THE SEMI-ANNUAL TRADE SALE OF BOOKS, STATIONERY, STEREOTYPE PLATES, ETC., WILL COMMENCE MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1880. SPECIAL NOTICE. The attention of the Trade throughout the country is solicited to this important sale, offering a very large variety of popular and salable Books, new and fresh, and regular stock. All of which is to be SOLD BY AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, without any reserve whatever, affording an opportunity to purchase on such favorable terms as cannot be obtained in any other way. TERMS OF SALE.-On all purchases from the whole Catalogue amounting to $1000 and upward, four and six months' credit; on purchases from the whole Catalogue, less than $1000 and more than $300, four months' credit; and on all purchases less than $300, cash without discount. Purchases at Trade Sale.-Parties who cannot attend the sale can have their orders to purchase faithfully executed by the Auctioneers, without expense. IN SENDING ORDERS TO PURCHASE, Give the number of the page in the Catalogue, the name of the Book, the number of each Book wanted, and the outside limit per volume. Where no limits are given, purchases will be made as much below the regular net wholesale price as circumstances may warrant. Orders should be sent in at least four or five days before the sale commences. A personal attendance at the sale is much more desirable. CATALOGUES of this Sale now ready, and may be had on application to the Auctioneers. SPECIAL. Messrs. GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO. beg to announce that on May 1st, next, they will remove their business to the new and elegant building corner Broadway and Eighth Street. SEMI-ANNUAL TRADE SALE OF BOOKS, COMMENCING MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, And continue daily in the order of the Catalogue until all is sold, commencing at 9 A.M. daily. CONTRIBUTORS. The sale will commence on Monday morning, April 5th, with the consignment of Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., comprising a full list of their publications in attractive quantities. Also, full lists of the publications of the following important publishing houses: From Charles Desilver & Sons, Philadelphia, and R. W. Shoppell, Bible House, New York. Special.—The Stereotype Plates will be sold on Thursday, April 8th, at one o clock P.M. VERY IMPORTANT LIBRARY SALE BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. CATALOGUE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. GEORGE BRINLEY, OF HARTFORD, CONN. An extraordinary collection of rare and scarce books, relating to America and American history, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, on MONDAY, MARCH 22, AND FOLLOWING DAYS, At the CLINTON HALL SALE ROOMS, ASTOR PLACE. Two sessions daily, at 31⁄2 o'clock and 71⁄2 o'clock P.M. The books will be on exhibition one week previous to sale. Admission by card only. Catalogues now ready, price one dollar and a half, and may be had on application to the Auctioneers, GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO. NEW BOOKS, To be Published shortly. I. Elementary Treatise on Electrical Batteries. Containing every form of Battery now in use. Translated from the French of A. Niandet. 12mo. II. Very's Naval Armament of the World. Fully illustrated. 8vo, cloth. III. Waldo's Multiplication and Division Table. For facilitating calculations-saving about seventy-five per cent of time, etc. Folio. IV A Cheap Edition or "Ruskin's Modern Painters" Complete with all the Plates. 4 vols., 12mo, $10. V. Chemical Reactions. Being a thorough discussion of Chemical Reactions which occur in the ordinary course of Qualitative Analysis and General Elementary Chemistry. By E. DRESCHEL. Translated and specially adapted for the use of American Students and Teachers, by W. F. MERRILL, Ph.D. 12mo, cloth, $1. VI, A Manual of Cattle Feeding. Containing: The Laws of Animal Nutrition; The Feeding Stuff; The VII. The Stresses in Bridge and Roof VIII. Thermo-Dynamics. A Practical and Theoretical Exposition of Heat and its relation to the Industrial Arts. Designed as a Text-Book for Students, and a Ref erence Book for Engineers, etc. By A. J. Du Bois. 8vo. IX. Resources of South-West Virginia. Illustrated by a fine Topographical, Geological, and Geographical Map, Plates, etc. By C. R. BOYD, M.E., etc. 8vo. RECENTLY PUBLISHED. Hatfield's American House Carpenter. Thoroughly revised, and enlarged. 8vo, cloth, $5. Croft's Qualitative Chemical Analysis. Revised and enlarged, by Prof. CHAS. A. SCHAEFFER, of Cornell University. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. A Text-Book of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery. Prepared for the use of the Cadet Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. By A. P. COOKE, The CHEVALIER WIKOFF, for many years prominent in journalism, travel, and diplomacy, puts forth a volume of the most interesting and piquant reminiscences of his adventurous life. This includes personal anecdotes and curious gossip about many notable people-in America, Aaron Burr, Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Van Buren, the Livingstons, etc.; in Europe, Talleyrand, Louis Philippe, Thiers, Guizot, Napoleon III., the Count d'Orsay, Countess of Blessington, Countess Guiccioli, Lady Bulwer, Joseph Bonaparte, Rothschild, Wellington-and an almost innumerable company besides, in both Hemispheres. Certainly one of the most taking books of memoirs that has been issued for many a day. Com. U. S. N. One thick volume, illustrated by about Or, Bible Study with Pleasure and Profit. By 400 fine cuts. 8vo, cloth. New Edition. Revised and enlarged. $12.50. Stones of Venice: for the use of Travellers while staying in Venice and Verona. By JOHN RUSKIN. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. JOHN WILEY & SONS, 15 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK. GEO. F. PENTECOST, with an introduction by J. H. Vincent, D.D., and an elegant steel portrait of the author. 1 vol., 212 pp., 16m0, cloth, bevelled, $1. JOSEPH COOK says: "In the Volume of the Book' is a production which I read with deep profit. ITS CHAPTERS ARE MOUNTAIN SUMMITS LADEN WITH THE DEW OF HERMON. I wander among them often, and always find refreshment." WARD & DRUMMOND, Successors to U. D. Ward, 116 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. OUR NEW ISSUES, IN BOARD COVERS. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. BY MRS. M. B. C. SLADE, EDITOR OF GOOD TIMES. Containing Dialogues, Speeches, Motion Songs, Tableaux, Charades, Blackboard FOR ALL SEASONS AND OCCASIONS. One volume, 16mo, board covers, 50 cents. SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT BOOK, No. 1, containing 12 Exercises. Board covers, I volume, 16m0, 30 cents. SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT BOOK, No. 2, containing '12 Exercises. 16mo, 30c. SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT BOOK, No. 3, containing our latest Exercises, 16m0, 30 cents. BARKER'S WORLD CHECKER BOOK. One volume, 16mo, board covers, 50 cents. LIBERAL DISCOUNTS TO THE TRADE. ORDERS SOLICITED. HENRY A. YOUNG & CO., G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 182 Fifth Avenue, New York, WILL PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY: CAPTAIN FRACASSE. By THEOPHILE GAUTIER. Translated from the French by E. M. BEAM. Square 16mo, cloth extra and paper. This will form Volume I. of the TRANS-ATLANTIC SERIES OF FOREIGN FICTION. STUDIES OF IRVING. Comprising an Essay by Charles Dudley Warner, the Oration of William Cullen Bryant, and Personal Reminiscences by George P. Putnam. Small octavo, cloth extra, $1. FREE TRADE AND FREE LAND. By the Hon. S. S. Cox. 12mo, cloth extra. JUST PUBLISHED. A UNIQUE VOLUME OF TRAVEL. A FORBIDDEN LAND; or, VOYAGES TO THE COREA. With full description of the manners, customs, history, etc., of a community of some 16,000,000 people hitherto almost entirely unknown. By Ernst Oppert. 8vo, with maps and illustrations, about $3.50. AN IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC WORK. HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN EUROPE. By Jerome Adolphe Blanqui, Member of the Institute and Professor of Political Economy. Translated by Emily J. 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