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NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

The Work of Walter Mapes, "_De Nugis Curialium_," respecting which we
inserted a Query from the Rev. L.B. Larking, in our last number, is
editing for the Camden Society by Mr. Wright, and will form one of the
next publications issued to the members.

Messrs. Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street, Strand, will be occupied
during the week commencing on Monday, the 17th instant, with the sale of
"the third portion of the stock of the late eminent bookseller, Mr.
Thomas Rodd, comprising rare and valuable works of the early English
poets and dramatists; facetiæ, romances, and novels, and other
departments of elegant literature."

Mr. Rodd's knowledge, great in all departments of bibliography, was
particularly so in that of our early poetical and dramatical writers;
and although the numerous commissions he held for such rarities in it as
he secured, necessarily prevented their being left upon his shelves, the
present collection exhibits a number of articles calculated to interest
our bibliographical friends, as the following specimens of a few Lots
will show:--

578 Dedekindus (Fred.) School of Slovenrie, or Cato turned Wrong Side
Outward, in Verse, by R.F. Gent. _very rare, original binding: sold at
Perry's sale for_ £11 11s. 1605

591 De Soto (Barahona) Primera Parte de la Angelica _blue morocco, rare