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,

Auction Details

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
495	MILLER, JOAQUIN	Songs of the Sun-Lands	Bost.	1875	USD -	0.70
496	MITCHELL, D. G.	Fudge Doings	N. Y.	1855	USD -	0.90
497	MITCHELL, D. G.	Wet Days at Edgewood	N. Y.	1865	USD -	1.20
498	MITCHELL, D. G.	Rural Studies	N. Y.	1867	USD -	1.40
499	MITCHELL, D. G.	American Lands and Letters: The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle	N. Y.	1897	USD -	1.85
500	MITCHELL, D. G.	American Lands and Letters: "Leather-Stocking" to Poe's "Raven"	N. Y.	1899	USD -	1.50
501	MITCHELL, D. G.	MITCHELL, D. G. Dream Life...	N. Y.	1884	USD -	1.25
502	MITCHELL, D. G.	Doctor Johns	N. Y.	1867	USD -	0.70
503	MORLEY, JOHN	Diderot and the Encyclopaedists	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.75
504	MORLEY, JOHN	Voltaire	Lond.	1888	USD -	0.50
505	MORRIS, G. P.	Old King Time...	N. Y.	1837-41	USD -	0.11
506	MORRIS, WM.	The Tale of Beowulf	Lond.	1898	USD -	2.00
507	MORRIS, WM.	News from Nowhere...	Bost.	1890-92	USD -	0.90
508	Samuel Smith	NEW JERSEY. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey, to the year 1721, with some particulars since, and a short view of its present state			USD -	1.15
509	Guernsey, R. S.	NEW YORK. New York City and Vicinity during the War of 1812-15	N. Y.	1889-95	USD -	2.38
510		NEW YORK. Manual of the Common Council of, for 1842-3			USD -	10.50
511		NEW YORK. Manual of the Common Council of, for 1842-3			USD -	2.05
512		NEW YORK. Manual of the Common Council of, Manual for 1843-4			USD -	16.00
513		NEW YORK. Manual for 1844-5			USD -	0.30
514		NEW YORK. Manual for 1845-6			USD -	3.00
515		NEW YORK. Manual for 1847			USD -	16.25
516		NEW YORK. Manual for 1848			USD -	8.50
517		NEW YORK. Manual for 1851			USD -	0.60
518		NEW YORK. Manual for 1852			USD -	0.75
519		NEW YORK. Manual for 1853			USD -	1.10
520		NEW YORK. Manual for 1856. Complete			USD -	2.25
521		NEW YORK. Manual for 1857			USD -	2.25
522		NEW YORK. Manual for 1858			USD -	1.50
523		NEW YORK. Manual for 1859			USD -	2.50
524		NEW YORK. Manual for 1860			USD -	1.80
525		NEW YORK. Manual for 1861			USD -	0.35
526		NEW YORK. Manual for 1862			USD -	1.00
527		NEW YORK. Manual far 1863			USD -	0.30
528		NEW YORK. Manual for 1864			USD -	0.35
529		NEW YORK. Manual for 1865			USD -	0.50
530		NEW YORK. Manual for 1866			USD -	0.55
531		NEW YORK. Manual for 1868			USD -	0.30
532		NEW YORK. Manual for 1870			USD -	1.20
533	(J. F. Hume)	NEW YORK. 500 Majority; or, The Days of Tammany	N. Y.	1872	USD -	0.25
534		NEW YORK. West Point Life: a Poem	N. Y.	1866	USD -	0.50
535	Bushnell, Horace	OCCULT. Nature and the Supernatural	N. Y.	1858	USD -	0.75
536	OSBORN, SELLECK	OSBORN, SELLECK. Poems	Bost.	(1823)	USD -	0.10
537	OSGOOD, FRANCES S.	OSGOOD, FRANCES S. Poems	N. Y.	1846	USD -	0.10
538	James Cheetham	PAINE, THOMAS. Life of	N. Y.	1809	USD -	0.30
539		PALMETTO PICTURES. (TO My Class, '57, at Yale)	N. Y.	1863	USD -	Not Sold
540	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Vassall Morton	Bost.	1856	USD -	1.40
541	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Half Century of Conflict	Bost.	1892	USD -	1.60
542	PAULDING, J. K.	Salmagundi	N. Y.	1835	USD -	0.12
543	PAULDING, J. K.	Westward, Ho!: a Tale	N. Y.	1832	USD -	1.50
544	PERCIVAL, J. G.	Prometheus. Part II., with other Poems	New Haven	1822	USD -	1.30
545	PERCIVAL, J. G.	PERCIVAL, J. G. Poem	Bost.	1826	USD -	0.50
546	POE, EDGAR A.	The Literati, etc.	N. Y.	1850	USD -	4.50
547	POE, EDGAR A.	New Mirror of Literature, Amusement and In struction	N. Y.	1843-44	USD -	0.40
548	B. Morrell, Junr.	(POE, EDGAR A.) Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, etc.	N. Y.	1832	USD -	1.05
549	(POE, EDGAR A.)	Opal	N. Y.	1844	USD -	1.00
550		PRISONS. Annual Reports of Prison Discipline Society	Bost.	1826-46	USD -	Not Sold
551	(PROCTER, B. W.)	Effigies Poeticae; or, The Portraits of the British Poets	Lond.	1824	USD -	0.10
552	Barry Cornwall	(PROCTER, B. W.) Dramatic Scenes, with other Poems	Lond.	1857	USD -	0.70
553	PAUL DE KOCK	La Fille aux Trois Japons...			USD -	0.08
554	PHELPS, ELIZ. S.	The Supply at Saint Agatha's	Bost. and N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.60
555		PLAYBILLS. Booth, Edwin			USD -	0.03
556		PLAYBILLS. Various New York Theatres			USD -	Not Sold
557		PLUTARCHI, Demosthenis et Ciceronis Vitae Parallelae nunc primum separating editae	Oxonii	1744	USD -	0.25
558		POEMS WRITTEN BY SOMEBODY	Lond.	1818	USD -	5.25
559		POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY		1858	USD -	0.30
560	PRESCOTT, W. H.	History of Ferdinand and Isabella	Phil.		USD -	0.25
561		REVUE DU XIXESIECLE, Les Lettres, Les Arts, La Philosophie Romans et Voyages	Paris	1866-67	USD -	0.25
562	ROBERTS, MORLEY	The Western Avernus; or, Toil and Travel in further North America	Westminster	1896	USD -	0.40
563	ROUSSEAU, J. J.	Anecdotes of the Last Twelve Years of his Life	Lond.	1798	USD -	0.15
564		ROUND THE BLOCK: an American Novel	N. Y.	1864	USD -	0.05
565	SARGENT, EPES	Songs of the Sea, and other Poems	Bost.	1847	USD -	1.20
566	(SANFORD, EZEKIEL)	The Humours of Eutopia: a Tale of Colonial Times	Phil.	1828	USD -	1.60
567		SCRAP TABLE (THE) FOR 1831	Bost.	1831	USD -	0.02
568	(SEDGWICK, MISS.)	Redwood: a Tale	N. Y.	1824	USD -	0.25
569	SPRINGER, J. S.	Forest Life and Forest Trees	N. Y.	1851	USD -	0.05
570	STERRY, ABBY H.	Effusions: Religious, Moral, and Patriotic, in Prose and Verse	New London	1818	USD -	1.50
571	STEVENSON, R. L.	Kidnapped: being Adventures of David Balfour, 1751	Lond.	1886	USD -	Not Sold
572	STEVENSON, R. L.	STEVENSON, R. L. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin	N. Y.	1887	USD -	0.10
573	STEVENSON, R. L.	A Mountain Town in France	N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.50
574		SAUR IMPRINT. Biblia, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung, D. Martin Luther	Germantown	1776	USD -	0.65
575	SCOTT	The Waverley Novels	Bost.		USD -	0.20
576	SCOTT	Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.25
577	SCUDDER, S. H.	Frail Children of the Air--Butterflies	Bost. and N. Y.	1895	USD -	0.35
578	SHAKESPEARE	SHAKESPEARE. Complete Works	N. Y.		USD -	0.15
579	SHERIDAN, R. B.	The School for Scandal	N. Y.	1892	USD -	0.40
580		SLAVERY. The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South	Phil.	1863	USD -	0.10
581		SOUTH SEAS. Journal of Voyages and Travels...	Bost.	1832	USD -	0.30
582	SOUTHGATE, H.	Noble Thoughts in Noble Language: a Treasury of Reference	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.30
583	STANLEY, HIRAM M.	Essays on Literary Art	Lond.	1897	USD -	0.15
584		SUMMER MISCELLANY; or, A Present for the Country	Lond.	1742	USD -	0.12
585	Lemuel Gulliver	SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World	Lond.	1886	USD -	1.88
586	TAINE, H. A.	History of English Literature	N. Y.	1879	USD -	0.40
587	TAYLOR, BAYARD	Colorado: a Summer Trip		1867	USD -	0.15
588	R. H. Conwell	TAYLOR, BAYARD. The Life, Travels and Literary Career of		1879	USD -	0.05
589	THOMAS	OEuvres de M. Thomas de L'Academie Frangoise	Amsterdam	1783	USD -	0.05
590		TOM MOORE'S Irish Melodies...			USD -	Not Sold
591	THOMPSON, JOHN R.	Poesy, an Essay in Rhyme...			USD -	0.05
592	Mrs. Gaskell	THOMSON'S ILLUSTRATIONS. Cranford	Lond.	1891	USD -	1.05
593	W. Somerville	THOMSON'S ILLUSTRATIONS. The Chase	Lond.	1896	USD -	0.55
594		THOMSON'S ILLUSTRATIONS. Days with Sir Roger De Coverley	Lond.	1892	USD -	0.50

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.

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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.