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69 COLOURED CARICATURES.-A COLLECTION OF 87 CARICATURES ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION BY DOYLE, "SHARPSHOOTER," DIGHTON, AND OTHER FAMOUS CARICATURISTS. Published by McLean, 1829. ALL ORIGINAL COLOURED IMPRESSIONS IN PRISTINE STATE AND OF THE CHOICEST QUALITY, mounted in a large folio half morocco volume, lettered on the side, A VERY FINE COLLECTION, £15

70 COLOURED FASHION PLATES. · A COLLECTION OF 126 FINE COLOURED PLATES OF FEMALE COSTUME, from the Petit Courrier des Dames, entitled "Modes de Paris." London, S. and J. Fuller, 18441845. Bound in 1 vol., roy. 8vo., half red morocco extra, t. e. g., A FINE AND SCARCE SERIES, £7 78

COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS.-See FRENCH.

71 COLOURED PLATES.

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[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.

72 COMMONWEALTH GREAT SEAL.-A FINE UNDER THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND, by Mathew Hutton, Barbara his wife, and John Hutton, to Thomas Savile and Robert Gillinge of extensive lands, &c., in Marrick in Swaledale, Yorks, formerly belonging to the ancient priory there, together with the rectory of Marrick, and advowson of the vicarage there, dated Westminster, 1 May, 1650, written on a sheet of vellum, 11 by 16 inches, WITH A FINE IMPRESSION OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ATTACHED, a piece broken off one side, £5 5s

* Documents with this seal are very rarely met with. The counterpart of the present document does not appear to be in the Record Office, as it is not indexed in the Calendar of Domestic State Papers for 1650.

73 COOKERY RECIPES (OLD)." ELIZABETH HEYWOOD. " ELIZABETH HEYWOOD.

RECEIT BOOK

1698" on first page, and on first flyleaf "Elizabeth Heywood, 1699, March 27th. Her Receipt Booke. XVIITH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, 115 leaves, including index and 5 blank leaves, sm. 4to., CONTAINING 276 DIFFERENT RECIPES, many of them with the initials of the persons from whom she obtained the recipes attached, and in a few cases the full name is given, together with a few medical recipes, including one for consumption from Batty Langley of Twickenham, contemporary gilt calf, rebacked, £12 128

*The last 21 leaves contain "A Copy of Abigail Catling's Receipts," written in an early 18th century hand (see page 92).

74 CORNEILLE (P.) THEATRE CHOISI. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Fr. Ambr. Didot l'ainé, 1783. 2 vols., 4to., fine copy, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO, narrow chain border in gold on sides, backs gilt in compartments with a harp as centre ornament in each, inside borders, g.e., well preserved, £12 128

A finely printed edition of Corneille from the well-known Didot press. With a life of the author by M. de Fontenelle.

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75 [CORNEILLE (Pierre)] POMPEY. A TRAGOEDY. Acted with Great Applause. [Translated, with additional songs, by Katherine Philips, "the matchless Orinda."] London, Printed for John Crooke, 1663. Sm. 4to., top blank corner torn off C 3 and 4, else a fine large copy, unbound, £8 8s

*RARE. Crooke also issued an edition in the same year with a Dublin imprint. The translation was undertaken at the request of the Earl of Orrery, and the Prologue was written by the Earl of Roscommon. It was produced at Dublin in the Smock-Alley Theatre with great success in Feb., 1662-63. On the title is written left by lady Cutler."

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76 CORYAT (Thomas) CORYAT'S CRUDITIES, Hastily Gobled up in Five Moneths Trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons Country, Heluetia, alias Switzerland, some Parts of High Germany and the Netherlands, newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling Members of this Kingdome. London, Printed by W. S.[tansby], Anno Domini 1611. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., WITH THE PRINTED TITLE BEGINNING THREE CRUDE VEINES," AND LEAF OF ERRATA, fine engraved title in compartments, with portrait and illustrations of incidents in his travels, full-page woodcut of the crest of Henry, Prince of Wales, to whom the work is dedicated, portrait of the Emperour Frederick IV. and crest of the Earl of Pembroke on verso of Oo 5 and Bbb 3, AND 4 FOLDING AND OTHER PLATES, INCLUDING A BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE RARE PLATE OF THE VENETIAN COURTESAN; as usual, the engraved title and plate of the Strassburg Clock are just shaved by a binder and the outer blank margin of the plate of the Heidelberg Tun is restored, OTHERWISE A REMARKABLY FINE LARGE COPY, old green morocco, back and sides gold tooled, inside borders with red morocco doublures, vellum flyleaves, g. e., probably by C. Lewis, £65

* Complete copies of this, the first English handbook to continental travel, in fine state, are exceedingly rare, the printed title (which was afterwrads cancelled) and the leaf of errata being nearly always wanting. Coryat appears to have known all the poets, dramatists and wits of his day, who contributed more than sixty prefatory verses to his Crudities, occupying 108 pages. Among them were Ben Jonson, Harrington, Digges, Donne, Holland, Corbet, Drayton, John Davis of Hereford, H. Peacham, &c.

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77 COSTUME.-PINELLI (B.) NUOVA RACCOLTA di CINQUANTA COSTUMI PITTORESCHI. Roma, 1816. Oblong folio, with 50 finely coloured plates representing the Costumes of the Italian Peasantry in their Games, Domestic and Religious Duties, &c., top of title and of first plate slightly stained, original wrappers, entirely uncut, £6 68

78 COSTUME OF SWEDEN.-ETT AR I SVERGE, Taflor af Svenska Allmogens klädedrägt, lefnadssätt och hemseder, samt de för, landets historia märkvärdigaste orter; technade af J. G. Sandberg, beskrifne af A. Grafström och utgifne af C. Forssell. Stockholm, 1827. FIRST EDITION, 4to., ENGRAVED TITLE WITH VIGNETTE AND 41 COLOURED PLATES OF SWEDISH COSTUME AND SCENERY, with the plate of music and scarce printed slip "Ammälan" at p. 89, old half calf gilt, RARE, £6 68

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79 CROMWELL.-AN ORIGINAL PROCLAMATION BY THE LORD PROTECTOR, OLIVER CROMWELL, dated 21 Dec., 1653, with the consent of his Council, for continuing all Persons being in Office for the Execution of Publike Justice at the time of the late change of Government, until his Highnes further Direction. London, H. Hills, Printer to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1653. Folio broadside, black letter, with woodcut of the Commonwealth armorial seal at top, inlaid, preserved in a specially-made cloth case, leather lack, lettered on front cover, £10 10s

* A very rare and interesting historical proclamation, being one of the earliest issued by Oliver Cromwell on his taking over the government as Lord Protector.

So CROWLEY (Robert) FRYER JOHN FRAUNCIS OF NIGEON IN FRAUNCE. A Replication to that lewde aunswere which Fryer John Frauncis (of the Minimes Order in Nigeon nigh vnto Paris in Fraunce) hath made to a Letter, that his Mother caused to be written, and sent to him out of England in August, 1585. Wherevnto is annexed an aunswere, to that which the same Fryer hath written to his father and mother: in defence, and to the prayse of that Religion, which he dooth nowe professe: and to the disprayse and defacing of that Religion, which is nowe professed in England. Written by Robert Crowley, Anno 1586. At London, Printed by John Charlewoode, dwelling in Barbican, at the signe of the halfe Eagle and the Key (1586). Sm. 4to., text mostly in black letter, title within a border of printer's ornaments, slight water-stain in places, FINE LARGE COPY, £25

* EXTREMELY RARE. The only copies recorded in the Bibliographical Society's ShortTitle Catalogue are those in the Bodleian, Lambeth Palace Library, Marsh's Library, Dublin, and the Huntington Library. Crowley was both author, printer, and divine. His typographical fame chiefly rests on the "Vision of Pierce Plowman," of which he issued three impressions in 1550. In 1549 he had an office in Ely Rents, Holborn, where he printed his metrical version of the Psalms, and a couple of other volumes in verse from his pen.

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81 CRUIKSHANK. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE BOOK. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. London: Punch Office, 1845. FIRST EDITION, roy. sq. 8vo., with 12 exceedingly clever and humorous fullpage etchings, and 116 woodcuts and glyphographs, all by George Cruikshank, CHOICE ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS, very fine copy, original cloth with gilt design on front cover and back, new end-papers, g.e.,

£8 8s

*Contains the first appearance of Thackeray's "A Legend of the Rhine. By Michoel Angelo Titmarsh."

82 CRUIKSHANK.-LESSONS of THRIFT, published for general Benefit, by a Member of the Save-all-Club. London, Thomas Boys, 1820. FIRST EDITION, roy. 8vo., engraved title, with coloured vignette AND

BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 12 HIGHLY HUMOROUS COLOURED

PLATES BY I. R. CRUIKSHANK, fine uncut copy, in the original boards, calf back, £12 12s

* Very scarce in this choice state. Robert was the brother of George Cruikshank, and this book contains some of his best work.

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