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
499	W. Degrushe	NEW YORK SONG BOOK. The Humourist: a Collection of Comic, Patriotic, Sentimental and Masonic Songs	N. Y.	1811	USD -	Unknown
500	John Bunyan	NEW YORK IMPRINT. The Holy War made by Shaddaiupon Diabolus	N. Y.	1794	USD -	Unknown
501	J. Wentworth Ingraham	NIAGARA. Manual for the Use of Visitors to the Falls of Niagara relative to this most stupendous Wonder of the World	Buffalo	1834	USD -	Unknown
502	Horatio A.	NIAGARA. Guide to Travellers visiting the Falls of Niagara	Buffalo	1835	USD -	Unknown
503	T. G. H.	NIAGARA. Every Man his own Guide to the Falls of Niagara, or the Whole Story in Few Words	Buffalo	1844	USD -	Unknown
504		NIAGARA. A Poem	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
505		NIAGARA. Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Fallsand Scenery Adjacent	Buffalo	1855	USD -	Unknown
506	Solomon Williams	NORTHAMPTON, MASS. Historical Sketch of Northampton, from its First Settlement	Northampton	1815	USD -	Unknown
507		OHIO. A Topographical Description of the State of OHIO, INDIANA TERRITORY and LOUISIANA	Bost.	1812	USD -	Unknown
508		OHIO. Patterson's Church Music	Cinn.	1815	USD -	Unknown
509	William Lusk	OHIO. The Ohio Register and Western Calendar, containing an Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1817, calculated for the Meridian of Columbus	Columbus	1817	USD -	Unknown
510		OHIO. The Western Reserve Almanack	CLEVELAND	1832	USD -	Unknown
511		OHIO. The American Pioneer. A Monthly Periodical devoted to the Objects of the LOGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, or to collecting and publishing Sketches relative to the early settlement and successive improvement of the Country	Cinn.	1842	USD -	Unknown
512	E. Robinson	OHIO. Legal Forms for the Transaction of Business for the use of all Men in Public or Private Life	Greencastle	1850	USD -	Unknown
513	OMAR KHAYYAM	XXIV. Quatrains from Omar	N. Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
514	PACA, WILLIAM	Signer of the Declaration and Gov-ernor of Maryland. Autograph Document		1790	USD -	Unknown
515	PAINE, THOMAS	The Age of Reason...		1794-95	USD -	Unknown
516	Voltaire	PARLIAMENT OF PARIS. Histoire du Parlement de Paris	Kehl	1785	USD -	Unknown
517		PENNSYLVANIA. Histoire Naturelie et Politique de la Pennsylvanie et de l'Etablissment des Quakers danscette Coutree	Paris	1768	USD -	Unknown
518	J. H. A. Bone	PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM WELLS, with a Description of the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio	Phil.	1865	USD -	Unknown
519	Samuel Peters, LL.D.	PETERS, HUGH. History of the Rev. Hugh Peters, Principal Chaplain to the Lord Protector, from 1640 to 1660	N. Y.	1807	USD -	Unknown
520	J. B. Moore and H. T. Drowne	PHCENIX, STEPHEN WHITNEY. Memorial Sketches	Bost.	1883	USD -	Unknown
521		PHILADELPHIA. The Truth Unveiled; or, A Calm and Impartial Exposition of the Origin and Immediate Cause of the Terrible Riots and Rebellion in Philadelphia in May and July, 1844	Balt.	1844	USD -	Unknown
522		PHILADELPHIA. Guide to the City	Phil.	1884	USD -	Unknown
523	John Downes	PHILADELPHIA ALMANAC and General Business Directory	Phil.	1848	USD -	Unknown
524	Ellis Pugh	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. A Salutation to the Britains, to call them from the Many Things to the one Thing Needful	Phil.	1727	USD -	Unknown
525		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. Useful Miscellanies; or, Serious Reflections respecting Men's Duty to God and one toward another	Phil.	1753	USD -	Unknown
526	R. B.	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. A Catechism and Confession of Faith, approved of, and agreed unto, by the General Assembly of the Patriarchs, Prophets and Apostles, Christ himself Chief Speaker in and among them	Phil.	1753	USD -	Unknown
527		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. Four Letters on Interesting Subjects	Phil.	1776	USD -	Unknown
528	John Clark	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. Erasmi Colloquia Selecta; or, The Select Colloquies of Erasmus, with an English Translation as literal as possible	Phil.	1782	USD -	Unknown
529		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. A Catechism and Confession of Faith approved by the General Assembly	Phil.	1788	USD -	Unknown
530	Charles Crawford	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. Observations upon Negro-Slavery	Phil.	1790	USD -	Unknown
531		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale supposed to be written by himself	Phil.	1791	USD -	Unknown
532		PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. Message of the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, April 3, 1798	Phil.	1798	USD -	Unknown
533	William Gifford	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. The Baviad and Maeviad	Phil.	1799	USD -	Unknown
534	Timothy Tell-truth	PHILADELPHIA IMPRINT. The Collected Wisdom of Ages, the most stu Pendous Fabric of Human Invention, THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION	Phil.	1799	USD -	Unknown
535	PHILLIPS, EDWARD	The New World of Words; or, A Universal English Dictionary	Lond.	1696	USD -	Unknown
536	Richard de Bury	PHILOBIBLON: a Treatise on the Love of Books	Albany	1861	USD -	Unknown
537	PIRACY	The Trial of Augustin French, John Burke and Matthew Welch for a Conspiracy	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
538	Capt. Charles Johnson	PIRATES. Lives and Exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates and Robbers	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
539	PLATO	Le Phedon de Platontraittant de l'Immortalite de l'ame, presenteau Roy treschretien Henri II. de cenom, a son Retour d'Allemagne	Paris	1553	USD -	Unknown
540	Lizzie Doten	POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems from the Inner Life	Bost.	1867	USD -	Unknown
541	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Poets and Poetry of America: a Satire	(Phil. N. Y.)	(1817, 1887)	USD -	Unknown
542		POLITICAL WRITINGS OF VOLTAIRE. La Voix du Sage et du Peuple, etc.	Kehl	1785	USD -	Unknown
543	Refine Weekes	PENN. Life of William Penn and other Poems	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
544		POUGHKEEPSIE IMPRINT. H. T. Ciceronis de Qfficiis ad Marcum Filium Libri Tres	Poughkeepsie	1814	USD -	Unknown
545		PRINCEION. General Catalogue of the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J.	Princeton, N. J.	1847	USD -	Unknown
546		RACING GUIDE. Watson's Racing Guide, containing a Record of all Races during 1876, Tables of Winners, etc.	N. Y.	1877	USD -	Unknown
547	Nym Crinkle (A. C. Wheeler)	RAILWAYS. The Iron Trail	N. Y.	1876	USD -	Unknown
548	RAMSAY, ALLAN	RAMSAY, ALLAN. Poems	Phil.	1813	USD -	Unknown
549		RAPE TRIAL. Report of the Trial of Ephraim Wheeler, for a Rape committed on the body of Betsy Wheeler, his daughter, thirteen years of age	Stockbridge, Mass.	1805	USD -	Unknown
550	Charles Sumner	REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. The Equal Rights of All, the Great Guarantee and Present Necessity for the Sake of Security and to Maintain a Republican Government	Wash.	1866	USD -	Unknown
551		REVISION OF THE LITURGY. To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty. The Due Account and Humble Petition of the Ministers of the Gospel, lately Commissioned for the Review and Alteration of the Liturgy	Lond.	1661	USD -	Unknown
552	ROGERS, MAJOR ROBERT	A Concise Account of North America: containing a Description of the British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, etc.	Dublin	1769	USD -	Unknown
553	W. A. Muhlenberg	ROMANISM. TWO Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
554	R. F. Sample	ROMANISM. Beacon Lights of the Reformation; or, Romanism and the Reformers	Phil.	1889	USD -	Unknown
555		RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Edward Fitzgerald's Fourth English Translation	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
556	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Art of England. Lectures given in Oxford during his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship	Sunnyside	1884	USD -	Unknown
557	VOLTAIRE	RUSSIA. Histoire de l'Empirede Russie sous Pierre Le Grand	Kehl	1785	USD -	Unknown
558	R. L. Allen	SARATOGA. Handbook of Saratoga, and Stranger's Guide	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
559	Eliphalet Nott	SCHENECTADY. Address to the Candidates for the Baccalaureate in the Union College at the Anniversary Commencement, 1806	Schenectady	1806	USD -	Unknown
560	S. F. Fonda, M.D.	SCHOHARIE COUNTY. Analysis of Sharon Waters, also of Avon, Richfield, and Bedford Mineral Waters	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
561	William Tarras	SCOTTISH POETRY. Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Edinburgh	1804	USD -	Unknown
562		SEDUCTION TRIAL. A Statement of the Case of the Rev. Barnabas Phinney, accused of the Crime of Adultery with, and Seduction of, Aurelia Chalker	Westborough, Mass.	1836	USD -	Unknown
563	The celebrated DR. NEWMAN	SEDUCTION CASE. A Full Report of the most extraordinary Trial for SEDUCTION and ADULTERYcharged against Dr. Achilli, the Apostate Catholic Priest	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
564	Peter Agate	SEXUAL ECONOMY, as Taught by Charles Bradlaugh	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
565		SHAKESPEARE. Othello, the Moor of Venice: a Tragedy	Lond.	1770	USD -	Unknown
566	Charles C. Cattell	SHAKESPEARE. Did Bacon Write Shakespeare ? A Reply to Ignatius Donnelly	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
567	Frank M. Bristol	SHAKESPEARE AND AMERICA	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
568		SHAKERS. Some Lines in Verse about Shakers	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
569	SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY	The School for Scandal: a Comedy	Dublin	1788	USD -	Unknown
570	Benjamin Silliman	SILLIMAN. (Memorial Notice reprinted from American Journal of Science and Arts)		1865	USD -	Unknown
571	SMITH	Miscellaneous Writings of the late Samuel J. Smith, of Burlington, N. J.	Phil.	1836	USD -	Unknown
572		SONG BOOK. Christy's Panorama Songster	N. Y.	(1850)	USD -	Unknown
573	Sophia Hume	SOUTH CAROLINA. An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina	Dublin	1754	USD -	Unknown
574		SOUTH CAROLINA. The Crisis: an Appeal to the Good Sense of the Nation against the Spirit of Resistance and Dissolution of the Union--Essay on the Dissolution of the Union threatened by the Nullifiers of South Carolina	Phil.	1832	USD -	Unknown
575	James Burney, of the Royal Navy	SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean	Lond.	1803	USD -	Unknown
576	SPOFFORD, THOMAS	U. S. Farmers'Almanac, 1843	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
577	Sir George Chetwynd	SPORTING. Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf	Lond.	1891	USD -	Unknown
578	Mr. Yorick	STERNE, LAURENCE. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
579	STEVENSON, R. L.	The Body Snatcher	N. Y.	1895	USD -	Unknown
580	STOWE, MRS. H. B.	Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
581	SUE, EUGENE	The Mysteries of Paris	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
582	SUE, EUGENE	Paula Marti; or, The Hotel Lambert	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
583	SUE, EUGENE	The Protestant Leader: a Novel	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
584		SURPRISING CASE OF RACHEL BAKER, who Prays and Preaches in her Sleep	N. Y.	1814	USD -	Unknown
585	A. Schuyler	SURVEYING AND NAVIGATION	Cinn.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
586	SWEDENBORG	Dialogues on the Nature, Design and Evidence of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg	N. Y.	1821	USD -	Unknown
587	TAPPAN, WILLIAM B.	Lyrics. (Lafayette, Loss of the N. Y. Packet Albion, Death of Stark, Decatur's Grave, Ruins of James Town, Congress of 1776, etc.)	Phil.	1822	USD -	Unknown
588	TENNYSON	A Welcome to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales from the Poet Laureate	Lond.	1863	USD -	Unknown
589	TENNYSON	A Chronological List of the Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson	N. Y.	1897	USD -	Unknown
590		TESTAMENTUM NOVUMsive Novum Faedus Jesu Christi DM. Greek and Latin Text	(Parisiis)	1589	USD -	Unknown
591		TEXAS A Description of Western Texas	Galveston	1876	USD -	Unknown
592	THOMAS, J. J.	The Illustrated Register and Annual of Rural Affairs and Cultivator's Almanac, 1857	Albany	1857	USD -	Unknown
593	THOMSON, JAMES	The Seasons	Newburyport	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
594	John Lord Sheffield	TRADE. Observations on the Commerce of the American States	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
595		TREATIES OF ALLIANCE between the United States of America with Foreign Nations	(Phil.)	(1796)	USD -	Unknown
596		TRIAL of Captain Geo. Harrower for Bigamy	Lond.	1816	USD -	Unknown
597	Andrew Beers	UTICA. The Farmer's Calendar, or Utica Almanack	Utica	1817	USD -	Unknown
598		UTICA. Williams Calendar, or the Utica Almanack. Calculated for the Meridian of Utica	Utica	1830	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.