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Catalogue IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS AND WITH FIVE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN COLOR BY JOHN LEECH. 1. A 'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOTT). The Comic History of England. FiEST edn. With 10 col- ored ETCHINGS and IW woodcuts hy John Leech. 20 num- bers IN THE 19 ORIGINAL PARTS, AS ISSUED. 8V0, in tWO full red levant morocco pull-off cases, gold-line borders, panel backs, raised bands, sheathed within silk wrappers, by Riviere. Loud. 1846-48 * Unique copy, containing 5 of the original draw- ings IN COLOR BY John Leech, which are as follows: " Corona- tion of Ethelred the Unready," "A Frightful Example— Death of Hardicanute," " Odo dismissed from- Rochester Castle," " Gilbert 3, Beckett — Thomas a Beckett," " Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond." These are ^W. finished drawings in colors, and constitute exceptional souvenirs of an exceptional genius. The condition op the parts is almost as fresh as the day THEY WERE ISSUED. THE MOST INTERESTING COPY EVER OFFERED FOR sale. The original drawings all differ in detail FROM THE FINISHED PLATES. BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. 2. A'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOTT). The Comic His- tory of England, 3 vols.. Punch Office, 1847-1848; The Comic History of Rome, Bradbury, n. d. [1850]. The set embellished with SO. fine humorous colored plates, by John Leech, and about 800 cuts in the text by the same artist. Both Series First edns., each volume having one of the monthly part pictorial covers bound in. Together 3 vols. Svo, bound in full green polislied morocco, uncut, with top edges gilt, by Root. 1847-50 * A VERY PINE SET. As a specimen of the united humor of author and artist of the period, the set is thoroughly repre- sentative, and in the very front rank. A'Beckett was one of the leading spirits of ' ' Punch's " vigorous youth ; and Leech was one of the foremost artists of his time. A MOST IMPORTANT ADAMS LETTER CONCERNING THE TREATY OF PARIS. 3. ADAMS (JOHN). A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, as follows: " Paris, June B6, 1783. Sir It is some time Since I had a Line from you or my Son. 1 hope all is well. I can give you no News. There is a Species of Witchcraft governs in England which keeps them from knowing their own Minds,— and a Similar malignant Spirit reigns in America and prevents Us from getting any intelligence from thence. I sometimes feel Wroth enough to wishfor the Revival of an old Spirit to hang these Witches. — Yet we should find it diffi- cult to get at, the true ones ; So 1 believe I m[ust— here the let- ter is torn away] — recur to my old Resource, Patien[oe.'] It is now Six Months that I have been waiting in Expectation that the next week would bring me Something certain, and I am now as uncertain as I was six months ago. You will be So good as to inform me when you receive the Ratification of the Treaty and when Mr. Vanberckel Sails, and give my Love to my Boy and tell him not to forget his Promises. Yours John Adams. Me. Dumas." Concerning the Treaty of Paris, the great final event in connection with the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were the two plenipotentiaries sent by the United States to arrange the general treaty of peace between England and America. This treaty was signed at Paris by Franklin and Adams on the 20th of January. 1783. It was not, however, until the 33d of March, 1788, that the first intelli- gence of the treaty reached America, for trans- Atlantic news in those days took more than three months from continent to continent. At the date of this letter (June 26, 1788) Adams was still waiting to learn of the ratification of peace by the Governments of the countries, and the contents show that he is chafing under these conditions of uncertainty. He expressly mentions his desire for information concerning ' ' the ratification of the treaty." This letter, addressed to Dumas, the friend of Franklin and one of America's most trusted and valuable of Emopean agents throughout the Revolution, is beyond question one op the FINEST Adams letters in existence, referring throughout TO ONE of the greatest HISTORICAL EVENTS IN THE ANNALS OF England and America. The letter is unpublished. 4. "ADAMS (JOHN). Works, with Life and Notes, by Charles Francis Adams. Large Paper copy. Portrait. 10 vols, royal 8vo, half crimsom levant, gilt tops, by R. W. Smith. Best. 1856 * Adams possessed many faculties which distinguished him among the statesmen of his day — pluck, courage and bulldog tenacity without a trace of craft, cunning and selfish- ness. 5. [AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON).] Poems, by Cheviot Ticheburn ; The Maid's Revenge; and A Sum- mer's Evening Tale, with other poems. 8vo, new half calf gilt, gilt top (with the half-titles and last leaf containing printer's device). Lond. 1823 *TUE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF AiNSWORTH'S EARLIEST PRODUCTIONS. The work IS dedicated " ToMy Friend Charles Lamb, as a slight mark of gratitude for his kindness and admiration of his character, these Poems are inscribed." Ainsworth was but 18 years of age when this work was pub- lished. In a letter written to Ainsworth just about the time this work was issued Lamb says in part (after making inter- esting comments regarding some old books) . . . "I must thank you for your kind invitation. It is not out of prospect that I may see Manchester some day ... I shall be happy to see you [in London]. lam always to be found (alas!) at my desk," etc. 6. [AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON).] The Works of Cheviot Tichburn. 8vo, half calf. [Manchester] : With the types of John Lehigh, 1825 * The fiest privately printed edition published in the Author's native town (Manchester). An edition had, how- ever, been printed in 1823 in London. Ainsworth was but 19 years of age when this work was issued (which was in Dec, 1824, though dated on the title 1825). It consists of poems, etc., " Luctus on the Death of Lord Byron," " To Clara," " Lines on the Death of Napoleon," etc., etc., all of which show youthful enthusiasm. There are numer- ous errors in printing, a " iVbJice " on the last leaf reading " The Printer's Devil Extraordinary presents his respectful compliments to the Author, — Regrets that a few inaccuracies exist," etc., etc. Very rare. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, AND WITH THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR DRAWING EXECUTED FOR THE FRONTISPIECE BY CRUIKSHANK INSERTED. 7. AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON). The Miser's Daughter. First bdn. Illusts. by George Cruikshank, WITH THE ORIGINAL WATBK-COLOE DRAWING FOR THE FRONT. SIGNED BY CRTJIKSHANK INSERTED. PRESENTA- TION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO GILBERT WINTER, ESQ. Fine clean copy, bound by Sangorski in full red pol- ished crushed levant morocco extra, gold tooling and fac- simile signature on face, contents lettered on back, gilt tops, enclosed in cloth case. Lond. 1842 * Unique copy and in the choicest possible condition. The drawing is finely executed and differs materially from the etched frontispiece. 8. AINSWORTH (WILLIAM HARRISON). Old St. Paul's, Crichton, Auriol, Rookwood, Lancashire, Witches, Guy Fawkes, Star-Chamber, Jack Sheppard, The Spend- thrift, Mervyn Clitheroe, Miser's Daughter, Roscobel, Flitch of Bacon, Tower of London, Ovingdean Grange, 5 Windsor Castle, lllusts. by G. Cruikshanh, H. K. Browne {''jPMz"), Tony Johannoi, J. Gilbert and J. Franklin. 16 vols. 8vo, new half calf gilt, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. : Routledge, n. d. Library Edition. Fine set. HANDSOME SET ON LARGE PAPER. 9. ALDINE POETS.— The Aldine Edition of the British Poets, with Memoirs and Notes by Eminent Authors, in- cluding Dyce, Mitford and others. Beautifully printed by Whittingham on superior toned paper, and embellished with finely engraved portraits. An entirely new and revised edn. 52 vols, crown 8vo, newly and finely bound by Ri- viEEB in half brown morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut. Large Paper copy. A beautiful set. Lond. 1866 * Whether as regards the merits of the editing or the beauty and correctness of the printing, this [a re issue of Pickering's edition] may be considered as the best edition of the most emi- nent British Poets. Comprising: Chaucer, 6 vols. ; Dryden, 5 vols. ; Spenser, 5 vols. ; Gray, Pope, 3 vols. ; Milton, 3 vols. ; Churchill, 3 vols. ; Prior, 2 vols. ; Burns, 3 vols. ; Butler, 2 vols. ;. Parnell, Collins, Shakespeare's Poems, Akenside, Beattie, Kirke White, Falconer, Goldsmith, Swift, Cowper, 3 vols. ;. Thomson, 2 vols. ; Surrey, Wyatt and Young, 2 vols. A Superb Collection of Books with Colored Plates By Henry Aiken. 10. ALKEN COLORED PLATES.— Real Life in Ire- land; or. The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney of Brian Boru, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, exhibiting a Real Picture of Characters, Man- ners, etc., in High and Low Life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland. By " A Real Paddy. " The rare First EDN. With the series of 19 humorous plates, in color, by Aiken, Heath and Marks. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, with ornate corner-pieces and richly tooled back, inlays of green levant, gilt top, rough edges, some uncut, by Wood. Lond. 1821 * Real Life in Ireland is one of the most spirited produc- tions of its kmd, of which several were issued in the early part of the XlXth Century, notably Egan's Life in London. The colored plates are full of life and dash, and depict drink- ing scenes, duels, processions, etc., illustrating the many phases of high and low life in Ireland at the period. The plates are of interest from another standpoint, as they depict the costumes of the times. Some contain portraits, three of them having portraits of George IVth, illustrative of his visit to Dublin. The work was printed on a poor grade of paper, and consequently is nearly always in poor condition, this copy,, however, being a notable exception. 6 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE LARGE PAPER EDITION, IN DESIRABLE COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. 11. ALKEN COLORED PLATES.— Real Life in Ireland. By "A Real Paddy." With the series of 19 humorous plates, IN COLOR, hy Aiken, Heath and Marks. Royal 8vo. Lond. 182 *,The excessively raee Large Paper First edition (i which but few copies are known), bound by Riviere in fui crimson crushed levant morocco, finely tooled back, gilt top, OTHER EDGES TOTALLY UNOUT. A MOST DESIRABLE ITEM FOR THE FASTIDIOUS COLLECTOR. I A SET OF THE FAMOUS ANNALS OF SPORTING, WITH COLORED PLATES BY ALKEN. 13. ALKEN COLORED PLATES.— The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette : a Magazine entirely ap- propriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits, con- taining every thing worthy of Remark on Hunting, Cocking, Cricket, Shooting, Pugilism, Billiards, Coursing, Wrestling, Sailing, etc., etc. With the EXTENSIVE and complete series OF FINELY COLORED a7id plain plates hy Aiken, Cruikshank and others. 13 vols. Svo, beautifully bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, other edges uncut, and with a specimen of the original wrappers at the end of each volume, by Riviere. Lond. 1822-1828 * a COMPLETE SET, OP WHICH ONLY ONE OTHER [and not SO choice a set] has been offered at public auction in this COUNTRY. Extremely rare. The title to Vol. XIII reads January to June, 1828, but by the end of May, 1828, the subscribers to the work had fallen away so that but a very small number of copies of the June number were issued, and few sets contain them, the above being no exception to the general rule. It is doubtful if a finer set could be offered for sale. COLORED COPY OF NATIONAL SPORTS. 13. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. The National Sports of Great Britain. Imp. Svo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, extra, gilt top, uncut, by Riviere. Lond. 1825 * Very rare, especially in such desirable condition. One of the most famous of Aiken's books, containing 50 soft- ground etchings, all finely colored, which not only in- clude plates of hunting, shooting, angling and racing, but also of many obselete English "sports," such as bull-bait- ing, badger-baiting, bear-baiting, cook-fighting, etc. No sporting library is complete without a copy of Aiken's "National Sports." This edition must not be confounded with the 1821 edition, while the plates in this issue cover the same subjects, they vary considerably from the earlier one. 14. ALKEN PLATES. Aiken (Henry). A Touch at the Fine Arts. A series of 12 highly characteristic plates de- picting various phases of life. The scarce first edn. Oblong 4to, half green moroceo, some edges uncut. [Lond. : McLean, 1824] WITH TWO EXTRA PLATES. 15. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Egan (Pierce). J Real Life in London ; or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin the Hon. Tom Dash - nail, through the Metropolis, exhibiting a living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners and Amusements in High and Low Life. Embellished with the series of 29 finely colored PLATES, by Aiken, Howlandson, Heath, etc., and with the addition of two extra plates not mentioned in the list of plates, ' ' Catching a Charley Nap- ping ^^ and ^' St. George^s Day." 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. [1821-27-29] * Fine copy, handsomely bound by Rivieee in half crimson polished calf, with richly tooled backs. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF SPORTING BOOKS. 16. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Apperly (C. J.).] Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire, formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, etc. ; with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing and Extrava- gant Exploits. By"Nimrod." 8vo. Lond. : Rudolph Ackermann, 1835 * The extebmlt rare first edition, op which no copy HAS BEEN OPPERED POR PUBLIC SALE IN THIS COUNTRY IN RE- CENT YEARS. Contains brilliant first impressions of THE 12 colored plates by henry alken, which depict in a spirited manner the various phases in the sporting and private life of this celebrated character. Bound by Riviere in full crimson crushed levant morocco, ornate back, gilt edges on the rough. A more beautiful copy could not be desired. 17. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Apperly (C. J.). J Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire; with Notices of his Hunting, Shoot- ing, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. By "Nimrod." 8vo. Lond. : R. Ackermann, 1837 * A beautiful copy of the rare second edition re- printed with considerable additions from " The New Sport- mg Magazine." Bound in three-quarter green levant mo- rocco, with sporting tooling on the back, gilt edges. Contains brilliant impressions of the 18 pull PAGE colored plates illustrating ths various scenes in Mytton's Life all of which ARE by Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins 18. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Apperley (C. J.). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq., with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Ec- centric and Extravagant Exploits. By " Nimrod." Large 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in polished calf extra, gilt tooled sides, back and inside borders, gilt edges, by RiviEKE, with the original cloth covers bound in. Lond. : Ackermann, 1851 * A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE EAEE THIRD EDITION, containing HERE FIRST PRINTED THE MEMOIE OF "NiMROD." With 18 PULL- PAGE PLATES IN COLOR BY HeNRY ALKEN AND T. J. RAWLINS. 19. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. Apperley (C. J.). The Life of John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, with his Hunt- ing, Shooting, Driving and Extravagant Exploits, etc. By "Nimrod. " Fifth edn. , revised and enlarged. With choice impressions of the 16 colored plates hy Henry Aiken. Roy. 8vo, new half green morocco, with sporting tooling on back, and with the original cloth covers bound in. Lond. 1879 * Choice copy. This edition contains the " Notice of Nim- rod " that does not appear in the earlier editions. WITH COLORED PLATES BY ALKEN. 20. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Apperley (C. J.). J The Life of a Sportsman. By "Nimrod." First edn. (first issue). With 36 richly colored plates by Henry Aiken, Esq. Royal 8vo, full crimson crushed levant mo- rocco, richly tooled back, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond. : Rudolph Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 184:3 * Superb copy of the rare first edition, and one of the most difficult books of this class to procure in desirable condi- tion. The colored plates by Aiken are considered by connois- seurs to be among some of the finest and most spirited of that famous artist's work. Several of the plates are mounted, as is always the case in the first issue. Some of the plates in this work will always stand out as the acme of English color-printing, notably "A Night with Sir Thomas Mostyn " (fox-hunting), the " Bird-Nesting " plate, the portrait of Dick Knight, etc. FINE TALL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 21. ALKEN COLORED PLATES. [Surtees (Robert Smith).] The Analysis of the Hunting Field; being a Series of Sketches of the principal Characters that com- pose one, the whole forming a slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6. Royal 8vo, full green crushed levant mo- rocco, with sporting tooling on back, gilt edges, with the advertisements at end (an unusual feature). Lond. 1845 *The rare first edition, containing 6 richly colored plates, also colored title, all of which depict hunting and sporting scenes, and all by Henry Alken. This copy con- tains PARTICULARLY PINE IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES. For many years it was disputed who was the author of this entertaining sporting book, and it is only recently that it has been established by C. F. Underbill [the author of several books on hunting, shooting, etc.], as the work of R. S. Surtees. 22. ALLEN (ETHAN). Reason the Only Oracle of Man; or, A Oompendious System of Natural Religion. Alternately adorned with Confutations of a variety of Doctrines incom- patible to it; deduced from the most exalted Ideas which we are able to form of the Divine and Human Characters, and from the Universe in General. 8vo, original sheep. Fine AND Large copy. Bennington, Vt. : Haswell & Russell, 1784 * " Remarkable as being the first work published in Amer- ica in direct opposition to the Christian Religion."- — Sabin. ' ' Nearly all the copies, it is said, were burned (as they richly deserved to be) by the conscience-stricken publisher." — J. H. Trumbull. 23. AMERICA. Manuscript Log of a Voyage from Bris- tol, in the snow " Wennie," Capt. the Rt. Hon. Lord Hope, for the West Indies and North American Colonies, Novem- ber, 1765, to June, 1766. With the Day-by-Day observations respecting the course of the vessel, wind, remarks on weather, duties, etc., from the start to the arrival; in Sections di- vided by their touching at Lisbon, Madeira, Barbadoes, Martinico, St. Christopher's, Charles Town, and as far as Virginia. With portion of the return Voyage Log, on board the snow "Mercury," commencing September, 1766. Reversing the volume, and commencing from the other end, after a series of Navigation Tables, there are 70 pp. of information respecting the places visited by the writer. Small 4to, original vellum. . 1766 * Notes. — At Lisbon are a good many Irish; description of the aqueduct. — TenerifEe: the Peak, 6 miles perpendicular. — Barbadoes: Account of Sugar, Treacle and Rum production. — Martinico : gives an account of its capture by the English in 1763. — N.Carolina: very poorly inhabited ; prodigious number of alligators ; plenty of fish, but people too indolent to catch them. — Boston: describes a beacon kept in readiness to sum- mon 40,000 men under arms, in case of attack; mentions Cam- bridge (Mass.) College. Early settlers so pushed for food they had to eat the dried bodies of the Indians whom they had killed. Three Indian Princesses protected them, and supplied them with food. There are nearly 50,000 inhabitants in Bos- ton, and nine places of worship. Much game here. — Nova Scotia first inhabited 1751, people live principally on fish. — Pennsylvania: great part cleared, and fully inhabited, increas- ing much every year, not so much by births, as by the number of Palatines emigrants. Philadelphia has over 45,000 inhabi- tants. It is the best planned place in America. Describes some of the street and houses. Great trade in shipping Prop- erly lighted with lamps. Mentions William Penn. Describes also Rhode Island, Connecticut, etc Of New York Province and City: first settled by the Dutch, a quiet, mdustrious people. English obtained it in exchange for Surmam. lias some fine buildings, mostly of brick Well fortified. Population over 50,000, exclusive of soldiers and sailors. FLASmEK and Dress Gayer than in any other port ot the Continent.— Virginia: Tobacco is the chief produce Throughout, as far as the writer travelled, he seems to have been particularly inquisitive respecting the produce, soil ex- ports and imports ot the various places he visited; and 'alto- gether, as a bona-flde document of a century and a half ago, has considerable interest. 10 NEW YORK AND JOHN JACOB ASTOR. 24. AMERICAN FUR COMPANY RECORDS. Two LEDGERS, TWO JOURNALS, INVOICE BOOK AND BLOTTER OP THE American Fur Company, John Jacob Astor & Son, Proprietors, covering the business of the Northern Department from 1817 to 1835, with agencies at Mon- treal, Detroit and Mackinaw (or Miehilimacinac, as it is invariably written). Together 6 vols., folio, calf, about 1,000 pages each, with all the rulings made by hand, in two stout, especially made traveling cases, fitted with compartments, lock and key. These books, which have been missing for nearly seventy- five years, recently escaped destruction by the merest accident. They present a very valuable record of one of the greatest in- dustries of this country in its infancy ; with its relations to Indians, " Voyageurs," fur-trappers and pioneers from Detroit to the Rocky Mountains, and are valuable alike for their his- torical interest and for their record of the foundation of one of the greatest fortunes ever amassed in this or any other country. They relateto Astor'sfur-trade justafterthe Warof 1812, when he had been forced to abandon his business at Astoria, on the Pacific Coast, because of his partner, MoDougall, selling him out to the British Northwest Company. The blotter is begun on the first page, the opening entry be- ing made on April 1, 1817. On May 13, of that year, a transfer was made to Mackinaw. Two columns are made, one for English and the other for American money. On May 3, 1817, an entry shows that Lewis Cass took about $35,000 of the Astor money from Montreal to Detroit in consideration of something not set down. In addition to the names of Lewis Cass and James Abbott, there are accounts with the Beaubien outfit, the Jean Reaume outfit, the Wabash, Illinois, Iroquois and Chicago outfits, and the name of Robert Stuart. The ledgers, of course, contain the most interesting business records, with a number of well-known names and accounts of great magnitude, including H. H. Sibley, Oliver Newberry and Biddle & Grew, all of Detroit and Michigan interest. The traflBc Astor plied with the Indians was enormously profitable as the following entries show that he charged for 1 pound of tea, $ 3.00 1 pair superfine blue pantaloons, 25.00 2 tin candle sticks, 3.85 }4: box cigars, 4 00 1 gallon brandy, 7.00 1 blister plaster, 8.40 Different prices at different times show that Astor charged whaiiever he thought a customer could pay, and not content with his large profit charged a pee cent, for the privilege OF trading with him as shown by the following entry in connection with a bill of goods for the Indians. Amount brought forward, $6,145.07 Commission of 5 per cent., 307.25 For upwards of forty years Astor dealt in furs at Mackinaw, and finely sold out entirely in 1834 shortly before this set of books was closed. The books are as handsome a set as the MOST fastidious old-fashioned merchant could wish for and are in a splendid state of preservation. 11 25. AMERICAN HISTORY. Hutchinson (Thomas). His- tory of the Colony of Massaehuaet's Bay from the First Settlement therein in 16ii8 until its Incorporation with Pli- moth, Main, etc., in 1691 ; History of the Province of Massa- chuset's Bay from 1691 until 1750; History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1750 until June, 1774. To- gether 3 vols. 8vo (Vols. I and II in the original calf — Vol. Ill in paper covers, uncut, and is without the extra preface found in some copies). Lond. 1760-68-1828 * Fine set of this great work, which must ever be considered a mine of wealth by all future historians and antiquaries. The first volume has the early title-page, with date 1760 in error for 1765, which was soon cancelled. The volumes hav- ing appeared at dates so wide apart it is difficult to find them together. Rare. 26. AMERICAN MAGAZINES. Harper's Nevt Monthly Magazine. Vols. 1 to 68, with index for Vols. 1-60. 69 vols, royal 8vo, half brown morocco (indjex in cloth). N. Y. 1850-1884 * Contains thousands of illustrations. An unusually long^ and complete series of this ever-popular magazine. [Resold for account of purchaser.] 28. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A Form of Prayer, to be used in all Churches, on Friday, Dec. 13, 1776, being the day appointed for a General Fast, on account of the Troubles in America. 12mo, half olive levant morocco, gilt top. Lond. [1776] * Rare. The text of " A Prayer for our Enemies " is pathet- ically amusing when the causes which brought about th& Revolution, as well as its outcome, are taken into account. 29. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Moragne (M. E.). The British Partizan: A Tale of the Times of Old. 16mo, new half brown polished morocco gilt, gilt top (somewhat time-discolored). Augusta, Ga. : Printed and Published by W. T. Thompson, 1839. * " The British Partizan is a Historical Romance, and as it developes much of the History of that sad partizan warfare which in those times of old ' so distracted the Southern section of our Country, our admiration of it has been measured in some degree by our appreciation of the Historical interest which has been so ingeniously woven in its details. The characters are no creations of the brain, but are drawn from real life, the recollections of whose deeds and sufferings are not yet entirely extmct among some of the older citizens of the district in which they lived.' "—Publisher's Preface. An extremely rare work, founded on incidents con- nected WITH the Revolutionary History op Georgia as& South Carolina- No copy seems ever to have been previously noted bibliographically. 30. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Caruthers (E. W.). A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell, near Sixty Years Pastor of the Churches of Buf- falo and Allamance (North Carolina). Together with the 13 A/ ^y /y|"/' ALARIC AT ROME. ^ ilrije Hoetn, RECITED IN RUGBY SCHOOL, JUNE XII, MDCCCXL. RUGBY: COMBE AND CROSSLEY. [See No. 33.] Revolutionary Transactions and Incidents in which he was Concerned, etc. 8vo, newly bound in half blue polished morocco gilt, gilt top (a few pp. stained). Green sborough, N. C. : Swain & Sherwood, 18-lr.J * ' ' This rahe Revolutionary Biography is replete with in- cidents of interest associated with the campaigns of v^^orn- WALLIS, Tarleton, etc., in the South, and it is curious that no copy — either owing to its scarcity or to the fact of its historical value being unknown — appeared in the Libraries devoted to Americana, viz. : those of Rice, Roche, Wight, Fisher, Davis, Morrell and others." — Sabin in Menzies Cat. Since the date of that sale (1875) we are unable to trace the record of any other copy. 31. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). Fanny: a Poem, by Fitz-Greene Halleck. With Notes. Folio, original cloth. N. Y. 1866 * One of five copies printed on India paper and on one side of the paper only. This is the first, as far as we can trace, of the India paper copies that has been sold by auction. Mr. Andrews has written on the fly-leaf: "Five copies only printed on India paper. No. 3. W. L. Andrews." Even the regular edition of 70 copies is very rare and often missing in collections of this charming author's works. It was not until this copy came to light that we were aware that any had been printed in this special style. 32. ARETINO (PIETRO). The Ragionamenti. In- cluding Three Dialogues: The Life of Nuns, The Life of Married Women, the Life of Courtesans. Portrait. 8vo, boards (cracked), uncut. Paris, 188& * This copy contains only three of the dialogues, but is com- plete in itself. ARNOLD'S FIRST POEM— THE FIRST COPY OFFERED AT PUBLIC SALE IN AMERICA. 33. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL. Svo, in the original printed pink paper covers, uncut, enclosed in a morocco wrapper, front lettered in full, with ties. Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840 *Mr. Slater, in his " Early Editions," says: " This is a post Svo pamphlet of eleven pages, without cover, and until recently the only copy known was in the library of Mr. Edmund Gosse. A second copy has, however, since been reported." The copy here offered is in the original printed pink paper covers, with the inscription, "Miss Ward 18^0," in Arnold's AUTOGRAPH ON THE UPPER MARGIN. ALMOST UNDOUBTEDLY A PRESENTATION COPY AND IN THIS CONDITION PERHAPS UNIQUE. Matthew Arnold's reputation as a poet has been increasing since his death, and his name will in future be ranked with Tennyson and Browning. This, Arnold's first publication, is much rarer than "Pauline." [See Reproduction.] 13 34. ART JOURNAL (The), from the Commencement of the New Series in 1849 to the end of 1887. Illust. with thousands of beautiful full-page steel engravings, etchings and woodcuts. 39 vols. 4to, uniform half brown morocco, gilt edges. Lond. 1849-87 * It is seldom now that such a long series is offered for sale. It comprises the most extensive and elegant illustrations of the modern British School of Painting, Sculpture and other Fine Arts ever published. A VEEY CHOICE COLLECTION. 35. [AUSTEN (JANE).] Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In 3 vols, small 8vo, prettily bound in three-quarter light blue crushed levant gilt, gilt tops, by Stikeman, with all THE HALF-TITLES. Loud. : T. Egerton, 1813 *The extremely raee First Edition of Miss Austen's most famous book, and in point op time the first of the great series of nineteenth century english novels, antedating Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, etc. Written in 1797, this story, like many others of the world's great classics, seemed at first destined never to find a publisher. The MS. was rejected by Cadell, immediately upon his receiv- -ing it, as not likely to sell. This was a great disappointment to the young authoress, who, losing faith somewhat in her " own darling child," as she called it, kept the MS. by her, half for- gotten, for nearly sixteen years, when it was finally accepted by Egerton. To-day Miss Austen occupies an exceptional place in our literature, and is by many considered the greatest of English female writers of fiction. " Metaphor has been ex- hausted in refining upon the perfection of her art." Maoaulay has asserted that in the drawing of character no other of our writers approaches so nearly to Shakespeare. Lewes declared that he would rather have been the author of Pride and Preju- dice than any of the Waverley novels, while Sir Walter's own tribute to this simple and unpretending girl, extolling certain of her gifts which he confessed were denied to him as a novel- ist, is too well known to be quoted at length. The ORIGINAL EDITION (AND WITH ALL THE HALF TITLES) IS AN ITEM OF GREAT RARITY, AND THE PRESENT COPY SEEMS TO BE THE FIRST EVER OFFERED AT AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. VERY RARE STATE. 36. AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) and BACHMAN (JOHN). The Quadrupeds of North America. With beau- tiful impressions of the numerous finely colored plates. 3 vols, royal 8vo, COMPLETE in the original printed WRAPPERS, enclosed in 3 cloth cases. N. Y. : V. G. Audubon, 1849-54 * Extremely rare in this exceptional state. Mr. Chub- buck's copy sold in 1904 for 129 dollars. We know of no other recent sale of a complete set in the original parts. 14 A EEMARKABLE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. 37. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHORS. A collection of 24 Autograph Letters of Eng- lish Authors famous in Victorian Literature, comprising many Letters which are of the Highest Interest, many of which mention the writings of the various authors. Described in the order in which they appear : DICKENS (CHARLES). A. L. S. (initials). 4 pp. 4to. Naples, Feb. 17th, 1845. One of the most remarkable Dickens letters in existence, being about 1,700 words in length, and containing a most vivid description of Mt. Vesuvius. The letter, which appears in "The Letters of Charles Dickens," Vol. 1, p. 136, is to his friend Thomas Mitton, in London. The writer says in part : "... This will be a hasty letter, for I am as badly off in this place as in America — beset by visitors at nil times and seasons" . ... "At Rome they speak beautiful Italian {I am pretty strong at that, I believe)" .... "It (Naples) is a fine place, but nothing like so beautiful as people make it out to be." ...".. Yesterday evening we began . . . the ascent of Vesuvius . . . By prodigious exertions we passed the region of snow, and came into that of fire, desolate and awful, you may well suppose," . . . "the fire was pouring out, reddening the night with flames, blackening it with smoke." . . "At every step everybody fell, now into a hot chink, now into a bed of ashes . . . the shouting and roaring of the guides, the waiting every now and then for somebody who was not to be found, and was supposed to have tumbled into some pit, made sxich a scene," . . . "The sensation of struggling up, choked with fire and smoke, and feeling as if the crust of ground . . . would crumble . . I shall remember." . . . "We looked down into the flaming bowels of the mountain, and came back again, alight in half-a-dozen places, and burnt from head to foot. You never saw such devils," etc., etc., including a most vivid description of the descent, quite as fascinating as the preced- ing. Then follows a postscript [unpublished] . With the fine portrait of Dickens by Johnson on India paper, signed by the artist, and the pages from the "Letters." THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE). A. L. S. 1 p. 12mo, 1855. In contrast with the preceding letter, the specimen written by Thackeray is one of the shortest he ever wrote, consisting of one line, containing thirty-three words, written in a microscopic hand — "Dear Lady Mary. I scarcely think that the last letter was smaller than this. It is written without- spectacles by your most obedient servant W. M. Thackeray, 36 Onslow Square, Brompton, March 15, 1855." With fine portrait by Hollyer {signed). 15 "ELIOT (GEORGE"). A. L. S. 1 p. 12mo, Lond. 1872 (evidently to Messrs. Blackwood, her publishers), and entirely with reference to " Middlemarch." ". . . .By to-day's post is sent the MS. of 'Middlemarch,' B.V. I enclose a list of 'Errata' ... '7 should like the correction on p. 103." With portrait. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). A. L. S. 1 p. 4to, Abbotsford, to Andrew Lang (1823), pertaining to the method of proce- dure in connection with a petition to the crown. With fine portrait on steel. * Special interest attaches to this letter. The Andrew Lang^ to whom it is addressed was the Sheriff, Commissary Clerk and Clerk of Peace for Selkirkshire, the grandfather of Andrew Lang, the accomplished poet and man of letters of the present time, who edited the famous "Border Edition" of Scott's writings, acknowledged by critics the finest edited edition ex- tant. MEREDITH (GEORGE). A. L. S. 4 pp. 12mo, London, 1874, to Charles Kent (the friend and biographer of Dickens). A very interesting letter (with the original stamped envelope) about his literary work. ". . .1 have a novel which is a story of the ideas and indications of the struggles of this time, drawn from the quick called 'Beauchamp's Career,' hut the iurden of the story is I fear too heavy," etc. With portrait. CARLYLE (THOMAS). A. L. S. 3 pp. 12mo, Chelsea, Jan. 7, 1841, containing a fine appreciation of the character of Percy Leigh Hunt, the son of the poet. " . . . He is of un- impeachable character, really bent to make an honest struggle for himself . . . and of the rather rare class who can he assisted with effect," etc. With finely etched portrait on Japanese vellum paper. RUSKIN (JOHN). A. L. S. 3 pp. 12mo, Denmark Hill, March 5, 1858. An interesting letter referring to art and books, and his own attempts at painting. After thanking the recipient [Richard Thompson] for a lecture on rural painting . . (that) "contained much that I particularly wanted to know," he says: " . . . One thing I wanted mightily to know was the nature of that purple colour, which I have spent hours in vainly trying to imitate," etc. Then follows an ac- count of an illuminated manuscript he owned, a portion of which he is sending in care of his father for inspection. With etched portrait on Japanese vellum paper. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). A. L. S. 2 pp. 12mo, London, Oct. 13th, 1864, refering to his Essays, and to the Philistinism of the England of his day "... 7 cannot send you my photo- graph, for I give it to nobody, having none which is not de- testible, but I send you my Essays on Middle Glass Education," etc. With portrait. 16 MAC AULA Y (THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD). A. L. S. 1 p. 12ino, Lond., June 1, 1859. A letter to Lord John Riissell (the eminent English statesman) . "With mention of Seward, the American statesman. With portrait. WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). A. L. S. 4 pp. 4to, Rydal Mount, Aug. 1st, 1826. A most interesting letter to his friend Edward Quillinan, Esq., Lee Priory, Kent, on a variety of subjects, and with mention of the death of Southey's daugh- ter: " . . . . The worst does not relate to our own family, hut to Southey who has just lost his youngest daughter, about 14 years of age, Isabel. She made a ieauiful pair with her next sister, being somewhat taller," etc. With portrait. TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). A. L. 1 p. 8vo, Haslemere, Surrey, to Thomas Wright, Cowper School, Olney : "Lord Tennyson presents his compliments to Mr. Wright and begs to thank him for his volume on Cowper, Sept. 24 {23) 1892." With the original addressed envelope. * Special interest attached to this letter, as among the last that Tennyson wrote. He died on Oct. 6, 1892, and the book for which he thanks Mr. Wright {"The Town of Cowper") was almost the last book in his hands. With fine portrait {proof) iy Hollyer. BROWNING (ROBERT). A. L. S. 3 pp. 8vo, Lond., Dec. 20th, 1872, to Charles Kent (the friend and biographer of Dickens), with the original addressed envelope. A most inter- esting letter referring to his birth and marriage: " . . .1 can only tell you that I believe the month was March, the place was certainly London; the day I never knew .... As to the second the marriage took place in Marylebone Church, Satur- day, September 9, '46. I feel very deeply all your considerate delicacy I assure you," etc. With portrait. SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES). A. L. S. 1 page, 8vo, Tamernil Bridge, July 15th [no year, ca. 1890], referring to his grandfather and also to his pamphlet {'A Word for the Navy") . " . . . Please send one of my pamphlets to Admiral Swinburne" ... "/ am anxious to see whatever may be said of it." With fine etched portrait (on India paper) by Hollyer. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). A. L. S. 1 p. 8vo, Chelsea, Jan. 5th, 1869, to his brother William, introducing Mr. Joseph Swan. With portrait. SOUTHEY (ROBERT). A. L. S. 2 pp. .4to, Keswick, June 14th, 1804, written to his printer, Mr. Ballantyne, with reference to his poems. A very interesting letter, giving min- ute details regarding the printing of one of his poems, and asking for special typographical features. With portrait. 17 HUNT (LEIGH). A. L. S., "L. H." 5 pp. 12mo, Ham- mersmith, Dee. 19, 1853. A letter of especial interest, being written to Messrs. Oilier, the publishers of his and Charles Lamb 's works, in which he mentions Charles Lamb and Pahner- ston . . who, he says, is " ... Famous for these sudden jerks." With portrait. D 'ISRAELI (BENJAMIN). A. L. S. 2 pp. 12mo, Honse of Commons, April 23, in which the writer states that he has "no talent for improvisation." With portrait. MULOCK (DINAH) . A. L. S. 1 p. 12mo, June 11 (no year), about her most famous book "John Halifax, Gentle- man." Written to her publisher. She says: "Pardon me reminding you that I shall he happy to receive the £20 as agreed upon with Messrs. Harper for 'John Halifax, Gentle- man.' " INGBLOW (JEAN). A. L. S. 3 pp. 12mo, with refer- ence to her writing an historical novel. With portrait. BLACKMORE (R. D.). A. L. S. 3 pp. 12mo, Tedding- ton, June 27th, 1879. A charming letter about his novel writ- ing and personal matters. HUGHES (THOMAS). A. L. S. 1 p. 12mo, Chester, June 15th, 1893. Of special interest, referring to his most famous work, "Tom Brown's School Days." "I wrote a note in answer to yours . . . but forgot to answer your impression that "Tom Brown's School Days" is autobiographical. This is not the fact, as although most of the incidents really happened I was not the hero of them, and certainly never meant to paint my own portrait." LANG (ANDREW). A. L. S. 1 p. 12mo, Feb. 9 (no year), regarding autograph collectors, saying " . . . . their number is considerable and their requests unreasonable. With signed etched portrait {proof on India) by Hollyer. MULLER (MAX). A. L. S. 2 pp. 12mo, Oxford, Jan. 23, 1873, regarding books and MSS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where he was a professor. With portrait. FROUDB (JAMES ANTHONY). A. L. S. 4 pp. 12mo, Lond., Nov. 15 (no year) . A long and interesting letter refer- ring to English victories in Egypt. With portrait. The whole collected in a quarto volume bound in full maroon crushed levant morocco, lettered on the front cover: "Auto- graph Letters of famous English Authors," rich floral bor- ders, with ornaments at each comer which are inlaid with cream-colored levant, back to match, white silk linings, gilt top, uncut, and with a type-written list of the contents. * A REMARKABLY FINE COLLECTION OF LETTERS OP FAMOUS AUTHORS. 18 38. AUTOGRAPHS. Turner (Dawson). Botanist and writer, 1775-1858. Collection of Autographs, etc. Bound in 10 vols. 4to, panelled calf, morocco backs with arms in gilt, some volumes loose in binding and some autographs removed. * Contains upwards of 1,400 autograph letters, documents, original poems, etc., with a very large number of portraits [mezzotints, engravings, caricatures and lithographs, some colored] of various English celebrities of the 18th and early part of the 19th Century, a few foreign and some of Ameri- can interest, including Lord North, Adm. Hood, the Earl of Moira, Lady Caroline Lamb, 1820; Sir E. Bulwer Lytton; Allan Cunningham ; George Edwardes ; a number of the Eng- lish nobility; George Humphrey, 1769; Sir Robert Walpole; Joseph Hume; H. E. Bunbury [with fine stipple portrait]; Gladstone; B. R. Hayson [3]; Smirke; Wm. Pitt; Wm. Up- cott ['the "father of autograph collecting"]; Catherine Macauley [actress] ; a 4-page criticism of Miss O'Neill's " Juliet" [Landor?] ; a rare little 4- page broadside by Francis Wrangham, 1787; a few pen-and-ink and vpatercolor draw- ings; etc. A lot that will bear examination by an intending purchaser. A SUPERBLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET OP BANCROPT'S HISTORY OP THE UNITED STATES. 38. 13ANCR0FT (GEORGE). History of the United States of America. The Author's Last Revision. Illustrated. The original 6 vols. imp. Bvo. Extended to 12 VOLS, by the insertion of valuable Autogeaphs and Views. Newly and handsomely bound in three-quarter green crushed levant morocco, ornate backs, gilt tops. N. Y. : Appleton, 1891 * The large papbe edition of which only 100 numbeeed sets were prepared. This set of Bancroft's famous work [in ns present con- dition PERHAPS THE FINEST COPT EXTANT] HAS BEEN ENRICHED TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF IT WOULD TAKE MANY PAGES. It may, however, briefly be noted that the set contains the following autographic items: In volume one, part one, an autograph letter of the author; A very rare and INTERESTING WILLIAM Penn-Lord BALTIMORE manuscript relat- ing to the division of Delaware and Maryland; a letter written by Charles Pinckney to George Washington, inviting Washing- ton to be his guest during a part of his journey through the South; A REMARKABLE LETTER OP LAFAYETTE, having tO do with European affairs, and making special mention of the battle AT .Missolonghi IN WHICH Byron FELL. — Volume one, part two, has as its frontispiece the original letter of Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress dated July 7th, 1787, sum- moning the State of Pennsylvania to send its delegates to the famous Constitutional Congress. — Volume two part one, con- tains LETERS AND DOCUMENTS OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF WASH- INGTON'S Cabinet, namely, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Habersham, Charles Lee, Edmund Randolph, James Mc- Henry, Henry Knox, William Bradford, Oliver Wolcott, AND Timothy Pickering. — In volume two, part two, there are several letters of Members' of Washington's family as well as 19 THE OKIGINAL PLAN OF A PART OF WASHINGTON'S ESTATE. Vol- ume three, part one, has a letter written by Henbt Latjeens, President of Congress. — Volume three, part two, contains A very NOTABLE LETTBE OF ToBiAS Leab, Washington's Secretary, and PORTEAYS THE COMMEECIAL CONDITIONS OF AMERICA AFTER THE Eevoltjtionart Wak. — Volume four, part one, has a fine letter written by James Waeeen during the war, and a large number of documents and signatures of sixteen members of the Conti- nental Congress, many of them scarce names. — In volume four, part two, there is a document signed by Kogee Shbe- MAN. — In volume five, part one, a war letter of Geneeal Henry Dearborn, one of the chief figures in the War of 1812. — Vol- ume five, part two, contains a document of Baeon db Steuben, DECIDEDLY EAEB. — ^Volume six, part one, has A eaee letter of Philip Schuyler, relating to the Province of New York. — Volume six, part two, contains a letter written by General Henry Lee, one of the foremost Eevolutionary Officers; and ten docu- ments AND signatures OF TEN SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION. There is also a Patrick Henry item in one of the volumes; THUS MAKING IN ALL FIFTY-TWO AUTOGRAPHIC ITEMS, MANY OF THEM OP DECIDED RARITY, INCLUDED IN THIS SET. The engravings, etchings, etc., with which the set is extra-Ulua- trated are numerous and include raee peints both in color AND IN BLACK AND WHITE. SPECIAL MENTION SHOULD BE MADE OF THE NUMEROUS PRIVATE PLATES OF PORTRAITS OF SIGNERS OF THE Constitution and Members op the Continental Con- gress. 40. BARCLAY. The Ship of Fools. Transl. by Alexan- der Barclay. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco, backs tooled, gilt, tops, uncut. Edinburgh, 1874 * Fine complete edition, illustrated with grotesque designs throughout the text. Laegb papee copy. 41. BASKERVILLE PRAYER BOOK. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. Thick royal 8vo, bound in contemporary crimson English straight- grained morocco, exquisitely gold-tooled sides and back, gilt edges. Cambridge, 1760 * A VERY FINE COPY OF BaSKERVILLE'S BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED EDITION, each page within a border. Contemporary owner's name on title. 42. BEAUX AND BELLES OF ENGLAND, including Captain Jesse's Life of Beau Brummell, 2 vols. ; Biography of Lord Chesterfield, by W. Ernst, 2 vols. ; Life of Nell Gwynn, by Peter Cunningham; Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Count Anthony Hamilton ; Lives of the Sheridans, by Percy Fitzgerald, 2 vols.; Life of Mrs. Mary Siddons, by James Boaden, 2 vols.; Life of Mrs. Mary Robinson, by Herself; Memoirs of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, by John Cordy Jeaflfreson, 2 vols. ; Life of Lady Blessington, by J. F. MoUoy. Together 14 vols. Bvo, handsomely bound in pull-polished YELLOW CALF, RICHLY GILT TOOLED BACK, GILT LINE BORDERS ON SIDES, WITH CORNER ORNAMENTS, INLAID WITH GREEN POLISHED 20 [See No. 53.] CALF AND LABELS TO MATCH, INSIDE GOLD BORDERS, DOUBLURES OF GREEN CALF GILT, GILT EDGES, BY ZaEHNSDORP. Lond. : The Grolier Society, n. d. * Edition des Amateurs, limited to 100 copies for England and America, this being No. 10. Copiously illustrated witli fine portraits, views, etc., after eminent artists, many being fac- similes of rare prints. The illustrations are in two states — one on Japan vellum, the other set in colors and both sets proofs. A beautiful set in THE CHOICEST POSSIBLE CONDITION. 43. BECKFORD (WILLIAM) and JOHNSON (SAMUEL). The History of the Caliph Vathek, with preface, notes, etc. ; also, Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia. With 4 etchings and a portrait of Beckford by Bamman, after A. H. Tourrier. 8vo, cloth, label, uncut. Lond. 1883 * Large Paper. One of only 40 copies for the American market. Printed on hand-made paper, with proof etchings on Japanese paper. 44. BERNARD (JOHN). Retrospections of the Stage. By John Bernard, Manager of the American Theatres, and formerly Secretary to the Beef Steak Club. 8S eodra-illvs- trations, comprising 76 fine portraits in copper {some rare, several in proof state) of celebrated actors and actresses, sev- eral folding views of provincial theatres. Rare Play-bill of Jefferson's Benefit at Plymouth, 1804; Broadside of Incle- don's Song, "The British Soldier," 1807; autograph letter from Incledon to Elliston ; etc. 2 vols, post Svo, tree calf ■extra, gilt backs and tops, by Tout (rebacked). Lond. 1830 * Bernard's Recollections cover a most interesting period in Dramatic History. This copy, with the additional matter of portraits, etc., renders it most valuable and a highly desirable item. THE FAMOUS AITKEN BIBLE. 45. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old AND New Testaments; newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Transla- tions diligently compared and revised. Small stout Svo, black levant, blind panelled sides and back, old gilt edges. Phil. : Printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three Doors above the Coffee House, in Market Street, 1782. * Good copy of this extremely rare and most interest- ing American Bible. Perfect copies are seldom met with. The Baker copy sold for §650.00, the Polock copy $535.00, and the Appleton copy $540.00. Interesting autograph LETTER op ROBERT AlTKEN INSERTED. 46. BIBLIOGRAPHY. La Croix-Du-Maine (Sieur de). Premier Volume de la Biblioth^que ; qui est un Catalogue general de toutes sortes d'Autheurs, qui out escrit en Fran- cois depuis cinq cents ans & plus, jusques k ce iourd'hui. Woodcut portrait of Henry III. on the back of title, and a very interesting looodcut on p. 511, representing one of the 21 hoohcases from the library of the author. Folio, old calf (cracked). Paris: Abel I'Angelier, 1584 * The extremely rare original edition of this important bibli- ographical treatise, one of the earliest published in French, and still valuable on account of its interesting accounts of French writers. No copy has ever been offered for sale in the Bulletin of Morgand. A notice of Columbds and his discoveries occurs on p. 548. From the library of the celebrated English litterateur Thomas Killigeevt, with his autograph on the title-page, and from the Sunderland library. 47. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Halkett (Samuel) and Laing (John). A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain, including the Works of For- eigners, written in or translated into the English Language. 4 vols, thick royal 8yo, original cloth, uncut. Edinburgh, 1883-1888 * Fine set of the most complete work of its kind extant. Now very scarce when complete, owing to the length of time consumed In its publication. 48. BIDPAI'S FABLES, ILLUSTRATED with woodcuts. Die Alten Weysen. ApophtegmataSapientium. Der Alten Weisen exempel sprtich mit vel wunder schonen Beyspilen und Figuren erleuehtet. 115 curious and fine woodcuts by Hans Baldung Geien. Folio, half calf. Strassburg: Bartholomeus Grieninger, 1536 * An extremely rare Edition of this celebrated book, a translation of the " Directorium Humanoe Vitce," of John of Capua. The names found in the original Kalila and Bimma have been transformed (through the deficiencies of the Oriental alphabets) from Nushirvan to Anastres Tassri, and from Bidpai to Sendebar. The similarity of many of the stories to those in the ' ' Seven Wise Masters, " which is properly called the book of Sindabab, and this corruption of the name of Bidpai (which is easily accounted for in the transit from Arabic or Persian through Hebrew to Latin letters) has frequently caused the two books to be confounded. Choice Examples of the Binder's Art. CARDINAL BOUEBON'S COPY OF A RARE GREEK TESTA MENT, 1524. 49. BINDING. Novum Testamentum. Cura Ceporini Grsece. Beautiful woodcuts of the symbols of the Four Evangelists on title, woodcut initials and large device of Jo. Bebelius on last page. Small 8vo, contemporary smooth brown morocco, the sides and back covered with gold Fleurs- de-Lys and the arms of Cardinal Bourbon in centre of each cover, gilt edges. Basel: J. Bebelius, 1524 * An extremely rare edition, in which St. Mark, xi, 25, and I. St. John, V. 7, are omitted. Beautiful copy exhibited in the Bindings Exhibition of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, and previously in the famous Crawford Collection. In Beauti- ful Preservation. On fly-leaf a former owner has very neatly written a long description from Dibdin as to the editing by Ceporinus and as to the great scarcity of the book, 22 THREE EXCEEDINGLY PINE SPECIMENS BEARING THE ARMS OP JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT, MARQUIS DE SEIGNELAY. 50. BINDING. Josue, les Juges et Ruth, traduits en Frangois, avec des explications tiroes des saints pdres et des autheurs ecclfeiastiques (par M. de Sacj'). 8vo, contem- porary French binding in red levant morocco, triple gilt line on sides, with the arms of Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, and his crowned monograms in the cor- ners, richly gilt tooled back, with the same monogram between two snakes (arms of Colbert), repeated five times, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, probably by Boyer. Paris, 1687 * Colbert not only was the greatest financier of his time, but also one of the greatest bibliophiles. Plis library, formed with the help of the learned Caroavi, was celebrated all over Europe, and all the learned men of the time esteemed it a great favor to be admitted into it. After his death the library was inher- ited by his grandson. Count de Seignelay, whose autograph WILL BB FOUND ON THE TITLE-PAGE. BINDINGS WITH THE ARMS OF THIS GREAT BOOKLOVER AND FINANCIER ARE NOW VERY RARE, as the larger part of Colbert's collection was purchased by Louis XV. and went to enrich the King's Library. This SPECIMEN IS NOT ONLY IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION, BUT IT IS ALSO A VERY UNCOMMON ONE on aooount of the form and size of the coat-of-arms, and of his monogram, which is here in TWO SIZES. [See Reproduction.] 51. BINDING. Les Nombres traduits en Frangois, avec I'Explication du sens litteral et du sens spirituel tiree de saints peres et des auteurs ecclesiastiques (parM. de Sacy). Svo, contemporary French binding in full red levant morocco, gilt triple line on the sides, with the arms op Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, richly gilt tooled back,' with Colbert's crowned monogram between two snakes, re- peated five times, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, probably by BoYBR In fine condition. Paris, 1688 * This binding is also uncommon on account of the mono- gram between the two snakes. On the title-page there is the autograph of the grandson of Colbert. 53. BINDING. Tobie, Judith et Esther traduits en Francois, avec une explication tiree de saints p^res et des autheurs ecclesiastiques (par M. de Sacy). 8vo, contempo- rary French binding in full red levant morocco, gilt triple line on the sides, with the arms op Jean Baptiste Col- bert, Marquis de Seignelay, stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, finely gilt tooled back, gilt inside 23 borders, gilt edges, probably by Boyer. In ttnustjally FINE CONDITION, Paris, 1688 * Autograph op Colbert's grandson on the title. Most of Colbert's bindings are believed to have been executed by the first Boyer. vrho vras the royal binder towards the end of the XVIIth Century. 53. BIISrDING.— [North (Dudley).] A Forest Promiscu- ous of several Seasons Productions. The kare First BDN. In four parts: I. The Entrance. II. The Forest Eacumbred with Thorns and Briars. III. Walk of the Forest. IV. Short Continuation of these Imperfectly Mixed Metrors Exitus from the Forest. Small folio. Lond. : Printed by Daniel Pakeman, 1659 *'An exceedingly handsome specimen of binding, and a VERY appropriate ONE, bound BY RiVIERE IN FULL DARK GREEN CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO, the front slde Containing a large panel (practically the whole side), representing a forest with numerous trees, the distant sky being of gold, the earth worked on a pointille groundwork of small dots of gold, with flowers at intervals, and a broad forest path in blind tooling, outer ornamentation of' passion flowers, etc., inlaid with red and green levant, the title of the work in the centre of the forest ornamentation on a crimson label, back inlaid with passion flowers, the under side containing the same design as the front except it is worked entirely in blind, with the flowers a different shade of red, gilt edges. [See Reproduction.] 54. BINDING.— Offices Propres a 1' usage de I'Eglise Paroissiale de Saint Etienne du Mont, Latin- Fran gois, selon le Breviairie de Paris. Fiiie portrait of J. N. Itegnauld, engraved by Ingouf, after Mile. Loire. 12mo, contem- porary French binding, in full red levant morocco gilt, gilt tooled back and inside borders, light blue watered silk linings, gilt edges, by Derome le Jeune. Paris, 1771 55. BINDING. — Traite des mauvais effets de la fum^e de la litharge, par Samuel Stockhusen. Traduit du latin et common te par J. J. Gardane, pour servir a I'histoire des maladies des artisans. 12mo, contemporary French bind- ing, in full red levant morocco, gilt triple line border on the side and fleuron in the corners, with the arms of Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orleans, called Egalite, as Duke de Chartres, stamped in gold on the centre of both covers, gilt tooled back, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Derome le Jeune, Paris, 1776 * Louis Philippe Joseph Duke d'Orleans, called Egalite (born April 13, 1747, beheaded Nov. 6, 1793), bore the title of Duke de Montpensier to the year 1752, and that of Duke de Chartres to the death of his father (1785). Bindings with the arms of Philippe Egalite, as Duke of Chartres, are exceedingly rare, and the design of the tool used in this particular instance has 24 not been adverted to even by Guignard, in his Armorial du Bibliophile. The collection of this prince was a very important one, as containing precious manuscripts, xylographio books, incuna- bula, books from the most celebrated European Presses, etc. The binding is in the finest condition. twse. BINDING. Goldsmith (Oliver). The Vicar of Wake- field. First issue of this beautiful edition. With S2 illusts. by William Mulready. 8vo. Lond. : Van Voorst, 1843 * VeBT choicely bound in full BEOWN crushed LEVANT MOEOCCO, THE SIDES CONTAINING OENAMENTS AS OUTEE BOEDBES, BLIND TOOLED, V7ITH COENEE OENAMENTS IN BLIND AND WITH CENTEE PIECES OP GEEEN LEVANT, CENTBE PANEL CONTAINING THE TITLE OP THE BOOK, WITH BOEDEES OP BLIND AND GOLD, BACK TO MATCH, UNDEE SIDE TOOLED TO THE SAME DESIGN, WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT THE MIDDLE OP THE SIDE IS BLANK, DOUBLE WITH BEOWN OEUSHED PIGSKIN, SUEPACE OF WHICH CONTAINS INLAYS OP GEEEN LEVANT, AND BLIND, VELLUM END-PAPEES, gilt edges, with advertisements bound in. By Sangokski and Sutclippe In lined case. 57. BINDING.— The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon d-aultier (Sir Theodore Martin and Professor Aytoun). The SCARCE first bdn. Ulust. hy Alfred Crowquill, with a finely ornamental front, and vignette title (designed hy Owen James). Small Bvo. Lond. 1845 *A BEAUTIFUL. COPY, BOUND IN PULL LIGHT CRUSHED LEVANT MOEOCCO, BOTH SIDES INTERTWINED WITH GRACEFUL FLORAL DECORATION, back to match, gilt edges, in case, with protect- ing cover of roan. 58. BINDING.— Hunt (Leigh). A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. First edn. lUust. hy Richard Doyle. 8vo. Lond. 1848 * Bound by Biviere, in full rich green crushed levant mo- rocco, highly ornate outer borders on each side representing flowering shrubs in bloom, with smaller Inner panels, the cen- tres of each containing a Jar, with the same decoration as on the outer borders, back to match, gilt edges, with advertise- ments (dated 1847-8, showing this to be one of the earliest copies) and the original boards bound in. In case, with pro- tecting cover of roan. A very handsome specimen. 59. BINDING.— Cobden-Sanderson. Irving (Washing- ton). Old Christmas. Upwards of 100 pretty full-page plates and illusts. in the text, by Randolph Galdecott. First issue. Crown 8vo, handsomely bound in full smooth polished green morocco, super extra, the back elaborately tooled with large floriated ornaments, beautiful corner ornaments on sides and inside borders, gilt leaves, bound by Cobden-Sanderson (Dove's Bindery). Lond. 1876 * Very effective and characteristic specimen of this distin- guished artist's work. 25 60. BINDING.— Stevenson (Robert Louis). Virginibus Puerisque. First edn. 13mo. Lond. 1881 * An exquisite copy, botjnd by Zaehnsdorf in full brown crushed levant morocco, with large ornament in three compartments, inlaid with lilac crushed levant, the whole surface of which is tooled with hearts and flowers on a pointillft ground, graceful borders inter- twined with red morocco, borders of which are tooled in gold, back inlaid to match the front side. the under side is inlaid with intertwined ornaments within outer BORDER OF RED LEVANT, gilt top, silk linings. In case with protecting cover. 61. BINDING.— Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil. With Notes and Glossarial Index, by W. Aldis Wright. Golden Treasury Series. A Laege Paper copy, of which only 350 were printed. Vignette on title on India paper. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, both sides tooled to a graceful design consisting of two sets of four rolled gold lines, with floral intertwined ornaments, back to match, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. Lond. 1891 62. BINDING.— Elston Press. Sonnets from the Portu- guese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 4to, violet crushed levant morocco, inlaid with floral ornaments in Mosaic on the fore cover, inside line borders, gilt top, un- CTit. Chicago: The Elston Press, 1900 * Ediiion of 485 copies on Holland paper, with ornamental borders and initial letters. 63. BINDING. Anacreon.— With Thomas Stanley's translation; edited by A. H. BuUen; illust. by J. B. Weguelin. Small 4to, full light brown levant morocco, sides and back exquisitely tooled, inside broad dentelle borders, gilt top, uncut. * Charmingly illustrated edition, with plates of Cupids and Nudes, and further extra-illustrated with 12 fine subjects, many of the 18th Century. A handsome volume. 64. BINDING BY CHARLES LEWIS.— Psyche; or. The Legend of Love. With other Poems. By Mrs. Tighe. Portrait hy Caroline Watson. 4to, contemporary straight- grained green morocco, elaborately gold dotted borders on sides, blue silk linings and fly-leaves, gilt edges, by Charles Lewis. Lond. 1811 * Rare large paper copy. WITH FOUR FINELY PAINTED MINIATURES ON IVORY. 65. BINDING, INLAID WITH MINIATURES ON IVORY. Williamson (George C). How to Identify Portrait Miniatures. With chapters on how to paint miniatures by Alyn Williams. Numerous fine facsimiles after famous specimens. 8vo, beautifully bound in full blue crushed le- vant morocco, back and front cover richly and artistically 26 tooled with floral ornaments, and with the special feature of having inlaid under glass on the front cover four FINELY EXECUTED MINIATURES ON IVORY : (1) The Hon. A. Rushout (daughter of Lord North- wick), (2) Lady Bedingfleld, (3) The Hon. E. Rushout, (4) The Countess of Warwick, by Riviere. Lond. 1895 * A VERY HANDSOME AND HAPPY COMBINATION OF BINDING AND PAINTING, APPBOPRIATELY TREATED. In case. 66. BIRDS OF THE WORLD. Latham (John). A Gen- eral Synopsis of Birds, 6 vols. ; Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds, 1 vol. ; and the very rare Index Orni- thologicus, 3 vols. ; with a large number o/ finely colored plates depicting specimens from all parts of the world. 9 vols. 4to, half morocco gilt. Fine set. Lond. 1781-1790 *This elaborate and extraordinary work was begun by Latham at the age of 81, with the hope of recovering losses he had in- curred some years before. The work contains descriptions of all birds then known to the author, and he is constantly re- ferred to by ornithologists as the authority for the assigned names of species. The Index Ornithologicds is seldom found with the set. 67. BISHOP (GEORGE). New-England judged, by the Spirit of the Lord. In two parts. First, containing a brief relation of the sufferings of the people call'd Quakers, in New-England, from 1656 to 1660 ; Second part. Being a farther relation of the cruel and bloody sufferings of the people call'd Quakers, in New-England, continued from anno 1660 to 1665. Lond. 1703. To which is added Truth and Innocency defended, being an answer to Cotton Mather (a priest of Boston), his calumnies, lyes, and abuses of the people called Quakers, in his late Church-his- tory of New-England. By John Whiting. Lond. 1702. In one vol. 12mo, full crimson crushed levant morocco double, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf. Lond. 1702-1703 * Very rare. Contains five title-pages. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. 68. BLAKE (WILLIAM). Blair (Robert). The Grave: a Poem. Portrait of Blake by Schiavonetti, and 12 etchings by Blake. First edn. Impl. 4to, original boards, uncut, with label on side. Very fine copy. Lond. 1808 * The list of subscribers is most interesting. The artists seem to have appreciated the book most highly, from the number of distinguished names. 27 69. BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI). Contes de J. Bocace. Front, and 110 plates finely engraved under the DIRECTION OF ViDAL, AFTER GRAVBLOT, BOUCHER AND Eisen. 10 vols, in 5, 8vo, old marbled calf gilt, gilt edges, by Derome. Londres, 1779 * Raee. Large Paper copt. 70. BODONI PRESS, ^sopi Phrygii Fabulse Grsecse latine conversse. Large folio, half vellum. Parmse: ex Regio Typographes, 1800 * One op the 7 or 8 copies printed on vellum paper. A magnificent specimen of printing in Greek and Latin from this celebrated press. Very fine copy. A SET OF THIS SCARCE PERIODICAL, WITH COLORED PLATES. 71. BON TON MAGAZINE. The New Bon Ton Maga- zine ; or. Telescope of the Times. A complete set of this EXTREMELY SCARCE PERIODICAL, Comprising May, 1818, to April, 1831. 6 vols. Bvo, calf, neatly rebacked. Lond. 1818-1821 * One op the scarcest periodicals op its time, and a most UNUSUAL set, containing 32 HIGHLY SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS PLATES IN COLOR,MANY OF WHICH ARE PORTRAITS OP CELEBRITIES OP THE PERIOD. Very few sets contain the full number of plates (33), and sets containing 30 plates are usually offered as complete. The portraits include George IV, Mrs. Fitzherbert, as well as many of the leading men and women of fashion, lawyers, etc., etc. Information relating to the leading theatres and the promi- nent players is given, as well as full accounts of racy details connected with "Life in London," at the period. 73. BOOK OF HOURS. Heures illustrees par Mathieu. The text throughout in emblematic borders in gold and COLORS, and illust. with 18 full-page plates, also in gold and colors. Small square 8vo, light brown levant morocco, in- side gold borders, gilt edges, provided with 3 silver CLASPS, finely chiseled AND ENAMELED IN DIFFERENT COLORS. Paris, n. d. * Exquisite volume for its artistic binding and artistic color printing. MAGNIFICENTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. 73. BOSWELL (JAMES). The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, New edition, with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker, 5 vols, extended to 10, Lond. 1831 ; also. Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson not included in Boswell, 1 vol. extended to 3, Lond. 1836. Extra-illustrated and extended to 12 vols, by the insertion of 796 finely engraved portraits, 101 views and IS autograph letters, including Marquis Lansdowne, Helen Williams, Earl Spencer, Robert Nares, Sir Thos. Laivrence, Geo. Canning, Robert Peel, Lord Byron {signa- 28 [See No. 50. J ture only), etc. In all 909 extra items inserted, comprising 26 different portraits of Dr. Johnson {one 'printed in colors), original and unique sepia drawings of Mrs. JoTinson and Anne Williams {both extremely rare in engraved state), Mrs. Garrick, printed in colors, and a large number of choice proofs, colored, and other portraits and vieivs. 12 vols. 8vo, with specially printed title-pages, newly and sumptu- ously bound in full rich brown polished and crushed cape levant morocco super- extra, unconventional gilt backs, large gilt design on sides, with portrait of Dr. Johnson, uncut, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond. 1831-36 * One op the finest extra-illtjsteated copies ever OPPEEED for sale. 74. BOWNAS (SAMUEL) and RICHARDSON (JOHN). The Journals of the Lives and Travels of Samuel Bownas and John Richardson. 3 vols, in 1 vol. 8vo, original sheep. Phil. : William Dunlap, 1759 * The rare First American Edition. Bownas landed in Maryland, 1703. Soon after he arrived he held a public dis- pute with George Keith, also with William Bradford, and suf- fered imprisonment for his belief. His account of the Labadies, a community resembling the Shakers, is very amusing. John Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Vir- ginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with William Penn at his country house, and had several conversations with him as to the Indian's belief. His book also contains some account of George Keith's disputes with the Quakers. 75. BRADFORD PRINTING. Keith (George). The Great Necessity and Use of the Holy Sacraments of Bap- tism and the Lord's Supper. Delivered in a Sermon preached at Trinity- Church in New York, the 28th of November, 1703. Small 4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, by Bradstebets. Printed and Sold by William Bradford at the Sign of the Bible in New- York, 1704. * " Op extreme rarity. I have only seen three copies." — Sabin. a copy measuring 7^ x 5J^ inches, and with some rough edges. 76. [BRADFORD PRINTING.] A Ordinance for Regu- lating and Establishing Pees. By his Excellency Robert Hunter, Esq. , General and Governour in Chief in and over the Provinces of New- York, New-Jersey and all the Ter- ritories and Tracts of Land depending thereon in America, Anno Dopiini, 1710. Folio, pp. 6. [N. Y. : William Bradford, 1710] 77. [BRADFORD PRINTING.] An Ordinance for Regu- lating the Recording of Deeds and other Writings, by his Excellency William Burnet, Esq., Capt. General and Gov- ernor in Chief in & over the Provinces of New- York, New- Jersey, and of all the Territories depending thereon in America, etc., etc. Folio, single sheet (printed on both sides). [N. Y.: William Bradford, 1723] 29 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BRAND'S ANTIQUITIES. 78. BRAND (JOHN). Observations on Popular An- tiquities illustrating the Origin of our Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions, revised, with Additions by Henry Ellis. Best edn. Large Paper copy. Tiuo volumes extended to three by the insertion of a large nurriber of rare engravings, many colored, illustrating the early customs, sports, games, etc. , of England, including Morris Dances, Christmas Revels, All-Fools Day, CocTcfighting, etc., etc. 3 vols, thick 4to, half morocco, uncut. Lond. 1813 * Fine copy from the George Weare Braikenridge collection, with bookplate. The illustrating was done years ago ; many of the plates are colored and are by Cruikshank, Seymour, Rowlaudson, etc., etc. It has been said regarding this work that anyone who reads on each respective day the chapter that belongs to it will have when he has finished with the volume a better notion of what English history is than may be got from almost any other work. 79. BRITISH ESSAYISTS ; with Prefaces, biographical, historical, and critical, by Robert Lynam; The Tatler, 3 vols. ; The Spectator, 6 vols. ; The Guardian, 2 vols. ; The Rambler, 2 vols. ; The Adventurer, 2 vols. ; The World, 2 vols.; The Connoisseur, 2 vols.; The Idler; Goldsmith's Essays; Knox's Essays, 2 vols. ; The Mirror; The Lounger; The Observer, 2 vols. ; The Microcosm and the 011a Podrida : Locubrations, or Winter Evenings, 2 vols. Portraits. 30 vols. 12mo, new half calf gilt, gilt tops. Lond. 1827 * Dove's beautifully printed edition. Vert scarce. 80. BRITISH THEATRE; or, A Collection of Plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the Prompt Books. With Biographical and Critical Remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald. Numerous en- graved plates by C. Heath and others. 25 vols. 16mo, new half calf, gilt. A very pine set. Loud. 1808 AN IMPORTANT ORIGINAIj UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 81. BRONTE (CHARLOTTE) "Tales op thp Island- ers," ORIGINAL T7NPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT VTEITTEN ON 34 MINIATURE SHEETS OP PAPER ORIGINALLY MAKING 4 VOLUMES, aS follows: Vol. I, 10 leaves, signed at the end "Charlotte Bronte, June the 20, 1829"; Vol. II, 8 leaves, signed at the end "C. Bronte, December 2, 1829"; Vol. Ill, 8 leaves, with the following note at the end: "I began this volume on Mon- day May the third, 1830 and -finished it on Saturday May the 30 • f ■ ■^ //y^-.....r,.,.d_ [See No. 81.] 8, 1830, C. Bronte, 1830 May the S"; Vol. IV, S.leaves, signed at the end "July the 30, 1830, C. Bronte." Commencing "The original of the Islanders was as follows: it was one cold night in December, we were all sitting round the fire and had been silent some time, and at last I said sup- pose we had each an Island of our own.. .Brawell chose the Isle of Whight {sic). We then chose who should live in our Islands, the chief of Brawell where John Bull, Astly Cooper, Leigh Hunt etc. Emily's Walter Scott, Mr. Lochhart, Johny Lockhart etc. etc., Annie's Michael Luudlen, Lord Bentich, Henry Halford etc. and I chose Duke of Wellington," etc. The four original volumes, together with the brown paper covers, all of which aee letteeed in the autogkaph of the AUTHOEESS, have been separated into single sheets and neatly and most skillfully inlaid with a complete type-written tran- script and portrait of Bronte, together with a chapter from Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Bronte, in which the preceding manu- script is mentioned. The whole forming a 4to volume bound in full blue crushed levant morocco, with the title inlaid on white crushed levant, gilt top. * One of the most important Bronte Manuscripts extant, having been planned by the authoress when she was. eleven tears of age, and written when she was thirteen. An interesting type-written original preface reads in part, as follows: "Mrs. Gaskell in her admirable life of Charlotte Bronte malces mention of a paoTcet of manuscripts, tales, poems romances and dramas, written in childhood iy the author of 'Jane Eyre.' An extract from the introduction to one of these ' precocious worTcs 'The Tales of the Islanders' was copied hy Mrs. GasTcell .... (else) the whole of this remarkable little romance has hitherto remained unpublished. Planned when she ' was eleven years of age and written at the age of thirteen . . . without question one of the most remarhable pieces of literature in our language . . . (the manuscript being) sufficient to i/ndicate the imaginative power, the wit, fluency and almost oriental wealth of description characterizing this romance by the little girl of thirteen years," etc. [See Reproduction.] FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, AND PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. 82. BROWNING (ROBERT). Sordello. The rare First edn. 12mo, original boards, uncut (back slightly repaired and a small portion of the label missing). Lond. : Ed. Moxon, 1840 * Presentation copy from the author, with inscription ON HALF-TITLE: "William Browning from his Nephew R. B."; also, on inner cover: "From W. S. Browning to his dear daughter Christiana M. Carr 7 June, 1872." This copy also- 31 contains the rare leaf advertising "Paracelsus and "Strafford" as by the same author, and as nearly ready ' ' Pippa Passes " etc. Some copies have Moxon s catalogue ot booksT this has not. Enclosed in green crushed,,levaiit morocco solander case with inner protecting cover of green silk. 83. BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN). MANUSCRIPT NOTE- BOOK OF William Ctjllbn Bryant, 70 pp. 8vo, interleaved with blotting paper and with contemporary marbled wrap- pers, nearly filled with Bryant's Shorthand Notes, made WHILE HE WAS PRACTICING THE LAW AS A PROFESSION. In addition, Bryant has jotted down examples of typographical blunders, memorandums of the numbers of lottery tickets, references to noted law suits and other notes, some dated 18i4, 1836, etc. , soon after which he gave up the law (which he had never liked) and went to New York as a joint editor of the New York Review. Laid in are newspaper cuttings and a bill for legal services dated 1818-20, etc. *An interesting assooiation item. Bryant's shorthand notes are very clearly and beautifully written and are an evi- dence of their early practical use in America. 84. BUCHANAN (ROBERT). Poems and Love Lyrics. By Robert W. Buchanan. First bdn. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Glasgow, n. d. [circa 1858] * Extremely rare, and seemingly unknown to bibliog- raphers. His first work, written and published when ONLY A YOUTH. Contains the leaf of errata, issued separately. Presentation copy from the author with inscription. 85. BULWER-LYTTON (LORD). The New Timon. A Romance of London. In four parts. First edn. In the (4) original numbers. 8vo, paper, uncut, in slip case (names on covers). Extremely rare. Lond. 1846 * Accompanied by the two leaves from " Punch," containing Alfred Tennyson's anonymous reply to Lord Lytton's strictures on him. They are signed ' ' Alcibiades." It was the only time that Tennyson indulged in vituperation, but the provocation was uncommon. 86. BURKE (EDMUND). REFLECTIONS ON THE Revo- lution IN France, and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event in a Letter in- tended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris. First EDN. 8vo, original wrappers, uncut edges. Lond. 1790 * Very scarce in this state. UNIQUE COPY OF THE WORKS OF BURNS, HAVING INSERTED 30 ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS BY GEORGE SHEPHEARD. 87. BURNS (ROBERT). Works, with an account of his Life, Criticism on his Writings, etc; James Currie, portrait, after Nasmyth. 4 vols. 8vo, newly bound by Zaehnsdorf, in full red crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges. Lond. 1819 * Unique and most interesting copy, having inserted a series of 30 original water-color drawings by George 82 THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY* VVUAT IT IS. WITH ALL. THE KINDES, CAVSES,SYMPTOMES, PROG. ^PSTICKES, tXVJ) SEVS- ■Jl^LL CFRES OF IT,- IN THREE MAINE PARTITIONS with thcir-fcucrall S e c T i ,o n », M e m- BERS, and S VB SEC- TION s. PHILOSOPHICALLY , ICU WALir^ HISTORICMtr, OPE" USD ^ND cyr rz*. BY Demockitvs lumor. With a Satyricall P^ e f a c e, condiiclwg t» thi fellovfing 1)tfc3Hrfi, Macrob. Omnemcum, Nihil meuoi. */4T OXFQXP, PrintcdbyloHN Lichfield andlAMES Short, for HfiNRY Crij?ps. Aan0 J) em, i 6 zs, [See No. 89.] Shepheaed (1770-1842), depicting various incidents in the poems. This copy was presented by the artist to his son, AND BY THE SON TO THE GRANDSON. THE ORIGINAL FLY-LEAVES CONTAINING PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION, AND AUTOGRAPH SIG- TURES ARE ALSO INSERTED. George Shepheard (1770-1842). Water-color painter and en- graver, born about 1770. He was a member of an old Her- fordshire family; He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy and painted rural scenery. Between 1811 and 1841 he eyhibited works of this class in the Eoyal Academy. He died in 1843 aged 72 years. He practiced engraved work in a mixed style and exhibited, among others, good prints, after Morland and Lady Hamiltons' Attitudes ; 15 plates, after Rehberg, etc. 88. BURNS (ROBERT). The Poetry of Burns. Edited by W. E. Henley and T. P. Henderson. Full-page portraits, facsimiles, etc. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth and labels, uncut. [Edinburgh] Bost. 1896 * Centenary Edition. One of only 150 copies printed for the American market (750 in all) . FIRST EDITION, WITH THE LEAF OF .ERRATA. 89. BURTON (ROBERT). The Anatomy of Melan- choly, what it is, with all the Kindes, Cavses, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Severall Ovres of it; in three Maine Par- titions with their Severall Sections, Members, and Svbjec- tions, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened and cvt up. By Democritvs Junior, with a Satyricall Preface, conducing to the following Discourse, Macrob, Omne meum. Nihil meum. The exceedingly rare First EDN. Small quarto, full brown morocco gilt, panelled sides, gilt edges, by Riviere. A fine and perfect copy, ivith the rare leaf of "Errata,^'' which is often wanting. At Oxford : Printed by John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, Anno Dom. 1621. * Robert Burton was born at Lindley, in Leicestershire, in 1576, and died at Oxford in 1640. " The Anatomy of Melan- choly " has been constantly pillaged, sometimes imitated, never equalled. That his melancholy, or his conceit as an astrolo- ger, induced him to shorten bis life is doubtless mere legend, but it is said from his calculation he predicted that he would die on or about the above date, which, being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves that, rather than there should be a mistake in his calculation, he sent up his soul to heaven thro' a slip about his neck." — Athbn, Oxon. [See Reproduction.] 33 REMARKABLY FINE SET OF FIRST ISSUES BOUND BY RIVIERE. 90. BUTLER (SAMUEL). Hudibras. Complete set OF First bdns. and the right issues. 3 vols, small 8vo, newly and handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed brown levant morocco extra, gilt edges, as follows : Part I. Lond. : Printed by J. G. for Richard Harriot, under Saint Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1663, with leaf of imprimatur facing title, '■'■ Imprimatur Jo. Berhen- head, Novemb. 11, 1662.'" (The genuine author's edn., 8vo size.) Part II. With the leaf of imprimatur. Printed by T. R. for John Martyn and James AUestry at the Bell in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1664. Part III. The Earliest Issue with the leaf of errata at end. Printed for Simon Miller, at the Sign of the Star at the West End of St. Paul's, 1678. Lond. 1663-64-78 * Magnificent set op the genuine first issues. Ex- teemelt rake.- The Writings of and Books Inscribed by George Gordon, Lord Byron. INSCRIBED BY LORD BYRON. 91. [BYRON (GEORGE GORDON LORD).] Wilson (John). The City of the Plague, and other Poems. By John Wilson, author of The Isle of Palms. 8vo, original full calf, leather label, gilt edges. Edinburgh, 1816 * Inscribed upon the half-title: "To Mr. Le Mann, April BSd, 1816. — With Lord Byron's Compliments." This presentation volume of the poems of " Christopher North," a First Edition, with its fine inscription to the person who is supposed to be the " Le Man" of Moore's "Life of Byron " forms a most interesting personal memento of the life and times of the poet. Preserved in an elegant solander case of full crimson levant morocco, crushed and polished, tooled in gold foliations on back and sides, by Wood of London. INSCRIBED BY LORD BYRON. 93. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON LORD). The De- formed Transformed : a Drama. By the Right Hon. Lord Byron. First edn. 8vo, original wrappers (with the 6 pp. of advertising uncut), within crimson watered-silk slip, inclosed in an elegant dark blue full crushed levant solander case, gold tooled on back and sides, raised bands, by Wood. Lond. 1824 , * INSOKIBED UPON FIRST FLY-LEAF, " To Miss Agnes Cathcort with the Author's kind regards." 34 93. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON LORD). Works. With the Letters and Journals of his Life, by Thomas Moore. Engraved fronts, and titles. 17 vols. 12mo, new green half polished calf gilt, gilt tops. Lond. 1832 *A BEAUTIFUL SET of this esteemed library edition, with fine impressions of the plates after Turner and others. Con- tains some pieces here first printed. 94. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON LORD). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romannt. Beautifully illust. with, numerous exquisitely engraved vignettes by Finden. 8vo, handsomely bound in full light blue crushed levant, richly gilt tooled on back, broad gilt line borders on sides, inside gilt borders, figured silk doublure and end papers, gilt top, by Champs. Lond. : John Murray, 1841 * Fine copy of this beautiful edition. IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF LORD BYRON. 95. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD). Complete Original Manuscript of one of his charming lyrics, commencing : " I saw thee weep, the big bright tear Came o'er that eye of blue. And then methought it did appear A violet dropping dew." etc., comprising 16 lines, signed "N." The MS. contains additions and corrections, and will be found in " Hebrew Melodies," where it varies from this original form, * Byron mdnuscripts are very rare. 96. pANNE (ABEDNEGO). A New Wind-mil. 4to, ^^ stitched, pp. 6. Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1648 * Very rare. This tract, written in the form of a letter, and dated from Boston, Jan. 3, 1643, refers to the Windmills which were being erected in the shape of the holy cross, and adds, ' ' Our brethren in New England admit of no such ABOMINATION." It is a curious commentary on the above that at this very time numerous windmills were being erected by the New England "brethren" at points on Eastern Long Island, and there they remain to-day. 97. CHANSONS FOLLES. (A Collection of Songs, with music.) With prettily etched front. Unique copy, em- bellished WITH UPWARDS OF 70 BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED original water-color drawings, some full-page., others appearing as head- and tail-pieces, vignettes in the margins, etc., playfully dealing ivith scenes of love and feminine charm and loveliness, many , being rather highly wrought, humorous, etc. — the Temptation of St. Antoine, Caressing the Bust of Bacchus, Love in the Country, Climbing the May-Bole, fantastic costume effects, frolics about Baris, etc. , etc. 12mo, paper, uncut. [Paris, n. d.] *UNIQUE copy of an EDITION LIMITED TO 75 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM. A dainty and highly attractive example. 35 98. CHARLES II. By Osmund Airy. Portrait of Charles II. , after the miniature by Samioel Cooper, in colors and on India paper, and with fine facsimiles of contemporary portraits and miniatures, etc. Royal 4to, three-quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, with orig- inal covers bound in. Lond., Paris, N. Y. 1901 * Fine copy of one of the most interesting of the Goupil His - torical Monographs. Only a limited number were printed on fine paper. 99. CHAUCER (GEOFFREY). The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet, newly printed. Black Letter in double columns. Thick small folio, old stamped calf, neatly rebacked. Londini, 1598 * Rare. Edited by Thomas Speight and containing the first engraved portrait. (In this copy it precedes title instead of at a6.) In this impression you shall find these additions : 1. His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 3. His Life collected. 3. Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure Words explained. 5. Authors by him cited, declared. 6. Difficulties opened. 7. Two Bookes of his neuer before printed. (" The Dreame " and "The Floure and the Leafe.") With the exception that the title and portrait are slightly cut down and mounted, and al (a blank) is missing, a good copy. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN NEW ENGLAND. 100. CHECKLEY (JOHN) AND [LESLIE (CHARLES). J A Short and Easie Method with the Deists, etc. [By Chas. Leslie.] Lond.: J. Applebee and sold by John Checkley, at the Sign of the Crown and Blue- Gate, in Boston, 1723; [also] The Speech of Mr. John Checkley upon his Tryal at Boston, for publishing " A Short and Easie Method with the Deists," etc., with the Jury's Ver- dict, the Sentence of the Court, etc., etc. Lond.: Ap- plebee, 1738;-1[and leaf] A Specimen of a True Dissenting Catechism, etc. 3 in one vol. 8vo, half brown polished morocco gilt, gilt top (some. pp. discolored). Lond. 1723-38 *"0f the highest importance in connection with the Liberty op the Press in New England. Checkley was con- victed in the inferior court at Boston in 1734 for publishing and selling this book, which was called ' a false and scanda- lous libel, tending to draw into dispute his Majesty's title to the Crown, scandalizing the ministers of the gospel, estab- lished by law, tending to raise divisions, jealousies and ani- mosities among his Majesty's loving subjects of this province, etc., etc' He appealed, but after a long speech in his own defence a verdict was brought in against him. Rare " — Sabin. Checkley is mentioned as one of the earliest book-lovers of New England. An interesting item. 36 101. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Glover (Mary Baker). Science and Health. Post 8vo, full levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, bj' Stikeman. Best. : Christian Science Publishing Co., 1875 * The rare first edition. This first edition has now become one of the scarcest of modern American literature. With the leap of errata containing 66 corrections. 102. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Science and Health. Third edn., revised. Front. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth. Lynn, Mass. : Dr. Asa G. Eddy, 1881 * In Volume II, Chapter VI, 46 pages are devoted to DEMONOLOGY, THE MAJOR PORTION RELATING TO THE TRIAL OF Dr. Eddy and E. J. Arenb for conspiracy to mdrdek Daniel Spofford. Mrs. Eddy's spiritual signification of the Lord's Prayer varies from the Prayer in the earlier editions. 103. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. Eleventh edn. Front. 2 vols, original cloth. Bost. : 571 Columbus Ave., 1884 * In this edition the chapter on Demonology contains but 13 PAGES, the matter relating to the trial of Eddy and Arens hav- ing been eliminated, and a new chapter of 24 pages, " Key to the Scriptures," added. The title of the book now becomes ' Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures." 104. CLINTON AND CORNWALLIS. The Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, relative to his Conduct in North America; Particularly to that which re- spects the unfortunate Issue of the Campaign in 1781 ; An Answer to that part of the Narrative of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, which relates to the Conduct of Lieut.-Gen. Earl Cornwallis, during the Campaign in 1781, by Earl Cornwallis ; Observations on some parts of the Answer of Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative, by Lieut.- Gen. Sir Henry Clinton. With Appendix containing Ex- tracts of Letters and other Papers. 3 vols. 8vo, elegantly bound in full polished calf gilt, gilt edges. Loud. : J. Debrett, 1783 * Sir Henry Clinton acquits himself of all share in Lord Cornwallis's misfortune, leaving that General to answer for misconceptions of the orders sent him, and for the choice of the post he was reduced to surrender. Cornwallis's answer consists of the correspondence between the two commanders to prove that " the conduct and opinions of the author were not the cause of the catastrophe which terminated the cam- paign of 1781." 105. CLUBS OF LONDON. The History of White's, with the Betting Book from 1743 to 1878, and a List of the Members from 1736 to 1892. [By the Hon. Algernon Bourke.] 2 vols, thick 4to, original cloth, uncut. Lond. : [Privately printed], 1892 * Fine copy, of which only 500 were printed. Extensively illustrated with over 130 portraits of the more prominent mem- bers of the club since its foundation, including many impor- tant characters in the social and political life of the periods. Some of the portraits are facsimiles of rare mezzotints. 37 THE RAREST BOOK OF THE FAMOUS BRIGHTON COACH ROAD. 106. COACHING. Edwards (J.). A Companion from London to Brighthelmston in Sussex, consisting of a Set of Topographical Maps from Actual Survey on a Scale of Two Inches to a Mile, with Ichnographical Plans of some of the principal Towns within the Circuit of the said Survey, Pic- turesque Views of Seats— a complete and comprehensive De- scription, Natural History, and Antiquities of all the Towns, Villages, Gentleman's Seats, etc., on the Road— from Lon- don TO Brighthelmston, and an Account of the Inns where Post-Chaises and Post-Horses are kept. Stage Coaches, Stage Waggons, with their usual Hours of passing to and from London, etc., etc. With a series of maps shoiving the dif- ferent sections and views of the places of interest on the road. Royal 4to, newly and beautifully bound in full green crushed levant morocco, with a large device of a coach and four with passengers, within a large diamond ornament on both sides, back tooled with sporting devices, ornate inside borders, gilt top, edges scraped, bound by Baynttjn of Bath, Eng. Lond. 1801 * A VERY FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST OF COACHING BOOKS. It is a complete account of everything pertaining to perhaps the most famous coach road in Great Britain, that of the Brighton Road. Mr. Harper, the author of several delight- ful books on coaching, has devoted one complete volume to the road, in which he gives many interesting particulars. The above, however, was published at a time when travel was of necessity by coach, and presents as fascinating a picture as could be imagined. Brighton, originally Brighthelmston, plainly derives its name from some Saxon Brighthelm, but his identity has never been discovered. Its present form came into use at the end of the eighteenth century, but it is sometimes found on documents at the time of Charles the Second. The volume is enclosed in a cloth case. 107. COACHING PRINTS IN COLOR. A series of 4 finely COLORED COACHING PRINTS, " Going a Head " (the Royal Mail, drawn by four horses, going at a good pace on a country road); " Putting To " (a stagecoach changing horses, with view of inn, attendants, etc.); " Racing " (two coaches, each drawn by four horses, racing on a country road, trees in background); "Behind Time" (the Royal Mail, going at a brisk pace, trees in foreground). Svo, colored, surface measures 5\-s.l inches, each with oak frames, mounts and glazed. In frames, measures 10^x9 inches. {circa 1849] * While no name of the artist appears, they are excellent examples, and, until three or four years ago, were in the collec- tion at Walton" Hall, England. 108. COBDEN-SANDERSON. Ecce Mundus, Industrial Ideals, and The Book Beautiful, by T. J. Cobden-Sander- son. Printed on handmade paper, and beautifully bound, by the Doves Bindery, in full dark brown crushed and polished levant, ruled lines on sides, gilt edges. Hammersmith, 1902 109. COBDEN-SANDERSOl^r. The Arts and Crafts Movement. 8vo, beautifully printed in large, clear type, on handmade paper, and bound by The Doves Bindery, in full dark brown crushed and polished levant morocco, ruled lines on sides, gilt edges. Hammersmith, 1905 A COLEEIDGE LETTEE OF THE HIGHEST INTEEEST, WITH MENTION OF CHAELES AND MAET LAMB, SCOTT, WOEDSWOETH, SOUTHET, ETC. 110. COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR). A. L. S. 8 pp. 4to, Gra Highgate, Sept. 14th, 1828. Addressed to Alaeic Watts (poet-.ioumalist, and author of "Lyrics of the Heart," etc.). A LETTER OP THE HIGHEST ASSOCIATION INTEREST, mainly concerning the writer's publications and commencing "My dear Sir: Tour Wish shall at all events he complied with — whether my suspicion he well or ill grounded, that you have not yet received {what yet to the best of my recollection) I left at your own door, two letter sheets of Verses. The first a pre- tended Fragment of Lee, the Tragic Poet, containing a descrip- tion of Limho, and a wording to my own fancy containing some of the most forcible lines and with the most original imagery that my niggard Muse ever made me a present of — for to compare one's own with ones honor, is I trust no offence against Humility and may stand free of the Adage that com- parisons . are odious. I likewise explained to you, on what manner by false and lying pretenses, that the Edition of my Poems so many years pretendedly in hand was only stopped thro' a miscalculation on the quantity," also complaining of the advantage taken of him by his publishers. Coleridge refers to his friendship with Wordsworth, and ALSO MAKES INTERESTING MENTION OP ScOTT, SOUTHEY, KeATS, Moore and Charles and Mary Lamb. In asking for a reply the writer says . . . "I am engaged to pay my long delayed visit to my dear friends Charles and Mary Lamb at Enfield and shall probably not return before Wednesday night or Thursday morning or I would come to town. If therefore you write by to-morrow's post directing Charles Lamb, Esqe. Enfield Chace, next house to the Phoenix Fire Office for S. T. C. I shall receive it there, or I should be very happy to see you here," etc. * One of the most important and interesting Coleridge tETTEES EXTANT. 39 111. COLONIAL POSTAL SERVICE. BROADSIDE. Instructions given by Benjamin Franklin and William Hunter, Esqs. , His Majesty's Deputy Post-Masters General of all his Dominions on the Continent of North America, to Mr. Thos. Vernon, Gent, their Deputy Post-Master for the town of Newport, in the Colony of Rhode Island [deputy's name and place filled in in autograph by Benj. Franklin ?] Large folio (slightly torn at folds), uncut. [Phila. : B. Feanklin AND D. Hall, ca.'1753?J * Complete and detailed instructions to Post-Masters, Stage- Drivers, Post-Riders, etc. As Post-Master General, Franklin displayed the same good sense and progressive spirit which characterized all his great services. Under him the postal system underwent a complete change. He opened the mail-bags to newspapers by whomso- ever printed, cut down the postage, shortened the routes, re- duced the time between offices, and for the first time adver- tised unclaimed letters in the newspapers. An excessively eaee item. Unknown to Hildeburn, Evans, Sabin, etc., and nowhere recorded at public sale. Books with Colored Plates, See also under Alkbn, Cruikshank, Egan, Row- landson, and others. 112. COLORED AND PLAIN CHARACTER POR- TRAITS AND VIEWS. A long and most interesting col- lection of the famous " Penny Plain, Twopence Colored " series of colored portraits of eminent actors and actresses, views, etc. Comprising 232 plates (of which about 25 per cent. ARE IN colors), all neatly inlaid from 4to to folio, with borders of varying colored inks, and a specially-made title in water-colors. Thick folio, bound in full morocco. Lond. 1832 * Including Mr. Young as Rolla (colored), Mrs. Stanley as Ulin (colored), Mr. Bland as Pluto (colored). Miss Poote as Morgiana (colored), Mr. Kemble as Charles II. (colored), Mr. Osbaldiston as Jonathan Bradford (colored), Jim Crow, Skelt's Caricatures in the Battle of Waterloo (Blticher, Hill and others), Skelt's Characters in Jonathan Edwards (a long series, both colored and plain), do. in The Wood Demon, Little Tom Tucker, Guy Fawkes, etc., etc., many of whioli contain portraits of the favorite actors and actresses of the period. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH COLORED PLATES. 113. COLORED COPY OF EVELINA. Evelina; or. Female Life in London, being the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to Fashionable Life and the Gay Scenes of the Metropolis, displaying a Highly Humorous, Satirical and Entertaining Description of Fashionable Characters, Manners and Amusements in the Higher Circles of Metro- politan Society. 8vo, full polished calf, richly tooled on 40 back and sides, ornate inside borders, gilt edges, by Rivi- ere. Lond. : Jones & Co., 18-.'2 *A VERY FINE COPY oE THE RARE FiRST EDITION. Embel- lished with 6 spirited plates in color, displaying the VARIOUS SCENES CONNECTED WITH THE LIFE OF A LADY ENTER- ING SOCIETY. Some of the plates are by the well-known artist William Heath, Op the ' ' colored plate " books this is one of the hardest to procure in choice condition. 114. COLORED COPY of Wilson's "Paris Lions." Wilson (Harriette — notorious woman of fashion). Paris Lions and London Tigers. The Rare First edn. 13mo, contemporary calf gilt. Lond. 1825 * With 13 finely colored plates (some of which are un- doubtedly portraits of Prince Esterhazy, Col. Eochfort and others mentioned in the work under thin disguises) by FiNDLEY. The memoirs of this woman rank among the most remarka- ble revelations that have ever been printed connected with the gay life of London of the period. 115. COLORED CRIES OF LONDON. The Cries of London: a Series of 40 small colored plates, showing the street merchants crying their various wares. Published in 1800, mounted, and with specially printed title-pages. 2 vols. 8vo, finely bound in full crimson morocco, gilt backs and edges. Lond. 1800 * Very rare and curious. 116. COLORED PLATES. Farquhar (Ferdinand). The Relicks of a Saint : a Right Merry Tale. First edn. With an exceedingly characteristic colored front, (in the man- ner of Rowlandsan). 12mo, full polished calf gilt, gilt edges, by Larkins. Scarce. Lond. 181 P. EXTREMELY RARE. 117. COLORED PLATES. Thornton (Alfred). Don Juan. 31 very fine Colored Plates, representing the Adven- tures of this abandoned Reprobate and his valet Leporello. 2 vols, thick 8vo, fully bound in crimson large-grain levant morocco, gilt leaves, by Zaehnsdorf. A very handsome SET: Lond. : Kelly, 1821-22 *The first volume contains the early adventures of the famous Spanish libertine Don Juan in various parts of the world, and the second describes his life in London. Of great RARITY. 118. COLORED PLATES. Dulwich Gallery. A series of 50 PLATES, RICHLY PRINTED IN COLORS FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED PICTURES IN THAT IMPORTANT COLLEC- TION, executed by R. Cockburn (Custodian), all mounted on cardboard in the manner of drawings. Folio, in half morocco portfolio, gilt. [Lond. 1830] * One of the most noteworthy of the great English 41 Picture Galleries and a pine copy op this rare and beauti- PDL WORK, the plates of which are all reproduced from the canvases direct, the greatest care having been taken to pre- serve, in the minutest degree, the exact coloring of the orig- inals. An important and rather unusual feature in works of this kind. Among the artists whose works are here represented may be mentioned Rembrandt, Mubillo, "Wouvebmans, Claude, Cuyp, Van Der Velde, Berghem, Nicolas and Gaspar Pous- siN, Hobbema, Salvator Rosa, Teniers, Jacob Ruysdael, J. Both, Le Nain, Wynants, de Jardin, etc. These plates were all published separately, hence complete collections are very rare and particularly so with the four EXTRA PLATES (Nos. 47 to 50, HERE INCLUDED) whioh were issued later, at from three to four guineas each. 119. COSTUME PLATES. CoUeetion des Nouveaux Costumes des Autorities Constituees civiles et mllitaires. ^6 aquatint plates, colored by hand, with descriptive text (the plates in excellent condition, but the text a little soiled and strengthened) . 4to, old calf (rebacked). [Paris, ca. 1785] * Extremely rare. Colored plates of the military and civil costume (portraits) of the Revolutionary period. COLORED PLATES OF LONDON COSTUMES. 120. COSTUME PLATES. Costume of the Lower Orders of London, designed and engraved from Nature by T. L. Busby. The complete series of 34 plates, all of which ARE FINELY COLORED. 4to, fuU crimson Crushed levant morocco, corner ornaments on sides, gilt top, by Wood. Lond. [1819] * Very scarce. Contains both printed and colored titles. A series of highly characteristic plates of the costumes of the lower classes of London, including that of Billy Waters, the dancing fiddler (who was born in America), Jemmy Level, the tinker, as well as the milkmaid, the fiddler, fortune-teller, apple-boy and others, some of .whom no longer frequent the streets of London. 121. COSTUME PLATES. Galerie Frangaise des Femmes celfebres par leurs talents, leur sang ou leur beaute. JPor- traits en pied, dessines par M. Lante, d^apres des origi- naux inedits, graves par M. Qatine et calories avec soin. Avec des notices biographiques et des remarques sur les habillemens. Small folio, new half straight grained blue morocco gilt, gilt top, by David. Paris, 1827 * Illustrated with 70 beautifully colored portraits, including, among others, Marion de Lorme, Ninon de I'Enclos, Madame de Sevigne, Mile, de la Valliere, Mme. de Maintenon, Sophie Arnould, etc. 122. COLUMBUS. Petrarca (Francesco). Chronica delle vite de Ponteflci et Imperatori Romani: alia quale sono state aggiunte quelle che da tempi del Petrarcha iusino alia 4a «tA nostra mancavano. 4to, old half calf (light water- stains and leaf 34 torn, but nothing missing). Venetia : lacomo de Pinci da Lecco, 1507 * Extremely bare. On leaf 88 v. there is a reference to the the Discovery op America: " Fu anohora da questi Re man- date Christophoro Colombo oorsale di natlone genouese ad cercare terre noue In mare: il quale dipoi nauioando molte terre agli antiohi ignote disooperse." Harrisse, B. A. V., addi- tions, No. 27. 123. CONTES AUX JSTOILES. Pradels (Octave). La Femme de L'Avocat, Conte, Dedie k Mile. Jeanne Gra- nier. Daintily illust. with U delicately etched plates (in three states) depicting domestic scenes between the superannuated advocate and his lady by P. Kauffmann. And further EMBELLISHED BY 5 ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR DRAW- INGS, EXECUTED OVER THE TEXT OF FIVE PAGES, DEALING MORE BOLDLY WITH THE SUBJECT. 12mo, original etched wrappers, uncut, enclosed in a specially made white satin case, with ties. Paris: Magnier, 1888 * Unique example op an edition limited to only 25 copies ON imperial Japanese vellum paper. The original drawings are executed by a master-hand and are delicate and beautiful in the extreme. 124. COWPER (WILLIAM). Poems, by William Cow- per, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Lond. : Printed for J. John- son, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-yard, 1782; The Task, a Poem in six Books, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. ; to which are added, by the same author. An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. ; Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools; and the History of John Gilpin, Lond. : Printed for J. John- son, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-yard, 1785. First edn. of both volumes. 2 vols. 8vo, newly bound in dark brown levant extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. * Choice and fine copies of the first editions of each volume, with the rare half-title to the second volume. One of the One Hundred Famous Books in English Literature, exhibited at the Grolier Club. UNCUT COPY. 135. CRABBE (REV. GEORGE). The Village : a Poem in Two Books. First edn. 4to, sewed, uncut. Lond. 1783 * Very rare in this desirable condition. Uncut copies of the works of the early classic poets are rarely found. Those considered worthy of preservation were nearly always bound either separately or in volumes of pamphlets. 43 CRUIKSHANKIANA. A Magnificent Collection of the Rarer Books Illustrated by the Cruikshanks, some in most excep- tional condition. PEOBABLT THE FINEST EXTEA-ILLXJSTEATED COPT EVEE OFPEEED FOE SALE. 126. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). An Essay on the Genius op Geoege Cruikshank. (From tlie Westminster Review, No. LXVI, the text written bt William Make- peace Thackeray.) With numerous illustrations from Cruikshank's works. The original 8vo issue, inlaid to polio, and extended prom one volume 8vo to three volumes thick large polio by the insertion op an bxteaordinaey number op plates by Cruikshank, letters written bt him, etc., The material originally came prom the pamous Truman Collection and the work has been made and bound with- out counting the cost, and as now presented it is probably the finest extra-illustrated copy op this pamous work that has ever been oppered for sale. Bound by Sangorski and Sutclippe (of London, Eng.), in PULL crimson crushed LEVANT MOROCCO, CORNER ORNAMENTS WITHIN ROLLED GOLD LINES, THE ORNAMENTS BEING SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND CUT POR THIS BINDING, BACKS TO MATCH, FACSIMILE- OP Cruikshank's autograph within one of the panels on BACKS, GILT TOPS, enclosed in cloth case, with protecting covers of cloth, all of which are lettered Lond., Vol. 1, 1808-1828 Lond., Vol. 2, 1828-1840 Lond., Vol. 3, 1840-1854 EACH VOLUME HAS A SPECIALLY DESIGNED PEN-AND-INK TITLE- PAGE, WHICH READS "An ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GeORGE Cruikshank. From the Westminster Review. Illustrated WITH upwards of FOUR HUNDRED ETCHINGS and WOOD ENGRAV- INGS FROM HIS MOST POPULAR WORKS, CHAP-BOOKS, ETC." (Many of which are in colors and skillfully inlaid.) * It is impossible in the short space of a catalogue description to give anything like a detailed description of this magnificent set, and must, therefore, be content to give a resumS of its con- tents. At the beginning of Vol. 1 is a complete MS. index to THE EXTEA-iLLUSTEATioNs ON SIX PAGES, neatly Written, each plate or series of plates being arranged in chronological order. "Billy Dip, the Dyer" (about 1809, in colors); "The Mul- berry Tree" (sheet song), 1808,- aJso, various other sheet songs- issued about this time, "Rapture and Desire"; two Lottery 44 THE SCOURGE; OR, LITERARYj THEATRICAJ. ANP MISCELLANEOUS ' MAGAZINE, VOL. XU. ■rtTilt 1 armM for virtue when 1 point the ptn, Arandthe bold front of shameless guilty men, I^ih the proud Kameaterin his gjlded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star { Can there be wanting to defend liercause* Zlghts of the church, orguardiansof the laws f Could pensioned Boileau lash in honest strala, follies and vices, e'en in Lewis' reign, ^Could Laureatpryden pimp and friar ent^agCf And neither Charles nor James be in a rage« And / not strip the gilding of ^ knave. Unplaced, unpension'd, no man's tool orslavel I will, or perish m the generous cause, HEAR THIS, AND TREMBLE, YEWHO'SCAPE THE tAWS. ropu X0JV7)0JV: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JONES AND CO- NO. 5, NEWGATE-STKEET ; And s^ld by all the Booksellers in the United KiDgdoan. 1816. [See No. 127] BiUs, 1815-6; "Humming Birds," 1818; "The PioeadiUy Nui- sance," 1819; various plates from the original editions of "The Humourist," Ireland's Life of Napoleon, "Tom and Jerry," "Life in Paris" and others, all of which abb in coloes; "The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder" (10 plates); Clinton 's Life of Byron (4 plates), "The London Stage" (4 plates), "More Mornings in Bow Street" (4 plates, ALL proofs); Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield " and Smollett 's " Sir Launcelot Greaves," complete sets of pkoofs; also, the best plates from "Scraps and Sketches," "Eobinson Crusoe," "Gentleman in Black," "Punch and Judy," "Universal Songster," "My Sketch Book," "Don Quixote," "Comic Almanack," "Tom Thumb," ' ' Three Courses and a Dessert, " " Tower of London, " " Cruik- shank 's Table Book, ' ' etc., etc. Also, TWO Autograph Letters written bt George Cruik- SHANK, original photographs, biographies, etc., etc. AN ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE AND PEEPECT SET, WITH ALL THE COLORED FOLDING PLATES BY CEUIKSHANK (INCLUDING THE SUPPRESSED PLATE). 127. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Scoukge; or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, 6 vols. ; also the continuation The Scourge, or Literary Theatrical and Miscel- laneous Magazine. Absolutely complete, with the pull NUMBER OP 72 EXCEEDINGLY PINE AND RACY, SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS POLDING PLATES IN COLORS, MANY OP WHICH ARE BY George Cruikshank. 12 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in sprinkled calf, gilt, yellow edges. Lond. 1811-1816 * Possibly the rarest op all books illustrated by Cruik- shank TO find with the full quota of colored plates. But FEW complete sets ARE KNOWN, ONLY ONE OTHER HAVING BEEN OFFERED AT PUBLIC SALE IN THIS COUNTRY. It CONTAINS THE EXCESSIVELY RARE TWELFTH VOLUME, OP WHICH ONLY A VERY SMALL NUMBER WERE PRINTED, OWING TO LACK OP SUBSCRIBERS, AND OF WHICH NO TITLE-PAGE WAS ISSUED, Copies of the title to Volume I having been used, as in this copy. Further, the book cannot be collated unless the monthly parts contents leaves are present, many of them counting in the pagi- nation. Every one of these is contained in this set, also THE VOLUME TITLES, A CONDITION OP PERFECTION SELDOM FOUND EVEN IN SO-CALLED "COMPLETE SETS." Further, Volume 10 contains a feature that few volumes DO contain, namely, the plate "A Financial Survey of Cumberland, or the Beggar's Petition" is in uncovered state, IN which state Mr. G. S. Layabd, the author of that excellent work on "Suppressed Plates, "says, "For many years I hoped and hoped in vain to come across an unoolored proof displaying the hidden figure. But it was not until 1905 that I was for- tunate enough to light upon the probably unique example herb reproduced," etc. [See Eeproduotion.] 45 COLORED PLATES BY CRUIKSHANK. 128. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). [Combe (William).] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos. By Doctor Syntax. The rare First edn. Em- hellished with SO engravings by G. Cruikshank, all of which ARE IN COLORS, and depict in a spirited manner the various phases in the life of the great General. Large 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full maroon crushed levant mo- rocco, with the French Eagle in gold in centre of both sides, a crowned N and other emblematical tooling within panels on back, gilt top, other edges scraped, almost uncut, bound by .Root. Lond. 1815 * A VER.Y FINE AND TALL COPT, with protecting cover of cloth and enclosed in case. It was afterwards (in 1817) reissued, and copies bearing that date are sometimes sold as the first edition. EIKST EDITION IN UNCUT CONDITION. 139. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). [Combe (William).] The Life of Napoleon. Another copy of the rare First EDN. Embellished with SO engravings by George Cruik- shank, all of which ARE IN colors. Royal 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco, ornate back, rolled gold lined sides, ornamental inside borders, gilt top, other edges totally uncut, by Riviere. Lond. 1815 * a beautiful copy, and of extreme rarity in uncut STATE. There was no uncut copy in the famous Tkuman collection, although he had five copies of the wobk. [See Catalogue Nos. 739-743.] 130. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Pigeons. Dedi- cated to all the Flats, and showing the Artifices, Success and Crimes of Gaming, Gamesters and Gambling Houses. With 6 characteristic plates in color by George Cruik- shank. lamo, new three-quarter blue crushed levant mo- rocco extra, gilt top, other edges totally uncut. Lond. 1817 *Finb copy. Scarce. A keen satire upon the gambling habits and "high life" of the period, with mention (under thin disguises) of the prominent personages, from the Prince Regent downwards. CHOICE SET. VERY RARE. 131. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Humorist, a Col- lection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, &c. ^0 deliciously humorous and most beautifully designed, etched and colored plates by George Cruikshank. First Issues throughout op the First edn., having Robin's advertisement on the verso of the lists of plates in each volume. 4 vols. 12mo, elegantly bound in full crim- son levant morocco, top edges gilt, each protected by a de- tachable cloth lettered cover, and enclosed in case, by Wood. Lond. 1819-20 * One of the rarest gems op a Cruikshank collection, 46 133. [CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE).] The Tour of Dr. Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Islands. First bdn. Royal 8vo. Loud. 1821 * This, we believe, is the first time in this country that this work has been catalogued with certainty as a George Crdikshank item. The frontispiece is by George Cruik- SHANK, the fact having recently been established beyond doubt by the sale of a copy in London, in which this plate is signed in his autograph " George Cruikshank, del." See cutting in book. The work has long been attributed to George Cruikshank, but proof has been wanting until now. Unusually tall copy, with brilliant impressions of the 19 RICHLY- colored PLATES by C. Williams [and with frontis- piece BY George Cruikshank], in the manner of Thomas Rowlandson. Bound (probably by Charles Lewis) in full green straight grained morocco, ornate borders on sides, full gilt back and edges. 133. CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT). Comicalities. (A Se- ries of 24 FINELY COLORED PLATES, depicting the various phases of life and times in the early part of the XVIII Cen- tury, and including "J. Card Party," "J. Steam Packet Cabin," ''Honour'' (a duel), "Comforts of a Wife," ''The Pleasures of Angling," " The Englishman in France," etc., etc.) The rare First edn. Oblong 12mo, new three- quarter olive green crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by Riviere [Loud., ca. 1822] * Fine copy, a happy combination of pictorial satire and draughtsmanship, by the brother of George Cruikshank. LARGE PAPER COPY OF CAREY'S LIFE IN PARIS. 134. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Life in Paris; com- prising the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian celebrity, and of his Bang-Up companions Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton, with the Whim- sical Adventures of the Halibut Familj', including Sketches of a variety of eccentric Characters in the French Metro- polis. By David Carey. The rare First edn. Embel- lished with 21 COLORED PLATES, representing scenes from real life, designed and etched by George Cruikshank, also, with 22 engravings on wood by the same artist. Royal 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco, richly tooled back and inside borders, gilt top, OTHER EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT, by RiVIERE. Lond. 1822 * a magnificent copy of the extremely rare large Paper edition, in the most desirable of collector's con- dition. But few copies on Large Paper have been offered foe sale in this country, and so far as records show this is the first copy in this exceptional state to be OFFERED. It is one of the rarest of the Cruikshank books, the plates being very spirited and true, a really extraordinary fact, con- sidering that the artist's continental experiences were limited to ONE DAY spent at Boulogne. 47 135. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The 8vo edition of " Life in Paris." With spirited plates in color hy George Cruihshank. 8vo, full polished calf, extra, gilt edges. Lond. 1822 * Particularly fine copy, with brilliant colored plates, THE VERY RARE LEAP AT THE END " TO THE BINDER" (lacking in most copies) and the half-title. THE EXCESSIVELY EAEE FIRST EDITION OF GEIMM'S POPULAR STORIES ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT. 136. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Hans Marchen. Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. With the EXQUISITELY ETCHED PLATES BY GeORGE CrUIKSHANK. 2 Vols. post 8V0. Vol. 1 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED BOARDS, and Vol. 2 IN BOARDS, CLOTH BACK-PAPER LABEL, BOTH AS ISSUED, AND TOTALLY UNCUT. Lond. : C. Baldwyn, 1823, J. Robins, 1826 * The excessively bake First Edition, and in most de- SIBABLB collector's CONDITION, OF WHICH PEW COPIES ARE KNOWN. This is one of the most difficult of Cruikshank's books to procure in fine state, owing mainly to the immense popularity of the work with the young people of the period. A very small number of the earliest state of the title to series I occur without the two dots over the word ' ' Marchen, ' ' but mainly they occur printed ' ' Marchen. ' ' The above is one of the latter, and with this minor exception is The GENUINE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FiRST EDITION. as the following points will prove: The title to the second story (page 9) is " TraveUing Mu- sicians ' ' in the iirst issue ; ' ' T?ie Travelling Musicians, or the Waits of Bremen" in the second. The title on page 81 is "The Wonderful Musician" in the first issue, "The Waggish Mu- sician" in the second. The title on page 118 is differently set. In the first issue there are two lines in capitals and two lines in Italics. In the second issue there are three lines in capitals and only one in Italics. There is a list of plates headed "Directions to the Binder" on page (218) in the first issue. In the second issue this page is Hank. In the "Notes" the note to page VII is on page 240 in the first issue. It has been transferred to the beginning (page 219) in the second issue. The verse in the first issue on page 240 reads: "Bless you, bless you, Burnie-bee Tell me where your wedding be. ' ' In the second issue it reads: ' ' Bless you, bless you, Burnie-bee Tell me when your wedding be. ' ' Volume 2 has the advertisements at the front (which' only occur in a few copies of the very earliest issue of the first edition), and also at the end a leaf of advertisements of "Books printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green" 48 (/^ ^MX^'^S ^^\xb y^m^yysHatci r from I 'r:lJ Tradition ■) \J fiiM/.v7iri/ M' ('. Bii7/fny/i Ai'Wi/rite A'tn-i-f . [See No. 136.J A CRUIKSHANK BOOK OF EXCESSIVE RARITT. 139. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) AND IRELAND (W. H.)- Gaiete de Paris; or, The Rambles of an English Party- through the French Metropolis. Delineated in twenty- one CHAEACTEEISTIC ENGRAVINGS, BY GBOKGE CRXJIK- SHANK, ALL, OF WHICH ARE IN COLORS. To which are added Letter- Press descriptions of Real Life in the Vortex of that Chasse Ennui, by W. H. Ireland (author of " Life of Napoleon"). Oblong 4to, full green crushed levant morocco, gilt top, other edges totally uncut, by Riviere. Lond. : John Fairburn, n. d. [1825] (colored title dated 182a). * Of excessive eaeity, and specially desirable in this MOST unusual state. Thb plates are those op Carey's "Life in Paris," but printed, however, on Laegb Paper, a copy sold in London, in 1901, for £44. The text, by William H. Ireland, is in English, and is appropriate foe these plates so full of life and d'ash. WITH COLOEED PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. F 140. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Ireland (W. H.). The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. With brilliant impres- sions of the numerous spirited fult-page color plates by George Cruikshank. First edn. 4 vols. 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco extra, ornate inside borders, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond.: John Cumberland, 1838 * Fine set. Rare. LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, OF WHICH BUT FOUR COPIES ARE KNOWN. 141. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE) [and ROBERT)]. London Characters (a series of 24 most characteristic AND clever specimens OP THE WORK OF THE BROTHERS Cruikshane:, all beautifully colored). 4to, original ribbed cloth, lettered on the back, uncut. Remarkably PINE copy. Lond. : Joseph Robins, 1829 * Laege paper copy, of excessive rarity in the origi- nal cloth, op which only four copies are known. The plates, which include the Parish Beadle, Tax Gatherer, Turn- cock, Waterman, Stage Coachman, Sailor, Dustman, Barber, Footman, Fishmonger, Butcher's Boy, Sailor's Lass, etc., are excellent specimens of the work of the Brothers Cruikshank, and are all printed on Whatman paper. It is interesting 'of note, that while 9 of the plates were executed by Robert Cruikshank, with the aid of his brother George, the publisher attached but little significance to Robert's work, 'the title reading " London Characters. Designed and etched by George Cruikshank." 142. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Illustrations of Popu- lar Works, by George Cruikshank. Part I (all published). 8vo, paper, uncut. Lond. [1830] *lN this copy the plates are finely colored. Excessively EAEE IN THIS CONDITION. The plates illustrate Roderick Ran- dom, Vicar of Wakefield (3), Knickerbocker's New York (2) and Burns's Poems. 50 FINE AND PERFECT SET. 143. CRUIKSI-IANK (GEORGE). Cruikshank's Comic Almanack ; an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest. By Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with right merrie cuts pertain- ing to the months, sketched and etched bj' George Cruik- Shank. A COMPLETE SET OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUES, from itS commencement in 1835 to its finish in 1853. Containing about 200 clever etchings, as well as hundreds of woodcuts, and specially choice examples of the pour finely colored PLATES (all large folding). 19 vols. 12mo, in the original WRAPPERS, as issued, with the exception of the last 4 issues, which are in the original cloth, having never been issued in wrappers. Enclosed in a specially made case, each vol- ume within a compartment. Lond. 1835-53 * One of the finest sets ever offered for sale, most of the volumes being as fresh as new, and all with the backs. The versatility of the work of the famous artist is here shown to the fullest degree. Many of the more noted humorists of the period contributed to its pages, among whom may be men- tioned Thackeray, who is represented by the original stories of " Stubb's Calendar of the Fatal Boots " and ' ' The Story of Bar- ber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb." 144. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). A Comic Alphabet. An exceedingly humorous folding panoramic series of illus- trations by George Cruikshank, all of which are in col- ors. 12mo, original boards. Pentonville, 1836 *An immaculate copy op the rare First Edition, with protecting cover and enclosed in cloth case. COLORED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 145. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). My Sketch Book, Vol. I (all issued). First bdn. Containing an exten- sive series of humorous figures by George Cruikshank, atAj FINELY colored. Oblong 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt top, by Root. Pentonville, 23 Myddelton Terrace, Dec. Ist-June 35th, 1836. *FlNB COPY. Rare colored. Every page mounted on a linen guard, thus allowing the work to open perfectly fla.t. VERY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL PAKTS. 146. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). George Cruikshank's Table-Book. Edited by Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett. First EDN. With the complete series of illusts. by George Cruik- shank. Royal 8vo. Lond. : Punch Oface, 1845 * A VERY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH ALL THE ADVERTISEMENTS. It contains original contributions by Thack- eray, Mark Lemon and others. Enclosed in a handsome full crimson crushed levant morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. The first three numbers have gilt edges as usual. Very rare in original parts. 51 147. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Maxwell (W. H.) History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. First edn. With the series of characteristic illusts. by George Gruih- shank. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1845 * Rare in the original cloth. 148. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). [Mayhew (The Brothers).] The Greatest Plague of Life; or. The Adven- tures of a Lady in search of a Good Servant. Edited by the Brothers Mayhew, and illust. hy George Cruikshank. First edn. Beautifully and emblematically bound in full red crushed levant morocco, extra, by Kelly & Son, with inlays in different colored leathers, of dust-pans, cooking utensils, brooms, backets, etc. ; a figure of a cook, anxiously looking over a book, in the centre, adds to the interest of the binding. Lond. : David Bogue [1847] *A very handsome and unusual specimen appropriately- treated. In oloth case. WITH THREE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY CRUIKSHANK. 149. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Life of Sir John Falstaff, with a Biography of the Knight from authentic Sources. By Robert B. Brough. The scarce First EDN. With 20 spirited {full-page) plates hy Geo. Cruik- shank J also, the suppressed woodcut. Royal 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant morocco, back richly tooled, ornate inside borders, gilt top, uncut, with original covers bound in, by Riviere. Lond. 1858 " Unique copy. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of THREE OF the ORIGINAL COLORED DRAWINGS BY GEORGE CRUIK- SHANK, ALL OF WHICH DIFFER IN MINOR DETAILS FROM THE ETCHED PLATES. The drawings are: " Falstaffs Ragged Regiment,'' "Sir John FalstafE's grand manoeuvre at the Battle^of Shrewsbury, " and " Sir John Falstaff thrown into 'the muddy ditch close by the Thames' side.' " Probably the most interesting copy ever offered for SALE. ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, WITH PROOFS. 150. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Brownies, and other Tales. First edn. By Juliana Horatia Ewing. With illusts. hy George Cruikshank. Square 8vo, full apple-green crushed and polished levant, gold -line borders, panel back, 53 raised bands, inside dentelle borders, gilt top, original cloth covers bound in, by Riviere. 1871 * Unique copy. Containing two of the charming highly-fin- ished original drawings in color— one sheet of " Amelia and the Dwarfs," carefully inlaid to size, with artist's proof of same on India paper. Splendid ^TiisTied dramngs like these are growing very diffi- cult to obtain. [CRUIKSHANK.] See also under Westmaeott's English Spy. 2 vols. Lond. 1825-26 151. TRANCE OF DEATH. Colored copy. The -*-^ Dance of Death, from the original designs of Hans Holbein. Ulust. with thirty-three plates engraved by W. Hollar, with descriptions in English and French. 8vo, contemporary violet straight- grained morocco extra, gilt edges. Lond. 1816 * Unusually fine copy of the original issue of this edition, with the plates in color, Contains a life of Holbein, with portrait. 152. DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, by Longus, Preface by Jules Claretie, illusts. by Raphael Collin; A Night of Cleo- patra, by Theophile Gautier, Preface by Anatole France, illusts. by Paul Avril; The Last Abbe, by Paul de Musset, Preface by Anatole France, illusts. by Ad. Lalauzej A Simple Heart, by Gustave Flaubert, Preface by A. De Claye, illusts. by Emile Adan; King Candaules, by Theo- phile Gautier, Preface by Anatole France, illusts. by Paul Avril; Herodias, by Gustave Flaubert, Preface by Anatole France, illusts. by Geo. Bochegrosse; Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare, illusts. by Paul Avril; Pastels, by Paul Bourget, illusts. by Robaudi; Romeo and Juliet, tjy Shake- speare, illusts. by J. Wagrez and Louis Titz; Jean et Jean- nette, by Th4ophile Gautier, Preface by Leo. Claretie, illusts. by Ad. Lalauze. Together 10 vols. imp. 8vo, beauti- fully bound in full light olive crushed levant morocco, tastefully ornamented on back and sides in a festooned floral design, inlaid with red and white levant, broad ornate inside gold borders, doublure of red levant with centre- piece of white and blue flowers inlaid, gilt, leather joints, watered- silk end-papers, gilt tops, uncut. Paris: Societe Des Beaux Arts, no date. * Edition artistique, finely printed on Japanese vellum paper and limited to only 75 copies for both the english AND American markets, this copy being No. 3. The set is beautifully and appropriately illustrated with an extensive series of daintily executed full-page plates and vignettes in tint, for the most part in two states, one set being delicately colored by hand. The set as a whole comprises a series of choice and universally admired classics, dealing principally with love and the fair sex, 53 in which the subject is treated ideally in its various phases, from the sweet, rural simplicity of the lives of Daphnis and Chloe to the darker and more gorgeous scenes amid the splendors of the court of Cleopatra. A RARE AND COSTLY ISSUE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL VOLUMES AND IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE CONDITION. , 153. DAUDET (ALPHONSE). Sapho. Moeurs Parisienne. Post 8vo, prettily bound in three-quarter russet crushed levant morocco, gilt back, with floral inlays of dark green levant on same, gilt top, uncut, original paper covers, preserved by Rittbe. Paris: Marpon, etc., 1888 * A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, OP WHICH ONLY 50 COPIES WERE PRINTED, ON JAPAN VELLUM, FOR PRESENTATION PURPOSES. This edition is embellished with the original designs of Rossi, Myrbaoh, and others, executed under the supervision of and with the approval of the author, and is not to be confounded with later and inferior editions de luxe. Sapho is essentially a study of Parisian artist life, hence to catch the true spirit of the story and to appreciate its masterful characterization, it is necessary that the connoisseur possess the work in its proper dress. Very rare. THE EXCESSIVELY BARE FIRST EDITION OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE." 154. DEFOE (DANIEL). The Life and Strange Ad- ventures OF Robinson Crusoe, and the farther adven- tures OF Robinson Crusoe. Vert fine copies op the excessively rare first edns. 2 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed green levant morocco extra, gilt edges. Lond. 1719 * a very FINE AND TALL COPY, MEASURING 7^^ X 4:^ inoheS, with the frontispiece in Vol. I, and the large folding map in Vol. II ; also, THE ADVERTISEMENTS (pp. II) of books printed for and by William Taylor, the printer of " Robinson Crusoe." Only one other copy [and that sold about 13 years ago] HAS BEEN offered AT PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. [See Reproduction.] UNCUT COPY. 155. [DE QUINCE Y (THOMAS). ] Confessions of an English Opium Eater. First edn. 12mo, in the original boards, uncut, with the label (new back). London : Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1822 * Fine copy. Very rare, especially in uncut state. With the half-title, and the advertisements, p. 2, including advertise- ment of Keats' " Endymion " and " Lamia," in boards, at nine shillings and seven shillings respectively. 156. DE VIGNY (ALFRED). Cinq-Mars ou Une Con- juration sous Louis XIII. 2 vols, royal 8vo, half red crushed levant morocco, gilt backs, tops gilt, uncut edges. „„ Paris: Quantin, 1889 *bPECiAL copy on Japan paper, with the portraits in DIFFERENT STATES AND A COMPLETE SET OF PROOF ETCHINGS BY GAUJEAN, all SIGNED "BON A TIRER OCTAVE UZANNE." 54 THE LIFE AND Strange Surprizing ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, Of rORIC, Mariner: Who lived Eiglit and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Ifland on the Coaft of America, near the Mouth <^£ 'the Great River of O ro o n o «rf Z^mt/a.vfhet'm they continued lo. mcnthes togeather,and neuer few nor heard of any man, in (noft great cold and extreamc miferiej and how after that,to fauc their Uucs.they wereconftrained to fayle aboue 350. Duch- miles,which is aboue looo.miles Englilh, in litle open Qoates,along and oucr the maihe Seas in moft great daunger, and with extreamc labour,vn- fpeakable troubIes,and great hunger* Imprintcdat London for T. Pauier, 16 OS, [See No. 303] 302. HAKLUYT ORIGINAL. [Veer (G. de).] The | true and perfect De | scription of three voy | ages, So strange Hud woonderf all | that the like hath never been | heard of before: | Done and performed three yeares, one after the other, by the Ships of | Holland and Zeland, on the North Sides of Norway, Muscovia, and | Tartaria, towards the Kingdomes of Cathoia & China; shewing | the discoverie of the Straights of Weigates, Nova Zembla | and the Countrie lying under 80 degrees; which is | thought to be Green- land, where never any man had | bin before * * * And how that in the last Voyage, the Shippe was so inclosed by the I ice, that it was left there, whereby the men were forced to build a | house in the cold and desart countrie of Nova Zembla, etc. Small 4to, half sprinkled calf, gilt edges (some worm-holes filled in and a few leaves skilfully repaired, some leaves trimmed close, and two or three catch- words affected). Imprinted at London for T. Pavier, 1609 * Extremely rare original English translation of G. DE Veer's Voyages, of which there is no record of any previous sale in America. The translation was made by William Phillip at the request of Richard Hakluyt, and this edition forms the basis for its republication in the Hakluyt So- ciety's Series of reprints of rare Americana. [See Reproduction.] 303 HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES. The Principal Naviga- tions, Voyages, Trafiftques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any tyme within the compasse of these 1600 yeres. 5 vols. 4to, half calf. Lond. 1809-12 * Only 350 copies printed. An accurate reprint of the best folio edition, with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition and omitted in the second (the suppressed voyage to Cadiz, etc.); also, with a number of rare and early voyages printed by Hakluyt or his suggestion, and here first collected. A good copy of this scarce book. [Resold for Account of Purchaser.] CONFIDENTIAL VSTAR LETTER FROM GEN. HALLECK TO GEN. GRANT, 1864. 304. HALLECK (H. W.— General-in-Chief of the Union Armies, 1862). Valuable and important War Letter to Gen. Grant, who succeeded him as General-in-Chief, on the existing state of affairs in the various Union Armies. " I fully concur with you in regard to the present condition of affairs in East Tennessee. It certainly is very much to be regretted that the Fatal mistake of General Burnside 103 has permitted Longstreet's army to winter in Tenn. It is due to yourself that a full report of this matter should be placed on file so that the responsibility may rest where it properly belongs . . . you suggest whether it might not be well not to attempt anything more against Richmond and to send a column of 60,000 men into N. Carolina .... I have never considered Richmond as the necessary objective point of the Army of the Potomac; that point in Lee's Army. I have never supposed that Richmond could be taken till his army was defeated or driven away. It was one of Napoleon's Maxims that an Army covering a Capital must be destroyed before attempting to capture or occupy that Capital. And now how can we best defeat Lee's army? by attacking it between here and Richmond on our shortest line of Supplies and in such a position that we can combine our whole force, or by a longer line and with a force diminished by the Troops required to cover Washington and Maryland? . . . There is evidently a general public misconception of the Strength of our Army in Virginia and about Washington, perhaps it is good policy to encourage this public error. The entire efEective force in the fortifications about Washington and employed in guarding the public Buildings and Stores, the Aqueduct and Railroads does not exceed 18,000 men . . . less than one half of what Gen. McClellan and several Boards of Officers recommended as the permanent garrison . . . The efEective force of the Army of the Potomac is only about 70,000. General Meade retreated before Lee with a very much larger force and he does not now deem himself strong enough to attack Lee's present Army. . . . Uncover Wash- ington and the Potomac River and all the forces which Lee can collect will be moved North, and the popular sentiment will compel the Governinent to being back the Army in North Carolina to defend Washington, Baltimore, Harris- burg and Philadelphia. I think Lee would to-morrow ex- change Richmond, Raleigh and Wilmington for the posses- sion of either of the afore-mentioned Cities. . . . We have there now hardly enough to hold the points which it is necessary to occupy in order to prevent Con- traband Trade. . . Maryland is almost entirely stript of troops and the forces in Western Virginia are hardly sufficient to protect that part of the Country from Rebel Raids. ... I always have been opposed to all these isolated Expeditions on the Sea and Gulf Coasts. It is true they greatly assist the Navy in maintaining the Blockade and preventing Contraband Trade but I think the troops so employed would do more good if concentrated on some important line of Military Operations. We have given too much attention to cutting the Toe-Nails of our Enemy instead of grasping his Throat. . . . Lee's Army is by far the best in the Rebel Service and I regard him as 104 their ablest General. But little progress can be madebere till that Army is broken or defeated. There have been several good opportunities to do this, viz., at Antietam, at Chancellorsville, and at Williamsport, in the Betreat from Gettyshurg. lam also of opinion that Gen. Meade could have succeeded recently at Mine Run had he persevered in his attack. ... In the meantime it will be well to compare views and opinions. The final decision of the Question will probably depend, under the president, upon yourself. ... I think you are entitled to have, and that it is my duty to frankly give my opinion of the Subject. It will no doubt be received for what it may be intrinsically worth. I can ask or expect nothing more. " 11 pages, 4to. Head Quar- ters of the Army, Wash., Feb. 17, 1864. * A magnificent Army Letter, written by Gen. Halleok to Grant when he was about to supersede him as General-in- Chief. 305. HAMERTON (PHILIP GILBERT). Landscape. With IJi- original etchings by Brandard, Yon, Parrish, La- lanne, etc.; 29 engraved and photo-engraved plates and seven wood engravings, proofs on India paper, in the text. Folio, vellum, gilt, uncut. Lond. 1885 * Large Papek copy on Holland paper, of which only a few copies were printed. 306. HAMERTON (PHILIP GILBERT). Man in Art. Studies in Religious and Historical Art, Portrait and Genre. First edn. 4^ plates in line engraving, mezzo- tint, photogravure, hyalography, etching and wood en- graving. Folio, full vellum, uncut, in box. Lond. 1892 * The scarce Large Paper Edition, of which only a small number were printed, with the plates (including original. ETCHINGS) on Japanese vellum paper. 307. HARTE (BRET). Complete Works. 19 vols. 8vo, cloth. Cambridge, 1905 * Fine set of the Standard Library Edition, with an index to characters, etc. Illustrated by Remington, Reinhart, Merrill, and other artists. FINE BRET HARTE MANUSCRIPT. 308. HARTE (BRET). Fine original unpublished AUTOGRAPH manuscript of ' ' Golly and the Christian; or, the Minx and the Manxman." By H . . 1 C . . . ne. Very closely written in Bret Harte's minute handwriting on 15 pages. 4to. n. d. * A highly characteristic and amusing parody of Hall Caine's "Manxman." An exceptionally fine Harte manu- script. 105 HAWTHORNE'S COPY OF A RARE WORK ON SALEM WITCH- CRAFT WITH AUTOGRAPH AND UNDBRSCORINGS. 309. HAWTHORNE'S COPT OF LAWSON'S •'CHRIST'S FIDELITY." Lawson (Deodat). Christ's Fidelity, the only Shield against Satan's Malignity, as- serted in a Sermon dbliver'd at Salem Village, the 24th of March, 1693, being Lecture-Day there, and a time of Publick Examination of some suspected for witchcraft. By Deodat Lawson, Minister of the Gospel. The Second edn. 12mo. Old marbled wrappers. Very rare, es- pecially IN SUCH desirable CONDITION. Printed at Boston in New England, and Reprinted in London, by R. Tookey, for the Author, 1104. * Of SOPEBLA.TIVE ASSOCIATION INTEREST, BEING NATHANIEL Hawthoene's copy, with his autograph, " Nath. Haw- thorne," on the reverse of the dedication leaf. The autograph is AN EARLY ONE, and was probably written about 1828. It is generally understood that 1825 was the year that Hawthorne changed the spelling of his name from " Hathorne" to " Haw- thorne." In addition to the autograph, the work is under- scored AND MARKED ON NUMEROUS PAGES, WITH THE SAME INK, AND IN ALL PROBABILITY BY ITS FORMER ILLUSTRIOUS OWNER. The title-page, and leaf following, also on the Dedication leaf over and under the words " John Hathorne," and at pages 28, 29, 63, 63, 64, 69, 73, 93, 109, 112 and 115, occur the undersoor- ings. Special mention, however, should be made of page 69. The paragraph ending with .... "Remediless Torments pre- pared for the Devil and his Angels," Hawthorne has written "Appropriate;" also, the following paragraph, commencing, " The Reverend Mr. Simmes, sometime since Minister of this Country, coming into Prison to a Condemned witch, tho' he knew her not," etc., is bracketed, undoubtedly by the same hand. The book is dedicated to Bartholomew Gidney, John Ha- thorne, and Jonathan Corwin. The John Hathorne is ' ' mag- istrate John of fanatical memory, " the son of William Hathorne , the founder of the family in this country. It is on record how that when John Hathorne as magistrate sentenced to death one of the witches, that her husband cursed him and his cliil- dren's children. " This was the curse that lingered in the family memory like a black spot in the blood, and was ever after used to explain any ill that befell the house " — (Woodberry). So far as we have been able to trace, this is the first book dealing with the subject of Salem Witchcraft (a subject the gifted author of " The Scarlet Letter" was so in- tensely interested in) that has been offered for sale. In crushed levant morocco solander case. [See Reproduction.] 106 CHRIST'S FIDELITY THE' ONLY SHIELD AGAINST SATAN'S MALIGNITY. A S S 'e R T E D in a SERMON Deliver d at (SALEM-VILLjCE ) the f 24th oi Marchy9697/. Bejrfg Lfefture- day there, and a time of^Pg^Iicfc Examination of Ibme Sofpefted ■ for| W I r CH C R A F T j By DEO DAT LAWSON^ Minifte^ of tiie Qolpel. Rev. li. J 2. Wo to t^he Inf ditar,ts of the t.arthfCni tf the Sea, [or ttl lQt\A\-ii cmedimn-umcyw* having Ghat H'rafh, becavfe he l^oltnh ibat bt hath but a [hoft time. ^om. le. 10'.* And the GCD if Pegie fball Btuift ^ataxt- mdfr jour Feet Pertly ^^ &c; Printed at iofion in NtTv-Ergland, and Repri'ntti in London, by B. To'hv- farfke Ami;.or; and arc to i« iclAhy'T. tmjiurft., at il e^ Bible aiid Thjre Croytns in ( kaffie •„ ard jf. Laiettnce, at tYx Angel \at)-x Foultrty, ijs^. [See No. 309] THE FIRST COPT OFFERED FOR PUBLIC SALE. 310. HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL), Love Letters of. Vol. I, 1839-1841, pp. XI+248; Vol. H, 1841-186:% pp. 285. Portrait, printed on toned Holland paper, from type. 2 vols. 8vo, bound in gray boards, vellum back, gold letters on back, by De Vinne, in April, 1907. Chicago: Privately Printed for The Society of the Dofobs. * One of an edition of 62 copies only, made for the members of a private book-club, and none offered for sale. Two letters reproduced in facsimile are inserted; one from Brook Farm under date of April 13, 1841, and one from Salem a year later. In the former Hawthorne sketches with a light hand his im- pressions of the community. In it is found the famous refer- ence to "Miss Fuller's transcendental heifer." There is a fine introductory note by Roswell Field. A very small portion of these letters has heretofore appeared in print. As the present publication is copyrighted it must naturally be many years before they can be again produced. This is a First Edition of Hawthorne that is practically absorbed by collectors imme- diately upon publication. 311. HECKEWELDER (JOHN). An Account of the His- tory, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations who once Inhabited Pennsylvania aud the Neighbouring States. Svo, half roan and boards (small hole in title and erasure on same, otherwise good, sound copy). Phil. : Published by Abraham Small, 1818 * The excessively karb first separate publication of the work, in which form but few (three?) copies are KNOWN. A year later, the work was incorporated in the first volume of ''The Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society for Promot- ing Useful Knowledge, Phila., 1819." It is a full and faithful record, taken, for the most part, from the mouths of the Indians themselves, and for that reason, one of the most authentic and valuable of Indian histories. 312. HENNEPIN (FATHER LOUIS). A New Discov- ery of a Vast Country in America Extending Four Thou- sand Miles, between New France and New Mexico, with a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants and Animals. Also, the Manners, Customs, and Languages of the Several Native Indians and the Advantage of Com- merce with those different Nations. With a Continuation, giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur De la Salle upon the Mines of St. Barbe. The Taking of Quebec by the English, etc. 2 folding maps and 7 plates. 8vo, new full crimson morocco gilt, full gilt edges. Lond. 1699 * A good copy of this celebrated and very rare book. This frontispiece has been neatly inlaid, maps and several of the folding plates mounted, and small library stamp on reverse of titles. The plates include a fine impression of the famous View of Niagara, described by Father Hennepin as being six hundred feet high. 107 313. HENNEPIN (FATHER LOUIS). Hennepin's New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, reprinted from the London edition of 1698, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites, 2 vols. ; Lahontan's New Voyage to North America, re- printed from the English edition of 1703, edited by Reu- ben 6. Thwaites, 2 vols. ; History of the Expedition of Capts. Lewis and Clark, reprinted from the edition of 1814, edited by Dr. J. K. Hosmer; Gass' Journal, reprinted from the edition of 1811, edited by Dr. J. K. Hosmer. Mapsand illusts. Large Paper. 7 vols. 4to, half vellum, uncut. Chicago, 1903-5 * Complete set of the Large Paper edition, elegantly printed on handmade paper, of which but 50 complete sets were made. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF HENLEY'S "LONDON TYPES." 314. HENLEY (WILLIAM E.). THE COMPLETE ORIGI- NAL MANUSCRIPT OP " LONDON TYPES " (both versions): (1) "In London Town." Pictures by Wm. Nicholson Verses by W- E. Henley. London. W. Heinemann" and with the complete MS. in the autograph of the au- thor (with many corrections and additions) (2) " London Types " by William Nicholson. With Quatorzains By W. E. Henley " (2 copies of this title, both different), the complete original type- written manu- script, WITH A large number OP CORRECTIONS IN THE AU- TOGRAPH OP THE Author, and the complete series of char- acteristic illusts. by Nicholson. The whole neatly and skil- fully inlaid and bound in a royal 4to volume, full blue crushed levant morocco, lettered on front covers within ornamental borders, gilt top, uncut, with rich brocade blue silk linings, ornate borders, by Adams. * Henley manuscripts are extremely rare. 315. HENLEY (WILLIAM E.). Hawthorn and Laven- der, with other poems. First edn. Bvo, boards, uncut, LEAVES unopened. Lond. 1901 * One op only 10 copies printed on Japanese vellum. 108 316. HISTOEICAL BINDINGS. Album de Eeliures ar- tistiques et historiques, accompagn6 de notes explicatives par le bibliophile Julien. 4 parts bound in 1 volume, thick small folio, three-quarter levant morocco extra. Paris, 1869 * Fine and unique collection op historical bindinhs, re- produced in different colors, India impressions. Examples from the Libraries of Francis 1st, Canevari, Maijoli, Grolier, Henri II., Diane de Poitiers, Richelieu, Mazarin, etc., and Bindings by Le Gascon, Eve, Padeloup, Derome, etc. 317. HISTORICAL BINDINGS. Catalogue des Livres, rares et precieux composant la Biblioth^que de M. le Baron de la Eoche Lacarelle. Portraits and numerous fine plates of armorial and artistic bindings. Royal 8vo, half morocco gilt, gilt top, uncut. Paris, 1888 * Special copy of this extremely fine catalogue, with com- plete index and printed prices. Fine full-page reproductions of about 45 bindings, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, Derome, Padeloup, Dubuisson, Boyet, Eve, and specimens from the Libraries of Madame de Pompadour, Marie Lecainska, Louis XIII. , Anne d'Autriche, Louis IV., Henri II., Henri III., Grolier, etc., etc. 318. HUBLEY (BENRARD). History of the American Revolution, ineluding the most important events and reso- lutions of the Honourable Continental Congress during that period and also the most interesting Letters and Orders of his Excellency General George Washington. Vol. I (all published). 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco ex- tra, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by Riviere. Northumberland, 1S05 * A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST and most im- portant Histories of the American Revolution. 319. HUDSON RIVER, NEW YORK AND OTHER AMERICAN VIEWS. Milbert(J.). Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales L'Amerique du Nord. With atlas containing BJ^ lithograph plates on India PAPER, of views along the Hudson Biver and other parts of the U. S. 3 vols, folio, and 4 half morocco (atlas re- backed). Paris, 1829 * Copies with the complete collection of 54 plates are VERY scarce. The views comprise New York from Weehaw- ken, New York, Provost St. and Chapel, West Point, Albany, Saratoga, Lake Champlain, Niagara Falls (several viewsj, Bos- ton, Providence, R. I., etc., and the rare map. 109 Illuminated and other Manuscripts, Miniatures, etc., including a Remarkable Persian Manuscript with 80 Illuminations. 3-20. JLLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS. Heures k I'usage de Rome. Printed on vellum. With 15 full-page illuminations in gold and colors representing: 1, the Martyrdom of St. John; 2, the Capture of Jesus in the Gar- den of Olives; 3, the Tree of the Generation of Christ; U, the Annunciation; 6, the Meeting of theVirgin with St. Elisabeth; 6, the Crucifixion; 7, the Descent of the Holy Ghost; 8, the Nativity of Our Lord; 9, Announcement of the Birth of Christ to the Shepherds; 10, Adoration of the Three Wise Men; 11, Presentation in the Temple; 12, the Death of the Virgin; IS, David looking at Bethsabea in the Bath; 14, Par- able of the Rich Man; 15, Mystery of the Trinity; also, with SO small miniatures and hundred of initials illuminated in colors (all these miniatures, with the exception of two, have been executed over wood engravings). 8vo, old calf (title and 6 leaves missing, 4 of the missing leaves are supplied in contemporary manuscript). Calendar for 18 years [1503- 20]. Paris: AnthoineVerard, 1506 321. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Horse Beatae Marise Virginis secundum usum romanse ecclesise. Mantj- SCEIPT of French execution, written in Gothic character on HI leaves of vellum, and ornamented %vith 11 fine minia- tures in gold and colors, representing: 1, Virgin and Child, kneeling before them a man and woman, probably the people for whom these Hours were executed; 2, the Capture of Jesus in the Garden of Olives; S, the Meeting of the Virgin with St. Elizabeth; 4, the Birth of Our Lord; 5, An- nouncement to the Shepherds; 6, Flight into Egypt; 7, the Assumption of the Virgin; 8, the Descent of the Holy Ghost; 9, the Virgin sitting with the Infant Jesus in her arms, be- tween two angels, one playing a harp, and the other, a man- dolin; 10, the Last Judgment; 11, the Tribulations of Job; also, several initials illuminated in gold and colors, and hun- dreds of other initials painted in red and in blue. 8 vo, old red morocco gilt (somewhat rubbed), gilt edges. XVth Century. * A choice manuscrpit with the miniatures in fine condition. 110 A REMARKABLE ILLUMINATED PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. 323. ILLUMINATED PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. Ziya'i Nakhshabi. Tuti nameh (The Tales of a Parrot). A Per- sian Version, by Zij^a'i Nakhshabi. Persian MS. in Nestalik, finely written in red and black on 232 leaves of native glazed paper: Each page surrounded by a painted light blue border, and within a gold line, the borders of the first two pages being ornamented with gold designs, and the first page with a pretty head piece in gold and colors: moreover the manuscript is em- bellished WITH 80 PINE, LABGE PICTUEES BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMIN- ATED IN GOLD, siLVEE AND COLORS, representing the subjects of the tales, and very interesting, depicting as they do the Persian costumes and manners of life. 4to, original Persian binding in black morocco gUt, with blind tooled ornaments on the sides, double with red morocco, light blue edges (very skilfully re- backed). In excellent condition. A. H. 1197=A. D. 1782 *The author says in the preface that some great personage, whom he does not name, had shown him a book containing fifty- two tales, originally written in the Indian language, and, as the translation was prolix, inelegant, and ill arranged, had requested him to re-write it in a more attractive form. He adds that in so doing, he has in some instances substituted new stories for in- ferior tales. The work was completed, as stated in some verses at the end, ia A. H. 730 (=A. D. 1329) . The Tuti Nameh has been translated into English by M. Gerrans. London, 1792. In" the British Museum there are six or seven manu- scripts OP this work, of which the most ancient is of the LATTER HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THE OTHERS BEING ALL OF THE 18TH; BUT NONE OF THEM ARE ILLUMINATED. It IS WELL KNOWN THAT ILLUMINATED PeRSLAN MANUSCRIPTS ARE ^TIRY SCARCE, AND ARE EXTREMELY RARE, WHEN THEY HAVE AS THIS SUCH A REMARKABLE NUMBER OF MINLiTURBS, AND SO FINELY EXECUTED, THAT THEY CAN BE REALLY ESTEEMED AS SOME OP THE BEST SPECIMENS OP THE PERSIAN ART OF ILLUMINATING OP THE PERIOD. [See Frontispiece.] 323 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Fifteenth Cen- tury Flemish BOOK OF Hours; beautifully written upon 319" leaves (6|x5i inches) of pure white vellum, with \:t leaves for the Calendar. Enriched ivith 8 very large Initial Letters within borders (these are full of rich fancy and are beautifully illuminated with flowers, fruit, birds and ani- mals) in bright colors, and heightened in gold; also, with S leaves ivithinfine borders in red and blue; one of them hav- ina in the four corners the nail-pierced hands and feet of the Crucified; there are also IS large Initial Letters and 226 111 smaller ones, all of them in red and hluej with much graceful marginal Scroll-work. Very thick small 4to, stamped leather over oak boards, evidently the original binding as the clasp furnishings, two on each side, but not the clasps themselves, are still attached. 2 leaves slightly discolored. XVth Century 324. ILLUMINATED SPANISH MANUSCRIPT. Cer- tificate of Nobility given by Don Pedro de Salazar y Giron, King at Arms of King Philip IV of Spain, to Don Pedro Garcia Seijas de Andrade of the City of Santiago in Galicia, and resident in the City of Granada. With a very beautiful full-page illwniination in gold and colors representing Fernan Perez de Andrade, " el Bioeno,'^ an ancestor of the Andrade family, and great favorite of King Henry II. of Castile, in the act of helping the said King to slay his brother King Don Pedro, called the Cruel, in the interview that the two brothers had at Montiel {1S59)\ also, with the arms of the Seijas de Andrade family, painted in gold and colors on the first page of the text, and with 2 pretty ornamental initials in pen-and-ink. Written on vellum leaves. Folio, contempo- rary vellum. Madrid, 1651 * This document is bound together with several other manu- script documents in paper regarding the same family, all writ- ten at the same time. EMBELLISHED WITH 7 MINIATURES. 325. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Horse Beats Marife Virginis cum Calendario. Manuscript of French execution of the beginning of the XVIth Century, written in a large and fine Gothic character on ISJ/. leaves of vellum. Embellished with 7 large miniatures in gold and colors, representing: 1, the Annunciation; 2, the Crucifixion; S, the Nativity; i. King David in Prayer; 5, Job; 6, a Priest Saying the Mass at Communion; 7, a Lady, probably the one for whom the manuscript was executed, Kneeling in Prayer before the Virgin with the Infant Jesus. Moreover, the manuscript is ornamented with 12 fine ornamented illumi- . nated borders, composed of fruits, flowers, leaves, etc., and with hundreds of pretty initials illuminated in gold and colors. 8vo, old French brown morocco gilt (rebacked), with clasps (one missing). XVth Century 326. ILLUMINATED MINIATURES. 6 oval miniatures, VERY FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS, representing a bishop at the altar saying Mass during the moments of the Canon and the Communion; cut from an illuminated French Book of Prayers for the Mass of the beginning of the XVth Century. (6 pieces neatly mounted on separate mats.) XVIth Century * These miniatures are undoubtedly the work of one op THE best French illuminators op the period. 112 337. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, BEAUTIFULLY AND DELICATELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS. Copied from a French Book of Hours of the second part of the XlVth Century, representing the meet- inj? of the Virgin with St. Elizabeth. Within an orna- mental border and with a pretty, ornamented capital " D." 328. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, ELEGANTLY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS. Copied from a French Book of Hours of the XVth Century, repre- senting the Evangelist St. Luke in the act of painting the portrait of the Virgin. Within a pretty and broad border composed of flowers, fruits and leaves. 329. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS. Copied from a French Book of Hours of the XVth Century, proba- bly illuminated by the celebrated Jean Foucquet, repre- senting five saint princesses of the Royal House of France, and the Trinity above. 830 ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS, representing the words: "IN PRINCIPIO," ornamented with interlaced leaves and with the figures of the Eternal Father, St. John the Evangelist and another saint. Copied from a Book of the Gospels, written in Ireland about the Vlllth or IXth Century. 331. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS. From a XVIth Century French Book of Hours, representing King David admiring Bethsabea in the bath. XVIth Century 332. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE. A miniature on vellum, FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLORS. Copied from one of a XVth Century Book of Hours, representing the Annunciation, and within a border historiated with scenes from the life of the Virgin. 333. MANUSCRIPT. Commentary on the Four Gospels. Armenian Manuscript of the end of the XVIth Century finely written on J^SO leaves of native paper. Thick small 4:to, contemporary binding, in calf. XVIth Century 334. MANUSCRIPT. Les delces du Gout, 6trennes aux graces. 12mo, full silk binding, finely decorated in water- color, with initials and emblems, scroll work, doves, etc., lined with old rose silk, inside of first cover a mirror. A Cyth^re, 1776 *A FINEILT WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT OP THE ISTH CeNTURT, dedicated to Mile. Chenu, beginning with the Calendar of the twelve months dated 1776, table of contents and 134 pages of love poems, romances, etc., neatly written withia ruled bor- ders. Illustrated with a fine frontispiece of the Graces and throughout the text with birds, cupids, emblems, etc. 113 MAGNIFICENT SET, ONLY 26 FEINTED. 335. INDIA. History of India. Edited by A. V. Williams Jackson. The different divisions of Indian history are treated by the most learned authors of recent years, as follows : From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, by R. C. Dutt; from the Sixth Century B. C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, by Vincent A. Smith; Medisval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Fall of the Moghul Empire, by Stanley Lane- Poole; The Mohammedan Period as Described by its own Historians, by Henry M. Elliot; The First European Settle- ments, the East India Company and the European Struggle for Supremacy, by W. W. Hunter ; From the 17th Century to the Present Time, by A. C. Lyall ; Accounts of India by For- eign Travellers. Illustrated with over 900 portraits, views, maps, facsimiles, etc. This number includes 81 'beautiful proof plates printed in three states, one of which is on Japan paper, another on India paper and the third is exquisitely colored and printed on handmade paper. There are also numerous full- page plates on either Japan or heavy plate paper; and hun- dreds of fine text illusts. showing personal characteristics of the people, views of noted buildings and places, bas-reliefs, etc., etc. 9 vols, royal 8vo, magnificently and appropriately bound in full dark geeen crushed levant morocco, with DELICATELY GILT TOOLED INTERWOVEN LINES THAT FORM SIXTEEN OVALS ON EACH SIDE, AND IN THE CENTRE OP THESE OVALS ARE PLACED PEACOCK PLUMES GILT TOOLED AND INLAID WITH PURPLE CRUSHED LEVANT; BACKS GILT TOOLED AND INLAID; WITH A HANDSOME DOUBLE OF BROWN CRUSHED LEVANT IN THE CENTRE OP WHICH ARE THREE ELEPHANT HEADS INLAID WITH RED AND WHITE LEVANT AND GILT TOOLED, THE WHOLE SURROUNDED BY A BROAD DARK GREEN LEVANT BORDER, GILT TOOLED AND INLAID- WITH PEACOCK PLUMES ; SILK END PAPERS, GILT TOPS, UNCUT. Lond. : The Grolier Society, [1906] *The ifiDITION MAGNlriQIIE, FEINTED THEOUGHOUT 0>f JAPAN PAPER AND LIMITED TO 26 LETTERED SETS, of which 12 are for America. This is Letter B. The fine binding, exceUent print- ing and beautiful illustrations make this work one of the most imposing ever published on this land of interest and mystery. 114 The Indians of North America. 336. INDIANS. Hubbard (William). The Present State of New England. Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677; but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years, 1675 and 1677. To which is added a Discourse about the War with the Pe- quods in the year 1637. By W. Hubbard, Minister of Ips- wich. Small 4to, old calf (recovered with vellum and somewhat discolored). Lond. : Tho. Parkhurst, 1677 * EXTEEMELY RARE, TALL AND PERFECT COPY. CONTAINING THE LICENSE LEAP PRECEDING TITLE, THE RARE " WiNE HiLLS " MAP, DEDICATION, ADVERTISEMENT, ETC., ETC. The Rev. WiUiam Hubbard, born in 1631, emigrated to New- England at the age of fourteen. He was remarkable in an age and country of bigots for his liberality, moderation and piety, and his " Narrative " for two hundred years past has been re- garded by historians as a standard of authority. The fact that the map, in so many instances, is found missing, has led some bibliographers to believe that it was not originally issued with the book itself, but supplied to subscribers a month or so later. Hence its great rarity. And this assumption seems to be strengthened by the fact that Mr. Quaritch, some years ago, had in his possession a copy from the Sunderland Library, where it had doubtless lain ever since its delivery by the pub- lisher, and though perfect in every other particular, wanted the map, as usual. [Resold for account of purchaser.] 337. INDIANS. Callender (John). An Historical Dis- course on the Civil and Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America, from the First Settlement in 1638 to the end of the first century. Small 8vo, neatly bound in half brown polished morocco gilt, gilt top, by Stikeman (name on verso of title and two 11., and slightly discolored in places). Bost. : S. Kneeland, 1739 * The Rare Original Edition. The work is largely taken up with an original account of the Indians of the section, their wars, condition, etc. The earliest historical work on the Colony of Rhode Island. HOPKINS' HOUSATUNNUK INDIANS. 338. INDIANS. Hopkins (Samuel). Historical Memoirs relating to the Housatunnuk Indians; or, an Account of the methods used, and pains taken for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Heathenish-Tribe, and the Success thereof, under the Ministry of the late Reverend Mr. John Sergeant. 8vo, full dark blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges. Bost. : S. Kneeland, 1753 * A magnificent and perfect copy of this excessively rare work. With the contemporary autograph of " Wm. Adams, 1764," on the title. [Resold for account of purchaser.] 115 339. USTDIANS. Evans (Rev. Israel). A Discourse de- livered at Easton, on the 17th of October, 1779, to the Ofa- cers and Soldiers of the Western Army after their Return from an Expedition against the Five Nations of hostile Indians (etc.). 8vo, newly bound in half brown polished morocco gilt, gilt top, by Stikeman. Phil. : Thos. Bradford, 1779 * The author was chaplain to General Enoch Poor's Brigade, and accompanied the devastating expedition under General Sullivan into the country of the Six Nations, by way of retalia- tion upon the Indians and Tories for the shocking cruelties perpetrated by them upon the inhabitants of Cherry Valley and Wyoming. In all American history, perhaps, there is scarcely a more harrowing chapter than that which records the atroci- ties of the Wyoming Massacre and the terrible vengeance wreaked upon the savages by Sullivan iji return, " a campaign before which we would gladly draw the veil of forgetfulness." The present discourse was pronounced before the army shortly before its disbanding. An excessively rare pamphlet, printed at the request of the officers for gratuitous distribution among the soldiers who served in the campaign. 340. INDIANS. (Hoyt, E.). Antiquarian Researches: A History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River, with Notices of Indian Depredations in neighboring country. Engraved front, and folding plate. 8vo, newly and elegantly bound in full marbled calf, gilt edges. Greenfield, 1824 * Fine copy of this very scarce book. One of the best books on the early New England Indian Wars, and highly commended by all later writers on the subject. 341. INDIANS. American Indian Scenes in the Western Part of the United States. By H. Lewis. 15 colored litho- graphic vieivs. Oblong half sprinkled calf gilt, yellow edges. Philadelphia & Dusseldorf, 1848 * The inscriptions are in English and in German. 342. INDIANS (Dearborn, H. A. S.). Sketch of the Life of the Apostle Eliot, etc. View of monument and facsimiles of Eliot's Indian Bible (title, etc.). 8vo, wrap- pers, (back wrapper missing). 32 pp. Roxbury, 1850 343 INDIANS. Hind (Henry Youle.) Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedi- tion of 1858. With maps and COLOEED and tinted illusts. 2 vols. Svo, original cloth, uncut (few pages need fastening). Lond. 1860 * Best edition. Scarce. " During this expedition Mr. Hind lived almost constantly among the Crees and Chippeways, whose habits and peculiarities he was most eager to study, and prompt to record," etc. — Field. 116 344. INDIANS. " Feeding the Dead." Original water- color drawing, by Captain S. Eastman, for the plate which appears in Vol. I, p. 63, of Schoolcraft's "Indian Tribes." Marked " Plate 3," and with directions to Hinshelwood (the engraver) written above. 9>^ x 7 inches. * This is one of Eastman's original water color drawings MADE FOR Schoolcraft's "Indian 'Iribes," 1851-57. It is signed by Captain Eastman, the title written underneath by him. It was also used later to illustrate the work of his wife, Mary H. Eastman. This drawing is one of the most interesting Indian items. The fidelity of Eastman's work was recognized by the Government, and he was commissioned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to illustrate the work of Schoolcraft. [Re-sold for account of purchaser.] The Writings of Washington Irving. WITH PART OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INSERTED. 345. IRVING (WASHINGTON). A Chronicle of the Con- quest of Granada First edn. 2 vols. 13ino, newly and handsomely bound in half lilac crushed levant morocco, ornate backs, gilt tops, uncut, with advertisements and cloth backs bound in. Phil. 1829 * With part of the original manuscript oP this work inserted, consisting of 25 lines and commencing : "... accord- ing to Mr. Urquhart the tracery on the wall, the pensile figures of the arches and the domes, the vivid and various colors, and the delicate lace work, known as Arabesque," etc. WITH A PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INSERTED. 346. IRVING (WASHINGTON). Life of Mahomet. Best English edition. 2 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in half lilac crushed levant morocco, ornate backs, gilt top. Lond : Murray, 1850 * With a sheet of the original manuscript of the work (comprising 28 lines) inserted. WITH PART OF AN IRVING MANUSCRIPT INSERTED. 347. IRVING (WASHINGTON). Wolfert's Roost, and Other Papers, now first collected. Ulust. by Darley. 13mo, newly and handsomely bound in half lilac crushed levant morocco, ornate back, gilt top, with advertisements and cloth covers bound in. N. Y. 1855 * With 23 lines OF an Irving manuscript inserted, and which commences: " During the time of the French Revolution, hearing a Mem- ber of the French Emigres singing national songs, until the tears streamed down their cheeks," etc. 117 348. IRVING (WASHINGTON). Life and Voyages of Columbus, 3 vols. ; Astoria; Mahomet and His Successors, 2 vols. ; The Sketch Book: Bracebridge Hall; Salmagundi; Alhambra; Conquest of Granada; and others. Numerous full-page engravings, reproductions of old and rare prints, etc. 16 vols. 13mo, cloth gilt, gilt tops. N. Y. : Putnam, 1868, etc. A MAGNIFICENT SET OF LADY JACKSON'S WORKS. 349. TACKSON (LADY). The Historical Writings of Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson. In 14 vols. SVO, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL POLISHED YELLOW CALF, KICHLY GILT BACKS, GILT LINE TOOLING ON SIDES, WITH IN- LAYS IN CORNERS AND ON BACKS OF EED CALF, INSIDE GOLD BORDERS, DOUBLURES OF RED CALF GILT, GILT EDGES, BY Zaehnsdorp. Lond. : The Grolier Society, n. d. * Edition Des Aquarelles, limited to 26 copies for England and America. Complete set of the valuable French Historical Memoirs of Lady Jackson, comprising: Old Paris, 3 vols. ; The Last of the Valois, 2 vols. ; The First of the Bourbons, 2 vols. ; French Court and Society, 3 vols. ; The Old Regime, 2 vols. ; The Court of the Tuileries, 2 vols. ; The Court of France, 2 vols. With 112 portraits, original etchings, mezzotints and repro- ductions of rare portraits, among them being Mme. Du Barry, Mme. De Montespan, Marie De Medici, Sully, Molifire, Marquise de la Valli^re, Henry^ IV, Napoleon, Mayenne, Coligny, Biron^ Mme. Parabere, Sophie Arnould, Mme. Campan, etc., etc. The plates aee in two states, one set being prettily col- ored BY HAND. A VERY HANDSOME LIBRARY SET. 350. JARDINE (SIR WM.). The Naturalist's Library. (Ornithology, 14 vols ; Mammalia, 13 vols. ; Entomology, 7 vols.; Ichthyology, 6 vols.) The whole copiously illust. with COLORED PLATES, woodcuts, etc. 40 vols. 1 3mo, new half dark green calf, appropriately tooled on backs, gilt tops. Lond. [ca. 1840] * A. BEAUTIFUL SET. Contains contributions by eminent nat- uralists. 118 Books from the Library of Thomas Jefferson. The following books [351-378] formed a part of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. Many of them contain his private mark; others were presented to him by their authors, or bear the autograph or book- labels of his daughter or her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph, after- ward Governor of Virginia. They have been in the possession of the immediate family since Jefferson's time. It will be noticed that the private mark of Thomas Jefferson is as fol- lows: In the sheet signatures, where the letter "T" occurs, Jefferson has added a " J." in his own hand immediately afterward; where the letter " I " occurs Jefferson has placed a " T " before it and turned the " I " into a "J," thus making his initials " T. J." as his private mark in his own books. In 1814 — 12 years before his death — he sold his library to the Congress for $33,000, about one-fourth of its value ; however, he continued to collect books up to the time of his death, and the authenticity of these volumes is guaranteed by Mrs. C. R. Randolph, of University Station, Charlottes- ville, Va., a descendant of Jefferson and the former owner of the books. Some of these boots were formerly in the family of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles, daughter of John Wayles, a wealthy Colonial lawyer of Virginia. 351. BOMARE (VALMONT DE). Dictionnaire Raisonn6 Universelle d'Histoire Naturelle; contenant I'Histoire des Animaux, des Vegetaux et des Mineraux. 6 vols. 12mo, old mottled calf. Paris, 1768 * Each volume bears Jefferson's private mark twice. There is a MS. correction on p. 145 of Vol. II. A slip laid in Vol. I. has written thereon in a hand that may or may not be Jefferson's the quotation from Shakespeare: "To-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, •etc.," ending with the last line at the bottom of the slip, sepa- rated from the others : ' ' And then he falls as I do," which may be an allusion to Jefferson's series of misfortunes during the latter years of his life. The autograph of G. W. Randolph is on a fly-leaf in each volume. 353. [DEBROCA (LOUIS).] Le Ton de la Bonne Com- pagnie, ou Ragles de la Civilit6. 16mo, old leather (back cover loose). Paris, 1802 * A little French book of " Don'ts " belonging to Jefferson's daughter and with her autograph, "M. Randolph, Monticello," on a fly-leaf, underneath which is that of G. W. Randolph, her son. 353. DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSUS. Les Antiquites Romaines. Traduites en Frangais par Bellanger. 6 vols. 8vo, full scored marbled calf in different shades, and gilt backs, a narrow gilt floral border, marbled edges and end- papers. Chaumont, 1800 * Jefferson's copy, with his peivate mark twice in each voLtjME. Also, a fine specimen op early American bind- ing, with the ticket of "Fi-ed A. Mayo Richmond Va.," inside Vol. I. Attached to the titles op Vols. 4 and 5 are slips of paper with Jefferson's direction to the binder for the lettering on the backs. The Exhibition of American Bindings at the Grolier Club last year did not possess a specimen of this binder, and his work was apparently unknown to the owner of that fine col- lection. 119 354. ENFIELD (WM.). The Speaker; or, Miscellaneous Pieces from the best English Writers. 12mo, old leather. Dublin; 1786 * With the very rare autograph of Jefferson's oldest daughter Martha on the title " M. Jefferson," and on the inside cover her name after she was married " M. Randolph, Monticello." Underneath is the autograph of her son G. W. Randolph. 355. FIELDING (HENRr). La Storia di Tom Jones. [Transl. from the French of M. de la Place into Italian.] Full-page engraved plates after Gravelot. 3 vols, crown 8vo, old leather (water-stained). Venice, 1757 * Thomas Jefferson's own copy of a noted English CLASSIC, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ON THE TITLE OP VOL. II (partly cut into by the binder), and his private mark on pp. 129 and 289 of each volume. It would be difficult to procure a more interesting association item, showing Jefferson's catholic taste in reading. 356. HENAULT (J. F.) AND FANTIN DES ODOARDS (ANT.). Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de I'Histoire de France . . . depuis Clovis jusqu's Louis XIV., les Guerres, les Batailles, les Sieges, &c., nos Lois nos Moeurs, etc., 8 vols., 1774; the two additional volumes carrying the his- tory down to the Treaty of Campo-Formo by Fautin des Odoards, Paris, 1800. Together 5 vols. 12mo, tree calf. Paris, 1774-1800 * Jefferson's private mark appears twice in each volume. 357. HERODOTUS. Herodoti Halicarnassensis Historia. Ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. 9 vols. 12mo, old leather, gilt backs. Glasgow, 1761 * With the book-labels of Thomas Mann Randolph. 358. HERODOTUS. Herodoti Historiarum, Graeca et Latinse ... ex MS. Medicea post Aldi Manuti, H. Stephani, etc. Notse cura Jacobii Gronovii. Engraved title. Large folio (lacks front cover). Lugd. Bat. [Leyden], 1716 * In addition to the Nine Books of Herodotus the volume contains the Life of Homer, and fragments from Ctesias, Strabo, Agathocles and other writers on the ancient Egyptians, Persians, etc. 359. JUVENAL. D. IVN. Ivvenalis et Avli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii. 16mo, original vel- lum. Amsterdam : Joannis Blaev, 1650 * Jefferson's copy, with his private mark on the last PAGE. Also, has the autograph of Lewis Randolph. 360. LALANDE (M. DE). Abr6g6 d'Astronomie. 16 folding plates (edges worn). 8vo, old leather. Paris, 1774 * With the autograph of T. M. Randolph on the title ; that of John Wood, author ; and L. H. Girardin, educator, who kept a girl's school in Richmond, about 1802. 130 361. LAVOISNE'S ATLAS. A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas. By M. Lavoisne. Prom the last London edition, by C. Gros and J. Aspin. Folio, half old calf (cracked, and margin of title strengthened). Phil. 1821 362. LLOYD (NICHOLAS). Dictiouarium Historicum, Geographicum Poeticum: Authore Carolo Stephano . . . . Recensuit, supplevit, etc. Nicolaus Lloyd ins. Small folio, old leather. Oxford, 1671 *Jefferson's own oopy, with his private mark at pp. 33 and 73. The work is valuable for the list of Roman Stations, Camps and Towns in Britain, compiled from Antoninus' Itinerary. A few American places are also included. 363. LUCRETIUS. T. Lucretius Cams, of the Nature of Things. Transl. by Tho. Creech. Front. 2 vols. 8vo, sheep. Lacks four leaves. Lond. 1715 * Contains the autograph of 6. Wythe, under whom Jeflferson studied law, on title, and of T. J. Randolph, inside the cover, of Vol. I. 364. MILLOT (ABBifi). Elemens d'Histoire Generale. Vols. 3 and 4. Crown 8vo, old marbled leather. Paris, 1778 With the autograph of G. W. Randolph, and the stamp " M. Randolph,- Monticello," on titles. 365. OVID. Metamorphoses. Studio, by Jacobus Pon- tanus. 16mo, marbled calf gilt, doubtless by an American binder. Antwerp, 1657 * The private mark of Th. Jefferson is on Page 193, and a part of the slip, containing directions for the binder, still in- serted (not in his hand). There are various passages marked with an " X " throughout. 366. PIGNOTTI (LORENZO). Favole e Novelle. 16mo, sheep. Lond. 1784 * With the autograph of " M. Randolph, Monticello," and her son, Gr. W. Randolph. 367. QUINTILLIAN. M. Fabii Quintiliani Oratoris Eloquentissimi, Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII. Small 4to, old leather (Joints cracked). Paris, 1542 ■ * With Jefferson's private mark on p. 129. Also, with the autograph of Jo : Ramsay on title. 368. ROUSSEAU (J. J.). (Euvres de Rousseau, Vols. 3, 4, 5 and 6 only containing "La Nouvelle Heloise" com- plete. Copper-plates, after Gravelot. 4 vols. 16mo, old galf. Geneva, 1783 *With the book-label of Thos. Mann Randolph in each volume. 369. SAAVEDRA FAXARDO (DON DIEGO DE). Em- Tjresas Politicas. Vignettes. 3 vols. 12mo, old calf. ^ Madrid, l~89-90 *With the autograph of Jefferson's daughter in each volume : " Mrs. Randolph of Monticello." 131 370. SAVARY (M.). Lettres sur :figypte. Folding map and plates. 2 vols 8vo, old leather. Paris, 1786 * "With the autograph of T. M. Randolph. .S71. SMITH (ADAM). Theoryof Moral Sentiments. 8vo, sheep. Lond. 1767 * With the autograph of Thos. Mann Randolph, Jr., on title; that of his father on side cover, and the cost, "6/.'' 372. SONGrS. A Folio Volume of 18th Century engraved sheet music, including Lyric Harmony, Eighteen Ballads by T. A. Arne, sung by Mrs. Arne and Mr. Lowe; a Second Collection, by Bach, sung by Mr. Pinto and Mrs. Weichsell; the Ballads sung by Mr. Dibdin (Royal 8vo) ; Three Can- tatas, by Haydn, with engraved title, etc. ; with a number of separate songs, mostly Bacchanalian, mounted on parts of the Bristol Journal, 1766. Folio, old boards. * With the autograph of John Wayles, the father of Thomas Jefferson's wife. Attached to the fly-leaf is a slip of paper, bearing notes (partly torn away) in a hand that may be Jeffer- son's. 373. SULLY'S MEMOIRS. Memoires de Maximilien de Bethune, Due de Sully. Avec des Remarques par M. L D. L. D. (AbM de VEcluse des Loges). Portraits of Sully and of Henry IV. 8 vols. 12mo, old calf. Lond. 1767 * Jefferson's initials are written twice in each volume, except the last in which it occurs only once. -Jbffbkson's own copy of one of the famous historical classics is an interesting memento. The condition of the binding, and a few pencilled translations, would indicate that he found the first volume much more in- teresting reading than the others. In the fourth volume is laid in a scrap of writing, on which Sarah N. Randolph (author of the "Life of Jefferson") has been apparently practising the writ- ing of her name, and drawing a slight ground-plan of a house. 374. TACITUS. Taciti quse exstant, cura M. Z. Box- hornius. 5 vols. 12mo, old red morocco (worn), gilt. Amsterdam: Jannson, 1661 * Vol. 5 is the Elzevir edition of Savilius' Commentary, 1C46. The four volumes are interleaved (page for page) with Davan- zati's Italian translation (Paris, 1760). This was a favorite prac- tice of Thomas Jefferson, several books of his existing- in this state. With the autographs of T. M. Randolph, to whom, no doubt, Jefferson presented these books. 376. VERTOT (ABB£). History of the Revolutions in the Roman Republic. Vol. 1. 8vo, old leather, worn. Lond. 1721 * This copy seems originally to have been the property of a Bedford Davenport, then of Richard Bland, the celebrated Vir- ginia Statesman, who has written his name in it, and finally into the possession of Thomas Jefferson. The private mark of Jefferson is written at the bottom of pp. 97 and 257. Some typographical corrections that have been made, may either have been by Richard Bland or Jefferson. 122 376. VIRGINIA LAWS. General Convention of Dele- gates and Representatives from the Several Counties and Corporations of Virginia, held at the Capitol in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday, May 6th, 1776 (to Dec. 26, 1794). Folio, old leather, worn, lacks title and some of the tables. [Richmond, 1794] * With the autographs of Charles and James Harrison. 377. VOLNEY (C. F.). Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, 1783-5. Ji. folding maps and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, old calf. Paris, 1787 * With the autograph of T. M. Eandolph on title and inside covers. 378. VOLNEY'S RUINS, and short Biographical Notice by Count Daru. Portrait by Tardieu, and 2 plates. 16mo, old leather. Paris, 1820 * Peesentation COPT TO Martha Jefferson Randolph FROM N. P. Trist (who studied law under Jefferson). LARGE PAPER COPY, WITH COLORED PLATES. 379. JOHNSON'S CHRYSAL. Large Paper. [(.John- son (Charles).] Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea. With a Sketch of the Author's Life. 3 vols. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant morocco, with floral ornaments on each corner of all sides, and on each panel of backs inlaid with red levant, gilt tops, uncut, by Wood. Lond. 1821 * A VERY FINE COPY OP THE EXTREMELY SCARCE LARGE Paper First Edition. With 15 beautifully colored plates after Corbould, by Burney and others. This masterly satire has been many times reprinted, but the above issue with the colored plates must always rank as the iinest edition. One of the characters satirized is General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec. The work contains a full account of the sham Order of Monks of St. Francis, established at Medmenham Abbey by Sir Francis Dashwood, the notorious John Wilkes, and others, and with full descriptions of their mock rites and orgies. 380. JOHNSON (DR. SAMUEL). The Vanity of Human Wishes, the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated. First edn. Small 4to, new half calf, gilt edges, by Riviere. Fine COPY. Lond. : R. Dodsley, 1748 * A beautiful copy of the first edition of this immortal work, which Lord Byron pronounces ' ' sublime. " It was much altered in after editions. It exposes, in a very solemn spirit, vain hopes, wishes, and efforts of humanity at large. The portraits of Wolsey, Bacon, and Charles the Twelfth are admirable in their execution, and in their adaptation to the argument of the piece ; and the last paragraph for truth and masculine energy is unsurpassed, we believe, in the whole compass of ethical poetry. 123 RARE FIRST EDITION OP JOHNSON'S " RASSELAS." 381. JOHNSON (SAMUEL). The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. 2 vols. 12mo, original calf. Lond. : Printed for R. and J. Dodslej', 175^ * First Edition of Dr. Johnson's famous " Rasselas." Rare. 382. JOHNSON (SAMUEL). Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. By James Boswell. New edn. With numerous Additions and Notes by J. W. Croker. To which are added two supplementary volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, etc., and Notes by various hands. Upivards of 50 engraved illusts. 10 vols. 12mo, handsomely bound in full blue calf, richly gilt on the sides and back, gilt inside border, gilt edges. A beautiful set. In a cloth case. Lond. 1844 A VERY FINE TALL COPY OF THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION. 383. JONSON (BENJAMIN). The Works of Benjamin Jonson. First folio edn. , with brilliant example of THE ENGRAVED TITLE BY HOLB, and with fine portrait of Jonson (neatly inlaid) as front. Lond. : Imprinted by Wil. Stansby, Ano. D. 1616 * Contains all his Plays, Poems and Translations, etc., issued to that time. No portrait was ever issued with this volume. Also JONSON (BENJAMIN). The Workes of Benjamin Jon- son, the Second Volume, containing these Playes, viz. : (1) Bartholomew Fayre. (2) The Staple of Newes. (3) The Divell is an Asse, etc. With brilliant example of the engraved PORTRAIT OF THE Author by Vaughan (which is usually found with the first volume). First folio edn. Lond. : Printed for Richard Meighen, 1640 2 vols, thick folio, newly and beautifully bound in full maroon crushed levant morocco, backs and sides richly gilt and blind tooled, gilt inside borders, gilt edges. Lond. 1616-1640 *The very rare first folio editions of the works of Jonson, a worthy companion to the polios of Shakespeare, AND Beaumont and Fletcher. An unusually tall set MEASURiNa 11% X 73^ inches. A copy op volume one only, measuring only \(i% x 7 inches, is priced in a London dealers recent catalogue at £36 (see description laid in). One of the finest copies ever oppered for sale. 124 [See No. 386.] LIFE OF MRS. JORDAN, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. 384. JORDAN (MRS., Mistress of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, William IV.) Public and private life, the Vicissitudes attendant on her Early Life, the Splendour of her Noon-tide Blaze, as Mistress of the Royal Duke, and her untimely Dissolution at St. Cloud, with numerous Remarks and Anecdotes of Illustrious and Fashionable Characters, by a Confidential Friend. Extra-illus- trated BY THE insertion OF NEARLY 70 FINELY EN- GRAVED PORTRAITS, including many fine and rare old copper-plates, India proofs, character plates, and views of THEATRES AND OTHER PLACES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT. 4to, newly and handsomely bound in full sprinkled calf extra, top edge gilt, by Larkins. Lond. : Duneombe, n. d. * Handsome copy of a work seldom found extra-illustrated. 385. JOURNAL of the first session of the Senate of the United States of America, begun and held- at the City of New York, March 4, 1789. Folio, boards, uncut. N. Y. : Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, 1789 * Extremely Rare. Not mentioned in Sabin's Dictionary. Only 700 copies were printed, and they were distributed to select government officials. It is interesting to note that at the inauguration of this important branch of our gov- ernment, a month elapsed before it was possible to secure a quorum for the transaction of business. AN EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE COLLECTION, IN HANDSOME BINDINGS. 386. TZ'EATS (JOHN). Poems, vignette on title. "^ 12mo, with all the half-titles, Lond. 1817; Endymion, a Poetic Romance, Lond. 1818, with the five-line leaf of errata and all the half-titles; Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other Poems, Lond. 1820, with the leaf of advertisement dated June 26, 1820, and all the half- titles. Together 3 vols. 8vo and 12mo. Lond. 1817-1818-1820 * Beautifully bound in pull blue crushed levant mo- rocco, WITH AN exquisite DESIGN ON BOTH SIDES OF EACH VOLUME, DELICATE INLAYS OF RED AND WHITE MOROCCO BACKS TO MATCH, TOOLED INSIDE BORDERS, WITH RED SILK LININGS, GILT TOPS, BY SaNGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE. In cloth cases. [See Reproduction.] IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT. 387. KEATS (JOHN). Endymion, a Poetic Romance. The rare First edn. 8vo, in the original boards, un- cut. Lond. : Printed forTaylor & Hessey, 1818 * Very fine copy, rare in this state. With the five-line leaf of "Errata." 125 388. KEATS (JOHN), part of A. L. S., 3 pp. 4to, to his. sister, accompanied by a letter from his nephew, C. G. Keats, presenting it to Bayard Taylor. A very interesting and humorous letter to his sister. Unfortunately the lower parts of the letter has been torn off, but the signature is intact, and enough of the letter remains to make it of the highest interest. * "Henry is wife-bound in Cambden Town; there is no getting him out, I am sorry he has not a prettier wife, indeed, 'tis a shame ; she is not half a wife. I think I could find some of her relations in Baffon, or Capt. Cook's voyages — or upon a Ohi- nese clock door, the Sheperdesses on her own mantelpiece, — or in a Dutch top shop window, or one of the daughters in the Ark, or in any picture shop window. — Thinking you might want a rat catcher, I put your mother's old Quaker colored cat into the top of your bonnet, she's wi' Kitten, so you can expect to find a whole family. I hope the family will grow too large for the lodgings, etc., etc." P389. KEBLE (JOHN). The Christion Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the year. 3 vols. 12mo, full brown levant, gold and blind tooled, inside borders, gilt tops, uncut. Oxford ; Printed by W. Baxter, 1827 * First Edition. Very rake. Probably the finest copy in existence. (^390. KELMSCOTT PEESS. Tennyson (Alfred). Maud. A Monodrama. Decorative woodcut title-page, front., ini- tials, etc. J printed in black and red. Small 8vo, limp vellum, with ties, uncut as issued. Lond. 1893 * Fine copy. Rare. 391. KELMSCOTT PRESS. Morris (William). The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea. Done out of the Ancient French. Printed in hlach and red, luifh decorative woodcut front., and title, initials, etc. Itimo, full citron crushed levant, gilt, with inlays of red and blue levant on back and sides, silk doublure and end papers, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. Lond. 1894 * One of only 525 copies printed. The first of these stories was the source of "The Man Born to be King" in "The Earthly Paradise." 392. KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Romance of Sir Degre- vant. Edited by F. S. Ellis, after the Edition printed by J. O. Haliiwell from the Cambridge MS., with some addi- tions and variations. Decorative woodcut front, and title. 8vo, full crushed pigskin, with broad, ornate blind tooled borders on sides, inside tooled borders, silk doublure and end papers, gilt top, by Zaehnsdorf. Lond. 1896 * Pine copy in a strikingly artistic binding. 136 393. KELMSCOTT PRESS. Syr Ysambrace. Edited by F. S Ellis. With decorative woodcut front., title-page and initiah; printed in Mack and red. 8vo, full brown crushed levant, elaborately gilt tooled on back and sides, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. Lond. 1S97 * One of 350 copies printed. From the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell, after the MS. in Lincoln Cathedral. 394. KEMPIS (THOMAS 1). De Imitatione Christi et de contemptu omnium vauitatum mundi libri IV. With initials painted in red. 8vo, coutemporary wooden boards covered with stamped calf (rebacked). Argentinae : [Johannes Prtiss] 1489 * Gothic character. 168 unnumbered leaves ; signatures A-X. Hain-Copinger, 9098 ; Proctor, 545. A very rare and early edi- tion of the famous treatise of the Imitation of Christ, and at the same time the smallest edition of work published during the 15th Century. A fine and large copy, with the title and the two blank leaves following the tables, which are wanting in most of the few copies known. 395. KING EDWARD VII. Oratio ad illustrissimum principem Albeetum Edwardum, principem Wallise ab Edwardo Galfrido Comite de Derby. Academise Oxoniensis Cancellaris. In Theatre Sheldoniano, habita die XVI mensis Junii A. D. MDCCCLXIII. [1863]. Folio, paper. [Lond. 1863] * Bears autograph presentation inscription : ' ' Edward C. Grlyn, from his afifec. friend, Albert Edward Guelph, Wales. " 396. KIPLING (RUDYARD). The Courting of Dinah Shadd, and Other Stories. Biographical Sketch by Andrew Lang. Small 8vo, in the original printed wrappers, as is- sued. Fine copy. N. Y. : Harper & Bros., September, 1890 * The vert rare first issue of the suppressed First Edi- tion, with all the necessary "points." In the controversy which followed the publication of this volume, the author sought to reflect unpleasantly upon the reputation of the American publishers, when he was answered by three prominent brothers of the pen in his own country, which retort, in turn, called forth from Mr. Kipling's pen, "The Rhyme of the Three Captains," possibly the strongest of his satires. The American publisher is here introduced in the character of the " Pirate, Paul Jones." The story of this con- troversy forms the subject of a privately printed brochure, is- sued in New York in 1898. An extremely difficult item to obtain in the genuine first issue. 397. T A FONTAINE FABLES. Transl. from the -^ French by Elizur Wright. Ulust. by Grand- ville 4 vols. Svo, half green morocco, tops gilt, uncut. Best. 1841 * Fine copy, extended from 2 vols, into four by the in- sertion OF 14 PORTRAITS AND 3 SETS OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 137 The Writings of Charles Lamb, including "The King and Queen of Hearts" and ''Beauty and the Beast." 398. [LAMB (CHARLES) and WHITE (JAMES).] Original Letters, etc., of Sir John Falstaff and his Friends; noV first made public by a Gentleman, a Descendant of Dame Quickly, from Genuine Manuscripts which have been in the possession of the Quickly family near Four Hundred Years. Pretty front, of Falstaff learning to dance First BDN. 12mo, calf. Lond. 1796 * "Canon Ainger states that Southey believed Lamb had a hand in this work. The preface in particular bears some traces of his peculiar vein. Hazlittsays: ' Sooae thought it to be Lamb's . , a few . . . [that] Lamb had contributed sug- gestions, and White the remainder." It is dedicated to Samuel Ireland (whose abortive forgery of ' Vortigern ' had just been damned at the play-house) in five pages of Old English letter; and the sportive book, it would seem, was provoked by the im- pudent venture. One would judge that the Dedication and Preface are both principally by Lamb. In the latter is an allu- sion to 'ROAST PIG,' concerning which dainty Elia was learned, beyond the commonalty ; and, which is still more con- clusive, to — ROAST SUCKING PIG ! The ' Letters ' themselves should be ascribed mostly to White, as they are somewhat more freely spoken than is usual with Lamb; although the copious reading of the latter among the Elizabethan dramatists probably furnished many phrases and sentences." BOUND BY DE SAUTY. 399. LAMB (CHARLES). Blank Verse, by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb. First edn. 16mo, sumptuously bound, to the order of the former owner, by De Sauty, in exquis- ite full crashed and polished levant, crimson, olive, and green, richly gold-tooled, and with the design of inlays so disposed as to form on both sides a lozenge the length of the covers, superimposed upon a panel of stipple tooling and in- lay, and wrought with foliate inlays; panelled gold-stippled back, raised bands, inside gold-line borders, gilt top. Lond. 1798 * Charles Lamb's contribution to this, the first book to which his name was signed, consists of seven brief pieces: "To Charles Lloyd," " Written on the Day of my Aunt's Funeral," " Written a Year after the Events," "Written soon after the Preceding Poem," "Written on Christmas Day, 1797," "The Old Familiar Faces,'' and " Lines Composed at Midnight." The penultimate poem appears in an earlier and very different form from that in which it has become endeared to lovers of Lamb's verse. De Sauty 's binding, finely wrought as it is, seems to have been planned with such good taste as not to attract attention from the book as an end in itself ; but to offer, in due subordi- nation, a fit covering for these early and beautiful lines of the two youthful friends. A FINE copy OP A VERY RARE BOOK IN A MAGNIFICENT BIND- ING. In cloth case. 128 THE KING ANID OUEEN OF HEARTS: WITH THE ROGUERIES OF THE KNAVE WHO STOLE THE QUEEN'S PIES. ILLUSTRATED IN FIFTEEN ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. LONDON: Published at the JUVENILE LIBRARY, ""41, Skjr.nei Street) Snow Hill j and to be had of all booksellers. 1808. J [See No. 400.] LAMB'S " KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS," WITH COLORED PLATES, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, AND OF WHICH ONLY A FEW COPIES ARE KNOWN TO EXIST. 400. [LAMB (CHARLES).] The King and Queen of Hearts. Showing how Notably the Queen made her Tarts and how Scurvily the Knave stole them away, with other particulars belonging thereunto. 12mo, in the original DULL BLUE PAPER WRAPPERS, and with only about li inches of the back missing, the remainder being absolutely AS ISSUED AND NOT IN ANT WAY REPAIRED. Enclosed in a handsome solander case of crushed levant morocco, with inner protecting cover of red silk. [London] : Printed for Thos. Hodgkins, Hanway Street, Nov. 18, 1805. * Of extreme rarity, but very few (probably 3 or 4) COPIES KNOWN. The printed wrapper reads, " The King and Queen of Hearts, with the Rogueries of the Knave who stole the Queen's Pies. Illustrated in fifteen elegant engravings BY MULREADY (all of WHICH ARE BRILLIAIQT IMPRESSIONS IN color). London: Published at the Juvenile Library, 41 Skin- ner Street, Snow Hill, and to be had of all Booksellers, 1808." The lower margins of four pages are slightly cut into, which seems to be the case with the few copies that are known. This was due to the careless folding of the sheets. A copy with the date 1809 sold in London in 1902 for £332, and is now in a collection in this country. [See Reproduction.] A CHARLES LAMB RARITY. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. 401. [LAMB (CHARLES). J Beauty and the Beast, or, A Rough Outside, with a Gentle Heart. A Poetical Version of an Ancient Tale, lllust. with a series of (8 COLORED) ENGRAVINGS (which are attributed to Maria Flax- man, sister of the sculptor). 12mo, original dull blue WRAPPERS, with cut on front: '■' Qohea Beast. — Homer'''' (though not lettered, lacks back, title and sheet of music). (At bottom of last leaf) Lond. : Printed by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden [1811?] * Extremely rare in any condition. It is said by the late owner (a collector of note) that this being the first issue, was PRINTED without TITLE. There is no positive information that this work was written by Charles Lannb, but it is always attributed to him. This is the •'Surprize" variety, so designated by Mr. Luther S. Livingstone and Mr. J. C. Thom- son, in thfiir bibliographies of the Essayist. An interesting fact, in connection with this copy, is that the colored engraving, "The Rose Oather'd," faces page 13, and not page 11, as stated in the bibliographies of Lamb, by Mr. E. D. North, Mr. L. S. Livingstone, and Mr. J. C. Thomson. Enclosed in a handsome full crushed crimson levant morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of red silk. 139 UNCUT COPY. 402. LAMB (CHARLES). Elia: Essays which have ap- peared under that Signature in the London Magazine. 12mo, bound by Riviere in full peacock- blue levant mo- rocco, crushed and polished, panelled back, raised bands, inside borders, gilt top, uncut. Lond. 1823 * A BEAUTIFUL UNCUT COPY. 403. [LAMB (CHARLES). J Englishman's Magazine (containing articles or contributions from Charles Lamb, Tom Hood, Lord Tennyson, Leigh Hunt, A. H. Hallam, Sheridan Knowles, Mrs. Norton, and others, many of which have never been republished). Vol. I. and part of Vol. II. (all published). With plates. 8vo, full blue levant mo- rocco gilt, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond. : Moxon, 1831 * Extremely rare. No title was issued for Vol. II., as the magazine abruptly terminated with the second number of it. The most important contributions, perhaps, are : Hallam's " On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson," about half of which only was reprinted in his privately printed volume of "Remains," published in 1834; "Stanzas," by the same, not republished; a "Sonnet," by Tennyson; Tom Hood's "Lines on his Sister's Death," and numerous Papers, Essays, and Poems, by Charles Lamb, including those contributed under the quaint appella- tion of " Perters Net." "The Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne" (until recently unknown as Lamb's) appear in the September number, in which he cleverly reviews his own "Album Verses." AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHARLES LAMB, WITH INSCRIPTION MENTIONING HIS SISTER MARY, ALSO POEM IN HIS AUTOGRAPH. 404. [LAMB (CHARLES) AND HONE (WILLIAM).] Leigh's Guide to Wales and Monmouthshire, containing Observations on the Mode of Travelling, etc., etc. Map and view. 12mo, original cloth, with view of Conway Cas- tle on front cover (which is repaired at the joint). In cloth «ase. Lond. 1833 *Op the highest association interest, being an auto- graph PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHARLES LaMB TO HIS . FRIEND, William Hone, the well-known publisher, with the following inscription : " To my very dear friend, W. Hone. Tryphena and Tryphosa, Oreet you with me. Oh. Lamb, 9 May, 1SS3." An interesting fact in connection with "Tryphena and Try- phosa " occurs in a letter from Lamb to Hone, dated just 2 months and 3 days prior to the writing of this inscription, and which he says in part "... Tryphena and Tryphosa, whom the world calleth Mary and Emma, greet you mth me." Mary was his sister and joint author of the " Tales from Shake- speare," and Emma was Miss Isola, later the wife of Edward 130 Moxon, tbe publisher, and who, at her marriage, according to a letter written by Lamb, Aug. 30, 1833, looked "as pretty as Pamela." Also, with the additional feature of having six LINES OF POETRY IN Lamb's AUTOGRAPH on the reverse of the view. The lines (unpublished ?) are as follows: " Darkness away, I am the child of light, Of light and song, What mlt thou then with me ? I am not thine. To wander with the winds, to roam through space Some future day. rich with the rays of Stars I will return and light my eyes with flame." THIRD SESSION. 405. LANG (ANDREW). Perrault's Popular Tales. Edited from the original Editions, with Introduction, etc., by Andrew Lang, M.A. 12mo, brown levant morocco, in- laid WITH FIGURE OF PUSS-IN-BOOTS, IN MOSAIC BLACK, WHITE, GREEN, interior gilt borders, by Ritter. Oxford, 1888 * EXTBA-ILLUSTRATBD with Edelinck portrait and series of plates in proofs in bistre on China paper, and portrait in medal- lion by Eisen, mentioned in first line of Lang's Introduction, In proof on China paper. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF JOHN LEECH. 406. LEECH (JOHN). His Life and Work. By W. P. Frith. With about 100 etchings andwoodcuts by Leech, and further embellished by the insertion of 100 plates by Leech, George CruiJcshank, Robert Seymour, Rowlandson, Doyle, "Phiz," etc., INCLUDING MANY HAND-COLORED. 2 vols. 8V0, newly and sumptuously bound in polished crimson levant morocco extra, backs prettily gold tooled to an unconven- tional design, with pointille tooling in gold, gilt panelled sides and gold tooled inside borders, uncut, gilt tops, by MORRELL. Lond. : Bentley, 1891 *A FINELY EXTRA -ILLUSTRATED COPY, CONTAINING SOME SCARCE MATERIAL. A VERY CHOICE SET. 407. LEVER (CHARLES). The Novels of Charles Lever. "With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Fronts, on Japan paper, illusts. by "Phiz,''' Wheeler, etc., in duplicate, one on Japan paper and the other on handmade paper. 40 vols. Svo, half green French crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled Dandled backs, with the design of the shamrock, gilt tops, yneut. Bost. and N. Y., 1894-95 *The Edition de I^uxe, of the 150 sets for America. Printed on Dickenson handmade paper. A very handsome set of the BEST LIBRARY EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF LEVER YET ISSUED. 131 408. LINSCHOTEN (JAN HUYGEN VAN). Semper eadem. John Huighen van Linsclioten, his Discours of Voyages into ye East and West Indies. Divided in four books. Complete with all the 12 large maps, the k titles and the 29 engravings of costumes. Folio, full russia gilt (joints restored), gilt edges. Lond. : John Wolfe, IS'JS * This is one of the most difficult of English books to meet with in absolutely perfect and fine condition. In this copy all the maps, with the exception of 4, are the correct English im- pressions engraved by Rogers, Eastlake or Becket. The book is usually considered quite perfect with the 13 maps, as it is not generally known that it should also contain plates. Very few copies are found containing them, but as they are actually men- tioned in the text it is clear they should be included. It is pos- sible that the publisher Wolfe intended originally to reproduce the plates in English, but may have abandoned the idea on account of the great number and the cost. It is more likely he purchased a number of the original Dutch impressions for in- sertion in certain copies of the English edition, as in the few cases of known copies containing the plates they all bear the Dutch and Latin letterings and pagination. At all events, the plates never seem to have been done in English, and copies of THE English book with the Dutch or Latin plates, as THIS, AEB of the BAREST OCCURRENCE; ALSO, PORTRAIT OF LiNSCHOTEN INSERTED. 409. LINCOLN (ABEAHAM). A Collection of Letters AND Documents by and to Abraham Lincoln mainly dueing THE Civil War period, Pobtbaits and Photogbaphs op Lin- coln AND HIS Family, Beoadsides, General Oedebs, Peti- tions TO Lincoln, numeeous Lettebs to him ; other Lettees (with pobtbaits) op Statesmen and Soldlees dueing the Wab, and a Lettee op Maey Todd Lincoln, his wipe (very- rare). Over 250 items in two folio volumes, bound in half morocco, and lettered "Lincoln, No. I and No. II." The Lin- coln material is as follows : A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, Springfield, 111., Mch. 14, 1860. [First Presidential Campaign.] "Tour request to take a photographic likeness of me was duly received, but at a time when my engagements were so many that I could not call upon you." L S., 1 p. Bvo, Executive Mansion, Sep. 30, 1862, weitten BY John Hay and signed by Lincoln: "G-ive William John- son two days leave of absence, etc." Johnson was a messenger in the Treas. Dpt., employed at the desire of Mrs. Lincoln, and when required at the White House, the President was accus- tomed to send a request similar to the above. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, Executive Mansion, Dec. 25, 1863. To Batard Taylor: "I think a good lecture or two on 'Serfs, Serfdom and Emancipation in Bussia' would be both interesting and valuable. Could you not get up such a thing V Autograph Endorsement signed : Sep. 12, 1861, relating to a military storekeeper. 133 War Telegram to the Collector of New York, in Lincoln's hand, but not signed, with an endorsement underneath by the Asst. Secty. of the Treasury that it was written by Lincoln in his presence. ''If any vessel has been cleared from New York for Mobile within the year send by mail immediately copies of every paper and entry you have about it. If no such clearance has been given, simply say 'No' by telegraph." A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, August, 1863, m behalf of a deserter. To Gen. Stoneman, in behalf of E. S. Doty: "Whose friends do not know where he is but fear he has been executed, or is under sentence of death somewhere as a deserter. Records in these cases do not necessarily come, 4" in this case none is here — Please ascertain, and inform me if you can how the case stands. Tov/rs truly, A. Lincoln." Short endorsement on an empty envelope : "Submitted to the Secty of the Treasury. A. Lincoln, Aug. 23, 1864," (relating to the Swenson petition to be paid Texas Coupons) . L. S., 4to, "Washington, Dec. 18, 1861, appointment of George Harrington Secty. of the Treasury pro tern, in place of S. P. Chase, absent from Washington. A. D. S., (legal) in a suit for trespass, Sangamon Co., lU., 1841. 2 pp., folio, signed "Lincoln p. q." twice, with endorse- ment on fourth page. *"Vert fine eaely document entirely in Lincoln's hand. A. D. S., (legal) in a trespass suit, two full folio pages, signed "Lincoln & Herndon p. q.," Sangamon County, lU., 1850. Entirely in Lincoln's hand. 5 D. S., one 1863, A Pardon for Isaac Baker and Eobert Ford; the appointment of an aide for McClellan, 1862, signed by both Lincoln and Stanton ; two relate to The Treaty WITH Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade, Mch. 5 and 7, 1863 ; and one of July 25, 1863, is the confirma- tion of a consular appointment, signed with Seward, etc. A. L. S. OF HIS wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (very rare), written in 1867, 3 pp. 8vo, in which she mentions her bereave- ment and Lincoln. The letter is one of condolence to Hon. Henry Wilson, on the death of -a son, written on mourning paper dated Chicago, 111., January 3, 1867: "Bowed down as I am with my own fearful bereavement, I cannot refrain from an expression of my heartfelt sympathy — Time has as yet brought me no consolation, etc. I remember well hearing my beloved husband speak of your dear son with great comment dation." The letter is signed "Mary LincoLa." MS. of Liacoln's reply to a serenade on the night of July 4th (undated, but evidently during the war), not in Lincoln's hand, but very interesting as an impromptu expression of his sentiments. Such expressions are rarely preserved, and are valuable in consequence. 133 27 Portraits of Lincoln and his family, including card photo- graphs of himself, his wife, and another with Tad, folio mezzo- tints, scarce colored lithographs, his death-mask painted on canvas, two Timothy Cole woodcuts, rare engraved portraits, including the two in profile, etc. A. L. S. of Webster to Lincoln (1849) concerning a patent WHICH Lincoln had applied for to assist in floating STRANDED VESSELS, with a lithographic view of the appliance (Lincoln's model is now in the U. S. Patent ofSce).. Upwards of 50 Letters and Portraits of distinguished states- men and soldiers of the Civil War, including John Hat, John G. NicoLAY, Morgan, Spinner, Lynch, Stone, Fessenden, Gens. Butler, Sherman, Wadsworth, etc. Nearly 50 peti- tions to Lincoln endorsed by his cabinet officers, etc. ; a petition to Johnson ; upwards of 125 Letters to Lincoln and other cor- respondence of the Civil War period; a few political broad- sides, including contemporary copies of the Farewell Address and the Gettysburg speech; a colored poster of "Emancipation in Maryland"; 7 General Orders, including the Emancipation Proclamation, and a mourning broadside announcing Lincoln's Death. • *as may be seen, the lincoln mateeial in this collection is paeticulablt tine, and it is getting more and more dipm- cult to get together letters and documents relating to the Civil War period. 410. LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS. Album containing a fine selection of about 40 Letters and Cards from prominent French Authors, Dramatists, Artists, Novelists, Critics, and men of letters in general. They include signed letters from Alexandre Dumas, Maxime Ducamps, De Vog6e, Taine, Doucet, Riehebourg, Fleury, Herve, Montegut, Malot, Magnard, Achard, Leroy, Llegard, etc. Bound in small folio, half levant morocco, tops gilt, uncut. 411. LITERATURE.— The Library of Literary Crit- icism OP English and American Authors: the Litera- ture of the English-speaking Race, ranging from Beowulf, its Progenitor in the Vllth Century, down to Our Time, col- lected, arranged and edited by Charles Wells Moulton. Handsomely printed on laid'paper, and illust. with 250 inter- esting portraits from authentic originals. 8 vols, royal 8vo of 800 pages each, buckram extra, gilt tops. Buffalo, 1901-lfl05 * This, the most valuable compendium of English literature ever published, presents in chronological order, scholarly- studies of the lives and works of all the most noted names in English literature, from the beginning in the Vllth Century down to 1904. All worthy criticism of the works of these authors, through successive centuries, together with interesting facts illustrative of the lives and limes, garnered from over 30,000 volumes, form the material of which these studies are composed ; space being allotted in accordance with the author's importance. The original text is adhered to in all cases, and its source accurately- given. i:J4 412. LONDON. Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of Lon- don: An Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets within Twelve Miles of that Capital, including the Parishes of Middlesex. Large Paper copy. Illust. and extra-illust. with a large number of engravings of historic buildings, mansions, churches, portraits, etc. , some colored, viany of which are inserted. 5 vols, large 4to, half crimson morocco gilt, gilt tops. Lond. 1811, etc. * An interesting extra-illusti-ated copy of the second and best edition. Many of the plates are rare, and are of buildings that have been torn down to make way for modern structures. EMERSON'S COPY OF LONGFELLOW'S HYPERION. 413. LONGFELLOW (HENRY WADSWORTH). Hy- perion: A Romance, by the Author of " Outre-Mer.'' First bdn. 2 vols, post 8vo, half crimson crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, edges scraped, some uncut, and with the half-titles. N. Y. 1839 * Ralph Waldo Emerson's copy, with his initials and DATE on TITLE-PAUB " R. W. E., ISIi-l." Guaranteed to be authentic by the late owner, who obtained from the same source other books and mantl- soripts of famous new england authors. WITH AUTOGRAPH LINES. 414. LONGFELLOW (HENRY WADSWORTH). Evan- geline: A Tale of Acadia. l-2mo, cloth gilt. Bost. 1850 * Inserted are the autograph signed lines : " The night shall be filled with music. And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Henry W. Longfellow September, 1S5S." 415. LOWELL (JAMES RUSSELL and MARIA). The Poems of Maria Lowell. Edited by J. R. Lowell. Portrait. Square 12mo, original cloth, gilt edges. Cambridge : Privately Printed, 1855 * First edition. Extremely bare ; only 50 copies of these poems were privately printed by Lowell for his friends. On fly-leaf Lowell has written " W. R. Alger (name partly erased, but quite legible) given him by J. R. Lowell." 416. LOWELL (JAMES RUSSELL). On Democracy. An Address delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on the 6th October, 1884, by His Excellency the Hon. James Russell Lowell. 8vo, sewn, pp. 15, in gray wrappers, with title lettered in ink. Birmingham : Printed by Cond Bros. , Paternoster Row, Moor Street [1884]. * The bare limited issue published by the Birmingham & Midland Institute, fob its members only. ' ' Price Six- pence " on upper left-hand corner of title. 185 417. LUTHER (MARTINUS). Asser | Tio Omnivm Articvloevm I M. Lutheri, per BuUam Leonis, X. | nouis- sima dannatoru | vvittemberg^. | Anno M.D.XX. Title ivithin a very fine ornamental woodcut border by Lucas Cranach. 4to, boards. Wittemberg: [Melchior Letter,15il] * First edition. Extremely kare. Panzer, IX., 77, 88. Fine copy. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF EDWARD A. MaoDOWELL [1861-1908]. 418. lyr'ACDO WELL (EDWARD A.). Original Manu- ■^'- script of his Compositions, entitled " From an Old Garden"; Six Songs by E. A. MacDowell, Opus, 36; Verses by Margaret Deland, quarto, 16 pp., entirely in the handwriting of the Composer; also, a copy of the First edn. of Mrs. Deland's volume of Poems, " The Old Garden," lamo, decorated cloth. Bost. 1887 * Edward 'a. MacDowell is perhaps the greatest musician this country has so far produced. Practically all his manu- scripts are in the possession of the MacDowell Association of New York, and it is safe to say will never come into the market. This work, which is one of the most beautiful of his compo- sitions, was written during his residence in Germany, 1888. The text and titles are taken from Margaret Deland's poems "The Pansy," "The Myrtle," "The Clover," "The Yellow Daisy," " The Blue Bell" and " The Mignonette. " 419. MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. The Heptam- eron, or Tales and Novels of Marguerite de Navarre, now first completely done into English prose and verse from the original French by Arthur Maehen. 8vo, half red levant morocco, top gilt, uncut. Lond. : Privately Printed *■ Unique unexpukgated copy, illustrated with a portrait and a curious set of etchings by Leopold Flameng. ^"420. MASSACHUSETTS. His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, Nov. 13th, 1770. Folio, pp. 4. Lond. : Printed by Charles Eyre * " . . . With respect to the State of My Colonies in North America ... in some parts of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, very unwarrantable Practices are still carried on. and my good subjects oppressed by the same lawless violence which has too long prevailed in that Province." 421. MASSON (FR:eDERIC). Josephine, Empress and Queen. Transl. by Mrs. Cash el Hoey. With exquisite front. {portraitiN goIjORS of Josephine in 1806, after Oerard), as ivelt as other full-page portraits and smaller views, all of which are finely executed after contemporary originals. Royal 4to, original wrappers, uncut. Paris, 1899 * Fine copy. 422. MASUCCIO. The Nouvellino of Masuccio. Now first transl. into English by W. G. Waters. 2 vols. 4to, half vellum, uncut. Load. : Laurence and BuUen, 1895 * Large Japan Paper copy, illustrated with 80 full-page curious proof plates by B, R. Hughes, illustrating these famous novels, written in the style of Boccaccio. 136 423. MELANCHTHON'S COPY. Terentius (P.). Com- cedisB a Phil. Melanchthone restitutsB, eiusdemque scholiis lUustratas. Commentaria item in easdem Aelii Donati eruditissima. Title within a fine architectural woodcut bor- der, having the printer's mark in the Imuer part, pretty woodcut initials, and a beautiful allegorical woodcut, with the mark of the printer on the verso of the last leaf. 4to, ancient vellum and half stamped pigskin (rubbed). Moguntise: Joannes Schoeffer, 1528 * First Edition op Terence with the notes of Mblanch- THON. The Dedication to Grolier of the Aldine edition of 1517 is here repeated. Melanohthon's own copy, with numerous MARGINAL AND INTERLINEAR NOTES IN HIS VARIOUS STYLES OF writing. Compared with the facsimiles of Dr. Kioss' Cata- logue. 434. MEMOIRS. Maugras (Gaston). The Due de Lauzun and the Court of Louis XV. Transl. from the French. 25 PINE PORTRAITS INSERTED. 8vo, half brown morocco, em- blematic tooling of fleurs-de-lys and arms on back, top gilt, uncut edges. Lond. 1895 425. MEMOIRS. Maugras (Gaston). The Due de Lauzun and the Court of Marie Antoinette. Transl. from the French. Extra- iTjLUSTRAted by the insertion of 2^ fine plates and portraits. 8vo, half brown morocco, emblematic tooling of fleurs-de-lys on back, top gilt, uncut edges. Lond. 1896 426. MEREDITH (GEORGE). Works in Verse and Prose. Etched portrait. Constable's finely printed Edition de Luxe. Complete set. 3i vols. 8vo, buckram, uncut, top edges gilt, in the finest state. Westminster: Constable, 1896-98 * This lovely edition, produced with every evidence of typo- graphical skill, is strictly limited to an issue of 1035 numbered copies; surely a restricted number for an author whose ad- mirers girdle the world, and whose works command a place of honor in every library worthy of the name. 427. MERRY SONGS AND BALLADS (a complete an- thology of English, Scots and. Irish Lyrics prior to the year 1800). Compiled and edited by John S. Farmer. 5 vols, small 4to, original boards, uncut. [Lond.] : Privately Printed for Subscribers only, 1897 * The most extraordinary collection of ballads and songs (usually omitted in collected editions of old-time ballads and songs) ever published, and here presented in their original un- mutilated form. The selection contains specimens by most of the leading dramatists and song writers, as well as hundreds of songs HERE FIRST PUBLISHED from original MS., including the Harleian, Petyt, and other noted collections now in British libraries. Only a small number were printed, and it is now VERY SCARCE. 428. MEXICO. Diaz del Castillo (Bernal). Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva-Espaiia. Fine architectural engraved title, with a small view of the city of Mexico in the lower part. Polio, full blue levant morocco 137 gilt, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by Peatt. Madrid: Emprenta del Reyno, 1633 * Second issue with the addition of chapter coxii (numbered ccxxii), and as rare as the first. Bernal Diaz was the com- panion of Cortes in adventures and battles. Preseott and Ticknor each award Diaz great praise; and a writer in the "Athenseum" characterizes the work as "the most trust- worthy of the narrators of this conquest." " The true history of the conquest of Mexico is, indeed, a delightful work, and the only account of that transaction on which we can rely." — SODTHEY. 429. MEXICO. Villa-Senor y Sanchez (D. Joseph An- tonio de). Theatro Americano, descripcion general de los Reynos, y provincias de la Nueva Espana, y sus Jurisdie- eiones. Fronts, (that of Vol. 1 missing). 3 vols, small folio, full blue levant morocco extra, gilt double triple line borders on the sides, with fleurons in the corners, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by Niedree. Mexico: For la viuda de J. B. de Hogal, 1746-8 * Villa-Sefior was a native Mexican and oosmograpner of New Spain. The notices relating to the population of the Mexican villages were written from ofiicial reports of the magistrates of the districts. The author (says Brasseur de Bourbourg) was known as a distinguished mathematician and an exact historian. This work is exceedingly rare, especially in this country. The Writings of John Milton, including a First Edition of "Paradise Regain'd/' THE RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CALF. 430. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Regain'd, a Poem in IV Books ; to which is added Samson Agonistes ; the Ex- tremely Rare First Edition, and in the most perfect state of preservation. Small 8vo, in the original calp. Fine, CLEAN, TALL COPY. Fine state. Lond. : Printed by J. M. Starkey at Mitre in Fleet Street, near Temple-Bar, 1671. * Such a fine copy as this seldom occurs for sale, and the lapse of every year is making the occasion rarer. It is quite perfect, containing the rare leaf bearing the oflacial licence for printing the book ; the equally rare leaf of errata in both poems ; and the separate title-page to " Samson Agonistes," some or all of which leaves are missing from most of the copies now ex- tant. In importance the work is second only to "Paradise Lost," and it has been said that Milton preferred it to that work. The leaf bearing the official licence is, in this ease, more interesting than usual, for it is a record of a statutory obligation which roused Milton's indignation, and which in- spired him to write that wonderful masterpiece of prose, " Areopagitica," which is an appeal to Parliament to abandon its intention to appoint an official censor, and thus destroy the perfect freedom of the Press. 188 THIRD EDITION OF " PARADISE LOST." 431. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost: a Poem in Twelve Books. The author John Milton. The Third Edition. Revised and angmented by the author. Portrait of Milton by W. Doller. 8vo, sprinliled calf gilt, gilt edges. Lond. : Printed by S. Simmons, 1678 * Good, sound copy of the Third Edition. Rare. BOYDELL MILTON. 432. MILTON (JOHN). Poetical Works of Milton. With Life of the Author by William Hayley. Boydell's Mag- nificent Illustrated Edition, finely printed by Bulmer in exceedingly large and beautiful type, and illust. with a series of finely engraved plates from paintings by Westall. 3 large vols, folio, full green contemporary morocco extra gilt, gilt edges. Lond. 1797 * Uniform with the works of Shakespeare printed for Boy- dell. See No. 516. 433. MILTON (JOHN). Poetical Works. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. Portrait, fronts, and a series of ex- quisitely engraved plates after Turner. In 6 vols. 12mo, beautifully bound in full crimson crushed levant, gilt tooled on back and sides, inside gold borders, gilt edges. Lond.: Macrone, 1835 * Fine copy of the first issue of this dainty and beautiful edition. Preserved in cloth case. 434. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost. With illusts. by John Martin. Large 8vo, full brown levant morocco, covered with fine tooling on sides and back, inside gold borders, top gilt, uncut, by Thierry. Lond. : Charles Tilt, 1838 * Unique copy, with the fine plates designed and engraved by Martin, and extra- illustrated with a beautiful set of fine illustrations designed and engraved by Eichter, dedicated to his royal highness the Prince of Wales, and five different por- traits of Milton. 435. MINIATURES. Williamson (G. C). The History OF PoETEAiT MiNiATUEES. 107 plates, containing beautiful re- productions by photography, same size, of 686 Miniature Paint- ings, from collections all over the world, by the most eminent artists of both sexes, and of every period, from the early ex- amples upon Manuscripts, to the modern work of Alyn Will- iams, and others still living. 2 vols, thick impl. 4to, white buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Lond: BeU and Sons, 1904 *The mimber of 686 miniatures, large as it is, does not include the reverses of the lockets, &c., of the smaller ones, which are occasionally figured; and it should be noted that many of the paintings contain portraits of two or three persons, family groups, &c. The edition consists of 520 copies only, and it will not be bepeintbd. It is so sumptuously prodticed, and it is such an 139 exhaustive collection (in so far as excellent and historic work is concerned), that it would be absurd to expect it to be attainable after the lapse of a very brief period. N. B. — -"The Copyright of every illustration in this work is strictly reserved on behalf of the owner of the original minia- ture. ' ' The Text accompanying the Miniatures and its Index, Appen- dix, &c., occupy about 400 pp.; and it is only due to the author's knowledge of his subject, and infinite labor in tracing the pictures; in obtaining the permission of royal, aristocratic, and other wealthy owners; besides that of curators of Municipal CoIj lections ; to say that no such important work upon this charming class of art-works previously existed, or is likely to equal it in time to come. THE EAEE FIEST EDITION. 436. MORE (SIR THOMAS). The Apologye made by him, Anno 1533, after he had given over The office of Lord Chancellor of Bnglande. The Raee First Edn. Thick 12mo, AN UNUSUALLY FINE AND TALL COPY, handsomely bound by Bedford in full crushed brown morocco antique, the back and sides tooled in blind, gilt leaves. Lond. : Prynted by W. Rastel in Fletestrete, 1533 *BXTREMBLT EaKE. FiNBLT PRINTED IN BliACK LBTTEK, with woodcut borders round title. No copy in the Huth collection. But few copies have been offered at public auction. 437. MOREAU'S 18th Century lUustrations for Voltaire, including the curious set for La Pueelle d 'Orleans, Novels and Tales, Faceties, Dramatic and Historical "Works, etc. In all 102 FINE ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS bound in 2 vols. 8vo, half red crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Paris: Renouard, n. d. ONI;Y 48 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE PAPEK. 438. MUSSET (ALFRED DE). The Complete Writings of de Musset, including the Poems transl. by M. A. Clarke, 2 vols. ; The Comedies, transl. by M. R. Pellissier, E. B. Thompson and M. H. Dey, 3 vols. ; The Novels among which are the Two Mistresses-, Emeline Tizianello, etc., transl. by Pellissier; The Short Stories, transl. by Pellis- sier; The Confession of a Child of the Century, transl. by Kendall Warren; A Medley of Literature and Criticism, transl. by Mary W. Artois; The Posthumes of de Musset, transl. by Artois and S. Seijas A superbly illustrated WORK, with U full-page plates by M. Blda. Henry Pille, C. Delort, Fleming, Cartozzo, Paul-Leon Jazet and Ch. Landelle. These plates are all printed in two states, one on Japan paper and another on India paper, while of nearly all the plates a third impression has been taken and ex- quisitely colored. In addition there are over SO daintily hand-colored title vignettes, unique in design; also, many fantastic head and tailpieces colored by hand. 10 vols. 8vo, attractively bound in full red crushed levant morocco, sides 140 gilt-tooled to represent lilies, whose stems and leaves inter- twine about the borders and converginfj; toward the centre culminate ia the flowers which are inlaid in white; backs gilt-tooled and inlaid with two single lilies, doublure of pale blue crushed levant morocco, with a gilt tooled central panel formed of interlacing lily stems and four lilies inlaid with red levant and the leaves in green levant, the whole surrounded by a red levant border, gilt tooled, red silk end papers, gilt tops, by the E. C. Hill Co. Printed at the Edwin Press for subscribers only, 1905 * Feinted THROuaHOUT on Japan paper. Edition limited to 48 copies, of which this is No. 3. A magnificent set. 439. MUSSET (ALFRED DE). Illustrations pour les CEuvres de Alfred De Musset, aquarelles par Eugene Lami, eauxfortes par Adolphe Lalauze. 4to, loose in portfolio. Paris: Damaszene Morgan, 1883 * Sixty etched plates, including title, 4 frontispieces and table of contents, needle proofs of a limited edition, pub- lished at 300 francs. The most exquisite set published FOR de Musset's Works. RICHLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF LIFE OF MUNDEN. 440. MUNDEN (JOSEPH SHEPHERD). Memoirs of J. S. Munden, Comedian, by his Son. Portrait. The 8vo volume, INLAID AND BXTRA-ILLUSTEATED BY THE INSER- TION OF 134 portraits and views of celebrated personages mentioned in the work, many fine impressions, some op "WHICH are in colors, and including Mrs. Siddons, Lord Byron, Munden in his various characters, Moody, Talman, Kean, Morland, also a few original playbills and the fol- lowing autographs : (1) Receipt for £68.8. 6 for benefit balance of one night, signed by Munden. (2) Epitaph to the memory of Thomas Chatterton, 2 pp. 4to, signed by I. Greenwood. (3) A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, by Alfred Bunn (author of books on the Drama). (4) Document signed by George II. (5) Envelope addressed to Richard Norman, Esq., with initials I. G. (Grlmaldi) in corner. (6) A. L. S., 1 p. 4to, by Mr. Rae. (7) A. L. S.. 2 pp. 4to, by Junius Booth, a fine speci- men, with mention of Kean, and giving a list of the parts he [BoothJ could play, and his prices, etc. Every page inlaid from 8vo to 4to, and many of the plates inlaid. Thick royal 4to, full maroon crushed levant mo- rocco, extra, gilt edges, by Riviere. Loud. 1844 *TJNUSUALLT PINE COPT OP THE LIPE OP THE FAMOUS ACTOR, CONTAINING MUCH MATERIAL NOT USUALLY POUND IN A WORK OP THIS KIND. 141 441. MUSEO (REAL) BORBONICO. [Descritto ed illus- trato da Pistolesi.] Vols. I-XIII. (each complete in itself). With hundreds of beautiful engraved plates of statues, bas- reliefs, ancient paintings, vases, oandelabri, etc. 13 vols. 4to, new half calf extra, gilt backs. Very pine copy. Napoli, 1824-43 * The Great Repository for the remains of Greek Art, found at Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia. etc. ; also Engravings of Paintings found in MuSEO Farnese. 443. MYTHOLOGY. A Selection of Nudes after cele- brated Masters, by the most noted 18th Century engravers, such as Lemire, Alix, Romanet, De Launey, St. Aubin, etc., neatlj" hinged on Holland paper and bound in a royal quarto volume, half blue crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. Paris The Collection consists of 44 charming subjects : Venus le repos, Jupiter et Danse, Les Nymphes au bain, OfErande a Venus, Jugement de Paris, Naissance de Bacchus, Venus et Adonis, Venus et 1' Amour, Jupiter et Leda. Venus qui se mire, etc. All rare original impressions. 443. "^APOLEON. [Eustace (Col. John Skey).] Lettres -^^ Preliminaires sur les Crimes du Roi George III. (En Anglais), addresses au Citoyen Denis, homme de Lettres; par un Officier Americain, au service de la France. Crown 8vo, half morocco. Paris [1795] * Vert rare. Presentation copies prom the author. With the signed inscription on the title of Part I to " Citoyen Prieur," and Part II, a similar inscription to " Citoyen Carnot." Inserted are two autograph letters of John G. Alger, relating principally to this work (which he says is so rare that he has never seen it), and giving a sketch of the life of Col. Eustace, the author, and some account of French Refugees. Although with a French title, the text of the book is in English. 444. NAPOLEON. Explication Theorique et Pratique da Code Napoleon, par V. Marcade, 1854-59, with the con- tinuation by Paul Pont, 1856-7;i. Together 12 vols, post 8vo, half calf neat. Paris, 1854-72 Maroadq died before the completion of the work, and M. Pont continued it. The final volume was published out of its correct order. A BEAUTIFUL SET, ONLY 75 PRINTED. 445. NAPOLEON. The Memoirs of Napoleon, includ- ing The Memoirs of Madame Junot (Duchessed'Abrant^s), 6 vols. ; Memoirs of Napoleon, by Louis A. F. De Bour- rienne, 4 vols. ; The Life of Napoleon, by William Hazlitt, 6 vols. With about 125 beautiful portraits, facsimiles and illusts. after the most famous artists of the time, printed on Japan paper; also, a duplicate set of the plates artistically colored and printed on handmade paper. Together 16 142 vols. 8vo, handsomely bound in full light brown pol- ished CALF, INLAID AT THE CORNERS WITH OVAL SHAPED ORNAMENTS OF LEVANT MOROCCO, AND UPON EACH OVAL IS STAMPED THE FIGURE OF A BEE, gilt-lined sldeS, gilt backs, a double of crimson calf with gilt-tooled borders, gilt edges, by Zabhnsdorf. Lond. : The Grolier Society, n. d. The Connoisseur Edition limited to 75 copies for England and America, of which this is No. 2. Among the portraits are many of Napoleon, after Zanerio, Guerin, Longhi, Tof- fanelli, etc. ; Fouche, Wm. Pitt, Las Casas, Suohett, Empress Josephine, Moreau, etc., etc., and of the illustrations may he mentioned the Battle of Marengo, Napoleon Proclaimed Em- peror, 13th Vendemaire, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena, etc. An bxceedinoly beautiful set. 446. NEWCASTLE (DUCHESS OP). Plays, Never before Printed. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle. With the very rare full-length portrait of the authoress, with verses beneath, engraved by Van Schuppen. Folio, full crimson crushed levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by Pratt. Lond. 1668 * The fine copy oeiginallt in the Lefferts' collec- tion. Very rare. Although lettered "Vol. II," this is quite complete in itself, another volume of her poems having ap- peared in 1663. 447. NEW ENGLAND. The | Kingdom's | Divisions | Anatomized, | together with a | vindication | of the | Ar- mies proceedings. By Franeiscus Leinsula. 4to, sprinkled calf. London | printed by John Clowes, for Hannah Allen, at the Crown in | Popes-head Alley, 1649. * Extremely raee. An entire page is given to the answer to objection 7, " There are a godly and wise people both in New- England, and sometimes come Wther, but they approve not of these proceedings, but are enemies thereunto." Mentions names of Sir Henry Vaine (Vane), Mr. Phenix, Col. Humphrie, Mr. Winslowe, Mr. Peters, Mr. Richard Huohinson, Junior, etc. In another place it is said that " though I liave many things to commend New-England for, as apprehending them to be the best qovern'd people, and to have the best govern- ment BOTH OF CIVILL AND CHURCH STATE, THAT TO MY KNOWL- EDGE IS EXTANT IN THE WORLD, yet in this I commend them not," etc. ^ .„ „ Mr. Livingston, in his "Auction Prices of Books, was UN^LE to record THE SALE OF ANY COPY OF TfflS WORK. 448. NEW ENGLAND. A Sixth Collection of Papers, re- lating to the present juncture of affairs in England. (No. X. "A NABATIVE OF THE MISEEIES OF NeW ENGLAND, BY REASON OP AN AEBITEABT GOVEENMENT ERECTED THBEE/' pp. 6.) 4t0, half olive levant morocco, gilt top. Extremely eaee. Lond. 1689 *incoeporate0 in the naeeative is a petition op cambridge (Mass.) kesidents, which was taken to England by Increase Mather, and personally presented to the King. 143 Rare Maps containing Views of New Amsterdam. 449. NEW YORK. Colored Map of what is now New York, Pennsylvania, a section of Virginia, and parts adjacent, entitled, " Novi Belgii Novaquae Anglise nee non partis Virginial Tabnla, Mullis in locis emendata per Nicolaum Visseher." Containing at foot a View of New Amsterdam (New York City), with separate title " Nieuw Amsterdam op 't Eylant Manhattans." Size about 3x12 J inches. Dimensions of the whole about 18 x 2H inches. * This is what is known as the Second View of New Amster- dam, representing the city as it appeared about the year 1656, or earlier. It is from a plate engraved by N. J. Visseher [ca. 1650], retouched and corrected here and there by Nicolas Visseher about 1690. In this issue have been added the names of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, etc., and others which appear in this edition only, viz. : Nieu Casteel, one of the names of Fort Christina, etc. Fine copy, with good margins. Rare. 450. NEW YORK. Colored Map of New York, etc. , with title, " Recens edita totius Novi Belgii in America Sep- tentrionali siti delineatio cura et sumptibus Tob. Cour. Lotteri, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geographi August Vind." Con- taining a View of New Amsterdam — " Nue Jorck sive Neu Amsterdam." Size, about 3-^xl4|^. Dimensions of the whole, 19^x22^. * This is a copy of Danckers' Map, with the view of New Amsterdam from one of the editions of AUard's plate, repre- senting the city about the year 1673. Fine copy. Scarce. 451. NEW YORK. Colored Map of New York, etc. , en- titled " Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Sep- tentrionali siti delineatio cura et sumptibus Matthaei Seut- teri, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geographi August Vind." With view at foot, "Nue Jorck sive Neu Amsterdam." Size about 3^ X 14| inches. Dimensions of the whole, 191 x %2i inches. *In this map the old view of New Amsterdam has been replaced by one of more recent date (167.3), which was probably engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe, representing the city at the time of its recapture by the Dutch in 1673. This is known as the "Third " View of New Amsterdam, or Allard's View. All the prominent buildings and places on this long, narrow plate are lettered, and a key in Latin supplies an index to the various localities displayed. Asher does not appear to have been able to see a copy of this map. Scarce. 452. NEW YORK. Colored Map, similar to the above- with title, "Novi Belgii Novaquse AnglijB nee non Penn- sylvanise et Partis Virginige Tabula, multis in locis emen, data a lusto Danckers." With view of New Amsterdam (New York City), entitled, " Nieuw Yorck, eertijs geneamt Nieuw Amsterdam op't Eylant Manhattans." Size, 2|-xia inches. Dimensions of the whole, about 18fx22 inches (slightly repaired at fold). * This map by Joost Danckers is believed to have been pub- lished about the end of the Seventeenth Century. The plat& 144 from which it is produced, however, is thought to have been engraved at a much earlier period (1650-56), as there are indica- tions wbich prove that the more recent names (Philadelphia being designated as a large town) are to be considered as among the additions made upon it. The view of New Amsterdam is therefore the same as N. J. Visscher's " Second View" of the town, madeabout 1650. Rare. 453. NEW YORK. Nieu Amsterdam, een Stedeken in Noord Amerikaes Nieu Hollant, op het eilant Mankattan : namaels Nieu joek genaemt, to en het geraekte in 't gebiet der Engelschen. Amstelodamum recens, postea Anglis illad possidentibus dictum Eboracum novum, Hollandise norse, id est Americse Mexicanse sive Septentrionalis oppidulum. (To the left of the inscription) Pet. Schenk, (to the right) Amsteld, C. P. View from the bay, with ships and small craft in sight. Dimensions of the plate mark, exclusive of margins, 7 6/8 x 10^ inches. Fine, clean impression, with good margins * Asher, in his list of the views of New Amsterdam, states that this is the only separate view of New Amsterdam he had ever seen. He designates it as a copy of AUard's engraving, and informs us that, ' ' Like all other engravings of Schenck, this one was executed between the years 1690 and 1700, and most likely was published in some of the various collections of views of different cities, published by him." A fine example of THIS BARE PRINT. ONE OF 10 COPIES PRINTED; THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED PRICE OF WHICH WAS $1,000.00. 454. NOLHAC (PIERRE DE). J. M. Nattier, Court Painter under Louis XV. 60 beautiful photogravure por- traits of members of the royal family of France, and other distinguished personages of the time, from paintings and drawings by Nattier, and with tail-pieces from Nattier's decorative paintings. 3 parts 4to, white damask wrappers, in a blue levant morocco case, with gilt ornamental borders on the sides and decorations on the back, in the style of Louis XV. Paris: Goupil & Co., 1905 * One of 10 copies printed on Japanese paper, each signed by the adthor, and with the illustrations in two STATES: one in the text, very finely colored by hand, as to render the illustrations similar to the originals ; the other two states printed separately, with also separate impressions of the ornamental initials, vignettes, and tail-pieces, one being proof on India paper, the other on plate paper. One of the most sumptuous art works published in recent years, and without exception, the most beautiful ever issued from Goupil's press. THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED PRICE WAS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. 455. NOVUS ORBIS REGIONUM ac insularum veteribus incognitarum, una cum tabula cosmographica, et aliquot aliis consimilis argumenti libellis, quorum omnium cata- logus sequenti patebit pagina. His accessit copiosus rerum memorabilium index. With the large double heart-shaped map of the world by Oronce Fine, headed Nova et Integra 145 TJNiVERSi ORBis DESCEiPTio. Folio, old morocco, with a series of gold fleur-de-lis on the sides, within gilt tooled borders, gilt back, gilt edges (rubbed and lateral sides of the map somewhat cut into). Parisiis: Apud Antonium Augurellum, impensis loannis Parvi et Galeoti a Prato, 15^2 * Rare. One of the earliest collections of voyages. Symon Grinaeus wrote the dedication, but loannes Huttichius gath- ered the materials and did the work. There is, also, a preface by Sabastian Miinster treating of the use of the map. The MAP OP THE WORLD BY ORONCE FIN£ IS ONE OF THE MOST RE- MARKABLE EFFORTS OF EARLY CARTOGRAPHY, AND IS BARELY SEEN. This collection contains the voyage of Aloysio Cada- MOSTO; the first three expeditions of Columbus; the voyages of Alonzo Nino and Vincent Pinzon; the third voyage of Vespucci; the voyage of Pedro Alvarez Cabral; the rela- tion of the Indian Joseph ; the four relations of Vespucci, etc. 456. OLD ENGLISH PLAYS.— A Collections of Old Eng- ^^ lish Plays, 4 vols. ; New Series, Consisting of the Works of Thomas Nabbes, 2 vols. ; and Robert Davenport, 1 vol. All edited by A. H. BuUen. Together 7 vols. 4to, half dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt panelled backs, gilt tops, by Stikeman. Lond. : Privately Printed, 1889-90 * Edition strictly limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. Fine, clean set of this scarce edition. 457. OLD PRINTS IN COLOR. Eighteenth Century Color Prints : an Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Color. By Julia Frankau. Illust. ivith 51 Monochrome plates and 1 in colors printed from copper- plates. Folio, cloth, gilt, uncut. Fine copy. Lond. 1900 A WORK SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. 458. "PALEOGRAPHY. Silvestre (M. J. B.). Uni- -*- VEESAL Paleography; or. Facsimiles of Writings of all Nations and Periods, copied from the most celebrated and authentic inanuscripts in the Libraries and Archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England. Ac- companied by an Historical and Descriptive Text and In- troduction, by Champollion-Figeae and Aimee Champol- lion, fils. Transl. from the French, and edited, with Cor- rections and Notes, by Sir Frederic Madden, 3 vols. imp. folio, and 2 vols. imp. 8vo ; Palseographical Album of fac- similes of Writings of all Nations and Periods, imp. folio. With 375 plates of facsimiles, richly illuminated {some in gold, silver aud colors) in the finest style of art. 5 vols, cloth (some pp. loose as usual). Lond. 1849-1850 * This is the finest book of its kind in the world, and the most valuable to the student of ancient writing, having 375 facsimiles of the choicest manuscripts in Europe. The work cost nearly £20,000 to produce, and the expense was chiefly de- frayed by King Louis Philippe of France, who subscribed at the outset for sixty copies at about £75 each. The volume " Pateographical Album " is very seldom met with the work; and copies are usually offered as complete without this extra VOLUME. 146 PALUSTRE'S MAGNIFICENT WORK ON THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE. 459. PALUSTRE (LEON). La Renaissance en France. Dessins et gravures Soux la Direction de Eugene Sardoux. About 100 etchings to each volume. 3 vols, folio, newly bound in half blue morocco. Paris: A. Quantin, 1879-1885 * This copy is No. 3 of but twenty copies printed on Whatman paper, with the full-page plates in two states, one impression on Japan paper, the other on Whatman. The entire edition of this work was limited to 100 copies. It is a most valuable and beautiful work on the Arts of the French Renaissance. 460. PARKER (GILBERT). The Works of Parkman. Frontenac edn. Portrats and illusts. Introductions, etc. 16 vols. Svo, buckram, paper labels, gilt tops, uncut, as issued. Bost. 1901 * Fine set of this well-printed library edition of the writings of Parkman. 461. PARKMAN (FRANCIS). The Discovery of the Great West. First edn. With a map. Svo, original cloth. Bost. 1869 462. PAUL JONES. A Tale, by Pierce Egan, the Younger, author of "Robin Hood." lllust. ivith etchings and woodcuts. ^ vols. Svo, half crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, by Bayntun. Vert rare. Lond. 1842 * The etched frontispiece to Vol. II. represents " Paul Jones shooting his lieutenant for striking the American Flag." FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM PENN. 463. [PENN (WILLIAM). J History of King John, King Henry HI., and King Edward the I. By William Prynne. Folio, calf gilt. I^oi<3. 1670 * From the library of William Penn, with his armorial book- plate " William Penn, Esq., Proprietor of Pennsylvania, 1703," pasted on the back of the title. Copies of the bookplate ALONE ABE USUALLY CATALOGUED AT 60 OR 70 DOLLARS, and books directly from his hbrary and with his bookplate are rarely ofiered for sale. 464. PERCY SOCIETY. Reprints of Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, edited from Original Manuscripts and scarce publications. Complete Set. 30 vols, post Svo, half calf. Lond. 1840-52 Very scarce. Consists of 96 parts, including the two sup- pressed parts, "Quipperfor New-fangled Gentlewomen," and •' Pride and Abuse of Women." The Ives copy sold for $150, and the catalogue states that but twenty copies of the suppressed parts escaped destruction. 147 THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH CORRECTION IN THE AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH. 465. PHILLIPS (STEPHEN). Orestes and other Poems. Small 4to, original yellow glazed paper covers, in red mo- rocco case. Lond. : Printed for Private Circulation, 1884 * First Edition of the author's First Book, and exceed- ingly RARE. The book was crudely printed, perhaps by an amateur, and at the end is "Printed at the A. D. P. Press."^ One line was omitted from the poem " Vale Camoena," at the top of p. [14] : " And still she clings to Ida of her dreams." This line, in the present copy, has been supplied in the author's autograph. P. [3] has the legend "Poems written at 15 and 16. And p. [10] " Poems written at 19." The contents of the volume are; Misfortune. Elegy. Destiny — A Dream. To the Angel of Death. Thoughts at Sunrise. Vale Camoena. Orestes. None of these is included in the Volume op "Poems" published in 1898. 466. PHYSIOGNOMICAL PORTRAITS. One Hundred Distinguished Characters from Undoubted Originals, en- graved by Eminent British Artists. 100 beautiful portraits, after Holbein, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Lely, etc., by Finden, Pye and others. With Biographical Accounts. Laege Paper Copy. First edn. a vols, royal Bvo, full contem- porary dark green morocco gilt, full gilt edges. Lond. 1832-24 *A very fine, large paper copy. A most interesting work, from the fact that the subjects were expressly chosen to illus- trate the great diversity of genius and character as portrayed in their faces. Pirates and Buccaneers. 467. PIRATES. News from the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly {sic) ; or, the Tryals and Examinations of sev- eral Robers (sic) and Pirates, who committed several Roberies {sic) on the Main Ocean, to the great damage of his Majesties Subjects, who were ttied {sic) before a Court of Admiralty upon Thursday the seventh of January instant, being found guilty, the Captain and eight more were con- demned to suffer at Execution Dock. Small 4to, pp. 4, new three-quarter green crushed levant morocco extra, gilt top. Lond. : Printed in the Year, 1674 * Of extreme rarity. The Pirates to suffer execution were Capt. Pucas, alias George Dixon, alias Smith; Daniel Cometh, William Colling wood, Gerrard Stack, Simon Harcup, Henry Lovel. Michael Fitz, Gerard and Maurice Fix-Gerard. 148 PIEATES: STATE PAPERS, 1707. 468. PIRATES. A Collection of State Tracts Publish'd on Occasion of the late Revolution in 1688 and during the Reign of King William III. To which is Preflx'd The His- tory of the Dutch War in 1672— A Vindication of the late Revolution, etc., with a Table of the several Tracts, etc., etc. Complete set. 3 vols, thick small folio, calf. Raee. Lond. : Printed in the Year, 1705-6-7 * Contains "A Full Account of the Proceedings in relation to Capt. Kidd (the famous pirate). Written by a Person of Quality to a Kinsman of the Earl of Bellomont in Ireland" ; also. "A Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien," "Soot- land's Grievances relating to Darien," etc., etc. The Capt. Kidd ' ' Account " is of extreme interest, and re- lates how the Earl of Bellomont, who was Gov. of New York, with the consent of the King (who was to have a tenth share of the profit), organized and equipped the "Adventure Galley" for the purpose of acting against the pirates, who at this time in- fested the coasts of N. America. Capt. Kidd was appointed to the command. Instead of capturing the pirates, Kidd himself turned pirate, and was afterwards taken by order of the Eng- lish authorities at Boston, sent to England and hung with others of his kind. 469. PIRATES. Rogers (Captain Woodes). A Cruising Voyage round the World, first to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, begun in 1708 and finished in 1711, containing a Journal of all the remarkable transactions, particularly the taking of Puna and Guiaquil — an Account of Alexander Sel- kirk's LIVING ALONE FOUR YEARS and four months in an Island, etc. — with Introduction relating to the South-Sea Trade. Second (and best) edn. With fine maps. 8vo, calf. Lond. 1712 * Fine COPT. Scarce. This expedition, fitted out by Dam- pier, who accompanied it as Pilot, produced £170,000, half of which belonged to the proprietors. They surprised Puna and Guayaquil and got much booty, took several prizes, and sailing towards Acapuloo captured the Spanish galleon ; also, a rich ship from Manila, off the coast of California. From the proceeds of this voyage, Rogers rented the Bahama Islands from the lords' proprietors for twenty-one years. The famous Selkirk was rescued from his lonely habitation and appointed by Rogers as mate of his ship. 470. PIRATES. Roberts (Capt. George). The Four Years' Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, being a series of uncommon Events which befell him in a voyage to the Canaries — the Manner of his being taken by Three Pirate Ships, commanded by Low, Russell, and Spriggs, who, after having plundered him, jjut him aboard his own Sloop, the Hardships he endured — with descriptions of the Cape de Verde Islands — the Natives, their Manners, 149 Customs, etc. With map and plates. 8vo, calf (skilfully rebacked). Lond. 1726 *The rare original edition of tbis entertaining work, which is usually attributed to Daniel Defoe. The conversa- tions, details of the captures, mode of living, etc., is written for those . . . . " who may have the misfortune to meet with any of the like distresses either by Piracy or Shipwreck." 471. PIRATES. A Journey over Land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea performed by John Oockburn, and five other Englishmen, who were taken by a Spanish Guarda-Costa in the John and Jane, Edward Burr, Master, and set on Shoar (sic) at a place called Porto-Cavalo, naked and wounded as mentioned in several News-Papers of Oct., 1731, containing — new Discoveries — of those almost unknown parts of America, an exact ac- count of the several Indians, etc., etc. 8vo, half green crushed levant morocco, with emblematical tooling, gilt top. Lond. 1735 * Very scarce. The account of the capture by the Pirate ships " Two Brothers" and " Rhode Island," commanded by Captain Johnson, etc., is of great interest. Part II is an en- tirely different work, and reads: "A Brief e Discoverye of some things best worth Noteinge in the Travels of Nicholas Withington, a Factor in the East Indiase, Lond. 1734:," with full accounts of the " Shippes" and " Fightes," etc., etc. 472. PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF ENGLISH MAN- SIONS. Morris (F. O.). Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, with descriptive and historical accounts of each mansion. lUust. with nearly 200 beautifully colored plates of the residences and their immediate surroundings. 6 vols. 4to, original cloch, richly gilt, gilt edges. Lond. [ca. 1870] * One of the finest works of its kind, containing by far the best representative series of views of the mansions of old England yet issued in collected form. POE'S AL-AARAAP. OEIGINAL EDITION. 473. POE (EDGAR A.). Al-Aaeaap, Tamerlane and MiNOE Poems. 8vo, original terra-cotta colored boards, cloth back, few leaves uncut at lower edges (the sheets having be- come loose, have been skilfully tightened in the original covers, with end papers, of the same period and texture, supplied). Baltimore : Hatch & Dunning, 1829 * The excessively rare original edition. The poem Al- Aaraaf as here first printed differs verbally, in several places, from the version now in circulation, though the poem Tamerlane, which follows it in this collection, has been entirely rewritten, the author stating in the advertisement that the piece in its first form (Boston, 1827) was ' ' suppressed through circumstances of 150 TAMERL.AXE, AND MinOlE POUMS. BY XSDOAB. A. FOS. BALTIMORE: HATCH & DUNNING. 1839. [See No. 473] a private nature. ' ' Of the nine miscellaneous poems at the end, with the exception of the first and part of the eighth, all have been reprinted in the poet's collected works. The first of these, headed "To " has never been reprinted in full. The third stanza, contains the germ of the poem, "A Dream within a Dream," issued at a later period. It is interesting to note that while this is the author 's second published volume, it contains his Tamerlane (his first printed poem) in an entirely new form, being here an original version rather than a second printing of the piece. The excessive rarity of Poe's earlier volumes has become pro- verbial among collectors, and they are, and are likely ever to re- main, among the most treasured items of American poetry. The untoward circumstances attending their first publication, the tragic and pathetic fate of the author and those of his imme- diate family, his brilliant achievements and future fame, coming all too late to give more than a passing "surcease of sorrow" to the unhappy poet, have all conspired to render him at once the most picturesque and unique figure in American letters and to invest his works with an almost irresistible charm to the literary collector. The present copy contains the unpaged leaf (pp. 12-13) con- taining a poem of 14 verses, commencing ' ' Science ! Meet daugh- ter of old Time," etc., which has been described as an unique featvire. Preserved in a dark red straight-grained morocco gilt SOLANDER CASE BY StIKEMAN. [See Eeproduction.] 474. POE (EDGAR ALLAN). The Complete Works of Pee. With portraits, facsimile and illustrations. 10 vols, post 8vo, half polished morocco, gilt-tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. *A very HANDSOME SET. N. Y. : Putnam 's [1902] 475. POPE (ALEXANDER). "Windsor Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown. Folio, full green crushed levant, inside line borders. Lond. : Printed for Ber- nard Lintot at the Cross-Keys in Fleet Street, 1713. *0NE OP THE RAREST OP POPE'S FiRST EDITIONS. Pine COpy in handsome binding. 476. PORCACCHI (THOMASO). L'Isole piu famose del mondo. Engraved title and numerous maps in the text en- graved by G. Porro. Folio, boards. Venetia, 1576> *FiRST Edition op this celebrated book, containing sev- eral MAPS OP American interest. 477. PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES. The famous Richardson collection of 'Portraits to illustrate Grainger 's Biographical History of England, consisting of 160 portraits, all proofs on colored paper or India paper, and ONE ORIGINAL DEAVSTING (in colors) OF ChARLES, EaRL OF DeRBY. Bound in one volume, thick royal 8vo, contemporary russia, 151 gilt (rebaeked). From the Dawson-Tumer collection, with his arms in gold on the sides, gilt edges. Lend. [ca. 1802] *'Wliile this, is not a complete set of this famous portrait gal- lery (Lowndes gives the number as 310), it contains such eminent personages as John Skelton, John Heywood, Mark Eidley, John Stow, John Harrington, William Cavendish, Earl of Essex; George Carew, ■William Seymour, Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Eobert, Earl of Warwick; Prince Eupert, Lady Francis, Countess of Somerset; George Chapman, John Taylor, the Water-Poet; Thomas May, Thomas Middleton, and many others of equal note. From the Dawson-Tubner collection, with this atjto- GBAPH. [See Lot No. 38.] 478. PRESCOTT (WILLIAM H.). The Historical Works of Prescott, comprising History of Philip the Second, History of Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Conquest of Mexico, History of the Conquest of Peru, History of Charles the Fifth and Critical Miscellanies. Edited by John Foster Kirk. With numerous portraits (some of which are on India paper) and views. Together 12 vols. Thick 8vo, three-quarter green crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut. Phil. 1893 *A BEAUTiruL SET of the Illustrated Library Edition, of which only 250 numbered copies were issued. 4:79. PROCTER (BRYAN WALLER— "Barry Corn- wall "). Manuscript Poem of 34 lines in the autograph of the author, signed " C," and commencing " The voice went forth — and ceased ! Upwards it seemed Withdrawn, but echoes still the theme prolonged," etc. With superscription on top which reads " Send a proof to Mr. Procter 25 Bedford Square." THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. 479* PTOLEMY. Liber Quadripartiti Ptolomsei id est quatuor tractatuum: in radieanti discretione per Stellas de futuris etin hoc mundo constructionis et destructionis con- tingentibus. 4to, half vellum. Venetiis: Erhard Ratdolt, 1484 * Gothic letter. 68 unnumb. leaves; signatures a-h. Hain- Copinger, 13,548; Proctor, 4394. Redgrave, 40. The extremely RARE First Edition, of this astronomical treatise, a Latin translation from the Arabic. This book, which is a real MASTERPIECE OF THE ART OF PRINTING, is Ornamented with very fine large and small ornamental and floral initials on black ground, and with 3 astronomical diagrams. On the verso of the last leaf are the very remarkable following lines, printed in red, which are to be found in all the copies: " Decretalium: super quinque libris; sexto et clementinis Breues | casus siue summaij ; secundum mentem Nicolai siculi . . ," etc. Is this the announcement of an edition of the famous Nicolaus Sicu- lus, printed by Ratdolt, and now lost? A few very small worm- holes in the first 4 leaves, otherwise a very fine copy of THIS interesting ITEM. 153 THE RARE FIRST EDITION. 480. PTOLEMY. Geographia Viiiversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Olavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Enarrationis libros VIII. Woodcut diagrams and 1)8 double-page wood- cut maps with descriptions on the front, within fine woodcut ornamental borders, after Holbein. Folio, full red crushed levant morocco, gill tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by ChambolleDuku. Basilese: apud Henricum Petrum, 1540 *The rare First Edition of Munstke's Ptolemy. Map 45, NoviE Insula, represents the American lands and ISLANDS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OV THEIR DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS, PRINTED ON THE BACK. Maps 1, TYP0S UNIVERSALIS, and 41, SoHONLANDiA; also, Contain portions op American shores. A PARTICULARLY CHOICE AND BEAUTIFUL COPY. Harrisse B. A. v.. No. 231. 481. PRAYER BOOK OF KING EDWARD VII. Printed throughout on toned paper in black. and red, with ornate decorations, portraits, etc. Polio, handsomely bound in full violet crushed levant, with different colored inlays on sides, doublure of undressed calf, gilt top, uncut. Fine copy of a handsome book. N. Y. 1903 * Published by special arrangement with the Essex House Press, England. 482. PURCHAS (SAMUEL). Hakluytus Posthumus; or, Purchas his Pilgrims. Contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others. With all the maps, including the rare ones re- lating to North America. 5 vols, folio, old calf (rebacked), engraved title to Vol. I. Alphabetical Table of Books, VI-X and leaf of imprint (30 leaves) of Vol. II missing, otherwise a good and sound copy. Lond. : For Henry Fetherston at the Signe of the Rose in Paul's Churchyard, 1625-26. * With the exception of the faults mentioned above, a good copy of this rare collection, with every map genuine. [Resold for account of purchaser.] BOMBERG'S HEBREW IMPRINT. 482*. RABBI ISAAC NATHAN (ben Kalonymos ben Juda ben Salomon). Meier Nathib (Illuminating the road). Concordantise Bibliorum. Printed throughout m Hebrew characters in four columns, with the title within a very fine architectural woodcut border, and a beautiful woodcut orna- mental head-piece at the beginning of the text. Large folio, old vellum (back needs repairs). Venice: Daniel Bom- berg, Tisri, 5284 [September-October, 1523]. * Rossi, p. 35, no. 146, Schwab ; Incunables Orienteaux, no. 322 First Edition. Extremely rare of this Biblical Concordance in Hebrew. Only one other copy is known, which is in the Bodleian Library, and no copy of this first edi- tion was in the library of Count^Giacomo Manzoni, although 153 HE HAD A LARGE COLLECTION OP HEBREW EARLY PRINTED BOOKS. Some leaves with very small worm-holes, otherwise a fine and perfect copy. Daniel Bomberg, a Christian, was a native of Antwerp. He was the most celebrated printer of Hebrew books in the XVIth Century, and his industry in the printing of Hebrew Bibles is perhaps without a parallel. He studied Hebrew under Felix Pratensis, a converted Jew, and settled in buiness at Venice. The Bibles that he published, with the Targums, Rabbinical Commentaries, and the Masorah, are truly magnificent. He is said to have retained 100 Jews, the most learned he could find, as correctors of the press. He was also assisted by Cornelius Adelkind, a very erudite Jew. Bomberg died at Venice in 1549. 483. "OARE PORTRAITS. Collection of 46 finely en- -*-* graved Portraits, neatly bound in 4to volume, half morocco, top gilt, uncut. *Fine collection, containing specimens engraved by Mon- cornet, Claude Mellan, Edelinck, de L'Armassin, etc. LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES. A MAGNIFICENT SET. 484. READE (CHARLES). The Works of Charles Reade, comprising Hard Cash, 3 vols. ; Woman Hater, 3 vols. ; Put Yourself in His Place, 2 vols. ; Cloister and the Hearth, 2 vols. ; It is Never Too Late to Mend, 2 vols. ; Foul Play, 2 vols. ; Love Me Little Love Me Long ; Peg WoflBngton and other Stories ; Christie Johnston, and Sin- gleheart and Doubleface; Course of True Love, and the History of an Acre ; Wandering Heir, Autobiography of a Thief and Jack of all Trades; A Simpleton; Perilous Secret; A Terrible Temptation; White Lies; Griffith Gaunt; Good Stories of Men and other Animals; Readiana. With over 100 beautiful illusts. by Frank T. Merrill, printed on Japan paper, and an extra set of these plates exquis- itely and delicately colored and printed on handmade paper. Together 25 vols. 8vo, magnificently bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled on sides with inter- twining sprays of flowers, which, converging toward the centre, terminate in inlaid blue and white blossoms, thus forming a central panel bordered with flowers; gilt tooled and inlaid backs, double with green levant, with wide gilt tooled red levant borders and a gilt and inlaid centre orna- ment, watered silk end papers, gilt tops, uncut, by the Grolier Bindery. Lond. : Grolier Society, n. d. *This Edition des Aquarelles is the most sumptuous edition ever published and was limited to only five copies for England and America, of which this is Letter B. The work, with its colored plates, illustrations and title-pages on Japan paper, and its beautiful binding, will make a noteworthy addi- tion to any fine library. Reade, next to Dickens, has done more towards bringing to the attention of the public the existing abuses than any other, and his famous novel, -'It is Never Too Late to Mend," was the first instance of the employment of fiction to expose social abuses. 154 48o REYNOLDS (GEO. W. M.). The Mysteries of the l^ourt of London. First edn. of all the Four Series, wiih numerous illusts. by Gilbert and Thwaits. 8 vols. Svo, half morocco gilt (binding of last volume not quite uniform. .„ , Lond. 1849-56 Complete set of this very rare work, clean and in the first editions. They are the best accounts of the intrigues, love aaairs, etc., of the Court of London at its liveliest period. 486. RICHARDSON (SAMUEL). The Novels of Samuel Richardson. With a Life of the Author and Introduction by Wm. L Phelps. Portrait and illusts. on Japan paper. 19 vols. Svo, cloth, paper labels, gilt tops, uncut. N.T., n.d. . The Limited Edition de Luxe. Fine set. 487. ROBESPIERRE (AUGUSTIN— Brother of the " In- corruptible Jacobin," and known as " Robespierre Jeune''). D. S. 2 pp. folio. With seals. Also, signed by Frerou, Saliceti and Alexandre Record. 1793 * Rare signature to an important revolutionary docu- ment. Robespierre, Freron and the others had been sent as Commissioners from the Convention to Marseilles to conduct the siege of Toulon. The above document is one sending im- portant dispatches from Toulon and is dated from Ollionte, a battery at Toulon. Endorsed underneath is a list of the dis- patches the courier brings back with him, of which one is for Robespierre the elder. A FINELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED "CRABB ROBINSON." 488. ROBINSON (HENRY CRABB). Diary, Reminis- cences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Bar- rister-at-Law. Selected and edited by Thomas Sadler. Best Library Edition. With S portraits 3 vols. 8vo. Extended to 6 vols. Svo by the insektion of upwards OP 360 FINELY ENGRAVED PORTRAITS (many of which are on India paper) of the eminent personages mentioned in the work. 6 vols. Svo, newly and handsomely bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco, richly tooled backs, gold borders on all sides, inside borders, gilt tops, uncut by Larkins. Lond. 1869 * Handsome set of one of the most interestings works of its kind ever issued, containing reminiscences of many of the eminent characters from 1780 to 1867. The author was the founder of the famous Athenaeum Club of London. THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH MS. ADDITIONS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTER. 489. ROGERS (SAMUEL). JACQUELINE, a Poem, First EDN. 12mo, original boards, uncut, preserved in a crushed levant morocco case, richly gilt, by Riviere. Lond. 1814 * A very interesting copy, being a presentation from the Author with his autograph inscription on the half-title. It also contains 14 additional lines at the end of Canto 1 in his handwriting aad an interesting autograph letter signed 3 pp. is inserted. The above is the earliest issue of the work; it was afterwards published with Byron's Lara. 155 TWO PRESENTATION COPIES, AND WITH UNSPOTTED PLATES. 490. ROGERS (SAMUEL). Italy. A Poem, Cadell, 1830. Poems, by Samuel Rogers, Cadell, 1834. Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Moxon, 1837. Together, the complete set of these beautiful editions, printed on plate paper, and illust. with the extensive series of most exquisite vignettes and steel engravings, after J. M. W. Turner and Stothard, each volume is First Edn, brilliant proof impressions. 3 vols. 8vo, very handsomely bound by De Sauty, in deep blue crushed levant morocco extra, with inlays of red levant ornamental and floral gilt sides, gilt edge. Lond. 1830-4-7 * One of the most beautiful sets ever offered fob sale, the illustrations being brilliamt impressions, aijd un- SPOTTED. Both volumes of Rogers are presentation copies. "Poems" having the inscription, " To the Lady Francis Harley from the author," and "Italy," " From the Author," both written in his auto- graph. 491. ROGERS (SAMUEL). Poems. 2 vols. 12mo, full green morocco, gilt borders on sides, enclosing a gilt vase (each volume different), richly tooled gilt backs, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Hayday. Lond. 1845 * Bears on fly-leaf a presentation inscription from the AUTHOR, IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING. Doubtless, the poet-banker had the two vols, specially bound for Lady Frances Russell, to whom they were presented. 492. ROMANS (BERNARD). Annals of the troubles IN THE Netherlands. From the Accession of Charles V. Emperor of Germany. In four parts. Collected and Trans- lated from the most approved Historians in the Native Tongue. 2 vols, small 4to, original sheep. Hartford, 1778-82 *Dr. Samuel A. Green, in his "Ten Facsimile Eeproductiona Eelating to Various Subjects," Boston, 1903, says: "Volume 1 of this work is believed to be the first book of more than a hun- dred pages printed in Hartford. Volume II., published in 1782, is of excessive rarity, so rare, indeed, that Duyckinck, in his 'Cyclopsedia of American Literature' (I., 318), says that it was never printed. ' ' In James Hammond Trimibull's list of Connecticut imprints, published by the Acorn Club, the title is entered but he gives a collation of Vol. I. only. He states that Vol. II. was published in 1783, and refers to a notice in the Connecticut Courant for February II of that year, where the book is advertised for sale. From this it would seem as if he had never seen a copy of Vol- ume II., nevertheless, there was a copy in the Brinley Library in the catalogue of which the date of Vol. II. is correctly given as 1782. The copy contained the following note in Mr. Brinley 's handwriting: "During twenty-five years of book-collecting I have never seen a copy, and I have never heard of but one to which my attention was called by the late E. B. Corwin. It is in the library of the New York Historical Society. — G. B." Vol. I. has imprint "Watson and Goodwin, and Vol. II. Hudson and Goodwin. 158 493. ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA G.)- Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress and other Poems. With four designs ly D. G. Bossetti. 12ino, original cloth, uncut. With protecting cover of leather and in leather case. Lond. 1879 *Inserted is a two verse autograph poem written by C. G. EossETTi, as follows: "If hope grew on a bush, And joy grew on a tree, What a nosegay for the plucking There would J)e! But oh I in windy Autumn, When frail flowers wither, What should we do for hope and joy Fading together?" signed (Christina G-. Rossetti.) Also with an envelope in the autograph of W. M. Eossetti laid in. AUTOGEAPH PEESENTATION COPY PEOM THE AUTHOE, AND WITH A FINE EUSKBSr LETTEE INSEETED. 494. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Dante aud His Circle, with the Italian Poets preceding him, a collection of Lyrics. Revised and re-arranged edition. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1874 *AirTOGEAPH PEESENTATION COPT ITtOM THE ATJTHOB WITH IN- SCRIPTION ' ' To Alice Wilding from her old friend v. G. Bossetti 187 S" and with an additional feature of the greatest interest, a one- page AUTOGRAPH LETTEE TO EOSSETTI PROM JOHN EUSKIN, and COUNTER-SCRIBED BY EoSSETTI TO HIS BROTHER WiLLIAM. The letter (which is one page 8vo, undated, but probably droa 1875) reads: "Dear Bossetti What is the exact meaning of 'di mano in mano' in Leonardo's first chapter, I've always read Italian care- lessly merely to get at the main import, and now I am constantly stumbling on phrases I am not sure of ... ■ William (Eossetti) has been sending me some nice boohs lately. I hope to see you both when I've done that Oxford worTc .... Ever yours afecty. J. BusTcin." On the top of the letter IN the autograph of Dante Gabriel Eossetti to his beother William is : "Dear W.: "Have you got the boolc ^ if so can you attend to this for BusTcin. ' ' It is an interesting fact that John Euskin paid for the publication op the above work. Enclosed in a handsome blue crushed levant morocco solander case. 157 Books, with Colored Plates, by Thomas Rowlandson. 495. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. History of Westminster Election, from its commencement on the first of April to the final close of the Poll, on the 17th of May — with other select and interesting Occurrences at the West- minster Meetings. By Lovers of Truth and Justice. The BAKE ORIGINAL BDN., IN MOST UNUSUAL AND DESIRABLE CONDITION, the fore and under edges being entirely un- cut, gilt top. 4to, half calf, gilt. Lond. 1784 * An extraordinary picture of this famous forty-days' struggle, comprising all the Addresses. Placards, Songs, etc., etc., and illustrated by 16 large folding plates in color by Thomas RowLANDSON. This copy contains the rare preface to the Duchess op Devonshire (which was suppressed), and the leap OP ERRATA. FIRST EDITION OF A RARE BOOK IN UNUSUAL CONDITION. 496. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. The An- nals of Sporting. By Caleb Quizem, Esq., and his various Correspondents. With the series of 29 highly characteristic plates BY RoWLANDSON, after Bunbury, etc. Small 8vo, .newly and handsomely bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco, tooled back, gilt top, ALL other edges totally UNCUT, by Riviere. Lond. 1809 * An dnusually fine copy op this rare book, and in most DESIRABLE CONDITION. This work has the distinction of having a larger number of colored plates than is usual in a work of this kind. The plates are excellent examples of Rowlandson's genius as a caricaturist. 497. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of Dr. Syntax. Svo, crushed levant, inside Mosaic floral borders, gilt linings and fly- leaves, gilt top, uncut, by POMEY. Lond. : R. Ackermann, 1817 * First Edition. Illustrated with 26 spirited colored carica- tures by Thomas Rowlandson. Extremely scarce. ROWLANDSON'S DANCE OF DEATH AND DANCE OF LIFE. 497.* ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations by the author of "Doctor S\-ntax," 2 vols., Lond. 1815-16, and The Dance of Life, a Poem", by the author of "Doctor Syntax," illustrated with colored engrav- ings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1 vol., Lond. 1817. Together, 3 vols, royal Svo, full maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt backs and sides, broad dentelle borders, top edges gilt, other EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT, by Ramage. Loud. 1815-17 * A SUPERB COPY OP THE EXCESSIVELY RARE, GENUINE, FIRST ISSUE OF Combe's favorite work, in the finest possible condition, with ALL THE FULL-PAGE COLORED PLATES BY THE FAMOUS Rowlandson, whose illustrations to this work ARE rated as his BEST PERFORMANCE. THE BINDING IS IN THE Roger Payne style. 158 IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, AND WITH LABEL. 498. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe (William).] The Tour of Dr. Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. Third edn. With brilliant impressions of the numerous finely col- ored PLATES by Rowlandson. Royal 8vo, original boards, TOTALLY UNCUT, WITH THE PAPER LABEL. Loud. 1820 * Extremely kare in boards. A very large copy (Large Paper ? ;, measuring 10 x 6J^ inches. 499. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France shortly before the Revolution. 8vo, half green morocco gilt, gilt top, UNCUT. Lond. : Ackermann, 1821 * First Edition. Illustrated with 17 choice colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Rare, especially uncut. THE FAMOUS MINIATURE EDITION. 500. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. [Combe (William).] A Complete Set of the Miniature Edition of the famous Syntax Tours, comprising the Tour of Dr. Syn- tax in Search of the Picturesque, The Tour of Dr. Syn- tax in Search of Consolation and The Tour in Search of a Wife. All first editions of this edition. With the complete series of colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. 3 vols. 12mo, newly and handsomely bound in full green crushed levant morocco, with figure of the Doctor en route in gold in center of each side, gilt tops and inside borders, OTHER EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT, by WOOD. Lond. 1833 *Very choice, and especially desirable in the above DESCRIBED STATE, BEING RARE. Each volumB is protected by a cloth cover, the whole enclosed in a case. 501. RUSKIN (JOHN). Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford. Elegantly illust. with fine steel engravings. 5 vols. Imp. 8vo, full green crushed levant morocco, elab- orately gilt tooled backs and sides, broad dentelle borders, Morris paper fly-leaves, polished gilt edges, by Broca. Lond. : Smith, Elder & Co., 1848-1860 * A sumptuous copy, although Vols. 1 and 2 are the Fourth Edition. Still, the set as it is, is really the first impression of this elegant edition of the most noted work of England's greatest art critic and teacher. PRESENTATION COPY FROM RUSKIN, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER INSERTED. 502. RUSKIN (JOHN). The Ethics of the Dust, Ten Lec- tures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisa- tion. First EDN. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1866 * Presentation copy from the author to his friend, Mrs^ CoLViN, with inscription in his autograph : "Mrs. Oolvin With the Old Lecturer's sincere regards Christmas, 18GB"; also, a 2-page autograph letter inserted, written from Coniston^ 159 not dated and with initials, to one of his students, and contain, ing an architectural sketch. The letter reads : ' ' Dear Mr. Harris I can only send you the straight line exercise to- day . . . just sketch in the left side without thelamps and the three gables " (then follows a sketch of three towers), etc. Enclosed in a crushed levant morocco solander case. 503. QAINT-AMAND (IMBERT DE). La Jeunesse de ^ Louis-Philippe et Marie-Amelia. Portraits and views. Royal 4to, half polished morocco, gilt top, uncut. Paris, 1894 504. SARGENT (WINTHROP). Diary of Col. Win- throp Sargent, Adjutant-General of the U. S. A. during the Campaign of MDCCXCI (under Major-General St. Clair, against the Western Indians). 2 plates in facsimile, from the original drawings of the diary. 4to, original cloth. Wormsloe, 1851 * Extremely scaece, only 46 copies having been privately printed. In addition to the diary of the progress of and daily occurrences in the force under Gen. St. Clair, this work also contains Col. Sargent's narrative of the terrible and disastrous defeat which closed the campaign. 505. SCHILLER and GOETHE. The Writings of Fried- rich Schiller, transl. by Famous Authors, as follows: Don Carlos, transl. by Boylan and Mellish; The Maid of Or- leans, Bride of Messina, William Tell, and Demetrius, transl. by Martin Swan wick and Lodge; The Robbers, etc.; The Piceolomini, Death of Wallenstein, and Wallenstein's Camp, transl. by S. T. -Coleridge ; History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, transl. by A. J. W. Morrison; History of the Revolt of the Netherlands, transl. by East- wick ; .iEsthetical and Philosophical Essays, 2 vols. ; Poeti- cal Works; The Life of Schiller, by Heinrich Duntzer, transl. by P. E. Pinkerton. Together 10 vols. The writ- ings OF J. W. Von Goethe, as follows: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, transl by Thomas Carlyle, 2 vols. ; Wil- helm Meister's Travels and the Recreations of the German Emigrants, transl. by Carlyle; Truth and Fiction' relating to My Life, transl. by John Oxenford, 2 vols. ; The Tragedy of Faust, transl. by Theodore Martin, 2 vols. ; Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso and Goetz von Berlichingen, transl. by Swanwick and Sir Walter Scott. The Sorrows of Young Werther, transl. by R. D. Boylan; Letters from Switzer- land and Italy, transl. by Morrison; Poetical Works, 2 vols. ; Life of Goethe, by George H. Lewis, 2 vols. To- gether 14 vols. These tivo sets contain over 125 reproduc- tions of the greatest masterpieces of the time, such as Em- peror Ferdinand Refusing His Signature, after Wurzinger; portrait of Goethe, after Lalauze; the illusts. for Faust, after A. Liezen- Meyer. Also, photogravures, after Hoesslin, Le- loir, Frdmann, Kogler, etc. Each reproduction is printed 160 WAVERLEY; OK, 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. IN THREE VOLUMES. Under which King, Bezonian I speak, or die ! Henry IV. Part II. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: Printed hy James Sallantyne and Co. FOR ARCHIBAtD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH ; AND LONGMAN, HURST, BEES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON. 1814. [See No. 506] It^ J"?^ ^<^i^s, one on Japan paper, one on India paper, and the third beautifully colored and printed on handmade paper. Together M vols. 8vo, handsomely bound in full red crushed levant morocco, delicately gilt tooled, with graceful vines forming an an oval panel on each side, backs gilt tooled with flower sprays, doublure of white kid, with gilt tooled red levant borders, gilt tops, uncut. Bost. [1902] * Edition maqnifiqde, limited to 36 lettered copies, of WHICH THIS IS letter G. A fine large type edition of the two greatest authors of Germany. PIE8T EDITION OF " WAVERLBY "■ IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT. 506. [SCOTT (SIR WALTER).] Waverlbt; or, Tis Sixty Years Since. The extremely rare First edn. 3 vols, post 8vo. Edinburgh, 1814 *In the original blue-gray boards, totally uncut, and with backs and labels supplied at a later date. It is unnecessary to comment on perhaps one of the rarest books op the XIXth Century in this most exceptional condi- tion, other than to say that but few copies are in exist- ence, AND THAT WHEN OFFERED FOR SALE COMMAND VERY HIGH prices. Enclosed in a handsome green morocco solander case, with inner protecting cover of green silk. [See Reproduction.] 507. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). Tales of My Landlord, 4 vols, (fourth and last series), 1832; Ivanhoe, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1820; Monastery, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1820; Fortunes of Nigel, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1822; Peveril of the Peak, 4 vols., 1823; Woodstock, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1826. All First bdns. Together 20 vols. 12mo, half green pol- lished morocco, gilt backs, gilt tops, by C. Walters. * Fine, clean collection. Edinburgh, 1820-1832 508. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, with Descriptions of the Views. A series of 80 plates, beautifully engraved by the Findens, after David Roberts, Sam'l Prout, Clarkson Stanfield, Cop- ley Fielding, etc., etc. 2 vols. 4to, half green morocco (slightly rubbed). Lond. : Tilt, 1,832 * Large Paper copy, with fine proof impressions of the plates on India paper. Scarce. With book-labels of David Roberts, the well-known artist and joint illustrator of this work. 509. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). Works : Waverley No- vels, engraved titles, fronts., and other illusts., 48 vols., lQr, L' Anima amante si slancia fiiori del creato, e si crea nel infinito un Mondo tutto per essa, diverse assai da questo oscuro e pauroso baratro. Her own words. LONDON G AND J OLLIER VERE STREET BOND STREET mdcgcxxi. [See No. 525] FIRST EDITION. 523. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Revolt of Islam : a Poem in Twelve Cantos. First edn. 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in full blue crushed and polished levant, gilt edges, by Riviere. Lond. : Printed for C. and J. Oilier, 1818 * A VERT FINE COPY. Contains the rare half title after page XXXII. — which Buxton Forman, the eminent Shelley author- ity, said that he only knew of the existence of a few copies — and the leaf of errata. As is well known, this is really ' ' Laon and Cyntha," with a new title and a few alterations, which Oilier, the publisher, refused to sell when only a few copies had been disposed of. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, WITH THE LABEL. 524. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Prometheus Un- bound. A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts; with Other Poems. First edn. 8vo, boards, uncut, with the label. In full levant slip case. Lond. : Oilier, 1820 * An exceptionally fine copy, very scarce in such condition with the half-title, and two leaves of advertisements at end. Has the very interesting note on the fly-leaf: — "I bought this book in 1885 of Wilson the bookseller in King William Street [London!. He had it of a Miss Rumble, housekeeper of Shelley's friends, the Gisbornes. Chas. Hargrove, Leeds." Chas. Hargrove is a well-known Unitarian minister, and an ardent book- lover and collector. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SHELLEY ITEM, AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR. 525. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Epipsychidion : Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V ■ Now imprisoned in the Convent of . 8V0, WITH THE HALF-TITLE (usually missing) IN THE VERT RARE ORIGINAL STATE AS ISSUED, sewu, enclosed In a red silk folding sheath within a full crimson levant pull -off case. WITH AUTOGRAPH " P. B. SHELLEY " ON TITLE. Lond. 1831 *It will be remembered that this strange and wonderful poem was composed by Shelley (according to Mrs. Shelley's classification) in 1831, the year before his drowning on the homeward voyage from Leghorn; and that the "unfortunate lady " was Emilia Viviani, then in the Convent of St. Anne, The AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF "P. B. ShELLEY " (AUTHEN- TICATED BEYOND DOUBT THROUGH COMPARISONS WITH AUTO- GRAPH SIGNATURES AND HOLOGRAPH LETTERS) occurring upon the title-page, lends immense additional significance to this momentous item; for the secret of the authorship, at the time so carefully guarded, would naturally render the acknowledg- ment by signature (to some trusted friend, as doubtless in this case) a matter of great precaution. As a matter of purely literary and personal mterest, outside the realms of bibliography, the marvellous seascape descrip- tions in the great poem, and the allusion to the alleged author (in the introduction) as about to have started upon a voyage 167 to the Sporades, seem, along with many similar allusions in Shelley's poetry, to be portents of his own last days spent in the little yacht, and of his death as the result of its wreck among the waves of Specia. It may be mentioned that a rebound copy was offered in a booksellers' catalogue last year at $550.00. Probably the most interesting copy extant, and the only copy in the original wrappers oppeked for public SALE IN America. [See Reproduction.] 526. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). Posthumous Poems. First edn. 8vo, full crushed blue levant morocco extra, gilt top. Load. : John and Henry L. Hunt, 1834 * A lovely copy of the First Edition, with a preface by Mrs. Shelley, in which, with a fine reticence, the bereaved wife touches upon the terrible event of Shelley's death. m ORIGINAL CLOTH, WITH THE LABEL. 537. SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE). The Masque of Anarchy: a Poem. Now first published, with a Preface by Leigh Hunt. 16 mo, original cloth, with paper label, uncut. Vert fine copy, with leaf of advertisements. Lond. : Edward Moxon, 1833 * First Edition, rare. Although written in 1819, and sent to Leigh Hunt for publication, it was not printed until 1832. 538. [SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY).] The School for Scandal, a Comedy ; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. 12mo, original old calf (neatly rebacked, name on title), pp. 73. Dublin : Printed in the Year MDCCLXXXI [1781] * It is generally understood that no edition of the famous play was printed prior to this date (1781 ) . The Ewling edition bears no date, and gives no indication of the details of the play's performance. Another edition, bearing date of 1781, gives the Irish cast as performed at the Crown Street Theatre, while the one now presented gives the London cast. Although it is impossible to say, definitely, which edition takes prece- dence as to date of publication, it seems likely that with the eclat which accompanied its remarkably successful presenta- tion at Drury Lane, such a bright manager as Mr. Ryder would naturally take advantage of it and use in the publication of the play in Dublin. IT is believed that no copy of this edition has previously been opfered for sale. UNCUT COPY. 539. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). Pizarro: a Tragedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, taken from the German Drama of Kotzebue and adapted to the English stage. First edn. A pine uncut copy. 8vo, handsomely bound, by Riviere, in full crushed crim- son morocco, super extra, inside dentelles, gilt top, uncut (inner margin of the title skilfully repaired). Lond. 1796 * Extremely rare in this choice state, with the edges UNCUT. The Epilogue was spoken by Mrs. Jordan. [See No. 531.J IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT. 530. SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY). Clio's Pro- test; or, "The Picture" Varnished. With Other Poems. First Collected Edition. 8vo, original blue paper cover, UNCUT. Lond. : Printed for Joseph Arnold, 1819 * First Collected Edition, and very rare in this state. Pub- lished after Sheridan's death. There are four poems by Sheri- dan in the volume, of which the Editor says: " ' Clio's Protest ' and the 'Ridotto' were delivered by Mr. Sheridan himself, when a resident at Bath to the late Mr. Crutwell, the proprie- tor of the Bath Chronicle, for the purpose of publication in that Journal, so far back as the year 1771. A copy sold for £12.0.0 at Sotheby's, last year. 531. SILVER BINDING. Missale juxta ritum Ecclesie Romane. Engraved device on the title of the printer, and many woodcuts in the text. Thick small 8vo. Paris, 1555 * One of the Missals issued about this period in France and prized for the beauty of their printing and illustrations. Printed in red and black, with the notation. The binding is of maroon velvet covered — both back and sides — with heavy silver, the back solid with figures and scroll work in relief, the sides perforated in a tracery of leaf and scroll work, with heads of cherubs in relief at the corners and centre. In fine con- dition. [See Reproduction.] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 532. SMEDLEY (FRANK). Works, as follows: All First Editions. Frank Fairleigh. First edn. With SO steel plates bij George Cruikshank. [1850.] Harry Coverdale's Courtship. First edn. With numerous steel plates by ''Phiz.'" n. d. [1856.] Lewis Arundel. First edn. With numerous steel plates hy ''Phiz.'' 1852. Together 3 vols, large 8vo, newly and handsomely bound in half dark green morocco extra, uncut, top edges gilt. * A FINE AND CLEAN SET. Loud. 1850-56 IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. 533 SMITH (ALBERT). The Pottleton Legacy : a Story of Town and Country Life. First edn. With illusts. by Hablot K Browne. In the original parts, uncut, with AT L the wrappers, AND WITH SOME PARTS UNOPENED. Lond. 1849 * Vert rake in parts. Pine copy. Laid in is an addressed envelope to the author by George Cruikshank^ and autographed by the latter. Enclosed in leather case, with inner protecting cover of leather. 169 534. SMITH (SIR THOMAS). The Common- Wealth of England, and the Maner of Gouernment thereof, compiled by the Honovrable Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, Doctor of both Lawes, one of the piincipall Secretaries unto two most worthy Princes, King Edward, and Queen Elizabeth, with new Additions of the chiefe Courts in England, and the Offlces thereof, by the said Author. Finely engraved title hy William Marshall. 12mo, full red morocco, gilt edges. Lond. : Printed by R. Young for J. Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in S. Dunstans Churchj'ard, 1640. * A well known Shakespearean volume, and valuable as the only reliable history of the constitution and government of England which the great dramatist might consult. 535. SOLINUS. loannis Camertis ... in C. Jvlii Solini TToXvia-TOipa Enarrationes . . [ Colophon] Excvsvm est hoc Opvs Solinarvm cum Enarrationibvs . . . loannis Camertis Minoritani Anno natiuitatis domini. M.D.XX. Viennse Austrige, per loannam Singrenium, impensis houesti Lvcae Alantse, ciuis, & Bibliopolse Viennensis. Title lOithin a fine ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials and two printer's marks, with THE celebrated map by Apianus DATED 1520, cordiform in design, bearing the name of America. Folio, full crimson levant morocco gilt, gilt in- side borders, gilt edges, by Bedford. Very fine copy. Vienna, 1520 * This rare and celebrated edition of Solinus, ivith the map, is one of the most important desiderata in an American library. The book is usually seen without the map, as was the case in the Sunderland copy. The map was generally regarded until lately as the first printed map in which the name of America made its appearance. It is called a delineation of the entire world, prepared according to the teaching of Ptolemy, the cosmographer, and the voyage of Americus Vespucius and others, by Peter Apian of Leissing. Harrisse, B. A.V., no, 108. THE MOST INTERESTING AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS WRITTEN BY ROBERT SOUTHEY EVER OFFERED FOR SALE, COMPRISING FIFTY-FIVE LETTERS, ALL OF WHICH WERE WRITTEN TO HIS FRIEND MRS. HODSON. 536. SOUTHEY (ROBERT). ORIGINAL Correspond- ence WITH Mrs. Hodson: A series of 55 autograph letters, covering about 160 pp. quarto, the whole neatly inlaid and bound. 4to, full crushed levant morocco extra, gilt leaves, by Riviere. 1827-1839 * A HIGHLY INTEKESTING AND EXTREMELY VALUABLE SERIES, mostly dated from Keswick, and comprising much reference to his literary work ; also, notices op coleridge, scott, Sydney Smith, Landor, Wordsworth, Lockhart, Leigh Hunt, etc, April 10, 1838. "Leigh Hunt' shook has not fallen in my way, Ihave no doubt that it speaks the truth of Lord Byron, and lets the truth concerning himself, by which' two worthies are sheivn 170 out in their true colors. . . . All the worst parts of Hunt's charac- ter, he had in common with Lord Byron, they were the points of attraction, the bonds of association betioeen them," etc., etc. The letters are in excellent condition, and with the exception that three signatures have been cut away, two are initialed and one " JR, Southey," they are all signed in FULL '• Robert Southey." 537. SPENSER (EDMUND). The Faerie Queen: A Poem in Six Books, witli tJie Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. lUust. with fine full-page woodcuts with ornamental borders, engraved title-pages and head- and tail-pieces, by Walter Crane. 6 vols, half red polished mo- rocco, gilt tops, uncut, by Ford. Lond. : George Allen, 1894-1896 * One of the fine.st editions ever published. Contains many of the cancelled Stanzas, Chronology of Spenser, Letters, etc. Limited edition printed on handmade paper. 538. SPORT. Cynegetica or Essays on Sporting, con- sisting of Observations on Hare Hunting: containing an Account of the Hare Hunting and Coursing of the Ancients . . . Remarks on the different kinds of Hounds, with the manner of training them . . . Directions for the Choice of a Hunter . . . Qualifications requisite for a Huntsman, etc. By William Blaae. To which is added The Chacb, a Poem by William Somerville. Fine front, and beautiful vignette on title-page by Stothaed. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant, richly tooled back, inside dentelle borders, gilt top, uncut. Lond. : John Stockdale, 1788 * The rare First Edition, in beautiful binding by Eiviebe, of this very interesting " Coursing " book. 539. STAMP ACT. The Adventure of a Bale of Goods from America, in consequence of the Stamp Act. 8vo, half blue levant morocco, gilt top, by Bayntun. Rare. Lond. 1766 WITH AUTOGRAPHS OF THE AUTHOR. 540. [STERNE (LAURENCE). J The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The rare First edn. (with the exception of Vols. l'-3, which are both third edns.). 2 plates by Hogarth. 9 vols, in 5, 12mo, contem- porary full calf. I^ond. 1760-67 * Volumes 5 and 7 are autographed by the author. The history In brief of one of the most extraordinary books of its time may be of interest. The author read the original MS. of portions of Vols. 1-3 to friends at Stillington Hall one evening after dinner, and they were so bored that they all fell asleep, and Sterne is said to have flung the MS. into the fire where it was luckily rescued by his host. The first two vols, were pub- lished and were an instantaneous success, Garriok, Walpole and other eminent personages of the period being among the many admirers of the work. It was on the strength of the success of this work that the collection of Sterne's Sermons was published. Sterne, about this time, was paid so much by his publisher that he declared ' ' he was the richest man in Europe." 171 541. STERNE (LAURENCE). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 8 etchings hy Damman, after original designs by Harry Furniss. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth and labels, uncut. Lond. : Nimmo, 1883 * Labge Paper. One of only 40 copies printed on handmade paper, with proof etchings on Japanese paper, for the American market. 542. STERNE (LAURENCE) and SWIFT (JONA- THAN). A Sentimental Journey in France and Italy; also, A Tale of a Tub, written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Five etchi'hgs and a portrait by Ed. Hedouin. 8vo, cloth and label, uncut. Lond. : Nimmo, 1883 * Labge Paper. One of only 40 copies printed on handmade paper, with proof etchings on Japanese paper for the American market. 543. [STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS).] The Edinburgh University Magazine. Parts 1 to 4 [all issued] . 4 parts, 8vo, original wrappers, uncut, with the advertisements. Edinburgh, 1871 * First Editions. Very rare. The numbers contain 6 original contributions by Stevenson, including "Philosophy of Umbrel- las," "College Papers," "Old Scotch Gardener," etc. The authorship of the contributions — ^which are anonymous — are designated by Gr. Stronach, Esq., a fellow student, whom Steven- son asked to look over the proofs. Enclosed in morocco solander case. 544. STODDARD LECTURES. John L. Stoddard's Lec- tures. Illust. and embellished with views of the world's famous places and people, being the identical discourses delivered dur- ing the past eighteen years under the title of the Stoddard Lectures. 10 vols, large 8vo, cloth, paper labels, gilt tops, uncut. Bost. 1898 * Stothard Edition water-marked on every page, limited to 500 copies (this being No. 173) and autographed by John L. Stoddard. The frontispieces are on Japanese vellum paper. CHOICE COPT OF THE FIRST EDITION. 545. STOWB (HARRIET BEECHER). Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or. Life among the Lowly. The Scarce First Edition. With illusts. 2 vols. 12mo, newly and beautifully bound in three-quarter russet crushed levant morocco, gilt extra on backs and sides, gilt edges. Bost. 1852 * An exceedingly choice copy of one of the most remarkable books in the whole range of American literature, the sales of which since its first publication have amounted to an enormous number of copies. A most interesting feature regarding the writing of this work has just come to light. It is stated by the Rev. Charles E. Stowe (the sou of Harriet Beecher Stowe) that his mother 172 received the idea of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in a vision which she had in church, and in which she saw clearly depicted the death of "Uncle Tom." He says his mother began the story with this scene, writing the book backward. FINE COPT or THE RAEE FIRST EDITION. 546. SUCKLING (JOHN). Fragmenta Aurea. A Col- lection of all the Incomparable Peaces, written by Sir John Suckling, and published by a Friend to perpetuate his mem- ory. Printed by his owne copies. With the very ease and fine portrait of the author, surrounded with laurels, engraved iy William Marshall. 8vo, full paneUed calf gilt, gilt edges, by "Wood. Lond. : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1646 * The vert ease Fiest Edition. Pages 29-30 contain "A Supplement op an impeefect copy of vbeses op Me. Wil. Shakespeaes, by the authoe," the first nine lines of which are from the Sape of Luerece. For other mentions of the poet see pp. 35 and 61, and p. 45 of the Goblins; and for additional allusions Ingleby's and Furnivall's Prayse of Shakespeare. Tall copy with ample margins. 547. SUB (EUGENE). The Writings of Eugene Sue. Illust. with etchings hy Mercier, Poiteau and Adrian Marcel on Japanese vellum paper. 14 vols. 8vo, half red morocco gilt, gilt tops. Bost. [recent] * Limited issue, each set numbered. Comprises The Mysteries of Paris, The Wandering Jew, Arthur, Indolence, Avarice, Pride, Luxury and Gluttony, The Knight of Malta, Envy. ALL FIEST EDITIONS. 548. SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH). A magnificent set of his Leech and "Phiz" Illustrated Sporting Novels; (Five), as follows: "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour," 1853; "Handley Cross," 1854; "Ask Mamma," 1858; "Plain or Ringlets," 1860; "Mr. Faeey Romford's Hounds," 1865. All of them very 'ally illustrated with 80 fully coloured humorous etchings in all, and numerous woodcuts, ly John Leech and H. K. Browne {"Phiz"). All First bdns. 5 vols, thick 8vo, hand- somely bound in full green levant morocco, backs and front covers decorated with emblems of the chase in gold, uncut, tops, gilt, and each volume rendered stiU more complete by the binding in one of the pictorial part covers. Lond.: Bradburys, 1853-65 *A particularly satisfactory copy in every respect. It is no wonder that this set enjoys such immense popularity. AU first editions and picked copies in fine condition through- out with brilliant impressions of Leech's masterly designs. The set has over 300 of John Leech's best sketches on wood and over 100 hand-colored steel engravings by the same matchless artist. This inimitable series of volumes is absolutely unique, there being nothing approaching it in aU the wide range of modern or 173 ancient literature. Written by Mr. Surtees, a well-known country gentleman, who was passionately devoted to the sport of fox- hunting and gifted with a keen spirit of manly humor of a Rabelaisian tingle, they abound with incidents redolent of mirth and jollity. The artist, Mr. Leech, was himself also an en- thusiast in the sport, and has reflected in his illustrations, with instinctive appreciation, the rollicking abandon of the stories. FIEST ISSUE OF FIEST EDITION. 549. [SWIFT (JONATHAN, Dean of St. Patrick's).] Travels into several Eemote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. First edn. [Containing Anecdotes omitted in later editions.] With fine imaginary portrait ly Sheppard, and 5 plates. 4 parts in 2 vols, post 8vo, handsomely bound in full mottled calf extra, gilt edges. Choice copy, veby rare. Lond. : B. Motte, 1726 * The above is the genuine first edition, having a separate pagination to each part, and a most beautiful copy. The four parts, all First Editions, with the Volume and Part title, and the portrait with the name in the oval frame. 550. [SWIFT (JONATHAN).] Travels into Several Re- mote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver. Five etch- ings and a portrait ty Ad. Lalauze. 8vo, cloth and label, imeut. Lond. : Nimmo, 1883 * Laege Papee. One of only 40 copies printed on handmade paper, with proof etchings on Japanese paper, for the American Market. 551. SWINBURlSrE (A. C). The Question. A Poem. (MDCCCLXXXVII.) First EDN. 12mo, pale green paper wrappers. Lond. 1887 * Twenty-five copies only are said to have been printed. The Question has been dropped by its author, and is not included in any of Mr. Swinburne's collected volumes, and, considering the controversial nature of the subject treated, it is in the highest degree improbable that it will ever be revived. It contains some bitter verses addressed to Mr. Gladstone. 553. SYLVESTER (JOSUAH). Du Bartas, his Devine Weekes and Workes translated : and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Majestie. Now thirdly corrected and aug- mented. Engraved title by W. Hole. Small 4to, full dark brown crushed levant morocco, gilt ornaments on sides and back, canary edges. Lond. : Humfrey Lownes, [1611] * At pp. 345-347 will be found interkstinq references TO America, and its discovery by Columbus. The author finds the peopling of America before the arrival of Columbus a most intricate puzzle, but gives no solution of the problem. 174 The Writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Some of Extreme Rarity, 553. rpENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Poems. 2 vols. -*^ 12ino, sage green levant, doublure of brown levant inlaid with sprays of flowers and leaves in mosaic green silk fly- leaves, gilt tops, by Taffin. Lond. : Edward Moxon, 1842 * First edition. Rare. Chartaing copy. 554. TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). In Memoriam. First edn. 12mo, original brown cloth, uncut, pine copy, SCARCE. Lond. 1850 * The writing of "In Memoriam " had been begun as far back as 1833, immediately after death of young Arthur Henry Hal- lam, to whom the poem is a most noble tribute. TENNYSON'S OWN COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH ON TITLE-PAGE. 555. TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Maud, and Other Poems. First edn. 12mo, original cloth, uncut, with advertisements at both front and back. Lond. : Moxon, 1855 * Tennyson's own copy, with his autograph — "Tennyson" on the title-page. An interesting and not generally known fact in this connection is, that after exhaustive research and examination of a remarkable private collection of Tennysoniana (all of which are autographed), reveals the fact that books that were owned by Tennyson all have his autograph on the TITLE-PAGE, AND ALL ARE WRITTEN WITH THE WORD "TENNYSON" ONLY, and all books that were presented by him have the signed presentation inscription in full ON either the half-title or THE FLY-LEAF. Enclosed in a handsome old rose crushed levant morocco solander case. UNIQUE AND INTERESTING COPY OF TENNYSON'S "MAUD." 556. TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). Maud, and other Poems. l'2mo, full blue levant, gold tooled back, inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by Bradstrbets. Lond. : Moxon, 1855 * First Edition. With a valuable and highly interesting Au- tograph Letter of Tennyson's inserted, to BiUkeley Piatt, Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn: "I thank you for your letter Sr. the newspaper extracts which you have ieen Tcind enough to seiid me. I have sometimes held that no one can read Maud but myself — t> (numbered 52) ; folding map of Terre Australe, Routier pour la Navigation des Indes Orientales, earliest issue, pp. 1-9; Privi- lege du Rois, dated June 1, 1663, pp. [10-11] ; Advissur I'Ordre des Pifeoes de la Seconde Partie, 1 leat; Relation de I'Estat Pre- sent du Commerce des HoUandois, etc., 3 leaves; Tres Humble Remonstrance [del Francois Pelsart, pp. 1-30; Routier poui- la Navigation des Indes Oocidentales. second and much enlarged printing, pp. 1-60; four folding sheets, showing elevations of the coasts of Sumatra, Madagascar, Africa and Arabia (the first a little clipped by binder); large folding map of Arabia and east coast of Africa; Memoire du Voyage aux Indes Ori- entales du General Beaulieu, pp. 1-128; large folding map of the Philippine Islands; Relation des Isles Phillippines, faitepar L'Amirante D. Hieronimo, etc., pp. 1-40; Relation des Isles Philipines, Faite par un Religieux, pp. 1-16 ; maps of Pegu and Yedso on one long narrow sheet; Relation de I'Empire du Japon, etc., pp. l-4d (p. [45] being a copper-plate showing the execution of criminals, and p. [46] being blank) ; Relation De la deoouverte de la Terre d'Eso, pp. 1-4; Brief ve Relation de la Chine, etc., pp. 1-30, with two full-page and three folding plates of plants, between pp. 14- and 15. Vol. II. Collation: Title in red and black, 1 leaf; Avis sur le Voyage des Ambassadeurs, etc , 4 leaves ; Voyage des Am- bassadeurs, pp. 31-68; twelve plates on five folding sheets; Route du Voyage des Holandois a Pekin, pp. 1-lZ, folding map of China; Description Geographique de I'Empire de Chine, pp. 1-216; Rapport que les Directeurs, etc., pp. 1-13; L'Indien, ou Portrait au Naturel des Indiens, pp. 1-14; Relatione des Voy- ages du Siem . . . ; pp. 1-34; Viaggio del P. Giovanni Greuber, pp. 1-34; Voyage a la Chine, pp. 1-23; Sinarum Scientia Po- litico-Moralis, with separate title-page, pp. 1-34; Histoire de la Haute Ethiopie, pp. 1-15, folding map of Ethiopia and Abys- sinia; Remarques sur les Relations d'Ethiopie, pp. 1-4; Rela- tion du R. P. Jeronymo Lobo, pp. 1-16, with folding woodcut map, ' ' Entrees de quelques Ports," between pp. 6 and 7; Deoou- verte de quelques Pays, pp. 1-8; Relation du Voyage du Sayd, pp. 1-4; Histoire de I'Empire Mexicain, Paris, M.DC.XCVI, 1 leaf ; 46 plates of Mexican figures on S3 leaves ; Histoire du Mexique par Figures, pp. 47-58 (numbered 85); Relation du Mexique, pp. 1-40; Voyage d'Abel Tasman, pp. 1-4; Instruc- tion des Vents, pp. 1-12; L'Asia de Barros, pp. 1-16; Ambas- sade de S'Chahrok, pp. 1-16; Synopsis Chronologica Monarch ia3 Siuicse. pp. 1-76; Relation des Chrestiens de S. Jean, 3 leaves; Voyage de la Tercere, pp. 1-18; Elementa Linguae Tartaricse, pp."l-34; De las Isles Salomon, pp. 5-8 and 13-16 (exceedingly RARE, see Lenox Collation); Asganii Sassonii, pp. 17-48 (all generally found). As this Collection of Voyages was published in sections, covering a number of years, some parts having been reprinted, we give the above collation of this set, which is one of the best ever offered at auction in this country. Misnumbered pages are frequent, but are not generally men- tioned in the collation, nor have we enumerated the copper- plates printed with the text, which are scattered through the volumes. The space is blank on page 19 of the " Routier des Indes Orientales," as usual. According to the Lenox Collation no copy having the plate (a plan of Goa) printed in, is known. 181 575. THIERS (M. A.). The History of the French Revo- lution. Translated, with Notes and Illustrations, by F. Shoberl. 3 vols, royal 8vo, half red levant gilt, gilt tops, uncut. Phil. 1840 * Choice copy. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of 75 fine views and portraits. 576. THOREAU (HENRY DAVID). Manusceipt Natuee AND Bird Notes op H. D. Thoeeau contained in a small FOLIO HALF-BOUND BLANK BOOK OF 128 PAGES, among wMch is THE FIRST ROUGH DRAFT OF ONE OP THOREAU'S EARLIEST PAPERS "A Walk to Wachusett," covering twenty-five pages. John and H. D. Thoreau's nature notes of the birds around Concord appear on many additional pages. Laid between each leaf are specimens of leaves, grasses and wild-flowers gathered on his walks, with the botanical name of each on a small piece of paper roughly torn off and laid in. A rare early journal, KEPT FIRST BY SOPHIA, THEN JOHN, AND FINALLY HeNEY, WHEN THE LATTER WAS NOT MUCH MORE THAN A BOY, SHORTLY AFTER HE GRADUATED AT HARVARD AND WENT TO LIVE WITH EmERSON. * The drapt oj "A Walk to Wachusett ' ' is written more fully than it appeared in the published form in ' ' Excursions, ' ' though no comparison has been made with its first appearance in print in Nathan Hale's Boston Miscellany, January, 1843. The long verses to the mountain varies materially and there are more and longer quotations throughout, including his famous reference to himself, "solitary as Wachusett." The closing paragraphs have been re-arranged, and a new beginning was substituted when it was published. Two loose sheets of notes on birds are laid in — one entirely in the hand of Thoreau (partly in pencil) , while the other is apparently that of John, his brother and companion, and a note on p. 66 is initialled by him "H. D. T. " in pencil. One of the bird notes (p. 15) is signed " H. X>. Thoreau. ' ' On page 74 there is a highly interesting REFERENCE TO HIMSELF IN HIS OWN HAND AS FOLLOWS : "It may he well if first of all I should (give) some account first of my own speeies and variety — I am about five feet 7 inches in height — of a light complexion rather slimly ivMt and just approaching to the Boman age of manhood. One who faces West oftener than East — walks out of the house with a better grace than he goes i/n — who loves winter as well as summer — forest as well as field — darkness as well as light. Bather soli- tary than gregarious — not migratory nor dormant — but to be raised at any season, by day or night, not by the pulling of any bell wire, but by a smart stroke upon any pine tree in the woods of Concord." Most of Thoreau's notes are dated 1842 — the year he lived with Emerson in Concord, the first one dated one month after John's death, though the book has other notes (made by John Thoreau) dated as early as 1837. A few of these are apparently in the hand of his sister Sophia and include a little poem by her. Together they form valuable and full references to the birds seen in Massachusetts and where found. They mention Walden Pond and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery [where Thoreau now lies buried]. Several times John mistakes a Wilson's Thrush for a hermit thrush, and one note ends with "Fell into the water." One page is filled with H D. Thoreau's description of a partridge and her young that he disturbed. He speaks of hand- 183 Img the young: "So perfect was their instinct that when I laid them upon the leaves again and one accidentally fell on its side — it was foimd with the rest ten minutes afterward in exactly the same position — The young birds were extremely beautiful — the innocent yet adult expression of their eyes I shall not soon for- get. There was the clarified wisdom and cunning of the sphinx and sybil in their clear eyes. When the mind is born then is not the eye born — Such pure expressions are very rare in na- ture — such a limpid well does not often refresh the wayfarer. Away down there in that dell of the woods was the whole wide heavens reflected and re-created." A VERY EARLY AND EXCEEDINGLY INTEEESTING ASSOCIATION ITEM IN CONNECTION WITH ThOEEAU AND HIS FAVORITE AND ONLY BROTHER. An amusing point in oonneetion with the "Walk" was that it was suggested to Thoreau that he should "take pay- ment in the form of Boston Miscellanies ! " On the loose sheet alluded to above Thoreau has written characteristic philosophical reflections on Autumn, in which he compares life to a meadow, in summer "wearing her green plush" and later lying "white and stiU." A VERY FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, UNCUT. 577. THOREAU (HENRY DAVID). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The rare First bdn. Post 8vo, original black-figured cloth, uncut, with 2 pp. UNOPENED. Bost. and Cambridge, 1849 * An UNUSUALLY DESIRABLE COPT. THE FINEST OPFEEED FOR SALE IN YEARS. The Lapham copy (somewhat used) sold in these rooms last Deo. for $66. 578. TRIALS OF FAMOUS CRIMINALS. Select Trials for Murder, Robbery, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Forgery, Pyracy, and other Offences and Misdemeanours at the Session- House in the Old-Bailey, to which are added Genuine Ac- counts of the Lives, Exploits, Behaviours, Confessions and Dying-Speeches of the Convicts from 1741-1764. 4 vols. 12mo, contemporary calf (skilfullj' rebacked). Lond. 1764 * Fine copy of a scarce collection, containing informa- tion regarding famous trials, with the evidence for and against [some of which is most singular] in extenso. 579. [TYNDALE (WILLIAM). J The Parable of the wycked mammon taken out of the xvi. Ca. of Luke with an exposicyon ther vpon lately corrected and prynted. Mack letter, title within an architectural and ornamental woodcut harder. 4to, full maroon wine levant morocco, gilt lines on the sides, with fleurons in the corners, and tooled centre ornaments, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by Hay- day AND Mansell. Lond. : at the sygne of the hill by Wylliam hill, the .xv. day of September [c 1540]. * Fine copy of this very scarce edition, which is incor- rectly described by Lowndes, who gives it as a 12mo. This work of the celebrated translator of the Bible is an ex- position of the parable of the Unjust Steward; treats chiefly of the doctrine of the justification of faith, and contains also passages on property strongly controverting the idea of right of absolute ownership apart from social obligations. These opinions did not prevent Sir Thomas More from styling it " a very treasury and well-spring of wickedness." 183 580. TTNIQUE COPY OF STRANAHAN'S FRENCH ^ PAINTING. A History of French Painting from the earliest to its latest practice, including an ac- count of the French Academy of Paintings, its Salons, Schools of Instruction and Regulations. By C. H. Stran- nahan. One volume extended into three by the inser- tion of OVER 150 portraits and beautiful prints. 3 vols, large 8vo, new half red morocco, gilt tops, uncut. N. T. : Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1888 581. "TTENUS. Dissertations surles at tributs de Venus ' qui k obtenu I'accessit, au jugement de I'acad- emie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, k la seance publique du mois de Novembre 1775, par M. L'Abbe de La Chau, bibliothecaire, secretaire interprete et garde du cabinet des Pierres gravees des S. A. S. Mgr. le Due d'0rl6ans. 4to, antique full calf, bound by Padeloitp. Paris, 1776 * A FINE VOLUME, illustrated throughout the text with vi- gnettes and full-page plates, such as Venus Anadyomene, en- graved by St. Aubin; Jupiter and Leda, by St. Aubin; Venus, by Borel; Le jugement de Paris, par Blot; Les Trois Deesses, par Triere; Venus qui se mire, etc. 68-2. VESPUCCI (AMERIGO). Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, gentiluomo Florentino, Raccolte e illustrate dall' abate Angelo Maria Bandani. Front 4to, paper, uncut. Fine copy. Florence, 1745 583. VIRGINIA. The Acts of Assembly, now in Force in the Colony of Virginia, with an exact Table to the Whole. Published by Order of the General Assembly. Folio, origi- nal rough calf. Williamsburg: Printed bj'^ W. Rind, A. Purdie and J. Dixon, 1769. [ . * With autograph inscription on title and marginal annota- tions by Martin Cockburn (vestryman of the Church at Pohick [Washington's Church] : "This Book is my own property and does [not belong to ilie Puhlick — Martin Cockburn, 1771." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OP LA PUCELLE. 584. VOLTAIRE. La Purcelle d'Orleans, po^me en vingt-un chants, ifidition ornee figures gravees par Duples- sis-Berthault. 3 vols, royal 8vo, three-quarter blue levant morocco, backs finely tooled, tops gilt, uncut. Londres,1780 * Large Holland paper copy, extra-illustrated as follows : 1. The set of Duplessis-Berthault, printed on China paper, proofs without test, printed in bistre. 2. The rare Moreau set. 8. The fine, facetious Desenne set, proofs before letters. 4. In Vol. I, portrait of Voltaire and frontispiece of La Pu- celle, in two states, bistre and black, 5. Frontispiece in Vol. II, in two states ; portrait of Voltaire, by Largilliere ; portrait of Comte Dunois, engraved by Posseyeux ; portrait of Jeanne d'Arc,engraved by Boisson. In all, 95 extra-illustrations, which makes a unique copy. 184 585. TXTALPOLE (HORACE) AND REEVE (CLARA). ^^ The Old English Baron. A Gothic Story: By Clara Reeve; also, The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story. By Horace Walpole. ^ portraits and 4 full-page etchings iy Damman, after Tourrier. 8vo, cloth and label, uncut. Lond. : Nimmo, 1883 * Large Paper. One of only 40 copies so issued on hand- made paper, with proofs of the etchings on Japanese paper for the American market. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CALF. 586. WALTON (IZAAK). The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Her- bert. The 4 portraits by Lombart, Doyle (S), and White. Fine impressions. First Edn. of the four Lives together. Post Svo, original calf. Lond. 1670 * Vert fine copy in the original binding. Rare in this state. PRINTED BY WILLIAM PICKERING. 587. WALTON (IZAAK) and COTTON (CHARLES). The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Rec- reation. With original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. 61 portraits, views, vignettes, etc., by Stothard, Inskipp, and Hixon, beautifully engraved by Worthington, Fox Robinson, and other eminent engravers. The original issue of W. Pickering's splendid edition. 2 vols, royal Svo, finely bound in full green morocco, gUt lined and scroll-work sides, gilt tooled backs and lined inside borders, gilt edges. Lond. 1836 * This superb book is one of the most notable editions of "The Complete Angler" ever issued. The text is printed by Whittingham, with a large beautiful type, and is that of the fifth edition, with the variations of the four previous editions indicated at the foot of each page. The charming embelHsh- ments after Stothard and Inskipp are all beautifully engraved on copper and steel and are splendid examples of the best Eng- lish engraving by some of the foremost engravers. Those by Stothard consist of the scenic plates, and the views of the localities, which were painted on the spot. The fishes were painted from nature by Inskipp, who, to distinguished ability in his profession, unites the knwoledge and ardor of a skilful angler. 588 WAR OP 1812. The War (a Periodical) : being a Faithful Record of the Transactions of the War between the United States and Great Britain, declared the 18th of Tn.TiP 1812 2 vols, {all issued) 4to, old half sheep (some * FlEST Edition, being the original 104 numbers as published, with indexes. . ^„ The work was issued and edited by Sam'l Wood worth, 185 author of ' ' The Old Oaken Bucket, ' ' and was the first literary- work he did in New York. Besides containing minute details of the Naval and MiLi- TABY OPERATIONS in the NoBTH AND WEST, it also recalls the Campaigns against the Indians in the South, and is inter- spersed throughout with patriotic Poems and Songs, which echo the spirit and feeling of the time. One of the most important of the works on this interesting subject. As a literary project the publication was a failure and is now of Extreme Earitt. 589. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). Fine War Letter ad- dressed to Brigadier-General Parsons, referring to his attack on the British at Norwalk, Conn. : "Present my particular thanks to Capt. Betts and such others of the officers and men, as well as the Militia as of the Continental troops, who dis- tinguished themselves upon the present occasion . . . procure me an exact detail of the mischief done by the enemy at the different places, as well upon the persons as the property of the inhabitants. I wish you to inform me of the movements of that body of the enemy which had advanced through MarrynicTc." 2 pp. folio. Headquarters, New Windsor, 1779 * Gen. Parsons was a Member of the Board that hanged Major Andre. 590. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). A Collection of Papers relative to Half-Pay and Commutation of Half -Pay granted by Congress to Officers of the Army. Compiled by Permis- sion of His Excellency General Washington, from the Original Papers in his Possession. 8vo, half brown crushed levant gilt, gilt top (title and one leaf strengthened at back with transparent gauze and some pp. browned with time stains) by Stikeman. Fish KiU (N. T.) : Samuel Louden, 1783 * The original edition op the celebeated ' ' Newbuegh Addresses" and other important Documents. While Washington was at Newburgh, Dec, 1782, great dis- satisfaction manifested itself among his officers, and they ad- dressed a Memorial to Congress, demanding their back pay and security for future services. Congress refused to grant their demands, and in the following March an able and spirited ad- dress, written by Maj. John Armstrong, was circulated with a view to stirring up a revolt, threatening the overthrow of the government. The matter became so serious that Washington appeared before a meeting of the malcouents, where, putting on his spectacles, he remarked: "You see, gentlemen, that I have not only grown gray, but blind in your service," and then delivered such a patriotic address that the spirit of insubordina-" tion immediately disappeared. It was during this agitation that the officers of the Army, fearing for the stability of the republican form of government considered the erection of an American monarchy and intimated to Washingon that they should be pleased to have him assume the title of King. An highly interesting imprint and op excessive rarity. 186 591. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). A. L. S., 1 p. 4to, Mount Vernon, Dee. 12, 1788, with leaf of address (small strip missing) to Col. H. Lee, Alexandria, and marked in Washington 's hand ' ' Favored by Doct 'r Le Moyens. ' ' ( Outer margin of first page time-stained.) * To Col. Henry Lee, better known as "Light Horse Hariy," written a few weeks after Washington assumed the Presidency and mainly in the interest of the formation of the new govern- ment which "Washington once designated an "ocean of diffi- culties. ' ' He urges Lee not to resign his candidacy as a member of the convenion to ratify the Constitution: "Mount Vernon, Dec. IS, 1788. "Bear Sir, "If you desire a more formal pedigree than the enclosed, re- turn the one sent and another shall ie framed hy the time you send for Magnolio. When a bill of sale shall also he forwarded. And, as you have it not in your power (for want of the papers) to pass a deed of conveyance to me for the 5000 Acres of Land in Kentucky — agreeably to your Memorandum — I should be glad to receive some instrument {in case of accidents) by which I may establish my claim to it. "Yowr intention to decline offering yourself for the West- moreland district since you have received advice of Mr. Page's doing it, is an unequivocal proof, if proof was wanting of your friendly disposition, towards the New Government ; but whether it is the most effectual way of serving it is another question. Whether Mr. Page's interest or yours, is best in that district I am not sufficiently informed to decide — But one thing I am sure of and that is that these matters (to stand upon equal ground with those who are opposing the Constitution) ought to be the result of previous consultation and arrangement With sincere and affectionate reg. I am ever Yours Go. Washington." The 5,000 acres oe Land in Kbntuckt, mentioned in Wash- ington's letter, appear in the Schedule, of property appended to the Will, which schedule as well as the will was in the autograph of Gen. Washington. It includes several considerable landed estates in various States; Kentucky showing only these 5,000 acres, which the proprietor valued at 10,000 dollars. Washington also schedules some property in Alexandria (Va.), where Col. Lee was located at the time this most interesting let- ter was written. 592. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). The Life of George Washington. By Jared Sparks. Illust. with 12 plates and extra-illustrated 'by the insertion of nearly 100 portraits, views and facsimiles, many of which are on Japan and India paper. 2 vols, royal 8vo, three-quarter red crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Bost. 1839 * InterestiDg copy, with specially printed titles. 187 593. WEBSTER (DANIEL). Reminiscences and Anec- dotes of Daniel Webster. By Peter Harvey. Illust. 2 vols. 8vo, three-quarter, dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt tops. Bost. 1877 * ExTEA-lLLUSTRATED by the insertion of over 100 por- traits, views, facsimiles, etc. FIRST AMERICAN METHODIST RITUAL. 594. WESLEY (JOHN). The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America. With other Occasional Services. Lond. : Printed in the Year 1784; [also^ A Col- lection of Psalms & Hymns for The Lord's Daj". Published by John Wesley & Charles Wesley. Lond. : Printed in the Year 1784. 2 vols, in one, 12mo, original sheep. Lond. 1784 * Fine copy of the extremely rare first issue of the First Edition, containing the rare prefatory leaf, dated Bris- tol, Sept. 9, 1784. In the first issue the morning prayer for the Supreme Rulers reads — " We beseech thee * * * to behold the Supreme Rulers of these United States and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit," etc., which in the second issue is changed to "the Rulers of these United States, the Congress, the Gen- eral Assemblies, the Governors, * * * " etc. The Articles of Religion, also, in the second issue are extended to 25 in num- ber: whereas, in the first issue there are only 24. The Hurst copy, lacking the ' ' prefatory leaf " and two leaves of text, and without the "Collection of Psalms," realized $75.00. The present is a spotlessly fine copy and is complete and perfect in every particular. Samuel Adams's copy, with his autograph on title. 595. WEST INDIA COMPANY. Octroy, by de Hooghe Mogende Heeren Staten Generael verleent aende. West- Indisehe Compaignie in date denderden Julij 1631. Mette Ampliatienvandien, ende betaccoord tussehen de Bewint — hebberen ende Hooft — partieipanten vande solve Com- paignie, met approbsttie vande Ho. Mo. Heeren Staten Generael gemaeckt. 4to, half calf. Graven-Hague, 1631 * Very rare. The patent granted by the States General of Holland to the West India Company, dated the third of June, 1621, with the amplification thereof, and the agreement between the Directors and the chief shareholders of the same company, concluded by permission of the States General. COLOEED PLATES BY ROWLANDSON AND CEUIKSHANK. 596. WESTMACOTT'S ENGLISH SPY. Illustrated ly Bowlandson and Cruikshanli-. First edn. Westmaeott (CM.). The English Spy, an Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous, comprising Scenes and Sketches in every Rank of Society, being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, and Eccentric in every Rank of Society. 2 vols, thick royal Bvo, magnificently full bound in maroon crushed levant, morocco, 188 emblematical tooling on back and sides, inside gold borders, gilt tops. Lond. 1825-26 * A superb copy in every respect of this, one of the rarest of "colored plate" books. Contains 72 fine colored plates, and numerous woodcuts in the text, by R. Cruikshank (and with the rare one by Thomas Eowland'son). The best of all the books describing this period of Life in London, and the fashionable places of resort, the characters being the notorieties of the day and the illustrations giving portraits of them. The author was a species of blackmailer, insinuating many things against promi- nent people, and he freely hints or describes many adventures in this disguise. Three years after its publication he received a tremendous horsewhipping from Charles Kemble. Among the personages represented are George IV and his favorite, CountesB of Conyngham, Charles Kemble, Grimaldi, Macready, BlUston, Liston, Dowton, Wallack, Mme. Vestris, "Pea Green" Hayne, Lord Wm. Lenox, Col. Berkeley (all concerned in the Maria Foote affair), and many others. The plates represent portraits of those menioned, and the one by Rowlandson. "E. A. 's of Genius; At the Eoyal Academy" including portraits of West, Lupton, Hayden, etc., painting a nude model, is often missing. AUTOGRAPH INSCRIBED. 597. WHITTIER (JOHN). Poetical Works. Numerous illusts. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt. Boat. 1885 * Inscribed- on fly-leaf : " John O. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass., U. S. May 161887." 598. WHITTIER (JOHN G.). Whittibr's corrected Proof Sheet of his Poem, "In War Time," leaflet of 4 pp. [1864]. A piece torn away from the last leaf muti- lates two verses, two others missing entirely, and writing on the reverse destroyed, but 16 verses intact with Whit- tier's CORRECTIONS. The following verse was almost entirely changed by Whittier as follows : Then, while the war net round At last the war net round us us draws „,'^';^^®' , • Let none complain ^ Shall we complain, Still let us own the rightful And stab with blame the right- cause ^^1 cause t And prove our fealty to the Or prove our fealty to the laws laws By patient pain By patient pam ? * KO OTHER COPY KNOWN TO BE IN EXISTENCE. 599. WHITTIER (JOHN G.). " A Legend of the Lake." Privately printed leaflet, 4 pp. 4to, which first ap- oeared in the Atlantic for December, 1861, but never INCLUDED BY WHITTIER IN ANY VOLUME OF HIS POEMS, AND SUPPRESSED BY HIM at the request of relatives. * Printed by Asa C. Tuttle at Dover, N. H., 1893, with a preliminary note. Very rare. 189 600. WHITTIER (JOHN G.). Galley Proof Sheet of "Burning Driftwood." 22 verses, with pencilled copies of Whittier's Corrections. *The poem was inspired by Whittier's love for sitting and musing before the fire; with an envelope directed by him to Lucy Larcom, his friend and literary co-worker. 601. WHITMAN (WALT). Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate. A Tale of the Times. First edn. New World Extra for November, 1842. 4to, half green morocco extra, gilt top. N. Y. 1842 * An unusually fine copy of this, one of the eaeest of all Whitman items. OSCAR WILDE'S FIRST POEM. 602. [WILDE (OSCAR).] Kottabos. Trinity College, Dublin. Two issues, viz., for Trinity Term, and Michael- mas Term, 1877. Containing a Poem, entitled: "Wasted Days," subscribed " O. F. O'F. W. W.", the full initials of Mr. Wilde's name. In 1 vol. 8vo, morocco, gilt leaves, RARE. Dublin, 1877 * The two lists of " Kottabistai " contain, between them, 33 names. On going through " Who's Who? ' only two of them are found which belong to persons who subsequently qualified themselves for mention in that register of notabilities. A former possessor of this book has pencilled beneath Wilde's pretty lines (written a year before his '• Ravenna "), some dog- gerel about a " prison cell," "sins long rampant," and "Wasted Days." Wilde paid a bitterer penalty than anybody can realise. 603. WINSOR (JUSTIN, Editor). Narrative and Critical History of America. Profusely illust. with Maps, Views, Portraits, etc. Large Paper Edition. 8 vols. Royal 8vo, boards, uncut. Bost. 1889 * No. 205 of but 550 sets feinted on laege papee. This edition Is printed on superior paper and contains many addi- tional illustrations than the ordinary issue. 604. WITCHCRAFT. Giffard (Geovg&— Minister in Mai- den \_Essex\.) A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witch- crafts. In which is layed open how craftily the Diuell de- ceiveth not onely the Witches, but many other, and so leadeth them awrie into manie great errours. Black Let- ter. Small 4to, full crimson morocco extra, gauffred gilt edges. Loud. ItiOS * This most curious tract was reprinted by the Percy Society, in whose list it stands No. 24. It is for the most part a long dialogue between Samuel, a credulous man who believes him- self bewitched, and his wiser neighbour, Daniel, who assures him that it is the Devil himself who has misled him. They proceed homewards, and there Samuel's wife relates certain ills she has sustained, which she credits to the account of an old woman. A learned schoolmaster present shows himself 190 still more credulous than the unlearned Samuel, and is more diverting than the others, bringing forward many instances of witchcraft, with some of which he had personally become ac- quainted. His " yarns " are most fearsome, and must have made his hearers quake. There are allusions to the "Christall or glasse " ; also to divining by water, to lucky and unlucky days, amulets, etc. A rare addition to a collection illustrating the widely spread superstition of the Sixteenth Century. A BEAUTIFUL AND COSTLY SET. 605. WORLD'S FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES, A Library of, comprising America, by Joel Cook, 6 vols. ; England, by Joel Cook, 2 vols.; London, by Claude Fran- cis, 3 vols. ; Ireland, by Charles Johnston, 1 vol. ; Scotland, by Maria H. Lansdale, 3 vols. ; Holland, by Edmondo de Amicis, 2 vols. ; Paris, by Maria H. Lansdale, 2 vols. ; The Rhine, by Chas. Kieler and others, 2 vols. ; Venice, by Chas. Yriarte, 2 vols. ; Florence, by Chas. Yriarte, 2 vols. ; Rome, by Francis Wey, 2 vols, ; Greece, by J. P. Mahaffy, 2 vols. ; Constantinople, by Edmondo de Amicis, 2 vols. ; Palestine, by John Fulton, 2 vols. ; Spain, by Edmondo de Amicis, 2 vols. ; Morocco, by Edmondo de Amicis, 2 vols. Together 37 vols. 8vo, beautifully bound in full AUTUMN LEAF MOROCCO, RICHLY AND APPROPRIATELY DEC- ORATED ON BACK AND SIDES IN GILT, BROAD INSIDE BOR- DERS, DOUBLURES OF WHITE LEVANT, GILT, LEATHER JOINTS, GILT TOPS, UNCUT. N. Y. and Lond. : Merrill & Baker, no date * Edition des Aquarelles limited to only 36 copies, tks being letter "e." a beautiful set of this useful and extensive series, copiously illustrated throughout with finely colored FULL-PAGE PLATES FROM ACCURATE AND ORIGINAL VIEWS. IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE CONDITION AND RARELY OFFERED FOR SALE. 606. ['7IEGLER (JACOBUS).] Quseintuscontinentiur: ■^ Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem. Prseterea Strabone, Plinis, & Antonio auctoribus completata. Pales- tina, iisdem auctoribus . . . Arabia Petrsea . . . .^Egyptus . . . & Schondia, tradita ab auctoribus, qui in eius operis pro- logo memorantur . . . Holmise historia . . . Regionum su- periorum, singulse tabulfe Geographicse. With 8 large maps. Folio, vellum. Argentorati : apud Petrum Opiliouem, 1532 * Rare. The map of Schondia (i. e, , Scandinavia) comprises not only the special regions concerned (as well as Ireland, Soot- land, and North Germany), but also Islandia, Gronlandia, Ulteriora Incognita, and Terra Bag allaos. It thus belongs to the class of American cartography. In the text referring to it there is a mention of Antonius Cabot's voyage, and of IMMINENT Spanish expeditions to the North-East of the New Continent. The map of Schondia has been reproduced by Nordenskjold. 191 AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY WITH HIS COREECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. • 607. ZOLA (£MILE). Au Bonheur des Dames. First EDN. 12mo, wrappers. Paris, 1883 * The author's proof copy with many hundreds of auto- graph CORRECTIONS IN HIS HANDWRITING. AN AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED BY 6mile Zola, dated Medan, Deo. 16, 1883, and authorizing Mr. E. Gerson, of London, to act as his agent, with all the rights for selling his romances, with the exception of "Pot Bouille " and " Au Bonheur des Dames," translated in English (American Edition), and an autograph card thanking the recipient for an article on " Au Bonheur des Dames " laid in. In a levant morocco slip-case. ^