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
3499	RACINET, M. A.	Le Costume Historique	Paris	1888	USD -	Not Sold
3500	RACINET, M. A.	Le Costume Historique. Cinq cents planches, trois cents en coleurs, or et argent, deux cents en camaieu	Paris	n. d.	USD -	1.30
3501	RAE, GEO.	The Country Banker. An Experience of Forty Years	Lond.	1885	USD -	0.30
3502	RAFINESQUE, C. S.	A Life of Travels and Researches in North America and South Europe	Phil.	1836	USD -	10.50
3503	RAFINESQUE, C. S.	American Manual of Grape Vines	Phil.	1830	USD -	4.50
3504	RAFINESQUE, PROF. C. S.	American Manual of the Mulberry Trees	Phil.	1839	USD -	3.50
3505	RAFINESQUE, C. S.	Medical Flora; or, Manual of Medical Botany of the United States of America	Phil.	1828	USD -	4.50
3506	RAFINESQUE, C. S.	Medical Flora; or, Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America	Phil.	1850	USD -	6.75
3507	RALSTON, W. R. S.	Russian Folk Tales	Lond.	1873	USD -	1.70
3508	RAMSAY (ALLAN)	RAMSAY (ALLAN) Poetical Works, Complete	Lond.	1800	USD -	5.00
3509	RAMAGE (C. T.)	Beautiful Thoughts from Greek, Latin, French and Italian, German and Spanish Authors	Liverpool	1866-73	USD -	1.70
3510	RAMEAU, JEAN	Poemes Fantasques	Paris	1883	USD -	0.70
3511	RAWLINSON, GEO.	The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World: History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media and Persia	Lond.	1871	USD -	1.50
3512	RAWLINSON, GEO.	History of Ancient Egypt	Lond.	1881	USD -	2.50
3513	RAWLINSON, GEO.	History of Herodotus	Lond.	1862	USD -	2.53
3514	REID, CAPT. MAYNE	The Boy Slavers; Greville (Henry) Dosia's Daughters...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	32.50
3515	READ (THOS. B.)	READ (THOS. B.) Poetical Works, complete	Phil.	1867	USD -	0.80
3516	READ, T. B.	READ, T. B. Drifting	Phil.	1880	USD -	0.35
3517	READ, T. B.	The Closing Scene	Phil.	1887	USD -	0.60
3518		RECITATIONS AND SPEECHES: Spencer's Comic Speeches...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	0.12
3519	REDFIELD, J. W.	Comparative Physiology, or Resemblances between Man and Animals	N. Y.	1852	USD -	0.60
3520	REED, TALBOT B.	A History of the Old English Letter Foundries	Lond.	1887	USD -	5.25
3521	REES, J. ROGERS	The Pleasures of a Book-Worm	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.75
3522	REES, J. ROGERS	With Friend and Book in the Study and the Fields	Lond.	1892	USD -	1.38
3523	REES, L. E. R.	A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow	Lond.	1858	USD -	0.80
3524	REEVES, SIMS	His Life and Recollections	Lond.	1888	USD -	1.00
3525	REICHENBACH, BARON CHAS, VON	Physico-Physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystalization and Chemism, in their relation to the Vital Force	Lond.	1851	USD -	0.70
3526	REID, T. WEMYSS	REID, T. WEMYSS. Life, Letters and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton	Lond.	1891	USD -	0.60
3527	Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, editor	REMEMBER! A Keepsake	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.40
3528	REMY, JULES.	A Journey to Great Salt Lake City;	Lond.	1861	USD -	1.13
3529	RENAN, ERNEST	Life of Jesus	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.95
3530		REPRESENTATIVE POEMS of Living Poets, American and English	N. Y.	1886	USD -	0.55
3531	REVILLE, REV. A., D.D.	Devil (The): His Origin, Greatness and Decadence	Lond.	1871	USD -	0.20
3532		REYNARD THE FOX. A Renowned Apologue of the Middle Age, Reproduced in Rhyme	Lond.	1845	USD -	1.13
3532A	RILEY, JAS. WHITCOMB	Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury	Indianapolis, Ind.	1889	USD -	0.05
3533	REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA	Discourses	Lond.	1884	USD -	1.25
3533A	RIMBAULT, E. F.	A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from Ancient Musick Books. MS. and printed	Lond.	1851	USD -	1.00
3534	RICHARDS, W. C.	The Mountain Anthem. The Beatitudes in Rhythmic Echoes	Bost.	1885	USD -	0.70
3534A	RITSON, JOSEPH	Robin Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads, now extant, relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw	Lond.	1832	USD -	2.25
3535	RICHARDSON, CHAS. F.	American Literature, 1607-1885...	N. Y.	1887-89	USD -	1.38
3535A		RIVERS (THE) OF GREAT BRITAIN, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. Rivers of the East Coast	Lond.	1889	USD -	1.35
3536		RICHARDSON'S Long Life and How to Reach It...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	0.10
3536A	ROBERTS, MARY	Voices from the Woodlands, descriptive of Forest Trees, Ferns, Mosses and Lichens	Lond.	1850	USD -	0.25
3537	RIDDLE (GEORGE)	Readings	Bost.	1888	USD -	0.60
3537A	ROBERTS, SIR RANDAL	The River's Side; or, the Trout and Grayling	Lond.	1866	USD -	1.60
3538	RIDEING, WM. H.	Thackeray's London	Lond.	1885	USD -	Not Sold
3538A	ROBERTS, SAMUEL	Gypsies: Their Origin, Continuance and Destination; or, The Sealed Book Opened	Lond.	1842	USD -	1.90
3539	RILEY, H. H.	Puddleford and Its People...			USD -	0.25
3539A	ROBERTSON, REV. FRED'K. W.	Sermons, preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton	Leipzig	1861	USD -	0.80
3540	RILEY (JAS.)	Tombuctoo and the hitherto undiscovered Great City of Wassanah, with an Account of the loss of the American Brig Commerce	Lond.	1817	USD -	0.35
3540A	ROBERTSON, H. R.	Life on the Upper Thames	Lond.	1875	USD -	0.50
3541		RILEY, JAS. WHITCOMB, Afterwhiles, 1888...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	0.30
3541A	ROBINSON, H. M.	The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory	N. Y.	1879	USD -	0.60
3542		ROBINSON, R. E., Sam Lovell's Camps...			USD -	0.30
3543	ROBINSON, W.	Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement	Lond.	1870	USD -	0.70
3544	ROCK (CAPTAIN)	ROCK (CAPTAIN) Memoirs. The Celebrated Irish Chieftain	Lond.	1824	USD -	2.30
3545	ROGERS, HORATIO	Private Libraries of Providence	Providence	1878	USD -	5.25
3546		ROGERS, R. V., Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller...			USD -	0.35
3547	ROGERS, SAMUEL	ROGERS, SAMUEL. Poems	Lond.	1812	USD -	0.88
3548	ROGERS, SAMUEL	ROGERS, SAMUEL. Poems	Lond.	1827	USD -	0.50
3549	ROGERS, SAMUEL	ROGERS, SAMUEL. Italy and Poems, both works	Lond.	1830-34	USD -	24.75
3550	ROLLESTON, T. N. H.	The Encheiridion of Epictetus	Lond.	1881	USD -	0.30
3551	ROOSEVELT, R. B.	Five Acres Too Much: a Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country	N. Y.	1869	USD -	0.55
3552	ROOSEVELT, R. B.	Love and Luck	N. Y.	1866	USD -	1.13
3553	ROOSEVELT, R. B.	Progressive Petticoats; or, Dressed to Death	N. Y.	1874	USD -	0.35
3554	ROOSEVELT, THEODORE	The Naval War of 1812; or, the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain	N. Y.	1882	USD -	0.55
3555	ROOSEVELT, THEODORE	The Winning of the West	N. Y.	1889	USD -	1.50
3556	ROSCOE, THOMAS (Editor)	Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini	Lond.	1822	USD -	0.70
3557	ROSCOE, THOMAS	Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini	Lond.	1850	USD -	0.40
3558	ROSCOE, THOMAS	Wanderings and Excursions in North and South Wales	Lond.	1836	USD -	4.00
3559	ROSS, ALEXANDER	The Red River Settlement: Its Rise, Progress, and Present State	Lond.	1856	USD -	1.00
3560	Ross, CHAS. H.	The Book of Cats: A Chit-Chat Chronicle of Feline Facts and Fancies	Lond.	1868	USD -	1.50
3561	ROSSETTI (D. G.)	ROSSETTI (D. G.) The Collected Works	Lond.	1886	USD -	3.75
3562	Joseph Knight	ROSSETTI, D. G. Life of	Lond.	1887	USD -	0.40
3563	ROWLAND, KATE MASON	The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792	N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.30
3564	ROWLANDSON	Naples and the Campagna Felice: In a Series of Letters addressed to a Friend in England in 1802	Lond.	1815	USD -	10.50
3565	Joseph Grego	ROWLANDSON, the Caricaturist. A Selection from His Works, with Anecdotal Descriptions of the Famous Caricatures and a Sketch of His Life, Times and Contemporaries	Lond.	1880	USD -	5.50
3566	ROWLEY, HON. HUGH	Advice to Parties About to Marry	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.30
3567		ROXBURGHE BALLADS. (Popular Ballads of the Reigns of Elizabeth, James and Charles)	Lond.	1847	USD -	4.25
3568	RUSKIN, JOHN	Arrows of the Chace: being a Collection of Scattered Letters published chiefly in the Daily Newspapers, 1840-1880	Orpington	1880	USD -	1.25
3569	RUSKIN, JOHN	Art of England (The): Lectures given in Oxford on Realistic and Mythic Schools of Painting	Orpington	1883	USD -	0.35
3570	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Ruskin Birthday Book. A Selection of Thoughts, Mottoes and Aphorisms for every day in the year	Orpington	1883	USD -	0.70
3571	RUSSELL, A. P.	Thomas Corwin: a Sketch	Cinn.	1881	USD -	0.40
3572	RUSSELL, IRWIN	RUSSELL, IRWIN. Poems	N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.10
3573	RUSSELL, W. C.	A Strange Elopement	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.30
3574	RUSSELL, W. C.	Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England	N. Y. and Lond.	1890	USD -	0.55
3575	RUSSELL, W. H.	The British Expedition to the Crimea	Lond.	1858	USD -	0.40
3576	RUSSELL, W. H.	The War, from the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan	Lond.	1855	USD -	0.15
3577		RUSSIA. Revelations of; or, The Emperor Nicholas and His Empire in 1844	Lond.	1844	USD -	0.30
3578	RUXTON, G. F.	Life in the Far West	Edinburgh and Lond.	1849	USD -	1.75
3579	RYAN, MICHAEL	Prostitution in London	Lond.	1839	USD -	2.50
3580		SABIN'S American Bibliopolist	N. Y.	1869-74	USD -	1.00
3581		SABIN'S American Bibliopolist			USD -	0.20
3582	SABIN, JOSEPH	Catalogue of the Library of Geo. W. Ordway, Chicago, Ill.	N. Y.	1869	USD -	0.10
3583	SABIN (JOSEPH)	Dictionary of Books relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time	N. Y.	1868 &c.	USD -	5.50
3584	SABINE, LORENZO	Notes on Duels and Duelling	Bost.	1859	USD -	0.30
3585	SADI	The Gulistan; or, Flower-Garden of Shaikh Sadi of Shiraz	Lond.	1823	USD -	1.13
3586	SAINTSBURY, GEORGE	SAINTSBURY, GEORGE. Essays on French Novelists	N. Y.	1891	USD -	0.70
3587	SAINTSBURY, GEORGE	Marlborough (English Worthies, edited by Andrew Lang)	Lond.	1885	USD -	0.50
3588	SAINTSBURY, GEORGE	SAINTSBURY, GEORGE. Miscellaneous Essays	N. Y. (Lond.)	1892	USD -	0.65

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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