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slightly wormed, half calf, Venetiis, G. Walch, 1479, folio (814) Leighton, £2 18s. 7131 Rudimentum Novitiorum, lit. gotb., double columns, 47 lines, without marks, woodcut maps, Chain genealogies, large and small woodcuts, large woodcut initials, ornamental borders, etc., mostly coloured by hand, capitals painted in blue and red (some margins cut into), 2 leaves in MS. facsimile, and supposed to want a preliminary leaf, had a duplicate leaf of the Anointing of Saul, sold not subject to return, contemporary oaken boards, stamped ornamental pigskin, with arms (well preserved), Lubecae, Lucas Brandis de Schasz, 1475, large folio (1119) Tinkler, £45

[The first book printed at Lubeck, and one remarkable for its xylographic illustrations. William Morris's copy (wanted 11 leaves) sold for £52. (See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xiii., No. 1786.)-—ÉD.]

7132 Ruskin (J.) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, numerous plates and illustrations, 1851-3, 8vo. (454)

Quaritch, 11 IOS.

7133 Salmon (N.) History and Antiquities of Essex, map and plates, calf, 1740, folio (786) Walford, 1 16s. 7134 Savonarola (Michael). De Balneis et termis naturalibus omnibus ytaliae sicque totius orbis, gothic letter, printed in double columns, a few MS. marginal notes in an old hand, half vellum, Ferrariae, A. Gallus, 1485, folio (769)

Leighton, £335.

7135 Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Novels, Border edition, with Introductory Essays and Notes by Andrew Lang, 48 vol., LARGE PAPER, proof etchings on morocco, g. e., 1893-94, 8vo. (87)

Japan paper, half
Quaritch, £13
Centenary edition,

7136 Scott (Sir Walter). Waverley Novels, 25 vol. (wanted vol. xix.), portrait and engravings, half calf gilt, m. e., 1871, 8vo. (309) Rimell, £2 2s. 7137 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the True Originall Copies, the first folio edition, most of title and leaf to the reader, large corner of the dedication, the whole of the last leaf, large corners of N 4, X 6, Y 2, 4, 5, I j, and several other smaller deficiencies in which the text has been injured were supplied in facsimile, some rust holes mended and a few not mended, spots and stains on several leaves, and some writing erased on GG 7, but in all other respects a genuine and good copy, measuring generally 12 by 8 inches, sold not subject to return, modern morocco antique, gilt on red edges, by Tuckett, Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623, folio (1428) Pickering, £252

XIV.

[A MS. note on the end fly-leaf of this copy says: "The defects in the first three leaves of this book, the whole of the last leaf, and some smaller deficiencies in various parts, were supplied in facsimile by Mr. A. J. Burtt. The volume was rebound in 1874-5. Four leaves, Henry IV., part ii.,

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pages 91-8, which the binder had discovered to be missing, were procured through Mr. Burtt, and inserted February, 1876."-Catalogue.]

7138 Shakespeare (William). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, the third impression, unto which is added Seven Plays never in print before, an imperfect copy, wanted altogether 49 leaves, including all the preliminaries and several leaves in the spurious plays, and the last 3 leaves of the legitimate plays, margins of some leaves frayed and slightly wormed, but many good leaves in the body of the book, sold not subject to return, 1664, folio (1429) Leighton, £5 5s. 7139 Shenstone (William). The School-Mistress, a Poem in Imitation of Spenser, first edition (wanted the first title), morocco extra, g. e., 1742, 8vo. (1002) Leighton, £2 10s. 7140 Skelton (Sir John). Charles I., edition de luxe, on Japanese paper, with an extra set of the photogravure plates, limited issue, uncut, 1898, 4to. (185) Thorp, £2 6s. 7141 Smith (A.) "Natural History of an Evening Party," Manuscript, 60 leaves, including title, which is written within a border of humorous subjects, and 65 clever humorous illustrations in the text, all in pen and ink, with monogram and date 2/3/48, half bound, 1848, 4to. (1309) Ireland, £20 7142 Stevenson (R. L.) The Pentland Rising, a Page of History, 1666, first edition, in the original light green wrapper, Privately printed, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1866, 8vo. (885) Denham, £5 5s.

7143 Stud Book (General), containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, etc. from the earliest Accounts to 1888, 16 vol., half calf, 1858-89, 8vo. (968) Rimell, £5 12s. 6d. 7144 Surrey Archæological Collections, vol. i.-xii., extra vol. i., Surrey Fines, together 13 vol., illustrations, 1858-95, 8vo. (640) Thorp, £5 12s. 6d. 7145 Surtees (R. S.) Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, second edition, with 15 coloured illustrations by Henry Alken, original cloth, g. e., R. Ackermann, 1843, 8vo. (872) Bain, £25 10s. 7146 Swinburne (A. C.) Grace Darling, printed only for private circulation, parchment, uncut, 1893, 4to. (170)

Zaehnsdorf, £1 7147 Taylor (John, Water Poet). An Englishman's Love to Bohemia, with a friendly Farewell to all the noble Souldiers that goe from Great Britaine to that Honorable Expedition (in verse), original edition, cut on title and reverse, unbound (8 leaves, including the blank), Printed at Dort, 1620, small 4to. (1379) Cotton, £5

7148 Taylor (John, Water Poet). Taylor, his Travels from the City of London in England, to the Citty of Prague in Bohemia, the second edition, corrected and much enlarged (in verse and prose), unbound (16 leaves, with the blank at end, on the reverse of which is the following contemporary inscription: "To my Verie honorable Ladie my Ladie Cranston this be delevered "), N. Okes for H. Gosson, 1621, small 4to. (1380) Hazlitt, £21

7149 Topsel (E.) History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, collected out of the Writings of Gesner, woodcuts, calf, rebacked, 1658, folio (782) Pickering, £4 7s. 6d. 7150 Vecellio (Cesare). Corona delle nobile et virtuose Donne, the 4 parts complete, in 1 vol., 108 plates of lace patterns, title to part I in facsimile, as also several of the plates, sold with all faults, Venetia, 1592, oblong 8vo. (258) Currie, £4 7151 Villa-Señor y Sanchez (J. A. de). Theatro Americano, Descripcion general de los reynos y Provincias de la Nueva-España, y sus jurisdiciones, 2 vol., frontispieces and coats-of-arms, fine copy, old calf, with W. E. Frere's exlibris in each vol., Mexico, 1746-8, folio (1135) Sabin, £7 [Presentation copy from H. W. Longfellow, in 1867, to W. E. Frere, with autograph of "Henry W. Longfellow," and "W. E. Frere, Esq., with best regards of Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, U.S., May 20, 1867," on the flyleaf in each vol. Also Autograph Letter from Longfellow, 21⁄2 pages, 8vo., presenting the volumes, inserted in vol. i.Catalogue.] 7152 Wilkinson (Robert). Londina Illustrata: Graphic and Historic Memorials of London and Westminster, 206 plates, 2 vol., half morocco, t. e. g., others uncut, 1819-25, royal 4to. (1322) Hornstein, £4 8s. 7153 Zoological Society. Proceedings from the commencement in 1830 to 1889, 59 vol.-Indexes from 1830 to 1880, 4 vol., together 64 vol., coloured plates, all in the original cloth, 1830-1889, 4to. (921) Toplis, £44

[JULY 30TH AND THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1900.] SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION.

(No. of Lots, 1,527; amount realised, £1,357 6s.)

7154 [Alken (Henry).] Flowers from Nature, etc. [Flowers from Nature, Drawing Book, Symptoms, British Proverbs, Involuntary Thoughts, Tutor's Assistant, etc.], 39 coloured plates representing many humorous subjects by Alken and others, half bound, McLean, 1824, oblong 4to. (434)

Parsons, £5 12s. 6d. 7155 Almanach de Gotha, portraits and plates, from 1772 to 1887 (some wanted and some in duplicate), 112 vol., as published, sold not subject to return, 1772-1887, 8vo. (951) Meulencere, £6 5s.

7156 Bacon (Lord). Opera Francisci Baconis de Verulamio. Tomus Primus, qui continet De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum lib. IX. (edidit Gulielmus Rawley), first edition,

old calf, In Off. Jo. Haviland, 1623 (AI added with a pen) -Instauratio Magna [i.e., Novum Organum, etc.], et Paraseve ad Historiam Naturalem, first edition, portrait and engraved title, Jo. Bill, 1620–Sylva Sylvarum, published by W. Rawley, frontispiece, 1658, in 2 vol., old calf, lettered vol. i.-ii., folio (396) Johnstone, £13 7157 Bartolozzi (Fr.) Eighty-two and Seventy-three Prints, engraved from the Original Drawings and Pictures of Guercino, Michael Angelo, Domenichino, Caracci, etc., in the Collection of his Majesty, original impressions (vol. i. wanted plate 4), 2 vol., half bound, Boydell, n. d., imperial folio (462) Whitfield, £4 45. 7158 Bentley's Miscellany, vol. i.-lii., 52 vol., portraits and plates by G. Cruikshank, Leech, etc., half morocco, m. e., 1837-62, 8vo. (1390) Quaritch, £7 2s. 6d. 7159 Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, from 1872 (Fünfter Jahrgang) to No. 2, 1900 (wanted 5 nos.), 47 vol. half calf, remainder in numbers, 1872-1900, 8vo. (77) Sotheran, £13 10s. 7160 Bible (The), Genevan Version, revised by L. Tomson, second edition of the Bible printed in Scotland, a little damaged at beginning and end, otherwise a fairly sound copy, sold not subject to return, Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1610, folio (1489) Miss Russell, £2 5s.

7161 British Association for the Advancement of Science. Reports, from the commencement in 1831 to 1899, and two Index vol., together 70 vol., 1833-99, 8vo. (176) George, £7 7162 Browning (Elizabeth B.) Prometheus Bound, translated from the Greek of Æschylus, and Miscellaneous Poems by the translator, author of "An Essay on Mind," with other Poems, first edition, very clean in the original boards, with label, the name, “Mary Pyndar,” written on the title, A. J. Valpy, 1833, 8vo. (1326) Denham, £14 7163 Bulleyn (W.) Bulwarke of Defence against the Sicknesse, Sorenesse and Woundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde, black letter, woodcut title (slightly cut), wanted a few leaves, sold not subject to return (unbound), T. Marshe, 1579 (1483) Bell, 2

7164 Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth, 200 copies privately printed, 4 vol., uncut, 1879, 8vo. (126) Tregaskis, £1 45. 7165 Chemical Society of London. Memoirs and Proceedings, 3

vol., uncut, 1843-8-Journal, from 1849 to Feb., 1900Indexes, vol. i. to xv., and 1894 to 1898-Collective Index, 1873-82, 1883-92-Proceedings, 1885.99, together 3 vol., uncut, 67 half calf, remainder in parts, 1843-1900, 8vo. (78) Wesley, £49

7166 Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, from 1863 (vol. viii.) to 1893, 62 vol. in 31, half calf, 1863-93, 4to. (98) Batsford, £8 2s. 6d. 7167 Coates's Herd-Book, containing the Pedigrees of Improved Short-Horned Cattle, bound in 29 vol. (wanted vol. v., Bulls, and vol. iv., Cows), numerous illustrations, 24 vol., in half

calf gilt, remainder in cloth as issued, with a duplicate of vol. xxi. in boards, 1846-83, 8vo. (1268) Samuels, £2 7168 Combe (W.) The English Dance of Death, 2 vol., original edition, coloured plates from the designs of T. Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations, some leaves and plates slightly soiled, sold not subject to return, R. Ackermann, 1815-16, 8vo. (1276) Sabin, £3 3s. 7169 Combe (W.) Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife, 24 coloured plates by Rowlandson, half calf, Ackermann, 1821, 8vo. (984) Hornstein, £3 IIS. 7170 Cowper (Guil.) Anatomia Corporum Humanum curante Gul. Dandass, etc., 120 large plates, old calf, Amst., 1750, atlas folio (472) Halle, £8 5s. 7171 Decker (Paul). Fürstlicher Baumeister, oder Architectura civilis, in Ventertdurch P. Decker, verlegt von Jeremiah Wollf, 129 plates (one plate torn in half), 3 vol., half bound, Augspurg, 1711-16, oblong imperial folio (484)

Batsford, £65s.

7172 Dublin University Magazine, vol. i. to lxxiii. (inclusive), half calf, 1833-69, 8vo. (571) Edwards, £7 5s. 7173 Durer (Albertus). Epitome in Diva Parthenices Mariæ Historiam ab Alberto Durero Norico, per figurans digestam cum Versibus annexis Chelidonii, cut on title, and 19 full-page woodcuts (title written on), limp vellum, fine copy, Impressum Nuremberge per Albertum Dürer, 1511, imperial folio (469) Rimell, £14 15s.

7174 Fielding (H.) Works, with Life of the Author, 10 vol., portrait and plates, old calf gilt, 1784, 8vo. (1362) Maggs, £1 15s. 7175 Fores (J.) A New Book of Iron Work, containing a variety

of Designs for Gates, Pilasters, Fences, Rails, Galleries, Balconies, Weather Cocks, etc., engraved on 20 copperplates, unbound, uncut, R. Sayer, 1759, folio (468)

Batsford, £4 12s. 6d. 7176 Galerie du Palais Royal, gravée d'après les Tableaux des différentes Écoles qui la composent, avec un abrégé de la Vies des Peintres, etc., par J. Couché, 352 plates, original impressions, 3 vol., half morocco gilt, Paris, Couché et Laporte, 1786-1808, imperial folio (449) Vyt, £5 15s.

7177 Goldsmith (Oliver). The Vicar of Wakefield, a Tale, illustrated with 24 designs by Thomas Rowlandson, coloured, half bound, Ackermann, 1817, 8vo. (1398)

Hornstein, £7 12s. 6d.

Bell, £2 IS.

7178 Goldsmith (Oliver). The Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, etc., 2 vol. in I, first edition, in the original binding, 1762, 8vo. (1252) 7179 Gould (J.) Birds of Australia, parts 1-21, coloured plates, subscriber's copy, 1840-45, folio (1527)

Poole, £6

7180 Granville (J.) Les Metamorphoses du Jour, 75 humorous coloured plates (no title), half bound, Paris, s. d., oblong 4to. (435) Parsons, £4 11S. 7181 Haines (H.) Manual of Monumental Brasses, illustrations, 2 vol., uncut, Parker, 1861, 8vo. (4)

Hill, £2 4s.

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