Reginæ contra Classem instructissimam Philippi Hispaniarum Regis [Carmina N. Eleutherii, J. Riparii, R. Hemelii, etc.], original calf, s. 1., 1588, 4to. (34) Quaritch, £4 2858 Euclid. Euclidis Megarensis Opus Elementorum in Geometria, woodcut diagrams and on the first page a woodcut border and initial letter, numerous other initials, limp vellum, Venet., E. Ratdolt, 1482, folio (46) Mathews, £19 [The original edition of this version and the first book published with woodcut diagrams.-ED.] 2859 Holme (R.) Academy and Armory, or a Storehouse of [This was a subscription copy, with the bookplate of Horace Walpole inside the cover. The work is dedicated to Charles Hurlestom of Picton, and contains a large engraving of his coat-of-arms and crest.—ED.] 2860 Ramicus Bishop of Arusiens. Here begynneth a litill boke necessarye and behovefull ayenst the Pestilence, 8 leaves, gothic letter, 24 lines to a full page, a large copy (81 by 5§ inches), without name, date, or place of imprint, of excessive rarity [London, W. de Machlinia, 1483-4], 4to. (37) Quaritch, £160 [The Introduction states: "I the Bisshop of Arusiens in the royame of Denmarke, doctour of Phisike, will write by the moost experte and famous doctours auctorised in Phisike somme thinges of the infirmyte of pestilence which dayly enfecteth and sone suffreth us to departe oute of this lyfe. ..." Mr. Hazlitt chronicles a very imperfect copy, with the exact title (as above), at Peterhouse, Cambridge. The White Knights copy, quoted by Lowndes, and sold in the Ashburnham sale, had nine leaves. This has only eight, but there is no evidence of any imperfection in the text.Catalogue.] 2861 Statutes of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, old morocco, dentelle borders, with book mark of silver filigree work and silk, and pink silk tyers, with tassels, g. e., 1744, 4to. (39) Mathews, £3 14s. (B) Other Properties. 2862 Ackermann (R.) Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, LARGE PAPER, 48 coloured plates by Fielding and Walton, original boards, uncut, 1821, imperial 4to. (197) Hornstein, £8 5s. 2863 Addison (Joseph). Cato, a Tragedy, first edition, calf extra, t. e. g., uncut, 1713, 4to. (152) [This copy contained the rare half title. is possibly unique.-Catalogue.] 2864 Adventures of a Post Captain, by a Naval Berry, £4 10s. An uncut copy Officer, with 25 characteristic engravings (coloured) by Williams, half calf, uncut, t. e. g., J. Johnson, n. d. (1817), (54) Hornstein, £6 2865 Alexander (William). Aurora, containing the First Fancies XVI. 17 of the Author's Youth, morocco extra, g. e., Richard Field [First edition. The corners of some leaves mended, sold not subject to return.—Catalogue.] 2866 Alken (Henry). The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French, 50 coloured plates, first edition, morocco gilt, g.e., T. McLean, 1821, folio (199) Hornstein, £50 2867 Alken (Henry). The Sporting Repository, many coloured plates, original boards, T. McLean, 1822, 8vo. (57) Sotheran, £80 [Record price. Contains 19 coloured plates by Berenger and Alken.-ED.] 2868 Alken (Henry). The National Sports of Great Britain, 50 coloured plates, with Descriptions, contemporary morocco, g. e., T. McLean, 1825, super imperial 8vo. (58) Spencer, £24 2869 Almanack. Buckmaster (T.) A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication, for the yere of Lorde God MDLXXI., exactly made for the Meridian and Pole alike of the citie of London, and may serve for al Englande, by Thomas Buckmaster, black letter, printed in red and black, two woodcut titles, calf extra, g. e., Printed by Richard Watkins (1571), (59) Bevan, £9 [This edition seems to be totally undescribed. The earliest edition of Buckmaster's Almanack mentioned by Mr. Hazlitt is that of 1589.-Catalogue.] 2870 Almanack. Securis (John). A New Almanacke and Prognostication for the yere of our Lord, 1569, made chiefly for England, and applied sometimes to other Countries, composed in Salisbury by John Securis, woodcuts, black letter, half calf, T. Marshe (1569), (60) Quaritch, £5 2871 Almanack. Securis (John). A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, 1571, made and set forthe in Salisburye by John Securis, Maister of Arte and of Physicke, black letter, printed in red and black, woodcut title and woodcut showing the anatomy of man's body, with a separate title to the Prognostication, calf extra, g. e., Printed at London by Thomas Marshe (1571), (61) Bevan, £6 15s. [Although editions of 1562 and 1573 are mentioned by bibliographers, this, of the year 1571, seems to be quite unrecorded. Catalogue. But see BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xiv., No. 1483, where a copy of this date in calf extra, by Rivière, brought £4 6s.-ED.] 2872 America. The Discoveries of John Lederer in three several Marches from Virginia to the West of Carolina, and other parts of the Continent, begun in March, 1669, and ended in September, 1670. Collected and Translated out of Latine, by Sir William Talbot, with the very rare folding map by Cross, morocco extra, Printed by J. C. for Samuel Heyrick, 1672, 8vo. (155) Evelyn, £26 [A very fine copy of this exceedingly rare tract, with several rough leaves. As usual, the licence leaf wanted. The last copy sold realised £55 last season. See BOOKPRICES CURRENT, vol. xv., No. 3637.-ED.] 2873 America. Franklin (Benjamin). Narrative of the late Massacre in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) of a number of Indians, Friends of this Colony, morocco extra, g. e. (Philadelphia), 1764 (63) H. Stevens, 5 5s. "Among the rarest of the works relating to the history of Pennsylvania."-Field's Indian Bibliography.] 2874 America. [Worcester (J.)] Poetical Epistle to His Excellency George Washington, from an inhabitant of Maryland, with a Short Sketch of Washington's Life and Character, portrait of Washington by Sharp, morocco extra, g. e., by Zaehnsdorf, 1780 (68) Sotheran, £8 [Very rare. The portrait of Washington makes its first appearance with this edition, which was printed and sold for the benefit of Americans in England.-Catalogue.] 2875 Apperley (C. J.) Life of John Mytton, Esq., with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits, 12 coloured plates by H. Alken, first edition, uncut, 1835, 8vo. (71) Robson, £27 [Presentation copy to Charles Dickens, with inscription on fly-leaf and Dickens' bookplate and Gads Hill library ticket.-Catalogue.] 2876 Apperley (C. J.) Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, of Halston, Shropshire, . . . by "Nimrod," illustrations by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, coloured by hand, second edition, reprinted (with considerable additions) from the New Sporting Magazine, some leaves soiled, original cloth, g. e., Ackermann, 1837, 8vo. (72) Edwards, £9 2877 A[rmin] (R[obert]) (?). The Valiant Welshman, or the True Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales. As it hath been sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his servants, frontispiece (mounted), half bound, 1663, 4to. (158) Wood, £7 15s. 2878 Bacon (Francis, Lord). Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, with frontispiece and portrait by John Payne, first edition, in the original calf, 1622, folio (209) Pickering, £2 145. 2879 Balzac (Honoré de). La Comédie Humaine, Scenes of Parisian Life, and Scenes of Private Life, now for the first time completely translated into English, by E. Sedgwick, G. B. Ives, W. Walton, etc., 22 vol., etchings, one of 250 copies, uncut, t. e. g., 1897, 8vo. (75) Bickers, £4 2880 Bible. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the Originall Tongues ... London, printed by the Companie of Stationers, 1651-A Brief Concordance, or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation, serving for the more easie finding out of the most useful places therein contained, carefully perused and enlarged by Mr. John Downame, B. in Divinitie, published for the good of the Commonwealth, 1652, 8vo. (78) Sotheran, £14 [This copy had on the fly-leaf the contemporary mark of the price, 7s. Original blue morocco binding, perfectly preserved and enclosed, as from the date of its publication, in a leather case. This is the earliest English pocket Bible, and precedes the Pearl Bible (hitherto considered to be the first pocket Bible), printed at Cambridge in 1653, by two years. The type is remarkably small and equally clear, and is probably the model which suggested to the University printer his later undertaking. This edition was unknown to Lowndes, and there was no copy amongst the Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition of 1877.-Catalogue.] 2881 Barclay (R.) Roberti Barclaii Theologiae Verè Christianae Apologia. Act 24: 14, Secundum viam, quam hæresia dicunt, sic colo Deum patrum meorum, credens omnibus, quae in Lege & Prophetis scripta sunt. Tit. 2: 11, 12, 13, 14, Gratia Dei salutifera, etc. I Thess. 5: 21. Omnia probate, quod bonum est, tenete, first edition, morocco extra, g. e., Amst., 1676, 8vo. (159) Banks, £7 5s. [A fine copy of the first edition of Barclay's famous "Apology for the Quakers."-Catalogue.] 2882 Bartolozzi (F.) One Hundred Examples of Engravings, collected from rare examples in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, with Annotations and a Memoir by L. Fagan, 4 vol., 100 autotype plates, uncut (1886), folio (210) Young, £45s. 2883 Beaumont (Fr.) and Fletcher (John). The Wild-Goose Chase, a Comedie, as it hath been Acted with singular Applause at the Black-Friers; Being the Noble, Last, and onely Remaines of those Incomparable Drammatists, first edition, boards, 1652, folio (211) Berry, £9 5s. [Contains an introduction by the Shakespearean actors Lowin and Taylor. A long account of it will be found in Payne-Collier's "Actors in Shakespeare's Plays" (printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1846). The manuscript was lost when the first folio Beaumont and Fletcher was published in 1647.-Catalogue.] 2884 Beaumont (Fr.) and Fletcher (John). Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, including: The Maids Tragedy; . . . Rule a Wife and have a Wife . . . The Wild Goose Chase, a Comedy, etc., all in 1 vol., published by the author's original copies, the songs to each play being added, second edition, portrait by W. Marshall, old calf, 1679, folio (212) Maberly, £5 10s. 2885 Behmen (Jacob, the Teutonic Philosopher). Works, with a Life of the Author, and figures illustrating his principles, left by the Rev. W. Law, and portrait of Behmen, 4 vol., half russia, 1764-81, 4to. (160) Quaritch, £7 2886 Bickham (G.) The Musical Entertainer, engraved throughout, 2 vol. in 1, morocco extra, g. e. (1737-50), folio (213) Cotton, £13 [A perfect copy, with both the titles and all the preliminary leaves.-ED.] 2887 Blomefield (Francis) and Charles Parkin. History of Norfolk, II vol., portrait, folding engravings and pedigrees, half calf, 1805-10, 8vo. (82) Thorp, £8 2888 Boaustuau (Petrus). Theatrum Mundi: The Theatre or rule of the Worlde. Whereunto is added a learned and pithie worke of the excellence of mankynd . ... Englished by John Olday, black letter, half morocco, 1574 (83) A. Jackson, £7 [A reference to this very rare book will be found in Shakespeare's Library. Isaac Reed's copy, with his autograph signature, dated 1789. The title missing and replaced in manuscript in the autograph of Isaac Reed. A note in reference to a mistake of the binder's is also in his autograph.-Catalogue.] 2889 Boccaccio. Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, 5 vol., portrait, 5 frontispieces, 110 plates and 77 vignettes after Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Legrand, etc., with the "Estampes galantes," consisting of frontispiece and 20 plates (by Gravelot), morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière and Son, Londra (Paris), 1757, 8vo. (84) Burrows, 10 IOS. 2890 Bold (Henry). Latine Songs, with their English and Poems, first edition, calf extra, g. e., 1685, 8vo. (86) Pearson, £10 [At page 159 there are allusions to Mrs. Quickly's account of Falstaff's death and to Hotspur's speeches in King Henry the Fourth.-Catalogue.] 2891 Brathwaite (Richard). Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabees Journal (with Bessie Bell), under the names of Mirtilus and Faustulus Shadowed; for the Traveller's Solace, lately published, etc. by Corymbaeus, Latin and English, first edition, frontispiece by W. Marshall (backed), modern morocco extra, covered with gilt emblems, g. e., by Birdsall, good copy, no date or name of place, 1648-50, 16mo. (87) Leighton, £15 [Six of the original fly-leaves in the volume contain a MS. Latin poem of a similar character to the text, entitled, "Rustica Academiæ Oxoniensis nuper reformatæ Descriptio una cum comités ibidem CIOXLVIII habitis et reliqus notatu non indignis." Not to be returned on account of the defect on the frontispiece.-Catalogue.] 2892 Browning (Robert). Paracelsus, first edition, original boards, uncut, with label intact, an exceptional copy, clean and fresh as when issued, very rare in this state, E. Wilson, 1835, 8vo. (90) Wise, £8 17s. 6d. 2893 Browning (Robert). Strafford, an Historical Tragedy, first edition, original wrapper, with label intact, uncut, Longman, 1837, 8vo. (91) Potter, £4 18s. |