194 LA FONTAINE-A Series of Thirty-eight Plates after LANCRET, BOUCHER, EISEN, PATER, etc., illustrating the TALES OF LA FONTAINE, PROOF IMPRESSIONS ON JAPANESE PAPER, in cloth case (only a very limited number issued), £2 108

195 LAHONTAN (Baron) NEW VOYAGES TO NORTH AMERICA, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS OF THAT VAST CONTINENT, THEIR CUSTOMS, COMMERCE, AND WAY OF NAVIGATION UPON THE LAKES AND RIVERS, THE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH гO DISPOSSESS ONE ANOTHER, with Reasons of the Miscarriage of the Former, and the Various Adventures between the French and the IROQUESE CONFEDERATES OF ENGLAND, from 1683 to 1694.-A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF CANADA, and a Natural History of the Country, with Remarks upon their Government, AND THE INTEREST OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THEIR COMMERCE, also a Dialogue between the Author and a General of the Savages, giving a full view of the Religion and Strange Opinions of those People, with an Account of the Author's Retreat to Portugal and Denmark, and his Remarks on those Courts, to which is added a Dictionary of THE ALGONKINE LANGUAGE, which is generally spoken in North America, written by BARON LAHONTAN, Lord-Lieutenant of the French Colony in Newfoundland, and done into English. 1703. Maps and numerous plates, 2 vols, 8vo, very fine copies in original calf, from the Bunbury library, formerly Sir Thos. Hanmer's copy, with his bookplates, dated 1707, £8 88

196 LAKES (English) A Guide to the Lakes in CUMBERLAND, Westmorland, and LANCASHIRE. Kendal, 1807. Map, 8vo, half calf, 68

197 LAKIN (Daniel) A MIRACULOUS CURE OF THE PRUSIAN SWALLOW-KNIFE: BEING DISSECTED OUT OF HIS STOMACK BY THE PHYSITIANS OF REGIMONTO, the Chief City in Prussia, together with the Testimony of the King of Poland, of the Truth of THIS WONDERFUL CURE, likewise the Certificate of the Lords, the States, and all the Physitians of Leyden, translated out of Latin; whereunto is added a Treatise of the Possibility of this Cure, with a History of our owne of the Consolidation of a Wound in the Ventricle, as also a Survey of the Former Translation, and Censure of their Positions. 1642. Curious woodcut, showing the figure of the man who swallowed the knife, with the place where it was taken out of his body, as well as the knife itself, small 4to, old half binding, £2 28

198 LAMB (Charles) ALBUM VERSES, with a few others. 1830. First Edition, 8vo, A VERY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, WITH PAPER LABEL, £4 48

199 LAMB (Charles) THE POETICAL WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB. E. Moxon, 1836. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut, 10s

200 LAMB (Charles) The Works of Charles Lamb [Poems, Plays, Letters, Tales, Essays, etc.]. 1818. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 12mo, morocco extra, gilt edges, £3 38 Another copy, original boards, uncut, £3 158

201 2014 LANG (Andrew) ANGLING SKETCHES. 1891. FIRST EDITION, with etchings and illustrations by BURN-MURDOCK, 8vo, original cloth as issued, 10s 6d

202 LANGLEY (Thomas) AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE NOTABLE WORKE OF POLIDORE VERGILE, CONTEINYNG THE DEVISERS AND FIRST FINDERS OUT AS WELL OF ARTES, MINISTERIES, FEACTES AND CIVIL ORDINANCES AS OF RITES AND CEREMONIES, commonly used in the Churche, and the original beginning of the same. compendiously gathered by THOMAS LANGLEY. Imprinted at London by Richard Grafton, Printer to the Kinges Majestie, Anno 1551. Black Letter, fine engraving at beginning and end, 12mo, old vellum (very scarce), £3 158

203 LAYING (Henry) THE ROD, a Poem, in Three Cantos. Oxford, 1754. Frontispiece, 4tɔ, sewn, uncut, 10s 6d

Relating to posterior flagellation of school-boys. 204 LE HUNT (Alexander) A Poem addressed to Richard, Earl of Burlington, upon his being installed Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. 1730.-A Poem addressed to Lord and Lady Brudenhall upon their Marriage. N.D. (circa 1730). The 2, folio, sewn, 58

205 LEECH (John) JESSIE PHILLIPS, a Tale of the Present Day, by Mrs. Trollope. 1843. FIRST EDITION, with portrait and etchings by JOHN LEECH, and portrait of Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols, 8vo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by Riviere, with the original covers at end, £5 58

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206 LEECH (John).-SMITH (ALBERT) THE STRUGGLES AND ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE at Home and Abroad. 1848. FIRST EDITION, with many beautiful and most characteristic plates by JOHN LEECH, and a portrait of the Author, 8vo, very fine copy in new calf extra, top edges gilt, by RIVIERE (a pretty and very scarce book), £3 188 206a LEECH (John) THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME, by GILBERT ABBOTT à BECKETT. FIRST EDITION, with the clever COLOURED and other illustrations by JOHN LEECH, 8vo, calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, with the cloth covers preserved at end, by RIVIERE, £4 48 207 LEECH (John) THE PORCELAIN TOWER, or Nine Stories of China, compiled from Original Sources by "T.T.T." 1841. FIRST EDITION, with fine etchings by JOHN LEECH, 8vo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, with the original covers at end, £2 128 6d

208 LEECH (John) WRITTEN CARICATURES: a Sketch of Peripatetic Philosophy, from Hints in the Paris Charivari, by Captain Pepper. 1841. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by JOHN LEECH. 12mo, calf extra, gilt top, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, original covers preserved at end, £1 28 6d

209 LEECH (John) “YOUNG TROUBLESOME," OR MASTER JACKY'S HOLIDAYS, from the Blessed Moment of his Leaving School to the Identical Moment of his going back again, showing how there never was such a Boy as that Boy. N.D. FIRST EDITION, with beautifully coloured impressions of the clever etchings, oblong, stained calf extra, gilt edges, with the original covers preserved, by RIVIERE, £4 15s

210 LILLY (John) SIXE COURT COMEDIES, often Presented and Acted before the Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of Her Majesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules, written by the ONLY RARE POET OF THAT TIME, THE WITTE, COMICALL, FACETIOUSLY-QUICKE AND UNPARALLED JOHN LILLY, MASTER OF ARTS. 1632. FIRST EDITION, headlines cut into, 12mo, old red morocco extra, rough edges, £2 108

A copy sold for £5 10s; and Mr. Gaisford's copy sold for £6 158.

211 LILLY (William) CHRISTIAN ASTROLOGY modestly treated of in three books, the first containing the use of an Ephemeris, the erecting of a Scheam of Heaven, Nature of the twelve signes of the Zodiac, of the Planets, with a most easie Introduction to the WHOLE ART OF ASTROLOGY; the second, by a most methodicall way, instructeth the student how to Judge or Resolve all manner of Questions contingent unto man, viz., of HEALTH, SICKNESS, RICHES, MARRIAGE, PREFERMENT, JOURNIES, etc., several Questions insertel and judged; the third contains an EXACT METHOD WHEREBY TO JUDGE UPON NATIVITIES, several wayes how to Rectifie them, how to Judge the General Fate of the Native by the Twelve Houses of Heaven, according to the NATURAL INFLUENCES OF THE STARS, how his particular and annual Accidents, by the Art of Direction and its exact Measure of Time by Profections, Revolutions, Transits, a Nativity judged by the method preceding, by WILLIAM LILLY, Student in Astrology. 1659. Very fine portrait of the author by WILLIAM MARSHALL, thick small 4to, brown calf extra, rough gilt leaves, £3 138 6d

211a LYTTON (Lord) HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS. 1848. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols, 8vo, original half boards, £1 1s

2116 LYTTON (Lord) PAUL CLIFFORD, by the Author of Pelham, etc. 1830. First Edition. 3 vols, 8vo, original boards, UNCUT, very scarce, £3 38

211c LYTTON (Lord) RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES. 1835. FIRST EDITION, 3 vols, 8vo, original half library binding, clean copy, UNCUT, £2 2s

211d LYTTON (Lord) THE DISOWNED, by the Author of Pelham. 1829. FIRST EDITION, 4 vols, original boards, UNCUT (very rare), £3 38

212 LOVELACE (Richard) LUCASTA: EPODES, ODES, SONNETS, SONGS, etc., TO WHICH IS ADDED ARAMANTHA, & PASTORALL, BY RICHARD LOVELACE, ESQ. London, printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by Tho. Ewster, at the Gun, in Ivie Lane, 1649. FIRST EDITION, with the exceedingly rare frontispiece and the fulllength portrait of Lucy Sacheverill (Lucasta), both engraved by WILLIAM FAITHORNE after paintings by SIR PETER LELY, these are generally wanting, 12mo, green morocco extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £35

This, the FIRST EDITION, is of extreme rarity, and contains many poems left out of the reprints. "Among all the gay and sprightly courtiers of Charles I, none was more distinguished than Colonel Richard Lovelace, whether for the exquisite beauty of his person, the elegant endowments of his mind, or the witty and sparkling ingenuity of his conversation."-London Retrospective Review. Anthony Wood tells us that the author was "accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that the eye ever beheld." Mr. Foote's copy sold for 220 dollars.

213 MACAULAY (Thomas Babington, Lord) Evening, a Poem which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1821, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Scholar of Trinity College. 1821. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, sewn, in the original blue wrappers as issued, uncut, 58

214 MACHINERY.-BRANCA (GIOVANNI) LE MACHINE volume nuovo et di molto artificio da fare effetti maravigliosi tanto-Spiritali quanto di Animale Operatione, archito di belissime figure conle dichiaratoni à ciascunadi esse in lingua volgare et Latina. Roma, 1829. With engraved title and 78 full-page woodcut illustrations, 4to, calf, £3 38

The above is a very curious work. The plates represent vaious mechanical appliances, and machinery. Plate 25 shows the system of blowing wind in a church organ by hydraulic power. Interesting to students of the history of hydraulic engineering.

N.D.

215 MACLEAN (James) A COMPLETE HISTORY OF JAMES MACLEAN, THE GENTLEMAN HIGHWAYMAN, who was Executed at Tyburn, 1750, for a Robbery on the Highway, containing particulars of his Life from his Birth to his Death, in which is included an Account of the Robberies he committed with his companion Plunkett, etc., etc. (circa 1750). Portrait, 8vo, half calf, some contemporary cuttings inserted, 158 216 MAHONY (Rev. Father) THE RELIQUES OF FATHER PROUT, late P.P. of Watergrass Hill, in the County of Cork, Ireland, collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke, Esq., Illustrated by ALFRED CROQUIS, Esq. J. Frazer, 1836. FIRST EDITION, with etchings by Daniel Maclise, 2 vols, small 8vo, calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, with the original covers at end, by RIVIERE, £3 158

217 MAJOLICA WARE.-A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MAJOLICA, HISPANOMORESCO, PERSIAN, DAMASCUS, AND RHODIAN WARES in the South Kensington Museum, WITH HISTORICAL NOTICES, MARKS AND MONOGRAMS, BY C. DRURY E. FORTNUM, F.S.A. 1873. ONLY TWENTY-EIGHT COPIES PRINTED FOR PRESENTS, with very numerous beautiful illustrations, SOME HANDSOMELY COLOured, thick small folio, half morocco, uncut, £10 108

218 MALT, MUM, AND CIDER.—Act for granting Duty upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry. Act for Charging the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry. 1700. And several others on the same subject, from 1690 to 1733. Folio, 18 tracts, sewn, 18s 219 MANWOOD (John) A TREATISE AND DISCOURSE OF THE LAWES OF THE FOREST, wherein is declared not onely those Lawes as they are now in Force, but also the original and beginning of Forrestes, and what a Forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from A CHASE, A PARK, OR A WARREN, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their several proper terms of art. Also a Treatise of the PURALLEE, DECLARING WHAT PURALLEE IS, how the same first began, what a Purallee man may do, нow HE MAY HUNT and use his own Purallee, HOW FÅR HE MAY PURSUE AND FOLLOW AFTER HIS CHASE, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the Forest as the Puralley, etc., by JOHN MANWOOD. Black Letter, small 4to, fine copy in morocco extra, by RIVIERE, £4 108

1598.

220 MANDEVILLE (Bernard, Author of the "Fables of the Bees ") Some Fables in verse after the Easy and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine. 1703. 4to, half bound, 10s

Unknown to Lowndes.

221 MARKLAND (George) A Divine Poem in Memory of the LATE HIGH WIND. 1705. Folio, sewn, 28

This author is not mentioned in Allibone.

222 MASSINGER (Philip) THE PICTURE, a Trage-Comedie, as it was often presented with good allowance at the Globe and Black Friars Play Houses, by the King's Maiesties Servants. 1630. FIRST EDITION, calf extra, £3 38

The Bodleian copy brought £9 at auction.

The plot of this play is borrowed from the 28th Novel of the second volume of Painter's Palace of Pleasure,' 1567. The magical circumstance, however, from which the play takes its name, is found in a variety of authors; it has all the appearance of an Arabian fiction, and was introduced into our romances at a very early period.

The play was much approved at its first appearance, when it was acted, as the phrase is, by the whole strength of the house. Massinger himself speaks of it with complacency; and, indeed, its claims to admiration are of no common kind.

interest.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to revive the play by the Rev. H. Bate. Maguis excidit ausis. We tolerate no magic now but Shakespeare's; and without it 'The Picture' can have but little 223 MASSINGER (Philip) THE RENEGADO, a Trage Comedie. 1630. FIRST EDITION, 4to, calf extra, £2 28

The Bodleian copy sold in 1865 for £8. Contains a congratulatory poem by J. Shirley. 224 MARTINIERE (B. de la) A NEW VOYAGE INTO NORTHERN COUNTRIES, being a Description of the MANNERS, SUPERSTITION, CUSTOMS, BUILDINGS, AND HABITS of the NORWEGIANS, LAPONIANS, KILOPS, BORANDIANS, SIBERIANS, SAMOJEDS, ZEMBLANS, AND ISLANDERS, with Reflexions upon an Error in our Geographers about THE SCITUATION AND EXTENT OF GREENLAND AND NOVA Zembla. 1674. 12mo, calf extra, £3 3s

A scarce and interesting little volume.

225 MAY (Thomas) THE VICTORIOUS REIGNR OF KING EDWARD THE THIRD, written in Seven Books (in Verse). T. Walke ey, 1635. FIRST EDITION, beautiful engraved portrait of Edward III, 12mo, £4 48

Headley, speaking of this poet's genius, remarks: "His battle-pieces highly merit being brought forward to notice; they possess the requisites in a considerable degree to interest the feelings of an Englishman, while in accuracy they vie with a gazette, they are managed with such dexterity as to busy the mind with unceasing agitation, with scenes highly diversified and impassioned by striking character, minute incident, and alarming situation," etc.

226 MEDICAL.-A Briefe Treatise touching the PRESERVATION OF THE EYE SIGHT, consisting partly in good order of Diet, and partly in use of Medicine, by Walter Baley. Oxford, 1654.-THE HISTORY OF GENERATION, Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of Bodies, with a general relation of the Manner of Generation; with a Discourse of the Cure of Wounds by Sympathy, etc., by NATH. HIGHMORE. 1651. With two engravings, in 1 vol, thick 12mo, old sheep, £1 18

With the above are bound four other medical treatises (in Latin) of about same dates. 227 MEDICAL.-Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or, THE LONDON DISPENSATORY, further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows now living of the said College, wherein you may finde: 1, The Virtues, Qualities, and Properties of every Simple; 2, The Virtues and Uses of Compounds; 3, Cautions in giving all Medicines that are Dangerous; 4, All Medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensatory, etc.; 5, A Key to Galen's Method of Physick, etc., etc., by NICH CULPEPER. 1654. Portrait, 12mo, old calf, £1 10s

228 MEDICAL.—The Charitable Physitian, with the Charitable Apothecary, written in French by Philbert Guibert, Esq., now faithfully translated into English for the benefit of this Kingdom, by I. W. 1639. Small 4to, fine copy in old calf, £1 108 An interesting old treatise, "Shewing the manner to make and prepare in the house with ease and little paines all those remedies which are proper to all sorts of diseases, according to the advice of the best and ordinariest physitians serving as well for the rich as poor," etc.

229 MEDICAL.-A PLAIN INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF PHYSICK, containing the Fundamentals, and necessary Preliminaries to Practice, whereby the Reading of Practical Authors will be rendered Easie and Intelligible to the Young Student; to which is added the Materia Medica contracted, and Alphabetical Tables of the VERTUES OF ROOTS, BARKS, WOODS, HERBS, FLOWERS, SEEDS, FRUITS, JUICES and GUMS, of Animals and Things taken from them, of Minerals, etc., also a collection of choice Medicines, Chymical and Galenical, together with a different way of making the most Celebrated Compositions in the Apothecaries Shop, by J. PECHEY. 1697. Sm. 8vo, old calf, rebacked, 128 6d

230 MEDICAL.—THE TREASURY OF HEALTHE, Conteyning many Profitable Medicines, gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus, and translated into English by Humfre Lloyde, who hath added thereunto the Causes and Synes of every Dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates and Jocobus de Partybus redated to a certayne order according to the Members of Man's Body, and a Compendiouse Table, CONTEYNING THE PERGINGE AND COMFORTAYNE MEDYCINES, wyth the Exposicyon of Certayne Names and Weyghtes in this boke contayned, wyth an Epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus. Imprinted at London, in Fleete-streate, at the syne of the Rose Garland, by Wyllyam Coplande, N.D. (circa 1550). Black Letter, 12mo, calf, £4 48 231 MEDICAL.-Cours D'Operations de Chirurgie, Demontrées & Jardin Royal, par M. Dionis, Premier Chirurgien de seuës Mesdames les Dauphines, et Chirurgien Jure a Paris. A Paris, 1746. Portrait and numerous illustrations, 8vo, original calf, 78 6d 232 MILITARY.-Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or the Queen's Regiment of Light Dragoous, Lancers, containing an Acconnt of the Formation of the Regiment in 1759, and of its subsequent Services to 1841. 1842. With coloured illustration, 8vo, cloth, as issued, 98

233 MILITARY.-Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire, Regiment of Foot, containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the year 1674, and of its subsequent Services to 1838. 1839. Coloured plates, 8vo, cloth, 78 6d 234 MILITARY.-Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the Prince of Wales' Royal Regiment of Lancers, containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1716, and of its Subsequent Services to 1842. 1842. Coloured plate, cloth, 7s 6d 235 MILITARY.-MILITARY COSTUME OF VARIOUS NATIONS EXHIBITED IN A SERIES OF HIGHLY-FINISHED MILITARY FIGURES IN THE UNIFORM OF THEIR SEVERAL CORPS, with a concise description and historical anecdotes. 1822. WITH THIRTYSEVEN BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED PLATES OF COSTUMES, 8vo, cloth, £7 178 6d The costumes are of 97th or Queen's Own. Lance Man. 12th Foot. 25th Foot. 18th Hussars, Private and Musician. 2nd Life Guards. 10th Hussars. Royal Horse Artillery. 79th Cameronians. 7th Hussars. 9th Foot. 5th Dragoons. 1st Life Guards. 87th, or Prince of Wales" Irish. Royal British Artillery. 43rd Foot. 23rd Dragoons. 95th Rifleman. Besides various Foreign Armies, and some in the pay of Great Britain.

236 MILITARY.-MILITARY EVOLUTIONS, BY C. GESSNER. R. Ackermann, 1801. Thirty large and beautiful engravings, oblong folio, original covers as issued, £10 108

A magnificent series of Military engravings-suitable for framing. Comprising among_others: "Saxon Dragoons Patrolling in a Storm." "Austrian Hussars in Pursuit of the Enemy." "Prussian Hussars on a Night Piquet." "Hessian Hussars on a Night Patrol." "English Light Horse Attacking French Artillery." "Russian Hussars and Cossacks Attacked by French Horse and Foot." "Austrian Hussars Charging the Enemy through a Town.' "An Officer of the Currassiers Leading on his Troops." "Saxon Hussars Attacked by French Infantry from an Ambuscade." "Reconnoitring Party of Austrian Dragoons Retreating from the Enemy.' "Bavarian Dragoons in a Thunderstorm." "Austrian Troops Fording a River." "A Bavarian Patrol falling in with a French Piquet." "The French Burning the town of Sion in Switzerland to stop the Pursuit of the Austrian Light Horse." "A Piquet of Saxon Dragoons in an old Castle." "A Piquet of Prussian Hussars in a Church." "Danish Hussars Charging the Enemy." "Austrian Infantry Defending the Artillery against Prussian Hussars." French Cavalry Routed." "Austrian Dragoons Retreating." French Infantry and Bavarian Cavalry closeFighting." "Saxon Dragoons Attacking a Park of Artillery."

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