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comments by M. Claude Anet and Mr. A. Cooma- raswamy on Dr. Martin's recent book about Oriental Miniature Painting. A welcome contri- bution is M. Tancred Borenius's account of the Venetian pictures in the Augusteum at Oldenburg a small gallery comparatively un visited by tra- vellers.

.BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MR. BLACKWELL of Oxford offers in his Cata- logue 149 an Aldirie Aristophanes editio princeps 1498, for 16/. 16s. Two interesting Bibles are the so-called " Vinegar " Bible, printed, it will be re- membered, by Baskett at Oxford, 1717, the price of which here is 3. 3s. ; and a copy of the faulty edition printed in 1653 by John Field, printer to the Parliament, in which, for the first time, pearl type was used. A copy of Guillim's ' Display of Heraldry,' 1724, is to be had for 51 10s., and Snape's * Anatomy of the Horse,' 1683, for 11. 7s. Another curious item is a copy of the ' Flores Historiarum ' of Matthew of Westminster to give it the title it lays claim to, though there is every reason to identify Matthew of Westminster's work with that of Matthew Paris, 1567, 51. 5s. The list of private press books is a good one. It includes a copy of the Ashendene Dante, 1909, 10?. 10-s'., and two copies of the Ashendene Horace, 1903, for the better of which, on vellum, 10Z. 10s. is asked. From the Doves Press come a Browning's "Men and Women,' 1908, 4Z. 4s., and the 'Pervi- gilium Veneris,' in red and black on vellum, 1910, oJ. 5s. ; and from the Kelmscott Press a copy of Caxton's 'Golden Legend,' 1892, 81. 10s. We may also mention Shaw's ' Arms of the Colleges of Oxford,' 1855, 61. 6s.

BOOKS on America form an important section in the Catalogue No. 105 which we have received from Messrs. Browne & Browne of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

the Hoe library fetched 120 dollars. A complete set of Archceoloffia ^Eliana from the commencement to 1906, in 31 vols., is priced at 3W. "A Curious Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate, written in Spanish by Antonio Colmenero, Doctor in Physicke and Chirurgery, and put into English t>y Don Diego de Vades-forte," a small 4to volume of 27 pages, printed in 1640 by J. Okes, London, is ,n interesting item for which 51. is asked. An editio princeps, in Gothic letter, with some 2,250 woodcuts by Wolgemuth and Pleydenwurf, bound in sixteenth-century calf, of the ' Chronieon Nurem- "burgense, 3 1493, is to be had for ]5l. ; and for 10/. a copy of Biblia Pauperum * Die siben Alter oder Pil- gersohafft der juugfrawen Marie,' printed at Basle in 1520. Surtees's ' Durham,' together with Raine's is offered for 251. (1816-52). Messrs. Browne have also acquired a copy of the translation, entitled ' The Mighty Magician ' and ' Such Stuff as Dreams are made ot,' of Calderon's ' Vida es Suefio ' done "by FitzGerald, and printed only as gifts for his friends, 1853, 151. We may further mention a col- lector's fine series of 67 portraits after Van Dyck, mostly in first and second states, 1630-40, the price of which is given as 4QI.
 * History of North Durham,' making 5 vols. in all,

MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue No. 320 gives us some 537 items old books of the six- teenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries,

among which the English classics are well repre- sented. They make interesting pages, but we have space to mention only a very few specimens. We noticed the following first editions : Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield' and 'She Stoops to Con- quer,' the latter (which has a copy of the original playbill for the first night, 15 March, 1773, inserted in it) being offered for 201., the former for \'25l. ; Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Comedies and Trage- dies,' with portrait of Fletcher, bound by Riviere, 1647, 501. ; Florio's Montaigne, in the original vellum, printed by Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1603, 75J. ; ' Gulliver's Travels,' first issue of first edition, with the spurious third volume, 1727, 20/. ; first illustrated edition of Shakespeare in 7 vols. six volumes printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709, and vol. vii., containing the poems, printed for E. Curll, 1710 45/. ; Bacon r s ' Wisdome of the Ancients,' 1619, 161. ; and Marvell's ' Poems,' with portrait, bound by Riviere, IQl. 10s. A curious item is the translation of a French work, "com- posed by grave persons," called ' Youth's Be- haviour; or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men,' made by Francis Hawkins at the age of eight, 1653, 21. 10s.

WE noticed the following interesting items among many others in the Catalogue No. 232 which Messrs. James Rimell & Sons have recently sent us : a letter of Nelson's, dated June 20, 1795, on board the Agamemnon, to his uncle Suckling, expressing his eagerness to meet the French in battle, 251. ; an autograph copy of Matthew Arnold's ' Stagirius,' presenting several variations from the published version, signed M. A., 1844, 101. 10s. ; a first edition of Bacon's 'Novum Organum,' 1620, 401.; a large number of Cruikshank items, including 'Holiday Scenes,' which consists of four coloured etchings of (i.) children at play in the nursery, (ii.) " break- ing up," (iii.) arriving home from school, and (iv.) on "Black Monday" going back to school, with the original paper wrapper, which has an etching of children in a "Christmas Box," published by S. Knight, Royal Exchange, 1826, 211. ; Berville and Barriere's ' Collection de Me- moires relatifs a la Revolution Francaise,' 57 vols., 1821, &c., 111. ; Horace Walpole's edition of the Memoirs of the Due de Grammont, having inserted in it a large number of engravings and drawings, Strawberry Hill, 1772, 24?. ; a set of twelve coloured plates, illustrating the cultivation of flax and the manufacture of linen in Ireland, by W. Hincks, 1791, 13. 13s. ; a first edition (eighth title) of ' Paradise Lost,' 1669, 15/. 15s. ; and a fine eighteenth- century edition of the 'OEuvres'of Moliere, with engravings, 1773, 45/.

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