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for M. Sessa, 1546, and others published by Sessa and Giunta (2) in orig. bindings, 8vo. (33), Mar. 17, Sotheby Jones, £2 15s.

["An edition of extreme rarity, mentioned by no bibliographer, from the press of Sessa, all whose books are rare."-Note by Duff inside cover.] Aristotle. Noue Translationi librorum de Celo et Mundo, et de Generatione et corruptione ab Aueroi Cordubensi commentate, double columns, first page of text surrounded by a fine and unusual renaissance border in colours, large copy, with wide margins, has orig. blanks, bds., Venetiis, Andrea de Asula, 1483, folio (10), Oct. 27, Sotheby

[See also Lot 9, £9 10s.] Ellis, £13 Aristotle. Opera (græce), Vol. 11.-111. only, first ed., wormholes through a few 11. at beginning and end of Vol. II., lower margin of first leaf of text cut away, a few ll. wormed, the top margin of 8 11. stained, hf. cf., Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1497, folio (9), May 4, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £3 Aristotle. Politicorvm, Libri VIII., cum perpetua D. Heinaii Paraphrasi, brown mor., panelled gold sides, with arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, g.e., by F. Schaefer, Lugd. Bat. ex off. Elzev., 1621, 8vo. (395), April 6, Sotheby

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Jones, £5 10S. Ariz (Luys). Historia de las Grandezas de la Ciudad de Auila, 4 parts in I vol., title within woodcut border, woodcut frontispiece (touched with colour and slightly defective), woodcut initials, panelled cf. gt., inside borders, g.e., Alcala de Henares, L. M. Grande, 1607, folio (278), April 6, Sotheby Ellis, £9 10s. Arkwright (W.) The Pointer and his Predecessors, 39 plates, one of 750 copies, cl., g.t., 1902, 4to. (147), July 6, Sotheby Hatchards, £2 Armin (Robert). [This History of the Two Maids of Moreclacke], wanting the title (supplied in pen facsimile) and the leaf "To the friendly peruser,' a few head-lines cut into, hf. mor., Mitford's copy [London, printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer... 1609], sm. 4to. (103), Feb. 23, Sotheby Pickering, £10 Arminian Nunnery. The Arminian Nvnnery, or a Briefe Description and Relation of the late erected Monasticall Place, called the Arminian Nvnnery at Little Gidding in Hvntingdon-Shire, humbly recommended to the wise consideration of this present Parliament; the Foundation is by a Company of Farrars at Gidding; woodcut, red mor., gt. tooled, gt. inside borders and edges, by J. Mackenzie, Printed for Thomas Underhill, MDCXLI., 4to. (5), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries

$90

[Collation: A, 4 11.; B, 2 11.; total, 6 11.] Armstrong (E. A.) Axel Herman Haig and his Work, LARGE PAPER, numerous reproductions, with an orig. etching, signed by the Artist, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1905, 4to. (232), June 11, Hodgson Frost, £2 8s.

Armstrong (Sir Walter). Memoir of P. De Wint, 24 photogravure plates on India paper, oblong, cl. gt., 1888, folio (309), May 28, Hodgson Bumpus, 1 IOS.

[See also Jan. 28, 1 18s.]

Armstrong (W.) Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, numerous fine photogravure reproductions, cl. gt., t.e.g., 1898, folio (595), April 1, Hodgson Easton, £2 17s. 6d.

[See also Jan. 28, £2 17s. 6d.; May 13, £2 4s.; American Art Association, Nov. 10, ed. 1899, $13.]

Armstrong (W.) Sir Henry Raeburn, plates, cl., g.t., 1901, folio (275), July 6, Sotheby Humphries, £45s. [See also Mar. 2, £4; American Art Association, Nov. 10, $20.] Armstrong (W.) Sir Joshua Reynolds, col. and plain plates, orig. cl., g.t., 1900, folio (274), July 6, Sotheby

Joseph, £2 5s. [See also Mar. 2, £3; American Art Association, Nov. 10, $13; Jan. 5, $20; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 16, shaken, $12.] Armstrong (W.) Turner, many plates, No. 45 of an edition on special paper, buckram gt., 1902, folio (443), May 18, Sotheby Zwemmer, £2 IOS.

[See also Nov. 3, £2 10s.; Nov. 24, mor., £2 2s.; Dec. 18, ex. plates, £3 7s. 6d.; Dec. 18, soiled, ex. plates, £198.; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, $10.50; Dec. 16, dup. plates, $16.]

[Arnauld (A.)] The Coppie of the Anti-Spaniard... translated out of French [by Anthony Munday], black letter (A-F in fours, wants A I, ? blank), hf. green mor., fine copy, John Wolfe, 1590, 4to. (35), Mar. 17, Sotheby

Quaritch, £16 Arnigio (Bartolomeo). Le Diece Veglie de gli ammendati costvmi dell' hvmana vita, first ed., orig. panelled cf. gt., arms of Gregory XIII. on sides, a dragon four times repeated on back, g.e., sold as a binding, Brescia, F. & P. M. de' Marchetti, 1576, 4to. (496), July 29, Sotheby

Arthur, £8 Arnold (Matthew). Cromwell, a Prize Poem, first ed., orig. wrappers, in a cl. folder, lettered, Oxford, 1843, 8vo. (840), Feb. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £3 15s.

[Arnold (M.)] Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems, by A., first ed., orig. cl., B. Fellowes, 1852, 8vo. (839), Feb. 2, Sotheby Cotton, £2 15S. [See also Dec. 8, £2 4s.; American Art Association, Mar. 30, $16.]

Arnold (M.) Letters, 1848-88, collected and arranged by G. W. E. Russell, 2 vol., green levant mor., gt. inside borders, g.e., by Cobden-Sanderson (1896), from the library of A. J. Kirkpatrick, Macmillan, 1895, 8vo. (16), Nov. 10, Sotheby Zwemmer, £4

Arnold (M.) Literature and Dogma, first ed., cl., uncut, London, 1873, 12mo. (34), Nov. 10, Anderson Galleries $52.50 [Autograph presentation copy, inscribed "Robert Browning, with the affectionate regards of M. A."] Arnold (M.) The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems, by A., first ed., orig. cl., 1849, 8vo. (148), July 27, Sotheby

Bain, £3 [See also American Art Association, Feb. 5, $30; Mar. 30, $18.] Arnold (M.) The Works of Matthew Arnold, port. on Japan paper, 15 vol., gt. medallion in centre of front covers, gt. backs, contents lettered, uncut, several backs somewhat faded, London, Macmillan & Co., 1903-1904, 8vo. (16), Nov. 20, American Art Association $52.50 Arnold (Richard). [Arnold's Chronicle, or the Customs of London], first ed., black letter, 130 ll., 2 columns, 42 lines, woodcut initials, wants first and last leaves (both blank), first page soiled, small piece torn from margin, affecting two or three letters, a (repeated) 1-4 torn, small wormhole through A (repeated) 3-7, A (repeated) 4 touched at fore-edge, vell., from the library of the College of Arms [Antwerp, Adriaen van Berckem, about 1505], folio (236), Nov. 24, Sotheby Quaritch, £38 Arnold de Villa Nova. The defence of age and recouery of youth translated by the famous Clarke & ryght experte medycines, Arnolde de noua Villa, very profytable for all men to knowe, black letter (A-B 4), woodcut on title flanked by the initials R. W., somewhat discoloured at top throughout, lower margin also somewhat stained, sewn, Bright's copy, [colophon] ¶ Imprinted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge in saynt Martyns Parysshe, at the signe of saynt John Euangelyst, besyde Charynge Crosse, 8vo. (39), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £425

[Herbert's description (p. 381) of an edition, also printed by Wyer, without date, does not agree with this edition, in which the text of "The defence of age" begins on the verso of the title, "The conseruacion of youth, and withstandynge of age," etc. The wording of the title is also different. If the Bibl. Soc. Handlist is correct in coupling the B.M. copy with Herbert, this is an unrecorded edition, and apparently the only copy known.] Arnoldus, de Villa Nova. Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum, gothic letter, 13611. (a-r in eights), first leaf (blank) mounted, initials supplied in red and blue, panelled cf. [Copinger 5057, Campbell 1472, not in Pellechet, Proctor 9292], [Louvain, Johann of Paderborn], c. 1588, 4to. (36), Mar. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, £45 Arrian. [Title] Arriani Historia De Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni e greco nuper traducta [Interprete Charolo Valgulio Brixiano], first ed., roman letter, 87 11., 40 lines, woodcut initials, a I slightly defective and mended, hf. vell. [Reich

ling 406], [Venice, (?) Bernardinus de Vitalibus], for Antonius Moretus, c. 1495, folio (37), Mar. 17, Sotheby Leighton, £4 15s. [Unrecorded, except by Reichling, who describes an imperfect copy in the Bibl. Naz., Naples.]

Ars Quator Coronatorum, being the Transactions of Lodge Quator Coronati No. 2076, edited by G. W. Speth and others, ports. and illustrations, Vol. 1-34, hf. roan, g.t., Margate, 1888-21, 4to. (4), April 20, Sotheby Joseph, £21 [See also Mar. 2, 24 vol., mor.; 16 10s.; Hodgson, Jan. 28, Vol. 1-26, mor., £27.]

Art (L') Revue Hebdomadaire Illustrée, ed. de luxe, etched and other plates in two states by Rajon, Flameng, Hedouin, and others, with numerous other illustrations, Vol. 1 to 19, hf. maroon mor. gt., t.e.g., 1875-79 (290), April 29, Hodgson F. W. Hunt, £5 Art Journal (The), 33 vol., and Paris Exhibition Catalogue, ht. mor. gt., 1849-1881 (wanting Vol. 1853, 1878, and 1880), (660), Dec. 22, Dowell

£3 5s.

[See also Hodgson, Jan. 14, 22 vol., £2 10s.] Art of Limming. A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set foorth the art of Limming, which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, Vinets, Flowers, Armes, and Imagerye, and the maner how to make sundry syses or groundes to lay Siluer or Gold upon, and how siluer or Golde shall be layed or limmed upon the syse, and the waye... to write or to limme withall vppon Vellym, Parchment, or Paper ... and how to vernish it, black letter (A-C 4), margins cut rather close, small holes in the last leaf very slightly affecting the text, hf. russ., ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote, the assigne of Richard Tottill, 1588, 4to. (40), Mar. 30, Sotheby

Quaritch, £12 A. [rthington] (H.[enry]). Provision for the poore, now in penurie, out of the Store-House of Gods plentie, black letter, device on title (one leaf repaired, slightly affecting a few letters, small repair in margin of title and one leaf, wanting A I, ? blank), brown levant mor., g.e., with Miller arms, London, printed by Thomas Creede, 1597, sm. 4to. (21), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £50 Arthur (King). The Most Ancient and Famous History of the renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine as also, all the Noble Acts, and Heroicke Deeds of his Valiant Knights of the Rovnd Table, black letter, 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut frontispiece to each part, a few 11. slightly stained, small hole in s 2 and вb 2, a few letters rubbed on s 4 and T I (Part 2), small hole in вb 3 (Part 2), orig. cf., W. Stansby for Jacob Bloome, 1634, 4to. (421), Oct. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £20

[See also Hodgson, April 29, mor., £23.] Arthur. History of the Valiant Knight, Arthur of Little Britain, translated from the French by Lord Berners, a

new ed. [edited by E. V. Utterson], col. plates, one a little stained, and one leaf slightly defective, russ. gt., g.e., 1814, 4to. (898), Feb. 2, Sotheby Cash, £6

Arthur. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, etc., limited ed., illustrated by Beardsley, 1 vol., cl., uncut (loose in covers), London, 1909, thick 4to. (44), Dec. 16, Anderson Galleries $II Arthurian Romances, The Vulgate Version of the, edited from manuscripts in the British Museum by H. Oskar Sommer, 7 vol., with Index, together 8 vol., wrappers, uncut, Washington, The Carnegie Institute, 1909-16, 4to. (1536), Oct. 6, Anderson Galleries $17 Arthus (Gotardus). Historia India Orientalis ex variis auctoribus collecta, with 2 folding plates, contemp. vell., Colonia, 1608, 8vo. (10), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £9 Arundel Club Publications, for 1905-15, excepting 1909, numerous fine plates, 10 parts, unbound, as issued, 190515, folio (182), July 29, Christie Sotheran, £4 [See also Hodgson, July 23, 13 parts, £3 18s.] Ascham (Roger). Familiarium Epistolarum libri tres, title within woodcut border (inscription erased from margin of woodcut border, inscription erased from margin of title, a few margins wormed, wanting ¶ (probably blank), orig. cf., blind stamped ornament on sides, Londini ¶ pro Francisco Coldocko [by H. Middleton], Anno 1578, sm. 8vo. (22), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £10

[From the library of Sir William Bolland. See also Anderson Galleries, Dec. 2, ed. 1581, $26.] Ascham (R.) The Schoolemaster, black letter, title within woodcut border, title and some margins pen-scrawled, blank margin of last leaf cut away, hf. cf., the HeberT. L. Peacock copy, A. Jeffes, 1589, sm. 4to. (104), Feb. 23, Sotheby Last, £5 5s. Ascham (R.) Toxophilvs, the Schoole of Shootinge, conteyned in two bookes, first ed., black letter (^ 4, a 4, A-Y 4), on the first page a cut of the arms of Henry VIII., to whom the book is dedicated, rust-hole in margin of N 2, two letters on T 3 recto erased, russ. (Heber vII. 486), [colophon] Londini, in ædibus Edouardi Whytchurch 1545, 4to. (41), Mar. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £115

[This famous treatise on archery is one of the earliest attempts to write an original work in the language of the common people. Of preceding writers, Lord Berners among translators and Tyndale and Sir Thomas More among original writers, had alone exhibited a comparable command of vernacular English.]

Ashbee (C. R.) and Harwood (Edith). The Masque of the
Edwards of England, col. plates, limited to 300 copies,
canvas, 1902, oblong folio (235), Feb. 11, Hodgson
Bolt, £2 18s.
Ashbee (E. W.) Occasional Facsimile Reprints of Rare and

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