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617 LUMSDEN. A Grammar of the Persian Language; comprising a portion of the elements of Arabic inflection. 2 vols. folio Calcutta, 1810 618 NIZAMI. THE FIVE (SIX) ROMANTIC POEMS: Makhzan-i Asrār, Heft Pikar, Khusrau and Shirin, Laila u Majnim, Sikandar Nama and Ikbal Nama, in Persian. 6 vols. in 1, sm. folio, BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED MS. (having the first leaf supplied by a more modern hand) with 6 splendid 'Unwāns, and 23 delicate MINIATURES executed in varying tints; in old green morocco About 1620 18 18 0

The writing is very fine, and seems, as well as the illustrations, to have been done by a Persian hand, although probably in North West India. Some of the 'Unwans are very brilliant.

619 UPANISHAD. The Upnekhat or Sirr-i Akbar (Greatest Mystery), translated from Sanscrit into Persian, roy. 8vo. well written MS. 710 pp. silk cover Oude, 1167 (1753) 620 Philadelphia. PROCEEDINGS of the ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY of PHILADELPHIA. Vols. I-VI, all published, 8vo., with 32 plates, some coloured; half calf, VERY SCARCE Philadelphia, 1861-7 These six volumes comprise all that was published by the Entomological Society of PHILADELPHIA. In 1867, the name of the Society was changed to the American Entomological Society. See No. 209.

621 PINTURICCHIO, LES FRESQUES DU, dans les Salles Borgia au Vatican. Reproductions Phototypiques. Commentaire par F. Earle et H. STEVENSON. Impl. folio, with 133 beautiful plates (2 coloured), reproduced by the phototype process; oak boards, leather gilt back, with a chased metal clasp

Rome, 1898

This volume has been prepared by order of Pope Leo. XIII. on the occasion of the re-opening of the Appartamento Borgia, in 1897, after a complete restoration. The plates reproduce for the first time all the paintings of the Appartamento giving not only each picture singly, but also all the details of interest. The text is divided into three parts, viz., I, History of the Appartamento Borgia. II, History of the Paintings of Pinturicchio. III. Description of the Paintings. The binding is an accurate imitation of that used in the Altemps Library. This publication, of which only one hundred numbered copies have been prepared, will be indispensable to all who are interested in the History of Art at the Renaissance Period.

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622 Poultry. REAUMUR (M. de). The Art of Hatching and Bringing up Domestick Fowls of all kinds, at any time of the year. 8vo., with 15 plates; calf 1750 0 5 "An excellent and valuable work, full of curious Experiments."-Lowndes. 623 PRISSE (E.) Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, etc. of the Nile Valley, impl. folio, 30 plates, COLOURED, AND MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD, in a portfolio

1848 624 RAY (J.). Observations. made in a Journey through part of the LowCountries, Germany, Italy, and France. . . 8vo., with portrait, and plates illustrating mechanical devices for the raising of water, etc.; old calf Included is a catalogue of foreign plants and an account of Francis Willughby's journey through Spain.

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625 GRAY (J. E.) Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the British Museum. 12mo., sewed

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526 GÜNTHER (A.) The REPTILES of British India, folio, with 26 plates representing upwards of 100 specimens; half calf Ray Society, 1864 Gigantic LAND-TORTOISES (Living and Extinct) in the Collection of the British Museum, roy. 4to., with 54 plates; cloth, SCARCE 1877 628 SCHLOSSER (J. A.) de Lacerta Amboinensi, 1768-BODDAERT (P.) de Chatodonte Argo. 1770-BODDAERT (P.) de Testudine Cartilaginea, 1770-BODDAERT (P.) de Rana Bicolore. 1772-in 1 vol., 4to., with 6 coloured plates; calf, rare Amsterdam, 1768-72

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629 ROBERTS (David) The HOLY LAND, Syria, Idumea and Arabia, with descriptions by the Rev. G. Croly, bound in 2 vols., 2 titles, portrait, map and 119 plates coloured by hand and mounted on cardboard, dark blue morocco extra, gilt edges

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EGYPT and NUBIA, with descriptions by W. BROCKEDON, 3 titles, map
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together 6 vols., atlas_folio, 239 plates, coloured to imitate the original Drawings, by DAVID ROBERTS, mounted on cardboard in the original parts as issued

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The Holy Land was originally intended to form two volumes: in the last part of some of the copies of the Egypt there were inserted a third title and a List of Plates for those who wished to divide the Holy Land into three volumes, together with a map of Palestine.

Roberts' Holy Land and Egypt is a really grand and noble publication. The great artist has represented, in his masterly style, all the famous sites of the land of the Bible, and the stupendous Architectural Remains of Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Every one of the plates is a perfect work of art; to all Students of Sacred History, Oriental Scholars, and persons who have travelled in the East, these views are of the highest interest. 31 ROBINSON (T. K.). A Collection of 15 Tracts by this well-known Scientist, bound in 1 vol., 4to. half calf 1816-75

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CONTENTS: An Epicycloid; Oxyhydrogen blowpipe; Construction of Furnaces ; a New Airpump; Correcting Equatorial Observations; Correcting Errors of Astronomical Circle; Longitude by Moon-culminating Stars; Constant of Lunar Nutation; Longitude by Chronometers; Longitude by Rocket Signals; Constant of Refraction; Heat on Affinities of Water; Description of an improved Anemometer; Metallic Conductors; Lifting Power of Electro-Magnet (3 parts); Reduction of Anemograms taken at the Armagh Observatory, 1857-63. 32 ROTH (H. Ling) etc. The Aborigines of Tasmania. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Roy. 8vo., pp. xx, 228, and ciii, with large folding map and numerous illustrations; cloth

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Each volume, 78 6d; or LARGE PAPER, royal 8vo. hf. bd. morocco 634 Vol. I, 48 and 228 pp. 1. STORY OF HOWARD THE HALT; 2. STORY OF THE BANDED MEN; 3. THE STORY OF HEN THORIR 635 Vol II: The EYRBIGGIA Saga, or the Story of the Ere Dwellers, with the Story of the Heath-Slayings, with notes and three Indexes, post 8vo. 54 and 412 pp. Roxburghe

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636 Vol. III: The HEIMSKRINGLA, or, The Stories of the Kings of Norway, called the Round World (Heimskringla), done into English out of the Icelandic, Vol. I, 410 pp. and a large map of Norway, hf. bd. 1893 637 Vol. IV: The HEIMSKRINGLA, Vol. II

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638 Vol. V: The HEIMSKRINGLA, Vol. III, completing the text of the translation

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Containing the First English Translation of the "Heimskringla " made from the original Icelandic, Laing's version being made from the Danish Translation.

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640 Saga Library, Vol. 6, comprising the Indices of the HEIMSKRINGLA. Mr. Magnússon writes:

Cambridge, 31, Bateman Street, Oct. 23rd, 1898.

DEAR SIR,-I am now back at last, minus one half of my eye-sight and the remaining half of an enfeebled condition. I have set to work on the Saga Library and will spare no trouble to give as speedy a conclusion to the volume in hand as my condition for the purpose will allow. On this matter I beg you to rest perfectly assured.-Yours truly, EIRÍKR MAGNÚSSON.

641 COLLINGWOOD AND STEFANSSON'S Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland, 4to., with 151 illustrations, cloth Ulverston, 1899 "A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland' is a picture-book of romantic interest, by Mr. W. G. Collingwood and Dr. Jón Stefánsson. It shows the historic sites of a country whose people are near akin to those of the English North and the Scottish Lowlands, and of whose early history William Morris and Arne Magnússon have given us so much in a superb translation of the ancient records. (When, by the way, is the sixth and index volume of the Saga Library to come ?) The authors have supplied most adequately the background of scenery which the dramatic style of the sagas takes for granted, since they were made for an audience that knew the country. The modern reader,' it is well observed, 'out of Iceland, is wholly at a loss when he tries to stage these dramas to visualise the action and events. Tenderness and passion of a sort may be found wherever human life can be lived; but the intense tenderness and the intense passion of the sagas could only be developed among scenery which, whether the actors felt it or not, reacted upon their sentiment. It was in this belief that we undertook our pilgrimage, and we found that the belief was true. For every touch of human interest in the sagas-pastoral, romantic, or sublime-there was, and still remains, a landscape setting no less sweet, or strange, or stern.' One gets at least a thought of this from the dozen or so of coloured plates in the book, full of softly resplendent colour very magical to English eyes; and there are also some 140 woodcuts from sketches and photographs. With these pictures goes a letterpress telling briefly the most picturesque incidents: a reminder to the student and an incentive to any readers for whom the story of Iceland is still a sealed book. Mr. Collingwood's 'Life and Work of John Ruskin' and Dr. Stefánsson's Danish appreciation of Robert Browning and his times are the author's chief credentials."-Yorkshire Post, June 21st, 1899. 642 SCLATER. The Geography of Mammals, by WILLIAM LUTLEY SCLATER, M.A., F.Z.S., Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town, and PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER, M.b., ph.d., f.r.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, 8vo., cuts, cloth

1899 643 Seismology. The ERUPTION of KRAKATOA, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society. Edited by G. J. Symons. Royal 4to., with coloured frontispiece, woodcuts, and 43 plates; cloth 1888

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ber 26th, 1883. They represent the general colouring of the western sky from sunset
(3.57 P.M.) to the final dying out of the after-glow at about 5.15 P.M.

644 SMILES (Samuel). Lives of the Engineers. 3 vols., 1861-62-Lives of
Boulton and Watt. 1 vol., 1865-together 4 vols., 8vo., with portraits
and numerous illustrations (pub. £4. 4s); cloth
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646 SOLON (L. M.) The Art of the Old English Potter, Svo. second edition
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647 SOMERVILLE (Mary). On Molecular and Microscopic Science. 2 vols.,
post 8vo., with 180 illustrations (pub. 21s); cloth
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Divided into three parts:-I, Atoms and Molecules of Matter. II, Vegetable
Organisms. III, Animal Organisms (Zoophytes, Annulosa, Echinodermata, Crustacea,
Mollusca, etc.).

Spongiada:

648 BOWERBANK (J. S.) Monograph of the British SPONGIADE. 4 vols., 8vo., with 146 plates; cloth (pub. at £4. 4s) Ray Society, 1864-82

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650 DRUMMOND (W.H.) The Large Game and Natural History of South and S. East Africa, 8vo. numerous illustrations, cloth

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651 FAIRFAX (Thos.) The complete Sportsman, 12mo., first edition, front. London, J. Cooke, n. d. 652 GALLWAY (R. Payne-) The Fowler in Ireland, or notes on Wildfowl and Seafowl, 8vo. numerous illustrations, cloth 1882 653 MYERS (A. B. R.) Life with the Hamran Arabs, an account of a sporting tour, post 8vo. plates of sporting trophies, cloth 1876 654 ROOSEVELT (Theodore) BIG GAME HUNTING in the Rockies and and on the Great Plains, comprising "The Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter," impl. 8vo. 2 portraits and 53 etchings and full-page wood engravings, cloth, gilt tops, issued to subscribers only

1899

The author in this volume gives an account of the hunting of every kind of big game known to inhabit Temperate N. America.

655 SLATER'S Illustrated Sporting Books, post 8vo. bd.

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A descriptive survey of a collection of English Illustrated Works of a Sporting or Racy character. 656 WILLIAMSON (Capt. Thomas). ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; a description of the Wild Sports of the East. Oblong royal folio, with 40 COLOURED engravings by drawings by Samuel HowITT; an unspotted and very large copy, almost uncut, hf. morocco

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Syriac:
659 MARGOLIOUTH (G.) Descriptive List of Syriac and Karshuni MSS. in the
British Museum acquired since 1873, royal 8vo., cloth

1899 The MSS. described in the present List were, for the most part, purchased for the Museum by Dr. Budge in 1889 and 1890, at Mōsul, Alkosh and the Tiari district. 660 PALESTINIAN SYRIAC LECTIONARY of the Gospels re-edited from two Sinai MSS. and from Lagarde's edition of the Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum, by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, roy. 4to., hf. bd. uncut

1897 The text of codex B occupies the body of the pages; the variants of the two other codices, A and C, are given in parallel columns flanking the text. 661 THOMPSON (W.). The NATURAL HISTORY of IRELAND. 4 vols., 8vo., with portrait; cloth; scarce 1849-56 Comprising: Birds, 3 vols.; Mammals, Reptiles, Fishes, and Invertebrata, 1 vol. 662 TOBACCO. Everart (Egidius) de herba panacea, quam alii Tabacum,

alii Petum aut Nicotianam vocant, commentariolus-Neandri (Joh.) Tabacologia hoc est Nicotiana descriptio vel eius preparatio et ususEpistolæ et judicia Clarissimorum aliquot Medicorum de TabacoMisscapnus sive de Abusu Tobacci lusus regius-Thorius (R.) Hymnus Tabaci-5 pieces in 1 vol. 18mo. vellum Utrajecti (à la Sphère), 1644 Bound up with the above are: Niphus (A.) de Pulchro et Amore libri, 2 parts, Lugd. Batav., 1641. 663 TRINCHESE (Salvator) MARINE LIFE in the BAY OF GENOA: Aeolididae e famiglie affini del Porto di Genova. Anatomia, Fisiologia, Embriologia delle Phyllobranchidae, Hermaeidae, Aeolididae, Proctonotidae, Dotonida del Porto di Genova, 2 vols. 4to. with 115 partly coloured plates, cloth Bologna, 1877-79, and Roma, 1881 A high-class work on the Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Very few copies were privately printed; none have as yet occurred for sale.

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664 Turkey. REDHOUSE (Sir James W.) A Turkish and English Lexicon,
shewing in English the significations of the Turkish terms, impl. 8vo.,
pp. viii and 2224, hf. morocco
Constantinople, 1890
665 TYNDALL (J.) The GLACIERS of the ALPS. A narrative of Excursions
and Ascents, post 8vo., with 61 illustrations, cloth, very scarce 1860
A presentation copy with Tyndall's signature.

UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHICAL and GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS West of the 100th
Meridian, 4to., cloth :-
666 Vol. V. Zoology. Reports upon the Zoological collections obtained from
Navada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, by
H. C. YARROW, H. W. HENSHAW, E. D. COPE, etc., 4to., 1020 pages and
45 plates (most of them COLOURED) representing many hundreds of figures;
cloth
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667 Vol. VII. Archæology. Reports upon Archæological and Ethnological
Collections from vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, and from
ruined pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, by F. W. Putnam, etc.
with Indian Vocabularies by A. S. Gatschet, 4to. with 20 fine plates,
some coloured, and 135 woodcuts of objects of Ancient Art; cloth 1879
UNITED STATES Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain
Region, 4to. cloth :-

668 CONTRIBUTIONS to NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Vol. VI. The Cegiha
Language, by J. O. Dorsey. 794 pages

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Vol. IX. Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography, by S. R. Riggs. Edited by J. O. Dorsey. 239 pages 671 VERHANDLUNGEN der K. K. ZOOLOGISCH BOTANISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT in WIEN. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft. Vols. V-X, and XX-XLI;-together 28 vols., 8vo., with 395 plates; half calf gilt, marbled edges

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672 Vermes. BAIRD. Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa in the British Museum. 12mo., with 2 plates; sewed

Vertebrate Fauna (The) of Scotland:

673 HARVIE-BROWN (J. A.) and T. E. BUCKLEY. A VERTEBRATE FAUNA
of SUTHERLAND, CAITHNESS, and WEST CROMARTY. Sm. 4to., illustrated;
cloth; VERY SCARCE
Edinburgh, [1887]
674 HARVIE-BROWN (J. A.) and T. E. BUCKLEY. A VERTEBRATE FAUNA
of the OUTER HEBRIDES. Sm. 4to., illustrated; cloth; VERY SCARCE
ib., 1888
675 GRAHAM (H. D.). The BIRDS of IONA and MULL. Edited by J. A.
HARVIE-BROWN. Sm. 4to., illustrated; cloth
ib., 1890
A VERTEBRATE FAUNA

676 HARVIE-BROWN (J. A.) and T. E. BUCKLEY.

of ARGYLL and the INNER HEBRIDES. Sm. 4to., illustrated; cloth

ib., 1892

677 HARVIE-BROWN (J. A.) and T. E. BUCKLEY. A VERTEBRATE FAUNA of the MORAY BASIN. 2 vols., sm. 4to., illustrated; cloth ib., 1895 A beautifully printed and illustrated series, interesting to local collectors, naturalists, and sportsmen, indeed to every lover of a good book. The first two works mentioned have long been out of print, the others should be so shortly. The charming illustrations are by such artists as J. G. Millais, T. G. Keulemans, and Samuel Read.

We receive few books that are so grateful alike to the eye and sense as the sagegreen octavos of Scottish zoological geography which come to us, one after another, from Mr. Douglas. In welcoming this delightful Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands, we feel but one regret, the worlds which are left for Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown to conquer are growing very few. . . We know not how to approach them. Are we to urge them on upon their splendid enterprise, or to hold them back, that our pleasure may be drawn out the longer? The same plan is pursued as in the previous volumes of this admirable series. A detailed physical geography of the islands precedes the catalogue raisonné of the species and habitats. Even to those, therefore, who have little zoological curiosity or knowledge, this book must be of unusual importance, if the reader has an interest in the provinces described.”—Saturday Review.

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