7563 America. A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires of Virginia (collation: A to N in fours), this copy wanted the two blank leaves, viz., AI and N 4, and there is a small defect on pp. 25 and 26, Printed by T. Snodham, 1620-Wood (William). New England's Prospect, first ed. (folding woodcut map of “The South Part of New England" shaved on one side), (collation: A to O in fours, and the map,) T. Cotes for J. Bellamie, 1634-Wilson (Samuel). An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, second ed., inserted (?) at end is a map, “Carolina Newly Described by John Seller," notes by a former owner added (collation A to D 2 in fours), bound in a vol. with two others (see note below), old bds., Printed by G. Larkin, 1682, 4to. (323) Sabin, £162

[The orig. ed. of Wood's New England is of the utmost rarity. Besides the pieces enumerated above, the following are also bound in the volume: Williams (Sir Roger). The Actions of the Lowe Countries (hole through title-page) [collation: T, 4 leaves (the first, a blank (?) missing); A, 2 leaves; B to S in fours (S 4, blank, is wanted)], Printed by H. Lownes for M. Lownes, 1618--Account of the Proceeding against the Turks (wanted map, and some lower margins defective), (collation: A to Hi in fours,) 1685.— Catalogue.]

7564 Antiphonale. [Italian XIVth Century]. Nine leaves from a large decorated Manuscript Antiphonale on vellum (3ft. by 2ft.), each leaf surrounded by a border of decorative flower scroll-work, with 10 large illuminated initial miniatures, measuring generally 7in. by 6in., those decorated 74 in. by 24 in., folio (383) Tregaskis, £104

7565 Assises. The Abridgement of the Boke of Assises, lately pused over & corrected & now newlye imprinted by Rycharde Tottle, black letter, cf. ex., R. Tottell, 1555, 8vo. (416) Quaritch, LIO IOS. [Roger Ascham's copy, who has written beneath the title, in Anglo-Saxon, four lines of an ancient Saxon law in favour of Christianity and against heathenism, signed "Roger Ascham, 15. October, 1556."—Catalogue.] 7566 Audubon (J. J.) and Bachman (J.) Quadrupeds of North America, col. plates, 3 vol., mor., New York, 1851-54, imp. 8vo. (17) Edwards, £6 1OS. 7567 Audubon (J. J.) Birds of America, col. plates (a few missing), vol. iv. and v. with many leaves from a shorter copy, 7 vol., hf. roan, not subject to return, New York, 1840-44, imp. 8vo. (18) Spencer, £14 7568 Aurora Australis. Published at the Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, during the Winter Months of April, May, June, July, 1908, lithographs and etchings, by George Marston, 1908, 4to. (180)

Edwards, £5 7s. 6d. [The first book printed in the Polar Regions, ed. by E. H. Shackleton. The covers of the book are made from the

wood of the packing cases which contained the provisions. Only 90 copies were printed.--Catalogue.]

7569 Australia. The Australian Sketch Book, by S. T. G., 25 plates in colours (including pictorial title), Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, oblong folio (222) Wayley, £6 12s. 6d. 7570 Bacon (Lord). Essaies, modern cf. gt., Printed for John Jaggard, dwelling in Fleete Streete at the hand and Starre neere Temple-barre, 1606, sm. 8vo. (405) Sabin, £63

[The third impression; probably only a pirated reprint of the second edition, 1598. Contained A-G in 8's, but wanted the blank in A and G to complete the sheets. Tall copy. Catalogue.]

7571 Baker (Sir Richard).

Cato Variegatus, or Catoes Moral Distichs, first ed., blank leaf forming A1, and the errata leaf 0 4, A. Griffin, 1636, sm. 4to. (173) Tregaskis, £3 10s. 7572 Barker (T.) The Art of Angling, contemp. mor. ex., tooled, dolphins with trident in centres, the back having designs of creels, etc. by T. Gosden, with his bookplate [1651], reprinted 1820, 8vo. (111)

Quaritch, £11

7573 Bate (John). The Mysteries of Nature and Art, second ed., woodcuts (title mounted, pp. 39-40 defective), cf., R. Mabb, 1635, 4to. (151) Barnard, £1 6s. 7574 Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John). Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, port. by Marshall (defective and mounted), cf. gt., 1679, folio (206) Matthews, £4 18s. 7575 Bell's British Theatre, large issue, ports. and scenic plates, each play separately bound in boards, uncut, and arranged in an alphabet of authors, 70 separate vol., J. Bell, 1792, etc., 8vo. (103) Tregaskis, £3 12s. 6d. 7576 Bewick. A History of British Birds, imperial paper (margins of a few leaves torn and two leaves soiled), a fine uncut copy, 2 vol., orig. bds. (loose), with most part of the paper labels at back, Newcastle, 1805, 8vo. (257) Tregaskis, £10 IOS. [A signed autograph letter of Thomas Bewick, dated "Newcastle, 18 April, 1806," accompanies the work.Catalogue.]

7577 Bewick (T.) British Birds, 2 vol., cf., m. e., Newcastle, 1816, 8vo. (66) Temple, Li 7578 Biblia Sacra Latina, versio Vulgata cum Prologis S. Hieronymi [English Sæc. XIII.], manuscript on vellum, gothic letter, 292 leaves, 15 by 934in., double columns of 61 lines, a long illuminated strap initial F with a miniature of S. Jerome seated in a chair writing on first leaf, 115 large illuminated decorative initials (four initials have been cut out and four leaves are loose, a leaf between the prologue and the text of Genesis missing), oaken boards, upper cover new, under cover orig., Sæc. XIII. (450) Godwin, £93 [Codex of the Vulgate, by an English Scribe, originally belonging to the Monastery of the Virgin of the Praemonstratensian Order in Norwich. Contemporary notes in an English hand in the margins, and at the end is a note evidently written by William Cyrlen, Abbot of the Monastery. Catalogue.]

7579 Biblia. Low German (Luther) 1533. Der Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martinus Luthers, etc., lit. goth., double columns, full-page woodcut title, full-page cut of Adam and Eve in Paradise and numerous other German woodcuts and gothic initials, 3 smaller leaves of the Genealogy of the Patriarchs inserted from another edition (wormed and the last 3 leaves defective), contemp. German oak boards, stamped pigskin (clasps missing), r.e., rebacked mor., In der keyserliken Stadt Lübeck by Ludowich Dietz gedrücket MDXXXIII. [at end], "Ym Dusent vyff hundert unde veer unde dörtigsten yare" (1533-4) (280)

Maggs, £7 10OS.

[The first edition in Low German of Luther's complete translation of the Bible.-Catalogue.]

7580 Binding. Petit Souvenir Calendrier Portatif, col. engravings for each month, in binding formed of mother-o'-pearl, mounted in embossed brass gilt, and inlaid all round with blue turquoises (3in. by 24 in.), Paris, 1820 (22)

Gilhofer, £13 10s. 7581 Blake (William). There is No Natural Religion, a series of 12 (including title-page) designs in colours, from the original (loose in wrappers), Privately printed, 1886, 8vo. (88) Tregaskis, £ 16s. 7582 Bloome (Hans). The Booke of, Five Collumnes of Architecture, trans. into English by J. T., black letter, woodcuts (top margins of 7 leaves defective), old vell., Printed for Hans Wontneel, 1601, folio (251) Rimell, £3 55.

[Possibly unique. In the British Museum there is a later issue, viz., "Printed for the widow of Hans Wontnell by S. Stafford, 1608." Bound at end of vol. is a manuscript (contemp. ?) well written in red and black, 36 pp., “A Treatise on Architecture by John Shute."-Catalogue.] 7583 Bocalini (T.) I ragguagli Di Parnasso, or Advertisements from Parnassus, etc., now put into English by Henry (Cary) Earl of Monmouth, port., old cf. (rebacked), Samuel Butler's copy, 1674, folio (235) Dobell, £3 105.

[Formerly in the collection of James Crossley. He has inserted the following note giving an account of the volume: "This book came from the library of William Longueville, the admirable friend of Butler, the author of 'Hudibras,' and who afforded an asylum to the poet living, and when dead interred him at his own expense."Catalogue.]

7584 Boetius (A. T. S.) _Libri de Consolatione Philosophiae, lit. rom. et goth., 77 German woodcuts and ornamental initials (wanted Oii and V), duplicate of O iii and IV inserted, contemp. oaken bds., leather, blind stamped panels, metal bosses, centre-pieces and clasps (Syston Park copy), Argentinae per Johannem Grüninger, 1501 (281)

Gilhofer, £4 10s.

[First edition of Boetius with these cuts. Though wormed, it is a clean and generally sound copy.-Catalogue.]

7585 Bonaventura (S.) Die Legend des heyligen Vatters Francisci. Nach der beschreybung des Engelischen Lerers Bonaventure, lit. goth., long lines, 33 to a full page, cut of S. Francis on recto of title (repeated before M 3 and 0 3), full-length figure of the saint on reverse (repeated before the first page of text), 2 other full-page cuts and 49 smaller cuts in the text, all by Caspar Rosenthal, contemp. oak bds. and pigskin, stamped arabesques, clasps, Nuremberg, Hieron. Höltzel, 1512, sm. 4to. (339) Leighton, £30

7586 Browning (E. B.) A Selection from the Poetry of, Chapman and Hall, 1866 (252) Spencer, £26 [Proof sheets, with the careful and numerous corrections, additions, alterations, and excisions, mostly in the autograph of Robert Browning, who prepared the volume for press. Catalogue.]

7587 Browning (Robert). Poetical Works, first editions, with inscriptions. Sordello, "Miss Haworth, from R. B.", russ., g. e., Moxon, 1840-Men and Women, “E. Fanny Haworth, from Robert Browning," 2 vol., orig. cl., uncut, Chapman' and Hall, 1855-Dramatis Personae, "E. Fanny Haworth, from her affectionate friend, Robert Browning, London, June 9, '64," orig. cl., uncut, ib., 1864-Dramatic Idyls (first series), Fanny Haworth, from hers affectionately ever R. B. April 26, '79," orig. cl., uncut, Smith, Elder, 1879, together 5 vol., 8vo. (254) Hornstein, £61 Engravers, by R. E. Parsons, £2 5s.

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7588 Bryan (M.) Dictionary of Painters and Graves, 2 vol., 1886-9, roy. 8vo. (181) 7589 Bunyan (John). The Pilgrim's Progress, "The Fourth Edition, with Additions," port. signed R. W. f., with Ponder's imprint beneath (a few headlines and marginal notes cut into, H2 mended, one or two rough bottom margins), mor. ex., in case, Printed for Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry near the Church, 1680, sm. 8vo. (410) Trotter, £27 [The genuine fourth edition. The port. by White is inserted from the third ed., and of course there are no plates, which only began to appear in the "Fifth Edition." -Catalogue.]

7590 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Bookbindings, 113 col. plates, French binding of the 18th century by Courteval, mor. ex., decorated silk linings and fly-leaves, g. e., three double clasps with silver mounts (one fastening broken), 1891, large 4to. (337) Gilhofer, £10 Exhibition of Early German Edwards, £3 5s.

7591 Burlington Fine Arts Club.

Art, 70 plates, 1906, folio (191) 7592 Burney (Frances). Camilla, first ed., 5 vol., uncut, 1796, 8vo. (86) Trumper, £4

7593 Burns (Robert) To Mr. Graham of Fintry, requesting a favour, auto. verses, 97 lines, on 31⁄2 pp. folio, dated 1788, good condition (394) Maggs, £135 [It is interesting to note that the date of this manuscript confirms the conjecture of Messrs. Henley and Henderson 42

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that this poem is the one Burns refers to in a note to Miss Chalmers, of Sep. 16, 1788, as being “in the manner of Pope's Moral Epistles."-Catalogue.]

7594 Burns (R.) Auto. Verses, 22 lines on 1 p. folio, headed “To Miss Jenny Cruikshank," written in the blank leaf of a song book, laid down (defective at one of the joints) (395)

Sabin, £36 [These verses, which were first published in the Edinburgh edition of 1793, were addressed to the daughter of the poet's friend, Mr. William Cruikshank, of the High School, Edinburgh.-Catalogue.]

7595 Burns (R.) Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, mor., back and sides tooled, g. e., 8in. by 5in., Kilmarnock: printed by John Wilson, 1786, 8vo. (396) Hopkinson, £490 7596 Burns (R.) Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, port. by Beugo, mor., g. e., Edinburgh; printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787, 8vo. (397) Leger, £13 10S. [The first Edinburgh edition, and a copy of the issue which has the word "skinking" on p. 263. Some bibliographers say that this is the second issue; but Henley and Henderson believed that it was earlier than the "stinking” reading. Catalogue.]

7597 [Burns (R.)] Young (Edward). The Complaint, or, NightThoughts, orig. cf., 1788, 8vo. (398) Hornstein, £355 [Presentation copy from Robert Burns, with autograph inscription on the fly-leaf: "To Mrs. McIlhose (sic) this Poem, the sentiments of the heirs of immortality, told in the numbers of Paradise,' is respectfully presented by Robt. Burns."-Catalogue.]

7598 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, presentation copy, "With the author's kind regards," folding map, hf. cf., 1860, 8vo. (255) Shepherd, £1 165. 7599 Butler (Samuel). Hudibras: the First Part, written in the time of the late Wars, first 12mo. edition issued by the same publisher as the larger one, contained A-F6 in 8's, including the leaf of imprimatur, which has signatures on title, hf. cf., Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott, under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1663, 8vo. (418)

Lewine, £1 1S. 7600 Byron (Lord). Hours of Idleness, first ed., LARGE PAPER, orig. bds., uncut, fine copy with the hf.-title, Newark, 1807 (250) Bumpus, £24 10s. 7601 Camden (W.) Remaines concerning Britaine, first ed. (margin of A 3 cut into and a few headlines shaved), MS. notes, modern cf., S. Waterson, 1605, sm. 4to. (157) Leighton, £2 7602 Campbell (Thomas). Gertrude of Wyoming, first ed., mor., uncut, by Rivière and Son, 1809 (170) Tatham, L1 15. [Inserted is the original receipt, signed by the poet, for "A Volume of Poetry to be delivered to G. W. Ormerod." -Catalogue.]

7603 Carleton (William). Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, first ed., illustrations by "Phiz" and others, 2 vol., orig. cl.,