Paris, Francc.-Librairie Dorbon-Aine, 53 ter quai des Grands-Augustins.—Le Bouquineur: Catalogue Mensuel de Livres anciens et modernes. No. 85, containing the Libraries of two well-known authors, MM. Achille Luchaire and Th. de Cauzons.-No. 86, Littérature, Théâtre, Histoire, Beaux-Arts, Livres illustres des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siecles, Philosophie, Sociologie, Sciences occultes, Histoire de Paris et des provinces de France, Chasse, Blason, Voyages et Explorations, Reliures anciennes armoriées, Livres curieux et rares.

Rome (Italy).—Ermanno Loescher & Co. (W. Regenberg), Corso Umberto I., 307.Bullettino No. 5, Choix de dernières acquisitions de la section antiquaire : Beaux-Arts et Architecture.

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.—The Shepard Book Company, in their interesting "Bulletin No. 46," give the history of Abraham Lincoln's original Emancipation Proclamation, and of a second copy of the same which this firm secured for a customer; the article is reprinted from the "Milwaukee Sentinal." Vienna, Austria.-Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Bognergasse, Nr. 2.—No. 97, Austriaca, Bibliographie, Buchdruck, Buchhandel und Presse, Böhmen und Mähren, Illustrierte Bücher des 18. und 19. Jahrh, Genealogie und Heraldik, Germanistik und deutsche Literatur, Holzschnittwerke des 15. u. 16. Jahrh, Jagd, Krönungen und Festlichkeiten, Kunst, Kunstgewerbe und graphische Kunst, Marokko, Ornamentstiche, Polonica, Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen, Spanische Drucke des 16. und 17. Jahrh, Steiermark, Ungarn, &c., &c. (76 pp.).—Also No. 98, Autographen berühmter Personlichkeiten des 16.-20. Jahrh. Orts-und familien geschichtliche Urkunden. 15.-18. Jahrh. Adelsdiplome. Wappenbriefe. Standeserhebungen. Stammbäume. 16.-19. Jahrh.

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D. M. M.