*** Two very rare and curious historical pieces, written
      by a zealous Catholic in defence of Philip II.

  944 Neumayr van Ramszla (J.W.) Johann fursten des
      Jungern Hertzogen zu Sachsen, Reise in Franckreich
      Engelland und Nederland, port. and plates
      russia extra, gilt leaves Lips. 1620

  *** The volume contains accounts of many of the
      pictures and curiosities in the royal palaces of
      Westminster, St. James, &c.

On the following Monday will commence the sale of the theological portion of his collection, which will occupy eight days, and conclude on the 4th of December.  The sales are entrusted to the management of Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. of Wellington Street.

We have also received from Mr. Asher of Berlin, a copy of the Bibliotheca Tieckiana—­the sale catalogue of the library of Ludwig Tieck, the distinguished German poet, novelist, and critic.  The sale will commence at Berlin on the 10th December, with the English portion of the library, which besides the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th folios, is particularly rich in works illustrative of Shakespeare, and of translations of various portions of our great dramatist’s writings.  The following lot, comprising an edition, we believe, not very generally known, and containing the manuscript notes and comments of so profound a critic as Ludwig Tieck, ought to find an English purchaser.

  2152 THE PLAYS OF W. SHAKSPEARE, with the Corrections
        and Illustrations of various Commentators,
        to which are added Notes by Johnson and
        Steevens. 23 vols. gr. in 8vo.  Basil 1800-1802

  “Exemplaire unique et de la plus grande importance,
      contenant des notes sans nombre de la main de
      M. Tieck.  Ces notes renferment les fruits d’une
      etude de plus de 40 ans sur le grand poete, par
      son plus grand traducteur et commentateur, et
      forment le texte du grand ouvrage sur Shakspeare,
      promis depuis si longtemps.”

One of the most curious articles in this catalogue, copies of which may be obtained from the London Agent for the sale, Mr. Nutt, of the Strand, is No. 1965, a copy of Lilly’s Sixe Court Comedies, which had belonged to Oliver Cromwell, and appears to contain his autograph.

There are few literary men who have not, in the course of some one or other of their inquiries, experienced the difficulty there is in procuring copies of pamphlets which being for the most part originally published for purposes of temporary interest, are rarely preserved by binding, and consequently when afterwards wanted become extremely difficult of attainment.  We all remember the valuable Catalogue published many years since by Mr. Rodd, of Newport Street, the father of Mr. Thomas Rodd, and have often regretted the loss of our copy of that extensive collection; and we record