1990 PETTIGREW'S Bibliotheca Sussexiana, a descriptive Catalogue, with historical 1827-39 1991 A most useful catalogue of an extensive collection of rare and curious books. M.Renouard was well skilled in 1997 Annales de l'Imprimerie des ALDE, stout 8vo. portraits, half calf, gilt top, 2000 1841-5 The same price will be given by B. Q. for the first volume. 1846 2001 ROSE'S Biographical Dictionary, 12 vols. 8vo. double columns, calf gilt, very 1857 An exact Catalogue of a fine collection of more than 30,000 vols. and many MSS. 2004 the same, Vol. III. 8vo. sd. 10s 1842 1847 2006 SAINTE PALAIE, Histoire Littéraire des Troubadours, extraits, etc. 3 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1774 2007 2009 LIST of the Catalogues of the Libraries sold by auction by Messrs. Baker, Leigh 1818 2010 SANTANDER (De la Serna) Catalogue des Livres de sa Bibliothèque, avec des 2011 la même, 5 vols. 8vo. a fine copy, in calf neat, from Miss Currer's library, 2013 another copy, 3 vols. 8vo. cf. 18s Priced, 1840, Payne and Foss, £1. 7s; Roscoe's copy fetched £1. 15ș. Brux. 1805-7 1805-7 2014 SANDERI. Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta; Elenchus Codicum MSS. in 1822 with all the numerous plates, coloured and plain, exhibiting all the varieties of A repertory of curious information on the most recondite subjects. Venetiis, 1755 Particularly valuable on account of the Addenda, containing "Prefationes et Epistolæ voluminibus editis appo- 2024 SOTHEBY (S. Leigh) PRINCIPIA TYPOGRAPHICA: the BLOCK-BOOKS, or, 2025 STEPHENS, Brittiska och Fransyska Handskrifterna uti Kongl. Biblioth. i Stock- £3. 3s 1862 2026 STEVENS' Historical Nuggets: Bibliotheca Americana, account of rare books 1859 2031 Types. BROGIOTTUS. Indice de Caratteri con l'inventori e nomi di Only 250 copies were printed; the work will be finished in five vols. "C'est une étude sérieuse, raisonnée, A carefully classified Catalogue of an excellent and very useful library. 2034 VAN PRAET, Catalogue des livres imprimés sur VÉLIN de la Bibliothéque du Roi, 5 vols. in 4, Paris, 1822; Tom. VI. Supplement, 1828-Catalogue des livres imprimés sur VÉLIN qui se trouvent dans les bibliothéques tant publiques que particulières, pour servir de suite au catalogue des livres de la Bibliotheque du Roi, 3 vols. in 1, Paris, 1824; Tom. IV. Supplement, 1828-together 10 vols. in 7, 8vo. calf, £4. 5s Paris, 1822-28 Only 200 copies were printed. Priced, 1840, Jas. Bohn, £5. 15s 6d. "L'importance et la grande valeur des livres décrits, l'exactitude rigoreuse des descriptions, et les anecdotes intéressantes que le savant rédacteur a su y répandre, nous font regarder ce catalogue comme un des plus curieux qui existent."-Brunet. 2035 VATER'S Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexika, und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen, von Jülg, 8vo. sd. 5s 6d Paris, 1859 Berlin, 1847 2036 VERARD. Renouvier, Gravures en Bois dans les livres d'Anthoine Verard, 1485-1512, 8vo. sd. only 200 printed, 7s 2037 VINCENT'S Classified Catalogue of the Library of the ROYAL INSTITUTION, with Indexes of Authors and Subjects, and list of Historical Pamphlets, stout 8vo. 928 pp. half bound, 78 1857 2038 WALCHII, Bibliotheca Theologica, cum litterariis adnotationibus, 4 vols. 8vo. calf or vellum, 16s Jenæ, 1757-65 "All who are conversant with sacred literature have borne testimony to the correctness and research of Walch."-Horne. 2039 WATT'S Bibliotheca Britannica, or General Index to British and Foreign Literature, including an account of upwards of 40,000 Authors, as well as the Works they have written, 2 parts (Authors, and Subjects) in 4 vols. 4to. (pub. at £11. 11s) half calf, £4. 10s; or, in calf gilt, £5. 5s Edinb. 1824 "Let me not forget to notice that wonderful work of Dr. Watt, both father and son FELL VICTIMS to their zeal in its completion; such a concentration of labour was hardly ever beheld; and it should never fail to be the LIBRARY COMPANION of all collectors."-Dibdin. 2040 WILLETT. Catalogue of the Library at Merly, sold at Sotheby's, December 1813, 8vo. prices and purchasers' names added in MS. hf. bd. 5s 1813 2041 WILSON. Bibles, Testaments, Psalms and other Books of the Holy Scriptures, in English, in the Collection of Lea Wilson, sm. 4to. vellum, uncut, rare, £10. Privately printed, 1845 2042 WOLFII (J. C.) Bibliotheca Hebræa, sive notitia Auctorum Hebraeorum cujuscunque ætatis, et Scriptorum, Hebraicè, vel conversorum, cum Gaffarelli Indice Codicum Cabbalistic. MSS. 4 vols. stout sm. 4to. vel. rare, £2.16s Hamb.1715-33 Monumenta Typographica, 2 vols. stout 12mo. hf. vellum, 6s; or, russia neat, 10s Hamb. 1740 2044 WOOD (Anthony a) ATHENE OXONIENSES: An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford; to which are added the Fasti, or Annals of the said University; new edition with additions, and a Continuation by Dr. Bliss, 4 vols. royal 4to. (pub. at £15. 15s in bds.) calf gilt, £10. 1813 2043 "More care, attention, accuracy, and valuable enlargement, from an inexhaustible stock of materials (some of them contemporaneous) has rarely been witnessed, than in the editorial labours of Dr. Bliss." 2045 WRANGHAM (Archd.) Catalogue of the English Portion of his Library, 8vo. cloth, only 70 copies printed, unpublished, 12s Malton, 1826 2046 YOUNG (Sir C.) Catalogue of the Arundel Manuscripts in the College of Arms, roy. 8vo. not published, bds. 14s 1829 2047 ZAPF, Reisen in einige Klöster Schwabens, durch den Scharzwald, und in die Schweiz, 4to. 13 plates of Facsimiles from MSS. etc. bds. 78 6d Erlangen, 1786 2047*- Aelteste Buchdrukergeschichte Schwabens, 8vo. fine paper, half bound, 7s 6d Ulm, 1791 2048 ZEDLER'S Universal Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste, welche bishero durch menschlichen Verstand und Witz erfunden worden, A-Z, 64 vols.-Supplement, A-Caq, 4 vols.-together 68 vols. folio, complete, vellum neat, contents lettered on each volume, a good and clean copy throughout, a bargain, £14. Halle und Leipz. Zedler, 1732-54 This voluminous and highly valuable Encyclopædia, well known and appreciated in Germany, is but seldom found in this country. It is the grandest and most complete Encyclopædia ever published, and contains the entire range of human knowledge, the arts and sciences, discoveries and inventions, technical terms, &c. up to the time of its publication. Sir Frederick Madden, the Keeper of the MSS. British Museum, speaks in the highest terms of praise of this stupendous work. Mr. Cogswell, the eminent librarian of the Astor Library, New York, also extols its great utility. To Public Libraries such a work is indispensable, since it forms the very Key to all Human Knowledge and to all Learning, previous to its publication. "Of all Encyclopædias the best, containing the whole range of the Human Knowledge gathered with great care into one body."-Meusel. "Ausim contendere, difficile esse, in uno volumine toto invenire errores tot, quot in Lexico illo Gallorum Encyclopædico (Diderot and D'Alembert, Encyclopédie), sunt in una pagina. Mille quæstiones incidere, quæ bre viter et sufficienter ex illo (Zedler) possint decidi. Et indicati sunt fontes, unde, si cujus intersit, peti possunt plura. Ad hoc utilissimum est in Bibliotheca magna, ubi statim ad manus sunt libri indicati, et ubi plures fontes invenias. Neminem temere frustra demittet, quidquid ibi quæras; et ubique relegat ad Fontes, quos habuerint auctores. Nempe ille materiam infinitam ex libris innumerabilibus redegit in ordinem. Est Index generalis omnium fere Librorum "- Gesner, Erud. Univ. tom. I. p. 515. Norimb. 1716 2049 ZELTNERI, Correctorum in Typographiis Eruditorum Centuria, 12mo. containing lives of MYLES COVERDALE, P. Manuzio, Erasmus, Melancthon, Plantin, Servetus, H. Stephens, &c. calf gilt, 9s 2050 ZENO (Apostolo) Biblioteca di Fontanini, 2 vols. sm. 4to. cloth, 15s Parma, 1803 2051 LONDON CORPORATION Library, Alphabetical Index to the Catalogue of the, 8vo. bds. 3s 6d "The favourite among Italian Bibliographers."— Dibdin. GAMES, SPORTS, EXERCISES. 1846 2052 BLAINE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS, Complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, &c. 8vo. with above 600 woodcut illustrations, including 20 from Designs by JOHN LEECH, (pub. at 42s) new, 35s 2053 LEHMANNI Tractatus de variis Ludendi generibus, sm. 4to. hf. morocco, uncut, 7s 6d Budissa, 1680 2054 BOOK OF SAINT ALBANS. The Book containing the treatises of Hawking, Hunting, Coat-Armour, Fishing, and Blasing of Arms [by Dame Juliana Berners], cuts of arms, &c. Reprinted in black and red type, after Wynkyn de Worde's Edition, of 1496, with an Introduction by Joseph Haslewood, Esq. folio, calf, £6. 6s 1810 2055 [COX], the Gentleman's Recreation: Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, thick 8vo. fifth edition, plates, calf, 9s 1707 the same, sixth edition, 8vo. frontispiece and 3 folding plates, calf neat, the back symbolically tooled, 10s 2056 1721 This latter copy has the folding sheet of music, giving easy directions for Blowing the Horn, which is often wanting. The Appendix contains choice receipts for the cure of several maladies. 2057 STRUTT'S Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, from the earliest 1830 period to the present, new edition, with Index, by Hone, 8vo. 140 curious woodcuts, after ancient paintings, bds. 7s 6d 2058 WEYDTWERGK. Vögel zufahen mit Raubvögeln, Netzen, etc.; Wildt fahen mit Netzen, Stricken, etc.; Fisch zufahen mit Netzen, Reusen, etc. und wie man alles darzu dienlich bereytten, auffzichen, halten uñ machen sol, jetz new gemehrt, Franckfurt am Meyn, 1531-TAPPII (Eberhardi) Waidwerck und Federspiel, von der Häbichen unnd Falcken, Strassburg, Cammer · Lander, 1542; în 1 vol. smallest 4to. curious woodcuts, bds. uncut, extremely rare, £3.3s 1531-42 2059 ANGLING. TAYLOR (Sam.) Angling in all its branches, with list of Artificial Flies, etc. 8vo. bds. 5s 1800 1836 2060 WALTON AND COTTON'S COMPLETE ANGLER, with original Memoirs and Notes by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, 2 vols. impl. 8vo. PICKERING'S SPLENDID EDITION, with 61 plates, portraits and vignettes, by Stothard, Inskipp, etc. (pub. at £10. 10s), calf gilt, £4.; or, a very fine copy, calf extra, gilt edges, £5. 2061 CAIRNIE'S Essay on Curling and Artificial Pond-Making, 8vo. plates, a curious work on North British Sports, bds. 5s Glasgow, 1833 2062 FRANCK'S Northern Memoirs, with the contemplative and practical Angler, 1658, 8vo. calf neat, 6s Edinb. 1821 2063 HERBERT, Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British North America, 8vo. woodcuts of fishes, (pub. at 16s) cloth, 7s 6d 1849 2064 Bird Fancying. The Bird-Fancier's Delight, observations and directions on the taking, breeding, and teaching of Singing Birds, 12mo. calf, 78 6d 1714 2065 CARDS. BREITKOPF, Ursprung der Spielkarten, etc. Theil 1.: Die Spielkarten und das Leinenpapier, sm. 4to. 14 plates, hf. calf, 7s Leipz. 1784 2066 MURNER (Thomæ) Logica Memorativa: Chartiludium Logice, sive totius dialectice memoria, sm. 4to. numerous woodcuts, very rare, £7. 7s Argent. 1509 A singular work, in which Murner attempted to teach logic by means of a game of cards; thereby acquiring the name of a sorcerer. See SINGER'S HISTORY, pp 211, 216. 2067 SINGER'S (S. W.) Researches into the History of PLAYING CARDS; with Illustrations of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood, 4to. with many singularly curious Engravings from early Prints, Paintings on Wood and Ivory, Packs of Cards, &c. illustrative of Mediaeval Art, red MOROCCO extra, gilt edges, £5. 5s 1816 "It is seldom that the public have seen a more beautifully planned and executed work than the present. The facsimile engravings upon wood cannot be surpassed. The entire impression is limited to 250 copies, so that, when the intrinsic work and extrinsic beauty be considered, the curious will not fail to secure copies whenever they make their appearance."-DIBDIN'S DECAMERON, vol. ii. p. 399. 2068 GEOGRAPHICAL Playing Cards, German or Dutch, 32 (wanting the titles) 58 ca. 1700 2069 GERMAN PLAYING CARDS, 49, twelve being Court Cards, spiritedly designed, representing the heroes of the Greek Revolution, with their names, bound in a vol. 24mo. brown morocco, 12s 2070 JOLLIVET, l'excellent Jeu du Tricque-Trac, très doux esbat és nobles compagnies-Académie ou Maison des Jeux, Picquet, etc. Paris, 1604—2 vols. in 1, 12mo. limp vellum, rare, 28s ca. 1829 Paris, 1837 2071 POPISH PLOT. Twenty curiously designed Cards, illustrative of the Popish Plot, among which are, Mr. Dugdale in Staffordshire reading letters; Argyle receiving a wound on his head; the Duke of Monmouth beheaded on Tower Hill; Pitts whipt through every town in Dorsetshire; etc. with inscriptions under, RARE, 28s circa 1690 2072 ROUSE's Doctrine of Chances, or the Theory of Gaming made easy, 8vo. bd. 5s s. a. (P 1810) 2073 CHESS. ALEXANDRE, Encyclopédie des Echecs, roy. 4to. text in French, German, Italian, and English, ed. 6s 2074 Collection des plus beaux Problemes d'Echecs, plus de 2000, roy. 8vo. sd. Paris, 1846 2075 AUTOMATON CHESS PLAYER. Inanimate Reason, by Windisch, 1784-Observations. on the Automaton, 1819-Attempt to analyse the Automaton Chess Player, 1821-3 Tracts on Kempelen's celebrated exhibition, 8vo. with plates, 7s 6d 1784-1821 2076 BILGUER's Handbuch des Schachspiels, herausg. von Lasa, royal 8vo. hf. morocco, 5s Berlin, 1852 2077 CAXTON'S Game of Chess, a facsimile reproduction of the first work printed in England, from the copy in the British Museum, 4to. 23 woodcuts, printed on antique paper, new in cloth, ONLY 80 COPIES PRINTED, 20s 7s 6d 1862 Preceded by an introduction, a List of the works ascribed to Caxton, list of the places and persons where and by whom printing was practised in the time of Caxton, and a Synopsis of characters used. 2078 CESSOLE (Giacobo da), Opera nuova nella quale se insegna il regimento e costumi delli huomini et delle doñe etc. sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, 12mo. 56 leaves, red morocco extra, £3. 3s Vineggia, Bindoni e Pasini, 1534 Questa traduzione è diversa da quella di Firenze, 1493.-HAYM. 2079 DAMIANO PORTUGHESE, Libro da imparare giocare a Scachi, et de belissimi Partiti, revisti et recorretti, con somma diligentia emendati da molti famosissimi Giocatori, in lingua Spagnola et Taliana, 16mo. woodcut on title and numerous diagrams, FINE COPY, RARE, yellow morocco extra, by Clarke and Bedford, £3. 16s without date, (ca. 1510 Fetched at the Townley sale, £4. 10s. 2080 FORBES' History of Chess, from its Invention in India to its Establishment in Europe, 8vo. new in cloth, 9s 6d 1860 2081 FRONDES CADUCE; The Buke of ye Chess, script. per manu Jhōis Sloane, 4to. black letter, with rubric headings, hf. mor. uncut, 18s Auchinleck Press, 1818 Edited by Sir Alexander Boswell, and only 40 copies printed for private circulation. 2082 GIUOCO incomparabile degli Scacchi, opera d'autore Modenese, 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. hf. calf, gilt top, uncut, 78 6d Venezia, 1812 2083 GIUOCHO DEGLI SCACCHI. Volgarizzamento del libro de' Costumi e degli offizi de' Nobili sopra il Giuoco degli Scacchi di J. da Cessole, tratto da un Codice Magliabechiano da Pietro Marocco, 8vo. with very curious facsimiles, engraved after the Drawings of the Early MS. showing the Mediaeval Traders, Officials, etc. at their customary occupations, hf. morocco, 68 Milano, 1829 Doubly interesting, as one of the earliest Chess-books, and as an attractive picture of Mediaeval Manners and Customs. Privately printed at the expense of the learned editor. 2084 HYDE, De Ludis Orientalibus: Historia Shahiludii, Nerdiludii, cum aliis Arabum, Pers. Ind. Chin. etc. Ludis, 3 vols. in 1, 12mo. plates, vel. rare, 10s Oxon. 1694 2085 PALA MEDE (Le) Revue mensuelle des ECHECs et autres Jeux, 7 vols. 8vo. portraits and Chess Problems, (pub. at 108 fr.) sd. 35s Paris, 1842-47 2086 TWISS' Miscellanies, 2 vols.-CHESS, 2 vols.-together 4 vols. in 2, 8vo. plates, hf. calf, uniform, 158 1787-1805 2087 COOKERY. CARVING and SERVING: A Collection of Engravings of Birds, Fish, Fruit, &c. showing the Methods of carving and of sending Dishes to |