A COMPLETE SET OF APPARATUS for 4l. 4s., containing an Expanding Camera, with warranted Double Achromatic Adjusting Lenses, a Portable Stand, Pressure Frame, Levelling Stand, and Baths, complete. PORTRAIT LENSES of double Achromatic combination, from 1l. 12s. 6d. LANDSCAPE LENSES, with Rack Adjustment, from 25s. A GUIDE to the Practice of this interesting Art, 1s., by post free, 1s. 6d. French Polished MAHOGANY STEREO-SCOPES, from 10s. 6d. A large assortment of STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES for the same in Daguerreotype, Calotype, or Albumen, at equally low prices. ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPES. Beautifully finished ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPE, with all the latest improvement and apparatus, complete from 3l. 15s., at C. BAKER'S. Optical and Mathematical Instrument Warehouse, 244. High Holborn (opposite Day & Martin's). * * * * * Important Sale of Rare Books, Books of Prints, and Illuminated Manuscripts. MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, January 9, 1854, and Three following Days, at 1 o'clock precisely, an Important COLLECTION of RARE BOOKS, Books of Prints, Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts, from the Library of a distinguished Amateur, deceased:--comprising, The Grand Work on Egypt, executed under the munificent direction of Napoleon I., the original edition on vellum paper, 23 vols. The Beautiful and Interesting Series of Picturesque Voyages by Nodier, Taylor, and De Cailleux; Barker, Webb et Berthelot, Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, a magnificent work, in 10 vols. with exquisitely coloured plates; Algerie. Historique, Pittoresque et Monumentale, 5 vols. in 3; Le Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, on vellum paper, the plates beautifully coloured, 3 vols.; Melling, Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople, 2 vols. in 1; Montfaucon, Antiquite Expliquee, avec Supplement et les Monumens de la Monarchie Francoise, 20 vols., a most beautiful copy, in morocco, of the best edition, on large paper; Sebae Rerum Naturalium Thesaurus, 4 vols., an exceedingly choice copy in rich French morocco; Museum Worsleyanum, 2 vols., on large paper; Shaw, Illuminated Ornaments, on large paper, the plates exquisitely illuminated in gold and colours; Beroalde de Verville, Le Moyen de Parvenir, a very fine copy of the rarest Elzevir edition; Cieza, Historie del Peru, 1560-64, rare; Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Ven. 1492, extremely rare; Consolat dels Fets Maritims, very rare; Denyaldi, Rollo Northmanno-Britannicus, fine copy, and very scarce; Henninges, Theatrum Genealogicum, 4 vols. in 5; Le Merre, Recueil des Notes concernant les Affaires du Clerge de France, 13 vols., a beautiful copy; Mandeville, Le Grande Lapidaire, 1561, an extremely rare edition; Renversement de la Morale Chretienne, rare; Verheiden in Classem Xerxis Hispani Oratio, very