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dolid in 1538, a complete copy of a very rare book ; many old Missals, &c. There is one manuscript against which stands 12,000 marks, viz., the auto- graph of Mozart's Pianoforte Concerto in B flat, '79 pages of music, written at Salzburg in 1776. There is also a complete autograph score of an orchestral piece composed by Richard Wagner at the outset of his career, 24 pages, &c.

Catalogue 122 comprises works on Medicine which embrace its history from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. This catalogue, like all those issued by Mr. Rosen thai, is ex- cellently arranged, and the head-lines on each page render it easy of reference.

Mr. Thomas Thorp sends from Reading his Cata- logue 173, containing a fine clean copy of Montaigne, folio, calf gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, 1613, 91. 10s. ; Ash- mole's 'Berkshire,' 1736, 9. 15s.; Bewick's '^Esop,' Newcastle, 1818, 31. 18s. ; first edition of Cavendish's "Woolsey,' 1641, 21. 10s.; 'Capt. Cook's Voyages,' second edition, 1785, 21. 12s. 6d. ; first edition of 'The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,' 1719, 221. 10s. ; and ' The Dore Gallery,' 21. 2s. A collection of 58 curious volumes relating to Games and Gaming is SI. 10s. Other items include Hasted's 'Kent,' 4 vols., folio, Canterbury, 1778-99, 24J. ; first edition of Law's ' Serious Call,' also 'Christian Perfection,' 2 vols., ll.ls.; Petrie and Sharpe's ' Mormmenta Historica Britannica,' vol. i. (all pub- lished), 4Z. 4s.; Raffaelle, 'Loggie nel Vaticano,' 551. ;. Ralston's * Russian Folk-Tales,' II. 10s. There

. are a number of first editions of Dickens ; and Mr.

1 Thorp has a large stock of book-plates.

Mr. Thorp sends two other catalogues : No. 7 from Guildf ord, and No. 27 from his London address. The former contains Cuvier's ' Animal Kingdom,' 21. 2s. ; and a choice copy of Weinmann's ' Opus Botanicum,' Amsterdam, 1736-48, 9 vols., folio, 121. 12s. There are many items under Natural History, also under Astronomy and Mathematics. In the general portion will be found Grose's ' Anti- quities of England and Wales,' 21. 12s. 6d. ; Scott's ' Antiquities of Scotland,' 1826, 14s. ; Aubrey's ' Surrey,' 1719, 61. 12s. 6d. ; Russell's ' Guildford, 1 1801, II. Is. ; Suckling's ' Antiquities of Suffolk,' 1847, 61. 6s. ; Boydell's ' Iliyer Thames,' 1794, 121. 12s. ; Boydell's large-type edition of Shakespeare, 1802, SI. 8s. ; and Royal Society Transactions, 1665-1799, 201.

Mr. Thorp's London catalogue contains the first edition of ' Nicholas Nickleby,' with Onwhyn's additional illustrations, 1839, 3?. 10s. There are a number of volumes of Archceologia. Under Art is a set of the series of Portfolio monographs. 1894-8, 4/. 4s. There are interesting catalogues of libraries ; and other items include Hindley's ' Old Book Col- lector's Miscellany,' 12s. ; Macbean's ' Constanti- nople Sketches,' 11. 16s. ; and Marryat's novels, 19 vols., 51. 15s. ("A capital writer, sir; beats the American, Cooper, to shivers ; he 's only second, in fact, to Tom Cringle," ' Noctes Ambrosianje '). Among first editions are works of George Meredith, Swinburne, Barrie, Borrow, and others.

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Messrs. Henry Young & Sons send from Liver- >ol Part CCCLXXX., which includes a fine

Persian MS., written on 172 leaves of native paper, and illustrated by 30 beautiful miniatures in rich colours, date about 1650, 151. 15s. Under Actors areTate Wilkinson's ' Memoirs ' and his history of the Yorkshire Theatres, first editions, 8 vols. in 4,

York, 1790-95, 4 10s Wilkinson "discovered" and brought out Charles Mathews. There is also a fine copy of Ryley s 'Itinerant,' the three series, 9 vols., 1808-27, 41. 4s. The Alpine items include Saussure's ' Voyages dans les Alpes,' the Duke of Sussex's set, 21. 10s.; and a complete set of the 'Annuaire du Club Alpin Fran9ais,' very rare, 71. Is. Under Ancient Religions will be found Higgins's ' Celtic Druids,' containing 45 large plates of the principal Druidical remains of Great Britain

known works, first editions, containing 230 large plates, hand coloured, 5 vols., royal 4to, 1824-30, SQL The ' Antient Armour ' was a favourite with Scott, who spoke of it as "the incomparable Armoury." Among beautiful steel engravings we may mention a copy of Rogers's ' Poems,' illus- trated with 72 plates after Turner and Stothard, in case of the finest Levant morocco, 1834, 61. 6s. ; also Campbell's ' Poetical Works,' Turner's plates, with letter from the poet, Moxon, 1837, 81. 8s. Under Dibdin are ' Bibliotheca Spenceriana,' '^Edes Althorpianae,' and ' Cassano Catalogue,' 7 vols., a very fine set, bound in red morocco, 1814-23, 161. 16s.; and under Laplace is the splendid edition published by the French Government, crimson morocco, 1840-47, 61. 6s.

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