Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-26
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The First nay Of the Lamb Law Library
Sale.


The First Day of the Lamb Law Library
Sale.
There was fair attendance Of olo-
ders. yesterday, at the Office OF Mr.. ~
Lamb, where the large and very cou-
plete law library owned by Mr.. Lano
and used during his long practice ~
about half century was ohefeu ~
auction. Some Of the books oroegh1
fair prices, but as a rule the sums they
were knocked down at were but smail
proportion Of the original cost. some
OF the books sold were very old, For
instance, in Virginia Reports AID Stat
utes, Hening's Statutes at Large,
1919 to 1892, thirteen volumes,
went for S1.15 per volume; and
Sheppard's continuation Of the same,
from October 1892 to December 1910,
brought but s1.5O per volume. The
Acts OF the Virginia Legislature, lSO51,
folio, went for half dollar; seven VOL
nmes, from December 1907 to Feoru-
airy 1923 brought S1.15 per volume,
and ten volumes, December 1923 TO
July 1861, the same price per volume.
The Acts, 1861 and 1862, brought Sl:35
per volume. The Revised Code OF Vlr-
GINA aud supplements, lS0S and 1872
went for a quarter volume, as did the
succeeding volumes OF the Code ana
supplements, $3.50 to 1888. Inc he
visors' Report for the Virginia Code OF
1s49 brought S5.25. The Acts of the
Special Session of the West Virginia
Legislature, 1868. went for quarter.
In Virginia and West Virginia reports
one volume of Virginia cases went
for Sc. So two volumes of Washington's
Virginia Reports SIPS each, CalPs Re-
ports, 81. per volume; Hening y MIN
ford's Reports, fifty cents per volume;
Innings Reports, seventy-hve cents;
Gilmer's Reports, SO. so; Randolph's Re-
ports, $500; Leigh's Reports, S1.OO;
Robinson's Reports, S1.50; thirth-three
volumes of Grattan's Reports, $500 per
volume; three volumes OF Virginia Re-
ports, SITS; Chancellor Wythe's De-
cisiOns, folio. $3.50. thirty-two volumes
OF West Virginia Reports, 81 per vol
ume, Reports of the U. 5. Supreme
Courts and Digests Of the same went
dirt cheap, and Federal Reports and U.
S. Statutes never got above Sl.25 per
volume. Twenty-eight volumes OF New
York Superior Court Reports went at a
dollar volume, and sixteen volumes
Of New York Common Pleas Re-
ports brought $500 per volume,
while New York Supreme Court Re-
ports went slow at dollar each. New
York Chancery Reports didn't rise
above eighty-6ve cents per volume, and
New York Digests and Statutes brought
from 81. so to S225 per volume. Con-
necticut Reports brought 81 per vol
ume, Indiana Reports dollar, and In
diana the same, while Michigan Reports
went up as high as S130. Sixty vol
umes of American Reports brought
$3.50 each, and twenty volumes
of American State Reports Sl.95
each. In Virgininia text books
Robinson's Forms Claw 1S4l,
went for 50. %, and Robinson's Old Prac-
tice, Law, Chancery and Criminal Law,
brought 81 each. Robinson's New Prac-
tice was run up to S5.25, and Lomax's
Digest, Real Property, brought S4.5O.
United States Text Books went slow, as
did many valuable books in the dapart-
ments of railway law, insurance law,
contracts, real property, etc. A large
number of books remain to be sold.