Excerpt from Catalogue, Auction Sale of Paintings, Collection of Saml. P. Avery: Thursday Evening, May 5, 1870, at Half-Past Seven O'clock, at the Somerville Art Gallery, 82 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 14th Street<br><br>This collection is not the largest or the most valuable ever exhibited in this city, but will embrace about eighty excellent subjects by some of the most esteemed painters of our Home and Foreign Schools and which, if they are not all the best or most important productions of their respective mas ters, do in some measure well represent their peculiar styles. Included among them are eighteen works painted for a Collector of Brooklyn, which if not among the last of the artists' doings, some may rank among their best, and several have received recent retouching by them. These have just been pur chased by me, and I may remark that the entire collection is bond fide my property.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.