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Catesby's ' Natural History of Carolina and Florida, 2 vols., ipiperial folio, 1771, 10/. 'The Complete Angler,' Bagster, 1815, is 21. 2s. Under Art i ' Holbein the Younger,' by Davies, 5/ 5*. ; ant under Bewick, ' British Birds,' 1804-5, 12/. 12*. A complete set of the 'Berwickshire Naturalists Club,' 1831-1903, 16 vols., is 20/. ; and the firs London edition of Burns, 1787, 41. 4*. Concholog} includes Sowerby, 41. 4*. Mudford's ' Waterloo, Colburn, 1817, is 20/. ; first edition of Eusebius, 1577 15/. ; a set of The Illustrated London News, 1842-84, 15/. ; Old Shakespeare Society's Publications (except 'John a Kent' and 'John a Cumber 'and Lodge's 'Defence of Poetry'), 1841-53, 51. 5s.; and New Shakspere Society, 28 parts, 31. 3s. Other items include Rawlirison's ' Herodotus,' 21. 10*. ; anc Ormerod's 'Chester,' 51. 10*., though one woulc hardly think of looking for the latter under the first word of the title, 'History.' It might with advantage have appeared under Chester or Ormerod Mr. Daniell sends Part IV. of his Catalogue oi British Topography. This part is devoted to London, and comprises A to M. It opens with views of the Adelphi, Almack's, and the Admiralty, and includes among its many items Battersea ; Bermqndsey, with view of the Abbey, 1805 ; Blackfriars, including Tallis's 'Blackfriars Road,' and also Surrey Chapel ; Bow Street ; British Museum ; Buckingham House ; and long lists under Guildhall, Horse Guards, and Haymarket. Mary- lebone includes the old church, also the gardens, with orchestra and grand walk as in 1761. The la,st items refer to the Monument on Fish Street Hill.

Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 149 contains 'Ancient Ballads,' reprinted from the original copies in the Huth Library, a presentation copy from Huth to W. Chappell, 1867, 41. 15s. ; Halli- well-Phillipps's ' Notes on Shakespeare,' presenta- tion copy to Mr. Ebsworth, I/. 5*. ; and a collection of 190 Book-plates, 2L 10*. There are a number of Broadsides, 1685-1738, 5/. 10*. ; also another collec- tion, 1640-89, 41. 4*. Under Byron is the first edition of ' Don Juan,' 31. 3s. ; while the Coleridge and Prothero edition of the Works, 13 vols., is 21. 10*. There are interesting items under Drama and Plays. A collection of tracts relating to the Rebellion, 1716, is 21. 2s. ; and another of the Rebellion of 1745, 21. 2s. Mr. Dobell has also first editions of Swinburne, Morris, and Dickens.

Mr. Francis Edwards's Catalogue 289 contains among Byron items a specially interesting one, being a collection of upwards of 60 autograph letters, portraits, &c., illustrative of his life, inlaid to folio size, bound in green morocco, with Byron's book - plate, 44/. The general portion includes Atkins9n's 'Afghanistan/ folio, 1842, 41. 10*. ; a list of Alpine literature ; a number of Sir Richard Burton's Works : a set of Froude, library editions, 16 vols., 14/. ; Hogarth's Works, 1764, 77. 10*.; a complete set of the Hakluyt Society s Publications, 1847-98, 751.; 'Italian Novelists,' Lawrence & Bullen, 9 vols., 107.; Johnson's 'Highwaymen,' 1734, 121. 10*.; Lysons's 'Environs of London,' 1792-1811, 71. 15*. ; first edition of George Mere- dith's 'Farina,' 1857, 27.10*.; Pickering's edition of Walton and Cotton, 2 vols., royal 8vo, full calf, 1836, 6/.; the "Abbotsford" Scott, 101.; Richard- son's Works, 12 vols., 67.; and complete set of the Oxford Historical Society, 47 vols. 8vo, and 1 folio, 1885-1906, 111. Long lists appear under India,

Persia, and Mohammed and Mohammedanism There are interesting books and plates relating to- St. Helena; and under Dickens is a collection oi first editions, including ' Great Expectations '

3 f V T 1S -" u^ 1 Cal *' T a / e ' 1 1 861 ' 5L 5 ' s - A v eiy e copy of Leigh Hunt's 'Autobiography,' 3 vols., full calf extra by Zaehnsdorf, 1850, is V. 4*.

Mr. William Hitchman sends from Bristol his Catalogue 46, which contains Howell and Cobbei-f ? 'State Trials,' 121. 12s.; Ceiling's 'Gothic Archi- tecture,' 21. 2s.; Castiglione's ' Book of the Courtier ' /I portraits and plates, 11. Us. 6d.; Ralston's 'Russian Folk-Tales ' 14*. Qd.; ' Les Miserables"- Librarv Edition of the English translation, 5 vols half-calf 11. 4*.; Knight's 'Pictorial History of London' 9 vols., 15*.; Macaulay's 'History' Library Edition 5 vols., 16*. 6d.; Shakespeare, ''Henry Irving Edition," 8 vols., I/. 16* and Walton's 'Lives,' Edition de Luxe, Chiswick

j It. lO'S*.

Messrs. George T. Juckes & Co., of Birmingham send us a catalogue specially prepared for dis- tribution in Japan. It is well printed on thin paper, highly glazed, and is a good general list; but for catalogues for English readers we, of course ' prefer the ordinary unglazed paper.

Messrs. Lupton Brothers, of Burnley, have in their Catalogue 92 'The Faerie Queene ' with Bibliography by Wise, George Allen, 1897, 37. 17* 6d - a complete set of The Analyst, 201. ; Matthew Arnold's Works, 15 vols., 51. 5*.; Audsley and Bowes s Keramic Art of Japan,' 9/. 9*. ; Camden Society, 1838-51, 67. ; ' Comic Almanacks,' Cruik- shank's illustrations, 1835-46, 3 vols., 21. 2s. Sir Humphry Davy's Works, 9 vols., 1839-40, I/. l(k Faber's 'Origin of Pagan Idolatry,' 3 vols 4to' 1816, 21. 10*.; and Edition de Luxe of La Fontaine' Japanese vellum, 2 vols., 4to, Ql. 6*. W T orks on London include Besant's 'South London,' 21 10* Dixon's 'Her Majesty's Tower,' 10*.; and Thorn-'
 * niry and Walford's ' Old and New London ' 18*

Other items are Tuer's 'Follies and Fashions of our Grandfathers,' 11. ; Roscoe's 'Wanderings in Wales,' If. 10*. ; Walt Whitman's Prose Works arge paper (limited to 90 copies : 30 for Great Britain), Boston, 1898, 21. 7s. M.

Mr. Frank Murray, of Derby, has in his List 223. Rabelais, with 100 illustrations by Robinson, 2 vols., demy 4to, new, 11. Is.; 'Don Quixote' Motteux's translation, Edition de Luxe, 4 vols royal 8vo, 21. 2s. 6d.; and Benvenuto Cellini's Life unfortunately misprinted Cetteni), translated by Addington Symonds, 2 vols., small folio, Vale Press, 3/. 15*. Under Botany is Warner and Williams's Orchid Album,' with 500 coloured plates by Fitch, 1 vols., royal 4to, 157. 15*. Mr. Murray gives a election from his large stock of Derbyshire books, among these being Dr. Cox's ' Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals,' 31. 10*. Only 250 copies of this work were printed.

Mr. G. A. Poynder, of Reading, includes in his Catalogue 43 a collection of rare and interesting ooks relating to Ireland. There are also many terns under America, French, and Occult; while mder Palmistry is ' M. Johannes Practorii The- aurus Chiromantije,' 4to, in contemporary vellum,. very rare and curious, 1661, 61. 6*. The general aortion includes the first edition of Ainsworth's- Lord Mayor of London,' 3 vols., uncut, 11. 5s.; Granger's 'Biographical History,' 6 vols., uncut,,