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LOTS 338-674

338. HEMANS (MRS.). Memorials. With her Private Correspondence. By Henry F. Chorley. 2 vols. small 8vo, full green morocco, gilt edges. London, 1836

339. HENRY VI. A Journal by one of the Suite of Thomas Beckington . . .during an Embassy to Negotiate a Marriage between Henry VI. and a Daughter of the Count of Armagnac. A. D. MCCCCXLII. Notes and Illustrations by Nicholas Harris Nicolas. 8vo, full mottled calf, gilt back, by Hayday.

London: Pickering, 1828

Fine copy. With bookplate of William Twopeny.

340. HEPTAMERON des Nouvelles de Marguerite d'Angouleme, Reine de Navarre. Publie sur les manuscrits par les soins et avec les notes de MM. Le Roux de Lincy et Anatole de Montaiglon. Illustrated with etchings after the drawings of Freudenberg. 4 vols. 8vo, half blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

Paris, 1880

341. HERALDRY. Honor rediviuus or An Analysis of Honor and Armory. By Matt. Carter. Illustrations. 12mo, old calf. London: Henry Herringman, 1660

Scarce.

342. Simon (Henry). Armorial Général de l'Empire Française. 70 full-page copperplates containing hundreds of coats of arms. First part only. Large folio, original boards, uncut (back worn). Paris, 1812

343. HERBERT (GEORGE). The Temple. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, uncut. London: Pickering, 1850

344. HERODOTUS. Les Trois Premiers Liures des Histoires d'Herodote de Halicarnasse, Pere et Prince des Historiographes Grecz. Nouuellement mis de Grec en François, par Pierre Saliat. Large printer's device on title, folio, French red morocco, jansenist style, with the Seillière arms in gold on the sides, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Hardy.

a Paris, chez Arnoul L'angelier, 1551

Baron Seillière's splendid copy. This folio edition in French of the first three books of Herodotus is apparently unknown to bibliographers. 345. HERRICK (ROBERT). Poetical Works. Portrait. 2 vols. 12mo, polished calf, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, by Bedford. London: William Pickering, 1825

LARGE PAPER EDITION. Choice copy.

346. HERVIEU (PAUL). Flirt, a story of Parisian Life. Illustrations by Madeleine Lemaire. 4to, cloth. New York, 1890 347. HILL (GEORGE BIRKBECK). Talks About Autographs. Illustrations and facsimiles. 8vo, ooze calf (slightly worn). Boston, 1896

348. HILL (J. H.). John William Hill. An Artist's Memorial. Portrait, etchings, and woodcuts. Folio, half black morocco, gilt top. New York, 1888

349. HOFFMAN (E. T. W.). Contes Fantastiques. Preceded de souvenirs intimes sur la vie de l'auteur, par P. Christian. Numerous illustrations by Gavarni. Royal 8vo, half morocco, gilt top (slightly rubbed). Paris, n. d.

Scarce.

350. HOGARTH (WILLIAM). Works. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates. 2 vols. 4to, contemporary green straightgrain morocco, gilt edges (a little shaken). London, 1824

351. A Collection of 94 engraved plates of the Works of William Hogarth, bound in 2 vols., atlas folio, half calf, untrimmed edges.

London, v. d.

A very fine collection of original impressions, the plates being dated from 1795 to 1803, and were published by D. and J. Robinson. The companion plates "Before" and "After" appear to be PROOFS BEFORE

LETTERS.

352. HOLCROFT (THOMAS). Memoirs. Written by Himself, and continued to the time of his death, from his Diary, Notes, and other Papers. Portrait. 3 vols. 12mo, original boards, uncut. Scarce. London, 1816

353. HOLLOWAY (LAURA C.). Adelaide Neilson. A Souvenir. Illustrated with photographs. Small 4to, half green levant morocco, gilt top, original covers bound in. New York, 1885

Colored

354. HOLT (ARDERN). Fancy Dresses Described. plates. London, n. d.; Old Age Deferred (Lorand), Phila. 1913; Fables in Slang (Ade), Chicago, 1900; and others. Together 54 vols. various sizes and bindings.

355. HOME (F. WYVILLE). An Interesting Collection of FIRST EDITIONS of his Poetical Works, including two of his pieces set to Music. 5 vols., cloth and paper. London, v. d.

EACH PIECE IS OF ASSOCIATION INTEREST.

356. HOMER. Batrachomyomachia Graece ad Veterum Examplarium fidem, etc. Text in red and black. 8vo, full russia, gilt back, fillets on sides; deep borders inside, decorated with beautiful tooling of conventionalized leaves and sprays, vellum doublures and ends, gilt edges. Londini: Typis Gulielmi Bowder, 1721

A note in regard to the binder is laid in, from George A. Lucas. "Showed this book to Quinet who said he would like to see MariusMichel execute a guard like that. He attributes it to an Englishman named Thompson (or Tomson), who passed most of his life in Paris," etc.

357. HONGRIE (LA), Ancienne et Moderne. Histoire, Arts, Litterature, Monuments, Par Une Société de Litterateurs. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. Paris, 1851

358. HOOKER (RICHARD). The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, Compleated out of his own Manuscripts. Never before Published. With an account of his Life and Death. Folio, half morocco.

London, 1666 This contains the Eight Books, with a Life, by Izaak Walton, here printed for the First Time. No portrait.

Costume of the Ancients.

359. HOPE (THOMAS). A new edition, much enlarged. Illustrated with 320 plates. 2 vols. royal 8vo, cloth. London, 1841

360. HOPPNER (JOHN, Famous English Portrait Painter). Fragment of a Poem in his handwriting. Mounted.

361. HOURS. L'Office de la Nuit, de Laudes & de Primes, pour les Annuels, les Grande & Petite Solemnels. Avec Le Pseautier distribué & le Commun des SS. 12mo, full old red French morocco, gilt back, gilt edges. Paris, 1774

362. HOUSSAYE (HENRY). Cleopatra, a study. Translated from the French by A. F. D. Authorized edition. 12mo, paper covers, uncut.

New York: Duprat & Co., 1890

No. 4 of six copies on Japan paper, signed by the publisher.

363. HOWARD EARL OF SURREY AND WYATT. Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Who Flourish'd in the Reign of Henry the Eighth. Printed from a Correct Copy. With the Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. To which are added some Memoirs of his Life and Writings. 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf (slightly worn, etaoi name on title). London: W. Meares and J. Brown, 1717

Rare.

364. HUGHES (GEORGE). Poems. Being the Second Edition of Rhymes of a Poetaster," with Additions. 2 vols. 12mo, full red morocco, gilt backs and sides, gilt edges. London, 1850

Bookplates of Baron Winmarleigh.

365. HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL). River Gardens; being an Account of the best methods of cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria. Colored plates and woodcuts. 12mo, cloth, gilt edges. London, 1857

366. HUNT, BYRON, AND SHELLEY. The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South. Vols. 1 and 2. 2 vols. [all issued]. 8vo, half morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1822-23

FIRST EDITION. The volumes owe their being to Shelley's and Byron's endeavor to relieve Hunt's pecuniary necessities. Bookplate of Henry F. Redhead.

367. HYLARIUS (S.). Opera completa. Woodcut ornamental initials. Folio, contemporary boards covered with modern paper, leather back. Parisiis: in ædibus Ascensianis, 1510

368. IRVING (WASHINGTON). Works. Frontispieces on Japan paper, and other illustrations. 16 vols. 8vo, half red morocco, gilt tops, uncut. New York: De Fau & Co., n. d.

Limited Edition.

369. JACKSON (WILLIAM). The New and Complete Newgate Calendar; or, Malefactor's Universal Register. Containing new and authentic accounts of all the Lives, Adventures, Exploits and Last Dying Speeches, Confessions, etc., of the Most Notorious Criminals, etc. A New Edition, with great additions, illustrated with elegant copper plates. 7 vols., boards, leather back.

London, 1818

370. JAMES I. [Weldon (Sir A.).] The Court and Character of King James. Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an Eye and Ear witness. Published by Authority. Small 8vo, original sheep (joints worn), with the fine armorial bookplate of Hume Earl of Marchmont, Dated 1702, repeated on back of title.

London: R. J., to be sold by J. Wright, 1650 A rare and very curious volume relating to Sir W. Raleigh, Sir Thomas Overbury, King James' slavery to his favourites, &c.

371.

Coronation Order. Edited by J. Wickham Legg. Portrait. 12mo, full morocco, gilt back, covers richly gilt, with border, corner ornament, and stars, with the royal arms in centre of each cover, gilt top, uncut. London, 1902

The binding is in facsimile of Dallington's "Aphorismes Civill and Militaire" formerly in King James's library.

372. JAMES (WILLIAM). The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV. A New Edition, with additions and Notes and an Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino. By Captain Chamier, R.N. Portraits and folding plates. 6 vols. 8vo, half calf, gilt backs and tops, uncut. London: Bentley, 1837

373. JAPANESE COSTUMES. An Album of Brocaded Pic tures. A series of 24 brilliantly colored Japanese Costume plates. Imp. 8vo, boards. Tokio, abt. 1895

A VERY FINE SERIES OF COLORED PRINTS, signed Yoshiu Chikamasa, a pupil of Toyokuni.

374. JERROLD (WALTER). A. L. S., 2 pp. 16mo. Hampton on Thames, Dec. 19, 1908.

To Lewis Melville, beginning: "That I have a loose set of my bibliographical notes to W. M. T. you will see from the accompanying.”

375. JEWS. A Compendious and most maruelous History of the latter times of the lewes common-weale. Beginning where the Bible, or Scriptures leaue, and continuing to the vtter subuersion and last destruction of that countrey and people. Written in He

brue by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a nobleman of the same Countrey, who saw the mosts things himselfe, and was the Author and dooer of a great part of the same. Translated in English, by Peter Morwyn, of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. And now newly corrected and amended. Black and roman letter mixed. Small 8vo, old rough calf. London: for T. Adams, 1608

Fine copy. Rare.

376. JOHNSON (LIONEL). Poems. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, original boards, uncut. Limited issue.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1895

377. JOHNSON (DR. SAMUEL). Lives of the most eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. Brilliant impression of Johnson's portrait after Sir J. Reynolds. 4 vols. 8vo, original boards uncut, with the labels, 2 slightly defective.

London: C. Bathurst and others, 1781

FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare in the choice state of the present copy. 378. JONSON (BEN.). EPICOENE, or, the Silent Woman. A Comedy. First Acted in 1609. VOLPONE, or, the Fox. A Comedy. First Acted in the Year 1605; CATILINE HIS CONSPIRACY. A Tragedy. Acted in the Year 1611.-THE ALCHEMIST. A Comedy. Acted in the year 1610.-SHADWELL (THO.) THE HISTORY OF TIMON OF ATHENS, The Man-Hater. As it is Acted by Her Majesty's Servants. Made into a Play. 5 Plays in 1 vol. Small 8vo, with the blank leaves, contemporary panelled calf.

London: H. Hills, n. d. [c. 1700]

Little known old separate editions of several of Ben Jonson's best plays, with the author's name spelt Johnson. The last play in the volume is an early octavo edition of Shadwell's revision of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. Fine copies.

379. KEBLE (REV. JOHN). Musings over the "Christian Year" and "Lyra Innocentium," by Charlotte Mary Yonge. 12mo, full dark red morocco, gilt inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by Wm. Matthews. New York, 1871

380. KELMSCOTT PRESS. Caxton (William). The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy. By Raoul Lefevre. Translated by William Caxton. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Printed in red and black. Woodcut title. 2 vols. large 4to, limp vellum, uncut, with ties. Hammersmith, 1892

One of 300 copies. The first book in which the Troy and Chaucer types

appear.

381. Voragine (Jacobus de). The Golden Legend. Translated by William Caxton. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Woodcut title and 2 woodcuts designed by E. Burne-Jones. 3 vols. 4to, half holland, paper labels, uncut. Hammersmith, 1892

One of 500 copies.

382. KENNET (BASIL). Lives and characters of the Ancient Grecian Poets. Engraved frontispiece, vignette and portraits (title

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