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
701 WESTERN HISTORIANS, ETC. Historical and Biographical Excerpts. Henry Howe (Smith);--Cumsul W. Butter ...

USD - Unknown
702 WESTERN LAND POLICY of the British Government, 1763-1775. By B. A. Hinsdale;--Some Early Travelers ...

USD - Unknown
703 WEST INDIA PICKLES (Talboys);--In the Levant (Warner);--Pagoda Shadows (Fielde);--A Year in China ( ...

USD - Unknown
704 WESTON (WALKER) Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps. London

1896

 USD - 1.00
705 WESTWOOD (J. O.) An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects. London

1839

 USD - 2.75
706 WHALING. Stories of the Whale; or, Perils of Whale Fishery. New York

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
707 WHARTON (GRACE AND PHILIP) The Wits and Beaux of Society. London

1871

 USD - Unknown
708 WHISTLER (J. A. M.) Lotus, No. 1, In Memoriam of J. A. M. Whistler, 1903;--Whistler (Macfall), 1006;--Little Journey to ...

USD - 1.00
709 WHITE (GILBERT) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. London

1900

 USD - Unknown
710 John Gillies WHITEFIELD (REV. GEORGE). Memoirs of the Life of. New Haven

1812

 USD - Unknown
711 WHITTIER (J. G.) Prose Works of. Boston

1866

 USD - Unknown
712 WHITTLESEY (CHARLES) Descriptions of Ancient Works in Ohio. Washington

1852

 USD - Unknown
713 WILDE (OSCAR) Poems. New York

1895

 USD - Unknown
714 WILDE (OSCAR) The Soul of Man, 1892;--Intentions, Leipzig, 1891;-- The Ballad of Reading Gaol, N. Y. 1899.

USD - Unknown
715 WILKINS (PETER) Life and Adventures of. Account of his Visit to the Flying Islanders. Boston

1847

 USD - Unknown
716 WILLIS (N. P.) American Scenery, Vol. 1;--Canadian Scenery, Vol. 2. Steel plates from drawings by W. H. Bartlett ... London

1840-42

 USD - 1.50
717 WILLIS (N. P.) Sacred Poems. With portrait and beautiful vignette engravings in wood by Orr, after Parsons, Lumbey ... New York

(1859)

 USD - 1.50
718 La Roy Sunderland WITCHCRAFT. Pathetism, with practical instructions . . . with numerous facts tending to show the ... New York

1843

 USD - Unknown
719 Thomas Hutchinson WITCHCRAFT DELUSION OF 1692. Boston

1870

 USD - 1.00
720 WOLLE (FRANCIS) Desmids of the United States and List of American Pediastrums. Bethlehem

1884

 USD - 12.50
721 WOOD (J. G.) The Illustrated Natural History. Mammalia, Birds. Reptiles, Fishes and Insects. London

n. d. (1862)

 USD - 1.25
722 WOOD (HORATIO C.) A Contribution to the History of the Fresh Water Algae of North America. Washington

1873

 USD - 4.50
723 WRIGHT (THOMAS) A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. London

1875

 USD - Unknown
724 Wm. L. Stone WYOMING. Poetry and History of: containing Campbell's Gertrude; and History of Wyoming, by Wm. L ... New York

1841

 USD - Unknown
725 YALE COLLEGE. The Yale Review. Edited by Students of Yale College. Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2. New Haven

1857

 USD - 1.00
726 Timothy Dwight YALE COLLEGE. Two Centuries of Christian Activity at Yale;-- Memories of Yale Life and Men. New York

v. d.

 USD - Unknown
727 ZOLA (EMILE) Wedded in Death;--Nemesis;--A Fatal Conquest;--Driven to Her Doom;--A Woman's Heart;--The Two ... New York

1883-84

 USD - 1.00
728 Robert H. Shepard ZOLA (EMILE). Emile Zola: a Biographical and Critical Study. London

1893

 USD - Unknown
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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.
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    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
    Book Week
    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.
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    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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