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199 ANGLING.-WALTON (Isaac) and COTTON (Charles) THE COMPLETE ANGLER, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing, and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, with Original Memoirs and Notes by SIR HARRIS NICOLAS. William Pickering, 1836. With portraits and magnificent series of illustra tions by THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A., Inskipp, etc., 2 vols, royal 8vo, fine copy in the original cloth, £10 10s Another copy, WITH PROOF IMPRESSIONS OF ALL THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATIONS, 2 vols, royal 8vo, original half roxburgh, edges ENTIRELY UNCUT (being unopened by paper knife)

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201 ANGLING.-WILSON (J.) THE ROD AND THE GUN, being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting, by JAMES WILSON, F.R.S.E., and by the Author of "The Oakleigh Shooting Code." 1841. FIRST EDITION, numerous very choice plates, 8vo, cloth, uncut 12s

202 ANGLING.-Young Angler's Companion, giving a description of all the different Methods of Angling. (Circa 1820) Coloured frontispiece, 8vo, paper covers (a chap book treatise) 1s 6d

203 ANGLING.-Young (Lambton J. H.) Sea-Fishing as a Sport, being an Account of the Various Kinds of Sea Fish, how, when, and where to catch them in their various seasons and localities. 1865. Engravings, 8vo, cloth 3s 6d

204 ANGLO-SAXON.-Fox (S.) The Poetical Calendar of the Anglo-Saxons, with English Translations and Notes. Pickering, 1830. 8vo, cloth

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205 ANGLO-SAXON.-Gwilt (J.) Rudiments of a Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue. Pickering, 1829. 8vo, cloth

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206 ANGLO-SAXON.-Illustrations of the ANGLO-SAXON POETRY, by JOHN JOSIAS CONYBEARE, M.A., etc. 1826. LARGE PAPER, royal 8vo, calf gilt, by BEDFORD £1 5s 207 ANJOU (The Duke of) HIS SUCCESSION CONSIDERED as to its Legality and Consequences, with Reflections on the French King's Memorial to the Dutch, and on what may be the Interest of the several Princes and States of Christendom with respect to the present Conjuncture, etc Dublin, 1701. 4to, newly half bound 4s

208 APPARITIONS. A True and Perfect Account of a Strange and Dreadful Apparition which lately Infested and Sunk a Ship bound for NEWCASTLE, called the Hopewell, of London, and of the Strange Deliverance of John Pye, Master, and Nine Men more, who were all examined and sworn to the truth of the following Relation before Justice Wood, of London. 1672. Quarto, sewn 7s 6d

209 ARCHERY. AN ESSAY ON ARCHERY, describing the Practice of that Art in all Ages and Nations, by Walter Michael Moseley. 1792. Frontispiece by THOMAS STOTHARD, and several fine plates, 8vo, old red morocco extra, gilt edges 15s 210 ARCHERY. -THE ARCHER'S GUIDE, containing full Instructions for the use of that Ancient and Noble Instrument, the Bow, Directions for the Choice of Arrows, and all Information essential to the attainment of Theoretical Proficiency in the Graceful, Manly, and Fashionable Pastime of Archery, accompanied by a Sketch of the History of the Long Bow, whether as a Weapon of War or an Instrument of Amusement, by an Old Toxophilite. 1833. Folding coloured frontispiece by R. Cruikshank, 12mo, cloth 7s 6d

211 ARCHITECTURE.-Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and Modern Taste, being above Fifty entire New Designs of Plans, Sections, Elevations, etc., for Gardens, Parks, Forests, Woods, Canals, etc., etc, by Charles Over. 1758. With 54 copperplates, 8vo, fine copy, in old calf 12s

212 ARCTIC.-A Voyage of the King of Sweden, and another of Mathematicians sent by him, in which are discovered the Refraction of the Sun, which Sets Not in the Northern Parts at the time of the Summer Solstice, Variation of the Needle, Latitudes of Places, Seasons, etc., of those Countries. 1698. Cuts, 12mo, old calf 7s 6d 213 ARITHMETIC-BAKER (HUMPHREY) THE WELL SPRING OF SCIENCES, which teacheth the Perfect Worke and PRACTICE OF ARITHMETICKE, both in whole numbers and fractions, set forth by Humfrey Baker, Londoner, whereunto is added certaine Tables of the Agreement of the MEASURES AND WEIGHTS OF DIVERS PLACES IN EUROPE the one with another. 1631. Black Letter, 12mo, old sheep, repaired 18s

The third part is devoted to " NECESSARY QUESTIONS WHICH ARE USED IN THE TRADE OF MErchandize." 214 ARIOSTO ED BOJARDO.-Bibliographical Notices of some Early Editions. of the Orlando Innamorata and Furioso, by A. Panizzi. Pickering, 1831. Crown 8vo, portrait on INDIA PAPER, ONLY 24 COPIES PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION

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215 ARMY.-Several Letters from Scotland relating the Proceedings of the Army there. Read in Parliament Sept. 6, 1650. 4to, half bound

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216 ARNOLD (Matthew) POEMS. 1853.-POEMS, second series. 1855.-FIRST EDITIONS OF THE TWO SERIES, 2 vols, small 8vo, in the original green cloth, uncut, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO " E. P. ARNOLD, All Souls'," with Autograph Inscription on flyleaf £4 4s

217 ART.-The Industrial Arts, Historical Sketches. (1876.) Numerous beautiful illustrations of furniture, gold, silver, bronze, and iron work, pottery, porcelain, majolica, glass, etc., arms and armour, etc, 8vo, half morocco, uncut 12s

218 ARWAKER (Edmund, M.A.) Fons Perennis, a Poem on the Excellent and Useful Invention of making Sea-water Fresh, humbly dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1686. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, sewn 4s 6d 219 ARWAKER (Edmund, M.A.) The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, occasioned by the Death of our late Gracious Sovereign, KING CHARLES II. 1685. The Second Part of the Vision, a Pindarick Ode, occasioned by THEIR MAJESTIES' HAPPY CORONATION. 1685. FIRST EDITIONS, two parts, small folio, sewn 59

220 ASCHAM (Roger) TOXOPHILUS, THE SCHOLE OR PARTITIONS OF SHOOTING, CONTAINED IN II BOOKES, written by ROGER ASCHAM, 1544, and now newlye perused, PLEASAUNT FOR ALL GENTLEMEN AND YOMEN OF ENGLAND FOR THEYR PASTIME TO READE, AND PROFITABLE FOR THEIR USE TO FOLLOWE BOTH IN WARRE AND PEACE. Imprinted at London, in Flete Streate neare to Saint Dunstone's Church, by Thomas Marshe. Anno 1571. (See reproduction.) Black Letter, small 4to, calf extra £6 6s 221 ASHTON (John) An Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton at his Execution to Sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London, together with the PAPER ITSELF. 1690. Quarto, sewn

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222 ASSHETON (W., D D.) A Seasonable Apology for the Honours and Revenues of the Clergy. 1676. Portrait, 8vo, original calf

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223 ASSHETON (William, M.A.) Toleration Disapproved and Condemned by the Authority, and convincing Reasons of the Wise and Learned King James, and his Privy Council, etc. Oxford, 1670. Small 4to

224 ASSEMBLY-MAN (The), written in the Year 1647. 1662. plate. Small 4to, half calf

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225 ASTROLOGY.-ASTROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS and Predictions for the Year of Our Lord 1682, wherein are briefly shewn the Significations of the Late Comet, which appeared most manifestly to us in December, 1680, and of the Two Great Eclipses of the Moon, and what Eminent Changes, and Sorrowful Events are likely to happen in many, if not most Countries in the World, from the influences of the three conjunctions of Saturne and Jupiter (in the Fiery sign of Leo) in 1682 and 1683, etc., etc., by JOHN SILVESTER. 1682. 4to, woodcut, sewn 10s

226 ASTROLOGY.-HOWARD (HENRY, late Earl of Northampton) A DEFENSATIVE AGAINST THE POYSON OF SUPPOSED PROPHECIES, not hitherto Confuted by the Pen of any Man, which being grounded, either upon the Warrant and Authority of Old Painted Books. Expositions of Dreams, Oracles, Revelations, Invocations of Damned Spirits, Judicials of Astrology, or any other kind of Pretended Knowledge whatsoever, De futuris contingentibus; have been causes of great disorder in the Commonwealth, especially among the simple and unlearned People, very needful to be published considering the great offence, which grew by most palpable and grosse errors in Astrologie. 1620. Elaborate border around title, folio, fine copy, in the original calf £1 10s

Scarce. The Corser copy sold in 1869 for £2 12s 6d. This elaborate work is replenished with variety of learned authorities from the Ancients, and historical examples of all times.'-Oldys' British Librarian.

227 ASTROLOGY.-LILLY (WILLIAM) ANIMA ASTROLOGIE, or a Guide for Astrologers, being the Considerations of the famous Guido Bonatus, faithfully rendered into English, as also the Choicest Aphorisms of Cardan's Seaven Segments, translated, and methodically digested under their proper heads, with a new Table of the Fixed Stars, rectified for several years to come, and divers other necessary illustrations, a work most useful and necessary for all students, and recommended as such to the Sons of Art. 1676. FIRST EDITION, with a brilliant engraved frontispiece containing portraits of LILLY, GUIDO, and CARDAN (see reproduction). 12mo, a fine copy in calf extra £2 2s 228 ASTROLOGY.-Lilly (William) England's Propheticall Merline, foretelling to all Nations of Europe, until 1663, the Actions depending upon the Influence of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1643. The Progresse and Motion of the Comet, 1618, under whose effects we in England and most Regions of Europe now suffer. What Kingdomes must yet partake of the remainder of the influence, viz. of War, Plague. Famine, etc. When the English Common Wealth may expect Peace, and the City of London better times. The Beginning and End of the Watry Trygon, an Entrance of the Fiery Triplicity, 1603. The Nativities of some English Kings, and some Horary Questions inserted. 1644. Quarto, sewn £1 1s

229 ASTROLOGY.-MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN, the Second Part of Mene Tekel, treating of the year 1689, and modestly shewing what may probably be conjectured to succeed in the affairs of Europe in general, and of England, Scotland, Holland, and France in particular, with something also about the affairs of Ireland, and the French King's force there, etc., by JOHN PARTRIDGE, 1689. 4to, sewn 7s 6d

230 ASTROLOGY.-SIDROPHEL VAPULANS, or the Quack-Astrologer tossed in a blanket, by the author of Medicatus, in an Epistle to William Salmon, with a Postscript, reflecting briefly on his late Scurrilous Libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entitled a Rebuke to the Authors of the Blue Book. (1698.) Small 4to, half calf £1 1s

231 ASTRONOMY.-Brahe (Tychonis) Relatio de Statu suo post discessum ex patria in Germaniam et Bohemiam ad M. Andr. Velleium ex manuscripto, edita A. M. Godofr. Bernh. Casseburgh. Jenæ, apud Jo. Fridericum Ritterum, 1730.- Deo Duce & Auspice Summo! Pro Hypothesi Tychonis, contra Dogma Capernicanum, quo Communiter: Terram Moveri sidera zero quiescere afferitur, etc., ex Mathematicis in Florentissimâ Wittebergâ publice disputabunt præses G. C. Kirchmaier, Uffenhemio Francus. & Respondens Johannes Martinus Miller, almâ Suevus. Literis Johannes Haken, 1658.- Dissertatio Historico-Mathematica de Vita. Scriptis et Inventis Joanise Kepleri, quam kectore Universetatis Eberhardino-Carolina Magnificentissimo serenissimo atnqu patentissimo Duæ ac Domino Coralo Duce Wirtembergiæ Regnante rel. Principe ac Domino longe Clementissimo consentiente amplissimo Philosophorum ordine Præside Viro excellentissimo atque doctissimo Domino JOHANNE KIES. Auctor J. H. Rumelin. Tubinga Litteriis Fuesi, anis.- HERMANNI WHITEKINDI Oratio de Doctrina & Studio Astronomia, Neapoli Nemetum excudebat Matthæus Harnisch. 1650.-THEORIA SATURNI ASTRONOMICA quam Aeteriæ Mentis Favore, præside Da. Johan. Ludovico Moegling. Phil, & Medicinæ Doctori, hujus, ut & Matheseos in Alma Tubingensium Universitate Professione Publico, Pro secundæ Laureæ Honoribus impetrandis publice pro viribus defendendum suscipit, Johan-Chustop, Stebb. Tubinga Typis Johann. Alex. Celli, 1660. – Prælucente stella ex Jacob, Stellam Nati Jesuti a Magis Visam, publicæ luci animo devote intuendum exponunt, præses, M. Simon Fridericus Frentzelius, Cot busiensis-Lusatus, et respondens JOHANNES DÖRERUS. Wittemberga Litteris Matthæi Henckelie, 1687.-Phurus, sive de Prodigiis Ignes Cœlestibus, ut vulgo vocantur, ex omni ævo collectis, Dissertatio Historico-Mathematica, occasione Coruscationum Borealium, nuper visarum, una cum causis et prædictionibus istarum, quæ moderante auctore Jo. Georgio Liebknecht, &c. Giessa, Typis Johannis Mülleri (1721). Plates of Comets, etc., and three other German tracts on Comets also in the volume. Nine tracts in one volume, quarto, calf, RARE £4 4s 232 ASTRONOMY.-OPUSCULUM JOHANNIS DE SACRO BUSTO SPHERICUM cum notabili commento atq. figuris textum declaratibus utillisimus. (Colophon Impressum Agrippine per honestu virum Henricum Quentell.) 1500. With 28 very quaint woodcuts, 4to, morocco gilt, slightly wormed £2 2$

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233 AUBREY (John) MISCELLANIES UPON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, a new edition, with Considerable Improvements, and some Account of his Life. 1784. 8vo, BEST EDITION, nice copy, in russia gilt, marbled edges £1 10s

A most interesting work, dealing with Dreams, Apparitions, Lucky and Unlucky Days, Omens, etc., to some length, of which a great many curious instances are given. The book forms a very complete history concerning all forms of superstition. 234 AUGUSTINE (Saint) A Right Christian Treatise, entituled S. AUGUSTINE'S PRAIERS, published in more ample sort than yet it hath bin in the English Tong, purged from divers superstitious points, and adorned with manifold places of the S. Scripture, by Thomas Rogers, whereunto is annexed S. Augustine's Psalter, translated and quoted by the same T. R Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham, 1581. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, russia extra

235 -- Another edition. 1591. 12mo, half calf

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236 AUGUSTINE (Saint) THE CONFESSIONS OF S. AUGUSTINE, D of the Church, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. Printed at Paris, 1638. ARMS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY ON SIDES 237 AUSTEN (William) ATLAS UNDER OLYMPUS, an Heroick Poem. Author, 1664. 8vo, calf extra, by C. Smith EXCEEDINGLY RARE PORTRAITS OF CHARLES II. (see reproduction), AND THE DUKE OF ALBEMARLE both fine impressions inserted £4 10s

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238 AUSTRALASIA.-A VOYAGE TO BOTANY BAY, with a Description of the Country, Manners, Customs, Religion, etc., of the Natives, by the celebrated George Barrington, to which is added his Life and Trial. N.D. (about 1800).-A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales, comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs, etc., of the Natives, etc. 1801. 2 vols in 1, frontispiece and vignette, small 8vo, half old boards £1 1s

239 AUSTRALASIA.-Barrington (G.) Voyage to New South Wales, with a Description of the Country, the Manners, Customs, Religion, of the Natives in the Vicinity of Botany Bay. N.D. (circa 1800) 8vo, sewn 5$

240 AUSTRALASIA.-Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand, by RICHARD A. CRUISE, Esq., Captain in the 84th Regt. Foot. 1823. Coloured plate of the Chief of New Zealand, Tetori,' 8vo, half morocco neat 15s 241 AUSTRALASIA. THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES: being a Faithful Picture of the Real Romance of Life in Botany Bay, with Anecdotes of Botany Bay Society, and a Plan of Sydney by James Mudie, Esq. 1837. Map, 8vo, cloth

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242 AUSTRALASIA.-Travels in NEW ZEALAND, with Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany, and Natural History of that Country, by ERNEST DIEFFENBACK, M.D. 1843. Plates, 2 vols, 8vo, cloth, UNCUT £1 10s

243 AUSTRALASIA.-Two YEARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, comprising Sketches of the actual State of Society in that Colony, of its peculiar Advantages to Emigrants, of its Topography, Natural History, etc., by P. CUNNINGHAM, Surgeon, R.N. 1827. With a folding map, 2 vols, 8vo, boards, uncut 12s

244 AVENAR (Rev. John) THE ENIMIE OF SECURITIE: a Daily Exercise of Godly Meditations, translated by THOMAS ROGERS. Humphrey Lowndes, 1615. 16m0, polished calf 12s 6d 245 AYLETT (Robert) DIVINE AND MORAL SPECULATIONS, in Metrical Numbers, upon Various Subjects, by DR. R. AYLETT, one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery. 1651. With a brilliant impression of the rare and exceedingly choice portrait of the Author (see reproduction), by T. CROSS, Small 8vo, calf extra, choicely tooled, gilt edges, by the late FRANCIS BEDFORD £4 18s First collected edition of the author's Poetical Effusions, and in the present copy is inserted A Wife, not Ready-Made, but Bespoken, by Dicus the Batchelor, and made up for him by his fellow shepherd Tityrus. In Four Pastoral Eglogues, 1653. There are also poems on Susanna, or the arraignment of the two unjust Elders; aud Joseph's or Pharaoh's Favourite. These have separate title-pages. And at the end is a rare page of contents found only in some copies. 246 AYRES (Philip) LYRIC POEMS, made in Imitation of the Italians, of which many are Translations from other Languages. 1687. FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, small 8vo, fine clean copy in original calf £2 2s 247 [AYTOUN (W. E.) and Sir T. Martin] THE BOOK OF BALLADS, edited by Bon Gaultier. Wm. Orr & Co., 1845. FIRST EDITION, with numerous plates by ALFRED CROWQUILL, 12mo, calf extra, original covers at end, by RIVIERE £2 18s 248 B.-DISCOLLIMINIUM, or a most obedient reply to a late book called Bounds and Bonds, so farre as concerns the first demurrer and no further, or rather a Reply to Bounds only, leaving Bonds to the second Demurrer and Grand Casuist, by "B." Printed in the yeere 1650. 4to, newly half bound 4s 6d 249 BACON (Francis, Lord Verulam) A COLLECTION OF SOME PRINCIPAL RULES AND MAXIMS OF THE COMMON LAWES OF ENGLAND, with their Latitude and Extent, explicated for the more facile introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that noble profession, by Sir Francis Bacon, then Solicitor-Generall to the late renowned Queene Elizabeth, and since Lord Chancellor of England. 1636. THE USE OF LAW, provided for preservation of our Person's Goods and Good Names according to the Practice of the Lawes and Customs of this Land. 1635. BOTH FIRST EDITIONS, small 4to, £1 5s

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250 BACON (Francis, Lord Verulam) A True Relation of the Ground, Occasion, and Circumstances of that HORRIBLE MURTHER COMMITTED BY JOHN BARTRAM, Gent., upon the body of SIR JOHN TYNDAL, of Lincoln's Inne, Knight, one of the Masters of the Honorable Court of Chancery, the twelfth day of this instant Novemb., written by the way of letter from a Gentleman to his Country Friend, together with the Examination of the said Bartram, taken before the RT. HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT, his Majesties Attorney General. and Sir Henry Yelverton, Knight, his Majesties Solliciter, according to special directions given by his Majestie in that behalf. At London, printed by John Beale, 1616. Small 4to, a very rare tract, sewn £1 1s 251 BACON (Francis, Lord Verulam) CERTAINE MISCELLANY WORKS of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban, Published by William Rawley, Doctor of Divinity, one of his Majesties Chaplaines. 1629. FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, very fine copy £1 5s Contains: Considerations Touching a War with Spaine-An Advertisement Touching an Holy War-A Digest to be made of the Laws of England-and The History of the Reign of King Henry the Eight. 252

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253 BACON (Francis) FRANCISCI DE VERULAMIO SUMMI ANGLIÆ Cancellarii Instauratio Magna [i.e., Novum Organum, Sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturæ]. Londini, 1620. FIRST EDITION, beautifully engraved title by S. Pass (see reproduction), small folio, very fine and clean copy in old calf £5 5s

254 BACON (Francis) SYLVA SYLVARUM, or a Natural Historie in Ten Centuries, written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount S. Alban, published after the Author's death, by William Rawley, D.D. 1631. Small folio, old calf, rebacked 9s

255 BACON (Francis) THE ESSAYS or COUNSELS, CIVILL AND MORALL, of Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban, newly enlarged. 1632. EARLY AND SCARCE EDITION, 4to, newly bound in polished orange calf, fine copy, exceedingly large and clean £1 10s 256 BACON (Francis) THE ESSAYS or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of FRANCIS LO. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN, with a Table of the Colours, or Apparances of Good and Evil. 1639. Square 4to, original calf £1 1s

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