Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS ENGRAVINGS, ETC. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION MAY 29TH, 1914. BY MERWIN SALES COMPANY 16 EAST 40TH STREET NEW YORK., 571,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 29, 1914 - May 29, 1914

Page Size: 818 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Charles F. Adams	ADAMS (JOHN). The Works of. With a Life of the Author.	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
2	ADDISON (JULIA DE WOLF)	The Spell of England.	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
3	Henry Stephens	AGRICULTURE. The Book of the Farm.	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
4		AGRICULTURE. Farmer's Library and Monthly Journal of Agriculture.	New York	1845-47	USD -	Unknown
5	Budaeus (Gul.)	ALDINE PRESS. Libri V de Asse et partibus ejus.		September, 1522.	USD -	4.00
6	ALLIBONE (S. AUSTIN)	Prose Quotations from' Socrates to Macaulay.	Philadelphia	1876	USD -	Unknown
7		ALLIBONE'S DICTIONARY OF AUTHORS. Vol. 1; Water Power of Maine (Wells). 1869; Pennsylvania Hospital ...	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
8		ALTAR (THE); or, Meditations in Verse on the Great Christian Sacrafice.	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
9		AMBER GODS (Prescott); Walton's Lives; Mother Goose for Grown Folks (Whitney), and others.			USD -	Unknown
10	Edited by J. David Williams	AMERICA ILLUSTRATED.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
11	Casparin (Agenor De)	AMERICA IN 1861. Les Etats-Unis en 1861. Un Grand Peuple qui Se Releve.	Paris	1862	USD -	Unknown
12	P. McCafferty	AMERICAN BATTLE CHART: Containing an Account of All the Battles, Assaults, and Skirmishes Fought by ...	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
13		AMERICAN BATTLES BY SEA AND LAND. Indians, Revolutionary, Civil War, Etc.			USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Our Great Captains; American Agitators and Reformers (Bartlett); The Hero of ...			USD -	Unknown
15		AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Eulogy on Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Sergeant), 1833; In Memory of Carl ...			USD -	Unknown
16		AMERICAN CENTENNIAL MEDAL, bronze. Published by Congress, 1876.		1876	USD -	Unknown
17	Taylor (R. C.)	AMERICAN COAL FIELDS. Statistics of Coal.	Philadelphia	1855	USD -	Unknown
18		AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA (THE).	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
19	Stuart (C. F.)	AMERICAN ENGINEERS. Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America.	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
20		AMERICAN HANDBOOKS. King's Handbook of the United States; King's Handbook of New York City.	Boston and Buffalo	1893-96	USD -	Unknown
21		AMERICAN IMPRINTS. The Complete Economy of Life. Morris-Town, 1806; The Columbian Orator (Bingham ...			USD -	Unknown
22		AMERICAN MUSEUM (THE). July to December, 1787; July to December, 1788; July to December, 1789 ...	Philadelphia	1787-92	USD -	Unknown
23	Frost (John)	AMERICAN NAVY. The Book of the Navy.	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
24	Peterson (C. J.)	AMERICAN NAVY. A History of the United States Navy, and Biographical Sketches.	Philadelphia	1852	USD -	Unknown
25	[Clymer (George)]	AMERICAN NAVY. The Principles of Naval Staff Rank and its History in the United States Navy.	n. p.	1869	USD -	Unknown
26	Parker (Capt. W. H.)	AMERICAN NAVY. Recollections of a Naval Officer, 1841-65.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
27	Perkins (Capt. Geo. H.)	AMERICAN NAVY. Letters of; also a Sketch of his Life by G. F. Belknap.	Concord, N. H.	1886	USD -	Unknown
28	J. D. J. Kelly	AMERICAN NAVY. Our Navy. Its Growth and Achievement.	Hartford	1892	USD -	Unknown
29	Collum (R. S.)	AMERICAN NAVY. History of the United States Marine Corps.	Philadelphia	1890	USD -	Unknown
30	Ammen (Daniel)	AMERICAN NAVY. The Old Navy and the New.	Philadelphia	1891	USD -	Unknown
31	Simmons (William)	AMERICAN NAVY. History of the National Association of Naval Veterans.	Philadelphia	1895	USD -	Unknown
32	Maclay (E. S.)	AMERICAN NAVY. A History of the United States Navy.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
33		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Paper Currency.			USD -	Unknown
34		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The History of the British Empire, 1765-1783: Containing an Impartial History ...	Philadelphia	1798	USD -	Unknown
35	William B. Reed	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Reed (J.). Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Military Secretary of ...	Philadelphia	1847	USD -	Unknown
36		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795 and 1801 ...	New York	1899-1911	USD -	Unknown
37		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Recollections of Revolutionary Times; The Washington Obelisk (Carrington) and ...			USD -	Unknown
38		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Manuscript Return of Names of Soldiers in the American Revolution from ...			USD -	2.50
39		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Life of Washington and History of the American Revolution.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
40	Botta (Charles)	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America.	New Haven	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
41	Williams (Edwin)	AMERICAN STATESMEN. The Statemen's Manual.	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
42		AMERICAN STATESMEN. Officers, etc.			USD -	Unknown
43		AMERICAN VIEWS. Line engravings.			USD -	Unknown
44		AMERICAN VIEWS. Mostly Western Scenery.			USD -	Unknown
45		AMERICA'S WONDERLAND (Buel); Rip VanWinkle. Illustrated by Darley; Three Ledgers and Day-books ( ...			USD -	Unknown
46		ANACREON. The Odes of.	London	n. d.	USD -	2.00
47	Hofland (T. C.)	ANGLING. The British Angler's Manual.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
48	Cornwall Simeon	ANGLING. Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History.	Cambridge and London	1860	USD -	Unknown
49	Roosevelt (R. B.)	ANGLING. Superior Fishing.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
50	Senior (William)	ANGLING. By Stream and Sea.	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
51	Stevens (C. W.)	ANGLING. Fly-Fishing in Maine Lakes.	Boston	1881	USD -	Unknown
52	[Weidmeyer (M. C.)]	ANGLING. American Fish and how to Catch Them.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
53	Stone (L.)	ANGLING. Domestic Trout.	Cape Vincent, New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
54		ANGLING. Walton and Cotton. The Complete Angler.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
55	Edited by Hugh Craig	ANIMAL KINGDOM (THE)! Based upon the Writings of the eminent Naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm ...	New York	[1897]	USD -	Unknown
56		APULEIUS. Las Metamorfosis de Apuleo.	Neuva York	1844	USD -	Unknown
57	[ARCONVILLE (MME DE)]	De l'Amitie.	Amsterdam et Paris	1761	USD -	Unknown
58		ARCTIC. The Arctic Boat Journey (Hayes); Arctic Explorations (Kane). 2 vols.; Life of Dr. Kane by Dr ...			USD -	Unknown
59		ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECE: Visions by Francisco de Quevedo; Hoole's Tasso, etc.			USD -	2.50
60	Don Jose Montero	AROSTEGUI. Historia y Descripcion de la Ciudad y Departamento Naval del Ferrol.	Madrid	1859	USD -	Unknown
61	William Vincent	ARRIAN'S VOYAGE ROUND THE EUXINE SEA.	Oxford	1805	USD -	Unknown
62		ART. American Painters.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
63	Meynell (Wilfred)	ART. Some Modern Artists and their Work.	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
64		ART. Collection of W. T. Walters, 65 Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore.		1884	USD -	Unknown
65		ART. Portefeuille des Arts Decoratifs. Publie sous L'Union Centrale des Arts Decoraties par A. De ...	Paris	1888-89	USD -	Unknown
66		ART. Konstnarsklubbens Tio Ars Album.	Stockholm	1898	USD -	Unknown
67		ART. Portrait Painting (Murray); Sketching from Nature (Green); Landscape Painting (Williams ...	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
68		ARTISTS AND SCULPTORS. Original drawings, portraits of 15th and 16th Century artists and sculptors.			USD -	2.60
69		AS WE WERE SAYING (Warner); A Rebellious Heroine (Bangs); A House Boat on the Styx (Bangs); The ...			USD -	1.00
70	Ignatius Donnelly	ATLANTIS: The Antediluvian World.	New York	(1882)	USD -	Unknown
71	S. J. Martenet, H. F. Walling and O. W. Gray	ATLAS. New Topographical Atlas of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.	Baltimore	1873	USD -	Unknown
72		ATLAS. Black's General Atlas of the World.	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
73	AUSTIN (ALFRED)	Victoria The Wise.	London	(1901)	USD -	Unknown
74		AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL RELATING TO THE Washington National Monument; including manuscript copy of the ...			USD -	Unknown
75	BAILEY (T. J, Editor)	A Defence of Holy Orders in the Church of England.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
76	BAINES (EDWARD)	History of the Wars of the French Revolution.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
77	BANCROFT (H. H.)	The Book of the Fair: An Historical and Descriptive Presentation.	Chicago	1893	USD -	Unknown
78		BANK OF AMERICA. The Bank of America (an historical sketch of the Bank, account, of the Premises and ...	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
79	BARDSLEY (CHARLES W.)	Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature.	New York	1880	USD -	1.00
80	BARING-GOULD (S.)	In Exitu Israel. An Historical Novel.	New York	1870	USD -	Unknown
81	BARING-GOULD (S.)	Curiosities of Olden Times.	Edinburgh	1896	USD -	Unknown
82	BARNESBY (NORMAN)	Medical Crime and Chaos.	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
83	BARTH (HENRY)	Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, 1849-55.	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
84	BARTHELEMY (ABBE)	Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece.	Dublin	1795	USD -	Unknown
85		BARTOLOZZI. The Birth and Triumph of Love.	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
86	BATCHELLER (TRYPHOSA BATES)	Italian Castles and Country Seats.	London	1911	USD -	1.10
87		BATTLE SCENES. America.			USD -	Unknown
88		BERLIN AND ITS TREASURES. Steel plates; The Christian in Palestine (Stebbing); Steel plates by ...			USD -	Unknown
89	BERTHET (ELIE)	The Pre-Historic World.	Philadelphia	(1879)	USD -	Unknown
90	BESANT (SIR WALTER)	Westminster.	New York	(1895)	USD -	Unknown
91		BIBLE. Miniature Oxford Bible.			USD -	1.25
92		BIBLE. New Testament.			USD -	Unknown
93		BIBLE STUDY. The Parables Unfolded (Stevens); Saint John (Sadler); New Testament (Westcott); David ...			USD -	Unknown
94		BIBLIOGRAPHY. The London Catalogue of Books, 1814-39.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
95		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Norton's Literary Advertiser.	New York	1851-53	USD -	Unknown
96		BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Annual American. Catalogue, 1886-1889.	New York	1887-90	USD -	1.00
97	Gilman (M. D.)	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bibliography of Vermont; or, a List of Books and Pamphlets relating in any way to ...	Burlington	1897	USD -	5.50
98	BIGELOW (POULTNEY)	The Children of the Nations.	New York	1901	USD -	1.00
99	Winant (D. D.)	BILLIARDS. Billiards Without a Master.	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
100		BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA (Coleridge). 2 vols.; Outlines of Psychology (Hoffding); Locke's Philosophical ...			USD -	Unknown

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December 15, 2025

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.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

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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.

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