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
591	SHAKESPEARE	Plays of. Decorated by Charles Ricketts.	London	1900-1903	USD -	Unknown
592	Poole (John)	SHAKESPEARE BURLESQUE. Hamlet Travestie, with Burlesque Annotations.	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
593	SHAW (GEO. BERNARD)	The Common Sense of Municipal Trading.	Westminster	1904	USD -	Unknown
594	SHAYLOR (JOSEPH)	The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
595	Frederick Bradbury	SHEFFIELD PLATE. History of Old Sheffield Plate, being an account of the Origin, Growth and Decay of ...	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
596	SHELLEY (PERCY B.)	Queen Mab (With 78 pp. of Notes).	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
597	SHELLEY (PERCY B.)	Posthumous Poems.	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
598	SHERIDAN (RICHARD B.)	The Rivals.	New York	(1907)	USD -	Unknown
599	SHERMAN (FRANK D.)	Lyrics for a Lute.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
600	O'Brien (Capt. D. W.)	SHIPWRECKS. Narrative of Capt. O'Brien, containing an Account of his Shipwreck, Captivity, and ...	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
601	Montague Howard	SILVER WARE. Old London Silver: Its History, its Makers and its Marks.	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
602	Wallon (H.)	SLAVERY. De L'Esclavage dans L'Antiquite.	Paris	1847	USD -	Unknown
603	SMEDLEY (FRANK E.)	Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life.	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
604	SMITH (JOHN)	Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Anywhere.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
604a		SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE and General Advertiser.	Charlestown	1783	USD -	Unknown
605	Brown (William G.)	SOUTHERN LIFE. A Gentleman of the South: A Memory of the Black Belt, from the Manuscript Memoirs of ...	New York	1903	USD -	Unknown
606		SPORTING. Pancratia; or, A History of Pugilism; containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note ...	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
607	Hansard (George A.)	SPORTING. The Book of Archery; being the Complete History and Practice of the Art, Ancient and ...	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
608		SPORTING. Baily's Racing Register, from the earliest Records (1709) to the close of 1842.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
609	R. Dundas Murray	SPORTING. The Cities and Wilds of Andalucia.	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
610	Hore (J. P.)	SPORTING. The History of Newmarket and the Annals of the Turf: With Memoirs and Biographical Notices ...	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
611	STEIN (M. AUREL)	Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China.	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
612	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.)	The Merry Men, and other Tales and Fables.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
613	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.)	The Black Arrow.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
614	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.). and Osbourne (Lloyd)	The Wrong Box.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
615	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.). and Osbourne (Lloyd)	The Wrong Box.	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
616	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.)	Catriona.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
617	STEVENSON (ROBERT L.)	Island Nights' Entertainments.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
618		STORY OF THE NATIONS (THE).	New York	1898-99	USD -	Unknown
619	STOW (JOHN)	A Survey of London.	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
620	SUE (EUGENE)	The Wandering Jew.	London	1844-45	USD -	Unknown
621	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	Erechtheus: A Tragedy.	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
622	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	Studies in Song.	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
623	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems.	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
624	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	A Century of Roundels.	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
625	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	A Study of Ben Jonson.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
626	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	The Sisters: A Tragedy.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
627	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	The Sisters. A Tragedy.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
628	TAINE (H. A.)	History of English Literature.	Edinburgh	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
629	TENNYSON (ALFRED)	Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
630	TENNYSON (FREDERICK--Elder Brother to Alfred)	Days and Hours.	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
631	Geo. W. Kendall	TEXAS. Narrative of the Texan Sante Fe Expedition, comprising a description of A Tour Through Texas ...	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
632	[Page (Dr.)]	TEXAS. Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas; or, New Estremadura.	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
633	Clemens (Hon. Jere)	TEXAS. Bernard Lile; an Historical Romance, embracing the periods of the Texas Revolution, etc.	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
634	L. B.	[THACKERAY (W. M.).] Floral Fancies and Morals from Flowers.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
635	[THACKERAY (W. M.)]	The Virginians.	London	1858-59	USD -	Unknown
636	Blanchard Jerrold	[THACKERAY (W. M.).] The Best of All Good Company.	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
637	[THACKERAY (W. M.)]	Etchings by the late William Makepeace Thackeray while at Cambridge. Illustrative of University Life ...	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
638	[THACKERAY (W. M.)]	The Complete Works of. Extensively illustrated with reproductions from the original sketches by the ...	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
639	THOMS (WILLIAM J.)	Early English Prose Romances, with Bibliographical and Historical Introductions.	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
640	Mrs. Gaskell	THOMSON (HUGH). Cranford.	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
641	THOMSON (HUGH)	Old English Songs.	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
642	S. P. Thompson	THOMSON (WILLIAM--Baron Kelvin of Largs). The Life of.	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
643	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.	Boston and Cambridge	1849	USD -	Unknown
644	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	Walden; or, Life in the Woods.	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
645	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	The Maine Woods.	Boston	1864	USD -	Unknown
646	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	Cape Cod.	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
647	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	Letters to Various Persons (also Poems). [With prefatory note by R. W. Emerson.].	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
648	THOREAU (HENRY D.)	A Yankee in Canada.	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
649	Fairholt (F. W.)	TOBACCO. Tobacco: Its History and Association, including an Account of the plant and its manufacture ...	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
650	Edited by Richard Garnett, Leon Valle and Alois Brandl	UNIVERSAL ANTHOLOGY (THE). A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with ...	London	(1899)	USD -	Unknown
651	Lionel Cust	VAN DYCK. Anthony Van Dyck: A Further Study.	New York and London	(1911)	USD -	Unknown
652	VAN DYKE (HENRY)	Fisherman's Luck.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
653	VAN DYKE (HENRY)	The Ruling Passion.	New York	1901	USD -	Unknown
654	VAN DYKE (HENRY)	Music, and Other Poems.	New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
655		VIRGINIA. The Constitutions of the United States; according to the Latest Amendments . . . the ...	Winchester, Virginia	1811	USD -	Unknown
656	WALTON (ISAAC) AND COTTON (CHARLES)	The Complete Angler . . . With Copious Notes, a Bibliographical Preface, giving an Account of ...	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
657		WAR OF 1812. The Beauties of Brother Bull-Us, by his Loving Sister Bull.	New York	1812	USD -	Unknown
658	Darnell (Elias)	WAR OF 1812. A Journal containing an Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships (etc.) of ...	Philadelphia	1854	USD -	Unknown
659	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	D. S.		1780	USD -	Unknown
660	Thomas Paine	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). An Eulogy on the Life of. Written at the request of the Citizens of Newburyport ...	Newburyport	1800	USD -	Unknown
661	William Linn	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). A Funeral Eulogy, occasioned by the Death of General Washington, delivered Feb ...	New York	1800	USD -	Unknown
662	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Funeral and other Orations on the Death of. Comprising: Willard's Address; Minot's Oration; Andrew's ...			USD -	Unknown
663	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	The Washingtoniana: Containing a Sketch of the Life and Death of the late Gen. George Washington ...	Lancaster (Pennsylvania)	1802	USD -	Unknown
664	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States.	Worcester	1813	USD -	Unknown
665	Jared Sparks	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). The Life of.	Boston	1842	USD -	Unknown
666	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	Letters on Agriculture ... to Arthur Young and Sir John Sinclair. With Statistical Tables, by Thomas ...	Washington	1847	USD -	Unknown
667	WASHINGTON (GEORGE)	The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791; embracing the Opening of the First Congress, and ...	Richmond	1861	USD -	Unknown
668	W. S. Baker	WASHINGTON (GEORGE). Character Portraits of Washington as delineated by Historians, Orators and ...	Philadelphia	1887	USD -	Unknown
669		WASHINGTON PORTRAIT. Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States.	New York	(1809)	USD -	Unknown
670	WATSON (WILLIAM)	The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems.	Chicago	1895	USD -	Unknown
671	Williamson (Charles)	WESTERN NEW YORK. Description of the Settlement of the Genesee Country in the State of New York. In ...	New York	1799 (1849)	USD -	Unknown
672	WHALLEY (THOMAS SEDGWICK)	Journals and Correspondence of. Edited, with a Memoir and Illustrative Notes, by Hill Wickham.	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
673	WHITE (GILBERT)	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.	London	1911	USD -	Unknown
674	WHITMAN (WALT)	After All, Not To Create Only.	Boston	1871	USD -	Unknown
675	WHITMAN (WALT)	Autobiographia; or, The Story of a Life.	New York	1892	USD -	Unknown
675a	J. A. Symonds	WHITMAN (WALT). A Study.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
676	[WHITTIER (JOHN GREENLEAF)]	Moll Pitcher. A Poem.	Boston	1832	USD -	Unknown
677	B. L. Mirick	[WHITTIER (JOHN GREENLEAF).] The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts.	Haverhill	1832	USD -	Unknown
678	[WHITTIER (JOHN GREENLEAF)]	Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between the Years ...	Boston	1837	USD -	Unknown
679	[WHITTIER (JOHN GREENLEAF)]	Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between the Years ...	Boston	1837	USD -	Unknown
680	WILDE (OSCAR)	The Picture of Dorian Gray.	New York	(1890)	USD -	Unknown
681	WILDE (OSCAR)	An Ideal Husband.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
682	WILDE (OSCAR)	Impressions of America.	Sunderland	1906	USD -	Unknown
683	WINTERBOTHAM (W.)	An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of ...	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
684	WISTER (OWEN)	The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains.	New York	1911	USD -	Unknown
685	Edited by Thomas Wright	WITCHCRAFT. A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, Prosecuted for ...	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
686		YAES. Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences. (With preface by Yates, now first published.)	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
687	YEATS (W. B.)	The Secret Rose.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
688	ZIMMERN (HELEN)	The Epic of Kings. Stories retold from Firdusi.	London	1882	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.

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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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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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.

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