Merwin Clayton Sales Company: Old Books and Pamphlets with a few Important Western Manuscripts. To be sold at auction Thursday and Friday Mornings November 21st, and 22nd, 1912. By Merwin Sales Company Successors to The Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, 16 East 40th Street, New York., 483,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 21, 1912 - November 21, 1912
Page Size: 844 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ACADEMY AND COLLEGE PAMPHLETS.

USD - Unknown
2 George Henry Lewes ACTORS. On Actors and the Art of Acting. London

1875

 USD - Unknown
3 ADAMS (J. Q.) President's Message. National Intelligence Extra, Dec. 4, 1827.

USD - Unknown
4 ADDRESSES, LETTERS, ETC.

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5 ADDRESSES, REPORTS, ETC.

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6 AERONAUTICS.

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7 AESOP Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author and embellished with 112 plates by Blake and others. London

(1793)

 USD - 3.50
8 AFRICA. Boer War.

USD - Unknown
9 AIRSHIPS. Wonderful Balloon Ascents. From the French of F. Marion. New York

1871

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10 A. Hildebrandt AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. Together with chapters on the use of Balloons in Connection with ... London

1908

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11 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. (Hildebrandt), Lond. 1908;--Ballooning (May), Lond. 1885.

USD - 1.20
12 J. G. Aikin ALABAMA. Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa

1836

 USD - 3.25
13 Rev. E. P. Rogers ALB6ANY. A Historical Discourse on the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Albany. New York

1858

 USD - Unknown
14 ALBANY FEMALE ACADEMY. Reports of Annual Examinations, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1861, 1863, 1865, etc.

USD - Unknown
15 ALLOM (THOMAS) Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. London

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
16 ALMANACS AND YEAR BOOKS.

USD - 2.00
17 F. H. Smith, G. P. Lathrop, C. M. Skinner, Clarence Cook, etc., etc. AMERICAN ART. Essays on American Art and Artists. Boston

1894

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18 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS.

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19 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Geo. Peabody (Hanaford);--Henry Wilson. (Nason);--U. S. Grant (Abbott);--Jas. G ...

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20 AMERICAN COLLEGE ADDRESSES, 1840-1858.

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21 AMERICAN DISCOURSES, 1785-1827.

USD - 2.50
22 AMERICAN GOLD QUOTATIONS, 1862-1865;--The same, 1862-1867. New York

1866-68

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23 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PAPERS. Vol. 1, No. 2 and No. 4;--Annual Reports for 1889, 1891 ... New York and London

1887-1895

 USD - 7.00
24 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REGISTER and Monthly Gazette of the Patriotic-Hereditary Societies of the United ... Philadelphia

1894-1896

 USD - 3.50
25 AMERICAN IMPRINTS, 1743-1830.

USD - 4.00
26 AMERICAN IMPRINTS, 1769-1800.

USD - 3.00
27 AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS. Miscellaneous Southern, Western and N. Y. views.

(Circa 1860-70)

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28 AMERICAN SCENERY. Gallery of Landscape Painters. New York

n. d.

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29 AMERICAN SERMONS AND DISCOURSES, 1850-55.

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30 AMERICAN TELEGRAPHY (Maver);--Electrical Transmission of Energy (Abbott);--Law of Electric Lighting ... v. p.

v. d.

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31 AMHERST COLLEGE. Early Catalogues, etc.

USD - 1.00
32 ANDOVER (MASS.). Pamphlets.

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33 Clara Ershine Clement ANGELS IN ART. Boston

n. d.

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34 ANIMAL MAGNETISM EXPLAINED (Edwards), Lond., 1789;--Treatise on Animal Magnetism (Johnson), N. Y ... v. p.

v. d.

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35 J. C. Nott and G. R. Gliddon ANTHROPOLOGY. Types of Mankind; or, Ethnological Researches. Philadelphia

1855

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36 ARC AND GLOW LAMPS (Maier);--Theory of Electricity (Cumming);--Modern Views of Electricity (Lodge ... v. p.

v. d.

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37 ARCHAEOLOGY. Annual Reports of the Archaeological Institute of America, 9 vols., 1881-96;-- ...

USD - 1.75
38 David Laing ARCHITECTURE. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings, Public and Private, Executed in various ... London

1848

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39 J. Alfred Gotch and W. Talbot Brown ARCHITECTURE of the Renaissance in England, illustrated by a series of views and details. London

1894

 USD - 5.50
40 Caston (George) ART. Social Caricature in the XVIIIth Century. London

(1905)

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41 Gilby (Sir Walter) ART. Geo. Morland. His Life and Works. London

1907

 USD - 3.50
42 Macfall (Haldane) ART. Boucher. The Man, His Times, His Art and His Significance. London

1908

 USD - 1.00
43 Salaman (Malcolm C.) ART. Old English mezzotints. London

1910

 USD - 2.75
44 Meryon (Charles) ART. Etchings of. London

USD - 2.50
45 Morland (George) ART. A Collection of 110 reproductions of plates after his designs (of which 13 colored).

USD - 2.00
46 Whistler (J. McNeill) ART. Special number of the Brush and Pencil Magazine.

USD - Unknown
47 ART. W. M. Hunt's Talks on Art;--Hodgson's 50 Years of British Art, 1889;--Salonde 1890 Catalogue ...

USD - 1.00
48 ART AND LETTERS: an. Illustrated Review. London and New York

1889

 USD - 3.50
49 ART BOOKS. Illustrations to the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. India Proof plates (imperfect at ...

USD - Unknown
50 ART MAGAZINES. The Artist, April, Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1897, Feby., 1898. International Studio ... London and New York

USD - 4.00
51 ASTRONOMY. Journal of the British Astronomical Association. London

1892-1908

 USD - 3.50
52 ASTRONOMY. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for Nov. 1906-June 1908. 19 nos ... London

1892-1908

 USD - 1.25
53 ASTRONOMY. Memoirs' of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vols. 54 to 59, not consecutive; with 7 ... London

1901-8

 USD - 1.00
54 ASTRONOMY. Report on the Total Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878 (Todd), 1880;--Astronomical Papers ... v. p.

v. d.

 USD - Unknown
55 ASTRONOMY.

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56 AUSTRALIA; New Zealand.

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57 BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. Communication, Baltimore, 1831. Map of the Baltimore and Ohio R ... Baltimore and Ohio R. R.

USD - 2.00
58 BANGS (JOHN KENDRICK) The Booming of Acre Hill;--The Idiot at Home;--The Pursuit of the Houseboat;--A Houseboat on the ... New York

1902

 USD - 2.25
59 BANKING AND FINANCE.

USD - Unknown
60 BARTLETT (W. H.) The Pilgrim Fathers; or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First. London

1853

 USD - 1.35
61 BASIA; The Kisses of Johannes Secundus. With spirited frontispiece. N. Y., n. d.;--Prison Poetry, by ...

USD - Unknown
62 BEALE (LIONEL S.) How to Work with the Microscope. London

1868

 USD - Unknown
63 BEATTIE (WILLIAM) Switzerland. London

1836

 USD - Unknown
64 BEATTIE (WILLIAM) Scotland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by T. Allom, W. H. Bartlett ... London

1838

 USD - Unknown
65 BEECHER (H. W.) Star Papers. New York

1873

 USD - Unknown
66 BEECHER (H. W.) Pamphlets by and on.

USD - Unknown
67 BEECHER-TILTON TRIAL. New York Daily Tribune, Jan. 22 to July 3, 1875. New York

1875

 USD - 1.50
68 BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASS.

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69 BEUST (COUNT VON) Memoirs of Friedrich Ferdinand, Count von Beust. London

1887

 USD - Unknown
70 Edward Edwards BIBLIOGRAPHY. Memoirs of Libraries: including a Handbook of Library Economy, by Edward Edwards. London

1859

 USD - 3.50
71 James Wynne BIBLIOGRAPHY. Private Libraries of New York. New York

1860

 USD - Unknown
72 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the Rice Collection. New York

1870

 USD - Unknown
73 (R. H. Shepherd) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Thackeray (W. M.). The Bibliography of Thackeray. A Bibliographical List, Arranged in ... London

n. d. (1880)

 USD - 1.10
74 Hurst (John F.) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliotheca Theologica. New York

1883

 USD - Unknown
75 J. O. Wright BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Rough List designed as a Basis of a More Complete Catalogue of the Library of Samuel ... New York

1885

 USD - 1.00
76 BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the Library and Art Collection of Henry de Pene du Bois. New York

1887

 USD - Unknown
77 Gagnon (Phileas) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Essai de Bibliographie Canadienne, Inventaire d'une Bibliotheque comprenant Imprimes ... Quebec

1895

 USD - 2.75
78 Victor H. Paltsits BIBLIOGRAPHY. Freneau. A Bibliography of the Separate and Collected Works of Philip Freneau ... New York

1903

 USD - 2.00
79 Livingstone Rutherfurd BIBLIOGRAPHY. Zenger (J. P.). John Peter Zenger: his Press, his Trial, and a Bibliography of Zenger ... New York

1904

 USD - 1.40
80 Mme. la Vicomtesse de Coeur-Brulant BIBLIOTHEQUE DES CURIEUX. Les Cousines de la Colonelle. Paris

n. d.

 USD - 1.50
81 BIBLIOTHEQUE DES CURIEUX. Un Ete a la Campagne. Correspondance de deux jeunes Parisiennes. Paris

n. d.

 USD - 1.50
82 BILLERICA, MASS. Abbott's Argument on the Concord River Darn, 1862;--Cumings' Thanksgiving Sermon ...

USD - Unknown
83 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Abbot Family.

USD - Unknown
84 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Adams Family.

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85 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Anderson Family.

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86 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Andrew and Andrews Families.

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87 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Arnold Family.

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88 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Brooks Family.

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89 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Brown Family.

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90 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Cary and Carey Families.

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91 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Chapin Family.

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92 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Chase Family.

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93 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Clark Family.

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94 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Curtis Family.

USD - Unknown
95 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Dean Family.

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96 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Hill Family.

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97 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Lincoln Family.

USD - Unknown
98 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Lowell Family.

USD - Unknown
99 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Peirce-Pierce Family.

USD - Unknown
100 BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS. Porter Family.

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