Vespucci's Letters, PUBLISHED BY VARNHAGEN: AMERIGO VESPUCCI, son caractère, ses écrits, sa Vie et ses Navigations, par Varn hagen, sm. folio, map and 2 facsimiles, Lima, 1865-Le Premier Voyage de Vespucci définitivement expliqué dans ses détails, Vienne, 1869-Nou velles Recherches sur les derniers Voyages du Navigateur Florentin, et le. reste des documents et éclaircissements sur lui, avec les textes, (et une, postface) map from the 1513 Ptolemy, and facsimile of Vespucci's letter, Vienne, 1870-together 3 parts, the complete Series, bound in 1 vol. sm. folio, hf. red morocco, gilt edges, £2. 2s 1865-69-70 Also sold separately: Le Premier Voyage de Vespucci, Vienne, 1869— Nouvelles Recherches, Vienne, 1870-as described above, with the maps necessary to complete the volume, printed at Lima, 1865, stitched, 15s Vienne, 1869-70 Waring's Arts connected with Architecture, illustrated by examples in CENTRAL ITALY of STAINED GLASS, FRESCO ORNAMENTS, MARBLE AND ENAMEL INLAY, WOOD INLAY, etc. from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century, 41 beautiful plates in colours, with descriptive text, LARGE PAPER, atlas folio, (pub. at £10. 10s) half bound morocco, gilt edges, £5. 58 1858 "So elaborate, costly, and suggestive a work as that which has been produced by Mr. J. B. Waring, with the aid of Mr. Vincent Brooks, deserves to be set prominently before those who are interested in the subject of it. To produce a work by Chromolithography, containing fortyone large folio plates, blazing with colour, on paper de luxe, solidly bound, involves no small risk financially; and the effort, when worthily made, as this is, should be supported by those who concern themselves with the arts of the country. For years our architecture has been bald and lifeless; restricted to ill-understood imitations, and permitted no aid from her children arts. The forty-one plates in the work before us are appropriated to STAINED GLASS, eight; FRESCO ORNAMENTS and FIGURES, eight; WOOD INLAY, five; and MARBLE ENAMEL INLAY, twenty." Builder. Welsh Dictionary. Spurrell's English-Welsh and Welsh-English PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, 2 vols. in 1 thick 16mo. cloth, the best and most handy compact Welsh Dictionary, equally well adapted to Travellers and Students, 88 1861-66 Welsh Grammar: SPURRELL'S Grammar of the Welsh Language, 12mo. cloth, 38 1870 Westminster and other Drolleries: a Series of English Drolleries, edited by J. W. EBSWORTH, M.A. Cantab. 3 vols. 12mo. cloth, the first volume is out of print, £2. 2s Boston, Lincolnshire, 1875-76 the same, LARGE paper, 3 vols. demy 8vo. cloth, £4. 4s 1875-76 The ORIGINALS are of extreme rarity, a perfect copy seldom being attainable at any public sale. There is no Collection of Songs surpassing it in the language, and as representative of the lyrics of the first twelve years after the Restoration it is unequalled. Everything has been done to make this Reprint worthy of acceptance by all who can relish good things. Westwood (J. O.) Palæographia Sacra Pictoria: a series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible copied from Illuminated Manuscripts executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries, royal 4to. 50 beautiful plates of Miniatures and Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, executed in gold and colours, (pub. £4. 10s) half morocco, £3. 10s 1849 The valuable collection of facsimiles of Manuscripts included in Mr. Westwood's work comprises examples of 113 MSS. in the Original Languages of Scripture, and in the Greek, Oriental, Ancient Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Frankish, Lombardic, Sclavonian, and Theotisc Styles; from MSS. in the Cottonian, Royal, Harleian and other Collections in the British Museum; the Duke of Sussex, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Libraries at Oxford, Cambridge, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Upsal, Rome, and Verona. MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. PROFESSOR WESTWOOD'S MAGNIFICENT ART PUBLICATION; published at £21., extra cloth-offered at £17. 178. 83 The Subscription List has absorbed nearly the entire edition of 200, and the Stones have been destroyed. Very few copies remain for sale. THE MINIATURES AND ORNAMENTS OF ANGLO-SAXON & IRISH MANUSCRIPTS; ONE VOLUME, IMPERIAL FOLIO, ILLUSTRATED IN MOST ELABORATELY EXECUTED IN EXACT FACSIMILE OF With a descriptive text to each Plate, serving as a History of British Palæography and Pictorial Art, by J. O. WESTWOOD, M.A., F.L.S., &c., OXFORD. the same, royal folio, hf. bound morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, .£18. 188 1868 the same, royal folio, superbly and elaborately whole bound in MOROCCO, Keltic ornaments on sides, gilt edges, a binding expressly designed for this work, a masterpiece of BEDFORD's skill, £25. 1868 THE Work now announced as ready for publication may be regarded as constituting the First Chapter of a History of the Fine Arts in this Kingdom, extending from the Roman occupation of Great Britain to the Norman Conquest. By most persons this "dark age," as it has been termed, will scarcely be supposed capable of affording materials for such a history; and indeed, with the exception of a very few examples given by Strutt, Astle, and Shaw, no opportunity had been afforded to the public of judging of the marvellous beauty and excessive intricacy of the ornamentation and designs of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts, until the publication of my "Palæographia Sacra Pictoria," in which I devoted many plates to these marvels of Art. The study of these Manuscripts has, indeed, brought out the singular fact, at a period when the Fine Arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continentnamely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century-a style of art had been established, cu!tivated, and brought to a wonderful state of perfection in these islands, absolutely distinct from that of all other parts of the civilized world, and which was adopted and imitated in the schools founded on the Continent by Charlemagne, as well as in the monastic establishments founded or visited by Anglo-Saxon and Irish Missionaries, many of which became famous seats of learning. On this subject M. Digby Wyatt, one of the most accomplished of living artists, observes, "In delicacy of handling, and minute, but faultless execution, the whole range of palæography affers nothing comparable to these early Irish Manuscripts, and those produced in the same style in England. When in Dublin some years ago, I had the opportunity of studying very carefully the most marvellous of them all-The Book of Kells; some of the ornaments of which I attempted to copy, but broke down in despair. Of this work Mr. Westwood examined the pages, as I did, for hours together, without ever detecting a false line or irregular interlacement." From this fine Manuscript four pages are copied, whilst the Libraries of London, Lambeth, Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Lichfield, Salisbury, Dublin, Paris, Rouen, Boulogne, St. Gall, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Utrecht, St. Petersburgh, &c. have been laid under contribution, and have afforded materials for illustration; amongst which are numerous examples of the later Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, in which an entirely distinct, and equally national style of ornamentation, of a very gorgeous character, was developed in the school of St. Ethelwold. The fac-similes from the original Manuscripts have been executed by myself with the most scrupulous attention to precision of detail; the majority having, in fact, been made with the assistance of a magnifying glass. This statement will, it is hoped, be a sufficient guarantee for the truthfulness of the Plates contained in the work. The fac-similes have been re-produced under my own eye, and the utmost care has been bestowed upon the Chromo-lithographic printing: so that the Work may be regarded as a small paper rival of the grand, but enormously expensive work, of Count Bastard upon the Miniatures and Ornaments of Early French Manuscripts. An accomplished Art Critic, in speaking of Early Keltic Art, said in "The Times" of September 3, 1867 : "The glorious illuminations of the Irish MSS., the most exquisitely beautiful designs with which religious art, so prolific in its creations, has ever enriched the world! It is that strangely 84 BERNARD QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE. Westwood-continued. complicated, interlacing and lacertine knot-work pattern which is so frequently found upon the crosses of the Anglo-Saxon period, and especially common within the kingdom of Northumbria. Introduced into Ireland most probably with Christianity, it there received a very high development by being engrafted upon the native Keltic stock, and thence spread with Irish and Christian teaching, not only to Scotland and the North of England, but to still more distant parts of Europe." Oxford, February, 1868. J. O. WESTWOOD. Yorkshire Visitations, 1584-85 and 1612: THE VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE, made in the years 1584-85, by ROBERT GLOVER, Somerset Herald; to which is added the subsequent Visitation made in 1612, by RICHARD ST. GEORGE, Norroy King of Arms, with several additional Pedigrees, including "The Arms taken out of Churches and Houses at Yorkshire Visitation, 1584-5," "SIR WILLIAM FAYRFAX' Booke of Arms," and other Heraldic Lists, with Copious Indices, edited by Joseph Foster, Compiler of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Collections of Pedigrees, and also editor of the Lincolnshire Collection, uniform in size and binding with the Publications of the Surtees Society, (subscription price £2. 12s 6d) cloth, very few remain for sale, £2. 28 1875 the same, uniform in size and binding with the Publications of the Harleian Society, (subscription price £3. 3s) cloth, £2. 2s 1875 Zoological Museum, Dresden : MITTHEILUNGEN aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden, herausg. von Dr. A. B. Meyer, Director, Part I, impl. 4to. 108 pp. and 4 plates, one (on Ornithology) coloured, bds. 248 Dresden, 1877 CONTENTS: 1. Ornithologische Mittheilungen I. (Diphyllodes Gulielmii III) von Dr. Meyer, with a coloured plate-2. Neue Käfer von Malacca von Th. Kirsch-3. Ueber 135 Papúa-Schädel von Neu Guinea und der Insel Mysore (Geelvinksbai) von Dr. Meyer, with 3 plates-4. Einiges über die Beckenknochen und die Becken der Papúas von Hofrath Prof. Dr. Winckel-5. Messungen von Skeletknochen der Papúas von Dr. E. Tüngel. MITTHEILUNGEN, Part II, impl. 4to. about 160 pp. and 20 plates, four of which are double, nearly ready, probable price, £3. 15s CONTENTS: 1. Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fanna von Neu Guinea von Th. Kirsch, with 3 plates -2. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Coleopteren-Fauna von Neu Guinea von demselben-3. Ueber 135 Papúa-Schädel (Fortsetzung von Heft I) von Dr. A. B. Meyer mit 3 Tafeln nebst einem Anhang über die Unterkiefer der Papúas von Dr. E. Tungel-4. Notizen über die Anthropoiden Affen des Dresdner Museums von Dr. A. B. Meyer, 12 plates-5. Untersuchung der Eingeweide und des Gehirns des Chimpanse-Weibchen Mafoka von Prof. W. von Bischoff-6. Ueber Hexactinelliden von den Philippinischen Inseln von Dr. W. Marshall in Weimar und Dr. A. B. Meyer mit 2 Tafeln. Names of Subscribers for the continuation received through Mr. Quaritch, who has been appointed Agent. We have received the prospectus of a new work by Dr. A. B. Meyer, Director of the Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden, to be entitled " Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten," in which he signifies his intention to publish, in parts, figures of the skeletons of rare and little known birds. Each part is to contain ten plates of large quarto size, one of which, representing the skeleton of the extremely uncommon parrot from New Guinea, Dasyptilus pecqueti (Lesson) accompanies the prospectus. It is a photo-lithograph, and differs materially from any other which we have seen in one important particular, namely that the bones on one side only are depicted, which is a great advantage, as it prevents the confusion unavoidably associated with the representation of the whole structure. The illumination of each bone and focus of every part is most satisfactory, more so in many respects than any drawing could possibly be. Short commentaries, with measurements, will accompany each plate. It is proposed that Part I shall contain figures of Loriculus culasissi, Charmosyna josephina. Meropogon forsteni, Paradisea papuana, Cicinurus regius, Manncodia Chalybea, Ptilobus speciosus, O tidiphaps nobilis, and Gallus Cachiva (from Celebes). In the series is also to be included the skeletons of the several domestic pigeons and fowls. We hope that Dr. Meyer will have a large subscription to this valuable addition to ornithological literature." Nature, September 6th, 1877. G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GARDEN. A MISCELLANEOUS CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE, RARE, AND CURIOUS BOOKS, BOOKS OF PRINTS, WORKS OF NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, ETC., offered for Cash at the prices affixed by BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, LONDON. Agassiz (L.) Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, comprenant la description de 500 espèces qui n'existent plus, l'exposition des lois de la succession et du développement organique des poissons durant toutes les métamorphoses du globe terrestre, une nouvelle classification de ces animaux. enfin, des considérations géologiques générales tirées de l'étude des fossiles, 5 vols. royal 4to. of TEXT, and 18 livraisons, also one of "Dix planches de Squelettes," and one more of "Planches &mises," containing in all 384 PLATES, many of them in tints, oblong folio (published at 648 francs), unbound, £16. 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Codex Exoniensis: a collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a MS. in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English translation by Thorpe, roy. 8vo. XIV and 536 pp. cloth, 20s 1842 Arabic Grammar, new edition: FARIS Ash-Shidyâq's PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, with Interlineal Reading Lessons, Dialogues and Vocabulary. Third Edition revised from the Second Edition, by the Rev. H. A. Williams, 12mo. pp. ii and 242, cloth, 7s 6d 1883 The best and cheapest method of acquiring the Language spoken in Syria, Egypt, Arabia, and by the Arabs in all parts of the World. "This ingenious little book deserves the favour with which it has been received; for the Author has made a bold attempt to simplify that very complex subject, Arabic Grammar. The book is strong in Dialogues, to which forty-four pages are given. This is the part of the book which has found favour with the public; and the Syrian author is here quite at home. The Dialogues are decidedly good, consisting simply of colloquial sentences on various subjects, to be learnt by heart, and used as needed. Faris Ash-Shidyâq ends his book with a vocabulary containing about 3000 very common, and therefore very useful, words. We can certainly say of Fâris that his book is good, as far as it goes."-Allen's Indian Mail. Arundel Society: A COMPLETE SET OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY, consisting chiefly of chromolithographs 66 1849-81 This series of "First" Publications includes many fine plates now very scarce, such as: "View of the interior of the Arena Chapel," after GIOTTO; " Virgin and Child," after OTTAV. 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