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tive), old cf., rebacked, J. Norton, 1597, folio (174), Nov. 30, Hodgson Quaritch, LII

[See also Sotheby, Mar. 5, ed. 1633, £1 4s.; Feb. 12, £2 18s.; Puttick, Mar. 27, 12s. 6d.; Hodgson, April 19, ed. 1633, £5 5s.; Sotheby, Feb. 5, ed. 1636, £4; July 16, £6; Mar. 5, £2 14s.]

Gerbier (Sir B.) Counsel and Advise to all Builders, for the Choice of their Surveyours, Clarks of their Works, Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters and other Workmen, contemp. red mor., delicate gt. tooling on sides, g.e., 1663, 24mo. (481), March 14, Hodgson Tregaskis, £5 5S.

[The above interesting little book contains no less than forty dedications to eminent persons. That to Lord Willoughby, Governor of Barbados, has a reference to

the American coast where houses are builded in two hours time."] Gerhardus (Episcopus). De vita et honestate Clericorum ex concilio Maguntin, gothic letter, headings and initials printed in red, 32 long lines to a full page, 12 ll., on the last page is the woodcut mark of Jo. Faber [Public Notary in the Diocese of Maintz], boards, covered with a contemp.. MS. on vell., Absque ulla nota [14], sm. fólio (427), July 9, Sotheby Ellis, £3 Germ (The), No. 1, with an etching by W. Holman Hunt, Jan., 1850-No. 3, with an etching by F. Madox Brown,. the inset leaf with labels for new titles preserved, March, 1850, first eds., original wrappers, 8vo. (587), March 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 IOS.

[See also American Art Association, April 16, $140; Sotheby, Feb. 5, II IOS.; Feb. 5, £6 15s.; Mar. 5, facsimile ed., £1 5s.]

Germain (Jean, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Seine).

Le Chemin de

Paradis, MS. on vell. (55 ll.) and paper (114 ll.), 10 in. by 8 in., neatly written by a French scribe, headings and initials in red, many letters carried into the margin with pen ornamentation, grotesque faces, etc., cf., 1457 (713), Feb. 5, Sotheby Maggs, £10 German Woodcuts (Some) of the XV. Century, being 35 reproductions from books that were in the library of the late William Morris, in red and black, hf. holland, Kelmscott Press, 1897, large 4to. (5437), Nov. 27, Sotheby

[See also June 4, £4; Feb. 5, £3.] Leighton, £5 5s. Gerning (J. J. von). A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, map and 24 col. aquatints by T. Sutherland and D. Havell, after C. G. Schutz, hf. cf., m.e. (binding word), R. Ackermann, 1820, 4to. (862), May 15, Sotheby Spencer, £4 [See also Dec. 11, £6 10s.; Mar. 26, £7 10S.; July 16, £6 5s.; June 4, £5 10s. ; Puttick, Feb. 21, £5 15S.; May 30, £6 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 11, $26.] Gersdorff (Hans von, called Schilhans). Feldbuch der Wundartzney, 27 woodcuts, mostly full-page, of surgical operations, instruments, etc. (two or three lines on verso

of title have not been inked), orig. boards, pigskin back [Sine ulla nota, ? Strassburg, 1517], folio (152), Dec. II, Sotheby Barnard, £28

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[The woodcut of the anatomical man (used twice) bears the xylographic inscription, Contrafactet Lasszman," 1514; other woodcuts represent a consultation of two physicians, trepanning, cauterising, instruments to straighten legs and arms, examining a leper, etc.] Gerson (Jean). De Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduite d'après un Manuscrit de 1440, par l'Abbé Delaunay, édition nouvelle corrigée, augmentée d'une nouvelle préface, printed on vell., with 8 large plates engraved by Le Maire after Gostiaux, each page surrounded with a border similar to those of the early French Hore," title in red and black, full green mor., sides with border of gt. fillets and dotted lines, with gt. picot edge, enclosing an elaborate design of geometrical compartments in onlaid red and blue mor., containing emblematic designs in gt. or mosaic and gt. floral ornaments in plain or azured tooling, in the style of the Eves, back panelled in similar designs, g.e., by Lortic, Paris, Librairie Tross, 1869 (181), Nov. 16, American Art Association $260

[The Robert Hoe copy, with his bookplate.] Gerson (J.) Imitatio Christi. Incipit liber primus Joannis gerson cancellarij parisiensis. De imitatione christi: et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi, gothic letter, double columns, signatures and foliation in lower margin, without the two ll. of table at the beginning, brown mor. gt., sides fully tooled to a floral and leafy design, gt. back, g.e., on the rough, by Douglas Cockerel, 1899, Impressum Venetijs arte & impensis Bernaedini de benalijs, 1488 (261), July 25, Sotheby Young, £7 10S. Gerson (J.) Tractatus de Mendicitate spirituali, gothic letter, long lines, capitals and rubrication marks in red, hf. bound, s. n. [Colon., U. Zell], 4to. (5275), Nov. 27, Sotheby

Leighton, £6 5s. Gerson (J.) [Opera.] Inventarium & Pars I., 2 vol. in 1, gothic letter, double columns [(1) not in Hain or Proctor; (2) Hain *7622 (1), Proctor 536], woodcut on back of each title of Gerson as a pilgrim, some ll. wormed, "Pars I." wants the last 6 11., old cf. [Strasburg,? Grüninger or J. Pruss, 1488], folio (5276), Nov. 27, Sotheby Barnard, LI [See also Lot 5278, ed. 1518, 16s.]

Gesner (C.) Icones avium omnium-animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum-animalium aquatilium, 3 parts in I vol., numerous woodcuts, cl., Tiguri, C. Froschover, 1560, folio (346), Nov. 13, Sotheby

Davis & Orioli, £1 25. Gesnerus (C.) Historiae Plantarum, col. plates, the copy of Philip Miller, with his autograph signature, hf. cf., Norimbergae, 1759, folio (741), April 9, Sotheby Dulau, £1 10s.

Gessner (Solomon).

Mort d'Abel, Poëme de Gessner traduit par Hubert, frontispiece and 5 plates (printed in colours and in proof state), after Monsiau, by Colibert, Casenave and Clement (a few slight stains), cf. (rubbed), Paris, 1793, 4to. (339), Dec. 4, Sotheby Spencer, £II IOS.

[See also April 16, 12 10s.; July 30, £9 5s.; June 4, £5 10s.; Oct. 23, 13 58.; American Art Association, Feb. 28, $105.] Gessner (S.) Euvres, fine plates and vignettes etched by the author, 2 vol. in 1, hf. mor., gt. top, Zurich, published by the author, 1777, 4to. (436), Dec. 11, Anderson Galleries

$42.50

[Large Paper copy, with fine impressions of the plates. See also Sotheby, Feb. 5, 29 plates only for 1778-82 ed., £4 5s.] Gesta rhomanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis, gothic letter, 101 ll., wants blank at end, two columns, initials supplied in red, rubricated, vell. [Hain *7746, Proctor *621, not in Pellechet], [Strassburg, Printer of the 1483 Jordanus], 1489, folio (37), July 23, Sotheby

Stone, £8 15S.

[See also July 25, £5 5s.; Nov. 27, ed. 1499, £3 3S.; Hodgson, June 13, ed. 1700, £3.] Geyler von Keyserberg. Nauicula sive speculum fatuorum, gothic letter, long lines, woodcuts (one col.), orig. oak boards and cf., sides stamped with borders enclosing a large panel in square compartments, each containing an animal or bird in a circular stamp (damaged), Argent., 1511, 4to. (281), May 15, Sotheby Leighton, £4 IOS. Gibbon (Edward). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, first ed., portrait, 6 vol., cf. gt., m.e., 1776-88, 4to. (286), Feb. 20, Hodgson Edwards, £3 15s. [See also Lot 560, £3 15s.]

Gibbon (E.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, portrait and map, 8 vol., cf., g.e., 1838, 8vo.
(873), July 9, Sotheby
Maggs, £5 10S.

[See also July 30, £5.]

Gibbon (E.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot, edited by W. Smith, portrait and maps, 8 vol., hf. green mor., panelled gt. backs, g.t., 1854-5, 8vo. (655), May 28, Sotheby Edwards, £6 IOS.

[See also Dowell, June 18, 1 5s.; May 14, £1 6s. ; Jan. 22, 1 15s.; Sotheby, Oct. 23, 1 14S.; April 16, £4 15s.; Hodgson, Nov. 8, ed. 1862, £4 10s.; Feb. 7, ed. 1900, £2 148.; Dowell, Nov. 20, ed. 1872, 135.] Gifford (G.) A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Deuilles by Witches and Sorcerers, by which men are and have bin greatly deluded, the antiquitie of them, their diuers sorts and Names, with an Aunswer into diuers friuolous Reasons which some doe make to prooue that the Deuils did not make those Aperations in any bodily shape, first

ed., title within fine woodcut border, black letter (some inner margins wormed, affecting a few letters), unbound, Imprinted at London for Toby Cooke, 1587, sm. 4to. (159), Nov. 30, Hodgson J. Overs, £24 IOS. Gilbert (W.) De Magnete magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure, first ed., woodcuts and diagrams, large folded diagram at p. 200 (a few ll. slightly spotted), orig. vell., a good copy, P. Short, 1600, folio (5283), Nov. 27, Sotheby Leighton, £19 10s.

[See also Oct. 23, £19; Oct. 23, ed. 1628, £8 5s.; Oct. 23, ed. 1900, £2 8s.]

Gilbert (W. S.) The "Bab '

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Ballads, 1869-More Bab " Ballads, n.d., first eds., both with illustrations by the author, orig. cl., dull, and others by the same author, 8vo. (656), May 28, Sotheby Spencer, £5 15S.

[See also Puttick, May 9, £2 25.]

Gilchrist (A.) [and Rossetti (D. G.)] Life of William Blake, with selections from his Poems, etc., first ed., illustrations from Blake's works, 2 vol., orig. cl. gt., uncut, 1863, 8vo. (213), May 3, Hodgson Danielson, £2 8s.

[See also Sotheby, May 15, £2 2s.; July 23, £1 15S.; Dowell, May 14, 1 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 24, $19; Hodgson, July 26, £1 15S.; Sotheby, July 16, ed. 1880, £7 10s.; Hodgson, May 3, £8 8s.; Sotheby, Oct. 30, £8; Hodgson, Feb. 28, £8 5s.]

Gillow (Joseph). Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, 5 vol., cl. [1885-95], 8vo. (640), March 5, Sotheby Edwards, £3 3s.

Gillray (James). Works, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected, portrait and 582 caricatures-Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures, by T. Wright and R. H. Evans, hf. mor. gt., g.e., H. G. Bohn, n.d. and 1861, 8vo. (543), March 5, Sotheby Witt, £2 5s.

[See also Puttick, July 25, £2 17s. 6d.; Sotheby, Feb. 5. £3.] Gillay (J.) A Collection of 71 Coloured Caricatures, mostly by J. Gillray, mounted and bound in a royal folio vol., hf. crimson mor., cl. sides [1791-1829], folio (633), March 22, Hodgson Spencer, £5 Giovanni (Ser). The Pecorone, translated by W. G. Waters, illustrated by E. R. Hughes, cl., 1897, imp. 8vo. (871), May 9, Hodgson Pearce, £2 25. Sotheby, Dec. 18, £3 15s.; Feb. Hodgson, Feb. 28, Japanese vell. Sotheby, Mar. 26, Japanese vell. Dec. 4, Japanese vell. ed., mor.,

[See also July 12, £2; 5, £2; May 15, £2 8s.; ed., hf. parchment, £4; ed., hf. parchment, £2; £6.] Giraldus Cambrensis. The

Itinerary through Wales, A.D. 1188, translated by Sir R. C. Hoare, map and plates, 2

vol., blue straight-grain mor. gt., with inner borders and gt. decorative edges, 1806 (214), Nov. 22, Hodgson

Heffer, £3 5s. [See also Sotheby, July 16, £1 2s.; Hodgson, May 9, I IS.] Girtin (T.) Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs, 20 fine plates, aquatinted by F. C. Lewis, contemp. hf. russ. (corners of a few margins slightly stained), 1803, oblong folio (852), Nov. 22, Hodgson Spencer, £23 IOS. Gissing (George). Born in Exile, first ed., 3 vol., cl., 1892 (168), May 16, Hodgson

[See also Sotheby, April 23, £7 10s.]

£4 7s. 6d.

[Gissing (G.)] Demos, a Tale of English Socialism, first ed., 3 vol., orig. brown cl., uncut, a clean copy (re-cased), 1886, 8vo. (434), Feb. 28, Hodgson Hollings, £3 3S.

[See also Dec. 13, £3 15s.; Sotheby, May 28, £6 10s.; April 23, presentation copy, £32.] Gissing (G.) The Emancipated, a Novel, first ed., 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., 1890 (7), Dec. 13, Hodgson Collard, £3 158. [See also June 13, soiled, I 10s.; Sotheby, May 28, library copy, £1 4s.; April 23, orig. designed boards, £7.] Gissing (G.) Eve's Ransom, first ed., presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To the household at Willersey, April, 1895, G. G.," orig. cl., 1895, 8vo. (467), April 23, Sotheby Heffer, £15 Gissing (G.) In the Year of Jubilee, new ed., presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "A. G. from G. G., Aug., 1895," orig. cl., 1895, 8vo. (466), April 23, Sotheby

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Quaritch, £7 Gissing (G.) Isabel Clarendon, first ed., presentation copy from the author, with inscription by him, Algernon F. Gissing from G. G. Namque tu solebas Meas esse aliquid putare nugas, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1886, 8vo. (457), April 23, Sotheby Heffer, £32 Gissing (G.) A Life's Morning, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl. (upper cover of Vol. iii. slightly stained), 1888, 8vo. (460), April 23, Sotheby O'Kelly, £9 Gissing (G.) The Nether World, a Novel, first ed., 3 vol., orig. grey cl., uncut, a clean copy, 1889, 8vo. (146), July 26, Hodgson Bain, £5 7s. 6d. [See also Sotheby, April 23, presentation copy, £31.] Gissing (G.) The Odd Women, first ed., presentation copy, inscribed by the author, A. G. from G. G., April, 1893,' 3 vol., orig. cl., 1893, 8vo. (465), April 23, Sotheby [See also Hodgson, Feb. 28, 20.] Maggs, 16 10S. Gissing (G.) The Paying Guest (Cassell's Pocket Library," edited by Max Pemberton), first ed., presentation copy, with inscription by the author, A. G. from G. G., Jan., '96," orig. buckram, 1895, 8vo. (468), April 23, Sotheby Maggs, £9 [Gissing (G.)] The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, first ed., autograph presentation copy from the author to W.

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