New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-06
HOE LIBRARY SALE ENDS
Corrected Total Falls Just Short
of 100000.
RECORD AUCTION OF BOOKS
Highest Price for Volume Print
ed in America Feature of
Final Session.

With the corrected total standing a,
s997.3c3 20. the nineteenth session Of the sale
Of the Robert Hoe library by the Anderson
Auction Company. yesterday afternoon.
brought TO a close the greatest pubic auc-
ton % books ever recorded. Up to the last
half hour Of the session the hope that the
total would reach 100000 was still high in
the minds Of the spectators. but the two
books remaining 10 he sold. on which the
hope rested. failed to measure up to promise.
and the last lot. knocked down to Walter
NJ. Hill, Of Chicago. Tor $50. left the figure
nearly $500 from the desired point.
The disappointment however. was more
sentimental than real, for the total at
tanef far surpassed that % the Ashburn-
ham sale in London. which held the record
for thirteen years with a total or $500.
The present sale also holds the records for
the greatest amount taken in in one day
and for the largest. as we'll the second
and third largest price ever paid for q
single book. The record day was last Mon
day. when s2e5ls3 80 was bid at the two
sessions
The highest prce-l506o. for The Guten-
berg Bble-was reached on the first night
% Altr Ndtr. ana IlN ~f''ti'l anu tflit I'd Nil
eat prices on last Mond2v. when MS
Green. J. p Morgans librarian. paid so $50
for Cations edition of the "Morte d'Ar-
thur" in the afternoon. and Arthur Hoe
bought the Pembroke Hours" in the even
ing for ;330
During the ten days Of Inc sale more
than Jhlrty-fve hundred los have been
sold. while the fact tnat many II tho lots
consisted OF more than one volume brings
the total number OF volumes disposed Of
far beyond that figure one hundred and
fifty-four Of the lots have gone for Sl.0oo or
more and 81 for more than 500. half
dozen or so have been misiaiI n is said
that one of these a book of Now Neither
land. containing the second engraved view
Of New York. which originally appeared in
1851 would have brought the grand total
up 70 s100LOn0 When found they will be
cataogued for 7ale next fall with the sec
ond part # the library.
About the usual number Of enthusiasts
attended the final session yesterday after
noon. when the last s42S76 80 was registered
by the auctioneer. Daniel r. Kennedy. A
record price for a book printed in America
was obtained when Mr. Smith bid $1,000 for
the third surviving example Of the issues
Of Daye's press at Cambridge. This was
one Of the four known copies Of John Win
throp's Declaration OF Former Passages
and Proceedings Betwixt the English and
the Narrowgansets." printed I'm 1915.
Among those present yesterday was
George p Winship. librarian Of the John
Carter Brown library, at Providence. Mr..
Winship first arrived at the sale week
ago under unusual circumstances Not
knowing when the Hoe library was 70 be
sold. Mr. Wnship went 70 Mexico some
months ago and was returning eisurely on
the steamer Seguranca from cuba n week
ago Monday when a wireless message an
nounced the sale OF the Gutenberg Bible.
Mr.. Winshir rushed 70 Captain J. f.
Jones for assistance. the usual stop at Mas
san was omitted and the vessel was
brought into port two days ahead ~ sched-
ule I'm order that the librarian might at
tend the sale. When Mr.. WInship arrived.
however he was not so anxious 10 buy as
he had been on the high seas. The prices
were rather startling 20 him.