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NOTES OF BOOK SALES--CATALOGUES, ETC.

It is our purpose from time to time to call the attention of our
book-buying friends to the approaching sales of any collections which
may seem to us to deserve their attention; and to any catalogues which
may reach us containing books of great rarity and curiosity. Had we
entertained no such intention we should have shown our respect for
the memory of that intelligent, obliging, and honourable member of
the bookselling profession (to whom a literary man rarely addressed
a QUERY, without receiving in reply a NOTE of information worth
preserving), the late Mr. Thomas Rodd, by announcing that the sale of
the first portion of his extensive and valuable stock of books will
commence on Monday next, the 19th instant, and occupy the remainder
of that week.

The following Lots are among the specimens of the rarities contained
in this portion of Mr. Rodd's curious stock:--

189 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, Orders, Declarations,
Proclamations, &c. 1657 to 1660, _the original
Papers and Broadsides collected and bound in
1 vol. calf_ 1657-60

*** This very important volume contains the Acts, &c.
during the period intervening between Scobell's
Collection and the recognized Statutes of