCACIO (GIOVANNI) The Tragedies, gathered by John Bochas... London

[about 1558]

USD - 15.00
54 Edited by Sir Walter Scott BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUMES. Grammont (Count). Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second London

1846

USD - 1.25
55 Hamilton (Count Anthony) BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUMES. Fairy Tales and Romances Lond.

1849

USD - 2.25
56 BOOKBINDING. Histoire de la Bibliophile. Reliures Recherches sur les Bibliotheques des plus Celebres Amateurs Armorial des Bibliophiles. 47 reproductions of famous bookbindings, size of original Paris

1861-64

USD - 0.80
57 BOSTON MASSACRE. Noble (Oliver). Some Strictures upon the Sacred Story recorded in the Book of Esther. . . . In a Discourse delivered at Newbury-Port, North Meeting House, March 8th, 1775, in Commemoration of the MASSACRE AT BOSTON, March the Fifth, 1770 New England

1775

USD - 5.00
58 BRACCIOLINI (FRANCESCO) The Tragedie of Alceste and Eliza. As it is found in Italian in La Croceracquis-tata London

1638

USD - 2.25
59 BRAITHWAIT (RICHARD) Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England

USD - 0.62
60 BRONTE (CHARLOTTE) Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell London

1847

USD - 29.00
61 BROWN (JOHN WILLIAM) The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, with a Critical Account of his Works London

1828

USD - 0.30
62 BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833 London

1878

USD - 3.25
63 Henry W. Bellows BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN). A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of William Ellery Channing New York

1842

USD - 4.00
64 BUCHANAN (GEORGE) Paraphrasis Psalmorum Davidis Poetica Multo Quam Antehac Castigatior London

1592

USD - 3.50
65 BUCHANAN (ROBERT) The Fleshly School of Poetry and other Phenomena of the Day London

1872

USD - 4.00
66 BUCK (GEORGE) The Great Plantagenet; or, A Continued Succession of the Royall Name, from Henry the Second to our Sacred Sovereigne King Charles London

1634

USD - 0.50
67 BUCKLE (HENRY THOMAS) History of Civilization in England London

1861

USD - 2.00
68 BURTON (JOHN HILL) The Book-Hunter. With additional Notes by Richard Grant White New York

1863

USD - 2.50
69 BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy Boston

1861

USD - 4.00
70 BUTLER (SAMUEL) Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the late Wars London

1663

USD - 1.12
71 CALLENDER. The Prospect Before Us . . . Vol Richmond

1800

USD - 0.30
72 CARLYLE (THOMAS) Chartism London

1840

USD - 0.88
73 (CARLYLE) Shooting Niagara And After? London

1867

USD - 1.12
74 CERVANTES The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha London

1742

USD - 3.00
75 CHAMPLAIN (SAMUEL DE) Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, Capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine

1613

USD - 100.00
76 CHAMPLAIN Les Voyages de la Novvelle France Occidentales, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr. de Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes les Descouuertes qu'il a faites en ce pais depuis l'an 1603, iusques en l'an 1629 Paris

1632

USD - 175.00
77 CHARLES I Eikon Basilika. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings [London]

1648

USD - 1.00
78 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers Addicions, whiche were never in printe before London

1561

USD - 25.00
79 CHAUCER The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer London

1602

USD - 16.50
80 CHURCHMAN (JOHN) An Explanation of the Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Chart, hereunto annexed, projected on a plan entirely new, by which the Magnetic Variation on any part of the Globe may be precisely determined for any time-past, present, or future, etc Philadelphia

1790

USD - 1.00
81 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and other Sketches Melbourne

1868

USD - 1.62
82 CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES (THE). Early American Poetry: Eligies and Epitaphs, 1677-1717 Boston

1896

USD - 5.25
83 Reynardson (C. T. S. Birch) COACHING. Down the Road; or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman London

1875

USD - 11.50
84 COBBETT (WILLIAM) The Impostor Detected; or, A Review of Some of the Writings of Peter Porcupine. By Timothy Tickletoby. To which is annexed A Refreshment for the Memory of William Cobbett, by Samuel F. Bradford Philadelphia

1796

USD - 1.62
85 COBBETT A Little Plain English addressed to the People of the United States, on the Treaty negotiated with his Britanic Majesty, and on the Conduct of the President relative thereto; in answer to The Letters of Franklin. By Peter Porcupine Philadelphia

1795

USD - 1.25
86 COBBETT A New-Year's Gift to the Democrats; or, Observations on a Pamphlet, entitled A Vindication of Mr. Randolph's Resignation. By Peter Porcupine Philadelphia

1796

USD - 1.50
87 COBBETT A Congratulatory Epistle to the Redoubtable Peter Porcupine on his Complete Triumph over the once towering but fallen and despicable faction in the United States : a Poem Philadelphia

1796

USD - 2.00
88 COCKINGS (GEORGE) War: an Heroic Poem. From the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, the Second Edition to the Raising the Siege of Quebec Boston, N.E.

1762

USD - 4.50
89 Brooks (James G.) CONNECTICUT. Anniversary Poem delivered at New Haven, Conn., before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa [of Yale College] New York

1827

USD - 0.62
90 CONNECTICUT. The Connecticut Register, and United States Calendar for 1820 New London

[1819]

USD - 0.10
91 CONNECTICUT. Inside Out; or, Roguery Exposed: being the Life, Sufferings and Adventures of Samuel Smith, alias Samuel Corson, now Confined in Newgate Prison in the State of Connecticut Hartford

1827

USD - 0.63
92 Percival (James G.) CONNECTICUT. Poem delivered before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society Boston

1826

USD - 1.12
93 CONNECTICUT. Six Numbers (first inserted in the Columbian Register of New-Haven) on Banking, and the Shaving Operations of Directors; with general remarks New Haven

1817

USD - 1.25
94 Strong (Cyprian) CONNECTICUT. A Sermon Preached at Hartford ... at the Ordination of the Rev. Jedediah Bushnell, as a Missionary to the New Settlements Hartford

1800

USD - 0.10
95 CONNECTICUT. A View of the New-England Illuminati, who are indefatigably engaged in Destroying the Religion and Government of the United States Philadelphia

1799

USD - 2.62
96 White (Stephen) CONNECTICUT. Death Dissolves the Nearest and Dearest Relations, and the Closest Connections between Men: a Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Col. Joseph Trumbull, Esq Hartford

1779

USD - 0.25
97 CONNECTICUT. Yale-College Subject to the General Assembly New-Haven

1784

USD - 5.75
98 [Webster (Noah)] CONSTITUTION. An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution proposed by the late Convention held at Philadelphia. With Answers to the Principal Objections that have been raised against the System Philadelphia

1787

USD - 3.00
99 COOPER (JAMES FENIMORE) The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground New York

1821

USD - 2.50
100 COOPER The Deerslayer; or, The First War-Path: a Tale Philadelphia

1841

USD - 2.75
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