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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

CATALOGUES, among other things, show signs of holiday influences, and second-hand books, like new ones, are experiencing a slack season. Mr. Bertram Dobell's list is mainly miscellaneous. Some items of highest interest are found, principally in the early pages. A first folio Ben Jonson, with all the parts in first editions, and with the rare printed title to the second part, is marked 551., a price which a few years ago would have been regarded as preposterous, but is now probably less than its value. A collection of old plays contains many Beaumont and Fletchers, Heywoods, Chapmans, Newcastles, &c. Ford's 'Fancies Chaste and Noble,' 1038, is a great rarity, as is Haughton's ' A Pleasant Comedie ; or, Woman will have her Will,' 1631. A fifth Burns is priced 41. 4*., and 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' with Rowlandson's plates, 121. 12,s. Early Borrows and Brontes, a col- lection of jest-books, a second of chap-books, a DekkerV Batchellor's Banquet ' (black-letter, 1677), some first Shelleys, and a collection of "Ned" Wards stand out conspicuous.

In another "short" catalogue of Mr. Voynich are some curious works on witchcraft ; a Crispus de Montibus, Venice, 1490, remarkable as perhaps the earliest specimen of woodcuts printed in three colours ; some early Petrarchs, including the ' Trionfi,' 1490; a Magnus Glaus, ' Historia delle Gente et a Papeus Comedia de Samaritano Evan- gelico,' 4to, 1542, very rare, not in Brunet and other bibliographers; a Castiglione, ' II Cortigiano,' trans- lated into Castilian by R. J. Boscan, 1539, 6/. 6*. (productions of the early Spanish presses are mostly rare, thanks, probably, to the action of the Inquisi- tion) ; Wagenaer, ' Le Nouveau Miroir des Voiages Marins,' Antwerp, 1600, with a view of Elsinore of about the time of Shakespeare ; the first French translation of Shakespeare, Paris, 1776-82, curious and scarce, l'2l. J2.s. ; Ariosto, 'Gli Suppositi'; third edition of Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' J664; a Corvinus, ' Heptaehordum Danicum,' containing old Danish songs ; a collection of mediieval writers, Duns Scotus, Raymond Lulli, &c. ; the 'Sermones Quadragesimales ' of Jac. de Voragine, fifteenth- century MS. ; a Gratianus, Venice, Jenson, 1477, and a Jac. de Voragine, 'Legends of the Saints,' translated into Italian, from the same press, 1475, S/. 10*. ; a very scarce Bohemian ' Herbal,' 12/. 12s. ; Massinger'a 'New Way to Pay Old Debts,' first edition, 12/. 12*. ; Lodge's Seneca ; John Abbot's 'Jesus Prefigured,' 1623, a scarce English poem; and Latin Bibles, including one printed at Vicenza, 1476.

Mr. T. Thorp's second London catalogue treads

mand) : a fine copy of that most revoltingly indecent work ' Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' with Monnet's plates, 1796, 51. 10*. ; many sporting books; the Britannia, 1840-9, containing many articles by Thackeray not hitherto reprinted; Samuel Wes- ley's 'Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects' 1685 ; Rogers a ' A Cruising Voyage round the World, said to have helped Defoe in his ' Robinson Crusoe ; a series of publications of the Palteon- tographical Society; one of the Early English lext Society ; the Villon Society's chap-book re-

prints ; three autograph letters of interest by Charles Dickens ; Piranesi's Rome,' 341. 10-s. ; Picard's ' Ceremonies,' a very tine copy, 121. 12s. ; and Chaffers's ' Keramic Gallery.' A reviewer's copy of Thackeray's * Prose Works,' 24 vols. out of 30, is offered for 9/. 9s\, with a promise of the other volumes on their appearance !

Mr. E. Menken offers Worlidge's 'Antique Gems' for 4:1. 4s. ; a set of Parker's ' Archaeology of Rome' ; Schrenck's 'Portraits of Emperors, Kings, &c.,' Innspruck, 1603 ; Burke's ' Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies,' with arms emblazoned; Burke's 'Heraldic Illustrations,' 1844-57; a fine book of costumes, plates by Desrais, coloured ; a Latin Terence, 1499, with the famous woodcuts; the " French Court Memoirs " ; some histories of guilds ; Maitland's 'London'; Walpole's 'Letters'; Leigh Hunt's the Examiner ; the ' Musee de France'; a MS. Psalter of the fourteenth century ; a Ramusio's ' Navigation,' 3 vols. folio ; and a series of Cal- decott plates.

Among a large number of miscellaneous books, Burnsiana and the like, issued by Mr. Richard Cameron, of Edinburgh, are the two series of the curious ' Reminiscences of the Monks of St. Giles ' ; Gale and Fell's collection of ' Old English Writers,' 3 vols. folio, 6/. 10-s-. ; and various works concerning Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c.

Mr. Birmingham, of Plymouth, issues a catalogue of much interest to students of local history. Under Devon and Cornwall are found the most attractive items.

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