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
1001	LE SAGE	The Adventures of Gil Blas	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
1002		LETTERS. Original Letters of Locke...	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
1003	LEWIS (George C.)	An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
1004	LEWIS (John)	Analytical Outlines of the English Language, or a Cursory Examination of its Materials and Structure	Richmond (Virginia)	1825	USD -	Unknown
1005	LEWIS (W.)	Oriental Chess, or Specimens of Hindoostanee Excellence in that Celebrated Game; with numerous original situations, etc.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
1006	LIDDELL (H. G.) and R. SCOTT	A Greek-English Lexicon	Oxford	1869	USD -	Unknown
1007	LIDDELL (H. G.) and R. SCOTT	Greek-English Lexicon, abridged	Oxford	1869	USD -	Unknown
1008	LIDDIARD (Mrs.)	The Sgelaighe, or a Tale of Old; with other Poems	Bath	1811	USD -	Unknown
1009	LIGNAC (M. de)	De l'Homme et de la Femme consideres physiquement dans l'etat du Mariage	A Lille	1774	USD -	Unknown
1010	F. W. Fairholt	LILY (John, the Euphuist). The Dramatic Works of; with Notes and some account of his life and writings	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
1011	LILLY (William)	History of his Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1012	LINCY	Le Livre des Proverbes Franca is precede de Recherches Historiques	Paris	1859	USD -	Unknown
1013	LINWOOD (Rev. William)	A Lexicon to AEschyl us, containing a critical explanation of the more difficult passages in the seven tragedies	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
1014		LIVRE ROUGE (Le), ou Liste des Pensions Secrettes sur le Tresor Publique	Paris	1790	USD -	Unknown
1015	LLOYD (Lodowick)	A Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes: Diuided into certaine Regiments	London	1602	USD -	Unknown
1016	LOCKER (Frederick, Editor)	Lyra Elegantiarum, a collection of Vers de Societe, etc.	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1017	LOCKHART (J. G.)	The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
1018	LODGE (Edmund)	The Genealogy of the existing British Peerage, with brief sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
1019	LOGAN (William)	The Great Social Evil: its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
1020	LOGAN	The Great Social Evil: its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies		1871	USD -	Unknown
1021	(by Brayley, Nightingale and Brewer)	LONDQN AND MIDDLESEX; or, an Historical, Commercial and Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great Britain	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
1022		LONDON. The Story of the London Parks	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1023	W. J. Loftie	LONDON. In and Out of London	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1024	Rev. C. M. Davies	LONDON. Mystic London; or, Phases of Occult Life in the British Metropolis	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1025	M. Dejouy	LONDON. L'Hermite de Londres, ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais	A Paris	1824	USD -	Unknown
1026	Paul Pry	LONDON. Oddities of London Life	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1027	Thomas Roscoe	LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY			USD -	Unknown
1028		LONDON and its Vicinity Exhibited in 1851			USD -	Unknown
1029		LONDON. A Complete Guide to the Leading Hotels, Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, etc.		1874	USD -	Unknown
1030		LONDON. Davies' Map of the Environs of London			USD -	Unknown
1031		LONDON. Illustrated Panorama of London and the River Thames			USD -	Unknown
1032		LONDON. Map of London and Westminster, 1801			USD -	Unknown
1033		LONDON. Handbooks to Hampton Court; Beauchamp Tower			USD -	Unknown
1034		LONDON. Bartlett's Illustrated Map of London and Paris...			USD -	Unknown
1035		LONDON. The Great Metropolis	New York	1837	USD -	Unknown
1036	Mark Lemon	LONDON. Up and Down the London Streets	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1037	Sydney Smirke	LONDON. Suggestions for the Architectural Improvement of the Western Part of London	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
1038		LONDON. Select Views of London and its Environs		1804	USD -	Unknown
1039		LONDON PRACTICE OF PHYSIC	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
1040	LONG (George)	An Atlas of Classical Geography	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1041	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	Ultima Thule	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
1042	LONGFELLOW	LONGFELLOW. Complete Poetical Works	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
1043	LONGFELLOW	The Masque of Pandora and other Poems	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
1044	LONGWORTH (J. A.)	A Year among the Circassians	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1045	Louis (A. H.)	England and Europe, a Discussion of National Policy	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1046		LOVE STORIES. Afflictions and Sorrows in Youth of the Beautiful, Virtuous, Fair Maria			USD -	Unknown
1047	LOWELL (James Russell)	LOWELL (James Russell). Poems	Cambridge	1844	USD -	Unknown
1048	LOWELL	Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and the Dead Soldiers of Harvard University, July 21, 1865	Cambridge	1865	USD -	Unknown
1049	LOWER (Mark Anthony)	The Chronicle of Battle Abbey, from 1066 to 1176	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1050	LOWNDES (William T.)	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1051		LUCANS PHARSALIA: containing the Ciuill Warres betweene Caesar and Pompey	London	1614	USD -	Unknown
1052	Theo. Creech	LUCRETIUS. Of the Nature of Things translated into English Verse	London	1714	USD -	Unknown
1053	LUCRECE	Traduction Nouvelle, avec des notes Par M. L[a] G[range]			USD -	Unknown
1054		LUCUBRATIONS of Humphrey Revelin, Esq. Late Major in the Regiment of Infantry	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
1055	LUMLEY (Benjamin)	Reminiscences of the Opera	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1056	LUNETTES (Henry)	The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
1057	LYELL (Charles)	Principles of Geology	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1058	Mcalpine (R.W.)	The Life and time of Col. James Fisk, Jr., with the Lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield, the Enchantress, and Edward S. Stokes, the Assassin	New York	[1872]	USD -	Unknown
1059	MCDERMOTT (Hugh Farrar)	The Blind Canary	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
1060	MCELRATH (Thos.)	A Dictionary of Words and Phrases used in Commerce	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
1061	M'LENNAN (John F.)	Primitive Marriage: an inquiry into origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies	Edinburgh	1865	USD -	Unknown
1062	MACAULAY (Lord)	Critical and Historical Essays	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1063	MACDONNEL (D. E.)	A Dictionary of Quotations, chiefly from the Latin and French	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
1064	MACHIAVELLI (Niccoli)	The Prince	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1065	MACKAY (Charles)	The Lost Beauties of the English Language	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1066	MACKAY	A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry	London and New York		USD -	Unknown
1067	MACNISH (Robert)	An Introduction to Phrenology	Glasgow	1837	USD -	Unknown
1068	MAETZNER (Professor)	An English Grammar; methodical, analytical and historical	London and Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
1069		MAGAZINES. Harpers', The Century, Manhattan		1873-83	USD -	Unknown
1070		MAGAZINES. Victorian Review, Melbourne, Dec., 1880...			USD -	Unknown
1071		MAGAZINES. The Chatauquan		1883-84	USD -	Unknown
1072		MAGAZINES. A Bundle of Articles cut from various Magazines all relating to Subjects particularly interesting to Mr. White...			USD -	Unknown
1073	MAIMBOURG (L.)	The History of the League	London	1684	USD -	Unknown
1074	MAISTRE	OEuvres Completes du Comte Xavier De Maistre	Paris	1866	USD -	Unknown
1075	MALLET (Robert)	Three Reports upon Atmospheric Railways	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1076	MALLOCK (W. H.)	A Romance of the Nineteenth Century	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
1077	MALLOCK	Social Equality: a Short Study in a Missing Science	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1078		MALLOCK. The New Republic	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1079	MALO (Charles, Editeur)	Les Chansons d'Autrefois, vieux chants populaires de nos peres	Paris	1864	USD -	Unknown
1080	MALTBY (Edward)	A New and Complete Greek Gradus, or Poetical Lexicon of the Greek Language	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1081	MALTHUS (T. R.)	An Essay on the Principle of Population	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
1082	MANNINGHAM	Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602--1603	Westminster	1868	USD -	Unknown
1083		MAPS. Nieuw en Beknopt Kaart-Boekje, vertoonende de XVII. Nederlandse Provintien	Te Deventer	1741	USD -	Unknown
1084		MAPS. Railway Map of British Isles...			USD -	Unknown
1085		MAPS. Ancient Atlas...			USD -	Unknown
1086		MAPS. Tallis' Illustrated Atlas and Modern History			USD -	Unknown
1087	MARCH (F. A.)	A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
1088		MARCH. An Anglo-Saxon Reader	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
1089		MARCH. Latin Hymns, with English Notes, for use in schools and colleges	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1090		MARCH. English Orthography, 1876...			USD -	Unknown
1091	MARLITT (E.)	In the Schillingscourt, a Romance	Philadelphia	1879	USD -	Unknown
1092	MARLOW (Chr.)	Tragedy of Edward the Second	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1093	MARLOWE (Christopher)	MARLOWE (Christopher). The Works of			USD -	Unknown
1094		MARRIAGE. Tractatus Connubiorum a Tribus praestantissimis Saxoniae Ictis conscripti: I...	Jenae	1606	USD -	Unknown
1095		MARRIAGE. Dissertation sur la Rehabilitation des Manages Nuls, par un Professeur de Theologie	Paris	1834	USD -	Unknown
1096		MARIAGE. Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage	Paris	1853	USD -	Unknown
1097		MARRIAGE. The History and Philosophy of Marriage; or Polygamy and Monogamy compared	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
1098		MARRIAGE. The History and Philosophy of Marriage; or Polygamy and Monogamy compared	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
1099	MARSH (George P.)	Lectures on the English Language	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
1100	MARSH (George P.)	The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it embodies	New York	1862	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.

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

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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.

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