Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF COLLECTION OF AMERICANA COMPRISING AMERICAN PERIODICALS; AMERICAN REVOLUTION (AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION); TOWN AND COUNTY HISTORIES; INDIAN NARRATIVES, HISTORY, ETC.; LINCOLN MEMOIRS, EULOGIES, ETC. (INCLUDING RARE TITLES); PAMPHLETS; FIRST EDI, 278,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 01, 1909 - November 01, 1909

Page Size: 621 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	LEWIS (R. B.)	Light and Truth; containing the Universal History of the Colored and the Indian Race.	Boston	1844	USD -	Unknown
202	Tom Shortfellow	MARY KALE; or, Big Thunder, Chief of the Anti-Renters.	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
203	MOORE (MARTIN)	Memoirs of John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians.	Boston	1822	USD -	Unknown
204	MURRAY (HUGH)	Pictorial History of the United States: early Discoveries; Indian Wars; the Mexican War; the ...	Boston	1861	USD -	Unknown
205	NADAILLAC (MARQUIS DE)	Pre-historic America.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
206		OJIBWAY. Odizhijigeuiniua ijiu Gaanoninjig.	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
207		OJIBWAY. Abinoji aki Tibajimouin. (Peter Parley's Voyages and Travels.) In the Ojibway Language.	Boston	1840	USD -	Unknown
208	PETTIS (G. H.)	Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians, on the Canadian River, Nov. 25, 1864.	Providence	1878	USD -	Unknown
209		PHILIP: the Indian Chief. Life of.	Salem	1827	USD -	Unknown
210		RECORD of Engagements with Hostile Indians within the Military Division of the Missouri, 1868-82.	Washington	1882	USD -	Unknown
211	ROWLANDSON	Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mary Rowlandson (taken prisoner by the Indians ...	Clinton, Massachusetts	1853	USD -	Unknown
212	STURGIS (THOMAS)	Common Sense View of the Sioux War; with True Method of Treatment.	Cheyenne, Wyoming	1877	USD -	Unknown
213	THATCHER (B. B.)	Indian Biography: an Historical Account of Individuals who have been distinguished among the North ...	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
214		TRANSACTIONS of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society.	Phila.		USD -	Unknown
215	[JEFFERSON (THOMAS)]	Notes on the State of Virginia.	Phila.	1801	USD -	Unknown
216	[JEFFERSON (THOMAS)]	Memoirs of the Hon. Thomas Jefferson . . . containing a Concise History of those States, from the ...		1809	USD -	Unknown
217	ADAMS (GEORGE E.)	Lincoln: Address delivered at Quincy, Ill., Oct. 13, 1908.	Peterboro	1908	USD -	Unknown
218	ALLEN (S. M.)	Origin and Early Progress of the Republican Party.	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
219	ANDREW (JOHN A.)	Address to the Legislature of Massachusetts (on war issues), with accompanying Documents.	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
220	ANDREWS (M. R. S.)	The Perfect Tribute.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
221		ASSASSINATION. Daily Evening Traveller, April 15, 1865 (containing full account of Pres. Lincoln's ...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
222	BARRETT (J. H.)	Life of Abraham Lincoln.	Chic.	1888	USD -	Unknown
223	BARTLETT (D. W.)	Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln (and sketch of Hannibal Hamlin).	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
224	BINNEY	Proceedings of the City Council of Providence on the Death of Abraham Lincoln; with Oration, by Wm ...	Providence	1865	USD -	Unknown
225	BOKER (G. H.)	Society of the Army of the Potomac: 2d Annual Reunion, April 19, 1870.	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
226	BOOTH (MARY L.)	The Uprising of a Great People. From the French of A. De Gasparin.	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
227		BOSTON. Sermons preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
228		BOSTON. Proceedings of the City Council, April 17, 1865.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
229		BOSTON. Memorial of Abraham Lincoln.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
230		BOSTON. Bronze Group commemorating Emancipation, dedicated Dec. 6, 1879. Photographic frontispiece ( ...	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
231	BOYD (ANDREW)	A Memorial Lincoln Bibliography: being an Account of Books, Eulogies, Sermons, Portraits, Engravings ...	Albany	1870	USD -	Unknown
232	BROOKS (PHILLIPS)	The Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln.	Phila.	1865	USD -	Unknown
233	BROWNELL (H. H.)	War-Lyrics and other Poems.	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
234	BURNHAM (M.)	Abraham Lincoln: Oration, May 30, 1895; by Request of Ransom Post, No. 131, G. A. R., St. Louis, on ...	[St. Louis]	[1895]	USD -	Unknown
235		CALIFORNIA. Recommendations. (To the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President Elect) of the Republican ...		Dec. 1860 and Jan. 1861	USD -	Unknown
236		CAMPAIGN OF 1860. Louisiana Signal: Nos. 8, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28. 9 numbers.	New Orleans	1860	USD -	Unknown
237		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. A Campaign Tract for 1864.	Boston	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
238		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Campaign Songs.	New York	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
239		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. General McClellan and the Presidency. Letter from a Veteran Soldier on the Subject ...	n. p.	1864	USD -	Unknown
240		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Chicago Copperhead Convention. The Treasonable and Revolutionary Utterances of the ...	Washington	1864	USD -	Unknown
241		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. The Great Issue to be decided in November next! Lincoln and his Supporters! Behold ...	Washington	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
242		CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Documents; Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge.			USD -	Unknown
243	CARPENTER (F. B.)	Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
244		CLOVER LEAVES. A Commemorative Volume. Illustrations by Thomas Nast and others.	Phila.	1885	USD -	Unknown
245	COFFIN (CHARLES CARLETON)	A. L. S.		1898	USD -	Unknown
246		CORRUPTIONS and Frauds of Lincoln's Administration.	New York	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
247	CROCKER (S. L.)	Eulogy. Taunton, Mass., June 1, 1865.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
248	DEAN (SIDNEY)	Eulogy, April 19, 1865.	Providence	1865	USD -	Unknown
249	DUANE (RICHARD. B.)	Sermon, April 19, 1865.	Providence	1865	USD -	Unknown
250		EMANCIPATION. Watch Meeting, Dec. 31st, 1862. Waiting for the Hour.	Boston	1863	USD -	Unknown
251	ESTVAN (B., Col. in Confederate Army)	War Pictures from the South.	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
252	EVERETT (EDWARD)	An Oration delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
253	GUROWSKI (ADAM)	Diary from March 4, 1861, to Nov. 12, 1862.	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
254	HAMMOND (CHARLES)	Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln.	Springfield	1865	USD -	Unknown
255	HITCHCOCK (C. H.)	Nancy Hanks: the Story of Abraham Lincoln's Mother.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
256		ILLUSTRATED LIFE, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln.	Phila.	(1865)	USD -	Unknown
257	JOHNSON (ANDREW)	Speeches of; with Introduction by Frank Moore.	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
258	JOHNSON (ANDREW)	Life and Times of; written from a National Standpoint.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
259	JOHNSON (REVERDY)	Argument to Establish the Illegality of Military Commissions, especially that organized for the ...	Baltimore	1865	USD -	Unknown
260		LETTERS (THE) of President Lincoln on Questions of National Policy.	Boston	1863	USD -	Unknown
261		ADDRESS (in Vindication of the Republican Party, etc.), at Cooper Institute, Feb. 27, 1860; with ...	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
262		LIFE and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
263	ABRAHAM LINCOLN	A Study.	Liverpool	1865	USD -	Unknown
264		PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S VIEWS, ETC.	Phila.	1863	USD -	Unknown
265		REPLY to President Lincoln's Letter of 12th June, 1863.	Albany	(1863)	USD -	Unknown
266		THE PRESIDENT'S Dedication Address at Gettysburg.	New York	(1863)	USD -	Unknown
267		WORDS OF LINCOLN, edited by C. W. French (1892); Abraham Lincoln, by Joseph C. Choate (1900 ...			USD -	Unknown
268	Edited by O. H. Oldroyd	LINCOLN Memorial: Album-Immortelles.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
269		LINCOLN Eulogists, Biographers, etc. A. L. S., L. S., etc.			USD -	Unknown
270		COLLECTION of Cabinet Photographs, each inscribed by the person represented.			USD -	Unknown
271	LINCOLN (ROBERT T.)	4 A. L. S. (Legation of the United States, London, 7 March, and 28 April, 1892; Chicago, 1900 and ...			USD -	Unknown
272	LOW (HENRY R.)	The Governor's Message Reviewed.	Albany	1863	USD -	Unknown
273		MEMORIAL Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln.	Washington	1865	USD -	Unknown
274	MORSE (JOHN T.)	Abraham Lincoln.	Cambridge	1893	USD -	Unknown
275	MORSE (JOHN T.)	A. L. S., pp. 3, Boston, June 20, 1893; and another, pp. 4, Boston, June 22, 1893.			USD -	Unknown
276	[NEWELL (R. H.)]	The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers.	New York	1862-65	USD -	Unknown
277		PAMPHLETS. Lincoln's Inaugurals; Lincoln Eulogies; Campaign and other addresses; Rebellion tracts ...			USD -	Unknown
278		PATRIOTISM in Poetry and Prose (Murdoch's Lectures and Readings).	Phila.	1864	USD -	Unknown
279	PATTERSON (A. J.)	Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, April 19, 1865.	Portsmouth	1865	USD -	Unknown
280	PHILLIPS (WENDELL)	Speeches, Lectures, and Letters.	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
281		POETICAL Tributes to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln.	Phila.	1865	USD -	Unknown
282		POLITICAL Text-Book for 1860: the Presidential Nominations, etc., with speeches by Lincoln, Douglas ...	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
283	POWER (JOHN CARROLL)	Abraham Lincoln: his Life, Public Services, Death, etc.; with History of the National Lincoln ...	Chic, and Springfield	1889	USD -	Unknown
284		PRESIDENT'S WORDS (THE): Passages from the Speeches, Addresses and Letters of Abraham Lincoln.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
285		PUNCH.	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
286	PUTNAM (M. L.)	The Children's Life of Abraham Lincoln.	Chic.	1892	USD -	Unknown
287		RECOLLECTIONS of Lincoln and Douglas Forty Years Ago.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
288	Edited by A. T. Rice	REMINISCENCES of Abraham Lincoln, by Distinguished Men of his Time.	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
289		REPUBLICAN Opinions about Lincoln.	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
290		REVELATIONS: according to Abraham.	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
291	ROBINSON (CHAS. S.)	The Martyred President.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
292	RUSSELL (W. H.)	My Diary North and South.	Boston	1863	USD -	Unknown
293	SCOVEL (J. M.)	A Screed from (3 folio pages, typewritten, Feb. 1, 1904); A. L. S. (2), Dec. 18 and 22, 1891.			USD -	Unknown
294	SMITH (GOLDWIN)	The Civil War in America: an Address.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
295	STODDARD (W. O.)	Inside the White House in War Times.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
296	STOWE (HARRIET B.)	Men of Our Times, etc.	Hartf.	1868	USD -	Unknown
297	SUMNER (CHARLES)	Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
298	SWAIN (LEONARD)	A Nation's Sorrow, etc.	Providence	(1865)	USD -	Unknown
299	TARBELL (IDA M.)	Early Life of Abraham Lincoln.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
300	VINCENT (MARVIN R.)	Sermon on the Assassination, April 23, 1865.	Troy, New York	1865	USD -	Unknown

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December 15, 2025

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.

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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.

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