191 BURTON (JOHN HILL). The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, 7 vols., 1867-70; From the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection [1689-178], 2 vols., 1853; A History of the Reign of Queen Anne, 3 vols., 1880. ALL FIRST EDNS. 12 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in full polished calf gilt, gilt inside borders, gilt tops by TOUT. 192. BURTON (JOHN HILL). The New Edn, with Memoir of the Author. W. B Hole, and plate. Thick square uncut. * Large Paper. Edinburgh, 1853-80 Book-Hunter, etc A 193. BURTON (SIR RICHARD). Il Pentamerone; or, The Tale of Tales, being a Translation of Il Pentamerone; Overo Locunto de li Cunte, trattenemiento de li Peccerille, of Giovanni Battista Basile, Count of Torone (Gian Alessio Abbattutis). 2 vols. royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1893 * Scarce. Limited to 165 copies, each numbered. 194. BURTON (SIR RICHARD F.) The Works of Burton. Including: Goa, and the Blue Mountains, 1851; Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley, 2 vols., 1851; Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (presentation copy), 1851; A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise, 1853; First Footsteps in East Africa, colored plates, 1856; The Lake Regions of Central Africa, tinted plates, 2 vols., 1860; The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, 1861; Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, 2 vols., 1863; Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, 2 vols., 1863; 33rd Vol. of Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, with An Account of an Exploration of the Elephant Mountains by Burton, 1863; The Nile Basin, 1864; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, with Notices of the Amazons, etc., 2 vols., 1864; Wit and Wisdom from West Africa, 1865; The Highlands of the Brazil, 2 vols., 1869; Battle Fields of Paraguay, 1870; Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry, 1870; Proverbia Communia Syriaca, Vol. V, Part II of Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1871; Zanzibar, City, Island and Coast, 2 vols., 1872; Unexplored Syria, 2 vols., 1872; The Lands of Cazembe, trans. by Burton, 1873; Notes on Rome (from Macmillan's Magazine), 1874-5; Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, 2 vols., 1876; A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry, 1876; Etruscan Bologna, a Study, 1876; Sind Revisited with Notices of The Anglo-Indian Army, etc., 2 vols., 1877; The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities (2nd edition), 1878; The Land of Midian Revisited, colored plates, 2 vols., 1879; Os Lusiadas, trans. by Burton, 2 vols., 1880; Camoens, His Life and his Lusiads, 2 vols., 1881; To the Gold Coast for Gold, 2 vols., 1883; The Lyricks, trans. by Burton, 2 vols., 1884; Life of Richard F. Burton with an Account of his Travels, etc., by Francis Hitchman, 2 vols., 1887. To the above are added the Works of Isabel Burton, the wife of Richard F. Burton, as follows: The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine and the Holy Land, 2 vols., 1875; Arabia, Egypt, India, a Narrative of Travel, 1879; Iracema the Honey-Lips, trans. by I. Burton, 1886; Life of Sir Richard F. Burton, 2 vols., 1893. Together 54 vols. half calf. Also, bound in full calf, Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland, 2 vols., 1875; and A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 vols., 1855; by R. F. Burton. In this set are folding maps, colored plates, portraits, illusts., etc. In all 59 vols. 8vo to 16mo, half and full calf (some cracked and some covers loose), gilt, gilt tops, by TOUT and others. Lond. 1851-1893 ALL FIRST EDITIONS except one, thus making almost a complete set of the first editions of Sir Richard and Isabel Burton, including the early and rare volumes. 195. BURY (RICHARD DE). The Philobiblon. Edited and trans. by E. C. Thomas. 12mo, buckram, gilt top, uncut. Lond. 1888 196. BUTLER (ARTHUR JOHN). The Hell of Dante Alighieri. Edited, with Translation and Notes. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1892 197. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD). A Collection of Lord Byron's Autographs, including a two-page folio letter signed N. B. to Lady Frances Wedderburn in Paris, on the subject of a reconciliation with her husband; An autograph Order on his banker, John Hanson, in favor of Mr. Daighton signed Byron; and an autograph note to his publisher, John Murray, signed N. B.; Letters from his Wife, Lady Noel Byron, written in the third person; one from his only child, Ada Byron, written as Lady King, and another signed A. Lovelace, when married to Earl Lovelace; a fourpage letter from the Marquise de Boissy, the former Countess Guiccioli, referring to Byron and his daughter the Countess Lovelace; an autograph letter from the First Lord Byron, dated 1768, referring to work at Newstead Abbey; a Letter from Thomas Moore with regard to the preparation of Lord Byron's Memoirs. Together with 14 choice portraits of the writers of all the letters. In all 27 letters and prints bound in a folio album of brown morocco, gilt tooled inside borders, gilt edges, by ZAEHNSDORF, lettered Lord Byron MSS. 198. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. With a series of exquisite steel engravings by the Findens after Warren, Aylmer, Cockerell, etc. 8vo, full mottled calf extra, gilt edges, by TOUT. Lond. 1841 * FINE COPY, with unspotted impressions of the illustrations. Scarce. THE HOME LIBRARY. POETICAL SERIES.-NO. I. THE WHITE-FOOTED DEER AND OTHER POEMS. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. NEW YORK: 1. S. PLATT, 111 FULTON STREET, 1844. [See No. 162.] 199. [BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD).] Don Juan: with a Biographical Account of Lord Byron and his Family . . . including also a Sketch of the Vampire Family, Canto III., portrait, Lond.: W. Wright, 1819; Don Juan, a Sequel, Cantos XIX. and XX. 2 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound by ALFRED MATTHEWS in half dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt tops. Cape Town: Published for the author, 1850 *The first book is one of the fraudulent imitations of Don Juan. The third canto was not published for some time after. The second book seems to have been the author's copy, as it is full of written interpolations and corrections. The preface is signed G. L. 200. BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD). Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore. 2 vols. 4to, full crimson crushed levant morocco, panelled backs, and sides, gilt tops, uncut, by the CLUB BINDLond. 1830 ERY. LARGE PAPER COPY, only a few sets printed. SECOND SESSION. 201. CAHUN (LEON). La Vie Juive. Préface de Zadok-Kahn (Grand Rabbin de Paris). Illusts. by Alphonse Levy. Small folio, bound in three-quarter dark blue crushed levant morocco, gilt panelled back, gilt top, by BRADSTREETS. Paris, 1886 202. CAILLARD (E. M.). The Invisible Powers of Nature. 12mo, half calf, gilt top. Lond. 1888 203. CAMPBELL (JOHN, LORD). The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. (till the Reign of Queen Victoria), 8 vols., Lond. 1846-69; also O'FLANAGAN (J. RODERICK), The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria, 2 vols. Lond. 1870. Together 10 vols. 8vo. half crimson crushed levant morocco, backs richly tooled, gilt edges. Lond. 1846-70 * FINE SET of the best library editions of both works and much superior to the issues in 12mo. Volume 8 of the Campbell is the Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham, which is often missing. 204. CAMPBELL (J. F.). Popular Tales of the West Highlands, orally collected, with a translation. 4 vols. 12mo, full polished calf extra gilt, gilt inside borders, gilt tops, uncut, by TOUT. Edinb. 1860-62 |