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NOTES AND QUERIES- [ii s. iv. SEPT 9, 1911.

It would have been interesting to have the expert views of The Burlington on the theft of Leonardo's ' La Gioconda ' from the Louvre ; but the loss probably occurred too late in the month of August to be noticed. As we write (4 September) there is no certain news of the whereabouts of the picture, but we hope that its withdrawal may be merely temporary, not engi- neered for gain, but only as a means of showing how inadequately so great a treasure has been guarded.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER.

MR. L. C. BRAUN sends Catalogues 72 and 73. The former includes a large number of engraved views in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Hamp- shire, Hertfordshire, Kent, &c., besides those under Wales. Under London we note the interior of the Society of Arts, 1809 ; the Hall of the Bank of England, 1808 ; Billingsgate, the same date ; the interior of the Surrey Institute, Blackfriars Road, 1809 ; the Blue-Coat School, showing the annual oration ; Exhibition of Water-Colours in Old Bond Street; Buck- ingham Palace, 1809 ; Chelsea Hospital pensioners seated at dinner ; Covent Garden Market during the Westminster election, 1808 ; the House of Commons during a debate in the same year ; Hungerford Suspension Bridge, 1860, &c. Under Topographical Books are Haines's 'Monumental Brasses,' 2 vols., 1861, 21. 5s. ; Suckling's ' Essex,' 4to, 1845, II. 5s. ; Stone's ' Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight,' 1891, II. 10s. ; and ' The Post Office Directory ' for 1828, red morocco, 6s. There are also a number of engraved portraits.

Catalogue 73 contains among first editions ' Our Mutual Friend,' Lytton's ' The Disowned,' 4 vols., Meredith's ' The Tale of Chloe,' Lever's f The Knight of Gwynne,' and Kipling's ' Second Jungle Book ' and ' The Seven Sea's.' The original Pictorial Edition of Shakespeare by Charles Knight, cloth, 8 vcls., 4to, is 11. 15s. There are lists under Foreign Literature. Under Pottery iind Porcelain is the last edition of Litchfield, 1908, 20s. Grose's ' Antiquities of Scotland,' 2 vols., imperial 8vo, calf, 1789-91, is also 20s. It was in this work that ' Tarn o' Shanter ' first .appeared. There are lists under Military and Naval and Poetry. In the Addenda are books irom the library of Miss Bird (Mrs. Bishop), the well-known explorer, some of these being presentation copies.

Mr. B. Dobell's Catalogue 198 starts with .engravings from the famous Huth Collection. We notice also ' Lyrical Ballads,' the first edition of 1798, very rare, 121. ; the ' Gradus ad Cantabri- giam,' with coloured plates, 21. 10s. ; a long letter of Dickens complaining of incivility at the theatre, 1847, 6Z. 6s. ; and Wordsworth's ' Poems,' first edition, 2 vols., scarce, 1807, 11. There are two first editions of Arnold's delightful ' Friend- ship's Garland ' ; and a set of Jane Austen, illustrated mostly by Mr. Hugh Thomson, is attractive. We note also several interesting Dickensiana besides the letter above ; Florio's ' Montaigne,' third edition, 1632, 21. 10s. ; Rus- kin's ' Seven Lamps of Architecture,' first edition, II. 5s. ; and several entries worth attention under Shakespeare, Stevenson, and Tennysop.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 717 contains sets of The Alpine Journal, The Mathematical Journal, the Chaucer, Kent Archaeo- logical, and Palaeontographical Societies, Naval Architects' Institute, and others. It is rich in works on Kent, which include a choice copy of Hasted, 35Z. ; Havell's ' Cruise,' 1823, 8Z. 8s. ; and the rare work by Lewis, ' History and Anti- quities of the Isle of Tenet,' second edition, 1736, 6Z. 6s. Under Entomology will be found Curtis's big work, 9 vols., royal 8vo, cloth, 1862, 18Z. 18s. (published at 43Z. 16s. net) ; Blackwall's ' Spiders,' 3Z. 3s. ; Entomologist's Magazine, 44 vols., new half-calf, 1864-1908, 10Z. 10s.; McCook's 'Ame- rican Spiders,' 3 vols., 4to, cloth, uncut, Phila- delphia, 1889-93, 10Z. 10s. ; and an original subscriber's copy of Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' 3 vols., 4to, bound from the parts in half crushed morocco extra, 1880-87, 14Z. 14s. There are works on Costume, Keramics, Military, and Northumberland. Under Thackeray is an Edition de Luxe, and under Carlyle a Library Edition. Other works are Boswell's ' Life of Johnson,' extra-illustrated with over 500 portraits and views, 4 thick vols., 8vo, half-morOcco, 1826, 9Z. 9s. ; Linton's ' Masters of Wood Engraving,' large paper (limited to 100 copies), New Haven, Connecticut, 1889, uncut, 5Z. 5s. ; an original subscriber's copy of Gould's 'Birds,' 5 vols., imperial folio, green morocco super extra, 1873, 63Z. ; and a long set of Ritson, 33 vols., 1783- 1833, 25Z. Under Scott is a complete set of early editions. There is an uncut set of the scarce work of Shoberl and Pyne, ' The World in Minia- ture,' with over 720 coloured plates of costume, &c., 43 vols., 18mo, old paper boards, Ackermann, 1821-7, 18Z. 18s. Under Trials is a ' Complete Collection of Proceedings for High Treason,' by T. B. and T. J. Howell, with Jardine's Index, 34 vols., royal 8vo, half-bound, 1809-28, 12Z. 12s. There is a set of Vanity Fair, 1868-98, 60 vols., folio, cloth, 111. 17s.

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