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NOTES AND QUERIES. [u s. vm. D EC 27, 1913.

MR. CECIL CLARKE writes: "Permit an expres- sion of complete concurrence with the remarks contained in your obituary notice of the lamented antiquary and collector Ambrose Heal (see ante, p. 479). Some years ago Mr. Heal kindly placed .at the disposal of the writer much interesting material anent family associations with old St. Pancras parish, which would probably have been otherwise unobtainable. No doubt many another ^jould testify to like courtesies received at his

" It is gratifying to know that Mr. Heal's valu- able collections will in due course find a permanent home at the St. Pancras Library, under the careful supervision of Mr. F. \V. Avant."

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. DECEMBER.

MR. P. M. BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells sends us his Catalogue 80 Autographs, Char- ters,, and other Documents (291 items), Part I. containing autographs and papers of personal interest, Part II. early deeds and charters. Among the former we notice the following : Privy Council Letter, 4 April, 1575, with four lines in the autograph of Lord Burleigh, and signatures of Burleigh, the Earls of Lincoln, Leicester, Warwick, and Sussex, and Sir Thomas Smith a notable group of signatures, 51. 5*. ; Drummond of Haw- thornden, 91. ; Francisco Foscari, Doge of Venice, D.S., 8 May, 14:38, 20/. ; a letter of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I., to her brother, 301. ; Josephine Bonaparte, L.S., 11 March, 1799, 1. 5s. ; Sir Walter Scott, A.L.S. to George Canning, with his answer, 10Z. 10s. ; and the receipt for the payment of Mary Sidney's dowry, signed H. Pem- broke, 3 Feb., 1577, 351. -There are also letters of Darwin, Macaulay, Daniel O'Connell, Cecil Rhodes, rSouthey, Wellington, and Wordsworth, and a number of letters and documents connected with the French Revolution.

MR. ROBERT MCOLURE'S Glasgow Catalogue 24 contains works on Glasgow. There is a 'Steam- boat Companion to the Western Highlands and the Highlands' (1820, 7s. 6U), which has a list of the first 24 steamers on the Clyde, including the Comet. Among Burns items is the first Picker- ing edition, 2 vols., half calf, 1830, 15s. Under Edinburgh are 63 drawings of buildings, edited by T. G. Stevenson, large folio, cloth as new (4J guineas to subscribers), 12s. Gd. Mr. McClure has a collection of historical MSS., * Relationi d' Am- basciatori Venetian! a diversi Potentate,' includ- ing Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Prince her son (this Mr. McClure has transcribed and edited, and publishes at Is.). The price of the collection is .50 guineas. There are two MSS. from Sir Thomas Phillipps's collection : k The Borgias Pope Alex- ander VI. and his Children,' 10Z. 10-s., and an early work on Spain, Cesare Conparelli's ' Discorse della Monarchia di Spagnia,' SI. 15s.

As a Supplement to their Catalogue 316 Messrs. Maggs have issued the description of the Gordon collection of water - colour drawings depicting scenes, characters, and the fauna and flora of South Africa from 1777 to 1795. This was made by Col. Robert Jacob Gordon, a Dutchman of Scottish extraction the same who reached and named the Orange River in 1778. He was no mean artist besides being a fine geographic draughtsman. The collection consists of over 400 drawings as yet

unpublished made to scale, and illustrated by scientific descriptions in Dutch. Many of the views and plans are on an unusually large scale, the largest being 25 feet in length. Those of the Orange River are the first ever made. The whole is contained in 6 volumes (elephant folio), and is offered for 1,250Z. MESSRS. T. H. PARKER BROS., in response to a general demand, have reissued and augmented their Catalogue of Military Prints. It contains 3,422 items, and is No. 9 of their catalogues on this sub- ject. The demand for military prints increases, and the frequent queries in our columns as to cos- tumes of the various armies show how extended is the interest in them. The Catalogue is admirably arranged, with a good general index, and really form's a work of reference. There is also a Regimental Index. British portraits are arranged alphabeti- cally, while foreign ones are placed under countries. The lists under Costumes, Household Cavalry, Cavalry, Artillery, &c., are arranged chronologically. Garrison towns in the United Kingdom are under counties, and those abroad, including Greater Britain, are under countries. Caricatures are under artists or publishers.

MESSRS. HENRY SOTHERAN'S Catalogue 740 is Part I. of the list of their books on Theology, and runs from A to Ha. It includes the libraries of the late Canon Lowe, the Bishop of Lichfield, and Dr. Guinness Rogers. There are a complete set of the Alcuin Club Collections up to 1911, 121. 12s. ; thirty - eight volumes of the ' Annales Eccle- siastici,' in the best edition of 1738-56 (with the exception of an Apparatus and the Indexes), 12/. ; a number of very good Bibles, of which we may mention two copies of the " Great Bible," one in the second edition (first of Cranmer's), " Apryll," 1540, 751. ; the other in the third (second of Cranmer's), " July," 1540, m. ; and seven numbers (1898-1906) of the series of Abyssinian facsimiles brought out by the munificence of Lady Meux, 20/. We noticed also the 'Opera Omnia ' of St. John Chrysostom in the edition published at Paris in the thirties of the last century, 4Z. 4s., and a copy of Daniel's ' Thesaurus Hymnologicus......Collectio amplissima cum Appa-

ratu Critico,' an important work, scarce now, cheap at 51. 10s. Anastasia Dolby's ' Church Embroidery ' and 'Church Vestments,' practically illustrated, published in 1867-8, are to be had for 61. 6s. Messrs. Sotheran have two sets of Dugdale's ' Monasticon Anglicanum ' in the 1846 edition : one in dark-blue morocco by J. Wright, 28Z., the other in black morocco, 2QL An interesting, if regrettable work is Zacharias Ferrerius's ' Hymni Novi Ecclesiastici juxta veram Metri et Latinitatis Normam,' 1525, III. 11s. A good set of Gallandius's ' Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum,' 251., and a black-letter first English edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs,' 25Z., are also worth mention.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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MR. R. S. PENGELLY. For ' The Abbey of Kilk- hampton see 3 S. viii. 455; 4 S. i. 353, 467 ; 9 S. xii. 381,411,488; 10 S. i. 12.

REV. F. J. ASHMALL, We have forwarded your communication to the owner of the 'Manuscript Volume.'

MR. R. C. BOSTOCK. Received. Many thanks.