New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-17
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THE BOOK TRADE SALE.
FOURTH DAY.

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There has been no falling of in the attendaneo
OF purchasers the sales, and competition Is still active
The sale was opened with the invoice Of Thomas Seloa
& Sons OF this city, consisting chiefly books adapted
for juvenile reading and oxford Bibles OF which about
hundred were sold Routledgc Sons put IN the
next Invoice, which included large humber OF works nv
eminent authors got UP In very superior sfye az hind
Ing The invoice Of James Miller of this city sold reart
Of J. e Ton were sold at duplicating prices T The ScT1 o
voice OF g. r. Putnam & Son included splendid assert.
OF valuable works. Irving works IS SETS % vOlues
to each set brought from IS 10 g. 80 according the
style Of binding. The Book OF the Artists pared in
ieure OF so. trade price being so subsequently, tho
INVOICES OF Henry A. ha hogRg CO.. Gda . Maynard
anu D. pIrrT "a; 'ou AZ iar prices
Claxton Remsen Co.'s invoice was the irst sold on
Tuesday, aud was mostly OF miscellaneous character
In the afternoon aud evening invoices sold
william Gowans, Horace g. Fuller Bridgman Childs.
Charles scribner q Co, ana scribner Wexford q Co.
those sold by the lastnamed firm. These consisted
principally Of London illustrated publications. and many
OF the photographs and engTavings were exqusliely
colored The story without End, finely illustrated
guarto. brought 50 IS Christian Lyrics On elotD.
50 IS in morocco, y 50; The Spirit OF Praise.
superbly illustrated quarto 81 another copy, s. 80;
Dore's Milton s22 90 The same In morocco s42 Phots-
In Britain. containing ~ superb cOlOred illustrations 81
Rebra9ds Etching Photographed SD Ruins Of Pom 9.
The Art o. lnmGatsp: 5G E RsTnaa, ~.
s.; vicar Of Wakefield. WIN colored plates "a %
the same In antique binding So Bishop HebeTs Hymns
with 100 designs s. 60 The Idyls of the King, ~ aud Vs.
Handbook OF Christian Symbolism ~ as Joseph and HIS
Brethren illustrated on every page and printed on KIT
ground S IS; Bcdfords Sketches In the Holy Land 1
photoepap- So Discoveries IN Cyreue, $40; Japanese
Manners aud Customs s.; Sketches Of BY LiDtine Arch
lecture eI6 Early and Later Peueilugs from Punch by
John Leach So; The Heavens with 400 very fine eoored
plates 81 70; Illuminated Family Bible " s0 and many
Others ut similar prices.
The attendance the book trade SALE yesterday. was
numerous and the bidding during the day was quite
spirited The invoices sold from d. Appleton Co..
Howe Ferry. James 0Kane & Co, Anderson Areher.
WynkOop Son, Blelock Co, aud I. W Strong oi New:
York and William II. Hill, jr., IL Co, ana o. '" Cotirrh
of Boston The Appleton invoice contained beside many
miscellaneous books, all the works 81 Mrs huhDaes.
complete sets of Dickens Msryatt Macauiay aud other
favoe English authors. which In the main brought falr
prices OF illustrated books for the holiday sea
son also sold WE'LL New juveniles were speedily bought
tI as we're also Sroug's alphabet sres. ana picture
books which we're sold at remarkably low rates. The
bidding at the evening sale was not unusually brsk ana
the offers were far below the trade price
The sale continue to-day and tonorrow uIth and
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