Lane and Salisbury Court, 31 ll., including title (lower part of title cut into, some headlines shaved), brown mor., Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, sm. 4to. (152), Feb. 27, Sotheby Dobell, £9 Migliore (F. L.) Senatori Florentini, engraved title (slightly shaved at head), woodcuts of arms, orig. vell. gt., ornamental panel on sides, with a semis of fleurs-de-lys enclosing in the centres the Niccolini arms, blazoned in colours, differenced with a label of four points, full gt. back, Firenze, 1665, 8vo. (122), Dec. 12, Sotheby Sherratt, I IOS. Miles (H. D.) Pugilistica, being 140 years of the History of British Boxing, portraits, 3 vol., orig. cl., n.d., 8vo. (76), July 10, Sotheby Edwards, £1 6s. Military Art. The Military Art of Trayning, with a Description of all Martiall Officers, their Places, Duties and Honble. Ceremonies, from a Generall to an inferiour Soldier, with the Discipline of Drilling, first ed. (wants front. and 6 plates), crimson mor., by Ramage, Printed by Edw. All-de, 1622, sm. 8vo. (153), Feb. 27, Sotheby Ellis, £8 Military Art. The Military Art of Training (wants printed title), old red mor. gt., broad inside borders, g.e., Sould by R. Daniell [1622]-3, sm. 8vo. (154), Feb. 27, Sotheby Ellis, £6 10s. [This copy differs from that described in the previous lot in wanting the printed title, the place of which is supplied by the engraved title from the second part, dated 1623. There is a frontispiece of the Genius of War, the legend on the first plate is re-engraved, and there are three additional plates of the use of the musket and one additional of the use of the pike. Otherwise it is the same.] Military Art. The Military Discipline, wherein is most martially shown the Order of Drilling for Ye Musket and Pike, set forth in Postures with the Words of Command, etc., crimson mor., by F. Bedford, Sould by R. Daniell in Lumbard Street, 1623, sm. 4to. (155), Feb. 27, Sotheby Tregaskis, LII [A set of the exercises as engraved in the smaller volumes above, consisting of the engraved title, fortythree figures of musketry exercises and thirty-two of pike exercise (No. 3 defective). These are impressed on quarto paper, four figures on each page (the last four inlaid). With a fine German engraving of an Arabian prince on horseback within a border of flowers, fruits and birds, with a number 69 inserted in front.] Military Costume of Europe, coloured plates, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol., contemp. mor. gt., g.e., fine, 1812, folio (242), Nov. 17, Puttick Spencer, £23 [See also Sotheby, Dec. 12, £22; May 22, 1822 ed., £12.] Military History of Great Britain for 1756-57, with a Letter from an English Officer at Canada, taken Prisoner at Osnego, map, cf., Lond., 1757 (112), Nov. 7, Dowell £6 5s. Military Library (British), comprehending a complete body of Military Knowledge, coloured plates, maps, 2 vol. (inscription of front. cut into), old cf., 1804, 4to. (261), Nov. 28, Sotheby Abbot, £8 10S. Military Uniforms. Costume of the Army of the British Empire, coloured title and 60 coloured aquatint plates by Stadler, after Smith, in 2 vol., hf. bound (the last 10 plates badly damp-stained), 1815, imp. 4to. (565), March 8, Hodgson Rimell, £10 Mill (Humphrey). Poems occasioned by a melancholy vision, or a melancholy vision upon diuers Theames enlarged, engraved title by Droeshout, with verses opposite (some fore-margins cut close and some text shaved), old diced russ. gt., I. D. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1639, 8vo. (483), Feb. 6, Sotheby Pickering, 6 6s. Millais (J. G.) A Breath from the Veldt, illustrations, cl., t.e.g., 1895, 4to. (218), Nov. 17, Puttick Edwards, £4 [See also Sotheby, May 1, £3 10S.; July 31, £1 128.] Millais (J. G.) British Deer and their Horns, plates, cl., t.e.g., 1897, 4to. (188), Nov. 17, Puttick Walford, £3 5s. Feb. 20, £2 25.; [See also Sotheby, July 31, £3 3s.; Puttick, Nov. 17, £3.] Millais (J. G.) British Diving Ducks, 32 plates, 22 of which are coloured, by A. Thorburn, O. M. Dixon, H. Grönvold and the author, 2 vol., buckram, t.e.g., 1913, folio (922), March 22, Hodgson Wheldon, £9 IOS. Millais (J. G.) Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, coloured plates, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1892, 4to. (187), Nov. 17, Puttick [See also Sotheby, July 27, £1 10s.] Hatchards, £5 Millais (J. G.) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, plates, some coloured, 3 vol., hf. bound, 1904-6 (1320), Feb. 20, Sotheby Bumpus, £9 15S. [Another copy, hf. bound (1321), 10; Hodgson, Nov. 30 (614), £9 15s.; Puttick, Nov. 17 (186), £9 10s.; Hodgson, March 8 (521), £9 5s.] Millais (J. G.) The Natural History of British Game Birds, 18 coloured plates and 17 photogravures by A. Thorburn and the author, cl., t.e.g., 1909, folio (921), March 22, Hodgson Wheldon, £17 [See also July 27, buckram, £4 4s.] Millais (J. G.) The Natural History of the British Surfacefeeding Ducks, 41 coloured plates, 6 photogravures, etc., by A. Thorburn and the author, LARGE PAPER, cl., 1902, (920), March 22, Hodgson Brown, £5 [See also Puttick, Nov. 17, £4 5s.; Sotheby, Feb. 20, £4 4s.] Millais (J. G.) The Wildfowler in Scotland, plates, some coloured, and woodcuts, hf. vell., g.t., 1901, roy. 4to. (1248), Feb. 20, Sotheby Russell, £3 5S. [Another copy, Lot 1258, Arden, £1 2s.; Puttick, Nov. 17. £1 5s.] (606) Millais (Sir John Everett). Life and Letters, by his son, John Guille Millais, with over 300 illustrations and numerous photogravures on imperial Japan paper, 2 vol., orig. cl. gt., gt. tops, uncut, New York, 1899, roy. 8vo. (872), May 2, Anderson Galleries $5 Miller (P.) Figures of the most beautiful, useful and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, 300 coloured plates (one part, pp. 81-84, with plates 121-126 in duplicate), 2 vol., hf. cf., uncut, 1760, folio (396), Feb. 20, Sotheby Wheldon, 18s. Miller (Thomas). Godfrey Malvern, or the Life of an Author, with 27 full-page plates, including engraved title-page, by "Phiz,” 13 monthly parts, orig. green pictorial wrappers, entirely uncut, London, published by Thomas Miller, 1842-1843, 8vo. (596), Jan. 26, American Art Association See also Anderson Galleries, May 2, mor., $5.50.] $35 Milles (T.) Catalogve of Honor, first ed., engraved title, copperplates and woodcuts of arms, an unmutilated copy, red mor., g.e. (defects in title and next leaf, plate at p. 69 cropped, few early leaves hinged, w.a.f.), W. Jaggard, 1610, folio (298), May 18, Puttick Jaggard, £2 12s. 6d. [See also Sotheby, March 20, £2 6s.; Nov. 7, £1 12s.] Millet (Jean-François). Sensier (Alfred). La Vie et l'Euvre de J.-F. Millet, manuscrit publié par Paul Mantz, illustrated with 12 full plates, in two states, one a proofbefore-letters on Japan paper and numerous text reproductions, red mor., uncut, Paris, A. Quantin, 1881, sm. folio (559), Jan. 26, American Art Association $20 [Limited to 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, with plates in two states, of which this is No. 33.] Millington (Thomas). The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Maiestie from the time of his departure from Edenbrough till his receiuing at London, red levant mor. ex., g.e., by W. Pratt, Miller arms, Thomas Creede for T. Millington, 1603, sm. 4to. (390), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £16 [Mills (John).] D'Horsay, or the Follies of the Day, by a Man of Fashion, with 12 engraved plates, including illustrated title-page, by George Standfast, 6 original parts, orig. pictorial wrappers, uncut, London, William Strange, 1844, 8vo. (560), Jan. 26, American Art Association $60 [Another copy, with the covers bound in by Rivière, in polished calf (561), $25. See also Anderson Galleries, April 3, calf, $20.] Mills (J.) The Flyers of the Hunt, first ed., coloured illustrations by J. Leech, orig. cl., g.e., The Field" Office, 1859, 8vo. (92), July 27, Sotheby Lingwood, £3 10S. [See also Anderson Galleries, April 3, $30.] Mills (J.) Stable Secrets, or Puffy Doddles, his Sayings and Sympathies, with coloured plates by "Phiz," polished cf., gt. back, gt. top, uncut, by Rivière, London, 1863, 12mo. (875), May 2, Anderson Galleries $27.50 Mills (J.) The Stage Coach, or the Road of Life, fronts., 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, London, Henry Colburn, 1843, 12mo. (217), April 3, Anderson Galleries 825 $30 Mills (J.) Too Fast to Last, 3 vol., hf. red mor., gt. tops, uncut, London, Hurst and Blackett, 1881, 12mo. (225), April 3, Anderson Galleries Milnes (R. M.) On the Apologies for the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, one of two copies printed on vell. for the Bibliotheca Curiosa Society, hf. cf., n.d., 4to. (627), April 3, Sotheby Arthur, £I IOS. Milton (John). Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, first ed., levant mor., by Rivière, London, printed in the yeare 1644, sm. 4to. (139), March 14, Anderson Galleries $120 [See also Sotheby, July 27, Doves Press, 1907, £2 108.; May 8, £3 3s.; Jan. 30, £3 15s.] Milton (J.) Comus, a Mask, printed on vell. in black and blue, hand-coloured woodcut by R. Savage, initials in gold and red, stamped vell. (only 150 copies printed), Essex House Press, 1901, 8vo. (287), July 10, Christie £3 5s. [See also Sotheby, June 19, £3 3s.; Dec. 19, £2 5s. ; July 24, £2 5s.] Milton (J.) A Defense of the People of England, by John Milton, in Answer to Salmasius's Defense of the King, orig. cf., Printed in the year 1692, 8vo. (510), Dec. 19. Anderson Galleries $13 [The first English translation of Milton's "Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio," 1650. It is supposed to have been printed at Amsterdam.] Milton] (J) Tracts. Of True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, Toleration, 1673--The Surey Demoniack, 1697, and others, in I vol., hf. bound, 4to. (1022), Feb. 20, Sotheby 2. Pickering, 11 IOS. Milton (J.) Divorce Tracts. 1. The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, restor'd to the good of both Sexes, now for the Second Time Revis'd and much Augmented, 1644. An Answer to a Book, intituled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 1644. 3. Colasterion, a Reply to a Nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 1645. 4. Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four places in Scripture which treat on Marriage or nullities in Marriage, 1645, four tracts in I vol., full cf., by Rivière, London, 1644-5, sm. 4to. (140), March 14, Anderson Galleries $50 [An exceedingly rare collection of Milton's tracts on the marriage question. The second tract, mentioned above, is against Milton, published anonymously.] Milton (J.) EIKONOKAATH2, in Answer to a Book intitl'd EIKON BAZIAIKH, first ed. (last leaf soiled, slightly de fective and mended), hf. red mor., Matthew Simmons, Milton (J.) The History of Britain, first ed., portrait by [This translation of "Literae Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, 1676,” is by Milton's nephew, Edward Phillips, who also wrote the life of Milton prefixed to it. Sonnets addressed to Cromwell, Fairfax, Vane and Skinner appear here for the first time. See also Sotheby, Nov. 7, £1.] Milton (J.) [Lycidas.] Justa Edovardo King naufrago ab Amicis moerentibus amoris et μvelas xapiv, first ed., blue mor. ex., gt. line borders, g.e., by F. Bedford, Cantabrigiae apud Thomam Buck et Rogerum Daniel, 1638, sm. 4to. (6 in. by 5,5 in.), (484), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £680 [The first edition of Milton's Lycidas is contained in this volume. Prefixed is an account of King, in Latin, printed in capitals, supposed by Warton to have been written either by Milton or Henry More, the Platonist. The volume is divided into two portions, the first containing the Latin and Greek tributes, the second those in English, with a separate title within a black mourning border, Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King.' Milton's "Lycidas appears at the end of the volume. It bears his initials only.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem written in Ten Books by John Milton, orig. cf., with the orig. fly-leaves, in brown levant mor. case, London printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet, 1667, sm. 4to. (878), May 2, Anderson Galleries $2,275 [First edition, with the title-page in its first state and the original binding in remarkable condition. With the Hoe bookplate. Another copy, Jan. 18, $860.] Milton (J.) Paradise Lost, a Poem in Ten Books, first ed., fourth title-page, with the Peter Parker imprint, 1668, preceded by the fifth title-page, with S. Simmons' imprint, 1668 (small hole on Y2, several small stains and some pencil marking), contemp. sheepskin (worn and upper cover nearly off), 1668, sm. 4to. (475), June 19, Sotheby Botright, £22 [Collation: A4, a4 (fifth title A1, 5 lines, the printer to XXXVI. (609) 20 |