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,

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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
3589 SAINTSBURY, GEORGE Specimens of English Prose. Style from Malory to Macaulay Lond.

1885

 USD - 1.13
3590 SAINTINE, X. B. Picciola N. Y.

1866

 USD - 0.50
3591 ST. JOHN, BAYLE Memoirs of the Duke of St. Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency Lond.

1857

 USD - 2.75
3592 SAINT-PIERRE, B. DE Paul et Virginie. Huit eauxfortes (six figures et deux vignettes') composes et gravies par Ad. Lalauze Paris

1879

 USD - 2.13
3593 SAINT-PIERRE, B. DE Paul and Virginia, with a Memoir Edinburgh

1881

 USD - 1.50
3594 SALON DE 1883. Cent vingt planches en photogravure par Goupil et Cie Paris

1883

 USD - 5.25
3595 SALON DE 1884. Cent planches en photogravure par Goupil & Cie Paris

1884

 USD - 2.25
3596 SALVERTE (E.) History of the Names of Men, Nations and Places in their Connection with the Progress of Civilization Lond.

1862

 USD - 0.70
3597 SALVERTE, E. The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and Apparent Miracles Lond.

1846

 USD - 0.60
3598 SANCHO PANZA'S Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote Lond.

1892

 USD - 1.00
3599 SAND, MAURICE Masques et Bouffons (Comedie Itallienne). Gravures (colored) par a Manceau. Preface par George Sand Paris

1862

 USD - 2.75
3600 SANDBORN, F. B. Henry D. Thoreau (Am. Men of Letters) Bost.

1882

 USD - 0.80
3601 SANDYS, WM. Specimens of Macaronic Poetry Lond.

1831

 USD - 0.25
3602 SANDYS, WM., AND FORSTER, S. A. The History of the Violin, and other instruments played on with the bow. An account of makers, &c. Lond.

1864

 USD - 1.25
3603 SANGER, W. W. History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects throughout the World N. Y.

1869

 USD - 4.25
3604 SANTLEY, CHAS., Student and Singer Reminiscences N. Y.

1892

 USD - 1.10
3605 SARGENT, WINTHROP Life and Career of Major John Andre Bost.

1861

 USD - 22.50
3606 SARGENT, WINTHROP Life of Major John Andre N. Y.

1871

 USD - 3.50
3607 (SAUNDERS, F.) Salad for the Solitary and the Social N. Y.

1872

 USD - 1.70
3608 SAUNDERS, F. The Story of Some Famous Books Lond.

1887

 USD - 0.75
3609 SAVAGE, M. J., Light on the Cloud... v. p.

v. y.

 USD - 0.10
3610 SAVAGE CLUB PAPERS (THE)... Lond.

1867-68

 USD - 0.80
3611 SAXE, JOHN G. Clever Stories of Many Nations Bost.

1865

 USD - 0.80
3612 SAXE, JOHN G. Money-King, and other Poems Bost.

1860

 USD - 0.50
3613 SCHLIEMANN, DR. HENRY Troy and its Remains: Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium. Lond.

1875

 USD - 2.63
3614 (SCHOOLCRAFT, H. R.) Alhalla; or, The Lord of Talladega: a Tale of the Greek War N. Y.

1843

 USD - 6.00
3615 SCHOOL BOOKS. Ahn's Second German Book...

USD - 0.10
3616 SCHOOL BOOKS. Cassell's French-English and English-French Dictionary Lond.

1881

 USD - 0.95
3617 SCHOOL BOOKS. Complete Rhetoric

USD - 0.80
3618 SCHOOL BOOKS. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar... v. s.

v. y.

 USD - 12.50
3619 SCHOOL BOOKS. Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon...

v. d., v. y.

 USD - 0.18
3620 SCHOOL BOOKS. Macmillan's Reading Books...

USD - 0.10
3621 SCHOOL BOOKS. Maury's Physical Geography N. Y.

1873-96

 USD - 0.50
3622 SCHOOL BOOKS. White's Latin-English Dictionary...

USD - 0.35
3623 Ralph Iron SCHREINER, OLIVE. The Story of an African Farm Bost.

1888

 USD - 0.30
3624 SCHUBERT (FRANZ) SCHUBERT (FRANZ) Life Lond.

1869

 USD - 0.30
3625 SCHUCHHARDT, DR. C. Schliemann's Excavations: an Archaeological and Historical Study Lond.

1891

 USD - 1.38
3626 SCHURZ, CARL Life of Henry Clay Bost. and N. Y.

1887

 USD - 0.65
3627 SCOTLAND. Concerning some Scotch Surnames Edinburgh

1860

 USD - 0.30
3628 SCOTT, EDWARD Dancing as an Art and Pastime Lond.

1892

 USD - 0.70
3629 SCOTT, FRANK J. Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds, and the Best Modes of Laying Out, Planting and Keeping Decorated Grounds N. Y.

1870

 USD - 3.00
3630 SCOTT, J. Impressions of a Series of Animals, Birds, &c., from a Set of Silver Buttons Lond.

1821

 USD - 1.63
3631 SCOTT (LIEUT.-GENERAL) SCOTT (LIEUT.-GENERAL) Memoirs N. Y.

1864

 USD - 2.63
3632 SCOTT, LIEUT.-GENERAL SCOTT, LIEUT.-GENERAL. Memoirs of N. Y.

1864

 USD - 2.50
3633 SCOTT (SIR WALTER) Waverley Novels Lond.

1842-48

 USD - 9.50
3634 SCOTT, SIR W. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Lond.

1831

 USD - 1.00
3635 SCOTT, SIR W. Demonology and Witchcraft Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 0.70
3636 SCOTT, SIR W. Historical Romances: Ivanhoe; Monastery; Abbot; Kenilworth Edinburgh

1822

 USD - 0.50
3637 SCOTT, SIR W. Miscellaneous Prose Works: Life of Dryden... Edinburgh

1827

 USD - 0.30
3638 SCOTT, SIR W. Novels and Romances: The Pirate... Edinburgh

1824

 USD - 0.50
3639 SCOTT, SIR W. Novels and Tales... Edinburgh

1822

 USD - 0.50
3640 SCOTT, SIR W. SCOTT, SIR W. Poems Edinburgh

1812--15

 USD - 0.65
3641 SCOTT, SIR W. Tales and Romances: St. Ronan's Well... Edinburgh

1827

 USD - 0.50
3642 SCOTT, SIR W. Six Engravings in Illustration of the Antiquary, and Guy Mannering, for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland n. p.

1866-67

 USD - 0.70
3643 SCOTT, SIR W. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Edinburgh

1890

 USD - 0.65
3644 SCOTT, W. B. Albert Durer: his Life and Works, in eluding Autobiographical Papers and complete Catalogue Lond.

1869

 USD - 0.30
3645 SCOTT, WM. BELL SCOTT, WM. BELL. Poems, Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, &c. Lond.

1875

 USD - 3.25
3646 SEA SONG AND RIVER RHYME, from Chaucer to Tennyson Lond.

1887

 USD - 1.00
3647 SEATON, WM. W. A Biographical Sketch, with Notices of his Associates and Friends Bost.

1871

 USD - 0.12
3648 SECUNDUS, JOANNES The Basia, or Kisses of Lond.

1824

 USD - 3.50
3649 SEEBOHM, HENRY Siberia in Asia: a Visit to the Valley of the Yenesay in East Siberia Lond.

1882

 USD - 0.50
3650 SEEBOHM, HENRY Siberia in Europe: a Visit to the Valley of the Petchora, in North-East Russia Lond.

1880

 USD - 0.90
3651 SENECAE, Philosophi Opera Omnia, et Senecae Rhetoris Lugd. Batav.

1649

 USD - 0.55
3652 SEYMOUR'S Comic Album... Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 1.40
3653 SEYMOUR'S Humorous Sketches... Lond.

1846

 USD - 4.50
3654 SHAKESPEARE'S Works Whittingham

1818

 USD - 0.20
3655 SHAKESPEARE'S Works. The Plays... Bost.

1857-1866

 USD - 6.00
3656 SHAKESPEARE'S Works... Lond.

1882-3

 USD - 5.10
3657 SHAKESPEARE'S Dramatic Works and Poems Lond.

1825

 USD - 1.80
3658 Rev. W. Dodd SHAKESPEARE BEAUTIES. Regularly Selected from each Play, with a General Index Chiswick

1818

 USD - 1.40
3659 Rev. Wm. Dodd SHAKESPEARE BEAUTIES

1821

 USD - 1.05
3660 SHAKESPEARE Book of Shakespeare Gems: in a Series of Landscape Illustrations of the most interesting localities of Shakespeare's Dramas Lond.

1850

 USD - 2.50
3661 SHAKESPEARE Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk. Before Sir Thos. Lucy Knight. Touching Deerstealing Lond.

1834

 USD - 1.25
3662 SHAKESPEARE, MR. WM. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies Lond.

1623

 USD - 3.00
3663 SHAKESPEARE Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of of Mr. William Shakespeare N. Y.

1888-1892

 USD - 1.60
3664 SHAKESPEARE'S HOME, visited and described by Washington Irving and F. W. Fairholt... N. Y.

1877

 USD - 1.75
3665 SHAKESPEARE Illustrated in a series of landscape and architectural designs by G. F. Sargent Lond.

1842

 USD - 3.50
3666 SHAKESPEARE'S LIBRARY. A Collection of the Romances, Novels, Poems and Histories used by Shakespeare as the Foundation of his Dramas Lond.

1843

 USD - 6.25
3667 SHAKESPEARE NOVELS. Comprising The Youth of Shakespeare Lond.

1839-44

 USD - 2.25
3668 SHAKESPEARE Ward's Statue in the Central Park...

USD - 0.60
3669 SHARMAN, JULIAN A Cursory History of Swearing Lond.

1884

 USD - 0.25
3670 SHAW (H.) Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages... Lond.

1851

 USD - 7.25
3671 SHAW (H.) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, from the VIIth to the XVIIth Centuries Lond.

1843

 USD - 8.63
3672 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Poetical and Prose Works of Lond.

1876-1880

 USD - 1.85
3673 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Poetical Works Lond.

1839

 USD - 4.00
3674 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Essays, Letters from Abroad Lond.

1852

 USD - 4.00
3675 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Essays, Letters from Abroad Lond.

1840-1858

 USD - Not Sold
3676 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Essays, Letters from Abroad Lond.

1840

 USD - Not Sold
3677 T. Medwin SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley Lond.

1833

 USD - 1.00
3678 SHELLEY (P. B.) MEMORIALS: from Authentic Sources Lond.

1859

 USD - 0.50
3679 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Poems Lond.

1880

 USD - 2.50
3680 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Queen Mab Lond.

1821

 USD - 1.88
3681 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Selected Poems Lond.

1880

 USD - 4.13
3682 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Lond.

1882

 USD - 0.75
3683 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Select Letters Lond.

1882

 USD - 1.50
3684 SHERLEY The Three Brothers; or, The Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Robert and Thomas Sherley Lond.

1825

 USD - 0.80
3685 SHERMAN (W. T.) SHERMAN (W. T.) Memoirs N. Y.

1875

 USD - 0.75
3686 SHERIDAN, RICHARD B. SHERIDAN, RICHARD B. Dramatic Works N. Y.

1883

 USD - 3.25
3687 SHERIDAN (RICHARD B.) SHERIDAN (RICHARD B.) Works Lond.

1873

 USD - 2.38
3688 Lloyd C. Sanders SHERIDAN (RICHARD B.) Life Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 0.95
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