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 200 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io«> s. iv. SEW. 2. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—SEPTEMBER. The holidays still affect the issue of catalogues and only a few have been received for notice. Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol issue their two hundred and eighty-third list, anc a very interesting one it is. A complete set o Archceologia from the commencement in 1770 to 1901 58 vols., is Til. 10s. Other items include Bewick's •Birds,' 1805, 41. 18s.; Journal of the Ex-Libris Society, vols. i. to vii., •_'/. 7s. (>>/.: first edition o ' Hours of Idleness,' Newark, 1807, 31. 18s.; and the best edition of Camden's 'Britannia,' 1806 -I. 15s. The valuable works under Ceramics com prise Chaffers's ' Keramic Gallery,' 91.15s.; Delange'g Recueil de Faiences Italiennes,' a choice copy, 111. 15*.; and ' Palissy,' also by Delange, 91.15s. The general list includes a set of Fenimore Cooper's novels, first editions, the three-volume issues, 1823-43, 92. 18s.; Grosart's occasional issues oi unique and very rare books, 101. 10s.; 'The Stones •of Venice," 1873, 51. 5s.; a handsome set of Strype's works, Oxford, 1812-28, 51. 18s.; and first editions •of Swinburne's ' Songs before Sunrise," 1871, 21. 2s., ' Bothwell,' ' Songs of the Spring-tides,' and others. There is a good list of French books, including a pretty set of BeVanger, Brussels, 1828-30, 28s. 6d.; Victor Hugo, 25 vols. half - morocco, 1836, 45s.; Moliere, 6 vols., 21. 5s.; and Balzac, 20 vols., 1869, 31. 3s. Mr. Charles Higham has some new purchases from two Biblical libraries. Among these are Alford's 'Greek Testament,' 11. 5s.; Bradshaw's 'Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral,' 18s.; and The Expositor, third series, 11 vols., 24s. A sound copy of Walton's ' Polyglott,' 1657-86, is priced 111. 11s. There is an interesting Charles II. tract, issued just six weeks before his restoration, in which personal assurances are given to the Presbyterians that there should be no persecution, 1660, 10». 6rf. Mr. John Hitchman, of Birmingham, has in his new catalogue 85 large maps of the Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, 1805-42, 41. 4s.; a complete set, very scarce, of the Philobiblon Society's Miscellanies, 1854-84, 67. 6s. ; the rare original edition of R. P. Knight's 'Worship of tPriapus," 1786, 41. 4s.; Aphra Behn's novels and plays, 1871, 51. 18s.; Clutterbuck's 'Hertfordshire,' 1815-27, 81. 8s.; a handsomely bound Edition de luxe of Surtees's novels, 101.10s.; the original edition of JFrohawk's 'British Birds,'41. 4s.; Serope's 'Salmon Fishing,' 1843, uncut, 81. 8s.; Garnier's ' Soft Porce- lain of Sevres,' 21.15s.; a set of the Lancashire and Oieshire Record Society's Publications, 81. 8s. •(issued to subscribers only at 267. 5s.); Egan's ' Life in London,' 1821-2, 67. 6s. (this choice copy contains two extra plates): Planch^'s ' Encyclopaedia of •Costume," 67. 10s.; Norfolk and Norwich Archaeo- logical Society's Papers. . 1847-98, 67. 18s. 6U; Kowlandson's ' Naples," 1815, 51. 5s.; and Roberts's 1 Holy Land," 1842, 21. 10s. M. LudwigRosenthal, of Munich, has a catalogue of very choice and rare works, including Spanish incunabula, books most highly prized by the genuine bibliophile. These include Aristotle, ' Ethics,' £c., no date, but apparently Valencia, 1475, 1001. : Cartagena, ' Doctrinal de los Caballeros,' 1501.; and -Josephus, 1492, 151. These sufficiently indicate what a remarkable selection this catalogue com- prises. There is also a globe of the world in copper, dated 1530, and made probably at Dieppe; it con- tains curious information concerning American names. The price of this is 1,500?. Mr, A. Russell Smith sends us another of his interesting catalogues of engraved portraits. In- tending purchasers have plenty to choose from. The list includes Homer. Mrs. Abington, Major Andn5, Mrs. Billington, Hugh Boyd ("supposed" Junius), Coutts the banker, Cowper, Beau Fielding (who married the Duchess of Cleveland), George IV. when Prince of Wales (by Gillray), and William Crouch, who conducted the funeral service on Mary Carleton, "the German Princess." This is a folio mezzotint, N. Tacher—P. Pelham, 1725. "Pelham went to the United States, and was the first mezzo- tint engraver there." Mr. Frederick Wheeler, of Great Queen Street, has a good general list. We note some interesting pamphlets at cheap prices, and Holden's ' Triennial Directory,' 1805, containing upwards of 140,000 names in the metropolis and the villages around, also of 84 other towns, 2 vols. 20». 10 We miist call tpecial attention to the followaa noticet :— ON all communications must he written the name ind address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. W E cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications corre- spondents must observe the following rule«. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When ainwer- ng queries, or making notes with regard to previou entries in the paper, contributors are requested to Dut in parentheses, immediately after the exact leading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com- munication "Duplicate." F. PEN-NIT ("Index of Engraved Portraits").- tfessrs. Myers & Rogers issued in 1903 an alpha- >etical list of over 14,000 engraved portraits. Mr. lussell Smith has just brought out a list of engraved portraits, noticed above under 'Boot- sellers' Catalogues." G. AGAR ("Bishop John Bird ").—There is a life if him in the ' D.N.B.' The locality of his see is discussed at 9th S. xi. 328, 411, 471 ; xii. 75. MEDICOS ("That life is long"). —Anticipated ante, p. 159. J. RADCLIPFE (" Lulach ").—Original reply already irinted. CORRIGENDUM.—^^!?, p. 174, col. 1, 11 3 and 4 rom foot, for "'The Tutor's Assistant" or Crosby's Walkinghame,'" read 'Crosby's Wal- iingame's Arithmetic.' NOTICK. Editorial communications should be addressed o "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"—Adver- isements and Business Letters to "The Pub- isher"—at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, B.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return ommunications which, for any reason, we do not rint; and to this rule we can make no exception.