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first infortunate Princes of this Lande, black letter, title within a woodcut border (corner of f. 21 torn off and mended, small hole in title mended, apparently wants final leaf with colophon), russ. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Miller arms in gold on sides, autograph signature of Bishop White Kennett on title-page and his bookplate, T. Marshe, 1574, sm. 4to. (480), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £145 [See also July 30, ed. 1587, £22; American Art Association, Feb. 28, ed. 1610, $65.] Whetstone (G.) Mirror for Magistrates. The Last Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, wherein may be seene by examples passed in this Realme, with howe greuous plagues, vices are punished in gseat (sic) Princes and Magistrates and howe frayle and unstable worldly prosperitie is founde, where Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour, newly corrected and amended, black letter, title within a woodcut border (small rust-hole in P 2, otherwise a fine copy), marone mor. ex., g.e., by J. Mackenzie, with bookplate of J. W. Cole, Thomas Marshe, 1575, 4to. (482), March 12, Sotheby Maggs, £90

[See also Lot 481, ed. 1578, £85; Lot 483, ed. 1578, £65.] Whistler (J. A. McNeill). Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, one of 250 copies on LARGE PAPER, signed with the butterfly, orig. hf. brown boards, Paris [1899], 4to. (991), May 28, Sotheby Spencer, £3 3s.

[See also Puttick, Dec. 19, 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Mar. 5, presentation copy, $110; Feb. 13, $40.] Whistler (J. A. M.) The Etched Work of Whistler, illustrated by reproductions in collotype of the different states of the plates, compiled by E. G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz, I vol. sm. 4to. of text and 5 vol. large 4to. of plates, together 6 vol., hf. crushed brown mor., g.t., New York, Grolier Club, 1910, 4to. (5824), Nov. 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £85 [See also American Art Association, May 14, $410; Feb. 12, $600; April 16, $575; Jan. 24, $520.] Whistler (J. A. M.) Etchings, by C. Dodgson, edition-de-luxe, plates, one of 200 copies, parchment, t.e.g., Studio, 1922 (227), Dec. 19, Puttick Davies, £2 17s. 6d. Whistler (J. A. M.) The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, orig. hf. brown covers, W. Heinemann, 1890, 4to. (990), May 28, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £2 158.

[See also Feb. 12, £3 15s.; June 4, £3; Dowell, Dec. 18, £2 15s.; Sotheby, June 11, n.d., 2 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Mar. 5, signed, $230; Mar. 6, $82.50; Feb. 13, $60.] Whistler (J. A. M.) L'Œuvre de James MacNeill Whistler : Quarante Reproductions de Chefs-d'Euvre du Maitre, réunis a l'occasion de l'Exposition Commemorative, etc., 40 plates on India paper, loose in portfolio, Paris, 1905, folio (606), June 4, Sotheby Rimell, £2 2s. Whitaker (T. D.) The History of Craven, LARGE PAPER

(about 15 in. by 10 in.), plates, some coloured (a few Il. foxed), boards, uncut, 1812, 4to. (330), April 9, Sotheby [See also July 9, £1 2s.] Pollard, £1 18s. Whitaker (T. D.) The History of Richmondshire in the County of York, LARGE PAPER (18 in. by 12 in.), numerous plates, some proofs on India paper, 2 vol., russ., wide gt. border on sides surrounding a four-line panel with corner ornaments, g.e. (joints cracking), 1823, folio (403), April 9, Sotheby Thorp, £4 5s.

[See also July 9, £4 4s.; Oct. 23, £3_10s.] White (E.) A Practical Treatise of the Game of Billiards, accurately exhibiting the Rules and Practice admitted and established by the first Players of the present day (a little water-stained), orig. boards, with paper labels on back and sides, uncut, Printed for W. Miller, Albemarle Street, 1807, 8vo. (764), Dec. 18, Sotheby Yates, £1 5S.

[Collation Frontispiece (the billiard table); A-P 2 in eights and 16 numbered plates at end, followed by 2 11. of publisher's advertisements. The author, in the advertisement to the work (A 3), claims this to be the first book on billiards published in this country. See article in

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The Billiard Player" for Sept., 1922.]

[White (Rev. Gilbert).] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, first ed., folding frontispiece and plates, with the errata leaf, contemp. hf. cf., 1789, 4to. (198), July 30, Sotheby

Bain, £14 IOS.

[See also Feb. 5, £3 15s.; Oct. 23, £5 5s.; Feb. 5, specially bound, 16 10s.; July 3, 12 10s.; April 16,

£6 5s.; June 11, 10; July 23, 21; Puttick, July 25, 410; Feb. 18, £5; Sotheby, July 23, £8.]

White (Rev. G.) The Natural History of Selborne, etc., edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LARGE PAPER, plates by J. S. Keulemans and others on India paper, signed by the editor and artists, 2 vol., green crushed levant mor., large gt. leaf sprays on side and back, inner borders, g.t., 1900, 4to. (932), May 15, Sotheby Wheldon, £6 IOS.

[See also Dec. 18, £5 5s.; May 28, £4 15S.; June 25, £4 Puttick, May 30, 8; Hodgson, June 13, £1 10s.; Dec. 13, £3 38.]

[White (J.)] A Rich Cabinet, with Variety of Inventions (Receits, Conceits, Fire-works, Legerdemain, etc.), engraved title and numerous woodcuts (a few ll. wormed), hf. cf., 1658, 8vo. (377), April 19, Hodgson

Pickering. £3 5s. White] (T.) Sermon preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday, the ninth of December, 1576-Sermon preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday, the thirde of November, 1577, in the time of the Plague, black letter, 2 vol. in 1, mor., g.e., Francis Coldock, 1578, 8vo. (25), May 30, Puttick Michelmore, £20 Whitefield (George). The Christian's Companion, or Sermons

on Several Subjects, sewn, London, 1739, 12m0. (1013),
March 8, Anderson Galleries
$9

[A compilation of previously published sermons, with different pagination for each sermon. Contains, beside those called for in the title, A Supplement to the Rev. Mr. Whitefield's Answer to the Bishop of London's last Pastoral Letter, and Letter from a Gentlewoman in New England.] Whitehall (John). Miscellaneous Poems, with some Remarks on the Death of King Charles the II. and the Happy Succession of King James the II., in a Poem, unbound, uncut, Printed for T. Salusbury, 1685, 4to. (710), March 12, Sotheby Arthur, £5 Whitelocke (Bulstrode). Some Omitted Passages in the Printed Editions of Bulstrode Whitelock's Memorials, MS., 189 I., with 65 engraved portraits, views, etc., transcribed from the MS. at Buckhurst Park by W. H. Matthews for H. A. Napier, mor., g.t., 1869, 4to.-Whitelocke (R. H.) Memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke, portrait, cl., 1860, 8vo. (380), May 28, Sotheby Dobell, £6 Whitfield (Henry). Strength out of Weakness, or a Glorious Manifestation of the further Progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, etc., sewn, Eliot's Indian Tract, London, printed by M. Simmons for John Blague and Samuel Howes, 1652, sm. 4to. (420), Oct. 16, Anderson Galleries $72.50 Whitgift (J.) An answere to a certen Libel, intituled Ăn admonition to the Parliament [by J. Cartwright], first ed., title within woodcut border, black letter (small rusthole in one leaf), old cf., gt. back and panelled sides, H. Bynneman for H. Toy, 1572, sm. 4to. (107), Nov. 30, Hodgson Heffer, £3 Whitinton (Robert, of Lichfield). De Heteroclitis nominibus. Grammaticæ Whitintonianæ Liber tertius de nominum heteroclisi, partly black letter, woodcut border to title, dark blue mor., g.e., Impressum per me Petrum Treueris [Southwark, c. 1530], 4to. (364), April 16, Sotheby Markham, £16 10S.

[Earliest of the editions printed by Treveris.] Whitman (Alfred). Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters: Samuel W. Reynolds and Samuel Cousins, plates, 2 vol., cl. gt., t.e.g., 1903-4, 4to. (730), Oct. 23, Sotheby Webb, £3 10S. [See also Dec. 4, £2 2s.; Oct. 28, £1 8s.; July 16, £3 5s.] Whitman (A.) Valentine Green, British Mezzotinter, plates, buckram, 1902, sm. 4to. (43), June 13, Hodgson Atkinson, £1 38. Whitman (Walt). Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate, hf. mor., by Stikeman, New York (New World Extra), 1842, 4to. (1857), Nov. 20, Anderson Galleries [Whitman's first separate publication. Portrait laid

$80

in.]

Whitman (W.) Leaves of Grass, second ed., portrait, Brooklyn, 1856, 12mo. (1381), Oct. 16, Anderson Galleries $32 [See also Nov. 20, $40; Feb. 13, ed. 1872, $30.] Whitman (W.) Complete Writings, with Bibliographical and Critical Material by O. L. Triggs, portraits, Camden ed., limited to 500 copies, 10 vol., hf. vell. gt., uncut, g.t., New York, 1902, 8vo. (75), Oct. 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £11 [See also American Art Association, May 14, $385; Nov. 16, $110.]

Whitney (Geffrey). A Choice of Emblemes and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized, and divers newly devised, 2 parts, with separate titles, but continuous signatures, first title within a woodcut border, with full-page cut on back of the arms of Robert Earl of Leicester, to whom the work is dedicated, his crest with motto appears on second titlepage, numerous fine woodcuts, with verses beneath, old mottled cf. gt., y.e., from the Heber library, fine copy, Leyden, in the House of C. Plantyn, by F. Raphelengius, 1586, 4to. (711), March 12, Sotheby White, £50 Whittier (John Greenleaf). Mogg Megone, a Poem, orig. cl., Boston, 1836, 32mo. (316), Feb. 13, Anderson Gal

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$55 [First edition. On the inside front cover, Field has written "Eugene Field, from J. G. Rowland. Quincy, III.”] Whittier (J. G.) Moll Pitcher, a Poem, orig. blue paper covers, with paper label, Boston, 1832, 8vo. (1870), Nov. 20, Anderson Galleries

$155

[The first edition. A reprint accompanies the original.] Whittier (J. G.) Snow Bound, engraved portrait, hf. green mor., g.e., Boston, 1866, 12mo. (514), March 5, Anderson Galleries

$45

[First edition, specially bound for presentation purposes and bears the autograph of John G. Whittier, 28th 2nd Mo., 1866," on the fly-leaf.] Whittier (J. G.) The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, portraits and illustrations on Japan paper, frontispieces tinted on India paper, 9 vol., full purple crushed mor., brown watered-silk fly-leaves, gt. tops, uncut, Cambridge, printed at the Riverside Press, 1888-1894, 8vo. (733), Nov. 28, American Art Association

$120

[Large Paper, limited to 400 copies, of which this is No. 198. Extra illustrated with many additional portraits and views.]

Whymper (C.) Egyptian Birds for the most part seen in the Nile Valley, édition-de-luxe, 51 col. plates, No. 82 of 100 copies, cl., g.t., 1909, 4to. (494), June 25, Sotheby Edwards, 1 2S. Whymper (E.) Scrambles amongst the Alps, maps, illustrations, 1871-Stokes (M.) Six Months in the Apennines,

illustrations, 1892-Three Months in the Forests of France, illustrations, 1895, 8vo. (91), June 4, Sotheby Figgis, £1 18s. Whyte-Melville (G. J.) A Collected Set of the First Editions of his Writings, 53 vol., uniformly bound in polished crimson cf., gt. backs, gt. tops, with the original covers bound in, by Rivière, London, 1850-79, 12mo. and 8vo. (1253), Jan. 24, Anderson Galleries $320

[A set, all the volumes being in choice condition. See also American Art Association, Feb. 7, ed. 1898-1902, 24 vol., $200; Puttick, Feb. 21, 14 10s.; Hodgson, July 26, ed. 1898-1902, £16 10s.; Dowell, June 18, n.d., £11.] Wiggin (Kate Douglas). A Cathedral Courtship and Penelope's English Experiences, full crimson mor., gt. top, by Zaehnsdorf, protected by brocade slip-cover, Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1893, 12mo. (515), March 5, Anderson Gal

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[Presentation copy, with autograph inscription on hf.title, signed in full, Kate Douglas Wiggin." Inserted in the forepart of volume are three original unpublished poems by the author, in her handwriting.]

Wiggin (K. D.) The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin, with 140 illustrations on Japan paper by Brock, Brett, Kirk, Alice Barber Stephens, Yohn, etc., including 23 col. and 10 duplicates, hand-coloured and used as frontispieces, col. titles and headings, by Alice Hunt Winchester, 10 vol., three-quarter dark green levant mor., gt. panelled backs, contents lettered, gt. tops, uncut, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company [1917], 8vo. (735), Nov. 28, American Art Association

$85

[Autograph edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 76.] Wigglesworth (Michael). The Day of Doom, or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, with a Short Discourse about Eternity, seventh ed., with Wigglesworth's Character, by Cotton Mather, etc., hf. mor., Boston, T. Fleet, 1751, 12mo. (1885), Nov. 20, Anderson Galleries $125

[See also July 30, £1.]

Wight (John). Mornings at Bow Street, second ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, diced cf. gt., 1824, 8vo. (676), April 9, Sotheby Bastian, £1 Wight (J.) More Mornings at Bow Street, first ed., woodcuts and vignettes, proofs on India paper, orig. boards, uncut and unopened, in slip-case, J. Robins, 1827, 8vo. (761), June 13, Hodgson £3 12s. 6d. Wight (J.) Mornings at Bow Street, with 21 illustrative drawings by George Cruikshank-More Mornings at Bow Street, with 25 illustrations by George Cruikshank, 2 vol., crimson straight-grain mor., gt. top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, London, 1824-7, 8vo. (889), Feb. 13, Anderson Galleries [First editions. See also Dec. 11, $12.]

$22.50

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