New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-09
FINE BOOKS At AUCTION.

During the past week some choice and in
teresng books belonging to art and general literature
were sold by Bangs Co. at prices which illustrate
again how perceptibly the market for books at auction
has advanced within the last twelvemonth Or DOCKS
pertaining to those that follow brought the prices
affixed to them: LArt, complete from 1873 to 1873.
The edition dc luxe Of which only 100 copies were
printed, IL vols. paper, $37I Darlcys " Margaret"
$l1; DR.. Woitmann's "Hoibein and His Times" 1ull
morocco, 81 80; HamertOn's Etching ana EtcherS,
London 1868 with autograph letter, $50. great price;
his Unknown River" London, cloth, $l4 30; nine OF
his works i'll svo., tree calf only six Of them having
ctcngs but those In fine early condition, together IL
vols, and set extremely hard to get, $685. Turner's
'Lbcr Studiorum," the autotype reproductions, $lG
Walkers Beauty" with photographs inserted SIG;
spooncr's Dictionary Of the Fine Arts" S34;
Strings ANNALS Of the Artists OF Spain"
n fine copy, SLY; Strings "Velasquez, IS 30;
the gazette deS Beaur-Arts from the beginning
to sos Il vols. half morocco, 1928 70; The London
1rtJouImal 1SI9-187l, % vols, $177 50 Rusklns
" Modern Painters" Seven Lamps" and " stones OF
Venice" the Seven Lamps being the original cdlSn,
but only of the volumes of the Modern Painters"
beng The edition desired, together, vols, all
cloth except the Seven Lamps" 500 n volume or $2Gl
tor the lot Ruskln5 GOtiO," with the plates, vols.
probably the Of all Of Ruskn5 works. iS, and
undoubtedly cheap at that The price brought by the
Modern Painters " shows well in what request are
held certain editions of the five volumes OF this work.
The first OF Vols Ill., W. and ", the fourth OF H., and
the sixth of worth $40 volume or $500 tOgethe"
and brought that Mt the Oney SALE SO also OF the other
Rsns IN fine condition. The three great works which
sold last week for 2Gl worth in prime uncut con
dton and the best editions close on to S500-prObaby
a frst-clas5 set would command quite that
In general literature the books enumerated below
went for the prices named: Brunet's Manual" vols.
in parts. paper $40 5O chickering's Chaucer's Can
terbury Tales" vols. cloth, $25; the best editions
of Chcsteracds Letters" vols, $36 %; WolpOles
Memoirs" 2 vols. So; Nddlcton's works, vols, best
editions, Sl3 70; Murray's Gibbons Rome" cloth,
SIG ut sold recently, in half calf for 81 Cos GrOtcs
Greece" Murray, cloth, IL vols, SIS; DiDdn's
Library Companion" the Brooches Edition." boards
So %; Tom Browns works Q715l vols, Sc lin mod
ern binding dealer will ask F25 FOR ~ large paper
copy Woodfalps "Junms" Q9l2), vols, haf Russia
SD; LtuGs Dctonnaile," A vols, $50; Bcnlham's
WORKS best edition. IL vos full cali, S55; copy OF
TOdd's Milton, vols, morocco, gilt Sl3 80; certainly
cheap Dibdn lyS of this Milton that large paper
copy ian Indispensable Ornamentto noble library -
copy of Easakes Hints Household Taste" was In
the collection, and tho catalogue followed an error which
getting 10 be somewhat common in calling the author
"Sir Charles Eastlakc when in truth he IS plain Mr.
Charles Lock Eastake" IL his uncle the celebrated
painter to whom the hOnOrs OF knighthOOd belonged.