edges entirely uncut, Zurich, Beym Verfasser, 1777-8, 4to. (670), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £36 [No copy in uncut state is recorded by Cohen-De Ricci. Accompanying this copy are original drawings of 19 of the vignettes and culs-de-lampe on 6 sheets, to illustrate the above edition of the Idylles.] Gessner (S.) Euvres, LARGE PAPER (74in. by 4 in.), plates after Moreau, some in 2 or 3 states, ports., 4 vol., red mor., a 3-line fillet round sides, panelled gt. back, inside dentelles, g.s., by Rivière, Paris, 1795, 8vo. (521), Dec. 8, Sotheby [See also Lot 522, ed. 1799, £6 10s.] Halliday, £10 Gesta Romanorum, gothic letter, 101 ll., wants last leaf (blank), 2 columns, wrappers [Hain *7751, Pellechet 5259, Proctor *631], Strassburg, Printer of 1483 Jordanus, 1499, folio (410), Mar. 17, Sotheby Eisemann, £7 10S. [See also Hodgson, Nov. 12, ed. 1511, 1 12s.; Sotheby, Mar. 23, ed. 1610, £18; Mar. 30, ed. 1689, £8 10s.] Geyler von Keiserberg (J.) Nauicula siue speculu fatuoz, gothic letter, 113 woodcuts, cf., g.e., from the library of J. J. de Bure, Argent. 1511, sm. 4to. (467), Dec. 15, Sotheby Thorp, £10 Gheyn (Jacques de). The Exercise of Armes for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes, engraved title and 117 plates, port. of Prince Henry with a pike inserted, note of purchase dated 20 Nov., 1616 on title, old vell., 1608, folio (411), Mar. 17, Sotheby Ellis, £10 IOS. [See also Hodgson, Jan. 28, £7; American Art Association, Nov. 10, $30; Sotheby, April 20, ed. 1609, £6 5s.] Gibbon (Edward). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, first ed., port., 6 vol., old cf. (joints cracked, and name erased from titles), 1776-88, 4to. (431), May 13, Hodgson David, £5 5s. [See also July 23, £4 10s.; Christie, June 15, £7 15s.; Sotheby, Dec. 18, ed. 1788, 12 vol., £3 5s.; Dec. 15, ed. 1813, 12 vol., £4 15s.; Mar. 2, ed. 1818, 12 vol., £4 158. ; Hodgson, Dec. 17, ed. 1820, 12 vol., £1 18s.; American Art Association, May 4, ed. 1825, 12 vol., $27; Sotheby, Dec. 18, ed. 1827, 8 vol., £4 4s.; Hodgson, Oct. 22, ed. 1828, 8 vol., £4 2s. 6d.] Gibbon (E.) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, port., 8 vol., cf., gt. backs, m.e., 1838, 8vo. (404), June 22, Sotheby Hatchards, £3 15s. [See also Dowell, Jan. 26, ed. 1854, £2; Sotheby, Nov. 3, £2 12s.; Hodgson, May 13, 1 78.; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, ed. 1862, $36; Sotheby, June 22, £2 15s.; Hodgson, Oct. 22, ed. 1881, £4 12s. 6d.; Dowell, April 21, 2 15s.; Sotheby, Dec. 10, ed. 1887, £1 IS.; June 15, £1 18s.; American Art Association, Nov. 20, $70; Hodgson, Oct. 15, ed. 1896, 7 vol., £2 2s.; Feb. 11, 7 vol., £I 14S.; April 22, ed. 1909-14, 7 vol., £6 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, $9.] Gibbon (E.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman, maps, 12 vol., 1838-1839-The Life of Edward Gibbon, Esq., with Selections from his Correspondence and Illustrations by the Rev. H. H. Milman, port., 1839, 13 vol., full crinkled cf., gt. and blind borders on sides, richly gt. backs, g.t., uncut, fine copy, London, John Murray, 18381839, 8vo. (241), April 28, American Art Association $65 [Large type edition.] Gibbs (James). A Book of Architecture, plates (stained), old cf., 1728-Rules for Drawing the several Parts of Architecture, plates (soiled and a few torn), old cf., defective, 1738-Bibliotheca Radcliviana, port. and plates, stained, hf. cf., 1747, folio (71), July 29, Sotheby Commins, £9 5s. Gibson (Richard). Flagellum Placidianum, or a Whip for Placidianism, a few letters in title and dedication defective, Gosport, J. Phillport, 1711-Vox Solis, or the Soul of the Sun, ib., 1711, 2 vol. in 1, foxed, russ., g.e., by Roger Payne, 8vo. (297), Dec. 15, Sotheby Thorp, £1 18s. Gibson (W. S.) History of the Monastery founded at Tynemouth in the Diocese of Dublin, 56 illuminations and engravings, 2 vol., hf. mor., For the Author, 1846-7, 4to. (562), Dec. 15, Sotheby Steedman, £1 25. [See also Feb. 9, £2 4s.; Hodgson, July 15, £I IS.] Giffard (George). A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Deuilles by Witches and Sorcerers, first ed., black letter (A 2, B I-4), title within woodcut border, MS. marginal notes and some textual corrections by a contemporary hand (in some cases a word or two erased or altered with the pen), head-lines and one woodcut ornament cropped, Imprinted at London for Toby Cooke, 1587-A Dialogve concerning Witches and Witchcraftes, first ed., black letter (A-M 4), some contemporary erasions and corrections as in the preceding book, head-lines and one woodcut ornament cropped, 4 ll. at end slightly water-stained, London, printed by Iohn Windet for Tobie Cooke and Mihil Hart, 1593, in 1 vol., hf. roan, Herbert's copies, 4to. (323), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £230 [See also Sotheby, Mar. 30, Lot 324, ed. 1603, the Dialogue only, £28.] Gifford (E.) Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Buonaparte. with descriptive and historical plates in colour, some being by I. R. Cruikshank, maps, 2 vol., full new mottled cf. gt., gt. back, emblematically tooled, inner gt. dentelle borders, g.e., by Wallis [London, 1814], 8vo. (802), Jan. 5, American Art Association $16 [Fine copy of the original issue, the plates coloured at a later date. See also Hodgson, Feb. 11, ex. illus., £4 12s. 6d.] Gilbert (Benjamin). A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family, who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their Farms on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the Spring, 1780, first ed., orig. wrappers, uncut, Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank, 1784, 8vo. (385), Jan. 8, American Art Association $55 Gilbert (C. S.) Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, ports., armorial and other plates, 2 vol. in 3, russ. (rebacked), g.t., Plymouth-Dock, 1817-20, 4to. (71), Feb. 9, Sotheby Bridges, £7 [See also Hodgson, Nov. 12, £7 10s.] Gilbert (William). The Young Anglers Companion, containing The whole Art of neat and clean Angling . . . As also, The Method of Fishing in Hackney-River, and the names of all the best Stands there, with the manner of making all sorts of Good Tackle, woodcuts, rules on title cut at head and foot, head-lines cut into on pp. 3-6, a few others shaved, panelled olive mor. tooled in blind and gt., centre medallions of a man fishing after a design by Mary Houston, g.e., the whole executed by Rivière, H. B. for C. Hussey, 1682, 8vo. (606), June 29, Sotheby Pickering, £11 Gilbert (W.) De Magnete, first ed., woodcuts and folding plates, a wormhole from title to sig. K 3, affecting text, and folding plate torn, cf., Londini, Petrus Short, 1600, folio (420), Oct. 22, Puttick Quaritch, £20 [See also Hodgson, July 9, £19; Sotheby, Mar. 30, £23; Hodgson, July 9, 1900 ed. reprint, £2 15s.; Sotheby, July 6, £4 15s.] Gilbert (William). Tractatus, sive Physiologia Nova de Magnete, Magneticisq, corporibus et magno Magnete tellure . . . omnia nunc diligenter recognita et emendatius quam ante in lucem edita, aucta et figuris illustrata, opera et studio D. Wolfgang Lochmans, with copperplates and woodcuts, old cf., with auto. of T. Willughby, Sedini, typis Gotzianis, 1633, 4to. (323), June 15, Christie $39 Maggs, £4 15S. Gilbert (Sir William S.) The "Bab" Ballads, 1869-More "Bab" Ballads, n.d.-Fifty "Bab" Ballads, 1877, first eds., illustrations by the Author, 3 vol., cl., London, 186977, sm. 4to. (345), Jan. 5, Anderson Galleries Gilbert (Sir W. S.) Songs of a Savoyard, first ed., illustrated by the Author, cl., London [1890], 8vo. (347), Jan. 5, Anderson Galleries $8 Gilbey (Sir Walter). Animal Painters of England, from the year 1650, many illustrations, 3 vol., orange cl. gt., g.t., fine copy, 1900, 8vo. (409), May 18, Sotheby Luard, £5 Gilchrist (Alex.) Life of William Blake, first ed., illustrations in facs., 2 vol., orig. cl., 1863, 8vo. (177), Dec. 18, Sotheby Dobell, £2 5s. [See also Lot 405, rubbed, 14s.; Hodgson, Dec. 17, £2 12s.; Sotheby, Feb. 23, ed. 1880, £9; June 22, £6; July 20, £7 15s.; July 29, ex. illus., 3 vol., hf. mor., £29; Puttick, July 30, £8 15s.; Dowell, Jan. 26, £7 10s.; Hodgson, July 15, £9 5s.; Feb. 25, £9 5s.; American Art Association, Jan. 5, $32.50.] Gildas. Opvs Novvs. Gildas Britannvs. . . de calamitate [See also Mar. 17, £7 5s.] Gill (S. T.) Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers, 95 lithographic views of Forrest Creek, Eagle Hawke Gully (Bendigo), Bendigo Creek, Diggers' Life in Melbourne, etc., of which 22 are duplicates in different state, and 8 views of Hunting in the Bush, etc., making 103 plates in all, 1854, with 6 original Diggers' Licences, dated Melbourne, 1852-4, laid down, bound in hf. crushed levant mor., roy. folio (210), Mar. 26, Hodgson Spencer, £10 [See also Lot 11, ed. 1853, 24 plates, £4 12s. 6d.] Gillow (Joseph). Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, 5 vol., cl., Burns & Oates [1885], (429), Feb. 11, Hodgson Lee, £2 16s. Gillray (James). Genuine Works, 258 plates, comprising several hundred subjects, with the vol. of 44 suppressed plates (should be 45, no title-page), 3 vol., hf. mor., g.e. (hinges cracked, rubbed), London, M'Lean, 1830, atlas folio (242), Dec. 16, Anderson Galleries $12 See [The descriptive letterpress has been inlaid to size. also Dec. 17, ed. 1851, $16; American Art Association, Jan. 5, orig. pts., 1800-1806, $50; Sotheby, Feb. 2, Caricatures, 164 pp., 4to., n.d., £4 15s.; July 20, £3 158.] Gilpin (William). Works on the Picturesque, aquatint plates (a few slightly cut into), 10 vol., mottled cf. gt,. g.e., 1786-1809, 8vo. (366), April 20, Sotheby Wilson, £2 15S. Giovanni Fiorentino (Ser). Il Pecorone, at end, old red mor., g.e., Milano, Feb. 23, Sotheby [See also Nov. 24, ed. 1897, £2 5s.; £2 15s.; Hodgson, Dec. 17, £3.] device on title and 1559, sm. 8vo. (46), Davis & Orioli, £27 Mar. 2, £2; June 29, Giraldus Cambrensis, translated by Sir R. Colt Hoare, plates son and maps, 2 vol., cf. gt., m.e., 1806 (589), July 15, HodgHarding, £1 2S. [See also Sotheby, Dec. 18, £1 4s.; Mar. 2, £1; Hodgson, Oct. 15, ed. 1861-8, £4 IOS.] Girolamo Benevieni. Commento a piu sue Canzone e Sonnetti dello Amore et della Belleza Divina, first ed., slight damage to first 2 ll., otherwise a fine copy, vell., Firenze, per A. Tubini e Lorenzo di Francesco Venetiano e A. Ghyr, 1500, folio (75), Oct. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £9 IOS. Girtin (Thomas). A Selection of Twenty of the most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs, 20 (plain) aquatints, an original subscriber's copy, hf. russ., 1803, folio (105), Dec. 18, Sotheby Edwards, £7 Gissing (George). Demos, a Story of English Socialism, first ed., 3 vol., orig. brown cl., uncut (binding slightly soiled), 1886, 8vo. (682), Dec. 10, Hodgson Dobell, £2 45. [See also American Art Association, Feb. 5, $50.] Gissing (G.) The Emancipated, first ed., 3 vol., orig. boards, cl. backs, 1890, 8vo. (780), April 20, Sotheby Thorp, £3 10s. Gissing (G.) Isabel Clarendon, first ed., 2 vol., orig. green cl., uncut (label removed from front covers, 1886 (83), May 13, Hodgson Spencer, £7 Gissing (G.) The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, the author's proof copy, with title-page dated 1902, submitted to Gissing by his publisher for approval, cl., lettered on back, Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1902, 12mo. (251), Feb. 5, American Art Association $380 [Laid in is an A.L.s. from Gissing to his publisher, regarding the above work, I p., 12mo. See also Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, ed. 1903, $14.] Gissing (G.) The Unclassed, a Novel, first ed., 3 vol., orig. blue cl., uncut, fine copy, London, 1884, 12mo. (246), Feb. 5, American Art Assoication $70 [With leather bookplate of Herschel V. Jones in each vol.] Glanville (Bartholomeus). De Proprietatibus Rerum, translated by John of Trevisa, illuminated manuscript, beautifully written in a large cursive book hand on 387 11. of stout vellum (22‡in. by 15 in.), in double columns of 43 lines, with 21 large illuminated initials, I full-page border, 13 three-quarter page borders, many large initials in blue with ornamental pen-work decorations in red, at end "The Abbay of ye Holy Gost," 18th cent. stamped russ., Sæc. xv., large thick folio (371), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £300 [A magnificent English manuscript, with an Index of 8 ll. at the commencement. The first page of Prologue is richly ornamented with full-page borders and additional ornament extending down the centre, and has the arms of Sir Thomas Chaworth (obit. 1459) at foot.] Glanville (B.) De Proprietatibvs Rerum (translated into English by John of Treves), black letter, large and spirited |