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MUSEE, Héro et Léandre, dessins de Pfnor, GRAVURES DE MEAULLE, Notice par A. Pons, beautifully printed on THICK PAPER, within yellow artistic borders, with charming vignettes, small 8vo, tree calf, super extra gilt, gilt top, 15s-Paris, 1879

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ELSON (Lord) Letters to Lady Hamilton, with a Supplement of Interesting Letters by Distinguished Characters, 2 vols, calf, 18s-1814

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NEW Bon Ton Magazine, The, or Telescope of the Times, illustrated with 32 very humorous COLOURED PLATES BY CRUIKSHANK, &c., complete in 6 vols, bound in three, half morocco, £5 15s-1818-21 NINETEETH Century, The, a Monthly Review, edited by James Knowles, from its commencement in March, 1877, to June, 1880, 7 vols, royal 8vo, half calf, 358-1877–80

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LLIER (Charles) Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens, with Stories of Witchcraft, Life in Death and Monomania, by the Author of "Inesella," &c., plates, 12mo, cloth, UNCUT, scarce, 17s 6d-Published by Charles Ollier, 1848

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OWEN Meredith. Chronicles and Characters, by Robert Lord Lytton, portrait, THE FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, 12s 6d— 1868

[281 OWEN Meredith. The Ring of Amasis, from the Papers of a German Physician, edited by Owen Meredith (Robert Lord Lytton), THE FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, post 8vo, newly bound, half brown morocco extra, gilt tops, 18s-1863 OXFORD. Dillon (R. C.) The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford in the month of July, 1826, frontispiece and 1 plate (proofs), post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, £1 1s-1826

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ERCY (Bishop) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our Earlier Poets (chiefly of the Lyric kind), together with some few of later date, engraved title, 3 vols, small 8vo, FINE COPY, whole bound polished calf, super extra gilt leaves, by Zaehnsdorff, £2 10s— Dodsley, 1765

The First Edition, containing the Wanton Wife of Bath, and other pieces not in subsequent editions.

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PERRAULT. Les Contes des Fées, en Prose et en Vers, deurieme edition, revue et corrigée sur les Editions Originales et précédée d'une lettre critique Nar. Ch. Giraud, portrait, 5 plates and 12 exquisite vignette Etchings, Svo, half blue morocco extra, gilt top, UNCUT, £2 2s-Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1865

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PETER WILKINS (The Flying Man) The Life and Adventures of, relating particularly his Shipwreck near the North Pole, Wonderful Passage to a New World, his there meeting with a Gawry, or Flying Woman, whose life he preserved, and afterwards married her, his Extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of the Glums and Gawrys, likewise a description of this strange Country, the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable transactions among them, by R. S., 2 vols, 12mo, old calf neat, £3 3s-Berwick, 1784 [286

Mr. Weber observes, "There are few romances which exhibit so many proofs of poetical imagination." Southey, in his "Curse of Kehama," acknowledges to have borrowed from thence his description of the Glendowers. The author was Robert Poltock, of Clement's Inn.

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POPE'S Poetical Works, including the Iliad of Homer, DU ROVERAY'S BEAUTIFUL EDITION, with fine impressions of the erquisite engravings by Heath, Fittler, and others, after STOTHARD, FUSELI, and WESTALL, 12 vols, post 8vo, calf neat, £3—1804 [288 PORTFOLIO (The), or a Collection of State Papers and other Documents and Correspondence, Historical, Diplomatic, and Commercial, Illustrative of the History of our Times, maps, first series, complete in 6 vols, 8vo, rough calf, £3 3s-F. Shoberl, Jun., 1836-37 [289

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ABELAIS (F. de) Euvres, Edition Variorum, augmentée de pieces inédites des Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, et d'un Nouveau Commentaire par Johanneau, the BEST EDITION, illustrated with 2 portraits, carte du Chinonois, 10 fine plates after Deveria, and 120 VERY DROLL GROTESQUE FIGURES ON WOOD ILLUSTRATING LES SONGES DE PANTAGRUEL, 9 vols, 8vo, calf,£3 5s-1823-26 [294 RABELAIS (Francois) Les Œuvres de, augmentées de la Vie de l'Auteur et de quelques Remarques sur sa Vie et sur l'Histoire, avec l'explication de tous les mots difficiles, 2 vols, thick 24mo, old calf, 30s-EDITION ELZEVIER a la sphérë, 1666 [295 RABELAIS (Francis) The Works of, with Notes of Duchat and others, edited by Cecil, 4 vols, small 8vo, calf, 20s-1738 [296

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Large and thick paper, only 800 copies printed on papier de Hollande. RANDOLPH (Thos.) Poems, with the Muse's Looking-Glass and Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry, engraved title, small 8vo, calf gilt, yellow edges, NEAT COPY, 21s-Orford, 1640

This copy formerly belonged to T. Martin, J. Ives, and the Rev. J. Mitford. The latter has added a title from the 1668 edition, and some MSS. notes on fly-leaves.

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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, 32 HIGHLY HUMOROUS COLOURED PLATES BY ROWLANDSON, ALKEN, HEATH, &c., 2 vols, 8vo, calf (binding rather loose) £4-1821 [299 REAL LIFE in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney of Brian Boru, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, exhibiting a real picture of Characters, Manners, etc., in HIGH and Low LIFE in Dublin and various parts of Ireland, fine impressions of the 19 highly humorous coloured plates, 8vo, half bound, 30s-1822 300

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