expected and never till now Published, fine impression of the Marshall portrait (2 leaves torn), original sheep, 1659, 8vo. (421) Dobell, £1 18s. 91 Swift (J.) Works and Letters, 24 vol., plates, calf, 1766-69, 8vo. (131) Ridler, £1 18s. 92 Taylor (Elizabeth). Authentic Memoirs of Mrs. Clarke, with the Intrigues of many characters in High Life and the Letters of the Duke of York, coloured portrait, original boards, uncut, 1809-Private Adventures of Madame Vestris, plates (409) Hornstein, £8 5s. 93 Thackeray (W. M.) Doctor Birch and his Young Friends, first edition, with coloured illustrations by the author, fancy boards, g. e., 1849, cr. 4to. (425) G. H. Brown, £I 14s.

Denham, £1

Hornby, Li

94 Westmacott (C.) Points of Misery, or Fables for Mankind, illustrations by R. Cruikshank, fine paper copy, original wrappers, uncut, 1823, 8vo. (391) 95 Weyman (Stanley). House of the Wolf, first edition, cloth, 1890, 8vo. (494) 96 Wotton (Sir Henry). The State of Christendom, or a Most Exact and Curious Discovery of many Secret Passages, and Hidden Mysteries of the Times, engraved portrait, first edition, original calf, Humphrey Moseley, 1657, folio (590) Denham, £1 15s. 97 Yosy (A.) Switzerland as now divided into nineteen Cantons, vol., 50 coloured plates of costume, half morocco, 1815, 8vo. (312) Hutt, L1 6s. [Published at £3 13s. 6d.—ED.]

[OCTOBER 28TH, 1901.]

J. C. STEVENS.

A COLLECTION OF WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY BELONGING TO THE LATE MR. JOHN YOUNG.

(No. of Lots, 204; amount realised, about £350.)

[NOTE.-The Catalogue was so badly prepared that it was not reliable, and the prices realised were frequently considerably below the average. This Catalogue was not prepared by the Auctioneer. -ED.]

98 Annals of Scottish Natural History, edited by Harvie-Brown and others, complete set from the commencement to 1900, 36 parts and 5 cloth covers, 1892-1900, 8vo. (33)

Sotheran, £2 7s. 6d. 99 Audebert (J: B.) and L. P. Viellot. Histoire Naturelle et Generelle des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Grimpereaux, &c.,

a fine copy, with the plates printed in colours and heightened with gold, 2 vol., calf, Paris, 1802, folio (142)

Bumpus, £9 10s. 100 Bentham (G.) Handbook of British Flora, 2 vol., cloth, 1865, 8vo. (51) Wheldon, £125. IOI Booth (E. T.) Rough Notes on the Birds observed during Twenty Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Isles, with coloured plates from drawings by E. Neale, 15 parts, in paper boards, Dulau, 1887, folio (148) Quaritch, £13 102 Buckler (W.) Larvæ of the British Butterflies and Moths, vol. 1 to 5, 86 coloured plates, Ray Society, original cloth (86) Bumpus, £4 10S. New Zealand, with 50 guineas each, 1887-88, Pearson, £8

103 Buller (W. L.) History of Birds of plates, in 13 parts, published at 11⁄2 large 4to. (156)

104 Butler (A. G.) Foreign Finches in Captivity, 60 coloured plates, maroon cloth, gilt tops, royal 4to. (82)

Quaritch, £2 12s. 6d. 105 Couch (J.) History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vol., coloured plates, original blue cloth, 1877, 8vo. (58) Jones, £175. 106 Curtis (Jno.) British Entomology. Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, containing coloured figures, from nature, of the most rare and beautiful species, and, in many instances, upon the plants on which they are found, 770 coloured plates, 16 vol. in 8, half calf, 1824-39, 8vo. (84) Sotheran, 11 5s. 107 David et Oustalet. Les Oiseaux de la Chine, with atlas of coloured plates, 2 vol., original red cloth, Paris, 1877, 8vo. (115) Bumpus, £5 108 Des Murs (O.) Iconographie Ornithologique, Nouveau Recueil Général de Planches peintes d'Oiseaux, first part, 72 coloured plates, half calf, Paris, 1849, 4to. (136)

Bumpus, £3 12s. 6d. 109 D'Orbigny (Alcides). Aves de la Isla de Cuba, illustrated with a number of water-colour drawings of birds by Edouard Traviés, half calf, Paris, 1839, folio (133) Bumpus, £3 5s. 110 Dresser (H. E.) A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of Bee Eaters, 34 coloured plates, half morocco, 1880-86, folio (153) Wheldon, £2 IOS. 111 Gray (R.) Birds of the West of Scotland, including the Outer Hebrides, original cloth, illustrated, Glasgow, 1871, 8vo. (18) Wheldon, £2 112 Harvey (W. H.) Phycologia Britannica, or History of British Seaweeds, containing coloured figures and descriptions of all the species of Algæ inhabiting the shores of the British Islands, new edition, 4 vol., 360 coloured plates, original brown cloth, 1846-51, royal 8vo. (105) Quaritch, £3 113 Harvey (W. H.) Phycologia Australica, a History of Australian Seaweeds, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of the more characteristic Marine Algæ' of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western

Australia, and a Synopsis of all known Australian Algæ, 5 vol., 300 coloured plates, original green cloth, 1858-63 (106) Bumpus, £3 5s. 114 Harvie-Brown and Buckley. Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty, plates, original cloth, 1887, 8vo. (20) Wesley, £4 4s. 115 Harvie-Brown and Buckley. Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, plates, original cloth, 1888, 8vo. (21)

Sotheran, £2 55. 116 Harvie-Brown and Buckley. Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands, plates, original cloth, 1891, 8vo. (22) Sotheran, 135. 117 Harvie-Brown and Buckley. A Fauna of the Moray Basin, 2 vol., plates, original cloth, 1895, 8vo. (23) Levi, £1 18s. 118 Hewitson (W. C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, third edition, calf gilt, 2 vol., 1856 (40)

119 Hooker (W. J.) Filices Exoticæ.

Quaritch, £4 45. Coloured Figures and

Description of Exotic Ferns, 100 coloured plates, original green cloth, 1859, royal 4to. (91)

120 Humphreys and Westwood.

Quaritch, £2 45.

British Butterflies and Moths and their Transformations, 3 vol., coloured plates, original red cloth (stained), 1857, 8vo. (65) F. R. Jones, £2 15s. 121 Ibis (The), complete from third series, vol. I, to eighth series, vol. 1, 1871 to 1901, 29 vol., half calf and 2 unbound-also the Indexes to series 1 to 6, General Subject Index and List of British Birds, 4 vol., half calf, uniform, 8vo. (38)

Sotheran, £36 122 Lang (H. C.) The Butterflies of Europe, 2 vol., 82 ̊ coloured plates, containing upwards of 900 figures (85)

Bumpus, £2 10S. 123 Le Maout and Decaisne. General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical, with Additions, etc. by Hooker, original purple cloth, 1876, 4to. (69) Quaritch, £210S. 124 Lee. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, illustrated by the Camera, vol. I to 4, in 16 parts as issued, 1896-99, folio (75) Lewis, £5 Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, coloured plates (a few inlaid), 2 vol., half calf, Paris, 1801-5, folio (138)

125 Levaillant (Francois).

126 Linnæan Society. Zoology. Transactions, vol. 1 to 7, com

plete in parts (87)

127 Linnæan Society. Zoology. Journal, vol.

wanted No. 163 in vol. 25 (88)

Bumpus, £3 3s.

Pearson, £6 10S.

11 to 27 in parts, Pearson, £2 15s.

Fitzgerald, L4

Fitzgerald, £4

128 Linnæan Society. Botany. Transactions, vol. 1 to 5 in parts, wanted parts 1 to 5 of vol. 1 (89) 129 Linnæan Society. Botany. Journal, vol. 16, Nos. 95 and 96 only; vol. 17 to 34 in parts, wanted vol. 25, and 9 numbers, 2 of which are not yet published (90) 130 Macgillivray (W.) History of British Birds, 5 vol., original cloth, 1837-52, 8vo. (12) Thurgate, £5 10s. 131 Millais (J. G.) Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, coloured and other plates, half roan, 1892, 4to. (77) Quaritch, £5

132 Moore (F.) The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, 3 vol., 215 coloured plates, maroon cloth, gilt tops, 1880-87, 4to. (83)

Bumpus, £9 10S. 133 Muller (Baron J. W.) Ornithologie Africaine, coloured plates, half bound, Stuttgart, 1853, 4to. (129) Bumpus, £I IOS. 134 Natural History Society of Northumberland and Durham and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club Transactions, vol. I to 10, half calf gilt, 1865-1900, 8vo. (35) Sotheran, £4 155. 135 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Transactions, vol. I to 6, half calf gilt, and 2 parts, 1869-1900, 8vo. (34)

Sotheran, £3 136 Nicholson (G.) Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, 4 vol., original green cloth, 1885-89, 4to. (68) Sotheran, £2 5s. 137 Orchid Album (The), comprising coloured Figures and Descriptions of new, rare and beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, conducted by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams, the Botanical Descriptions by Thomas Moore, the coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch, publishers' original brown cloth gilt, gilt edges (except vol. 10, which had plain edges), in fine condition, as new (except vol. I and 10, the binding of the former being a little worn and that of the latter injured), 10 vol., published at £30, 1882-93, royal 4to. (111) Bumpus, £15 138 Reeve (Lovell). Conchologia Iconica. Figures and Descriptions of the Shells of Mollusks, with Remarks on their Affinities, Synonymy and Geographical Distribution, by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. and G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S., 20 vol., with 2,727 coloured plates, half red morocco, uncut, 1845-78, 4to. (80) Gaskell, £84 139 Reeve (Lovell). Elements of Conchology, an Introduction to the Natural History of Shells and of the Animals which form them, 2 vol., 62 coloured plates, original purple cloth, 1860, royal 8vo. (81) Quaritch, £1 155. 140 Reichenbachia. Orchids, illustrated and described by F. Sander, with the assistance of scientific authority, text in English, French and German, coloured illustrations (both printed and hand-painted), St. Albans, Sander and Co., and London, Sotheran and Co., published at £40, as follows, in I bound volume and 36 parts: first series, vol. 1, 1888, in half brown morocco gilt, with green morocco sides and hinges, gilt edges, in fine condition; vol. 2, parts 1 to 12 unbound, 1890-second series, vol. I, parts I to 12 unbound, 1892; vol. 2, parts 1 to 12 unbound, 1892, folio (112)

Gregory, £19 [In some cases the covers of the parts were loose, but the condition was generally as new, and the title-pages, dedication and contents were complete.-ED.] 141 St. John (C.) A Tour in Sutherlandshire, 2 vol., original cloth, 1849, 8vo. (9) Hunter, 16s. 142 Sclater (P. L.) Monograph of Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste, coloured plates, M. Verreaux's copy, with notes by him, half bound, 1857, 8vo. (122) Sotheran, £2

143 Sclater and Hudson. Argentine Ornithology, 2 vol., coloured plates, original slate boards, 1889, 8vo. (60) Quaritch, £1 6s. 144 Seebohm (H.) Siberia in Europe, first edition, presentation copy from the author, cloth, 1880, 8vo. (8) Sotheran, £2 145 Shelley (G. E.) A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun Birds, 121 coloured plates, half morocco, 1876-80, 4to. (149) Edwards, £3 146 Sowerby (James). English Botany. Coloured Figures of British Plants, edited by Boswell Syme, third original green cloth, 1863, 8vo. (63)

147 Stevenson (H.) Birds of Norfolk, 3 vol., cloth,

edition, 12 vol., Sotheran, £14 1866-90 (15) Sotheran, £3 35. Birds, MamQuaritch, £2

148 Thompson (W.) Natural History of Ireland. malia, etc., 4 vol., original cloth, 1849-56 (14) 149 Voyage autour du Monde sur la Frigate "La Venus," commandée par Abel du Petit-Thouars (Zoologie, Mammifères, Oiseaux, etc.), 8vo. text, and large folio atlas of coloured plates, 2 vol., half calf, Paris, 1846-55, folio (139)

Bumpus, £3 5s. 1.50 Wilson (O. S.) Larvæ of the British Lepidoptera, and their Food Plants, coloured plates, original green cloth, 1880, 8vo.

(62) £1 12s. 6d. 151 Yarrell (Wm.) History of British Birds, fourth edition, revised by Newton and Saunders, 4 vol., half morocco, some corrections in ink, 1871-85, 8vo. (24) Fitzgerald, £3 12s. 6d. 152 Zoologist (The), third series, vol. to 20-fourth series, vol. 1 to 3, half calf, 1877-99, and 8 numbers of 1900 (36)

Wheldon, £1 15s.

[OCTOBER 28TH AND THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1901.] SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. WILLIAM CLARKE AND OTHER PROPERTIES.

(No. of Lots, 1585; amount realised, £1,659 Is.)

153 Ackerman's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, etc., second series, vol. iii.-xiv. (wanted vol. x.)-third series, vol. i.-xii. (in 17 vol.), together 28 vol., numerous coloured plates of costumes, furniture, etc., half calf, 1817-28, 8vo. (1435)

Rimell, £6 10S. 154 Adolphus (J.) The British Cabinet of Portraits of Illustrious Personages, 2 vol. in 1, 50 portraits by Harding, russia (one cover loose), 1799-1800, royal 4to. (1570) Maggs, £3 35.

155 Akerman (J. Y.) Tales of other Days, illustrated by G. Cruikshank, first edition, calf extra, uncut, t. e. g., by Rivière, 1830, 8vo. (75) Ridler, £125.

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