New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-18
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THIRD DAY OF THE ODELL SALE.


Roth n,icos and attendance fell of little yeser-
dav at the OdeU Library sale. As a rule, the books
offered were less desirable than on the previous
DAYS. There were many priced catalogues OF DIS
persed English collections, which have never COM
manded the prices here that they do in London ana
many works on the history of printing LOT WHICH,
unbappily there were only two or three piduers'
and only one who had an enthusiasm worthy oil the
cause Books such as these are not the rare DOORS
which sell best in New-York. |: is n very spec'ai
class which cares for Them and small class at tha'
This would explain why dealers come into the saie
only TO mark their catalogues for fling aud REFER
ence. Bny the books they do not. knowing no"
few the chances are that they will SELL Customers
for them Will come in anything but abundance. n
book bought to-day may lie on the shelf I'VE years.
No American ever did business at that pace. DuV
for the small class of collectors The present SAFE Is "
harvest-tme. Fabricuses at 70 cents Is ~"
enough for anybody.
The sale Yesterday had several very interesting
features in spite of these drawbacks. The " Poll
phio." second edition. with all the plates IN goou
order; brought $500, running rapidly up to
TO that sum from $50. Dibdin. in the Spencer
Catalogue. devotos twenty pages to de-
scripton of this work. The copy of Ptolemys
"Geography" being the second edition euileu ~,
Servetus III fine order, was knocked down 10, Ioo'
The sale stOpDCd tue HlluSJ ol IflStho
raritaso four editions of which are IN the coffee
tS;on Only the first and that IN imperfect copy,
was sold. II brought Tl7. The Pickering fIaSer
Book of SJ3, printed by Nhlttingnnl, hhu pG ii.
chean for the money Piers Ploughman' ttlck-
ering) sold for IS 30; the first edition Of the NV o
Testament in Greek. printed IN America, TOT - ,
Mathias's " Pursuits of Literature m2gnilcene
cony. started al 50. went mp to S57 30 large
naper copy of Martins Catalogue oil frlVatsy
PRINTED Books" bound by RIvlere, went Tor ~;
Unmnhrry's Masterpieces of the Early Printers
and Enpraversv being fac-similes, for ~ ~ anu
Mrs Jamesons and Lady EGsilakeS History oi
0ur Lord - the last work that engaged MIS- Jane,
sons hands, with lis thirty-one etchlngs ana zoI
wood engTavmGs. for Sl1.
The books on printing and engraving were
many and v4naDIe jackson S %; 400 iIIns
trafions fetched 81: Palmers History OF Printing
from the FIRST Invention of 1t IN the Clty OF Menu
In ifs PropaqatiOn and Progress thrO most OF me
Kingdoms of Europe Q733l-a work IN when
Faust and SchGfler were held to 9c me iven,;ni,
of printing and $40 the year of the lnVcnuon
brought only 81 %. Oitlcv's lnqniry." Just
before If sold for S19. Lambinet's "Recherches
IIistorioucs" worth 81 brought only 30 cents
Iempertzs History of Booksellers" with Us
costly places and sumptuous bndlnR SOFA i2r nl1
NIenTss Ecganti@ Latlni sermons" an Llzevlr
prnt in very fine condition, went for III % Inc
Neue ZeyfuRg of Nurnberg ll5l5l, being the sec'nu
newspaper printed IN Europe. the hrst having aI'-
npared only five years earlier was started az IT,
but run up 10 81 10. aud was Knocked down AT that'
This valuable relic Of journalism leaves the coun-
Monstfellet's Chronicles" a fine clean copy,
brought $40 J0cher's Lexicon" perhaps the
finest specimen Of biographical dictionary cxant'
imperfect as it is and worth $50, went for 80:
The frat edition of Lowndess Manual" went
for 81 12l2 a volume; a arge-paper copy OF me
latest edition brought S5 a volume. catalogue
M "Antedilnyian Libraries whatever they may
have been sold for 80 cents. John Liy's "Euphuis
and his England" n recent edition IN large paper,
brought go cents-such is the esteem which the
literary prodigy and idol OF 1880 Uhe year IN which
his book was published has got to be held 500
years later Majors Blbhotheca," Richard llrbeTS
conv sold for 80 cents: but Richard Heber had
books enough 10 III the dome Of ST. PauPs, as Fred
eric Harrison would say. " Alonulncns de la We
Prvee dcs DOuzc Ce,ars daIres une Snlte dc lerrc'
et Nfdaillcs Graves fous les TGgne" is not . book
for general circulation. and fortunately is hard to
get. II fetched $26, after lively bidding.