Forbes (E.) and Hanley (S.) History of British Mollusca and their Shells, col. plates, 4 vol., green mor. ex., full gt. backs, g.e., by J. Clarke, 1853, roy. 8vo. (476), May 9, Sotheby Wheldon, £3 15s. [May 9, Lot 15, £1 2s.] Forbes (Jas.) Salictum Woburnense, or a Catalogue of Willows at Woburn Abbey, 50 copies issued, col. plates, orig. bds., leather back (loose in cover), 1829 (96), Feb. 23, Sotheby Dulau, £15 10S. Forbes (J.) Oriental Memoirs, plates, some col., 4 vol., hf. mor., g.e., 1813, 4to. (430), May 4, Puttick Clark, £4 15s. [Sotheby, Jan. 24, Lot 232, £6 10s.; Dec. 13, Lot 50, £4; Hodgson, Jan. 19, Lot 498, £7 10s.] Forbes (Patrick, Bp. of Aberdeen). Eubulus, a Dialogue where-in a rugged Romish Ryme (inscrybed Catholicke Questions, to the Protestant) is confuted, and the Questions there-of answered, by P. A. (Patricus Aberdonensis), a few headlines slightly cut into, the Gordonstoun copy, 'Robert Gordone on title, dark blue mor. ex., g.e., Aberdene, Edw. Raban, 1627, 4to. (561), Nov. 15, Sotheby Mitchell Library, £5 15s. [Ford (E.)] The most famous, delectable and pleasant history of Parismus, the most renowned prince of Bohemia, 2 parts in 1, black letter, woodcut front. (a few ll. cut into, last leaf backed), cf., stamped, g.e., 1689, 4to. (605), May 18, Sotheby Thorp, 12s. Ford (J.) Dramatic Works, by H. Weber, LARGE PAPER, 2 vol., mottled cf. gt., Edinb., 1811, 8vo. (39), May 20, Puttick Joseph, £1 5s. [Sotheby, May 9, 1869, 3 vol. ed., £2 15s.] Ford (J.) The Fancies, Chast and Noble, presented by the Queenes Maiesties Servants at the Phoenix in DruryLane, the very rare first ed., crushed olive levant mor., g.e., by Rivière, London, printed by E. P. for Henry Seile, 1638, sm. 4to. (108), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $52.50 Ford (Thomas). Virtus Rediviva, a Panegyrick on our late King Charles the I., etc., attended with severall other pieces from the same pen, old cf., R. and W. Leybourn for William Grantham, 1661, 8vo. (622), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £5 15s. [Anderson Galleries, Nov. 29, Lot 211, $55.] Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, etc., by E. Orme, with Supplement of New South Wales, 108 (only) col. plates by Howitt, Atkinson, Clark and others (margins of one plate a little defective, another slightly frayed and one leaf torn), 2 vol. in 1, hf. mor., m.e., Edward Orme, 1814-13, 4to. (735), Jan. 17, Sotheby Spencer, £4 IOS. [Hodgson, March 2, Lot 917, £4; Jan. 19, Lot 499, 10 IS.; Sotheby, July 18, £7; June 15, £6.] Foreign Field Sports, by E. Orme, with a Supplement of New South Wales, col. plates, green mor., g.e., 1819, folio [June 15, Lot 219, £8.] Forlong (J. G. R.) Rivers of Life, or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands, maps and cuts, with chart of faith streams, 2 vol., cl., 1883, 4to. (708), Nov. 3, Hodgson £II [Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 549, $40.] Formula Vivendi Canonicorum sive Vicariorum Secularuz aut etia devoto, presbiterorum, lit. goth., 12 ll., signs. a-b, b6 blank [Campbell *755, not in Proctor, Hain 7256], old cf., gt. back, from the Dunn library, [colophon] Delf Impressum Anno Domini M.CCCCXCVI., mensis aprilis [s.n. impressoris, sed Chr. Snellaert, 1496], sm. 4to. (624), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £5 Forrest (Lt.-Col.) Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India, 24 col. views, map and vignettes, orig. issue, hf. mor. (loose in cover), Ackermann, 1824, roy. 4to. (551), Feb. 2, Hodgson Parsons, £5 5s. [Sotheby, Dec. 20, Lot 1005, £6 15s.] Forster (John). Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, vignette port. on title, illustrations in the text by J. Leech, presentation copy from the author to Charles Dickens, inscribed "Charles Dickens, from his affectionate friend, John Forster," brown mor. gt., line and ornamental borders, g.e., from the library of Charles Dickens, with his bookplate and label, 1848, 8vo. (228), June 9, Sotheby Maggs, £22 Forsyth (W.) History of the Captivity of Napoleon, port. and map, 3 vol., cf. gt., 1853-Memoirs of Mdme. Junot, ports., 3 vol., hf. russ., 1883-Greville Memoirs, edited by H. Reeve, 3 vol., cf. gt., 1875, together 9 vol., 8vo. (479), May 9, Sotheby Thorp, £3 5s. Fortescue (Sir John). A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England, translated by Robert Mulcaster, double columns, black and roman letter (title repaired and last leaf mounted, small hole in margin of A II., a few slight stains), russ. gt. and g.e., Richard Tottell, 1573, 16mo. (685), Oct. 25, Sotheby Heffer, £4 Fortune Telling. See Fauti (S.), Marcolini Fosbrooke (T. D.) Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts respecting the County of Gloucester, plates, including the 4 cancelled plates and the scarce appendix, A.L.s. from the author to S. Lysons loosely inserted, 2 vol., cf. (joints broken), Gloucester, 1807, 4to. (235), June 9, Sotheby Pickering, £6 IOS. Foster (J.) Alumni Oxonienses, both series, plates, 8 vol., orig. cl., Oxford, 1881-91, 8vo. (146), April 25, Sotheby Bull, £4 8s. Foster (J.) Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families : West and North Ridings, etc., cuts of arms and folding genealogical tables, 3 vol., cl., 1874 (543), July 27, Hodgson [Sotheby, July 20, Lot 69, I 16s.] Walford, £3 5s. Foster (J. J.) British Miniature Painters and their Works, plates, one of 125 copies on LARGE PAPER, with some of the plates on Japanese vell., 1898, imp. 4to. (101), Oct. 25, Sotheby Parsons, £2 Foster (J. J.) Miniature Painters, British and Foreign, with some Account of those who practised in America in the Eighteenth Century, éd.-de-luxe, of which only 175 copies were issued, plates on Japanese vell., 2 vol., vell. ex., g.t., 1903, folio (205), Oct 25, Sotheby [Hodgson, June 2, £5.] Stephenson, LII Foster (J. J.) Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the 17th Century, with the Supplement, illustrated by over 200 examples from the most celebrated collections, author's ed., limited to 150 copies, signed, 2 vol., 1914-16, imp. 4to. (103), Oct. 25, Sotheby [Jan. 24, £4 IOS.] Stephenson, II IOS. Foster (James S.) Outlines of History of the Territory of Dakota and Emigrants' Guide to the Free Lands of the North-west, with a folding sectional map, orig. wrappers, Yankton, Dakota, 1870, 8vo. (300), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries $112.50 [Fine copy. Contains a description of the towns, climate, soil, stage routes, railroads, etc., and a complete business directory of the upper Missouri valley.] Foster (Wm.) Hoplocrisma-Spongus, or a Sponge to wipe away the Weapon-Salve, old hf. cf. (few letters rubbed and headlines shaved), 1631, 4to. (393), Oct. 20, Puttick Heffer, £3 15S. Fougasses (Thomas de). The Generall Historie of the magnificent state of Venice, from the first foundation thereof untill this present, Englished by W. Shute, gent., view of Venice on title-page and numerous woodcut ports. in the text, contemp. English brown cf. [by R. Bateman, the royal binder], London, G. Eld and W. Stansby, 1612, thick folio (120), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $210 [Probably the copy especially bound for presentation to either the Earl of Pembroke or Earl of Montgomerie, to whom the book is dedicated, as the emblem of the lion was used by both in their coat-of-arms.] Fouilloux (Jacques du). La Venerie, numerous large wood cuts of hunting scenes and musical notes of hunting cries, Paris, chez Pierre Billaine, 1635-Harmont (P.) Le Miroir de Fauconnerie, woodcuts, ib., 1634, in I vol., orig. vell. (309), July 18, Sotheby Naylen, £11 IOS. Foundations of Freedom, or an Agreement of the People proposed as a Rule for future government in the establishment of a firm Peace, 1648-Ashhurst (Wm.) Reasons against agreement with Foundations of Freedom, 1648A List of the Imprisoned and Secluded Members, broad side, n.d.- Cokayne (Wm.) The Foundations of fredome vindicated, 1649-The Essex Watchmen's Watchword, 1649-Prynne (Wm.) Demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26, 1648, broadside, 1648-Prynne (W.) Breefe Memento to the present unparliamentary Iunto touching their intentions to depoes and execute Charles Steward their lawfull King, 1648-Tragi-Comedy called New-Market-Fayre, or a Parliament Out-cry of State Commodities set to sale, 1649, and 70 other tracts and broadsides, in 1 vol., old cf., sm. 4to. (626), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £29 Fountains Abbey. Register or Coucher Book, D-J, pp. 1-581, MS. on vell., English XIVth cent. (12 by 8 inches), written in a clear book-hand, in Latin, 25-27 long lines to a page, headlines written in red, begins imperfectly, with Dakre, Tabula secta, the last place mentioned is Jarum, orig. binding of oak bds. covered leather, ruled with diagonal lines forming compartments, in which are small square stamps of a double-headed eagle (worn and damaged), with a leaf from one of the quire books of the Abbey used as a fly-leaf at end, xiv. cent., sm. thick folio (55), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £400 ["Vol. i. of the Register is in the Cottonian collection, Tiberius CXII. The volume containing K-M is in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. The other volumes have not been found."-Hist. MSS. Commission Report. The following signed note occurs on a fly-leaf: Notandu that a few leaves are bounde amis, for to beginn this Booke turne to pag: 17 and reade to figure 32, then returne to page the first and reade to page the 16 and after turne to page the 33 and then all is right. Turne to page 46 for the Catalogue of this Booke, 25 Decemb. 1629, Richarde Gascoigne." In a later hand occurs The first volume of this Coucher Book is in the Cottonian Library much damaged by fire, and the third volume in the Library at Studley as I am told. 1784."] Fountains Abbey. Account Book, kept chiefly by Brother Thomas Swynton (who became Prior in 1471), MS. on paper, 120 ll. (8 by 5 inches), containing accounts between the Abbot and his tenants, accounts of expenses paid by Swynton for the House, payments for rent, cattle, corn, etc., begins with an alphabetical list of places, occupying 4 pp., orig. vell. covers, laced leather back, xv. cent., 4to. (57), Oct. 21, Sotheby Fountains Abbey. The Steward's Book of Receipts from Tenants, MS. on paper, 318 pp. (8) by 5 in various book-hands, orig. vell., XVI. Oct. 21, Sotheby Fountains Abbey. Various Rentals of the Possessions of Fountains Abbey in the 14th and 15th centuries, MS. on vell., 269 ll. (10 by 61 inches), written by various hands, Quaritch, £11 inches), written cent., 4to. (60), Sinclair, £5 15s. orig. vell. covers, laced leather back, XIV.-XV. cent., 4to. (56), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £27 Fountains Abbey. The Stock Book, temp. Edw. IV., Rich. III. and Hen. VII., beginning with Lofthouse, MS. on paper, 720pp. (17 by 6 inches), by various hands (several 11. frayed at edges and defective), orig. vell. (covers damaged), xv. cent., narrow folio (58), Oct. 21, Sotheby Sinclair, £22 Fountains Abbey. Surveys of certain estates of the dissolved Monastery of Fountains, granted to Sir R. Gresham, Ist October, 1540, MS. on paper roll, measuring about 35 feet by 11 inches, being a contemporary copy of the original in the Record Office (slightly damaged), xvi. cent. (59), Oct. 21, Sotheby Sinclair, £8 9s. [This survey was printed for the Surtees Society in Vol. i. of Memorials of Fountains Abbey."] Fouqué (La Motte). Peter Schlemihl, from the German, 8 etchings by G. Cruickshank (sic), hf. cf., G. & W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, 1824, 8vo. (618), March 14, Sotheby Raphael, £3 3s. [The Ave-Maria in the imprint is connected with a hyphen. Sotheby, Jan. 24, Lot 827, £5 5s.] Fournier (G.) Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la pratique de Navigation, diagrams, cf., Paris, 1667-Christiani Hugenii Zulichemii Horologium Oscillatorium, diagrams, orig. cf., ib., 1673, etc., together 3 vol., folio (396), Jan. 17, Sotheby Turner, £7 IOS. Fowler (W. W.) Coleoptera of the British Islands, col. plates, LARGE PAPER, 5 vol., hf. cf., t.e.g., 1887-91, 8vo. (601), Oct. 20, Puttick Wheldon, £9 [Sotheby, June 15, 17.] Fox (Caroline). Memoires of Old Friends, edited by H. N. Pym, port. after H. Herkomer, extra illustrated by the insertion of over 90 ports., olive levant mor. ex., inside borders gt., joints, g.t., 1882, large 8vo. (627), May 25, Sotheby Walford, £6 5s. Fox (E., Bp. of Hereford). The true dyfferēs betwen ye regall power and the Ecclesiasticall power, translated out of latyn by Henry Lord Stafforde, first ed. in English, black letter, title within woodcut compartment (defective at corners and mended, margin of one or two 11. at beginning and end mended, one or two marginal notes just touched), red mor., gt. panelled tooling on sides, panelled back, g.e., by Rivière, Wyllyam Copland, n.d., 8vo. (513), June 28, Sotheby Thorp, £3 5s. Fox-Davies (A. C.) Armorial Families, a Directory of Gentlemen of Coat Armour, fifth ed., plates of coats emblazoned and other illustrations, Edinburgh, 1905, large 8vo. (628), May 30, Sotheby Tregaskis, £1 14S. [Sotheby, Feb. 23, 1895 ed., 16s.; July 20, 1902 ed., 12S.] |