OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS, INCLUDING THE LIBRARIES OF JAMES, THE SECOND DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY, and the late ALEXANDER GIBSON HUNTER Esq. OF BLACKNESS; CONTAINING ALSO MODERN PUBLICATIONS, as well as MANY ARTICLES OF EXTREME RARITY Which will be SOLD by AUCTION, without Reserve, BY MR JOHN BALLANTYNE, At his Premises, No. 4. PRINCE'S-STREET, EDINBURGH, The Sale to commence each Day at 12 o'clock Noon. EDINBURGH: Printed by D. Willison, Craig's Close. CATALOGUES TO BE HAD AT THE PLACE OF SALE; OF MESSRS ASTOR LIBRARY 1813. * THE Collection of Books in the following Catalogue will be found to exceed, in extent as well as value, that of any other ever brought to sale in Scotland. It includes a considerable number of the best editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, Lexicons, Dictionaries, Voyages, Travels, and Antiquities ;Books of Prints, comprehending some of the finest specimens of the arts;-English and Scottish History, including some articles in black letter, of extreme rarity;-several MSS., in particular the Edda of Snorro, attested to be more perfect than that in the library at Copenhagen; the four editions of Shakespeare, in folio, complete, in the finest condition, and superbly bound;-Homer, Plato, Plutarch, and several others of the editiones principes; two Caxtons ;-besides twenty different articles in the first century of printing. As the whole will be sold without reserve, the curators of public libraries, and collectors of rare and curious books, will find the Catalogue extremely well worthy of their particular attention. GENTLEMEN who are prevented from attending the Sale, may have their commissions faithfully executed, by sending their orders, addressed to the clerk of sale, or to JOHN BALLANTYNE, No. 4, Prince's Street. |
