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
1801	VIRIVILLE (Vallet de)	Chronique de la Pucelle ou Chronique de Cousinot suivie de la Chronique Normande de P. Cochon, relatives aux regnes de Charles VI. et de Charles VII	Paris	1859	USD -	Unknown
1802	VOLNEY (C. F.)	L'Alfabet Europeen applique aux Langues. Asiatiques	Paris	1819	USD -	Unknown
1803	VOLTAIRE	La Pucelle, Poem en XXI Chants, avec les Notes et les variantes	Paris	1789	USD -	Unknown
1804	VOLUSENUS (Florentius)	De Animi Tranquillitate Dialogus	Edinburgi	1751	USD -	Unknown
1805		VULGARISMS and other Errors of Speech, including a chapter on taste	Philadelphia	1868	USD -	Unknown
1806	WADE (John)	British History, chronologically arranged, to 1847	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1807	WAINWRIGHT (Thos. G.)	Essays and Criticisms	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
1808	WAKEFIELD (Gilbert)	WAKEFIELD (Gilbert). Memoirs of	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
1809	WALKER (Alexander)	Woman physiologically considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1810	WALKER (Mrs. A.)	Female Beauty, as preserved and improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1811	WALKER (John)	A Rhyming Dictionary	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
1812	WALKER	A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary' and Expositor of the English Language	London	[1807]	USD -	Unknown
1813	WALKER	The Universal Gazetteer	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1814	WALLER	Vindication of the Character and Conduct of Sir William Waller, Commander of the Parliament Forces in the West	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
1815	WALLINGTON (Nehemiah)	Historical Notices of Events occurring chiefly in the Reign of Charles I	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
1816	WALLIS (Joh.)	De Loquela, sive Sonorum Formatione, Tractatus Grammatico-Physicus	Lugduni Batavorum	1727	USD -	Unknown
1817	WALSHE (Walter Hayle)	Dramatic Singing Physiologically Estimated	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
1818	Sir John Hawkins, Knt., and the present editor	WALTON (Izaak) and CHARLES COTTON: The Complete Angler: with the Lives of the Authors: and notes historical, supplementary, and explanatory	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
1819	WALTON (Izaak)	The Complete Angler	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
1820		WANDERER (The)...	New York	1821	USD -	Unknown
1821	WARD (Adolphus Ward)	A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
1822	WARKWORTH (John)	A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
1823	WARNER (Charles D.)	Saunterings	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
1824	WATERS (Robert)	How to get on in the World as demonstrated by the life and language of William Cobbett, to which is added Cobbett's English Grammar, with Notes	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
1825	WATREMAN (William)	The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente Maners, Customes and Lawes of the Peoples enhabiting the two Partes of the Earth, called Affricke and Asie			USD -	Unknown
1826	WATTERSON (Henry)	Oddities in Southern Life and Character	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
1827	WAY (Albertus, Editor)	Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-Latinus Princeps, Auctore Fratre Galfrido Grammatico Dicto, ex Ordine Fratrum Predicatorum, Northfolciensi, circa A. D. MCCCCXL	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1828	WEBER (Henry)	Metrical Romances of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: published from Ancient Manuscripts	Edinburgh	1810	USD -	Unknown
1829	WEBSTER (John)	WEBSTER (John). The Dramatic Works of	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1830	WEBSTER (Noah)	Dissertations on the English Language; with Notes historical and critical, with an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject	Boston	1789	USD -	Unknown
1831	WEBSTER	A Collection of Essays and Fugitive Writings on Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects	Boston	1790	USD -	Unknown
1832	WEBSTER	An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking	Boston	1797	USD -	Unknown
1833	WEBSTER	Dictionary of the English Language; compiled the Use of Common Schools in the United States	New Haven	1807	USD -	Unknown
1834	WEBSTER	An American Dictionary of the English Language	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
1835	WEBSTER	An American Dictionary of the English Language	Springfield	1868	USD -	Unknown
1836	WEDGWOOD (Hensleigh)	A Dictionary of English Etymology	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
1837	WELSTED (Leonard)	Epistles, Odes, etc. Written on Several Subjects; with a Dissertation concerning the Perfection of the English Language, etc.	London	1725	USD -	Unknown
1838	WEMYSS (Francis Courtney)	Theatrical Biography; or, The Life of an Actor and Manager	Glasgow	1848	USD -	Unknown
1839	WESTCOTT (Brooke Foss)	A General View of the History of the English Bible	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
1840	WESTERN (Thos. Geo.)	Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1841	WEYMOUTH (Richard Fr.)	On Early English Pronunciation	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1842	WHEELER (Gervase)	Rural Homes: Houses suited to American country life	Auburn	1853	USD -	Unknown
1843	WHEELER (Wm. A.)	Dictionary of Noted Names of Fiction	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
1844	WHEELER	An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction; including also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames bestowed on Eminent Men, etc.	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
1845	WHITAKER (JOS.)	Almanack, 1874, '76, 1882 and 1884	London		USD -	Unknown
1846	WHITE (Andrew D.)	Outlines of a Course of Lectures on History	Ithaca	1870	USD -	Unknown
1847	WHITE (Charles)	An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man and in Different Animals and Vegetables, and from the Former to the Latter	London	1799	USD -	Unknown
1848	WHITE (Gilbert)	The Natural History of Selborne	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
1849	WHITE (John T.)	A Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary for the use of Junior Students	Philadelphia	1869	USD -	Unknown
1850	WHITE (Joshua E., of Savannah)	Letters on England: comprising Descriptive Scenes; with Remarks on Society, Domestic Economy, Habits, etc.	Philadelphia	1816	USD -	Unknown
1851	WHITE (Richard Grant)	A Tale of the Hospital			USD -	Unknown
1852	WHITE	The Dance of Death			USD -	Unknown
1853	WHITE	A Grammar of the "Grammarless Tongue"	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
1854	WHITE	A Collection of Cuttings and Extracts from Reviews, Magazines and Newspapers, labeled "Critical Notices of R. G. W."			USD -	Unknown
1855	WHITE	Caprice: an original drama in manuscript			USD -	Unknown
1856	WHITE	An Historical Drama, Three Acts			USD -	Unknown
1857	WHITE	Description of R. G. White's Library			USD -	Unknown
1858	WHITMAN (Walt)	Leaves of Grass	Brooklyn, New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
1859	WHITMORE (William H.)	The Elements of Heraldry, 7 with an essay on the use of coat-armor in the United States	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
1860	WHITNEY (S. W.)	Elements of English Grammar	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1861	WHITNEY (Wm. D.)	Oriental and Linguistic Studies	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
1862	WHITNEY	The Life and Growth of Language	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
1863	WILKES	A Complete Collection of the Genuine Papers, Letters, etc., in the Case of John Wilkes, Esq., elected Knight of the Shire for the County of Middlesex, March XXVIII, 1768	Berlin	1769	USD -	Unknown
1864	WILKINS (W. Walker)	Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, annotated	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
1865	[WILLIAMS (John)]	Poems by Anthoni Pasquin	London	[1789]	USD -	Unknown
1866	WILLIAMS (Monier)	A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language	Oxford	1857	USD -	Unknown
1867	WILLMOTT (Rev. Robert Aris)	Pleasures, Objects and Advantages of Literature	London and New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
1868	WILSON (Arthur)	The Inconstant Lady, a Play; to which is added an Appendix	Oxford	1814	USD -	Unknown
1869	WILSON (Harriette)	London Tigers and Paris Lions	Paris	1825	USD -	Unknown
1870	WILSON	Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense	New York	1830	USD -	Unknown
1871	WILSON (Thomas)	The Arte of Rhetorike...			USD -	Unknown
1872	WILSON	Catalogue Raisonne of the Select Collection of Early Engravings of an Amateur	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
1873	WINCKELMANN	Histoire de l'Art chez les Anciens; traduite de l'Allemand par M. Huber	A Paris	1789	USD -	Unknown
1874	WINCKELMANN (John)	The History of Ancient Art	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
1875	Ephraim Hardcastle	WINE AND WALNUTS; or After-Dinner Chit-Chat	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
1876	[WIT (John de)]	Fables, Moral and Political	London	1703	USD -	Unknown
1877	WOOD (Anthony a)	WOOD (Anthony a). The Life of	Oxford	1842	USD -	Unknown
1878	WOOD (H. T. W.)	Changes in the English Language. A. D. 1400 to A. D. 1600	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
1879	WOOLSTONECRAFT (Mary)	WOOLSTONECRAFT (Mary). Posthumous Works of	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
1880	[WOOLSTONECRAFT]	Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in behalf of Women	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
1881		WOMAN. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, etc.	London	1696	USD -	Unknown
1882		WOMAN. Les Femmes Militaires, relation historique d'une Isle nouvellement decouverte	Paris	1735	USD -	Unknown
1883		WOMAN. The Laws respecting Women, as they regard their Natural Rights, or their Connections and Conduct	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
1884		WOMAN. Nouvelles Pensees sur les Femmes et le Mariage	Paris	1803	USD -	Unknown
1885	WORDSWORTH	WORDSWORTH. Poems of	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
1886	WORTLEY (Lady E. S.). &c.	[Miscellanies, including articles on America]	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1887	WOTTON (Sr. Henry)	Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems...	London	1651	USD -	Unknown
1888	WOTTON	The State of Christendom; or, A Most Exact and Curious Discovery of many Secret Passages, and Hidden Mysteries of the Times	London	1657	USD -	Unknown
1889	WRAXALL (Nath.)	A Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Europe, particularly Copenhagen, Stockholm and Petersburgh	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
1890	WRIGHT (Thomas)	The Political Songs of England, from the Reign of John to that of Edward II	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
1891	WRIGHT (Wtn. B.)	The Brook and other Poems	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
1892	WYCHERLEY (William)	Plays: The Plain Dealer...	London	1731	USD -	Unknown
1893	WYNNE (James)	Private Libraries of New York	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
1894	WYNTER (Andrew)	Peeps into the Human Hive	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
1895	XENOPHON	The Expedition of Cyrus and Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
1896	YONGE (C. M.)]	Cameos from English History Two Series	London	1869-71	USD -	Unknown
1897		YORK. An Accurate Description and History of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, York	York	1783	USD -	Unknown
1898	YOUNG (Edward)	Night Thoughts, and a Paraphrase on part of the Book of Job, with Life of the Author		1812	USD -	Unknown
1899	ZOLA (Emile)	Nana	Paris	1880	USD -	Unknown
1900	ZOLA	Documents Litteraires		1881	USD -	Unknown

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