The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

TRADE SALES.

NEW BOOMS.
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Two of the trade sales of the season have been
held during the pest week. Mr. Murray's sale took place
On Thursday, at the Albion, Aldersgateatreet. The gue,tl
at the 'dinner table were numerous ; and we recogni,l
many old faces. Among the attendants were Mr. Le Meta
(representing Messrs. Longmans), Mr. Otton (represeutieg
Messrs. ;Simpkin and Co.), and a new representative of
Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. The cake commenced with
Mr. Lothrop Motley's "History of the United Netherland;'
—the purchasers were : Simpkin, 250 copies ; LongniaL,
250; several others followed, and Mr. Mudle pureh.LA
1,500; total, 2,850. Blunt's " Eesays on Literary awl
other Subjects"—Simpkin, 150; Mudie, 250; total,
"The Colchester Papere"—Mudie, 120; total, MO. Lad
Carnarson's " Recollections of the Droves of Lt.
bonen" (a second edition) sold pretty fr,ty.
Mr. Hepworth Dixon's "Personal History of Lord
Bacon" (12a.), Longman, 100; Simpkin, 128;
500 ; total, 1,310. John Funter's " history of the Gra:.l
Bernonstranoe of 1511" was lightly bid for—Mr. Medic
100. The saner author's book on Cromwell, Woe, Steele,
Churchill, and Foote, sold slowly. Farrar's "Origin
Language sold freely, the total reaching nearly OA.
Captain Forbes's " Iceland, its Volcanoes," &c. ; total ado,
1,300. Henry Gouger's "Sufferings during two years in.
prisonment in Bernath," sold 1,300, of which Media took
150. Dr. Honey's "Sunday, its Origin," Ice. ; total salv,
1,100. Sir Francis Head's " The Horse and ts Itider"-.
Situpkin, 280; Longman, 150; Whittaker, 78 ; Ito;
total,shout 1,400. Horace Marryat's " Jutland and the
Danish Isles" sold freely—the numbers were: Mudie,
100; Simpktu, 100; total, 1,000. Dr. 'Willi:on
Atlrsan44Dietionery of the Bible" sold welL Of Smiles 's
" Self Help," the total number purchased exceeded 4,40
copies. Tristram's " Great Sahara and Wilson's " Private
Diary during the War against Napoleon " found putthasets
to a considerable extent.

Mr. Bentley's trade ale took place on Tuesday, at the
Albion, in Aldersgate.street, and the London trade was
well represented. The principal now becks offered were VI,
" Memoirs of the first Lord Auckland," "Dr. Davis's Dis-
covery of Carthage," the "Autobiography of Mrs. Delany,"
and the first volume of "Pr. Hook's Lives of the Arch.
bishops of Canterbury," complete so far in itself, and core.
prising the &nglo.Saxoo period. Of Dr. Davis's work Mr.
Mudie took upwards of seven hundred, and of Dr. Hook',
Archiepiscopal biography no fewer than a thouvual mei
forty copies—a fact which ought to gratify high churl:hewn.
The Memoirs of Lord Auckland and the Autobiography of
Mrs. Delany went off with spirit ; and among the books
which had lost the first 1/10£4 of novelty, bat still sold
briskly, were Mr. Bucklacal of
of Natural Rirtut y"
(first and second series), and especially the cheap edition rd
the " lngoldsby Legends," which was asked for by the hue.
dred, or rather, to be precise, by the hundred and four.
VoL TI. of Lord Dundonald's Autobiography met with
a very ready acceptance, which was likewise bestowed on
two works of Sir Edward Crnisy's, the eighth edition of
the "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," and the
fourth of his " Rise and Progress of the English Constite-
tion."—Critic.