A further selection from the Library of Capt. A. Books unsold or returned as imperfect from the Britwell Court Library Sales. Amount realised, The Library of the late Lt.-Col. W. G. Holford, The Libraries of the late Dr. Surtees Sumner, The Libraries of the Hon. Mrs. de Grey, C. H. Field, Esq., Mrs. P. G. Hanson, and Miscellaneous. Amount realised, £2,369 7s. 6d. A selection from the Library of the late Rev. A. Piggot. Amount realised, £2,045 16s. od. The Libraries of Dr. A. W. Oxford, A. M. The Library of the late Dr. E. S. Passmore, and The Libraries of the late Sir E. Marshall Hall, K.C., J. C. Garnier, Esq., Dr. J. T. Langley, and F. B. Greenstreet, Esq., and Miscellaneous. Amount realised, £1,806 15s. od. Books omitted from the Sales of the Britwell The Libraries of the late Dowager Viscountess, Allendale, W. Seton, Esq., and Rt. Hon. Lord The contractions used are few in number, and, generally speaking, familiar, though the following may be incidentally mentioned :- BOOK-PRICES CURRENT VOLUME XLI. Abbot (John). Iesvs Praefigvred, or A Poeme of the Holy Name of Iesvs in Five Bookes, the First and Second Booke, first ed., title laid down, a piece torn from the corner of sig. A 3, just touching one letter, several ll. somewhat water-stained, the last leaf somewhat soiled, calf (binding worn), [? Antwerp] Permissu Superiorum, 1623, 4to. (633), May 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £25 [Only two copies are recorded in the S. T. C. (British Museum and Bodleian). Only Books i.-ii. were published. The volume has two dedications: the first to Charles, Prince of Wales, in verse, signed with the author's name; the second in Spanish. John Abbot retired to the Continent after embracing the Catholic religion, and in 1623 was a member of the Convent of St. John the Baptist at Antwerp.] [Abbott (E. A.)] Flatland, by A. Square, first ed., pres. copy from the Author, wrapper, 1884, sm. 4to. (235), Dec. 21, Hodgson Thorp, £1 [Abbott (George).] A Briefe Description of the Whole VVorld the fourth ed. (A-Y in fours), wants A I (? blank, or with sig. only), wormhole affecting 4 letters at end, rare, At London, printed for Iohn Browne, 1617-bound with another work (wants title, printed at Oxford, 1648), hf. cf. (broken), 4to. (332), April 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 5s. A'Beckett (Gilbert Abbott). The Comic History of England, first ed., col. plates by John Leech, 2 vol., orig. cl. gt., Punch Office, 1847-8, 8vo. (1), April 27, Sotheby Dobell, £10 IOS. [See also Nov. 8 (broken and loose), £2 15s.; Dec. 6, hf. cf. (torn), £1 15s.; April 25, £9; July 20, binder's cl., £3 3s.; Hodgson, Jan. 26, def., £2 18s., and hf. cf., £4 15s. ; Feb. 9, def., £2 16s.; Feb. 23, rubbed, £2 10s.; June 30, def., £3 7s. 6d.; July 21, hf. cf., £7 7s.; Puttick, Mar. 3, £2; Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 1, mor., $30; Ed. 1855— Hodgson, Dec. 1, cf., £3 17s. 6d.; Puttick, Mar. 3, loose, 15s.; n.d.-Sotheby, July 14, 1 4s.; Puttick, April 8, £1 7s. 6d.; Dowell, Mar. 28, £1 8s.; Parts-Sotheby, Dec. 13, £25; April 25, £27; Amer. Art Assoc., April 25, $225; Anderson Gall., Feb. 15, $150.] A'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of Rome, first ed., col. Spencer, £29 [See also n.d.-Nov. 8, 1 10s.; Mar. 7, 1 5s.; June A'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of England, 2 vol., orig. cl., Thorp, £5 15S. [See also Dec. 6, impft., £3 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Abelard et Heloise. Lettres et Epitres Amoureuses d'Héloise [Charming little volumes illustrated with two engraved Abridgement of Parliament Rolles from Richard II. to Quaritch, LIO IOS. [This valuable volume has been in the hands of Anstis, Absolon's IX. Worthies, or a Key to a late Book or Poem, [See also Ed. 1546-Lot 476, def., £2 10s.; Ed. 1567 Achilles Tatius. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, trans- paper, orig. boards, holland back, uncut, Oxford, 1923, 4to. (223), Mar. 7, Sotheby Laurence, £1 8s. [See also Anderson Gall., April 11, $2.] Ackermann (Rudolph). History of the University of Cambridge, portrait and 95 col. plates by Pugin, Mackenzie and others, including Interiors and Costumes, and portraits of the Founders, 2 vol., half calf (loose in covers), 1815, 4to. (947), June 20, Sotheby Ackermann, £45 [See also Dec. 6, £39; June 20, £39; July 4, £48; Amer. Art Assoc., May 5, orig. bds., $120.] Ackermann (R.) History of the Charterhouse, col. front. (first state), and 4 plates (uncol.), boards [1816], 4to. (620), Jan. 12, Hodgson Spencer, I IS. Ackermann (R.) History of Christ's Hospital, 5 col. plates by J. Stadler after F. Mackenzie, boards (broken), 1816 (589), Feb. 9, Hodgson Last, £3 5s. Ackermann (R.) History of Eton College, 9 col. aquatint plates by Stadler and Havell, and col. plate of an Eton Scholar, hf. cf. (binding soiled), 1816 (604), June 16, Hodgson Bigham, £9 5s. Ackermann (R.) History of the University of Oxford, 70 col. plates, besides 33 portraits of founders and 17 plates of academic costume, all col., and the uncol. portrait of Lord Grenville, together 121 plates, 2 vol., hf. cf. (covers loose), fore and lower edges uncut, 1814, 4to. (475), Dec. 6, Sotheby Radcliffe, £29 [See also Nov. 8, 13; Mar. 7, £23; June 20, £21; July 4, £34; July 20, £26; July 25, 18 10s.; Hodgson, June 23, 12 IOS.; Puttick, Oct. 6, £18 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., May 5, orig. bds., $90, and mor., $85.] Ackermann (R.) The Costume of the University of Oxford, col. plates after T. Uwins, orig. boards, 1815, 4to. (46), Mar. 7, Sotheby Maggs, £5 5s. Ackermann (R.) History of Rugby School, 5 col. plates by Havell and Stadler, orig. boards, paper label on sides, uncut, fine copy, 1816, 4to. (517), Nov. 8, Sotheby Quaritch, £13 Ackermann (R.) The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster, with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, etc., col. aquatint plates, the plate of Charterhouse in first state, old russia (joints repaired), 1816, 4to. (293), July 4, Sotheby Maggs, £48 [See also Puttick, Oct. 6, £29.] Ackermann (R.) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, portrait, plan and col. aquatint plates, 2 vol., text stained by the set-off, contemp. red mor., 1812, 4to. (221), Mar. 21, Sotheby Bain, £13 [See also Nov. 8, stained, £2 15s.; Mar. 7, £6 15s. and £2 5s.; June 20, £4 5s. ; July 4, £4 108.; July 20, £7 10s. ; Hodgson, Mar. 24, rebacked, £3 12s. 6d.; June 23, broken, £4 IOS.] Ackermann (R.) The Microcosm of London, col. aquatint plates after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 3 vol., some Il. of text stained by the set-off from the plates, contemp. red straight-grained mor., gt. border round sides, gt. back, g.e., fine copy [1808-10], 4to. (220), Mar. 21, Sotheby Spencer, £52 [See also Dec. 6, £42; Mar. 7, £37; July 4, £49; July 20, 38; Hodgson, Nov. 10, £44 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., April 25, $265; May 5, cracked, $175; Ed. 1904Hodgson, Dec. 1, 2; May 4, £2 2s.; July 7, 1 10s.; July 13, 11IS.; Sotheby, Mar. 21, 2 4s.; Christie, July 25, 11OS.] Ackermann (R.) The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashion, etc., First Series, 14 vol., hf. cf. (some backs defective); First Series, Vol. iv.-vi., hf. cf. (two covers missing); First Series, Vol. xi.-xiv.; Second Series, Vol. i.-x., together 14 vol., cf., backs gt.; Third Series, Vol. iii.-v. and vii.-xii., together 9 vol., hf. cf. (three backs missing); together 40 vol, col. plates, sold as a periodical, Jan. 1809-Dec. 1820; Jan. 1824-June 1825; Jan. 1826Dec. 1828, 8vo. (1), June 27, Sotheby Spencer, £47 [See also June 20, £32.] Ackermann (R.) Sporting Scraps, 40 col. plates (8vo.) after H. Alken and others, mounted in an album, red mor., 1850-61, folio (184), Nov. 22, Sotheby Parsons, £29 10S. Ackermann (R.) Sporting Album, title and 100 col. plates from "The Sporting Review," etc., mounted, red mor., g.e., 1840, etc., folio (183), Nov. 22, Sotheby Parsons, £25 Acosta (Joseph de). Historia Natvral y Moral de las Indias, first ed., pol. cf. gt., inside borders, g.e., by Bedford, from the Huth collection, with book-label, fine copy, Seville, Juan de Leon, 1590, 4to. (320), Dec. 13, Sotheby Maggs, £16 Acosta (J. de). The Natvrall and Moral Historie of the East and West Indies, translated into English by E. G[rimeston], wants leaf a before title, title, A 3 and 4 defective, some 11. wormed affecting letters, some inner margins damp-stained, old cf. (damaged), 1604, sm. 4to. (920), July 20, Sotheby Friehold, £1 18s, [See also Ed. 1606-May 30, £11.] Acts of Parliament relating to Cornwall (70), some black letter, unbound, 1716-1866, folio (634), June 16, Hodgson Tregaskis, £3 17s. 6d. Acuna (Christoval de). Voyages and Discoveries in South America, by Acarete du Biscay and Grillet and Bechamel, lacks maps, old cf., 1698, 8vo. (379), Nov. 8, Sotheby Edwards, £1 Adare (James). History of the American Indians, particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Carolina and Virginia, folding map, orig. hf. mor., 1775, 4to. (257), Mar. 24, Hodgson Sawyer, £11 15S. [See also Sotheby, April 25, £6.] Adams (Henry). The Education of Henry Adams, an Auto |