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
1301	[PHILLIPS (Edward)]	The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complementing...	London	1685	USD -	Unknown
1302	PHILLIPS (Edward)	Theatrum Poetarum, or a Compleat Collection of the Poets, especially the most eminent, of all Ages, with a Prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry in Generall	London	1660	USD -	Unknown
1303		PHILLIPS. Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum...	Canterbury	1800	USD -	Unknown
1304	PHILLIPPS (S. M.)	Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, with an introduction on the theory of presumptive proof	Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
1305		PHILOLOGICAL MUSEUM	Cambridge	1832	USD -	Unknown
1306	PICKBOURN (James)	A Dissertation on the English Verb, to which is added an A ppendix on French and Latin Participles	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
1307	PICKERING (John)	A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America, to which is prefixed An Essay on the Present State of the English Language in the United States	Boston	1816	USD -	Unknown
1308		PIECES OF A BROKEN-DOWN CRITIC picked up by Himself-Reviews and Original Verses and Verse Translations	Baden Baden	1858	USD -	Unknown
1309	PIGNAE (Io. Baptistas)	Carminum lib. quatuor. His adiumximus Caelii Calcagnini carm. lib. III. Ludovici Areosti carin. lib. II	Venctiis	1554	USD -	Unknown
1310	[PIGOTT (Charles)]	The Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
1311	PIGOTT	Female Jockey Club (The), or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
1312	PILKINGTON (H. W.)	A Musical Dictionary	Boston	1812	USD -	Unknown
1313	PINDAR	PINDAR. The Odes of	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1314	PITT (William)	Speech in the House of Commons, January 31, 1799, ON the Union between Great Britain and Ireland	London	1799	USD -	Unknown
1315	PLATO	The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of Plato	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
1316	PLINY	The Letters of the Younger Pliny	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
1317		PLAUH Comoediae quatuor. Familiaribus annotationibus declaratae	Argentorati	1511	USD -	Unknown
1318	PLAUTUS	PLAUTUS. The Comedies of	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1319		PLAYS. The Search after Happiness; Percy, a Tragedy...	London		USD -	Unknown
1320		PLAYS. The Honey Moon...			USD -	Unknown
1321	PLUTARCH	Lives	London	1703	USD -	Unknown
1322		POETICAL REGISTER and Repository of Fugitive Poetry, 1801-1811	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
1323		POETRY of the Anti-Jacobin, London, 1799			USD -	Unknown
1324		POETRY. The Lutrin...			USD -	Unknown
1325		POETRY. A New Miscellany of Tales, Songs and Poems...			USD -	Unknown
1326		POETRY. Hero and Leander, a Poem...			USD -	Unknown
1327	POGGIO	The Facetiea or Jocose Tales of Poggio, now first translated into English with the Latin Text	Paris	1879	USD -	Unknown
1328	POLKO (E.)	Nicolo Paganini und die Geigenbauer	Leipzig	1876	USD -	Unknown
1329	POLYGAMY	The Cobler's Letters to the Author of The-lyphthora...			USD -	Unknown
1330	POPE (Alexander)	POPE (Alexander). The Poetical Works of			USD -	Unknown
1331	POPE	An Essay on Man; with Notes		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1332		POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY		May, 1882	USD -	Unknown
1333	[PARREE (Jonas)]	Traite des Anciennes Ceremonies; ou Histoire contenant leur Naissance & Accroissement, leur Entree en l'Eglise, etc.	Paris	1673	USD -	Unknown
1334	PORTER (Noah)	The Sciences of Nature versus the Science of Man	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
1335	POTT (Mrs. Henry).	The Promus, of Formularies and Elegancies	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
1336	POTTER (John)	Festivous Notes on the History and Adventures of the Renouned Don Quixote	London	1771	USD -	Unknown
1337	PRESTON (Margaret J.)	Old Song and New	Philadelphia	1870	USD -	Unknown
1338	PREVOST (l'Abbe)	Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier Des Grieux, Precedee d'une Preface par Alexandre Dumas Fils	Paris	1875	USD -	Unknown
1339	PREVOST	Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1340	PREVOST	Histoire de Manon Lescaut	Paris	1877	USD -	Unknown
1341	PRICE (Sir Uvedale)	On the Picturesque: with an Essay on the Origin of Taste	Edinburgh	1842	USD -	Unknown
1342	PRICHARD (James Cowles)	The Natural History of Man	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1343		PRISCIANI CAESARIENSIS Grammatici Opera. Edidit Augustus Krehl	Lipsiae	1819	USD -	Unknown
1344	PROBYN (J. W., Editor)	Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries, a series of Essays	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1345	PROCTER (Francis)	A History of the Book of Common Prayer, with a rationale of its offices	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1346	PROFFATT (John)	Woman before the Law	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1347		PRONOUNCING POCKET DICTIONARY of the English Language	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1348		PROSTITUTION. Code, ou Nouveau Reglement sur les Lieux de Prostitutions dans la Ville de Paris	A Londres	1775	USD -	Unknown
1349		PROSTITUTION. The Greatest of Our Social Evils as it now exists in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin, an enquiry into the cause and means of reformation	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1350		PROSTITUTION. Glimpses of the Social Evil in Edinburgh and Elsewhere	Edinburgh	1864	USD -	Unknown
1351		PROSTITUTION. Public Women of Paris (The)...	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
1352		PROSTITUTION IN BERLIN. (In German)			USD -	Unknown
1353		PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH Journals of General Conventions from 1784 to 1814	Philadelphia	1817	USD -	Unknown
1354	G. D. B.	PROVERBS. Dictionnaire des Proverbes Francois, avec l'explication de leurs significations, etc.	Brusselles	1710	USD -	Unknown
1355	PRUS (Madame)	A Residence in Algeria	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1356		PSALMES. The Whole Book of Psalmes, with the Prose in the Margin, according to the new Translation of the English Bible	London	1649	USD -	Unknown
1357		PSALMODIA EVANGELICA	New York	1831	USD -	Unknown
1358		PSALTER (The), or Psalmes of Dauid, after the translation of the great Bible, Pointed as it shall be sung or said in Churches	Imprinted at London	1598	USD -	Unknown
1359	PURNELL (Thomas)	Literature and its Professors	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1360		PUTNAM'S MONTHLY			USD -	Unknown
1361		PUTNAM. Handy Book Series--The Best Reading	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1362	QUACKENBOS (G. P.)	Illustrated Lessons in our Language	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
1363	QUARLES (Francis)	Divine Fancies, Digested into Epigrams, Meditations, and Observations	London	1671	USD -	Unknown
1364		QUARTERLY REVIEW	London and Boston	July, 1882	USD -	Unknown
1365		QUATRELLES. Le Chevalier Beau-Temps, preface d'Alexandre Dumas Fils	Paris	1870	USD -	Unknown
1366	QUIET (Charles)	Studies in Verse	Philadelphia	1878	USD -	Unknown
1367		QUINCY. An Essay on the Nature, the End, and the Means of Imitation in the Fine Arts	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1368		QUINTILIEN de l'Institution de l'Orateur traduit par M. l'Abbe Gedoyn	Paris	1718	USD -	Unknown
1369		ABELAIS. CEuvres de Rabelais, contenant cinqlivres, plus la prognostication pantagrueline avec l'oracle de la dive Bacbuc, et le mot de la bouteille	Lyon	1593	USD -	Unknown
1370		RABELAIS. CEuvres de: accompagnde de notes par Louis Barre	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1371		RABELAIS. CEuvres de F. Rabelais	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
1372		RABELAIS. The Works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or The Lives, heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel	London	1694	USD -	Unknown
1373		RABELAIS. Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle...	London	1694	USD -	Unknown
1374		RABELAIS. The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D....	London	1750	USD -	Unknown
1375		RABELAIS. The Works of	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1376	RABUTIN (Roger, Comte de Bussy)	Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules	A Londres	1777	USD -	Unknown
1377	RACINE (Jean)	OEuvres de; nouvelle edition plus correcte and plus ample que toutes les precedentes	Paris	1767	USD -	Unknown
1378	RADIER (M. Dreux Du)	L'Europe Illustre, contenant l'Histoire Abregee des Souverins, des Princes, des Prelats, des Ministres, etc., etc.	A Paris	1777	USD -	Unknown
1379	RAGUENET (l'Abbe)	Histoire du Vicomte De Turenne	A Lyon	1811	USD -	Unknown
1380	RALEIGH (Sir Walter)	An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England	London	1728	USD -	Unknown
1381	RAMSAY (Allan)	The Tea-Table Miscellany. A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English	Glasgow	1871	USD -	Unknown
1382	RANDOLPH (Tho.)	RANDOLPH (Tho.). Poems, with the Muses Looking-Glass, and Amyntas: Whereunto is added The Jealous Lovers	London	1664	USD -	Unknown
1383		RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS of the House of Commons	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
1384	RASK (Erasmus)	A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue, with a Praxis	Copenhagen	1830	USD -	Unknown
1385	RAVISIUS	Joannis Ravisii Textoris Nivernensis Officina, nunc demum post tot editiones diligenter emendata, etc., etc.	Parisiis	1575	USD -	Unknown
1386		RECUEIL GENERAL des Pieces contenues au Procez de Monsieur le Marquis de Gesvres and de Mademoiselle de Mascranni son Epouse	A Rotterdam	1714	USD -	Unknown
1387	M. D. L * *	RECUEIL de Romances Historiques, Tendres et Burlesques, tant Anciennes que Modernes. Avec les Airs notes	n. p.	1767	USD -	Unknown
1388		RED BOOK. The Extraordinary Red Book, containing a List of all Places, Pensions and Sinecures, etc., of Great Britain	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1389	REID (Whitelaw)	Some Newspaper Tendencies	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
1390	REIFF (Ch. Ph.)	Little Manual of the Russian Language	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
1391		REJECTED ARTICLES. A Collection of Articles rejected from the English Magazines and Reviews	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
1392		RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR for 1834 and 1836	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
1393		RELIQUIAE ANTIQUAE. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1394		REQUETE adressee a Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans			USD -	Unknown
1395	Peter Cunningham, editor	REVELS AT COURT; Extracts from the Accounts in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James I	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1396	REYNOLDS (Frederick)	REYNOLDS (Frederick). Life and Times	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
1397	Henry Wm. Beechey	REYNOLDS (Sir Joshua). The Literary Works of; with a Memoir, etc.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1398	RHODES (E.)	Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire; made chiefly for the purpose of Picturesque Observation	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1399	RICE (Isaac L.)	What is Music?	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1400	RICHARDSON (Charles)	A New Dictionary of the English Language, combining Explanation with Etymology	London	1863	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.

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