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7974 Records of the Burgh of Prestwick, 1834 (678)
7975 Illustrations of Scottish History, 1834 (679)
7976 Dalgarno of Aberdeen (George). Works, 1834 (680)
7977 Urquhart (Sir Thomas, of Cromarty). Works, 1834 (681)

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7978 History of Mary Queen of Scots. A fragment, 1834 (682)

£1 165.

7979 Wodrow (Rev. Robert). Collections upon the Lives of the Reformers and most eminent Ministers of the Church of Scotland, 2 vol. in 3, Glasgow, 1834-45 (683) £1 175. 7980 Winzet (Niniane). Certane Tractatis for Reformatioun, of Doctryne and Maneris (a reprint in black letter), 1835 (684)

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7981 Reports on the State of Certain Parishes in Scotland, 1835 (685)

16s.

12s.

7982 Letters to King James the Sixth, 1835 (686) 7983 Papers Relative to the Royal Guard of Scottish Archers in France, 2 impressions of the frontispiece, one on India paper, 1835 (687)

£1 10s. 7984 Cochrane Correspondence (The), 1836 (688) 18s. 7985 Catalogue of the Works printed for the Maitland Club, 1836 (689)

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7986 Index to a Private Collection of Notices intituled Memorabilia of the City of Glasgow, 1836 (690)

7987 Scalacronica, by Sir Thomas Grey of Heton, Knight, 1836 (691)

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£1 8s. 7988 Rob Stene's Dream, a Poem, facsimile, 1836 (692) 7989 Circulars of the Maitland Club from its Institution in the year M.DCCCXXVIII. (to 1839), in 1 vol., Glasgow, 1828-39 (693) £ 128. 7990 Circulars of the Maitland Club, from 1828 to 1839, with some autograph Letters and Official Correspondence and Documents, Glasgow, 1828-39 (694)

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£2

7991 Life and Death (The) of King James the First of Scotland, 1837 (695)

£125.

7992 Selections from Unpublished Manuscripts in the College of Arms and the British Museum, 1837 (696) 7993 Ancient Scottish Melodies, 1838 (697) 7994 Sir Beves of Hamtoun.

£135. £1 6s.

A Metrical Romance, frontispiece

by C. K. Sharpe, 1838 (698)

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7995 Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford, 1838 (699) 7996 Letters to the Argyll Family from Elizabeth Queen of Eng

land, etc., 1839 (700)

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£1 8s.

7997 Napier (John of Merchistoun).

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burghi, 1839 (701)

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7998 The Scottish Metrical Romance of Lancelot du Lak, 1839

(702)

£116s.

7999 Chronicon de Lanercost, 2 vol., 1839 (703) 8000 Book of the Universal Kirk of Scotland (with Appendix 1597

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1603), 4 vol., 1839-45 (704)

£28s.

8001 Narrative of Charles Prince of Wales' Expedition to Scotland,

1841 (705)

145.

8002 Documents illustrative of Sir William Wallace, his Life and Times, 1841 (706)

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£135.

8003 Row (John). Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, 2 vol., 1842 (707) 8004 Notices of Original Unprinted Documents, preserved in the Office of the Queen's Remembrancer and Chapter House, Westminster, 1842 (708)

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17s.

8005 Coltness Collections (The), 1842 (709) 8006 Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheill, portrait, 1842

LI 19s.

LI IIS. £195.

(710)

8007 Wodrow (Rev. Robert). Analecta, 4 vol., 1842-3 (711)

8008 Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, plates and facsimiles, 2 vol., 1843 (712) 8009 Liber Ecclesiæ de Scon, plate of seal and facsimiles, 1843 (713)

14S.

8010 Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis, coloured frontispiece and other plates and facsimiles, 2 vol., 1845 (714) £145. 8011 Papers illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands of Scotland, 1845 (715)

12S.

17s.

8012 Liber Collegii Nostre Domine, 1846 (716) 8013 Rules and Circulars of the Maitland Club from 1828 to 1848, with Official Communications to Members, etc. Press Reviews of their Published Works-Reports of Meetings, etc., collected by James Maidment, Edinburgh, 1828-48 (717)

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8014 Memorials of Montrose and his Times, 2 vol., 1848-50 (718)

£2 165.

8015 Laing (H.) Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Ancient Scottish Seals, 1850 (719) £125. 8016 Deeds Instituting Bursaries, Scholarships and other Foundations in the College and University of Glasgow, 1850 (720) 16s. 8017 Notices of the Local Records of Dysart, frontispiece and 3 other plates, 1853 (721)

12S.

8018 Caldwell. Selections from the Family Papers preserved at Caldwell, 2 vol. in 3, 1854 (722) LI 105. 8019 Monumenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, 3 vol., 1854 (723) £3 125.

8020 Breviarium Aberdonense, 2 vol. bound in 4, 1852-54 (724) £4 8021 Pont (Timothy). Topographical Account of the District of Cunningham, Ayrshire, 1858 (725) 16s. 8022 Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland, 1859 (726) 18s.

8023 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) Typographical Antiquities, begun by Jos. Ames, augmented by Wm. Herbert, and now greatly enlarged, LARGE PAPER, portraits and facsimile woodcuts (66 copies printed), with a volume in large folio, containing an account of books printed by Wm. Caxton, "The only portion and the only copy that was printed on vellum"

(xi. leaves), with a specially printed title on paper, together 5 vol., half vellum, uncut, 1810-19, folio (727) Bull, £6 10s. 8024 Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, LARGE PAPER, original morocco, the sides inlaid, richly tooled outside borders, g.e. (Samuel Mearne), Oxford, Printed at the Theatre for Moses Pitt, 1681, royal folio (732)

Sotheran, £25 10s. 8025 Blake. Night Thoughts, title inlaid, marginal illustrations, coloured by hand by William Blake, containing the leaf of Explanation of the Engravings," sometimes wanting, modern embossed binding, R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797, 8vo. (734) Stirling, £24 8026 Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Le Mirouer de la Redemption de lumaine lignaige, lit. goth., double columns, 46 lines with signatures, [begins on folio ii. and ends on folio cci. the last leaf], 250 xylographs in outline, large capitals painted in red (2 letters injured on outside margin of A. ii., outside margin of folio cxcii. mended, 2 leaves split, I leaf defective and I leaf missing), red calf [A Lyon per Mathieu Husz, 1483], 8vo. (735) O'Connor, £64 8027 Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, lit. goth. (batârdes), printed upon vellum, within woodcut borders of Scriptural subjects, figures of saints, etc., 16 full-page woodcuts, and small initial figures (rudely coloured by hand), small illuminated capitals and details, begins on signature B and proceeds to K. in 8's (margins cut close, leaves shrivelled), old calf (17th century), [Rouen, Richard Mercator, 1494], 8vo. (738) Stanley, £105

[One of the earliest Saram Horae printed at Rouen. Dibdin describes it in vol. iv. of Bibl. Spence.-Catalogue.] 8028 Charles the First (King). A Volume of Plays (1633-42), originally in the possession of K. Charles I., in 1 vol., original calf, r. e., small 4to. (739) Ridge, £510

[This volume was King Charles's own property. It has his autograph initials C.R. in monogram on two blank leaves at end, and on a flyleaf in front he has written a list of the contents of the volume. On the first flyleaf is written in another hand, but contemporary, “Da Domine quod vibeas (?) et ml quod Vis," and the same hand has written on the next flyleaf, "The Kings Book, 1648." Below the list written by the King is a note in the same hand as the above, rendered partly illegible by being run through with a pen, "With this booke the late King past the terryble lonely hours in his doleful restraint in Carisbrooke Castle in the Isle of Wight making that Catalogue as above with his own hand.”-Catalogue.]

8029 Horae B. V. M. ad usum Romanum cum Calendario, lit. goth. (lettres batardes), long lines, 30 to a full page, printed upon vellum, within broad woodcut border, Hardouin's device of the Rape of Dejenira within illuminated border on title, skeleton man on reverse, 18 full-page woodcuts,

9 without borders and 9 with painted and illuminated borders, device at end of a globe and a shield of arms supported by angels, 26 small initial cuts of saints, etc., all very finely painted and illuminated, and many hundred small illuminated ornamental initials, old French morocco (17th cent.), the sides covered with elaborate gilt tooling, arms of Pierre Seguier, Chancelier de France, in centres, probably bound by Antoine Ruette, “Ces presentes Heures a lusaige de Romine . . nouvellement imprimees à Paris par Gillet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont nostre Dame devant Sainct Denis de la Chartre: a lenseigne de la Rose. Tout pour le mieulx," S. A. Almanack, 1512-24, imperial 8vo. or small 4to. (754)

Quaritch, £117

Books from the Library of Mrs. Thrale (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi, née Salusbury), the friend of Dr. johnson, the whole the property of the descendent of one of the Family.

8030 Shakespeare (William). Plays, by Johnson and Steevens, fifth edition, revised by Isaac Reed, portraits and facsimiles, 21 vol., crimson morocco extra, g. e., bound by S. Meyer; J. Johnson and others, 1803, 8vo. (755)

Edwards, £12 55. [Inscription on fly-leaf of vol. i. (by Mrs. Piozzi?), "These Books were bequeath'd to me by my friend, John Gillon, Esq., 19 December, 1809."-Catalogue. A collection of 41 letters from Dr. Johnson realised £270. Quaritch. Lots 780-820.- ED.]

8031 Fellowes (W. D.) Paris during the Interesting Month of July, 1815, coloured frontispiece of the profiles of Louis XVIII. and his relations, head of Bonaparte on title and 2 coloured plates, presentation copy from the author to Mrs. Piozzi, with 2 marginal notes in her hand, original boards, uncut, Gale and Fenner, 1815, 8vo. (756) Sotheran, £2 15s. 8032 Piozzi (Hester Lynch). Observations on a Journey through France, Italy and Germany, original edition, a quotation from the poet Churchyarde in Mrs. Piozzi's hand on the fly-leaf of vol. i., 2 vol., old calf, g. e., A. Strahan, etc., 1789, 8vo. (757) Dobell, 8s. 8033 Piozzi (Hester Lynch). British Synonymy, original edition, with a stanza addressed "to Mrs. Piozzi," signed, Clarke, 1798 in fly-leaf of vol. i., 2 vol., old calf, Robinson, 1794, 8vo. (758) Hughes, £2 45. 8034 Swift. Observations on Lord Ossory's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Swift, 1754-A Letter to Deane Swift on his Remarks on Dr. Swift, 1755 [by Dr. Delaney], and another, together in 1 vol., old calf, 8vo. (759) Hughes, 14s. 8035 Prayer. Book of Common Prayer, Mrs. Piozzi's Prayer Book while Mrs. Thrale, with her signature, Hester Lynch Thrale" on fly-leaf, old morocco, g. e., Cambridge, J. Baskerville, 1762, imperial 8vo. (760) Ellis, £5 15s.

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8036 Piozzi (Hester Lynch). Retrospection (no portrait), Mrs. Piozzi's own copy, with numerous marginal MS. notes and corrections in her own hand, 2 vol., half bound, uncut, J. Stockdale, 1801, 4to. (761) Tregaskis, £4 10S. 8037 Bible (Holy), very copious MS. notes in margins throughout by Mrs. Piozzi, with signature on fly-leaf of vol. i., "Hester Lynch Piozzi, Brynhella, 8 May, 1801,” 3 vol., calf, Bath, printed by R. Crutwell, 1805, 4to. (762) Maggs, £7 155. 8038 Rowlandson (Thomas). The Original Series of 21 Caricature Drawings in Indian Ink to illustrate the journey of Dr. Johnson and Jas. Boswell to Scotland, the first plate being a strident figure of Boswell on his native Heath bearing a title, "Materials for the Life of Doctor Saml. Johnson," all of which were afterwards engraved, mounted on thick cardboard, 4to. (764) Quaritch, £56 8039 Piozzi (Mrs.) Thraliana, manuscript entirely in her autograph, and comprising about 1,630 pages (a few leaves apparently cut out, but the volumes practically intact), 6 vol., 4to. (771) Barclay, £2,050

[Its origin and purpose are best conveyed by quoting the first entry, dated 15 September, 1775: "It is many years since Doctor Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little Book and write in it all the little Anecdotes which might come to my knowledge, all the Observations I might make or hear, all the Verses never likely to be published, and in fine everything which struck me at the Time. Mr. Thrale has now treated me with a Repository-and provided it with the pompous Title of Thraliana.”—Catalogue.]

8040 Piozzi (Mrs.) Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., during the last twenty years of his Life, the original MS. of 200 pages folio, as published in 1786 (772) Pearson, £154 8041 Piozzi (Mrs.) Lyford Redivivus, or a Grandam's Garrulity, by an Old Woman, autograph MS. unpublished, on names with their origin and meaning, with a fair copy of the same, together comprising about 400 pages, in 2 vol., 4to. (773) Dobell, £2 10s.

autograph MS. Dobell, £2 10S.

8042 Piozzi (Mrs.) The Two Fountains, a Faery Tale in Three Acts, scene Dovedale in Derbyshire, unpublished of 41 pages, folio (774) 8043 Piozzi (Mrs.) New Common Place Book, unpublished MS. in her own autograph, about 280 pages, folio (775)

Quaritch, £13 10s.

[The following note appears inside the cover: Begun in 1809 at Brynbella. Thrown by after writing about fifteen pages-and begun again at Streatham Park in the year 1814-carried on at New King Street, Bath, 1815.—Čatalogue.] 8044 Piozzi (Mrs.) Retrospection, or Studies of History, autograph MS. of about 400 pages, in 3 vol. (was published 1801 in 2 vol.), folio (776) Quaritch, £6 8045 Piozzi (Mrs.) Minced Meat for Pyes. A Collection of Jottings,

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