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1287 Tressan (le Comte de). Histoire de Huon de Bordeaux, engravings by Chaillou, engraved by Coiny and Perdoux, red morocco extra, g. e., by F. Bedford, large vellum paper, the engravings proofs before letters (1799), 8vo. (1426) Parry, £3 35.

[Contains 3 plates after Chaillou. Copies are met with on paper (worth about 10s.), on vellum paper, with unlettered proofs (about 40s.), and on large vellum paperonly 15 copies printed.-ED.]

1288 Uzanne (Oct.) La Nouvelle Bibliopolis, illustrated throughout in colours (600 copies printed), morocco, full gilt ornamental back, ornamental line sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Lortic, Paris, H. Floury, 1897, 8vo. (1434)

Zaehnsdorf, £4 10s. 1289 Vadé (J. J.) Œuvres Poissardes, suivies de celles de l'Ecluse, 4 plates by Monsiau, engraved by Clement, printed in colours, old half morocco, Paris, 1796, 4to. (697)

Egerton,

10 IOS. 1290 Vadé (J. J.) Euvres Poissardes, suivies de celles de l'Ecluse, 4 plates by Monsiau, engraved by Clement, printed in colours, contemporary calf, g. e., proofs before the letters, only 100 copies were issued in this state, Paris, 1796, 4to. (698) Delaine, £19 5s. 1291 Vandyck (Sir Anthony). His Life and Work, by Jules Guiffrey, from the French by W. Allison, large Japanese vellum copy, (10 printed), illustrations, buckram, uncut, Henry and Co., 1896, folio (1594) Hitchman, £2 8s. 1292 Vecellio (Cesare). Habiti Antichi et. Moderni di diverse parti del monde, original edition, 420 plates of costumes within ornamental borders, levant morocco extra, full gilt back, g. e., Venetia, 1590, 8vo. (1436) Simington, £3 3s. 1293 Verstegan (Rich.) Theatrum Crudelitatum Hæreticorum nostri temporis, original edition, unique copy with the title and plates in contemporary artistic colouring, heightened with gold (two small holes in title), old vellum, Antwerpiæ, 1587, 4to. (1524) Simington, £2 IOS. 1294 Victoria (Queen). Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861, original gilt cloth, enclosed in morocco-covered box, with lock and key, 1868, 8vo. (705) Nattali, £100

[On the fly-leaf was the following inscription (filling the whole of the page) in the autograph of H.M. the Queen: "To Charles Dickens, Esq,, from Victoria Reg., Buckingham Palace, March 9, 1870." This memento of the great author was presented to him at the only interview he had with the Queen, and is thus referred to in Forster's Life of Dickens (vol. iii., pages 368-369): "Her Majesty then took from a table her own book upon the Highlands, with an autograph inscription to 'Charles Dickens,' and saying that 'the humblest' of writers would be ashamed to offer it to 'one of the greatest,' but that Mr. Helps, being asked to

give it, had remarked that it would be valued most from herself, closed the interview by placing it in his hands.”— Catalogue.] 1295 Virgilius. Bucolica Virgilii cum commento Familiari, lit. goth. et rom., woodcut title with Caxton's device below and fullpage device on last page, wanted 6 leaves, sold not returnable, old russia, Impressa Londini in ædibus Winandi de Worde, 1529, 4to. (1525) Leighton, £18 1296 Voltaire. La Pucelle d'Orléans, nouvelle édition, avec de belles figures, head on title, frontispiece, vignette, and 12 pates, crushed crimson morocco, broad and rich ornamental borders, inside dentelles, g. e., by Lortic, Londres aux depens de la Compagnie, 1761 (1446) Bickers, £9

[The plates, which are not signed, are inferior in execution and design. The high price realised in this instance was due to the binding, the book itself rarely selling for more than about 10s.-ED.]

1297 Voltaire. La Pucelle d'Orléans, poëme en vingt-et-un chants, par Voltaire, 2 vol., portrait of Jeanne d'Arc by Gaucher, and 21 plates by Monsiau, Lebarbier, Marillier, and Monnet, engraved by Baquoy, Choffard, Delignon, Delvaux, Duhamel, Le Mire, Malbeste, Ponce, Romanet, etc., half red morocco, uncut, LARGE PAPER (Paris, 1795), 4to. (1526) Parry, £2 18s. 1298 Voltaire. La Henriade, vignettes and tail-pieces by Michaux, "papier de Hollande," one of the very few copies issued before the fleuron on title and before the insertion of the plates, half calf, 1728, 4to. (1527) Simington, £2 25.

[This is the first illustrated edition of "La Henriade." There is another edition of the same date, but it contains only one plate, by Fletcher. This edition is inferior.-ED.] 1299 Voltaire. L'Ingénu, Histoire Véritable. tirée de Manuscrits du Père Quesnel, first edition, entirely uncut, in half morocco cover enclosed In a case of morocco extra, with rich gilt ornaments by Lortic, Utrecht (Genève), 1767, 8vo. (1453) Maggs, £3 1300 Waller (Edmund). Poems, etc., printed by a copy of his owne handwriting, etc., first edition, original sheep, J. N. jor Hu. Moseley, 1645, 8vo. (1458) Sabin, £16 1301 Walpole (Horace). Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, including numerous original letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill, edited by Eliot Warburton, 2 vol., portraits, uncut, 1851, 8vo. (1460) Simington, £2 1302 Walton (Isaac). Howell (J.) Sober Inspection made into the Consults of the Long Parliament, first edition, dedicated to Cromwell, old binding, 1656, 8vo. (1461) Pearson, £28 [From the library of Isaac Walton, with his autograph on the fly-leaf. The volume was in its original binding and in good preservation. At page 73 the author speaks of "Fishing in Troubled Waters."-Catalogue.]

1303 Walton (Isaac). Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson, with Notes and Life of the Author by T.

Zouch, LARGE PAPER, proof portraits and views, with MS. notes by W. Beckford, morocco extra, inside joints, gilt marbled edges, by C. Kalthoeber, with his ticket, York, 1796, 4to. (1530) Newton, £7 1304 Walton and Cotton Club. Rules and Regulations of the Walton and Cotton Club, instituted 19th March, 1817, revised 8th April, 1840, frontispiece and woodcuts, borders round each page, Eyton's copy, bound in morocco super extra, with arms in gold on sides, g. e., three bookplates on fly-leaves, 33 copies were privately printed for members of the club, 1840, 4to. (1531) Newton, £11 15s.

1305 Westwood (J. O.) Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS., coloured plates, some loose and edges frayed, with all faults, Quaritch, 1868, imperial folio (414) Quaritch, £3 3s. 1306 Whipping-Tom. Works of the Author of Whipping-Tom, wherein are contained all his Treatises, both Serious and Merry, plates, morocco extra, full gilt floreate back, line sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Lortic fils, S. Briscoe, 1723, 8vo. (1466) Leighton, £2 25. 1307 White (G.) Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, first edition, folding and other plates, clean copy (but folding plate mended), old half binding, uncut, 1789, 4to. (1534) Sabin, £16 5s. 1308 Willyams (Rev. Cooper). Voyage up the Mediterranean in H.M.S. Swiftsure, under the command of Admiral Nelson, with a Description of the Battle of the Nile, LARGE PAPER, 43 coloured plates, morocco, g. e., by Chambolle-Duru, J. White, 1802, folio (1606) Edwards, £2 3s.

1309 Wood (Anthony à). Athenæ Oxoniensis, edited, with additions and a continuation, by P. Bliss, 5 vol., russia gilt, m.e., joints of vol. i. cracked, the Stourhead copy, 1813-15, 4to. (1535) Lowe, £315s. 1310 Wordsworth (W.) Powell (T.) Poems, with autograph inscription on fly-leaf, "Elizabeth Cookson from Wm. Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 2 August, 1842," uncut, 1842, 8vo. (1474) Maggs, £2 1311 Wordsworth (W.) Poetical Works, pocket edition, 6 vol., presentation copy, with autograph inscription, "Hannah Cookson from her Affectionate Friend, Wm. Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, Ist Jan., 1850," on half title, Moxon, 1849-50, 8vo. (1475) Tregaskis, £2 4s.

1312 Ysai le Triste, fils Tristan de Leonois iadis Chevalier de la Table ronde et de la royne Yzent de Cornouaille. Ensemble ses nobles prouesses de chevallerie faictes par marc fils du dit Ysaie. Histoyre moult plaisante et delectable, etc., gothie letter, original edition, frontispiece and head letters, half calf, Paris, Pierre Vidoue pour Galliot dupre, s. d. (1522), folio (1608) Haslett, £8 1313 Zacharie. Les Quatre Parties du jour, Poëme traduit de l'Allemand (par Müller), plates and vignettes after Eisen,

morocco, full gilt floreate back, ornamental borders, inside dentelles, g. e., by Lortic, Paris, Musier, 1769, 8vo. (1479) Jones, £9 1314 Zacharie. Les Quatre Parties du jour, Poëme traduit de l'Allemand (par Müller), plates and vignettes after Eisen, morocco, full gilt floreate back and broad rich ornamental scroll borders, inside dentelles, g. e., by Lortic, fine copy, Paris, Musier, 1769, 8vo. (1480) Zaehnsdorf, 5

[Contains frontispiece, four plates, and four vignettes after Eisen by Baquoy, and four small cuts. Large paper copies are met with, and sometimes the vignettes are in artist's proof state without text. The work was reprinted in 1781. The high prices realised for Nos. 1313 and 1314 were due, in each instance, to the high quality of the binding. Ordinary copies on small paper sell for no more than 10s. or 12s., and those on large paper for about 30s.ED.]

[NOVEMBER 21ST AND THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1899.] H. H. HODGSON & CO.

A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION.

(No. of Lots, 1333; amount realised, £768 6s.)

1315 Audsley (G. A.) Ornamental Arts of Japan, numerous plates, many in gold and colours, artist's proofs, on India paper, 4 vol., in portfolios, 1885, imperial 4to. (1265)

Batsford, £7 5s. 1316 Billings (R. W.) Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 4 vol., steel plates, half morocco, n. d., 4to. (1288) Maggs, £5 1317 Bree (C. R.) History of the Birds of Europe, coloured plates, 4 vol., cloth, uncut, Groombridge, 1859-63, 8vo. (557)

Harris, £2 2s. 1318 Cambridge Mathematical Journal, edited by Gregory and Ellis, 4 vol., 1839-45-Dublin Mathematical Journal, edited by Thomson and Ferrers, 9 vol., together 13 vol., 1846-54, 8vo. (280) £8 10s. 1319 Dickens (C.) Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, plates by Seymour and "Phiz," first edition, red morocco extra, gilt top, with original wrappers bound in, 1837, 8vo. (888) Pickering, £6 12s. 6d. 1320 Dutuit. La Collection Dutuit: Livres et Manuscrits, numerous coloured specimens of bindings, facsimiles of MSS., etc. (limited to 350 copies), Paris, Damascène Morgand, 1899, folio (962) Leighton, £4

1321 Goldsmith (O.) The Deserted Village, vignette on title, first edition, sewed, 1770, small 4to. (904) Pearson, £14 5s.

1322 Goldsmith (O.) The Traveller, presentation copy, "with the Author's best esteem " on title, uncut, 1765, small 4to. (905) Sotheran, £10 1323 Goldsmith (O.) Retaliation, 1774-The Haunch of Venison, portrait, 1776-Gray's Elegy, 1753, sewed, 8vo. (906) Pearson, £16 15s.

[First editions of Retaliation and "The Haunch of Venison," the latter copy having the rare etched portrait by Bretherton, after Bunbury. Both uncut; hence the price. -ED.] 1324 Homer. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, translated by G. Chapman, engraved title (soiled and leaf of errata wanted), vellum, N. Butler, folio (964) Pickering, £4 1325 Hudson and Gosse. The Rotifera, or Wheel-Animalcules, coloured plates, with Supplement, in 7 parts, small 4to., sewed, 1886-9, 8vo. (266) Quaritch, £2 15s. 1326 Masson (D.) Life of Milton in connexion with the History of His Own Time, ports., 6 vol., cloth, uncut, 1859, 8vo. (138) Bain, £3 7s. 6d. 1327 Palis of Honoure (The). Compyeled by Gawyne Dowglass Bysshope of Dunkyll, black letter (wormed, and blank leaf A I wanted), Imprinted at London in Flet Stret, at the sygne of the Rose garland, by Wyllyam Coplande (1553), 8vo. (911) Pickering, £31

[The Asburnham copy sold for £81. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xi., No. 5013. -ED.] 1328 Red Book of Hergest (The), vol. i., The Mabinogion, Text edited by Rhys and Evans, facsimiles, half roan, gilt top, Oxford, 1887-Vol. ii., The Bruts, facsimiles, half roan, gilt top, together 3 vol., ib., 1890, 8vo. (597) Quaritch, £25s. 1329 Selden Society's Publications, edited by Maitland and others, vols. i. to xii., cloth, uncut, 1887-98, small 4to. (932)

Quaritch, £9 15s. 1330 Sidney (Sir Philip). Astrophel and Stella, M. Lownes-The Defence of Poesie, W. Ponsonby, 1595, in I vol., slightly wormed and stained, vellum, 8vo. (912) Pearson, £61

[No other copy of "Astrophel and Stella" has been sold by auction during the last thirteen years.-ED.]

1331 Slater (J. H.) Book-Prices Current, vol. i. to viii., buckram, as issued, 1887-94, 8vo. (534-541)

1332 Voltaire (M. de). Euvres Completes, avec des advertisements et des notes par Condorcet, portraits and plates by Moreau, 70 vol., LARGE PAPER, half morocco, contents lettered, uncut, De Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire Typographique, 1785-89, 8vo. (1123) George, £10 175. 6d.

1333 Wilson (T.) Catalogue Raisonné of the Select Collection of Engravings of an Amateur, vignettes on India paper, uncut, 1828, 4to. (878) A. Jackson, £2 16s.

[Only 100 copies were privately printed, and bound up in cloth. They were distributed gratuitously to friends of the compiler.-ED.]

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