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additional Notes by W. Smith, port. and maps, 8 vol., cf., full gt. backs, m.e., 1854-5, 8vo. (12), Jan. 24, Sotheby £3 5s. Gibbon (E.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Milman and Guizot, edited by W. Smith, port., maps, 8 vol., vell. gt., arms on sides, r.e., 1862, 8vo. (233), May 18, Sotheby Edwards, £4 5S. Gibbon (E.) Roman Empire, port., 7 vol., polished cf., Bell and Daldy, 1872-4, 8vo. (120), July 22, Puttick Foster, £2 Gibbon (E.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by J. B. Bury, maps, 7 vol., orig. cl., g.t., 1896-1900 (688), April 4, Sotheby Joseph, £2 18s. Gibbs (J.) A Book of Architecture, plates, hf. bd., 1728, folio (353), March 17, Sotheby Tiranti, £3

[Hodgson, July 6, £4 2s. 6d.] Gibson (James). A Journal of the late Siege by the Troops from North America against the French at Cape Breton, the City of Louisbourg, and the Territories thereunto belonging, surrendered to the English on the 17th of June, 1745, after a Siege of Forty-eight Days, by James Gibson, Gentleman Voluntier at the above Siege, crimson ex., by Wallis, London, J. Newbery, 1745, 8vo. (235), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries $280 Gilbert (Benjamin). A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family, who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their Farms on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania in the Spring of 1780, blue crushed levant mor., gt. inside border, red silk lining, the orig. wrappers bd. in at the end, by Rivière, several 11. uncut, Philadelphia, Joseph Cruikshank, 1784, 8vo. (68), May 16, Anderson Galleries

$50

Gilbert (C. S.) A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, to which is added a complete Heraldry of the same, port., plates and map, 2 vol. in 3, cf. gt., Plymouth Dock, 1817, 4to. (401), July 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £9

[Hodgson, Dec. 1, Lot 907, £8 8s.; Feb. 2, Lot 894, 2 vol., £5 5s.; Sotheby, June 28, Lot 74, 2 vol., £7 10s.] Gilbert (Sir Humphrey). A Discourse of a Discouerie for a New Passage to Cataia, written by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight, with the genuine folding map, dark red mor., g.e., London, Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones, 1576, sm. 4to. (69), May 16, Anderson Galleries $1,475

[The author, who was drowned off the coast of Newfoundland in 1583, is celebrated as the first Englishman who attempted to found a colony in the New World. The cordiform map is rarely found with the book. With the Hoe bookplate.] Gilbert (W. S.) The Bab' Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, 1869-More "Bab Ballads, n.d., both first eds., illustrations by the author, and loosely inserted in each vol. A.L.s. from Gilbert to Routledge, orig. cl., g.e., together 2 vol., cr. 8vo. (230), June 9, Sotheby

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Gilbert (W. S.) The "Bab Ballads, first ed., illustrations by the author, 1869 (493), Feb. 23, Sotheby

Fleming, £3 5S. [Hodgson, July 27, Lot 140, £3; Sotheby, July 20, Lot 458, £4.] Gilbert (William). Tractatus sive Physiologia nova de Magnete, magneticisque corporibus et magno magnete tellure, diagrams and woodcuts in text, copperplates, engraved title, orig. cf. (front cover loose), Sedini, 1628, 4to. (356), Jan. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, £13 Gilbertus (Guil.) De Mundo nostro sublunari Philosophia nova, woodcut diagrams, Amstelodami, 1651—Casatus (P.) Hydrostaticae Dissertationes, Parma, 1695-Terra machinis mota dissertationes, woodcut diagrams, Roma, 1658, 3 vol., new marbled sheep ex., r.e., etc., together 4 vol., 4to. (616), Dec. 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £9 [Gilby (Ant.)] A Pleasaunt Dialogue betweene a Souldier of Barwick and an English Chaplaine, black letter, 1581An Answere for the tyme to the examination put in print without the authour's name pretending to mayntayne the apparell prescribed against the declaration of the mynisters of London, folding table, n.p., 1566, in 1 vol., vell., 4to. (867), Nov. 24, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 Gilchrist (Alexander). Life of William Blake, illustrated from Blake's own works in fac. by J. W. Linton, with a few of Blake's orig. plates, port., 2 vol., hf. mor., g.t., 1863, 8vo. (64), Jan. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 7s. [May 18, Lot 235, £2 5s.; May 9, Lot 491, £2 8s.. April 4, Lot 610, £I IS.]

Gilchrist (A.) Blake (W.)

Life, with

Selections from his Poems, etc., by Alex. Gilchrist, port. and plates, 2 vol., 1880, 8vo. (306), Oct. 25, Sotheby

Rinder, £8 8s.

[April 25, Lot 170, £7 5s.] Gilchrist (A.) The Life of William Blake, with selections from his Poems and other Writings, new and enlarged ed., with additional letters and a Memoir of the author, illustrated from Blake's own works, 2 vol., orig. cl., with gt. design on the sides and back, 1886, 8vo. (231), June 9, Sotheby

(231). Fleming, £8 155.

Gille (P.) Versailles et les deux Trianons, dessins et relevés par Marcel Lambert, ports. of Louis XIV., numerous plates and other illustrations, 2 vol., blue mor., g.t., Tours, 1899-1900, folio (601), Jan. 24, Sotheby

Edwards, £7 IOS. Gilles (N.) Les Treselegantes et Copieuses Annalles des Gaulles, numerous small woodcut ports. and initials, gothic letter (a few ll. repaired), 2 vol. in 1, old russ. gt. (back worn), with A.L.s. from T. F. Dibdin, Paris, 1541, folio (93), April 21, Hodgson Myers, £6 Gillray (James). Genuine Works, with illustrative descriptive text [in two 8vo. volumes], comprising upwards of 300 col. caricature engravings of scenes and personages of the

reign of George III., 2 or 3 plates slightly cut into, hf. mor., g.e., Thomas M'Lean, 1830, folio (499), Oct. 25, Sotheby Thorp, £22 Gillray (J.) Works, together with the volume of suppressed caricatures and text by Wright and Evans, port. and numerous reproductions, 3 vol., hf. maroon mor. ex., g.e., Bohn, 1847-51, atlas folio (text 8vo.), (291), Feb. 2, Hodgson £3 17s. 6d. Gilpin (William). Original Manuscript of Remarks on Forests, and other Woodland Scenery (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty), illustrated by scenes of New Forest, in Hampshire, in 3 books, 4 vol., suede cf. (re-hinged), initials W. G." blind-stamped on sides, 1781, sm. 4to. (116), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $65

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[This work was evidently unpublished for ten years after it was written. Numerous water-colours, wash and India ink drawings have been laid down on the verso of a number of the leaves. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is inscribed: "These MS. volumes William Gilpin of Vicar's Hill presents to his nephew, William Gilpin of ye Strand, in London." With the curious bookplate of William Gilpin in each volume.]

Gilpin (W.) Voyage en différentes parties de l'Angleterre et particulièrement dans les Montagnes & sur les Lacs du Cumberland & du Westmoreland, 30 plates, 2 vol., orig. mottled cf., Queen Wilhelmina's (Princess of Prussia, wife of William I., King of the Low Countries) copy, with her crowned monogram impressed on the sides, rare [not in Guigard], (334), July 25, Sotheby Ashton, £2 5s. Gilpin (W.) A Collection of Thirty-six Landscapes in Indian Ink, with 14 pages in Gilpin's handwriting, in a vol., olive mor. ex., g.e., 4to. (205), July 27, Sotheby Palser, £5 Giorgini (Giovanni). Il Mondo nuovo [in verse], woodcut ornaments, cf. gt., with arms on sides, Iesi, 1596, 4to. (570), Jan. 17, Sotheby Davis, £3 15s. Giovanni (Ser) Il Pecorone, vell., Milano, 1554-Boccacio (G.) Il Decamerone, woodcuts, title within woodcut border, Venetia, 1545, etc., together 4 vol., 8vo. (354), May 18, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £2 6s. Giovanni (Ser) The Pecorone, trans. by W. G. Waters, illustrations by E. R. Hughes, one of 600 copies, silk bds., 1897, 8vo. (171), Dec. 1, Puttick Bumpus, £3 15s.

[Hodgson, Feb. 16, cl., £2 12s. 6d.; Sotheby, June 15, £2 158.] Girault-Duvivier (C. P.) Grammaire des Grammaires, 2 vol., beautifully bd. in contemp. blue straight-grain mor. ex., elegant borders on sides, watered-silk ends and linings, g.e., by Bradel, with the arms of C. F. Louise de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870), 1814, 8vo. (152), Nov. 25, Hodgson Quaritch, £12 Girecour (le Comte de). Histoire de la Maison d'Autriche, 1273-1708, 6 vol., beautifully bd. in contemp. red mor.

ex., tooled backs, blue end-papers, g.e. [by Derome], with the Richelieu-La Tour du Pin arms on sides and contemp. bookplate of the Duc de Richelieu, 1778, 8vo. (147), Nov. 25, Hodgson Bain, £26 10s. Girtin (T.) A Selection of Twenty of the most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs, plates in aquatinta, hf. cf., 1803, oblong folio (355) March 17, Sotheby Spencer, 13 IOS. Gissing (G.) The Emancipated, first ed., 3 vol., orig. hf. cl., a fine copy, R. Bentley, 1890, 8vo. (318), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £5 10s. Gissing (G.) Isabel Clarendon, first ed., 2 vol., presentation copy from the author, orig. cl., Chapman and Hall, 1886, 8vo. (315), April 4, Sotheby Hollings, £15 10S. Gissing (G.) A Life's Morning, 3 vol., 1888. The Nether World, 3 vol., 1889, together 6 vol., both first eds., exlibrary copies in orig. cl., 8vo. (317), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £6 5s. Gissing (G.) New Grub Street, first ed., 3 vol., ex-library copy, orig. cl., 1891-Born in Exile, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl. (dull), 1892, together 6 vol., 8vo. (319), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £4 IOS. [Hodgson, Dec. 9, Lot 5, uncut, £4 7s. 6d.] Gissing (G.) Thyrza, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., a fine copy, Smith, Elder & Co., 1887, 8vo. (316), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £6 158.

[Anderson Galleries, Dec. 6, Lot 258, $27.] Gissing (G.) The Unclassed, first ed., 3 vol., ex-library copy, labels removed from end-papers, orig. cl., Chapman and Hall, 1884, 8vo. (313), April 4, Sotheby Beaumont, £6 10s. Glanville (Bartholomaeus de). Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum (translated into English by John of Treves), black letter, double columns, 42 lines, with signs., but no pagination, numerous woodcuts and ornamental initials, the leaf with the stencil title-page inlaid and mended, wants blank for Aj and last leaf containing a duplicate of the title and Caxton's large device (a few 11. slightly wormed), otherwise a perfect and good sound and genuine copy throughout, measures 11 by 8 in., wooden boarded modern russ., g.e. [Lond., printed by Wynkyn de Worde, n.d.] [1495], thick sm. folio (571), Jan. 17, Sotheby

Maggs, £230

[Wynkyn de Worde's finest specimen of printing, on very thick paper made expressly in England by John Tate, the first paper-maker in England. It is remarkable that in the verses at the end, which mention Caxton as the first printer of this book in Cologne, this stout paper is characterised as thin. "John Tate the yonger which late in Englonde doo make this paper thynne, that now in our englyssh this boke is printed inne.' Some of the woodcuts are remarkable. This was Cecil Dunn Gardner's copy. Extremely rare.]

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Glanville (B.) Proprietates Rerum domini bartholomei anglici, gothic letter, double columns, 50 lines, 326 11. [Hain *2507, Proctor 3130], title stained and backed, the next 6 11. roughly re-margined and margins of several 11. at end repaired, a few headlines shaved, old blind stamped cf. over wooden bds. [Heidelberg, Printer of Lindelbach], 23 May, 1488, folio (367a), April 18, Sotheby

Dobell, £8 10S. Glanville (B.) Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, black letter, double columns, title mounted (a few ll. slightly stained, wants last leaf with printer's device), last (present) leaf mended in blank margins, otherwise a good copy, stamped cf. (cracked), Thomas Berthelet, 1535, folio (356), Mar. 17, Sotheby Quaritch, £21

["The chef d'œuvre of Berthelet's press."-Lowndes. Hodgson, April 21, Lot 45, £6 10s.] [Glanvil (Jos.)] Some Philosophical Consideration touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft, by J. G., cf. ex., g.e., by Rivière, 1667, 4to. (231), March 14, Sotheby Dobell, £2 6s. Glapthorne (H.) Wit in a Constable, a comedy written in 1639, and now printed as it was lately acted at the Cockpit in Drury Lane, first ed. (last line of Prologue cut away, otherwise a good copy), mottled cf. ex., g.e., J. Okes, 1640 (813), July 27, Hodgson £8 IOS.

[Anderson Galleries, Nov. 11, Lot 129, $50.] [Glasse (Hannah).] The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy, first ed. (title and last leaf torn, corners of several 11. defective and binding broken), old cf., Printed for the Author, 1747, 8vo. (865), Nov. 17, Hodgson Maggs, £6 10S. Goar (J.) ETXOAOTION, sive Rituale Græcorum, complectens Ritus et Ordines Liturgiæ, etc., vignettes, contemp. vell., m.e., Venetiis, 1730 (496), April 21, Hodgson

Horner, £7 10S. God, the King and the Church: Sermons, contemp. red mor., the crowned monogram of Charles II. in five panels on back and at the corners on sides, g.e., 1670, 8vo. (608), April 18, Sotheby Ellis, £4 Godart (Jean). Allegresse de la France (in verse), Paris, 1595-La Fonteine de Gentilly, 1595-Le dernier adieu des Iesuites et leur sortie hors du Royaume de France (in verse), 1595, and 15 others, in 1 vol., cf. (binding broken), 8vo. (197), Dec. 2, Sotheby Ellis, £5 5s. Godart (J. B.) and Duponchel (P. A. J.) Histoire Naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France, Diurnes, Crépusculaires et Nocturnes, II vol. in 12, with 4 supplementary vol. in 3, with Iconographie des Chenilles, 2 vol., and Catalogue Méthodique des Lépidoptères d'Europe, together 18 vol., numerous fine col. plates, polished cf. gt., panelled back, g.e., fine set, Paris, 1821-44 (26), July 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £22

[Vol. ii. of the Iconographie des Chenilles wants the

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