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
3399	PAPENDIEK, MRS.	Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte. Being the Journals of Mrs. Papendiek, Assistant-Keeper of the Wardrobe, and Reader to Her Majesty	Lond.	1887	USD -	2.50
3400		PARDOE (MISS) Biographical and Historical Works	Lond.	1847-52	USD -	10.00
3401	PARKE, THOS. HEAZLE	My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa	N. Y.	1891	USD -	1.13
3402	PARKER, EDWARD G.	Reminiscences of Rufus Choate, the Great American Advocate	N. Y.	1860	USD -	2.13
3403	PARKER, CAPT. W. H.	Recollections of a Naval Officer, 1841-1865	N. Y.	1883	USD -	0.90
3404	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	A Half-Century of Conflict: France and England in North America	Bost.	1892	USD -	5.00
3405	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV	Bost.	1877	USD -	5.00
3406	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Discovery of the Great West	Bost.	1870	USD -	5.00
3407	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Jesuits (The) in North America in the Seventeenth Century	Bost.	1867	USD -	5.25
3408	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Montcalm and Wolfe	Bost.	1885	USD -	5.00
3409	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Pioneers of France in the New World	Bost.	1866	USD -	5.00
3410	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	The Old Regime in Canada	Bost.	1874	USD -	5.50
3411	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	The Old Regime in Canada	Lond.	1875	USD -	1.30
3412	PARLEY (PETER)	ANNUAL, and Parting Gift to his Young Friends	Lond.	1846, &c.	USD -	0.25
3413	PARSONS, SAML.	Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns, Arrangement of Country Places, Trees, Plants, Rockwork, &c.	N. Y.	1891	USD -	1.88
3414	PARTON, H.	The Humorous Poetry of the English Language from Chaucer to Saxe, with more than Two Hundred Epigrams and the Choicest Humorous Poetry	Bost.	1872	USD -	1.38
3415	PARTON, JAMES	Caricature and other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands	N. Y.	1877	USD -	2.13
3416	PASCAL (BLAISE)	Thoughts	Lond.	1885	USD -	2.25
3417	PASTEUR, LOUIS	His Life and Labours	N. Y.	1885	USD -	0.70
3418	PATER, WALTER	Marius the Epicurean, his Sensations and Ideas	Lond.	1885	USD -	0.40
3419	PATMORE, COVENTRY	Children's Garland from the Best Poets	Cambridge	1863	USD -	0.30
3420	PAUL, C. KEGAN	Biographical Sketches	Lond.	1883	USD -	0.70
3421	PAUL, C. KEGAN	William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries	Lond.	1876	USD -	0.80
3422	PAULDING, JAS. K.	PAULDING, JAS. K. Literary Life	N. Y.	1867	USD -	1.38
3423	PAULDING, JAS. K.	The Backwoodsman: a Poem	Phil.	1818	USD -	0.75
3424	PEACOCK, THOS. LOVE	PEACOCK, THOS. LOVE. Works	Lond.	1875	USD -	2.38
3425	PEAKE, RICHD. B.	Memoirs of the Colman Family	Lond.	1841	USD -	1.10
3426	PEELE (GEORGE)	PEELE (GEORGE) Dramatic Works	Lond.	1829-39	USD -	6.00
3427	Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth R. Pennell	PENNELL. Our Journey to the Hebrides	N. Y.	1889	USD -	0.90
3428	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Diary and Correspondence, from his Cypher in the Pepysian Library	Lond.	1875-9	USD -	20.00
3429	PERCY, REV. THOS. (Bishop of Dromore)	The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland Ballad in three parts	Alnwick	1807	USD -	2.25
3430	PERRAULT, CH.	Les Contes, Precedes d'une Preface par P. L. Jacob...	Paris	1886	USD -	5.00
3431		PETITS CHEFS-D'OEUVRE ANTIQUES. Anacreon et Sappho...	Paris	1879-1882	USD -	1.13
3432	PETTIGREW, THOS. J.	A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians	Lond.	1834	USD -	3.35
3433		PHILORIBLION (THE)	N. Y.	1861-3	USD -	1.63
3434		PHILOBIBLION (THE). A Monthly Catalogue and Literary Journal, &c.		1862, &c.	USD -	0.10
3435	PHIPSON, DR. T. L.	The Storm and Its Portents, Scenes from the Reign of Louis XVI	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.50
3436	PICKERING, HENRY	The Buckwheat Cake: a Poem	Bost.	1831	USD -	5.75
3437	PICKERING, JOHN	A Vocabulary; or, Collection of Words and Phrases which have been supposed to be Peculiar to the United States	Bost.	1816	USD -	1.63
3438	PIERCE, EDWARD L.	Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner	Bost.	1877	USD -	0.45
3439	PIERSON, REV. H. W.	In the Brush...			USD -	0.45
3440	PIESSE, SEPTIMUS	Chymical, Natural and Physical Magic	Lond.	1865	USD -	0.75
3441	PIKE, ALBERT	Prose Sketches and Poems. Written in the Western Country	Bost.	1834	USD -	2.13
3442	PIKE, G. D.	The Jubilee Singers and their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars	Bost.	1873	USD -	0.25
3443	(PLOUGHMAN, PIERS)	HOW the Goode Wif thaught hir Doughter	Lond.	1838	USD -	6.00
3444		PLOUGHMAN, PIERS. The Vision and the Creed of	Lond.	1842	USD -	0.75
3445		PLUTARCH'S LIVES. The Translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek, and revised by A. H. Clough	Bost.	1868	USD -	5.25
3446	Pocci (COUNT FRANCIS)	Viola Tricolor, in Pictures and Rhyme	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.50
3447	POE (EDGAR ALLAN)	POE (EDGAR ALLAN) Works	N. Y.	1884	USD -	3.15
3448	POE (D'EDGAR)	La Mille et Deuxieme Nuit. Conte inedit d'Edgar Poe	Coulommiers	n. d.	USD -	2.75
3449	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems	Lond.	1881	USD -	0.50
3450	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary by John Ingraham	Lond.	1885	USD -	1.13
3451	POISLE DESGRANGES, J.	Le Roman a L'Eau-Forte en Douze Chapitres Inedits	Paris	1874	USD -	0.25
3452		PONIATOWSKI COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE GEMS...	Lond.	1859	USD -	4.00
3453		POPULAR TALES AND ROMANCES of the Northern Nations	Lond.	1823	USD -	1.00
3454	PORTER, MISS JANE	The Scottish Chiefs. Revised, Corrected and Illustrated with a New Retrospective Introduction, Notes, &c....	Lond.	1840	USD -	3.00
3455		PORTRAITS OF THE BRITISH POETS, from Chaucer to Cowper and Beattie	Lond.	1824	USD -	20.00
3456		PORTRAITS. Physiognomical Portraits of Distinguished Characters, with Memoirs	Lond.	1822	USD -	17.00
3457		PORTRAITS. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans	Phil.	1836-1840	USD -	5.00
3458	POUCHET, F. A.	The Universe; or, The Infinitely Great and Infinitely Little...	N. Y.	1870	USD -	3.50
3459	POWELL, J. C.	The American Siberia; or, Fourteen Years' Experience in a Southern Convict Camp.	Chicago	1891	USD -	0.75
3460	POWELL, J. W.	Contributions to North American Ethnology	Wash.	1881	USD -	1.13
3461	POWELL, J. W.	First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80	Wash.	1881	USD -	1.50
3462	PRAEGER, FERDINAND	Wagner as I Knew Him	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.75
3463	PRATT, P. P.	A Voice of Warning and Instruction to all People	N. Y.	1837	USD -	2.25
3464	PRENTICE (GEO. D.)	PRENTICE (GEO. D.) Poems	Cinn.	1876	USD -	1.50
3465		PRENTICE, GEO. D., Prenticeana...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	0.30
3466	PRENTISS, MRS. ELIZABETH	PRENTISS, MRS. ELIZABETH. The Life and Letters of	N. Y.	1882	USD -	0.25
3467	PRENTISS, S. S.	PRENTISS, S. S. Memoirs	N. Y.	1858	USD -	0.60
3468	PRESCOTT (WM. H.)	PRESCOTT (WM. H.) Complete Works	Phil.	1865-68	USD -	5.00
3469	PRESCOTT, WM. H.	Biographical and Critical Miscellanies	N. Y.	1845	USD -	1.00
3470	PRICHARD, JAS. C.	Natural History of Man. Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the different Tribes of the Human Family	Lond.	1855	USD -	1.13
3471	PRICHARD, DR.	Researches into the History of Mankind	Lond.	1841-51	USD -	2.25
3472	PRIME, E. D. G.	Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; or, Memoirs of Rev. Wm. Goodell, D.D.	N. Y.	1876	USD -	0.25
3473	PRIME, SAML. I.	Under the Trees	N. Y.	1874	USD -	0.55
3474	PRIME, W. C., LL.D.	Along New England Roads	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.90
3475	PRIME, W. C.	Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia	N. Y.	1857	USD -	0.55
3476	(PRIME, W. C.)	Later Years	N. Y.	1854	USD -	1.30
3477	(PRIME, W. C.)	Old House by the River	Lond.	1853	USD -	2.20
3478	PRIOR, JAMES	Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Specimens of his Poetry and Letters, and an Estimate of his Genius and Talents	Lond.	1839	USD -	0.30
3479	PRIOR, MATTHEW	Selected Poems	Lond.	1889	USD -	2.50
3480	PROCTOR, R. A.	Myths and Marvels of Astronomy	N. Y.	1877	USD -	1.70
3481	PROCTOR, R. A.	Rough Ways Made Smooth	N.Y.	1880	USD -	0.55
3482		PROVERBIAL SAYINGS; or, A Collection of English, Scots, Italian and Spanish Proverbs, with Wise Sayings and Maxims of the Ancients	n. p.	Anno MDCCC	USD -	0.75
3483		PROVERBS; or, The Manual of Wisdom: Wise Sayings, Precepts, &c.	Lond.	1804	USD -	0.80
3484	PRY, PAUL	Oddities of London Life	Lond.	1838	USD -	0.60
3485	PRIME, W. C.	I Go a-Fishing	Lond.	1873	USD -	2.13
3486	PSALMANAAZAAR, GEORGE	An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, a Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan	Lond.	1705	USD -	Unknown
3487	PSALMANAZAR, GEORGE	PSALMANAZAR, GEORGE. Memoirs of * * * *	Lond.	1764	USD -	Unknown
3488	PUCKLE (JAS)	CLUB. In a Dialogue between Father and Son	Lond.	1817	USD -	0.75
3489	PUCKLE, JAS	The Club; or, A Gray Cap for a Green Head	Lond.	1834	USD -	12.00
3490	PUIGBLANCH, D. ANTONIO	The Inquisition Unmasked, an Historical and Philosophical Account of that Tremendous Tribunal	Lond.	1816	USD -	0.60
3491	PURSH, FREDK.	Journal of a Botanical Excursion in the Northeastern parts of Pennsylvania and New York in 1807	Phil.	1869	USD -	2.63
3492	PURSH, FREDK.	A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America	Lond.	1814	USD -	1.13
3493	PUTZEL, CHAS., AND BAHR, H. A.	Commercial Precedents Selected from the Column of Replies and Decisions of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce	Hartford	1882	USD -	3.50
3494	PYLE, HOWARD	The Wonder Clock; or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales, being one for each hour of the day	N. Y.	1888	USD -	1.35
3495	OUATREFAGES, A. DE	Rambles of a Naturalist	Lond.	1857	USD -	0.55
3496		QUEVEDO'S Works Complete...	Edinburgh	1798	USD -	2.25
3497	RABELAIS (FRANCIS)	RABELAIS (FRANCIS) Works	Lond.	1807	USD -	5.25
3498	RABELAIS (FRANCIS)	RABELAIS (FRANCIS) Works	Lond.	1845	USD -	3.13

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.
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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