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of Diana of Poictiers and Lewis's 60 engravings) ' Gesta Romanorum,' 1509, 21. ; Hasted's 'Kent, Canterbury, 1797, 12/. Under Court Memoirs is th< first edition of Pardoe's * Court of Francis UK First,' very scarce, Bentley, 1849, '21. '2s. Allen's 'Antiquities of London and Westminster,' 1837, is M. 5s. ; Malcolm's * Persia,' 1815, 21. Ss\ (id. ; and Payne Collier's edition of Shakespeare, 1844 }l. Is. Gd. Under Law is Stephen's 'History of the "Criminal Law,' I/. 18s. Qd. An interesting dramatic item consists of five old playbills, including G rick's last appearance, 10 June, 1776, 21. 2*.

Messrs. W. N. Pitcher Co., of Manchester, have the first 28 vols. of Bentley's Miscellany, 1QL ; a complete set of the ' Dictionary of National Bio- graphy,' 60A : Fergusson's 'Architecture,' 1893 31. 10-s\ ; Gotch's 'Architecture of the Renaissance, 1894, 6/. 6..-.; Bewick's 'Birds,' Newcastle, 1821, "21. 2s. ; Creeny's ' Monumental Brasses,' 21. ; Brink- ley's 'Japan,' edition de luxe, limited to 35 mini bered copies, 12 vols., 1903-4, 251. 4*.; 'British Poets,' Aldine Edition, large paper, 1866, 52 vols., 11. 7*. ; Jamieson's ' Etymological Dictionary,' 1879- 1887, 5 vols., 4:1. 10*. ; first edition of * The Shaving of Shagpat,' 1856, 21. 5s'. ; Sybel's ' French Revolu- tion,' 1867, scarce, 51. 10*. ; Voltaire, ' (Euvres Com- pletes, 52 vols., 51. 18-9.; Yarrell's 'Birds,' 1843-56, 41. 15s. ; and Lever's Novels, 17 vols., 61. 10*. There are interesting items under Dickens, one being Kitton's ' Dickens by Pen and Pencil,' scarce, 31. Ss. ; and under Economics and Politics is a long list, including Tooke's 'History of Prices,' 6 vols., 1838-57, 121. 15s.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son have a very interest- ing Catalogue of Topography. Under Berkshire are many views of Windsor, 1740-1850. Under Gloucestershire is Atkyns's ' Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 201. Under Hampshire will be found old views in the Isle of Wight ; under Ireland, ArchdalPs ' Moriasticon Hibernicum,' 1786, 41. ; under Lake District, Fielding's ' Cumberland,' 1822, 4:1. 4.s. : and under Lancashire, Roby's ' Traditions,' 1829, 3/. 15s. Under London are oid views of Battersea (including proposed site for the rystal Palace in Battersea Park, 1851), Blooms- bury, and Chelsea (with the Rotunda in Ranelagh Garden*). A view of London from Blackfriars Bridge, 1802, rare, is 9^.9*. Lord Mayors' portraits include Beckford's. Palmer's 'St. Paiicras,' 99 extra plates, is SI. 5*. ; and Neale's 27 pencil sketches, 1814-15, 4.1. Under Theatres and Amusements are views of Co vent Garden, Drury Lane, the First Fair on the Thames, the Laplanders at the Egyptian Hall, 1822, Pantheon in Oxford Street, Red Bull Play House, Clerkenwell, Vauxhall Gardens, &c.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. open their new list with a fine and complete copy of the first Polyglot Bible, 6 vols., folio, a tall and clean copy, extremely rare, 1514-17, 125^. Arber's 'Reprints of Rare Tracts,' 10 vols., are 6/. 6*. ; Bonn's Extra Volumes, 7 vols., 1846-55, scarce, 4.1, 15*. ; and Dibdin's ' Bibliographical Decameron ' and ' Anti- quarian Tour in France and Germany,' 6 vols., large paper, first editions, containing the two private plates which were destroyed, 1817-23, 101. Catalogue of the Perkins Library,' 1873, is 12/. 12*. This library fetched 26.000^., and included two copies of the Mazarin Bible. Sotheby's ' Block- Books,' 3 vols., 1858, is 11. 10-9. Only 220 copies were printed. The collections for these works are in the British Museum, bound in 36 vols., folio.

The first edition of Bunyan's ' Holy War,' 1682, very rare, is 1L Is. ; and the eighth edition of 'The Pilgrim's Progress,' 1682, 2$l. Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' sixth edition, 1651, is 11. 17*. tid. A note, signed A. H. Bullen, states : "It is not generally known that Burton for nearly all his life

was vicar of St. Thomas the Martyr, Oxford It

is recorded that he always administered the Sacra- ment there in wafers." An extra-illustrated copy of Cunningham's 'Nell Gwyn' is priced IQl. 10*.; and Child's ' English and Scottish Ballads,' Boston (Mass.), 1882-98, \2l.\2s. Several first editions of Dickens, in the original parts with the advertise- ments, include ' Martin Chuzzlewit,' 8/. 8*. ' Nicholas Nickleby,' Ql. 6*. ; and 'Pickwick.' 141. 14*. Dray ton's ' Poly-Olbion,' 1613, rare, is 181. 18*.; Edinburgh Review. 1802-1903, 2S/.; and Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1879, 42<f. The list of Genealogy and Heraldry includes Harleian Society's Publications, 1869-97, 421. A choice collection of English poets, 93 vols., 1833-62, is 37. 10*.; and the first edition of 'Gulliver,' 1726, very scarce, IGl. 16*.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have a beautiful illuminated Horas, with miniatures, 1494, 125/. ; a superb set, extra- illuminated, of Meyrick and Skelton's 'Armour,' 1824-30, 3W. ; large-paper copy of the Florence Gallery, first edition, Paris, 1789-1807, 30Z. ; a choice set of Cruik- shauk's 'Comic Almanack,' 1835-53, in the original covers, with the advertisements preserved, 26/. ; Rowlandson's ' Dance of Death,' first issue, 1815-17, extremely rare, 17/. 17*. ; and a fine folio of Seneca, 1620, 3/. 15-5. Under Railways is Booth's account of the Liverpool and Manchester, Liverpool, 1830, 25*. This was practically the first railway in the world, and the author was the treasurer of the company. There is a wood engraving of the Rocket and the newly invented Novelty. Hamil- ton's ' Volcanoes,' Naples, 1776-9, is priced 9/. 9*. Other items include some Morlands and fine old portraits. The illustrations add to the interest of the catalogue.

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