Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Jacob's English Peerage. Folio Edition, 1766. Vols. II., III., and IV.

Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Alison's Europe. (20 Vols.) Vols. XIII., XX.

Tillotson. Vols. I., II., IV., V., XI. 12mo. Tonson, London, 1748.

Livy. Vol. I. 12mo. Maittaire, London, 1722.

Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Vols. I., II., III., IV., V., XIX., XX. 5s. each. The above in Parts or Monthly Numbers will do.

The Aviary, or Magazine of British Melody.

A Collection of Diverting Songs, Airs, &c. both published about the middle of last century.

Churchman's Sheet Almanac: all the Years.

Gretton's Introduction to Translation, &c. Part II.

Views of Arundel House in the Strand, 1646. London, published by T. Thane, Rupert Street, Haymarket. 1792.

Parker's Glossary of Architecture. 2nd Edition.

Pickering's Statutes at Large. 8vo. Edit. Camb. From 46 Geo. III. cap. 144. (Vol. XLVI. Part I.) to 1 Wm. IV.

European Magazine. Nos. for May, 1817; January, February, May, June, 1818; April, June, July, October, and December, 1819.

Stanhope's Paraphrase of Epistles and Gospels. London, 1732. Vols. III. and IV.

The Lawyer and Magistrate's Magazine, complete, or single Volumes, circa 1805-1810.

Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology.

Phelp's History and Antiquities of Somersetshire. Part 4., and Parts 9. to end.

Bayle's Dictionary. English Version, by De Maizeaux. London, 1738. Vols. I. and II.

Swift's (Dean) Works. Dublin: G. Faulkner. 19 volumes. 1768. Vol. I.

Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London. Vols. I. and II.

Archæologia. Vols. III., IV., V., VIII. Boards.

Martyn's Plantæ Cantabrigienses. 12mo. London, 1763.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. Odd Vols.

The Truth Teller. A Periodical.

R. Mant's Church Architecture considered in relation to the Mind of the Church. 8vo. Belfast, 1840.

J. L. Petit's Church Architecture. 2 Vols.

Cambridge Camden Society's Transactions. Vol. III.—Ellicott on Vaulting.

Quarterly Review, 1845.

Collier's further Vindication of his short View of the Stage. 1708.

Congreve's Amendment of Collier's false and imperfect Citations. 1698.

Bedford's Serious Reflections on the Abuses of the Stage. 8vo. 1705.

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Notices to Correspondents

J. N. C. will see by this week's Number, that the line to which he refers is from Hamlet.

K. R. H. M.'s communication was marked for insertion before we received his Note.

W. F. We were quite unable to attend to your wishes this week.

Stupiditas. We have never known such failures to take place as you describe. In all probability you have not perfectly immersed your paper in the saline solution. Half a drachm of muriate of soda, and the same quantity of muriate of barytes and muriate of ammonia, dissolved in a quart of water, forms a very excellent application for the paper, previous to the use of the ammonio-nitrate.

H. Henderson. Any application applied to your window would in a great part obstruct the light. Brushing it over with starch might be tried.

B—z. Yes. Many of the very best pictures in the Photographic Exhibition in Bond Street, as we may probably take an opportunity of pointing out in some future notice of that interesting collection, are from collodion negatives.

Price of Iodide of Potassium. I beg to say that the price named by me, i. e. 1s. 3d. per oz., for iodide of potassium, is quoted from the list of Messrs. Simpson and Maule, Kensington Road.

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53. THE CHRONICLE OF THE GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. Edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library by J. GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A.

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2. Kyng Johan, by Bishop Bale.

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20. Apology for the Lollards.

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24. Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler.

25. Promptorium Parvulorum: Tom. I.

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29. Polydore Vergil.

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39. The Camden Miscellany, Vol. I.

40. Life of Ld. Grey of Wilton.

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42. Diary of Henry Machyn.

43. Visitation of Huntingdonshire.

44. Obituary of Rich. Smyth.

45. Twysden on the Government of England.

46. Letters of Elizabeth and James VI.

47. Chronicon Petroburgense.

48. Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

49. Bury Wills and Inventories.

50. Mapes de Nugis Curialium.

51. Pilgrimage of Sir R. Guylford.

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