3754 Le Sage. Gil Blas, 4 vol., 100 plates after Bornet, Charpentier and Duplessi-Bertaux, old French marbled calf, r. e., the first 5 plates were artists' proofs before letters, Paris, l'an troisième (1795), 8vo. (757)

Seyers, £2 16s. three series complete, 9 vol., hundreds of plates of military and other costumes, half calf gilt, Paris, Curmer, 1840-41, royal 8vo. (758) Parsons, £2 4s. 3756 Lever (C.) Arthur O'Leary, 3 vol., first edition, a little soiled, plates by George Cruikshank, tree-calf extra, m. e., 1844, 8vo. (760) Potter, £110s. 3757 Lilius (G.) Chronicon, sive Brevis Enumeratio Regum et Principum, in quos variante fortuna, Britanniæ Imperium diversis temporibus translatum est, half bound (some leaves stained), Francof., 1565, small 4to.-Molière. Euvres, 6 vol., portrait and 33 plates after Boucher, first issue, old French calf gilt (margins of a few leaves in vol. i. and ii. wormed), Paris, 1734, 4to. (845, 846) Potter, £7 [This copy of Molière had the very rare cartons," which are of particular interest and value.-Catalogue.] 3758 Longus. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, engraved title and plates after the Duc d'Orleans (the Regent), by Audran, morocco extra, borders of gold with mosaic ornament in centre, gilt edges by Zaehnsdorf, 1745, 8vo. (765) Glyn, £2 125.

3755 Les Français peints par eux-mêmes, the

[This is a reprint of the edition of 1718 (see ante, No. 3531), with a new vignette heading each part, and four tailpieces by Cochin. - ED.]

3759 Lucretius. Della Natura delle Cose, libri sei, tradotti dal latino in italiano da Alessandro Marchetti, 2 vol., engraved titles and frontispieces by Eisen, and plates, unlettered proofs, head and tail pieces by Cochin and Eisen, Levant morocco extra, broad dentelle borders of gold, doublé, large dentelle borders of gold, gilt edges, 1754, 8vo. (767) Bromage, 2 3760 Mayhew (Brothers). The Greatest Plague of Life, in the original 6 parts, plates by George Cruikshank, David Bogue, n. d., 8vo. (770) Brewer, 1 IOS. 3761 Muntz (E.) Raphaël, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps, 41 plates and numerous facsimile illustrations, one of 50 copies printed on Japanese paper, loose in covers, uncut, Paris, 1881, 4to. (847) Glyn, £1 18s. 3762 Musset (A. de). L'Anglais mangeur d'Opium, original edition, unlettered proof, portrait added, crushed Levant morocco extra, gilt edges, the first of Musset's literary productions, Paris, 1828, 8vo. (779) Sabin, £4 18s. 3763 Musset (A. de). Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie, original edition, morocco extra, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges by Hardy-Mennil, first book with the author's name in full, only 500 copies printed, Paris, 1830, 8vo. (780) Sabin, £2 18s. 3764 Musset (A. de). Un Spectacle dans un Fauteuil, original edition, wrappers, uncut, rare in this state, enclosed in a case, Paris, 1833, 8vo. (781) Quaritch, £5 12s. 6d.

3765 Old Dramatists. Heywood (Th.) Dramatic Works, 6 vol., 1874-Brome (R.) Dramatic Works, 3 vol., portrait, 1873 -Chapman (G.) Comedies and Tragedies, 3 vol., 1873Glapthorne (H.) Plays and Poems, 2 vol., 1874, together 14 vol., LARGE PAPER, a limited number printed, calf extra, full gilt backs, uncut, t. e. g. by Zaehnsdorf, fine set, 1873-74, 8vo. (785) Potter, £6 3s. 3766 Paris à travers les Ages, aspects successifs des monuments et quartiers historiques de Paris depuis le XIII. siècle jusqu'à nos jours, fidèlement restitués d'après les documents authentiques, par M. F. Hoffbauer, complete, with numerous illustrations and views, in 14 portfolios, Paris, 1775-82. folio (893) Foulard, £3 155. 3767 Paris. Vues de Paris, a collection of 41 old views of Paris, after Courvoisiniers by Aubert, Dubois, Guiguet, Blanchardainé, Duran, Fortier, Michon, and Nyonjeune, fine impressions, uncut, Paris, Basset, folio (894) Quaritch, £4 3768 Paris. One Hundred and Thirty-three Old Views and Plans of Paris, etc., by Aveline, Marot, Le Blond, and Mariette, half bound, 1692, etc., oblong folio (895) Maine, £5

[Bound up with "Vues de Nürnberg," 13 plates by Dessenbach, 1715; 21 Old Views of Belgium by F. de Wit ; and 54 Old Views and Plans of Holland by F. de Wit and Harrewyn. Catalogue.]

3769 Planché (F. R.) and G. Scharf. Costume of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, and the Merchant of Venice, King John, Henry the Fourth, and, As You Like It, 75 coloured plates of costumes, some heightened with gold, half calf, m. e., 1823-25, 8vo. (789) Sotheran, £2 18s. 3770 Prayer Book in Hebrew, with the vowel points, printed on vellum, engraved title, vignettes, initial words printed in letters of gold, morocco extra, full gilt back, borders of gold, gilt edges, Bologna, Rafael Talmi, 297=1537, 8vo. (790) Bromage, £8

[Excessively rare, if not unique. The present copy belonged to Di Rossi.-Catalogue.] 3771 Raymond (G.) Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian, 2 vol., portrait and plates by George Cruikshank, original cloth, uncut, presentation copy from the author, with inscription on title, 1846, 8vo. (798) Spencer, £2 2s. 3772 Recueil des meilleurs Contes en vers, 4 vol.. portrait and numerous vignettes attributed to Duplessi-Bertaux, old French marbled calf gilt, gilt edges, 1778, 8vo. (801) Foulard, £2 125. 3773 Saint-Real (Abbé de). Euvres, nouvelle édition, enrichie de Figures en taille douce et de vignettes, 6 vol., frontispieces, 25 vignettes and 6 plates, including portrait of the Duchesse Mazarin. after P. Lely, old morocco extra, doublé with red morocco, dentelle borders of gold, silk fly-leaves, gilt edges (Boyet), fine copy, Amsterdam, 1740, 8vo. (804)

Quaritch, £30 10s. [Each volume bore at the beginning or in the first pages the stamp "L" surmounted by a crown, and vol. i. to v.

have inside cover the Ex-Libris: "Bibliotheca Lamoniana." -Catalogue.] 3774 Sully (Duc de). Mémoires, 3 vol., LARGE PAPER, original edition, with the Odieuvre Series of 71 portraits, and the two folding plates of the Massacre of S. Bartholomew, and of the assassination of Henri le Grand by Ravaillac, old French mottled calf gilt, r. e., Londres, 1745, 4to. (855) Dobell, £3 [The small-paper copies contain but 51 plates, inclusive of the two folding ones, by Gaspard Bouttats.-ED.] 3775 Thackeray (W. M.) Vanity Fair, first edition, plates by the author, half morocco, m. e., genuine first issue, with the woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne at p. 336, 1848, 8vo. (810) Potter, £2 4s. 3776 Uzanne (O.) Le Miroir du Monde, LARGE JAPANESE PAPER, only 100 copies printed, illustrations in various colours after Paul Avril, in the original fancy Japanese morocco cover, Paris, 1888, 4to. (814) Glyn, £1 12s. 3777 Vecellio (Cesare). De gli Habita antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, libri due, original edition, upwards of 400 full-length woodcut costumes within ornamental borders from designs by Titian, old vellum, several leaves at end stained, Venet., D. Zenaro, 1590, 8vo. (816)

Maggs, £4 17s. 6d. 3778 Yosy (A.) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Swiss, 2 vol., coloured plates of costumes, half calf, 1815, royal 8vo. (823)

Pickering, £1 12s.

(n) A Portion of the Library of a Nobleman.

3779 Ambrosius (S. Mediol. Archiep.) Epistolæ et alia Opuscula, roman letter, long lines, signatures, old Italian morocco, the sides covered with elaborate gilt tooling in fanshape compartments within a border of upright lotus-leaves (back mended), a fine specimen of XVIth century Italian binding, in new wool-lined cloth case, Mediol., A. Zarotus, 1491, folio (1824) Leighton, £2 3780 Boccaccio (Jo.) De Plurimus claris Sceletisqz. Mulieribus, opus prope divinum, novissime conjestum, a fratre J. Phi lippo Bergomense editum, maxima cum diligentia revisum et castigatum par Albertum de Placentia, etc., lit. goth., fullpage woodcut within border on reverse of title, one in 8 compartments before the text, border to first page of text, numerous woodcuts and ornamental initials, printer's device on last leaf (mended), morocco, line tooled, with centre gilt ornament, doublé with the same, joints, gilt edges by Fairbairn and Armstrong, Ferrariæ impressum opera Laurentii de Rubeis de Valentia, 1497, folio (1819) Sotheran, £39 10s. 3781 Caxton. Caton. "Here begynneth the Prologue or Proheyme of the Booke callyd Caton, which booke hath ben translated into Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre," etc., black letter, long lines, old russia, gilt edges, [Colophon]: "Here fynyssheth this present book whiche is sayde or callede Cathon, translated

oute of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton in thabbay of Westmynster the yere of oure Lord MCCCCLXXXIII., and the fyrst yere of the regne of Kyng Rycharde the thyrde the xxiii. day of Decembre" (1483), folio (1818) Pickering, £360

[Blades enumerates eight perfect copies of this book. The present copy wanted leaf i (a blank), a i (also a blank), sheet e, and a blank leaf at end; the signature F i partly erased, the leaf of colophon mended, and the letters of the last line of it cut into. Several plain margins mended, but the text not affected, and some pages scribbled on, but the volume generally clean, sound and free from worms, and measured 10 in. by 7 in. The Ashburnham copy, also imperfect, sold for £295.-Catalogue.]

3782 Caxton's Chronicle. The Cronycles of Englonde, with the dedes of Popes and Emperours, and also the descripcyon of Englonde, black letter, double columns, woodcuts, royal arms of England on title and reverse, and W. de Worde's Caxton device (repeated) at end, title neatly mended and outer margin supplied in MS., several places mended in the plain margins, folio clxiii split and neatly joined, otherwise an excellent copy, brown morocco, antique style, gilt edges, Imprynted in flete strete at the Sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, 1528, folio (1817) Tregaskis, £35 10s. [The last edition of Caxton's Chronicle issued from W. de Worde's press.—Catalogue.]

3783 Dyctes (The) and the Sayenges of the Philosophers other wyse called Dicta Philosophorum, black letter, long lines (A to N 6 in alternate 8's and 4's), cut on title, woodcut figures of philosophers in text, and Wynkyn de Worde's Caxton device at end, lower corner of title mended, and some letters supplied in facsimile, plain corners of some other leaves and leaf of Colophon mended, otherwise a perfect copy, morocco gilt, gilt edges, Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the Sygne of the Sonne by me Wynkyn de Worde, 1528, 4to. (1813) Quaritch, £36 3784 Goldsmith (Oliver). She Stoops to Conquer, a Comedy as acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, written by Doctor Goldsmith, Dublin reprint of the first edition, crushed morocco, plain, inside dentelles, gilt edges by Rivière, Dublin, printed for Exshaw and others, 1773, 8vo. (1811) Sotheran, 1 16s.

3785 Heures de Nostre Dame, avec le Calendrier, lit. goth. (lettres bâtardes), printed within woodcut borders in compartments of ornaments and subjects connected with the text, with 13 large xylographic woodcuts, ornamental capitals and initials painted in blue and red, old French leather binding, gilt edges (rebacked), Paris, A. Verard, s. d. (Almanac, 14881508), 4to. (1815) Quaritch, £188

[Probably the second book of the class printed by Verard. The cuts were all uncoloured. A sound and perfect copy, containing the full complement of 162 leaves.-ED.]

3786 Lafontaine (J. de). Contes et Nouvelles en vers, the Fermiers-Généraux edition, 2 vol., morocco, gilt ornamental backs, fine copy, Amst., 1762, 8vo. (1812) Pearson, £18 [The two plates, "Cas de Conscience" and "Le Diable de Papefiguière,” were découvertes. None of the plates lettered.-ED.]

3787 Macrobius. In Somnium Scipionis, Libri II., ejusdem Saturnaliorum, Lib. VII., ex Vetust. MSS. Codd. recogniti et aucti, ruled in red, morocco, semis of fleur-de-lis on the back, the sides covered with elaborate ornamental gilt tooling in compartments of floreate scrolls, etc., in the style of Clovis Eve, with the arms of Henri IV. of France in centres, gilt edges, a fine specimen in new wool-lined cloth case, Basil., Hervagius, 1535, folio (1825) Edwards, £5 2s. 6d. 3788 Missale Ratisbonense. Incipit Liber Missalis Secundum Breviarium Chori Ecclesiæ Ratisbonensis, lit. goth. mag., red and black, with musical notes, with 20 large illuminated miniature initials, 14 of which were historiated, the large one at the beginning of the Canon representing Abraham and Isaac, a full-page painting of the Crucifixion before the Canon on a rich gold ground, with some marginal decorations (wanted title, calendar, folios xli-1, cxi-cxx, clxi-clxx, ccxii-ccxix, cccxi-cccxii, cccxv-cccxxxi, and three unnumbered folios at end), oaken boards, stamped leather [Baleenberga per H. Petzensteiner, L. Sensenschmidt et Jo. Pfeyl, 1492, 20 Jan.], large folio (1822) Rosenthal, £31

[Printed upon vellum. Only one other copy known on vellum, viz., that in the Royal Library at Munich. The miniatures are of a very high artistic character.-Catalogue.] 3789 Passio Christi. Cena; Passio; resurrectioqz dñi ex qternario evangelii in unù comportate admodum utilis nil omisso nilqz per his posito, etc., lit. goth., red and black (title in red), with signatures A-D in 8's (D8 blank), 9 woodcuts within ornamental borders, panelled calf extra, gilt edges by F. Bedford, fine copy, s. 1. et a., 12mo. (1810)

Quaritch, £22 IOS.

[An extremely rare book, apparently unknown to Brunet. At the end the work is said to be "Per quendam fratrem Ordinis Francisci Observanium."-Catalogue.]

3790 Psalterium cum Antiphonis dominicalibus et Ferialibus suis locis insertis una cum hymnis Ecclesiæ Sarum et Eboracensis deservientibus (cum Calendario), lit. goth., red and black, with musical notes, woodcut initials, wanted leaf before folio 1, and wormed, otherwise perfect, original oaken boards covered with leather, clasps and bosses, Impressus Paris expensis Fr. Byrckman, anno 1522, vii. Junii, 4to. (1814) Cotton, £26 3791 Shakespeare (Wm.) Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true original copies, the third impression. And unto this impression is added Seven Playes never before printed in folio, portrait by Droeshout with verses beneath (outside plain margin of portrait mended, as is also the outside

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