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The copy of the first issue of The Complete Angler volume is oblong atlas folio, 1559-1619, 251. with Hawkins's notes, 1760, is 2. 128. The best Under William and Mary are a series of large edition of Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians,' 3 vols., Dutch engravings to celebrate William's departure is 21. There is an interesting series of Coleridge's from Holland, his coronation, &c., Amsterdam, Works, Pickering, 1839-50, 16 vols., 12mo, cloth, 1689, 251. There is a list of over 150 items 21. 10s.; and under Commonwealth, thirty tracts under Palæography and Facsimiles of Manudealing with the Restoration of Charles II., 1659-67, scripts, followed by collections of original drawings by Phiz: Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry,' by Carleton, 1843, 631.; Peter Priggins,' by Hook, 1840, 267.; 'Jack Hinton,' 1501.; The Daltons,'' Davenport Dunn,' and Harry Lorrequer,' 140l.; Tom Burke of Ours,' 2101. and others. 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Under Occult occur Casaubon's Treatise proving Spirits,' 1672, 10s. 6d., and Sibley's Astrology,' 2 vols., 4to, circa 1800, 11. 18. Under Paris is the Edition de Luxe of Menpes, 75 full-page illustrations in colour, 16s. 6d. ; under George Herbert the fourth edition of The Temple,' 1635, 21. 108.; and under Harriet Beecher Stowe the Cruikshank edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin,' 1852, 1l. 12s. 6d., and the first edition of The Minister's Wooing,' 1859, 1l. 58. Messrs. Probsthain & Co. have just issued their fifteenth Oriental Catalogue, dealing with It is well classified. Chinese literature. Mr. Arthur A. Probsthain in an introductory note states that it contains the collection made by the late Dr. Bushell, physician to the British Legation at Peking, during his stay in China. On his return he kept up his friendship with his books, for he was a thorough master of Chinese, reading and speaking the language with fluency. 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