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more successful in obtaining information about
the name.
The next Henwood Medal, it is announced, -will be ready for bestowal in 1914. Compositions written for the prize must relate to one or other of eight subjects, viz., the geology, mineralogy, mining operations, botany, ornithology, ichthyo- logy, conchology, or antiquities of Cornwall.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER.
AMONG the 414 items of which Mr. Barnard of "Tunbridge Wells has compiled his Catalogue 77 Old Scientific, Medical, and Occult Books we may select the following as worthy our readers' notice : a copy of the " New Light of Alchymie ; 'Taken out of the Fountaine of Nature & Manual! Experience. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur : Written by Micheel Sandivogius .... Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, Written by Paracelsus .... Also a Chymicall Dictionary explaining hard places and words met \vithall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure Authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by
J. F., M.D London: Richard Cotes for
'Thomas Williams, 1650," 31. 10s. ; a first edition of Sir Thomas Browne's ' Pseudodoxia Epidemica,' with the book-plate of Shorthouse, 1646, 21. 18s. ; .John DareH's " A true narration of the strange an4 grevous vexation by the Devil of 7 persons ,in Lancashire, and William Somers of Nottingham
1600," 31. 15s.; Domptius's ' Histoire
admirable de la Possession et Conversion d'vne P^nitente,' 1613, 21. 5s. ; a copy of Fuchsius's
- De Historia Stirpium,' 1551 (" ex libris Magistri
Alexandri Dowglasii"), 21. 5s.; a first edition, in good state, of Gesner's " The newe lewell of
Health Faithfully corrected and published
in Englishe by George Baker, Chirurgian," black- letter, 1576, original vellum, 81. 15s. ; Lang- ham's ' The Garden of Health,' black-letter, 1579, 4:1. 15s. ; Pietro da Medina's ' L'Arte del Navegar .... tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar
Italiano .... In Vinetia, 1555," 31. 15s. ; and
Charles Turnbull's " A perfect & easie Treatise of
the vse of the Coelestial Globe London, for
Symon Waterson, 1597," 51. 15s.
MESSRS. HEFFER & SONS of Cambridge send their Catalogue 103, which forms part ii. of their * Bibliotheca Asiatica,' and certainly de- serves the attention of Oriental scholars. It contains good matter under most of the heads under which Eastern learning may be comprised and we noticed in particular several books e.g. Doughty's ' Travels in Arabia Deserta,' 1888, 91. 9s. ; Rhys Davids and Oldenberg's ' Vinaya Texts,' translated from the Pali, 1881-5, 21. 10s. ; and T. and W. Darnell's ' Oriental Scenery in five parts : Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora,' 1812-16, 31. 3s. which, if they have not reached the dignity of antiques, are at any rate getting rare, and are worth securing whilst one has the chance. The chief prize from the bibliophile's point of view is incon- testably FitzGerald's copy of Falconer's ' Salaman u Absal ' of Mulla Jami, with a few lines of pencil autograph and a letter to FitzGerald from Schutz Wilson, 1850, 10Z. 10s. Another good book is the ' Hortus Indicus Malabaricus ' of Von Bheede tot Draakenstein, Amsterdam, late
seventeenth century, 211. There are two or
- hree good collections of Jesuit writings ; and a
copy of the first edition of the Gospels in Arabic, printed " Romae in Typographia Medicea, 1590," with woodcuts by Antonio Tempesta, 31. 3s. Among Arabic texts and translations we may mention at-Tabari's ' Annales,' the Leiden edition by De Goeje, 1879-1901, 151. ; and another book we noticed is a copy of Burckhardt's ' Arabic Proverbs ; or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians illustrated from their Pro- verbial Sayings current at Cairo,' 1830, 11. 12s. FitzGerald's ' Omar Khayyam ' figures here in Quaritch's edition of 1872, 4Z. 4s. ; and there is a complete set of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1834 October, 1912, to be had for 45Z.
MESSRS. LUZAC in their Bibliotheca Orientahs XIII. announce as for sale a copy of the great Chinese Encyclopaedia compiled by Chinese scholars in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries by order of the Emperor K'ang-Hsi. It is the Palace edition, printed on white paper and bound in yellow covers, and numbers 5,040 volumes in 540 t'ao, 55QI. They have also three volumes of the Encyclopaedia brought out about 300 years earlier in the reign of Yung Lo, the work of 2,169 scholars, which ran to 111,000 bound volumes (too much to be printed). Two copies of it existed : one was destroyed by fire in 1644 ; the other by the Boxers in 1900, with the excep- tion of some odd volumes. The price asked for each of these is 251. From W. G. Aston's library comes a copy of Anderson's ' Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum,' 1886, 121. There is a set of eighteenth-century ' Lettres ^Idifiantes et Curieuses eprites des Missions Etrangeres par quelques Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus,' in 34 vols., for which 81. 8s. is asked. The collection of Dictionaries is a good feature of the Catalogue ; as is also that of Chinese Texts and Translations, among which we noticed the 80 vols. of the ' Collected Works of the Principal Chinese Philosophers of the Chou, Ch'in, and Han Dynasties,' in Chinese, 1901, 81. 8s. Another important work is the ' Encyclopaedia of Mental Philosophy,' in Chinese, with Yung Lo's Preface, dated 1415, 70 parts in 26 vols., 10Z. 10s. An interesting modern work on Japanese art is Jacoby's ' Japanische Schwert- zieraten,' Leipzig, 1904, of which the price here is 121.
[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]
to C0msp0ntonis.
MR. FRANCIS H. RELTON, 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath, asks if COL. PRIDEAUX will be so kind as to tell him in which year's ' Almanach de Gotha' is to be seen the pedigree of the House of Wettin alluded to at 11 S. v. 92.
VERA would be grateful to MR. A. R. BAYLEY if he would kindly state in which of Mrs. Stopes's books the reference given with the Suckling quo- tation occurs.
CORRIGENDUM. R. B R kindly draws our atten- tion to the fact that " Stevenson" on p. 227 should have been "Stephenson."
