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,

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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
101 COSTUME. Arts, Metiers et Cris de Paris Paris

n. d.

USD - 4.50
102 [Vecellio] COSTUME. Habiti Antichi Ouero Raccolta Di Figure Delineate dal Gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio fuo Fratello, diligentimente intagliate, conforme alle Nationi del Mondo Venetia

1664

USD - 4.00
103 COTTON (CHARLES) Scarronides; or, Le Virgile Travesty London

1664

USD - 3.50
104 Richard Haywarde COZZENS (FREDERICK S.). Prismatics. By Richard Haywarde New York

1853

USD - 1.75
105 CRUIKSHANK. Brough (Robert B.) The Life of Sir John Falstaff London

1858

USD - 23.00
106 CRUIKSHANK The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth London

1828

USD - 1.70
107 DALRYMPLE (JOHN) Queries Concerning the Conduct which England should follow in Foreign Politics in the Present State of Europe London

1789

USD - 0.10
108 DANIEL (GEORGE) Merrie England in the Olden Time London

1842

USD - 2.62
109 DANIEL (SAMUEL) A Panegyrike Congratulatorie Delivered to the King's Most Excellent Maiestie at Burleigh Harrington in Rutlandshire London

1603

USD - 11.00
110 DANIEL PRESS. Sixe Idillia, that is, Sixe Small, or Petty Poems, or Aeglogues, chosen out of the right famous Sicilian Poet Theocritus, and translated into English Verse Oxford

1883

USD - 5.12
111 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors...

USD - 2.25
112 D'AVENANT (SIR WILLIAM) The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru. Exprest by Instrumentall and Vocall Musick, and by Art of Perspective in Scenes, &c. Represented daily at the Cockpit in Drury Lane, At Three afternoone punctually London

1658

USD - 2.00
113 DAVENANT The Works of Sir William Davenant, consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the Press London

1673

USD - 12.00
114 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Copied from the original in the Department of State by Benjamin Owen Tyler, Professor of Penmanship Washington

1818

USD - 5.75
115 [LIND (JONATHAN)] DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress. The Fifth Edition London

1776

USD - 2.25
116 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the Claims of America, being an Answer to the Declaration of the General Congress

Printed in the year 1776

USD - 0.88
117 DICKENS (CHARLES) Pictures from Italy London

1846

USD - 4.25
118 DICKENS. A Tale of Two Cities London

[1859]

USD - 50.00
119 DICKENS Set of Twelve full-page Plates, by George Cruikshank for the Second Series of Sketches by Boz. Colored. Undivided, as printed, on six sheets London

1836-37

USD - 14.00
120 DIGGES (LEONARDE) A Boke Named Tectonicon briefely shewynge the exacte measurynge, and speady reckenynge all maner Lands, squared Tymber, Stone, Steaples, Pyllers, Globes, etc London

1562

USD - 2.00
121 DISRAELI (ISAAC) Curiosities of Literature... Cambridge

1864

USD - 3.00
122 DRAYTON (MICHAEL) Poems by Michael Drayton, Esquire London

1610

USD - 15.50
123 DRYDEN (JOHN) Fables, Ancient and Modern, Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer London

1700

USD - 6.00
124 Du Bois (HENRI PENE) Four Private Libraries of New-York New York

1892

USD - 3.25
125 EATON (SAMUEL) AND TAYLOR (TIMOTHY) A Defence of Sundry Positions

USD - 0.20
126 Becket (J. B.) ELECTRICITY. An Essay on Electricity, containing a Series of Experiments Introductory to the Study of that Science Bristol

1773

USD - 1.10
127 EMBARGO. Speeches Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the Resolution Offered by Mr. Hillhouse for Repealing the Embargo Laws Albany

1809

USD - 0.25
128 EMERSON (RALPH WALDO) Nature Boston

1836

USD - 12.00
129 EMERSON Essays Boston

1841

USD - 8.50
130 [EMERSON] An Essay on Transcendentalism Boston

1842

USD - 0.25
131 EMERSON Essays Boston

1844

USD - 10.50
132 EMERSON Poems Boston

1847

USD - 31.00
133 EMERSON Essays, Lectures and Orations London

1848

USD - 1.00
134 EMERSON Representative Men. Seven Lectures Boston

1850

USD - 3.50
135 EMERSON Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Bost.

1852

USD - 5.00
136 EMERSON English Traits Boston

1856

USD - 4.25
137 EMERSON The Conduct of Life Boston

1860

USD - 1.75
138 EMERSON Miscellanies: embracing Nature, Addressesand Lectures Boston

1860

USD - 1.25
139 EMERSON May-Day and other Pieces Boston

1867

USD - 4.25
140 EMERSON May-Day and other Pieces London

1867

USD - 2.25
141 EMERSON Society and Solitude Bost.

1870

USD - 5.00
142 EMERSON Letters and Social Aims Boston

1876

USD - 5.25
143 EMERSON Fortune of the Republic Boston

1878

USD - 1.75
144 Conway (Moncure Daniel) EMERSON Boston

1882

USD - 1.70
145 EMERSON Tributes to Longfellow and Emerson Bost.

1882

USD - 2.25
146 EMERSON (RALPH WALDO) The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-72 Boston

1883

USD - 2.12
147 Bracht (F. J. V.) EPHRATA IMPRINT. Der Blutige Schau Platz oder Martyrer-Spiegel Pennsylvania,

1748

USD - 18.00
148 EVANS (EDWARD) Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits London

n.d.

USD - 1.25
149 FAY(THEODORE S.) Hoboken: a Romance of New-York New York

1843

USD - 1.10
150 FERRIAR (JOHN) The Bibliomania: an Epistle, to Richard Heber, Esq London

1809

USD - 0.25
151 FIELD (EUGENE) Culture's Garland Boston

1887

USD - 20.00
152 FIELD Echoes from the Sabine Farm New Rochelle

1891

USD - 40.00
153 FIELDS (JAMES T) Poems Boston

1849

USD - 1.12
154 FITZ GERALD (EDWARD) Selections from the Poemsand Letters of Bernard Barton London

1849

USD - 1.20
155 Marshall (Humphrey) FORESTRY. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove; or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States Philadelphia

1785

USD - 2.50
156 Green (Samuel A.) FRANKLIN. The Story of a Famous Book: an Account of Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Boston

1871

USD - 1.50
157 FROISSART An Epitome of Frossard; or, A SummarieCollection of the most memorable Histories contained in his Chronicle, chiefly concerning the state of England and France London

1608

USD - 1.00
158 GALLATIN (Albert) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a Report December

1801

USD - 1.25
159 GARTH (SIR SAMUEL) The Dispensary: a Poem London

1699

USD - 0.50
160 GAY (JOHN) The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields London

1729

USD - 18.00
161 GENLIS (COUNTESS DE) Memoirs, illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries London

1825

USD - 1.75
162 GENTLEMAN'S CALLING (THE) London

1660

USD - 4.50
163 Stephens (Thomas) GEORGIA. A Brief Account of theCauses that have Retarded the Progress of the Colony of Georgia, in America London

1743

USD - 10.50
164 GLOCESTER (BISHOP OF) A Sermon Preached before theIncorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at their Anniversary Meeting . . .on Friday, February 21,1766 London

1766

USD - 1.00
165 GOWER (JOHN) Ovid's Festivalls, or Romane Calendar.Translated into English verse equinumerally Cambridge

1640

USD - 1.00
166 GRAY (THOMAS) Ode Performed in the Senate-Houseat Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the Installation of His Grace, Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University Cambridge

1769

USD - 20.00
167 GROLIER CLUB. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer Poet of Persia New York

1885

USD - 150.00
168 GROLIER CLUB The Poems of John Donne, from the Text of the Edition of 1633 New York

1895

USD - 10.00
169 HAKLUYT (RICHARD) Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of... London

1609

USD - 90.00
170 HALLECK (FITZ-GREENE) Selections from the BritishPoets New York

1840

USD - 1.62
171 [HAMILTON (ALEXANDER)] A Letter from Phocion tothe Considerate Citizens of New York on the Politics of the Day Philadelphia

1784

USD - 2.75
172 HAMILTON A Letter to Major-General Alexander Hamilton, containing Observations on his Letter, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., New York

1800

USD - 0.25
173 HAMILTON Treasury Department, September 19, 1789. The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 17th instant, respectfully reports New York

1789

USD - 7.00
174 HARCOURT (ROBERT) The Relation of a Voyage to Guiana London

1626

USD - 20.00
175 HARIOT (THOMAS) Merveilleux et estrange rapport,tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez...

1590

USD - 65.00
176 HARRISON (WILLIAM HENRY) The Civil Services of William Henry Harrison, with Extracts from his Addresses, Speeches, and Letters, and a Sketch of his Life [Philadelphia]

[1840]

USD - 1.25
177 Kendall (James) HARVARD. A Sermon Delivered at Plymouth on the Death of Rev

USD - 0.15
178 Wigglesworth (Edward) HARVARD. Some Thoughtsupon the Spirit of Infallibility Claimed by the Church of Rome Offer'd at the Anniversary Dudleian Lecture, at Harvard College in Cambridge, May 11, 1757 Boston

1757

USD - 0.25
179 Wigglesworth (Edward) HARVARD. The Hope of Immortality. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of the Honorable John Winthrop . . . Delivered at a Public Lecture in Harvard College Boston

1789

USD - 0.20
180 Rev. Mr. Holmes HARVARD. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Lathrop, and Eulogyby Professor Webber at the Funeral of the Rev. Joseph Willard, President of the University in Cambridge, with a Sermon, the next Lord's Day, by the Rev. Mr. Holmes Cambridge

1804

USD - 0.15
181 Woods (Leonard) HARVARD. Envy Wishes, then Believes. An Oration Delivered at Commencement Harvard University, July 20th, 1796, Leominster, Mass

1796

USD - 0.15
182 HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) Twice-Told Tales Boston

1837

USD - 25.00
183 HAWTHORNE Grandfather's Chair: a History for Youth Boston

1841

USD - 25.00
184 HAWTHORNE Biographical Stories for Children Boston

1842

USD - 27.00
185 HAWTHORNE Famous Old People: being the SecondEpoch of Grandfather's Chair Boston

1842

USD - 20.00
186 HAWTHORNE Liberty Tree, with the Last Words ofGrandfather's Chair Boston

1842

USD - 19.00
187 HAWTHORNE Journal of an African Cruiser New York

1845

USD - 13.00
188 HAWTHORNE Mosses from an Old Manse New York

1846

USD - 85.00
189 HAWTHORNE Mosses from an Old Manse New York

1846

USD - 3.50
190 HAWTHORNE The Celestial Rail-Road Lowell

1847

USD - 46.00
191 HAWTHORNE The Scarlet Letter: a Romance Boston

1850

USD - 29.00
192 HAWTHORNE The Scarlet Letter: a Romance Boston

1850

USD - 7.00
193 HAWTHORNE The House of the Seven Gables: a Romance Boston

1851

USD - 9.00
194 HAWTHORNE True Stories from History and Biography Boston

1851

USD - 14.00
195 HAWTHORNE The Snow-Image, and other Twice-ToldTales Boston

1852

USD - 4.12
196 HAWTHORNE Life of Franklin Pierce Boston

1852

USD - 4.00
197 HAWTHORNE A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Boston

1852

USD - 11.00
198 HAWTHORNE The Blithedale Romance Boston

1852

USD - 8.00
199 HAWTHORNE Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys, being a Second Wonder-Book Boston

1853

USD - 17.00
200 HAWTHORNE The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni Boston

1860

USD - 3.50
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