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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. MAR. so, 1912.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOC4UEs. MARCH.

THE Catalogue of books on Tudor and Early Stuart Literature (No. 52) sent to us by Mr. P. M. Barnard of Tunbridge Wells runs to 203 items. Thomas Stafford's ' Pacata Hibernia,' a copy which has the rare genuine map of Munster, folio, printed in London 1633, is offered for SI. 10s. ; and Parkinson's ' Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris,'j the first edition, bound in old calf, in some places injured by having had flowers pressed in it, for QL 5s. There is a first edition of Roger Bieston's ' The Bayte and Snare of Fortune .... Treated in a Dialogue between Man and Money,' with the author's name given in an acrostic on the verso of the last leaf a good sound copy, 1550 (?), for 9. 9. : and a first edition of Cotgrave's ' The English Treasury of Wit and Language, collected out<>f the most and best of our English Drammatick Poems : Me- thodically digested into Common Places for General Use,' 1655, for 121. IDs. A black-letter Erasmus, ' Praise of Polie,' " Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner Knight," 1549, a first edition of the English translation, costs 11. Is. ; and a copy of Caxton's translation of the ' Recuile of the Histories of Troie' (Raoul le Fevre), in the third edition, which was printed by William Copland in 1553, is offered for 101. 10s. For 101. is also offered a quarto volume in half russia containing, bound together, two first editions, the one in black letter of Peter Whitehorne's translation of Machiavelli's ' Art of War,' 1560, and the other Whitehorne's own book on ' Certain waies for the orderyng of Souldiers in battelray . . . .And also Fygures of certaine new plattes for fortificacion of Townes : And more ouer, howe to make Saltpeter, Gunpoulder and diuers sortes of Fireworkes or wilde Fyre,' 1562. Nash's ' The Unfortunate Traveller : or, The Life of Jacke Wilton,' must also be mentioned a first edition, black-letter, 4to, 1594 offered at 121. 10s.; and Tindale's ' Obedyence of a Chrysten Man,' black-letter, 8vo, printed by Copland in 1561, the price of which is 51. 5s.

IN Catalogue No. 53 Mr. Barnard offers some 240 books on Scandinavia, many of which should be of value to students. The ' Diplomaterium Islandicum,' vols. i. to vi. complete, and parts of vols. vii. and viii., 1857-1906, for 21. 5s. ; Peringskiold's ' Monumentorum Suco-Gothicorum, Liber Primus,' 1 vol., folio, published at Stock- holm 1710-19, having with it. ' Monumenta Ullerakerensia,' which forms "Liber Secundus," for 31. 3s. ; and the ' Natural History of Norway,' 1755, by Erich Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen, for 11. Is., are the most important of the more general works ; but we must not omit a copy, to be had for 12s. 6d., of the ' Kongs-Skugg-Sio,' the ' Speculum Regale,' which contains Scandi- navian versions of ancient Irish tales. This edition was printed in 1768. Of reprints of the Sagas and Eddas, the most valuable is a complete set of William Morris's and Eirikr Magnusson's " Saga Library," one of 125 numbered large-paper copies, for which 4.1. 10s. is asked.

MB. BERTRAM DOBELL sends us his Catalogue No. 3, of which the principal features [are an autograph letter from the Earl of Pem- broke (Shakespeare's friend) to Robert, Earl of Leicester (1625, 30Z.), and a very interesting

collection of MSS. from the library of David Garrick. The latter includes "fourteen items which are offered separately, the most costly being the first sketch of ' The Clandestine Mar- riage,' partly in Garrick's, partly in George Colman's handwriting, 361. ; three pages of ' Cymon,' a fairy story, entirely in Garrick's handwriting, 15Z. 15s. ; and the part of Lysander in Home's tragedy of ' Agis, performed by Garrick on the first production of the play, and here annotated in his handwriting, 11. 15s. A letter of Charles Lamb's to Moxon, giving directions as to printing, at 151. 15s. ; a letter from Walter Savage Landor to W. L. Bowles, at 61. 6s. ; a letter from Nelson to " Lieut. Green, Marines, H.M. Ship Thunderer, Sheerness," 11. 15s. ; and a brief note from Thackeray, while ill and staying at Brighton, 51. 15s., may be taken as some of the best of the letters. We noticed three foreign books once belonging to Meredith, with translations or notes by his hand, viz., Grillparzer's ' Ahnfrau,' 151. 15s. ; ' Chants Populaires de la Bretagne,' par M. Barzaz- Breiz, SI. 8s. ; and Gautier's ' Les Grotesques,' 4:1. 10s. ; and a French poem, ' Paysage,' written by him on the back of a tradesman's card, 51. 5s. There is a letter, too, from him to Frederick Sandys, 11. 10s. From Peter Hardy's library come 2 vols. of the sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the ' Cantica Canticorum,' manu- script on vellum, in Gothic letter, in two different hands, one vol. bound in purple morocco, the other in boards, 11. 15s. ' Liber Thoma; Reade, Magdalensis Collegii Oxonise Alumnus,' is a commonplace book, " A not booke of divinity and honor. ..." containing " Notes gathered out of many bookes," and a number of poems, 1624, 87. 8s. But in the way of MSS. the greatest prize which this Catalogue offers is undoubtedly the fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish ' Hora> B.V.M. cum Calendario,' written in Gothic letter, and adorned with five miniatures representing the Crucifixion, Pentecost, the Annunciation, the Office for the Dead, and the Day of Judgment, 301. There is another ' Horse ' belonging to the same country and century, but somewhat less perfect, and not fully decorated with miniatures, for 121. ; and a fifteenth- century French ' Roman Lectionary,' having two pages with illuminated borders, 201.

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