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
101	Geo. W. Carleton	CUBA. Our Artist in Cuba. Leaves from the Notebook of a Traveller.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
102	Octave Mirbeau	CURIOUS. A Chambermaid's Diary.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
103		CURIOUS. Candide; or, Optimism.	London	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
104		CURIOUS. Immoral Customs.		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
105		CURIOUS. La Belle Assemblee; or, The Adventures of Six Days.	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
106		CURIOUS. Memoirs of Cora Pearl, the English Beauty of the French Empire.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
107		CURIOUS. Memoirs of a Coxcomb.	Dublin	1751	USD -	Unknown
108		CURIOUS. Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures of Madame Vestris, of the Theatres Royal ...	London	1839 (1890)	USD -	Unknown
109		CURIOUS. Notes on Noses.	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
110	Ernest Renan	CURIOUS. The Abbess of Jouarre.	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
111		CURIOUS. The Satyricon; or, Trebly Voluptuous.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
112		CURIOUS. The Physiology of Love, with Hints on Courtship.	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
113	Edited by J. W. McSpadden	CURIOUS. The Physiology of Marriage. The Petty Troubles of Married Life.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
114		CURIOUS. The Spider and the Fly; or, Tricks, Traps and Pitfalls of City Life.	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
115	Justin D. Fulton	CURIOUS. Why Priests Should Wed.	New York	(1894)	USD -	Unknown
116	Lord Lamington	DANDIES. In the Days of the Dandies.	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
117	DEFOE (DANIEL)	The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, who was born in Newgate and during a life ...	London	1722	USD -	Unknown
118		DEVIL (THE). History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern.	Durham	1822	USD -	Unknown
119	J. M. Chambers	DEVIL OF TO-DAY (THE). His Play between the False and the Good. A searching allegory on the subtle ...	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
120	John Phoenix	DERBY (CAPT. GEO. H.). The Squibob Papers.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
121	Edited by Laurence Hutton	DICKENS. Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
122	Edited, with an Introduction, by F. G. Kitton	DICKENS. Old Lamps for New Ones and other Sketches and Essays hitherto uncollected.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
123	J. Madison Cutts	DOUGLAS (STEPHEN A.). A Brief Treatise upon Constitutional and Party Questions and the History of ...	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
124	Lester Wallack	DRAMA. Memories of Fifty Years.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
125		DRAMA. Mrs. Leslie Carter in David Belasco's Du Barry.	New York		USD -	Unknown
126	Harry Spurr	DUMAS. The Life and Writings of Alexander Dumas, 1802-1870.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
127	F. W. Fairholt	ECCENTRIC AND REMARKABLE CHARACTERS. A Series of Biographical Memoirs of Persons Famous for ...	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
128	Melville D. Landon	ELI PERKINS AT LARGE: his Sayings and Doings.	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
129	EMERSON (R. W.)	English Traits.	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
130	EMERSON (R. W.)	The Gulestan; or, Rose Garden.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
131	Henry D. Thoreau	EMERSON (R. W.). Letters to Various Persons.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
132	EMERSON (R. W.)	May-Day, and other Pieces.	Boston	1867	USD -	Unknown
133	ENGLISH (THOS. DUNN)	Select Poems.	Newark, N. J.	1894.	USD -	Unknown
134	William Snow	EPITAPHS. Sepulchral Gleanings; or, a Collection of Epitaphs, Ancient, Modern, Curious, Instructive ...	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
135	FAWCETT (EDGAR)	A New York Family: A Novel.	New York	(1891)	USD -	Unknown
136		FAUST. Tragedie de M. De Goethe. Traduite en Francais par Albert Stapfer.	Paris	1828	USD -	Unknown
137	W. M. Cooper	FLAGELLATION and the Flagellants. A History of the Rod in all Countries from the Earliest Period to ...	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
138		FLAGELLATION. History of Flagellation among different Nations.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
139		FLIM FLAMS; or, The Life and Errors of My Uncle and his Friends.	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
140	G. L. Faber	FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC and the Fish thereof. A report of the Hungarian-Austro Sea Fisheries. With ...	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
141	GARLAND (HAMLIN)	Boy Life on the Prairie.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
142	GAUTIER (THEOPHILE)	Mademoiselle de Maupin. A Romance of Love and Passion.	London	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
143	GENIN (THOMAS HEDGES)	Selections from the Writings of T. H. Genin, with a Biographical Sketch.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
144	GOSSE (EDMUND W.)	King Erik.	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
145	Edited by C. F. Horne	GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of more than 200 of the ...	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
146	HAGGARD (H. RIDER)	Allan Quatermain; being an Account of his further Adventures and Discoveries.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
147	HARTE (BRET)	Flip and Found at Blazing Star.	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
148	HARTE (BRET)	A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready, and Devil's Ford.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
149	HARTE (BRET)	The Crusade of the Excelsior.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
150	HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER)	On the Plantation. A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
151	HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)	The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
152	HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)	Our Old Home.	Boston	1863	USD -	Unknown
153	HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)	Passages from the American Note-Books.	Boston	1868	USD -	Unknown
154	HAY (JOHN)	Pike County Ballads and other Pieces.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
155	HAY (JOHN)	The Bread Winners. A Social Study.	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
156	HEARN (LAFCADIO)	Gombo Zhebes. Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, selected from six Creole Dialects.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
157	HEARN (LAFCADIO)	Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. Stories from Bartal Pachesi, Talmud, Gulestan, etc.	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
158		HEPTAMERON of Margaret, Queen of Navarre.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
159	HERBERT (HENRY WILLIAM)	The Fair Puritan. An Historical Romance of the Days of Witchcraft.	Philadelphia	1890	USD -	Unknown
160	HOLBROOK (J.)	Ten Years among the Mail Bags; or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office ...	Phila.	1855	USD -	Unknown
161	J. W. Powell	INDIANS. First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80.	Washington	1881	USD -	Unknown
162		INDIANS. Second Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1883	USD -	Unknown
163		INDIANS. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1884	USD -	Unknown
164		INDIANS. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1886	USD -	Unknown
165		INDIANS. Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1887	USD -	Unknown
166		INDIANS. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1888	USD -	Unknown
167		INDIANS. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1891	USD -	Unknown
168		INDIANS. Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Ethnology.	Washington	1891	USD -	Unknown
169		INDIANS. Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1892	USD -	Unknown
170		INDIANS. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.	Washington	1897	USD -	Unknown
171	W. H. Holmes	INDIANS. Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.	Washington	1907	USD -	Unknown
172	B. B. Thatcher	INDIAN BIOGRAPHY; or, An Historical Account of those Individuals who have been distinguished among ...	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
173		INDIAN NOVELS. The Lost Hunter. A Legend of the Scioto Valley. By S. G. Griswold. The Fearless ...	New York	1875, etc.	USD -	Unknown
174	F. L. Hoffman	INSURANCE. History of the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Industrial Insurance), 1875-1900.	Newark	1900	USD -	Unknown
175	Edited by Thomas Adolphus Trollope	ITALY. From the Alps to Mount Etna.	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
176	Varina A. Davis	IRISH. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century. Sketch of the Life of Robert Emmet.	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
177		IRISH. Familiar Epistles to Fred Jones on the present state of the Irish Stage.	Dublin	1805	USD -	Unknown
178	W. C. Taylor	IRISH. History of Ireland from the Anglo-Norman Invasion till the Union of the Country with Great ...	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
179	Mrs. S. C. Hall	IRISH. Ireland: Its Scenery and Character.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
180	A. Atkinson	IRISH. Ireland in the 19th Century and 7th of England's Dominion. With copious descriptions of the ...	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
181	John O'Leary	IRISH. Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
182		IRISH. The Love Songs of Connacht: being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht.	Dundrum	1904	USD -	Unknown
183	JAMES (HENRY)	The American.	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
184	JAMES (HENRY)	Daisy Miller: a Comedy in Three Acts.	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
185	JAMES (HENRY)	Port Larasion. The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin.	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
186	JAMES (HENRY)	The Awkward Age. A Novel.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
187	Osman Edwards	JAPANESE PLAYS and Playfellows.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
188	JEFFERSON (THOMAS)	The Hibernian Magazine for 1801, containing, at page 192, the very rare stipple engraved portrait of ...		1801	USD -	Unknown
189	JEROME (JEROME K.)	Three Men in a Boat. Humorous illustrations by A. Frederics.	Bristol	1889	USD -	Unknown
190	JEROME (JEROME K.)	Novel Notes.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
191	Christopher Nyrop	KISSING. The Kiss and Its History.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
192		KRAFFT-EBING'S Sexual-Psychological Works. Grundzuge der Criminalpsychologie fur Juristen 1882-- ...	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1882-1897	USD -	Unknown
193		LA FONTAINE. Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine.	London	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
194	LANG (ANDREW)	Essays in Little. Portrait. (Stevenson; Thackeray; Dickens; Lever; Kipling, etc.)	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
195		LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln: his Book.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
196		LINCOLN. Bill Arp, so-called. A side-show of the Southern Side of the War.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
197		LINCOLN. Memorial Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln.	Washington	1865	USD -	Unknown
198	Caroline Hanks Hitchcook	LINCOLN. Nancy Hanks: the Story of Abraham Lincoln's Mother.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
199		LINCOLN. Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: being selected passages and readings from James Murdoch.	Philadelphia	1865	USD -	Unknown
200		LONDON. A Treatise on the Police of London; containing a detail of the various Crimes and ...	Philadelphia	1797	USD -	Unknown

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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.

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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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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.