933. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Hand and Soul. 12mo, full crushed levant morocco extra, gilt inside borders, gilt top, original wrappers bound in, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. Strangeways & Walden [about 1869] * FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Very rare, a few copies only having been privately printed for friends. 934. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Verses. 8vo, full olive levant morocco extra, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt top, uncut, original wrappers bound in, by RIVIÈRE. Lond. Privately Printed, 1881 46 * Only a few copies printed. These verses, At the Fall of the Leaf," and "After the French Liberation of Italy," are very seldom met with. 935. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Poems. Small Svo, full maroon crushed levant extra, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond.: Ellis & White, 1881 * A New Edition, with Additions, including "The Bride's Prelude, now first published. 936. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). The New Life, by Dante, transl. by Rossetti, and The House of Life. 2 vols. 12mo, boards. Portland, Me.: Mosher, 1896-8 * Mosher's "Old World Series" printed on Japanese vellum paper, and of which only 100 copies of each were issued. 937. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Hand and Soul, With Kelmscott borders. 16mo, wrappers, uncut. Portland, Me.: Mosher, 1899 * One of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper. 938. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). The Blessed Damozel. With fronts. by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Square 16mo, wrappers, uncut. Portland, Me.: Mosher, 1901 * One of 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper. 939. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Poems. Portrait, after Watts. Small 4to, wrappers, uncut. Portland, Me.: Mosher, 1902 * One of 25 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, autographed by the publisher. Contains a lengthy account of the Poems of Rossetti by Swinburne. 940. ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL). Sonnets. cut. Ballads and Portrait of the author. Small 4to, wrappers, un- *One of 25 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, autographed by the publisher. 941. ROSSETTI (MARIA FRANCESCA). A Shadow of Dante. Being an Essay towards Studying Himself, His World and His Pilgrimage. FIRST EDN. Illusts. Post 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1871 942. ROSSETTI (W. M.) Alighieri. Part I., The Hell. with Introduction and Notes. cloth. The Comedy of Dante Transl. into Blank Verse, FIRST EDN. 12mo, original Lond. 1865 943. ROSSETTI (W. M.) Fine Art, chiefly Contemporary. FIRST EDN. 12mo, cloth (title scribbled on). Lond. 1867 944. ROUSE (H. C.) Travelling around the World with General Nelson A. Miles. With numerous photograph illusts. and maps. 4to, cloth. N. Y.: Privately printed for the author, 1904 945. ROWLANDSON (THOMAS). The Beauties of Sterne, comprising his Humorous and Descriptive Tales, Letters, etc., etc. With two full-page colored caricatures by Rowlandson. 12mo, full polished calf gilt, gilt edges (small piece lacking from back), by TOUT. Lond. 1809 * First edition. [Combe (William).] 946. ROWLANDSON (THOMAS). The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. FOURTH EDN. 30 colored plates by Rowlandson; [also] The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation. FIRST EDN. 24 colored plates by Rowlandson. 2 vols. 8vo, old half calf. Lond. R. Ackerman, 1813-20 * Plate 1 of the First Tour is bound between pp. 6 and 7 of the Second Tour. 947. ROWLANDSON STYLE. The Tour of Doctor Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles. With 20 full-page humorous plates, drawn and engraved by C. Williams, and finely colored in the manner of Rowland8vo, full red morocco, gilt, with corner ornaments on sides, inside borders, gilt top, UNCUT. Lond. 1821 son. * Fine copy of the first edition. Rare in the above described state. 948. RUSKIN (JOHN). Salsette and Elephanta: A Prize Poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 12, 1839. 12mo, full polished calf, gilt, inside dentelle borders, original paper covers preserved, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD. Oxford: Printed and published by J. Vincent, 1839 * FIRST EDITION OF RUSKIN'S FIRST BOOK. RARE. 949. RUSKIN (JOHN). Letters from John Ruskin to Rev. J. P. Faunthorpe, M.A. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut. * PRINTED ON VELLUM. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Lond.: Privately printed, 1895 One of the very few VERY RARE. copies so printed for private circulation only. 950. RUSKIN (JOHN). Rev. F. A. Malleson, M.A. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Letters from John Ruskin to Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Lond. Privately printed, 1896 *PRINTED ON VELLUM. VERY RARE. One of the very few copies so printed for private circulation only. 951. SAINT PIERRE (BERNARDIN DE). Paul et Virginie Thick 4to, full light green crushed levant morocco, with ornate corner ornaments within panels on sides, artistically gold tooled panelled backs, gilt tops, broad gold tooled inside borders, uncut, by STIKEMAN. Paris, 1887 *A MAGNIFICENT COPY OF THE GREAT FRENCH CLASSIC, 'Tirage de Grand Luxe. Printed throughout on JAPANESE VELLUM PAPER, of which only 50 copies were printed, Beautifully illustrated by MAURICE LELOIR, Some of the plates being in FOUR STATES, including choice examples on SATIN. In addition the copy contains on the half-title an original water-color drawing (signed) of Paul and Virginia, by MAURICE LELOIR, which is an EXQUISITE SPECIMEN OF HIS WORK, Glossæ ex 952. SALEMO Episcopus Constantiensis. illustrissimis collectæ auctoribus. With fine large woodcut initials. Folio, full dark green levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS. [Augsburg: Monastery of S.S. Ulrich and Afra, 1474] *Roman character, 287 unnumbered leaves, without signatures and catchwords. Hain-Copinger, 14134; Copinger, III., 5231; Proctor, 1636. Only nine or ten works were issued from the press of this monastery, and they are all very rare. A very fine and large copy. 953. SANSOVINO (FRANCESCO). Delle Orationi volgarmente scritte da molti huomini illustri de tempi nostri. Parts I and II. In one vol. 4to, full blue levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS. Venetia, 1562 954. SARGENT (NATHAN). Public Men and Events, from the Commencement of Mr. Monroe's Administration in 1817 to the Close of Fillmore's Administration in 1853. 2 vols. 8vo, half green crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut. Phil. 1875 * FINE COPY. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of about 50 portraits of personages mentioned in the work, some of which are on India paper. Prediche sopra 955. SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO). diversi Psalmi & Evangelii. First page surrounded by a fine woodcut border on black ground and with a small woodcut. 4to, boards. Last leaf stamped. Probably a part of the entire collection of the “Prediche,” as the book begins immediately with the table, without any title. Venice, 1517 956. SCHEDEL (HARMANNUS). NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi. With upwards of 2,000 fine spirited large and small woodcuts by WOLGEMUTH and PLEYDENWURF, including numerous large views of cities, genealogical trees, heads of celebrated personages, a large woodcut representing the dance of death, maps, etc. Folio, old vellum (title slightly soiled, headings of few leaves cut SIR HUGH THE HERON. A LEGENDARY TALE, IN FOUR PARTS. BY GABRIEL ROSSETTI, JUNIOR. SIR HUGH THE HERON BOLD, BARON OF TWISELL AND of ford, AND CAPTAIN OF THE HOLD. Scott's Marmion, Canto 1. LONDON: MDCCCXLIII. G. POLIDORI'S Private Press, 15, Park Village East, Regent's Park. 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