Las Cases (Emmanuel, Comte de). Memorial de Sainte Hélène. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, folding maps, plan_and_view, 8 parts bound in 4 vol., crimson mor., London, Henry Colburn, 1823, 8vo. (472), April 11, American Art Association $17.50 [See also Anderson Galleries, Nov. 14, 1824 ed., $20; American Art Association, April 11, 1835 ed., $25.] La Serre (Jean Puget, Sieur de). Les Delices de la Mort, engraved title, vignette portrait of Prince Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of the Rhine, etc., 3 engraved plates of death scenes, brown mor., by Trautz-Bauzonnet, Brusselles, François Vivien, 1631, 8vo. (375), May 2, American Art Association $27.50 Lasso de la Vega (G.) Manoivello de Romances Nuevos y otras obras [a reprint, but without the tragedies, of the rare 1587 ed.], orig. limp vell. (back defective and a few leaves stained), En Caragoça, M. F. Sanchez, 1601, 12m0. (303), Nov. 30, Hodgson £3 17s. 6d. Lassus (Orlandus de). Patrocinium Musices (Officia aliquot, de præcipius Festis anni 5 vocum-Passio, quinque vocum), 2 vol. only, titles within woodcut borders (first title very slightly defective and both mounted), large woodcut initials, musical notation on 5-line staves, a few margins mended, hf. cf. (Cummings copy, with bookplate), Monachii, A. Berg, 1574-5, folio (475), March 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 Last Will and Testament of Charing Crosse, very usefull for the Wits of the time, in prose and verse, maroon mor. ex., by W. Pratt, Miller arms, 1646, sm. 4to. (415), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £8 Latham (C.) In English Homes, numerous plates, 2 vol., buckram gt., g.e., Country Life, 1904-7, folio (219), Dec. 19, Sotheby Tiranti, £4 IOS. [See also July 31, £2.] Latham (J.) General Synopsis of Birds, with Supplement and Index, coloured plates, together 9 vol., old tree cf. ex., 1781-90, 4to. (128), May 24, Hodgson £3 17s. 6d. Latham (Simon). I. Latham's Falconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure. II. Latham's New and Second Booke of Falconry, concerning the ordering and training up of such Hawkes as was omitted, etc. in his printed Booke of the Haggard, Falcon and Gerfalcon, 32 woodcuts in the second part, two works in I vol., green mor., by the Club Bindery, London, I. B. for R. Jackson, 1615-18, 4to. (766), May 2, Anderson Galleries $95 [First edition of each book. Between the two books are 3 leaves not found in the British Museum copy. With the Hoe bookplate. See also Sotheby, Nov. 7, 1633 ed., £5 5s.] Latimer (Hugh). Sermons preached by the right Reuerend Father in God, and constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, M. by Hugh Latimer .. An. 1552, faithfully gathered . Augustine Bernher, black letter, title within a woodcut border (some headlines cut into), cf. gt., John Day, 1571, 4to. (424), Jan. 23, Sotheby Latymer's Frutefull Sermons, first eds., hf. cf., 1571, sm. 4to. (560), March 13, Dowell Hoare, £2 £2 6s. [See also Jan. 16, 1578 ed., £3 5s.; Sotheby, April 3, 1607 ed., £2 15s.] Laud (Archbishop). Relation of the Conference between W. Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher, the Jesuit, orig. red mor. gt., tooled Harleian style, g.e., in fine condition, 1686, folio (744), April 3, Sotheby Dobell, £1 4s. Lauder (William). Ane Godlie Tractate or Mirrour. Quhairintill may be easilie perceauit quho Thay be that ar Ingraftit in to Christ, ad quho ar nocht. Declaring also the rewaird of the Godlie and Punyschement of the wekit, in verse, black letter, woodcut on title-page of a satyr upholding a mirror (title slightly defective and mended, some marginal references cut into), straight-grain green mor. ex., g.e., by C. Lewis, N. pl. or d. [Edinburgh, Robert Lekpreuik, 1568], sm. 4to. (416), Feb. 6, Sotheby [Believed to be the only copy known.] Quaritch, £230 Laudunus (M. de). Epistola exhortatoria, lit. goth., on folio I is painted an ornamental initial in gold and colours, with a partial border of fruit and conventional floral scrolls, contemp. Venetian binding, by Giovanni Bernardi, of brown mor., with large panel blind stamped fulllength figure of King Solomon, surrounded by a border containing stamps of the Virgin and Child, the three Magi, King Herod and the massacre of the Innocents, in a slip-case, sold as a binding, [Paris], ex aedibus Ascensianis, 1507, sm. 4to. (1602), July 3, Sotheby Maggs, £5 10S. Laufer (B.) Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, plates, buckram, 1909, 8vo. (742), Oct. 26, Hodgson Kegan Paul, £10 Lavater (J. C.) Essays on Physiognomy, translated by H. Hunter, plates, 3 vol. in 5 (some leaves foxed), russ. gt., 1789-8, 4to. (1328), July 31, Sotheby Bartlett, I IOS. [See also Dec. 12, 1 14s.; Nov. 14, £4 10s.; May 1, 1792 ed., £3 15s.; Puttick, Aug. 2, £2 5s.; American Art Association, April 11, $32.50; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 13, $25.] Lavater (Lewes). Of Ghostes and Spirites walking by Nyght, and of strange noyses, crackes and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters and alterations of Kyngdomes, translated into Englyshe by R. H., black letter, title within a woodcut border (slightly shaved at top), a few leaves slightly water-stained, W. Herbert's copy, with his signature on fly-leaf, old cf. (worn), on the upper cover a coat of-arms, with motto, "Quo fata vocant," Henry Benneyman for Richard Watkyns, 1572, 4to. (198), May 22, Sotheby Quaritch, £21 [Collation: 2 leaves without signature, b4, c2, A4Z4, Aa4-Dd4, Ee2. This agrees with Hazlitt, H. 329, 118 leaves," and with the description given by Herbert, II., 971. The Huth catalogue collation giving 4 leaves in sign. c appears to be wrong.] La Vega (G. de). The Royal Commentaries of Peru, translated by Sir P. Rycaut, portrait, plates, 2 parts in 1, cf., 1688, folio (631), Dec. 19, Sotheby Edwards, £2 16s. [See also May 1, £1 4s.] Lavisse (E.) Histoire de France depuis les Origines jusqu'à la Révolution, maps, etc., 9 vol. in 18, hf. mor., t.e.g.. Paris, 1911, 8vo. (247), July 12, Hodgson £8 IOS. Law (E.) History of Hampton Court Palace, plates, 3 vol., cl. gt., 1888-91, sm. 4to. (326), April 26, Hodgson Edwards, £2 8s. Law (E.) Vandyck's Pictures at Windsor Castle, historically and critically described by Ernest Law, édition-de-luxe, 30 plates, on Dutch handmade paper, limited to 300copies, covers to the orig. parts bound in, hf. mor. gt., g.t., 1899, roy. folio (351), Nov. 28, Sotheby Sawyer, £2 12s. 6d. Lawes and Statutes. Instytutions, or Principall Groundes of the Lawes and Statutes of Englande, cf. gt., Wyllym Myddylton, Lond., 1545, 12mo. (4), Feb. 13, Dowell £2 6s. Law Reports in all the Courts, with Statutes and Digest, from the commencement in 1865-6 to 1921, in 438 vol., hf. cf. (those to 1890 in bad condition), 15 vol. cl. and boards, last year in parts, together 453 vol., 8vo. (751), May 17, Hodgson Kelly, £75 [See also Nov. II, 379 vol., £60; July 6, 424 vol., £59.] Law Reports. The Times Law Reports, from the commencement in 1884 to 1922 inclusive (being Vol. i. to xxxvii., Vol. xxx. wanting), with Digest to 1905, together 39 vol., cl. (3 hf. cf. and 27 nos.), 1884-1922 (20), July 6, Hodgson £40 [See also Nov. II, 12 vol. cl., rest in numbers, £15.] Laws of England (The), being a Complete Statement of the whole of the Law of England, by the Earl of Halsbury and other lawyers, thin paper issue of the original ed., 31 vol., hf. blue mor., cl. sides, in clean condition, with the 1921 Supplement, etc., 2 vol., cl., 1907-21, 8vo. (13), Nov. 11, Hodgson Levi, £61 [See also Sotheby, May 29, £39.] Lawes (H.) Ayres and Dialogues, the First Booke, 1653— Second Book, 1655-Third Book, portrait on title by W. Faithorne, 1658, together 3 vol. in 1, first eds., contemp. cf. (rebacked, some lower margins uncut, books one and two lack titles), 1653-8, folio (206), Feb. 8, Puttick [See also Sotheby, Feb. 27, £17 10s.] Quaritch, £15 Lawrence (D. H.) Bay, a Book of Poems, coloured illustrations by A. E. Rice (limited to 30 copies on Japanese vell., signed by the author and artist), boards, 1919, 8vo. (45), March 8, Hodgson [See also Aug. 3, £2 14s.] £3 12s. Lawrence (D. H.) The Rainbow, first ed., orig. cl. gt., a clean copy, 1915, 8vo. (307), March 29, Hodgson [See also Nov. 23, £3 5s.] £4 $18 Lawrence (H. W.) and Dighton (Basil). French Line Engravers of the late xvIII. century, plates, cl. gt., 1910, 4to. (105), May 8, Sotheby Edwards, £5 15s. Lawrence (John). The History and Delineation of the Horse in all his Varieties, engraved title and numerous plates of horses, together with many vignettes, mostly engraved by Bewick, hf. green straight-grain mor., uncut, Albion Press, 1809, 4to. (207), April 3, Anderson Galleries [See also Sotheby, Nov. 28, 15s.] Lawrence (Leonard). Arnalte and Lucenda, a Small Treatise betwixt Arnalte and Lucenda, entituled The Evillintreated Lover, or the Melancholy Knight, originally written in the Greeke Tongue by an unknowne author, afterwards translated into Spanish, after that into the French tongue by N. H., next by B. M. into the Thuscan, and now turn'd into English verse by L. L., first ed. (a few leaves defective), polished cf., by F. Bedford, 1. Okes for H. Mosley, 1639, sm. 4to. (122), Feb. 27, Sotheby Pickering, £z [See also Feb. 6, £4.] Lawrence (Sir Thomas). Cabinet of Gems, with Memorials by P. G. Patmore, with portrait and tinted plates (including Mrs. Siddons), cl., 1837, folio (293), June 8, Christie £3 3s. [See also Puttick, Aug. 2, £2 15s.; Oct. 19, £2 25.; Sotheby, May 8, £2.] Lawrence (Sir T.) Engravings from the Choicest Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, engraved title, with portrait, and beautiful impressions of the 50 mezzotint plates by Samuel Cousins, David Lucas and others, including 18 proofs and 28 open-letter proofs, with 3 additional plates not mentioned in the list, hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., H. Graves & Co. [1835-46], folio (582), Jan. 11, Hodgson Gamage, £18 [See also June 22, 34; Sotheby, July 27, £49.] Lawson (P.) Pinetum Britannicum, numerous coloured litho. plates, 3 vol. in 52 parts, 1884, imp. folio (578), July 12, Hodgson Wheldon, £6 Lawson (W.) A New Orchard and Garden, woodcuts and diagrams, boards, 1665-Langley (Batty). New Principles of Gardening, folded plates (front. and one plate defective and tears in several other plates), cf., together 2 vol., 4to. (1053), March 20, Sotheby Batsford, LI Layard (A. H.) The Monuments of Nineveh, portrait and 100 litho. plates, some coloured, on India paper, full russ. gt. ex., g.e., by Hayday, a fine copy, in a box (broken), 1849, folio (84), Nov. 30, Hodgson £2 25. Lea (H. C.) History of the Inquisition of Spain, 4 vol., orig. cl., g.t., New York, 1906-7, 8vo. (313), July 24, Sotheby Edwards, £2 4s. Lear (Edward). A Book of Nonsense, first ed., numerous coloured humorous illustrations, each page with two or more illustrations, crimson mor., wrappers bound in, London, Frederick Warne & Co., n.d., 4to. (511), Jan. 26, American Art Association $32.50 Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ, or Parrots, 42 coloured lithographs, hf. cf., 1832, roy. folio (620), Dec. 7, Hodgson Edwards, £5 10s. Lear (E.) Le Blon (J. C.) L'Art d'imprimer les Tableaux, coloured folding plate, etc. at the end, some MS. notes and a transcript of a play, "La Manie des Arts," by Rochon de Chabannes, 1763, cf. gt., Paris, 1756, 8vo. (329), March 27, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £7 in. Le Blond (A.) The Theory and Practice of Gardening, translated by John James, second ed., LARGE PAPER (11 by 8 in.), numerous plates, orig. cf., 1728 (117), Feb. 20, Sotheby [Another copy, Lot 116, Maggs, £3 10S.; £3 10s.; Nov. 14, £3 8s.] Maggs, £4 Le Brun (C.) Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux [See also June 19, orig. cl., £2 2s.; May 8, orig. cl., £1 18s.; Dowell, Feb. 13, £3 35.; Hodgson, July 12, cl., £4.] Lecky (W. E. H.) History of European Morals, 2 vol., polished cf. ex., m.e., 1869, 8vo. (46), May 1, Sotheby Rylands, £2 1OS. Lecky (W. E. H.) Rationalism in Europe, first ed., 2 vol., 1865-History of European Morals, second ed., 2 vol., 1869, both polished cf. gt., 8vo. (148), June 19, Sotheby Griffin, £3 5s. Lecky (W. E. H.) The Collected Works of W. E. H. Lecky, 19 vol., wine-coloured cf., London, Longmans, 1865-1910, 8vo. (475), April 11, American Art Association $250 Lederer (John). The Discoveries of John Lederer, in three several Marches from Virginia to the West of Carolina and other parts of the Continent, begun in March, 1669, and ended in September, 1670, together with a general map of the whole territory which he traversed, olive mor. (marginal repairs to title and several leaves, map skilfully repaired and inner margin restored), London, |