The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-28 00:00:00

-,t,airi-5 by 2urtion.

IMPORTANT SALE OF CURIOUS AND INTER-
ESTING LITERARY WORKS.
MESSRS. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS feel
great pleasure in announcing to the Inhabitants of Li-
verpool and its Vicinity, that they have been directed by the
Proprietor and Collector to SELL a most valuable and ex-
tensive COLLECTION of WORKS of the highest interest
to the Historian, Antiquarian, and Admirer of Literature,
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 29th, and THURSDAY, the
30th instant, at twelve o'clock punctually each day, at their
Rooms, in Church-street, Liverpool.
Exclusive of many very valuable works, of which the limits
of an advertisement will not admit of the description, the
First Day's Sale will comprise unique Collections of AUTO-
GRAPHS of the Nobility, Bishops, and Eminent Characters
of this century, arranged and splendidly bound in 13 folio
volumes ; Autograph Letters 'from the Nobility at the time
of the Coronation of George IV., claiming their Tickets,
Notes of Precedency, &c. ; Magnificent Collections of
DRAWINGS of the Religious Houses in Anglo Normandy, in
Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Leicester, Derby, York, Durham,
Lancaster. Northumberland, Northampton, Essex, Sussex,
Wiltshire, &c.

Collections of DRAWINGS and ENGRAVINGS, illustrative
of the Counties and Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
and many of the principal Counties in the kingdom; rare His-
torical TRACTS and DOCUMENTS, relative to and illustrative
of County History; Collections of choice Engravings, by
Foreign and English Artists, of Sporting Subjects, Portraits,
&c. ; fine old copies of Dugdale's Monasticon, 1673, and his
Origines Juridiciale, 1671; a nearly perfect Set of the rare
and curious Voyages of De Bry, 18 parts, in 6 vols.; other
scarce Travels, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Na-
tion, &c. ; Portfolios of Humorous Drawings and Engra-
vings ; the Works of Hogarth, Portraits, Plans, Maps,
&c., &c.

The Second Day's Sale, THURSDAY, the 30th, will con-
sist of rare and valuable TRACTS relating to the Universities
of Oxford and Cambridge ; curious Works illustrative of
ancient and modern Ecclesiastical Edifices ; Academie des
Sciences, with splendid Portraits ; a Variety of Documents,
illustrative of the Lives of Shakspeare and of Garrick, in
Medals, Portraits, and other Articles of Curiosity; a Series
of curious Play Bills, of the Manchester and other provin-
cial Theatres ; a splendid MS. Copy of the Alcoran; several
rich and beautifully illuminated MISSALS ; a choice Drawing
of the Pembroke Family, after Vandyke, by Darby ; curious
Document of Lord Nelson, of Liverpool Characters ; Por-
traits in Oil ; .Rees's Cycloptedia ; and a small Collection of
Miscellaneous Books.

To be viewed THIS DAY, the 28th instant, when fully De-
scriptive Catalogues may be had at the place of saie.

FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, WORFIELD-

STREET.
By Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS,
On THURSDAY next, the 30th instant, at Six o'clock in the

Evening, at the Clarendon Rooms, South Jobn-street,
Liverpool,—by order of the Mortgagee,
THE DWELLING-HOUSE, No. 22, situate on the
I south side of Worfield-street, in Liverpool, in front and
at the back five yards and a half, and extending in depth
nine yards, and now in the occupation of Mr. John Green.