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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MARCH.
MR. JAMES G. COMMIN'S Exeter Catalogue 259 contains under America Catlin's ' North American Indians,' 2 vols., royal 8vo, original issue, 1841, II. 5s. ; and Marcoy's ' Travels in South America,'
2 vols., 4to, 1815, 15s. Works on architecture include Parker's ' Glossary,' 3 vols., 1850, 21. 10s. Under Blake is Young's ' Night Thoughts,' with the forty-two large engravings by Blake, royal 4to, red morocco, with the leaf of explana- tions, 1797, 51. 5s. There is a choice set of Barbauld's " British Novelists," 50 vols., 12mOi full calf, 1810, 11. 10s. Under Dickens are early editions of the Christmas Books, 5 vols., II. 5s. ; the third edition of ' Oliver Twist,'
3 vols., half-morocco, 1841, 11. Is. ; and from the library at Gadshill, with book-plate, Dickens's copy of ' The Dance of Death,' by F. Douce, Pickering, 1833, 21. 2s. Other works include Meredith's novels, 8 vols., II. Is. 6d. ; Pickering's Diamond Edition of the Greek Testa- ment, a choice copy, 1828, 14s. ; Sheridan's edition of Swift, 24 vols., 12mo, 1803, II. Is. ; and the Edition de Luxe of Thackeray, 24 vols., royal 8vo, half green morocco, 1878, 16Z. 16s. {original cost 45Z.).
From the Librairie Dorbon-Ain6 of Paris we have Catalogue 75. Among its thousand items we note Balzac, ' (Euvres illustrees,' 20 vols. in 10, lOOfr. ; Le Bibliophile Beige, 11 vols., 45fr. ; Brunet's ' Manuel du Libraire,' 6 vols., also the Supplement, 9 vols in 8, 320fr. ; Champollion's
- Dictionnaire Egyptien,' 40fr. ; Chateaubriand,
- (Euvres, '22 vols., 2 Of r. ; and Claretie's ' Portraits
Contemporains,' 2 vols., 4fr. There is a choice work, ' Les Evangiles des Dimanches et Fetes de I'Ann^e, suivis de Prieres a la Sainte Vierge et aux Saints,' 1864, 3 vols. in 4, red morocco, the sides richly ornamented, 600fr. The work is described as " Fun des plus beaux qu'ait produit le XIX. Siecle," and is illus- trated with a large number of miniatures repre- senting the principal epochs of art. Other items are Goujet's ' Bibliotheque Francoise,' 18 vols., 40fr. ; Babelais illustrated by Dore, 45fr. ; Revue Illustree, December, 1885, to December, 1903, lOOfr. ; and Le Rire, from its commencement, 10 November, 1894, to October, 1908, 85fr. There is a collection of 62 sale cata- logues made by C. van Peteghem, with prices attached, relating mostly to coins and tokens, 90fr.
Mr. Francis Edwards sends a Catalogue of Books on Architecture, Decoration and Orna- ment, Christian Art and Archaeology, Garden Planning, Old Furniture, &c. It opens with Ackermann's ' Microcosm of London,' 3 vols., 4to, calf, 1808-9, 17Z. 10s., followed by ' Country Seats,' 2 vols., 8vo, 1830, HZ. ; R. and J. Adam's 1 Works in Architecture,' facsimile reprint, folio, Paris, 1900-2, 3Z. 10s. ; Archceologia from its commencement in 1770 to 1900, with General Index to the first 50 vols., 321. ; Audsley's ' The Ornamental Arts of Japan,' folio, 2 vols. in 4 cloth portfolios, 1882-5, 61. ; Belcher and Macartney's ' Later Renaissance Architecture in England,' 2 vols., folio, 11. 10s. ; BoydeU's ' Thames,' 2 vols., folio, contemporary red morocco, 1794-6, 13Z. 10s. ; Britton, Brayley, and Brewer's ' Beauties of England and Wales,'
4,600 views, portraits, and original autographs,
extended to 67 vols., full crimson morocco, 70Z. ;
Ackermann's ' Cambridge,' 2 vols., 4to, russia,
1815, 18Z..; Campbell's ' Vitruvius Britannicus,'
5 vols., folio, calf, 8Z. 10s. ; Edwards's ' Old Inns,'
complete set of three series, 4to, wrappers, 1873-
1887, 3Z. 10s. ; Fowler's coloured engravings of
Roman pavements, 2 vols,, folio, 1798-1823,
17Z. 10s. ; and Lacroix's Works on the Middle
Ages, 5 vols., 7Z. 10s. Under Marbles is Coombe,
Hawkins, and Cockerell's ' Description of the
Ancient Marbles in the British Museum,' 11 vols.,
4to, boards, 1812-61, 7Z. ; and under John Claude
Nattes is a collection of 521 original drawings
illustrating a tour in the Pyrenees, Switzerland,
France, and Italy in 1820-22, 5 vols., 4to, 100Z.
There is also a collection of the magnificent
Works of G. B. and C. F. Piranesi, 14 vols., royal
and imperial folio, full russia, a fine set, 220Z.
These are a few of the important works offered
in this Catalogue by Mr. Edwards.
Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 71 is devoted to Engraved Portraits, and includes all sorts and conditions of men, from kings, archbishops, poets, painters, statesmen, actors, and actresses, to pedestrians, fire-eaters, stone-eaters, conjurers, thief-takers, giants, dwarfs, &c. The alpha- betical arrangement occasionally leads to peculiar contrasts ; for instance, we get a bishop sand- wiched between a horse-rider and a celebrated stone-eater a cardinal between a sportsman and " Dirty Dick." Most items are low-priced. The few exceptions include Betty, the Infant Roscius, folio, fine mezzotint from the original portrait, 2Z. 2s. ; and Colley Cibber, folio, mezzo- tint, fine impression before letters, 1758, 37. 3s.
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McP. K. ("Tasmanian-Lauceston Insurance Com- pany"). Outside our province altogether.
PERTINAX ('D.N.B.'). Not an inquiry we can go into here.
T. B. M. (" Papal Infallibility ").- Too theological for us.
