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
201	BALE (John)	Brefe Chronicle concernynge the examanacyon and death of the blessed Martyr of Christ, Sir Johan Oldcastell, the Lorde Cobham		1554	USD -	Unknown
202	Thomas Evans	BALLADS. Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, collected from rare copies and MSS.	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
203		BALLADS. A Collection of Seventy-nine Black Letter Ballads and Broadsides, printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
204	F. J. Child, editor	BALLADS (English and Scottish)	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
205	BALLANTYNE (James R.)	First Lessons in Sanskrit Grammar	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
206	BALZAC (Honore De)	Physiologie du Manage, ou Meditations de Philosophie Eclectique sur le Bonheur et le Malheur Conjugal	Paris	1834	USD -	Unknown
207	BALZAC	Les Contes Drolatiques	Paris	1855	USD -	Unknown
208	Edgar Evertson Saltus	BALZAC	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
209	BANNATYNE (Richard, Secretary to John Knox)	Journal of the Transactions in Scotland, during the Contest between the Adherents of Queen Mary and those of her Son, 1570, 1571, 1572, 1573	Edinburgh	1860	USD -	Unknown
210	BANNATYNE CLUB PUBLICATION (Sir Walter Scott, President)	Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel, l'An M.D.LXVIII			USD -	Unknown
211	John Adolphus	BANNISTER. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
212		BAPTISM. The Baptism of Abortives defended by the demonstrative arguments of Mr. Peter Edwards...			USD -	Unknown
213	BAR ANTE	Tableau de la Litterature Francaise au dixhuitieme siecle	Paris	1842	USD -	Unknown
214		BARBARI FRANCISCI, de Re Uxoria libri duo, nunc in lucem reproducti a Joachimo Cluten	Argentorati	1612	USD -	Unknown
215	BARDSLEY (Charles W.)	Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
216	BARKER (J.)	Complete List of Plays, exhibiting at one view, the Title, Size, Date and Author, from the Commencement of Theatrical Performances to 1803	London		USD -	Unknown
217	BARLOW (Rev. Frederic)	The Complete English Peerage; or a Genealogical and Historical Account of the Peers and Peeresses of this Realm to the year 1775	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
218	BARNES (W.)	Se Gefylota (the helper), an Anglo-Saxon Delectus. Serving as a First-Class Book of the Language	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
219	BARNUM (Saml. W.)	A Vocabulary of English Rhymes	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
220		BARON MUNCHAUSEN; the Surprising Travels and Adventures of	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
221	BARON-WILSON (Mrs. C.)	Memoirs of Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
222	BARRETT (Solomon, Philologist)	A "Signal" Grammar of the English language	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
223	BARRI	Anecdotes sur. Mme. la Comtcssc Du Barri		1775	USD -	Unknown
224	BARRINGTON (Sir Jonah)	Personal Sketches of His Own Times	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
225	BARTHOHNUS (Thomus)	De Armillis Veterum Schedim (accessit Olai Wormii de Aureo Cornu Danico ad Licetum Responsio) Bartholini Antiquitatum Veteris Puerperii Synopsis. De Inauribus Veterum Syntagma	Amstelodami	1676	USD -	Unknown
226	BARTHOLOMEW (John)	The Student's Atlas: 35 maps of modern and 6 maps of ancient geography--with a copious index	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
227	BARTLETT (John)	Familiar Quotations	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
228	BASCOM (John)	Philosophy of English Literature	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
229		BASILE (Giambattista): The Pentamerone, or the Story of Stories, Fun for the Little Ones	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
230		BATTLES OF THE BRITISH ARMY	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
231	BAUDII (Dominici)	Amores, Edente Petro Scriverio inscripti Th. Graswinckelio, Equiti	Amstelodami	1638	USD -	Unknown
232	BEAUMONT and FLETCHER	BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Works of	Edinburgh	1812	USD -	Unknown
233		BEAUTIES OF POETRY (British Verse)			USD -	Unknown
234	BECKER (K. F.)	Grammar of the German Language	Frankfort	1845	USD -	Unknown
235	BELL (James)	A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales	Glasgow	1833	USD -	Unknown
236	BELL	British Theatre	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
237	BELL	British Theatre			USD -	Unknown
238	BENTLEY (Samuel)	Excerpta Historica, or Illustrations of English History	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
239	BEOWULF	The Anglo-Saxon Poems of, The Scop or Gleeman's Tale...	Oxford	1855	USD -	Unknown
240		BEOWULF: an Anglo-Saxon Poem, and the Fight at Finnsburg	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
241	BERGMANN (Fred.-Guillaume)	Les Getes ou la Filiation Genealogique des Scythes aux Getes et des Getes aux Germains et aux Scandinaves	Paris	1859	USD -	Unknown
242	BERNARD (Chas. de)	Gerfaut	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
243	BERNARD (John, Manager of the American Theatres)	Retrospections of the Stage	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
244	BESANT (Walter)	Studies in Early French Poetry	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
245	BESCHERELLE	Dictionnaire Usuel de tous les Verbes Francais	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
246	BEVAN (G. P.)	Hand-Book to the County of Kent	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
247		BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha			USD -	Unknown
248		BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New...			USD -	Unknown
249		BIBLE. The Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, and Apocryphal New Testament	Oxford	1810	USD -	Unknown
250		BIBLE. The Greek Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, according to the Vatican edition: together with the real Septuagint version of Daniel and the Apocrypha	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
251		BIBLE. The English Hexapla, exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wiclif, Tyndale, Cranmer, Genevan, Anglo-Rhemish			USD -	Unknown
252		BIBLE. Index to the Bible	Philadelphia	1804	USD -	Unknown
253		BIBLIA PAUPERUM, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes illustrating the Liif, Parablis, and Miraclis offe Oure Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Crist; with the Proper Descrypcions thereof extracted fro the originall Texte offe John Wiclif	N. Y. [London]	1885	USD -	Unknown
254		BIBLIOTHEQUE DE POCHE par une Societe des gens de lettres et d'erudits...	Paris	1846-57	USD -	Unknown
255	BIENVILLE (M. D. T. de)	La Nymphomanie ou Traite de la Fureur Uterine dans lequel on explique avec autant de clarte que de methode	Amsterdam	1771	USD -	Unknown
256	BLAAUW (W. H.)	The Barons' War, including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
257	BLACK	Picturesque Tourist of England and Wales	Edinburgh	1850	USD -	Unknown
258		BLACKGUARDIANA; or, a Dictionary of Rogues, Bawds, Pimps, Whores, Pickpockets, Shoplifters, etc., etc.			USD -	Unknown
259	BLACKWELL (Antoinette Brown)	The Sexes throughout Nature	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
260	BLAIR (Hugh)	Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
261	BLAKEY (Robert)	Old Faces in New Masks	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
262	BLANC (Saint-Hilaire)	Novismo Diccionario Frances-Espanol by Espanol-Frances	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
263	BLAND (Rev. Robert)	Collections from the Greek Anthology	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
264	BLAND	Collections from the Greek Anthology	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
265	BLASERNA (Prof. Pietro)	The Theory of Sound in its Relation to Music	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
266	BLASIS (C.)	The Art of Dancing: comprising its Theory and Practice, and a History of its Rise and Progress	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
267	BLOOMFIELD (Robert)	The Farmer's Boy: a Rural Poem...			USD -	Unknown
268	BOBBIN	The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq....	Salford	1812	USD -	Unknown
269	BOCCACCIO	Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio	Londra	1825	USD -	Unknown
270	BOCCACCIO	The Decameron	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
271	BOCCHERINI (Luigi)	Sei Quintetti per due Violini alto et due Violoncelli concertanti	A Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
272	BOETHIUS	An. Manl. Sever. Boethi Consolations Philosophiae libri V. Anglo-Saxonice redditi ab Alfredo	Oxoniae	1698	USD -	Unknown
273	BOHN (H. G.)	A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs, with English translations	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
274	Mr. Des Maizeaux	BOILEAU. The Works of Monsieur Boileau Made English by Several Hands. To which is prefix'd His Life	London	1712	USD -	Unknown
275	BOLTWOOD (H. L.)	English Grammar, and how to teach it	Chicago	1869	USD -	Unknown
276	BOMBET (L. A. C.)	The Life of Haydn	Boston	1839	USD -	Unknown
277	BONER (Charles)	Transylvania: its Products and its People	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
278	BONNARDOT (A.)	Essai sur l'Art de Restaurer les Estampes et les Livres	Paris	1858	USD -	Unknown
279	Thomas J. Conant	BOOK OF PROVERBS (The). Hebrew Text, King James' Version and Revised Version	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
280	BORROMEO	Notizia de Novellieri Italiani posseduti dal Conte Anton-Maria Borromeo gentiluomo Padorano con alcune novelle inedite	Bassano	1794	USD -	Unknown
281	BORROW (George)	The Bible in Spain	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
282	BOSANQUET (Ed. S.)	Selections from Jeremy Taylor, Baxter, Boyle, Bacon, Franklin, Wesley, etc., etc.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
283	BOSANQUET (R. H. M.)	An Elementary Treatise on Musical Intervals and Temperament	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
284	BOSWORTH (Rev. J.)	The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, with copious Notes, and a grammatical praxis with a literal English version	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
285	BOSWORTH.	A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language...	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
286	BOURNE (Vincent)	Poematia Latine partim reddita partim scripta a Vincentio Bourne	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
287	BOUTELL (Charles)	English Heraldry	London and New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
288	BOUTOUSOFF (B.)	English and Russian Dictionary	St. Petersburg	1867	USD -	Unknown
289	BOWDLER (Miss)	Poems and Essays	Bath	1793	USD -	Unknown
290	BRACHET (Auguste)	Grammaire Historique de la Langue Francaise	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
291	BRACHET	Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Francaise	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
292	BRANAGAN (Thomas)	Avenia: or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species	Philadelphia	1805	USD -	Unknown
293	BRANDE (W. T.) and Rev. GEORGE W. COX	A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
294	BRANDT (Sebastian)	The Ship of Fools	Edinburgh and New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
295	BRATHWAIT (Ri.)	The Arcadian Princess; or, The Triumph of Justice: Presenting excellent rules of Physicke, for a Sicke Justice	London	1630	USD -	Unknown
296	BRATHWAIT	The English Gentleman: containing sundry excellent Rules, or exquisite Observations tending to Direction of every Gentleman, of selecter ranke and Qualitie	London	1633	USD -	Unknown
297	BRATHWAIT	Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal; with Life of the author, a bibliographical introduction, and a catalogue of his works	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
298	BRATHWAITE (Richard)	A Strappado for the Diuell	Boston, Lincolnshire	1878	USD -	Unknown
299	BREREWOOD (Edw.)	Enquiries Touching the diversity of Languages and Religions, through the chiefe parts of the World	London	1635	USD -	Unknown
300		[BRETON (Nicholas).] A Smale Handfull of Fragrant Flowers...			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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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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