A CATALOGUE OF USEFUL AND CURIOUS BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MSS., AND
LITERARY MISCELLANIES, on Sale by RICHARD JAMES BELL, 17. Bedford Street,
Covent Garden, London. Part II. will contain a Collection of Rare Tracts,
Books, MSS., &c., relating to the stirring times of Charles I. and II.
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY (being the First Part of a new Volume)
contains the following articles--1. The Princess (afterwards Queen)
Elizabeth a Prisoner at Woodstock. 2. On supposed Apparitions of the Virgin
Mary; and particularly at La Salette. 3. Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherborne.
4. Manners and Morals of the University of Cambridge during the last
Century. 5. English Sketches by Foreign Artists--Max Schlesinger's
Saunterings in and about London. 6. Richard Baxter's Pulpit at
Kidderminster (with a Plate). 7. Cambridge Improvements, 1853. 8. The
Toxaris of Lucian, Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: English Physicians in
Russia--Knights Banneret--Sir Constantine Phipps and Sir William
Phipps--Diaries of Dr. Stukeley, &c. With Notes of the Month; Historical
and Miscellaneous Reviews; Reports of Antiquarian and Literary Societies;
Historical Chronicle; and Obituary, including Memoirs of the Queen of
Portugal, the Duke of Beaufort, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Cloncurry,
Rear-Adm. Pasco, Bickham Escott, Esq., Wm. Gardiner. Esq., Mrs. Opie. Mr.
Jas. Trubshaw, C.E., Mr. Samuel Williams, &c. &c. Price 2s. 6d.
NICHOLS & SONS, 25. Parliament Street.
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CHARLES I.--A Curious Collection of upwards of 300 various Portraits of
this King, to be had at No. 1. Osnaburgh Place, New Road. Regent's Park.
Also may be had on application, or on the receipt of Six Postage Stamps, a
list of Books, Drawings, and Prints, illustrating the City of London. Books
on History, Biography, and Topography, illustrated, inlaid, and mounted.
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Curious Books and MSS. Four Days' Sale.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by
AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, January 18,
and two following days, a large collection of RARE, CURIOUS, and
INTERESTING BOOKS, on Astrology, Witchcraft, Magic; the History of America,
the East and West Indies, and of England, Ireland, and France; Curious
Works on Quakerism, Controversial Theology, and in General Literature;
History, Philology, Bibliography, Voyages, and Travels, &c.; also a few
Manuscripts, including Bywater's Account of the Cutlers' Company,
containing many curious entries; the Original Drawings of Carter's Ancient
Architecture; a complete and early copy of Chalon's Etchings from
Rembrandt, &c.
Catalogues may be had.
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Library and MSS. of the late EARL of MACARTNEY.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by
AUCTION, at their Great Room, 91. Piccadilly, on TUESDAY, January 24, 1854,
and following Days, the Important LIBRARY and MSS. of the late GEORGE, EARL
of MACARTNEY, Ambassador to China in 1792, &c. The MSS. comprise Heraldic
Visitations for many English Counties; the MS. of Hobbes's Leviathan,
presented by the Author to Charles II.; Volumes of Superb Oriental and
other Drawings; Original MSS. of Bishop Atterbury; State Papers of Sir
George Downing, &c.
Catalogues may now be had of MESSRS. PARKER, Oxford; DEIGHTON,
Cambridge; LANGBRIDGE, Birmingham; HODGES & SMITH, Dublin; HYNDMAN,
Belfast; BLACKWOOD, Edinburgh; and of the Auctioneers.
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Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the
Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the
Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE
BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the
West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street
aforesaid.--Saturday, January 14, 1854.