302 LAMBARDE (W.). APXAIONOMIA, SIVE DE PRISCIS ANGLORUM legibus libri. Map. Sm. 4to, calf. Ex officina Joannis Daii, 1568.

£81-1First edition. Clean large copy. The original text and Lambarde's translation on opposite pages.

LANDOR (W. S.). See 332.

303 LANGBAINE (Gerard). AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH DRAMATICK POETS. Or, Some Observations And Remarks On the Lives and Writings, of all those that have Publish'd either Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Opera's in the English Tongue.

Sm. 8vo, original panelled calf. Oxford: Printed by L. L. for George West and Henry
Clements, 1691.

A fine copy of the first edition.

A valuable work of reference, and Langbaine's best known work.

304 LAWRENCE (D. H.). LOVE POEMS AND OTHERS.

8vo. 1913.

First edition, the first issue.
Publishers' stamp on title-page.

LEE PRIORY PRESS. See 74.

£7/71

£5/51

305 LEGAL. LITTLETON TENURES IN ENGLISHE. Imprinted at London in Fletestre within Temple barre, at the signe of the hand and starre by Richard Tottyl, 1574. Black letter. Sm. thick 8vo, original sheep, neatly repaired.

£151-1

306 LE SAGE. HISTOIRE DE GIL Blas de SantilLANE. Édition ornée de Figures en taille douce, gravées par les meilleurs Artistes de Paris.

4 vols., demy 8vo, contemporary dark blue morocco, gilt, with raised bands on back, single gold fillets on sides and within, and gilt edges. Paris: Didot Jeune, L'An Troisième [1795].

An exceptionally fine set of this famous edition, printed on large paper.

£15/15/

307 LE SAGE. HISTOIRE de Gil Blas de SANTILLANE. Édition ornée de Figures en taille douce, gravées par les meilleurs Artistes de Paris. Paris: Didot Jeune, L'An Troisième [1795].

4 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt, gilt edges, skilfully and appropriately rebacked. £8/8308 LETTERS written by the late Earl of Chatham to his nephew Thomas Pitt, Esq. [afterwards Lord Camelford] then at Cambridge.

Demy 8vo, contemporary crimson morocco, extra, wide borders on sides, with "fan-
fare" corner ornaments, deep border within and gilt edges [by Herring]. London:
Printed for T. Payne by T. Bensley, 1804.
£3/31-

Fine copy, on large paper. Presentation copy from Lord Grenville to Lord Carysfort,
with the latter's book-plate.

309 LEVER (Charles). MILITARY NOVELS. With portrait and engraved illustrations by

George Cruikshank.

9 vols., 8vo, contemporary half morocco, gilt, with marbled sides and gilt tops. London, N.D. [c. 1900].

Édition de Luxe, limited to 500 numbered sets.

LINNAEAN SYSTEM OF BOTANY, THE CLASSES AND ORDERS OF.

£6/6/

Edited 310

by Duppa. With numerous full-page engravings of flowers, beautifully handcoloured.

3 vols., tall 8vo, contemporary olive straight-grained morocco, extra, with gilt edges. London: Printed by J. Bensley, 1816

A fine set.

[LISTER (Thomas H.)]. HERBERT LACY. By The Author of Granby.

£8/8/

3 vols., cr. 8vo, original boards, with paper labels, edges uncut. 1828. The first edition. A remarkably fine copy.

£4/4/

311

LONDON. A BReefe Discourse, declaring and approving the necessarie and inviolable 312 maintenance of the laudable Customes of London: Namely, of that one, whereby a reasonable partition of the goods of husbands among their wives and children is provided: With an answer to such objections and pretensed reasons, as are by persons unadvised or evil persuaded, used against the same. Title printed within decorative printed border.

Post 8vo, old-style mottled calf, gilt. London: Henrie Midletown for Rafe Newberie, 1584.

A very nice copy.

£8/8/

Not in Pollard and Redgrave.

LONDON. THE ORDER OF MY LORD MAYOR, THE ALDERMEN, AND THE SHERIFFS: For 313
their Meetings and wearing of their Apparel throughout the whole Year. Front, 1673.
(2) SHORT INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF Freemen,
In Exhibiting an Inventory, securing Orphans Portions, etc., With Several Orders
of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen relating thereunto. Front, 1682.
Together, 2 vols. in 1, 24m0, old calf.

£7/71

The first book was written by Hugh Singleton. The last leaf of this is mounted.

LOTTINI. AVVEDIMENTI CIVILI, di M. Giovan Francesco Lottini da Volterra. Florence, 314
1574. (2) PIÙ CONSIGLI ET Avvertimenti di M. FR. GUICCIARDINI GENTILHUOMO
FIOR. In Materia di Re Publica et di Privata, Nuovamente mandati in luce; Paragi;
Federigo Morello, 1576.

2 vols. in 1, demy 8vo, crimson morocco, gilt, gilt edges, on both sides the Arms of
J. de Thou and his first wife, Marie Barbançou, and with his initials in the panels at
the back.

Fine copy.

£15/-/

LUCANUS (Marcus Annaeus). PHARSALIA [With the Commentaries of Jo. Sulpitius 315 and Omnibonus Vicentinus]. Milan: L. Pachel, 1499.

Folio, vellum.

£6/15/

Roman letter, text surrounded on three sides by commentary, 218 ll., 60-61 lines, some manuscript notes in an old hand in the margins and between the lines.

[Hain, 10243.]

1

316 LUCRETIUS. DE RERUM NATURA, interp. et notis illustravit M. Fayus. Delphin Edition. 4to, old red morocco, ornamented in gold on back, gilt edges. Paris, 1680. £4'10

317 LUTHER (Martin). A COMMENTARIE UPON THE FIFTENE PSALMES CALLED PSALMI GRADUUM, faithfully copied out of the Lecture of Dr. Martin Luther. Translated into English by Henry Bull, with foreword by John Fox.

Black Letter. Sm. 8vo, vellum [piece cut from back]. Imprinted by T. Vautroullier, in
Blacke Friers, 1577.

Has a foreword by John Fox.

£41-1

318 MCCARTHY (Justin). A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES. From the Accession of Queen

Victoria to the General Election of 1880.

4 vols., 8vo, contemporary tree-calf, extra, with marbled edges. 1880.
Fine set.

£4.10

319 MACAULAY. ENGLAND'S Historia från Jakob den Andres tillträde till REGERINGEN. Af Thomas Babington Macaulay.

2 vols., 8vo, cloth, as issued. Stockholm, 1853.

£3/3

A very interesting copy of the Swedish translation of Macaulay's "England".
Inserted is a letter from the Editor of the edition, addressed to Macaulay, and sending
him this copy of his "highly celebrated work".

320 MACPHERSON (James). FINGAL, An Epic Poem, in Six Books: Together with several
other Poems, composed by Ossian the Son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic
Language. The Second Edition. Vignette title-page.
4to, original calf, gilt, well rebacked. 1762.

£8/8

An unusually interesting copy containing the rare single-sheet "Proposals" for printing the book, with autograph signature of Macpherson. Also two insertions containing long manuscript notes on Macpherson by Alexander Macdonald and George Chalmers. 321 MAETERLINCK (Maurice). Serres Chaudes. Frontispiece, and woodcut illustrations. Cr. 8vo, purple cloth, gilt, the original limp parchment bound in. Paris, 1889. £3/15/The first edition. One of 155 numbered copies, printed on Van Gelder paper.

322 MAETERLINCK (Maurice). Les Aveugles.

12mo, cloth, gilt. Brussels [1890].

The first edition. 150 copies printed.

£3/31

323 MAINTENON (Madame de). MÉMOIRES POUR servir à l'histoire de Madame de M. et à celle du siècle passé, par M. de la Beaumelle, avec remarques critiques de Voltaire. 16 vols., post 8vo, marbled calf, gilt backs, contents lettered. Maestricht, 1789. £8/8324 MALORY. The Birth, Lyf, and Actes of KyNG ARTHUR; of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, theyr Mervellyous Enquestes and Adventures, Thachyneuyng of the Sanc Greal; and in the end Le Morte Darthur, with the Dolourous Deth and Departyng out of thys Worlde of them al. With an Introduction and Notes, by Robert Southey, Esq. London: Printed from Caxton's Edition, 1485, for Longman, Hurst & Co., 1817.

2 vols., 4to, red morocco, extra, gilt edges (by Lewis).

£251-1The Beckford copy, number 421 in the sale of 1882. A remarkably fine copy, printed on large paper.

MALTHUS (Rev. T. R.). DEFINITIONS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, preceded by an Enquiry 325 into the Rules which ought to guide Political Economists in the definition and use of

their terms.

Fcap. 8vo, contemporary polished calf, gilt. 1827.

The first edition. A clean and tall copy.

MANSFIELD (K.). See 235.

£5/10/

MANUSCRIPT. Les Ouvrages DU SIEUR DEBENAT, Officier de Galère, et Chevalier 326

de l'ordre militaire de St. Louis. Contenant la description de son cabinet et ses dissertations, etc.

2 parts in 1, folio, contemporary (or nearly) red morocco, gilt, gilt edges (a little rubbed). 1721.

£38/-/

This interesting manuscript is neatly written on about a thousand pages, with index. There are numerous illustrations, skilfully and neatly executed in ink and wash. A large part of the manuscript deals with objects of naval interest, boats, anchors, ropes, rigging, sails, and the like; but there are also drawings of minerals, statuary, and objets d'art.

A unique item in excellent condition.

[See illustration No. 10].

MANUSCRIPT. A STUDENT'S FAIR COPY OF MAES and VERHAEGEN'S INEXPUGNABILE 327
CASTRUM. Tractatus de Logica. 1794-95. Neatly written on one hundred pages, full
score; inserted are two folding illustrative plates.
Sm. 4to, old half calf. 1794–95.

£3/3/

MANUSCRIPT. ELIZA ET VÉREUSE, ou Les Épreuves, Conte Bleu. Manuscript, very 328 neatly written in a copper-plate hand, on 110 pages, full score.

Demy 8vo, contemporary blue morocco, gilt, the back covered with diagonal lines and dots, the sides having corner ornaments, and gilt borders, the edges gilt, dated London, 1800. £12/12/

An exceedingly pretty manuscript, written by the Abbé De Perez [Perey?] and presented by him to the Duchess of Northumberland. In a long letter to the recipient the author states that he got the idea of the title from Marmontel. He hopes the Duchess will see the hidden meaning of the story, and trusts that she will be interested in it.

A very delightful crayon drawing, heightened with water-colour, of a pastoral subject, forms the frontispiece of this unique and pleasant volume.

MANUSCRIPTS. See also 31, 37, 190, 265, 267, 274, 275, 402, 474.

MARSTON (John). WORKS. Edited by A. H. Bullen, B.A. London: Nimmo, 1887. 3 vols., 8vo, tree calf, gilt.

329

£6/10/

Fine set, limited to 750 copies printed.

M. V. MARTIALIS EPIGRAMMATA. Aldus device at beginning and end.
Sm. 8vo. eighteenth-century calf, gilt, with red edges. Venice: In aedibus Aldi et

Andreae Soceri, 1517.

Renouard 1517/10.

£51-1

330

331 MARVELL (Andrew). HOLOGRAPH ADDRESSED LETTER WRAPPER, signed, with seal

Autographs of Andrew Marvell are of great rarity.

[See illustration below].

Stell

For the right Mor, Henry
Maisters Mason and
okey Aldermen
Brithren
of Kingstone upon
Hillm

Andri Marsells

£201-1

332 MASSEY (Gerald). THE BALLAD OF BABE CHRISTABEL: with other Lyrical Poems. Post 8vo. London: David Bogue, 1854. £7/71The first edition. Presentation copy from the author to Landor, inscribed "To Walter Savage Landor, with the Author's noblest regards—the old man eloquent." There are pencil notes and markings by Landor on a number of pages. Massey's career suggested to George Eliot that of "Felix Holt".

333 MASSINGER (Philip). THE RENEGADO, A Tragaecomedie. As it hath beene often acted by the Queenes Majesties servants, at the private Play-house in Drurye-Lane. Sm. 4to, morocco, gilt, gilt edges. London: Printed by A. M. for John Waterson, and are to be sold at the Crowne in Pauls Church-Yard, 1630.

The first edition. Some headlines are cropped.

Collation: A-L in fours; M two leaves.

£61-1

The play is prefixed by adulatory poems to Massinger by James Shirley and Daniel
Lakyn.

334 MASSINGER (Philip). THE GREAT DUKE OF FLORENCE. A Comicall Historie. As it hath beene often presented with good allowance by her Maties Servants at the Phoenix in Drurie Lane.