835. MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES SECONDAT DE). Le Temple de Gnide. Nouvelle Édition, avec figures gravées par N. Le Mire, des Acad. de Vienne en Autriche et de Rouen, d'après les dessins de Ch. Eisen. Le texte gravé par Drouët. Front. containing the medal portrait of Montesquieu, engraved title, vignette heading the dedication (the arms of England), and 9 fine plates engraved by LE MIRE (2 of them for "Cephise et l'Amour "), after EISEN; text engraved throughout by Drouët. 4to, full red crushed levant morocco extra, gilt tooled large dentelle borders on the sides, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, in the manner of DEROME, by CHAMBOLLE-DURU.

Paris: Chez Le Mire graveur, 1772

* LARGE PAPER. A very fine copy with the engravings in brilliant state. One of the choicest of the XVIIIth century French illustrated books in the plates of which artist and engraver do both appear at their best.

[See Reproduction.]

836. MONTFAUCON (B. DE). L'Antiquité expliquée et representée en figures, 10 vols.; Supplément, 5 vols. With upwards of 1,000 plates, all fine impressions, illustrative of the life and customs of the ancients, as represented on the existing monuments. 1719-24.-Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise, qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque règne que l'injure des tems à épargnées. With upwards of 300 beautiful plates, depicting the principal events and personages of French history from historical monuments in the castles and churches, many of them now destroyed or decayed, including costume, works of art of a period of several centuries, a facsimile on a large scale of the Bayeux Tapestry, etc, 5 vols. 1729-33. Together 20 vols. Folio, uniformly bound in full red crushed levant morocco gilt, with the monogram of Henry Probasco of Cincinnati stamped on the centre of the covers, gilt inside borders, gilt edges. A VERY FINE Paris, 1719-33

SET.

*Of the importance of this great book to the antiquarian and the historical world it is hardly possible to speak too highly. Its object was to lay before the public a vast series of objects of ancient art, architecture, sculpture, etc., and to illustrate the whole by plates, executed in the highest style of which the age admitted. This the learned author effected most completely; and it is to this very book that the foundation of all our most important branches of archæological knowledge at the present day may be ascribed. The obligations of the Continental antiquary to Montfaucon are immense; and his work will stand the test of future ages, as one of the most astonishing and certainly one of the most extensive monuments of antiquarian research ever made by one man.

837. MORE (THOMAS). Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip. statu, deque nova Insula Utopia. Woodcut of Utopia on the back of title, and the beautiful printer's mark at the end. 4to, full calf, with blind stamped centre ornaments, and gilt borders on the sides. Louvain: Theodoricus Martens [1516]

* The rare FIRST EDITION of this celebrated book. Leaf 2, containing the Utopian alphabet, missing.

838. MORE (THOMAS). The Confutacyon of Tyndales Answer made by Syr Thomas More, Knyght, Lorde Chancellor of England. Folio, red morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt back and inside borders, gilt edges, by RAMAGE.

Lond. Wm. Ratsell, 1532

* FIRST EDITION. A magnificent example of early London printing. Complete, with the last leaf of "The Fawtes Escaped in the Pryntynge." Printed in bold old English type, the title within a quaint woodcut border, and fine woodcut initials to the chapters. Clean and desirable in every way. The work is very rare, and particularly so in such fine condition.

839. MORE (THOMAS). The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knight, some tyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge. Title within woodcut border and with woodcut initials. PRINTED IN BLACK LETTER Thick folio, full morocco antique, gilt over carmine edges, by HAYDAY. Printed at Lond. at the costes and charges of John Cawood, John Waly and Richard Tottell, anno 1577.

* THE DONNE-HOSMER-HAYES COPY, with the rare unpaged leaf" to the christen reader," between pages 1138 and 1139. FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN DONNE, the eminent Poet and Divine, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ON THE TITLE-PAGE. With marginal notes in a later hand on two pages.

840. MORRIS (GOUVERNEUR). The Diary and Letters of Morris. Edited by Anne C. Morris. Portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, gilt tops. Lond. 1889

841. [MORRIS (WILLIAM).] The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine for 1856. Conducted by Members of the two Universities. Bound from the parts in 2 vols. half levant morocco extra, gilt tops, WITH ALL THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS PRESERVED. Lond. 1856

* Dante G. Rossetti contributed some of his finest poems to this magazine, including "The Burden of Nineveh" and "The Blessed Damozel." WILLIAM MORRIS was also a contributor, furnishing a remarkable series of short prose romances, comprising: A Dream, Gertha's Lovers, Svend and his Brethern, The Hollow Land, Golden Wings, Story of the Unknown Church, Winter Weather, Churches of North France, The Two Partings, Frank's Sealed Letter, Riding Together, Ruskin and the Quarterly, Hans, Death the Avenger, Lindenburg Pool, and the Chapel in Lyoness. The romances have never been reprinted. A manuscript list is inserted at the beginning, containing the names of all the contributors to the magazine.

FIFTH SESSION.

842. MORRIS (WILLIAM). The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems. 12mo, full crimson levant morocco extra, gilt tooled borders on the sides, gilt tooled back, doublé with blue levant morocco extra, the borders of leaves delicately tooled and gilt, watered-silk linings, gilt edges, by LORTIC FILS. Lond. 1858

* FIRST EDITION. Fine copy, with the rare slip of Errata. 843. MORRIS (WILLIAM). The Earthly Paradise: a Poem. THE RARE FIRST EDN. 6 vols. 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. 1868-70

* THE EXTREMELY SCARCE LARGE PAPER EDITION, PRINTED ON WHATMAN'S HAND-MADE PAPER, AND OF WHICH ONLY 25 SETS WERE PREPARED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

844. MORRIS (WILLIAM).

The Two Sides of the River, Hapless Love, and the First Foray of Aristomenes. Post 8vo, full polished calf, gilt-tooled back and inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by RIVIÈRE. Lond. 1876

*This book was not placed on sale and only a few copies were privately printed. VERY RARE.

845. MORRIS (WILLIAM).

An Address-delivered to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Arts, 1894. 8vo, half cloth, uncut.

Lond. 1898

* Printed in the golden type of the Kelmscott Press.

846. MORRIS (WILLIAM). A Tale of the House of the Wolfings; The Roots of the Mountains; Grettir the Strong; The Volsunga Saga, and Three Northern Love Stories; The Odyssey of Homer; The Eneids of Virgil; Hopes and Fears for Art, and other Lectures; Signs of Change, and other Lectures. Together 8 vols. imp. 8vo, boards, with linen backs, paper labels, bound in the style of " Golden Legend " issued by the Kelmscott Press. Lond.: Longmans, 1901-02

* COMPLETE SET, limited to 315 copies, of which only 300 were for sale, of this fine reissue of the Works of William Morris. PRINTED WITH THE GOLDEN TYPE OF THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. As is well known, all the types and woodblocks used were presented to the Trustees of the British Museum, the type alone being reserved for future use by the Trustees. The above set is printed on hand-made paper, being made at the same mill, of the same materials, and from the same moulds, with the Daisy water-mark, as the paper, used in the issues of Kelmscott Press. IN FINE CONDITION. UNCUT AND UNOPENED.

847. MORRIS (WILLIAM). A Dream of John Ball. Front. 12mo, half holland, uncut. Lond. 1903

* One of 250 copies on hand-made paper.

848. MORRIS (WILLIAM). The Tale of King Coustans; The Tale of King Florus; The Story of the Unknown Church; The Hollow Land; The Story of Amis and Amile; The History of Over Sea; Golden Wings; Gertha's Lovers. 8 vols. 24mo, wrappers, uncut. Portland, Me.: Mosher, v. d. * Mosher's "Brocade Series," printed on Japanese vellum paper. Limited issues.

849. MORSE (J. T.) Abraham Lincoln. With 2 portraits on India paper. 2 vols. 8vo, half bound, uncut.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893

* LARGE PAPER. Only 250 copies printed.

850. [MOTLEY (JOHN LOTHROP).] Morton's Hope; or, Memoirs of a Provincial. 2 vols. 12mo, half russia.

N. Y. 1839

*FINE COPY of Mr. Motley's first book. Though the work failed signally as a novel, it is now of great interest as revealing autobiographically the early studies and youthful dreams and aspirations of the future historian.

851. MUENTZINGER (HANS). Büchlin des sterbenden menschen. With 4 full-page xylographies of a very archaic character and large xylographic initials (all slightly colored). 4to, marbled calf gilt, gilt edges (leaf 1, containing a woodcut on the verso, and a leaf of the text missing, inner margin of first five leaves mended, and last three leaves slightly water-stained).

[n. p, n. d., but Augsburg, Anton Sorg, c. 1482] *Gothic character to long lines. 94 unnumbered leaves (should be 96) without signatures and catchwords, 20-23 lines to the page. Hain, 11628; Proctor, 1694. One of the rarest of all the books printed by Sorg. The woodcuts contained in this work are good specimens of the early German art of woodengraving, and the blocks were undoubtedly engraved long before the printing of the book.

852. MULLER (EUGÈNE). La Mionette. With 28 etchings by Abot and Clapès, after O. Cortazzo. 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco extra, inlaid borders in three colors, the ornaments surrounded by gilt lines on the sides, gilt inlaid ornaments on the back, doublé with heliotrope levant morocco, having floral ornaments inlaid in green, gray and brown, silk linings, gilt edges, by DAVID. Paris, 1885

*LARGE PAPER. ONE OF THE FEW COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM PAPER. Original water-color vignette by T. Wardon on the half title.

853. MUNDAY (ANTHONY) AND CHETTLE (HENRY). The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington, afterward called Robin Hood of Merrie Sherwodde. With his love to chaste Matilda, the Lord Fitzwater's daughter, afterwardes his faire Maide Marian. Acted by the Right Honourable, the Earle of Notingham, Lord High Admirall of England, his servants. 4to, morocco, with Perkins's Arms