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Quarter," substituted the name Bungay to conceal the name of the "foreign journal" whence he drew them. Besides the letters from Paris, there are other contributions by Thackeray, notably an amusing burlesque of Carlyle's style, entitled, "Thomas Carlyle, Esq., to Oliver Yorke, Esq., on the sinking of the Vengeur," which has not been reprinted in book form. For further information respecting this interesting publication, see Beer's Life of Nathaniel Parker Willis, pp. 240-263.-Catalogue.]

4589 Thackeray (W. M.) The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr. Titmarsh, first edition, with numerous designs by the Author on copper and wood, 2 vol., calf gilt, m. e., J. Macrone, 1840, 8vo. (531) Tregaskis, £2 18s. 4590 Thackeray (W. M.) The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr. Titmarsh, first edition, numerous designs by the Author on copper and wood, 2 vol., original cloth, uncut (soiled copy), J. Macrone, 1840, 8vo. (532) Tregaskis, £3

4591 Thackeray (W. M.) Comic Tales and Sketches, edited and illustrated by Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh, first edition, tinted plates by the Author, 2 vol., original cloth, uncut, H. Cunningham, 1841, 8vo. (533) Tregaskis, £10

4592 Thackeray (W. M.) The Irish Sketch Book, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, first edition, numerous illustrations on wood by the Author, 2 vol., original cloth, uncut, Chapman and Hall, 1843, 8vo. (534) Tregaskis, £35s. 4593 Thackeray (W. M.) Mrs. Perkins's Ball, etc., first edition, illustrations by the Author, plain, picture boards, Chapman and Hall, 1847-The same, second edition (coloured by hand), picture boards, ib., 1847, 8vo. (537) Robson, £2 8s. 4594 Thackeray (W. M.) Mrs. Perkins's Ball, etc., first edition, illustrations by the Author (coloured by hand), picture boards (back missing), Chapman and Hall, 1847, 8vo. (538) Robson, £2 125. 4595 Thackeray (W. M.) The Book of Snobs, first edition, illustrations by the Author, in the original illustrated wrapper (wanted leaf of advertisements before half title), Punch Office, 1848, 8vo. (540) Robson, £3 3s. 4596 Thackeray (W. M.) Vanity Fair, first edition, with illustrations on steel and wood by the Author, original cloth, uncut, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 8vo. (541)

Tregaskis, £12 55. 4597 Thackeray (W. M.) Vanity Fair-Pendennis-The Newcomes-and The Virginians, original editions, illustrations by the Author and R. Doyle, 7 vol., uniform flowered cloth, uncut, 1848-9-54-58, 8vo. (542) Newton, £10 4598 Thackeray (W. M.) History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, first edition, illustrated by the Author, original picture boards (back wanted), uncut, Bradbury and Evans, 1849, 8vo. (543) Spencer, £3

4599 Thackeray (W. M.) The Kickleburys on the Rhine, first and second editions, illustrations by the Author, first edition

coloured, second edition plain, pictorial boards (backs missing), Smith, Elder and Co., 1850-1, 8vo. (545)

Maggs, £1 19s. 4600 Thackeray (W. M.) History of Henry Esmond, Esq., written by himself, first edition, 3 vol., original cloth, uncut, with labels, Smith, Elder and Co., 1852, 8vo. (549) Newton, £4 4s. 4601 Thackeray (W. M.) English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, first edition, original cloth, uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1853, 8vo. (550) Quaritch, LI IIS. 4602 Thackeray (W. M.) The Rose and the Ring, first edition, illustrated by the Author, original picture boards (back missing), Smith, Elder and Co., 1855, 8vo. (551)

Spencer, £2 10S. 4603 Thackeray (W. M.) Lovel the Widower, first edition, with illustrations, cloth gilt, uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861, 8vo. (555) Tregaskis, 1 IS. 4604 Thackeray (W. M.) Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World, first edition, 3 vol., original cloth, uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862, 8vo. (556) Essex, £1 125. 4605 Thackeray (W. M.) Roundabout Papers, reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine, illustrated, first edition, original cloth, uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863, 8vo. (557)

Quaritch, LI IIS. 4606 Thackeray (W. M.) The Orphan of Pimlico, and other Sketches, Fragments and Drawings, with some Notes by A. I. Thackeray, original edition, with a double set of plates, one coloured by hand, 20 copies so taken, scarce in this state, half morocco gilt, t. e. g., uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1876, 4to. (561) J. Bumpus, £15 10s. 4607 Thackeray (W. M.) Works, edition de luxe, with all the original illustrations on India paper, limited to 1,000 copies, 24 vol., boards, uncut, Smith, Elder and Co., 1878, imperial 8vo. (564) Sotheran, £13 4608 Tour of Doctor Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, first edition, 20 humorous coloured plates by C. Williams, morocco extra, g. e., M. Iley, 1821, royal 8vo. (580) Pickering, £3 IOS. 4609 Train (The). A First-Class Magazine (edited by Edmund Yates), with illustrations by Ch. Bennett, William McConnell, etc., 5 vol., cloth, Groombridge, 1856-58, 8vo. (581) J. Bumpus, LI IOS. 4610 Tristram (W. Outram). Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, édition de luxe, illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson, picture cloth gilt, uncut, Macmillan, 1888, 4to. (582) J. Bumpus, £1 10s. 4611 Trollope (T. A.) History of the Commonwealth of Florence, 4 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1865, 8vo. (584) Hill, £1 16s. 4612 Turner's Annual Tour. Wanderings by the Loire and the Seine, by Leitch Ritchie, 61 engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, 3 vol., morocco, g. e., 1833-5, 8vo. (585) Hill, 1 125. 4613 Villon (François). Poems, now first done into English Verse,

in the Original Forms, with Biographical and Critical Introduction by John Payne, LARGE PAPER (No. 40), boards, uncut, Privately printed for the Villon Society, 1892, super imperial 8vo. (588) Sotheran, £18s. 4614 Villon Society. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp-Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinns, two Stories done into English from the recently discovered Arabic Text by John Payne, gilt ornamental boards, uncut, Privately printed, 1889, 8vo. (589) Izaacs, £1 12s. 4615 Whistler (J. McNeil). The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, original edition, LARGE PAPER, 150 copies printed for England, boards, uncut, Heinemann, 1890, small 4to. (597) Rimell, £1 19s.

4616 Wilson (Harriette). Memoirs, coloured portraits, etc., 3 vol. in 1, 1825-Another edition, 4 vol. (imperfect), Stockdale, 1825, together 5 vol., 8vo. (602) Walford, £2 1OS.

[APRIL 25TH, 1900.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.
THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. J. T. BARBER.
(No. of Lots, 287; amount realised, £1,196 4s. 6d.)

4617 Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Baskerville's edition, portrait and plates after Eisen, early impressions, 4 vol., old morocco, ornamental gilt backs, line sides, g. e. (Roger Payne), Birmingham, for P. Molini, 1773, royal 8vo. (2) A. Jackson, £4 4s.

[Contains portrait of Ariosto by Ficquet after Eisen, and 46 plates by Bartolozzi, Choffard, Helman and others. In some copies many of the plates are proofs before letters. Those by Bartolozzi are rarely, if ever, met with in proof state. A hundred copies were printed on large paper, but the impressions of the plates in these are weak.-ED.] 4618 Andrews (H.) The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants, 664 coloured plates, 10 vol., old calf, 1797-1815, 4to. (142) Quaritch, £10 15s. 4619 Baillon (H.) Natural History of Plants, translated by M. M. Hartog, etc., many hundred woodcuts, 8 vol., cloth gilt, uncut, L. Reeve, 1871-88, imperial 8vo. (9) W. Paul, £2 4s. 4620 Bartolozzi and his Works, by A. W. Tuer, numerous illustrations, 2 vol., vellum, uncut, t. e. g., 1881, 4to. (144) Sotheran, £2 14s.

4621 Bateman (James). Orchidacea of Mexico and Guatemala, 40 large coloured plates, woodcut vignettes by George Cruikshank (125 copies printed), half morocco gilt, 1843, elephant folio (221) Sotheran, £11

[Another_copy, in whole morocco, super extra, realised L10 IOS.-ED.]

4622 Bauer (Francis). Illustrations of Orchidaccous Plants, with Notes and prefatory Remarks by John Lindley, 20 coloured plates, half calf, Ridgway, 1830-8, royal 4to. (145)

4623 Baxter (W.)

Wesley, £4 15s.
British Phaenogamous Botany, Figures and
Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants,
509 coloured plates, 6 vol., cloth, uncut, Oxford, 1834-43,
8vo. (II)
Sotheran, £2 18s.
4624 Beauties of England and Wales, by Britton, Brayley and
others, numerous plates, 18 vol. in 24, half russia gilt,
1801-15, 8vo. (14)
Ridler, £1 19s.

4625 Bentham (George). Handbook of the British Flora, nume-
rous woodcuts, 2 vol., cloth, uncut, L. Reeve, 1865, 8vo.
(17)
Bain, £2 10s.
4626 Blume (C. L.) Rumphia, sive commentationes Botanicæ,
imprimis de Plantis India Orientalis, etc., portrait and 214
plates, most coloured, 4 vol. in 3, half morocco extra, t. e. g.,
Lugd. Bat., 1845-8, folio (224)
Bain, £12
4627 Bolus (H.) Figures, with Descriptions of Extra-tropical
South African Orchids, vol. i., in 2 parts, 100 coloured
plates, cloth, W. Wesley, 1896, imperial 8vo. (20)

Lauser, £1 4s.
4628 Brockedon (William). Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps,
109 plates and maps, 2 vol., half morocco, t. e. g., uncut,
1828, 4to. (147)
Burgesdyke, £1 15s.
4629 Brockedon (William). Italy, Classical, Historical and Pic-
turesque, LARGE PAPER, 60 India proof plates, morocco
extra, g. e., Duncan and Malcolm, n. d., royal 4to. (148)
Young, LI IS.
4630 Browne (Sir Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiries
into very many received Tenents (sic) [Vulgar Errors], first
edition (leaf of imprimatur and title backed), old calf, 1646
-Garcilasso de la Vega. Royal Commentaries of Peru, in
English, by Sir Paul Rycaut, portrait, old calf, 1688, folio
(225)
Ellis, £1 25.
4631 Burbidge (J. W.) The Narcissus, its History and Culture,
with a Scientific Review of the entire Genus, by J. G.
Baker, 48 coloured plates, cloth gilt, L. Reeve, 1875, royal
8vo. (25)
Young, LI IOS.
4632 Bury (Mrs. Edw.) A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, belong-
ing to the Natural Orders Amaryllida and Liliacæ, 51
large coloured plates, half morocco gilt, t. e. g., other edges
uncut (226)
J. Bumpus, £6
4633 Campbell (Lord). Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers
of the Great Seal, with the Lives of Lords Lyndhurst and
Brougham, library edition, 8 vol., cloth, uncut, Murray,
1846-69, 8vo. (29)
Bain, £3 3s.
4634 Cathcart (J. F.) Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, Descrip-
tions and Analyses by J. D. Hooker, coloured illustrated

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title and 24 large coloured plates by W. H. Fitch, illustrated boards, L. Reeve, 1855, imperial folio (228) Quaritch, £3 35. 4635 Cavendish Society. Gmelin (L.) Handbook of Chemistry, translated by H. Watts, 18 vol., 1848-71-Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry, 3 vol., 1851-4-Bischof's Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology, 3 vol., 1854-59— and Laurent's Chemical Method, 1855, together 25 vol., cloth, uncut, 8vo. (30) Sotheran, £210S.

4636 Clusius (Car.) Rariorum Plantarum Historia, et exoticorum libri x., engraved title and numerous cuts of plants, 2 vol., calf, Antw., 1601-5, folio (229) J. Bumpus, £5 4637 Cooke (M. C.) Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), vol. i.-vi., and Nos. 59-76 in continuation, forming 8 vol. complete, 1,198 plates, representing many hundred coloured figures, 6 vol., half morocco gilt, t. e. g., Williams and Norgate, 1881-91-Handbook of British Fungi, 2 vol., half calf gilt, 1872, 8vo. (32) Sotheran, £21

4638 Cooke (M. C.) British Fresh-Water Algae, 130 coloured plates, 2 vol., cloth, 1882-4, 8vo. (33) Sotheran, £6 4639 Curtis (William). Botanical Magazine, Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, continued by Sims and Hooker, complete from the commencement to 1879 (vol. i.-cv.), 6,468 coloured plates (with General Indexes to the first fifty-three vols. and other Indexes), in all 75 vol., uniformly bound in half russia extra, g. e., by Clarke and Bedford, 1787-1879, royal 8vo. (35) Bain, £91

[The first 53 volumes, or Old Series complete, was arranged according to the Linnean System; the 27th vol. contained the General Indexes, and the alphabetical one was altered to suit the above arrangement. The 17 volumes bound in 13 of the Second Series were arranged according to the Natural System; an Index at the end of the 13th volume of the Orders and Species. The Third Series was arranged as published, with an Index to vol. i.-iv. in vol. iv., one to vol. i.-xvi. in vol. xvi., and one to vol. i.-xxvi. in vol. xxvi.--Catalogue.]

4640 Curtis (William). Botanical Magazine, continued by Sir W. J. Hooker, third series, vol. i.-viii., plates 4, 132-4, 688, coloured, uncut, Reeve, 1845-52, imperial 8vo. (36)

Sotheran, £4 8s. 4641 Curtis (William). Botanical Magazine. General Index to the Latin Names and Synonyms of the Plants in the first hundred and seven volumes, etc., edited by Edmund Tonks, uncut, B. Quaritch, 1883, 8vo. (37) Pentland, I 12S. 4642 Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis, or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as grow wild in the Environs of London, original edition, many hundred coloured plates, 2 vol., russia gilt (rebacked), Printed for the author, 1777-98, folio (230) Wesley, £3 10S. 4643 Cussans (J. E.) History of Hertfordshire, LARGE PAPER, 75 copies printed (No. 35), India proof portrait, map, views,

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