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The article presents information related to several books and publishers. The reprint of Cadwallader Colden's "History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New York," a facsimile of William Bradford's New York edition of 1727, announced by T.H. Morell, of 134 Fulton Street, has just appeared, and does honor to the taste and enterprise of the publisher. It is undoubtedly the most valuable book that the present rage for privately printed and limited editions of rare books have produced. Proposals have been issued for a new photolithographic impression of the first English book of emblems, a rare and curious work written by Geffrey Whitney, a native of Cheshire, and printed by Christopher Plantin at Leyden, in 1586. It is entitled "A Choice of Emblems and Other Devices," and contains two hundred and forty-seven emblematic engravings and devices on wood accompanied by quaint old verses.