72 COLOURED PLATES. [BEAUMONT (ALBANI)] VOYAGE HISTORIQUE ET PITTORESQUE DU COMTE DE NICE, A Geneve, chez. I. Bardin, 1787. Large folio, engraved dedication, coloured map, AND 12 REMARKABLY FINE EARLY COLOURED AQUATINT VIEWS, 6 OF THEM FULL-PAGE, FINE COPY, original marbled paper wrapper, £27 10s

* One of the rarest and choicest of the early coloured aquatint books.

COOKERY RECIPES (Old).-See CARTWRIGHT.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.

73 COSTUME.-A SERIES OF 115 FINELY EXECUTED WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS OF THE NATIONAL COSTUME OF THE INHABITANTS OF PARTS OF ITALY, GERMANY (Augsburg, Ratisbon, Frankfort and Nürnberg), BOHEMIA (including drawings of Ziska, the famous Hussite_leader, and his attendants), HUNGARY, TRANSILVANIA, CROATIA, GREECE, POLAND, RUSSIA, FINLAND, GREENLAND, TURKEY (6 of them double page), AN ANCIENT BRITISH DRUID AND 2 VANDALS, painted by a talented artist, probably an Italian, as the inscription beneath each drawing (except 1) is in that language, circa 1800, in one volume, 4to., one of the drawings slightly soiled, else in fine fresh state, blue morocco extra, g. e., £24

* A very interesting collection of old costume drawings, exhibiting in great detail and in large size the peculiarities of the people of the different countries represented.

74 COSTUME.-COLOURED FASHION PLATES.-A LONG SERIES OF 330 OF THE CHARMING COLOURED PLATES OF LADIES' COSTUME FROM THE LADY'S MAGAZINE FOR 1801-2 AND 1828-40, London, 1801-40, bound in 4 vols., 8vo., roy. 8vo., and imp. 8vo., half red morocco, t. e. g., £12 10s

* A RARE COLLECTION of early 19th century costume plates, remarkable alike for beauty of engraving and colouring.

CHOICE UNCUT COPY ON LARGE PAPER.

75 CRUIKSHANK. CAREY (D.) LIFE IN PARIS, or the Rambles and Sprees of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton, with the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family, and Sketches of Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis, London, John Fairburn, 1822. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, roy. 8vo., WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 21 HUMOROUS COLOURED PLATES AND 22 WOODCUTS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, DEPICTING REAL LIFE SCENES IN PARIS, REMARKABLY FINE UNCUT COPY, beautifully bound in green levant morocco, back and sides emblematically tooled in gold, inside borders, watered silk linings, t. e. g., £95

Very rare on large paper and uncut. In this state the plates were printed on Whatman's drawing paper, and stand in the relation of proofs to the ordinary impressions issued with the small paper edition.

76 CRUIKSHANK.-[COMBE (W.)] THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Dr. Syntax. London, T. Tegg, 1815. FIRST EDITION, 8vo., WITH 30 HUMOROUS COLOURED ETCHINGS GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, fine impressions, tall copy, calf extra, g. e., by Sansgorski and Sutcliffe, £25

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Very rare with the original title. Most of the copies which occur for sale have the 1817 date on the title.

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77 DANTE. QUI COMINCIA LA VITA E COSTUMI DELLO EXCELLENTE POETA VULGARI (sic) DANTE ALIGHIERI DI FIRENZE HONORE E GLORIA DEL IDIOMA FIORENTINO [La Divina Comedia, col Commento di Jacopo della Lana, comunemente attribuito a Benvenuto (Rambaldi) da Imola, correto da Christofal Berardi, con la vita del poeta per Giovani Bocchacio]. Venetiis, Vendelin de Spiera, 1477. Thk. sm. folio, gothic letter, double columns, wants I leaf in the Vita and the 2 blank leaves al and PP12, many upper margins of the first half repaired, and a number of words in facsimile, last leaf of text cut round and mounted, and a rust-hole in it injuring 3 letters, and a few small worm-holes in the last 3 leaves, otherwise a good copy (11 by 7 inches), brown morocco, antique style, g. e., rebacked, £85

*The very rare fifth edition of Dante and the earliest that any Dante collector can hope to possess. It is also the finest of the original editions, and is a noble example of Vendelin de Spiera's famous press. He and his brother John were the first Venetian printers, and Vendelin printed by himself in Venice from 1470 to 1477. The work ends with a colophon in verse, giving the name of commentator, editor, printer, and date. The colophon ascribes the commentary to Benvenuto da Imola, but all Italian scholars are now agreed that it should be ascribed to Jacopo della Lana. The Life by Boccaccio is often wanting.

78 DAVIES (Richard, Bishop of St. Davids) A FVNERALL SERMON Preached the XXVI day of November in the yeare of ovr Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the Parishe Chvrch of Caermerthyn, by the Reverende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honovrable Walter, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Earle Marshall of Irelande, Viscovnt Hereford and Bourgcher, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourgcher and Louein, of the most Noble order of the Garter Knight. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham, dwelling in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Starre, 1577. Sm. 4to., text in black letter, with 11 pages of engraved genealogical tables in Latin containing numerous small shields and 3 large shields of the arms and quarterings of Devereux, Ferrers and Bouchier, including one, on reverse of title, within the garter, with 55 quarterings, THE WHOLE OF THE ARMS BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED BY A FIRST-RATE CONTEMPORARY HERALDIC ARTIST, several of the stems and the top of one shield in the genealogical tables just shaved, BUT A VERY FINE COPY, morocco, £75

* EXCESSIVELY RARE. No copy has turned up for sale since 1824, except a damaged copy in the second portion of the theological section of the Britwell Court Library sold en bloc in Jan., 1921. No other copy is known with the arms emblazoned, and the beauty of the heraldic work in this copy shows that it was a very special one, probably that belonging to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, the ill-fated favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who was beheaded in 1601, for whose benefit it was printed and to whom it is dedicated. Among the complimentary verses in various languages before the sermon itself, which begins on D4, is a long poem (3 pages) in Welsh signed H. Llyn. Collation: Title, &c., 4 leaves; A to F2 in fours. From the Woolaton Hall Library.

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VICTORY. London, Printed for J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1704. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., fine large copy, half mottled calf, £5 58

*Rare. Dedicated to Queen Anne in a poem of six pages, signed De Foe. It was not intended for public sale, as plainly appears in a letter, written 31 Aug., 1704, to his friend Mr. E. Elisha, of Shrewsbury. The poem was pirated as soon as published, and within a week the Author complained that there were three sham editions being sold. Lee, No. 62.

Poem to the Duke of
FIRST EDITION, sm.

80 [DEFOE (Daniel)] THE DOUBLE WELCOME. A Marlbro'. London, Printed in the Year 1705. 4to., fine large copy, half mottled calf, £4 48 *Lee 65. Defoe's contribution to the general acclamations that greeted the Duke of Marlborough's return to England, containing many terse and forcible expressions in its 30 pages which cannot be observed in any other of his poems.

81 [DEFOE (Daniel)] THE DYET OF POLAND, a Satyr. Printed at Dantzick, in the Year 1705. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., paper agediscoloured, large copy, half mottled calf, £4 48

*Lee, No. 74. A severe political satire in verse on the late House of Commons and the Ministry. The Author signs himself at the end of the preface, Anglipoloski of Lithuania," and the names of persons are throughout the poem obscured under Polish forms and terminations, but the characters are easily distinguishable. Lords Halifax, Russell, and Somers are warmly praised; while he censures with much asperity Lords Nottingham, Rochester, Seymour, and other eminent Tories. Harley and Godolphin are extolled for their ability and integrity.

82 [DEFOE (Daniel)] MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER: or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and The Wars in England; from the Year 1632, to the Year 1648 London: Printed for A. Bell, . . [1720]. FIRST EDITION [Lee No. 204], 8vo., FINE COPY, in contemporary calf, with the Cotton arms on sides, £6 10s

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S3 DEFOE (Daniel) THE NOVELS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF DANIEL DEFOE, with a Biographical Memoir of the Author (by G. Chalmers), Literary Prefaces to the various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, &c., including all contained in the Edition attributed to the late Sir Walter Scott, with considerable additions. Oxford, Printed by D. A. Talboys, 1840-41. 20 vols., sm. 8vo., portrait of Defoe, FINE SET, half calf gilt, £17 108

84 DEKKER (Thomas) THE SECOND PART OF THE HONEST WHORE, with the Hvmors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife: the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe: her braue refuting those Arguments. And lastly, the Comicall Passages of an Italian Bridewell, where the scene ends, London, Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, An. Dom. 1630. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., headline cut off last two leaves, and several others cut into, slight defect in plain margin of signature A3, else good sound copy, half calf, red edges, £12

* Extremely rare. Sir A. W. Ward writes, "Dekker has treated with powerful simplicity he most terrible of the sins of a great city, and although I am by no means inclined to assign to the Honest Whore, from a literary point of view, the highest eminence among his dramatic works, the depth of its general conception and the broadaffectiveness of its execution have justly caused this to be regarded as one of the most interesting productions of the popular Elizabethan drama." Contains allusions to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, and Othello.

85 DEROME LE JEUNE BINDING, WITH HIS TICKET.- EXERCICES SPIRITUELS pour les Confreres et Sœurs de la Confrerie du Tres-Saint Sacrement. A Paris, 1774. Sm. 8vo., CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO, the sides tooled in gold with a very unusual dentelle border with the well-known bird, pomegranate and sunflower ornaments, in the centre a man kneeling before an emblem of the sacrament, within an oval of palm branches, flat back, gilt in compartments with the acorn ornament, g. e., BY DEROME LE JEUNE, WITH HIS TICKET, £8 80 * A well preserved and very uncommon example of this famous old French binder's skill.

AN UNUSUALLY INTERESTING PRESENTATION COPY.

86 DICKENS (Charles).-AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. Second Edition. London, Chapman & Hall, 1842. 2 vols., cr. 8vo., fine copy in the original cloth, uncut, £120

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* An association copy of the highest importance, with inscription in the characteristic autograph of Charles Dickens on the half-title of Vol. I., Clarkson Stanfield, from his friend Charles Dickens, October Twenty Fifth, 1842."

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Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., was one of Dickens' most intimate friends, and to him Little Dorrit was dedicated. Four of the "Christmas Books," viz., The Battle of Life,' The Chimes," The Cricket on the Hearth," and The Haunted Man," were partly illustrated by him. It would be difficult to find a more fascinating presentation copy than the above.

87 DORAT (Claude Joseph) LES BAISERS précédés du Mois du Mai, Poëme. Rouen, J. Lemonnyer, 1880. Roy. 8vo., WITH ENGRAVED TITLE, FULLPAGE PLATE AND THE NUMEROUS CHARMING VIGNETTES, ALL AFTER EISEN, crushed blue levant morocco, former owner's crest and monogram in gold on sides, with a winged cupid at each corner, back gilt in compartments with a lyre, inside dentelles, leather joints, g. e., by Chatelin, £9 98

* A choice copy of this exact reproduction of one of the most beautiful of all the 18th century French illustrated books.

88 DRAYTON (Michael) POLY-OLBION. Or a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the same: digested in a Poem by Michael Drayton, Esq. With a Table added, for direction to those occurrences of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course of the Volume easily leades not. London, Printed by H. L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: 1. Helme, and I. Busbie, 1613. Sm. folio, fine engraved title by William Hole, with the rare leaf of explanation opposite (piece of lower blank margin restored), printer's device on printed title, portrait of Prince Henry holding a lance, and 18 curiously engraved maps, VERY FINE LARGE COPY, XVIIth century calf, gilt, £12 128

* Second issue of the first edition, with the addition of the dated printed title and four leaves of table. Brilliant impressions of the engraved title and maps. The portrait has the words "Henricvs Princeps.'

89 DURANDUS (Gulielmus, Bishop of Mende) RACIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIUM, sine nota, sed Basilea, M Wenszler, before 1480 (?). Folio, gothic letter, double columns, 60 lines to a full column, with the first blank leaf, rubricated throughout, initials supplied by hand in red and blue, several at the end with ornamental flourishes, and one with ornamental penwork, MS. marginal annotations, two tears mended, FINE COPY, old vellum, back gone, with tie-strings, £22

* A VERY RARE EDITION of this celebrated work, which has long remained the standard authority on the history of the Roman Church discipline, and the origin and meaning of the various forms of the ritual. It was one of the first books to come from the printing press, the original edition having been issued by Fust and Schoeffer in 1459. The present edition is a splendid exemple of Gothic typography from one of the earliest Basel presses, most probably that of Michael Wensler, though the type does not quite agree with that in any of his signed productions. A contemporary MS. index has been added

at the end.

go DURER (Albert) IDLENESS, sometimes called Durer's Dream (Bartsch 76), with monogram, watermark of the towers and wall, cut close, hinged on a mount, VERY RARE, £25

*A fine original impression of one of Durer's more notable engravings, and one which has caused considerable discussion. Heller assigns this plate to the period 1500-6.