Bangs: Catalogue of an Interesting Collection of Books, comprising, First Editions of American Authors, American Works of Humor, American Periodicals, American Annuals, American History, New York City Manuals, New York City History, Civil War Items, including so, May081902,

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Auction Date: May 08, 1902 - May 08, 1902

Page Size: 684 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
98	CLEMENS, S. L. (AND C. D. WARNER)	Roughing It	Hartford	1872	USD -	0.80
99	CLEMENS, S. L. (AND C. D. WARNER)	Life on the Mississippi	Bost.	1883	USD -	1.00
100	CLEMENS, S. L. (AND C. D. WARNER)	The Jumping Frog...	Lond.	(1871-72)	USD -	0.15
101	Richard Haywarde	(COZZENS, F. S.) Prismatics	N. Y.	1853	USD -	0.35
102	(COZZENS, F. S.)	The Sparrowgrass Papers	Phil.	1865	USD -	0.30
103	(CURTIS, GEO. W.)	The Potiphar Papers	N. Y.	1854	USD -	0.40
104	John Phoenix	(DERBY, G. H.) Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques	N. Y.	1856	USD -	2.88
105	(DERBY, G. H.)	The Squibob Papers	N. Y.	1865	USD -	2.88
106	George Fibbleton, Esq.	(GREENE, ASA.) Travels in America	N. Y.	1833	USD -	0.80
107	Elnathan Elmwood	(GREENE, ASA.) A Yankee Among the Nullifiers	N. Y.	1833	USD -	0.85
108	(HALIBURTON, T. C.)	Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances	Phil.	1853	USD -	0.75
109	Private Miles O'Reilly	(HALPINE, C. G.) Baked Meats of the Funeral. Essays, Poems, etc.	N. Y.	1866	USD -	1.50
110	(HALPINE, C. G.)	(HALPINE, C. G.) Poetical Works	N. Y.	1869	USD -	1.20
111	HAMMITT, S. A.	The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest	N. Y.	1855	USD -	0.80
112	Josiah Allen's Wife	(HALLEY, MARIETTA.) My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's	Hartford	1873	USD -	1.00
113	(HALLEY, MARIETTA)	Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. and P. I....	Hartford	1887	USD -	1.00
114	(HOLMES, O. W.)	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table	Bost.	1858	USD -	0.80
115	(JONES, J. S.)	Life of Jefferson S. Batkins, Member from Cranberry Centre	Bost.	(1871)	USD -	0.95
116	KELLEY, JONATHAN F.	Humors of Falconbridge: a Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes	Phil.	(1856)	USD -	0.50
117	LELAND, C. G.	Hans Breitmann in Europe	Phil.	(1871)	USD -	2.63
118	Petroleum V. Nasby	(LOCKE, D. R.) "Swingin' Round the Cirkle"	Bost.	1867	USD -	0.90
119	(LOCKE, D. R.)	Ekkoes from Kentucky	Bost.	1868	USD -	2.00
120	(LOCKE, D. R.)	Struggles, etc., of Petroleum V. Nasby	Bost.	1888	USD -	1.25
121	LOWELL, J. R.	The Biglow Papers	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.15
122	MASSETT, STEPHEN C.	Drifting About; or, What "Jeems Pipes of Pipesville" Saw-and-Did	N. Y.	1863	USD -	0.45
123		MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. An Old Friend in a New Dress	N. Y.	1853	USD -	0.35
124	Jacques Maurice	(MORRIS, J. W.) K. N. Pepper, and other Condiments	N. Y.	1859	USD -	0.70
125	MUNKITTRICK, R. K.	Farming	N. Y.	1891	USD -	1.25
126	NEWELL, R. H.	Orpheus C. Kerr Papers	N. Y.	1871	USD -	1.10
127	NEWELL, R. H.	Orpheus C. Kerr Papers	N. Y.	1862	USD -	0.60
128	NEWELL, R. H.	Versatilities	Bost.	1871	USD -	1.30
129		NYE, "BILL." A Guest at the Ludlow, and other Stories	Indianapolis	1897	USD -	0.70
130	PERCY, H. C.	Our Cashier's Scrap-Book	N. Y.	1879	USD -	1.00
131	PRENTICE, G. D.	Prenticeana; or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs	N. Y.	1860	USD -	1.90
132	(REYNOLDS, E. W.)	Records of the Bubbleton Parish	Bost.	1854	USD -	0.25
133	RILEY, J. WHITCOMB	RILEY, J. WHITCOMB. Poems	Chicago	(1891)	USD -	0.40
134	SAXE, J. G.	The Proud Miss Macbride: a Legend of Gotham	Bost.	1874	USD -	1.10
135	SAXE, J. G.	The Money-King	Bost.	1860	USD -	1.35
136	SHAW, H. W.	Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1871-72	N. Y.		USD -	0.60
137	(SHAW, H. W.)	Josh Billings, His Sayings	N. Y.	1866	USD -	2.00
138	SHILLABER, B. P.	Knitting-Work: a Web of many Textures	Bost.	1859	USD -	1.85
139	SHILLABER, B. P.	Rhymes with Reason arid Without	Bost.	1853	USD -	1.80
140	SHILLABER, B. P.	Lines in Pleasant Places	Chelsea	1874	USD -	1.80
141	SHILLABER, B. P.	Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington	Bost.	1854	USD -	1.00
142	(SMITH, SEBA)	Letters of J. Downing, Major, to his Old Friend Mr. Dwight	N. Y.	1834	USD -	0.45
143	(SMITH, C. H.)	Bill Arp's Scrap Book...	Atlanta, Ga.	1884	USD -	0.85
144		SPUYTENDUYVEL CHRONICLE (THE)	N. Y.	1856	USD -	0.30
145	(THOMPSON, M. M.)	Doesticks: What he Says	N. Y.	1855	USD -	1.40
146	THORPE, T. B.	The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter": a Repository of Sketches	N. Y.	1854	USD -	1.25
147	VALENTINE, DR. W.	A Budget of Wit and Humor. . . Comprising Dr. Valentine's Comic Lectures, etc.	N. Y.	(1849)	USD -	1.15
148	(WHITCHER, F. M.)	The Widow Bedott Papers	N. Y.	1863	USD -	1.85
149	ALDRICH, T. B.	An Old Town by the Sea	Bost.	1893	USD -	2.00
150	ALDRICH, T. B.	Unguarded Gates, and other Poems	Bost.	1895	USD -	1.00
151	ALDRICH, T. B.	Judith and Holofernes	Bost.	1896	USD -	1.20
152	Wm. Young	ALDRICH, T. B. Wishmaker's Town	Bost.	1898	USD -	0.30
153	ALLEN, WM.	American Biographical Dictionary	Bost.	1832	USD -	1.50
154	Edmund Burke	ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs	Lond.	1881	USD -	1.00
155	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Irish Essays, and others	Lond.	1882	USD -	0.50
156	ARNOLD, MATTHEW	Reports on Elementary Schools	Lond.	1889	USD -	0.70
157		ADVENTURER			USD -	0.10
158	ALDINE	The Art Journal of America			USD -	1.25
159		ALDINE PRESS. Aristotelis Moralia Magna et Moralia Nicomach et Rei Familiaris, etc. Tomi V.	Venetiis	1552	USD -	1.30
160	Dom Pernety	AMERICA. Dissertation sur l'Amerique et les Americains contre des recherches Pholos	A Berlin	n. d.	USD -	0.10
161		AMERICA. Histoire de la Decouverte et de la Conquete duPerou	Amster.	1700	USD -	0.60
162		AMERICA. Recueil D'Estampes representant les Differents Evenemens de la Guerre qui a procure l'Independance aux l'Etats-Unis de l'Amerique	Paris		USD -	13.00
163		AMERICA. Curieuse Aenmerckingen der byfonderste Oost-en West-Indische Verwonderenswaerdige Dingen, nevens die van China, Africa, etc., door S. de Vries	Utrecht	1682	USD -	0.55
164		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Tea Leaves	Bost.	1884	USD -	1.35
165		AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY...		1882	USD -	1.25
166		APPLETON'S ART JOURNAL N. S.			USD -	0.40
167		APHORISMS, or A Glance at Human Nature...	v. p.		USD -	0.25
168	E. H. Kelly	ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS, or Science of Sound Application required in Construction of Audience Rooms	Buffalo	1898	USD -	0.90
169	ARNOLD, WM. HARRIS	Catalogue of First Editions Collected by him		1901	USD -	1.50
170	ARNOLD, WM. HARRIS	Priced Catalogue of the Books and Letters		1901	USD -	1.10
171	AUDUBON, J. J.	The Birds of America			USD -	0.22
172		BACON'S ESSAYS	Bost.	1874	USD -	0.35
173	BARLOW, JOEL	A Letter to the National Convention of France on the Defects of the Constitution of 1791: and Article from the "New Englander," July, 1873			USD -	0.10
174		BASIA; OR, THE CHARMS OF KISSING	Lond.	1719	USD -	1.25
175	BAYLY, THOS. H.	Weeds of Witchery	Lond.	1837	USD -	0.90
176	Walt Rudin g.	BEARDSLEY PLATE. An Evil Motherhood	Lond. and N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.10
177		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Contributions towards a Dictionary of Book-Collectors	Lond.		USD -	0.21
178	BLACKLOCK, THOS.	Poems on Several Occasions	Glasgow	1746	USD -	0.05
179	The Rev. J. Legge	BOONE, W. J., D.D. Notions of the Chinese concerning Gods and Spirits	Hong Kong	1852	USD -	0.40
180		BROADSIDE. The great new Song on the Assassination of President Garfield	Brooklyn		USD -	0.50
181	BURTON, SIR RICHARD F.	Wanderings in Three Continents	N. Y.	1901	USD -	0.55
182	BURROWS, MONTAGU	Worthies of All Souls'	Lond.	1874	USD -	0.20
183	BYRON	BYRON. Poetical Works	N. Y.		USD -	0.65
184	BANCROFT, GEORGE	Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln	Wash.	1866	USD -	0.25
185	BANCROFT, GEORGE	History of the States of Antiquity. From the German of Heeren	Northampton	1828	USD -	0.45
186	BEECHER, H. W.	Star Papers..			USD -	0.15
187		BIOGRAPHIE MODERNE. Lives of Remarkable Characters who have distinguished themselves from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the present time	Lond.	1811	USD -	1.00
188	J. B. Nicholson	BOOKBINDING. A Manual of the Art	Phil.	1887	USD -	1.10
189		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER	Phil.	1805	USD -	0.20
190	BOURNE, W. O.	Poems of Hope and Action	N. Y.	1850	USD -	0.30
190a	BRIDGES, ROBERT	Eden: an Oratorio	Lond.	1891	USD -	0.05
191	BROCKETT, L. P.	The Camp	Phil.	1866	USD -	0.25
192	BURROUGHS, JOHN	A Year in the Fields, 1899...	Bost.		USD -	0.60
193	(BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE)	The Murdered Queen; or, Caroline of Brunswick	Lond.	1838	USD -	1.10
194	Elizabeth B. Barrett	BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. A Drama of Exile, and other Poems	N. Y.	1845	USD -	0.10
195	BUTLER, WM. ALLEN	Nothing to Wear, and other Poems	N. Y.	1899	USD -	0.80
196	CLEMENS, S. L.	The Innocents Abroad	Hartford	1869	USD -	Not Sold

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