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
301	[BREWER (Tho.)]	The Life and Death of the Merry Deuill of Edmonton...			USD -	Unknown
302	BRIERLEY (Benj.)	Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life	Manchester	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
303	BRINVILLIERS	Memoire du Proces Extraordinaire, contre Madame De Brinvilliers, & de la Chaussee Valet de Monsr	Amsterdam	1676	USD -	Unknown
304	BRISSONIUS (Barnabas)	De veteri ritu Nuptiarum & jure Connubiorum. Antonii Hotmani de Veteri ritu Nuptiarum Observatio	Lug. Batavor.	1641	USD -	Unknown
305		BRITISH APOLLO (The), containing two thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical and Humorous	London	1740	USD -	Unknown
306		BRITISH CLASSICKS	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
307		BRITISH STAGE. The Biography of, being Correct Narratives of the Lives of all the principal Actors and Actresses: interpersed with Original Anecdotes, etc.	New York	1824	USD -	Unknown
308	BRODIE (Walter)	Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders in 1850	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
309	E. C. Gaskell	BRONTE (Charlotte). The Life of	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
310	BROOKE (Henry)	Brookiana	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
311	BROOKS (Shirley)	Sooner or Later	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
312		BROWN-GOOLD. The Grammar of English Grammars, with an introduction, historical and critical	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
313	BROWN (John)	A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures	Edinburgh	1799	USD -	Unknown
314	BROWNE (Sir Thomas)	Religio Medici...			USD -	Unknown
315	BROWNE	BROWNE. Works	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
316	BROWNING (Ernst)	An Exposition of the Laws of Marriage and Divorce, as administered in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
317	BROWNING (Robert)	BROWNING (Robert). The Poetical Works of	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
318		BROWNING. Dramatic Idyls	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
319		BROWNING. Selections from Poetical Works of	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
320		BROWNING SOCIETY'S Papers	London	1881-84	USD -	Unknown
321	BRUGGEMANN (Lewis William)	A View of the English Editions, Translations and Illustrations of the Ancient Greek, and Latin Authors, with Remarks	Stettin	1797	USD -	Unknown
322	BRUIN (Claas)	Kleefsche en Zuid-Hollandsche Arkadia, of Dag-Verhaal van Twee Reizen	Z'Amsteldam	1716	USD -	Unknown
323	BRUNET (J. C.)	Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
324	BRUYERE	Sentimens Critiques sur les Caracteres de Monsieur de la Bruyere	Paris	1701	USD -	Unknown
325	BRUYERE	Les Caracteres de Monsieur de la Bruyere, avec celles de Theophraste, Defence de comme Ecrivain et Moralist	Paris	1768	USD -	Unknown
326	BRUYERE	Cahacteres de la Bruyere	Paris	1790	USD -	Unknown
327	BRUYERE	Les Caracteres de la Bruyere. Avec dix-huit gravures a l'eau-forte par V. Foulquier	Tours	1867	USD -	Unknown
328	BRYANT	The Bryant Homestead-Book	New York	1870	USD -	Unknown
329	BULLIONS (Peter)	A Practical Grammar of the English Language	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
330	BULWER	BULWER. Pelham	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
331	BULWER (E.)	The Caxtons: a Family Picture	Edinburgh	1854	USD -	Unknown
332	BULWER	BULWER. Dramatic Works	London and New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
333	BULWER	Pelham, or Adventures of a Gentleman	London and New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
334	BUNYAN (John)	The Pilgrim's Progress	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
335	BUNYAN	The Pilgrim's Progress	Cambridge	1862	USD -	Unknown
336	BUNYAN	The Pilgrim's Progress	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
337	BURGESS (J. Tom)	Historic Warwickshire; its Legendary Lore, Traditionary Stories, and Romantic Episodes	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
338	BURKE (Edmund)	A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
339	BURKE	Reflections on the Revolution in France	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
340	BURKE	The Epistolary Correspondence of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke and Dr. French Lawrence	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
341	BURKE (John) and JOHN BERNARD	Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
342	BURKE (John B.)	The Roll of Battle Abbey	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
343	BURKE (Sir Bernard)	Illuminated Heraldic Illustrations, with annotations	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
344	BURNET (Gilbert)	The Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John, Earl of Rochester	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
345	[BURNET (Thomas)]	The Sacred Theory of the Earth, the Deluge, Paradise, the Burning of the World, the New Heavens and New Earth	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
346	BURNEY (Charles)	The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
347	BURNOUF (E.) et CHR. LASSEN	Essai sur le Pali, ou Langue Sacree de la presqu'ile au-dela du Gange	Paris	1826	USD -	Unknown
348	BURNS (Robert)	BURNS (Robert). Poetical Works	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
349	BURROW (Rev. E. I.)	The Elgin Marbles, with an abridged Historical and Topographical Account of Athens	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
350	BURTHOGGE, Richard (M.D.)	Causa Dei, or an Apology for God. Wherein the Perpetuity of Infernal Torments is Evidenced and Divine both Goodness and Justice (that notwithstanding) Defended, etc.	London	1675	USD -	Unknown
351	BURTON (John)	Pentalogia, sive Tragoediarum Graecarum Delectus	Oxonii	1779	USD -	Unknown
352	BURTON (John Hill)	The Book-Hunter, etc.	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
353	BURY (Henri B. de)	Musiciens Contemporains	Paris	1856	USD -	Unknown
354	BUTLER (Noble)	Miscellanies	Louisville	1880	USD -	Unknown
355	BUTLER (Samuel)	Hudibras. Poeme traduit en vers Francais par J. Townley. Figures d'apres Hogarth	A Londres	1819	USD -	Unknown
356	BUTLER	BUTLER. The Poetical Works of	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
357	BYRNE (Mrs. Wm. Pitt)	Cosas de Espana	London and New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
358	BYRON	BYRON. The Works of	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
359	BYRON	Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
360	Thomas Moore	BYRON. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
361	CAEDMON.	Metrical Paraphrase of Parts of the Holy Scriptures in Anglo-Saxon, with an English Translation, Notes and a Verbal Index	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
362	CAEDMON.	Account of Caedmon's Metrical Paraphrase of Scripture History, an Illuminated Manuscript of the Tenth Century, communicated to the Society of Antiquarians	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
363	CAESAR	C. Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii de rebus Caesare gestis Commentarii, cum fragmentis	Glasguae	1750	USD -	Unknown
364	CALABRI (Quinti)	Praetermissorum ab Homers libri XIV. Graece cum versione Latina et integris Emendationibus Laurentii Rhodomanni, etc.	Lugduni Batavorum	1734	USD -	Unknown
365		CALDERWOOD. Letters and Journals of Mrs. (Thomas) Calderwood of Polton, from England, Holland and the Low Countries in 1756	Edinburgh	1884	USD -	Unknown
366		CALIDAS. Sacontala; or the Fatal Ring: an Indian Drama	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
367	CAMPBELL (Dudley)	Mixed Education of Boys and Girls in England and America	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
368	CAMPBELL (Francis)	A Commentary on the Influence which the use of Tobacco exerts on the Human Constitution	Sydney	1853	USD -	Unknown
369	CAMPBELL (Thomas)	CAMPBELL (Thomas). Poetical Works	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
370		CAMPBELL'S BRITISH POETS. A Series of One hundred and twenty-five portraits to illustrate Campbell's British Poets			USD -	Unknown
371	CARACCIOLO	Mysteres des Convents de Naples. Memoirs de Mme. Enrichetta Caracciolo	Paris	1865	USD -	Unknown
372	CAREW (Thomas). (Sewer in Ordinary to Charles I.)	CAREW (Thomas). (Sewer in Ordinary to Charles I.). The Poems of		1870	USD -	Unknown
373	CAREY (Patrick)	Trivial Poems, and Triolets	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
374	CARLYLE (Thomas)	Miscellaneous Essays; and Sartor Resartus	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
375	CARLYLE	The Carlyle Anthology	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
376	CARLYLE	Sir Walter Scott	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
377	CARPENTER (William)	Peerage for the People		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
378	CARSON (Alexander)	A Treatise on the Figures of Speech...			USD -	Unknown
379	CARTARI	Le Imagini de i Dei de gli Antichi, nelle quali si contengono gl' Idoli, Riti, Ceremonie & altre cose appartenenti alla Religione de gli antichi	In Lione	1581	USD -	Unknown
380	[CARTER (Elizabeth)]	Poems on Several Occasions	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
381	CARTWRIGHT (William)	Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems	London	1651	USD -	Unknown
382	CARY (John)	New Itinerary; or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads of England and Wales, etc.	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
383	CASAUBON (Meric)	A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature...	London	1655	USD -	Unknown
384		CASE. Le Galatee (ou Des facons & manieres louables) premierement compose en Italien	[Paris]	1598	USD -	Unknown
385		CASTI. The Three Groats	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
386		CATALOGUE RAISONNE de la Bibliotheque Elzevirienne, 1853-1867	Paris	1867	USD -	Unknown
387		CATALOGUE de Livres Anciens et Modernes Rares et Curieux en vente a la Librairie Bachelin-Deflerenne	Paris	1869	USD -	Unknown
388		CATALOGUE de la Bibliotheque de feu M. Le Marquis de Morante	Paris	1873	USD -	Unknown
389		CATALOGUE. Library of Gustavus A. Somerby and Engravings	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
390		CATALOGUE of Library of Hon. George H. Holliday	New York	1870	USD -	Unknown
391		CATALOGUE of New York Historical Society Museum and Gallery, 1871, etc., etc.			USD -	Unknown
392		CATALOGUE of the Art Collections, Literary Property, etc., of S. B. Fales	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
393		CATULLUS, TIBULLUS ET PROPERTIUS, Pristino nitori restituti & ad optima Exemplaria emendati. Accedunt Fragfnenta Cornelio Gallo inscripta	Paris	1792	USD -	Unknown
394		CAUSES AMUSANTES ET CONNUES	n. p.	1770	USD -	Unknown
395		CAUSES CELEBRES ET INTERESSANTES	Paris	1739	USD -	Unknown
396	CAXTON.	The Statutes of Henry VIL in exact fac-simile, from the very rare original	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
397	CAYLA (J. M.)	L'Enfer Demoli	Paris	1865	USD -	Unknown
398	CELLARIUS	Geographia Antiqua: being a Complete Set of Maps of Antient Geography on thirty-three copper-plates	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
399	CERETA	Laurae Ceretae Brixiensis Feminae Clarissimae Epistolae jam primum e MS. in lucem productae a I. P. Tomasino qui eius Vitam & Notas addidit	Patavii	1640	USD -	Unknown
400		CES DAMES PHYSIONOMIES PARISIENNES ornees de portraits	Paris	n. d.	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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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