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
200 COURT MEMOIRS. Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg; Reign of Catherine II, etc. Dublin

1801

USD - Unknown
201 COWPER (WILLIAM) Poems. New York

1818

USD - Unknown
202 CRABB'S SYNONYMES; Women (Mrs. Jameson); Great Speculations (Chester); Weariness (Lee); and others.

USD - Unknown
203 CRANFORD (GASKELL); Introduction to American Literature (Pancoast); Tales from Spenser; Masterpieces ...

USD - Unknown
204 CRAWFORD (MARY C.) The College Girl of America, and the Institutions which make her what she is. Boston

1905

USD - Unknown
205 CRAWFORD (VIRGINIA M.) Studies in Foreign Literature. Boston

1899

USD - Unknown
206 Edited by Henry Maxwell CREEVEY PAPERS (THE): A Selection from the Correspondence and Diaries of Thomas Creevey, 1768-1838. New York

1904

USD - Unknown
207 CUBA. Cuba in War Time (Harding Davis); Morales Lemus Y La Revolucion de Cuba (Pineyro).

USD - Unknown
208 CURIOSITE LITTPRAIRE ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE (La). Articles Litteraires. . . . Notices de Livres Rares. Paris

1880

USD - Unknown
209 CURIOUS. Les Admirables Secrets d'Albert-le-Grand, contenant Plusieurs Traites sur la Conception des ... Lyon

1791

USD - Unknown
210 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Lotus-Eating. New York

1852

USD - Unknown
211 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Lous-Eating. New York

1852

USD - Unknown
212 CURTIS (GEORGE W.) Prue and I; Lotus-Eating; The Potiphar Papers. New York

v. d.

USD - Unknown
213 CYCLOPAEDIA. Goodholme's Domestic Cyclopaedia of Practical Information. New York

1889

USD - Unknown
214 Edited by Charles Leonard-Stuart CYCLOPEDIA. Everybody's Cyclopedia. New York

(1912)

USD - Unknown
215 W. H. De Puy. CYCLOPEDIA. The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
216 CYPRIANI (ERN. SAL.) Hilaria Evangelica, oder Thedlogisch-Historische Bericht vom Andern Evangelischen Jubel-Fest. Gotha

1719

USD - Unknown
217 Franz von Loher CYPRUS: Historical and Descriptive. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. New York

1878

USD - Unknown
218 DALLAS (GEORGE M.) A Series of Letters from London, 1856-60. Philadelphia

1869

USD - Unknown
219 D'ANVERS (N.) Elementary History of Art. New York

1875

USD - Unknown
220 DARBY (WILLIAM) View of the United States, Historical. Geographical and Statistical. Philadelphia

1828

USD - 1.10
221 DARLEY (F. O. C.) Illustrations to the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. [New York]

1849

USD - Unknown
222 DARLEY ILLUSTRATIONS. Rip Van Winkle; and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. New York

1848-9

USD - Unknown
223 DAVENPORT (BISHOP) A New Gazetteer; or Geographical Dictionary, of North America and the West Indies. Baltimore

1832

USD - Unknown
224 DE WINDT (HARRY) Through Savage Europe. Philadelphia

n. d.

USD - Unknown
225 DIALOGUES OF THE DAY. Edited by O. Crawford; Cruise of the North Star (Choules); Switzerland (Prime ...

USD - Unknown
226 DICKENS (CHARLES) Readings. A Christmas Carol, etc. Boston

1868

USD - Unknown
227 S. J. A. Fitz-Gerald DICKENS (CHARLES). Dickens and the Drama. New York

1910

USD - Unknown
228 DICKENS (CHARLES) Dickens' Children. New York

1912

USD - Unknown
229 DICKENS (CHARLES) The Works of. New York

n. d.

USD - 1.50
230 DICTIONARIES. French, German, Latin, English, etc.

USD - Unknown
231 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) Earl of Beaconsfield. Upwards of 100 cartoons from the Collection of Mr. Punch. London

1878

USD - 1.00
232 DOBSON (AUSTIN) At the Sign of the Lyre; Vignettes in Rhyme and other Verses. New York

1885

USD - Unknown
233 DOBSON (AUSTIN) Eighteenth Century Vignettes. New York

1894

USD - Unknown
234 DOW (PEGGY) Vicissitudes. Philadelphia

1815

USD - Unknown
235 DOWN THE GREAT RIVER (Glazier). The Story of the Great March (Nichols); A Youth's History of the ...

USD - Unknown
236 DRAMA. Sol. Smith's Theatrical Apprenticeship. Philadelphia

[1845]

USD - Unknown
237 DRAMA. The Theatrical Journey-Book and Anecdotical Recollections of Sol. Smith. Philadelphia

[1854]

USD - Unknown
238 Smith (Sol.) DRAMA. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years. New York

1868

USD - Unknown
239 DRAMATIC. Biographia Dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse. Historical and Critical Memoirs ... London

1812

USD - 3.00
240 John Bee. DRAMATIC. Foote (Samuel). The Works of. London

1830

USD - Unknown
241 Schlegel (A. W.) DRAMATIC. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. London

1879

USD - Unknown
242 Percy Fitzgerald DRAMATIC. Clive (Mrs. Catherine). The Life of. London

1888

USD - Unknown
243 Ford (James L.) DRAMATIC. The Story of Du Barry. New York

[1902]

USD - Unknown
244 DRAMATIC. Memoirs, Critical and Historical of Madame Male-bran de Beriot and Monsieur de Beriot. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
245 DRAMATIC. Photographs, carte-de-visite, of Leo Hudson, Kate Fisher, and two others.

USD - Unknown
246 DRAMATIC. Theatre programs. Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Engagement of Mr. Hackett, the American ...

USD - Unknown
247 Monsieur G. (Gamier) DRAMATIC PROVERBS. Nouveaux Dramatiques. Paris

1784

USD - Unknown
248 DRAMATIC WORKS OF SAMUEL FOOTE. Vol. 1; Pufendorlii de Officio (Johnson), 1737; Contes de Guillaume ...

USD - Unknown
249 M. l'Abbe Richard DREAMS. Le Theorie des Songes. Paris

1766

USD - Unknown
250 DUYCKINCK (EVERT A.) History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
251 DYER (THOMAS H.) Pompeii. Its History. Buildings and Antiquities. New York

1871

USD - Unknown
252 Daniel Drake EARLY WEST. Cincinnati. Natural and Statistical View; or, Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami ... Cincinnati

1815

USD - Unknown
253 EARLY WEST. Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City Guide and Business Mirror, 1853. Cincinnati

(1833)

USD - Unknown
254 W. H. Bogart EARLY WEST. Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. New York

1857

USD - Unknown
255 Jones (William A.) EARLY WEST. Report upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming, made in the Summer of 1873. Washington

1875

USD - Unknown
256 ECLECTIC MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERAture, Science and Art, 1846-64 (irregular). New York

1846-64

USD - Unknown
257 EGGLESTON (EDWARD) The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in ... New York

1897

USD - Unknown
258 J. M. Wainwright EGYPT. The Land of Bondage; its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition. New York

1852

USD - Unknown
259 Sir J. G. Wilkinson EGYPT. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians. New York

1854

USD - Unknown
260 Lady Duff Gordon EGYPT. Last Letters from Egypt, to which are added, Letters from the Cape. London

1875

USD - Unknown
261 Charles Dudley Warner EGYPT. Mummies and Moslems. Hartford

1876

USD - Unknown
262 ELECTRICITY. Inventions. Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla; Electricity in Daily Life. New York

v. d.

USD - Unknown
263 ELIOT (GEORGE) How Lisa Loved the King. Boston

1869

USD - 1.00
264 ELIOT (GEORGE) George Eliot's Life. New York

1885

USD - Unknown
265 EMBLEMS. Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of all Ages and Nations. London

1865

USD - 1.00
266 EMBLEMS. The Calendar of the Prayer Book Illustrated, with appendix of the Chief Christian Emblems ... Oxford

1867

USD - Unknown
267 Quarles (Frances) EMBLEMS. Emblems, Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man. London

1778

USD - 1.60
268 ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS. The London Chronicle. 5 CNos., 1758; The Norfolk Chronicle, 9 Nos., 1772-74; The ...

USD - 1.25
269 ENGLISH PLAY BILLS. Hay Market, Adelphi, Astley's Princess's Theatres, 1843. 11 pieces. Synopses of ...

USD - Unknown
270 ENGRAVINGS. Miscellaneous Prints, Foreign Views, etc.

USD - Unknown
271 ENGRAVINGS. Mezzotints, etc. by Sartain, Faed, Martin and others.

USD - Unknown
272 ENGRAVINGS. Foreign Views, etc.

USD - Unknown
273 ENGRAVINGS. Foreign Views, Statues, etc.

USD - Unknown
274 ENGRAVINGS. Woodcuts, etc.

USD - Unknown
275 ENGRAVINGS. Photogravures.

USD - Unknown
276 Edited by Edward E. Morris EPOCHS OF MODERN HISTORY. New York

1889

USD - 1.05
277 Powell (J. W.) ESKIMOS. 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethonology, 1896-97. Washington

1899

USD - Unknown
278 ETCHINGS AND PHOTOGRAVURES, Some on Japan paper.

USD - 1.25
279 FAMILY MAGAZINE (THE); or, Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge. New York

1837-40

USD - Unknown
280 FANNING (EDMUND) Voyages Round the World. New York

1833

USD - Unknown
281 FARM LEGENDS (Carleton); The Polar and Tropical World (Hartwig); Port Tarascon (Daudet), and others.

USD - Unknown
282 FEA (ALLAN) Nooks and Corners of Old England.

USD - Unknown
283 FICTION. The Wild Irish Boy (D. J. Murphy), 1808; Frascati's Scenes in Paris, 1836; Demetrius ( ...

USD - 1.50
284 FICTION. Novels by Wilkie Collins, Dumas, Bulwer Lytton, and others. New York and Philadelphia

v. d.

USD - Unknown
285 FICTION. Novels by Sir Walter Scott and others. Philedalphia

1824, etc.

USD - Unknown
286 FIELD (EUGENE) In Wink-a-Way Land; John Smith, U. S. a.; The Clink of the Ice; Hoosier Lyrics. Chicago

(1905)

USD - Unknown
287 FIELD (HENRY M.) The Barbary Coast. New York

1893

USD - Unknown
288 FIRE AND SWORD .(Sieniewicz); Domitia (Baring-Gould); Old Creole Days (Cable); David Corson (Goss ...

USD - Unknown
289 FIRST EDITIONS. Letters from the East (Bryant) N. Y., 1869 (piece cut from title); Pandora ( ...

USD - Unknown
290 FISHERIES. First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest. [New York]

[1896]

USD - Unknown
291 FLAMMARION (CAMILLE) The Atmosphere. New York

1873

USD - Unknown
292 Charles Yriarte FLORENCE. Its History--The Medici--The Humanists-Letters--Arts. Philadelphia

1897

USD - Unknown
293 Blanchan (Neltje) FLOWER STUDIES. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors. New York

1901

USD - 1.00
294 FOGAZZARO (ANTONIO) The Patriot; The Saint. New York

1906

USD - Unknown
295 FORBES (CHARLES S.) The Second Battle of Bennington: A History of Vermont's Centennial. St. Albans, Vermount

1877

USD - Unknown
296 FOREIGN BOOKS. C. Crispi Sallustii que. 1701; J. G. Heineccii, Elementa Juris Naturje. Venetiis ...

v. b.

USD - Unknown
297 FOREIGN BOOKS. Mostly Latin.

USD - Unknown
298 FOREIGN PAMPHLETS. Hebrew, Latin, German, etc.

USD - 1.00
299 FORSTER (JOHN) The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England. New York

1846

USD - Unknown
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