Just published, in 8vo., price 25_s._ half-bound,
HAYDN'S BOOK OF DIGNITIES: Containing Rolls of the Official
Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial,
Military, Naval, and Municipal, from the Earliest Periods to the
Present Time; compiled chiefly from the Records of the Public
Offices. Together with the Sovereigns of Europe, from the
Foundation of their respective States; the Peerage of England and
of Great Britain; and numerous other Lists.
"It is impossible to speak too highly of this stupendous
repository of historical information."--_John Bull._
"We should find it difficult to speak too highly of a vast labour
of this kind, so useful in the benefits it extends to others, so
modest in the praise it challenges for itself."--_Examiner._
"It is difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of a compilation
like this. To all public and official men, and to others engaged
in various branches of historical research, it will be a book of
constant reference."--_Morning Post._
"The 'Book of Dignities' will become a necessary volume in all
public offices, and will be found in most libraries a valuable
book of reference, in affording information of a kind not
elsewhere collected together, while it may be relied on as recent
and authentic."--_Literary Gazette._
London: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMANS.
Valuable and Curious Library of the late Edward Drummond Hay, Esq.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary
Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by
AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY,
December 22d., 1851, and following Day, at 1 o'Clock precisely, a
very Valuable Collection of Books, including the Second Portion of
the Library of the late Edward Drummond Hay, Esq., comprising
numerous Rare and Curious Articles in Theological and Historical
Literature, Works relating to the early History of America,
curious Voyages and Travels, Old Poetry, &c., and containing,
among others of importance, Capt. (John) Davis's Worldes
Hydrographical Description, 1595, containing his Three Voyages to
the Northern Ocean, the Presentation Copy to Prince Henry, with
Autograph Note of the Writer; De Bry's Voyages, Three Parts,
1590-2, the Plates finished in Gold and Silver, for the purpose of
Presentation; a large Copy of T. Coryate's Crudities, 1611, with
his Crambe and Odcombian Banquet: Rare Pieces, by Nicolas Breton,
Tom Nash, John Heywood, Geo. Whetstone, &c. Also, Copies of King
Edward VI.'s (1549 and 1552) and Queen Elizabeth's Editions of the
Prayer-Book, 1559; with other Interesting Books in Black Letter.
Sets of the Historical Society and the Parker Society
Publications, &c.