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May 15, i88e The Publishers' Circular 49...
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America have been collected in a volume soon to be published by Messrs . HoughtonMifflin ,
& Co _ j . Boston tt ~ w ¦ . The mi book ^ i wil i | l be , named . % ( Democracy , and -- Other Addresses --- / It will - -
m J ^^ t ain + ^ m ^ ^^ - ^— — besides t ^ w j - , ^ other ^ — - - — — e rs — - — — — those it , _— - on -- r ' De T ~\ . - mocracy con - , , ' ' dDean a Stanley M pap M , B' ' Garfield , « OBI *«/ ' Field A -A , ^^— . *^ . ^* ^ ^^ ^
ing , ' ' Don Quixote , ' and ' Books and Reading . ' Messrs . Applet on and Co . New Yorkwill
soon publish ' Songs and , Ballads of , the rw Southern — Peop ± le , ' collected and edited by
Frank Moore ; * The Rear-Guard of the Revolution , ' by bv Edmund Kirke JbLammona Hammond ; ' Tales and of
Eccenrevised trie frffi Li Liitfee and ., ' by enlarged Dr L > v . . W w . . a A edition . . of the , , and ' Memoirs a a new new of General W . T . Sherman' in 2 vols . enriched
v — — , , with maps and portraits . Messrs . Henry Holt & Co . ' s new
publications will include 'A Cyclopaedia of Greek and Latin Literature , ' by Thomas Sergeant
con Perry sist ; and of a * The numb Romance er of - of and the -ink Moon draw , - ' g pen
ings , by J . A . Mitchell , editor of Life . A work of public utilitynot confined to
the legal profession JL . , is ' , Mr . Frederic J . Stimson ' s ' American Statute Law' about to
be issued by Charles C . Soule , Boston , . It is a comparison and statement of the laws of all
the States on all subjects pertaining to personsand property .
Mr . W . H . Bishop , author of < The House of a Merchant Prince' begins his new serial
story , ' The Golden Justice , / in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly .
Messrs . Harper & Bros , forthcoming new publications include Richard J . Cleveland's
j Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises , ' a work a quarter of a century old , now
land edited ; ' b Economics y the author for ' s the son , Peop H . le W . ' by S . Cleve R . R - .
mt WB , Abba Bowker bi ^ Goold ; ' George ^^ . a Woolson Eliot * . ^ "ft a ; and ' Barbara ^ her w Heroines ^ b ^ ' s Vagaries A , ' b , y
b y no Mrs vel . Lucy by Mrs / C . . Lillie L . B . (\ ' Tidball Harper , 's * Young Rolf House People , '
- Series and Wife ' ) ; and a of ' Washington Mary and Martha , ' by , Benson the _» Mother J . J .
Lossing—an elaborately illustrated work . A volume of ' Consular Reminiscences '
by G . Henry Horstmann , late United States , Consul at Munich and at Nurembergwill be
published shortly by Messrs . J . B . Li , ppincott & Co . Philadelphia . The same firm have in
press a , work on short j , -hand , by W . H . Barlow , entitled * Normal . Phonography '; ' Marion ' s
b Faith y Captain , ' a Sequel Charles to < The King Colonel ; ' Rig ' s ht Daughter Lifeor /
Candid a work on Talk the s , ' ' Diseases by Rev . of Dr the . J . Mouth E . Seisa Throat ; , and
and Nose , ' including rhinoscopy , and the , methods of local treatmentfor practitioners
a nd R . tuden H . Blaikie ts , by Dr M . Phili D p Schech , , translated y , ..
Spark Fort s' y years thorised have editi elapsed on of the since work Jared s of
now Benjamin found Franklin not to be nearl published , and lete . that The is y comp
late Henry Stevens' collection alone contained some 2 , 938 documents , of which 2 , 310 have
frrr never . been printed . It is proposed to enrich
the projected edition with such of the unpublished material as shall be found to be of
permanent The issue will historical also contai or n litera the correct ry importance unmuti . -
to lated ¦ » — ¦ - be " - ^ ^ printed ¦ y version - ^ ^ m ^ w - ^ p * ¦ - ^ from of -v ^ - . ab Franklin . ^^ the v mm . ^^ autograp ^* V ** " ' s «/ % ' * Autobiograp ^ - ^ v *^^ h , * v ^ manus ^ j < I ¦ 'M ** ^ mw ^ cript v ^ h s y 9 ~* , '
now in that the the editor manuscri ' s possession t had been . It lost would siht appear pg
of of ; 1816 for , wit upon h it a it careful is found collation that no of the fewer editi than on , ffmade
that l 1 ., 200 JUu some alterations alterations of the later or of the hh pages . * text tme , of wp were the . r « mad biograp e , , and and hy were left out altogether . The present edition
has Bigelow been . prepared It is in ten for volumes press octav by Mr oand . John the
edition will be limited to 600 sets . , Messrs . Putnam ' s Sons will issue it both in New York
and in London . New books to be published shortly •/ by « r the same firm ar © ' A History «/ of
F Administration rance m «» i » m under « m k v * Mazarin «^ of r- » Richelieu « to v « v , with « k i « / a b Sketch v John >« bb » of Breck bb «» the tibmh ^^^^ *^^^^ ^ ^^* j *^ p ^^^« v «* ^ ¦¦ . ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ «^ ^^ ^ ^^ ' ^ r ^^ y ^>^ ^^ ^ p ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^
Perkins traits , ' , The in two Political volumes History , octavo of , Canada with , por ' by
-Goldwin Smith ; and ' History of the United b States y Prof , . from Alexander 1840 down Johnston to the . They close hav of 1885 e also , '
in preparation a series to be entitled the ' Boys' and Girls * Library of American
Biograp announced nnnmiTi hies , ' in : ' which Robert T ? rVh « rf . the Fulton T ?* nlt following , rvn and a . nc \ volumes the f . Tift History TTia + are . rtrv
of * Abraham 4 b - Steam V Navi Lincoln gation / , by ' by Noah Thomas Brooks Bfc ¦ W ¦« - »¦ . Knox ; and ;
^^ B > "I ~ ~ T »* fc ^ Bl ^^^ % ^ ^«^ ^ B >^^ m T *^ _ J ^"" " ^ " *^^ ™ ^— " ^~ - — —^ r »^ v « mr ^— <^ — v ' George Washington / by Edward Everett Hale .
May 15, I88e The Publishers' Circular 49...
May 15 , i 88 e The Publishers' Circular 495
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The Hartley Sale . —Immediately after the publication of our last numberMessrs .
Puttick & Simpson commenced the sal , e of the Pk second ^ ^ r - ^^ v- ' -av ^ ^ r ^ portion ¦>» ' ^^ Jb > «^^ '"^ iab ^ of ^—^ ^ this v ^ B >^ aa ^ library ^ <¦ x- ^ - ¦» -- *• ^^ ¦ w . > The >* ^ bm > -w prices k . ^ - ^ m ^ m w - ^ v ¦ - »» ob ¦*—^ r- ^ - -
tained have—except in a few instances , which , at — every salef always occurs—been eminently
satisfactory ml . , We hav «/ e given full accounts of the more curious and rare books , and have
now only to add the prices at which they were sold . The following are some of them : —
p Turner lates ' s with ' Views the in etchings England ( and and Wales unfinished / 72
proofs , ) , including the etching of the Straits of . Dover — of which it is said only three copies
lecti were on , ever of 565 taken drawings off , £ & relating 5 ( Quaritch «/ to Warwick ) ; a col . - -
Asia shire , ' parts £ 225 1 ( - Quaritch 25 £ 4 t 0 ) ; ( Sotheran Gould's ) ; ' Birds Palmer of ' s
' Index , to the . ^ k Times a # «« 4 , a ' 1858 ^ ^^* —¦ ^ . ^^ to _ 1883 *¦ ^ b ^ ^ i ^ h ^^^ £ ^^ 26 ^*^ h ^^ k ( Miller)—this was too cheap , ; a set in a , recent
catalogue of a London bookseller was marked nomical £ 52 ; * Monthl Society y ' Notices 40 vols of . the £ 23 Royal ( Sotheran Astro ) - .
The rarity raritv set or of which which of the we we , London have have co commented Gazette , mmented , upon , brough brougnt the t
£ 150 ( Quaritch , ) ; 25 vols . and 6 tracts , published by Philobiblon Society £ 75 ( Quaritch ) .
¦ The 2 JP ) QT ^ Bl pp BJ ^^ W f . W catalogue ! . ¦» A ^^ . very ^^^ ^^ » interesting ^^ of ^^ ^^ ^» ~^ i ^ this ^ b ^ ^^ ¦¦ r ^^ ^ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ lot B * . ^ collection ^ ¦ ^^ occup , ™ ^^ ~^» " " ^ " - —^ ^^^ ^^ ies ^»^ ¦— ' of ' ~ nearl tracts —^ ^ " — " ^^ . ^^ y F ^^ p-
f se ~ ormed — v - e - ^ r — al — — - — of — •— - by great J - Lord interest Som and ers , rarity and , m printed Jl containing in
to America consider , £ 61 among ( Sotheran one of ) . the Thia cheap we venture ' lots ; - ^^
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1886, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051886/page/13/
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