sketch of the north bank of the Thames, 1825, being the original roll showing the improvements suggested by Col. Trench, including a proposed quay. Under Oxford we find the decision of Dr. Alworth, 26 October, 1678, "that Edmund Warcup, his wife and family, alone had the right to use and occupy the north aisle in the parish church of Northmore in the co. of Oxford."

Mr. Charles Higham's list includes a unique library of hymnology of 4,000 volumes, many of them described in The Dictionary of Hymnology,' 1892, but others of earlier date and not known to the compilers of that work. The great majority of the books are in English, but some are in Greek, Latin, French, German, and other languages. The price asked is 3157. Mr. W. T. Brooke has largely assisted in the collection. The catalogue contains a wide selection of modern theological books. We notice one exception, a copy of Baronius, 16 vols. folio, calf, 1612-1727, 107. 10s.

Messrs. Idle, of Bloomsbury, have a catalogue of modern books at moderate prices.

Mr. Macphail, of Edinburgh, has in the front page of his catalogue "an ancient prophecy about to be fulfilled" regarding his change of address to St. Giles Street. Among rarities in Scottish literature we find the original drawing in sepia of A Gala Day at Abbotsford,' by Sir William Allan. The picture represents Scott, his family. and friends in the grounds at Abbotsford. The price in frame is 41. 48. Strangvage's Mary Stuart,' 1624, is 21s.; first edition of Rokeby,' with the portrait, which is often missing, 218.; Acts of the Parliament of Scotland,' 1682-1731, 4 vols., 35s.; Lady Anne Barnard's Auld Robin Gray,' edited by Scott, 1825, 428. (only 65 copies printed); and Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum,' 1582. There are also Jacobite works; works relating to family history, the Bairds, Dick Cunynghames, Douglases, Egertons, Gowries, Mures, &c.; Views of London,' 1794; and Trials."

Messrs. B. & J. F. Meehan, of Bath, have books relating to Bath ranging from 1770 to the present time. There is a 'Bath Bibliography,' containing 200 works in prose and verse. Other items are Cruikshank's Odds and Ends,' by Merle, 1831, priced at 21. 28.; Scenes from the Pickwick Papers, drawn by Dulcken, 67. 68. ; Wotton's 'Heraldry,' 5 vols., 1741; Collins's Heraldry,' 9 vols., 1779; Once a Week, 13 vols., 1859-65, 17. 10s.; Cripps's Old English Plate'; a set of the Quarterly, 1809 to 1850, 87 vols., 31. 38.; and Wilkes's North Briton, including No. 45, which was suppressed. We wish Messrs. Meehan would print their catalogue on white paper.

Messrs. Parsons's catalogue includes Bryan's 'Painters,' a magnificently extra-illustrated copy, 4501.; a large collection of Alken's illustrations; Audsley's Arts of Japan,' 1882-4, very rare, 107. 108.; works of Bartolozzi; Boydell's Thames,' 147. 148.; Burton's Arabian Nights'; Rowlandson, 1811, &c., 157. 158.; a number of books on costume; The Politicke and Militarie Discourses of Lord De la Noove,' 1587, 41. 4s.; Dickens's 'Grimaldi,' Bentley, 1838, 37.; Edwards's Etchings of Inns,' privately printed, 1875-80, 124, 128.; Harding's Biographical Mirrour,' 1795, 157. 15s.; original drawings of Gavarni, 50 guineas; Girtin's Views of Paris,' 1802, 71. 78.; Holbein's Portraits,' 1812, 14/. 148.; Houghton Gallery,' Boydell,' 1788, |

40 guineas: Houbraken and Vertue's 'Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain,' 1756, 127. 12s.; Kidd's Views of Jamaica,' 1839; 'Kit-Cat Club Portraits,' 1735, 38 guineas: Madame Lanchester's The Mirior de la Mode,' 1803; Lecomte's 'Costumes de Théâtre de 1600 à 1820,' 1830; Malton's 'Coloured Views of Dublin,' 1791; a large number of works on military costume, including Smith's, published by Colnaghi, 1815, 467.; coloured plate books of battle scenes; Millais's sketches, 25 guineas; an original unused specimen of the Mulready envelope, 10s. 6d.; Nash's Mansions," rare coloured copy, 1839-49, 38 guineas; original water-colours of English ladies' costume, 1800, 25 guineas; panoramas of Queen Victoria's Coronation, giving the Royal cortège and the whole line of decorated streets, also Victoria's Marriage, and the opening of the Royal Exchange; Reynolds's complete engraved works, 1833-66, 180 guineas; War Tracts, Americana, &c., from the collection of General Knollys, 1689-97, 107. 10s.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son have a large number of choice books with coloured plates, including a copy of Pierce Egan, in the original boards, 1821-4, 13. 13s.; Humphries's Middle Ages,' 87.; Mclan's Clans of the Scottish Highlands,' Ackermann, 1845, 77.78.; Racinet's Costume Historique,' 217.; Rowlandson's 'Microcosm of London,' 247.; Les Peuples de la Russie,' Paris, 1812, 97. 58. There are presentation copies, including The Excursion.' Written on the flyleaf is, "To William Wordsworth Talfourd, from his friend William Wordsworth, London, 20 May, 1839." This is priced at 137. 13s. The catalogue is also rich in historical and personal memoirs and military works.

Messrs. Sotheran's April list is, like all their catalogues, full of interest. It opens with subjects relating to Africa; then we have Alp-lore, then Americana, including Bancroft's Historical Works on Western American Origins,' San Francisco, 1883-93, 39 vols., 271.; Harriman Alaska Expedition,' 17. 15s., described as being one of the most Buckingham's works on America, 1842; Kingsford's important works on North-West America; Silk Canada,' 8 vols., 31. 78. 6d.; the charter granted by William and Mary to the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1726, rare, 18. 188.; The Book of Mormon,' 1840-4, 2 vols. 16mo, 31. 3s. Vues de Boston,' rare, 47. 4s. ; and Schomburgk's 'Guiana,' 251. Under Botany' occur a set of the Botanical scarce, 37. 108. There is a set of the Annual Register, orchids, 221. 10s.; and Sowerby's English Fungi,' Magazine, 1787-1901, 1507.; Sander's great work on 1797-1803[-15], extremely scarce, 217. Napoleon's great work on Egypt, 1809-22, is 637; it was published at 1607. unbound. A choice copy, in the original 88 weekly parts, of 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' is 51. 5s. Other noteworthy items are 34 numbers of the Eton Miniature, 1805; Florian's works,, printed on vellum paper, 15 vols., Didot l'aîné, 1784-92, 107. 108.; Gough's 'Sepulchral Monuments. of Great Britain,' very rare, 1786-96, 251.; Higgins's Celtic Druids'; O'Donovan's Annals,' 7 vols. 4to, Dublin, 1856, 77. 10s.; Hodgson's 'Northumberland, large-paper copy, 421.; a set of the Royal Society Transactions, 211.; and in the Isham reprints Venus and Adonis," from the hitherto unknown edition of 1599, The Passionate Pilgrim,' and others, edited by Charles Edmonds, who discovered them over a stable at Lamport Hall, 1870, 17. 11s. 6d. There are a number of books on Scottish subjects.

and some curious works on witchcraft, including 'Pseudochristus,' 1650; Hopkins's 'Discovery of Witches,' 1647; Perkins's' Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft,' 1608; and a manuscript list of witches in Scotland, 1658.

Mr. James Thin, of Edinburgh, has a number of miscellaneous books on the fine arts. These include Tadema,' selected by F. G. Stephens, 21. 28.; ‘History of Art Sales, 1628-1887,' 2 vols. royal 4to, issued to subscribers only, 1888, 247.; British Gallery of Pictures,' 31. 10s.; Life of Vicat Cole,' by Robert Chignell'; Gallery of Pictures selected from the Galleries and Private Collections of Great Britain,' with descriptions by S. C. Hall, 1872, 71.78.; Ottley's 'Wood Engraving, 1816, 47. 5s.; Stafford Collection; Turner, and Raffaele. The law-books include a set of the Scottish Jurist, 1829-73, and Scottish Law Reporter, 27 vols. Under Military will be found interesting items. Mr. Thin has also a supplementary list of new books at very reduced prices, including the Anglo-Saxon Review for 47. 15s., and Pearson's Historical Maps of England during the First Thirteen Centuries.'

Mr. Thorp, of Reading, has a copy of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 vols., Times office, as new, for 9. Spenser's Faerie Queene,' the beautiful illustrated edition of 1896, is 51. 58.; Talfourd's Lamb, 1838, uncut, scarce, 2. 108.; Barbault's 'Rome,' 1761, large thick paper, 51. 10s.; Holingshead's 'Chronicles,' 1586-7, 107. 10s.; Swift's Directions to Servants,' 1745, 'The Injured Lady, 1746, and The Chace,' the three tracts in 1 vol., Svo. calf, 51. 58.; the Britannia, weekly journal, January, 1840, to December, 1849, 9 vols., 71.; Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts, 1607, a curious work, in which the unicorn, satyr, ape, and hunting horse are described, 77. 10s.; a set of the "Anglo-Catholic Theology Library," Parker, 1841-67, 88 vols. 41. 48.; first edition of Byron's 'Hours of Idleness,' Newark, 1807; Dickens's works, a set of first and early editions, 77. 10s.;, Miss Burney's Camilla and The Wanderer,' first editions; and Parker's Archæology of Rome.' Interesting items are to be found under America, Architecture, Angling, Berkshire, Chronicles, &c.

Mr. Wilfrid M. Voynich sends us another of his short catalogues, and we take the opportunity of offering to him our congratulations on his becoming a naturalized Englishman. The Athenæum believes that he is the first Polish political exile to receive letters of naturalization. The new list is full of rarities. Under Americana is a black-letter Hakluyt, 1589, 301. Archæology includes Alexandro, Dies Geniales,' ed. princeps, Rome, 1522; Junius, "The Painting of the Ancients'; and Prasch's collection of epitaphs, Augsburg, 1624. Under Bibles is the very rare first Polish Bible (the British Museum possesses only an imperfect copy, and Mr. Voynich knows of no copy in America), Cracow, 1561. The price of this is 307. In an interesting note it is mentioned that "few books have been the cause of so much discussion......and the vexed question of the translator's identity is still unsettled." Other noteworthy entries are 'Isocrates,' Basle, 1582 (no copy of this is in the British Museum); France and Spanish Armada,' Bergamo, 1594 (a rare collection, edited by Ventura); Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr. Badman,' 1680, 207. (this is the rare first edition, "no copy has been sold in the auction-rooms in England during the last sixteen years"); Pilgrim's Progress,' Hamburg,

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1703, 12mo, 107. 10s. (the earliest German edition in the British Museum is 1751); English Presses before 1640; Erasmiana; Greek Presses; Incunabula ; Secrets, Inventions, and Occult Science; and Shakespeariana.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have Beattie's Castles and Abbeys,' 21. 10s.; Walbran's Abbeys,' 47. 48. (complete copies of this are seldom to be met with); Archbishop Parker's rare edition of three Chronicles, including Asser's life of Alfred, 1574, 47. 10s.; Bewick's Quadrupeds,' 1807, 67. 68. ; valuable books on birds; second edition of Don Quixote,' 1652, 51. 5s.; Skelton's 'Charles the First'; and Cruikshank's Lessons of Thrift,' handcoloured etchings, Boys, 1820, 5l. 15s. Under Early Printing are St. Jerome's Lives of the Holy Fathers,' Venice, 1483; 'The Decrees of Pope Gregory IX., 1482; and Thomas à Kempis, 12mo, 1486. Hayward's Edward the Sixt,' 1630, and Milles's Heraldry,' 1608, are notable, as are items under Tudor Law, Kelmscott Press, Naval (including Pepys's State of the Royal Navy of England,' first edition, 1690), Walter Pater, Plantin's Press; the second edition of The Faerie Queen,' fine copy, 1611, 107. 108. ; and MacGillivray's Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar,' privately printed by command of Queen Victoria (this copy was presented by Prince Albert to Col. Sir T. Cautley, 1855). There are also a number of bargains for book collectors.

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