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
401	William Burdick	MASSACHUSETTS MANUAL; or, Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June, 1814, to June, 1815	Bost.	1814	USD -	Unknown
402		MEDICAL ALMANAC AND GUIDE TO HEALTH	Phil.	1857	USD -	Unknown
403	MEREDITH, G.	Evan Harrington; or, He Would Be a Gentleman	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
404	Lewis F. Thomas	MEXICAN WAR. Rhymes of the Routs: Palo Alto, Resacca de la Palma, Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, etc.	Wash.	1847	USD -	Unknown
405	Geo. F. Ruxton	MEXICO. Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains	Lond.	1861	USD -	Unknown
406	A. K. Shepard	MEXICO AND WEST INDIES. Papers on Spanish America	Albany	1868	USD -	Unknown
407		MINNEAPOLIS. Hand-Book	Minneapolis	1883	USD -	Unknown
408		MINT OF THE UNITED STATES		Oct. 16, 1786	USD -	Unknown
409		MIRANDA EXPEDITION. A General Account of Miranda's Expedition, including the Trial and Execution of ten of his Officers	N. Y.	1808	USD -	Unknown
410	MITCHELL, DONALD G.	English Lands, Letters and Kings	N. Y.	1895	USD -	Unknown
411		MITCHELL'S TRAVELLER'S GUIDE. The Principal Stage, Steamboat and Canal Routes in the United States	Phil.	1834	USD -	Unknown
412		MONTAIGNE. The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
413	MOORE, GEORGE	The Strike at Arlingford: a Play in Three Acts	Lond.	1893	USD -	Unknown
414	MORRIS, WILLIAM	Pre-Raphaelite Ballads	N. Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
415	J. T. Headley	NAPOLEON. The Imperial Guard of Napoleon, from Marengo to Waterloo	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
416	Henry C. Watson	NAPOLEON. The Camp-Fires of Napoleon, comprising the most Brilliant Achievements of the Emperor and his Marshals	Phil.	1867	USD -	Unknown
417		NAVAL. Thoughts on the Subject of Naval Power in the United States of America and on certain means of encouraging and protecting their Commerce and Manufactures	Phil.	1806	USD -	Unknown
418		NAVAL. Register of Officers--Civil, Military and Naval--in the Service of the United States	Washington City	1818	USD -	Unknown
419		NAVAL. Correspondence between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron (COMMANDER OF THE CHESAPEAKE), which led to the late unfortunate meeting of the 22d of March	Wash.	1820	USD -	Unknown
420	O. W. Roberts	NAVAL. Narrative of Voyages and Excursions on the East Coast and in the Interior of Central America. Describing a Journey up the San Juan and across the Lake of Nicaragua	Edinburgh	1827	USD -	Unknown
421		NAVAL. Report on the National Defences, by Commander S. F. Du Pont, U. S. Navy	Wash.	1852	USD -	Unknown
422		NAVAL. Pictorial History of the Great Eastern Steamship	Lond.	(1856)	USD -	Unknown
423		NAVAL. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah on the Charge of Piracy in the U. S. Circuit Court, N. Y.	N.Y.	1862	USD -	Unknown
424		NAVAL. Routine and Orders for the U. S. Naval Academy at Newport, R. I.	Newport	1862	USD -	Unknown
425		NAVAL. Statements relating to a Navy Yard in the Delaware for the Construction and Equipment of Iron-clad Steam Ships of War, proposed to be established at League Island	Phil.	1862	USD -	Unknown
426	E. P. Dorr	NAVAL. A Brief Sketch of the First Monitor and its Inventor	Buffalo	1874	USD -	Unknown
427	NEGROES	Speech before the American Colonization Society by Henry Clay	Wash.	1827	USD -	Unknown
428	Frances Ellen Watkins	NEGRO POETRY. Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects	Bost.	1856	USD -	Unknown
429	NEGROES	Memoir of William Wells Brown, an American Bondman	Bost.	1859	USD -	Unknown
430	David Tappan	NEWBURY-PORT IMPRINT. The Character and best Exercises of unregenerate Sinners set in a Scriptural light	Neubury-Port	1782	USD -	Unknown
431		NEW ENGLAND. The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament	Edinburgh	1741	USD -	Unknown
432		NEW ENGLAND. The Boston Weekly Postboy	Bost.	1749	USD -	Unknown
433		NEW ENGLAND. Historic, Genealogical Society...	Bost.	1875	USD -	Unknown
434		NEW ENGLAND. Examination of the Pretension of New England to Commercial Pre-eminence. To which is added a View of the Causes of the Suspension of Cash Payments at the Bank	Phil.	1814	USD -	Unknown
435		NEW ENGLAND. Historical and Genealogical Register	Bost.	1847	USD -	Unknown
436	John Winthrop	NEW ENGLAND. The History of New England from 1630 to 1649	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
437		NEW ENGLAND. Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Ply mouth from the Flight of the Pilgrims into Holland, in the year 1608, to the Union of that Colony with Massachusetts in 1692	Bost.	1866	USD -	Unknown
438		NEW TESTAMENT. Moser and Peters' Edition	Carlisle, Pa.	1824	USD -	Unknown
439	R. B.	NEW YORK. The English Empire in America, or a Prospect of their Majesties Dominions in the West Indies	Lond.	1692	USD -	Unknown
440		NEW YORK. Journal of the Convention of the State of New York, held at Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County, the 17th of June, 1788			USD -	Unknown
441		NEW YORK. The Daily Advertiser, N. Y., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1789			USD -	Unknown
442		NEW YORK. Psalms, carefully suited to the Christian Worship in the United States	N. Y.	1792	USD -	Unknown
443		NEW YORK. Charter and By-Laws of the German Society of the City of New York	N. Y.	1808	USD -	Unknown
444		NEW YORK. Account of Prisoners and Lists of Convicts received into the State Prisons from 1805-1864			USD -	Unknown
445		NEW YORK. An Account of the New York Hospital	N. Y.	1811	USD -	Unknown
446		NEW YORK. Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New York held at Albany, September 17 and 18, 1812	Albany	(1812)	USD -	Unknown
447		NEW YORK. Miscellaneous Poems	N. Y.	1812	USD -	Unknown
448		NEW YORK. The Charter and By-Laws of the New York Dispensary, instituted 1790	N. Y.	1813	USD -	Unknown
449		NEW YORK. Account of the Free School Society of New York	N. Y.	1814	USD -	Unknown
450	Ferris Pell, Esquire	NEW YORK. A Review of the Administration and Civil Police of the State of New York from 1807 to 1819	N. Y.	1819	USD -	Unknown
451		NEW YORK. A Tour from the City of New York to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory	N. Y.	1819	USD -	Unknown
452		NEW YORK. Account of the Yellow Fever which occurred in the City of New York, 1822	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
453	Hibernicus	NEW YORK. Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New York	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
454		NEW YORK. Report of the Committee on Banks and Insur Ance Companies on the several Petitions presented to the Senate praying Acts of Incorporation with Banking Privileges	Albany	1826	USD -	Unknown
455		NEW YORK. Report of the Committee on Literature relative to Common Schools and Academies	Albany	1827	USD -	Unknown
456	James R. Manley	NEW YORK. Eulogium on De Wilt Clinton, late Governor of the State of New York	N. Y.	1828	USD -	Unknown
457		NEW YORK. Orthodox Bubbles; or, A Review of the First Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Magdalen Society	Bost.	1831	USD -	Unknown
458		NEW YORK. To the Mechanics of New York on the subject of Supplying the City with Pure Water	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
459	C. R. Gilman, M.D.	NEW YORK. Hints to the People on the Prevention and Early Treatment of Spasmodic Cholera	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
460		NEW YORK. The Charter and By-Laws of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
461		NEW YORK. The Tourist; or, Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River, Saratoga Springs, etc.	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
462	John H. Steel	NEW YORK. Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Saratoga and Ballston, History of the Discovery and Settlement, etc.	Saratoga Springs	1838	USD -	Unknown
463		NEW YORK. By-Laws of the Medical Society of the State of New York	Albany	1839	USD -	Unknown
464		NEW YORK. The New York City and Co-partnership Directory for 184; and 1844	N. Y.	1843-44	USD -	Unknown
465		NEW YORK. Marco Paul's Travels and Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge in the City of New York	Bost.	1845	USD -	Unknown
466	Lawrence Labree. , editor	NEW YORK. Illustrated Magazine of Literature	N. Y.	1846-47	USD -	Unknown
467		NEW YORK. Comptroller's New York City and County Reports		1846-68	USD -	Unknown
468		NEW YORK. Appleton's New York City and Vicinity Guide	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
469		NEW YORK. Wilson's Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River. Description of N. Y. City	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
470		NEW YORK. Reminiscences of the City of New York and its Vicinity	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
471		NEW YORK. Sunday-School Almanac, 1855	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
472		NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
473		NEW YORK. Quarterly Reports of General and Deputy Super intendents of the Metropolitan Police, ending Jan. 31, 1858	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
474		NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
475		NEW YORK. The World, Morning Courier and N. Y. Enquirer. From July 1, 1861, to Dec. 31, 1861			USD -	Unknown
476		NEW YORK. Biographical Sketch of the Most Reverend John Hughes, Archbishop of New York	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
477	William Watson Waldron	NEW YORK. Huguenots of Westchester and Parish of Fordham	N. Y.	1864	USD -	Unknown
478		NEW YORK DAILY TRANSCRIPT EXTRA			USD -	Unknown
479		NEW YORK IN THE CIVIL WAR		1862	USD -	Unknown
480		NEW YORK AS IT Is; or, Stranger's Guide Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places	N. Y.	1865	USD -	Unknown
481	D. T. Valentine	NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York	N. Y.	1865	USD -	Unknown
482		NEW YORK. History of the Bills of Credit or Paper Money issued by New York from 1709 to 1789	Albany	1866	USD -	Unknown
483	James Parton	NEW YORK. How New York City is Governed	Bost.	1866	USD -	Unknown
484	H. F. Walling	NEW YORK. A Complete Guide to the City, with Descriptive Sketches of Objects and Places of Interest	N. Y.	1867	USD -	Unknown
485	Charles E. Stickney	NEW YORK. A History of the Minisink Region, which includes the present Towns of Minisink, Deerpark, Mount Hope, Greenville and Wawayanda in Orange Co., N. Y.	Middletown	1867	USD -	Unknown
486		NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	N. Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
487		NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.Discourse delivered by the Hon. De Witt Clinton	N. Y.	1812	USD -	Unknown
488	Hermann	NEW YORK PERIODICAL. The German Correspondent	N. Y.	Jan. 31, 1820, to Jan. 1821	USD -	Unknown
489		NEW YORK MONTHLY MAGAZINE	N. Y.	1824	USD -	Unknown
490		NEW YORK PERIODICAL. The Rover: a Weekly Magazine	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
491		NEW YORK SUN, from Monday, Sep. 16, 1839, to Saturday, Feb. 29, 1840	N. Y.	1839--40	USD -	Unknown
492		NEW YORK EVENING POST. From Aug. 8, 1861, to Nov. 24, 1863			USD -	Unknown
493		NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings on the Announcement of the Death of Luther Bradish	N. Y.	1865	USD -	Unknown
494	D. Verbiese-Ameeuw	NEW YORK HYMNS. Hymnes Sacres et Autres Chants Religieuxou Aspirations Diversesd'une Ame Exilee	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
495		NEW YORK TIMES. From Nov. 22, 1851, to April 30, 1856			USD -	Unknown
495a		NEW YORK TIMES. From Jan. 9, 1862, to Dec. 31, 1862	N. Y.	1862	USD -	Unknown
495b		NEW YORK TIMES. From July 1st, 1863, to Dec. 31, 1864			USD -	Unknown
496		NEW YORK PERIODICAL. The Union Magazine	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
497		NEW YORK SONG BOOK. Punch's Comic Songster: being a Complete Melange of Side-Breaking, Heart-Rending, Jaw-Cracking, Fun-Provoking Melodies	N. Y.	(1835)	USD -	Unknown
498		NEW YORK SONG BOOK. Handy Andy's Budget of Songs	N. Y.	(about 1835)	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.