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nature and . . . vse of the Globe, with the Circles, Zones, Climates, and other distinctions, to the perfect vse of Sayling], in 2 parts, with separate titles, black letter (A-H 4, A-E 4, F 2), diagrams and woodcuts, one table with volvelle wanting and supplied in pen-and-ink, last 4 11. shaved at foot, old wrappers, some corners crumpled, London, printed by Iohn Dawson, and are to be sold by Iohn Bellamie, 1626, 4to. (162), Mar. 8, Sotheby Quaritch, £18 Dawe (George). The Life of George Morland, plates, one of 500 copies, cloth, g t., 1904 (178), Jan. 25, Sotheby Ellis, £1 25. [Sec also Anderson Gall, Oct. 13, $13; Feb. 22, $22.50.] Dawkins (W. Boyd). Cave Hunting, first ed., col. plates and cuts, orig. cloth, 1874 (398), June 23, Hodgson

Commin, £1 95. Dawkins (W. Boyd). Early Man in Britain, first ed., woodcuts, orig. cloth, t.e.g., 1880 (399), June 23, Hodgson [See also July 22, £1 8s.] Commin, £1 14S. Day (Angel). The English Secretorie, or Methode of Writing of Epistles and Letters, partly black letter, 2 parts with separate titles, margin of first 4 ll. water-stained, imprint slightly defective, orig. vellum, London, printed by Thomas Snodham (dated on second title 1621), 4to. (163), Mar. 8, Sotheby Halliday, £5

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[See also Mar. 22, ed. 1635. £8; July 5, n.d., £7 5s.] Day (Francis). The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, plates, 2 vol., orig. cloth, 1880-84, imp. 8vo. (431), Nov. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 5s. Day (John). Day's Dyall, or, His twelve houres, that is Twelve severall Lectures by way of Catechism. livered . . . in the Chappel of Oriell Colledge in Oxford 1612 and 1613, old cf. (rebacked), the crowned Tudor rose within a diamond-shaped wreath on sides, Oxford, printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1614, sm. 4to. (532), Nov. 2, Sotheby Last, £3 3s. Day (J.) The Blind-Beggar of Bednal-Green, with The merry humor of Tom Strowd the Norfolk Yeoman, as it was divers times publickly acted by the Princes Servants, first ed., device on title-page, sprinkled cf., gt. back, gt. fillet borders on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Worsfold, with the Marshall C. Lefferts, Beverly Chew and H. V. Jones bookplates, London, printed for R. Pollard and Tho. Dring, 1659, sm. 4to. (220), May 20, Anderson Gall. $190 [Day (J.)] The Faire Maide of Bristovv, as it was plaide at Hampton, before the King and Queenes most excellent maiesties, black letter, first ed., device on title-page, stamped on the verso of the title-page are the arms of the Duke of Roxburghe, inner margin of title-page repaired, headlines slightly cut into, niger mor., the Roxburghe-Heber-Devonshire-Huntington-Jones copy, with the H. V. Jones bookplate, Printed at London for Thomas Pauyer, 1605, sm. 4to. (215), May 20, Anderson Gall. $525

Day (J.) Humour out of breath, a Comedie diuers times latelie acted by the Children of the Kings Reuells, first ed., broad headband and ornament on title-page, leaf G repaired, dark blue mor., gt. fillet borders on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the Mostyn copy, Printed at London for Iohn Helmes, 1608, sm. 4to. (217), May 20, Anderson Gall. $1,400 Day (J.) The Ile of Gvls, as it hath been often playd in the Blacke Fryars, by the Children of the Reuels, first ed., first issue, each leaf inlaid, with initials and notes of John Philip Kemble on title-page, dark green mor., gt. tooled sides with corner ornaments, inside dentelle borders, g.e., by Macdonald, Imprinted at London, and are to bee sold by Iohn Hodgets in Paules Churchyard, 1606, sm. 4to. (216), May 20, Anderson Gall. $850

[The second issue, with the name of the bookseller, John Trundle, added in the imprint, is known only by the Rowfant copy. Of this, the first issue, only five or six copies are on record.]

Day (J.) Law-Trickes, or Who VVould Have Thought It, as it hath bene diuers times Acted by the Children of the Reuels, first ed., small hole in last leaf, but no text affected, brown cf., with the Bridgewater crest on sides, fine copy, with ample margins throughout, with the Bridgewater and H. V. Jones bookplates, London, printed for Richard More, 1608, sm. 4to. (218), May 20, Anderson Gall. $475 Day (J.) The Parliament of Bees, with their proper Characters, or a Bee-hive furnisht with twelve Honycombes, as Pleasant as Profitable, being an Allegoricall description of the actions of good and bad men in these our daies, by Iohn Daye, sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in Cambridge, first ed., front. of Hive and Bees, blue levant mor., gt. back, line borders on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the Mostyn copy, London, printed for William Lee, 1641, sm. 4to. (219), May 20, Anderson Gall. $390 Deacon (John) and Walker (John). Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels, London, G. Bishop, 1601-A Svmmarie Answere to . . . Master Darel his bookes . . . of the Possession and Dispossession of Demoniaks, ib., 1601, 2 vol. in I, some head-lines shaved, rust-hole in leaf at end, hf. cf., with bookplate of John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, 4to. (164), Mar. 8, Sotheby Ellis, £12 10S. De Bock (T.) Jacob Maris, 90 photogravures, orig. cloth, n.d., folio (225), Jan. 25, Sotheby Rimell, £4 15s. De Bry (Jo. Theo.) Florilegium Novum, first ed., engraved title and 112 plates, contemporary vell., 1612-4, folio (291), Feb. 1, Sotheby

Maggs, £17
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De Bry (J. T. and Jo. Israel). Minor Voyages, in Latin. iv. Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis, first ed., 20 plates plate II wanting, 1601-Part v. Quinta Pars Indiae Orientalis, first ed., 20 plates, the text includes a Vocabu

lary of Malay-Latin Words, 1601-Part vi. Indiae Orientalis Pars vi., first ed., 26 plates, 1604-Part vii. Indiae Orientalis Pars Septima, first ed., earliest issue, with the arms of John Adam on fol. 2, 22 plates, 1606-Part viii. Indiae Orientalis Pars Octava, first ed., 18 plates, 1607, bound in 1 vol., old cf. (joints cracked), folio (123), June 28, Sotheby Edwards, £10 IOS. De Bry (J. T.) Voyages, in Latin and German. Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis, first ed., 21 plates, 1601 Indiae Orientalis Octava, first ed., 18 plates, 1607, two or three plates a little frayed, and three or four II. discoloured, otherwise both parts believed to be complete, unbound, together with 17 parts of Grands Voyages et Petits Voyages, all impft., folio (453), Dec. 14, Sotheby

H. Stevens, £10 De Bry (J, T.) Petits Voyages, in Latin, Parts 1 to 9 (Indiae Orientalis), in 5 vol., first eds., plates, some defects in Part 2 due to wormholes, otherwise believed perfect, old cf., arms on sides of Robert Kerr, Earl of Somerset, K.G., favourite of James I., Francof, 1598-1612, folio [402), Dec. 7, Sotheby Ellis, £27 De Candolle (A. P.) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 17 vol. in 20, with the Index by Buek, 3 vol., together 23 vol., hf. cf., Paris and Hamburg, 1824-74 (747), June 23, Hodgson Wheldon, £9 Decker (Paulus). Fürstlicher Baumeister, oder Architectura Civilis, title and 130 plates (wants plate No. 5 of the Supplement), old hf. binding, August. Venet., 1712-6, oblong folio (946), Dec. 7, Sotheby Quaritch, £2 IOS. Declaration (A), conteyning the ivst cavses and consyderations of this present warre with the Scottis, wherin alsoo appereth the trewe & right title, that the Kinges most royall maiesty hath to the souerayntie of Scotlande (A-D 4), black letter, title within compartment of boys (fore-edge cut into), crushed red mor., g.e., by Rivière, Miller arms on sides, [colophon] Londini in officina Thomae Bertheleti, 1542, 4to. (132), Mar. 22, Sotheby

Rosenbach, £65 [Dee (John).] General and rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas, in Playne, now first published, 24 yeres after the first Inuention thereof, first ed., large emblematic woodcut on title showing Queen Elizabeth seated in a ship entitued Europe (ETPпн") and a castle on a hill with a scroll inscribed “Τὸ τῆς ἀσφαλείας Φρούριον (The Castle of Safety), round the whole is the legend IEPOTATÞIKON BPTTÁNIKON," fine woodcut initials, including an extremely fine initial C with a woodcut of Q. Elizabeth on sig. I 3, full-page woodcut of the arms of Sir Christopher Hatton, old cf., British Museum duplicate, with stamp on verso of title, from the Lort and Bindley libraries, [colophon] Printed at London by Iohn

Daye, Anno 1577, In Septemb., folio (133), Mar. 22, Sotheby Rosenbach, £1,210 [A very fine copy. Has numerous manuscript marginal alterations in a contemporary hand, apparently made from a manuscript copy of the book (cp. on a 2 recto the note on the letter to Dee from Martin Frobisher and Christopher Hall, "This is omitted in the MS."). It has always been thought that 100 copies of this book were printed, owing to a note to that effect on K 4 recto. In this copy "50" has been substituted in manuscript in the margin. A note on the fly-leaf attributes the manuscript additions to Dr. Dee himself, but the writing differs from the specimens of his hand with which it has been compared.]

Dee (J.) True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some Spirits with Preface by M. Casaubon, front., etc., old cf. (broken), 1659, folio (93), Dec. 21, Christie Birrell, £6 Defence of Tobacco (A), vvith a friendly answer to the late printed Booke called Worke for Chimny-Sweepers, &c., first ed., device on title-page, red mor., gt. panelled sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Bedford, London, printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1602, sm. 4to. (221), May 20, Anderson Gall. $160 Defoe (Daniel). The Compleat Mendicant, or Unhappy Beggar, being the Life of an Unfortunate Gentleman, in which is a Comprehensive Account of several of the most Remarkable Adventures that befel him in Three and Twenty Years Pilgrimage, first ed., orig. hf. cf. (hinges slightly cracked), with the H. V. Jones bookplate, London, printed for E. Harris, 1699, 8vo. (99), Feb. 15, Anderson Gall.

$90

[Not in Hoe or Huth.] [Defoe (D.)] The Dumb Philosopher, or Great-Britain's Wonder... to which is annexed his Elegy, brown mor., Miller arms, by W. Pratt, t.e.g., other edges uncut, London, printed for Tho. Bickerton, 1719, 8vo. (134), Mar. 22, Sotheby Barnard, £9 [Defoe (D.)] The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was born in Newgate . . . a Transported Felon in Virginia, etc., woodcuts from a chapbook inserted, diced cf. (some ll. soiled), Printed in the year 1740, sm. 4to. (477), Feb. 24, Hodgson Frank, £4 4s. Defoe (D.) An Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Peter Alexowitz, the present Czar of Muscovy, from his Birth down to this Present Time, written by a British Officer in the Service of the Czar, first ed., polished Cambridge cf., g.e., by Bedford, fine copy, with the Henry Huth and H. V. Jones bookplates, London, printed for W. Chetwood, 1723, 8vo. (103), Feb. 15, Anderson Gall. $65 [Defoe (D.)] A Journal of the Plague Year, first ed., cf., g.e., by Rivière, 1722, 8vo. (40), Mar. 29, Sotheby

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Newton, £22

[Defoe (D.)] The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly call'd Mother Foss, who, in several Campaigns under King William and the late Duke of Marlborough, in the Quality of a Foot-Soldier and Dragoon, gave many signal proofs of an unparallel'd Courage and personal Bravery, taken from her own Mouth when a Pensioner of Chelsea-Hospital and known to be true by many who were engaged in those great scenes of Action, first ed., contains the 2 pp. of advts. at end, full red mor., gt. border on sides, inner gt. borders, g.e., by Rivière, the John L. Clawson copy, with book-label, London, printed for and sold by R. Montagu, 1740, 8vo. (220), April 28, Amer. Art Assoc. $60 [Defoe (D.)] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol., Vol. i. third ed., Vol. ii. first ed., . folding map in Vol. ii., Vol. i. wants front., contemporary panelled cf., For W. Taylor, 1719, 8vo. (350), Mar. 29, Sotheby Edwards, £10 IOS.