origin to the year 1555, trans. and published by R. Hakluyt, Lond., G. Bishop, 1601 (the margin of last leaf damaged), the two works bound in 1 vol., old cf., 4to. (15), Nov. 17, Knight Stevens & Stiles, £10 10s. Martyr (Peter). Historie of the West-Indies, Containing the Acts and Adventures of the Spaniards. Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt, and trans. into English by M. Lok. Gent., woodcut initials (title backed), title and B-Ss in eights, mor. ex., y.e., Printed for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in Pauls Church-yard [n.d.], sm. 4to. (4783), July 4, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £16 Martyr (Peter). History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies... done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde Willes, black letter, woodcut initials, title and preliminaries 10 leaves, A and B 4 leaves each, C-Ooo in eights (title cleaned and repaired), russ. ex., by F. Bedford, Imprinted by Richarde Iugge, 1577, sm. 4to. (4781), July 4, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £50

Martyr (Peter). Libro primo della historia del' Indie Occidentali. [On the verso of this title :] Summario de la generale historia del' Indie occidentali, etc. Libro secondo delle Indie occidentali MD XXX IIII. [On the verso of this title:] Summario de la naturale et general historia de l'Indie occidentali, composta da Gonzalo ferdinando del Ouiedo, tradotto di lingua castigliana in Italiana. [Colophon] Stampato in Vinegia, nel mese di Decembre, Del. 1534. Libro ultimo del summario delle Indie Occidentali MDXXXIIII. [On A ii:] Libro ultimo del summario de le cose de le Indie occidentali, etc. [Colophon] In Vinegia, Del mese d'Ottobre, MDXXXIIII., first ed. in Italian, woodcuts, mor. ex., g.e., by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, sm. 4to. (4778), July 4, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £21

[Part 1. A-V in fours, the last leaf blank. Part 2. A-Q in fours; table and a leaf containing the colophon and a description of the two maps, together 2 leaves. Part 3. A-D iii in fours. At the end of Part I is a woodcut map of "Isola Spagnuola," and between Parts 2 and 3 is a large folded map, La carta uniuersale della terra ferma & Isole delle Indie occidētali." Of this map not more than two or three original copies are known. In this copy it is in fac., by Harris.]

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Marvell (A.) Collection of Poems on Affairs of State, hf. mor., g.e., by Rivière, from the Collier and Hoe libraries, 1689, 4to. (304), May 25, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £10 Marvell (A.) Miscellaneous Poems, first ed., port., old cf. gt. (repaired), between pp. 60-61 is inserted a transcript in a contemp. hand of the poem "On Paradise Lost (2 PP. 8vo.), Printed for R. Boulter, 1681, folio (303), May 25, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £II [12 5s., cf. ex., by Bedford, large copy, the Huth sale, July 4, 1916, Lot 4785.]

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Mary B. V. (I.) Le mistere de la conceptiō Natiuite Mariage Et annōciation de la benoiste vierge marie. [Beneath title a large woodcut of the Offerings of the Magi], lettres bâtardes, double columns, 40 lines, folios I-CXCIII., including title [Brunet III. 1970], woodcuts and printer's device on reverse of last leaf, [colophon] Imprime nouuellement a Paris, par la vefue feu Jehan trepperel Demourant en la rue neufue nostre dame. A lenseigne de lescu de France [s. d.] (c. 1515).

(II.) Sensuyt le mistere de la passio nostre seigñr Jhesucrist. [Beneath title a large woodcut of four scenes in the passion], lettres bâtardes, double columns, 40 lines, folios 1.-CCLXIII., including title, and a leaf of table unnumbered, [colophon]. . . . Nouuellemet imprimee a Paris Par la veufue feu iehă trepperel et Jehā iehannot iprimeur & libraire iure en luniuersite de paris. demourat en la rue neufue nie dame a lenseigne de Lescu de Frace [s. d.] (c. 1515).

[Concerning the variations of this ed. see Brunet, iii., 1973-4. This copy agrees with two others which he mentions in that there is a gap in the pagination from 89 to 100, making therefore 254 leaves to the volume, though the last leaf but one is numbered 263.]

(III.) Sensuit la Resurrection de nostre Seigneur iesuchrist. [Under title a woodcut of the Resurrection, beneath which] On les vend a Paris en la rue neufue nostre dame A lenseigne de lescu de france, lettres bâtardes, double columns, 39 lines, folios 1.-LI., including title, and a leaf of table at end not numbered, cut on title and reverse of last leaf, [colophon on the reverse of folio 51] Cy finist le mistere de la Resurrection de nostre seigneur ihesucrist par personnages Nouuellement imprime a Paris par la veufue feu Jeha trepperel demourant en la rue neufue nostre Dame a lenseigne de lescu de France [s. d.] (c. 1515) (5202), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £45

[This ed. agrees with that described by Brunet, iv., 1249, in the number of leaves, but the title has several literal variations from that which he gives, and the imprint has only the name of "la veufue feu Jehā Trepperel," while the impression he describes has also the name of "Jehannot.' These three eds. are bound in one volume, in old French mor. gt., g.e., two or three leaves are somewhat soiled in each work. From the library of Girardot de Préfond.]

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Mary, B. V. Le mistere de la cōception: natiuite: mariage : et annonciation de la benoiste vierge Marie, 1540 [below title a large woodcut of the Offerings of the Magi], lettres bâtardes, double columns, 40 lines, old French cf., r.e., On les vend a Paris en la rue neufue nostre Dame a lenseigne de lescu de France. Par Alain lotrian [s. d.] (1540), sm. 4to. (5201), July 4, Sotheby Leighton, £6

[A, 8 leaves; B-X in fours; Y, 6 leaves. Folios

I.-XCIII., including title; and a leaf of table with device on reverse, not numbered.] Mary I. (Queen). Allegrezza publica, et ringratiamenti fatti a Dio dalla Santità di N. S. Iulio Papa III. et dal sacro Collegio, & da tutto il popolo di Roma (4 leaves), coats-ofarms on title, new vell., padded with blanks [Senz' alcuna data, c. 1554], sm. 4to. (4789), July 4, Sotheby Maggs, £2 Mary I. (Queen). Copia delle lettere del Sereniss. Re d'Inghilterra, & del Reuerendiss. Card. Polo Legato della S. Sede Apostolica alla Santitâ di N. S. Iulio Papa III. sopra la riduttione di ql Regno alla vnione della Santa Madre Chiesa, & obedienza della Sede Apostolica, arms of the Pope and K. Philip and Q. Mary on title, woodcut initials, new vell., uncut, padded with blanks, In Roma per Valerio, & Luigi Dorici [1554], sm. 4to. (4786), July 4, Sotheby Leighton, £2 12s.

[6 leaves. This is evidently the first ed. In the Grenville library are two other editions, one printed in Milan and the other without place of printing.] Mary I. (Queen). Coronatione de la Serenissima Reina Maria d'Inghilterra fatta il di primo d'Ottobre. (4 leaves), royal arms on title, new vell., uncut, padded with blanks, MD.LIIII., sm. 4to. (4787), July 4, Sotheby Scribner, £10 Mary I. (Queen). Ein kurtze warhafftige | anzeygung der ding, so sich inn nechst ver- | schinen tagen, in Engellandt, zwischen den Königlichen Maietsaten, König vnd Königin vñ dem hochwirdigsten Cardinal Polum, auch allen fürnembsten Herren, vnd allem volck, in ersetzung vnd widerbringung der rechten, waren, allgemeynen Christlichen Religion verlossen haben. Anno Domini M.D.LIIII., lit. goth., a 4 leaves, b 6 leaves, the last blank, hf. mor., the orig. gold page wrappers bound in (1554), sm. 4to. (4792), July 4, Sotheby Maggs, £2 2s. Mary I. (Queen). II Felicissimo Ritorno del Regno d'Inghilterra alla Catholica Vnione, & alla obedientia della Sede Apostolica, coats-of-arms on title, 8 leaves, apparently the first ed., new vell., padded with blanks [Senz' alcuna data, c. 1554], sm. 4to. (4788), July 4, Sotheby Maggs, £2 Mary I. (Queen). La partita del Serenissimo Principe con l'armata di Spagna, & l' arriuata sua in Inghilterra, & l' ordine tenuto dalla Regina in riceuere Sua Altezza, Et del lietissimo sponsalitio, e matrimonio loro, con il nome de i Signori, e Caualieri Spagnuoli, Inglesi, & altri che iui si son trouati presenti, & delle liuree, feste, & altre cose, che si son fatte alle nozzi (6 leaves), coat-of-arms on title, mor. gt., g.e., by R. de Coverly, padded with blanks [Senz' alcuna data, c. 1554], sm. 4to. (4790), July 4, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £3 7s. 6d. Mary I. (Queen). La Vera Capitvlatione, e Articoli passati, e conclusi infra il Serenissimo Philippo Principe d' Ispagnia, e la Serenissima Regina Maria d' Inghilterra con il consenso de Principi Baroni e Popoli del detto Regno congre

gati insieme nella inclita Citta di Londra (4 leaves), coatsof-arms on title, new vell., padded with blanks, [at the end] Date in Londra il 24 di Luio [sic], 1554, sm. 4to. (4791), July 4, Sotheby Leighton, £2 14s. Mary, Queen of Scots. [Belleforest (François de).] L'Innocence de la tresillustre, tres-chaste, et debonnaire Princesse, Madame Marie Royne d'Escosse, title and preliminaries 20 leaves, A-M in eights, N 4 leaves, no sig. O, P-Z in eights, Aa 6 leaves and 2 leaves of errata, mor. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Imprimé l'an 1572 (4796), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £2 IOS.

Mary, Queen of Scots. Buchanan (G.) Copie of a letter written by one in London to his friend concernyng the credit of the late published detection of the doynges of the Ladie Marie of Scotland, black letter and roman, eight leaves, probably printed at London by John Daye about 1571, new vell. [No place, printer's name or date], sm. 8vo. (4794), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £27 IOS. Mary, Queen of Scots. Discours de la mort de Tres-hute & tres-ilustre Princesse Madame Marie Stouard, Royne d'Ecosse. Faict le dixhuictiesme iour de Feurier 1587, mor. plain, inside dentelles, by Masson-Debonelle [s. 1. n. d.], sm. 8vo. (4797), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £43 [Four leaves, printed without a title-page. Only three copies appear to be known. (See Scott's Bibliography of Mary, No. 160.) In his sale in 1905 it sold for £144.] Mary, Queen of Scots. Discourse touching the pretended match betweene the Duke of Norfolke and the Queene of Scottes, 8 leaves, the first and last original blanks, new limp vell. [No place or date], sm. 8vo. (4795), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, L10 158. Mary, Queen of Scots. La Mort de la Royne d' Escosse, Dovairiere de France, title and Au Lecteur A 1 to 4, with woodcut of the Cross on verso of A4 and A to 06 in eights, 06 with "Acheué d'imprimer ce dernier iour de Decembre, Mil cinq cens quatre-vingtz & huict " on recto, otherwise blank, mor., g.e. (3 numerals cut into), without the folding woodcuts present in some copies, No place or printer, 1588, 8vo. (141), Nov. 10, Puttick

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Richardson, £2 5s. Mary, Queen of Scots. Mariae Stvartae Scotorvm Reginæ, Principis Catholicae, nvper ab Elizabetha Regina, et ordinibus Angliae, post nouendecim annorum captiuitatem in arce Fodringhaye interfectæ Supplicium & Mors pro fide Catholicæ constantissima, A-D in eights, cf. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Coloniae, Apud Godefridum Kempensem. Anno M.D.LXXXVII., sm. 8vo. (4798), July 4, Sotheby Ellis, £5 Marylebone Gardens and its Frequenters, an extra illustrated work, comprising Smith's Book for a Rainy Day (part), ports., views, ballads, etc., etc., hf. mor., t.e.g., n.d., folio (211), Nov. 10, Puttick Edwards, £2 158.

Mascall (L.) Booke of the Arte and Maner howe to plant and graffe all sortes of Trees, etc., black letter, woodcuts, cf., line borders, J. Wight, 1575, 4to. (444), March 29, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £3 35.

[£3 17s. 6d., mor., by Birdsall, June 30, 1914, Sotheby, Lot 291.] Masefield (John). Ballads and Poems, first ed., orig. cl., uncut, 1910, sq. 12mo. (525), Dec. 9, Hodgson Wooland, LI [138., same state, May 6, 1915, Hodgson, Lot 95.] Masefield (John). Salt-Water Ballads, first ed., buckram, t.e.g., 1902, 8vo. (524), Dec. 9, Hodgson Wooland, £2 2s. [£2 6s., same state, Nov. 13, 1913, Puttick, Lot 112; £2, same state, June 3, 1915, Puttick, Lot 442.] Masini (Eliseo). Sacro Arsenale, overo Prattica dell' Officio della S. Inquisitione ampliata, engraving on title, title and preliminaries 4 leaves, A-HHH in fours, orig. vell., In Genova per Giuseppe Pavoni MDCXXV., sm. 4to. (4800), July 4, Sotheby London Library, £1 8s. Maskell (Alfred). Ivories, numerous illustrations, orig. cl., uncut, t.e.g., Connoisseurs Library, Methuen, n.d., imp. 8vo. (4369), Dec. 9, Sotheby James, 15s. Mas Latrie (Comte de). Trésor de Chronologie d'Histoire et de Géographie pour l'Étude et l'Emploi des Documents du Moyen Age, hf. mor., Paris, Librairie Victor Palmé, 1889, folio (4370), Dec. 9, Sotheby Pickard, £2 Mason (F. R.) Certamen Seraphicum Provinciae Angliae pro Sancta Dei Ecclesia, engraved title in compartments and 5 ports., polished cf. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Duaci, 1649, sm. 4to. (4804), July 4, Sotheby Bull, £3 3s. Mason (Henry). The New Art of Lying, Covered by Iesvites vnder the Vaile of Equivocation, woodcut initials and ornaments, (a)-(b) in fours, title on (a) 2, A-P in fours, new vell., Printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Clarke, 1624, sm. 4to. (4801), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £2 IS. Mason (John). An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Tvrke, and Borgias Governour of Florence, 2 leaves and B-K 2 in fours (title and last leaf soiled), hf. mor., ¶ Printed by T. P. for Francis Falkner, neere vnto S. Margarites-hill in Southwarke, 1632, sm. 4to. (4802), July 4, Sotheby

Dobell, £2 Mason (Richd.) Certamen Seraphicvm Provinciæ Angliæ pro Sancta Dei Ecclesia, engraved title in compartments, printed title, and preliminaries, 13 leaves; pp. 1-356, and five ports., mor. gt., g.e., by F. Bedford, Dvaci, Typis Baltasaris Belleri, Sub Circino aureo. Anno 1649, sm. 4to. (4803), July 4, Sotheby Ellis & Keene, £3 10s. Mason (Robt.) Reasons Academie, A 4 leaves, B-H in eights, last leaf blank, with a folding table, orig. vell., Imprinted by Tho. Creede, for Iohn Browne, and are to be solde at his shop in S. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-streete, 1605, sm. 8vo. (4805), July 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £12 Maspero (G.) Dawn of Civilization, by A. H. Sayce, map,