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
2898		KEEPSAKE. 1831-2-3-4-5-6-7			USD -	0.88
2899	KEESE, WM. L.	John Keese, Wit and Litterateur: a Biographical Memoir	N. Y.	1883	USD -	0.20
2900	KEESE, WM. L.	William E. Burton, Actor, Author and Manager	N. Y.	1885	USD -	1.25
2901	KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS	Fairy Mythology: Descriptive of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries	Lond.	1833	USD -	1.10
2902		KENNEDY, DAVID. The Scottish Singer: Reminiscences of his Life and Work...	Bost.	1887	USD -	0.60
2903	KENNEY, CHAS L.	A Memoir of Michael William Balfe	Lond.	1875	USD -	0.75
2904	KENNAN, GEORGE	Tent Life in Siberia, and Adventures among the Kdraks	N. Y. and Lond.	1870	USD -	1.20
2905	(KENNEDY, J. P.)	Blackwater Chronicle: Narrative of an Adventure into the Land of Canaan	N. Y.	1853	USD -	1.20
2906	(KENNEDY, J. P.)	Horse Shoe Robinson: a Tale of the Tory Ascendancy	Phil.	1835	USD -	0.55
2907	(KENNEDY, J. P.)	Rob of the Bowl	Phil.	1838	USD -	0.55
2908		(KENNEDY, J. P.) Rob of the Bowl...			USD -	0.40
2909	(KENNEDY, J. P.)	Swallow Barn; or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion	Phil.	1832	USD -	0.50
2910	(KENNEDY, J. P.)	Swallow Barn; or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion	N. Y.	1852	USD -	1.25
2911	KENNEDY, W. S. Henry W.	Longfellow: Biography, Anecdote, Letters, Criticism	Cambridge	1882	USD -	0.90
2912	KENRICK, JOHN	Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs	Lond.	1850	USD -	1.25
2913	KENRICK, JOHN	Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions: their Relation to Archaeology, Language and Religion	Lond.	1858	USD -	0.70
2914	Bogart, W. H.	KENTUCKY. Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky	N. Y.	1856	USD -	0.60
2915	KEROUALLE, LOUISE DE	Duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734 or, How the Duke of Richmond gained his Pension	N. Y. and Lond.	1888	USD -	1.10
2916		KEYES, E. D. Fifty Years' Observations of Men and Events, Civil and Military...			USD -	32.50
2917	KING, CAPT. CHARLES	Trials of a Staff-Officer	Phil.	1891	USD -	0.30
2918	KING, CLARENCE	Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada	Bost.	1872	USD -	0.75
2919	KING. C. W.	Hand-book of Engraved Gems	Lond.	1866	USD -	1.05
2920	KING, C. W.	Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and Gems and of the Precious Metals	Lond.	1865	USD -	1.00
2921	KING, C. W.	Natural History of Gems or Decorative Stones	Lond.	1867	USD -	1.50
2922	KING, C. W. Q.	Horatii Flacci Opera	Lond.	1869	USD -	1.30
2923	KING, C. W. Q.	Horatii Flacci Opera...	Lond.	1869	USD -	3.25
2924		KING, FITZ ROY & DARWIN'S Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1826-1836	Lond.	1839	USD -	5.50
2925	(KINGLAKE, A. W.)	Eothen	Lond.	1845	USD -	1.25
2926	KINGLAKE, A. W.	Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress to the Death of Lord Raglan		1863-1887	USD -	3.75
2927	KINGLAKE, A. W.	Invasion of the Crimea	Edinburgh and Lond.	1877	USD -	0.50
2928	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads	Lond.	1892	USD -	2.13
2929	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Barrack-Room Ballads and other Verses	Lond.	1892	USD -	4.25
2930	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Wee Willie Winkle and other Stories	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.25
2931	KIRKE, EDMUND	Down in Tennessee and Back by Way of Richmond	Lond.	1864	USD -	2.50
2932	KITCHINER, WM., M. D.	The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c.	Lond.	1828	USD -	0.50
2933	KIRKLAND, FRAZAR	Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes; Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Traitsand Humors of Merchants, &c.	N.Y.	1864	USD -	1.13
2934	KITTO, JOHN, D.D.	Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature	Phil.	1866	USD -	1.60
2935	KITTO, JOHN, D.D., F.S.A.	Daily Bible Illustrations, Morning and Evening Series	Edinburgh	1866-69	USD -	0.75
2936	KITTO, JOHN, D.D.	Illustrated Family Bible. Old and New Testaments	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	1.95
2937	KITTON, FRED. G.	"PHIZ" (HABLOT K. BROWNE): a Memoir, including Selections from his Correspondence and Notes on his Principal Works	Lond.	1882	USD -	1.38
2938	KLUNZINGER, C. B.	Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products	Lond.	1878	USD -	0.70
2939	KNAPP, SAML. L.	Life of Timothy Dexter: embracing Sketches of the Eccentric Characters that composed his Associates	Bost.	1848	USD -	1.25
2940	KNIGHT, CHAS	William Caxton, the first English Printer: a Biography	Lond.	1844	USD -	1.30
2941	KNIGHT, R. PAYNE	Symbolical Language (The) of Ancient Art and Mythology	N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.50
2942	KNOWLES, JAS. SHERIDAN	KNOWLES, JAS. SHERIDAN. The Dramatic Works of	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.50
2943	KNOX, T. W.	Decisive Battles since Waterloo, the most important Military Events from 1815 to 1887	N. Y.	1887	USD -	2.25
2944	KOEHLER, AUGUST	Practical Botany, Structural and Systematic, with an Analytical Key to the Wild Flowering Plants, &c., of the Northern and Middle United States	N. Y.	1876	USD -	1.38
2945	KOENIG. GUSTAV	Life of Luther in 48 historical engravings	Lond.	1856	USD -	0.90
2946	KORAN	Lane's selections from the Kuran, with an Interwoven Commentary, translated from the Arabic, with Notes	Lond.	1843	USD -	2.13
2947		KORAN OF MOHAMMED	Lond.	1821	USD -	2.38
2948		LA BRUYORE'S Les Caracteres. Avec dix-huit gravures'a & l'eau-forte par V. Foulquier	Tours	1867	USD -	4.25
2949	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers	n. p.	1777	USD -	5.25
2950	LA FONTAINE, J. DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers...	Paris	1882	USD -	0.24
2951		LA FONTAINE'S Fables. Avec figures gravees par MM. Simon et Coiny			USD -	0.70
2952		LA FONTAINE'S Fables	Paris	1880-1883	USD -	47.50
2953		LA FONTAINE'S Fables	(Lond.)	1884	USD -	Not Sold
2954	LA FONTAINE	Poeme du Quinquina, et autres ouvrages en vers	Paris	1682	USD -	5.50
2955	LA FONTAINE	Suite d'Estampes d'apres Lancret, Pater, Eisen, Boucher, etc. Pour Illustrer les Contes de La Fontaine	Paris	1885	USD -	Not Sold
2956	LAFONTAINE	Suite d'Estampes			USD -	0.10
2957	LAING (S.)	Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, or Heimskringla, from the Earliest Period to the Twelfth Century, from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson	Lond.	1844	USD -	2.63
2958	LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE	A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: comprising Recollections, Sketches and Reflections	Lond.	1835	USD -	0.35
2959	LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE	Genevieve; or, The History of the Servant Girl	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.55
2960	LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE	The Stone Mason of Saint Point	Lond.	1851	USD -	0.55
2961	LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE	Twenty-five Years of My Life, and Memoirs of My Mother	Lond.	1872	USD -	0.30
2962	LAMB, CHAS	LAMB, CHAS. The Prose and Poetical Works of	Lond.	1838	USD -	3.38
2963	LAMB, SIR JAMES BLAND	The Birth and Triumph of Love: a Poem	Lond.	1823	USD -	4.00
2964		LANDSCAPE ANNUALS. Complete Series from 1830 to 1839 inclusive...	Lond.	1830-39	USD -	1.10
2965		LANDSCAPE ANNUAL for 1838-9	Lond.	1838--1839	USD -	0.70
2966	LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE	Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare	N. Y.	1891	USD -	0.55
2967	LANG, ANDREW	Books and Bookmen	N. Y.	1886	USD -	4.00
2968	LANG, ANDREW	HE.	Lond.	1887	USD -	10.00
2969	LANG, ANDREW	Letters to Dead Authors	N. Y.	1889	USD -	2.75
2970	LANG, ANDREW	Lost Leaders	Lond.	1889	USD -	4.25
2971	LANG, ANDREW	Old Friends. Essays in Epistolary Parody	Lond.	1890	USD -	1.88
2972	LANG, ANDREW	The Library	Lond.	1881	USD -	3.00
2973	LANG, ANDREW	Theocritus, Bion and Moschus	Lond.	1880	USD -	3.50
2974	LANG, LEAF AND MYERS	Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose	Lond.	1883	USD -	3.25
2975	LANMAN, CHAS	Essays for Summer Hours	Bost.	1842	USD -	0.40
2976	LANMAN, CHAS	Essays for Summer Hours	Bost.	1842	USD -	0.50
2977	LANMAN, CHAS	Letters from the Alleghany Mountains	N. Y.	1849	USD -	0.45
2978	(LANMAN, CHAS.)	Letters from a Landscape Painter	Bost.	1845	USD -	0.35
2979	LANMAN, CHAS	Private Life (The) of Daniel Webster	N. Y.	1852	USD -	1.30
2980	LANMAN, CHAS	Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places	Edinburgh	1881	USD -	0.50
2981	LANSON, HENRY	LANSON, HENRY. Life and Adventures of. Son of a Wealthy Planter in the West Indies who, when on a Voyage to England, was put on an Uninhabited Island	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	2.20
2982	LARNED, AUGUSTA	Village Photographs	N. Y.	1887	USD -	0.75
2983	LARREY (BARON)	LARREY (BARON). Memoir of. From the French	Lond.	1861	USD -	0.30
2984	LARWOOD, JACOB, AND HOTTEN, J. C.	History of Signboards	Lond.	1867	USD -	3.00
2985	LATROBE, CHAS. J.	The Rambler in Mexico, 1834	Lond.	1836	USD -	0.30
2986	LAURIE, ANDRE	Schoolboy Days in Russia	Bost.	1892	USD -	0.40
2987	LAVATER, J. C.	Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the Knowledge and Love of Mankind	Lond.	1789	USD -	11.00
2989	(LAWRENCE, G. A.)	Border and Bastile	Lond.	1863	USD -	0.30
2990	LAWSON, JOHN P.	History of Remarkable Conspiracies Connected with European History during the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries	Edinburgh	1829	USD -	1.00
2991	LAYARD, SIR HENRY	Early Adventures in Persia Susiana and Babylonia	N. Y.	1887	USD -	0.80
2992		LAYS OF THE MINNESINGERS; or, German Troubadours of the 12th and 13th Centuries	Lond.	1825	USD -	1.63
2993	LECKY, W. E. H.	A History of England in the Eighteenth Century	Lond.	1878	USD -	0.88
2994	LECKY, W. E. H.	History of European Morals, from Augustus to Charlemagne	Lond.	1869	USD -	4.50
2995	LECKY, W. E. H.	History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe	Lond.	1865	USD -	4.50
2996	LE CLERCQ, FATHER CHRISTIAN	First Establishment of the Faith in New France	N. Y.	1881	USD -	3.00
2997	LEE, HENRY	Aquarium Notes. The Octopus	Lond.	1875	USD -	0.20
2998	LEE, GENERAL HENRY	Reading on the Rail. Champe's Adventure	N. Y.	1864	USD -	0.10

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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