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344. LINCOLN (WILLIAM S.). Alton Trials: Of Winthrop S. Gilman... for the Crime of Riot, while engaged in defending a Printing Press . . . also the trial of John Solomon . . . [and others] . . . for a riot committed in Alton . . . in breaking up and destroying a printing press. Woodcut illustration. 12mo (slightly foxed, binding, corner of cover and frontispiece damaged).

FIRST EDITION. Very Rare.

New York: John F. Trow, 1838

345. LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS. Warner (Chas. Dudley). A. L. s., 1 p. Jan. 31, 1893; Townsend (G. A.). A. L. s., 1 p. June 11, 1902; Guiney (Louise I.). 2 A. L. s.; and 4 others. 14 pieces.

Louise I. Guiney mentions her poem on John Brown of Harper's Ferry ("The Paradox'').

346. LOCKE (JOHN). Some Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding in Search of Truth. Portrait. London, 1762; Barbauld (Anna L.). Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem. (Title damaged). Phila., 1812; Fouquet (Madame). Recueil de Receptes où Est Expliquée, La manière de guérir à peu de frais toute forte de maux tant internes. Lyon, 1676; and others. 7 vols., 12mo and 8vo, various bindings. V. p., v. d.

347. LONDON. Memorials of London and London Life, in the XIIIth and XVth Centuries. Selected, translated, and edited by Henry Thomas Riley. Imp. 8vo (slightly worn, and stamp on title). London, 1868

348. LONGFELLOW (HENRY W.). Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique, translated from the Spanish; with an Introductory Essay on the Moral and Devotional Poetry of Spain. 12mo (stained), and fragment of paper label, uncut. Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833 FIRST EDITION. Label removed from verso of title, slightly tearing blank portion of the latter.

349. LORD'S PRAYER (THE), in Five Hundred Langauges. With a preface by Reinhold Rost. Royal 8vo. London, 1905

350. Oratio Dominica. plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus aut Characteribus, reddita & expressa, Editio Novissima, Speciminibus variis quam priores auctior. With four copperplate vignettes. Folio, original half vellum, with decorated boards in gilt and red (some margins and title mended).

Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Kraus, n. d.

VERY CURIOUS WORK. Printed about 1700. Gives the Lord's Prayer in 100 different languages and dialects, both Asiatic and European.

350A. LOSSING (BENSON J.). The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution. Numerous portraits and illustrations. 2 vols., royal 8vo. New York, 1860

351. [LOWELL (J.).] The New-England Patriot: Being a Candid Comparison, of the Principles and Conduct of the Washington and Jefferson Administrations. The Whole Founded Upon Indisputable Facts and Public Documents. Royal 8vo, half red morocco, uncut. Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1810

FIRST EDITION. With the 12 pp. of Notes at the end, with separate pagination.

352. [LUCKOMBE (PHILIP).] A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing. Portrait.

(hinges cracked).

FIRST EDITION.

8vo, original calf London, 1770

SALE TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH, AT 2:30

SECOND SESSION

LOTS 353-706

353. LUDOVICUS. Reformationis Abvsvvm Cleri Formvla, Coloniæ, 1549; L'Art de ne point s'ennuyer (Deslandes), Amsterdam, 1715; and others. 6 vols., 12mo, vellum.

354. MCCREARY (GEORGE W.). The First Book Printed in Baltimore-Town, Nicholas Hasselbach, Printer. Facsimile. Square 8vo, half cloth and boards, uncut. Baltimore, 1903

One of 300 copies.

355. MCCREERY (JOHN). The Press, A Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. Illustrated with numerous vignettes. 2 parts in one vol., 4to, half morocco (worn).

Liverpool and London, 1803-27

356. The Press, a Poem, Liverpool, 1803; Printing in Relation to Graphic Art (French), Cleveland, 1903; The American Printer (MacKellar), Phila., 1878; and others. 12 vols., various sizes and bindings.

357. McCULLOUGH (HUGH, JR.). The Quest of Hercules and other Poems. Woodcut border to title. 8vo, limp vellum, uncut. Cambridge: Stone and Kimball, 1894

One of 60 copies on Large Paper.

358. MACDONALD (J. RAMSAY). Women in the Printing Trades, London, 1904; The Printing Arts (Harland), London, 1892; Practical Printing (Sherman), N. Y., 1911; and others. 35 vols., various sizes and bindings.

358A. MacGEORGE (ANDREW). Old Glasgow: The Place and the People. From the Roman occupation to the Eighteenth Century. Numerous full-page plates and text illustrations on India paper. Folio, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. Glasgow, 1880

Special Large Paper copy.

359. MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLO). The Florentine History, now exactly translated from the Italian. Portrait. 12mo, old calf (rubbed). London, 1674

360. McKERROW (RONALD B.). Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640. 4to, boards, linen back, gilt top, uncut.

Numerous facsimiles.
London, 1913

Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press.

361. McSHERRY (JAMES). History of Maryland. FrontisBaltimore, 1904

piece.

8vo.

362. McVICKER (J. H.). The Press, The Pulpit, and The Stage, Chicago, 1883; Printing and Writing Materials (Smith), Phila., 1904; The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557 (Duff), Cambridge, 1912; and others. 26 vols., various sizes and bindings.

363. MADIGAN (THOMAS F.). A Biographical Index of American Public Men. Classified and Alphabetically arranged. Facsimile. 8vo, boards, cloth back, gilt top, uncut.

Limited circulation. Scarce.

New York, 1916

364. MAGAZINES. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vols. 1 to 45, N. Y., 1850-72; and others. 78 vols., and a number of odd parts.

365. MAGINN (WILLIAM). Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. Edited by B. W. Montagu. 2 vols., 12mo. London, 1885

366. MAGNA CHARTA. History and Defence of. Containing a copy of the Original Charter at Large, with an English Translation; The manner of its being obtained from King John . . with an introductory discourse. . . To which is added an essay on Parliaments. 8vo, full old calf, gilt back (worn, covers loose). London: Printed for J. Bell, 1769

366A. MAINE PRINTING. History of the Press of Maine, edited by John Griffin. Portraits. 8vo. 2 copies, one a second issue, with supplement. Brunswick, 1872

367. [MANLEY (MRS. DE LA RIVIERE).] Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Written Originally in Italian. The Second Edition. 12mo, old panelled calf, rebacked. London: John Morphew, 1709

CURIOUS. With a contemporary manuscript glossary inserted at the back of the volume, 4 pp. With Note saying "Sent to the Hon. Francis Aston. 99

368. MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL of H. M. S. Agincourt. From Oct. 12, 1879 to April 10, 1881. 318 pp., large 8vo, boards.

V. p., 1879-81

Inserted throughout the manuscript are original drawings (110), all in pencil, except 11 which are colored. There are 12 drawings of Gibraltar; the rest are chiefly of landscape, coast towns, battleships, sailing ships, etc. At the end is a manuscript index, showing the complete route of the vessel from Oct. 12, 1879 to April 10, 1881. EXTREMELY INTERESTING.

369. MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL of His Majesty's Sloop "Wasp." R. Dickenson, Commander; Also, Continuation, Hon. W. Wellesley, and Edward Hawse, Commanders. 1828-29. Written on 288 pages, folio.

A MOST INTERESTING JOURNAL, relating in detail the happenings on board ship from day to day, "however trivial."

370. MARKS (HENRY STACY). Pen and Pencil Sketches. Profusely illustrated. 2 vols., 8vo, uncut. London, 1894

FIRST EDITION.

371. MASACCIO. Le Pitture di Masaccio esistenti in Roma Nella Basilica Di S. Clemente. Engraved title and 43 engraved plates. Folio, half vellum. Rome, 1830

Brilliant impressions of the plates with fine wide margins.

371A. MASSACHUSETTS. The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 3 vols., 8vo, sheep (hinges weak). Boston, 1801

372. MATHEWS (CHARLES). Memoirs. By Mrs. Mathews. Portraits. 4 vols., London, 1838-9. Anecdotes of Actors: With other Desultory Recollections, etc. By Mrs. Mathews. 1 vol., London, 1844. 5 vols., half morocco, gilt backs. London, 1838-44

FIRST EDITIONS. With the bookplate of Herbert Carleton Wright.

373. MAXWELL (SIR HERBERT). Scottish Gardens. Illustrations in color by Mary G. W. Wilson. 4to, half white levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. New York, 1908

374. MAYER (BRANTZ). Tah-Gah-Jute; or, Logan and Cresap, An Historical Essay. Rubricated title. Imp. 8vo, uncut.

Albany, 1867 A fine copy on Large Paper, uncut and unopened, containing slip of errata.

RARE AND CURIOUS MEDICAL TRACTS

LOTS 375-458

375. AIKIN (C. R.). Jennerian Discovery, or, A Concise View of All the Most Important Facts which have hitherto appeared concerning the Vaccine or Cow-Pock. 16mo, original boards. Philadelphia, 1801

The earliest American account of Jenner's discovery, which was published three years before, 1798.

376. ANDRY. Thèse soutenue aux écoles de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris dans une Dispute publique. Nov. 13, 1704. Traduite du Latin. . . . Sur la question: Si l'homme Tire son origine d'un ver... 24mo, original boards. Paris, 1705

A French translation of a medical thesis argued in Latin before the faculty of the Paris Royal Academy of Sciences. The theory supported is that man originates from the worm.

377. ANTI-SEMITISM. Des Christiani Trewmundts Gewissenloser Juden-Doctor, etc. (The Conscienceless Jew-Doctor. etc.) An Attack on the Jews practising medicine in Germany and a warning to all good Christians not to employ them. [Written by

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