New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-19
Tur BoGKSnLiERS' TRADE 5ALES.

| Yesterday afternoon tbcy hen hnisofd the sac OF
hooks and We propose TO give few items Of general
jpterett connected Herewith. The gross sale will be
somewhere about 100000 to nearly 80 buyers
| reor'v al Of whom are from the smaller towns; the
large cities s.: ding fewer purchasers tbsn usual
Tie invoice Of D. Appleton & Co. cold for So, li3.
One lin, or entry, alone yielded over $1,000 This
was the "Woild-Notcd Women | 20, Svo., by
Mary Covdcn Clarke, author of the Concordance to
Shakespeare &C. Ofthis book, elegantly illustrated
and sold for Sl2 retail, ii6 copies were bought Phil
lips, Sampson & Co.'S sale amounted to s2l, $50 In
this 10. were ! l57 vcls Of Pre:cotts works Derby
& Jackson gold Of one line l2 s,5G vos made up of
3o3 sets of the Library OF Standard Fiction in 30 vo
l2u.o containing the pnncpa! works Of Bunyan.
Sterne, Scollet, Fielding, Miss Burney, Hannah
More, Anne Radcliffe, and Others Two hundred sets
went to one purchaser. In this invoice the
novel by Marion Harland, "Moss.Sde," Of which
go copies were sold II included also ASP vols. Of
Marryatts novels. The amount Of Leavt & Aliens
sale was Sl3023 ard consisted maiay Of illustrated
presep alton books ANNALS albums &c. L. H. Pc
terson sold books TO the amount Of $l012 Two
hundred and ninety-fve Gets Of the works Of Mrs.
Caroline Lee Henz, in 10 vols.-975O vols, and the
same Of Mrs. F. D. +. n. Southworths works in 9
vols-2, 60 vols. and 5,6E vols. of the works Of
Dickens, were sold out of Mr. Petersons list. Jesper
Harding IL Son disposed of 2i 4o. Bibles for 733.
j. B. Lipppcott & Co.'s sale 81, 1854, and included
| 3l8 Webster's svo. Dictionary. The invoice of G. p.
Putnam bought 81 2l5. In it 1918 vols. Of the
| various works Of Washington Irving. Out of the
| invoice of Blanchard & Lea which brought $6,75l,
| were sold . $50 medical books Strnger & Townsend
sold 6l6j vols. of the works Of j. Fenimore Cooper.
| Whole amount Of invoice, So l28.
OF the other invoices give the principal amounts.
| Little Brown & Co., 1894; Lindsay & Blskston,
81 7l3; John f. Beardsley, s. 2OS Tickaor & Fields,
| who sold 350O vols of their blue and gold series,
| 81, 267; Mason Brothers, $3,057; Croker & Brews
| ter whose invoice occupies ess than a page Of the
| catalogue 50 395 Out Of this last lot sold 078
| Andrews & S.oddarG's Lstin Ora nmar and 9i6 of
tlhir Latin Reader The books offered by Miller l.
Curtis brought 1868. Gould & Luco,ns sale
reached 5000, and included gu copies Of Hugh
M'ler's last work, "The Testimony Of tue Rocks
Charles Desilyer sold out of his list LIS "Clarks
| Commentaries the whole amounted to $2,Sfii 62l
COPIES OF "Macauay's History of England" vol.
Syo were sold out of E. ii. Butler Co.'s invoice,
which brought altogether 1856; John p. Jewett Il
Co. sold s., O6S; Charles Scrbner, ,O73; Willis p.
| Heard, s., 1884; and Miller, Often & Co., s3,499.
The sale at Bangs, Brother & Co.'s was much less
in extent ard not well attended; even the invoice
of Harper & Brothers, once attractive, failed to
draw its usual large audience and though onthese oc-
cssions numbers are not always the criterion of sue
cess it has been sufficiently demonstrated that two
simultaneous sales not only mpctc for the seller,
but pe1t for the purchaser The distinguish
ing feature of tae catalogue issued by Messrs Bangs
is the large proportion of English works
Estimating the amount sold at the last mentioned
auctioneers' and that to he sold next week in Phla-
dephis and Cincinnati as making together $3CO,OOO
l;,b obahly hell maj
5000 900 as the wholesale value of books cold at Trade
Sales this MONTH this with the Spring sales would per-
hans make an annual sale Of 81 10000 worth OF
books outside of the regular commerce between manu-
facturers iobbers and retail sellers These figures
| amply sufficient TO prove the importance OF Trade
Sales but as they peculiar to one branch OF bust
ness and that business having its full share of little
mysteries. they acquire the additional interest of
satisfied and anxious curiosity on the part OF the gen
eral public for the purpose Of further satisfying
| which, we shall present q few facts aud nferences
supplementary to those contained 10 our article OF the
| 9th rst
Tbirty.iive years since, AZ which time Trade Sales
date their origin, Philadelphia did the leading pub
| hshirg business in America. Among her principal
| publishers were Matthew Carey 81 Son, from which
firm are descended the present publishing houses of
| Blanchard & Lea and Parry g. Mcmillan; Thomas
| Desilyer; w W. Woodward Birch & Small; Ed
ward Parker; L. & j. Kite; p. Fl. Nicklin; Kimber
| Sbarpless; John Bioren; Edward Earle, aud
| johnson & Warner who did nearly all the Western
obbing business and who succeeded first by j.
Grieg, row retired ard reported one Of our most
wealthy citizens and subsequently by the house now
| styled j. Lipprcott 8, Co. Matthew Carey q Son
reprinted the Waverley Novels, and also published
| the frst Qua1to Bible in America. This was before
the day of stereotyping and the Bible was conse-
| questly printed from type kept standing. When
Carey gave up this publication, the type fom which
the text had been printed remeed, but the side
notes in BREWER, having preserved good face, were
| distributed and afterward used for an edition OF
Rory OMore' In New York the principal pub
| fishers were S. Wood Il Sons, G. 4 G. Il H. Carvll,
Richardson Il Lord, Z. b. Gould, Stacey II. Collins,
| Charles Wiley al d others. Harpers had not long
published their first book Locke on the Understand
Ing" and ID. Appleton had not yet made his first ven
ture as publisher which he did, however, with
| a volume OF Daily Crumbs" kind of casting bread
upon the waters which beautifully fulfilled the Scrip
| ture promise. In Boston, have the rames of
Moody & Nye, c. d. Strong, Munroo & Francis,
| Crocker II Brewster, Perkins d Marvin, Lilly X
Wait, al i IIilnd, Gray s. Co.
At that time publishing slow and solemn
business There stiffness of etiquette observed
in the intercourse among the Trade unknown TO the
present day. lnIOvstors were springing up in out
of.theway places violating ell the old traditions, in
defiance of the nsbobs, and hanging out their
! impeItinent signs of "Half-Prce Book Store,
| right in the face of the public. Small
| publishers poached upon the large pub