Bangs: Catalogue of A Collection of Standard, Scarce and Curious Books, comprising, Americana, Art, Bibliography, Erotica, Facetiae, Folk-Lore, Indians, New York Items, Romanism, Sport, Sexual Science, etc., etc., etc., Curious French Books, Standard Dictionary,, Mar271901,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 27, 1901 - March 27, 1901

Page Size: 300 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	I. Garland Penn	AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS AND ITS EDITORS	Springfield	1891	USD -	Unknown
2	W. B. Haskell	ALASKA. TWO Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields	Hartford	1898	USD -	Unknown
3	ALDEN, W. L.	Among the Freaks	Lond.	1890	USD -	Unknown
4	ALGER, WM. R.	Destiny of the Soul. A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life	Bost.	1886	USD -	Unknown
5	ALLEN, JAMES LANE	The Choir Invisible...	N. Y.	1897--99	USD -	Unknown
6		AMERICAN ANNUALS	N. Y. and Bost.	1840-55	USD -	Unknown
7	C. F. Richardson, editor	AMERICAN COLLEGES. The College Book	Bost.	1878	USD -	Unknown
8	Rufus Dawes	AMERICAN POETRY. Geraldine and Miscellaneous Poems	N. Y.	1839	USD -	Unknown
9		AMERICAN POETRY. The Poems of Alfred B. Street	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
10		AMERICAN POETRY. The Works of the Poet Coachman, Matthew Suttill	N. Y.	1885	USD -	Unknown
11		AMERICAN POETRY. The Complete Poetical Works of the Late Miss Lucy Hooper	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
12		AMERICAN POETRY	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
13	L. Carroll Judson	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Sages and Heroes of the Revolution	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
14	St. George Mivart	AMERICAN TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE	Bost.	1893	USD -	Unknown
15	E. V. Lenker	ANARCHISM. A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory	N. Y.	1897	USD -	Unknown
16	R. B. Roosevelt	ANGLING. Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Blue-Fish of the Northern States	N. Y.	1884	USD -	Unknown
17	Thaddeus Norris	ANGLING. The American Angler's Book, embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish and the Art of Taking them	Phil.		USD -	Unknown
18	Major Upton	ARABIA. Travels in the Arabian Desert	Lond.	1881	USD -	Unknown
19		ARCHAEOLOGY. Life in Early Britain: an Account of the Early Inhabitants and the Memorials which they have left behind them By Bertram C. A. Windle	Lond.	1897	USD -	Unknown
20	A. Mitchell	ARCHAEOLOGY. The Rhind Lectures. The Past in the Present; or, What is Civilization?	N. Y.	1881	USD -	Unknown
21	John Evans, F. R. S.	ARCHAEOLOGY. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
22	E. H. Kelly	ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; or, The Science of Sound	Buffalo	1898	USD -	Unknown
23	ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN	Adzuma, or the Japanese Wife...	N. Y.	1892-93	USD -	Unknown
24	ARNOUX, WM. H.	The Dutch in America: a Historical Argument	N. Y.	1890	USD -	Unknown
25	W. H. Beard	ART. Action in Art	N. Y.	1893	USD -	Unknown
26		ART. Addresses delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy by the late Lord Leighton	N. Y.	1897	USD -	Unknown
27	Ed. Carpenter	ART. Angel's Wings: a Series of Essays on Art and its Relation to Life	Lond.	1898	USD -	Unknown
28	H. Spofford	ART. Art Decoration applied to Furniture	N. Y.	1877	USD -	Unknown
29	Chas. G. Leland	ART. Elementary Metal Work: a Practical Manual for Amateurs	N. Y.	1894	USD -	Unknown
30	John K. Mumford	ART. Oriental Rugs	N. Y.	1900	USD -	Unknown
31	James Leon Williams	ART. The Homes and Haunts of Shakespeare	N. Y.	1894	USD -	Unknown
32	ASHTON, JOHN	Curious Creatures in Zoology	Lond. and N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
33	ASTOR, JOHN JACOB	A Journey in Other Worlds: a Romance of the Future	N. Y.	1894	USD -	Unknown
34		ASTROLOGY. Gospel of the Stars...	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
35	Rev. D. H. Hamilton	AUTOLOGY. An Inductive System of Mental Science, whose Centre is the Will, and whose Completion is the Personality	Bost.	1873	USD -	Unknown
36	E. A. Fitzgerald	AUSTRALIA. Climbs in the New Zealand Alps: an Account of Travel and Discovery	N. Y.	1896	USD -	Unknown
37	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	Cipher Story	Detroit	1893	USD -	Unknown
38	BADEAU, ADAM	Grant in Peace: a Personal Memoir	Hartford	1887	USD -	Unknown
39	BALZAC, H. DE	Droll Stories	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
40	BANKS, SIR JOSEPH	Journals during Capt. Cook's First Voyage in 1768-71	Lond.	1896	USD -	Unknown
41		BASTILLE (THE). Remarques Historiques sur la Bastille: Sa Demolition et Revolutions de Paris, 1789	a Londres	1789	USD -	Unknown
42		BECCARIA'S Crimes and Punishment	a Londres	1789	USD -	Unknown
43	BELOE, W.	The Sexagenarian; or, The Recollections of a Literary Life	Lond.	1817	USD -	Unknown
44	BENNETT, FRANK M.	The Steam Navy of the United States: a History of the Growth of the Steam Vessels of War in the United States Navy, and of the Naval Engineer Corps	Pittsburgh	1876	USD -	Unknown
45	BEYLE, MARIE HENRI (DE STENDHAL)	Red and Black: a Chronicle of the XIX	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
46	A. Sharp	BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES. An Elementary Treatise on their Design and Construction	Lond.	1896	USD -	Unknown
47		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Dictionnaire des Romans, Anciens et Modernes ou Methode pour lire les Romans	Paris	1819	USD -	Unknown
48	Bro. Chas. Welsh	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Sette of Odd Volumes. On some of the Books for Children of the Last Century	Edinburgh	1886	USD -	Unknown
49	Percy Fitzgerald	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The World's Own Book; or, The Treasury of A'Kempis: an Account of the Chief Editions of "The Imitation of Christ"	Lond.	1895	USD -	Unknown
50	Fontaine de Resbecq	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Voyages Litteraires sur les Quais de Paris	Paris	1864	USD -	Unknown
51	BLAINE, JAMES G.	Twenty Years of Congress, from Lincoln to Garfield	Norwich	1884	USD -	Unknown
52	W. H. Knapp	BORROW, GEORGE. Life, Writings, and Correspondence of, 1803-1881	N. Y.	1899	USD -	Unknown
53	BONNER, SHERWOOD	Dialect Tales	N. Y.	1883	USD -	Unknown
54	Nathaniel B. Shurtleff	BOSTON. Topographical and Historical Description of Boston	Bost.	1891	USD -	Unknown
55	W. H. Bogart	BOONE. Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky	Auburn	1854	USD -	Unknown
56	Chas. R. Mackay	BRADLAUGH, CHAS., M. P. Life of	Lond.	1888	USD -	Unknown
57	Sir Arthur Helps	BRASSEY, SIR THOMAS. Life and Labours of. 1805-1870	Bost.	1874	USD -	Unknown
58	BRYANT, W. C., AND S. H. GAY	A Popular History of the United States	N. Y.	1876-81	USD -	Unknown
59	BUCKLE, HENRY T.	BUCKLE, HENRY T. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of	Lond.	1885	USD -	Unknown
60	BURNS, ROBERT	BURNS, ROBERT. Complete Poetical Works	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
61	BURNS, ROBERT	Wordsworth			USD -	Unknown
62	BURNS, ROBERT	Milton			USD -	Unknown
63	BUTLER, REV. ALBAN	The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Saints	N. Y.	1896	USD -	Unknown
64	BUTLER, W. A.	Two Millions	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
65	BUTTERWORTH, HEZEKIAH	South America: a History of the Struggle for Liberty in the Andean Republics and Cuba	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
66	Benjamin Suite	CANADA. Melanges d'Histoire et le Literature...	Ottawa	1876	USD -	Unknown
67	E. Willard	CALIFORNIA. Last Leaves of American History, comprising a separate History of California	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
68	CARLETON, WILLIAM	CARLETON, WILLIAM. Complete Works	N. Y.	1896	USD -	Unknown
69		CAXTON CLUB. Catalogue of an Exhibition of XIXth Century Bookbindings	Chicago	1897	USD -	Unknown
70	CHAPMAN, A. W., M. D.	Flora of the Southern United States: Flowering Plants and Ferns	N. Y.	1884	USD -	Unknown
71	CHARNOCK, STEPHEN	Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
72		CHEVALIER D'EON. Lettres, Memoires et Negotiations Particuliers du Chevalier d'Eon	A Londres	1765	USD -	Unknown
73		CHICAGO'S DARK PLACES. (Massage Parlors, Procuresses, The Social Evil, Saloons and Prostitutes, Dives, Obscene Books, etc.)	Chicago	1891	USD -	Unknown
74	H. G. De Genouillac	CHIVALRY. Dictionnaire Historique des Ordres de Chevalerie	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
75	C. Martenze	CIVIL WAR POETRY. Cannon-Flashes and Pen-Dashes	N. Y.	1866	USD -	Unknown
76	Michael Magaul	CIVIL WAR. No-History versus No-War; or, The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed	N. Y.	1886	USD -	Unknown
77	CLAFLIN, TENNIE C.	Constitutional Equality a Right of Woman; or, A Consideration of the various Relations which she sustains as a necessary part of the Body of Science and Humanity	N. Y.	1871	USD -	Unknown
78	CLARKE, RICHARD H.	Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
79	CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.	Merry Tales		1892	USD -	Unknown
80	CLEVELAND, GROVER	CLEVELAND, GROVER. The Writings and Speeches of	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
81	Robert Hewitt, Jr.	COFFEE: its History, Cultivation and Uses	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
82	COLERIDGE, S. T.	Biographia Literaria	N. Y.	1882	USD -	Unknown
83	CONWAY, SIR WM.	The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey	Lond.	1897	USD -	Unknown
84	Paul Eudel	COUNTERFEIT ART. Le "Truquage." Les Contrefacons devoilees	Paris	1884	USD -	Unknown
85	Madame Lafayette	COURT MEMOIRS. Henriette d'Angleterre	Paris	1882	USD -	Unknown
86	COX, S. S.	Three Decades of Federal Legislation, 1855 to 1885	Providence	1886	USD -	Unknown
87	The late Thomas Gordon	CURIOUS. A Cordial for Low Spirits: being a Collection of Curious Tracts	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
88	A. Poyntz	CURIOUS. A World of Wonders. Anecdotes and Opinions concerning Popular Superstitions	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
89	R. Verneau	CURIOUS. Le Bassin dans les Sexes et dans les Races	Paris	1875	USD -	Unknown
90	Sylvain M	CURIOUS. Pour et Contre La Bible	A Jerusalem (Paris)	1801	USD -	Unknown
91	Mrs. Eliza Eberle	CURIOUS. The Pilgrim's Progress, in Verse	New Haven	1856	USD -	Unknown
92	(Julia E. Smith)	CURIOUS. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament	Hartford	1876	USD -	Unknown
93	Geo. A. Young	CURIOUS. Whatever Is, Was. In Nature there are no such things as Cause, Effect, Generation, Growth, nor Death. No Time, No Past, No Future	San Francisco	1887	USD -	Unknown
94		CURIOUS. Quakers and Cock Robins; or, Hypocrisy Unmasked	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
95	CUSACK	The Nun of Kenmare: an Autobiography	Bost.	1889	USD -	Unknown
96	Edward Scott	DANCING AS AN ART AND PASTIME	Lond.	1892	USD -	Unknown
97	DAUDET, ALPHONSE	The Head of the Family	N. Y.	1898	USD -	Unknown
98		DEAF MUTISM. A Clinical and Pathological Study...	Glasgow	1896	USD -	Unknown
99		DECAMERON of Boccaccio	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
100	L. W. Brodhead	DELAWARE WATER GAP: its Scenery, its Legends and Early History	Phil.	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.
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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.