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6581 Pass (Crispin de). Bouquet de Bergers; Les Vrais Pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes Dames desguisées en Bergères, frontispiece and portraits of ladies by Crispin de Pass, 4 parts in I vol., morocco extra, gilt leaves, by Rivière, Amst., 1640, 8vo. (379) Quaritch, £15 105. 6582 Perret (Paul). Les Demoiselles de Liré, printed throughout on papier de Chine, on one side of the page only, with a double set of the plates by C. Delort and M. Leloir, and a special frontispiece in colours by Maurice Leloir, 50 copies issued in this form (No. 13) folded, in portfolio, Paris, Boussod, 1894, 4to. (937) D. Reeves, £6 10s. 6583 Picart (B.) Premier des Magnifiques Carosses du Duc D'Ossuna fait pour son Entrée à Utretcht, the complete series of 6 plates, one (folding) representing the carriage in its entirety, and the others depicting its ornamentation, Amsterdam, 1714, folio (478) Quaritch, £6 6584 Poliphilo, La Hypnerotomachia (da F. Colonna), second edition, woodcuts, calf extra, gilt edges, with anchor in gold on sides, Venetia, Aldus, 1545, folio (25) Tregaskis, £10 6585 Pomponius Mela. De Situ Orbis, roman letter, with signatures (stained and slightly wormed at end), vellum, Venet., J. Renner de Hailbrun, 1478, 4to. (1559) Maggs, £13 10s. 6586 Pope. The Iliad of Homer, translated by A. Pope, with portrait of Homer by Vertue, and plates, first edition, 6 vol., 1715-20-The Odyssey of Homer, translated by A. Pope, engraved title, first edition, 5 vol., 1725-26, together II vol., original half vellum, uncut, a fine copy, 1715-26, folio (217) Harvey, £14

6587 Pouget (M.) Traité des Pierres Précieuses et de la Maniere de les Employer en Parme, engraved title and 79 plates of designs for jewellery, morocco extra, gilt edges, Paris, 1762, 4to. (479) Quaritch, £10 6588 Prince d'Amour (Le); or, the Prince of Love, with a collection of several ingenious Poems and Songs by the Wits of the Age, morocco extra, gilt edges, 1660, 8vo. (122)

Pickering, £5

6589 Rabelais. Euvres de Maître François Rabelais, 3 vol., I frontispiece designed and engraved by Folkema, title engraved by B. Picart for the first and third volumes, I fleuron on the title of these two volumes, and a different fleuron on the title of the second volume, 3 topographical plates, portrait of Rabelais engraved by Tanjé, 8 culs-delampe by Picart, and 12 plates by Du Bourg, engraved by Bernaerts, etc., morocco extra, t. e. g., uncut, Amsterdam, 1741, 4to. (526) Pearson, £19 10s. 6590 Racine (Jean). Les Euvres de M. Racine, 2 vol., original calf, enclosed in a morocco case, Paris, Claude Barbin, 1673, 8vo. (585)

Potter £7

[This is a unique and quite undescribed issue, being three years earlier than the previously accepted first edition (ie., 1676).-Catalogue.]

6591 Reiss (W.) and A. Stübel. The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru

translated by Prof. A. H. Keane, 142 coloured plates, loose in 3 atlas portfolios, Berlin, Asher, 1880-87, folio (1080)

Quaritch, £5 5s.

6592 Rapin de Thoyras (P.) History of England, with Continuation by N. Tindal, 5 vol., printed upon writing paper, illustrated with portraits by Houbraken and Vertue, monuments, medallic plates, maps and plans, morocco, gilt edges, by Walther, 1732-55. folio (27) Ridler, £8 5s. 6593 Rigaud (J.) Recueil Choisi des plus belles Vues des Palais, Chateaux et Maisons Roiales de Paris et de ses Environs, dessinées d'après Nature et gravées par J. Rigaud, 104 views and engraved title, original impressions, uncut, Paris, oblong atlas folio (252) Quaritch, £10 15s. 6594 Roberts (D.) Egypt and Nubia, with Historical Descriptions by Wm. Brockedon, 3 vol. in 21 parts, chromos, coloured and mounted like drawings, 1846, etc., atlas folio (1203) Quaritch, £7 6595 Robinson (V. J.) Eastern Carpets, with preface by Sir Geo. Birdwood, 12 plates printed in colours by Wm. Griggs, uncut, 1882, imperial folio (1087) Quaritch, £5 6596 Rossetti (Dante Gabriel). Poems, first edition, original cloth, uncut, presentation copy, with author's autograph inscription, 1870, 8vo. (674) Tregaskis, £6 10s. 6597 Rowlands (Samuel). Humors Looking Glasse (consisting of Satirical Epigrams and Stories, in verse), title and 15 leaves, a few of the blank margins mended, morocco super extra, gilt edges, by Lortic, Lond., E. Allde for William Ferebrand, 1608, 4to. (514) Bain, £40 6598 Saint Victor (Chev. Beauvalet de). Vases Grecs et Etrusques, tant en bronze qu'en couleur de Terre peints d'après sa nouvelle découverte metallique, avec une notice sur les Vases, 96 coloured plates, with title, preface and list of contents, bound in morocco inlaid (privately published), Paris, 1837, atlas folio (1205) Maggs, 11 5s. 6599 Saunders (John). Love's Martyrdom; a Play in five Acts, morocco extra, full gilt back and corner ornaments, gilt edges, by Rivière, Privately printed, 1855, 8vo. (837) Sabin, £25 10S.

[Corrected throughout by Charles Dickens for representation on the stage. It contains numerous alterations, additions, and corrections in his hand, and at the beginning an Autograph Letter, 2 pp. 8vo., to the Author, giving reasons for his alterations.- Catalogue.]

6600 Schmidt (Albrecht). A Collection of Designs for Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, 73 plates, half morocco (circa 1748), 8vo. (487) Sefton, £5 5s. 6601 Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley, 3 vol., first edition, edges uncut, but some pages in vol. i. injured, 1814, 8vo.

Pickering, £109 [This copy was sold at Hodgson's on the 13th of July, and is mentioned here for the sake of convenience.—ED.] 6602 [Shakespeare (William).] The Lamentable and True Tragedy

of Master Arden of Faversham in Kent, who was most

wickedly murdered by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wife, who for the love she bore to one Mosby, hired two desperate Ruffins, Blacke-WILL, and SHAKEbag, to kill him, wherein is showed the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman, the unsatiable desire of filthy lust, and the shamefull end of all murderers, woodcut of the murder on the reverse of title, red morocco extra, Printed by Eliz. Allde, 1633, small 4to. (1626) Robson, £52 [This rare play was reprinted in the last century with a preface attributing it to Shakespeare, and it has strong claims to a Shakespearian collection, as the poet's mother was a Mary Arden, and the "Ruffins'" names on the title read "Will. Shake. ."-Catalogue.] 6603 Shakespeare (W.) The Chronicle History of Henry the Fift, with his Battell fought at Agin Court in France, together with ancient Pistoll, as it hath bene sundry times played by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, third edition, unbound, Printed for T. P., 1608, 4to. (1631) Quaritch, £98 6604 Shakespeare (Wm.) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true Original Copies, the fourth edition, wanted portrait, title and leaf of dedication, a few margins mended, otherwise a tall and sound copy (14 in. by 8 in.), modern calf gilt, r. e., H. Herringman, etc., 1685, folio (1663) B. Brown, £7 5s. 6605 Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, executed under the superintendence of F. J. Furnivall, founder and director of the New Shakespeare Society, by W. Griggs, 43 vol., half bound, 1881, etc., 8vo. (531) Maggs, £8 10s. 6606 Shakespeare Gallery (Boydell's). A Collection of Pictures painted by the Artists of Great Britain, portraits of K. George III. and Q. Charlotte, and 100 engravings, 2 vol., morocco extra, in a wooden box, W. Boydell, 1803, atlas folio (1207) Quaritch, £15 6607 Shelley (P. B.) Queen Mab: a Philosophical Poem, with Notes, first edition, with the title-page and imprint, usually abstracted by the author, uncut, in the original boards, covers loose, Printed by P. B. Shelley, 1813, 8vo. (370) Zachnsdorf, £33 10s. 6608 Ships. Ornaments des Poues de Vaisseaux, plates of figureheads of ships, original calf, with arms of Napoleon I. on sides, Paris (1799), folio (492) Quaritch. £5 6609 Smith (Capt. John). The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, with the names of the Adventurers, Planters and Governours from their first beginning An. 1584 to this present 1626, with the genuine engraved title by John Barra, maps of Virginia by W. Hole, the Summer Isles and New England, by S. Pass, margins of the latter mended and defective, portrait of the Duchess of Richmond by W. Pass (margins cut down), inserted before the dedication, wanted map of Ould Virginia, original calf, sold not subject to return, Michael Sparkes, 1627, folio (1098) Leighton, 15 5s.

6610 Smollett (Tobias). Ode to Independence, with Notes and
Observations, first edition, sewn, uncut, Glasgow, R. and A.
Foulis, 1773, 8vo. (678)
6611 Stevenson (R. L.) Works, Edinburgh Edition, 28 vol.,
Tregaskis, £3
portrait (the last vol. has facsimiles of some of Stevenson's
earliest and rarest little pieces), a limited number (1,035)
printed, uncut, 1894-98, 8vo. (176) Quaritch, £30 IOS.

[Another set brought £28 10s. (Lot 1462).-ED.]
6612 Stevenson (R. L.) Markheim, the Original Manuscript, 30
small 4to. pages, all in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson,
and signed in full by him at the end, 4to. (613)

W. Brown, £61

6613 Sterne (L.) Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick, 2 vol., first edition, soiled, and top corners of titles cut, but an uncut copy, in the original half binding (several MS. notes in the margins), 1768, 8vo. (352)

6614 Strange (Sir Robert).

Pickering, 13 5s.

A Collection of Historical Prints, engraved from pictures by the most celebrated painters of the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian and other schools, circular head of Sir R. Strange, and 50 plates, engraved between 1750-90 (some inlaid), with general title, dedication to the King, and letterpress descriptions, half mor. gilt, n. d. (1792), atlas folio (1210) Hiessman, £10 15s. 6615 Suckling (Sir John). Fragmenta Aurea: a Collection of all his Incomparable Pieces, first edition, portrait by Marshall, original calf, H. Moseley, 1646, 8vo. (774) B. F. Stevens, £18 6616 Surtees Society's Publications. commencement to 1899, including vol. lxiii.*, together 100 A complete Set from the vol., original cloth, 8vo. (334) 6617 Swift (Dean). Travels into several Remote Nations of the Sotheran, £34 World, in four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, 2 vol., first edition, portrait and maps, morocco super extra, gilt edges by Rivière and Son, with the separate pagination, and separate titles to each part, B. Motte, 1726, 8vo. (775)

6618 Swinburne (A. C.) The Queen Mother and Rosamond, two Russell, £10 1OS. plays, first edition (Pickering's title-page), original cloth with paper label, uncut, 1860, 8vo. (151) Dobell, £8 17s. 6d. 6619 Tacitus. Cai Cornelli Taciti Equitis ro Germania Incipit, red morocco, Sine loco et anno (1470 ?), folio (215)

[Editio Princeps. Brunet remarks: "Cet opuscule de 11 Ellis, £9 10s. ff. est très rare, Creussner à Nuremberg vers 1473."-Catalogue.] est imprimé avec les caractères de Fred 6620 Tante (C.) Book of Ornaments useful for Jewellers, engraved title and 5 plates, half morocco, 1749, folio (496) Fox, £6 15s. 6621 Tennyson (Lord). The Lotus-eaters, the English text, with Greek translations by Lord Lyttleton, the very scarce privately printed edition, 1860, 8vo. (1518) 6622 Tennyson (Lord). The Passing of Arthur, original wrappers, Ellis, £10 5s. 1884, 8vo. (1472)

Sabin, £14

[See Slater's "Early Editions," p. 305.-Catalogue]

6623 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Poems, first collective edition, 2 vol., calf extra, uncut, t. e. g. by Rivière and Son, E. Moxon, 1842, 8vo. (779) B. F. Stevens, £7 6624 Tissot (J. J.) The Life of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, 2 vol., 365 compositions, many in colours and tints, vignettes on India paper, initial letters, and other ornamentation, with notes, etc., half vellum gilt, uncut, t. e. g., 1897, 8vo. (529) B. F. Stevens, £5 15s.

6625 Tomkinson (Michael). A Japanese Collection, with Articles by E. Gilbertson, Prof. A. H. Church, Gleeson White, W. Gowland, Chas. Holme, Prof. Anderson, and E. F. Strange, 147 photogravure plates, plates in colours by Griggs and others, printed in Japan, 2 vol., half vellum, one of 150 copies, 1898, royal 4to. (549) Batsford, £6 6626 Turner (J. M. W.) Picturesque Views of England and Wales, with Descriptive and Historic Illustrations by H. E. Lloyd, LARGEST PAPER, 96 plates, India proofs before letters, and a set of the etchings on India paper (except "Dover Streights," of which only 3 impressions were taken), 2 vol., morocco extra, gilt edges by Rutland, of Newcastle-onTyne, Longman, 1838, atlas folio (1214) Rimell, £10

6627 View of Dublin, by James Malton, 12 large coloured engravings, 1792, etc., folio (198) Sabin, £5 5s.

6628 Westwood (J. O.) Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts, 53 chromolithographs, russia super extra, m. e., Quaritch, 1868, imperial folio (1218)

Quaritch, £8 edition, portrait, York, 1855, 4to. Denham, £65s.

6629 Whitman (Walt). Leaves of Grass, first original cloth, gilt edges, Brooklyn, New (823) 6630 Wordsworth (William). Descriptive Sketches in Verse during a Pedestrian Tour in the Alps, first edition, very fine copy, morocco extra, gilt edges, 1793, 8vo. (539) Egerton, LI 6631 Wordsworth (William). An Evening Walk, an Epistle in Verse, addressed to a Young Lady from the Lakes, first edition, morocco extra, gilt edges, 1793, 8vo. (540)

Egerton, £11 10S. 6632 Wynkyn de Worde. Indulgence, granted by Laurence (Campeguis), Bishop of Salisbury, 1524-34, and Cardinal Legate to Pope Clement VII. (1523-34), 29 lines, in a small gothic letter, by Wynkyn de Worde, surrounded by ornaments used in his Joseph of Armathy and his Dystruccion of Iherusalem, with woodcut of the crucified Christ supported by God the Father, the edges frayed. slightly affecting the text in one corner, measuring, with margins, 4 in. by 6 in., circa 1525 (1668) Carrington, £30 6633 Xenophon. Opera omnia, Græce et Latine, una cum Chronologia Xenophontea C. Dodwelli et quatuor Tabulis geogra phicis (edidit E. Wells), 5 vol. in 7, LARGE PAPER, one of the few copies issued with separate title-pages before a general title was printed, old English morocco, gilt edges, Oxon., 1693-1703, royal 8vo. (32) Stanley, £5

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