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LAVATER, J. C. Essays on Physiognomy. Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Memoir, Portrait of Lavater, and upwards of 400 Engravings. 8vo, newly bound, calf extra. London, 1867. $6.00 A very nice edition, offered at about half the published price. LES AMOURS PASTORALES de Daphnis et Chloé. Very nice edition, beautiful Plates and Vignettes. 12mo, Roger Payne binding. 1745. $8.50

LES NUITS PARISIENNES A L'IMITA-1 tion des Nuits Attiques D'Aulagelle; ou Recuei de Traits Singuliers, Anecdotes, Usages remarqua bles, Faits extraordinaires, Observations, Critiques' Pensees Philosophiques, &c., &c. 2 vols. in I, newly bound, calf, extra, gilt edges. Paris, 1771. $15.00 A very scarce and curious book. LETTRES DE NINON DE L'ENCLOS AU Marquis de Sévigné. Fine Portrait. 2 vols., 18mo. Paris, 1810. $1.50 LOVEDAY, R. Letters Domestick and Forreign, to several Persons, occasionally Distributed in Subjects Philosophical, Historical, and Moral. Very curious old Portrait. 12mo, newly bound, calt extra. London, Printed by F. G. for Nat Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662. $3.00

MILMAN, H. H. The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period to Modern Times. 3 vols., 12mo, half calf. New York, 1865. $8.00 MILMAN, H. H. History of Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes to N colas V. 8 vols., 8vo, half calf, gilt. New York, 1862.

$20.00 MILMAN, H. H. The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism. 3 vols., 12mo, half calf. New York, 1866. $8.00 NEW TESTAMENT of our Lord and Sav

iour Jesus Christ. Illustrated with Engravings from the Old Masters, and with exquisite borders

to each page. 4to, cloth extra, top edges gilt. London, Longman, 1863.

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PILKINGTON, M. The Gentleman's and Connoisseur's Dictionary of Painters. Containing a Complete Collection and Account of the most distinguished (1400) Artists who have flourished in the Art of Painting in Europe from the year 1250, to which are added a Catalogue of the Disciples of the most famous Masters, for the use of those who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands and manners of the various schools, and a Catalogue of those Painters who have imitated the Works of the eminent Masters so exactly as to have their copies frequently mistaken for the Originals, with a Supplement containing Anecdotes of the latest and most celebrated Artists; also Remarks upon the present state of the Art of Painting, by James Barry, R. A. 4to, old calf. London, 1798. PILKINGTON, M. The same, a later Edition. With about 100 fine Plates, Views, Portraits of the Artists and Examples of their Works inserted. 2 vols, 4to, morocco extra, gilt edges. $20.00 London, 1824 PROCEEDINGS of the American Association for the advancement of Science, held at Cambridge August, 1849. 8vo, cloth. Besten, $1.00 1850. Consisting

RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.

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of Criticisms upon, Analysis of, and Extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old Books. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth. London, J. Russell Smith, 1853. $3.50 REYNOLDS, FRED. A Playwright's Adventures. Numerous humerous Engravings, by W. H. Brooke. 18mo, half morocco. Londen, $2.00

n. d. SALEM WITCHCRAFT. Records copied from the original Documents. 2 vols.. 4to, half levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. Roxbury, 1864. $13.50

Our Lord's Life, as related in the Gospels, abounds in Schedel, H. Chronicon Nu

events which have inspired the highest efforts of art and have been chosen by the great masters in painting as the subject of their noblest compositions. In this volume these events are illustrated by wood engravings from some of the finest designs of the Italian school, and as they are united with the text of the Holy Scriptures, from which they took their origin, what is most beautiful in art will here be found with what is most sacred in religion. In its present shape the Sacred Volume will not resemble a precious jewel which has been injured or degraded by its setting. Another copy, large paper edition,

Only 250 printed. Very scarce.

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OLD INDIAN CHRONICLE. A Collection of exceeding rare Iracts. Written and Published in the time of King Philip's War, by Persons residing in the Country, to which are now added an Introduction and Notes by Samuel G. Drake. 100 copies only printed. 4to, half levant, morocco, gilt top, uncut. Boston, 1867.

$7.50 PARKMAN FRANCIS. History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the War of the North American Tribes against the English Colonies after the Conquest of Canada. 8vo, newly bound, half calf, marbled edges. Boston, 1868.

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rembergeuse. Registrum Hujus operis Libri Cronicarum cu figuris et Imagibus ab initio mudi Nuremberge. Anthonius Koberger, 1493.

Folio, handsomely bound in crimson morocco, $100.00 tooled border, gilt edges.

It has been cut but a little, the margin is fair and broad, and the copy very clean. The engravings in this most cele brated work number over two thousand two hundred. They were executed in wood by Michael Wohlgemuth and Pley denwurf, the former of whom was the master of Albert Durer. The subjects are portraits of persons illustrious both in profane and sacred history, views of cities, &c. The copy under notice is especially remarkable for its beauty and completeness. First, it contains a representation of the famous Pope Joan. There she is, clearly represented, nursing the baby, an account of whose birth is given in the text. Owing to the influence of the church this plate and the accompanying text were in most copies obliterated or erased. Second, this copy contains the Blank Leaves generally wanting; and last, it possesses the supplementary leaves following the map of Europe, at which point the work usually ends. It is the

original edition of one of the most extraordinary and curious productions of the fifteenth century and a work which can never fail to be in the highest degree interesting to the lover of ancient engraving and printing. The fine woodcuts present the first successful imitation of the cross-hatchings of a pen-drawing. If Koberger had printed but this chronicle he would have done enough to have placed his name among the most distinguished of the profession of the typographical art, but he has many other claims to a very marked celebrity. In the "Bibliotheca Spenceriana" no less than twenty-six pages are devoted to an account of the work accompanied by many fac-similies of the very singular woodcuts. Hearne in his preface of "Robert of Gloucester" says; "For my part, the oftener I consult this chronicle the more I wonder at the things in it, and I cannot but esteem the book as extremely pleasant, useful, and curious, by means of those very odd cuts."

SCOTT, Sir W. Novels. Waverly, Guy Mannering, Antiquary, Old Mortality, Rob Roy, Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, and the Bride of Lammermoor, in I vol., thick 8vo, half calf, gilt. Edinburgh, 1866. $2.00

SHAKESPEARE. Works revised from the Best Authorities, with a Memoir and Essay on his Genius by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated with a great number of very clever designs on Wood by Kenny Meadows. 3 vols., royal 8vo, russia, extra, gilt edges. London, 1843.

$36.00

A splendid copy of the original edition, with fine impressions of the beautiful cuts.

SHAKESPEARE. The Same. A later Edition, further Illustrated with 200 extra Plates inserted, including a set of Cruikshank's clever delineations of Sir John Falstaff, and some rare Portraits, &c., inserted. 3 vols., royal 8vo. London, n. d. $35.00

STOKES, J. LORT. Discoveries in Australia, with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored,

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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. The Writings of. Being the Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private. With a Life of the Author by Jared Sparks. 12 vols., 8vo, cloth. New York, 1847. $18.00 WATERTON, CHARLES. Wanderings in South America, the Northwest of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, 1824. With Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c., for Cabinets of Natural History. 2 vols., 12mo, half morocco, $6.00

gilt. London, 1866. WILSON, J. Noctes Ambrosianæ. Notes by Shelton Mackenzie. 5 vols., 8vo, half calf, gilt. New York, 1863. $15.00

WOOD, Rev. J. G. The Natural History of Man. Being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilized Races of Men. With numerous woodcut Illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, comprising Man in America, Asia, Australasia, Africa, &c. 2 vols., large 8vo. London, 1870.

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