Wilkes (B.) English Moths and Butterflies, 120 col. plates, old mor. gt., g.e. (rubbed), 1773, 4to. (794), April 16, Sotheby Purchase, 18s.

[See also Hodgson, Mar. 22, 1 5s.; Jan. 10, £3.] Wilkie (Sir D.) and Geddes (Andrew). Etchings, with Biographical Sketches by D. Laing, two portraits, fac. and 57 etchings, No. 40 of 100 copies, hf. mor., g.t., Edinb., 1845, folio (569), May 28, Sotheby Hopkins, £5 5s. Wilkins] (J., Bishop). Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger, old cf. (binding defective), J. Norton, etc., ·1641, 8vo. (561), Jan. 10, Hodgson Halliday, £3 Wilkinson (Edward). Isahacs Inheritance, dew to our Prince Iames the Sixt of Scotland, of England, France and Ireland the First, original ed., in verse, old hf. buff cf., from the Heber library, Imprinted for Iohn Harrison, 1603, sm. 4to. (713), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £180 Wilkinson (J. G.) Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, plates, some col., both series, 6 vol., cf., gt. backs, 1837-41, 4to. (840), July 18, Hodgson £2 10s. [See also Sotheby, July 3, ed. 1847, 5 vol., £2; Ĵune 4, 3 vol., 2; May 15, ed. 1878, £1 15s.; Dowell, Nov. 20, ed. 1878, 3 vol., £2 6s.] Wilkinson (T.) The Wandering Patentee, or a History of the Yorkshire Theatres, illustrated by the insertion of 146 old portraits, mostly of actors and actresses in character, and 12 views, inlaid and mounted to size, 4 vol., red crushed levant mor., gt. centre and corner pieces, gt. backs, g.t., other edges uncut, by Rivière, York, 1795, 12mo. (58), July 9, Sotheby Sym, £10 Willement (T.) Variations in the Arms of the Sovereigns of England and of their Descendants, Legitimate and Illegitimate, collected and drawn by Thos. Willement, F.S.A., illuminated title-pages and upwards of 320 drawings of arms in colours, with index of names and of the marks of cadency, mor. gt., edges gt. and elaborately painted with national emblems and devices, in a dropcase, 1838, folio (1030), July 16, Sotheby Maggs, £16 10S. Willemin (N. X.) Monumens Français Inédits, pour servir à l'Histoire des Arts, 300 plates, mostly coloured, 2 vol., hf. red mor., g.t., Paris, 1825-39, roy. folio (685), Oct. 28, Sotheby Thorp, £3 12s. 6d.

[See also Hodgson, May 30, £1 14s.] Williams (H. Noel). Madame Récamier and her Friends, plates, buckram, gt. top, 1901, 4to. (67), Jan. 22, Dowell [See also Mar. 19, 1 6s.]

£1 13S. Williamson (G. C.) Richard Cosway, his Wife and Pupils, by G. C. Williamson, portraits, one of 100 copies on LARGE PAPER, 1897, roy. 4to. (520), March 5, Sotheby

Eaton, £1 15s. Williamson (G. C.) George Morland, his Life and Works, col. frontispiece and plates, one of 100 LARGE PAPER

COPIES, with the plates on Japanese vell., hf. vell., g.t., end-papers damp-stained, 1904, folio (457), May 28, Sotheby Hyam, I IOS. Williamson (G. C.) Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer, miniature painters, plates, one of 365 copies printed, orig. linen boards, t.e.g., uncut, 1903, folio (44), Dec. 18, Sotheby Witt, £1 15s. [See also Hodgson, Feb. 28, hand-coloured plates, £7 5s.; July 16, £9 15s.; Sotheby, May 28, ₤1 8s.; April 16, 1 18s.] Williamson (G. C.) History of Portrait Miniatures, plates, some hand-coloured, one of 50 copies, 2 vol., hf. red mor., t.e.g., 1904, folio (204), Feb. 21, Puttick Lane, £8

[See also June 27, £4; Sotheby, May. 28, hand-coloured plates, £12 10s.; American Art Association, May 14, $40.] Williamson (G. C.) and Engleheart (H. L. D.) George Engleheart, 1750-1829, miniature painter to George III., No. 30 of 53 copies only, many plates, 10 of which are handpainted, linen, t.e.g., Privately printed, 1902, folio (641), April 16, Sotheby Dobell, £35s.

[See also Dec. 4, £1 12s.] Williamson (T.) The European in India, 20 col. plates by J. H. Clark and C. Dubourg, after C. Doyley, old mor. gt., g.e., E. Orme, 1813, 4to. (526), Dec. 13, Hodgson

David, £4 5s. Williamson (T.) Oriental Field Sports, frontispiece and 40 col. plates by Howitt, plates only, wants the printed title and text, hf. mor., E. Orme, 1805-6, folio (333), Oct. 30, Sotheby Spencer, £16

[See also July 30, ed. 1807, £3 10s.; Nov. 13, £18 10s.; April 9, £30; July 16, ed. 1819, £9 15s.; July 16, £2 10s. ; Oct. 23, 13; April 18, £6 5s.]

Willmott (E.) The Genus Rosa, numerous fine col. plates by A. Parsons, 2 vol. in the original 25 parts as issued, in two cl. portfolios, J. Murray, 1910-14, folio (282), Jan. 24, Hodgson Wheldon, 10 IOS. Willoughby (Henry). Willobie his Avisa, or the True Picture of a Modest Maide, and of a chast and constant wife . . . the fourth time corrected and augmented, title within an elaborate border, old red straight-grain mor., Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet, 1609, sm. 4to. (207), Jan. 23, Anderson Galleries $1,875

[Excessively rare. George Steevens' copy, with his autograph on the title-page. In the first edition of this book occurs the first mention of Shakespeare. The excessive rarity of the earlier editions of the book is shown by Sir Sidney Lee's article in the Dictionary of National Biography, where it is stated that the only known copies are First Edition, 1594, two perfect copies, and one imperfect; Second and Third Editions, none at all; Fourth Edition, one copy; and Fifth Edition, one in the British Museum, then believed to be unique. That copy,

however, is imperfect. The Fourth Edition above referred to is an issue of 1605, and Lee further states that the issue of 1609 was probably a remainder of this Fourth Edition.] Willughby (F.) Ornithology, in Three Books, to which are added Discourses by J. Ray, numerous plates, old cf. (worn), 1678, folio (405), April 9, Sotheby Ellis, £2 2s. [See also June 25, ed. 1676, 18s.]

Willymat (William). A Princes Looking Glasse, or a Princes Direction. containing... Princely precepts and instructions, excerpted out of ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΧΩΡΟΝ ... and translated into Latin and English verse, original ed., Thos. Park's copy, with his autograph signature on title-page, cf. gt., extremely rare, Cambridge, Iohn Legat, 1603, to be sold by Simon Waterson, sm. 4to. (714), March 12, Sotheby Quaritch, £55 Wilson (A.) and Bonaparte (C. L.) American Ornithology, edited by Sir W. Jardine, col. plates, 3 vol., hf. green mor., g.e., 1832, 8vo. (73), Feb. 5, Sotheby

Quaritch, £5 IOS. [See also Puttick, Mar. 27, £4 10s.; Dowell, Feb. 19, £5 158.] Wilson (A.) History of Great Britain, being the Life of King James I., extra illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, a few in mezzotint, engravings, etc., John Mitford's copy, with his MS. notes on fly-leaf, russ. (rebacked), g.e., 1653, folio (431), June 13, Hodgson £5 158. Wilson (Harriette). Memoirs, 4 vol., hf. cf. (one back slip missing, no titles to Vol. iii. and iv.), Stockdale, 1825, 8vo. (87), May 9, Puttick Spencer, £2 5s.

[See also American Art Association, April 16, ed. 1831, $65; Sotheby, April 23, n.d., £12.]

[Wilson (J.)] Psalterium Carolinum. The Devotions of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, rendered in verse, music, has all five titles, cf., 1657, folio (226), May 30, Puttick Barnard, 21 Wilson (S. B.) and Evans (A. H.) Aves Hawaiienses, the Birds of the Sandwich Islands, col. plates, hf. red mor., g.t., wrappers preserved, 1890-9, 4to. (496), June 25, Sotheby Edwards, £4 4s. Wily Beguiled. A Pleasant Comedie, called Wily Beguilde, first ed., imperfect copy of 27 ll. only, comprising title, prologue, 23 11. of the play, beginning with c 3 (p. 19 and final leaf containing the epilogue (in verse), unbound (loose), H. L. for Clement Knight, 1606, sm. 4to. (715), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £135

[See also Hodgson, June 18, £9.] Wimpheling. Adolescentia, roman letter, woodcuts, with leaf of errata, russ., g.e., Argent., M. Flach, 1500, 4to. (5833), Nov. 27, Sotheby Tregaskis, £I 128. Wingate (Edmund). Aoyapıμorexvia, or the Construction and vse of the Logarithmeticall Tables, first published in the

French tongue . . . and now translated into English by the author himselfe, cf., W. Stansby, 1626, 8vo.-A description of the admirable table of Logarithmes . published in Latin by... Lord Nepair . . . and translated by . . . Edward Wright, with an addition by Henrie Briggs, cf., Simon Waterson, 1618, 8vo. (933), Oct. 23, Sotheby Sotheran, £14 IOS. Winkles. Cathedrals of England and Wales, with descriptions by T. Moule, plates, 3 vol., cl., 1836-42, 8vo. (119), Dec. 18, Sotheby Bembury, 138. Winsor (Justin). A Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare, with particular reference to copies in America, 68 heliotype facs., cl., paper labels, uncut, Boston, 1876, folio (20), Nov. 18, American Art Association $20

[Limited to 250 copies, of which this is No. 123. Although the title-page bears date 1876, this was not issued until July, 1877. Laid in is the "Prospectus."] Winstanley (William). The Loyal Martyrology, or Brief Catalogues and Characters of the most Eminent Persons who suffered . . . during the late times of Rebellion, frontispiece with 41 portraits, folding plate (torn and repaired, and a few ll. cut into, slightly damaging the text), red mor., Printed by Thomas Mabb, 1665, 8vo. (346), March 20, Sotheby Barnard, £3 Wise (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow, one of 100 copies printed, numerous facs., Printed for private circulation, 1914, sm. 4to. (314), Feb. 5, Sotheby Thorp, £1 8s. Wise (T. J.) Bibliography of E. B. Browning's Works, portrait, boards, For private circulation, 1918, sm. 4to. (425), May 9, Hodgson £1 18s. Wise (T. J.) Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad (1895-1920), first ed., portrait (limited to 150 copies), boards, 1920, 8vo. (96), May 3, Hodgson

[See also Sotheby, May 15, 1 8s.; May 28, ed. 1921, £2 5s.] Wister (Owen). The Virginian, with illustrations by Charles. M. Russell and drawings from western scenes by Frederic Remington, crushed crimson mor., gt. top, uncut, by Kelly, in a full roan slip-case, New York, 1911, 8vo. (520), March 5, Anderson Galleries

$95

[One of 100 copies on Japan vellum.] Wit (F. de). Tooneel der Vermaarste Koop-Steden en Handelplaatsen van de geheele Wereld, over 200 maps (including America) and plans, a few coloured, 2 vol., orig. vell., upper cover gone, Amsterdam [circa 1685], folio (314), July 16, Sotheby Hart, £6

Witches. A True and exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations and Confessions of the late Witches arraigned and condemned . . . at Chelmesford ... the

29 of July, 1645 (somewhat stained throughout and last page soiled), cf., 1645-A True Declaration of that which hapned since the enemies first comming to Bommell, black letter, fore-edge of one leaf (sign. c 3) slightly shaved, wants first and last leaf (? blanks), cf., John Wolfe, 1599, 4to. (136), Feb. 5, Sotheby Blaker, £4 8s. Witches. A True and Impartial Relation of the Informations against Three Witches Indicted, Arraigned and Convicted at Exon (a few ll. spotted, title and last page soiled), hf. cf., Freeman Collins, 1682, 4to. (540), Oct. 23, Sotheby David, £3 3s.

[See also July 30, £3 5s.] Witches. The History of Witches and Wizards, giving a True Account of their Tryals in England, collected from Bishop Hall, Dr. Glanvil, etc., several crude woodcuts, hf. cf., m.e., C. Hitch [c. 1700], 12mo. (361), June 13, Hodgson David, £4 17s. 6d. Witches. Entdeckte Geheimnisse der Zauberen zur Aufklarung des Bolts über Aberglauben und Irrwahn, curious plates, cf. (defective), Munich, 1790-Recueil de Dissertations sur les Apparitions, les Visions & les Songes, 2 vol., cf., 1751, 8vo. (432), May 15, Sotheby Stow, I 14s. Witchcraft. The most strange and admirable discouerie of the three Witches of Warboys, arraigned, conuicted and executed at the last Assises at Huntington, for the bewitching of the fiue daughters of Robert Throckmorton, Esquire, and diuers other persons, with sundrie Diuellish and grevious torments, and also for the bewitching to death of the Lady Crumwell, the like hath not been heard of in this age, black letter [collation: A-O in fours], unbound (a few headlines cut), London, printed by the Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Man and John Winnington, 1593, sm. 4to. (160), Nov. 30, Hodgson Beagarie, £13 10S. Witchcraft. A most faithful Relation of Two Wonderful Passages which happened very lately (to wit, on the first and eight days of this present September, being Lords days) in the Parish of Bradfield in Berkshire, hf. mor., g.e., Printed by James Cottrel, 1650, 4to. (176), Oct. 30, Sotheby Thorp, £2 18s. Wither (George). Abuses stript and whipt, or Satyricall Essayes, diuided into two Bookes, reuiewed and enlarged, on p. 306 is a woodcut of a satyr with a scourge (small rust-hole in L 2), with original blanks marked a and A 2, orig. sheep, from the Heber library, H. Lownes for Francis Burton, 1617, 8vo. (717), March 12, Sotheby

Quaritch, £23 [See also Puttick, May 30, ed. 1614, £16; Hodgson, Nov. 30, ed. 1622, £4.]

Wither (G.) A Collection of Emblemes, quickened with

first ed., engraved title, with "Preposition" in verse,