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
99	Prof. Wilson	BURNS (ROBERT). The Works of; with a Complete Life of the Poet and an Essay of his Genius and ...	Edinburgh	1847	USD -	Unknown
100		BURR. A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John ...	New York	(1802)	USD -	Unknown
101	BURROUGHS (JOHN)	Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person.	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
102	W. J. Holland	BUTTERFLIES. The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
103	BYRON (LORD)	Mazeppa: A Poem.	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
104		CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. Selections from M. Pauw, with Additions by Daniel Webb.	Bath	1795	USD -	Unknown
105	Cantell A. Bigly.	CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. [Peck (George W.).] Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region.	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
106	Benton (J. A.)	CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The California Pilgrim, etc.	Sacramento, Cal.,	1853	USD -	Unknown
107	Kip (Lieut. Lawrence)	CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. Army Life on the Pacific: A Journal of the Expedition against the ...	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
108	Shinn (C. H.)	CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. A Study of American Frontier Government.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
109	North (A. W.)	CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. Camp and Camino in Lower California. A Record of the Adventures of ...	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
110	CALVERT (GEORGE H.)	Poems.	Boston	1847	USD -	Unknown
111	CAMPBELL (THOMAS)	Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and other Poems.	London	1809	USD -	Unknown
112	CAMPBELL (THOMAS)	Life of Mrs. Siddons.	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
113		CAMPBELLITES. A Discussion of the Doctrines of Endless Missery and Universal Salvation, in ...	Utica	1840	USD -	Unknown
114	Sir Francis Head	CANADA. A Narrative.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
115	LeMoine (J. M.)	CANADA. The Chronicles of the St. Lawrence.	Montreal	1878	USD -	Unknown
116	Dawson (Samuel E.)	CANADA. The Saint Lawrence: Its Basin and Border-Lands. The Story of their Discovery, Exploration ...	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
117	Nicholson (William)	CARICATURE PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED PERSONAGES. Twelve Portraits.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
118	Nicholson (William)	CARICATURE PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED PERSONAGES. Twelve Portraits.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
119	CARPENTER (E. J.)	The American Advance: A Study in Territorial Expansion.	London and New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
120	W. B. Adams	CARRIAGES. English Pleasure Carriages; their Origin, History, Varieties (etc.)	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
121	Ralph Straus	CARRIAGES AND COACHES: Their History and their Evolution.	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
122	Brantz Mayer	CARROLL (CHARLES--of Carrollton). Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton during his Visit to ...	Baltimore	1876	USD -	Unknown
123	CARVER (JONATHAN)	Three Years' Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, for more than Five Thousand Miles ...	Philadelphia	1792	USD -	Unknown
124		CENTURY DICTIONARY (THE): An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. Prepared under the ...	New York	(1899)	USD -	Unknown
125		CHAMPFLEURY. Les Souffrances du Profes-seur Deteil.	Paris	1870	USD -	Unknown
126	Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham	CHARLES I. Regicides. An Exact and most Impartial Account of The Indictment, Arraignment, Trial and ...	London	1679	USD -	Unknown
127	CHARLEVOIX (P. F. DE)	History and General Description of New France.	New York	1866-72	USD -	Unknown
128		CHICAGO NEWSPAPERS. The Chicago Post. Extra. Monday Evening (sic), October 9, 1871.			USD -	Unknown
129	Wylde (C. H.)	CHINA COLLECTING. How to Collect Continental China.	London	1907	USD -	Unknown
130	Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson	CHINA COLLECTING. Old English China.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
131	Alice Morse Earle	CHINA COLLECTING. China Collecting in America.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
132	Robert Fabyan	CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. The New Chronicles of England and France.	London	1807-11	USD -	Unknown
134	CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)	The Innocents Aboard; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress.	Hartford	1869	USD -	Unknown
135	CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)	Lotos Leaves. Original Stories, Essays and Poems.	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
136	CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)	A Tramp Aboard.	Hartford	1880	USD -	Unknown
137	CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.)	Mark Twain's Library of Humor.	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
138	Edward J. Wood	CLOCKS. Curiosities of Clocks and Watches., from the earliest times.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
139	COLE (TIMOTHY)	Old Spanish Masters. With Historical Notes by Charles H. Caffin and Comments by the engraver. 31 ...	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
140	COLLIER (J. PAYNE)	The Poetical Decameron.	Edinburgh	1820	USD -	Unknown
141	Charles Martin	COLORED COSTUME PLATES. The Civil Costume of England, from the Conquest to the Present Time. Drawn ...	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
142	C. G. Addison	COLORED COSTUME PLATES. Damascus and Palmyra.	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
143		COLORED COSTUME PLATES. A series of 51 Finely Colored Costume Plates, showing Parisian and London ...			USD -	Unknown
144		COLORED FASHION PLATES. The Lady's Book.	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	Unknown
145		COLORED PLATES. The Dance of Death; from the Original Designs of Hans Holbein.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
146		COLORED PLATES. The Power of the Dog. 20 plates in color by Maud Earl. Described by A. Croxton Smith ...	New York and London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
147	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Poem.	[London]	[n. d., plates dated 1816 and 1817]	USD -	Unknown
148	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Poem.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
149	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation.	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
150	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque.	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
151	Jas. J. Williamson	CONFEDERATE. Mosby's Rangers. A Record of the Operations of the Forty-third Battalion of Virginia ...	New York	1909	USD -	Unknown
152	Smith (Ralph D.)	CONNECTICUT. The History of Guilford, Conn. From its First Settlement in 1639.	Albany	1877	USD -	Unknown
153	Charles M. Selleck	CONNECTICUT. norwalk. History of.	Norwalk	1896	USD -	Unknown
154		CONSTANTINOPLE. Panorama de Constantinople. Gulmez Freres, Phot, de S. M. L. le Sultan. A ...			USD -	Unknown
155	COOPER (J. F.)	Le Mouchoir: An Autobiographical Romance.	New York	March 22, 1843	USD -	Unknown
156	COOPER (J. F.)	Complete Works of.	New York	1860, etc.	USD -	Unknown
157	COOPER (J. F.)	Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.	New York	1861	USD -	Unknown
158	Aria (Mrs.)	COSTUMES. Costumes: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical.	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
159	W. M. Webb	COSTUMES. The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes.	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
160		COURT MEMOIRS. Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady in Honour to Catharine II, Empress of all the ...	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
161		COURT MEMOIRS. Memoirs and Secret Chronicles of the Courts of Europe.	New York and Akron, O.	(1901)	USD -	Unknown
162		COURT SCANDAL. The Investigation of the Charges brought against His Royal Highness the Duke of York ...	London	1809	USD -	Unknown
163		CROWNED CLASSICS. The Immortals. Masterpieces of Fiction Crowned by the French Academy. With a ...	Paris	(1905)	USD -	Unknown
164	Edited by D. J. Brewer, E. A. Allen and W. Schuyler	CROWNED MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURE that have Advanced Civilization.	St. Louis	1908	USD -	Unknown
165	[J. Whitty]	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Tales of Irish Life, Illustrative of the Manners, Customs and Condition of the ...	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
166	[J. A. Paris]	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest.	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
167	Thomas Campbell	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). [Smith (Bros.).] Rejected Addresses. Tinted portrait and woodcuts by G ...	London	1830-33	USD -	Unknown
168	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)	Lucien Greville. By A Cornet in the Hon. East India Company's Service. Etchings by G. Cruikshank.	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
169	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE)	Rejected Addresses (By the Bros. Smith).	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
170	Mary Cowden Clarke	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Kit Barn's Adventures; or, The Yarns of an Old Mariner.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
171	Grimm (Brothers)	CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). German Popular Stories.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
172	CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT)	The Odd Volume; or, Book of Variety.	London	(1836)	USD -	Unknown
173		CURIOUS. Vertue's Triumph at Suppression of Vice. Being a Discourse occasioned by His Majesty's ...	London	1688	USD -	Unknown
174	Wilkins (John)	CURIOUS. The First Book. The Discovery of a New World; or, A Discourse tending to prove, That ('tis ...	London	1707	USD -	Unknown
175	De Serviez (M.)	CURIOUS. The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the First Twelve Caesars of Rome.	London	1723	USD -	Unknown
176		CURIOUS. The Town and Country Magazine. [Vol. XII for 1780.].	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
177		CURIOUS. The Rights of Asses: A Poem. (Signed A. Dullass.)	Edinburgh	1792	USD -	Unknown
178		CURIOUS. The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends and Acquaintances ...	New York	1808	USD -	Unknown
179		CURIOUS. The Book; or, the Proceedings and Correspondence upon the Subject of the Inquiry into the ...	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
180		CURIOUS BOOK ON EATING. Illustrations of Eating . . . the Natives of Various Countries at Feeding ...	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
181	[CURTIS (G. W.)]	The Potiphar Papers.	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
182	[CURTIS (G. W.)]	Prue and I.	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
183		DANCE OF DEATH. Holbein's Dance of Death.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
184		DANCE OF DEATH. The Dance of Death.	Basel	1858	USD -	Unknown
185	Arthur Applin	DANCING. The Stories of the Russian Ballet.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
186	DAGLEY (R.)	Death's Doings: Consisting of numerous Original Compositions in Prose and Verse.	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
187	D'ARBLAY (MADAME)	Diary and Letters of (1778-1840). As Edited by her Niece Charlotte Barrett.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
188	DAVIS (JEFFERSON)	The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
189		DECORATION. Modern Homes: Selected Examples of Dwelling Houses.	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
190	DELAND (MARGARET)	Dr. Lavendar's Peopie.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
191	[DIBDIN (T. F.)]	Bibliophobia: Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
192	DICKENS (CHARLES)	American Notes for General Circulation.	New York	Nov. 7, 1842	USD -	Unknown
193	DICKENS (CHARLES)	A Child's History of England.	London	1852-53-54	USD -	Unknown
194	DICKENS (CHARLES)	A Tale of Two Cities. first edition, with the dropped figure on page 55.	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
195	DICKENS (CHARLES)	Our Mutual Friend.	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
196	DICKENS (CHARLES)	Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil (an a Supplement), including Anecdotes and Reminiscences collected ...	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
197	DICKENS (CHARLES)	Account of the Ball given in Honor of Charles Dickens in New York City, Feb. 14, 1842. From the New ...	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	1908	USD -	Unknown
198	DICKENS (CHARLES)	Works of. Household Edition.	Boston. New York	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
199	Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee	DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (English). With the Supplement; (also) the Second Supplement, 3 ...	New York and London	1908-12	USD -	Unknown

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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