Worcester daily spy., 1859-07-07
0Qurtester Daily Spp.
From the BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.
LONDON. juno IL. 1S5

SALE OF RARE BooKs-Mr. Editor
wrote you week or two ago, giving you
some account of a great sale of books. chiefly
relating to America, and l expected then to
have sent you the rest of the story as soon as
the sale closed but left the city for distant
part OF England before had time to write up
the matter.
l left off with the record of the Apostle Eli
OTIS Indian Grammar Begun" The next lot
was The Life and Death Of the Renowned"
Eliot, by that wonder of literature, DIR. Cotton
Mather, which brought $40 80 1t was print
ed by almost as great wOnder-John Dun
ton. The next l only notice to show you
what a strange mania now reigns here for Gu
rious American books. One, entitled "The
Festival of Love-" &C., Philadelphia, 1920,
brought $5 25-a work intrinsically of no val
ue. Fletchers Purple Island, 1858, 81 90.
Frobshers Voyage of Discovery, Noribergia,
1880, S13 so. Geo. Fox, Cain against Abel,
81 so. Cages West Indies, 1648, S5 rs.
Samuel Gorton's Antidote, 1851 $40 so. Hok-
luyth's Voyages, only volumes one and two,
but large paper, 1899, $50 90. Do ordinary
copy, complete, with the Cadiz voyage reprint,
Harvard College Theses. for 1898. a broad.
side, $50. Hennepin's New Discovery, 1898,
S1l %. +. Henandoes won Mexico, 1923,
$43 IS. Acmera, 1925, SIS 75 Hewatt's
Carolina, 1779, 81 so, bought by Mr.. Parker
for library Hooker's Soule's Vocation,
1888, So 25. Do. Summe of Church Discip-
line, 1913, and Cottons Way Cleared, 1648,
bound together, SIS. Hoskin's Pennsylvania
Bubble, 1876, S1l 25. Hubbard's Indian Wars,
original New England full sheep, good copy of
the rare may, printed in Boston by John Fos-
ter, 1917, S52 80. Dead at Lawson's Sermon
at Salem Village, 1704, Sc So The original
"Solemn League and Covenant" executed at
Glasgo, l73o, MS. on y6llum, 81 by % inches,
S9o 49, bought by Mr.. Stevens for party in
America Is it not marvellous that such
document shonld be allowed to go out of this
kingdom
Massachusetts General Laws and Liberties,
Cambridge, 1872, $50. DR.. j. Mather's Brief
History Of Philips War, 1876, $25. Do. on
Comets, So Mystery of Christ Opened, $103
Do. Testimony against Superstilions, 1851.
SO. Do Tryals of Witches with Cases of
Conscience, $l4, Is. Do. Against the Common
Prayer S214. Do G. Mather's Early Piety.
1888 Walking with God in one volume, S71.
Do. Elegy on N. Collins, 1885, $275 Do Mill
tary Duties, sermon, 1887, S11@ Do. Sol
diers Counselled, 1859, s13B. Do Work up
on the Ark, 1889, SIS. Do. Speedy Repent
ance, &C., 1880, S49,38. Do. Wonders of the
Invisible World, John Dunton, S145. Calef's
More Wonders, 100, $225.
Mathers Magnala, with map, 1902, S25.
Do. Relation of Pirates, 1926, $40. Do. Manu-
DUETS, 1925, Sl6 Do. Rats Discipline Frat
rum, Sl4 %. Morton's Memorial, 1721, S1I so.
DO. Davis, So. New Englands First Fruits
Sl7 90. Wilson's Declaration, treatng to the
execution of Mary Dyer and others on Boston
Common,l 1860, $13. Coddington's Demon
stration of True Love, &C., 1874, $l8 so. Con-
tlnuatlon of the State of New England, 1876.
$l4 so. Learning and Spice of Laws of New
Jersey. SIS 81, Norton's Heart of New Eng
land Rent 1860, Sc rs. A Collection of
Prynne's Pieces, bound in 35 volumes, 1626-68,
Sll5. The New England Psalmes, 1870,
$l4 so. Watts Psalms, 1st ed, $40 rs. A
single volume of Purchas, (vol. 81 1925, 50.
Robinson four john Essayes, &C., 1888, Sc.
Do. justification, &C., 1859, $6 25. Mary
Rowlindsons Captivity, reprint, bad copy,
1882, $4.
Extrav"gapt prices are not entirely confined
to works relating to America; rare old Eng
Ish hooks 60 at proportionate rates. Old il
luS, .1use;e works, and those on witchcraft, mag
&C, and other utterly exploded sciences, so much
In repute $50 or 300 years ago, are caught up
with great avidity. And yet in the daily
sales are constantly turning ap while the de-
mand increases. AS to books of a historical
character, relating to any part Of America, pub
liShed between 1892 and 1850, those will in
crease in value, notwithstanding the rates to
which they have now attained. | have felt
aware OF this for many years, but was not
quite prepared to believe the rage for them in
England was so great as it is found to be.
PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH BY Cold
AT recent meeting of the Royal Society of
Arts at Edinburgh this subject was brought
forward A committee had been appointed to
investigate the invention, and they report that
lady and gentleman having occasion to un-
dergo the process, were willing to allow the
committee to be present and afterwards to ex-
anime them. The apparatus, which had been
previously made in the manner described by
Morrison to the society, was fitted closely to
the upper jaw in the case of the lady the
margin of the gum, visible betwixt the tubes
and the teeth, was perceived to be very hlanch-
ed, and in the space of less than two minutes
from the commencement of the establishment
ofthe current through the tubes, thirteen teeth
were extracted, several of which were sound
and firmly attached to the socket The gen
tleman had seven teeth extracted from the
lower jaw, painlessly, in the same, or even in
a shorter space of time. Both patients stated
that they felt slightly uneasy sometimes when
the gum was being frozen, yet that during the
operation no pain was felt.
A COOP ONE ON 'CHANGE.-A day or two