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by Macdonald, 12 vols., half- vellum, quite new, &. A second edition of Ruskin's ' Seven Lamps ' is priced II. 10*. ; and Pope's Works, edited by Elwin and Courthope, 10 vols., 8vo, russia gilt, 4/. Under Somerset is a good copy of Collinson, Bath, 1791, SI. 8*.

Messrs. E. George Sons' List 45 contains Britton s 'Cathedrals,' 4 vols., 4to, 1814-36, 31. &. ; Britton and Brayley's ' Beauties of England and Wales,' 30 vols., 1801-18, 5/. ; Britton's 'Archi- tectural Antiquities,' 1807-14, 21. 15*. ; Lysons's ' Environs of London,' 9 vols., 4to, 1792-1811, 4/. 4s. ; Stothard's ' Monumental Effigies,' folio, 3/. 3*. ; and Berry's ' Encylopiedia Heraldica,' 3 vols., 4to, 21. 10*. Messrs. George have also a Short List No. 52, devoted to Antiquarian, Archaeological, Biblio- graphical, and other Journals and Reviews.

Mr. James Irvine's Catalogue 92 contains a number of botanical works and books on gardening. These include ' Flora Brasiliensis,' now complete in 15 vols., folio, 1840-1906, price 30W. This work gives a description of all Brazilian plants, and con- tains 3,811 plates. The general items include the first edition of Swinburne's ' Bothwell,' I/. 10*. ; Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Idea,' translated by Haldane, 3 vols., 11. 15*. ; Bray's ' Life of Stothard,' 11. Is.-, Coryat's 'Travels Through Europe in 1608,' I/. 5*. ; 'The Legitimist Kalendar for 1899,' withdrawn from circulation, 11. Is. ; and Mont-bard's ' Morocco,' 11. 5*.

Mr. John Jeffery's List 110, of 90 items, comprises several of Quaker interest. These include HowgiFs 'Dawnings of the Gospel Day,' containing 'The Popish Inquisition, newly erected in New England,' 1676, 21. 2*. ; Besse's ' Sufferings of the People Ccalled Quakers, 1650-89,' 21. 2*. ; and the American edition of Sewel's ' History,' New Jersey, 1774, 21. 2*.

Messrs. Myers & Co.'s Catalogue 117 contains a unique copy of Jesse's 'London,' first edition ex- tended to 6 vols. by the insertion of 665 scarce por- traits, bound by Zaehnsdorf in levant morocco, 47/. 10*. Other extra-illustrated works are Knight's ' Pictorial Shakespeare,' 8 vols. extended to 15, full morocco, 35 guineas ; and Napier's ' Peninsular War,' 10 vols., blue morocco, 257. There are some choice items under Cruikshank. The rare first edition of Massinger's ' The Emperour of the East ' s 9/. 9*. ; Evelyn's 'Diary,' with life by Wheatley, 4 vols., half -vellum, 3(. 3s., and Hood's 'Comic Annuals,' 1830-39, 21. 12*. 6d. A copy of ' Punch's Pocket Book,' 1847, containing plates oy Leech and Thackeray, 12mo, limp calf, as published, is 1L 15*. Under Genealogy is ' The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal,' being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III., 2 vols., 4to, 1905-7, 4/. 4*. There are lists under Occult, Topo- graphy, and Travels ; and a small collection of interesting arid rare items relating to Ireland. Among these we note Hamilton's ' True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling Men,' small 4to, very rare, 1690, 21. 2*. ; Temple's ' Irish Rebellion,' Dublin, 1724, I/. 12*. Qd. ; and Wilde's ' Beauties of the Boyne,' 1850, 11. 12*. 6d.

Messrs. W. N. Pitcher & Co., of Manchester, keep well in front with their monthly lists. On the 1st inst. we noticed two of these, and now we have received No. 147. There is a scarce copy of Ainsworth's romance 'The Lancashire Witches.' [t appeared in The Sunday Times as a serial during 1848, and was printed for private circulation in

1849, and this is one of the copies, 3/. Other items include Eaton's ' Ferns of North America,' 3/ 3* - Baring-Gould's 'Lives of the Saints,' 16 vols., 21. 8* Vol. I. of the first edition of Bewick's ' Birds "' Newcastle, 1797, 11. 1*.; Browning's 'Poetical Works,' 16 vols., half-morocco, 5/. 5*. ; Creighton's 'History of the Papacy,' best library edition 5 vols., 51. 10*.; Da Vinci's 'Literary Works T 2 vols., 61. ; Edgeworth's 'Tales and Novels,' com- plete, 18 vols., 1832, 5/. 5*.; Freeman's 'Norman Conquest,' 6 vols., 8vo,very scarce, If. ; and Brinkley'n ' Japan and China,' Edition de Luxe, limited to 35 numbered copies, 251. 4*. Maybe some devotee of the fragrant weed will like to invest 3^. 5*. in item 686, 'Tobacco Tortured, or the filthy fume of Tobacco refined ; shewing all sorts of subjects, that the inward taking of Tobacco fumes is very per- nicious unto their bodies, &c., and most pestiferous to the publike state, exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects, more especially from their treacherous projects about the Gun-Powder treason, &c.,' by John Deacon, small 4to, calf, London, 1616.

Messrs. Probsthain send us Catalogues XI. and XII. __ They are both devoted to Oriental literature. No. XI. is confined to works relating to our Indian Empire, and, looking over its contents, one is inclined to think that not a subject of interest relating to it has been omitted. We have Briggs's ' History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India,' translated from the Persian of Ferishta ; the ' Annals of the East Indian Company ' ; and Forbes's well - known work ' Oriental Memoirs ' 1813, 6/. 6-s. Law, the Mutiny, Military, Medical Science, Sport, Philology, and many other subjects have long lists ; while Biography includes Clive, Hastings, Outram, Lumsden, Wellesley, and a host of others.

Catalogue XII. is devoted to China. We find Periodicals and Grammars and Dictionaries, the latter including Sir John Barrow's copy in MS. o a Chinese-Latin Dictionary, 3/. 3*. Under Religions is the Journal of the Buddhist Text Society, 1893- 1906, 37. 10*. History, Travel, and Law occupy 27 pages of the list. Under Korea, Chinese Depen- dencies, Russo-Japanese War, and Texts and Trans- lations are many items.

Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 57 contains Noel Humphreys's 'Illustrations of Froissart,' in original publisher's half -morocco binding, 1845, 111.; Lanquet and Cooper's 'Chronicle,' fine clean copy, 1565, 51. 5*. ; and Lloyd's ' Pilgrimage of Princes,' 1573, 8/. 8*. (only one other fine and perfect copy of the present volume, now in the British Museum, has occurred for sale). Under America, is ' Sir Francis Drake Revived,' 1652, 10/. 10*. This is the first collected edition of Drake's voyages. Under Broadsides is ' The Last Will and Testament of John Donne, the Younger,' black border, 1662, 5^. 5*. In this he bequeaths his father's M88. to Izaak Walton, and his doves to Thos. Killigrew, with quaint remarks on the fitness of each legacy. 'The Prince of Orange's Letter to the English Fleet,' 1688, is to be had for 3*. M. Among the Cruikshank items are 'Greenwich Hospital,' 1826, 3/. 3*. ; and first edition of the 'Table Book,' edited by A'Beckett, Punch Office, 1845, 21. 5*. A collec- tion of Elizabethan tracts, including Peter Went- worth's 'Pithie Exhortation,' is 121. 12*. Other- items comprise Goad's 'Dolefull Even-Song,' 1623, 21. 2*. (an account of the fall of the floor -while Drury, a Jesuit, was preaching at Hunsdon House,