Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS COMPRISING AMERICANA, ART, BIBLIOGRAPHY, CURIOSA, INDIANS, IRISH, NAPOLEON, NEW YORK ITEMS, TRIALS, FIRST EDITIONS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, FILES OF SCARCE, PERIODICAL, ETC. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION MO, 10Feb1908,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 10, 1908 - February 10, 1908

Page Size: 341 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	J. Berington	ABELARD AND HELOISE. The History of the Lives of Abellard and Heloisa; comprising a period of 84 ...	Philadelphia	1819	USD -	Unknown
2		ADVENTURES IN THE MOON and other Worlds.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
3	Frederick Schwatka	ALASKA. A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along ...	St. Louis, Mo.	1893	USD -	Unknown
4	Simon Wolf	AMERICAN JEW as a Patriot. Soldier and Citizen.	Philadelphia	1895	USD -	Unknown
5	John Ashton	AMOURS OF GEORGE IV. Florizel's Folly.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
6	E. P. Hingston	ARTEMUS WARD. The Genial Showman. Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a ...	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
7		ARCTIC. Farther North than Nansen, being the Voyage of the Polar Star.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
8		ARCTIC. On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea.	New York (London printed)	1903	USD -	Unknown
9	Sir W. M. Conway and others	ARCTIC. The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. An Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration, with ...	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
10	L. B. Phillips	AUTOGRAPHS. The Autographic Album. A Collection of 470 Facsimiles of Holograph Writings of Royal ...	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
11	Edward Edwards, Teacher in the Royal Academy	ART. A Practical Treatise of Perspective.	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
12	Clarence Cook	ART. Art and Artists of Our Time.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
13		ART. The Works of Antonio Canova in Sculpture and Modelling, engraved by Henry Moses.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
14	J. S. Memes	ART. Canova, the Sculptor. Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a Critical Analysis of his Works and an ...	Edinburgh	1825	USD -	Unknown
15	Crane (Walter)	ART. The Claims of Decorative Art.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
16	J. Ebers	ART. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical and Picturesque.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
17	William M. Rossetti	ART. Fine Art, chiefly Contemporary: Notices reprinted, with Revisions.	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
18	Hamerton (Philip Gilbert)	ART. The Etcher's Handbook.	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
19	William Maskell	ART. Ivories, Ancient and Mediaeval.	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
20	Charles G. Leland	ART. Leather Work. A Practical Manual for Learners.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
21	John D. Harding	ART. Lessons on Art.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
22	Mitchell (Lucy M.)	ART. A History of Ancient Sculpture.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
23	William Gilpin	ART. Observations on the Coasts of Hampshire, Sussex and Kent, relative Chiefly to Picturesque ...	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
24	Henry Blackburn	ART. Art of Illustration.	Edinburgh	1901	USD -	Unknown
25	John Burnet	ART. Practical Hints on Composition in Painting.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
26	John Burnet	ART. Practical Hints on Color in Painting.	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
27	Henry Shaw	ART. The Encyclopaedia of Ornament. Illustrated by a series of 53 plates of Ironwork, Lacework and ...	Edinburgh	1904	USD -	Unknown
28		ART. The Book of American Interiors.	Boston	1876	USD -	Unknown
29	F. S. Robinson	ART. The Connoisseur. Essays on the Romantic and Picturesque, Associations of Art and Artists.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
30	A. L. Baldry	ART. The Drawings of John M. Swan, R. A.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
31	Moncure D. Conway	ART. Travels in South Kensington. With Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
32	W. J. Linton	ART. The History of Wood Engraving in America.	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
33	E. Marston	AUTHORSHIP. After Work. Fragment from the Workshop of an Old Publisher.	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
34		AUTHORSHIP. Conferences on Men and Books.	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
35		AUTHORSHIP. How to Write Fiction, especially the Art of Short-Story Writing.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
36	Horace B. Wallace	AUTHORSHIP. Literary Criticisms.	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
37		BALZAC'S COMPLETE DRAMATIC WORKS. Comprising Vautrin, Resources of Quinola, Pamela Giraud, The ...	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
38		BALZAC. Droll Stories collected from the Abbeys of Touraine, translated into English complete and ...	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
39		BALZAC. Repertory of the Comedie Humaine.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
40		BALZAC. The Works of.	Phila.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
41	BANGS (JOHN KENDRICK)	Katharine. A Travesty. 16mo, original parchment wrappers, uncut. Privately printed, 1888. Scarce ...			USD -	Unknown
42	BEHN (MRS. APHRA)	The Fair Jilt and the Nun; Oroonoko; or, The Amours of a Prince.	London	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
43	Charles Bennett	BENNETT'S ILLUSTRATIONS. The Book of Blockheads. How and What they Shot, Got; Said, Had; Gave, Sold ...	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
44	J. R. Dore	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Old Bibles: an Account of the Early Versions of the English Bible.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
45	Melvil Dewey	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Decimal Classification and Relative Index for Arranging, Cataloguing and Indexing ...	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
46	R. F. Sharp	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical. A Compendious ...	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
47		BIBLIOGRAPHY. A General Index to the Library Edition in 30 vols. of Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works ...	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
48	Henry Curwen	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New.	London	(1873)	USD -	Unknown
49	Thomas H. Harner	BIBLIOGRAPHY. An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography. To which is prefixed a Memoir on the ...	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
50	Edited by E. B. Sargant and Bernard Whishaw	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Guide Book to Books.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
51		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliographie des Bibliographies par Leon Vallee.	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
52		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of Law. Bibliotheca Legum; or, a New and Complete List of all the Common ...	London	1753	USD -	Unknown
53	William Orme	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliotheca Biblica: a Select List of Books on Sacred Literature, with Notices ...	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
54		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Annual American Catalogue.	New York	1886-1895	USD -	Unknown
55		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the extensive and very valuable Library of the late Is. Gossett, D. D. 23 ...	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
56	Edouard Rouveyre	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Connaissances necessaires a un Bibliophile.	Paris	1879	USD -	Unknown
57		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, collected by Horace Walpole.	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
58	Charles T. Jacobi, Manager of the Chiswick Press	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Some Notes on Books and Printing. A Guide for Authors and Others.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
59		BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bookseller's League. A History of its Formation and Ten Years of its Work.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
60	W. Swan Sonnenschein	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Best Books. A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50, ...	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
61	BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN)	A Discourse on the Life, Character and Genius of Washington Irving.	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
62		BUTLER (BEN.) AND HOYT (JESSE). Their Lives and Opinions, with Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches ...			USD -	Unknown
63		CALIFORNIA. All's not Gold that Glitters; or, the Young Californian.	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
64	Theodore H. Hittell	CALIFORNIA. History of California.	San Francisco	1898	USD -	Unknown
65	Yone Noguchi	CALIFORNIA. The Voice of the Valley.	San Francisco	1897	USD -	Unknown
66	M. E. Parsons	CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWERS. Their Names. Haunts and Habits.	San Francisco	1897	USD -	Unknown
67		CANADA. Canadian Guide Book.	Montreal	1849	USD -	Unknown
68	Sir Francis B. Head	CANADA. 1846. The Emigrant.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
69	James Parton	CARICATURE and other Comic Art in all Times and Many Lands.	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
70	A. B. Maurice and F. T. Cooper	CARICATURE The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
71		CASSELL'S NEW POPULAR EDUCATOR. A Complete Encyclopedia of Elementary and Advanced Education.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
72		CHAP-BOOKS. The Devil among the Tailors, 1805; The History of Fair Rosamond, 1776; Julia, or, the ...	London	1776-1805	USD -	Unknown
73	J. Henry Hayward	CIVIL WAR. Poetical Pen-Pictures of the War. Selected from our Union Poets.	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
74	Truman Trumbull	CIVIL WAR. The New Yankee Doodle. Being an Account of the Little Difficulty in the Family of Uncle ...	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
75	Michael J. A. McCaffery	CIVIL WAR. The Siege of Spoleto. A Camp-Tale of Arlington Heights.	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
76	Walke (H.)	CIVIL WAR. Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States, on the Southern and ...	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
77	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance.	New York	(1871)	USD -	Unknown
78	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	A Tramp Abroad.	Hartford	1880	USD -	Unknown
79	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of all Ages.	Montreal	1881	USD -	Unknown
80	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
81	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
82	CLEMENS (SAMUEL)	Following the Equator. A Journey around the World.	Hartford	1897	USD -	Unknown
83		CHARLES I AND II. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and ...	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
84	Erasmus Wilson	CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE. With brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks.	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
85	COFFIN (CHARLES C.)	Our New Way Round the World.	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
86	W. T. Hewett. A. B.	COLLEGES (AMERICAN). Cornell University: a History.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
87		COLLEGE SOCIETIES. Greek Letter Men of New York.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
88		COLLEGES. Fraternity. The Tenth Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Engraved frontispiece ...			USD -	Unknown
89	Gilbert Abbott a Beckett	COMIC BLACKSTONE (THE).	Phila.	1844	USD -	Unknown
90		CONFEDERATE. Southern Historical Society Papers.	Richmond, Virginia	1883-4	USD -	Unknown
91	Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, C. S. A.	CONFEDERATE. Narrative of Military Operations, directed during the Late War between the States.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
92		CONFEDERATE. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army: a Narrative of Personal Adventures, with an ...	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
93		COLORED PLATES. The Golden Flower. Chrysanthemum Verses by Edith M. Thomas, Oliver Wendell Holmes ...	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
94	Julia Wright	CONVENT LIFE. Priest and Nun.	Philadelphia	1869	USD -	Unknown
95	Josephine M. Bunkley	CONVENT LIFE. The Testimony of an Escaped Novice from the Sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmetsburg ...		1855.	USD -	Unknown
96	Rebecca Reed	CONVENT LIFE. The Nun; or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
97	Mrs. Merrifield	COSTUME. Dress as a Fine Art. With Suggestions on Children's Dress.	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
98		CRUIKSHANK. Rejected Addresses; or, The New Theatrum Poetarum.	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
99		COURT MEMOIRS. Famous Women of the French Court.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
100	CUSTER (E. B.)	Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown

Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!