Hawkins's Silver Coins of of England, the Companion to: HISTORY OF THE GOLD COINS OF ENGLAND, by R. LI. KENYON, Editor of the second edition of Hawkins's Silver Coins of England, 1 vol. demy 8vo. (uniform with the work of Hawkins), 24 plates, engraved by F. J. LEES, Member of the Numismatic Society, Roxburghe, gilt top, 24s 1883 This work contains a complete account of the English current gold coins, from the earliest Saxon times to the present reign, with 200 illustrations, and includes a description of gold coins attributed to the first half of the seventh century. It will be uniform with the second edition of Hawkins's Silver Coins, and it is hoped that the light which an examination of the gold coins throws upon the proper appropriation of the silver, as for instance in the reigns of Henry V and VI and of Edward V, together with the information about the history of the coinage which this volume contains, may make it acceptable to collectors, even though their cabinets may not contain a great number of gold coins. Hessels' Works on Bibliography: GUTENBERG: was he the INVENTOR OF PRINTING? An historical Investigation embodying a Criticism on Dr. VAN DER LINDE'S "Gutenberg," by J. H. HESSELS, 1 vol. 8vo. xxviii and 202 pp. hf. morocco, 218 1882 The best and most critical account of the History of Printing with moveable type. Every document connected with the History of the Invention of Printing has been verified by the energetic and intelligent author. The mystery still remains-who was the inventor of Printing? That Gutenberg was an early printer Mr. Hessels fully admits. Only 200 copies were printed for sale. VAN DER LINDE'S HAARLEM LEGEND of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, critically examined by Dr. Van der Linde; translated from the Dutch by J. H. Hessels; with an Introduc tion and a Classified List of the Costerian Incunabula, royal 8vo. xxvi and 170 pp. 8d. 78 6d 1871 Mr. Hessels has done well in translating Van der Linde's careful investigation and proofs of the utter falsehood of the Haarlem Legend of the "Invention of Printing." Only 50 copies remain for sale. The Hindoo Kama Shastra Society: The KAMA SUTRA of VATSYAYANA, part I, with a Preface and Introduction, 8vo. 40 pp. 78 6d 1883 The above learned Society has its seat in Benares, and is devoted to the translating of Ancient Sanscrit Manuscripts illustrative of the ancient domestic Life of the Hindoos. Parts 2-7, completing the above, are not printed yet, and will not be for sale. India Office Publications: ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA: Reports by Major-General A. CUNNINGHAM, Director General, and J. D. BEGLAR and A. C. L. CARLLEYLE, Assistants, 15 vols. 8vo. all published, with several hundred maps, plans, and plates of Ancient Indian Architectural Remains, Sculpture, Inscriptions, and Coins, cloth, £8. 10s Simla, 1871, Calcutta, 1882 Very few sets remain for sale. Several of the volumes are not obtainable separately; those which are still for sale separately cost 10s each. Report of a Tour in EASTERN RAJPU VOL. VII. Keport of a Tour through the BENGAL VOL. IX. Report of a Tour in the CENTRAL PROVINCES in 1873-74, and 1874-75, by CUNNINGHAM, 30 plates, 10s VOL. X. Calcutta, 1879 Report of Tours in BUNDELKHAND and Report of Tours in the GANGETIC VOL. XII. Report of Tours in the CENTRAL DOAB and GORAKHPUR in 1874-75, and VOL. XIII. Report of a Tour in the PUNJAB in Vol. XV. PROVINCES of Patna, Gaya, Mongir and Bhagalpur; the Santal Parganas, Manbhum, Singhbhum and Birbhum; Bankura, Raniganj, Report of a Tour in BIHAR and Bardwan and Hughli; in 1872-73, BENGAL, 1879-80, from Patna to by J. D. BEGLAR, 22 plates, 10s Sunargaon, by CUNNINGHAM, 35 Calcutta, 1878 plates ib. 1882 COLLECTION OF SPECIMENS AND ILLUSTRATIONS of the TEXTILE MANUFACTURES of INDIA, prepared under the direction of J. FORBES WATSON, M.A., M.D., Second Series, 4 vols. folio, and 13 vols. imperial 4to.-together 23 vols. (all ever issued), containing 968 samples of textile fabrics, and 107 plates, beautifully executed in Chromolithography by MR. W. GRIGGS, the unrivalled photo-lithographer to the India Office, half morocco, contents lettered, £75. H.M. India Office, 1873-80 THIS WORK COMPRISES: (a) Thirteen quarto volumes, containing 720 actual examples, in the actual material, of the following textile fabrics, viz. : Nos. 401 to 1120. 1872-1874 (b) Four large folio volumes, containing lithographic and chromolithographic plates, exhibiting the patterns of 248 of the richly decorated Scarfs so largely worn in India, together with examples of the Embroidery applied to the ornamentation of Garments, INDIA OFFICE PUBLICATIONS-continued. The ILLUSTRATIONS (without the specimens) are sold as here described: WATSON (Dr. Forbes) Illustrations of the TEXTILE MANUFACTURES of INDIA. The Second Series of plates, 1-134, Turban Pieces, Men's Garments; and the further Series of 14 plates: Embroidered work and Mats, all executed in a most marvellous facsimile in gold and colours by MR. WILLIAM GRIGGS, the unrivalled photo-lithographer of the India Office, £12. 1877-80 The various samples and illustrations of which the work consists are accompanied by details as to the length, width, cost, and place of production of the fabrics from which the specimens were originally cut, or from which the illustrations were taken by photo-lithography. The work therefore affords a large amount of practical information, whilst it presents in a convenient form what may be regarded as a very complete Grammar of Indian Ornamentation in so far as textiles are concerned. To each plate is added: the length, the width, the weight and the place of manufacture in India. BADEN-POWELL (B. H.) Manual of the Land Revenue Systems and Land Tenures of British India, stout 8vo. pp. xii and 787, hf. calf, 12s Calcutta, 1882 CONTENTS:-I, Introduction, Legislature and Laws of India, View of the Land Tenures and Revenue Systems; II, Land Revenue System of Bengal; III, Land Revenue System of Upper India; IV, the Raiyatwári System; V, Miscellaneous Systems. Concluding with two Indexes, one English, the other Vernacular. The work is primarily intended as a text-book for the use of Officers of the Forest Service. "By the permission of the Government of India, I visited the head-quarters of the several Local Governments to collect the books, reports, and other documents necessary to complete this Manual. "When the results of my enquiry had been put together, I printed a rough draft of what I proposed to say regarding each province, and circulated this to various officers for criticism and advice."-Preface. BURGESS (Jas.) Notes on the Amaravati Stūpa, 57 pages, 4to. 17 lithographic plates, sewed, 158 Archæological Survey of Southern India (No. 3), Madras, 1882 COLE (H. H.) Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir, impl. 4to. 54 photographs and plans, with descriptions, hf. morocco (pub. £3. 10s), £2. Archaeological Survey of India, 1869 GAZETTEER of the BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, roy. 8vo. hf. calf :Vol. XIII: THÁNA, in 2 vols. 750 pp. map, 16s Bombay, 1882 Vol. XIV: THÁNA, Places of Interest, 433 pp. maps and plates, 88 1882 PEOPLE OF INDIA, a series of Photographic Illustrations, with descriptive letterpress of the various Races and Tribes of Hindostan, edited by J. FORBES WATSON and J. W. KAYE, 8 vols. royal 4to. 468 photographs (pub. at £18.), cloth, gilt edges, £9. 1868-75 Becoming scarce. Each volume, except the first, is sold separately at £2. 5s. WATSON (J. F.) Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, folio, 13 photographic and other plates, one in colours, half morocco, 248 1866 WHITE YAJUR-VEDA (the) Sanscrit, edited by DR. ALBRECHT WEBER, 3 stout vols. 4to. cloth, £5. Berlin, 1852-59 I. Vajasaneyi-Sanhita in the Mâdhyandina and the Kânva-Çâkhâ with the commentary of Mahidhara. II, The Catapatha-Brahmana in the Mâdhyandina Çâkhâ with extracts from the commentaries of Sâyana, Harisvâmin and Dvivedaganga. III, The Grauta-sûtra of Kâtyâyana with extracts from the commentaries of Karka and Yajnikadeva, Kingsborough's (Lord) Antiquities of Mexico; comprising facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute of Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix; illustrated by many valuable inedited MSS. 9 vols. impl. folio, containing upwards of 1000 large plates, embracing all the remains of Mexican Architecture, Art, Religion, etc. hf. bd. green morocco, only one copy left, £36. 1830-48 the same, with the plates coloured (pub. at £175.), hf. morocco, gilt tops, now scarce, £60. Contents, with the prices at which portions are sold separately:· VOLUME I. Plates.-Copy of the Collection of MENDOZA, preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 73 pages. Copy of the CODEX TELLERIANO-REMENSIS, preserved in the Royal Library at Paris, 93 pages. Facsimile of an original Mexican Hieroglyphic Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting, Facsimile of an original Mexican Hieroglyphic VOLUME II. Plates.-Copy of a Mexican MS. in the Library of the VATICAN, 149 pages. Facsimile of an Original Mexican Painting, given to the University of Oxford by ARCHBISHOP LAUD, and preserved in the Bodleian Library, 46 pages. Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting preserved in the Library of the INSTITUTE at BOLOGNA, 24 pages. Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting preserved in the IMPERIAL LIBRARY at VIENNA, 66 pages. Facsimiles of original Mexican Paintings deposited in the ROYAL LIBRARY at BERLIN, by Baron de Humboldt, and of a Mexican Bas-Relief preserved in the Royal Cabinet of Antiques. VOLUME III. Plates.-Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting preserved in the BORGIAN MUSEUM at the College of Propaganda in Rome, 76 pages. 1830-48 Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting preserved at the ROYAL LIBRARY at DRESDEN, 74 pages. Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting in the Possession of M. DE FEJÉRVARY, at Pesth, in Hungary, 44 pages (now the property of Mr. MAYER of LIVERPOOL). Facsimile of an original Mexican Painting preserved in the Library of the VATICAN, 96 pages. VOLUME IV.-Price £7. 10s. Plates.-Monuments of NEW SPAIN by M. DUPAIX, from the original Drawings executed by order of the King of Spain, in three parts, 118 plates. Specimens of Mexican Sculpture, in the possession of H. LATOUR-ALLARD in PARIS, 16 plates. Specimens of Mexican Sculpture preserved in the BRITISH MUSEUM, 5 plates. Plates copied from the Giro del Mondo of VOLUME V.-£7. Extrait de l'Ouvrage de M. de Humboldt sur Explicacion del Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 32 pages, 12s. Codice Mexicano che se conserva nella Biblio- Viages de Guillelmo Dupaix sobre las Anti- Retorica y Filosofia, Moral y Teologia de la VOLUME VIII.-Small Paper or Large Text.-Supplementary Notes to the Antiqui- T. ADAIR, History of the North-American VOLUME IX.-Small Paper £5, or Large Text.-CRONICA MEXICANA de FERNANDO "Cet ouvrage de la plus grande magnificence, a été executé aux frais de Lord Kingsborough, qui en a fait homage à plusieurs bibliothèques publiques du continent, particulièrement à la Bibliothèque royale, à Paris, et à celle de l'Institut de France. Le prix de chaque exemplaire était de 175 livres (2000 fr. Klaproth). Les quatre premiers volumes renferment les planches lithographiées, au nombre de plus de 1000; les trois autres contiennent l'explication des planches et plusieurs mémoires inédits, écrits en différentes langues, ainsi que des appendices en anglais. Le septième volume est entièrement rempli par un ouvrage important qui a pour titre :-Hist. de las cosas de Nueva Espana, por el M. L. R. P. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun."—Brunet. After an interval of seventeen years two more volumes of this extraordinary work were published, in every respect uniform with the preceding, consisting, 1. of Supplementary Notes in English and Spanish; 2. of extracts from the works of Torquemada, Acosta and Garcia, illustrating the last portions of the Mexican paintings, contained in the collection of Mendoza, and showing the correspondence which exists between many of the Mexican and Hebrew laws; 3. Adair's History of the North American Indians, their customs and descent from the Jews; 4. Cartas ineditas de Hernando Cortez; 5. Cronica Mexicana de Tezozomoc; 6. Historia Chichimeca y Relaciones por Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. "When, some four centuries ago, the enterprise of Spanish navigators opened the vast continent of America to the admiration of Europe, the civilization of the New World was found to be concentrated in two spots, and two only, of that enormous territory. One of these favoured regions was Peru; the other was Mexico. IT WAS IN MEXICO ESPECIALLY THAT ART, POLITICS, All the rest of North America, from the shores of Hudson's Bay to the mouths of the Mississippi, was desolate and barbarous, diversified only by swamp, forest, or prairie, and populated by savages without knowledge or laws. Mexico alone redeemed the character of the new continent, and presented to the eyes of the invader a spectacle so marvellous as to satisfy even the expectations which the great discovery had raised. There the Spaniards found an organized State, an ancient polity, an opulent capital, an exalted dynasty, a formidable priesthood, and a people well skilled in mechanical and decora tive arts. So great, in fact, was the proficiency of the Mexican workmen, so elaborate the system of government, and so impressive the whole evidence of wealth and grandeur, that for some time the civilization of Mexico was regarded as superior to that of Europe. Although indeed the researches of modern inquirers has enabled us to supply some corrective to these ideas, it is really probable that in certain respects the Spaniards found Mexico more advanced than Spain, and we have been recently assured on the authority of a comprehensive history that this AND SCIENCE HAD RECEIVED THEIR GREATEST DEVELOPMENT. |