FIRST 2229 FRERE (John Hookham) FABLES FOR FIVE YEARS OLD. Malta, 1830. EDITION, 12mo, fine copy, red morocco extra, broad borders of gold, gilt top, uncut, by BEDFORD, £1. 108 A beautiful copy, one of the most uncommon of Frere's works. 2230 FRERE (John Hookham) THE WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, with a Memoir by W. E. and SIR BArtle Frere, SECOND EDITION, with Additions. 1874. 3 vols, crown 8vo, with 2 portraits engraved by C H. Jeans, tree calf gilt, marbled edges, £2 10s 2231 FULLER (Thomas) ABEL REDIVIVUS, or the Dead yet Speaking, the Lives and Deaths of Modern Divines, written by several able and learned men (whose names ye shall find in the Epistle to the Reader), and now digested into one volume for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtue. 1651. 4to, engraved and printed title, and portrait of Andrews, also the RARE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF FULLER, besides the numerous engraved portraits on the text, FINE COPY in blue morocco super extra, tooled back and borders, gilt edges, by W. PRATT, £7 108 2232 FURNISS (Harry) MRS. MONTAGUE JONES' DINNER PARTY, or Reminiscence of CHELTENHAM LIFE AND MANNERS by J. J. NUNN, B.A. 1872. FIRST EDITION, with several illustrations by HARRY FURNISS, 8vo, a nice copy in new mottled calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, with the original covers preserved at end, by RIVIERE, £1 58 An early work of this clever artist. 2233 GAMES.-Les Jeux Des Jeunes Garçons Représentés par un grand nombre d'Estampes accompagnés de l'Explication des Regles, de Fables inedites et d'Anecdotes. Paris, N.D. (circa 1820). Containing a number of pretty COLOURED plates, oblong 8vo, original boards, 128 Among the games represented is a curious engraving of CRICKET. 2234 GARDENING-The Anatomy of Plants, with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and several other Lectures, read before the Royal Society by Nehemjah Grew, M.D. 1682. Folio, with eighty-three engravings, old calf, 12s 2235 GARLANDS.--CUPID'S POESIES. For Bracetts, Handkerchers and Rings, When Venus gave him leave to play. THE LOVER SHEWETH HIS INTENT, BY GUIFTS THAT ARE WITH POESIES SENT. Printed at London for John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop in the Old-Bailey, neere Newgate, 1642 Black Letter, vignette on title, 16mo, morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere, £16 16s ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE; the earliest edition known to both Lowndes and Hazlitt is that of 1674, which is now in the British Museum, having been purchased at Mr. Utterson's sale, 1852, for £5. 2236 GARLANDS.-LOVE'S GARLAND, OR POESIES FOR RINGS, HANDKERCHERS, AND GLOVES; AND SUCH PRETTY TOKENS THAT LOVERS SEND THEIR LOVES. Printed at London by R. C., and are to be sold by F. G. dwelling upon Snowhill, 1648. Black Letter, woodcut vignettes on the title, the leaf before title, and on the last pages, 16mo, morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £16 168 The earliest edition mentioned in Lowndes is 1674. Utterson's copy sold in 1852 for £2 148: it is now in the Museum. THE ABOVE EDITION, AS FAR AS WE CAN TRACE, IS UNIQUE. 2237 GILBERT (W. S.) Songs of a Savoyard. 1891. FIRST EDITION, illustrated by the Author, 4to, cloth, as issued, 4s 6d 2238 GILBERT (W. S.) The "Bab" Ballads, and More Bab Ballads, Much Sound and Little Sense. 1869, etc. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE TWO VOLUMES, illustrations by the Author, 2 vols, small 8vo, original cloth gilt, £2 28 2239 GOSSE (Edmund) ENGLISH ODES. 1881. Frontispiece, LARGE PAPER, ONLY FIFTY COPIES PRINTED, best levant morocco extra, top edges gilt (choice copy), £1 10s 2240 GOSSE (Edmund W.) and BLAIKE (John Arthur) Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets. 1870. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, green cloth, uncut, 68 2241 GREENE (Robert) GREENES FAREWELL TO FOLLIE, sent to Courtiers and Scholars, as a president to warn them from the vain delights that drawes youths on to repentence, Sero sed Serio, ROBERT GREENE. Utriusq; Academie in artibus magister. London, printed by W. White, dwelling in Cow-lane, 1617. Black Letter, small 4to, old red morocco (this century), extra gilt edges, Sir Francis Freeling's copy, with his bookplate, £7 78 A collection of TALES intermingled with VERSE. A copy was priced in the Bibliotheca AngloPoeticæ, 1815, at £7 7s, and Mr. Bindley's sold in 1816 for £6 6s. 2242 GREENE (Robert) THE DRAMATIC WORKS, to which are added his Poems, with some Account of the Author, and Notes by the REV. ALEXANDER DYCE, B.A. Pickering, 1831. 2 vols, 8vo, stained calf extra, gilt edges, by the late FRANCIS BEDFORD, handsome set, £4 48 2243 GREENLAND.-VIAGGIO DI SPIZBERGA O'GRONLANDA, Fatto da Frederica Martens Amburghese l'anno, 1671, oue si descrivone que remotissimi Paesi del Settentrione Sotto gli 81, gradi ne quali, soggiorni il Sole per lo Spazio di trè mesi intieri. Con una copiosa Relazione di quell' aggiacciato China, e de gli Uccelli, Quadrupedi, Pesci, e Piante rare, che ve nascono, colla descrizione delle Balene, e lor Pesca. Bologna, 1680. 12mo, plates, fine copy in vellum, £2 10s 2244 HAZLITT (William) A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE, OR A SERIES OF DRAMATIC CRITICISMS. 1818. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, fine copy in new mottled calf super extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £1 10s 2245 HAZLITT (William) CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS. 1817. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, fine copy in new mottled calf super extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £1 10s Dedicated to Charles Lamb. 2246 HEARNE (Thomas) COLLECTION OF CURIOUS DISCOURSES, written by Eminent Antiquaries. Oxford, 1720. Folding plates of Edward the Confessor's Chapel at Islip, nice copy in Cambridge panelled calf extra, paned and gilt sides, and gilt leaves, by BEDFORD, £1 108 2247 HEARNE (Thos.) THOMAE SPROTTE CHRONICA. E. Codice Antique Msts. In Bibliotheca prænobilis Adolescentis Dni. Edwardi Dering de Surrender Dering in Age, Canteano, Banonetti. Oxonii, 1719. 8vo, panelled calf extra, too ed back and borders, UNCUT, by BEDFORD, VERY FINE COPY, £2 2s 2248 HENRY VIII.-Illusrissimi ac Potentissimi, Regis, Senatus, Populiq Angliæ Sententia et de ea Concilio, quod Paulus Episcopus Rom. Mantuæ futurum simulavit: et de ea bulla quæ ad calandas Novembres id Prorogarit. Londini, Thomas Berthelete, 1537. 12mo, calf neat, pretty copy, £2 28 The British Museum possesses the foreign reprint (1538) of Berthelete's edition, but not this rare original. 2249 HENRYSON (Robert) POEMS AND FABLES, now first Collected, with Notes and Memoir, by David Laing. Edinburgh, 1865. Crown 8vo, only a small number printed on hand-made paper, morocco extra, tooled borders and centre ornaments, top edge gilt, UNCUT, by BEDFORD, beautiful copy, £3 58 2250 HEYWOODE (John) WOORKES, a Dialogue_conteigning the Number of the EFFECTUALL PROVERBES in the English Tongue, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of Mariages, with ONE HUNDRED OF EPIGRAMMES, AND THREE HUNDRED OF EPIGRAMMES UPON THREE HUNDRED PROVERBES, and & fifth hundred of Epigrams, whereunto are now newe added a sixte a hundred of Epigrams. Londini, 1566. Black Letter, 4to, woodcut border round title, and full length portrait of the author on the reverse of Q 1, the black borders of the title and a few pages mende l, ELSE A FINE, LARGE, AND PERFECT COPY, in morocco extra, gilt edges, by AITKEN, £12 12s A scarce book in perfect order. 2251 HEYWOODES (John) WOORKES. Another Edition. Londini, 1598. Black Letter, a few pages mended, A LARGE AND PERFECT COPY in olive morocco, £6 68 "John Heywood, commonly called the Epigrammatist, was beloved and rewarded by Henry VIII for his buffooneries. His merriments were so irresistible that they moved even the rigid muscles of Queen Mary; and her sullen solemnity was not proof against his songs, his rhymes, and his jests. He is said to have been often invited to exercise his arts of entertainment and pleasantry in her presence, and to have had the honour to be constantly admitted into her privy chamber for that purpose. " "His epigrams, 600 in number, are probably some of his jokes extemporaneous sallies, made and repeated in company.' Poetry. versified; and perhaps were often See Warton's History of English 2252 HEYWOOD (Thomas) AN APOLOGY FOR ACTORS, CONTAINING THREE BRIEF TREATISES 3 THE TRUE USE OF THEIR QUALITY WRITTEN BY THOMAS HEYWOOD. London, printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612. GREENE (J.) A REFUTATION OF THE APOLOGY FOR ACTORS, DIVIDED INTO THREE BRIEF TREATISES, WHEREIN IS CONFUTED AND OPPOSED ALL THE CHIEFE GROUNDS AND ARGUMENTS ALLEGED IN DEFENCE OF PLAYES, and withall in each Treatise is deciphered-Actors: 1 HEATHENISH AND DIABOLICALL INSTITUTION 2 THEIR ANCIENT AND MODERN INDIGNITIE 3 THE WONDERFUL ABUSE OF THEIR IMPIOUS QUALITIE by J. G. Imprinted at London by W. White, and are to be sold by Thomas Langley in Ivie Lane, 1615. FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vols, small 4to, uniformly and beautifully bound in blue morocco super extra, choicely tooled, top edges gilt, UNCUT (probably unique in this choice state), by RIVIERE, £28 108 VERY FINE COPIES of these highly inportant and exceedingly rare books on our early drama, one being considered the chief prose production of the celebrated dramatist Thomas Heywood, and both published at a period when the greatest writers of the stage lived. Mr. Lowe says in his bibliographical account of English Theatrical Literature that Green's Refutation is “very scarce indeed." 2253 HEYWOOD (Thomas) PHILOCOTHONISTA, OR THE DRUNKARD Opened, DisSECTED AND ANATOMIZED. Printed by Robt. Roworth, 1635. FIRST EDITION, a large and curious woodcut on title representing figures with animals heads drinking and quarrelling, with leaf of poetical explanation opposite, small 4to, new sprinkled calf extra, neatly tooled, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE (very rare), £4 108 Interspersed with verse, and prefixed are commendatory poems including one by JOHN FORD. 2254 HEYWOOD (Thomas) THE FAYRE MAIDE OF THE EXCHANGE, TOGETHER WITH THE MERRY HUMOURS AND PLEASANT PASSAGES OF THE CRIPPLE OF FANCHURCH, FURNISHED WITH A VARIETY OF DELECTABLE MIRTH. 1637. sprinkled calf extra, rough gilt edges, £5 58 A remarkably fine copy. 4to, in 2255 HEPTAMERON (The) of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated from the French, with a Memoir of the Author, by Walter K. Kelly. Bohn's extra volume. Portrait, 8vo, cloth, 188 This edition was withdrawn from publication. 2256 HOBBES (Thomas, of Malmesbury) De Mirabilibus Pecci: BEING THE WONDERS OF THE PEAK IN DARBYSHIRE, commonly called the Devil's Arse of Peak. Done into English (VERSE) by a person of quality. 1678. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, sprinkled calf extra, prettily tooled, rough gilt edges, 158 2257 HOLBEIN (Hans) ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE, being facsimiles of the celebrated "Icones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti." Pickering, 1830. Crown 8vo, with 90 woodcuts, beautifully engraved, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON INDIA PAPER, with brilliant proofs of the beautiful woodcuts, red morocco extra, gilt back, paned sides, gilt edges, by BEDFORD, A CHARMING BOOK, £7 78 Only 10 so printed. 2258 HODGES (Anthony).—TATIUS (ACHILLES) THE LOVES OF CLITHOPHON AND LEUCIPPE, a most Elegant History, Englished by A. H. (ANTHONY HODGES). Oxford, 1638. Engraved frontispiece by WILLIAM MARSHALL, and illustrated by the insertion of six choice engravings by Rabel, from an early French translation of the work, 12mo, morocco extra, elegant blind tooling, gilt edges, pretty book, £3 38 A Beautiful Copy of this Romance, containing interesting commendatory verses addressed to the Translator by RICHARD LOVELACE (2 pp.), J. FORDE, THOS. SNELLING, H. ALLENE, etc., etc. These commendatory verses are often wanting, the book being first published without them, and they having been inserted as an afterthought (Hazlitt). 2259 HOLLAND (Henry Richard, Lord) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO and GUILLEN de Castro. 1817. Portraits, 2 vols, 8vo, calf extra, by BEDFORD, £1 18 2260 HOOD (Thomas) THE PLEA OF THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES, Hero and Leander, Lycus and Centaur, and other Poems. 1827. FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, beautifully bound in new stained calf extra, choicely tooled back and borders, and gilt edges, by RIVIERE, pretty book, £1 18 2261 HOOPER (John) A DECLARATION OF THE TEN HOLY COMAUNDEMENTS OF ALLMYGHTYE GOD wroten Exo. 20, Deu. 5, collected out of the Scripture Canonicall by Joanne Hooper. Anno 1550 (printed abroad). Gothic letter, smalÎ 8vo, calf, extra gilt edges, by the late F. BEDFORD, £4 14s 6d 2262 HOOPER (John, Bishop of Gloucester) A DECLARATION OF THE TEN HOLY COMMAUNDMENTES of Allmighty God (wroten Exo. 20, Deu. 5, Collected out of the Scripture Canonicall), by Joanne Hooper. Anno 1548. Small 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRINTED ABROAD, in Gothic Letter, title and a leaf in excellent facsimile, else a beautiful copy, in red morocco extra gilt, gilt edges (excessively rare), £3 10s 2263 HOWARD (Honble. Edward) THE BRITISH PRINCES, AN HEROICK POEM. H. Herringman, 1669. FIRST EDITION, Small 8vo, sprinkled calf extra, neatly too'ed, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £1 128 6d "In the remodelled Dunciad, Pope inserted the lines 'And high-born Howard, more majestic sire, Pope's high-born Howard was Edward Howard, the author of 'The British Princes.'"-Lord Macaulay in his History of England. 2264 HOWELL (James) Phil Anglus, some Sober Inspections made into the Cariage and Consults of the Late Long Parliament, whereby occasion is taken to speak of Parlements in Former Times, etc., with some Reflexes upon Government in General, with some Prophetic Paragraffs, the Fourth Edition, with a Supplement of Divers Signal Passages which the other three had not. 1660. 12mo, original sheep, 15s 2265 HOWITT (William) THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND. 1838. FIRST EDITION, with bright impressions of the exceedingly clever and choice engravings by S. WILLIAMS, etc., 2 vols, 8vo, VERY FINE COPY, in new mottled calf extra, top edges gilt, ENTIRELY UNCUT, with the original covers preserved at end of each volume, by RIVIERE, £2 188 2266 HUNT (Leigh) A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA. 1848. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by RICHARD DOYLE, 8vo, original cloth, uncut (rare in uncut state, £1 10s 2267 Another copy, in the original ornamental boards, gilt, £1 5s 2269 HUNT (Leigh) Men, Women, and Books, a Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from his Uncollected Prose Writings. 1847. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, uncut, £2 28 2269 HUNT (Leigh) THE OLD COURT SUBURB, or Memorial of KENSINGTON, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 1855. BEST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, UNCUT, £1 158 2270 HUSBANDRY.-A TREATISE OF FRUIT TREES, shewing the Manner of Grafting, Planting, Pruning, and ordering of them in all respects, with argumens of the dignity of FRUIT TREES AND THE ART OF PLANTING, etc., etc., by R. Austen. Oxford, 1657. Small 4to, sheep, 128 6d 2271 HUSBANDRY. THE ENGLISH IMPROVER, or a NEW SURVEY OF HUSBANDRY, Discovering to the Kingdom that some Land, both Arable and Pasture, may be Advanced Double or Treble, etc., etc., by Walter Blith. 1649. Small 4to, original sheep, £1 18 2272 HUSBANDRY.-THE PLANTER'S MANUAL, being Instructions for the RAISING, PLANTING, AND CULTIVATING ALL SORTS OF FRUIT-TREES, whether Stone-fruits or Pepin-fruits, with their Natures and Seasons, very useful for such as are curious in Planting and Grafting, by CHARLES COTTON, Esq. 1675. FIRST EDITION, pretty engraved frontispiece by Van Hove, 12mo, old half calf, £2 2s 2273 IRVING (Washington) Astoria; or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. 1836. FIRST EDITION, 3 vols, 8vo, fine copy in the original boards, uncut, 158 2274 IRVING (Washington) BRACBRIDGE HALL; or, The Humorists, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1822. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, fine clean copy in the original boards, UNCUT, £1 58 2275 JERROLD (Douglas) The Barber's Chair and the Hedgehog Letters, by Douglas Jerrold, Edited, with an Introduction, by his Son, Blanchard Jerrold. 1874. FIRST EDITION, portrait, 8vo, original cloth, 148 2276 JOHNSON (Samuel, Doctor) A DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES, in the Year 1774, by SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D., Edited, with Illustrative Notes, by R. DUPPA, LL.B., Barrister at Law. 1816. FIRST EDITION; LARGE PAPER, 8vo, original boards, UNCUT, 158 2277 LA FONTAINE (J. De) TALES AND NOVELS, IN VERSE. Paris, 1884. With eighty-five beautiful engravings by EISEN, printed from the original plates, 2 vols, 8vo, ADDITIONALLY ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION of a series of very fine engravings on Japanese paper from the designs of Eisen, Boucher, Pater, Lancret, etc., mottled calf extra, by RIVIERE, top edges gilt, UNCUT, £7 78 This is the only complete English Translation of the Celebrtaed "Contes et Nouvelles." 2278 LEVER (Charles) Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. Dublin, 1843. FIRST EDITION, portrait and engravings by PHIZ, 8vo, complete in the original parts, as issued, uncut, £2 28 2279 LEVER (Charles) LUTTRELL OF ARRAN. 1865. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by "PHIZ," A VERY CHOICE SET IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, AS ISSUED, UNCUT, A REMARKABLY FINE COPY, £5 58 2280 [LEVER (Charles)] MAXIMS OF SIR MORGAN O'DOHERTY, Bart. 1849. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, original cloth gilt, 10s 6d Many people think the above to be the work of Charles Lever. 2281 LEVER (Charles) THE MARTINS OF CRO' MARTIN. 1856. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by "Phiz," Svo, complete in the original parts, as issued, UNCUT, £4 48 2282 LOCKER (Frederick) LYRA ELEGANTIARUM, a Collection of some of the Best Specimens of Vers De Société and Vers D'Occasion in the English Language, by Deceased Authors. Moxon, 1867. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, original cloth gilt, £l ás 2283 LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth) The Courtship of Miles Standish, and other Poems. Boston, 1858. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, cloth, 148 2284 MAYHEW (Horace) Model Men. N.D. FIRST EDITION, illustrated by H. G. Hine, 12mo, original covers as issued, 7s 6d 2285 MEDICAL.-A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent it, by Richard Mead. 1722. 8vo, calf gilt, 4s 6d Large paper, presentation copy from author. 2286 MEDICAL.-COGHAN (THOMAS, M.A.) THE HAVEN OF HEALTH, chiefly gathered for the Comfort of Students, and consequently of all those that have a Care of their Health, amplified upon Five Words of Hippocrates, hereunto is added a Preservation from the Pestilence, with a Short Censure of the late Sickness at Oxford. 1636. 4to, a fine copy in the original binding, £2 28 A complete guide to the art of prolonging life, and the best modes of cooking foods, making drinks, etc., etc. |