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
1501	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Dramatic Works, with a Glossary	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1502	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Dramatic Works from the corrected copies of Steevens and Malone	Chiswick	1830	USD -	Unknown
1503	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Works of: the text carefully restored according to the first editions	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
1504	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Plays	v. d.		USD -	Unknown
1505		SHAKESPEARE The Leopold Shakespeare	London and New York		USD -	Unknown
1506	H. H. Furness, editor	SHAKESPEARE. New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare	Philadelphia	1871-1880	USD -	Unknown
1507	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Various Plays	New York	1879-1882	USD -	Unknown
1508	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Various Plays			USD -	Unknown
1509	SHAKESPEARE	Sonnets	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
1510	SHAKESPEARE	Coriolanus	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
1511	SHAKESPEARE	Hamlet 1603 and Hamlet 1604...	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1512	SHAKESPEARE	Hamlet	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1513	J. O. Halliwell Phillipps	SHAKESPEARE. Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
1514	R. G. Latham	SHAKESPEARE. TWO Dissertations on the Hamlet of Saxo Grammaticus and of Shakespear	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1515	William Leighton	SHAKESPEARE. The Subjection of Hamlet, an Essay toward an Explanation of the Motives of Thought and Action of Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
1516	Hiram Corson	SHAKESPEARE. Jottings on the Text of Hamlet	Ithaca	1874	USD -	Unknown
1517	SHAKESPEARE	Hamlet. An Attempt to ascertain whether the Queen were an accessory, before the fact, in the Murder of her first husband	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1518	SHAKESPEARE	The First Quarto Edition of Hamlet, 1603	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1519	SHAKESPEARE	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
1520	SHAKESPEARE	A Midsummer-Night's Dream	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1521	SHAKESPEARE	Seven Ages	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1522	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Autobiographical Poems, being his Sonnets clearly developed	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1523	SHAKESPEARE	The Whole Historical Dramas...	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
1524	Mrs. Cowden Clarke	SHAKESPEARE. The Complete Concordance to Shakspere, being a Verbal Index to all the passages in the dramatic works of the poet	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1525	SHAKESPEARE	Shakespeare's Library, a Collection of the I lays, Romances, Novels, Poems and Histories employed by Shakespeare	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1526	SHAKESPEARE	Shakespeare's Jest Book. Tales and Quicke answers, mery and pleasant to rede...	Chiswick	1814	USD -	Unknown
1527	SHAKESPEARE	Shakespeare's Jest Book. A Hundred Mery Tayls	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
1528		SHAKESPEARE. Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakspeare...			USD -	Unknown
1529	Edmund Malone	SHAKESPEARE. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, etc.	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
1530	William Richardson	SHAKESPEARE. Essays on Some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters, and on the Faults of Shakespeare	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
1531	Rt. Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay	SHAKESPEARE. Commentaries on the Historical Plays	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1532	John Lord Campbell	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Consklered	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1533	SHAKESPEARE	Six Old Plays on which Shakspeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors. Taming the Shrew, King John, Henry IV. and V. and King Lear	London	1779	USD -	Unknown
1534	John Upton	SHAKESPEARE. Critical Observations on Shakespeare	Dublin	1747	USD -	Unknown
1535	[by Edward Taylor]	SHAKESPEARE. Cursory Remarks on Tragedy, on Shakespear, etc.	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
1536	SHAKESPEARE	A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1537	William Sidney Walker	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Versification and its apparent irregularities explained	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
1538	SHAKESPEARE	Notes and Emendations to the text of Shakespeare's Plays	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1539	J. Payne Collier	SHAKESPEARE. Reasons for a New Edition of Shakespeare's Works	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1540	The Rev. Alexander Dyce	SHAKESPEARE. Strictures on Mr. Collier's New Edition of Shakespeare, 1858	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1541	The Rev. Alexander Dyce	SHAKESPEARE. Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakespeare	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
1542		SHAKESPEARE. A Few Notes on Shakespeare...	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1543	SHAKESPEARE	J. Payne Collier's Alte Handschriftliche Emendationem zum Shakspere, gewurdigt von Dr. Nicolaus Delius	Bonn	1853	USD -	Unknown
1544	SHAKESPEARE	An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections of Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1545	SHAKESPEARE	A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1546		SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse...	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1547	C. M. Ingleby	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare Hermeneutics, or the Still Lion	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1548	C. M. Ingleby	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare, The Man and The Book	London	1877-81	USD -	Unknown
1549	C M. Ingleby	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Bones. The proposal to disinter them	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
1550	SHAKESPEARE	Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave? No. A Reply by Thos. D. King to the Question put by Mr. J. Rarker Norris	Montreal	1884	USD -	Unknown
1551	SHAKESPEARE	The Autograph of Shakespeare	Philadelphia	1869	USD -	Unknown
1552	John Bartlett	SHAKESPEARE. The Shakespeare Phrase Book	Boston	1881	USD -	Unknown
1553	SHAKESPEARE	System of Shakespeare's Dramas By Denton J. Snider	St. Louis	1877	USD -	Unknown
1554	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Life of	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
1555	J. O. Halliwell	SHAKESPEARE. Curiosities of Modern Shaksperian Criti-Observations on some of the MS. Emendations of the Text		1883	USD -	Unknown
1556	SHAKESPEARE	A List of Works illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, etc.	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
1557	SHAKESPEARE	Catalogue of a small portion of the Engravings and Drawings illustrative of the Life of Shakespeare preserved in the Collection formed by J. O Halliwell	[London]	1868	USD -	Unknown
1558	SHAKESPEARE	A Brief Hand-List of the Selected Parcels in the Shakespearian and Dramatic Collections of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1559	[By J. O. Halliwell]	SHAKESPEARE. Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare in a discursive series of Essays on a variety of subjects convwith the personal and literary history of the great dramatist	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1560	J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	SHAKESPEARE. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
1561	J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	SHAKESPEARE. The Stratford Records and the Shakespeare Autotypes, a Brief Review of Singular Delusions that are Current at Stratford-on-Avon	Brighton	1884	USD -	Unknown
1562		SHAKESPEARE. A Catalogue of the Shnakespeare-Study Book in the immediate library of J. O. Halliwell-Philhpps	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1563	J. C. M. Bellew	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Home at New Place	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
1564	John R. Wise	SHAKESPEARE. Shakspere: his Birthplace and its Neighbourhood	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
1565	George Tweddell	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare: his Times and Contemporaries	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1566		SHAKESPEARE. The Home of Shakespeare described by Samuel Neil	Warwick	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
1567	George Wilkes	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare, from an American Point of View, with the Baconian Theory Considered	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
1568	George Wilkes	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare, from an American Point of View, with the Baconian Theory Considered	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
1569	The Rev. H. N. Hudson	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare: his Life, Art and Characters	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
1570	William Leighton	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare's Dream and Other Poems	Philadelphia	1881	USD -	Unknown
1571		SHAKESPEARE. Shakspearian Miscellany: containing a Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
1572	SHAKESPEARE	Description of a Copy of the First Folio Edition of the Plays of Shakespeare	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
1573	SHAKESPEARE	Shakespeare Commentaries by Dr. G. G. Gervinus	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1574	SHAKESPEARE	Collier, Coleridge and Shakespeare. A Review	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1575	William Henry Smith	SHAKESPEARE. Bacon and Shakespeare, an Inquiry touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-Writers in the Days of Elizabeth	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1576	William Maginn	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare Papers: Pictures Grave and Gay	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1577	W. Richardson	SHAKESPEARE. A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters	Boston	1808	USD -	Unknown
1578	George L. Craik	SHAKESPEARE. The English of Shakespeare illustrated in a Philological Commentary on his Julius Caesar	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
1579	E. A. Abbott	SHAKESPEARE. A Shakespearian Grammar	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1580	F. G. Fleay	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare Manual	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1581	SHAKESPEARE	Shakspeare Examinations by W. T Thom King Lear annotated by H. N. Hudson	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
1582	J. G. Herr	SHAKESPEARE. Scattered Notes on the Text of Shakespeare	Philadelphia	1879	USD -	Unknown
1583	Franz Thimm	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeariana from 1564 to 1864	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1584	SHAKESPEARE	A Catalogue of the Books, MSS., Works of Art, Antiquities and Relics preserved in the Shakespeare Library and Museum in Henley Street	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
1585	J. D. Mullins	SHAKESPEARE. Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham	Birmingham	1872-1876	USD -	Unknown
1586	J. D. Mullins	SHAKESPEARE. Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham		1872	USD -	Unknown
1587	Dr. Alexander Schmidt	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare-Lexicon. A Complete Dictionary of all the English Words, Phrases and Construetions in the Works of the Poet	Berlin and London	1874-75	USD -	Unknown
1588	SHAKESPEARE	Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft im auftrage des Vorstandes herausgegeben durch Friedrich Bodenstedt	Berlin	1865-1869	USD -	Unknown
1589	SHAKESPEARE	Romeo und Juliet nach Shakespeare's Manuscript von R. Gericke...			USD -	Unknown
1590	C. M. Ingleby	SHAKESPEARE. On Traces of the Authorship of Works, attributed to Shakespeare			USD -	Unknown
1591		SHAKESPEARE. Shaksperean Statistics by H. T. Hall...			USD -	Unknown
1592	SHAKESPEARE	Life of Sir John Falstaff		1857	USD -	Unknown
1593	SHAKESPEARE	Shaksperean Show-Book	Chelsea	1880	USD -	Unknown
1594		SHAKESPEARE. New Shakspere Society Transactions (Twenty-three articles)	London	1874, '75, '76	USD -	Unknown
1595	SHAKESPEARE	An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints, which, from the decease of the Poet to our own times, have been offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
1596		SHAKESPEARE. ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKESPEARE			USD -	Unknown
1597	SHAKESPEARE	Forty-three copper-plate illustrations from Rowe's Edition of Shakespeare			USD -	Unknown
1598	SHAKESPEARE	Thirty-five copper-plate illustrations from Bell's Edition of Shakespeare, 1773			USD -	Unknown
1599	SHAKESPEARE	Fifteen pretty engravings of London Buildings, etc., from "Hughson's Walks," for illustrating Shakespeare			USD -	Unknown
1600	SHAKESPEARE	A lot of woodcuts of Old Armor, Furniture, Houses, etc.			USD -	Unknown

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