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
594	Evert A. Duyckinck	PORTRAIT GALLERY of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America. Embracing History, Statesmanship ...	New York	n. d.	USD -	3.00
595	Dr. G. Harburg	POLAR AND TROPICAL WORLDS (The). A Description of Man and Nature.	Phila.	1871	USD -	Unknown
596		PRACTICAL BOOK for Practical People; Peerless Reciter; The Fireside University; The Home Library of ...			USD -	1.00
597	John Fiske, Carl Schurz, John Hay and others	PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES (The), 1789-1898.	New York	(1898)	USD -	2.00
598	J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward	QUOTATIONS. Cyclopaedia (The) of Practical Quotations.	New York	1884	USD -	1.75
599		RAID on Posterity (Day); Between the Lights (Bates); Freedom of Faith (Munger), and 27 others.			USD -	1.25
600	RECLUS (ORISIME)	Bird's-eye (A) View of the World. A Popular Scientific Description of The Natural Divisions of the ...	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
601		RED CROSS (Barton); Our Elder Brother (Tenny); From Manger to Throne (Talmage); The Light of the ...			USD -	Unknown
602	RHODES (JAMES FORD)	Historical Essays.	New York	1909	USD -	1.50
603	RICHARDSON (JAMES D.)	JAPAN PROOF PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. A Compilation of the Messages and ...	Washington	1899-1902	USD -	2.25
604	ROBERTS (C. G. D.)	The Kindred of the Wild.	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
605	ROGERS (SAMUEL)	Italy, a Poem. Vignettes after Landseer, Calcott and others (some pages slightly foxed).	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
606	Lucius Foote	ROYCROFT PRESS. On the Heights.	East Aurora	1897	USD -	Unknown
607	Elbert Hubbard	ROYCROFT PRESS. Time and Chance. A Romance and a History: Being the Story of the Life of a Man.	East Aurora, New York	1899	USD -	1.30
608	Rambaud (Alfred)	RUSSIA. A Popular History of Russia. From the Earliest Times to 1880.	Boston	1882	USD -	2.30
609		RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (THE). A Photographic and Descriptive Review of the Great Conflict in the Par ...	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
610		SALEM WITCHCRAFT in Outline (Upham); Lenox (G. A. Hibbard); Rhymes of Yankee Land (A. Greene); Uncle ...			USD -	Unknown
611	Isabella Bird Bishop	SANDWICH ISLANDS. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, etc., of the Sandwich Islands.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
612	Edited by Robert Brown	SCIENCE FOR ALL.	London	n. d.	USD -	1.50
613	Henry Smith Williams	SCIENCE. History (A) of Science.	New York	1904	USD -	4.00
614		SELECTED LIBRARY OF MODERN SCIENCE.	New York	n. d.	USD -	8.00
615	Appleton Morgan	SHAKESPEARE. The Shakespearean Myth. William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence.	Cincinnati	1886	USD -	1.10
616	William H. Edwards	SHAKESPEARE. Shaksper Not Shakespeare.	Cincinnati	1900	USD -	1.00
617	SHAKESPEARE	Handy Volume Shakespeare.	London	n. d.	USD -	2.00
618	SHAKESPEARE	Shakespeare's Heroes and Heroines.	London	n. d.	USD -	1.50
619	SHERIDAN (P. H.)	Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General United States Army.	New York	1888	USD -	1.70
620	Edited by William Patten	SHORT STORY CLASSICS. Foreign.	New York	(1907)	USD -	1.20
621	SMITH (J. E. A.)	The Poet Among the Hills, O. W. Holmes in Berkshire; Souvenir, Verse and Story.	Pittsfield and Springfield	1895-96	USD -	Unknown
622	SMITH (F. HOPKINSON)	Peter.	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
623		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (The Story of the) and the Revolt in the Philippines.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
624		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. The Official and Pictorial Record of the War with Spain and Philippines.	Washington	1902	USD -	Unknown
625	SPENSER (EDMUND)	Prothalamion, or, A Spousall Verse, and Epithalamion.	Boston	1902	USD -	1.75
626		SPIER'S and Surenne's and Surenne's French and English Pronouncing Dictionary.	New York	1880	USD -	1.70
627	Charles B. Cory	SPORT. Hunting and Fishing in Florida. With illustrated key to the water birds.	Boston	1896	USD -	Unknown
628	STANLEY (HENRY M.)	Through the Dark Continent, or The Sources of the Nile.	New York	1878	USD -	1.00
629	STANLEY (HENRY M.)	In Darkest Africa.	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
630	STEVENSON (ADLAI E.)	Something of Men I Have Known. With Some Papers, Political, Historical, etc.	Chicago	1909	USD -	1.50
631	STEVENSON (R. L.)	The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends.	New York	1899	USD -	1.70
632	STEVENSON (R. L.)	Will o' the Mill.	East Aurora	1901	USD -	Unknown
633	C. Edwards Lester	SUMNER (CHARLES). Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
634	THOMSON (ERNEST SETON)	Wild Animals I Have Known.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
635	Alexander H. Stephens	UNITED STATES. A Comprehensive and Popular History of the United States. From the Discovery Down to ...	Philadelphia	(1882)	USD -	1.60
636	Benjamin Andrews	UNITED STATES. History of the United States. From the Earliest Discovery of America to the End of ...	New York	1904	USD -	1.10
637	Samuel Williams	VERMONT. The Natural and Civil History of Vermont.	Burlington	1809	USD -	Unknown
638	Clark Gillson	VERMONT. Green Leaves from Whitingham, Vermont. A History of the Town.	Worcester, Massachusetts	1894	USD -	1.60
639		VERMONT. Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters, and Sons of Vermont.	Brattleboro, Vermount	1894	USD -	2.70
640		VERMONT. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont.	New York	1903	USD -	5.00
641	VIRGIL	The Aeneid of Virgil.	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
642	WALLACE (LEW)	The Prince of India, or, Why Constantinople Fell.	New York	1893	USD -	2.00
643	WARREN (INA R.)	The Doctor's Window.	Buffalo	1898	USD -	1.30
644	E. P. Whipple	WEBSTER (DANIEL). The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster. With an Essay.	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
645	WEED (THURLOW)	Autobiography; Memoir.	Boston	1883-84	USD -	1.75
646	WILBERFORCE (ARCHIBALD)	The Great Battles of All Nations, 490 B. C. to the Present Day.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
647	Sarah Josepha Hale	WOMEN. Biography of Distinguished Women. From the Creation to A. D., 1869. Arranged in Four Eras.	New York	1876	USD -	1.00
648		WORLD'S FAIR. Series of 23 Colored Views; Series of 24 Views.			USD -	Unknown
649	William Jennings Bryan, Editor in Chief. F. W. Halsey, Associate Editor	WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS (THE).	New York	(1906)	USD -	3.75
650	YONGE (CHARLOTTE M.)	A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations. From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time.	New York	(1882)	USD -	Unknown
651	YOUNG (EDWARD)	The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown

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