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price for this is 38/.") ; and a first edition of the If. 10*. There are long lists under Napoleon, French Revolution, and Lancashire.
 * Greville Memoirs,' with the suppressed passages,

Mr. George P. Johnston, of Edinburgh, includes in his Catalogue 81 many interesting Scottish books. We note a few items : ' A List of the Adventures in the Bank of Scotland,' 1704 and various years to 1778, also the proprietors in the stock in 1817, 63*. ; 4 Poems by Drummond of Hawthoniden,' first issue, 1656, 16/. ; Leightpn's ' Appeal to the Parliament, or Sion's Plea against the Prelacy,' 15*. No date is given. The author was the father of the Arch- bishop of Glasgow, and for publishing this book he was whipped, pilloried, had his nose slit, ears cut off, was branded " S. S." (sower of sedition), fined 10,000/., and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. He was released in 1640 by the Long Parliament, but died insane not long after. There are a number of works under Witchcraft. Among general items are some of Pickering's beautiful "Diamond Classics," including Dante, Catullus, Cicero, &c.

Herr Georg Lissa sends from Berlin his Cata- logue 42, mostly devoted to German literature, containing items iinder Afrika, Amerika, Faust, Goethe, Schiller, &c. Among French works is the 4 Galerie Lithographiee ' of the Duke of Orleans.

Mr. James Roche's Catalogue 151 has a volume containing interesting tracts, &c., one being 'The Case and Memoirs of the Rev. James Hackman and of his Acquaintance with Miss Martha Reay,' with portrait, II. 5*. M. ; The Monthly Mirror, 11 vols., I/. 18*. 6rf. ; Clouet's 'Three Hundred French Portraits,' 2 vols., folio, 1875, 3/. 15*. ; Upham's ' History of Buddhism,' 1829, 31. 10*. ; 'Dramatic Recollections,' by N. S. R., 13 plates of Macready, 2 parts folio, 1838-9 ("no reference to their publication in any biography "), I/. 10*. ; A'Beckett's 'Comic History of England,' 2 vols., and 'Comic History of Rome,' 1847, 31. 18*. 6d. ;

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SamuelButler,' 4 vols., royal 8vo, 1819-27, 31-. 18*. &/.; Daniell's ' Oriental Scenery,' 1812-16, '21. 5*. ; and a long list under India and the East.

Messrs. Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 668 is full of valuable items. We note a few : Bancroft's ' Historical Works on Western American Origins,' 39 vols., San Francisco, 1883-93, 19/. ; and the rare edition of Dante, 1477, 42/. (the fifteen leaves some- times found, containing the life by Boccaccio, are not in this copy). Another excessively rare book is the first edition of ' The Golden Legend,' printed wholly by Wynkyn de Worde, 1498 (title and some leaves missing), 75f. It has the very rare woodcut of the Annunciation and the Crucifixion. Match- less copies on large paper of Dibdin's ' Decameron,' . and 'Picturesque Tour,' first editions, 6 vols., brown morocco extra, 1817-23, are 70/.; a set of the Edinburgh to 1903 is 28/. ; complete set of Folk-lore Society's Publications, 40/.; a set of the Geographical Society's Journal and Publications, 32/. ; and Wai- pole's Works, best library editions, 1845-59, 35/. A very choice Shakespeare set in 23 vols., olive morocco by Lewis, 1791-1805, is 63/. This comprises the Samuel Johnson and George Steevens edition, 15 vols., large paper (only 25 sets thus), Malone's ' Supplement,' Ayscough's ' Index,' and Hardings' -* Shakespeare Illustrated.' Later books include

the works of Borrow, 1843-62, 11 vols., III. 11*. ; Motley, 9 vols., 12^. 12*. ; Swinburne, 28 vols., 21 /. ; Tennyson, including 'Life,' 16/. 16*. ; Thackeray, 24 vols., 15/. 15*.; and the'" Gadshill Edition" qf Dickens, 167. Ifts.

Mr. Thomas Thorp's London Catalogue 25 con- tains some first editions of R. D. Blackmore's works ; a set of Balzac, " Japanese Vellum Edition," 10 vols., 1897, 2/. 18*. ; a collection of old military broadsides, 1797, 31. ,3*. ; Shelley's Works, Moxon, 1847, 3 vols., original green cloth, uncut, 2/. 10*. ; and a beautiful copy of Montaigne's k Essays,' 1613, panelled calf by Zaehnsdorf, 9/. 10*.

Catalogue 5 from Mr. Thorp's Gilildford's house contains RafFaelle, 'Loggie nel Vaticano,' the 55

Paris, 1811, 2 vols., royal folio, 3/. 3*.; Rowlandson's ' Naples,' 1815, 31. 15s. : Finden's ' Portraits of the Court of Victoria,' Hogarth, 1849, 2 vols., folio, 31. 15*.

Mr. George Winter's Catalogue 44 opens with a collection of fifteen items of MS. and printed volumes in Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani. There are long lists under Angling and Art. In the latter we find Comte Athanase Raczynski's ' His- toire de 1'Art Moderne en Allemagne,' Paris, 1836, 5/. 5*. ; Pietsch's 'Contemporary German Art,' 37*. M-. ; and Solly's ' Life of David Cox,' 25*. The general list contains first editions of Swinburne and Lever.

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