A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORK ON ART AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ABA, ou le Triomphe de l'innocence, suivi de la Abbat (L') Art of Fencing; or, the Use of the Small Sword, translated by A. Mahon, 1735, 8vo., plates (50s. to 60s.). Abbildung und Beschreibung aller hohen Ritter-Orden in Europa. Augspurg, Jacob Andreas Fridrich, 1756, 12mo., 45 copper plates representing the different orders of chivalry in Europe (12s. to 15s.). Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire ecclésiastique. Paris, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo., 2 fleurons alike and 17 vignettes by Baquoy, Aveline and Sornique, after De Sève (10s. to 12s.). Barbier attributes the authorship to Philippe Macquer. Abrégé de l'Histoire universelle en figures, ou Recueil d'Estampes représentant les sujets les plus frappants de l'histoire, tant sacrée que profane, ancienne et moderne, avec les Explications historiques, qui s'y rapportent et les portraits en médaille des héros qui ont joué les plus grands rôles B dans l'histoire, ornées de lears attributs caracteristiques, dessinées par M. Marillier et gravées par le Sr. Duflos le jeune. A Paris, chez Duflos le jeune 1785, 4 vols., roy. 8vo., 4 engraved titles and 167 plates after Marillier, Monnet, and Duflos, engraved by Duflos, de Ghendt, Duponchel, Delvaux, etc. (£4 to £5). Abrégé de l'Histoire romaine, orné de 49 estampes gravées en taille-douce avec le plus grand soin, qui en représentent les principaux sujets. Paris, Nyon, 1789, 4to. Frontispiece by Tardieu, after Piauger, and 48 plates after Bolomey (4), Eisen (3), Gravelot (9) and Gabriel de Saint Aubin (28), and others not signed, by Aveline, Chenu, Courtois, Gaucher, Legrand, Levesque, de Lorraine, Mesnil, Pelletier, Ransonnette, Augustin de Saint-Aubin and Tardieu (£3 to £4, and dearer in old morocco); 17 of the plates are dated 1760-1765. The unlettered proofs bear numbers 1 to 48. Abrégé de l'Histoire universelle en figures, dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes de la capitale, ou Recueil d'estampes représentant les sujets les plus frappants de l'histoire tant sacrée que profane. Paris, Didot, 1790, 5 vols., roy. 8vo., 108 plates for Histoire Sacrée, 3 vols., and 88 plates for Histoire profane, 2 vols. They are after Monnet (153), Marillier (38), Le Jeune (3), Sergent (1), Gois (1), by Pierre Duflos (152), Madame Duflos (7), Patas (7), Baquoy (4), Dambrun (5), Delignon (3), Giraud (2), Delvaux (3), Hulk (2), De Gand (2), Deguents or Deguenth (2), Gros (1), Duponchel (1), S. S. Hubert (1), Maillet (1), Godefroy (1), Choffard (1), and one without engraver's name. The historical descriptions are by Vauvilliers (308. to 408.). Académié (L') galante, contenant diverses petites histoires très-curienses. Amsterdam, 1710, 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo., 2 frontispieces, not signed (5s.). Académié galante, contenant diverses histoires trés-curieuses. Nouvelle edition, Amsterdam, 1732, 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo., 1 plate signed Scotin (4s. to 5s.). Acte de Contrition de Messieurs les Gardes-du-corps de Sa Majesté Louis XVI., ou les cartes rebattues, orné d'une gravure en taille-douce. A Londres, 1789, 8vo., rare pamphlet with a curious plate, unsigned (4s.). Actes des Apôtres (Les), commencés le jour des Morts et finis le jour de la Purification. Paris, l'an de la liberté 0 [Paris, Gattey], 11 vols. 8vo., maps and plates (£3 to £4). An original, satirical royalist journal, published by Gab. Peltier between 1789-1791, and suppressed by order of the King Louis XVI. Vols. 1 to 10, containing 300 numbers, are of frequent occurrence, and valued at 208. to 258.; the last volume, consisting of 11 numbers and 6 parts, entitled "Petits Paquets," of 4 pages each (part 4 has 8 pages), is very rare. Adam (Robert). Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, 61 plates after R. Adam and C. L. Clerisseau, by F. Bartolozzi, P. Santini, etc. London, 1763 or 64, Atlas fol. (30s. to 40s.). Adam (Robert and James). Works in Architecture, containing plans, elevations, sections and details of the buildings, public and private, erected in Great Britain in the reign of George III. With designs of every kind, both for interior and exterior decoration, 1777-86-1822, 3 vols., Atlas fol., frontispiece and 105 plates by Bartolozzi, Piranesi, Zucchi, Pastorini, Cunego, etc. (£8 to £10). The first 2 vols. containing frontispiece and 80 plates (£6 to £8). Addison (J.). Works, edited by Tickell. London, 1721, 4 vols. 4to., portrait and plates (10s., and more on large paper). Addison. Works. Birmingham, Baskerville, 1761, 4 vols. 4to.,. portrait and plates by Grignion after Hayman (20s. to 30s., and more than double in morocco). Adèle de Sénange (par Madame de Souza). Genève et Paris, 1798, 2 vols., 12mo., 2 plates after Chaillou by Bovinet (3s. to 4s.). Admirables (Les), Secrets d'Albert le Grand, contenant plusieurs traités sur la conception des femmes. Lyon, 1752, 16mo., frontispiece, not signed (38.). Adolphus (John). The British Cabinet, containing portraits of illustrious personages, engraved from original pictures, with biographical memoirs by J. A. London, 1799-1800,. 2 vols., 4to., 50 portraits by Harding (£2, and double and more on large paper fol. size). ESCHYLUS. Théatre d'Eschyle, traduit en français avec des notes philologiques et deux discours critiques par F.J.G. de la Porte du Theil. Paris, imprimerie de la Republique, an 111 (1795), 2 vols., 8vo., text Greek with French opposite, 8 plates, 2 of which, signed Anglette and Gautier, engraved by Cunégo and Jourdan (8s. to 10s.). Copies on vellum paper are worth double, and dearer in old morocco. Esop. Esope en belle humeur, on la dernière traduction et augmentation de ses fables, en prose et en vers (par J. Bruslé de Montpleinchamp, Chanoine de Bruxelles) Nouvelle édition en 2 tomes. A Brusselle (sic), chez François Foppens, 1700, 2 parts, 12mo. (15s., and double in morocco). First edition with the copper vignettes after Harrewyn. There are two issues of vol. 1, in the second of which the illustrations after page 55 are of larger dimensions and better executed, besides that they bear the artist's name. According to Nodier, Bruslé de Montpleinchamp is not the author of the book, as he could never master the art of metre; and the origin of the error into which both Brunet and Barbier fell on this point was the publication by Bruslé de Montpleinchamp in that year of "Le Festin Nuptial, dressé dans l'Arabie Heureuse, ou Mariage d'Esope, de Phèdre et de Pilpai avec trois fées divisé en trois tables par M. de Palaidor. A Piron, en basse Normandie, chez Florent A. Fable, à l'enseigne de la Verité dévoilée, 1700, 12mo." as a counterpart to the above work. We cannot, however, believe that these two distinguished bibliographers have without weighty reason determined the authorship, as the one work appeared anonymously, and the other under a pseudonym. Brunet, while attributing the first work to Bruslé on the strength of Barbier's authority, says that Bruslé only edited the latter book. He even adds that the few fables of Brusle's own composition are the worst in the book, and having exposed him as an incapable prose writer as well as an inapt versifier, M. Nodier's argument is thus clearly weakened, if not untenable. Esop. Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien avec celles de Philelph, etc. Traduction nouvelle, Paris, 1703, 2 vols., 12mo., plates (58.). Esop. Les Fables d'Esope trad. par l'abbé de Bellegarde. Amst. 1708, 2 vols., post 8vo., plates (58.). Esop. Les Fables d'Esope et de plusieurs autres excellens mythologistes accompagnés du sens moral et des reflexions de M. le Chevalier de Lestrange, traduction de l'anglais avec les figures dessinées et gravées par F. Barlouw, d'une mamière savante et pittoresque. Amsterdam, Et. Roger, 1714, 4to., frontispiece signed C. T. O. engraved by Dudley, and 68 plates (15s. to 20s.). Esop. Fables choisies d'Esope, mises en chansons, avec figures dessinées et gravées par M. Chevalier. A Samos, et se trouve à Paris, chez Méquignon jeune, 1780, 24mo., frontispiece and 60 half-page size vignettes (10s.). Esop. Esope en belle humeur, ou Fables d'Esope mises en vaudevilles sur des airs nouveaux et très connus (par |