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ACIER, ANDRE. The Life of Pythagoras with his Symbols and Golden Verses. Together with the Life of Hierocles and his Commentaries upon the Verses... by M. Dacier. Now done into English. The Golden Verses translated from the Greek by N. Rowe, Esq. [Vignette.] London, 1707. 8vo.

DANÆUS, LAMBERT [LAMBERT DANEAU]. Geographiæ Poeticæ, id est, Universæ Terræ Descriptionis ex optimis ac vetustissimis Latinis Poetis libri quatuor... Lamberti Danai opus. Apud Jacobum Stoer. s.l., 1580. 8vo. With a dedication to Sir Philip Sidney.

Old calf, gilt.

DANIEL, RICHARD. The Royal Penitent: a Paraphrase on the seven Penitential Psalms. By the Rev. Mr. Richard Daniel, Dean of Ardmagh. London, Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates, 1727. 8vo.

A Paraphrase on some Select Psalms... entitled the Royal Penitent, by the Rev. Richard Daniel, Dean of Armagh. London, Fisher, over-against Tom's Coffee-house in Cornhill, 1737. 8vo.

Bound with the edition of 1727. With note on fly-leaf: "They are exceedingly rare, according to Mr. Montague: see his Preface to the Seven Penitential Psalms, London, 1851." DANSE MACABRE. Imagines Mortis. His accesserunt Epigrammata, &c. Ad hæc, Medicina Animæ. Colonia, 1557.

12mo.

With 'free renderings' of the cuts in the Imagines Mortis of 1545. Under the plate of Death's Orchestra are the lines

"Quantumcunque boni vobis Fortuna ministret,

Pallida Mors veniens omnibus hospes erit."

There is an allusion in one of Petrarch's letters to Francesco Bruni, which is interesting, if we remember that the phrase "Je fis de Macabre la Danse" was first known about the time of Petrarch's death. The passage in M. Develay's version runs thus: "Les Soucis, à la place des Muses, habitent mon cœur affligé. La Mort impérieuse forme avec eux des danses funestes où la Fortune marque la cadence."

Brown mor.,gilt, g.e.

La Grande Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, Historiées et renouvellées de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Avec le débat du Corps et de l'Ame, &c. [Device: Death's Orchestra.] Troyes, 1728. 4to.

One of the rude copies sold at the Fairs of Troyes, for which the 15th century woodblocks were still used. This copy follows the edition of 1486, when the "Danse Macabre

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des Femmes " first appeared. The figures of the Emperor and King are conventional, and not portraits, as in other editions. The King's remonstrance begins thus :—

"Je n'ai pas appris à danser,

Votre danse est un peu trop sauvage:

O Mort! vous pouver me laisser,
Cherchez quelqu' autre personnage."

DANSE MACABRE. The Dance of Death. Painted by H. Holbein, and engraved by W. Hollar. [London, 1794.] 8vo.

The Dances of Death through the various stages of Human Life... from the original designs, which were cut in wood and afterwards painted by Hans Holbein in the Town-House of Basil... Etched by D. Deuchar, F.A.S. London, 1803. 4to.

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Mr. Noel Humphreys refers, on the subject of Holbein's authorship, to Prior's lines,

"Imperious Death directs the ebon lance,

Peoples great Harry's tomb and leads up Holbein's dance."

Holbein, entourés de bordures du xvime siècle,

MONTAIGLON, ANATOLE DE. L'Alphabet de la Mort de Hans suivi d'anciens poèmes français Paris, 1856. 8vo.

sur le sujet des trois mors et des trois vis, &c.

A proof impression still preserved at Basle shows that Hans Zützenberger was the original engraver. His monogram also appears on one of the cuts in "Les Simulacres " of 1538. The legend of the "Three living and three dead" has been attributed to the Egyptian ascetic, Saint Macarius. Mr. Humphreys discusses the question whether the name "Macabre" refers to the Saint or to a mediæval author. There was an English family of "Machabre," to which the modern Norfolk "Micawbers" may have belonged.

HUMPHREYS, H. NOEL. Hans Holbein's celebrated Dance of Death... and a concise history of the origin and subsequent development of the subject. London, Quaritch, 1868. 8vo.

With facsimiles of the plates in the "Simulacres et Historiées Faces de la Mort," published by the Brothers Treschel at Lyons in 1538. The plates are evidently portraits. Under that of the Empress Mary are the lines

"Qui marchez en pompe superbe

La Mort vng iour uous pliera.

Come soubz uoz piedz płoyez l'herbe,

Ainsi uous humiliera."

The Dance of Death. Engraved from the fresco-paintings on the cemetery wall of St. John's Church at Basle. Basle, Schneider, s.a. I 2mo. In French, German, and English, with old-fashioned verses in each language, e.g. with the figure of the Cardinal-Legate

"Lord Cardinal, 'twill give me pleasure

To see your red hat join the measure;
The laymen whom you oft have blest
Are here, and you must join the rest."

DANTE-DAVENANT.

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DANTE. Vocabolario portatile per agevolare la lettura degli autori Italiani ed in specie di Dante. Parigi, 1768. Appresso Marcello Prault.

12mo.

This book has successively belonged to Edward Hawkins of the British Museum and to Mr. Ruskin, at whose sale in Oxford it was purchased by Mr. T. H. Ward.

Old French red mor., gilt, g.e.

*DANTINE, MAURICE FRANÇOIS. L'art de verifier les dates, des faits historiques, des Chartes, des Chroniques, et autres anciens Monumens, depuis la naissance de notre Seigneur. [Vignette.] Paris, 1720. fol.

Compiled by D. Maurice François Dantine, D. Ursin Durand, and D. Charles Clémencet. From the collection of M. de S. Leu.

DAVENANT, WILLIAM. Salmacidæ Spolia. A Masque. Presented by the King & Queenes Majesties, at White-Hall. On Tuesday, the 21 day of January 1639. London, Printed by T. H. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the flying Horse neere Yorke-house, 1639. 4to. 'The Invention, Ornament, Sceans and Apparitions were made by Inigo Iones.'

Gondibert: An heroick Poem, written by S William D'Avenant. London, Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Holden, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Anchor in the New Exchange, 1651. 4to.

With laudatory notices by Cowley and Hobbes, and Waller's encomium

"Now to thy matchlesse Book,

Wherein those few that can with judgment look,
May find old Love in pure fresh language told,
Like new stampt Coin made out of Angel-gold.”

On the fly-leaves are MS. copies of "Verses written by the author's friends" (published in 1653). John Denham writes a poem "Upon y° three Praisers of Gondibert, not then Published."

"Room, room for y best of Poets Heroick,

If you'll believe two wits and a Stoick...
But we have just quarrell to his defeat,
You give us a stomack, he gives us no meat,

A preface to no book, a Porch to noe House,

You shew us y Mountain: but where is y° Mouse?"

Of another the copyist remarks, "hanc scripsit, non dico, sed evomuit J. Donne, optimi patris filius." In another Donne calls Gondibert " a bable

"Like to y hundred merry tales,

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Or like Don Quixots fight with sailes

Of windmills, or like to Tom Thumbe,
Or like y pranks of Jack-a-Drum,

Or like to Garagantua,

Or like to Musidorus Play," &c.

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*DAVIS, JOHN FRANCIS. Poetry & Criticism, By Outis. [Illustrations by G. Scharf.] London, 1850. 8vo.

Privately printed. A presentation copy to Mrs. Elton, with an autograph inscription in English and Chinese by Sir John Davis.

*DELBARE, FRANÇOIS-THÉODORE. Relation fidèle et détaillée de la dernière campagne de Buonaparte, terminée par la Bataille de Mont-SaintJean, dite de Waterloo ou de la Belle-Alliance. Par un témoin oculaire. Deuxième édition. Paris, 1815. Svo.

Frontispiece, vignette, and two plans.

The work is attributed by Quérard to René Bourgeois.

DE LOLME, JEAN LOUIS. The Constitution of England; or, an Account of the English Government... By J. L. De Lolme. A new Edition, with supplemental notes and a preface, biographical and critical.

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London,

DEMETRIUS, ALETHEIUS [JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE]. Ouvrage de Penelope, ou Machiavel en Médecine. Par Aletheius Demetrius. [Motto.] Genève, 1748.

Old French calf, gilt.

12mo. 3 vols.

DENHAM, JOHN. Poems and Translations; with the Sophy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath. The second impression. London, Printed by J. M. for H. Herringman at the Sign of the Blew-Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange, 1671. 8vo.

Poems and Translations, with the Sophy. London, 1703. 8vo. With the autograph of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon : "S. Huntingdon Given me By my Dear Lord 1728." From the library of the Marquis of Hastings.

DENIS, JEAN FERDINAND. Le Monde enchanté. Cosmographie et histoire naturelle fantastiques du moyen âge. Par M. Ferdinand Denis. Orné d'une jolie gravure, par M. Vattier. Paris, 1843. 32mo.

Green mor., gilt, g.e., by Rivière.

DESBILLONS, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH TERRASSE. Francisci-Josephi Desbillons Fabulæ Æsopiæ, curis posterioribus omnes ferè emendatæ : quibus accesserunt plus quam CLXX. novæ. Sexta Editio. [Device.] Parisiis, typis J. Barbou, 1778. 12mo.

"Ex bibliothecâ Warclanensi, Comit. de Borch." With frontispiece by Durand. Old French red mor., gilt, g.e.

*DES FONTAINES, PIERRE FRANÇOIS GUYOT. L'Esprit de l'Abbé Des Fontaines, ou Réflexions sur differens genres de Science et de Littérature : avec des jugemens sur quelques auteurs & sur quelques ouvrages tant anciens

que modernes. A Londres, 1757. 12mo. 4 vols.

This book was composed by Joseph de La l'orte, and the preface by C. M. Giraud. Old French calf, gilt.

Deshoulières-diogenes LAERTIUS.

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DESHOULIÈRES, ANTOINETTE DE LA GARDE. Euvres de Mme. et Mlle. Deshoulières. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de leur éloge historique, etc. 12mo. 2 vols.

Paris, 1747.

With portrait of Mm. Deshoulières by Cochin, and vignettes by Eisen.
Old French red mor., gilt.

Euvres choisies de Madame et de Mademoiselle Deshoulières.

A Londres, 1780. I 2mo. 2 vols.

With frontispiece. Édition Cazin.

Old calf, gilt, g.e.

DES PERIERS, JEAN BONAVENTURE. Les contes ou les nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis, de Bonaventure des Periers, varlet de Chambre de la Royne de Navarre. Nouvelle édition. Augmentée & corrigée... par M. de la Monnoye. Amsterdam, 1735. I2mo. 2 vols.

MS. note on fly-leaf: "Le vrai nom de B. de Periers étoit Nicolas Denisot, Comte d'Alsinois."

"B. de Periers se tua de sa propre épée, étant devenu furieux, à ce que dit H. Étienne, ch. 18. apol: p: Herodote. Ce mesme Periers avoit dorénavant fait le Conte d'un Fou qui se perça d'outre en outre de son epée, pour faire repriesve de son Buffle."-Ducatiana, P. 47.

DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL.

An Introduction to the Knowledge of

rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Roman Classics. Gloucester, 1802.

8vo.

Calf, gilt, by C. Lewis.

The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness; containing some account of the history, symptoms, and cure of this fatal disease. In an Epistle addressed to Richard Heber, Esq. By the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, F.S.A. London, 1809. fol.

DIGBY, GEORGE, 2nd Earl of Bristol. The Lord George Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Goff's Negotiations; together with His Majesties, the Queen's and the Lord Jermin's, and other Letters: taken at the Battel at Sherborn in Yorkshire about the 15th of October last. Also observations upon the said Letters... London, printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons, dwelling in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Golden Dragon. March 26. 1646. 4to.

DIODORUS SICULUS. The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In fifteen Books... To which are added, the Fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius: together with those publish'd by H. Valesius, &c. Made English, by G. Booth, of the City of Chester, Esq. London, 1700. fol.

DIOGENES LAERTIUS. The Lives, Opinions, and Remarkable Sayings of the most famous ancient Philosophers. Written in Greek, by Diogenes Laertius. Made English by several hands. London, 1696. 8vo. 2 vols.

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