GIFT OF

PKOFES SOR W. A . S E TCHELL

No. 214.

AN

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
RARE BOOKS

INCLUDING

TBE UNIQUE COPY OF COPLAND'S LOTHBERY EDITION OF DAME
JULIANA BURNERS' BOOKE OF HAUKING, HUNTING & FYSSHYNG,

A FINE XVth CENTURY ILLUMINATED FLEMISH HOR/E,
WITH 25 MINIATURES.

CHARLES Una's OWN COPY OF THE EIKON BASIL1KE, 1649,

TWO FRAGMENTS OF AN UNKNOWN HORd: OF SARUM USE,
PRINTED BY WYNKYN DE WORDE,

CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHNSON'S HISTORY of NEW ENGLAND, 1654,

AND OTHER SCARCE AMERICANA,

CHOICE EXAMPLES OF TOOLED AND INLAID BINDINGS, by

SAMUEL and CHARLES MEARNE, and other Masters of the Art,

WALLER'S POEMS, 1645, and his Poem on the Park at St. Jamese's ;

PERSIAN MS. OF NIZAMI, WITH 22 MINIATURES,
INCUNABULA, Elacfc letter tfOOte, EARLY WOODCUTS,

A REMARKABLE SERIES OF SIGNATURES OF ELIZABETHAN
CELEBRITIES AND OTHER AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,

Including

HOLOGRAPH LETTERS OF ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester;

THOMAS SACKVILLE, Lord Buckhurst ; and HENRY OF LORRAIN,

Duke of Guise, Cousin of Mary Queen of Scots, etc., etc.

On Sale at the moderate prices affixed by

Telephone -HOLBORN 5120.

MYERS & Co

59, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.,

Inland Telegrams " MYERSLIBER, LONDON."

PREFACE.

IN an unusually interesting catalogue composed of choice items culled from the
recent dispersal of the libraries of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Mrs. Elton,
Colonel Prideaux, the Penn collection from Pennsylvania Castle, Portland, the
old family library at Ladbrooke Hall, Warwickshire, etc., etc., we should like
to draw particular attention to the ONLY KNOWN AND VERY FINE COPY OF COPLAND'S

LOTHBERY EDITION OF DAME JULIANA BttRNERS's BOOKE OF HAUK1NG, HUNTING

AND FYSSHYNG; the fine XVth century Flemish illuminated MS. of the School of
Bruges, with 25 beautiful miniatures; Polman's Battels, i585?-87 (see No. 79),
only one other perfect copy known; Ockland's Valiant Actes with " Elizabeth
Queene," 1584 ?-8s (see No. 73), one of two perfect copies known ; the fragments of
an unknown Calendar of Sarum use, and part of a Sarum Horae, printed by
Wynkyn de Worde; Johnson's History of New England, 1654; the extremely
rare and important volume relating to the boundaries of Pennsylvania and Mary-
land (No. 8), CHARLES THE UNO'S OWN COPY OF THE EIKON BASILIKE, specially
bound for him, and formerly in the possession of the Duke of Kent, father of
Queen Victoria ; a number of beautiful inlaid and other bindings by Samuel and
Charles Mearne ; a fine example of the English Lyonese style ; a very beautiful
specimen of the " cottage. roof " pattern, together with examples of the eminent
French binders, Boyet, Padeloup and Derome ; books printed in the XVth and
XVlth centuries ; blHCft letter books ; coloured plate books ; first editions of
esteemed authors ; extra illustrated books ; association copies ; Goldsmith's
Deserted Village, ist Edition, on thick paper, in fine contemporary tooled morocco ;
the very fine example of modern illumination (No. 104) ; Waller's Poems, 1645,
and the same author's extremely rare poem " On the Park at St. Jamese's," Printed
for Tho. Dring; the choice Persian illuminated MS. in a fine native lacquer
binding, with 22 miniatures; the portraits of Napoleon and his stepson from the
Sir Hudson Lowe collection; the remarkable series of holograph or signed letters
of many of the foremost personages of the Elizabethan era, including holograph
letters of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.
Also an holograph letter of Henry of Lorrain, Duke of Guise, the instigator of
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and cousin of Mary Queen of Scots — only one
other example known, and letters signed by Henri III. of France and Cardinal
Mazarin, together with autographs of Scott and Sheridan, a very interesting literary
letter of H. D. Thoreau, and Admiral Lord Nelson's own copy of Sheridan's
Speech, referring to himself, with his autograph signature on title.

The whole carefully described and all. defects fully pointed out, so that
intending purchasers ma}' feel certain that every item ordered will be found to
correspond exactly with the description given, in the catalogue.

With a view to preventing loss to intending pur-
chasers, all orders from Overseas will be despatched
fully insured against all risks, without extra charge.

No. 149

BINDING OK PERSIAN MS.

CATALOGUE OF
RARE BOOKS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, Etc.

1 AINSWORTH (W. H.) THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES. A Romance of Pendle

Forest, London, G. Routledge, 1854, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 8vo, with 12
full-fage plates ly John Gilbert, fine copy, original blue cloth with appropriate design
in gold on back and front cover, uncut, SCARCE, 253

2 ALMANACK — WHARTON (George) CALENDARIUM ECCLESIASTICUM : or, a New

Almanack after the Old Fashion. To which is added Gesta Britannorum, or a
briefe Chronologic from 1600 until the present 1657, London, J. Grismond, 1657,
sm. 8vo, printed in red and black, FINE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR,
woodcut diagrams, natural defect in margin of Bitfew headlines and signatures cut
in to, few small worm-holes in blank back margins, half calf antique, ^2 as

THE VERY RARE FIRST OF WHARTON'S ALMANACKS WITH THE INTERESTING CHRONOLOGY FROM
1600 TO 1657, which in addition to full details of the Great Civil War and events of the
Protectorate, gives the founding of the Settlement of Virginia, events in the West Indies, return
of Sir G. Ayscue from reducing the Plantations, Entry of the Fleet into the Gulf of Florida
and many curious items of local interest. He published his first almanack under the anagram
of George Naworth in 1641, the first under his own name being that of 1645. In 1642 he
raised a troop of horse for Charles I., and was created a baronet in 1677.

3 AFRICAN WILD SPORTS — A SERIES OF 18 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER

DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL HOWITT, AND J. H. CLARK, AQUATINTED BY DUBOURG,

CLARK, AND OTHERS, illustrating Hunting the. Lion (2 plates), Elephant (^ plates'),
Rhinoceros, Camelopard or Giraffe, Panther, Leopard, Zebra, Ostrich, Buffalo,
Antelope, Porcupine, Hyaena, and Crocodile (2 plates), in Africa, together with a
battle between a Great Boar and a Tiger, Published by Edw. Orme, London, 1813,
BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, engraved surface measures 6| by 8|-;«., with wide margins,

£2 25

4 AMERICA — A COLLECTION of the STATUTES, relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships

of War, and Incidental Matters to the 8th George III., London, M. Baskett,

Printer to the King, 1768, thk. 4to, leaf with Admiralty dcvicee as frontispiece, name

written on title, fine large copy, old calf, joints a little worn, VERY RARE, £2 as

Full of most interesting information as to naval and trade affairs from the 3rd of Edward I. to

the 7th of George III. Relates to Wrecks, Piracy. Thames Watermen, the Plantations in

North America, Greenland, the Newfoundland Fishery (full of interesting details). Tobacco,

South Sea Company, Greenwich Hospital, Dover Pilots, Smugglers, Plantation Ships, North

West Passage (offering a reward o/~j£20,000 to (he owner of the vessel discovering the passage),

lading of rice at Carolina or Georgia, Pressing in the Plantations, Ships or Vessels employed

upon the Lakes. Great Waters, or Rivers in North America, Bum-boats on the Thames,

Whale Fins, East India goods and the " Exportation of non-enumerated Goods from the

British Colonies in America " (they might be landed in Ireland).

5 AMERICA — A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in

the Work of the Ministry of William Edmnndson, Dublin, G. Fairbrother, 1715,
FIRST EDITION, 410, name written on title, fine large copy, original panelled calf,
RARE, £2 i os

Edmundson was born at Little Musgrove in Westmorland in 1627. Served under Cromwell
during the Civil Wars. Came under the influence of George Fox in 1653 and became one of
the most ardent members of the Society of Friends. Settled in Ireland in that year. Went
with G. Fox and other notable Quakers to the West Indies in 1671. Took part in the famous
controversy with John Burnyeat and others and the celebrated Roger Williams at Newport
and Providence in Rhode Island in 1672, and gives interesting particulars thereof. Full of
information of his travels in the West Indies (Islands of Nevis, Jamaica, Antiqua, and
Barbadoes), Virginia, Carolina, Maryland, New York, Long Island, Boston, etc. Gives an
account of the Indian War of King Philip in 1675, his experiences at Hertford in Connecticut.
Also contains an interesting account of his sufferings in Ireland and detailed description of the
doings there both before and during the troublous times of the Battle of the Boyne. A most
interesting volume.

a MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

6 AMERICA— [JOHNSON (Edward)] A HISTORY of NEW ENGLAND, from the English

Planting in the Yeere 1628 untill the Yeere 1652, with the quaint running headline
title " Wonder Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England," London,
Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1654, FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to,
blank corner torn off p. 163 and 2 natural flaws in the margins of pp. 31 and 119,
REMARKABLY FINE LARGE COPY, several haves having their lower margins uncut, in
the original calf, ^£85

EXTREMELY RARE. Interspersed with verses in praise of Higginson, John Eliot, Winthorpe,
Dudley, Cotton, Hooker, R. Mather, Hubbard, and many other prominent persons connected
with the early history of New England. It is a highly valuable history of the Colony from
1628 to 1651 and gives full details of the founding of Salem, Charlestown, Cambridge,
Dorchester, Hartford, and other well known towns, etc., together with accounts of the
Indians, Pequod War, etc. The author of this book was Captain Edward Johnson of
Woburn, Mass. Brooke, its publisher, finding it unsaleable when issuing Gorges' America
Painted to the Life four yea^s afterwards, boldly incorporated it with that work. Gorges
consequently has been much blamed for the piracy, but the late Mr. Henry Stevens in 1881,
discovered an interesting advertisement inserted bv Gorges in the Mercurius Publicus of 13
Sept., 1660, disclaiming the authorship of Johnson's work and was thus able for the first time to
explain the matter and clear Gorges of the imputation of literary thievery. There is no
indication of the author in the work itself and the Preface to the Reader has only the initials
T.H. Collation A 2 11., A-Hh in fours. The last 2 leaves contain a list of the books printed
for Nath. Brooke, in which the present work in No. 42 and last.

[See Illustration.]

DON GABRIEL, INFANTA OF SPAIN'S COPY.

7 AMERICA — OEXMELIN (Alex. O.) HISTOIRE DES AVANTURIERS FLIBUSTIERS QUI SF.
. SONT SIGNALEZ DANS LES INDES, conteuant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable depuis

vingt annees. Avec La Vie, les Mceurs et les Coutumes des Boucaniers et des
Habitans de S. Dominque et de la Tortue. Une Description exacte de ces lieux,
etc., a Paris, chez /. Le Febvre, 1699, 2 vols, 8vo, with large folding map showing
part of Florida, the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica,
and other West Indian Islands, 2 folding plates, and 4 plans of " Lac de maracaye,"
" La Vera Cruz," " Panama " and " Car tagene? fine copy, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH
MOTTLED CALF, triple gold fillet on sides, WITH THE ROYAL ARMS OF SPAIN AND
FRANCE ANCIENT, WITHIN THE COLLARS OF TWO ORDERS, SURMOUNTED BY A
CROWN, as centre ornament, back gilt in compartments, each containing a marguerite
surrounded by gold tooling, g.c., a little worn and joints cracked. ^3 33

NOT ONLY A RARE EARLY WORK ON THE BUCCANEERS, BUT A VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF ROYAL
ARMORIAL BINDING.

FROM THE FAMOUS PENN COLLECTION, LATE AT PENNSYLVANIA CASTLE, PORTLAND, ENG.

8 AMERICA— PENNSYLVANIA, In Chancery, Breviate, John Penn, Thomas Penn,

and Richard Penn, Esqrs., Plaintiffs, Charles Calvert, Esq., Lord Baltimore, in the
Kingdom of Ireland, Defendant. For the Plantiffs. Upon a Bill to compell a
Specifick Execution of Articles of Agreement, entred into between the Partys for
settling the Boundarys of the Province of Pensilvania, the three Lower Countys,
and the Province of Maryland, and for perpetuating Testimony, etc. [? London,
1740], large folio, with 2 most interesting maps, one of larger size than the other,
illustrating the point at issue, THE EXTREMELY RARE OFFICIAL COPY OF THE CASE, on
lib closely prinled pages, on one side only, VERY FINE COPY, original old law calf,
£l°

PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT VOLUME IN EXISTENCE FOR THE EARLY HISTORY OF PENNSYL-
VANIA AND MARYLAND, as all the grants, privileges and titles are recited, containing the
written evidence, proved in the cause by the Plantiffs, from Records, Ancient History, etc.,
from 1584 to date of publication, with the highly interesting depositions of numerous witnesses
for both Plantiffs and Defendant. Not the least interesting part of the work are the two
invaluable maps, the larger of which is entitled " A Map of parts of the Provinces of Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland, with the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, according
to tbe most exact Surveys yet made, drawn in the year 1740, bears date Philadelphia, 20 Oct.,
1740. So EXCESSIVELY RARK THAT TILL THE PRESENT YEAR NO COPY HAS OCCURRED FOR SALE
SINCE 1886, NEITHER DID THE CELEBRATED BRITWELL COURT COLLECTION OF AMERICANA
CONTAIN ONE,

HISTORY

OF

New-England.

From the Englifti planting in the Yccre
. untill the Yeere i<Jjz.

Declaring the form of their Government,

Civill, Military, and Ecclefiaftique. Their Wars with

the Indians* their Troubles with the Gortonifts,

and other Heretiques. Their manner of gathering

of Churches,the commodities of the Country,

and defer i ption of the principal! Towns

and Havens,with the great encou-

ragements to increafe Trade

betwixt them and Old

ENGLAND.

With the names of all their Governour^Magiftratcs,

and eminent Minifters.

P s A L. 107.24.

The righteous fall fee it and rejoice, and all iniquity fall ftof her
mouth.

P S A L. I 1 1.2.

Tlx wrly of the L»rd are grent^nd ought to be fought out of all that
have f leaf arc in them.

LONDON,

Printed for N A T H: B R o o K E at the Angel
in Corn-hilt. 1654.

TlTI.K-PAGK OK NO.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 3

9 AMERICA— A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, TRAVELS, AND GOSPEL LABOURS OF A
FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, DANIEL STANTON, LATK OF PHILADELPHIA,
IN THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. With the Testimony of the Monthly-Meeting
of Friends in that City concerning him, Philadelphia, J. Crukshank, 1773, FIRST
EDITION, 8vo, name written on title, fine large copy, original calf, £2 2s

A RARE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT. Full of interesting details of Stanton's travels in Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Indies, Connecticut, New York, the Carolinas,
and New England. Contains also accounts of the Indian treaties, 175U-58, at Easton in
Northampton County, Pennsylvania ; New York government, and of visits to New York, Long
Island, Rhode Island, Boston, etc., etc. The name on the title "Benjamin Birkett " must
have been a relative of the James Birket of Antiqua, W.I., referred to on p. 34.

10 AMERICA— 1TOLEMEUS (CLAUDIUS) PTOLEMEO. LA GKOGRAFIA.

Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da GIKOLAMO ROSCKLLI, con Espositioni,
etc., Aggiuntoni vu pieno discorso di M. Guiseppe Moleto, Jn Venetia, V. Valgrisi,
1561. FIRST EDITION OF RUSCELLI'S PTOLEMY, 4to, separate titles to each part
with fine printer's device on each, WITH PTOLEMY'S 27 MAPS AND THE 37 NEW ONES,

CONTAINING THE ADDITIONS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY TO THE DATE OF PUBLICATION,

INCLUDING 10 RELATING TO AMERICA, numerous woodcut diagrams,
and forge and small woodcut initials of mythological subjects, including Leda and the
Swan, many times repeated, trifling fray in outer blank margin of title and next leaf ,
VERY FINE LARGE COPY, in the original Italian limp vellum, ^5 55

A RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION. It is an entirely new translation into Italian with numerous
remarks and extensive addenda by Ruscelli. The double-page maps, with descriptive text on
reverse, are enlarged copies of Gastaldi'smaps in the edition of 1548, excepting : " Universaie
Novo" drawn on a new projection, and called " Orbis descriptio" the map ef Britain, modified
from that in the Ptolemy of 1513 ; and the map of Central America (Neuva Hispania), where
Yucatan is drawn as a peninsula, and not separated from the main by a strait as in the map of
1548. The following 4 maps are added — Toscana, nova tabula; THE FAMOUS ZENIMAHOF
GREENLAND, ETC., first published at Venice in 1558, PROBABLY THE EARLIEST RECOGNITION OF
IT, entitled " Septentrionaliiim partium tabu/a nova " ; Brasil, nova tavola; and Ptolemy's
old map of the world, excluded from the edition of 1548. The other maps of American
interest are Schonladia Nuova ; Tierra Nova (South America and the IVest Indies) ; Tierra
Nueva (a very interesting map, shtnving the whole At /antic Coast of North America, front La
l-'lorida and /.a Bremuda to Tierra del I.aborador as known in 1560) ; Isola Cuba Nova ; and
Carta Marina Tavola. Two of the maps have been transposed by the binder.

1 1 AMERICA — THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE OF KNOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE, London,

J. Hinton, 1775, 2 vols, in i, 8vo, WITH KINE FOLDING VIEW OF BOSTON THE
CAPITAL OF NEW ENGLAND, LARGE FOLDING MAP OF " THE PRESENT SEAT OF WAR
IN NORTH AMERICA," including New Hampshire, Massachussets, Rhode Island and
Connectiait, portraits of Edmund Burke, Laurence Sterne, and other eminent men of
the day, views of castles, fancy subjects, plates of armorial bearings and natural
history subjects, old half binding wornt ^£3 IDS

These two volumes are full of important articles and news respecting the commencement of the
American War of Independence, including a copy of the Petition from the General Congress in
America to the King, Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham for settling the Troubles in America,
Abstract of the Act lately passed for Restraining the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of
Massachusetts-Bay, New Hampshire, and Coloniesof Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence }
Review of the present Disputes between Great Britain and the Colonies ; Earl Effingham's
Speech on the REJECTION OF THE MEMORIAL FROM THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK ; The
Triumph of America: an Ode; ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL; Declaration
of the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met in General Congress
at Philadelphia ; setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up Arms ; COPY OF A
MOST INTERESTING LETTER FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO LlEUT.-GEN. GAGE respecting
the treatment of prisoners, with Gage's reply ; a calm address to our American Colonies BY
JOHN WESLEY, M.A. ; Copy of articles of Confederation, etc., entered into by the Delegates
of the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc., etc. , in General Congress met at
Philadelphia, May 10th, 1775, etc., etc. The first volume also contains a Life of William
Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, and an interesting notice of Sheridan's " The Rivals " " acted
for the first time at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, Jan. 17, 1775," with list of the
performers and their parts.

4 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

12 AMERICA— CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DU COURS DU MISSISSIPPI. Dresses sur

un grand nombre de Memoirs entr' autres sur ceux de Mr. Le Maire, par G. de
Lr'Isle, a Amsterdam chez J. Covens et C. Mortier, n.d. (1741), 17^ by 23^-in.,
boundaries coloured, exhibiting in detail North America from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic to New Mexico, very fine copy, with wide
margins, £2 los

A RARE EARLY MAP EXECUTED AT A MOST INTERESTING PERIOD, a few years before the fall of
Quebec and the loss by the French of all their American possessions. Shows in great detail all
the country on either side of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, together with the Great Lakes,
the British provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and the
Carolinas, also the whole of Florida. Names Chicago, Detroit, etc., and the locations of
the various Indian tribes, forts, etc., and gives other important particulars. Inset is a " Carte
Particuliere des Embouchures de la Riviere S. Louis et de la Mobile."

13 AMERICAN WILD SPORTS — A SERIES OF 20 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER

DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL HOWITT AND J. H. CLARK, AQUATINTED BY DUBOURG AND
OTHERS, illustrating Fishing on Lake Ontario by Members of the Mississaguis Tribe
of Indians, Hunting the Bear (2 plates}, Elk, Deer, Tiger Cat, Wild Horses, Bull,
VVhale (4 plates}, Seal (2 plates], Shark, Mexican Lizard and Turtle (2 plates],
together with a battle between a Great Boa and a Bull, and one between an Eagle
and a Wolf, Published by Edw. Orme, London, 1813, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS,
engraved surface measures 6| by 8-|-*>/., with wide margins, £2 ros

14 ANGLING — [CHEETHAM (JAMES)] THE ANGLER'S VADE MECUM : or A Compendi-

ous, yet full, Discourse of Angling, by A Lover of Angling, London, for Tho. Bassett,
1681, FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo, paper age discoloured, but a fine tall copy, in the
original sheep, £$ los

A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, especially when containing, as in the present instance, the 4 leaves
of appendix and errata, forming signature O, which are hardly ever found.

THE FINE EDITION-DE-LUXE.

15 ANGLING— WALTON (ISAAC) and COTTON (CHARLES) THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, or

the Contemplative Man's Recreation ; edited and arranged by R. B. Marston, and
containing a reprint of the Compleat Angler, a Biographical Record of its various
Editions and Imitations by T. Westwood and T. Satchell, London, Sampson Low
csf Co., 1888, EDITION DE LUXE, 2 vols, royal 410, fine portraits of Walton and
Cotton as frontispiece to each volume, with facsimile of their autograph beneath, 5 2
full-page views on the Rivers Lea, Dove, Wye, etc., and about 100 charming woodcut
views in the text, together with maps of the Rivers Lea, Dove, Wye and Derwent,

THE WHOLE PRINTED ON INDIA PAPER, VERY CHOICE COPY, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN

DARK GREEN MOROCCO EXTRA, with Walton and Cottons monogram in gold on the
sides, inside borders, t.e.g., uncut, £6 6s

THE BEAUTIFUL LEA AND DOVE EDITION, BEING THE lOOrn EDITION OF "THE COMPLEAT
ANGLER." Only 250 copies of this edition de luxe were done, each signed by the editor, of
which this is No. 111.

1 6 AUSTRALIA— THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Printed by J. G. Austin

and Co., 12 Bridge Street, Sydney, n.d. (18 — ), large 410, A REMARKABLE SERIES OF

13 REPRODUCTIONS OF PROMINENT NATIVES OF THE COLONY, AFTER PEN AND INK

SKETCHES MADE FROM NATURE, SIGNED " W.H.F.", with the leaf of critique of the
various Australian Nnvspapers respecting the work, half calf, &ilt back, g.e.} with the
original morocco label entitled "Aborigines of N.S. Wales? £4 los

ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE NATIVE RACES OF N.S. WALES.
Delineates natives of the Broken Bay Tribe (5 plates), Botany Bay Tribe, Lake Macquarie
Tribe, Newcastle Tribe, Five Islands Tribe, and a plate of the Native Dance. No title seems
to have been issued, but as there is no copy in the British Museum, and as there is no available
collation, we sell it exactly as described. It is undoubtedly the most important, early, and most
authentic publication relating to the early inhabitants of one of Australia's most important
colonies.

UNIQUE COPY OF W. COPLAND'S LOTHBERY EDITION.
226 [BARNES OR BERNERS (Dame Juliana, Abbess of Sopwell

Priory in St. Albaris Abbey)], THE BOOKE OF HAUKYNG,

HUNTYING AND FYSSHYNG, WYTH ALL THE PROPERTIES AND
MEDECYNES THAT ARE NESSARY TO BE KEPT, blftCk ICttCt, long

lines, in three parts with separate titles, EACH CONTAINING A

FINE LARGE AND VERY SPIRITED WOODCUT a hawking grOUp

with, hawk flying overhead on the first title, a man blowing the

horn, with dogs, on the second, and a man fishing on the third ;

also a number of quaint woodcuts of fishing implements in the

" tretyse of Fysshynge" VERY FINE LARGE COPY, sewed, £45O

Imprinted at London in Lothbery over agaynst S. Margarets

churche by Wylliam Copland, n.d, (between 1565-67^

THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF AN EDITION OF A BOOK OF THE
HIGHEST INTEREST AND VALUE. HITHERTO BIBLIOGRAPHERS HAVE

ONLY KNOWN OF ITS EXISTENCE FROM THE ENTRY IN THE REGISTERS OF THE

STATIONERS COMPANY. This copy is in a wonderful state of preservation, for,
with the exception of a trifling fray on the fore-margin of the first title, it is
almost in as good condition as when first published, SEVERAL LEAVES RETAINING
THEIR ROUGH EDGES. William Copland, the printer, succeeded Robert Copland,
the pupil of Wynkyn de Worde, in business at the sign of the Rose Garland in
1548. He moved thence to the Three Cranes Wharf and finally settled in
Lothbery in 1565, where he finished his career somewhere about 1568. A
detailed collation is appended : A to M in fours, thus arranged, A i title, text as
above with woodcut beneath, reverse blank ; A 2 to E 4 text of hawking, ending with
the colophon : " Imprinted in Lothbery ouer agaynst S. Margaret church by *.u
Wylliam Copland" at the foot of E 4, reverse blank F i title to hunting: "Here
begynneth the booke of Huntyng whereunto is added the measures of blowyng,"
with woodcut beneath, text (in verse throughout) begins on reverse of title and
finishes half-way down 14, with the colophon : " Imprynted at London in
Lothberye ouer agaynst Saynt Margarets Church by Wyllyam Copland," reverse
blank. K i title to angling : " Here begynneth a tretyse of Fysshynge with an
Angle," with woodcut beneath ; text begins on reverse of title and ends on
reverse of M 4 with the colophon: "Imprinted at London in Lothbery ouer
agaynst S. Margarets Churche by Wylliam Copland" It will be noticed that there
are slight variations in the three colophons.

[See Illustration on reverse.]

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17 AUSTRALIA — HAYDON (G. H.) FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA FELIX,

comprising a short account of its early settlement and its present position, with
many particulars interesting to intending emigrants, London, 1846, roy. 8vo, with 6
full-page and highly interesting lithographic plates by H. Hainsselin, from sketches
made on the spot by the aut/ior, including aborigines, view on the Tarwin, Road to
Gipp's Land, etc., half calf, uncut, t.e.g., 305

A rare early work on Port Philip and the neighbouring parts of New South Wales, full of
interesting observations on the country and its aboriginal inhabitants, with the leaf of errata and
a short vocabulary of native words used by the Woeworong, Bournourong and Barrable tribes.

18 AUSTRALIA — L'HKMISPHERE MERIDIONAL, pour voir plus distinctement LES

TERRES AUSTRALES, par G. De L'Isle, a Amsterdam, chez J. Covens et C. Mortier,
n.d. (1741), 184 by ajj-in., boundaries coloured, fine copy, with wide margins, vdis

A RARE, EARLY, AND VERY CURIOUS MAP OF AUSTRALIA OR NEW HOLLAND, VAN DlEMEN\S

LAND, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SALOMON ISLANDS AS KNOWN UP TO 1740. Includes also the
grcatcrpart of South America, Africa, Borneo and New Guinea. Inset is a " Plan ct vue des
Tcrres du Cap de la Circoncision " with an account of the new discoveries made in 1739 to the
South of the Cape of Good Hope extracted from the "Voyage aux Tcrres Australes " made
under the direction of M. de Lozicr Bouvet.

19 AUSTRALIAN NATIVES — A SERIES OK 6 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER

DRAWINGS BY J. H. CLARK, AQUATINTED BY DUBOURG, depicting Aborigines of
New South Wales fishing (2 plates}, Kangaroo Hunting, throwing the Spear,
climbing trees, and smoking out the Opossum, published by Edw. Orme, London,
1813, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, engraved surface measures 6^ by 8 £-/«., with wide
margins, 2 is

20 BELGIUM- CHRONYKK VAN VL.«NDEKEN, vervatlende lucre vindinge, naem,

eerste Apostelen van het christen geloof, haer eerste besti^rders, fondatien en
stichten, als ook, eene generaele beschryvinge Van g'heel haer Bestreck, Steden,
Casteelen, Heerlykheden, Revieren, Station, Capittels, Abdyen, Cloosters, etc.,
Vrede-tressingen als Borgerlycke Oneenigheden, Begiunende van't Jaer 621 tot't
eynde des Jaers 1725, Brugge in Vlaendertn, A. Wydts, n.d. (1727) and 1736,4
vols, folio, engraved frontispiece to Vol. \, vignettes on titles of Vols. i, 3 and 4, titles
printed in red and black, that to Vol. 2 has also a Brussels imprint, folding map
AND NUMEROUS WOODCUT PORTRAITS of the different Counts of Flanders, battle
scenes, naval fights, burnings, floods, etc.t etc., contemporary calf, backs richly tooled in
gold in compartments, some joints slightly cricked and corners worn, SCARCE, £(> 6s

21 BELGIUM — SANUERUS (A.) CHOROGRAPHIA SACRA BKABANTI/E, sive celebrium

aliquot in ea provincia Kcclesiarum et Ccenobiorum Descriptio, etc., Bruxellicr.,
1659-95, FIRST EDITION, thick large folio, large folding plan of Brussels, and many
fine plates of views, etc., engraved by L. Vorstermans and others, title cut round and
mounted, several leaves from a shorter copy, some pages age discoloured, several pieces
bound out of place, old mottled calf, back gilt in compartments, m.e.t worn, VERY

RARE, £\ 4S

Of the dozen or more copies of this book which arc known no two arc quite alike in their contents.
The late Earl of Crawford went to great trouble and expense to acquire as complete a copy as
possible and printed an elaborate description of the book compiled from all possible sources
(Collations and Notes, Number I. : Samleri Brabantia, London, 1883), a copy of which
accompanies this volume. The present exceptionally complete copy contains all described by
his Lordship under the following :— Nos. 2, 4—6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33,
34, 37—39, 42, 43, 47, 5()— 55, 60, 61, 94, 95, 98—101, and 122—125. No. 15 has the variety
of the plate mentioned by him. No. 39 has the original cancelled leaf signature Gl. No. 54
has the correct title. No. 55 has another plate of the Abbey of Roode Clooster by Vostermans
entirely different from the two described by Lord Crawford. No. 99 has the plates 3 and 1
which are usually missing. No. 122 has the two scarce slips. No. 124 has the plate of the
Bourg of Peteghen before the inscription. It must be remembered that not one of the known
copies contains everything recorded by Lord Crawford, and that only two or three examples of
some of the pieces exist.

6 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holboro, London, W.C.

22 BELGIUM— STRADA (F., Soc. fesu) DE BELLO BELGICO DECADES DU/E, ab exccssu

Carol! V. Imp., usque ad initium Prsefecturae Alex. Farnesii Parmae Placientiaique
Ducis II. ad annum 1678 continuatae, Franckfurti ad Moenum,J. M. Schonwetter,
1699, thick 410, WITH 26 FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS, including those of the Author, the
Duke of Alencon, Maurice Prince of Orange, Mansfield, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester, and other important men of the period, LION SHAPED MAP OF THE Low
COUNTRIES, dated 1651, AND 30 HIGHLY INTERESTING FOLDING VIEWS OR PLANS OF
BATTLES, SEA FIGHTS, SIEGES, ETC., including a fine folding plan of Antwerp, and
another of the Bridge at Antwerp showing attack by the fire ships, printer's device on
title, name written on same, paper age discoloured, large copy, original boards,
covered with parchment, with clasps, 303

Rare early armorial bookplate of Zeiler Von Zeilheimb Avch Nevmelaus Z. Weis. V : Schwarzcn
Veld pasted on the inside front coyer, with blank margin surrounding inscription cut away.

BERKS. — SEE UNDER CECIL AND MYDDELTON.

CARDINAL ALBANI'S COPY, AFTERWARDS POPE CLEMENT XI.

23 BIBLE — BIBLIA SACRA VULGAT/E Editionis Sixti V. Pont. M. Jussu recognita, et

dementis VIII. auctoritate edita, Colonies. Agrippina, B. ab Egmond et Sociorum,
1682, 8vo, finely engraved title in compartments, containing scriptural scenes,

CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN BINDING OF RED MOROCCO, the sides richly tooled ill gold

with outer lace border, and broad inner border of scroll leaf, and escMop work
corner ornaments, back tooled in compartments, CONTAINING THE ALBANI ARMS, inside
borders, g.e., joints, top and bottom of the back, and top corner of front cover broken,

AN ELABORATE ITALIAN BINDING OF THE PERIOD, 308

Bound for G. F. Albani who was created Cardinal in 1690 and succeeded Innocent XII. as
Pope in 1700.

BOUND FOR ROYAL USE.

24 BINDING — A COLLECTION OF ANTHEMS used in His Majesty's Chapel Royal and

most Cathedral Churches in England and Ireland. Published under the direction
of Anselm Bayly, LL.D., Sub-Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, London,],
and F. Rivington and W. Ginger, 1769, 8vo, ruled in red throughout, OLD ENGLISH
RED MOROCCO, sides tooled with an outer leafy and floral border, inner border of two
gold lines, ornament of gold sprays surmounted by the royal crown at each corner,
THE CROWNED CYPHER OF GEORGE III., with angels and flower scrolls and
inscription " Chapel Royal, St. James's " as centrepiece, the crowned cypher of the
King also occupies each panel of the back, g.e., £2 los

A FINE AND INTERESTING EXAMPLE OF ORNAMENTAL BINDING EXECUTED FOR KlNG

GEORGE III.

25 BINDING — A COMPANION TO THE ALTAR, London, J. Beecroft, 1766, with
frontispiece — A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, fitted to the Tunes used
in Churches, by N. Brady and N. Tales, London, Stationers Co., 1766, in i vol,
8vo, CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH DARK BLUE MOROCCO, sides tooled in gold with a rich
ornamental border, containing the Royal crown and coronets of the different degrees
of English nobility alternately interspersed with spiral and other ornaments, a floral
design at each interior angle, back prettily gilt in compartments, g.e., 2 is

A finely preserved and unusual example of English binding of the period.

26 BINDING — AFTERNOON INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WHOLE YEAR. Being Practical

Thoughts for all Sundays and Holidays, Printed in the year 1699, 2 vols, 121110,
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BLACK MOROCCO, sides tooled in gold in compartments with
centre panel, ornamental Jleurons at the corners and middle of the sides of Hie inner,
with a gold triangular shaped band from each angle continued into the centre and
terminating in a rosette, backs richly tooled in compartments, but with different
ornamentation on each% THE EDGES UNUSUALLY TREATED, being tooled with a
charming design in gold between dotted lines on a black ground, edges of boards also

tooled, A FINE EXAMPLE OF ORNAMENTAL BINDING OF A VERY UNCOMMON TYPE, IN
AN EXCELLENT STATE OF PRESERVATION, 353

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 7

ENGLISH LYONESE BINDING.

27 BINDING— BIFIELD (N., Preacher at Isleworth in Middlesex) The Marrow of the

Oracles of God, London, Ralph Roouthwaite, 1620, narrow sm. 8vo, finely engraved
emblematical title, printed within line borders throughout \ fine copy, IN THE ORIGINAL
OLD ENGLISH CALF, the sides elaborately tooled in gold with an outer border of fillets
and outside dentelles, an inner border of scroll work divided by dotted lines in
compartments, surrounded by a broad fillet, central panel with highly ornamental
corner pieces enclosing a beautiful design of scroll and conventional flower work, with
the initial M in the middle, back richly tooled with a scroll work design, gilt
gauffred edges with a quartre foil pattern in white, remains of silk tie strings and
a number of silk markers, lower corner of back cover worn, £\2

A'REM ARKABLY BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OK ORNAMENTAL ENGLISH BINDING OK THE PERIOD, OK A
MOST UNUSUAL DESIGN AND IN A HIGHLY DESIRABLE STATE OF PRESERVATION. On the inside
of front cover is pasted an heraldically coloured contemporary trick of arms.

[See Illustration.]

28 BINDING — THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Cambridge, J. Field, Printer to the

University, 1666. Title written on, and margins repaired — THE HOLY BIBLE
containing the Old Testament and the New, ibid, 1668 (separate title to Neiv
Testament dated 1666) — THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English
Metre, by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others, ibid. 1666, 3 vols. in i, 410, with
engraved title to the Old Testament, which contains the Apocrypha^ blank Qq. 4
wan'ing, few tiny rust holes, OLD DARK GREEN MOROCCO, sides gilt with a triple
fillet, narrow outside dentelle, and a broad, rich inner border of scroll and leaf work,
with corner flower fleurons, back gilt in compartments with delicate interlaced gold
lines, the spaces betiveen filled with minute quartre foils, inside borders, g.e., A FINE

EXAMPLE OF OLD ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL BINDING IN AN EXCELLENT STATE OF
PRESERVATION, £4 48

29 BINDING — THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER according to the use of the Church of

England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be
Sung or said in Churches, Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the
University, 1775 — THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre by
T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrew, London, W.
Pearson, 1720. In i vol, 8vo, ruled in red throughout, few leaves slightly soiled,
OLD ENGLISH STRAIGHT GRAINED RED : MOROCCO, the side elaborately tooled in gold with
an outer key pattern border and a deep inner border composed of a large ornamental
vase at each corner with a flower issuing from it, the spaces between occupied by tall
vases with pendant wreaths, mirrors within wreaths, stars, and large ornamental
ovals, the whole connected by floral sprays and ribbons, back covered ivith gold tooling
in compartments of leafy diamonds and foliage sprays, inside borders, g.e., £$ 35

A VERY REMARKABLE AND UNCOMMON EXAMPLE OF XVIIlth CENTURY ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL
BINDING, save for a slight crack in the bottom compartment of the back, in a good state of
preservation. With gilt leather book label of Daniel Ewing, dated May 26, 1777.

30 BINDING — BRKVIARIUM PARISIENSE, Pars Verna, Estiva, Autumnalis, et Hiemalis,

Parisiis, 1736, 4 vols, 4to, printed in red and black, the text within line border
throughout, WITH FINE FRONTISPIECE TO EACH VOLUME AFTER BOUCHER, ENGRAVED
BY LE BAS, containing different emblematic figures, with an interesting view of Notre
Dame and other Notable Parisian ecclesiastical buildings beneath each of them,
dedicated to C. G. G. de Vintimillt, ArchbisJiop of Paris, with his armorial bearings
on each title and at the head of the dedication in each volume, titles stamped " Ad
Usum Chori Oratorii Sammagforiani" (scored through in every case in ink), CHOICELY

BOUND IN RICH CONTEMPORARY FRtNCH RED MOROCCO, the sides tooled in gold With

a broad ornamental and floral border and a central wreath of entwined thorns,
enclosing the words "Jesus Maria," the backs elaborately tooled in compartments,
inside borders, gilt edges, WELL PRESERVED AND A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FAMOUS
FRENCH BINDER ANTOINE-MICHEL PADELOUP'S SKILL, £5 55

8 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

31 BINDING — CATONIS DISTICHA MORALIA ET LILII MONITA P^EDAGOGICA, or Cato's

Moral Dislichs and Lily's Pedagogical Admonitions. For the Use of Schools, by JOHN
STIRLING, M.A. AND MASTER OF ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL IN HOLBOURN, London, for
the author, 1734, 8vo, IN A REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY
ENGLISH BINDING OF RED MOROCCO, THE SIDES TOOLED TO A "COTTAGE
ROOK " PATTERN IN GOLD, with outer border of detitelle and pointtllc work, the spaces
between it and the "cottage roof" filled with elegant sprays terminating in acorns and
studded with stars of 2 sizes, the interior corners of the roof filled with graceful line
and poinlille tooling, terminating in spirals, the centre occupied by a charming design
with a large star in the middle and surrounded by a belt of alternate stars and dotted
annulets, back tooled in compartments with central ornaments, inside borders, edges of
boards also tooled, gilt edges, £12 125

"ONE OK THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OK ENGLISH EARLY XVlIlth CENTURY BINDING IN THE
DESIDERATED "COTTAGE ROOK" PATTERN THAT THE MOST KASTIDIOUS COLLECTOR COULD
WISH TO POSSESS AND IN A MARVELLOUSLY K1NE KRESH STATE OK PRESERVATION.

[See Illustration.]

32 BINDING — [FLOURNOIS (G.)] LFS ENTRLTIENS DES VOYAGEURS SUR LA MER :

Nouvelle Edition, revue et corrigee, a La Haye, chez I. Vander Kloof, 1740, 4 vols,
sm. 8vo, vignette on each title and 38 interesting full-page engravings " en taille douce"
CHOICE COPY IN RICH OLD FRENCH RED MOROCCO, triple gold fillets oft sides, backs
ornamentally gilt in his characteristic style, inside borders, g.e., BY J. A. DEROME,
£4 4S

A FINE EXAMPLE OK THE ELDER DEROME'S SKILL IN A BEAUTIFUL STATE OK PRESERVATION.
The book itself is curious and rare. The British Museum only possesses Vol. 1 of this edition,
accompanied by Vol. 2 of the earlier edition published at Cologne in 1704. The illustrations
are interesting for the costume and manners of the period, and include several showing ships, a
duelling scene, burning an heretical book, etc., etc.

A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF BINDING, WITH BLIND TOOLING, BY CHARLES MfiARNE,

THE ROYAL BINDER.

33 BINDING — FORM OF PRAYER, time of William III. (London, 1690-1700), sm. 4to«

JSlHCfc XCttCl', headings, etc., in rornan, wants title and first j /eaves of signature
C., seme leaves soiled, 2 cancel slips pasted over portions of pp. 2 — J, and some
margins repaired, IN A VERY REMARKABLE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
BLACK MOROCCO BINDING, the sides elaborately blind tooled TO A MOST
UNUSUAL MEARNE DESIGN, comprised of nine centre squares, divided from each other
by double dotted lines, with a rosette at each angle, the four outer top and bottom
squares are cross hatched, the middle square has upright lines only, the centre top and
bottom squares have cross lines, the middle square is plain and contains a design in
tulips and pomegranates with a tulip at each corner, the 4 outer squares are orna-
mented with a graceful design of the Mearne tulip and rose, the 4 intermediate squares
with a large sun flower connected with each other by a diamond shaped double inter-
laced stem, the spaces between studded with large and small stars and annulets, the
top and bottom of each side occupied by a broad band divided by dotted lines so as to
form a kind of " cottage-roof" to the squares, whose interior is filled with semi-circles
and tulips together with a diamond shaped ornament, its 4 angles terminating in either
a trefoil, rose, or rosette, the corner spaces above the " cottage roof" tooled in diagonal
lines, with sprays in the angles and large and small stars, back tooled in compartments
with centre ornaments, inside borders, edges of borders also tooled, IN A WONDERFUL

STATE OF PRESERVATION, £21

A VERY REMARKABLE PIECE OK BINDING AND HIGHLY INTERESTING KOR THE UNCOMMON
DESIGN WITH WHICH IT is TOOLED. The book has suffered at the hands of some past owner,
but the binding itself is in a wonderfully fine state of preservation, AND is A HIGHLY
CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLE OK CHARLES MEARNE'S SKILL.

No. 31.

COTTAGE ROOF BINDING.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 9

34 BINDING— GARRETT (Walter, Vicar of Titchfield) A DISCOURSE CONCERNING

ANTICHRIST, London, 1680, sm. 8vo, fine copy, OLD ENGLISH BLACK MOROCCO, sides
line tooled in gold in compartments the inner surrounded by an ornamental outer roll
border with large corner fieurons, inner corners filled with a vine ornament, centre
diamond shaped design, filled vti/h the Mearne vine pattern, back richly tooled in
compartments with semi circular bands, filled with vine and other ornaments, gilt

fdgtS, A FINE EXAMPLE OF SAMUEL MEARNE*S SKILL IN HIS SIMPLER MANNER IN
AN EXCELLENT STATE OF PRESERVATION, £$ I OS

35 BINDING — INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICULAR STATES, Printed in the year 1689,

121110, CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BLACK MOROCCO, sides tooled in gold in compart-
ments with centre panel, the inner having corner Jleurons and side ornaments, and a
triangular shaped band continued into the centre panel, terminating in a daisy, back
richly tooled in compartments, THE EDGES TREATED IN A VERY UNCOMMON MANNER,
being coloured black and tooled with an elegant design in gold behveen gold borders,
edges of boards also tooled, inside borders, A VERY UNUSUAL EXAMPLE OF ORNA-
MENTAL ENGLISH BINDING OF THE PERIOD AND WELL PRESERVED, 253

36 BINDING -HORACE. QUINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA, Edinburgi, apud R.

Freebarnium, 1731, narrow 12010, CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, narrow scroll
border in gold on sides, back very prettily gill with vase, lyre, and other ornaments,
green morocco lettering piece t well preserved, i8s

37 BINDING — KEMPIS (T. de) DELL IMITAZIONE DI CHRISTO. Volgarmente intitolato

Gio. Gersone Libri Quattro, Venezia, 1739, narrow 121110, engraved title, OLD
VENETIAN RED MOROCCO, sides tooled with an outside dentelle border in gold, rich
inner border of scroll work, back tooled in compartments with corner scroll work and
centre ornaments, preserved in a contemporary red morocco case, front and back covers
and fore-edge tooled in 2 compartments with a double fillet, another double fillet at top
and bottom, single gold lines across the back, A FINK AND WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE

OF XVIIIth CENTURY ITALIAN SKILL, £2 2S

LOUIS XIVTH's COPY
WITH HIS ARMS ON SIDES AND MS. INSCRIPTION "AuRoi" ON TITLE.

38 BINDING— MENESTRIER (C. F.) HISTOIRE DU ROY Louis LE GRAND par les

Medailles, Emblemes, Devises, Jettons, Inscriptions Armoiries et autres Monumens
Publics, a Paris, chez R. Pepie,J. le Fevre, et I. B. Nolin, 1693, Seconde Edition,
augmented de plusieurs figures et corrigee, folio, with engraved title, fine portrait of
Menestrier after P. Simon engraved by Nolin, Graveur du Roy, engraved dedication,
full-page emblematic plate containing a medallion portrait of King Louis, folding view
of the Place des Victoires^ 84 FINE PLATES OF MEDALS, EMBLEMS, DEVICES,
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ETC., numerous illustrations in the text, head-pieces, tail-pieces
and large pictorial initials, RICH OLD RED FRENCH MOROCCO, sides tooled in gold
with a three line fillet, a rosette at each corner, THK ARMS OF Louis XIV. ENSIGNED

WITH THE ROYAL CROWN, AND SURROUNDED BY A WREATH OF FOLIAGE AND THE
COLLARS OF TWO ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD AS CENTREPIECE, BACK GILT IN
COMPARTMENTS WITH BOYET TOOLING AT THE CORNERS AND THE CROWNED CYPHER
OF THE KING IN THE CENTRE OF EACH, THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANEL EDGED WITH

THE FLEUR DE Lis OF FRANCE, inside lace border, with a different lace design on the
edges of the boards, gilt and marbled edges, £10 los

BOUND IN THE GRAND STYLE OF THE XVIIth CENTURY FOR LOL'IS XIV. BY THE ROYAL BINDER

L. A. BOYET. AND A CHOICE EXAMPLE OF HIS SKILL. Beyond two trifling scratches and a
slight crack in the bottom lower joint, in an admirable state of preservation. Contains the tine
armerial bookplate of Thomas Anson with cupids, engraved in red in the Bartolozzi style by
Yates.

io MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

39 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE— GOLDSMITH QOHN) GOLDSMITH, 1678. AN
ALMANACK FOR 1678. Wherein are contained many Observations, etc. With a
Description of the Highways, Marts and Fairs in England and Wales. The like
not extant in any other, London, A. Clark, 1678, narrow 12010, printed in red and
black, Fairs, etc. partly in blHCfe UttCC, IN A VERY CHARMING CONTEM-
PORARY ENGLISH BINDING OF BLACK MOROCCO, THE SIDES

COVERED WITH AN ELABORATE DESIGN IN GOLD HEIGTHENED IN RED, composed

of a deep outer border of ornamental tooling bordered on either side by a double fillet,
enclosing a central panel geometrically tooled to a scroll pattern, the spaces between
filled with quatrefoils, trefoils and leaves, partly coloured in red, the leaves wholly so,
and bordered by dotted gold lines, accompanied by gold dots, small circles, etc., back
delicately line tooled in compartments, gilt roll on edges of boards, gilt edges, with
ornamental clasp, £2®

A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ROYAL BINDER, SAMUEL MEARNE'S SKILL, IN A
SPLENDID STATE OF PRESERVATION. From the famous Elton coliection of bindings. The
Almanack itself is highly interesting and its blank leaves for memoranda at the beginning and
end contain curious manuscript notes by the original owner, those at the end being headings,
etc., of various sermons heard at Bury St. Edmunds and Oxford. On one page is a curious
woodcut diagram of a hand " To know the time of the day by your hand " with a straw.

[See Illustration.]

40 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE— THE HOLY BIBLE, containing the Old

Testament and the New, London, Assigns of J. Bill and C. Barker, Printers to
the King, 1674 (title to New Testament dated 1673) — THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS :
collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins and others, Printed for
the Company of Stationers, 1674. In i vol., thick narrow 12010, engraved title with
the Royal Arms, small rust hole through title and first 6 leaves, injuring a bit of the
title and a few letters of text, FINELY BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH OLIVE MOROCCO,
richly tooled in gold with an outer triple line border enclosing a geometrical design, its
outer corners filled with vine sprays with an ornamental centrepiece composed of
elegant vine and floral tooling, the intervening space occupied by the well-known
Mcarne tulip and rose in pointille and gold circles, back tooled in compartments with
half circles, the insides and corners filled with vine sprays, edges of boards tooled, gilt
edges, WITH ORNAMENTAL CHASED SILVER CLASPS, forepart of upper clasp missing,
small hole in lower band of back and top corner of front cover a little worn, OTHER-
- WISE IN AN EXCELLENT STATE OF PRESERVATION, £6 6s

A FINE EXAMPLE OF SAMUEL MEARNE'S SKILL. VERY INTERESTING ALSO FOR THE FINELY
WORKED SILVER CLASPS, THE LOWER SURVIVING FOREPART ENGRAVED WITH THE NAME OF
ANNE KING, EVIDENTLY THE PERSON FOR WHOM THE VOLUME WAS BOUND.

41 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE— POLHILL (Edward, of Burwash in Sussex)

SPECULUM THEOLOGY IN CHRISTO : or, a view of some Divine Truths, London,
for T. Cockerill, 1678, sm. 410, ELABORATELY BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH RED

MOROCCO, THE SIDES RICHLY TOOLED IN GOLD TO A VERY UNUSUAL DESIGN,

composed of an outer double fillet with semi-circles filled with floral sprays at the
centre of each side, an inner compartment surrounded by a doublt ornamental border,
each of them confined by delicate curved pointille lines, with large floral corner

fleurons, enclosing a central panel, surrounded by a single ornamental border, with
corner pointille fleurons, tooled with a geometrical design, the corners filled with vine
sprays, the centre with a lozenge sliaped ornament terminating at top and bottom with
a tulip design, its interior divided into 2 parts by a twisted pointille line with an
elaborate vine ornament on either side, all the spaces, both in compartments and panel,

filled with the well-known Mearne rose and tulips, back geometrically tooled in semi-
circular compartments filled with vine or floral designs, inside borders, edges of boards
also tooled, back cracked and slightly defective at bottom, edge of lower cover worn,
but the sides, especially the lower one well preserved, £j 75

A RICH DESIGN ENTIRELY OUT OF THE ORDINARY RUN OF SAMUEL MEARNE'S BINDINGS, AND AT
THE SAME TIME A THOROUGHLY CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLE OF HIS SKILL.

No. 39. BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, VV.C. n

42 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE— [SHERIDAN (Thomas)] A DISCOURSE OK THE

RISE AND POWER or PARLIAMENTS, of Laws, of Courts of Judicature, of Liberty,
Property, and Religion, of the Interest of England, in reference to the Designs of
France: Of Taxes, and of TRADE [London] Printed in the year 1677, sm. 8vo,
BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH RED MOROCCO, THE
SIDES DELICATELY TOOLED IN GOLD TO A LE GASCON DESIGN,
COMPOSED OF SCROLL WORK GEOMETRICALLY ARRANGED, WITHIN A QUADRUPLE
LINE BORDER, THE TWO INNER LINES OF DOTTED WORK, THE SPACES BETWEEN
FILLED WITH ELEGANT FLOWER SPRAYS, TULIPS, LARGE GOLD DOTS AND OTHER
ORNAMENTS, A LARGE POINTILL& TULIP AT EACH ANGLE, THE TOP AND BOTTOM
CENTRE COMPARTMENTS FILLED WITH SIMILAR FLOWER SPRAYS IN THE FORM OF A
CROSS, THE MIDDLE ONE WITH A CROSS FORMED OF THE WELL KNOWN MEARNE
TULIP IN POINTILL£ AND LINE, BACK TOOLED IN 5 COMPARTMENTS CONTAINING A
ROSE AND LEAFY CROSS ALTERNATELY, G.E., bottom of back slightly repaired, 2 tiny
wormholes in it and one on front cover which also has a slight ink stain, BUT A

REMARKABLY FINE AND WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE OF SAMUEL MEARNE*S BEST
WORK, ;£l8

Rarely docs it happen that an important book is found in an equally important binding, the great
majority of examples of Samuel Mearne, the royal binder's skill covering devotional works of
small value in themselves. Thomas Sheridan the author of the present work was a noted
Jacobite, was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1687 and Private Secretary to James II. in exile.
His book was reprinted in 1870 as " Revelations in Irish History."

43 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE— [PAKINGTON (Lady D.)?] THE GENTLEMAN'S

CALLING, London, R. Pawlet, 1682, 8vo, the title bearing the autograph
inscription "j£g, the gift of my deare Mr. Bushe F. Hamilton" MOST BEAUTIFULLY
BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY DARK OLIVE MOROCCO SKILFULLY INLAID WITH
DIFFERENTLY COLOURED MOROCCO, COVERED WITH RICH GOLD TOOLING,
HEIGHTENED WITH SILVER, OF EXQUISITE WORKMANSHIP, BY THE ROYAL BINDER,
SAMUEL MEARNE,

FOR BEAUTY OF DESIGN AND ELABORATE INLAID WORK THIS VOLUME FORMS A VERITABLE CHEF
D'CEUVRE OF SAMUEL MEARNE, AND HAS THE ATTRACTION OF BEING IN A MARVELLOUSLY
FINE STATE OK PRESERVATION. THE SIDES ARE TOOLED IN COMPARTMENTS IN DOUBLE LINES,
THE FIRST WITH AN OUTER LEAFY ROLL AND AN INSIDE RICH DENTELLE, OF LARGE SIZE, WITH
ALTERNATE TULIPS AND CORNFLOWERS, ENCLOSING AN INNER PANEL RICHLY DECORATED
WITH AN INLAY OF RED AND BLACK MOROCCO WITH CITRON CENTREPIECE ARRANGED
GEOMETRICALLY, AND THE WHOLE COVERED, WITH ELABORATE SCROLL WORK, SURROUNDED
BY GRACEFUL AND VERY DELICATE POINTILLK AND LINE TOOLING ; AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM
APPEAR MEARNE'S CHARACTERISTIC ROSE, ALSO INLAID, AND ACCOMPANIED BY INLAID
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LINE WORK. THE WHOLE EXECUTED IN GOLD, HEIGHTENED WITH
SILVER AND ALTOGETHER AFFORDING ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST
PERFECT EXAMPLES OF MEARNE'S BEST WORK EVER LIKELY TO BE
OFFERED FOR SALE.

[See Illustration.]

44 BINDING — OBSERVATIONS SUR L'ART DU COM£DIEN, et sur d'autres objects
concernant cette profession en general, ouvrage destine a de Jeunes acteurs et
actrices, par le Sieur D * *, ancien Comedien, Seconde Edition, corrigee et
augmentee de beaucoup d'Anecdotes Theatrales, et de plusieurs Observations
nouvelles, aux depens d'une Societe Typographique, 1774, 8vo, RICH OLD FRENCH
RED MOROCCO, triple %old fillet on the sides, back tooled in compartments with leafly
corners and centre floral ornament, vine sprays at top and bottom, inside borders, g.e.t
A FINE AND REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE OF THE SKILL OF THE
FAMOUS FRENCH BINDER DEROME LE JEUNE, ^2 IDS

ONE OF A FEW COPIES PRINTED ON THICK PAPER, with the scarce leaf of errata at end. An
interesting old dramatic work containing inter alia anecdotes of Garrick.

i« MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

PRINCE LOUIS-HENRI DE BOURBON-CONDI'S COPY.

45 BINDING — PETRONJUS. Petrone Latine et Francois, Traduction entiere suivant le

Manuscrit trouve a Belgrade en 1688, avec plusieurs Remarques et Additions qui
manquent dans 1'Edition, qui paroet depuis peu, no place or printer, 1698, 2 vols,
8vo, engraved frontispiece to each volume, titles printed in red and black with vignette
on each, pages 5-6 of Vol. i supplied from an earlier edition and inlaid to size, OLD
SMOOTH FRENCH CALF, sides tooled in gold with a triple fillet, jleur de Its at each
corner, the arms of Prince Louis-Henri de Bourbon Conde, within the ribbons of two
orders, as centre ornament, back tooled in compartments, a large fleur-de-lis irt the
centre of each, and a smaller one at each angle, red morocco lettering pieces, g.c, £4 IDS

BINDING, WITH ARMS OF DON GABRIEL, INFANTA OF SPAIN. See America-
Oexmelin.

4SA BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING— BIGMORE (E. C.) and WYMAN (C. W. H.) A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING, London, B. Qiiaritch^ 1880 — 86, 3 vols, sm. 410, with
portrait of Bernard Quart tch, numerous reproductions of early printers devices,
portraits, medals, etc., half morocco, tincut, SCARCE, £$ 53

The most important work on this fascinating subject yet published.

46 BLAKE— BLAIR (Robert) THE GRAVE, a Poem, London, printed by T. Bensley for

R. Ackermann, 1813, roX- 4to» with portrait oj Blake after Phillips, ENGRAVED

TITLE, AND THE 12 FINE FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS BY WlLLIAM BLAKE, ENGRAVED BY

L. SCHIAVONETTI, fine large copy in original half morocco (worn), £2 25

It is very seldom that a copy is met with having the engraved title intact, most copies that occur
for sale having it more or less cut into. One of the few books containing illustrations where
both artist and engraver are equally celebrated.

47 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND PSALMS IN GREEK-BiBLos TES

DEMOSIAS ENCHES, etc., Cambridge, John Field, at the University Press, 1665 —
PSALTERION Tou DABiD, etc., ibid., 1664, 2 vols. in i, narrow i2mo, a few head-
lines and catchwords slightly cut into and margin of one leaf slightly frayed, else fine
copies, contemporary calf, 305

Rare editions of the Prayer Book and Psalter according to the use of the Church of England,
translated into Greek. According to Lowndes the translator was the celebrated Bishop
Pearson, but the dedication to Gilbert Archbishop of Canterbury is signed J.D., i.e. James
Duport, regius professor of Greek, and Master ol Magdalene College, Cambridge.

48 BRABANT. A SERIES OF 135 FINE OLD VIEWS OF CASTLES, ABBEYS AND HOUSES

OF THE NOBILITY OF BRABANT, ENGRAVED BY FRANCIS HARREWYN, many with the
armorial bearings of their owners inset (Amsterdam, 1696), BRILLIANT EARLY
SEPARATE PROOFS, oblong 8vo, loosely inserted in a large 410 volume, bound in old
red morocco, sides tooled with a deep rich ornamental border containing bees and birds,
corner fleurons, back richly tooled in compartments, g.e., joints broken and binding
much worn, £(> los

These views were engraved to illustrate Le Roy's account of Brabant Families, published at
Amsterdam in 1696. A few sets of separate proofs were struck off which are extremely rare,
They are also of much interest at the present time, for they are admirable views and include a
•number of places in Southern Brabant recently destroyed by the Germans, Harrewyn, the
engraver of them was born at Brussels about 1675, and was a pupil of the celebrated Remain
de Hooghe.

49 BRIGHTON— SICKELMORE (R.) DESCRIPTIVE VIEWS OF BRIGHTON, Brighton, 1824,

8ro, with 2 plans of Brighton in 1779 anci 1824, 5 PRETTY COLOURED VIEWS of the
Royal Pavilion, the Chain Pier, Ireland's Royal Grounds, Brighton Steyne, and
the Royal Stables, and apian of the Royal Maze, original boards^ uncut, SCARCE, 213

No. 43.

INLAID BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 13

H. BUXTON FORMAN'S FACSIMILE REPRINT.

50 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, A POEM, written

in early youth by E. B. Browning, Printed for her Father in 1820, and now
reprinted in type facsimile, with an Introduction, by H. Buxton Forman, London,
for private distribution only, 1891, 8vo, fine uncut copy, three-quarter crushed brmvn
levant morocco, t.e.g., £2 IDS
One of SO copies printed on paper. Fifty four were printetl in all, four being on vellum.

51 BROWNING BIBLIOGRAPHY— WISE (THOMAS J.) A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY

OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ROBERT BROWNING, London, for
Private Subscribers on/y, 1897, sm. 410, FINELY PRINTED ON HAND MADE PAPER.
bound from the % parts in half olive morocco gilt, uncut, t.e.g., WITH ALL THE

ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, £4 48

VERY RARE, ONLY 50 COPIES WERE PRINTED. The most exhaustive bibliography of R.
Browning by the most eminent authority upon the subject.

52 BULL FIGHTING IN SPAIN— A SERIES OF 13 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER

DRAWINGS BY J. H. CLARK, AQUATiNTED BY DuFOURG, illustrating the various
Stages of a Spanish Bull Fight, Published by Edw. Orme, London, 1813, BRILLIANT
IMPRESSIONS, engraved surface measures k\ x 8^ inches, with wide margins, £2 xos

53 BYRON (Lord) LARA AND JACQUELINE, London, J. Murray, 1814, FIRST

EDITION, sm. 8vo, original boards, uncut, no label, 155

Jacqueline is not by Byron and is understood to be the prodnction of Samuel Rogers, the Banker
Poet.

53A CARROLL (Lewis, i.e., C. L. DODGSON) ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND,
being a facsimile of the original MS. Book afterwards developed into "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland," London and N. Y.t 1886, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with
37 illustrations by the author, REMARKABLY FINK FRESH COPY, in the original red
°ilt cloth, g.e,, 2 is

54 CASANOVA'S MEMOIRS— MKMOIRES DK JACQUES CASANOVA DK SEINGALT,

ecrits par lui-meme, Bruxelles, 1871, EDITION ORIGINALE, LA SEULE COMPLETE, 6

vols. in 3, thick 8vO, half mottled calf extra, t.e.g., j£i i8s

These celebrated memoirs record the doings of a man who successively figured as priest, soldier,
and statesman ; who found means to gain the favour of some of the greatest potentates of
Europe, among others of Frederick the Great and Catharine II. After roaming from place to
place he ended his long life of mingled charlatanry, profligacy and ability, at Vienna in 1803.

55 CECIL (Robert, FIRST EARL OF SALISBURY) 1563? — 1612. Famous Statesman

and Lord High Treasurer. LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated Strand, 8 August,
1 6 i o. To Sir Henry Nevill, relating to necessary repairs to be carried out in the
Manor of Sonning, Co. Berks. COUNTERSIGNED ISY SIR JULIUS G*SAR, Chancellor
of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls, 355

Two fine signatures of distinguished Elizabethans. Robert Cecil was the builder of Hatficld
House, was created Baron Cecil, 1603, Viscount Cranborne, 1604, and Earl of Salisbury, 1605.
He secured the accession of James VI. of Scotland to the English throne.

56 CECIL (William, FIRST LORD BURGHLEY) 1520-98. Queen Elizabeth's chief

Minister, Secretary of State, 1558-72, Lord Hi^h Treasurer, 1572-98. LETTER
SIGNED, i p. sm. folio, dated "ffrom my house at Westm'. 22 ffebr, 1593." To
Mr. Richard Staforlon, requiring 40 trees out oj fiurlay Wood in Windsor Forest,
with postscript, partly torn away, 355

A fine autograph of the famous Lord Burghley, builder of Burleigh House near Stamford, who
was chiefly reponsible for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

14 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

KING CHARLES THE SECOND'S OWN COPY

OF THE 1649 EDITION OF THE

EIKON BASILIKE,

IN A UNIQUE ROYAL BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE THE ROYAL BlNDKR.

57 CHARLES I. — Eikon Basilike. The Potirtraicture of His Sacred Majestic in His

Solitudes and Sufferings. Together with His Private Prayers, used in the time of his
Restraint, and delivered to D. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his
death, no place or printer, 1649, 8vo, with the folding portrait of Charles I. at
prayer, by W. Marshall. Specially bound for King Charles II. in black morocco,
the sides line tooled in compartments, the inner having the crowned cypher of the
King at each corner, the centre of the front cover occupied by a contemporary
finely engraved oval portrait of Charles I. in state robes with crown, orb, and
sceptre enclosed by an ornamental gilt circle composed of the well-known Mearne
roll, on the lower cover is another contemporary portrait of Charles II. (a little
worn at bottom) within a similar gilt circle, back tooled in 7 compartments each
containing Charles II. 's crowned cypher as centre ornament, edges gilt over black,
black end papers, holes for tie strings. Preserved in a specially made case of dark
blue morocco, gilt border on sides with the royal cypher in the centre, back
emblematically tooled with the crowned rose, shamrock, thistle and royal cypher,
lined inside with purple 'watered silk, the lower part of the case surrounded by
a velvet mount to protect the book. To render it still more valuable there is
inserted in the centre of the upper cover a remarkably interesting relic of
Charles I. : one of the very rare chased silver tokens secretly worn by the
adherents of that unfortunate monarch, enclosed in crimson velvet and protected
by a glass case, ^75

A unique copy of the famous " King's Book " and a Stuart relic of the highest historical interest
and value with the additional importance added of a later royal ownership. No other book is
known bound in this truly remarkable manner. It was evidently executed in accordance with
King Charles the Second's own wishes by the royal binder Samuel Mearne and is a line
example of his skill. Probably given by the King to one of his favourites. Some 160 years
later it came into the possession of the Rev. Thomas Raffles of Liverpool, the famous
Congregational Minister and Founder of the Congregational College at Manchester, who
presented it in 1812 to Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Queen Victoria, whose autograph
signature and signed note relating to the book are on the title page. There is also an
autograph note and description of the work by the Rev. T. Raffles on two of the fly-leaves.
The mourning character of the copy in its black morocco, black gilt edges and black end
leaves is particularly worthy of notice. Altogether a Royal Book whose interest and
importance it is impossible to over estimate, while the opportunity of securing it once lost can
never occur again.

[See Illustration.]

58 COLOURED AQUATINTS— A SELECT COLLECTION or VIEWS AND RUINS IN

ROME AND ITS VICINITY, recently executed from drawings made upon the spot,
London, n.d. (plates, </a/<v/ 1796-98), LARGE PAPER, folio, WITH 62 FINE FULL-PAGE
COLOURED AQUATINTS, original half red morocco, uncut (binding broken), £2 155

59 COLOURED PLATES— WILLIAMSON (CAPTAIN THOMAS) Oriental Field Sports ;

being a description of the Wild Sports of the East, interspersed with Anecdotes,
London, for H. R. Young, 1819, 2 vols, 410, WITH 40 BEAUTIFUL COLOURED
PLATES AFTER DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL HOWITT, engraved by the best artists, with
E. Orme's name as publisher on each, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY
STRAIGHT GRAINED CRIMSON MOROCCO, the sides elaborately tooled in gold and blind
•with rich ornamental borders, and lines, five of the compartments of each back contain

A SPIRITED VIGNETTE IN GOLD OF A TIGER SPRINGING UPON A DEER, IN THE STYE OF

GOSDEN, inside borders, gilt edges, £10 IDS

A CHOICE COPY OF A RARE SPORTING BOOK. The fine full-page coloured plates depict in a
spirited manner the various exciting sports in vogue in India at the commencement of las.
century, including hunting the hog, tiger, elephant, buffalo, leopard, bear, wolf, etc., etc.

No. 57.

CHARLES IInd5- COPY OK THE EIKOV BASILIKK.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 15

60 COLOURED COSTUME— BRIDGKNS (Robert) ILLUSTRATIONS OFTHK MANNERS and

COSTUMES OF FRANCIS, SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, London, J. Dowding, 1835, 410,

WITH 50 FINELY COLOURED PLATES OF THK COSTUME OF THE DIFFERENT RANKS OK
SOCIETY, CHIEFLY IN ITALY, INCLUDING 5 PLATES OK WOMEN'S HKAD-DRF.SSES, half

•morocco, 255

61 COLOURED PLATE -Tut ACADEMICIANS OF 1823; or, the Greeks of the Palais

Royal and the Clubs of St. James's, by Charles Persius, London, 1823, FIRST

EDITION, Sin. 8VO, WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE ENTITLED " LA ROULKTTF. " IN

THE STYLE OF ROBERT C.RUIKSHANK, with the half title, fine copy, in the original
boards, cloth back, uticu/t with the label, RARE, 2 is

A curious work on gambling and its evils. Gives a lively picture of the Gambling Houses in
London and Paris, extracts from the Knglish and French Laws on gaming, the doctrine of
chances, and some account "Of the numberless Suicides, Robberies, and Murders committed
in those Pest-Houses at Paris."

62 COLOURED PLATES -ACKKRMANN'S POETICAL MAGAZINE, London, 1809 — n,

4 vols, 8vo, engraved titles with vignettes, that to vol. 4 a charming design after
Cipriani by Bartolozzi, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE COMPLETE SERIES OF 32
COLOURED PLATES BY T. ROWLANDSON, and 14 out of the 20 coloured views of
Castles, Abbeys, etc., FINE COPY, old smooth claret coloured calf gilt, m.e., ^4 153

Combe's celebrated " Tour of Dr. Syntax in Searrh of the Picturesque " first appeared in tin's
magazine under the title of " The School master's Tour." CONSEQUENTLY THE GENUINE FIRST
IMPRESSIONS OF ROWLANDSON'S FAMOUS PLATES CAN BE HAD ONLY BY POSSESSING THESE
VOLUMES.

63 COLOURED PLATES— ASPIN (J.) NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPLOITS, which have

distinguished the reign of George III., accurately described and methodically
arranged, London, S. Leigh, 1820, thick i2mo, WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIKCE AND

35 CHARMING CIRCULAR COLOURED AQUATINT VIEWS OF FAMOUS ENGAGEMENTS,

covering the American War of Independence, the East Indian Battles, the Napoleonic
Wars, Nelsorts Sea Fights, etc., etc., original publisher s binding with design and
lettering in gold on front cover, £6 i os

Not only rare but a remarkably interesting volume containing practically contemporary details of
all the Wars of a very celebrated period, including the Wars with France and Spain, the North
American Indians, the American War of Independence, Tippo Sahib, the Napoleonic Wars,
the American War of 1812, etc., etc. The coloured aquatints depict such interesting subjects
as the Battle of Bunker's Hill, Lord Rodney's Victory, Storming of Seringapatam, Lord
Howe, the French in Ireland, Trafalgar, Buonaparte on board the "Northumberland,"
" Shannon " and "Chesapeake," " Waterloo," etc. Includes the two plates of the Battle of
Vittoria and Storming of Pampeluna not in the list of plates.

WlTH THE PLATES FINELY PRINTED IN COLOURS, AND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY

BINDING.

64 COLOURED PLATES— THORNTON (Dr. R. J.) TKMPLK of FLORA, or Garden of

the Botanist, Poet, Painter, and Philosopher, London, published by Dr. Thornton,

l8l2, folio, WITH A BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THK CHARMING FRONTISPIECE AFTER

COSWAY BY BURKE " Flora dispensing Her Favours on the Earth," AND 28
BKAUTIFUL PLATES OF KLOWERS AFTKR REINAGLK, HENDERSON, THORNTON,
EDWARDS AND OTHERS, ENGRAVED IN MEZZOTINT BY DUNKARTON, GANGAIN,
STADLEK AND OTHERS, THE WHOLE EXQUISITELY PRINTED IN
COLOURS AFTER NATURE, ALSO A CHARMING VIGNETTE ON THE FIRST

TITLE AFTER BURNEY, ENGRAVKD IN STIPPLE BY TOMKINS, AND TWO FINE PLATES
AFTER OlME AND REINAGLE, F.NGRAVED BY BAKTOLOXZI, LANDSKER AND MATTOCKS

VERY CHOICE COPY, IK CONTEMPORARY STRAIGHT GRAINED ENGLISH GREKN
MOROCCO, sides tooled with ornamental borders in gold and blind, back richly gilt in
compartments, inside borders, gilt edges, SCARCE IN THIS FINE STATE, £10 los

16 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

65 COLOURED PLATES— BUTLER (Samuel) HUDIBRAS, a POEM, with Notes, selected

from Grey and other Authors : to which are prefixed a Life of the Author and a
preliminary discourse on the Civil War, London, McLean, 1819, 2 vols, 8vo, WITH

12 FINE COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES BY J. CLARK, CHOICE COPY, IN
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH STRAIGHT GRAINED BLUE MOROCCO, sides gilt and blind

tooled^ back ornamentally tooled in gold, inside borders, gilt edges, £$ los
COLOUR PRINTED PLATES- SEE PRINTING.

66 CORNEILLE (T.) POEMES DRAMATIQUES, nouvelle edition revue, corrigee et

augmenteej a Paris, chez C. Osmont, 1714, 5 vols, sm. 8vo, with fine impression of
the portrait of the author and numerous full-page engravings "en faille-douce"
interesting for the costume of the period, fine large copy, contemporary French sprinkled
calf , gilt backs, 2 is

67 COTGRAVE (Randle) A DICTIONARIE OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH TONGUES.

Whereunto is also annexed a most copious Dictionarie, of the English set before the
French. By R. S. L., London, A. Islip, 1632, 2 parts in i vol, thick sm. folio,
partly printed in blftCfc ICttCT, title within an ornamental woodcut border,

CONTAINS THE RARE FOLDING PLATE OF TABLE OF THE CONJUGATIONS OF PERFECT
VERBS AND THE EQUALLY RARE LEAF OF ERRATA AT THE END OF THE SECOND

PART, name on title, margins of last 3 leaves slightly stained, VERY FINE SOUND COPY,
in the original law calf, worn, RARE IN THIS FINE STATE, j^i 155

68 CRUIKSHANK — THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN, London, C. Tilt, 1839,

FIRST EDITION, sq. i2mo, with page of music, and n humorous etchings by George
Cruikshank, FINE IMPRESSIONS, in the original green cloth, CONTAINING A HUMOROUS
DESIGN BY CRUIKSHANK IN GOLD ON THE FRONT COVER, NOT REPEATED IN THE
BOOK, £8 8s

THE RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH ALL THE POINTS. Very difficult to meet with owing to its crossing
the paths of those who collect Dickens, Thackeray and Cruikshank. The Notes and Preface
were by Dickens. The Ballad itself is believed to have been written by Thackeray, as a MS.
copy in his autograph, with corrections, was found among his papers after death. The cover is
an important feature in this book as the design on it really makes a 12th plate completing the
series.

69 CRUIKSHANK — THE UNIVERSAL SONGSTER ; or, Museum of Mirth, the most

Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs, with Index, London, Jones and
Co., 1828 — 29, 3 vols, 8vo, with frontispieces, containing portraits of the celebrated
composers and singers of the day, engraved titles with humorous subjects, and 87 highly
humorous woodcuts by George and Robert Cruikshank, REMARKABLY FINE FRESH
COPY, in the original drab boards, with several of the humorous illustrations repro-
duced on the sides, backs a little broken, RARE IN THIS STATE, ^i 153

SPECIAL COPY, WITH THE SCARCE SERIES OF PLATES BY T. ONWHYN INSERTED.

70 DICKENS (Charles) The POSTHUMOUS PAPERS of the PICKWICK CLUB, London,

Chapman 6° Hall, 1837, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with the 43 full-page etchings by R,
Seymour, R. W. Buss and Phiz (ff. K. Browne), also containing THE COMPLETE

SET OF TITLE AND 3 1 PLATES BY T. ONWHYN, GENUINE ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS,

published by E. Grattan, 1837, polished calf 'extra, top edges gilt, £& 8s

A remarkably interesting copy being one of the few bound from the first impression of the original
numbers containing the 4 plates by R. Seymour in the genuine first state, not as afterwards re-
drawn by Phiz — ONE OF THE RAREST POINTS OF A FIRST PlCKWICK AND MOST DIFFICULT TO
COME ACROSS. The 2 Buss plates are also the right impressions, the engraved title has the
spelling " Veller " and almost all the Phi/ plates are in the earliest known state, while the
textual variations agree in every respect with the particulars given by Mr. J. C. Ekel in his
exhaustive treatise on the subject. THE ADDITION OF THE SET OF THE VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL

EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS BY T. ONWHYN ADDS GREATLY TO THE VALUE OF THE COPY.

THE VALIANT

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71 DICKENS (Charles) The LIFE and ADVENTURES of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, London,

Chapman c" If all t 1839, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with portrait of the Author after D.
Afaclise, A.R.A., and 39 full-page etchings by Phiz (Habelot K. Browne}, fine copy
in the original greeen cloth, uncut, £3 IDS

FROM THE NEWDIGATE FAMILY LIBRARY, WITH BOOKPLATE.

72 D'AVENANT (Sr. William) THE WORKS, consisting of those which were formerly

Printed, and those which he design'd for the Press ; now published out of the
Authors Originall Copies, London, T. N. for H. Herringman, 1672 — 3, FIRST
COLLECTED EDITION, large paper, folio, WITH THE FINE PORTRAIT OF D'AVKNANT
ENGRAVED BY W. FAiTHORNE, brilliant impression, REMARKABLY FINE COPY, original
calf, back tooled in gold in compartments in the Mearne style, m.t., some joints
cracked, and top oj back slightly broken, £"] IDS

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE HUTH LARGE PAPER COPY SAYS — " No other copy on largt paper has
been noticed."' That one measured 12>£ by 7 5^ -in. The present one exceeds it, measuring
12# by 7#-in.

A COMPANION VOLUMI TO THB FOLIO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, BEN JONSON AND BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER. The historical and literary importance of this first collected folio edition of
D'Avenant is thus described by his friend and publisher, Henry Herringman, in a brief notice
to the Reader — " / here present you with a collection o/ all those pieces Sir \V. D'Avenant
ever design' d for the Press ; In his Life-time he often expressed to me his great desire to see them in

One Volume In this Work you have Gondibert, Madagascar, etc., to -which is added

several Poems, and Copies of Verses, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED ; .... In this volume you
have likewise SIXTEEN PLAYS, whereof Six WERE NEVER BEFORE PRINTED." Contains
commendatory verses by Waller, Cowley, Suckling, Carew and others, ALSO D'AvENANT's
ODE. " IN REMEMBRANCIOF MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE."

ONLY TWO PERFECT COPIES KNOWN.

73 ELIZABETH (Queen) O[CKLAND] (C.) The VALIANT ACTES and VICTORIUS

BATTAILES of the ENGLISH NATION : from the yeere of our Lord 1 327, to the yeere
1558. ALSO, OF THE PEACEABLE AND QUIET STATE OF ENGLAND UNDER THE
BLESSED GOVERNEMENT OF THE MOST EXCELLENT AND VERTUOUS PRINCESSE
ELIZABETH. A compendious declaration written by C. O[ckland], AND NEWLY

TRANSLATED OUT OF LATINE VERSE INTO ENGLISH MEETER BY I. [OHNJ

S.[HARROCK], at London, Printed l>y Robert Walde-^rave, n.d. (1584?). Followed
by a fresh title "ELIZABETH QUEENE," OR A SHORT AND COMPENDIOUS
DECLARATION, etc. Whereunto is added a briefe Catalogue or rehearsall of all the
noble men which being nowe dead, have been, or yet livyng, are of her Maiesties
Counsaile. WRITTEN IN LATIN VERSE BY CO. DONE INTO ENGLISH (VERSE) BY
JOHN SHARROCK, at London, R. Walde-grave, anno 1585. Both portions in i vol,
sm. 410, blHCrt ICttCd titles, prefatory matter, headlines and side notes in roman,
latter cut into, a few leaves skilfully mended, good sound copy, red morocco extra, old
style, g-c-, by Sangorski and Sutcli/e, £$o

ONE OF THE RAREST PIECES OF OUR ELIZABETHAN POETRY EXTANT AND ALMOST UNKNOWN TO
BIBLIOGRAPHERS. The British Museum only possesses the last portion of the work " Elizabeth
Queene," bought by Thomas Grenville at Heber's sale, part IV. early last century, and
catalogued as a complete work and believed to be unique. An imperfect copy of both portions
is in the library of Lord Robartes, a perfect one was in Maurice Johnson of Spalding's library,
while the present perfect example completes the list of known copies. The ' ' Elizabeth Queene ' '
contains laudatory lines on BACON, W. CECIL LORD BURGHLEY, ROBERT DUDLEY EARL OF
LEICESTER, SIR C. HATTON AND OTHERS. Collation : general title, dedication poem to Sir
William Mohun, poem by W. Bluett in praise of the work and author, and a poem to Queen
Elizabeth, signed C.O., 4 leaves ; then A to L 2 in 4s; followed by the separate title, dated
1585, to " Elizabeth Queene," forming Signature Al of a fresh set of signatures ; then A2 to
E2 in 4s, last leaf E2, a blank, wanting in this copy. This last part has a dedication in verse
to the Lady Myldred, wife to Lord Burghley. Ockland was probably identical with the
Okeland who contributed to the anthems in a music book published by John Day in 1565.
Bishop Hall alludes to him in his Satires " Or cite old Ocland's verses," etc.

[See Illustration.]

18 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

IN OLD FRENCH ARMORIAL MOROCCO BINDING.

74 ELZEVIR PRESS — PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS, et Libri Sapientiales, id est Proverbia.

Ecclesiastes. Sapientia. Ecclesiasticus. Juxta editionera vulgatam Sixti V. jussu
editam, Lugduni, Apud. J. et D. Elseviros, 1653, izmo, fine engraved title depicting
David playing the harp, ruled in red throughout, VERY FINE LARGE COPY, OLD
FRENCH BLACK MOROCCO, sides blind tooled in compartments by triple fillets^ fleuron
at the outer corners of the inner compartment, the armorial bearings, with coronet of
the Later- Doby family of Paris on the inside, back tooled in compartments with centre
ornament, r.e., modern lettering pieces, £4 45
Not only a very desirable edition of the Psalter but a very rare example of the famous Elzevir

Press, and more particularly so in the large size, 5£ by 3-inches, and exceptionally interesting

binding of the present copy.

FIRST BOOKS PRINTED AT ETON.

75 ETON — GREGORIUS MAZIANZENUS (S.) IN JULIANUM INVECTIV/R DU^ (Graete)

cum Scholiis Graecis nunc primum editis, et omnia ex Bibliotheca D. Henrici
Savilii edidit R. Montagu, Etonce, in Collegio Regali excudebat J. Norton, 1610,
Signature of " F. Wrangham, 1814" on title — JOANNIS METROPOLITAN!
EUCHAITENSIS VERSUS jAMBisi (Gracce) nunc primum in lucem editi cura
Matth. Busti Etonensis, ibid., 1610, device on title, feiv letters on signature B^
injured by ink stain, in i vol, sm. 4to, original calf, rebacked, RARE, £2 25

THE FIRST TWO BOOKS PRINTED AT ETON, and the first in Greek characters. Printed with the
" Silver Type," the fount invented by Sir Henry Savile.

76 FACETIAE— BEBELIUS (Henricus) FACETIAE SUPERIORUM ^TATUM DICTA JOCOSA

ET FACTA RIDICULA CONTINENTES, in libros tres digcstae, una cum Prognostico
perpetuo. Accesserunt illustrium virorum ioci et apophthegmata EX MACROBII,
POGII, ERASMI, ET ALIORUM MONUMENTIS COLLECTA, Francofurti, ex offidna
typographica N. Basscei, 1590, lamo, printer's device on title, few headlines just
shaved by binder, but a fine copy, red morocco extra, sides line tooled, back richly gilt,
deep inside dentelle borders, g.e., 303

A rare edition of a very celebrated collection of Facetiae and the last edited by Bebel, those
published subsequently being edited by Friscklin. It was a very popular book passing through
many editions from 1542 to 1660. Bebel was professor of Belles-Lettres at Tiibingen in 1497,
and was one of the most noted literary men of his day .

77 FACETIAE — THRESOR DES RECREATIONS contenant Histoires Facetievses et

Honnestes Propos, Plaisans et pleins de gaillardises, faicts et tours ioyeux,
Plusieurs beaux Enigmes, tant en vers qu'en prose et autres plaisanteries. Le tout
tire de divers Auteurs trop fameux, a Rouen, chez Jean Osmont, 1611, izmo,
name of former owners on title and p. 5, water stain on first 50 pages, fine large

copy, PRETTILY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH VEAU FAUVE, sides line toolfd in

gold in compartments, corner fleurons to the inner, and a delicately tooled ornamental
centrepiece^ back tooled in lines, with a floiver between each, g.e., holes for tie strings,
a little worn, SCARCE, 2 is

78 FIREWORKS — BABINGTON (John) PYROTKCHNIA, OR A DISCOURSE OF ARTIFICIAL

FIRE-WORKS for Pleasure, in which the true grounds of that" Art are Plainly and
Perspicuously laid downe : Together with sundry such Motions both Straight and
Circular, performed by the helpe of Fire, as are not to be found in any other
Discourse of this kind, extant in any language. WHEREUNTO is ANNEXED A SHORT
TREATISE OF GEOIMETRIE. WRITTEN BY JOHN BABINGTON, GUNNER, AND STUDENT
IN THE MATHEMATICKS, London, T. Harper, for /?. Map, 1635, sm. folio, WITH

BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE RARE FRONTISPIECE BV Jo. DROESHOUT, finely

engraved in compartments , one containing portrait of tJie author, the other devices and
implements used in firework displays, numerous interesting folding and other illustra-
tions in connection with the subject of the wo>k, names written on title, top of engraved
title just touched by binder, fine copy, handsomely bound in pann filed calf 'extra, y.e.,
RARE, £4 45

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 19

ONLY ONE OTHER PERFECT COPY KNOWN.

79 FLODDEN FIELD, AND OTHER FAMOUS BATTLES— POLMON (John) ALL THE

FAMOUS BATTELS THAT HAVE BEEN FOUGHT IN OUR AGE THROUGHOUT THE
WORLDE AS WELL BY SEA AS LANDS, set foorth at large, lively described, beautified
and enriched with sundry eloquent Orations, and the declaration of the causes,
with the fruites of them. Collected out of Sundry Good Authors, Imprinted at
London, by Henrye Bynncman and Francis Coldock, n.d. (1585?) blHCfe letter,
dedication and headlines in roman, fine engraved border to title depicting a battle
scene, soldiers, cannon, cross-b(nvs and other military subjects (very slightly cut into on
fore-margin), large woodcut initial — THE SECOND PART OF THE BOOKE OF BATTAILES
FOUGHT IN OUR AGE : taken out of the best authors and writers in sundrie languages.
Published for the profit of those that practise armes, and for the pleasure of such
as love to be harmlesse hearers of bloudie broiles, At London, Printed for Gabriell
Cawood, 1587, blaCft lettCt, title preface and headlines in roman, ornamental
ivoodcut border to title, both parts in one vol, sm. 410, a few leaves skilfully repaired,
fine large copy, red morocco extra, old style, gilt edges, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, £2 1
EXCESSIVELY RARE, so MUCH so INDEED THAT BEYOND THE COPY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, THE

PRESENT ONE, AND A COPY OF THE SECOND PART ONLY, SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S ABOUT NINE YEARS
AGO. WE ARE UNABLE TO TRACE THE EXISTENCE OF ANOTHER. The first part is de3icated to
Sir Christopher Hatton. The two parts contain highly interesting accounts of the Battles of
FLODDEN FIELD, Ravenna, Novara, Marignano, Pavia, " MUSCLEBOROUGH FIELDE"(PINKEY),
St. Quentin, Gravelines, Dreux, St. Denis, Moncontour, Lepanto, Alcazar, " Saint Michaell,
fought at the lies of the Assores 1582," LANGSIDE, 1568, THE DEATH-BLOW TO THE HOPES OF
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, and many others.

80 FORTESCUE (SiP John) 1531 ?— 1607, Chancellor of the Exchequer, LETTER

SIGNED, i page, sm. folio, dated 20 Nov. 1601. To Mr. Ry. Stafforton, asking him
to bestow on his brother-in-law, Nicholas Smyth, " One doe of this season fourth oj
your Walke of New Lodge ( Windsor), and I will thank you and be readie to pleasure
you or yours wherein I mate " with seal, £2 23
A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE AUTOGRAPH OF A FAMOUS ELIZABETHAN. Fortescue superintended the

Studies of the Princess Elizabeth, on whose accession he became keeper of the Great Wardrobe.

M.P. for Wallingford in 1572. Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1582. The intimate friend ot

Sir W. Ralegh, the Earl of Essex, Lord Burghley and Bacon.

8 1 FREE MASONRY— SMITH (W., a Free Mason} THE FREE MASON'S POCKET COM-

PANION: containing the History of Masons and Masonry, Charges, General
Regulations, Manners of constituting a new Lodge, Charges given to a new
Brother, A COLLECTION OF FREE MASON'S SONGS, etc., Prologues and Epilogues
Spoken at the Theatres to entertain Free Masons, and an exact List of regular
Lodges, London,/. Torbuck, 1736, 8vo, engraved frontispiece after T. Worlidge,fine
large copy, sheep, y.e., £$ 35

The list of Regular Lodges according to their Seniority and Constitution is of great interest. It
is printed on one side the paper only and names Lodges in Madrid, Gibralter, Paris and
Antwerp in addition to those in London and the Provinces.

82 FOULIS PRESS— C. JULII OESARIS ET A. HIRTII DE REBUS A CESARE GESTIS

COMMENTARII. Cum Fragmentis, ex recensione S. Clarke fideliter expressi,
Glasguce in ALdibus Academicis, R. et A. Foulis, 1750, THE FINELY PRINTED AND
TEXTUALLY CORRECT FOULIS EDITION, 3 vols, i2mo, fine copy, red morocco extra,
g.e.t 305

83 FOULIS PRESS— M. T. CICERONIS CATOR MAJOR, SIVE DE SENETUTE, ex editione

J. Oliveti, Glasguoc, in ^Edibus Academicis, R. et A. Foulis, 1748, THE FINELY
PRINTED FOULIS EDITION, i2mo, fine copy, red morocco extra, g.e., 123

84 FOULIS PRESS — CAII PLINII GECILII SECUNDI OPERA QUJE SUPERSUNT; omnia

ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa, Glasguce, in &dibus Academicis,
R. et A. Foulis, 1751, THE FINELY PRINTED FOULIS EDITION, 3 vols, izmo, fine
, red morocco extra, g.c., £\ i is 6d

20 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

85 FOULIS PRESS _ PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS BUCOLICA GEORGICA ET ^NEIS, ex

editione P. Burmanni, Glasguce, in dzdibus Academicis, R. et A. faults, 1758,
FOULIS'S FINELY PRINTED EDITION, sm. 8vo, fine copy, red morocco extra, g.e., 125 6d

SPECIAL COPY, WITH AN EXTRA SERIES OF PROOF PLATES IN TWO STATES.

86 FRENCH ENGRAVINGS— TASSO (T.) JERUSALEM D^LIVREE, poeme traduit de

1'Italien ; nouvelle edition, revue et corrig£e, enrichie de la Vie de Tasso (par
Suard), a Paris, chez Bossange et Masson, 1814, 2 vols, 8vo, with portrait of Tasso
after Chasselas, AND THE SET OF 20 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES AFTER THE CELEBRATED
DESIGNS OF LE BARBIER, PROOFS BEFORE INSCRIPTIONS, FURTHER ILLUS-
TRATED BY THE ADDITION OF A PORTRAIT AND 20 PLATES IN
TWO STATES, PROOFS BEFORE ALL LETTERS AND PROOFS, several of
the latter Signed " Alexandre Sclp," REMARKABY FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY
STRAIGHT GRAINED GREF.N MOROCCO, the sides elaborately tooled in gold, with heavy
corner pieces, and centre ornament, tack tooled, deep and richly tooled inside borders,
gilt edges, £14

A REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF FRENCH ART IN UNIQUE STATE, AND COVERED WITH A
BINDING WORTHY OF ITS CONTENTS.

[See Illustration].

AUTHOR'S OWN COPIES, WITH THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HIMSELF AND

SAWREY GILPIN, R.A.

87 GILPIN (William, VICAR OF BOLDRE, HANTS.) REMARKS ON FOREST SCENERY,

and other Woodland Views Illustrated by the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire,
London, 1791, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, with 32 fine aquatints of New forest
scenery and animals by the author and his brother Sawrey Gilpin, R.A,, and the
author's signature dated 1823 on each title — THE SAME, SECOND EDITION, London,

1794, 2 VOls, 8VO, WITH, INSTEAD OF THE AQUATINTS, THE SET OF THE 32

ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND
HIS BROTHER, THE WELL-KNOWN R.A., INSERTED IN THEIR
PLACE, contemporary half green morocco, £10 IDS

Together 4 vols, 8vo, forming a unique example of a highly interesting work. The water colour
drawings are of great excellence, those of the New Forest animals by Sawrey Gilpin, R.A.,
who excelled as an animal painter, being particularly good. In each volume of the second
edition is inserted a copy of W. Gilpin 's armorial bookplate by S. Gilpin, R.A., heraldically
coloured. The Gilpins were direct descendants of Bernard Gilpin the famous " Apostle of
the North " in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

88 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE DESERTED VILLAGE, a Poem, London, for W. Griffin,

in Catherine Street, Strand, 1770, FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY, 410,
vignette by Isaac Taylor on title, WITH THE RARE HALF TITLE, REMARKABLY
TALL FINE COPY, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED
MOROCCO, the sides tooled in gold with an elaborate deep triple border, that inside
composed of bold scroll and leaf work, the two outer portions of curved ornaments with
a three fold Jlame on the top of each curve, and inside stars, with three borders divided
by a narrow dentelle, an inside scroll and leaf border, with a flower pot at each outer
angle from which issues a tree, whilf roses branch from the bottom of the pot, the
inside angles filled with corn-flowers and other ornaments, enclosing a fine central
design in the form of a wreath of corn-flowers, surrounding spirals and a variety of
other ornaments interwoven with corn-flowers, back gilt in compartments, g.e., A VERY

RICH AND UNUSUAL EXAMPLE OF DECORATIVE ENGLISH BINDING OF THE PERIOD,

IOS

IT VERY SELDOM HAPPENS THAT A BOOK OF FIRST RATE IMPORTANCE IS FOUND CLOTHED IN A
REALLY FINE EXAMPLE OF CONTEMPORARY BINDING AS IN THE PRESENT INSTANCE. The book,
too, is extremely rare when on thick paper and so tall as the present copy. We can only trace
the sale of two copies answering that description during the past 20 years, one, like the present
copy, very tall, at Sotheby's in 1902, which realized ^100, and the Van Antwerp copy, in the
same rooms in 1907, in modern calf, and shorter, which brought ^50.

No. 86.

'S JERUSALEM DEL1VREE.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 21

INTERESTING ANONYMOUS FRENCH XVII. CENTURY MS. TREATISE ON GEOMETRY.
89 GEOMETRY — PRATICQUE DE LA PREMIERE PARTIE DE GEOMETRIE, avec le Compas
de Proportion, A NEATLY WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT OF THE EARLY PART OF THE
XVIlTH CENTURY, on 146 leaves, sm. 8vo, with numerous cleverly drawn diagrams,
prospective*, etc., in pen and ink, including 3 folding drawings of elevations, etc.,
THE WORK OF A FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN OF THE PERIOD, in fine state, contemporary
rough calf, £2 25

A very interesting volume but with no clue to its authorship. Whoever he was the author was
evidently a master hand in his subject. On the title is a XVI Ith century inscription of English
ownership " Nihil liabens et omnia possidens," Signed " T. Sheppey."

DKDICATION COPY TO Louis XIV., " LE GRAND MONARCH."

yo GODEFROY (Denys) HISTOIRE DES CONNESTABLES : Chanceliers, et Gardes des
Seavx : Mareschavx : Admiravx, Sur-Intendans de la Navigation, et Generavx des
Galeres de France : des Grands-Maistres de la Maison dv Roy : et des Provests de
Paris : Depuis leur Origine : avec levrs Armes et Blasons, a Paris, de rimprimerie
Royale, 1658, large folio, with hundreds of finely engraved coats of armorial bearings
of the most eminent families of France, OLD FRENCH MOTTLED CALF WITH THE ROYAL

ARMS OF LOUIS XIV., WITHIN THE COLLARS OF TWO ORDERS, SURROUNDED BY A
LAUREL WREATH, ALL IN GOLD, AS CENTRE ORNAMENT ON EACH COVER, back gilt in

compartments with large centre fleur-de-lis in each, corner ornaments, smaller fleur-de-
lis and stars, joints cracked and corners worn, VERY RARE, jClQ IDS

THE DEDICATION COPY TO LOUIS XIV., PRINTED ON LARGE PAPER, OF ONE OF THE MOST

IMPORTANT FRENCH HERALDIC AND GENEALOGICAL WORKS EVER PUBLISHED. As long ago as
1882 the Sunderland Library copy, without the special interest attaching to this, was bought
by Quaritch for £9 15s.

91 GOTTFRIED (J. L., i.e. J. PH. ABELIN) HISTORIS-CHE KRONYCK ; Vervattende een

Nauwkeurige en volkomene Beschrijvingh der aldergedenck waeniigste Geschieden-
issen des VVoerelds, van den aenvangh der Scheppingh tot op' t Jaer Christi 1576.
Op nieuws vertaeld na den derden vermeerderden druck, met byvoegingh van de
Historic der Reformatie in Duytschland : en een volkoomen Bladwijser aller
vooruaemste Saecken, door S. de Vries. Met desselven Algemeen Historische
Gedenck-Boecket), van't Jaer 1576 tot op't Sluyten der Europische Vreede te
Rijswijck, Anno 1697, Ley den, Pieter vander Aa, 1698, thick folio, with engraved
title, large vignette on printed title, A SERIES OF 18 PLATES CONTAIWNG 398

MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE CELEBRITIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES,

LARGE DOUBLE-PAGE MAP OF THE WORLD INCLUDING AMERICA,
together with a vast quantity of interesting copper-plate engravings, illustrating the
text, fine copy in the original stamped vellum, RARE, ^4 45

The interesting map of the world is entitled " Nova Delincatio Totius Orbis Terrarum per Petrum
vander Aa," with sub-title " Niewe Werelt Caart." Shows California as an island, and parts,
only of the coasts of Australia, and New Zealand. The medallion portraits in addition to the
famous heroes, authors, emperors, etc., of antiquity include the Emperors of Germany, Kings
of France, Spain, Hungary, etc., together with Columbus, William Tell, Henry VIII., Queen
Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Charles II., John Hus, Erasmus, Luther, Melancthon,
Calrin, Beza, etc., etc.

92 HALIFAX (Charles Montagu, first Earl of) 1661-1715, Famous Statesman.

DOCUMENT SIGNED " HALIFAX," " FEVERSHAM," AND " PORTER," dated " Denmarke
house 13 Nov. 1693," relating to the " Account of W. Ireland appointed to keep the
Courts and Collect the Rents of the hundreds of Goodlaxton and Gawtree Co.
Leicester due and payable to her Majesty the Queene Dowager (Catherine oj
Braganza, widow of Charles //.) for two years ending at Michaelmas 1693, accom-
panied by Ireland's schedule of receipts and outlays, £2 2S

Charks Montagu, the friend of Sir Isaac Newton, originated the National debt and introduced
the bill establishing the Bank of England. Louis Duras or Durfort, Earl of Feversham (1640 ?-
1709) commanded James II. 's troops at Sedgeraoor in 1685 and became commander-in-chief of
James IL 's forces in 1686. The schedule gives interesting particulars as to the expenses attached
to the holding of Courts Leete at the end of the XViith Century and has a list of the " severall
rents in arrears " with the names of the Manors, their tenants, and the amounts due from each.

22 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

INSTIGATOR OF THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW, 1572.

93 GUISE (Henry of Lorraine, THIRD DUKE OF) 1550-1588. Celebrated French

Leader and Statesman, known as "le Balafre." HOLOGRAPH LETTER,

SIGNED " HENRYDELORRAINE," i p. folio, undated, addressed on reverse " A mon

cousin Monsieur de Luxembourg Due de Piney," in French, accompanied by an

engraved portrait of the Duke, after Dumauliert by C. Dupuis, ^"30

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF THIS FAMOUS FRENCHMAN RANK WITH THE VERY RAREST SPECIMENS

IN THE WHOLE RANGE OF COLLECTING. Some time ago Messrs. Pearson of Pall Mall had an

example in their autograph catalogue, priced £50, and stated " There is no record of another

autograph letter occurring for sale." In addition to the notoriety he achieved as the chief

adviser of the St. Bartholomew Massacre and the murderer of the great Admiral Coligny, he

took a leading part in all the affairs of a very turbulent period. He was cousin to our Mary

Queen of Scots and had not his hands been fully tied at home, meditated a descent on Scotland

in support of the Catholic cause. Decoyed to the Castle of Blois and assassinated there under

the direct superintendence of King Henri III., on 23 Dec. 1588.

[See Illustration.]

PRESENTATION COPY, WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS INSERTED.

94 HARLAND (Henry) THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF-BOX, London and New York, John

Lane, 1900, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIP-
TION ON FLYLEAF " To MR. AND MRS. STOKES WITH KIND REGARDS FROM THE
AUTHOR, MAY 1900," original red cloth, as issued, £2 25
Rendered additionally interesting by the insertion of two undated but charming autograph letters

signed H. Harland, one of 3 pp. 8vo addressed to Mr. Stokes, the other of 4 pp.. 8vo to

Mrs. Stokes.

95 HENRI III. KING OF FRANCE, 1551-1589. LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated

Paris 25 May, 1580. " Au Sr Alphonse Thornavo Collonel dite Compagnicsf

giving him instructions as to his proceedings in Languedoc, mentions " mon Cousin le

grand prieur" WITH FINE IMPRESSION OF THE ROYAL SEAL, accompanied by a

brilliant impression of an early engraved portrait of the King, damp-stained, ^5 58

A FINE EXAMPLE OF A RARE AUTOGRAPH. Henri was the third son of Henry II. and Catherine

de Medicis. Distinguished himself as a soldier, when Duke of Anjou, at the battles of Jarnar

and Moncontour. Notorious for having had assassinated in 1588 Henry of Lorraine, Duke of

Guise and his brother the Cardinal of Lorraine at his Castle of Blois. Himself fell a victim to

the assassin at St. Cloud 31 July, 1589.

96 HERBAL — NEWTON (Thomas) AN HERBAL FOR THE BIBLE. Containing a Plaine

and Familiar Exposition of such Similitudes, Parables, and Metaphors, both in the
Olde Testament and the Newe, as are borrowed and taken from Herbs, Plants,
Trees, Fruits and Simples, by observation of their vertues, qualities, natures,
properties, operations and effects. Drawen into English by Thomas Newton,
Imprinted at London by E. Bollifant, 1587, sm. 8vo, large ornamental woodcut
initials, some water-stains, flaw in the paper of 2?j", injuring a few words of text, but
a fine large copy, original sheep, skilfully rebacked, £6

ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS ONLY ONE COPY HAVING OCCURRED FOR
SALE DURING THE PAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY.

97 HOLLAND— LEEMWEN (S. Van) BATAVIA ILLUSTRATA, ofte Verhandelinge vandeu

Oorspronk, Voortgank, Zeden, Eere, Staat en Godtsdienst van Oud Batavien,
mitsgaders Van den Adel en Regeringe van Hollandt, etc., Gravenhage, /. Veely
and others, 1685, thick folio, fine engraved title, printed title in red and black, fine
large copy, original stamped vellum, top of back broken, RARE, £4 43

98 HOLLAND— PRINCIPES HOLLANDS, ET WESTFRISI/E, ab anno Christi 863 et primo

comite Theodorico usque ad ultimum Philippum Hispaniarum Regem seri omnes
incisi ac fideliter descripti auspiciis P. Scriverii, Harlem, P. Soutman, 1650, large
fo\\o,Jine engraved title within emblematic border, dedication to the Emperor (loose),
with emblematic border, dated P. Soutman, 1644, AND BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF

THE SERIES OF 38 FINE LARGE OVAL PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCES OF HOLLAND,
WITHIN ORNAMENTAL BORDERS CONTAINING THEIR ARMORIAL BEARINGS, THE
WHOLli BEAUTIFULLY KNGRAVEU BY CORNELIUS VlSSCHER, old half Calj, £4 48

No. 93.

REDUCED FACSIMILE.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. *3

99 HOLLAND— LL CLEKC (Jean) GESCHIBDENISSEN DER VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN,
Sedert den aanvang van die Kepublyk tot op den Vrede van Utrechte in't Jtar
1713, en net traUaat van Barriere in't Jaar 1715, Amsterdam, Z. Chatelain, 1730,
3 vols, folio, fine engraved frontispiece to each volume, that to vol. i, by B. Picart,

THE SERIES OF 58 FINE PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONAGES OF THE TIME,

MOSTLY ENGRAVED BY PICART, folding map, and numerous fine and very interesting
double page plates oj battles, Naval Fights, Sieges, Executions, eft., together with
valuable plans oj cities, etc,, wants a plate in vol. 2, tall clean copy, contemporary half
calf, £6

Has four extra contemporary portraits, mounted to size and inserted. Opposite the title to vol. 1
is inserted a MS. Poem entitled " Op de Tijtelplaat," Signed " W. B.," written in a hand of
the period of publication. The very interesting series of portraits includes Philip II. of Spain ;
William the First, Prince of Orange ; Alba ; Queen Elizabeth ; Parma ; F. de Valois, Duke of
Anjou ; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Sir Philip Sydney; F. de Vere ; Henry III. of
France ; Admiral F. de Mendo/n ; Philip III. of Spain; Louis XIII. ; James I. ; John van
Oldenbarnevelt ; Charles I.; Admiral Tromp ; Cardinal Richlieu ; Louis XIV.; John de
Wit ; Oliver Cromwell; Charles II.; Cardinal Mazarin ; Admiral de Ruyter ; and Philip IV.
of Spain.

too HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM (Charles, SECOND BARON HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM)
1536 — 1624. The famous Lord High Admiral who defeated the great Spanish
Armada. LETTER SIGNED "CHAR. HAWARD," i p., folio, dated "from the Courte,
24 Apriell, 1589;" addressed to " G. Woodward, Gent., Clerk of the honor and
„ Castle of Windsor" giving instructions for necessary repairs to be made to the lodges
and pales in and about Windsor Great Park, £$ 35

A FINI EXAMPLE OF THE RARE FORM OF THE SIGNATURE OF A VERY DISTINGUISHED ENGLISHMAN.
After 1596, when he was created Earl of Nottingham, his Signature ' Nottingham ' though
scarce is much easier to meet with. As chief commander against the Spanish Armada, Charles
Lord Howard of Eftingham won a place in the Annals of English Naval History that put him in
the ranks of the most famous men of all time. In addition he took a prominent and distinguished
part in all the stirring events that took place during the course of a life prolonged far beyond the
ordinary run.

101 HOWARD (Charles, FIRST EARL OF NOTTINGHAM) 1536-1624. The famous
Lord High Admiral who defeated the great Spanish Armada. LETTER SIGNED
"NOTTINGHAM," t p. folio, dated ''from the Castle att Windsore 20 Maye, 1606."
To the Verderers of Windsor Forest, relating to the cutting of timber in Windsor
Forest and similar matters, with the Earl's armorial seal, slightly injured by damp,
£i xos

A FINE AND SCARCE SIGNATURE OF ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ENGLISHMEN OF ALL TIME

loa HUSBANDRY — W[ORLIDGE] (J|ohn]) SYSTEMA AGRICULTURE; THE MYSTERY
OF HUSBANDRY DISCOVERED. Treating of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, etc., of all
sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-Lands, Woods, and Coppices.
As also of Fruits, Corn, Grain, Pulse, New- Hays, CATTLE, FOWL, BEASTS, BEES,
SILK- WORMS, FISH, etc., Account of the several Instruments used in this Profession,
Kalendarium Rusticum : or the Husbandman's Monthly Directions. Also Prog-
nosticks of Dearth, Scarcity, Plenty, Sickness, Heat, etc., and Dictionarium
Rusticum : or, The Interpretation of Rustick Terms, London, 2\ Dring, 1687, the
Fourth Edition, corrected and amended with one whole Section added, and many large
and useful additions, folio, full-page plate by Van Hove, manuscript additions in
places, two curious contemporary seeds-men's advertisements used as end papers,
original calf, joints cracked, 2 is

103 IRELAND— K. E'OGH (Joh.) BOTANALOGIA UNIVERSALIS HIBERNICA, or a General
Irish Herbal, calculated for this Kingdom. To which are added two short treatises,
one concerning the Chalybeat Waters, another of the Prophylactic, or, Hygiastic
Part of Medicine, Corke, Printed and Sold by G. Harrison at the Corner of Meeting
house Lane, 1735, sm- 4to» name on **&> ^arSe c°Py* original calf , rtbacked, 30$
A SCARCE EARLY CORK IMPRINT AND IRISH HERBAL. T. Crofton Croker's copy, with his book
label dated 1848. With the list of subscribers, and interesting list of Irish botanical names.

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104 ILLUMINATION — THE BOOKS OF ESTER ILLUMINATED BY A.S.F. A
REMARKABLY CHOICE XIXTH CENTURY ILLUMINATED MANU-
SCRIPT, written on 16 leaves of vellum, gf by 7^-in., gotbiC letter, in red,
blue, and black, long lines, DECORATED WITH 3 BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED LARGE
MINIATURES, representing King Ahashuerus and four of his courtiers, the King,
Ester and Mordecai, and Ester and Mordecai, TOGETHER WITH 19 FULL-PAGE OR
PART PAGE BORDERS OF UNUSUAL EXCELLENCE, composed of ivy leaf, line and leaf,

floral, scroll and other rich ornamental designs, interspersed ivith skilfully drawn
figures, grotesques, animals, birds, insects^ natural flowers and fruit, and numerous
large initials, capitals andfinials, THE WHOLE BRILLIANTLY PAINTED IN GOLD AND

COLOURS, WITH THE MONOGRAM OF THE ARTIST IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

STYLE ON THE LAST PAGE, black morocco extra, blind tooled to an antique ecclesiastical
design, with brass bosses, massive corner pieces, and centre clasp, gilt gaujfred
edges, £24

A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF MODERN ILLUMINATION, IN WHICH THE ARTIST HAS COMPLETELY
CAUGHT THE SPIRIT, HUMOUR, AND CRAFTSMANSHIP OF THE BEST MEDIAEVAL ILLUMINATORS.
The two large miniatures in the style of Jean Fouquet, measuring about 5 by 3 j£ -inches each,
are especially noteworthy. Equally good is the other miniature (5^4 by 5# -inches) executed in
the manner of the early xvth Century Parisian School. The varied borders are exquisite
examples of designs after the finest French, Flemish, and English work of the xvth Century,
a number of them are particularly noticeable for their extremely fine figure, animal, bird, insect,
flower and fruit work.

[See Illustration.]

105 INCUNABULA — THOMAS AQUINAS. CONTINUUM IN QUATTUOR EVANGELISTAS,
sive Catena Aurea, Venetiis, H. Lichtensteyn, Coloniensis, atque J. Hamman,
spirensis socii, 1482, folio, QOtbtC ICttCC, two types, large and small, double
columns, rubricated throughout, with signatures, but no pagination, spaces left for
capitals^ which are supplied by hand in red, ORNAMENTED WITH A REMARKABLY

BEAUTIFUL LARGE INITIAL S, 2^-incheS Square, EXECUTED IN RED, BLUE AND
GREEN, AND AN INITIAL R, SIMILAR IN DESIGN BUT OF SMALLER SIZE, Wants a I

(a blank leaf}, Gi, and Xi and 2, OTHERWISE A VERY FINE LARGE COPY WITH MANY

UNCUT LEAVES, old half calf, broken, ^5

VERY RARE, AND A SPLENDID EXAMPLE or XVTH CENTURY VENETIAN TYPOGRAPHY. It is also
interesting as being the only known book printed in partership by Lichtensteyn and Hamman.
Lichtensteyn started printing at Vicenza about 1475, was printing in Treviso in 1477, returned
to Vicenza in 1478, moved to Venice about 1482 and after his brief partnership with Hamman
printed there on his own account until 1494. Hamman was printing on his own account at
Venice from Id. Oct., 1488 to 8 Sept., 1500. Hain *1334.

THE FAMOUS REFORMER PHILIP MELANCHTHON'S COPY.

106 INCUNABULA — HIEROCLES. IN AUREOS VERSUS PYTHAGOR/E Opusculum
Proestantissimum et Religioni Christianas consentaneum, Patavii, Bartholomews de
Valdezoccho, XV. Kalendas Maias, 1474, EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THIS LATIN VERSION,
sm. 410, lettres rondes, long lines, 24 to the full-page, spaces left for the capitals,
which are supplied in red and blue, wants a\ (a blank leaf}, and #2, number of leaves
slightly wormed intypper blank margins, water stained at top, BUT A REMARKABLY FINE

LARGE AND PRATICALLY UNCUT COPY WITH MANY ROUGH LEAVES, AND ALL THE

SIGNATURES (except /4, just cut into), INTACT — A CIRCUMSTANCE OF GREAT RARITY
IN THIS BOOK, old English red morocco, ornamental gold borders on the sides, gilt
back, worn, £& los

THIS COPY BELONGED TO PHILIP MELANCHTHON, THE FRIEND AND COADJUTOR OF LUTHER.
AND HAS TWO MS. NOTES IN HIS AUTOGRAPH, AND A NUMBER OF LINES OF TEXT UNDERSCORED
IN INK BY HIM. From the famous Kloss collection, so rich in books belonging to Melanchthon,
sold at Sotheby's in 1835. APART FROM ITS ASSOCIATION INTEREST, THE VOLUME IN A FINE
EARLY AND EXTREMELY SCARCE EXAMPLE OF THE PRESS OF PADUA *S PROTOTYPOGRAPHER.
Valdezoccho started the first press at Padua, in partnership with Martinus de Septem Arboribus
Prutenus in 1472. Commenced to print on his own account in |1473, but only 9 books are
known with his separate colophon, of which this is the 4th. The last is dated 1484. Copies
with the Signatures intact are extremely rare, for owing to their being placed at the far right
hand corners of uncommonly wide margins they are almost always cut away by binders. The
present copy also contains the scarce final blank leaf completing Signature M. *Hain 8545.

i^^

No. 104.

Il.l.llMINATKH MS.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. *$

ORATIONALE, Sivt.

107 INCUNABULA — HIERONIMUS DE VILLA VITIS. PANIS QUOTIDIANUS DE SANCTIS,
hie liber ideo hoc Nomine appellatur quia quotidie per totum annum Singuiarem
orationem vel Meditationem de Sancto cuiuslibet diei continet, sine no/a Sed
Hagenau, Heinrich, Grain, circa 1500, EDITIO PRINCEPS, thick sm. 410, (JOtbtC
ICttCt, headlines in larger type, long lines, title printed in red, Prohemium and
Calendar in rtd and black, fine large ornamental initial, white on black, names
written on ti'le, 3 tiny wormholes through first few leaves and small rust holes in
margin oj last leaf, VERY FINE LARGE COPY WITH ALL THE BLANK LEAVES, ORIGINAL
WOODEN BOARDS COVERED WITH STAMPED LEATHER, tooled in compartments, with a
central panel divided by diagonal lines, the interior spaces filled with vine ornament,
hack blind tooled in compartments, joints skilfully repaired, VERY RARE, £\ IDS

Hain * 8658. Printed in Gran's types 4, 8, and 12. Reprinted on 19 June, 1509, for Rinmann.
(though the first quire of that edition is in the types »f J. Knoblouch of Strassburg), H. Gran
was the first and only printer at Hagenan in the XVth Century. He started his press in 1480
and continued printing there till 1527. The present example is not only very rare, the sale of a
copy not being recorded for many years, but is a fine example of his printing, and in a wonderful
state of preservation.

1 08 INCUNABULA — ISIDORUS DE ISOLANIS. INEXPLICABILIS MYSTERII GESTA BEAT*;
VERONICA VIRGINIS, Monasterii Sanctas Marthae urbis Mediolani, Medtolani, apud
Gotardum Ponticum, 1518, sm. 4to, printed in roman letter, long lines, WITH A

VERY FINE FULL-PAGE WOODCUT, 8 OTHER ELEGANT WOODCUTS OF SMALLER SIZK,
AND A LARGE NUMBER OF LARGE AND HIGHLY ORNAMENTAL INITIALS, Wants OO,

6 /eaves, and (wo leaves in signature b, otherwise a very fine large clean copy in old
Italian limp vellum, back loose, ^,4 los

A VERY RARE WOODCUT BOOK FROM THE PRESS OF GOTARDO DE PONTK AT MlLAN. Remark-
able for its highly finished woodcuts, and the very numerous and varied series of fine ornamental
initials. The designs are purely Italian in character, and of superior order although executed
with great simplicity. Many of the initials are historiated, others are in pure outline, and the
remainder ornamental white on black.

RARE XVITH CENTURY MS. WITH 30 MINIATURES AND ORIGINAL NATIVE BINDING.

109 ILLUMINATED TURKISH MANUSCRIPT— TAMI OR DJAMI (the famous Persian
Poet}, YUSUF WA ZALIKHA, or the celebrated romantic history of Joseph and
Zuleikha, TRANSLATED INTO TURKISH VERSE BY THE GREAT TURKISH POET,
HAMDI, sm. 8vo, exquisitely written in double columns on 177 leaves of native
paper, 6£ by jjj-in., headings in red, text divided by fine narrow gold and black
lines, EXECUTED TOWARDS THE END OF THE XVITH CENTURY, a finely designed
anwan in gold and colours at the head of the first page, FURTHER DECORATED WITH

30 FINE HIGHLY FINISHED FULL OR HALF-PAGE MINIATURES IN GOLD AND COLOURS,
BY A NATIVE ARTIST OF GREAT MERIT, ILLUSTRATING SCENES IN THE STORY, the

miniatures are more or less rubbed but still retain much of their original beauty, 3 of
them are torn, one right across, one has a piece torn out of the side, and 2 others have
trifling defects, ^ leaves of text have their margins frayed or torn, i has a piece torn
off, and 6 others are loose, first leaf is backed, and with the second, has a few small
wormholes, smudge on two pages, OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION WITH WIDE

MARGINS, IN THE ORIGINAL DARK BROWN NATIVE LEATHER BINDING, Sides tooled

with a broad ornamental sunk border of floral work on a gold ground, divided into

compartments by curved raised bands, a large and 2 small sunk shaped panels (with

similar ornamentation to the border), ouupy the centres, DOUBL£ WITH RED LEATHER,

painted gold line borders and corner ornaments, with centre oval sunk panels, similar

to the middle one on the outer sides, but the design in gold on a dark green ground,

worn and back broken, jC£ 6s Infino Stec. XVI.

EARLY MANUSCRIPTS LIKE THE PRESENT EXAMPLE OF THIS CELEBRATED POETICAL ROMANCE ARE

OF GREAT RARITY. In spite of the defects pointed out above both writing and illuminatrd

work are of unusual excellence, and it is a desirable example of XVIth Century Turkish

caligraphy, illumination, and binding. Djami who died in 1492 is one of the greatest names in

Persian poetical literature, This excellent translation by the Poet Hamdi, of equal fame in the

annals of Turkish poetry, who died in 1518, brings into conjunction two of the most famous

poets in old Oriental literature.

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no JACOBITE REBELLION— A MAP OF THE KING'S ROADS, MADE BY HIS
EXCELLENCY GENERAL WADE, in the Highlands of Scotland: from Sterling to
Inverness, with the adjacent countries, etc., London, T. Kitchin, 4 Jan., 1746,
r7^ by i$-'m.,fine copy, ivith wide margins, RARE, 305

A VERY INTERESTING RELIC OF THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS OF 1715 AND 1745. General Wade
made the roads depicted in this map between 1726 and 1733 in order to over awe the High-
landers. It is dedicated by the cartographer, T. Willdey, to General Hawley, who was
defeated by the Young Pretender at Falkirk a few days after its publication. It is curious to
note that although dated 4 Jan.. 1746' it contains a plan of the dispositions of the opposing
forces at the battle of Culloden, which did not take place till April 16th of the same year.

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY IN CHOICE OLD ENGLISH MOROCCO.

in JAMES I. — WILSON (Arthur) THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, being the Life
and Reign of King James the First, relating to what passed from his first Access
to the Crown, till his Death, London, for R. Lownds, 1653, FIRST EDITION, sm.
folio, with fine impression of the portrait of King James by Vaughan, mounted,
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF 72 RARE PORTRAITS OF THE

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF THE TIME, MOST OF THEM BY CONTEMPORARY
ENGRAVERS SUCH AS C. DE PASS, T. DE LEN, L£ CLERC, R. WHITE AND OTHERS,

also views and plans, AND THE TWO CURIOUS AND VERY SCARCE ENGRAVINGS OF

THE CRUELTIES INFLICTED BY THE DUTCH ON THE ENGLISH IN AMBOYNA, the

whole carefully mounted to size, blank corner of title mended, VERY HANDSOMELY

BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH PURPLE STRAIGHT-GRAINED MOROCCO, the sides richly tooled

in compartments, tn gold and blind, elaborately tooled back, deep inside borders tooltd
with a rich ornamental design, edges of boards also tooled, gilt edges, j£n

A REMARKABLE COPY OF THE WORK OF ARTHUR WlLSON, THE HISTORIAN AND DRAMATIST, ON
ACCOUNT OF THE RARE CONTEMPORARY PRINTS WITH WHICH IT IS EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.
Among the portraits may be mentioned those of James I., when James VI. of Scotland, Henry-
Prince of Wales, by C. de Pass, Tobias Matthews, Bishop of Durham, Sir E. Coke, Condc.
Cardinal Mazarin, Francis Lord Bacon, Archbishop Laud, by R. White (very fine), Rich.
Essex, Fairfax, Prince Charles, Guy Fawkes, Percy, Garnet, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir T.
Overbury, Arabella Stuart. Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Broke, etc., etc.

112 JAMES I.— A REMONSTRANCE OF KING JAMES FOR THE RIGHT OF KINGS, and the
Independencie of their Crownes, against an Oration of the Cardinal of Perron,
pronounced in the Chamber of the third Estate, Jan. 15, 1615. Translated out of
His Maiesties French copie by R.B., Pastor to the Church of Ashele, Norfolkc,
Printed by C. Legge, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1619, FIRST EDITION,
sm. 4to, printed within line borders, a few cut into at the top, fine large copy, stained
calf extra, g.e., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, £$ 35

VERY SCARCE. Unknown te Lowndes as a separate publication. The effects of this treatise waj
sadly illustrated in the case of his son Charles I., who doubtless took from it many of those
ideas upon the subject that led to his execution in 1649,?

113 KENT — SOMNER (VV.) A TREATISE OF GAVELKIND, Both Name and Thing.
Shewing the true Etymologic and Derivation of the one, the Nature, Antiquity, and
Original of the other. With sundry emergent Observations, both pleasant and
profitable to be known of Kentish men and others, especially such as arc studious,
either of the ancient Custome, or the Common Law of this Kingdome, London,
R. <5r* W. Leybourn, 1660, FIRST EDITION, sm. 410, title and few following leaves
stained, large copy, original calf, worn, RARE, 305

114 KNOLLYS (Sir Francis) 15 14?-! 596. Statesman and Treasurer of the Royal
Household, 1572-96, LETTER SIGNED, AND COUNTER-SIGNED BY SIR JAMES CROFT,
i p. folio, dated Windsor, 12 Nov., XX. Eliz. (1579). To the Ranger of Her
Majesty's Walk of Newlodge, directing him to send two does of this season to
Hampton Court on the first of January next, or to wherever else her Majesty might
happen to be on that date, £$ 35

FIVE SIGNATURES OF TWO NOTABLE ELIZABETHANS. Sir James Croft (died 1591) was Lord
Deputy of Ireland and Controller of Queen Elizabeth's household.

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No. 116.

REDUCEI> FACSIMILE.

MVEKS &. Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. »7

115 KELMSCOTT PRESS— MORRIS (William) GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE: a Lecture for
the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall,
Hammersmith, 1893, tn'u sm- S(l- 8vo, s^e notes printed in red, numerous fine
ornamental initials, original boards, linen back, uncut, 2 is

HOLOGRAPH LETTER OF QUEEN ELIBADETH'S CELEBRATED FAVOURITE.

116 LEICESTER (Robert Dudley, KAKL OF) 1532-1588. Husband of Amy Robsart,
and one of the most prominent men of the Elizabethan Kra. AUTOGRAPH LKTTKR
SIGNED, i p. folio, dated "from t .-e Courte at Richemond, 2 Aug.^ 1579," addressed
to '' mv loving frendt Mr. Richard Staffartoh, keper of the Newe Lodge within her
Majesties Fforest of Wytuhor" directing him to deliver "unto my ioi'ing frcnd
Mr. Willm Davison" one buck of this season " to be taken out of youre walk" £2 1

A FINE EXAMPLE, ENTIRELY HOLOGRAPH, WRITTEN BY THE MAN WHO MORE NEARLY THAN ANY
OF HER OTHER SUITORS BECAME THE HUSBAND OF Qt'EEN ELIZABETH. FlNE EXAMPLES OF HIS
HANDWRITING SUCH AS THE PRESENT ARE OF EXTREME RARITY. The William Davison
mentioned in the letter was the famous Secretary to Queen Klizalxth, who was chiefly
instrumental in obtaining her signature to the Death-warrant of Mary Queen of Scots.

[See Illustration.]

LEICESTERSHIRE— For an interesting account of Courts Leete in the Hundreds
of Goodlaxton and Gawtree in 1693 — $ee Halifax.

117 LEVER (Charles) TOM BURKE OF "OURS," Dublin, IV. Curry, Jun,, and Co.,

1844, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, COMPLETE IN THE ORIGINAL 2O PARTS, WITH 44

HUMOROUS FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS BY PHIZ (H. K. BROWNE), in the pink pictorial
wrappers as issued, backs skilfully repaired, names written on name of the wrappers,
nice clean set, preserved in a silk lined cloth cover, with silk tie strings, RARE, ,£3 i8s

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY.

118 LONDON — FAULKNER (T.) AN HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF
FULHAM, including the Hamlet of Hammersmith, London, 1813, LARGE PAPER,
4to, with folding map, pedigree of the Mordaunt Family, 8 full-pa^e plates of view*
and monuments, and 1.3 woodcuts by C. Nesoitt, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED SY THE

INSERTION OF 89 DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS, SOME COLOURED, including 38

portraits, 33 views, 10 plates of monuments, brasses, etc., a plan, and 7 drawings, fine

copy, half brown morocco, t.e.g., £$ IDS

A very interesting copy. The drawings include a pencil sketch of Fnlham from the river as it
appeared in 1825, by J. P. Neal, the celebrated architectural draughtsman, a pencil drawing of
the church from the' N.W., 4 water-colour drawings of tombs in the churchyard of eminent
residents. Signed " Gosdcn," and a water-colour drawing of St. John's Chapel, Walhatn
Green in 1828. Among the portraits may be mentioned those of Nell Gwynne, oval in stippU,
Archbishop Grindal, Bacon, Sir T. Bodley, Bartolo/zi, f>y Scriven in red, Archbishop Bancroft,
Queen Elizabeth, Devcreux, Earl of Essex, John Fletcher, the Dramatist, Archbishop Laud,
Bishop Ridley, India proof, Charles I., Fairfax and Cromwell. Formerly the property of C. J.
Ferct, author of " The History of Fulham," 3 vols, with his autograph on fly-leaf and
frontispiece.

LONDON — FOR AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THK EARLY

HISTORY OF THE NEW RlVER COMPANY, SfcE MYDDELTON (HUGH).

119 [LUTHER (Martin)] AN EXPOSITION OF SALOMONS BOOKE, called Kcclesiastes or
the Preacher, London, J. Daye, 1573, sq. 8vo, blflCfe ICttCt, text of Ecclesiastes and
to the Reader in roman, title within ornamental woodcut border, wants folio 4, flaw
in paper of Z\ and 2 injuring a side note and heading " Chap. 12," folios 160 — 87,
stained at top corner, contemporary writing [on title, large copy, old calf, back a little
broken, a is

VERY RARE AND A FINE EXAMPLE OF JOHN DAY'S CELEBRATED EARLY LONDON PRESS. C. H.
Spurgeon writes ' ' Even the British Museum authorities have been unable to find this octavo
for us, though it is mentioned in their catalogue. Translated from the German of Martin
Luther but by whom is not known.

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FINE FLEMISH ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM OF THE
SCHOOL OF BRUGES, WITH 25 CHOICE MINIATURES

S^EC XV.

120 MANUSCRIPT — HOR/E BKAT^S MARLE VIRGINIS SECUNDUM USUM ROMANUM,
cum Calendario et aliis officiis. A CHARMING AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED

MANUSCRIPT ON FINE WHITE VELLUM. EXECUTED AT BRUGES ABOUT 1480-90, BY
ONE OF THE CLEVER MINIATURISTS OF THE CELEBRATED GUILD OF THAT CITY,

1 80 leaves, 4^ by 3{-in , written in ICtttCS frfttftt&CSi long lines, 16 to a full-page,
Calendar in Latin in red and black, not full, some months having hardly any names,
rubrics in red, text in Latin, DECORATED WITH 15 LARGE ARCHED
MINIATURES OF GREAT MERIT, each surrounded by a fine border of birds of
gear geous plumage, butterflies, flowers, fruit, etc., beautifully painted after nature on a
ground of gold wash, 7 of the miniatures are slightly larger than the rest, have no
text on their reverse and have opposite them a similar full-page border with a large
ornamental initial, all but one containing the sacred monogram. THERE ARE ALSO

10 HISTORIATED INITIALS CONTAINING CHARMING SMALL MINIATURES OF SAINTS BY
A CLEVER BUT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ARTIST FROM THAT OF THE OTHER 15, all

within three part borders of similar work to the full-page borders and by the same
artist, together with a large initial and very many elegantly designed large and small
capitals and flnials painted in white and lilac on shaded gold grounds, THE WHOLE
FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, one miniature very
slightly rubbed, three just touched at the top by the binder, BUT A REMARKABLY WELL
PRKSERVED MANUSCRIPT, WITH WIDE MARGINS, in a XVIth Century French binding
of calf , single gold fillet on sides, a leafy ornament with the initial M as centrepiece,
acorn ornament in the middle of 4 compartments of the bach, g.e., joints skilfully
repaired, ^125

A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OK THE SKILL OF A CLEVER ARTIST OF THE FAMOUS SCHOOL OF BRUGES.
THE MINIATURES ARE REMARKABLE FOR TOE DELIGHTFULLY DRAWN FACES AND ADMIRABLE
GROUPING OF THE SUBJECTS, WHILE THE TREATMENT OF SEVERAL OF THEM IS DISTINCTLY

UNUSUAL. THE BORDER WORK OF NATURAL OBJECTS is OF GREAT DELICACY AND FINISH.
The larger miniatures represent : 1, Salvator Mundi, a fine typical Bruges portrait painting of
Christ ; 2, The Crucifixion, the cross surrounded by 6 figures, Jerusalem in the background ;
3, Pentecost, A VERY UNCOMMON TREATMENT OF THIS SUBJECT; Sec Illustration. 4, The
Virgin and Child enthroned under a canopy with two attendant angels, playing a harp and
guitar; 5, The Annunciation, a fine painting ; 6, King David praying; 7, The raising of
Lazurus, •/ finely painted scene with 8 figures including gravedigger, church as background. The
smaller miniatures represent : 1, The Salutation ; 2, The Nativity, shepherds in the distance —
a fine interior ; 3, The Shepherds, one with bagpipes — a fine exterior with houses; 4, The
Magi ; 5, The Presentation ; 6, Massacre of the Innocents, fine exterior with soldiers ; 7,
The Flight into Egypt; 8, The Deposition from the cross, an exquisitely painted group. The
10 small paintings depict : 1, The Trinity ; 2, Corpus Christi, two angels supporting the Host
on a linen cloth ; 3, Mass of St. Gregory, Christ in the tomb appears to St. Gregory over the
altar on which is a gold chalice, behind is a cardinal kneeling holding the Pope's tiara ; 4, St.
Bernard, in white habit with black stole, crozier and open book, 5, St. John the Baptise ; 6,
St. Peter and St. Paul ; 7, St. James the Great ; 8, St. Christopher and the infant Christ ;
9, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian ; 10, St. Anthony, with book, crozier and hog. The Calendar
is not full. The Major festivals are marked in red and include St. Amandus of Maistricht.
St. Eligius of Noyon (twice), St. Remigius of Rheims, St. Bavo of Ghent, St. Denis, St.
Donatian and St. Nichasius, both of Rheims. Those marked in black include St. Gudula of
Brussels, St. Hubert of Li&ge, St. Medard of Noyon, St. Remade of Spa, St. Guido of
Auderkcht, St. Willibrod of Utrecht, and St. Gumbert of Reims. The litany invokes St.
Cornelius of Ghent, St. Louis of France, St. Eligius, St. Giles of St. Omers, Ghent, St. Hubert
and St. Erasmus. These names point out clearly enough the provenance of the manuscript.

[See Illustration.]

PRESENTATION COPY TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.

lai LODGE (Thomas) — GOSSE (Edmund W.) MEMOIR OF THOMAS LODGE, Privately
Printed, 1882, 4to, finely printed on hand-made paper, roxburghe, uncut, ^5 xos
PRESENTATION COPY WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, "Algernon C. Swinburne from his friend
the Author,1" on fly-leaf. Accompanied by a note, " Ten copies printed of wh. this is No, 1,"
in Gosse's handwriting. From the library of the late Algernon Charles Swinburne.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 19

122 MARTYR (PeteP, i.e. Pietro Afnrtire Vermigli of Florence) Loci COMMUNES, ex
variis ipsius Aucthoris et libris in unum volumen collecti et quatuor classes
distributi, London, /. Kyngston^ 1576, folio, printer's dance on title* early MS. note
on the author on title and flyleaf, MS. table added at end, worm-hole through lower
blank margins of first few leaves, fine large copy, original calf, with centre gold block
ornaments and initials F.T. on each side, holes for tie strings, repacked, RARE, 255

123 MASEFIELD (John) BALLADS AND FORMS, London, Elkin Afat/rews, 1910, First
Edition, sq. (cap. 8 vo, fine copy, original cloth, 245

124 MAZARINI (Giulio, CARDINAL) 1602-1661. Created Cardinal 1641. The
famous Prime Minister of Louis XIV. LKTTER SIGNED, ALSO SIGNED "GiULo"
AT TOP, written in Italian, dated Paris, 13 Dec., 1645, WITH 4 LINES
ENTIRELY IN THE CARDINAL'S HANDWRITING ADDED AT THK END,
ALSO AN ADDITION OK THREE WORDS IN ANOTHER PLACE, fray on fore edge injuring
several letters, accompanied bv a brilliant impression of a contemporary engraved
portrait, £3 33

A FIVE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE AUTOGRAPH OF THE CELEBRATED CARDINAL MA2ARIN. From
the finding of a copy of the famous Gutenberg BiMe in his library it obtained its other name of
the Mazarin Bible.

125 MILITARY — PACKE (E.) AN HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE ROYAL RRGIMKNT OF
HORSE GUARDS OR OXFORD BLUES, its services and the transactions in which it
has been engaged from its first establishment to the present time, London, II'.
Clowes, 1834, FIRST ISSUE, 8vo, with portrait of the first Colonel the Earl of Oxford,
vignette on title (coloured), and 6 KINE FULL-PAGE COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS OF THE
UNIFORM OF THE REGIMENT FROM 1742 TO 1834, and plate of the Standard presented
by William IV. in 1832, fine copy, original blue cloth, uncut, SCARCE, 25$

126 MILITARY — THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LIGHT-HORSE, by Captain Hinde of the
Royal Regiment of Foresters (Light Dragoons), London, IV. Owen, 1778, 8vo.
with 2 full-page engravings on copper of Light Troop, and Light Dragoon, folding
and other diagrams of military exercises, etc., old calf, joints cracked, 2 is

Contains amongst much other interesting matter an account of the equipment of the 17th Light
Dragoons for Service in America in 1776-77, Anecdotes of the Light Dragoons in America and
account of the Establishment of Light Dragoons in England, America, and Ireland.

PRESENTATION COPY.

127 MORRIS (William) HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART. Five Lectures delivered in
Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878-81, London, Ellis and lVhitet 1882,

FIRST EDITION, 8vO, WITH THE INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION INSCRIP
TION ON FLYLEAF "ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE FROM HIS FRIEND WlLLlAM

MORRIS," fine copy, original cloth, uncut, with the label, j£6 155

A MOST INTERESTING MEMENTO OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED
ENGLISH POETS OF THE Xl.xth CENTURY. From the library of Algernon Charles Swinburne.

128 MORRIS (William) THE WELL AT THK WORLD'S END, a Tale, London, etc.,
Longmans, 1896, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, %\o, finely printed at the Chiiwick Press,
choice uncut copy, half brmvn morocco extra, t.e.g., 2 is

129 MYDDELTON (Hugh) is6o?-i63i. Projector of the New Kiv. r Company.
DOCUMENT SIGNED, i p. folio, dated 27 June, 1612, in which Hugh Myddelton
" Citezen and gouldsmyth of London " acknowledges the receipt of j£$o from Sir
Henry Nevill of Billingbeare, Berks" for and tmvards a further supplie of the charge
of bringing a river or water streame from the springs of Chiidwell and Amwell
tmvards the Citly of London," with seal. Witnessed by Will. Staverton and John
Otvyn, £4 i os

A RARE AUTOGRAPH. The document itself is most interesting in connection with the early-
history of the famous New River Company. Hugh Myddelton was created it Baronet in 1622.

30 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C

130 MILTONIANA — GRIFFITH (Matthew, D.D.) No BLINDE GUIDES, in Answer to a
seditious Pamphlet of J. Milton's, addressed to the author, London, H. Broome,
Ap. 20, 1660, FIRST EDITION, sm. $\t\finecopy, half red morocco , 155

131 NAPOLEON — ROCCA (M. de) RELATION FIDKLE ET P^TAILL^E DK LA DERNI&RE
COMPAGNE DR BUONAPARTE, temiinee par la Bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean, dite de
Waterloo on de la Belle-Alliance. PAR UN T£MOIN OCULAIRE. Suivie de la
Campagne de XValcheren ' et d'Anvers, en 1809, a Bn/xel/es, chez P. J. de Mot,
1816, 8vo, LARGE FOLDING COLOURED FRONTISPIECE " Vue de la fermt de la Belle
Alliance" and large folding sheet containing 2 coloured plates of Napoleon's last
campaign in Belgium and the Battle of Waterloo, VERY FINE UNCUT COPY, IN THE
ORIGINAL FANCY BLUE PAPER WRAPPER, VERY SCARCE, £$ 3?

ELZEVIR PRESS BOOK, FROM THE BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA MALMAISON.

132 NAPOLEON RELIC — DUPUIS (M., P.O.) HISTOIRK DES PLUS ILLUSTRES FAVORIS
ANCIENS ET MODERNES, avec un Journal de ce qui s'est passe a le mort du
Mareschal d'Ancre, a Leyde, chez Jean E/sevier, 1662, iamo, wants pp. 611-14, anft
natural defect in the paper of two other leaves, eigheeenth century French calf gilt, 25$

From the library at Malmaison with " ttihliotheque de la Malmaison " stamped on title. On the
back is the monogram P.B. in gold, probably the initials of Pauline Borghese, Napoleon's
second sister.

133 NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS— BERTH IER (ALEXANDER) 1753-1815. Prince of
Neufchatel and Wagram, Marshal and Vice Constable of France, PASSPORT SIGNED,
dated Milan 29 Thermidor Tan 5 (1796), i p., folio, to enable Comte Pantigni ot
return to France, with fine engraved emblematic headpiece, £2 2S

Berthier was the Chief of Napoleon's Staff in Italy, Egypt, and Germany and his companion in
ail his expeditions. Karlier in his career he served with La Fayette in the American War of
Independence.

134 JOURDAN (JEAN BAPTLSTE, COUNT) 1762-1833. Marshal and Peer of

France, General-in-chief of the Army in Italy in 1803. Fought in the American
War of Independence, LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated Straiburg, 27 Pluviose Fan
7 (1798), To Citoyenjean Debry, respecting a pass fir the Prince de Linauge to travel
through the Armies of the Republic, £-2, 2s

135 MURAT (JOACHIM, KING OF NAPLES) 1771 — 1815. Married Napoleon's

Sister Marie Caroline, court martialled and shot, 13 Oct., 1815. DOCUMENT SIGNED,
2\ pp., folio, dated Toulon, 15 July, 1815, being a claim against the French Govern-
ment for the restitution of lands, etc., in and near Toulon, Signed also by Gerard,
President of the " Tribunal de premiere instance de Toulon"1 and others, with Seal of
the Toulon tribunal, and 4 revenue stamps, £$ 35

FROM THE SIR HUDSON LOWE COLLECTION.

136 NAPOLEON — BEAUHARNAIS (Eugene de) 1781-1824. Viceroy of Italy and Prince
of the French Empire, Napoleon's Stepson, A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED CIRCULAR
BUST PORTRAIT, 5 inches in diameter, on porcelain, representing the Prince in
uniform, with star of the Legion of Honour on left breast, head bare, and showing a
peculiar cast in his eyes, IN A CONTEMPORARY VERY FINELY CARVED GILT FRAME,
measuring 9^ inches square, £6 6s

A VERY INTERESTING AND REMARKABLY WELL EXECUTED PORTRAIT. Bought at the sale in 1831
of the collection of Sir Hudson Lowe, Napoleon's custodian at St. Helena. Prince Eugene was
the son of Josephine de Beauharnais, afterwards wife of Napoleon, who adopted him in 1806.
He contributed to the Victory of Marengo, served in the Campaign of 1809, defeated the
Austrians at Raab and distinguished himself at Wagram. He took part also in the expedition
to Russia and Jin the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. After the fall of Napoleon he retired to
Munich.

NAPOLEON I.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holboro, London, W.C. 31

FROM THE SIR HUDSON LOWE COLLECTION, SOLD IN 1831.

137 NAPOLEON I. 17691821, Emperor of the French. A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED

HALF LENGTH CIRCULAR PORTRAIT OF THK GREAT NAPOLEON, 5 inches in diameter,
on porcelain, representing him looking to the front, bare-headed, in a green uniform
with broad white facings, thf star of the Legion of Honour over hit left brfast, and the
jewel of another order close (>», IN A, FINE CONTEMPORARY CARVED GILT FRAME,
WITH NAPOL PON'S DEVICE OF THE BEE AT EACH CORNER OF IHE INNER PANFJ ,
frntne measures 12 \ inches square, J~t*\

A remarkably interesting relic of Napoleon from the collection of Sir Hudson Lowe, his custodian
at St. Helena. Coming from such a source, being a striking likeness, as well as an excrlknth
painted portrait n FORMS A CNIQL'E ITEM OF THK CRKATKST IMPORTANCE TO THF NAPOLEON

COLLECTOR.

[See Illustration. |

FINE SET IN OLD ENGLISH RED MOROCCO, WITH FORE EDGE PAINTING ON VOL. i.

138 NATURAL HISTORY— SHAW (George, F.R.S.) GENERAL ZOOLOGY, or Systematic
Natural History, London, G. Keariley, 1800, 18 vols, 8vo, with orer 500 fintlv
engraved plates, mostly by Heath, illustrating thf Sections, Mammalia, Amphibia,
Pisas, Jnsecta and Aves, info which the work is divided, CHOICE SET IN OLD ENGLISH

STRAIGHT-GRAINED RED MOROCCO EXTRA, hicks gl/t,g.e., WITH A (MODERN) CHARMING

PAINTING OF ASIATIC LlONS IN' A DESERT ON THE FORE EDGE OF THE FIRST
VOLUME, £6

139 NEVILLE (Sir Henry) 1549?- 1 615. Courtier and Diplomatist. Ambassador to
France, 1599. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, i p. folio, dated " Greneland" 4 Sept. 157(8).
To Richard Stafforton at Warfield, respecting a letter from the Earl of Sussex,
asking permission for two friends of his to kill a brace of bucks in Windsor Forest.
See Radcliffe (Thomas, Earl of Sussex) in this catalogue, last figure of the date lost
through a small hole, but the Earl of Sussex's letter sitpplies the missing year, £2 2S

140 NORREYS (Sir Henry, FIRST BARON NORRIS OF RYCOTE) iS25?-i6oi. Courtier
and Ambassador to France, 1566-70. LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated Rycot,
8 Get , 1599. To Sir Henry Neville, relating to the payment of the wages of $Q
soldiers in connection with his entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Rycote in 159.2,

WITH POSTSCRIPT OF 5^ LINES ENTIRELY IN THF. AUTOGRAPH OF LORD NORRIS

with armorial seal, £4 45

141 NORREYS (Sir John) i547?-i597- Famous Elizabethan soldier. AUTOGRAPH
LETTER SIGNED, i p. 410, dated from my house at Heywoode, 20 June, 4595. To his
Cousin, respecting a grant of timber "for the reparations of the parsonage of Bra\"

£* 2S

Sir John Norris was one of the most distinguished soldiers of his period, taking a leading part in
the Low Country Wars, served in Brittany and Ireland, and took command with Drake of the
expedition to the coast of Spain in 1589.

142 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM LATINUM. BREVES VARIARUM TRANSLATIONUM
ANNOTATIONES, adjecta veterum Latinorum exemplarium manu scriptorum diversa
lectione, Partsiis, R. Stephanus, 1541, 2 vols. in i,sm. 8vo, ruled in red throughout,
printer s device on title of vol. i, separate leaf of colophon at end of vol. 3,/nt' top and
side margins at end of vol. 2 stained, VERY FINE LARGE COPY, old caff gilt, r.e., with
the holes for tie strings, front cover detached, £2 2s

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT ESTIKXXE'S LATIN TESTAMENT, with preface by
him, divided for the first time into chapters but not verses. Estienne learnt printing under
Simon de Colines and married the daughter of Radius Ascensius, became the Royal Printer,
and was renowned not only for his beautiful typography but for his learning. He devoted
himself particularly to the production of fine editions of the Bible and New Testament in
Hebrew, Greek and Latin. The present volume is made additionally valuable by the inclusion
at tin- end of an Index of the Epistles and Gospels tor Sundays and festivals according to the
use of the Churches of Paris and Rome, and of a tract of 8 leaves entitled Summa totius Sacrar
scriptune. Decem Dei verba, sive przcepta. Parisiis, R. Stephanus; 154?, with printer's
device on title, both stained at the top.

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143 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM LATINUM. THEODORO BEZA INTERPRETE, Londini,
T. Vautrollerius, 1587, sm. sq. 8vo, printer's device on title, lower blank corner cut
off, last leaf backed, and has name of a former owner on it, 2 pages stained, paper
age discoloured, but a very large copy, old calf, with finely chased brass clasps, 308

A rare example of Vautrollier's early London press, from which came North's Plutarch in 1579.
Beza was head of the Geneva Reformers and had great influence with the Bishops and clergy
of Elizabeth's time. Macknight says this Latin translation is neither literal nor faithful nor
perspicuous and that he has perverted or at least darkened some passages. It is dedicated to
Henry Earl of Huntington.

LORD NELSON'S OWN COPY.

144 NELSON — SHERIDAN (R. B.) SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (8 Dec., 1802),
on the motion for the Army Establishment for the ensuing Year, London, J.
Stoekdale, 1803, 8vo, WITH THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF THE
FAMOUS ADMIRAL (k NELSON AND BRONTE" ON TITLE, cloth, leather
back, j£6 6s

A HIGHLY INTERESTING RELIC OF ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON, VlSCOUNT NELSON AND
BRONTE. Rendered still more interesting by its authorship, and the fact that on p. 13, Sheridan
refers to Nelson in terms of no measured praise.

145 ORDER OF THE BATH — ANSTIS (John) OBSERVATIONS INTRODUCTORY TO
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY, UPON THE KNIGHTHOOD OF THE BATH, London, 1725, 410,
name on title, FINE COPY, IN RICH CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED MOROCCO,
ornamental gold border on the sides, elaborately gilt back in compartments^ g.e., 303

Contains all that could be collected on the Order of the Bath from the earliest period to the time
of its learned author. At the end is a "Collection of Authorities referred to in the
Introduction."

146 PALIN GENIUS (Mareellus) ZODIACUS VITJE Hoc est De hominis vita, studio
ac morions optime instituendis Lihri xn., Amstelodami, apud J. fanssonium, 1628,
1 2 mo, engraved title with the signs of the Zodiac, lightly ruled in red throughout, old
owner's name on title, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO, sides line tooled in
compartments, pointille tulip ornament at each outer corner of the inner one, back
gilt, g.e., somewhat rubbed and faded \ 2 is

Contains many sarcasms against the Pope, the cardinal, and the church of Rome. The author's
real name was Petrus Angelus Manzolius. Best known from its translation into English verse
by Barnabe Googe first published in 1560. The binding is most probably by Mace Ruette,
and is interesting as an early example of pointille work which was first introduced by this
binder.

147 PARIS — LE PLAN DE PARIS, ses Faubourgs, et ses Environs. Par G. de L'Isle,
a Amsterdam, chez J. Covens et C. Mortier, n.d. (1741), 22 by 29^-inches, fine copy,
with good margins, 2 1 s

A RARE AND VERY INTERESTING RECORD OF OLD PARIS, depicting it as it existed in the time of
Louis XV., long before the drastic alterations wrought by the various revolutions and modern
improvements.

FROM THE FAMOUS PENN COLLECTION, PENNSYLVANIA CASTLE, PORTLAND,

DORSET, ENGLAND.

148 PENN (William) and WHITEHEAD (George) THE CHRISTIAN QUAKER AND
HIS DIVINE TESTIMONY VINDICATED IN II PARTS. The First more General, by
William Penn The Second more Particular by George Whitehead, Printed in
the year 1674, FIRST EDITION, sm. folio, title printed in red and black, name torn off
top blank margin, fine large copy, original calf, worn and rebacked, £6 6s

THOMAS PENN'S OWN COPY OK HIS FATHER'S WORK, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON THE
TITLE, AND A GENUINE IMPRESSION OF THE VERY RARE PENN FAMILY
BOOKPLATE, PASTED ON THE REVERSE. He, along with his brother, succeeded his father
as joint proprietor of Pennsylvania. William Penn and his co-author George Whitehead,
took a very prominent part in the American affairs of their period and were perhaps the
foremost controversialists of the Quaker Sect at the time.

No. 149.

PERSIAN II.I.UMINATKD MS.

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WITH 22 FINE LARGE MINIATURES,
AND IN A CHOICE NATIVE LACQUER BINDING.

149 PERSIAN ILLUMINATED MS.— NIZAMI (celebrated Persian Poet, died u8o)
SIKANDAR NAMA e BARA, OR BOOK OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, a romantic poem
in the style known as " Masnavi," small folio, 12 by 7f-in., XVIIITH CENTURV
MANUSCRIPT ON NATIVE GLAZED PAPER, 101 leaves, written in exquisitely fine
Talik characters in quadruple columns ; divided by gold lines, with an outer line border
in gold> blue, red and white, chapter headings in red on gold grounds, with ornamental
ends in blue and gold. COMMENCES WITH A DELICIOUS ORNAMENTAL 'UNWAN,
occupying half the page, in blue, red and gold with floral border, REMARKABLE FOR
BEAUTY OF DESIGN AND COLOUR WORK, FURTHER DECORATED WITH
22 SPLENDID LARGE MINIATURE PAINTINGS ILLUSTRATING SCENES IN

THE STORV, THE WORK OF A NATIVE ARTIST OF GREAT MERIT, BEAUTIFULLY DRAWN

AND PAINTED AND HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD. They include representations oj battle
scenes, audiences, executions, ladies of the Court, Alexander lassoing a giant with a
tail, procession with elephants, etc.t etc., THE WHOLE IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE STATK
OF PRESERVATION. IN AN ELABORATE LACQUER NATIVE WORK
BINDING, composed of a large central panel covered with an exqttisite floral design
in colours relieved with gold within two ornamental outer borders, DOUBLED IN RED,
covered with leafy sprays in green and yellow and having a large centre ornament of
flowers and foliage in green on a yellow ground, with two smaller ornaments above
and beneath, also similar corner ornaments, the whole surrounded by two borders, the
outer and deeper one containing red flowers on a black ground, corners and top and
bottom of back a little worn, OTHERWISE A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF FINE NATIVE
BINDING IN AN ADMIRABLE STATE OF PRESERVATION. Preserved in a specially made
case of red morocco, gold border on sides, gilt back, lined with crimson watered silk,
the lower part surrounded by green velvet to protect the Manuscript^ £62 los
BOTH AS REGARDS WRITING AMD DECORATIVE WORK THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST XVIIITH CENTURY
MANUSCRIPTS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST PERSIAN EPICS THAT THE MOST FASTIDIOUS
COLLECTOR COULD WISH TO POSSESS, ENSHRINED IN A BINDING WELL WORTHY OF IT.

[See Illustrations.]

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE ENGRAVING.

150 POLAND— KOSCIUSZKO (Genl. Thaddeus) PAUL I. of RUSSIA GRANTING LIBERTY
to KOSCIUSZKO (the Polish patriot) who is seen standing in uniform ; hat in hand in
the prescence of Czar Paul, by whose decree he is about to receive his freedom.
From the original painting by Henry Singleton which was executed under the
direction of Kosciuszko when in London in 1797. VERY FINE MEZZOTINT, engraved
and published by J. DANIELL, 1798, rare, 27 by 22^ in., ^6 6s

Kosciuszko was descended from an ancient and noble family and was educated at the military
school at Warsaw. He went to America and fought against England, and was made Aide-de-
Camp to Genl. Washington. Afterwards he returned to Poland and at the head of 4,000 men
and without artilllery he defeated 12,000 Russians at Baslavice in 1794 ; he later fell a prisoner
to the Russians, but on the accession of the Emperor Paul he was liberated. He died in 1817.

151 PORTRAITS — MEMOIRES DIT COMTE DE GRAMMONT, PAR ANIOINK HAMILTON.
nouvelle edition, precedet d'une notice biographique sur le Comte Hamilton, a
Londres,J. Carpenter et W. Miller, 1811, BULMER'S FINELY PRINTED EDITION, 2

VOl-S, 8VO, WITH 64 FINE PORTRAITS IN STIPPLE BY E. SCRIVEN AND W. HAINKS

AFTER VAN DYCK, SIR P. LELY AND OTHERS, OF THE LEADING PERSONAGES OF THE
DAY, MALE AND FEMALE, including the author, Turenne, Cardinal Mazarin, Anne of
Austria, Louis XIV,, Oliver Cromwell, Catharine of Braganza, Grammont, Prince
Rupert, Charles II., James Duke of York, Lord W. Russell, Ann Hyde, Killegrew,
Duchess of Cleveland, Lord Rochester, Duke and Duchess of Monmouth, Duke oj
Marlborovgh, Nell Gywn, Duchess of Portsmouth, etc., etc., half olive calf, backs gilt,
g.e., £-2 153

34 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C

152 PEZZI (L., DA COLOGNA) LA VIGNA DEL SIGNORE, nellaquale si dichiarano i
sanctissimi sacramenti, et si descrivono il Paradise, il Limbo, il Purgatorio et
llnferno, In Venetia, G. Porro, 1599, sm. 4to, BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED

EMBLEMATICAL BORDER TO TITLE, AND 1 6 FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING
THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH, HEAVEN, PURGATORY, HELL, ETC., BY THE

EMINENT ITALIAN ENGRAVER PORRO, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, every page within an
ornamental woodcut border, and numerous woodcut initials, head and tail pitccsl
British Museum Sale Duplicate 1787, with stamp on reverse of title, very fine large
copy, old half red morocco, gilt edges, SCARCE, 2 1 s

153 PRETENDER (The Old) THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the Right Honourable the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, presented to Her Majesty
(Queen Anne) on 25 June, 1714. With her Majesties most gracious Answer,
London, J. Baskett, Printer to the Queen, and the Assigns of T. Newcomb and H.
Hills, 1714, folio, uncut copy as issued, buck margin slightly defective, 255

A RARE JACOBITE ITEM, relating to the proclamation for the apprehension of the Pretender in
1714 and asking the Queen to press the Duke of Lorrain "not to suffer the Pretender to remain
in any part of his Dominions." Also requesting Her Majesty to put the Laws in execution
against the Papists and Nonjurors.

154 PRINTING — SAVAGE (W.) PRACTICAL HINTS ON DECORATIVE PRINTING, London,
1822, LARGE AND THICK PAPER, folio, ornamental title in gold and colours, printed
title in red and black with decorative border, dedicated to Earl Spencer with his
armorial achievement in colours, AND 44 FINE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, MANY

PROOFS, ENGRAVED ON WOOD OR FINELY PRINTED IN COLOURS AND VARIOUS TINTS,

ALSO 6 HEADPIECES IN TINTS, fine copy, half brown morocco, uncut, t.e.g., £4 45
Rare on large paper, only a few copies being printed. Contains a number of fine examples of
printing in colour.

PRINTING— S<?<? BIBLIOGRAPHY.

155 PROPERTIUS (Sex Aurelius) ELEGIARUM LIBRI IV., cum Commentario
perpetuo P. Burmanni Secundi et multis Doctorum notis ineditis. Opus Burmanni
morte interruptum L, Santenius, 1C. absolvit, Trajecti ad Rhenum, B. Wild, 1780,
4to, FINE COPY, OLD STRAIGHT GRAINED GREEN MOROCCO, broad blind tooled border
within fold lines on sides, back tooled in Mind and gold, inside key pattern borders,
ge-> 255

156 PSALMS — THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES : COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER
BY T. STERNHOLD, J. HOPKINS, AHD OTHERS, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt
notes to sing them withall, London, G.M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1634,
sm. 8vo, ornamental woodcut border to title, WITH THE MUSICAL NOTATION,^™? copy,
half mottled calf , 255

A rare edition of Sternhold and Hopkins's version — " Set forth and allowed to be sung in all
Churches, etc., and moreover in private houses for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart
all ungodly! songs and ballads; which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of
youth."

157 QUAKERS — ELLWOOD (Thomas) AN ANSWER to GEORGE KEITH'S NARRATIVE OF
HIS PROCEEDINGS AT TURNER'S HALL ON n JUNE, 1696. Wherein his charges
against divers of the People called Quakers (both in that, and in another Book of
his, called, Gross Error and Hypocrisie Detected) are fairly Considered, Examined,
and Refuted, London, T. Sowle, 1696, FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo, bit of blank margin
torn out of Signature D2, fine large copy, original sheep, £2 IOS

VERY SCARCE. £11 wood was one of the most vigorous of the Quaker controversialists, particularly
against George Keith and his writings, and makes interesting references to that writer's Serious
Appeal, printed at Philadelphia in 1692, Cotton Mather of New England, and the Monthly
and Yearly Meeting Books at Philadelphia. Frequently quotes George Fox, William Penn
and George Whitehead, with all of whom he was on intimate terms. Best known as the friend
of Milton, and it is to his query on returning the MS. of Paradise Lost, which had been tent
him, ' Thou hast said much of Paradise Lost but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found 1 "
that we owe, according to Milton's own statement. " Paradise Regained."

QUAKERS — See AMERICA. Edmundson's Journal and Stanton's Journal.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holbom, London, W.C. 35

RARE EARLY QUEBEC PRINT.

158 QUEBEC — TAKING OF QUEBEC BY GENERAL WOLFE, September >3th, 1759.
Showing the manner of debarking the English Forces, and of the resolute
scrambling of the Light Infantry up a woody precipice to dislodge the Captain's
post, which defended a small entrenched path through which the troops were to
pass. Also a view of the signal Victory obtained over the French Regulars,
Canadians, and Indians, which produced the surrender of Quebec. Very rare
line engraving in COLOURS, Pub. by Laurie & Whittle, nj by i8A, ^7 155

159 RADCLIFFE (Sir Thomas, THIRD EARL OF SUSSEX) i526?-i583. Famous
Elizabethan Statesman, and Lord Deputy of Ireland. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
"T. SUSSEX," i p. folio, dated "/row the Cori 20 July, 1578. To Sir Henry
Nevill, asking him to let William Backer and William Mallorie " my very f rends
and Afarchants of London who have showed me great frendshipp in divers my causes
beyonde the seas, etc.," kill a brace of bucks in Windsor Forest " and to take order that
they and their companie maye at the killing of them have as good sport as conveniently
yo maye wherein yo shall do me a very great pleasure wch- I will gladly requite «/'*•
the lyke to any frende ofyors-<" £b 6s

A FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF THE FAMOUS EARL OF SUSSEX, ONE OF Qt'EEN ELIZABETH'S

MOST TRUSTED ADVISERS, who took n distinguished part in all the leading events of the reigns
of Edward VI., Mary I., and Elizabeth. Commanded at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547.
Helped to suppress Wyatt's rebellion in 1554. Assisted in the marriage negotiations with
Phillip II. Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1556, which office he resigned in 1564, leaving behind
him a reputation for statesmanship which grew with succeeding years. As Lord President of
the North he successfully dealt with the rebellion of 1569, and supported the project of a French
match for Queen Elizabeth both in 1571 and 1578, in opposition to Leicester.

160 RECORD (Robert) THE GROUND OF ARTS. Teaching the perfect worke and
practise of Arithmeticke, AUGMENTED BY MR. JOHN DEE, enlarged with a Third
part of Rules by John Mellis, corrected, etc., by Robert Hartwell, Philomathemat,
London, T. Harper, for f. Harrison, n.d. (1646), sm. thick 8vo, partly printed in
blacfc letter, fine large copy, contemporary panelled calf, worn, 255

A rare edition of one of the earliest English mathematical books, so popular in the XVIth and
xvnth centuries that from 154o to 1699 very many editions were published. Dee who
augmented the work was the famous astrologer of Queen Elizabeth's time, and warden of
Manchester College, now the Chetham's Hospital and Library.

161 RESTORATION DRAMATISTS— URYDEN (John) and LEE (Nat.) OEDIPUS : A
TRAGEDY. As it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre, London, R.
Bently and M. Magnes, 1679, FIRST EDITION, 4^0, few leaves cut into at bottom, else
good copy, half stained calf, t.e.g., 305

A scarce play, with list of the performers and their parts. The general plan and the 1st and 3rd
Acts arc assigned to Dry den, the rest to Lee.

162 RESTORATION DRAMATISTS— LEE (Nat.) MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTUS, A
TRAGEDY : Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants, London, R. E.
for f. Magnes and R, Bentley, 1678, FIRST EDITION, 4to, piece torn out of fore-
margin of dedication injuring 5 or 6 letters, some catchzvords and signatures cut intot
else a good copy, half stained calf, t.e.g., £2 los

Or SHAKESPEARIAN INTEREST, as the author in his dedication states " I have endeavoured in this
Tragedy to mix SHAKESPEAR with FLETCHER ; the thoughts of the former, for MAJESTY AND
TRUE ROMAN GREATNESS, and the SOFTNESS AND PASSIONATE EXPRESSIONS of the latter, which
makes up half the Beauties, arc never to be match'd." Contains a list of the actors and their
parts. THE EPILOGUE is BY JOHN DRYDEN.

163 RESTORATION DRAMATISTS— OTWAY (T.) DON CARLOS, PRINCE OF SPAIN.
A Tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre, London, for R. Tonson, 1676, FIRST
EDITION, 4to,/«0 leaves slightly cut into at bottom, else good copy, half stained ca/f,
t.e.g., 305

ONE OF THE SCARCEST OF OTWAY'S FIRST EDITIONS. The play itself gained him his greatest
success. Contains n list of the performers and their parts. Adapted from the Abbe St. Real's
Historical Romance of the same name. Schiller's play of the same name is drawn from the
same source and the many close resemblances between the English and German plays have
offered a suggestive field for criticism.

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164 ROXBURGH CLUB — A DIALOGUE, OR CONFABULATION BETWEEN TWO
TRAVELLERS, which treateth of Civile and Pollitike Gouvemment in dyvets
kingdoqjes and contries, printed from the MS. of the author William Spelman,
written circa 1580. Edited with notes and introduction, by J. E. Latton Pickering,
London, Nichols 6* Sons, 1896, 4to, with facsimiles of map 14 in " Ortclius,
theatrum orbit Terrarum," Antwerp, 1570, and a page of the original MS., half
roxburgh, uncut, t.eg., £$ 35

RARE, ONLY A FEW COPIES BEING PRINTED FOR PRESENTATION TO MEMBERS OF THE ROXBURGH
CLUB. Contains many interesting anecdotes and observations, both upon the state of society
and people on the Continent — particularly in the Low Countries — and also in England. In
the latter there is a detailed and curious account of the manner in which Bishop Hooper used
to pass his time. In the concluding part of the dialogue a most interesting sketch is given of
what the author has seen of justice and politic government in England. It abounds in quaint
fancies and conceits and although his father was a judge (Sir John Spelman of Marlborough.
Norfolk) he entertained a poor opinion both of law and lawyers. He tells of London, its
greatness and benefactors, discourses on the trade of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, and draws a
sad picture of the decay of trade, especially amongst the fishing population.

HOLOGRAPH LETTER OF A CELEBRATED ELIZABETHAN POET AND STATESMAN.

165 SACKVILLE (Thomas, FIRST EARL OF DORSET AND BARON BUCKHURST) 1536-
1608. Poet, Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons, 1561-67, Lord Treasurer,
1599 till death, and Lord High Steward. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio,
dated "from the Court this 17 of April, 1595," addressed "To my very lovinge
frend Mr. Richard Staffarton, esquire" informing him that " my good lord the lord
treasurer and Sir John Foscue have granted me a warrant for couting trees within the
woods, etc., within your charge" and asking his help "for t/ic better accomplishing
the gdod effect thereof towards me, for the wch I shall give you many thankes and be
redy as occasion shalle afford either for yourself or any frend of yours to do you the
best frendship I can and within my power to show you" injured by damp, j£io IDS

HOLOGRAPH LETTERS OF THOMAS SACKVILLE, ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PERSONAGES OF
THE ELIZABETHAN ERA, ARE OF EXCESSIVE RARITY. He collaborated with Thomas Norton in
the production of the ' Tragedy of Gorboduc,' THE FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY IN BLANK VERSE,
acted in Inner Temple Hall in 1561. Planned, began, and wrote ' Induction ' for ' Myrrovre
for Magistrates ' (1559-63), completed by W. Baldwin and G. Ferrers. Announced to Mary
Queen of Scots her sentence of death and took a very prominent part in all the chief affairs of
that exciting period.

[See Illustration].

166 SELDEN (John) TITLES OF HONOR, London, W. Stanley for K. Whitakers, 1631,
second edition (enlarged), folio, title printed in red and black, with engravings of the
different degrees of English Nobility in full state dress, seals, coins, etc. Has the final
blank leaf completing Signature 7.2222, trifling defect in 2 leaves, very large copy,
original calf, rebacked, 305

WITH THE 5 RARE PRINTS BY W. DOLLE.

167 SETTLE (Elkanah) THE EMPRESS OK MOROCCO, A TRAGEDY, WITH SCULPTURES,
as it is acted at the Uuke's Theatre, London, for W. Cademan, 1673, FIRST EDITION,
4to, WITH THE FIVE EXTREMELY RARE COPPER-PLATES EN-
GRAVED BY W. DOLE, REPRESENTING SCENES IN THE TRAGEDY, BRILLIANT
IMPRESSIONS, slightly cut into owing to being printed on paper of larger size than
the book itself, CONTAINS THE VERY SCARCE SLIP OF ERRATA, pasted at the bottom of
the last leaf, apart from the plates a very fine large copy, full stained calf extra, old
stylet t.e.g., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, jf,io xos

THE EARLIEST PLAY PRODUCED WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PERFORMANCE. They are not only
of extreme rarity but of great value for the history of the drama, being the only record we have of
the actual appearance of the manner of acting, and of the scenic decorations of a theatre in the
time of Charles II. A few copies have also an exterior view of the Dorset Gardens Theatre,
engraved by W. Sherwin, not found in this copy. So rare that the British Museum printed
Catalogue only contains the second edition of 1674, which with the later edition of .1687, was
published without the plates. The play was held in such high esteem that it was acted at Court,
and the Lords and Ladies of the Bed-chamber performed in it. Contains a list of the actors and
their parts.

>

No. 165.

REDUCED FACSIMILE.

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1 68 SCOTT (Sir Walter) 1771-1832. Novelist and Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
" W. SCOTT," i p. 8vo, Castle St., no date (after 1821), relating to a meeting called for
the purpose of raising a memorial to the late James Watt (inventor of the steam
engine), enclosing a letter from Sir John Hope relating to the same matter, 355

Accompanied by the autograph letter referred to above from Sir John Hope, who commanded a
brigade at Salamanca in 1812, I p. 4to, dated Pinkie House, 8 July, no year (after 1821), with
hi* armorial seal in red wax.

169 SHAKESPEARIANA— COOPER (T.) THESAURUS LINGUA ROMAN*: et BRI

TANNIC/K, tam accurate congestus, at nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel
Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anelice, toties aucta
Eliotse Bibliotheca: opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalensis. Excusum
Londini in sEdibus quondam Bertheleti per Henricum Wykes, 1565, thick folio,
dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with his crest within the Garter on the
title, printed in black and roman letter, lower margins of a few leaves partly cut away,
and a feiv others mended, but a very fine large clean copy in old law calf (worn), £$ 43

THE RARE EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 3AID TO HAVE BEEN THE ONE

USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SCHOOL-BOY. It was also highly thought of by Queen Elizabeth,
and was the most copious and celebrated lexicon of its day, being used in almost every School.
See an interesting extract from Drake's History of Shakespeare and his times on the fly-leaf.
The author afterwards was made Dean of Gloucester by Queen Elizabeth and then successively
Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester.

170 SHAKESPEARIANA— IRELAND (Samuel) MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL
INSTRUMENTS UNDER THE HAND AND SEAL OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE : including
the Tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet from the original MSS.
in the possession of Samuel Ireland of Norfolk St., London, 1796, 8vo, with folding
frontispiece containing a facsimile of a supposed pen and ink portrait of Shakespeare,
with his autograph, original boards, uncut, SCARCE, £\ 155

171 SHAKESPEARIANA — MALONE (E.) AN ENQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF

CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS, pub. Dec. 24, 1795,

and attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Henry Earl of Southampton,
London, 1796, 8vo, with $ folding plates of facsimiles of autographs, comparing
original signatures with the Ireland forgeries, old tree calf, gilt, with the book-plate of
Lord Carrington, £\ IDS

172 SHAKESPEARIANA— [CHALMERS (G.)] AN APOLOGY FOR THE BELIEVERS IN THF.
SHAKESPEARE PAPERS, which were exhibited in Norfolk Street (The Ireland
Forgeries), London, for T. Egerton, 1797, 8vo, original boards, uncut, 175 6d

Contains much interesting information respecting actors and their patrons and the stage generally,
in the times of Elizabeth and James I.

173 SHAKESPEARIANA— SHADWELL (Thomas) THE HISTORY OF TIMON OF ATHENS,
THE MAN-HATER, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre, made into a Play, London,
f.M.^for //. Herringman, 1678, FIRST EDITION, 410, two catchwords slightly shaved,
fine copy, half stained calf, t.e.g., £$ 35

A VERY SCARCE PLAY. Altered from Shakespeare's play of the same name which first appeared
in the First Folio of 1623. HENCE THIS, THOUGH CONSIDERABLY ALTERED BY SHADWELL, is
THE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF TIMON OF ATHENS. Shadwell speaks of the inimitable hand
of Shakespeare, but adds " Yet I can truly say I have made it into a Play."

174 SHAKESPEARIANA— COLLIER (John Payne) SHAKESPEARIAN CRITIC, and
Author of the Shakespeare forgeries exposed in 1859-61. AUTOGRAPH LETTER
SIGNED, 2 pp., 410, Riverside, 25 June, 1880 (name of addressee cut off). Full of
interesting details respecting his various publications and his own opinion of them
— " Such as I edited for Societies I care least about — not one rush. Perhaps, ONLY
PERHAPS, my * Life of Edw, Allyn ' wax the most to be liked" Speaking of auto-
graphs he says " 1 never valued such things" but goes on to say " I have Dray ton's
copy of Spenser's F.Q. that as well as all such I venerate," 2 is

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175 SHAKESPEARIAN A— THE RATIONAL ROSCIAD. On a more extensive Plan
than anything of the kind hitherto published, in two parts, viz., I. On the Stage in
general and particular, and the Merits of the most celebrated Dramatic Writers.
II. On the Merits of the Principal Performers of both Theatres, BY F. — B. — L — .,
London, C. Parker and J. Wilkie, 1767, FIRST EDITION, 410, UNCUT COPY, half
morocco, 2 is

An interesting poem for its criticisms of famous dramatists and noted actors of the period. Nearly
two pages are devoted to praise of Shakespeare, contrasts Ben Jonson and Beaumont and
Fletcher with Shakespeare, and praises Dryden, Lee, Otway, Addison, Steele, Wycherley,
Gay and others. The second part criticises the notable actors of the time, including Garrick,
Holland, Yates, King, Parsons, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Yates, Miss Abington, Mrs. Clive, etc.,
etc. The Theatres referred to are Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

176 SHAKESPEARIANA — SKETCHES AT THE "SHAKESPEARE" BALL in aid of the
Actors' Benevolent Fund, 13 May, 1905. A VERY CLEVER ORIGINAL PEN AND INK
DRAWING BY H. M. BROCK, 12^ by i6i-in., composed of a large centre panel repre-
senting Mr. Oscar Asche's set in the Lancers with Miss Lily Brayton as principal
female figure, surrounded by representations of celebrated Shakepearian characters
including Miss ELLEN TERRY AS PORTIA, Miss Viola Tree as Hero, Miss
Andrew as Rosalind, Miss Lilian ford as Juliet, Mrs. Rowley as Volumnia,
Mr. Rowley as Henry VIII., Mr. Stokes as Othello, and Mr. A. Smith
as Benedict, together with a number of other figures^ mostly in the costume of Shakes-
peare's time, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST IN FULL, mounted for framing, A FINE AND

INTERESTING DRAWING, ;£« 2S

177 SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe) QUEEN MAB, London, W. Clark, 1821, FIRST
PUBLISHED EDITION, 8vo, FINE UNCUT COPY, half red morocco, gilt back, t.e.g., by
Ramage, 245

One of the few copies printed on fine and thick paper. Contains the leaf with the extra poem
" To Harriet * f *." With notes and translations.

H. BUXTON FORMAN'S FINE EDITION.

178 SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe) POETICAL WORKS, edited by H. Buxton Forman,
London, Reeves &• Turner, 1876-77, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION, 4 vols, 8vo,
with portraits, etchings of 'places connected with Shelley, facsimiles of portions of his
MSS., titles of rare first editions, '.tc., FINE SET, in full maroon morocco, g.e., £6 6s

The best edition of Shelley's Poetical Works.

179 SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley) 1751-1816, CELEBRATED DRAMATIST, ORATOR
AND POLITICIAN. AUTOGRAPH LETTER IN THE THIRD PERSON, dated Wednesday,
ztfh Feb. (1796). To Mr. Capon, requesting him to "get immediately whatever
assistance is necessary for the Library Scene in Mr. Co/eman's Piece — -best to attempt
no more than can be finished by SATURDAY SEN-NIGHT on which day the Piece will
POSITIVELY come out," £2 25

An interesting example of the autograph of the famous author of the Rivals and School for
Scandal. The piece referred to was the Iron Chest by George Colman the Younger, produced
at Drury Lane Theatre on 12 March, 1796, and first published in that year.

MINIATURE BOOK, z* BY i ^-INCHES.

1 80 SHORTHAND — RICH (Jeremiah) THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND THE WHOLE BOOK
OF PSALMS IN METRE according to the Art of Short Writing, Londontfor W. and
J. Marshall, n.d. (circa 1660), 641110, WITH PORTRAIT OF RICH, AND ENGRAVED
TITLE BY CROSS, the 4 leaves of dedication and preface within ornamental woodcut
borders, save that, through the binder 's fault, about 6 leaves are very slightly cut into
in headline or signature, A VERY FINE LARGE PERFECT COPY, contemporary dark
brown morocco, sides tooled in blind in compartments, with flower ornament at each
outer angle, back tooled in compartments, with rosette at each angle, and one in the
centre, original brass rfasps, £6 6s

EXTREMELY RARE IN ANY STATE, BUT WE CANNOT TRACE THE SALE OF a PERFECT COPY IN-
RECENT TIMES. At the end is the list of " The Names of the Subscribers to this Incomparable
Worke," followed by the very scarce final leaf of shorthand. The book is engraved through-
out and the text is within line borders.

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181 SHIP MONEY— MR. ST. JOHN'S SPEECH to the Lords in the Upper House of
Parliament 7 Jan. 1640 concerning Ship Money, Printed anno domini 1640, sm.
4to, FINE UNCUT COPY, sprinkled calf, t.e^.t 155

182 SLAVE TRADE — ABRIDGEMENT OF THE MINUTES OF THE EVIDENCE TAKEN

BEFORE A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE to whom it was referred to consider,

of the Slave Trade, 1789-91, four numbers, in i vol, 8vo, No. i wants title, name

nit off top margin <>J first leaf, margins of 2 leaves slightly defective, half calf , £2 as

In 1788 Pitt moved that the House of Commons should early in the next session take the subject

of the Slave Trade into consideration. Wilberforce's first motion for a committee of the whole
House upon the question was made 19 March, 1789, and this committee proceeded to business
on 12 May in the same year, and evidence was taken all through 1790 and 1791. The present
work contains the result of their labours and is probably the most valuable account extant of all
relating to the subject containing as it does full details of the methods of obtaining slaves, their
treatment, punishments, cruelties practised upon them, etc., both on board ship and on the
plantations in the West Indies, Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, etc., from the deposi-
tions of Admirals, Captains, sailors, medical men, planters and others connected in any way
with the trade, the whole forming a mass of information taken from the personal knowledge of
the witnesses covering a period extending from 1739 to the date of the inquiry. The narratives
respecting Jamaica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis are particularly full and interesting.

183 SPANISH MINES AND NATURAL HISTORY— BOWLES (William) INTRO-

DUCCION A LA HlSTORIA NATURAL YA LA GfiOGRAFIA FlSICA DE ESPANO, en

Madrid, F. M. de Mena, 1775, FIRST EDITION, 410, fine copy, original mottled

Spanish calf, back ornamentally tooled in gold, r.e., 2 is

In addition to information about the Mines, Mineral Wealth, and general natural history of
Spain contains particulars about the Mines of MEXICO, NEW SPAIN and PERU, particularly of
the Mine of Mezquital in Mexico. The author was superintendent of the State Mines in the
Spanish service and consequently had unusual facilities afforded him in making his researches.

184 SPORTING — THE SPORTSMAN, Second Series, London, 1839-41, Vols. 1-5, 8vo,
with numerous fine full-page engravings, including portraits of famous race-horses,
and illustrations of Angling, Coursing, Hawking, Hunting, Shooting, Yachting,
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, 1841, etc., etc., contemporary half calf, SCARCE,

£* i os

Identical with the Sporting Magazine though issued separately and in 1846 was incorporated in
the original publication. Contains the Turf Calendar for 1839, 1840, and 1841, with separate
pagination.

185 STEVENSON (R. L.) STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, London,
Longmans, 1886, FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo, with the leaf of press notices of tttrf
edition of" A Child's Garden of Verses^ top corners Of two leaves torn off through
clumsy offning, injuring 2 figures of the pagination, original wrapper, back cover
missing, £2 155

THE RARE EARLY issUR, with the date on the cover printed as 1885, and altered in ink to 1886.

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.

1 86 STOTHARD, R. A.— BRAY (Mrs. A. E.) LIFE OF THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A., with
personal reminiscences, London,/. Murray, 1851, 410, with ptrtrait of StotharJ
after Ifarlow, and numerous reproductions of his illustrations to Robinson Crusoe,
Pilgrim's Progress, Shakespeare, Milton, etc., etc., DIVIDED INTO 2 VOLS,

WITH A SEPARATE SPECIALLY PRINTED TITLE TO KACH, AND FURTHER ILLUS-
TRATED BV THE INSERTION OF 165 CHARMING ORIGINAL
EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK, GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, AND INCLUD-
ING MANY PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER, PROOFS BEFORE ALL LETTERS, AND VARIOUS
STATES OP MANY OF HIS DELIGHTFUL VIGNETTES, AND FINE ILLUSTRATIONS ,TO

SHAKESPEARE, SMOLLET, MILTON, THE TATLER, ROBINSON CRUSOE, etc., etc.,
half morocco, t.e.g., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, £& los

A VERY ICHOICE EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WORK, the subject matter of the volume lending itself
admirably to the purpose. The quality of the inserted engravings leaves nothing to be desired,
and at the same time forms a representative gallery of Stothard's skill as an artist.

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187 SWINBURNE — WELLS (Charles) JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN, a Dramatic Poem,
with an Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne, London, Chatto and Windus,
1876, 8vo, with oval photograph \of the author on title, some pencil annotations, fine

fresh copy in the original cloth, uncut, 255

First edition with Swinburne's Introduction. The author was the friend of Keats, Hazlitt and
Leigli Hunt. This poem was first published in 1824 under the pseudonym of H. L. Howard.
Swinburne's "Prefatory Note" to the present edition occupies 14^ pages, and is an
enthusiastic eulogy of the poem—" No such plea of passing defect can extenuate the scandal of
the fact that to this day his great dramatic poem remains known perhaps on the whole to about
half a dozen students of English Art. The first part is written throughout with a wonderful
ease and stateliness of manner which recall the more equable "cadences of Shakespeare in his
earliest period."

1 88 SWINBURNE RELIC— [KYD (Thomas)] THE TRAGEDIE OF SOLIMON AND
PERSEDA. Wherein is laide open, Loues Constancie, Fortunes inconstancie, and
Deaths Triumphs, London, E. Elde,for E. White, 1599 {reprint c. 1815), sm. 410,
printer's ornaments on title, old boards, £6 6s

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE POET ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE WITH THE FOLLOWING
INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION ON THE FLY-LEAF — " An addition to
Air. Swinburne'1 s Elizabethan Shelf made by his kind permission by Richard Le Galliennr,
Aug. 10, '95. "4 The book itself is Smeeton's facsimile reprint on old paper made about 1815.

189 SWIFTIANA— A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA : with a Description of the
Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners, of that Country, by Captain Samuel Brunt,
London, J. Watson, 1727, sm. 8vo, with curious engraved frontispiece, fine copy,
original gilt calf, 2 is

RARE. Written in imitation of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

190 THACKERAY (W. M.) THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE, by Mr. M. A.
Titmarsh, London, Smith, Elder &• Co., 1850, FIRST EDITION, sm. 410, with
frontispiece, vignette title, and \$ full-page illustrations by the author, half morocco,
gilt back, g.e., 255

191 THOREAU (Henry David) Famous American Author and Naturalist. AUTO-
GRAPH LETTER SIGNED " HENRY D. THOREAU," i p. ^to, dated Concord, Mass.,
Sept. 15, 1854. To Sarah E. Webb, 206, Henry Street, Brooklyn, L.I., respecting
an address which appeared in the Liberator, ;£ro IDS

A MOST INTERESTING LITERARY LETTER FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED

AUTHORS. Mentions his " A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " and " Walden,"
and finishes by saying ' ' the * Week ' probably is not for sale at any bookstore. The greater
part of the edition has returned to me."

SPECIAL COPY.

192 TOBACCO — LA PHYSIOLOGIE nu FUMEUR, Paris, E. Bourdin, n.d., sq. izmo,
with frontispiece, engraved title, and 5 1 different woodcuts of various classes of
smokers, smoking implements and ornamental vignettes, with, loosely inserted, opposite
each woodcut, A COMPLETE SET OF PROOFS OF ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING

ONE OF A VIGNETTE WHICH DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE BOOK, half Calf, f.eg., Original

pictorial wrapper with the frontispiece and title reproduced on the covers bound in, 2ts

TOBACCO — MAGNENUS (J. C.) DK TABACO EXERCITATIONES QUATUORDECIM
in quibus pneter Historiam Tabaci lectu jucundissimam, etiam Herbae virtutes et
vitia explicantur, ejusquc Usus ac Abusus, et Quantum in Medicina valeat
ostenditur, Amstelodami, //. et T. Broom, 1669, 12 mo, engraved title in 2 compart-
ments, the upper depicting the " Tuscarum Jmpfrator" the. lower a tobaconisfs shop
with group of men seated smoking, large copy, old calf gilt, red fdges, skilfully
rebacked, 305

A rare early history of Tobacco treating of its culture in Spanish America, Virginia and the
East, its introduction into Europe, etc., etc.

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4 TOBACCO — COHAUSEN (J. H.) DISSERTATIO SATYRICA PHYSICO-MEDICO-MORALIS
DE PICA NASI, sive Tabaci Sternutatorii Moderno abusu, et nova, A»tstelodamit
J. Oosterwyk, 1716, sm. Svo, fine engraved title, armorial library stamp of Court,
Silva Hercules on buck of printed title, UNCUT COPY, old half parchment, i $s

195 TRADE — [GRENVILLK (George)] TUB: PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION :
particularly with respect to ils Trade, Finances, etc., etc., addressed to the King
and both Houses of Parliament, London, J. Almon, 1768, 410, name on hal/ title,
fine large copy, unbound, 255

An interesting tract of 48 pp., written cither by or under the direction of George Grenville who
brought about the enactment of the American Stamp Act in 1765. Contains much valuablr
information on Trade, the importance of the American colonies, West Indies, Newfoundland
Fishery, cession of Florida to Great Britain, taxing the American colonies. Stamp AcUExports
to New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and Carolina in 1765 and
1766 the latter having a total of ,£,177, 88-1 short of the former year, which the author attribute-
to the repeal of the Stamp Act, etc., etc.

196 TRADE — INSTRUCTIONS TOR THE COLLECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS EMPLOY'D IN
HER MAJESTIES CUSTOMS, KTC., IN THE NORTH PART OF GREAT BRITAIN, with
Forms of Dispatches, Schemes for Calculations, and the Regular Methods of
accoQipliu£, Edinburgh, Heirs of A. Anderson, 1707, folio, royal arms on title,
original panelled calf gilt, sides repaired, g.e., 2 is

Contains much valuable information respecting trade in Scotland during the early part of the
reign of Queen Anne, including particulars about Ships for the Plantations, [Corn , Salt, Tobacco,
Wines, etc. Lists of goods prohibited to be imported or cxpprtcd. exporting corn to New-
foundland, bonds for vessels bound for Virginia, Subsidies on Tobacco from Virginia, particulars
of the four circuits into which Scotland was divided at the time for custom purposes with the
names of the officers, etc. , etc.

197 TRADE — LAW (John, of Laurislon) MONEY AND TRADE CONSIDERED wilh a
proposal for supplying the Nation with Money, Glasgow, R. and A. Faults, 1760,
sm: Svo, original calf , joints weak, 2 is

The rare Foulis edition of Law's celebrated work . He was the originator of the Mississipi Scheme
and Comptroller general of French finance.

198 TROLLOPE (Anthony) FRAMLKY PARSONAGE, London, Smith, Elder and Co.,

1 86 1, FIRST EDITION, 3 Vols, 8vo, WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. E. MlLLAIS, R.A.,

original cloth, as issued (ex-library copy), £2

199 TRYON (Thomas) THE WAY TO MAKE ALL PEOPLE RICH, or Wisdom's Call to
Temperance and Frugality, in a Dialogue between Sophronio and Guloro, one a
lover of Sobriety the other addicted to Gluttony and Excess by Fhilotheos Physio
logus, London, A. Sowle, 1685, FIRST EDITION, i2tno, line border to title cut off on
fore-edge, but a good copy, original sheep, 1 2s 6d

RARE. Contains a dedicatory poem by Mrs. Aphra Bchn.

200 TRYON (Thomas) ANEW ART OF BREWING BEER, ALE AND 01 HER SORTS or
LIQUORS. To which is added the Art of making Mall, etc., and several useful and
profitable things relating to Country affairs, London, T. Salusbury, 1691, Third
Edition, 12 mo, original sheep, RARE, 155

201 TRYON (Thomas) WISDOM'S DICTATES or Aphorisms and Rules Physical, Moral
and Divine for preserving the Health of the Body and the Peace of the Mind to
which is added A BILL OF FARE OF SEVENTY-FIVE NOBLE DISHES OF EXCELLENT

FOOD TAR EXCEEDING THOSE MADE OF FlSH OR FLESH, London, T. Salufbury,

1691, FIRST EDITION, i2mo, date partly cut off, large copy, original calf, sides lint
tooled in blind with corner tulip ornament, rebacked, 155

WITH GRAVELOT'S PLATES.

202 VOLTAIRE (M. de) LA PUCBLLE D'ORLEANS, Poeme, divise en vingt chants, avec
des notes. Nouvelle Edition, corrigee, augmentee et collationnee sur le Manuscript
de TAuteur, s.l. (Geneve), 1762, Svo, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 25 FINE
FULL-PAGE PLATES BY GRAVEL©!', fine tall copy, old faff, rebacked, j£t 25

RARE. The first edition acknowledged by Voltaire.

4a MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

WITH EISEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS.

203 VOLTAIRE (F. M. Arouet de) LA HENRIADE, a Pans, chez la Veuve Duchesne,
Saillant, etc., n.d. (1769) and 1770, 2 vols, 8vo, WITH FRONTISPIECE, ENGRAVED
TITLE, containing a medallion portrait of Voltaire, 10 FULL-PAGE PLATES AND 10
VIGNETTES AFTER DESIGNS BY EISEN, finely engraved by de Longueil, BRILLIANT
IMPRESSIONS, fine copy, old French tree calf, gold border on sides, back elaborately
gilt in compartments, g.e., £4 45

204 VARAMUND (Ernest, of Friesland) DE FORORIBUS GALLICIS, Horrenda et
Indigna Admirallii Castillionei, Nobilium atque illustrium virorum csede, scelerata
ac inandita piorum strafe passim edita per complures Gallice ciuitates, sine vello
disci imine generis, sexus, astatis et conditionis hotninum : Vera et Simplex Narratio,
Edinburgh, anno Salutis humane, 1573. 410, water stained at top and a few leaves on
sides, but large copy, half stained calf, by Sangorski and Sutclifte, £2 2s

A very interesting tract not only as treating of the Massacre of St. Barthomew from a
contemporary standpoint, BUT AS THE FIRST OF THE BOOKS WITH A SPURIOUS SCOTTISH
IMPRINT. Although dated Edinburgh the type is typically like that used iniParis at the time
of publication. The contents of the work, being against the Government, sufficiently explain
the reason of a fictitious imprint being used.

205 VERGIL (Polydore) ANGLI/E HISTORIC LIBRI xxvi., Basilece,Jo. Bebelius, 1534,
FIRST EDITION, folio, printer's device on title and at end, TWO BEAUTIFUL WOODCUT

BORDERS IN THE STYLE OF HOLBEIN AND NUMEROUS FINE LARGE' HISTORIATED

INITIALS, tear in bottom margin of first 4 leaves, small hole in and name cut off title,
tiny wormhole from p. 207 to end, name of early owner on title, numerous marginal
annotations, some contemporary, tall copy, old calf, back broken at top and bottom, and
piece of leather torn out of front cover, 305

Dedicated to Henry VIII. The author was born at Urbino about 1470, came to England about
1502 and was naturalised in 1510. His History of England, in this first edition brought down
to 1509, occupied him 28 years. As an authority it is valuable for the reign of Henry VII.,
with whose aims and character the author thoroughly sympathised, and he realised fully the
changes which marked the passing of the middle ages. His method of writing history, too, was
far in advance of anything that England had then known, for he wrote on modern lines,
attempted to weigh authorities and told a connected story.

206 VIRGIL— PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS OPERA, curis et studio S. A. Philippe, Lutefiae
Parisiorum, A. U. Coustelier, 1745, FINE PAPER COPY, 3 vols, sm. 8vo, WITH

FRONTISPIECE AND 17 FINE PLATES AFTER COCHIN, ENGRAVED BY DUFLOS, and 2$

head and 20 tail pieces, unsigned, several of them repeated, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS,
contemporary French mottled calf, triple gold fillet on sides, back gilt in compartments
with marguerite in the centre of each, the well-known bird ornament in the lower
compartment of each volume, g.e., BY J. A. DEROME, small crack in joint ef lower
c«ver of Vol. i, £2 2s

207 VERON (John) A FRUTEFUL TREATISE OF PREDESTINATION and of the divine
providence of God, with an apology of the same, against the swynyshe gruntinge of
the epicures and atheystes of cure time. WHEREUNTO ARE ADDED A VERY
NECESSARY BORE AGAiNSTE THE FREE WYLL MEN, and another of the true justifica-
tion of faith, and of the good workes proceudynge of the same, made Dialogue wyse,
London, John Tisdale, n.d. (about 1563), FIRST EDITION, blflCfc ICttCl, 2 parts in i
vol, sm. sq. 8vo, title in admirable facsimile, flaw in margins of Qj of the \st part
and DI of the 2nd part, injuring side notes and a few letters of text, last leaf soiled
and written on, wormhole in lower back margin of firs I 62 leaves, but a very large
copy ivith some uncut margins and all the rare blank leaves, old limp vellum, with
fore-marginal flaps, loose, 355

A very rare early work on that most fruitful subject of controversy : Predestination, Election and
Grace, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth by the famous protestant controversalist John Veron, who
was probably born at Sens in France, and naturalised in England in 1544. He was a student
and became a tutor at Cambridge, and in 1553 was committed to the Tower through the uproar
in connection with John Bradford at Paul's Cross. Nicknamed White-hair. Strype describes
him as a courageous and eloquent preacher.

Mr.

of Bee fan field, Ei quire,- Lately a
Member of the Honourable

Houfc of Commons.

And Printed by a Copy of

his own hand-writing.
All the Lyrick Poems in this Bookc

were fee by M'.H ENRY LAVVES, Genu

of the Kings ChappeJl,and one of his Ma-

jcltics Private Mufick.

^Printed and fuhlifhed according to Order.
LONDON,

Printed by /. N. for HH. Mofiejt at the Princes

Amies in Paul$ Church -yard,

1645.

No. 208.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. • 43

208 WALLER (Edmund, of Beckonsfield) POEMS, ETC., WRITTEN BY MR. ED. WALLER;
Lately a Member of the House of Commons. And Printed by a Copy of his own
hand-writing. All the Lyrick Poems in this Booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes,
Gent., of the King's Chappell, and one of his Majesties Private Musick, Printed
and Published according to Order, London, /. N. for Hit. Mosley, at the Princes
Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1645, FIRST KDITION, sm 8vo, with the extra 20
pages of speeches, separately paged, but with following signatures, after the 2 leaves of

Table, interesting early XVIIlth Century annotations, few slight water stains,

REMARKABLY FINE LARGE COPY, SEVERAL LEAVES RETAINING THEIR ORIGINAL

ROUGH EDGES, old panelled calf, worn, j£i$

EXCESSIVELY RARE, PARTICULARLY IN THE VERY FINE STATE OF THE PRESENT COPY. Waller
will always live as the author of " Goe lovely Rose" and " Lines on a Girdle." Interesting
too are the poems " Upon Ben. Johnson," " In answer of Sir John Sucklin's Verses" and
"On Mr. John Fletcher's Playes," while the poem, in three Cantos, entitled "The Battell
of the Summer Islands " (Bermudas) should appeal to American collectors.

[See Illustration.]

209 [WALLER (Edmund)] ON THE PARK AT ST. J.\MESK's[£<w</0«J, Printed for Tho.
Dring, n.d. (i 660-61), FIRST EDITION, folio, fears in margins mended, large copy,
preserved in a cloth case, £20

THIS is THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE SURREPTITIOUS ISSUE, referred to in the end note of the first
authorised edition published by E. Bedell in 1661, as follows — " The Reader is desired to take
notice that a filse copy of these verses on Si . James 's Park was surreptitiously and very imperffctly
printed in one sheet, without the author s knowledge and consent, several lines being there left
out." So rare that the compiler of the Grolier Club Catalogue of the works of English writers
from Wither to Prior. 1905, thus speaks of it — " Mr. Drury remarks that he has not met with
any traces of this surreptitious edition.'''' A copy, however, turned up for sale at Sotheby's in
May. 1903, but beyond it this is the only other copy of which we can find any trace.

210 WATSON (Thomas, D.D., Bishop of London} Two NOTABLE SERMONS before the
Queenes (Mary I.) highnes, concernynge the reale presence of Christes body and
bloude in the blessed Sacrament and also the Masse, London, J. Cawood, 1554,
t> ISC ft ICttCt mixed with roman, sm. sq. 8vo, title within ornamental woodcut
border with figures and Royal Arms at lop, large ornamental initials, title and last
leaf backed and small portion of blank margin of each missing, name on former of
each owner, few contemporary MS. notes, some margins water stained, but a good and
tall copy ^ old calf , rebacked, VERY RARE, £2 los

The Author was the friend of Roger Ascham, Sir John Cheke, Sir T. Smith, and others.
Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, 1535 and Master 1553-4. He was a fastidious scholar and on
the accession of Queen Mary became one of the chief Catholic controversalists, was always in
request as a preacher and drew large audiences. Bishop Ridley wrote some annotations
upon these sermons which he sent to John Bradford the Martyr, and in 1569 a work was
published by Robert Crowley controverting them. After Tunstall and Pope the greatest of
Queen Mary's bishops and the first sufferer for religion under Queen Elizabeth. Roger
Ascham spoke warmly of Watson's friendship for him and bore high testimony to his
scholarship.

211 WEST INDIES — THREE EARLY MAPS OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THK
WEST INDIES, comprised of Carte de 1'Isle de la Martinique ; de Saint Domingue ;
et des Antilles Francoises et des Isles Voisines, par G. de 1'Isle, a Amsterdam, J.
Covens et C. Mortier, n.d. (1741), 17 J by 23-inches, boundaries coloured, the maps
of Martinique and Dominica are in great detail, that of the French Antilles includes
a map of the English possession of Barbadoes, fine copies, with wide margins, VERY

SCARCE, £2 25

212 WHYTE MELVILLE (G. J.) 1821-1878, NOVELIST. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED,
3 pp., 8vo, Melton Moivbray, Feb. 28, no year given, to CHAPMAN the Publisher, 2is

Mentions review in Bell's Messenger of " The True Cross." Gives an account of his horses and
hunting matters. " Saw a *ood gallop very well yesterday, a fine run the .lay before, and feel as
if I was'ys\ "

44 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

213 WOLFIUS (Joannes) LECTIONUM MEMORABILIUM ET RECONDITARUM CEN-
TENARII XVL, Lavingce, Leonhardus Rheinmichel, 1600, ORIGINAL AND BEST
EDITION, 2 vols, thick folio, emblematic woodcut border to titles, with large astro-
logical sphere, portrait of the author on reverse of sack, numerous woodcuts of New
Testament scenes, Popes , religious and military orders, monstrosities, portents, etc.,
paper age discoloured in places, fine copy, ORIGINAL BOARDS COVERED WITH STAMPED
VELLUM, containing figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity, with a centre panel depicting
Samson slaying the lion, signed S. W., clasps gone, 253

A chronological history from the birth of Christ to the end of 1599. Under the year 1492 will be
found a brief notice of Columbus and his discoveries. Contains also notices of most of the
literary and theological celebrities up to the date of publication, including Huss, Gerson,
Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, Thomas Scroope, T. Gascoigne Capgrave, Luther, Erasmus,
Cardinal Pole, Melancthon, Alciat, Sambucus, Rabelais, Leland, Fox, Peter Martyr, Calvin,
etc., etc., and notices of the chronicles of Matthew of Paris, Commines, Monstrelet, Rolewinck,
Bergomensis, Gaguin, Hartmann Schedel (the Nuremberg Chronicle), etc.

UNIQUE FRAGMENT OF AN UN DESCRIBED EDITION OF A
SARUM HOR^E FROM THE CELEBRATED PRESS OF WYNKYN DE WORDE.

214 WYNKYN DE WORDE— HORJE BEAT^ MARI^ VIRGINIS SECUNDUM USUM
SARUM. A fragment of 6 leaves comprised of folios 217, 218 and 220 to 223
inclusive, containing "Vespere in venerationem Nominis Jesu edite a denoto
Richardo de Hampole," " Completorium ab eodern Richardo editum," et " Oratio
denota ad Sanctam trinitatam," in Latin, followed by "certayne questions what is
synne with the ordre of confession," in English [London, Wynkyn de Worde, ante
1534], i2ino, 4| by 3^-in., blHCfc lettCC, long lines, 24 to a full-page, ntbrics and
initials printed in red, 2 quaint woodcut initials, tiny hole in last leaf the reverse of
which is soiled, PRESERVED IN A SPECIALLY DESIGNED CASE OF BLUE MOROCCO, WITH

MOUNT AND UPPER COVER LINED WITH WATERED BLUE SILK, LETTERED ON FRONT

COVER, BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE, ;£io xos

From 1494 onwards Wynkyn de Worde printed a number of small sized Sarum Horce, many of
them only known from fragments. Our fragment agrees neither in size nor number of lines to
the page with any of those cited by the Rev. Mr. Hoskins in his authoritative work on the Horar
of Sarum use. The type is undoubtedly that of Wynkyn de Worde, consequently it must
have been printed prior to 1534. Fragment as it is it is all that survives to us of an edition oot
only of the greatest rarity but of much importance and value liturgically speaking.

UNIQUE CALENDAR FROM A SARUM HOR^E,
PRINTED AT THE CELEBRATED PRESS OF WYNKYN DE WORDE.

215 WYNKYN DE WORDE — KALENDARIUM AD USUM ECCLESIA: SARISBURIENSIS
[London, Wynkyn de Worde, ante 1534], 12010, blftCft ICttCt, 4? by 3j-in.,
long lines, 24 to the page, printed in red and black, headings in English, major
festivals printed in red. Comprised of folios IX. to XIII. inclusive (6 leaves
Signatures Bi to 6), contains the Calendar from 20 Feb. to 21 Nov. PRESERVED IN
A SPECIALLY DESIGNED CASE OF BLUE MOROCCO, WITH MOUNT, UPPER COVER LINED
WITH WATERED BLUE SILK, LETTERED ON FRONT COVER, BY SANGORSKI AND
SUTCLIFFE, ^10 IDS

This Calendar may possibly belong to the same edition of the Sarum Horse as the fragment above
described but there are slight variations in the type that seem to indicate it belongs to one of a
different date. In any case no other copy is known. It is a typical Sarum Calendar and among
the more interesting entries we may mention those of St. Oswald (translation and festival), St.
Edward (twice, translation in red), St. Richard of Chichester (twice), St. Adeline (twice),
I St. Thomas of Canterbury (translation in red), St. Wilfred (twice), St. Cuthbert (twice), St.

Swithin, St. Edmond, St. John of Beverley, St. Guthlac, St. David, St. Erkenwolde, Bede St.
Wolfstan, St. Kenelme, St. Alban, St. Augustine (Anglorum Apostoli, in red), and St.
Fredeswide. The word "pape," wherever it occurs together with the translation of St.
Thomas of Canterbury scored through in ink in accordance with the decree of Henry VIII.

MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 45

216 WILKES (John) A LETTER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF GRAFTON, First
Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, London^]. Almon, 1767, FIRST EDITION-
8vo, half morocco, t.e.g., RARE, 305

Contains the celebrated John Wilkes's own account of his arrest and imprisonment in the Tower
in 1763. A very interesting copy from the Phelips Library, Montacute House, Somerset. E.
Phelips lins written in many of the names of persons left blank in the text and added one or
two notes. His autograph is also on title.

217 YEAR BOOK — ANNO xxvi HENRICI vin. Actes made in the session of this
present parliament holden upon prorogation at Westm. the in dale of Noveber in
the xxvi yere of the reigne of our moste soueraine lorde Kynge Henry the vni.,
etc. To the honor of God and for the common weale and profit of this realme,
London, T. Berthelet, n.d. (1535), folio, blftCfe ICttCC, title within ornamental
woodcut border, fine woodcut initials, very fine large copy, unbound, 305

Among the interesting enactments of this parliament may be mentioned an act relating to
" kepers of feries on the water of Seuerne " ; " amendyng of high waies in Sussex " ; " reedi-
fiynge of void groundes " in the citie of Norwich and town of Lynne ; " for punishement of
welshemen attemptyng any assautes or aff raies upon any thin habitauntes of Heref . , Glouc. ,
and Shropshire" ; " for takynge awaie certaine exactions taken within the arch^deaconrye of
Rychemonde by spirituall men " ; " for makynge of worstedes in the citie of Norwiche, and
in the townes of Lynn and Yarmouthe," etc., etc.

ADDENDA.

2.8 AMERICA — [GRANT (Mrs. Anne)] MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY; with
Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they existed previous to the
Revolution, London, Longmans and others, 1809, 2 vols, sm. 8vo, original marbled
calf, gilt back, 2 is

Full of valuable and interesting reminiscences of the Schuyler family of Albany, N.Y., and their
friends Generals Bradstreet, Abercrombie, Lee, etc. Life in Albany, New York, Oswego,
etc. , the Defeat at Ticonderoga, and other encounters between the Indians and French about
the time of the fall of Quebec, the Mohawk Indians and numerous details of the manners
and customs of a very important period of the American Colonial history.

^19 AMERICAN QUAKERS— MEMORIALS CONCERNING DECEASED FRIENDS : being a
selection from the Records of the yearly Meeting for Pennsylvania, etc., from 1788
to 1819 inclusive, Philadelphia, Solomon W. Conrad, iSti, 8vo, fine copy, original
boards, uncut, i6s

A SCARCE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT, full of interesting details of the travels, etc., of prominent
Pennsylvanian Friends, among the Delaware Indians, West Indies, Europe, and elsewhere.

220 BIBLIOGRAPHY— -BIBLIOTHECA HEINSIANA, sive Catalogus Librorum Quos
magno studio et sumptu, dum viveret, collegit vir illustris Nicolaus Heinsius, Dan.
Fil. In duas Partes divisus, Lugd. Bat.,J. de Vivie, n.d. (post 1666), sm. 8vo, title
in red and black, original vellum, 2 is

The very rare and interesting early auction catalogue of the library of the celebrated Dutch
scholar Daniel Heinsius, who died in 1666, containing many manuscripts and incunabula of the
greatest rarity. Priced in ink throughout in the Dutch currency of the time.

221 ELZEVIR PRESS— E'KAINE DIATHEKE. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM. Ex Regiis
aliisque optimis editionibus, hac nova expressum : cui quid accesserit, Praefatio
docebit, Lugd. Bntavorum, Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1641, 12 mo, Elzevir device
on title, which ts printed in red and black, very tall copy, original limp vellum, with

folding flaps on fore edges, age darkened, holes for tie strings, 253

THE SCARCE GENUINE THIRD ELZEVIAN EDITION, printed in long lines. The counterfeit of the
same year had the text divided into two columns, and in the imprint the lines " Lugduni
Batavorum Typis Elzevirianis." Measures 13.2 by 7.2 mill. Contains an interesting XVIIth
Century armorial bookplate inscribed " Bibl. Martialis Delepi."

46 MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C.

222 FRENCH REVOLUTION— ALMANACK I>ES PRISONS, ou Anecdotes sur le regime
interieur de la Conciergerie, du Luxembourg, etc., et sur difierens prisonniers qui
ont habite ces maisons, sous LA TYRANNIE DE ROBESPIERRE, avec les chansons,
couplets qui y ont ete faits, a Paris, Chez Michel, Fan III. de la Republique ( 1 794),
satirical frontispiece showing the guillotine with piles of heads in front, and
inscription " Gouvernement de Robespierre." — TABLEAU DES PRISONS DE PARIS sous

LE REGNE DE ROBESPIERE, SECOND TABLEAU, ET TROISIEME TABLEAU, Pour Servir

de suite a 1'Almanach des Prisons, contenant differentes anecdotes sur plusieurs
prisonniers, avec les couplets, pieces de vers, lettres et testamens qu'ils ont fails,
a Paris, Chez Michel, s.d. (c. 1795). Together 4 vols, 12 mo, with engraved
frontispiect to each, paper age discoloured in places, and sometimes printed on different
shades of paper, FINE UNCUT SET, modern boards, 303

EXTREMELY SCARCE. From the Hbrary of Lord Ronald Gower with his bookplate in each
volume.

THOMAS GRAY THE POET'S COPY.

2>3 GRAY— LIGON (Richard, Gent.) A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF
BARBADOES, London, P. Parker, 1673, BEST EDITION, folio, WITH LARGE FOLDING

MAP, 3 FOLDING PLANS, AND FULL-PAGE COPPER ENGRAVINGS OF TREES, ETC.,

margin of last leaf repaired, fine tall copy, original calf, £\2 125

THOMAS GRAY'S COPY, with his autograph signature " Xho : Gray :> on title, and a note in his
neat handwriting at end of table of contents " cost me ^,0 3s 3d."

UNIQUE COLOURED PANORAMA.

224 SWISS COSTUME — AN IMPORTANT AND MOST REMARKABLE PAGEANT, Lausanne,
Spengler et Cie (1833), IN PANORAMIC FORM, about 50 feet in length by 5 inches in

depth, DEPICTING THE AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER INDUSTRIES, TOGETHER WITH THE.

MILITARY AND CIVIL OCCUPATIONS OF SWITZERLAND, in a series of over 30 different
groups, comprising many hundreds of male and female figures-, gracefully arranged, all
in appropriate costumes, THE WHOLE FINELY COLOURED, mounted on linen and
attached to two cylinders, fitted into the original cardboard case, finely preserved,

OF SUCH EXCESSIVE RARITY THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO TRACE THE WHEREABOUTS OF ANOTHER
COPY. Amongst the many groups in this wonderful panorama may be mentioned companies of
Swiss Guards, male and female bands, some of the former in old Roman attire, playing on
various instruments, including the famous Uri horn, peasants carrying garlands of flowers with
banner inscribed " ora et labore," Shepherds and Shepherdesses with crooks, and sheep, male
and female gardeners with implements and baskets of flowers and fruit, farmhands with oxen,
THE COLLAR OF ONE BEARING THE DATE 1833, haymakers, a May Queen on a canopied throne
carried by a party of girls, harvesters, smiths, pedlers, ploughmen and plough, wild men of the
woods with clubs, aboriginals of the country with goats, groups emblematic of the vintage,
including Bacchus carried by negroes, and Silenus on a Donkey with guard and band, waggons
with incense altars, flowers, fruit, corn, hay, dairy utensils, vine clusters, vine press, etc., etc.,
winding up with the official classes, gentry, a general in a coach and a company of Swiss Guards.

225 WOODCUTS (Early Italian Outline)— LUCIAN, OF SAMOSATA. I dilettevoli
dialogi le vere narrationi, le facete epistole di Luciano Philosopho, di Greco in
volgare tradotte per M. Nicolo da Lonigo, et historiate, & di nuouo accuratamente
reuiste & emendate, In Vineggia, per N. di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1529, sm. 8vo,
italic letter, title printed in red and black, with fine woodcut border, containing
figures, a battle scene, ancient ship, etc., 30 FINE OUTLINE WOODCUTS OF THE
VENETIAN SCHOOL IN THE TEXT, AND THE CHARMING SEPARATE WOODCUT OF ST.
NICHOLAS, occupying the centre of the verso of the final blank leaf, few small worm-
holes in the margins and some slight water-stains, fine copy, in old Italian vellum,
edge of front cover a little damaged, m.e., ^2 los

A VERY RARE AND EARLY EDITION OF THIS ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF LUCIAN, REMARKABLE FOR
ITS WOODCUTS. The earliest edition in the British Museum is that of 1535.

Printed by Ceo. K. Flower, " \t Bartholomew Presse," 12-14, Verulaiu Street, E.C,