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201. FIELDING (HENRY). Novels: consisting of "Tom Jones," 2 vols.; "Amelia"; "Joseph Andrews"; "Jonathan Wild." Portrait. 5 vols. royal 8vo, original boards, unLond. 1884

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Only 400 copies printed (all on handmade paper). The finest edition of Fielding's novels, and now very scarce.

202. Works, Complete. With an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Murphy. Portrait and plates. 10 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt (newly rebacked).

1784

203. FINDEN'S Landscape and Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron, with Descriptions by Brockedon. Upwards of 150 engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Prout, Stanfield, etc., (unspotted). 3 vols. square 8vo, half morocco gilt, uncut, top edges gilt. 1833-4 204. Landscape Illustrations of the Bible. 92 fine engravings of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, from original sketches on the spot. With descriptions by the Rev. T. H. Horne. 2 vols. royal 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges.

n. d. 205. FITZGERALD (EDWARD). Letters and Literary Remains. [Edited by W. Aldis Wright.] Portrait. 7 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. Macmillan, 1902-03

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Only 775 copies printed.

The best edition of Fitzgerald's works; giving the text of previous editions, variorum editions of the Rubaiyat correspondence, etc., including much material not contained in any other edition.

206. FLORENCE. Yriarte (Charles). Florence: its History, the Medici, the Humanists, Letters, Arts. Illust. with 500 engravings. Folio, cloth gilt, morocco back, gilt edges.

One of the best illustrated accounts of Florence.

N. Y. 1882

207. FRANKLIN'S (BEN.) Works, containing his Life, by Himself, with Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary. Engraved titles, with portrait on each. 2 vols. in one, new half calf gilt, yellow edges.

208.

1793

Works, consisting of his Life, written by Himself, with Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary. Engraved titles containing portraits. 2 vols. small 8vo, fine copy in

the original calf, gilt.

Fine copy.

ノ 209.

Lond. 1793

Letters to Benjamin Franklin from his Family

and Friends, 1751-90. Portraits of Mrs. F. and Sarah Bache. Royal 8vo, buckram.

210.

Only 260 copies printed.

N. Y. 1859

Autobiography. Portraits, facsimiles, etc. Imp.

8vo, boards, uncut.

Bost. 1906

1,000 copies printed.

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212. FRENCH HUMOR. Album de Marcelin. With hundreds of humorous wood engravings. 4to, cloth, gilt. Paris, 1868

A highly interesting collection, now very scarce.

213. FURNITURE. Scott (W. B.). Ornamental De-' signs for Furniture and House Decoration, being a Series of Designs in Lithography, selected from the works of the best French and German Ornamentalists. With a Treatise on Perspective, and an Introductory Essay on Ornamental Art. FIRST EDN. 55 plates. Folio, cloth (worn; one leaf Lond. Fullerton & Co., n. d.

mended).

214. GARDNER (REV. J.).. Faiths of the World: a

Dictionary of all Religions and Religious Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs. With 48 steel engravings. 2 vols. imp. 8vo, half calf.

/215.
215. GAY (JOHN). Poems on Several Occasions.
graved front. 2 vols. full brown calf neat.

n. d.

En.√

Lond. 1737

216. Fables, with Life. Stockdale's fine edn. Printed in large type, with 69 beautiful engravings by Blake, Stothard, Wilson, Audinet, etc. 2 vols. royal 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt. FINE TALL COPY. SCARCE. 1793 √217. GEMS. Boyle (Robert). An Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems. Wherein are propos'd and Historically illustrated some conjectures about the Consistence of the matter of Precious Stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest Virtues reside. 12mo, contemporary calf (rubbed). Lond. 1672

A curious and scarce book.

218. GIBBON'S Decline aud Fall of the Roman Empire." 6 vols. 4to, contemporary calf, gilt. 1766-88 Vol. 1, second edition (not quite uniform); Vols. 2 to 6 first editions.

219. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Milman, Guizot and Smith. Library edn. With portrait and maps. 8 vols. 8vo, new polished calf gilt, marbled edges.

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221. FIRST EDN.

copy.

1862

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More “Bab" Ballads. Illusts. by the author.
Square 8vo, original pictorial cloth. Fine
Lond., n. d.

222. GILDER (R. W.). Lyrics and other Poems, 1885; The Celestial Passion [1887]; The New Day [1887]. 3 vols. 12mo, cloth and wrappers.

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223. GIULIO ROMANO. D'Arco (Carlo). Istoria della Vita e delle Opere di Giulio Pippi Romano. Portrait engraved in mezzotint and numerous plates from Giulio Romano's paintings. Folio, half morocco. Mantova, 1838

A work seldom offered for sale.

224. GOETHE'S FAUSTUS, a Dramatic Mystery; The Bride of Corinth; The First Walpurgis Night, transl., with Notes, by Dr. Anster. BOTH PARTS FIRST EDN. 2 vols. crown 8vo, calf extra, marbled edges. 1835-64

225. GOLDSMITH (O.). Works. Edited, with Notes, by P. Cunningham. BEST LARGE-TYPE LIBRARY EDN. gnettes. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth.

gnettes

1878

226. Works. Edited by Peter Cunningham. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by H. S. Kraus. Portrait and 80 photogravure illusts. on Japan paper from original designs by F. S. Coburn. 10 vols. 8vo, threequarter crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

N. Y. and Lond.: The Knickerbocker Press, n. d.
The Turk's Head Edition, limited to 1,000 sets.

227. GOSSE (EDMUND W.). On Viol and Flute. Second
12mo, cloth.

edn.

✓ 228.

Lond. 1876

New Poems. FIRST EDN. 12mo, cloth.
Autograph of Brander Matthews on title.

Lond. 1879

229. GOUPIL HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS. Gardiner (Samuel Rawson). Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell. With fine facsimile portrait of Cromwell IN COLORS after the original by Robert Walker, as well as numerous fine illusts. (full-page and text) after contemporary miniatures, etc., etc. Royal 4to, original wrappers, uncut. Fine, clean copy. Lond., Paris, N. Y. 1899 Limited and numbered issue on plate paper.

230. Lang (Andrew). Prince Charles Edward). With fine facsimile portrait of Charles IN COLORS after the original painting attributed to Largilliere in the National Portrait Gallery, as well as numerous fine facsimiles (fullpage and text) after famous miniatures, etc., etc. Royal 4to, wrappers, uncut. Fine, clean copy.

231.

Lond., Paris and N. Y. 1900 Limited and numbered issue on fine paper.

Airy (Osmund). Charles II. With fine facsimile portrait of Charles IN COLORS after the original by Samuel Cooper, as well as numerous fine facsimiles (fullpage and text) after famous miniatures, etc., etc. Royal 4to, half crimson morocco, gilt top, uncut, with original covers bound in, by DURVAND. Lond., Paris, N. Y. 1901 One of a limited and numbered issue on fine paper.

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232.

Pollard (A. F.). Henry VIII. With facsimile portrait of Henry VIII (IN COLORS) after the original by Holbein at Windsor Castle, and numerous other fine fac

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similes after famous paintings, miniatures, etc., etc. Thick' Thick royal 4to, half crimson morocco, gilt top, uncut, with original covers bound in, by DURVAND.

Lond., Paris and N. Y. 1902

FINE COPY. Only a limited number issued.

233. GRAMMONT (COUNT). Memoirs of, by Count A. Hamilton. Edited by Gordon Goodwin [from Sir W. Scott's edition of 1811]. Printed on handmade paper. With 21 Large Paper photogravure portraits of the leading characters in the Court of Charles II, on JAPAN PAPER. Best edn. 2 vols. post 8vo, art cloth, gilt tops. LIMITED TO 265 COPIES. 1903

234. GRAND THEATRE HISTORIQUE, ou Nouvelle ✓ Histoire Universelle, tant sacrée que profane, depuis la création du monde, jusqu' au commencement du XVIIIe siècle. With hundreds of fine copper engravings, all brilliant impressions. 5 vols. in 3 vols. Folio, old calf (rubbed and somewhat torn). Leide, 1703

One of a few copies printed on LARGE PAPER. 235. GREAT LAKES and Upper Mississippi, A Trip through. By J. Disturnell. Illusts. 12mo. Phil. 1871

236. GREAT WRITERS. A Series of Readable and Instructive Biographies by eminent writers, with a Complete Bibliography to each volume by J. P. Anderson, of the British Museum. Complete set on Large Paper. 42 vols. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops.

v. d. Comprises the Lives of Miss Austen, H. Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, R. Browning, Bunyan, Byron, Burns, Carlyle, Cervantes, S. T. Coleridge, Congreve, Crabbe, Darwin, Dickens, Geo. Eliot, Emerson, Goethe, Goldsmith, Hawthorne, Heine, Hugo, L. Hunt, Dr. Johnson, Keats, Longfellow, Lessing, Marryat, J. S. Mill, Milton, Renan, D. G. Rossetti, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Sir W. Scott, Shelley, Sheridan, Adam Smith, Smollett, Thackeray, Thoreau, Voltaire and Whittier.

By

With nu

237. GREECE AND ROME: their Life and Art. Jakob von Falke. Transl. by W. H. Browne. merous illusts. Folio, gilt cloth, gilt edges (water-stains in several leaves).

N. Y. 1882

238. HA ADEN ETCHINGS. Fine Arts, Quarterly Review. Vols. I-III; New Series, Vols. I and II. May, 1863, to June, 1867. Illust. 5 vols. imp. 8vo,

cloth.

239.

try.

Lond. 1863-67

SCARCE. Contains contributions by Hamerton and others. The last volume CONTAINS TWO ETCHINGS BY SEYMOUR HADEN.

The original appearance of his work About Etchings" is contained in Vol. IV of this work. [Resold for account of purchaser.]

HALE (EDWARD E.). The Man without a CounFIRST EDN. 12mo, original wrappers. Bost. 1865 An immaculate copy of a little volume now become a classic.

240. HALL (MR. AND MRS. S. C.). Ireland: its Scenery, Character, etc. FIRST EDN. With maps, numerous fine steel engravings, after T. Creswick, and several hundred engravings on wood by W. Harvey, etc. 3 vols. royal 8vo, half morocco gilt, cloth sides, gilt edges.

1841-43

241. HALLAM (H.). Constitutional History of England,

from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II. 3 vols. 8vo, calf, gilt.

1829

242. [HALLECK (FITZ-GREENE).] Fanny. 8vo, pp.

49, original wrappers, uncut.

N. Y. 1819

An exceptionally fine copy of the rare FIRST EDITION.

243. [] Fanny. 8vo, pp. 67, original wrappers, uncut N. Y. 1821

(foxed).

66

Second edition, containing 18 additional pages.
Author's autograph inscription: Miss Janet Eckford, from
F.-G. Halleck." Contains also pencilled marginal notes indi-
cating prominent New Yorkers referred to in the text.

244. [-]
] Frank; or, Who's the Croaker? 8vo, original
wrappers.
N. Y. 1820
A parody on Halleck's " Fanny," in which prominent New
Yorkers of the time are pilloried under so thin a disguise as to
be readily recognized.

OF EXTREME SCARCITY. In the Brown sale a copy (re-bound) was sold for $26.00.

245.Alnwick Castle, with other Poems. 8vo, orig

inal wrappers, uncut.

N. Y. 1827

FIRST EDITION. Rare in uncut state.

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SUPPRESSED AND VERY RARE.

246. HAMILTON (LADY ANNE). Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George III to Death of George IV. Including, among other important matters, full particulars of the mysterious death of the Princess Charlotte. 2 vols. in 1, full white vellum gilt, red epges. Lond. 1832

This, "the only genuine secret history of the period," was published without the sanction of the authoress, who was ladyin-waiting to Queen Caroline, and therefore well equipped for the task. Suppressed, and consequently very rare.

247. [HAMILTON'S (T., of Rydal)] Men and Manners FIRST EDN.

in America. FIRST 2 vols. post 8vo, half calf. 1831

248. HARPER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNITED STATES HISTORY, 458-1905. By B. J. Lossing, John Fiske and others. Copiously illust. with maps, portraits, views, etc. 10 vols. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. [recent]

An invaluable work of reference.

249. HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL). The Scarlet Letter. 12mo, original cloth, uncut.

Bost. 1850

First issue of FIRST EDITION, with advertisements dated March 1, 1850. AN IMMACULATE COPY, practically unused. Rare in such state.

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