Bangs: CATALOGUE OF THE Library, Engravings, Oil paintings, AND MUSIGAL INSTRUMENTS. BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE, RICHARD GRANT WHITE Esq., OF NEW YORK. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, Monday, November 16th, and following days, 1885, BY BANGS & CO., 739-741 B, Nov161885,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 16, 1885 - November 16, 1885

Page Size: 2057 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABAELARDI ET HELOISSAE.	Epistolae a prioris Editionis Erroribus purgatae Ricardi Rawlinson	London	1718	USD -	Unknown
2	ABEILARD ET HELOISE	Lettres et Epitres Amoureuses	A Geneve	1784	USD -	Unknown
3	ABBEY (Henry)	Ballads of Good Deeds and other Verses	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
4	ABBEY	Ballads of Good Deeds, etc.	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
5	ABBEY	The City of Success and other Poems	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
6	ABBOTT (Edwin A.) and J. R. SEELEY	English Lessons for English People	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
7	ABBOTT	HOW to Write Clearly	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
8	ABOUT (Edmond)	Les Mariages de Paris	Paris	1857	USD -	Unknown
9	ABOUT	Le Roi des Montagnes	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
10	ADAMS (Ernest)	The Elements of the English Language	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
11	ADAMS (Henry)	American Statesmen--John Randolph	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
12	ADAMS (W. D.)	Quips and Quiddities, a quintessence of quirks, quaint, quizzical and quotable	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
13	ADAMS	Dictionary of English Literature	London and New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
14	ADDISON (Joseph)	The Miscellaneous Works of, in Verse and Prose	London	1765	USD -	Unknown
15	ADDISON	The Free-Holder; or Political Essays	London	1758	USD -	Unknown
16	ADDISON	Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc., in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703	London	1736	USD -	Unknown
17	[ADDISON]	Il Catone Tragedia Tradotta dall'Originale Inglese	In Firenze	1715	USD -	Unknown
18	ADLER (G. J.)	A Dictionary of the German and English Languages	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
19	ADOLPHUS (John)	The History of France from the Year 1790 to the Peace concluded at Amiens in 1802	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
20	AESCHYLUS	The Tragedies of (complete), translated into English Prose, from the texts of Blomfield and Scholefield, with Notes	Oxford	1829	USD -	Unknown
21	AGO (Felix)	Rhymes of the Poets	Philadelphia	1868	USD -	Unknown
22	AIRS BACHIQUES	Recueil de tons les plus Beaux Airs Bachiques, avec le nom des autheurs du chant et des paroles	Paris	1671	USD -	Unknown
23	ALCIATUS	Andreae Alciati Emblemata Elucidata doctissimis Claudii Minois Commentariis: quibus additae sunt eiusdem Auctoris Notae Posteriores	Lugduni	1614	USD -	Unknown
24	ALDUS	In hoc volumine haec Continentur C. Suetonii XII. Caesares	Venetiis	1521	USD -	Unknown
25	ALEXANDER (de Villa Dei)	Medulla aurea in Sintaxim Alexandri ta emendata, longe faciliori disposita ordine, cum multis notabilibus in priori medulla omissis			USD -	Unknown
26	ALEXANDRE (Padre)	Conformite des Ceremonies Chinoises avec l'Idolatrie Grecque et Romaine	A Cologne	1700	USD -	Unknown
27	ALEXANDER (William)	The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time; giving Some Account of almost every interesting Particular concerning that Sex, among all Nations, ancient and modern	London	1779	USD -	Unknown
28	ALEXANDER (Sir William, Earl of Stirling, etc.)	ALEXANDER (Sir William, Earl of Stirling, etc.). Poetical Works of	Glasgow	1870	USD -	Unknown
29	ALISON (A.)	Epitome of Alison's History of Europe	Edinburgh	1848	USD -	Unknown
30	ALFRED	The Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius	London	1773	USD -	Unknown
31	ALGER (Israel)	The English Teacher, or Private Learner's Guide, containing a new arrangement of Murray's Exercises and Key	Boston	1824	USD -	Unknown
32		ALL ABOUT HARD WORDS: being a Dictionary of Every-Day Difficulties	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
33	ALLAN	Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, etc., belonging to the Estate of the late John Allan	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
34	ALLEYN	The Alleyn Papers, a Collection of Original Documents illustrative of the life and times of Edward Alleyn and of the Early English Stage and Drama	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
35	ALLIBONE (S. Austin)	A Critical Dictionary of English Literature	Philadelphia	1859	USD -	Unknown
36	ALLINGHAM (William, Editor)	The Ballad Book, a Selection of the Choicest British Ballads	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
37		ALMANACH ROYAL, Annee M.DCC.LXXXV	Paris		USD -	Unknown
38	ADAMS (J. Q.)	Jubilee of the Constitution	New York	1839	USD -	Unknown
39	ADAMS	Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife, during the Revolution	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
40	Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq.	ADVENTURES OF UNCLE SAM, in search after His Lost Honor	Middleton (Ct.)	1816	USD -	Unknown
41		ALLEGHANIAN (The). A Weekly Publication	New York		USD -	Unknown
42	A. R. Spofford, editor	AMERICAN ALMANAC	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
43		AMERICAN DEBATES--Debates in Pennsylvania Convention on the Federal Constitution...			USD -	Unknown
44	J. Mennye	AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOKS.--An English Grammar...			USD -	Unknown
45		ASMODEE A New York. Revue Critique des Institutions Politiques et Civiles de l'Amerique...	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
46	BANCROFT (Hubert H.)	The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
47	BEARDSLEY (E. Edwards)	The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
48		BLUE LAWS. The Code of 1650, to which is added some extracts from the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of New Haven Colony	Hartford	1825	USD -	Unknown
49		BLUE LAWS of New Haven Colony, Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts, Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, etc.	Hartford	1838	USD -	Unknown
50		BLUE LAWS of Connecticut...	Philadelphia	1861	USD -	Unknown
51		BOSTON. Re-Dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
52	BRANCH (William)	BRANCH (William). Life, a Poem in Three Books; dedicated to the social and political welfare of the People of the United States	Richmond (Va.)	1819	USD -	Unknown
53	BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (J. P.)	New Travels in the United States of America, performed in 1788	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
54		BROADSIDE. A Traitor's Peace that the Northern Copperhead Leaders would force upon the Country		1864	USD -	Unknown
55	BUCKINGHAM (J. S.)	America, historical, statistic and descriptive	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
56	BULLOCK (W.)	Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
57	CHAPIN (Rev. A. B.)	History of Christ Church, West Haven	New Haven	1839	USD -	Unknown
58	CHASTELLUX (Marquis de)	Travels in North America, in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782	London	1787	USD -	Unknown
59		COLUMBIAN MUSE (The). A Selection of American Poetry	New York	1794	USD -	Unknown
60	James Wilson, LL D. (U. S. Judge), and Thomas M'Kean, LL.D. (Chief Justice of Pa.)	COMMENTARIES on the Constitution of the United States of America	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
61		COPPERHEAD MINSTREL...			USD -	Unknown
62	DAWSON (H. B.)	Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
63	DRAKE (Francis S.)	Dictionary of American Biography, including Men of the Time	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
64	DWIGHT (Theodore)	The History of Connecticut	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
65		FAMILIAR LETTERS on Public Characters, and Public Events: from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 1815	Boston	1834	USD -	Unknown
66	FARMER (John)	A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England...	Lancaster, Mass.	1829	USD -	Unknown
67	FIELD (David D.)	Centennial Address in Middletown, Ct., with Historical Sketches of Cromwell, Portland, Chatham, Middle-Hadham, Middletown and its Parishes	Middletown	1853	USD -	Unknown
68		FIRST DICTIONARY printed in America. Perry's Royal Standard English Dictionary	Worcester	1788	USD -	Unknown
69	FISH (F. G.)	St. Ann's Church (Brooklyn, N. Y.), from the year 1784 to the year 1845	Brooklyn	1845	USD -	Unknown
70	Henry B. Dawson	FOEDERALIST (The). Reprinted from the original text, with an Historical Introduction and Notes	Morrisania	1864	USD -	Unknown
71	FOSTER	Memorial Sketch of Lafayette S. Foster, U. S. Senator from Connecticut	Boston	1881	USD -	Unknown
72	FURMAN (Gabriel)	Antiquities of Long Island. To which is added a Bibliography by Henry Onderdonk, Jr.	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
73	GRANT (Mrs. Anne)	Memoirs of an American Lady...	Albany	1876	USD -	Unknown
74	GRATTAN (T. C.)	Civilized America	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
75	GUROWSKI (Adam)	Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862...			USD -	Unknown
76	C. J. Riethmuller	HAMILTON. Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton	London	[1864]	USD -	Unknown
77		HERALDIC JOURNAL (The): Recording the Armorial Bearings and Genealogies of American Families	Boston	1865-68	USD -	Unknown
78	HINMAN (R. R.)	A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut	Hartford	1846	USD -	Unknown
79	HOOD (George)	A History of Music in New England	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
80	HOTTEN (John Camden)	The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with their ages, etc., etc.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
81	JARRATT (Reverend Devereux, Rector of Bath Parish, Dinw'iddie County, Virginia)	JARRATT (Reverend Devereux, Rector of Bath Parish, Dinw'iddie County, Virginia). Life	Baltimore	1806	USD -	Unknown
82	JOSSELYN (John)	An Account of Two Voyages to New England Made during the years 1638, 1663...	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
83		JOURNAL of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782	Baltimore	1871	USD -	Unknown
84	JUDD (Sylvester)	History of Hadley, including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby	Northampton	1863	USD -	Unknown
85	KAPP (Friedrich)	The Life of John Kalb, Major-General in the Revolutionary Army	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
86	LAHONTAN (Le Baron de)	Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui contiennent une relation des differens Peuples qui y habitent, etc.	A la Haye	1703	USD -	Unknown
87	MCMASTER (John Bach)	A History of the People of the United States	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
88	MARSHALL (Charles H.)	The Decline of American Shipping		1878	USD -	Unknown
89	MIx (James B.)	The Biter Bit; or, the Robert Macaire of Journalism: a Narrative of the Black-Mailing Operations of Charles A. Dana's Sun	Washington	1870	USD -	Unknown
90	MONTAGU (Lord Robert)	A Mirror in America	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
91	MORSE (Jedidiah)	The American Gazetteer	Boston	1797	USD -	Unknown
92	MORSE	North American Atlas	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
93		NEW-HAVEN GAZETTE and the Connecticut Magazine			USD -	Unknown
94		NEW YORK. Memoirs of Rev. Matthias Bruen, pastor of Presbyterian Church in Bleecker Street		1831	USD -	Unknown
95		NEW YORK. Astor Place Opera House Riot. A Rejoinder to the Replies from England, etc.	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
96		NEW YORK. Facts and Documents'bearing upon the legal and moral question connected with the Recent Destruction of the Quarantine Buildings on Staten Island	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
97		NEW YORK. Testimony taken in the case of Ray Tompkins et al. charged with the Destruction of Quarantine Buildings		1859	USD -	Unknown
98		NEW YORK. Reports of Treasurer of the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, 1864			USD -	Unknown
99		NEW YORK. The Growth of New York		1865	USD -	Unknown
100		NEW YORK. Frauds of N. Y. City Government Exposed			USD -	Unknown

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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