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
401	CERVANTES	The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant Don Quixote of Mancha	London	1652	USD -	Unknown
402	CERVANTES	Don Quixote	Edinburgh	1822	USD -	Unknown
403	CERVANTES	Don Quixote	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
404	CERVANTES	Novelas Exemplares, dirigadas a la excelentissima Senora Condessa de Westmorland	En Haya	1739	USD -	Unknown
405	CHALMERS (George)	The Poetic Remains of some of the Scotish Kings, now first collected	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
406	CHAMBERS (W.)	France: its History and Revolutions	Edinburgh	1871	USD -	Unknown
407		CHAMBERS' ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Pronouncing, Explanatory' and Etymological, with vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms, etc.	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
408	CHANNING (William E.)	Essays, Literary and Political	Glasgow	1837	USD -	Unknown
409		CHANSONS JOYEUSES, mises au jour par un Ane-onyme, Onissime	A Paris; A Londres, et a Ispahan seulement	1765	USD -	Unknown
410		CHANSONS. Recueil Nouveau des plus beaux Airs de ce temps			USD -	Unknown
411	CHAPMAN (George) and JAMES SHIRLY	The Tragedie of Chabot, Admirall of France	London	1639	USD -	Unknown
412	CHAPMAN (George)	The Comedies and Tragedies of, how first collected, with illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the author	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
413	CHAPUS (Eugene)	Manuel de l'Homme et de la Femme comme il faut	Paris	1862	USD -	Unknown
414	CHARLES	Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae...			USD -	Unknown
415	CHASLES (M. Philarete)	Etudes sur W. Shakspeare, Marie Stuart et l'Aretin. Le Drame, les Moeurs et la Religion au XVIe Siecle	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
416	CHASLES	Etudes Contemporaines	Paris	1866	USD -	Unknown
417	CHASLES	Questions du Temps et Publemes d'Autrefois	Paris	1867	USD -	Unknown
418	CHASSIN (Ch.-L.)	La Presse Libre selon les Principes de 1789	Paris	1862	USD -	Unknown
419	Thomas Rowley and others	[CHATTERTON (Thomas).] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
420	CHATTERTON	CHATTERTON. Life of	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
421	CHAUCER	CHAUCER. Canterbury Tales, with an Essay, Introductory Discourse, Notes and a Glossary	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
422	CHAUCER	The Canterbury Tales; a New Text with illustrative Notes	London	1847-51	USD -	Unknown
423	CHAUCER	CHAUCER. The Poetical Works of	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
424	CHAUCER	The Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, The Monkes Tale, The Clerkes Tale, The Squieres Tale	Oxford	1874	USD -	Unknown
425	CHAUCER	The Prologue, The Knightes Tale, The None Prestes Tale	Oxford	1867	USD -	Unknown
426	CHAUCER	The Prologue, The Knightes Tale, The None Prestes Tale	Oxford	1875	USD -	Unknown
427	Francis James Child	CHAUCER. Observations on the Language of Chaucer	Cambridge	1862	USD -	Unknown
428	CHEKE (Sir John)	The Gospel according to Saint Matthew and part of the first chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Mark translated into English from the Greek, with original Notes, etc.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
429	CHILD (Francis James, Editor)	English and Scottish Ballads	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
430		CHOICE EMBLEMS for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
431		CHRISTIAN KEEPSAKE and Missionary Annual	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
432		CHRONICLE OF CALAIS (The) in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII., to the Year 1540	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
433		CHRONIQUE SCANDALEUSE (La)	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
434	CHURCHILL (C.)	CHURCHILL (C.). Poems of	London	1766	USD -	Unknown
435	CHURTON (Edward)	Gongora: an Historical and Critical Essay on the Times of Philip III. and IV. of Spain	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
436		CICERONIS de Officiis libritres	Oxonii	1821	USD -	Unknown
437	CICERO	Selectae M. T. Ciceronis Orationes cum interpretatione et notis in usum Delphini	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
438	CICERO	The Familiar Epistles of Cicero, Englished and conferred with the French, Italian and other translations	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
439	CICERO	CICERO. The Orations of	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
440	CLARENDON	The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Oxford	1839	USD -	Unknown
441	CLAY (Alice, Editor)	The Agony Column of the "Times," 1800-1870	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
442	CLAYTON (Ellen Creathorne)	Queens of Song: being Memoirs of some of the most Celebrated Female Vocalists	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
443	CLEMENT (Felix)	Les Musiciens Celebres depuis le seiz 12mo siecle jusqu'a nos jours	Paris	1868	USD -	Unknown
444	CLERKENWELL	History and Description of the Parish of	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
445	COBBETT (Wm.)	A Grammar of the English Language	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
446	COBBETT	A Grammar of the English Language	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
447	COBBETT	A Grammar of the English Language	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
448	COBBETT	The English Grammar	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
449	COBBETT	A French Grammar	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
450	COCKAYNE (Rev. Oswald, Editor)	Seinte Marherete di Meiden ant Martyr, in Old English, now first edited from the Skin Books	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
451	COCKBURN (John)	The History and Examination of Duels. Shewing their Heinous Nature and the Necessity of Suppressing them	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
452	COCKLE (Mary)	The Juvenile Journal; or Tales of Truth	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
453		Cocu. Dissertation Etymologique, Historique et Critique sur les diverses origines du mot Cocu	Blois	1835	USD -	Unknown
454	COLERIDGE (Herbert)	A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
455	COLERIDGE (Henry Nelson)	Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
456	COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor)	COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor). Poetical Works, including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
457		COLERIDGE. Essays on His Own Times, forming a Second Series of The Friend	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
458	COLES (Abraham)	The Microcosm and other poems	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
459	COLES	The Life and Teachings of Our Lord, in verse	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
460	COLLIER (Admiral Sir George)	France, Holland, and the Netherlands, a century ago	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
461	COLLIER (Jeremy)	A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument	London	1698	USD -	Unknown
462	COLLIER	A Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, etc.	London	1738	USD -	Unknown
463	COLLIER (J. Payne)	The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
464	COLLIER (Editor)	A Book of Roxburghe Ballads	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
465	COLLIER	A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
466	COLLINS (John)	A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs, compiled from the best authorities in the Spanish Language	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
467	COLSON (Rev. C. C.)	Lacon; or Many Things in Few Words: addressed to Those Who Think	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
468		COMMON PRAYER. The Order of Daily Service, the Litany and Order of the Administration of the Holy Communion, with Plain-Tune	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
469		COMMON PRAYER...	London		USD -	Unknown
470		COMMON PRAYER, with The Psalter	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
471		COMMON SENSE; or, The Englishman's Journal, being a Collection of Letters, Political, Humorous, and Moral	London	1738-39	USD -	Unknown
472	CONDILLAC (Abbe de)	Traite des Sensations	Londres, et Paris	1754	USD -	Unknown
473		CONFESSIONS (Les) d'une Courtisane devenue Philosophic	A Londres	1784	USD -	Unknown
474	CONGREVE (William)	CONGREVE (William). The Works of	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
475	CONSTABLE (John)	Reflections upon Accuracy of Style	London	1734	USD -	Unknown
476		CONTES, mis en vers par un petit Cousin de Rabelais			USD -	Unknown
477		CONTES EN VERS			USD -	Unknown
478	CONWAY (Moncure Daniel)	Idols and Ideals, with an Essay on Christianity	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
479	CONYBEARE (John Josias)	Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
480		COOK: The Compleat. For Fish, Flesh, Sauces, or Pastry	London	1655	USD -	Unknown
481	COOK (Clarence)	Transformations and Migrations of Certain Statues in the Cesnola Collection	New York		USD -	Unknown
482	COOLEY (A. J.)	The Mixture Book, including Quack Medicines	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
483	COOPER (William D.)	A Glossary of the Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex	Brighton	1836	USD -	Unknown
484	COOTE (Charles)	Elements of the Grammar of the English Language	London	1788	USD -	Unknown
485	CORBET (Richard, late Bishop of Oxford, etc.)	CORBET (Richard, late Bishop of Oxford, etc.). The Poems of	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
486	CORNWALL (Sarah Jerusha)	Roses and Myrtles	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
487	CORSON (Hiram)	Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
488	CORSON	Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
489		COSTUMES. A Collection of one hundred and sixteen plates, the greater number colored, representing the English Fashionable Costumes during the years 1806-1810			USD -	Unknown
490	COTGRAVE (Randle)	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues			USD -	Unknown
491	[COTTON (Charles)]	Scarronides; or, Virgile Travestie: a Mock Poem. Being the First Book of Virgil's AEneis in English Burlesque	London	1664	USD -	Unknown
492	COTTON	Poems on Several Occasions	London	1689	USD -	Unknown
493	COWLEY (Abraham)	Poems: I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress, or Love Verses. III. Pindarique Odes; and IV. Davideis, or a Sacred Poem of the Troubles of David	London	1656	USD -	Unknown
494	COWLEY (Mrs. Hannah)	COWLEY (Mrs. Hannah). The Works of. Dramas and Poems	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
495	COWLEY (Abr.)	The Essays of, with Life	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
496	COWPER (William)	COWPER (William). Poetical Works	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
497	COWPER	COWPER. The Works of	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
498	COXE (Peter)	The Social Day, a Poem in Four Cantos	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
499	CRABB (George)	A Dictionary of General Knowledge	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
500	CRABBE (Rev. George)	The Borough: a Poem	London	1810	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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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.

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