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37. ALDRICH (T. B.). Poems. Illustrated by the Paint and Clay Club, with engraved portrait of the author. 8vo, wrappers, uncut. With new cloth cover, and case of black Bost. 1882 Inserted is an A. L. S. of 2 pp. from Aldrich to Stedman, in which he discusses the make-up of this book, "However, I do not let a crumpled rose-leaf disturb my slumber." have a world of things to tell you about Russia and Holland and England and Dobson and Gosse I am fearfully busy, and well, and happy-as happy as man can be with over forty years behind him and his grave slowly outlining itself in the distance," etc. With Mr. Stedman's bookplate.

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38. ALDRICH (T. B.). Poems. Portrait. 2 vols. 12mo, original cloth, gilt tops, uncut. With new cloth wrappers and black morocco cases, gilt lettered. Bost. 1897

Presentation copy with inscription "E. C. Stedman as a token of many years of love and admiration. T. B. Aldrich. March 17, 1897.'' With the Stedman bookplate.

Inserted are 2 A. L's. S. of Aldrich to Stedman, one telling of a sickness he had had, the other relating to literary affairs and containing a list of the poems by himself which he would like Stedman to include in his "Library of American Literature," etc.

39. [ALDRICH (T. B.).] Young (William). Wishmakers' Town. Introductory Note by T. B. Aldrich. printed boards, cloth back, gilt top, uncut.

12mo, original Bost. 1898

Presentation copy with inscription: "To Edmund C. Stedman-the pupil to the master-William Young." Inserted is an A. L. S. from Young to Stedman telling of the book and its being published. In cloth cover, with slip case of black morocco.

40. ALDRICH (T. B.) AND STEDMAN (E. C.). Cameos selected from the Works of Walter Savage Landor. By E. C. Stedman and T. B. Aldrich. With an Introduction. FIRST EDITION. Square 12mo, original cloth, gilt edges. With extra wrapper and black morocco case. Bost.: Osgood, 1874

An important and interesting association volume. Inscribed "This is my private copy, Edmund C. Stedman." The Introduction was written by Mr. Stedman, and the poem "In Memory of Walter Savage Landor" is by Swinburne. Aldrich made the selection of the poems and copies them for the printer. His (Aldrich's) Manuscript list of contents is inserted in this copy; 4 pp. 8vo, with an A. L. S. of 4 pp. to Mr. Stedman, dated July, 1873, referring to the work. He says: "It has been a devil of a task to copy them, let me tell you. I have preserved Landor's orthography in almost all instances. He concludes by quoting Lowell's opinion of Landor, "Excepting Shakespeare, no other writer has furnished us with so many or so delicate aphorisms of human nature." With the Stedman bookplate.

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41. ALDRICH (T. B.) AND STEDMAN (E. C.). Cameos selected from the Works of Walter Savage Landor. With an Introduction. FIRST EDITION. Square 12mo, original cloth, gilt edges. With extra wrapper and black morocco case.

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of T. B. Aldrich, 2 pp., July 26,
cerning the book. With the Stedman bookplate.

42. ALDRICH (T. B.). The Second Son. A Novel. By M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled inside border, gilt top, by MacDonald, N. Y. Bost. 1888

43. ALCIATI (ANDREA). Emblemata cum facili et compendiosa explicatione, per Claudium Minoem. 211 emblematic woodcuts, many being from the blocks which were used in Whitney's "Choice of Emblems," 1586. 16mo, brown levant morocco, gilt centre ornaments, gilt edges, by Allô. Lugduni Batavorum: ex officina Plantiniana, 1591 Green No. 118. The Hoe copy.

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44. ALEMAN (MATEO). The Life of Guzman d'Alfarache; or, the Spanish Rogue. To which is added, The Celebrated Tragi-Comedy, Celestina. Written in Spanish. Done into English from the New French Version, and compar'd with the Original. By several hands. Adorn'd with sculptures by Gaspar Bouttats. Includes the engraved title. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf. Lond. R. Bonwick, 1708-1707

The Comerford copy with bookplate.

45. ALMANACH des Gourmands fondé par Grimod de la Reyniere en 1803. Continué sous la Direction de F. G. Dumas. Numerous illustrations. 4to, figured green and gray silk covers, uncut, original covers bound in, by The Club Bindery. Paris, 1904

The Hoe copy.

46. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Ponce, N. Recueil d'Estampes représentant les différents évenemens de la Guerre qui a procure l'Independance aux Etats Unis de l'Amerique. 16 fine plates, depicting scenes of the American Revolution, engraved by Ponce and Godefroy. 4to, red levant morocco extra, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by Lloyd. Paris: Ponce (1784)

A very fine copy of this beautiful series of engravings, brilliant impressions, very scarce. They include the Battle of Lexington, Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, Capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown, etc., with engraved descriptions of the events.

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47. AMPZING (SAMUEL). Beschryvinge ende lof der Stad Haerlem in Holland . . . Mitsgaders Peter Scriverii Lavre-Kranz voor Laurens Koster . . . 4to, parchment, with arms on the sides. Te Haerlem By Adriaen Rooman, 1628

In addition to numerous views, etc., the illustrations include a portrait of Koster, the pioneer Dutch printer, and two very interesting plates showing the interior of a printing office, beautifully executed and full of detail.

48. ANACREON. Done into English out of the Original Greek. 8vo, citron levant morocco, the sides tooled and gilt to a semis of flowers, gilt edges, by the Club Bindery.

Oxford: L. Litchfield for Anthony Stephens, 1683 FIRST EDITION. The translators are Abraham Cowley, T. Wood, John Oldham and Francis Willis. Autograph of Alexander Boswell, the father of James Boswell, on the fly-leaf.

49. ANACREON: with Thomas Stanley's translation.
Edited by A. H. Bullen. Illustrated [10 plates] by J. R.
Weguelin. Square 8vo, cloth, uncut.
Lond. 1893

50. [ANBUREY (THOMAS).] Travels through the Interior Parts of America; In a Series of Letters. By an Officer. Map and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, half red levant morocco, extra gilt edges. Lond. 1789

Scarce. Among the plates are the fine ones of " Encampment of the Convention Army at Charlottesville, Va., after the Surrender to the Americans''; "View of the West Bank of the Hudson's River, showing Gen 'l Frazer's Funeral." Engraved by Barlow, etc.

51. [ANDERDON (J. L.).] The River Dove, with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of angling. Small 8vo, morocco, gilt, gilt top, uncut edges. Lond.: W. Pickering, 1847

52. ANDERSON (JAMES). The Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Containing their History, Charges, Regulations, &c., collected and digested, by Order of the Grand Lodge, from their old Records, faithful Traditions, and Lodge-Books, for the Use of Lodges, by James Anderson, D.D., and carefully revised, continued, and enlarged by John Entick, M.A. A New Edition, with Alterations and Additions, by a Committee appointed by the Grand Lodge. Frontispiece by Cole after Boitard. 4to, original blue morocco, tooled with Masonic emblems, and the claim of "The Grand Lodge Book" stamped on the front cover.

Lond. In the Vulgar Year of Masonry, 5767 [1767]

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53. ANDRE (MAJOR JOHN). Proceedings of a Board of Gen. Officers, held by order of His Excellency Gen. Washington, . . . respecting Major John André, adjutant-general of the British Army. Sept. 29, 1780. 8vo, red morocco gilt back and sides, by Pawson and Nicholson. Phila. 1780

FIRST EDITION.

54. ANDRE. Monody on Major André by Miss [Anna] Seward, to which are added Letters addressed to her by Major André in 1769. 4to, half morocco.

Litchfield: J. Jackson, 1781

FIRST EDITION, printed for the author, with her autograph on page 28.

55. ANDRE. Vindication of the Captors of Major André. By Egbert Benson. 8vo, half calf, extra, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman. N. Y.: Sabin, 1865 Only 200 copies printed. Apparently the contents of André's shoes were not mere "scraps of paper. That his captors

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56. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War, being an Account of a number of the Engraved Portraits connected therewith, remarkable for their rarity or otherwise interesting. To which is added an Appendix containing lists of Portraits of Revolutionary characters to be found in various English and American publications of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century. Numerous reproductions. 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y. 1896

uncut.

57. ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). An English XIX Century Sportsman, Bibliophile and Binder of Angling Books. Reproductions in color, engravings, etc. 8vo, vellum, gilt top, N. Y. 1906

The Sedgwick copy, with his bookplate by French, and an inserted Gosden plate.

58. ANGOLA, histoire indienne; Ouvrage sans vraisemblance. Nouvelle edition (by de La Morliére). Fleurons on titles, 2 vignettes by Maisonneuve, and 5 plates by Tardieu, Aveline and Maisonneuve all after Eisen. 2 parts in one mosaic compartments in dark brown and red morocco, gilt tooled in dots, circles, etc.; doublure of blue levant with gilt dentelle borders, in the manner of Derome, gilt edges, by Thibaron-Joly, in morocco slip case. Agra (Paris), 1751

The Hoe copy.

59. APULEIUS. The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius of Medaura, reprinted from the scarce edition of 1709, revised and corrected. Frontispiece. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, uncut. The Hoe copy. Lond. 1822

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60. ARABIAN NIGHTS. Burton's translation. Volumes Original cloth, uncut. 18894 An unusual opportunity of acquiring a very full knowledge of this primitive collection of tales, taken perhaps from an original manuscript, subject to the usual elaboration and point of view of the story-teller.

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61. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Empedocles on Etna. Dramatic Poem. Decorations by Ricketts. 8vo, olive levant morocco, sides covered with a lattice having trefoil terminals, inside border, gilt edges, by Cobden Sanderson, at the Doves Bindery, and signed in 1901. Lond.: Vale Press, 1896 A four-page letter of W. Irving Way, with many details concerning Cobden Sanderson's career, bibliopegic, etc., is inserted.

62. ART OF LOVE. An Essay upon the Art of Love, containing An Exact Anatomy of Love and all the other Passions which attend it. 12mo, calf. Printed [Lond.], 1702

ASH'S CAROLINA

63. ASH (THOMAS). Carolina; or, a Description of the Present State of that Country, and the Natural Excellencies thereof, viz. The Healthfulness of the Air, Pleasantness of the Place, Advantage and Usefulness of those Rich Commodities there plentifully abounding, which much encrease and flourish by the Industry of the Planters that daily enlarge that Colony. Published by T. A. Gent. Clerk on Board his Majesties Ship the Richmond, which was sent out in the Year 1680, with particular Instructions to enquire into the State of that Country, by His Majesties Special Command, and Return'd this Present Year, 1682. 4to, blue levant morocco extra, gilt edges.

Lond. Printed for W. C. and are to be sold by Mrs. Grover in Pelican Court in Little Britain, 1682.

Very large and fine copy, measuring 85% by 6% inches. EXTREMELY RARE, AND A BEAUTIFUL COPY. Inserted is a 3 p. A. L. S. from W. B. Rye of the British Museum to Charles C. Jones, Jr., in reference to the work, in which he says: "I regret however that I cannot ascertain anything beyond the existence of a copy in the Museum library of the tract by T. A.'

An interesting book, telling of the natural resources of the country, animals, birds, fishes and plants, especially those reputed to have medicinal properties.

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