MR. BENTLEY will SELL by AUCTION, in the Lecture Room of the Natural
History Society, at Worcester, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 30th and 31st
Days of MAY, 1854 (instead of Tuesday the 23rd, as previously announced),
commencing each morning at Eleven o'clock, A VALUABLE LIBRARY of RARE and
CHOICE BOOKS, including one Copy of the First Folio Edition of Shakspeare,
London, 1623, and two varying Copies of the Second Folio, London, 1632,
with many valuable Black-letter Books in Divinity and History.
Catalogues may be had at the Office of the Auctioneer, 9. Foregate Street,
Worcester, one week previous to the Sale.
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Just published, with ten coloured Engravings, price 5s.,
NOTES ON AQUATIC MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, selected from the
"Microscopic Cabinet." By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.
Also, in 8vo., pp. 720, plates 24, price 21s., or coloured, 36s.,
A HISTORY OF INFUSORIAL ANIMALCULES, Living and Fossil, containing
Descriptions of every species, British and Foreign, the methods of
procuring and viewing them, &c., illustrated by numerous Engravings. By
ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.
"There is no work extant in which so much valuable information
concerning Infusoria (Animalcules) can be found, and every Microscopist
should add it to his library."--_Silliman's Journal._
London: WHITTAKER & CO., Ave Maria Lane.
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Just published, price 1s., or free by post for 16 Stamps,
A MEMOIR OF THE POET DR. WILLIAM BROOME, the Friend and Assistant of Pope.
By T. W. BARLOW, ESQ., F.L.S.
London: KENT & CO.
Manchester: BURGE.
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MUSINGS OF A MUSICIAN. By HENRY C. LUNN. Just published, a new edition,
whole cloth, boards, gilt, price 3s. This entertaining work consists of a
Series of Popular Sketches, Illustrative of Musical Matters and Musical
People.
"They can scarcely fail to be appreciated even by the most unmusical
reader..."--_Westminster Review._
"These musings give us the impression of versatile ingenuity, and what
is better, ingenuousness on the part of the writer."--_Athenaeum._
London: ROBERT COCKS & CO., New Burlington Street (Publishers to the
Queen); SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.; WHITTAKER & CO.; and all Booksellers and
Musicsellers.
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THE FAVOURITE BALLADS OF THE SEASON are John Parry's Sweet Vesper Bells of
Ancona, illustrated, 2s. 6d.; and Have still some kind Word for Me, 2s.
Franz Abt's May Song, 2s.; Morning, 2s. 6d.; Evening 2s.; and the Earth it
loves Rain, 2s. Kucken's The Star, 2s.; Sweet May, 2s.; and his celebrated
song, The Tear, 2s. Pressel's A Youth from the Summit, 2s., and When two
fond Hearts, 2s. Cherry's The Dreams of Youth, illustrated, 2s. 6d., and
Like the Song of Birds, illustrated, 2s. 6d. Eliza Cook's Song of the
Sailor Boy, music by Rodwell, 2s. Harper's Truth in Absence, 2s. Miss
Fricker's Fading Away, 2s. Barker's The Lime Blossoms, illustrated, 2s.
6d.; and Glover's (S.) Annie o' the Banks o' Dee, illustrated, 2s. 6d., &c.
London: ROBERT COCKS & CO., New Burlington Street, Music Publishers to the
Queen.
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W. H. HART, RECORD AGENT and LEGAL ANTIQUARIAN (who is in the possesion of
Indices to many of the early Public Records whereby his Inquiries are
greatly facilitated) begs to inform Authors and Gentlemen engaged in
Antiquarian or Literary Pursuits, that he is prepared to undertake searches
among the Public Records, MSS. in the British Museum, Ancient Wills, or
other Depostories of a similar Nature, in any Branch of Literature,
History, Topography, Genealogy, or the like, and in which he has had
considerable experience.