BURNET (Gilbert). THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 78 A new edition, carefully revised, and the records collated with the originals, by Nicholas Pocock, M.A. 7 vols. BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME: with Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift. To which are added Other Annotations. Second edition, enlarged. 6 vols. Together 13 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in contemporary tree-calf, gilt. Oxford, 1833-65. £10/-/ A nice set of these good library editions. BURTON (Robert). THE ENGLISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, or, View of the Dominions of 79 the Crown of England in the West Indies, namely New-England, New York, Pensilvania, Virginia, etc. etc. With a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards. Curious maps and wood engravings. Sixth edition. 12mo, sheep, newly bound. 1728. £3/10/Complete, but has been much used and so become soiled throughout. Some leaves have been mended at corners. "Henry Hammond" [1729] has written his name on several margins. BUTLER (Samuel). See 59, 288. [BYRON (Lord)]. THE AGE OF BRONZE; or, Carmen Seculare et Annus haud Mirabilis. 80 Demy 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. London: Printed for John Hunt, 22 Old Bond Street, 1823. £351-1 The first edition. Has a light impression of a rubber stamp on fly-leaf, but an unusually fine copy. BYRON (Lord). HEBREW MELOdies. 81 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1815. £38/-1 The first edition. The first issue, with the announcement of "Jacqueline" included among the advertisements upon the reverse of E4. The paper is water-marked 1814. Has a light impression of a rubber stamp on fly-leaf, but an unusually fine copy. BYRON. POEMS, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. By George Gordon, Lord Byron. Second edition. Frontispiece. Fcap. 8vo, original marbled boards, rebacked in calf, the edges entirely uncut. Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1808. £5/15/Five pieces make their appearance in print in this volume for the first time. Byron's first intention had been that his own portrait should have appeared as a frontispiece to this book, but, owing to the delay entailed by this, a view of Harrow was substituted. BYRON (Lord). LARA, A Tale. JACQUELINE, A Tale. 82 83 Fcap. 8vo, original boards, with paper label, edges uncut. London: J. Murray, 1814. £16|-| First edition. A remarkably fine copy, except that the lower portion of the spine is defective. Enclosed in a cloth solander case. Wise, pp. 45-46. "Jacqueline" is written by Samuel Rogers. BYRON. See also 260. B 84 CABELL (James Branch). BALLADES From the Hidden WAY. Decorations and typography by W. A. Dwiggins. Large 8vo. New York, 1928. One of an edition of 831 copies, signed by the author. £4/4/ 85 CALLIMACHI HYMNI, Epigrammata et Fragmenta, ex recensione Jo. Augusti Ernesti. Engraved title. 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary crimson morocco, the backs richly gilt, with broad tooled borders on sides, and gilt edges. Lugd. Bat., 1761. £31-1Fine copy. 86 CALLOT. LUX CLAUSTRI. La Lumiere du Cloistre. Representées par Figures Emblematiques, dessignées et gravées par Jacques Callot. Paris: Chez François Langlois, 1646. VITA BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS MATRIS DEI. Emblematibus delineata. Vie de la Bien-Heureuse Vierge Marie Mere de Dieu. Representée par Figures Emblematiques, dessignées et gravées par Jacques Callot. Paris: Chez François Langlois, 1646. Together, 2 vols. in 1. Sm. 4to, early nineteenth-century calf, gilt, gilt edges. £4/15/The second issue of the first book [Brunet, Callot, 13] and the second edition of the second item. 87 CANADA. [MASERES (Francis)]. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH, AND OTHER PROTESTANT INHABITANTS, OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBECK, IN NORTH-AMERICA, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AN House of AssembLY IN THAT PROVINCE. 8vo, original boards, edges uncut, back defective. 1775. Very rare in this original condition. Enclosed in a buckram solander case. 88 CARLYLE (Thomas). SARTOr Resartus. £18/18/ Sm. 4to, blue morocco, gilt, with raised bands on back, and gilt edges [by the Doves £301-1 One of an edition of 300 copies, printed in black and red by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at The Doves Press. 89 CARLYLE PRESENTATION. INSTRUCTION PARTICULIERE DU ROI DE PRUSSE AUX OFFICIERS DE SON ARMEE, PRINCIPALMENT A CEUX DE CAVALERIE. 90 Post 8vo., old style, half calf, with the original marbled paper sides. Tournay: Chez An interesting copy. On the fly-leaf is written, in Thomas Carlyle's hand, "To Lieut.- HORTI CAROLINI ROSA Altera. Sm. 4to, old calf, rebacked. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1640. Some leaves are soiled. £4/4/ Adulatory poems, some in Latin, some in English, by W. Strode, Richard Zouch, John 91 CARROLL (Lewis). RHYME? and Reason? Illustrated. Cr. 8vo. 1883. £37/10/ First edition. A very fine association copy, with an inscription in the author's hand, presenting the book "with best love" to his sister. It was later given to Miss Collingwood, a relative of Carroll's biographer, and by her to a Miss Browning. Preserved in a cloth slip-in case. CATULLUS. TIBULLUS. PROPERTIUS. Title within decorative border. Printer's device on signature S8. Sm. 8vo, bound in a sixteenth-century Italian calf binding, both sides being gilt-tooled, and with inlaid and painted decorations in the form of a centre diamond-shaped panel, within borders; the back has raised bands, and the volume is enclosed in a lined buckram case, with leather lettering-piece. Impressum Venetiis per Melchiorem Sessam, 1531. £21/-/ An interesting specimen of binding, in excellent condition. The book itself has some leaves stained in the lower margins. 92 CELLINI (Benvenuto). THE LIFE OF, newly translated into English, by John Addington 93 Symonds. With engraved portrait and eight etchings by F. Laguillermie, also eighteen reproductions of the works of the master. 2 vols., sm. 4to, half morocco, gilt (a little rubbed). London: Nimmo, 1888. £8/8/The first edition. Limited to 750 copies. The CENTURY GUILD HOBBY-HORSE. An absolutely complete and very unusual set of this 94 interesting periodical, edited by H. P. Horne and Selwyn Image. 1884-94. 7 vols. and 4 parts. Sold In addition to the usual set of seven volumes, which in the present copy are bound in white canvas with red-and-blue lettering-pieces, there are four extra parts which are almost always missing. The first of these parts is the extremely rare "suppressed" issue of No. 1, published at Orpington in April 1884, two years before the regular issue, which began in 1886. The contents of the first two numbers are different. The other three numbers form the complete set of the "Hobby-Horse" as revived. Loosely inserted are prospectuses of both series. CERVANTES. THE HISTORY OF THE VALOROUS AND WITTIE KNIGHT ERRANT DON 95 £60/-1 CHARLES I. HIS MAJESTIES SPEACH IN THE STARRE-CHAMBER, The XX. of June, Anno 96 1616. Woodcut of Royal Arms on verso of title-page. Sm. 4to, polished calf, gilt. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [1616]. £3/15/The title-page is cropped at the head, and one corner of the margin of the last leaf is repaired; otherwise the copy is a good one, with ample margins. CHARLES I. THE PRINCELY PELLICAN. Royall Resolves presented In sundry choice 97 Observations, Extracted from His Majesties Divine Meditations: With Satisfactory Reasons to the whole Kingdome, That His Sacred Person was the onely Author of them. Woodcut frontispiece. Sm. 4to, half morocco, gilt. 1649. £4/10/ The first edition of this scarce pamphlet, "The Princely Pellican" which ends on page 31, is followed by "Albion's Niobe", and other verses on the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Capel, and others. |