Bangs: CATALOGUE OF THE LARGE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY OF L. D. ALEXANDER, ESQ. PART THE SECOND. COMPRISING, Many Standard and Scarce Works in General Literature, Biography, Poetry, History, Napoleonana, Original Editions of the Works of Lever and Thackeray, Dramati, Apr151895,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 15, 1895 - April 15, 1895

Page Size: 1815 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2398	FIELDS, JAS. T.	Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, with Unpublished Fragments and Tributes from Men and Women of Letters	Bost.	1881	USD -	1.50
2399	FIELDS, JAS. T.	FIELDS, JAS. T. Poems	Bost.	1849	USD -	2.25
2400	FIELDS, JAS. T.	FIELDS, JAS. T. Poems	Cambridge	n. d.	USD -	1.00
2401	FIELDS, JAS. T.	Yesterdays With Authors	Bost.	1872	USD -	1.50
2402	FIELDS, JAS. T.	Yesterdays With Authors	Bost.	1882	USD -	4.00
2403	FIELDING, HENRY	The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon	Lond.	1892	USD -	0.60
2404	FIGUIER, LOUIS	Primitive Man	Lond.	1870	USD -	1.50
2405	FINCK, HENRY T.	Romantic Love and Personal Beauty	Lond.	1887	USD -	0.55
2406		FINDEN'S Ports, Harbors, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain	Lond.	(1840)	USD -	0.70
2407	FINDEN, WM. AND EDWARD	Views of Ports and Harbors, Watering-Places, Fishing Villages, and other Picturesque Objects on the English Coast	Lond.	1838	USD -	4.50
2408	FINDLAY, JOHN RITCHIE	Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincy	Edinburgh	1886	USD -	0.50
2409	FINLAYSON, JAS	Surnames and Sirenames. The Origin and History of Certain Family and Historical Names, and an Historical Account of the Names of Buggey and Bugg	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.70
2410	FINERTY, JOHN F.	War-Path and Bivouac; or, Conquest of the Sioux	Chicago	1890	USD -	1.00
2411	Skitt	FISHER'S RIVER (NORTH CAROLINA) SCENES AND CHARACTERS	N. Y.	1859	USD -	1.10
2412	FITZGERALD, EDWARD	Letters and Literary Remains of	Lond.	1889	USD -	1.75
2413	(FITZGERALD, EDWARD)	Polonius: a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances	Lond.	1852	USD -	2.88
2414	FITZGERALD, PERCY	History of Pickwick: an Account of its Characters, Localities, Allusions and Illustrations	Lond.	1891	USD -	1.25
2415	FITZGERALD, PERCY	The Book Fancier and the Romance of Book-Collecting	N. Y. (Lond.)	1886	USD -	1.00
2416	FITZGERADD, PERCY	The Book Fancier; or, The Romance of Book-Collecting	Lond.	1887	USD -	3.75
2417		FLAGS AND COATS-OF-ARMS OF ALL NATIONS, and Yacht Club Signals of the United States and Canada	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.50
2418	FLETCHER, C. R. L.	Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence	N. Y. and Lond.	1890	USD -	0.75
2419	FLECKNO, RICHARD	Enigmatical Characters, all Taken to the Life from Severall Persons, Humours and Dispositions	n. p.	1658	USD -	3.75
2420	FLECKNOE, RICHARD	Epigrams of All Sorts. Made at Divers Times on Several Occasions	Lond.	1670	USD -	2.25
2421	FLINT, AUSTIN	A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine	Phil.	1868	USD -	0.50
2422	(FLINT, REV. TIMOTHY)	George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman; or, "Don't Give Up the Ship"	Bost.	1829	USD -	1.13
2423	FLINT, TIMOTHY	Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi	Bost.	1826	USD -	1.20
2424	FONTAINE, F. G. DE	Birds of a Feather Flock Together; or, Talks with E. A. Sothern	N. Y.	1878	USD -	0.35
2425	FORBES, ARCHIBALD	Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles	Lond.	1891	USD -	0.25
2426	FORBES, ARCHIBALD	The Afghan Wars, 1839-42, and 1878-80	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.50
2427	FORBES, JOHN	Memorandums made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852	Lond.	1853	USD -	0.63
2428	FORBES, SIR WM. (of Pitsligo)	Memoirs of a Banking House	Lond.	1860	USD -	0.20
2429	FORD (JOHN)	FORD (JOHN) Dramatic Works	Lond.	1869	USD -	3.63
2430	FORD, JOHN	'Tis Pitty Shees a Whore	Lond.	1633	USD -	6.50
2431	(FORESTER, CHAS. HENRY)	Absurdities in Prose and Verse	Lond.	1827	USD -	0.50
2432	FORESTER, THOS.	Norway in 1848 and 1849	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.50
2433	FORSTER, JOHN	The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith	Lond.	1848	USD -	3.50
2434	FORSYTH, WM.	Hortensius: or, The Advocate. An Historical Essay	Lond.	1849	USD -	1.88
2435	FORSYTH (WILLIAM)	Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero	N. Y.	1865	USD -	0.60
2436	FORTNUM, C. DRURY E., F.S.A.	Maiolica	N. Y.	1876	USD -	0.50
2437	FOSTER, STEPHEN C.	My Old Kentucky Home	Bost.	1888	USD -	0.35
2438	(FOSTER, MRS. HANNAH)	Coquette (The); or, The History of Eliza Wharton	Bost.	1855	USD -	0.75
2439	FOUCHE (JOSEPH)	FOUCHE (JOSEPH) Memoirs	Lond.	1825	USD -	2.00
2440	FOURNIER, ALFRED	Syphilis and Marriage: Lectures delivered at the St. Louis Hospital, Paris	N. Y.	1882	USD -	0.10
2441	FOX, CAROLINE	Memories of Old Friends from 1835-1871	Lond.	1882	USD -	1.38
2442	FOX, CAROLINE	Memories of Old Friends from 1835-1871			USD -	1.25
2443	FOX, CAROLINE	Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox from 1835 to 1871	Lond.	1882	USD -	0.75
2444	FRANCIS, FRANCIS	Newton Doyvane: A Story of English Country Life	Lond.	1859	USD -	1.25
2445	FRANCIS, FRANCIS	Pickackifax: A Novel in Rhyme	Lond.	1854	USD -	0.25
2446	FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)	FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Autobiography	Phil.	1868	USD -	5.75
2447	FRANKLIN	Memoirs of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Lond.	1790	USD -	2.13
2448	FRANKLIN	Poor Richard Improved			USD -	5.00
2449	FRANKLIN	Poor Richard Improved			USD -	8.50
2450	FRANKLIN	The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin	Lond.	1793	USD -	1.50
2451	FRASER, SIR WM.	Words on Wellington	Lond.	1889	USD -	0.25
2452	FRASER, SIR WM.	Words on Wellington	Lond.	1889	USD -	2.00
2453	FRAZAR, DOUGLAS	Perseverance Island; or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century	Bost.	1888	USD -	0.20
2454	FREEMAN, E. A.	Some Impressions of the United States	Lond.	1883	USD -	0.25
2455	FREDERIC, HAROLD	In the Valley	N. Y.	1890	USD -	0.80
2456		FRENCH SLANG. Dictionnaire de l'Argot Parisien	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.88
2457	FREMONT, CAPT. J. C.	Report of the Exploring Expeditions to the Rocky Mountains	Wash.	1845	USD -	1.63
2458	FRERES, JOHN HOOKHAM	FRERES, JOHN HOOKHAM. Works, in Verse and Prose	Lond.	1872	USD -	1.88
2459	FRITH, WILLIAM P.	John Leech: His Life and Work	Lond.	1891	USD -	3.00
2460	FROISSART, SIR JOHN	Chronicles of England, France, Spain and adjoining countries	Lond.	1868	USD -	8.00
2461		FROM TIMBER TO TOWN...			USD -	0.10
2462	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Caesar: a Sketch	Lond.	1879	USD -	3.25
2463	FROUDE, JAS. A.	English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century	Lond.	1872-1874	USD -	3.75
2464	FROUDE, JAS. A.	English (The) in Ireland	N. Y.	1873	USD -	0.25
2465	FROUDE, JAS. A.	History of England, from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada	Lond.	1870	USD -	1.63
2466	FROUDE, JAS. A. (Editor)	Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle	Lond.	1883	USD -	1.50
2467	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Oceana; or, England and her Colonies	Lond.	1886	USD -	3.00
2468	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Short Studies on Great Subjects	Lond.	1868	USD -	1.00
2469	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Short Studies on Great Subjects	Lond.	1883	USD -	1.75
2470	FROUDE, JAS. A.	The English in the West Indies	Lond.	1888	USD -	2.00
2471	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Thomas Carlyle: a History of the First Forty Years of his Life, 1795-1835	Lond.	1882	USD -	1.50
2472	FROUDE, JAS. A.	Thomas Carlyle: a History of his Life in London, 1834-1881	Lond.	1884	USD -	1.50
2473	FULLER, S. MARGARET	Papers on Literature and Art	Lond.	1846	USD -	1.88
2474	FUME, JOSEPH	A Paper:--of Tobacco, treating of the rise, progress, pleasures and advantages of smoking, &c.	Lond.	1839	USD -	1.88
2475	FUME, JOSEPH	A Paper:--of Tobacco. The rise, progress, pleasures and advantages of smoking	Lond.	1839	USD -	1.13
2476	FUME, JOSEPH	A Paper:--of Tobacco	Lond.	1839	USD -	1.13
2477		GALLERY OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN PORTRAITS	Lond.	1833-37	USD -	2.13
2478		GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS LITERARY CHARACTERS (1830-1838)	Lond.	1873	USD -	5.00
2479	GALT, JOHN	Life of Byron	Lond.	1830	USD -	0.40
2480	GALTON, FRANCIS	Hereditary Genius: an Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences	Lond.	1869	USD -	1.25
2481		GARDNER, E. C., Homes, and How to Make Them...			USD -	0.20
2482	GARDNER, JOHN	Longevity: The Means of prolonging Life after Middle Age	Bost.	1875	USD -	1.05
2483	GARDINER, WM.	The Music of Nature; or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing	Bost.	1832	USD -	0.90
2484	GAULTIER, BON (Editor)	The Book of Ballads	Edinburgh and Lond.	1870	USD -	1.13
2485	GAUTIER, THEOPHILE	One of Cleopatra's Nights, and other Fantastic Romances	N. Y.	1886	USD -	0.65
2486	GAY, JOHN	Fables, with a Life of the Author	Lond.	1793	USD -	8.50
2487	GAY (JOHN)	Fables	Lond.	1828	USD -	0.70
2488	GAY, JOHN	Fables	Lond.	1882	USD -	2.50
2489	GAYARRE, CHARLES	Philip II. of Spain	N. Y.	1866	USD -	0.75
2490	GELL, SIR WM.	Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations since 1819	Lond.	1832	USD -	1.88
2491		GEM (THE): a Literary Annual	Lond.	v. y.	USD -	1.25
2492		GEMS OF THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION: Illustrated Descriptions of Objects of an Artistic Character	N. Y.	1877	USD -	0.40
2493		GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c.	N. Y.	1874	USD -	0.50
2494	GERNUNDER, GEO.	Progress in Violin Making	Astoria	1881	USD -	0.65
2495	GERVINUS, DR. G. G.	Shakespeare Commentaries	Lond.	1875	USD -	1.75
2496		GIBBONS, EDWARD, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Lond.	1838-39	USD -	3.50
2497	GIBSON, WM. H.	Highways and Byways; or, Saunterings in New England	N. Y.	1883	USD -	2.75

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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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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
Book Week
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.