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after its appearance some person (evidently personal enemy of the author and said to have been Prof. John Hoogh) published an acrimonious critique upon the book. Such was the effect of the article upon either Mr. Sanders or the publishers, that the work was suppressed. So nearly complete was its absolute extinction, that even the biographers of the author had forgotten the work, making no mention of it in their memoirs of him. Fine coру.

JEAN GROLIER'S COPY

886. SANNAZARO (JACOPO). Arcadia, Sonnetti e Canzoni. 2 vols. in one, small 8vo, original Aldine Binding of smooth brown morocco, gold tooled compartments on sides, with gilt fleurons at angles, gilt edges.

Impresso in Vinegia nelle case delle Heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea Socero, 1534

Beautiful Copy with the Four Aldine Anchor Devices at beginning and end of each book ornamented with burnished gold, and with the initial letters to each chapter also in gold. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE FAMOUS BIBLIOPHILE JEAN GROLIER, TREASURER OF FRANCE UNDER KING FRANCIS THE FIRST. In the Centre Panel of the Forecover is lettered the title of the Book "Arcadia del Sannazaro. Sonetti e Canzoni del ditto" at the lower edge of the cover in one line, “Jo. Grolierii et Amicorum is stamped." On the lower cover in the centre panel is Grolier's Famous Device "PORTIO MEA DOMINE SIT IN TERRA VIVENTIUM." Of Special Interest as a Grolier Volume on account of Sannazars having been one of the Collector's favorite Poets judging from Le Roux de Lincy's Inventory of Grolier's Library in which many different Editions of the Arcadia, Sonnets and Works are described.

In the Grolier Club's "Researches on Grolier" the Pedigree of the Volume is given as follows:

"In the collection of John Dent, 1825. -Beckford sale (Hamilton Palace Libraries), 1883, Part III, No. 1730: £125 to Quaritch.-Reproduced in Morgand and Fatout's catalogue, Vol. I, p. 794, No. 4447Owned in 1904 by Edouard Rahir, a Paris dealer. Present ownership unrecorded."

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887. SCHLIEMANN (DR. HENRY). Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. The Results of the latest Excavations. 188 woodcuts, 24 plates in chromo-lithography, 1 map, and 4 plans. Royal 8vo, gilt cloth, gilt top. New York, 1885

888. SCOLLARD (CLINTON).

cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Pictures in Song. 16mo,
New York, 1884

FIRST EDITION. This copy has been inscribed by the author with a couplet "Age and Youth." From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

889. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). A COLLECTED SET OF FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Consisting of: Waverley, 3 vols., 1814; Guy Mannering, 3 vols., 1815; The Antiquary, 3 vols., 1816; Tales of My Landlord, First Series, 4 vols., 1816; Rob Roy, 3 vols., 1818; Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, 4 vols., 1818; Tales of My Landlord, Third Series, 4 vols., 1819; Ivanhoe, 3 vols., 1820; The Abbot, 3 vols., 1820; The Monastery, 3 vols., 1820; Kenilworth, 3 vols., 1821; Fortunes of Nigel, 3 vols., 1822; Deveril of the Peak, 4 vols., 1822; The Pirate, 3 vols., 1822; Quentin Durward, 3 vols., 1823; Redgauntlet, 3 vols., 1824; St. Ronan's Well, 3 vols., 1824; Tales of the Crusaders, 4 vols., 1825; Woodstock, 3 vols., 1826; Chronicles of the Canongate, First Series, 2 vols., 1827; Chronicles of the Canongate, Second Series, 3 vols., 1828; Anne of Geierstein, 3 vols., 1829; Tales of My Landlord, Fourth Series, 4 vols., 1832. 74 vols., crown 8vo, half red levant morocco, gilt tops. Edinburgh, 1814-1832

A VERY FINE CLEAN SET, all the volumes being FIRST EDITIONS. The title-page of the first volume of "Waverley" has had a name cut from the centre, which defacement has been repaired. With bookplate of Henry S. Van Duzer.

890. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Lady of the Lake. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood from drawings of Birkett Foster and John Gilbert. 8vo. Luxuriously bound in blue levant morocco, the front cover almost entirely covered with inlays of vari-colored moroccos forming a design of the Scottish Arms and Banners, embellished with 28 sapphires and amethysts, set within solid gold mounts; borders of blue morocco, upon which is lettered in gold the stanza beginning with:

"When last among its banks I wandered
Through groves that had begun to shed,"

the back cover with a somewhat similar design and center-piece of crossed swords and shield, inlaid in vari-colored moroccos, with borders of blue morocco upon which is lettered in gold the stanza beginning with:

"The mighty minstrel breathes no longer."

gilt back with small inlays of red morocco, gilt edges gauffered to a floral pattern, the petals painted in green and red; the front doublure of green and blue morocco, with small purple and red inlays surrounding a superb portrait miniature of Sir Walter Scott, painted by Miss E. B. Currie, within a solid gold setting and a border formed of 12 emeralds, topazes, etc.; the back doublure of blue and green morocco, with purple and red inlays and a center design showing Sir Walter's monogram inlaid in red and blue morocco, surrounded by 8 emeralds, etc.; flies of brown silk decorated with thistles, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. In blue morocco case. Edinburgh, 1853

891. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Waverley Novels. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of full-page and vignette engravings on wood, and with colored frontispieces, portraits, and views. 51 vols., imperial 8vo, full autumn-leaf levant, the sides and backs ornamented with gold-tooled and inlaid thistle and heraldic designs, doublures of white levant similarly tooled, red silk flies, gilt edges. New York: R. G. Newbegin, 1903

CONNOISSEURS AUTOGRAPH EDITION, limited to 12 numbered copies. A most elaborate presentation of the celebrated Waverley Novels.

892. SCOTTISH CHAP BOOKS. A Collection of 19th Century Scottish Chap Books. Including, Songs (47); Historical (40); Miscellaneous (40). Some illustrated with Woodcuts, Portraits, etc. Bound in 4 vols., 12mo, half calf, gilt tops, uncut.

Glasgow, Paisley, Airdrie, Stirling, etc., 1822-52

There are over 150 of these scarce little Chap Books. The "Miscellaneous' volume contains Benjamin Franklin's "Way to Wealth" and "The Art of Swimming, etc.," both of which were published in Glasgow, c. 1840, neither of them are mentioned by Ford. The volumes also contain Southey'd "Wat Tyler'"; Ramsay's "Scotch Proverbs"; Lithgow's "Adventures"; "Jim Crow"; Burns' Songs; Collections of Newcastle Classical and Coronation Songs; Isaac Watt's 'Divine Songs"; History of Eugene Aram; "Negro Minstrel''; Mother Bunch's Fortune-Teller and other curious tracts. A most unusual collection.

ONE OF TWO PERFECT COPIES OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION MADE IN THE NEW WORLD

893. SCOTTOW (JOSHUA). The Rise, Spring and Foundation of the ANABAPTISTS, or Re-baptized of our Time Written in French by Guy de Brez, 1565, Minister of the Word and Martyr. And Translated for the use of his countrymen, by J. S. [Joshua Scottow]. Quarto, blue levant morocco extra, uncut, by Pratt. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed, and to be Sold by Marmaduke Johnson, 1668

A superb copy of the first translation from a European language that was written and printed in this country. Joshua Scottow was born in 1618 and came to Massachusetts in 1634, settling in Boston. He was one of the earliest American authors and all of his tracts are remarkably rare. This is his first work. ONLY ONE OTHER PERFECT COPY HAS SURVIVED, that in the library of the American Antiquarian Society. There is a copy in the Massachusetts Historical Society, but it lacks the last three leaves. It is wonderful to find this copy in such immaculate condition, as it is as fresh as when it left the press of Marmaduke Johnson, most of the edges being in uncut condition. Although John Eliot published some transliterations from the Indian language, this famous volume is the first translation from a European language that was written and published in the New World. Without doubt it is one of the rarest pieces of Americana that has ever been offered for sale.

ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE ITEM

AN ENGLISHMAN, WITH SIGNATURES, DEVICES, AND MOTTOES OF JAMES I., PRINCE HENRY, EARL OF ESSEX, HENRY WOTTON, INIGO JONES, BEN JONSON, NICHOLAS BRETON, SIR WALTER RALEIGH, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER CELEBRITIES. ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE OF ITS KIND. 1599-1611. SEGAR (FRANCIS) THE ALBUM OR STAMP BOOK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS SEGAR, Brother to Sr. Wm. Segar Knight alias Garter Principal King of Armes, a SWORN COUNSELL TO PRINCE MORRIS LANDGRAVE OF HESSEN, Howes Cro: F. 1002. Wherein Kings, Princes, the Great Turk & many noblemen and learned men in favour of the said Francis have subscribed their Names, with devices & mottos, &c. [1599-1611] (122 ll.) old calf, with 58 emblazoned and engraved coats-of-arms. Small 4to.

MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Beneath the title as given above is written: "The above mentioned Francis Segar as Agent for his Master above mentioned in the 3 & 10th years of King James the first was rewarded by the King with two Chains of Gold with medals weighing 38 oz 5d wt of the value of 135 as appears upon the Account of the Masters of the Kings Jewell House in the respective years of the said Kings Reign." THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST VALUABLE ALBUM AMICORUM EVER FORMED BY AN ENGLISHMAN, CONTAINING SIGNATURES OF SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT MEN OF LETTERS IN ENGLAND at the beginning of the seventeenth century, as well as a great number of royal and courtly personages eminent in their day, but whose names are no longer remembered. Among the names worthy of notice are the following, with mottoes in their autograph:

1. JACOBUS R. Parcere subiectis & debellare superbos. 1604.

2. HENRICUS P. fax mentis honestæ gloria: 1604.

3. Mauritius Hassiæ Landgravius, did wright this in fauor of his

seruaunt Sir francis seagar.

4. Jacobus Haius Baro Britanus. Aulica vita splendida miseria.

5. Robertus comes Essexiæ Anglus. Virtutis comes invidia. 6. Shawabas: great Sophie. Senalebeag Chawn. [Inscriptions in Arabic.]

7. Maurice de Nassau. Je Maintiendray. 1611.

8. Allan Percy de Northumberland. Bordeaux, 12e Septembre 1602. En attendant J'espere.

9. Edw. Dymoke. Miles Regius Agonista Coronæ Angliæ. Virga directionis virga Regni tui.

10. Georgius Buck eques Anglus A regiis spectaculis. Londini 24, Aug. 1604.

11. HENRY WOTTON. [Signature to the following letter.] My auncient frend I have heard my father saye who served the Duke of Somerset that faithful Counsaylor of his bad him look unto his feete: vppon which the Duke demaunding the reason: because, Sir, sayd he It is the nature of greatenesse not to descend, but to fall: which was true in his fortune though the uncle of a King, and whom owre storie doth yeat call a iust man. By which I obserue two things: first, that the absolutest Prince of all Courts and tymes is passion, next, that when vertue is gonn yeat the memorie of yt doth remayne with peradventure would be extinguished as wel as the bodies of men: if we might be commaunded to forgett: Well let us goe on in this world with a clere conscience, howe darke soever oure reason be At Cassells. 26. of January, 1602.

12. INIGO JONES. Basta quel che Contenta. 13. BEN JONSON. Preter aquas Helicon, pserta, Lyrasq, Deorü Nil habet: Cordatissimo Generosissimo et nobis post nullos memorando. D. Fran. Segar. Amoris & Amicitiæ ergo Beniamin Jonsonius Londinensis