MR. L. C. BRAUN'S Catalogue 65 contains the 1775 edition of Ariosto, 4 vols., half-calf, 31. 10s.; Stockdale's edition of Gay's Fables,' 1793, 31. 108.; and Paris à travers les Ages,' by Hoffbauer, text by Fournier and others, 3 vols., large folio, green morocco, 41. 48. There are first editions of Vathek,' 1786, and Leigh Hunt's · Men, Women, and Books. French Literature includes Béranger's memoirs, with a 3-page autograph letter by the poet. There are works under Bibliography and Printing, Natural History; Poetry, and Old and Curious. A MS. of the first English newspaper, The English Mercurie, No. 51, Whitehall, July 26th, 1588, is 27. 2s. A note in it says, "There is a MS. copy n the British Museum, but not a printed one, a printed copy not known to exist. This is an exact copy of the one in the British Museum.' The catalogue closes with engraved views and portraits, including many views of old London. Mr. Richard Cameron's Edinburgh Catalogue 232 contains the facsimile issue of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns, 17. 58. ; the Édition de Luxe of Burton's Book-Hunter,' 16s. 6d., and Payne Criticisms on the Bar, which, the Collier's D.N.B.' says, injuriously affected his prospects as a lawyer. Under Heraldry will be found Nisbet's Heraldic Plates,' originally intended for his System of Heraldry,' 11. 168. 6d. Under Edinburgh Theatre there are playbills of 1843-4; and it is needless to say there are plenty of works of Scottish interest. Messrs. S. Drayton & Sons of Exeter send two Catalogues, Nos. 218 and 219. The first is a general list. We note a set of The Ancestor, 17. 108. Under Dickens are first editions of A Child's History' and Nicholas Nickleby,' and under George Eliot the first edition of Silas Marner.' Under English Coronation Records is Mr. Wickham Legg's work, 17. 18.; under Augustus Hare, The History of My Life,' 6 vols., 178. 6d. (out of print); and under Dr. Johnson, The English Poets,' 68 vols., calf, 1779, 17. 15s. There are many works relating to Devon, including Ellacombe's Church Bells,' 27. 108. There are also lists under Egypt, Assyria, and Palestine, and other subjects. Catalogue 219 is devoted to Modern Theology. Mr. W. M. Murphy's Liverpool Catalogue 157 opens with a beautiful set of Burton's Arabian Nights,' Benares, 1885, 157. There is a nice example of painted fore-edges, Melampus,' a poem, 1781, 47. 48. A copy of The Century Dictionary' is priced 67. 108. There are works Under Armour is Hewitt's under America. " Ancient Armour,' scarce, 1855-60, 31. 158. There are sundry Baxter prints. Dickens items include the original parts of Copperfield,' Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend,' some being slightly defective. Under Kate Greenaway is Grandmama's Schooldays,' a stipple engraving, 1881, 27. 28.; under Hogarth, the_1821_edition 2 vols., atlas folio, 37. 158.; under Java, Raffles's History,' 2 vols., 4to, 1817, 5l. 108.; and under Leech a series of humorous coloured prints. Messrs. Myers & Co. send two Catalogues. No. 159 contains general literature. There is a nice copy of A'Beckett's 'Comic History of England,' the original 20 numbers, 1846-8, 91. The Ingoldsby Legends,' 3 vols.,.original cloth, 67. 158., contains a letter from Barham referring to "a periodical which I had been instrumental in bringing into existence (Bentley's Miscellany). Under Hampstead is a collection of rare views, original marriage certifi cates, newspaper cuttings, &c., 1710-1910, bound in a thick folio, 87. 10s.; under Japan is Kaempfer's History,' 1727, 2 vols., folio, 51. 5s.; and under Goldsmith is Cunningham's edition. 4 vols., and Forster's Life, 2 vols., original cloth, 1854, 47. 178. 6d. The large-type edition of Creighton's History of the Papacy (publisher's stamp in vol. i.), 5 vols., is 47. 178. 6d. Dickens items include twenty-four original drawings in sepia by Kyd to illustrate 'Pickwick,' 57. 5s. Messrs. Myers state that this is the only sepia set in existence. · Their Catalogue 160 is devoted to Engraved Portraits. These include John Ayres, teacher of writing, who introduced the Italian hand into England; the Duke of Bridgewater, the great promoter of inland navigation; Combe, author of The Tour of Dr. Syntax'; Frost, the Chartist; and Halley, the predicter of the return of the celebrated comet. Mr. Charles J. Sawyer's Catalogue 22 contains a fine copy of the first edition of Goldsmith's Traveller, 157. 158.; Boydell's Thames, 2 vols., full morocco, 211.; a largest-paper copy of the second issue of the first edition of La Fontaine, Chronicle, all the woodcuts coloured, 1493, 57. 158. ; a sound, tall copy of the Nuremberg 57. 12s. 6d. ; and Ackermann's Oxford,' 137. 108. Under bibliography are the works issued by the Grolier Club. There is the complete unexpurgated edition of Balzac. Dickens items include the first editions of Copperfield,' Martin Chuzzlewit,' and Master Humphrey's Clock.' There is an extra-illustrated copy of Pilkington's Painters,' and a collection of Kent drawings and views from the Hovenden Collection. An unpublished MS. written by Zechariah Cozens, being an Ecclesiastical Topographical History of Kent,' 2 large volumes, is priced 351. 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