Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
The reputation which Mr. Foss acquired as a diligent investigator of legal antiquities, and an impartial biographer of those who have won for themselves seats on the woolsack or the bench, by the publication of the first two volumes of his Judges of England, with Sketches of their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices connected with the Courts at Westminster from the time of the Conquest, will be more than confirmed by the third and fourth volumes, which have just been issued. In these, which are devoted to the Judges who flourished between the years 1272 and 1485—that is to say, from the reign of Edward I. to that of Richard III. inclusive, Mr. Foss has added 473 to his former list of 580 Judges; and when we say, that every biography shows with what diligence, and we may add with what intelligence, Mr. Foss has waded through all available sources of information, including particularly the voluminous publications of the late Record Commission, we have done more than sufficient to justify our opening statement, and to recommend his work to the favourable notice of all lovers of historical truth. To the general reader the surveys of the reigns, in which Mr. Foss points out not only everything remarkable connected with the law, but the gradual development of our legal system, will be by no means the least attractive portion of his book; while his endeavours to trace the successive institution of the several Inns of Court and Chancery, and also of the three different Inns occupied by the Judges and Serjeants, will be found of great interest to the topographical antiquary.
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell, on Friday and Saturday next, a very rare, valuable, and interesting Series of Papal Coins, from Pope Gregory II., anno 715, to Pius IX., anno 1846, the property of an eminent amateur residing at Rome.
BOOKS RECEIVED.—Shall we keep the Crystal Palace, and have Riding and Walking in all Weathers among Flowers, Fountains, and Sculpture? by Denarius. As we believe most of the readers of this pamphlet will answer in the affirmative, we would, with the writer, remind them to "instruct their representatives to say 'Aye,' when Mr. Speaker puts the question in the Commons."—Archæologia Cambrensis. New Series. No. VII. A very excellent number of this valuable Record of the Antiquities of Wales and its Marshes.—Notæ Ferales; a few Words on the Modern System of Interment; its Evils and their Remedy, by Charon. An endeavour to bring the world to "discontinue the system of interment as now practised, and restore that of Urn Burial."
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.—Joseph Lilly's (7. Pall Mall) Catalogue No. 3. of very Cheap, Valuable, and Useful Books; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No. 70. of English and Foreign Second-hand Books; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXIV., No. 5. for 1851 of Old and New Books; B. Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 31. of Books in European and Oriental Languages and Dialects; W. Heath's (29 ½. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 4 for 1851 of Valuable Second-hand Books; S. Alexander's (207. Hoxton Old Town) Catalogue of Cheap Miscellaneous Books; C. J. Stewart's (11. King William Street) Catalogue of Books in Ecclesiastical and Monastic History and Biography, Antiquities, Councils, &c., with a Classified Index.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
- SIR THOS. ELYOT, THE GOVERNOUR. 1st Edit. 1531.
- BASTWICK (DR. JOS.) SUPPLEMENTUM, &c., 1635.
- PRYNNE, CERTAIN QUERIES TO THE BOWERS AT THE NAME OF JESUS. 1636.
- —— A LOOKING GLASSE FOR ALL LORDLY PRELATES. 1636.
- —— CERTAIN QUERIES PROPOUNDED TO BISHOPS, &c. 1636.
- —— NEWS FROM IPSWICH. 1636 and 1641.
- —— A QUENCH COALE. 1637.
- —— ADDITIONS TO THE FIRST PART OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A. AND B. &c. 1636.
- —— PLEASANT PURGE FOR A ROMAN CATHOLICK. 1642.
- —— A GAG FOR LONG-HAIR'D RATTLE HEADS. 1646.
- —— SIX PROPOSITIONS OF UNDOUBTED VERITY, &c. A single leaf. 1648.
- —— THE QUAKERS UNMASKED, &c. 1655.
- SATAN, a Poem, by R. Montgomery.
- ARTHUR YOUNG'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE.
- ARTHUR YOUNG'S TRAVELS IN ITALY.
- BORLAND'S HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF DARIAN.
- DR. ADAMS' SERMON ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRTUE. Any edition.
- ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF BISHOP BUTLER.
- MARLBOROUGH DISPATCHES. Volumes IV. and V.
- ART JOURNAL, 1839 to 1844 inclusive. Also 1849.
- BULWER'S NOVELS. 12mo. Published at 6s. per Vol. Pilgrims of the Rhine, Alice, and Zanoni.
- MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE, continued by Davenport. 12mo. 8 Vols. Published by Tegg and Son, 1835. Volume Eight wanted.
- STEPHANI THESAURUS. Valpy. Parts I. II. X. XI. and XXIX.
- KIRBY'S BRIDGEWATER TREATISE. 2 Vols.
- The Second Vol. of CHAMBERS' CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
- AIKIN'S SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS. 10 Vols. 24mo. Published by Longmans and Co. 1821. Vols. I. V. and VIII. wanted.
- MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF FRANCE. Vol. II. 1830.
- MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Vol. II. 1836. Sixth Edition.
- JAMES'S NAVAL HISTORY. (6 Vols. 8vo.) 1822-4. Vol. VI.
- HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. (8 Vols. 1818.) Vol. IV.
- RUSSELL'S EUROPE, FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. 4to. 1824. Vol. II.
- CLARE'S RURAL MUSE.
- WATT'S BIBLIOTHECA BRITANNICA, Part V. 4to.
- STRUTT'S MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. Vol. II. 4to.
- OLD BAYLEY SESSIONS PAPERS, 1744 to 1774, or any portion thereof. 4to.
- COLDEN'S HISTORY OF THE FIVE INDIAN NATIONS OF CANADA. Vol. I. 12mo. Lond. 1755.
- HEARNE (T.) LELAND'S ITINERARY. Vols. I. II. III. and VII.
- HORACE-ORELLIUS. 2 Vols.
- D'ARBLAY'S DIARY. Vol. III.
- WAAGEN'S WORKS OF ART AND ARTISTS IN ENGLAND. 3 Vols. 8vo. 1838.
- CHEVALIER RAMSAY, ESSAI DE POLITIQUE, où l'on traite de la Nécessité de l'Origine, des Droits, des Bornes et des différentes Formes de la Souveraineté, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de Télémaque. 2 Vols. 12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in 1719.
- The same. Second Edition, under the title "Essai Philosophique sur le Gouvernement Civil, selon les Principes de Fénélon," 12mo. Londres, 1721.
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