Bangs: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812, AND THE CIVIL WAR, NEW YORK STATE AND CITY, NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, NAVAL AND YACHTING ITEMS, HISTORIES OF KANSAS, MEXICO, WEST INDIES, VIRGINIA, COLORADO, WISCONSIN, MASSACHUSETTS, INDIA, AFRIC, Dec111900,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 1900 - December 11, 1900

Page Size: 379 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ALBANY. Laws and Ordinances of the Common Council of the City of Albany, with the Charter	Albany	1821	USD -	Unknown
2		ALBANY. Celebration of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Albany Academy. List of Trustees, Students, etc., from the foundation	Albany	1863	USD -	Unknown
3	J. H. James	FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Guide to the Formation and Management of Friendly Societies for Assurance, etc.	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4	Lucas Alaman, etc.	MEXICO, Liquidacion General de la Deuda Esterior de la Republica Mexicana	Mexico	1843-45	USD -	Unknown
5	James Hall (Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, etc.)	WEST (THE): its Commerce and Navigation	Cinn.	1848	USD -	Unknown
6	Hezekiah Niles	JOURNAL of the Proceedings of the Friends of Domestic Industry, in general Convention met at the City of New York, Oct. 26, 1831	Balt.	1831	USD -	Unknown
7	Peter Porcupine	CORBETT, WILLIAM. The Republican Judge; or, The American Liberty of the Press	Lond.	1798	USD -	Unknown
8	LOUIS PHILIPPE.	France, its King, Court and Government	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
9	Col. W. Emmons	BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL; or, The Temple of Liberty	Bost.	1856	USD -	Unknown
10		LINCOLN. Trial of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln. Argument of John A. Bingham	Wash.	1865	USD -	Unknown
11	B. F. French	IRON TRADE. History of the Rise and Progress of the Iron Trade of the United States from 1621 to 1857	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
12	SEWARD, ANNA	Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin	Phil.	1804	USD -	Unknown
13	G. Naphegvi	KOSSUTH. Hungary from her Rise to the Present Time, under the Guidance of Louis Kossuth in the Years, 1848 and 1849	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
14	(John C. Spenser)	NEW YORK. Abstract of the most important alterations introduced by the Revised Statutes	Canandaigua.	1830	USD -	Unknown
15	C. Schieferdeckcr. M.D.	VACCINATION. Evils of	Phil.	1856	USD -	Unknown
16		FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING. A Christmas and Birthday Present	Bost.	1849	USD -	Unknown
17	LOVEJOY	Memoir of E. P. Lovejoy, who was murdered in defence of the Liberty of the Press at Alton, Ill., Nov. 7, 1837	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
18	J. N. Gannal	EMBALMING. History of Embalming, with account of a new process	Phil.	1840	USD -	Unknown
19		POPULATION QUESTION. New Ideas on Population...			USD -	Unknown
20	E. Chadwick	INTERMENT IN TOWNS. Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Enquiry into the Practice of Interment in Towns	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
21	BROWNING, E. B.	Napoleon III. in Italy	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
22	G. E. Church	MEXICO, its Revolutions. A Historical and Political Review	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
23	John Hayward	BOOK OF RELIGIONS, comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments or Opinions of all the Sects in the World	Portland	1855	USD -	Unknown
24		CIVIL WAR. The Case of the "Golden Rocket." Taking by Rebels on the High Seas is Piracy, Capture	Bost.	1862	USD -	Unknown
25		CIVIL WAR. Insurgent Privateers in Foreign Ports	Wash.	1862	USD -	Unknown
26		NEW YORK. Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention held in Albany Jan. 31, 1861	Albany	1861	USD -	Unknown
27	Elisha North	CURIOUS OLD MEDICAL. Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic called Spotted Fever (prevailing in Geneva and Orange Co., N. Y.)	N. Y.	1811	USD -	Unknown
28	Lewis C. Beck	ADULTERATIONS IN MEDICINES, and the Means of Detecting Them	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
29	A. C. Hamlin	PRECIOUS STONES. The Tourmaline: its Relation as a Gem, its Complex Nature, etc.	Bost.	1875	USD -	Unknown
30	C. B. Trego	PENNSYLVANIA. Geography of Pennsylvania, with a separate description of each County, etc.	Phil.	1843	USD -	Unknown
31	R. Mayo	WASHINGTON, D. C. Political Sketches; or, Eight Years in Washington	Balt.	1839	USD -	Unknown
32		COLORADO. The Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer	Denver	1871	USD -	Unknown
33		CHENANGO COUNTY, N. Y. The Oxford Academy Jubilee, Aug. J, 1854	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
34	R. Bolton	NEW YORK. History, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the County of Westchester from 1693 to 1853	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
35		NEW YORK. Maps of New York State Canals and Railroads	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
36	H. S. Tanner	CANALS AND RAILROADS OF THE U. S. With Notices of all the Internal Improvements in the several States	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
37	R. Herr	JEWELERS' HAND-BOOK for Galvanizing, Coloring, etc.	Albany	1855	USD -	Unknown
38		CENTURY ASSOCIATION. Proceedings in Memory of Gen. J. S. Wadsworth and Colonel Porter. En logies by W. J. Hoppin and F. S. Cozzens	N. Y.	1865	USD -	Unknown
39		BUFFALO, N. Y. Semi-Centennial Celebration		1882	USD -	Unknown
40		ALBANY. Churchill's Guide through the Albany Rural Cemetery	Albany	1859	USD -	Unknown
41	(Horace Binney)	PHILADELPHIA. The Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia	Phil.	1859	USD -	Unknown
42	CLAY	Sketch of the Life and Principal Speeches of Henry Clay	Cinn.	1854	USD -	Unknown
43		INDIANS. Annual Reports of the Board of Indian Commissioners	Wash.	1870-1886	USD -	Unknown
44	Washington Matthews	INDIANS. Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians	Wash.	1877	USD -	Unknown
45	Edward Everett	TENNESSEE. Account of the Fund for the Relief of East Tennessee	Bost.	1864	USD -	Unknown
46		NEW YORK. Proceedings of the Boards of Aldermen approved by the Mayor of New York from May, 1831, to November, 1836	N. Y.	1835-36	USD -	Unknown
47	James C. Pilling	INDIANS. Bibliography of the Algonquin Languages	Wash.	1891	USD -	Unknown
48	Harriet P. Spofford. (Captain Kidd, Frances Deering, Witchcraft, The Mt. Benedict Convent, etc.)	NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS	Bost.	1871	USD -	Unknown
49	Hinton R.	CIVIL WAR. Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
50		SOCIAL SCIENCE. La Revanche de la France par le Travail et Les Interets organises. Histoire des Corporations Francaises d'Arts et Metiers par J. P. Mazaroff	Paris	1878	USD -	Unknown
51	J. R. Giddings	INDIANS. The Florida Exiles	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
52	James Thomson Callender	AMERICAN ANNUAL REGISTER; or, Historical Memoirs of the United States for the year 1796	Phil.	1797	USD -	Unknown
53	J. M. Dixon. (Mormons, Indians, Early Settlers, etc.)	IOWA. Centennial History of Polk County	Des Moines	1876	USD -	Unknown
54		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Revolutionary Memorials. Poems by Wheeler Case...	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
55		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. History of the	Balt.	(1834)	USD -	Unknown
56		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of Books in the American Bible Society (mostly Bibles, Testaments, etc.)	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
57		INDIANS. New Iroquois Syllabary	Toronto	1873	USD -	Unknown
58		APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT attributed in the first four Centuries to Jesus Christ	N. Y.	(1835)	USD -	Unknown
59	William Gilham	CONFEDERATE. Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the Confederate States	Richmond	1862	USD -	Unknown
60	AMES	AMES. Works of Fisher Ames	Bost.	1809	USD -	Unknown
61		ALMANACS. Evening Journal Almanacs from 1858 to 1873	Albany	1858-1873	USD -	Unknown
62	W. A. Bogart	NEW YORK. Index to the Laws of the State of New York. 1842 to 1855 inclusive	Albany	1856	USD -	Unknown
63		NEW YORK. List of all the Lands sold by the Comptroller for Arrears of Taxes prior to the Sale of 1848	Albany	1850	USD -	Unknown
64		NEW YORK. List of Lands sold for Arrears of Taxes for 1856 to 1860 inclusive	Albany	1866	USD -	Unknown
65		NEW YORK. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New York, April 9, 1691, to April 3, 1775	Albany	1861	USD -	Unknown
66	G. Preble, U.S.N.	JONES, JOHN PAUL. Diary of Ezra Green, Surgeon on Board the Continental Ship of War "Ranger," under John Paul Jones	Bost.	1875	USD -	Unknown
67	J. T. Headley	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
68	S. M. Smucker	JEFFERSON. Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
69	L'Abbe Raynal	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Revolution de L'Amerique	Londres	1781	USD -	Unknown
70	Frank Moore	AMERICAN REVOLUTION, DIARY OF THE. From Newspapers and Original Documents	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
71	M. Parkyns	ABYSSINIA. Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
72	William Jay	MEXICAN WAR. Review of its Causes and Consequences	Bost.	1849	USD -	Unknown
73	Gorham A. Worth	ALBANY. Random Recollections of Albany from 1800 to 1808	Albany	1850	USD -	Unknown
74	F. Von Raumer	AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
75	LINCOLN	History of the Administration of President Lincoln	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
76		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Passages from the Remembrancer of Christopher Marshall, Member of the Committee of Observation and Inspection, of the Council of Safety, etc.	Phil.	1839	USD -	Unknown
77	J. Claiborne	INDIANS. Life and Times of Gen. Sam. Dale, the Mississippi Partisan. (The Creek War, etc.)	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
78	J. Bigelow	BOTANY. The Plants of Boston and its Vicinity, with their Characters, Places of Growth, etc.	Bost.	1824	USD -	Unknown
79	H. Muhlenberg	BOTANY. Catalogue of the hitherto known Native and Naturalized Plants of North America	Phil.	1818	USD -	Unknown
80	R. A. Guild	BROWN UNIVERSITY. Life of James Manning, and Early History of Brown University	Bost.	1860	USD -	Unknown
81	(Geo. Armroyd)	CONNECTED VIEW of the whole Internal Navigation of the U. S., Natural and Artificial	Phil.	1830	USD -	Unknown
82	JONES, JOHN PAUL	JONES, JOHN PAUL. Miscellaneous Works of J. T. Headley	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
83		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Life of Gen. Marion, a Partisan Officer, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia	Phil.	1847	USD -	Unknown
84	Eben Mack	LAFAYETTE. Life of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette			USD -	Unknown
85	DE PEYSTER, J. WATTS	History of Carausius...		1857-58	USD -	Unknown
86	COXE, TENCH	View of the U. S. of America: the Progress and Present State of Civil and Religious Liberty, Population, Fisheries, Ship Building, etc.	Phil.	1794	USD -	Unknown
87	J. H. Tice	COLORADO. Over the Plains and on the Mountains; or, Kansas and Colorado Agriculturally, Mineralogically and Aesthetically Described	St. Louis	1872	USD -	Unknown
88	MARCY AND MCCLELLAN	Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852	Wash.	1854	USD -	Unknown
89	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Life of Franklin Pierce	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
90	E. De Schweinitz	INDIANS. Life and Times of David Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle of the Indians	Phil.	1870	USD -	Unknown
91		CIVIL WAR. Journal of the Senate in the Matter of George W. Smith, Judge of Oneida County, in relation to charges submitted by the Governor (Bounty-Jumping, Substitute-Brokerage, etc.)	Albany	1866	USD -	Unknown
92		AMERICA, Historical, Statistic and Descriptive...	Lond.	1841, etc.	USD -	Unknown
93	John Pickell	WASHINGTON. A New Chapter in the Early Life of Washington, in connection with the Narrative History of the Potomac Company	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
94	J. Gregory	WISCONSIN. Industrial Resources of Wisconsin. (Natural History of the State, Biographies of Leading Men, etc.)	Milwaukee	1872	USD -	Unknown
95		WAR OF 1812. Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, Surgeon on board an American Privateer, who was captured at Sea by the British and confined at Dartmoor Prison, etc.		1816	USD -	Unknown
96		PHILADELPHIA. Minutes of the Committee appointed to alleviate the sufferings of those afflicted	Phil.	1848	USD -	Unknown
97	J. Anthony King	SOUTH AMERICA. Twenty-four Years in the Argentine Republic, embracing its Civil and Military History	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
98	E. L. Du Barry, U. S. Navy	AMERICA. Power and Progress of the U. S. From the French of Guillaume Poussin	Phil.	1851	USD -	Unknown
99	J. R. Shepherd	FUGITIVE SLAVES. History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue	Bost.	1859	USD -	Unknown
100		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress	Wash.	1864-1870	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.