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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.
THE new Catj'logue of Mr. Fehrenbach of Shef- field contains Tyndale's New Testament, 1536 ; St. Augustine's 'City of God,' 1479, with large hand-painted initials ; Sir Wm. Davenant's Works, 1673 ; Langham's. ' Garden of Health,' 1579 ; Parkinson's ' Herbal,' 1640 ; Matthew's Bible, 1537 ; Cavendish's ' Life of Wolsey,' 1641 ; Astronomical Association Journals and Psychical Society Proceedings ; several Chapbooks and Cruikshank items ; two rare works by Erasmus in English ; and a number of miscellaneous works.
MESSRS. GEORGE'S SONS of Bristol devote their Library Supply List 328 to 'Asia.' This describes some two thousand volumes, largely illustrating the history of the British in India and the Further East. There are some attractive works both on our possessions and on other parts of Asia. Books in English predominate, and there is but little philology.
MESSRS. GEORGE'S List 329 contains chiefly nineteenth-century books. There are sections devoted to ' Art ' and ' Sporting,' besides many works on foreign travel. We notice a nice set of Du Cange, 8 yols., 12Z. 12s. ; and 95 vols. of the Chetham Society for 61. 15s.
IN Messrs. Gilbert & Son's Catalogue 38 we noted the following items as interesting : Reclus's ' Universal Geography,' edited by E. G. Raven- stein, 14 vols., 1Z. 5s. ; Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion,' with portraits and plates, 6 vols., 1732, 18s. 6d. ; Morris's ' History of British Birds,' fourth edition, with 394 plates coloured by hand, 6 vols., 1895, 3l.ls.6d.; Leigh Hunt's 'Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla,' first edition, with illus- trations by Richard Doyle, 1848, 12s. 6d. ; an early edition, uncut, with all Rowlandson's plates, of the ' Tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the Picturesque,' 1817, 11. 10s. ; and a first edition of Anthony Trollope's ' He Knew He was Right,' 1869.
MESSRS. CHARLES HIGHAM & SON'S Catalogue 506 includes their purchases at the recent sale of Dr. Jessopp's library, as well as from the library of the late Judge Willis. We are desired to correct an error on the title-page : the edition of Austin's ' Devotions ' which they offer is not the first, but, as is stated on p. 31, the second also rare : 1672, II. Is. They have John Henry Shorthouse's bound volume of The Si. John's, Ladywood, Parish Magazine from May, 1870, to December, 1871 edited by him as . a note affirms written by his hand on the fly-leaf, and containing articles contributed by him, 3Z. 13s. 6d. We note also Cornelius a Lapides's ' Commentaria in Scripturam Sanctam,' 21 vols., 1859, 21. 10s. ; the Graduale Sariburiense a reproduction in facsimile of a MS. of the thirteenth century, pre- pared for the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society by the Rev. W. H. Frere 1894, 21. 10s., together with six other publications of the Society ; and the ' Survey of Eastern Palestine,' by Lieut.-Col. Conder, published by the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1889, II. 12s. 6d., as well as Church Histories, reference books, and many new books on Theology.
THE most interesting items in Catalogue 171
sent to us by Mr. W. M. Murphy of Liverpool are
a complete set of " Pickering's Original Aldine
Edition" of the works of English poets from
Chaucer to Burns, 53 vols., some uncut, 1830-52,
30Z. ; ' The Annual Register ' from 1758 to 1856,
99 vols., 10Z. 10s. ; Butler's ' Hudibras,' with
portrait and the Hogarth plates, 2 vols., 1799,
21. 5s. ; Anne Pratt's ' Botany,' 6 vols., 21. 4.s. ;
Parkinson's herbal ' Theatruin Botanicum,' 1640,
4Z. 10s. ; a first edition of Fuller's ' Worthies,'
1602, 4Z. 10s. ; Rosellini's ' Monumenti dell'
Egitto e della Nubia, disegnate dalla Spedizione
Scientifico-Letteraria Toscana in Egitto,' 12 vols.
(3 elephant folio of plates, and 9 roy. 8vo of
text), 1832-44, 10Z. 10s. ; and Prof. Mahaffy's
edition of Duruy's ' History of Rome,' 1883,
4Z. 17s. 6d.
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