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
896	MORLEY, HENRY	Shorter English Poems	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.30
897	MORLAND, G.	"Overtaken by the Storm"			USD -	10.50
898	Tom Taylor	MYSTIC. A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries	Amsterdam	n. d.	USD -	3.00
899		NATIONAL MAGAZINES devoted to Literature, Art	N. Y.	1853	USD -	0.10
900		NEW YORK. Directory of the Club Men of New York, 1895-1897	N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.30
901		NEW YORK. Illustrated: a Pictorial Delineation of Street Scenes, Buildings, River Views, etc.	N. Y.	1882	USD -	0.10
902		NEW YORK. First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners on the Department of Public Parks Year ending May 1st, 1871	N. Y.	1871	USD -	0.30
903		ORNITHOLOGY. The Code of Nomenclature and Check List of North American Birds	N. Y.	1886	USD -	0.50
904	Louisa Stuart Costello	ORIENT. The Rose Garden of Persia	Bost.	1902	USD -	0.55
905	ORTON, JAMES	The Andes and the Amazon	N. Y.	1870	USD -	0.40
906		OVID, literally translated	Land.	1881	USD -	0.80
907		OVID'S Metamorphoses	Lond.	1881	USD -	0.55
908	PAINE, THOMAS	PAINE, THOMAS. The Theological Works of	Lond.	1824	USD -	0.85
909		PARNASSE LE CONTEMPORAIN, 1866	Paris	1866	USD -	0.75
910		PICKERING. The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville, entitled Le Pelerinage de l'Homme	Lond.	1858	USD -	1.30
911	POE, EDGAR A.	POE, EDGAR A. Tales and Poems	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.85
912	POE, EDGAR A.	The Bells	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.20
913	Pietro Giannone	POPERY. The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples	Lond.	1729	USD -	0.30
914	PORTER, JANE AND ANNA MARIA	Tales Around the Winter Hearth	Lond.	1826	USD -	0.08
915	PRIOR, MATTHEW	Poems on Several Occasions	Lond.	1733	USD -	1.63
916		REBELLION RECORDS. The War of the Rebellion			USD -	0.03
917	RALEIGH, SIR WALTER	The Marrow of Historic; or, An Epitome of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World	Lond.	1650	USD -	1.10
918		REVOLUTION. History of the Revolution of the 18th Fructidor (Sept. 4, 1797), and of the Deportation to Guiana	Lond.	1800	USD -	0.10
919	Elizabeth F. Ellett	REVOLUTION. The Women of the American Revolution	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.40
920	ROBERTSON, JOHN M.	An Introduction to English Politics	N. Y. and Lond.	1900	USD -	0.45
921		ROME, ses Eglises, ses Monuments, ses Institutions. Lettres a un Ami	Tours	1879	USD -	0.25
922	ROWLANDSON, T.	The Complete Series of twenty folio etchings by this famous caricaturist, produced in illustration of Dr. Johnson's Tour through Scotland			USD -	0.55
923	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Political Economy of Art	Lond.	1857	USD -	1.25
924	RUSKIN, JOHN	Verona, and other Lectures	Lond.	1894	USD -	1.00
925	SCHOULER, JAMES	Historical Briefs	N. Y.	1896	USD -	0.30
926	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	Guy Mannering	Bost.	1892	USD -	0.25
927	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	The Scotch Portmanteau opened at York	Lond.	(1775)	USD -	8.25
928	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Works of	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.30
929	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Sonnetso	Lond.	1896	USD -	1.50
930	Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.	SHERIDAN, R. B. The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed	Lond.	1781	USD -	15.00
931	SHERIDAN, R. B.	The Duenna; or, the Double Elopement. A Comic Opera, as it is acted at the Theatre, Smoke Alley, Dublin			USD -	20.00
932	Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.	SHERIDAN, R. B. The School for Scandal	Lond.	1797	USD -	21.00
933	SHERIDAN, R. B.	Portrait of the famous dramatist			USD -	0.90
934	SLADEN, D.	Journal of a Pilgrimage from Halifax to Vancouver's Island	Lond.	1895	USD -	0.60
935		STEVENS AND NOBLE. Hold Redmere: a Tale by Thomas Wood Stevens and Alden Chas. Noble	Alwil Shop, Ridgewood, N. J.	1901	USD -	0.10
936	STRICKLAND, AGNES	Lives of the Queens of England	Lond.	1841	USD -	0.30
937	STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER	Dred: a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp	Bost.	1856	USD -	0.25
938	STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER	Woman in Sacred History. A Series of sketches drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.75
939	SUCKLING, SIR JOHN	A Letter from Sir John Suckling to Mr. Henry German			USD -	6.00
940	SUE, EUGENE	The Wandering Jew	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.40
941	Algernon Charles Swinburne	SWINBURNE, A. C. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade	Lond.	1876	USD -	0.25
942	TAYLOR, JOHN	Records of My Life	N. Y.	1883	USD -	0.20
943	TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD	The House of Commons	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	0.10
944	Alfred Tennyson	TENNYSON, LORD. The May Queen	Lond.	1861	USD -	0.35
945	Alfred Tennyson, D. C. L., Poet Laureate	TENNYSON, LORD. A Welcome. To the Princess Alexandra	Lond.	1863	USD -	1.00
946	TENNYSON, LORD	Idylls of the King	Lond.	1859	USD -	3.00
947	TENNYSON, LORD	Enoch Arden, etc.			USD -	1.25
948	TENNYSON, LORD	The Holy Grail, and other Poems		1870	USD -	0.50
949	TENNYSON, LORD	Gareth and Lynette, etc.		1872	USD -	0.50
950	TENNYSON, LORD	Queen Mary: a Drama		1875	USD -	0.60
951	TENNYSON, LORD	Harold: a Drama		1877	USD -	1.00
952	TENNYSON, LORD	The Lover's Tale		1879	USD -	1.10
953	TENNYSON, LORD	Ballads, and other Poems		1880	USD -	0.75
954	TENNYSON, LORD	The Cup and the Falcon		1884	USD -	0.80
955	TENNYSON, LORD	Becket		1884	USD -	0.80
956	TENNYSON, LORD	Triesias, and other Poems		1885	USD -	1.10
957	TENNYSON, LORD	Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc.		1886	USD -	1.10
958	TENNYSON, LORD	Demeter, and other Poems	Lond. and N. Y.	1899	USD -	1.70
959	TENNYSON, LORD	The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian	Lond. and N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.10
960	TENNYSON, LORD	The Death of OEnone, Akbar's Dream, and other Poems	Lond. and N. Y.	1892	USD -	1.10
961		THE GOLDEN VANITY, and THE GREEN BED. Words and Music of Two old English Ballads	N. Y.	1899	USD -	0.55
962	THOMSON, JAMES	The Seasons, with a Life of the Author	Phil.	1867	USD -	0.65
963		TRIPOLI AND ITS ARCHAEOLOGY. The Hill of the Graces: a Record of Investigation among the Irilithous and Megalithic Sites of Tripoli	Lond.	1897	USD -	0.70
964		TWENTIETH CENTURY...	N. Y.	1898	USD -	0.25
965		UNIVERSAL REPOSITORY; or, The Young Gentleman's and Lady's Magazine	Lond.	n. d.	USD -	0.20
966	UZANNE, OCTAVE	The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff	Lond.	1884	USD -	2.60
967	VANDAM, ALBERT D.	Amours of Great Men	Lond.	1878	USD -	1.00
968	VARNEY, GEO. J.	A Gazetteer of the State of Maine	Bost.	1881	USD -	0.10
969		VENUS AND HYMEN, Quarrel Between: an Heroi. . . Satyrical, Mythological Poem	Lond.	1700-1	USD -	0.20
970	VESTRIS, MADAME	Memoirs of the Public and Private Adventures of, the Amorous Confessions, etc.	Lond.	1839	USD -	2.50
971	Adolph Jullien	WAGNER, RICHARD. His Life and Works	Bost.	n. d.	USD -	0.55
972	WALPOLE, HORACE	Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard II	Lond.	1822	USD -	0.30
973	WATERS, W. G.	The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni	Lond.	1897	USD -	5.50
974	WHITE, ARTHUR SILVA	From Sphinx to Oracle. Through the Libyan Desert to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon	Lond.	1899	USD -	0.60
975	WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass, including a facsimile Autobiography, variorum readings of the Poems and a department of Gathered Leaves	Phil.	n. d.	USD -	0.65
976	WILHELM, THOMAS	A Military and Naval Encyclopaedia, comprising Military and Naval Technical Terms compiled from best Authorities of all Nations, Appendix, Articles of War			USD -	0.10
977	WIGGLESWORTH, MISS M. T.	The Orphan of Pimlico: a Tale of Belgravian Life	Lond.	1876	USD -	0.50
978	WOOD, J. G.	The Natural History of Man: being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilized Races of Men	Lond.	1868	USD -	1.75
979	WOOD, J. G.	The Illustrated Natural History	Lond.	1864	USD -	0.50
980	YOUNG, ALEXANDER	History of the Netherlands (Holland and Belgium)	Bost.	1884	USD -	0.30

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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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.