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30. MOCQUET (JEAN). Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes Orientales & Occidentales. Devisez en six livres, & enrichiz de Figures. Engraved vignette on title and 9 engraved plates. 8vo, full red levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. A Paris: Chez Iean de Hevqveville, 1617

A very fine copy of the rare SECOND EDITION, which includes the voyage of the author in Guiana, and the conquest of Cumana.

31. MORGA (A. DE). Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas dirigido a Don Cristoval Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de Cea, por el Doctor Antonio de Morga, Alcalde del Crimen, de la real Audiencia de la Nueva Espana. Elaborate engraved title-page. 4to, new russet levant morocco, blind tooling, with old brass clasps.

En Mexico: en casa de Geronymo Babi, Ano 1609

VERY FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION. Includes notices of different parts of America, etc. Neither Brunet nor Ebert had ever seen it, as they both state it to be in folio.

32. MORISOT (C. B.). Relations veritables et cvrievses de l'isle de Madagascar, et dv Bresil. Auec l'Historie de la derniere Guerre faite au Bresil, entre les Portugais & les Hollandois. Trois Relations l'Egypte, & une du Royaume de Perse. 2 maps. 4to, original calf. A Paris: Chez Avgvstin Covrbe, 1651

This collection, but little known and insufficiently described by bibliographers, is due to Augustin Courbe of Paris, who caused it to be edited by M. Morisot after some material which he had received in part from the celebrated brothers Dupuy, to whom the work is dedicated. The various portions of the work have separate pagination, and are sometimes found alone. With the bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny.

33. NAVARETTE (FERNANDEZ). Tratados Historicos, Politicos, y Religiosos de la Monarchia de China; de los Viages y Navigaciones que hizo el Autor, a la Nueva Espana, a Mexico, las Philipinas, Macasar, Charamandel, Golocondar, etc. Title within ornamental border; arms on title and following leaf. Folio, original limp vellum.

En Madrid: En la Imprenta Real. Por Iuan Garcia Infancon, 1676

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FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. RARE. With the bookplate of the Bibliotheca Sobolewskiana.

34. PARAKLETIKON. Greek manuscript on vellum executed in the first half of the 13th Century. Written in black and red in very small minuscule characters, with some titles in gold. 346 leaves. Some of the margins illustrated with small figures painted in gold and colors, and toward the end a large miniature. With the five ornamented headpieces in gold and colors. 8vo, old binding in wooden boards, covered with stamped calf. A few leaves missing; the large miniature and the small ones mainly rubbed, and several

of these latter cut off from the margins, sometimes impairing the text. Saec. XIII

The contents of this manuscript correspond in some way with the Hours of the Virgin and of other Saints of the Latin Church.

35. PAULUS (S.). Epistolae, cum glossa marginali et interlineari. Manuscript on vellum, written in caroline characters, executed in Italy in the 12th Century. 155 leaves (1034x62 inches). With 11 ornamental initials, several of small size, painted in blue, red, green and yellow, the first in the shape of a dragon. Small folio, morocco, with clasps. Saec. XII

The arrangement of the text is that of the Vulgate, including also Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. The marginal commentary is that of St. Ambrose.

36. PENN (WILLIAM). Send-Brieff, An die Burgermeister und Rath der Stadt Danzig, aus London neulich geschreiben und aus diesen Landen denen obgesetzten zugesandt. Small 4to, boards,

UNCUT AND UNOPENED.

In Amsterdam: Gedrucht bey Christoff Cunraden, Anno 1675

EXCESSIVELY RARE. One of the first tracts written by William Penn. On the title-page is written in an old hand "An Epistle to the Burgomaster of the State of Dantzick." The tract is dated at the end, "London den 3. des 12 Monats, 1674.

This piece is not in Sabin, and we can find no trace of any previous sale of it.

37. PENNSYLVANIA. Umstandige Geographische Beschreibung Der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniae, in denen End-Grantzen Americae. By Melchiorem Adamum Pastorium. Double-page map of Pennsylvania and West Jersey. Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1704; Continuatio Der Beschreibung der Landschafft Pensylvaniae. Beschreiben von Gabriel Thomas. Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1702; Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania in Norden America. Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1702. In one volume, 12mo, full stamped sheep, leather label. Franckfurt & Leipzig, 1704-2

AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE VOLUME, rarely found with these three pieces together. The map of Pennsylvania and West Jersey is in unusually good condition.

38. PEREZ (MANUEL). Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano. Title within ornamental border. Small 4to, contemporary vellum (slightly wormed). Mexico, 1723

VERY RARE.

39. PETRUS PICTAVIENSIS. Genealogia Christi. ROLLED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (measuring 11 feet and 7 inches in length and 75% inches in width), written in Gothic characters red and

black, divided in two columns, separated by a space formed by two blue stripes, which run all the length of the roll, executed in Italy towards the end of the 13th Century. From the top of the dividing spaces depart ribbons painted in various colors, containing circular spaces, within which are written the names of all the ancestors of Jesus, beginning from Adam and Eve. At the top of the manuscript a large drawing representing Adam and Eve near the Tree of Life, and at the bottom another large drawing representing Christ on the Cross, at the sides the Virgin and St. John. Along the central space are to be found 4 small circular drawings representing Noah, Abraham, David and Sedechias; remaining circular spaces intended for the representation of other principal ancestors of Christ have been left blank. The roll is very slightly damaged at the top and bottom. Saec. XIII

40.

PONTIFICALE Romanum. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, written in large Gothic characters red and black, executed in the North of Italy in the first half of the 15th Century. 159 leaves (13x9 inches). With 22 large ornamental initials painted in gold and colors, accompanied by marginal extensions, and numerous other small initials in blue and red, with very graceful pen ornaments. Folio, calf, in good condition.

Saec. XV

A fine and interesting manuscript. The initials are in the so-called arabesque manner, and the brilliancy of gold is exceedingly good.

41. PORTRAITS. Steel Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, both engraved by W. E. Marshall. Framed and glazed.

42. PSALTERIUM Graecum. Greek manuscript on vellum written in minuscule characters, executed in the 13 century. 65 leaves. 4to, old wooden boards covered with stamped leather. A few leaves missing. Saec. XIII

43. SOLINUS-CAMERS. Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, Artirvm, et Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini Enarrationes. Additus eiusdem Camertis Index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu copia, percomodus Studiosis. Cum Gratia, & Priuilegio Imperiali. Title within ornamental border, and THE EXCESSIVELY RARE MAP, FOR A LONG TIME CONSIDERED TO BE THE EARLIEST KNOWN BEARING THE NAME OF AMERICA. Folio, old stamped calf, rebacked.

[Colophon:] Excvsam est hoc opvs Solinianum cu Enarrationibus Egregij facre Theologiae Doctoris Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, Anno natiuitatis domini. M. D. XX

EXTREMELY RARE, especially so, with the map in such fine state. On the verse of the last leaf is the device of Singrenius.

44. SPANISH CODEX. El Tratado de Ajedrez ordenado por mandado del Rey D. Alonso el Sabro en el ano 1283. Codice de la Real Biblioteca des Escorial. Reproduction completa en 194 laminas folotipicas. 2 vols. folio, in buckram portfolios.

Leipzig: Heisemann, 1913

A fine reproduction of this important Codex, nearly every page having a large painting. A remarkable feature of these miniatures is the presence on very many, of a chess board with the men in various positions.

45. SPENCER (THOMAS). A True and Faithful Relation of the Proceedings of the Forces of Their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary, In their Expedition against the French in the Caribby Islands in the West Indies: Under the Conduct of His Excellency Christopher Codrington . . . in the Years 1689 and 1690. Small 4to, half brown calf, gilt top, by Riviere.

London: Printed for Robert Clavel, 1691

Fine copy of the FIRST EDITION. Very Scarce.

46. THEOTOKARION. Greek manuscript on vellum of the 13th Century, written in minuscule characters red and black. 116 leaves. With 2 ornamental head pieces in pen and ink. 8vo, old binding in wooden boards covered with stamped morocco. Corners damaged by fire and water, a few leaves missing and the last 4 leaves supplied in paper by a 17th Century hand. Saec. XIII

47. TORFAEUS (THORMODO). Gronlandia Antiqua, seu Veteris Gronlandiae descriptio, ubi Coeli marisque natura, terrae, locorum & villarum situs, animalium terrestrium aqvatiliumqve varia genera, etc. Thick 12mo, full vellum.

Havniae: Ex Typographeo Regiae Majest. & Univerts:, 1706

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK ON GREENLAND, with the 5 folding maps (one slightly torn at top). Bound in with the above, are the two other works by the same author: "Historia Hrolfi Krakii, Havniae, 1705" and "Historiae Vinlandiae Antiquae, Havniae, 1705.' Both of these latter works are also FIRST EDITIONS.

VETANCOURT (AUG. DE). Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico. Quarta parte del Teatro Mexicano de los successor Religiosos. Folio, original limp vellum.

En Mexico, por Dona Maria de Benavides Viuda de Iuan de Ribera, 1697

THIS PART IS EXCESSIVELY RARE, AND IS WANTING IN NEARLY ALL THE EXAMPLES of "Del Teatro Mexicano." It is of very great interest for the religious history of Mexico and principally for the establishment of the Order of the Franciscans of the New World.

49. WITH FIRE AND SWORD (Sienkiewicz), Boston, 1898; Handbuch der Zahnersatzkunde (Bach), 2 vols. Augsburg, 1911;

Theatre de Pierre et de Thomas Corneille. 2 vols. Paris, n.d.; and others. 46 vols., various sizes and bindings.

50. [ZIEGLER (JACOBUS)]. Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem, Praeterea Strabone, Plinio, & Antonio auctoribus locupletata . . Palestine . . . Arabia . . . Aegyptvs . . . Schondia Holmiae... Regionum superiorum. 8 double-page maps. Folio, original calf, blind tooled sides, rebacked.

Argentorati: apud Petrum Opilionem, 1532

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.

51. ALKEN (HENRY). The National Sports of Great Britain. By Henry Alken. Fifty engravings, with descriptions. Imperial 8vo, full green levant morocco, gilt back and inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by Riverie. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825

Contains 50 fine full-page colored plates by Henry Alken. This edition differs materially from that of 1820-21, although the plates cover the same sports of Racing, Fox-hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Angling, Prize Fighting, etc. One of Alken's most popular works. With bookplate of

H. S. Van Duzer.

52. ALKEN (HENRY). Ideas, accidental & incidental to Hunting and Other Sports, Caught in Leicestershire. By Henry Alken. 40 fine plates in colors. 4to, full crushed green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt on sides and inside border and gilt edges, by Riviere. Contained in green cloth case.

London: Thomas McLean, [1826-30]

Very scarce. With bookplate of H. S. Van Duzer.

53. ALKEN (HENRY). Apperley, (C. J.). The Chase, The Turf, and The Road. By Nimrod. With illustrations by Henry Alken, and a portrait by D. Maclise, R. A. 14 spirited colored plates. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gold lines and corner ornaments on sides, richly gilt back and inside borders, gilt top, uncut, the original cloth cover bound in.

London: John Murray, 1837
With bookplate of

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE.
H. S. Van Duzer.

54. ALKEN (HENRY). Apperley (C. J.). The Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod. With thirty-six colored illustrations by Henry Alken. 8vo. Full crimson crushed levant morocco, gold line borders and corner ornaments on sides, gilt paneled back, and inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by Riviere.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1842

First edition of one of the scarcest and most highly prized of all sporting colored plates, containing some of the best work of Henry Alken.

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