[A later edition, without the portrait, was published in 1768, on large as well as on small paper. This is of considerably less value.-ED.]

1966 Bacon (Francis, Lord). Two Bookes of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, with autograph of Johannes Hagar (early seventeenth century writing), also autograph of John Anstis, Garter King-atArms (Queen Anne), with MS. extracts, numerous pencil notes in the margins, original calf, Oxford, 1633, 4to. (299) Wenn, £6 IOS.

1967 Bible (The Holy), conteyning the Old Testament and the New, black letter, engraved title to the Old Testament by C. Boel, cut round and mounted, the title to the New Testament with a marginal design engraved on wood, some leaves stained, last leaf of New Testament defective and mended, otherwise a sound and clean copy in rough calf, R. Barker, 1611, folio (393) Quaritch, £9 10s.

[First edition of the so-called King James' Bible, or Authorized Version, with the "she" reading in Ruth.-ED.] 1968 Bourbon (Frère Jacques, bastard de). La grande et merveilleuse et tres cruelle oppugnation de la noble cite de Rhodes, gothic letter, long lines, woodcut border round title and numerous woodcut capitals, morocco extra, g. e., by Chambolle-Duru, Paris, 1525, 4to. (112) Tregaskis, £7 1969 Bunbury (Henry). Twenty-two Plates illustrative of various interesting Scenes in the Plays of Shakspeare, engraved by Bartolozzi, Tomkins, etc., half bound, 1792-5, folio (383) Thorp, £7 10s. 1970 Byron (Lord). Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, original and translated, first edition, contemporary calf, Newark, 1807, 8vo. (167) Pickering, £3 8s. 1971 Costume. Pyne (W. H.) Costume of Great Britain, 60 coloured plates, 1804-Moleville (B. de). Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, 50 coloured plates, 1804-Costume of the Russian Empire, 73 coloured plates, 1803--Costume of Turkey, 60 coloured plates, 1804 -Military Costume of Turkey, 30 coloured plates, 1818Costume of China, 60 coloured plates, 1800--The Punishments of China, 22 coloured plates, 1801, together 7 vol., old morocco gilt, borders on sides, full gilt backs, g.e., uniform, folio (850) Roche, £17 1972 Cox (David). A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water-colours, parts i.-v., the plates uncoloured, parts ix., xi.-xii. coloured, in parts, 1813, oblong folio (522) Rimell, £2 10S. 1973 Cruikshank (George). The Comic Almanack, numerous etchings and woodcuts by G. Cruikshank, 19 vol. complete, in the original covers as published, 1835-53, 8vo. (534)

Maggs, £10

[The first 15 numbers were published in wrappers, and the remaining four in cloth, all at 2s. 6d., except the Almanacs for 1848 and 1849, which were reduced to Is.ED.]

1974 Dighton (R.) Twelve Prints representing the most interest-
ing sentimental and humorous Scenes in Tristram Shandy,
Carington Bowles, 1785, folio (381)
Sabin, £5
1975 Douglas (Lord Alfred). Poems, in English, with Prose
Translation in French, first edition, portrait, only a few
copies printed, morocco extra, g.e., Mercure de France,
1896, 8vo. (236)
Nattali, £2 18s.
1976 Dugdale (Sir W.) Antiquities of Warwickshire, second
edition, revised by W. Thomas, portraits, maps and plates,
2 vol., old calf, 1730, folio (851)
Edwards, £15
1977 Folengo (T.) Histoire Maccaronique de Merlin Coccaie
prototype de Rabelais, 3 vol., in 6 parts, printed on vellum,
old French morocco, gilt sides, full gilt backs, g. e., 1734,
8vo. (92)
Ridler, £5 10S.
1978 Goldsmith (Oliver). The Roman History, from the Founda-
tion of the City of Rome, 2 vol., first edition, in the original
half binding, uncut, 1769, 8vo. (200)
Sabin, £5 10S.
1979 Grimm (M. M.) German Popular Stories, vol. i., first edition,
fine impressions of the etchings by George Cruikshank,
calf, binding damaged, C. Baldwyn, 1823, 8vo. (221)

1980 Grote (George). History of Greece, 12
etc., uncut, 1849-56, 8vo. (201)

Rimell, £6 17s. 6d.
vol., portrait, maps,
Quaritch, £4 14s.
New Pygmalion,

1981 Hazlitt (William). Liber Amoris, or the
first edition, portrait on title, uncut, J. Hunt, 1823, 8vo.
(164)
Pickering, £2 3s.
1982 Heures. Ces presentes Heures à l'Usage de Romme, gothic
letter, printed on vellum, within borders, with 17 wood
engravings the full size of the page and numerous smaller
ones, the whole heightened in gold and colours, old mo-
rocco, g.e., Paris, par Nycolas Hygman... pour Guil-
laume Eustace, xx. September, 1517, 8vo. (1037)

Maggs, £16 15s.
1983 Hooker (Richard). Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie,
first edition of Books i. to v., original calf, sound copy, with
autograph of J. Bagot (Bishop of Bath and Wells) and L.
Stanley, J. Windet (1594)-97, folio (360) Pickering, £5 5s.
1984 Jesse (J. H.) Memoirs of the Court of England during the
Reign of the Stuarts, 4 vol., frontispieces, 1840-Under the
Houses of Nassau and Hanover, 3 vol., frontispieces, 1843,
original cloth, together 7 vol. (174) Quaritch, £9 15s.
1985 [Johnson (Dr. S.)] The Rambler, first edition, 2 vol. (with
titles and indexes), old morocco gilt, 1753, folio (858)
Quaritch, £5 5s.
1986 Lacy (T. H.) Female Costumes, Historical, National and
Dramatic, 198 coloured plates, half morocco, g. e., 1865,
4to. (994)
Maggs, £2 10S.
1987 Lorris (G. de) et J. de Meung. Le Roman de la Rose,
nouellement reveu et corrigé oultre ses precedentes Im-
pressions, gothic letter, numerous woodcuts and printers'
mark, old calf, one cover loose, Imprimé à Paris pour
maistre Pierre Vidoue, 1538, 8vo. (98) Tregaskis, £7 12s 6d.

1988 Lyndsey (Syr David). A Dialogue betweene Experience and a Courtier, of the miserable estate of the worlde, first compiled in the Schottishe tongue nowe newly corrected, and made perfit Englishe... black letter, woodcuts, some leaves soiled, in the original binding, Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote and William Pickering, 1566, 4to. (304) Pickering, £41 1989 Malton (T.) Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, aquatinta plates, 2 vol. in 1, half russia, 1792, folio (338) Parsons, £9 5s. 1990 Malton (J.) A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, maps and aquatinta plates, half bound, binding broken, 1794, oblong folio (341) Pickering, £6 10s. [Other copies sold for £6 and £7 15s. respectively.-ED.] 1991 M[arkham] (G[ervase]). The Young Sportsman's Delight, etc. (with a second title, "A Compleat and Experienced Angler" . . .), woodcuts, in the original binding, G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little-Britain, n. d., 8vo. (247)

Pickering, £3 35. 1992 Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum, etc., gothic letter, full-page woodcuts and numerous small cuts in the text, original oak boards, covered with stamped leather, badly wormed, Venet., apud Juntas, 1577, folio (124) Bull, £2 135. 1993 Moore (F.) The Rebellion Record, a Diary of American Events, with Supplement, vol. i., 11 vol., stamp on titles, portraits and maps, half calf gilt, m. e., New York, 1861-6, royal 8vo. (12) J. L. White, £1 4s. 1994 Pater (Walter). Plato and Platonism, a Series of Lectures, first edition, original cloth, uncut, 1893, 8vo. (240)

Shepherd, £1 5s. 1995 Percy Society. Publications, 30 vol., complete in the original parts as published, including the suppressed pieces: Gosson (S.) Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen, 1596-and Barnsley (C.) Pryde and Abuse of Women, 1840-52, 8vo. (555) Hopkins, £7 2s. 6d.

1996 Prior (Matthew). Poetical Works, first collective edition, 2 vol., frontispiece, sealskin extra, g. e., 1779, 8vo. (241) Walford, 1 14s. 1997 Pyne (W. H.) History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James' Palace, Hampton Court, etc., 3 vol., 100 coloured plates, half morocco, g. t., 1819, royal 4to. (505) Sotheran, £17 15s.

1998 Ramsay (D.) Life of George Washington, portrait, uncut, New York, 1807, 8vo. (435) Maggs, £1 Is. 1999 Rogers (Samuel). Italy, a Poem, proofs before the letters of the vignettes after Turner and Stothard, 1830-Poems, vignettes after Turner and Stothard, 1834, first editions, morocco, g. e., uniform, 8vo. (220) Edwards, £9

2000 Rowlandson. Hungarian and Highland Broad Sword, 24 plates (coloured), designed and etched by T. Rowlandson

under the direction of Messrs. H. Angelo and Son, Fencing Masters, 1798-9, oblong folio (382) Sabin, £19 5s. 2001 Surrey Archæological Society. Transactions, vol. i.-xv., and extra vol. Pedes Finium, illustrations, 8 vol. in cloth, the remainder in parts, 1856-1900, 8vo. (1076) Sotheran, £5 10s. 2002 Surtees (R.) History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, portraits and numerous engravings of architectural and monumental antiquities, pedigrees, etc., 4 vol., LARGE PAPER, half morocco, g. t., 1816-40, folio (608) Sotheran, £21 IOS. [Presentation copy from the Author to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.-Catalogue.]

2003 Sussex Archæological Collections, illustrating the History and Antiquities of the County, vol. i.-xliii. and Index to the first 25 vol., plates and illustrations, 1853-1900, 8vo. (1077) Edwards, £13 IOS. 2004 Thome de Aquino (S.) Scriptum super primo Sententiarum, gothic letter. double columns, woodcut initials, original oak boards, covered with stamped leather, Venet., O. Scotus, 1515, folio (123) Tregaskis, £3 35. 2005 Tracts. Tryal of the Earl of Pembroke, 1679—The Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury, 1679-Last Speech and Confession of Mr. John Southworth, a Popish Priest, 1679— Bedloe (W.) The Excommunicated Prince, 1679-The Wonderful Preservation of Gregory Crow, being Shipwreckt upon the Coast of Kent, 1679-Naboth's Vinyard, or the Innocent Traytor, 1679-Narrative of Seignior Francisco de Faria, 1680-The Papist's Bloody Oath of Secrecy, 1680 -Tryal of Viscount Stafford, 1680—Otes (T.) Narrative of the Horrid Plot and Conspiracy of the Popish Party, 1679-Greene (R.) The Popish Massacre, 1679-The Popish Plot more fully discovered, 1679-Magna Veritas, or John Gadbury not a Papist, 1680, and others, in 3 vol., half calf, folio (867) Good, £34 2006 Young (E.) The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts, 9 parts complete, first editions, except the first Night, which was originally printed in folio, plate, some lines at foot cut into, calf gilt, y. e., 1742-5, 4to. (264) Perry, 18s.

2007 Zoological Society of London. Transactions, numerous coloured and other plates, vol. i. to xii., and General Index vol. i. to x. (wanted parts 1 and 2 of vol. viii.), vol. i. cloth, the remainder unbound, 1835-89, 4to. (589) Walford, £15

JANUARY 28TH, 1902.]

J. C. STEVENS.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. G. R. RYDER.

(No. of Lots, 295; amount realised, about £650.)

£4 17s. 6d.

2008 Bentham and Mueller. Flora Australiensis, a Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory, 7 vol., Reeve, 1863-78, 8vo. (77) 2009 Blume (C. L.) Rumphia, coloured plates, 4 vol., half morocco, gilt edges, 1835-48, folio (279) £13 2010 Buckingham and Chandos (Duke of). Works, complete. Court and Cabinets of George III., 4 vol.—Memoirs of the Court of George IV., 2 vol.-The Court of the Regency, 2 vol.-and William IV. and Victoria, 2 vol., together 10 vol., calf gilt, 8vo. (146)

£6 10s. 2011 Curtis (John). British Entomology, 770 plates coloured from nature, 16 vol., half morocco, gilt edges, 1824-39, 8vo. (111) £19 2012 Curtis (W.) Botanical Magazine, complete set from the commencement in 1787 to 1900, several thousand coloured plates, with General Index to the first 107 volumes, together 127 vol., of which 70 are uniformly bound in half calf and the remainder in cloth, all uncut, 1787-1900, 8vo. (116) [Record price to date.-ED.]

£16

£130 2013 Curtis (W.) Flora Londinensis, or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as grow wild in the Environs of London, coloured plates, 6 vol., half calf gilt, 1777-98, folio (277) £12 125. 2014 Curzon (Hon. George). Persia and the Persian Question, 2 vol., 1892, 8vo. (85) £2 115. 2015 Edwards (S.) Botanical Register, vol. 1 to 29 and Index, upwards of 2,000 coloured plates, 30 vol., half morocco, uncut, gilt tops, 1815-43, 8vo. (117) 2016 Elwes (H. J.) Monograph of the Genus Lilium, 48 coloured plates by Fitch, half morocco, gilt edges, 1877-80 (287) £12 125. 2017 Garden (The). An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening, complete set from its commencement to 1900, 58 vol., cloth, with Index and a few subsequent parts unbound, 1872-1901, 8vo. (22) £17 105. 2018 Herbert (W.) Amaryllidacæ, an Attempt to arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders, 48 coloured plates, 1837, 8vo. (82) £3 35. 2019 Hogarth (W.) Original Works, 110 large engraved plates, including "Before and After" (some mounted), very fine impressions, Boydell, 1790, folio (294) [This was a very low price. realised 10.-ED.]

£4 15s. The copy should have