Bangs: Catalogue of a Library of Americana, and Miscellaneous English Books. comprising, Rare New York, Philadelphia, and other Early Imprints. Early Almanacs and Early American Engravings. An Important Series of Civil-War Autograph Letters from Robert E. Lee an, Dec271900,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 27, 1900 - December 27, 1900

Page Size: 628 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201		DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Historia del Nuevo-Mundo, escribiala D. Juan Baret Munoz	En Madrid	1793	USD -	Unknown
202		DIVORCE. Report of the Cause between Hugh Doherty and Philip Wm	Lond.	1811	USD -	Unknown
203		DIVORCE CASE. Report of the Beardsley Case, containing the FULL and UNABRIDGED Testimony of all the Witnesses	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
204		DIVORCE. The Mordaunt Divorce Case	Lond.	1870	USD -	Unknown
205		DIVORCE. Crim. Con. Actions and Trials relating to Marriage	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
206	DOUGLASS	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	Bost.	1845	USD -	Unknown
207	Edward Young	DRAMA. The Brothers: a Tragedy	Edinburgh	1774	USD -	Unknown
208	Mr. Lillo	DRAMA. The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell	Worcester	1788	USD -	Unknown
209		DRAMA. Pelleas and Melisanda, and The Sightless	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
210		DUNLAP SOCIETY. Opening Addresses written for and delivered at the First Performances in many American Theatres from Boston to San Francisco, 1752-1880	N. Y.	1887	USD -	Unknown
211	DURER	The Humiliation and Exaltation of Our Redeemer, in 32 full-page prints from the original Wood Blocks of Albert Durer in the British Museum	Lond.	1867	USD -	Unknown
212	Augustus Chatterton	EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS. Buds of Beauty, or Parnassia Sprig. Being a Collection of Original Poems upon Various Subjects	Balt.	1787	USD -	Unknown
213		EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS. Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman	Worcester, Mass.	1796	USD -	Unknown
214	Andrew Duncan	EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS. The New Edinburgh Dispensatory: containing the Elements of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, etc.	Worcester	1805	USD -	Unknown
215		EARLY AMERICANS ENGRAVINGS. Flora's Grand Gala	Phil.	1809	USD -	Unknown
216		EARLY AMERICANS ENGRAVINGS	Phil.	1811	USD -	Unknown
217		EARLY AMERICAN POEMS. Bonaparte...	N. Y.	1820	USD -	Unknown
218		EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK. Only Sure Guide to the English Tongue, or New Pronouncing Spelling Book	Worcester	1805	USD -	Unknown
219		EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK. Le Directeur des Enfans depuis l'age de Cinq Ans jusqu'a douze par Charles Le Brun	a Philadelphie	1811	USD -	Unknown
220	Caleb Alexander	EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK. A Grammatical System of the English Language, comprehending a plain and Familiar Scheme of Teaching Young Gentlemen and Ladies the Art of Speaking and Writing Correctly their Native Language	Keene, N. H.	1814	USD -	Unknown
221		EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK. Poetical Chronology of Ancient and English History	Bost.	1816	USD -	Unknown
222	William Mulkey	EARLY AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK. Analytical Spelling Book, being a Practical Illustration of the Principles of Pronounciation as laid down in Mr. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary	Tuscaloosa	1828	USD -	Unknown
223	EMERSON, R. W.	The Dial	Bost.	1844	USD -	Unknown
224	EMERSON, R. W.	EMERSON, R. W. Essays	Bost.	1847	USD -	Unknown
225	EPITAPHS	The Abbey of Kilkhampton	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
226	W. Fairley	EPITAPHIANA; or, The Curiosities of Churchyard Literature, with an Account of Various Customs prevailing amongst the Ancients and Moderns in the Disposal of their Dead	Lond.	1873	USD -	Unknown
227		ESSEX INSTITUTE. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Essex Institute	Salem	1873	USD -	Unknown
228	EVANS, NATHANIEL	Poems on Various Occasions, with some other Compositions	Phil.	1772	USD -	Unknown
229		EVOLUTION. Account of the Regular Gradation in Man, and in different Animals and Vegetables	Lond.	1799	USD -	Unknown
230		FACETIAE. Prudence Triumphing over Vanity and 1 Dissipation of the History of the Life, Character and Conduct of Robert and Daniel Perreau and Mrs. Rudd	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
231		FACETIAE. "The Jockey Club"; or, Sketches of the Manners of the Age	Bost.	1795	USD -	Unknown
232		FACETIAE. The Devil in Love	N. Y.	1810	USD -	Unknown
233	G. W. M. Reynolds	FACETIAE. Sister Anne: a Novel. From the French of Charles Paul de Kock	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
234	J. W. Palmer	FACETIAE. Woman (La Femme). From the French of Michelet	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
235		FACETIAE. Ye Russian Ball; or, The Adventures of Miss Clementina Shoddy	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
236		FACETIAE. A Free and Independent Translation of the First and Fourth Books of the AEneid of Virgil, wherein are unfolded the Travels of AEneas, the Origin of the Roman Empire, the Stratagems of the Goddess Juno, the Counterplots of Venus, etc.	Winsted	1870	USD -	Unknown
237		FACETIAE. The New-Fashioned Girl: a Story of To-day	N. Y.	1870	USD -	Unknown
238	Ernest Renan	FACETIAE. The Abbess of Jouarre	N. Y.	1888	USD -	Unknown
239		FACETIAE. L'Annee Illustree		1898	USD -	Unknown
240		FACETIAE. A Fearful Flogging	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
241	Saladin	FACETIAE. St. Mungo: being the Life and Adventures of the Son of a Virgin	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
242	FELTON, JOHN BROOKS	The Horseshoe: a Poem spoken before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, July 19, 1849	Cambridge	1849	USD -	Unknown
243	N. W. Clark	FISHES. Pisciculture: an Address on the Artificial Breeding of Fish, their Habits, etc.	Detroit	1875	USD -	Unknown
244		FISHERIES. Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests	N. Y.	1896	USD -	Unknown
245		FLORIDA. Histoire de la Conquete de la Floride ou Relation de ce qui s'est passe dans la Decouverte de ce pais par Ferdinand de Soto	A Leide	1731	USD -	Unknown
246		FLORIDA. Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of Peter S. Chazotte in behalf of the American Coffee Land Association	Wash.	1822	USD -	Unknown
247	Samuel A. Drake	FOLK-LORE. The Myths and Fables of To-day	Bost.	1900	USD -	Unknown
248	FORCE, PETER	Register of the Army and Navy of the United States	Wash.	1830	USD -	Unknown
249	B. H. Baden-Powell	FORESTRY. Manual of Jurisprudence for Forest Officers: being a Treatise on the Forest Law, and those Branches of the General, Civil and Criminal Law which are connected with forest Administration	Calcutta	1882	USD -	Unknown
250	FORREST, EDWIN	Catherine N. Forrest, Respondent, against Edwin Forrest, Appellant	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
251		FRANKLIN IMPRINT. Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital	Phil.	1754	USD -	Unknown
252		FREDERICK THE GREAT	Kehl	1785	USD -	Unknown
253	H. Dana Ward	FREEMASONRY. The Anti-Masonic Review and Monthly Magazine	N.Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
254		FREEMASONRY. The Anti-Masonic Review	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
255	H. Dana Ward	FREEMASONRY. Anti-Masonic Review	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
256		FREEMASONRY. A Ritual of Freemasonry	Bost.	1831	USD -	Unknown
257	Andrew Nichols	FREEMASONRY. The Spirit of Freemasonry: a Poem	Bost.	1831	USD -	Unknown
258		FREEMASONRY. The Facts Stated. Hon. Thurlow Weed on the Morgan Abduction	Chicago	1882	USD -	Unknown
259	(GALLOWAY)	Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion, in which the Causes are pointed out and the Policy and Necessity of Offering to the Americans a System of Government founded in the Principles of the British Constitution are clearly demonstrated	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
260		GENEALOGY. The Hall Family of Medford, Mass.	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
261	D. S. Durrie	GENEALOGY. The Utility of the Study of Genealogy		1862	USD -	Unknown
262		GENEALOGY. Report to the Follansbee Association. U. S. A.	Middlebury	1865	USD -	Unknown
263		GENEALOGY. Bulletin of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
264		GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE: a Journal of Family History, Heraldry and Pedigrees	Lond.	1897	USD -	Unknown
265		GEOLOGY OF THE U. S. OF AMERICA	Phil.	1817	USD -	Unknown
266	GEORGE III	An Answer to the Declaration of the King of England respecting his motives for carrying on the present War and his conduct towards France	Paris	1793	USD -	Unknown
267	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale	N. Y.	1842	USD -	Unknown
268		GOLD AND SILVER PLATE. A List of Hall Marks as used on Gold and Silver 1 late, Jewellery, etc., employed in the Assay Offices of the United Kingdom	Lond.	1898	USD -	Unknown
269		GOLD, SILVER AND DIAMONDS. Pocket Ready-Reckoner, specially adapted for Jewellers, Dealers, etc. Decimal and Troy Systems, Comparison Tables	Lond.	1898	USD -	Unknown
270	GRAY, THOMAS	GRAY, THOMAS. Letters and Poems	N. Y.	1827	USD -	Unknown
271	GRAY, ASA	"The Botanist." Letters of Asa Gray	Bost.	1893	USD -	Unknown
272	Henry Blackburn, editor	GROSVENOR GALLERY. Exhibition of Summer Pictures	Lond.	1882	USD -	Unknown
273	J. R. Simms	HALE, NATHAN. The American Spy; or, Freedom's Early Sacrifice. A Revolutionary Tale of New England Founded upon Fact	Albany	1857	USD -	Unknown
274	J. S. Barry	HANOVER, MASS. Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
275	HARRISON	Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison, comprising a brief account of his important Civil and Military Services and an accurate description of the Council at Vincennes with Tecumseh, as well as the Victories of Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs and the Thames	Phil.	1840	USD -	Unknown
276	HARTE, BRET	In Memoriam Thomas Starr King	(N. Y.)	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
277	HARTE, BRET	Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Sketches	Bost.	1871	USD -	Unknown
278	HAY, JOHN	Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle and Little Breeches	Bost.	1871	USD -	Unknown
279	HEINE	The Poems of Heine in the original Metres	Lond.	1887	USD -	Unknown
280	HENNEPIN	Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique entre Le Nouveau Mexique et La Mer glaciale	a Amsterdam	1698	USD -	Unknown
281	HILL, IRA	Abstract of a New Theory of the Formation of the Earth	Balt.	1823	USD -	Unknown
282	A. C. Ewald	HISTORICAL SKETCHES, from original sources	Lond.	1885	USD -	Unknown
283	HITCHCOCK, DAVID	The Social Monitor; or, A Series of Poems on some of the most Important and Interesting Subjects 16mo, half roan	N. Y.	1814	USD -	Unknown
284	HOFFMAN, CHARLES FENNO	The Vigil of Faith, and other Poems	N.Y.	1842	USD -	Unknown
285	HOFFMAN, WILLIAM	Jottings of a New York Merchant during a Trip round the Globe	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
286	HOLBEIN	Illustrations of the Old Testament engraved on Wood from Designs by Hans Holbein	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
287	George Walker	HOLLAND, J. G. Address at the Dedication of a Monument to W. B. O. Peabody, D. D.	Springfield	1861	USD -	Unknown
288	HOLMES, O. W.	The Laurel: a Gift for all Seasons, being a collection of Poems by American Authors	Balt.	1837	USD -	Unknown
289	HOLMES, O. W.	The Dedication of the Pittsfield Rural Cemetery	Pittsfield	1850	USD -	Unknown
290	HOLMES, O. W.	Complementary Banquet given by the City Council of Boston to Admiral Lessoffsky and the Officers of the Russian Fleet, June 7, 1864	Bost.	1864	USD -	Unknown
291	HOLMES, O. W.	Memorial of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775-1875	Bost.	1875	USD -	Unknown
292	HOLMES, O. W.	New Verses from the Harvard Advocate, 1876	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
293	HOOD, E. PAXTON	Lectures on the Vacation of the Preacher	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
294	D. C. Linsley	HORSES. Morgan Horses: the Origin, History and Characteristics of this remarkable AMERICAN BREED of Horses, tracing the Pedigree from the original JUSTIN MORGAN, through the most noted of his progeny, down to the Present Time	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
295	HUDSON RIVER	Letters about the Hudson River and its Vicinity, written in 1836	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
296	HUDSON RIVER	The Traveller's Guide, describing Towns and Cities	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
297	HUDSON RIVER	Joel Munsell's Guide: by River and Steamboat	Albany	1859	USD -	Unknown
298	HUDSON RIVER	The Travellers' Steamboat and Railway Guide to the Hudson River	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
299	Henry Morford	HUMOR. Over-Sea; or, England, France and Scotland, as seen by a Live American	N. Y.	1867	USD -	Unknown
300	HUNTINGTON, GURDON	Address and Poem delivered before the Beta of the Sigma Phi, Clinton, July 26, 1843			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.

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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.