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    A large quantity of books are to be sold by JJ . . moon Moon , or of iCrediton ^ reaiton . a at t Washfo Wasniord rd . on on the the

    27 th inst . , On . the same , date a sale is , to take lace at 36 Portland Place"by Messrs .

    Hampton p & Sons , of 8 and 9 Pall , Mall East . The event par excellence just now is the

    sale proceeding in Messrs . Sotheby ' s Rooms . The books of the Wodhiill collection are

    fetching good prices , although as yet no sensational tional ngure fionires s have have been been reached reanhfirL . The TTia follow fr » 11

    nw-ing are some of the chief books sold during ¦ the first ¦ days i of the ~~~ salewhich bh is roceedin h

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    , , Stevens ) ; ' Alcyonii Medices Legatus de Exsilio , ' from the library of Francis I .,

    1522 , £ 58 ( Quaritch ); 'Apuleii Metamorphosis / first edition ( all faults ) £ 14 . 10 s .

    ( Quaritch ); 'Aretini de Bello Italico , ' 1550 , with another bookbound by Derome

    , , £ 35 . 10 s . ( Quaritch ) ; ' Humanae Salutis Monumenta , ' 1571 , £ 15 . 10 s . ( Westell ); 'Aristoteles

    de Arte Poetica , ' 1548 , from the library of Diane de Poictiers , £ 205 ( Quaritch ) ;

    'Incomnxincia una practica molta bona et utile a ci Tr aschadun iviso , 1478 o chi , the vuole first vxare arithmetic larte de ever labbacho pub , - '

    n lished sned , , a and nd ot of which which only onlv one one other other copy conv is is TAbb known , M £ 40 de ( Q / Marolles uaritcb ) ; ' fine Afchene c * e t ra rom duit liouis par

    . , opy , XIV / s Library , £ 28 ( Molini ); * Augus tinus de Vita Christiana' 1467 £ 31 ( Quaritch )

    i Balbi de Janua , Summa , quse , vocatur Catho- ; licon / 2 vols . in 1 first edition £ 310 ( Quaritch ) .

    This is the fourth , book print ed with a date and a fine copy , bound in russia by Hoger ,

    Payne . This is one of the indubitable productions of Gutenberg ' s press . * Biblia

    gilt Latina by , 'MS Roger . on . vellum Payne , 4 to 80 ., St ( B ec . . F XII . Stevens ., russia ) . ,

    Other , extremely valuabl , e books were sold , of which we purpose making further mention in

    our next .

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    jan . is , 1886 The Publishers' Circular § ,

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    to no The tice Hev the dea John th of Jebb Dr . Jebb D . D . at —We the regret e of oi 81 years vears - he TTr was wa « educated « rliir » aip » fl at n . h Winnhfiat Winchester ag . pr .

    and graduated at Trinity College , Dublin . , Dr . Jebb was the author of ' The Divine

    Cathedral Economy of Service the Church ' 4 The , ' Choral ' Lectures Service on the of

    , the United Church of England and Ireland ' ( 1843 ) , * A Plea for what is left of the

    the Cathedrals Church / ' Universal TheRitual ' , Law 'Th , e and Princi Custom le of of "W-V m . a a _ _ « _ , p

    Ritualism Defended , ' & c . Mr . James FergussokF . R . S . —This

    celebrated scholarhistorian , and critic of architecture , died on , Saturday , , January 0 , at

    the age of 78 . His principal works are ' An Inquiry into the True Princiles of Beauty in

    Art , more especially with reference p to Architecture' and his 'History of Architecture . '

    Many , important pamphlets on art subjects also came from his pen . Regarding the

    ' Inquiry , ' he used to say : ' That was the best book I ever wroteand I onlsold four

    , y cop to ob ies tain of it . ' The book is now very difficult

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    Mr . J . B . Lippincott . —By the death ot Mr . Joshua B . Lippincott the American trade

    Jers member has been . he at Born depri the in ved Burlington of of 14 a very Count apprenticed prominent y ^ New ¦

    v ^/ xoojr ey , , uo a » v uxlkj age <*&* 3 * JX . jl * was WiXia iippicuiiLCU f to a bookseller in Philadelphia , and hi ^ life afterwards proved a remarkable example of

    self-support . His savings enabled him X- to beg % m ^ in business for himself as a p ublisher of

    Bibles and prayer-books in 1839 , and thus the firm of J . B . Lippincott & Co . was founded . (

    A business considerabl by the e pu stimulus rchase in was 1850 give of n the to entire the | ;

    stock of books and stationery belonging to Messrs . Grigg & Elliottthe largest wholesale

    dealers in America . , From that time the business rapidly increased in importance , the

    firm Historical becomin Works g the , ' publishers Lippincott ' of s Pronouncin 'Prescott ' g s ; *

    Gazetteer , ' & c ., besides being the authorised American publishers of many notable English

    works . ] V ([ r . Lippincott had many troubles to contend with , but he overcame them

    successrully fullv swep . . t aw The ay so nnancial financial many strong crisis crisis house o of t l 1 s ooy 85 , * t r , . ie which - d which him ¦' sorelybut he surmounted the difficultyand

    ever aft , erwards made all his purchases in , cash . The civil war robbed him of his great market ,

    which was the South , but he turned immediately to the West , and there built up a

    trade which more than made up for what he had lost . In 1868 some of his partners

    seceded and formed an opposition firm A . unexpectedly . His first move after this was to )

    build the present premises in Market Street . For our information regarding Mr . Lippincott '

    we are indebted to a reprint of a notice from Derby ' s * Fifty Years among AuthorsBooks

    , , and Publishers . ' Through business and lite- ; rary connections Mr . Lippincott was very

    widely known and much estemed in this ___; country as well as in America .

    Pbofessok Sheldon Amos . —Mr . Sheldon Amoswho died at Ramlehnear Alexandria

    on the 3 rd inst ., aged fifty , , was educated at , Clare CollegeCambridgewhereafter gaining

    the Members' , Prize in 1858 , , he took , his degree [ in the year 1859 . On leaving the University

    he devoted himself to the law , and was called to the Bar as a member ¦¦— ¦ of the Inner Temple

    ^^ — ^ ^^ F ^ t *^ fr ^^^^ ^^^ ¦ ^^^ ^^^^ F ^ ¦ ^^ ^ ' ^ ^^^ ^ -- —~ r — m on the 3 lth June , 1862 . Professor Amos was the author of several legal treatises , and for

    his work ' A Systematic View of the Science of Jurisprudence / the Swiney Prize was

    " ^^ " ^^ ^^~ ^^^^ t ^^ lB H ¦ I H ^ ^ ^^^— " — — » ~ " awarded in 1884 . ^^^ Professor . John C . Draper . —Mr . John

    Christopher Draper , M . D ., LL . D ., widely known as a writer upon medical and scientific

    subjects on both sides of the Atlantic , died at his i ^ p ^^ residence % t ¦ » - - ^» 439 ¦ *•¦ Lexing >¦¦— ——¦ ton AvenueNew

    hB ^ * m . - ^ r ~* - »*» fc » ' «~ ii" - ^ , t — — — ' f—y — — , born York v ^«^ \^ ^^ J % ^ b , in rfbd ^ on ^¦¦ iM Virg » December * "— B" ^ inia *^ " ^ ^ ' ^ ^^^ in ^ " ^ ~™ 1835 20 " ^^ , aged . According fifty . y He J to was the '

    PublishersWeekly the first book published by Professor Draper was a text-book on

    anatomy , physiology , and hygiene ( 1865 ) . From 1868 to 1871 he wrote fourteen

    semiscientific articles for the Galaxy . These treated ot of diet diet , dress dress , ventilation ventilation , , and ana so so on on , , and ana one one

    , , p of hag them ism , / called which was Tobaccop an argument hagoi and against Tobacco the - use of tobacco , created a good deal of a stir , [ h

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/11/