Albin (Eleazar). A Natural History of English Insects, with notes by W. Derham, 100 col. plates, cf. gt., panelled back, g.e., 1724, 4to. (218), Jan. 24, Sotheby

Wesley, £1 16s. Albin (Eleazar). A Natural History of Birds, over 300 col. plates, 3 vol., old red mor., g.e., with arms on side, W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738-40 (62), Feb. 23, Sotheby Freshfield, £7

Albumasar. De magnis coniunctionibus: annorum reuolutionibus ac eorum profectionibus: octo continens tractatus, gothic letter, long lines, ornamental initials, numerous woodcuts, vell. [Hain *611, Proctor 1882], Auguste vindelicorum, E. ratdolt, 1489, 4to. (293), March 1, Sotheby Tregaskis, £5 10s. Albumasar. Introductorium in astronomiam, gothic letter, woodcut on title (cut into at fore-edge), Sessa device at end, ornamental initials, vell., Venetijs, mandato & expensis M. Sessa, per Jacobum pentium Leucensez, 1506, 4to. (2871), Nov. 2, Sotheby Hertzberger, £2 5s. Albumasar. De magnis conjunctionibus: annorum reuolutionibus, etc., gothic letter, numerous woodcuts, Sessa device at end (last 4 11. defective through wormholes), bds., Venetijs, per Iacobum pentium de Leucho, mandato e expensis M. Sessa, 1515, 4to. (2872), Nov. 2, Sotheby Dobell, £2 18s. Alcala (Luys d') Tractado d' los prestamos que passan entre mercadores y tractantes; y por consignente de los Logros, Cambios, Compros adelantadas y Ventas al fiado, etc. Segunda vez impreso, gothic letter, woodcut on title, brown mor., blind ornaments, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru, fine copy, rare, Toledo, Juan de Ayala, 1546, 4to. (155), Dec. 20, Sotheby Meynell, £7 15S. Alciatus (A.) Emblematum Liber, first ed., first issue, title within a woodcut border, small cuts, brown mor., g.e., by F. Bedford, [colophon] Excusum Augustae Vindelicorum per Heynricum Steynerum, die 28 Februarii, 1531, sm 8vo. (12), May 25, Sotheby Quaritch, LII Alciatus (A.) Emblematum libellus, italic letter, woodcut of emblems, stamp on title, cf. gt., Parisiis, 1534, 8vo. (123), March 17, Sotheby Maggs, £5 Alciatus (A.) Emblematum Libellus, woodcuts, citron mor. gt., by F. Bedford, Venice, Aldus, 1546, 8vo. (549), April 18, Sotheby Tregaskis, £5 15s. Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees and the Art of Artyfichall Flee Making," chromographs and specimens of artificial flies, orig. cl., g.e., 1876, 4to. (63), July 20, Sotheby Edwards, £2 8s. Aldine Poets (Pickering's), a set, ports., 53 vol., cf. gt., m.e., uniform, 1831-53, 8vo. (864), Dec. 20, Sotheby Cater, £16 Aldine Press. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (a few slight stains), old red mor. gt., a two-line fillet border, with centre and corner ornaments (joints broken), 1502

Lucanus, straight-grained red mor., g.e., 1515, 12mo. (589), April 18, Sotheby Tregaskis, £1 14S. Aldine Press. Silii Italici de Bello Punico secundo, xvII. libri, brown mor. ex., g.e., arms in gold on sides, Venet., Aldus, 1523 (650), Feb. 23, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £1 8s. Aldrovandus (Ulysses). Ornithologiae . . libri XII., engraved title (shaved) and numerous large wooducts of birds, old cf. (rebacked), Bononiae, 1599, folio (513), March 1, Sotheby Heffer, £4 15S.

[Another ed., engraved titles and copperplates, 2 vol. in 1, orig. vell., Francofurti, 1610, folio, Sotheby, June 28, Lot 647, £2 4S.

Aleman (Matheo). The Rogue, or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache, name on title, old cf. gt., with ex-libris of Anthony Earl of Kent, dated 1702, Edward Blount, 1623, sm. folio (520), Oct. 25, Sotheby

Dobell, £5

Aleman (M.) The Rogue, or Life of Guzman de Alfarache [translated by J. Mabbe], old cf., Oxford, 1630, folio (270), July 21, Hodgson £3 5s. Aleman (M.) The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, 2 parts in I vol., red mor., by Rivière, London, printed for Edward Blount, 1623, folio (2), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $28 [The first ed. of James Mabbe's translation.] Ales [or Hales] (Alexander Scotus). Summa universae theologiae, Part i., gothic letter, double columns, 70 lines, 163 11. only (wanting first 2 11.) [Hain *643 (1), Proctor *2016], on the first leaf of text after table a large initial Q in blue on a burnished gold ground, within a green and red frame and leafy decorations in margin, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 24 Jan., 1482-Part iii., 244 ll. (including one blank) [Hain *643(3), Proctor *2019], large initial similar to the one just described, ib., 6 May, 1482, orig. blind stamped pigskin over wooden bds., metal catches and clasps, Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 24 Jan.-6 May, 1482, folio (507), April 18, Sotheby Thorp, £6 5s. Ales (Alexander). Ordo distributionis sacramenti altaris sub utraque specie, et formula confessionis faciendae in regno Angliae, [collation: A 8, B 4], green mor., Haec Londini evvlgata sunt octavo die Martii, anni M.D.XLVIII., 8vo. (480), June 28, Sotheby Quaritch, LII IOS.

[The Communion office of Edward VI. and the earliest reformed portion of the English liturgy made known to the churches abroad by Ales, who afterwards translated the Prayer Book into Latin.] Ales (Alexander). Ordo Distributionis Sacramenti Altaris sub utraque specie, et formula Confessionis faciendae in Regno Angliae. Haec Londini evulgata sunt octavo die Martii Anni M.DLXVIII., blue mor., 1548 (322), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £40

[The Latin version of Edward VI.'s First English Communion Service. The only other copy which appears to

be known is that in the British Museum. Although Ales' name does not appear on the title-page, the verso of the last leaf bears his signature A. A. S. D.Th. (Alexander Alesius Scotus Doctor Theologiae).]

Alexander Aphrodisei. Commentaria in duodecim Aristotelis libros de Prima Philosophia, new vell., Venetiis, 1544— Philoponus (J.) Commentaria in primos quatuor Aristotelis de naturali auscultatione libros, lit. goth. (some 11. wormed), vell., ib., 1542-Niphus (A.) Expositio super Octo Aristotelis libros de physico auditu, stamp on title, vell., ib., 1559, etc., folio (548), Dec. 20, Sotheby Heffer, £5 10s. Alexander (F. N.) Theologica Dogmatica et Moralis, 10 vol., old French crimson mor. ex., with arms of Louis XIV., Parisiis, 1694 (116), April 21, Hodgson £9 10S. Alexander (F.) Roadside Songs of Tuscany, edited by J. Ruskin, plates, in light green levant mor., by Zaehnsdorf, 1885, 4to. (144), June 10, Hodgson Maggs, £3 3s. Alexander (W.) Costume of China, 48 col. plates, russ. gt., 1805, 4to. (127), May 20, Puttick Parsons, 1 15S. Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling). The Monarchicke Tragedies: Croesus, Darius, The Alexandræan Julius Cæsar, newly enlarged, first complete ed., full blue levant mor., gt. back, gt. fillet border on sides, with corner ornaments, gt. edges, by Pratt, London, printed by Valentine Simmes for Ed. Blount, 1607, sm. 4to. (2), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $90 Alexis (Guillaume). Sensuyt le debat de lhomme et de la femme . . . Auec une Ioyeuse Medicien pour les dentz. Imprime nouuellement a Paris, gothic letter, 8 II., one large woodcut (repeated), a smaller woodcut on the title, red mor., by Chambolle-Duru, Paris, no printer or date [circa 1520], 8vo. (106), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £18

[Written in verse in the form of a dialogue between a man and a woman.] Alexis of Piedmont. Secretes conteinyng many excellent Remedies agaynst dyuers diseases, wounds and other accidentes, translated out of Frenche by W. Warde, black letter (some 11. stained), old bds., Henry Sutton, 1559, sm. 4to. (2), Oct. 21, Sotheby Dobell, £12 Aleyn (C.) The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers, the second ed., enlarged, 1633-The Historie of that wise and Fortunate Prince, Henrie of that Name the Seventh, King of England, first ed., wants the port., 1638, in 1 vol., orig. sheep gt. (broken and damaged), 1633-38 (757), July 20, Sotheby Pickering, LI 15s. Alford (Lady M.) Needlework as Art, 86 plates, cl., t.e.g., 1886, rov. 8vo. (205), Jan. 19, Hodgson Batsford, I IIS. Aliaco (Petrus de). Super meteorologica Aristotelis, lit. goth., long lines, 39-41 to a page, some MS. marginal notes, brown levant mor. ex. [Hain 846, Proctor 2918], Absque nota [Leipzig, Conrad Kachelofen, n.d.], sm. 4to. (550), Dec. 20, Sotheby Heffer, £4

Alison (Sir Archibald). History of Europe, 1815-52, 8 vol. and I vol. Index, cl., 1852-9—Atlas to Alison's History of Europe, red mor. gt., 1850, etc. (139), May 9, Sotheby

Mackay, I Alken (H.) A Series of 25 Coloured Plates by G. Hunt and others after H. Alken, including How to Qualify for a Meltonian, 6 plates-A Meltonian as he was, etc., 6 plates, no titles, hf. mor., v.d., folio (112), March 1, Sotheby

Spencer, £65 Alken (H.) Ideas, Accidental and Incidental to Hunting, and other Sports, caught in Leicestershire, etc., 42 col. plates, hf. mor., g.e., paper label preserved, T. McLean, n.d., folio (218), June 15, Puttick Hughes, £260 Alken (H.) Ideas, Accidental and Incidental to Hunting, etc., caught in Leicestershire, 42 col. plates, contemp. hf. mor., g.e., T. McLean [1830], (275), April 29, Hodgson

Spencer, £110 Alken (H.) Real Life in Ireland; or, the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney of Brian Boru, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, exhibiting a Real Picture of Characters, Manners, etc. in High and Low Life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland, by "A Real Paddy," embellished with col. front. and 18 humorous col. engravings, by Henry Alken and other eminent artists, green crushed levant mor. gt., by Wood, enclosed in cloth slip-case, London, Jones & Co., 1821, 8vo. (13), April 20, American Art Association

$80

[First ed. of a vivacious narrative of Dublin life, after the manner of Pierce Egan as exhibited in his Life of London." The plates contain numerous scenes of roystering Irish gayety, and include ports. of notabilities, among which are three of George IV.] Alken (H.) Illustrations to Popular Songs, col. plates, bds., front. laid down, M'Lean, 1823, oblong 4to. (472), May 4, Puttick Pissarro, £4 5s.

$23

Alken (H.) Illustrations to Popular Songs, with 43 col. plates. hf. red mor., London, Thomas McLean, 1825, oblong 4to. (7), May 9, Anderson Galleries Alken (H.) The Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod [C. J. Apperley], illustrated with 36 beautifully col. plates by Henry Alken, orig. cl., gt. edges (a trifle shaken), in a hf. mor. slip-case, London, R. Ackermann, 1842, roy. 8vo. (9), May 9, Anderson Galleries $520 Alken (H.) National Sports of Great Britain, with descriptions in French and English, engraved title and 50 col. plates, hf. mor. (ink-spot on eng. title), otherwise fine, 1821, folio (359), Feb. 9, Puttick Spencer, £130 Alken (H.) The National Sports of Great Britain, emblematic col. title, and 50 splendid coloured aquatints of Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Fishing, Boxing, CockFighting, etc., by I. Clark, after the original drawings by

Henry Alken, with descriptions in English and French, orig. ed., contemp. green mor. (slightly rubbed and faded), T. M'Lean, 1823 (41), July 21, Hodgson Spencer, £140 Alken (H.) National Sports of Great Britain, col. plates, hf. roan, loose, uncut, a crest stamped on title and back of plates, 1825, 4to. (350), Dec. 1, Puttick Grant, £62 Alken (H.) The National Sports of Great Britain, 50 engravings, with descriptions, finely col., full red straight-grain mor. gt., gt. top, uncut, London, Thomas M'Lean, 1825, folio (12), March 1, Anderson Galleries $205

[A fine copy of this extremely rare work. This is not to be confounded with the work of the same title published by M'Lean in 1821, as it differs materially from the plates in that issue. The plates represent: Racing, Fox Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Cock Fighting, Dog Fighting, Fishing, Prize Fighting, etc.]

Alken (H.) Scraps from the Sketch Book of Henry Alken, engraved by himself, 42 col. plates, title mounted, and part of blank margin missing, hf. mor., 1823, oblong (938), Feb. 23, Sotheby David, £3 5s.

Alken (H.) Seven Ages of Man. See Shakespeare Alken (H.) Sporting Scrap Book, by Henry Alken, containing 50 plates designed and engraved by himself, all col., orig. red printed bds., leather back, in slip case, London, published by Thomas M'Lean [1824], roy. 8vo. (11), March I, Anderson Galleries $85 Alken (H.) Specimens of Riding near London, drawn from life, 3 sets of 6 col. plates (18 plates in all), orig. hf. binding, T. M'Lean, 1823, oblong (43), July 21, Hodgson

Pickering, £10 Alken (H.) Symptoms of being Amused, 42 col. plates, Vol. i., hf. bd., 1822, oblong 4to. (924), Dec. 20, Sotheby Pickering, £6 5s.

Alken Coloured Plates. A Touch of the Fine Arts, illustrated by 12 col. plates, with descriptions by Henry Alken, full red straight-grain mor. gt., by Zaehnsdorf, London, published by Thomas M'Lean, 1824, roy. 8vo. (10), March 1, Anderson Galleries

$60

[Covers bound in. With the bookplate of Edward Henry Hill.]

Alken Coloured Plates. The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, a Magazine entirely appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits, with the complete series of 156 plates by Alken, Cruikshank and others, many of them finely coloured, 13 vol., hf. purple cf., London, printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822-28, 8vo. (9), March 1, Anderson Galleries $490

[A complete set from its beginnng, in January, 1822 to its close, including the rare final number of June, 1828. Many fine coloured aquatint plates, depicting Racing, Hunting, Fishing, Pugilism, Cock-fighting, Shooting, and other events of the English sporting world.]