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
901	JAMES (W.) and G. GRASSI	Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
902	JAMES THE SIXT (King)	His Maiestie's Poeticall Exercises at vacant houres			USD -	Unknown
903	JAMESON (Mrs. A.)	Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
904	JAMESON	Memoirs and Essays illustrative of Art, Literature and Social Morals	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
905	JAMIESON (Alexander)	A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
906	JAMIESON (John, Editor).	The Bruce; or a Metrical History of Robert L, King of Scots...	Glasgow	1869	USD -	Unknown
907	JAMIESON (John)	Hermes Scythicus; or, The Radical Affinities of the Greek and Latin Languages to the Gothic, to which is prefixed a Dissertation on the historical proofs of the Scythian Origin of the Greeks	Edinburgh	1814	USD -	Unknown
908	JANIN (Jules)	The American in Paris during the Summer; or Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1844	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
909		JANUS; or, The Edinburgh Literary Almanack			USD -	Unknown
910	JARVES (James Jackson)	Art Thoughts: the Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
911	JEHAN DE SAINTRE	L'Hystoyre et Plaisante Cronicque du Petit Jehan De Saintre et de la Jeune Dame des Belles Cousines sans autre nom nommer publiee d'apres les manuscrits de la bibliotheque royale par J. Marie Guichard	Paris	1843	USD -	Unknown
912		JEHAN DE SAINTRE The History and Pleasant Chronicle of Little Jehan De Saintre, and of the Lady of the Fair Cousins	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
913	JENKINS (Edward, Editor)	The Cavalier and His Lady. Selections from the works of the First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
914	JENNINGS (Louis J.)	Field Paths and Green Lanes in Surrey and Sussex	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
915		JENNINGS. Rambles among the Hills in the Peak of Derbyshire and the South Downs	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
916	JENYNS (Soame)	JENYNS (Soame). The Works of	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
917	JEWEL (John, Bishop of Sarisburie)	A Defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, Conteininge an Answeare to a certaine Booke lately set foorthe			USD -	Unknown
918	JOHNSON (Rossiter, Editor)	Single Famous Poems	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
919	James Boswell	JOHNSON (Samuel). The Life of	Oxford	1826	USD -	Unknown
920	JOHNSTON (A. Keith)	Atlas of the United States, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba and Jamaica	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
921	JONES (H. Longueville)	Essays and Papers on Literary and Historical Subjects	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
922	JONES (Thos.)	An English and Welsh Dictionary	Donbigh	1826	USD -	Unknown
923	JONES (Rev. William)	Sermons; Practical, Doctrinal and Expository	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
924	JONSON (Ben)	JONSON (Ben). The Works of	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
925	JONSON	JONSON. The Works of	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
926	JONSON	Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond, of Hawthornden, January, MDCXIX	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
927		JORROCKS'S Jaunts and Jollities, or the Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Sailing, &c., of Mr. John Jorrocks	Philadelphia	1838	USD -	Unknown
928	JOURDAN (Prosper)	Contes et Poesies	Paris	1866	USD -	Unknown
929		JOURNAL of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain	New York	1815	USD -	Unknown
930		JUNIUS; including Letters of the same Writer under other Signatures	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
931		JUSTINI Historiae Libri XLIV. In Justini Historias notae et excerptiones chronologicae			USD -	Unknown
932		JUVENAL. The Satires of	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
933	KAMES (Lord)	Elements of Criticism	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
934	KARR (Alphonse)	Les Femmes	Paris	1853	USD -	Unknown
935	KEBLE	The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse	Oxford	1859	USD -	Unknown
936	KEIGHTLEY (Thomas)	The Fairy Mythology; illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
937	KEMBLE (John M.)	A Translation of the Anglo Saxon Poem of Beowulf, with a copious Glossary, Preface and Philological Notes	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
938	KENRICK (William)	A Rhetorical Grammar of the English Language	London	1784	USD -	Unknown
939	KERKADEC	Reminiscences of a Canoness. Anecdotes and Sketches of Court Life in France during the Reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
940	KERSEY (John)	Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum; or a General English Dictionary	London	1721	USD -	Unknown
941	KERVIGAN (Aurele)	L'Anglais a Paris. Histoire humoristique	Paris	1865	USD -	Unknown
942	KEY (T. Hewitt)	Philological Essays	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
943	KEY	Language: its Origin and Development	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
944	KING (C. W.)	The Natural History'of Gems or Decorative Stones	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
945	KING	Antique Gems and Rings	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
946	KING (Henry, Bishop of Chichester)	KING (Henry, Bishop of Chichester). Poems and Psalms	Oxford and London	1843	USD -	Unknown
947	[KINGLAKE (Charles)]	Eothen	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
948	KINGSLEY (Henry)	Ravenshoe	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
949	KLIMIUS (Nicholas)	A Journey to the World Under-Ground	London	1742	USD -	Unknown
950	KLIPSTEIN (Louis F.)	Anglo Saxon Grammar	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
951	KLIPSTEIN	Selections in Prose and Verse, from the Anglo-Saxon Literature	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
952	KNAPP (A. J.)	Roots and Ramifications, or Extracts explanatory of the derivation or meaning of divers words	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
953	KNIGHT (Henry G.)	The Normans in Sicily: a Sequel to "An Architectural Tour in Normandy"	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
954	KNOWLES (James)	Orthoepy and Elocution; or the First Part of a Philosophical and Practical Grammar of English Language	Glasgow	1829	USD -	Unknown
955	KNOWLES	A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language	London and New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
956	KNOX (Vicesimus)	KNOX (Vicesimus). Essays, Moral and Literary	London	1782	USD -	Unknown
957	KOCK (Paul de)	Un Mari Perdu	Paris	1843	USD -	Unknown
958	KRAUTH (Chas. P.)	A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
959		LA COMEDIA del Contile Chiamata La Pescara	Milano	1550	USD -	Unknown
960	LACOUR (Louis)	Grand Monde et Salons Politiques de Paris apres la Terreur	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
961	LACRETELLE	Precis Historique de la Revolution Francaise, avec gravures	Paris	1810	USD -	Unknown
962	LAFFAN (John)	Reading, Writing and Spelling made easy for Children, Grown Persons and Foreigners	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
963	LAING (Samuel)	Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
964	LALANNE (Maxime)	Traite de la Gravure a l'Eau-forte	Paris	1866	USD -	Unknown
965	LAMB (Charles)	The Complete Correspondence and Works of	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
966	LAMB	The Life, Letters and Writings of	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
967	LAMB (Mary) and CHARLES LAMB	Poems, Letters and Remains	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
968	LAMBARD	Archaionomia, sive de priscis anglorum legibus libri aliquot abhinc seculis conscripti, etc. Gulielmo Lambardo interprete	Londini	1568	USD -	Unknown
969		L'AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE	A Londres	1772	USD -	Unknown
970	LANDON (L. E.)	Romance and Reality (a Novel)	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
971	LANDOR (Walter Savage)	Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
972	LANDOR	Pericles and Aspasia	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
973	Thomas Roscoe	LANDSCAPE ANNUAL. The Tourist in Italy	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
974	LANGBAINE (Gerard)	An Account of the English Dramatick Poets	Oxford	1691	USD -	Unknown
975	LANGBAINE	The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets	London	1699	USD -	Unknown
976	LANGE (H.)	New German Method	Oxford	1876	USD -	Unknown
977	LANGLAND	Piers Ploughman. The vision and the creed of Piers Ploughman	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
978	LANGLEY (William)	The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman	Oxford	1874	USD -	Unknown
979	LANGLOIS (E. H.)	Essai sur la Calligraphie des Manuscrits du Moyen-Age, et sur les Ornements des premiers livres d'Heures Imprimes	Rouen	1841	USD -	Unknown
980	LANGLOIS	Essai Historique, Philosophique et Pittoresque, sur les Danses des Morts	Rouen	1852	USD -	Unknown
981	LANE	The Thousand and One Nights	London		USD -	Unknown
982	LARCHEY (Loredan)	Les Excentricites du Langage	Paris	1862	USD -	Unknown
983	LATHAM (R. G.)	The Germania of Tacitus, with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
984	LATHAM	The English Language	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
985	LATHAM	A Dictionary of the English Language	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
986	LATHAM	Outlines of General Developmental Philology	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
987		LARIMER. Certayn Godly Sermons, made uppon the Lord's Prayer...			USD -	Unknown
988		LATIN GRAMMAR: Bingham's...			USD -	Unknown
989		LATIN QUOTATIONS, with an English Translation, and an appendix containing the Latin Mottos of Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
990	LAUZUN	Memoires de M. Le Duc De Lauzun	Paris	1822	USD -	Unknown
991	LAW (William)	The First and Second of Law's Three Letters to Bishop Hoadley, in answer to His Lordship's Sermon on Christ's Kingdom, etc.	London Reprinted	1835	USD -	Unknown
992		LEADING CASES done into English (verse)	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
993	LEAKE (William M.)	On Some Disputed Questions of Ancient Geography	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
994	LECOUR (C. J.)	La Prostitution a Paris et a Londres, 1789-1871	Paris	1872	USD -	Unknown
995		LEGENDRE CATHOLICAE. A Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestes			USD -	Unknown
996	LELAND (Charles G.)	Gaudeamus ! Humorous Poems	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
997	LEO (Heinrich)	Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
998	LEONARD (William A.)	Music in the Western Church. A Lecture on the History of Psalmody	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
999	LE PAYS	Amitiez, Amours et Amourettes	A Paris	1665	USD -	Unknown
1000	LE SAGE	Histoire de Gil Blas	Paris	1795	USD -	Unknown

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

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