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
298	HAY (JOHN)	Pike County Ballads and other Pieces.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
299	HAY (JOHN)	Memorial Address on the Life and Character of William McKinley.	Washington	1903	USD -	Unknown
300	HAZLITT (WILLIAM)	Liber Amoris. With Introduction (now first published), by Richard Le Gallienne.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
301	Helen Zimmern	[HEARN (LAFCADIO).] The Epic of Kings. Stories retold from Firdusi.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
302	[HEARN (LAFCADIO)]	Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
303	[HEARN (LAFCADIO)]	Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.	Boston	1904	USD -	Unknown
304	HELPS (ARTHUR)	The Spanish Conquest in America and its Relations to the History of Slavery and the Government of ...	London	1856-61	USD -	Unknown
305	HENNEPIN (FATHER LOUIS)	A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America.	Chicago	1903	USD -	Unknown
306	HENRY (O.)	The Gentle Grafter.	New York	1908	USD -	Unknown
307	Mathews (F. S.)	HERALDRY. The Writing Table of the 20th Century.	New York	1900	USD -	Unknown
308		HERODOTUS. Herodoto Alicarnaseo historico delle guerre de Greci et de Persi, Tradotto di Greco in ...	Venetia	1539	USD -	Unknown
309	HEWLETT (MAURICE)	Open Country. A Comedy with a Sting.	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
310	Atall (Peter)	HIGH LIFE IN AMERICA, 1819. The Hermit in America on a Visit to Philadelphia, containing some ...	Philadelphia	1819	USD -	Unknown
311		HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS: Marie Antoinette, with Anecdotes of her Private Life (Madame la Campan). 2 ...	New York		USD -	Unknown
312	Alfred Woltmann	HOLBEIN (HANS). Holbein and His Time.	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
313	HOLMES (ABIEL)	The Annals of America.	Cambridge	1829	USD -	Unknown
314	HOLMES (O. W.)	Poems.	Boston	1836	USD -	Unknown
315	HOLMES (O. W.)	The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
316	William H. Downes	HOMER (WINSLOW). The Life and Works of.	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
317	Anderson (E. L.)	HORSES. On Horseback in the School and on the Road.	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
318		HORSES. The Trotting and Pacing Horse in America (with histories and records). Forty-nine fine ...	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
319	Charlotte M. Gibbs	HOUSEHOLD TEXTILES (development of spinning, weaving, etc.)	Boston	1912	USD -	Unknown
320	HOVEY (RICHARD)	The Birth of Galahad.	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
321	HOVEY (RICHARD)	The Quest of Merlin.	Boston	1898	USD -	Unknown
322	HOWE (SIR WILLIAM--British Commander-in-Chief during the Revolution)	A. N.	York Island	1776	USD -	Unknown
323	HUNT (LEIGH)	Foliage; or, Poems, Original and Translated.	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
324	HUNT (LEIGH)	Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem.	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
325	HUNT (LEIGH)	Poetical Works of John Dryden. Annotated Edition.	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
326	HUTCHINSON (THOMAS)	The History of the Colony of Massadhusetts Bay, from the First Settlement thereof in 1628 until its ...	London	1765	USD -	Unknown
327	HUTCHINSON (THOMAS)	The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (Vol. 3), 1750-1774.	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
328	C. W. Paijkull	ICELAND. A Summer in Iceland.	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
329		ILLUMINATING. The History, Theory and Practice of Illuminating. Sketched by M. Digby Wyatt.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
330	Occom (Samson)	INDIANS. A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; who was executed at New Haven ...	New Haven	[1772]	USD -	Unknown
331	Hubbard (William)	INDIANS. A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England, from . . . 1607 to the year 1677; Containing ...	Boston	1775	USD -	Unknown
332		INDIANS. A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson: Containing an Account of her Sufferings ...	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
333	J. W. De Forest	INDIANS. History of the Indians of Connecticut, from the Earliest Known Period to 1850.	Hartford	1851	USD -	Unknown
334	Schoolcraft (Henry R.)	INDIANS. Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the ...	Philadelphia	1853	USD -	Unknown
335	Smet (P. J. De, S. J.)	INDIANS. New Indian Sketches.	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
336	Brownell (C. DeW.)	INDIANS. The Indian Races of North and South America . . . including the Sioux and Indian Massacres ...	Hartford	1873	USD -	Unknown
337	Fitch (Asa.)	INSECTS OF NEW YORK. First and Second Report on the Noxious and other Insects of the State of New ...	Albany	1856	USD -	Unknown
338	Edited by H. T. Peck, F. R. Stockton, N. H. Dole, Julian Hawthorne and others	INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF MASTERPIECES, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts (The).	New York	(1901)	USD -	Unknown
339	Beckmann (John)	INVENTIONS. A History of Inventions, Discoveries and Origins.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
340	Champneys (Arthur C.)	IRISH CATHEDRALS. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture: with some Notice of Similar or Related Work in ...	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
341	[IRVING (WASHINGTON)]	Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.	New York	1824	USD -	Unknown
342	[IRVING (WASHINGTON)]	Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography.	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
343		ITALIAN ALMANAC, 1776. Almanacco Per P Anno Bisestile MDCCLXXVI. Colle Nascite, e Morti de' Piu ...	Lucca	[1776]	USD -	Unknown
344	Mrs. Henry Stisted	ITALIAN SKETCHES. Letters from the Bye-Ways of Italy.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
345	JEFFERSON (JOSEPH)	Plays. The Rivals (Sheridan), N. Y., n. d.; Sir Roger de Coverley (London, n. d.); Roger the Devil ...	New York and London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
346	JEFFERYS (THOMAS)	Neptune Occidental. A Compleat Pilot for the West-Indies including the British Channel, Bay of ...	London	1782	USD -	Unknown
347	JESSE (EDWARD)	Anecdotes of Dogs.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
348	J. H. Sherburne	JONES (PAUL). The Life and Character of John Paul Jones.	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
349	KEATS (JOHN)	Endymion: A Poetic Romance.	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
350	KEATS (JOHN)	The Poetical Works of. With a Memoir by Lord Houghton.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
351	KIPLING (RUDYARD)	The Works of. Photogravure portrait and plates on Japan Paper and other illustrations.	London and Boston	(1899)	USD -	Unknown
352	Pollen (Mrs. John H.)	LACE. Seven Centuries of Lace.	New York and London	1908	USD -	Unknown
353	LACROIX (PAUL)	Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance.	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
354	LACROIX (PAUL)	Science and Literature in The Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance.	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
355	LA FARGE (JOHN)	The Gospel Story in Art.	New York	1913	USD -	Unknown
356	LAHONTAN (N. BARON DE)	New Voyage to North America.	Chicago	1905	USD -	Unknown
357	S. T. Coleridge	LAMB (CHARLES). Poems on Various Subjects.	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
358	S. T. Coleridge	LAMB (CHARLES). Poems.	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
359	Nichols (Rose S.)	LANDSCAPE GARDENING. English Pleasure Gardens. 11 plans drawn by A. H. Cox, and numerous ...	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
360	LANG (ANDREW)	The Iliad of Homer.	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
361	LANG (ANDREW)	The Strife of Love in a Dream: Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypneroto- ...	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
362	LANG (ANDREW)	The Blue Poetry Book.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
363	LANG (ANDREW)	The True Story Book.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
364	LANG (ANDREW)	The Yellow Fairy Book.	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
365	LANSEER (EDWIN)	Etchings. Proofs on India Paper.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
366	LARCOM (LUCY)	Poems.	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
367	LAS CASAS (B. DE)	The Life of Las Casas, The Apostle of the Indies.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
368		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New London	1784	USD -	Unknown
369		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New London	1784	USD -	Unknown
370		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[New London]	[1785]	USD -	Unknown
371		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New Haven	[1785].	USD -	Unknown
372		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[New Haven]	[1786]	USD -	Unknown
373		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New Haven	[1786.]	USD -	Unknown
374		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[New London]	[1787]	USD -	Unknown
375		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New Haven	[1787].	USD -	Unknown
376		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New London	1788	USD -	Unknown
377		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophone] New Haven	[1788].	USD -	Unknown
378		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophone] New Haven	[1789].	USD -	Unknown
379		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1789]	USD -	Unknown
380		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[New London]	[1789]	USD -	Unknown
381		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1790]	USD -	Unknown
382		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1790]	USD -	Unknown
383		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	[Colophon] New London	[1790].	USD -	Unknown
384		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1791]	USD -	Unknown
385		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1791]	USD -	Unknown
386		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1792]	USD -	Unknown
387		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. d.	[1793]	USD -	Unknown
388		LAWS. [State of Connecticut.] Acts and Laws made and passed by the General Court of Assembly of the ...	n. p.	[1795]	USD -	Unknown
389		LAWS OF CONNECTICUT, 1784. Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut in America (Charter and ...	New London	1784	USD -	Unknown
390	LEE (GEN. CHARLES)	Memoirs of the life of the late Charles Lee, to which are added his Political and Military essays ...	New York	1792	USD -	Unknown
391	LEECH (JOHN)	The Comic English Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the English Tongue.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
392	LEECH (JOHN)	The Comic Latin Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the Latin Tongue.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
393	William P. Frith	LEECH (JOHN). John Leech: His Life and Work.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
394	LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD)	The Maker of Rainbows and other Fairy Tales and Fables.	New York	1912	USD -	Unknown
395	[LEVER (CHARLES)]	The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer.	Dublin	1844	USD -	Unknown
396	[LEVER (CHARLES)]	Tom Burke of Ours.	Dublin	1844	USD -	Unknown
397	[LEVER (CHARLES)]	St. Patrick's Eve.	London	1845	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.

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.

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