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NOTES AND QUERIES. [lo* s. v, MAY 5, im
Mr. James Thin, of Edinburgh, sends us two
catalogues, one devoted to Botanical Works, in-
cluding a large collection on agriculture. We note
Curtis and Sim's Botanical Magazine, 1787-1835, 15^. ;
and Sanders's great work on orchids, St. Alban's,
1888-94, 18/. Under the Floras of Great Britain,
Europe, Asia, Africa, c., is much of special interest.
Mr. Thin's general list includes the scarce Moxon edition of Shelley, 1839, 21. 16*'. ; a complete set of The Ancestor, II. 18*'. ; first edition of Davenant's Works, 1673, 41. 5s. ; The Portfolio, 18 vols., 12*. 10*. ; Sybel's 'French Revolution,' 1867, 51. 5s.; Hegel's Works, 183245, 21. 10$. ; Grote's ' Greece,' Library Edition, 51. 15s. (now out of print) ; Nichols's
- Literary Anecdotes,' 17 vols., 81. ; Hill Burton's
- Scotland,' 9 vols., 51. 10$. : and John Addington
Symonds's 'Essays,' first edition, 1890, 41. 5s.
Mr. Thomas Thorp's St. Martin's Lane Cata- logue contains recent purchases from several libraries. Among these are works on Buckingham- shire. Under Charles I. is a list of lords, knights, and others "slain by the rebels," 4to, 1663, 24.$. Other items are a collection of rare Garlands, 31. 3-$.; Potts's 'Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster,' 1613, 38*.; 'The Kentish Fable of the Lion and the Foxes,' 1701, 25*.; 'Life at Westminster,' 1845-7, the complete set of 32 numbers, II. Is.; a collection of twenty-seven scarce and curious tracts having reference to Oxford, 1642-7, 91. 9-$.; Percy Society, 30 vols., 121. 12.$.; rare Quaker Tracts collected by J. Pennyman, 1671, various years, 51. 5s.; Poetical Tracts, 1724-1828, 3Z. 3-$.; 300 old ballads, 1813, &c. f 1L 7s.; song sheets and ballads, a large collection from the library of the late W. W. Robinson, 1QL 10$.; Ackermann's
- Westminster Abbey,' large paper, 1812, 51. 5s. ;
Alken's ' John Myttbn,' 1851, 31. 10$. ; and Buck's
- Views of England,' 1723-39, 131. 10-$. There is
much of interest under Cruikshank : interesting
- Cheerful Pastimes,' 1830, 31. 3s. ; ' Robinson
Crusoe,' 31. 7s. 6d. ; and ' Caricatures,' 21. 5s. Under Ainsworth are first editions; and under Defoe is the rare first edition of 'The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,' containing a fine copy of the scarce folding map, 1719, 2,21. IQs. Lebrun's ' Galerie des Peintres Hollandais,' 1792, is 81. 10$.; Roscoe's "Novelist's Library," 1834, 15/. 15.$.; and Strutt's ' Manners and Customs,' first edition, 1774, 31. 10s. First editions of Scott include ^Ivanhoe,' 3/. 5-$.; ' Redgauntlet,' 25.$. ; and ' Kenil- worth,' 36-$. Thackeray first editions include 4 Esmond,' 51. 15s.
Mr. Thorp's Reading list contains a rare Tenny- son item, the first collected edition of * Poems,' 2 vols., in the original boards, Mpxon, 1842, 21/. Other entries are Britton's 'Architectural Anti- quities of Great Britain,' 1835, 21. IQs. ; Aretino's
- Les Sonnets Luxurieux, Texte Italien,' very rare,
51. 5-$. ; a collection of twenty-two scarce tracts relating to Berkshire, 1642-51, 1QL 10*. (the cata- logue gives a list of contents) ; Ashmole's ' Berk- shire,' 1719, 1QL 10-$. : Allibone's ' Dictionary,' 31. 15$. ; and Petherick's ' Catalogue of the York Gate Library,' 16-$. French books include Littre's Dictionary, 4 vols, 1875, 31. 3s.; ' Anthologie Fran- <?oise,' 4 vols , 1765, 41. 4-$. ; and ' Memoires et Avantures d'un Horn me de Qualite,' scarce, 20$. (on one story in vol. vi. Otway founded his play 'The Orphan'). A copy of Hasted's 'County of Kent' contains the rare map of the Hundred of Worth, 4 vols., folio, Canterbury, 1778-99, 24^.
Mr. Wilfrid M. Voynich sends Short Catalogue
No. 17. The entry Aldine Presses begins with the
commentary on Aristotle attributed to Ammonius
Hermene, the rare first Aldine edition, Venice,
1503, 51. 5s. Callot's ' Les Miseres de la Guerre,'
Paris, 1695-1700, is 41. 4.$. ; and Spitzel's * Templum
Honoris Reseratum,' 50 very fine portraits, 1673,
21. IQs. Under ' Scriptores Astronomic! Veteres ' we
find Firmicus, Manilius, and Aratus, 2 vols., 1503,
16/. 16-$. Until Mr. Voynich's discovery of this
copy of the second volume it was only known that
Mazalis had copied the first part. A suppressed
edition of the Latin Bible, Lyons, 1569, is 11. 10s.
This was not in the Caxton Exhibition. An
extremely rare edition of the Italian Bible, trans-
lated by Mallermi, Venice, 1477, is 8/. 8.$. A fine
edition of an early herbal is 'Ortus Sanitatis,'
Strassburg, 1517, 1SI. 18-$. Under China and Japan
is a fierce satire on the Jesuits, attributed to
Francisco de la Piedas, 1654, 71. 7s. Burnet and
also Lenglet du Fresnoy write of it as being ex-
tremely rare, as it was rigidly suppressed by the
Jesuits. A fine copy of Cicero, Venice, 1583, is
priced 31. 3-$. Under Cervantes is the rare first
English edition of the ' Exemplary Novels,' 1640,
151. 15-$. A hitherto unrecorded work.'Divertisse-
ment donne" asa MajesteBritannique a Kensington :
Le Palais des Plaisirs,' London, 1703, is 51. 5s. ; and
Ochino's 'Tragcedie or Dialogue of the Un juste
Usurped Primacie of the Bishop of Rome,' black-
letter, 1549, the very rare first edition, dedicated
to Edward VI., is 151. 15s. The catalogue teems
with interesting items under Liturgies, London,
Mathematics, Turkey, &c.
Mr. George Winter has Green's ' Short History,' 4 vols., 21. 12$. Qd. French memoirs include Barere, translated by V. Payen-Payne, 4 vols., Nichols, 1896, 11. 7s. 6:1. Under Heraldry is Foster's 'Feudal Coats of Arms,' 21. 7s. 6d. Other entries comprise 'Rowlandson,'Chatto & Windus, 1880, 11. 15.$.; first edition of R. L. Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden,' 21. 5s. ; and first edition of Swinburne's ' Poems and Ballads,' 1866, 11. 5s. Illustrated items include 77 Water-Colour Sketches, 1840, 31. 3s. ; 'Guildhall Exhibition,' 1892, 11. 12s. ; Ricketts's ' The Prado,' 21. 2s.; 'Warwickshire,' 32 views, 1829, 11. Is. ; Whistler's 'Gentle Art of making Enemies,' 31. 7s. 6d.; and Morris's 'Residences of the Nobility,' 6 vols., 4to, II. 17s. 6d. There is much of interest under London, Art, Australia, Autographs, Sec.
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