have been repaired and reinforced with strips, in a few [The printed work, of which this is the complete manuscript, was first published in 1881. The text of the MS. is complete in 3 vol., 624 pages, but the last volume is another manuscript copy of the first volume, also entirely in the autograph of the author, and with fewer corrections.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Illustrations to Jack Sheppard, by Geo. Cruikshank, all proofs on India paper and all but one before letters and the latter in an early state, the second state of the plate being inserted to show the alteration, the second state of the plate, "Jack escaping from the condemned hold in Newgate," is also inserted, special title printed, dark green mor., panelled sides, with corner fleurons, inside dentelles, g.e., enclosed in a lined cl. case, lettered, by Rivière [1839], 4to. (7), June 9, Sotheby Maggs, £31 [The following insertions have been made :-Two pages of Ainsworth's original rough draft, showing his first intention of calling the tale Thames Darrell"; a port. of Ainsworth, being a proof on india paper of the front. to the first ed., in 3 vol.; the original sketch by Cruikshank of the scene in the loft, showing a variation from the design eventually adopted; a pencil sketch by Cruikshank of Newgate, etc.; the front wrapper of Part iii. from the edition in parts; a port. of Jack Sheppard, in two states, published by Bowles; and inlaid is a scarce chap-book entitled History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard," published Northampton, 1724, with engravings showing the pamphlet which inspired Cruikshank's etchings of The Escape" (the engravings are inlaid opposite the etchings, and on the margin of one is a pencil port. of Cruikshank by himself). The chap-book had Ainsworth's bookplate (inlaid in present volume). Loosely inserted is an interesting A.L.s. of G. C. to Ainsworth referring to the plate of the robbery in the church.] Airy. Charles II., by O. Airy, limited ed., col. front. and other reproductions, hf. crimson crushed levant mor. ex., t.e.g., with emblematic stamps on back, Goupil, 1901, 4to. (220), Nov. 17, Hodgson Chaundy, £3 IOS. Ajanta Frescoes, being reproductions in colour and monochrome of Frescoes in the Caves at Ajanta, after copies taken in 1909-11, by Lady Herringham, with Introductory Essays by Members of the India Society, in portfolio, Oxford, 1915 (316), July 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 A'Kempis (Thomas). De Imitatione Christi, MS. on vell., English xv. cent., 115 ll., written in gothic characters, 20 long lines to a page, running titles in red, vell., xv. Cent., sm. 4to. (1), Jan. 17, Sotheby Davis, £6 A'Kempis (Thos.) Imitatio Christi. Incipit libellus Consolatorius ad instructiōz devotorz cuius primu Capitulu est de imitacōē xpi & Ɔtemptu Omni Vanitatum Mundi," etc., lit. goth., long lines, 35 to a full page (76 ll., the first blank), without marks, first page with illuminated initial with painted decorative floreate scrolls in margins, capitals painted in red (a few wormholes in plain margins and some contemp. MS. notes, but a fine large and clean copy with uncut edges), modern thickly-boarded brown mor. plain, (Augustae) per Gintherum Zainer ex reutlingen Pgenitum literis impssi ahenis (c. 1471), sm. folio (584), Jan. 17, Sotheby Pickering, £290 $15 [Editio princeps of the Imitatio, now definitely settled as the work of Thomas van Kempen. Excessively rare.] A'Kempis (Thos.) Imitatio Christi. Tractatus de ymitacione cristi cum tractatulo de meditacione cordis, gothic letter (the first leaf in MS.), [Hain *9091, Proctor 2548], early binding of red leather divided diagonally into compartments, stamped with fleur-de-lis, sold not subject to return [Ulm., Jo. Zainer], 1487, 8vo. (428), Nov. 15, Sotheby H. Stevens, £7 15s. A'Kempis (Thos.) De Imitatione Christi, gothic characters, capitals in red, 168 11., 20-23 long lines to a page, without pagination or catchwords, full vell., gt. edges, by Pratt (some 11. stained), [colophon] Argn. impressus, Anno 1489, sm. 4to. (806), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries A'Kempis (Thos.) Opera et libri vite Thomae de Kempis Ord. Can. reg., etc., lit. goth., double columns, with signs. (4 prel. ll. and folios CLXXVIII.), contemp. oaken bds., stamped pigskin, fine copy, Nurembergae per Caspar Hochfeder, 1494, sm. folio (647), Jan. 17, Sotheby £6 5s. A'Kempis (Thos.) Imitatio Christi. De imitatione christi, gothic letter (A-M in eights), dark blue mor., g.s. [Copinger 32191], [Paris, De Marnef, before 1500], 8vo. (815), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £4 15s. A'Kempis (Thos.) Hortulus rosaru de valle lachrymarum, roman letter, long lines, 19 to a page (sign. a-p in eights, last 2 11. blank) [Hain 8939, Proctor 7786], (slit in one leaf), Basel., J. Bergmann, 1499-Sedulius (Coelius). Sedulii Carmen Paschale, Aurelii Prudentii Poemata (cura Jani Parrhasii), Mediolani (1501), with one other, in I vol., contemp. blind stamped pigskin, metal catch and clasp (478), April 18, Sotheby Leighton, £3 15s. [A'Kempis (Thos.)] [Imitation of Christ.] A boke newely translated out of Laten into Englysshe, called The folowynge of Cryste .. [woodcut of the Crucifixion], black letter, Wyer's device of St. John in Patmos on reverse of final leaf of table, woodcut initials, some historiated (leaf following title torn and slightly defective, small stain on B 5, otherwise in good condition), old cf., [colophon] Here endyth the fourth boke of the folowynge of Cryst, the whiche fourth boke treatyth most princypally of the sacrament of the aulter. Imprynted by me Robert wyer dwellyng in saynt [The first English translation containing a Fourth Book. Apparently the only complete copy known of this edition. Collation: 8 11. unsigned, b-u in eights, with a colophon; then begins the Fourth Book, with a new set of signatures, A-D in eights, with colophon as above, followed by a morall doctryne or prayer of fourteen lines, headed "A spirituall glasse."] A'Kempis (Thos.) Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, translated from the Latin original ascribed to Thomas A'Kempis, with an Introduction and Notes by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D., extended to 2 vol., full crushed blue levant mor., gt. backs, inside dentelles, gt. edges, by Bedford, London, Pickering and Major, 1828, roy. 8vo. (392), March 1, Anderson Galleries $37.50 [Large Paper copy, with an original drawing and 90 selected plates added, including many rare old copperplate engravings and proof impressions of the more modern steel plates.] Akerman (J. Y.) The Numismatic Chronicle, plates, 20 vol. in 10 (some ll. foxed), cf. gt., m.e., 1839-58, 8vo. (2868), Nov. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 5S. Alanus de Insulis. De Parabolis, one leaf, with large printer's device, 13 11., unnumbered, and without catchwords, 25 long lines to a page, printed in large gothic, brown mor., by Pratt [Paris, Pierre Levet, about 1490], sm. 4to. (10), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $30 Alban (St.) Historia sancti Albani martyris metrice. Historia ejusdem prosaice, gothic letter, 8 11., 27 long lines, initials in red [not in Hain], extremely rare, No printer, place, or date [unknown printer known as Printer of Historia Sancti Albani," Cologne, before 1475]-Hieronymus. De uirginitate beatae Marie, gothic letter, 22 11., 27 long lines, initials in red [Hain 8575], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, Printer of Dictys, before 1475-Augustinus. Tractatus de Caritate, gothic letter, 2 11., 27 lines, initials in red [Hain 2089 ?], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, Printer of Dictys, before 1475]-Augustinus (S.) De Spiritu et litera, gothic letter, 38 11., 28 long lines, initials in red (wants one leaf?) [Hain *2042], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, Printer of Dictys, before 1475-Augustinus. De Vita Beata, gothic letter, 24 II., 27 long lines, initials in red [Hain *1960], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, before 1475]-Augustinus. Sermo de Verbis evangelicis, gothic letter, 8 l., 27 lines, initials in red [not in Hain, Pellechet 1499], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, Printer of Dictys, before 1475]-Bernardus. Speculum de honestate vitae, gothic letter, 8 11., 26 lines, initials in red [Hain *2901], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, U. Zel, before 1475]-De magnificando meritorie festum praesentationis beatae Mariae, gothic letter, 22 11., 27 long lines, initials in red [not in Hain], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, U. Zel, circa 1472]-Chrysostomus (Iohannes) De dignitate sacerdotii, gothic letter, 76 11., 27 long lines, initials in red [Hain *5048], No printer, place, or date [Cologne, U. Zell, circa 1472], in 1 vol., contemp. binding of oak bds. covered with leather stamped in blind (rebacked), in a mor. slip case, circa 1475, 4to. (10), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £31 [Collection of tracts printed by the first printers at Cologne.] Albert (The Prince Consort). The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, with an Introduction, giving some Outlines of his Character, first ed., port. by Holl, bound in white cl., with the device of Prince Albert on the front cover, and his name beneath, John Murray, 1862, 8vo. (302), June 28, Sotheby Savory, £5 IOS. The Life of His Theodore Martin, orig. cl., uncut, (301), June 28, Savory, £5 10S. Albert (Prince, Consort of Queen Victoria). [The presentation copy from Queen Victoria to her Chaplain (Principal Tulloch), with the Queen's signed and dated autograph inscription in each volume (five inscriptions in all), as follows: "To Principal Tulloch from Victoria Rg. Balmoral, June 6, 1875." The inscription fills the whole of the fly-leaf in each case. Inserted in the first volume is an autograph note signed by the Princess Royal, Victoria Pss. R.," and dated Osborne, July 28, 1856. This note is also signed by the Royal Prince and Princesses-Arthur, Alice, Helena, and Louise, who were then quite young, Prince Arthur being but a boy. The signatures comprise the whole of the royal children then living.] " Albertanus (Causidicus). Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi multum utilis, gothic letter (11 11.), long lines, 33 to a full page, initials in red (wants first leaf, a blank ?) [Campbell 61], bds., Impressum per me Gerardus leeu per dei gratia in oppido Antwerpiensis Anno dni M.CCCC.LXXXV. mensis junii, 1485, 4to. (231), Nov. 15, Sotheby Maggs, £6 Albertina Gallery. Handzeichnungen alter Meister, aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, plates, plain and col., 12 vol., hf. mor., Vol. viii.-xii. in the portfolio, Wien, n.d. (1896-), folio (613A), March 17, Sotheby Deglategny, £26 Albertinus (Arnaldus). Tractatus de Secreto, gothic letter, title within a woodcut border (one leaf slightly defective), vell., Valentia, F. Romanus, 1534, 8vo. (105), April 18, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £1 IOS. Albertis (L. B. de). De Re Aedificatoria, roman letter, 203 11. (only, wants the last leaf), long lines, 34 to a full page, capitals sapplied by hand in red or blue, first leaf (with text on verso) cut round and mounted, numerous MS. notes and illustrative diagrams drawn in pen-and-ink and water-colours by a contemp. hand [Hain *419, Proctor 6131], red mor. gt., ornamental frame sides, gt. back, Beckford copy, Florentiæ impressum, opere Nicolai Laurentri Alamani, 1485, folio (245), March 17, Sotheby Maggs, £28 Albertus (Andreas). Liber posterior de umbra et eius proprietatibus, engraved title and folded copperplates (hole in I leaf), old cf., Noribergae, n.d.-Marolois (S.) Mathematicum opus absolutissimum, continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae, perspectivae, engraved title and numerous plates, old cf., Amsterdam, 1638, folio (375), Jan. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 10s. Albertus Magnus. Summa de quatuor coaevis et de homine, Prima [Secunda] Pars, gothic letter, limp vell., Venice, Simon of Lovere, 1498 (407), Feb. 23, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £3 10s. Albertus Magnus. De Virtutibus anime veris et perfectis opusculum Hain 478], 32 l., fine printer's device at end, Antwerpie, Gerard Leeu, 1489-Liber Aggregationis, seu liber Secretorum Alberti Magni, 96 11. (first and last blank) [Hain-Copinger 532], s.l. aut d-Johannes Cathusiensis Nosce Te, 100 II., last blank [Hain 9389], Heidelberga, 1489-Promerius (J.) Praenosticata de futuro sæculo [H.-C. 4811], 30 II. [Alosti, T. Martens, ca. 1487] -Luciani Dyologus Major Caron, 10 ll. [H.-C. 10271], all in gothic letter, 5 in 1 vol., contemp. oak bds., covered with cf., diamond-shaped stamps within panels on sides (clasps wanting and inner margins wormed, otherwise in clean state), sm. 4to. (427), Dec. 1, Hodgson Tregaskis, £21 Albertus Magnus. De Laudibus Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, oaken bds., with vell. back and clasps, Strasburg, Johann Mentelin, n.d. (c. 1475), (413), July 25, Sotheby Hurley, £30 [A fine copy. With the signatures stamped from type and in manuscript, and the lineolae," short black lines placed in the margin, and intended to mark the different divisions or sub-divisions of the work. Similar work is excessively rare, and must have given immense trouble to the compositor. No other copy is known possessing these “points."] Albertus Magnus. The booke of secretes of the vertues of Herbes, stones and certayne Beastes. Also a booke of the maruaylous thinges of the world, black letter, woodcut border to title (title-page inlaid, first 2 ll. slightly defective and mended, some corners restored), green mor. ex., g.e., Miller arms in gold on sides, Wyllyam Copland, n.d. [c. 1555], sm. 8vo. (2), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £38 |