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NOTES AND QUERIES, cio* s. v. MARCH 3,

Messrs. William Smith & Son, of Reading have a collection of Dortraits. chiefly French, 1652-1749, 351. ; Turner and Ruskin,' Wedmore, set of the

was secretly printed without printer's name or first edition of 'The Masaue of Anirohv '

<place. There is a long list under Theological, original boards 31 10-s Anarchy,

Among the entries we find a complete set of the

Bampton Lectures, 1780-1892, 261. ; and the Trans- actions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1872-

1900, scarce, 15/. Mr. H. G. Gadney, of Oxford, has Bewick's

'Emblems of Mortality,' 1789, 36*.; * Le I meron,' Lyons, 1558, 35-s. ; Godwin's ' Lives of

the Necromancers,' 1834, 14s. ; ' La Liturgie .Angloise,' together with the Psalms of Stern" and Hopkins, very scarce, 1616-21, 51. ; and Loo's 'England's Safety,' 1693, 21. 15s. The list includes a number of works of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Mr. Goad, of Bath, has De Gheyn's 'The Exer- cise of Amies for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes,' 1608, 10/. 10s.; 'Australasia Illustrated,' 3 vols., folio, 35s. (published at 111. 11s.) ; The Ancestor, 12 vols., 21. 2s.; and 'Ingoldsby Legends,' Bentley, 1855, 3 vols., original cloth, uncut, 21. 17s. 6d. Under

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vols, 1812-14, 21. 10*. ; besides books and interesting items under Juvenile l"6 r IS 1 * Topogra P hical > Trials > and

A T? i " S . oth ' eran & Co.'s Price Current mid-February is devoted to natural history sport &c. A glance at its pages shows at once hat the works are not to be found in every man's library. We note the most complete set yet offered for sale of the works of John Gould, completed bv Richard Bowdler Sharne. 8207 ' a co f, O f Tf ie j-^-j

'Birds of the

Naval is a copy of Blanckley's ' Naval Expositor,' 1750, 21. 2-s. The first edition of Tennyson's ' Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,' purple paper wrapper, Moxon, 1852, is 25-s. The catalogue states that this contains five lines never reprinted :

But wink no more in slothful overtrust. f Perchance our greatness will increase, Perchance a darkening future yields "Some reverse from worse to worse, 'The blood of men in quiet fields, And sprinkled on the sheaves of peace.]

Messrs. Parsons & Sons have the bronze statuette of Thacker.ay by Boehm, exhibited in the Academy in 1864, price iOO. They have also an interesting Irving souvenir, being the album presented to him at Christmas, 1884, by students of the Royal .Academy, and sent to him while on his tour in America. The album contains 18 original draw- ings, and is to be had for 35'. Other items are works on architecture, and original drawings by J. Barker of Bath, Runciman, Biago Martinelli,

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Society's mological Society's r '

very scarce, Sole *

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Audubons 'Birds of America.' New York 1861 ? Zot, ; and Elliot's 'Monograph of the Phasianidse,*' New \ ork, 1872, very scarce, 70/, Sporting subjects include Apperley's (Nimrod) ' Life of a Sportsman ' Ackermann, 1842, extremely rare, 30* ; Pierce Egan's

Boxiana.' 1812-29, very scarce. 14/, 14-s. ; and an scarce set of The Sporting Magazine, . lot. Messrs, botheran guarantee this to be perfect.

Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading, has several first editions of Browning. The first edition of Miss Burney s 'Camilla' is 4/. 4-s. ; the first edition of Hours of Idleness,' Newark, 1807, 3/. 3s a

collection of Civil War tracts, 1641-8, 3/. 3-9. ; a' set of Jhe Church Quarterly, scarce, 1875-1902, 51 - - 1 Sn^lnn^ 80 "' 8 ' Naples,' 1815, 31. 1&. ; The St.

iStothard, Pugin, and others. Ihereare a number lwB-1905, 10<I. 10*. ; and Planche's 'Cyclopedia of of works under Costume, these including Aide- Costume,' 61. 10s. From the library of the late graver's 44 original pieces of German costume, P r f- Earle is the Wycliffe Bible, Oxford Press sixteenth century, very rare, 211. ; and ' Russian 1850, 3/. 10s.

Costume ' 1821, 9J. 9-s. There is a fine specimen of M r. Thorp's London catalogue includes the first French bookbinding, 1740 with the arms of the edition of 'Paradise Regained ' 1671 1QI 10s -a City of Paris, being a ' Description des Festes cho ice copy of the second edition of Mont a Vne donnees par la Ville de Paris a I'Occasion du f roni the library of the late Mr Justice Wrfht' Mariage de Madame Louise Elizabeth de France et I 197 in* n M .kf.>. r>^;, i H 5? VVri ^ nt > de Dom Philippe d'Espagne, 29, 30 Aoiit, 1739,' 13 large plates by Blondel, 1740., 10^. 10-s. A collec- tion of 638 autograph letters relating to the stage, 1793-1860, is priced 30 guineas. It is from the library of James St. Aubyn, whose ex-libris is in >each volume.

choice from the

12/,. 10s. ; Crashaw's 'Poems,' 1675, 21. 2-s a pre- sentation copy of Isaac Disraeli's 'Genius of Judaism,' Moxon, 1833, 156-.; and The London Magazine, 1820-29, 3. 18*.

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Mr. H. H. Peach, of Leicester, has a very beautiful .and perfect MS. which he prices at 42. It is the -or Suabia, died 1385, having written this work about 1340." Vaughan in his ' Hours with the Mystics '
 * Orloge de Sapience.' " The author, Henri de Suso

states that this book was for the fourteenth century I co-respondent. Forwarded' what 'De Imitatione Christi was for the fifteenth. ' "The catalogue contains many interesting specimens of early printing, besides first editions of Bossuet, large-paper copies in one volume, old French calf, 10. 10s. : and Colonna's 'Hypnerotomachia di Poli- philo,' 169 cuts, Venice, 1545, 23/. 10-s. William Morris's copy with label fetched 311. There is a

H. T. S. ("I have fought for Queen and faith, like a valiant man and true"). From stanza xiii. of Tennyson's 'The Revenge.'

COL. MILDMAY, MR. J. LANE, and an Oxford

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