HON. GEORGE H. HOLLIDAY, OF CARLIN VILLE, ILL. COMPRISING THE BEST EDITIONS OF STANDARD AUTHORS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE; INCLUDING AN UNUSUAL ASSEMBLAGE OF Fine-Art and Illustrated Works, AMONGST WHICH WILL BE FOUND KINGSBOROUGH'S MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES, with COLORED plates; AUDUBON'S BIRDS AND QUADRUPEDS OF AMERICA, folio edition; MUSÉE FRANCAIS, 4 vols.; FLORENCE, PITTI, ORLEANS, DRESDEN, MUNICH, DUSSELDORF. AGUado, StaffoRD, ROYAL, SHAKESPEARE, AND OTHER GALLERIES; MUSÉE NAPOLEON; GALERIE DES PEINTURES, 12 vols. 4to.; MUSEUM FLORENTINUM, RAPHAEL'S LOGGIES OF THE VATICAN, elephant fol.; THE WORKS OF HOGARTH, GILLRAY, OTTLEY, WYATT, OWEN JONES, STRUTT, GILPIN, HUMPHREYS, LA CROIX, Lá BARTE, &C. Extensive series of BIBLE PRINTS, PORTRAITS, ETCHINGS, ENGRAVINGS, &c. &c. Original Manuscripts, Including an unpublished MS. BY COTTON MATHER, addressed to his son, (255 pp. 8vo.); CHARLES DICKENS' "HUNTED Down," FITZ-GREENE HALLECK'S "YOUNG AMERICA,' GEORGE H. BOKER'S "PODESTA'S DAUGHTER," WM. GODWIN'S "CLOUDSLEY,” A Novel, The complete MSS.; FENIMORE COOPER'S "LIFE OF CAPT. RICHARD SOMMERS;" MARY CowDEN CLARKE'S "CONCORDANCE" (a large portion of the ORIGINAL MSS.); BERANGER'S "CHANSONS," the author's copy, with the suppressed Chansons in his autograph, and numerous others. Illuminated Missals on Vellum, and Specimens of Early Typography. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, Prominent among which are BRYAN'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS (with 1000 extra plates), CHALMERS' BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, upwards of 1500 extra plates; CROMWELLIANA; MATTHIAS' PURSUITS OF LITERATURE; BRAYLEY'S TOWER OF LONDON, 2 VOLS.; WALPOLE'S CORRESPONDENCE; PEPY'S MEMOIRS; WALTON'S LIVES; LA CROIX' ARTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 2 VOLS.; KEYSLER'S TRAVELS, extended to 8 vols. folio; LIFE OF MORLAND, &c. &c. &c. BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA. AN UNRIVALLED SERIES OF MS. ORDERLY BOOKS OF THE REVOLUTION, THE MOST COMPLETE EVER OFFERED FOR SALE. COMPLETE SETS OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE SHAKESPEARE, HAKLUYT, EARLY ENGLISH TEXT, AND BALLAD SOCIETIES, SPALDING CLUB, &C., &C. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENGLISH RECORD COMMISSION. BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM, SATIN, AND INDIA PAPER. PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS, FROM THE STRAWBERRY-HILL, HAFOD, LEE PRIORY, and other Private Presses. Encyclopedias and Works of Reference. PERIODICAL LITERATURE, Including sets of the North American, Edinburgh, Quarterly, North British and Foreign Quarterlies. Blackwood, Dodsley's Annual Register, Niles' Register, Harper's Magazine and Weekly, Putnam's Monthly, London Society, Anti-Jacobin and Retrospective Reviews, London Magazine, Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Dublin University, Notes and Queries, &c., &c. All in fine condition, including many that are bound by the best English and French binders. The whole will be sold by Auction, Monday, October 10th, and the following days, by LEAVITT, STREBEIGH & CO., Auctioneers, CLINTON HALL, NEW YORK. Sale will be commenced at 4 o'clock each day, and will be adjourned one hour for dinner. NOTICE. Or the many collections which have been offered for sale in this country of late years, none, it is believed, have presented greater attractions to the general lover of literature than the present. An examination of the following Catalogue will show that the Library formed by Mr. Holliday is distinguished for the breadth of the selection, covering the most important departments of liberal inquiry and research in Science, Philosophy, History, Biography, Criticism, and the Fine Arts. It is seldom, indeed, that a private library is got together on so comprehensive a plan. Its solid character, too, is eminently supported by the excellence of the editions, the best copies of standard authors having been procured without regard to expense. The Catalogue includes not only a great number of books of universal interest, but a variety of others in the less familiar walks of literature, which will well repay the attention of the curious collector. The main features of the Library have been, perhaps, sufficiently indicated in the enumeration on the title-page; but we may make particu. lar reference to the specialties of several of the departments. The collection of Galleries of Engravings, and the illustrated works of the Fine Arts, will be found to include many of rare merit seldom now to be met. with. There are also a number of choice selections of Extra Illustrated Works, with inserted portraits, views, etc., worthy of special attention. The illustrated works of Natural History are also of peculiar value and interest. The volumes of Autograph Manuscript of Cotton Mather, William Godwin, the novelist Cooper, the poet Halleck, and Charles Dickens, are, of course, unique. In Books relating to America, including the extraordinary collection of MS. Orderly Books of the Revolution, and the exceedingly fine copy of the Harvard "Pietas et Gratulatis; in Privately Printed Books; in Society and Club Publications; in the higher class of Periodical Literature; in Bibliography and Literary History, the collection will be found to be particularly well furnished. In conclusion, what is of no little importance to purchasers at a distance, unable personally to examine the library, assurance may be confidently given that the books will be found in the best possible condition. New York, Sept. 1st, 1870. J. W. BOUTON. CATALOGUE. 1 A CALL FROM DEATH TO LIFE, being An Account of the Sufferings of Marmaduke Stevenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, in New England, in the year 1659. 4to. hf. crim. morocco, gilt top. (London, 1660.) Reprinted, Providence, 1845. Only 100 copies printed. 2 ACCOUNT of an EXISTING CORRESPONDENCE now carrying on between the Inhabitants of the Moon and the Natives of this Country, &c. 8vo. pp. 37, uncut. London, 1800, Cincinnati, 1868. 125 copies. 3 Another copy, 4to. uncut. LARGE PAPER (25 copies). Cincinnati, 1868. 4 ACKERMANN'S WESTMINSTER ABBEY; its History, Antiquities, and Monuments, with 70 finely cOLORED engravings from Drawings by Pugin, Mackenzie, &c. 2 vols. impl. 4to. hf. russia, uncut edges, (pub. £15.) London, 1812. 5 ADAM, WILLIAM. An INQUIRY into the THEORIES OF HISTORY, with special reference to the Principles of the Positive Philosophy. 2d Edition. 8vo. new cloth. London, 1864. 6 ADAM'S RUINS OF THE PALACE OF THE EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN, at Spalatrɔ, in Dalmatia, with 61 fine engravings, some very large, by BARTOLOZZI and others, impl. folio, new hf. morocco gilt. FINE EARLY COPY, scarce. London, 1764. Sir G. Wilkinson in his "Dalmatia" observes, "If I have confined my description of the Palace of Spalatro to a narrower compass than the importance of that monument deserves, it is from its having been so amply described by Adam." 7 ADAMS, JOHN. The Works, with Life of the Author. Notes and Illustrations by his Grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Portrait. 10 vols. imperial 8vo. new cloth, uncut. Boston, 1856. LARGE PAPER: uniform in size with the large paper editions of Bancroft, Franklin, Washington, Webster, and Everett. 8 ADAMSON, JOHN. MEMOIRS of the Life and Writings of LUIS DE CAMOENS. Numerous fine portraits. 2 vols. royal 8vo. hand somely bound in blue morocco extra, gilt leaves. London, 1820. LARGE PAPER. Very scarce in this size. An elegant and elaborate performance, for which the Author was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Portugal. |