The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-16
A nook coLLEcroR's TREASURES.
Rare Works from the First Printers Under
the Hammer.

the Hammer.
Yesterdays rain storm tended very ma
terially to lessen the usual attendance at the
lie Of the Meuzies collection at Clinton Hall;
but all the prominent book collectors who fig-
ured at the previous session were present, and
their eaperness to become possessors OF
avorite volumes was not notlceahlv repressed.
Communion OF Churches" tiny l6mo., beau-
tifuly bound. was bought by j. 5 bin, Jr.' for
tl55. This is one Of John Eliot's works 1t was
printed at Cambridge in 1865, is one of the very
earliest New England imprints. and IL undoubt-
eddy the first American book privately printed
and this copy Is believed to be 1nque Eliot
ana Mayhsw Ears 2I Hspsptshse IN Ia s sa
HILL. and are to be sold NJ his shop at the sign
OF the Printlng-lress in Cornhill, near the ROYAL
Of r. W. Fields imperial octave, Historic and
Antiquarian Scenes IN BROOKLYN and its Vicln-
ity," sold for tl2 aud hts Essay Toward an in-
Settlement, and Present state OF kentucke," by
John Filson, one OF the first narrators OF border
warfare. who was himself killed bv the Indians,
sold for $50 Fndleys History OF the lusur-
rection in the -Four Western Counties 81 Penn
OF Documents In the English Archives Relating
TO The Early History OF the state OF Maine, ~
brand Quenched" went to MIR. II. G. Murphy
Tor SS5 nr,bvest Fox. or ro, from the Nor,hwe..
Passage, by Capt. Luke FOxe." Is part OF the
title Of very rare quarto. which sold for 800.
Francis's "Old New York." large paper
copy. one OF hundred privately printed,
brought 800. Franklin's " Second Protest." the
Doctors copy, with his own Ms. notes, $3.50.
On the | st leaf occurs the following In Frank
nus own hand
have some uttlc property m America. will freely
speni nineteen ehhng' ~ the, pound 10 defend ne
right can retir, ch cfoy WA my hllle family INTO
stnrd free1ou md sunslstcrc. TO any man who can
bait nuOS or pail tfi- -er.
An elesant copy NJ Froissnrt's " Chronicles -
lftfH... Afsf.Nr
Jr., bought for lirbtOn Ives. the broker, beau
uful black letter quarto, " Imprinted at Lon
don In the Fletestrete at the svgne Of the some
bv wynKyn de Worde prynter unto the mocst
excellent pryncesse my lidy the kynges grand
anne; IT, the. we're 81 our lorde god. n. CtCC,
and TX. the NIL dave OF the moneth Of Juyn."
| TINS re old volume brought $500 year ago
sabn sold another for $50.
| i. LOpez de GOmaras Pleasant Historic OF
the Weast India" Bjnneman, 1913. sold for
| so; G crges America Painted to the Life,
| Cornhill, 1859 for 500 to J. Sabn, Jr. after a
son Dwight got rare Bradford, Gospel Or
Ger Reviewed" 1909, for $50 and Col. flush c
| Hawkins secured for 1880 a Gothic letter
| Gregories Magnus. printed by Fust Il Scho6er
at Msyence, 1895. Grenyille's Bollotheca'
the Peorie II New Enaisnd'" rare Quaker
trect printed in 1919 went for 500. H!eehoortt
Cateeni,m IN Daen; "ze New York; &c,
| Hakluyts Voyages, edition ofl5sg was knocked
down for tlUs ana the edition OF 1893 sofia for t15
Nitchcraft." az; Halleck's Fanny" 1850
| Raphe Hamor's " rrve Discourse of the Present
Estate OF Virsinia." 1915. small qusrto OF 6s
| pages $40; Mates ON Columbus" compiled
10y :. l.. NJ. Barlow. OF which only W cope,
formed vireinisn SILK Worm" for $3O; Heath,
Memoirs of himself, for ts2 Heures d L. sag,
| de Rome" printed on pure vellum. Paris. l5ls
| for $3.50; and St Jerome's Expostio symbol
| ApOstoorum," printed In 400 by iric ZelI, a
| Cologne for ts2.J.
The mex. WORK ofered was a superbly, boun'
cory Of that extremely rare book, Higdeu'
Polvcrnntcon, Fynysshed per CaXtOn
| MCCCCLNNN XII IL was started at $50, rat
up rapidly TO e. q, and seemed to have lost favo
NJ Se6 when Jeffres Of London startled TIN
bidders with a sharp crv, "One Thousand Fo
moment II seemed that he would secure tn
precious treasure and take II back to Engla n'
with htm but another Did OF So settled It's IA Z
and u was delivered tod. W, Drexel, the b lnkeI
for $l.OO5 amid applause. The only otner coz
OF the "pOycronicOn IN this country is In tn
Lenox Library. II cost 81 500
Hisginson's 80 New Eng nd Plantation" wa
sold to Ives for sos; the works Of Hooker " tn
son Of thunder" to Cook. for tS5 volume;
inissal on v-llum. date lJn, for sl2j, and all
other for so; Horsmandeis "Journ | of til
| Proceedings N the Detection Of the COnsptrac
for Burning the CITY Of New York.
printed mere IN IVA. was bought by Sabin. Jr
FOR s24O; william Hubbard's d" Narrative OF tn
| Troubles with the Indians Boston. 1871, b
Ives, for SEQ; and copy OF 4 treaty with tn
Indians OF Pennsylvania, printed by Franklin
sold for $3.50
ington " extended from to II volumes, enriche
10y the insertion Of LOO illustrations, ana boun
| IN polished green leyant morocco. WAS starte
at SOU volume. but gradually crept up 70 80
at which figure " was knocked down to Josep
". Drexel. The $4O>O received for this sp.endi
work Is much less that half Of Its cost.