The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-23
THE 0REATLTBRARY SALE.
Marvellous Prices for .fIarveIIeus Books
The First Steel Ensrs vina-A Hell for ef8
-s1O3O for q Book which Only Two Mon
In the World Can Reed

| -SlOoO Tor Book which Only Two Men
In the world Can Read.
The second days sale Of the Rice Library was
conducted by Joseph ssbin, with his usual grace
ana susvity' The first book offered was Csdwalla.
der Coldens Memoirs, which was prepared and print.
cd In 1928 by order OF the then honest Corporation
OF New York, and presented to the worthy Mayor.
| It brought only eli.
Here" said the keen eyed aucioneer, as his let
black moustache fairly bristed with PRIDE "is a
collection or seventy-nne Old Black Letter Ballads
and Broadsdes, printed In the reign OF Queen Eliza.
beth, between the years 1859 and 1871 London
reprint"
Western man started the book at g. DR.. Byre
lady. whom Dan Bryant had commissioned 10 pur.
chase the volume at any cost-the report having
gone abroad that It contained the original shoe
Fly" as sung In the sixteenth century, would have
outbid the prairie bibliophile beyond all reckonnx
bad he not discovered In the nick OF time that tho
words Of the song nowhere to be found within
the covers Of the book. It was knocked down to
Mr.. Woodward for $40.
" The Conduct OF the Late Administration Rr.
amined" brought only s5. 1t was published 10
London, not In New York. which makes great
difference. q" The Constitution OF the several In.
dependent States Of America" printed by Bailey,
Philadelphia, In i7si. efore reconstruction became
a necessity, went for ta7. 'Fenimore Cooper's
History OF tho Navy Of the United States" con.
toinns much less 70 make the American citizen
ashamed than y is publication had been delayed
thirty Year,, sold for 900 volume. This copy con.
vain jones' S tue cG% sSGS. together
Ap Catesoy Jones, and other distinguished men OF
books ever sold.
a very ODD old auar,o, with a It'll. Al. long q. the
sI,,.o s9Ga q b. JSS was sold for sso n ,,a.
and 10 called "Tle Bloudy Tenent washed and
made " white 10 the Boude Of the Lambc." .nd much
more TO the same effect. II was printed "by Mat.
thew Summons for Hannah Allen at the Crowne in
Popes- s-iiesd Alley. i6i7" Peter Cores "soeial
si6. " '''"s"'
One OF the most valuable IS well A. most mopnls
cent works In the collection was Dibdins Tour,
whch the late owner had at great expense extended
to Fix volumes. Amer sharp competition IL was
shocked down TO sabin for ti 800 This remark.
able work was purchased for the library OF wealthy
lady OF this city. Another Dibdin brought t57 80
volume, and his "reminiscences t160.
NEXT came the celebrated cory Of Eliot's Indian
the Bruce sale. for ti,i3O Bidding WAS spirited.
and alter sharp contest for the possession OF the
rare book, which only two men In the world can
OF this Bible there but lew copies In existence
One was sold at the Corwin sale for $s25 There ia
one In the British Museum, one on the Island OF
Nantucket, and one Gardeners Island, in Long
Island Sound. The copy sold last night was the
best ever offered
Ellots Mauosse panstamwe UpB
lum God Naneeswe Mekkone Testament Kah wonk
Wusku Testament, ne quoshkenuumuk nashpe wut.
brought tlsO. '
The affecting narrative Of Benjamin Gilbert would
have sold 90 doubt for handsome price but some
literary kleptomaniac had possessed himself OF the
copy before its number was reached in the cata.
logue.
The amount OF money received at the sale thus far
rtlo'so5, and only Si3 books nave been sold.