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2316 & 2330. etc., & VRIE'S Tracts on America, translated from the Dutch by H. C. Murphy, and privately printed for James Lenox. $32.00

2318. VINAL's Sermon on the Accursed Thing that Hinders Success and Victory in War (Braddock Defeat tract). Newport, 1755. 4to pp. 25. $35.00 What a warlike library our "peaceful son" is forming !

2348. WALSH. American Register.

Phil., 1817. 2 vols., half mor., uncut.

$15.50 2349. WALTER. The Sweet Psalmist of Israel. Boston, J. Franklin, 1722.

$25.00 2531. WALTON & COTTON. Pickering's ed., 1836. Bound (as it should be) in a shady green levant morocco by Bedford.

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Boston, Isaiah Thomas, Jr. $5.25

Marshall's Life of Washington. Lond, 1804.

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$216.00

$11.00

Lond.

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$52.00

A selection of Orations. Amherst, 1800. $34.00 [Sewall's] Versification of the Farewell Address. Portsmouth, 1798.

$20.00

$11.00

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2392.

The Will of, etc., Lond,

1800.

Text-Book of the Wash, Benv. Soc., Concord, 1812.

$6.00

$5.00

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1785.

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2586. WILLIAMS. Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Unanswered. Lond, 1644. $90.00

A third time" Mr. Pennfeather." His reality is a fact, though his name may be a fiction. His religion (if he has any other than that of the Bibliomania), we should suppose to be that of a true Baptist. 2599. WILSON'S Ornithology. Phil., 1808. 9 vols. $121.50

2605. WILSON, S. Account of Carolina, Lond, 1682. $45.00 2615. Wisdom in Miniature. Worcester. Isaiah Thomas. Bound by Bedford.

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2623. WOOD, W. New England's $52.50 Prospect. London, 1635. $200.00

"Which are of sweetest Comfort to the Elect Sheet, and of most dreadful Amazement and Terrour to Reprobate Goats."

2566. WHITNEY's History of the County of Worcester. Worcester, Isaiah Thomas, $53.00

1793.

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"A true, lively and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called New England, laying down that which may both enrich the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager. This copy contains the map of the south part of N. E., and had the honor of being bound by Matthews in his choicest and lovingest manner. It will now present to any Bibliomaniac, "in that part of America commonly called New England." (And especially to its owner of the south part thereof,) a most lively and beautiful 'prospect,' both internally and externally.

2639, WYNNE'S Private Libraries of New York, 1860. Large Paper, 2 vols.

$176.00

Illustrated by the insertion of over 100 rare plates. Formerly Mr. Andrews' copy.

2648. ZENGER. Tryal of, Lond, 1738. $8.75

Thus ended the Rice Sale, not soon to be forgotten; and here also ends our short account of it, full of the sins of omission, and incapable of rendering it anything like justice, an incapacity which every reader of the catalogue will see at once, and forgive accordingly. Our object has been principally to record some of the prices of the most rare and curious books, that they may console all like book-owners who intend to sell and encourage all like book-collectors who intend to keep. Finally, if we have a right to do so, we congratulate every collector who won new laurels at this cONFLICT UNEXAMPLED IN AMERI

CAN AUCTIONS.

BOOK-BINDING.

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EGARDING the origin of the "Bibliopegistical Art," as Dr. Dibdin learnedly (or pedantically, if you choose) styles the art of book-binding, we shall avail ourselves of the ready-made and convenient expression as applied to the origin of so many other arts;-it is involved in the darkest obscurity! There is, perhaps, a gleam of twilight too weak to be called dawn in the allusion of Photius to the erection of a statue to a man who made books of glue. There are some veritable sticklers for the antiquity of the art, who place the erection of this statue to the scarcely more than mythical Phillatius as evidence of the existence of book-binding before the Christian era. These antiquaries are however of the rabid kind, of a trusting nature, and in no wise appalled by the deplorable fate of poor Oldbuck, for here, unlike the Kaim of Kinprunes,' there's nobody to "mind the bigging o't," and an A. D. L. L. may stand for Agricola Dicavit Libens Lubens, fearless of any sacrilegious translation into an "Aiken Drum's Lang Ladle." It is, no doubt, that these same have exerted considerable of that ingenuity no wise remarkable in antiquaries, in misapplying the reference of Photius as to a binder of books, when Phillatius was most probably the first to invent or apply glue to the sticking together of parchment or papyrus to make one continuous roll. This somewhat fallacious Phillatius story we take cum grano salis, 'but our readers are welcome to their own deductions about the glue business, though it would certainly stick in any but a genuine antiquary's capacious swallow to claim the venerable but rather mythical Phillatius as the originator of bookbinding. We should be very happy, though, to adopt him as the Patron Saint of the art, and we would fain treat our readers with his portrait, but, alas! its rarity is beyond unique.*

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* On a des preuves convaincantes que longtems avant la naissance de notre Seigneur les Grecs et les Romains relioient leurs livres avec de la cole. La ville d'Athène erigea une statue à l'auteur de cette invention. Nouv. Traitè de Diplom. vol. III., p. 60, note- Trotz in prim. scrib, orig. p. 608,' being quoted as the authority. But Schwartz is 'most learned' upon the glue theme; quoting Lucian, and proving from Olympiodorus, as referred to by Photius, that a certain Athenian, of the name of Phillatius, was the inventor of making books by means of glue. Disp. II. De Ornamentis Librorum Veterum p. 47. Have the workshops of Messrs. Staggemier, Kalthoeber, Hering, Walther, Lewis, Clarke, &c., &c., busts of this said Phillatius? Or, may we not 'move the previous question '-do busts of the said Phillatius exist?-for to HIM must the homage be paid of being considered as the FATHER OF BOOK-BINDING! When once the leaves were put safely together, the subsequent stages of covering, and ornamenting, &c., seem to have been matters of course. The canoe was made: it floated of its own accord. However, Leo Allatius (and Leo Allatius is an honorable man,' see vol. I, p. XXXII) says

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