CATALOGUE of an Interesting Collection of Miscellaneous English and Foreign Books, chiefly in fine condition, now on sale for ready money, by THOMAS GEORGE STEVENSON, Antiquarian and Historical Bookseller, 87. Prince's Street, Edinburgh. (Second door west of the New Club.)
"Whose shop is well-known, or ought to be so, by all the true lovers of curious little old smoke-dried volumes."—Chambers' Illustrations of the Author of Waverly.
"This shop is now, I believe, the only existing 'cask' in this city which preserves the true ancient Wynkyn de Worde 'odour.'"—Dr. Dibdin's Tour through Scotland, vol. ii. p. 503.
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MILLER'S LONDON LIBRARIAN AND BOOK-BUYER'S GAZETTE: a Monthly List of Valuable SECOND-HAND BOOKS, in all Departments of Ancient and Modern Literature, offered at very low prices for ready money. No. 2. for 1852, ready this day, gratis to Book-buyers.
The Advertiser begs to call attention to his List as the best, the cheapest, and the most expeditious method of obtaining useful and uncommon Works in the various departments of Literature. One Thousand different books are by this means submitted Monthly to the inspection and selection of Librarians, Book Committees, Heads of Literary Institutions, and Book-buyers generally.—Part I. of the Present Number contains History, Biography, Poetry, and the Drama, with Illustrated Books. Part II., an extensive collection relative to Agriculture, Botany, Gardening, Geology, Mineralogy, Conchology, and Fossils, with Natural History generally.
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