Merwin Sales Company NY: BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. Americana--Sets of Standard Authors--Old Law Books--First Editions--Periodicals--Maps--Engravings Historical Pamphlets, etc., etc., TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, Wednesday Morning and Afternoon February 26th, 1913, COMMENCING AT 10:30 A. M. , 19130226,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1913 - January 01, 1913

Page Size: 868 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
597	Lambert A. Wilmer	NEWSPAPER. Our Press Gang; or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers	Philadelphia	1859	USD -	0.40
598		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds. McKesson Estate, 1801, April 7...			USD -	0.50
599		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds, 1801...			USD -	0.55
600		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds. 1803, March 7			USD -	0.40
601		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deed, signed. 1804, Oct. 2, James Arden and Eliza his wife to Abijah Arden, for Lots in the City of New York			USD -	1.00
602		NEW YORK. Early Deeds, 1804-07			USD -	1.00
603		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds, signed. 1806, May 3, Ruth, Grace, John, Elizabeth and Robert Hunter, Gabriel and Elizabeth Ludlow and James McEvers to Garrit Wright			USD -	0.30
604		NEW YORK. Early New York Deeds, 1806			USD -	0.90
605		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds. 1808, March 2, Ebenezer Burrill and others			USD -	0.90
606		NEW YORK. Deeds, signed. 1810-18, William J. Stewart to J. W. Jarvis, for Lot in the Ninth Ward...			USD -	0.75
607		NEW YORK. Early Parchment Deeds. 1811, Jan. 12, Robert Kennedy and Wife to Nathaniel Prime, for House on Broadway....			USD -	1.60
608		NEW YORK. Manuscript Deeds, signed, 1811			USD -	0.70
609		NEW YORK. Deeds and Documents, signed, 1815-17			USD -	0.90
610		NEW YORK. Deeds, signed, 1821-28			USD -	1.00
611	Roger S. Skinner	NEW YORK. The New York State Register, 1830	New York	1830	USD -	0.30
612	Edwin Williams	NEW YORK. The New York Annual Register, 1851	New York	1831	USD -	0.40
613		NEW YORK. The New York Annual Register, 1834	New York	1834	USD -	0.10
614		NEW YORK. The New York Annual Register, 1836	New York	1836	USD -	0.20
615		NEW YORK. The New York Annual Register, 1837	New York	1837	USD -	0.40
616		NEW YORK. The New York Annual Register, 1840	New York	1840	USD -	0.15
617		NEW YORK. Deeds, Documents, Insurance Policies, etc., 1836-50			USD -	0.30
618	Valentine (D. T.)	NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1842-3	New York	1842	USD -	7.50
619		NEW YORK. Doggett's Directory. The New York City Directory for 1842 and 1843	New York	1842	USD -	0.15
620		NEW YORK. Doggett's Directory. New York City and Co-Partnership Directory for 1843 and 1844	New York	1843	USD -	0.10
621		NEW YORK. Doggett's Directory. New York City Directory for 1844 and 1845	New York	1844	USD -	0.10
622		NEW YORK. Doggett's Directory. New York City Directory for 1845 and 1846	New York	1845	USD -	0.20
623		NEW YORK. Doggett's Directory. New York City Directory for 1848-49 and 1849-50	New York	1848	USD -	0.10
624		NEW YORK. Mineralogy of New York, comprising descriptions of the Minerals found in the State of New York	Albany	1842	USD -	0.10
625		NEW YORK. Historical Society	New York	1844	USD -	1.00
626	Thorburn (Grant)	NEW YORK. Fifty Years' Reminiscences of New York...	New York	1845	USD -	2.10
627		NEW YORK. The New York State Register for 1843	New York	1845	USD -	Not Sold
628	B. Silliman	NEW YORK. Report of the Cause of the Explosion at the Fire in Broad Street, New York, on the 19th July, 1845	New York	1845	USD -	0.60
629	Henry R. & William J. Hearne	NEW YORK. Brooklyn Directory and Yearly Advertiser, for 1849 & '50	Brooklyn	1849	USD -	0.20
630		NEW YORK. The Great Metropolis; or, New York Almanac for 1850	New York	1849	USD -	0.50
631	David Franks	NEW YORK. The New York Directory (1786)	New York	1786	USD -	0.20
632	David T. Valentine	NEW YORK. City. History of	New York	1853	USD -	2.25
633		NEW YORK. A Plan of the City and Environs of New York, as they were in the Years 1742, 1743 and 1744	New York	1854	USD -	0.25
634		NEW YORK. Map of the Common lands between the Three and Six Mile Stones, colored lith., 1861...			USD -	1.20
635		NEW YORK. City. A Compilation of the Laws relating to the Fire Dept. of the City of New York	New York	1859	USD -	0.25
636		NEW YORK. City. Ordinances of the Mayor, Aidermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York	New York	1859	USD -	1.00
637		NEW YORK. Map of	New York	1859	USD -	0.25
638		NEW YORK. The Duke's Plan, 1664	New York	1859	USD -	1.00
639	Valentine (D. T.)	NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1860 and 1863	New York	1860	USD -	0.75
640		NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1865 and 1866	New York	1865	USD -	0.80
641		NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1866	New York	1866	USD -	0.45
642		NEW YORK. City. A compilation of the Ferry Leases and Rail road Grants made by the Corporation of the City of New York, from July, 1849, to July, 1860	New York	1860	USD -	Not Sold
643		NEW YORK. Manual of the State of New York, 1862-70	Albany and New York	1862	USD -	Not Sold
644	Draft Riots. Barnes (David M.)	NEW YORK. The Draft Riots of New York. July, 1863	New York	1863	USD -	0.75
645		NEW YORK. Erie and Oswego Canals	Albany	1864	USD -	Not Sold
646		NEW YORK. Report of Special Committee on Volunteering	New York	1864	USD -	Not Sold
647		NEW YORK. Laws of the State of New York	Albany	1866	USD -	Not Sold
648	Joseph Shannon	NEW YORK. City. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York	New York	1868	USD -	0.30
649	John Hardy	NEW YORK. City. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York	New York	1870	USD -	0.25
650	Bayley (Rev. J. R.)	NEW YORK. A Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Catholic Church on the Island of New York	New York	1870	USD -	0.50
651	Richmond (J. F.)	NEW YORK. New York and its Institutions, 1609-1872	New York	1872	USD -	0.20
652	F. G. Fairfield	NEW YORK. The Clubs of New York	New York	1873	USD -	0.10
653	J. K. Medbery	NEW YORK. Men and Mysteries of Wall Street	New York	1878	USD -	0.30
654	E. L. Viele	NEW YORK. The Transval of the City of New York	New York	1880	USD -	0.25
655	Dayton (A. C.)	NEW YORK. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York	New York	1882	USD -	0.25
656	O. H. Marshall	NEW YORK. Charter (The). 1664 and 1674	New York	1882	USD -	0.10
657		NEW YORK. Cooperstown. A Centennial Offering; being a Brief History of Cooperstown	Cooperstown	1886	USD -	0.55
658		NEW YORK. Facsimile of an Original Map of the City of New York	New York	1887	USD -	0.15
659		NEW YORK. New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York		1889	USD -	0.20
660	Daniel Denton	NEW YORK. A Brief Description of New York Formerly called New Netherlands	Cleveland	1902	USD -	0.65
661	Miller (John)	NEW YORK. New York Considered and Improved, 1695	Cleveland	1903	USD -	0.75
662		NEW YORK. Boardsides (15)			USD -	1.10
663		NEW YORK. Brooklyn Ferries, Remarks by B. D. Silliman, 1857...			USD -	0.05
664		NEW YORK. City Imprints, 1798-1826			USD -	0.75
665		NEW YORK. City and State			USD -	0.15
666		NEW YORK. Glen Sketches at Havana (H. C. Winton), 1868...			USD -	0.25
667		NEW YORK. Historical Pamphlets. Hist. Discourse, Whitestown Centennial, 1884 (Tracy)....			USD -	1.00
668		NEW YORK. Historical Pamphlets, Reports, Sermons, etc.			USD -	0.50
669	P. F. Munde, editor	OBSTETRICS. American Journal of	New York	1877	USD -	1.00
670	Ivor L. Tucker	OCCULT. The Evidence for the Supernatural	London	1911	USD -	0.50
671		OHIO. The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century	Cincinnati	1876	USD -	0.30
672	Jona. Hart, Capt.	OHIO. Plan of the Remains of some Ancient Works on the Muskingum			USD -	0.05
673		OHIO. Orations, etc.			USD -	0.10
674		OIL REGIONS. News from the Oil Regions	New York	1866	USD -	0.50
675	William Wright	OIL REGIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA (THE)	New York	1865	USD -	0.25
676		OLD CLASSICS. Cato's Letters; or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious	London	1837	USD -	0.40
677		ORTHOGRAPHY			USD -	0.15
678		OVERLAND MONTHLY	San Francisco	1869	USD -	10.25
679		OVERLAND MONTHLY	San Francisco	1871	USD -	4.50
680		PAMPHLETS. Why the North Cannot Accept of Separation (Laboulaye)			USD -	0.20
681		PANAMA. A Succinct View and Analysis of Authentic Information Extant in Original Works on the Practicability of Joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a Ship Canal	London	1825	USD -	1.70
682		PANAMA. in 1855. An Account of the Panama Rail-Road	New York	1855	USD -	0.75
683		PANAMA. Percement de l'Isthme de Panama par le Canal de Nicaragua	Paris	1858	USD -	0.55
684		PANAMA. Isthmus of Panama	New York	1867	USD -	0.55
685		PARKS AND GARDENS			USD -	1.00
686		PASSPORT issued to Thomas M. Hooker by the U. S. Legation in Great Britain. Nov. 30, 1836			USD -	0.20
687	Philip Parker King	PATAGONIA. Sailing Directions for the Coasts of Eastern and Western Patagonia, etc.	London	1832	USD -	0.10
688		PEARLS. A Metaphysical Magazine	New York	1898	USD -	0.45
689		PEERAGE AND PEASANTRY	London	1855	USD -	0.60
690	PENN (WILLIAM)	Three Treatises, in which The Fundamental Principle, Doctrines, Worship	Wilmington	1783	USD -	0.30
691		PENNSYLVANIA. A Collection of Memorials Concerning Divers	Philadelphia	1787	USD -	1.00
692	Gabriel Thomas	PENNSYLVANIA. An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania and of West-New-Jersey in America	London, (Re-printed, New York)	1698	USD -	0.55
693	William Smith	PENNSYLVANIA. A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania	New York	1865	USD -	0.35
694	Martin (John Hill)	PENNSYLVANIA. Historical Sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1872	USD -	0.50
695	Silas Wright	PENNSYLVANIA. History of Perry County	Lancaster	1873	USD -	0.50
696	Milton S. Lytle	PENNSYLVANIA. History of Huntington County	Lancaster	1876	USD -	0.50

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.
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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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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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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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