154 LAW (OLD).-EXPOSITIONES TERMINORU LEGUM ANGLORU. Et natura breuium cum diuersis casibus regulis & fundamentis legu tam de libris Magistri Litteltoni qua de aliis legum libris collectis et breuiter compilatis pro iuuinibus valde necessariis [Colophon], Impressum XV. die Julii. anno dni M.V.C. XXVII. Cum priuilegio regali (1527). Sq. 12mo., Secretary type, long lines, name of early owner on title and a few early marginal notes, ends on N7 verso blank, wants final leaf, containing either printer's device or two Scriptural cuts, FINE LARGE COPY, old calf gilt, with lettering pieces, one stating "bound 1775,"

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* VERY RARE.

We can trace only 5 other copies, of which that in the Bodleian is imperfect. The Prohemium is in English, all else is in Norman-French. Compiled by John Rastell, though sometimes attributed to his son William, who published an English translation of it in 1567, which passed through several editions. It was almost certainly also printed by John Rastell, as at least one of the known copies has his device at the end instead of the cuts of Job and his friends and St. John the Evangelist, on the recto and verso of the last leaf respectively, which occur in two of the known copies. The presence of this final cut of St. John has led some bibliographers to assign it to the press of John Butler, who worked at the Sign of St. John the Evangelist in Fleet Street; while others, for the same reason, give it to the press of Robert Wyer, though his devices of St. John are entirely different. Collation: 8 leaves, A to N in 8s, verso of N7 blank, N8 with the cuts or device wanting in this copy.

LAW. The Lawis of Regiam Maiestatem, MS., c. 1597.-See SCOTLAND.

155 LE BRUN (Madame Vigee) FAMOUS FRENCH PAINTER, born in 1755, died in 1842. A FINE LINE ENGRAVING BY MULLER, from a Painting by herself, standing in a feathered hat and holding a palette. Α BRILLIANT IMPRESSION, PROOF BEFORE LETTERS. Size of engraved surface, 16 by 111, £15 15s

156 LE FOURNIER (Andre, Docteur reget en la faculte de Medecine en luniuersite de Paris) LA DECORATIO ĎHUMAINE NATURE ET AORNEMENT DES DAMES. Copile et extraict des tres excelles docteurs et pl9 expers medecins tat anciens q modernes. Item par honeste maniere monstre a toutes ges plusieurs belles et souueraines Receptes tat en lart de medecine que pour faire sauos pouldres et pommes redolentes en senteurs. Aussi plusieurs caues delicieuses & amoureuses a lauer & nettoyer tat les corps que les habillemes, les quelles preseruent de toute corruptio. Imprime Nouuellemet a Lyon, par Claude veycellier demourant en me merciere a lenseigne Sainct Jehan baptiste. Et fut acheue le pmier iour de Mars mil cinq ces trete & vng (1531). Sm. sq. 8vo., lettres batardes, long lines, 25 to a full page, title in red and black within an ornamental woodcut border, VERY FINE COPY, brown morocco extra, g. e., £25

* An extremely rare edition of this interesting work, of which no copy has occurred for sale for over 30 years. Collation: A to G in 8s.

157 LEGES ETHELBERTI REGIS, ET ALIORUM SAXONICORUM, e textu (quem vocant, Roffensi, per Ernulfum Episcopum, desumptæ 1572. TRANSCRIPT IN ANGLO-SAXON CHARACTERS ON PAPER, 29 leaves, sm. 4to., original paper wrapper, with title on each cover in the autograph of W. Lambard, the historian of Kent, £5 5s

From the Lambarde archives. At the end is a Latin inscription in Lambarde's autograph to the effect that it was copied by his friend, John Jocelin, signed and dated 1580. Lambarde has also added a number of marginal notes and interlinear Latin translations of Anglo-Saxon words. An early manuscript example of the revival of interest in the Anglo-Saxon language, which took place in the time of Queen Elizabeth, in which William Lambarde took a leading part.

158 LE PAUTRE (Jean) A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF HIS ENGRAVED WORKS, PUBLISHED BY MARIETTE, LANGLOIS, POILLY, AND OTHERS, circa 1660. Comprising 941 large and clean plates of designs for portals; altar-pieces; monuments and other church architectural decoration; metal work; wall, door, and ceiling decoration; triumphal arches; alcoves; mantelpieces; mirrors; vases; fountains; grottoes; parterres; gardens; friezes; trophies of arms; cartouches; goldsmith's work; miscellaneous ornamental decoration; views of Paris churches; harbour scenes with shipping; garden views; historical and hunting scenes, &c., EARLY IMPRESSIONS IN FINE STATE, many with the lower margins uncut, bound in 3 vols., sm. folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, £60

* AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF THIS CELEBRATED DESIGNER. Each title-page is inscribed jay partient a Rousset Architecte, and it would appear that Rousset was a contemporary admirer of Le Pautre, and collected into these volumes all that he could obtain of the designs of this famous master. He has even included title designs from Sanson's Maps, which, by being found here, can be assigned to Le Pautre. This collection contains far more of Le Pautre's work than can be found in the collections of seventeenth century designs published by Mariette and Langlois.

159 LEWIS OF GRANADA (F.) A MEMORIALL OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE. Written first in the Spanishe tongue, by the famous Religious Father, F. Lewis de Granada, Prouinciall of the holie order of Preachers, in the Prouince of Portugal [translated by Richard Hopkins]. Imprinted at Rouen, by George L'Oyselet, Anno Domini 1586. FIRST EDITION, thick sm. 8vo., woodcut on title and several woodcuts in the text, flaw in printing in K3 affecting 3 or 4 letters, very slightly wormed in top margin of several leaves, and worm-holes in back margin of last 4 leaves of table, injuring 1 letter, but a fine copy, in the original limp vellum, £21

* EXTREMELY RARE. Although stated on the title that there should be seven treatises and on the verso devided into two volumes," and at the end of the text "The Seconde volume of the Memoriall of a Christian life I have already translated, and am preparinge it towards the Printe: which conteineth the three last Treatises promised in the Authors prologue," only the four treatises (comprising the first volume) ever appeared; but another work entitled, "A Spiritual Doctrine conteining a Rule to Liue wel" (translated into English by Richard Gibbons), printed at Lovain in 1599, may be considered as the second volume of the " Memoriall." On the title is the autograph signature of Edward Saunders, with date 1587, and there are a number of marginal annotations in the same hand.

LIBER STUDIORUM MEZZOTINTS, by Sir Frank Short.-See

TURNER.

REBUILDING OF LONDON AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF 1666. 160 LONDON. AN ACT DECLARING WHAT STREETS and STREIGHT and NARROW PASSAGES within the CITY OF LONDON and LIBERTIES THEREOF, burnt down in the late dismall Fire, shall be enlarged and made wider, and to what proportion; for notification thereof to the Owners or Parties interested in the Ground to be taken away for the said Enlargements [London, 1667], a folio broadside, partly printed in black letter, arms of the City at top, FINE UNCUT COPY, £7 10s

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* AN EXTREMELY RARE AND INTERESTING BROADSIDE, giving particulars respecting the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire. The Street called Fleetstreet, from the place where the Grey-hound Tavern stood to Ludgate, and from thence to St. Paul's Church-yard," Cheapside, Poultrey, Cornhill, the place lately called the Stocks; the Street called Blowbladder-street," Newgate Market, Warwick-Lane, Ave Marie Lane, St. Martin le Grand, the Conduit in Grace-church-street, Thamestreet, Tower Dock, and Old Fishstreet.

THE LONDON PARISH CLERKS' CHARTER OF 1635.

161 LONDON. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PETITION OF THE MASTERS, WARDENS AND BRETHREN OF THE COMPANY OF THE PARISH CLERKS OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND LIBERTIES THEREOF, OF THE NINE OUT PARISHES ADJOYNING, AND CITY OF WESTMINSTER, "most humblie shewinge. That the petitioners and their predecessors have for many yeares past beene a ffraternitie or societie incorporate, and by your Mate, late deare and royall father Kinge James (of blessed memory) by his highness letters patente under the great Seale of England in the nineth yeare of his raigne were incorporated . . . And were thereby enjoyned to make weeklie report of his Majestie of all christeninges and burialls within the cittie and liberties and to do other services therein mentioned. That for the performance of those services they were forced to take a House and maintaine offycers and undergoe other great charges and for the more exact expediting of their services and for avoiding of Errors in writing the figures weeklie in theire bills IN THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE TIME ANNO 1625. They became humble suitors to the Lorde Archbishopp of Canterbury and Bishopp_of London for obteyninge of a printing presse to be sett up in theire Hall for the onlie printing of their said bills with the figures in them, which it pleased their Lordshipps to grant and the petitioners have ever since enjoyed. But forasmuch as there are divers defects and imperfections in the said letters patent which your suppliants most humblie praie your sacred Majestie maie be amended.

ENDORSED "At the Court at Whitehall, 13 Nouemb., 1635, His Majesties is graciously pleased to referre this petition and Schedule annexed to the Lord Archbishopp of Canterbury, his Grace and the Lord Bishopp of London to take the same into their consideration and to give order for a book to be prepared for his Majesties signature for renewing of the said charter with large inlargements and additions as their Lordshipps in their grave wisdom shall find most expedient," signed Raffreman," I page, 4to.

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ACCOMPANIED BY THE SCHEDULE, 1 page, sm. folio, containing the Seven Desires of the Company. ALSO ARCHBISHOP LAUD'S MEMORANDUM, Mr. Sollicitor I pray you to call for the Parish Clark's Charter and to revise the same according to their petition and the Schedule thereunto annexed fitt for his Mate. royall signature for doing whereof this shalbe your warrant," SIGNED "W. CANT," IN ARCHBISHOP LAUD'S OWN HAND, dated Lambeth, Januar. 18, 1635, MONTH AND DATE IN LAUD'S HANDWRITING, I page, 4to., preserved in a specially-made case,

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*A most interesting and important London document relating to the oldest of all the City Companies, founded in 1223, and especially interesting as having passed through the hands of the celebrated Archbishop Laud, with a fne example of his autograph signature.

162 LONDON. A SHORT AND SERIOUS NARRATIVE OF LONDON'S FATAL FIRE, with its Diurnal and Nocturnal Progression, from Sunday Morning (being) the Second of September, Anno Mirabili, 1666, until Wednesday Night following. A POEM. As also London's Lamentation to her Regardless Passengers. London, for Peter Dring, 1667. Sm. 4to., title within a mourning border, FINE COPY, maroon morocco extra, by Wood, £10 10s

A very rare poem on the Great Fire of London.

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.

163 LONDON. PENNANT (THOMAS) SOME ACCOUNT OF LONDON, WESTMINSTER, AND SOUTHWARK: illustrated with Portraits, Views, Historical Prints, Medals, &c. FOURTH EDITION, London, 1805 (original title cancelled and two specially printed titles put in its place with imprint, London, Printed for the Illustrator, N.D.). Extended to two vols., imp. folio, with 16 plates, FURTHER ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF 244 PLATES OF VIEWS, PORTRAITS OF EMINENT PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH LONDON, MONUMENTS, ANTIQUITIES, ARMS, &c., sound contemporary russia, gold and blind tooled borders on the sides, gilt backs, g. e., £15

* According to Lowndes this is one of twelve copies struck off in imperial folio for the purpose of illustration. Among the views are ten fine aquatints of London, after J. Farington, R.A., by J. C. Stadler, including the two large folding views of London from Greenwich and Lambeth.

164 LONDON. THE PLAGUE OF 1562. Contemporary Manuscript on paper, dated 1562, 5 pages, 4to., entitled "The visitation of allmightie god within the cittie of london and the libarties of the same ffrom 1 Jan. 1562 unto 1 Jan. 1563, and also mentionethe of everye parrishe within the sayde syttye and lybarties of the same " (including Westminster), unbound, £8 8s

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* From the Lambarde archives. Although not mentioned by Holinshed (1577 edition), nor Stow (1631 edition) this visit of the plague was a very serious one, and this manuscript is of much interest, as it gives the total number of the dead in every parish, arranged alphabetically, with the sum total of the deaths from all diseases, followed by the number of those who died of the plague. The list is authentic, as it states that it was conferede and examinyned by the register boke of everye severall parryshe." 20,372 people died in the City of London, of whom 17,340 died of the plague; 1,672 persons died in the liberties and freedom of London, of whom the plague claimed 1,272. In Westminster, 1,616 persons died, of whom the plague claimed 1,465. Maitland, in his History of London, states that there died between 1 Jan., 1562, and 31 Dec., 1563 (two years, not one), 20,372 persons of all diseases, which the present manuscript shows is utterly wrong. 165 LOUIS XI., KING OF FRANCE, 1425-83 (King from 1461 to 1483). DOCUMENT ON VELLUM SIGNED "LOYS," I page, oblong folio, dated "a Amboys," 24 March, 1467, granting restitution of his lands at Lorancourt to Phillip de Lorancourt, countersigned " Demoulines," defect in right upper corner taking away a few words of text, signature faded but clearly legible, slit across, £5 58

*A MOST RARE AUTOGRAPH. Louis was one of the principal characters in Shakespeare's Henry VI., and his character is drawn with a master's hand in "Quentin Durward," by Sir Walter Scott.

MADE FOR THE USE OF AND BOUND FOR THE KING HIMSELF. 166 LOUIS XV. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT REGISTER ON PAPER, wellwritten, in French, of the examinations of over 300 persons confined in the prisons in and around Paris, dated 10 Oct., 1729, made by order of the King for the purpose of deciding to which of the prisoners a free pardon should be granted on the occasion of the birth of the Dauphin Louis (father of Louis XVI.), who was born in 1729 and died before his father in 1765. Divided into sections, each signed by the registrar, Duvoigne. Folio, BOUND FOR THE KING IN RICH OLD FRENCH RED MOROCCO, triple gold fillet on the sides with the royal arms in the centre, back gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lys and circles, gilt edges, BY BOYET, some scratches and a little worn, £10 10s * An extraordinary and very interesting volume, containing the official records of the depositions of the different prisoners, their names, ages, domiciles, crimes, sentences, and other matter. Arranged under the various prisons, with lists at the end of those to be pardoned. Among well-known French names to occur are those of Collardeau, Rohan, Rousseau, Jean Comte de Barbesin, De la Rue, Pascal, and Petitot, also Edmond Burke, captain of a ship, living at Dunkerque.

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167 LORD DUNCAN RECEIVING THE SWORD OF ADMIRAL DE WINTER, after the defeat of the Dutch fleet off Camperdown in 1797. VERY FINE MEZZOTINT ENGRAVING_graphically representing the historical Engraved by James Daniell after Henry Singleton. No date is given on the print, it is, however, contemporary with the action. Size, 17 by 221, suitably framed, £12 128

HITHERTO UNKNOWN EDITION OF EUPHUES AND HIS ENGLAND BY
JOHN LYLY: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AUTHOR IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE.

168 LYLY (John, the Euphuist) EUPHUES. THE ANATOMY OF WIT. Very pleasant for all Gentlemen to reade, and most necessary to remember. Wherein are contayned the delights that Wit followeth in his youth. by the pleasantnesse of loue: and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnesse of wisedome. By Iohn Lylie, Maister of Art. Corrected and Augmented. At London, Printed by 1. Roberts for Gabriell Cawood, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, N.D. (1595 ?). [The Second Part], EVPHUES AND HIS ENGLAND. CONTAINING HIS VOYAGE AND ADUENTURES: mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest loue, the description of the Countrie, the Court, and the manners of the Ile. Commend it or amend it. At London, Printed by I. R. for Gabriell Cawood, and are to be sold at his shop, in Paules Churchyard, 1601. Sm. 4to., black letter, border of printer's ornaments to each title, top margin of last two leaves of Part II. and a tear in last leaf of the same part skilfully mended, FINE LARGE COPIES (51 by 6 inches), blue levant morocco extra, by Rivière, £150

*No other copy known with the date 1601, while of the undated first part, Euphues, we can trace only 3 other copies, namely, those in the British Museum, and the Bodleian and the Huth copy. In many ways Euphues is the most wonderful book ever written : from the time of its first issue, about 1578, it set a fashion so enduring that Euphuism tinged the whole life of English-speaking nations and English writers from Shakespeare to O. Henry. Lodge in his Rosalynde (foundation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It "), slavishly followed his model Euphues, and Shakespeare himself must have been well acquainted with a work which made such a stir and went through so many editions in his day. Numerous passages have been pointed out in Shakespeare's plays as proof of his extensive indebtedness to Lyly's Euphues for sentiments and phrases (cf. W. L. Rushton, Shakespeare's Euphuism, London, 1871), but it is more certain that he ridiculed Lyly's style in his earliest comedy, Love's Labours Lost,' and accurately caricatured its vapid artificiality in Falstaff's remark in Henry IV., Part I., II., IV., 438-61."SIDNEY LEE, in the D.N.B.

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169 MACDONALD (Miss Julia) A Charming Portrait in Mezzotint, by SAML COUSINS after SIR THOMAS LAURENCE, representing a pretty lady in a black velvet dress, with hair in curls. Published 1831. Size of engraved surface, 9 by 72, £5 108

170 MALVEZZI (Virgilio) ROMVLVS AND TARQUIN, written in Italian by the Marques Virgilio Malvezzi, and now taught English by Henry (Carey), Earle of Monmouth. The Third Edition. London, for Humphrey Moseley, 1648, with engraved title in compartments, by W. Marshall-IBID. CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE LIVES OF ALCIBIADES AND CORIALANUS. Englished by Robert Gentilis, Gent. London, W. Wilson, for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. FIRST EDITION, the two works in one vol, 12mo., FINE COPIES, contemporary calf, £5 58

* Both works, and especially the second, are very scarce, and both are interesting to the Shakespeare student in relation to the Rape of Lucrece," which is graphically described and moralized on, and the same may be said in respect to Corialanus.