Issued under the direction of Mr. GEORGE WILLIAM REID, F.S.A., Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, by permission of the Trustees. Fac-simile Reproductions in Photo-Intaglio, by MR. ALFRED DAWSON, of the WORKS OF THE ITALIAN ENGRAVERS OF THE XVTH CENTURY. This Series commences with the three illustrations to IL MONTE SANCTO DI DIO, published at Florence in 1477, which have been assigned to Baccio Baldini, executed from designs by SANDRO BOTTICELLI, followed by The twenty illustrations to the DIVINĂ COMEDIA of DANTE, which have also been assigned to the same artists, and were published by Landino at Florence in 1481. The six engravings to the TRIUMPHS of PETRARCH, attributed by Adam Bartsch to NICOLETTO DE MODENA, but which more probably were the conceptions of FRA FILIPPO LIPPI,-together 29 engravings reproduced in exact facsimile from copperplates, with text, in portfolio, £4. 4s 1883 As an indication of the extreme care which is being taken in selecting the best prints for these reproductions, it may be stated that the Dante Series will comprise examples chosen from seven different copies of the work. To show the high value set upon these early works of art, the Imperial Library of Berlin quite recently paid £1600 for a proof set of the plates to Dante, and the Trustees of the British Museum have purchased a set of early impressions of the Triumphs which came from the Sunderland Library at Blenheim at the price of £2050. The edition is limited to 250 copies, nearly all subscribed for. Fitzgerald's (Edward) Privately Printed CALDERON'S Six Dramas, freely translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 12mo. Pickering, 1852 EUPHRANOR, a May-day Conversation at Cambridge, "It is forty years since," 8vo. sd. 5s Guildford, Billing and Sons, Printers, s. a. the same, 8vo. hf. morocco, 78 One hundred copies printed, very few remain for sale. On page 65 occurs the Racing Song:- : "I'll sing you a Song, and a merry Song READINGS in CRABBE: "Tales of the Hall," with Introduction [by Edward Fitzgerald], 18mo. xiv and 242 pp. cloth, 3s 6d 1882 The translator of OMAR KHAYYAM puts before his friends a privately printed volume, only a few copies for sale. See "Omar Khayyam." Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worshipthe Forty-six Plates belonging to; impl. 4to. in a portfolio, 7s 6d Forms an interesting Scrap-book of Indian Art. 1868 Fire Temple and Wheel Worship 29 10A Front of Southern 7 Front of Western 18 Northern Frontispiece Pillar of Southern 30 Kasyapas, Conversion of Naga Sculptures Processions Relics, Siege and Recovery of 32 24 34 38 Ruins, Plan of The above forms the complete series of lithographic plates to the Second Edition of Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship. The numbers not here represented are photos. Forlong (Gen.) Rivers of Life, or Sources and Streams of the FAITHS OF MAN in all Lands, 2 vols. 4to. numerous plates and woodcuts, with a large coloured chart in a case, cloth, £6. 6s 1883 "Major-General Forlong has just published, and Quaritch sells, a book which should be full of interest. It is entitled Rivers of Life: or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands, showing the evolution of religious thought from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments.' General Forlong has studied his subject in the land where alone it can be fitly investigated-India: and his elaborate volumes are certainly a monument of industry. The first volume deals with tree worship, serpent and phallic worship, fire worship, sun worship, and ancestor worship. The second deals with the early Faiths of Western Asia, the Faiths of Western Aborigines in Europe and adjacent countries, and the Faiths of Eastern Aborigines, non-Aryan, Aryan, and Shemitic. He proposes in future volumes to deal with the historical and Biblical religions of the Hindus, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hebrews, Greeks, Chinese, Scandinavians and Mahommedans The work is full of excellent illustrations, and is accompanied by a large chart showing very completely the rise and fall of various religious ideas. I am not able to express any opinion as to the author's success in dealing with his vast subject, but I know of no more bold and comprehensive effort to grapple with a subject that is so full of interest."-Light. "To the anthropologist, one of the most interesting subjects connected with the great religious faiths is the question of their race origin. We have not left space to consider RIVERS OF LIFE-continued. this point, but we may state that General Forlong's studies have gradually led up to the conclusion that those religions originated "with a people of an Aithi-opik or Meru-opik stock which spread from High Asia as Eruthreans, Akads, Kaldus, Kuths or Kusis, Kemisor Ai-gupts, Keti, Hami or Hamaths, Kanâns," etc., and whom he classes together as Turanians. From this source sprang the magic mythologies of Arabians, Zoroastrians, Greeks, and Latins, including fire worship, and also serpent worship, which "was and is prominent in all Turanian religions." Whether or not this conclusion can yet be accepted as established is doubtful, although facts certainly point in that direction, and General Forlong has done good service in bringing them together so fully and so well.”— C. Staniland Wake, "The Journal of the Anthropological Institute," May, 1883. There is no negative altitude assumed to sacred writings, the work contains much that is true and good. Chapters are devoted to the principal faiths in the order of their birth, and these are said to be:-1st, Tree; 2nd, Phallic; 3rd, Serpent; 4th, Fire; 5th, Sun; and 6th, Ancestral. This is all included in the first volume. The second consists of three long chapters, in which are treated the early faiths of Western Asia, as in Kaldia and Assyria, the faiths of western aborigines in Europe and adjacent countries; and the faiths of eastern aborigines, Non-Aryan, Aryan, and Shemitic. One may gather from these titles the vast extent of territory embraced. The author, however, moves with a firm step over it all. A wide induction and intimate acquaintance with his facts have given him confidence in his theory. This is stated with commendable candour, but without dogmatic pretensions and the real value of the book is in no way dependent on its acceptance. Many of his positions will, in all probability, call forth attack, but the solid learning and intellectual ability exhibited by the author are sure to win him universal respect."-The Dundee Advertiser, April 30th, 1883. Fort's Medical Economy during the Middle AGES: a contribution to the History of European Morals from the time of The scope of the work includes the narration of medical art under the Roman Emperors to Galen's time, and the modifying influences of Alexandrine schools in producing a regular system of magic cures. The progress of this interesting phenomenon, as a moralistic episode of the Middle Ages, by the side of ancient medical text-books in the monasteries, and the gradual development of the science in the Italian universities, aided by alchemy and astrology, are also sketched out. Among other features of Mr. Fort's History are treatises on the curative powers of gems, incantations, etc. an elaboration of the condition and attempts at reform of abandoned women at this epoch, and curious facts touching the status of physicians of both sexes. It may be truly urged that it is a most curious contribution to mediaval literature, alike interesting to the scholar, professional man and general reader. "Perhaps there is no useful and ancient art which has more curiosities than that of medicine; and, indeed, it even now possesses not a few curiosities which are not matters of past history. A story of the experiments on bodies, vile or otherwise, performed by practitioners in the art of healing in ages gone might well have found a conspicuous and voluminous place in Mr. Caxton's great but unborn History of Human Error; while the terrible experiences of patients in the past should give comfort to patients in the present, as they fear the results of systems, drugs, diets, courses, and treatment which doctors with conflicting theories apply to their confiding victims. Of course, amidst the existing contradictory advice and practice, there must be an enormous number of highly respectable medical gentlemen who are fostering disease in a remunerative, methodical, and conscientious manner. The cures of one generation are generally esteemed the poisons of the next. Indeed, fashions of curing come and go with the rapidity of fashions of dress, and each new mode of treatment is an unblushed for confession that former methods have been scientifically wrong, and that previous medical attendance has been portentiously erroneous. The trusted family doctor, who knows our constitution thoroughly,' having brought every member of the household into the world, and also helped a good many of them out of it, loves to see the long line of bottles increase to double file on the mantelpiece, where they present silent injured countenances at having been ignominiously set aside in turn as 'failures,' like Beau Brummel's cravats, while the physician blandly and hopefully suggests, 'We must try something else now.' The next doctor called in' casts a contemptuous look at this array of 'stuff,' which he regards as poison, forbids a single dose, and FORT'S MEDICAL ECONOMY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES-continued. puts his patient on a milk diet, and recommends a change of air. One orders the consumptive patient a warm, sultry climate, and another bids him seek a dry and bracing air; one strongly arges substantial food, while another, horrified at the indigestible notion, insists on the undelicious lentil or the frugal porridge as the only remedy. No wonder the world becomes sceptical at times and marvels greatly, the doctors, like the augurs of antiquity, can look each other in the face without laughing. But all modern grievances hush to silence as we read such a work as Mr. Fort's Medical Economy during the Middle Ages,' where there is cause for astonishment that the population of the world has not been cured off the face of the earth in the efforts to preserve it alive. Some ancient and the least obnoxious methods had the rare felicity of being simply useless. So long as they consisted in wearing the onyx stone round the throat to stimulate the salivary glands, or the cornelian on the neck to produce contentment, or applying spiders' webs to ulcers, using the dog's teeth as antidote to hydrophobia, and pork as cure for leprosythen, at least, no positive harm was done. But the records of phlebotomy, of searing wounds with hot irons, eating snakes to cure eye diseases, the gentle recommendation to a man suffering from cephalic pains' (as the author puts it with characteristic elegance of phrase) 'to saw into the head;' of amputating legs with axes, all give us a serious idea of the dangers from mediaval physicians who learnedly poisoned and from surgeons full of scientific bloodshed. It is not to be wondered at that surgery fell into contempt, that surgeons and barbers became one in trade and insignificance, and that the incompetence and ignorance of chirurgeons reduced to ridicule a profession which only rose into repute under the great masters and professors of Italy when the Middle Ages had passed away. The experiments of those who put drugs of which they knew little into bodies of which they knew less,' are told in Mr. Fort's work, where there are accumulated the results of much learning and investigation into the ways of therapeutics in the dark ages. Although the book itself is interesting, and certainly presents the results of much curious reading."-The Scotsman, June 20th, 1883. Just published. Geological Survey of England and Wales. REID (Clement) Geology of the Country around Cromer, with notes by 1882 Geology of the Country around Whitby and SCARBOROUGH, 8vo. 1s 6d 1882 Gypsies (The English): THE DIALECT OF THE ENGLISH GYPSIES, second edition, revised and greatly enlarged by B. C. SMART, M.D. and H. T. CROFTON; containing a complete Grammar, copious Vocabularies, Romany-English and English-Romany, with Examples original and translated, illustrative of the Manners, Customs, etc. of the English Gypsies, 8vo. (pub. at 10s 6d), cloth, 5s 1875 Opinions of the Press. "A new and valuable addition to the literature of a subject of daily increasing interest. ... A very valuable contribution. . . . We recommend philologists not to lose the chance.' Saturday Review, Jan. 16, 1875. "They have done their work well. . . . The best is its illustrations of the language. The work is admirable... should not be judged by its few faults, but by its many merits. It has been very honestly done, with great labour."-The Academy, June 19, 1875. "Although avowedly philological, it contains an enormous amount of information respecting the gypsy race in England. The best glossary of the Gypsy-English dialect yet published." Pall Mall Gazette, Jan. 7, 1875. "The most complete of its kind."-Scotsman, Jan. 5, 1875. "Full of details which must prove of much service to philologists."-Daily News, Jan. 2, 1875. "Curious and highly interesting work."-Public Opinion, Feb. 20, 1875. "Observant of strict scientific method."-The Nation, Feb. 18, 1875. "An excellent work. An invaluable guide to all who wish to learn the language more accurately than anyone has hitherto been able to do from books. . . . Far beyond anything of the kind ever published before in England. The language is probably the easiest in the world to learn, and even a slight knowledge of it often proves a source of amusement."-The Examiner, April 10, 1875. Gould (John) Ornithological Works, BIRDS OF EUROPE, 5 vols. imp. folio, 449 beautifully coloured plates, hf. bd. uncut, very rare, £140. 1837 MONOGRAPH of the RAMPHASTIDÆ, or FAMILY of TOUCANS, 3 parts, imp. folio, one structural plate, and 34 coloured plates, bds. £4. 10s 1833-35 MONOGRAPH of the TROGONIDÆ, or FAMILY of TROGONS, 36 coloured plates, bds. £4. 10s 1838 MONOGRAPH of the ODONTOPHORINÆ, or PARTRIDGES of AMERICA, 3 parts, 32 coloured plates, bds. £7. 10s 1844-50 BIRDS OF ASIA, parts 1 to 34 (pub. at £107. 2s), nearly 500 splendidly coloured plates, bds. £81. 1850-80 This work will be completed in one or two more parts. TROCHILIDÆ, or FAMILY OF HUMMING BIRDS, parts 1-10, imp. folio, about 150 coloured plates, bds. £15. 15s 1850-55 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 7 vols. in 36 parts. THE SUPPLEMENT, complete in 5 parts. In all 41 parts, imp. folio, the plates most beautifully coloured, Dr. John Skaife's subscription copy, £235. 1848-70 The rarest and most scientific of John Gould's Ornithological Works. The Duke of Hamiltons copy fetched £270. GOULD'S MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA, 13 parts, forming 3 vols. imp. folio, 180 beautifully COLOURED plates (pub. £40. 19s), bds. £30. 1845-63 Hakluyt Society Publications from the commencement in 1847 to 1880, 62 vols. 8vo. many maps and plates, cloth, £31. 10s 1847-80 Harleian Society: A COMPLETE set of the Pedigrees, Heralds' Visitations, Registers, etc. as edited by members of this important body, from the beginning in 1869 to February, 1883 (VISITATIONS, Vols. I-XVI and XVIII; REGISTERS, Vols. I-VII)-24 vols. to which are added six kindred and uniform works, as described below;-in all 30 vols. impl. 8vo. cloth, very scarce, £40. 1862-83 For a list of these works as far as 1880 see my "Catalogue of Periodicals," page 481. The present set includes also the following: VISITATIONS. Vol. XVI. The Visitation of YORKSHIRE, 1563 and 1564, by William Flower, ed. by C. B. REGISTERS. Vol. VII. Parish Registers of ST. MICHAEL, Cornhill, London, 1546 to 1754, partly edited by J. L. Chester Issued for 1882 EXTRA WORKS. Visitation of YORKSHIRE, 1584-5, by Robert Glover, and the subsequent Visitation, 1612, by Rich. St. George, edited by J. Foster 1875 Visitation of DERBYSHIRE, 1662-63, by W. DUGDALE 1879 Visitation of DEVON, 1564, with additions from that of 1531, ed. by F. T. Colby 1881 1881 Registers of ST. COLOMB MAJOR, CORNWALL, 1539 to 1780, ed. by A. J. Jewers 1881 1882 |