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
300 FOURNEL (M.) Traite de la Seduction considered dans l'Ordre Judiciaire. Paris

1781

USD - Unknown
301 FREEMASONRY. An Apology for the Free and Accepted Masons . . . with the Present State of Masonry in ... Frankfort

1748

USD - 1.10
302 FREEMASONRY. The Universal Masonic Record; (also) Universal Masonic Directory. Philadelphia

1859

USD - Unknown
303 Elizabeth W. Champney FRENCH ABBEYS. The Romance of the French Abbeys. New York

1905

USD - 1.20
304 FRENCH BOOKS. Dictionaire Neologique (Desfontaines), 1747; Memoires du Chevalier d'Erban, 1755 ...

USD - Unknown
305 FRENCH BOOKS. Monsieur le Ministre (Claretie); Tony (Bentzon); Le Collier de laReine (Dumas), etc. Paris

v. d.

USD - Unknown
306 FRENCH BOOKS. Black (Dumas); La Gorgone (De La Landelle); Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera (Souvestre), etc. Paris

v. d.

USD - Unknown
307 FRENCH BOOKS. Les Deux Reines (Dumas); La Belle Gabrielle (Maquet); La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (Sand ... Paris

v. d.

USD - Unknown
308 FRENCH BOOKS. La Litterature Francaise (Albert); Novelle (De Arnicas); Cherie (De Goncourt), etc. Paris

v. d.

USD - Unknown
309 FRENCH BOOKS. Le Mors aux Dents (Greville); Corinne (De Stael); Constantinople (De Amicis), etc. Paris

v. d.

USD - Unknown
310 FRENCH BOOKS. Pascal et Nicole, 1843; Lettres d'un Voyageur, 1847; Histoire du Roi Henri Le Grand ...

USD - Unknown
311 FRENCH REVOLUTION. Assignats.

USD - Unknown
312 Mary Darmesteter FROISSART. (A Biographical and Historical Sketch.) New York

1895

USD - Unknown
313 FROISSART'S CHRONICLES; Encyclopaedia of Geography (Murray); Hume's History of England. Vols. I to 4 ...

USD - Unknown
314 FROUDE (JAMES A.) The Spanish Story of the Armada, and other essays. New York

1892

USD - Unknown
315 FROUDE (JAMES A.) English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century. New York

1895

USD - Unknown
316 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Paper Currency. Colonial Notes Drinted bv Franklin.

USD - 1.75
317 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Paper Currency. Pennsylvania Notes printed by Franklin and bearing his imprint, 1857-64.

USD - 1.00
318 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Lifeafef. By himself. Boston, 1815; Beauties of Franklin (A. Howard). London, n. d.; Pictorial Life ...

v. b.

USD - Unknown
319 FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) Memoirs of. New York

1839

USD - Unknown
320 Jared Sparks FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN). The Life of. Boston

1844

USD - Unknown
321 FRANKLIN'S WORKS, Frontispiece by Anderson, 1818; life of George Washington (Ramsay); Origin of the ...

USD - Unknown
322 GARDENING FOR PROFIT (Henderson); Never Again (Mayo); The Wandering Jew (Sue), and others.

USD - Unknown
323 GERMANTOWN, PA. Letters from Jacob Morris, N. Y. to Isaac Franks, Germantown, on business matters.

USD - Unknown
324 GERMANTOWN IMPRINT. Christliche Betrachtungen uber die Evangelischen Texte so man pfleget zu lesen ... Germantown

1791

USD - Unknown
325 [Jones (W. A.)] GENEALOGY. Memorial of the Late Honorable David S. Jones. New York

1849

USD - Unknown
326 GENEALOGY. A Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin (of Phila.) Philadelphia

1860

USD - Unknown
327 GENEALOGY. A Sketch of the Life of Dr. William Gunton, born at Aylsham, England, 1791 (with ... Washington

1878

USD - Unknown
328 GIBBON (EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Philadelphia

1804-5

USD - Unknown
329 GIBSON (CHARLES DANA) Everyday People. New York and London

1904

USD - Unknown
330 GLADSTONE (W. E.) Cartoons from the Collection of Mr. Punch. London

1878

USD - Unknown
331 GLEASON'S PICTORIAL. Boston

1852-53

USD - 4.00
332 GODEAU (ANTOINE) Les Tableaux de la Penitence. Paris

1662

USD - Unknown
333 GODOY (DON MANUEL) Memorias de, Principe de la Paz 6 sea Cuenta Dada de Su Vida Jolitica. Paris

1839-41

USD - 1.00
334 James Prior GOLDSMITH (OLIVER). The Miscellaneous Works of. New York

1857

USD - Unknown
335 Braid (James) GOLF. Advanced Golf: Hints for Progressive Players. Philadelphia

[1908]

USD - Unknown
336 GORDON CUMMING (C. F.) A Lady's Cruise in a French Man of War. Edinburgh

1882

USD - Unknown
337 GORDON CUMMING (C. F.) At Home in Fiji. New York

1886

USD - Unknown
338 GRANT (U. S.) Personal Memoirs of. New York

1885

USD - Unknown
339 GRAPE CULTURIST (Fuller); Small Fruit Culturist; Poulterer's Companion; Civil Engineering; Gardener' ...

USD - Unknown
340 GREAT REBELLION (Headley), 2 vols.; The Art of Living Long; Arctic Explorations, 2 vols. (Kane); St ...

USD - Unknown
341 GREEK POETS (Symonds), Vol. 1 only; A Short History of Art (De Forest); Why I am a Republican ( ...

USD - Unknown
342 GROTESQUE SKETCHES. Griset's Grotesques; or, Jokes drawn on wood, with Rhymes by Tom Hood. Boston

1867

USD - Unknown
343 GUHL (E.) and KONER (W.) The Life of the Greeks and Romans described from Antique Monuments. New York

1875

USD - 1.05
344 GUIZOT (M.) A Popular History of France from the Earliest Tirrles. Boston

1888

USD - 2.00
345 HABBEN (F. H.) Londoan Street Names: their Origin, Signification and Historic Value. Philadelphia

1896

USD - Unknown
346 [HALLECK (Fitz-Greene)] Alnwick Castle, with other Poems (including some now first published. New York

1836

USD - Unknown
347 [HALLECK (Fitz-Greene)] Alnwick Castle with additional poems. New York

1845

USD - Unknown
348 HAMILTON (ALEXANDER) The Works of; comprising his Correspondence and his Political and Official Writings. New York

1851

USD - 1.00
349 HAMILTON (LADY EMMA) Memoirs of. London

1815

USD - Unknown
350 HARRISON (W. H.) The Humorist. London

n. d.

USD - Unknown
351 HARTING (JAMES E.) British Animals, Extinct Within Historic Times. Boston

1880

USD - Unknown
352 HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) The Scarlet Letter. Boston

(1878)

USD - Unknown
353 Benjamin Vincent HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES. New York

1866

USD - Unknown
354 William Wirt HENRY (PATRICK). Sketches of the Life and Character of. Philadelphia

1818

USD - Unknown
355 George Morgan HENRY (PATRICK). The True Patrick Henry. Philadelphia

1907

USD - Unknown
356 HEPTAMERON. Margaret Queen of Navarre. (The Heptameron). Philadelphia

n. d.

USD - Unknown
357 HERBERT'S POETICAL WORKS, 1856; Bothwell (Aytoun), 1857; Poems by W. R. Spencer, 1811, etc.

USD - Unknown
358 HERFORDSHIRE. Magna Britannia; or, Topographical, Historical, Ecclesiastical and Natural History of ... Savoy

1720

USD - Unknown
359 HINDLEY (CHARLES) Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings. London

1881

USD - Unknown
360 HINTON (J. W.) The History and Topography of the United States. Boston

1834

USD - Unknown
361 HISTORIC GUIDE BOOKS. The Hudson River by Day-light, 1877; Visitors' Guide to Salem, 1880; Boston ...

USD - Unknown
362 HISTORICAL. War and its alleged Benefits (Novicow); A Child's History of Rome, 2 vols. (Bonner); My ...

USD - 1.20
363 HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. Constitution and By-Laws of 5 the Conn. Hist. Soc., 1889; Register of the Lynn ...

USD - Unknown
364 HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, 5 vols. (Russell); Half-Hours with the Best Authors, 4 vols. (Knight ... Philadelphia and New York

1800-61

USD - Unknown
365 HISTORY OF THE HEN FEVER (Burnham); Katharine Walton (Simms); The Witches of New York, and others.

USD - Unknown
366 [HOFFMAN (DAVID)] Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men, Manners and Things. Baltimore

1837

USD - Unknown
367 HOLBACH (MAUDE M.) Dalmatia. The Land where East meets West. London

1908

USD - 1.05
368 HOLMES (OLIVER WENDELL) Astraea: The Balance of Illusions. Boston

1850

USD - Unknown
369 HOLMES (OLIVER WENDELL) The Guardian Angel: The Professor at the Breakfast Table: Pages from an Old Volume of Life; and ... Boston

v. d.

USD - Unknown
370 HORDYNSKI (JOSEPH) History of the late Polish Revolution and the events of the Campaign. Boston

1833

USD - Unknown
371 HOUGH (FRANKLIN B.) Meteorological Observations of the State of N. Y. from 1826-1850. Albany

1855

USD - Unknown
372 HOWELL (JAMES) Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. London

1705

USD - Unknown
373 HOWELLS (W. D.) A Fearful Responsibility and other Stories. Boston

1881

USD - Unknown
374 HOWELLS (W. D.) The Register. Boston

1884

USD - Unknown
375 HOWELLS (W. D.) A Hazard of New Fortunes. New York

1890

USD - Unknown
376 HOWITT (WILLIAM) The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany. London

1842

USD - Unknown
377 HOYT (J. K.) The Romance of the Table. In Three Parts. Breakfast, Dinner and Tea. New Brunswick, N. J.

1872

USD - Unknown
378 HUGENIUS (CONSTANTINUS) Momenta Desultoria. Editio altera, Ludovico Hugenio. Hagae-Comitum

1655

USD - Unknown
379 HUGO (VICTOR) Theatre de. Paris

n. d.

USD - Unknown
380 HUISH (ROBERT) The Progress of Crime; or, the Authentic Memoirs of Maria Manning. London

1849

USD - Unknown
381 HUNT (LEIGH) Stories from the Italian Poets. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
382 HURST (JOHN F.) Indika, the Country and the People of India and Ceylon. New York

1891

USD - Unknown
383 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF HYMNS and their Authors (Long); Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith ( ...

USD - Unknown
384 Morgan (Lewis H.) INDIANS. Report to the Regents of the University, upon the Articles furnished to the Indian ... Albany

1850

USD - Unknown
385 O'Leary (Rev. James) INDIANS. Ellie Laura; or, the Border Orphan; a drama. New York

(1871)

USD - Unknown
386 Battey (Thomas C.) INDIANS. The Life and Adventures of a Quaker Among the Indians. Boston

1876

USD - Unknown
387 Powell (J. W.) INDIANS. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-'82. Washington

1884

USD - Unknown
388 S. R. Riggs INDIANS. Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnology. Washington

1893

USD - Unknown
389 Powell (J. W.) INDIANS. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1888-'89. Washington

1893

USD - Unknown
390 Powell (J. W.) INDIANS. 15th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1893-'94. Washington

1897

USD - Unknown
391 Powell (J. W.) INDIANS. 16th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1894-'95. Washington

1897

USD - Unknown
392 Powell (J. W.) INDIANS. 17th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington

1898

USD - Unknown
393 Paul E. More INDIANS. A Century of Indian Epigrams, chiefly from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari. Boston

1898

USD - Unknown
394 Martin (Nettie P.) INDIANS. Indian Legends of Early Days. Boston

(1905)

USD - Unknown
395 Edited by S. R. Riggs and J. P. Williamson INDIANS. Dakota Odowan. Hymns in the Dakota Language. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
396 Lover (Samuel) IRELAND. Legends and Stories of Ireland. Philadelphia

1846

USD - Unknown
397 Kinsley (Miss) IRELAND. The Emerald Isle: a Poem. Liverpool

1846

USD - Unknown
398 McCarthy (Justin H.) IRELAND. A Short History of Ireland. New York

1892

USD - Unknown
399 IRELAND. The History of Ireland from the Invasion by Henry the Second to the Present Times. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
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