restituti. Sequitur Probi celebris grammatici in Bucolica et Georgica commentariolus non ante impressus. Ad hos Donati fragmenta, Christophori Landini et Antonii Mancinelli commentarii. With 18 fine woodcuts of Venetian school, including one on the title-page, besides the printer's mark at the end. Bound in 2 vols. 4to, Eighteenth Century English binding of blue morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt backs, SILVER EDGES.

369.

Venetiis: Georgius de Rusconibus, 1520

The Duke of Rivoli, referring to the woodcuts of this edition, says that their composition is pretty and the design good. A VERY FINE COPY of this early edition of Virgil, with all the woodcuts free from coloring, and BINDING IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDITION.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRATIONS. Piis de Chansons nouvelles. One front. by Choffard, 1785. 12 beautiful plates by Le Barbier, engraved by Gaucher, illustrating the above. 12mo, full blue levant morocco, top gilt, uncut.

AN EXQUISITE LITTLE SET OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

370. ELIOT (GEORGE).

4 vols. 12mo, half calf, gilt.

VERY RARE.

Daniel Deronda. FIRST EDN.
Edinburgh and Lond. 1876

371. ELZEVIR IN MOSAIC BINDING. De la Sagesse, trois livres par Pierre Charron. 12mo, new full green levant morocco, doublé of rose levant, with a semé of lilacs IN MOSAICS, SILK FLY-LEAVES.

A Leide: Chez Jean Elzevir, 1646

A beautiful tall copy of this famous book, with fine impression of the engraved title.

372. ELZEVIR. Psalterium Davidis, ad Exemplar Vaticanum Anni. Small 12mo, contemporary smooth black morocco, with broad dentelle borders on sides, monogram in centres, tooled backs, gilt edges.

Lugduni: Apud Joh. et Dan. Elsevirios, 1653

The extremely rare First Edition, in handsome old binding, BY BOYET.

373. ELZEVIR. Tavernier (Jean Baptiste). Les Six Voyages de Tavernier en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes pendant l'espace de 40 ans. Engraved title-page and curious copper-plate engravings. Nouvelle Relation de l'Interieur du Serrail du Grand Seigneur, Contenant plusieurs singularitez qui jusqu'icy, n'ont point esté mises en Lumière. Front. Together 3 vols. 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco, inside dentelle borders, marbled edges gilt, by THIBARON. Amsterdam, 1678

According to M. Bernard, the above is absolutely one of the rarest Elzevir editions, the three volumes selling for 601 frs. in 1828. EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE COPY from the library of Marigues de Champs-Repus, with his gilt and red armorial bookplate in each volume.

374. ELZEVIR PRESS.-Virgilii Opera. Engraved title and a folding map. 12mo, contemporary English binding in red levant morocco, the sides covered with ornamental panels richly tooled and gilt, gilt back and edges, by SAMUEL MEARNE (?) (in fine condition). Lugd.-Batav. 1636

The Virgil, the Imitation of Christ, and the "Patissier François," are the best three and rarest jewels from the Elzevir Press, especially when in old morocco binding, as the above copy.

375. ELZEVIR PRESS.-B. Platine Cremonensis Opus de vitis ac gestis Summorum Pontificum. 12mo, old French red morocco gilt, gilt edges, by DEROME (in fine condition). [Leyde] 1645

RARE, ESPECIALLY IN OLD MOROCCO AS THE ABOVE COPY. This edition, although without printer's name, is mentioned in the Elzevir Catalogue of 1674, and is also assigned by Willems to the Elzevir Press. It is very important, as it gives the original text of Platina's Lives of the Popes, some passages of which had been suppressed in the older editions. From Lord Stuart's library, with bookplate.

376. EMERSON (RALPH WALDO). Complete Works. RIVERSIDE EDITION. With 2 engraved portraits, proofs on India paper, and vignette on titles. 12 vols. 8vo, original boards, uncut. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1883-93

LARGE PAPER, limited to 500 copies. Best and most elegant edition.

377. ENGLISH CASTLES, MONUMENTS, ETC. TON and BRAYLEY'S Beauties of England and Wales; also of Scotland. With about 800 engravings of mansions, views, etc., by Storer and Greg. 30 vols. 8vo, calf, full gilt backs. Lond. 1801-23

With the exception of a few pages stained, a good set of this famous pictorial record of the picturesque scenery, buildings, etc., of England and Wales.

378. ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.-Dryden (John). Alexander's Feast. Printed in red and black, with colored front. and colored initials. 12mo, vellum, uncut. Lond. 1904

ONLY ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY COPIES WERE PRINTED, ALL ON VELLUM.

379. ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.-Browning (Robert) Flight of the Duchess. Front. and initial letter in colors. Small 8vo, vellum, uncut, as issued. Campden: Glouces., 1905

BUT ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE COPIES WERE PRINTED, ALL ON VELLUM.

380. EUCLID. Billingsley (Sir Henry). The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara, faithfully (now First) translated into the Englishe Toung, by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London, whereunto are annexed certaine Scholies, Annotations, and Intentions, of the best Mathematicians, both of the time past and in this our age. With a very fruitfull Preface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mathematicall Sciences, what they are,

and whereunto commodious, where also are disclosed certaine new Secrets, Mathematicall and Mechanicall, untill these our daies, greatly missed. Engraved title-page, diagrams, and the rare folding page. Small folio, original calf. Lond. Printed by John Daye, 1570 FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EUCLID IN ENGLISH. The original was the Latin version attributed to Campanus, which was first printed in 1482. VERY SCARCE. The author was Lord Mayor of London, and a very interesting account of this famous volume will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography.

THIS IS THE FIRST COPY TO BE OFFERED BY PUBLIC AUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY.

381. EVELYN (JOHN). Diary of Evelyn, to which are added a selection from the familiar Letters and Private Correspondence between Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas. Edited from the original MSS. by William Bray, and with a Life of the Author by Henry B. Wheatley. Portraits and illusts. 4 vols. thick 8vo, half morocco, gilt tops, uncut. FINE SET. SCARCE. Lond. 1879

THIRD SESSION.

Extra-Illustrated Books.

Others are scattered through the Catalogue. See under Horne,
La Fontaine, Madison, etc., etc.

382. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF "MODERN LONDON." Modern London: being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis. Illust. with numerous copper plates. 4 vols. thick 4to, half morocco. Lond. 1805

A REMARKABLE OLD-TIME EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY HAVING ABOUT EIGHTEEN HUNDRED EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS INSERTED, INCLUDING PORTRAITS, VIEWS OF PLACES, MANY OF WHICH NO LONGER EXIST, COSTUME PLATES IN COLORS, MAPS, etc.

Although the text is not quite perfect, there is here presented such an unusual quantity of material that would serve to extra illustrate some more appropriate work, such as WALFORD'S "OLD AND NEW LONDON," or a work of a similar kind.

Among the portraits (mainly of the XVIII and XIXth centu ries, from the Universal Magazine, etc.) are Kings of England, and other persons famous in history.

The views (which are greatly in the majority) ARE SPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE-apart from their depicting places, many of which have been removed in the march of improvement-oWING TO

THE FACT THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM ARE COLORED.

The Costume plates are represented by AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET of the ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THE PLATES FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF "The Itinerant Traders of London," issued circa 1804. The complete set consists of thirty-one plates; this work contains TWENTY-SIX OF THEM. They depict men and women in trades of the lower order, many of which are now obsolete etc. The set is sold not returnable.

383. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED

LIFE OF KEMBLE. Boaden (James). Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq., with a History of the Stage from the Time of Garrick to the present period. ORIGINAL EDN. 2 vols. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt backs and sides, gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF. Lond. 1825 UNIQUE COPY, BEING EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN PORTRAITS AND VIEWS, AND SEVERAL AUTOGRAPHS.

Including A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, from Charles Kemble, with mention of his father and mother, the large admission ticket to the farewell dinner to John Philip Kemble on his retirement from the stage, with portrait (VERY RARE); A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo, from John Philip Kemble, 1799, to "My Little Maiden," an interesting personal letter, evidently to one of his juvenile friends; A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, from Fanny Kemble to Miss Doyle on personal matters.

The portraits, many of which are uncommon (some rare), stipples, etc., are a very interesting lot, and comprise, mainly, eminent actors and actresses in character, etc.

A COPY OF UNUSUAL INTEREST, from the Frederick Burgess collection, with bookplate in each volume.

A SUPERBLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF WREN. 384. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF WREN. Elmes (James). Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren, with a brief view of the Progress of Architecture in England, from the beginning of the Reign of Charles the First to the end of the Seventeenth Century, and an Appendix of Authentic Documents. THE SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION. Portrait. 2 vols. Lond. 1823

ONE VOLUME EXTENDED TO TWO WITH SPECIALLY PREPARED TITLE FOR VOLUME TWO, BOUND IN THREE-QUARTER BLUE CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO, GILT TOPS, UNCUT, BY ZAEHNSDORF.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE EXTRA PLATES (MANY OF WHICH ARE BRILLIANT PROOF IMPRESSIONS), INCLUDING PORTRAITS, VIEWS, etc.

UNUSUALLY CHOICE ITEM, CONTAINING MANY PORTRAITS AND VIEWS THAT ARE SELDOM FOUND IN WORKS OF THIS KIND.

385. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED "PICKWICK PAPERS.' DICKENS (CHARLES). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." FIRST EDN. With illusts. by R. Seymour and "Phiz" (and the Two SUPPRESSED PLATES BY "BUss'). 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, floral tooling on back and sides, gilt top. Lond. 1837

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY, HAVING INSERTED THE ORIGINAL FRONT WRAPPER FOR PART IX, AND THE COMPLETE SET OF THIRTY-TWO EXTRA PLATES BY ONWHYN. FINE COPY.

386. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF WALPOLE. Dobson (Austin). Horace Walpole: A Memoir, with an Appendix of Books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. Illust. 8vo, full green polished calf, gilt back and top, Lond. 1893 FINE COPY. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of NINETYTHREE PORTRAITS AND VIEWS, including some scarce eighteenth century material.

uncut.

387. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED "VAGRANTS AND VAGRANCY." Ribton-Turner (C. J.). A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging. Best edn. Illust. Thick 8vo, full morocco, gilt edges. Lond. 1887

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of FORTY-NINE PORTRAITS (two in colors), Colored Views, Autograph Letter from the Author, etc. FINE COPY OF THIS INTERESTING WORK.

388. FAIRFAX (EDWARD). Godfrey of Boulogne;

or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem. Done into English Heroicall verse. Title within an architectural woodcut border. Small folio, ORIGINAL CALF.

Lond. John Bill, 1624

VERY RARE in the original calf binding as the above copy. With the bookplates of the English antiquaries John Fenn and John Fiere.

389. FANSHAWE (RICHARD). Pastor Fido: the Faithfull Shepheard, with an Addition of divers other Poems. FIRST EDN. 4to, old English brown morocco, gilt (neatly rebacked). Lond. 1648

RARE. This poem is highly commended by Sir John Denham. Title slightly damaged at top.

Ora

390. FIFTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT. tiones et Preces variæ. MSS. on vellum of the XVth century neatly written in Gothic character in red and black on 60 leaves, with hundreds of initials painted in blue and red, executed in Germany for the use of a Convent of Nuns, and containing several orations, litanies, psalms and hymns, WITH MUSIC NOTED ON FOUR LINES. Small 4to, contemporary binding in pigskin, the upper cover blind-tooled with a central panel of three roses within flowers, surrounded by a border of fleur-de-lis, and the name of "Maria" repeated five times; the lower cover divided in four triangles, having a blind-tooled large fleuron in the centre, and with original clasp of beaten brass and leather. Sæc. XV.

A very fine and perfect specimen of German binding of the period, with the date 1496 inscribed on the inside of the lower cover. BINDINGS BEARING SO OLD A DATE ARE EXTREMELY RARE.