vellum paper (dedicated to Buonaparte"), 24 large plates after Gérard and Girodet, proofs before letters (250 copies printed, of which only 100 contain proofs before letters), boards, half roan, uncut, Paris, excud. P. Didot natu major, 1798, imperial folio (417) Maggs, £5 5s. 3750 Virgilius. Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis, Baskerville's edition, the first genuine issue, old English morocco, g.e., Birmingham, Jo. Baskerville, 1757, 4to. (418) Richards, £3 15s. 3751 Virgilius. Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis, LARGE PAPER, plates by Bartolozzi, Fittler, etc., 2 vol., morocco extra, g. e., A. Dulau, 1800, imperial 8vo. (419) Sotheran, £2 25. 3752 Visconti (E. Q.) (Euvres. Musée Pie-Clémentin et Musée Chiaramonti, outline plates, 8 vol., russia extra, line-tooled, g. e., Milan, Giegler, 1818-22, 8vo. (421) Ridler, £2 18s. 3753 Walpole (Horace). Works, portraits and plates, vignettes on titles, 5 vol., russia gilt, sprinkled edges, ex-libris of Anna Damer in vol. i., Robinson and Edwards, 1798, 4to. (424) Walford, £3 3754 Wellington (Duke of). Campaigns, detailing all the celebrated Battles gained by him from Seringapatam to Waterloo (text in French and English), equestrian portrait and 24 engravings by Duplessi-Bertaux, morocco super extra, g. e., by Hering (with ticket), Paris, Didot for Galignani (1818), super imperial folio (429) Ridler, £3 10s. 3755 White (Rev. Gilbert). Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, co. Southampton, with the Naturalist's Calendar Poems, etc., new edition, LARGE PAPER, views and other illustrations, the plate of the window coloured, appeared to want the coloured plate of the Hybrid Bird, 2 vol., russia extra, m. e., White and Co., etc., 1813, 4to. (431) Weldon, £9 3756 Worsley. Museum Worsleyanum, original edition, proof plates and portrait (the Cambridge University letter on paper at end of vol. i.), 200 copies of vol. i. and 100 of vol. ii. printed, 2 vol., morocco, g. e., both vol. dated 1794, imperial folio (434) Quaritch, £4 10s. 3757 Yosy (A.) Switzerland as now divided into Nineteen Cantons, Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners, 50 coloured plates of costumes, 2 vol., calf, g. e. (covers of vol. i. broken), J. Booth, 1815, imperial 8vo. (436) F. Hutt, 1 125. 3758 [Zurlauben (Baron de).] Tableaux Topographiques, Pittoresques, Historiques, Moraux, Politiques de la Suisse (publiés par La Borde), 278 plates, 4 vol., russia extra, joints, g.e., by Staggemeier, Paris, Clousier, 1780-88, imperial folio (437) Parsons, £3 125. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE. A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION. (No. of Lots, 1077; amount realised, £12,145 15s. 6d.) [NOTE. In this report, owing to the importance of the collection as a whole and the fact of the ownership being mentioned in many instances where high prices were realised, the order of the catalogue has been adhered to as closely as possible.-ED.] 3759 Alciatus (Andrea). Emblematum Libellus, first edition, woodcuts, old calf, Parisiis, 1534, 8vo. (1) Barrett, £2 6s. 3760 Aldine. Ovid, Publii Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum Epistolæ, old Venetian stamped calf, Venetiis in ædibus Aldi, mdii. (1502), 8vo. (2) Barrett, £3 35. [This edition was probably used by Shakespeare; his copy is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.--Catalogue.] 3761 Alken (H.) The Analysis of the Hunting Field, 7 coloured plates and numerous woodcuts by Henry Alken, original cloth gilt, g. e., as published, first edition, R. Ackermann, 1846, 8vo. (3) Hannett, £12 10s. [Another copy of this same edition in the original cloth, which was, however, slightly damaged, realised £9 175. 6d. Another and a better copy in the original cloth brought 10 158. Lots 9 and 10.-ED.] 3762 Almanack. London Almanack for the year 1709, a small sheet folded and bound up with blank paper for notes in pocket-book form, a fine old contemporary binding of morocco extra, ornamented silver clasp with original silver pointer, 1709, 8vo. (5) Pickering, £3 18s. 3763 America. Esquemeling (John). Bucaniers of America, 3 parts in I vol., LARGE PAPER, portraits and plates, half calf gilt, 1684, small 4to. (6) Dobell, £1 115. 3764 An Answere to a Papystycall Exhortacyon, pretendynge to avoyde false doctryne, under that colour to maynteyne the same, unbound (circa 1548), 8vo. (11) Quaritch, £19 [Of this tract (in verse) Mr. Hazlitt (“Fugitive Tracts,” 1875, First Series) observes: "This is a production of Edward VIth's time, and was from the pen of a reformer. Of the two copies known to be in existence, one is at Lambeth and the second was in a volume sold among Mr. Inglis's books four years ago (1871, No. 1138). From the Answer above we learn that a piece, also in verse, was published with the title of 'An exhortation to avoid false doctrine,' and the original and the reply are here published, we see, in alternate paragraphs." The present is Mr. Inglis's copy above-mentioned.-Catalogue.] 3765 Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, complete in 13 vol., coloured plates by Alken and Cruikshank, and plates by Landseer, Herring and others, Levant morocco extra, by Rivière and Sons, g. t., uncut, a few leaves inlaid, a specimen monthly wrapper bound up with each volume, 1822-28, 8vo. (13) Bickers, £76 [This set includes the monthly number for June, 1828, comprising pages 351-418 of vol. xiii. (usually missing) and the two extra plates, Hunting" and "Mare by Soreheels." Extra illustrated by the insertion of forty-six India proofs of the plain plates and uncoloured aquatints of the coloured plates. Catalogue.] 3766 Apperley (C. J.) Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, second edition, 18 illustrations by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, coloured by hand, margins of a few leaves mended, several stained, half calf, R. Ackermann, 1837, 8vo. (15) Walsh, £3 3767 Apperley (C. J.) Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod, with 36 coloured illustrations by Henry Alken, first edition, original blue cloth gilt as issued, R. Ackermann, 1842, 8vo. (16) Hornstein, £35 10s. [Exceedingly rare in the blue cloth, which denotes the work to be of the earliest issue, with best impressions of the engravings. Catalogue.] 3768 Apperley (C. J.) Hunting Reminiscences, illustrated by Wildrake, Henderson and Alken, first edition, original cloth, uncut, R. Ackermann, 1843, 8vo. (17) Fowler, £6 10S. 3769 [Apperley (C. J.)] The Life of John Mytton, of Halston, Shropshire, 18 coloured illustrations by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, original cloth, uncut, 1877, 8vo. (18) Hornstein, 1 145. 3770 Arabian Nights. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, by John Payne, 9 vol., Printed for the Villon Society, for private circulation only, vellum, uncut, t. e. g., limited issue, 1882, 8vo. (19) Shepherd, £9 15s. 3771 Art of Contentment (The), by the author of "The Whole Duty of Man," frontispiece, morocco, sides richly gilt, centre ornament of flowers, urn at top and bottom, etc., the whole effectively heightened in black, silver and gold (by S. Mearne), At the Theater in Oxford, 1677, 8vo. (20) Quaritch, £18 10s. 3772 Arundel (Countess). Nature Unbowelled by the most Exquise Anatomizers of her Choicest Secrets and Receipts, first edition, with the rare portrait by Hollar, calf, 1655, 8vo. (22) Sabin, £3 3773 Aspin (J.) The Naval and Military Exploits which have distinguished the Reign of George III. accurately described, first edition, with 34 coloured plates, calf extra, t. e. g., uncut, by Rivière and Son, S. Leigh, 1820, 8vo. (23) Pickering, £5 10s. 3774 Bacon (Francis). Essaies, Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion, seene and allowed, Printed at London, for John Jaggard, dwelling in Flete streete at the Hand and Starre, neere Temple barre, 1606-Cornwallis (Sir W.) Essayes, London, printed by Joseph Harrison, for Edmund Mattes, at the signe of the Hand and Plough in Fleet-street, 1606-A Second Part of Essayes, ib., 1601— Johnson (Robert). Essaies, or Rather Imperfect Offers, seene and allowed, London, printed for John Bache, and are to be sold at his shop in Pope's-head place, 1607, defect on the title of Cornwallis (first part), original vellum gilt, with a head in gold on each side, in 1 vol., 8vo. (25) Quaritch, £63 [This is the excessively rare "Third" and the first "Pirated" edition of Bacon's Essays, and a very fine copy having the blank leaves at beginning and end which complete the first and last signatures. The first part of Cornwallis is an issue unknown to Lowndes, the second part is first edition, and the Johnson's Essays is the same edition as claimed in the Huth catalogue (in error) to be the first, it had appeared as early as 1601.-Catalogue.] 3775 Bacon (Francis). Apophthegmes, New and Old, collected by the Right Honovrable Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban, a few pages at end wormed, old calf, London, printed for Hanna Barret and Richard Whittaker, and are to be sold at the King's Head in Paul's Church-yard, 1626, 8vo. (26) Jaggard, £5 12s. 6d. [The collation is as follows: title one leaf, B to X2 in eights. This varies from the details given by Mr. Hazlitt. -ED.] 3776 Bacon (Francis). The Historie of Life and Death, with Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, title by Glover containing a portrait of Bacon and other designs prefixed, with the "imprimatur" leaf opposite, first edition, morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière and Son, J. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638, 8vo. (27) Jaggard, £7 [Seldom found with the engraved title.—ED.] 3777 Bacon (Francis). Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall, large copy, calf extra, 1639, small 4to. (28) Edwards, £4 7s. 6d. [This edition is dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham ; it had at the end, in addition to the fifty-eight Essays, a table of the Colours of Good and Evil, a fragment on nineteen unpaged leaves which is not noticed by Lowndes. -Catalogue.] 3778 Bailey's Little Warbler, Collection of English, Scotch, Irish and Comic Songs, 6 very diminutive little vols., about an inch square, frontispieces and engraved titles by Cruikshank, original blue morocco, g. e., 1826-7 (29) Quaritch, £4 17s. 6d. 3779 Baron (Robert). The Cyprian Academy (in verse), portrait and engraved title by W. Marshall, first edition, original sheep, Printed by W. W., 1648, 8vo. (30) Pickering, £11 3780 Baudouin (J.) Recueil d'Emblemes Divers, avec des Discours Moraux, Philosophiques et Politiques, tirez de divers [See Mr. Mallock's "New Facts relating to the BaconShakespeare Question."-ED.] 3781 Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John). Poems, The Golden Remains of those so much admired Dramatick Poets, containing The Hermaphrodite two Sexes, The Remedy and Art of Love, Elegies on the most eminent Persons, with other amorous Sonnets and conceited Fancies, together with the Prologues, Epilogues and Songs, many of which were never before inserted in his printed Playes, second edition, morocco extra, panel sides, g. e., by Rivière and Son, For W. Hope, 1660, 8vo. (32) Richards, £25 [This edition is of extreme rarity, and it is the first in which Fletcher's name appears on the title in conjunction with Beaumont's as the author. According to Mr. Dyce, a great many of the poems were written by neither Beaumont nor Fletcher, some being by Ben Jonson, Donne, Randolph and others. Catalogue.] 3782 Beckford (Peter). Thoughts on Hunting, illustrated by plates (11) from original paintings, by John Scott, LARGE PAPER, morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière and Son, Albion Press, 1810, 8vo. (33) Sotheran, £5 2s. 6d. [The first edition with these plates, and very rare on large paper. This, too, is the earliest issue. On the title is the error ascribing the work to William instead of Peter Beckford. Catalogue.] 3783 Beckford (Peter). Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting, third edition, 20 plates by Howitt and others, morocco extra, g. t., uncut, 1796, 8vo. (34) Warren, £4 105. [The first illustrated edition, the first of 1781 and the second of 1782 having a frontispiece only.-ED.] 3784 Belley (Bishop of). A True Tragical History of two illustrious Italian Families couched under the names of Alcimus and Vannoza, engraved frontispiece in four compartments, old sheep, W. Jacob, 1677, 8vo. (37) Locke, £3 3785 Berkeley (Honourable Grantley F.) Reminiscences of a Huntsman, first edition, coloured and other illustrations by John Leech, calf extra, uncut, by Rivière and Son, 1854, 8vo. (38) Pickering, £2 16s. 3786 Boccaccio (G.) Nimfale Fiesolano nel quale si contiene l'Innamoramente di Affrico e Mensola, poemetto in ottava rima, LARGE PAPER, engraved title by Marillier, printed on vellum, old French morocco extra, g. e., by Padeloup, 1778, 8vo. (50) Quaritch, £6 10S. [This copy on vellum was sold by Messrs. Sotheby some years ago, when it realised £15 10s. It is the only copy printed on vellum.—ED.] 3787 Boaden (James). An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various XVII. 25 |