VI. JESSE. Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents. Memoirs of the Chevalier, PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, and their Adherents. Plates and facsimiles. 2 vols. London, 1845 VII. JESSE. London and its Celebrities, and Literary and With the above is bound up the very scarce-" London: a Fragmentary Poem, by J. Heneage Jesse, London, 1847." "Full of curious matter, and will always be read and valued.”— John Bull. THE ABOVE MAKING TOGETHER 21 VOLS. 8vo. Elegantly A magnificent set of the above works by Mr. Jesse, and which have become very scarce. "We know of no series of books, that of Horace Walpole perhaps excepted, in which so much information is conveyed in so agreeable a manner as in this series of historical, anecdotical works." 559 JESSE (Edward). Anecdotes of Dogs. Numerous beautiful steel engravings. 4to, uncut. London, Bentley, 1846 "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."-POPE. “The excellent, interesting and instructive volume before us."Gentleman's Magazine. 560 JOHN BULL and his WONDERFUL LAMP; a new Reading of an Old Tale, by HOMUNCULUS. With illustrations designed by the author. Small 4to, boards, uncut. London, 1849 The nom-de-plume "Homunculus" is neither given by Prof. John Edward Haynes in his valuable " Pseudonyms of Authors," nor by "Olphar Hamst" in the Handbook of Fictitious Names." 561 JOHNSON (SAMUEL). LIFE of, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. By JAMES BOSWELL.-CROKER'S EDITION. To which are added JOHNSONIANA, or Anecdotes by HAWKINS, PIOZZI, REYNOLDS and others. With Notes by various hands. Numerous steel portraits and plates (some foxed). 10 vols. post 8vo, half morocco. London, 1835 BEST and first edition of Murray's pretty issue. "We place Boswell's Johnson in our libraries as an enthusiast hangs up his GERARD Dow in his cabinet-to be gazed at again and again, to feed upon, and to devour."-DIBDIN. 562 JOHNSON. LIVES of the most Eminent English POETS, with Critical Observations on their Works. With Notes Corrective and Explanatory by Peter CUNNINGHAM, F.S.A. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1854 BEST LIBRARY EDITION. "Johnson strips many a leaf from every laurel; still Johnson's is the finest critical work extant, and can never be read without instruction and delight."-BYRON. 563 JOHNSON. Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Including a Journal of the Tour to Hebrides by JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. A New Edition with Numerous Additions and Notes by JOHN WILSON CROKER, LL.D., F.R.S. Four portraits, one on INDIA PAPER (some foxed). 5 vols. 8vo, tree marbled calf, extra, marbled edges. London, 1831 Published at £3. 564 JOHNSONIANA; or, Supplement to BOSWELL, being Anecdotes and Sayings of DR. JOHNSON [not included in BosWELL]. 45 highly-finished portraits, engravings, and autographs by FINDEN. INDIA PROOFS. 4to, elegantly bound in calf extra, marbled edges. London, John Murray, 1856 LARGE PAPER, INDIA PROOFS. Best edition, containing many hundred Anecdotes collected from a great variety of sources, edited by J. W. Croker. Some of the plates are slightly foxed. 565 JOHNSON (J., Printer of the Lee Priory books). TYPOGRAPHICAL and Literary Antiquities of Great Britain, including an Account of the Origin of Printing, Biographies of the English Printers from CAXTON to the Seventeenth Century, Descriptions of Early-Printed Books, Ancient and Modern Alphabets. Portraits and printers' marks. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco extra, gilt top edges. London, 1824 LARGEST PAPER and RoxburgHE EDITION, of which 36 copies only were printed. VERY SCARCE, with portraits of author and Caxton, also title-pages on India paper. Published at £4 4s. Contains the essence of Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, and other valuable works; the Printer's Instructor, etc. Allibone states that the author was assisted in its compilation by Drs. Dibdin, Wilkins, and Fry, the Rev. H. Baker, and others. Ile adds 46 'It is a valuable work.' "This valuable work is too often regarded merely as a book for printers, whereas it contains more information respecting early printed books than is to be found in any other and more costly volumes. Its real compiler was Mr. Richard Thomson, Librarian of the London Institution, who was assisted by Dibdin, Wilkins, Baker, and other well-known bibliographers. It was issued in three different sizes, the largest being known as the Roxburghe Edition with India paper portraits."-SABIN, 566 JOHNSON (Capt. Charles). History of the Lives and Ac tions of the Most Famous Highwayman, Street Robbers, Pirates, etc., etc. Engraved frontispiece and plates. 8vo, half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1839 SCARCE. A tall copy. "This singular work."-Lowndes. 567 JOINVILLE (Sire de). SAINT LOUIS, King of France. Translated by JAMES HUTTON. Vignette title. gilt edges. 18mo, cloth, N. Y. [London], 1869 Printed at the Chiswick Press by Whittingham. "A King, a Hero, and a Man."—GIBBON. The title of "DE Joinville" is used by one of the Orleans princes, but the real heir to the honors and dignities of this ancient family is a direct and lineal descendant of the brother of the Lord de Joinville and Vaucolour. The heir male to the titles of this noble house is a New York journalist, who, although Baron de Genneville, and Lord of Colmolyn by right, is contented to remain a comparatively unknown American citizen and litterateur, not believing in the pomp of heraldry or the boast of power. 568 JONSON (Ben). WORKS. Complete, best Edition, with a Biographical Memoir and Notes, critical and explanatory, by WILLIAM GIFFORD. Portrait. 9 vols. royal 8vo, yellow calf gilt, and stamped on the sides with the arms— "Oxoniensis Academia." London, 1816 VERY RARE. LARGE PAPER. This fine copy was an Oxford prize. It is the best edition, and is very scarce. "Best edition, by the ablest of modern commentators, through whose learned and generous labors Old Ben's forgotten works and injured character are restored to the merited admiration and esteem of the world."-J. PHILIP KEMBLE. "His parts were not so ready to run of themselves, as able to answer the spur; so that it may be truly said of him, that he had an elaborate wit, wrought out by his own industry.-He would sit silent in learned company, and suck in (besides wine) their several humors into his observation. What was ore in others, he was able to refine himself. He was paramount in the dramatic part of poetry, and taught the stage an exact conformity to the laws of comedians. His comedies were above the Volge (which are only tickled with downright obscenity), and took not so well at the first stroke as at the rebound, when beheld the second time; yea, they will endure reading so long as either ingenuity or learning are fashionable in our nation."-FULLER'S Worthies of England. 569 JOSEPHUS (Flavius). Genuine Works. TON and Revised by BURDER. Translated by WHISPortrait and plates (some Boston, 1821 Whiston did his work so thoroughly that no other translator ever essayed the task. 570 JOSSELYN (John). New England's Rarities Discovered: in Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that country, with Introduction and Notes by EDWARD TUCKERMAN, M.A., woodcuts; also, JOSSELYN'S Account of Two Voyages to New-England, wherein you have the setting out of a ship with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a Planter and his Family at his first coming; a Description of the Country, Natives, and Creatures, etc., Lond. 1674. Together 2 vols. 4to, cloth,uncut. Boston, 1865 Only 75 copies reprinted, medium quarto, of which the above are signed-" No. 8, Wm. Veazie." Not merely reprints. The copious, interesting, and valuable annotations lend a new value to the works. "The relation is curious and faithful; when the author makes his own remarks, they are in the oddest uncouth expressions imaginable." -JOHN LOCKE. 571 JUNIUS: Including letters by the same writer under other signatures, to which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. WILKES, and his private letters to Mr. WOODFALL, with a Preliminary Essay, Notes Facsimiles, etc., and loose inserted portraits. 3 vols. 8vo. gantly bound in russia extra gilt, edges gilt. London, 1812 BEST EDITION. Printed by H. Woodfall. "The style of Junius is a sort of metre, the law of which is a balance of thesis and antithesis. When he gets out of his aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English. Horne Tooke and a long sentence seem the only two antagonists that were too much for him. Still the antithesis of Junius is a real antithesis of images or thought; but the antithesis of Johnson is rarely more than verbal."-COLEridge. 572 JOE MILLER'S JESTS; or, the Wit's Vade-Mecum. Being a Collection of the most Brilliant Jests, the Politest Repartees, etc. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top edge, others uncut. London, printed by T. READ, 1739. [London, 1865] Only a very few copies have been reproduced. A remarkable facsimile. The veritable first edition of Joe Miller is one of the rarest books in the English language. It is to be regretted that the author did not employ expressions a little less coarse than he has done; his wit and pungency, however, it is impossible to deny. 573 cloth. ANE (E. K.). Arctic Explorations-the Second "With a less energetic leader, the whole party would have perished." -SIR JOHN RICHARDSON. 574 KANT (Immanuel). Critique of Pure Reason in Commemoration of the Centenary of its First Publication. Translated into English by F. MAX MULLER. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1881 With an historical introduction by LUDWIG NOIRÉ. 575 KANT. The Metaphysics of Ethics, translated with an Introduction and Appendix by J. W. SEMPLE. 8vo, boards, Edinburgh, 1836 uncut. 576 KANT. Critick of Pure Reason, translated from the Original of IMMANUEL KANT. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Wm. Pickering, 1838 577 KAY (J.). A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS AND CARICATURE ETCHINGS by the late JOHN KAY, Miniature Painter, Edinburgh, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Upwards of over 350 very curious copper-plate engravings of portraits and caricatures of the principal celebrated and notorious characters, chiefly of Edinburgh, who lived during the latter part of the last and beginning of the present century. 4 vols. imperial 8vo, half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed. Edinburgh, 1842 Includes a complete collection of the original engravings issued by Kay, with others added, and which make, together with the letterpress, a remarkable, valuable and very interesting work. The Works of the late John Kay illustrate an interesting epoch in |