Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives of New York ... to be Disposed of by Auction on Thursday, March 5, 1891 and Following Days ... at the American Art Galleries

Sm. 8°. 4 prel. leaves, comprising TITLE, "Dedication, To the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt," dated "Edinburgh, April 4th, 1787," and table of Contents," forming viii pages; TEXT, Poems chiefly Scottish," pp. 9 to 248, inclusive; "Scots Poems, selected from the works of Robert Ferguson," pp. 249 to 284, inclusive; "Glossary," pp. 285-306. Sumptuously bound in highly polished grass-green levant morocco super-extra, gilt back, elaborately and delicately tooled, and ornamented with bunches of Scotch thistles, filleted sides with elegant corner ornaments, finely gilt, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD, in his best style. With oval PORTRAIT OF BURNS, engraved by SCOT [sic] Philada." A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE VOLUME.

This copy is from the Menzies Collection. In that Catalogue the well-known bookseller, Wm. Gowans, is quoted as saying: "The New-York Edition of Robert Burns, 1788, may so far be pronounced UNIQUE. No copy, with the exception of the one named [the present], has been seen by the most sharp hawk-eyed book hunter, or the keenest bibliographer, nor by any of the living generation so far as known."

12; pp. 304. Bound in crushed olive morocco, with broad dentelle border, elaborately tooled, by
LORTIC FRÈRES. An exceptionally beautiful specimen of their skill.

It is doubtful whether this or the New York Edition of the same date is the First American Edition of Burns's Poems, Probably they appeared at about the same time. Both are exceedingly rare, far more so than the Kilmarnock Edition.

127 BURNS (ROBERT).— AN ADDRESS to the DEIL. With Explana

120.00

110.00

tory Notes. Illustrated by seven Engravings on Wood, by THOMSON, BONNER, :00 SLADER, WILLIAMS, and NESBIT, from designs by T. LANDSEER. LONDON:

William Kidd, 1830.

12°; half morocco, UNCUT.

128 BURNS (R.) — THE POETICAL WORKS of ROBERT BURNS. 10.50 LONDON: W. Pickering, 1839.

3 vols. 12°; portrait, brown calf, gilt backs, marbled edges.

129 [BURTON (ROBERT).]-THE ANATOMY of MELANCHOLY. WHAT IT IS, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and several 27.00 cures of it. IN THREE PARTITIONS. . . . BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR... A New Edition. Corrected and enriched by Translations of the Numerous Classical Extracts. CAMBRIDGE: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1861.

4 vols. 8°; half brown morocco, gilt tops, UNCUT. LARGE PAPER. Only 75 copies printed. One of 15 copies only with duplicate title in each volume, having the Coat of Arms of BURTON finished in GOLD and COLORS.

55.00

10.00

Sm. 4°; bound by COVERLEY in vellum without any tooling, edges UNCUT.

This edition is the re-issue of the first Edition, to which it is similar, but with a fresh title page and the addition of “Epistola Dedicatoria " in Latin [four pages] addressed by Thomas James to Thomas Bodley. The only copy of the Edition of 1598 known to-day is the one of the Bodleian Library. Thomas James was its first librarian.

131 BURY (R. de).- PHILOBIBLON, A TREATISE on the LOVE of Books,
BY RICHARD DE BURY, Bishop of Durham, and Lord Chancellor of
England. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the [original Latin Text,] and
the Literal English Translation of JOHN B. ENGLIS. Collated and corrected,
with Notes. By SAMUEL HAND. ALBANY: Joel Munsell, MDCCCLXI.
8°; half purple morocco, gilt back and top, UNCUT. LARGE PAPER. 30 copies only printed.
No. 1.

VERY RARE.

132 BUSHNELL (CHARLES I.)- CRUMBS for ANTIQUARIANS. NEW-YORK: 1864.

14.00

2 vols. 8°; portraits and engravings, half green morocco, gilt tops, UNCUT. Autograph Note inserted. 50 SETS ONLY PRIVATELY PRINTED.

CONTENTS: 1. An Historical Account of the First Three Business Tokens issued in the City of New York. 2. Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a soldier of the Revolution, 1776-1786. 3. Journal of Solomon Nash, a soldier of the Revolution, 1776-1777. 4. Memoirs of Tarleton Brown, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army. 5. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Levi Hanford, a soldier of the Revolution. 6. Journal of the Expedition against Quebec, under Col. Benedict Arnold, in the year 1775, by Major Return J. Meigs.

133 BUTLER (S.) — THE POETICAL WORKS of SAMUEL BUTLER. LONDON: W. Pickering, 1835.

4.00

23.00

2 vols. 12°; portrait, brown calf, gilt backs, marbled edges.

134 [BYERLEY (THOMAS SCOTT).] - RELICS of LITERATURE. By STEPHEN COLLET [i. e. Thomas Scott Byerley]. LONDON: Thomas Boys, 1823.

8°; olive morocco super-extra, gilt back and top, paneled and filleted sides, corner ornaments inlaid with red morocco, UNCUT. With folding PLATE of facsimiles of the autographs of celebrated persons, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 36 fine PORTRAITS.

"Stephen Collet" was a nom de plume of Thomas Scott Byerley, who was also one of the compilers of the "Percy Anecdotes," under the pseudonym of Reuben Percy.

Sm. 4°; pp. 20. Straight grained olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD. FIRST
LONDON EDITION. VERY RARE.

42.50

136 BYRON.- THE WORKS of LORD BYRON: with his LETTERS and JOURNALS, and his LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. LONDON: John Murray, 1832-34.

17 vols. fcap. 8°; portrait and the series of beautiful illustrations by TURNER and STanfield. Elegantly bound in citron calf super-extra, gilt backs and tops, filleted sides, rough edges, by ZAEHNSDORF. An exquisite copy of the FIRST ISSUE of this edition.

137 BYRON (LORD).— CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. NOTES. LONDON: John Murray, MDCCCXLI.

42.50

With $4.00

8°; portrait, and 62 exquisite Vignette engravings by FINDEN, from pictures by Creswick, WARREN, and other eminent Artists. PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER, bound in grosgr. crimson levant morocco super-extra, finely tooled gilt back, double paneled sides with corner ornaments, inside morocco borders, top gilt, UNCUT front edges. A splendid copy of the FIRST ISSUE of this beautiful edition.

138

•ABEÇA DE VACA.- The NARRATIVE of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça
de Vaca. Translated by Buckingham Smith.

1851.

4°; cloth. Eight maps.

WASHINGTON:

Privately printed for Mr. G. W. Riggs. Presentation copy from him to Brantz Meyer, with
Autograph Letter of Mr. Riggs inserted.

15.00

139 CÆSAR'S COMMENTARIES.-CÆSARIS COMMENTARII, cum Johan-165.00 nis Andrea Episcopi Alleriensis Epistola. ROME, in Domo Petri de Maximis (Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1469).

Folio. Bound in russia, leather joints, gilt edges, by Mrs. WEIR.

FIRST EDITION. A clean and tall copy, with unusually wide margins, and quite perfect, excepting that the margins of the first and last leaves are inlaid. The rarest of all the Editions of Cæsar. The Pinelli copy sold for £53 11s, and this cost Mr. Wodhull £42 in 1802.

Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, written by | the
Reverend Mr. C. M. |

P. II. Several Letters to the Author, &c. And his Reply relating to

Witchcraft. |

P. III. The Differences between the Inhabitants of Salem Village, and |
Mr. Parris their Minifter, in New-England. |

P. IV. Letters of a Gentleman uninterested, Endeavouring to prove the
received Opinions about Witchcraft to be Orthodox. With short |
Effays to their Answers. |

P. V. A short Historical Accout [sic] of Matters of Fact in that Affair. |
To which is added, A Poftfcript relating to a Book intitled, The |
Life of Sir WILLIAM PHIPS. |

Collected by Robert Calef, Merchant, of Boflon in New-England |
Licensed and Entred according to Order. |

LONDON:

Printed for Nath. Hillar, at the Princes-Arms, in Leaden-Hall-Street, | over against St. Mary-Ax, and Jofeph Collyer, at the Golden-Bible, | on LondonBridge. 1700. |

Sm. 4°; pp. (12) 156. Grosgrained crimson levant morocco extra, gilt back and edges, filleted sides with corner ornaments, inside gilt borders, by W. PRATT. VERY RARE.

141 CALEF (R.)—THE WONDERS of the INVISIBLE WORLD DISPLAYED. 2.50 IN FIVE PARTS . . . Collected by ROBERT CALEF, Merchant, of Boston, in New-England. A New Edition. BOSTON: T. Bedlington, 1828. 24°; pp. xvi, 333. Frontispiece, marbled roan, gilt.

80; pp. (14), 120 (1). Red levant morocco extra, gilt back and edges, filleted sides, inside gilt borders, by F. BEDFORD. A SPLENDID COPY of the FIRST EDITION. RARE.

143 [CALLENDER (JAMES THOMSON).] THE POLITICAL PROGRESS of BRITAIN: or an Impartial History of Abuses in the 1.50 Government of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia, and America, from the Revolution, in 1688, to the Present Time: ... PART FIRST. Third Edition. PHILADELPHIA: Richard Folwell, 1795.

8°; pp. 120, half russia, UNCUT.

Sm. 4°; elegantly bound in grosgrained green levant morocco super-extra, gilt back and edges, paneled, ornamented sides, inside gilt borders, by W. PRATT. A BEAUTIFUL COPY of the FIRST EDITION, with wide margins and OF THE highest degree of RariTY.

COLLATION: -" Title," within an ornamental border, verso, blank; The Preface" [by John Cotton], pp. 10. ; [" The Platform"], pp. 29; 1 blank page; " A Table of the Contents of the Chapters," and “Errata,” 1 p. and I blank page.

145 CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM.-ENGLISH AND INDIAN.

A | CONFESSION | OF | FAITH | Owned and confented

210.00

kah | John Allen. 1699. |

Sm. 8°; 8 prel. leaves, pp. 161 (4). Elegantly bound in brown levant morocco super-extra, gilt back and edges, filleted and paneled sides with corner and center ornaments, by F. Bedford. English and Indian printed on opposite pages. EXCESSIVELY RARE.

146 CAMPBELL (T.) — THE POETICAL WORKS of THOMAS CAMPBELL. 8.00 LONDON: Moxon, MDCCCXXXVII.

Crown 8°; polished tree-calf super-extra, gilt back and top, uncut edges. Original impression before woodcuts were added, brilliant impressions of the engravings.

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