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,

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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
398	[LEVER (CHARLES)]	St. Patrick's Eve.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
399	LEWIS AND CLARK	History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1804-5-6.	Chicago	1904	USD -	Unknown
400	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM)	Welcome to Goldwin Smith, by Citizens of New York, at the Union League Club, Nov. 12, 1864.	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
400a	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM)	Elmira Daily Advertiser, April 19, 1865.	New York	1865	USD -	Unknown
401	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM)	Elmira Daily Advertiser.	[New York]	1865	USD -	Unknown
402	Charles B. Sedgwick	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). An Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln.	Syracuse	1865	USD -	Unknown
403	Manton Marble	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). Letter to Abraham Lincoln.	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
404	William H. Herndon and Jessie W. Weik	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). Herndon's Lincoln: The True History of a Great Life.	New York and San Francisco	n. d. [1889].	USD -	Unknown
405	John G. Nicolay and John Hay	LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). Abraham Lincoln. A History.	New York	1890	USD -	Unknown
406	S. Cody	LITERATURE. Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language.	New York	(1903)	USD -	Unknown
407		LITERATURE OF ITALY, 1265-1905. Edited by Rossiter Johnson and Dora K. Ranous.	n. p.	n. d. (1906)	USD -	Unknown
408	[LOGAN (JAMES)]	The Charge Delivered from the Bench to the Grand Jury, at the Court of Quarter Sessions, held for ...	Philadelphia	MDCCXXIII (1723).	USD -	Unknown
409	Ralph Nevill	LONDON CLUBS: Their History and Treasures.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
410	Bailey (Thomas)	LONGEVITY. Centenarians of Great Britain. Records of Longevity.	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
411	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	The Spanish Student.	Cambridge	1843	USD -	Unknown
412	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	The Estray: A Collection of Poems [Edited by Longfellow, who contributed the Poem, Once Into a ...	Boston	1847	USD -	Unknown
413	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	The Song of Hiawatha.	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
414	H. R. Stiles, L. B. Proctor and L. P. Brockett	LONG ISLAND. The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History and Commercial and ...	New York	(1884)	USD -	Unknown
415	Henry R. Stiles	LONG ISLAND. History of the County of Kings and The City of Brooklyn, N. Y.	New York	1884	USD -	Unknown
416	LOSSING (BENSON J.)	The Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
417		MAGAZINE OF ART (THE).	London	1879-83	USD -	Unknown
418	Thomas L. Smith	MAINE. History of the Town of Windham.	Portland	1873	USD -	Unknown
419	Henry Smith Williams	MANUSCRIPT INSCRIPTIONS AND MONUMENTS: Oriental, Classical, Medieval and Modern. Described ...	London	(1902)	USD -	Unknown
420		MARIE ANTOINETTE. Authentic Trial at Large of Marie Antoinette, before the Revolutionary Tribunal ...	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
421	Sir Archibald Alison	MARLBOROUGH (JOHN, DUKE OF). The Life of. With some Account of his Contemporaries and the War of the ...	Edinburgh	1855	USD -	Unknown
422	MARVELL (ANDREW)	The Works of, Poetical, Controversial and Political: Containing many Original Letters, Poems and ...	London	1776	USD -	Unknown
423	Griffith (Thomas W.)	MARYLAND. Sketches of the Early History of Maryland.	Baltimore	1821	USD -	Unknown
424	Father Andrew White	MARYLAND. Relatio Itineris in Marylandian. Narrative of a Voyage to Maryland.	Baltimore	1874-77	USD -	Unknown
425	Peter Whitney	MASSACHUSETTS. The History of the County of Worcester, with a Particular Account of every Town from ...	Worcester	1793	USD -	Unknown
426		MASSACHUSETTS. The Sexton's Monitor and Dorchester Cemetery Memorial.	Roxbury	1826	USD -	Unknown
427	O. N. Bacon	MASSACHUSETTS. A History of Natick, from its First Settlement in 1651 to the Present Time; with ...	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
428	Charles Cowley	MASSACHUSETTS. History of Lowell.	Boston	1868	USD -	Unknown
429	Rev. W. D. Herrick	MASSACHUSETTS. History of the Town of Gardner, from the Incorporation, June 27, 1785 to the Present ...	Gardner	1878	USD -	Unknown
430	[MATHER (COTTON)]	Christianity Demonstrated. An Essay to Consider the Sanctifying Work of Grace on the Minds of the ...	Boston	1710	USD -	Unknown
431	[MATHER (COTTON)]	Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England.	Hartford	1855	USD -	Unknown
432	Peter (Walter)	MEDICI SOCIETY. Marius, the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
433	MELVILLE (HERMAN)	Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
434	J. Tavenor-Perry	METAL WORK. Dianderie: A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper, Brass and Bronze.	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
435	Lyon (G. F.)	MEXICO. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico, 1826.	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
436	Mayer (Brantz)	MEXICO. A Historical, Geographical, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Invasion ...	Hartford	1853	USD -	Unknown
437		MEXICO. Documentos Ineditos o Muy Raros Para la Historia de Mexico.	Mexico	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
438	MILLER (JOAQUIN)	Songs of The Sun-Lands.	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
439	MILLER (JOAQUIN)	The Ship in the Desert.	Boston	1875	USD -	Unknown
440	MILLER (JOAQUIN)	First Fam'lies of the Sierras.	Chicago	1876	USD -	Unknown
441	MILTON (JOHN)	Joannis Miltonii Angli, Epistolarum Familiarum Liberunus: quibus Accesserunt, Ejusdem, jam olim in ...	Londini	1674	USD -	Unknown
442	MILTON (JOHN)	Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Second Edition.	London	1674	USD -	Unknown
443	MILTON (JOHN)	Paradise Regained. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added (with a separate title-page) Samson ...	London	1680	USD -	Unknown
444		MINIATURE BOOKS. Jone's Diamond Editions British Classical Authors.	London	1828-35	USD -	Unknown
445		MINIATURE BOOKS. Diamont Poets. Cowper's Poems. 2 vols.; Poetical Works of W. Collins (3 copies of ...	London	1830-33	USD -	Unknown
446	MIRABEAU (COMTE DE)	Mirabeau's Letters, during his Residence in England; with Anecdotes, Maxims, etc.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
447	[MITCHELL (D. G.)]	Fresh Gleanings.	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
448	Ik. Marvel	[MITCHELL (D. G.).] Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart.	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
449	[MITCHELL (D. G.)]	American Lands and Letters: The Mayflower to Poe's Raven.	New York	1898-99	USD -	Unknown
450	MITFORD (MARY R.)	Our Village. With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
451	Edited by C. J. Sartain	MODERN PAINTINGS. World's Masterpieces of Modern Paintings. Selected from the Great Art Exhibitions ...	Boston	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
452	MODJESKA (HELENA)	Memories and Impressions: An Autobiography.	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
453	Bayle St. John	MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Montaigne the Essayist. A Biography.	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
454	MONVEL (BOUTET DE)	La Fontaine. Fables Choisies pour les Enfants, et illustrees par M. B. De Monvel.	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
455	MOORE (GEORGE)	The Bending of the Boughs. A Comedy in Five Acts.	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
456	MORLEY (HENRY)	Operon's Horn: A Book of Fairy Tales.	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
457		MORMONS. The Book of Mormon.	Nauvoo, Ill.	1840	USD -	Unknown
458	Bennett (J. C.)	MORMONS. The History of the Saints; or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism.	Boston	1842	USD -	Unknown
459	MORRIS (GEORGE P.)	The Deserted Bride; and other Poems.	New York	1838	USD -	Unknown
460	MORRIS (WILLIAM)	News from Nowhere. Solidarity Front.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
461	MORSE (JEDIDIAH)	The American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America.	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
462	Stevenson (R. L.)	MOSHER PRESS. Aes Triplex and Other Essays.	Portland, Me.	1902	USD -	Unknown
463	[MOTLEY (J. L.)]	Morton's Hope; or, The Memoirs of a Provincial.	New York	1839	USD -	Unknown
464	[MULLOCK (D. M.--MRS. CRAIK)]	The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew.	London	1913	USD -	Unknown
465	M. K. Halevy	MYTHOLOGY. The Gallery of Mythology and the Siege of Troy.	Philadelphia	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
466		NAPOLEON. Life of Bonaparte, First Consul of France, from his Birth to the Peace of Luneville.	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
467	Mackay (Samuel)	NAPOLEON. Campaigns of the Armies of France, in Prussia, Saxony and Poland, under the Command of his ...	Boston	1808	USD -	Unknown
468	Frederic Shoberl	NAPOLEON. Narrative of the Remarkable Events which Occurred In and Near Leipzig, immediately Before ...		1814, etc.	USD -	Unknown
469	Porter (Sir Robert Ker)	NAPOLEON. A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, during the Year 1812.	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
470	Beauchamp (M. de)	NAPOLEON. An Authentic Narrative of the Invasion of France in 1814.	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
471	Giraud (P. F. F. J.)	NAPOLEON. The Campaign of Paris in 1814; to which is prefixed a Sketch of the Campaign of 1813.	London.	1815	USD -	Unknown
472	Simpson (James)	NAPOLEON. A Visit to Flanders in July, 1815; being Chiefly an Account of the Field of Waterloo, with ...	Edinburgh	1816	USD -	Unknown
473	Gwilliam (John)	NAPOLEON. The Imperial Captive; or, The Unexampled Career of the Ex-Emperor, Napoleon (a poem).	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
474	P. Perodi	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of the Reign of Murat; in which the Circumstances of the Confiscation of the ...	Boston	1818	USD -	Unknown
475		NAPOLEON. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte; with Copious ...	London	n. d. (circa, 1827)	USD -	Unknown
476	Louis Bonaparte	NAPOLEON. A Reply to Sir Walter Scott's History pf Napoleon.	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
477		NAPOLEON. Court and Camp of Buonaparte. Portraits of Talleyrand, Murat, and Soult.	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
478	Memes (John S.)	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, from the French of M. F. de Bourrienne.	Edinburgh	1830	USD -	Unknown
479	Mrs. Abell	NAPOLEON. Recollections of Napoleon at Saint Helena.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
480	Lockwood (Joseph)	NAPOLEON. A Guide to St. Helena, Descriptive and Historical, with Visit to Longwood and Napoleon's ...	St. Helena	1851	USD -	Unknown
481		NAPOLEON. The Island Empire; or, The Scenes of the First Exile of the Emperor Napoleon I.	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
482	Mrs. Abell	NAPOLEON. Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, on the Island of St. Helena.	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
483	P. Lanfrey	NAPOLEON. The History of Napoleon the First.	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
484	Edited by George Duruy	NAPOLEON. Memoirs of Barras, Member of the Directorate.	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
485	Baily (J. T. H.)	NAPOLEON. Napoleon (Anecdotes and Sketches). 58 full-page portraits and views, reproduced by the ...	London	1908	USD -	Unknown
486	H. Noel Williams	NAPOLEON. The Women Bonapartes. The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I.	London	[1908]	USD -	Unknown
487		NAPOLEON. St. Helena: The Historic Island, from its Discovery to the Present Date.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
487a	NAST (THOMAS)	Signed Pen and Ink Sketch. Teddy (Roosevelt) calling on Dana of the N. Y. Sun.			USD -	Unknown
487b	NAST (THOMAS)	Signed Pen and Ink Sketch for Punch. Bismark, John Bull and France,.			USD -	Unknown
487c	NAST (THOMAS)	Pen and Ink Sketch. Portrait of Gen. Benj. F. Butler.			USD -	Unknown
487d	NAST (THOMAS)	Signed Pen and Ink Sketch. Free Whiskey to boot. Much mixed party not 'protected' in this case.			USD -	Unknown
487e	NAST (THOMAS)	Original Pen and Ink Sketches. Head of Grover Cleveland; The Custom House Hare.			USD -	Unknown
488	[NEWELL (ROBERT H.)]	Smoked Glass.	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
489		NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL FOR WIT (THE): Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse.	London	1786	USD -	Unknown
490		NEWSPAPER. The Boston Chronicle. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-53 (Dec. 21, 1767 to Dec. 19, 1768).	Boston	1767-1768	USD -	Unknown
491	John F. Watson	NEW YORK. Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and Advancement of New York ...	New York	1832	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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.