Bangs: No. 1. Theology Ecclesiastical history &c., EXECUTORS' SALE. Catalogue of the Books. BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE, MR. WILLIAM GOWANS, BOOKSELLER OF No. 115 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK, WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, ON, MONDAY, JAN. 30, 1871, AND , Jan301871,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 30, 1871 - January 30, 1871

Page Size: 5160 items in 52 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
599	BULKLEY, Bp. G.	The (Economy of the Gospel)	Lond.	1764	USD -	Unknown
600	BULL	Harmonia Apostolica; or, the Mutual Agreement of St. Paul and St. James	Lond.	1801	USD -	Unknown
601	BULL, G.	A Vindication of the Church of England	Lond.	1719	USD -	Unknown
602	BULLEY F.	Variations in the Communion and Baptismal Offices of the Church of England	Oxford	1842	USD -	Unknown
603	BULLINGER, H.	Sermons on the Sacraments	Camb.	1840	USD -	Unknown
604		BULWARK, The; or, Reformation Journal	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
605	BUNSEN, C. C. J.	Signs of the Times	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
606	BUNSEN, C. C. J.	Signs of the Times	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
607	BUNYAN J.	Doctrine of Law and Grace	Lond.	1685	USD -	Unknown
608	BUNYAN J.	The Greatness of the Soul	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
609	BUNYAN J.	The Holy War	Albany	1816	USD -	Unknown
610	BUNYAN J.	The Jerusalem Sinner Saved	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
611	BUNYAN J.	BUNYAN J. Miscellaneous Works	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
612	BUNYAN J.	Pilgrim's Progress	Lond.	[n. d.]	USD -	Unknown
613	BUNYAN J.	Pilgrim's Progress	Glasgow	(1845 ?)	USD -	Unknown
614	BUNYAN J.	The Pilgrim's Progress	Lond.	(1850)	USD -	Unknown
615	BUNYAN J.	Pilgrim's Progress	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
616	BUNYAN J.	The Pilgrim's Progress	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
617	BUNYAN J.	The Pilgrim's Progress		1860	USD -	Unknown
618	BUNYAN J.	The Pilgrim's Progress		1860	USD -	Unknown
619	BUNYAN J.	BUNYAN J. Practical Works	Aberd.	1841	USD -	Unknown
620	BUNYAN J.	BUNYAN J. Practical Works of	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
621	BUNYAN J.	Profitable Meditations	Lond.	1860	USD -	Unknown
622	BUNYAN J.	BUNYAN J. Selection from his Works	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
623	BUNYAN J.	Solomon's Temple Spiritualized	Albany, N. Y.	1790	USD -	Unknown
624	BUNYAN J.	BUNYAN J. Works		1692	USD -	Unknown
625	BURCHARD, S. D.	The Daughters of Zion	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
626	BURDER, G.	History of the Holy Bible	Lond.	1806	USD -	Unknown
627	BURDER, J.	Lectures on Religion	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
628	BURDER, S.	Oriental Customs	Phila.	1807	USD -	Unknown
629	BURDER, W.	Religious Ceremonies and Customs	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
630	BURDITT, Wm.	The Poor Alan's Help and Young Alan's Guide	Baltimore	1811	USD -	Unknown
631	BURGE, C.	On the Atonement	Hartford	1822	USD -	Unknown
632	BURGESS, G.	The Psalms in Verse	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
633	BURGESS, G.	Sermons on the Christian Life	Phila.	1854	USD -	Unknown
634	BURGESS, R.	Lectures on the Insufficiency of Unrevealed Religion	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
635	BURGESS, T.	Vindication of I John, v. 7, from the Objections of Griesbech	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
636	BURGESS, Th.	Authenticity of I John	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
637	BURKE, E.	BURKE, E. Works	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
638	S. Rubek	[BURKE, S.] Chivalry, Slavery, and Young America	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
639	S. Rubek	[BURKE, S.] Stanzas to Queen Victoria, and Other Poems	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
640	BURBITT, W.	Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament	Lond.	1760	USD -	Unknown
641	BURBITT, W.	Expository Notes on the New Testament	N. Y.	1796	USD -	Unknown
642	BURBITT, W.	The New Testament with Observations	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
643	BURKITT, W.	Expository Notes on the New Testament	Bungay	1832	USD -	Unknown
644	BURNAP, G. W.	Christianity, its Essence and Evidence	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
645	BURNAP, G. W.	Discourses on the Rectitude of Human Nature	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
646	BURNAP, G. W.	Discourses on the Rectitude of Human Nature	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
647	BURNAP, G. W.	History of Christianity	Baltimore	1842	USD -	Unknown
648	BURNAP, G. W.	History of Christianity	Baltimore	1842	USD -	Unknown
649	BURNAP, G. W.	Lectures on the Doctrines of Christianity	Bost.	1848	USD -	Unknown
650	BURNAP, G. W.	Lectures on the History of Christianity	Baltimore	1842	USD -	Unknown
651	BURNAP, G. W.	Lectures to Young Men	Baltimore	1841	USD -	Unknown
652	BURNAP, G. W	BURNAP, G. W. Miscellaneous Writings	Baltimore	1845	USD -	Unknown
653	BURNAP, G. W.	BURNAP, G. W. Miscellaneous Writings	Baltimore	1845	USD -	Unknown
654	BURNAP, G. W.	On the Trinity	Bost.	1845	USD -	Unknown
655	BURNAP, G. W.	Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity	Bost.	1848	USD -	Unknown
656	BURNAP, G. W.	Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
657	BURNET, Bp. G.	Apology for the Church of England, etc.	Lond.	1688	USD -	Unknown
658	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	Dublin	1721	USD -	Unknown
659	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	Lond.	1737	USD -	Unknown
660	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	Oxford	1796	USD -	Unknown
661	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
662	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
663	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
664	BURNET, Bp. G.	Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
665	BURNET, Bp. G.	History of his Own Time	Lond.	1724	USD -	Unknown
666	BURNET, Bp. G.	Memoirs of the Lives of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton	Lond.	1677	USD -	Unknown
667	BURNETT, P. H.	The Path which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
668	BURNSIDE, R.	The Religion of Mankind	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
669	BURROW, E. J.	Nature and Tendency of Certain Religious Principles			USD -	Unknown
670	BURROWES, R.	BURROWES, R. Sermons	Lond.	1807	USD -	Unknown
671	BURT, N. C.	Hours among the Gospel; or, Way side Truth from the Life of our Lord	Phila.	1866	USD -	Unknown
672	BURTON, E.	Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ	Oxford	1826	USD -	Unknown
673	BURTON, WM.	Essays and Correspondence on Scriptural Subjects by John Walker	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
674		BURY, Mrs. Eliz. Life and Death, from her Diary	Bristol	1720	USD -	Unknown
675	BUSH, G.	The Hierophant, on Sacred Symbols and Prophecy	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
676	BUSH, G.	Notes on the Book of Genesis	N. Y.	1839	USD -	Unknown
677	BUSH, G.	Notes, Critical and Practical, on the Books of Joshua and Judges	N. Y.	1838	USD -	Unknown
678	BUSHNELL, H.	Views of Christian Nurture	Hartford	1867	USD -	Unknown
679	BUSHNELL, H.	Views of Christian Nurture	Hartford	1848	USD -	Unknown
680	BUTLER, A.	Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other Principal Saints	Dublin	1780	USD -	Unknown
681	BUTLER, Ch.	The Book of the Roman Catholic Church	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
682	BUTLER, C.	Vindication of the Book of the Roman Catholic Church	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
683	BUTLER, C. M.	Book of Common Prayer Interpreted	Bost.	1845	USD -	Unknown
684	BUTLER, C. M.	Lectures on the Book of Revelations	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
685	BUTLER, C. M.	The Ritualism of Law	Phila.	1867	USD -	Unknown
686	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	Lond.	1736	USD -	Unknown
687	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	Bost.	1809	USD -	Unknown
688	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	Lond.	1813	USD -	Unknown
689	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	New Haven	1822	USD -	Unknown
690	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
691	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
691a	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
692	BUTLER, J.	The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed	N. Y.	[n. d.]	USD -	Unknown
693	Croly	BUTLEK, J. Analogy, with Life	Lond.	[n. d.]	USD -	Unknown
694	BUTLEK, J.	Analogy	Glasgow	1841	USD -	Unknown
696	BUTLEK, J.	BUTLEK, J. Sermons	Edin.	1816	USD -	Unknown
697	BUTLEK, J.	BUTLEK, J. Sermons and Remains	Lond.	1862	USD -	Unknown
698	BUTTERWORTH, L.	On Moral Government and Agency	Evesham	1792	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
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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.
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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.

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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.