'T. H. Price has received instructions to sell the valuable library of the Rev. S. Bromley by public auction'. The advertisement for the sale states the books have been 'selected with the refined taste and critical acumen of a man of letters, are in excellent condition, and comprise standard editions of the classics, the works of eminent divines, treatises on history, biographical sketches, poetry, dissertations and disquisitions on philosophical and scientific subjects, and various productions of his own pen, chiefly in manuscript. The collection contains about 300 volumes.'