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
500		MEXICAN WAR. The Mexican War and its Heroes . . . embracing all the Operations under Generals Taylor ...	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
501		MILITARY. The United Service: a monthly review of Military and Naval Affairs, 1890-1904 (irregular).	New York and London	1890-1904	USD -	Unknown
502		MILITARY TACTICS. Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry.	Philadelphia	1824	USD -	Unknown
503	MILLET (F. D.)	The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
504	MILLS (CHARLES)	The History of the Crusades; The History of Chivalry.	Philadelphia	1826	USD -	Unknown
505	MILMAN (REV. H. H.)	The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
506		MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Reports, etc., 1874-'97.			USD -	Unknown
507	Adolphe Thiers	MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE (THE): A Memoir of John Law.	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
508		MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (Newton), Dublin, 1728; Off-Hand Takings ...			USD -	1.00
509		MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. (Some imperfect.)			USD -	Unknown
510		MODERN BRITISH ESSAYISTS. Carlyle; Jeffrey; Mackintosh; Alison, etc.	Philadelphia	1852	USD -	Unknown
511		MONTE CARLO. The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco.	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
512	MOORE (THOMAS)	The Epicurean. A Romance.	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
513	Winchester (B.)	MORMONS. Synopsis of the Holy Scriptures and Concordance . . . Chiefly designed to Illustrate the ...	Philadelphia	1842	USD -	Unknown
514		MOSHER IMPRINT. The Sonnets of Mochael Angelo Buonarroti Translated by J. A. Symonds.	Portland	1899	USD -	Unknown
515	MOTLEY (J. L.)	The Rise of the Dutch Republic.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
516		MR. DOOLEY IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYmen (Dunne); Captains Courageous (Kipling); Macready's ...			USD -	Unknown
517	MUIRHEAD (JAMES F.)	The Land of Contrasts. A Briton's View of his American Kin.	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
518	MULLER (F. MAX)	Chips from a German Workshop.	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
519	MURRAY (AMELIA M.)	Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada.	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
520		MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND Science (The).	Philadelphia	1823-42	USD -	6.00
521		MUSIC. Mozart's Letters. 2 vols.; Life of Beethoven; Mendelssohn's Letters, and others.			USD -	Unknown
522		MUSIC. Music-Study in Germany (Fay); The Standard Symphonies (Upton); Harmony Simplified (Shepherd ...			USD -	Unknown
523	Bohmen (Jacob)	MYSTICS. Two Theosophicall Epistles, Wherein the Life of a True Christian is described.	London	1645	USD -	1.00
524	Rev. Edwin Sidney	NAPOLEON. The Life of Lord Hill, Commander of the Forces (second in Command of the Army of ...	London	1845	USD -	1.00
525	Count de Las Cases	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of the Life, Exile and Conversations of.	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
526		NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS (Headley); Six Months in Italy (Hillard); Tales of France (Cameron), and ...			USD -	Unknown
527		NAVAL. A Naval Encyclopaedia; a Dictionary of Naval Words and Phrases; Biographical Notices and ...	Philadelphia	1884	USD -	Unknown
528	NEAL (DAVID D.)	Sketches in Germany.	Munich	1864	USD -	Unknown
529	E. F. Slafter	NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOC. Discourse, March 18, 1870, on the 25th Anniversary.	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
530		NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOC. Proceedings of, 1871-92 (irregular).			USD -	Unknown
531		NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOC. Addresses and Orations, 1870-95.			USD -	Unknown
532	NEWPORT (R. I.)	A Hand-Book of Newport.	Newport	1852	USD -	Unknown
533		NEWSPAPER. The Illustrated American.	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
534		NEWSPAPER. The National Era.	Washington	1848	USD -	3.50
535		NEWSPAPER. The National Era.	Washington	1849	USD -	4.00
536		NEWSPAPER. The New York Ledger.	New York	1857-58	USD -	3.00
537		NEWSPAPER. The New York Ledger.	New York	1858-59	USD -	3.50
538		NEWSPAPER. The New York Ledger.	New York	1859-60	USD -	1.00
539		NEW YORK. Laws of the State of New York.	New York	1792-97	USD -	Unknown
540	Myer Moses	NEW YORK. Full Annals of the Revolution in France, 1830.	New York	1830	USD -	Unknown
541	Gordon (T. F.)	NEW YORK. Gazetteer of the State of New York.	Philadelphia	1836	USD -	Unknown
542	Hammond (Jabez D.)	NEW YORK. The History of Political Parties in the State of New York. 2 vols.; (also) Life and Times ...	Buffalo and Syracuse	1850-48	USD -	Unknown
543	E. B. O'Callaghan	NEW YORK. The Documentary History of the State of New York.	Albany	1850-51	USD -	Unknown
544		NEW YORK. Directory of the Borough of West Chester, 1857.	West Chester	1857	USD -	Unknown
545		NEW YORK. Insurance Reports. Barnes' Condensed Edition, 1830-63 and Annual Reports of the ...	Albany	1862-1902	USD -	Unknown
546		NEW YORK. Valentine's Manual, 1865.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
547		NEW YORK. Croton Aqueduct. Annual Report, Jan. 1, 1866.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
548	Joseph Shannon	NEW YORK. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York.	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
549		NEW YORK. Map of Property belonging to S. Cambreleng and others, at Fordham. Surveyed and laid out ...	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
550	Sutton (Charles)	NEW YORK. The New York Tombs. History of Noted Criminals, etc.	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
551	Dayton (Abram C.)	NEW YORK. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
552	Sheldon (G. W.)	NEW YORK. The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
553	Sheldon (George W.)	NEW YORK. The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of N. Y.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
554		NEW YORK. The New York Directory for 1786 (facsimile reprint).	New York	(1886)	USD -	Unknown
555		NEW YORK. Report of the Aqueduct Commission, by James C. Spencer and others.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
556		NEW YORK. The Kembles of New York and New Jersey.	n. p. (New York)	n. d. (1889)	USD -	Unknown
557	John F. Mines	NEW YORK. A Tour Around New York and My Summer Acre: Recollections of Felix Oldboy.	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
558		NEW YORK. Vanity. A Weekly Record.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
559		NEW YORK. King's Views of New York City.	Brooklyn	1903	USD -	Unknown
560	Edward F. Grose (and) J. C. Booth	NEW YORK. Centennial History of the Village of Ballston Spa., including the Towns of Ballston and ...	Ballston	1907	USD -	Unknown
561	Mr. Anna R. Bradbury	NEW YORK. History of the City of Hudson.	Hudson	1908	USD -	Unknown
562		NEW YORK. Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region (Colvin); Our Police; New York Institutions ...			USD -	Unknown
563		NEW YORK CITY AND STATE. Engraved views.			USD -	1.30
564		NEW YORK DIRECTORY, 1786.	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
565	[Decker (John)]	NEW YORK FIRE COMPANIES. Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department (with Rosters of ...	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
566		NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, 1854-59; London Quarterly Review, 1849, '51, '52, '53 to '56; Edinburgh Review ...	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
567	Davis (A.)	NORTHMEN. Antiquities of America, the First Inhabitants.	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
568		NOVELS. Cape Cod Folks (McLean); The Pettibone Name (Sydney) The Last Von Reckenburg (Francois), and ...			USD -	Unknown
569		NOVELS. Maria (Isaacs); Garrick's Pupil (Filon); Charity Chance (Raymond), and others.			USD -	Unknown
570	Ingalese (R. and I.)	OCCULT. Cosmogony and Evolution.	New York	(1907)	USD -	Unknown
571		OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. A Popular Account of their Construction, etc.	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
572		ODD VOLUMES. The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, Vol. 1; The Civil War in America (Lossing ...			USD -	Unknown
573		OLDBERRY'S OLD ENGLISH DRAMA.	London	1818-31	USD -	Unknown
574	OLIPHANT (MRS.)	The Makers of Modern Rome.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
575		OMAHA, NEBRASKA. Paper Currency. City of Omaha 0 Bills for $1.00, $3.00 and $5.00.			USD -	Unknown
576		ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. Crayon Sketches, Nature Sketches, etc.			USD -	3.75
577		ORNAMENTATION. La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales. Sous La Direction de M. Eugene Grasset.	Paris	1896	USD -	Unknown
578		ORNAMENTATION. Ornaments Estampes and Repousses. Zinc, Cuivre, Tole & Plomb. Album E. Coutelier.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
579		OSSIAN. A New and Complete Edition of Ossian's Poems.	Morristown, N. J.	1823	USD -	Unknown
580	W. E. Oswell	OSWELL (WILLIAM C.--Hunter and Explorer). The Story of his Life.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
581		OXFORD. Described by F. D. How.	London	n. d. (recent)	USD -	Unknown
582		PAMPHLETS. Historical and Miscellaneous. Christ Church in the Revolution; Description of the Coal ...			USD -	Unknown
583		PAPER CURRENCY. Maryland Notes. Various denominations. Annapolis, 1770-76.			USD -	Unknown
584		PAPER CURRENCY. Continental Money. Various Amounts. Philadelphia, 1776.			USD -	1.50
585		PAPER CURRENCY. Rhode Island Revolutionary Currency. July, 1780. All different.			USD -	Unknown
586		PAPER CURRENCY. Rhode Island Notes, 1786. Set from 5 shil. to 3 pounds.			USD -	1.00
587		PAPER CURRENCY. Vermont Bills, $3.00. Woodstock, 1807.			USD -	Unknown
588		PAPER CURRENCY. Albany, New York Notes for 12 1/2, 25 and 50 cents. 1816.			USD -	1.00
589		PAPER CURRENCY. Mississippi and Alabama R. R. Co. Bills. Set of $5, 10, 20, 50 and 100. Natchez and ...			USD -	Unknown
590		PAPER CURRENCY. Merchants' Bank, New Jersey Bill for $1.00.			USD -	Unknown
591		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bill for $50.00. Richmond, 1861.			USD -	Unknown
592		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bill for $20.00. Richmond, 1861.			USD -	Unknown
593		PAPER CURRENCY. $100 Bills. Confederate States. With Railroad Train Engraving. Richmond, 1862.			USD -	Unknown
594		PAPER CURRENCY. New Hampshire. Twenty-five Cents Certificates, Indian Head Bank, Nashua, N. H ...			USD -	Unknown
595		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills of Alabama. 25c and $1.00. Montgomery, 1863.			USD -	1.00
596		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bill for $500.00.	Richmond	1864	USD -	Unknown
597		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills for 50c. Bust of Davis.	Richmond	1864	USD -	2.00
598		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills, $20.00. Some worn. Richmond, 1864.	Richmond	1864	USD -	Unknown
599		PAPER CURRENCY. Rhode Island Notes, all for different sums.			USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

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

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.