Omar Khayyam. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by E. Fitzgerald, the rare second ed., orig. wrapper (the latter a little dust-soiled, otherwise a clean copy), with an A.L. from Fitzgerald to his friend, W. B. Donne (Examiner of Plays), 4 pp., B. Quaritch, 1868, sm. 4to. (575), May 10, Hodgson Quaritch, £102

[See also Mar. 5, £60; July 4, £52; Third ed., 1872April 18, £1 1S., and rubbed, £1; June 27, £1 Is.; Oct. 26, 1 18s.; Anderson Gall., Jan. 19, $10; Dowell, Dec. 19, 1 IOS.; Fourth ed., 1879-Hodgson, Feb. 8, £1 12S.; June 27, 1 8s.; Oct. 10, £I 10s.; Sotheby, Dec. 19, £2 5s.; Amer. Art Assoc., May 7, jewelled binding, $410.] Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, translated by Justin Huntley McCarthy, LARGE PAPER, on Japan paper, limited to 60 copies, full citron levant mor., richly gt. with Persian designs, rule and roll inner borders, fly-leaves of China silk, g.t., uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, [London] David Nutt, 1889 8vo. (511), April 2, Amer. Art Assoc.

$25

[Finely printed at the Chiswick Press.] Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, one of 50 copies, orig. wrappers, uncut, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1896, 8vo. (16), Jan. 23, Anderson Gall.

$85

[Presentation copy from the printer to Swinburne, inscribed on fly-leaf A. C. Swinburne, from the Printer, January, 1897." See also Jan. 17, $11; Ed. 1898— Hodgson, Oct. 26, 1 9s.; Dowell, Nov. 21, £1.] Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, translated by E. Heron-Allen, one of 1,000 LARGE PAPER copies, col. frontispiece and facsimiles, parchment gt., t.e.g., 1898 (213), Oct. 5, Puttick Quaritch, 17s. 6d.

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[See also Hodgson, Oct. 26, £1 16s.] Omar Khayyam. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápur, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole, of an inch square, cloth, set in a fine old silver ring, with catch fastening, in a leather fitted case, velvet and satin-lined, Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900 (102), Feb. 15, Amer. Art Assoc. $420

[The smallest book in the world. Only 75 copies were taken from the plates, which were then destroyed. Only two other copies have appeared at public sale. See also Feb. 15, Bryce ed., $5.]

Omar Khayyam. The Rubáiyát, reprint of Fitzgerald's first edition, with frontispiece and decorations, No. 16 of 88 copies, orig. limp lambskin, with ties, Essex House Press, printed for the Omar Khayyam Club, 1905, 4to. (544), Mar. 5, Sotheby Tompkinson, £2 10s. Hodgson, July 12, £1; Vale Press-Anderson

[See also July 30, on vell., £11; Dowell, Nov. 21, 1; Ed. 1901,

Gall., April 3, $12; Ed. 1909-Sotheby, June 25, vell. gt., illus. by Dulac, £3; July 2, signed, £4 15s.; Puttick, April 3, cl., 17s. 6d.; Amer. Art Assoc., April 23, illus. by Dulac, mother-of-pearl binding, $165.]

Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of, printed throughout on Japanese vellum paper, with 12 hand-coloured plates after drawings by Gilbert James, full red French levant mor.; front cover-in the centre, onlaid in mor. of various colours, is one of the characters in the illustrations, within a panel frame of two fillets, at the sides of this centre design are grapevines onlaid in green, purple and brown mor., with a solid gt. stippled background, the words "The Rubáiyát of" appearing at the top, and "Omar Khayyam" at the bottom, gt. ornaments in corners; back cover-double gt. fillet border with centre panel composed of double gt. fillets; gt. backs, with onlays of grapes and leaves, inside borders of red mor., doublures and fly-leaves of red watered silk, g.e., by Bayntun, in cloth slip-case, felt lined, very fine, London, George Routledge & Sons, n.d., 12mo. (145), April 23, Amer. Art Assoc.

[See also Anderson Gall., Oct. 31, $15.]

$140

Omar Khayyam. The Quatrains, translated by John Payne, orig. parchment, Printed for the Villon Society, 1898, 8vo. (801), Jan. 30, Sotheby Callard, £2 2s.

[See also Aug. 2, 18s.]

O'Meara (Barry E.) Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice from St. Helena the Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the most Important Events of his Life and Government, in his own words, by Barry E. O'Meara, his late Surgeon, first ed., portraits, 2 vol., full contemp. scored cf. (rebacked), London, 1820, 8vo. (340), Nov. 22, Amer. Art Assoc.

$17.50

Ongania (Ferdinand). Early Venetian Printing Illustrated, numerous facsimiles, cloth, 1895, sm. folio (613), June 27, Hodgson Thorp, £3

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 19, £2 5s.] Oppianus. De piscibus libri v., etc. [gr. et lat.], Italian 16th century binding of green mor., line tooling in gold and blind on sides, title in gold on upper cover, g.e., with ties, arms of Cardinal Granvelle stamped at end, Vernon copy, Venice, Aldus, 1517, 8vo. (562), Dec. 5, Sotheby

[See also Anderson Gall., Mar. 20, $15.] Maggs, £34 Oppianus. Halieutica [translated into Latin verse by Laurentius Lippius], [Hain *12015, Proctor 7242], first ed., gothic letter, a few slight marginal repairs and a few small stains, old russia gt., fine and large copy, Colle, Bonus, Gallus, 12 Sept., 1478, sm. 4to. (8 by 5 in.), (632), Nov. 28, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £19 Oratores Attici ex recensione I. Bekkeri, cum indicibus cura T. Mitchell, LARGE PAPER, 10 vol., orange mor., gt. border

round sides, gt. backs, g.e., by Lewis, Vernon arms on sides, Oxonii, 1823-28, 8vo. (564), Dec. 5, Sotheby Edwards, £12 Oratores Graeci. Rhetorum Graecorum Orationes [gr.], 3 parts in 2 vol., fol. 3 of Part i. (blank except for the instruction to the binder to cut it out) inserted loose from a smaller copy, straight-grain red mor. gt., inside borders, g.e., fine copy, Venice, Aldus, 1513, folio (563), Dec. 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £21

[See also Jan. 30, £3.] Orbellis (Nicolaus de). Expositio super textu Petri Hispani, [Hain-Copinger 12[0]52, Proctor 5151], gothic letter, 134 Il., two columns, woodcut initials, hf. vellum, Venice, Albertinus Rubeus, 10 Mar., 1500, 4to. (337), July 16, Sotheby Atkinson, £8 Ordonnances (Les) de l'Ordre de la Thoyson d'Or, printed on vellum, contemp. cf. with gold border of dogs, boars, lions, sprays, etc., within which is a narrow scrollwork border forming a panel containing a large centre ornament, g.e. (rebacked), S.l.a. et typ. n. [Antwerp, Plantin, c. 1566], 4to. (322), April 30, Sotheby Potter, £10

[The third issue, according to Brunet. Beautifully printed, the type and fine large woodcut initials differ entirely from those of the 1560 edition.] Origen. Contra Celsum et in Fidei Christianæ Defensionum [Hain 12078], beautiful illuminated initial and border on first leaf, with a Cardinal's arms, fol. 2 missing, bds., Rome, G. Herolt, 1481, folio (451), June 13, Hodgson Grant, £6 15s. Origines Parochiales Scotia, 3 vol., buckram, g.t., 1851, 4to. (839), Mar. 26, Dowell £2 10S. Orléans (Le Duc d'). Description des Principales Pierres Gravées du Cabinet S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, portrait and plates, 2 vol., contemp. French red mor., gt. line borders on sides, tooled backs, g.e., Paris, 1780-4, folio (633), Nov. 28, Sotheby Parsons, £10 [See also Mar. 26, £17.]

Orleans (Charles, Duke of). Poems, written in English, printed on vellum, white mor., on the sides a semis of a flower-spray within a wreath and a fleur-de-lys, with the arms of Charles X. in the centre, a similar semis on the back, inside border of a wreath enclosing a fleur-de-lys, with the royal arms at corners, silk linings, fore-edge decorations, 1827 (591), June 4, Sotheby Maggs, £24 IOS. Orme (Edward). Collection of British Field Sports, illustrated in 20 beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt, col. engraved title containing 20 sporting scenes in ovals in monochrome, list of plates with a large col. vignette of a hare, and 20 superb col. aquatints, contemp. hf. cf. (back slightly defective at top), Published by Edwd. Orme, 1 Jan., 1807, oblong folio (17 by 22 in.), (161), July 31, Sotheby Spencer, £1,080 [Only two copies are recorded as having been sold by

auction in this country during the past twenty years. Sir John Arthur Brooke's copy in a modern binding sold at Sotheby's on June 1, 1921, and a copy in parts on July 5, 1927.] Orme (Ed.) Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, etc., with a Supplement of New South Wales, 103 (should be 110) col. plates (many torn and partly mended), lacks title, many ll. of text torn and defective, rather soiled throughout, mor., E. Orme, 1813 (680), Oct. 31, Sotheby Spencer, £5 5s.

[See also Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 22, $40; Ed. 1814Feb. 27, £12 10s.; May 7, £6 10s. and £3 5s.; Ed. 1819— May 14, 15 10S.; July 23, £14 10s.; Oct. 31, £11 10s. ; Anderson Gall., Mar. 20, $65; n.d.-Sotheby, May 7, £10 10s. and £9 10s.; Oct. 31, £4.]

Orme (E.) Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, lacks 2 preliminary ll., some 11. loose and mended, old hf. cf., 1815-8, 4to. (239), June 25, Sotheby Rimell, £6 10S. [See also Ed. 1819-July 23, £7 5s. and £3 15s.; Hodgson, Nov. 24, £II 5S.] [Orme (E.)] A Picture of St. Petersburgh, a collection of 20 col. views of the city, the sledges and the people, hf. mor., [1815], folio (276), June 25, Sotheby Maggs, 11 IOS. Ormerod (George). History of the County and City of Chester, plates, 3 vol., mor. gt. extra, g.e., 1819, folio (157), June 25, Sotheby Halliday, £3 IOS.

[See also Mar. 5, £2; July 4, L.P., £8; June 23, £1 10S.; Nov. 28, £2 15s.; Hodgson, Aug. 1, £3 5s.; Ed. 1882Sotheby, Nov. 28, £2 IOS.; Hodgson, April 26, £1 8s.; July 18, £2 14s.] Ornithologia, methodice digesta, atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornata [Latine et Italice, a Xav. Manetti L. Lorenzi, et Violante Vanni], portrait, 5 vol., cf. gt., Florentiæ, 1767-76, folio (507), June 4, Sotheby Marks, £44 Ornithoparcus (Andreas). Micrologus, or Introduction, containing the Art of Singing, digested into Foure Bookes also the Dimension and Perfect Use of the Monochord, according to Guido Aretinus, by Iohn Douland, title in facsimile, a few corners repaired, woodcut diagrams, tables, etc., modern vellum, London, printed for Thomas Adams, 1609, folio (341), July 31, Sotheby Chadfield, £36 Orosius (Paulus). Historiarum adversus Paganos lib. vii. [Hain 12100], a few ll. discoloured, old cf., from the library of the Duke of Sussex, Vicenza, L. Achates [1476], folio (520), June 13, Hodgson Sawyer, £7 Orpheus. Argonautica et Hymni-Procli Lycii Philos. Hymni, [Hain *12106, Proctor 6236], printed in Greek throughout, 52 ll. (including the last blank leaf), 28 lines to a page, woodcut head-piece and initial on first page and fol. 26, printed in red, first leaf slightly soiled and margin of a few ll. at end slightly water-stained, otherwise a fine

copy, old blue mor., gt. border round sides, gt. back, [colophon] Impressum Florentie impensa Philippi Iute bibriopole [sic], [Printed by Bartolommeo di Libri], 19 Sept., 1500, 4to. (566), Dec. 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £85

[First edition of the Argonautics and Hymns.] Ortelius (Abraham). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, engraved title and 53 double-page maps, uncoloured, stained, some edges frayed and a few maps slightly defective, old cf. (loose in covers), Antwerp, 1570, folio (456), Nov. 7, Sotheby Maggs, £16 IOS.

[See also Dec. 12, £23; Ed. 1574-July 4, £44; Ed. 1575-Nov. 7, £3; Ed. 1570-79-April 2, £52; Ed. 1584 -July 4, 62; Ed. 1587-July 16, £78; Ed. 1595-July 31, 22; Ed. 1612-Hodgson, Mar. 28, £1 16s.] Ortelius (A.) Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, maps with cartouches, coloured by a contemporary hand 100 double-page (3 maps relating to America missing), cf., Antwerp, 1584, folio (599), May 16, Hodgson Ortus Vocabulorum: alphabetico ordine fere omnia quae in Lubrano, £11 Catholicon, breuiloquio Cornucopia gema Vocabulorum atque medulla gramatice, lit. goth., 240 ll., woodcut on title and full-page cut of S. George and the Dragon at the end, writing on title and verso and on last leaf, hf. cf., Rothomagi, 1517, 8vo. (450), Mar. 5, Sotheby

[See also Ed. 1518-June 11, £36.] Osbaldeston (Squire), his Autobiography, LARGE PAPER, NO. Goldschmidt, £9 5s. 25 of 100 copies, with illustrations in colour and black-andwhite, and 13 extra-illustrations, orig. bds., linen back, 1926 (171), Dec. 19, Sotheby Maggs, £9 5s.

[See also Hodgson, Mar. 7, £1 5s.; June 6, ₤2 10s.; Nov. 16, £3 10s.]

Osbaldiston (William A.) The British Sportsman [with articles on Horses, Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, etc.], plates after Dodd, etc., coloured copy, hf. crimson cf., [1792] 4to. (523), Nov. 30, Hodgson

Wilson, £3 17s. 6d.

[See also Anderson Gall., Mar. 20, $33.] O'Shaughnessy (Arthur). A Pathetic Love Episode in a Poet's Life, being Letters to Arthur W. E. O'Shaughnessy. Also a letter from him containing A Dissertation on Love, one of 25 copies privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends, inserted is an A.L. initialled “L,” 1 p., a sonnet "A Precious Urn," 14 lines, in the handwriting of O'Shaughnessy, a small calendar (inlaid) containing entries in the same hand, etc., hf. levant mor., orig. covers preserved, g.t., by Rivière [1916], 4to. (138), Sotheby Osler (Sir William). Incunabula Medica, portrait and facHollings, £5 15s. similes, hf. linen, Bibliographical Society, 1923, 4to. (161), May 3, Hodgson Lubrano, £6

[See also June 13, £6 158.; July 4, £6 Osorius (Jerosme). Histoire de Portugal

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