5478 Knight (R. Payne). A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, illustrations, half bound, 1865, 8vo. (232) Utley, £3 5479 Mary I. A Copy of a Letter with Articles sent from the Queene's Majestie unto the Bishop of London, and by him and his officers to bee putte into spedie execution with effect in the whole diocese (4 leaves), black letter. title within woodcut border, unbound, uncut, Jo. Cawood, typographus Reginae, Mariae, 1553, 4to. (487) Harris, £10 5480 Military. Planches de l'Exercise de l'Infanterie, ter., Janvier, 1766, a l'Ordonnance du Roi, 12 plates, including title and leaf of text, of full-length figures of Military exercises, original boards, uncut, 1766, 4to. (481)

Quaritch, £2 12s. 6d. 5481 Parish Register Society (Publications of the), viz., Ford Hughley-Pitchford-Sibdon Carwood-SmethcoteShenton--Cresage-Harley-Melverley- Elmstone-Clunbury Moreton Corbet-Battlefield-Shipton, together 14 vol., vellum, v. y., 8vo. (393) Sotheran, £3

5482 Phillips (Stephen). Eremus, a Poem, wrappers, first edition, n. d., 4to. (270) Owen, £1 15s. 5483 Schoolcraft (H. R.) History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, 5 vol., plates, half morocco, n. d., 8vo. (379) Cook, £2 4s. 5484 Scott (W.) Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, 2 vol., plates, morocco, g. e., 1817, 4to. (498) Carr, £1 4s. 5485 Scrope (W.) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, plates by Haghe, Landseer and Williams, original cloth, uncut, first edition, 1843, 8vo. (208)

Hornstein, £3 75. 5486 [Steele (Sir R.)] The Lover, to which is added The Reader, by the same author, LARGE PAPER, calf, first edition, Tonson, 1715, 8vo. (201) Fletcher, IOS.

5487 Steele (Sir R.) The Crisis, or a Discourse representing from the most Authentick Records the just Causes of the late Happy Revolution, first edition, 1714, small 4to. (202)

Fletcher, £1

5488 Thorpe (J.) Registrum et Custumale Roffense, frontispiece, 2 vol., plates, 1769-88, folio (560) Quaritch, £4 5489 Turner (J. M. W.) Liber Studiorum, a Description and Catalogue by W. G. Rawlinson, original cloth, Macmillan, 1878, 8vo. (467) Quaritch, £4 5s. 5490 Vidal (E. E.) Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, 24 coloured plates, half bound, Ackermann, 1820, folio (276) Edwards, £2 4s. 5491 Wharton (H. T.) Sappho, a Memoir and Translation, first edition, portrait, original boards, uncut, D. Stott, 1885, 8vo. (459)

5492 Wilde (Oscar). Poems, one of 200 copies, author, cloth gilt, uncut, 1892, 8vo. (249)

Utley, £15s. signed by the Bumpus, £2 1s.

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At a sale held by Messrs. Sotheby on May 26th, 27th and 28th, the following books were sold at the prices stated:

5493 Arabian Nights. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes, etc. by Sir R. F. Burton, 10 vol., Benares, 1885-Supplemental Nights, 6 vol., ib., 1886, original edition, illustrated by the insertion of a series of etchings by A. Lalauze and the set of illustrations by A. Letchford (artist's proofs), the original cloth cover bound up, tree-calf extra, t. e. g., together 16 vol., 8vo. (471) Forrester, £32 15s.

5494 Arabian Nights. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, a plain and literal Translation, with Introduction, Notes, etc. by Sir R. F. Burton, 10 vol., Benares, 1885– Supplemental Nights, 6 vol., ib., 1886, original edition, cloth, as issued, together 16 vol., 8vo. (472) Hopkins, £31 5495 Booth (E. T.) Rough Notes on the Birds of the British Islands, large coloured plates, 3 vol., half morocco, g.t., 1881-87, folio (354) Bain, £1755. 5496 Buck (S. and N.) Antiquities, or Venerable Remains of about 400 Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, etc. in England and Wales, and Cities and Chief Towns, 3 vol., about 500 plates, old russia gilt, gold borders on the sides, 1774, folio (781) Leighton, £31 5497 Caxton (William). [Here foloweth the said] "Tullius de Amicitia translated into our Maternall English Tongue by the Noble Famous Erle, the Erle of Worcester, sone & heyer to the lord typtoft," etc., black letter (Blades' type No. 2*), long lines, 29 to a full page, half morocco, Printed by Wm. Caxton at Westminster, 1481, small folio (806)

Quaritch, £125

[This work consists of the Middle Treatise of three translated from Cicero, printed by Caxton as one book in 1481. It is the treatise on "Friendship" complete, and was preceded by the "De Senectute," and followed by the "Declamation of Noblesse." It contains 28 leaves, signatures - 4 in 8's. In fine condition, except some scribblings in the plain margins; and four words beginning the first page, "Here foloweth the said," were erased by an ornament. Measured 10% by 734 inches. It is worthy of note that the portion containing the "Declamation," which should follow this, and which contains the "Explicit per Caxton," was in the Ashburnham Library, at the sale of which it realised £102. [See Blades ii., 90, who did not know of this portion.]-Catalogue.]

5498 Constable (John). Various Subjects of Landscape, characteristic of English Scenery, 22 plates, open-letter proofs, engraved by David Lucas, 5 parts, wrappers as issued, clean copy, 1833, folio (342) Maggs, £14

5499 Defoe (D.) Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2

vol., LARGE PAPER, open-letter proof plates by Stothard (spotted and 2 leaves torn), half morocco, uncut, 1820, 8vo. (212) Midgley, 10 5s. 5500 Dictionary of National Biography, edited by L. Stephens, with Supplement, 66 vol., cloth, as issued, 1885-1901, 8vo. (101) Harding, £36 10s. 5501 Postilla sive expositio Epystolarum et Evangeliorum dominicalium necnon de Sanctis et eorum Communi, una cum ferialibus tam de toto tempore anni quam etiam eorundem Sanctorum, lit. goth. (2 types), title in red above a woodcut of Christ teaching his Disciples, grotesque black initials, Notary's large device on reverse of last leaf, old calf, title scribbled on and a few leaves wormed, Impressa London. in achademia Juliani Notarii bibliopole, juxta templum barre sub intersignio trium Regum, anno Salutis 1509, x. Nov., small 4to. (707) Leighton, £18 10s.

[A rare specimen of Julian Notary's press. The only copy known to Ames is in the Public Library at Cambridge, which Lowndes quotes, but gives the number of leaves as 385 instead of 285, including title and two leaves of index, the leaves being folioed to cclxxxv. The last copy sold by auction was that of J. B. Inglis in 1900.-Catalogue. That copy realised £50. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, Vol. xiv., No. 6099.-ED.]

5502 Sander (F.) Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, both series, 4 vol., coloured plates, half morocco, g.t., uncut, 1888-94, folio (305) Hitchman, £12 155. 5503 Shakespeare (W.) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, the second folio, Droeshout's portrait on title, with the verses by Ben Jonson opposite, calf gilt, the old sides inlaid, Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632 [at end, Thomas Cotes for John Smethwick, William Apsley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen and Robert Allot, 1632], folio (716) Ellis, £100

[This copy measured 13% inches by 8% inches, and some of the lower margins had rough edges. It had also the variation "coppies" for "copies" on the title, no more than about three examples with that variant being known. The book was clean and sound so far as it went, but the whole of "A Winter's Tale" (pages 277-303) was missing. The leaf with the verses had recently been rebacked and the top corner of the title-page mended. The title-page and the leaf, “Upon the Effigies," were on thicker paper than the rest of the work.—ED.]

5504 Shelley (P. B.) Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, and other Poems, first edition, calf extra, g. e., by Tout,

(591)

1816, 8vo. Maggs, 10 2s. 6d.

[MAY 30TH AND 31ST, JUNE 2ND AND 3RD, 1904.]

HODGSON & CO.

A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION, INCLUDING THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE REV. H. G. JEBB.

(No. of Lots, 1350; amount realised, £1,904 6s. 6d.)

5505 [Apperley (C. J.)] The Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod, 36 coloured illustrations by Henry Alken, a clean copy in the original cloth binding, g.e., R. Ackermann, 1842, 8vo. (1315) £14 5506 [Arnold (M.)] Empedocles on Etna and other Poems, by A., first edition, original cloth, uncut, London, B. Fellowes, 1852, 8vo. (1208) Birrell, £2 18s. 5507 [Arnold (M.)] The Strayed Reveller and other Poems, by A., first edition, original cloth, uncut, London, 1849, 8vo. (1209) Butter, £3 5s. 5508 Bar (J. Ch.) Recueil de tous les Costumes des Ordres Religieux et Militaires, avec un Abrégé historique et critique, 575 coloured plates of costume, also coloured frontispieces and tailpieces, vol. i. to iv. old calf gilt, with festoon design on sides, g. e., vol. v. (should be 6) half calf, uncut, A Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1778-86 (993)

G. H. Brown, £10 5509 Blanford (W. T.) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, viz.: Hampson. Moths, 4 vol.-Day. Fishes, 2 vol.-Bingham. Hymenoptera, 2 vol.- Boulenger. Reptilia and Batrachia-and Distant. Rhynchota, vol. i. (Heteroptera), illustrations, together 10 vol., cloth, 18891903, 8vo. (56) Sotheran, £6 5s.

5510 Book-Prices Current, a Monthly Record of the Prices at which Books have been Sold at Auction, from December, 1886 to 1902, with Index to the first 10 vol., 17 vol., cloth (first 5 not uniform), 8vo. (231) Edwards, £10 2s. 6d. 5511 Boyne (W.) Trade Tokens in the Seventeenth Century, by Williamson, plates, 2 vol. (limited to 250), half roan, t. e. g., 1889, 8vo. (228) Rogers, £1 135. 5512 British Gallery of Pictures, selected from the most admired Productions of the Old Masters in Great Britain, accompanied with Descriptions, Historical and Critical, by Tresham, Ottley and Tomkins, LARGE PAPER, with the plates coloured and mounted as drawings, uniformly bound with the preceding, 1818, imperial folio (305) Maggs, £20 5513 Brontë (The Sisters). Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, first edition, first issue, with the slip of Errata, original cloth, uncut, London, Aylott and Jones, 1846, 8vo. (1206) Edwards, £19 5s. 5514 Bryan (M.) Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical, new edition, revised and enlarged,

edited by Robert Edmund Graves, with Supplement, 2 vol., the text inlaid to royal folio size and extended to 9 volumes by the insertion of upwards of 1,600 portraits and engravings (the plates inlaid where necessary), bound in half levant morocco extra, t. e. g., 1886, folio (1322)

J. Rimell & Son, £45 5515 Campbell (M. O.) Memorial History of the Campbells of Melfort, Argyllshire, illustrations, with Supplement, 2 vol., Printed for subscribers and private circulation only, cloth, 1882-94, 8vo. (960) Jebb, £2 12s. 6d. 5516 Child (F. J.) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edition de luxe, the 10 parts in 5 vol., boards, uncut, Boston, 1882-98, imperial 8vo. (229) Quaritch, £7 5517 Curtes (Martin). The Arte of Navigation, conteyning a compendious description of the Sphere, with the making of certayne Instruments and Rules for Navigations, Englished out of the Spanishe by Richarde Eden, black letter, with the moveable diagrams (but wanted the Chart of the World, therefore sold not subject to return), limp vellum, Imprinted at London by Richarde Jugge, 1576, small 4to. (460) Edwards, £5 5518 Dickens (Charles). Knight's Land We Live In. The chapters on Stratford-on-Avon, Windsor, with Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, inlaid to same size, and Edinburgh, illustrated by engravings and original water-colour sketches, including a Sketch of Stratford Church by Cattermole, pencil drawing of Shakespeare's Chair and Chimney Corner, water-colour drawing of the Interior of Shakespeare's House by Pine and sepia drawings of Windsor Castle and Edinburgh from Calton Hill by W. Harvey, in a morocco volume, used by Charles Knight when visiting the respective places, and bought at his death by Charles Dickens, whose library label it contained, folio (1014) Pearson, £15 5519 Dumas (A.) Celebrated Crimes, translated by J. G. Burnham, Japan library edition (limited to 100 copies), with photogravures after drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, etc. (in two states), 8 vol., half morocco, t. e. g., 1895, 8vo. (751) Maggs, £3 17s. 6d. 5520 Fielding (H.) Works, edited, with Biographical Essay, by Leslie Stephen, edition de luxe, portrait on India paper and illustrations, 10 vol., buckram, 1882, 8vo. (703)

Johnson, £3 12s. 6d. 5521 Folk Lore Society. Publications, a complete set (with the exception of Callaway's Religious System of the Amazulus and Handbook of Folk Lore), 49 vol., cloth (one sewed), 1878-1902 8vo. (230) Quaritch, £21

5522 Frankau (Julia). Eighteenth Century Colour Prints, printed in colours, cloth, 1900, folio (310) Forrester, £12

[The same author's "John Raphael Smith," 2 vol., 8vo. and imperial folio, buckram, 1902, fell to £16.-ED.]

5523 Hain (Ludovic). Repertorium Bibliographicum, 4 vol., cloth,