Catalogue of the Library of the Late Simeon Henry Remsen, Esq., of New York: With Addenda from Another Collection ... to which are Added the Etchings, Engravings, Original Sketches, Oil Paintings, Etc., of Henri Péne Dubois, Esq., of Brooklyn ... G.A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, Volume 2

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Page 36 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 4 - CONDITIONS OF SALE. I. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold.
Page 216 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Page 4 - Co. will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser.
Page 44 - Plutarch's Lives of illustrious Men. Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by JOHN and WILLIAM LANGHORNE.
Page 4 - Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private Sale, without further notice, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges attending the same.
Page 4 - Pound, or more, in part payment or the whole of the Purchase-Money, if required; in default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.
Page 36 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 157 - Hood's Own; or, Laughter from Year to Year. First Series. Being former runnings of his Comic vein, with an effusion of new blood for general circulation.
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