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i. to lii., 1841-66, together 106 vol., half calf (not uniform)— Sporting Magazine, vol. vii. of the old series, wanted the engraved title-New Sporting Magazine, vol. iv., viii. and xviii., wanted titles, 1792-1866, 8vo. (1267) Spencer, £25 10s. 982 Sterne (L.) Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, 9 vol., first editions of vol. iii. to ix., 2 frontispieces by Hogarth, vol. v., vii. and ix. with the autograph of Sterne, original calf, 1760-67, 8vo. (1163) Bain, £2 45.

983 Stevenson (R. L.) An Object of Pity, or the Man Haggard, a Romance, by many competent hands [the characters in this romance are Lady Jersey, Captain Leigh, Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, Mr. R. L. S. and Mr. Balfour], Imprinted at Amsterdam (privately printed), Apia, August 2, 1892Answer to the preceding, entitled, Objects of Pity, or Self and Company, by a Gentleman of Quality, ib., Apia, August 20, 1892, parchment, 2 vol., 8vo. (1193) Denham, £27 10s. 984 Stow (John). Annales, or a Generall Chronicle of England, continued and augmented by E. Howes, black letter, large woodcut title containing portraits, original calf, 1615, folio (1237) Tregaskis, £2 5s. 985 Studio d'Architettura Civile sopra gli Ornamenti di Porte, Finestre, tratti da Alcune Fabbriche insigni di Roma, con le Misure Piante Modini e Profili, Opera de piu celebri Architetti de nostri tempi, upward of 280 plates (wanted plates 80 and 81 in vol. iii.), 3 vol., half calf, Roma, Rossi, 1702, '11, '21, folio (382) Batsford, 1 12s. 986 Swinburne (A. C.) William Blake, a Critical Essay, illustrations, second edition, original cloth, uncut, 1868, 8vo. (728) Quaritch, LI 987 Terentius, cum quinque commentis, videlicet Donati, Guidonis Calphurnii, Ascencii et Servii, 2 full-page woodcuts on reverse of title and woodcuts in the text, vellum, stained, and wanted folio 72 and 73, Venet., L. de Soardis, 1504, folio (239) Quaritch, £15S. 988 Thackeray (W. M.) The Adventures of Philip, 3 vol., first edition, original cloth, 1862, 8vo. (23)

9s.

989 Thackeray (W. M.) Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank (Westminster Review), illustrated with a large quantity of additional plates and illustrations, some coloured, arranged for binding, 1840, 8vo. (506) Maggs, I IOS. 990 Totanes (S. de). Arte de la Lengua Tacala y Manual Tagalog (y Castellano), in 1 vol., vellum, Impr. en el Pueblo de Sampaloc extr muros de la ciudad de Manila, 1796, 4to. (329) Spirgatis, £1 12s. 991 Vavassore (G. A.) Libro Secondo di bellissime e variate intitulato Fior de gli Essempi, nuovamente dato in luce, woodcut title, preface and 13 leaves with 26 designs, unbound (Venet.), G. A. Vavassore (circa 1540), oblong 8vo. (267) Dodd, £4

992 Vecellio (C.) Habiti Antichi et Moderni di tutto il Mondo, di nuovo accresciuti di molte figure, second edition, con

taining the American Costumes, 507 woodcuts, original vellum, Appresso i Sessa, 1598, 8vo. (222)

Wickham, £5 7s. 6d. 993 Vigerius (M. Saonensis). Decachordum Christianum Julio II., P. M. Dicatum, woodcut border round title, 10 full-page woodcuts within borders by Florio Vavassore and numerous smaller ones in the text, original stamped leather, folios 102 and 103 re-margined, Fani, H. Soncinus, 1507, folio (190) Tregaskis, £4 18s. 994 Villagomez (P. de). Carte Pastoral de Exortacion e Instruccion contra las Idolitrias de los Indios del Arcobispado de Lima, Lima, Jorge Lopez de Herrera, 1649-Avendaño (F. de). Sermones de los Misterios de nuestra Santa Fe Catolica, en Lengua Castellana, y la General del Inca. Impugnanse los Errores particulares que los Indios han tenido, 2 parts (wanted last leaf of the second part), ib. (1649), in 1 vol., original sheep, 1649, 8vo. (183) Lightfoot, £3 4s. 995 Virgil. The XII. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgil, translated out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God Maister Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkel and unkil to the Erle of Angus, Euery buke hauing hys perticular Prologe, black letter, top corner of title torn off, stained and wormed, Imprinted at London, 1553-Gravissimæ atqz exactissimæ illustrissimaru totius Italiæ et Galliæ Academiaru censuræ, woodcut border round title, Impress. Londini in officina Thome. Berthleti, 1530, in 1 vol., rough calf, 4to. (430) Ellis, £31 996 Walton and Cotton. Compleat Angler, edited by Marston, 2 vol., 54 photogravures and 100 woodcuts, half morocco, g. t., uncut, 1888, 8vo. (601) Dobell, 175.

997 Watson (J.) History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, portrait and plates, calf gilt, 1777, 4to. (908) Maggs, £4 5s. 998 Westwood (J. O.) Lapidarium Walliæ, the Early Described and Sculptured Stones of Wales, 100 plates, original cloth, 1876-79, 4to. (999) Edwards, £2 155. 999 Wordsworth (William). Poetical Works, 7 vol., portrait, calf gilt, m. e., 1849, 8vo. (1295) Ellis, £2 12s. 1000 Young (E.) Night Thoughts, morocco gilt, g. e., with a painted view of Waterloo Bridge, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance, on the fore-edge, 1812, 8vo. (1249)

Edwards, £6 17s. 6d. 1001 Young (G.) History of Whitby and Streonshalh Abbey, map and plate, 2 vol., LARGE PAPER, original boards, uncut, Whitby, 1817, 8vo. (830) Shepherd, 19s.

[DECEMBER 2ND AND FIVE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1901.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS FORMED BY THE LATE MR. W. STRADLING, OF CHILTERN PRIORY, SOMERSET, AND NUMEROUS OTHER PROPERTIES.

(No. of Lots, 1475; amount realised, £6,216 11s. 6d.)

(a) Mr. Stradling's Collection.

1002 Annals of Sporting, by Caleb Quizem, Esq. and his various Correspondents, coloured plates by Rowlandson, original boards, Thomas Tegg, 1809, 8vo. (57) Hornstein, £ 45. 1003 Beckford (Peter). Thoughts on Hunting, first edition, frontispiece by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, Sarum, 1781, 4to. (83) J. Bumpus, £6 5s. 1004 Bewick. Select Fables, with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previous to the year 1784 with a Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick, imperial paper, original boards, uncut, with the paper label, Newcastle, 1820, 4to. (84) W. Brown, £5 5s. 1005 Charles I. Eikon Basiliké. The Portraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, with the erroneous pagination in sheet G, original calf, 1648, 8vo. (64) Pickering, 1 16s. 1006 Collinson (John). History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, 3 vol., numerous plates (wanted the map), russia gilt, Bath, 1791, 4to. (87) Edwards, £3 125. 1007 Donovan (E.) Natural History of the Insects of China and India, 2 vol., numerous coloured plates, with descriptive text, russia gilt, m. e., uniform, 1798-1800, 4to. (88)

Maggs, £3 125. 1008 Lodge (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, complete in 80 parts, fine impressions of the 240 portraits, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs, 1829-35, imperial 8vo. (70) Denham, £3 7s. 6d. 1009 Napoleon's Own Historical Memoirs, dictated by him at St. Helena to Counts Montholon and Gourgaud, etc., and published from the Original MSS., 7 vol., maps, plans, etc., 1823-Napoleon in Exile, by B. E. O'Meara, 2 vol., frontispieces, 1822, uncut, together 9 vol., 8vo. (72)

Edwards, £4 2s. 6d. 1010 Nuremberg Chronicle. Liber Cronicarum cum Figuris et Imaginibus ab inicio Mundi [auctore Hartmano Schedel], first edition, lit. goth., numerous woodcuts by W. Pleydenwurff and M. Wolgemuth, many leaves damaged, mended and stained, old calf, with all faults, Nuremberg, 1493, folio (104) Thorp, £8 15s.

1011 Phelps (W.) History of Somersetshire, 8 parts in 4 (all published), maps, plans, engravings and vignettes, in the original wrappers, uncut, 1836-39, 4to. (96) Thorp, £2 2s. 1012 Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes of Brian Boru, Esq. and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty ... by a Real Paddy (a Sequel to Egan's Life in London), illustrated with 19 humorous coloured engravings by Heath, Marks, etc., a fine uncut copy in the original pictorial boards, Jones and Co., 1822-24, 8vo. (76) Robson, £16 105. 1013 Rhaesus (D.) Cambrobrytanicæ Cymraecaeve Linguæ Institutiones et Rudimenta . . . ad intelligend. Biblia Sacra, with the folded table, russia gilt, g. e., with bookplate of Francis Gwyn of Landanor, T. Orwin, 1592, folio (111) C. Roberts, £3 1014 Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, London, 1590-The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, London, 1596, interleaved throughout, old russia, 1590-96, 4to. (98)

Sotheran, £10 155.

[Vol. i. wanted title and vol. ii. the last two leaves. Some headlines in the first volume were also cut into. The first issue of the first edition.—ED.]

(B) Other Properties.

1015 A B C Books. Three Swedish A B C Books, illustrated with singular wood engravings, in 1 vol., calf extra, g.e., Stockholm, 1744-54, 8vo. (1) Hazlitt, £3

[Books of this class in Swedish literature do not occur of such early date as in English, and it is very difficult to procure satisfactory copies of them even of this late date.— Catalogue.]

1016 Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, etc., from January, 1814 to December, 1819, 12 vol. in 10, coloured plates of fashions, art furniture, etc., half calf, Ackermann, 1814-19, 8vo. (3)

Spencer, £5 1017 Alciatus. Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus, woodcuts, calf, Parisiis, excudebat Christianus Wechelus, sub scuto Basiliensi in vico Jacobaeo (1534), (9) Webster, £3 35. ["Première Edition des Emblemes d'Alciat publiée par Ch. de Wechel. Les 113 estampes qui s'y trouvent, inventées à Bâle, auprès d'Holbein, se resentent de l'influence du maître, et il est permis de les attribuer à un des artistes les mieux inspirés de l'école."-Catalogue.]

1018 Alcoran des Cordeliers, c'est à dire Recueil des plus Notables Bourdes et Blasphemes de ceux qui ont ose comparer Sainct François à Jésus Christ, plates by Picart, 2 vol., Amst., 1734-Legende Dorée, ou Histoire des Frères Mendiants de l'Ordre de S. Dominique et de S. François, ib., 1734, together 3 vol., “Maroquin de Constantinople," g. e., by Bisiaux, with his ticket (11) Maine, £2 2s.

[Renouard's copy, with his name in gold on the vellum fly-leaves. Bisiaux was noted for his most curious and rare bindings in "Maroquin de Constantinople."— Catalogue.] 1019 Altdorfer (Albert). Historia Redemptionis, complete set of the 48 woodcuts, with good margins, mounted in a volume, morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière (14) Loftie, £4 1020 America. Johnson (Dr. Samuel, First President of Kings College, New York). Noetica, or the First Principles of Human Knowledge, being a Logick, including both Metaphysics and Dialectic, or the Art of Reasoning, first edition, Philadelphia, printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752— Ethica, or the First Principles of Moral Philosophy, second edition, ib., 1752, with a general title as follows, "Elementa Philosophica, containing chiefly Noetica, or Things relating to the Mind, or Understanding; and Ethica, or Things relating to the Moral Behaviour, Philadelphia, printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752," clean copies, in 1 vol., old calf, with the ex-libris of the Duke of Sussex, 8vo. (19) Adams, £3 5s.

[A few manuscript notes and corrections, evidently intended for a new edition. Both pieces had the half-title. -Catalogue.] 1021 America. Apocalypse de Chiokovhikov, chef des Iroquois, Sauvages du Nord de l'Amérique, écrite par lui-même vers l'an 1305, uncut, Philadelphie, chez W. Roberdson, 1777, 8vo. (22) Maggs, £2 12s. 1022 Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica, Gr. cum Notis R. F. P. Brunckii, fine paper, Brunck's own copy, and subsequently Renouard's, morocco extra, g. e., Argent., 1780, 8vo. (30) Maggs, 116s. 1023 Bacon (Francis). The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, the King's Attorney Generall. His Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion; (Colours of Good and Evil), Seene and allowed, large copy, original sheepskin, John Jaggard, 1613, 8vo. (38) Ellis, £12 15s. 1024 Bailey (P. J.) Festus, a Poem, first edition (published anonymously), original cloth, uncut, W. Pickering, 1839, 8vo. (39) Spencer, £2 1025 Barclaii (Jo.) Argenis. Editio novissima, cum Clave, hoc est, nominum propriorum elucidatione hactenus nondum edita, engraved title, original calf, Lugd. Bat. Ex. officina Elziviriana, anno M.DC.XXX., 8vo. (42) Maine, £3 155.

[Alexander Pope's copy, with his signature on the flyleaf. Enclosed in a morocco case.-Catalogue.] 1026 Beckford (W.) Vathek (en Français), first edition, original boards, uncut, à Lausanne, 1787, 8vo. (46) Sabin, £7 155. [It is uncertain whether the first edition (in French) was printed at Paris or Lausanne. There was no copy of either issue in the Beckford sale.-Catalogue.]

1027 Beham (H. S.) Catalogue of Prints by, morocco extra, g. e., by Leighton, in a satin cover, 1877 (49) R. Gutekunst, £24 35.

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