Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 4.djvu/409

This page needs to be proofread.

. iv. OCT. si, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 339 upwards of 34,000 plates to the British Museum ; bat in the course of collecting he obtained a large number of duplicates. These Messrs. Ellis have purchased, and the collection is second only in importance to that in the Museum. The arrange- ment of the catalogue, which it is expected will be completed in three parts, is on the lines of the monumental catalogue of the Franks Collection in the British Museum, prepared by E. R. J. Gambler Howe, F.S.A. Mr. H. G. Gadney, of Oxford, has a Plutarch, Cambridge, 1676, 31. 3s.; 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' 1840, 34s.; Bewick's 'Emblems of Mor- tality,'1789, scarce, 36*.; 'Le Decameron,' a Lyon, 1558, 35*.; Borlase's ' The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England,' 1675, 3^. 3s.; and Shipley's ' Ritual of the Altar,' 1878, 21. 10*. There are also interesting items under Science and Historical Works. Mr. William Glaisherhasa new list of remainders- We note just a few: Flower's ' Aquitaine,' with Pennell's illustrations, published at 63*. net, is 10*.; Ascham's ' Works,' 4 vols., 8*.: 'Australasia Illus- trated, 1606 to the Present Time,' described by well-known writers, edited by Dr. Garran, 3 vols. folio, 28*. 6d. ; Heckethprn's ' Lincoln's Inn Fields,' 4*. 6d.; Lewine's ' Bibliography of Eighteenth- Century Art,' large paper, 10*. 6W.; Masuccio'a novels, translated by Yv. G. Waters, edition de luxe, 2 vols., 50*. ; Shaw's 'Encyclopaedia of Ornament,' 10s.; and Spenser's ' Faerie Queene,' with Crane's illustrations, 80s. There is a long list of valuable medical remainders. Mr. Goad, of Bath, has interesting books under America and Russia. Other items include Wood- fall's scarce edition of Junius, 1772, 2 vols., 10?. ; Law's 'Serious Call,' first edition, 1729, 51. 5*.; Prescptt's 'Peru,' Bentley, 1843, H. 5*.; and Ogilvie's 'Dictionary,' 4 vols., II. 5*. There are first editions of Swinburne and Tennyson. Under Strawberry Hill Press, 1758, is a copy of 'Fugitive Pieces,' original calf, 41. 4*. (only 200 copies were printed). Messrs. C. Herbert & Co. have Harris's 'Wild Sports of Southern Africa.' 1839, 16s. ; a set of The Bee; or, Weeldy Literary Intelligencer, 18 vols., 1790-4, 21s.; first edition of Sorrow's ' Bible in edited by John Morley, 35 vols., 38i. ; Longman's Magazine, 1882-93, 22 vols., 21. 2s.; and Mason's ' Norfolk, 4 folio parts as issued, 25s. Mr. E. Menken has Hazlitt's ' Handbook to the Literature of Great Britain,' 7 vols., 41. 4s. ; Pitt's ' English Atlas,' a coloured copy (this the catalogue states to be "really unique, even the copy at the British Museum is plain "}. 1680-&3,61. 61.; Bunsen's •Egypt,' first edition, 1845-57, 35*. 6d.; 'The Eng- lish Rogue,' Pearson's rare reprint, 28*. 6rf. ; Fer- giisaon's 'History of Architecture.' 5 vols., 31. 18* • •Greville Memoirs,' 8 vols., 1875-87, 41. 4*.: Haz- litt's 'Liber Amoris,' scarce, 22*. fid. ; first editions of John Howard's ' State of Prisons,' 1777-89, 25*. 6d. ; Wilson's ' Memorials of Edinburgh,' 18H1, 23s. «rf. : Stow's ' Survey,' 1618, 25*. 6(1. ; Anglo- Saxon Btvitw, J899-1901, 41. 15s. (published at Ol. 10*. net) ; ' Costumes Suisses,' Neuchatel, 1824 41. 4*.; complete set of "Popular County Histories " 14 vols., 1885-95, 4.1. 4t. ; and Duruy's 'Histoire des Romams, 6 vols., and' Histoire des Grecs,' together 10 vols. Paris, 1879-89, 91. 9*. There are other noteworthy items under Early Medical, Early Komance, &c. ' Messrs. James Rimell & Son have an interesting catalogue of books and prints. Under Africa we ftnd Correspondence respecting the Affairs of the Transvaal,' Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1882-90, 121. 10s. Under Airships is a lithograph of 'The First Carnage, the Ariel, crossing the River at London Bridge,' 843, 12*. 6W. Under Canada are views of Colborne s military operations, 1840, 81. 8s. ; plates to illustrate Heriot's ' Travels.' 1807, 41. 15s. Mont- morenci s View of the St. Lawrence,' 1795, 41 • H0'ootor7'd Cockburn's views of Quebec, very rare, 1833, 251. Under United States are portraits A JS i£nr JT Kings who came to England in. April. 1710, on behalf of the Six Nations, very rare Ml. Under Australia are five views of Svdnev 1810, «. 19*. 6d. Under Paris are also old views' There are many interesting plates described under Napoleon and Wellington, including the funeral of the latter. Caricatures of 1830 occur under Motors t and under Golf will be found a portrait of Henry Callender in the uniform of the Blackheath Goff Club, 1812, very rare, 311. 10*. There are also many Alken and Cruikshank items. Mr. James Roche, in his Autumn List, offers a complete set of Havell's • Views of the Thames " McLean. 1818, 2H.; and Upham's 'History of Buddhism, Ackermann, 1829, 31. 10s. Among coloured plates we find ' Procession of Queen Vic- toria to. the City, Nov. 9th, 1837,' ancf ' Queers- Coronation Procession, 1838.' Under Cruikshank is a series of plates ' Going to a Fight,' 1819,101. 10*. Mr. Koclie has also a fine copy of Froissart, 1848 rVr • ? /oi1? !a.rBS-P»P«r c°Py of Grammont'g. Memoirs 1811, it.7*.; and Rowlandson's 'The- English Dance of Death,' 1815, tall copy 11 &, Ihere are many items of interest under Africa' America, India, Biography, and General. Mr. Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich, has sent us four catalogues: one of Newspapers, Letters, &c.. from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth ; and Parts I.-II1 of a collection of Catholic Theology. There can be few booksellers on the Continent, if any, that, equal Mr. Rosenthal in the width and extent of his collections. His catalogues are of great interest, and much increased in value by the fact that they are annotated with references to autho- rities l.ke Dibdin. Panzer. Haiti and Copinger, and Proctor. The Newspaper Catalogue, which has at the end useful indexes of persons and places, begins with a famous letter of Christopher ColuniEu* bound up with six other documents by Plannc'k at Rome in 1493. It is probably not dear at 18.000 marks This is followed by tL first example nre± fof 8al^-°l Vhe, 'C°pia der Newe" ZeytunK' (16.000m ), which belongs to the beginning of thV sixteenth century, and is highly interesting for its mention of ' Presillg Landt "-i.e., Brazil. ItU bound up with a number of other pamphlets, in- cluding several Bulls of Julius II, the Pope who incurred the satire of Erasmus, and was great ?nmV&,t0 c°Pe,.wjth the humours of Michel Angelo In 1554 we find two copies of correspondence between "Philip, King of England," and Cardinal Pole on the means to bring that realm to obedience- to the Pope (36m.). The "New Journals" which abound here deal in treasons, plots, battles and religious disputes without number. In the last