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Devonshire, Huntington copy, At London, printed by G. Ellde for Thomas Thorpe, 1605, sm. 4to. (434), May 20, Anderson Gall. $200 Jonson (B.) Volpone, or The Foxe, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, one of 100 copies on Japanese vellum, vellum gt., Leonard Smithers, 1898, 4to. (254), Dec. 14, Sotheby Hollings, £4 [See also June 14, £1 6s.; July 29, £3 10s.; Hodgson, Nov. 4, £1 5s.; Feb. 10, £1 10s.; April 15, £1.] Jonson (B.), The Workes of, first ed., Vol. i. only, engraved title (defective, mounted and restored in facsimile), woodcut titles to "Every Man out of His Humour" and "Cynthia's Revels," last leaf mounted, a few corners mended, hf. russia gt., W. Stansby, 1616, folio (680), July 29, Sotheby Shaw, £6 10s.

[See also Feb. 1, £3.] Jonson (B.) Works, first collected ed., 3 vol. in 2, engraved titles by W. Hole to Vol. i. and iii., that to Vol. i. very slightly defective, woodcut titles to "Every Man out of his Humour" and Cynthia's Revels," last leaf of Vol. i. slightly defective and laid down, "The Staple of Newes" bound as usual before "The Divell is an Asse" to agree with the 1640 title, title to Vol. iii. bound before Vol. ii., sprinkled cf., 1616-31-40, folio (237), Nov. 23, Sotheby McLeish, £40

[See also Lot 238, Vol. ii. and iii. only, £11; Feb. 1, 3 vol. in 2, £48; Anderson Gall., Feb. 15, $600; May 20, $640; Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 3, $510.]

Jonson (B.) Workes, portrait and engraved title, Vol. i. (A to Ll 4 in sixes, including the portrait, and the Epigrams A to T in sixes), old cf., R. Bishop, 1640 (609), Mar. 10, Hodgson Dobell, £2 10S.

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 7, £4; Mar. 15, 2 vol., £4; July 5, 2 vol., £I IOS.]

Jonson (B.) Workes, first ed., Vol. ii. and iii. only, in 1 vol., no general title to Vol. iii., Vol. ii. preceded by the general title printed for Richard Meighen in 1640, the order of the plays altered to agree with that title [1616-41]-Workes, second ed., Vol. i. only, portrait and engraved title, R. Bishop, 1640, together 2 vol., uniformly bound, contemporary cf. (backs mended), folio (43), Feb. 15, Sotheby Dobell, £10 Jonson (B.) Works, to which is added a Comedy called The New Inn, with Additions never before published, portrait by Elder, cf. (rebacked), 1692, folio (593), Jan. 13, Hodgson Last, £4 IOS.

[See also Mar. 10, £4 15s.; June 10, £2 6s.; Ed. 1716— July 22, 6 vol., £2; Christie, July 19, £9 10s.] Jonson (B.) Works, edited by P. Whalley, portrait and plates, 7 vol., cf. gt. (rubbed), 1756 (140), June 16, HodgSmith, £3 5s.

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[See also May 27, £3 10s.; Sotheby, April 19, £3 158.;

Dowell, May 31, £2 128.; Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 2, $95; Feb. 17, $30.] Jonson (B.) Works, with Notes and Memoir by W. Gifford, portrait and facsimile, 9 vol., hf. cf. gt., 1816, 8vo. (15), Nov. 16, Sotheby Marks, £3 18s. [See also Puttick, Mar. 3, 1 15s.; Hodgson, Jan. 13, £3 10s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Dec. 10, $47.50; Ed. 1575Hodgson, Nov. 4, £3 15s.; Nov. 25, £5 158.; July 29, £4 2s. 6d.] Jonson (B.), Fletcher (John) and Middleton (Thomas). The Widdow, a Comedie, as it was acted at the private House in Black Fryers, with great Applause, by His late Majesties Servants, written by Ben. Johnson, John Fletcher, Tho. Middleton, Gent., printed by the Originall Copy, first ed., small ornaments on title-page, with the autograph of Cornelius Paine on fly-leaf, mottled cf., gt. fillet borders on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., by Roger de Coverly, with the T. J. McKee bookplate, London, printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1652, sm. 4to. (446), May 20, Anderson Gall. $160 Jordanus Nemorarius. Arithmetica, etc. In hoc opere contenta-Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata-Musica libris demonstrata quattuor-Epitome i libros arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetii, gothic letter, first ed., long lines, 72 ll. [Hain 9436, Proctor *8137], margin of sig. a 5 shaved, very slightly affecting the text, one or two small wormholes through some 11., crushed red mor., line panelled tooling in blind and gold, g.e., Paris, Jo. Higman & Wolfgang Hopyl, 22 July, 1496, folio (310), Mar. 8, Sotheby Tregaskis, £130

[This is the first printed work with which a Scotchman's name is connected, the printer being David Lauxius of Edinburgh (whose name occurs in the colophon), then working in Paris.]

Jornandes. De Rebus Gothorum-Paulus Diaconus Forojuliensis De Gestis Langobardorum, woodcut title after Hans Burgkmair, device at end, boards, fine copy, Augsburg, J. Müller, 1515, folio (153), May 3, Sotheby Goldschmidt, £9 10s. Joseph, ben Gorion (pseud.). A compendious and most marueilous Historie of the latter tymes of the Iewes common weale... translated into Englishe by Peter Morwyng, black letter (A-z 8, Aa-li 8, кk 7; sig. Kk 7 with colophon only, sig. Kk 8 wanting,? a blank), the Epistle to the Reader signed in manuscript "thyne Peter. Morwinge," apparently by the translator, title backed and strip cut from top just touching one letter, old hf. cf., [colophon] Imprinted at London by Richarde Iugge, 1567, 8vo. (283), Mar. 22, Sotheby Quaritch, £26

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Josephus (Flavius). Histoire des Juifs, traduite Monsieur Arnauld D'Andilly, Nouvelle Ed., copperplates by F. Chauveau, 5 vol., old red mor. (Padeloup), 3-line

fillet round sides, gt. panelled back, g.e., with arms on sides of Madame de Pompadour, fine copy, sold as a binding, A Paris, chez Pierre Le Petit, 1680, 8vo. (71), Nov. 16, Sotheby Shaw, £62

[From the Leopold Double sale, 1863.] Josephus (F.) Les Sept Livres de la Guerre et Captivité de Juifs, traduits . . . par N. de Herberay, woodcuts by Jean Consin, contemporary cf., line tooling in blind on sides, with gt. ornaments at corners, bound for Gilbert Kennedy, third Earl of Cassillis (appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in 1555), whose name is stamped in the centre of the binding, "Gilbert Erle of Cassillis" and his signature "Cassillis" is on the title-page, back slightly defective and very neatly repaired, in a crushed blue mor. slip-case by Rivière, sold as a binding, Paris, par Estienne Groulleau, 1557, folio (101), Nov. 16, Sotheby

Somers, £II Josephus (F.) Workes, translated by Thomas Lodge, first ed., hole in margin of title and first leaf, orig. cf., panel and ornament blind-stamped on sides, 1602, folio (336), Mar. 15, Sotheby Pickering, £21 Josselyn (John). An Account of Two Voyages to New-England, wherein you have the setting out of a Ship, with the charges, the Prices of all Necessaries for Furnishing a Planter and his Family at his first coming, a Description of the Countrey, Natives, and Creatures with their Merchanti and Physical Use, the Government of the Countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c., a large Chronological Table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the Continent of America to the year 1673, orig. ed., orig. cf., fine copy, London, 1674, 16mo. (380), April 8, Amer. Art Assoc. $155

[Contains the leaf of License, with the printer's device (woodcut of a dragon surmounted by the letters G. W.) on the recto, and the text of license on verso. The Aubury Library, Sir Roger Newdigate copy, with booklabel of the former and bookplate of the latter.] Joubert (F. E.) Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes, interleaved, 3 vol. in 6, hf. bound, Paris, 1821, 8vo. (515), Oct. 21, Hodgson Davey, £1 Jourdain (M.) and Lenygon (F.) English Decoration and Furniture, plates (some in col.), 4 vol., cloth, g.t., Batsford, 1920 (624), Jan. 25, Sotheby Batsford, £7 10S. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, col. plates, Vol. 1-7, 1886-92 (661), Feb. 22, Dowell £4 Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, edited by B. Seeman, H. Trimen and J. Britten, illustrations, Vol. 40 to 43 and 52 to 63 (one part of Vol. 40 and 63 wanting), 16 vol., unbnd., 1902-25 (767), June 23, Hodgson Wheldon, £4 5s. Journal of Hellenic Studies (The), illustrations (some col.), from the commencement in 1880 to 1924, being Vol. I to 44, with Supplementary Papers 1 and 3, etc., 5 vol. (2

folio), together 49 vol., binder's cloth, 1880-1924, 8vo. (10), May 5, Hodgson

Lee, £15 [See also Sotheby, Feb. 1, 1880-1925, £6 15s.] Jousse (Mathuin). La Fidelle Ouverture de l'art De Serrurier où l'on void Les principaulx preceptes, Desseings, et figures touchant Les expériences et operations Manuelles dudict Art, curious engraved title, woodcuts, head and tail-pieces and engravings of Locks and Keys, contemporary cf., a fine copy except for a wormhole in the lower margins of the first few ll., rare, A la Flèche, chez Georges Griveau, 1627, 8vo. (889), Nov. 11, Hodgson Myers, £25 Jovius (Paulus). De Romanis Piscibus Libellus, fine woodcut title, slightly stained, 2 ll. torn, old cf. [Romæ, 1524), sm. folio (335), June 10, Hodgson Quaritch, £2 8s. Jovius seu Giovius, Bp. (Paulus), trans. by S. Daniel. The Worthy Tract of Paulus Ionius, contayning a Discourse of Rare Inuentions, both Militarie and Amorous, called Imprese, whereunto is added a Preface contayning the Arte of composing them, with many other notable deuises, by Samuell Daniell, first ed., title slightly defective and mounted, a few corners repaired, ornament on * 2 defective, some marginal notes shaved, mottled cf. gt., At London, printed for Simon Waterson, 1585, 8vo. (123), May 3, Sotheby Barnard, £15 IOS.

[Daniel's first published work.] Jovius (P.) A Short Treatise upon The Turkes Chronicles, compyled by Paulus Jovius and translated out of Latyne into English by Peter Ashton, title missing, old boards, Imprinted 1546, 8vo. (295), Dec. 14, Sotheby

Prior, II IOS.

[Dr. Richard Farmer's (the 18th century Shakespearean scholar) very large copy. Only four other copies appear to be known. One of the books believed by Farmer to have been used by Shakespeare. Annotated throughout in the handwriting of various owners from the 16th to 18th centuries. Not in Miss Bartlett's "Mr. William Shakespeare," 1922.]

Joyce (J.) Ulysses, first ed., No. 95 of 100 copies on Dutch handmade paper, signed by the author, orig. wrappers, in cloth case, as issued, Paris, 1922, sm. 4to. (83), April 19, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £5 5s.

[See also Feb. 15, £4 5s.] Junius (Francis). De Pictura Veterum Libri tres, first ed., dedication copy to Charles I., printed on LARGE PAPER (apparently the only one so done), with 37 autograph corrections by the Author (these are embodied in the folio ed. printed in 1694), orig. green velvet binding with orig. silk ties, gt. leaves, preserved in a mor. box, Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1637, 4to. (87), June 14, Sotheby Shaw, £3 10s. [The first English translation of this book appeared in

Junius (Hadrianus). The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer now in English by Iohn Higins (A-z, aa-rt in eights, AI with sig. and ornament only, A 3 signed A 2), orig. vellum, Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1585, 8vo. (56), Dec. 14, Sotheby Maggs, 10 IOS. Junius (R.) The Drunkard's Character, or A True Drunkard with such sinnes as raigne in him lively set forth in their colours, together with Compleat Armour against Evil Society, a few inner margins wormed, orig. cf., R. Badger for G. Latham, 1638, 8vo. (337), Mar. 15, Sotheby Barnard, £7 Junius, The Genuine Letters of, to which are prefixed Anecdotes of the Author, Piccadilly Ed., pp. (8), xx., 366, title mended, orig. cf. (rebacked), London, printed in the year 1771, 8vo. (396), May 17, Anderson Gall. $3

[The editor supposed Edmund Burke to be the writer, and the anecdotes refer to that statesman. See also Hodgson, July 8, ed. 1797, £4 15s.; May 5, ed. 1799, £2 12s.; Sotheby, Nov. 2, ed. 1801, £3 5s.; Anderson Gall., May 17, ed. 1805, $4; Puttick, Jan. 6, ed. 1812, £1 2s. 6d.] Junot (Madame, Duchesse D'Abrantès). Memoirs, library ed., portraits, 3 vol., cloth, Bentley, 1883 (422), Nov. 4, Hodgson Marks, 2 16s. Jurien (Mons.) The Reflections of the Reverend and Learned Monsieur Jurien upon the Strange and Miraculous Extasies of Isabel Vincent, the Shepherdess of Saou in Dauphiné, 1+34 ll., boards, 1689, sm. 4to. (465), Feb. 24, Hodgson Barnard, £2 48.

[Justel (H.)] Recueil de divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, first ed., folding maps and plates (one map cut into by the binder), contemporary cf., L. Billaine, 1674, 4to. (459), Nov. 11, Hodgson Maggs, £7 Justice of the Peace. [Title on a label] ¶ The Justices of Peas. [Woodcut.] ¶ The boke of iustyces of peas the charge with all the processe of the cessyons, warrantes supersedias and all that longeth to ony Justyce to make endeytemētes of haute treason, petyt treason felonyes appeles trespas vpon statutes, etc., black letter (A-1 8 in eights and fours alternately), woodcut on title-page, Wynkyn de Worde's tripartite device on the last page (McKerrow 25), a good copy, [colophon] ¶ Thus endeth the boke of Justyces of peas. Enpryted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne, by wynkyn de worde, in the yere of our lordegod M.CCCCC. & .xv. [London, W. de Worde, 1515]. [The only copy known.]-[bound with] Carta Feodi. [Title not separately printed, but within a label at head of sig. A 1]

Carta feodi simplicis cum littera atturnatoria, black letter (A 8, B4, C6, D4, E 6), some 11. slightly wormed, Wynkyn de Worde's tripartite device on the last page (McKerrow 20), [colophon] Impressa London per Wynandum de Worde in vico the fletestrete in signio solis

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