" title and the postscripts of 8 pages. Mather (I.) A Dissertation, wherein the Strange Doctrine lately published in a Sermon, the Tendency of which is to Encourage Unsanctified Persons (while such) to Approach the Holy Table of the Lord, is Examined and Confuted, with an Appendix showing what Scripture Ground there is to Hope, that within a very few years there will be a Glorious Reformation of the Church throughout the World, contemp. cf., Boston, printed by B. Green for Benj. Fisher, 1708, sm. 8vo. (461), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries $385 on [Fine copy. Very scarce. Presentation copy from the author, with inscription on fly-leaf: "N. Člap Recd this 8, 7, 1708. Newport. Ex. Dono Authorii.' The remainder of the fly-leaf is occupied with shorthand notes, also dated 1708.] Mather (I.) An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, wherein an Account is given of many Remarkable and very Memorable Events which have happened in this last Age, especially in New England, old diced cf., a few lower edges uncut, Boston in New England, George Calvert, 1684, sm. 8vo. (449), Jan. 24, Anderson Galleries $355 Mather (I.) The Excellency of a Publick Spirit Discoursed, in a Sermon preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 27, 1702, being the day for Election of Counsellors in that Province (A 4 11. + B-H in sixes), page 39, with a new title, The Righteous Man" (a few Il. slightly torn, affecting the text, the last leaf slightly defective and repaired, a few headings slightly cut into), cf., Boston in New England, printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Nicholas Boone, near the Old Meeting House, 1702 (129), July 25, Sotheby Pring, £21 Mather (I.) A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches, with the Observations of a Person who was upon the Place several Days when the suspected Witches were first taken into Examination, to which is added, Cases of Conscience concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men, blue mor., by Rivière, London, J. Dunton, 1693, sm. 4to. (246), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $220 Mather (I.) Practical Truths tending to promote the Power of Godliness, old black mor., gt. back and border, g.e., Boston, printed by Samuel Green, 1682, sm. 8vo. (448), Jan. 24, Anderson Galleries $605 [This is the author's own copy, with his autograph on the flyleaf. It contains also the autograph of Thomas Foxcroft, 1724, and an inscription indicating that this copy was presented to him by the author. The leaf of advertisement additional leaf of with errata is present, as well as the advertisement " at the end.] Mathers (S. L.) The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Solomonis), now first trans. and edited, plates, one of 500 copies, roxb., 1889, 4to. (416), Oct. 20, Puttick Smith, I IOS. Matthiolus (P. A.) Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia, woodcuts (lower margin of device at end cut off), old cf. (damaged), with ex-libris of Jeremiah Milles on reverse of title, Venetiis, ex officina Erasmiana, Vincentij Valgrisij, 1558 (131), Feb. 23, Sotheby Leighton, £1 128. [Maude (J.)] Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800, plates, one of four copies printed on thin paper, contemp. cf. ex., g.e., author's presentation copy to Lady Ann Coke, with an impression of the engraved title and one of the views printed on panels, 1826, roy. 8vo. (409), Jan. 19, Hodgson Quaritch, £15 Maulette (Genenuefue Petau). Devoreux. Vertues teares for the losse of the most christian King Henry, third of that name, King of Fraunce, and the untimely death of . . . Walter Devoreux, who was slaine before Roan in Fraunce, first written in French . . . and paraphrastically translated into Englishe, Jeruis Markham, in verse of 8-line stanzas, pale blue mor. ex., g.e., by Holloway, I. Roberts for Thomas Millington, 1597, sm. 4to. (156), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £250 Maupassant (Guy de). Euvres complètes, plates, 29 vol., orig. cl., in various shades, Paris, v.d., 8vo. (98), June 15, Sotheby Flaizot, £5 [American Art Association, 17 vol., $70; Anderson Galleries, 17 vol., $32.50.] Maurolycus (F.) Cosmographia, in tres dialogos, woodcut diagrams, stamp on title-page, new pigskin ex., blind tooled antique, Venetiis, 1543-Maginus (J. A.) Novae cœlestium orbium theoricae congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici, engraved title (slightly damaged), woodcut diagrams, new hf. pigskin, ib., 1589, etc., together 3 vol., 4to. (631), Dec. 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 15S. Maw (G.) 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(140), June 15, Puttick Hughes, £6 IOS. Maxwell (W. H.) History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, etc., by W. H. Maxwell, first ed., engravings by Geo. Cruikshank and ports., orig. cl., uncut, 1845, 8vo. (139), Dec. 13, Sotheby Thorp, £7 10s. [June 9, £8 15s.] May_(Thomas). The Reigne of King Henry the Second (a Poem), written in Seaven Bookes, by His Majesties Command, first ed., port. by R. Vaughan, limp vell., A. M. for Benj. Fisher, 1633, 8vo. (114), March 14, Sotheby Tregaskis, £2 IOS. May (T.) The Tragedie of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, acted 1626, orig. sheep (worn and wormed), London, Thomas Harper, 1639, sm. 8vo. (247), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $60 May (T.) The Victorious Reigne of King Edward the Third, written in seven Bookes, by his Maiesties Command, port. of the King, red straight-grain mor., gt. back, g.e., by Stikeman, London, printed for T. Walkley and B. Fisher, 1635, sm. 8vo. (201), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $80 gt. [First ed. A splendid unwashed copy, with ample margins. With the Beverly Chew bookplate and a note on fly-leaf by him, Portrait not signed, but resembles Elstrache's work, and is probably by him."] Mayer (Louis). Vues en Egypte, 48 col. plates, red mor., border round edges, g.e., Londres, T. Bensley pour R. Bowyer, 1802, folio (289), Dec. 2, Sotheby Edwards, £7 [Hodgson, Dec. 9, 1801, £6 6s.; June 16, 1801, £3; Sotheby, March 1, 1801, £2 5s.; June 28, 1802, £2.] Mayer (L.) Views in Palestine and Egypt, with Historical and Descriptive Accounts, col. plates from the orig. drawings by Luigi Mayer, 2 vol., hf. red mor., 1804-5, roy. folio (925), July 27, Sotheby Edwards, £2 IOS. [June 28, 1 IOS.; May 9, £I_IOS.] Mayer (L.) Views in the Ottoman Dominions in Europe, in Asia and some of the Mediterranean Islands, with descriptions, col. plates, hf. mor., m.e., 1810, roy. folio (901), May 9, Sotheby Edwards, £3 Mayhew (H.) and Cruikshank (G.) 1851, or the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys at the Great Exhibition, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, in the 8 nos., wrappers, 1851, 8vo. (145), June 15, Puttick Carling, £5 IOS. [March 9, hf. cf., £2 5s.; Sotheby, June 9, parts, £3.] Mayhew Brothers. Whom to Marry and How to get Married! or the Adventures of a Lady in search of a Good Husband, orig. parts, with 12 etchings and a glyphograph on wrappers and title by George Cruikshank, 6 parts, each part in orig. wrappers with advertisements, as issued, uncut and partly unopened, enclosed in sm. 8vo. red and black marbled cl. slip-case, with inner cl. folding wrapper, London, David Bogue [November, 1847-April, 1848], sm. 8vo. (422), April 20, American Art Association $30 [Original issue, in 6 parts, each part in the orig. wrappers, and with all the advertisements which were issued with each part. Anderson Galleries, March 1, $27.50; Hodgson, Dec. 16, £5.] Mayhew (Horace). The Toothache, imagined by Horace Mayhew, and realised by G. C., first ed., a folded sheet with 43 col. illustrations in the orig. illustrated bds., a col. cut on each cover (1849), 16mo. (829), Jan. 24, Sotheby [Hodgson, March 2, £2 2s.] Thorp, £5 5s. Maynard (C. J.) The Birds of Eastern North America, with original descriptions of all the Species which occur East of the Mississippi River between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full Notes upon their Habits, revised and much enlarged ed., with 48 col. plates of birds and heads and numerous heads in the text, finely col. by hand, hf. red mor., Newtonville, 1889, roy. 4to. (276), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries $30 Mazarin (Cardinal). La conspiration de quatre femmes des plus nobles et des plus illustres de Paris qui ont complotté l'entière ruine de Mazarin, Paris, 1649-Le ivste chastiment de Dieu, dans la mort d'vn Grenetier, pour auoir vendu les grains trop cher, & laissir moisir plusieurs pains, port. of Philippe de la Motte, Handancourt, ib., 1649-Le Povrtraict du meschant ministre d'estat, Ivle Mazarin, et sa cheute sovhaitée, woodcut port., n.d.-Les Covrtisans de Sainct Germain revoltez contre le Cardinal Mazarin, ib., 1649-L'Astrologve françois, ib., 1649— L'Horoscope de Ivles Mazarin, woodcuts, ib., 1649— L'Ombre dv grand Armand Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, parlante a Ivles Mazarin, ib., 1649, and 102 other Tracts and Satirical Pieces on Mazarin, etc., in 1 vol., some in verse, several with a port., most of them dated 1649 (wormhole through some lower margins), old cf. (rebacked), sold as a collection, 4to. (652), April 18, Sotheby Hope, £3 15s. Meager (L.) The English Gardener, plates of flower beds, etc., contemp. cf., M. Wotton, 1688, sm. 4to. (140), March 31, Hodgson Wheldon, £5 Meares (J.) Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North-West Coast of America, maps and plates, old cf. (rebacked), 1790 (602), June 23, Hodgson [Puttick, July 22, £1 10S.] Kashnor, £4 15S. Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings, from 1847-9 to 1886, with Index, 1847-73, 37 vol., cl., from 1886 to 1904, in 77 nos., and 9 vol. between 1905-14, cl., together 46 vol., cl., and 77 nos., 1849-1914 (397), June 16, Hodgson Sotheran, £15 IOS. Meder (J.) Quadragesimale nouum de filio prodigo, gothic letter, woodcuts, orig. stamped leather binding over oak bds. [Proctor 7728], Basle, Michael Furter, 1495, 8vo. (991), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £8 10S. Medicis. A Mervaylovs discourse vpon the lyfe, discourse and behauiours of Katherine de Medicis, Queene mother, second ed., old tree cf., with the Bridgewater bookplate, At Heydelberge, 1575, sm. 8vo. (308), Nov. 29, Anderson Galleries $40 Medina (Pietro de). L'Arte del Navegar, woodcuts, map (with America), old bds., Venetia, 1555, 4to. (3449), Nov. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 15s. [Mehun (John de).] Le Plaisant jeu du Dodechedron de Fortune, woodcut border to title and some pages, with the 4 ll. of table, fine copy, dark blue mor. ex., g.e., by Chambolle-Duru, Paris, Vincent Sertenas, 1560, 4to. (864), Nov. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 Mehun (J. de). The Dodechedron of Fortune, or the Exercise of a Quick Wit, translated from the French by Sr. W. B., black letter, cf., g.e., bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling, 1613, 4to. (865), Nov. 15, Sotheby Pickering, £12 5S. Meissonier, his Life and his Art, by V. C. O. Gréard, plates and other illustrations, handsomely bd. in crimson crushed levant mor. ex., t.e.g., by Rivière, 1897 (281), Jan. 19, Hodgson Chaundy & Co., £4 Mela (Pomponius). £60 De Situ Orbis, roman letter, long lines, old vell. [Proctor 5259], [Venetiis, C. de Pensis, ca. 1498], sm. 4to. (240), Dec. 1, Hodgson Ellis, £2 4s. Melampus. The Contemplation of Mankinde, or the Art of Phisiognomie, with a Treatise of Sundry Lines seen in Men's Foreheads, and a Treatise on Moles, written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus, Englished by Thomas Hyll, black letter, numerous quaint woodcuts of heads, palmistry, etc. (a few headlines cut into), old straightgrain mor., g.e., W. Seres, 1571, 12mo. (123), Dec. 1, Hodgson Melanchthon (Philip). De Supputatione Motus Solis, autograph manuscript, II . of text and diagrams, dated, Vittburga, Ao 1553, written in cursive script in black, with headings in roman in red-Peckham (Johannis). Perspectiva Communis, [colophon] Optima que fertur uisus pars optima lector. Faustis Corneni clauditur auspitijs. Quem petrus impressit paruo nou aere, libellum Hunc eme: tu doctum perlege lector opus, gothic type, two sizes, 30 ll., with signature marks, in 2 columns, with 40 lines of text in inner columns, diagrams in outer and in lower margins, headings in larger type, with two-line spaces, left for capitals, with some guides, 2 vol. in 1, hf. tree cf. (rubbed), [Wittenburg, 1553, and Milan, Petrus of |