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
709		THE RUBAIYAT	Lond. and N. Y.	1901	USD -	0.30
710	Baird, Chas. W.	NEW YORK. History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870	N. Y.	1871	USD -	3.75
711	Blake, Wm. J.	NEW YORK. The History of Putnam County, N. Y. Local Traditions and Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers, etc.	N. Y.	1849	USD -	2.63
712	Colden, Cadwallader	NEW YORK. The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the Province of New York in America, and are the Barrier between the English and French in that part of the World	Lond.	1755	USD -	5.25
713	Horsmanden, Daniel	NEW YORK. A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves for Burning the City of New York, in America, and Murdering the Inhabitants	Lond.	1747	USD -	1.50
714		NEW YORK. Longworth's American Almanac...	N. Y.	1800	USD -	1.25
715	O'Callaghan, E. B.	NEW YORK. The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674	Albany	1865	USD -	2.00
716	Simms, Jeptha R.	NEW YORK. The Frontiersmen of New York, showing Customs of the Indians...	Albany	1882	USD -	1.90
717	Colden, Cadwallader D.	NEW YORK. Memoir, prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the New York Canals		1825	USD -	7.75
718	Riker, Jr., James	NEW YORK. The Annals of Newtown in Queens County	N. Y.	1852	USD -	10.00
719	Schedel, Hartmann	NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Chronicarum Liber cum Figuris et Ymaginibus	Nurembergae	1493	USD -	40.00
720		OLD ENGLISH POETRY. The New Notbrowne Mayd--The Boke of Mayd Emlyn	Lond.	1820	USD -	2.75
721	PALFREY, JOHN G.	History of New England	Bost.	1865	USD -	1.38
722	PARKMAN, JR., FRANCIS	The California and Oregon Trail	N. Y.	1849	USD -	1.55
723	PASCAL, BLAISE	The Thoughts of	Lond.	1885	USD -	0.50
724	PATER, WALTER	PATER, WALTER. The Works of...	Lond. and N. Y.	1900-1901	USD -	4.50
725	PAYNE, JOHN	Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp....	Lond.	1889	USD -	4.75
726	Gabriel Harrison	PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD. The Life and Writings of	Albany	1875	USD -	2.50
727	PEELE	Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele, Gentleman, sometime student in Oxford, wherein is shewed the course of his life, how he liued; a man very well knowne in the City of London and elsewhere	Lond.	1809	USD -	2.50
728	PEPYS, SAM'L.	PEPYS, SAM'L. Diary and Correspondence	N. Y.	1884	USD -	2.60
729	PEPYS, SAM'L.	PEPYS, SAM'L. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys	N. Y.	1884	USD -	1.50
730	PEPYS, SAM'L.	PEPYS, SAM'L. Diary and Correspondence	N. Y.	1884	USD -	26.00
731	PFNOR, M. RODOLPHE.	Monographie du Palais de Fontainebleau. Desinee et Gravee	Paris	1873	USD -	10.50
732	Singer, Samuel W.	PLAYING CARDS. Researches into the History of Playing Cards	Lond.	1816	USD -	5.75
733		PLAYING CARDS. Scrap Book of Illustrations, Newspaper Clippings, 11 Card Stamps in Envelope, etc.			USD -	0.70
734	Hans Seboldus Boham	PLAYING CARDS. Curious Cards from wood blocks			USD -	Not Sold
735		PLAYING CARDS. J. Glauz Geiselreiter in Wien			USD -	0.50
736		PLAYING CARDS. Steeple Chasing, etc.			USD -	0.75
737		PLAYING CARDS. Comically illustrated			USD -	0.25
738		PLAYING CARDS. Highlander Blowing Horn			USD -	0.25
739	Gassman, Cartier	PLAYING CARDS. Fabriquees			USD -	0.25
740		PLAYING CARDS. Fabrica de Alfonzo Arnoult			USD -	0.30
741		PLAYING CARDS. Le Monde			USD -	1.30
742		PLAYING CARDS. Dondorf Frankfort			USD -	0.25
743		PLAYING CARDS. Armorial			USD -	0.85
744		PLAYING CARDS. Samuel Hart & Co., Phil. and N. Y. Comicillustrations			USD -	0.35
745		PLAYING CARDS. Eclipse Comic Playing Cards			USD -	0.50
746		PLAYING CARDS. The Comic Playing Cards of Fortune			USD -	0.50
747		PLAYING CARDS. Gilt edged, white and black back			USD -	0.45
748		PLAYING CARDS. Foreign Views. Glauz in Wien			USD -	0.25
749		PLAYING CARDS. Cartes Superfines, Views and Costumes			USD -	0.25
750		PLAYING CARDS. Schutzkenkarte			USD -	0.20
751		PLAYING CARDS. Magic Musical Cards, 100,000 Dances for the Pianoforte			USD -	0.25
752		PLAYING CARDS. Feine Franzosische Spiel-Karten			USD -	0.15
752a		PLAYING CARDS. Miscellaneous			USD -	0.15
753		PLAYING CARDS. Full pack Pictorial			USD -	1.00
754		PLAYING CARDS. Pictorial, in box			USD -	0.30
755		PLAYING CARDS. 2 packs in a box			USD -	0.25
756		PLAYING CARDS. The Gypsy's Last Legacy; or, New Pack of Fortune-Telling Cards			USD -	0.25
757		PLAYING CARDS. Harlequin Playing Cards			USD -	0.80
758		PLAYING CARDS. Gare-la-Contre Facon Tarote Rouge et Noir			USD -	0.40
759		PLAYING CARDS. David (King) on cover			USD -	0.40
760		PLAYING CARDS. Carte de Luxe, No. 1. Leonard Biermans Turnhout			USD -	0.45
761		PLAYING CARDS. Cartes Grassman			USD -	0.25
762		PLAYING CARDS. Cartes a Jouer le Petit Soldat			USD -	0.20
763		PLAYING CARDS. Man with Bottle			USD -	0.25
764		PLAYING CARDS. Tarote Mosaique, Or et Couleurs			USD -	0.25
765		PLUTARCH'S LIVES. The Translation called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek, and revised by A. H. Clough	Bost.	1865	USD -	2.75
766		PLUTARCH. Four Chapter's of North's Plutarch, containing the Lives of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius, and Marcus Brutus, etc.	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.25
767	POE, EDGAR A.	POE, EDGAR A. Tales and Poems	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.75
768	POE, EDGAR A.	The Poets and Poetry of America	N. Y.	1887	USD -	0.40
769	PRAED	Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed	N. Y.	1860	USD -	2.00
770	PRAED	PRAED. Poetical Works	N. Y.	1860	USD -	1.25
771	PRESCOTT, WM. H.	PRESCOTT, WM. H. Works	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	1.25
772	PRESCOTT, WM. H.	PRESCOTT, WM. H. Works	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	1.90
773	PRESTON, HOWARD W.	Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1863	N. Y. and Lond.	1886	USD -	0.60
774	PREVOST, MARCEL	Nouvelles Lettres de Femmes	Paris	1894	USD -	0.05
775	PRIOR, MATTHEW	PRIOR, MATTHEW. Selected Poems	Lond.	1889	USD -	45.00
776	QUARLL, PHILIP	The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip Quarll	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.55
777	RAMSAY, ALLAN	The Gentle Shepherd: a Pastoral Comedy, with Life of the Author, Glossary, and a Catalogue of Scottish Poets	N. Y.	1852	USD -	5.00
778	Claude Phillips	REYNOLDS. Sir Joshua Reynolds	Lond.	1894	USD -	1.60
779	RITSON	Ancient English Metrical Romances	Edinburgh	1884	USD -	2.10
780	ROGERS, HORATIO	Private Libraries of Providence	Providence	1878	USD -	0.35
781	SABIN, JOSEPH	Catalogue of the Library of Geo. W. Ordway	N. Y.	1869	USD -	0.10
782	ST. PAUL, HENRY	Our Home and Foreign Policy Nov., 1863	n. p.	1863	USD -	0.30
783	SALISBURY, FANNY	The Victim of Seduction: an Affecting Narrative of the Tragical Death of Fanny Salisbury, a native of New Jersey, who was basely seduced by a young man of New York	Bost.	1820	USD -	2.25
784	SAVAGE, RICHARD	SAVAGE, RICHARD. Works of	Lond.	1777	USD -	1.37
785	SCOTT, LEADER	The Cathedral Builders, the Story of a Great Masonic Guild	Lond.	1899	USD -	3.25
786		SCOTISH PASQUILS, ETC. A Book of	Edinburgh	1827	USD -	2.25
787	Joannes Nicholaius Secundus	SECUNDUS. The Epithalamium; or, Nuptial Song	Phil.	1856	USD -	10.00
788	SELLON, EDWARD	Annotations of the Sacred Writings of the Hindus	Lond.	1865	USD -	0.60
789	Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall, editor	SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS	Lond.	1888	USD -	2.37
790	Edward Dowden, editor	SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS	Lond.	1881	USD -	3.25
791	SHAKESPEARE	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Bost.	1888	USD -	0.20
792	N. E. S. A. Hamilton	SHAKESPEARE. A Review of an Inquiry into the Genuineness of the MS. Corrections in Mr. J. P. Collier's Annotated Shakespere Folio, 1632	N. Y.	1860	USD -	0.40
793		SHAKESPEARE. Farther Particulars Regarding Shakespeare and his Works, in a letter to Jos. Hunter from J. P. Collier	Lond.	1839	USD -	2.50
794	Richard Grant White	SHAKESPEARE. An Essay on the Authorship of the Three Parts of King Henry the Sixth	Cambridge	1859	USD -	3.60
795		SHAKESPEARE. New Facts Regarding the Life of Shakespeare, in a letter to Thos. Amyot from J. P. Collier	Lond.	1835	USD -	1.75
796	Appleton Morgan	SHAKESPEARE IN FACT AND IN CRITICISM	N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.75
797	Theodore Bacon	SHAKESPEARE Bacon. Delia Bacon: a Biographical Sketch	Bost. and N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.75
797a	James Boaden	SHAKESPEARE An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints which have been offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare	Lond.	1824	USD -	6.00
798	SHELLEY	Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lond.	1882	USD -	3.75
799	Percy B. Shelley	SHELLEY. Hellas: a Lyrical Drama	Lond.	1822	USD -	12.00
800	SHERIDAN	The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan	N. Y.	1883	USD -	2.50
801	SHORT, FRANK	On the Making of Etchings	Lond.	1888	USD -	2.00
802	SKELTON, JOHN	SKELTON, JOHN. Poetical Works of			USD -	3.00
803		SLANG DICTIONARY; or, Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "Fast" Expressions of High and Low Society	Lond.	1865	USD -	0.90
804		SPANISH ROMANCES: Don Quixote...	Lond.		USD -	1.25
805	SPOFFORD	The Library of Choice Literature, prose and poetry	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.55
806	W. Bromley-Davenport	SPORT. Fox-Hunting, Salmon-Fishing, Covert-Shooting, Deer-Stalking	Lond.	1885	USD -	1.63

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.