Merwin Clayton Sales Company: A CHOICE COLLECTION OF AMERICANA. TO BE SOLD WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 23RD AND 24TH, 1911. BY THE MERWIN-CLAYTON SALES COMPANY 20-24 EAST 20TH STREET NEW YORK., 426,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 22, 1911 - November 22, 1911
Page Size: 1042 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 AMERICAN HUMOR. Artemus Ward: his Travels, N. Y. 1865;--Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Bost. 1858 ...

USD - Unknown
2 AMERICAN HUMOR. Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. New York

1842

USD - Unknown
3 AMERICAN HUMOR. The History of the Little Frenchman and his Bank Notes: Rags! Rags! Rags!, Phil ...

USD - Unknown
4 AMERICAN HUMOR. Jokeby, a Burlesque on Rokeby;--The Amusing Companion, or Interesting Story-Teller ... New York

1813-31

USD - Unknown
5 AMERICAN HUMOR. Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance;--English as She is Taught (Twain);-- ...

USD - 1.50
6 AMERICAN HUMOR. Cold Cuts and Pickled Eels' Feet, done brown by John Brown;--The New Curiosity Shop ... New York

(1855)

USD - Unknown
7 AMERICAN HUMOR. The New Pilgrim's Progress: The Journey Home (Mark Twain), Lond. n. d.;--King ...

USD - 1.00
8 [Avery (Samuel P.)] AMERICAN HUMOR. Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fur (1854);--The Harp of a Thousand Strings (1858). New York

USD - Unknown
9 AMERICAN HUMOR. The Quod Correspondence, by John Quod, First Edition, 2 vols. Bost. 1842;--Innocents ...

USD - Unknown
10 AMERICAN HUMOR. Mr. Toodles's Great Elephant Hunt Numerous comic illustrations. New York

(1844)

USD - Unknown
11 AMERICAN HUMOR. Harp of a Thousand Strings, N. Y. (1858);--Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (Leland ...

USD - Unknown
12 AMERICAN HUMOR. Artemus Ward: his Book;--Betsy Jane Ward: hur Book of Goaks;--Mark Twain's ...

USD - Unknown
13 AMERICAN HUMOR. Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. ard P. I.: Samantha at the Centennial, Hartford, 1878 ...

USD - Unknown
14 AMERICAN HUMOR. Karan Kringle's Journal: being Comical Episodes in an old maid's life. By Miss Karan ... Philadelphia

(1885)

USD - Unknown
15 AMERICAN HUMOR. Josiah Allen's Wife: Samantha at the Centennial, Hartford, 1878;--Modern Philosophy ...

USD - Unknown
16 AMERICAN Annual Register, or Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796. Philadelphia

1797

USD - Unknown
17 AMERICAN ANNUALS. Liberty Bell (The). Boston

1839-58

USD - 12.75
18 Edited by Mrs. E. Oakes Smith AMERICAN ANNUALS. Mayflower (The). Boston

1847

USD - Unknown
19 AMERICAN ANNUALS. Memory and Hope (a holiday collection of verse). Boston

1851

USD - Unknown
20 Edited by Sarah J. Hale AMERICAN ANNUALS. Opal (The). 1848. New York

1848

USD - Unknown
20a Edited by Elihu Burritt ADVOCATE (The) of Peace and Universal Brotherhood. Worcester

1846

USD - 2.25
20b Edited by B. J. Lossing AMERICAN Historical Record. Philadelphia

1872

USD - Unknown
21 BOSTON Journal of Philosophy and the Arts. Boston

1824

USD - Unknown
22 BOSTON MAGAZINE.

1785-86

USD - Unknown
23 BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE. Boston

1840-41

USD - Unknown
24 CABINET (THE); a Repository of Polite Literature. Boston

1811

USD - 4.00
25 COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE. Philadelphia

1786-90

USD - Unknown
26 CULTIVATOR (The): a Monthly Publication. Albany

1838-40

USD - 1.00
27 EARLY AMERICAN Periodicals. Pennsylvania Mag.; Boston Mag.; Massachusetts Mag.; American Mag ...

1776-1792

USD - Unknown
28 FREEMASON'S Monthly Magazine. Boston

1865

USD - Unknown
28a Edited by Wm. and Thomas Evans FRIENDS' LIBRARY (The): in monthly nos. Philadelphia

1846-50

USD - Unknown
29 GENTLEMEN AND Ladies Town and Country Magazine: Feb., March, June, 1789; Jan., Feb., 1790. Boston

USD - Unknown
30 HARVARD LYCEUM (The). Cambridge

1811

USD - 1.25
31 HARVARD MAGAZINE. Cambridge

1855-57

USD - 6.00
32 HARVARD REGISTER. Cambridge

1880

USD - 2.75
33 JUVENILE PORTFOLIO (The), and Literary Miscellany. Philadelphia

1814-16

USD - Unknown
34 LADIES' Garland. Vols. 1, 3, 7. Colored plates and illustrations, including views of Yale College ... Philadelphia

1838-44

USD - 1.60
35 LADY'S MAGAZINE (The); and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge. Philadelphia

(1792-93)

USD - 2.25
36 LADY'S MAGAZINE (The); Lady's Magazine and Musical Repository, Aug.-Dec. 1801 (no plates).

USD - Unknown
37 Edited by T. S. Arthur LADIES' MAGAZINE (THE). Philadelphia

1844

USD - Unknown
38 LITERARY MISCELLANY. Cambridge

1805

USD - Unknown
39 MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE. Engravings by Hill (several missing).

USD - 1.60
39a MASSACHUSETTS Missionary Magazine. Salem

(1803)

USD - Unknown
40 MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY and Boston Review. Boston

1805

USD - Unknown
41 MONTHLY REPOSITORY (The). New York

1830-34

USD - 1.60
42 SEARS' New Pictorial Family Magazine, vol. 4. N. Y. 1847; Ladies' Repository, vol. 9, Cincinnati ...

USD - Unknown
43 SOUVENIR (The): a Literary Work. Philadelphia

1828

USD - 1.60
44 WELL-SPRING (The). Boston

1844-46

USD - Unknown
45 ADDRESS (An) of the Convention for Framing a New Constitution of Government for the State of ... Boston

1780

USD - 1.40
46 Hugh Moore ALLEN (COL. ETHAN). Memoir of: containing the most Interesting Incidents connected with his Private ... Plattsburgh, New York

1834

USD - 1.00
47 Edited by N. P. Willis ANDRE. The Token for 1829. Boston

1829

USD - 1.00
48 Simms (W. G.) ANDRE. Views and Reviews in American Literature, History and Fiction. (1st and 2d Series complete in ... New York

1845

USD - 1.10
49 ANNUAL REGISTER: or a View of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1775. London

1777

USD - Unknown
50 ANTICIPATION: containing the Substance of His M . . . . . . y's Speech, etc.;--Anticipation ... London

1778-79

USD - 1.10
51 ARNOLD'S EXPEDITION. Contemporary transcription of a letter of Col. Donald Campbell, Held Quarters ...

USD - 1.50
52 ATLAS of Maps and Subscribers' names (to Life of George Washington). Philadelphia

1807

USD - 1.70
53 BANCROFT'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON, 2 vols. Bost. 1825-26, portrait by D. C. Johnston;--Biography of ...

USD - 1.10
54 [BARRON (W.)] History of the Colcnization of the Free States of Antiquity, applied to the Present Contest between ... London

1777

USD - Unknown
55 BERNARD (FRANCIS) Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America; and the Principles of Law and Polity applied ... London

1774

USD - 3.00
56 [BINGHAM (WM.)] A Letter from an American, now resident in London, to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of the ... London

1784

USD - Unknown
57 BOSTON GAZETTE, April 6, 1778.

USD - Unknown
58 [BRACKENRIDGE (H. H.)] The Death of General Montgomery, in Storming the City of Quebec. A Tragedy. Norwich

1777

USD - 5.25
59 [BRACKENRIDGE (H. H.)] The Battle of Bunker's Hill. A Dramatic Piece of Five Acts.

USD - 2.00
60 BUCHENRODER (J. N. C.) Grundrik von Nordamerika. Hamburg

1778

USD - 4.25
60a BURK (JOHN) Bunker Hill: or the Death of Gen. Warren; an Historic Tragedy. New York

1817

USD - Unknown
60b BURK (JOHN) Bunker Hill: or the Death of Gen. Warren; an Historic Tragedy. New York

1891

USD - Unknown
61 CAMBRIDGE (The) of 1776: wherein is set forth an Account of the Town, and of the Events it witnessed ... Cambridge

1876

USD - Unknown
62 CHAUNCY (CHARLES) The Accursed Thing must be taken away from among a People, etc. Sermon. Sept. 3, 1778. Boston

1778

USD - 1.00
63 [CHILD (L. M.)] The Rebels; or Boston before the Revolution. Boston

1850

USD - Unknown
64 CHIPMAN (DANIEL) Life of Col. Seth Warner; with an Account of the Controversy between New York and Vermont; 1763-1775 ... Burlington

1858

USD - 1.10
65 CODMAN (JOHN, 2nd) Arnold's Expedition to Quebec. New York

1901

USD - 1.10
66 COLLECTION (A) of Papers, relative to Half-Pay and Commutation of Half-Pay, granted by Congress to ... Fish-kill

1783

USD - 1.20
67 CONCORD FIGHT. Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration, April 19, 1875. Concord, Massachusetts

1876

USD - 1.25
68 CONCORD FIGHT. Address (Centennial), Acton, Mass., July, 1835: with Appendix (on Acton's part versus ... Boston

USD - 1.50
68a Reynolds (G.) CONCORD FIGHT. A Collection of Historical and other Papers. Concord

1895

USD - Unknown
69 CONSIDERATIONS on the Measures carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America. Boston

1774

USD - 1.70
70 CUMINGS (HENRY) Sermon, Billerica, Dec. 11, 1783: the Day recommended by Congress . . . as a Day of Public ... Boston

1784

USD - Unknown
71 CURWEN. Journal and Letters of the ate Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, etc., an American Refugee ... New York

1842

USD - 1.50
72 [DALRYMPLE (SIR J.)] The Address of the People of Great Britain to the Inhabitants of America. London

1775

USD - Unknown
73 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Boston

(1825)

USD - Unknown
74 DE PUY (H. W.) Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of 1776; with a Sketch of the Early History of Vermont. Boston

1853

USD - Unknown
75 FROTHINGHAM (RICHARD) History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; with ... Boston

1849

USD - 1.00
76 HARTLEY (C. B.) Life of Gen. Henry Lee, Commander of Lee's Legion in the Revolutionary War; with Life of Gen. Thomas ... New York

1859

USD - Unknown
77 HOPPUS (MARY A. M.) A Great Treason: a Story of the War of Independence. London

1883

USD - 1.25
78 INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE, Oct. 22, 1778.

USD - 1.10
79 INDEPENDENT LEDGER, Aug. 16, 1779 and Nov. 27, 1780. Boston

USD - 1.10
80 LATHROP (JOHN) Innocent Blood crying to God from the Streets of Boston. A Sermon occasioned by the Horrid Murder ... Boston

1771

USD - 8.50
81 LEE (HENRY) Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Washington

1827

USD - 2.00
82 LEXINGTON, MASS. Proceedings at Centennial Celebration of the Battle, April 19, 1875. Lexington

1875

USD - Unknown
83 Jared Sparks MORRIS (GOUVERNEUR). Life of, with Selections from his Correspondence, etc., detailing Events in the ... Boston

1832

USD - 2.00
84 MURGATROYD (CAPT. MATTHEW, of the Ninth Continentals in the Revolutionary War) The Refugee. A Romance (of the Revolution). New York

1825

USD - 1.00
85 PAMPHLETS relating to the Revolution.

USD - 1.75
86 PAMPHLETS Revolution; Washington; Embargo; War of 1812.

USD - 2.50
87 PHINNEY (ELIAS) History of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Boston

1825

USD - Unknown
88 Col. D. Humphreys PUTNAM (GEN. ISRAEL). Life and Heroic Exploits of. New York

1834

USD - Unknown
89 REMEMBRANCER (The); Nos. 36 and 57, containing accounts of the Siege of Quebec, 1775-76, Repulse of ... London

1778-84

USD - Unknown
90 REPRINT of the Letters from Washington to Joseph Reed (W. B. Reed), Phil. 1833;--Battle of Bunker ...

USD - Unknown
91 SALEM EXPEDITION. Account of Leslie's Retreat, at the North Bridge, Feb. 26, 1775, by C. M. Endicott ... Salem

1856-75

USD - 1.50
92 SHIPLEY (JONATHAN: Lord Bishop of St. Asaph) A Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of ... Salem

(1774)

USD - Unknown
93 SIMMS (W. GILMORE) Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolutior. New York

1861

USD - Unknown
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