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editio princeps, lit. semi-goth., long lines, 35 to a full page, without marks, morocco extra, g. e., by C. Smith (Syston Park), Augustæ, Joannes Schüszler, 1471, small folio (621) Pickering, £13 10s. 4141 Cristianus ad Solitarium quendam de Ymagines Mundi (per Honorium Augustodinensem), lit. semi-goth., long lines, 30 to a full page, 46 leaves, without marks (Hain, 8,800), 2 illuminated initials with marginal decoration on first page, capitals in blue and red, calf gilt, by Lewis (Wodhull copy), Absque ulla nota [Nuremb., Koburger, c. 1472], small folio (622) Cockerell, £6 5s. 4142 Crowe (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle. New History of Painting in Italy, from the Second to the Sixteenth Century, illustrations, 3 vol., calf gilt, m.e., by Zaehnsdorf, J. Murray, 1864-6, 8vo. (624) Collinson, £7 4143 Daniell (Samuel). African Scenery and Animals, 30 coloured plates, rough calf, n. d., imperial oblong folio (656)

Quaritch, £10 4144 Daniell (William) and Ayton (R.) Voyage round Great Britain, coloured plates and a chart of the voyage, 8 vol. in 4, russia gilt, g. e. (cracked), Longman, 1814-25, imperial 4to. (657) Jackson, £15 5s. 4145 Dante. La Divina Commedia col Commento di Chr. Landino, roman letter, numerous ornamental initials, illuminated, old Dutch calf gilt, g. e., ex-libris of William Constable, Vinegia, O. Scot (with device in red), 1484, folio (658) Isaacs, £10 4146 Dante. Comedia di Danthe Alighieri Poeta divino, title in red and black gothic within woodcut border, with large head of Dante on reverse, full-page cut before the Inferno and smaller ones in the text, portrait of Dante after Stradanus by C. Galle inserted, old calf, Venet., Jacobo de Burgofranco ad instantia di L. A. Giunta, 1529, folio (659) Allatini, 13 5s.

4147 Dante.

La Comedia di Dante Aligieri (sic) con la Nova Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello, woodcuts, wide margins (? LARGE PAPER, 934 by 5% inches), ruled in red, contemporary Venetian calf, with interlaced floreate and geometrical scrolls in the Grolier manner, well preserved but the back joints repaired, g. e., enclosed in new morocco slip case lined with chamois, Vinegia, F. Marcolino, 1544, 4to. (660) Maggs, £27 10s.

[The first edition of Dante with Vellutello's explanations. -Catalogue.] 4148 Dante. Il Convivio di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino, prima edizione, roman letter, without title, long lines, 39 to a page, signatures a-lx in 8's, morocco, fleurons on back, sides covered in geometrical line frames, with centre line and leafy scrolls, doublé, silk end leaves, uncut edges, by Binda, Milano, Firenze, per Francesco Bonaccorsi, 1490, small 4to. (664) Allatini, £10 15s.

4149 Dante. Le Terze Rime di Dante, prima edizione Aldina, crushed morocco, plain, with Aldine anchor in gold on sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Thibaron, Venet. in aed. Aldi, 1502, small 8vo. (665) Allatini, £11

[The first edition of Dante in a portable form, and the first in which Aldus introduced his device of the anchor.Catalogue.] 4150 De Bry (T.) Petits Voyages en Latin, parts i.-viii., all first editions, plates by the Brothers De Bry, 8 vol., half calf gilt, Francof., 1598-1607, small folio (673)

Tregaskis, £14 155. 4151 Dee (Dr. John). A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some Spirits, etc., with a Preface by Meric Casaubon, D.D., frontispiece containing 6 portraits by F. Cleyn, morocco gilt, g.e., D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659, folio (680) Sotheran, £3 18s.

4152 Defoe (D.) Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself, 2 vol. (vol. i. third edition, with frontispiece; vol. ii. first edition, with folding map), Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Paternoster Row, 1719Serious Reflections during the Life of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself, first edition, folding frontispiece of Crusoe's Island, ib., 1720, together 3 vol., calf gilt, g. e., by W. Pratt, 8vo. (683) Sotheran, £8

4153 Defoe (D.) Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, first edition, old calf, E. Nutt, 1722, 8vo. (690) Maggs, £4 6s. 4154 Defoe (D.) A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed, first edition, morocco extra, y. e., 1727, 8vo. (694) Sotheran, £4 12s. 4155 De Rosoi (M.) Les Sens, Poëme en Six Chants, seconde édition, revue et corrigée par l'Auteur, plates, vignettes and culs de lampe after Eisen and Wille, morocco super extra, g. e., by Chambolle-Duru, à Londres (Paris), 1767, 8vo. (710) Ridler, £4 12s. 4156 D'Haudricourt (Ternisien). Fastes de la Nation Française et des Puissances Alliées, 192 vignettes, old morocco gilt, with the arms of the Emperor Napoleon I., g. e. (from Lord Farnham's library), Paris, Gillé Fils, 1807, small 4to. (713) Maggs, £6 4157 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) Typographical Antiquities, begun by Ames, continued by Herbert and now greatly enlarged, portraits, printers' devices, paper marks and other illustrations, 4 vol., morocco extra, g. e., by J. Wright, Miller, Longman, etc., 1810-19, 4to. (714) Quaritch, £9 10S. 4158 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) Bibliotheca Spenceriana, with Ædes Althorpianæ and the Cassano Catalogue, facsimiles, 7 vol., vellum gilt, r. e., Longman, 1814-23, super imperial 8vo. Stechert, £12 IOS.

(717) 4159 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) Bibliographical Decameron, or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse on illuminated MSS., etc., numerous

illustrations, 3 vol., morocco extra, g.e., Payne and Foss etc., 1817, imperial 8vo. (718) Thorp, £11 15s 4160 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, first edition, with the series of groups of the people of France and Germany etched by George Lewis on India paper inserted, 3 vol., morocco extra, t. e. g., uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, Payne and Foss, etc., 1821, imperial 8vo. (719) Collinson, £8 4161 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) The Library Companion, first edition, illustrated with 639 portraits, views and autograph letters, including a three-page most characteristic, interesting and early letter from S. T. Coleridge, containing an original sonnet, dated October 24, 1794, Kings, Wolves, Tygers, Generals, Ministers and Hyenas, I renounce them all," etc. (small hole where the postmark had been torn), all addressed to the Rev. Fr. Wrangham, bound in 2 vol., half morocco gilt, t. e. g., uncut, Harding, etc., 1824, 8vo. (720) Sotheran, £7 10S.

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4162 Dickens (C.) Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Boz," first edition, portrait and plates by G. Cruikshank, extra illustrated, with portraits of Grimaldi, including original drawings, 3 portraits of Dickens by Cruikshank, D'Orsay and Maclise, coloured scenic plates and views of Sadlers Wells, etc., Grimaldi playbills, etc., in all 38 extra illustrations, 2 vol., morocco super extra, t. e. g., fore and lower edges uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, R. Bentley, 1838, 8vo. (729) Ridler, £7 4163 Dickens (C.) Christmas Books. Christmas Carol ("Stave I."), coloured illustrations by John Leech-The Chimes, Battle of Life, Cricket on the Hearth and the Haunted Man, all first editions, illustrations by Leech, Maclise, etc., 5 vol., morocco extra, t. e. g., by Zaehnsdorf, original cover and back of each work bound in, Chapman and Hall and Bradbury, 1844-48, small 8vo. (735) £7 17s. 6d.

4164 Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield).

The Rise of Iskander (a Tale), original Autograph Manuscript complete, 187 pp., written on both sides of the paper, Autograph Letter of Disraeli, signed “D.,” October 7, 1848, to Count D'Orsay, referring to the latter's portrait of Lord George Bentinck, inserted, morocco extra, with a top flap, by Zaehnsdorf, folio (744)

£53

4165 Doyle (Richard). A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, by Dame Juliana Berners, Stock's facsimile reproduction of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1496, the first few leaves having 10 original drawings in colours by Richard Doyle, for a proposed illustrated edition by him, with explanations in capital letters in his hand, the frontispiece the full size of the page, and entitled "Ye King Fisher, little Prince Fishers and rest of the royal Family," on the reverse side in the margin several boys are dragging a huge fish up the river bank, other subjects are "Wynkyn de Worde, his prynters D-1 taking off 'copye' of Dame Berners to be

'sette up,'
,"""Dame Berners, her young pupyls, practysyng
ye Arte of Fysshynge," "Dame Berners at Court waiting for
Wynkyn de Worde," etc. (in 3 divisions), “Dame Berners
sending a 'Line' to Wynkyn de Worde," etc., stamped
vellum, uncut, Elliot Stock, 1880, 4to. (758) Sabin, £68

[This very interesting volume appears to have been exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1885 and purchased by Thomas Satchell. There were 3 unfinished groupings in pencil. Catalogue.]

4166 Doyle (Richard). A Grand Historical, Allegorical, Nonsensical Procession of the Frincess Royal, orginal drawings in colours (unpublished), on 58 pages, forming a panorama 43ft. long, bound in a vol., calf [1840], oblong (759)

Sabin, £34 10s. 4167 Doyle (Richard). Sketch Book of Original Designs in pen and ink, numerous exceedingly clever humorous figures on 52 leaves, half bound (1840), small 4to. (760) Sabin, £61 4168 Drake (Francis). Eboracum, the History and Antiquities of the City of York, map and plates, russia gilt, g. e. (cracked), Printed by Wm. Bowyer for the Author, 1736, folio (762) Young, £5 10s. 4169 Dryden (John). Works, now first collected with Notes and Life, by Sir Walter Scott, portrait, 18 vol., calf gilt, m. e., contents lettered, W. Miller, 1808, 8vo. (769)

Quaritch, £5 15s. 4170 Dryden (John). Dramatic Works, in 3 vol. (28 pieces, each with separate titles and pagination, and varying dates, with general titles to the 3 vol. dated 1695)—and Poems, in I vol., without general title, containing A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness, Oliver Lord Protector, W. Wilson, 1659; The Hind and the Panther, 1687; Religio Laici, 1683; Funeral Poem on King Charles II., 1685; Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the Prince, 1688, etc., together 4 vol., uniform calf gilt, g. e., with crest on sides, small 4to. (771) Pickering, £12 4171 Dryden (John). A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, Printed for W. Wilson, 1659-Religio Laici, first edition, J. Tonson, 1683-Funeral-Pindarique Poem to the Happy Memory of King Charles II., second edition, ib., 1685-Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the Prince (the Old Pretender), first edition, ib., 1688-Eleonora, a Panegyrical Poem to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon, ib., 1692-The Hind and the Panther, third edition, ib., 1687, in 1 vol., calf extra, g. e., by Tout, small 4to. (772) Pickering, II 4172 Du Fresnoy (Abbé Lenglet). Principes de l'Histoire pour l'Éducation de la Jeunesse, nouvelle édition, 6 vol., old French morocco, full gilt floreate backs, line sides, g.e., with arms of the Comtesse de Provence (Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie) on sides (Derome), Paris, Le Clerc, 1752, small 8vo. (774) Everett, £4 10S.

4173 Dugdale (Sir William). Monasticon Anglicanum, first edition, plates by W. Hollar and D. King, 3 vol., calf extra, inside dentelles, t. e. g., by Tout, R. Hodgkinsonne, Alice Warren and T. Newcomb, 1655-61-73, folio (775) Ridler, £9 10S. 4174 Dugdale (Sir William). Monasticon Anglicanum, new edition, enlarged by Caley, Ellis and Bandinel, Bohn's re-issue, portrait and numerous plates, 8 vol., half morocco gilt, g. e., James Bohn, 1846, folio (776) Bull, £16 5s. 4175 Dugdale (Sir William). Antiquities of Warwickshire, first edition, portrait, map and plates by Hollar, coats-of-arms, etc., with the Peto Monument and the plate of the Filding arms at page 58, portrait, title and margins of several leaves repaired, russia gilt, g. e., by Rivière (cracked), T. Warren, 1656, folio (777) Ridler, £5 15s. 4176 Dugdale (Sir William). History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, first edition, portrait and plates by W. Hollar, inscription on title "A. Gwynn ex Dono T. Stanley, N. Lambert ex Dono A. Gwyn," russia gilt, g. e. (Miss Currer's copy), Printed by Tho. Warren, 1658, folio (778)

Everett, £6 10S.

4177 Elzevir Republics. A Collection of 25, comprising England, Switzerland, Venice, France, Denmark, Rome, Spain, Russia, India, Italy, Africa, Judaea, Greece, Sweden, the Alps, Liege, Persia, Savoy, Turkey, Hungary, Bohemia, Luxemburg and China, all fine copies in morocco and russia extra, in various colours and tooling (one in calf, with the first arms of J. A. De Thou), Lugd. Bat., Elzevir, etc., 1625-39, 16mo. (805) Tregaskis, £8 4178 Euclides. Liber Elementorum in Artem Geometriæ, cum comment. Campani, lit. goth., woodcut border to first page of text, woodcut diagrams and ornamental woodcut initials, plain margin of first 2 leaves mended, plain margins wormed, morocco super extra, g. e., with the Duke of Sussex's ex-libris, Venet., Erhardus Ratdolt, 1482, small folio (831) Robson, £17 10S.

[The first edition of this Latin version, and the first book printed with mathematical diagrams.-Catalogue.] 4179 Euclides. The Elements of Geometrie, faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, first edition, woodcut title, diagrams, ornamental initials and portrait of the printer on last leaf, old MS. notes in margins, signature of "Ro. Mostyne, 1615," at end, morocco extra, inside line borders, g. e., John Daye, 1570, folio (832) Leighton, £5 5s.

4180 Eusebius. De Evangelica Preparatione Latine Geo. Trapezuntio interprete, editio princeps, printed in roman letters, long lines, 39 to a full page, without marks, spaces left for capitals, headings of books and chapters written in in red ink, morocco, gilt ornamental back and elegant borders, g.e., Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson Gallicus, 1470, small folio (835) Everett, £51

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