and in the margins of the text are numerous well-written annotations in French.-Catalogue.]

2820 Quarternaire (Le). Saict Thomas, aultrement dict. Les quatre Choses Sainct Thomas (Thomas Aquinas), lit. goth. (16 leaves, the last blank, signatures A-B in 8's), cut on title, morocco, full gilt back, line frame sides with corner fleurons, inside dentelles, g. e., by Bauzonnet, Yemeniz copy, Sans notes [15-], 12mo. (157) Quaritch, £5 2821 Racine (Jean). Euvres, nouvelle édition, portrait after Santerre by Cathelin, 3 vol., old French morocco, full gilt floreate backs, line sides, with arms of Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie, Comtesse de Provence, g. e. (Derome), Comp. des Libraires, 1767, small 8vo. (159) Quaritch, £30 2822 Richelieu (Cardinal Duc de). Instruction du Chrestien, frontispiece, vignettes and ornamental initials, old French morocco, semis of fleurs-de-lis on back and sides, broad ornamental side borders, with the device and motto (“Dieu en soit garde") of a Parisian College, Paris, Impr. Royal du Louvre, 1642, folio (162) Leighton, £28s.

2823 Richelieu (Cardinal Duc de). Traité qui contient la Méthode la plus facile et la plus asseurée pour convertir ceux qui se sont separez de l'Eglise, old French morocco, full gilt ornamental back, line sides, with the Cardinal's arms, g. e. (Du Sueil), Paris, Seb. Cramoisy, 1651, folio (163)

2824 Roma.

J. L. White, £8 15s.

Status Animarum Almæ Urbis Anni 1729, MS. Statistics (8 leaves), vellum gilt, with the arms of the Old Pretender and Clementina Sobieski (?) on sides, with ties [1729-30], folio (165) Mathews, £6 15s. 2825 Rowlandson (Thomas). Miseries of Human Life, 50 humorous coloured plates, including title, original impressions, half morocco extra, g.e., R. Ackermann, 1808, small 4to. (166) Sabin, £12 2826 Rowlandson (Thomas). Comforts of Bath, a set of 12 plates, loosely inserted in a scrap-book and bound in an old cover of French morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in compartments of ornamental scrolls in compartments and borders, with device of three fishes in a shield in centres, small folio (167) Sabin, £7 7s. 6d. 2827 Rye-House Plot. True Account and Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King and his present Majesty, with Copies of the Informations and Original Papers, old calf, T. Newcomb, 1685, small folio (168) Maurice, £8 2828 Sacheverell. Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell-Names of the Peers who protested in the Case of Sacheverell-Impartiall Account of what passed in the last Session of Parliament relating to the Sacheverell Case-Speeches of BishopsAddresses presented to the Queen since the Impeachment -and some single-leaf prints connected with the case in 1710, bound in a vol., new sprinkled calf, folio (169)

Tregaskis, £6 10s.

[Inserted in the volume were 21 scarce satirical prints relating to the Sacheverell Affair, and a portion of a very rare contemporary pack of engraved playing cards satirising the subject, comprising the suits of hearts and diamonds (26).--Catalogue.]

2829 Saint-Esprit. Les Statuts de l'Ordre du St. Esprit estably par Henry IIIme Roy de France et de Pologne, an mois du Décembre l'an 1576, large and thick paper, engraved title, old French morocco, back covered with fleurs-de-lis and tongues of fire, bordered sides with device of St. Esprit in corners, royal arms of France (Louis XV.) in centres, bronzed flowered end papers, g. e. (Padeloup), (Paris), de l'Impr. Royale, 1740, 4to. (171) Sotheran, £11 2830 Sandford (Fr.) History of the Coronation of King James II. and Queen Mary, Thursday, 23 April, 1685, plates, old calf gilt, g. e., T. Newcomb, 1687, folio (174) Pickering, £2 2s. 2831 Scrope (William). Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, etc., first edition, tinted lithographs and woodcuts after Sir D. Wilkie, Sir E. Landseer, C. Landseer, etc., half russia gilt, J. Murray, 1843, imperial 8vo. (177)

Quaritch, £8 2832 Scudery (G. de). Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus, édition originale, portrait of the Duchesse de Longueville, frontispieces and plates (some margins cut into), 10 vol., old French morocco, full gilt floreate backs, line sides, with arms of the Duchesse de Grammont (Choiseul-Stainville), g. e. (Derome), Paris, A. Courbé, 1654, small 8vo. (178)

Quaritch, £6 2833 Sevigné (Marquise de). Recueil des Lettres, à la Comtesse de Grignan sa Fille, nouvelle édition, 6 vol. (MS. notes in margins by G. Garnier, editor of Sevigne's Letters, published 1818), old French morocco, full gilt floreate backs, line sides, with arms of Madame Marie Adelaide, eldest daughter of Louis XV., g. e. (Derome), Paris, Rollin, 1738, small 8vo. (181) Quaritch, £32 2834 Smith (Captain A.) The Court of Venus, being a Continuation of the History of the Most Celebrated Beauties and Famous Jilts in the English Court to this Time, 2 vol. in 1, calf gilt, g.e., by C. Smith, George Daniel's copy, J. Baker, 1716, small 8vo. (183) Quaritch, £5 5s. 2835 Sowerby (James). English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, third edition, by J. T. Boswell Syme, many hundred coloured plates, II vol., half morocco, t. e. g., uncut, R. Hardwicke, 1863-72, imperial 8vo. (185) Quaritch, £14 2836 Stobaeus (Joannes). Sententiæ, ex Thesaurus Græcorum dilectæ, a Conrado Gesnero in Latinum Sermonem traductæ, ruled in red, 2 vol., old French morocco, sides and backs covered with elaborate gilt tooling in leafy branches, and ovals containing open and shut marguerites, with 3 fleurs-de-lis in a bar in centre oval on upper covers, a flowering lily in the under ovals, with motto "Epectata non Eludet," the device of Marguerite de Valois, or rather

of Marie-Marguerite de Valois Saint-Remy, a very fine specimen of Clovis Eve binding in perfect condition, Lugd., S. Gryphius, 1555, 12mo. (187) Sotheran, £126 2837 Thane (John). British Autography, a Collection of Facsimiles of the Hand Writing of Royal and Illustrious Personages, with their authentic Portraits, 250 tinted portraits and autographs, original issue, 3 vol., old morocco, with gilt inside tooling, Lord Strangford's arms on sides, joints, g.e., Published by J. Thane, Rupert Street, n. d., 4to. (192) Quaritch, £12 2838 Thomas à Kempis. De Imitatione Christi lib. iv., editio elzéviriana, engraved title, old French morocco, ornamental gilt back and borders, g. e., by Simier, Lugd. ex Off. Elzev., 1658, 12mo. (194) Sotheran, £4 4s. 2839 Van Blarenberghe. Traité de la Cavallerie. Military Equitation and Evolutions in War, etc., 32 large plates (the set complete without title), old French morocco, full gilt back, ornamental borders with the Orleans arms on sides, n. d. [16], imperial atlas folio (198) Quaritch, £41

2840 Venetia. Habiti d'Huomeni et Donne Venetiane con la Processione della Serma Signoria et altri Particolari cioe Trionfe, Feste, Ceremonie Publiche della Nobilissima Citta di Venetia, 32 plates by Franco Forma, vellum gilt, with Horace Walpole's ex-libris, s. a. et l. [16-], small folio (199) Delaine, £8 2841 Veronica. Vita della beata Veronica Giuliani Badessa della Cappuccine in S. Chiara di Città di Castello, scritta di J. M. Salvatori, portrait and plate, old Italian calf, with gilt ornaments and the arms of Henry Benedict Stuart, called Cardinal of York, on sides, Roma, 1803, 4to. (201) Maggs, 10 5s.

2842 Victorius (Petrus). Commentarii in Librum Demetrii Phalerei de Elocutione, old English calf, Prince of Wales's feathers blind stamped in side corners, with the royal arms of England in gold in centres (rebacked) with crown and portcullis, probably originally in the library of Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I., Florent., Ph. Junta, 1594, folio (202) Leighton, £6 10s. 2843 Vico (Eneas). Le Imagini con tutti I Riversi trovati et le Vite de gli Imperatore, tratte dalle Medaglie et dalle Historie de gli Antichi, plates of medals, with ornamental borders, etc., old morocco, covered in elaborate interlaced gilt scroll ornaments, with title of book, "Duodecem Cæsarum Numismata," in centre of upper cover, “Jo Grolierii et Amicorum" below and "Portio mea Domine sit in Terra Viventium" in centre of under cover, g. e., neatly repaired in some places but on the whole well preserved, enclosed in new morocco case, Enea Vico Parm. F. l'anno * 1548, small 4to. (203) Quaritch, £162

[The late Mr. Foss (of Payne and Foss) had written the following on a card, relating to this volume, "Duodecim

Cæsarum Numismata, Eneas Vicus, 1548; Grolier. Α most beautiful specimen."-Catalogue.]

2844 Virgilius. Opera, nunc emendatiora, editio elzeveriana prima, engraved title and map, old Dutch morocco, line tooled back, ornamental borders, inside gilt borders, joints, g. e., Lugd. Bat. ex Off. Elzev., 1636, 12mo. (204) Quaritch, £3 2845 Voltaire. La Henriade, Poëme, Ornée de Dessins lithographiques, finely printed, with 90 subjects and portraits after Vernet and Mauzaisse, contemporary French morocco extra, ornamental gilt back with devices, sides richly tooled in line and ornamental scrolls with sections au pointillé, broad inside ornamental borders, joints, vellum fly-leaves, g.e., the arms of the Duchesse de Berry stamped in gold in covers, bound by Simier, from the Yemeniz collection, Cairo, E. Dubois, 1825, folio (206) Maggs, £24 2846 [Voltaire.] Candide, ou l'Optisme, traduit de l'Allemand de Mr. Le Docteur Ralph, première édition, morocco extra, full gilt back, line sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Capé, s. l. ou n. d'impr., 1759, small 8vo. (207) J. Bumpus, £3 35. 2847 Walpole (Horace). A Pill to Purge State Melancholy, or a Collection of Excellent New Ballads, old calf, Horace Walpole's copy, with ex-libris, signature "Horatio Walpole, 1730," and note, "This book is rare and contains the Whig songs, made during the four last years of Queen Anne, some of them are remarkably good, especially those in pages 5, 95 and 161," in fly-leaf, and marginal notes, all in Walpole's hand, Printed in the year 1715, small 8vo. (208) Quaritch, £11 5S. 2848 Walpole (Horatio, Earl of Orford). Works, portrait, 5 vol., half morocco, Robinson, 1798, 4to. (210) Young, £2 45. 2849 Walpole (Horace). Reminiscences, written in mdcclxxxviii. for the Amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, illustrated with engraved proof portraits of Horace Walpole, Miss Berry, Dean Atterbury, etc., Houbraken portraits of Queen Anne, the Earl of Sunderland, Earl Granville and Pope, mezzotint portraits of George I., Sophia Dorothea Queen of Prussia and others, interesting and valuable autograph letters of Horace Walpole and others, 3 original drawings by J. Buckler, of Strawberry Hill, old views of Whitehall and St. James's Palace, and two poems, “Bishop Bonner's Ghost" and "The Magpie and the Brood," Printed at Strawberry Hill (inlaid), comprising in all 54 portraits, 3 drawings, 5 views and 7 autograph letters, in vol., morocco extra, inside dentelles, joints, g. e., by Rivière, R. Taylor, 1805, atlas 4to. (211) B. F. Stevens, £148 2850 Warner (Richard). Collections for the History of Hampshire and the Bishopric of Winchester, map and numerous plates (225 copies printed), 5 vol. in 3, calf extra, plain edges (1795), 4to. (212) Young, £6 5s. 2851 Wilson (Arthur). History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James the First, illustrated with upwards of 100 portraits and plates, some scarce, English morocco

super extra, broad inside ornamental borders, joints, g. e., R. Lowndes, 1653, small folio (214) Sotheran, 18 IOS. 2852 Wyld (J.) Maps and Plans of the Monuments, Battles, Sieges, etc. of the British Army, 1808-14, in the Spanish Peninsula and South of France, 50 maps and plans, half morocco gilt, 1808-14, atlas folio (217) Quaritch, £2 25.

2853 Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis & Chloé, traduites de Grec de Longus par Amyot, Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1800 38,000 francs.

[This was the unique copy on vellum, royal folio, with the original designs for the nine plates by Godefroy, Marais, Massard and Roger, after Prudhon and Gérard, printed expressly for the Duc d'Abrantès, at whose sale it realised £73 10S. From thence it passed into the possession of William Beckford, at whose sale in December, 1882 it realised £900. The above mentioned sum of 38,000 francs, or about £1,520, was realised at Paris at the sale of the library of M. Eugène Paillet in March, 1902, and the incident is here recorded as being of very peculiar interest. Two copies, however, appear to have been also printed on vellum, but in 4to. See the Athenæum for March 29th, 1902, page 406, Lewine's "Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art Books," 1898, page 325.—ED.]

[MARCH 17TH AND FOUR FOLLOWING DAYS, 1902.] SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

A SELECTION FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARL OF MEXBOROUGH AND NUMEROUS OTHER PROPERTIES.

(No. of Lots, 1314; amount realised, £14,530 8s. 6d.)

(a) The Property of the Earl of Mexborough. 2854 Aristophanes. Comœdiæ novem, Græcè, cum Scholiis Græcis et prefatione Græca Marci Musuri, editio princeps, some leaves wormed, ancient MS. notes in the margins, old oak boards covered with stamped leather, not subject to return, Venet., Aldus, 1498, folio (42) Denham, £5 5s.

2855 Brosses (C. de). Lettres sur l'Italie, 3 vol., fine paper, with 10 pages of MS. notes by William Beckford, half bound, 1799, 8vo. (7) Mathews, £2 10s. 2856 Burton (Robert). The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, With all the Kindes, causes, symptomes and cures of it, first edition, morocco super extra, g. e., by Rivière, Oxford, 1621, 4to. (32) Denham, £40

2857 Elizabeth (Queen). Triumphalia de Victoriis Elizabethæ