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Lilly (J.) Sixe Court Comedies, often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell and the Children of Paules, first ed., cf., Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632, 16mo. (396), July 4, Hodgson Sawyer, £12 Lilly (William). A Prophecy of the White King and Dreadfull Dead-man Explained (small stain through first 8 11., one catchword shaved), hf. cf., 1644-Calef (Robert). More Wonders of the Invisible World, collected by Robert Calef, Merchant, of Boston, in New-England, has leaf of errata, but wants c 2 and 3 (slight water-stains), orig. cf. (rebacked), 1700, 4to. (510), Oct. 23, Sotheby

H. Stevens, £8 5s. Lilly (W.) The Starry Messenger, or an Interpretation of that strange Apparition of three Suns seene in London, 19 Novemb., 1644, woodcut on the title and in the text, Printed for John Partridge, 1645-Ball (William). Tractatus de Jure Regnandi & Regni, or the Sphere of Government, Printed in the yeare 1645, 26 tracts in I vol., cf., 4to. (682), Nov. 13, Sotheby Thorp, £5 10S. L'Image: Revue Littéraire et Artistique, Dec., 1896-Dec., 1897, édition-de-luxe, tinted and plain plates and numerous illustrations in the text, blue mor. plain, inside gt. borders, g.t., by Rivière, Paris, 4to. (372), Dec. 4, Sotheby Jaschke, £2 15S.

Linden (Lucien). Lindenia: Iconographie des Orchidées, Vol. ii.-v. and vi., parts 1-6 (1886-90); Vol. xiii.-xvii. (1897-1906)-Iconography of Orchids (English text), Vol. i.-xiii. (1891-97), wants part 63 (April, 1896), more than 750 col. plates, orig. wrappers, Ghent, 1886-1906, 4to. (882), Dec. 18, Sotheby Wheldon, £7 Lindley (John). Pomologia Britannica, or Figures and Descriptions of the most important Varieties of Fruit cultivated in Great Britain, 152 beautiful col. plates, 3 vol., hf. citron mor. (rubbed), g.e., London, 1841, roy. 8vo. (1013), Oct. 30, Anderson Galleries $12.50 Lingard (John). History of England to the Accession of William and Mary, portrait, Io vol., polished cf. gt., g.t., 1849, 8vo. (308), July 3, Sotheby Joseph, £2 15s.

[See also July 9, ed. 1902, £2 12s. 6d. ; Hodgson, Aug. 2, 1 12S.] Lindsay (Sir David). Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, first ed., in verse, black letter, autograph signature of Thos. Hill occurs twice on title-page (some 11. stained slightly), russ. gt., g.e., from the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, Inglis and Heber collections, Imprentit at the Conmand (sic) and Expensis off Doctor Machabeus In Copmāhouin [Copenhagen], n.d. [a fictitious imprint, really printed at St. Andrews by John Scot, 1554], sm. 4to. (420), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £150 [Apparently only five copies in existence. At the end

"Quod Lyndesay, 1552," has no reference to the date of printing. Recourse was had to a fictitious name and place for publication, though it need scarcely be said that the celebrated divine, Dr. John Machabeus, had no concern in the publication of the Dialog. See also Lot 421, ed. 1566, £72; Oct. 23, ed. 1581, £14; Mar. 12, £21.] Lindsay (Sir D.) Heir followis the Tragedie of the unqhyle Maister Reuerende Fader Dauid, be the mercy of God, Cardinal and Archbyschope of Sanctandrous, in verse of 7-line stanzas, black letter, woodcut beneath title of the author as Lyon King at Arms and cut on last page with the words " Quod Lindesay" (small hole in two final 11.), old boards, Imprentit at the command and expenses of Maister Samuel Jascuy, in Paris, 1558, sm. 4to. (423), Mar. 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £190 Lindsay (Sir D.) Workes, newlie corrected and vindicate from the former errours and augmented with sundrie works, black letter, woodcut bust portrait of the author below title (cropped copy, imprint and some text cut into), green mor. ex., g.e., by Rivière, Miller arms in gold on sides, Edinburgh [Heirs of Andrew Hart, 1634], 8vo. (419), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £45 [Ling (N.)] Wits Theater of the little World, woodcut decoration on title [A 4 ll., B-Nn (misprinted Mm) 4 in 8's], contemp. sheep binding, in excellent condition, Printed by I. R. for N. L., and are to be sold at the West doore of Paules, 1599, 12mo. (122), April 19, Hodgson

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Marcham, £55 [This little book consists of collections" from the ancient writers on the virtues and vices, the opinions and actions of men, and is associated with the Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury," 1598, of Francis Meres, following that more interesting volume as the third of a series of four books, Bodenham's Wits Commonwealth,' 1597, being the first, and "Palladis Palatium," 1604, the last.] Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the fiue Senses for Superiority, a pleasant Comoedie, unbound, Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1617, 4to. (424), March 12, Sotheby Quaritch, £24

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[Apparently second edition.] Linnæus (C.) Tour in Lapland, by J. E. Smith, portrait and woodcuts, with 7 pp. of interesting MS. notes by Wm. Beckford, 2 vol. in 1, crimson straight-grain mor., g.e., 1811, 8vo. (31), Feb. 28, Hodgson Maggs, £4 IOS. Linnean Society of London. Transactions, First Series, Vol. i.-xxx. (with Index), in 26 vol., 1791-1875-Second Series, Zoology, Vol. i.-xvi. (Vol. x.-xi., unbound and wanting titles and indices), 1879-1914-Second Series, Botany, Vol. i.-vii., 1880-1913, together 47 vol., plain and col. plates, hf. mor., 1791-1914, 4to. (182), Oct. 23, Sotheby [See also Lot 125, 78 vol., hf. cf., £14.] Heffer, £25 10S.

Linschoten (J. Hughen Van). Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales, avec Annotations de B. Paludanus, Troixiesme ed., augmentée, engraved title, portrait, folding maps and double-page plates-Le Grand Routier de Mer, engraved title-Description de l'Amerique et des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, etc., 3 vol. in 1, vignette on title and folding map [Sabin 41373], some 11. spotted and discoloured, old French red mor., Amsterdam, E. Cloppenburgh, 1638, folio (221), Nov. 30, Hodgson Edwards, £10 15S. Linschoten (Huygen van). Navigatio ac Itinerarium in orientalem, sive Lusitanorum Indiam, collecta ac descripta Belgice nunc Latine reddita-Descriptio totius Guineae, plates and maps (one torn), old cf., Amsterdam, 1614, folio (608), May 15, Sotheby Stow, £4 5s. Linton. Masters of Wood Engraving, buckram, 1889, folio (448), April 17, Dowell

£4 45.

[See also Sotheby, July 9, £2; May 28, £3 38.] Lippmann (Friedrich). The Art of Wood-Engraving in Italy in the XVth Century, reproductions, rox., 1888-Chatto (W. A.) and Jackson (J.) Treatise on Wood Engraving, first ed., woodcuts, name on title, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1839, 8vo. (651), March 5, Sotheby Howes, I 2s. Lipscomb (G.) History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, maps and plates, 4 vol., hf. red mor., g.t., 1847, 4to. (526), March 5, Sotheby Harding, £5 IOS. [See also Oct. 30, £6.]

Lipsius (J.) Lovanivm, siue Opi et Academiæ eivs Descriptio, libri tres, copperplates, including a folding view of Louvain (a trifle defective in the folds), Antv., ex off. Plantiniana, 1605-Diva Sichemiensis siue Aspricollis, ib., 1605, 2 vol. in 1, cf., arms of De Thou and his second wife in gold on the sides and cipher on the back, the Heber and H. Drury copy, folio (1089), July 30, Sotheby Todd, £4 5s. Lisle (Joe). Play upon Words, 40 col. plates, hf. roan, fine copy, M'Lean, 1828, oblong 4to. (195), May 30, Puttick Webster, £7 Lisle (William). The Faire Ethiopian, in verse (small rusthole in I I), some MS. notes and alterations, vell. gt., g.e., Iohn Haviland, 1631, sm. 4to. (425), March 12, Sotheby Barnard, £16 Lister (M.) Historia Conchyliorum, numerous plates of shells (including those of Virginia, Carolina, Jamaica, etc.), the work engraved throughout, presentation copy from the author to the Earl of Radnor, old cf., 1685, folio (552), June 13, Hodgson Quaritch, £4 Lithgow (William). Scotlands Welcome to her Native Sonne and Soveraigne Lord King Charles, original ed., in verse, title-page torn and mounted, straight-grain green mor. ex., g.e., by Rivière, Edinburgh, Iohn Wreittoun [1633], sm. 4to. (426), March 12, Sotheby Barnard, £5 10S. Lithgow (W.) The Totall Discourse of the rare Adventures

and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Years Trauayles to Europe, Asia and Affrica, woodcuts, including frontispiece, green mor. ex., g.e., by Ramage, N. Okes, 1632, 4to. (504), Feb. 5, Sotheby Tomkinson, £9 Litta (Pompeo). Famiglie Celebri di Italia, containing a series of family pedigrees, col. and other engravings and emblazoned coats-of-arms, in 9 vol., hf. russ. (cracking), title to Vol. i. only, Milano, 1819, folio (287), May 30, Puttick Quaritch, LIO

[See also Sotheby, Oct. 30, £7 15s.] Littell (Wm.) Festoons of Fancy, consisting of compositions amatory, sentimental and humorous, in verse and prose, boards, From the Press of Wm. Farquar, Louisville (Ken.), 1814, 12mo. (1075), Nov. 20, Anderson Galleries $650

[One of the earliest specimens of the Louisville Press and one of the rarest volumes of American poetry.] Littleton (Sir Thomas). Lyttelton tenures in Englysshe, black letter, woodcut coat-of-arms on the title, contemp. stamped leather binding, Thomas Petit (c. 1550), 8vo. (583), Nov. 13, Sotheby

Ellis, £7

[See also Hodgson, Nov. 8, ed. 1556, £3 7s. 6d.] Littleton (Sir Thomas). Tenvres in Englishe, black letter (first 2 11. slightly defective, cf. defective), R. Tottell, 1556-In this bo[ok] is contayned the offices of Sh[e]riffes, Bayliffes of liberties Escheatours, Constables and Coroners, black letter (title defective), John Allde, 1573Institutions or principall groundes of the Lawes, black letter, R. Tottell, n.d., bound together, vell., 8vo. (133), July 23, Sotheby Thorp, £2 2s. Littre's Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise, 4 vol., and Supplement, hf. mor., 1875-77, 4to. (1028), Nov. 20, Dowell £3 15s. Lively Oracles (The) given to us, Oxford, 1713-The Art of Contentment, ib., 1719-The Government of the Tongue, ib., 1721, together 3 vol., by the author of The Whole Duty of Man, frontispiece, red mor., 8vo. (5473), Nov. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £2 2s. Liverseege (Henry). Engravings from his Works, 35 fine mezzotint plates by Ward, Cousin, Bromley, Coombs and others, proofs, portrait and engraved title, full mor., g.e. (some plates slightly water-stained), London [1835], folio (595), Oct. 30, Anderson Galleries

$10

[Laid in are two original pencil sketches by Liverseege, one signed in full and the other with initials.] Livius (T.) Decas Prima, MS. on vell., neatly written in a cursive hand, long lines, 206 ll., initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book, wants the first leaf of Book i., the first 2 11. of Book ii. and the first leaf of Book ix. defective and mended, at end "Titi liuii patauini liber x. explicit die 21 Septemb., 1456,” cf., g.e. (back defective), Italian, 1456 (10 in. by 7 in.), (55), July 25, Sotheby Todd, £9 5s.

Livius (T.) Deche di Tito Livio vulgare historiate, numerous woodcuts and initial letters, old sheep over oak boards (worn and a few margins stained and wormed), Venetia, B. de Zani de Portes, 1502, folio (270), March 22, Hodgson Myers, £3 17s. 6d.

Livius (T.) Decades, roman letter, long lines, 50 to a full page, with signatures, several large initials in colours on a red ground, armorial shield painted in the lower margin of Di, a few small capitals at the beginning in blue or red, small wormholes through a few ll. at the beginning and a few stains, otherwise a fine large copy (measures 15 in. by 10 in.), [Proctor 5805, not seen by Hain 10133], red mor. gt., g.e., by R. Storr, Grantham, Mediolani, A. Zarothus for Johannes legnani, 1480 (270), March 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £30

[See also June 4, 1482, £1 2s.; July 25, 1481, 15 10s.] Livius (T.) Historiarum Libri ex recensione Heinsiana, engraved title, 3 vol. in 6, olive mor. gt., with the arms of the family of Feu, of Charmoy, gt. backs, g.e., Leyden, Elzevir, 1634, 8vo. (210), Dec. 11, Sotheby Bumpus, £6 155. [See also June 11, 1679 ed., 11; July 25, 1521 ed., £2 IOS. Dec. II, 1645 ed., £2 5s.]

Livius (T.) The Romane Historie, translated by P. Holland, first ed., with woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title, old rough cf., 1600, 8vo. (630), Oct. 25, Hodgson Maggs, £2 18s.

[See also Sotheby, Nov. 27, £2 2s.] Livre d'Or (Le) au Salon de Peinture et de Sculpture, rédigé par Georges Lafenestre, 1879-91, 13 vol., all on Whatman paper (except the first), with the etchings in two states (25 copies so done)-Dix Années du Salon de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1879-1888, Notices par Georges Lafenestre, papier de Hollande (100 so done), etchings, 1889, together 14 vol., blue mor. plain, inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, Paris, Libraire des Bibliophiles (Jouaust), 1879, imp. 8vo. (300), Dec. 4, Sotheby Thorp, £3 15S. [Lloyd (D.)] The Legend of Captaine Iones, relating his adventure to Sea, his first landing and strange combate with a mighty Beare, his furious battell with his sixe and thirty men against the Army of eleven kings his relieving of Kemper Castle, etc. [in verse] [collation : A 3 11., wants AI (? a blank), B 4-C 4)], inner margin of title and next leaf restored, small stain on sign. B 2, slightly affecting the text, two or three signatures or catchwords shaved, cf., Printed for I. M., 1636, 4to. (103), Feb. 5, Sotheby Stow, £5

[See also Nov. 27, ed. 1671-70, £3 10s.] Lloyd (Lodowick). The Iubile of Britane, original ed., in prose, dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, fine copy, vell. ex., g.e., by Rivière, Miller monogram in gold on sides, Thomas Purfoot, 1607, sm. 4to. (427), March 12, Sotheby Quaritch, £50

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