Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS (LARGELY IN FRENCH ON CURIOUS AND OUT-OF-THE-WAY SUBJECTS) ART, AMERICANA, CIVIL WAR, CALIFORNIA, JUVENILES, FICTION, ETC., ETC. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH, 1912. BY THE MERWIN-CLAYTON SALES, 446,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 14, 1912 - March 14, 1912
Page Size: 364 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABOUT (EDMOND) Le Roi des Montagnes. Paris

1861

USD - 1.00
2 ADAMS (JOHN) Letters of, addressed to his Wife. Boston

1841

USD - Unknown
3 ALBERTUS MAGNUS: Being the Approved, Verified, Sympathetic and Natural Egyptian Secrets, or White ... Chicago

n. d.

USD - Unknown
4 ALCOTT (LOUISA M.) Works: comprising, Rose in Bloom, Silver Pitchers, Work, A Garland for Girls, Hospital Sketches ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - 2.25
5 ALDINE (THE). A Typographic Art Journal. New York

1873

USD - Unknown
6 l'Abbe Guyon AMAZONS. Histoire des Amazones Anciennes et Modernes. Paris

1740

USD - 1.05
7 AMERICAN ANALYST. A Popular Weekly Analysis, for the Family and Consumer, of Everything Relating to ...

USD - Unknown
8 AMERICAN COINAGE. Philadelphia

1889

USD - 1.85
9 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. New York

1904

USD - 1.10
10 Henry P. Johnston AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson., Midnight, July 15, 1779. New York

1900

USD - 1.00
11 T. Addison Richards AMERICAN SCENERY. New York

(1854)

USD - 2.00
12 AMERICAN SONGSTER, Nos. 1 to 4.

circa 1807

USD - Unknown
13 AMERICAN WRITERS AND ENGRAVERS. New York

1855

USD - 1.00
14 AMOURS. Les Sonnettes ou Memoires de Monsieur le Marquis D . . . (J. B. Guiard de Sevigne). Utrecht

1749

USD - 2.10
15 J. J. Pithoud de Lorin AMOURS PUDIQUES d'Henri et d'Emma. Paris

1803

USD - 2.10
16 D. T. Thomason AMUSEMENTS. Fashionable Amusements. New York

1831

USD - Unknown
17 John Bunyan ANDERSON CUTS. Pilgrim's Progress. Boston

1806

USD - 2.00
18 ANNUALS. The Token, 1833;--Religious Souvenir, 1835 and 1839. Choice steel engravings by Gallandet ... New York, Philadelphia and Boston

1833-39

USD - Unknown
19 ARCHAEOLOGY. Expedition of the Archaeological Institute of America; Investigations at Assos ...

USD - Unknown
20 ART. Art Journal. London

1867-71

USD - 1.25
21 ART. Catalogue of Valuable Paintings, Sculpture, etc., selected from the Powers Art Gallery ...

v. d.

USD - Unknown
22 ART. Cabinet de l'Art de Sculpture par le fameux Sculpteur Francis van Bossuit. Amsterdam

1727

USD - 2.60
23 ART. Gems of Art. Articles on. Pottery, by Monkhonse; Early Bookbindings, by S. T. Prideaux ... New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
24 ART. Societe des Artistes Francais. Salon de 1885, '87, 1906. Paris

1885-1906

USD - Unknown
25 Ida Prentice Whitcomb ART. Young People's Story of Art. Buffalo

1907

USD - Unknown
26 Robert Baird ASTOR FAMILY. New York

1839

USD - Unknown
27 ASTRONOMY. Georgetown College Observatory. Photographic Zenith Telescope, Photo-chronograph, applied ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - Unknown
28 ATLAS. Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World, with a Treatise on Physical Geography ... New York

1873

USD - Unknown
29 BACHELLER (IRVING) Works: comprising, Hand-Made Gentleman, Eben Holdem, Darrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong, and ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - 1.00
30 BALTIMORE. The Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine, for 1835. Baltimore

1835

USD - 1.30
31 BALZAC. Dramas: Vantrin, Resources of Quinola, Pamela Giraud, The Stepmother, and Mercadet. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
32 BALZAC. Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumiere par le Sieur de ... Paris

n. d.

USD - 1.50
33 Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe BALZAC. Reportory of the Comedie Humaine. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
34 BALZAC. Scenes de la Vie Parisienne and other works. Paris

1891, etc.

USD - 2.60
35 BANDELLO'S TALES. Raccolta de Novellieri Italiani di Matteo Bandello. Turin

1853

USD - 2.00
36 Edited by R. Babcock, J. C. Choules, and J. M. Peek BAPTIST MEMORIAL and Monthly Record. Devoted to the History, Biography, Literature, and Statistics ... New York

1846

USD - 1.00
37 Marguerite Van de Wiele BELGIUM. Filleul du Roi. Moeurs Bruxelloises. Paris

1884

USD - Unknown
38 BELLE ALSACIENNE (LA) Ou telle Mere telle Fife With 2 fine etchings. Brussels

1882

USD - 2.00
39 BELOT (ADOLPHE) Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme. Paris

1885

USD - 1.00
40 BEVERIDGE (SENATOR ALBERT J.) The Young Man and the World. The College, The Lawyer, The Nation, etc. Buffalo

1907

USD - Unknown
41 BIBLE IN GERMAN. Katholische Waunhische Bibel oder Heilige, Schrifft Alten and Neue Testaments.

1740

USD - 1.10
42 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Annual Summary Numbers of Publishers' Weekly for 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1910;-- ...

v. d.

USD - Unknown
43 BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Book-Worm: An Illustrated Literary Bibliographical Review. Jan. to Dec, 1868 ... London

1868

USD - Unknown
44 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1902-1906. Pittsburgh

1908

USD - Unknown
45 BIBLIOGRAPHY. La Curiosite Litteraire et Bibliographique. Paris

1880-3

USD - 6.50
46 BIBLIOGRAPHIE CLERICO-GALANTE. Paris

1879

USD - 2.10
47 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE CAMPAGNE, ou Amusemens de l'Esprit et du Coeur. Bruxelles

1785

USD - Unknown
48 BLACK (HUGH) The Practice of Self-Culture. Mind, Body, Imagination, Instruments of Mental Culture, etc. Buffalo

1907

USD - Unknown
49 BOCCACCIO. Laberinto d'Amore di M. Giovanni Boccaccio. Venetia

1611

USD - 1.60
50 BONAVENTURE DES PERIERS. Les Contes ou les Nouvelles Recreations et joyeux devis de Bonaventure des ... Amsterdam

1735

USD - 6.25
51 Josephine Pollard BOOKS WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. The Decorative Sisters: A Modern Ballad. New York

1881

USD - Unknown
52 BRAINARD (JOHN G. C.) The Poems of. Hartford

1842

USD - Unknown
53 BUNYAN (JOHN) Pilgrim's Progress. 2 engravings by Ellis. 18mo (lacks covers). Phila., 1830;--Aves De Paso, por ...

v. d.

USD - Unknown
54 J. J. Burlamaqui, Conseiller d'Etat a Geneve BURLAMAQUI'S NATURAL LAW. Principes du Droit Naturel. A Geneve

1747

USD - Unknown
55 BURNETT (FRANCES HODGSON) Works of: comprising, In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim, A Lady of Quality, Giovanni and ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - 1.00
56 BUTLER (ALFRED) Elphinstone. London

1841

USD - Unknown
57 Edited by John Muir CALIFORNIA. Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope: California, Oregon ... New York and San Fran.

(1888)

USD - Unknown
58 Lieut. R. S. Williamson CALIFORNIA. Report of Explorations in California for Railroad Routes. Washington

1856

USD - Unknown
59 Edited by Frank Meriweather Smith CALIFORNIA. San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56, with some Interesting Sketches of Events ... San Francisco

1883

USD - 1.10
60 L. M. Schaeffer CALIFORNIA. Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico, and California. New York

1860

USD - Unknown
61 CAMPBELL (THOMAS) An Essay on English Poetry. Boston

1819

USD - Unknown
62 CARNEGIE (ANDREW) Empire of Business, Road to Business Success, A. B. C. of Money, Labor and Capital, How to Win ... Buffalo

1907

USD - Unknown
63 CASANOVA'S FAMOUS MEMOIRS. Memoires du Venitien Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Paris

1825

USD - 3.50
64 CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA. Memoires du Regne de Catherine, Imperatrice et Souveraine de toutes ... Amsterdam

1729

USD - 4.50
65 Arthur Beckwith CERAMICS. Majolica and Fayence: Italian, Sicilian, Majorcan, Hispano-Moresque and Persian. New York

1877

USD - Unknown
66 CHAMPNEY (ELIZABETH W.) Works: comprising, Witch Winnie: the Story of A King's Daughter, Witch Winnie in Paris, Witch Winnie ... New York

n. d.

USD - 1.00
67 CHARLES NODIER'S COPY. Lettre de J. Marie Guichard, Editeur des Poesies de Charles d'Orleans a M ... Paris

1842

USD - 1.25
68 CHILDREN'S BOOK IN COLORS. The Favorite Picture Book and Nursery Companion compiled anew by Uncle ... New York

n. d.

USD - 1.10
69 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. The Little Girl's Own Book. By Mrs. Child. Illustrations, some colored by hand;-- ... New York and London

1844, '45, '49

USD - Unknown
70 CHILDREN'S BOOKS WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
71 CIVIL WAR. The New Book of Nonsense: a Contribution to the Great Central Fair, in Aid of the ... Philadelphia

1864

USD - Unknown
72 J. O. Barrett CIVIL WAR. Old Abe: The Soldier Bird. The Live War Eagle of Wisconsin that served a Three Years ... Madison, Wis.

1876

USD - Unknown
73 CIVIL WAR. Slocum and his Men. Albany

1904

USD - Unknown
74 Mary Summer CLARETIE (JULES). Aventures d'une Femme Galante au XVIIIe Steele. Paris

1884

USD - 1.50
75 CLARETIE (JULES) Un Enlevement au XVIIIe Siecle, d'apres des Documents tires des archives Nationales. Paris

1882

USD - 1.10
76 Will M. Clemens CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.). Mark Twain: His Life and Work. A Biographical Sketch. New York

1894

USD - 1.10
77 COLLEGES. Catalogue of Officers and Graduates of Columbia University, from the Foundation of King's ... New York and Ann Arbor

1903-06

USD - Unknown
78 COLLEGES. Lawrenceville School Class Books of 1897-98;--Teacher's College, New York;--Columbia ...

v. d.

USD - Unknown
79 The Princeton Bric a Brac. Year Books of the Classes of 1897, 1901, '06, '07, '09, '10. Princeton

1897-1910

USD - Unknown
80 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS. Souvenirs de Paris et ses Environs. Dessines d'apres Nature et Lithographies en ... Paris

circa 1860

USD - 1.20
81 COMPERE MATHIEU (LE) Ou Bigarrures de l'Esprit humain. Hambourg

1793

USD - 3.00
82 CONNECTICUT. Norwalk after Two Hundred and Fifty Years. South Norwalk

(1901)

USD - 1.40
83 John M. Taylor CONNECTICUT WITCHCRAFT. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York

(1908)

USD - Unknown
84 Henri Malin, (La Noce de Clement;--L'Azteque;--Filia Pulchrior, etc.) CONTES EN PLEIN AIR. Paris

1887

USD - Unknown
85 le Comte de Chevigne CONTES REMOIS (LES). Paris

1877

USD - Unknown
86 A. Kippis COOK'S VOYAGES. A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, performed by Captain James Cook; with an ... Philadelphia

1844

USD - Unknown
87 COOKERY. The Book of Household Management. Comprising information for the Mistress, Cook, Butler ... London

1866-69

USD - 1.25
88 a Lady (Mrs. Rundell) COOKERY. New System of Domestic Cookery, formed upon Principles of Economy and adapted to the use of ... London

1845

USD - Unknown
89 Emile Deschanel. (Lesbos, Sappho, Hetaires, Phryne, Lais, Lucians Dialogues, etc., etc.) COURTISANES GRECQUES (LES). Paris

1859

USD - 2.00
90 COX (PALMER) The Brownies: Their Book;--Another Brownie Book;--Queer People. New York and Philadelphia

(1887-90)

USD - Unknown
91 CRANE (WALTER) The Baby's Opera: a Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, by Walter Crane. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
92 CRAWFORD (F. MARION) Works: comprising, Casa Braccio, 2 vols.; Katharine Lauderdale, 2 vols.; Cecilia, In the Palace of ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - 1.50
93 CREBILLON THE YOUNGER. Le Hasard du Coin de Feu. Bruxelles

1869

USD - Unknown
94 Joseph Hertford CRIME. Personals; or, Perils of the Period. N. Y. Post-Office, Newspaper Personals, Niblo's by Gas- ... New York

1870

USD - Unknown
95 CRIME. The Seven Curses of London. Neglected Children, Professional Thieves, Professional Beggars ... Boston

1869

USD - Unknown
96 Anthony Comstock CRIME. Traps for the Young. New York

1883

USD - Unknown
97 Major Richard Delafield CRIMEAN WAR. Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855 and 1856. Washington

1860

USD - Unknown
98 CROLY (REV. GEORGE) The Beauties of the British Poets, with a few Introductory Observations. New York

1831

USD - Unknown
99 A. F. Dosfant CRUSADERS (THE). Guillaume de Varennes ou la Seconde Croisade, 1148-9. Paris

1863

USD - Unknown
100 CURIOUS. Aventures de l'Abbe de Choisy habille en Femme. Bruxelles

1870

USD - 2.80
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