Merwin Clayton Sales Company: RARE BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPH. THE FINE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. O. S. ROBERTS OF PITTSFIELD, MASS. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION UPON THE ORDER OF THE PROBATE COURT IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON JANUARY 24, 1913, 492,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 24, 1913 - January 24, 1913
Page Size: 658 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Fiske's Orations. John Fiske. Boston

1909

USD - 6.25
95 Keats (John) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. John Keats. Boston

1909

USD - 6.00
96 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Speech of Charles Dickens. Boston

1909

USD - 7.50
97 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. The Eighth Year Book. Boston

1909

USD - 3.00
98 Edited by Richard Garnett BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Thomas Love Peacock. Boston

1910

USD - 7.00
99 Harper (Henry H.) BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. A Journey in Southeastern Mexico. Narrative of Experiences and Observations on ... New York, Boston

1910

USD - 3.50
100 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Ninth Year Book. Boston

1910

USD - 3.00
101 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Tenth Year Book. Boston

1911

USD - 7.00
102 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Eleventh Year Book, 1912. Boston

1912

USD - 4.50
103 BINDING. Flavii Josephi Opera Omnia. Ad Codices omnes cum impressos tum Manuscriptos diligenter ... Oxonii

1720

USD - 4.00
104 BINDING. Venetian. Protogiornale per l'anno MDCCXCI as uso della serenissima dominante Citta di ... Venice

1791

USD - 3.00
105 Dante BINDING. The Comedy of Dante Alighieri rendered into English by Sir Edward Sullivan. London

1893

USD - 5.50
106 Alexander Gilchrist BLAKE (WILLIAM). Life of William Blake, with Selections from his Poems and other Writings by ... London

1863

USD - 4.50
107 BLAKE (WILLIAM) The Marriage of Heven and Hell.

(1885)

USD - 6.00
108 BOCCACCIO Il Decamerone Di M. Giovanni Boccaccio. Nuovamente Corretto et con diligentia stampato. [Venice]

[1527, 1729]

USD - 5.50
109 BOCCACCIO The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio), now first completely done into English Prose and ... London

1886

USD - 11.00
110 BOCCACCIO The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. London

1895

USD - 10.50
111 BOCCACCIO The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. London

1906

USD - 7.50
112 BOCCACCIO The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio). Phila.

n. d.

USD - 4.75
113 Harper (H. H.) BOOK COLLECTING. Book Lovers, Bibliomaniacs, and Book Clubs. Boston

1904

USD - 3.50
114 R. E. D. Sketchley BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS. English Book Illustrations of To-day. Appreciations of the Work of Living ... London

1903

USD - 1.00
115 BOOK OF BEAUTY. The Book of Beauty (Late Victorian Era). London

1897

USD - 1.25
116 Sir Thomas Browne BOOK OF JOB (THE). According to the Authorized Version: Religio Medici. New York

1903

USD - 2.50
117 Wilbur M. Stone BOOK-PLATES. Jay Chambers, His Book-plates, with 27 examples and an Essay Concerning Them. New York

1902

USD - 1.25
118 BOSSUET (J. B.) Oraison Funebre du Grand Conde. Paris.

1879

USD - Unknown
119 BRINKLEY (CAPTAIN F.) Oriental Series. Japan, Its History, Arts, and Literature, 8 vols.; China, Its History, Arts, and ... Boston and Tokyo

(1901-1902)

USD - 26.00
120 BROWNE (SIR THOMAS) Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into Very many received Tenets, and commonly presumed Truths. London

1646

USD - 4.00
121 BROWNING (ROBERT) Christmas Eve. East Aurora

1899

USD - Unknown
122 BROWNING (ROBERT) In a Balcony. Chicago

1902

USD - Unknown
123 BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN) A Funeral Oration occasioned by the death of Thomas Cole, delivered before the National Academy of ... New York

1848

USD - 3.00
124 BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN) and GAY (SYDNEY HOWARD) A Popular History of the United States. New York, New York

1876-81, 1899

USD - 5.00
125 BUNSEN (C. C. J.) Egypt's Place in Universal History, translated by C. H. Cottrell, and continued by Birch, including ... London

1848-67

USD - 8.00
126 BURNS (ROBERT) The Complete Works of Robert Burns (Self-Interpreting). Phila.

1896

USD - 41.00
127 BURNS (ROBERT) Memorial Catalogue of the Burns Exhibition . . . in Glasgow, 1896 (including Catalogues of Rare ... Glasgow

1898

USD - 3.00
128 BURROUGHS (JOHN) The Writings of John Burroughs. Boston

1904

USD - 135.00
129 BYRON Lord Byron's Farewell to England, etc., including an entire copy (now first printed) of his Curse of ... Phila.

1816

USD - 1.00
130 CARLYLE (THOMAS) Carlyle's Complete Works. Boston

1884

USD - 15.00
131 CELEBRATED PAINTINGS. Columbian Gallery. Boston

(1893)

USD - 3.00
132 CENTURY DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPAEDIA (The). Including Atlas, Dictionary of Names, and two new ... New York

(1909)

USD - 25.00
133 CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE) The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Edinburgh

1910

USD - 8.00
134 CHARLES II Airy, Osmond. Charles II. London

1901

USD - 6.50
135 CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS. Portrait of a woman of high rank holding a rose.

USD - 1.50
136 CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS. Painting of a woman of high rank holding a string of Prayer beads.

USD - 2.00
137 CHODERLOS DE LACLOS. Les Liaisons Dangereuses; or Letters collected in a Private Society and ... London

1898

USD - 10.50
138 CHRISTY (HOWARD CHANDLER) Original Pen-and-ink Sketch, with crayon coloring. Sketch of an American Girl. Signed in full, ...

USD - 8.50
139 CHRISTY (HOWARD CHANDLER) Original Crayon Sketch United States Army Officer. Signed Christy-'92.

USD - 10.00
140 CHRISTY (HOWARD CHANDLER) Original Wash Drawing, The Golf Girl. With autograph inscription in corner, in the handwriting of ...

USD - 17.00
141 Edited by Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel CIVIL WAR. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Being, for the Most Part, Contributions By Union ... New York

(1884-88)

USD - 12.50
142 Edited by P. F. Mottelay and T. Campbell-Copeland CIVIL WAR. The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-65, Illustrating ... New York

1890

USD - 2.50
143 CLAY (HENRY) The Works of Henry Clay. Comprising His Life, Correspondence, and Speeches. New York and London

1904

USD - 24.00
144 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) A Tramp Abroad. Hartford

1880

USD - 5.50
145 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) Life on the Mississippi. Boston

1883

USD - 5.00
146 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) How to Tell a Story and Other Essays. New York

1897

USD - 3.75
147 W. Outram Tristram COACHING. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. London

1888

USD - 4.50
148 COLERIDGE (S. T.) Rime of Ye Ancient Mariner. East Aurora

1899

USD - 1.00
149 [COLMAN (GEORGE)] Polly Honeycombe. A Dramatic Novel. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
150 COLORED CARICATURE PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT NEW YORKERS. Our American Circus. The Greatest Show on ... New York

1892

USD - 2.50
151 COLORED PLATES. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies, 1799 to 1815, comprising ... London

1814-15

USD - 31.00
152 COOPER (J. F.) The Works of J. Fenimore Cooper. New York and London

n. d.

USD - 72.00
153 COSTUME. Medaille a l'Exposition Universelle de 1867. Iconographie Generale et Methodique du Costume ... Paris

[1867]

USD - 20.00
154 Boutet (Henri) COSTUME. Les Modes Feminines du XIXe Siecle. Paris

1902

USD - 10.00
155 COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. Graham's Magazine. (Vols. 20-21, 30 and 31.) Phila.

1842-47

USD - 2.50
156 COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine. (Vols. 40-43, 45, 46, 74 and 75.) Phila.

1850-51

USD - 2.50
157 COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. London

1866-67

USD - 1.50
158 COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. London

1870

USD - 1.00
159 Edited by Mrs. H. Peterson COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. The Lady's Friend. Phila.

1871-72

USD - 1.20
160 COSTUME. Colored Fashion Plates. Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine (odd numbers for 1873-74-76). Phila.

1873-76

USD - 1.10
161 CRANBOOK PRESS. The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. Detroit

1901

USD - 4.00
162 CRANBOOK PRESS. Three Wise Men. Extracts from the celebrated works of M. Aurelius Antonius, Francis ... Detroit

1901

USD - 2.50
163 CRANBOOK PRESS. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, from the first printed English translation ... Detroit

1901

USD - 2.00
164 George G. Booth CRANBOOK PRESS. Cranbrook Tales. Detroit, Mich.

1902

USD - 2.00
165 CRAWFORD (F. MARION) The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford. New York

n. d.

USD - 8.00
166 [Hugo (Victor)] CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Hans of Iceland. London

1825

USD - 3.00
167 Goldsmith (Oliver) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Vicar of Wakefield. A Tale. London

1832

USD - 2.00
168 De Foe (Daniel) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Journal of the Plague Tear. London

1835

USD - 1.10
169 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) Comic Almanac, 1835-42. London

1835-42

USD - 5.00
170 [Irving (Washington)] CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Salmagundi; or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and ... London

1839

USD - Unknown
171 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) The Life and Adventures of Don Quixotte. New York

1845

USD - 3.00
172 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) Tales About Christmas and New Year's Day. London

1848

USD - 1.00
173 Miss Pardoe CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll. London

(1850)

USD - 3.50
174 Stowe (Mrs. H. B.) CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Uncle Tom's Cabin. London

1852

USD - 7.50
175 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) The Temperance Offering: Essays, Tales and Poetry, etc. London

(1854)

USD - Unknown
176 CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT) Comicalities. (A series of 24 finely colored plates, depicting the various phases of life and times ... (London)

USD - 9.50
177 CURIOUS. Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste, on Choix de Pieces Desopilantes et Rare. Turin

1869

USD - 1.00
178 Gastine (J.-L.) CURIOUS. Lys Amors d'Helain-Pisan d'Iseult Savoisy. Paris

1890

USD - 1.50
179 Westermarck (Edward) CURIOUS. The History of Human Marriage. London

1894

USD - 5.25
180 CURIOUS. History of Flagellation among different nations. New York

1903

USD - 1.00
181 CURIOUS. Les Conteurs du XVIIIE Siecle. Paris

n. d.

USD - 1.00
182 Duquesne (R.) CURIOUS. Vie et Aventures de la Belle Sorel (Maitresse du Charles VII). Paris

n. d.

USD - Unknown
183 Blasis (C.) DANCING. The Code of Terpsichore. The Art of Dancing: comprising its Theory and Practice and History ... London

1830

USD - 25.00
184 DAUDET (ALPHONSE) L'Evangeliste. Roman Parisien. Paris

1892

USD - 2.00
185 DAUDET (ALPHONSE) The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. New York

1903

USD - 11.00
186 DARWIN (CHARLES) Selected Works of Charles Darwin. New York

n. d.

USD - 12.00
187 DAYS OF THE DANDIES. Peg Woffington (J. F. Molloy);--Captain Gronow, written by himself;--Laurence ... London

n. d.

USD - 12.00
188 DELANY (MRS.) Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, with interesting Reminiscences of ... London

1861-62

USD - 17.00
189 D'EPINAY (MADAME) The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame D'Epinay. London

1899

USD - 3.00
190 DICKENS (CHARLES) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. London

1838

USD - 5.25
191 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London

1839

USD - 2.60
192 DICKENS (CHARLES) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. London

1840

USD - 2.25
193 DICKENS (CHARLES) A Tale of Two Cities. London

1859

USD - 33.00
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