Lowe (P.) A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie, chiefly black letter, woodcuts, cf. gt., g.e., T. Purfoot, 1634, 4to. (4491), Nov. 7, Sotheby Maggs £9 Lowe (Prof. T. C. S.) Air-Ship City of New York. Full Description of the Air-Ship and the Apparatus to be employed in the Aerial Voyage to Europe, with a Historical Sketch of the Art of Ballooning and the Aeronaut's Address to the Public (by Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, Aeronaut of the Air-Ship "City of New York "), illustrated, orig. printed wrappers, New York, Baker and Godwin, 1859, 12mo. (85), Jan. 18, Anderson Galleries $17.50

[This work has particular interest at the present time, when the great advance in aerial navigation has at last made possible a trip by air across the Atlantic Ocean. This book proves that the feat was considered feasible in 1859.] Lowell (James Russell). Writings of James Russell Lowell, 12 vol., 1890-1892-A Biography, by Horace Elisha Scudder, 2 vol., 1901, together 14 vol., portraits on India paper, hf. cl., uncut, Cambridge, Riverside Press, 18901901, 8vo. (880), Nov. 21, American Art Association $30 [Set of the Large Paper edition; limited to 300 copies printed for America.] Lower (Sir William). The Phaenix in her Flames, a Tragedy; the Scene, Arabia, original ed. (sign. a 3 defective), brown mor., Printed by Thomas Harper for Michael Young, 1639, sm. 4to. (138), Feb. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £4 [A-M in fours. Dedicated To the Right Worshipfvl, my Most honoured Cosin, Thomas Lower Esquire.' Corser's copy. See also Nov. 24, £I IS.]

Lowndes (W. T.) Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, 4 vol., tree cf. gt., by Rivière, 1834, 8vo. (1011), Nov. 14, Sotheby

Quaritch, £1 8s. [See also Oct. 19, 24s.; April 3, 16s.; July 31, £ĩ 6s.; March 20, 11 vol., 1865 ed., £1 8s.; July 27, 11 vol., 1865-75, 32S.] Loyac (Jean de). Le Bon Prelat ou Discours de la vie et de la mort de Messire Antoine de Tolosany, Abbé del'Ordre de Sainct Antoine de Viennois, engraved title, red-ruled, orig. red mor. gt., scroll borders, corners filled up with small floral ornaments, arms of Cardinal Mazarin on sides, g.e., sold as a binding, Paris, A. Bertier, 1645, 8vo. (1628), July 3, Sotheby Quaritch, £12 Loyalist Magazine (The), or Anti-Radical, consisting of Three Departments: Satyrical, Miscellaneous and Historical

.. printed at the expense of the Loyal Association, with 10 engraved plates, uncoloured, 4 of which are by George Cruikshank, 9 numbers in 3 parts, orig. wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened [Cohn 504, Douglas 40], London, printed by R. Gray... published by William Wright, 1820-1821, 8vo. (244), Jan. 26, American Art Association

$80

Lucanus (M. Annæus). Pharsalia, roman letter, verse lines, 35 to a page (some leaves wormed slightly), brown mor. ex., r.e. [Hain *10233, Proctor 4426], [Venice, Juvenis Guerinus], 1477, folio (1629), July 3, Sotheby

Powell, £4 15S.

[See also July 10, £1; April 3, 1506 ed., £3 3s.; July 3, 1760 ed., £3 10s.; Feb. 6, 1614 ed., trans. by A. G. Knight, 13; Feb. 20, 1614 ed., trans. by A. G. Knight; Nov. 24, 1795 ed., £5 15s.]

£7

Lucas van Leyden. Euvre de Lucas de Leyde, reproduit et publié par Amand-Durand, texte par G. Duplessis, 174 facs. on card mounts, 2 vol., hf. crimson crushed levant mor., t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf, Paris, n.d., 4to. (280), July 12, Hodgson Lucianus Dialogi et alia multa opere, græce, anchor device on title and at end, cf. gt., g.e., Venetiis in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ Asulani, 1522, folio (4493), Nov. 7, Sotheby [See also July 17, 1541 ed., £3 15s.] Davis & Orioli, £2 Lucian. True History, translated by F. Hickes, illustrations by W. Strang, J. B. Clark and Aubrey Beardsley, one of 54 copies on Japanese vell., buckram, uncut, Privately printed, 1894, 4to. (155), Dec. 19, Sotheby T. Bull, £8 15s. [See also Feb. 20, paper ed., £3 5s.; May 29, paper ed., 1 8s.; Hodgson, March 22, vell. ed., £7.]

Lucianus Opera. Que hoc volumine continentur. Luciani Opera. Icones Philostrati. Ejusdem Heroica. Ejusdem vitæ Sophistarum. Icones Junioris Philostrati. Descriptiones Callistrati (Græcè), first Aldine ed., large and clean copy, brown mor. ex., g.e., with the Seillière arms, Venetiis, Aldus, 1503, folio (218), July 31, Sotheby

Davis & Orioli, £4 10s. Lucian and Procopius, translated for the first time from the text of C. Jacobitz (limited to 250 copies), 2 vol., boards, Privately printed, 1895-6, 8vo. (170), Dec. 14, Hodgson

Lucretius [Opera], printed on thick paper, title-page and at end, blue mor. ex., aedibus Aldi, 1515, 8vo. (1635), July 3,

£4 12s. 6d. Aldine device on g.e., Venetiis in Sotheby

Dobell, £1 128.

Lucretius (Titus Carus). De Rerum Natura, straight-grained red mor., g.t., Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1772, 4to. (387), Dec. 12, Sotheby Tregaskis, £2 7s. 6d.

[See also April 3, £1 8s.; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 30, 1796 ed., $50; Sotheby, Nov. 28, 1913 ed., £11 10s. ; Feb. 20, £11.]

Ludolphus. Carthusiensis. In psalterium expositio, gothic letter, stamped leather over oak boards (rebacked), Paris, V. Gering and B. Rembolt, 1506, 4to. (430), Jan. 23, Sotheby Dixon, £2 Ludolphus (J.) A New History of Ethiopia, made English by J. P., plates, cf., 1682, folio (778), May 1, Sotheby

Edwards, 14s.

Ludolphus de Saxonia. Meditationes Vitae Jesu Christi [Hain *10292], three large capitals in gold and colours, one page with illuminated border containing miniat ires of St. Giles and St. Catherine, other marginal decorations and numerous initials in red and blue, gothic letter (one leaf re-margined and a few leaves wormed), wrapper, Nurnberg, A. Koberger, 1478, folio (257), July 12, HodgAtkinson, £7 10s.

son

[See also Anderson Galleries, May 2, 1483 ed., $5; Sotheby, May 29, 1474 ed., £2 10s.] Ludolphus de Saxonia. Thoeck vanden leuen ons heeren ihesu christi, gothic letter, double columns, 40-42 lines [Proctor *9369, Campbell *1181], numerous woodcuts coloured by a contemp. hand, woodcut initials coloured, others put in by hand in red (small hole through inner margin of 3 leaves, slit in one leaf mended, title and 2 or 3 11. slightly soiled), old cf. (rubbed), Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 3 Nov., 1487, folio (283), Jan. 30, Sotheby Ellis, £21 [See also July 17, £10; July 17, 1488 ed., £7.] Lully (J. B. de). Phaeton, Tragédie mise en musique, music throughout (title and next leaf slightly stained), hf. vell., Paris, 1683, folio (640), July 17, Sotheby Ellis, £4 10s. Lunardi (V.) Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England, first ed., portrait by Bartolozzi and two folding plates, with Lunardi's autograph on the hf.-title, contemp. red mor. gt., g.e., Printed for the Author, 1784 (789), March 8, Hodgson Dobell, £2 14S. Lunardi (V.) Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, with the two rare plates, hf. roan, a tall copy (but slightly foxed), Printed for the Author, 1786 (790), March 8, Hodgson

£3

[See also Anderson Galleries, May 2, $4.] Lupset (T.) Workes, first ed., black letter, a few MS. notes, orig. cf., blind frames on sides, T. Berthelet, 1546, 8vo. (1279), March 20, Sotheby Dobell, £3 5s. Lupton (Donald). London and the Covntrey carbanadoed and quartred into severall characters (name, etc. on title, the lower margin of the title very slightly cut into, one page defective in the printing, wants A1 (a blank), boards (one cover missing), Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1632, 8vo. (78), May 22, Sotheby Dobell £4 Lupton (Thomas). The Second Part and Knitting vp of the Boke entituled Too good to be true, wherein is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable Customes & strange manners of the people of Mauqsun, first ed.. black letter, title within woodcut border (sign. A 3 slightly defective) crimson mor., by F. Bedford, A-Cc in fours, Printed by Henry Binneman, Anno Domini 1581, Septembris. 6, sm. 4to. (140), Feb. 27, Sotheby Pickering, £15 10S. Lupton (T.) A thousand Notable things of sundrie sortes, whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleas

ant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious, black letter, orig. sheep, E. All-de for N. Fosbrooke, 1627, sm. 4to. (241), Feb. 13, Sotheby

[See also Dowell, Jan. 16, £5 IOS.] Ellis, £5 15S. Lussan (Raveneau de). Journal du Voyage fait à la Mer de Sud, avec les Flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684, et années suivantes (corner of one leaf torn off, but present), old cf. gt., Paris, 1690, 8vo. (998), Feb. 20, Sotheby Ellis, £1 Luther (Martin). Catechismus Für die gemeine Pfarrherr vnd Prediger, D. Mart. Luther, 35 ll., 31 woodcuts by Hans Brosamer, 15 having his mark, H. B. (one leaf defective and repaired), very rare, Frankfort, W. Han, n.d. [about 1560]-Corpus Doctrinae Christianae Durch Philippum Melancthonem, Wittemberg, Gedruckt durch Hans Krafft, 1570, in 1 vol., cf. (rebacked), with the orig. stamped sides, with the arms of the Duke of Sutherland, 1560-70, folio (866), Jan. 30, Sotheby Rev. Hopkins, £2 2s. Luther (M.) Contra Henricvm Regem Angliae Martinvs Luther (several leaves wormed, portions of text missing), green mor., Wittembergae, 1522 [s. n. impr.], sm. 4to. (141), Feb. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £6 10S. [A-F in fours. The first edition of Luther's Answer to Henry VIII." This is a presentation copy from the author, with dedication, " D. Mgr. Sebaldus, and other words in his autograph in Greek and Latin on title, but without his signature.] Luther (M.) De captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, polished cf., by F. Bedford, a woodcut portrait of Luther at the back of the title and a cut on last leaf (A-K in fours), s. 1. et a. [Wittemberg, 1520], sm. 4to. (142), Feb. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £5

[See also Nov. 7, £1 10s.]

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Luther (M.) Ein gar schon nutzlich büchlin

von den

gelübden der klösterlüten ob sy ware gelübd syen und von wem sy ein ursprung und anfang haben (translated by L. Juda), gothic letter, long lines, woodcut on title, ornamental initials, boards, Getruckt zu Zürich, n.d. (1521), 4to. (843), Jan. 30, Sotheby Schaeppo, £2 8s. [Apparently unrecorded by bibliographers.]

Luther (M.) Enchiridion piarum precationum cum Passionali, title within woodcut border (slightly defective), woodcuts in text, orig. pigskin, Vuittembergæ apud I. Lufft, 1543, 8vo. (4505), Nov. 7, Sotheby Leighton, £1 [See also Lot 4506, £2 5s.]

Lycett (J.) Views in Australia, coloured title, 2 maps (1 torn) and 48 coloured plates, lacks map at front, hf. cf. (joints cracked), J. Soutar, 1824, oblong 4to. (587), July 27, Sotheby Edwards, 11 5S. Lyddeker (R.) The Deer of All Lands, coloured plates by J. Smit and other illustrations, cl., Rowland Ward, 1898, 4to. (923), March 22, Hodgson Vachell, £3 35. Lyddeker (R.) Royal Natural History, with preface by P.

L. Sclater, coloured plates, 6 vol. in 12, cl., 1894-6, 8vo. (93), April 5, Puttick Joseph, £1 12s. 6d. Lydgate (John). The Assembly of Gods, black letter, 11 ll. only (wants 5 11., including the first with a woodcut and the last, a blank, the lower margin of A 2 repaired, and the leaf sign. c 2 slightly defective and repaired, a few wormholes injuring some words of the text), hf. cf. [Wynkyn de Worde, Westminster, 1498], folio (446), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £50

[See also Feb. 6, Lot 447, 1500 ed., 28 ll. only, £18.] Lydgate (J.) Here foloweth the Interpretació of the names of Goddes and Goddesses, as is rehearsed in this treatyse folowynge as Poetes wryte, black letter, in verse, old blue mor. gt., g.e., from the libraries of R. Farmer and R. Heber, with auto. note in the latter's hand, Robert Redman, n.d., sm. 4to. (448), Feb. 6, Sotheby

Rosenbach, £200 [Believed to be the only copy known of this edition.] Lydgate (J.) [Proverbes.] The puerbes of Lydgate, in verse, black letter, large cut of Lydgate at a reading-desk on reverse of title, W. de Worde's Caxton device on last page, blue mor. gt., g.e., by C. Lewis, from the Heber library, Enprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, n.d., sm. 4to. (449), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £200

[Only two other copies known.] [Lydgate (J.) Gouernaunce of Kynges. This entry, on pp. 394-5, would be more correctly included under Lydgate, with whom it has been identified by Mr. Robert Steele. See letter in Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 16, 1922. Another copy was in the Duke of Devonshire's collection.) Lyly (John). A moste excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe and Diogenes, played beefore the Queenes Maiestie on twelfe day at night, by her Maiesties children, and the children of Poules, title within a woodcut border (wanting blank for A 1), red mor. ex., plain sides, g.e., Imprinted for Thomas Cadman, sm. 4to. (450), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £360

[Only one other copy with this title-page appears to be known, that formerly in the Huth library.] Lyly (J.) Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit, verie pleasant for all gentlemen to reade, and most necessarie to remember, corrected and amended (A-Z in fours), black letter (title and next 3 11. mended), Printed (by Thos. East) for Gabriel Cawood, 1585-Euphues and his England, containing his voiage and aduentures, mixed with sundrie pretie discourses of honest Loue (A 4 11., ¶ 4 ll., B-LI in fours), black letter, Printed for Gabriel Cawood, 1586, the two works in 1 vol. (outer margin of title from another book), green mor., by W. Pratt, sm. 4to. (144), Feb. 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £60

[See also Feb. 20, 1636 ed., £5.1