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287. CROWQUILL (ALFRED). Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple and his Five Disciples, Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zany and Foozle. FIRST EDN. With 50 illusts., one in colors, by Crowquill. 12mo, half morocco gilt, gilt edges.

Lond. 1861

288. CROWQUILL (ALFRED). The Pictorial Grammar. FIRST EDN. Numerous comic cuts. Crown 8vo, half calf (joints slightly rubbed), original cover preserved.

Lond. Harvey & Darton, n. d.

289. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Life in Paris, comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire of Corinthian Celebrity, and of his Bang-up Companion Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton, with the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family, including Sketches of a variety of other eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis. By David Carey. THE RARE FIRST EDN. Embellished with 21 colored plates, representing scenes from real life, designed and engraved by George Cruikshank, also with 22 engravings on wood by the same artist. Large 8vo, three-quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, richly tooled back, gilt top, uncut, by TOUT. Lond. 1822

* A VERY FINE AND TALL COPY, WITH THE HALF-TITLE. LARGE PAPER (??). ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK, the illustrations being extremely spirited and true, an extraordinary fact, considering that the artist's Continental experiences were limited to one day spent in Boulogne.

290. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Philip Quarll. Folding colored plate.

Lond.

The Adventures of 12mo, sewed, pp. 24. Hodgson, n. d. [1823]

* The large colored plate, although unsigned, is doubtless by Cruikshank, as he executed a good deal of work for these juvenile books published by Hodgson about this date. They are all now very rare.

291. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance. Selected and translated from the Italian. 16 illusts. by G. Cruikshank. Post 8vo, half crushed morocco gilt, gilt top, uncut. Lond. 1824

*First edition. Fine copy. Contains the suppressed woodcut, The Dead Rider."

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292. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth.

Etched front. and numerous

cuts by Geo. and Robt. Cruikshank.

* FIRST EDITION. Very scarce.

3 vols. 8vo, half calf. Lond. 1825-26

293. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Greenwich Hospital: a Series of Naval Sketches Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's-Man, by an Old Sailor [M. H. Barker]. FIRST With 12 full-page illusts. by Cruikshank. 4to, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. Lond. Robins, 1826

EDN.

294. CRUIKSHANK GEORGE). Scott (Sir Walter). Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart. 12 full-page etchings by G. Cruikshank. 12mo, full light blue crushed levant, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. Murray, 1830

* A pretty copy of the first edition. Besides the 12 plates by Cruikshank, a colored set and a proof set of the same are inserted.

295. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Bombastes Furioso: a Burlesque Tragic Opera. By W. B. Rhodes. FIRST EDN. With designs by Geo. Cruikshank. 12mo, full polished calf, gilt top, uncut, by RIVIERE.

Lond. 1830

[Ackerman, J. C.]

296. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Tales of other Days. FIRST EDN. With illusts. on wood by G. Cruikshank. Post 8vo, full calf gilt, gilt top, uncut, by LARKINS. Lond. 1830

297. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Edited by Lanman Blanchard. FIRST EDN. With numerous illusts. by Geo. Cruikshank. 8vo, half calf gilt. Lond. 1842

298. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Cakes and Ale: a Collection of Stories. By Douglas Jerrold. FIRST EDN. Etched fronts. and vignette titles by Cruikshank. 2 vols. 12mo, half straight-grain morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

Lond. 1842

299. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Cruikshank at Home; A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment. Numerous illusts. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth gilt. Lond. 1845

The

300. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Bottle; Drunkard's Children, a Sequel to the Bottle. FIRST EDN. 16 plates designed and etched by Cruikshank. In one vol. 4to, half roan (poor binding). Lond. 1847-48

301. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: Jack and the Beanstalk, Hop-o'-My- Thumb and the Seven League Boots, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper, and Puss in Boots. 4 vols. square 12mo, original blue pictorial wrappers, which were designed by G. Cruikshank, enclosed in green morocco solander case, by BRADSTREETS. Lond. [1847-64]

* Complete set of the ORIGINAL ISSUE of this well-known publication, which contains some of the finest conceptions which Cruikshank ever executed. Each volume contains several etchings. Hop-o'-My-Thumb has a set of the plates in color inserted in place of the plain ones. The other volumes have the plates in duplicates, one set being in colors and on thick paper. The volumes being published at such long intervals, complete sets are now rarely met with. This set has all the bibliographical points required by the collector. Back cover

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to Cinderella is a little worn, also the back of Puss in Boots, otherwise the set is in fine condition. Puss in Boots contains at the end the Address" to little boys and girls, the famous reply (by G. C.) to Charles Dickens' attack on the publication of this edition of Juvenile Fairy Tales, which appeared in Dickens' Household Words."

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302. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). A Present for an Apprentice. To which is added, Franklin's Way to Wealth. By Thomas Tegg. Engraved fronts. in compartments and engraved title with vignette by G. Cruikshank. 16mo, full polished calf gilt, gilt edges, original cloth covers and back bound in, by RIVIÈRE. Lond. 1848

* FIRST EDITION having frontispiece. Fine copy with all the advertisements.

303 CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Clark [Mary Cowden]. Kit Bam's Adventures; or, The Yarns of an Old Mariner. Illust. by Geo. Cruikshank. 16mo, half brown levant morocco gilt, gilt top. Lond. 1849

304. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Gore (Mrs.). The Inundation; or, Pardon and Peace. FIRST EDN. Illust. by Geo. Cruikshank. 12mo, cloth, gilt. Lond., n. d.

305. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). Complete Set of Etchings to the Greenwich Hospital, 12 plates on India paper; [also] a Duplicate Set in colors. Folio, full polished mottled calf, gilt inside gold borders, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond., n. d.

*Choice copy. Rare.

306. CRUIKSHANK (GEORGE). The Tooth-Ache imagined by Horace Mayhew and realized by G. Cruikshank. 43 very humorous and fine colored plates in folding sheet, and illust. on colored covers, the whole mounted on linen (the last cut slightly soiled). 32mo, in a polished calf cover, gilt. Lond. D. Bogue, n. d.

* Original copy of the First Edition. Very scarce. 307. CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT). My Cousin in the Army; or, Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment, a Poem. By a Staff Officer (Capt. John Mitford). With 16 full-page plates drawn and engraved by Robert Cruik shank and C. Williams, and finely colored by hand in the manner of Rowlandson. 8vo, full red morocco extra, with corner ornaments, inside borders and gilt top, other edges UNCUT (title neatly repaired). Lond. 1822

* Fine tall copy. Rare.

308. CRUIKSHANK (ROBERT). The Devil's Visit: a Poem from the Original Manuscript, with Notes, by A. Barrister. Numerous cuts by Cruikshank. 12mo, half maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt edges. Lond. 1830

*First Edition. A satire on prominent characters of the time-Madam Vestris, Miss Paton, Wm. Cobbett, Chas. Kemble (with a severe criticism on Fanny Kemble and a caricature portrait of her), Edmund Kean and Mrs. Siddons, etc.

309. CURTIS (G W.). Orations and Addresses edited by C. E. Norton. FIRST EDN. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, half crushed levant morocco extra, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut. N. Y. 1894 310. CURTIUS (Q.). Historiarum libri. Engraved title. 12mo, old calf (name on title). 4th issue.

311. DABO

Lugd. Batav.: Elzevir, 1633

ABORN (ROBERT). A Christian turn'd Turke: or, The Tragicall Lives and Deaths of the two Famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansker. As it hath beene publickly acted. Small 4to, old calf. Title soiled, and one side note cut into, otherwise good copy.

Lond. For William Barrenger, 1612

*The rare First Edition. The story is taken from the accounts of the overthrow of the two pirates, printed in 1609. The play is not divided into acts. From the Lefferts Library, with bookplate.

312. DANIELL (ALFRED). A Text Book of the Principle of Physics. 8vo, half polished calf gilt, gilt top.

Lond. 1884

313. [DANIEL (GEORGE).] Democritus in London, with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-Fellow. To which are added Notes Festivous, etc. FIRST EDN. Crown 8vo, full crimson morocco, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS. Lond. William Pickering, 1852

314. D'ANNUNZIO (GABRIELE). L'Intrus. Les Romans de la Rose. Traduit de l'Italien par G. Hérelle. 12mo, three-quarter morocco. Paris, 1897

315. DANTE. Divina Commedia col Commento di Cristoforo Landino. With 3 copper-engravings by Baccio Baldini, said to be after the designs by Sandro Botticelli (one repeated). Folio, old English red morocco, gilt (rubbed and joints restored).

Firenze: Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna, 1481

* Roman character. 369 leaves, including the blanks 13, 14 and 168. Signatures a-aa-A-Lvi. Hain-Copinger, 5946; Proctor, 6120. FIRST EDITION OF DANTE WITH LANDINO'S COMMENTARY, AND THE THIRD BOOK PRINTED WITH COPPER ENGRAVINGS. The first engraving is much cut into, otherwise a fine and large copy of this rare and noble volume.

316. DANTE. Opere del divino poeta Danthe con suoi comenti: recorrecti et con ogni diligentia novamente in littera cursiva impresse. Title printed in red, within a woodcut border, a full-page woodcut and 99 small woodcuts. 4to, old calf (cracked, title badly damaged and edges of two leaves slightly frayed).

Venetia: Bernardino Stagnino da Trino, 1520

317. DARWIN (CHARLES). WORKS, AS FOLLOWS: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, maps, 1840; Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, map and plates, 1842; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, plan, 1844; Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, illust., 1873; Insectivorous Plants, illust., 1876; Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1878; Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects, illust., 1882; Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1882; Power of Movement in Plants, illust., 1882; Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, illust., 2 vols., 1882; The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, illust., 1883; Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, illust., 1883; Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, illust., 1884; The Origin of Species by Meaus of Natural Selection, 1884; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M. S Beagle, 1884. Together 16 vols. 8vo and 12mo, uniformly bound in half morocco extra, gilt backs, gilt tops. Lond. 1840-84 *Fine and unusual collection. The early works of Darwin

are scarce.

318. DARWIN (CHARLES). Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his son, Francis Darwin. Portraits. 3 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, gilt tops (rubbed). Lond. 1887

319. D'AUREVILLY (BARBEY). Euvres d'une Vieille Maîtresse. Portrait and 10 etchings by Buhot, 2 vols. 16mo, full dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled sides, backs and inside borders, gilt tops, by KAUFFMANN. Paris, n. d.

320. DAVIES (C. M.). History of Holland, from the beginning of the Tenth to the end of the Eighteenth Century. 3 vols. 8vo, full polished crimson calf gilt, gilt tops.

Lond. 1841

*FINE SET of the original issue of the standard history of Holland.

Summa Totalis;

321. DAVIES (JOHN-OF HEREFORD). or, All in All, and the Same for Ever. By the first author, John Davies. FIRST EDN. Small 4to, full dark blue crushed levant morocco, gilt inside borders, edges gilt on the rough, by RIVIERE. Lond.: W. Jaggard, 1607

* VERY RARE. The well-known Shakespearean critic, George Steevens, suggests that as Davies was an associate of Shakespeare, the note (E) in the former's Microcosmus, where the initials W. S. and R. B. occur, must doubtless mean William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage, the latter of whom is supposed to have painted the Chandos portrait. Lower margins short and few signatures cut into.

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