Bangs: LIBRARY OF THE LATE, PROF. E. A. CARRE, OF ST. LOUIS, COMPRISING, AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND HUMOR; INDIANS; ENGLISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE; CLASSICS; BIBLICAL; PHILOLOGY; DANCE OF DEATH; NAPOLEANA; WORKS OF HAMILTON, WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, FEDERALIS, Mar221897,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 22, 1897 - March 22, 1897

Page Size: 1429 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
494	Hammond, S. H.	Wild Northern Scenes; or Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod	N. Y	1857	USD -	Unknown
495		Palliser, John The Solitary Hunter; or, Sporting Adventures in the Prairies	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
496		The American Shooter's Manual, comprising Plain and Simple Rules for the Inexperienced	Phil.	1827	USD -	Unknown
497	Headley, Rev. J. T.	Letters from the Backwoods and the Adirondac	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
498		Krider's Sporting Anecdotes, Illustrations of the Habits of Certain Varieties of American Game	Phil.	1853	USD -	Unknown
499	Berkeley, Hon. Grantley F.	The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
500	Hardy, Capt. Campbell	Forest Life in Acadie. Sketches of Sport and Natural History	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
501	Vivian, A. Pendarves	Wanderings in the Western Land	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
502	Shields, G. O.	Cruisings in the Cascades. A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Hunting and Fishing	Chicago	1889	USD -	Unknown
503	Shields, G. O.	The Big Game of North America	Chicago	1890	USD -	Unknown
504	Leffingwell, William Bruce	Wild Fowl Shooting. Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl Their Resorts, Habits, Flights, &c.	Chicago	1890	USD -	Unknown
505	William B. Leffingwell	Shooting on Upland, Marsh and Stream	Chicago	1890	USD -	Unknown
506	Schley, Frank	American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting	Frederick, Md.	1877	USD -	Unknown
507	Hammond, S. H.	Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
508	Murray, William H. H.	Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp-Life in the Adirondack's	N. Y.	1870	USD -	Unknown
509	Hallock, Charles	Camp Life in Florida; a Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
510	Zeigler and Grosscup	The Heart of the Alleghanies of Western North Carolina	Raleigh	1883	USD -	Unknown
511	McLellan, Isaac	Poems of the Rod and Gun; or, Sports by Flood and Field	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
512	Bumstead, John	On the Wing. A Book for Sportsmen	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
513	Gibson, W. Hamilton	Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
514	Murphy, John Mortimer	Sporting Adventures in the Far West	N. Y.	1880	USD -	Unknown
515	Murphy, John Mortimer	American Game Bird Shooting	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
516		Keyser, Leander S. In Bird Land...			USD -	Unknown
517	Elliott, Hon. Wm.	Carolina Sports by Land and Water	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
518	Reynolds, J.	Peter Gott, the Cape Ann Fisherman	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
519		Maxims and Hints for an Angler with Humorous Engravings			USD -	Unknown
520	Brown, John J.	The American Angler's Guide	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
521	Scott, Genio C.	Fishing in American Waters	N.Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
522	Dawson, George	Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
523	Holberton, Wakeman	The Art of Angling...	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
524	Clarke, Kit	Where the Trout Hide	N. Y.	1889	USD -	Unknown
525	Hallock, Charles	The Salmon Fisher	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
526		Days in Clover by an Amateur Angler	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
527	Denny, J.	The Secrets of Angling...	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
528		Random Casts; or Odds and Ends from an Angler's Note Book	N. Y.	1878	USD -	Unknown
529	Henshall, James A.	Book of the Black Bass, comprising its Complete Scientific Life History	Cin.	1881	USD -	Unknown
530	Seabury, George J.	An Ode to Lake Bass. Dedicated to Dr. Henshall	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
531	Henshall, James A.	More about Black Bass, being a Supplement to the Book of the Black Bass	Cin.	1889	USD -	Unknown
532	Davis, William M.	Nimrod of the Sea; or, the American Whaleman	N.Y.	1874	USD -	Unknown
533	Nordhoff, Charles	Whaling and Fishing	Cin.	1856	USD -	Unknown
534	Moore, Hamilton, Jr.	Nautical Sketches	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
535	Colburn, George L.	Colburn, George L. Scraps from the Log Book of, in the Whale Fishery	Peoria, Ill.	1854	USD -	Unknown
536	Atlee, Edwin A.	The Eventful Narrative of Capt. William Stockell in the English and American Navies, and in the Whale Fishery	Cin.	1840	USD -	Unknown
537	Bertram, James G.	The Harvest of the Sea including Sketches of Fisheries and Fisher Folk	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
538		Salt Water Bubbles; or, Life on the Wave	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
539	Markham, Albert Hastings	A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
540		The Fishermen's Own Book	Gloucester, Mass.	1882	USD -	Unknown
541	Roosevelt, Robt. B.	The Game Fish of the Northern States and British Provinces	N. Y.	1884	USD -	Unknown
542	Herbert, William Henry	Frank Forrester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
543	Herbert, William Henry	Supplement to Frank Forrester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
544	Herbert, William Henry	Frank Forrester's Fishing with Hook and Line; a Manual for Amateur Anglers	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
545	Herbert, William Henry	The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as they were there Ten Years ago	Phil.	1845	USD -	Unknown
546	Herbert, William Henry	The Quorndon Hounds; or, a Virginian at Melton Mowbray	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
547	Herbert, William Henry	American Game in its Seasons	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
548	Herbert, William Henry	Frank Forrester's Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of North America	N.Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
549	Herbert, William Henry	Herbert, William Henry. Life and Writings of	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
550	Herbert, William Henry	Frank Forrester's Fugitive Sporting Sketches	Westfield, Wis.	1879	USD -	Unknown
551	Herbert, William Henry	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
552	Mayer, Alfred M.	Sport with Rod and Gun in Ameri. can Woods and Waters	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
553	Roosevelt, Theodore	Hunting Trips of a Ranchman	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
554	Herbert, William Henry	Frank Forrester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
555	Lanman, Chas	A Summer in the Wilderness; embracing a Voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
556	Holberton, Wakeman	The Art of Angling. How and Where to Catch Fish	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
557	Tensas, Madison	Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." Also, Robb, John S. Streaks of Squatter Life, and Far-West Scenes			USD -	Unknown
558	Porter, William T.	A Quarter Race in Kentucky, and Other Sketches. Also, Field, J. M. The Drama in Pokerville; the Bench and Bar in Jurytown, and Other Stories	Phil.	1858	USD -	Unknown
559	Porter, William T.	The Big Bear of Arkansas, and Other Sketches	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
560	Hooper, Johnson, J.	Simon Suggs' Adventures and Travels	Phil.	1851	USD -	Unknown
561	Longstreet, A. B.	Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c.	N. Y.	1871	USD -	Unknown
562	Harris, George W.	Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool	N. Y.	1867	USD -	Unknown
563	Thompson, W. T.	Chronicles of Pineville: Sketches of Georgia Scenes, &c.	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
564	Thompson, W. T.	Major Jones' Courtship; with other Scenes, Incidents and Adventures	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
565	Porter, William T.	The Quarter Race in Kentucky, and Other Sketches	Phil.	1846	USD -	Unknown
566	Baldwin, Joseph C.	The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
567	Durivage and Burnham	Stray Subjects, Arrested and Bound Over. Fugitive Offspring of the "Old Un" and the "Young Un"			USD -	Unknown
568	Watterson, Henry	Oddities in Southern Life and Character	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
569	Kennedy, John P.	Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals thereof	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
570	Halpine, Charles G.	The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
571	Locke, D. R.	The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
572	Locke, D. R. (Petroleum V. Nasby)	Swingin Round the Cirklc	N. Y.	1888	USD -	Unknown
573	Neal, Joseph C.	Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities; and Charcoal Sketches, or Scenes in the Metropolis	N. Y., and Phil.	1849-56	USD -	Unknown
574		Josh Billings on Ice, and other Things	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
575		Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
576	Bailey, James M.	Life in Danbury: a Record of the Doings of Remarkable People, &c.	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
577	Burnham, Geo. P.	The History of the Hen Fever	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
578	Roberts, Louis A.	High Art; Pictures from the Poets, and Other Notions	Springfield, Mass.	1872	USD -	Unknown
579	Bristed, C. Astor	The Upper Ten Thousand	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
580	Clark, L. Gaylord	Knick-Knacks from an Editor's Table	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
581	Morris, George P.	The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots, with other Sketches of the Times	N. Y.	1839	USD -	Unknown
582	Quigg, Lemuel Ely	Tin-Types taken in the Streets of New York	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
583	Webb, Charles H. ("John Paul")	Parodies Prose and Verse	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
584	Derby, George H.	Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
585	Derby, George H.	The Squibob Papers	N. Y.	1865	USD -	Unknown
586	Riley, H. H.	Puddleford and its People	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
587	Whicher, Francis M.	The Widow Bedott Papers-Illustrated	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
588	Pinchbeck, William Frederick	The Expositor; or Many Mysteries Unravelled	Boston	1805	USD -	Unknown
589	Eolopoesis	American Rejected Addresses	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
590	Haliburton, Thos. C.	The Old Judge; or, Life in a Colony	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
591	Haliburton, Thos. C.	The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
592	Haliburton, Thos. C.	The Clockmaker; or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick	Phil.	1837	USD -	Unknown
593	Haliburton, Thos. C.	Wise Saws; or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown

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