And embracing a choice Collection of Works on America, Local Histories, Biogra-
phies, etc., Privately Printed Books and Large Paper Editions;
including, also, many valuable Works on the Fine Arts.

TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION,

ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8th, 1865,

And following evenings,

BY BANGS, MERWIN & CO.,

At their Salesrooms, 694 & 696 Broadway,

COMMENCING EACH EVENING AT 7 O'CLOCK PRECISELY.

NEW YORK:

J. M. BRADSTREET & SON, PRINTERS,

No. 8 SPRUCE STREET.

NOTICE.

THE Books described in the following pages comprise the choice Collection selected by the late Mr. Whitmore during the past five or six years, and although prevented by a painful and protracted illness from continuing as assiduously to gratify his earnest desire, emanating from a genial nature and the most refined tastes, to gather together everything relating to the History of America, and particularly to the Revolutionary War, still his interest did not abate, nor was his enthusiasm less fervent, until within a few weeks previous to his decease.

The Collection is necessarily limited, it having been latterly the aim of Mr. Whitmore to secure only such copies as had been issued in boards, on large paper, &c.

First in order, and for its completeness, may be mentioned his very valuable copy of "Bryan's Dictionary of the Painters and Engravers," 2 volumes royal 4to., large paper, and to illustrate which the owner had collected together nearly 1,000 Portraits of Artists, Engravings of Paintings by the Old Masters, &c., many of them choice and early impressions.

Mr. Whitmore, whose love for the Fine Arts (being the owner, besides, of a fine gallery of Paintings) was only excelled by his fondness for everything connected with American History, took especial interest in forming this unique and almost matchless collection, and besides obtaining a large number of the above prints

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through orders left in this city, many of the engravings were selected with great care and discrimination by him while spending a winter in Europe, a few years since.

While there, he also obtained the greater part of the prints &c., illustrative of "Irving's Life of Washington," his superb set of which can only be equalled in interest and value by the work referred to above.

For this great national work, (a large paper copy,) he had collected, many of which had been inlaid for insertion, over 700 rare and curious plates, consisting of portraits of nearly every prominent personage connected with the American Revolution, Battle Scenes, Views, &c., including over 70 different portraits of Washington.

The above two works cannot be over-estimated, and will repay a careful examination.

Among the works on American History may be enumerated Stith's, Beverly's and Smith's Histories of Virginia, Smith's New Jersey, Garden's Anecdotes, both series, Drayton's, Ramsay's and Gordon's Revolution, Holmes' Annals, Johnson's Life of Greene, Knox and Thacher's Journals, Willett's Narrative, &c., &c.

There are also fine copies of Thomas' Printing, Burr's Trial, Anburey's Travels, &c.

A splendid copy of Rich's Bibliotheca Americana, also enriches the collection.

Of Large Paper and Privately Printed Books, are Bancroft's United States, Writings of Washington, Franklin, Adams, Webster, and Everett, The Croakers, and Journal of De Grasse, issued by the "Bradford Club," nearly a complete set of "Munsell's Historical Series," &c. In this collection is also a copy of the reprint of the Bay Psalm-Book, the excessively rare edition, on heavy paper, of which