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
4099	WALKER, JAS. B.	Experiences of Pioneer Life in Early Settlements and Cities of the West	Chicago	1881	USD -	0.25
4100	WALKER, GENL. WM.	The War in Nicaragua	Mobile and N. Y.	1860	USD -	1.05
4101	WALLACE, D.	MACKENZIE. Russia	N. Y.	1877	USD -	0.50
4102	WALLACK, LESTER	Memoirs of Fifty Years	N. Y.	1889	USD -	4.35
4103	WALLIS, JOHN E.	Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs	Lond.	1856	USD -	0.60
4104	WALPOLE (HORACE) and His World	Select Passages from his Letters	Lond.	1884	USD -	6.00
4105	WALPOLE (HORACE)	Anecdotes of Painting in England	Lond.	1826-1828	USD -	5.00
4106	WALPOLE (HORACE)	Anecdotes of Painting in England	Lond.	1826-1828	USD -	11.00
4107		WALPOLE'S Catalogues of Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland	Lond.	1806	USD -	7.00
4108		WALPOLE'S Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from 1771 to 1783	Lond.	1859	USD -	11.50
4109		WALPOLE'S LETTERS	Lond.	1857-1859	USD -	11.00
4110		WALPOLE'S Memoirs and His Contemporaries, including Original Letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill	Lond.	1851	USD -	10.00
4111		WALPOLE'S Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second	Lond.	1846-7	USD -	11.00
4112		WALPOLE'S Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third	Lond.	1845	USD -	6.50
4113	WALTON, GEO. E.	Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada	N. Y.	1873	USD -	0.25
4114		WAR. The Great War of 189--. A forecast by Rear-Admiral P. Colomb and six others	Lond.	1893	USD -	1.25
4115	(WARBURTON, MAJ. GEORGE)	Conquest of Canada	Lond.	1850	USD -	0.55
4116	WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY	Robert Elsmere	Lond.	1888	USD -	0.50
4117	WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY	The History of David Grieve	N. Y. and Lond.	1892	USD -	0.40
4118	WARD, SAMUEL	Lyrical Recreations	N. Y. and Lond.	1865	USD -	0.35
4119	WARDLAW, RALPH	Lectures on Female Prostitution, its Nature, Extent, Causes, &c.	Glasgow	1843	USD -	1.00
4120	WARNER, CHAS. DUDLEY	A Roundabout Journey	Bost.	1884	USD -	0.70
4121	WARNER, C. D.	Backlog studies (Riverside Aldine Series)	Bost.	1886	USD -	0.50
4122	WARNER, C. D.	In the Wilderness	Bost.	1878	USD -	0.80
4123	WARNER, C. D.	Mummies and Moslems	Hartford	1876	USD -	1.10
4124	WARNER, C. D.	My Summer in a Garden	Bost.	1885	USD -	1.30
4125	WARNER, C. D.	Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada	N. Y.	1889	USD -	1.30
4126	WARREN, JOHN C.	Remarks on some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of Connecticut River	Bost.	1854	USD -	0.55
4127	WARREN (SAMUEL)	WARREN (SAMUEL) Works, complete	Edinburgh	1855-67	USD -	Not Sold
4128	WARREN, S.	Ten Thousand A-Year	Edinburgh and Lond.	1853	USD -	1.00
4129	WARREN, S.	Ten Thousand A Year	Bost.	1889	USD -	3.05
4130		WARS (THE) OF THE GULLS: an Historical Romance, in Three Chapters...			USD -	0.50
4131	WATSON, REV. J. S.	Life of Richard Porson, Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, 1792-1808	Lond.	1861	USD -	0.75
4132	WATSON, WM.	Lachrymae Musarum, and other Poems	Lond.	1892	USD -	0.63
4133	WATTS, ALARIC A.	Literary Souvenir, for 1829-30-31	Lond.		USD -	0.45
4134	WATTS, J., D.D.	The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament	Salisbury	1718	USD -	0.60
4135	WAYNE, H. C.	Report of the Secretary of War...	Wash.	1857	USD -	0.35
4136	WEBB, C. H.	Liffith Lank; or, Lunacy	N. Y.	1876	USD -	0.25
4137	WEBB, C. H.	Vagrom Verses	Bost.	1889	USD -	0.15
4138	WEBSTER, DANIEL	WEBSTER, DANIEL. A Memorial of. From the City of Boston	Bost.	1853	USD -	0.25
4139	Peter Harvey	WEBSTER, DANIEL. Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster	Bost.	1877	USD -	1.25
4140	WEBSTER (JOHN)	WEBSTER (JOHN) Dramatic Works	Lond.	1830	USD -	5.50
4141	WEBSTER (NOAH)	American Dictionary of the English Language	Cambridge	1865	USD -	2.50
4142		WEBSTER'S Dictionary	Cambridge	1865	USD -	0.75
4143		WEBSTER'S American Dictionary of the English Language	Springfield	1867	USD -	1.25
4144		WEDGEWOOD, H., Contested Etymologies...			USD -	0.25
4145	WEEMS, MASON L.	God's Revenge Against Adultery Awfully Exemplified in the following Cases of American Crim. Con.	Phil.	1818	USD -	1.50
4146		WEEMS, MASON L., God's Revenge Against Adultery...	Phil.		USD -	2.25
4147	WEEMS, MASON L.	God's Revenge Against Gambling	Phil.	1822	USD -	0.40
4148	Ned Findley	WEEMS, MASON L. God's Revenge Against Murder; or, The Drowned Wife--Mary Findley	Phil.	1823	USD -	0.88
4149	WELLINGTON	The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J., 1834-51	N. Y.	1889	USD -	0.35
4150	WELLS, CHAS	Joseph and His Brethren: a Dramatic Poem	Lond.	1876	USD -	0.25
4151	WELSH, CHAS	Goody Two-Shoes	Lond.	1881	USD -	0.50
4152	WELTON, THOS.	Jacob's Rod: a Translation from the French of a Rare and Curious Work, A. D. 1693, on the Art of Finding Springs, Mines and Minerals by means of the Hazel Rod	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.80
4153	WENDLING, GEO. R.	Ingersollism: From a Secular Point of View	Chicago	1883	USD -	0.25
4154	WESTERMARCK, EDWARD	The History of Human Marriage	Lond.	1891	USD -	3.00
4155		WESTERN BORDER LIFE; or, What Fanny Hunter Saw and Heard in Kansas and Missouri	Lond.	1857	USD -	0.80
4156	WHARTON, GRACE AND PHILIP	Wits and Beaux of Society and Queens of Society	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.10
4157	WHARTON, GRACE AND PHILIP	Wits and Beaux of Society	Lond.	1883	USD -	0.30
4158	WHEATLEY, PHILLIS	Poems on various subjects, Religious and Moral	Lond.	1773	USD -	3.50
4159	WHIPPLE, EDWIN P.	Recollections of Eminent Men	Bost.	1886	USD -	0.25
4160	(WHISTLER, THE ARTIST)	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies	Lond.	1890	USD -	3.25
4161	WHITCHER, F. M.	Widow Bedott Papers	N. Y.	1870	USD -	0.30
4162	WHITE, WILLIAM	Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings	Lond.	1868	USD -	0.50
4163	WHITEFIELD, GEORGE	A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship	Lond.	1753	USD -	1.00
4164	WHITMAN, WALT.	After All, Not to Create Only	Bost.	1871	USD -	0.75
4165	Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D.	WHITMAN, WALT.	Phil.	1883	USD -	1.00
4166	WHITMAN, WALT.	WHITMAN, WALT. Complete Prose Works	Phil.	1892	USD -	0.90
4167	WHITMAN, WALT.	Good-Bye, My Fancy	Phil.	1891	USD -	1.40
4168	(WHITMAN, WALT.)	Leaves of Grass	Brooklyn, N. Y.	1855	USD -	17.75
4169	WHITMAN, WALT.	Leaves of Grass	Bost.	1881-2	USD -	0.60
4170	WHITMAN, WALT.	Leaves of Grass	Bost.	1860--61	USD -	0.80
4171	WHITMAN, WALT.	Specimen Days and Collect	Phil.	1882-3	USD -	1.30
4172	WHITTIER, JOHNG	Home Ballads and Poems	Bost.	1866	USD -	0.25
4173	WHITTIER, JOHN G.	Mabel Martin: a Harvest Idyl	Bost.	1881	USD -	0.30
4174	WHITTIER, JOHN G.	WHITTIER, JOHN G. Poems	Bost.	1855	USD -	0.85
4175	WHITTIER, JOHN G.	The Bay of Seven Islands, and other Poems	Bost.	1883	USD -	1.60
4176	WHYMPER, EDWARD	Scrambles Among the Alps in the Years 1860-69	Lond.	1871	USD -	5.00
4177	WHYMPER, EDWARD	The Ascent of the Matterhorn	Lond.	1880	USD -	4.00
4178	WILDER, MARSHALL P.	The People I've Smiled With	N. Y.	1889	USD -	0.40
4179	WILKINSON, SIR J. G.	Ancient Egyptians;	Lond.	v. y.	USD -	4.25
4180	WILKINSON, SIR J. G.	The Egyptians in the Time of the Pharaohs. A Companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collections	Lond.	1857	USD -	0.30
4181	WILKINSON, W. F.	Personal Names in the Bible Interpreted and Illustrated	Lond.	1866	USD -	0.25
4182	WILLIAMS, MONTAGU	Leaves of a Life	Bost. (Lond.)	1890	USD -	0.50
4183	WILLIAMS, REV. MORGAN	Collectaneous Epitaphs: Chiefly Designed to assist Surviving Relations in fixing upon Suitable Inscriptions for the Tombs and Grave-Stones of deceased friends	Carmarthen	1823	USD -	0.88
4184	WILLIAMSON, JOHN	Fern Etchings	Louisville, Ky.	1879	USD -	0.90
4185	WILLIS, N. P.	Letters from Under a Bridge, and Poems	Lond.	1840	USD -	1.00
4186	WILLIS, N. P.	Poems of Early and After Years	Phil.	1854	USD -	1.38
4187	WILLIS, N. P.	Poems: Sacred, Passionate and Humorous	N. Y.	1873	USD -	0.25
4188	WILSON, ERASMUS	Cleopatra's Needle	Lond.	1877	USD -	0.40
4189	WILSON, JAMES GRANT	The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck	N. Y.	1869	USD -	0.80
4190	WILSON (PROFESSOR)	WILSON (PROFESSOR) Works	Edinburgh and Lond.	1865-1870	USD -	0.35
4191	WILSON	A Memoir of "Christopher North" (John Wilson)	Edinburgh	1862	USD -	0.60
4192	WILSON, JOHN	"Christopher North." A Memoir of	Edinburgh	1863	USD -	0.15
4193		WILSON'S Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.25
4194	WINTER, WILLIAM	Gray Days and Gold; Shakespeare's England	N. Y.	1891	USD -	0.40
4195	WIRT, WM.	Letters of the British Spy	Balt.	1813	USD -	0.60
4196	WODROW, REV. ROBT.	Analecta; or, Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences	Edinburgh	1842	USD -	1.00
4197	WODROW (REV. ROBT.)	History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution	Glasgow, Edinburgh and Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.63
4198	WOOD, EDWD. J.	Giants and Dwarfs	Lond.	1868	USD -	1.00

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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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.