SCELLANEOUS BOOKS, OLD AND MODERN, DULAU & COMPANY LTD., 32, OLD BOND STREET, Wires: -, Piccy, London. 6 BOECII.-Romani et oratoris celeberrimi libri de consolatione philosophie et comentarius eximii preclariq: doctoris sancti Thome super eosdem Incipiunt feliciter. Gothic Letter Folio, early stamped calf, neatly repaired, in domo Johannis de Westphalia in alma Louaniensi universitate diligenter elaborati Expliciut. 1487 £25 A nice copy except for a small defect in the last four leaves, that in the last two destroying some twelve letters of the text. No copy of this particular edition of Boethius has been sold by auction in London during the last twenty-five years. There is no copy mentioned in the Census of Fifteenth Century Books owned in America.” The printer, Johannes de Westphalia, was the first to practice the typographic art in Louvain [Hain *3379]. 7 BUTLER (S.) Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolu tion in Animals. FINE COPY. 1890 £10 With the following inscription on the title in the author's hand, Jan. 29, 1890, Alfred Cathie, with all the kind wishes of the author," Three sprigs of edelweiss have been mounted on the fly-leaf, given by Butler to Alfred, and with an inscription in the latter's hand. Butler noted in 1899 that only 120 copies of this book had been sold. 8 BUTLER (S.) The Humour of Homer. FIRST EDITION, Cambridge, 1892. Original wrappers. Name on front wrapper £3 3s. 9 BUTLER (S.) Life and Letters of Samuel Butler. 2 vols., illustrated. FIRST EDITION. FINE COPY 1896 £10 With inscription on the half-title in the author's hand: " Alfred Emery Cathie with all the kindest wishes from the author, Oct. 2, 1896." Butler's bibliographer mentions that in the British Museum copy, eight leaves are inserted at the end of Vol. 2 dealing with " Shrewsbury School in the Thirties." These are letters from Rev. E. Montagu written to Samuel Butler, with a few notes by Butler. In the present copy these sheets have been pasted on the blank leaves at the end with an inscription in Alfred's hand: "From the Shrewsbury Chronicle, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1897." Four sprigs of edelweiss are mounted on the blank leaf at the beginning of each volume. FINE COPY. IO BUTLER (S.) The Authoress of the Odyssey. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. 1897. £3 11 BUTLER (S.) Shakespeare's Sonnets, Reconsidered and in part Rearranged. With introductory chapters and notes. FIRST EDITION. 1899. FINE COPY £3 13 BUTLER.-Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler. A Step towards reconciliation by H. Festing Jones. FIRST EDITION, wrappers. 1911 Presentation copy, signed, from the author to " Alfred." 14 BUTLER (S.) Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and Canton Ticino. Illustrated. New and Enlarged edition with Author's Revisions and Index. 1913. FINE COPY £6 6s. IOS. Presentation copy to Alfred Cathie from his affectionate friend, Henry Festing Jones, 16 June, 1913." Loosely inserted is an autograph picture post card, signed from Butler to Alfred, from Fusio "... · you had better get the pass-book and see if the bank has repaid itself £200 or not. If the money has not been repaid, please call on the manager (go into his room, and say who you are) and say I desired you to call This card is addressed from the district about which Butler was writing in " Alps and Sanctuaries." 15 BUTLER.-The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge. A Catalogue and a Commentary by H. Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew. Portrait. Cambridge, 1921 £I IS. Presentation copy, signed, from Festing Jones: "For Alfred Cathie on his attaining the age of 60 with best wishes for many happy returns of the 30th Sept." 16 CLARE (John) The Rural Muse. Poems. Engraved front. and title. FIRST EDITION, original cloth. 1835 £2 28. An interesting copy having Rossetti's autograph on the fly-leaf and his favourite poems marked with a cross. Frontispiece and title a little foxed, otherwise good copy. 17 COPPARD (A. E.) Clorinda Walks in Heaven. FIRST EDITION. FINE COPY. 1922 Golden Cockerel Press. £3 35. Printed by One of a limited, signed edition of only 20 numbered copies on handmade paper. 18 DANIEL PRESS.-Christmas from the Noble Numbers of Robert Herrick. H. Daniel, Oxford, Christmas, 1891. Original wrappers, wrappers a little crumpled £4 48. Only 60 numbered copies were printed. 19 DANTE.-La Divina Commedia. 2 vols. Portrait. Pickering's Diamond Classics. 32mo., Full green crushed levant, gilt backs. 1832 £2 10s. Presentation copy from Henry Festing Jones to Robert Graves on the occasion of his marriage. Roberto Sianguro: Tutti i giorni come oggi! Tuo Enrico." 20 DAVIDSON (J.) Holiday and other Poems. FIRST EDITION, 1906 £4 4S. A very interesting association copy, having been presented by the author to Max Beerbohm and carrying the following, signed inscription in the author's hand: My dear Max, my new book, yours without a doubt." The book passed later into the hands of Mr. John Drinkwater and has his bookplate and autograph, and a bibliographical note in his hand. 21 [DEFOE] A System of Magick; or, A History of the Black Art. Being an Historical Account of Mankind's most early Dealing with the Devil; and how the Acquaintance on both sides first began. Front., 8vo., original panelled calf. 1727 £12 A fine copy of the FIRST EDITION. From the Carton Library, with bookplate and monogram on spine. 22 DOBSON (A.) Four Frenchwomen. Frontispiece, FIRST EDITION, 4to., original boards. 1890 £3 3s. One of a limited edition of only 50 copies on large paper, signed by the author. 23 DOUGLAS (N.) Old Calabria. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, GOOD COPY. 1915 £5 10S. 24 DOUGLAS (Norman) South Wind. FIRST EDITION. 1917 £12 128. The first issue, with the misprint. A fair copy, the covers dull, and a small label neatly removed from front cover. 25 DOUGLAS (N.) Together. Illustrated, FIRST EDITION. 1923. NEW £2 10s. One of 250 copies on large handmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. 26 DOVES PRESS.—Shakespeare's Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition, 1909. 4to., original vellum, FINE COPY £16 16s. One of 250 copies on handmade paper in red and black with specially designed initials. 27 [DUNTON (John)] A Voyage Round the World, or, a Pocket Library. Vol. II., containing the Rare Adventures of Don Kainophilus during his Seven Years Prenticeship . . . intermix't with instructions for the Management of a Mans' whole Life, also with particular remarks on the Most Noted Booksellers, Authors, and Poets in the City of London. Sm. 8vo., calf. 1691 £5 5s. EXTREMELY RARE. The author wished he had never seen it" and advised all who had it to burn it. He intended to issue about 24 vols. but it is believed that only three vols. appeared. 28 FENTON (E.) Mariamne. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-InnFields, 1723. (2) The Unhappy Loves of Herod and Mariamne, Introductory to Mr. Fenton's New Tragedy of that Name, now Acting at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-InnFields, 1723. (3) The History of Herod and Mariamne; Collected and Compil'd from the best Historians, and serving to illustrate the Fable of Mr. Fenton's Tragedy of that Name, 1723. 3 vols. in 1, 8vo., old-style calf, gilt £3 3s. FIRST EDITIONS of all three works. 29 FIELDING (Henry) Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times: Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd, The Election; And a Tragedy call'd, The Life and Death of Common-Sense. 8vo., old style sprinkled calf, gilt. 1736 £4 4s. A NICE COPY of the FIRST EDITION. £4 4s. 30 FIELDING (Henry) The Wedding-Day. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. 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As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. 8vo., old-style calf, gilt. 1749 £15 A nice tall copy of the FIRST EDITION, with the half title, and Dodsley's list of books at the end. 40 LONGI Pastoralum, de Daphnide et Chloë, Libri Quator. With frontispiece and 29 plates engraved by Audran after CoYPEL, etc., with borders by Fokke, four head pieces in duplicate by EISEN and four tailpieces in duplicate by COCHIN. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, binding rubbed. Paris, 1754 £5 Only 125 copies of this edition were printed. 42 MILTON (J.) Paradise Lost. Frontispiece. Pickering's Diamond Classics. 32mo., original cloth. 1835 £1 IS. 43 MISCELLANEA CURIOSA.-Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age; Being the most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society. And also a Collection of Curious Voyages and Travels, Antiquities, etc. The Second Edition. 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McKenna. With many engravings after Thomas Stothard. 20 vols., cr. 8vo., 1902 £4 IOS. 48 SIREN (O.) Leonardo da Vinci. The Artist and the Man. Profusely illustrated, FINE COPY. New Haven, 1916 £2 109. 49 STOW (John) A Survay of London. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598, by John Stow, Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ et nobilitate Londini; Written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the Second. Black Letter- Sm. 4to., old mottled calf, Imprinted by John Wolfe, Printer to the honorable Citie of London: And are to be sold at his shop within the Popes head Alley in Lombard Street, 1598 £21 Presentation copy from Stow to R. (?) Manwood. Has the following inscription in Manwoods' handwriting: The 17th day of November by my friend John Stow presented after his settings of it fourthe.. unto mee this day at St. Stephens. K. (?) Manwood." Unfortunately the first few words of the inscription have been badly cropped by binder. After the word November." however, the inscription is clear and perfect. 50 SWINBURNE (A. C.) Burd Margaret. FIRST EDITION, 1909. COPY " One of 20 copies privately printed for Watts-Dunton. 51 SWINBURNE (A. C.) Ode to Mazzini. FIRST EDITION, 1909. COPY One of 20 copies privately printed for Watts-Dunton. 52 SWINBURNE (A. C.) Lady Maisie's Bairn, and other Poems. 8vo., wrappers, FINE COPY £5 5S. 8vo., wrappers, FINE 8vo., wrappers, FINE £5 5s. FIRST EDITION, 1915 £5 5s. One of 20 copies privately printed for T. J. Wise. 53 SYMONS (A.) The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. FIRST EDITION, NICE COPY. Autograph of Professor Heron on fly-leaf, 1909 54 SYNGE (J. M.) Poems and Translations. Printed for John Quinn, New York, 1909 One of 50 copies printed to secure American copyright. that of the Cuala Press. It is much rarer than the latter. £1 158. £12 10S. The issue was simultaneous with |