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
3889	THACKERAY	Denis Duval	(Lond.)	1864	USD -	6.50
3890	THACKERAY	Denis Duval	Lond.	1867	USD -	2.25
3891	THACKERAY.	Doctor Birch and his Young Friends	Lond.	1849	USD -	12.50
3892	(THACKERAY)	Essay on George Cruikshank, from the London and Westminster Review, Oct., 1839-March. 1840	Lond.	1840	USD -	10.00
3893	THACKERAY	Etchings by the late William Makepeace Thackeray, while at Cambridge, illustrative of University Life, &c., &c.	Lond.	1878	USD -	2.75
3894	(THACKERAY AND OTHERS)	Heads of the People; or, Portraits of the English	Lond.	1840	USD -	7.50
3895	THACKERAY	Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray	Lond.	1885	USD -	2.00
3896	THACKERAY	History of Pendennis	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.20
3897	THACKERAY	L'Abbaye de Penmarc'h, Melodrame en Trois Actes, par MM. Pre Tournemine et Thackeray. Musique de M. Roger, Decors de M. Desmarets	Paris	1846	USD -	6.50
3898	Herman Merivale and Frank T. Marzials	THACKERAY. Life	Lond.	1891	USD -	0.50
3899	THACKERAY	Lovel the Widower	Lond.	1861	USD -	3.25
3900	THACKERAY	Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (The), of the Kingdom of Ireland	Lond.	1856	USD -	17.00
3901	THACKERAY.	Mrs. Perkins's Ball	Lond.	1847	USD -	8.00
3902	(THACKERAY.)	Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo	Lond.	1846	USD -	5.00
3903	(THACKERAY.)	Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo	Lond.	1846	USD -	5.00
3904	THACKERAY.	"Our Street"	Lond.	1848	USD -	10.00
3905	(THACKERAY.)	Rebecca and Rowena: a Romance upon Romance	Lond.	1850	USD -	6.25
3906	THACKERAY	Students' Quarters; or, Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.75
3907	THACKERAY	Sultan Stork. Being the One Thousand and Second Night	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	4.00
3908	THACKERAY	The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World	Lond.	1862	USD -	2.38
3909	THACKERAY	The Book of Snobs	Lond.	1848	USD -	19.00
3910	THACKERAY	The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century	Lond.	1853	USD -	10.50
3911	THACKERAY	The Fitzboodle Papers; and Men's Wives		1857	USD -	11.00
3912	THACKERAY	The Four Georges	Lond.	1862	USD -	3.50
3913	(THACKERAY)	The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty, Queen Anne	Lond.	1852	USD -	6.50
3914	THACKERAY	The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy	Lond.	1849-50	USD -	4.75
3915	THACKERAY	The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond	Lond.	1849	USD -	4.75
3916	Theodore Taylor	THACKERAY: The Humourist and the Man of Letters. The Story of his Life	Lond.	1864	USD -	3.00
3917	(THACKERAY.)	The Irish Sketch-Book	Lond.	1843	USD -	7.25
3918	(THACKERAY.)	The Kickleburys on the Rhine	Lond.	1850	USD -	5.25
3919	THACKERAY	The Mahogany Tree	Bost.	1886	USD -	1.38
3920	(THACKERAY)	The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family	Lond.	1854	USD -	10.75
3921	THACKERAY	The Orphan of Pimlico, and other sketches, fragments and drawings	Lond.	1876	USD -	9.00
3922	Mr. Titmarsh	(THACKERAY.) The Paris Sketch Book		1840	USD -	3.50
3923	THACKERAY.	The Rose and the Ring; or, the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo.	Lond.	1855	USD -	4.50
3924	THACKERAY	The Student's Quarter; or, Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	3.00
3925	THACKERAY	Vanity Fair	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.35
3926	THACKERAY	The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century	Lond.	1858	USD -	10.00
3927	THACKERAY	Thackerayana. Notes and Anecdotes	Lond.	1875	USD -	1.00
3928	THACKERAYANA	Notes and Anecdotes	Lond.	1875	USD -	2.63
3929	TICKNOR, GEORGE	History of Spanish Literature	N. Y.	1849	USD -	0.88
3930	TICKNOR, GEORGE	Life, Letters and Journals	Bost.	1876	USD -	0.90
3931	TICKNOR, GEORGE	Life of William Hickling Prescott	Bost.	1864	USD -	3.25
3932	TILTON, THEODORE	The Sexton's Tale and other Poems		1867-1882	USD -	0.25
3933	TILTON, THEODORE	Thou and I: A Lyric of Human Life, with other Poems	N. Y.	1880	USD -	0.25
3944	TIMBS, JOHN	A Century, from 1760 to 1860	Lond.	1864	USD -	1.05
3945	TIMBS, JOHN	Club Life in London	Lond.	1866	USD -	1.50
3946	TIMBS, JOHN	Romance of London; Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town	Lond.	1865	USD -	3.50
3947		THE GEM: a Literary Manual	Lond.	1830	USD -	1.10
3948	THEOCRITUS	Sixe Idillia, that is Sixe small or petty Poems, or AEglogues, chosen out of the right famous Scillian Poet, Theocritus, and translated into English Verse	Oxford	1883	USD -	2.25
3949	THIERS, M. A.	History of the French Revolution	Lond.	1838-1861	USD -	4.63
3950	THOM, WM.	Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver	Lond.	1845	USD -	0.35
3951	THOMAS, JOHN J.	American Fruit Culturist: containing Directions for Propagation and Culture of Fruit Trees	N. Y.	1867	USD -	0.15
3952	THOMPSON, SIR HENRY	Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs	Lond.	1883	USD -	0.35
3953	THOMPSON, SIR HENRY	Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs	Lond.	1883	USD -	0.50
3954	THOMPSON, MAURICE	THOMPSON, MAURICE. Poems	Bost. and N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.00
3955	(THOMPSON, M. M.)	Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah: a Song that's by no author, "A Deed without a Name"	N. Y.	1856	USD -	1.20
3956	THOMPSON, W. M.	The Land and the Book: Illustrations, Manners, Customs, and Scenery of the Holy Land	N. Y.	1858	USD -	1.05
3957	THOMS, WM. J.	Early English Prose Romances	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.05
3958	THOMS, WM. J.	Human Longevity, its Facts and its Fictions	Lond.	1873	USD -	1.40
3959	THOM, WM. J.	Lays and Legends of Various Nations: Traditions, Literature, Manners, Customs and Superstitions (Germany and France)	Lond.	1834	USD -	1.80
3960	THOMSON (GEORGE)	Collection of the Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and other eminent Lyric Poets, Ancient and Modern, united to the Select Melodies of Scotland, Ireland and Wales	Lond. and Edinburgh	1822	USD -	2.50
3961	THOMSON	Days with Sir Roger De Coverley	Lond.	1886	USD -	2.25
3962	THOMSON (JAMES)	Seasons	Lond.	1842	USD -	19.50
3963	THOMSON, JAMES	The City of the Dreadful Night, and other Poems	Lond.	1880	USD -	1.30
3964	THOMSON, JAMES	The Seasons	Lond.	1847	USD -	1.15
3965	THOMSON, SPENCER	Wayside Weeds; or, Botanical Lessons from Lanes and Hedgerows	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.50
3966	THOREAU, HENRY D.	Autumn	Bost.	1892	USD -	1.63
3967	THOREAU, HENRY D.	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	Bost.	1868	USD -	1.38
3968	THOREAU, HENRY D.	A Yankee in Canada	Bost.	1866	USD -	2.10
3969	THOREAU, HENRY D.	Early Spring in Massachusetts	Bost.	1881	USD -	2.20
3970	THOREAU, HENRY D.	His Life and Aims: a Study by H. A. Page	Bost.	1877	USD -	0.70
3971	THOREAU, HENRY D.	His Life and Aims: a Study by H. A. Page	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.13
3972	THOREAU, HENRY D.	The Poet-Naturalist	Bost.	1873	USD -	2.70
3973	THOREAU, HENRY D.	The Poet-Naturalist	Bost.	1873	USD -	2.87
3974	THOREAU, HENRY D.	Walden	Bost.	1889	USD -	0.90
3975	THOREAU, HENRY D.	Winter. From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau	Bost.	1888	USD -	2.00
3976	THORBURN, GRANT	Men and Manners in Britain; or, A Bone to Gnaw for the Trollopes, Fidlers, &c.		1835	USD -	0.85
3977	THORNBURY, GEORGE W.	The Monarchs of the Main; or, Adventures of the Buccaneers	Lond.	1855	USD -	1.40
3978	THORNE, JAS	Rambles by Rivers. The Thames	Lond.	1847	USD -	0.25
3979	THORNHILL, R. B.	The Shooting Directory	Lond.	1804	USD -	2.00
3980	THORNTON, COLONEL	Sporting Tour through France, &c. In a Series of Letters to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Darlington	Lond.	1806	USD -	3.75
3981	B. M-Palmer	THORNWELL, JAS. H. Life and Letters of	Richmond	1875	USD -	0.65
3982	THORPE, T. B.	The Hive of "the Bee-Hunter"	N. Y.	1854	USD -	3.13
3983	THORPE, T. B.	Our Army on the Rio Grande	Phil.	1846	USD -	1.63
3984	THRALE, MRS. (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi)	A Sketch of Her Life and Passages from Her Diaries, Letters and other Writings	Lond.	1891	USD -	2.00
3985	THUDICHUM, J. L. W., AND DUPRE, AUG.	A Treatise on the Origin, Nature and Varieties of Wine	Lond.	1872	USD -	1.00
3986		THUGS. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs, and Notices of some of the Proceedings of the Government of India for the Suppression of the Crime of Thuggee	Lond.	1837	USD -	11.00
3987		TOBACCO. Le Tabac Venge, Physiologie du Tabac, de la Pipe, du Cigare, de la Cigarette	Paris	1845	USD -	0.75
3988		TOBACCO. Of Smoking. Four Poems in Praise of Tobacco	Lond.	1736	USD -	1.50
3989	TODD, JOHN	The Story of His Life	N. Y.	1876	USD -	0.40
3990	TODHUNTER, JOHN	Forest Songs and other Poems	Lond.	1881	USD -	0.20
3991		TOMES, ROBT., The Champagne Country...	v. p.	v. y.	USD -	22.50
3992	TOOKE, JOHN HORNE	Diversions of Purley	Lond.	1829	USD -	2.25
3993	TORREY, BRADFORD	The Foot-Pathway	Bost.	1892	USD -	1.00
3994	TORREY, JOHN	A Flora of State of New York...	Albany	1843	USD -	6.00
3995		TOWARDS THE GULF: a Romance of Louisiana...			USD -	0.20
3996	TOWRY, M. H.	Spenser for Children	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.10
3997	TRAILL, REV. ROBT.	Jewish War of Flavius Josephus (The)	Lond.	1851	USD -	4.50
3998	TREDWELL, D. M.	Monograph on Privately Printed Books	Brooklyn	1881	USD -	1.63

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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