Bangs: Catalogue of a Miscellaneous and Interesting Collection of Books. COMPRISING, Americana, Standard, Popular and Scarce Works, Dramatic Literature, Illustrated Books, Rare Imprints, New Publications, Chap Books, a partial list of the Beautiful and Scarce Pu, Jun081896,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 08, 1896 - June 08, 1896

Page Size: 1010 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADAMS, JOHN	A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the United States	Lond.	1787-88	USD -	Unknown
2	CALLENDER, J. T.	Sketches of the History of America	Phil.	1798	USD -	Unknown
3		NEW ENGLAND Primer and Shorter Catechism, and Dialogue between Christ, a Youth and the Devil	Brattleborough	1819	USD -	Unknown
4		NEW ENGLAND Primer and Shorter Catechism, and Dialogue between Christ, a Youth and the Devil	Bridgeport, Ct.	1819	USD -	Unknown
5		NEW ENGLAND Primer and Shorter Catechism, and Dialogue between Christ, a Youth and the Devil	Worcester		USD -	Unknown
6		NEW ENGLAND Primer and Shorter Catechism, and Dialogue between Christ, a Youth and the Devil			USD -	Unknown
7	J. Emerson	EVANGELICAL PRIMER	Bost.	1826	USD -	Unknown
8	Rev. N. Perkins	S. S. CATECHISM	Hartford	1819	USD -	Unknown
9		SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD	N. Y.	1815	USD -	Unknown
10		TOM THUMB'S Library	Concord	1812	USD -	Unknown
11		THE SISTERS AND THE ROSE, N. H., 1813...			USD -	Unknown
12		CROSS KATE	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
13		A NEW HISTORY OF BLUE BEARD	N. H.	1806	USD -	Unknown
14		DEATH AND BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN	New Ipswich	1824	USD -	Unknown
15		THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
16		INDIAN ANECDOTES	Concord, N. H.		USD -	Unknown
17	Mrs. Sherwood	DAZEE, or the Re-Captured Negro	Newburyport		USD -	Unknown
18		AMUSEMENT for Infant Minds, Rutland, 1813...			USD -	Unknown
19		AFFECTING HISTORY of the Children in the Woods, Concord, 1832...			USD -	Unknown
20		PARLEY'S Stories about Plays...			USD -	Unknown
21		THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY of America, Indian Wars, etc.	N. Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
22		DWIGHT'S Travels in New England and New York			USD -	Unknown
23	MCKENNEY, T. S.	Tour to the Lakes			USD -	Unknown
24		FIDLER'S Observations, 1833...			USD -	Unknown
25		CONDAMINE. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique-Guyane...			USD -	Unknown
26		JESUITS...			USD -	Unknown
27		CONNECTICUT State Register, 1813			USD -	Unknown
28		CONNECTICUT State Register, 1848-1860			USD -	Unknown
29		NEILSON'S Account of Burgoyne's Campaign...			USD -	Unknown
30	DWIGHT, T.	The Conquest of Canaan: a Poem	Hartford	1785	USD -	Unknown
31		ANDREW SHERBURNE'S Memoirs, 1831...			USD -	Unknown
32		MCDONNELL'S Considerations on Negro Slavery, Lond. 1824...			USD -	Unknown
33		MAPS. Atlas, Berlin, 1753...			USD -	Unknown
34	S. Dunn	MAPS. La., W. I. Guiana, 1774			USD -	Unknown
35	T. Jefferys	AMERICA AND THE BRITISH COLONIES		1778	USD -	Unknown
36		WAR IN THE SOUTH COLONIES, etc., 1776...			USD -	Unknown
37		LAKE GEORGE...			USD -	Unknown
38		SETTLEMENTS in Venezuela, the West Indian Islands, etc., 1781			USD -	Unknown
39		MORMONS			USD -	Unknown
40		NEW YORK. A Description of the Genesee Country, and of the Military Lands		1804	USD -	Unknown
41		JOHNSON'S Guide to Niagara Falls	Rochester		USD -	Unknown
42		THE PSALMS...			USD -	Unknown
43		Doc. HISTORY...			USD -	Unknown
44		CONTROVERSY between Senator Brooks and Archbishop Hughes...			USD -	Unknown
45		MEMORIALS of Wm. E. Dodge	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
46		MEMOIR of Jas. De Veaux of Charleston, S.C., Member of National Academy of Design		1846	USD -	Unknown
47		WASHINGTON'S Epistles	N. Y.	1796	USD -	Unknown
48		BUNKER HILL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION, June 17, 1887			USD -	Unknown
49		DEBATES in Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of Louisiana	New Orleans	1864	USD -	Unknown
50		BLAINE'S Memorial Address on J. A. Garfield		1882	USD -	Unknown
51		WASHINGTON CITY AND ENVIRONS		1884	USD -	Unknown
52		REPORT of Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 1866...			USD -	Unknown
53		GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TERRITORIES...			USD -	Unknown
54		GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TERRITORIES...			USD -	Unknown
55		BEEKER'S Geology of the Comstock Lode, etc.		1882	USD -	Unknown
56		POWELL'S Report for the years ending June 30, 1883, and 1884			USD -	Unknown
57		LUDLOW'S Black Hills of Dakota, 1874...			USD -	Unknown
58		FONTAINE'S Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia		1883	USD -	Unknown
59		POWELL'S Report on Ethnology...			USD -	Unknown
60		ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. A series of colored plates illustrating the costumes...			USD -	Unknown
61	Charles Morris, editor	MAKERS OF NEW YORK: an historical work giving portraits and sketches of the most eminent citizens of New York	Phil.	1895	USD -	Unknown
62	Charles Morris, editor	MAKERS OF NEW YORK: an historical work giving portraits and sketches of the most eminent citizens of New York			USD -	Unknown
63	SMITH, E. V.	History of Newburyport		1854	USD -	Unknown
64		GENEALOGICAL NOTES of New York and New England Families	Albany	1883	USD -	Unknown
65		BERKSHIRE JUBILEE (THE), Celebrated at Pittsfield, Mass., August 22 and 23, 1844	Albany	1845	USD -	Unknown
66	BUCKINGHAM, SAML. G.	Life of William A. Buckingham, the War Governor of Connecticut	Springfield	1894	USD -	Unknown
67	CHAPIN, CHARLES W.	History of the "Old High School," Springfield, Mass., from 1828 to 1840, etc.	Springfield	1890	USD -	Unknown
68	CIST, CHARLES	Cincinnati in 1851	Cinn.	1851	USD -	Unknown
69	COWLEY, CHARLES	Illustrated History of Lowell (Mass.)	Bost.	1868	USD -	Unknown
70	DERBY, W. P.	Bearing Arms in the Twenty-seventh Mass. Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War	Bost.	1883	USD -	Unknown
71	FORREST, W. S.	Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, including Portsmouth	Phil.	1853	USD -	Unknown
72		FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the South Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass.	Springfield	1882	USD -	Unknown
73	QUEEN, MASON A.	Springfield (Mass.) Memories: Odds and Ends of Anecdote and Early Doings	Springfield	1876	USD -	Unknown
74	HARRIS, T. W.	Treatise on some of the Insects of New England which are injurious to vegetation	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
75		HISTORY of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts	Phil.	1879	USD -	Unknown
76	HOLLAND, JOSIAH G.	History of Western Massachusetts, the Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire	Springfield	1855	USD -	Unknown
77	LONGMEADOW	Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the town of Longmeadow (Mass.), with Historical Appendices and a Town Genealogy	Longmeadow	1884	USD -	Unknown
78		MASSACHUSETTS OF TO-DAY. A Memorial of the State issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago	Bost.	1892	USD -	Unknown
79	MORRIS, HENRY	History of the First Church in Springfield (Mass.)	Springfield	1875	USD -	Unknown
80		NEW YORK: a Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Metropolitan City of America	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
81		PICTURESQUE SERIES. Picturesque Berkshire, North and South	Northampton	(1893)	USD -	Unknown
82		PICTURESQUE SERIES. Picturesque Hampden, East and West	Northampton	(1891)	USD -	Unknown
83		PICTURESQUE SERIES. Picturesque Hampshire		1890	USD -	Unknown
84		PICTURESQUE SERIES. Picturesque Franklin		1891	USD -	Unknown
85		PICTURESQUE SERIES. Picturesque Detroit and its Environs	Northampton	(1893)	USD -	Unknown
86	PRESCOTT, W. H.	History of Ferdinand and Isabella	Bost.	1838	USD -	Unknown
87	SMITH, J. E. A.	History of Pittsfield (Berkshire County), Massachusetts, from 1734 to 1876	Bost.	1869-76	USD -	Unknown
88	TYLER, W. S.	History of Amherst College during its First Half Century, 1821-1871	Springfield	1873	USD -	Unknown
89	TYLER, W. S.	History of Amherst College during its First Half Century, 1821-1871			USD -	Unknown
90	MORRISON, L. A.	History of the Alison or Allison Family in Europe and America, A. D. 1135 to 1893	Bost.	1893	USD -	Unknown
90a	MORRISON	Lineage and Biographies of the Norris Family in America from 1640 to 1892	Bost.	1892	USD -	Unknown
91	MORRISON	Supplement to the History of Windham in New Hampshire	Bost.	1892	USD -	Unknown
92	COLUMBUS AND COLUMBIA	A National History	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
93		COLUMBIAN CENTINEL AND MASSACHUSETTS FEDERALIST for Jan. 8, 1800, in mourning for Washington's death	Bost.	1800	USD -	Unknown
94		INDEPENDENT LEDGER AND AMERICAN ADVERTISER...			USD -	Unknown
95		REVOLUTIONARY. The Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser...			USD -	Unknown
96		AUBERTIN. A Fight with Distances, the States, the Hawaiian Islands, Canada, etc....	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
97	BECKWOURTH	Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout and pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
98		NEW YORK. Lintner's First and Second Reports on Injurious and other Insects, 1882 and 1885			USD -	Unknown
99		NEW YORK. Second Report			USD -	Unknown

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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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.