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
1401	RIDDLE (J. E.)	A Complete English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionary	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1402	RIDDLE	A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon, founded on the German-Latin Dictionaries of Dr. William Freund	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1403	RIEDLINUS (D. V.)	Lineae Medicae. Singulos per menses quotidie ductae	Augusta Vindelicorum	1695	USD -	Unknown
1404	RIGVEDA-SANTRITA	Liber Primus, Sanskrite et Latine	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1405	RIMBAULT (E. F.)	A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from Ancient Musick Books, MS. and printed	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1406	RITSON (Joseph)	A Select Collection of English Songs, with their Original Airs; and a Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
1407	RITTER (Dr. Frederic Louis)	Music in England	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
1408	ROBERTS (Thomas)	The English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery; to which is added the Second Part of the Bowman's Glory	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
1409	ROBERTSON (Rev. James)	Narrative of a Secret Mission to the Danish Islands in 1808	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
1410	ROBERTSON (William)	The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI	London	1761	USD -	Unknown
1411	ROBIN HODE	A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode...	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1412	ROBY (Henry J.)	A Grammar of the Latin Language	London and New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
1413	[ROCHEFORT]	Memoires de Mr. L. C. D. R. Contenant ce qui s'est passe de plus particulier sous le Ministere du Cardinal de Richelieu et du Cardinal Mazarin. Avec plusieurs particularites remarquables du Regne de Louis le Grand	A Cologne	1687	USD -	Unknown
1414		ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maximes et Reflexiones Morales du Duc de La Rochefoucauld	A Londres	1799	USD -	Unknown
1415	ROCOLES (Jean Baptiste de)	Les Imposteurs Insignes, ou Histoires de plusieurs homines de neant de toutes Nations, qui ont usurpe la qualite d'Empereur, de Roi & de Prince	A La Haye	1776	USD -	Unknown
1416	RODD (Thomas)	Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada, and the Twelve Peers of France	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
1417	RODD	Ancient Spanish Ballads, relating to the Twelve Peers of France mentioned in Don Quixote, with English Metrical Versions	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
1418	ROJAS (Francisco De)	Los Bandos de Verona, Montescos y Capeletes	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1419	ROLAND	La Chanson de Roland, ou de Roncevaux du XIIe Siecle publiee pour la premier fois d'apres le manuscrit de la Bibliotheque Bodleienne a Oxford par Francisque Michel	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown
1420	ROOSEVELT (Robert B.)	Progressive Petticoats; or, Dressed to Death. An Autobiography of a Married Man	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1421	ROSCOE (William)	The Life of Lorenzo De Medici, called the Magnificent	London	1800	USD -	Unknown
1422	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise ou Lettres de Deux Amants	Paris	1824	USD -	Unknown
1423	ROUSSEAU	Remarks on the Writings and Conduct of J. J. Rousseau	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
1424		ROUSSEL. Systeme physique et moral de la Femme	Paris	1813	USD -	Unknown
1425	ROUSSIER (l'Abbe)	Observations sur differens points d'Harmonie	A Geneve	1765	USD -	Unknown
1426	Roux (P. J. Le)	Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque Libre et Proverbial, avec une explication tres-fidele	Amsterdam	1750	USD -	Unknown
1427	ROWLANDSON	The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindcstan: a Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
1428	[ROY (William)]	Rede me and be nott wrothe		[1526]	USD -	Unknown
1429		ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY Transactions			USD -	Unknown
1430	RUCKERT (Friedrich)	The Wisdom of the Brahmin, a Didactic Poem	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
1431	RUSHTON (William)	Rules and Cautions in English Grammar	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1432	RUSKIN	Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
1433	RUSKIN	Fors Clavigera: Letter the Seventy-sixth	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1434	RUSSELL (Thomas, Editor)	The Works of the English and Scottish Reformers [Tyndale and Firth]	London	1828-29	USD -	Unknown
1435		RUSSIAN. Teutsch-Lateinisch und Russisches Lexicon, samt Denen Anfangs-Grunden der Russischen Sprache	St. Petersburg	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1436	RYMER (Thomas)	The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd and Fxamin'd by the Practice of the Ancients, and by the Common Sense of all Ages	London	1678	USD -	Unknown
1437	RYMER	A Short View of Tragedy: Its Original, Excellency and Corruption	London	1693	USD -	Unknown
1438	SABIN (Joseph)	A Bibliography of Bibliography, or a Handy Book about Books which relate to Books	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
1439	SADEUR	Les Avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Decouverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe. Contenant les Coutumes & les Moeurs des Australiens, leur Religion, leurs Exercises, leurs Etudes, leurs Guerres, etc.	Paris	1705	USD -	Unknown
1440	SAINTE-BEUVE	Volupte. Avec un Appendice contenant les temoignages et jugements contemporains	Paris	1881	USD -	Unknown
1441	SAINTE-BEUVE	Causeries du Lundi			USD -	Unknown
1442		SAINT EVREMONIANA: OU Receuil de diverses Pieces Curieuses. Avec des pensees judicieuses, etc., de Monsieur de Saint-Evremont	Amsterdam	1701	USD -	Unknown
1443	SAINT-URSIN (P. J. Marie de)	L'Ami des Femmes, ou Lettres d'un Medecin concernant l'influence de l'habillement des femmes sur leurs moeurs et leur sante, etc.	Paris	1804	USD -	Unknown
1444	SALA (George Augustus)	Paris Herself Again in 1878-9	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1445	SALMON (William)	The Family-Dictionary, or Household Companion	London	1705	USD -	Unknown
1446	SALVERTE (Eusebe)	Essai Historique et Philosophique sur les noms d'hommes de peuples et de lieux	Paris	1824	USD -	Unknown
1447	SAND (George)	L'Homme de Neige	Paris	1859	USD -	Unknown
1448		SAND. Cesarine Dietrich; Elle et Lui; Indiana	Paris	1860-72	USD -	Unknown
1449	SANDYS (William), and SIMON ANDREW FOSTER	The History of the Violin, and other Instruments played on with the bow from the earliest times to the present	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1450	SANGER (William W.)	The History of Prostitution: its Extent, Causes and Effects throughout the World	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
1451	SANTAGNELLO (M.)	A Dictionary of the Peculiarities of the Italian Language	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
1452		SATIRICAL POEMS. An Epistle from Semproniato Cathegus, to which is added Cephegus's Reply...			USD -	Unknown
1453	SATYRAE	Elegantiores Praestantium Virorum Satyrae	Lugduni Batavorum	1655	USD -	Unknown
1454		SATYRE MENIPPEE de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne...		1599	USD -	Unknown
1455	Samuel Johnson	SAVAGE (Richard). The Works of, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
1456		SAVAGE. An Account of the Life of...			USD -	Unknown
1457	SAYCE (A. H.)	The Ancient Empires of the East	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
1458	SAYRE (Lewis A.)	A Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club Foot	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1459	SCHEBEK (Edmund)	The Violin Manufacture in Italy and its German Origin	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1460	SCHLEGEL (Aug. W.)	A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1461	Mrs. Robert Tubbs	SCHLUTER (Dr. Joseph). A General History of Music. From the German	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1462	SCHOLL (Aurelien)	Les Amours de Cinq Minutes	Paris	1876	USD -	Unknown
1463		SCHOOLS. The Daily Public School in the United States, 1866...			USD -	Unknown
1464		SCHOOLS. Common Schools of Cincinnati. Annual Report and Hand-Book for 1882-83	Cincinnati	1883	USD -	Unknown
1465	SCHWERDTFEGER (Emil)	Dissertation on the History and Development of the English Verb, 1874...			USD -	Unknown
1466		SCOTLAND. The Songs of Scotland chronologically arranged	Glasgow	1871	USD -	Unknown
1467		SCOTLAND. The Songs of Scotland chronologically arranged	Cassell		USD -	Unknown
1468		SCOTLAND. The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland...	Glasgow	1872	USD -	Unknown
1469	SCOTT (Sir Walter)	THE WAVERLEY NOVELS	Edinburgh	1842-1846	USD -	Unknown
1470	SCOTT	Guy Mannering	Philadelphia [Edinburgh]	1859	USD -	Unknown
1471	George Cruikshank and other artists	SCOTT. Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott	Edinburgh	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1472	SCOTT (Editor)	Sir Tristrem: a Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century	Edinburgh	1811	USD -	Unknown
1473	SCOTT	SCOTT. Poetical Works	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
1474	SEGUIN (Edward)	Family Thermometry	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
1475	SEGUR (Joseph Alex.)	Women: their Condition and Influence in Society	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
1476		SELECT EARLY ENGLISH POETS...		1817-21	USD -	Unknown
1477	Sir R. L'Estrange	SENECA. Morals byway of Abstract. Three Parts in one volume	London	1699	USD -	Unknown
1478	SERRE	Le Tombeau des Delices du Monde par le Sr. De la Serre	Brusselles	1632	USD -	Unknown
1479		SERVANTS' (The) Practical Guide, a Hand-book of Duties and Rules	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1480	SEVERIN (Paul)	Le Bouquet de Mariage, Revelations sur les moeurs du Siecle	Bruxelles	1838	USD -	Unknown
1481		SEVIGNE. Recueil des Lettres de Madame La Marquise De Sevigne	Paris	1834	USD -	Unknown
1482	SFORZOSI (L.)	Teatro Comico Moderno	Parigi	1836	USD -	Unknown
1483		SHAKESPEARE. Plays and Poems of...	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
1484		SHAKESPEARE. Plays, accurately printed from corrected copies...	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
1485		SHAKESPEARE. Supplement of Edition by Johnson & Steevens	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
1486	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Dramatic Works		1826	USD -	Unknown
1487	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. The Works of	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1488	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. The Works of	Cambridge and London	1863-1869	USD -	Unknown
1489	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. The Works of			USD -	Unknown
1490	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. The Pictorial Edition of his Works	London	[1838-1843]	USD -	Unknown
1491	Charles Knight	SHAKESPEARE. Library Edition	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1492	Charles Knight	SHAKESPEARE. Cabinet Edition	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
1493	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works of			USD -	Unknown
1494	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
1495	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Plays	London	1858-1860	USD -	Unknown
1496	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works of	London and New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
1497	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works of	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1498	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works of		1874	USD -	Unknown
1499	SHAKESPEARE	Comedies, Histories and Tragedies			USD -	Unknown
1500	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works	London	1876	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.

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

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