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WITH GEORGE WITHER, THE POET'S SIGNATURE.

319 WITHER (George), 1588-1667. FAMOUS JACOBEAN POET. Order of the Trustees for Sale of the late King's (Charles I.) goods. I p., folio, printed form, partly filled up in manuscript, dated 10 Oct., 1651. WITH THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES OF THE EIGHT COMMISSIONERS, OF WHOM WITHER WAS ONE, with receipt on the back of the amount realised (£50), dated 30 June, 1652, mounted and preserved in a specially made half morocco case, £17 10s

*The autograph of George Wither, the celebrated author of Abuses Stript and Whipt, 1613; The Shepherd's Hunt, 1615; Fidelia, 1617; Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil-Arete, 1622; Halelujah, 1641, and many other works, IS PARTICULARLY RARE, AND NO EXAMPLE HAS OCCURRED FOR SALE FOR MANY YEARS. This sigrature is the more interesting as it shows that Wither was one of the commissioners for the sale of the goods of Charles I. in 1651, two years earlier than the date assigned to his appointment in the D.N.B.

320 WYCHERLEY (William) LOVE IN A WOOD, or St. James's Park: a Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesties Servants. London, J. M. for H. Herringman, 1672. FIRST EDITION, 4to., fine large copy, mottled calf extra, r. e., £8 8s Wycherley's first play, seldom met with in the fine state of the present copy. Dedicated to the Duchess of Cleveland. A successful comedy, containing many witty scenes, but is marred by its indecency. With list of the characters and the names of the different actors.

AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF WORKS PRINTED BY WYNKYN de Worde. 321 WYNKYN DE WORDE. EXPOSITIO HYMNORUM SECUNDUM VSUM SARUM. Colophon: "Habes lector explanationes hymnorum secundum vsum Sarum diligenter castigatas et auctas. Impressas Londonensis per wynandum de worde commorantem in vico vulgariter nuncupato (the fletestrete) in signo solis. Anno domini M.CCCCC.XXVII. Laus Deo." A fragment of two leaves, consisting of folio XLIX. sign. I 1) and the last leaf containing the table and colophon, sm. 4to., black letter. ALSO TWO LEAVES FROM THE EXPOSITIO SEQUENTIARUM (folios XXXIII. and XXXVI.), which form the second part of the above, and from the same edition of it, preserved in a case, £19 10s *A hitherto unknown edition of this Sarum liturgical work, and a new addition to the long list of works printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Having formed the fly-leaves of an old law book, a number of words are defective owing to the stitching thongs, but the important colophon has, fortunately, escaped damage.

322 YORKSHIRE. [WALKER (GEORGE)] THE COSTUME OF YORKSHIRE. London, printed by T. Bensley, for Longmans, Ackermann, and Robinson of Leeds, 1814. FIRST EDITION, large 4to., WITH 40 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS, AFTER DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR BY R. AND D. HAVELL, CHOICE IMPRESSIONS, FINE COPY, contemporary straightgrained green morocco, ornamental gold border (vine pattern) on sides, g. e., £16

* A beautiful work, with remarkably fine coloured aquatints representing the costume of Industrial, Agricultural and Sporting Yorkshire. We may specially draw attention to the hawking and jockey plates and the four illustrating the military costume of the 33rd Foot and the North, East, and West York Militia.

Printed by ROBT. STOCKWELL, Baden Place, Crosby Row, Boro., London, S. E. 1.; and published by
MYERS & Co., 102, New Bond Street London, W.1.

No. 257.]

[1927.

AN

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

OF

Fine and Rare Books

Illuminated Manuscripts,

Historical Documents,

Autograph Letters,

Etc.

ON SALE BY

MYERS & CO.,

(ALBERT MYERS)

102, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W. 1.

GABANAS

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Cables: "Myersliber, London."

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(Two words).

MYERS & CO.'s CATALOGUE (No. 257)

OF

Rare Books, Historical Documents,

Autograph Letters, etc.

HOW GREAT BRITAIN OBTAINED CAPE COLONY.

1 AFRICA. A MOST INTERESTING SERIES OF 5 CLEVER SMALL DRAWINGS, 4 OF THEM IN WATER-COLOUR, BY A MILITARY OFFICER, EVIDENTLY IN CHARGE OF THE BRITISH OPERATIONS AGAINST THE DUTCH NEAR CAPE TOWN, WHICH ENDED ON 17 SEPT., 1795, WHEN CAPE COLONY FIRST BECAME AN ENGLISH POSSESSION. The drawings consist of AN ELABORATE MAP OF THE THEATRE OF WAR, showing the road from Simons Town to Cape Town: A NORTH-EAST VIEW FROM HEAD QUARTERS, SIMON'S BAY, showing North Battery and Camp of Mensemberg (Muizenberg), with a British Man-of-War in the foreground; A VIEW OF THE POST AND CAMP OF MENSEMBERG, taken from the Dutch on 7 August, 1795; SIGNALS OF CO-OPERATION agreed upon between the army and ships 7 Aug., 1795, in the joint attack on Mensemberg; and A COPY OF THE ORDER OF MARCH AND BATTLE ON 14 SEPT., 1795, for the attack on Wynberg. Accompanied by an excerpt from the Medical Journal, 11 Nov., 1799, containing Stewart Henderson's Inquiry into the Causes which produce Disease among the troops at the Cape of Good Hope. Together 6 items, loose in an envelope, £15 15s

These highly important items, giving valuable details of the acquisition of Cape Colony by Great Britain in 1795, come from the Letters and Documents received by Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, and intimate friend of Pitt, who was President of the Board of Control, otherwise the India Board, at the time. The operations were at first under the charge of Vice-Admiral Elpninstone, afterwards Lord Keith, with General Craig in command of the few land forces, supplemented by 1,000 sailors. They arrived in Simon's Bay in July, 1795, and were engaged in operations against the enemy from that time up to 3 Sept., when the arrival of Major-General Clarke with reinforcements changed the face of affairs. Additional troops were landed, and on 14 Sept. the British force commenced its march to Cape Town, and on the 16th the colony capitulated, whereby the rule of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa was determined, a change which a Colonial Dutch writer (Judge Watermeyer) has observed, benefited every man of every hue throughout the colony.

2 ALCUIN OR ALBINUS. SERMO NOTABILIS. Sine Nota sed Colonie per Martinum de Werdena, circa 1510. Sm. sq. 8vo, gothic letter, 2 types, long lines, rubricated, FINE OUTLINE WOODCUT ON VERSO OF TITLE, REPRESENTING CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS, WITHIN A BORDER OF 4 BANDS, EACH CONTAINING A CHAIN WITH A FLOWER AT EACH END, WHITE ON BLACK, lower half of a 4 stained and slight stains on other leaves, large copy, polished brown morocco, £5 5s

* A very rare example of this early Cologne press, remarkable for its fine woodcut and border, which is not included in Proctor's list of woodcuts used by Martin von Werden, who started printing at Cologne in 1498, and continued printing there until 1515. Alcuin or Albinus was celebrated as a theologian, man of letters, and more especially as the coadjutor of Charlemagne in his great educational reforms. His English name was Eallwine. He was born at York in 735 and died in France in 804.

3 ALDINE PRESS.-MUSEI OPUSCULUM DE HERONE ET LEANDRO (Græce et Latine). ORPHEI ARGONAUTICA. Eiusdem hymni. Orpheus de lapidibus (Græce). Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri Mense Novembri, 1517. Sm. 8vo, finely printed in Greek italic type, ARMS OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER EMBLAZONED AT FOOT OF TITLE, per fess purpure and azure, on a bar argent 3 six-pointed mullets sable, in base a crescent or, Aldine anchor on title and last page, two woodcuts, fine tall copy, old green morocco, Aldine anchor in gold on sides, g.e.,

£6 6s

*The very rare second Aldine edition, the Museus reprinted, with very little change, from the first edition of 1494, which was the first production of the Aldine Press. The Orpheus is taken from the first edition printed by B. Junta at Florence in 1500, while the poem de Lapidibus appears here for the first time.

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4 ALDINE PRESS. VIRGIL. THIRD ALDINE EDITION [Opera, ex recens. A. Naugerii], Venetiis in aedibus Aldi et Andrea Soceri Anno, 1514, mense Octobri. Sm. 8vo, finely printed in italic type, Aldine anchor on title and at end, slightly soiled in places and one or two stains, wants the two end blank leaves and the final leaf, with anchor, which has been cut round and pasted beneath the colophon, OLD ENGLISH BLUE MOROCCO, gold border on sides and inside borders, g. e., IN THE STYLE OF ROGER PAYNE, £8 8s

*An excellent copy of this extremely rare and sought-after Aldine, from the libraries of Sir M. Masterman Sykes and Bishop Butler, with pencil note on fly-leaf by the latter recording his purchase of it at Sir M. Syke's sale. It is the second and more correct of the two issues with the same date, which Renouard calls la plus précieuse.'

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5 ALKEN (Henry) SYMPTOMS OF BEING AMUSED. London, Thomas McLean, 1822. Oblong 4to, THE COMPLETE SET OF 42 FINELY COLOURED PLATES, containing 192 highly humorous sketches, with witty applications, FINE ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS, half levant morocco, gilt back, g. e., by Tout, £10 10s

* A large number of the sketches are of hunting, riding, coaching, driving, boxing, shooting, angling, and other sporting incidents.

6 AMBROSE (ST.) SERMONES SANCTI AMBROSII ARCHIEPISCOPI MEDIOLANENSIS. XVTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ON STOUT PAPER. Sm. folio (111 by 8 inches), written by a German scribe in semi-gothic letters, double columns, 40 lines to a full column, ORNAMENTED WITH 23 ELEGANT INITIALS IN COLOURS, WITH DELICATE PEN WORK ATTACHED, water-stain on the top of the outer column of the first three leaves and top blank corner of folio 20 torn off, otherwise in remarkably fine state, with wide margins, CONTEMPORARY GERMAN MONASTIC BINDING OF WOODEN BOARDS COVERED WITH BROWN CALF, on the sides a broad frame formed by double parallel fillets intersecting each other at right angles and prolonged to the edges of the cover, inside the frame are 12 small stamps of an angel with a scroll, eagles, wiverns, and other ornaments, and 4 scrolls inscribed with the words "Ihesus" and "Maria," bosses removed from the sides, but with the original metal clasps, &c., upper joint cracked, ELSE FINELY PRESERVED, £20

The

* A perfect and well-written manuscript executed in Germany about 1470. watermark in the paper is the bull's head and star So large that in many places the original manuscript signatures still survive. The binding is a very fine example of XVth century German bookbinder's work. The volume contains 22 sermons, and the initial at the beginning of each is skilfully executed.

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7 ALKEN (Henry) THE SPORTING REPOSITORY, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism, Pugilism, Anecdotes on Sporting Subjects, interspersed with Essays, Tales, and a great variety of Miscellaneous Articles. London, W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1822. FIRST EDITION, roy. 8vo, WITH MOST BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 19 BEAUTIFUL COLOURED PLATES BY H. ALKEN

AND I. BARENGER, fore-margin of 2 plates very slightly frayed and a tear in another skilfully mended, BUT A CHOICE UNCUT COPY, original half roan, £150

*This book is the rarest of all those illustrated by Henry Alken, and the 14 remarkably fine coloured plates of sporting subjects by him are accounted some of his best work.

8 AMERICA.-APIANUS (Petrus) COSMOGRAPHIA, PER GEMMAM PHRYSIUM, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem, Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemma Phry. libellis, Væneunt Antuerpiæ in pingni gallina Arnoldo Berckmanno, 1540 (colophon: Excusum Antuerpiæ opera Aegidii Copernii, 1540). Sm. folio, LARGE WOODCUT GLOBE ON TITLE, AND OVER 50 OTHER FINE WOODCUTS, SMALL MAPS, TWO NAMING AMERICA, AND GEOMETRICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL DIAGRAMS, 5 OF THEM WITH VOLVELLES AND OTHER MOVABLE PIECES, (the volvelle to that on the verso of folio XI. wanting), ALSO A LARGE NUMBER OF HIGHLY ORNAMENTAL INITIALS AND FINE PRINTER'S DEVICE ON VERSO OF LAST LEAF, VERY FINE COPY, original limp vellum, holes for tie-strings, preserved in a wool-lined cloth case, £21

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* AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION OF A WORK OF HIGH IMPORTANCE IN RELATION TO THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF AMERICA. A list of the contents of the book appears on the verso of the title, among which is Eiusdem partilis descriptio quator partium terræ, videlicet Europa, Asia, Africæ & America. Cui adiecta est descriptio regionis Peru nuper inuenta." The two small maps on the verso of folio III. and recto of folio XXIX. BEAR THE DELINEATION AND TITLE OF AMERICA. Chapter XVI. mentions America as an island along with Rhodes, &c. The fourth chapter of the second part is an article ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO AMERICA AND VESPUCCI, ignoring the name of Columbus altogether. It is curious to note that the volvelles are printed on the back of leaves of a fine early printed Missal, with musical notation. Some of the woodcuts have very beautiful ornamental accessories. Collation: A to Q in 4s, P 6 leaves.

9 AMERICA.-DAPPER (Olfert) DIE UNBEKANTE NEUE WELT, ODER BESCHREIBUNG DES WELT-TEILS AMERIKA, UND DES SUD-LANDES : Darinnem vom Uhrsprunge der Ameriker und Sudlander, und von den gedenckwurden Reysen der Europer darnach zu . . . Zu Amsterdam, Ben J. von Meurs, 1673. Folio, engraved title, folding maps, including North and South America (California as an island, with Indians, ships, animals, &c.), "Novi Belgii quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur. Nova Angliæ et Partis Virginia" (with Indians and animals), "Nova Virginia Tabula," and "Virginiæ partis Australis, et Florida,' portraits of Columbus, Vesputius, Magellan, &c., double-page views, including "Arx Carolina,' "Pagus Hispanorum in Florida" (St. Augustine), Havanah, Porto Rico, &c., and numerous illustrations in the text, mostly after De Bry, age-discoloured in places, FINE COPY, old vellum, £31 10s

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* VERY SCARCE. Asher (No. 15) states, "The only copy of this rare book to be found in Holland belongs to Mr. Campbell." At page 143 is a fine impression of the rare early view of New York City-“ Novum Amsterodamum,”

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