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borders, composed of architectural designs in various styles, and embellished with 14 full-page engravings (uncoloured) and several historiated woodcut initials, old Lyonese calf, back covered with elaborate gilt tooling, and sides inlaid in variegated leather, within painted compartments, most artistically executed to a Grolier pattern, g. e., Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1551, 8vo. (604) Simington, £12 1073 Heures Nouvelles, tirées de la Sainte Ecriture, the text engraved throughout and ornamented with borders, initial letters, and vignettes by Senault, plates after Coypel, Mignard, Guido, Le Brun and Champagne, engraved by Raymond and Corne, contemporary morocco, the back panelled alternately in red and citron, broad border of citron morocco on sides, richly tooled with gold, blue silk linings, g. e., Paris, 1740, 8vo. (606) Parry, £5 1074 Heures Nouvelles, tirées de la Sainte Ecriture, engraved throughout, historiated initials, devices of flowers and fruit, ornamental and floreate borders, old French morocco, broad dentelle borders of gold, doublé with watered silk linings, g. e., fine copy, Paris, chez l'Auteur, s. d., 8vo. (607)

1075 Heylyn (Peter).

Mason, £2 6s. The Historie of the most Famous Souldier St. George, asserted from the fictions, etc., engraved title, old calf rebacked, T. Harper, 1633, 4to. (1048)

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Sotheran, £6 5s.

[This volume contains an interesting allusion to Shakespeare, at page 344: Sir John Fastolfe (sic.). was a wise and valiant captaine, however, on the stage they have been pleased to make merry with him." There are also selections from Spenser, Drayton, Purchas, etc., throughout. -Catalogue.]

1076 Heywood (Thos.) Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy, a Poem, divided into xvii. several Cantos, intermixed with many pleasant poetical Tales, first edition, large woodcut on title and initial letters, tree-calf extra, r. e., 1609, folio (1356) Simington, £6 5s. 1077 Higden (Ralph). Polychronicon [this word only in large red gothic letters with cut of St. George and dragon beneath, head and arms of K. Henry VIII., and arms of the City of London above], black letter, woodcut ornamental initials, 2 cuts in text, colophon within woodcut border of trophies and cupids, large woodcut on reverse similar to that on title (a few leaves slightly wormed), contemporary binding, oaken boards, leather, with stamped ornamental frames arranged saltierwise, with initials G. K. well preserved, Imprented in Southwerke by my Peter Treveris, at ye expences of John Reynes, 1527, folio (1142) Pickering, £26 1078 Holinshed (R.) Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, from the earliest time to the present, first or Shakespeare edition, black letter, numerous woodcuts (wormed), title of vol. ii. mended, wanted large view of Edinburgh (with all faults), contemporary binding, oaken

boards, leather, with stamped frame ornaments, Geo. Bishop, 1577, folio (1143) Leighton, £8 10s. 1079 Hollar (W.) Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus. The Severall Habits of English Women as they are in these times, 1640, title and 26 full-length figures, morocco, full gilt back, line sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by Worsfold, R. Sayer, n. d., 8vo. (613) Quaritch, £5 17s. 6d. 1080 Horæ. Heures à lusaige de Romme, toutes au long sans rien requerir, avec les figures de la Vie de l'homme e les douze Sibiles. Avec la dãse Macabre des hōmes et des femmes, lit. gotb. (lettres bâtardes), printed upon vellum, signs. 3-6, within ornamental borders, representing the Dance of Death, the Sibylls, Biblical Scenes, fruit gatherers, cupids, etc., device of the Saint Graal within architectural border on title, astrological man, and 25 full-page woodcuts of scenes in the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary, of unusual design (untouched by colour), initials and details illuminated, contemporary boards (broken)—“ Ces presentes heures . . . ont este imprimees pour Guillaume Godar (sic.) Librarie demourant a Paris sur le pont au change, a censeigne de l'homme Sauvage, s. a. (Almanack 1510-30), small 4to. (1054) Robson, £78 [A fine and rare edition. Probably the scarcest of the few printed by Guillaume Godard. It is apparently that quoted by Brunet from the La Vallière Catalogue, but he had evidently not seen a copy. Unfortunately parts of the astrological man and some other nude figures had been tampered with, and two or three lines of text in the Kalender had been run through with a pen. Otherwise in excellent condition, but sold not subject to return.Catalogue.]

1081 Horatius. Opera, cum quibusdam annotationibus Imaginibusque pulcherrimis aptisq. ad Odarum concentus et sententias (edidit J. Locher), numerous large spirited woodcuts, woodcut title cut down and mounted, margins of 6 leaves mended, otherwise clean and in good condition, brown morocco gilt, joints, g. e., Argent., Jo. Grüninger, 1498, folio (1144) Pickering, £7 5s.

[First edition of Horace with these cuts. Catalogue. Grüninger's first illustrated book was an edition of the Narrenschiff of Sebastian Brant, first printed at Basle in 1494.—ED.] 1082 Horatius. Opera, æneis tabulis incidit Johannes Pine, 2 vol., first issue, "postest" edition, engraved throughout and ornamented with plates and vignettes, old English morocco extra, broad dentelle borders of gold, g. e., 1733-7, 8vo. (616) Simington, £4 12s.

[See the inscription on the medal at page 108, vol. ii., which in this first issue reads "Caesar tribun post est."-ED.] 1083 Hortus. Ortus Santatis de Herbis et Plantis, de Animalibus et Reptilibus, de Avibus et Volantilibus, etc., Tabula Medicinalis, etc. (per Johannem de Cuba), lit. goth., woodcut title

and many hundred woodcuts of plants, monsters, etc. (2 leaves wanting, some leaves stained and slightly wormed), oaken boards, stamped pigskin, s. l., 1517, folio (1145)

Leighton, £8 17s. 6d. 1084 Hunnis (William). Seven Sobs of a Sorrowfull Soule for Sinne: comprehending those seven Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Poenitentiall, framed into a forme of familiar praiers and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis, etc. Also His Handfull of Honiesuckles, The Poor Widdowes Mite, a Dialogue between Christ and a Sinner, Divers Goodlie and pithie ditties, etc., etc., woodcut borders to titles, and musical notations to some of the songs, blue morocco by Rivière, P. Short, 1592, 8vo. (622)

Pickering, £9 15s. 1085 Hunting. Verier de la Conterie (M. Le). Venerie Normande, ou l'Ecole de la Chasse aux chiens courants, pour le Lieyre, le Chevreiul, le Cerfs, le Renard, etc., plates, morocco, totally uncut, Rouen, 1778, 8vo. (624) Parry, £3 1086 Imbert. Le Jugement de Paris, poëme en iv. chants, suivi d'œuvres melées, engraved title, unlettered proof plates by Moreau, and vignettes by Choffard, French levant morocco extra, full gilt back, g. e., by Champs, Amst. (Paris), 1774, 8vo. (626) Maggs, £1 17s. 1087 Imbert. Le Jugement de Paris, etc., nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée, engraved title, 4 plates after Moreau, and vignettes by Choffard, crushed crimson morocco, full gilt floreate back, rich ornamental scroll borders, inside dentelles, g. e. by Lortic, fine copy, Amst. (Paris), 1774, 8vo. (627) Zachnsdorf, £8 15s.

[This edition of 1774, mentioned in the present and preceding entry, though good, is but a reprint of the Amsterdam (Paris) edition of 1772, 8vo., containing engraved title and 4 plates after Moreau by Née, Duclos, Masquelier and Delaunay, and 4 head-pieces by Choffard.-Ed.] 1088 Jameson (Mrs.) Works on Sacred Art, Complete-Sacred

and Legendary Art, 2 vol.-Legends of the Monastic Orders -Legends of the Madonna-History of Our Lord, 2 vol., all fully illustrated, together 6 vol., original cloth, uncut, 1857-65, 8vo. (629) Dobell, £6 7s. 6d. 1089 Jonson (Ben). Workes, first edition, the three parts bound in 2 vol., portrait by Vaughan, engraved title by Hole, large copy, morocco, tooled sides, g. e., by Rivière, 1616-31-40, folio (1367) Dobell, £21 5s. 1090 Jordan (Thomas). A Box of Spikenard newly broken, or the Celebration of Christmas-Day, Arguments of Richard Baxter answered by Thomas Malpas, with a Preface written since the return of King Charles, by T. Jordan, original sheep, Printed for the author, 1661, 8vo. (633)

Maggs, 3 11S.

[A scarce little volume, edited by T. Jordan, Actor, Playwriter and City Laureate, dedicated to Thomas Grey of Enfield. Prefixed are some exceedingly clever poems on

Christmas Day. Though called the second edition, this is the earliest edited by Jordan, and the only one named by Hazlitt and Lowndes.-Catalogue.]

1091 Jordanus. Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi,

large gothic letter in red and black, long lines, numerous interesting woodcuts, wanted 2 leaves, sold not returnable, large copy, morocco, g. e., by Rivière, Cochensis in edibus Francisci de Alfaro, 1531 (1530 on title), 8vo. (634) Quaritch, £2 145. 1092 Kipling (Rudyard). The Seven Nights of Creation, a poem on 4 pp. (3 leaves), original issue, unbound, Privately printed without date or place of printing (646)

Denham, £13 158. 1093 Kipling (Rudyard). The United Services College Chronicle, No. 2, October 25th, 1878 to No. 44, March 31, 1890 (wanted Nos. 8 and 9, 31, 32, 34 and 39), 1878-90, 4to. (647) Shepherd, £9 10s. 1094 Kipling (Rudyard). The United Services College Chronicle, an exactly similar series as the preceding, 1878-90, 4to. (648) Denham, L11 5s. 1095 Kipling (Rudyard). Schoolboy Lyrics, printed for private circulation only, with inscription on title, "J. H. Murray, from old Gip," in the original light brown wrapper, a corner missing, Lahore, printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1881, 8vo. (649) B. F. Stevens, £29 1096 Kipling (Rudyard). Schoolboy Lyrics, in the original light brown wrapper, printed for private circulation only, Lahore, printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1881, 8vo. (650) B. F. Stevens, £41 1097 Kipling (Rudyard). Schoolboy Lyrics (printed for private circulation only), half calf, t. e. g., Lahore, printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1881, 8vo. (651)

Denham, £46 1098 Kipling (Rudyard). The City of Dreadful Night and other Places Depicted, first Indian edition, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, 1891-Kipling (Miss). The Heart of a Maid, by Beatrice Grange, first edition, ib., 1890, original wrappers bound up, half calf gilt, in I vol., 8vo. (652) Bower, L655 1099 Kipling (Rudyard). Echoes, by Two Writers, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad (1884), 8vo. (653) Denham, L17 10S. 1100 Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian Writers, original wrappers and advertisements bound up, half calf gilt, t. e. g., Lahore, the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, 8vo. (655) Denham, £7 10s. 1101 Kipling (Rudyard). The United Services College Chronicle, No. 2, October 25, 1878 to No. 17, December, 1883; No. 21, October 30, 1884; and No. 24, June 18, 1885, in 1 vol., 4to. (1064) Denham, £5 1OS. 1102 Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian Writers,

first edition, in the original wrappers, Lahore, the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, 8vo. (656)

Sotheran, £315s. 1103 Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian Writers, first edition, in the original wrappers, Lahore, 1885, 8vo. (657) Denham, £5 1104 Kipling (Rudyard). Departmental Ditties, and other Verses, the extremely rare first edition, in the original wrapper, damaged, but had most of the front flap, Printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, Lahore (No. 1 of 1886), 8vo. (658) A. H. Walker, £18 10s. "The Common Room,

[With inscription on first page: U.S. College, with the compliments of the author." Interpolated are several MS. notes explaining or translating the Indian words. Catalogue.]

1105 Kipling (Rudyard). Soldiers Three, a Collection of Stories, first Indian edition, in the original wrapper, Allahabad, printed at the "Pioneer" Press, 1888, 8vo. (661)

1106 Kipling (Rudyard).

Denham, £7 In Black and White, first Indian

edition, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, n. d., 8vo. (663) Flamstead, £2 10s. 1107 Kipling (Rudyard). Wee Willie Winkie, and other Child Stories, first Indian edition, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, n. d., 8vo. (664)

Flamstead, £2 10S. 1108 Kipling (Rudyard). Under the Deodars, first Indian edition, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, n. d., 8vo. (665) Flamstead, £2 10s. 1109 Kipling (Rudyard). The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and other Tales, first Indian edition, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, n. d., 8vo. (666) Flamstead, £2 10s. 1110 Kipling (Rudyard). The Story of the Gadsbys, a Tale without a Plot, first Indian edition, in the original wrapper, Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, n. d., 8vo. (667)

Flamstead, £2 14s. IIII Kipling (Rudyard). The Weeks News, published at Allahabad, a complete set, from No. 1, January 7 to No. 36, September 15, 1888, with the exception of Nos. 6, 18, and 28, each number with a complete story by Rudyard Kipling, including some which have never been reprinted, 33 numbers as issued, in fine condition, Allahabad, 1888, 8vo. (668) Denham, £20

[It comprises the following numbers:-1, The God from the Machine; 2, Genuine; 3, A Wayside Comedy; 4, Wee Willie Winkie; 5, The Likes O'Us; 7, At Twenty-two; 8, My Own True Ghost Story; 9, Georgie Porgie; 10, The Education of Otis Yeere, part i.; 11, The Education of Otis Yeere, part ii.; 12, The Big Drunk Draft; 13, At Howli Thana; 14, His Brother's Keeper; 15, In the Matter of a Private; 16, The Hill of Illusion; 17, "Dray Wara Yow

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