5882 America.

Other Properties.

Keith (George). The Presbyterian and Independent visible Churches in New England, calf extra, by Bedford, Thomas Northcott, 1691, 8vo. (115) Sullivan, £2 5883 America. Ward (H. G.) Mexico. Second edition, enlarged, 2 vol., maps and plates, half morocco, 1829, 8vo. (116) Nield, £15s. 5884 America. Peters (Samuel A.) A General History of Connecticut, half calf, For the author, 1782, 8vo. (117) Sullivan, £2 15s. 5885 America. Hochalaga Depicta, or a new picture of Montreal, edited by Newton Bosworth, maps and plates, calf extra, Montreal, 1846, 8vo. (118) Sullivan, £1 4s.

5886 America.

Stith (William). The History of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia, calf, Williamsburg, William Parks, 1747, 8vo. (119) Edwards, £4 5887 America. Winslow (Edward).

A Platform of ChurchDiscipline agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England, title and two leaves mended and a few letters restored, calf, Printed in New England, and reprinted in London for Peter Cole, 1653, 4to. (163)

Sullivan, £2 18s. 5888 America. Church-Government and Church-Covenant discussed in an answer of the Elders of the severall Churches in New England, 3 parts in I vol., half morocco, first title defective, few pages cut into, R. O. and G. D. for Benjamin Allen, 1643, 4to. (161) Sullivan, £2 5889 America. The Tryal of John Peter Zenger of New York, Printer, J. Wilford, 1738-Remarks on the trial of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, J. Roberts, 1738, 2 vol., half morocco, both uncut, 4to. (159) Quaritch, £4 5s.

5890 America. A full account of the Proceedings in relation to Captain Kidd, boards, uncut, 1701, 4to. (160) Dobell, £195. 5891 Bacon. Francisci de Verulamio, Summi Angliæ Cancellarii Instauratio magna (first edition of the Novum Organum), engraved title by Sim. Pass, original calf, Londini apud Joannem Billium, 1620, folio (174A) Dobell, 111IS. 5892 Barclay (Alexander). Stultifera Navis. The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same, translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay, Priest, black letter. with woodcuts, russia (hole in last three leaves, otherwise a fine copy), Imprinted at London, by John Cawood, 1570, folio (175) Allison, £25 10S. 5893 Burton (R.) The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Democritus Junior, second edition, calf, Oxford, 1624, folio (174) Pickering, £6 15s. 5894 Cantum Ecclesiasticum Præcibus apud Deum-Corporaque humandi De functorum Officium, with music, printed in

red and black, morocco, red edges, Antwerp, 1691, small 4to. (143) Williams, £5 5895 Child (F. J.) English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Edition de Luxe, limited to 1,000 copies, 10 parts, original wrappers, uncut, Boston, U.S., 1882-1898, imperial 8vo. (120)

Hill, £8 5s. 5896 Coxe (William). An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, 2 vol., map and plates, half calf, 1801, 4to. (147) W. Daniell, £2 IS.

5897 Eden (Sir F. M.) The State of the Poor, 3 vol., half calf, 1797, 4to. (152) Hill, £7 5898 Filhol (A. M.) Galerie du Musée Napoleon, 10 vol., plates, morocco extra, g. e., 1810, 8vo. (106) £4 155. 5899 Halle (Edwarde). The Unyon of the twoo noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke . . . beginnyng at the tyme of Kynge Henry the fourthe, black letter, woodcut title, calf (a few leaves wormed), Imprynted at Londo. by Richard Grafton, 1550, folio (172) Franks, £4 4s. 5900 Mudford (William). Campaign in the Netherlands, coloured plates (one missing), half bound, 1817, 4to. (150) F. Edwards, £6 7s. 6d. 5901 Plot (R.) The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, plates, calf, Oxford, 1686, folio (173) Franks, £3 155. 5902 Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels, 48 vol.-Prose Works, 28 vol.-Poetical Works, 12 vol., together 88 vol., 1829-36, 8vo. (125) H. Hopkins, £10 5903 Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, disposed into twelue bookes, Fashioning XII. Moral Vetues, both parts, 2 vol., morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière, Imprinted at London for William Ponsonby, 1590-96, 4to. (142) Williams, £30 [Fine large copy of the first complete edition and first issue of the second part.-Catalogue.]

5904 Testimonie of Antiquitie (A), shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloud of the Lord, receaved in the Saxons time above 600 yeares agoe, in calf extra, by Bedford, John Day, 1567, 8vo. (121) Sullivan, £ 8s. [The text is printed in Saxon and English on opposite pages. Probably the first use of Saxon characters in printing. Catalogue.]

5905 Wales.

The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or a Tour through North Wales, coloured plates by Turner, Girtin, Prout, De Wint, etc., half bound, 1820, 4to. (148)

5906 Walton.

Roberts, £2 8s. Biblia Sacra Polyglottæ, 6 vol., portrait--Lexicon Heptaglotton, 2 vol., calf, 1657-69, folio (176)

Quaritch, £5 5s.

Maggs, £1 6s.

5907 Warner (Rev. R.) The History of Bath, portrait and plates, calf gilt, Bath, 1801, 4to. (146)

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION.

(No. of Lots, 582; amount realised, £3,427 135.)

Elizabethan Dictionaries, Grammars, etc., collected by the late Professor Helwich, of Prague.

[Many of the volumes contained notes in the Professor's autograph. -ED.]

5908 Baret (John). An Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, containing foure sundrie tongues, namelie, English, Latine, Greeke and French, etc., the original oaken boards covered with stamped leather, Londini, 1580, folio (109)

Drever, £10 5s [This copy belonged to Sir Thomas Smyth, the Treasurer of the Virginia Company; his autograph is on the titlepage. A long account of this rare volume is given by Dr. Drake.-Catalogue.]

5909 Bellot (James). The French Grammer, or an Introduction Orderly and Methodically, by ready Rules, playne Preceptes and evident Examples, teaching the Frenche Tongue, roman and black letter. half calf, Thomas Marshe, 1578, 8vo. (110) Pearson, £14

[This rare book was never reprinted. The author brought out other works of a similar character all equally rare. Of his "English Schoolmaster," printed in 1580, no copy is known, and of his "French Method," 1588, we never heard of one occurring for sale except Bindley's.—Catalogue.] 5910 Bullokar (Jo.) An English Expositor, teaching the Interpretation of the hardest words used in our Language, etc., calf, 1616, 8vo. (11) Pearson, £5 10S. [Although licensed in 1610, no edition of this small volume prior to 1616 has so far been found or cited.Catalogue.]

5911 Commenius (J. A.) The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened, or else a Seminarie or seed-plot of all Tongues and Sciences, etc., with a Latin title, old morocco, 1631, 8vo. (113) Quaritch, £5 10S.

[Anterior to any edition noticed by Mr. Hazlitt, who cites nothing before 1633, which issue, like the present, was edited by John Anchorm, Licentiate of Divinity. The present copy has both title-pages.- Catalogue.]

5912 Desainliens (Claudius). The Italian Schoole-maister, contayning Rules for the perfect pronouncing of th' italian tongue, with familiar speeches and certaine Phrases taken out of the best Italian Authors, and a fine Tuscan historie

called Arnalt and Lucenda, etc., calf, Thomas Parfoot, 1597, 8vo. (114) Pearson, £12 [Original edition. Desainliens, who metamorphosed his name into Holy Band or Hollyband, was a fashionable Italian teacher of Shakespeare's time (1566-93) and the author of many manuals of instruction in the principles of the Italian tongue. He is found lodging, first at the Lucrece, and later on at the Golden Ball, in St. Paul's Churchyard. Catalogue.]

5913 Desainliens (Claudius). The Italian Schoole-maister, contayning Rules for the perfect pronouncing of th' italian tongue, with familiar speeches and certaine Phrases taken out of the best Italian Authors, etc., calf extra, g. e., Thomas Parfoot, 1608, 12mo. (115) Pearson, £2 18s.

5914 Desainliens (Claudius). The French Schoolemaister, wherin is most plainlie shewed the true and most perfect way of pronouncinge of the Frenche tongue, etc., roman and black letter, morocco, William How, 1573, 8vo. (116)

Quaritch, £13

[First edition, with the rare colophon leaf.—ED.]

5915 Desainliens (Claudius, alias Holybande). Campo di Fior or else The Flourie Field of Foure Languages. . . For the furtherance of the learners of the Latine, French, English, but chieflie of the Italian tongue, vellum (last leaf in facsimile), Thomas Vautroullier, 1583, 8vo. (117)

Quaritch, £2 4s.

[This book is one of the earliest polyglots which appeared in England, and from its popularity became of great rarity. The Tite copy, now in the Huth library, seems to be the only other which has occurred for sale.-Catalogue.] 5916 Desainliens (Claudius). A Dictionarie, French and English, published for the benefite of the studious in that language, etc., first edition, woodcut title, old sheep, 1593, 4to. (118) Quaritch, £7 10s. 5917 Elder (W.) Pearls of Eloquence, or The School of Compliments, wherein Ladies, Gentlewomen and Schollars, may accomodate their Courtly Practice with Gentile Ceremonies, complemental, amorous, and high expressions of speaking, or writing of Letters, both title pages, one being dated 1656, frontispiece, calf extra, 1655, 8vo. (119) Pearson, £16 5918 Elyot (Sir Thomas). The Dictionary, half calf, Londini in adibus Thoma Bertheleti typis impress. 1538, folio (120) E. G. Allen, £4 as.

[First edition of the earliest work of the kind in the English language. It was the foundation of the much larger dictionary known as Cooper's "Thesaurus"; Thomas Cooper, of Magdalen College, Oxford, having edited and amplified it after Elyot's death.—ED.]

5919 English Schole Master (The), or Certaine rules and helpes, whereby the natives of the Netherlandes, may bee, in a short time, taught to read, understand and speake the

English tongue, etc., engraved title, paper wrappers, Amsterdam, 1663, 8vo. (121) Quaritch, LI 105. [The first edition was printed in 1646; there was another in 1658, but all are very uncommon.-ED.]

5920 Erondell (Peter). The French Garden for English Ladyes and Gentlewomen to walke in, or a Sommerdayes labour, being an instruction for the attayning of the French Tongue, wherein... are framed thirteene Dialogues in French and English also the Historie of the Centurion mencioned in the Gospell, in French verses, etc., vellum, 1605, 8vo. (122) Peters, £4 45. 5921 Haloet's Dictionarie, newelye corrected, amended, set in order and enlarged, with many names of Men, Townes, Beastes, Foules, Fishes, Trees, etc. also the Frenche thereunto annexed by which you may finde the Latin or Frenche, of any Englishe woorde you will, by John Higgins, woodcut title, calf, Londini, 1572, folio (123) Pearson, £11 105.

[This publication was on its original appearance, in 1552, described as what it actually is, an ABCDarium for schoolboys. This edition was enlarged and revised by John Higgins, an Oxford Man, and one of the persons concerned in the "Mirror for Magistrates." There are only these two issues, although Higgins left a copy prepared for an enlarged reprint. Catalogue.]

5922 Junius (Adrianus). The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius, Physician, divided in two Tomes, conteining proper names and apt termes for all thinges under their convenient Titles, . in English by John Higins, etc., old calf (last leaf of index missing), Ralph Newberie, 1585, 8vo. (124) Pearson, £3 15s. 5923 Lentulo (Scipio). La Grammatica, an Italian Grammar, turned into Englishe by Henry Grantham, original vellum, Thomas Vautrollier, 1587, small 8vo. (125)

5924 Minsheu (John).

Pearson, £10 Ductor in Linguas. The Guide into Tongues, first edition, original sheepskin, John Brown, 1617, folio (126)

Pearson, £5

[This was Charles I.'s copy; his arms are stamped on the sides of the binding.—Catalogue.]

5925 Peacham (Henry). The Garden of Eloquence, conteyning the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorick, etc., half vellum, 1577, 4to. (127) B. F. Stevens, £12 15s. [First edition, of which the only other copy offered for sale within many years was Mr. Corser's and is now in the British Museum. The work was written by Henry Peacham, the Elder of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a beneficed clergyman in Lincolnshire.-Catalogue.] 5926 Percyvall (Richard). Bibliotheca Hispanica, containing a Grammar, with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine, etc., the Dictionarie being inlarged with the Latine, by the advise and conference of Master Thomas Doyley, etc., first edition, old sheepskin, John Jackson, 1591, 4to. (128) Pearson, £8 8s.