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
3099 LOSSING, B. J. Martha Washington N. Y.

1861

 USD - Not Sold
3100 LOSSING, B. J. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea Lond.

1866

 USD - 8.00
3101 LOVER, SAML. Handy Andy: a Tale of Irish Life Lond.

1842

 USD - 5.00
3102 (LOVER, SAML.) Paddiana; or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past Lond.

1848

 USD - 5.00
3103 LOVER (SAML.) LOVER (SAML.) Poetical Works Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 1.60
3104 LOVER, SAML. Legends and Stories of Ireland Lond.

1837-39

 USD - 2.25
3105 LOVER, SAML. Lyrics of Ireland Lond.

1858

 USD - 4.00
3106 LOVER, SAML. Treasure Trove: a Romantic Irish Tale Lond.

1844

 USD - 2.25
3107 LEVER, SAML. Treasure Trove. The first of a Series of Accounts of Irish Heirs, being a Romantic Irish Tale Lond.

1846

 USD - 2.25
3108 LOWELL, EDWD. J. The Hessians and other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War N. Y.

1884

 USD - 0.55
3109 Homer Wilbur (LOWELL, J. R.) The Biglow Papers Bost.

1885

 USD - 0.90
3110 LOWER, MARK ANTONY Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian and Metrical Lond.

1854

 USD - 0.50
3111 LOWER, MARK ANTONY English Surnames: an Essay on Family Nomenclature Lond.

1849

 USD - 1.25
3112 LOWER, MARK ANTONY English Surnames Lond.

1875

 USD - 1.25
3113 LOWER, MARK ANTONY Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom Lond.

1860

 USD - 1.00
3114 LUMHOLTZ, CARL. Among Cannibals. An account of four years' travels in Australia, and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland N. Y.

1889

 USD - 1.75
3115 LUTHER The Hymns of Martin Luther, set to their Original Melodies N. Y.

1883

 USD - 0.60
3116 LYELL, SIR CHAS A Manual of Elementary Geology, Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Lond.

1852

 USD - 0.60
3117 LYELL, SIR CHAS Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man Lond.

1863

 USD - 1.13
3118 LYMAN'S Historical Chart...

1868

 USD - 1.38
3119 LYNCH, HANNAH George Meredith: a Study Lond.

1891

 USD - 2.15
3120 LYNCH, W. F. Naval Life; or, Observations Afloat and Ashore N. Y.

1851

 USD - 0.40
3121 LYTTON (EARL OF) King Poppy. Loftiness: Lone Liness's Steadfastness Lond.

1892

 USD - 1.15
3122 Owen Meredith (LYTTON, EARL.) Lucile Bost.

1882

 USD - 0.60
3123 MABERLY, J. The Print Collector N. Y.

1880

 USD - 2.75
3124 MACARONIC POETRY Collected, with an Introduction by James Appleton Morgan N. Y.

1872

 USD - 0.25
3125 MACAULAY (T. B.) History of England... Lond.

v. y.

 USD - 3.88
3126 MACAULAY, T. B. Lays of Ancient Rome Lond.

1845

 USD - 1.70
3127 MACAULAY (LORD) Lays of Ancient Rome Lond.

1865

 USD - 1.00
3128 MACDONALD, MARSHAL MACDONALD, MARSHAL. Recollections of Lond.

1892

 USD - 2.50
3129 MAC FARLANE, C. The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all parts of the World Lond.

1833

 USD - 1.50
3130 MACKAY, CHARLES (Editor) Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs from the 16th to the 19th Century Lond.

1867

 USD - 1.00
3131 MACKAY, CHARLES Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Lond.

1841

 USD - 2.25
3132 MACKAY, CHARLES Poetry and Humour of the Scot tish Language Paisley and Lond.

1882

 USD - 0.80
3133 MACLAY, WM. MACLAY, WM. Journal of N. Y.

1890

 USD - 0.75
3134 MACLISE, DANIEL The Illustrations to the Reliques of Father Prout, late P. P. of Watergrasshill in the County of Cork, Ireland Lond.

1836

 USD - 5.25
3135 MACNISH, ROBT. Anatomy of Drunkenness Glasgow

1834

 USD - 0.80
3136 MACREADY (W. C.) Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters Lond.

1875

 USD - 1.13
3137 MADDEN, R. R. Phantasmala; or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms Productive of Great Evils Lond.

1857

 USD - 1.25
3138 MAHONY, REV. FRANCIS Final Reliques of Father Prout Lond.

1876

 USD - 1.30
3139 MAHAFFY, J. P. Old Greek Education Lond.

1881

 USD - 0.95
3140 MAHAFFY, REV. J. P. Social Life in Greece, from Homer to Menander Lond.

1879

 USD - 1.38
3141 MAHAFFY, J. P. The Decay of Modern Preaching N. Y.

1882

 USD - 0.60
3142 MAIDMENT, JAMES (Editor) Scottish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Traditionary Edinburgh

1868

 USD - 0.65
3143 MAIN, DAVID M. Three Hundred English Sonnets Lond.

1884

 USD - 2.63
3144 MANNERS AND TONE OF GOOD SOCIETY Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 0.15
3145 MARBOT, BARON DE MARBOT, BARON DE. The Memoirs of Lond.

1892

 USD - 4.50
3146 MARCH, REV. DANIEL Night Scenes in the Bible Phil.

1869

 USD - 0.55
3147 MARCHANT, W. T. In Praise of Ale; or, Songs, Ballads, Epigrams and Anecdotes relating to Beer, Malt and Hops Lond.

1888

 USD - 1.38
3148 MARCY, R. B. The Prairie Traveller: a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Lond.

1863

 USD - 0.90
3149 MARIE, ADRIEN Une Journee d'Enfant Compositions inedites Paris

1883

 USD - 3.50
3150 MARKHAM, C. R. Peruvian Bark: a Popular Account of Cinchona Cultivation into British India, 1860-80 Lond.

1880

 USD - 1.00
3151 MARKHAM, MRS. A History of France, with Conversations Lond.

1828

 USD - 0.50
3152 MARLOWE (CHRISTOPHER) Dramatic Works, with Notes and some Account of his Life and Writings Lond.

1850

 USD - 6.00
3153 (MARRYAT, CAPTAIN) Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service Lond.

1832

 USD - 0.70
3154 MARSHALL, W. E. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas: the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India Lond.

1873

 USD - 1.40
3155 MARTIN, ANNE Home Life on an Ostrich Farm N. Y.

1891

 USD - 0.55
3156 MARTIN (HENRI) History of France: the Age of Louis XIV Bost.

1865

 USD - 1.25
3157 MARTIN (HENRI) History of France: the Decline of the French Monarchy Bost.

1866

 USD - 1.50
3158 MARTIN, SIR THEODORE A Life of Lord Lyndhurst Lond.

1883

 USD - 0.45
3159 MARTIN (SIR THEODORE) MARTIN (SIR THEODORE) Horace Edinburgh and Lond.

1881

 USD - 2.00
3160 MARTIN, THEODORE Memoir of William E. Aytoun, with an Appendix Edinburgh and Lond.

1867

 USD - 0.25
3161 MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS. M. V. Martialis Epigramata in Amphitheatrum Caesaris Aldus

1517

 USD - 4.25
3162 MARTINEAU, HARRIET The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-1846 Lond.

1850

 USD - Not Sold
3163 MARTYN, JOHN The Eclogues of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes Lond.

1813

 USD - 4.00
3164 MARVELL, ANDREW Poems and Satires Lond.

1892

 USD - 0.80
3165 Claude Nau MARY STUART. The History of, from the Murder of Riccio until her Flight into England Edinburgh

1883

 USD - 1.25
3166 MASON, R. OSGOOD Sketches and Impressions, Musical, Theatrical and Social N. Y. and Lond.

1887

 USD - 0.30
3167 MASSINGER, PHILIP MASSINGER, PHILIP. The Plays of Lond.

1813

 USD - 7.50
3168 MATEAUX, C. L. Rambles Round London Town Lond.

n. d.

 USD - 0.10
3169 MATSELL, G. W. Vocabulum; or, The Rogue's Lexicon N. Y.

1859

 USD - 0.25
3170 MATHEWS, MRS. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian Lond.

1839

 USD - 0.63
3171 MATHEWS, MRS. Tea-Table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and other Miscellanies Lond.

1857

 USD - 0.70
3172 MATTHEWS, BRANDER Ballads of Books N. Y.

1887

 USD - 0.80
3173 MAURAY, MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURAY, MATTHEW FONTAINE. A Life of Lond.

1888

 USD - 1.25
3174 MAXWELL, SIR WM. STIRLING Don John of Austria; or, Passages from the History of the Sixteenth Century, 1547-1578 Lond.

1883

 USD - 2.25
3175 MAXWELL (W. H.) Life of the Duke of Wellington Lond.

1839

 USD - 3.13
3176 MAYER, BRANTZ Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver N. Y.

1854

 USD - 0.85
3177 MAYHEW, HENRY German Life and Manners as seen in Saxony at the Present Day Lond.

1864

 USD - 2.50
3178 MAYHEW (THE BROTHERS) The Image of his Father; or, One Boy is More Trouble than A Dozen Girls Lond.

1851

 USD - 1.38
3179 MAYO, W. S. Kaloolah: The Adventures of Jonathan Romer N. Y. and Lond.

1887

 USD - 0.65
3180 MCALLISTER, WARD Society as I Found It N. Y.

1890

 USD - 0.70
3181 MCCALL, GEO. A. Letters from the Frontiers Phil.

1868

 USD - 1.25
3182 MCCARTHY, JUSTIN A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880 Lond.

1880

 USD - 2.00
3183 MCCARTHY, JUSTIN H. French Revolution Lond.

1890

 USD - Not Sold
3184 MCCARTHY, JUSTIN H. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Lond.

1889

 USD - 1.00
3185 MCCULLOCH, HUGH Men and Measures of Half a Century N. Y.

1889

 USD - 1.13
3186 MCGUZZLER, STEWARD Society as It Found Me Out N. Y.

1890

 USD - 0.50
3187 MCIAN'S COSTUMES OF THE CLANS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS Lond.

1845

 USD - 20.00
3188 MCKENNEY, THOS. L. MCKENNEY, THOS. L. Memoirs, Official and Personal N. Y.

1846

 USD - 2.13
3189 MCLEAN, JOHN Notes of a Seventy-five Years'Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Lond.

1849

 USD - 2.13
3190 (MCLEAN, SALLY PRATT.) Cape Cod Folks Bost.

1881

 USD - 3.38
3191 MCMULLIN, THOS. Hand-Book of Wines, Practical, Theoretical and Historical N. Y.

1852

 USD - 0.25
3192 MEAD, HENRY The Sepoy Revolt: its Causes and its Consequences Lond.

1857

 USD - 0.25
3193 Rev. J. Johns MEADE, RT. REV. WM., D.D. A Memoir of the Life of, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia Balt.

1867

 USD - 2.25
3194 MEADOWS, LINDON Dame Perkins and Her Grey Mare; or, The Mount for Market Lond.

1866

 USD - 1.90
3195 MEDWIN, THOS. Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Lond.

1847

 USD - 2.13
3196 MELINE, JAS. F. Two Thousand Miles on Horseback N. Y.

1867

 USD - 0.60
3197 MEMORIES OF OLD FRIENDS: being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, from 1835 to 1871 Phil.

1882

 USD - 1.25
3198 MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS Life and Remarkable Career of this Celebrated Actress Phil.

1868

 USD - 1.10
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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