Curious Books and MSS. Four Days' Sale.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, January 18, and two following days, a large collection of RARE, CURIOUS, and INTERESTING BOOKS, on Astrology, Witchcraft, Magic; the History of America, the East and West Indies, and of England, Ireland, and France; Curious Works on Quakerism, Controversial Theology, and in General Literature; History, Philology, Bibliography, Voyages, and Travels, &c.; also a few Manuscripts, including Bywater's Account of the Cutlers' Company, containing many curious entries; the Original Drawings of Carter's Ancient Architecture; a complete and early copy of Chalon's Etchings from Rembrandt, &c.
Catalogues may be had.
Library and MSS. of the late EARL of MACARTNEY.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 91. Piccadilly, on TUESDAY, January 24, 1854, and following Days, the Important LIBRARY and MSS. of the late GEORGE, EARL of MACARTNEY, Ambassador to China in 1792, &c. The MSS. comprise Heraldic Visitations for many English Counties; the MS. of Hobbes's Leviathan, presented by the Author to Charles II.; Volumes of Superb Oriental and other Drawings; Original MSS. of Bishop Atterbury; State Papers of Sir George Downing, &c.
Catalogues may now be had of MESSRS. PARKER, Oxford; DEIGHTON, Cambridge; LANGBRIDGE, Birmingham; HODGES & SMITH, Dublin; HYNDMAN, Belfast; BLACKWOOD, Edinburgh; and of the Auctioneers.
Printed by Thomas Clark Shaw, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published by George Bell, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, January 14, 1854.