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case, Antverpiæ, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565, 16mo. (6), Dec. 17, Sotheby Young, £5 [Alcock (J.)] The Abbaye of the holy Ghost, black letter, 20 11. (a—b in sixes, c―d in fours), double columns, 29 lines to a full column, with signatures, but without catchwords, foliation, or running titles, above the title (on the recto of first leaf) is a woodcut representing the Trinity, on the verso of the leaf is a woodcut of the Crucifixion, the same as in the Rote, or myrour of consolacyon, at the end beneath the colophon, a small device, Wynkyn de Worde's Caxton cypher and foliage, white on a black ground, with the words Wynkyn de Worde (black on white) below, mor. ex., ornaments at angles, Miller arms in centres, g.e., by W. Pratt, [colophon] Enprynted at Westmynster by Wynken de Worde, n.d., 4to. (3), May 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £100

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[This edition differs from that in Herbert I., 207, which is also without date. Loundes mentions an edition of 18 leaves without a date.]

Aldrovandus (U.) De animalibus insectis libri septem, engraved title, woodcuts, mor. gt., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within a wreath, monogram on back in seven panels (rubbed, back faded), Bononiae, 1602, folio (7), May 3, Sotheby Holinshed, I 15s. Aldrovandus (U.) De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis et zoophytis, engraved title, woodcuts, mor., sides plain (no arms), gilt back with monogram of De Thou and of his first wife in seven panels, g.e., from the Heber library, Bononiae, 1606, folio (8), May 3, Sotheby Leighton, £2 25. Aldrovandus (U.) De piscibus libri V et de cetis lib. unus, engraved title and woodcuts, mor., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within wreath, monogram five times on back with fly at bottom (back faded), g.e., Bononiae, 1613, folio (9), May 3, Sotheby Michelmore, £3 15s. Aldrovandus (U.) De Quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum, engraved title, woodcuts, mor. gt., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within a wreath, monogram on back in six panels, small fly ornament in top and bottom panels, g.e. (some 11. damp-stained), from the Heber library, Bononiae, 1616, folio (10), May 3, Sotheby Michelmore, £4 5s. Aldrovandus (U.) Ornithologiae, hoc est de avibus historiae, engraved titles, port. and woodcuts, 3 vol., Vol. i. and ii. mor., arms of J. A. de Thou and his first wife on sides, gt. back with monogram (rubbed and faded), Vol. iii. modern mor., with facsimile of monogram on back, from the Heber library, Bononiae, 1599-1600-03, folio (6), May 3, Sotheby Edwards, £6 IOS. Aldrovandus (U.) Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia, engraved title, woodcuts, mor. gt., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within a wreath, monogram repeated

six times on back, g.e., from the Heber library, Bononiæ, 1621, folio (11), May 3, Sotheby Maggs, £4 158. Aldrovandus (Ù.) Libri de quadrupedibus, engraved title, woodcuts, mor. gt., sides plain save for arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within a wreath, monogram in six panels on back, g.e., from the Heber library, Bononiæ, 1637, folio (12), May 3, Sotheby Maggs, £4 IOS. Aldrovandus (U.) Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis Historiae omnium animalium, engraved title, woodcuts, mor. gt., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife within a wreath, monogram on back in six panels, g.e., from the Heber library, Bononiæ, 1642, folio (14), May 3, Sotheby Maggs, £4 10S. Aldrovandus (U.) Musaeum Metallicum in libros IIII distributum, engraved title, woodcuts, sides plain save for arms of J. A. de Thou, gt. back with a crowned cipher stamped in six panels, mor., g.e., from the Heber library, Bononiæ. 1648, folio (15), May 3, Sotheby Michelmore, £4 14s. Aldrovandus (U.) Serpentum et Draconum historiae libri duo, engraved title and woodcuts, mor. gt., arms of J. A. de Thou and his second wife and monograms on back (rubbed and faded), Bononiæ, 1640, folio (13), May 3, Sotheby Hollinshead, £2 5s. Aleman (M.) Life of Guzman d'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue (trans. by J. Mabbe), LARGE PAPER, orig. cf. (damaged), Edward Blount, 1623, folio (14), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, 9 IOS. Aleman (M.) Life of Guzman d'Alfarache or the Spanish Rogue, to which is added the tragi-comedy Celestina, trans. by several hands, front. and plates by Bouttats, 2 vol., old cf., bookplate of Samuel Strood, 1708, 8vo. (16), June 14, Sotheby Heffer, £3 10s. Alexander (Wm.) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese, 50 col. engravings, orig. hf. red mor. and bds., uncut (rubbed), London, n.d. (c. 1815), 8vo. (218), Jan. 20, American Art Association $26 Alexandre (A.) Decorative Art of Leon Bakst, with Notes on the Ballets by J. Cocteau, port. and 77 plates, col. and heightened with gold, hf. vell., t.e.g., Fine Art Society, 1913, folio (308), Oct. 21, Hodgson H. Furmage, £10 5s. Alexandre (A.) Memoirs and Anecdotes of Monsieur Alexandre, the Celebrated Dramatic Ventriloquist, Adventures of a Ventriloquist, or the Rogueries of Nicholas, etc., port. of Alexandre and II col. character ports. by I. R. Cruikshank, mor. ex., t.e.g., J. Lowndes, 36, Bow Street, 1822, cr. 8vo. (744), July 5, Sotheby David, £5 5s. Aleyn (Chas.) Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers under the leading of King Edward the Third of that name; and his Sonne, Edward Prince of Wales, named the Blacke, first ed., title within woodcut border (shaved in foremargin, several 11. cut into along fore-margins), unbd., Tho. Purfoot for T. K., 1631, 12mo. (8), March 15, Sotheby (16) Braithwayt, £10

Aleyn (Chas.) Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers, second ed., (a few 11. damp-stained and a few wormholes), cf., 1633, 8vo, (744), Feb. 10, Sotheby Dobell, £2 Aleyn (Chas.) Historie of that wise and Fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh, King of England, port. by Will. Marshall in fac. (title soiled by age), mor., g.e., Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, 1638, sm. 4to. (7), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £2 2s. Alford (Lady M.) Needlework as Art, plates, orig. cl., 1886, (366), Jan. 1, Puttick

Pickard, 1 8s. [£1 7s. 6d., same state, Feb. 17, Puttick, Lot 17; £1 2s., same state, July 19, Sotheby, Lot 16.] Alison (Sir A.) History of Europe from 1789 to 1815, illustrations, 13 vol.-History of Europe from 1815 to 1852, 8 vol.-Atlas to Alison's History of Europe, about 100 maps, together 22 vol., hf. cf., Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1853-58, 12mo. (atlas vol. oblong 8vo.), (3), Nov. 17, American Art Association Alison (Sir A.) History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to 1815, with the 4to. Atlas, 15 vol., ports. and maps, 1858-75, 8vo. (36), May 20, Sotheby Walford, £2 12S. Alken (H.) Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse, first ed., 18 col. plates, orig. printed bds., uncut (rebacked), S. and J. Fuller, 1816, imp. 8vo. (899), July 5, Sotheby

$10

Maggs, £2 Alken (H.) Cockney's Shooting Season, in Suffolk, 6 col. plates, hf. cf., Thomas McLean, 1822, folio (1167), July 28, Sotheby Spencer, £20 Alken (H.) Illustrations to Popular Songs, col. title and 42 col. plates, hf. mor. ex., t.e.g., Thomas McLean, 1822, oblong folio (42), March 4. Sotheby David, £8 Alken (H.) Illustrations to Popular Songs, col. title and 42 col. plates (title repaired, some plates thumbed), orig. hf. roan, with leather label, Thomas M'Lean, 1825, folio (494), July 1, Sotheby David, £10 Alken (H.) National Sports of Great Britain, first ed., 50 col. plates (title loose, a few stains and a little thumbed), cf. (rubbed and one joint cracked), Thomas McLean, 1821, folio (476), Dec. 17, Sotheby Brall, £150 Alken (H.) The National Sports of Great Britain, 50 col. plates, hf. mor. ex. (rubbed), g.e., Thomas M'Lean, 1823, roy. folio (761), Nov. 12, Sotheby Spencer, £205

[£145, Spencer, hf. cf. (broken and back strip off), title torn, some stains, March 4, Sotheby, Lot 234.] Alken (H.) National Sports of Great Britain, 50 col. plates (engraved by Alken himself), brilliant and spotless impressions, with all the orig. tissues, orig. hf. mor., wholly uncut, fine copy, T. McLean, 1825, 4to. (248), July 7, Hodgson Robson, £105

[46 10s., hf. mor., g.e., Feb. 17, Puttick, Lot 590.] Alken (H.) National Sports of Great Britain, 50 col. plates,

hf. mor., uncut, g.t., New York, 1904, roy. folio (1055), Dec. I Sotheby Moore, £3 10S. Alken (H.) Seven Ages of Man. See Shakespeare (W.) Alken (H.) Sporting Scrap Book, 50 col. plates, mor., floreate gt. back, a 3-line fillet border, inside panels, t.e.g., by Rivière, wrappers bound in (slightly defective), M'Lean, n.d., 8vo. (4), July 1, Sotheby Maggs, £25 Alken (H.) Symptoms of being amused, first ed., engraved title, with col. vignette, and 41 col. plates (last plate stained), orig. hf. mor., g.e., with leather label, Thos. McLean, 1822, oblong folio (1169), July 28, Sotheby Dawson, £8 IOS.

[£3 5s., hf. roan, g.e., one plate missing, several torn, May 12, Sotheby, Lot 219.] Alken (H.) Touch at the Fine Arts, 12 col. plates, with descriptions, orig. hf. roan, fine copy, McLean, 1824, imp. 8vo. (378), July 1, Sotheby David, £10

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[10, mor., wrappers bound in, fine copy, same sale, Lot 3.] All the Year Round. Christmas Numbers of Household Words" and "All the Year Round," complete set from 1850 to 1867, 18 nos., sewn (5 only with covers), enclosed in open case, 8vo. (487), June 9, Sotheby Spencer, £3 Allen (C. D.) Classified List of early American Book-Plates, plates, one of 78 copies on Japanese vell, parchment wrappers, 1895, 8vo. (359), Jan. 1, Puttick Cubitt, £1 8s. Allibone (S. A.) Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, 3 vol.-Supplement, 2 vol., together 5 vol., hf. mor., Philadelphia, 1900, 8vo. (7), July 19, Sotheby Heffer, £3 3s. Allingham (H.) Cottage Homes of England, col. illustrations, one of 500 copies, buckram, 1909, 4to. (226), Nov. 25, Puttick Winter, 18s. Allionius (C.) Flora Pedemontana, port. of Vittorio Amadeo III. and 92 plates, 3 vol. in 1, stamp on title, hf.-title, and reverse of port., cf. (rubbed), Augustae Taurinorum, 1785, folio (240), Feb. 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £1 18s. [Allot (R.)] Englands Parnassus, or The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poetical comparisons whereunto are annexed other various discourses, first ed., mor. gt., by Stikeman, Imprinted at London, for N.L.C.B. and T.H., 1600, 12m0., 5 by 3 inches (24), March 22, American Art Association $375

[Collation: Title, I leaf (verso blank); Dedication by Allot to Sir Thomas Mounson, Knight, in verse, I leaf; To the Reader, in verse, by Allot, I leaf; Table and Errata, 3 leaves; The work, B-Kk 7 in eights. The three blank leaves, two at beginning and one at end, are missing, as in practically all copies. £6 5s., imperfect at end, some leaves frayed or wormed, orig. vell., June 9, Sotheby, Lot 330.]

Al-Makkari (Ahmed). History of the Mohamedan Dynasties in

signature of Sir (274), Feb. 10, Heffer, £3 10s.

$48

Spain, trans. by P. de Gayangos, 2 vol., Clements Markham on title, 1840-3, 4to. Sotheby Almanach Royal, Année M.DCC.LXXXV. . par Laurent D'Houry, Ayeul de l'Editeur, vignette on title, contemp. French mor., panels on black filled with gt. ornaments, fillets on sides, with fleurs-de-lis in corners, inside gt. borders, gt. over red edges, by Derome [Paris, chez d'Houry, 1785], 8vo. (92), Nov. 17, American Art Association Alphand (A.) Promenades de Paris, histoire, description des emblessements, dépenses de création et d'entretien des Bois de Boulogne et de Vincennes, etc., engravings, woodcuts and col. plates, 2 vol., hf. mor. ex., g.t., Paris, 1867-73, folio (687), Dec. 1, Sotheby Dickens, £6 1OS. Alpine Club. Journal (The), a Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club, with Index to Vol. i.-xv., map and plates, some col., including the scarce plate of "The Dragon in Vol. iii., but wanting "A Narrow Arête" in Vol. ii., Vol. i. to xxxii., cl. (the last vol. in parts and bindings of 3 vol. worn), a complete set to date, 1864-1919, 8vo. (275), Feb. 18, Hodgson

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11 15s., Vol. i.-xxv. and Index as above, together 26 vol., as issued, June 16, Sotheby, Lot 599.] Alpine Club. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, first ed., plates, 3 vol., orig. cl., 1859-62, 8vo. (457), Nov. 25, Puttick

Edwards, £2 12s. 6d.

[1 178. 6d., orig. cl., April 14, Puttick, Lot 234.] Alpine Portfolio, ed. by Oscar Eckenstein and August Lorria, 100 plates, with descriptions, in a portfolio, published by the editors [1889], 4to. (1160), Feb. 10, Sotheby

Edwards, 10S. Altdorfer (A.) Icones Sacrae in historiam salutis humanæ per Redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum (the Little Passion), woodcut title (top border shaved), 38 woodcuts, with letterpress and borders impressed on one side of the paper, old cf., n.d., sm. 4to. (151), March 15, Sotheby Mitchell, £7 IOS. [Attributed on the title to Dürer, but really by Altdorfer.] Alyone (P. P.) Cours de Botanique, pour servir à l'éducation des enfans de S. A. le Duc d'Orléans, 7 parts, with engraved titles to each, and 103 col. plates by J. Aubry, hf. mor., g.e., not subject to return, Paris (1787-8), folio (427), June 16, Sotheby Quaritch, £10

[This work was never finished; see Brunet I., 206, who gives 101 plates.] Amadis of Gaul. The most excellent and pleasaunt Booke, entituled The treasure of Amadis of Fraunce, conteyning eloquente orations, by thie Epistles, learned Letters and fervent Compayntes, black letter, title within woodcut border, last leaf mounted (some 11. stained), old cf. (re

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