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
1201	MUSSET (Paul de)	Lui et Elle	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
1202		Music. Catalogue of Jos. W. Drexel's Musical Library	Philadelphia	1869	USD -	Unknown
1203		MUSIC FESTIVAL, May, 1882. Programme	New York		USD -	Unknown
1204		MUSICIANS. A Dictionary of, from the earliest ages to the present time, comprising the most important contents of the works of Gerber, Choron, Burney and others, and upwards of a hundred original memoirs, and a summary of the history of music	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
1205	MYNSHUL (Geffray)	Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners			USD -	Unknown
1206	NANTUA (S. de)	Histoire d'Albert. Dessins de Topffer	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1207	NAPIER (Sir Chas.)	William, the Conqueror, a Historical Romance	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
1208	NARES (Robert)	Elements of Orthoepy: the Whole. Analogy of the English Language so far as it relates to Pronunciation, Accent and Quantity	London	1784	USD -	Unknown
1209	NARES	Essays and other Occasional Compositions	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
1210	NARES	A Glossary; or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions, etc....	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1211	NAUNTON (Sir Robert)	The Court of Queen Elizabeth	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
1212		NEPOS The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus	London	1677	USD -	Unknown
1213	NEWCOMB (Plain English John B.)	What I know about Grammar	San Antonio, Texas	1879	USD -	Unknown
1214		NEW ENGLAND TALE (A), or Sketches of New England Character and Manners	New York	1822	USD -	Unknown
1215	NEWMAN (J. H.)	Sermons bearing on Subjects of the Day	London and New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
1216		NEWMAN. Miscellanies from the Oxford Sermons and other Writings	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1217		NEWMAN. Callista, a Sketch of the Third Century	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
1218		NEWMAN. Apologia pro Vita Sua: being A History of his Religious Opinions	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
1219		NEW TESTAMENT. Novum Testamentum, cum versione Latina Arise Montani	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
1220		NEW TESTAMENT. The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in parallel columns with the versions of Wycliffe and Tyndale...	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1221		NEW TESTAMENT. A fac-simile reprint of the Celebrated Genevan Testament M.D.LVII	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1222		NEW TESTAMENT. The Vulgate with the Douay Version of 1582 in parallel columns	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1223		NEW TESTAMENT. Revised Version	Oxford	1881	USD -	Unknown
1224		NEW TESTAMENT. The Variorum Edition	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1225		NEW TESTAMENT (Revised Version)	New York		USD -	Unknown
1226		NEW YORK ARISTOCRACY, or Gems of Japonica-Dom	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
1227	NICHOLAS (Thomas)	The Pedigree of the English People: an argument, historical and scientific, on English Ethnology	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1228	NICOLAS (Sir Harris)	The Chronology of History	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1229	NICOLAS	History of the Battle of Agincourt, and of the Expedition of Henry the Fifth into France, in 1415	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
1230	NICOLAS	Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G....	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1231	NICOLAS	The Historic Peerage of England	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1232	NINON DE L'ENCLOS	Lettres au Marquis De Sevigne	A Dublin	1777	USD -	Unknown
1233	NISARD (Charles)	Histoire des Livres Populaires ou de la Litterature du Colportage	Paris	1864	USD -	Unknown
1234	NOEL (Francis)	Dictionnaire de la Fable, ou Mythologie Grecque, Latine, Egyptienne, Celtique, Persanne, Syriaque, etc., etc.	Paris	1801	USD -	Unknown
1235	NOEL (Nathaniel)	The Circle, or Conversations on Love and Gallantry, &c.			USD -	Unknown
1236	NORDEN (John)	Speculi Britanniae Pars: an Historical and Chorographical Description of the County of Essex [1594]	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1237		NORMAN. The Norman People and their Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1238	NORRIS (Thad.)	The American Angler's Book; embracing The Natural History of Sporting Fish, and The Art of Taking Them	Philadelphia	1864	USD -	Unknown
1239		NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, May-June and July-Aug., 1877; Sept., 1882, and August, 1883			USD -	Unknown
1240	NOTT (J. C.) and GEO. R. GLIDDON	Indigenous Races of the Earth; or New Chapters of Ethnological Enquiry, including Monographs on special departments of Philology, Iconography, Cranioscopy, etc., etc.	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
1241		NOVELS. Red as a Rose is She...	London		USD -	Unknown
1242	NOYCE (Elisha)	The Boy's Book of Industrial Information	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
1243	NOYES (John Humphrey)	History of American Socialisms	Philadelphia	1870	USD -	Unknown
1244	NUTTALL (P. A.)	A Classical and Archaeological Dictionary of the Manners, Customs, Laws, Institutions, Arts, etc., of the Celebrated Nations of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1245		ODD VOLUMES: British Poets...			USD -	Unknown
1246		ODD VOLUMES: Christian Observer...			USD -	Unknown
1247	OLIPHANT (T. L. Kington)	The Old and Middle English	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
1248	OLIVER (Peter, late Chief Justice of Massachusetts-Bay)	The Scripture Lexicon			USD -	Unknown
1249	OLIVIER (Jacques)	Alphabet de l'Imperfection et Malice des Femmes. Reueu, corrige & augmente d'un Friant Dessert & de plusieurs Histoires pour les Courtisans & Partisans de la Femme Mondaine	A Rouen	1634	USD -	Unknown
1250	OLYMPIA (Morata)	Her Times, Life and Writings, arranged from Contemporary and other Authorities	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
1251		ORATIO DOMINICA nimirum plus Centum Linguis, Versiombus, aut Characteribus reddita & expressa	Londini	1700	USD -	Unknown
1252		ORTOGRAFIA MODERNA ITALIANA per uso del Seminario di Padova	In enezia	1789	USD -	Unknown
1253	OSBORN (L.)	The Vision of Rubeta: an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
1254	OSBORN	Arthur Carryl, a Novel, etc.	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
1255	OTTO (Jacob Augustus)	A Treatise on the Structure and Preservation of the Violin and all other Bow-Instruments	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1256	OURIKA	Deuxieme edition	Paris	1824	USD -	Unknown
1257	OVERBURY (Sir Thomas)	The Miscellaneous Works of; in Prose and Verse	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1258		OVIDII Metamorphoseos. Reuerendi patris: magistii petri lauinii philosophi, poete ac theologi in metamorphosin Ouidii tropologice enarrationes. Colophon, Impressum fuit hoc opus Lugd.			USD -	Unknown
1259		OVID'S METAMORPHOSES, in Fifteen Books	London	1727	USD -	Unknown
1260	OVID.	Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide. Traduction Nouvelle avec le texte Latin; suivie d'une analyse de l'explication des fables, etc.	Paris	1806	USD -	Unknown
1261	OWEN (R. D.)	Moral Physiology	New York	1831	USD -	Unknown
1262	OWENSON (Miss)	The Missionary, an Indian Tale	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
1263	OXBERRY (W.)	The English Drama, a Collection of Plays, with Prefatory Remarks	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1264	OXBERRY	Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
1265		OXFORD. A Hand-Book for Visitors to Oxford	Oxford	1875	USD -	Unknown
1266	PAGE (David)	Man: Where, Whence, and Whither?	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
1267	PAINTER (William)	The Palace of Pleasure, Beautified, Adorned and well Furnished with Pleasant Histories and Excellent Novels	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
1268	PALEY (Wm.)	Moral and Political Philosophy	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
1269	PALMER (Samuel)	Moral Essays on some of the most Curious and Significant English, Scotch and Foreign Proverbs	London	1710	USD -	Unknown
1270		PAMPHLETS. Migrants and Sailors in their relation to the Public Health...			USD -	Unknown
1271		PANTOGRAPHIA. Specimens of the Alphabets of a great number of ancient and modern languages of civilized and semi-savage people			USD -	Unknown
1272	PAPILLON (T. L.)	A Manual of Comparative Philology as applied to the illustration of Greek and Latin Inflections	Oxford	1876	USD -	Unknown
1273		PARADISE OF COQUETTS (The), a Poem	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
1274	PARENT-DUCHATELET (A.J.-B.)	De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris, consideree sous la rapport de l'Hygiene publique, de la Morale et de P Administration, avec cartes	Paris	1836	USD -	Unknown
1275		PARIS. Nouveaux Tableaux de Paris			USD -	Unknown
1276		PARISIAN SIGHTS and French Principles	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
1277	PARK (Thomas)	The Select Works of the Minor British Poets	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1278		PARKER SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS: Coverdale's Remains...			USD -	Unknown
1279	PARSONS (Thomas Williams)	PARSONS (Thomas Williams). Poems	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
1280		PASTON LETTERS (The), 1422-1509, A. D....	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1281		PASTON LETTERS (The), 1422-1509, A. D....	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1282		PATMORE (Coventry). The Angel in the House	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1283	PATMORE (P. G.)	My Friends and Acquaintance...	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
1284	PAULIN	Le Romancero Francois. Histoire de quelques anciens trouveres et Choix de leurs Chansons	Paris	1833	USD -	Unknown
1285		PEERAGE. The New Peerage; or, Ancient and Present State of the Nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
1286		PEERAGE. The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or, Key to the Peerage: Origin and History of British Nobility, etc.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
1287	PEGGE (Samuel)	Anecdotes of the English Language, chiefly regarding the local dialect of London	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
1288	PEILE (John)	An Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1289		PENSEES INGENIEUSES des Anciens et des Modernes, Recueillies par le P. B...	A Paris	1692	USD -	Unknown
1290	PEPYS (Samuel)	Diary and Correspondence	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1291	PERCIVAL (P.)	Jamil Proverbs with their English translation	Madras	1874	USD -	Unknown
1292	PERCY (Bishop)	Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1293	PERCY (Thomas)	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, etc.	London	1765	USD -	Unknown
1294	N. L. Achaintre	PERSE. Satires de, traduites en Franais par Selis; nouvelle edition revue et augmentee de notes, etc.	Paris	1822	USD -	Unknown
1295	PETERS (John C.)	A Treatise on the Diseases of Married Females	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
1296	PETHERAM (John)	An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in England	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1297		PETRI PETITI, Philosophi & Doct. Medici de Amazonibus Dissertatio	Amstelodami	1687	USD -	Unknown
1298	PFAFFIUS (Christopher M.)	Dissertatio Critica de Genuinis Librorum Novi Testamenti lectionibus	Amstelodami	1709	USD -	Unknown
1299	PHAEDRI (Augusti Caesaris Liberti)	Fabularum AEsopiarum libri quinque; Notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris Aliorum observationibus in lucem editi a Johanne Laurentio	Amstelodami	1667	USD -	Unknown
1300		PHILIPS' Handy Atlas of the Counties of England	London	1877	USD -	Unknown

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