Bangs: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE AND SCARCE BOOKS. Standard and Rare Books in the various departments of English Literature, including Works with fine Portraits and Engravings; Americana, including Scarce Maps and Atlases; Napoleonana, and Works on the French Revolu, Mar301896,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 30, 1896 - March 30, 1896

Page Size: 606 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
198	GRIMSTONE (William, [Lord])	The Lawyer's Fortune; or, Love in a Hollow Tree: a Comedy	London	1705	USD -	Unknown
199	GRUND (F. J.)	Aristocracy in America	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
200	GRUND (F. J.)	The Americans in their moral, social and political relations	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
201	GUEST (Lady Charlotte, translator)	The Mabinogion	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
202	GUIZOT (F.)	[Life of] Washington	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
203	HAFLIDASON (Einar)	Life of Laurence, Bishop of Holar in Iceland (Laurentius Saga)	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
204		[HALIBURTON (T. C.)] The Bubbles of Canada...	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
205	HALL (Capt. Basil)	Travels in North America	Edinburgh	1829	USD -	Unknown
206	HALL (Capt. Basil)	Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
207	HALLAM (Henry)	View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
208	HAMERTON (P. G.)	Drawing and Engraving: a brief Exposition of Technical Principles and Practice	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
209	His Son, John C. Hamilton	HAMILTON (Alexander) Life	New York	1840-41	USD -	Unknown
210	HAMILTON (Lady)	HAMILTON (Lady) Memoirs	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
211	HANNAY (J.)	Satire and Satirists: Six Lectures	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
212	HARDING (G. P.)	Portraits of Illustrious Persons in English History	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
213	HARDING (J. D.)	Lessons on Art	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
214	[HARDMAN (F.)]	The Student of Salamanca	Edinburgh	1847	USD -	Unknown
215		HARGRAVE'S STATE TRIALS. Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours	London	1776-81	USD -	Unknown
216		HARPER (R. G.) Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France...	London	v. y.	USD -	Unknown
217	HARRIS	Recollections of Rifleman Harris (Old 95th)	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
218	HARTSHORNE (C. H., editor)	Ancient Metrical Tales, chiefly from original sources	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
219	HAZLITT (W. C., editor)	Tales and Legends of national origin, or widely current in England, from early times	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
220	HEAD (Capt. F. B.)	Rough Notes during Journeys across the Pampas	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
221	HEAD (G.)	Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
222	HEATH (F. G.)	Peasant Life in the West of England	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
223	HEATH (F. G.)	The Fern World	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
224		HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika	Amsterdam	1766-69	USD -	Unknown
225		HEINE as Novelist and Dramatist: being Selections from his longer works; in English by R. McLintock	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
226	[HELPS (Sir Arthur)]	Friends in Council...	London	1869-75	USD -	Unknown
227	[HELPS (Sir Arthur)]	Life of Pizarro...	London	1888-90	USD -	Unknown
228	HEMMING (S.)	Designs for Villas, Parsonages and Small Houses	London	[1859]	USD -	Unknown
229		HERODOTUS. TURNER (Dawson W.) Notes on Herodotus...	London	1853-'54	USD -	Unknown
230	HERISSON (Comte d')	The Black Cabinet	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
231	HEYLYN (Peter)	Mikrocosmos: a Little Description of the Great World	Oxford	1625	USD -	Unknown
232	HILL (B. E.)	Recollections of an Artillery Officer	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
233	E. Sidney	HILL (General Lord) Life	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
234	[HOBHOUSE (J. C.)]	Substance of some Letters written by an Englishman resident at Paris during the Last Reign of Napoleon	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
235	HOLMAN (J.)	Voyage Round the World, including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australia, America, 1827-32	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
236	HORACE	HORACE. Works	London	1747	USD -	Unknown
237	HORACE	Lyrics: being the first four Books of his Odes	Chester	[1824]	USD -	Unknown
238	HOME (John)	History of the Rebellion in the year 1745	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
239	HOTTEN (J. C., editor)	The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Exiles, etc.	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
240	HOUSTON (Mrs. M. C.)	Texas and the Gulf of Mexico	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
241	HUMBOLDT (A. de)	Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
242	HUME and SMOLLETT	History of England	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
243	HUNT (R. M.)	Life of Sir Hugh Palliser, Admiral of the White	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
244	HUNTER (J. D.)	Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
245	INCHBOLD (J. W.)	Six fine etchings by Inchbold, proofs			USD -	Unknown
246	INGLIS (H. D.)	Solitary Walks through Many Lands	London	1840-43	USD -	Unknown
247	INGRAM (J. H.)	Claimants to Royalty	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
248	IRVING (J. T.)	Indian Sketches, taken during an Expedition to the Pawnee and other Tribes	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
249	IRVING (T.)	The Conquest of Florida under Hernando de Soto	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
250	[IRVING (Washington)]	A Tour on the Prairie...	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
251	[IRVING (Washington)]	Adventures of Captain Bonneville	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
252	JACOBS (J., editor)	Indian Fairy Tales	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
253	JACOX (Francis)	Aspects of Authorship...	London	1871-72	USD -	Unknown
254	JAEGER (Prof. B.)	Life of North American Insects	Providence	1854	USD -	Unknown
255	JAMES (William)	The Naval History of Great Britain, from the declaration of war by France in 1793 to the accession of George IV	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
256	JAMIESON (R., editor)	Popular Ballads and Songs, from tradition	Edinburgh	1806	USD -	Unknown
257	[JARDINE (D.)]	[Narratives of] Criminal Trials	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
258	JEAFFRESON (J. C.)	A Book about Lawyers	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
259	JEAFFRESON (J. C.)	Book about Doctors	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
260	JEAFFRESON (J. C.)	The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson: an Historical Biography based on MSS. in the British Museum and on letters and other documents amongst the Morrison MSS.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
261	JEANS (H. W.)	Hand-Book for the Stars	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
262	JEFFERYS (T.)	Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies	London	1762	USD -	Unknown
263	JESSE (Edward)	A Summer's Day at Windsor, and a Visit to Eton...	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
264	JESSOP (Dr. A.)	Random Roaming, and other Papers	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
265	JESSOP (Dr. A.)	The Trials of a Country Parson	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
266	JOHNSON (Dr. Samuel)	Political Tracts: The False Alarm, Falkland's Islands, The Patriot, and Taxation no Tyranny	Dublin	1777	USD -	Unknown
267	JOHNSON	Portrait on copper of Sir William Johnson, Major-General of the English Forces in North America	(London)	(1756)	USD -	Unknown
268		JOINVILLE (Prince de) The Army of the Potomac: its Organization...			USD -	Unknown
269	JONES (George)	History of Ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
270	JOUY ET JAY	Les Hermites en Prison. Four portraits and plates, etc.	Paris	1823	USD -	Unknown
271	[Jovius (Paulus)]	Musaei Joviani Imagines	Basiliae	1577	USD -	Unknown
272	KALM (P.)	Reis door Noord Amerika in 1748 en 1749	Utrecht	1772	USD -	Unknown
273	KAVANAGH (Morgan)	The Discovery of the Science of Languages	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
274	J. F. Molloy	KEAN. The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian, 1787-1833	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
275	KEITH (George, Prisoner in the Tolbooth of Aberdeen, with many Brethren, for the Truth)	The Way cast up, and the Stumbling-blockes removed from before the feet of those who are seeking the way to Zion	No place [at end]	printed in the year 1677	USD -	Unknown
276	KEITH (George, Prisoner in the Tolbooth of Aberdeen, with many Brethren, for the Truth)	Immediate Revelations.... not ceased, but remaining a standing and perpetual Ordinance	No place	printed in the year 1675	USD -	Unknown
277	KENNEDY (W.)	Texas: the rise, progress and prospects of the Republic of Texas	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
278	KEPPEL (T.)	Life of Viscount Keppel, Admiral of the White	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
279	KING (C. W.)	Handbook of Engraved Gems	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
280	KITCHEN (T.)	General Atlas	London	1777	USD -	Unknown
281	KITCHEN (T.)	Maps of the Seat of War in the Environs of Philadelphia, 1777...	London		USD -	Unknown
282	KNIGHT (Charles, editor)	Half Hours of English History, from the Roman Period to the death of Elizabeth	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
283		The Honiton Lace Book	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
284	LA CONDAMINE (C. M. de)	Relation abregee d'un Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique Meridionale, depuis la cote de la Mer du Sud jusqu'aux cotes du Bresil et de la Guyane, en descendant la Riviere des Amazones	Maestricht	1778	USD -	Unknown
285		LADY'S MAGAZINE ([Wilkie and Cooke's]), from its commencement in 1759 to 1765	London	1759-65	USD -	Unknown
286	LAFAYETTE	Fine medallion profile portrait on copper of Mr. de la Fayette, Comdant			USD -	Unknown
287	LAING (J.)	Voyage to Spitzbergen: with an Historical Account of the Dutch, English and American Whale Fisheries	Edinburgh	1818	USD -	Unknown
288	LAMARTINE (A. de)	History of the Girondists...	London	1847-51	USD -	Unknown
289	LAMB (C.)	Specimens of English Dramatic Poets of the time of Shakespeare	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
290	LAMBERT (John)	Travels through Canada and the United States in 1806-8	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
291	LANE-POOLE (Stanley)	Studies in a Mosque	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
292	LANG (Andrew)	Homer and the Epic	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
293	LANG (Andrew)	Angling Sketches	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
294	LANGTON (R.)	Narrative of a Captivity in France, from 1809 to 1814	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
295	LANMAN (C.)	Adventures in the Wilds of North America...	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
296	LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN (Marchioness de)	LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN (Marchioness de) Memoirs	Edinburgh	1816	USD -	Unknown
297	LAS CASES (Count de)	Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena	London	1823	USD -	Unknown

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.
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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.