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
700	SEWARD (WILLIAM H.)	The Works of.	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
701	SHAW (H. W.)	Josh Billings on Ice.	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
702	Schmidt (Dr. Alexander)	SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare-Lexicon, A Complete Dictionary.	Berlin and London	1874	USD -	1.75
703	Mrs. Cowden Clarke	SHAKESPEARE. The Complete Concordance to Shakespere: Being a Verbal Index.	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
704	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	The Works of.	Boston	1881	USD -	2.00
705	William H. Edwards	SHAKESPEARE. Shakesper, not Shakespeare.	Cincinnati	1900	USD -	Unknown
706	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	The. Complete Works of Shakespeare.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
707	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespere.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
708	[SIMMS (J. G.)]	Views and Reviews in American Literature. History and Fiction.	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
709	SINCLAIR (WILLIAM M.)	Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral.	Philadelphia	(n. d.)	USD -	Unknown
710		SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. James Smithson and His Bequest.	Washington	1880	USD -	Unknown
711		SMITH'S WEEKLY VOLUME; a Select Circulating Library.	Philadelphia	1845	USD -	1.75
712	SMOLLETT (TOBIAS)	Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.	Edinburgh	1809	USD -	Unknown
713	SMOLLETT (TOBIAS)	Peregrine Pickle; Roderich Random; Humphry Clinker.	Leipzig	1845-70	USD -	Unknown
714		SOCIETY VERSE BY AMERICAN WRITERS (Pierson) 1887; Poems by Stephen Phillips, 1898; Poems of William ...			USD -	Unknown
715	SOMERVILLE (WILLIAM)	The Chace. A Poem. With Hobbinol; or, The Rural Games.	London	1749	USD -	Unknown
716		SOUTH CAROLINA. Notes for Five and Eight Dollars.	Charles-Town	1777 (Reprints).	USD -	Unknown
717	Bonner (Sherwood)	SOUTHERN DIALECT TALES. Dialect Tales.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
718		SPANISH. Estado Mayor General del Ejercito Espanol.	Madrid	1850	USD -	Unknown
719	W. N. King	SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. The Story of the SpanishAmerican War and the Revolt of the Philippines.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
720		SPAINSH BOOKS. Viages de Fr. Gerundio, por Francia, Belgica, Holanda, 2 vols., 1842; Viages de ...			USD -	Unknown
721		SPAINSH BOOKS. Tratado de la Tribulacion (Pedro de Rivadeneira); Curso de Filosofia Elemental, Logia ...			USD -	Unknown
722	Don R. J. Dominguez	SPANISH DICTIONARY. Diccionario Nacional de la Lengua Espanola.	Madrid	1848	USD -	Unknown
723		SPANISH PICTURES drawn with Pen and Pencil.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
724		SPARTAN AND THEBAN SUPREMACIES (Sankey); Rome and Carthage (Smith); The Athenian Empire (Cox), and ...			USD -	Unknown
725		SPECTRUM ANALYSIS IN ITS APPLICATION TO Terrestrial Substances and the Physical Constitution of the ...	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
726	SPENCER (J. A.)	History of the United States.	New York	[1858]	USD -	Unknown
727	Street (A. B.)	SPORT. Woods and Waters: The, Saranacs and Racket.	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
728	Murray (W. H. H.)	SPORT. Adventures in the Wilderness; Camp-Life in the Adirondacks.	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
729		SPORT. The Annual Illustrated Catalogue and Oarsman's Manual, 1871.	Troy, New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
730	Lewis (Elisha J.)	SPORT. The American Sportsman . . . Habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of America.	Philadelphia	1871	USD -	Unknown
731	Bumstead (John)	SPORT. On the Wing.	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
732	Leffingwell (William B.)	SPORT. Wild Fowl Shooting.	Chicago	1889	USD -	Unknown
733	Gillmore (Parker)	SPORT. Leaves from a Sportsman's Diary.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
734	Rooper (George)	SPORT. Thomas and Tweed (with anecdotes of fish and fishing).	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
735		SPORT. Riding for Ladies (Mrs. P. O'Donoghue), 1887; How Women Should Ride (C. De Hurst), 1892 ...	London and New York		USD -	Unknown
736		SPORT. Side-Saddle Riding (Eva Christy), 1899; The American Horsewoman (Elizabeth Karr), 1890; Hints ...	London and Boston		USD -	Unknown
737	Dwyer (Francis)	SPORT. On Seats and Saddles, Bits and fitting.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
738		STAMP ALBUMS. Two small stamp albums, with a number of Domestic and Foreign stamps.			USD -	Unknown
739	STANSBURY (HOWARD)	Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah.	Philadelphia	1852	USD -	Unknown
740	STEDMAN (EDMUND CLARENCE)	The Prince's Ball.	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
741	STEPHENS (JOHN L.)	Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan.	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
742	STEVENSON (R. L.)	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
743		STORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS (Lillie); Lectures and Essays, 2 vols. (Giles); The Late Mrs. Null ( ...			USD -	Unknown
744		STORY OF THE ODYSSEY (Church); A Boy of the First Empire (Brooks); My Winter on the Nile (Warner ...			USD -	Unknown
745	STOWE (HARRIET BEECHER)	My Wife and I.	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
746	W. H. Davenport Adams	SUPERSTITION. Curiosities of Superstition and Sketches of some unrevealed Religions.	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
749	TIMROD (HENRY)	The Poems of. Edited with a Sketch of the Poet's Life, by P. H. Hayne.	New York	1873	USD -	1.00
750	Field (Henry M.)	TELEGRAPH. History of the Atlantic Telegraph.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
751	Prescott (C. B.)	TELEGRAPH. History, Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph.	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
752	Reid (J. D.)	TELEGRAPH. The Telegraph in America; its Founders and Noted Men.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
753	Turnbull (Laurence)	TELEGRAPH. The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.	Philadelphia	1853.	USD -	Unknown
754	TAYLOR (ZACHARY)	Bronze Medallion bearing bust profile portrait of Taylor; reverse, Resolution of Congress, 1846.			USD -	Unknown
755		TEMPEST TOSSED (Tilton); Recollections of a Policeman; Pharos the Egyptian (Boothby), and others.			USD -	Unknown
756	TOURGEE (A. W.)	John Eax (2); Bricks Without Straw; A Fool's Errand; The Invisible Empire.	New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
757		THINKS I TO MYSELF; Landor's Imaginary Conversations, Third and Fourth Series; Sport Royal (Hope ...			USD -	Unknown
758	C. W. Mossell	TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, the Hero of Saint Domingo. (Life of.)	Lockport	1896	USD -	Unknown
759		TWO WOMEN AND A FOOL (Taylor); The Story of Captain Cook; The Wonderful Century (Wallace), and ...			USD -	1.00
760	TRUMBULL (JAMES H.)	Natick Dictionary.	Washington	1903	USD -	Unknown
761	THWING (CHARLES F.)	The Family. An Histprical and Social Study.	Boston	1887	USD -	Unknown
762	Eyre Crowe	THACKERAY (W. M.). With Thackeray in America.	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
763		TRAVEL. Arctic Adventure (Sargent); Pictures from St. Petersburg; Argentine Republic (King); and ...			USD -	Unknown
764		THREE WEEKS IN POLITICS (Bangs); Quaker Idyls; The French at Home (Rhodes); Doctor Rameau (Ohnet ...			USD -	Unknown
765		TOILERS IN ART (Ewart); English Literature. (Nicoll); The English Novel (Lanier); and others.			USD -	Unknown
766	Wood (Herbert)	TRAVEL. The Shores of Lake Aral.	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
767	TOWNSEND (GEORGE A.)	The Entailed Hat.	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
768		TECHNOLOGY. The Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
769	TRUMBULL (HENRY)	History of the Discovery of America; the Landing of our Forefathers, and their engagements with the ...	Boston	1828	USD -	Unknown
770		TRAVELS OF ALI BEY, in Morocco, etc, by himself; Description of the Character, Manners and Customs ...	Boston, New York and Philadelphia	v. d.	USD -	1.10
771	TENNYSON (ALFRED)	The Poetical Works of.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
772	ULLOA (BERNARDO DE)	Restablecimiento de las Fabricas y Comercio Espanol.	Madrid	1740	USD -	1.00
773	John Gregory	VERMONT. Centennial Proceedings and Historical Incidents of the Early Settlers of Northfield.	Montpelier	1878	USD -	1.00
774		VEST POCKET EDITIONS. Works of Lord Byron; Dramatic Works of R. B. Sheridan; Roderick Random and ...			USD -	1.00
775		VISIT TO EUROPE (Silliman); The Middle Kingdom (Williams); Travels in Europe (Prime), and others.			USD -	Unknown
776		WAGNER AND LISZT. Correspondence of.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
777	WALLACE (W. J.)	The Dinner in Honor of Judge William J. Wallace on his Retirement from the Bench, Given by Members ...	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
778	Edited by James Rennie	WALTON AND COTTON. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Lives, and Notes ...	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
779	Emmons (Richard)	WAR OF 1812. The Fredoniad; or, Independence Presrved: An Epic Poem.	Philadelphia	1830	USD -	1.00
780	WARNER (C. D.)	My Summer in a Garden.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
781	WARREN (NATHAN B.)	The Holidays: Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide.	New York and Cambridge	[1868]	USD -	Unknown
782	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States.	Windsor	1812	USD -	Unknown
783	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States.	Hartford	1814	USD -	2.60
784	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Life of.	New York	1825	USD -	Unknown
785	Aaron Bancroft	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). The Life of.	Boston	1826	USD -	Unknown
786	J. Frost	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). Pictorial Life of.	Philadelphia	1847	USD -	Unknown
787	J. F. Schroeder	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). Life and Times of Washington.	New York	(1857)	USD -	Unknown
788	Washington Irving	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). The Life of.	New York	1857	USD -	1.00
789	Washington Irving	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). Life of George Washington.	New York	1859	USD -	1.30
790	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Accounts of, with the United States, 1775-1783.	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
791	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Portraits and Views in his Life.			USD -	Unknown
792	WASHINGTON (D. C.)	Public Buildings and Statuary of the Government, the Public Buildings and Architectural Ornaments of ...	Washington	1840	USD -	Unknown
793	[WATTS (ROBERT)]	The Rule for finding Easter in the Book of Common-Prayer, Explained and Vindicated.	London	1712	USD -	Unknown
794	Charles Lanman	WEBSTER (DANIEL). The Private Life of.	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
795	WEBSTER (DANIEL)	The Private Correspondence of.	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
796		WEBSTER'S SPEECHES; Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth (Aikin); Say's Political Economy, etc.			USD -	Unknown
797	Patterson (A. W.)	WEST. Onward: A Lay of the West.	New York and San Francisco	1869	USD -	Unknown
798	Ludlow (William)	WEST. Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, 1874.	Washington	1875	USD -	Unknown
799		WEST. Perham's Pictorial Voyage, known as the Seven Mile Mirror (with historic sketches of the west ...			USD -	Unknown
800		WEST. Westward by Rail (Rae); Indian Battles (White); Colorado (Fossett).			USD -	Unknown
801		WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY. The Centennial of the United States Military Academy, 1802-1902.	Washington	1904	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.