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,

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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
101 BIOGRAPHY. Memoirs (Caroline Bauer); Mary Lamb (Gilchrist); Vignettes (Parkes); George Fox (Marsh ...

USD - Unknown
102 BLACKBURN (HENRY) Breton Folk. Boston

1881

USD - Unknown
103 BLAINE (JAMES G.) Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. Norwich

1884

USD - 1.05
104 BLASHFIELD (E. H. AND E. W.) Italian Cities. New York

1900

USD - 1.10
105 BLUE AND GOLD EDITION. Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales, 2 vols.; Gerald Massey's Poems; Odes of Horace ... Boston

v. d.

USD - 1.00
106 BLUNT (JOHN HENRY) Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Philadelphia

1874

USD - 1.75
107 BOCCACCIO. Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron). Philadelphia

n. d.

USD - Unknown
108 BOLLES (ALBERT S.) The Home Library of Law. New York

1905

USD - Unknown
109 W. T. R. Saffell BONAPARTE-PATTERSON MARRIAGE IN 1803 (The), and the Secret Correspondence on the Subject never ... Philadelphia

1873

USD - Unknown
110 BOOK-LOVER (THE): A Magazine of Book Lore, 1900-1904. New York

1900-04

USD - Unknown
111 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (THE), and Administration of the Sacraments, according to the use of the ... Philadelphia

1795

USD - 1.00
112 BOOK OF HOME BEAUTY (Kirkland); Great Cities of the World (Brooks); Gems of Beauty (Countess of ...

USD - Unknown
113 BOOKMART (THE); a Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence. Pittsburg, Pa

1884-90

USD - Unknown
114 Edited by John Lindley and Thomas Moore BOTANY. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary. London

1866

USD - Unknown
115 BRIGHT (HENRY A.) A Year in a Lancashire Garden. London

1879

USD - Unknown
116 BRINTON (DANIEL G.) The Religious Sentiment, its Source and Aim. New York

1876

USD - Unknown
117 BROOKLYN. Corporation Manuals. 1859-60; 60-61 (2); 61-62; 66 (2); 68; 69; 71 (2); and Charter of ... Brooklyn

1857-71

USD - 1.20
118 BROUGH (ROBERT B.) A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christinas Parties. London

1852

USD - 1.50
119 [BROWN (C. F.)] Artemus Ward: His Book. New York

1862

USD - Unknown
120 BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) The Poems of. New York

1867

USD - Unknown
121 BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) Poems of Memory and Hope. New York

1872

USD - Unknown
122 BUCKINGHAM (JOSEPH T.) Specimens of Newspaper Literature. Boston

1850

USD - Unknown
123 BUCKLEY (J. M.) Travels in Three Continents. Europe, Africa, Asia. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
124 Daniel Webster BUNKER HILL. An Address delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. Boston

1825

USD - Unknown
125 BURKE (WILLIAM) The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia. New York

1842

USD - Unknown
126 BURNETT (FRANCES HODGSON) Two Little Pilgrims Progress: Giovanni and the Other. New York

v. d.

USD - Unknown
127 BURR (AARON) The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, during his Residence of Four Years in Europe; with Selections ... New York

1838

USD - 1.60
128 J. Parton BURR (AARON). The Life and Times of. New York

1858

USD - Unknown
129 BUTLER'S BOOK. Autobiography and Personal Reminiscence of Maj.-Gen. Benj. F. Butler. Boston

1892

USD - Unknown
130 BYRON (LORD) The Poetical Works of. New York

1867

USD - Unknown
131 CALIFORNIA. Bancroft's Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. San Francisco

1864

USD - Unknown
132 CARDS. Whist Opinion: A Weekly Journal devoted to the Reproduction of the best Current Whist ... Philadelphia

1900

USD - Unknown
133 CARICATURES. Sampson and Dalilah, Colored Lithograph, published by T. McOean, 1830; Hunky Dore's ...

USD - Unknown
134 Thomas Carlyle CARLYLE (JANE WELSH). Letters and Memorials of. New York

1883

USD - Unknown
135 CATLEY (ANNE--Celebrated Singing Performer) The Life of. Including an Account of her Introduction to Public Life . . . and her various ... London

1888

USD - Unknown
136 William Blades CAXTON (WILLIAM--England's First Printer). The Biography and Typography of. New York

1882

USD - Unknown
137 CERVANTES. L'Ingenieux Hidalo Don Quichotte de la Manche. Paris

1863

USD - Unknown
138 CHAMBER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philadelphia

1869

USD - Unknown
139 CHAP-BOOKS. Goody Two Shoes. Cooperstown, 1839; Hymns in Prose. New Haven, 1837; My Mother. New ...

USD - Unknown
140 CHEMISTRY. Encyclopedia of Chemistry. Theoretical, Practical and Analytical, as Applied to the Arts ... Philadelphia

1892

USD - Unknown
141 CHESS MADE EASY. With Morals of Chess, by Dr. Franklin. Philadelphia

1802

USD - Unknown
142 CHINESE VIEWS BY W. ALEXANDER. Copper-plate engravings by Landseer and others.

USD - Unknown
143 Edited by Frank Moore CIVIL WAR. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, 1860-1864. New York

1861-67

USD - Unknown
144 CIVIL WAR. Loyal Publication Society. New York

1863-65

USD - Unknown
145 Bokum (Hermann) CIVIL WAR. Wanderings North and South. Philadelphia

1864

USD - Unknown
146 CIVIL WAR. The Story of the Great March (Nichols; Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie ( ... New York

1866-76

USD - Unknown
147 A. H. Guernsey and H. M. Alden CIVIL WAR. Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion. New York

(1866-68)

USD - Unknown
148 CIVIL WAR. Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reports of the Annual Reunions. 1st, 3d, to 12th ... Cincinnati

1868-90

USD - Unknown
149 CIVIL WAR. Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman. New York

1875

USD - Unknown
150 CIVIL WAR. Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-65. Trenton

1876

USD - Unknown
151 Gates (T. B.) CIVIL WAR. The Ulster Guard (20th N. Y. State Militia) and the War of the Rebellion. New York

1879

USD - Unknown
152 CIVIL WAR. Campaigns of the Civil War: A series of volumes contributed by a number of leading actors ... New York

1881-83

USD - 1.75
153 Alfred Roman CIVIL WAR. Beauregard (General G. T.). The Military Operations of, 1861-65; including Services in ... New York

1884

USD - 1.75
154 Hedrick (Mary A.) CIVIL WAR. Incidents of the Civil War, 1861-65. Lowell

1888

USD - Unknown
155 CIVIL WAR. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies. Washington

1894-1911

USD - Unknown
156 CIVIL WAR. The Strife of Brothers (Derry); Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac ( ...

USD - Unknown
157 CIVIL WAR. The Outbreak of the Rebellion (Nicolay); Sword of Honor (Johnson); Beyond the Lines (Geer ...

USD - Unknown
158 CIVIL WAR. Colored lithographs by Prang & Co., Boston. Battle Scenes. Folio.

USD - Unknown
159 CIVIL WAR. Encased Postage Stamps. Necessity Money. Three 3c stamps in each case.

USD - 1.25
160 CIVIL WAR. Paper Currency. Sutler's Money. Scott's Nine Hundred U. S. Cavalry. 5c and 10c.

USD - Unknown
161 CIVIL WAR. Writing Paper, one with portrait of General Reno and map of North Carolina; Cartoon Jeff ...

USD - Unknown
162 CIVIL WAR. Writing paper, each sheet with different crest.

USD - Unknown
163 CIVIL WAR. Writing paper, each sheet with different crest.

USD - Unknown
164 CLEMENS (S. L.) The Innocents Abroad. Hartford

1869

USD - Unknown
164a CLEMENS (S. L.) The Innocents Abroad. Hartford

1869

USD - Unknown
165 CLEMENS (S. L.) Roughing It. Hartford

1872

USD - Unknown
166 CLEMENS (S. L.) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York

1891

USD - 1.00
167 CLEMENS (S. L.) The American Claimant. New York

1892

USD - Unknown
168 H. R. Haweis CLEMENS (S. L.). Mark Twain and Bret Harte. New York

1900

USD - Unknown
169 COBBETT (JOHN M. AND JAMES P.) Selections from Cobbett's Political Works. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
170 COBBETT (WILLIAM) A Bone, to Gnaw, for the Democrats. Philadelphia

1795

USD - Unknown
171 COBBETT (WILLIAM) Porcupine's Political Censor, for Nov., 1796; containing Observations on the Insolent and Seditions ... Philadelphia

1796

USD - Unknown
172 COLANGE (LEO DE) French Pictures with Pencil and Pen. Boston

1879

USD - Unknown
173 COLLINS (W. W.) Cathedral Cities of Spain. New York

1911

USD - Unknown
174 William Root Bliss COLONIAL TIMES ON BUZZARD'S BAY. Boston

1889

USD - Unknown
175 Wulsten (Carl) COLORADO MINES. The Siver Region of the Sierra Mojada (West Mountain) and Rosita, Fremont County ... Denver

1876

USD - Unknown
176 COLORED CARICATURE MAP OF FRANCE. Franco-Prussian War, 1870.

USD - Unknown
177 COLORED COSTUME PLATES. German and French, including a full-length portrait of Prince Louis.

USD - Unknown
178 COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Odes and Sonnets. Boston

1866

USD - Unknown
179 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Sketches. New York

1879-87

USD - Unknown
180 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Sketches. New York

1882

USD - Unknown
181 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Sketches. New York

1881-1886

USD - Unknown
182 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Sketches. New York

1883-88

USD - Unknown
183 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Fire Brigade. New York

1884

USD - Unknown
184 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Sketches. New York

1884

USD - Unknown
185 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. Darktown Tourists. New York

1886

USD - Unknown
186 COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CURRIER AND IVES. The Jolly Hunters; Steeple Chase Cracks.

USD - Unknown
187 COLORED PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES. Arabian Outpost after Schrever; The Off Shore Fleet after Andriz; Eyes ...

USD - Unknown
188 COLORED PLATES. The Lady of Shalott. Finely decorated in colors by Howard Pyle. New York

[1881]

USD - 1.10
189 COLTON (REV. C.) Hypocrisy: A Satire. Tiverton

1812

USD - Unknown
190 Edited by Horace Smith COMIC MISCELLANIES. Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse of James Smith. Philadelphia

1841

USD - Unknown
191 COMMON PRAYER (Brownell), New York, 1823; Notes upon the New Testament (Wesley), London, 1755; Holy ... v. p.

v. d.

USD - 2.00
192 CONFEDERATE. Confederate States Almanac for 1864. Mobile, Ala.

(1864)

USD - Unknown
193 J. W. Barber and L. S. Punderson CONNECTICUT. History and Antiquities of New Haven. New Haven

1856

USD - Unknown
194 CONNECTICUT REGISTER, 1849; Green's Hartford City Directory for 1852; Boston Almanac 1857.

USD - Unknown
195 CONNYBEARE AND HOWSON. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. New York

1869

USD - Unknown
196 CONWAY (WILLIAM MARTIN) Early Flemish Artists and their predecessors on the Lower Rhine. London

1887

USD - Unknown
197 COOKE'S VOYAGE TO THE NORTHERN HEMISphere. Vol. 1 (imperfect copy); Leslie's Magazine, etc.

USD - Unknown
198 Ure (Andrew) COTTON INDUSTRY. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. London

1836

USD - Unknown
199 COUNTRY CALENDAR (THE). New York

1905

USD - Unknown
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