4782 Warburton (R. E. Egerton). Hunting Songs, Ballads, etc., 12 lithographic plates and vignettes, calf extra, g.t., the original cloth cover preserved, Chester, 1834, 8vo. (554) Pickering, £57s. 6d. 4783 Wit (F. de). Theatrum Florum in quo variæ et multiformes Florum Species ad Vivum expressæ ostenduntur, 32 plates, 2 parts in 1 vol., half bound, Amst., n. d., folio (684)

Maggs, £3 35. 4784 Wither (George). A Collection of Emblems Ancient and Moderne quickened with metrical Illustrations, both morall and Divine, and disposed into Lotteries, Four Books, engraved title, portrait and plates of emblems, calf extra, g.e., the last leaf mounted and wanting the pointers, 1635, folio (685) Pickering, £10 4785 Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. Transactions, illustrations from 1866 to 1873, in 6 vol., original cloth, 1867-74, 8vo. (564) Toon, £3 4786 World (The), by Adam Fitz-Adam, 12 numbers only, containing contributions by Lord Chesterfield, old morocco, broad dentelle borders on sides, g. e., presentation copy from Lord Chesterfield to Dr. Chauncey, 1754-5, folio (686) Ellis, £125.

4787 Wright (James). History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, plates, coats-of-arms, pedigrees, etc., russia extra, blind tooled sides, with the arms of the Earl of Harborough in the centre, g. e., 1684, folio (687) Cotton, £1 18s.

[On May 5th and 6th Messrs. Puttick & Simpson sold a miscellaneous collection of books; on the whole, of little interest. The following are noticeable.—ED.]

4788 Boydell (J. and J.) An History of the River Thames, 2 vol., W. Bulmer and J. and J. Boydell, 1794-1796, extra-illustrated with several hundred Engravings, many in colours, of Views, Portraits, etc., also Water-colour Drawings, all inlaid, bound in 4 vol., morocco extra, g. e., with specially printed titles, 1794-1795, folio (252A) Edwards, £37

[The extra illustrations numbered 1,091, and comprised 6 water-colour drawings, 941 engravings (166 of which were in colours), 132 portraits, 4 sheets of old music and 8 early documents. These volumes cost about £200 to prepare.— ED.]

4789 Boys (T. S.) London as it is, with notes by Ollier, lithographs, half morocco, 1842, imperial folio (594) Rimell, £2 4790 Dresser (H. E.) History of the Birds of Europe, coloured plates, 7 vol., cloth, 1871-81, 4to. (511)

F. Edwards, £31 10s. [Should be 9 vol., 1871-1896, worth about £52, half morocco, g. t.-ED.]

4791 Gostling (W.) Walk about Canterbury, portrait and plates on India paper, half russia, uncut, 1825, 8vo. (354)

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4792 Levaillant (F.) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique, coloured plates, 6 vol., morocco, g. e., Paris, 1799-1806, 4to. (538) Walford, £8 4793 Lyddeker (R.) The Royal Natural History, 6 vol., coloured plates, half morocco, 1893-4, imperial 8vo. (46)

Edwards, £2 4794 Rowlandson (T.) History of Johnny Quae Genus, coloured plates by Rowlandson, calf, 1822, 8vo. (460B)

G. H. Brown, £2 85. 4795 Rowlandson (T.) Combe's Tours of Doctor Syntax, 3 vol., coloured plates of Rowlandson, cloth gilt, Ackermann, n. d., 8vo. (460C) Nimes, 3 IOS. 4796 Rowlandson (T.) Journal of Sentimental Travel - The Southern Provinces of France, coloured plates by Rowlandson, 1821, 8vo. (460D) A. Jackson, £2 8s. 4797 Rowlandson (T.) Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, coloured plates by Rowlandson, cloth gilt, 1823, 8vo. (460E) Hill, £7 55. 4798 Rowlandson (T.) Naples and the Campagna Felice, coloured plates by Rowlandson, cloth gilt, 1815, 8vo. (460F)

C. Jackson, £2 6s. 4799 Wilson and Evan. Aves Hawaiienses, the Birds of the Sandwich Islands, plates, some coloured, half morocco, 1890-9, folio (584) F. Edwards, £2 14s.

[MAY 9TH AND FOUR FOLLOWING DAYS, 1904.]

HODGSON & CO.

A LIBRARY OF ECONOMIC, HISTORICAL AND GENERAL

LITERATURE.

(No. of Lots, 1700; amount realised, about £1,705.)

[This was an extensive collection of books on a variety of economic subjects. The sale being of a representative and unusual character has been reported very fully, though it must be observed that on the whole the books were not good copies, particularly those relating to Agriculture, America and the West Indies. The works bought by the Goldsmith's Company were purchased to add to the Library given by them to the London University.—ED.]

4800 Overstone (Lord). Select Tracts on the National Debt and the Sinking Fund, presentation copy (limited to 150), cloth, Privately printed, 1857, 8vo. (13) Maggs, £2 18s. 4801 Powel (J.) The Assize of Bread, with Ordinances for Bakers, Brewers, Butchers, etc., woodcuts, black letter. calf extra, 1698, small 4to. (319)

Quaritch, £2

4802 Halliwell (J. O.) Bills and Inventories illustrating the History of Prices (1650-1750) (limited to 80 copies), cloth, Brixton Hill, for private circulation, 1852, 8vo. (25)

Quaritch, £2 6s. 4803 Dowell (Stephen). History of Taxation and Taxes in England, 4 vol., cloth, 1884, 8vo. (28) E. G. Allen, £2 10s.

Periodicals.

4804 Economic Journal (The). The Journal of the British Economic Association, edited by F. Y. Edgeworth and H. Higgs, from the commencement in March, 1891 to December, 1903 (being vol. i. to xiii.), diagrams, first 8 vol. half calf gilt, remainder in 20 numbers, with Index to vol. i. to xiii., sewed, 8vo. (30) Quaritch, £8 4805 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, edited by E. J. James, R. P. Falkner and others, from the commencement in 1890 to November, 1903, with Supplements, Bulletins, etc., together 22 vol., half calf neat, remainder in numbers, about 3 wanted, Philadelphia, 8vo. (31) Quaritch, £3 35.

4806 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society of London, from the commencement in 1839 to December, 1903, being vol. i. to lxvi., numerous coloured maps and diagrams, first 64 vol., half calf gilt, remainder in 12 numbers, with Index to the first 35 vol., 8vo. (32) George, £26 4807 Board of Trade Journal of Tariff and Trade Notices and Miscellaneous Commercial Information, from the commencement in 1886 to 1895 (being vol. i. to xviii.), 18 vol., half calf, cloth sides, 8vo. (34)

Goldsmith's Company, £4 10s.

Trade and Commerce.

4808 Chiarini (G.) Questo et el libro che tracta di Mercatàtie & usanze de paesi, roman letter, long lines, woodcut on title of Money-changers (outer border cut into), and two printer's marks at end, in the original limp vellum, Impresso in Firenze appetitione di ser Piero da Pescia [circa 1500], 8vo. (37) Goldsmith's Company, £7 5s.

[This rare volume was the first work printed on Italian commerce, and is therefore of great interest in connection with the history of trade and banking in the Middle Ages. -Catalogue.] 4809 Wheeler (J.) A Treatise of Commerce, wherein are shewed the Commodities arising by a well ordered and ruled Trade, such as that of the Societie of Merchants Adventurers is proved to be, calf extra, Printed at London by John Harrison, 1601, 8vo. (38) Leon, £4 2s. 6d.

4810 R. (J.) The Trades Increase, calf extra, London, printed by Nicolas Okes and are to be sold by Walter Burre, 1615, small 4to. (39) Quaritch, £3 15s. [A rare anonymous pamphlet, written against the East

India Company on behalf of the "Interlopers," whose relations, as advocates of "Free Trade," with the early Trading Companies were of great importance in their bearing on commercial development. The title of the tract was taken from the name of one of the Company's vessels lost at sea about this time.--Catalogue.]

4811 Digges (Sir Dudley). The Defence of Trade, in a letter to Sir Thomas Smith, Governour of the East India Companie, calf, Printed by William Stansby, 1615, 8vo. (40)

Quaritch, £3 155.

[Published by Sir Dudley Digges, a director and one of the foremost defenders of the East India Company, as a refutation of the charges in the foregoing Tract.-Catalogue.] 4812 East India Company. The Petition and Remonstrance of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies, arms of the Company on title, calf extra, 1641, small 4to. (41) E. G. Allen, £1 11S. [This petition contained the official statement of the Company's case as to the nature of their trade and the benefits arising therefrom. -Catalogue.]

4813 East India Company. Another edition, 1641. [Charpentier (F.)] A Treatise touching the East-Indian Trade, or a Discourse concerning the establishment of a French Company, 1664, 2 vol., calf, small 4to (42)

Goldsmith's Company, £3 25. 4814 East India Company. [Papillon (T.)] The East-India-Trade a most profitable Trade to the Kingdom, 1680—A Dialogue between a Director of the New East-India Company and one of the Committee, 1699, 2 vol., calf, small 4to. (43)

Goldsmith's Company, £2 10S. 4815 East India Company. [Papillon (T.)] Another edition, 1696, and Proposals for settling the East-India Trade, 1696, 2 vol., half morocco, small 4to.-North (Sir D.) Considerations upon the East-India Trade, calf, 1701 (44),

Goldsmith's Company, £2 12s. 6d. 4816 East India Company. Petition of Clothiers and Merchants against the Restraint of Trade to the East-Indies, 1 leaf, 1673-Free, Regulated Trade, particularly to India, the Interest of England, 1697, and others, similar, half calf, together 6 vol., folio (46) Harding, £3 8s.

4817 [Mun (T.)] A Discourse of Trade, from England unto the East-Indies, answering to diverse Objections which are usually made against the same, by T. M., calf, N. Okes, 1621, small 4to. (47) Carlbach, £4 5s.

4818 Mun (T.) England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, or the Ballance of our Forraign Trade is the Rule of our Treasure, first edition, with presentation inscription, dated 1664, calf (a few leaves stamped), 1664, 12mo. (48)

Quaritch, £1 12s. [Another edition, calf, 1669, realised £195.-ED.] England's Benefit by Foreign Trade, 1698

4819 Mun (T.)

England's Guide to Industry, or Improvement of Trade for the good of all People in general, by J. S., calf, 1683, 8vo. (50) Leon, £2 4s. 4820 Malynes (Gerard). Lex Mercatoria, or the Ancient Law Merchant, necessarie for all Statesmen, Lawyers, Merchants, Marriners and others, first edition, calf, Printed by A. Islip, 1622, folio (52) £2 10s. 4821 Malynes (Gerard). Lex Mercatoria, whereunto is annexed the Merchant's Mirrour for the perfect ordering of his Accounts, also a Waste-Booke and a Moneth-Booke, by R. Dafforne, calf, 1636, folio (53) Quaritch, fi 5s. 4822 Roberts (Lewes). The Merchant's Mappe of Commerce, wherein the Universall Manner & Matter of Trade is compendiously handled, engraved title by Corn. van Dalen, portrait by Glover (pasted on cover) and maps by Vaughan (including America), calf, Printed by R. O. for Ralph Mabb, 1638, folio (56) Harding, 2 12s.

[Roberts was a director of the East-India Company and a friend of Isaac Walton, who wrote some highly commendatory verses prefixed to this work.-Catalogue. A copy of the fourth edition, 1700, folio, calf, realised a guinea.- ED.]

4823 Potter (W.) The Key of Wealth, or a new Way for Improving of Trade, calf, 1650, folio (59) Maggs, LI 4824 Maddison (Sir R.) England's Looking In and Out (containing a Statement on the Theory of "Ballance of Trade"), (2 leaves repaired), calf, 1640, small 4to. (60) Leon, £2 3s. 4825 Roe (Sir T.) Speech on the Decay of Coyne and Trade, especially of Merchants Trade, 1641-Petition of MerchantStrangers concerned in the Importation of Plate and Bullion, black letter, calf, 1643, small 4to. (61)

Goldsmith's Company, £3 4826 Violet (T., of London, Goldsmith). The Advancement of Merchandize, or certain Propositions for the Improvement of the Trade of this Common-wealth (neatly re-margined throughout), with 36 plates from Snelling's Coins inserted, calf, m. e., Printed by W. Du-Gard, 1651, 8vo. (62)

Harding, £6

4827 Violet (T.) A True Discovery to the Commons of England, how they have been Cheated of almost all the Gold and Silver Coyn of this Nation, by Thomas Violet, a True Lover of his Country, neatly inlaid to quarto size, calf extra, 1650, 16m0. (63) Harding, £2 4s. 4828 Violet (T.) Mysteries and Secrets of Trade and Mint-Affairs, with several Reasons against transporting Treasure, calf, Printed by W. Du-Gard, 1653, folio (64)

Harding, £4 12s. 6d.

4829 Violet (T.) Proposals humbly presented to his Highness Oliver Lord Protector of England for the calling to Accompt all Committee-men, Treasurers, Excise and Custom-Commissioners, calf, g.e., 1656, folio (65)

Harding, £5