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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER.
MR. THOMAS BAKER'S Catalogue 516 contains, as usual, some rare old theological works interspersed with the new. The first item is a fine clean copy of Wilkins's ' Concilia Magnse Britannise et Hiber- nise,' 1737, 28/. A set of The Irish Ecclesiastical fiecord, 1864-1905, is 261.; the 1734 edition of ' Hieronymi Opera Omnia,' 11. 10*. ; a fine copy of the ' Vitte Paparum Avenionensium,' by Baluzius, 101. 10-?. (it will be remembered that he was librarian to Colbert) ; a set of Suarez, 21 vols. in 19, folio, calf, 9/. 10*. ; the Sixtine Bible, thick folio, a fine copy, 10/. 15*. ; and a desirable collection referring to the Oath of Allegiance controversy, 4 vols., 4to, 1611-13, 61. 10s. That beautiful book of Mrs. Meynell's ' Children of the Old Masters,' 4to, is priced 12s. 6rf.
Mr. Barnard, of Tunbridge Wells, sends us Catalogues 15 and 16. The former contains a valuable collection of Antiquarian and Topo- graphical Books. A portion is devoted to Alpine Literature. The latter is more general, but opens with MSS. of the twelfth, fifteenth, and seven- teenth centuries. Among the books is a remarkably fine copy of Lascaris's ' Anthologia Epigrammatum Grsecorum,' first edition, 1494, 101. An edition of the meditations of St. Augustine, so far as Mr. Barnard can trace, unknown to bibliographers (Paris, Jean Trepperel, n.d.), is 21. 12s.; a copy of the first edition of Sir Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia,' wanting title and five leaves in all, 45. ; first edition of George Herbert's remains, 1652, 4. 4s.; and a fine copy of Bossewell's ' Heraldry,' 1572, 31. 10s.
Mr. James G. Commin, of Exeter, sends his Catalogxie 236. Under America are Trevelyan's 'American Revolution,' 3 vols., 1899, 18s.; and Basil Hall's ' Forty Etchings,' 1827-8, 18s. 6s. The four volumes by Besant on London are 18s. 6d. Under Bibliography is Smith's ' Tracts, Pamphlets, and Prints,' 4*. Qd.; and under Costumes, Guillau- mot's ' French Revolution,' sixty - nine etchings, 3Z. 10s. A list under Devon includes ' Monasticon Dicecesis Exoniensis,' folio, 1846-89, 21. 2s. This contains the rare additional supplement. Under Dickens is ' Sketches by Boz,' first edition, 21. 10s. Among other items are Allen's ' Cathedrals of the World,' 2 vols., folio, 21. 10s. Lytton's Works, 26 vols., 8vo, half-morocco, 6f. 15s. The " Abbots- ford Edition " of Scott, 48 vols., 12mo, 1860, 6f. 6s.; ' The Universal British Directory,' 9 vols., half- calf, rare, 1790, 51. 5s. The Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1891, 31. 10s.; and 'Mrs. Perkins's Ball,' first edition, 11. 12s. 6d.
Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol, devote their Catalogue 301 to Topography, Family History, and Heraldry. There are over seventeen hundred items, and each has some special interest. The division into counties makes reference easy. Of course London specially appeals to us, and under this we find Charters, Ceremonials, Maps, and Directories. Among the last is ' A New Complete Guide to all Persons who have Trade or Concern,' 1772, 5-9. Black-letter Acts can be obtained for the small sum of 2s. each. These include one for enabling proprietors of houses in Red Lion Square to adorn the square, 1737 ; and others for regulating the nightly watches and " Bedles " within St. Paul's, Coven t Garden, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the City of London ; for building a bridge across the Thames from New Palace Yard, 1737, &c.
Mr. John Hitchman, sends from Birmingham'
List 457. The items include Bowdler Sharpe, See-
Dohm, Gadow, and Sclater's ' Birds in the British,
Museum,' 15 vols., 251. (many of the volumes are
out of print and very scarce) ; Dickens, Library
Edition, 30 vols., in the original green cloth, 112. lls. ;:
i sumptuous set of Strickland s ' Queens of Eng-
land,' 8 vols., tree calf, 11. 10s. ; an extra-illustrated
copy of Boaden's 'Life of Mrs. Jordan,' 2 vols.,.
bound in full morocco, 1831, 6f. 15s. ; Bryan's ' Dic-
tionary of Painters,' 2 vols., 1902, 11. 15s. ; Froude's^
' Short Studies,' 4 vols., half-russia, 18s. 6d. ; Feret's-
' Fulham,' 15s. 6d. ; first edition of Leigh Hunt's-
' Old Court Suburb,' 2 vols., 1855, 11. 5s. ; Boaden's
' Life of John Kemble,' extra-illustrated by 200 rare-
engravings, 1825, 2 vols. , full morocco, dl. 9s. ; first
edition of George Meredith's ' Modern Love,' 1862,,
11. 12s. 6d.; Blanchard Jerrold's 'Napoleon III.,'
4 vols., 21. 2s. ; Campbell's ' Life of Mrs. Siddons,' 110 extra portraits, 2 vols., red morocco, 1834,. 11. 15s. ; and Motley's Works, Library Edition, 9 vols., SI. 8s.
Mr. John Jeffery's List 112 contains Harrison's- 'Proceedings relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea,' 1765, 11. Is. Under Printing is a Caslon specimen, 10s. 6d. ; and under Russia ' Scripture Lessons for Schools on the British System,' adopted in Russia by order of Alex- ander I., 1820, 2s. Among pamphlets is 'A Serious Inquiry into that Weighty Case of Conscience, whether a Man may lawfully marry his Deceased Wife's Sister,' 4to, 1703, 5s. There are a number of documents, one being a Chancery deed from Richard Cromwell to Isaac Legay, apparently signed by Speaker Lenthall, vellum, with seal, 1658, 31. 3s.
Messrs. George T. Juckes & Co., of Birmingham,, send List 183. This opens with that scarce work by Hewitson and Saunders on ' Exotic Butterflies,'
5 vols., 4to, Van Voorst, 22^. A large scrap album of scarce early copperplate engravings is 51. 5s.; and a complete set or The Yellmv Book, 13 vols., 21. 10s. A collection of 200 volumes of Blue-Books is priced 4. 4s. The cost of these was- 211. The handsome edition of ' The Compleat Angler,' so carefully edited by R. B. Marston, is offered at the low price of 11. 10s.; only a few copies- remaining for sale. Other items, include Ruskin's
' Poems,' 2 vols., 4to, half-vellum, 1891, 20s.; a cheap' set of the Waverley novels, Cadell, 1829-33, 48 vols.,. If. 18s. 6d.; and Milton's 'Poetical Works,' with life by Todd, 7 vols., 8vo, magnificently bound in half-calf, 1809, 21. 2s. There is a long list under Medical, and Messrs. Juckes make a special offer of Essex House publications.
Messrs. Lupton Brothers, of Burnley, have in* Catalogue 95 first editions of Dickens and of other writers. The latter include Darwin's ' Descent of Man,' 18s. ; 'The Variation of Animals,' 11. Is.;. ' Adam Bede,' 21. 15s. ; ' Mill on the Floss, 11. 2s. 6rf. ; : Marryat's 'Poor Jack,' 11. 5s.; R. L. Stevenson's. ' Vailima Letters,' 10s. 6d. ; and Swinburne's ' Chastelard,' 11. 5s. Under Hamerton are ' Etching and Etchers,' second edition, 11. Us. 6d. ; ' Imagina- tion in Landscape Painting,' 11. 10s.; and 'Land- scape,' 31. Under Art and Artists are Redgrave's ' Century of Painters,' 11. 10s. ; Waring's 'Indus- trial Art,' If. 15s. ; and Thorn bury's ' Life of Turner,' 7s. 6d. Works on Lancashire include Whitaker's ' History of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe,' 1818,. 61. There are lists under Botany and Economics.
