29 ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL CABINET, containing a Series of Elegant Views of the most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain, accompanied with Letter-Press Various Uses and Treatment, etc. By NIMROD. Steel plates and cuts. 8vo, cloth. NIMROD is " a popular writer on sporting subjects."-ALLIBONE. METAMORPHOSES. A Romance of the Second "The romance of the 'Golden Ass,' which contains the beautiful tale of Cupid and Psyche, remains unrivaled."-D'ISRAELI. 32 ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. KNIGHT'S ORIGINAL PICTORIAL EDITION. Translated with Copious Notes by E. W. LANE. Many hundred beautiful engravings by WILL- IAMS, JACKSON, LANDELLS, etc., from designs by WILLIAM A fine copy of the original edition, with most brill- iant impressions of the cuts. "The Notes of Mr. Lane throw more light upon the mystery of VERY SCARCE. Only 200 copies of the "Archaica" were privately " But 150 copies of the " Heliconia were printed, and at $75, unbound. Proctor's Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions; Breton's Flourish 34 ARIOSTO (Ludovico). The Orlando Furioso. Translated into English Verse. With Notes by W. STEWART ROSE. 8 vols. 8vo, half morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, John Murray, 1823 LARGE PAPER. A faithful and spirited translation. In point of poetic adornment the Orlando is at once rich and original; Ariosto is as much superior to Tasso in native genius as he is inferior to him in skill of constructive art. 35 ARISTOTLE. Works of, Translated from the Greek. With Copious Elucidations from the Best of His Greek Commentators, viz.: ALEXANDER APRODISIENSIS, SYRIANUS, AMMONIUS HERMEAS, PRISCIANUS, OLYMPIODORUS, SIMPLICIUS, etc. By THOMAS TAYLOR; with Dissertation by the same on the Philosophy of ARISTOTLE. Together 10 vols. Royal 4to, uniform russia extra gilt, marbled edges. London, printed for the author and translator, 1807-12 VERY RARE, being the sole existing complete translation of Aristotle into English. Only 50 copies were printed of any size, and at the expense of Wm. Meredith. The above is a remarkably fine copy, and, with the exception of one bought for the Brown University some fifteen years ago for $160, it is the only one Mr. Farnum has ever seen or heard of being offered for sale in America. "Aristotle's Works, translated by Thomas Taylor, in ten quartos, forms, according to Brunet, the only uniform edition of Aristotle's complete works in any language."-HORATIO ROGERS. The ten volumes are divided as follows: I., The Organon, with Elucidations of Ammonius and Simplicius, 1807. II, Rhetoric, Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics, 1811. III., Great and Eudemiam Ethics, Politics and Economics, 1811. IV., Physics or Physical Auscultation, with Notes of Simplicius, 1806. V., Treatises on the Heavens, Generation, Corruption and Meteors, 1807. VI., History of Animals and Treatise on Physiognomy, 1809. VII., Parts and Motion of Animals, Problems, Indivisible Lines, Arithmetic of Infinites, 1810. VIII., Treatise on the Soul, Sense, Sensible Memory, Reminiscence, etc., 1808. IX., Metaphysics; Treatises against Xenophanes, Mechanical Problems, etc. (second edition), 1812. X., Taylor's Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1812. 36 ARNOLD (Thomas). History of Rome, 3 vols. in 2; and Later Roman Commonwealth. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth. N. Y., 1846 "As a writer, Dr. Arnold [of Rugby School] was remarkable for vigorous thought, clearness of expression and purity of style."-Gentleman's Magazine. 37 ARNOLD (Matthew, son of the preceding). God and the Bible. 16mo, cloth. A review of objections to his "Literature and Dogma." Boston, 1876 38 ARNOLD (Edwin). Light of Asia. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Boston, 1879 The life and teachings of the founder of Buddhism told in verse from the standpoint of an Indian Buddhist. 39 ARNOLD (S. G.). History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 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Translated by LORD BERNERS. NEW EDITION. With a series of plates in outline, by HEATH, of illuminated drawings from an ancient MS of the Original Romance. 4to, cloth, uncut (binding broken). London, 1814 VERY RARE. LARGE PAPER, and only 25 copies printed. The above copy has the exquisite illuminations, COLORED BY HAND, AND HEIGHTENED BY METALS. The work was edited from the extremely rare original edition [printed by Robert Redbourne, the sole production of his press, and without date] by E. V. Utterson, who used extraordinary diligence in tracing out the name of the original writer of the Romance, the time of its composition, and other much-wished for particulars. 41 ARTHUR. MORTE d'ARTHUR. THE BYRTH, LYF and ACTES of KYNG ARTHUR, of his Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, theyr mervyllous Enquestes and Adventures, and in the end "Le Morte Darthur," with Introduction and Notes by R. SOUTHEY. Exquisite woodcut initials. 2 vols. royal 4to, half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. London, Caxton, 1485; reprinted 1817 LARGE PAPER. A fine copy. "Indisputably the best prose Romance the language can boast." "This work contains a short abridgment of the most celebrated adventures of the Round Table; and, being written in comparatively modern language, gives the general reader an excellent idea of what romances of chivalry actually were."-SIR WALTER SCOTT. 42 ARVINE (Hazlitt, A. M.). Cyclopædia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts. With numerous illustrations. Royal 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1859 Contains a copious and choice selection of anecdotes of the various forms of literature, of the arts, of architecture, engravings, music, poetry, painting and sculpture, and of the most celebrated literary characters and artists of different countries and ages, etc. 43 ARUNDINES CAMI sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori Collegit atque edidit HENRICUS DRURY, A.M. Editio quarta. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, 1851 With carmine borders, initial letters, rubricated title, etc. 44 ASCHAM (Roger). WHOLE WORKS, now first collected and revised, with Life by DR. GILES. 4 vols. crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Russell Smith, 1865 LARGE PAPER copy. "Ascham is a great name in our national literature. He was one of the first founders of a true English style in prose composition, and one of the most respectable and useful of our scholars.”—Retrospective Review. 45 ASTLE (Thos.). ORIGIN and PROGRESS of WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, with some Account of the ORIGIN and PROGRESS of PRINTING. With portrait and numerous engravings taken from Marbles, MSS. and Charters ancient and modern, SOME COLORED. Royal folio. Elegantly bound in splendid calf extra gilt, edges gilt, by CLARKE & BEDFORD. London, T. Bensley, 1803 LARGE PAPER. Only 100 printed. A very fine copy of the second and best edition, with additions. Sir M. M. Sykes's copy sold for £4 45. "The completest work on the subject of writing, extant, in this or any other language."-LOWNDES. 46 AUBREY (John). Miscellanies upon Various Subjects. Portrait. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Russell Smith, 1857 A most amusing collection of Fatalities, Omens, Dreams, Apparitions, Spirit-Rappings, Prophecies, Magic Visions, Converse with Angels and Spirits, Second Sight, Ecstasy, etc. 47 AUDUBON (J. J.). The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. By JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. With the complete series of colored plates. 7 vols. royal 8vo, half blue morocco, uncut. N. Y., J. J. Audubon, 1840–44 ORIGINAL SUBSCRIPTION EDITION. For the beauty and perfection of its plates this beautiful original edition is beyond any comparison with the more modern issues. A fine clean copy. "These are works with which critics have not much to do; or with respect to which they can only discharge that part of their duty which is generally thought to give the least pleasure—we mean praise. No one can see these splendid drawings, and compare them with ordinary illustrations of natural history, in which animals appear as spiritless as if they had been sitting for their portraits, without admiring his taste and skill."-North American Review. 48 AUDUBON and BACHMAN (J.). The Quadrupeds of North America, by J. J. AUDUBON and the Rev. JOHN BACHMAN, D.D. Colored plates. 3 vols. imperial 8vo, half green morocco, uncut (title-page of Vol. 2 lacking). N. Y., J. J. Audubon, 1852–54 An elegant copy of Audubon's OWN ORIGINAL EDITION in which the plates are incomparably superior to those in Lockwood's re-issue. A most beautiful and interesting work, the engravings exhibiting, in most instances, two or more figures (male and female) in the most life-like attitudes, with their young, prey, &c., the entire plate colored, with views of their favorite haunts and localities. 49 AUSTIN (John). Lectures on Jurisprudence, or the Philosophy of Positive Law. Third edition, revised and edited by ROBERT CAMPBELL. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, John Murray, 1869 "One of the most valuable contributions to the philosophy of law and legislation that has been produced in modern times, and entitles the author to rank with Hooper and Montesquieu."-MARVIN. |