4079 Stevenson (R. L.) Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers, first edition, original cloth, 1881, 8vo. (712) West, £3 6s. 4080 Stevenson (R. L.) A Child's Garden of Verses, first edition, original cloth, 1885, 8vo. (716) Shepherd, £3 12s. [With inscription on fly-leaf, "To Professor Swan, with kind love from M. J. Stevenson, July 1st, 1885. My baby Grandchild!"-Catalogue.] 4081 Stevenson (R. L.) Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu, from Robert Louis Stevenson, the privately printed edition, Sidney, 1890, 8vo. (720) Young, £7 2s. 6d. This is the first issue, In November, 1890, [Post 8vo., pages 3-32, no wrapper. of which only 25 copies were printed. a copy sold for £28 10s.-ED.] 4082 Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick, 2 vol., first edition, LARGE PAPER, with leaf of advertisement, and list of subscribers (8 leaves), original calf, 7% by 44 inches, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1768, 8vo. (722) Quaritch, £29 4083 Surtees (R. S.) Sporting Novels. "Ask Mamma "—Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds-Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour"Plain or Ringlets?"-Hawbuck Grange-Handley Cross (8vo. edition) Handley Cross, 3 vol., 1843-and Hillingdon Hall, 3 vol., 1845, together 12 vol., all first editions, uniform new morocco, line tooled, t. e. g., others untrimmed, with numerous coloured and other illustrations by H. K. Browne, Leech, etc., 1843-65, 8vo. and cr. 8vo. (723) Hornstein, £25 10s. 4084 Tacitus. The End of Nero and beginning of Galba, Fower Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus, The Life of Agricola, old English morocco, g. e., exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, Oxford, printed by Joseph Barnes, 1591, folio (826) Crofton, £5 10S. 4085 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition, original issue (4 leaves), probably printed in this form for private distribution, wrapper, E. Moxon, 1864, 8vo. (727) B. F. Stevens, £5 5s. 4086 Thackeray (W. M.) The Yellow Plush Correspondence, first edition, original boards, cloth back, with printed label, Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1838, 8vo. (728) B. F. Stevens, £11 [The "first of Thackeray's writings ever published as a book." The work is perfect, though the text commences on page 13, no preliminary matter having been issued.Catalogue.] 4087 Thackeray (W. M.) History of the Life and Reign of George the Fourth, 3 vol., from the library of W. M. Thackeray, with his autograph notes at the end of each volume, 1831, 8vo. (730) Robson, £8 155. 4088 Tudor Translations (The), edited by W. E. Henley. Florio. Montaigne, 3 vol-Adlington. Apuleius-Underdowne. Heliodorus-Mabbes. Celestina-North. Plutarch, 6 vol.— [The purchaser of the above lot will be entitled to the concluding volume of the English Bible (vol. vi.) on publication. Catalogue.] 4089 Turner (Dr. Wm.) The First and Second Partes of the Herbal, lately oversene, corrected and enlarged, with the Thirde Parte lately gathered, and with a Book of the Bath of Baeth in England, etc., black_letter, woodcuts, first title mended, first leaf of preface defective, wanted title to "The Bath of Baeth," Collen, A. Birckman, 1568—A most excellent and perfecte homish Apothecary, translated out of the Almaine Speche by John Hollybush, black letter. ib., 1561, in 1 vol., calf, cover broken, 1568-61, folio (827) £11 4090 Vecellio (Cesare). De Gli Habiti Antichi et Moderni, prima edizione, title within woodcut border, and 599 full-length figures within ornamental borders, attributed to Titian, the uncle of the author, large copy, morocco extra, by F. Bedford, Venet., D. Zenaro, 1590, 8vo. (738) Robson, £5 158. [Another copy in morocco extra, by Holloway, realised £5 (Lot 739). It was rather short.—ED.] 4091 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, by Sir Harris Nicolas, Pickering's edition, 2 vol., fine thick paper, illustrated with 61 engravings by Stothard and Inskip, morocco extra, g.e., by Worsfold, W. Pickering, 1836, imperial 8vo. (740) Forrester, £9 15s. 4092 Westmacott (C. M.) The English Spy, an original Work, drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle, 2 vol., first edition, coloured plates and woodcuts by Robert Cruikshank, a defect in one of the plates, half morocco, 1825-6, 8vo. (741) Hornstein, £26 10s. 4093 Whitefield (George). Hymns for Social Worship, collected from various authors, and more particularly design'd for the use of the Tabernacle Congregation in London, first edition, 11 pages of hymns, etc. written in shorthand by a contemporary hand, on blank leaves, inserted at beginning and end, contemporary calf, 1753, 8vo. (742) Robson, £8 [See the "Athenæum" for the 14th November, 1903. The author of this hymnal was the friend and companion of John Wesley, and is well known in connection with his ministry in Georgia. He separated from Wesley in 1741, and became the founder of a rival sect of Methodists, whose head-quarters were the Tabernacle in Moorfields, and it was to commemorate the rebuilding of this place of worship in 1753 that this book was published.-ED.] 4094 Whitman (Walt). Our Eminent Visitors (past, present and future), the original Autograph Manuscript on 9 octavo pages signed in full, with the postal wrapper addressed and stamped, 8vo. (743) Gilder, £3 10s. 4095 Whyte-Melville (G. J.) Original Autograph Manuscript of "Holmby House, a Story of Old Northamptonshire," on 195 closely-written pages, half morocco, folio (619) £8 [Sold by Messrs. Sotheby on April 14th.-ED.] 4096 Wilde (0.) A Woman of No Importance, first edition, original cloth, uncut, 1894, 8vo. (747) B. F. Stevens, £2 18s. 4097 Wordsworth (W.) Poems, in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth, author of the Lyrical Ballads, first edition, 2 vol., original boards, uncut, Longmans, 1807, 8vo. (748) Pickering, £10 4098 Wright (Thomas). The Passions of the Minde, by Th. W., old calf, Printed by V. S. for W. B., 1601, 8vo. (749) Pearson, £10 [At page 298 is an important account of the costume of Richard Tarlton, the Shakespearean actor.—Catalogue.] 4099 Shirley (James). The Wittie Faire One, a Comedie, as it was presented at the Private House in Drury Lane, by Her Majesties Servants, first edition, 1633, 4to. (783) Sabin, £ 5s. 4100 Shirley (James). The Constant Maid, a Comedy, first edition, calf extra, g. e., by Rivière, 1640, 4to. (784) Sabin, £5 4101 Sloane (W. M.) Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 4 vol., original edition, illustrations, many in colours, half morocco, uncut, 1896, 4to. (785) Bartlett, £4 125. 4102 Speed (Samuel). Fragmenta Carceris, or The King's Bench Scuffle, with the Humours of the Common-Side, The King'sBench Litany and the Legend of Duke Humphrey, frontispiece, old half calf, 1675, 4to. (786) Marsh, £4 5s. 4103 Spenser (Edm.) Complaints, containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie, whereof the next page maketh mention, first edition (3 separate woodcut titles, that to the Muiopotmos dated 1590), some margins restored, morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière, W. Ponsonbie, 1591, small 4to. (787) B. F. Stevens, £24 105. 4104 Stage Plays. A Perambulation of Kent, conteining the Description, Hystorie and Customes of that Shyre, now increased and altered after the author's own last copie, black letter, with the maps, old calf gilt, portrait of Lambarde inserted, E. Bollifant, 1596, 4to. (789) Bowler, £5 5s. 4105 Stage Plays. Husbands' exact Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Messages, Answers and other Remarkable Passages betweene the King and the Parliament, 1641-42, frontispiece, LARGE PAPER, old calf, 1643, 4to. (790) Bowler, £4 5s. 4106 Stage Players. Coke (Lord). Speech and Charge at Norwich Assizes, with a Discoverie of the Abuses and Corruption of Officers, Printed for Nathaniell Butter, 1607, 4to. (791) Bowler, £4 4107 Studio (The), an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol. i. to xxviii., complete in the original parts, with Indexes, illustrations (two wrappers missing), 1893-1903— Extra numbers (3), 1897-Special summer numbers, 1899 to 1901 and 1903-Winter numbers, 1896-8-Special winter numbers, 1900-1903--Record of Art in 1898, in three parts -Christmas Cards, 1894, illustrations, 1893-1903, 4to. (793) Hill, £8 7s. 6d. 4108 Swinburne (A. C.) Atalanta in Calydon, a Tragedy, first edition, in the original white buckram, uncut, Moxon, 1865, 4to. (794) Dobell, £4 55. 4109 Tasso (Torq.) La Jérusalem délivrée, en Vers François par L. P. M. F. Baour-Lormian, première edition, 40 full-page engravings after Cochin by Tilliard (some with temoins), 2 vol., morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by Kauffman, Paris, Didot l'ainé, 1796, 4to. (795) Rawson, £2 16s. Clandeboye, with 4110 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Helen's Tower. a Poem by Lord Tennyson, vignette of Tower on title, original issue (I leaves, including green wrappers), Privately printed (1861), 4to. (796) Shepherd, £5 4111 True (A) and Perfect Relation of the whole Proceedings against the late most barbarous Traitors, Garnet, a Jesuite, and his Confederates, etc., half calf, 1606, 4to. (798) Marsh, £2 125. 4112 Ward (William). The Secretes of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piedmont, containing excellent remedies against divers Diseases, Woundes and other Accidentes, etc., translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe by William Warde, in 3 parts, first complete edition, each with a separate titlepage, 1 vol., black letter, original calf, Prynted at London by Rouland Hall for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster rowe, 1562-1563, 4to. (801) Pearson, £9 4113 White (Rev. G., Author of the Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne). A Series of 52 original Autograph Letters, from April 13, 1778 to 14th September, 1791 (and 4 copies), addressed to his Niece, Miss Mary White, of South Lambeth, each generally of 2 or 3 pages, with addresses, 4to. (805) Littleton, £171 [A series of letters of the author of the great natural history classic, comprising the period before and during the time "The Natural History of Selborne" was being prepared and printed, and containing many references to the book; also many natural history notes, as well as interesting family matters.- Catalogue.] 4114 White (Rev. G.) A Series of 27 original Autograph Letters, from 1770 (?) to 1777 (with 4 copies), addressed to his Brother, the Rev. John White, of Blackburn, Lancashire, mostly 2 or 3 pages, 4to. and folio (806) Littleton, £120 [A series of letters filled with remarks on natural history subjects, as well as references to domestic affairs. Much of the matter contained in these series of letters has never been printed. Catalogue.] 4115 White (Rev. G.) "Expences preparatory to & during my Year of Proctorship in the University of Oxon., 1752" "Money received from my Fellowship, etc., 1753-4," Accounts in White's own writing, on 30 leaves, with his signature, "Gil. White, March 21, 1752,” on fly-leaf, 4to. (807) Barnes, £21 4116 Wilson (Thomas). The Rule of Reason, conteyning the Art of Logike, sette forthe in Englishe and newlie corrected by Thomas Wilson, woodcut title, black letter, John Kynston, 1580, 4to. (810) Pearson, £3 5s. 4117 Wilson (Thomas). A Discourse upon Usurie, by Thomas Wilson, Doctor of the Civil Lawes, one of the Maisters of hir Majestie's honourable Court of requests, black letter, old binding, 1584, 4to. (811) Pearson, £5 A Collection of Books on Chess. 4118 Barbier (J.) Game of Chesse-play, being a princely Exercise, whereby the Learner may profit more by reading of this small Book, than by playing of a thousand Mates, curious woodcuts, wanted title and last leaf torn, calf, 1672, 8vo. (831) Defner, £1 10s. 4119 Bertin (Captain Joseph). The Noble Game of Chess, containing Rules and Instructions for the use of those who have already a little knowledge of the Game, calf, m. e., 1735, 8vo. (832) Shepherd, 105. 4120 Biochimo. The Royall Game of Chesse-Play illus trated with almost an hundred Gambetts, portrait of Charles I., by Stent, title and a few headlines shaved, calf, H. Herringman, 1656, 8vo. (833) Shepherd, 1 155. 4121 Cessole (Jac. de). Opera nuova nella quale se insegna il vero regimento sopra il giuoco delli Scacchi, a few headlines shaved, old vellum, Vinegia, 1534, 8vo. (835) Shepherd, 1 IOS. divisa in Little, £1 4122 Cozio (Conte Carlo). Il Giuoco degli Scacchi quattro libri, 2 vol., half morocco, uncut, Torino, 1766, 8vo. (836) 4123 (Damiano.) Questo Libro da imparare giochare a Scachi, e dela partite, gothic letter, title in red and black, with a woodcut, diagrams, morocco super extra, g. e., by Chambolle-Duru, Roma, J. P. de Nani, 1518, 8vo. (837) Quaritch, £5 4124 (Damiano.) Le Plaisant Jeu des Eschecz renouvellé, avec instruction pour facilement l'apprende et le bien Jouer traduit par Claude Gruget, text of last leaf rubbed and defective, calf extra, g. e., Paris, Guil. le Noir, 1560, 8vo. (838) Quaritch, £5 in 4125 (Damiano.) Libro da imparare a Giocar a Scachi Lingua Spagnola e Taliana (sic) nuovamente stampato, with diagrams, wrapper (margins of some leaves wormed and one defective, sold not subject to return), Venetia, S. Zazzara, 1564, 8vo. (839) Shepherd, 10s. |