Woodcuts (Early)-continued. oak boards, covered with leather and decorated with a lozenge-shaped ornament, the initials J. S.' on sides £ s. d. 1493 22 0 0 This copy found a home in England within a few years of its publication. The motto sapit qui sustinet, 1560, is written on the title, while by another English hand (at least fifty years earlier) is written youe yt fynd I praye you hertely to be so kynd. The initials on the binding were probably added about 1600-20. 1120 NUREMBERG CHRONICLE in excellent condition, with 3 blank leaves, 17 ins. by 124, brown morocco, covered with blind tooling, by Riviere 1121 1122 1123 1493 27 0 0 another copy, title margins of some ll. neatly mended and a few words supplied in facsimile but otherwise a very fine copy, 18 ins. by 12, with the three blank leaves, pigskin, with blind stamped ornamental tooling, and lettering on sides, g. e. by Riviere, from Lord Coleridge's library 1493 27 0 0 1493 31 10 0 another copy, the title mended, but the copy remarkably large and fine, bound in pigskin by Clarke (183 by 12 inches) COLLATION: twenty preliminary leaves; ff. I-CCLXVI; five unnumbered leaves; ff. CCLXVII-CCXCIX; and one leaf unnumbered. another copy, THE FINEST AND LARGEST KNOWN, in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford (18 by 12 inches) 1493 63 0 0 As appears from two inscriptions in this copy, it was presented by Adolf, Prince of Anhalt (and Bishop of Merseburg) to the Church of St. John at (Merseburg?) in 1520.-It has two leaves more than the three preceding copies; that is, a blank leaf before, and a blank leaf behind, the five printed leaves of the Sarmatia. Thus there are five blank leaves altogether in it, including those which are numbered 258, 259, 260. 1124 OPERA NOUA CONTEMPLATIUA pogni fidel christiano.. 12mo. A BLOCKBOOK in Gothic Letter, comprising 121 large woodcuts with text above or below each, entirely printed from woodblocks; very fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges Opera di Giouaniandrea Vauassore ditto Vadagnino: stampata nouamēte nella inclita citta di Vinegia Laus Deo [about 1510] 36 0 0 This remarkable little volume consists of Bible illustrations engraved by Giovan Andrea from the designs of Albert Dürer and others. A few lines of text were also engraved on each block, above or below the pictorial design; the work thus occupies a place among the Xylographs, and is indeed the only Blockbook known to have been produced in Italy. 1225 POLIPHILO. HYPNEROTOMACHIE, OV Discours du songe de Poliphile., Nouuellement traduict de langage Italien en Francois. A Paris Pour laques Keruer. . M.D.XLVI. folio, with 186 beautiful woodcuts designed by Jean Cousin; red morocco extra, gilt edges, in a case 1546 18 18 0 FIRST FRENCH EDITION, which I have never before had for sale. The lower margin of the title is mended, and a small portion of the second leaf made up. The French woodcuts are copies (or imitations) of those in the Aldine edition of 1499, and (as Didot says) "illes sont plus souples, plus gracieuses, et marquées fortement du style Français de la Renaissance." 226 VERGILIJ MARONIS dreyzehen Bücher von dem tewren Helden Enea . . In Franckfurdt. 1559. 12mo. with 13 full-page woodcuts by Sigmund Feyrabend; in the original stamped pigskin, which is slightly damaged 1559 In the preface on the back of the title, the book is described as having been "vor vil jaren von einem gelerten Mann verteuschet." The gelerter Mann was Thomas Murner. All the editions of his German Æneid are rare. 7 Zend. ARDA VIRAF, The Book of, Pahlavi Text, revised with English translation by Haug and West, 8vo. sd. 4 4 0 Bombay, 1872 0 7 6 Book-Collectors: Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors, parts 1-8, royal 8vo. 18 6d per part Part 8 contains a facsimile, 8 pp., of an interesting letter from The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. British Museum: CUNEIFORM TEXTS from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Part I, small folio, consisting of 50 plates; in wrapper, 78 6d Part II, small folio, 50 plates; in wrapper, 7s 6d "With the view of making speedily available the more important texts of the Cuneiform Inscriptions on Babylonian Tablets and other Antiquities in the British 1896 1896 Museum, the Trustees have authorized the publication of a series of transcripts, by photolithography, which will be issued at intervals."-E. A. WALLIS BUDGE. CATALOGUE of the STOWE MANUSCRIPTS in the British Museum. Vol. II: INDEX. Royal 8vo., 384 pages in double columns; cloth, 15s 1896 The Catalogue itself, 830 pages, was published in 1895, price 20s. GREEK VASES. White Athenian Vases in the British Museum. By the same, in half morocco neat, cloth sides, £1. 12s ... 1896 1896 correct photographic copies of the paintings on vases of a cylindrical shape." The descriptions are accompanied by full-length woodcuts of the vases on a small scale. Cyprus Monuments: CHAMBERLAYNE, Lacrima Nicos sienses, Inscriptions funéraires dans l'Isle de Chypre, suivi d'un Armorial Important for historians and heraldic Inscriptions in Cyprus, which is fully illus students. It is the first work on Mediaval trated by plates. Cicero the Republic, Latin, with English translation and notes by G. G. Hardingham, 8vo. (pub. at 15s), cloth, 5s Of considerable historical and political interest. 1884 Finiguerra's Florentine Chronicle, one volume, folio, giving reproductions of the 100 superb Drawings of full-length Costume figures, with a descriptive text by SIDNEY COLVIN, Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. (The publishing price will be £12. 12s; subscription price, £9. 98) Only 300 copies will be produced. "MR. QUARITCH will publish in the course of next year a volume of unusual importance in the shape of a complete series of facsimile reproductions from the set of a hundred curious and highly elaborate drawings in illustration of universal history by a Florentine artist of the fifteenth century, which was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum from Mr. Ruskin in 1889. The text will be supplied by the Keeper of the Prints, Mr. Sidney Colvin, and enriched with a number of subsidiary illustrations drawn from contemporary works of Florentine architecture, decorative sculpture, engraving, and illumination. The object of these will be to enable the readers to follow for themselves the arguments by which Mr. Colvin believes that he can prove the series of drawings in question to be by the hand of the celebrated jeweller and niellatore Maso Finiguerra, whose artistic personality he thus hopes to set in an entirely new light."-Athenæum, November 7th, 1896. Dr. Lippman writes, Berlin, November 11th, 1896:"The Finiguerra work makes good progress as far as the plates are concerned, about sixty plates are ready printed, only about thirty-nine remain to be done; these will occupy our presses till January. "The work of reproducing these Drawings is exceedingly difficult-much more than we thought when starting; the printing of the plates cannot be hurried if a good result is to follow." New Publications on Egypt: The Petrie Papyri. HIERATIC PAPYRI FROM KAHUN AND GUROB (principally of the Middle Kingdom), edited by F. LL. GRIFFITH, M.A., F.S.A. With 40 Autotype Plates (Kahun, Plates i-xxxvii; Gurob, Plates xxxviii-xl), royal 4to. £2. 128 6d These papyri have been pieced together and selected from a vast quantity of fragments discovered by Professor Flinders Petrie in his excavations near Illahun during the seasons 1888-90. Those from Kahun form an absolutely unique collection, comprising a great variety of documents; among them are several bearing dates in the reigns of the last Kings of the XIIth dynasty and the first of the XIIIth, and the age of many others can be definitely fixed. The work is in an advanced state, and it is hoped that the publication will be completed by December, 1897. For the convenience of students and others desiring early copies, the sections will be issued separately to subscribers as soon as ready. N.B.-None of the Parts will be sold separately. Part I, to be issued in January, contains the literary, medical and arithmetical texts of the Middle Kingdom from Kahun, on eight autotype plates, with transcriptions into hieroglyphics, translations, and brief commentary. The remaining sections will comprise the legal documents, accounts, journals, model letters and original letters from Kahun, and the New Kingdom papyri from Gurob. Introduction and index verborum will form the last part. The following is a list of the autotype plates: 1897 Petrie (W. M. Flinders) KOPTOS, with a Chapter by D. G. HOGARTH, M.A. 1 vol. 4to. 35 pp. xxviii plates (4 photographic), 108 1896 NAQADA AND BALLAS, by W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE and QUIBELL, with a chapter by F. C. J. SPURRELL. 4to. 79 pp. lxxxvi plates, boards, £1.58 The district treated in this work is about thirty miles North of Thebes and on the Western side of the Nile. Messrs. Flinders Petrie and Quibell give decisive evi 1896 dence of an hitherto unknown invasion of Upper Egypt. An ample index adds greatly to the value of the book. BERNARD QUARITCH'S ROUGH LIST, No. 167. Egypt-continued. The Struggle of the Nations: EGYPT, SYRIA, and ASSYRIA. By Prof. MASPERO. Edited by the Rev. Prof. SAYCE. Translated by M. L. McCLURE. With Map, 3 Coloured plates, and over 400 Illustrations. Demy 4to. (approximately), cloth, bevelled boards, £1. 18 This is a companion volume to "The Dawn of Civilization," and contains the History of the Ancient Peoples of the East from the XIVth Egyptian Dynasty to the end of the Ramesside period. This interval 1896 covers the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt and their Exodus therefrom. The recent discovery of an Egyptian Stele mentioning the Israelites gives special interest to this volume. Budge (E. A. Wallis) AN EGYPTIAN READING BOOK FOR BEGINNERS; being a series of Historical, Funereal, Moral, Religious and Mythological Texts printed in HIEROGLYPHIC CHARACTERS, together with a Transliteration, and a complete Vocabulary. 8vo. 593 pp. cloth, 158 1896 Wall Drawings and Monuments of El Kab. By J. J. TYLOR, F.S.A., Associate Member of the Institute of Civil PAHERI. Forming the first Part (in one volume) of the complete series. The wall drawings sculptured in the tomb chamber of Paheri are reproduced in this volume. The work consists of 1 Coloured Plate, 14 Collotype Plates (royal), and 3 Lithographic Plates of equal dimensions, £2. 28 1895 Sebeknekht. Forming the second Part of the complete series. 11 Coloured Plates. A unique and very interesting tomb in the style of the Old Empire, probably constructed during the Hyksos dominion. With plan and architectural details by SOMERS CLARKE, £2. 28 This tomb stands by itself in Egyptian History, and dates after the historical period terminating with the XIII Dynasty and before the expulsion of the Hyksos invaders. The style of the dresses, the proportion and characters of the figures are closely allied to those of the classical period 1896 of Egyptian art. The first drawing of a wheeled vehicle occurs in this tomb, and many other details are peculiar. None of the scenes, except a small portion of Plate II, have previously been published. The Tell-el-Amarna Letters, by HUGO WINCKLER, 8v0. preface 42 pp., Transcript in Roman letters, and translation into English, pp. 1-416; Registers, pp. 1*-50*, cloth, £1 1s Berlin, 1896 Indian Art: JOURNAL of INDIAN ART and Industry. No. 57, forming the first number of vol. VII. CONTENTS: The POTTERY and GLASS INDUSTRIES of the NORTH-WEST PROVINCES and OUDH, from a monograph by Mr. H. R. C. DOBBS. Atlas 4to., with 13 plates by GRIGGS, 6 of them in COLOURS, illustrating Biswan, Gonda, Bulandshahr, Chunar, Azamgarh, Amroha, Rampur, Aligarh, and Lucknow Pottery; also Lucknow Glass ware; sewed, 28 Archæological Survey of India : January, 1897 THE MOGHUL ARCHITECTURE OF FATHPUR-SIKRI, described and illustrated by EDMUND W. SMITH, 2 vols. imperial 4to., 223 plates of Architectural and Ornamental Details, some in colours, boards, £2. 128 6d Allahabad, 1894-96 G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, FLORAL STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. |