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RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO

FRANCIS S. HOFFMAN, ESQ.,

AN ESTEEMED CONTRIBUTOR.

AMERICAN NIV. OF BIBLIOPOLIST.

A Literary Register and Monthly Catalogue of Old and New Books, and Repository of Notes and Queries.

Vol. 2.

NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1870.

ADVERTISING: $13 per page; $7 half page; and $4 quarter.

No. 1.

SUBSCRIPTION $1 per year, Postage free.

To SUBSCRIBERS.-The American Bibliopolist is published monthly, and is printed on fine tinted paper, with "old style" type, each issue consisting of thirty-two pages, or more, as in the December number (64 pages). Its contents are always varied, embracing all the Literary News of the day, with much of curious information about old and rare books.

NOTES AND QUERIES, an interesting department of the Bibliopolist, is not confined to literary topics, but embraces a great variety of subjects—bibliographical, historical, literary, antiquarian, etc., etc.

Each number contains a complete list of NEW AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS, with notices of the principal foreign issues; also, CATALOGUE OF OLD AND NEW Books, from which may be selected good books at low prices; Announcements of AUCTION SALES of Books, Catalogues of which may be obtained, and thus opportunity afforded to purchase books not elsewhere obtainable; and, finally, PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENTS, from which may be selected all the new books published from time to time. The Bibliopolist is mailed to subscribers for one year, free of postage, for $1.00.

TO ADVERTISERS.-The Bibliopolist circulated amongst intelligent and reading men, with whom bookbuying is a necessity. It has lived (not only lived but flourished) for one year, and it now opens upon its second year with still better prospects. The GREAT ADVANTAGES we offer to advertisers in the Bibliopolist cannot, we think, be conceded to any other similar publication. First, our terms are low; second, we are willing to take, at the publishers' net prices, Books in exchange for ADVERTISEMENTS. The rates for advertising, mentioned above, are cash rates. Rates, in books at net prices, are as follows: One page, $16.00; half page, $9.00; quarter page, $5.00. The same arrangements will be made with dealers in second hand books, giving us the privilege of selection. With such an arrangement as this, bublishers and booksellers can pay, at a minimum cost, what would otherwise be required in cash. For a succession of insertions, the rates will be reduced.

This arrangement will also apply with English, French and German Publishers and Booksellers.

Auction Sales.

WM. B. REED'S LIBRARY.

The Library of Wm. B. Reed was sold in Philadelphia (M. Thomas & Sons, Auctioneers) on December 20th.

We should expect, judging both from Mr. Reed's family connections and his literary productions, that his library would abound in rare and interesting historical matter concerning the Revolution. We are then somewhat surprised to find that not even the personal history of the Reed family was fully represented, and looked in vain for the rare Reed and Cadwallader Pamphlets.

These pamphlets may have become so rare that Mr. Reed himself did not possess copies, or, more likely, that they, with other rarities, were reserved from the auction.* Stranger still, Mr. Campbell's reprints did not appear; neither did any of the late controversial pamphlets-Bancroft, Rush, Greene, Johnston, etc. There was, however, a copy of The Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, by his Grandson,

This is a mistake as regards the Reed pamphlet. This will be found in the second volume of "pamphlets," though obscured under the title, "Remarks on a late Publication in the Independent Gazette," Philadelphia, 1783. We understand that no books were reserved.

Wm. B. Reed, interleaved with MSS. Notes by the Author, 4 vols, 8vo. Philadelphia, 1847; Reprint of the Original Letters from Washington to Joseph Reed during the American Revolution. 8vo,

Philada, 1852; Life of Esther DeBerdt, afterwards Esther Recd, of Pennsylvania. Privately printed, Philada., 1853, 12mo; The American Union, by Henry Reed, 12mo; also The Treason of Major-General Chas. Lee. 8vo. Dublin, 1792.

Among Mr. Reed's books we find a volume on Money and Exchange, and thirteen volumes of Murray's Guide Books.

Of the few rare Americana we quote the following, with the description as given in the catalogue:

Morton, Dr. Samuel George. Americana. $32.50.

Crania

Rogers' Geology of Pennsylvania, 2 vols, 4to, cloth, with maps, complete. $21.00. The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution, small 4to, half Roxburgh (!) Philada., 1857. $50.00.

100 copies printed and sold only to subscribers. Very rare, wanting the carton, which was, however, not in all copies, it having been considered objectionable.

Notes on Columbus, with Photographs, &c., only 99 copies printed for private distribution, imperial 8vo, paper. New York, 1865. $10.00.

Prior Documents, a Collection of Interesting Authentic Papers relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America, showing the Causes and Progress of that Misunderstanding, from 1764 to 1775, 8vo, half calf. J. Almon, London, 1777. $5.50.

The Remembrancer, or Impartial Repository of Public Events, 1775-1784, 17 vols. 8vo, half calf, uniform. J. Almon, London, 1775-1784. $93.50.

History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a Mob, May 17, 1836, colored frontispiece, 8vo, cloth. Philada., 1838. $1.63.

PAMPHLETS.

Thoughts on Trade in West Indies, Continental Colonies, &c., London, 1763; Regulations of the Colonies, London, 1765; Letter to Almon concerning Libels, &c., London, 1765; Excellence of a Free State, London, 1767; The Case of Great Britain and America, London, 1769. $13.00.

Remarks on a late Publication in the Independent Gazette, Philada., 1783; Rimius' Narrative of the Rise and Progress

of the Herrnhuters, London, 1753; Present State of the Nation, London, 1768; Appeal to the Justice, &c., of the People of Great Britain in the Dispute with America, London, 1775; Speech in Support of the Petition from the Congress at Philadelphia, London, 1775. $13.00.

Remarkable Case of Peter Hasenclever, Merchant, Proprietor of Pot Ash Manufactory in North America, London, 1763; Examination of the Connecticut Claim to Lands in Pennsylvania, Philada., 1774, and 3 others. $11.00.

Commentary on Secker's Letter, Philada., 1771; Life of Bishop Secker, New York, 1773; Appendix to ditto, New York, 1774; Life of David Hume, Philada., 1778; A Ploughman's Complaint, Philada., 1768; Mission among the Heathens, London, 1771, and 3 others. $11.00.

Sermon preached in Christ Church, Dover, Dec. 27th, 1780, Philada., 1781; Montgomery's Sermon, Philada., 1775; Another High Road to Hell, Boston, 1768; Macpherson's Letters, Philada., 1770; Vindication of the Opposition of the Inhabitants of Vermont to the Government of New York, and of their right to form an Independent State, by Ethan Allen, Vermont, 1779; Rights of British America, Philada., 1774, and 2 others. $18.00.

Civil Liberty and the War with America, by Richard Price, Philada., 1778; General Introduction to ditto, by R. Price, Philada., 1778; Tucker's True Interest of Great Britain set forth in regard to the Colonies, Norfolk, 1774; Trumbull's Plea in Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested Lands lying west of the Province of New York, New Haven, 1774; The Middle Line, Philada, 1775; Considerations on a Treaty of Peace, Philada., 1779; Abingdon's Thoughts on Edmund Burk's Letter, Lancaster, 1778. $18.00.

Address of the People of Great Britain to the Inhabitants of America, London, 1775; The other side of the Question, New York, 1774; Remarks on Defence of the Halifax Libel, Boston, 1765; Votes and Proceedings, &c., of New Jersey, New York, 1776; New Bath Guide, or Memoirs of the B-r-d Family, in a Series of Poetical Epistles; Tucker's Tract V, Glocester, 1775, and 1 other. $10.00.

Major Donkin's Military Collections and Remarks, New York, 1777; Clap's Annals of the History of Yale College, in New

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