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
801 DICTIONNAIRE DE CONVERSATION

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802 DWIGHT, TIMOTHY Sermons Middletown

1818

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803 (DUNLAP, W.) Thirty Years Ago; or, the Memoirs of a Water Drinker N. Y.

1836

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804 ENCYCLOPAEDIA; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Literature Phil.

1798

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805 EDWARDS, CHARLES History and Poetry of Finger Rings N. Y.

1855

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806 ENGLISH LAKES: a Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, etc. Lond.

1821

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807 FELLOWES, R. Body of Theology...

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808 GALLERY. A Collection of One Hundred and Forty-five Works of Teniers

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809 GALLERY. The Wilkie Gallery, with biographical and critical notices Lond. and N. Y.

n. d.

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810 GALLERY. Gems of British Art, with choice specimens of Poetry, History and Romance N. Y.

1856

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811 GENTLEMEN'S RECREATION (THE) Lond.

1677

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812 GILPIN, GEORGE (Translator) The Bee Hive of the Romish Church: a Worke of all good Catholikes to be read and most necessary to bee understood Lond.

1623

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813 GUIDE BOOKS: Barber's Isle of Wight...

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814 HARWOOD'S Illustrations of London

1840

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815 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL The Marble Faun Bost.

1860

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816 HEROINES OF SHAKESPEARE (THE). The Principal Female Characters in the Plays Lond.

1848

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817 HISTOIRE abregee des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas Amsterdam

1701

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818 HOOD, THOMAS. Choice Works...

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819 HOOD, THOMAS HOOD, THOMAS. Poems Lond.

1870

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820 H. W. Herbert HORSE AND HORSEMANSHIP of the United States N. Y.

1871

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821 John Ireland HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED Lond.

1793

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822 HOWARD, GEO. Wolsey, the Cardinal, and his Times, etc. Lond.

1824

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823 HOLTZAPFFEL& Co. CATALOGUES

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824 HUME, D. History of England Dublin

1788

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825 HUME, D. HUME, D. Essays Lond.

1777

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826 IRVING, DAVID Lives of the Scottish Poets Edinburgh

1804

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827 ISAACSON, HENRY A Chronological Series or Succession of the foure Monarchyes Lond.

1633

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828 JACOB, P. L. Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles Paris

1862

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829 JAMIESON, R. Popular Ballads and Songs Edinburgh

1806

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830 JARDIN DE PLAISACE. Imprime nouvellement a Paris

1547

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831 JOHNSON, SAMUEL JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Works of Lond.

1806

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832 JONES, W. A. Literary Studies...

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833 JUNIUS' LETTERS Lond.

1791

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834 MONTESQUIEU, DE L'Esprit des Lois Edinburgh

1751

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835 Miss MILLY MILLIFLEUR'S CAREER N. Y.

1869

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836 MUSEO BORBONICO Raccolta de monumenti piu interessanti Napoli

1825

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837 NEW YORK Natural History, De Kay's Mollusca

1844

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838 NEW TESTAMENT: Greek, Latin, Spanish, English, etc.

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839 NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

1821-28

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840 NOVELS: Crawford's Mr. Isaacs...

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841 NOVELS: Andersen's Fairy Tales...

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842 NOVELS: Aguilar's Woman's Friendship...

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843 ONPERDONK, HENRY Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County N. Y.

1846

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844 OBER, F. A. Camps in the Caribbees Bost.

1880

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845 PAYSON, EDWARD PAYSON, EDWARD. Memoir Portland

1846

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846 PERCIVAL, WILLIAM Hippathology: a Systematic Treatise on the Disorders and Lamenesses of the Horse Lond.

1855

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847 PERRY'S Japan Expedition, illustrated, has "Public Bath'at Simada" Wash.

1856

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848 PIERS PLOUGHMAN The Vision of William concerning Piers Ploughman, ascribed to Robert Langland Lond.

1813

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849 PLINII SECUNDII Historic Mundi libri, cum notis Geleudi Pintram et aliorum Genevae

1631

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850 POLYPORI VERGILII de Rerum Inventoribus libri octo Basiliae

1540

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851 POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW Lond.

1862-65

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852 PUNCH Bundle of Nos. of

1880-90

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853 PYNE, W. H. History of the Royal Residences Lond.

1819

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854 RAY, J. Collection of English Words not generally used, and Proverbs Lond.

1737

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855 ROBERTSON, WM. ROBERTSON, WM. Works of Lond.

1840

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856 ROBERTSON, WM. Reign of Charles V. Portrait Lond.

1787

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857 ROME. Veteres Arcus Augustoruni Triumphes Insignes en Reliquiis antiquis numerus notisquae Romae adhuc supersunt, cum imaginibus triumphalibus restituti Romae

1690

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858 ROMEYN, JOHN B. Sermons N. Y.

1816

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859 ROQUEFORT, J. B. B. Poesies de Marie de France; Poete Anglo-Normand du XIIIe Paris

1820

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860 ROSCOE, THOS. The Tourist in Italy Lond.

1832

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861 ROSCOE, WILLIAM Life of Lorenzo de Medici

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862 ROUSSEAU La Nouvelle Heloise

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863 RUSSELL History of Ancient and Modern Europe Phil.

1801

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864 ST. HILAIRE Histoire d'Espagne depuis les premiers temps

1844

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865 SCHILLER'S Werke

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866 (SCOTT, REGINALD) The Discoveries of Witchcraft (original edition, 1584, lacking title and first leaf)

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867 SCOTT, WALTER Waverley Novels

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868 SCOTT, LT.-GEN. SCOTT, LT.-GEN. Memoirs

1864

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869 SHARP, J. A. New British Gazetteer

1852

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870 STRICKLAND, A. Lives of the Queens of England Lond.

1854

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871 STUMPFF, JOHANN Alneiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten Landen und volckeren Chronick Wirdiger thaaten beschreybung in XIII...

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872 THOMPSON History of Long Island

1843

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873 THOMPSON'S Lyra Coelestis...

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874 THOMSON The Seasons, etc.

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875 Twiss, H. Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon

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876 VARIOUS ODD VOLUMES. Alison's Europe...

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877 VARIOUS Montaigne...

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878 VARIOUS Carlyle's Frederick the Great...

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879 VARIOUS Ellis's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances...

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880 VARIOUS Bouterwek's History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature...

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881 VOLNEY'S Ruins, or Revolutions of Empires...

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882 WARTON, THOMAS Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser Lond.

1807

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883 (WALCOT) (WALCOT.) Peter Pindar's Works Dublin

1792

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884 WILDER, M. P. The People I've Smiled With N. Y.

(1889)

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885 HARRISON'S Speeches

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886 LYONS' Tour in Mexico

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887 SALTUS' Anatomy of Negation, Phil, of Disenchantment

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888 GRANT'S Personal Memoirs

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889 SCHMIDT'S The Flowing Bowl

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890 CHAMBERS' Cyclopaedia of English Literature

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891 LEGGE'S Sunny Manitoba

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892 FLAMMARION'S The Atmosphere

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893 SHARP'S Sonnets of the Century

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895 KNOX'S Underground World

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896 TWAIN'S A Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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897 PEPYS' Diary

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899 ZOLA'S The Experimental Novel

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900 BRIDIF Demosthenes. S. C. Griggs & Co.

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901 GERARD'S Land Beyond the Forest

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902 EMERSON'S, Bacon's, Lamb's Essays

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