ll., long lines, red mor. [Hain *6382], [Strassburg, The "R" Printer, before 1473], folio (416), May 25, Sotheby Ölschki, £13 IOS. Donatus. De Octo Partibus Orationis. Part of a vellum leaf from the 30-line Donatus, printed at Mainz by Johann Gutenberg, about 1450-1455; consists of about one-half the width of the leaf and three-quarters of the length (actual measurement, 8 by 3 inches), containing portions of lines 6 to 30, with inner and lower margins, printed on vell., gothic type, 30 lines to the page, paragraph mark and initial strokes supplied by hand in red, unbd. (an orig. hole in vell. mended before printing), [Mainz, Johann Gutenberg, circa 1450-1455 ?], sm. folio (317), Dec. 20, American Art Association $215

[Unique. Only one other fragment of this 30-line Donatus is known-that in the British Museum. One of the earliest specimens of type-printing in existence. Catalogue of Books printed in the xvth Century now in the British Museum," Part i., page 16 (IC.68); Schwenke, Die Donat- und Kalender-type, No. 10; Zedler, Die älteste Gutenbergtype, Tafeln ix., x. This edition of

'Donatus was printed on vell., in folio, 12 ll., with 30 lines to the page, type-page measuring 9, by 6 inches (237 by 165 mm.). The 27-line Donatus, of which there are some fragments in the British Museum and elsewhere, is printed in the same type, but with wider spacing between the lines, measuring 63 (163 mm.) to 20 lines. The type used in the various issues of "Donatus" is the same as that in the " 1448 Calendar, and the 31-line Indulgences, and is called variant "b, or the first recast of the 165 church type. A second recast was used in the 36-line Bible and in books printed by Albrecht Pfister at Bamberg about 1461-1462. ́ Alfred W. Pollard says that in its earliest form this type can only be attributed to Gutenberg, and that at what time he parted with it, and how it came into the possession of Pfister, are matters of conjecture. Zedler, Die älteste Gutenbergtype, places the date of printing of the various issues of the Donatus as about 1448, the supposed date of the Calendar, but Mr. Pollard takes as a basis the "Indulgences, ," which are the only works printed in this type bearing a date, and assigns the same date, 1455 approximately, to the Donatus." The present fragment of the 30-line Donatus" must not be confused with fragments of the 27-line ed., which are also in the British Museum, and of which some further fragments were recently discovered. An interesting note in a recent issue of the Boston Transcript" describes the finding of these fragments, and the article in the "Bookman's Journal and Print Collector," Special Number, August 13, 1920, from which the Transcript's notice was taken, gives excellent facsimiles of the two ll. in question. A

comparison of this facsimile with the 30-line fragment here offered shows that the text contains many more abbreviations than the 30-line edition, as well as having the wider spacing between the printed lines. There are fragments of other 27-line Donatuses in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and one or two other European libraries, but no other fragments of this 30-line "Donatus" have ever been recorded. From the Lord Amherst of Hackney collection, being No. 5 in the hand-list of this collection. the hand-list also containing an excellent facsimile of the leaf.] Donck (Adriaen van der). Beschryvinge Van Niew-Nederlant, crushed brown levant mor., by R. W. Smith, Amsterdam, Evert Nieuwenhop, 1656, sm. 4to. (115), April 18, Anderson Galleries $790 Doncker (H.) De Nieuwe Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Werelt, fine engraved title and maps, including 6 of America, with outline ornamental cartouches and title, col. by a contemp. hand, vell., Amst., 1683 (939), July 27, Hodgson £29 10S. Doni (Antoine F.) The Moral Philosophie of Doni, drawne out of the ancient writers, a work first compiled in the Indian tongue and afterwards reduced into diuers other languages, and now lastly Englished out of Italian by Sir Thomas North, Knight, black and roman letter, woodcuts (wants ▲ I and Bb 4, both blanks, a few upper margins slightly stained, name on title and 4 or 5 lines scored), polished cf., Simon Stafford, 1601, sm. 4to. (647), Oct. 25, Sotheby Pickering, £62 Donne (Dr. John). A Sermon upon the xv. verse of the xx. chapter of the Booke of Iudges, first ed., hf. mor., 1622 (611), Feb. 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 Donne (J.) A Sermon upon the VIII. Verse of the 1 Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, preach'd to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation 13 Novemb., 1622, hf. brown mor., London, printed by A. Mat. for Thomas Iones, 1622, sm. 4to. (89), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $75

[The very scarce first ed. Donne was admitted to the Virginia Company of London in July, 1622, and was selected to preach the annual sermon before the Company. This may be said to be the first missionary sermon printed in the English language. A fine, crisp copy, with the signature F. Bridgewater" on margin of title. Anderson Galleries, May 9, Lot 249, $22.]

Donne (J.) Encaenia, the Feast of Dedication, first ed., hf. cf., 1623 (609), Feb. 23, Sotheby Hoare, £5 5s. [Anderson Galleries, Jan. 20, Lot 90, $30.] Donne (J.) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, first ed., orig. cf. (rebacked and mended), A. M. for T. Jones, 1624, 8vo. (450), Jan. 17, Sotheby Maggs, £8 Donne (J.) The First Sermon preached to King Charles at Saint Iames, 3d. April, 1625, crushed wine-colour levant

mor., gt. top, by the French binders, London, printed by A. M. for Thomas Iones, 1625, sm. 4to. (91), Jan. 20,

Anderson Gall ries $50 Donne (J.) A Sermon preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24 Febr., 1625, crushed wine-colour levant mor., gt. top, by the French binders, London, printed for Thomas Iones, 1626, sm. 4to. (92), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $32 [Sotheby, Feb. 23, Lot 610, £3 15s.]

Donne (J.) Juvenilia, or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes, second ed. [probably suppressed by reason of the addition to the first " Probleme " -see Keynes' Bibliography, 1914], [A-F in 4's, first blank], unbd., E. P. for H. Seyle, 1633, sm. 4to. (339), Jan. 19, Hodgson Quaritch, £12

[Sotheby, May 18, Lot 172, 1652, £2 10s.] Donne (J.) Poems, by. J. D., with Elegies on the Author's Death, first ed., orig. vell. (lower corner margins of S4 defective and repaired), M. F. for Iohn Marriot, 1633, sm. 4to. (165), Jan. 17, Sotheby Maggs, £30

[A large and fine copy, with the rare blank leaf Ar before the title and the blank leaf Fff4 at the end. Lowndes, in error, states that this edition should contain a port. On sign. Y3, on page 165 (in this copy misprinted 149), will be found the famous eulogy of Shakespeare. Anderson Galleries, Nov. 29, Lot 151, $115; Nov. 11, Lot 84, $125; Jan. 20, Lot 93, $57.50; Sotheby, May 25, Lot 418, 19; June 28, Lot 69, £8; April 25,

Lot 394, old cf., £3 5s.] Donne (J.) Poems by J. D., with Elegies on the Author's Death, port. by W. Marshall (some signatures and catchwords cut into), blue mor., g.e., by F. Bedford, M. F. for John Marriot, 1635, sm. 8vo. (419), May 25, Sotheby

Dobell, £10 IOS. [July 20, Lot 656, £11; April 18, Lot 8, £5; Jan. 17, Lot 693, £8.]

Donne (J.) Poems by J. D., with Elegies on the Author's Death, brown mor., by Rivière, London, M. F. for John Marriot, 1639, sm. 8vo. (152), Nov. 29, Anderson Galleries

$40

[The rare third ed. The Hoe-Jones copy, with bookplates. Anderson Galleries, Jan. 20, $10.]

Donne (J.) LXXX. Sermons [with Life by Izaac Walton],
orig. ed., engraved title containing port. (margin very
slightly defective), old cf., 1640, folio (607), March 2,
Hodgson
Dobell, £7 5s.
Donne (J.) Poems by J. D., with Elegies on the Author's
Death, port. by W. Marshall, orig. cf., fine copy, For
John Marriot, 1650, 8vo. (208), Nov. 24, Sotheby

Dobell, £6 10S.

Donne (J.) Poems, some headlines cut (small hole in B 4), cf., gt. ornamental frame sides, In the Savoy, 1669, 8vo. (706), July 20, Sotheby Dobell, £4 [Hodgson, Feb. 16, Lot 178, £2 8s.; Lot 596, £3 10s.] (315)

Sotheby, Feb. 23,

Donne (J.) A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-Homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise, first ed., cf. ex., g.e., presentation copy from Donne to the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford, with a holograph letter signed by the author presenting his book to the earl written upon the fly-leaf, 1644, 4to. (390), June 28, Sotheby Dobell, £14

[Dec. 13, Lot 48, 1648, £4.]

Donne (J.) Essayes in Divinity, first ed., wanting the blank leaf for A1, buff cf. gt., g.e., from the library of Dr. Steeves, T. M. for Richard Marriot, 1651, sm. 8vo. (420), May 25, Sotheby Wilkinson, £2 IOS.

[May 18, Lot 302, £9 5s.]

Donne (J.) Poems on Several Occasions, cf., 1719-The Primer set Furth by the kinges maiestie and his Clergie, 1546 (title-page slightly defective, a few 11. shaved), together 2 vol., cf. gt., Reprinted without any alteration, n.d., 8vo. (173), May 18, Sotheby Winter, £1 8s.

[Anderson Galleries, Jan. 20, Lot 95, $9.] Donovan (E.) Natural History of British Birds, col. plates, 10 vol. in 5, 1794-1820-British Insects, col. plates, 16 vol. in 8, 1794-1813-British Fishes, col. plates, 5 vol. in 3, 1803-8-British Shells, col. plates, 5 vol. in 3, 1800-4British Quadrupeds, col. plates, 3 vol. in 1, 1820, together 39 vol. in 20, cf. gt., gt. backs, g.e., crest on sides, 17941820, 8vo. (778), April 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £17 10S. Donovan (E.) The Natural History of British Birds, or a Selection of the most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which inhabit this Country, the descriptions from the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus, illustrated with 102 col. plates, 4 vol. in 1, hf. russ. (slight split in one hinge), London, printed for the Author, 1794 (134), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries

$21

[Another copy, 5 vol., 1799, 8vo.] Donovan (E.) Natural History of British Shells, col. plates, 5 vol., hf. mor. gt., g.t., 1800-4 (14), July 25, Sotheby Wheldon, £1 15s. Donovan (E.) The Naturalist's Repository, or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, col. plates, 5 vol., cl., 1823-7, 8vo. (625), March, Sotheby Edwards, £6 15s.

[Anderson Galleries, Feb. 1, Lot 136, 1834, $19.] Doran (Dr. John). A collected set of first eds. of the Works of Dr. Doran, 27 vol., uniformly bound in polished cf., uncut, by Rivière, London, 1854-1888, 12mo. and 8vo. (449), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $87.50 Doran (Dr. J.) Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, ports., 2 vol., presentation copy to Mrs. Hepworth Dixon, with author's inscription, 1864, 8vo. (458), May 9, Sotheby Maggs, 16s.

[Jan. 24, Lot 29, 20s.]

Doran (Dr. J.) "Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the

English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean,
one of 300 copies, ports. in duplicate, one on Japanese
and the other on plate paper, 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, 1888,
8vo. (219), June 9, Sotheby
Dobell, £1 4s.

[May 9, Lot 459, £I IS.]

[Dorat (J.)] Les Baisers, précédés du Mois de Mai, Poëme, Dutch paper, title in red and black (91 in. by 5 in.), first issue with the faulty pagination, engraved front. and one plate after Eisen, fleuron on title, 22 vignettes and 22 culs-de-lampe, all by Eisen, except two by Marillier, engraved by Âliamet, Baquoy and others, crushed red mor., floreate gt. tooling on sides, panelled back, inside border, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru, a fine copy, A La Haye, 1770 (427), July 25, Sotheby Sotheran, £42

[April 18, Lot 626, corr. pagination, £7 5s.; Nov. 15, Lot 348, £5 5s.; Feb. 23, Lot 897, £5 10s.; Jan. 17, Lot 668, £4.]

Dorat (J.) Mes Reveries, contenant Erato et l'Amour: Poeme, suivi des Riens, red mor., uncut, A Londres, 1771, 8vo. (174), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries $77.50 Dorat (J.) Fables nouvelles, engraved titles and many illustrations by Marillier, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol. in 1, polished crimson levant mor. ex., full gt. back, g.e., by Claessens, La Haye, 1773, 8vo. (349), Nov. 15, Sotheby Robson, £50 [Oct. 21, Lot 349, £14 10s.; March 1, Lot 369, £36.] Dorat (J.) Les Devirgineurs et Combabus, Contes en Vers, précédés par des Reflexions sur le Conte, et suivis de Floricourt, Histoire Francoise, with 2 plates by De Longueil after Eisen, LARGE HOLLAND PAPER, red levant mor., gt. top, uncut, A Amsterdam, 1763, 8vo. (173), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries $80 D'Orbigny (Alcide). Voyage dans l'Amérique meridionale (le Brésil, Uruguay, Argentine, Patagonie, Chili, Bolivia, Pérou), 1826-33, port. and numerous plates (many col.), 9 vol. in 8, hf. green mor., gt. panelled back, Paris & Strasbourg, 1835-47, large 4to. (626), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £92 D'Orbigny (C.) Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, 13 vol. text and 3 vol. col. plates, together 16 vol., hf. cf., Paris, 1847-9, 8vo. (627), March 1, Sotheby

Edwards, £6 5s. Dorman (T.) A Proofe of certeyne Articles of Religion denied by M. Jewell, with the leaf of faultes committed at end, polished cf. gt., by W. Pratt, Antwerp, J. Latius, 1564, sm. 4to. (519), July 12, Hodgson £3 12s. 6d. Doubleday (E.) and Westwood (J. O.) The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 86 col. plates, 2 vol., hf. green mor., g.t., 1846-52, folio (628), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £21 Doughty (C. M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, plates, illustrations, 2 vol., Cambridge, 1888, 8vo. (794), June 15, Sotheby Hope, £10 IOS.