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12mo, first edition, new morocco extra, John Windet, 1585, is priced 41. 4s. Mr. Smith states that only three copies are known, one of which is in the British Museum.

Mr. Sutton, of Manchester, sends us an advance copy of his new catalogue, which he devotes to Shakespeare and the drama. Among the contents are the collection of twenty-seven fine engraved portraits of Shakespeare brought together by the late T. Birchall, the price being 11. 10s. ; ' Shake- speare, Life and Works,' edited By Charles Knight, 2 vols. extended to 25 by the insertion of 3,000 extra illustrations, price 150. (the cost of the prints and binding amounted to 320/.) ; Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, issued under the direction of Dr. F. J. Furnivall, 1881-91 ; ' Shakespeareana,' a collection of 20 vols. brought together about 1845 by Robert Balmanno, of the Temple, SI. ; ' Memoirs of Charles Mathews,' 4 thick vols., 1838-9; 'Moliere,' Van Laun's translation ; New Shakspere Society's Publications ; and Spenser Society's Publications. The whole catalogue has many items of interest.

Mr. Thorp issues a catalogue from St. Martin's Lane, a list of books of general literature. Among them we notice the Spalding Club Publications, .38 vols., 131. 10s. ; Bruno Ry ves's ' Mercurius Rusti- cus,' 12mo, original vellum, 21. 2s., 1647; Cruikshank's ' The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman,' the first edition, Tilt, 1839, 11. In- ; Cruikshank's German stories, first edition, 181. 18s. ; a collection of illus- trated books of the sixties, 19 vols.; Boydell's prints, to be had separately ; ' Memoirs of the Dutch Trade,' showing its first rise and prodigious pro- gress, 1702, price 30s. ; early Quaker tracts ; and a number of works on Emblems. There are also .numerous portraits.

Mr. Voynich's short catalogue No. 6 has just reached us. Most of the books are very rare, some of them not in the British Museum, and many not mentioned by Lowndes. Under America we find Palafox's ' Virtudes del Indio,' being an appeal to the King in defence of the Indians, 1650, price 211.,
 * and Brerewood's 'Enquiries touching the Diversity

of Languages and Religions through the Chief Parts -of the World,' 1655. In this " the author devotes a portion of the work to the first peopling of America." His accounts of the idolatries in America are very curious. Under Bibles we find English, Italian, and Russian. This last includes the third edition of the New Testament, published by the Russian Bible Society, St. Petersburg, 1822, permission having been granted to translate the New Testament into Russian in 1818. Shortly after this third edition the Society was suppressed. There are some beau- tiful bindings offered, one a work of Venetian art Venice, end of sixteenth century, 35Z. There are also French, German, Italian, Flemish, and, what are seldom obtainable, Mexican specimens. Another item is a block book, 'Biblia Pauperum,'20 guineas. Until lately this block book was supposed to be the only one produced in Italy, but it is now known there is another in a private library. A copy of Mrs. Aphra Behn's 'Abdelazer' is offered for 18s., first edition, 1677. This contains the well-known lyric, 'Love in Phantastique Triumph Sat.' There is also a copy of the first edition, 1651, of Wotton and Walton's 'Reliquiae Wottonianse. ' This first edition, edited by Walton, contains his life of Sir Henry Wotton. The first English edition of Lavater, 1572, is priced \5L 15s. There are treasures to be found under various headings,

including Dante, Shakespeare, Classics, Italian Literature, Incunabula, Greek Presses, English History, &c.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sous, of Liverpool, have many valuable books in their February catalogue. These include a unique set of ' Gil Bias,' containing 28 plates by Monnet, unlettered proofs, also 78 original drawings by a French artist of the eigh- teenth century, none of which has been engraved, and 24 additional plates, 4 vols., in full crimson morocco by Cape, Paris, 1796 - 1801, 1051. ; King Edward Vl.'s Prayer Book, small folio, 1549, 75/. ; Book of Common Prayer for Scotland, 1637, 50/. ; the Salisbury Missal, 1557, 501. ; Gough's 'Sepulchral Monuments,' 1786-96, 3 vols., 35. ; Charles Lamb's 'Album Verses,' first edition; Brayley's ' London,' 4 vols., 1829 ; a complete set of Turner and Stothard's illustrations to Rogers's ' Poems ' ; Turner's ' Views in England and Wales ' ; the 'Liber Studiorum,' the complete series of 71 plates ; and Temminck et Laugier, ' Nouveau Recueil de Planches Colorieesd'Oiseaux,' 5 vols., Paris, 1838, 32/. Some ' Bargains for Book-collectors ' and por- traits and engravings bring this interesting cata- logue to a close.

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