2790 North (Roger). Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds, illustrated with 18 coloured specimens by E. Albin, original half binding (1820) History of Esculent Fish, an Essay on the Breeding of Fish, etc., by R. North, plates by E. Albin, half bound, uncut, 1794, 4to. (447) Sabin, £3 35. 2791 Porta (J. B.) Natural Magick, in XX. Bookes, engraved title and woodcuts, old calf, 1658-Wecker (Dr. John). Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature, augmented by Dr. Read, frontispiece, containing portraits, and woodcuts, some margins mended, half calf, 1660, not subject to return, folio (449) Rimell, £2 2792 Pulman (G. P. R.) The Book of the Axe, a Piscatorial Description of the Stream, and Historical Sketches, fourth edition, map (mounted), plates and woodcuts, uncut, t. e. g., 1875, 8vo. (196) B. F. Stevens, £1 5s. 2793 Scott (W. H.) British Field Sports. Shooting, Hunting, Racing, Cocking, Fishing, etc., numerous plates, chiefly engraved by J. Scott, and woodcuts, original cloth, uncut, 1818, 8vo. (213) Nattali, £2 5s. 2794 Scrope (William). Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, second edition, with coloured and other illustrations, calf extra, g. e., by Tout, 1854, 8vo. (215)

Hill, £1 4s. 2795 Seymour (R.) Humorous Sketches, comprising 92 caricature etchings, coloured by hand, illustrated in prose by R. B. Peake, original cloth, t. e. g., 1846, 8vo. (217)

LI 18s.

2796 Stevens (C.) and J. Liebault. Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme, translated into English by Richard Surflet, woodcuts, last leaf defective, original calf, 1600, 4to. (394) C. Day, 110s. 2797 Stradanus (J.) Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium, Pugnæ Bestiarum et mutua Bestiarum depictæ, frontispiece and 104 engraved plates, mounted, morocco (Ant., circa 1580), oblong folio (453) Sotheran, £3 8s. 2798 Venables (R.) The Experienc'd Angler, or Angling Improv'd, third edition, much enlarged, frontispiece and engravings. of fish, original sheep binding, 1668, 8vo. (245)

Maggs, £2 8s. 2799 Venables (R.) The Experienc'd Angler, or Angling Improv'd, the fourth edition, much enlarged, frontispiece and engravings of fish, half parchment, 1676, 8vo. (246)

B. F. Stevens, £1 6s. 2800 Walton (Isaac). Life of Isaac Walton, including Notices of his Contemporaries, by Thomas Zouch, LARGE PAPER, one of 8 copies only, proof portraits and plates, on India paper, uncut, S. Prowett, 1824, 4to. (405) Edwards, 2 6s. 2801 Walton (Isaak). The Compleat Angler, or The Contempla

tive Man's Recreation

to which is added the Laws

of Angling, etc., the fourth edition, much corrected and enlarged, scroll on title, engravings of fish, and musical notation, a few headlines shaved, calf, 1668, 8vo. (250)

Sutton, £2 18s.

2802 Walton (Isaak). Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir H. Wotton, R. Hooker, etc., edited, with illustrative Notes, by John Major, LARGEST PAPER, portraits and plates on India paper, and woodcuts, extra illustrated by the insertion of 62 portraits and views, morocco extra, g. e., 1825, 8vo. (260) Cook, £5 7s. 6d.

2803 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, "Bagster's Second Edition," with Lives of the authors and Notes by Sir John Hawkins, portraits and plates by Wale and Audinet, 96 extra illustrations, chiefly views and portraits, inserted, half russia, uncut, t. e. g., 1815, 8vo. (256) Dobell, £316s. 2804 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, Major's first edition, with illustrative Notes, LARGE PAPER, portraits, plates on India paper, by Wale and Nash, and woodcuts, russia gilt, m. e., 1823, 8vo. (258) £2 10s. 2805 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, Major's second edition, LARGE PAPER, portraits and plates by Wale and Nash, on India paper, and woodcuts, original boards, uncut, 1824, 8vo. (259) Walford, £1 16s. 2806 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, Major's fourth edition, LARGE PAPER, portraits, plates and woodcuts, illustrated with additional portraits, engravings of fish and fishing, local views, etc., uncut, 1844, 8vo. (262) Edwards, £1 135. 2807 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, with Lives of the Authors and Notes, by Sir John Hawkins (seventh edition), LARGEST PAPER, portraits, plates and vignettes by Wale, Audinet, etc., interleaved and extra illustrated by the insertion of 97 portraits, views, sporting prints, engravings of fish, etc., half bound, Bagster, 1808, 4to. (403)

Pitcher, £2 158. 2808 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, complete in the original xii. parts, with proofs of the plates by Thomas Stothard and James Inskipp, on India paper, wrappers, uncut, Pickering, 1836, imperial 8vo. (407) Spencer, £4 145. 2809 Walton and Cotton. Memoirs, edited, with Notes, by Sir Harris Nicolas, portrait, illustrated by the insertion of nearly 100 portraits, views, antiquities, engravings of flies and fish, proof illustrations, vignettes and other engravings, morocco gilt, g. e., Pickering, 1836, 4to. (408) Dobell, £3 2810 Walton and Cotton. The Complete Angler, in 2 parts (edited by Geo. W. Bethune), portraits, plates and woodcuts (the latter in two states), half russia, t. e. g., an autograph letter (4to.) of John Major, referring to this edition, is inserted, New York, 1847, super imperial 8vo. (409) Maggs, £2 45. 2811 Walton and Cotton. Complete Angler, with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, second edition, 2 vol., portraits and illustrations on India paper, original cloth, uncut, 1860, 4to. (410) Edwards, 1 IOS. 2812 Walton and Cotton. The Compleat Angler, "Lea and Dove Edition," edited and arranged by R. B. Marston, 2 vol., with 54 photogravures and about 100 woodcuts, all on

India paper, and containing a reprint of the Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, 250 numbered and signed copies, morocco extra, uncut, t. e. g., 1888, 4to. (413) Rimell, £2 155. 2813 Westwood (Thomas). Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, a Bibliographical Record of its various phases and mutations, illustrated by the insertion of several India proof portraits, views, engravings of fish, etc., a drawing and other illustrations, with a MS. index at end, morocco super extra, g.e., the author's copy, with his bookplate, 1864, 4to. (417)

Dobell, £4 12s. 6d. 2814 Whitney (John). The Genteel Recreation, or the Pleasure of Angling, a Poem, with a Dialogue between Piscator and Corydon, a few headlines shaved, original calf, 1700, 8vo. (299) B. F. Stevens, £8 10s.

[On March 18th and two following days Messrs. Sotheby sold a collection of books from various sources. The collection as a whole was not very important. The following are, however, specially noticeable.-ED.]

2815 Ackermann (R.) Costumes of the British Army, 56 large coloured plates from paintings by H. de Daubrawa, in a portfolio, 1845, etc., folio (659) Robson, £83 2816 Blomefield (F.) History of the County of Norfolk, with continuation by the Reverend Charles Parkin, 5 vol., plates and maps, russia, m. e., Fersfield, 1739—and Lynn, 1769-75, folio (614) £12 105. 2817 Coleridge (S. T.) The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon, first edition, in the original printed wrapper, uncut, 1816, presentation copy, with inscription on title, "Mr. Walford with the Author's friendly remembrances, 14 Dec. 1819, Highgate"" Blessed are ye that sow beside all Waters," a Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes, first edition, in the original printed cover, uncut, 1817, together 2 vol., 8vo. (111-112) £8 145.

[The latter piece was a presentation copy, with inscription on half-title, "Mr. Walford from the Author in remembrance of pleasant hours passed at Highgate, 14 Dec. 1819."-Catalogue.]

2818 Goldsmith (O.) The Good Natur'd Man, a Comedy, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden, first edition, with half-title, Cambridge calf extra, g. e., W. Griffin, 1768, 8vo. (809)

£10

2819 Goldsmith (O.) She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night, a Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, first edition (no half-title), hand-dyed calf extra, g. e., by W. Pratt, from Col. Grant's collection, 1773, 8vo. (812)

£12

2820 Shelley (Percy B.) The Cenci, a Tragedy, in Five Acts, first edition, in the original half binding, Italy, 1819, 8vo. (502) Sotheran, £10

2821 Sheridan (R. B.) The School for Scandal, a Comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, morocco extra, tooled sides with centre and corners, g. e., by Broca, Dublin, printed in the year 1781, 8vo. (787) £9 15s.

[Probably the first printed edition, the MS. having been sent by Sheridan to his sister in Dublin to make what use she thought proper of it, and evidently this edition was printed before the play was performed in Dublin. The other Dublin editions of the same date state it to have been performed at "Smock Alley Theatre." Collation title with "Dramatis Persona" on back, pages 3-70; Prologue and Epilogue, one leaf.-Catalogue.]

2822 Sheridan (R. B.) The Rivals, a Comedy, as it is acted (Feb. 27th, 1775) at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, first edition, with half-title, the Epilogue bound at the beginning, levant morocco extra, g. e., by Broca, J. Wilkie, 1775, 8vo. (806)

£17

[FEBRUARY 29TH AND FOLLOWING DAY, 1904.]

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE.

A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE REV. J. F. W. BULLOCK, RECTOR OF RADWINTER, SAFFRON WALDEN.

(No. of Lots, 449; amount realised, £1,490 12s.)

2823 Advertisements partly for the due Order in the Publique Administration of Common Prayers and Usinge the Holy Sacramentes, and partly for the Apparrell of all Persons ecclesiasticall, by Vertue of the Queenes Maiesties letters commaunding the same the xxv. Jan. (1564), black letter (8 leaves), morocco, g. e. (W. Maskell's copy), Imprinted by Reginalde Wolfe, n. d. (1564), small 4to. (1)

Tregaskis, £2 8s. 2824 Æsop. Fables, with Life, embellished with 112 plates by Blake, Stothard, Landseer, etc., 2 vol., old tree-calf, Stockdale, 1793, imperial 8vo. (2) Walford, 1 18s. 2825 Amman (Jost.) Cleri totius Romanæ Ecclesiæ Subjecti, seu Pontificiorum Ordinum Omnium Omnius Utriusque Sexus, Habitus, artificiosissimis figuris, etc., woodcuts and costume figures (title mended), old calf, Francof. a. M. impensis S. Feyerabendii, 1585, small 4to. (4) Blades, 1 10S.

2826 Andrews (Henry). The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants only, 608 coloured plates (some margins cut into), descriptions in English and Latin, vol. i.-ix., morocco gilt, g.e. (Roger Payne), 1797, etc., 4to. (6) Waters, £2 18s.

2827 Antiquarian Itinerary (The), comprising Specimens of Architecture, etc. in Great Britain, LARGE PAPER, India proof plates by Storer and Greig, and woodcuts, 7 vol., calf, W. Clarke, etc., 1815-18, royal 8vo. (9) Tregaskis, £1 10s. 2828 Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds, the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick, first edition (first issue), royal paper, 2 vol., mottled calf gilt, Newcastle, Hodgson & Walker for Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804, royal 8vo. (24) Bain, £3 12s. 2829 Bewick (Thomas). The Fables of Æsop and others, with designs on wood by T. Bewick, first edition, woodcuts, with leaf containing the thumb-mark receipt, original boards, uncut, with label, Newcastle, E. Walker for T. Bewick & Son, 1818, 8vo. (26) Bain, £3 35.

2830 Bewick (Thomas). Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Books and Wood Engravings, by or relating to Thomas and John Bewick and his Pupils, collected by Edwin Pearson (sold by auction at Sotheby's in 1868), SPECIAL LARGE PAPER COPY, with 2 portraits and woodcuts, ruled, priced and named in MS. boards, uncut, J. Davy and Sons, 1868, 4to. (28) Marshall, £1 125. 2831 Bewick (Thomas). Emblems of Mortality representing, in upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People, first edition, woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, calf extra, t. e. g., uncut, by F. Bedford, T. Hodgson, 1789, 8vo. (30) Walford, 1 95. 2832 Bewick (Thomas). Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell, fullpage woodcuts and vignettes by Thomas Bewick, morocco extra, inside dentelles, t. e. g., others uncut, by Hammond, W. Bulmer, 1795, 4to. (34) Maggs, £15s.

2833 Bewick (T. and J.) Select Fables, with a Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of the Messrs. Bewick, royal paper, portrait of T. Bewick on India paper and numerous cuts, original boards, uncut, with label, Newcastle, S. Hodgson for E. Charnley, 1820, 8vo. (36)

Jackson, £1 16s. 2834 Bewick (T. and J.) and William Somerville. The Chase, a Poem, woodcuts by John and Thomas Bewick, mottled calf gilt, g. e., by F. Bedford, W. Bulmer, 1796, 4to. (38)

Bain, LI IS. 2835 Bible (Holy). The Bishops' Version [with Calendar, Order for Morning and Evening Prayer, etc.], black letter, woodcut titles and initials, first title and some preliminary leaves mended, some leaves wormed and margins shaved, last leaf in facsimile, old rough calf, Assignment of C. Barker, 1578 (47) Bull, £1 11S. 2836 Biblia Pauperum, reproduced in facsimile from one of the copies in the British Museum, with Introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau, half morocco, J. R. Smith, 1859, folio (46) Hill, £1 2837 Blomefield (Francis). Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, continued by the Rev. Charles Parkin, portrait,