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
501		NEW YORK. Walker's New Map of New York, 1848.			USD -	Unknown
502		NEW YORK. Proposed Act to Consolidate the Cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh and the Town of ...	Williamsburgh	1854	USD -	Unknown
503		NEW YORK. Arguments of the Council of Trinity Church, before the Senate Committee.	Albany	1857	USD -	Unknown
504	John Hickling	NEW YORK. Men and Idioms of Wall Street.	New York	(1875)	USD -	Unknown
505		NEW YORK. The Story of Manhattan Beach . . . also, An Account of Coney Island.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
506		NEW YORK. New York State Entomologist. 7th to 12th Annual Reports.	Albany	1891-97	USD -	2.10
507		NEW YORK. New York State Museum. 48th Annual Report.	Albany	1895	USD -	Unknown
508		NEW YORK. The Brown Book: a Biographical Record of Public Officials, 1898-99.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
509	L. E. Chittenden	NEW YORK. The Broadway Railroad. Facts and Law for Impartial Legislators and Just Men.	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
510		NEW YORK. Hudson River by Daylight, 1873;--N. Y. Public Library, Book of Charters. Wills, Deeds, etc ...			USD -	Unknown
511		NEW YORK. Historical Sketch of the South Church, 1887,--The Brick Church, the Old and the New, by ...			USD -	Unknown
512	F. H. Johnson	NIAGARA FALLS. Guide to.	Philadelphia	1864	USD -	25.00
513	Edited by John Keese	NORTH AMERICAN WOODS. The Forest Legendary; or, Metrical Tales of the North American Woods.	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
514		NORTH CAROLINA. The Revised Statutes of the State of North Carolina.	Raleigh	1837	USD -	1.00
515		NORTH CAROLINA. A Digest of all the reported Cases determined in the Courts of North Carolina, 1778- ...	Raleigh	1839	USD -	2.00
516	D. J. Ryan	NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. From Charter to Constitution, 1606-1803.			USD -	1.60
517		NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. Historical Excerpts. Clark's Conquest of the North West (Randall);-- ...			USD -	Unknown
518		NORTH WESTERN STATESMEN. Historical and Biographical Excerpts. Thomas Worthington (Cole);--Samuel ...			USD -	1.20
519		NOVELS. My Friend the Murderer (Doyle);--Tom Burke, Knight of Gwynne (Lever);--Dream Life (Mitchell ...			USD -	1.00
520		NOVELS. (Recent.) Quicksilver and Flame (Lucas);--A Waif's Progress (Broughton);--The Gentleman from ...			USD -	Unknown
521		OBSERVER (THE). A Monthly Magazine for all Students and Lovers of Nature. Vols. 1-4, bound in three ...	Portland, Connecticut	1890-1897	USD -	1.50
522		OCCULT. There is no Death (Marryat);--Clothed with the Sun (Kingsford); etc.			USD -	Unknown
523		OCCULT THEOSOPHY, ETC. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
524		ODD FELLOWS. The Odd Fellows Offering for 1848 and 1849.	New York	1848-49	USD -	Unknown
525		OHIO. Geological Survey of Ohio, 1869, 1870 (2).	Columbus	1871-75	USD -	Unknown
526		OHIO. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio. Vol. 1;-- Geology, 2 vols.;--Palaeontology, 2 vols.	Columbus	1873-75	USD -	Unknown
527		OHIO. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio. Vol. 1;-- Geology, 2 vols.;--Palaeontology, 2 vols.	Columbus	1874-75	USD -	Unknown
528	W. P. Cutler	OHIO COMPANY. Historical Excerpts on the Origin, Ordinance of 1787, and the Defence of the Frontier.			USD -	1.50
529	OMAR KHAYYAM	Rubaiyat. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an accompaniment of drawings by ...	Boston	1894	USD -	1.90
530	OMAR KHAYYAM	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. With a commentary by H. M. Batson.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
531		ONEIDA INSTITUTE. A Voice from the Oneida Institute, 1843; and 2 other pamphlets.			USD -	Unknown
532		ORIENTAL. Sacred Books of the East, including selections from the Vedic Hymns, the Zend-Avesta, the ...	London and New York	(1902)	USD -	1.40
533		ORIENTAL RELIGION, ETC. Pamphlets relating to.			USD -	Unknown
534	Arthur Gray	OVER THE BLACK COFFEE.	New York	(1902)	USD -	Unknown
535		PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEY. Reports of Explorations and Surveys.	Washington	1855-60	USD -	5.00
536	PACKARD (A. S.)	A Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.	Salem	1868-69	USD -	3.75
537	PALMER (SAMUEL--Painter and Etcher)	The Life and Letters of. Written and edited by A. H. Palmer.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
538		PAMPHLETS. New York Addresses, Imprints, etc.			USD -	Unknown
539		PAMPHLETS. Historical and Miscellaneous.			USD -	Unknown
540	PARKER (SAMUEL)	Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, 1835-37. With a map of the Oregon Territory ...	Ithaca	1842	USD -	1.25
541	PARKMAN (FRANCIS)	The Discovery of the Great West.	Boston	1869	USD -	1.15
542		PARSON BROWNLOW'S BOOK;--From Cap Cod to Dixie;--Grains for the Grangers; and others (some bindings ...			USD -	Unknown
543	J. T. Fields, E. P. Whipple, and others	PARTON (JAMES). Some Noted Princes, Authors and Statesmen of Our Time.	New York	(1885)	USD -	Unknown
544	W. H. Hunter	PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, O.			USD -	1.10
545		PATHFINDER (THE). 1908-09.	Sewanee, Tennessee		USD -	Unknown
546	[PAULDING (J. K.)]	The Book of Saint Nicholas.	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
547		PENNSYLVANIA. Historya Polskiej Ochronki, W. Emsworth, Pa.	Pittsburgh	1907	USD -	Unknown
548	Archibald Colquhoun	PHILLIPINE ISLANDS. The Mastery of the Pacific.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
549		PIANOLA MUSIC. 12 rolls, selected, each in case.			USD -	5.25
550	De Witt C. Peters	PIONEER LIFE AND FRONTIER ADVENTURES. Kit Carson and his Companions, etc.	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
551		PIONEERS OF THE WEST. Historical and Biographical Excerpts. Simon Kenton (M'Farland);--Lake County ( ...			USD -	1.10
552		PIRATES. History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and ...	Hartford	1835	USD -	3.85
553		PLAYS. Turner, Oxberry, French and other Editions.			USD -	Unknown
554	POE (EDGAR A.)	Tales.	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
555	POE (EDGAR A.)	The Broadway Journal.	New York	1845-46	USD -	Unknown
556	POE (EDGAR A.)	The Genius and Characteristics of. Graham's American Monthly Magazine, Feb., 1854.	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
557	POE (EDGAR A.)	The Life and Poems of. New Memoir, by E. L. Didier.	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
558	POE (EDGAR A.)	The Raven.	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
559		POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Will-mott);--American Art Annual, 1898;--Man, Moral and Physical ( ...			USD -	Unknown
560	POND (MAJOR J. B.)	Eccentricities of Genius.	New York	(1900)	USD -	Unknown
561	James Otis	PORTLAND (ME.). The Story of Old Falmouth.	New York	(1901)	USD -	Unknown
562		PORTRAITS. The Bookman's Gallery of Authors.			USD -	1.00
563	Arthur Beckwith	POTTERY. Majolica and Fayence.	New York	1877	USD -	Unknown
564	Annie T. Slossom	POTTERY. The China Hunters' Club.	New York	(1878)	USD -	2.15
565	PRITCHARD (ANDREW)	A History of Infusoria, including the Desmidiaceae and Diatomaceae, British and Foreign.	London	1861	USD -	6.00
566		PROBLEMATIC CHARACTERS (Spielhagen);--Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Co. (Montague);--Rural ...			USD -	Unknown
567		PROSE MASTERPIECES from Modern Essayists. Irving, Leigh Hunt, Emerson and others.	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
568	B. O. Flower	PROSTITUTION WITHIN THE MARRIAGE BOND.	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
569	Rev. William Scott Downey	PROVERBS.	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
570		RAILROAD. Charter of the Junction Railroad Co., Cincinniati, 1850;--Circular Issued, 1868.			USD -	Unknown
571		RAILROAD. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R. Memorial to the Legislature, 1867;--Circular in Regard ...			USD -	Unknown
572		RAILROAD. Train Despatching. First Report of the Special Committee of the Railway Assoc. of America.	New York	(1873)	USD -	Unknown
573	Carter (Charles F.)	RAILROAD. When Railroads were New.	New York	1909	USD -	Unknown
574		RAILROAD COMMUNICATION with the Pacific.	n. p.	n. d. (1867)	USD -	1.50
575	Marshall M. Kirkman	RAILWAYS. The Science of Railways.	New York	1903	USD -	3.00
576	RASTELL (WILLIAM)	A Collection of Entries of Declarations, Barres, Replications, etc.	London	1670	USD -	Unknown
577		RECREATIVE SCIENCE. A Record and Remembrancer.	London	1861-62	USD -	Unknown
578	REES (THOMAS)	Reminiscences of Literary London, 1779 to 1853.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
579		REPUBLICAN PARTY (THE), by John Hay and E. Root, 1904;--The Red Record;--Bancroft's Letter on the ...			USD -	Unknown
580	REYNOLDS (G. W. M.)	Omar: a Tale of the War;-- Leila.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
581	RILEY (I. WOODBRIDGE)	The Founder of Mormon-ism. A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
582	RILEY (JAMES W.)	Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury.	Indianapolis	1889	USD -	Unknown
583	RILEY (JAMES W.)	The Golden Year. Compiled by C. E. Laughlin (from Riley's verse and prose).	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
584	Silas Hubbard	ROCKEFELLER. John D. Rockefeller and his Career (an Attack).	New York	1904	USD -	2.00
585		RUSSIAN AUTHORS. Novels. Underground Russia, etc.			USD -	Unknown
586		ST. NICHOLAS. From Vol. 1, No. 4-Vol. 9, No. 2, irregular.	New York	1874-1881	USD -	2.60
587	Lucy E. Keller	SANDUSKY RIVER (THE).			USD -	1.00
588	James Montgomery	SANDWICH ISLANDS. Voyages and Travels Round the World, by Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet.	London	1840	USD -	1.25
589	Ellen H. Walworth	SARATOGA (N. Y.). The Battle; Battle-Ground; Visitor's Guide.	New York	(1877)	USD -	Unknown
590	William L. Stone	SARATOGA (N. Y.). Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston.	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
591		SCHOOL AND TEXT-BOOKS.			USD -	1.25
592		SCIENCE. Hardwicke's Science Gossip. From Jan. I, 1869, to Dec, 1883 (irregular). With Classified ...			USD -	Unknown
593		SCIENCE. The Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature and Art. Illustrated with ...	London	1868	USD -	2.00
594		SCIENCE NEWS. Vol. 1, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.	Salem	1878	USD -	Unknown
595		SCIENTIFIC PAMPHLETS.			USD -	Unknown
596	SCOTT (SIR WALTER)	Poetical Works.	Edinb.	1870	USD -	1.00
597		SCOTTISH LANGUAGE. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language.	Edinburgh	1867	USD -	1.10
598	SCUDDER (HORACE E.)	Men and Letters.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
599		SENECA INDIANS. The Case of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York.	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	Unknown
600	E. O. Randall	SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR (O.), from its commencement, 1817, to its conclusion.			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.

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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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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.