Adorni (Giuseppe). Versi e Traduzioni, vell. paper, orig. boards, uncut, fine copy of the only Bodoni ed., Parma, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1809, 8vo. (66), March 10, Sotheby Marrot, £3 5s.

Ady (Thomas). A Perfect Discovery of Witches, shewing the Divine Cause of the Distractions of this Kingdome, and also of the Christian World, first ed., stitched, London, printed for R. I. to bee sold by H. Brome, 1661, sm. 4to. (1181), March 10, American Art Association $20 Aegidius Corboliensis (Gilles de Corbeil). Liber Urinarum et de Pulsibus cum Commento. Petrus de Tusignano. Super nono Almansoris in Descriptione Receptarum, lit. goth., double columns, 47 lines to a full page, capital spaces, capitals and paragraph marks supplied in red, levant mor., g.e., by Rivière [Haebler 239, not in Hain], Salamanca (segundo grupo gotico, c. 1496), folio (14), July 28, Sotheby Maggs, £295

[Only one other copy (that in the National Library at Lisbon) appears to be known.] Egineta (Paulus). Medici Optimi, libri septem, Græcè, first ed., Aldine device on title and at end, russ., Roxburghe arms in gold on the sides, g.e., Heber copy, Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1528, folio (9), April 7, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 10S.

Eschylus. Tragœdiæ VII. Quæ cum omnes multo quam antea castigatio res eduntur, tum vero una, quæ mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Scholia in easdem, plurimis in locis locupletata, & in pene infinitis emendata. Petri Victorii Cura et Diligentia, crimson mor., g.e., by Lardière, fine copy [Paris], Henrici Stephani, 1557, large 8vo. (4), April 22, American Art Association

$110 Aesopus Grecus per Laurentiù vallensem traductus [Proctor 9069, Campbell 32], gothic letter, capitals and paragraph marks in red, full-page woodcut on last leaf, blue crushed levant mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Daventer, Jacobus de Breda [c. 1490], sm. 4to. (507), Feb. 4, Sotheby Steedman, £6 IOS. Esop. Esopus moralisatus cum bono cōmento Iterum textus de nous emendatus, gothic letter, 39 ll., wants last leaf (blank), woodcut on title, panelled brown mor. gt., g.e., fine copy [Hain 312, Pellechet 217, Campbell *43, Proctor 9071, Deventer, Jacobus of Breda, 1494, 4to. (334), July 14, Sotheby Tregaskis, £7 Esop. Vita et fabulae, cum fabulis Remigii, etc.], gothic letter, 32 (should be 114) 11., wants all before k 3 and all after o 6, many fine woodcuts (small stain in top outer corners), boards [Hain *327, Pellechet 198, B.M. IB. 37847 and 37848, not in Proctor], Bale, ? M. Furter, n.d., folio (309), March 3, Sotheby Thorp, £1 18s. Esop. The Fables of Aesop. With his whole Life, translated into English Verse and Moraliz'd. As also Emble

matically Illustrated with Pictures, by W. B. (i.e., William Barret), woodcuts, title shaved at back and guarded, green mor., g.e., London, printed by Richard Oulton for Francis Eglesfield . . . 1639, 8vo. (3), March 31, Sotheby Pickering, £13

[There is a copy in the Bodleian. Collation [A] six leaves, the first (? blank) wanting; B-Q in eights. Hazlitt's collation (A-Q in eights) is wrong.] Æsop. Fables, paraphras'd in Verse by John Ogilby, third ed., illustrated with 150 copperplates, 2 vol., hf. cf. (margins trimmed, name on one title and a few ll. stained), London, 1675, sm. 8vo. (3), Nov. 26, Anderson Galleries

$21

Æsop. Fables, with his Life, in English, French and Latin, by Francis Barlow, plates, a large copy (14țin. by 9țin.), contemp. red mor., gt. panelled tooling on sides, gt. back, g.e. (a little rubbed), 1687, folio (68), Nov. 20, Sotheby Tregaskis, £8 10s.

[See also Nov. 26, £6; July 29, £5 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 19, ed. 1761, $160; Sotheby, Nov. 26, ed. 1793, 2 vol., £3 10s.; ed. 1793, 2 vol., mor., £15 10s.; Hodgson, Feb. 6, cf., £2.]

Æsop and Gay. Fables, engraved titles and plates by William Blake, Stothard, Grainger and others, 4 vol., apple-green deer skin, rose-pink doublures and fly-leaves of China silk, g.e., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, in a mor. back book-form case, London, John Stockdale, 1793, 8vo. (5), Nov. 19, Anderson Galleries Æsop. The Fables of Esop and others, first ed., with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick, diced russ. (one cover loose), Newcastle, 1818, roy. 8vo. (2a), July 21, Sotheby Maggs, ₤2

$300

[See also June 18, ed. 1848, £2 16s.; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 19, $55.] Æsop. Æsop's Fables, a New Version, chiefly from original sources, by the Rev. Thomas James, with more than 100 illustrations designed by John Tenniel, dark blue mor., silk end-leaves, gt. gauffered and painted edges, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, in a silk and plush-lined mor. solander case, London, Murray, 1848, 8vo. (4), Nov. 19, Anderson Galleries $350 Affinati d' Acuto Romano (Fra. Giacomo). The Dumbe Divine Speaker, or Dumbe speaker of Diuinity. A Learned and excellent Treatise in praise of Silence, shewing both the dignitie and defectes of the Tongue truelie translated by A. M. [? Anthony Munday], title and three preliminary 11. slightly water-stained, orig. limp vell., William Leake, 1605, sm. 4to. (237), April 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 Agapetus. The preceptes teachyng a prynce or a noble estate his duetie written by Agapetus in Greke to the emperour Justinian and after translated in to Latin and

nowe in to Englysshe by Thomas Paynell, black letter (a 8, b 8, c 4), text of sign. a 6 very slightly shaved, red mor. gt., by F. Bedford, inside border, g.e., Miller arms on sides, very rare, Imprinted at Londo in Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet at the signe of Lucrece, n.d. (c. 1540), 8vo. (5), March 31, Sotheby Rosenbach, £190 Agassiz (L.) Report on the Florida Reefs, plates, Cambridge (U.S.), 1880-Agassiz (A.) The Coral Reefs of the Tropical Pacific, plates, bound in 3 vol., ib., 1903—The Coral Reefs of the Maldives, plates, ib., 1903, being Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, hf. mor., 4to. (221), Nov. 26, Sotheby

Edwards, £3 Agnew (Alexander). Disputatio Juridice, De Rerum Permutatione, contemp. red mor., line and floriate borders round sides, sold as a binding, Edinburgh, 1754, sm. 4to. (8), July 1, Sotheby Hopkins, £6 10S. Agostini (Leonardo). Le Gemme Antiche, engraved title, portrait of the author and 265 plates by G. B. Galestruzzi, 2 vol., contemp. Italian binding of red mor., very richly gt., Rome, Giacomo Dragondelli, 1657-69, 4to. (423), Nov. 20, Sotheby F. Lawrence, £7 5s.

[The edition princeps, on Large Paper. Bound for a member of the family of the Orsini, the great rivals of the Colonna family.]

Agricola (G.) De Re Metallica libri XII., original ed., numerous woodcuts, hf. parchment (a few margins very slightly wormed), Basilea, apud H. Frobenium, 1556, folio (383), June 18, Hodgson Ellis, £7 10s.

[See also June 18, ed. 1561, Lot 384, £5 10s.; ed. 1563, Lot 388, £3 15s.; ed. 1621, Lot 385, £2 10s.; ed. 1912, Lot 389, 4; Sotheby, July 17, ed. 1912, £2 5s.] Agrippa (Camello, Milanese). Trattato di Scientia d'Arme, limp covers (lacks three 11. and two 11. are mended); this is the copy referred to by Brunet having on the title-page, in the handwriting of Tasso, the words, "Le Figure intagliate da Michaelangelo Bonarotti" Antonio Blado, in Roma, 1553 (122), May 19, Dowell £3 7s. 6d. Agrippa (H. C.) The Commendation of Matrimony

translated into englysshe by Dauid Clapam, first ed., black letter (A 4, B 8, C8, D 4), two or three marginal notes very slightly shaved, red mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Miller arms on sides, [colophon] Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti... 1540, 8vo. (6), March 31, Sotheby

Rosenbach, £255

[Lowndes records the Bindley copy only, and this edition is apparently otherwise unrecorded. The earliest given in the D. N. B. is that of 1545. See also ed. 1545, Lot 7, £70; April 14, ed. 1569, £17; Hodgson, June 26, ed. 1575, £16 10s.]

Agrippa (H. C.) A Treatise of the Nobilitie and Excellencye of woman kynde, translated. . by Dauid Clapam, first

ed., black letter (some marginal references shaved), red mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Miller arms on sides, [colophon] Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti... 1542, 8vo. (8), March 31, Sotheby Rosenbach, 480 £80 [Aiken (J.)] Essays on Song-Writing [dedicated to Dorning Rasbotham of Birch House, Bolton], dedication copy, in a binding of white vell. ex., with a water-colour drawing of Birch House on upper cover and the arms of John Milnes treated emblematically, in colours and gold, on lower cover, with border in blue and gt., g.e., in the orig. mor. slip-case, Warrington, 1774, sm. 8vo. (293), Feb. 28, Hodgson £33 Ainslie and Mayer. Views in Egypt, col. aquatint plates, contemp. russ. ex., by Kalthoeber, 1801, folio (929), March 5, Hodgson

£2 12s. [See also April 10, ed. 1804, 3 vol. in 1, £4; Sotheby, July 21, ed. 1812, 1 vol., £1 158.] Ainsworth (William). Medulla Bibliorum; The Marrow of the Bible, or a Logico-theological Analysis of every several Books of the Holy Scriptures, together with so many English Poems, etc., cf. ex., arms on sides, g.e., by Pratt, a fine copy, For George Calvert, 1652, 8vo. (46), March 10, Sotheby Allinson, £6 5s.

[Only two other copies appear to have occurred for sale in these rooms.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Guy Fawkes, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank (two or three slightly foxed), otherwise a fine copy, 3 vol., orig. cl., R. Bentley, 1841, cr. 8vo. (16), July 1, Sotheby Bickers, £14

[See also Hodgson, Mar. 27, £9 15s.; Sotheby, Nov. 20, imperfect, £2.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol. (with leaf of advertisement in Vol. i. and hf.-title to Vol. iii.), orig. cl., uncut, R. Bentley, 1839, 8vo. (12), July 17, Sotheby Maggs, £11

[See also June 18, with A.L. of the artist inserted, £26; July 1, ex-library copy, £5 10s.; July 1, cl., £16; Hodgson, Mar. 27, £5 5s.; Nov. 14, hf. mor., £7 15s.; Feb. 28, cf., £10 IOS.; American Art Association, April 22, ed. 1840, $530; Hodgson, July 17, ed. 1840, ₤2 10s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Illustrations to Jack Sheppard by Geo. Cruikshank, proofs before letters of the 27 etchings, the first being signed "First proofs, Geo. Cruikshank," all on India paper, and 2 plates in second state; three of the original signed drawings in sepia, viz., Jonathan Wild discovers Darrell in the loft," Jack Sheppard escaping from Willesden Cage," "Wild throwing Trenchard down the Well," the latter with sketches in the margin; a signed drawing of Willesden Church inserted at end, the front wrapper of Part i. inlaid and at front a page of the original MS., "Epoch the Second, Chapter I.," with a note by Ainsworth stating that while in the

act of writing it he received the news of his wife's death, portrait and a printed title, green mor., panelled gt. back, inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, from the H. W. Bruton collection [1839], 4to. (13), July 1, Sotheby Maggs, £43 [See also Lot 418, £26.]

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Ainsworth (W. H.) Mervyn Clitheroe, first ed., plates by Phiz," orig. cl., uncut, 1858, 8vo. (528), Jan. 24, Hodg£1 25. [See also Dowell, May 17, in parts, £6 10s.; Sotheby, April 10, 9 Ios.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, a Tale, first ed., with 20 etchings by Geo. Cruikshank, 3 vol., fine copy, in the orig. cl., uncut, 1842, 8vo. (7), June 18, Sotheby Thorp, £9 10S. [From the H. W. Bruton collection. See also Dec. 10, ed. 1848, £2 10s.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, new ed., with illustrations by John Franklin and H. K. Browne, orig. cl. gt., a fine copy, Parry, Blenkarn & Co., 1847, 8vo. (9), June 18, Sotheby Ellis & Smith, £7

[See also July 17, £4 5s.; Nov. 7, ed. 1841, £1 6s. ; Hodgson, May 29, ed. 1841, £3; Sotheby, July 17, 18s.; Puttick, April 15, £1 2s. 6d.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) Ovingdean Grange, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, orig. cl., uncut, 1860, 8vo. (9), July 17, Sotheby Ellis & Smith, £3 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Rookwood, a Romance, fourth and first illustrated ed., portrait, plates by G. Cruikshank, orig. cl., John Macrone, 1836, 8vo. (9), July 1, Sotheby

Bickers, £12

[See also July 17, £3 10s.; July 1, illus. only, £8.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Saint James, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., (upper cover of Vol. i. slightly stained), paper labels, J. (19), July 1, Sotheby

Mortimer, 1844, cr. 8vo. Ellis & Smith, £9 10s. ex-library copy, 25s.;

first ed., plates by H.

[See also Puttick, Jan. 30, Sotheby, July 1, illus. only, £5.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Spendthrift, K. Browne, orig. cl., uncut, 1857, 8vo. (7), July 17, Sotheby Ellis & Smith, £2 12s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, orig. cl. gt., wrappers of Part i. inserted, enclosed in an open cl. case, Richard Bentley, 1840, 8vo. (6), June 18, Sotheby Spencer, £25

[Inserted are:-(1) A pencil suggestion of the design on the wrapper by G. Cruikshank; (2) A.L.s. facing. p. xiv., from W. G. Lewis to G. C., referring to the Tower; (3) A sheet containing the autograph signatures of W. H. Ainsworth, G. Cruikshank and Richard Bentley, and of the witness to the signatures, the Rev. R. H. Barham, dated Nov. 19th, 1839, originally attached to the agreement respecting the copyright, etc. of "The Tower of