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folded map, having an inset port. of the author, full brown straight-grain mor., gt. back and broad side borders, inside dentelles, g.e., London, John Legatt for John Partridge, 1633, sm. 4to. (94), May 16, Anderson Galleries $310 James (W.) Naval History of Great Britain from 1793 to the Accession of George IV., with additions and notes by Capt. Chamier, ports. and folding tables, 6 vol., hf. cf., 'm.e., 1837, 8vo. (283), June 15, Sotheby Walford, £1 12s. James (William Dobein). A Sketch of the Life of Brig.-Gen. Francis Marion and a History of his Brigade, from its Rise in June, 1780, until disbanded in December, 1782, red mor., by David, Charleston, S. C., 1821, tall 8vo. (191), Oct. 13, Anderson Galleries $76 Jameson (Mrs.) Sacred and Legendary Art, 2 vol., 1848Legends of the Monastic Orders, 1850-Legends of the Madonna, 1852-The History of Our Lord, 2 vol., 1864, together 6 vol., first eds., plates, red mor. gt., g.e., 1848-64, 8vo. (382), July 20, Sotheby Hogg, £6 10s. Jameson (Mrs.) The Beauties of the Court of King Charles II., LARGE PAPER, plates on India paper (some a little foxed), citron mor. gt., broad ornamental borders, g.e., 1833, folio (163), March 1, Sotheby Howell, £2 158. Jamieson (J.) Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Lan guage, edited by J. Longmuir and D. Donaldson, with the Supplement, 5 vol., impression limited to 86 copies, Paisley, 1879-87 (958), Feb. 23, Sotheby Gardner, £2 10s. Janin (Jules). Euvres Diverses, limited ed., plates, 20 vol., hf. green mor. gt., 1876-83, 8vo. (383), July 20, Sotheby Hogg, £3 5s.

Japan Society, London. Transactions and Proceedings, Voi. i.-xvi., with the Supplements to Vol. i. and ii., but wanting Vol. vi., Part 1, plates, Vol. i.-v. in 7 vol. in hf. mor., g.t.. remainder in parts, not subject to return, 1893-1920 (31), July 25, Sotheby Thorp, £2 15S. Jardine (Sir W.) and Selby (P. J.) Illustrations of Ornithology, upwards of 200 col. plates (several plates slightly shaved), 4 vol. in 1, hf. cf., Edinburgh, n.d., 4to. (752), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 IOS. Jardine (Sir W.) Contributions to Ornithology, 1848-52, illustrated with numerous col. plates, 2 vol., hf. red mor., gt. tops, uncut, London, n.d., 8vo. (226), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries

$18 Jeaffreson (John Cordy). Works of John Cordy Jeaffreson, a collected set of first eds., together 30 vol., hf. green crushed levant mor., gt. backs and tops, contents lettered, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, 1858-1894, sm. 8vo. and 8vo. (159), Jan. 25, American Art Association $95 Jefferies (Richard). The Dewy Morn, first ed., 2 vol., 1884 (475), Feb. 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £2 5s. Jefferies (R.) The Story of my Heart, first ed., 1883, and another, together 2 vol., 8vo. (422), May 18, Sotheby Clayton, 1 28.

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[Jefferies (R.)] Gamekeeper at Home, Poacher, 1879 (2 copies)-Wild Life in a Southern Country, 1879-Hodge and his Masters, 2 vol., 1880-Field and Hedgerow, one of 200 LARGE PAPER copies, hf. vell., 1889, etc., together 14 vol., first eds., cl., 8vo. (362), May 4, Puttick Thorp, £4 IOS. Jefferies (R.) Works, first eds., 31 vol., polished cf., 18741889 (77), July 18, Sotheby Gennings, £35 Jefferys (Thos.) Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies, maps and plans, marbled cf., 1762, 4to. (89), Oct. 21, Sotheby [March 1, 1 16s.] Thorp, £3 5s. Jefferys (T.) The American Atlas, 29 finely-engraved maps, col. in outline, old hf. cf., 1775, imp. folio (287), Dec. I, Hodgson Quaritch, £17 10S. [Jan. 19, £7; Sotheby, Oct. 21, 1778, £6 10s.] Jefferys (T.) The West Indian Atlas, or a General Description of the West Indies, engraved title, maps, old bds., 1775, folio (91), Oct. 21, Sotheby Edwards, £1 12S. Jefferys (T.) Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America, maps, 2 parts in I vol., orig. cf., For Thomas Jefferys, 1760, folio (334), July 18, Sotheby Edwards, £8

[Oct. 21, £7 10s.; July 27, £6.] Jenkins (J.) Martial and Naval Achievements of Great Britain, col. plates, 2 vol., old hf. mor., uncut (1814-7), 4to. (286), March 9, Puttick Spencer, £42 Jenkins (J.) Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the year 1793 to 1817, 56 col. plates, including vignette title (wants 2 11., list of plates and list of subscribers, also one leaf of text torn and mended), hf. mor. (broken), n.d., 4to. (565), Nov. 24, Sotheby Spencer, £16

[Sotheby, March 1, £38; Feb. 23, £28 10s.; April 18, £22; American Art Association, Jan. 31, $105; Hodgson, March 31, £23.]

Jenkins (J.) Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies from 1799 to 1815, 53 col. plates by W. Heath, hf. mor., uncut, autograph of Sir Lewis Grant on hf.-title, 1814-5, folio (1020), Dec. 20, Sotheby Maggs, £13 Jenner (Thomas). The Sovles Solace, or Thirtie and one Spirituall Emblems, in verse, first ed., 31 engravings, the last portraying the Poet Wither smoking a pipe, seated at a table, on which are other pipes, old quarter parchment bds., James Bindley's copy, with his autograph signature and inscription, Sold by Thomas Ienner, 1631, sm. 4to. (108), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £300 Jennings (Hargrave). The Rosicrucians, their Rites and Mysteries, illustrations, 2 vol., cl., 1887, 8vo. (509), Oct. 20, Puttick Heffer, £1 Jerdon (T. C.) Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, 50 col.

plates, hf. leather, Madras, 1847, 4to. (754), March 1, Sotheby Wheldon, £8 15s. [Hodgson, Nov. 3, £6 7s. 6d. ; Anderson Galleries, Feb.

1, $55.] Jerdon (T. C.) The Birds of India, 3 vol., hf. mor., Calcutta, 1877, 8vo. (756), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £3

[Anderson Galleries, Feb. 1, $12.]

Jerome (St.) Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum, black letter, 41 11. (wants the last, a blank), brown mor. gt., g.e., by Bedford, Impressa Oxonie et finia Anno Domini, M.CCCCLXVIII. xvii. die decembris, sm. 4to. (838), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £340 [The first book printed at Oxford. Misdated 1468 for 1478. Not more than 14 copies are known.] Jerome (St.) Vitas patrum [translated into English by William Caxton], [colophon] Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute & right renommed lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of remembraunce to all well dysposed persones, whiche hath be translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre late deed, and fynysshed it at the laste daye of his lyff. Enprynted in the sayd towne of Westmynstre by my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde. M.ccc.lxxxxv. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the seventh, black letter, 356 ll., 2 columns of 40-41 lines each to the page, with headlines, with numerous woodcuts, said to be the work of an English artist, the cut of St. Jerome sitting as a desk preaching to the Virgin and several bishops is the same as that prefixed to the Polychronicon, old dark blue straight-grained mor., gt. and blind tooling, g.e. (rubbed), [Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495], sm. folio (174), Dec. 20, American Art Association $240

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[Duff, Fifteenth Century English Books," No. 235. This copy has only that part of the title-page containing the title, cut in wood and printed in white on black ground, which is trimmed to the plate and mounted; lacks leaf 342 and final leaf containing printer's device. Five ll. are inlaid, leaf 73 is defective, several 11. mended in margins, some tears and stains. Perfect copies are extremely rare, and in the main this is a very good, clean copy. With bookplate of the "Dogmersfield Library." Jerome (Stephen). Origens Repentance after he had sacrificed to the Idols of the Heathen, in verse, orig. ed. (several side-notes cut into), old hf. roan, with bookplate of Thomas Jolley, Iohn Beale for Roger Iackson, 1619, sm. 4to. (109), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £52 Jerrold (D.) Cakes and Ale, first ed., engraved titles and fronts. by G. Cruikshank, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1842-Dickens (C.) A Christmas Carol, first ed., col. illustrations by J. Leech, orig. cl., 1843, together 3 vol., 8vo. (371), June 15, Sotheby Maggs, £15

Jerrold (D.) Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, illustrations by C. Keene, 1866, 4to. (269), July 20, Sotheby Berman, 18s. Jerrold (D.) Men of Character, first ed., plates, 3 vol., hf. blue cf., g.t., 1838, 8vo. (511), March 14, Sotheby

Raphael, £1 15s.

Jerrold (D.) Works, collected ed., 8 vol., hf. cf. gt., g.t., 1851-4, 8vo. (670), May 9, Sotheby Walford, £1 16s. Jerrold (W. B.) The Life of George Cruikshank, plates, extra illustrated by the insertion of over 80 col. and other plates from books illustrated by Cruikshank, col. caricatures, etc., neatly inlaid, 2 vol., polished cf. ex., t.e.g., 1882 (488), June 2, Hodgson £7 Jesse (J. H.) Historical Memoirs. England under the Stuarts, fronts., 4 vol., 1840-Memorials of London, plates, 2 vol., 1847-London and its Celebrities, 2 vol., 1850-London, a Poem, 1847-Memoirs of Richard III., 1862, etc., 24 vol., 21 of which are first eds., cf. gt., m.e., by Rivière, 1840-76 (522), June 2, Hodgson [American Art Association, Jan. 25, $145.] Jesse (J. H.) Historical and Court Memoirs, Library ed., numerous illustrations from contemp. ports. and prints, 30 vol., handsomely bd. in brown crushed levant mor. ex., cl. sides, contents lettered, by Zaehnsdorf, Boston, 1901-2 (196), July 6, Hodgson F. Edwards, £20 IOS.

£23

[March 16, £6 10s.; Feb. 16, £7 12s. 6d.] Jesse (J. H.) George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, first ed., ports., 4 vol., finely bd. in cf. ex., m.e., by Birdsall, 1843-4, 8vo. (827), Oct. 12, Hodgson Maggs, £3 3s. Jesuit Relations, 47 vol., Paris, etc., 1634-1688, Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries

$11,000

[Apart from the Huntington collection, this is believed to be the largest set in existence. Each volume is fully described in the sale catalogue.] Jesuit Relations. Relation de çe qui s'est passe' en la Novvelle France e's anne'es 1643 & 1644. Enuoyée au R. P. Iean Filleav, Prouincial de la Compagnie de Iesus, en la Prouince de France, par le R. P. Barthelemy Vimont, de la mesme Compagnie, Superieur de toute la Mission, full crimson levant mor., gt. over marbled edges, by Chambolle-Duru, A Paris, chez Sebastien et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1645, sm. 8vo. (96), May 16, Anderson Galleries $85

[The present, which is the Church copy, agrees with the Bancroft copy, except on p. 67, lines 22-24, where it agrees with the Lamoignon copy. Collation: a 4 ll., A-Q8 in eights, a 2 ll., Aa-Kk2 in eights.]

Jesus, Maria, Joseph, or the devout Pilgrim of the ever blessed Virgin Mary, by A. C. and T. V., contemp. brown mor., decorative au pointillé tooling, with conventional flowers, etc., in centre of upper covers the words "Iesvs. Maria. Ioseph." on labels within a wreath, and on lower cover the royal arms of Portugal, gt. back, g.e., Amsterdam, 1663, 8vo. (50), Dec. 2, Sotheby Michelmore, £49

Jewell (John). Workes, title within a woodcut architectural border, mottled cf. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Iohn Norton, 1611, folio (466), July 18, Sotheby Maggs, £1 2s. Jewish Encyclopedia (The), edited by I. Singer and others, col. plates and numerous illustrations, 12 vol., hf. mor., 1901-6, roy. 8vo. (331), Nov. 17, Hodgson

Kegan Paul, £16 Jewitt (L.) Ceramic Art of Great Britain, illustrations, cl., n.d. (1883), (721), March 14, Sotheby Edge, 12s. Joannes de Cireyo. Priuilegia ordinis Cisterciensis, gothic letter, 196 ll. only (wants one leaf at the end and 3 blanks), red mor. gt., g.e. [Hain 9391], Impressum Diuione p Magistru Petru Metlinger Alemanu: Anno dni. M.CCCC. nonagesimo primo iiii. Nonas Julias (Dijon, 1491), 4to. (839), May 25, Sotheby Tregaskis, £21

[The first book printed at Dijon.] Joannes (Stobnicza). Introductio in Ptholomei Cosmographia cu longitudinibus & latitudinibus regionum & civitatum celebriorum. Epitoma Europe Ence Siluij, etc., woodcuts and 2 maps in fac.. modern vell., Cracouie, Florianu Ungleriu. Anno dni. M.D.XIJ., Sm. 4to. (325), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries

$350

[The map of the new world in this book is a copy of an earlier map of America than the famous map of Waldseemuller, published in 1507. Only five other copies known.] Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wits Vade-Mecum, being a Collection of the most Brilliant Jests, the Politest Repartees, the most Elegant Bons Mots and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language, first ed., red mor., by Rivière, London, T. Read, 1739, 8vo. (187), Nov. II, Anderson Galleries

$200

Johannes Presbyter. De ritu et moribus Indorum et de principe eorum presbytero Joanne. Commendatio Ladislai Regis hungarie et Bohemie. De laude litterarum, gothic letter, 12 l., long lines, 37 and 38 to a full page [Copinger 3367?], hf. cf., [Coloniae, Joh. Koelhoff, c. 1490], 4to. (583), Nov. 15, Sotheby Maggs, £6 158. Johnson (C.) Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, first ed., 4 vol., hf. cf., not uniform, Vol. iii. and iv. uncut, 1760-65, 8vo. (226), March 9, Puttick Nelson, £1 7s. 6d. [Anderson Galleries, March 1, 1822, 3 vol., $40.] Johnson (Captain C.) General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, map of the middle part of America, 3 plates, 2 vol., old russ., 1724, 8vo. (528), Oct. 12, Hodgson

Stevens, Son & Stiles, £3 12s. 6d. [Puttick, July 22, 1 5s.; Sotheby, July 18, ₤2 2s.] Johnson (C.) A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, StreetRobbers, etc., 26 full-page plates, orig. cf. (rubbed), rebacked, 1734, folio (905), July 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £23 [Anderson Galleries, Nov. 22, $170.]

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