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150 CALLIMACHUS. Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta cum notis var. ed. Ernesti. Best Paper issue, with engravings, 2 vols., 8vo., old polished crimson morocco, gilt backs, FINE COPY. Lugd. Bat., 1761

£3 3s. ISI [CAMBRIDGE (Richard Owen)]. The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books. Frontispieces by Boitard, 4to., half roan. London, Printed for R. Dodsley,

1751.

LARGE COPY, with uncut edges.

18s.

He knew

Cambridge was a man of considerable wit and great conversational powers. well such contemporaries as Gray, Pitt, Fox, Soame Jenyns, and Chesterfield. There are traces of him in Boswell's " Johnson" and in Walpole's "Letters."

152 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Edited by Sir A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. 14 vols., roy. 8vo.

£17 10s.

153 CAMDEN. Annales Rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad Annum Salutis, MDLXXXIX. Guilielmo Camdeno Authore. Folio, original limp vellum, FINE COPY. 1615.

£2 10s.

154 CAMPBELL (John). Travels in South Africa, undertaken for the Missionary Society, plates, 1815; Second Journey into the Interior of S. Africa, with coloured plates of costumes of natives, views, etc., 2 vols., 1815. Together 3 vols., 8vo., boards, rebacked.

£2 10s.

155 The Poet CAMPBELL's COPY. The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, be Androw of Wyntown, Priowr of San&t Serfis Ynche in Loch Levyn. Now first published, with Notes, a Glossary, etc., by David Macpherson. Facsimile plate, 2 vols., roy. 8vo., calf, gilt. 1795.

Thomas Campbell's copy, with his autograph on both title-pages. CANADA.-See MACKENZIE.

£1 15s.

156 CARLYLE (Thomas). The French Revolution. With about 150 illustrations by E. J. Sullivan, 2 vols., roy. 8vo., stamp on titles. 1910. £1 1s. 157 CAROLINE. A Most True and Exact Relation of That as Honourable as unfortunate Expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester. By M. C. A Loyall Actor in that Engagement, Anno Dom. 1648. Post 8vo., original sheep. 1650. £2 158 [CARTWRIGHT (Edmund)]. The Prince of Peace; and Other Poems. Vignette title-page, 4to., boards. 1779. 10s. 6d.

THE FIRST EDITION.

159 [CARTWRIGHT (William)]. The Royall Slave. A Tragi-Comedy. The Second Edition, sm. 4to., half roan. Oxford, Printed by William Turner, 1640. Acted before Charles I. at Oxford in 1636.

£2 10s.

160 CASANOVA. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. Illustrated, 2 vols., 8vo., polished half calf. 1922. £2 17s. 6d.

Privately Printed for the Navarre Society. 161 Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar woodcut border, post 8vo., original limp vellum.

CASTIGLIONE.
Venice, 1533.

Title within

£4 10s.

162 CAUSES CELEBRES et Interessantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont decidees. 24 vols., post 8vo., calf. 1734-70

£2 2s.

163 CAYME PRESS. Profitable Proverbs. Suitably garnished (with woodcuts) and offered up by Alexina Ogilvie.

4to. 1923.

Limited edition of 275 numbered copies.

7s. 6d.

164 CERVANTES. The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote, Of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended. Folio, original calf, repaired. London, Printed for R. Scot, T. Basset, F. Wright, R. Chiswell, 1675

£3 3s. 165 CERVANTES. Don Quixote. New translation from the originals of 1605 and 1608, by A. J. Duffield. With notes of various commentators. 3 vols., 8vo., half calf, gilt backs. 1881.

Shelton's translation. The title-page is hinged.

£3 3s. 166 CERVANTES. The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton. Reprinted from the First Edition. Illustrated, 2 vols., 8vo., polished half calf. 1923. £2 17s. 6d. The limited edition of the Navarre Society.

167 CHAMBERLAYNE (William). Pharonnida: A Heroick Poem. Portrait, 8vo., calf, gilt. London, Printed for Robert Clavell, at the Sign of the Stags-head neer St. Gregories Church in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1659.

£1C 15s.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION. With the bookplates of A. M. Broadley and John Adam.

168 CHAPMAN (George). Comedies and Tragedies now first collected, with notes and memoir of the Author. 3 vols., post 8vo., half morocco. John Pearson, 1873. £2 15s. 169 CHARLES I. His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects, Of the causes which moved him to dissolve the last Parliament. Published by his Majesties speciall command. Sm. 4to., old style calf. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628.

£8 8s.

FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE. Has the preliminary leaf, usually lacking. Margin of D3 repaired.

170 CHAUCER.

SPURGEON (Caroline F. E.). Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900. With collotype plates, 3 vols., roy. 8vo. 1925.

£2 10s. 171 CHAUCER. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and Chaucerian and other Pieces, edited from numerous manuscripts, with introductions and notes, by W. W. Skeat. 7 vols., demy 8vo.

CHAUCER.-See RICCARDI PRESS.

172 CHESTERFIELD. Letters written by the late Rt. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope. cellaneous Works of Lord Chesterfield. 2 vols., portraits. original calf, gilt. 1774-1777.

A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS.

£5 5s.

Hon. Philip Dormer 2 vols. And, MisTogether 4 vols., 4to.,

£16 16s.

173 CHINA. A New History of China. Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire. Written by Gabriel Magaillans of the Society of Jesus, Missionary Apostolick. Done out of French. Large folding plan of Pekin, 8vo., original calf, rebacked. 1688.

Two small boles in the plan.

£3 3s. 174 CHINA. A Journal of an Embassy from Their Majesties John and Peter Alexowits, Emperors of Muscovy, etc., Into China, Through the Provinces of Ustiugha, Siberia, Dauri, and the Great Tartary, to Peking. Performed by Everard Isbrand, 1693-1695. Written by Adam Brand, Secretary to the Embassy. With Observations on the Products of Russia, by H. W. Ludolf. Portrait and plates, fcap. 8vo., original calf. 1698

CHINA.-See VOYAGES.

£2 2s.

175 CHISWICK PRESS. Astarte. A Fragment of Truth Concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron. Recorded by his grandson Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace. Portraits and facsimiles of letters, 4to., boards, canvas back. 1905

£4 10s. 176 [CHUDLEIGH (Lady Mary)]. The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd: A Poem. In a Dialogue between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson. Written by a Lady. Folio, old style calf. London, Printed for John Deeve, 1701. £5 5s.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Lady Chudleigh's first publication. Issued in answer to Sprint's Sermon " Conjugal Duty" it created a mild sensation. Lintott, at a later date, unknown to Lady Mary, and against her wishes, republished it. Lady Chudleigh's marriage was far from happy and she suffered much owing to the early death of her only daughter. She wrote, in addition to " The Ladies' Defence," a volume of Essays and a volume of Poems. 177 CHURCHILL (Charles). The Author. A Poem. 4to., old style half calf. 1763.

THE FIRST EDITION. Tall, good copy, with the half-title.

178 CLARE (John). The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems. EDITION, 2 vols., fcap. 8vo., contemporary half calf. 1821. Slightly stained in places, but a tall copy, with uncut edges.

£3 3s.

Portrait, FIRST £1 10s.

179 The CLERGYMAN'S CHOICE OF A WIFE, delineated. In a Letter to Dr. C. in England. Wherein Are several Important Queries. By a Foreign Bishop, Now Residing and Preaching in his Diocese in Terra Incognita. 4to., boards. 173£1

A manuscript note on fly-leaf states that this work is by George Legh, Vicar of Halifax, who“ had several wives, from the Maid of Honour down to the Dairy Maid, all of whom died through drinking."

180 [CLEAVELAND (John)]. The Idol of the Clownes; or, Insurrection of Wat the Tyler, With his Priests Baal and Straw; Together with His fellow Kings of the Commons, against the English Church, the King, the Laws, Nobility, and Royal Family and Gentry, in the fourth year of K. Richard the 2nd. Post 8vo., original sheep. 1654.

£3 10s.

The second edition, published in the same year as the first. Has the fine dated bookplate of Ambrose Holbech of Mollington, 1702.

181 CLEAVELAND (John). Poems. With Additions, never before Printed. 12mo., mottled calf, gilt. London, Printed by S. G. for John Williams, 1665. £2 5s. 182 CLEVELANDI VINDICIAE: or, Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc., Purged from the many False & Spurious Ones . . . and from innumerable Errours. To which added many never before printed, with an account of the Author's Life. Portrait (mounted), post 8vo., half calf. London, Printed for Robert Harford, 1677. £2

FIRST EDITION (with first issue of the title-page) of the most correct collection of Cleveland's Poems.

183 COACH AND SEDAN. of the original title-page, 8vo. The Haslewood Books.

Reprinted from the Edition of 1636. With reproduction

1925.

Limited to 625 numbered copies.

7s. 6d.

184 COBBETT (Wm.). Rural Rides. 2 vols., cr. 8vo., half green morocco, top edge gilt, a FINE COPY.

1908

COLMAN (George).-See THEATRICAL.

185 COLOURED PLATES.

£3

Ackermann's Microcosm of London. With the magnificent coloured plates by Rowlandson, 3 vols., 4to., contemporary crimson morocco, extra (joints a little weak), gilt edges.

A FINE COPY. With excellent impressions of the plates.

£45

186 COLOURED PLATES. FELLOWES (W. D.). A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817. With Notes taken during a Tour through Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Touraine, etc. Illustrated with numerous coloured engravings from drawings made on the spot, roy. 8vo., red morocco, extra, gilt edges. 1820. A FINE COPY, printed on LARGE Paper.

£5 5s.

187 COLUMBUS. Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo; Nelle quali s'ha particolare, e vera relatione della vita, e de' fatti dell' Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre: Et dello scoprimento, ch' egli fece dell' Indie Occidentali, dette MONDO Nuovo, hora possedute dal Sereniss. Re Catolico. Nuovamente di lingua Spagnuola tradotte nell' Italiana dal S. Alfonso Ulloa. Post 8vo., calf. Venice, Appresso Francesco de' Franceschi Sanese, 1571. VERY RARE.

£12 188 A briefe and compendiouse table, in a maner of a CONCORDAUNCE, openyng the waye to the principall histories of the whole Bible, and the moste comon Articles grounded and comprehended in the neue Testament and olde, in maner as amply as doeth the great concordance of the Bible. Gathered and set furth by Henry Bullpuger, Leo Jude, Conrade Pellicane, and by the other Ministers of the Churche of Tygurie. And now first imprinted in Englyshe. The third boke of the Machabees a booke of the Bible also prynted into this boke which was never before Translated or prynted in any Englyshe Bible. Black Letter. post 8vo., old stamped vellum. Imprinted at London for Gwalter Lynne, dwellyng on Somers Kepe, by Byllinges gate, In the yere of our Lorde, 1550. £7 10s. A few leaves stained, but not at all a bad copy of an extremely rare book. Walter Lynne, printer and translator, was an ardent reformer. He was patronised by Cranmer. 189 CONDE. The Life of Lewis of Bourbon, late Prince of Conde. Digested into Annals. With many Curious Remarks on the Transactions of Europe for these Sixty Years. Done out of French [by Nahum Tate]. Portrait, 8vo., original calf. 1693.

15s.

190 CONGREVE (William). The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary of ever Blessed Memory. Folio, old-style calf, RARE. London, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695.

£4 4s.

£1 5s.

191 CONRAD (J.). Notes on Life and Letters. Cr. 8vo., FIRST EDITION, FINE

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191A CONRAD (J.). Chance. A Tale in Two Parts. Cr. 8vo., FIRST EDITION. £2 10s.

1913.

192 CONRAD (Joseph). The Arrow of Gold. First Issue of the FIRST EDITION,

cr. 8vo.

1919.

10s. 6d.

193 CONRAD (Joseph) [and FORD MADDOX HUEFEFR]. The Nature of a Crime. FIRST EDITION, cr. 8vo. 1924.

5s.

194 CONWAY (J. J.). Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris, with introduction by Mrs. John Lane. 32 illustrations, 8vo., newly bound, half morocco.

1912.

IOS.

195 COPPEE (Francois). Euvres Completes: Prose, Poesie, Theatre. Illustre de trois cents dessins par F. De Myrbach. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., half morocco. Lemerre, Paris, N.D.

COSTUME.-See SHAW.

£1 10s.

196 COTGRAVE'S DICTIONARY. A French-English Dictionary, Compil'd by Mr. Randle Cotgrave. With another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the Animadversions & Supplements, etc., of James Howell, Esquire. Folio, original calf. 1650.

£3 3s.

197 [COTTON (Sir Robert Bruce)]. A Short View of the Long Life and Raigne of Henry the Third, King of England. Presented to King James. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., three-quarter red levant. 1627.

£2 10s.

Sir Robert Cotton, in addition to his other writings, contributed to Speed's "History of England" and to Camden's " Elizabeth."

198 The COUNTERMINE: or, A Short but true Discovery of the Dangerous Principles, and Secret Practices of the Dissenting Party, especially the Presbyterians. 8vo., original calf (worn). 1678.

£6 6s.

The above copy was once owned by the famous natural philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton, who has written his name on the fly-leaf.

199 COWLEY. Several Copies of Verses on the Death of Mr. Abraham Cowley, And his Burial in Westminster Abbey. Folio, half calf, contemporary style. London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1667.

£4 15s.

Contains An Ode by the Earl of Orrery, another by (Sir) Thomas Higgons, and a third by Sir John Denham.

All FIRST EDITIONS. Collation: A, 2 leaves; B, 2 leaves; and B, 2 leaves.

200 COWLEY (Abraham). Works. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he Designed for the Press. Now Published out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street. Ninth Edition; to which are added some Verses by the Author, never before printed. Fine impression of the portrait by Faithorne, folio, original calf, repaired. 1700.

15s.

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