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4618 Stuart (J.) and Revett (N.) Antiquities of Athens, with Supplement, 5 vol., russia gilt, by Staggemeier, 1762-18161830, folio (307) Quaritch, £8 10s. 4619 Tasso (T.) Godfrey of Bulloigne, LARGE PAPER (one of 50 copies), India proof portrait, and designs by Thurston, calf gilt, g. e., 1817, royal 8vo. (148) Hill, £16s. 4620 Turner (Dawson). Tour in Normandy, 2 vol., calf, 1820Churches of Yorkshire, plates on India paper, 2 vol. in I, calf extra, Leeds, 1844, together 3 vol., imperial 8vo. (134) Walpole, 18s. 4621 Vaticano (II.) Descritto ed Illustrato da Erasmo Pistolesi, engravings in outline, 8 vol., morocco extra, g. e., Rome, 1829-38, royal folio (283) Sotheran, £5 158.

[One of the original subscription copies taken by the Earl of Shrewsbury, containing the finest impressions of the 850 plates. Catalogue.]

4622 Vitruvius. Architecture, translated by Joseph Gwilt, LARGE PAPER (25 copies printed), plates on India paper, russia extra, g. e., 1826, 4to. (221)

Walpole, £2

4623 Waagen (G. F.) Treasures of Art of Great Britain, 4 vol., original cloth, uncut, 1854-57, 8vo. (122) Bain, £2 25. 4624 Warton (T.) History of English Poetry, with fragment of vol. iv. and Ritson's observations, MSS. notes said to be by Malone and J. Boswell, 4 vol., 1774-83, 4to. (237)

Dudley, £3 12s. 4625 Weale (J.) Early Masters in Christian Decoration, coloured plates, 2 vol., half morocco, 1846, folio (298)

Sotheran, £3 35. 4626 [Wilson (T.)] Catalogue Raisonné of the select Collection of Engravings of an Amateur, LARGE PAPER, India proofs, presentation copy, autograph letters of S. Woodburn and J. Harding prefixed, 1828, royal 4to. (256) Sawyer, £4 4627 Wordsworth (C.) Greece, LARGE PAPER, India proofs, morocco extra, g.e., by Hayday, 1840, 4to. (254)

Hill, £125. 4628 Wouvermans (Ph.) Euvres, portrait, engraved title and 58 engravings, old calf, Paris, 1737, atlas folio (334) Maggs, £55s. 4629 Wyon (A. B.) The Great Seals of England, 54 plates, morocco extra, g. e., in case, 1887, folio (371)

Harding, £2 5s.

4630 Yarrell (W.) British Birds, second edition, 3 vol., calf extra, by Bedford, 1843, 8vo. (94) 4631 Yarrell (W.) British Birds, second edition, with Supplement, LARGE PAPER, 4 vol., 1843-45, imperial 8vo. (95)

Quaritch, £2 6s.

Maggs, £3

[MARCH 11TH, 1908.]

CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. T. H. ISMAY, AND OTHER PROPERTIES.

(No. of Lots, 218; amount realised, about £800.)

(a) Mr. Ismay's Library.

4632 Alison (Sir A.) History of Europe, with continuation to 1852 and Indexes, portraits, 23 vol., calf extra, 1849-59, 8vo. (4) Cox, £9 4633 Antiquarian Repertory (The), by Grose and Astle, portraits and plates, 4 vol., half russia extra, t. e. g., 1807-9, 4to. (97) Sotheran, 12s. 4634 Arabian Nights' Entertainments, by E. W. Lane, first edition, wood engravings, 3 vol, half morocco extra, 1839-41, 8vo. Schroeder, £2

(5) 4635 Arblay (Madame d'). Diary and Letters, portraits, 4 vol., half calf extra, Bickers, n. d., 8vo. (6) Edwards, LI IS. 4636 Arnold (Thomas). History of Rome, 5 vol., half calf extra, 1871-82-Rollin (M.) Ancient History, maps and illustrations, 6 vol., half calf extra, 1850, together 11 vol., 8vo. (7)

£1 6s.

4637 Art Journal, 1881 to 1898, with the Art Annuals for 1884-95, together 20 vol., half morocco extra, t. e. g., 1881-98, 4to. (98) Amor, £2 15s. 4638 Bentley's Miscellany, from commencement to its end in 1868 (wanted vol. i., vii., xxv. and xxvii.), plates and woodcuts (title of vol. Ixiv. wanted and some plates spotted as usual), together 60 vol., half morocco extra, 1837-68, 8vo. (10) Cox, £13 10s. 4639 Bewick (Thomas). British Birds, woodcuts, 2 vol., 1805Quadrupeds, woodcuts, 1807, russia gilt (1 vol. rebacked), 8vo. (11) Cox, £3 5s. 4640 Bourrienne (L. A. F. de). Memoirs of Napoleon, Library edition, portraits, 3 vol., half calf extra, Bentley, 1885, 8vo. Tokins, £3 15s.

(12) 4641 Bryce (Rt. Hon. James). The American Commonwealth, first edition, 3 vol., cloth, uncut, 1888, 8vo. (14) Bain, £3 4642 Byron (Lord). Poetical Works, Library edition, portrait, 6 vol., calf extra, uncut, 1879, 8vo. (19) Cox, £4 10s.

4643 Camden Society. Publications, from the commencement in 1838 to 1858, 69 vol. in 33, calf extra, by F. Bedford, 1838-58, 4to. (100) Bailey, £2 12s. 6d. 4644 Carlyle (Thomas). Collected Works, Library edition, 34 vol. (vol. xii. wanted), 1869-71-Carlyle (Thomas). A History of the first forty years of his Life, by J. A. Froude,

portraits, 2 vol., 1882-Reminiscences, edited by Froude, 2 vol., 1881, together 33 vol., half calf extra, uncut, t. e. g., 1869-82, 8vo. (20) Cox, £19 4645 Chambers' Encyclopædia, maps and illustrations, 10 vol., half morocco, 1860-8-Chambers' Book of Days, 2 vol., half calf, 1866, together 12 vol., 8vo. (21) Cox, £4 4646 Cassell's Magazine of Art, 1885-98, 14 vol., half morocco extra, t. e. g., 1885-98, 4to. (101) Amor, £1 16s. 4647 Cervantes (M.) El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., calf extra, Madrid, 1780, 4to. (102) Maggs, £3 155. 4648 Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia [col Comento de Benvenuto da Imola, e Vita di Dante del Boccaccio], gothic letter, double columns, ruled in red and rubricated (portion of margin of one leaf defective), oak boards covered with leather, embossed and covered with gold, 4 silver masks as bosses, silver corners and clasp, edges decorated, arms of a Cardinal with 5 fleur-de-lys, the book enclosed in a massive casquet; the lid, which lifts off, has bosses and 5 fleurs-delys to match the book [Venetiis, Vindelin de Spira, 1477], folio (127) Leighton, £53

[The sonnet at the end contains the commentator's name, together with that of the printer and date. The fifteen preliminary leaves containing Boccaccio's Life of the Poet are generally wanting. The collation agrees with that given in Brunet with the exception that hh and iï are in eights instead of tens, but the British Museum copy has also this exception.-Catalogue.]

4649 Dickens (Charles). Works, édition de luxe, 30 vol., half morocco extra, uncut, t. e. g., 1881-2, 8vo. (25) Cox, £25 4650 Disraeli (Isaac). Curiosities of Literature, both series, Library edition, 6 vol., half calf extra, 1823-4, 8vo. (26) Edwards, £1 25. 4651 Du Chaillu (Paul B.) The Land of the Midnight Sun, 2 vol., half calf extra, 1881-Nordenskiöld (A. E.) The Voyage of the "Vega," 2 vol., half calf extra, 1881-South Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor, half calf, 1872, together 5 vol., 8vo. (28) Bumpus, £1 IOS. 4652 Du Maurier (G.) Trilby, a Novel, first edition, LARGE PAPER, 121 illustrations and facsimiles, half vellum, uncut, t. e. g., autograph of Du Maurier, 1895, 4to. (103)

Cox, £3 10s.

4653 Eliot (George). Works, Cabinet edition, 20 vol., half morocco extra, t. e. g., n. d., 8vo. (29) Cox, £6 4654 Evelyn (John). Diary and Correspondence, 4 vol., 1883Hunt (Leigh). Works, illustrations, 7 vol., 1872-82, together 11 vol., half calf extra (30) Cox, £4 4s. 4655 Fairbairn (J.) Book of Crests, revised by A. C. Fox-Davies, plates, 2 vol., half morocco, Edinburgh, 1892, 4to. (104) Cox, £3 10s. 4656 Fox-Davies (A. C.) Armorial Families, édition de luxe, morocco gilt, uncut, t. e.g., 1895, 4to. (105) Sotheran, £1 15s.

4657 Froissart (Sir John). Chronicles, by Thomas Johnes, illustrations, 2 vol., half morocco extra, t. e.g., 1839—Chronicles of Enguerrand de Moustrelet, by the Same, illustrations, 2 vol., calf extra, 1840, together 4 vol., 8vo. (32) Edwards, £1 16s. 4658 Froude (James Anthony). Short Studies, Library edition, 4 vol., calf extra, 1868-83, 8vo. (33) Cox, £5 15s. 4659 Froude (James Anthony). History of England, Library edition, 12 vol., calf extra, 1870-75, 8vo. (34) Cox, £6 15s. 4660 Gibbon (Edward). Decline and Fall, Oxford English Classics, portrait, 8 vol., calf extra, 1828, 8vo. (37) Cox, £4 10s. 4661 Gibbon (Edward). Decline and Fall, portrait and maps, 13 vol., half calf extra, 1838-9, 8vo. (38) Cox, £4 4662 Gladstone (William Ewart). Life of, by John Morley, first edition, 3 vol., cloth, uncut, 1903, 8vo. (39) Douglas, £1 5s. 4663 Goldsmith (Oliver). Works, edited by Peter Cunningham, vignettes, 4 vol., 1854-Life of Goldsmith, by John Forster, portraits and illustrations, 2 vol., half calf extra, 1877, 8vo. (40) Cox, £8 4664 Green (J. R.) History of the English People, maps, 4 vol., 1881-3-The Making of England, maps, 1882-The Conquest of England, portraits and maps, 1884, together 6 vol., half calf extra, 1881-4, 8vo. (41) Cox, £5 4665 Grego (Joseph). Rowlandson the Caricaturist, upwards of 400 illustrations, 2 vol., half morocco, Chatto, 1880, 4to. (118) Bain, £3 4666 Greville (C. C. F.) Journals of the Reigns of George IV. and William IV., 3 vol., half calf extra, 1874-Hervey (John, Lord). Memoirs of the Reign of George II., edited by Croker, portrait, half morocco extra, 1884, together 6 vol., 8vo. (42) Cox, £3 10s.

4667 Grote (George). History of Greece, Library edition, portrait, maps and plans, 10 vol., calf extra, uncut, t.e.g., 1872, 8vo. (43) Cox, £6 6s. 4668 Herdman (W. G.) Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool, 72 plates, 2 vol., half morocco, 1878, 4to. (106) Amor, £1 105. 4669 Holbein (H.) Portraits of Illustrious Persons, part of Chamberlaine's edition, consisting of over 90 portraits (54 subjects), in 2, 3, and 4 states (many proofs), including Henry VIII. and his family (in 4 states), miniatures of the Dukes of Suffolk (one in 2 states), and another small miniature, proof on India paper, old calf (1792), folio (131) Rawlins, £42

4670 Holmes (R. R.) Queen Victoria, coloured frontispiece, portrait and illustrations, Japanese vellum edition, with 2 sets of plates, wrappers, in cloth case, 1897, 4to. (124) Dobell, 165. 4671 Jardine (Sir W.) The Naturalist's Library, 40 vol., red cloth, Edinburgh, n. d., 8vo. (51) Joseph, £1 10s. 4672 Johnson (Dr. Samuel). Works and Parliamentary Debates, Oxford Classics edition, portrait, 11 vol., half calf extra, Oxford, W. Pickering, 1825, 8vo. (54) Cox, £7 10s.

4673 Lacroix (P.) Military and Religious Life—Manners, Customs and Dress-Science and Literature-Arts in the Middle Ages-The Eighteenth Century, together 5 vol., morocco extra, g. e., Bickers, n. d., 4to. (108) Cox, £8 10s. 4674 Library of Entertaining Knowledge, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, illustrations, 42 vol. (wanted I vol.), half calf gilt, 1830-40, 8vo. (56)

Amor, 17s. 4675 Lowe (E. J.) Ferns, British and Exotic, upwards of 400 coloured plates, 8 vol., half morocco, uncut, t. e. g., 1856-60 Howard, £1

(110) 4676 Lytton (Lord). Novels, illustrated, 23 vol., half calf, 1853-66, 8vo. (58) Cahour, £7 4677 Molière (M. de). Dramatic Works, by C. H. Wall, portrait and plates (inserted), 3 vol., calf extra, uncut, t. e. g., 1876, 8vo. (61) Cox, £1 5s. 4678 Moore (Thomas). Poetical Works, frontispiece and vignettes, 10 vol., half morocco extra, 1853, 8vo. (62) Cox, 1 25. 4679 Napier (W. F. P.) War in the Peninsula, Library edition, maps and plans, 6 vol., half calf extra, 1828-40, 8vo. (63) Cox, £3 10s. 4680 Nash (J.) Mansions of England, 4 Series in 1 vol., 104 lithographs, morocco extra, 1874, folio (132)

Bumpus, £3 3s. 4681 Nichols (John). Progresses, Processions, etc. of King James I., portraits and plates, 4 vol., calf extra, 1828, 4to. (113) Bailey, £145. 4682 Ormerod (George). History of the County Palatine of Chester, first edition, portrait, maps, etc., extra illustrated with several hundred views, etc., 3 vol., russia extra, g. e. (Sir George Chetwynd's copy), 1819, folio (133)

Howard, 15 10s. 4683 Percy (Bishop). Folio Manuscript, edited by Hales and Furnivall, 3 vol., half calf extra, 1867-8, 8vo. (65)

Harding,

IS.

Cox, £12

4684 Plutarch's Lives, edited by A. H. Clough, 5 vol.-Plutarch's Morals, revised by W. W. Goodwin, 5 vol., together 10 vol., calf extra, g. e., Boston, Mass., 1882-3, 8vo. (66) 4685 Pope (Alexander). Works, plates, 9 vol., half morocco extra, 1770, 8vo. (67) Sotheran, £ 175. 4686 Prescott (W. H.) Conquest of Mexico, 2 vol.-Conquest of Peru, 2 vol.-History of Philip the Second, 3 vol.-History of Ferdinand and Isabella, 2 vol.-History of Charles V., 2 vol.-Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, together 12 vol., calf extra, Routledge, n. d., 8vo. (68) Cox, £9

4687 Raleigh (Sir Walter). Works, portrait, 8 vol., calf extra, University Press, Oxford, 1829, 8vo. (69)

Cox, £6 10s.

4688 Philips's Imperial Atlas, with Index, 8o large coloured maps, 2 vol., half russia, 1892, folio (134)

I2S.

4689 Punch, or the London Charivari, from the commencement to

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