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NOTES AND QUERIES. [* s. XL JUNE e, iwa.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

UNDEK the title of ' Rariora,' Messrs. Sotheran & Co., of Piccadilly, issue a catalogue of books, a mere mention of the principal contents of which is impossible within reasonable limits. Under Shakespeare we find the first four Folios at prices mounting from 1251. to 400., with copies of the rare and costly editions of Halliwell-Phillipps, in 17 vols., and of Payne Collier, with an original poem by the editor ; also the original 1640 edition of the poems ; under Milton, the ' Paradise Lost,' 1668, and the much scarcer poems of 1645, with Marshall's fan- tastic portrait, under which the artist innocently prints Milton's derisive Greek verses. Other trea- sures include a first ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' (sold) ; many books in fine bindings ; a remarkable collection of Rowlandson's facetious prints ; a Coryat's ' Crudities,' 1611 ; an early collection of Defoes ; a Chapman's ' Homer,' c. 1616; Holinshed's 'Chronicles,' 1577; early Keatses, some with MS. additions ; a ' Contes ' of La Fontaine, 1762, with twenty planches refusees, in a Derome binding, price 1WI ; the illustrations to the 1734 Moliere ; a first edition of Florio's ' Montaigne ' ; the first ' Rubaiyat ' of Omar Khayyam, price 351. ; Purchas's ' Hakluytus Posthumus ' ; early Shelleys, Swin- burnes, and Tennysons ; a Withers ' Emblemes '; a complete set of ' The London Cries ' ; and some fine Thackerayana, including an original and pleasing drawing by the novelist. Under Ascham, Burns, Boccaccio, &c., are many noteworthy entries.

From their Strand house the same firm note a Caxton Indulgence, 1481, printed in No. 4 type; a 'Bibliotheca Spenceriana' of Dibdin, largest paper; the first Polyglot Bible, 6 vols., 1514-17, with the Hebrew vocabulary, price 1257. ; some scarce chap-books ; the original series of the Early English Text Society's publications ; Gough's ' Sepulchral Monuments ' ; the ' Heralds' Visita- tions ' of the Harleian Society : Cussans's 'Hert- fordshire ' ; Lysons's ' Magna Britannia ' ; Count Pompeo Litta's 'Celebrated Italian Families,' with a long list of pedigrees ; engravings from Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Heywood's ' Seneca's Tenne Tragedies,' 1581 ; a collection of Ritson's anti- quarian publications ; the Somers Tracts ; a second edition of Reginald Scot's ' Discovery of Witch- craft,' 1651 ; a portion of ' The Golden Legend ' of Jacques de Voragine ; some interesting Americana.

The Oriental Catalogue of Mr. Francis Edwards has an interest extending beyond mere advertise- ment, and has value for the bibliophile. It deals with books on India, Ceylon, Burma, and the Mai- dive, Laccadive, Minicoy, Andaman, and Nicobar Islands. It forms the fourth part of a larger Oriental catalogue of books purchased from the libraries of Monier- Williams, Surgeon - General Balfour (author of ' The Cyclopaedia of India '), Sir Bartle Frere, Brian Hodgson, Thomas Walters, and other Oriental scholars and collectors. A fifth part, which is in the press, will contain books on Indo-China, China, Korea, Tibet, Chinese Tartary, Manchuria, and Siberia. With a sixth part, now in preparation, containing books on Japan, For- mosa, Malaya, the Straits Settlements, and the Eastern Archipelago, the work will be complete.

Books of a more miscellaneous and popular kind are represented in the remaining catalogues on our table. Mr. Bertram Dobell opens with books from the library of Miss Perry, friend of Thackeray, one

of which consists of 'An Album of Drawings in Water Colours, Pen and Ink, and Pencil,' signed by Thackeray, Frank Stone, Sir E. Landseer, and other artists. Then comes a collection of books by and concerning the Quakers. On p. 5 appear Coleridge's ' Fall of Robespierre,' first edition ; a first Munchausen ; Shelley's ' St. Irvyne ; or, the Rosicrucians,' and 'Revolt of Islam'; Lander's 'Poems,' 1795; and Lamb's and Lloyd's 'Blank Verse,' 1798. A Crashaw's 'Carmen Deo Nostro' is the rarest of its author's works. There is no copy in the British Museum. An error in the description of the work in 'The Bibliographer's Manual' is pointed out. A series of ' Manuscripts and Historical Documents from the Collection of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps' repays study. 'Verses, Plays, and Poems,' by Dr. John Hoadly, are in the original MS. Many of these are unpub- lished. Mr. Dobell's note should be studied.

In Mr. George Winter's miscellaneous collection the reader will do well to look under Butler, Samuel; Early English Text Society; Folk-lore; Lytton, Lord ; Knolles's ' History of the Ottoman Empire'; and Loutherbourg's 'English Views ' (in colours), London, 1805.

From Leeds comes the catalogue of Mr. Joseph Milligan of books of history, topography, occult lite- rature, &c. Among its treasures are Lord Ronald Gower's 'Sir Thomas Lawrence' (Goupil & Co.); Bacon's 'Henry VII.,' first edition; the first English translation of 'The Decameron' (Jag- gard, 1620) ; Claude's ' Liber Veritatis '; ' The Novelist's Library,' illustrated by Cruikshank ; Donne's 'Poems,' 1639; FitzGerald's 'Polonius'; the 1884 reprint of Hakluyt, large paper ; Chaffers's 'The Keramic Gallery'; a seiies of works on Ireland ; a second series on occult literature ; Whitaker's ' Richmondshire ' ; ' The Heraldry of York Minster,' and many Yorkshire publications.

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