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Almanacs. French Calandriers. Amour et Amitie, année 1805, 1in. by in.-Le Conseiller des Graces, dédié aux Dames, année 1817, 1in. by in.-Le Petit Poucet pour 1821, 1in. by in.-Le Petit Fabuliste, année 1821, rin. by in.-Le Joyeux Troubadour, 1828, rin. by in., illustrations, all in mor. bindings, 8vo. (19), Oct. 22, Puttick Jones, £5 Almanach des Muses, a complete set of 44 vol., dating from Vol. i. (issued in 1765) to 1808, engraved title-pages by Marillier, Monnet, and others, a few ll. slightly cut into, polished cf. gt. uniform, g.t., in fine state, but sold as a collection, Paris, 1765-1808, 8vo. (10), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Maggs, £5

[The present complete set of these famous little Almanachs is believed to be unique. Many vols. have fore and lower edges uncut. Every vol. contains poems by Voltaire, none of which was published separately. Voltaire's first poem (1765) is entitled "L'Education d'une Fille."] Almanac de Gotha pour l'année 1798 (slightly stained), 1799, 1806, 1811, 1816, and a duplicate for 1799, together 6 vol., all in French, plates, orig. boards, g.e., 1798-1816, 8vo. (710), April 20, Sotheby Sly, £4 5s. Alpine Journal (The), Vol. i., iv., vii.-xi., xv.-xvii., together 10 vol, maps and plates, orig. cloth, n.d., 8vo. (1), July 20, Sotheby Arthur, £3 Alsop (George). A Character of the Province of Mary-Land, wherein is described in four distinct parts (viz.) 1. The Situation, and plenty of the Province, II. The Laws, Customs, and natural Demeanour of the Inhabitant, III. The worst and best Usage of a Mary-Land Servant, opened in view, IV. The Traffique, and vendable Commodities of the Countrey, also a small Treatise on the wilde and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-Land, their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion, together with a Collection of Historical Letters, with port. and map, orig. sheep, with autograph of T. Willughby, 1666, 8vo. (4), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £380

[An untampered-with copy; being printed on somewhat poor paper, many of the leaves are somewhat browned. Border of title-page slightly cut into, piece gone from blank margin of 1. 27-8, affecting four letters. At end is an interesting 3 pp. Catalogue of Books printed for Peter Dring. See also Puttick, July 30, impft., £40.] Althamerus (Andreas). Sylva biblicorum nominum, brown cf., two panels, three bands, Binder M. D., Basle, Thomas Volfius, 1535, 8vo. (6), Mar. 16, Sotheby Goldsmidt, £8 Amadis de Gaule. Le Tresor des Amadis, contenant les Epistres, Complaintes Conciōs, Harengues, Dessis, et Cartelz, recueillis des douze liures d'Amadis de Gaule . . ., old cf., with contemp. inscription "liber cherubin Meuerell ex

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dono Rici Hynton de Carmarthen Ano 1583," and another similar inscription, Paris, 1563, 8vo. (5), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £4 5S. Amelry (F.) [Opuscula], 5 vol. in 1, black cf., four bands, Simon Cock, Antwerp, 1551-2, 8vo. (7), Mar. 16, Sotheby H. Stevens, £14 IOS. America. North American Atlas (The), selected from the most authentic Maps, Charts, Plans, etc. hitherto published, 48 large maps (some folding and col.) of the U.S. and Canada by W. Faden and others (one containing a large panoramic view of New York from Governor's Island), old hf. sheep, W. Faden, 1777, folio (152), June 15, Christie Edwards, £165 America. New York View. A Collection of about 85 maps, including Visscher's Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ Tabula, with engraved view of "Nieuw Amsterdam [Phillips 506], c. 1690, a Mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania surveyed by T. Holmes, published by P. Lea [c. 1680-90], and other Maps of North and South America, India, Africa, etc., by Jansson, De Wit, Danckerts, Lea, Thornton, etc., old cf., in a roy. folio vol. (111), July 9, Hodgson Spencer, £26 America. A Declaration of the sad and great Persecution and Martyrdoms of the People of God called Quakers, in New England, for the worshipping of God, title in red and black [collation: A-D in fours], unbound, London, printed for Robert Wilson [1660], sm. 4to. (479), April 1, Hodgson Quaritch, £19 IOS. America. An Original Contemporary Plan of the Siege of Louisburg in 1758, drawn by Samuel Holland, Engineer to General Wolfe, showing the Dispositions of the Ships, the Land Batteries and Entrenchments, with a Description of the Operations, etc. (size 5ft. by 2ft.), (453), Jan. 28, Hodgson Quaritch, £51 America. A Fair Account of the late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England, with Appendix and Index, B. White, 1770, 8vo. (220), June 25, Hodgson

H. Stevens, £8 10s. America. Boston. A Short Narrative of the horrid Massacre in Boston perpetrated in the evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment [collation: 38 pp. including title, with Appendix, 84 pp. (last blank)], first American ed., a clean copy of this rare issue, Printed by Order of the Town of Boston, and Sold by Edes and Gill... 1770, 8vo. (218), June 25, Hodgson H. Stevens, £15 10s.

[See also Lot 219, £13.] America. The History of North America (Guy Carleton Lee and Francis Newton Thorpe, Editors-in-Chief), illustrated with hundreds of plates, many in colour and on Japan vell., some in four states, proofs on India paper, China paper, Japan vell., and col. by hand, and numerous other

full-page and double-page illustrations on plain paper,
20 vol., full green mor., the back doublure containing the
American coat-of-arms in gt. in place of the port., solid
g.e., by Barrie, Philadelphia, printed for Subscribers only
by George Barrie & Sons [1903-1907], 8vo. (253), April 14,
American Art Association
$250

[Set of the edition of the Presidents, printed on Japan vellum throughout, extra-illustrated by the insertion of many portraits from original paintings, facsimiles of famous documents, etc., and limited to one set for each President. Inserted in Vol. I is a portion of a document signed by James Monroe.]

America. Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies (no map), ports., cf. (cracking), 1780, 8vo. (273), May 27, Puttick

Maggs, £2 2s.

[See also American Art Association, April 28, $40.] America. Recueil d'Estampes, représentant les différents événements de la Guerre qui à procuré l'Indépendence aux Etats unis de l'Amérique, 16 plates, red. mor. gt., g.t., by Rivière, [Paris], n.d., oblong 4to. (175), Dec. 8, Sotheby Dobell, £18

[Loosely inserted A.L.s., 2 pp., from J. J. F. Le Barbier (1756-1832)].

America. Indian Outrages. Memorial and Affidavits showing Outrages perpetrated by the Apache Indians in the Territory of Arizona, for the Years 1869 and 1870, unbound (library stamped), San Francisco, 1871, 8vo. (232), Jan. 12, Anderson Galleries

America.

$14

New York View. Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima Tabula, col. in outline, with engraved view of "Niew-Amsterdam onlangs Nieuw jorck genaeint" (Phillips 522), Apud Reinier & Josua Ottens, Amstelodami [1673-95], (109), July 9, Hodgson Edwards, £13 America. Pertinente Beschrijvinge van Guiana, Gelegen aen de vaste Kust van America, gothic letter, vignette on title and folded map (slightly repaired), old vell., Amsterdam, 1676, sm. 4to. (460), July 29, Sotheby Nyhoff, £10 American Revolution. A Short but comprehensive Account of the Rise and Progress of the Commotions in America, wherein the Secret Springs and Causes thereof are discovered, by a Person residing in America, from the beginning of the Year 1768, 'till the latter end of 1779, olive levant mor., gt. tooled, g.e., by Rivière, Newcastle, printed for the Author, 1780, 8vo. (9), Jan. 12, Anderson Galleries

$80

[Apparently but few copies known. Not in Sabin, Rich, etc. Gives an inside view of the happenings in New York City during the years anterior to the Revolution, and up to 1780. At the end is a poem by Lord Rawdon.]

American Revolution.

B. F. Stevens' Facsimiles of Manu

scripts in European Archives relating to America, 17731783, with Descriptions, Editorial Notes, Collations, References, and Translations, with ports. of noted personages connected with American history, some of which are on India paper, 25 vol., hf. crimson levant mor., gt. backs and tops, uncut, London, issued only to Subscribers, 1889-1898, folio (13), April 14, American Art Association $340

[Only 200 copies of this work were made. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of about 530 etchings, engravings, photogravures, maps, etc. Also inserted are 19 autograph letters and documents, or portions of autograph letters, by eminent American, English, and French statesmen.]

American Statesmen, edited by John T. Morse, jun. (First Series, 32 vol.; Second Series, 8 vol.), engraved titlepages, vignettes on regular titles, numerous ports., all on India paper, and facsimiles of autographs, together 40 vol., uniformly bound in three-quarter crimson levant mor., gt. backs and tops, uncut, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1898-1917, 8vo. (14), April 14, American

Art Association

$340

[Large Paper edition of both Series, complete, including the General Index for the First Series, with a selected

Bibliography by Theodore Clarke Smith. Limited to 500 sets, of which this is No. 249. See also May 7, $62.] America. Union Pacific Railroad. A Collection of Early Reports and Papers on the Preliminary Surveys, Locations, and Engineering Problems of the Union Pacific Railroad, many with folding maps, 19 pieces, sewn, V. p., 1864-9, 8vo. (502), 17 Dec., Anderson Galleries $320 American Book-Prices Current, 1921 and 1922, together 2 vol., cl., gt. tops, New York, 1921-1922, 8vo. (10), Jan. 5, American Art Association $22.50

[Limited to 650 copies. See also April 23, 10 vol., $25; May 7, Vol. ii.-xxix., $60; Sotheby, April 20, Vol. 1-19, £18.] American Journal of Science, illustrations, Vol. 77 to 202, in 62 vol., binder's cl., 2 vol. unbound (Vol. 198 and 201 incomplete), New Haven, 1859-1921 (775), Nov. 12, Hodgson Wheldon, £23 American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, with numerous engraved and lithographed plates, Vol. 1 to 10 inclusive, 10 vol., half leather (worn), some plates torn, text and plates foxed, Baltimore, 1829-1839, 8vo. (435), Nov. 10, American Art Association $300

[This American sporting periodical was founded in September, 1829, by John S. Skinner. He sold the publication in 1835 to Gideon B. Smith, who continued it for four years, and in turn sold it to W. T. Porter. The original front wrappers to the parts in Vol. 6 and 7 are bound in.]

Ames (J.) Typographical Antiquities, being an Historical Account of Printing in England, plates., hf. russ., g.t. uncut, 1749, 4to. (342), Dec. 15, Sotheby Thorp, £3 5s. [See also Feb. 23, 3 vol., 1785-90, £2 12s.; Feb. 23, 4 vol., 1810-9, £4 18s.; May 25, 4 vol., 1810-9, £3 5s. ; Hodgson, July 1, 4 vol., 1810-9, cf. ex., £7 10s.; July 15, 4 vol., 1810-9, £5 5s.] Amman (Jost) Kunstbüchlin, title in red and black (slightly cut into and rubbed), 2 pp. of text, and 293 fine plates engraved on wood (one cut into), and colophon on last page, cf., g.e., Franckfurt, 1599, 4to. (131), July 29, Christie Maggs, 13 IOS. Ammirato (S.) Istorie Fiorentine con l'aggiunte di Scip. Ammirato il giovane (Cristoforo Bianchi), 2 vol. in 3, old French mor. gt., with the arms of Madame de Pompadour on sides, g.e., sold as a binding, Firenze, 1647-41, folio (239), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £30 Ammonius Hermeus. Commentaria in librum Peri Hermenias [Aristotelis], Margentinus, Archbishop of Mitylene, in eundem Enarratio, Græce, first ed., anchor on title, with the blank leaves H 4 and A 4, sheets AA to FF misbound between H and 1, old hf. cf. (worn), from the Kloss collection, Venice, Aldus, 1503, folio (622), Nov. 24, Sotheby Maggs, £1 2s. Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus [and Héro et Léandre], traduction par M.M[outonnet de] C[lairfond], 2 plates and vignettes after Eisen, contemp. French mottled cf. gt., g.e., Paris, 1773-4, 8vo. (13), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Maggs, £12 1OS. [See also Hodgson, Nov. 26, ed. 1780, cf., £2 10S.; June 25, ed. 1790, hf. mor., £5 10s.] Anacreon. Odes of Anacreon, translated by Thomas Moore, extra-illustrated by the insertion of upwards of 150 stipple and other engravings by Bartolozzi, after Cipriani, several being proofs before letters, in the finest condition, 3 colour prints after Boucher, and 2 wash drawings, LARGE PAPER, in 2 vol., old red mor. (worn), blue silk linings, g.e., London [Illustrated by Thomas Parry], 1822, 4to. (417), Feb. 25, Hodgson Spencer, £21 Anacreon, done into English by Abraham Cowley [1683], engravings, gt. boards, vell. back, Nonesuch Press, 1923, (79), Jan. 14, Hodgson Bradley, £2

[See also Feb. 25, £2 2s.; Mar. 11, £2 2s.; April 29, £2 2s.; May 13, £2 6s.; May 28, £1 9s.; July 23, £2 6s. ; Aug. 5, £2 2s.] Analyst (The): the Journal of the Society of Public Analysts and other Analytical Chemists, from the commencement in 1877 to Sept., 1924, being Vol. 1 to 49, with Indexes to Vol. 1 to 20 and 31 to 40, together 35 vol., in 30 vol., uniform hf. red mor., first Index cl., last 4 vol. unbound (Vol. 46 and 48 incomplete), 1877-1924, roy. 8vo. (798), Nov. 12, Hodgson Lewis, £55

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