Bangs: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS. STANDARD, POPULAR, ILLUSTRATED. BOTH OLD AND NEW, TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 2d, 3d and 4th, 1896. BY BANGS & CO. 91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. SALE TO BEGIN AT 3 O'CLOCK, Jun021896,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 02, 1896 - June 02, 1896
Page Size: 1151 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 THE CHURCH'S FLORAL KALENDAR

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202 BARN Wedding Hymn Illustrated by Dora Wheeler

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203 THE ANTIQUARY, Vol. XVII...

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204 WILKINS' Radicals of Sanskrita Language...

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205 THE PSALMS, with a Key, Gr., literal English version and lexicon by John Reid Glasgow

1821

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206 DUFIEF Nature Displayed in Teaching Language...

1810

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207 WALKER'S Critical English Dictionary

1791

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208 LATHAM, R. G. The English Language Lond.

1848

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209 STUART'S Hebrew Chrestomathy

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210 JAMES, G. F. (Editor) Handbook of University Extension

1893

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211 HOLCOMBE, J. P. Literature in Letters, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History and Morals N. Y.

1866

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212 SUTTON, G. Faith and Sciehce...

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213 DILLAYE Les Etapes du Cirque Zoulof

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214 MALTE-BRUN Geographic Universelie Paris

1845

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215 SEWARD, WM. H. Travels around the World

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216 HENRY, B. C. Ling-Nam; or, Interior Views of Southern China Lond.

1886

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217 J. Legge CHINESE CLASSICS

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218 LANG'S Wanderings in India...

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219 HILLARD'S Six Months in Italy...

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220 BENNETT'S Handbook for Norway...

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221 RODENBOUGH'S Afghanistan...

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222 Danilevski PRINCESS TARAKANOVA: a Dark Chapter of Russian History N. Y.

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223 BARRINGTON, SIR JONAH Personal Sketches N. Y.

1853

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224 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX to Hume...

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225 DALLAS, Geo. M. (U. S. Minister) Letters from London, 1856-60 Phil.

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226 JEAFFRESON, J. C. Annals of Oxford

1871

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227 DISRAELI, B. Speeches on Parliamentary Reform Lond.

1867

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228 TROLLOPE, THOS. A. What I Remember Lond.

1887

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229 THORNBURY Life of Turner (the painter)

1877

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230 CARLYLE'S Sartor Resartus...

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231 EMERSON, E. R. Masks, Heads and Faces; and Considerations on Rise and Development of Art Bost.

1891

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232 BUTLER, WM. A. Two Millions

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233 MCCLATCHIE Japanese Plays (versified) Lond.

1890

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234 KENYON, JOHN A Day at Tivoli, etc. Lond.

1849

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235 TENNYSON The Lover's Tale

1879

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236 DON CARLOS, by Schiller...

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237 WHEELER, ELLA Shells Milwaukee

1873

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238 CRUIKSHANK, GEO. A Discovery concerning Ghosts

1863

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239 RHOADES' The Story of John Trevennick...

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240 GAUTIER, T. One of Cleopatra's Wights, etc.

1891

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241 RUSSELL, A. P. In a Club Corner Bost.

1892

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242 SEWELL'S Home Life...

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243 MARMONTEL Autobiography

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244 HERALDRY: a Manual

1894

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245 FRANKLIN, B. Autobiography N. Y.

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246 PENTREATH In a Cornish Township with Old Vogue Folk

1893

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247 CUMMING, C. F. G. At Home in Fiji N. Y.

1882

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248 TAYLOR History of Ireland N. Y.

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249 CALTON, R. B. Annals and Legends of Calais

1852

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250 LIFE AND LETTERS of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Seigneur, Knight, Imperial Ambassador (time of Charles V.) Lond.

1881

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251 HOOKHAM Life and Times of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England and France Lond.

1872

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252 BULWER The Last Days of Pompeii N. Y.

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253 THE GREAT ROMAN ECLIPSE, Visions of Locustsand Horsemen in the Apocalypse...

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254 ASTROLOGY IN THE APOCALYPSE...

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255 CONFESSION OF FAITH; Larger and Shorter Catechism, etc. Edinburgh

1781

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256 AESOP'B FABLES...

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257 NOVELS: Judge Ketchum's Romance...

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258 NOVELS: Jane Eyre...

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259 NOVELS: The Copperhead...

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260 ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY OF WONDERS N. Y.

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261 SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS...

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262 MR CROWLEY, of Central Park

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263 HOW TO RISE IN SOCIETY

1845

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264 EDGAR The Variations of Popery N. Y.

1849

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265 BARRINGTON, SIR JONAH Personal Sketches (in Ireland) N. Y.

1858

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266 O'CALLAGHAN, E. B. Documentary History of the State of New York

1850

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267 COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, Dec., 1894, to Dec., 1895

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268 MUNSEY MAGAZINE, Dec., 1894, to Nov., 1895, and Mch., 1896

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269 MCCLURE'S Apl., '94, and Mch. to Dec., '95...

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270 NOVELS. Madame Sans Gene...

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271 NOVELS. by Buchanan...

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272 NOVELS. Clark Russell...

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273 NOVELS. Carleton's Willy Reilly...

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274 NOVELS. by Besant and Rice...

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275 WATSON, WM. Adventures of a Blockade Runner; or, Trade in Time of War Lond.

1892

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276 CAPT. ANDREWS' Cruise in the Sapolio...

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277 NOVELS. Golden Mediocrity...

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278 NOVELS. Through the Mist...

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279 NOVELS. Folle-Farine...

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280 BUNGENER The Priest and the Huguenot; Voltaire and his Times

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281 BURNAND'S Happy Thoughts...

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282 TIMBS' Pleasant Half-Hours

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283 CHURCH Roman Life in Days of Cicero N. Y.

1895

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284 BARING-GOULD Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

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285 HOVEY, R. Launcelot and Guenevere: a Poem in Dramas

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286 RULE The Brand of Dominic, or Inquisition...

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287 LADY BULWER'S Behind the Scenes...

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288 ANNUALS. (Lacking portraits)

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289 MAGNIFICAT

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290 FAUST.--The Flower and Spinning Songs

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291 MOTHER GOOSE'S RHYMES...

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292 MODERN PLAYMATE Revised edition

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293 BOY'S USEFUL PASTIMES

1887

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294 BINGLEY Natural History

1870

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295 MINSHULL Land, Sea and Sky; or, Wonders of Life and Nature N. Y.

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296 KNOX, T. W. The Underground World: a mirror of life below the surface

1879

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297 BINGLEY Memoirs of British Quadrupeds Lond.

1809

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298 HAYDN Dictionary of Science Lond.

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299 CASSELL & Co.'s Science for All

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300 BECKMANN History of Inventions, Discoveries, etc.

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