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
3789 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays N. Y.

1892

 USD - 0.80
3790 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays Lond.

1892

 USD - 3.75
3791 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Familiar Studies of Men and Books N. Y.

1891

 USD - 1.00
3792 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Memories and Portraits N. Y.

1887

 USD - 0.90
3793 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. The Master of Ballantrae N. Y.

1889

 USD - 0.75
3794 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Underwoods N. Y.

1887

 USD - 0.45
3795 STEVENSON, ROBT. L. Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers N. Y.

1887

 USD - 0.90
3796 STEVENSON, ROBT. L., and OSBOURNE, LLOYD The Wrecker N. Y.

1892

 USD - 0.80
3797 STILES, H. R. Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America Albany

1869

 USD - 3.70
3798 STILES, HENRY R. History of the City of Brooklyn... Brooklyn, N. Y.

1867

 USD - 1.13
3799 STIRLING-MAXWELL, SIR W. Annals of the Artists of Spain Lond.

1891

 USD - 2.50
3800 STIRLING, WILLIAM The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth Lond.

1853

 USD - 2.40
3801 STOCKTON, FRANK R. The Dusantes: a Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" N. Y.

1888

 USD - 0.55
3802 STONES, MRS. Chronicles of Fashion, from the Time of Elizabeth, illustrative of Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, &c.

1846

 USD - 3.13
3803 STORIES by an Archaeologist and His Friends Lond.

1856

 USD - 1.50
3804 STORY, W. W. Castle St. Angelo and the Evil Eye: being additional chapters to "Roba di Roma" Lond.

1877

 USD - 1.50
3805 STORY, W. W. Roba di Roma Lond.

1866

 USD - 0.75
3806 STOTHARD (THOS.) STOTHARD (THOS.) Life Lond.

1851

 USD - 1.25
3807 STOTHARD (THOS.) STOTHARD (THOS.) Life Lond.

1851

 USD - 0.25
3808 STOVAL, P. A. Robert Toombs: Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage N. Y.

1892

 USD - 1.10
3809 STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Bost.

1856

 USD - Not Sold
3810 STOWE, H. B. Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 1.25
3811 Christopher Crowfield (STOWE, MRS. H. B.) Little Foxes Bost.

1870

 USD - Not Sold
3812 STOWE, H. B. Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories Bost.

1881

 USD - 0.30
3813 STOWE, H. B. Uncle Tom's Cabin Lond.

1853

 USD - 4.13
3814 (STOWE, H. B.) Vindication of Lady Byron Lond.

1871

 USD - Not Sold
3815 STRAUSS, DR. DAVID F. Life of Jesus Critically Examined Lond.

1846

 USD - 1.38
3816 STRAUSS, DAVID F. A New Life of Jesus Lond.

1865

 USD - 1.30
3817 STREET, ALFRED B. STREET, ALFRED B. Poems N. Y.

1845

 USD - 0.50
3818 STREETER, EDWIN W. Precious Stones and Gems: Their History and Distinguishing Characteristics Lond.

1877

 USD - 2.75
3819 STRICKLAND, AGNES Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest Lond.

1851-2

 USD - 6.00
3820 STRICKLAND, W. P. Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher N. Y.

1856

 USD - 0.50
3821 STROUD, WILLIAM Treatise on the Physical Cause of the Death of Christ Lond.

1871

 USD - 0.70
3822 STRUTT, JOSEPH A Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, &c., of the Inhabitants of England Lond.

1775-6

 USD - 3.13
3823 STRUTT, JACOB G. Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees, distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude or Beauty Lond.

1830

 USD - 2.25
3824 STUART, MARIE Lettres, Instructions et Memoirs de Marie Stuart, Reine D'Ecosse, Publides sur les Originaux et les Manuscrits au State paper office de Londres Londres and Paris

1845

 USD - 0.10
3825 STUART, VILLIERS Nile Gleanings. Concerning the Ethnology, History and Art of Ancient Egypt Lond.

1879

 USD - 2.25
3826 STUBBS, WILLIAM The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development Oxford

1880

 USD - 5.25
3827 SUE (EUGENE) Mysteries of Paris (the only authorized translation) Lond.

1845-46

 USD - 7.25
3828 SUE, EUGENE The Wandering Jew Lond.

1844

 USD - 6.50
3829 N. I. Bowditch SUFFOLK SURNAMES Lond.

1861

 USD - 0.50
3830 Edward L. Pierce SUMNER, CHAS. Memoir and Letters of Lond.

1878

 USD - 1.75
3831 SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG...

USD - 0.15
3832 SURENNE, J. T. Songs of Scotland, without words, for the Pianoforte Edinburgh

1803

 USD - 0.60
3833 SWAINSON, REV. C. A Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore Edinburgh

1883

 USD - 1.60
3834 SWAN, REV. CHAS Gesta Romanorum; or, Entertaining Moral Stories Lond.

1824

 USD - 0.50
3835 SWIFT, A. M. Derwent Coleridge, Scholar, Pastor, Educator N. Y.

1883

 USD - 0.50
3836 SWIFT (JONATHAN) SWIFT (JONATHAN) Works Lond.

1883

 USD - 1.65
3837 (SWIFT, DEAN) A Tale of a Tub, written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind Lond.

1811

 USD - 1.65
3838 SWIFT, JONATHAN SWIFT, JONATHAN. Letters and Journals of Lond.

1885

 USD - 2.25
3839 SWIFT, JONATHAN Selections from the Prose Writings of Lond.

1884

 USD - 2.25
3840 SWINBURNE, A. C. Poems and Ballads Lond.

1889

 USD - 1.50
3841 SWINBURNE, A. C. Poems and Ballads Lond.

1889

 USD - 1.10
3842 SWINBURNE, A. C. Poems and Ballads Lond.

1889

 USD - 0.90
3843 SWINTON, WM. The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War: a History of the Eastern and Western Campaigns N. Y.

1873

 USD - 4.50
3844 SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON; or, the Adventures of a Shipwrecked Family on an Uninhabited Island near New Guinea Lond. and N. Y.

1888

 USD - 2.13
3845 SYMONDS, JOHN A. Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Newly Translated into English N. Y. (Lond.)

1888

 USD - 7.50
3846 SYMONDS, JOHN A. Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Based on Studies in the Archives of the Family at Florence Lond.

1893

 USD - 5.50
3847 SYMONDS, JOHN A. Wine, Women and Song: Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs Lond.

1884

 USD - 7.50
3848 TACITUS. C. Cornelli Tacitus ex I. Lipsii. Lugdun

1640

 USD - 2.25
3849 TALMA. Discours Prononce a l'Occasion de l'Inauguration de la Statue de Pierre Corneille Paris

1834

 USD - 0.75
3850 TAYLOR, BAYARD The Echo Club and other Literary Diversions Bost.

1876

 USD - 0.50
3851 TAYLOR (HENRY) TAYLOR (HENRY) Autobiography, 1800-1875 Lond.

1885

 USD - 0.50
3852 TAYLOR, HENRY Correspondence of Henry Taylor Lond.

1888

 USD - 0.55
3853 TAYLOR, HENRY Philip Van Artevelde: a Dramatic Romance Lond.

1834

 USD - 0.70
3854 TAYLOR, JEFFERYS Old English Sayings Newly Expounded in Prose and Verse Lond.

1827

 USD - 1.38
3855 TAYLOR, JEREMY Holy Living and Holy Dying. Fuller's Holy and Profane State and History of the Holy War Lond.

1840-1850

 USD - 1.50
3856 TAYLOR, RIGHT REV. JEREMY The Marriage Ring Cambridge

1883

 USD - 0.30
3857 TAYLOR, JEREMY The Worthy Communicant. A Discourse of the Nature, Effects and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving the Lord's Supper Lond.

1853

 USD - 0.15
3858 TAYLOR (JEREMY) Rule and Exercise of Holy Living and Holy Dying Lond.

1857

 USD - 1.13
3859 TAYLOR, CAPTAIN MEADOWS Confessions of a Thug Lond.

1839

 USD - 2.00
3860 TAYLOR, CAPTAIN M. Tara: a Mahratta Tale Edin. and Lond.

1863

 USD - 1.25
3861 TAYLOR, COL. M. The Story of My Life Edinburgh and Lond.

1877

 USD - 0.38
3862 TAYLOR, THOS. Mystical Hymns of Orpheus

1824

 USD - 0.88
3863 TAYLOR, REV. W. M. David, King of Israel, his Life and its Lessons N. Y.

1875

 USD - 0.60
3864 TAYLOR, WM. M. The Limitations of Life, and other Sermons N. Y.

1880

 USD - 0.65
3865 TAYLOR, WM. M. The Parables of our Saviour Expounded and Illustrated N. Y.

1886

 USD - 0.90
3866 TEN ACRES ENOUGH... v. p.

v. y.

 USD - 0.25
3867 TENNENT, SIR J. EMERSON Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon. Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, &c... Lond.

1861

 USD - 0.35
3868 TENNESSEE. Old Times in West Tennessee Memphis, Tenn.

1873

 USD - 0.75
3869 TENNYSON (LORD) TENNYSON (LORD). Complete Poetical Works N. Y.

1884

 USD - 0.60
3870 TENNYSON (LORD) TENNYSON (LORD). Becket Lond.

1884

 USD - 1.00
3871 TENNYSON (LORD) Demeter, and other Poems Lond.

1889

 USD - 1.25
3872 TENNYSON, ALFRED In Memoriam Lond.

1880

 USD - 4.00
3873 TENNYSON, ALFRED Idyls of the King Lond.

1873

 USD - 0.38
3874 John C. Walters TENNYSON. In Tennyson Land. Account of the Early Surroundings of the Poet Laureate Lond.

1890

 USD - 0.50
3875 TENNYSON (LORD) Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After, &c. Lond.

1886

 USD - 1.13
3876 TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, ALFRED. Poems Lond.

1883

 USD - 3.25
3877 TENNYSON (LORD) The Death of OEnone; Akbar's Dream; and other Poems N. Y.

1892

 USD - Not Sold
3878 TENNYSON (LORD) Tiresias, and other Poems... Lond.

USD - 5.13
3879 TENSAS, MADISON Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor Phil.

1843

 USD - 0.87
3880 THACKERAY A Little Dinner at Timmins's, and the Bedford-Row Conspiracy Lond.

1857

 USD - 19.00
3881 THACKERAY A Shabby Genteel Story Lond.

1857

 USD - 18.00
3882 THACKERAY Ballads Lond.

1856

 USD - 19.00
3883 THACKERAY (WM. MAKEPEACE) Ballads Lond.

1879

 USD - 1.13
3884 THACKERAY BIBLIOGRAPHY. Lond.

1880

 USD - 1.00
3885 Anthony Trollope THACKERAY Lond.

1879

 USD - 2.50
3886 Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. THACKERAY. Comick Almanack for 1839: an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest Lond.

1839

 USD - 4.00
3887 Rigdum Funnydos, Gent. THACKERAY. Comic Almanack for 1840 Lond.

USD - 4.00
3888 (THACKERAY) Comic Tales and Sketches Lond.

1841

 USD - 18.50
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    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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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    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.
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