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 440 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vii. MAY 31, ma. with English folk - medicine; and a number of ancient microscopes and optical instruments, gathered from all quarters of Europe, together with a selection of surgical instruments used by famom surgeons when operating on historical per- sonages. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—MAY. MR. P. M. BARXARD of Tunbridaie Wells sends two Catalogues. No. 69 contains Bibliographical Books, and auction, library, and other catalogues, including the Term Catalogues. 1668-1709, privately printed by Edward Arber, 3 vols., 4to, 1903-6. at the price of 102.10*. Mr. Barnard offers them for 15s. Mr. William Jaggard's ' Shakespeare Bibliography,' the hand-made edition, is •_'/. 18*. Mr. Barnard devotes his next Catalogue, No. 70, to Rare and Valuable Spanish Books. MR. HENRY DAVEY'S Catalogue 40 contains a number of works under London Guilds. Under Art there are works on Raeburn, Rembrandt, and Romney. There is also a general list of books at moderate prices. MESSRS. MAOGS BROS.' latest Catalogue of Auto- graph Letters and MSS. (306) is no less varied and interesting than its predecessors. They have a good letter of Tolstoi's, dated Nov., 1897. dealing with his work, to which an English translation is appended, 91. 10s. An important item is a series of seven entertaining letters from Scott to Croker, dated from Abbotsford and Edinburgh between 1816 and 1818, on the subject of the lost Regalia of Scotland. These are inlaid and bound (by Riviere), and two pamphlets by Scott on the Regalia are included in the volume, 1751. For a lengthy letter of some historical value from William Penn, then (Sept.. 1705) in London, to John Evans in charge of the government of Pennsylvania, 1152. is asked; and another autograph of American interest—the price of which is 1001. — is a letter from Capt. John Paul Jones to Jefferson, then Minister Pleni- potentiary of the U.S.A. in France, L'Orient, July, 1785. A small collection of Byron treasures—a letter from Byron, dated Brighton, 1808, to Grey de Ruthyn, and Grey's reply, together with a lock of Byron's hair—is offered for681!.; and for2K. a letter of Byron's to an Eton boy, whom he thanks for his " readiness to patronize the sou of my friend Mr. Hanson.'' There are several good Stuart items, among which we may mention a letter of Charles II. to D'Estrees, 1673, '22/. 10*., and the exceptionally fine letter of Henry, Prince of Wales, in which he describing the Massacre of St. Bartholomew — 1572, 322.—must be mentioned, as also the letter, dated 1634, written by Louis XII I. to Monsieur Boutilier on the subject of three musketeers who are being sent to Richelieu, 151. 15*. The literary items are numerous and good. We have space only to mention the letter of Landor's to Leigh Hunt, criticizing Shelley's 'Cenci,' and including verses of his own on Shelley, undated, 282. MR. W. M. MURPHY'S Liverpool Catalogue 184 is a good miscellaneous list, and the prices are mode- rate. A copv, new. in cloth, of Haydn's 'Royal Copenhagen Porcelain,' 1911, is 2A 2*. MR. LUDWIU ROSENTHAL of Munich sends his Catalogue 149, containing old French books. There are 6,800 items. Lists are given under Africa, Agriculture, Bibliography, Germany and Alsace-Lor- raine. Mathematics, and Military. Under America are the voyages of Lahontan, La Perouse, and Las Casas. Among works under Paris are Conche's 'Galerie du Palais Royal,' 3 vols., folio, 300 francs, and Cosway's' Galerie du Louvre,' 100 francs. There are some choice manuscripts, including ' La De- scription des douze Cesars abregees avec ques leurs figures faictes et portraictes selon le nature!,' on vellum of the sixteenth century, 7,500 francs. MESSRS. SOTHERAN'S Catalogue 735 is full of curious interest. We select for notice a few of the older items, though there are several more modern works which inisiht equally deserve it. There is a oopy of William Adlington's translation of Apuleius, in black - letter, with large woodcut initials, Thomas Harper for Thomas Alchorn, 1639, 51. There is the translation by E.G[rimstone] -Val. Sims for Edward Blount and William Aiisley, 1604—of Acosta's ' The Natvrall and Morall Historic of the East and West Indies,' I"'. 10« ; Also the ' Grooten Atlas oft U'erelt Beschry- ying.' by Joan Blaeu, vols. i.-iii. and vi-ix., in the original Dutch vellum, Amsterdam, 1664-5, 25'. We noticed also a first edition—offered for 9/. 9s.—of Hennepin's ' New Discovery of a Vast Country in America,' having sundry additions which do not appear in the first French edition, 1698; the ' Historia de la Coiiquista de la Provincia de el Itza by Juan de Villagutierre Sotomayor,' Madrid, 1701, 52. 5».; and a copy of the 1539 edition of ' The Caatel of Helth,' by Syr Thomas Elyot a black-letter quarto bound by W. Pratt. 10?. 10*. But the best of these items is a copy of the black- letter first edition of Holinshed's 'Chronicles,' in two thick folio volumes, imprinted for John Harri- son, 1577, which is offered for 251. MESSRS. SrcKLixo have a Catalogue (No. 8) of Engraved Portraits, most of them at moderate prices. We note Bacon, folio engraving by Mar- shall, 1640.5* : Braham the singer, 5».; John Bright, 2*. M.; Rajah Brooke, 21. 2s.; Chapman, the trans- lator of Homer. 2*. W.; Cobden, 2». 6rf.; Capt, Cook, reprinted from the original plate, 5".; De Quincey, 5*.; Elizabeth Fry, II. 15*.; HenRist Home, author of' Orion,' 1*.; George Henry Lewes, 2*.; and Phil May, drawn in crayon by himself (this drawing was made at the Savage Club on the night of Dr. Nansen's reception), 42. 4*. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] J&oitus to (fTorrespun&ents. Ox all communications must be written the nanit and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the valiii of old books and other objects or as to the means oi disposing of them. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to "The Editor of'Notes and Queries'"—Adver- tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lishers "—at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.