Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE ROBERT BROWN SECRETARY OF YALE OBSERVATORY NEW HAVEN, CONN. (WITH ADDITIONS) NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE, AMERICANA, CONFEDERATE BOOKS, FIRST EDITIONS, BIOGRAPHY, OLD LAWS, ETC., ETC. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, 440,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 14, 1912 - February 14, 1912

Page Size: 728 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ABBOTT'S NEW YORK DIGEST.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
2		ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF OHIO. Historical Excerpts. Report on Field Work, etc.			USD -	1.00
3	ADAMS (O. F.)	A Brief Handbook of American Authors.	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
4	ADAMS (ROBERT C.)	History of the United States in Rhyme.	Boston	(1884)	USD -	Unknown
5		AGASSIZ AND GOULD. Principles of Zoology.	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
6	AGASSIZ (LOUIS)	Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America.	Boston	1857-62	USD -	4.50
7	C. C. Clay	ALABAMA. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama.	Tuskaloosa	1843	USD -	Unknown
8	C. C. Clay	ALABAMA. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama containing all the Statutes of a Public and ...	Tuscaloosa	1843	USD -	Unknown
9	P. Phillips	ALABAMA. Digest of Cases decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, from Minor to VII ...	Mobile	1846-40.	USD -	Unknown
10	T. Reavis	ALABAMA. A Digest of the Alabama Reports.	Tuskaloosa	1850	USD -	Unknown
11		ALABAMA. The Code of Alabama. With head notes and index by Henry C. Semple.	Montgomery	1852	USD -	Unknown
12		ALABAMA. Acts of the Fourth Biennial Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, held in Montgomery ...	Montgomery	1854	USD -	Unknown
13		ALABAMA. Acts of the Fifth Biennial Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, held in the City of ...	Montgomery	1856	USD -	Unknown
14	J. W. Shepherd	ALABAMA. Digest of the Alabama Reports from the 17th to the 29th volume N. S., inclusive.	Montgomery	1858	USD -	Unknown
15	William R. Smith	ALABAMA. The Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Civil and Criminal Cases and the Office and ...	Montgomery	1859	USD -	Unknown
16		ALABAMA. Acts of the Seventh Biennial Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, held in the City ...	Montgomery	1860	USD -	Unknown
17		ALABAMA. The Revised Code of Alabama.	Montgomery	1867	USD -	Unknown
18	ALDRICH (T. B.)	Prudence Palfrey.	Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
19	ALDRICH (T. B.)	Prudence Palfrey, First Edition;--Marjorie Daw.	Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
20	ALDRICH (T. B.)	The Queen of Sheba.	Boston	1877	USD -	Unknown
21	ALDRICH (T. B.)	Mercedes and Later Lyrics.	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
22	ALDRICH (T. B.). and OLIPHANT (M. O. W.)	The Second Son.	Boston	1888	USD -	Unknown
23	ALDRICH (T. B.)	Wyndham Towers.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
24	ALDRICH (T. B.)	The Sisters' Tragedy with other Poems.	Boston	1891	USD -	Unknown
25	William Young	ALDRICH (T. B.). Wishmakers' Town.	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
26	A. B. Hervey	ALGAE. Sea Mosses. A Collector's Guide and an Introduction to the Study of Marine Algae.	Boston	(1881)	USD -	2.00
27		ALMANAC. The Whig and Tribune Almanacs, 1846-81.			USD -	Unknown
28		AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 1865-80. 100 parts.	New York.		USD -	Unknown
29		AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. Proceedings. From the 11th Meeting (1857) to ...	Cambridge and Salem	1858-1910	USD -	11.00
30		AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.	Salem	1882-1908	USD -	Unknown
31		AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. Programmes, Addresses, etc.			USD -	Unknown
32		AMERICAN AUTHORS. W. C. Bryant (Hill);--G. W. Curtis (Winter);--O. W. Holmes (Jerrold);--J. G ...			USD -	1.00
33		AMERICAN CATALOGUE. Founded by F. Leypoldt. Compiled under the Editorial Direction of R. R. Bower ...	New York	1891	USD -	5.50
34		AMERICAN CATALOGUE. Founded by F. Leypoldt. Compiled under the Editorial Direction of R. R. Bower ...	New York	1896	USD -	5.25
35		AMERICAN CATALOGUE. Founded by F. Leypoldt. Compiled under the Editorial Direction of R. R. Bower ...	New York	1901	USD -	5.25
36		AMERICA COMPARED WITH ENGLAND. The respective social effects of the American and English systems of ...	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
37		AMERICA DISCOVERED (Huntington);--The Light that Failed (Kipling) (Lippincott's Magazine), 1891;-- ...			USD -	Unknown
38		AMERICAN HUMOR. Yankee Drolleries;--Elton's Comic All-My-Nack, 1848;--Complete Works of Artemus Ward ...			USD -	Unknown
39	J. C. Baylis	AMERICAN JOURNALISM. History of.			USD -	Unknown
40		AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. Conducted by B. Silliman, B. Silliman, Jr., and James D. Dana ...	New Haven	1856-1911	USD -	20.00
41		AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR AND LITERARY GAZETTE, Oct. 20, 1855, to May 31, 1856 (not collated).	New York	1855-56	USD -	30.00
42		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A History of the Surrender of the British Forces to the Americans and French at ...	N. p.	(1881)	USD -	1.50
43	H. P. Johnston	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, July IS, 1779.	New York	1900	USD -	1.00
44		AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROSCOPISTS. 3rd to 9th, 11th to 14th Annual Meetings. Proceedings.	V. p.	1880-91	USD -	2.75
45		AMERICAN NATURALIST (THE), a Popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History. Edited by A. S ...	Salem	1868-86	USD -	12.25
46		AMERICAN NAVY. The Book of the Navy, comprising a general history of the American Marine.	Hartford	1849	USD -	Unknown
47	Charles F. Orvis and A. Nelson Cheney	ANGLING. Fishing with the Fly.	Manchester	1883	USD -	Unknown
48	L. M. Yale, A. F. Higgins and others	ANGLING. The Out of Door Library. Angling.	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
49	Charles Bradford	ANGLING. The Angler's Secret.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
50	Henrietta Dumont	ANNUAL. The Floral Offering.	Philadelphia	1859	USD -	Unknown
51		ANTIMILITARISM. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
52	W. F. Poole	ANTI-SLAVERY OPINIONS BEFORE THE YEAR 1800.	Cincinnati	1873	USD -	1.25
53	ARMOUR (J. OGDEN)	The Packers, the Private Car Lines and the People.	Philadelphia	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
54	ARNOLD (EDWIN)	Lotus and Jewel, with other Poems.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
55	A. P. Stanley	ARNOLD (THOMAS). The Life and Correspondence of.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
56	Gerard de Lairesse	ART. Le Grand Livre des Peintres ou l'Art de la Peinture.	Paris	1787	USD -	1.80
57		ART. Drawings by John Leech;--Talk about Hokusai at the Century Club, 1897;--Tuscan Notes (Lee);-- ...			USD -	Unknown
58		ARTIFICIAL BUTTER, Vegeterianism, Cocaine, etc. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
59		ASTRONOMY. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
60		ATHEISM. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
61		ATLANTIC-CLUB BOOK (THE). Being Sketches in Prose and Verse by various Authors.	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
62	AUDSLEY (W. J. and G. A.)	Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
63		AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. Walter Besant, P. B. Du Chaillu, Goldwin Smith, H. H. Bancroft, Amelie Rives ...			USD -	1.50
64	[BACON (DELIA)]	Tales of the Puritans.	New Haven	1831	USD -	Unknown
65	BALLARD (JULIA P.)	Among the Moths and Butterflies.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
66	BALZAC (HONORE DE)	Novels.	New York	(1900)	USD -	2.10
67	BANIER (ABBE)	Mythology and Fables of the Ancients explained from History.	London	1739	USD -	1.25
68	Shannon (Wilson)	BANKING. Annual Message of the Gov. of Ohio.	Columbus	1839	USD -	Unknown
69	BARANTE (M. DE)	Histoire des Dues de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois, 1364-1477.	Bruxelles	1838	USD -	1.10
70		BARBER AND HOWE. Our Whole Country; or, the Past and Present of the United States, historical and ...	Cincinnati	1861	USD -	Unknown
71	BARDSLEY (CHARLES W.)	Our English Surnames, their Sources and Significations.	London	n. d.	USD -	1.00
72	Mrs. C. S. Hulbut	BARGE. Benjamin Barge, 1832-1902, his Life -- his Travels.	Phila.	1905	USD -	Unknown
73	BARLOW (JOEL)	Joel Barlow to his Fellow Citizens of the United States of America.	N. p.	n. d. (1799-1801)	USD -	Unknown
74	BARRINGTON (SIR JONAH)	Personal Sketches and Recollections of his Own Times.	Glasgow	1876	USD -	Unknown
75	Mary White	BEADWORK. How to do Beadwork.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
76	Mary White	BEADWORK. How to do Beadwork.			USD -	Unknown
77	BEECHER (EDWARD)	The Papal Conspiracy Exposed and Protestantism Defended.	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
78	BERKELEY (M. J.)	Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany.	London	1857	USD -	1.00
79		BIBLE. The Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, etc., now extant, and not included in ...	New York	1890	USD -	2.10
80	Leo Bros	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
81	Edited by E. B. Sargant and Bernhard Whishaw	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Guide Book to Books.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
82		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Auction Catalogues, etc.			USD -	Unknown
83		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
84		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.			USD -	Unknown
85	Victor H. Paltsits	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the Works of Philip Freneau.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
86	Victor H. Paltsits	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the Works of Philip Freneau.			USD -	Unknown
87	V. H. Paltsits	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the Works of Philip Freneau.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
88	W. M. Rossetti	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.	London	1905	USD -	Unknown
89	BIGELOW (POULTNEY)	The Borderland of the Czar and Kaiser.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
90		BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS.			USD -	Unknown
91		BIOGRAPHY. Life of General Greene (Simms);--Mansfield's Life of General Scott;--Life of John C ...			USD -	1.00
92		BIOGRAPHY. Life of James Buchanan (Horton);--Jenkin's Life of Silas Wright;--Life of General Marion ...			USD -	Unknown
93	BLACKBURN (HENRY)	Breton Folk. An Artistic Tour in Brittany.	London	1880	USD -	2.00
94	BLAKE (J. L.)	A General Biographical Dictionary comprising a summary account of the most distinguished persons of ...	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
95	BLAKE (J. L.)	A General Biographical Dictionary comprising a summary account of the most distinguished persons of ...	Philadelphia	1842	USD -	Unknown
96		BLANK BOOK, with 50 Bristol Board Leaves.			USD -	Unknown
97	William H. Safford	BLENNERHASSETT. The Blennerhassett Papers, embodying the private Journal of Harman Blennerhassett ...	Cincinnati	1864	USD -	7.25
98		BOOK BINDINGS. Goodwin Catalogue, Part 3;--Two Hundred Books from the Libraries of the World's ...			USD -	Unknown
99		BOOK-KEEPING. Jones's English System of Book-Keeping.	New York	1796	USD -	Unknown
100	John A. Gade	BOOK-PLATES. Old and New.	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s
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December 9-17, 2025

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.