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Charles Lever's copy, with his autograph signature, Dublin, 1843, 8vo. (2) Trumper, 2 155. 7604 Carriages. A Fourth Book containing Twelve Imitations of Drawings of Modern Carriages on a half inch scale to a foot, 12 col. plates, orig. wrapper, with name G. Wolffs in stencil, R. Ackermann, 1797, oblong (155) Meers, £5

7605 Cent Nouvelles. Les Dix Dizaines des Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, par Paul Lacroix, illustrations by Jules Garnier, 4 vol., mor. ex., Paris, 1874, 8vo. (51) Soames, £1 17s. 7606 Charlemange. Ein Schöne Warhaftige Hystory von Keiser Karolus, lit. goth., double columns, 39 lines, large woodcut on title and 36 cuts in the text (some double blocks), woodcut initials (slightly wormed), modern mor., Getruckt in... Strasburg võ Johannes Grieninger, 1514, folio (387) Quaritch, £11 [The first edition of this work in German.—Catalogue.] 7607 Cicero. Officiorum Libri 111. Paradoxa. Versus XII. Sapientum, etc., lit. goth. parva, long lines, 27 to a full page, 80 leaves, headings of sections and colophon in red, text rubricated, capitals painted (some margins stained and wormed), (104 by 61⁄2 in.,) [colophon] "Presens Marci tulii clarissimü opus. Johannes fust Mogūtinus Civis. nō atramēto. plumali cana neq aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcri. Petri manu pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno. MccccLxv.," folio (391) Ramsey, £600

[Editio princeps of the first printed classic writer, also the first book in which Greek type was used. This copy has the last line in red on verso of fol. 85, "Marci Tullii Ciceronis Paradoxa finit," not printed in all copies.-Catalogue.] 7608 Clemens V. Papa. Constitutiones, una cum Apparatu Jo. Andreae, lit. goth. (two types), text in centre in two columns, surrounded by the Apparatus, the text having 27 lines to a column, the gloss 79 lines, without marks, first page decorated, hf. bd., large margins, measuring 19in. by 13in. [colophon (in red)] . "per Johannez fust cive Moguntin et Petru Schoiffher de Gernszheim Clericu. Anno domini M.CCCC. Sexagesimo XXV. die Mensis Junii” (1460), imp. folio (385) Grove, £200

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[Editio princeps, and probably the second book printed at Mentz with a date. Printed upon vellum. Imperfect, containing 39 leaves only. The Sunderland copy.—Catalogue.] 7609 Clowes (W. L.), etc. The Royal Navy, photogravures and other illustrations, 7 vol., buckram, uncut, t. e. g., 1897-1903, 4to. (166) White, £5 155. 7610 Cocker (Edward). Cocker's Arithemetick, port. (outer margin cut close), orig. sheep (repaired, with new end papers), plain edges, in box, with catch, Printed for T. Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge, and T. Lacy at the Golden Lyon in Southwark. And sold by C. Passinger, etc.

at the 7 Stars in the New Buildings upon London Bridge, 1678, 8vo. (411) Trotter, £68

[A perfect copy of the excessively rare first edition, of which not more than half a dozen copies are known. This copy contained six preliminary leaves, including portrait, and B-P in twelves; P 12 being occupied by Passinger's advertisements. (This leaf is nearly always wanted.) It has also an original blank at beginning and end.—Catalogue.] 7611 Coleridge (S. T.) Fears in Solitude, first ed. (wanted part of a letter and a few headlines are cut close), modern mor., t. e. g., 1798 (176) Matthews, £1 155. 7612 Coleridge (S. T.) The Watchman, a Weekly Miscellany, No. 1, March 1, 1796 to No. 10, May 13, 1796 (all published), in I vol., cf. gt., 8vo. (74) Maggs, £355. 7613 Coleridge (S. T.) A Moral and Political Lecture [on the principles of freedom], delivered at Bristol by S. T. Coleridge, of Jesus College, Cambridge (title and last leaf mounted), some MS. corrections on pp. 13-18, modern mor., g. e., n. d. (1795), 8vo. (75) Watson, £85s. 7614 [Coleridge (S. T.) and Wordsworth (Wm.)] Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems, first ed., 2 vol., cf. ex., y. e., Bristol, Biggs & Cottle for T. N. Longman, etc., 1798-1800, 8vo. (417) Quaritch, £91

[The 1798 volume, in which the "Ancient Mariner" first appeared, contained an additional stanza to that poem, an alteration of two lines in another stanza and a note on the sailor's superstition about a star dogging the moon in S. T. Coleridge's handwriting (see pp. 18-19).-Catalogue.] 7615 Costume. Collection d'Habillements Moderne et Galants, dessiné par Desrais, Le Clerc, Watteau, etc., gravé par Deny, Dupin, etc., 117 col. plates (not consecutive) of ladies' costumes, head-dresses, etc., unbd., very rare, à Paris, chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, A. P. D. R., n.d. (1770), folio (392) Meuleneere, £285 7616 Costume. Collection de Costumes Nationaux D'Allemagne, par A. Schott et H. Knauth, 20 col. plates, loose in orig. covers, Francfort, 1832, 4to. (158) Tatham, £2 16s. 7617 Cruikshank (R.) Going to a Fight: the Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume, col. ribbon picture, 13ft. long by 21⁄2 in. wide, in the orig. glazed wooden cylinder (95) Fuller, £14 7618 Cruikshank (George). Twelve Illustrations to Ainsworth's Rookwood, orig. issue, wrappers (1836), 8vo. (89)

Hornstein, £ 8s. 7619 Cruikshank (G.) A complete set of the Etchings to the Comic Almanack, 1835-53, proofs on India paper, one of 50 sets issued, in portfolio, cl., n. d. (235B) Maggs, £1 105. 7620 Cyrillus Archiep. Alexandrini. Liber que appellatur Thesaurus adversus hereticos, manuscript on vell., 130 leaves, 13 by 9in. roman letters, long lines, 34 to a full page, by an Italian scribe, the first page surrounded by a decorative

border, illuminated initial B at the head of the text, 87 illuminated initials (apparently wanted something at the end, as the last leaf had the catchword "dei "), a woodcut of a Cardinal's arms impressed on reverse of the first leaf, and on the opposite page in the lower margin is written, "Mons. Montis Morcini prope Augustam Perusiam," old cf., Sec. XV., folio (386) Leighton, £63 7621 Dante. Le Terze Rima, edizione prima d'Aldo, old vell. gt., r. e., Venetiis in Ædib. Aldi, 1502, 8vo. (415)

Maggs, 10 IOS. 7622 D'Arblay (Madame). Diary and Letters, ports., 7 vol., orig. cl., 1843-46, 8vo. (57) Sawyer, £3 105. 7623 Dennis (John). Britannia Triumphans, original ed., old mor., g. e. (Sunderland copy), Printed for J. Nutt, 1704, 8vo. (402) Quaritch, £5 7624 Elizabethan Actors. A Panoplie of Epistles, or a looking Glasse for the vnlearned (title defective, some headlines shaved and pp. 337-8 defective), contemp. cf. (rebacked), For Ralph Newberie, 1576, 4to. (336) Quaritch, £8

[On the reverse of dedicatory leaf is written in a contemporary hand the well-known epigram, "The Fooles of the Cittie."-Catalogue.]

7625 English Dramatists (The), ed. by A. H. Bullen-Marlowe, 3 vol.― Middleton, 8 vol.-Marston, 3 vol.-Peele, 2 vol., together 16 vol., LARGE PAPER, as issued, Nimmo, 1885-88, 8vo. (138) Joseph, £8 17s. 6d. 7626 Fashion and Folly: or the Buck's Pilgrimage, a col. picture roll, 20 feet long by 434 inches wide, in the orig. cylinder, William Sams, 1822 (94) Edwards, £9 15s. 7627 Faustus Andrelinus (Publius). Faustus de Neapolitana, Iit. goth., woodcut device on title, with the word "Felix" in centre, new mor., Impresse Parisius in Campo Gaillardo per Guidonem Mercatorem, anno 1496, 4to. (147)

Blumerich, £3 3s.

7628 Fielding (Henry). Amelia, first ed., 4 vol., orig. cf., A. Millar, 1752, 8vo. (13) Quaritch, £3 15s. 7629 Fitzgerald (E.) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám--The Salámán and Absal of Jámi (fourth ed.), frontispiece, roxburghe, B. Quaritch, 1879, sq. 8vo. (6) Maggs, £2 25. 7630 Fitzgerald (E.) Aristophanes Comoediae, 12mo. interleaved 8vo. size, notes in the hand of Edward Fitzgerald, hf. mor., Oxon. typis N. Bliss, 1814 (7) Shepherd, £1 6s. 7631 Formularium Instrumentorum, lit. goth. parva, long lines, 55 to a full page, 118 leaves, without marks, vell. (not in Hain or Proctor), Absque ulla nota [14—], 4to. (143)

Leighton, £5 5s. 7632 Fraser's Magazine, from its commencement in 1830 to 1882 (Old Series, 80 vol.; New Series, 26 vol.), ports., together 106 vol., hf. cf., 8vo. (84) A. H. Grant, £4 7633 Gainsborough (Thos.) Engravings from his Works, 100 plates by Scott and others, India paper, vol. i., hf. mor., g.e., Graves, n. d., roy. folio (203)

Rouse, £7

7634 Galérie du Musée de France publiée par Filhol, 720 plates, 10 vol., hf. mor., uncut, Paris, 1814-15, imp. 8vo. (183) Knoedler, £4 4s. 7635 Galilei (Galileo). Sidereus Nuncius Magna, editio prima, LARGE PAPER, engravings and woodcut diagrams, etc. (some leaves stained), orig. vell., in case, Venetiis apud Thomam Baglionum, 1610, 4to. (437), Martin, £70

[Presentation copy from the author, with autograph inscription, "Al M. illre. Sig. Gabriel Chiabrera; Galileo Galileij."-Catalogue.]

7636 Germ (The), 4 Nos., 4 etchings, with the "Art and Poetry" slips pasted over "The Germ" on covers of Nos. i. and ii., as issued, 1850, 8vo. (249)

Quaritch, £48 [This copy was the property of Miss Tupper, the daughter of G. F. Tupper of Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, who printed the work.—Catalogue.]

7637 Glareanus. [D. Henrici Glareani Poetae Laureati de Geographia Liber Unus], manuscript on paper, 45 leaves followed by 2 blank leaves, diagrams in the text, together with 7 full-page col. world-maps (after the manner of Waldseemüller and other cartographers), which may be classed as amongst the very earliest known on which the delineations of the New World are actually named America (c. 15101513?)-Glareanus. De Asse Compendium, another orig. manuscript by the same author, in similar form to the foregoing, 10 leaves + 3 blank leaves, the two manuscripts in I vol., old hf. vell., fcap. folio (400) H. Stevens, £510

[The importance of the first manuscript from a geographical and cartographical point of view cannot be overrated, for, with the possible exception of two others by the same author, preserved at Bonn and Munich (see "The Geographical Journal" for September, 1897), it is believed to be the earliest known in which the New World is not only called America in the text, but in which the geographical representations of that discovery are so made on maps.- Catalogue, where a very lengthy description of these manuscripts is given.-ED.]

7638 Goldsmith (Oliver). Retaliation, a Poem, first ed. (wanted hf.-title and 2 leaves of notes at end, last leaf reprinted), mor. ex., G. Kearsley, 1774 (163) Spencer, £3 7639 Goldsmith (O.) The Vicar of Wakefield, 2 vol., mor., g. e., Salisbury, printed by B. Collins for F. Newbery in PaterNoster-Row, London, 1766, 8vo. (248) W. Brown, £68 7640 Goldsmith (O.) Vicar of Wakefield, first ed. (part of a figure of pagination torn off on page 23), vol. ii., cf. gt., Salisbury, printed by B. Collins, 1766, 8vo. (16) Edwards, £13 7641 Goya y Lucientes (Francisco, Pintor). [Bizarre Subjects with Portrait], 80 plates including port., orig. impressions, old Spanish cf. gt. (no imprint) [Madrid, c. 1799] (322)

Parsons, £76 7642 Granger (James). Biographical History of England, fifth ed., LARGE PAPER, and illustrated with upwards of 1,300 old and

modern ports., 3 vol. interleaved and bound in 7 vol. (including general index), hf. mor. gt., Printed for Wm. Baynes and Son, 1824 (343) Rimell, £9 155. 7643 Harcourt (Robert). A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana, orig. ed., A-L in 4's (plain inner margins of last 2 leaves torn, no text injured), old cf. gt., Printed by John Beale for W. Welby in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Swan, 1613, sm. 4to. (259) Quaritch, £12

[The blank verso of the last leaf is filled with contemporary MS. notes.—Catalogue.] 7644 Henry VIII. Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martin Lutherū, roman letter, russ. gt., Richard Pynson, July 12, 1521, [colophon] Apud inclytam urbem Londinum in ædibus Pynso-/nianis . AN. M. D. XXI. quarto idus Iulii | Cum privilegio a rege indulto, 4to. (327) Leighton, £22 [Collation 4 leaves unsigned, b-t, v2. First ed. Some wormholes throughout, title guarded. Bound in after the title is an apparently contemporary copy of the answer made in Latin by the Pope on receiving the book, beginning "Librum hunc omni alacritate atque hilaritate suscipimus."-Catalogue.]

7645 Herbert (George). The Temple, second ed., the first really published (title and last 2 leaves mended, some headlines and fore-edges cut into), mor. ex., Cambridge, printed by Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633, sm. 8vo. (422)

Maggs, £5 155. 7646 Heures à l'Usaige de Romme, cum Calendario, lit. goth., long lines, 27 to a full page, printed upon vellum within woodcut borders, astrological man, 15 full-page woodcuts, small illuminated initials, etc. [contained signatures a-m 4 in eights, and is apparently perfect, but had no colophon], old rough cf., with the sacred monogram and a coronetted monogram A.V.R. (binding broken and back damaged) [Paris. P. Pigouchet pour S. Vostre, Almanack 1502-20] (272) Leighton, £20 10s. 7647 Hipkins (A. J.) Musical Instruments, 50 plates in colours, hf. mor., g. e., Edinb., 1888, imp. 4to. (165) Maggs, £3 18s. 7648 Holbein (Hans). Facsimiles of the Original Drawings for

the Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII., engraved by Bartolozzi, published by John. Chamberlaine, reprinted from the original plates, hf. mor., t.e.g., uncut, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1884, sup. imp. folio (219) Sawyer, £2 16s. 7649 Hood (Thomas). Up the Rhine, first ed., author's inscription, "W. A. Folkard, Esq., with kind regards from Thos. Hood," orig. cl., 1840, 8vo. (1) Trumper, 1 25. 7650 Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Romanum, cum Calendario, Italian XVth Century, illuminated manuscript on vell., 162 leaves, 61⁄2 by 41⁄2in., in Italian gothic letter, long lines, 16 to a full page, rubrics in gold letters, text decorated, 11 full-page miniatures (some modern), the opposite pages to each surrounded by decorative borders

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