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a P. de Jode Antverpiano in lucem editi, 150 etchings, morocco extra, g. e., Antv. (s. a.), oblong 8vo. (637) Young, £I IOS. 5312 Thomson (J.) Les Saisons, Poëme, traduit de l'Anglais, plates and vignettes after Eisen, first issue, morocco extra, g. e., by Pouillet, 1759, 8vo. (638) W. Brown, £1 18s. 5313 Uzanne (O.) L'Eventail, numerous illustrations, borders by Paul Avril, polished levant morocco, emblematically tooled sides, inside border, g. t., the silk wrappers mounted and bound in, by Morrell, 1882, royal 8vo. (639)

Dobell, £3 175. 6d. 5314 Uzanne (O.) L'Ombrelle, Le Gant, Le Manchon, numerous illustrations, borders, etc. by Paul Avril, polished morocco extra, emblematically tooled side, inside border, g. t., the silk wrappers mounted and bound in, by Morrell, uniform with the preceding, 1883, royal 8vo. (640) Dobell, £25s. 5315 Uzanne (O.) Son Altesse la Femme, numerous illustrations bý H. Gervex, J. A. Gonzalès, L. Kratké, A. Lynch, etc., in two states, édition spéciale, sur papier grand format, limited to 100 copies, original wrappers, in case, uncut, 1885, 4to. (641) Isaacs, £2 12s. 5316 Uzanne (O.) Le Miroir du Monde, notes et sensations de la Vie Pittoresque, numerous illustrations in colours after Paul Avril, Japanese paper, only 100 copies printed, original wrappers, in morocco case, uncut, 1888, 4to. (642) Isaacs, £1 10s. 5317 Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica J. B. Pii Carmen ex quarto Argonauticon Apollonii Orphei Argonautica innominato Interprete, morocco extra, delicately tooled back, gilt borders on sides, silk lining, vellum fly-leaves, g.e., by Bozerian, Venetiis, Aldus, 1523 (644) Sotheran, £1 15s. 5318 Virgil. Les Géorgiques de Virgile, traduction Nouvelle en vers Français par M. Delille, frontispiece after Casanova, and 4 plates after Eisen, engraved by De Longueil, with the addition of a portrait of Virgil, and 4 plates after Moreau le Jeune, contemporary French mottled calf, g. e., Paris, Bleuet, 1770, 8vo. (646) Reeves, £1 10s.

5319 Voltaire.

La Pucelle d'Orléans, Poëme Heroï-Comique en Vingt-quatre Chants, frontispiece and 12 plates, polished levant morocco extra, rich dentelle borders on sides, inside borders, g. e., by Lortic, Londres, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1761, 8vo. (647) Young, £5 13s. 5320 Voltaire. La Pucelle d'Orléans, Poëme divisé en Vingt Chants, avec des notes, 1762-Variantes au Poëme de la Pucelle d'Orléans, 1766, plates by L. Rake, in 1 vol., polished morocco extra, doublé, with border and centrepiece, silk fly-leaves, g. e., 1762-6, 8vo. (648) Bickers, £5 5321 Voltaire. La Pucelle d'Orléans, Poëme divisé en Vingt-un Chants, avec les notes de M. de Morza, plates, old French morocco, g. e., à Londres, 1775, 8vo. (649) Bickers, £5 10s. 5322 Voltaire. La Pucelle d'Orléans, Poëme en Vingt-un Chants, avec des notes, frontispiece and 21 vignettes by Duplessi

5323 Voltaire.

Bertaux, 2 vol., LARGE PAPER, marbled calf, g. e., à Londres (Paris, Cazin), 1780, 8vo. (650) Foulard, 1 125. La Pucelle d'Orléans, Poëme en Vingt et un Chants, the plates after Moreau inserted, LARGE PAPER, old morocco extra, g. e., the Comerford copy, Paris, 1808, 8vo. (651) Young, £1 12s. 5324 Voltaire. Romans, plates after Moreau inserted, 2 vol., LARGE PAPER, old morocco extra, g. e., the Comerford copy, uniform with the preceding, Paris, 1808, 8vo. (652)

Young, £2

5325 Voltaire. La Pucelle, or the Maid of Orleans, a Poem in xxi. Cantos, from the French, with the Author's Preface and original Notes (by Lady Charleville), 2 vol., sprinkled calf gilt, g. e., Privately printed, 1796, 8vo. (655)

Shepherd, £7 7s. 6d.

[After fifty copies of this edition had been distributed, all the rest were destroyed, the translation being considered injurious to the memory of Lady Charleville. This was a presentation copy, with inscription: "R. H. Sheehan, Esq., from his friend Charleville, Decbr. 21/42."-Catalogue.] 5326 Zacharie (M.) Les Quatre Parties du Jour, Poëme, frontispiece, plates, vignettes, etc. after Eisen, morocco extra, dentelle borders on sides, inside borders, g. e., by Lortic, Paris, 1769, 8vo. (656) Sotheran, £7 15s.

[Contains frontispiece, 4 plates, 4 vignettes after Eisen by Baquoy, and 4 small woodcuts. The vignettes are sometimes met with in artist's proof state, without text. The book itself was printed on large as well as on small paper. ED.]

() Another Property.

5327 Alpharottis (Jac. de). Repertorium Feudale. Opus novum atque perutile super Feudis, lit. goth., double columns, without marks, capitals painted in blue and red, old calf (Lugd.), N. P. et M. Reinhart, 1478, folio (787)

Leighton, LI 5s.

5328 Astexanus de Ast (J.). Summa de Casibus Conscientiæ, semigothic letter, double columns, 56-57 lines, headings in small gothic capitals, rude outline woodcut of Salvator Mundi on last leaf, rubricated, capitals painted in red (9 leaves wanted, some wormed), oaken boards, new morocco, with foliage ornaments, Colonia, per H. Quentell, 1479, II Kl. Sept., thick folio (788) Tregaskis, £1 6s.

[This appears to be the first book printed by H. Quentell in Cologne. From William Morris's library, at the sale of which it realised £3 12s.-ED.]

5329 Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, first edition, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol., with a vol. I title page dated 1804 (Preface, 1797), last leaf blank, original boards, uncut, clean copy, Newcastle, 1797-1804, royal 8vo. (779) Stanford, £8 2s. 6d. 5330 Biblia Sacra Latina, cum Postillis Nic. de Lyra, lit. goth.,

painted ornamental initials, 4 vol., oaken boards, stamped pigskin, Nuremberg, A. Koberger, 1487-92, folio (789)

Leighton, £2

[Vol. i. was dated 1487, vol. ii. 1485, vol. iii. 1493 and vol. iv. 1492. This copy sold for £4 4s. at William Morris's sale. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xiii., No. 1503.— ED.] 5331 Boccaccio (G.) Decameron. Le Cameron (sic) aultrement dit les Cent Nouvelles, composees en langue Latine (sic) par Jehan Bocace, et mises en Francoys par Laurens le Premierfaict, lettres bâtardes, title in red and black, ornamental woodcut initials, vellum gilt, inlaid in arabesques, gilt and red panels, gilt and gauffred edges, by J. Wright, Paris en la Grande rue Sainct Jacques a lenseigne de L'Elephant, 1537, Oct. x., 8vo. (781) W. Brown, £8 15s.

[A very rare edition, not mentioned by Brunet, who, however, notes one of the same year, printed in La Rue Neuve Nostre Dame a l'enseigne de S. Jean Baptiste; nor does the Supplement to Brunet mention it.—Catalogue. This copy realised £7 10s. at Mr. William Morris's sale. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xiii., No. 1514.—ED.] 5332 Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique, 15 vol., boards, uncut, Paris, 1834-37, folio (799) Hierseman, £4

(n) Another Property.

5333 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, plates by G.
Cruikshank, first edition, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, by
Rivière, 1840, 8vo. (39)
Ricketts, £3 14s.

[Early issue, with the plates at pp. 28 and 45 in the first state.-Catalogue.]

5334 Ainsworth (W. H.) ́Windsor Castle, an Historical Romance, first edition, plates by G. Cruikshank and Tony Johannot, 3 vol., uncut, cloth, with white paper labels, Colburn, 1843, 8vo. (40) Newton, £3 5335 Ainsworth (W. H.) Crichton, a Romance, illustrations by H. K. Browne, calf extra, t. e. g., by Rivière and Son, 1849, 8vo. (41) Spencer, £1 18s. 5336 Alcoran des Cordeliers, c'est à dire Recueil des plus Notables Bourdes et Blasphemes de ceux qui ont ose comparer Sainct François à Jésus Christ, plates by Picart, 2 vol., Amst., 1734-Legende Dorée, ou Histoire des Frères Mendiants de l'Ordre de S. Dominique et de S. François, Amst., 1734, together 3 vol., fine copies, "Maroquin de Constantinople," by Bisiaux, with his ticket, Amst., 1734, 8vo. (43) Perry, £8 5s.

[Renouard's copy, with his name in gold on the vellum fly-leaves. A most remarkable binding.-Catalogue.] 5337 Aleyn (Charles). The Historie of the Wise and Fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh, with the famed Battaile fought betweene sayd King and Richard the

Third named Crook-backe, upon Redmoore neere Bos-
worth, first edition, with the rare portrait by William
Marshall, original sheep, Thomas Cotes, 1638, 8vo. (44)
Sotheran, 11 5s.

[A scarce volume in verse, interesting to the Shakespeare collector for the description of Bosworth field and the character of Richard III. Noticed by Allibone in his

list of Shakespeareana.-Catalogue.] 5338 Almanack for the year 1738, wherein are contained Necessary Rules and Useful Tables, with a description of the Highways and Fairs throughout England and Wales, contemporary morocco, sides and back covered with gold tooling, g.e., 1738, 8vo. (45) Tregaskis, £1 4s. 5339 America. A Concise Historical Account of all the British Colonies in North America, etc., particularly of the Massachusets-Bay (the seat of the present civil war), together with the other Provinces of New England, large folding table, uncut copy, wrapper, J. Bew, 1775, 8vo. (46)

Terriss, £2 5340 America. Brief and Perfect Journal of the late Proceedings and Successes of the English Army in the West Indies, by J. S., fine copy, morocco extra, t. e. g., uncut, 1655, 4to. (182) Perry, £3 3s. 5341 America. The Report of the Committee of the Commons House of Assembly of the Province of South Carolina on the State of the Paper-Currency of the said Province, large copy, unbound, 1737, 4to. (187) Leighton, £3 35. 5342 America. Remarks on the Trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New-York Weekly Journal, who was lately Try'd and Acquitted for Printing and Publishing Two Libels against the Government of that Province, uncut copy, For J. Roberts, 1738, 4to. (186) Sabin, £1 135. 5343 America. Mather (Increase). De Successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales in Nova Anglia, Epistola, calf extra, g. e., Ultrajecti, 1699, 8vo. (49) Perry, £14s. 5344 America. Mather (Increase). Practical Truths Plainly delivered, morocco extra, g. e., first edition, Boston, N.E., 1718, 8vo. (50) B. F. Stevens, £3 18s. 5345 America. Evans (L.) Analysis of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America and of the Country of the Confederate Indians: a Description of the Face of the Country; the Boundaries of the Confederates and the Maritime and Inland Navigations of the several rivers and lakes contained therein, large folding map missing, and replaced by Bowles's copy of it printed in 1771, large copy, calf, t. e. g., by Rivière, Philadelphia, B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755, 4to. (184) Maggs, £2 2s.

5346 America. Map of the United States of America, laid down from the best Authorities agreable to the Peace of 1783, a sheet map 2ft. 8in. high by 3ft. 81⁄2 in. wide, Boston (Mass.), published and sold by J. Norman, No. 75, Newberry Street, 1783, 4to. (180) Essex, £3 3s.

5347 America. Williams (Roger, of Providence, in New England). A Key into the Language of America, or an help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America called New England, together with briefe Observationes of the Customes, Manners and Worships, etc. of the aforesaid Natives in Peace and Warre, in Life and Death, etc., vellum wrapper, Printed by Gregory Dexter, 1643, 8vo. (56) Quaritch, £35

[This is the earliest printed attempt to give the language of the Aborigines of New England any literary form whatever. The fact of its having been in all probability very much used by the early settlers will account for its great rarity. Only two copies appear to have occurred for sale since 1885. The Ellis copy sold for £29 105. The present was a fine one, the only defects being the fore-edges of three leaves slightly shaved, and a small paper defect on leaf 7. Catalogue.]

5348 André (Major). The Cow Chace, an Heroick Poem in Three Cantos, written at New York, 1780, by the late Major André, with Explanatory Notes by the Editor, tear mended in last two leaves, very large copy, wrapper, 1781, 4to. (181) Terriss, £2 5s.

[Published on the occasion of General Wayne's attack on the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's River.-Catalogue.] 5349 Angelica's Ladies' Library, or Parents' and Guardians' Presents, with 8 tinted plates designed by Kauffman and Bunbury in the style of Bartolozzi, original calf, 1794, 4to. (188) Sotheran, £2 25. 5350 Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, a Magazine appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits, vol. viii. to xi. and vol. xiii., coloured plates by Alken, other illustrations by Scott, Howitt, etc., and portraits of celebrated pugilists and pedestrians, half bound, 1825-28, 8vo. (59) Hornstein, £4 5s. 5351 Anthologie Française, ou Chansons Choisies depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à présent, 3 vol., portrait of Monnet by Cochin, engraved by Saint-Aubin, and plates by Gravelot, engraved by Lemire- Chansons Joyeuses par un Ane-ononyme, engraved title by Gravelot, together 4 vol., morocco super extra, t. e. g., other edges quite uncut, Paris, 1765, 8vo. (60) Perry, £10 10s.

[Inserted was the original drawing by Gravelot of the frontispiece to "Chansons Joyeuses."-Catalogue.] 5352 [Apperley (Charles, i.e., "Nimrod").] Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq., his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing and extravagant exploits, etc., first edition, with 12 coloured plates by Henry Alken, fine copy in calf extra, t. e. g., by Rivière and Son, 1835, 8vo. (61)

Sotheran, £14 15s. 5353 [Apperley.] Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, the second edition, with considerable additions and 18

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