Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-03
BY DUNLOP, MoNCuRE& 90.

Lan Library # he iats Jadge Barbour, ut .7uc1on.
nN MONDAY, IL. 18Th day Of December nr\t, att o'r!urk.
~ +. ~, We viii I'll. At or auc;ion ,i"Tr, tn law I1hrary Of
The hi. Judge i. i. Eaihair.
The terms Of sMr vii te cash, lur on III SUNS II 81 - ~
wards a credit Of 81 days VIII be given i"f end"iatd urg.ii,;ir
Catalogues viii i. really AID imr books raa !" examined Two
DAYS previous - The sale. ~. ". q 80, ArriS.
This Library comprises a valuable and rare COLLECTION u l.unL..
in number about sA hundred volumes, Consisting I" 'hc most u-r-
FIJI works, and generally the best editions, amongst which ar al.
not MI HE must valuable elementary work and di.es:.: and
more than three hundred volumes o; Reporters, English ana hnt
rican, Common Law and Chancrry, State and Fr..ial
These books passes oar advantage, wl:ich i iarti: 10 h.
met with III ans Library in the Union. During i coarse uf ASH
duuls reading for innrc than tliity-hrc YEAR,, tie late lr0lri, I'll,
IN tie margins III all hs hooks made reference 10 other book
treaitn. On the same subjects, and in h> report c>prclalic, whcr
ever any ease WAS subsequently, cited ~ any Other cas", there Is 4
reference 10 the case in which it was thus cited, by which ri a
glance Of the eye, the readers attention Is drawn 10 The volume
and page of THE book, where any rfrviu:s case Is examined, and
either approved, oyrrrlied, modified ar explained: and on The
margins Of al his books are, in like manner, reference. of y that j.
s1ih. or decided IN any ether lo'L. whirl has any hearing -
analogy Ia ths FONT in 1Hr>tnnm. Wins; ils, description j. lu.t
m reference Iu all the bunks, /: i. IL M extraordinary i-efr- true
in i,ia,icn i, certain elementary WORKS and diecis, witch N.
Ia,c propri, lur used a wade merums. III" most prominent I'll
these are Kcnt's Commentaries, Saunders IN iirading> and Evi-
dence and Maddotk's Chanccry Practice, IL = hirh on "p"nin. 10
a particular point, the reader VIII find references II nj tie cases,
English aud American. BEARING on that point. aud nn; cIrl ly the
author. The reference, N these work. q ih,s lind, amount 10
puljic statute in h- copy Of 1airs Digest, on which he has nat
n,ade references 10 all the cases, British aud American ancient
and modern, Federal aud State, which have given 4 construction
10 II.
Instead Of The common opinion, that a second hand library, as
il is commonly called, is worth less Than new books Of The lame
kind, IL j. confidently asserted, that the Library ~ question Is 81
mncil moe valuable ihan The SANE books bought ul, Of \ book
stoge, that ii j.. difficult Ia give an adelaal" 'dea 81 their superior
adj antare by auy mere description.
The reader may farm some conception Of The hcneG;, IL hr will
only raj! 10 aI;ud, that when hr opens a book, ~ ~! ur case NJ
.,oii,. he l- HI cr Al one. directed hy the references w The
,u,. pins. a. an tr hacks and authorities. braiiuG upon that care
or ;niai. wh;ri. close study .o5 ao.e t!Itn ;!'HiJ -isr Yeas canl.ed
The late ;sapiie;u: T. r'frr -; thus sapcrscdins IT, nece-sli: Of
his oncountffiE. ihc sai!r iol, ~ any otter, hIi jHSl 10 tam /"
'e Oct y, ls-e2Sa ao. s&l9N. axlon.