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manner) as entertaining an idea that the first edition is dated 1609.

I could satisfactorily have answered this in the negative, and from the undeniable evidence of my own copy of the work, that the supposed date of 1609 is a mistake ; and that the first edition, as well as the second, is dated 1621.

The title-page of the first edition runs thus :

" A Discourse of Trade from England unto the East Indies : Answering to diuerse Obiections which are usually made against the same. By T. M. London : printed by Nicholas Okes for John Pyper, 1621." (4to., pp. 58.)

The fact that the publication of this work forms almost an epoch in the history of commercial principles, and that the date of 1609, quoted doubtingly by Mr. M c Culloch, is quoted posi- tively by some foreign writers, would constitute a sufficient reason for this Note ; but I am the more induced to submit it now from the following circumstance. The Political Economy Club, one of the most distinguished private literary and scientific societies of the metropolis, and which includes amongst its forty members many of the first political economists and statesmen of the day, has, with a true regard to the objects of its founda- tion, devoted a portion of a surplus fund at its disposal to the editing, for distribution to its members and their immediate friends, one hundred copies of a handsome octavo volume of reprints of rare and valuable Commercial and Politico-Eco- nomical Tracts by early writers, as Mun, Fortrey, North, &c.

The preface to this volume has been written by Mr. M c Culloch, and the tracts contained in it were chosen by that gentleman from his own library. Mun's Discourse, Spc., is reprinted from the second edition, and Mr. M c Culloch again refers to the first edition as stated to have ap- peared in 1609.

I trust that the present Note, in correction of that date, may not entirely escape any future editor of Mun's works. On the subject of the early East Indian trade, and of the controversial pamphlets it gave rise to, there are several biblio- graphical notes in Mr. Macaulay's History of Eng- land ; and, to indicate to your readers that the question of the export of bullion from England to the East Indies is by no means an exhausted, or merely antiquarian, speculation, but a topic of existing importance, I may refer them to the paper which will appear in the next number of the Statistical Society's Journal, contributed by Colonel Sykes, the chairman elect of the East India Company. FRED. HENDRIKS.

BARE BOOKS RELATING TO IRELAND, ETC.

I send you the names of a few rare books, mostly relating to Ireland, from the Catalogue of

Miscellaneous Books, which will be sold this week at the Literary Sale Rooms, Anglesea Street, Dublin. Should you approve of the list, it may be well to give it a permanent record in " N. & Q.," as I have no doubt many of the articles will interest your readers :

9. The Magazine of Magazines (printed in Limerick).

5 vols., various. V. d. 37. Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica (very rare).

London. 1703. 39. Barrymcre's (Earl of) Life (curious and rare).

London. 1793. 61. Lynch's Historical Treatise of the Travels of Noah

into Europe. London. 1601.

A most rare book, almost unique, by Lynch, an Irishman of Galway. This copy is from the librar}' of the late William IV., when Duke of Clarence, and has his book- plate.

76. Dunton's Dublin Scuffle. London. 1699.

99. Plates of the Battle of the Boyne, and various others relative to Irish History (exceedingly rare). La Haye.

100. Fitz-Gerald's Cork Remembrancer (rare). Cork. 1783.'

101. Walsh's (Father Peter) Four Letters to Persons of Quality (scarce). 1686.

125. Flores omnium pene" Doctorum qui turn in Theo- logia, turn in Philosophia hactenus claruerint, per Tho- mam Hibernicum, vellum (scarce). Lugd. 1567.

127. Beling (R.) Vintliciarum Catholicorum Hibernire, Autore Philopatro Irendo (very rare). Paris. 1650.

176. Amusing Summer Companion to Glaumirc (scarce). Cork. 1814.

176. Frowde's (Captain Neville of Cork) Life and Ex- traordinary Adventures (rare). Berwick. 1792.

197. Carleton's (Bp.) Thankfull Remembrance of God's Mercie, in an Historical Collection of the Great and Mer- cifull Deliverances of the Church and State since the Gospell beganne here to flourish from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth, illustrated with very curious Plates relating to Ireland (excessively rare). London. 1630.

201. Talbot's (R. C. Archbp. of Dublin) Treatise on Religion and Government (very scarce). 1670.

213. Edmundson's (William) Journal, containing va- rious Scenes and Transactions in Ireland (scarce). Dublin. 1715.

227. Turner's (Dawson) Thirty-six Etchings of Irish Antiquities (unpublished). 1830.

It is almost impossible that another copy of this should ever turn up for sale, fifteen copies only having been printed for private distribution, as will be seen by re- ferring to back of title-page. This copy, which be- longed to the author, Dawson Turner, has his autograph, and a list of the parties to whom the fifteen copies were presented, in his handwriting Nearly all the copies have since passed into public libraries.

231. Cavallerius (J. B. de) de Ecclesise Anglicans Trophaia, Plates of English Martyrs. Roma. 1583. An excessively rare work, containing the martyrdom of various English and Irish Saints, and also a curious view of a street in Canterbury pillaged by the Danes.

246. Herbert's (Thos.) Travels into Africa, Asia, &c. Plates. London. 1638. Contains a curious history of the discovery of America by

a Welshman, above 300 years before Columbus.

256. Ware's Antiquities of Ireland, by Harris. 2 vols.