Just published, in 8vo., price 25s. half-bound,
HAYDN'S BOOK OF DIGNITIES: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, Military, Naval, and Municipal, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time; compiled chiefly from the Records of the Public Offices. Together with the Sovereigns of Europe, from the Foundation of their respective States; the Peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other Lists.
"It is impossible to speak too highly of this stupendous repository of historical information."—John Bull.
"We should find it difficult to speak too highly of a vast labour of this kind, so useful in the benefits it extends to others, so modest in the praise it challenges for itself."—Examiner.
"It is difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of a compilation like this. To all public and official men, and to others engaged in various branches of historical research, it will be a book of constant reference."—Morning Post.
"The 'Book of Dignities' will become a necessary volume in all public offices, and will be found in most libraries a valuable book of reference, in affording information of a kind not elsewhere collected together, while it may be relied on as recent and authentic."—Literary Gazette.
London: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMANS.
Valuable and Curious Library of the late Edward Drummond Hay, Esq.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, December 22d., 1851, and following Day, at 1 o'Clock precisely, a very Valuable Collection of Books, including the Second Portion of the Library of the late Edward Drummond Hay, Esq., comprising numerous Rare and Curious Articles in Theological and Historical Literature, Works relating to the early History of America, curious Voyages and Travels, Old Poetry, &c., and containing, among others of importance, Capt. (John) Davis's Worldes Hydrographical Description, 1595, containing his Three Voyages to the Northern Ocean, the Presentation Copy to Prince Henry, with Autograph Note of the Writer; De Bry's Voyages, Three Parts, 1590-2, the Plates finished in Gold and Silver, for the purpose of Presentation; a large Copy of T. Coryate's Crudities, 1611, with his Crambe and Odcombian Banquet: Rare Pieces, by Nicolas Breton, Tom Nash, John Heywood, Geo. Whetstone, &c. Also, Copies of King Edward VI.'s (1549 and 1552) and Queen Elizabeth's Editions of the Prayer-Book, 1559; with other Interesting Books in Black Letter. Sets of the Historical Society and the Parker Society Publications, &c.
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