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ipēsas Philippi Lauagnie | Ciuis Mediolanēsis. 1479. die.
26. mēsis Junij. 4to, brown mor., by Rivière, Mediolani,
Philipus de Lavagna, 1479, 4to. (1), Nov. 11, Anderson
Galleries
$300

Esopus. Fabulæ, Italicè et Latinè, lit. goth., long lines, 27-
28 to a page, numerous woodcuts within frames, first two
11. in fac., green_levant mor. ex., g.e., by Lloyd [Hain-
Copinger 348, Proctor 6972], Impressum Brixie per
Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia, 1487, Septimo martii
(386), July 25, Sotheby
Ainsworth, £102
Æsopus. Fabulæ, Steinhoevel's German translation [Hain
*334], many curious woodcuts, initials in red, gothic letter
(wanting 20 11. and a few ll. repaired), hf. vell. [Basle, M.
Furter, ca. 1491], sm. folio (520), Dec. 16, Hodgson
Davis & Orioli, £15
Aesopus. Asopo Historiado [below a large woodcut], roman
letter (a-i in eights), woodcuts (lower border of title very
slightly cut), brown mor. gt., g.e., [colophon] Impressum
venetiis per Manfredum de Monteferato de sustreno M.CCCC.
93 a di 17 Agosto, 4to. (8), May 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £96
Aesopus. Vita et Fabellae Aesopi cum interpretatione latina,
first Aldine ed., roman and Greek type (title slightly
repaired), green mor. gt., g.e., Venice, Aldus, 1505, folio
(9), May 25, Sotheby
Tregaskis, £15 10S.
Æsopus. The Fables of Esop, paraphrased in verse, adorn'd
with sculpture . . . by John Ogilby, front. and plates, hf.
cf., Printed by Thomas Roycroft, 1668, folio (307), May 9,
Sotheby
Edwards, 1 14S.
Æsop. Fables, with his Life, in English, French and Latin,
illustrated with 112 sculptures, cf., by Lloyd and Wallis,
London, 1687, sm. folio (2), Nov. 29, Anderson Galleries
$30

Esop. Fables, with his Life in English, French and Latin, by Francis Barlow, LARGE PAPER, engraved title and plates, red mor., g.e., by Rivière, H. Hills, jun., for F. Barlow, 1687, folio (7), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £8 Æsop. Fables, with his Life, in English, French and Italian, newly translated, illustrated with 112 sculptures; to this edition are added 31 new figures by F. Barlow, panelled cf. gt., 1687, folio (222), May 20, Puttick

Brentano, £6 IOS. Æsop. Fables, 112 plates by Blake and others, 2 vol., polished cf., J. Stockdale, 1793, imp. 8vo. (460), June 2, Hodgson Chaundy, £7

Æsop. Fables, with a Life of the Author, engraved titles, 112 plates, 2 vol., cf. gt., 1793, 8vo. (393), June 15, Sotheby Edwards, £4 4S.

Æsop. The Fables of Æsop and others, with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick, port. added and thumb-mark receipt, cf. gt., fine copy, Newcastle, 1818, 8vo. (332), June 28, Sotheby Edwards, £2 IOS.

Esop. Fables, a new version, chiefly from original sources, by Rev. Thomas James, with more than 100 illustrations designed by John Tenniel, orig. cl., John Murray, 1848, cr. 8vo. (4), June 9, Sotheby Edwards, £2 15S. Esopus. Fables, paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations by John Ogilby (wants port. and engraved title), dark blue mor., panelled sides, with large bookplate of Sir Thomas Hanmer on reverse of title, 1665, folio (684), June 15, Sotheby

Mirchie, £5 Aetius. Aetii Medici graeci contractae ex veteribus medicinae tetrabiblos... roman letter (two words on the title scored through, a few 11. wormed and slightly stained), hf. cf., Basel., Frobenius, 1542, etc., folio (229), May 9, Sotheby Ord, £3 5s.

Africa. The Adventures of (Mr. T. S.) an English Merchant, taken Prisoner by the Turks of Algiers, and carried into the Inland Countries of Africa. . . written by the Author, and fitted for the Publick view by A. Roberts (M1 torn), old sheepskin (broken), with ex-libris of Sir Thomas Hanmer, dated 1707, on reverse of title, Sold by Moses Pitt, 1670, 12mo. (577), June 15, Sotheby Ellis, £2 5s. Agrippa (H. C.) Three Books of Occult Philosophy, written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa . translated out of the Latin into the English Tongue, by J. F., port. and verses by Thos. Vaughan, and folding table (usually missing), woodcuts (a few ll. cut into, slightly damaging the text), hf. cf., Printed by R. W. for Gregory Moule, 1651-Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. translated into English by Robert Turner (A-EE 2 in eights), woodcuts (a few words damaged by rust and other stains), cf., Printed by J. C., and are to be sold by Matthew Smelt, 1665, 4to. (505), July 13, Sotheby Dobell, £4 15s. Agrippa (H. C.) Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and Geomancy, Magical Elements of Peter de Abano, Astronomical Geomancy, the Nature of Spirits, and Arbatel of Magic, trans. by R. Turner, hf. cf., reprint 1783, 8vo. (498), Oct. 20, Puttick Dobell, I IOS. Agrippa (H. C.) The Vanity of the Arts and Sciences, port., cf., Printed by R. E., 1684-Gedde (John). The English Apiary, or the Compleat Bee-Master, front., cf., E. Curll 1721, etc., 8vo. (2), April 18, Sotheby J. T. Stevens, £1 14S. A. (H.) See Partheneia Sacra

Ainslie. Selection of the most interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Collection of Views in Turkey, Asia, Syria, etc., col. plates, hf. mor., R. Bowyer, 1811, roy. folio (1039), March 14, Sotheby Last, I IOS. Ainsworth (Henry). Solomons Song of Songs, in English metre, with annotations and references to other Scriptures, brown cf. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, 1623, 4to. (1), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £51

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Ainsworth (W. H.) Auriol, or the Elixir of Life, Supplement to the New Monthly Magazine, plates by Phiz,' port., cf. ex., g.e., by Rivière and Son, 1846, 8vo. (14), Nov. 15, Sotheby Spencer, £4 Ainsworth (W. H.) Banquet to William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., at the Manchester Town Hall, 15 September, 1881, inlaid red mor., padded with blanks, wrappers and advertisements bound in, Printed for private circulation [1881]-Ainsworth's Magazine, No. 48, with plate by G. Cruikshank of Sir Lionel Flamstead and his friends (including Dickens and Ainsworth), orig. wrappers, inscribed on front cover in the editor's handwriting, with Wm. Harrison Ainsworth's compts.," 8vo. (16), June 9, Sotheby Hollings, I IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) Cardinal Pole, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, 1863, 8vo. (281), April 4, Sotheby

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Beaumont, 1 16s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Combat of the Thirty, from a Breton Lay of the Fourteenth Century, with an Introduction comprising a new chapter of Froissart, by William Harrison Ainsworth, green mor., panelled gt. back, a 3-line fillet border on sides, inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, Chapman & Hall, 1859, 8vo. (278), April 4, Sotheby Maggs, £3 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Constable of the Tower, first ed., 3 vol., Anthony Trollope's copy, with ex-libris in each vol., orig. cl., uncut, Chapman & Hall, 1861, 8vo. (280), April 4, Sotheby Pickering, £2 2s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Crichton, plates by H. K. Browne, inserted is a letter from the author respecting the design for the cover, 1849, 8vo. (16), Nov. 15, Sotheby £5 IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Fall of Somerset, 3 vol., 1877Beatrice Tyldesley, 3 vol., 1878, both first eds., orig. cl., 8vo. (287), April 4, Sotheby Maggs, £2 25. Ainsworth (W. H.) Guy Fawkes, extracted from Bentley's Miscellany, a printed title supplied, plates by G. Cruikshank, polished cf. gt., inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière [1840], 8vo. (10), June 9, Sotheby J. Bruton, £4 IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, first ed., port. and illustrations by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., cl., fine, 1839, 8vo. (113), June 15, Puttick Dyer, £15 Ainsworth (W. H.)

James the Second, first ed., front. by R. W. Buss, 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., with paper labels (slightly defective), some corners broken, uncut, Henry Colburn, 1848, 8vo. (270), April 4, Sotheby Sadler, £3 3s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Lancashire Witches, first ed., 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., white labels (a little defective), new end-papers, Henry Colburn, 1849, 8vo. (272), April 4, Sotheby B. F. Stevens, £1 8s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Lancashire Witches, first 8vo. ed. (the third), plates by J. Gilbert, orig. cl. gt., Routledge, 1854, 8vo. (275), April 4, Sotheby Bumpus, 1 5S.

Ainsworth (W. H.) Mervyn Clitheroe, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, hf. red mor. gt., uncut, g.t., by Rivière and Son, 1858, 8vo. (163), July 20, Sotheby Hollings, £1 IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, first ed., plates by Geo. Cruikshank, 3 vol., hf. mor., uncut, g.t., 1842, 8vo. (12), Nov. 15, Sotheby Spencer, £4 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, first octavo ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, orig. red cl., uncut, 1848 (145), April 29, Hodgson David, £5 15S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Nick of the Woods, first ed., 3 vol., green mor., panelled gt. backs, a three-line fillet border on sides, inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, R. Bentley, 1837, 8vo. (262), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £3 Ainsworth (W. H.) Ovingdean Grange, first ed., plates by Hablot K. Browne, orig. cl. (dull), Routledge, Warne, etc., 1860, 8vo. (279), April 4, Sotheby Bickers, 1 6s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, first ed., plates by John Franklin, 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, Hugh Cunningham, 1841, 8vo. (265), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £4 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, a new ed., with illustrations by John Franklin and H. K. Browne, and inserted at front a woodcut by G. Cruikshank, designed in 1842 for the wrappers of the "Lions of London, which was not published, orig. cl. gt., Parry, Blenkarn & Co., 1847, 8vo. (14), June 9, Sotheby Maggs, £4 Ainsworth (W. H.) Rookwood, fourth and first illustrated ed., plates by George Cruikshank, A.L.s. (1 page) from G. C. to Macrone inserted, and loosely inserted a pencil drawing of Black Bess, an india proof port. of the author, by Edwards, after Maclise, substituted for the ordinary one, orig. cl., John Macrone, 1836, 8vo. (5), June 9, Sotheby Robson, 12 IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) Saint James's, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., with paper labels, uncut, John Mortimer, 1844, 8vo. (268), April 4, Sotheby Edwards, £4 IOS. Ainsworth (W. H.) St. James's, extracted from Ainsworth's Magazine, plates by G. Cruikshank, port. inserted, polished cf. gt., inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, 1844, 8vo. (13), June 9, Sotheby J. Bruton, £2 15s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, orig. cl. gt., wrappers of Part I inserted, enclosed in an open cl. case, Richard Bentley, 1840, 8vo. (8), June 9, Sotheby H. J. Bruton, £38

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[Inserted are:-(1) A pencil suggestion of the design of the wrapper by G. Cruikshank; (2) A.L.s., facing p. xiv., from W. G. Lewis to G. C., referring to the Tower; (3) A sheet containing the autograph signatures of W. H. Ainsworth, G. Cruikshank, and Richard Bentley, and of the witness to the signatures, the Rev. R. H. Barham, dated Nov. 19th, 1839, originally attached to the agreement respecting the copyright, etc. of "The Tower of

London"; (4) A.L.s. (2 pp. 4to.) from George Cruikshank to Ainsworth, relating to a visit from Bentley, dated March 30th, 1840; (5) The second states of the altered plates, viz., Queen Jane's Entrance into the Tower, The Stone Kitchen, Edward Underhill the Hot Gospeller preaching to the Giants, Courtenay's Escape from the Tower; (6) A pencil sketch of the Byward Tower, signed Geo. Cruikshank, facing p. 33; (7) The original drawing in sepia, signed by G. C., of Queen Jane and Lord Guildford Dudley brought back to the Tower through the Traitors' Gate; (8) A.L.s. (2 pp.) from Ainsworth to G. C. in reference to the plate of the plan of the Tower.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Tower of London, first ed., illustrations by G. Cruikshank, in the orig. 12-13 nos., wrappers, 1840, 8vo. (204), Dec. 1, Puttick Spencer, £14 Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor Castle, first 8vo. ed., plates by G. Cruikshank and T. Johannot, orig. cl., uncut, 1843, 8vo. (267), April 4, Sotheby Robson, £4 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor Castle, first illustrated ed., illustrations by G. Cruikshank and Tony Johannot, in the II nos., wrappers, 1844, 8vo. (115), June 15, Puttick

Thomas, £4 5S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Novels. Rookwood, 1836-Jack Sheppard, 3 vol., 1839-Tower of London, 1840-Guy Fawkes, 3 vol., 1841-The Miser's Daughter, 3 vol., 1842-Windsor Castle, 1843-St. James's, 3 vol., 1844-Old St. Paul's, 1847-Crichton, 1853-Lancashire Witches, 1854-Mervyn Clitheroe, 1858; Ovingdean Grange, 1860, together 20 vol., first or first illustrated eds., plates by Cruikshank and H. K. Browne, uniformly bound in polished cf. ex., full gt. backs, t.e.g., by Rivière, 1836-60 (475), June 2, Hodgson Sotheran, £25 Ainsworth (W. H.) Novels, plates, 16 vol., hf. red cf., t.e.g., n.d., 8vo. (382), May 4, Puttick Clark, £10 Ainsworth's Magazine, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, plates by G. Cruikshank and H. K. Browne (some slightly foxed), Vol. i.-vi., hf. cf. gt., g.t., 1842-4, 8vo. (15), June 9, Sotheby Hollings, 1 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Writings of W. H. Ainsworth, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne, and others, 16 vol., brown levant mor., gt. tops, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, London, Routledge, 1876-1878 (3), Jan. 25, American Art Association $172.50 Ainsworth (W. H.) Original Manuscript, entirely in the handwriting of the author, of the complete story, Stanley Brereton," written on 823 4to. ll., on one side only, in all about 160,000 words, with numerous corrections, cancellations, and insertions in the author's autograph, with special title-pages in pen-and-ink, bound in 4 vol., 4to., hf. brown levant mor., gilt lettering on backs and sides, by Stikeman and Co. (several of the leaves of the text

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