Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF JOHN L. CLAWSON, ESQ. OF BUFFALO, N.Y. (WITH ADDITIONS). TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION THURSDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 28TH AND 29TH, 1915. BY MERWIN SALES COMPANY 16 EAST 40TH STREET NEW YORK., 595,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 28, 1915 - January 28, 1915

Page Size: 700 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A'BECKETT (GILBERT A.)	The Comic History of England.	London	1847-48	USD -	Unknown
2	A'BECKETT (GILBERT A.)	The Comic History of Rome.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
3	ADAMS (JOHN)	A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.	Philadelphia	1797	USD -	Unknown
4	ADAMS (JOHN)	A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses to the President of the United States, together with the ...	Boston	1798	USD -	Unknown
5	ALDRICH (T. B.)	The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth.	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
6		ALDINE. M. Tullii Ciceronis Defensiones contra Celii Calcagnini disquisitiones in eins officia, per ...	Venetiis	1546	USD -	Unknown
7	Nathaniel Ames	ALMANAC. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for 1772.	[Boston]	[1771]	USD -	Unknown
8	Nathaniel Low	ALMANAC. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for 1775.	Boston	[1774]	USD -	Unknown
9	Nathaniel Low	ALMANAC. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for 1777.	Boston	[1776]	USD -	Unknown
10	Heylyn (Peter)	AMERICA. Mikpokoemoe. A Little Description of the Great World.	Oxford	1939 (for 1639)	USD -	Unknown
11	[Edited by Thomas Prince, Jr.]	AMERICA. The Christian History, containing Accounts of the Revival and Propagation of Religion in ...	Boston	1744	USD -	Unknown
12		AMERICA. The British Monarchy; or, A New Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to ...	[London]	Oct. 1, 1748	USD -	Unknown
13	Winterbotham (W.)	AMERICA. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United ...	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
14		AMERICAN ENGRAVING. Dean's Large Text Words, with Alphabets in the Roman, Italic, Old Print, German ...	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
15	Alden (Timothy)	AMERICAN EPITAPHS. A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with occasional Notes.	New York	1814	USD -	Unknown
16	Joseph Fauchet	AMERICAN-FRENCH RELATIONS, 1796. A Sketch of the Present State of Our Political Relations with the ...	Philadelphia	1797	USD -	Unknown
17		AMERICAN POEMS: Selected and Original (by Trumbull, Dwight, Barlow, Humphreys, Livingstone ...	Litchfield (Connecticut)	[1793]	USD -	Unknown
18	Price (Richard)	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The General Introduction and Supplement to the Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the ...	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
19	Sprengel (M. C.)	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America.	Frankenthal	1785	USD -	Unknown
20	Ramsay (David)	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The History of the American Revolution.	Philadelphia	1789	USD -	Unknown
21		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Official Letters to the Honourable American Congress, Written during the War ...	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
22	John J. Henry	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Arnold's Expedition. Campaign Against Quebec: Being an Accurate and Interesting ...	Watertown, New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
23	Belcher (Henry)	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The First American Civil War, 1775-1778.	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
24	Edited by John T. Morse, Jr	AMERICAN STATESMEN: A series of biographies of Men Famous in the Political History of the United ...	Boston	1899-1900	USD -	Unknown
25	AMICIS (EDMONDO DE)	Le Maroc. Traduit de l'Italien, avec l'Autorisation de l'Auteur. Par Henri Belle.	Paris	1882	USD -	Unknown
26	Thomas Oliphant	ANCIENT MADRIGALS. La Musa Madrigalesca; or, a Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays, etc ...	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
27	Prof. Chas. M. Gayley	ANCIENT PLAYS. Plays of our Forefathers; and some of the Traditions upon which they were founded.	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
28	Miss Seward	ANDRE (MAJOR). Monody on Major Andre.	Litchfield	1781	USD -	Unknown
29	ANDRE (MAJOR)	Andreana, containing the Trial, Execution and Various Matter connected with the History of Major ...	Philadelphia	1865	USD -	Unknown
30	Edited by J. G. Wilson and John Fiske	APPLETON'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.	New York	1887-89	USD -	Unknown
31	F. Vors	ART. Bibelots and Curios: A Manual for Collectors, with Glossary.	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
32	M. D. Conway	ART. Travels in South Kensington. With Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
33		ART. Benvenuto Cellini. Orfevre, Medailleur, Sculpteur. Recherches sur sa Vie sur son OEuvre et sur ...	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
34		ART. Edward Calvert. Ten Spiritual Designs enlarged from Proofs of the Originals on Cooper, Wood and ...	Portland	1913	USD -	Unknown
34a	J. Ph. Van Der Kellen	ART. Michel Le Blon. Recueil d'Ornements, accompagne d'une Notice Biographique et d'un Catalogue ...	La Haye	1900	USD -	Unknown
35		ART. Choice Selections from the World's Great Galleries. Selected from the Great Art Exhibitions of ...	London and New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
36	Maud Cruttwell	ART. Verrocehio (a Biographical and Critical Study of one of the Greatest Sculptors of tihei 15th ...	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
37	ROSSI (L. MELANO)	ART. The Santuario of the Madonna di Vico, Pantheon of Charles Emaluel I. of Savoy.	London	1907	USD -	Unknown
38	C. Haldane McFall	ART. Beautiful Children Immortalised by the Masters.	New York	(1909)	USD -	Unknown
38a	Jones (Paul)	ART. Bibliophile Society. Letters of John Paul Jones. Printed from the Unpublished Originals in Mr ...	Boston	[1905]	USD -	Unknown
39	Laurence Binyon	ART. Botticelli (Sandro). The Art of Botticelli: An Essay in Pictorial Criticism.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
40	Leonce Benedite	ART. The Luxembourg Museum: Its Paintings.	Paris and London	1913	USD -	Unknown
41	ASHTON (JOHN)	English Caricature and Satire of Napoleon I.	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
42	AUDUBON (JOHN J.)	The Birds of America. Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon.	[London]	[1833]	USD -	Unknown
43	AUDUBON (JOHN J.). AND BACHMAN (JOHN)	The Quadrupeds of North America.	New York	1849-54	USD -	Unknown
44		AUTOGRAPHIC MIRROR (THE): Autographic Letters and Sketches of Illustrious and Distinguished Men of ...	London	[1864]	USD -	Unknown
45		AUTOGRAPHS. A Select Collection of Interesting Autograph Letters of Celebrated Persons English and ...	Stuttgart	1849	USD -	Unknown
46	Joline (Adrian H.)	AUTOGRAPHS. Meditations of an Autograph Collector.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
47	BALZAC (HONRE DE)	La Comedie Humaine.	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
48	BANGS (JOHN KENDRICK)	Uncle Sam Trustee.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
49		BASKERVILLE PRINTING. Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists (By Dodsley).	Birmingham	1764	USD -	Unknown
50	BEACH (REX)	The Silver Horde.	New York	1909	USD -	Unknown
51	O'Sullivan (Vincent)	BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Houses of Sin. First Edition. Cover design in gilt by Aubrey Beardsley.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
52	BEHN (MRS. APHRA)	Plays.	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
53	Oliver Goldsmith	BEWICK (THOMAS). Bewick's Select Fables of AEsop and others. ... To which are prefixed the Life of ...	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
54	John Brown	BIBLE. The Self-Interpreting Bible.	New York	1792	USD -	Unknown
55		BIBLIOGRAPHY. The History of the Works of the Learned; or. An Impartial Account of Books Lately ...	London	1699-1705	USD -	Unknown
56		BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland; and A ...	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
57	Lowndes (W. T.)	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature.	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
58		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in air-Languages on Sale by James Bohn.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
59	Thomas Thorpe	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of the most Extensive, Valuable, and Truly Interesting Collection of Curious ...	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
60	F. S. Merryweather	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
61	Haynes (John E.)	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pseudonyms of Authors; Including Anonyms and Initialisms.	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
62	Brown (Horatio F.)	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Venetian Printing Press: An Historical Study based upon Documents for the most ...	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
63		BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bibliography of Tennyson: A Bibliographical List of the Published and Privately- ...	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
64		BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling as Practised by all European Nations ...	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
65	F. Marchmont	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Three Cruikshanks. A Bibliographical Catalogue, Describing more than 500 Works ...	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
66	N. E. Dionne	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Inventaire Chronologique des Livres, Brochures, Journaux et Revues Puplies en langue ...	Quebec	1905-1907	USD -	Unknown
67	Thomas L. Bradford	BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: Containing an Account of all State ...	Philadelphia	1907	USD -	Unknown
68	Ernest A. Savage	BIBLIOGRAPHY. Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books during the Middle Ages.	Chicago	1912	USD -	Unknown
69	M. Capefigue	BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A King's Mistress; or, Charles II and Agnes Sorel and Chivalry in the XV ...	Edinburgh	1887	USD -	Unknown
70		BIRDS. Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated. Birds.	Chiswick	1831	USD -	Unknown
71	Alfred Newton	BIRDS. A Dictionary of Birds.	London	1893-96	USD -	Unknown
72	M. G. Watkins	BIRDS. Pictures of Bird Life in Pen and Pencil.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
73		BLACK BOOK (THE); or, Corruption Unmasked. Being an Account of Places, Pensions and Sinecures, the ...	London	1820-23	USD -	Unknown
74		BOCCACCIO. Le Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci.	Venetia	1602	USD -	Unknown
75		BOCCACCIO. Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio.	Londra	1825	USD -	Unknown
76	Count Grammont	BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUMES. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second.	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
77		BOOKBINDING (XVth TO XVIIIth CENTURIES). Bucheinbande des XV bis XVIII Jahr-hunderts aus Hessischen ...	Leipzig	1892	USD -	Unknown
78	Slater (J. H.)	BOOK-COLLECTING. Round and About the Book-Stalls: A Guide for the Book-Hunter.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
79	Bollioud-Mermet	BOOK-COLLECTING. Crazy Book-Collecting or Bibliomania.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
80	William H. Arnold	BOOK-COLLECTING. First Report of a Book-Collector.	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
81		BOOK OF HOURS. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, toutes au long sans rie reqrir, Nouvelle mev ...		1522	USD -	Unknown
82	Hardy (W. J.)	BOOK-PLATES. Book-Plates.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
83	W. M. Stone	BOOK-PLATES. Women Designers of Book-Plates.	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
84	Curwen (Henry)	BOOKSELLERS. A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New.	London	[1873]	USD -	Unknown
85		BOSTON IMPRINTS of Medical Pamphlets. Dissertation on the Gout (W. Cadogan). Boston: Reprinted, 1772 ...			USD -	Unknown
86		BRADFORD CLUB. Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida as told by a ...	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
87	Travenor-Perry (J.)	BRASS AND COPPER WORK. Dinanderie: A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper, Brass ...	New York and London	1910	USD -	Unknown
88	[BROWNE (C. F.)]	Betsey Jane Ward (Better-Half to Artemus). Hur Book of Goaks . . . and Mr. Ward's Cutting-Up with ...	New York	(1866)	USD -	Unknown
89	BROWNE (SIR THOMAS)	Religio Medici.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
90	BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)	Poems.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
91	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangua, Saviour of Society.	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
92	BROWNING (ROBERT)	The Inn Album.	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
93	BROWNING (ROBERT)	La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic.	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
94	BROWNING (ROBERT)	Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
95	BRUCE (JOHN--Editor)	Historie of the Ar-rivall of Edward IV in England and the Finall Recoverye of his Kingdomes from ...	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
96	BRYANT (WM. C.)	Poems.	Cambridge	1821	USD -	Unknown
97	John Hall	[BRYDGES (S. EGERTON).] Poems.	Cambridge [London]	1646 [1816]	USD -	Unknown
98	BUCHANAN (ROBERT)	Undertones.	London	1863	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.