New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-19
THE ODELLSALE CONCLUDED
AN INTERESTING DAY.
REASONS WHY HIGHER PRICES WERE NOT OBJ

REASONS WHY HIGHER PRICES WERE NOT OBJ
TAINED-INCTDENTs OF THE LAST DAY.
At the Odeil sale yesterday prices and at
tendanceaid not vary much from those already re-
ported for the other days 1t is fact, melancholy or
otherwise. that biDlomana pure and simple has not
yet obtained in this country that firm hold the human
mind which 1t has long In Europe The prac
teal American little for book tnst has only its
rarity curious contents recommend It, Perhaps
the copy unique II may be extraordinary spect
OF printngj possibly is an early printed bo0k-bu
buy IL az price the average American citizen
will He beauty In H. and for him II has
possible usefulness. The books that he VIII pay
well for possess strong personal interest
Americana will bid for up to almost any price, be-
cause II anything he Is patriot He will stand by
Frankn's press any day, and whatever his theology,
OF IT, he has for the Puritan dyiDes and
all their sermons and psalm books. SO, too, he will
buy early editions manuscripts Of his favor
ite authors. 1t would be hard to imagine
what sum the manuscript the authors
proOfsheets Of Childe Harold would fetch
tiOn in New-York. Mr. Childs's Dickens manuscript
cost him good sum beyond doubt, but what would he
not give that Childe Harold 7" Some American
understood recently to have paid Mr. Sabin somewhere
toward half thousand dollars for Lord ByrOn's school
desk. What could Mr.. Sabin get for the manuscript
Of Don Juan ~ Rare things viii sell If they OF the
right sort. Was 10 not The London Times which said
few months ago that American buyers sent up the
at the late Lang sale TO unheard
Of figures. Burns's poems, Kilmarnoch edi
ton. that SALE Bacons Essays true first
editions there and book which eOnged to Mary
Queen OF Scots there also. Books such these,
MI Odells for the part They rare.
and many of them, so far this country goes
doubt unique nearly But who would buy them =
people In general who love fine books but that small
class who are Libliomauiacs pure and simple and
these collectors have in great many instances had her
way at this sale. The large prices have been paid
for books when almost every collector OF good
and choice books knows and wants. Such have always
sold well, often extremely well.
Yesterdays sale dispersed the last OF the Ode coec
ton. II had several Interesting Incidents Ruskin's
Stones OF Venice" first edition. in half calf, brought
S72 for the three vOlumes-a price which very likely
would have bet increased If the volumes had been in
cloth and uncut. magnificent copy Of the original
large folio edition OF the illuminated Sermon on the
Mount" Day & SOM, for $50. large paper copy
IN crimson morocco o. Wynne's " Private Libraries Of
New-York" sold for $40 Wall Whitman's Leaves OF
Grass" uS6Ol fetched 81 37l9 ony-almost any book
seller would pay than thai Tor i, and good zeal
moro II be knew the intended keep backs new
edition mucn longer Famans edition OF "Sbelley,"
which retails everywhere for Sl5. bsousht 50 90.
copy OF the reprint-N hlch was limited strictly 10
twenty-six copios-of John Taylor's Ole water
poets) Journey Through Wales" was Sc
cured for % 90 TIE illuminated cdnn
Reisch's "Margante" u5l7 WIS knocked down
for s34; the second edition Q5O4 for $50: ami tho
hlGd Q5O5) Tor -. The University Of Peuns Iyaula
Report the Rosetta Sour' one OF imil ed cii1n ln
hne binding, ana assessing autograph rtfcr FROM
Humboldt. brought 81, and the privately p1oicd
" ROYAL Museum az M Iles " SO 5algents Lie cd
Andre" large paper copy Of a Boston book printed iu
1861 sold for Sl2 " VEN res ~ Frla uti oorfanir
iu Commits Antiques" book with II pilates ana tue eX
paua0ry text u Eug-4 marked rare aud cOr.,c j.
so-ihauks, doubt 90 thr guardians OF WlD1c morals
was purcuased tor s32. Van praefs -" Ca'alocnc Dc.
Livrrs lnprlme4 Vein" beautiful copy,
ia Inc binding went for 81 %. Ini-
existence Van Praet librarian of tie National
Library ~ pars in Nap1eo's time, aud many stQues
are told or the SIS Dee won't. make or rare OnOes
inch ne wished looked after during tGc EmpcroT free
booing visit certain OF the great nrorcs of Europe.
Otelumcs he could give even the nuWUCr " incense
and shelf where the books would Dee found an
ant solder well emperor thus couc Ect them
lOr HIN.