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graved title-page, vellum bds., uncut, New York, 1902, 8vo. (18), Nov. 18, Amer. Art Assoc.

$32.50 [One of 36 copies on imperial Japan paper. Laid in is an A.L.s. from Sidney L. Smith, the engraver of the titlepage, to Mr. Andrews, relating to the title-page and tailpiece.] Andrews (W. L.) Gossip about Book Collecting, col. reproductions, 2 vol., decorated wrappers, uncut, New York, 1900, 12mo. (4), Mar. 25, Anderson Galleries $55

[One of 8 copies for presentation, with Mr. Walter Gilliss's name and the date on presentation leaf, in the autograph of the author. See also Amer. Art Assoc.,

April 28, on Japan paper, $60.] Andrews (W. L.) Among My Books, No. 17 of only 38 copies printed on Holland paper, illustrated with full-page plates, reproductions of fine and artistic bindings, portraits, facsimiles, etc. on Japan vellum, olive green mor., sides decorated with gt. pointillé and fillet border, Du Seuil design, silk fly-leaves, g.e., by the Club Bindery, in marbled board slip case with felt-lined dust cover, New York, 1894, 8vo. (10), Feb. 17, Amer. Art Assoc. [The Henry W. Poor copy, with bookplate.] $100 Androuet Du Cerceau (Jacques). Original Designs in Pen-andink and Wash drawn on vellum, 113 l., including 17 very fine full-page designs for Gateways and Doorways, 12 designs for Fireplaces, 12 double-page drawings of Houses and Palaces, and 8 full-page beautifully designed and elaborate drawings for Fountains, also views of houses, plans, drawings of architectural detail, etc., a few of the drawings slightly cut into by the binder, note on fly-leaf in a 17th century hand, "M. S. de Architecture par Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau fait à Paris," bound in 17th century red mor., line panelled tooling on sides with elaborate au pointillé tooled ornaments at corners and centre, gt. back, g.e., bookplate of William Scott, Advocate, XVI. Cent., folio (325mm. by 210mm.), (63), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £450

[Androuet du Cerceau, born in the 16th century, was enabled to study architecture in Italy through the help of Cardinal d'Armagnac. He was architect to Henri III.] Androuet Du Cerceau (J.) Le Premier (et le Second) Volume des plus excellents Bastiments de France, first ed., plates, 2 vol., hf. cf. (binding broken), a Paris, 1576-79, folio (95), June 28, Sotheby Maggs, £60 Angas (G. F.) Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand, plates, 2 vol., hf. cf., 1847 (6), Oct. 26, Dowell £I IIS. Angelo (Domenico). L'Ecole des Armes, first ed., 47 plates, old cf., Londres, 1763, oblong folio (298), Dec. 7, Sotheby Marks, £2 [Angelo (Henry).] Hungarian and Highland Broadsword, 24 plates designed and etched by T. Rowlandson under the

direction of Messrs. H. Angelo and Son, Fencing Masters
to the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westmin-
ster, all in colours, dedicated to Colonel Herries, contemp.
grey wrappers, neatly rebacked, [London] Published as
the Act directs, Feby. 12th, 1799, by H. Angelo, Curzon
Strt, May Fair, oblong folio (513), Dec. 2, Amer. Art
Association
$85

[Fine copy of the first complete edition of the Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercises. Each plate with wide margins. With the list of subscribers. See also April 14, $60.]

Angelo (H.) Reminiscences, with an Introduction by Lord Howard de Walden, 2 vol. in 4-and Angelo's Picnic, together 3 vol. in 5, 94 plates, limited editions on handmade paper, extra-illustrated by the insertion of about 430 portraits and plates, some in colours, inlaid, hf. blue crushed levant mor., gt. backs, g.t., with bookplates of William Robinson, 1904-5, 4to. (444), Mar. 25, Sotheby Maggs, £29 IOS.

[See also Feb. 8, £1 8s.; Anderson Gall., April 12, ed. 1830, $11.] Angelo (H.) The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions peculiar to the Art, first ed., with 47 col. plates after Gwyn, hf. contemp. leather and cloth (worn), London, 1765, oblong folio (10), Feb. 15, Anderson Galleries $37.50 Anglo-Saxon Review (The), edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill, plates, 10 vol., leather, facsimiles of famous bindings, 1899-1901 (551), July 5, Sotheby Davies, £4 15s. [See also Dec. 7, 9 vol., £1 4s.; Hodgson, Nov. 4, £3 3s. ; Feb. 10, 10 vol., £2 18s.; Anderson Gall., April 28, $13; Puttick, May 12, £1 2s. 6d.] Annalia Dubrensia. Upon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold-Hills, first ed., woodcut front., full brown French levant mor., lettered in gt. on front cover, gt. inside borders, g.e., by Rivière, London, printed by Robert Raworth, 1636, sm. 4to. (228), April 14, Amer. Art Assoc.

$105

[Written by Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, Shackerley Marmion, Thomas Heywood, and twenty-eight others whose names are mentioned on the title-page. The Arbury library copy, with label.]

Annals of Ireland (The), translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by Owen Connellan, mor. gt., 1846, 4to. (448), Jan. 25, Dowell £3 17s. 6d.

[See also Hodgson, July 29, ed. 1848, 3 vol., £9 5s.; Dowell, Mar. 29, ed. 1856, 7 vol., 16; Hodgson, Mar. 24, 7 vol., £14 10s.; Sotheby, July 29, 7 vol., £10 IOS.] Annals of Sporting, by Caleb Quizem, Esq., first ed., folding col. front. and col. plates by Rowlandson, polished cf. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Thomas Tegg, 1809, 12mo. (31), Feb. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £10

Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, col. plates and other illustrations by Alken, Cruikshank, and others, 13 vol., lacks half-title to Vol. iv. and a plate in each of Vol. v. and viii., also a few other minor defects throughout, has the June No. in Vol. xiii., hf. cf., uncut, 1822-8, 8vo. (367), Nov. 16, Sotheby Quaritch, £84

[See also Feb. 1, impft., £20; Puttick, Nov. 25, 4 vol. only, £10 IOS.; Hodgson, Nov. 25, £45; Mar. 10, 10 vol. only, 10 IOS.; Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $850; Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 2, $1,275.]

Anne of Brittany. See Stoas (J. F. Q.)

Anne (Princess, daughter of Charles Ι.) ΣΥΝΩΔΙΑ, sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Concentus et Congratulatio, Ad . . . Carolum, De quinta sua sobole, clarissima Principe, sibi nuper felicissime nata (A-N 4, additional ll., L 4-7 loosely inserted), bookplate of W. Cole on reverse of title, orig. limp vellum, the Bindley-Heber copy, Cambridge, 1637, sm. 4to. (15), Mar. 15, Sotheby Ellis, £3 Anne (Queen). The Loyal Mourner. a Collection of Poems sacred to the Immortal Memory of . . . Queen Anne, by a Society of Gentlemen, portrait, inscription on title, a few headlines cut into, contemp. red mor., gt. panelled sides and tooled back, g.e., the Lloyd-Heber copy, 1716, 8vo. (16), Mar. 15, Sotheby Dobell, £4 Annual Anthology (The), edited by R. Southey, LARGE PAPER (8in. by 5in.), the larger portion of a 3 pp. A.L.s. from the Editor, and the original MS. of two poems by Amelia Opie on a 4to. sheet, both loosely inserted, cf., Bristol, 1799-1800, 8vo. (181), Nov. 2, Sotheby Wood, £7 5s. [Contains Lamb's poem, "Living without God in the World," never reprinted by him: poems by S. T. Coleridge and others.]

Annual Register (The), from the commencement by J. Dodsley in 1758 to 1920, with Index, 1758-1819, in 162 vol., the first 116 uniformly bound in hf. cf., full gt. backs, with red and green labels, m.e., the remainder in cloth as issued, 1758-1920 (566), April 21, Hodgson Quaritch, £32

[See also Feb. 10, £25; Sotheby, June 28, 46 vol., £3.] Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury. Opuscula, gothic_letter, 182 l., two columns, 47 lines, somewhat wormed, embossed stamp of Sir R. Cholmeley on title and last leaf, stamped cf. over wooden bds., rebacked, orig. back laid on, brass catches (clasps wanting), [Hain *1135, Pellechet 798, Proctor 779], [Strassburg, unknown printer, n.d.], folio (25), May 3, Sotheby Maggs, £5 10S. Anson (George). A Voyage Round the World in 1740-4, compiled by R. Walter, map, plans, and plates, old mor. gt., rebacked, with the Sunderland Arms on upper cover, g.e., For the Author, 1748, 4to. (221), July 19, Sotheby Black, £3 3s. [See also June 28, £1 10s.; Christie, Dec. 21, £2 2s.;

Dowell, May 31, £1 IS.;
Dowell, Jan. 25, ed. 1769,

Puttick, April 9, £2 7s. 6d.; Anderson Gall., Oct. 5, $6.50; £1.] Anthologie François ou Chansons Choisies depuis le 13e Siècle jusqu'à présent, portrait by St. Aubin, musical notation, 3 vol., contemp. red mor. gt., inside borders, 1765, 8vo. (93), June 21, Sotheby Heffer, £10 IOS. Anthropology. Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, by a French Army Surgeon, plates, 3 vol., cloth, Paris, privately printed, 1808 (883), June 16, Hodgson

Stretton, £4 4S. Antiphonale ad usum Basilicae S. Germani, a pratis pro festis Primi Ordinis, scribebat Parisiis Domnus Carolus Mercier, Monachus & Presbyter hujus Monasterij, Anno M.D.CCC.XXIX., written on vellum in roman characters in red and black, headings in blue and burnished gold, musical notations in black on red lines, on 175 pp. of heavy vellum (21 in. by 14 in.), title lettered in burnished gold, blue and red within elaborate frame border of gold intertwined with floral wreaths and other ornaments in colours, ecclesiastical arms in centre of title, with 36 large miniatures and decorative tail-pieces, some including miniatures, varying in size from 31 by 4 to about 10 by 13in., all beautifully painted in colours heightened with gold, many within elaborate burnished gold or other ornamental frames; in addition there are 16 large initial letters about 4in. square or larger, 13 of which are historiated with exquisite miniatures, the others worked out on a patterned ground of burnished gold; also about 165 smaller initial letters in burnished gold, about 100 of which are historiated with pastoral or other scenes; full contemp. red mor., sides with broad foliated border in gt. enclosing gt. framework of leaves, flowers, etc., back panels with gt. floral sprays, foliage, etc., inside gt. borders, linings and fly-leaves of green grosgrain silk, g.e., probably by Dérome, Paris, 1729, imp. folio (266), Nov. 4, Amer. Art Assoc. $1,700

[A fine specimen of early 18th century illumination. Following the vellum manuscript and bound in with it is a printed" Officium Sti. Benedicti," no title-page, place or date, folio, skilfully inlaid to size. Facing the first page of this printed Office, on the last vellum page, is a large miniature showing two Benedictine monks and two nuns of the same Order seated at a table in a library or scriptorium, 8in. by 5in., with hand-lettered title in decorative capitals below miniature.]

Antiphonale, manuscript on vellum, 212 l., 20дin. by 14in., large gothic letter, with square musical notes on 4 staves, the first page enclosed in a bold and finely executed border, 3 full-length portraits of ladies in the costume of the period, a large historiated initial D containing an illustration of the Resurrection, and a large historiated

un

initial containing miniature of Christ as "Salvator Mundi,” also 2 other large miniatures at pp. 136 and 395, a great number of large initials chiefly in red and blue, contemp. wooden bds. covered with leather, with 12 heavy bosses on sides (back missing), Sæc. xv., folio (364), July 19, Christie Arnold, £70 Antiphoner on vellum, numerous ornamental initials painted in various colours, one with grotesque, and many dred small initials in red and blue, with pen decorations, notation throughout, 121 11. of thick vellum, orig. binding of brown leather over thick oak bds., with brass bosses and corner-pieces, Sæc. XV., roy. folio (21in. by 144in.), (475), June 16, Hodgson Solomons, £12 IOS. Antiquaries Society of London. Archæologia, plates, Vol. i. to xxviii. diced cf. gt., Index to Vol. i.-xv., cloth, 1809, and Index to Vol. xvi.-xxx. bds., 1844, in all 30 vol., 1804-40, 4to. (527), Nov. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £2

[See also April 19, 28 vol., £2 5s.] Antiquaries of Scotland, Proceedings of the Society of, 38 vol., 1885-1924 (529), Dec. 21, Dowell

£I 12S. [See also Oct. 26, 1792-1874, £5 15s., and 1851-1920, 55 vol., £5 10s.; Nov. 23, Vol. 1-5, 1792-1857, £5 15s.] Antoninus (Saint, Archbishop of Florence). Summa Theologica pars III., old cf., Impressa Venetiis industria atqz impensa Leonardi Wild de Ratisbona, 1480, folio (972), Dec. 7, Sotheby Thorp, £4 5s. Antoninus (St.) Summa Confessionum, cum Chrysostome sermone de poenitentia, gothic letter, 144 ll. (last blank), initials supplied in red, rubricated, stamped mor., g.e., fine copy [Hain *1162, Pellechet 817, Proctor 819, Voulliéme 123], [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, before 1472], 4to. (27), May 3, Sotheby Quaritch, £26

[See also Mar. 1, ed. 1483, £27; May 3, ed. 1572, £19 10s.] Antoninus (St.) Opus Historiale, Vol. ii. only, gothic letter, 257 (should be 260) 11., has the blank leaf at beginning, but wants ff. 12, 13 and 260 (all blank), ff. 255-259 (Registrum) misbound between ff. II and 14, initials in red, rubricated, orig. leather over wooden bds., brass cornerpieces and catches (clasps wanting), fine copy [Hain *1159 (ii.), Pellechet 813 (ii.), cf. Proctor *2040], Nuremberg, A. Koberger, 1484, folio (756), Nov. 2, Sotheby

Maggs, £9 10S.

[Pellechet gives the collation wrongly, fol. 213 being omitted in the numbering. The first leaf of the quire containing the Registrum is not blank. The B.M. copy wants Part ii., so that the error is not corrected in the B.M. Cat. Inc.]

Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius). The Golden Booke of Marcus Aurelius, black letter, with woodcut coat-of-arms on last leaf, title defective and stained at end, cf., T. East, 1586, 12mo. (838), Nov. 4, Hodgson Bastain, £5

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