685. MAUPASSANT (GUY DE). executed with 6 original aquarelles and van Muyden. Unbound. In case.

Deux Amis. MANUSCRIPT, vignette in colors by Evert Paris, 1895

686. MAUPASSANT (GUY DE). La Patronne. Nouvelle. 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt, geometrically tooled, doublures of sprays of leaves and dots, gilt edges, by Lortic. Paris, 1896

Manuscript in Italic characters by V. Bouton on vellum within red borders with gold stars at corners. 16 leaves.

Title-page in red, gold and blue letters, initials in shaded gold and red, and one vignette.

With the Hoe bookplate.

687. MAUPASSANT (GUY DE). Works of. For the first time Complete in English. With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy, with an Introduction by Robert Arnot. Illustrated from Original Drawings by Eminent French and American Artists. 17 vols., full levant morocco, gold ornamented sides and backs, levant doublures with gilt borders, watered silk flies, gilt tops, uncut.

London & New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1903

EDITION NORMAND, PRINTED FROM TYPE ON JAPAN VELLUM THROUGHOUT, and limited to 100 sets.

688. MAUPASSANT (GUY DE). En Famille. 32 illustrations by Pierre Vidal, colored. Royal 8vo, full brown crushed levant morocco, gilt line border, gilt back, doublures of blue levant morocco, gilt dentelle outer border and inner border of fillets with floral scrolls in the corners, gilt edges, original wrappers bound in, by Affolter. Paris, 1905

One of 10 copies on Japan paper with the full-page plates in two states, plain and colored, and an ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR DRAWING BY PIERRE VIDAL on the fly-leaf, signed.

A RICH AND EARLY DEROME BINDING

689. MERE RIVALE (LA). Histoire de Temps, dediée le Duc de la Rochefoucault. 12mo, contemporary red morocco, gilt over marbled edges, in silk drop case. Paris, 1672

Mr. Gibson Craig in his "Facsimiles of Old Book Binding'' describes the volume: "Remarkably fine specimen of the binding of the period, probably by one of the first of the fourteen Deromes." The sides are divided into spaces by a diagonal network, which spaces are filled in with the monogram of a former proprietor, "EDSA,' " also repeated down the back.

GEORGE MEREDITH FIRST EDITIONS

690. MEREDITH (GEORGE). Collected set of FIRST EDITIONS of the Works of. 80 volumes, uniformly bound in three

quarters dark green levant morocco, gold-tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut, original cloth covers bound in.

v.p., v.d.

The set, which is one of the longest runs of Meredith First Editions ever offered, consists of the following:-Poems, PRESENTATION COPY to Charles Knight. Original cloth, uncut. Very early inscription, 1851; The Shaving of Shagpat, 1856; Farina, A Legend of Cologne, 1857; The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 3 vols., 1859; Evan Harrington, 1860; Evan Harrington, New York, 1860; Evan Harrington, 3 vols., 1861; Modern Love and Poems of English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads, 1862; Emilia in England, 3 vols., 1864; Rhoda Fleming, 3 vols., 1865; Vittoria, 3 vols., 1867; The Adventures of Harry Richmond, 3 vols., 1871; Beauchamp's Career, 3 vols., 1876; The House on the Beach, 1877; The House on the Beach (New Quarterly Magazine), 1877; The Egoist, 3 vols., 1879; The Tragic Comedians, 2 vols., 1880; Poems & Lyries of the Joy of Earth, 1883; Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols., 1885; Sandra Belloni, 1886; Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, 1887; A Reading of Earth, 1888; Jump-to-Glory-Jane, 1889; The Life of James Thomson, 1889; The Case of Gen. Ople and Lady Camper, 1890; The Tale of Chloe, 1890; The Art of Authorship, 1890; One of Our Conquerors, 3 vols., 1891; Poems, The Empty Purse, 1892; Modern Love, the Sage Enamoured, and the Honest Lady, 1892; Jump-to-Glory-Jane, 1892; Lord Ormont and His Mainta, 3 vols., 1894; The Tale of Chloe, The House on the Beach, the Case of Gen. Ople and Lady Camper, 1894; another copy, Large Paper Edition, 1894; The Amazing Marriage, 2 vols., 1895; An Essay on Comedy, 1897; Selected Poems, 1897; Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History, 1898; The May Book, 1901; A Reading of Life, 1901; Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt, 1902; The Four Georges, 1903; The Japanese Spirit, 1905; The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907; Last Poems, 1909; Twenty Poems, 1909; "Chillianwallah," 1909; Celt and Saxon, 1910; G. Meredith and the Monthly Observer, 1911; Bibliography of the Writings of Meredith, 1907; George Meredith, 1909; Letters, 2 vols., 1912; Bibliography and other Readings, 1911; Poems Written in Early Youth, 1909; Up to Midnight, 1913; Meredith in Anecdote & Criticism, by J. A. Hammerton, 1909.

691. MEREDITH (GEORGE). Original Manuscript Contract for "Diana of the Crossways. Signed by Meredith and by Chapman of Chapman & Hall. Etched portrait by Hollyer, signed artist's proof. Bound in royal 8vo, half crimson levant morocco, gilt lettered, gilt top.

The contract, made July 21, 1884, states that Meredith shall receive £500 for the copyright for a term of five years. It gives to Chapman & Hall the right to publish in America and to produce it serially in the "Fortnightly Review."

Bound in is one page of proof of a volume of American History, with revisions and important suggestions in Meredith's autograph, written presumably while a publisher's "reader" in London. The portion contained here deals with Mason and Slidell and the incident which, during the Civil War, brought Britain and U. S. to the brink of war.

692. MERIMEE (PROSPER). Carmen. Frontispiece and 8 vignettes etched by A. Nargeot after S. Ancos, each plate in three states, outline, before letters and completed, one state of each vignette in text. 8vo, full orange crushed levant morocco, gilttooled with flowers, scrolls, &c., on back, sides and inside borders,

doublures and end leaves of flowered silk tapestry, gilt edges, original wrappers bound in, by Raparlier, in slip case.

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1884

One of 30 copies on Papier Vélin, with the illustrations in three states. A brilliant and striking example of this binder's art.

693. METEORS. Fulke (William). A most pleasant Prospect into the Garden of natural Contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kinds of Meteors. Printed in Black Letter. Title within a curious woodcut border. Small 8vo, full calf antique, carmine edges.

At London: Printed for William Leake, 1602

A curious and interesting work treating of Comets, Meteors, Earthquakes, Thunder, Lightning, Great Winds, the Rainbow, Wonderful Apparitions, etc.

694. METTERNICH (PRINCE). Memoirs. 1773-1815. Edited by Prince Richard Metternich. Translated by Mrs. Alexander Napier. Portrait and facsimile. 5 vols., 8vo, cloth.

From the estate of F. R. Halsey.

New York, 1880

695. MEUN (JEHAN DE) et LORRIS (GENT DE). Le Rommant de la Rose. Paris, M. Le Noir (with his large device), 1515; Le Codicile et Testament de M. Jehan de Meun, 1501. Printed in Gothic Letter, with numerous quaint woodcuts. 2 vols. in one, small 4to, bound in imitation Maioli binding, calf, inlaid with geometrical colored designs, by Hague (Brussels).

Paris, 1501-15

RARE. A crisp, clean copy.

696. MEXICO. Solis (Antonio De). Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, Poblacion, Yprogressos de la America Septentrional. Folio old calf (rebacked). Brussels, 1704

Rare edition, with fine old copper engravings. Contains the scarce plate "El Idolo Viztzilipwztli" which is often lacking.

697. MICHELET (JULES). Thérèse et Marianne. Souvenirs de Jeunesse. Illustrations de V. Foulquier. 12mo, full green levant morocco, gilt back in compartments, gilt panels and borders, corner ornaments, doublures and flys of green moire silk, gilt edges on the rough, original wrappers bound in, with slip-case, by Raparlier. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1891

One of 50 copies on Japan paper, with the etchings in two states. An etched portrait of the author before all letters is inserted. With the Hoe bookplate.

698. MIDDLETON (THOMAS). The Phoenix, as it hath been sundrie times Acted, by the Children of Paules. And presented before his Majestie. Small 4to, old brown calf, gilt.

London: Printed by T. H. for R. Meighen, 1630

Extremely Rare. The Dramatists Personæ are inscribed in a contemporary hand on the back of title-page.

699. MIDDLETON (THOMAS). The Works of Thomas Middleton. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Portrait. 8 vols. 8vo, threequarter black morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1885-6

One of 80 copies on laid paper. The best edition of Middleton.

EARLY WORKS ON MILITARY TACTICS AND
AMMUNITION

700. MILITARY. Whitehorne (Peter). Certaine Waies for the ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also Fugures of certaine new plattes for fortification of townes: And moreouer, how to make Saltpeter, Gounpouder and diuers sortes of Fireworks or wilde Fire, with other thinges pertayning to the warres. Cataneo (Girolamo). Most Briefe Tables to know redily how manie ranckes of footemen armed with Corslettes, as vnarmed, go to the making of a iust battaile, from an hundred vnto twentie thousand, &c., &c. BLACK LETTER. Many curious woodcuts, initials, and diagrams, and engraved tables. The two works in one volume. Small 4to, full levant morocco, inside gold dentelle borders.

London: Imprinted by Thomas East, for Iohn Wight, 1588 EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND CURIOUS. The first account in English of the manufacture of Fireworks, Mines, hand-grenades, &c. 1588 was the year of the Spanish Armada.

ONE OF THE RAREST ASSOCIATION VOLUMES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN AMERICA

MILTON'S COPY OF THUCYDIDES WITH HIS SIGNATURE AND AUTOGRAPH NOTES

701. MILTON (JOHN). Thucydides. Laurentio Valla Interprete. Nunc postremo correctus, & Ex Graeco innumeris locis emendatus, quemadmodum ex Praefatione in proxima pagina uidere licet. Basileae. Cum Gratia et Priviledio Caes. Maiest. Anno Domini M. D. LXIIII. Mense Martio, [1564]. Germaniae Exegeseosis Volumina Duodecim, a Francisco Irenico Ettelingiacensi Exarata. (Vignette and initial letter engraved on wood.)

Basileae, per Paulum Quecum: Anno M. D. LXVII, [1567]. Two volumes in one, folio, in the original pigskin binding, elaborately tooled, with forty-two small medallion portraits worked into the design; enclosed in a blue morocco solander case.

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This volume is of the HIGHEST ASSOCIATION interest having belonged, first to THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD, whose dramatic trial and death formed the subject of Browning's tragedy "Strafford,"-and to JOHN MILTON. On the title page will be found the signatures of "WENTWORTH AND JOHN MILTON" AND ON PAGE 322 AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE IN MILTON'S HANDWRITING REFERRING TO JUSTINIAN AND PLUTARCH. The history of this precious and superb volume is interesting. Strafford was executed in 1641 and his property, including his books, was confiscated. In 1649 Milton was appointed Latin Secretary to the Commonwealth under Cromwell, and it is likely that a number of books, including this famous THUCYDIDES, that had belonged to the Royalist Strafford, passed into the possession of the great poet.

This volume was for many years the gem of the library of Professor G. P. Shapcott, the distinguished classical scholar of King's College, London. He bequeathed the book to his daughters, who sold it to Mr. Elkin Mathews, the well-known bookseller and publisher, and inserted in the volume is a letter from Mr. Mathews, in which he states that Mr. Hodge (of Sotheby's) and their chief cataloguer pronounced the Milton signature to be genuine.

It is without doubt one of the MOST PRECIOUS MEMENTOS OF MILTON that has ever been offered for sale.

THUCYDIDES was one of MILTON'S FAVORITE AUTHORS, and the annotation in his autograph makes this volume a priceless relic of the AUTHOR OF PARADISE LOST."

702. MILTON (JOHN). Tetrachordon: Expositions upon The foure chief places in Scripture, which treat of Marriage, or nullities in Marriage. Small 4to, marbled boards. London, 1645

FIRST EDITION. Several headlines slightly touched but otherwise a fine copy. One of the famous tracts upon divorce which Milton published without license.

703. MILTON (JOHN). The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce restor❜d to the good of both Sexes. . . . Now the Second Time revis'd and much augmented. London: 1644.-An Answer to a Book, entitled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; or a Plea for Ladies and Gentlewomen, and all other Married Women against Divorce. London, 1644. FIRST EDITION.-Colasterion. A Reply to a Nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce by the former Author, J. M. 1645. FIRST EDITION.-Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the foure Chief Places in Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage, by the former Author, J. M. London, 1645. Together in 1 vol., small 4to, full sprinkled calf, by Riviere.

An exceedingly rare collection of Milton's tracts on the Marriage question. The Second Tract, mentioned above, is against Milton, published anonymously. The "Colasterion" is a fine tall copy, the others are very good copies, but have been cut close in binding.