1237 WATTS (Isaac) HORE LYRICE, POEMS CHIEFLY OF THE LYRIC KIND, in Two Books, I SONGS, ETC., SACRED TO DEVOTION, II. ODES, ELEGYS, ETC., to Vertue, LOYALTY, AND FRIENDSHIP. London, printed by S. and D. Bridges, for John Laurence, etc., 1706. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, A VERY FINE COPY in the new sprinkled calf extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £2 10s

1238 WEBSTER (John) THE WHITE DEVIL, or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the Famous Venetian Curtizan. J. N., for Hugh Perry, 1631. Calf extra, gilt edges, £2 2s In the address to the reader are interesting mentions of the author's contemporaries-SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, CHAPMAN, BEAUMONT, DECKER, HEYWOOD, FLETCHER-and the following interesting note occurs at end:-"For the action of this play, 'twas generally well, and I dare affirme, with the joint testimony of some of their owne quality, (for the true imitation of life, without striving to make nature a monster) the best that ever became them; whereof, as I make a generall acknowledgment, so in particular, I must remember the well-approved industrie of my friend Master Perkins, and confesse the worth of his action did crowne both the beginning and end.” 1239 WRIGHT (Thomas, F.S.A.) CARICATURE HISTORY OF THE GEORGES, or Annals of the House of Hanover, compiled from the SQUIRS, BROADSIDES, WINDOW PICTURES, LAMPOONS, AND PICTORIAL CARICATURES OF THE TIME. John Camden Hotten, N.D. (1867). FIRST EDITION, with a coloured frontispiece and nearly FOUR HUNDRED illustrations on steel and wood, after THOMAS ROWLANDE ON, JAMES GILLRAY, etc., etc., by F. W. Fairholt, LARGE PAPER COPY, ONLY A SMALL NUMBER PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS, 4to, half red morocco extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £3 38

FROM THE MATERIAL FORMED BY KIRKMAN, LANGBAINE,
DOWNES, OLDYS, AND HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, WITH
EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

BY

W. CAREW HAZLITT.

Quarto, half vellum, only 250 copies printed.
Price 21s. nett.

Only a few copies of the above limited edition now remain on sale. We can truthfully assert that on account of the mass of information found in this volume, it is almost a necessity for every library, private or public, to contain a copy. Any collector or student, whether he be interested in old plays or not, must, if only for the additional knowledge he will acquire concerning our great early writers, find this book of the highest value and importance.

1240 A'BECKETT (Gilbert) THE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH; a Review of Everything and Everybody. Punch Office, 1846. FIRST EDITION, with numerous humorous engravings, 2 vols, 12mo, calf extra, top edges gilt, uncut, by RIVIERE, £4 48 1241 AINSWORTH (Henry) The Communion of Saincts, a Treatise of the fellowship that the faithful have with God, and his Angels, and one with another, in this present life, gathered out of the Holy Scriptures. No printer's name nor place, 1628. 12mo, calf, 58

1242 AINSWORTH (William Harrison) OLD SAINT PAUL'S: a Tale of the Plague and the Fire. 1841. FIRST EDITION, with illustrations by JOHN FRANKLIN, 3 vols, 8vo, salf extra, gilt edges by RIVIERE, £4 48

1243 AINSWORTH (W. H.) ROOKWOOD, A ROMANCE, the Fourth Edition, complete in one volume, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Macrone, 1836. THE FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S FAMOUS PLATES, and a portrait of the Author, 8vo, a choice copy in morocco extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, WITH THE ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERS at end, by RIVIERE, a very scarce book, £8 8s 1243a AINSWORTH (William Harrison) THE STAR-CHAMBER, an Historical Romance. 1857. FIRST EDITION, with illustrations by PHIZ, 8vo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, with the original covers at end, by RIVIERE, £2 158 1244 ALFRED (King) THE LIFE OF ALFRED, or Alvred, together with a Parallell of our Soveraigne Lord, K. Charles, until this Yeare 1634, by ROBERT POWELL. 1634. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, sprinkled calf extra, gilt edges, by LEWIS, £l is

1245 ALKEN (Henry) BRITISH PROVERBS. McLean, 1824. FIRST EDITION, a series of amusing illustrations of Proverbs, in numerous COLOURED designs on six sheets, by HENRY ALKEN, oblong folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 68 1246 ALKEN (Henry) IDEAS, ACCIDENTAL AND INCIDENTAL TO HUNTING, AND OTHER SPORTS; CAUGHT IN LEICESTERSHIRE, etc. Thos. M'Lean (1827-1830). FIRST EDITION, a series of forty-two very handsomely COLOURED engravings by HENRY ALKEN, sm. folio, red morocco super extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £28 108 1247 ALKEN (Henry) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, Esq., OF HALSTON, SHROPSHIRE, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits, by Nimrod, Third Edition, with ▲ BRIEF MEMOIR OF NIMROD, BY THE AUTHOR OF "HANDLEY CROSS." Ackermann, 1851. With brilliant examples of the elegantly COLOURED plates by HENRY ALKEN, 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges, covers at end, by RIVIERE, £7 78

The FIRST EDITION, edited by R. S. SURTEES.

1248 ALKEN (Henry) REAL LIFE IN LONDon, or the RamBLES AND ADVENTURES OF BOB TALLYHO, ESQ., AND HIS COUSIN THE HON. TOM DASHALL through the Metropolis, exhibiting a living picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life, by an Amateur. 1821-2. FIRST EDITION, with numerous choice and finely coloured plates by HENRY ALKEN, THOMAS ROWLANDSON, BROOKE, DIGHTON, etc., 2 vols, 8vo, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND in new stained calf super extra, very choicely tooled back and borders, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 188

A very rare book to find in FIRST EDITION, as the above set is; the work was frequently re-issued in the following years, without any indication of a new edition, and copies of later dates are often bought by collectors who are under the impression that they are securing the First Issue. The present copy contains both the engraved and printed title pages.

1249 ALKEN (Henry) THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN, BY NIMROD. Rudolph Ackermann, 1842. FIRST EDITION, with THIRTY-SIX VERY CHOICELY COLOURED plates by HENRY ALKEN, 8vo, a beautiful copy in red morocco super extra, gilt over the original gilt edges, with the covers preserved at end, by RIVIERE, in the best style, £14 14s 1250 ALKEN (Henry) TUTOR'S ASSISTANT. McLean, 1823. FIRST EDITION, very many humorous readings of English Grammar illustrated in COLOURED designs by HENRY ALKEN, on six sheets, oblong folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 68

1251 AMERICA.-A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE WORLD, wherein is particularly Described all the Monarchies, Empires, and Kingdomes of the same, WITH THEIR ACADEMIES, as also their severall Titles and Situations thereunto adjoyning, written by the Right Reverend Father in God, GEORGE ABBOTT, late Archbishop of Canterbury. 1634. Engraved title, containing portrait by WM. MARSHall, 12mo, a nice copy in brown calf extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £1 15s

From pp. 240 to 321 relates to America, or the New World.

1252 AMERICA.-A COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS CHALKEY, in two parts. Philadelphia, printed by B. FRANKLIN and D. Hall, 1749. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 parts in 1 vol, WITH BOTH TITLES, A FINE ORIGINAL COPY, in old sheep (rebacked),

£4 48

Comprising his Journal, or Historical Account of His Life, Travels, and Christian Experiences
(through AMERICA, etc.), a Letter to Cotton Mather, and his other writings.
1253 AMERICA.—A DISCOURSE AND DISCOVERY OF NEW-FOUND-LAND,
WITH MANY REASONS TO PROVE HOW WORTHY AND BENEFICIALL A PLANTATION MAY THERE
BE MADE, AFTER A FAR BETTER MANNER THAN NOW IT IS. TOGETHER WITH LAYING OPEN
CERTAINE ENORMITIES AND ABUSES COMMITTED BY SOME THAT TRADE TO THAT COUNTRY,
AND THE MEANES LAID DOWNE FOR REFORMATION THEREOF. WRITTEN BY CAPTAINE
RICHARD WHITBOURNE, of Exmouth, in the County of Devon, and PubliSHED
BY AUTHORITY. AS ALSO, AN INVITATION, AND LIKEWISE CERTAINE LETTERS SENT FROM
THAT COUNTRY; WHICH ARE PRINTED IN THE LATTER PART OF THIS BOOK. Imprinted at
London by Felix, 1622. Small 4to, red morocco extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE,
£12 128

1254 AMERICA.-A POEM ON VISITING THE ACADEMY OF PHILADEL-
PHIA, June 1753. Philadelphia, printed in the Year 1753. Folio, seun, UNCUT, £4 48
The dedication, "To the Trustees of the Philadelphia Academy," is signed WILLIAM SMITH. The
work is unmentioned by Lowndes, Stevens, Allibone, Watts, and it may be unique.
1255 AMERICA.-A Voyage to California, to observe the Transit of Venus by Mons.
Chappe D'Anteroche, with an Historical Description of the Author's Route Through
Mexico, and the Natural History of that Province, also a Voyage to Newfoundland and
Sallee, to make Experiments on Mr. Le Roy's Time Keepers, by Monsieur De Cassini.
1778. 8vo, half ca'f, 12s

1256 AMERICA.-CHURCH GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH COVEnant Discussed, IN AN ANSWER OF THE ELDERS OF THE SEVERALL CHURCHES IN NEW ENGLAND, to Two-and-Thirty Questions sent over to them by divers Ministers in England, to declare their judgments therein, TOGETHER WITH AN APOLOGY OF THE SAID ELDERS IN NEW ENGLAND FOR CHURCH COVENANT, sent over in answer to Master Bernard in the yeare 1639, as also an answer to Nine Positions about Church Government, and now published for the satisfaction of all who desire resolution in those points. 1643. Small 4to, fine copy in brown calf extra, by RIVIERE, £8 88

This very rare piece contains three title-pages, the first as above; the second," An Apology of the Churches in New England for Church Covenant;" the third, "Answer to the Elders of several Churches in New England unto nine Positions."

1257 AMERICA.-COTTON (JOHN, B.D., Boston, New England) THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, to which are committed the Keys of the Kingdome of Heaven. Wherein is demonstrated by way of Question and Answere, what a visible Church is, according to the order of the Gospel, and what Officers, Members, Worship, and Government Christ hath ordained in the New Testament, by that REVEREND AND LEARNED DIVINE, MR. JOHN COTTON, B.D., AND TEACHER OF THE CHURCH IN BOSTON, IN NEW ENGLAND. 1643. 4to, brown calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £4 48

1258 AMERICA.-Reflections on Mr. Burchet's Memoirs, or Remarks on his Account of Captain Wilmot's Expedition to the West Indies, by Coll. Luke Lillingston, Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces in that Expedition. 1704. Small 8vo, old marbled boards, one cover loose, £1 5s

1259 AMERICA.-De La Guard (Theodore) THE SIMPLE COBBLER OF AGGAWAM IN AMERICA. Willing to help mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the Upper-Leather and Sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to be paid for his work, by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long, gratis. Therefore, I pray, gentlemen, keep your purses. In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima quæque consilia tutissima sunt. Cic.

In English.

When bootes and shoes are torn up to the lefts,

Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
This is no time to fear Appelles gramme:

Ne sutor quidem ultra crepidam.

London, printed by John Dever and Robert Ibbitson, for Stephen Bowtel, at the signe of the Bible, in Pope's Head Alley, 1617. Quarto, stained calf extra, by FRANCIS BEDFORD, VERY SCARCE, £6 6s

Interspersed with verses.

1260 AMERICA.-SHEPHEARD (T., Preacher in New England) THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. 1648. 18mo, calf extra, yellow edges, by F. BEDFORD, £2 28 1261 AMERICA.—THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN NORTH AMERICA, to the First of November, 1796, containing an Account of the CHURCHES AND THEIR CONSTITUTIONS, MINISTERS, MEMBERS, ASSOCIATIONS, THEIR PLAN AND SENTIMENTS, RULE AND ORDER, PROCEEDINGS AND CORRESPONDENCE, also Remarks upon Practical Religion, humbly offered to the Public by JOHN ASPLUND. Southampton County, Virginia, July 14th, 1791. 4to (70 pp.), prettily bound in mottled calf extra, tooled borders, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by Riviere, £2 2s

An exceedingly fine copy of this rare and interesting Americana. 1262 AMERICA.-VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN SOUTH AMERICA. The First up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, performed at the command of the King of Spain, by Christopher D'Acugna; the Second up the River of Plata, and thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi, by Mons. Acarete; the Third from Cayenne into Guiana, in Search of the Lake of Parima, reputed the richest place in the World, by M. Grillet and Bechamel, Done into English from the originals, being the only accounts of those parts hitherto extant. 1698. Maps, 8vo, fine clean copy in the original calf, £1 108

1263 AMORIS EFFIGIES, sive Quid sit Amor, efflagitanti responsum ROBERTI WARING. Huic quartæ editioni præfigitur ejusdem Autoris Carmen Lapidarium Memoriæ Vatum Principis BEN JONSONI, Sacratum. Lond., 1668. 32mo, newly bound in red calf, pretty little book, 10s 6d

1264 AN ABSTRACT.-COSIN (RICHARD) AN ANSWER to the Two Fyrst and Principall Treatises of a certain facetious Libell, put foorth latelie without name of Author or Printer under Title of AN ABSTRACT OF CERTAINE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, etc. T. Chard, 1584. Quarto, calf gilt, by RIVIERE, £1 108

The "Answer" has been attributed to ABP. WHITGIFT, but the Bodleian Catalogue and the Athence Cantabrigiensis both ascribe it to RICHARD COSIN, Dean of Arches. "A man of extensive learning, with marvellous powers of memory, and a ready wit. He was esteemed one of the most eminent civilians of his day. His writings in support of the Church establishment and the tyrannical oath ex officio, drew down upon him the hatred at the Puritan party and the cutting satire of Martin Marprelate."-Athence Cantabr.

1265 ANDREWS (Lancelot, Bishop) A MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS AND MEDITATIONS, translated out of a fair Greek MS. of his Amanuensis. 1692. Choicely engraved portrait of the Bishop and frontispiece, 16mo, sprinkled calf extra, prettily tooled, rough gilt edges, £1 18

1266 ANDREWS (Bishop) THE PRIVATE DEVOTIONS AND MANUAL FOR THE SICK. Pickering, 1839. 8vo, calf extra, red edges, by BEDFORD, 128

This manual of devotions, formed of sentences from the sacred scriptures, and the writings of the fathers was compiled by this learned prelate for his own private use. It was found after his decease, worn in pieces by his fingers and wet with his tears.