The New York herald., 1869-09-17
THE BOOK TRADE SALE.
Opening Day Of the Sale-Large Attendance
and Spirited Bidding.


Opening Day Of the Sale-Larse Attendance
and Spirited Bidding.
The annual fall trade sale OF books in this city
began yesterday q, the trade salesrooms in the
Mercantile Library rooms under tine direction OF the
auctioneers Leayltt, strebslgh Co. Such large
gathering OF purchasers and from such varied por-
ions OF the country has not shown itself for years
at these sales. Representatives, Of nearly all the
Important book dealers In the country were In at
tendance. What induced to this result was the fact
tnat the invoice OF books one OF the largest a.
well as the most attractive ever offered, and further,
that the books would be sold without reserve.
At nine A. M. the sale began, Mr.. W. r. Leavitt
first taking the hammer, and IN turn being relieved
by Mr.. Foster, OF Canandagua, and Mr. J. X. Pratt,
OF Middleburg, Mass, each displayed those happy
endowments OF effective and successful auctioneers
loud and distinct voices, quick utterance, prompt
ness In selling and intultve conception Of oppor-
tunities to say JocOse things and thereby keeping
the bidding up to spirited point, and the bid
ders In the best OF humor The SAFE, IN Iact not
wihstandng It's continuance Till ten O'Clock In the
evening, with only two intervals OF an hour each
for dinner and supper, progressed at lively speed
The sale yesterday comprising the invoice OF ID. APP
pleton Co., Coob, Pritchard & Co., Bridgman
Childs, Rice, Ruter 4 Co., f. Ii. Butler Co., Uriah
Hunts Sons, w. w. Sayne, George Routedge
Sons, Ahemus h Co. few OF the items IN the sale
wa, was zoo volumes Grace Aguilar 99o octave novels
100 70 BRYANT Ss SaS so sSss
sets Marryatt l2 vols; 1900 Mnhlbach's Novels;
lionary OF Mechanics; 1850 Bourne's Steam Engine;
40 Ure's Dictionary; 1000 Appletons Poets zoo sets
prsSs5 sets
father, VOL; 100 Scotts Poetical Works. 6vos 500
do. do, VOL; $500 Moores Works. lemo, cloth;
each Dicks Shakespeare, byron, Goldsmith, Scott
Burns and Arabian Nights; ESQ nogarth; 5000 oc
svS pss as,n nsw style & io S pSa
graph Albums assorted styles Altogether the prices
were very satisfactory. The works Of Grace Aqui-
sets, 2 vols, cloth, 81 rs per volume; Jua Kavar
naghs novel Dora, 90 sets, soc per volumes Arabian
Nights Enseralnmen taI 20 SETS 600 engravngs ss q
25 sets, 81 20 per volumes; Boynton's History
Of the American Navy during the Rebellion, IL sets,
81 80 per VOL; Bryant's POetcal Works, 100 sets,
blue and gold 9Oc. per vol Burt0n's Cyclopedia OF
Wit and Humor, so sets. 20 vols, 900 engravings, "a
steel portraits s. to 81 10 per vol BUCKLES Civili
Peace convention 100 SETS vol. Svo.. Soc to soc.
per VOL; Dickens Works, Is sets, 200 in each set
small svo with 81 engrsvings. 80 SETS csc. per vol.
same size In sheep ~ sets, g 80 per vol; same.
hsT SA SETS 81 per yo Speeches vS OF pisra General
syo, sets, s. 20 per vol; nguier's The vegetabe
sets each, CLOTH "a 20 per VOL; Gibbons Banks of
New York. 10 SETS 7oc per vo Gil Bias 10 sets, VOL,
500, Illustrated cloth, 81 % per VOL FtZ Greene Hal
lecks works, blue and gold, 20 sets. 81 per vol;
Hugo's rhe Man Who Laughs, paper, eoc. and roc;
cloth, 500 sets, Julia Kavanagh's work II vols,
csc. per VOL; Macauay's Complete Works. 8 vols,
SETS cloth, 50 90 per vO half CLOTH 81 20 do, Es
says, vols, 70C "a new aud elegant revised edition,
on nsss aos
$50. per VOL Peoples edition. illustrated covers, IL
sets Of 100 each, Csc. per vO Merivaes History OF
the Romans, Under the Empire vols, sets, cloth,
81 so; John Stuart Mills Principles OF Political
Economy 10 sets, 2 vols., 81 0S; Louisa
Muhlbach's Historical Novels, 80 sets or
100 each, paper, 55c. to 57c. per VOL, cloth, 75c.
to 81; Rawlinson's History of HerodOtus, sets,
vols. 50 80; Shakespeare, 25 sets, edited by Mr..
Clark VOL, sheep, s2 u per vol; The Spectator,
rays Works, IL yols, 10 sets, cloth, 60c. per VOL;
Waverley Novels, rs sets OF 200 each, 90 vols, pa
per- 12ac. per VOL; do. Library edition, dO so Sets
8 vols s5c per VOL; Appeton's Cyclopadia OF
chanics so sets, s. rs and So; Bourne's Catechism
OF the Steam Engine and Hand Book or the Steam
Engine, 100 SETS 81 % per VOL; Appleton's cheap
edition OF the Poets, including the Works Of Scott
White and Dryden, sets of 100 each ]. vo 16 no.,
paper, 30c per vol At about this average figures
the sale continued through the morning. afternoon
ana evening" The average was about one-half Of
the ordinary retail prices
The programme OF the sale arranges for Its con-
tnuance some days. 1t IS believed that it VIII take
a day or two additional 10 finish up the catalogue
This catalogue, by the wav Is quite book OF ITSELF
comprising 40 pages As It progresses there Is
species Of book, comprising consignments from
most Of the principal publishing houses In the
country and including fun lines OF their publica-
tions suitable for the fall trade Thus far the indca
that 1t will be one Of the most successful
trades sales we nave mad for many years. In addi-
ton to books variety OF albums, stereotype plates
and stationery are TO be sold.