10000 213. D'EON DE BEAUMONT (CHEVALIER). Lettres, Memoires & Negotiations Particulieres du Chevalier D'Eon. 4to, original calf, in crimson crushed levant morocco slip case, imprime chez l'Auteur, s. 1. 1764. Horace Walpole's copy with his arms on the binding and extra illustrated by him. The additions are: 1. A. L. S. of D'Eon, 3 pp. 4to, London, 9th August, 1776. 2. Portrait (as a woman). Folio. Finely engraved on copper by Cathelin, after Ducreux. Rare. 3. Treyssac de Vergy. Mezzo. Jan. 26, 1775, by W. Humphrey. With margins. 4. Duc de Nivernois. Fine folio mezzo by McArdell after A. Ramsay. 5. Comte de Guerchy. Vanloo. Folio mezzo by J. Watson after 6. Duc de Choiseul. 4to. Designed and engraved by N. de Launay. 7. House of D'Eon at Tonnerre. Engraved by Thomas. 8. Mdlle. la Chevaliere D'Eon de Beaumont. Bistre. Engraved by Chambers after Cosway, 1787. 9. D'Eon as a Man. Folio mezzotint. Vispre pinxt et fecit. This is the volume for which D'Eon was tried, containing some severe comments on DeGuerchy, and disclosiug certain State secrets. His trial took place in the King's Bench, when he was convicted and outlawed. 214. DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL). Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: a Bibliographical Romance. Illustrated with cuts. 2 vols. royal 8vo, brown straight-grain morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut, by Hayday. Lond. 1842 One of 55 copies on Large Paper, with steel frontispiece presented to subscribers for the large paper copies. Four-page letter of Dibdin to Ithiel Town inserted. The Hoe copy. 215. [DICKINSON (JOHN).] An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America; with the Resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania, and their Instructions to their Representatives in Assembly. 8vo, full brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt inside and outside borders, gilt top, by Stikeman. Phila. Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford, 1774. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. On the title is the name of Philip Schuyler, which has been written over an erasure. This work has been attributed to William Smith and John Dickinson. 216. DICKINSON (JOHN). Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. 8vo, buckram. Phila. London rep., 1774 MS. notes on false title. оо 3 217. DIGBY (SIR KENELM). Private Memoirs written by himself. Now first published from the original manu- volume. SECOND SESSION Monday Evening, April 30, 1917, at 8:15 o'clock LOTS 218-450 300 200 200 100 8 2000 218. DOBSON (AUSTIN). Horace Walpole. A Memoir. One of 50 copies on Japan paper. 219. DOBSON (AUSTIN). The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century. FIRST EDITION. 50 illustrations by Hugh Thompson on Japan paper. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. One of a limited edition on Large Paper. Lond. 1892 220. DOBSON (AUSTIN). William Hogarth. Portrait, photogravures, and illustrations. 8vo, half brown levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by The Club Bindery. N. Y. [Lond. printed], 1891 221. DODSLEY (ROBERT). The Economy of Human Life, translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. 47 exquisite vignettes by Harding. 12mo, calf gilt (broken). Lond. 1806 222. DONA RUFINE. Histoire et Avantures de Dona Rufine, Fameuse Courtisane de Seville. Traduite de l'Espagnol. 9 copper-plates. 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt. Paris: Brunet, 1731 223. DORAN (JOHN). New Pictures and Old Panels. Portrait. 12mo, half brown levant morocco gilt, gilt top, uncut, by Stikeman. Lond. 1859 Extra illustrated by the insertion of 76 portraits and views. MAGNIFICENT COPIES OF DORAT. 224. DORAT (CLAUDE JOSEPH). Les Baisers, precédés du Mois de Mai, poëme. Frontispiece engraved by Ponce, after Eisen, a full-page plate by de Longueil, 23 vignettes, and 22 culs-de-lampe engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Binet, Delaunay, Lingée, de Longueil, Masquelier, Massard, Née and Ponce, after Eisen. 8vo, green levant morocco, richly tooled, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. La Haye et Paris: Lambert & Delalain, 1770 First issue, with errors of pagination. On Holland paper, with title printed in red and black. One of the masterpieces of XVIIIth Century engraving. 225. DORAT (CLAUDE JOSEPH). Fables Nouvelles. Frontispiece by De Ghent, vignette portrait on title, plate by De Launay, engraved title to the second part, and all the vignettes, fleurons, etc., after the designs of Marillier, engraved by de Longueil, Le Beau, Masquelier, Née, Ponce, etc. 8vo, green levant morocco extra, side borders, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. La Haye-Paris: Delalain, 1773 First issue, from the Mercier collection, some leaves supplied from a smaller copy. * * 226. DORAT (CLAUDE JOSEPH). Recueil de Contes et de Poëmes, par M. D. *, ci-devant mousquetaire. Troisième édition augmentée de l'Hermitage de Beauvais. Proofs before letters of the 8 plates and 10 vignettes, engraved by Massard, de Longueil, and de Ghendt, after the designs of Eisen. 8vo, blue levant morocco gilt, with crest, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru. La Haye Delalain, 1770 LARGE PAPER COPY. Contains Sélim and Sélima; Irza et Marsis ou l'Isle Merveilleuse; Alphonse; Les Cerises; La Meprise; Lettre de Zeila; Lettre de Julie. 227. DORAT (CLAUDE JOSEPH) AND OTHERS. Lettres en Vers, Paris, 1766; Lettre de Valcour, etc. Paris, 1767; Les Trois Frères et Combabus, Amst. 1765; and Bagatelles Anonymes, Genève, 1766 (by Dorat); Lettre de Petrarque à Laure, Paris, 1765 (by Romet); Réponse de Valcour à Zéila, Paris, 1766 (by Framery); Lettre Amoureuse d'Hèloise à Abailard, Paris, 1766 (by Colardeau); Lettre de Cain à Mehala son épouse, Paris, 1765 (by Costard); Lettre du Comte de Comminges, et Lettre de Philomèle à Progne, Paris, 1765; Lettre de Gabrielle de Vergy, Paris, 1766 (by Mailhol); Suite des Bagatelles Anonymes, Genève, 1767 (by the. Marquis de 4 Pezy); Lettre de l'Abbé de Rance, Genève, 1766 (by M. Barthe); and, Lucie et Melanie, Paris, 1767; Clary, ou le retour a la Vertu, Paris, 1767; Fanni, ou la Nouvelle Pamela, Paris, 1767 (by D'Arnaud). Many First Editions. Frontispieces, and tailpieces by Longueil and others after Eisen. Bound in two vols. (lettered "Heroides"), royal 8vo, blue crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled in the manner of Derome, gilt top, uncut, by The Club Bindery. Paris and Geneva, 1765-67 228. DOUGLAS (ROBERT B.). Sophie Arnould, Actress and Wit. With Seven Copper-Plate Engravings by Adolphe Lalauze. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898 3100= 300= RARE EDITIONS OF DRAKE. 229. DRAKE (SIR FRANCIS). Expeditio Francisci Draki Equitio Angli In Indias Occidentales A.M.D.LXXXV. Quâ urbes, Fanum D. Jacobi, D. Dominici, D. Augustini & Carthagena, capae fuêre . . . Leydæ, Apud Fer. Raphelengium. M.D.LXXXVIII. Small 4to, with four large folding maps, colored; a small woodcut of a ship on the title. Red levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. Leyden, 1588 Of EXTREMELY RARE, especially with the maps, only four other copies having them, viz.: John Rylands Library, Church Collection, Lenox Library, and John Carter Brown Library. these the last is imperfect, lacking the map of St. Jago. The Church copy has slips in English pasted to the bottom of each map; they do not belong to the book, but were printed for "A Summarie of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, London, 1589. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT of Drake's famous West Indian Expeditions, during which he sacked Carthagena and other towns on the Spanish Main. He also visited Raleigh's Virginian Colony. 230. [DRAKE (SIR FRANCIS).] Breuis & fida Narratio et Continuatio rerum omnium a Drako et Norreysio (post felicem ex Occidentalibus insulis, reditum) in sua expeditione Portugallensi singulis diebus gestarum. Heraldic ornament on title, and woodcut of a soldier on reverse. 4to, vellum (top of title and a few page numbers cut into). Francofurti: Apud Paulum Brachfeldium, 1590 OF EXTREME RARITY, not in Church or other large collections. The Huth copy. The narrative occupies the period from March 15 to July 3. |