Scheible, of Stuttgart, who is doubtless known to our readers as the publisher of some very curious works illustrative of the popular literature of Germany of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has just commenced a new Library of Magic, &c., or Bibliothek der Zanber-Geheimnisse-und Offenbarungs-Bucher.  The first volume of it is devoted to a work ascribed to that prince of magicians, our old familiar, Dr. Faustus, and bears the imposing title Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis, oder Dreifacher Hoellenzwang, leiztes Testament und Siegelkunst.  It is taken from a MS. of the last century, filled with magical drawings and devices enough to summon back again from the Red Sea all the spirits that ever were laid in it.  It is certainly a curious book to publish in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell the extensive and valuable Collection of MSS. in all languages formed by the late Mr. Rodd, on Monday the 4th of February, and five following days.  The catalogue deserves the attention of all collectors of manuscripts, as it is, as far as circumstances will admit, a classified one.  There are upwards of one thousand lots in the sale—­many of a very curious and interesting character.  There are Greek and Latin versions of the Scriptures, manuscripts of the 13th century, Ruding’s original collections for his History of the Coinage of Great Britain; which work, it is stated, contains only a very small portion of the materials he had brought together.  One lot consists of a mass of documents and papers contained in eight large packing cases, and weighing from ten to fifteen hundred weight, of the families of Eyre, of Derbyshire and Berkshire, and their intermarriages from the reign of Henry II. to the present time.  Well may Mr. Sotheby talk of their proving a source of amusement to any person having room to sort them, and time to devote to their arrangement.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of Piccadilly, commence their sales on Monday next, with a four days’ miscellaneous sale of works on theology, history, classics, voyages and travels, and standard works in foreign and English general literature.  They have some important sales coming on, of which our readers shall have due notice.

We have received the following new Catalogues:—­

“Catalogue of valuable second-hand Books in Divinity, the Classics, Law, and Miscellaneous, on sale by William Heath, 29 1/2.  Lincoln’s Inn Fields.”

“Catalogue of curious and rare Books, all recently purchased, now on sale by George Bumstead, No. 205.  High Holborn.”

“Catalogue of Choice, Useful and Interesting Books, in fine condition, on sale at the low Prices affixed, by W. Waller and Son, 188.  Fleet Street.”

Messrs. Waller have also forwarded to us a Catalogue recently published by them, which contains some curious “Manuscripts, Historical Documents, and Autograph Letters.”