Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Hon. Ezra Wilkinson ... Including a Vary Rare Collection of the Statute Laws of Massachusetts ...: To be Sold by Auction ... Sept. 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d, 1882, in the Library Salesroom ... Boston ... Sullivan Brothers & Libbie, Auctioneers

This auction catalogue records the dispersal of the personal library of Ezra Wilkinson, a prominent Massachusetts judge who served on the Superior Court. Published in 1882 by the Boston firm Sullivan Brothers & Libbie, the volume serves as a detailed inventory of the legal texts, historical documents, and general literature Wilkinson curated throughout his professional life. The catalogue is particularly noted by bibliographers for documenting a comprehensive and rare collection of early Massachusetts statute laws, which drew significant interest from legal historians and institutional collectors at the time of the sale.

The document reflects the common nineteenth-century practice of liquidating high-profile private libraries through specialized auction houses. Sullivan Brothers & Libbie operated as a central hub for the Boston book trade, and their catalogues were designed to provide potential buyers with accurate descriptions of condition and content. By listing the contents over a four-day auction period, the catalogue provides a snapshot of the intellectual interests of the American judiciary in the late Victorian era and remains a reference point for provenance research regarding the specific titles Wilkinson owned.