Bangs: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS. A COLLECTION COMPRISING MANY INTERESTING AND VALUABLE WORKS. Africa; Americana, including a Long List on the Rebellion of 1861-1865; Government Publications; Dramatic Literature--early editions of R. B. Sheridan, etc.; Biography; Bibli, Jun231902,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 23, 1902 - June 23, 1902

Page Size: 985 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABBOTT, CHAS. C.	Cyclopaedia of Natural History...			USD -	0.35
2	ABBOTT, LYMAN	Laicus, 1872...			USD -	0.20
3	ADAMS, CHAS. FOLLEN	Dialect Ballads	N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.25
4	Dr. Schweinfurth	AFRICA. Heart of Africa	N. Y.	1874	USD -	0.50
5	J. H. Speke	AFRICA. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile	N. Y.	1868	USD -	0.30
6	H. Murray	AFRICA. African Continent: Discovery and Adventure	Lond.	1853	USD -	0.25
7	A. J. Mounteney-Jephson	AFRICA. Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator	N. Y.	1890	USD -	0.60
8	Livingstone, D. and C.	AFRICA. Expedition to the Zambesi	N. Y.	1866	USD -	0.30
9	H. M. Stanley	AFRICA. In Darkest Africa. The Rescue and Retreat of Emin	Lond.	1890	USD -	0.50
10		AFRICA. Story of Emin's Rescue as Told in Stanley's Letters	N. Y.	1890	USD -	0.25
11		AFRICA. Adventures and Observations...			USD -	0.20
12	ALDRICH, T. B.	The Stillwater Tragedy	Bost.	1880	USD -	0.55
13		ANGLING. Foster's Scientific Angler...			USD -	0.15
14		ANDREE'S Balloon Expedition in Search of the North Pole	N. Y.		USD -	0.30
15	ANDREWS, E. B.	History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 1870-1895		1896	USD -	0.10
16	S. F. Cary, editor	ANNUALS. National Temperance Offering	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.25
17	Jas. P. Walker, editor	ANNUALS. Oriental	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.15
18		ANNUALS. Winter-Bloom	Phil.	1850	USD -	0.15
19		ANNUALS. Gift of Flowers...			USD -	0.15
20		ANNUALS. The Dahlia for 1842	N. Y.		USD -	0.40
21	ARNOLD, THOS.	History of the Roman Commonwealth	N. Y.	1846	USD -	0.30
22	ARNDTS, JOHANN	Beil General Superintendentens des Furstenthums Luneberg vom wahren Christenthums, etc.	Frankfurt	1727	USD -	0.15
23		ASHER AND ADAMS' New Statistical Atlas of the United States (1874)...			USD -	0.03
24	BALCH, W. R.	Mines, Miners and Mining Interests of the United States in 1882	Phil.		USD -	0.25
25	BANCROFT, CHAS	Footprints of Time and Analysis of Our American System of Government	Burlington, Iowa	1876	USD -	0.10
26	BANCROFT, H. H.	History of Alaska	San Francisco	1890	USD -	0.50
27	BANCROFT, H. H.	Literary Industries	San Francisco	1891	USD -	0.25
28	BAILEY, JAS. M.	Life in Danbury	Bost.	1873	USD -	0.25
29	BALDWIN, A. D.	Armageddon...			USD -	0.40
30	BANGS, J. K.	Cobwebs from a Library Corner, 1899...			USD -	0.30
31	BARNUM, P. T.	Life, written by Himself	N. Y.	1855	USD -	0.50
32	BARROW, REV. ISAAC	The Pope's Supremacy	N. Y.	1834	USD -	0.35
33	BATES, ARLO	The Philistines	Bost.	1889	USD -	0.15
34		BATES, The Torch Bearer...			USD -	0.10
35	BETTS, C. W.	American Colonial History	N. Y.	1894	USD -	1.10
36	BAX, E. B.	The Problem of Reality	Lond.	1892	USD -	0.10
37	BENNETT, F. M.	The Steam Navy of the United States	Pittsburgh	1897	USD -	0.80
38	BIDWELL, GEO.	Forging His Own Chains: a Wonderful Life Story	Hartford	1891	USD -	0.25
39	Bruno Garlepp	(BISMARCK.) Germany's Iron Chancellor	Akron, O.	(1897)	USD -	1.80
40	BLACKIE, J. S.	Self-Culture...			USD -	0.05
41	BOLTON, C. K.	Love Story of Ursula Wolcott	N. Y.	1895	USD -	0.10
42	BRACE, C. L.	Home Life in Germany...			USD -	0.20
43	BROWNE, D. G.	American Poultry Yard	N. Y.	1858	USD -	0.03
44		BROWN, MARSHALL...			USD -	0.10
45	BRUNNER, D. B.	The Indians of Berks Co., Pa.	Reading	1897	USD -	0.70
46	BUEL, J. W.	A Nemesis of Misgovernment	Phil.	1899	USD -	0.25
47	C. F. Carter	CALIFORNIA. The Missions of	San Francisco	1900	USD -	0.45
48		CALIFORNIA. Gold Stories of '49, 1896...			USD -	0.20
49		CAMPBELL'S Turks and Greeks, 1877...			USD -	0.04
50	CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL	Spanish Peggy: a Story of Illinois	Chicago	1899	USD -	0.35
51	CHAMBERLAIN, REV. N. H.	Samuel Sewall and the World he Lived In	Bost.	1898	USD -	1.10
52		CHEEVER'S Pilgrim Fathers...			USD -	0.12
53	CLARKSON, L.	Indian Summer, Autumn Poems and Sketches	N. Y.	1881	USD -	0.30
54	Cox, S. S.	Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey	N. Y.	1893	USD -	0.55
55	CRAWFORD, F. MARION	Saracinesca, 1887...	Lond. and N. Y.		USD -	0.30
56	CRAWFORD, F. MARION	Bar Harbor, 1896...			USD -	0.15
57	CUSTER, E. B.	Following the Guidon	N. Y.	1890	USD -	0.40
58	DASENT, GEO. W.	Popular Tales from the Norse	N. Y.	1859	USD -	0.80
59	DAVIS, REV. E. J.	Life in Asiatic Turkey	Lond.	1879	USD -	0.55
60	DAWSON, E. C.	James Hannington's Life and Works, 1847-85	N. Y.	1887	USD -	0.10
61	DAYTON, ABRAM C.	Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York	N. Y.	1897	USD -	0.50
62	DE AMICIS, EDMONDO	Constantinople	N. Y.	1878	USD -	0.25
63	DEEMS, CHAS. F.	JESUS	N. Y.	(1868)	USD -	0.30
64	(DERBY, CAPT. G. H.)	(DERBY, CAPT. G. H.) Phoenixiana	N. Y.	1856	USD -	0.50
65	DOBSON, AUSTIN	The Story of Rosina	N. Y.	1895	USD -	0.25
66	DOBSON, AUSTIN	Memoirs of a Protestant	Lond. and N. Y.	1895	USD -	0.20
67	DRAYSON, COL. A. W.	The Art of Practical Whist	N. Y.	1879	USD -	0.03
68	DUPIN	Nova Bibliotheca Auctorum Ecclesiasticorum, etc.	Parisiis	1692	USD -	0.15
69		ENGLISH PURITANISM: its Character and History	Lond.	1862	USD -	0.40
70	Eugene and R. M. Field	FIELD, EUGENE. Echoes from the Sabine Farm	N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.55
71	FIELD, EUGENE	The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac	N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.80
72	Francis Wilson	FIELD, EUGENE. The Eugene Field I Knew	N. Y.	1898	USD -	0.60
73	FIELD, HENRY M.	The Barbary Coast, 1893...	N.Y.		USD -	0.20
74		FREEMASONRY (HISTORY OF): its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, etc.	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.70
75		FREEMASONS (THE). What they Are, etc.	Bost.	1869	USD -	0.20
76	Madame De Stael	FRENCH BOOKS. Delphine			USD -	Not Sold
77	FROST, JOHN	The Pictorial History of the U. S.	Phil.	1844	USD -	0.10
78	FULLER, O. E.	Brave Men and Women	Chicago	1887	USD -	0.35
79		GAIL HAMILTON'S Country Living and Thinking, 1863...	Bost.		USD -	0.30
80	GAIRDNER, W. T., AND JOS. COATS	Lectures to Practitioners	Lond. and N. Y.	1888	USD -	0.20
81		GARFIELD. Life of Gen. Jas. A. Garfield...			USD -	Not Sold
82	GARGOYLE, SOLOMON	Five Sins of an Architect	Phil.		USD -	0.20
83	GIBSON, CHAS. DANA	Sketches in Egypt	N. Y.	1899	USD -	0.15
84	GILBERT, W. S.	The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense	Phil.		USD -	0.20
85	GLAIZIER, CAPTN. W.	Down the Great River	Phil.	1888	USD -	0.15
86	(GOODRICH, S. G.)	Peter Parley's Common School History...			USD -	0.03
87	GOODALE, ELAINE, AND DORA REED GOODALE	All Round the Year: Verses from Sky Farm	N. Y.	1881	USD -	0.15
87a	GORRIE, P. D.	History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1859...			USD -	0.05
88	GOUGH, JOHN B.	Sunlight and Shadow...	Hartford and Springfield, Mass.		USD -	0.15
89	GRAND, SARAH	Heavenly Twins	N. Y.	(1893)	USD -	0.10
90	GREENOUGH, MRS. R. S.	Arabesques	Bost.	1872	USD -	0.05
91	GREENWOOD, GRACE	Haps and Mishaps, 1854...			USD -	0.10
92	GRIFFIS, W. E.	Matthew Galbraith Perry: a Typical American Naval Officer	Bost.	1887	USD -	0.15
93	HALIBURTON, JUDGE	The Attache...			USD -	0.05
94		HAWAII. . . Our New Possessions. Travels and Adventure, Scenery, etc.	N. Y. and Lond.	1898	USD -	0.80
95	HELPS, ARTHUR	Organization in Daily Life...			USD -	0.10
96	HENRY, W. H. F.	The Voice of the People, History of Political Issues in the U. S.	Indianapolis	1884	USD -	0.15
97	HERBERT, H. W.	The Fair Puritan	Phil.	1875	USD -	0.35
98	HOARE, REV. E. N.	Seeking a Country; or, Home of the Pilgrims	Lond.	1886	USD -	0.15
99	HOPE, A. R.	A Book about Boys and Dominies	Bost.	1869	USD -	0.03

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.
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