SECOND SESSION

LOTS 210-425

210. CAESAR (JULIUS). Observations Vpon Caesars Comentaries. By Clement Edmundes. Remembrancer of the cittie of London. Engraved title on copper, woodcut portrait of Caesar, and numerous folding copper plates and diagrams. Small folio, full maroon crushed levant morocco, the sides decorated with an inlaid tooled vignette in various colors, depicting Roman warfare, upon an elliptical inlay of green morocco, against a background of scroll-work upon a gold dotted field, gilt panel back, gilt edges, by Riviere. London, n.d.

FIRST EDITION. Very fine, clean copy in a striking binding. It contains complimentary poems by Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, etc. The text contains Caesar's Commentaries upon the Gallic and Civil Wars and copious commentaries upon them by Edmundes.

211. CALEF (ROBERT). More Wonders of the Invisible World: Or, The Wonders of the Invisible World, Display'd in Five Parts. Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule. Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, &c. And his Reply relating to Witchcraft. P. II. The Differences between the Inhabitants of Salem Village, and Mr. Parris, their Minister, in New-England. P. IV. Letters of a Gentleman uninterested, Endeavouring to prove the received Opinions about Witchcraft to be Orthodox. With short Essays to their Answers. P. V. A. short Historical Account of Matters of Fact in Affair. To which is added, A Postscript relating to a Book intitled The Life of Sir William Phips. Collected by Robert Calef, Merchant, of Boston in New-England. Small 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked.

London: Printed for Nath. Hillar, 1700

FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare in this condition, many of the lower edges being uncut.

The author gave great offense at the time by censuring the proceedings of the Courts respecting witches, at a time when most people believed in their existence. In his discussion with Cotton Mather he is as superior to him in reasoning as he was in good sense and courage.

212. CAMBRIDGE (RICHARD OWEN). The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. Frontispiece and 6 plates. 4to, old full calf. London: R. Dodsley, 1751

FIRST EDITION, fine copy.

The engraving to Book IV is one of the earliest illustrations of Mechanical flying, actually representing an air Race between a Briton and a German!

213. CAMBRIDGE CLASSICS. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, translated into blank verse by William Cullen Bryant, 8 vols.; The Enid of Virgil, translated into English by Christopher Pearse Cranch, 2 vols.; Faust, a Tragedy, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Bayard Taylor, 4 vols.; The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 6 vols. Illustrated with the designs of Flaxman and others, and with photogravures, the frontispieces being in duplicate, one in colors. Together, 20 vols., royal 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco, broad gold-tooled borders on sides, gilt panelled backs, green levant doublures within gold-tooled borders of blue levant, flies of green watered silk, gilt tops, uncut.

Boston & N. Y.: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1905

LARGE PAPER EDITION, limited to 600 copies. Printed in large readable type, on handmade paper.

Inserted in the first volume of The Iliad is a fine A. L. S. of William Cullen Bryant.

214. CAREY (DAVID). Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton. With the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family; including Sketches of a Variety of other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis. Embellished with 21 coloured plates, representing scenes from real life, designed and engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank. Enriched also with 22 engravings on wood, drawn by the same artist. 8vo, full red levant morocco, gilt panelled side, gold borders inside, gilt edges, by Riviere.

London: John Fairburn, 1822

FIRST EDITION, very fine copy. With bookplate of H. S. Van Duzer.

215. CARLETON (CAPT. JOHN WILLIAM, Editor). The Sporting Sketch Book. Illustrated with 11 engraved plates. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1842

FIRST EDITION. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

216. CARLETON (CAPT. JOHN WILLIAM). Recreations in Shooting; with some account of the Game of the British Islands. Full-page tinted wood engravings and text illustrations. 12mo, cloth, uncut. London, 1846

FIRST EDITION. From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

217. CARLYLE. An interesting letter of two pages, entirely in the handwriting of Thomas Carlyle, in which he complains that his publisher is charging full price to him for his own books: dated Chelsea, 8 June.

1852

218. CARLYLE (THOMAS). The Complete Works of Carlyle; with an Index. Portrait. 34 vols., 8vo, full polished calf, gilt (a few joints cracked).

London, v.d.

The best Library Edition, published by Chapman and Hall.

219. CARMAN (BLISS). The Kinship of Nature. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with his autograph signature. 8vo, three-quarters red morocco, gilt back and top, uncut.

Boston, 1904

FIRST EDITION, with lengthy signed inscription in the author's handwriting on fly-leaf.

220. CAROCHI (HORACIO). Compendio del arte de la lengua Mexicana, dispuesto con brevedad, claridad, y propriedad por el P. Ignacio de Paredes. Frontispiece wanting. Title within ornamental border. Small 4to, original vellum, leather thong ties. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1759

A VERY SCARCE EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED GRAMMAR. On the front fly-leaf are numerous manuscript notes in several old hands.

THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF AN IMPORTANT TRACT RELATING TO CAROLINA

221. CAROLINA. The Humble Address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament Assembled presented to Her Majesty on Wednesday, March 13, 1705, RELATING TO THE PROVINCE OF CAROLINA, And the Petition therein Mentioned. With Her Majesty's most Gracious Answer Thereunto. Folio, half red morocco, by Pratt. London: Charles Bell, 1705

Not mentioned by Sabin, Winsor or any bibliographer and believed to be the only copy known. It was not in the Church, Ives, Menzies, Barlow, Brinley, Rice or any of the sales held during the last fifty years. The petition claims that the settlers in Carolina have been deprived of their just rights and that it is to the detriment of the Province, and "that the ruin of the said Colony would be to the great Disadvantage of the Trade of the Kingdom, to the apparent Prejudice of Her Majesty's Customs, and the great benefit of the French, who watch all Opportunities to Improve their own Settlements in those Parts of America. It is signed by Joseph Boone, Chris. Fowler, Thomas Gould, M. Perry, Thomas Byfeld and other early settlers in the Carolinas.

EARLY BLACK LETTER TRAVELS

222. CASTANEDA (HERNAN LOPES DE). The First Booke of the Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous Nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. Set foorth in the Portingale, and now translated into English, by Nicolas] Litchfield]. Title within ornamental woodcut border. Small 4to, full olive levant morocco, gilt, gilt edges, by Leighton. Imprinted at London, by Thomas East, 1582

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION.

Dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. Printed in Black Letter. Name of E. Williams on margin of title. Sound and clean copy with the leaf numbered 164 at the end containing the Colophon and vignette. The Halsey copy.

223. CASTELU (ANTONIO VESQUEZ). Arte de Lengva Mexicana. Corregido segun su original por el Br. D. Antonio de Olmedo y Torre. Title within ornamental border; arms on title. Small 4to, original vellum.

n.p., n.d.

Con licencia en la Puebla, por Diego Fernandez de Leon, y por su original en la imprenta de F. X. de Morales y Salazar, 1726. On the fly-leaves are many inscriptions in contemporary hands. VERY RARE.

224. CASTIGLIONE (BALDASSAR). Il Cortegiano, or, The Courtier. Written by Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a new version of the same into English. Together with several of his celebrated pieces, as well Latin as Italian, both in Prose and Verse, to which is prefixed the Life of the Author. By A. P. Castiglione. Portrait of the Author engraved by Vertue. 4to, full russet levant morocco, panelled sides with ornamentation, richly tooled back and inside border, gilt edges, by Riviere.

London, Printed by W. Bowyer, 1727

SCARCE EDITION. The original text and English translation are printed in parallel columns. With the Hoe bookplate.

225. CAVALLERIIS (JO. BAPT.). Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi. 32 plates, colored by hand. Rome, 1585; [also] Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea. 36 plates, colored by hand. Rome, 1584. In one volume, folio, old vellum. Rome, 1585-84

A VERY UNUSUAL SPECIMEN OF THIS SCARCE WORK, RARELY FOUND IN THIS STATE, WITH THE TITLES AND ALL THE PLATES COLORED, possibly by a contemporary hand. On the fly-leaf is the name of "Caroli Vslenghi" in an ancient hand, and on the title-page is the inscription "Ex libris Bibliotheq T. Dorsteg Urbis.''

226. CAXTON (WILLIAM). The Cronycles of Englonde, with the dedes of Popes and Emperours, and also the descripcyon of Englond. Black letter, title wanting and supplied in facsimile, printed in double columns, 44 lines to a full page, wood-cuts, including Caxton's large device on verso of folio 163, and W. De Worde's device on last page. Text commences on folio iiii, table and other preliminary 11. supplied in MS., folio 163 torn and had three holes, some 11. stained and wormed slightly; in several cases the word "pope" has been erased or partly obliterated, old mottled calf (joints cracked).

[Colophon] London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne by me Wynkyn de Worde, the yere of oure Lorde God M. CCCCC and XX [1520]

This Chronicle, the first edition of which was issued by Caxton in 1480, differs but little from the "Chronicles of Brute, one of the most popu lar of the 15th and 16th century books.

This 1520 edition by W. de Worde is of the Utmost Rarity. Very few 18th and 19th century bibliographers seem to have seen a copy and references to it in the bibliography of English printing are of the most meagre description. Not more than three copies have appeared in the sales room during the past twenty-five years, and of these only the William Morris copy approached the present one in degree of completeness and fineness of condition.

227 CAXTON (WILLIAM). The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; The First Printer in England. In which is given An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Prynting in England, during his Time, till 1499. Collected by John Lewis. Portrait of Caxton by Bagford. 8vo, half morocco, uncut, by Faulkner, with his ticket. London, 1737

The first life of Caxton by the eminent bibliographer and student John Lewis. Only 150 copies were printed and the book has always been very All later writers have drawn on it for material.

rare.

228. CENTURY DICTIONARY (THE). An Encyclopedic Lexicon. 6 vols. in 24 parts; Century Dictionary of Names, 4 parts; Century Gallery of 100 portraits. Together 31 parts, 4to, cloth. New York, n.d.

From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

229. CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Illustrated by Tony Johannot. 3 vols, royal 8vo, full mottled calf, gilt backs, fillet borders on sides, gilt tops, uncut, by Riviere.

London: J. J. Dubochet & Co., 1837-1839

Fine copy of the Jarvis translation with the Johannot illustrations.

230. CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant Don Quixote of the Manchia by Miguel De Cervantes. Translated by Thomas Shelton. The illustrations by Daniel Vierge, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz. 4 vols., large 8vo, with an additional volume of extra plates, proofs before letters of the full page illustrations.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1906

A limited edition of 140 copies on Imperial Japan paper, of which this copy is No. 71.

In the original paper covers, gilt top, uncut, in paper slip-case, as issued. With bookplate of H. S. Van Duzer.

SUPERB COPY OF CHAMPLAIN'S THIRD WORK, 1619 231. CHAMPLAIN. Voyages et Descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'Annee 1615, jusques a la fin de l'Anne 1618. Par le Sieur de Champlain, Cappitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la Mer du Ponant. Ou sont descrits les Moeurs, Coustumes, Habits, Facons de Guerroyer, Chasses, Festins, et Enterremens de