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
401	LINCOLN	The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward.	Washington	1866	USD -	Unknown
402	LINCOLN	Nasby. Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of Yoors Trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby.	Cincinnati	1867	USD -	1.25
403	LINCOLN	Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories.	Chicago	1879	USD -	1.70
404	F. A. Rollin	LINCOLN. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany.	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
405	Donn Piatt	LINCOLN. Memories of Men Who Saved the Union.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
406	LINCOLN	The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, Correspondence Between Gen. C. H. T. Collis and Col. Robert G ...	New York	(1900)	USD -	Unknown
407	LINCOLN	The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, Correspondence Between Gen. C. H. T. Collis and Col. Robert G ...			USD -	Unknown
408	LINCOLN	Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln. Centenary Edition. Portraits and illustrations. 8 vols. (should ...	New York	(1909)	USD -	Unknown
409	Kamensky (A.)	LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln, his Life and Work.	Warsaw	1910	USD -	Unknown
410	Edited by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck	LITERARY WORLD (THE).	New York	1849-51	USD -	Unknown
411		LITHOGRAPHED MUSIC TITLES. Portraits and Views (Jenny lind, etc.)			USD -	Unknown
412	H. R. Fox Bourne	LOCKE (JOHN). The Life of.	New York	1876	USD -	1.00
413	LOCKE (W. J.)	The Beloved Vagabond;--The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne;--Septimus;--Simon the Jester.	New York	v. d.	USD -	1.10
414	Andrew Tuer	LONDON. Old London Cries and the Cries of To-Day. With quaint cuts.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
415	[LONGFELLOW (H. W.)]	Hyperion, a Romance.	New York	1839	USD -	2.10
416	[LONGFELLOW (H. W.)]	Voices of the Night.	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
417	[LONGFELLOW (H. W.)]	The Song of Hiawatha.	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
418	[LONGFELLOW (H. W.)]	Life of. With Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence.	Boston	1886	USD -	1.30
419	[LONGFELLOW (H. W.)]	Final Memorials of.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
420		LOVE LETTERS OF A WORLDLY WOMAN (Clifford); --Cyrano De Berera (Rostand);--Crown of Wild Olive ( ...			USD -	Unknown
421		LOVE SONGS OF FRANCE, from the Originals of De Musset, Gautier, Hugo and others.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
422	LOWE (E. J.)	Our Native Ferns, or a History of the British Species and their Varieties.	London	1867	USD -	5.50
423	LOWE (E. J.)	A Natural History of British Grasses.	London	1868	USD -	2.25
424	LOWE (E. J.)	A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns.	London	1868	USD -	2.25
425	LOWE (E. J.)	Ferns, British and Exotic.	London	1868	USD -	8.25
426	LOWELL (J. R.)	Conversations on some of the Old Poets.	Philadelphia	1893	USD -	Unknown
427	LYELL (SIR CHARLES)	Manual of Elementary Geology.	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
428	McCARTHY (JUSTIN)	A History of Our Own Times. With an Introduction and Supplementary Chapters by G. Mercer Adam.	New York	1895	USD -	2.00
429	McMASTER (JOHN B.)	A History of the People of the United States.	New York	n. d.	USD -	1.90
430	MABERLY (J.)	The Print Collector. An introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of Ancient ...	New York	1880	USD -	2.50
431	MABIE (HAMILTON W.)	In Arcady.	New York	(1903)	USD -	Unknown
432	MANN (HORACE)	Annual Reports of the (Mass.) Board of Education (8, 9, 10, 12 to 15).	Boston	1845-53	USD -	Unknown
433		MANUFACTURER AND BUILDER (THE).	New York	1869-70	USD -	Unknown
434		MANUSCRIPT. Rise and Progress of the Baptist in Boston (1665-1840).			USD -	1.00
435		MAP. Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York et Pensilvanie.	Paris	1757	USD -	1.00
436		MAP OF THE PLYMOUTH PATENT, 1753.	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
437		MAP OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. Lithographed by Ritchie & Dunnavant.	Richmond	1858	USD -	Unknown
438	MARDEN (O. S.)	The Young Man Entering Business.	New York	(1903)	USD -	Unknown
439	MARSH (O. C.)	Odontornithes: A Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America.	Washington	1880	USD -	1.10
440	Edited by C. Moore	MASONIC. Leaflets of Masonic Biography; or, Sketches of Eminent Freemasons.	Cincinnati	1863	USD -	Unknown
441	Rob Morris	MASONIC. The Poetry of Freemasonry.	Chicago	1895	USD -	Unknown
442		MASSACHUSETTS PAMPHLETS.			USD -	Unknown
443		MATHEMATICS, Accountancy, etc. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
444	MATTOX (A. H.)	A History of the Cincinnati Society of Ex Army and Navy Officers, with Name, Army Record and Rank of ...	Cincinnati	1880	USD -	1.00
445		MAURY'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA;-- Life and Epistles of St. Paul (Conybeare and Howson);-- ...			USD -	Unknown
446	MERIMEE (PROSPER)	Novels and Tales: Carmen, Ar-sene Guillot, Abbe Aubain;--Colomba: the Double Mistake, etc.;-- Last ...	New York	1906	USD -	2.00
447	[MERYON (CHARLES L.)]	Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope.	London.	1845	USD -	Unknown
448		MESMERISM. Library of Mesmerism and Psychology.	New York	(1876)	USD -	Unknown
449	S. Compton Smith	MEXICAN WAR. Chile Con Carne; or, The Camp and the Field.	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
450	M. M. Ballou	MEXICO. Aztec Land.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
451		MICROSCOPE (THE) and its Revelations (Carpenter);-- The Microscope, its History, etc. (Hogg).			USD -	Unknown
452	Edited by Edwin Lankester and George Busk	MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. Quarterly Journal of Miscroscopical Science. Vols. 1 to 8, and New Series ...	London	1853-67	USD -	4.10
453		MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Transactions of. New Series, Vols. 1 to 16.	London	1833-67	USD -	4.25
454	MILLER (C. H.)	Chants for the Boer.	San Francisco	1900	USD -	Unknown
455	Peter Bayne	MILLER (HUGH). The Life and Letters of.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
456		MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.			USD -	1.00
457		MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE (Hough);--A Georgian Actress (Mackie); etc.			USD -	Unknown
458	MITCHELL (J. A.)	The Summer School of Philosophy at Mt. Desert.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
459	Robert and William C. Pike	MNEMONICS Applied to the Acquisition of Knowledge.	Waltham	1846	USD -	Unknown
460		MODERN BOOKS. Echoes and Prophecies (Hyde-Vogl), 1909;--Mansfield Acting Version of Peer Gynt (Ibsen ...			USD -	Unknown
461		MODERN BOOKS. Observation of Jay (a Dog) (Shepard), 1900;--An Encore (Deland), 1907;--The Dawn ...			USD -	1.00
462	Edited by Henry Lawson	MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL (THE): Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society and Record of ...	London	1869-77	USD -	6.00
463		MORAVIAN MASSACRE at Gnadenhutten, 1782 (Farrar);--Military Posts in Ohio (Moorehead).			USD -	1.00
464		MORMONS. Female Life among the Mormons. By the Wife of a Mormon Elder.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
465	Nelson W. Green	MORMONS. Fifteen Years among the Mormons.	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
466	L. A. Bundy	MORMONISM EXPOSED.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
467	B. F. Morris	MORRIS (THOMAS -- Pioneer of Ohio). The Life of.	Cincinnati	1866	USD -	Unknown
468	MORRIS (WILLIAM)	The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.	Boston	1871	USD -	1.10
469	MORRIS (WILLIAM)	John Ruskin and Robert Burns. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
470	A. J. Grout	MOSES WITH A HAND-LENS.	New York	(1900)	USD -	Unknown
471	J. P. MacLean	MOUND BUILDERS (THE). Archaeology of Butler Co., Ohio.	Cincinnati	1879	USD -	1.50
472		MOUND BUILDERS. Historical Excerpts. Ancient Works at Mariet (Maclean);--Excavations of the Adeva ...			USD -	Unknown
473	MULLER (C. O.)	Ancient Art and its Remains.	London	1852	USD -	1.50
474	MURDOCH (DAVID)	The Royalist's Daughter and the Rebels; or, The Dutch Dominie of the Catskills. A Tale of the ...	Philadelphia	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
475	L. W. Yaggy and T. L. Haines	MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITY.	New York	1882	USD -	2.00
476	Charles H. Peck	MUSHROOMS. Report of the State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York.	Albany	1900	USD -	1.50
477	J. G. Whittier	MUSIC. Little Eva.	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
478		MUSIC. Ancient Musical Instruments;--Art of Conducting;-- Instrumentalism, etc.			USD -	1.00
479		MUSIC. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Programmes, 1906-1912.			USD -	Unknown
480	MYERS (P. V. N.)	Remains of Lost Empires (Palmyra and Nineveh).	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
481	Louis Bonaparte	NAPOLEON. A Reply to Sir Walter Scott's History of Napoleon.	Philadelphia	1829	USD -	1.50
482	Norvins	NAPOLEON. Histoire de Napoleon. Par Norvins.	Bruxelles	1843	USD -	Unknown
483		NATURAL HISTORY. Hardwick's Science-Gossip. An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for ...	London	1873-1881	USD -	Unknown
484	Ogle, Bateman, Jackson, Dunn, Broadbent and others	NERVOUS SYSTEM, APHASIA, ETC. 19 Pamphlets on. By Ogle, Bateman, Jackson, Dunn, Broadbent and others ...		v. p.	USD -	Unknown
485		NEW ENGLANDER (THE). Vols. 15-24 (irregular);-- New Englander and Yale Review. Vols. 9-20 (irregular ...	New Haven	1857-1895	USD -	1.10
486		NEW ENGLAND FARRIER; or, Farmers' Receipt Book.	Boston	1835	USD -	Unknown
487		NEW HAVEN (CONN.) AS IT IS.	New Haven	1845	USD -	1.00
488		NEW HAVEN. Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society.	New Haven	1888	USD -	2.50
489		NEW HAVEN. Historical Pamphlets, Sermons, etc.			USD -	2.50
490		NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings at the Public Opening, Sept. 28, 1893.	New Haven	1893	USD -	Unknown
491		NEW JERSEY. Transactions of the Madison County Agricultural Society, 1842-45 . . . and an article on ...	Hamilton	1845	USD -	Unknown
492		NEW JERSEY. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.	Trenton	1872	USD -	2.10
493	Grenelle (L. O.)	NEW JERSEY. Life and Labors of Elder Zelotes Grenell (1818-1882).		1885	USD -	Unknown
494	Julia K. Colles	NEW JERSEY. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown, with a Chapter on Historic Morristown.	Morristown	1893	USD -	Unknown
495	John Y. Foster	NEW JERSEY AND THE REBELLION.	Newark	1868	USD -	Unknown
496	NEW ORLEANS (LA.)	The Diary of a Samaritan.	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
497		NEW STATE MUSEUM. Bulletins of, 1895-1901.			USD -	Unknown
498	[Wetmore (Prosper M.)]	NEW YORK. Lexington, with other Fugitive Poems.	New York	1830	USD -	Unknown
499		NEW YORK. Rates and Proposals of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Co., No. 38 Wall Street, for ...	New York	1830	USD -	1.50
500		NEW YORK. The Charter of the City of New York, with Notes thereon . . . and the Journal of the City ...	New York	1836	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.
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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.

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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.