NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
When we consider the popularity attached to the illustrious name of Humboldt, and the great interest excited by the publication of his travels, we scarcely think Mr. Bohn is doing himself justice by including the Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Region of America during the Years 1799-1804, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland; written in French by Alexander von Humboldt: translated and edited by Thomasina Ross, of which the first volume is now before us, in his Scientific Library. His doing so will have a tendency to discourage its perusal by many readers who, having no claim to be considered scientific, will be deterred from opening the pages of a book which, had they met with it in the Standard Library, they would have read and re-read with all the interest which Humboldt's power of contemplating nature in all her grandeur and variety, and of recording the impressions produced by such contemplations, can never fail to excite. We hope this brief notice may be the means of recommending this valuable work to the general reader; to the scientific one it has been so long known, as to render any such recommendation not at all necessary.
We spoke so favourably of The Woman's Journey round the World, when noticing the translation of it issued by Messrs. Longman in their Traveller's Library, that we have now only to record the appearance of another translation in the Illustrated National Library, which differs from the former in being given in an unabridged form; and accompanied by some dozen clever illustrations.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL. Vol. II. Dublin. Luke White. 1789.
ELSLEY ON THE GOSPEL AND ACTS. London, 1833. Vol. I.
ARISTOPHANES, Bekker. London, 1829. In 2 vols. Vol. II.
SPENSER'S WORKS. Pickering's edition, 1839. Sm. 8vo. Vol. V.
WHARTON'S ANGLIA SACRA. Fol. Vol. II.
LYDGATE'S BOKE OF TROGE. 4to. 1555. (Any fragment.)
COLERIDGE'S TABLE TALK. Vol. I. Murray. 1835.
THE BARBERS (a poem), by W. Hutton. 8vo. 1793. (Original edition, not the fac-simile.)
THE DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME TRULY REPRESENTED, by Edw. Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, edited by William Cunningham, Min. Edinburgh.
A CATECHISM TRULY REPRESENTING THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, with an Answer to them, by John Williams, M.A.
THE SALE CATALOGUE OF J. T. Brockett's Library of British and Foreign History, &C. 1823.
DODD'S CERTAMEN UTRIUSQUE ECCLESIÆ; or a List of all the Eminent Writers, Catholics and Protestants, since the Reformation. 1724.
DODD'S APOLOGY FOR THE CHURCH HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 1742. 12mo.
SPECIMENS FOR AMENDMENTS FOR DODD'S CHURCH HISTORY, 1741. 12mo.
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. Vol. I. Part I. (Several Copies are wanting, and it is believed that many are lying in London or Dublin.)
CH. THILLON (DE HALLE) NOUVELLE COLLECTION DES APOCRYPHES. Leipsic, 1832.
THEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED, ETC. 4to. 1726.
A SERMON preached at Fulham in 1810 by the REV. JOHN OWEN of Paglesham, on the death of Mrs. Prowse, Wicken Park, Northamptonshire (Hatchard).
FÜSSLEIN, JOH. CONRAD, BEYTRÄGE ZUR ERLÄUTERUNG DER KIRCHEN-REFORMATIONS-GESCHICHTE DES SCHWEITZERLANDES. 5 Vols. Zurich, 1741.
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