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36. BIBLIOGRAPHER (THE). Vols. I and II, 1882; The Bookman, Vol. III, 1896; The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, Vol. II, 1882. Illustrations. Together, 4 vols. 8vo, various bindings (two backs missing). Lond. & N. Y.

37. BIOGRAPHY. Thomson (Slason), Eugene Field, portraits, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., 1901; James Fenimore Cooper, by T. R. Lounsbury, 1884; Admiral Farragut, by Capt. Mahan, 1901; and 2 others. Together, 6 vols. 12mo cloth.

v. p. v. d.

38 BIRDS of Michigan, by A. J. Cook, illustrated, 1893; N. Y. Historical Society Proceedings; Death of Luther Bradish (A. L. S. inserted); R. R. Hinman's Catalogue of Puritan Settlers of Conn., Hartford, 1856; No. 5. The City, Jan., 1872; and 8 others. Together, 12 items, 8vo, various bindings.

39. BLOUNT (THOMAS). Glossographia: or, a Dictionary interpreting the Hard Words of whatsoever Language, now used in our refined English Tongue, etc. 12mo, half calf. Lond. 1670

40. BOOKBINDINGS. La Croix-Laval. Mes Cent Reliures. Text only. 12 illustrations. 4to, gray cloth portfolio. Paris, 1882-1902

* One of 75 copies printed.

41. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Hazlitt (W. Carew). The Book-Collector . . . with an Account of Public and Private Libraries, &c. 2 plates. Square 12mo, cloth, gilt top, unLond. 1904

cut.

42. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. Catalogues of English Booksellers, Voynich, Cooper, Miles, &c., 26 pieces, from 1894 to 1906. 8vo, wrappers. Lond., &c., 1894-1906

43. BOSWELL (JAMES). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with the Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides. With notes by Alex. Napier. Steel plates and portraits. 5 vols. imperial 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1884 * LARGE PAPER COPY; one of 104 copies, with the 100 plates on India paper.

44. BOURNE (H. R. FOX). English Merchants: Memoirs in illustration of the progress of British Commerce. Illustrated. 2 vols. 12mo, half calf, gilt (rubbed).

Lond. 1866

45. BRACEBRIDGE HALL, by W. Irving, illustrated by Caldecott, Lond. 1895; The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lond. 1897; Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, Chiswick, 1818. Together, 3 vols. 12mo, half morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

46. BRADFORD'S History of "Plimouth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Portraits. 8vo, cloth.

Bost. 1898

47. BRASSEY (LADY). In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties. 292 illustrations, proofs on India paper by Pearson and Cooper after Pritchett, and maps. Royal 8vo, half leather and boards, gilt. Lond. 1885

* One of only 250 copies printed.

48. BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES. Containing Personal Recollections of Lamb, Hazlitt, Constable, Gillies, Moore, Jordan, Thackeray, Dickens, etc. Portraits. 10 vols. 12mo, half blue calf (rubbed). N. Y. 1875-76 49. BRITISH MUSEUM. Stevens (Henry). Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas, 1856. Title vignette and head-pieces. Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1866

50. BROUGHAM (HENRY, LORD). Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. 2 vols. 12mo, half calf, gilt. Phila. 1841 51. [BROWNE (CHARLES F.).] Artemus Ward among the Mormons. Introduction by E. P. Hingston. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 16mo, pictorial wrappers.

Lond. [ca. 1865]

52. BRYAN'S Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. New Edition, thoroughly revised. Edited by R. E. Graves. 12 parts in 11. Royal 8vo, paper, uncut. N. Y., n. d.

53. BRYANT (WM. C.). Funeral Oration on the death of Th. Cole. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, sewn. N. Y. 1848

54. BUCANIERS OF AMERICA. History of the Bucaniers of America; from the First Original down to this Time. . . Containing the Exploits and Adventures of Le Grand, Lolonois, Roche, Bat the Portuguese, &c. . . . The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Capt. Barth, Sharp, Watlin, and others in the South Seas, &c. Maps and plates, including portraits of the pirates Morgan, Bart, Portuguese, and Lolonois, also scenes of battle, cruelty, &c. Thick 12mo, recently bound in full dark-brown levant morocco, gilt (a few repairs to maps, and parts of some lower margins worm-eaten). Lond. 1704

*SCARCE. Contains also the Journal of Sieur de Lussan of a Voyage in the South Sea from 1684 to 1689; and the Relation of the Sieur de Montaubon's voyage in 1695, &c.

55. BULWER-LYTTON (EDWARD). The Pilgrims of the Rhine. 27 fine plates after David Roberts, Maclise, etc. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, polished calf, gilt (rubbed). Lond. 1834

56. BURGES (BARTHOLOMEW). A Short Account of the Solar System, and of Comets in General; together with a Particular Account of the Comet that will appear in 1789. Second Edition, corrected. 16mo, original wrappers, uncut. Bost. Printed by B. Edes & Son, 1789

* A SCARCE PAMPHLET, dedicated to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Massachusetts and the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania.

Nu

57. BURKE (ASHWORTH P.). Family Records. merous coats-of-arms. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, Lond. 1897

58. BURNS (ROBERT). The Life and Works. Edited by Robert Chambers. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinb. 1856

* The Thomas J. McKee copy, with bookplates. 59. BURROUGHS (JOHN). Whitman, a study. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1896

60. BURTON (JOHN HILL). The Book-Hunter, etc. With a Memoir of the Author. Portrait and plate. Square 8vo, cloth, uncut. Limited Edition. Edinb. 1882

61. BURTON (WILLIAM E.). The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor; containing selections from the most eminent Humorists. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo, old half brown morocco, gilt. N. Y. 1867 62. BYRON (LORD). The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron. 2 vols. Svo, old half maroon morocco, gilt. Lond. 1815

63. (back worn).

64.

Cain, a Mystery. 12mo, original cover, uncut Lond. Printed for the booksellers, 1822 * A scarce pirated edition, with fine engraved frontispiece.

The Works of Byron, with Letters, Journals, and Life, by Thomas Moore. Portrait and plates engraved by Finden after Turner, Clarkson, Stanfield, and others. 17 vols. 12mo, cloth, partly uncut (several vols. stained and shaken). Lond. John Murray, 1832-7

65.

Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings by W. Brockedon. 161 fine portraits and plates on steel by Stanfield, Turner, Roberts, Cattermole, Westall, and others. 3 vols. 4to, green morocco, gilt and blind-tooled, gilt edges. Lond. 1833-34

* LARGE PAPER COPY, with proofs of the plates. This contains 35 more plates than the small paper copies.

66. The Works of Lord Byron: with his Letters and Journals and his Life by Thomas Moore. Engraved titles and frontispieces. 17 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut.

Lond. Murray, 1833

67. The Rest of Don Juan, inscribed to the shade of Byron. FIRST EDITION. BY H. Morford. 8vo, original cover. N. Y. 1846

68. CES

morocco.

ESAR. History of Julius Cæsar by Napoleon.
Portrait and maps. 2 vols. 8vo, half green

N. Y. 1865

69. CALDECOTT ILLUSTRATIONS. Irving (Washington). Bracebridge Hall. Illustrations after Randolph Caldecott, engraved by J. D. Cooper. 12mo, full green levant morocco, gilt panelled back, corner ornaments on sides, gilt edges, original cloth covers bound in, within silk-cloth wrapper. Lond. Macmillan, 1877

* CHOICE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION with these illustrations.

70. Gleanings from the "Graphic." FIRST EDITION. Colored illustrations. Oblong 4to, pictorial boards (loose).

Lond. 1889 71. PICTURE Books. Ride a Cock Horse; The Mad Dog; The Milkmaid; An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex. Colored plates. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 4 vols. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, one slightly torn. Lond.

72. CALIFORNIA. The German Emigrants, or Frederick Wohlgemuth's Voyage to California, by Dr. Dietrich. Trans. by Leopold Wray. 8 quaint colored plates. glazed illumined boards.

16mo,

Guben [1852]

* Scarce. Written shortly after the discovery of gold.

73. CARD GAMES. Theory of Whist (Pole), N. Y. 1877; Laws and Principles of Whist (Cavendish), 1893; The Laws of Piquet (Cavendish), 1892; Ecarté and Euchre (Berkeley), 1890; and 3 others. Together, 7 vols. 12mo, cloth and boards.

74. CARPENTER (EDWARD). The Village and the Landlord. FIRST EIDTION. 8vo, wrappers. Lond. 1907 75. CARLYLE (THOMAS). The Life of Friedrich Schiller. Portrait. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original half cloth and boards, uncut. Lond. 1825

76.

Past and Present. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original cloth, lacks an end-paper. Lond. 1843

77. - Shooting Niagara. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original cover, uncut.

Lond. 1867

78. Jones (Samuel A.-Editor). Collectanea Thomas Carlyle, 1821-1855. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 8vo, buckram, uncut. Canton, Pa.: The Kirgate Press, 1903

79.

* One of 500 copies on Old Stratford paper. Contains several examples of Carlyle's early work that are said to have escaped the notice of bibliographers.

2 copies, similar.

80. CARTE (THOMAS). A General History of England, containing an Account of the first Inhabitants of the Country, and the Transactions in it, from the earliest Times to the Death of King John, A.D. MCCXVI. 4 vols. folio, mottled calf, gilt (binding loose and rubbed).

Lond. Printed for the Author, 1747-55

* From the library of William Twopeny, with bookplate.

81. CATALOGUES. Catalogues of the Goodwin, Ives, Manson, Griswold, Guild, Cooke, and other Libraries. 10 vols. 8vo, various bindings. Some priced.

Henry G. Bohn's Catalogue, 1841.

v. p. v. d. Libraries of

82. Rev. J. Gossett, 1813; Col. E. C. James, 1884; William F. Fowle; 1864; J. B. Fisher, 1866; J. L. Goldsmid, 1815. Together, 6 vols. 8vo, half morocco and calf.

83.

Libraries of Peter Hastie and E. H. Tracy, N. Y. 1877; G. T. Strong, 1878; A. L. A. Catalogue, 1904, Wash.; Bibliotheca Diabolica, N. Y. 1874; and 13 others. Together, 17 items, various bindings and sizes.

84.

Library of Henry C. Murphy, priced, N. Y. 1884; Collection of William Menzies, priced, N. Y. 1875. Together, 2 vols. half morocco and paper.

85. Libraries of Andrew Wight, N. Y. 1864; Fred'k W. French, Bost. 1901; Col. J. H. French, Bost. 1904; W. H. Arnold, 1901; Marshall C. Lefferts, N. Y. 1902; Henry Perkins, 1873; Chas. B. Foote, 1894-95; Alex. Farnum, N. Y. 1884. All the above either priced or with printed prices. Together, 8 vols. half morocco and paper.

The

86. CAVENDISH (GEORGE). Wolsey. With Notes by S. W. Singer. old half calf.

* With 7 extra plates loosely laid in.

Life of Cardinal
Illustrated. 8vo,
Lond. 1827

87. CENTURY GALLERY of 100 Portraits, Girton (James). Seventy-five Portraits of Celebrated Painters, etchings, Lond. 1817; American Biographical History (Michigan), portraits, Cinn. 1878; Welles' American Family Antiquity, illustrated, Vol. 2. Together, 4 vols. 4to, cloth and boards.

88. CERVANTES. Exemplary Novels. Translated by James Mabbe, 1640. Introduction and Notes, by S. W. Orson. Illustrations by Frank Bragwyn. 2 vols. 12mo, half red levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut, by Bayntun.

* Choice copy of a Limited Edition.

Lond. 1900

89. CHAP BOOKS. John Cheap, The Chapman's Library; The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, classified. 3 vols. 12mo, old half morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

Glasgow, 1877

of Chesterfield: Memoir by M. calf, gilt (two

90. CHESTERFIELD (LORD). Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl Consisting of Letters to his Friends, etc. Maty. Portraits. 2 vols. new half mottled pages need repairs).

Lond. 1777

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