Shall I then say that I longed with an earnest and consuming desire for the moment of Morella's decease I did: but the Fragile spirit clung to its lenement of clay for many dog's two for many werks and irksome. months until at length my tortured nerves obtained the mastery over my mind, and I grew furious with delay, and with the heart of a fiend I cursed the hours and the bitter moments which seemed to lengthen and lengthen as her gentle life declined, like shadows in the dying of the day.

No. 820

The Library and Art Collection

FORMED BY THE LATE

James Park

OF NEW YORK CITY

PART II-MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE BOOKS

MAINLY ENGLISH IMPRINTS

LIBRARY SETS, INCUNABULA, FIRST EDITIONS; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS; FULL BOUND CATALOGUES OF FAMOUS FRENCH ART SALES; Books ON COSTUME AND OTHER BOOKS WITH COLORED PLATES; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS; A RARE COLLECTION

OF TENNYSONIANA; ASSOCIATION ITEMS CONNECTED

WITH THACKERAY; TWO MANUSCRIPTS OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE; AND A MINIATURE

OF ANDREW JACKSON BY CASTEL.

PART III-COMPOSED OF PAINTINGS, ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS:
CATALOGUE IN PREPARATION.

N. B.-BY PERMISSION OF THE EXECUTORS SOME ADDITIONS HAVE BEEN MADE TO COMPLETE THE NUMBER REQUIRED FOR THE SALE.

BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS.

Conditions of Sale.

1. All bids to be per Lot as numbered in the Catalogue.

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Material on Exhibition three days before the sale

Priced copy of this Catalogue may be secured for $2.00.

Library and Art Collection

FORMED BY THE LATE

James Park

OF NEW YORK CITY

PART II

[WITH ADDITIONS]

1. A'BECKETT'S COMIC ENGLAND AND ROME.

A'Beckett (Gilbert Abbott). The Comic History of England, 2 vols., Lond., Punch Office, 1847, 1848; also, The Comic History of Rome, Lond., Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street [1850]. Together 3 vols. 8vo, tree calf, extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. Lond. 1847-8-50

A VERY CHOICE SET, and perfect in every way, with the exception that Vol. I of the History of England lacks the halftitle (a minor defect).

The work is embellished with numerous FINELY COLORED PLATES, and several hundred illustrations by JOHN LEECH, which must always rank among some of his finest productions.

2. A'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOTT). The Comic Blackstone. FIRST EDN. Illust. by George Cruikshank. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1846 Copies in original cloth, and seldom offered for sale.

3. A'BECKETT (GILBERT ABBOTT). The Comic History of Rome. With illusts. IN COLOR and woodcuts in the text by John Leech. 8vo, IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH, UNCUT.

Lond. Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street [1851] UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE INIMITABLE COLOR PLATES BY JOHN LEECH.

4. ADDISON (JOSEPH) (1672-1719). The Campaign, a poem, to His Grace, the Duke of Marlborough. By Mr. Addison. FIRST EDN., folio, full dark brown levant extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. FINE COPY. Lond. Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate, next Gray's Inn Lane, 1705.

VERY SCARCE. The Battle of Blenheim had excited the attention of Europe to the Conquerors, and the opportunity must

not be lost to celebrate the event in verse. Lord Treasurer
Godolphin inquired anxiously for a poet, and Lord Halifax
named Addison as the proper person. Mr. Treasurer Boyle,
afterwards Lord Carleton, was sent to proffer the request to
the poet, who immediately undertook the duty. "The Cam-
paign" was written, and the successful bard became Commis-
sioner of Appeals, and in 1706 Under Secretary of State.
aid of such a penman was not to be despised by any Ministry,
however powerful.

The

It is interesting to note that Addison composed this poem in his lodgings, "up three pairs of stairs." The house no longer exists; but the tobacconists, Fribourg and Treyer, where he used to fill his snuff-box, still remains, and their quaint, bowwindowed shop stands unaltered to this day.

5. ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN. The Adventures of a Post Captain; or, Adventures of a True British Tar. By a Naval Officer. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 8vo, full polished calf, extra, gilt edges. Lond. [1817]

UNUSUALLY FINE COPY. The work contains TWENTY-FIVE SPIRITED FULL-PAGE PLATES IN COLOR (in this copy THEY ARE OF EXCEPTIONAL BRILLIANCY) by Williams.

6. AINSWORTH (W. HARRISON). An Historical Romance. FIRST EDN. Cruikshank. 3 vols. 12mo, half calf.

Windsor Castle.
Illusts. by Geo.
Lond. 1843

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO MRS. CHARLES LEVER (wife of the novelist). Each volume contains the bookplate of Sir Richard Neville,

Publications from the Famous Press of Aldus.

7. ALDINE PRESS.-Dictionarium Græcum copiossissimum secundum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione latina. Cyrilli opusculum de dictionibus. . . Ammonius de differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem. Vetus instructio et denominationes præfectorum militum, etc. (græce et latine). 243 unnumbered leaves, 42 lines to the page. Small folio, full russia, blind tooled borders on the sides, blind tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by C. HERING, WITH TICKET.

Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi Manutii Romani, 1497 FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE AND LARGE COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF PRINTING, ONE OF THE RAREST FROM THE CELEBRATED PRESS OF ALDUS. RENOUARD, p. 13; Hain-Copinger, 6151; Proctor, 5561; Brunet II, 689.

8. ALDINE PRESS.-Leonicenus (Nicolaus). Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. 4to, old vellum. Venetiis, in domo Aldi Manutii, 1497

THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED ON THE SYPHILIS, which was known in Europe but a few years only. Renouard, pp. 14-15. A few marginal notes very slightly shaved, otherwise A CLEAN AND SOUND COPY, WITH THE EXTREMELY RARE LEAF OF ERRATA AND LAST BLANK, which are missing in nearly all copies known. From the library of the Duke of Sussex, with his bookplate. We believe this the first copy ever offered by public auction in America.