New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-11
TIE BOOKSELLERS TRADE SALE.

After sessic. of nine dsyr, continued from q n.
to 10 .. m, the Bookseller Trsis Sales oonc,uded
sst Saturday eveaiug IL hss been, perks p tae GSt
successful Spring trsie sale ys held and Indicate.
hes.bful revival Of tbs busu~s from the de2re'aSa
into which il was c.s. aaer tie rvulsion Tasss o.
cssions in degree indc,;e the speculative c'ps-
stor OF booksellers who .racssd by The opposts-
nifty Of buying cheap expecting 70 somewhat e,o.roi
the tastes a. least the purchases Of her Customers.
who, not alwsys being able 10 6rd vas: they ~ant,
oftsp content themselves with tss be they get
The extent of the book ssl.s g also limited by sins,
considering which, they bear proportion in amount
Of ys,ue 10 other auctions. NJ large purchases are
nsde of specis items except IN very rare Instances,
and the ord,rsry qualities bought at single BIDS vay
IN yalu. from o. 10 $50 Sngle buyers hsrdly sverige
more hsn Al SEQ for the whole sse, std that Is made
m Of an syersss of 81 least O0Jts Tcus, tee seces-
s.ty exists for sresty eoonomizog tine, and the 'ys-
tam .dop,.d by the suctioneors avoids sny unseces-
ssry ~sste OF IL.
Asa m the selling commences and proceeds with
out interruption until /. p IN, wnsn dnaer 10 pfoV'ded
by the auctoueers and as booksellers are by no
means so exclusively devoted - literature
as to despiss the more Vulgar animal sP-
pettes, Messrs Geo. A. Lesve, 81 Co., psks
avery liberal spresd, which embraces tho orthodox,
and serves not only keep he prodtabis company to-
gether but 20 draw in q variety Of hungry outsiders
who h,pp<n in a. tie lucky The sale coniieues
afterwaTos until 10 p VITA recess for ice, which
IS supplied by the same purveyors.
Among the noticeable items of this sale toe fol-
lowing Ms,on Brothers, 30 Psrtons Life o. A,ron
Bur. 100 Abboits Empire OF Austris, 6tFLfe OF
Baron S,eubeu 800 LoIspss Untsd States, cad 500
Webs,er's Dictionaries G.. & c. Merism, over 100
Ito. Webster j. B Lppiocott & Co. entered more
than 400 lots of their publications, all Of which
were in good demand. They cold 30 OF thct- New
Dictionary OF Qdotstions Dat Of Wiley n kslstsds
il voice 400 DOwmngs Fruits and Fruit Trees anu
100 I,oudons Gardening, were Disposed OF. Little,
Brown & Co sold about 1000 vols OF the Dntsa
Poets and SEQ OF Bancroft [ cited States; Derby Il
Jackson 800 vols. Charlotte Bronte, 1000 library
Of Popular Tales aud Biography, SEQ Library OF
Travels and Adventure, ard 400 Librsry OF
STAND ard Fiction, Of which last Evars & Co, the
" Gftbook" sellers bough; 500 vols. Peterson sold
1900 vols of Dickens Phillips, Sampson g Co.,
1000 vols OF Roilo books, 80 vols. OF Prescott,
l. SOC of Gibbou and Mscsulsy, and 80 OF
Emersons Works; c. Desilyer. 1000 Pinnocss
Goldsmith's England, and $40 Frost's Speak
ere; Jesper Harding & Son made q splendid
sale of Bibles, amounting to between 81, 200 and &c.
co., their invoice listed entirely OF BiGies, To-
GLIDING about 100 varieties. varying ia price rom 80
cent? to 500; j. b. Smith & Co. cold SEQ voGues
Chamberss Information for the People, OOcopss OF
Todds, Jobrsons aud Walkers Dictionary revised by
Worcester, and 7o6 Of Byron; j. w Bradley 500
of Lvpgstone's southern Africa 4S5 Life Of DR.. Kane,
400 copes Of T. s. ArthuI's works i69 Barth sArcs,
and 437 Elss Msdsg oscar; C. NJ. Ssxtop, DO Youatt
on the Horse, aud 500 sets Mrs Mary J. Holiness
works in 4 vols; Parry & Mcsilsn, 100 cets Lord
Bacon vols SEQ and 200 Albert Barnes's works
blanchard & Lea made an excellent sale manly OF
ueical text books; A. o. Moore & Co., exclusively
Agricultural book pubsh,rs sold $50 Of Dosuiags
Landscape Gardening, and GSl OF Dadd's Horse AMI
Cattle Decor.
Thenew ard jusi.compcted Household Edition Of
/ che Wsverley Novels, by Tcknor & Fields went on
TO the extent of Geo volnmes and their various blue
II and gold editions n good quantities. Could Lincoln
solo S5S volumes OF Hugh Mder's Works 900 Ainwsu
n S,ories, ana 600 volumes Chambers Works Pudney
II & Russell dposed Of about 10 600 copies Of he Pfinos
Of the House OF David and the PiIlsr Of Fret Of the
H former H. Dayton bought 5000. Charles Soribnsr
II sold 400 of Timothy Tltcom5s Letters. Bazn g.
II Ellsworth 500 of Thompsons Green Mountain Boys
\ ard $50 Mechanics Own Book
u The Spring sales are estnsted at about half the
Autumn seles thst if the proportion holds goodthi,
l year, the coming Fail will be memorable among the
records Of book auctions Messrs. George a. Lesyitt
& Co. have embellisbed their large aud handsome
rooms with gallery Of publishers portraits. These
nov include the principal members of the trade Of
New v rk Boston and Philadelphia.