Merwin Clayton Sales Company: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE LATE ROBERT BROWN SECRETARY OF YALE OBSERVATORY, NEW HAVEN, CONN. (WITH OTHER PROPERTIES) COMPRISING SPECIMENS OF CELEBRATED AMERICAN AND FOREIGN HISTORICAL, DRAMATIC, MUSICAL AND LITERARY PERSONAGES INCL, 462,

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Auction Date
May 13, 1912 - May 13, 1912
Page Size: 1327 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 BULWER (EDWARD, LORD LYTTON--English Author) A. L. S.

1865

 USD - 1.00
102 BULWER (EDWARD, LORD LYTTON--English Author) A. L. S.

1849

 USD - 1.25
103 BULWER (EDWARD, LORD LYTTON--English Author) A. L. S.

1872

 USD - 1.50
104 BURBECK (HENRY--General in Revolution. Called the Founder of West Point) A. L. S. Detroit

1803

 USD - 3.25
105 BURNSIDE (A. E.--Union Gen. in the Civil War) A. N. S. Senate

1881

 USD - Unknown
106 BURR (AARON--V. P., U. S.) A. L. S.

1815

 USD - 20.00
107 BURR (AARON--V. P., U. S.) D. S. New York

1788

 USD - 1.75
108 BURRALL (JONATHAN--Revolutionary Officer) A. L. S. New York

1792

 USD - 1.00
109 BURRITT (ELIHU--Reformer) A. L. S. London

1846

 USD - Unknown
110 BURTHOGGE (RICHARD, M. D.--Author) A Curious Treatise (not complete).

USD - Unknown
111 BURY (LADY CHARLOTTE--Author and Beauty) A. L. S.

1821

 USD - Unknown
112 BUTLER (GEN. BENJ. F.) L. S.

USD - 1.00
113 BUTLER (PIERCE--Senator) A. L. S. (2). Phila.

1796

 USD - Unknown
114 BUTLER (WM. ALLEN--Poet) A. L. S. New York

1860

 USD - Unknown
115 BUXTON (SIR THOMAS F.--Eminent English Philanthropist) A. L. S. Leamington

1838

 USD - Unknown
116 BYRON (LORD) Autograph signature, Byron. Bologna

1819

 USD - 1.25
117 CABLE (G. W.); Louise Chandler Moulton; Julia Ward Howe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Marie Roze.

USD - Unknown
118 CADOGAN (WM.--Gen'l English Army) L. S.

1725

 USD - Unknown
119 CAMERON (G. POULETT--Lt. - Col. in British Army) Autograph manuscript story The Thugs.

USD - Unknown
120 CAMERON (SIMON--Secy. of War U. S.) N. S.

1861

 USD - 1.50
121 CAMPBELL (SIR ALEXANDER--British General) D. S. Pay-Roll Warrant.

1815

 USD - Unknown
122 CAMPBELL (THOMAS--Eminent English Poet) A. L. in the third person.

USD - Unknown
123 CANADA. Copies of Correspondence between Gen. Haldimand and James Cuthbert, Quebec, 1780-1791 ...

USD - 1.00
124 CANBY (ED. R. S.--Federal General) L. S. New Orleans

1865

 USD - 1.10
125 CANNING (GEORGE--Eminent English Statesman) L. S.

1824

 USD - Unknown
126 CANROBERT (FRANCOIS CERTAIN--Marshal of France. Supported Napoleon III in the Coup d'Etat, Dec. 2, 1851) L. S.

1855

 USD - Unknown
127 CARDIGAN (JAMES T. B., EARL OF--British General) D. S.

1832

 USD - Unknown
128 CAREY (MATHEW--Eminent Early Am. Publisher) A. L. S. Phila.

1823

 USD - Unknown
129 CARLETON (SIR GUY--British General) D. S. Quebec

1770

 USD - 3.00
130 CARLETON (SIR GUY--British General) L. S. Quebec

1791

 USD - 1.10
131 CARMARTHEN (MARQUIS OF, afterwards THE DUKE OF LEEDS--Supposed Author of Letters of Junius.) 3 A. L. S.

USD - 2.25
132 CARPENTIER (F.--Consular Agent at Rouen) L. S. Rouen

1795

 USD - Unknown
133 CASTRIES (ARMAND N. A. DUC DE--Col. in American Revolution in French Army) A. L. S. Versailles

1781

 USD - 1.00
134 CATHOLIC CARDINALS. Congratulatory Letters to Pope Piux IX, from Cardinals Antonelli, Mattei ...

USD - 5.00
135 CATLIN (GEORGE--Painter and Indian Authority A. L. S.

USD - 1.00
136 CHANLER (AMELIE RIVES--Author) A. L. S. Castle Hill

1888

 USD - Unknown
137 CHASE (S. P.--American Statesman) L. S.

1863

 USD - 1.10
138 CHASE (SALMON P. -Lincoln's Secy. of the Treasury) L. S.

1864

 USD - 1.25
139 CHASE (SALMON P.--Lincoln's Secy. of the Treasury) A. N. (3rd person), as Chief Justice, 1866.

1866

 USD - Unknown
140 CHEEVER (JOSHUA--Early Boston Merchant) A. L. S. Boston

1736

 USD - Unknown
141 CHENEY (JOHN VANCE--American Poet) A. L. S. San Francisco

1886

 USD - Unknown
142 CHENEY (JOHN VANCE--American Poet) A. L. S. San Francisco

1886

 USD - Unknown
143 CHESTER (PETER--Gov. of Florida) D. S.

1772

 USD - Unknown
144 CHESTERFIELD (PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE -EARL OF) Rare Portrait.

USD - Unknown
145 CHOATE (RUFUS--Eminent Lawyer) A. L. S.

1843

 USD - Unknown
146 CHOISEUL (LA DUCHESSE DE) A. L. S.

1711

 USD - 5.00
147 CHRISTIE (GABRIEL, GEN.--at Louisbourg in 1758) D. S. Quebec

1769

 USD - Unknown
148 CIVIL WAR. Paris

1863

 USD - 1.25
149 CIVIL WAR.

1862

 USD - 1.00
150 CLARKE (ALURED, LIEUT. - GEN.--Served in Canada) D. S.

1810

 USD - Unknown
151 CLARKE (ALURED, LIEUT. - GEN.--Served in Canada) D. S.

1808

 USD - Unknown
152 CLAY (CLEMENT C.--Eminent Statesman) A.N.S. Washington

1839

 USD - Unknown
153 CLAY (HENRY) A. D. S.

1817

 USD - 3.50
154 CLAY (HENRY) D. S., Signature as Secretary of State, to a Passport for Lieut. George W. Whistler.

1828

 USD - Unknown
155 CLAY (HENRY) A. N. S. Washington

'39

 USD - 1.50
156 CLEMENS (S. L.--Mark Twain) A. L. S.

1901

 USD - 13.00
157 CLEVELAND (GROVER--President, U. S.) A. L. S. New York

1889

 USD - 12.00
158 CLEVELAND (GROVER--President, U. S.) L. S. Gray Gables

1892

 USD - 1.50
159 CLINTON (DE WITT--American Statesman, Gov. of N. Y.) L. S., with three lines added in his hand. New York

1804

 USD - Unknown
160 CLINTON (DE WITT--Gov. of N. Y. State) A. L. S. Albany

1821

 USD - 1.00
161 CLINTON (GEORGE--Fourth Vice President of the United States and Gov. of New York State) D. S.

USD - 1.50
162 CLOUGH (E.--Member of Boston Tea Party) D. S.

1826

 USD - Unknown
163 CLYMER (GEORGE--Penn. Signer) Endorsement signed, as foreman of the jury in a burglary charge. Phila.

1773

 USD - Unknown
164 COBB (HOWELL--Secy, of Treasury) L. S.

1858

 USD - Unknown
165 COLBERT (JEAN BAPTISTE--Famous French Minister of Finance, of the 17th Century) D. S. St. Germaine

1669

 USD - 1.75
166 COLEPEPER (THOS.--Royalist Conspirator and Book Collector, whose genealogical collections are in the British Museum) Legal D. S.

1683

 USD - Unknown
167 COLFAX (SCHUYLER--V.-P. U. S.) A. L. S.

USD - Unknown
168 COLLIER (J. PAYNE--Shakespearean Scholar) A. N. S. Maidenhead

1874

 USD - Unknown
169 COLQUITT (ALFRED HOLT--Gov. of Georgia; Brig.-Gen. in the Confederate Army) L. S. Atlanta

1877

 USD - Unknown
170 COLT (PETER, COL.--Commissary of American and French Troops in Revolution) A. L. S. New York

1809

 USD - Unknown
171 COLVILLE (LT.-GEN. CHARLES--Commanded at Waterloo) D. S.

1808

 USD - Unknown
172 COMBE (GEORGE--Eminent Phrenologist) A.L.S. Edinburgh

1850

 USD - Unknown
173 CONFEDERATE STATES DOCUMENTS. Voucher for Account of Lieut. W. N. Wilson, 1863; Voucher for Account ...

USD - Unknown
174 CONFEDERATE. A Confederate Soldier's Railroad Ticket from Atlanta to Kingston, stamped on back ...

1863

 USD - Unknown
175 CONFEDERATE GENERALS. Gen. Albert Pike, A. N. S.; J. E. B. Stuart, A. S., rare; Gen. D. H. Hill, A ...

USD - 1.00
176 CONFEDERATE MONEY. From 10 cents to $100.

USD - 1.00
177 CONKLING (ROSCOE--U. S. Senator) L. S. Washington

1871

 USD - Unknown
178 CONKLING (ROSCOE--U. S. Senator) L. S. Washington

1870

 USD - Unknown
179 CONWAY (GEORGE SEYMOUR--British Captain) D. S.

1784

 USD - Unknown
180 COOPER (PETER--Philanthropist) L. S. New York

1853

 USD - Unknown
181 CORELLI (MARIE--English Author) A. L. S.

1892

 USD - 4.75
182 COSBY (ALEXANDER--Governor of Annapolis Royal) Receipt for money, signed.

1731

 USD - Unknown
183 COSWAY (W.) D. S. New York

1778

 USD - Unknown
184 COUES (ELLIOTT--Eminent Ornithologist) A.L.S. Washington

1880

 USD - Unknown
185 COUSIN (VICTOR--French Author) A. N. S.

USD - Unknown
186 COXE (TENCH) A. L. S.

1808

 USD - Unknown
187 CRAIGIE (P. M. T.--Mrs. Craigie--Author) A. N. S.

USD - Unknown
188 CRILLON-MAHON (LOUIS DE BERTON DES BALBES DE QUIERS--French General) L. S. Madrid

1789

 USD - Unknown
189 CROFT (SIR HERBERT--English Writer) 33 A. L. S. of varying length, written to Chief Justice Osgood of Quebec, 1775-1785.

USD - Unknown
190 CROLY (GEORGE--English Poet) A. N. S. London

1832

 USD - Unknown
191 CROWFORT (W. HENSHMAN) A. L. S.

1830

 USD - Unknown
192 CROWNINSHIELD (RICHARD) 2 A. L. S.

1830

 USD - Unknown
193 CRUIKSIIANK (GEORGE) Etched view of the interior of Samuel P. Avery's Fine Art Room.

1873

 USD - Unknown
194 CUNNINGHAM (ALLAN--Scottish Author.) A.N.S.

1835

 USD - Unknown
195 CURTIN (A. G.--War Governor of Penn.) A.L.S. Harrisburg

1864

 USD - Unknown
196 CURTIN (JEREMIAH--Eminent Linguist) L. S. Washington

1891

 USD - Unknown
197 CURTIS (WILLIAM E.--American Author) Four typewritten letters signed by him in connection with the Bureau of the American Republics, 1892 ...

1892

 USD - Unknown
198 CURZON (LORD--Viceroy of India) A. L. S.

1906

 USD - Unknown
199 CUYLER (CORNELIUS--Early Albany Merchant) L. S. Albany

1736

 USD - Unknown
200 CUYLER (HENRY--Early New York Merchant) A. L. S. New York

1736

 USD - Unknown
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
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    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.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    Sotheby’s
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    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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    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.