RARE AND VALUABLE OLD BOOKS. 



I have for sale the following scarce and 

 valuable standard works : 



St. Augustine's Dei Civitate, I vol. folio, 

 half calf, black letter. Venice, A. D., 1485. 

 A beautiful specimen of early printing. 



Boethius' Consolatione de Philosophise. 1 

 vol. small quarto, half calf, black letter. Paris, 

 A. D. 15 13. With autograph of Thomas 

 Hearne, the celebrated antiquarian, and curi- 

 ous marginal notes in manuscript. 



Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. I vol. 

 folio, calf, gilt. London, 1676. A fine copy 

 of the celebrated work. 



Goad's Aphorisms. 1 vol. folio, old calf. 

 London, 1653. A work on Astronomy, As- 

 trology, Meteorology, etc., containing much 

 curious information in regard to the weather, 

 storms, floods, famines, etc., in past ages. 



Lucian's Works, literally translated. 4 vols. 

 12 mo., old calf. London, 1725. 



Horace, literally translated. 1 vol. 12 mo., 

 old calf. London, 1750. 



Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature. 6 vols, 

 octavo, full calf. London, 18 to. An inter- 

 esting compendium of early English literature. 



Hogarth's Works, by Ireland. 3 vols, oc- 

 tavo, calf, gilt. London. 



Pritchard's History of the Infusoria. I 

 vol. thick octavo, half morocco and silk. 

 London, 1864. Forty plates with many hun- 

 dred figures, beautifully colored to nature. 



Say's Entomology, Volume I. 1 vol. octavo, 

 half red morocco. Fine plates beautifully 

 colored by hand. 



Van der Hoeven's Hand-book of Zoology. 2 

 vols, thick octavo, cloth. London, 1865. 

 Fine steel plates. 



Buckland's Geology and Paleontology, 2 

 vol. octavo, fine calf, gilt. Fine plates. London, 

 1836. Splendid copy of this standard work. 



Harris' Insects injurious to Vegetation. 1 

 vol. octavo, cloth. Boston. Original edition 

 with the fine colored plates. 



Dibdin's Biblographical and Antiquarian 

 Tour in France and Germany. Fine plates. 

 3 vols, octavo, green calf, marbled edges. 

 London, 1829. 



Dibdin's Library Companion. 1 vol. thick 

 octavo, full, tree calf. London, 1825. 



Jameson's Bertrand du Guescelin. A His- 

 tory of the Fourteenth Century. 2 vols, oc- 

 tavo, cloth. Charleston, S. C. A beautiful 

 specimen of printing and the only book pub- 

 lished in the "Confederate States of America." 



Sharpe's History of Egypt. 2 vols, octavo, 

 fine polished calf, gilt. Many curious engrav- 

 ings. London, 1859. 



Holbein's Dance of Death. 1 vol. Cr. oc- 

 tavo, full calf gilt. Contains all the original 

 cuts and many curious engravings besides. 

 London, 1858. 

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ADMISSION EXAMINATIONS 



At Cincinnati anil Clicap, 1819. 



Examinations for admission to Harvard College (pre- 

 liminary and entire), the Lawrenee Scientific School, 

 the Medical School and the Law School, will be held in 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Chicago, Illinois, on Jnne 26, 

 27 and 28, beginning at 8 a. m. on June 26. 



'1 hese examinations, which are identical with those 

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