The preceding 4 lots, consisting of 133 bound volumes, and altogether of nearly 1000 Tracts and Opera minora, illustrative of the History of Engineering, were collected by Mr. John Rennie and Sir John Rennie, the two great Engineers, and they onght to be secured for some Public Library. It would be impossible to get again together such a collection, as from the trifling value of many of these books and tracts at the time of publication, they were read and destroyed. The four lots, priced separately £36. 16s, will be sold together for £25. 10285 FEN TRACTS. A most interesting and valuable Collection of Tracts relating to the Drainage of LINCOLNSHIRE and NORFOLK, formed by Sir JOHN RENNIE, in all 84 Tracts, £12. 12s. Including the following: WORKS ON THE FINE ARTS, THE GALLERIES, BOOKS OF COSTUME, OLD VIEWS, ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAITS, ORNAMENTS, EARLY WOODCUTS. DRAWINGS AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS: 10286 HOWITT (S.) ILLUSTRATIONS OF ESOP'S FABLES, Thirty Original DRAWINGS IN WATER-COLOURS by this eminent Artist, (many of them with his signature), finely designed and executed, folio, well adapted to illustrate Barlow's edition, £15. (? 1820) 10287 LA CAVE, DRAWINGS AFTER NATURE. A Collection of about one hundred Original Drawings by this talented Artist, depicting Rustic Scenery, Groups of Figures, Landscapes, old Buildings, Churches, Cottages, Roadside Inns, Animals, Sheep, Oxen, Horses, etc. very beautifully executed after Nature, and highly finished in Water-colours, all mounted on thick tinted paper and bound in 1 vol. roy. folio, crimson morocco extra, with joints and gilt edges, £25. 1800, etc. This splendid volume is worthy the atten- | pastoral landscapes, figures of cattle, etc. rition of the connoisseur. Very little is known of valling even Cuyp and Berghem. this English Artist, who excelled in depicting 10288 Mantegna. VORAGINE (Jacopo di) Legende di tutte i Sancti et le Sancte, dalla Romana Sedia acceptati & honorati (tradotte da Nicolao de Manerbi), folio, FIRST EDITION, slightly stained, and several leaves mended, the margin ornamented with 52 original pen and ink DRAWINGS, by Andrea MANTEGNA, in the master's best style, russia extra, gilt edges, from Dr. Wellesley's library, £36. Venetia, N. Jenson (1475) 10289 OFFICIUM Beatæ Virginis Mariæ secundum Consuetudinem Curiæ Romanæ cum Calendario, 16mo. Manuscript on VELLUM, beautifully written by an Italian Scribe for a Member of the Family of ALDOBRANDINI, whose ARMS are painted beneath the first two Miniatures, adorned with letters of gold, illuminated capitals, elegant borders, and 11 superb MINIATURES, executed by a first-class Artist in gold and colours, blue velvet, gilt edges, £94. circa 1490 This "Gem" fetched at Sir Thomas Gage'stained at low prices, "first-class Italian Illumisale a very high price ;-the MS. is well worth nated MSS. are of the rarest occurrence." the price affixed. Ordinary MSS. are easily ob 10290 ROMAN ACADEMY OF ART: Ordini e Statuti dell' Academia del Disegno de Pittori, Scultori et Architetti di Roma, sotto il titolo e padrocinio di San Luca, folio, 211 pp. MS. on paper, old calf, 188 (temp. 1630) 10291 ROMANT DES ROMANS ou on verra la suitte et la Conclusion de DON BELIANIS de Grece, du CHEVALIER DU SOLEIL et des AMADIS, par Du Verdier, 7 vols sm. 4to. fine engravings, beautiful copy, probably the only one printed in 4to. with several DRAWINGS in illustration, rich old red morocco, gilt edges, by De Rome, £14. Paris, 1626-9 10292 SCHMIDT (G. F.) Catalogue of his Etchings and Engravings, a neatly written English MS. 8vo. 1S6 pp. prepared for publication, hf. calf neat, from Dr. Wellesley's library, 24s (? 1840) 10293 ADAMS'S (R.) Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, impl. folio, 61 beautiful plates by Bartolozzi and other celebrated Engravers, very fine original impressions, half bd. uncut, 36s 1764 A copy of this very splendid work fetched at Col. Stanley's, £6. 16s 6d; 1819, North's, Willett's sale £5. 158 6d; Townsend's, £6. 16s 6d; | £7. 10s; 1862, Miss Currer's, mor. £8. 178 6d. 10294 ÆSOPI VITA ET FABULÆ, latine, cum versione italica, et allegoriis Fr. Tuppi, folio, with an exquisitely beautiful series of woodcuts, surrounded by Arabesque borders, in English olive morocco super extra, joints, gilt edges, the Yemeniz copy, £80. Neapoli, 1485 Belle et très-rare édition, ornée de bonnes | delicacy seldom observable in works of the period. vignettes gravées sur bois. Exemplaire trèsgrand de marges. The present is a beautiful copy of one of the most curious publications of the Fifteenth Century. It contains the Life of Æsop and his Fables with an Italian Version and a moral explanation, a paraphrase and a parallel story extracted from the Chronicles of Italy, or from some event of recent occurrence and affixed to each Fable. "EXTREMELY RARE. De Bure had not seen it, when he wrote his Bibliographie Instructive, and Crofts had it not "-MS. Note by the late Mr. Heber. "Belle et très rare édition, ornée de figures assez bien gravées sur bois.”Brunet. The woodcuts are very remarkable for their spirit and effect, and are finished with a 10295 ESOPE, Ses FABLES illustrées de Discours, Nouvelle Edition ou sont adjoustées les Fables de Philelphe avecque des Reflexions Morales par J. Baudoin, thick 12mo. frontispiece slightly injured, portrait and 118 copper plates, old French CITRON MOROCCO, gilt edges, from the library of H. R. H. Madame Sophia, whose arms stamped in gold are on the sides, rare, £2. 12s 6d 10296 Africa. THIRTY different Drafts of GUINEA, by W. SMITH, Surveyor to ye Royal African Company of England, obl. folio, large map of Africa, by Senex, and 30 Views and Maps, by Gray, calf, 128 Paris, 1619 London, J. Clarke, s. a. (cir. 1730) 10297 AGINCOURT (SEROUX D') HISTOIRE DE L'ART PAR LES MONUMENS, depuis sa Décadence au quatrième Siècle, jusqu'à son Renouvellement au seizième, 6 vols. in 3, impl. folio, with 325 plates, (pub. at £15.) superior hf. bd. red MOROCCO extra, gilt edges, £10. 16s 10298 10299 10300 Paris, 1823 MONUMENTS OF ART; Denkmaeler der Architectur, Sculptur und Malerei vorzugsweise in Italien, vom IV. bis zum XVI. Jahrhundert, royal folio, 328 beautiful plates, with 3835 engravings, comprising an immense amount of Detail, with text, in 4to. hf. morocco, 328 Frankfurt, 1846 The History of Art by its Monuments, from its Decline in the Fourth Century, to its Restoration in the Sixteenth Century; with 3835 Subjects on 328 plates, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting; translated from the French by OWEN JONES, 3 vols. in 1, folio, (sells for £5. 58) £2.2s £4. 10s 1850 Storia dell' Arte, dimostrata coi Monumenti da Ticozzi, 6 vols. 8vo. and 3 vols. in 1, large folio, 325 plates re-engaged superior to the Paris edition, many of the plates being re-designed by Italian Artists, and fully engraved instead of the outline used for the Paris ed. hf. bd. vellum, Prato, 1826-29 from celebrated Monuments, we trace the transitions of Art from the classic period to our own times. Sculpture, Painting, the Art of Illumination, and the Art of Engraving on Wood, on Gems, and on Medals are similarly represented. The division of this grand work is into three parts: Architecture, 73 plates; II. Sculpture, 51 plates; III. Painting, 204 plates. To Antiquaries and lovers of the Fine Arts, this work is indispensable; it connects the works of Winckelman and Cicognara, and forms with them a most interesting series. "It is a work that has long been sought and prized by all who could afford the high price at which only it was to be procured. No Library, Architect, Painter, Sculptor, or any one connected with the Fine Arts, should be without such a work." "This fine work was the first in which the idea of exhibiting the Progress of Art, by a series of its noblest monuments, was perfectly carried out. By a series of accurate Engravings 10301 AINSLIE'S (Sir Robert) Collection of coloured Views, in imitation of original Drawings taken during his Embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer, comprehending the following important places: ÉGYPT, 48 views-PALESTINE, 24 views - CARAMANIA, in the Ottoman Empire, 24 views-TURKEY in EUROPE and in Asia, 72 views, with description in French and English, containing 174 views, beautifully coloured equal to drawings, (pub. at 48 guineas) bds. £2. 16s 1805-10 10302 Aix-la-Chapelle: LES XVI NIELLES du Grand Lustre de la Cathedrale d'Aix-la-Chapelle, exécutés en мCLXV, large folio, 16 plates taken from these early Monuments of the Graver, illustrative of Christian Art, bds. 208 Paris, 1859 ALGIERS-see BERBRUGGER. 10303 Alhambra. PRANGEY (Girault de) Choix d'Ornements Moresques de l'Alhambra, large folio, 30 plates on India paper by Peyre, hf. morocco, 14s Paris, Hauser, (1839) 10304 ALLASON (Thos. Archit.) Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of POLA, in ISTRIA, impl. folio, 10 fine plates and 4 vignettes engraved by Cooke and others, bds. 128 1819 Alphabets (Ornamental) 10305 PREISLER (J. D.) Orthographia, small oblong folio, title and 12 plates of a beautiful German Ornamental Alphabet, with elaborate ornamental top-border, and an ornamental engraving in the centre of each plate, vellum, £2. 16s (Augsb.) J. C. Weigel,? 1650 AMMAN (Jost)-see post "Woodcuts." 10306 ANGELICO (Fra) La Vita di Gesu Christo dipinta, da FRA Giovanni da Fiesolé, detto il beato ANGELICO incisa da Nocchi, atlas folio, 56 very large beautiful engravings from the famous Paintings in the Florentine Gallery, hf. morocco, 368 Firenze, 1843 10307 ARCHÉOLOGIE DE L'EMPIRE DE Russie, publiée par ordre supérieur (de l'Empereur Nicolas); forming 6 vols. divided into 7, impl. folio, of 515 richly coloured plates of the Remains of GREEK, BYZANTINE, and early SLAVONIC ART existing in the Southern parts of Russia, with the explanations underneath in FRENCH; with a Russian Text in 6 vols. 4to. (pub. at £70.) new, clean, and perfect, £48. Moscow, 1849-53 The companion to "DU SOMMERARD, les, Arts au Moyen Age," but superior to that work in the accuracy of the plates. où l'on donne la description suivante du contenu de l'ouvrage, description dont j'ai constaté l'exactitude en parcourant l'exemplaire de présent que possède la Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France: I. Saintes croix ornaments d'Eglise, II. Costumes des Tsars, 102 pl. Sellerie, 148 pl. IV. Costumes et portraits des Tsars, V. Coupes, aiguières et objets d'or- VI. Monuments civils, religieux et meubles, 40 pl. 10308 MEYRICK: SKELTON'S (Jos.) Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Merrick, 2 vols. impl. 4to. with 150 plates of Arms and Armour, (pub. at £11. 11s) hf. bound morocco, gilt tops, £4. 10s Lond. 1830 10309 ARMERIA REAL DE MADRID (la) ou collection des principales pièces de la Galerie d'Armes anciennes de Madrid, texte par Achille JUBINAL, roy. folio, 80 fine engravings, BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, with descriptive letterpress, green morocco extra, gilt edges, £6. Paris, 1839 10310 HEWETT (J.) Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe, from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the end of the XVIIth Century, with Illustrations from contemporary Monuments, 3 vols. 8vo. very numerous plates and woodcuts, (pub. at £2. 88) cloth extra, gilt tops, uncut, 36s 1860 Armour-continued. 10311 MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR, a Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Noman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II., with a Glossary, &c., by SIR SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK, LL.D., F.S,A., &c. new and greatly improved edition, corrected and enlarged by the Author himself, with the assistance of Literary and Antiquarian Friends (Albert Way, &c.) 3 vols. 4to. illustrated by more than 100 plates, splendidly ILLUMINATED, mostly in gold and silver, exhibiting some of the finest specimens existing in England, also a new plate of the Tournament of Locks and Keys, (pub. at £21.) neatly hf. bound morocco, gilt extra, full gilt backs and edges, £8. 88 Sir Walter Scott justly describes this collection as "the incomparable Armoury." 1842 full, rich costume of the Order of the GarterPlates as fine as the monuments of Westminster Abbey. Really and truly the work is admirably executed, and deserves every eulogy." Edinb. Reviem. "This most superb Archæological work is animated with numerous novelties, curious and historical disquisitions, and brilliant and recondite learning-Learning going to Court in the 10312 ROCKSTUHL. Collection d'Armes, ou Musée de Tzarskoe-Selo de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie, dessiné par Rockstuhl, avec une description par Fl. Gille, 2 vols. atlas folio, GRAND PAPIER, 180 fine large lithographic plates on INDIA PAPER, by Asselinean, (usual selling price 135 Thalers or £21.) hf. bd. red morocco, gilt tops, uncut, now rare, £15. 15s Carlsruhe, 1835-53 10313 ART OF ILLUMINATING as practised in Europe from the earliest Times, Illustrated by Borders, Initial letters, and Alphabets Selected and Chromolithographed by W. R. Tymms, and Digby Wyatt, 4to. 100 plates, heightened in gold, and ornamental borders surrounding each page, cloth gilt, (pub. at £3. 13s 6d) £2. 28 Day and Son, n. d. 10314 ARTAUD DE MONTOR, Peintres Primitifs, collection de Tableaux rapportée d'Italie et publiée par lui, reproduite sous la direction de Challamel, roy. 4to. 60 large plates, beautifully executed in Lithography, on India paper, (pub. at 60 fr. sd.) hf. bd. 258 Paris, 1813 10315 ARTS SOMPTUAIRES (les) Histoire du Costume et de l'Ameublement et des Arts et Industries qui s'y rattachent, 3 vols. 4to. several hundred beautiful plates, in RICH COLOURS, (pub. at 400 fr.) sd. £12.; or half morocco, £14. 1854-59 10316 ART UNION (THE), a Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts, 10 vols. in 8, numerous elegant illustrations, 1839-48-ART JOURNAL from 1849 to 1860 inclusive, New Series, 5 vols. forming Vol. XI to XXI of Old Series, numerous fine engravings, 1849-53-Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of 1851, numerous engravings, 1851, Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition, numerous engravings, 1853, hf. morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, and from 1854 to 1860 unbound-together 22 vols. large 4to. fifteen in hf. morocco, seven in parts, £15. 1839-60 10317 ARUNDEL SOCIETY. A PERFECT SET OF THESE BEAUTIFUL, RARE AND EXTREMELY INTRICATE PUBLICATIONS, complete from the commencement in 1849 to 1866 inclusive, £36. 1849-66 10317* the same, with all the EXTRA PLATES as correctly described in division No. 3, £55. 1849-66 Sets made up for owners of imperfect copies as far as possible; some of the plates being 1849-50 VASARI's Life of Fra Giovanni Ange- 1853 RUSKIN'S Notice of Giotto and his Works in Padua, part I. impl. 8vo. 1854 RUSKIN'S Giotto, part II. impl. 8vo. |