Numa, twenty-four Studies by Grenier, Paquerettes, twelve pretty plates of female Figures, La Polka, six attitudes, Costumes of Ladies of various Nations, etc. in one vol. folio, half green morocco, now rare, £2. 16s

1844

11049 BERTALL, les Communeux, 1871: Types, Caractères, Costumes, impl. 4to. 38 coloured plates, cloth, 10s Paris, 1871

11050 GREVIN (A.) les Nouveaux Travestissements Parisiens, 4to. 20 coloured fancy ball costumes, sd. 5s 1873 11051 LALAISSE (H) et BENOIST, Galerie Armoricaine, folio, with 125 plates, one hundred of them of COSTUME FINELY COLOURed, half red morocco, uncut, top edge gilt, £4. 4s Nantes, s. d. 11052 LANTE. Cent cinq Costumes des Départemens de la Seine inférieure du Calvados de la Manche et de l'Orne, impl. 4to. a series of 105 FINELY COLOURED plates of the Costume of Normandy, engraved by Gatine, half calf, SCARCE, £5. 15s Paris, n. d. (? 1830)

The females are all beauties and the Costume a model of neatness, the colouring truly artistic.

11053 REPUBLIQUE Française. Dresses of the Representatives of the People, Members of the Councils, executive Directory, etc. with an historical description, 8vo. 16 coloured plates, sd. rare, 20s 11054 German MILITARY COSTUME, a Collection of 177 COLOURED PLATES, mounted and bound in 3 vols. folio, red morocco, £9. 9s

1796

(? 1840)

These volumes include the Austrian, Prussian, Bavarian, and the Military Costume of all the minor German States. 11055 Russia. RECHBERG (Comte de) LES PEUPLES DE LA RUSSIF, ou Description des Mours, Usages et Costumes des diversos Nations de l'Empire de Russie, accompagnée de Figures Coloriées, 2 vols. large folio, 48 hand-coloured plates, russia, joints, gilt edges, £9. 9s Paris, 1812

A very beautiful book, illustrating the Costume, Religious Ceremonics and Games and Sports of the various nations composing the Russian Empire. 11056 TIMM (W.) A series of 56 highly coloured plates of the Costume of Russia, male and female, in 1 vol. folio, hf. bd. £2. 2s

1857

Paris, 1843 11057 Scottish. MAC IAN. The CLANS of the SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, illustrated by appropriate Figures, displaying their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia, and Social Occupations, from Original Sketches by R. R. MACIAN, 2 vols. impl. 4to. 72 beautifully COLOURED plates, with Descriptions by JAMES LOGAN the same, THE ORIGINAL ISSUE, LARGE PAPER, 2 vols. impl. folio (pub. at 30 guineas), hf. bd. green morocco, gilt edges, £18. 188 1845 11059 MACLEAY (K.) Highlanders of Scotland, Portraits of the principal Clans and Followings, and the Retainers of the Royal Household at Balmoral, 2 vols. imperial folio, 31 large COLOURED plates, with copious descriptive notices (pub. £18. 18s), cloth, £10. 10s

11058

Published by command of Her Majesty the Queen,

1870

1823

11060 Spanish. DELINEATIONS of remarkable Costumes of Spain, also Military Uniforms, Bull Fights, Lances, etc. of the Spaniards, 4to. 42 coloured plates, hf. bd. 20s 11061 Swiss. COSTUMES SUISSES, publiés par Lory et Moritz, royal 4to. 55 plates BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED and mounted to resemble original drawings, green morocco extra, with borders of gold, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, from Mr. Bernal's library, £5. Neuchatel, 1824

The plates are finished with remarkable care and delicacy.

11062 GOLDAU et son district, par Zay, 1817-la Fête des Vignerons à Vevey, 1819, 8 folding coloured plates of the Pageant-Histoire Naturelle du Mont St. Bernard, 1819; 1 vol. sm. 8vo. hf. calf, 78 6d

11063 Venetian. FRANCO (G.) Habiti d'Huomini et Donne Venetiano con la Processione della Ser. Signoria et altri particolari cioe Trionfi, Feste et Ceremonie publiche della nobilissima Citta di Venetia, smallest folio, engraved title with plan of the City and 31 plates of Public Buildings, Portraits, Costumes, Pageants, etc. half bound, the perfect book, £10. (Venetia, 1610) another copy, smallest folio, engraved title and 35 plates, fine impressions, with a printed dedication, red morocco extra, by Petit, £20. Venetia (1610) This copy contains four EXTRA PLATES, the usual number being thirty-two.

11064

Eastern Costume.

11065 [LE HAY.] Explication des Cent Estampes qui representent les differentes nations du Levant; avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies Turques qui ont aussi leurs explications, impl. folio, plate of Music and 102 fine plates engraved by Scotin and others, old calf, from the Sunderland library, 36s Paris, 1715 11066 AFGHANISTAN. HART (Capt. L. W.) Character and Costumes of Afghanistan, atlas folio, title and 26 plates of the Native Warriors, Public Officers, etc. finely coloured like drawings, and mounted on cardboard (pub. at £10. 10s), in a portfolio, £2. 16s (? 1850)

May be called a Second Series to a similar work by Atkinson.] 11067 Chinese. ALEXANDER (W.) Dress and Manners of the Chinese, 4to. illustrated in 50 coloured engravings with descriptions, LARGE PAPER, portrait, the author's own copy, with the plates in three states, coloured, outlines, and outlines shadowed with Indian Ink by himself, red morocco extra, leather joints, gilt edges, by Kalthoeber, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, £12. 12s

1814

11068 Indian. EDEN (E.) Portraits of the Princes and People of India, royal folio, with frontispiece and 24 fine lithographs, very fine copy in green morocco extra, gilt edges, £2.

1844

Many persons will be glad to acquire a correct idea of Her Majesty's Indian Subjects, with whom more intimate relations are being established. Miss Eden's work, containing historical portraits, and delineations of the dress of the Hindoo soldiers, Fakirs, common people, Hill Rajabs, etc. will thus prove an interesting purchase.

11069 BELNOS (Mrs.) Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal, large folio, 24 coloured plates, with text, bds. 20s

1832

11070 PRISSE (E.) Oriental Album, Characters, Customs, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile, from designs taken on the spot, letterpress by J. A. St. John, folio, frontispiece and 30 coloured plates, half morocco, £2. 12s 6d

1851

11071 Turkish. NICOLAY. LE NAVIGATIONI et Viaggi nella Tvrchia, di Nicolo de Nicolai del Delfinato, con diuerse singolarità in quelle parti dall' Autore viste & osseruate Nouamente tradotto di Francese da Fr. Flori da Lilla, sm. 4to. 60 fine woodcuts of figures in National Costumes, vellum, 18s

11072

Anversa, Appresso G. Siluio, 1577 Navigations, peregrinations and Voyages made into Turkie, by NICHOLAS NICHOLAY, Daulphinais, Lord of Arfevile, Chamberlaine and Geographer to the King of Fraunce translated out of the French by T. WASHINGTON the younger, small 4to. with 60 woodcuts in borders, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, £12. 12s London, Th. Dawson, 1585

Ecclesiastical Costume.

11073 BOCK (Dr. F. R.) Geschichte der Liturgischen Gewänder des Mittelalters, 2 vols. 8vo. with 80 plates, mostly in colours, hf. bd. red morocco, gilt edges, £3.

Bonn, 1859-66

The most important work on Ecclesiastical Costume. 11074 FIALETTI (Odoardo) de gli Habiti delle Religioni con le Armi e breve descrittion loro, 3 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. text and plates entirely engraved, numbered 1-74, including the first title but not the second and third, old calf gilt, 30s Venetia, 1626 11075 HELYOT, Histoire des Ordres Monastiques, Religieux, et Militaires (avec la continuation par Bullot), 8 vols. 4to. Original Edition, with fine impressions of the plates, several hundred in number, old calf, gilt back, £7.

Paris, 1714-19 11076 MACHY (M. de) Coleccion de Trages de todas las Ordenes Religiosas y Militares del Mundo, folio, 192 plates of Costumes, half bound, uncut, rare, £7. 78 Madrid, s. a.

Beautifully engraved plates in aquatint. see ante Picart, No. 10626.

Drawings, Diplomatics, Illuminated MSS.

11077 ALBUM OF GIACOMO LAURI at Rome, 1608-29, continued and extended by Anne Le Febvre in 1687-88, in 1 vol. sm. 8vo. containing a great number of Coats of Arms and a few female figures, apparently portraits, all splendidly coloured and illuminated, old calf, £5. 1608-90

There are letters and signatures from many of the most eminent persons of the time; and a few Englishmen passing through Rome also lent their autographs, amongst these are Peter Wentworth, Richard Leveson, William Yelverton, and a son of Sir Henry Spelman.

11078 APOCALYPSE: Bachelin, Description d'un Commentaire de l'Apocalypse, Manuscrit du XII siècle, avec figures noires et en couleurs, impl. 8vo. with 4 large facsimiles and several woodcuts, sd. 20s

For the Manuscript, see ante No. 10.

Paris, 1869

11079 ASTLE (T.) the Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern; also some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing, royal 4to. portrait and 31 plates (some coloured), calf, from the Beckford library, 24s 1803

11080

1803

the same, LARGE PAPER, royal folio, the plates altogether unfolded, russia gilt, £4. 11081 BASTARD (Comte) Peintures et Ornements des Manuscrits classés dans un ordre chronologique . . . 5 parts, elephant folio, containing 44 plates after MSS. of the Sixth to the Eighth Century, most of them coloured and several richly illuminated in gold and silver, in facsimile of some of the gorgeous manuscripts of the sixth and eighth centuries, sd. in a portfolio, £25. (Paris, 1835) These prints contain some of the finest examples of Merovingian artwork, and of the glorious folios written in gold and silver upon purple grounds. 11082 BEDÆ (VENERABILIS) EXPOSICIO EVANGELII SECUNDUM LUCAM ET

ACTUUM APOSTOLORUM, stout square folio, illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, exquisitely written by a Spanish Scribe for Ferdinand the Catholic, then Prince of Aragon, and King-Consort of Castile, the Text throughout in red and the Exposicio in black ink, with all the INITIAL letters (several thousand), HEADINGS OF THE CHAPTERS, and INTITULATIONS, splendidly illuminated in gold and colours; one of the most splendid Manuscripts ever offered for sale, vellum, £70. Circ. A.D. 1475 11083 BOSSOLI (Carlo) DRAWINGS; eighteen VIEWS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND; Place VENDOME, PARIS, at night, and two others-twenty-one in all, beautifully executed in tempera, most vivid in effect and sunny in tone, in a portfolio, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, £150. 1856, etc. 11084 BIRCH (Walter de Gray) and H. JENNER, Early Drawings and Illuminations: an introduction to the study of illustrated MSS. with a dictionary of subjects in the BRITISH MUSEUM, 8vo. with 12 photographic facsimiles from pictures, in old Greek, English, French, Italian, German, and Flemish MSS. (pub. 16s), cloth, 6s 6d

1879

11085 BURROW (H. J., eminent young Artist, died January, 1882, aet. 35), Four Indian Ink Drawings consisting of Groups represent ing Literature, Science, Art and Agriculture, intended for some Bas-relief, an interesting memento, 20s (1870-80)

11086 CHINESE DRAWINGS. A Collection of SIXTY CURIOUS CHINESE DRAWINGS of a superior Description, exhibiting the various Arts, Manufactures, and Customs of the Chinese Nation, particularly the manufacture of China in its various stages; the gathering, preparing, and drying the Tea Plant; etc. 2 vols. square folio, in an ornamental silk binding, £10. Sec. XVIII

The above description is written on the fly-leaf, in the handwriting of Mr. J. R. Morrison, the Chinese scholar, son of the lexicographer.

11087 COLLECTION (une très belle) de 500 DESSEINS DE VASES, avec l'indication des mesures, des prix et des denominations: The

PATTERN BOOK of Signor VINCENT PROLI Of FLOREnce, accompanying an invoiced consignment of Vases, Urns, Cups, Statuettes, etc. to Mr. John Mawe, London, dated May 8, 1827, and valued, £124. 17s, 3 vols. small folio, above 500 DRAWINGS, bils. from the library of Professor Tennant (Mawe's successor), £10. 1827 11088 COLLECTION of above 500 DRAWINGS of the LEAVES of PLANTS, drawn in outline and coloured, with indication of the name of each Plant, and where grown, impl. 4to. the whole on 218 numbered pages, about six Leaves on each page, cloth, £4. (? 1840) From the library of Professor Tennant. Highly useful to Artists. 11089 FROISSART, Illuminated Illustrations of, selected from the MSS. in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris, by H. N. Humphreys, 2 vols. sm. 4to. 72 highly coloured plates beautifully finished in gold and silver, original subscription copy, half bound with the wrappers, uncut, £10.

1845

1844-15 11090 FROISSART. Illuminated Illustrations to Froissart, selected from MSS. in the British Museum and Bibliothèque Royale, by H. N. Humphreys, 2 vols. royal 4to. 72 plates splendidly illuminated in gold and colours, red morocco extra, £8. 8s 11091 GRADUALE DE TEMPORE OMNIUS ANNI, square roy. folio, MAGNIFICENT MANUSCRIPT ON VERY STOUT VELLUM, written in enormous Gothic letters and square musical notes, BEAUTIFULLY ORNAMENTED with 8 INITIAL LETTERS, historiated with Miniatures of Sacred Subjects and 8 SUPERB BORDERS, painted with figures of great dignitaries and their coats of arms, and of Birds, Flowers, Insects, Sc. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED in gold and colours, as well as decorated with an immense number of painted capitals, old russia, with clasps, £42.

Completum per me Leonardum de Aquisgrano, 1494 From the coats of arms and the portraits of the noble personages, lay and clerical, which fill the borders of this imposing volume, we may conclude that it was executed by order of one of the princes who assisted at the coronation of Maximilian as King of the Romans, although from the costly and magnificent scale on which the calligrapher worked, he was unable to finish his labour till seven years later. The name of Leonard of Aachen deserves special record as that of a scribe and artist of extraordinary power. 11092 HORÆ B. V. M., small 4to. illuminated MS. on Vellum, about 11 large Miniatures, full-page size, and 24 smaller Miniatures in the Calendar; a painted arabesque border to every page, comprising flowers, fruits, birds, insects, and ornaments on a gold ground; in an old French morocco binding of about the year 1600, covered with designs of palm-branches and other foliage impressed in gold, £12. 12s about 1520

11093 HUMPHREYS (H. Noel) Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages, with an account of the development and progress of the Art of Illumination from the IVth to the XVIIth Centuries, impl. folio, LARGE PAPER, plates in gold and colours, half red morocco, gilt edges, £12. 1849

This splendid work is illustrated with a series of examples (of the size of the originals) selected from the most beautiful manuscripts of the various periods, and from the finest public and private collections in Europe, and coloured with great accuracy and brilliancy of effect by Owen Jones.