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233], Vienne, G. Trechsel for Hugo à Porta of Lyons, 1541, folio (622), June 27, Sotheby Edwards, £25 Ptolemaeus (C.) La Geografia. . . con le tauole . . . nuoue aggiunteui di Messer Iacopo Gastaldo... ridotta in uolgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo, 60 doublepage engraved maps, vellum, Venice, G. B. Padrezano, 1548, 8vo. (528), June 27, Sotheby Lange, £4

[See also Ed. 1562-July 25, £1.] Ptolemaeus (C.) La Geografia tradotta da Girolamo Ruscelli aggiuntovi un pieno discorso di M. Gioseppe Moleto, engraved double-page maps, corner of one leaf (sig. B 2) defective, orig. vellum, In Venetia, V. Valgrisi, 1561, 4to. (731), May 30, Sotheby Thorp, £3 10S.

[See also Lot 732, £3 10s.] Ptolemaeus (C.) Planisphaerium.

Iordani Planisphaerium.

Federici Commandini urbinatis in Ptolemaei Planisphaerium commentarius, first ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., olive straight-grain mor., gt. tooled, g.e.(slightly rubbed), Venetiis, Aldus, 1558, sm. 4to. (553), Oct. 13, Anderson Gall. $32 Ptolemaeus (C.) Quadripartitum [with other Tracts, edited by Hieronymus Salius], [Hain *13544, Proctor *5050], gothic letter, 154 ll., woodcut initials, device and diagrams, worm-holes affecting a few letters in the last 40 ll., Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 20 Dec., 1493-Bessarion (Cardinal). In calumniatorem Platonis lib. iv., etc., roman letter, 120 ll., anchor on title (soiled), ib., Aldus, July, 1503, bound together, cf., folio (408), April 27, Sotheby Tregaskis, £9 Public Records. Rotuli Hundredorum, 2 vol., hf. russia (a little rubbed), uncut, 1818, folio (775), Feb. 14, Sotheby Grant, £2 15S. Public Records. Calendar of the Patent Rolls: Edward III. to Richard III., 1338 to 1350 and 1461 to 1485, 8 vol., cloth, 1898-1905, imp. 8vo. (13), June 30, Hodgson Trout, £3 12s. 6d. Puckle (James). The Club, LARGE PAPER, only 200 so printed, vignettes on India paper, new polished cf. extra, 1817, 8vo. (115), Dec. 1, Hodgson Trout, £1 9s. [See also Puttick, July 12, 1; Sotheby, July 7, £310s.] Puget de la Serre (Jean). Histoire de l'Entrée de la Reyne Mere [i.e. Marie de Medicis], LARGE PAPER, numerous fine plates of street views, processions, etc., dark olive mor., in the centre of each cover a large gt. stamp with the Arms of Charles I. on a plain shield surrounded by the Garter and surmounted by the royal crown, London, J. Raworth for G. Thomason and O. Pullen, 1639, folio (472), April 11, Sotheby Arthur, £28

[The numerous illustrations to this book are of great interest, as they not only exhibit the Stuart costume of the day, but also portray the London palaces and streets of Charles I.'s reign. This is probably the finest English illustrated book of this period.]

Pugin (Augustus Welby). Examples of Gothic Architecture in England, plates, 3 vol., cloth, Bohn, 1838-40, 4to. (246), Mar. 3, Puttick Batsford, £3 15s. [See also April 7, £2 7s. 6d.; Ed. 1838, London-Anderson Gall., April 12, $37.50.] Pulci (Luigi). Il Driadeo [Hain-Copinger 13581, not in Proctor], roman letter, 66 11. (a-h 10 in eights), red mor. gt., Florence, Francesco di Dino, 22 Aug., 1489, 4to. (332), June 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £23 Pulton (Ferdinand). An Abstract of all the Penal Statutes, second ed., black letter, contemp. cf. (worn), C. Barker, 1581, sm. 4to. (135), Mar. 24, Hodgson

Atkinson, £2 17s. 6d. [See also Ed. 1586-May 18, £7 10s.; Ed. 1609—Mar. 24, £3 3s.; Ed. 1615-Nov. 25, £1 IS.] Punch, Vol. lxxxiv.-clxix. (Vol. cxxxvi.-cxxxvii. in 1 vol., blue cloth), orig. cloth, 1883-1925, 4to. (840), Dec. 6, Sotheby Thorp, £10 Punch, Vol. 58 to 74, 1870-78; Vol. 81 to 120, 1881-1901; Vol. 138 to 162, 1910-1922, orig. cloth, 83 vol., 4to. (519), July 28, Sotheby Edwards, £6 10s.

[See also 1841-46-Anderson Gall., Oct. 13, 11 vol., $11; 1888-1923-Dowell, Nov. 22, 72 vol., £4 4s.; Re-issues, 68 vol.-Puttick, Jan. 12, £4; 26 vol.-Sotheby, June 30, £8 5s.] Punch's Pocket Books, a complete set from 1843 to 1881, a col. folding front. to each vol. except the first), 39 vol., limp roan, with tuck, 8vo. (47), Nov. 10, Hodgson

[See also Puttick, May 5, 14 vol., £2.] Maggs, £12 Purcell (Henry). Orpheus Britannicus, first ed., portrait by White, 2 vol. in 1, wants portrait to Part ii., a few numerals shaved, orig. cf. gt. (rubbed), 1698-1702, folio (758), Nov. 8, Sotheby Ellis, £4 15s. Purchas (Samuel). Haklvytvs Posthumus, or Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, first ed., maps and engravings, 5 vol., Vol. I with the uncancelled map on p. 65, but no blank leaf after p. 186, engraved title and last 3 11. mended, 2 maps slightly cut into, and a few minor defects, purple mor. extra, g.e., 1625-6, folio (606), Mar. 7, Sotheby Geikie, £65 Purchas (S.) Purchas His Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World (including America), second ed., enlarged, title mounted, otherwise a sound copy, old cf., 1614, folio (12), July 21, Hodgson Michelmore, £2 4s.

[See also Ed. 1617-Dowell, Jan. 24, £3 5s.; Sotheby, July 4, £5 10s.; Ed. 1626-July 4, £1 15s.] Purchas (S.) Hakluytus Posthumous [1625], or Purchas His Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others, library ed., numerous facsimiles, 20 vol., cloth, t.e.g., J. MacLehose, 1905-7 (356), May 26, Hodgson Marks, £6 5s.

[See also July 7, £6 5s.; Dec. 1, £6 10s.; Sotheby, May 16, £5 15s.; July 20, £6 15s.]

Pyle (Howard). Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, compiled by Merle Johnson, one of 50 copies on vellum stock, col. plates and other illustrations, pictorial boards, cloth back, uncut, New York, 1921, 4to. (310), Nov. 11, Anderson Gall. $39

[The first printing from the new plates, signed by the compiler.] Pyne (John). Anagrammata Regia, top outer corners dampstained, hf. cf., [W. Stansby, 1626]-Epigrammata Religiosa, Officiosa, Iocosa, Anglo-latina, Latina, Anglica, Quibus miscentur Anagrammata, first 4 11. defective at foot, top outer corners damp-stained, hf. cf., [W. Stansby, 1626], 4to. (493), Dec. 6, Sotheby Pyne, £3 Pyne (William Henry). The Costume of Britain, col. vignette on title, and 60 col. plates, orig. straight-grained red mor. (a little rubbed), g.e., 1808, 4to. (588), Dec. 13, Sotheby [See also July 4, £4.] Heffer, £3 10S. [Pyne (W. H.)] A Day's Journal of a Sponge, by Peter Pasquin, a series of 6 plates in colour, orig. printed wrappers (rebacked, repair in reverse cover), enclosed in cloth portfolio, leather label on front, London, 1824, oblong folio (121), Nov. 10, Amer. Art Assoc. $20

[Original issue of these highly humorous coloured plates, depicting the misadventures of a gentleman with no money but a great deal of impudence. Besides the pseudonym of "Peter Pasquin," Pyne adopted that of Ephraim Hardcastle" for some of his works.]

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Pyne (W. H.) The History of the Royal Residences, col. plates, 3 vol., contemp. straight-grained mor. extra, g.e., 1819, 4to. (386), April 25, Sotheby Bain, £26

[See also Lot 140, cracking, 15; May 23, broken, £8; Mar. 7, 12 10S.; June 20, fine, £27; Nov. 8, £15; Puttick, July 12, 16 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., May 5, $90; Dec. 1, $80; Anderson Gall., Nov. 15, $130.] Pyrophilus (J. A.) Liquor Alchahest, or a Discourse of that Immortal Dissolvent of Paracelsus & Helmont, old sheep (cracking), 1675, 16mo. (290), May 30, Sotheby

Quaritch, £7 10S. Quadragesimale novum de filio prodigo [Hain 13629, Proctor 7736, B.M. Cat. Vol. iii. p. 785], gothic letter, 231 ll., 2 columns of 34 lines each to the page, full-page woodcuts, spaces left for capitals, a few 11. slightly soiled, full old stamped pigskin over oaken boards, traces of clasps, good copy, clean and unwormed, with wide margins, with bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin [colophon] Impressum Basilee per Michaele furter, M.CCCC.XCVII. [Basel, Furter, 1497], sm. 8vo. (946), Mar. 31, Amer. Art Assoc.

$43

[Four copies listed by Winship as being in America. The woodcuts are very curious, depicting the Prodigal Son dressed in medieval costume, and the women with tall head-dresses, etc.]

Quakers. The Testimony of the Hartford Quakers, 1676— Haydocke (R.) The Skirmisher Confounded, 1676— Vaughton (J.) The Devil the Greatest Sinner in the World, 1676-A Vindication of Jesus Christ, 1676—and other Quaker Tracts, 29 pieces in 1 vol., old cf., sm. 4to. (375), July 18, Sotheby' H. Stevens, 62 Quarles (Francis). Emblemes, engraved title and plates by W. Marshall, W. Simpson, etc., 6 11. supplied loose from another copy, orig. cf., London, printed by I. D. for Francis Eglesfeild, 1639, 8vo. (1614), Mar. 28, Sotheby

[See also Ed. 1641-April 11, £4 158.] Quaritch, £37 Quarles (F.) Observations concerning Princes and States, upon Peace and Warre, first ed., wrappers, London, printed for John Sweeting, 1642, 4to. (1615), Mar. 28, Sotheby Pickering, £2 10S. Quarles (F.) Divine Poems, containing The History of Ionah -Ester-Iob-Sions Sonets Elegies-An Elegie on Dr. Ailmer, not formerly printed, written by Fra. Qvarles, first collected ed., with engraved title-page by T. Cecill, full brown crushed levant mor., with centre panel composed of a design of grapes with foliage onlayed in green on a shaded gold ground, with title in small oval in centre on sides, similar design on back, both sides and back having narrow red border outlined with gt., g.e., by De Sauty, superb copy, the G. W. Steevens-Beverley Chew copy, with bookplates, London, 1630, sm. 8vo. (154), Jan. 7, Amer. Art Assoc.

$105

[All the matter contained in this volume had previously appeared separately. Each of the seven works has separate title-page, preface, etc. The leaf, "The Minde of the Frontispiece" is present.]

Quarles (John). Divine Meditations upon Several Subjects, whereunto is annexed Gods Love, and Man's Unworthiness, with several Divine Eiaculations, portrait, corner of last leaf torn affecting one letter, cf., London, T. J. for Peter Parker, 1671, 8vo. (1617), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 IOS. Quarre (J. H.) Devout Entertainments of a Christian Soule, composed in Frerch... translated into English by J[ohn] Paulet], Marq. of Winchester, border of title shaved, old sheepskin, the Brand-Heber copy, Printed at Paris, 1649, 12mo. (1618), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £13 Queen's Closet Opened (The): Secrets in Physick, Candying, and Cookery [with "The Compleat Cook"], by W. M., portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (slightly defective, and a few rust-holes in some ll.), with 7 ll. of “Books Printed" at end, cf., N. Brook, 1658, 12mo. (499), Oct. 20, Hodgson Myers, £6 1OS.

Quevedo-Villegas (Francisco Gomez de). Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper, illustrated by Daniel Vierge, vellum, gt. back, 1892 (260), May 4, Hodgson Quaritch, £3 58. [See also Christie, July 25, £2 15s.]

Quin (Walter). Corona Virtvtvm Principe Dignarum. . . in usum D. Caroli Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ Principis, first ed., contemp. limp vellum, Heber copy, J. Bill, 1613, 12mo. (1620), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 Quinn (John), Complete Catalogue of the Library of, portraits and facsimiles, 2 vol., cloth, New York, 1924, 8vo. (239), April 11, Anderson Gall.

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[With the printed prices bound in at end. The most complete catalogue of first editions of modern and esteemed authors, private presses, etc. available, with the prices realised at auction. Includes the famous Conrad collection and the much-quoted biographies. See also Feb. 14, $13.]

Quintillian (Marcus Fabius). Oratoris eloqventissimi, de Institutione Oratoria Libri XII., second ed., woodcut title and initials, mottled cf. (somewhat rubbed), with bookplate of Charles Ford, Parisiis, Vascosanus, 1549, folio (516), Mar. 16, Amer. Art Assoc. $II

[Contains in addition the declamations of Seneca. Good example of early Parisian typography. Inner margin of title-page and of the last few leaves somewhat fallen away because of damp. See also Ed. 1718-Sotheby, Nov. 8, £2 15s.]

Quintin (J.) Apostoli describentis Episcoporum Presbyterorum, et Diaconorum Mores, Speculum Sacerdotii, [D.T.C. Pt. i. p. 94; not in Brunet], with De Thou's autograph annotations at pp. 1, 20, 21 and 28, cf., with the monogram IAG (Jacques Auguste Gasparde) on the back, from the Duke of Sussex's library, with his ex-libris, Paris, A. Wichel, 1556, 4to. (208), July 25, Sotheby Mason, 3 IOS. Quintinye (Jean). The Complete Gard'ner, made English by John Evelyn, copperplates and portrait-front., contemp. panelled cf. (rebacked), London, 1693, folio (137), Jan. 10, Anderson Gall.

$21

R. (I., translator). The Worlde, or An Historicall Description of the most famous Kingdomes and Common-weales therein. . . translated into English, and inlarged, first ed. (2 l. unsigned; B-Ff in fours, last blank), bottom outer corner of title creased and torn, very slightly affecting two letters on verso, wormholes in top outer corner of last seven sheets, causing minute defects in six or seven 11., otherwise a fine copy, old pen-notes, orig. vellum, E. Bollifant for J. Jaggard, 1601, 4to. (158), Nov. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £96

[The Britwell copy was sold in March, 1927, and a reproduction of the title-page was given in the sale catalogue.] Rabelais (Francois). Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de l'invention de maistre François Rabelais (A-G 8, G (repeated) 7), 160 woodcuts on 60 ll., crushed green mor. gt., g.e., A Paris, Richard Breton, 1565, 8vo. (817), May 30, Sotheby Maggs, £20

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