The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

SALE OF AN IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE
LIBRARY, LIVERPOOL.
BY MESSRS. WINSTANLEY AND SONS,

On TUESDAY next, the Bth instant, and eleven following
days (Sunday excepted), at Eleven o'clock punctually

each day, atitheirkooins, in Church street, 'Liverpool,

—by ordir of the Executors,
E highly-valuable and curious LIBRA of the late
.I. FLETCHER RAINCOCK, Esq., of erpool, Bar-
rister-at-Law, in which will be found t e lowing estima-
ble productions in Science, Literature, a the Arts :

In the English Language the works orthe most esteemed
and eminent authors, many of which are embellished with
fine Plates; Voyages and Travels, by Mandeville, Ogilby,
Sonini, Laborde, Stanton, Cook, Perouse, le Vailliant, &c. ;
Historical and Biographical Works, including REPRINTS of
the Chronicles, and of the Doomsday Book, Rushworth's
Collections, and others of an early and more recent date ;
fine copies of the Archielogia, and of costly foreign Works
on the remains of antiquity, the Researches of Denon,
D'H anearville, Gell, and others abroad, and of Dugdale,
Plot, Leicester, Whitaker, &c., in Great Britain ; several
curious Heraldic and Genealogical Treatises, standard works
on Art, in a finely illustrated copy of Strutt, in 18 vols, 4to. ;
Bryan, Duppa, Ottley, Daulby, Bromley, Vasari, Landon,
Bartsch, &c.; early and fine impressions of the most cele-
brated Foreign and English Galleries, Catalogues of the
Public Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, and of Private
Collections.
A selection of choice Works in the French and Italian Lan-
guages, Encyclopmdias, Philosophical Transactions, Scientific
Dictionaries, the Lexicons of Faciolati, Fabre, Stephanus,
Schrevelius, Minshau' Moreri, and others ; a judicious Se-
lection of Greek and Latin Classics, amongst which are seve-
ral Editio Principes, and the almost equally rare Productions
of the Aldine and other Presses, in the 15th and 16th centu-
ries, with those of a more recent date ; several beautiful M.S.
and early printed MISSALS ; the Liber Decretalium of Pope
Boniface VIII. ; Legenda Aurea, and. other rare and curious
Productions; Mathematical Treatises of all ages, including
Albert Durer's Geometry, 1532 and 1533, several Editions
of Euclid, &c. ; a large Collection of Maps, Charts, &c.
The whole may be viewed on SATURDAY, the sth, and
MONDAY, the 7th instant, and each day's sale on the previ-
ous afternoon, from four o'clock to seven; and, to prevent
damage and confusion, no person will be admitted to the
View or Sale without a Catalogue, which may be had of Mr.
AGNEw, Manchester; at the Chronicle-office, Chester; at
the Midland Counties' Herald. office, Birmingham ; of
Messrs. WINSTANLEY, Paternoster-row, London; and of
Messrs. Tilos. WINSTANLEY and SONS, Church-street, Li-
verpool, price One Shilling each.
Immediately after the conclusion of the above Sale, will be
Sold Mr. RAlNcocK's LAW LIBRARY, which contains a
curious and valuable Selection of Records, Treatises, &c.

By Messrs. T._WINSTANLEY and SONS,

On SATURDAY, the 19th day of June inst., at the Clarendon
Rooms, South John•atreet, Liverpool, at One o'clock in

the Afternoon, subject to conditions of sale to be then pro-
duced,--by order of the Devisees in Trust,
A LL that Piece pr Parcel of LAND or GR9.I3ND,
Lot situate on the north-east side of Seel-street, in
Liverpool, bounded on the north-west by and now or
late belonging to Messrs. Thomas and W. am Unswortb,
on the south-east by Premises now o la belonging to Mr.
Chadwick, and on the north-east by Fr ices fronting Fleet-
street ; containing in front to Seel-street and on the north-
east side severally, 121 feet 2 inches, and running in depth,
on the north-west side 81 feet 9 inches, exclusive of an area
of 3 feet wide, to the front of Seel-street, and on the south-
east side 80 feet, exclusive of the said area : together with the
WAREHOUSES, OFFICES, COOPERAGE, SHEDS,
and other Buildings thereon erected. Part of the Premises
are in the occupation of Messrs. William and Thomas Mad-
dock, Coopers; and the other part in the occupation of
Messrs. Holmes and Grundy, Paint Manufacturers.
The Tenure of the above Property is Leasehold under the
Corporation of Liverpool for one life, aged about 55, and 21
years. . _ - - -

The present Rental is £285 per annum ; but by a further
outlay, the Warehouse in the occupation of Messrs. Holmes
and Grundy, which is now only two stories high, could be
raised upon, as was the original intention of the late pro-
prietor. - _ _ _

One-half of the Purchase Money of this Property may re-
main on mortgage thereof.

2. All that PiC;ce or Parcel of LAND, situate in Poulton-
cum-Seacombe, in the county of Chester, and near to the
Seacombe Ferry, containing in front to the river Mersey,
and at the back of the. said plot of Land severally 22 yards
1 foot and 6 inches, or thereabouts, and in rear or depth
backwards on the east and west sides severally 110 yards;
bounded on the east by the river Mersey, on the west by a
street 6 yards wide, on the south by Land and Premises,
now or late belonging to Mr. Bragge, and on the south by
Land and Premises now or late belonging to Messrs. John-
son and Hitchman : together with the . DWELLING-
HOUSE, STABLE, COACH-HOUSE, and various other
Outbuildings thereon erected ; and the GARDEN and
PLEASURE GROUND thereto adjoining and belonging ;
which said Premises were formerly in the occupation of the
late Mr. John Beard, deceased, the Owner thereof.
The Tenure of this Lot is Freehold of Inheritance. There
is a Well of good Water on the Premises; and the Garden
and Pleasure Ground are well stocked with Trees. Two-
thirds of the Purchase-Money of this property may remain
on Mortgage thereof.

For further particulars apply to Mr. Gao. B. LIGIITFOOT,
India-buildings, Water-street ; or to Mr. EDW. G. DEANE,
Solicitor, No. 24, North John-street, Liverpool.