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CONDITIONS OF SALE.

Gratis.

I. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the Auctioneer cannot decide the said dispute.

II. No person to advance less than 6d; above five shillings, 18.; above five pounds, 2s. 6d. ; and so on.

III. In the case of lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller.

IV. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and resold.

V. The lots to be taken away at the buyer's expense immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expenses the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON and HODGE will have the option of reselling the lots uncleared either by public or private sale without any notice being given to the defaulter.

VI. All the books are presumed to be perfect unless otherwise expressed; but if upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned.

VII. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix or plates. All the manuscripts, autographs, all magazines and reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The sale of any illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or error of description.

VIII. NO IMPERFECT BOOK will be taken back, unless a note accompanying each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased.

IX. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale.

X. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is sustained in the reselling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.

Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions faithfully
executed by their humble servants,

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE,
Wellington Street, Strand.

EXPLANATORY

FTER a life-long Collector has passed his three score years and fairly entered upon the downhill of Life, it becomes him to pause, and, like the House of Commons, as the close of the Session approaches, scrutinize his docket and throw out

such projects, favourite and otherwise, as are, for various causes, not likely to be brought to maturity; a policy necessary for the success of the rest. In this view the undersigned submits to unreserved competition the first portion of his miscellaneous historical collections as described by himself in the following pages. He has ventured on a somewhat new departure in describing the less known lots with brief collations, names of printers, and in not a few instances, with bibliographical and historical notes, while the better known and more important books are left to stand on their recognized merits to protect themselves. He trusts that this will be so understood, though he confesses that the extended notes are in many cases disproportioned to the value of the lots to which they are attached. They are intended to give a bibliographical flavour to the whole, and if possible to lift the Catalogue out of the common run, hoping that it may be deemed hereafter of some bibliographical use to Librarians, and to Collectors of this class of Books and Manuscripts. The Collections are very miscellaneous, and no attempt has been made to classify them beyond the democratic alphabet, but if the persevering Collector reads to the end he will have noticed nearly all of the great collections of early Voyages and Travels, together with very many of the separate voyages of the earliest English, Dutch, French and Spanish Navigators; books relating to the East and West India

Companies, Dutch and English; the English and French Colonies in North America; Canada, New England, New Netherlands, Pennsylvania and Virginia; Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and other parts of Spanish America; China, Japan, India, Australia, the Philippines, the Moluccas, and the Isles of the Seas; Greenland, Iceland and the Northern Regions generally. Besides these there will be found many uncommon books relating to the early history of America ; the American Revolution; and the war of 1812, all pertaining alike to American and English History; also examples of early printing in America, especially New England, and a great variety of miscellaneous American Literature, political, historical, geographical, genealogical, local and general.

Besides the Americana, mention should be made of the great collections of Early English Black Letter Robin Hood and other Ballads, rivalling in importance and quality, not in number, the famous Roxburgh Collection; the first edition of Chaucer's collected works, 1532, and various others.

Among the Manuscripts particular attention is called to the unrivalled Collection of original autograph Poems of Robert Burns; the collection of transcripts for the Life and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake; the original records of the Trustees in London for the Colony of Georgia; Collections for the History of the Revolution in New England in Governor Andross's time 1688-1690; Papers relating to the progress of the Gospel in New England 1641-1654; the important original Records of the Colony of Virginia, 17521758, including no less than 18 original Autograph Letters of the youthful GEORGE WASHINGTON; Spanish Tracts (69), manuscript and printed (Papeles Varios) mostly relating to America, 1638-1671, believed to have been brought together by Solorzano y Pereyra, author of Politica Indiana and Councillor of the Indies; and lastly Henry Stevens's entire FRANKLIN COLLECTION.

Without further general specification the reader's attention is respectfully invited to the following summary:

LOT

179-194 De Bry's Voyages, Lat. & Germ.
200 & 1395 Vander Donck, 1655 & 1656
202 Sir Francis Drake, MSS.
209 Eguiara, Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1755
227 Fernandez, Hist. del Peru, 1571
239 Original Records of Georgia, MS.
241 Girava, Cosmografia, 1570
242 Giustiniani. Annali di Genoa, 1537
247 Gorges. America painted to the life
255 Hakluyt's Voyages, 1599-1600
262 Heede. Eylant Canaria, 1599
247-282 Hulsius's Voyages, in German
306 La Concepcion. Philipinas, 14 vol.
311 Las Casas, Las Obras, 1552-3