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fcooks, and the second to scientific literature. In the latter we find Meyer's ' British Birds and their Eggs,' 1835-41, very scarce, 20/. ; ' The Orchid Album,' 1882-97, 14. 14*. ; and a mass of pamphlets collected by Piazzi Smyth, 41 vols., 4Z. 15s. (the contents are classified, and are the result of years of patient collecting). The third list is a general one, includ- ing many works on art and recent travel. There are two Alkens : ' Specimens of Riding near Lon- don,' 1823, 12/. 12-*., and 'The Analysis of the Hunting Field,' 1846, 111. Us. ; a copy of Chippen- dale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director,' 13. 13*. ; Reiss and Stiibel's ' Peruvian Antiquities,' (61. 17*. 6d. ; a first edition of Matthew Arnold's 'Saint Brandran,' 21. 10*. (this is in perfect con- dition, and a letter from Puttick & Simpson is enclosed guaranteeing its genuineness) ; also a copy of the first edition of Cruikshank's ' Life of Sir John Falstaff,' 1858, 4/. 17-5. Qd. ; De Morgan's ' Budget of Paradoxes,' very scarce, 55?. ; several first editions of Dickens ; a copy of the ' Hep- tameron,' Berne, 1780, ICtf. 10*. ; k Memoirs of the Kitcat Club,' 1821, 3/. 3*. ; Loutherbourg's ' Scenery of England,' 1805, 1. 17*. 6d. ; Mey rick's ' Ancient Armour,' 4/. 4*. ; the scarce original edition of Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice,' 1851, 61. 10*. ; Ritson's 4 Antiquarian and Poetical Works,' 1825-33, 3?. 3*. ; ana Yarrell's ' Birds,' SI. 3*. The catalogue includes a list of books relating to the county of York.

Mr. C. Richardson, of Manchester, in his new list includes Racinet's ' Le Costume Historique,' 1888, 18Z. 10*. ; Miller's series of works on Costume, 1804-20, 121. 12*. ; Notes and Queries, from the com- mencement to June, 1898, and the Eight General Indexes, 42Z. 10*. ; Lodge's 'Portraits,' 1823-34, 71.; and Hayley's ' Life of Romney,' 1809, 81. There are interesting items under Lancashire and Manchester, including a ' Narrative of the Peterloo Massacre,' 1819-20.

In Messrs. Sotheran's list there are some very valuable Bibles: the Coverdale, 1535, beautifully bound in morocco, 240/. (Messrs. Sotheran state "that it need hardly be pointed out that Cover- dale's Bible and the First Folio Shakespeare are the corner stones of an English library" ; we fear that onany of us have to do without these " corner tones"); ' Biblia Sacra Polyglotta,' from the Ash- burnham Library, 1657-69, 35^. ; and the first edition of Cromwell's Bible, 1539, 36/. (Mr. Dunn Gardner's copy sold for 12\L, and Lord Crawford's for 11 U.). Thomas k Kempis, the rare editio princeps, 1471, is priced 150/. ; and a copy of Dante, 1477, 42/. There is a curious collection of Tracts on the History of Tobacco, 159 vols., 1626-1892, 4:21. The general list includes Gough's 'Monuments of Great Britain,' 1786-96, 421. (this is a presentation copy from the publisher to the engraver) ; Frankau's ' Eighteenth- Century Colour Prints,' edition de luxe, limited to 60 copies, very scarce, 311. 10*. ; Boccaccio, 1757, 121. 121.; C[okaynel (G[eorge] E[dward, Claren- ceux]), ' Complete Peerage, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant,' 8 vols. very scarce, 1887-98, 351. ; and Erasers Magazine, 1830-82, 421. There are a number of books on Indian subjects, including " The Sacred Books of the East," edited by Max Miiller, 38 vols., \5l. 15*. The works on Japan and China include Leech's ' Butterflies,' 11. 10*.

Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading, has a good, useful general list. There are some valuable Alkens and Ackermanns ; Ruskin's ' Seven Lamps,' first edition, 1849, 31. 18*.; Champlin's 'Cyclopedia of

Painters,' 1888, 4.1. ; Finden's ' Portraits of the Female Aristocracy of the Court of Queen Victoria,' Hogarth, 1849, 31. 15*. ; ' The British Gallery of Portraits,' Cadell, 1822, '51. 10*. ; Ruskin's ' Modern Painters,' Orpington, 1888, 41. 10*. ; and a large-paper copy of the Border Waverley, Nimmo, 1892, 181. There are a number of books at cheap prices to effect a clearance.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have some rare and interesting books in their illustrated catalogue. These include Gotch's 'Architecture of the Renaissance,' 1894, 9Z. 9s. : Pugin's ' Gothic Architecture,' 3(. 15*. ; and Sir Maxwell Stirling's ' Artists of Spain,' 1848, 4.1. 4*., very rare. There is a subscriber's copy of the first issue of the first Edinburgh edition of Burns, very rare, 1787,4?. 15*. ; the first London edition, 5/. 5s. Under Carlyle we find 'The Dumfries Album,' 1857. This was published for the purpose of raising funds for the Dumfries Institution. The contributions were by Carlyle, Prof. Blackie, George Gilfillan, Mark Napier, and others. The title of Carlyle's con- tribution was ' The Opera,' in which he writes : " Yes ; to its Hells of sweating tailors, distressed needlewomen, and the like, this [Haymarket] Opera of yours is the appropriate Heaven." Messrs. Young state that " during a business experience of above half a century this is the first copy we have had for sale." There are several valuable items under Ruskin, including ' Fors Clavigera,' a complete set of the original issue, 1871-87, 51. 15*.

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