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96 English History-CROMWELL. Leti, Gregorio, Historia e vita di Oliviero. Cromvele, 2 vols, 8vo, vellum, many fine portraits, £5 Amsterdam, 1692 CROMWELLIANA. A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged; from the year 1642 to his Death 1658: with a Continuation of other Transactions, to the Restoration, folio, half calf, 196 pp., 5 plates, rare, £1 Westminster, Machel Stace, 1810 98 English Literature-EVELYN (John) Silva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber in H.M. Dominion, etc.; together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves, with notes by A. Hunter, M.D., 2 vols, 4to, half morocco, fine engraved portrait of the author by Bartolozzi, and 42 plates, £2 York, Ward, 1786 [HEYLIN (Peter)] Extraneus Vapulans: or the Observator Rescued from the Violent but vaine Assaults of Hamon L'Estrange, Esq., and Back-blɔws of Dr. Bernard, and Irish-Deane, rare, 12mo, buckram, 12+352 pp., £1 London, Richard Lowndes, 1656 [HEYLIN (Peter)] H. P., The Stumbling Block of Disobedience and Rebellion, Cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way, Discovered, Censured, and Removed, 4to, calf rubbed, 308 pp., £1 2s 6d London, E Cotes, etc., 1658 101 KNIGHT (Richard Payne) The Landscape, A Didactic Poem, in three books Addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq., First Edition, the Author was well known as connoisseur, numismatist and authority on ancient art, the poem was a protest against the gardening methods of Brown and Mason, D.N.B., 4to, limp boards, 3 plates including 2 etchings by Pouncey after Hearne, 78 pp., £1 London, W. Bulmer & Co., 1794

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MILTON. Como. Dramma con Maschere di Milton rappresentato a Ludlow Castle nel 1634, in Presenza di Lord Giovanni Egerton, Conte di Bridgewater-Comus. Masque de Milton représenté au Chateau de Ludlow en 1634, devant John Egerton-Comte de Bridgewater. En vers François par M. de Bitenaye et en vers Italiens par G. Polidori, in 4to, boards, uncut, translation in Italian and French by order of Francis Henry Egerton, £2

Paris, Didot, 1812 MILTON'S L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, illustrated with etchings on steel, by Birket Foster, sm. folio, extra gilt, g.e., 24 pp., 25s

London, David Bogue, 1840 SHERARD (R. H.) Oscar Wilde, The Story of an Unhappy Friendship, with portraits and facsimile letters, writing on half title, original cloth slightly soiled, 4to, 278 pp., £1 London, Privately Printed, 1902 [SPALDING (W.)] A Letter on Shakespeare's authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a drama commonly ascribed to John Fletcher, demy 8vo, pp. 112, green cloth, nice copy, 30s Edinburgh, Black, 1833 106 English Poetry-RANDOLPH (Thos.) Poems: with the Muses Looking Glass and Amyntas, whereunto is added the Jealous Lovers, Fifth Edition (first complete), scarce, 8vo, calf, cover loose, L. Lilly says this is the best edition, 25s Oxford, Printed for F. Bowman, 1668 107 English Topography-NEWCASTLE. RICHARDSON (T. M., Senr.) Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, comprising Forty Etchings from Original Drawings of the Towers, Churches, and Ancient Gateways, Streets, Buildings, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the Early part of the Present Century, nearly all of which have been Removed, folio, cloth, gilt lines, gilt edges, £3 15s

Newcastle-on-Tyne, J. Garland (circa 1850)
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Oxoniensis, 12mo, calf rebacked, device on title and at end, engraved title, 194 pp., 2 pp. slightly torn, 25s

Londini, Joannis Redmayes, 1671

109 Fathers of the Church-Sanctorum Patrum Ecclesiæ Primitivæ Opera, Nunc in lucem prodeunt clariori methodo, 3 vols. in 1, folio, contemporary stamped vellum, with coat of arms of F.E.A. W., Archbishop of Waldsassen, in gold on the front cover, and a device in gold on the back cover, with clasps, £2 10s

Lugduni, 1652 110 Flanders- BENTIVOGLIO (Guido, Cardinal) The History of the Wars of Flanders, Englished by Henry [Carey], Earl of Monmouth, folio, calf (back shabby), map inissing, 1 large portrait, 22 others, £2

London, Humphrey Moseley, 1654 111 Franciscans--L'Alcoran des Cordeliers, tant en latin qu'en françois, c'est à dire, recueil des plus notables bourdes et blasphemes de ceux qui ont osé comparer sainct François à Jesus Christ, tiré du grand livre des conformitez, jadis composé par frere Barthelemi de Pise, cordelier en son vivant, ncuvelle éditions ornée de figures dessinées par B. Picart, 2 vols, 12mo, calf, gilt back, 2 plates. This curious work was translated from the original Latin by Conrad Badius, 35s à Amsterdam, 1734 History-GREGORY OF TOURS. Gregorius Turonicus Historiæ Francorum Libri decem. in quibus non solum Francorum res gestæ, sed etiam Martyrum cum infidelibus bella, et Ecclesiæ cum hæreticus concertationes exponuntur, Adonis Viennensis Chronica, 8vo, old calf, rubbed, 2 vols. in 1, device on both titles, first title slightly soiled, £1 2s 6d

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Parisii, Guil. Morelium, etc., 1561 113 Le Siege de Calais, Nouvelle Historique, 12mo, calf, 2 vols. in one, gilt back, 156+164 pp., device on titles, 17s 6d A La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1740 RAGOIS (Mr. le) Instruction sur l'Histoire de France, et sur la Romaine, par Demandes et par Reponses, avec une Explication des los. Fables des Metamorphoses d'Ovide, 12mo, calf, shabby, gilt back, 10+204 pp., title printed in red and black, 12s 6d Londres, Pierre de Varennes, 1694 115 —— The Official Correspondence between Great Britain and France, on the subject of the late Negotiation, with His Majestie's Declaration; to which is prefixed the preliminary and definitive Treatise of Peace, with an Appendix containing Colonel Sebastiani's Report to the First Consul, etc., Second Edition, 8vo, iv., 160, xlv. pp., original boards, uncut, covers soiled, 10s

London, 1803

116 French Literature-BALZAC (J. L. Guez de) The Prince, written in French by Monsieur de Balzac, now translated into English, rare, 16mo, buckram, 77+326 pp., £1 London, M. Meigen, 1648

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--CHAPELLE et de Bachaumont, Œuvres, 12mo, red morocco, gilt back, gilt lines, inside gold dentelles, g.e., 320 pp., £1 A La Haie, Quillau, 1755 118- DACIER (Madame) Les Poesies D'Anacreon et de Sapho, traduites en Francois avec des remarques; notes Latines de M. le Fevre, et traduction en vers françois de M. de la Fosse, 8vo, calf, gilt back, title in red and black, front., device on title, 17s 6d Amsterdam, La Veuve de Paul Marret, 1716 119 -DES-RUES CONSTANCOIS (Francois) Les Marguerites Francoises, ov Seconde Partie des fleurs de bien-dire. Recueillie des plus beaux et rares discours de ce temps, et mise selon l'ordre Alphabetique, 12mo, vellum, 412 pp. + table, device on title, wormed, 15s Rouen, Pierre Calles, 1603 120 LA MONNOYE (Bern. de) Poesies Nouvelles, 8vo, viii., 286 pp., contemporary brown calf, gilt back. On the fly-leaves there are two poems by La Monnoye, "L'enrhumé" and "La Rage d'amour," in a neat contemporary handwriting, 35s (s.l.), 1743 121 LE SAGE, Le Diable Boiteux; Corrigée, 'efondue, ornée de Figures, et augmentée d'un Volume, 2 vols, in 1, 8vo, calf, joints loose, shabby, 14 plates, 240+224 pp., 15s Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729

123 French Literature -LE SAGE. Euvres Choisies de Le Sage, 12 vols, 8vo, half calf, with one portrait and 25 plates by Marillier, engraved by Le Beau, Langlois, De. Launay and others, binding shabby, £2 Paris, Leblanc, 1810

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Moralité du Mauvais riche et du ladre, à douze personnages - Le Dialogue du fol et du sage -Le laz damour divin-Lyon marchant satyre Françoise, 1542-La Vie et trepassement de Caillette--Le cry & proclamation publique : pour jouer le mistere des Actes des Apostres, 6 parts in 1 vol, collection de 6 jolies ré-impressions facsimiles sur beau papier de France en 42 ou moins exemplaires executées dans les années 1830-1833 pour Silvestre, red morocco, gilt lines, g.e., gilt back, gold inside dentelles, bound by G. Smith, £115s

Paris, 1541

REYBAUD (Louis) Jérome Paturot a la recherche de la Meilleure des Républiques, Edition illustré par Tony Johannot, fine woodcut illustration, large 8vo, half morocco, m.e., 1 portrait, Premier Tirage avec la vignette sur le titre, représentant Paturot en bonnet de Coton, 30s

Paris, Michel Lévy Freres, 1849 [Sandras de COURTILZ]. Rochefort (Comte) Memoires de Mr. L. C. D. R., contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus particulier sous le Ministre du Cardinal de Richelieu et du Cardinal Mazarin, avec plusieurs particuliarites remarquables du Regne de Louis le Grand, sm. 8vo, calf, 25s Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1687 127 - VOITURE (V. de) Euvres, including Lettres, Lettres Amoureuses Poesies, Metamorphosis, etc., 8vo, old calf rubbed, gilt back, 2 vols. in 1, 1 portrait, engraved title, £1 Paris, au Palais, par la Société, 1677 128 VOLTAIRE. Le Cantique des Cantiques, pp. 16, Paris, 1759-Précis de l'Ecclesiaste, with engraved portrait on title, pp. 16, Francfort, 1759-Bound with R., C.G.P., Nouveau Précis de l'Ecclesiaste sur les memes passages de M. de Voltaire, pp. 20, Amsterdam, 1759, and Rouget: L'Esprit de Job, pp. 78, Amsterdam, Harrevelt, 1759, four rare works, 8vo, half calf, nice copy, £2 1759 129 French Revolution-[D'ISRAELI (Isaac)] Domestic Anecdotes of the French Nation, during the last Thirty Years; Indicative of the French Revolution, large 8vo, polished calf, gilt back, uncut, 13+ 444 pp., £1

London, C. & G. Kearsley, 1794 130 French Topography-Brittany. Lobineau (Don Guy Alexis) Histoire de Bretagne, composé sur les titres et les auteurs originaux, 2 vols, thick folio, stamped calf, g.e., with 43 engraved plates. of monumental brasses, seals and 13 finely engraved portraits, including Louis de Bourbon, Oliver de Clisson, Jean seigneur de Rieux, Bertran du Guesclin, etc. (1 cover of vol. 1 loose), £3 Paris, Veuve Francois Mugnet, 1707

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Nantes. Loire-Infériéure, monuments anciens et modernes, sites et costumes pittoresques, dessinés par F. Benoist, et lithographiés par les premier artistes de Paris, accompagnés de notices historiques, 2 vols. in one, large folio, half roan, worn, 30s Nantes, Charpentier, 1850

St. Denis. Félibien (Mich.) Histoire du l'abbaye de Saint-Denis en France, folio, old calf gilt, joints cracked, fine plates, back shabby, some pages stained, £2

Paris, 1706

Versailles. Salle des Croisades, 2 vols. (in one), folio, boards, Part I., 13 plates-Part II., 15 plates, 16 portraits, £3 Paris, Gavard, N.D. 134 Furniture-SHERATON (T.) 63 fine folio richly-coloured Plates from drawings by Sheraton, including elaborate designs for chairs, tables, bookcases, sofas, beds, window dressings, etc., etc., and 3 plates on botany and astronomy, no text. In 1804 Sheraton began the publication of "The Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, and General Artists' Encyclopædia." It was to consist of 125 numbers, but only a few had been issued at the time of the Author's death in 1806. Botany, Biography, Geography, History and Astronomy were to be dealt with as well as furniture, not in B.M., V, and A. Museum has only 57 plates, rare, £15 London, Sheraton, 1804-7

135 Gauging-LEADBETTER (Charles) The Royal Gauger; or Gauging made Perfectly Easy, as it is actually practised by the Officers of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise, 8vo, polished calf, 7 folding plates (2 coloured), numerous tables, 2 parts in one, 12s London, Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1760 136 Genealogy and Heraldry-The Art of Heraldry, 8vo, stamped calf, embellished with 40 copperplates, containing above 900 Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, curiously engraven, with their particular Descriptions, and by whom borne, xiv +222 pp., 15s

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London, J. Osborn, 1730 Gosky (Martin) Arbustum vel Arboretum hoc quo etiam Serenissimi Principis ac Domini Dn. Augusti Ducis Brunovic, et Lunæburgi, Vita Poeticè et quidem varia Carminis genere variorum authorum commento et applausi effingitur & illustratur, folio, full calf, gilt borders and back, frontispiece, nine portraits of the Author, of August, Duke of Brunswick, Sophia, his Wife, and of other members of his family, and 27 plates showing the Duke's entrance in Wolffenbuttel, his visit to his country, the Cathedral of Wolffenbuttel, numerous emblems, etc. Most of the eulogistical poems are in Lat'n or German, some in Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic and Syriac, very rare and most interesting work, £3 10s

Wolpherbyttani, Ex-Officina Ducali, typis Johan et Henr. Stern, 1650 Savoy. Vander-Burch (Lamb.) Sabaudorum Ducum Principumq. Historiae Gentilitiae Libri duo, 4to, xii 11., 264 pp., old vellum, with two engraved fine full-page and many other coats of arms and several genealogical trees, 25s Lugdunum Bat., Plantin, 1599 139 German Literature-GOETHE. Faust, Tragedie. Traduction d'Albert Stapfer, avec une Préface par P. Stapfer, dessins de J. P. Laurens, gravés par Champollion, each plate in triple proof, No 4 of 10 only printed on Japanese vellum, imp. 8vo, bound with orig. covers, uncut, in half brown mor., marbled sides and end papers, gilt top, rare and fine state, £5 Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885 140 FAUSTUS: from the German of Goethe, embellished with Retsch's Series of twenty-seven Outlines, illustrative of the Tragedy, engraved by Henry Moses, containing the May-Day Night Scene, translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley, sm. folio, cloth, 52 pp., 1 port., £1 5s London, Edward Lumley, 1832 141 Extracts from Goethe's Tragedy of Faustus, explanatory of the Plates, by Retsch, intended to illustrate that work, translated by George Soane, A.B., German and English, folio, oblong, blue morocco, rubbed, gilt border design, gilt design on both covers, gilt back, g.e, gold inside dentelles, 22s 6d

London, Printed for J. H. Bothe, 1820 142 SCHILLER (Friedrich) Don Karlos Infant von Spanien, 8vo, quarter calf, gilt back, 1 plate, 12s 6d Leipzig, Georg J. Göschen, 1801 143 Greek Printing-ANACREON. Anacreontis Odaria, ad Textus Barnesiani Fidem Emendata, accedunt variæ Lectiones cura Edvardi Forster, A.M., 8vo, half morocco, gilt back, 130 pp., Greek type, 12s 6d Londini, J. Murray, 1813 Anthologicum Græco-Latinum: hoc est insigniores flores seu sententiæ, decerptæ ex Hesiodo, Theognide Pythagora, Phocylide, Arato, et Theocrito, omnibus poetis uetustissimis et sapientissimis, et in locos prope bis centum digestæ, cum expositione, usu, et accommodatione singulorum in margine, 8vo, stamped calf, gilt back, Greek and Latin, MS. notes, 25s

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Basilea, Jo. Oporinus, 1556 CHRYSOSTOMUS (Dion) Orationes LXXX., cum libro varietas lectionum (graece), 8vo, 456 11., old vellum, gilt back and borders, tall copy, rough edges, Renouard places it in 1551 owing to the similarity of the Greek books printed by the Aldine press between 1550-4, internal evidence shows it was before 1553, there are only 3 editions of this author, this is the first, there was not another until 1604, and the third was printed at Leipsic, 1784, £2 Venetiis, apud Federicum Turrisanum (Aldus, N.D.) (c. 1551)

146 Greek Printing-CHRYSOLORUS (Eman.) Græcæ Grammaticæ Institutiones multis locis recens et emendatæ et magna cura atque diligentia castigatæ, 4to, half calf, covers loose, MS. notes, device on title, 88 pp., 17s 6d

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Parisiis, A. Wechelus, 1559 GARDINER (Stephen, Bishop of Winchester) A Detection of the Devil's Sophistrie, wherewith he robbeth the unlearned people, of the true byleef, in the most blessed Sacrament of the aulter, 8vo, ff. 136. A-S* in eights, except E in GREEK TYPE, title within woodcut border. Signature E affords one of the earliest examples of GREEK PRINTING (other than mere quotations) in England, R. Wolfe in 1543 being the first printer in this country to possess a complete fount of Greek type. These 4 folios in 'Greek are a quotation from "Damascene." The Latin and English translations follow, the Latin being in Roman type. Gardiner prefaces this quotation (Greek) as follows: "I have been the rather persuaded, to wryte in, the originall in Greke, and therewith the translacion, in Latyn and also English. It shall not greatly augment the boke, and bycause some children learne Greake in this tyme, it may serve them for a lesson, wherewith to occupie their tender wittes and conterme the against the malyce of the deuyll." Outer blank margin of title and one leaf slightly frayed and skilfully repaired, otherwise a good sound copy of an extremely rare book. (The copy in the Huth Sale fetched £17 5s), crushed brown levant morocco, crest in gold on covers, edges rough gilt, £15 15s Printed at London in Aldersgate Street, by John Herforde, at the costes and charges of Roberte Toye dwellynge in Paules Churche Yarde, at the sygne of the Bell, 1546

John Herford the printer was at one time in St. Albans, but came to London in 1542.

GAZA THEODORUS. Grammaticae Institutionis libri quatuor, latine e regione ad verbum fere expositi, Ioanne Vatello cocinnatore; this is the rare edition printed by Badius Ascensius for the publisher Vatel, who had a privilege for this work for two years only, dated from 8th October, 1521, Renouard "Imprimeurs Parisiens" only knows Vatel from the imprint of this work, p. 359. Greek and Latin, Le Grand, Vol. 3, pp. 269-70, "rarissime edition," Renouard, Badius Ascensius, Vol. II, p. 462. The only copy quoted for many years came from the Library of C. Fairfax Murray, and fetched £35 in the sale rooms. Until 1520, Badius Ascensius printed no volumes in Greek type and only had sufficient letters to compose the odd Greek words quoted in occasional editions of his publications. Erasmus was troubled by this lack as he wished him to print his New Testament and wrote him in 1517: "Utinam, mi Badi, fuisset tibi copia formularum graecanicarum! Nunc, capitis periculo, Basilicam adire cogor, neque enim edi potest Novum Testamentum nisi coram adsim." Budaeus who had all his works printed by Badius, was also much annoyed and when at his suggestion the latter sent for a Greek fount of type from Germany, he wrote gleefully on Feb. 24th, 1520, to a correspondent "Diligo jam Badium de typis graecis ab eo e Germania curatis." In August of that year Badius printed Budæus's Letters in this fount which he used only on rare occasions, the second being in 1521, for Gaza's Grammaticæ Institutiones, published by Vatel. This Greek character is very beautiful, and is the same used by Nicholas Episcopius of Basle for Erasmus's New Testament. Badius had thought of competing with this edition, but did not in the end do so, sm. 4to, 204 11. unnumbered, 2 11. at end slightly repaired, stamped calf rebacked, with Vatel's mark, a serpent entwining lilies on the title, £30 [Paris] Vanundantur in ædibus Ascensianis, et e regione gymnasii Italici [1521] LOINUS (J.) Gnomologiae id Est Sententiae collectaneae et Similia ex Demosthenis orationibus et epistolis in certa virtutum ac vitiorum capita collectae; Authore Ioanne Loino Illesiensi, Greek and Latin, double cols., 8vo, limp vellum, 6+228 pp., devise on title, £1 Sebastianum Niuellium, 1551