tecting cl. wrappers, hf. mor. slip-case (452), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries Rosenbach, $1,260 {These two broadsides, unrecorded so far as we are able to ascertain, are in all probability the only copies which have survived. Thomas, in his History of Printing," states: "The first press was set up in this city (Annapolis) in 1726. . . . The earliest book I have met with, printed in this colony, is A Complete Collection of the Laws of Maryland. Imprint: Annapolis, Printed by William Parks, 1727.'" The earliest mention of Annapolis printing in Evans is a volume of "Acts of Assembly," printed by William Parks (1726).] America. Maryland. Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of Maryland, from 1692 to 1715, old ci. (rubbed), 1723, folio (229), Nov. 24, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 America. Claim of the Inhabitants of the Town of Newark in Virtue of the Indian Purchase made by the first Settlers of Newark, in 1667, Stated and Considered, hf. cf., Woodbridge, in New Jersey: printed by Samuel Parker, 1766, 8vo. (488), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries H. E. Pickerakill, $110 America. New England. A Brief Narration of the Practices of the Churches in New-England, written in private to one that desired Information therein, by an Inhabitant there, a Friend to Truth and Peace, crushed brown levant mor., Jansen style (11. stained), by Stikeman, London, printed in the year 1651, sm. 4to. (489), Jan. 10, Anderson $560 Galleries [This little tract of 18 pages is of extreme rarity, of which apparently no copy has occurred in many years. Not in Hoe, Huth, Church, nor any of the recently dispersed collections of Americana. Sabin does not cite this issue, although there is a similar title cited under date of 1645, but even of that issue he has not located a copy.] America. Two Reports on the Matter of Complaint of Mr. Livius against Governor Wentworth [Sir John Wentworth, successively Governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia], wrapper, 1773, sm. 4to. (439), Oct. 12, Hodgson Stevens, Son and Stiles, £6 American Revolution. Arnold (Benedict). Proceedings of a General Court Martial of the Line, held at Raritan, in the State of New Jersey, for the Trial of Major-General Arnold, June 1, 1779; Major-General Howe, President, Philadelphia, 1780, sm. folio (26), Jan. 31, American Art Association $220 Americana. Johnson (R.) The Golden Trade, or a Discouery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Ethiopians, 1623-A Description of Shertogenbose, written in the yeere 1540 by Simon Pelgrom, 1629-Wadsworth (James). The English Spanish Pilgrime, 1630Lavender (T.) The Travels of Foure Englishmen and a Preacher into Africa, Asia, etc., black letter (2 or 3 signa tures and catchwords cut into and Q2 a little defective), [A, 2 11., title on A2; B-L in fours. The leaf marked A3, which should follow the title, comes after B4 in this copy, and there is no A4; three other copies of this rare volume examined for the purpose of verification also show 2 ll. lacking in sig. A. The modern reprint also corresponds as regards the text. The several narratives of which the book consists were, as R. G. states in his introductory epistle to Mr. I. P., "writ by the seuerall Actors themselves, after their plaine and rude manner." The MS. seems to have been sent over to England by the same R. G., and to have been printed through the instrumentality of G. Morton. Pp. 60-4 are occupied by a letter from E[dward] Winslow] to a friend in America, in recommendation of New Plymouth. It was no doubt this work which suggested to Longfellow at least the name of his hero, "Miles Standish, the Puritan captain." It is exceedingly rare.] America. Some Considerations on the Consequences of the French Settling Colonies on the Mississippi, from a Gentleman of America to his friend in London, map, 1720, and others, in 1 vol., hf. sheep (250), July 25, Sotheby Kashnor, £18 IOS. American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney, illustrated, 13 vol., hf. olive mor., gt. tops, uncut, New York, v.d., 8vo. (7), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries $105 [One of 100 copies on Large Paper. Includes: Upland Game Birds, by Sandys and Van Dyke-The Water Fowl Family, by Sanford, Bishop and Van Dyke The Deer Family, by Roosevelt, Elliott, Stone, etc., etc.] America. Two Reports on the Matter of Complaint of Mr. Livius against Governor Wentworth [Sir John Wentworth, successively Governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia], orig. grey wrapper, 1773, 4to. (14), Nov. 25, Hodgson Quaritch, £12 America. A Declaration of the State of the Colonie and Affaires in Virginia, with the names of the Aduenturors, and Summes aduentured in that Action, by His Majesties Counseil for Virginia, 22 Iunij, 1620, 11 pages, woodcut of the great seal of James I. on title, and on verso of last leaf woodcut of the seal of the Council for Virginia, London, printed by T. S., 1620-A Note of the Shipping, Men and Prouisions sent to Virginia by the Treasurer and Company in the Yeare 1619, 16 pages-The Names of the Adventurers, with their severall sums adventured, paid to Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, late Treasurer of the Company for Virginia, 30 pages and blank leaf-Names of the Adventurers, with the sums paid by Order to Sir Baptist Hicks, Knight, 4 pages-Orders and Constitutions, partly collected out of his Majesties Letters Patents and partly ordained upon mature deliberation, by the Treasuror, Counseil and Companie of Virginia, for the better governing of the Actions and affaires of the said Companie here in England residing, anno 1619 and 1620, 39 pages, mor. ex., g.e., 1620, 4to. (339), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £45 America. Short Account of the First Settlement of the Provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, by the English, to which is annexed a map of Maryland, according to the bounds mentioned in the Charter, and also of the adjacent Country, anno 1630, map, hf. red levant mor. (some margins repaired), London, printed in the year 1735, 4to. (699), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries $565 [Two copies cited by Sabin (Harvard and Library of Congress).] American Book-Prices Current, compiled from the Auctioneers' Catalogues by Luther S. Livingston, for the years 1895 to 1910 inclusive, Vol. i. to xvi., together 16 vol., cl., New York, 1895-1910, 8vo. (191), Oct. 27, American Art Association $35 Ames (J.) and Herbert (W.) Typographical Antiquities, enlarged with copious notes by T. F. Dibdin, ports., fac., etc., 4 vol., hf. cf., s.e., 1810-19, 4to. (523), Oct. 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 12s. 6d. Ames (William). Gvil. Amesii ad Responsum Nic. Grevinchovii Rescriptio Contracta. pp. (16), 209 (14), orig. vell. (some stains, title-page soiled and slightly frayed at top margin), Lugduni Batavorvm, apud Guiljelmum Brewsterum, 1617, 16mo. (166), March 22, American Art Association $255 [Dexter's "Bibliography of Congregationalism," No. 467. Ames's reply to Grevinchovius.] Amicus (J. B.) De Motibus corporum cœlestium, title within a woodcut border (slightly damaged), hf. brown mor., Venetiis, 1536-Commandinus (F.) Liber de contro gravitatis solidorum, woodcut diagrams, new vell., Bononiae, 1565--Berga (A.) Della grandezza dell' acqua e della terra, vell., Turino, 1579, etc., together 7 vol., 4to. (552), Dec. 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £9 158. Anacreon. Odaria (graece), printed on vell. (one of six copies), red mor. gt., g.e., in a slip-case, Parma, Bodoni, 1791, 8vo. (325), March 1, Sotheby Gaston, £12 IOS. Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus. Traduction nouvelle en par M*** C** (Moutonnet de Clairfons), LARGE PAPER, plates, etc. by Eisen, with a duplicate set (reversed) col. by hand, 2 vol. in 1, contemp. red mor. gt., g.e., Paris, 1773-4, 4to. (553), April 18, Sotheby Prose . Anacreon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus. Prose.. . Sabin, £165 Anacreon. Odes traduites en François, avec le texte Grec, la version Latine . par le Citoyen Gail, port. and plate (both in two states, one coloured) and music at end, contemp. red mor., gt. border round edges, blue silk linings, Paris, P. Didot l'aîné, An. VII. (1799), 4to. (7), Dec. 2, Sotheby Michelmore, £39 Traduction nouvelle en par M. M*** C** (Moutonnet de Clairfond), front. and vignettes after Eisen, red mor. gt., g.e., A Paphos et se trouve à Paris, Le Boucher, 1773, 8vo. (334), Oct. 21, Sotheby £10 IOS. Anacreon. Odæ græce et latine, full crushed rose levant mor., with elaborate inlaid design of interlaid strap-work in light brown, blue, green and red levant mor., within gold lines, the spaces filled with gold arabesque ornaments in the manner of Grolier, gt. tooled back and edges, doublure of brown levant mor., gt. border, by the Club Bindery, in brown mor., protecting covers, and slip-case, Lutetiae, apud Henricum Stephanum, 1554, sm. 4to. (4), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries Wells, $610 [One of two copies printed on vellum. Hoe copy.] Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, numerous plates (plain and in colours), Vol. i.-xxx., 30 vol., hf. mor., Madrid, 1872-1901, 8vo. (519), March 1, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £18 10s. [Anburey (T.)] Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, first ed., map and plates, 2 vol., cf., 1789 (362), June 23, Hodgson Kashnor, £3 15S. [Another copy, Anderson Galleries, Nov. 22, Lot 19, $16.50.] [Anderson (J.)] The Constitutions of the Free-Masons, containing the History, Regulations, etc. of that most Ancient Fraternity, first ed., front., with the music (lower margin of front. and 2 other ll. cut into), mottled cf., 1723, 4to. (440), July 21, Hodgson £9 9s. [Anderson (J.)] A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, in its different Branches of Yvery, Luvel, Perceval and Gournay, folding pedigrees, mezzotint ports. by Faber, and other illustrations, 2 vol., red mor., panelled gt. backs, panelled sides with corner fleurons, inside dentelles, g.t., by Bedford, from the library of Lord Redes dale, with his ex-libris by Sherborn in each vol., Privately printed, 1742, 8vo. (19), June 9, Sotheby Thorp, £9 10S. Anderson (W.) The Pictorial Arts of Japan, plates, some coloured and gt., hf. mor. gt., g.e., 1886, folio (358), Oct. 25, Sotheby Heffer, £5 Andre (Major). Proceedings of a Board of General Officers, held by Order of His Excellency Gen. Washington, respecting Major John Andre, September 29, 1780, full crimson levant mor., gt. top, uncut, by Bradstreet, Philadelphia, printed by Francis Bailey, 1780, 8vo. (20), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries $190 Andreæ (Johannes). Hieronymianus, lit. goth., double columns, 40 to a page, with signatures, red and blue painted capitals [Hain 1082, Proctor 1171], Without place or printer's name [Cologne, Conrad Winters], 1482, folio (1034), June 15, Sotheby Mirchie, £6 IOS. Andreas (A.) Questiones super tribus principiis, lit. goth., double columns, 46 lines to a page, pigskin ex., blind tooled antique style [Hain 989, Proctor 5759], Impressum in civitate Ferrarie, per Laurencium de Rubeis, 1490, sm. 4to. (553), Dec. 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 5s. Andreas (A.) Questiones super duodecim libros metaphysice, lit. goth., new vell., Venetiis, 1513-Egidius cum Marsilio et Alberto de generatione, lit. goth., vell., ib., 1518-Guillermus Parisiensis Opera, lit. goth., title in red and black within a woodcut border (slightly defective), vell., Parisiis, 1516, etc., together 6 vol., folio (554), Dec. 20, Sotheby Heffer, LIO Andreas (J.) Arbor Consanguinitatis et Affinitatis, gothic letter, 8 11., long lines, 43 to a full page, 3 full-page cuts of affinities, ornamental initials (slightly wormed), crushed brown mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière [Huth copy], s. n. [Strasburg, ? Knoblouch, c. 1470], folio (257), Dec. 20, Sotheby Hoare, £3 17s. 6d. Andreino (G. B.) L'Adameo Sacra rapresentatione, engraved title, port., plates in text by C. Bassani, mor. gt., crest on sides, g.e., Milano, 1613, 4to. (254), May 18, Sotheby Pickering, £4 [The work from which Milton is supposed to have taken the idea of Paradise Lost.] Andrelinus (Faustus). Liuia Fausti sine commento, gothic letter, 64 11., long lines, 21 to a full page, red mor. [Hain 1085], [Paris, Felix Baligault, circa 1495], 4to. (23), May 25, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £6 Andrews (H.) Botanists' Repository, col. plates, Vol. i. to viii., hf. russ., uncut, 1797 et seq., 4to. (283), Jan. 12, Puttick Brown, £5 5s. Andrews (H. C.) The Heathery, or a Monograph of the Genus Erica, col. plates, 6 vol., orig. cl., Bohn, 1845 (868), Feb. 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 Andrews (William Loring). The Bradford Map. The City of New York at the time of the granting of the Montgomerie |