A Big Book Sale.
One of the most extensive and varied private libraries that has ever been offered at auction in Dunedin will be sold by Messrs J. A. Park and Co. at their rooms on Saturday and Monday next. The collection is the property of an old Otago resident, and has evidenily been many years in forming. It now comprises over 2000 . volumes, for the most part solidly and handsomely bound, and it covers of courst a wide field of reading. The departments most liberally furnished are the theological, spiritualistic, legal, and medical, each of which contains a numerous and representative as-
sortment of works by the best oat^s^ but there are several other respects m ne collection is unique. There > are for^anee, no fewer than eight encyclopedias, all xnass^ the old and rare books, too, _ there are several of peculiar historical ****** Otagans,and these will, no doubt, P™yokekeen competition in the bidding. These are the Otago Journal (1848 to 1852 complete), the Otago News (1848 to 1850), the Otago Witness (1854 to 1862), and the short-lived Dunedin Funcn (1865 to 1868). In glancing over the lastnamed volume it is certainly amazing and a little humiliating to notice the excellent artistio work that could be offered to the public here 20 years ago — works certainly better than anything in its line that is done in New Zealand to-day. Another noteworthy feature in the collection is some volumes of tha most valuable engravings, including the complete illustrations of the Waverley Novels, produced under the auspices of the Society for Promoting the Fine Arts in Scotland, several series of beautiful landscape engravings, cartoons from London Punch most handsomely got up, and many splendidly-illustrated miscellaneous works. The whole library is now on view w Messrs Park's rooms, and is dangerously tempting to the book-buyer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1813, 20 August 1886, Page 13
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301A Big Book Sale. Otago Witness, Issue 1813, 20 August 1886, Page 13
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