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money can not but seem important to any one who weighs our 

 means against our wants, and the gain in time gives a longer 

 period of public benefits. 



"This collection contains some of the best works of nearly 

 every engraver of much celebrity. There is one portfolio of 

 the works of Albert Diirer, containing twenty engravings on 

 copper and two on iron, by his own hand, and among them, 

 most of his best and rarest works; about sixty fine copies on 

 copper, including the famous seventeen by Marc Antonio; 

 thirteen different portraits of Diirer, and a large number of 

 wood cuts engraved by him or under his inspection. Another 

 portfolio contains a large collection of the etchings of Rem- 

 brandt, including some of his most beautiful pieces, particu- 

 larly the 'Christ Healing the Sick,' an early and fine impression. 

 There is a portfolio of two hundred engravings and etchings, 

 by Claude Lorraine, Hollar, and Bega; a portfolio of superb 

 portraits by Nanteuil, Wille, Bdelink, and others, among them, 

 a first impression of the 'lyouis XIV in Armor,' by Nanteuil; a 

 portfolio of prints from the old Italian masters, comprising 

 many that are extremely rare ; and another from the old German 

 masters, containing about one hundred prints, many of them 

 scarce and of great beauty. There are besides, five portfolios 

 of sheet engravings, including very choice prints. Among 

 them are thirty-one which are valued by Longhi, at fifteen 

 hundred dollars. 



"Among the galleries and published collections, are the 

 'Musee Royal,' in two volumes folio, proofs before the letter, 

 a superb copy; Denon's 'Monumens des Arts du Dessin,' in 

 four volumes folio, of which only two hundred and fifty copies 

 were published; Baillie's Works, one hundred plates, folio; 

 Thorwaldsen's Works, four volumes, folio; Hogarth's Works, 

 folio, and the German edition in quarto; The Boydell Gallery, 

 two volumes, folio; Boydell's 'Shakspeare Gallery,' a remark- 

 ably good copy, containing many proofs before the letter, 

 numerous etchings and several progressive plates; Claude's 

 'Liber Veritatis,' an original copy, three volumes, folio; 

 The Houghton Gallery, two volumes, folio; Chamberlain's 

 Drawings in the Royal Collection, one volume, folio; Rem- 

 brandt's Drawings, one volume, quarto; Da Vinci's Drawings, 



