HOOD'S OWN, or LAUGHTER FROM YEAR TO

YEAR, with portrait, and many comic woodcuts from the Author's own drawings. Both series, 2 vols., 8vo, best edition, newly bound in half calf gilt. 1868. $13.50. 934 HOOD. MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG, a Golden Legend, illustrated by 60 most beautiful drawings by Capt. Secombe, engraved in outline by F. Joubert, the text of the work engraved throughout, and printed with the utmost care on India Paper, folio, an elegant volume, in characteristic cloth binding, gilt edges (pub. £10 10s.) $25. 4to edition. $10. 935

HOOKE, N. ROMAN HISTORY, from the building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. 6 vols., 8vo, with maps, elegantly half bound. 1823. $10.75.

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As a wit and humorist of the highest order "his name will be preserved. His political songs and jeux d'esprit, when the hour comes for collecting them, will form á volume of sterling and lasting attraction !" J. G. Lockhart. The time has arrived, and Hook's inimitable songs, jokes, and stories are here for the first time gathered together for the amusement of readers who delight in the hearty waggeries of the old school of humorists.

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HOOKER. SECOND CENTURY OF FERNS, being figures with brief Descriptions, of One Hundred, New, Rare, or imperfectly known Species of Ferns, from various parts of the World, 100 finely coloured plates, with magnified figures, a large thick vol., impl. 8vo, half morocco (pub. £2 88.) $12. 943 HOOKER, R. WORKS, including the Ecclesiastical Polity, &c., with Life by Izaac Walton, edited by Keble, fac-simile, 3 vols., 8vo, cloth. Oxford, 1841. $8. Calf. $13.50. 944

"The adamantine and imperishable work of Hooker," says Dr. Parr, "is the Ecclesiastical Polity." Bp. Warburton calls him "the excellent, the admirable, the best man of our order."

Pope Clement the VIIIth, said of Hooker, "This man, indeed, deserves the name of an author, his books will get reverence by age; for there is in them such seeds of eternity that they shall continue till the last fire shall consume all learning."

HOPE, T.

ANASTASIUS, or MEMOIRS OF A GREEK. Written at the close of the Eighteenth Century. 3 vols., 8vo, half morocco, uncut. Best edition. Scarce. 1820. $7.50. Another edition. 2 vols., post 8vo, half calf, gilt, scarce. $4.25.

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"I would have given any one of my best reputed poems to have been the author of Anastasius."- - Byron.

HOPE, THOS. COSTUME OF THE ANCIENTS.

321 plates of Egyptian, Grecian and Roman Costume. 2 vols., imperial 8vo, cloth. 1841. $13.50. New half morocco, gilt, uncut. $18.946 A book valuable alike to the artist, actor and amateur. Good impressions, very scarce.

HOPKINS, E. J. THE ORGAN, ITS HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION: a Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ, preceded by an entirely New History of the Organ and Memoirs of the most eminent Builders of the 17th and 18th Centuries, by E. F. Rimbault, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, thick royal 8vo, new half calf, gilt tops, fine copy, scarce. 1855. $16. 947

HORATII OPERA, cura Pyne, finely engraved throughout, and illustrated with many very beautiful vignettes, brilliant impressions. 2 vols., calf gilt. 1733-7. $30. 948

This well known and beautiful edition is much esteemed by the collector of the classics as well as the collectors of Livres de Luxe. It is the most beautiful edition of Horace.

HORATII OPERA, cura H. MILMAN, elegantly printed on fine paper, the pages embellished with floreated and Etruscan borders in colors after designs by Owen Jones, and the text illustrated by nearly 500 beautiful woodcuts from the antique, by G. Scharf. 8vo, boards, original edition, scarce, clean copy, free from spots, superbly bound in morocco, Roger Payne style, burnished, gilt edges over carmine, a delicious copy. $43. 949 HORATII. Another copy exquisitely bound in panelled calf, gilt tops, uncut, by Zahnsdorff. $32. 950 HORACE. LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY SMART. New edition, carefully revised by an Oxonian, Post 8vo. 1857. $1.75. 951 HORNE. HISTORY OF NAPOLEON. Illustrated by several hundred spirited engravings by Horace Vernet, &c. 2 vols., royal 8vo, half calf extra. 1841. $10.50. 952

A very fair work considered both in respect of its literary value and its style and qualities as a book. HORNE, T. H. INTRODUCTION to the STUDY

of the HOLY SCRIPTURES. Eleventh edition, · revised, corrected, and brought down to the present time, edited by the Rev. Thos. Hartwell Horne, B. D., the Rev. Jon. Ayre, M.A., and S. P. Tregelles, LL. D., maps and facsimiles of Bible Manuscripts. 4 vols., 8vo. 1860. $16. Eleventh Edition, thoroughly revised and all the porion by Dr. Davidson expunged.

HORNE. INTRODUCTION to the STUDY OF BIBLIOGRAPHY, with a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Ancients, engraved facsimiles of type, monograms, &c. 2 vols., 8vo, boards. 1814. $8. 953

This valuable work comprises a collection of papers by the most eminent horticulturists and botanists of the day and is embellished with an extensive series of the most beautiful colored plates of fruit and flowers, equal to the finest Drawings. HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, New series Complete, with numerous fine colored and other engravings of Fruits, Flowers, &c. 9vols., 8vo, half morocco. 1846-55. $25. 955 This forms a continuation to the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, HOUBRAKEN AND VERTUE'S HEADS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS of Great Britain, with their Lives and Characters, by Dr. Birch, 108 magnificent portraits, most brilliant impres sions, fine original copy, folio, morocco. 1756. $60.

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HOSKOLD, H. D. PRACTICAL TREATISE on Mine, Land and Railway Surveying, Engineering, &c., numerous plates and woodcuts. Roy. 8vo, cloth (pub. $12.) 1863. $5. 957 HOWARD, FRANK. The SPIRIT OF THE PLAYS of SHAKESPEARE, Exhibited in a Series of Outline Plates Illustrative of the Story of each Play; with Quotations and DePlates. scriptions. Original Impressions. 5 vols., 8vo, cloth. 1833. $25. 958 HOWARD. COLOUR AS A MEANS OF ART, being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the Practice of Amateurs, 17 coloured plates. 8vo, cloth. 1838. $3.50. 959 HOWARD, GEORGE. LADY JANE GREY and her Times. Portrait and several Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, half calf. 1822. $2. 960 HOWELL, J. FAMILIAR LETTERS. Domestic and Foreign, partly historical, political, and philosophical. 8vo. 1754, $2.50. 961

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highly important series of trials which it is to be hoped American Lawyers will make haste to secure before they become "introuvable."

HOWITT, MARY. PICTORIAL CALENDAR OF THE SEASONS, exhibiting the Pleasures and Pursuits of Country Life, for every Month, and embodying the whole of Aikin's Calendar of Nature, with upwards of 100 engravings on wood. Post 8vo, cloth. 1854. $1.75. Half calf. $2.75. 963 "Her observation of nature is accurate and intense."Christopher North.

HOWITT, S. NEW WORK OF ANIMALS. De

signed from the Fables of Esop, Gay and Phaedrus. Fifty-six very beautiful and spirited

chings from Life. Fine original impres sions. 4to, half bound. 1811. $6.50. 964 HOWITT, WILLIAM. HOMES AND HAUNTS

of the most Eminent British Poets, with numerous beautiful woodcuts of famous Localities, Dwellings, etc. 2 vols., 8vo, Elegant copy, polished calf, gilt. 1847. $17. 965 HOWITT. NORTHERN HEIGHTS OF LONDON,

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HUME, DAVID. PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. Including all the Essays and exhibiting the more important Alterations and Correction in the Successive Editions published by the Author. Best edition. Portrait. 4 vols., 8vo, cloth, Edinburgh, $12. Polished calf extra, fine copy. $20. 990 HUME, D. ESSAYS. Literary, Moral and Political. Post 8vo, cloth, new. $1. A careful reprint of the best edition. HUME. HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Bowyer's Magnificent Edition. The History of England, by David Hume, in Ten Volumes Atlas folio, superbly printed in large bold type by Bensley, and illustrated with over Two HUNDRED PLATES, containing Historical Subjects by Stothard, Romney, Smirke, Northcote, Opie, &c. Portraits, Naval and Military Engagements, Coins, Medals, &c., the whole engraved by the first artists of the day, in rich and massive full russia binding, extra gilt and gilt edges, in splendid condition. 1800. $100. This grand national work was undertaken to show the point of skill at which the Arts of typography and book illustration had arrived it is a matchless specimen and stands little chance of being rivalled. It is one of the most finely printed books ever produced in any country, was published at £70. The PLATES comprise PORTRAITS, HISTORICAL SUBJECTS, BATTLES, ANTIQUITIES, COINS, MEDALS, &c., and are the finest productions of Stothard. Smirke, Opie, Landseer, Bartolozzi, Fittler,

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OF PRINTING; its invention and Progress to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century, with 105 plates, comprising facsimiles from the most remarkable Block-Books, including 44 facsimiles of the Press of Caxton, Wynken De Worde, Pynson, and others, impl. 4to, extra cloth. 1868. $17.50.. 996 HUMPHREYS. ART OF WRITING, History of the Origin and Progress of the, illus trated with 28 plates containing several hun dred specimens of writing, from the earliest to the latest periods. Imp. 8vo, elegantly bound in a unique style in imitation of elaborately carved oak. 1855. $12. 997 A beautiful and interesting volume, many of the plates are finely executed in gold and colors,

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HUMPHREYS.

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999

The author has, with the exception of a few specimens from Lucas v. Leyden and A. Dürer, avoided the wellknown series of illustrations of the Passion of Our Saviour, as also Missals, Books of Prayer and Bibles, examples from which have been already reproduced in so many other works; nevertheless the volume has been enriched with specimens from the beautiful French "Books of Hours," and, in one or two special cases, from a few remarkable Bibles. HUMPHREYS.

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