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Yeare 1640, engraved title and numerous coats of arms, coloured, calf, r. e., 1640, folio (793) Pickering, £3 3s. 6585 Zompini (G.) L'Arti che Vanno per Via nella Città di Venezia, 60 plates, coloured copy, only a limited number done, half morocco gilt, Venezia, 1785, folio (794) E. Parsons, £1 10s.

[JUNE 25TH AND 26TH, 1900.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. H. VIRTUE-TEBBS.

(No. of Lots, 507; amount realised, £1,468 2s.)

6586 A'Beckett (G. A.) The Comic History of Rome, coloured plates and woodcuts by John Leech, first edition, original cloth, uncut, Bradbury and Evans, n. d., 8vo. (1)

Sotheran, £3 10S. 6587 Anderson (W.) The Pictorical Arts of Japan, with a brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts and some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Koreans, numerous plates and woodcuts, half morocco, g. e., 1886, folio (212) Maggs, £2 2s. 6588 Appiano (A.) Tre Libri della Guerra Illirica, della Spagnuola, etc., tradotti da L. Dolce, contemporary Florentine morocco, with the coat of arms and device of Pier Andrea Forzoni painted on the inside of the covers, Vinegia, 1559, 8vo. (3) Purchase, £2 12s. 6589 Arnold (Matthew). The Strayed Reveller and other Poems, by A., first edition, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, Fellowes, 1849, 8vo. (7) Tinkler, £2 1OS. 6590 Arrianus. De Ascensu Alexandri (Gr.) cura Vict. Trincarelli et cum praefat. J. B. Egnatii, first edition, morocco extra, g. e., by Capé, Venet. in aedibus B. Zanetti, 1535, 8vo. (12) Young, £2 6591 Ascham (R.) The Scholemaster, black letter, first edition, half morocco, last leaf with publisher's imprint cut round and mounted, John Daye, 1570, 4to. (154). Bell, £4 4s. 6592 Augustine (St.) The Citie of God, with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vides, Englished by J. H., original calf, with the arms of James I. on sides, title defective, 1610, folio (215) Maggs, £33s. 6593 Bacon (F.) Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral and Wisdom of the Ancients, edited by B. Montagu, morocco_extra, doublé, exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, vellum fly-leaves, g. e., Pickering, n. d., 8vo. (15) Maggs, £3 17s. 6d. Maister Beza's Household Prayers for the Consolation

6594 Beza.

and Perfection of a Christian Life, calf, sides inlaid, exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbinding, gilt gauffred edges, 1607, 8vo. (19)

Hazlitt, £10 6595 Bible. The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke (Genevan or "Breeches "), 1608-The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into English Meetre by Sternhold, Hopkins and others, in 1 vol., calf, sides covered with gold tooling, with the arms of King James I. in centre, gilt gauffred edges, rebacked, exhibited at the Burlington Exhibition of Bookbinding, R. Barker, 1608, 4to. (158) Young, £6 105. 6596 Bible. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the Original Tongues, engraved title, Cambridge, 1663-The Book of Common Prayer, etc., ib., 1666, in 1 vol., old English morocco, sides covered with gold tooling, "Cottage Roof" pattern, g. e., corners repaired, rebacked, exhibited at the Burlington Exhibition of Bookbindings, 1663-6, 4to. (159)

Pickering, £3 10s. 6597 Blake (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 21 plates, India proofs, original boards, uncut, 1826, folio (225) Bain, £12 6598 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, portrait inserted, divided

into 2 vol., with MS. title-page for vol. ii., French calf gilt, r. e., In Amsterdamo à la Sphère, 1665, 8vo. (23) Maggs, £2 [This copy formerly belonged to Madame de Pompadour, and bore her arms on the sides. It also belonged to President Crozat, and had "Ex Bibliotheca D. Crozat" written on the back of the title-page.-Catalogue.] 6599 Book of Common Prayer, according to the Use of the Church of England, from Edward VI. (1549) to Victoria (1844), printed in red and black, 7 vol., vellum, uncut, Pickering, 1844, folio (226) Bull, £8 155. 6600 Bouchot (H.) Les Reliures d'Art à la Bibliothèque Nationale, 80 plates of bindings, Japanese paper (100 copies printed), morocco extra, g. t., uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, 1888, imperial 8vo. (164) Sotheran, £3 6601 Bridges (R.) Prometheus the Firegiver, 100 copies privately printed, author's autograph on fly-leaf, half vellum, uncut, Oxford, Daniel Press, 1883, 4to. (165)

Maggs, £2 8s. 6602 Bridges (R.) The Growth of Love, half vellum, uncut, 100 copies privately printed, Oxford, Daniel Press, 1890, 4to. (166) Tregaskis, £175. 6603 Browning (R.) Bells and Pomegranates, 8 parts complete in I vol., original cloth, uncut, Moxon, 1841-6, 8vo. (34) Hornstein, £4 17s. 6d.

Burlington Fine Arts Club Publications.

6604 Illustrated Catalogue of Specimens of Persian Art, 32 plates, and 3 additional plates, mostly mounted on thin cardboard,

1885 Wallis (H.) Notes on some Early Lustre Vases, illustrations, Quaritch, 1885, in 1 vol., half morocco extra, g. e., folio (228) Harding, £6 6605 Illustrated Catalogue of Specimens of Persian Art, 32 plates, printed on thin paper, half bound, 1885, folio (229) Pentland, £4 IOS. 6606 Exhibition of Miniature Portraits. Illustrated Catalogue, 37 plates, original cloth, 1889, folio (230) Sotheran, £29 IOS. 6607 Exhibition of Bookbindings. Illustrated Catalogue, 114 facsimiles of bindings, with 3 additional plates inserted, pigskin extra, gilt lines on sides, gilt backs, joints, g. e., the original cloth cover forming an outer case, 1891, folio (231)

Bain, £12 6608 Exhibition of Pictures of the Masters of the Netherlandish and Allied Schools of XV. and Early XVI. Centuries, 29 plates, original cloth, 1892, folio (232)

Maggs, £3 5s.

6609 Illustrated Catalogue of a Collection of European Enamels from the earliest date to the end of the XVII. Century, 72 plates, original cloth, 1892, folio (233) Sabin, £9 5s. 6610 Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy, 27 plates, original cloth, 1899, folio (235)

£4

6611 Burney (R.) King Charles the Second His Most Sacred Majestie presented to the Right Honourable Houses of Parliament as the Strength, Honour and Peace of the Nations, etc., old morocco, with royal arms on sides, no portrait (1660), 4to. (167) Tregaskis, £1 18s. 6612 Byron (Lord). Poetical Works, portrait, 6 vol., morocco extra, g. e., by Holloway, Murray, 1855, 8vo. (42)

Sotheran, £4 6613 Carroll (Lewis). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there, illustrations by John Tenniel, first edition, original cloth, g. e., 1872, 8vo. (45) Sotheran, £2 6s. 6614 Cole (A. C.) Studies in Microscopical Science, coloured and other plates, 3 vol., half morocco, g. t., uncut, 1883-6, 8vo. (51) Sotheran, £2 4s. 6615 Coleridge (Hartley). Poems, first edition, vol. i., all published, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, Leeds, 1833, 8vo. (52) Sabin, £6 15s.

[A presentation copy, with an inscription in Hartley Coleridge's handwriting to his father (S. T. Coleridge) on the fly-leaf, "To S. T. Coleridge, wishing the present more worthy of the receiver and more accordant with his some time hopes of the giver. HARTLEY COleridge.”— Catalogue.]

6616 Coleridge (S. T.) Poems on Various Subjects, first edition, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, 1796, 8vo. (54)

Pickering, £6 12s. 6d. 6617 Coleridge (S. T.) Poetical Works, 3 vol., morocco extra, g.e., by F. Bedford, Pickering, 1840, 8vo. (57)

XIV.

Maggs, £2

40

6618 Columna (Fr. de). Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet, numerous woodcuts from designs attributed to Giovanno Bellini (the Priapus unmutilated), first edition, morocco, gilt gauffred edges, the margins of some leaves repaired, a few wormholes, Venet., Aldus, 1499, folio (242) Tinkler, £22 6619 Cowper (W.) Poems, 2 vol., old red morocco, gold tooled sides and backs, g. e., with paintings on the fore edges, by Edwards, of Halifax, exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, 1810, 8vo. (59)

Maggs, £6 6s.

Sotheran, £2 25.

6620 Crane (W.) Of the Decorative Illustration of Books, Old and New, numerous illustrations, Japanese vellum, 130 copies printed, uncut, 1896, 8vo. (62) 6621 Curtius (Dr. E.) History of Greece, translated by A. W. Ward, 5 vol., uncut, 1868, 8vo. (65) Dower, £8 5s. 6622 Dickens (C.) Christmas Books. A Christmas Carol in Prose, 1843-The Chimes, a Goblin Story, 1845-The Battle of Life, a Love Story, 1846-The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846 -The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, 1848, illustrations by Leech, Tenniel, Maclise, etc., 5 vol., first editions, morocco extra, g. e., 8vo. (74) W. Flower, £5 10s. 6623 Doyle (F. H.) The Return of the Guards, and other Poems, vellum extra, illuminated design on cover, g. t., uncut, 1883, 8vo. (80) Maggs, £25s. 6624 Duruy (V.) History of Rome and the Roman People from its Origin to the Establishment of the Christian Empire, maps, coloured plates and woodcuts, 6 vol., half morocco extra, g. e., 1883-6, imperial 8vo. (181) Edwards, £7 2s. 6d. 6625 Elyot (Sir T.) The Boke named the Gouernor, edited from the first edition of 1531, by H. H. S. Croft, portraits, 2 vol., morocco extra, blind tooled centre-piece on sides, g. t., uncut, by Ramage, 1880, 4to. (182) Young, £2 8s. 6626 Froissart (Sir J.) Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders and the adjoining Countries, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, 2 vol., morocco extra, g. e., by R. Rivière, exhibited at the Burlington Exhibition of Bindings, 1812, 4to. (183)

Sotheran, 10 5S. 6627 Gerarde (John). The Herball, or General Historie of Plantes, engraved title (backed) and numerous woodcuts, original calf re-backed, Norton, 1597, folio (253) Pearson, £10 155. 6628 Germ (The). Art and Poetry, being Thoughts towards Nature, etchings by Holman Hunt, Collinson, W. H. Deverell, etc., parts 1 to 4 (all published), in 1 vol., half bound, with the original wrappers, 1850, 8vo. (94) Denham, £27

[An interesting autograph letter from G. S. F. Tupper, who financed the publication, inserted.—Catalogue.]

6629 Giotto. Arena Chapel, Padua, a Series of Wood Engravings from the Frescoes, illustrating the Lives of the Virgin and Our Saviour, accompanied by an explanatory Notice by

John Ruskin, 38 plates, 2 vol., calf antique, r. e., Arundel Society, 1854-60, 8vo. and oblong folio (254) Sotheran, £4 6630 Goldsmith (O.) Works, edited by Peter Cunningham, engraved titles, 4 vol., morocco extra, g. e., by Holloway, Murray, 1834, 8vo. (97) Sabin, £3 10s. maps, 4 vol., Bain, £2 45.

6631 Green (J. R.) History of the English People, uncut, 1877-80, 8vo. (100) 6632 Grote (George). History of Greece, portrait and maps, 12 vol., calf gilt, m. e., 1846-57, 8vo. (103)

Roche, £2

6633 Holland (H.) Herwologia Anglica, Clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliquot Anglorum qui floruerunt ab A.D. 1500 usque ad 1620, 67 portraits, calf gilt, wanted "Post Prefatio," list of plates, title-page, and plate of monument rebacked, with all faults, Impensis Crispini Passei, Chalcogr. et Jansonii Biblop. Arnhem, s. a. (1620), folio (258) Maggs, £5 10s. 6634 Horwood (R.) A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and the parts adjoining, showing every house, 32 sheets, half russia, 1792-9, folio (275) £3 35. 6635 Horwood (R.) A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, with the Borough of Southwark, including the Adjacent Suburbs, new edition, 40 sheets and index, half russia, Faden, 1819, folio (276) Edwards, £2 6636 Howell (J.) Familiar Letters on Important Subjects, old calf, with W. Wordsworth's autograph on title-page, Aberdeen, 1753, 8vo. (118) Sabin, £1 18s. 6637 Howell (J.) Epistolae Ho-Eliana, Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren, divided into six sections, first edition, engraved title by Marshall, panelled calf gilt, rebacked, 1645, 4to. (191) Pickering, £4 4s. 6638 Humphreys (H. N.) and J. O. Westwood. British Moths, and their Transformations, numerous coloured plates, 2 vol., half calf gilt, W. S. Orr, 1851, 4to. (193) Young, £2 7s. 5d. 6639 Ingoldsby (T.) The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvel, portrait and plates by Cruikshank and Leech, 3 vol., original cloth, uncut, 1852, 8vo. (124) Young, £1 125. 6640 Jacquemart (A.) et E. Le Blant. Histoire Artistique, Industrielle et Commerciale de la Porcelaine, 26 etchings by Jules Jacquemart, morocco extra, g. e., by Belz-Niedrée, Techner, 1862, folio (266) Lewine, £4 6641 Jameson (Mrs.) Sacred and Legendary Art, 2 vol., 1857Legends of the Monastic Orders, 1852-Legends of the Madonna, 1857, numerous etchings and woodcuts, together 4 vol., morocco, blind tooled sides, gilt gauffred edges, together 4 vol., 8vo. (126) Bumpus, £2 6s. 6642 Johnson (Samuel). Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are deduced from their Originals and illustrated in their different significations by Examples from the best Writers, first edition, 2 vol., russia extra, gilt borders on sides, 1755, folio (267) Sotheran, £2 125.

6643 Keats (John). Poems, first edition, morocco extra, g. e., C. and J. Ollier, 1817, 8vo. (130)

Dobell, £18 155.

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