New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-25
SEVENTH DAY OF TIE BOOK SALE.

Two days more viii complete the great sale OF
books at Clinton Hall. As yet no diminntion III
attendance or prices las shown itself Signs OF
new life IN the book business were not wanting
when this sale began, and if doudts Of better bust
ress existed in any minds they are probably now
explained away.
Yesterday morning the auotioueer opened his cat
alccue at page 500 with small lots OF WeosteTs n
abridged Dictionary IN various bindings. lhey
went of brskly School editions making a total OIL
1000 copies followed at rates not so good lor the
publishers owing, In measure, % the iarae guam
titles put m The publications of the new house Of
4. C. Armstrong & Son. nearly all of them works OF
permanent value in literature. came next and went
close on 10 forty of. Among them were the works
Of Di-raei the elder. edited 10y ltis distinguished
son 4; Hallam's " " dlle Ages" Literature OF En-
rome - and Constitutional History; Thomas
Elskire Nays Constitutional History" and his
new " Democracy iu Europe; Macauay's speeches
aud the essays ia three editions; Burton's "Anat-
Only Of Nclancholy"; Dean Miln.an's works !
Charles Lambs works complete, and Dean Stauley's
Sinai End Palestine" The sale of those books
WAS oucllv made aud the auctiOneeT GOT his prices
without much mging Macailsy has been on deck
every cay In one form another and OFTEN In sew
ela forms. bui bc came up Yesterday a. (oyiuiy rs
ever, and bidders welcomed uim Witi liberal oilers
90 frs sightNt hlu u VET be long YET ere ne
ladies' M any uueh d.tN4oi NuN-t ti' tA't'-N A''N
Chau,c at BAN.
Lee q Slcphard's lone invoice was reached he
fore duner iiuc AID ATE Shakespeare ~ one vol
umc had led off al haii price multitude OF juvenile
books came zap ia lots ui 100. Oliver optic ana a
lew other o.d fav0ritc vTilegs held the attention
Tor nearly two hoiys. \ Magic Mother Goose
sold bri.y iu lois Of twenty, Twenty-Five ana MY
to claturrous bidders, Who filed the air with their
eager VOICES. About 100 copies were disposed 81.
Among serious books the bidding was less active.
A Na.py Shakespeare went i0I hai price. Milton
complete for les, than that aud translation OF
Marcus Aurelius's d" Meditatious," 10y George Long,
the English Ntoic who died few months ago. Tor
- cents when il deserved 10 bring 20. Meanwhile
1 he public is not yet done with the That husband
OF Mine order Of literature. Presently the book
stores VIII be lull Of it, Something Ike o,VOO
copies went oil yesterday IN lots OF 100, ZUO dhd
500 as fast rs the auctIOnceT could sell theln One
broadway dealer alone took 700 copies. bu, ne
prices Of these books low, one OF them ialhnG
III la. IN paper binding, TO , cents copy. Oh
course there was Dickens i'm the sale, and IKE
Macaulay," II found eager purchasers. over 100
sets ni fine edition sold. but the last OF them
went low There was some reason Tor this since over
100 st, had been sold OF previous days, and Lee
~hephaid disposed of go sets at the same edltlon
last Spring.
The sale today Will comprisc about twenty in
voices the lorersi OF them being those ot Sheldon
& Co. and Dick : Fitzgerald. Tomorrow some
very choice foreign books vii be sold from the IN
voice, of Henry : ,lhrrau : Co. and BERNARD QIar-
itca, oil London, and j. w. Bou;on, Of NCW-loIk.