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. See Shakespeare Alken (H.) Seven Ages of Man. 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.] Alken (H.) A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk, 6 col. Allen (William, Cardinal). £3 10s. [The Hoe-Jones copy, with bookplates.] $50 Allibone (S. A.) Dictionary of English Literature, and Quaritch, £2 14s. $200 Almanacks. Stationers' Company Miniature Almanacks for manuscript quiring and manuscript foliation to leaf 130, [Hain, No. 872; 'Catalogue of Books Printed in the xvth Century in the British Museum," Part I., page 55, second copy. Collation: [a in eight, a (repeated) to d in tens, e, f in eights, g in six, h to o in tens, p, q in eights, r to z in tens, aa in eight, bb in six, cc in eight]. The verso of leaves 70 [g6] and 240 [bb6] are blank. Tall copy, measuring 15 x 11 inches. From the Carthusian Monastery of Buxheim, with two stamps of the library on first leaf, and interesting inscription on fly-leaf. Alpine Journal (The), a Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club, Vol. i.-xxxiii. and Index to Vol. i.-xv. (but wants one part, No. 218 in Vol. xxxii., 1918-19), maps and plates, some col. (has the Narrow Arête" plate in Vol. ii. and the "Man and Monster " plate in Vol. iii.), hf. green mor., last 8 vol. in parts as issued, 1864-1920 (1), July 25, Sotheby Edwards, £11 Alpine Journal, numerous plates, Vol. i.-xxv. orig. cl., and Vol. xxvi. to xxxii, Part i., in parts as issued (Parts 195217), Index to Vol. i.-xv., 1892-Catalogue of Books in the Library, 1899, together 27 vol. and 23 parts (the binding of Index and Catalogue a little damaged), 18641918, 8vo. (132), April 25, Sotheby Barnard, £19 Alpine Journal, Vol. i.-xx., and Index to Vol. i.-xv. (Vol. xx., two copies), cl. gt., 1864-1901, 8vo. (551), April 18, Sotheby Thorp, £14 IOS. Alvarottis (Iac. de). De Feudis, gothic letter, double columns of 60 lines, initials in red, hf. cf. [Hain *887), l'enetiis [Padova, Laurentius Canozius], 1477, folio (19), May 25, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £8 Amadis de Gaule, traduit nouuellement d'Espagnolen Francoys, par le Seigneur des Essars Nicolas de Herberay, Livres i.-iv., 4 vol. in 1, roman letter, woodcuts (a few small wormholes, 2 11. cut at fore-edge), modern brown mor., Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1548, 50, 45, folio (2881), Nov. 2, Sotheby Colnaghi, £6 15S. Amadis de Gaule. Le Premier (-Second) Livre d'Amadis de Gaule, mis en Francoys par le Seigneur des Essars Nicolas de Herberay, woodcuts, 2 vol. in 1, orig. vell., Paris, E. Groulleau, 1555, 8vo. (3), Oct. 21, Sotheby Maggs, £6 10s. Amadis de Gaule. Le Sixiesme (Septiesme) Livre d'Amadis de Gaule, mis en Francois par le Seigneur des Essars, 2 vol. in 1, orig. vell., Paris, pour Vincent Sertenas, 1557, sm. 8vo. (3A), Oct. 21, Sotheby Dobell, £2 5s. Amadis de Gaule. Le douzieme Livre d'Amadis de Gaule, traduit nouvellement d'Espagnol en François, par G. Aubert de Poitiers, title within a woodcut border, cuts in the text, orig. cf. (slightly damaged), En Anvers, par G. Silvius, 1572, sm. 4to. (4), Oct. 21, Sotheby Dobell, £2 10S. Amadis de Gaule, mis en François par Nicolas de Herberay, 21 vol., Lyon, 1577-81-Trésor de tous les Livres d'Amadis de Gaule, ib., 1582-Le Vingt et deuxiesme, troisieme, quatrieme et dernier Livre d'Amadis de Gaule, engraved titles, 3 vol., Paris, 1615, together 25 vol., old russ., arms in gold on sides, m.e., 8vo. (774), Dec. 20, Sotheby LIO IOS. Amadis de Gaule. The Famous and Renowned History of Amadis de Gaule, conteining the Heroick Deeds of Arms and strange Adventures, Booke the sixt, never before published, trans. by Francis Kirkman, first ed. (title defective), old cf., 1652, 4to. (264), May 9, Sotheby Buen, I IOS. Amadis of Greece. The most Excellent and Famous History of the Most Renowned Knight, Amadis of Greece, surnam'd The Knight of the Burning Sword, black letter, woodcuts, including the front. (a few letters damaged by rust-stains), panelled cf. (A-FF 2 in fours, including the front. and title), Printed for J. Deacon and J. Blare, 1694, 8vo. (22), Nov. 9, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 5s. Aman (J.) Gynaeceum, siue Theatrum Mulierum, first ed., woodcuts (some headlines cut into), cf., Francofurti, 1586, 4to. (171), March 17, Sotheby Hope, £3 15s. Amman (J.) Im Frauwenzimmer wirt vermeldt von allerley schönen Klerdungen unnd Trachten der Weiber, first German ed., woodcuts (wants front., a few headlines shaved), mor. gt., g.e., Franckfurt, 1586, 4to. (172), March 17, Sotheby Hope, £4 5s. Amboise (Michel d'). Seigneur de Chevillon. Les cent epigrames avecques la vision la complainte de vertu traduyte de frere baptiste Mantuan . . . et la fable de lamoureuse Biblis et de launus traduyte D'Ovide par Michel damboyse dit lesclaue fortune, gothic letter, title in red and black, woodcuts, printer's mark on the last leaf (wants 2 11.), French cf. gt., gt. back, Paris, Alain Lotrian [for Jehan Longis, 1532]-Le Babilon autrement la Confusion de lesclaue fort. . . Avecques aucuns Rondeaulx et epistres gothic letter, title in red and black (mounted), woodcuts (a few 11. slightly defective and repaired), French cf. gt., gt. back, ib. [Alain Lotrian] for Jean Longis [1532], 8vo. (107), April 18, Sotheby Ford, £7 Ambroise (St.) Lettres, par D. de Bonrecueil, 3 vol., contemp. olive mor. ex., tooled backs, gt. over marbled edges, with amoureuses curious col. floral end-papers on gold background, with the arms of Henri-Camille, Marquis de Béringhen (16931770), to whom the work is dedicated, 1741, sm. 8vo. (126), Nov. 25, Hodgson Quaritch, £18 10s. Ambrosius (St.) Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis de Officiis Libri tres, roman letter, 128 l., long lines, 28 to a full page, red mor. gt., g.e., from the Firmin Didot library [Hain 910], Milan, Christopher Valdarfer, 1474, 4to. (20), May 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £23 [The first book printed by Valdarfer in Milan.] America. Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America [with Charter], old sheep, New London, Timothy Green, 1750-1752, folio (490), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries $100 [Good copy of these rare Acts and Laws, with four additional Acts and Laws bound at the end, pp. 257-268. These Acts include the following: Foreigners not to Trade with or Corrupt the Indians "-" Act for the well Ordering and Governing the Indians "-" Keeping the Lords Day, and preventing disorders on it "; etc.] America. Impartial (An) History of the War in America, full-length ports. of Washington and others, cf. (broken and title torn across), 1780 (457), June 23, Hodgson Maggs, £10 5s. America. The Trades Increase [by I. R.," and containing references to Newfoundland, Virginia, etc.] (headlines and page numerals cut into), hf. cf., N. Okes and W. Burre, 1615, sm. 4to. (385), June 23, Hodgson £10 America, Central. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Voyage Geologique dans Guatemala et Salvador par A. Dollfus et E. de Mont-Serrat, plates, Paris, 1868-Manuscrit Troano. Etudes sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas, par Brasseur de Bourbourg, numerous plates of facs. in colours, 2 vol., ib., 1869-70-Recherches Zoologiques, Parts 1-7 in 12 vol. (wanting Parts 2 and 3), incomplete, plates (plain and in colours), ib., 1870-1900-Dictionnaire de la langue Nahuatl ou Mexicaine par R. Siméon, 1885-Etude des Batraciens de l'Amerique Centrale, par M. Brocchi, plates (plain and in colours), ib., 1882-Recherches Botanique, 2 parts, plates, 1872-86-Géologie, Description des Anciennes Possessions Mexicaines du Nord, plates, 1871, together 20 vol., 8 vol. in hf. red mor., g.t., and 12 vol. in cl., sold as a collection and not subject to return, 1868-1900, large 4to. (823), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £24 IOS. America. An Account of the New Invented Pensylvanian Fire-Places, folding plate, unbd., Philadelphia, B. Franklin, 1744, 8vo. (494), April 25, Sotheby H. Stevens, £23 America. A Declaration of His Highness [Oliver Cromwell] setting forth on the behalf of this Commonwealth the Justice of their Cause against Spain [in America and the |