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654. [KEBLE (JOHN).] On Translation from Dead Languages: a Prize Essay, recited in the Theatre at Oxford, June 10, 1812. Small 8vo, full calf (one cover defective).

*First edition. Scarce.

n. p., n. d.

655. KEMPIS (THOMAS A'). Opera et libri vitæ fratris Thomæ de Kempis ordinis canonicorum regularium. With initials painted in red and blue. Folio, contemporary wooden boards covered with stamped pigskin.

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Nurembergæ: Caspar Hochfeder, 1494

*Gothic character, double coll. 4 unnumb. leaves, and 180 leaves, numbered by mistake CLXXVIII; signatures a-3, A-C. Hain-Copinger, 9769; Copinger, III, p. 270; Proctor, 2291. Leaves I-XXVII contain the famous book, DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI." Fine copy of this very rare edition.

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656. KENNAN (GEORGE). Siberia and the Exile SysWith numerous illusts. 2 vols. royal 8vo, half morocco extra, gilt tops. N. Y. 1891

657. KILLIGREW (THOMAS). Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour to King Charles the First, and Groom of the Bed-Chamber of Charles the Second. THE RARE FIRST EDN. With brilliant example of the portrait of the author, engraved by Faithorne (skilfully repaired on inner margin). Folio, full brown crushed levant morocco, panelled sides, with corner ornaments, richly tooled back, gilt edges on the rough, by RIVIERE. Lond. Henry Herringman, 1644

* FINE AND TALL COPY. The portrait is one of the finest specimens of the work of the eminent engraver.

[See Reproduction.]

658. KILLIGREW (SIR WILLIAM). Midnight and Daily Thoughts. In Prose and Verse. Svo, half roan, red edges. Lond. Randal Taylor, 1694

* FIRST EDITION. The Bierstadt copy, with bookplates.

659. KINASTON (SIR FRANCIS). Leoline and Sydanis. A Romance of the Amorous Adventures of Princes. Together with Sundry Affectionate Addresses to his Mistresse under the name of Cynthia. Written by Sir Fr: Kinnaston Knight. Small 4to, full brown venetian morocco gilt, inside borders, gilt edges (upper and lower margins of frontispiece restored and a few pin-holes in same). Collation, A2-A4, B1-X2 in fours.

Lond. Printed by Ric. Hearne, 1642

*"This romance contains much of the fabulous history of Mona, Wales and Ireland, and (bating that it is now and then a little obscene) is poetical enough."-PECK.

VERY RARE. Crawford-Lefferts copy, with bookplates.

660. KING (C. W.) The Gnostics and their Remains, Ancient and Mediæval. Profusely illust. Profusely illust. 8vo, three-quarter crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt top, by LAUNDER.

* Original issue of this scholarly work. Scarce.

Lond. 1864

661. KIPLING (JOHN L.) Beast and Man in India: a Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their relations with. the People. Numerous illusts. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1891

662. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette. By Four AngloIndian Writers. 8vo, half calf extra, gilt back and top, uncut, with the original wrappers and the 14 pages of advertisements bound in. Lahore, 1885

*Fine copy of this extremely rare book. A copy lacking one of the covers and some leaves of advertisement sold at auction in England for £12.

663. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories. 8vo, full dark blue crushed levant, gilt line borders on sides, gilt back, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by the CLUB BINDERY.

Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co., n. d. [1888]

* FIRST EDITION, being No. 6 of the Indian Railway Library. RARE. This copy has the original paper covers preserved.

664. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Letters of Marque. FIRST EDN. 8vo, original red and blue cloth. Allahabad, 1891 665. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Barrack-Room Ballads and other Verses. 8vo, half vellum, gilt top, uncut.

Lond. 1892

*FIRST EDITION in book form. JAPANESE VELLUM PAPER. Only 30 copies printed.

666. KIPLING (RUDYARD). Out of India. Things I Saw and Failed to See in Certain Days and Nights at Jeypore and Elsewhere. Post 8vo, cloth.

* Fine copy of this scarce suppressed issue.

N. Y. 1895

The Works of Rud

667. KIPLING BIBLIOGRAPHY. yard Kipling. The Description of a Set of the FIRST EDS. of his Books in the Library of a New York Book Collector. With portrait and facsimile. Royal 8vo, boards, uncut. N. Y.: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901

*One of 12 copies on Japan paper.

668. KITCHEN (G. W.). A History of France. Maps. 3 vols. half dark blue crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873

669. KNOLLES (R.). The General Historie of the Turkes, to the rising of the Othoman familie with all the expeditions of the Christian princes against them. Together with the lives and conquests of the Othoman kings and emperours, with a new continuation to the year 1638. Engraved

title-page and over 30 portraits engraved by L. Johnson. Folio, old calf (light water-stains in the first leaves). Bookplate of Th. Bell, engraved by Bewick. Lond.: Islip, 1638

* A detailed and interesting work. Not mentioned by Apponyi.

670. KNOPP (WILLIAM I.). _Life, Writings and Correspondence of George Borrow. Derived from Official and Authentic Sources. Portrait and illusts. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt, uncut. Lond. 1899

671. KNOWLES (JAMES SHERIDAN). The Wife; a Tale of Mantua: a Play in Five Acts. FIRST EDN. 8vo, threequarter wine-colored crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by TOUT. Lond. 1833 *The Epilogue was written by Charles Lamb. With the original advertisements bound in.

672. KRAUSE (ERNST). the German by W. S. Dallas.

Erasmus Darwin, transl. from With a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin. Portrait and woodcuts. 12mo, half calf gilt, gilt top.

Lond. 1879

673. LA A CROIX-DU-MAINE (SIEUR DE). Premier Volume de la Bibliothèque; qui est un catalogue général de toutes sortes d'autheurs, qui ont escrit en François depuis cinq cents ans & plus, jusqu'à ce jourd'huy. Woodcut portrait of Henry III. on the back of title, and a full-page woodcut representing a bookcase. Folio, old panelled calf (cracked). Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1584

*The extremely rare original edition. A notice of COLUMBUS and his discoveries occurs on p. 548. THOMAS KILLIGREW'S COPY, with his autograph signature on the title. A fine, clean copy.

674. LA FONTAINE.

Fables de La Fontaine.

With 75

magnificent full-page etchings by Delierre. 2 vols. royal 4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gold tooled emblems in back panels, wide inside dentelle borders, gilt tops, uncut, by ALFRED MATTHEWS. Paris: Quantin, 1883

*Edition de Luxe.

675. LAING (SAMUEL). The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Transl. from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson. With a Preliminary Dissertation. 3 vols. 8vo, full calf gilt, yellow edges, by CECIL LARKINS (joints weak and backs somewhat chipped at top). Lond. 1844 * ORIGINAL EDITION. Scarce.

676. LAING (SAMUEL). Modern Science and Modern Thought, 1893; Human Origins, with illusts., 1897; A Modern Zoroastrian, 1901; Problems of the Future and Essays, 1902. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1893-1902

677. LAKING (GUY FRANCIS).

The Armoury of Windsor Castle, European Section. By the Keeper of the King's Armoury. With 39 fine large India proof plates, containing 943 choice illusts.of armour, swords, flint lock and wheel lock pistols, rapiers, rifles, muskets, fowling pieces, spears, arquebuses, lances, suits of armour and separate pieces, daggers, horse armour, and other arms of all periods. Royal 4to, light half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut.

Lond. 1904

* Only a small edition published by command of King Edward VII.

678. LANG (ANDREW). XII. Ballades in Blue China. FIRST EDN. 12mo, full light blue crushed levant morocco, with wide borders containing foliated sprays in gold, panelled back, inside borders, blue silk linings and fly-leaves, rough gilt edges, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. 1880 With the original vellum

* HANDSOME SPECIMEN OF BINDING. covers bound in. In case.

679. LANG (ANDREW). The Library, with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson. FIRST EDN. With colored facsimiles of fine examples of bookbinding, and illusts. (one of which is by Kate Greenaway). 12mo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, the sides tooled to a Grolier pattern, with green silk linings and flyleaves, gilt top, uncut, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. 1881

*CHOICE COPY. With original covers bound at the end. In case.

680. LANG (ANDREW). XII. and X. Ballades in Blue China. 12mo, full emerald green crushed levant morocco, doublé with orange levant, tooled borders, with a spray of flowers inlaid in green, gilt top, uncut, by SAMBLANCXWECKESSER. Lond. 1883

* FINE COPY. In case,

681. LANG (ANDREW). XXXII. Ballades in Blue China. 12mo, full blue crushed levant morocco, with gold floreate borders, tooled back, inside borders, gray silk linings and fly-leaves, gilt top, uncut, with the original covers bound in, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. 1885

682. LANG (ANDREW). Rhymes à la Mode. FIRST EDN. Etched front. 12mo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, with gold floreate borders on sides, tooled back, inside borders, sage green silk linings and fly-leaves, gilt top, uncut, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. 1885

*FINE COPY. With original covers bound in. 683. [LANG (ANDREW).] Lines on the Inaugural Meeting of the Shelley Society. Svo, boards, uncut. Reprinted for private distribution from the Saturday Review of March 13th, 1886.

* One of 30 copies printed, and with the autograph of A. Lang on title. Laid in is a one-page autograph letter from him with reference to his Cupid and Psyche.

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