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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.iv. -NOV. 11,1911.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER.

MESSRS. BROWNE & BROWNE'S Newcastle Catalogue 101 contains some interesting items, especially early American ; Beaumont and Fletcher, 1647, a fine copy, 251. ; The London and English Catalogues of Books, 1814-1907, 24 vols., 8Z. a fine set of Dibdin's Bibliographical Works, 16Z. ; Surtees's ' History of Durham,' large paper, 30Z. ; and George Fox's ' Battle-Door for Teachers,' 1660, 15Z. There are also books of French eigh- teenth-century engravings, Works on the Drama, &c.

Mr. Henry Davey's Catalogue 30 is a general list We may mention Manwood's ' Lawes of the Forest,' black-letter, 1615, 21. 12s. Qd. ; ' Le Livre Rouge,' containing a list of secret pensions at the time of the French Revolution, 2 vols. in 1, 1790, 31. 15s. ; the first edition of Darwin's Edition of Richardson's Novels, 19 vols., 1902, 3Z. 15s.
 * Origin of Species,' 1859, 11. 5s. ; and the Library

Among the principal items in Mr. William Downing's Birmingham Catalogue 507 are the Villon Society's ' Arabian Nights ' ; Occult Philosophy, including Albertus Magnus, Salmon, and ' The Anatomie of Mortalitie,' 1632 ; three heraldic MSS., including one of great beauty and interest (on vellum) with 10 plates of arms, 4to, full morocco, 60Z. ; and ' Moths and Butterflies of the U.S.A.,' With illustrations composed of the .actual wings of the insects described, 2 vols.

Mr. William Glaisher's November Catalogue of Remainders includes Cundall's ' History of British Water-Colour Painting,' with 58 coloured plates, 7s. Qd. ; Gasquet's ' Greater Abbeys of England,' with 60 coloured plates, 7s. Qd. ; 'Auto- biography and Memoirs of the Eighth Duke of Argyll,' 2 vols., 7s. Qd. ; and other Works at low prices.

Mr. E. Joseph's Catalogue 14 contains the library of Dr. John Campbell Oman, including many interesting and scarce books relating to the various religions of the world and to philo- sophy, besides works on India and the East. The second part of the Catalogue comprises all classes of literature, including many items on London, Spiritualism, Philology, Shakespeare and the Drama, and Sport and Travel. We may mention Papworth's ' Select Views of London,' with 76 coloured plates, tall copy, 1816, 20Z. ; Johnson's ' Poets,' edited by Chalmers, 21 vols., 1810, 6Z. 6s. ; ' Hansard's Parliamentary Debates,' 1901-8, 111 vols., and House of Commons' Debates, 1909, 13 vols., 221. 10s. ; ' Peregrine Pickle,' first edition, 4 vols., 1751, Ql. 6s. ; and the Villon Society's translation of the ' Thousand and One Nights,' &c., 13 vols., 1882-9, 12Z. 12s.

Messrs. Sotheran's Price Current 720 is devoted to Meteorology, Terrestrial Magnetism, and Airmanship. Included are the rare three original editions of Dr. William Gilbert's celebrated ' De Magnete ' (1600, 1628, 1633) ; a copy of Norman's ' New Attractive ' of 1585, which con- tains the discovery of the inclination of the magnetic needle ; Lana's ' Prodromo ' (1670), the earliest work formulating a theory of aero- statics, and making the first suggestion of a balloon ; and many other rare and interesting .books.

Mr. James Thin of Edinburgh devotes his Catalogue 169 to Natural History. The Pro- ceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club, 1831-1905, 19 vols., is IQL 10s. ; Harvie- Brown and Buckley's ' Vertebrate Fauna of Scot- land,' complete set, 11 vols., 16Z. 16s. ; J. G. Millais's ' Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, with many illustrations, 3 vols., 13Z. ; Nature 1869-1909, 81 vols., 10Z. 10s. ; and The Zoologist 1843-1910, 68 vols., 12Z. 10s. Under Ornithology are The Auk, Vols. I.-XXVIL, 18Z. 10s. ; Dresser's ' Birds of Europe,' with over 700 illustrations, 9 vols., 60Z. ; The Ibis, 1859-1910, 56 vols., 95Z. ; Lord Lilford's ' Birds of the British Islands,' With 421 coloured plates, 7 vols., 55Z. ; and Selby's ' Illustrations of British Ornithology,' with 383 coloured figures, 4 vols., 22Z. 10s.

Messrs. Young & Sons of Liverpool include in their Catalogue CCCCXXVI. Higden's ' Poly- cronicon,' 1527 ; an extensively extra-illustrated copy of Lysons's ' London ' ; many examples of modern artistic binding ; a large volume of Chinese drawings ; a collection of original editions of Lever's Works ; books printed at the Kelmscott Press ; an uncut copy of Egan's ' Boxiana ' ; and many sporting books. There are also several old coloured prints ; an original water-colour drawing by Kate Greenaway ; the first English edition of King James I.'s ' Basilicon Doron,' 1603 ; an uncut set of the first edition of Hone's Every-Day and Table Books ; extra-illustrated copies of Voltaire's ' La Pucelle,' 1789, Madame Junot's Memoirs, and Byron's Poetical Works, besides books about Coaching, Charles I., the Drama, France,JIreland, Italy, Quakers, Volcanoes, and Yorkshire, and interesting examples of early printing.

HERR LEO LIEPMANNSSOHN will conduct at Berlin on the 17th and 18th inst. a sale of inter- esting autographs of eminent musicians. The Catalogue just published contains valuable manu- scripts of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Weber from the family of the famous pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles (the intimate friend of Mendelssohn), who for many years resided in London. There are also autograph manuscripts and letters of Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Thomas Moore, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann, and a magnificent collection of Wagner autographs from the heirs of the late Alfred Bovet of Paris, the distinguished autograph collector. The Catalogue will be sent free on application to 14, Bernburgerstrasse, Berlin.

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RAVEN ("Derivation of 'Saunter'"). See the note by PROF. SKEAT at 10 S. ii. 224. T. JONES (" Holed Stones "). Proof received.