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proofs, 4 vol., French cf. gt., m.e., A Paris, Chez Brunet, 1775-83, 8vo. (6), July 1, Sotheby Hammond, £24 Aristophanes. Comoediae Novem Graece (cum scholiis Graecis et praefatione Graeca Marci Musurii), editio princeps, clean and unpressed copy, hf. bound, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1498, folio (535), March 4, Sotheby Hope, £46 [The inscription on the title-page shows that in 1639 this copy belonged to the Jesuit College at Brussels. It measures 12 by 8 in., and some of the edges of the leaves are uncut.] Aristophanes. Eleven Comedies, literally translated from the Greek Tongue into English, 2 vol., hf. vell., Athenian Society, 1912, 8vo. (240), Dec. 10, Hodgson

P. M. Fraser, £3 38. Aristoteles. De Poetica, D. Heinsius recens. (Gr. et Lat.), Notas addidit, Lug. Bat., 1610-Heinsius (D.) Tragœdiæ constitutione liber, ib., 1611, in 1 vol., mor., De Thou arms on sides and monogram on back, g.e., 1610-11, 8vo. (357), Nov. 25, Puttick Maggs, £8 10S. Aristoteles. In hoc opere continentur totius Philosophie naturalis Paraphrases, gothic letter, woodcut title and diagrams (several 11. wormed, not subject to return), vell., Impressum in Alma Parrhisiorum achademia per Henricum Stephanum . . . 1510, 4to. (396), June 9, Sotheby

Quaritch, LIO IOS. Aristoteles. La Phisica di Aristotile, tradotta di Greco in volgare Italiano per Antonio Bruccioli, title within woodcut border, text red ruled, contemp. mor. tooled and gt. to a Lyonese style, lettered in centre of each cover, silk ties, fine condition, sold as a binding, not subject to return, Venetia, 1551, 8vo. (513), July 26, Sotheby

Todd, £19 Aristoteles. [Opera varia] Theodoro Gaza interprete, old cf. gt., [colophon, on F. 108] Venetiis in aedibus Aldi and Andreae Asulani . . . . 1513, folio (648), Dec. 17, Sotheby Hoare, £6 5s. Aristoteles. Works, trans. by Thomas Taylor, comprising: The Metaphysics, first ed., 1801-The same, second ed., 1812-The Physics, 1806-The Organon, 1807-The Heavens, 1807-History of Animals, 1809-Treatises on the Soul, etc., 1808-The Great and Eudemian Ethics, etc., 1811-Parts of Animals, 1810-Rhetoric, Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics, 1811-Nichomachean Ethics, trans. by W. Bridgman, 1807-Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle by T. Taylor, 1812, together 12 vol., uniform russ. gt., g.e., a fine set, 4to. (97), Feb. 10, Sotheby

Gaston, £33 Arkwright (G. E. P.) Collection of Madrigals, Songs, etc. [temp. XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries], ed. with Memoirs, etc. by Arkwright, in 24 pts., sewn, as issued, 4to. 1889-1901, (67), Feb. 18, Hodgson

£4 15s.

Arliss (H. A.) Funny Library, sixteen numbers (all published),

July 21-Nov. 3, 1832, with title, eight of the cuts have G.
Cruikshank's pencilled initials, cf. ex., uncut, by Rivière,
fine copy, the Truman copy, H. A. Arliss, etc. (1832),
8vo. (29), July 5, Sotheby
Spencer, £4 IOS.
As it hath been

Armin (Robt.) The Valiant Welshman

sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales his servants, Written by R. A. Gent, A-1 in fours, including the front. and title, woodcut front. (cut into), library stamp of Worcester College on title, wrappers, Printed for William Gilbertson, at the Bible without Newgate, 1663, 4to. (384), April 29, Sotheby Dobell, £9 Armstrong (Sir W.) Celebrated Pictures exhibited at the Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 30 plates, India proofs, one of 300 copies, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1887, folio (246), Jan. 1, Puttick Wells, 78. Armstrong (Sir W.) Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, 62 photogravures and 10 lithographic facs. in col., 1898, folio (142), June 16, Sotheby Maggs, £4 15s.

[$44.50, hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., Jan. 20, American Art Association, Lot 48; $35, orig. cl., t.e.g., Large Paper, Nov. 19, American Art Association, Lot 10.] Armstrong (Sir W.) Sir Henry Raeburn, Introduction by R. A. M. Stevenson and Biographical and Descriptive Catalogue by J. L. Caw, 69 plates, 1901, folio (146), June 16, Sotheby Edwards, £4 Armstrong (Sir W.) Sir Joshua Reynolds, 78 photogravures and 6 lithographic facs. in col., buckram, g.t., 1900, folio (138), March 29, Sotheby

£5 IOS.

[2 8s., same state apparently, June 16, Sotheby, Lot 148.] Armstrong (Sir W.) J. M. W. Turner and his works, 103 plates and other illustrations, ed. on Japanese paper, limited to 350 copies, 2 vol., hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., 1902, folio (153), June 16, Sotheby Thorp, £8 10s.

[£2 5s., unbd., Jan. 1, Puttick, Lot 231.] Armstrong (Sir W.) The Thames from its Rise to the Nore, illustrated with nearly 400 engravings in the text and 16 etchings or steel plates, 2 vol. extended to 4 by the addition of 528 engravings and 13 orig. water-colour drawings, 4 vol., mor. gt., by Zahensdorf, each vol. having a different design, Virtue, n.d., 4to. (6A), July 1, Sotheby Sutton, £62 Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army and the Marine Forces, 1782 and 1784-98, 16 vol., contemp. mor. gt., g.e., not uniform, 1782-98, 8vɔ. (23), May 12, Sotheby Styles, 10 IOS.

Arnold (Sir Edwin). A Collection of first editions of the works of Sir Edwin Arnold, 7 vol., cl. and paper, mainly uncut, Oxford and London, v.d., 12mo. and 4to. (16), Ápril 26, Anderson Galleries $22.50

[The Feast of Belshazzar, Arnold's first work, 1852The Book of Good Counsels, 1861-Hero and Leander,

[1873-The Indian Song of Songs, 1875-The Light of Asia, 1879-The Secret of Death, 1885—The Song Celestial, 1885.] [Arnold (Matthew).] Alaric at Rome, a Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL, device, unbd., in case, Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840, post 8vo. (9), March 15, Anderson Galleries $900

Until re

[First ed. Slater remarks of this piece : cently the only copy known was in the library of Mr. Edmund Gosse. A second copy has, however, since been reported." II pages. $500, orig. pink wrappers, in case, April 28, American Art Association, Lot III.]

Arnold (Matthew). The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems. By A., first ed., inscribed on hf.-title in the handwriting of the author: To F. Locker, on his purchase of this Book at a price beyond its value-Non equidem invideo, miror magis... Matthew Arnold," orig. cl., B. Fellows, Ludgate Street, 1849, (252) July 1, Sotheby Bain, £8 5s.

[8 pp. of preliminary matter and pp. 128 of text, 500 copies printed, but only about 100 copies sold, the remainder being withdrawn from circulation.] Arnold (Matthew). Works, ed. by G. W. E. Russell, éd. de luxe, port., 15 vol., orig. art cl., 1903-4, 8vo. (808), Dec. I, Sotheby Hollings, £9 10s. Arnold (R.) [Chronicle, or Customs of London, first ed., black letter (wanted last leaf, supplied in fac., first 3 11. defective and mended, wormed at beginning and end, a few blank margins mended), mor., g.e., n. p. or d. (Antwerp, V. van Doesborgh or A. van Berchem, c. 1502), sm. folio (1888), Oct. 27, Sotheby Dobell, £13 15S.

The ballad of the Nut Brown Maid, of which no early separate ed. is at present known, occupies folios 75-77. £20, old mor. gt., g.e., wanting A8 and B, text on a few Il. shaved, March 15, Sotheby, Lot 22.]

Arnoldus de Villanova. See Villanova.

Ars Morendi, a series of 13 engravings on copper, following the general design of the block-books of the XVth Century, but copied from the series attributed to the Master of 1466, brilliant impressions, mounted in a vol., mor., by Wright, sm. 4to. (13), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £40

[All the engravings, except the first and the thirteenth, have the monogram M.Z., probably Matthæus Zink or Zagel, in the XVIth Century. A description of them will be found in Passavant, vol. ii., p. 1723. From the Huth library, £34 in 1911.]

Art (L'). Revue Hebdomadaire Illustrée, Deuxieme année. Tome IV., plates in two states, fine copy, mor., by Marius Michel et Fils, with inlays, finely col., of flowers and foliage, scrolls, etc., the back of similar workmanship, silk linings, scroll-work border, g.e., Paris, A. Ballue, 1876, folio (115), July 1, Sotheby Louis, £5

Art of Manual Defence; or System of Boxing. By A Pupil of

Humphreys and Mendoza, front. and 9 plates, mor. gt., t.e.g., other edges uncut, by Rivière, G. Kearsley, 1789, 8vo. (278), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £7 Arthington (H.) The Seduction of Arthington by Hacket especiallie, with some tokens of his unfained repentance and submission (title cut into at foot), cf. gt., g.e. (1592), 4to. (199), July 19, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 IOS. Arthur of Little Britaine. History of the most Noble and valyant Knight, Arthur of little Britaine, trans. out of French into English by the noble Iohn Bourghcher Kright, Lord Barners, black letter, woodcuts, including one beneath title, with orig. blank, mor. ex., gilt to a Roger Payne design, g.e., by F. Bedford, Thomas East [1582], sm. 4to. (34), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £92 Arthur of Little Britain (History of), trans. by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, ed. by E. V. Utterson, LARGE PAPER, illuminated and col. miniatures, plates under the supervision of Heath, only 25 copies printed, orig. hf. binding, uncut, fine copy, White Cochrane and Co., 1814, sm. 4to. (902), July 5, Sotheby Athill, £7 5s.

[15, orig. bds., fine copy on Large Paper, June 14, Sotheby, Lot 35.] Arthur (King). The storye of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes Christen, and also of hys noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Table. Newly imprynted and corrected, black letter, woodcut beneath title and cuts in the text, title-page mounted, cf. gt., from the library of the Duke of Roxburghe (£27 16s. in 1812), with his coat-of-arms on sides, [colophon] Imprinted at London by Thomas East dwelling betweene Paules Wharfe and Baynardes Castell, n.d., folio (31), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £250 Arthur (King). The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britaine, as also all the noble Acts of his valiant Knights of the Round Table, black letter, woodcut fronts., that to Part iii. inserted loosely from another copy (last 3 11. mended), 3 parts in I vol., mor. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, William Stansby for Iacob Bloome, 1634, sm. 4to. (32), June 14, Sotheby

Maggs, £31 Arthur (King). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, the text as printed by Caxton in 1485 and trans. by Sir Thomas Malory, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, one of 300 on Dutch handmade paper, 3 vol., orig. cl., 1893-94, 4to. (167), Jan. 1, Puttick Spencer, £14 IOS.

[£4 10s., hf. mor. ex., t.e.g., uncut, edition dated 1909, in 4to., illustrations by Beardsley, March 30, Hodgson, Lot 16.]

Arthur (Sir G.) Story of the Household Cavalry, plates, 2 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., 1909, 4to. (497), July 28, Puttick Wilson, £5 Artistic Japan: a Monthly Illustrated Journal, ed. by S. Bing,

many col. and other reproductions, 6 vol., cl., as issued, 1888-91, folio (236), July 21, Hodgson Maggs, £4 10S. Artois (Robert, Comte d'). L'Exile du Comte d'Artois par le Parlement de Paris, l'an 1331, [begins] Cy parle coment, Mons. Robert Dartoix Conte de Beaumont le Rogier perdy sa cause et cōmet feust jettee contre luy de la contee dartoix et cōment la damoyselle de dijon feust arse, MS. on vellum [French, XIV. cent.], 189 ll. (13 by 10 in.), 33 long lines to a page, with two drawings painted in gold and colours, the first occupying an entire page and depicting the king (Philip VI.) presiding at an assembly or council, old oak bds. covered leather, stamped with rolls of grotesque animals, on lower cover, under a thin piece of horn, fastened with nails, is written, Exiliu Comitis Arthua," from the Hobart collection [illustration in catalogue], XIV. cent., folio (4), July 13, Sotheby £710 Arundel Club. Publications, from the commencement in 1904 to 1910, 7 sets, containing 130 plates in all, in paper portfolios (the 16 plates for 1904 are photogravures and unmounted), 1904-10, folio (253), Dec. 1, Sotheby Barnard, £4 IOS. Ascham (R.) Report and Discourse written by Roger Ascham on the affaires and state of Germany, black letter, title within border (scraped), mor., Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate . . . (c. 1570), sm. 4to. (14), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £8 10s. Ascham (R.) The Schoolemaster, or plaine and perfite way of teaching children the Latin tong, black letter, title within woodcut border (defective), Iohn Daye, 1571Bales (Peter). The Writing Schoolemaster, Thomas Orwin, 1590-Rive (Edmund). Twelve Rules introducing to the Art of Latine, black letter, William Iones, 1620, and six similar pieces, in 1 vol., old cf., sm. 4to. (24), March 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £73 Ascham (R.) Toxophilus. The Schole, or partitions of shooting contayned in ij. bookes, 1544, and now newly perused, etc., black letter, title within woodcut borders, cf. gt., Imprinted at London in Fletestreate_neare to S. Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe. Anno Domini 1571, 4to. (85), April 16, Sotheby Edwards, 11 IOS. Ascham (R.) Toxophilus: the Schoole or partitions of Shooting contayned in two Bookes, black letter, title within woodcut border, woodcut device of printer on last leaf, unbd., Abell Ieffes, 1589, sm. 4to. (26), March 15, Sotheby Tregaskis, £8 10s.

!Toxophilus, with The Schoolmaster, both apparently dated 1589, unbd., £15 10s., July 28, Hodgson, Lot 216.] Asconius Pedianus. See Cicero

Ashbee (H. S.) Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1877-Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, 1879-Cantena Librorum Tacendorum, 1885, together 3 vol., fronts., hf. bd.,

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