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(A-C 8, title on AI recto, verso blank; colophon on c 7 verso; c8 recto blank; c 8 verso, Pynson's monogram, McKerrow 3), crushed red mor., line panelled tooling on sides, g.e., by F. Bedford, monogram within oval on sides (54in. by 3in.), Combe-Heber copy (VI. 1116), [colophon] Imprynted at London in Fletestrete by me Robert Redman dwellynge at the sygne of the George nexte to Saynt Dunstones churche [probably before 1538], 8vo. (269), Mar. 30, Sotheby [The only copy known.] Rosenbach, £410 Erasmus (D.) Dicta sapientu. The sayenges of the wyse me of Grece in Latin with the Englysshe folowyng.. Very necessary and profitable for children to lerne and good for all folkes to rede or to here redde, so they note them well, black letter (a-d 4), woodcut on title, one or two letters just touched, otherwise a good copy, polished smooth red mor., by F. Bedford, Miller arms on sides, g.e., Caldecott copy, [colophon] ¶ Thus enden the sayenges of the wyse men of Grece englisshed. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cudite at the signe of Lucrece, n.d., 4to. (270), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £360

[Apparently unrecorded.] Erasmus (D.) Enchiridion militis christiani, brown cf., 2 panels, 3 bands (the lower corner and edge of the upper cover defective), binder Julian Notary [Weale, p. 121, 122, Nos. 110, 11], Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1526, 8vo. (62), Mar. 16, Sotheby Barnard, £8 IOS.

[See also Lot 65, ed. 1533, £8.] Erasmus (D.) Epistolæ, stvdiosis ivvenibvs vtilissime, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, levant mor. gt., 2 triangles on each side formed of 16 impressions of a monogram containing the letters "R. S. M.," g.e., by Fazakerley, fine copy, [? Bâle, J. Froben], 1525, 8vo. (375), Mar. 17, Sotheby Edwards, £5 10S.

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[One of the letters is dated 1529, but this appears to be a misprint for 1519. Collation a-m in eights.] Erasmus (D.) In evangelium Lucæ paraphrasis, brown cf., I panel repeated, I roll, 3 bands (rebacked, the cf. of the upper cover a little discoloured at top and side), [not in Weale], in a padded case, Basle, Joannes Froben, 1523-4, 8vo. (59), Mar. 16, Sotheby De Pass, £30 Erasmus (D.) In evangelium secundum Joannem, brown cf., 2 panels, 3 bands (rebacked), [1. Weale, p. 115, No. 86; 11. Weale, p. 114, No. 85], in a padded case, [Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus], 8vo. (67), Mar. 16, Sotheby Rotterdam, £32

["The crowned shield below the figure of St. Michael may be the binder's device, and might be that of Richard Faques, who lived at the sign of the Maiden's Head."Note by Duff loosely inserted in the book.] Erasmus (D.) An exhortacyon to the dylygent study of scripture. . . lately translated into Englysshe (? by W.

Roy)... [An exhortacyon to the study of readynge the Gospell, made by Erasmus of Roterdame, and lately translated into Englysshe], black letter, in 2 parts (a-c 8, d2; a-e 8, f7, wants the last leaf which apparently contained Wyer's "S. John with eagle" device only), blank top margin of some 11. wormed, 2 11. (a 2-3 in Part 2) very slightly stained, [colophon] Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge in saynt Martyns parysshe, in the bysshop of Norwytche rentes (before 1536). [The only copy given in the Bibl. Soc. Handlist is in the British Museum.] -[bound with] Lupset (Thomas). A Treatise of Charitie, black letter (A-E 8, the last leaf blank), blank top margin of some ll. slightly wormed, a few marginal notes slightly cut into, [colophon] Londini in ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti, M.D.XXXIII., cum privilegio (1533). [The only copy given in the Bibl. Soc. Handlist is that mentioned by Hazlitt (VII. 236).]-Erasmus (D.) A booke called in latyn Enchiridion militis christiani and in englysshe the manuell of the christen knyght, black letter, fore-edge of title frayed and corner defective affecting the woodcut border and the text on the verso, marginal note on the next leaf defective and a good many marginal notes shaved, a small slit in sig. F 2, London, W. de Worde for J. Byddell, 15 Nov., 1533, bound in 1 vol., old cf. (binding a little defective), 8vo. (196), July 27, Sotheby Rosenbach, £150 Erasmus (D.) Exomologesis, sive modus confitendi, etc., contemp. Flemish binding of stamped cf., 3 panel stamps on each cover, the centre one in three compartments, a wivern and a gryphon in the side compartments, in the middle St. Margaret holding a cross in her hands joined in prayer, triumphing over a winged monster which has the skirt of her dress in its mouth [Weale 314], in fine condition, Bâle, J. Froben, 1524, 8vo. (520), Nov. 24, Sotheby Goldschmidt, £12 10S. Erasmus (D.) Paraphrasis in Mattheum (wants title), brown cf., 2 panels, 3 bands (back somewhat worn), binder Pierre Auctorre, in a padded case [not in Weale], Basle, J. Froben, 8vo. (68), Mar. 16, Sotheby Quaritch, £22 [Sold with the library of the Grammar School of (name of school omitted).]

Erasmus (D.) Querela Pacis, title within woodcut border, device at end, Strassburg, J. Knoblouch, 1523-Sileni Alcibiadis; Scarabeus, cum scholiis, title within woodcut border, [Cologne, E. Cervicornus], 1524-Precatio dominica digesta, title within woodcut border, ib., 1525-Modus orandi deum, title within woodcut border, Strassburg, J. Knoblouch, 1525, fine copies, bound together, orig. panelled cf. (back slightly defective), 2 panels repeated on each cover; on the left, St. Michael in armour, with flowing cloak, a shield in his left hand and a sword upraised behind his head in the right, bestriding Lucifer, beneath a cusped and foliated arch; on the right, St. Roch (for

description of this panel see Gordon Duff Catalogue, first portion, lot 64); sold as a binding, 8vo. (300), July 29, Sotheby Ehrmann, £5 5s.

[The St. Roch panel was at one time in the possession of John Siberch, of Cambridge. For reproductions see Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron, Vol. ii., and Gray, Cambridge Bookbinders, plate xix.] Esquemeling (Jan) and Ringrose (Basil). Bucaniers of America . . . the Second Edition, Corrected and inlarged with two Additional Relations, map (torn and mended) and plates (small slit in one), plan of Hilo at p. 98, Part iv., 7 pp. of advts. at end of Vol. iv., 2 vol. in 1, orig. cf. (defective), fine copy, For William Crooke, 1684-5, 4to. (109), July 27, Sotheby Thorp, £29

[See also Oct. 27, £33 and £39; April 29, £29; American Art Association, Nov. 20, $270; Jan. 15, ed. 1688, $10; Sotheby, Dec. 15, ed. 1699, £5; Mar. 2, £5 10s.; Hodgson, June 17, ed. 1771, £3 10s.] Essex House Press. The Set of 14 Great Poems of the English Language, each printed on vell. -Shelley's AdonaisKeats' Eve of St. Agnes-President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn-Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard— The Epithalamion of Spenser-Comus, a Mask-Chaucer's Flower and the Leaf-Robert Burns' Tam o' ShanterWilliam Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by S. T. Coleridge John Dryden's Alexander's Feast-Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village-Robert Browning's Flight of the Duchess-Alfred Tennyson's Maud, vell., gt. lettering on backs, fine set, 1900-5, thin post 8vo. (517), April 6, Sotheby Bain, £32 Estienne (Charles) et Liebault (Jean). L'Agriculture, et Maison Rustique, édition dernière, revue et augmentée de beaucoup, dont le contenu se void en la page suyuante-La Chasse du Loup necessaire à la Maison Rustique, 19 11., with woodcut borders on both titles, and woodcuts, old cf. (margin of first title slightly defective), with auto. of T. Willughby, A Lyon, pour Jaques du Puys, 1583, 4to. (301), June 15, Christie Maggs, £5

[See also Sotheby, May 25, ed. 1600, £7; ed. 1616, £6 10s.; ed. 1668, £2 10s.] Estienne (Henry). The Art of making Devises, treating of Heiroglyphicks, Symboles, Emblemes. . . translated . . . by Tho. Blount, first ed. (A 4, a 4, B-I 4, K 2, besides an engraved title by Marshall and 10 plates, orig. sheep (binding rubbed), London, printed by W. E. and J. G., 1646, 4to. (272), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £11

[See also Lot 273, ed. 1650, £5.] Etherege (Sir G.) Works, containing his Plays and Poems, first ed., brown levant mor., g.e., by (392), Dec. 18, Sotheby

Ramage, 1704, 8vo.
Thomas, £3 IOS.

[See also Oct. 27, £2 12s. 6d.; Puttick, Dec. 5, £2.]

Etrennes Spirituelles, dédiées aux dames, orig. red mor. gt., arms of Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI., as Dauphine, on sides, g.e., sold as a binding, Paris, 1772, 8vo. (684A), July 29, Sotheby Daniell, £6 Etymologicum Magnum Græcum cum prefatione M. Musuri [Græce], 224 II. [Hain-Copinger 6691, Proctor 5644], 24 fine woodcut head-pieces and initials all printed in red, in the lower margin of the second leaf are the arms of Pirckheimer finely painted within an ornamental frame, old cf., bookplate of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer, Venice, Zacharias Callierges, 8 July, 1499, folio (67), May 4, Sotheby

Eisemann, £98 Euclid. [Elementa geometrie lat. cum Campani annotationibus], editio princeps, with fine xylographic border on first page of text, woodcut initials, and geometrical diagrams printed in the wide margins, unbnd. (tear in few inner margins, first leaf with the dedication missing, margins of first 2 11. extended, some wormholes and water-stains), [colophon] Erhardus ratdolt Augustensis impressor solertissimus venitiis impressit. Anno salutis. M.CCCC.LXXXIJ. Octauis. Calen. Iun. Lector. Uale, folio (588), Oct. 6, Anderson Galleries

$60

[A fine large copy, measuring 12in. by 8ĝin., and varying from other copies in that the first 2 lines of the text are printed in red. Laid in is a 3 pp. A.L.s. from Theodore De Vinne, New York, May 25, 1904, regarding this point. Hain *6693.]

Euclides. Elementa, first ed., gothic letter [B. M. V. 285], numerous diagrams, initials illuminated in gold and colours, wants second leaf (sig. a 2), 2 or 3 small rust-holes through first leaf, old vell. (back defective), Venice, E. Ratdolt, 25 May, 1482, folio (68), May 4, Sotheby Zwemmer, £31 Euripides. Tragædiæ septendecim [Græce], first ed., 2 vol. in 1, in the lower margin of sig. A 6 two cherubs are painted seated in a landscape and blowing trumpets, small wormholes through a few ll. at beginning and end, and a tiny wormhole through the lower margin of a good many ., black mor., with the Pirckheimer bookplate (wormed and backed): "Spes, tribulatio, invidia, tolerantia. I. B. 1520," Venetiis, apud Aldvm, 1503, 8vo. (69), May 4, Sotheby Ziedemann, £25

[See also American Art Association, Dec. 4, $42.] Eusebius Pamphilus. Chronicon [with the continuations of Prosper and Matthæus Palmerius, edited by J. L. Santritter], 182 11. including 3 blanks, printed in gothic letter in black and red, fine woodcut initials, MS. additions in a contemporary hand, a few small wormholes through some 11., modern cf., bookplate of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer on fly-leaf (defective), Venice, E. Ratdolt, 13 Sept., 1483, 4to. (70), May 4. Sotheby Earwicker, £15 10s. [See also Anderson Galleries, Nov. 10, ed. 1512, C. Plantin's copy, $100.]

Eustace (J. C.) Tour through Italy, 2 vol. (sm. 4to.), the text inlaid to imp. folio size, and extended to 12 vol. by the insertion of upwards of 2,000 extra illustrations, comprising engravings, ports., etc. of the 16th and 17th centuries, views by Piranesi, coloured impasto views of Naples, original water-colour and sepia drawings, stipple portraits, etc., the whole collected in the early part of the 19th century, and bound in 12 vol., green mor. ex., gt. bordered sides, broad gt. inner borders, and crimson watered-silk linings, 1813, imp. folio (520), May 13, Hodgson Spencer, £23 Eutropius. [Fol. 9 recto] Incipit Eutropi? Historiographus : & post cum Paulus diacon9: de historiis italice prouincie ac Romanorum, first ed., 104 11., some illuminated and painted initials, a few corrections of the text and a few notes by former owners [Hain *6726], dark brown mor., panelled sides in gold and blind, g.e., by Rivière, a fine copy, [colophon] Eutropius historiographus Rome impressus [G. Laverus] Anno dni. M.CCCC.LXXI. [1471] die lune xx. Mensis Mai Ponti. S. in xpo pris ac dni nostri domi Pauli diuina puidentia Pape Secundi, Anno eius Septimo Explicit, 4to. (652), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £44

[See also Lot 653, stained and def., £10.] Evangeli et Epistole. Le pistole & lectione & euangelii iquali si leghono itulo lano alla messa: cioe dominicale festiui & feriali secudo luso de la sancta chiesa romana, roman letter, double columns, 34 lines, 138 ll. (collation: a8-c8, d6-e6, f8-g8, h6-k6, i8-r8, s6-16; not in Hain or Proctor, cp. Copinger 11, 2310, and Reichling 1, 141, both of whom give the number of ll. wrongly, quoting from a Catalogue), initial F on first page in gold and colours, and in the lower margin a coat-of-arms (azure, a fez or), [? Venice, Philippus Petri or Juvenis Guerinus], 1476, folio (700), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £21

[No other copy appears to be known.] Evans (Arise). A Voice from Heaven to the Common-wealth of England, with Additions, second ed., with the Petition to Cromwell to set Charles Stewart on the throne (not in the first ed.), 1653-An Eccho to the Book called A Voyce from Heaven, first ed., Printed for the Authour, and are to be sold at his House in Long-Alley, in Black-Friers, 1653, 2 vol. in 1, hf. cf., 8vo. (128), Nov. 24, Sotheby Barnard, £3 5s. Evans (C.) American Bibliography, Vol. i. to viii., 16391792, No. 267 of a signed privately printed ed., cl., g.t.,. Chicago, 1903-14, 4to. (287), July 20, Sotheby

Webb, £16 10S.

Evans (C. S.) Cinderella, No. 58 of 325 signed copies on
Japanese vellum, vell., g.t. [1919], 4to.
Sotheby

Evans (J.) The Ancient Stone and Bronze

(796), June 22, Hollings, £1 Implements of

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