VALUABLE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JAMES BROWN.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneer of Literary Property and Works Illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on FRIDAY, December 20, 1850, and following day, at One o'clock precisely, the VALUABLE LIBRARY of the late JAMES BROWN, Esq., for many years a Clerk in the General Post Office, comprising Comte Lamberg, Collection des Vases Grecs, expliquée et publiée par La Borde, 2 vols., a beautiful and interesting work; La Borde, Voyage Pittoresque en Autriche, 3 vols., plates finely coloured; La Borde, Descripcion de un Pavimento de Mosayco, with coloured plates; the Fine Picturesque Works of Coney, Neale, Haghe, Lawis, Müller, Nash, and Wilkie, all fine and picked sets, complete; an Interesting Collection of Illustrious and Noble Foreigners, arranged in 5 vols.; Genealogical Illustrations of the Ancient Family of Gruee, a splendid Heraldic Manuscript, written by P. Absalom, Esq.; Dugdale, History of St. Paul's, fine copy, illustrated with extra portraits; Illustrations of the Noble family of Howard, finely emblazoned by P. Absalom, illustrated with upwards of seventy scarce portraits of the family; Lysons, Magna Britannia, 8 vols. in 9; Equestrian Portraits of the Family of Nassau and Orange, the Fine Work on Early German Stained Glass, published by Weale; Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary, 32 vols. half russia; Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Persons, 12 vols.; Neale. Views of the Seats in Great Britain; Sir W. Scott, Novels and Tales, 25 vols., fine copy, in calf, marbled leaves; Shaw, General Zoology, coloured plates, 30 vols.
To be viewed two days prior, and Catalogues had; if in the Country, on receipt of Six Postage Stamps.
MR. DOYLE'S CHRISTMAS BOOK.
THE STORY OF JACK AND THE GIANTS.
With Forty Illustrations by RICHARD DOYLE. Engraved by G. and E. DALZIEL. Small 4to., price 2s. 6d. ornamental wrapper; 3s. 6d. cloth; coloured, gilt edges, 6s.
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