New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-06
SALE OF THE DORMAN LIBRARY.
VALUABLE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS.

TIE sFoRzAn MIssAL BRINGS 81 ,5O0-Low
PRICES FOR ENGRAvINGs AND ETCHiNGs.
For week the salesrOOm of George A.
Leavitt & Co., the welkuown auctioneers have been
crowded daily with bbophies and book collectors who
have porting the various interesting lots com
rrisine the DOrman library MI. DUrman 10 resident
OF Chicafo who IN the OF years has gathered to-
sether a library remarkable chiefly for Its wealth OF
costly illustrated books aud manuscripts His attention
having turned IN another direction, he has deter
mined sell a whole mis- library OF several thousand
volumes, and the first days sale at the hands OF Messrs
Ieavitt began yesterday afternoon. At 2:30 o'clock,
wher the sale began the sefore the auconeers
desk filed with many OF the regular attendants At
such sales and with miscellaneous gathering besides
The auconeer had need 10 dwell the merits OF the
lots they for IN the hands OF the bidders
was catalogue compiled by Charles sothersn singular
tor its completeness ana wealth OF annexation Follow
Ing custom prevalent in Paris hut hitherto unknown or
at any rate unusual at NcwYoIk sales, the Illuminated
and other manuscripts headed the list, and some or
these being beauty. tie first lots brought the
largest prices of the days sale.
fifteenth century" Hours OF 2l2 pages, Illuminated
throughout was the first lot offered and this was
Knocked down a bidder giving the name of Lee for
S55 A modern d" Prayers" containing some originals
and some copies sold for $l3 and another fifteenth
century missal for $50. Life OF Christ on velum
with thirty fully illuminated pages of the four
tenth century, sold for 81 60 and large chant book OF
the same psrod with the musical went for S75
Prayers" OF tho fifteenth century In French and
Latin went for 81 and collection OF miniatures cut
inissals brought $50 choral BOOK of enor-
mons size soli for $40. and psaer for $40. The
celebrated 4" s:orza Mssa" sa1 to be illuminated by
Francesca Fippo Ippi Tor the Duke OF Milan received
initial BID OF ~ 900, which went up by slow degrees
to ST. 90. ut which venerable bidder giving the
OF Biro, secured the TO which less
than eight pages OF I'll" catalogue were devoted An
illuminated Tacius OF i3s pages, Of the sixteenth cen
fury. profusely Illuminated In Renaissance style brought
S2l5. and The Letters OF Pope Plus H. brought $40
JOsephus illuminated aftcI the Renaissance style,
beng AN italian version OF the Jewish War;, brought
$3.50. and tho Morals OF St. Gregory" 500 A msg-
nihcent copy OF BOccacco's Fall OF Princes, VITA
ninety four separate miniatures sold fol $40, and
Lydgstes translation thereof, printed in l55i wont 'or
S42. y collection OF water color drawings OF II nGu
deites native artists comprising thirty paintings,
received ti bid OF $50 which went TO 1910 before
It stopped. collection OF sioux sketches by Half
Moon Sioux chief sold for $50 A black letter
Illuminated by hand brought $40 and another Printed
by Germain HaTdonyn went for $50. 4 cory Of
silvestres Photography published AZ S3l5 sold for
1920. and Humphreys Froissart for S23 Cntmers
sold for $3.50 rhe Bhlia PAU erum." collection or
prints from fifteenth century wood blocks sold for 81 49,
and a Sweynbeym and PaDuarty imprint OF l410 for
500. The 81 edition of the Book nf Fools sold for
500. and the remaining black letters at fair prices
In the bib graphical Department seven volumes OF
Dibdmana sold for Sll2, and the photographed
Decaineron Tor S57 the Tour in France and Germany
going for $50. Audsley and rowess ia an " brought
Of MontiaucOns "AEtiquitie~" sold for sG7 90. aud
Meyrick's Ancient Armour " for SD
The evening p inc pay taken up with the sale OF
etchnes and onPravings, but prices brought seemed
too Little. The total of the days sale of 469 lots in
the nelghb0rhOOd of $4,000, or $50 "a lot