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
600		PAPER CURRENCY. Five Centavos Certificates El Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba. Habana, 1896.	Habana	1896	USD -	Unknown
601		PAPER CURRENCY. Five Centavos Certificates El Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba. Habana, 1896.			USD -	Unknown
602		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills of Georgia and North Carolina.			USD -	1.00
603		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills for $10 and $20.			USD -	Unknown
604		PAPER CURRENCY. Engraved bills, Bank of Augusta, Ga.			USD -	Unknown
605		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Georgia Notes. Various.			USD -	1.00
606		PAPER CURRENCY. Mississippi and Alabama R. R. $25.00 bill.			USD -	Unknown
607		PAPER CURRENCY. Benjamin F. Butler, $1,000.00 (2); $100.00 (2).			USD -	Unknown
608		PAPER CURRENCY. Michigan, Bank of Manchester. $3, $5 and $10. Vignette portraits of Washington ...			USD -	1.25
609		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills for $1.00.			USD -	Unknown
610		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills. $5 and $20.			USD -	Unknown
611		PAPER CURRENCY. New York Notes, 1776. Reprints.		1776	USD -	Unknown
612		PAPER CURRENCY. Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. Rhode Island, Maryland and New York Notes.			USD -	Unknown
613		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bill for $10.00.			USD -	Unknown
614		PAPER CURRENCY. Hungarian Fund. One Dollar.			USD -	Unknown
615		PAPER CURRENCY. Confederate Bills of various States.			USD -	2.00
616		PAPER CURRENCY. Japanese Paper Money.			USD -	Unknown
617	W. M. Gouge	PAPER MONEY, ETC. The Journal of Banking, from July 1841 to July, 1842.	Philadelphia	1842	USD -	Unknown
618		PARCHMENT SERIES. The Book of Psalms.	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
619		PARIS. A Few Weeks in Paris, during the Residence of the Allied Sovereigns.	Boston	1814	USD -	Unknown
620	[PARKER (JAMES)]	The Conductor Generalis; or, the Office, Duty and Authority of Justice of the Peace.	Albany	1794	USD -	Unknown
621		PARLEY'S MAGAZINE. Part 33; Littell's Living Age, 5 vols.; Penny Magazine, 1832 to 1839, in 4 vols.	v. p.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
622		PATENTS. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Years 1847 to 1869 (irregular).	Washington	1848	USD -	3.50
623		PAUL AND VIRGINIA (St. Pierre); Bits of Travel (Helen Jackson); Scott's Poetical Works; Keats ...			USD -	Unknown
624	PENN (WILLIAM)	Coleman's Re-Print of William Penn's Original Proposal and Plan for the Founding and Building of ...	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
625		PENNSYLVANIA DEEDS. Six (6) Old Parchment Deeds for Land in Philadelphia, etc.			USD -	2.50
626	H. D. Rogers	PENNSYLVANIA. Third Annual Report on the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.	Harrisburg	1839	USD -	Unknown
627	Sherman Day.	PENNSYLVANIA. Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania.	Philadelphia	[1843]	USD -	Unknown
628		PEOPLE I'VE SMILED WITH (Wilder); Cowper's Poetical Works; Verses and Translations (Calverly); A ...			USD -	Unknown
629	Salvador Bermudee de Castro	PEREZ. Antonio Perez, Secretario de Estado del Rey Felipe ii. Esteudios Historicos.	Madrid	1841	USD -	Unknown
630		PERIODICALS. Graham's Magazine, 1853-54. 3 vols.; The Christian Observer. Vol. 17, 1819; Scribner's ...			USD -	Unknown
631	PERK (ABNER)	Merry Maple Leaves; or, A Summer in the Country.	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
632		PERRONIANA SIVE EXCERPTA EX ORE CARDInalis Perronii.	Genevae	1705	USD -	Unknown
633		PHILADELPHIA. Agreement between Jacob Sperry & Co. and John Huffnagle, Merchants of Phila. regarding ...		1801	USD -	Unknown
634		PHILADELPHIA. Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee (of ...	Philadelphia	1848	USD -	Unknown
635		PHILISTINE (THE), a Periodical of Protest.	East Aurora	1900-03	USD -	Unknown
636		PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; The Life, Public Services and State Papers of Abraham ...			USD -	Unknown
637		PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Wilde), New York, n. d.; English As She Is Taught (Clemens), Boston (1900 ...			USD -	Unknown
638	Edited by W. C. Bryant	PICTURESQUE AMERICA; a Delineation by Pen and Pencil.	New York	(1872)	USD -	Unknown
639	PITKIN (TIMOTHY)	A Political and Civil History of the United States of America.	New Haven	1828	USD -	Unknown
640	D. J. C. B. (J. Cajot Benedicti)	PLAGIARISM. Les Plagiats de M. J. J. R. de Geneve, sur l'Education.	la Haye	1766	USD -	Unknown
641		PLAY IN PROVENCE (Pennell); MacReady's Reminiscences; The Last American (Mitchell); Life of Robert ...			USD -	Unknown
642	POE (E. A.)	Poems.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
643		POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA (Griswold); Women of Early Christianity (Spencer); Leaflets of Memory ...			USD -	Unknown
644		POETRY. British Poetry; Poetical Works of Miss Landon; Queen Mary (Tennyson); Moore; Halleck's Poems ...			USD -	Unknown
645		POETRY. The Book of British Ballads; Ballads of Bravery; Laus Veneris (Swinburne); The Tenth Muse ( ...			USD -	1.10
646		POINIER NOTES. Three sheets.	Boston	1862	USD -	Unknown
647	Greely (A. W.)	POLAR. Report of the Proceedings of the U. S. Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land.	Washington	1888	USD -	Unknown
648	POOR (LAURA E.)	The First International Railway and the Colonization of New England.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
649		PORTRAITS. The National Portrait Gallery.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
650		PORTRAITS. American Statesmen, Authors, etc.			USD -	Unknown
651		PORTRAITS. English and Foreign.			USD -	Unknown
652		PORTRAITS. English and Foreign.			USD -	Unknown
653		PORTRAITS. English, American and Foreign.			USD -	Unknown
654		PORTRAITS. English and Foreign.			USD -	Unknown
655	Rene Auber de Vertot	PORTUGAL. Historie des Revolutions de Portugal.	Paris	1795	USD -	Unknown
656	POTTER (MARY KNIGHT)	The Art of the Vatican.	Boston	1903	USD -	Unknown
657	Powell (J. W.)	POTTERY. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-.'85.	Washington	1888	USD -	1.00
658	Powell (J. W.)	PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS OF AMERICA. 13th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1891-92.	Washington	1896	USD -	Unknown
659	PRENTICE (ARCHIBALD)	A Tour in the United States.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
660		PRINCE BISMARK'S LETTERS; First Sketch of English Literature (Morley); The Student's Greek Tragedy ...			USD -	Unknown
661		PRISONS. A Concise History of the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	Unknown
662	Gallatin (Albert)	PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES. Views of the Public Debts, Receipts and Expenditures of the United ...	Philadelphia	1801	USD -	Unknown
663	Field (John)	QUAKERS. Piety Promoted in a Collection of Dying Sayings of many of the People called Quakers.	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
664		QUEEN VICTORIA. More Leaves from the Journal of A Life in the Highlands.	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
665	RADZIWILL (PRINCESSE)	Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino, 1836-'40.	New York and London	1910	USD -	Unknown
666	Williams (F. S.)	RAILROADS. Our Iron Roads: Their History, etc.	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
667		RAILROADS. Senate Bill No. 469. Will Congress Preserve Good Faith with the Central Branch Union ...	Washington	1869-70	USD -	Unknown
668		RAILROADS. Report of the President and Managers to the Stockholders, 1886.	Philadelphia	1887	USD -	Unknown
669	T. C. Clarke and others	RAILROADS. The American Railway: Its Construction, etc.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
670	RAMSAY (ALLAN)	The Ever Green: Being a Collection of Scots Poems (With a Glossary of Scots Words).	Edinburgh	1761	USD -	Unknown
671		RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES; Walpole's New Letters to Horace Mann; Scott's Napoleon; Memoirs of ...			USD -	1.25
672		RASSELAS (Johnson); Chesterfield's Letters; The Stone of Destiny (Mackay); and others.			USD -	Unknown
673		READER'S HANDBOOK (Brewer); Shakespeare's Comedies; Tragedies. 2 vols.; Warren's Household Physician ...			USD -	Unknown
674		RECENT ART AND SOCIETY (Chorley); Schools and Masters of Painting; Rambles through the British Isles ...			USD -	Unknown
675	Edited by Llewellynn	RELIQUARY (THE); a Depository for Precious Relics--Legendary, Biographical and Historical.	London	1860-71	USD -	Unknown
676	REMINGTON (FREDERIC)	Drawings by.	New York	1898	USD -	2.25
677	G. C. Mason	RHODE ISLAND. Re-Union of the Sons and Daughters of Newport, Aug. 23, 1859.	Newport	1859	USD -	Unknown
678	RHODES (SAMUEL N.)	The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.	Philadelphia	1003	USD -	Unknown
679		RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY; The Technique of Rest; Tales of the Revolution (Goodrich), and others.			USD -	Unknown
680	RICHARDS (T. A.)	American Scenery.	New York	[1854]	USD -	Unknown
681	RICHARDSON (JOHN D.)	A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1905.	Washington	1907	USD -	1.35
682	RITTER (FREDERIC L.)	Music in America.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
683	John Gilbert Burnett	ROCHESTER (JOHN EARL OF). Some Passages of the Life and Death of.	London	(circa 1700)	USD -	Unknown
684	ROGERS (SAMUEL)	Human Life: A Poem. First Edition. 1819; (also) The Pleasures of Hope. By Thomas Campbell. With ...	London	1819-20	USD -	Unknown
685	John Hawkins	ROLLIAD. Criticisms on the Rolliad; (also) Probationary Odes for the Laureatship.	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
686	ROLLIN (CHARLES)	Ancient History.	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
687		ROLLIN'S ANCIENT HISTORY; Works of Shakespeare. II vols. (lacking vol. 4.) London, 1820, etc.			USD -	Unknown
688	ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)	The Winning of the West.	New York	1905	USD -	1.50
689		ROYCROFT PRESS. Ali Baba of East Aurora.	East Aurora	1899	USD -	1.00
690	Olive Schreiner	ROYCROFT PRESS. Dreams.	East Aurora	1901	USD -	1.00
691		RURAL CEMETERIES OF AMERICA. Green-Wood (N. Cleveland); Mount Auburn (C. W. Walter).	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
692	SAINTSBURY (GEORGE)	Essays on French Novelists.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
693	SCHAFF (PHILIP) and Gilman (Arthur)	A Library of Religious Poetry.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
694		SCHOOL BOOKS. Wentworth's Algebras, with Key; Wells' Higher Algebra; Commercial Geography (Adams ...			USD -	Unknown
695		SCHOOL BOOKS. Shorthand, Languages, History, etc.			USD -	Unknown
696	SCHOOLCRAFT (HENRY R.)	Address, New York Historical Soc., 42nd Anniversary, 1846; Proceedings of the New York Hist. Society ...	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
697	SCOTT (SIR WALTER)	Waverley Novels. Household Edition.	Boston	1857	USD -	3.75
698		SCOTTISH CHURCHES. The Right of Patronages Considered, and some of the Ancient and Modern Arguments ...	Edinburgh	1731	USD -	Unknown
699	SEWARD (WILLIAM H.)	The Works of. Edited by G. E. Baker.	New York	1853	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.

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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.

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