Bangs: CATALOGUE OF SCARCE BOOKS. AMERICANA; CHOICE SPECIMENS OF EARLY PRINTING, AND FROM THE ALDINE AND ELZEVIR PRESSES; A FEW RARE BOOKS FROM THE GROLIER CLUB AND THE KELMSCOTT PRESS; A COLLECTION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIMITED EDITIONS; FIRST EDITIONS OF BEECHER, H, Apr281902,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 28, 1902 - April 28, 1902

Page Size: 857 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	L. Branson	CONFEDERATE. First Book in Composition	Raleigh	1863	USD -	1.20
102		CONFEDERATE. Johnson's Common-School Arithmetic	Raleigh, N. C.	1864	USD -	1.88
103	The Rev. K. J. Stewart	CONFEDERATE. A Geography for Beginners	Richmond, Va.	1864	USD -	0.72
104		CONFEDERATE. General Orders from Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, Confederate States Army, Jan., 1862, and Dec., 1863	Columbia	1864	USD -	1.12
105		CONFEDERATE. General Orders, Jan. 1 to June 30, 1864	Columbia	1864	USD -	1.40
106		CONFEDERATE. Confederate States Almanac for 1864	Mobile		USD -	0.65
107		CONFEDERATE. Walls that Talk: a Transcript of Names, Initials and Sentiments written and graven on the Walls, Doors and Windows of the Libby Prison at Richmond by the Prisoners of 1861-65	Richmond	1884	USD -	2.50
108	DE VRIES, DAVID P.	Voyages from Holland to America A. D. 1632 to 1644	N. Y.	1853	USD -	4.00
109	DEXTER, LORD TIMOTHY	A Pickle for the Knowing Ones	Newburyport	1818	USD -	3.50
110	DICKINSON, ELLEN E.	New Light on Mormonism	N. Y.	1885	USD -	1.00
111	DOUGLASS	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave	Bost.	1845	USD -	2.20
112	EMERY, S. H.	The Ministry of Taunton	Bost.	1853	USD -	0.10
113	FOSTER, GEO. E.	Se-Neo-Yah, the American Cadmus and Modern Moses: a complete Biography of the Greatest of Red men	Phil.	1885	USD -	0.75
114	GALLAND, I.	Galland's Iowa Emigrant, containing a map and General Descriptions of Iowa Territory	Chillicothe	1840	USD -	4.25
115	GREELEY, HORACE	A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension or Restriction in the U. S.	N. Y.	1856	USD -	1.30
116	H. Greeley & Co.	HARRISON, W. H. The Log Cabin, published simultaneously in New York and Albany			USD -	7.00
117	HAYWOOD, JOHN	The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, from its Earliest Settlement up to the year 1796, including the Boundaries of the State	Knoxville, Tenn.	1823	USD -	24.00
118	HEATON, JOHN L.	The Story of Vermont	Bost.		USD -	0.50
119		ILLINOIS IN 1837: a Sketch descriptive of the Situation, Boundaries, Face of the Country, etc.	Phil.	1837	USD -	1.75
120	The late Gov. Thomas Ford	ILLINOIS: a History of Illinois from its Commencement as a State in 1814 to 1847	Chicago and N. Y.	1854	USD -	5.25
121	Fred. Gerhard	ILLINOIS. Illinois As It Is: its History, Geography, Statistics, Government, etc.	Chicago and Phil.	1857	USD -	3.25
122	Sidney Breese	ILLINOIS. The Early History of Illinois, from its Discovery by the French in 1673 until its Cession to Great Britain in 1763	Chicago	1884	USD -	5.00
123	Thomas C. MacMillan, editor	INTER OCEAN CURIOSITY SHOP (THE) for the Years 1888-89-90	Chicago		USD -	0.30
124	Butler, Mann	KENTUCKY. A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky	Louisville, Ky.	1834	USD -	1.00
125	Collins, Lewis (Judge)	KENTUCKY. History of Kentucky, revised, enlarged four-fold, and brought down to the year 1874 by his son, Richard H. Collins, embracing pre-historic annals	Covington, Ky.	1874	USD -	4.00
126	Isaac N. Arnold	LINCOLN. The Life of Abraham Lincoln	Chicago	1885	USD -	2.25
127	Green, S. A.	MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Remarks on Hubbard's Map of New England...		1888-9	USD -	0.05
128	(MILNOR, W.)	An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill, from its establishment on that romantic stream near Philadelphia, in the year 1732, to the present time	Phil.	1850	USD -	16.00
129	MORSE, JEDIDIAH	Geography Made Easy, being an Abridgement of the American Universal Geography	Bost.	1794	USD -	0.62
130		NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY	Phil.	1834-36	USD -	0.70
131		NORTH CAROLINA. The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the Revolutionary War with Great * Britain), giving an Account of his Adventures in North Carolina from 1775 to 1783, as written by himself			USD -	2.50
132	PAINE, THOMAS	Rights of Man, etc.			USD -	0.05
133	PAINE, THOMAS	Rights of Man. Part II	Lond.	1792	USD -	0.15
134	PAINE, THOMAS	Agrarian Justice	Phil.	n. d. (1797)	USD -	0.20
135	PAINE, THOMAS	Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance	N. Y.	1796	USD -	0.20
136	PAINE, THOMAS	Examination of Passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old, and called Prophecies of Jesus Christ	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.15
137	POPE, JOHN	A Tour through the Southern and Western Territories of the United States of North America, the Spanish Dominions on the River Mississippi and the Floridas, the Countries of the Creek Nations, and many Uninhabited Paths	N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.75
138	Frank Moore	REVOLUTION. Diary of the American Revolution, from Newspapers and Original Documents	N. Y.	1865	USD -	1.88
139		REVOLUTION. The Orderly Book of that portion of the American Army stationed at or near Williamsburg, Va., under the Command of General Andrew Lewis, from March 18th, 1776, to August 28th, 1776	Richmond, Va.	1860	USD -	1.10
140	Madame De Riedesel	REVOLUTION. Letters and Memoirs relating to the War of American Independence, and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga	N. Y.	1827	USD -	10.00
141	SCOTT, LIEUT.-GEN.	SCOTT, LIEUT.-GEN. Memoirs	N. Y.	1864	USD -	10.50
142	SCOTT, LIEUT.-GEN.	SCOTT, LIEUT.-GEN. Memoirs		1864	USD -	0.80
143	STILES, HENRY REED	Bundling: its Origin, Progress and Decline in America	Albany	1869	USD -	4.25
144	STILES, HENRY REED	Bundling	Albany	1871	USD -	2.50
145	SUMNER, CHARLES	White Slavery in the Barbary States	Bost.	1853	USD -	7.50
146	TERNAUX, H.	Bibliotheque Americaine, on Catalogue des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Amerique qui ont paru depuis sa decouverte jusqu'a l'an 1700	Paris	1837	USD -	3.50
147	TRUMBULL, JOHN	TRUMBULL, JOHN. Poetical Works	Hartford	1820	USD -	0.35
148	Edward William Sidney	(TUCKER, BEVERLEY.) The Partisan Leader: a Tale of the Future		1856	USD -	1.25
149		VIRGINIA. Nova Britannia. Offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia	N. Y.	1867	USD -	3.25
150	WARREN, DR. JOSEPH	An Oration, delivered March Sixth, 1775, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770	Bost.	1775	USD -	2.25
151		WASHINGTON. Diary of George Washington: from the first day of October, 1789, to the tenth day of March, 1790	N. Y.	1858	USD -	4.50
152		WASHINGTON. Facsimile of Accounts G. Washington with the U. S., June, 1775-June, 1783			USD -	0.25
153		WASHINGTON. Letters from His Excellency George Washington to Arthur Young and Sir John Sinclair; containing an account of his husbandry	Alexandria	1803	USD -	0.70
154		WASHINGTON. A Collection of Six Tracts: Controversy on Washington's Letters, etc....			USD -	4.25
155		WASHINGTON. The Engraved Portraits of Washington	Phil.	1880	USD -	10.50
156		AMERICAN (THE) SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR. A Pictorial History	N. Y.	(1895)	USD -	1.37
157		AN INTRODUCTION to the History of the Kingdoms and States of Asia, Africa and AMERICA, both ancient and modern	Lond.	1705	USD -	0.75
158	HORNIUS, GEORGIUS	De Originibus Americanis libri quatuor	Hagae Comitis	1652	USD -	2.50
159	HENRI ELLIS	Voyage de la Baye de Hudson fait en 1746 et 1747 pour la decouverte du Passage de Nord-West	Paris	1749	USD -	2.50
160	Francis Vincent	DELAWARE. A History of the State of Delaware from its First Settlement until the Present Time; containing a Full Account of the First Dutch and Swedish Settlement	Phil.	1870	USD -	4.00
161	BALDWIN, JOHN D.	Ancient America	N. Y.	1872	USD -	0.80
162	BALE, JHON	The First Two Partes of the Actes; or, Unchaste Examples of the Englyshe Notaryes	London	1550	USD -	14.50
163	BANDELLO	The Novels of Matteo Bandello, Bishop of Agen	Lond.	1890	USD -	4.50
164	BARLOW, JOEL	The Columbiad: a Poem	Phil.	1807	USD -	11.00
165	BEECHER, H. W.	Star Papers; or, Experiences of Art and Nature	N. Y.	1855	USD -	0.30
166	BEECHER, H. W.	Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming	N. Y.	1859	USD -	0.35
167	BEECHER, H. W.	New Star Papers; or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects	N. Y.	1859	USD -	0.15
168	BEECHER, H. W.	Freedom and War. Discourses on Topics suggested by the times	Bost.	1863	USD -	0.25
169	BEECHER, H. W.	Report of the Speeches of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered at Public Meetings in England	Lond.	1864	USD -	1.37
170	BEECHER, H. W.	Royal Truths	N. Y.	1866	USD -	0.25
171	BEECHER, H. W.	Norwood; or, Village Life in New England	N. Y.	1868	USD -	0.35
172	BEECHER, H. W.	The Overture of Angels	N. Y.	1870	USD -	0.15
173	BEECHER, H. W.	Yale Lectures on Preaching. The three series complete	N. Y.	1872-74	USD -	0.25
174	BEECHER, H. W.	The History of Plymouth Church (Henry Ward Beecher), 1847-72...	N. Y.	1873	USD -	0.40
175	John W. Chadwick	BEECHER, H. W. A Sermon	Bost.		USD -	0.10
176	Wm. C. Beecher and Rev. Samuel Scoville	BEECHER, H. W. A Biography of	N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.20
177	Austin Dobson	BEWICK, THOS., AND HIS PUPILS	Bost.	1884	USD -	0.55
178	BEAUMARCHAIS	La Folle journee, ou le Mariage de Figaro		(1785)	USD -	31.00
179	BEAUMARCHAIS	La Folle journee, ou Mariage de Figaro, comedie en cinq actes, en prose	Paris	(1785)	USD -	9.00
180	BEAUMARCHAIS	La Folle Journee, ou le Mariage de Figaro. Comedie en cinq actes			USD -	27.50
181	Brydges, Sir Egerton	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The British Bibliographer	Lond.	1810	USD -	0.50
182	Brydges, Sir Egerton	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The British Bibliographer			USD -	0.50
193	Cushing, Wm.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Initials and Pseudonyms: a Dictionary of Literary Disguises	N. Y.	1886-88	USD -	2.70
194	Cushing, Wm.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Anonyms: a Dictionary of Revealed Authorship	Cambridge	1889	USD -	3.75
195	Octave Uzanne et A. Robida	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Contes pour les Bibliophiles			USD -	2.20
196	O. A. Bierstadt	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Library of Robert Hoe: a Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America	N. Y.	1895	USD -	8.00
197	Foster, Geo. E.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Literature of the Cherokees, also Bibliography, and the Story of their Genesis	N. Y.	1889	USD -	2.12
198	Sabin, Joseph	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Bibliography of Bibliography; or, A Handy Book about Books which relate to Books	N. Y.	1877	USD -	3.75
198a	Tredwell, Dan'l M.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Monograph of Privately Illustrated Books: a Plea for Bibliomania	Flatbush, Long Island	1892	USD -	3.25
199	Tredwell, Dan'l M.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Monograph: a Plea for Bibliomania	Brooklyn	1881	USD -	0.35
200		BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books: a Plea for Bibliomania	Flatbush, L. I.	1892	USD -	1.00
201		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Almanach du Bibliophile pour l'Annee 1899	Paris		USD -	0.25
202	Stevens, Henry	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Recollections of Mr. James Lenox, of New York, and the Formation of his Library	Lond.	1886	USD -	2.88
203	Wheatley, H. B.	BIBLIOGRAPHY. How to Form a Library	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.75
204	Stevens, Henry	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliotheca Historica: a Catalogue of 5,000 vols., chiefly relating to the History and Literature of North and South America	Bost.	1870	USD -	0.75
205	Sabin, Joseph	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Waltonian Library, belonging to the Estate of Robert W. Colman	N. Y.	1866	USD -	2.00
206		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors, as also of some Foreign Collectors			USD -	0.05
207		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the (Indian) Library belonging to Mr. Thos. W. Field	N. Y.	1875	USD -	2.12
208		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice's Library	N. Y.	1870	USD -	0.50
209		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford, K. P., etc.	Lond.	1884	USD -	2.00

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.