Bangs: Catalogue of a Collection of Standard, Scarce and Curious Books. Comprising, Americana, Art, Bibliography, Civil War, Folk-Lore, Erotica, History, Humor, New-York Items, Sexual Science, Etc., Etc., To be Sold at Auction, Monday, January 21st, 1901. BY Ban, Jan211901,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 21, 1901 - January 21, 1901

Page Size: 328 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
100	DIBDIN, T. F.	Lent Lectures	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
101	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Christmas Carol	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
102	DODD, ANNA B.	On the Broads	Lond.	1896	USD -	Unknown
103	DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN	The Culprit Fay: a Poem	N. Y.	1867	USD -	Unknown
103a	Westland Marston	DRAMA. Our Recent Actors	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
104		DRAMA. Rachel and the New World: a Trip to the United States and Cuba	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
105	T. Edgar Pemberton	DRAMA. John Hare, Comedian, 1865-1895: a Biography	Lond.	1895	USD -	Unknown
106	DUMAS, ALEXANDRE, FILS	La Dame aux Camelias. Preface de J. Janin	Paris	1875	USD -	Unknown
107	W. J. Tucker	ASTERN EUROPE. Life and Society in Eastern Europe	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
108	G. G. Cunningham, editor	ENGLISH NATION, THE; or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen	Edinburgh and Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
109		EROTICA. The Kreutzer Sonata; Vicious Pleasures, Sequel to "The Kreutzer Sonata"	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
110	Belot, Adolphe	EROTICA. Mademoiselle Giraud, my Wife	Chicago	1898	USD -	Unknown
111	G. Flaubert	EROTICA. The Temptation of St. Anthony	Lond.	1893	USD -	Unknown
112		EROTICA. Tales of the Court of Catherine II....	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
113	Octave Mirbeau	EROTICA. A Chambermaid's Diary	N.Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
114	B. O. Fowler	ESSAYS: Persons, Places, and Ideas	Bost.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
115	Howard P. Arnold	EUROPEAN MOSAIC	Bost.	1864	USD -	Unknown
116	H. H. Leech	FACETIAE. Letters of a Sentimental Idler, from Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
117		FACETIAE. Doux Pays. 189 dessins facetieuse par Forain	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
118		FACETIAE. Jack Smart's Merry Jester; or, The Wit's Compleat Treasury: Entertaining Jests, Pleasant Tales, Modern Humbugs, Excellent Bulls, etc.	Lond.	circa 1750	USD -	Unknown
119	FARRAR, FREDERIC W.	Gathering Clouds: a Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom	N. Y. and Lond.	1895	USD -	Unknown
120	FAY, THEODORE S.	The Three Germanys...	N. Y.	1889	USD -	Unknown
121	FIELD, EUGENE	FIELD, EUGENE. Works in Prose and Verse	N. Y.	1899	USD -	Unknown
122	FIELDING, HENRY	Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Amelia, Jonathan Wild, etc.	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
123	Elijah Ward	FINANCE. Speeches on Commercial, Financial and other Subjects	N. Y.	1877	USD -	Unknown
124	FLORIAN	FLORIAN. The Fables of	Lond.	1896	USD -	Unknown
125	FLEMING, ROBERT	The Mirrour of Devine Love, Unveil'd in a Poetical Paraphrase of the High and Mysterious Song of Solomon	Lond.	1691	USD -	Unknown
126	Earle, Alice M.	FOLK LORE. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days	Chicago	1896	USD -	Unknown
127		FOLK LORE. Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
128	S. Baring-Gould, M. A.	FOLK LORE. Curiosities of Olden Times	N. Y.	1896	USD -	Unknown
129		FOLK LORE AND LEGENDS, Russian and Polish; ditto, Oriental	Lond.	1890-2	USD -	Unknown
130		FOLK LORE. In Chimney Corners...	N. Y.	1899	USD -	Unknown
131	A. S. Morton	FOLK LORE. Beyond the Palaeocrystic Sea; or, The Legend of Halfjord	Chicago	1895	USD -	Unknown
132		FOLK LORE. William Hone's Works: The Every-Day Book, or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, etc.	Lond.	1878-92	USD -	Unknown
133	FONTENELLE	FONTENELLE. OEuvres de	Paris	1790-2	USD -	Unknown
134	FRANCATELLI, CHARLES E.	The Modern Cook: a Practical Guide to the Culinary Art	Lond.	1883	USD -	Unknown
135	D. Triebault	FREDERICK THE GREAT. Mes Souvenirs de Vingt Ans de sejour a Berlin, ou Frederic le Grand	Paris	1804	USD -	Unknown
136	GARFIELD, JAMES A.	History of the Attempted Assassination of	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
137		GEOLOGY. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood. A Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
138	G. A. Manteli	GEOLOGY. The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessons in Geology	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
139	Percy Fitzgerald	GEORGE THE FOURTH. Life of, including his Letters and Opinions, with a View of the Men, Manners, and Politics of his Reign	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
140	Sir Wemyss Reid	GLADSTONE, W. E. Life of		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
141	GLAZIER, WILLARD	Heroes of Three Wars	Phil.	1880	USD -	Unknown
142	GOETHE	GOETHE. Poetry and Philosophy of	Chicago	1887	USD -	Unknown
143	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
144	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Deserted Village	Bost.	1866	USD -	Unknown
145	GOODRICH, S. G.	A History of all Nations, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time	Auburn	1853	USD -	Unknown
146	GORDON, WILLIAM	The History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, including an Account of the late War and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their Origin to that Period	N.Y.	1801	USD -	Unknown
147	GOULD, CHARLES	Mythical Monsters	Lond.	1886	USD -	Unknown
148	GREELEY, HORACE	Recollections of a Busy Life	N. Y.	1869	USD -	Unknown
149	GUIZOT	A Popular History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Victoria	Bost.	1876	USD -	Unknown
150	GUIZOT	History of the English Revolution of 1640. From the Accession of Charles I. to his Death	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
151	HALE, EDWARD EVERETT	If, Yes and Perhaps	Bost.	1868	USD -	Unknown
152	HAWEIS, H. R.	HAWEIS, H. R. Music and Morals	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
153	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Septimus Felton; or, The Elixir of Life	Bost.	1872	USD -	Unknown
154	J. H. Stirling	HEGEL, THE SECRET OF: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principal, Form and Matter	Edinburgh	1898	USD -	Unknown
155	C. G. Etienne et A. Martainville	HISTOIRE du Theatre Francais	Paris	1802	USD -	Unknown
156	M. Almy Aldrich	HISTORY of the United States Marine Corps	Bost.	1875	USD -	Unknown
157	Henry C. Watson and J. Harris Patton	HISTORY of the United States of America, from the Discovery to the Present Time	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
158	Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jennie June)	HISTORY of the Woman's Club Movement in America	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
159	Archibald Alison	HISTORY of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
160	Samuel Sewall	HISTORY of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., from the Grant of its Territory to Charlestown in 1640 to the Year 1860	Bost.	1868	USD -	Unknown
161	Henri Martin	HISTORY of France, from the First Revolution to the Present Time	Bost.	1877	USD -	Unknown
162	Evert A. Duyckinck	HISTORY of the World, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time	N. Y.	1871	USD -	Unknown
163		HISTORY of Satan. The Foot-Prints of Satan; or, The Devil in History			USD -	Unknown
164		HOLLAND SOCIETY. Vondel's Lucifer	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
165	HUISH, ROBERT	Memoirs of Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales and her consort, Prince Leopold	Lond.	1818	USD -	Unknown
166	HULLAH, JOHN	Music in the House	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
167	HUMOR	Funny Dogs with Funny Tales. Comic illustrations by H. Weir. Tales by R. B. Brough, Jas. Hannay, etc.	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
168	Ernest Jarrold	HUMOR. Mickey Finn Idylls	N. Y.	1899	USD -	Unknown
169	F. S. Cozzens	HUMOR. The Sparrowgrass Papers	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
170		HUMOR. Mac-Nab. Chansons du Chat Noir. Musique par C. Baron	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
171	W. A. Fraser	HUNTING. Mooswa and others of the Boundaries	N. Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
172	Mrs. E. W. Packard	INSANITY. Modern Persecution; or, Insane Asylums Unveiled...	N. Y.	1873	USD -	Unknown
173		IRELAND. Letters from the Irish Highlands of Connemara	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
174	G. N. Smith	IRELAND. Killarney and the Surrounding Scenery	Dublin	1822	USD -	Unknown
175		ITALIAN UNITY. The Unity of Italy. The American Celebration of the Unity of Italy at the Academy of Music	N. Y.	1871	USD -	Unknown
176		JAPAN IN OUR DAY. Compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor	N. Y.	1889	USD -	Unknown
177	Cornelis De Witt	JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Etude historique sur la Democratie Americaine	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
178	his Son, Blanchard Jerrold	JERROLD, DOUGLAS. Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold	Bost.	1859	USD -	Unknown
179	JOKAI, MAURICE	Debts of Honor...	N. Y.	1899-1900	USD -	Unknown
180	Alice and Phoebe Cary, editor	JOSEPHINE GALLERY (THE)	N. Y.	1859	USD -	Unknown
181	KEMBLE, FRANCES A.	Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation, 1838-9	N.Y.	1863	USD -	Unknown
182		KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Poems...	Lond.	1881-90	USD -	Unknown
183	KNAPP, S. L.	Advice in the Pursuit of Literature	Middletown, N. J.	1837	USD -	Unknown
184	LANIER, SIDNEY	Florida: its Scenery, Climate and History	Phil.	1876	USD -	Unknown
185	Robert W. Landis	LIBERTY'S TRIUMPH: a Poem	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
186		LIBRARY MAGAZINE	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
187	David T. Valentine	LINCOLN. Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in the City of New York	N. Y.	1868	USD -	Unknown
188		LITERATURE. University of Literature: a Cyclopaedia of Universal Literature, presenting, in alphabetical arrangement, the Biography	N. Y.	1895	USD -	Unknown
189	LODGE, O. J.	Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
190	Mrs. Basil Holmes	LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS. Notes on their History	Lond.	1896	USD -	Unknown
191	LOSSING. BENSON J.	The Achievements of Four Centuries; or, The Wonderful Story of Our Great Continent	N. Y.	1892	USD -	Unknown
192	LYNCH, J.	Egyptian Sketches	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
193		LYRA SACRA AMERICANA; or, Gems from American Sacred Poetry	N. Y.	1868	USD -	Unknown
194	McALLISTER, WARD	Society as I Have Found It	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
195		MAGNETISM. Vital Magnetic Cure: an Exposition of Vital Magnetism and its Application to the Treatment of Disease	Bost.	1890	USD -	Unknown
196	W. L. Snyder	MARRIAGE, THE GEOGRAPHY OF; or, Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the U. S.	N. Y.	1889	USD -	Unknown
197	MARTIN, EDWARD WINSLOW	Behind the Scenes in Washington	Phil.	1873	USD -	Unknown
198	MASSINGER, PHILIP	MASSINGER, PHILIP. Dramatic Works, compleat	Lond.	1761	USD -	Unknown

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.
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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.