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
194 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London

1862

USD - Unknown
195 M. T. Bass, M. P. DICKENS (CHARLES). Street Music in the Metropolis. Correspondence and Observations on the existing ... London

1864

USD - 1.50
196 DICKENS (CHARLES) Speeches, Literary and Social. London

(ca. 1870)

USD - Unknown
197 Robt. Langton DICKENS (CHARLES). The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens. Manchester

1883

USD - Unknown
198 DICKENS (CHARLES) A Christmas Carol. East Aurora

1902

USD - Unknown
199 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Complete Works of Charles Dickens. Boston

n. d.

USD - 81.00
200 DICKENS (CHARLES) The following volumes of Chapman and Hall's subsequent issue in form of the original editions ... London

n. d.

USD - 7.00
201 DOMETT (ALFRED) Flotsam and Jetsam: Rhymes Old and New. London

1877

USD - 1.10
202 DORAT Les Tourterelles de Zelmis. (Paris)

(n. d.)

USD - 1.25
203 Blanchard Jerrold DORE (GUSTAVE) Life of. London

1891

USD - 1.25
204 DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN) Works of. New York

n. d.

USD - 13.00
205 DRAMA. Theatrical Banquet.

USD - 1.75
206 DRAMA. Dunlap Society. First Series, Nos. 1 to 12: New Series, complete in 15 nos. New York

1887-1901

USD - 16.00
207 DRYDEN (JOHN) The Works of John Dryden. New York

n. d.

USD - 54.00
208 John Durand DURAND (ASHER B.). Life and Times of A. B. Durand. New York

1894

USD - 2.50
209 D'URFEY (THOMAS) Tales, Tragical and Comical. London

1704

USD - 1.10
210 D'URFEY (THOMAS) New Opera's with Comical Stories, and Poems, on Several Occasions. London

1821

USD - 1.00
211 Guest (Edwin) EARLY ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH VERSE. A History of English Rhythms. London

1838

USD - 1.75
212 EGAN (PIERCE) Life in London; or Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian ... London

1823

USD - 15.00
213 EGAN (PIERCE) Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic in their pursuits through Life in and ... London

n. d.

USD - 9.50
214 ELZEVIR PRESS. Institutiones Aulicae, Praecipue ex Tacito, sed ex aliis optimis hidtoricis, ab ... Amstelodami

1642

USD - 2.50
215 Severus (Sulpitius) ELZEVIR PRESS. Sulpitii Severi Opera omnia quae extant. Lugd. Batavorum

1643

USD - 2.50
216 EMERSON (R. W.) The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston

(1883-87)

USD - 9.00
217 EMERSON (R. W.) Compensation;--The Essay on Friendship. East Aurora

1909, etc.

USD - Unknown
218 ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (THE). Ninth Edition. With Index. 25 vols. (1878-89). With American ... New York, Edinburgh

1878-1903

USD - 14.00
219 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT.

USD - 1.50
220 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings after Rembrandt by W. Unger.

USD - 3.25
221 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings after Van Dyke, Van Laar, W. Van de Velde, Van Ostade.

USD - Unknown
222 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings after Ruben by W. Unger.

USD - 1.25
223 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings after Jordaeus, Poussin, Ostade, Livens and Moor.

USD - Unknown
224 W. Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings after Steen, Teniers, J. van der Merr, Terborch.

USD - Unknown
225 William Unger ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Etchings. After Frans Hals. Leiden

1873

USD - 2.00
226 Lancon (Auguste) ETCHINGS AFTER REMBRANDT. Les Animaux Chez Eux. Paris

1882

USD - 2.00
227 FAIRCHILD (LEE) The Tippler's Vow. New York

(1901)

USD - 6.50
228 FAIRCHILD (LEE) Don Juan's Banquet. New York

1903

USD - 1.00
229 Francis Wilson FIELD (EUGENE). The Eugene Field I Knew. New York

1898

USD - 6.00
230 FIELD (EUGENE) The Works of Eugene Field. New York

1899-1901

USD - 8.50
231 FIELDING (HENRY) Works Complete. London

1882

USD - 11.00
232 FIELDING (HENRY) The Works of Henry Fielding. Westminster

1898-99

USD - 60.00
233 FISKE (JOHN) The Discovery of America. Cambridge

1892

USD - 32.00
234 FISKE (JOHN) The American Revolution. Cambridge

1896

USD - 38.00
235 FISKE (JOHN) The Beginnings of New England, or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious ... Cambridge

1898

USD - 8.00
236 FISKE (JOHN) The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789. Cambridge

1898

USD - 10.00
237 FISKE (JOHN) Old Virginia and Her Neighbours. Cambridge

1900

USD - 11.00
238 FISKE (JOHN) The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. Cambridge

1903

USD - 8.00
239 FISKE (JOHN) New France and New England. Cambridge

1904

USD - 7.00
240 FISKE (JOHN) The Writings of John Fiske. Cambridge

1902

USD - 180.00
241 Howell (William) FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Medulla Historiae Anglicanae. The Ancient and Present State of England, being a ... London

1766

USD - 11.00
242 Joachim Ambert FRENCH ARMY. Esquisses Historiques, Psychologiques et Critiques de l'Armee Francaise. Bruxelles

1840

USD - 1.10
243 Demoustier (C. A.) FRENCH ENGRAVERS OF THE 18TH CENTURY. Lettres a Emile sur La Mythologie. Paris

1809

USD - 6.50
244 Amelia G. Mason FRENCH SALONS. The Women of the French Salons. New York

1891

USD - 1.10
245 FRENCH SONGS. Chants et Chansons Populaires de la France. Deuxieme Serie. Paris

1845

USD - 1.00
246 Jacquemart (Albert) FURNITURE. A History of Furniture. London

1878

USD - 4.55
247 FURNITURE. Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite Furniture Designs. London

1900

USD - 7.00
248 Ahmed Ibn Mohammed Al-Makkari GAYANGOS (PASQUAL DE). The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain. London

1840

USD - 2.25
249 Robert Huish GEORGE IV., OF ENGLAND. Memoirs of George the Fourth, Descriptive of the most Interesting Scenes of ... London

1831

USD - 3.00
250 GIBBON (EDWARD) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London

1815

USD - 7.75
251 GIBBON (EDWARD) The Works of Edward Gibbon. Comprising: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... New York

(1906)

USD - 40.00
252 GOETHE (J. W. VON) The Life and Works of J. W. von Goethe. Boston

(1902)

USD - 15.00
253 GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS (THE). London and New York

[1904]

USD - 29.00
254 Edited by Charles F. Horne GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. A series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of more than 200 of the ... New York

(1894)

USD - 5.25
255 GREENAWAY (KATE) A Day in A Child's Life. London

n. d.

USD - 2.75
256 GREENAWAY (KATE) Marigold Garden. Pictures and Rhymes. London

n. d.

USD - 2.20
257 GROLIER CLUB. The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury. New York

1889

USD - 30.00
258 George W. Curtis GROLIER CLUB. Washington Irving. A Sketch. New York

1891

USD - 6.00
259 Devinne (Theo. L.) GROLIER CLUB. Title Pages As Seen By a Printer, with some Observations on the Early and Recent ... New York

1901

USD - 11.00
260 Hart (Charles Henry) GROLIER CLUB. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington. New York

1904

USD - 19.00
261 GUIZOT (M.) A Popular History of France, from the Earliest Times. Boston

n. d.

USD - 10.75
262 GUIZOT (M.) A Popular History of England, from the Earliest. Times to the Accessions of Victoria. Boston

n. d.

USD - 6.00
263 HALL (S. C.) The Book of Gems. Poets and Artists of Great Britain. London

1844-5

USD - 5.00
264 HAMILTON (ANTHONY) Memoirs of Count Grammont. London

1811

USD - 15.00
265 HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER) Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York

1881

USD - 5.00
266 HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston

(1882-84)

USD - 10.00
267 HEINE (HEINRICH) The Works of Heinrich Heine. New York

n. d.

USD - 14.50
268 G. W. Eve HERALDRY. Decorative Heraldry: A Practical Handbook of its Artistic Treatment. London

1897

USD - 2.00
269 HERBERT (GEORGE) The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. New York

1904

USD - 2.00
270 HISTORIC MEMOIRS. Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe, from the 16th to the 19th Century. Phila.

n. d.

USD - 200.00
271 Guy Carleton Lee and Francis N. Thorpe, Editors HISTORY OF AMERICA (THE). Phila.

[1903]

USD - 50.00
272 HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Works of William Hogarth, including the Analysis of Beauty and Five Days' Peregrination. Phila.

1900

USD - 25.00
273 HUGO (VICTOR) The Works of Victor Hugo. Boston

1892

USD - 36.00
274 (J. T. Morse, Jr.) HOLMES (O. W.) The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (with Life and Letters of Holmes, by J. T. Morse ... Boston

(1892-96)

USD - 8.50
275 HOPE (ANTHONY) Works of Anthony Hope. New York

(1902)

USD - 9.50
276 HUBBARD (ELBERT) Little Journeys, Famous Women. New York

(1902)

USD - Unknown
277 HUBBARD (ELBERT) Time and Chance, N. Y., 1901; Health and Wealth, East Aurora, The Roycrofters, 1908. New York and East Aurora

1901-08

USD - 1.00
278 HUNTINGTON (WILLIAM REED) Sonnet and A Dream. Jamaica, New York

1899

USD - Unknown
279 HUXLEY (T. H.) Selected Works of Thomas H. Huxley. New York and London

n. d.

USD - 6.50
280 ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. A. ABBEY. Old Songs. New York

1889

USD - 4.00
281 ILLUSTRATIONS. The Quiet Life. New York

1890

USD - 4.00
282 ILLUSTRATIONS. Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick. New York

1892

USD - 1.50
283 INGERSOLL (ROBERT G.) Memorial Edition. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (including Lectures, Discussions, Interviews ... New York

1902

USD - 100.00
284 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London

1893

USD - 4.00
285 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Rip Van Winkle. (East Aurora)

(1905)

USD - Unknown
286 IRVING (WASHINGTON) Irving's Works (Complete). New York

n. d.

USD - 27.00
287 ITALIAN NOVELISTS. Now first translated into English by W. G. Waters. Choicely illustrated by E. R ... London

1901

USD - 21.00
288 JACKSON (HELEN) Poems by Helen Jackson. Boston

1892

USD - 1.50
289 JAPAN. MYTHOLOGICAL JAPAN; or, the Symbolisms of Mythology in Relation to Japanese Art. Phila.

n. d.

USD - 2.50
290 I. Shirataki JAPANESE WATER-COLOR PAINTINGS. Distant Fuji; village in the foreground.

USD - 1.75
291 I. Shirataki JAPANESE WATER-COLOR PAINTINGS. Pine Trees with view of Temple.

USD - 1.75
292 I. Shirataki JAPANESE WATER-COLOR PAINTINGS. Worshipper leaving the Temple.

USD - 2.20
293 T. Hasekawa JAPANESE WATER-COLOR PAINTINGS. Distant Fuji from the Bay.

USD - 1.50
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