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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.
MESSRS. WILLIAM GEORGE'S SONS of Bristol
devote Part 325 of their Library Supply Lists
to the Discovery, Exploration, History,
and
Description of Life, Travel, War, and Sport in
Asia, Africa, America, and Australia. There are
nearly nine hundred items, and most modern
writers and travellers are represented. We
meet with W. F. Ainsworth and the Euphrates
expedition, Beke's 'Abyssinia,' Belcher's Voyages,
Brackenbury's 'Ashanti War,' Dalzel's ' Dahomey,'
Dupuis's * Ashantee,' * Eastern Persia, Boundary
Commission,' with finely coloured plates, Harcus's
' South Australia,' Catlin's ' North America,'
Schuyler's ' Turkistan,' &c.
Messrs. Myers & Co.'s Catalogue 168 is devoted to Finely Engraved and Rare Portraits, of which there are nearly five hundred. We note Abernethy , Beckford, Rosa Bonheur, Brunei, George Canning (a fine proof mezzotint), Byron (a brilliant lettered proof), and Charles II. (a very fine impression, " Sold by Alexander Browne at the blew balcony in Little Queen Street," 1L Is. ) . There are portraits after Gainsborough and Reynolds. Other portraits include Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Goldsmith, and George Herbert, besides one of Madame Middleton, a lady of great beauty who attracted the particular notice of Grammont, a choice and rare mezzotint by Tompson, 7?. 7s. Theatrical portraits include John Mills, Michael Mohun, Kemble, Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Miss Linley, and her brother, and many others. On the cover of the Catalogue Messrs. Myers offer the complete set of 74 original drawings by the late Herbert Railton to illustrate Tristram's ' Moated Houses.'
Messrs. William Smith & Son of Reading send Catalogue 21, New Series, containing Brad- ford's ' Portugal,' 53 beautiful coloured plates, 1809-10, folio, new half-calf, 3?. 10s. ; Acker- mann's ' Oxford,' 2 vols., royal 4to, half-morocco, 1814. 12?. 12s., and ' Westminster,' 2 vols., royal 4to, half-morocco, 1812 4?. 18s. 6d. : a large-paper La Fontaine, the sumptuous edition with Oudry's plates after Cochin and others, 4 voK, folio full calf extra, Paris, 1755-9. 13Z. 13s. ; and Moggridge's c Flora of Mentone,' 99 coloured plates, 1874, 21. 8s. Motorists may be glad to know of a cheap set of The Car, 27 vols., cloth (except last 3 in numbers), 1902-9, 21. 2s. (cost 22?.). Repton's ' Landscape Gardening, with the 16 coloured plates, oblong folio, new half-calf, 1794, is 11. 7s. ; and Wedmore's * Turner and Ruskin,' Edition de Luxe, hand-made Barter. 2 vols., folio, as new, 1900, 61. 6s. (published at 15?. 15s.). There are works under Antiquarian and Topographical. A set of Beaumont and Fletcher, 10 vols., contemporary calf, 1750, is 21. 2s. There are some chapbooks, and works on criminology and prison life. Many works will be found under Napoleon and the French Revo- lution. Shakespeare items include Boydoll's edition, 9 vols., folio, 1802, 51. 5s.
Messrs. Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool send Catalogue CCCCXXI. Under Armour is a fine set of Meyrick, 3 vols.. folio, original half- morocco, 1824, 10?. 10s. There are a number of beautiful royal and armorial bindings. The first edition of Bunbury's caricatures, with all the plates cleverly coloured by hand, 1787, is 51. 5s.
There are many works under Beautiful Wood
Engravings. The first edition of Vecellio's
well-known work on costume, crimson levant,
1590, is 10Z. 10s. There are some choice Cruik-
shanks. Under Devonshire is Polwhele's ' His-
tory,' further illustrated by 162 coats of arms,
russia by Riviere, folio, 1793-1806, 27?. The
items under Dickens include the scarce ' Sketches
by Boz,' 1839, 5?. ; and first editions of ' Bleak
House,' ' Little Dorrit,' and others. Under
Early Printing is John of Salisbury's ' Poly-
craticus,' in choice state, circa 1472-6, small folio,
brown levant by Leighton, 16?. Under Early
Woodcuts is Ludolphus de Saxonia, ' Le Grant
Vita Christi,' translated from the Latin into French
by Lemenand, beautifully printed in Gothic
type, and illustrated with full-page woodcuts,
4 parts in 2 vols., folio, full bound in brown
morocco super-extra, a tall copy, Paris, circa
1500, 52?. 10s. This work is so rare that no
copy is in the British Museum or in the Spencer
Library, nor is this edition mentioned by Hain.
The first edition of Fletcher's ' Purple Island,' a
fine copy, dark-blue morocco, 1633, is 10?. 10s.
Izaak Walton quotes this work, it will be re-
membered, in his ' Angler.' There are entries
under French Literature and German Literature.
Under Hakluyt is the first complete edition,
black-letter, a beautiful copy, and containing
the rare original issue of the suppressed voyage
to Cadiz, 1598-1600, small folio, 45?. Among
Mill's works is the complete series of ' Disserta-
tions and Discussions,' 4 vols., original cloth,
uncut, scarce, 1867-75, 4?. 4s. A complete set
of the Library Edition of G. P. R. James's
novels, original cloth, ^ 1844-9, is 14?. 14s. ; and
Burton's ' Leicestershire,' russia, 1622, 6?. 6s.
Under London is a fine copy of Lysons's ' En--
virons,' also the Supplement and the companion
volume, together 6 vols., large paper, extended to
9 vols. by 345 old engravings and original water-
colour drawings, 1792-1811, 32?. There are works
of the Plantin Press, and the first edition of
Ovid's ' Metamorphoses ' with the plates by
Lebrun and others. Works under Scotland
include Allan Cunningham's copy, extra-illus-
trated, of Chalmers's ' Caledonia.' Under Surrey
is Manning and Bray's ' History,' further illus-
trated by 340 coats of arms, 3 vols., folio, full
levant by Bedford, 1804-14, 55?.
[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]
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