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in price, but scarcely inferior in interest : thus there is Chaucer's ' Tractatus Astrolabii,' the work of a fifteenth-century English scribe (1417- 1433), a copy which is inscribed on the first page " Codex iste attinet magistro Willielmo Mason in utroque Jure Do.," in a fifteenth-century hand, and which belonged later to Sir Kenelm Digby, who has inserted a note to the effect that it was given him by Robert Abbdy, 105Z. Another fifteenth-century French work of unusual attrac- tiveness is a small illuminated MS., on 11 leaves of vellum (2 7/16 in. x 2 in.), of the ' Officium Sancte Crucis,' which from its inscription " Exi- guum Munus Cum det tibi pauper amicus, Accipito placide," is thought to have been a present from the scribe of the convent to a pupil who was leaving. This book, small as it is, contains 7 miniatures, each full page, and it is enclosed in a morocco case inlaid with jewels by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 125L Of two beautiful ' Horaj,' also fifteenth-century work, the more interesting is by a Flemish scribe, and has 14 very small and un- usually fine miniatures, 185Z. The following, among many others, are also worth notice : a fifteenth-century " Eusebius Pamphilus : ' De Evangelica Praeparatione,' Latinum ex Grseco traducta per Georgium Trapezuntium," Italian script in roman letters, 121. 10s. ; a ' Hugo of St. Victor ' of the thirteenth century, in gothic letters with five fine illuminated initials, 63Z. ; and a thirteenth-century ' Testamentum Novum Latinum,' by a German scribe, in gothic cha- racter, in which the decorations show some- thing of Byzantine influence, 151. Nor must we omit a curious English medical MS. of the four- teenth century, done in gothic letters, having illuminated initials, and comprising seven separate treatises, 84Z. For 160Z. is offered a ' Psalteriu Horas Canonicas CS,tare,' printed in gothic cha- racters in red and black upon vellum a unique production, it appears, which bears as colophon, " Completum est in Oppidp Delphensi per me Oornelium Henrici Calcotipum, anno 1530." The Catalogue gives a long and unusually inter- esting collection of Dickens items, worth a sepa- rate study ; a good copy of the first edition of Florio's ' Montaigne,' 1603, 151. ; a first edition of Lewis Carroll's ' Through the Looking- Glass,' with 27 of the original proofs of the illustrations having on them Tenniel's autograph corrections and direc- tions to the engraver, together with three of Tenniel's letters, 1872, 125Z. ; and a copy of Matthew Arnold's prize poem ' Alaric at Rome,' 1840, 651.

MESSRS. E. PARSONS send us an unusually interesting Catalogue, delightfully illustrated, in which are described many books formerly in the Huth Library. A very notable example is ' Le Livre de 1'Ecclesiaste [et Le Cantique du Roy Salomon] de la main d'Esther Anglois, Francoise,' a book already well known to collectors as one of the finest works of this calligraphist, executed apparently for Madame de Rohan. This is in a binding by Clovis Eve, and is offered for 265L We may mention next a Catalogue by Frank Newbolt of Frank Brangwyn's Etched Work, having four original etchings and 46 facsimiles of etchings and drawings, 1908, 23L The " editio prima " of the ' Chronicon Nuremberg- ense ' a good copy is offered for 26 guineas. A very attractive item, of which the price is 55 guineas, is Reinhard's ' Collection de Costumes

Suisses des XXII. Cantons,' being 46 coloured aquatint plates of figures, with backgrounds cha- racteristic of the several cantons : Birmann et Huber, a Basle, 1819. From the Huth Library again come Etterlyn's ' Kronica von der Loblicheii Eydtgnoschaf t. . . .' "in der loblichen statt Basel von Michael Furtter Getruckt," in large gothic block letters with 27 fine woodcuts (1507, 55 guineas) ; Sigismondo Fanti's ' Triompho di Fortuna,' " Impresso in la incJita Citta di Venegia per Agostin da Portese " a book on fortune-telling, engraved almost throughout on wood, and con- taining a great number of portraits in the cuts (1527, 55 guineas), and the story of Fierabras the giant " newlich ausz Frantzosicher sprach in Teusch gebracht," printed by Rodler " zu Siemern" (1533, 50 guineas). There is the Huth copy, too offered for 105Z. of the ' Heldenbuch,' a collection of old German poetry, of which this, printed at Hagenau in 1509, would appear to be the third edition. A very beautiful ' Horae,' a late fifteenth-century French MS., containing 34 large miniatures and much other fine decoration, and thought to have belonged to Marie de M^dicis, is offered for 475Z. An interesting item is a collec- tion of 330 original drawings in Indian ink and water-colour, by William Farington (Commander in the Royal Navy), of boats, ships, and other craft of all nations (1809, 40?.). Nor must we omit to mention a complete set of Turner's ' Liber Studiorum,' to be had for 60 guineas.

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CORRIGENDUM. A nte, p. 291, col. 2, s.v. 'Pan- thera,' for "VySPJ DH read TJJVn DHH.

MR. FIELDING - HALL thanks T. S. 0. for his answer at p. 318, and has no doubt the quotation is what he was seeking.

VERA is much obliged to MR. A. R. BAYLEY [for answr to query.

MR. BURTON GREEN. Forwarded.