We do hereby strictly Prohibit and Forbid all . . . except the said Royal Company to send... Vessels, or Exercise any Trade from any of our Plantations . . . in America, to any of the Parts or Coasts of Africa. or from thence to carry any Negro Servants, Gold, Elephants Teeth, or any other Goods or Merchandizes, etc., black letter, broadside (2 sheets), one minute hole, unbound, London, printed by the Assigns of John Bill, 1674 (22), Mar. 28, Sotheby Maggs, £42 African Company. By the King. A Proclamation to Prohibit His Majesties Subjects to Trade within the Limits Assigned to the Royal African Company of England, Except those of the Company, black letter, a slit roughly repaired, strip cut from margin very slightly affecting the text, unbound, London, printed by the Assigns of John Bill, 1685, broadside (23), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £12 Agricola (Georgius). De Re Mettalica Libri XII., numerous wood engravings (title defective), old cf., Basel, 1657, folio (626), Hodgson Olschki, £1 15S.

[See also Ed. 1912-Sotheby, July 4, £1 14S.] Agricola (G.) De la Generatione de le Cose, de le Minere, etc., device on title and initials, vell., Vinegia, 1550, thick 12mo. (494), June 23, Hodgson Edwards, £1 16S. Agricola (G.) De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum, etc.-De Mensuris et Ponderibus Romanorum atque Graecorum, woodcuts, and woodcut devices and initials, 2 vol. in I, vell., Basileae, Froben, 1550-8, folio (538), Dec. 16, Hodgson Sotheran, £2 IOS.

Agricola (Rodolphus).

De Inventione Dialectica libri tres, russia, from the library of Michael Wodhull, with his arms on sides and autograph signature on fly-leaf, Paris, 1533, 8vo. (465), Nov. 10, Hodgson Myers, LI IOS. Agrippa (Camillo). Trattato di Scientia d'Arme, con vn Dialogo di Filosofia, lacks 3 1., some a little damaged, plates by Michael Angelo, wrappers, Roma, 1553, sm. 4to. (44), July 14, Sotheby Rimell, 10s.

[Brunet mentions a copy with the words "Le figure intagliata di Michelangelo Bonarotti" written on the title, in the hand of Torquato Tasso. This appears to be the one he refers to.]

Agrippa (Henry Cornelius). The Commendation of Matrimony ... translated... by Dauid Clapham, black_letter (A-C in eights), woodcut border dated 1534 round title, title and last 2 11. mended (side notes on A 3, B 2-5, CI cut into, 2 letters of the word "Finis" defective), mor. gt., g.e. [colophon] Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti, 1545, 8vo. (2), July 11, Sotheby Quaritch, £50

[The only copy recorded in the Handlist is in the B.M.] Agrippa (H. C.) De Occvlta Philosophia libri III., folding tables, old calf, John Towneley bookplate, Lugd., 1550 (833), July 20, Sotheby Hollings, £1 2s.

Agrippa (H. C.) Three [Four] Books of Occult Philosophy, translated by J. F., portrait (laid down), table and woodcuts, 2 vol. in 1, cf., 1651-5, sm. 4to. (295), May 30, Sotheby Maggs, £10

[See also Ed. 1727-Anderson Gall., Mar. 17, $37.50.] Agrippa (H. C.) Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, Englished by Ja. San[ford], black letter, title within a woodcut border, a few ll. slightly stained and some lower inner margins wormed, old hf. cf., Henry Wykes, 1569, sm. 4to. (531), Dec. 6, Sotheby [See also Ed. 1684-Hodgson, July 21, 1 128.]

Quaritch, LII Aiken (Lucy). Memoirs of the Court of Charles I., 2 vol. extended to 4 vol. by the insertion of upwards of 150 portraits and views, hf. mor., g.t., 1833, 8vo. (1), Mar. 21, Sotheby Edwards, £5 IOS. Ailesbury (Thomas, Earl of). Memoirs, written by Himself, col. folding frontispiece, 2 vol., hf. roan, t.e.g., Printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1890, 4to. (866), Jan. 26, Hodgson Quaritch, £2 16s. Ainé (H. Roux). Herculanum et Pompei, profusely illustrated with full-page plates, 8 vol., boards (worn), Paris, 1862-3, roy. 8vo. (276), Nov. 22, Anderson Gall.

$51

Includes the secret eighth vol., which has the castrated plates.] Ainslie (Sir R.) Views in Turkey, Syria, Sicily, Eolian Islands, etc., col. plates, hf. russia, Bowyer, 1811, folio (288), Mar. 3, Puttick Edwards, £1 Ainsworth (R.) The Most Natural and Easie Way of Institution, containing Proposals for making a Domestic Education less chargeable to Parents, contemp. mor., panelled sides, g.e., bookplate of Sir William Hustler, 1702, the dedicatee, 1698, sm. 4to. (546), Jan. 31, Sotheby

Maggs, £5 15S. Ainsworth (William). Medulla Bibliorum, The Marrow of the Bible, or, A Logico-theological Analysis of every several Books of the Holy Scriptures, together with so many English Poems, etc., cf. ex., with the Christie-Miller arms on sides, g.e., by W. Pratt, fine copy, For George Calvert, 1652, 8vo. (327), May 30, Sotheby Edwards, £6

[Only two other copies have occurred at auction during the last thirty-five years.] Ainsworth (William Harrison). Guy Fawkes, first ed., illustrated by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. cl. (half-title to Vol. I wanting and a few plates discoloured), 1841 (367), Mar. 16, Hodgson Spencer, £3 158. Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, pres. copy, jointly inscribed in the handwriting of the author and illustrator, “With the united kind remembrances of W. Harrison Ainsworth and George Cruikshank, Decr. 5, 1839," 3 vol., pol. cf. gt., g.e., fine

copy, Richard Bentley, 1839, 8vo. (113), April 11, Sotheby Sawyer, £25 [See also June 30, £9 5s.; Puttick, Jan. 12, £6 15S.; July 12, £3 15s.; Illus. only-Sotheby, Dec. 13, £12 10s. ; Ed. 1840-Sotheby, Mar. 21, £4 15s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Lord Mayor of London, or City Life in the Last Century, first ed., 3 vol., three-quarter cf., g.t., uncut, fine set, London, 1862, 12mo. (5), Jan. 19, Amer. Art Assoc. $15 Ainsworth (W. H.) Mervyn Clitheroe, plates by Hablot K. Browne, blue mor., a 3-line fillet round edges of sides, with corner fleurons, panelled gt. back and inside borders, some wrappers and advts. (first and second issues) preserved, g.t., by Tout, 1858, 8vo. (3), April 27, Sotheby Spencer, £5 Ainsworth (W. H.) Geo. Cruikshank's Illustrations to The Miser's Daughter," 20 plates, all proofs on India paper, all but two (which have titles and the Hugh Cunningham imprint) before letters, in a folding cl. case, 1842, folio (605), Dec. 13, Sotheby Hunter, £5 IOS. [See also Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 23, $17.50.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Ovingdean Grange, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, front fly-leaf missing, orig. cl., uncut, 1860, 8vo. (5), July 18, Sotheby Edwards, £1 12S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, first demy 8vo. ed., illustrations by J. F. Franklin and H. K. Browne, cl., uncut, 1847, 8vo. (739), June 20, Sotheby Scott, £2 15s. [See also Mar. 7, £2 5s.; April 25, £2 15s.; May 23, £1 28.; July 25, torn, £2, and worn, £2; Amer. Art Assoc., Nov. 23, $10.]

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[Ainsworth (W. H.)] Rookwood, a Romance, 3 vol., 1834 (1), July 21, Hodgson Spencer, £6 Ainsworth (W. H.) Rookwood, fourth and first illustrated ed., plates by G. Cruikshank and a portrait, red mor., panelled gt. back, by Bedford, J. Macrone, 1836, 8vo. (2), Mar. 21, Sotheby Sawyer, £9 5s.

[See also April 25, £3 15s.; June 20, £3 3s.; June 27, £4 July 18, torn, £1; Amer. Art Assoc., Jan. 19, $30.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Star-Chamber, an Historical Ro

mance, first ed., 2 vol., three-quarter French levant mor., g.t., fine copy, London, 1854, 12mo. (3), Jan. 19, Amer. Art Assoc.

Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, by G. Cruikshank, hf. brown mor., g.e., June 20, Sotheby

[See also Dec. 6, I Ios.; Feb. 21, £3; Hodgson, June 16,

1 Is.; July 13,

$17

first ed., plates 1840, 8vo. (757), Thorp, £2 15S. Mar. 21, £3 15s.; 1 IS.; July 21,

£2 2s.; Parts-Sotheby, Dec. 13, 21; Ed. 1901Hodgson, Dec. 1, £2 12s.]

Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor Castle, first 8vo. ed., illustra

tions by G. Cruikshank and T. Johannot, orig. cl., 1843, 8vo. (489), July 25, Sotheby Maggs, £7 [See also Dec. 6, 1; Mar. 7, £1 4s.; Mar. 21, £4 10s.; June 20, 2; n.d.-Hodgson, July 27, £3 10s.] Ainsworth (W. H.), The Historical Romances of, handsome set of the Author's Memorial Ed., printed throughout on Japanese vellum paper, and limited to 10 copies, of which 26 are special lettered copies, this copy being lettered P, with numerous full-page etchings in two states, both proofs, one a remarque proof, by and after painters and etchers of note, 20 vol., full crimson levant mor., doublures of blue levant having large centre tulip design in gilt against background of gilt dots on crimson mor., the whole surrounded with broad border of crimson levant with elaborate corner scroll design in gilt, g.t., uncut, Philadelphia, George Barrie & Son (1899), 8vo. (3), Dec. 1, Amer. Art Assoc. $275

[See also Victorian Ed.-Anderson Gall., Feb. 14, $25.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Novels, library ed., plates by H. K. Browne and others, 14 vol. only (should be 16), orig. cl., Routledge, n.d., 8vo. (3), July 7, Sotheby Arthur, £3 18s. [See also Nov. 8, 16 vol., £5 5s.]

Ainsworth's (W. H.) Magazine, plates by Geo. Cruikshank, "Phiz," and R. W. Buss, Vol. i.-xiv., hf. cf., 1842-8, 8vo. (2), July 7, Sotheby Arthur, £2 12s. 6d. Ainsworth's (W. H.) Magazine, a Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, and Art, illustrated with numerous full-page etchings and woodcuts, of which 76 etchings and 22 woodcuts are by Geo. Cruikshank, including illustrations to "The Miser's Daughter," "Windsor Castle," "Guy Fawkes," "The Elliston Papers," etc., also a number of plates by "Phiz," Vol. 1 to 18 (Parts 1-106, Feb. 1842 to Nov. 1850, lacking the issue for Dec. 1850, to complete the last vol., 18 vol., in the orig. parts, orig. wrappers and advts. to each part, enclosed in 9 green cl. slip-cases, London, 1842-50 (153), April 25, Amer. Art Assoc. $250

[An unusually fine set. The first six and ninth vol. are the only ones which contains the Cruikhank plates. The first six vol. of the above are quite rare. The volumes are seldom found in such a fine condition. A. M. Cohn, Catalogue Raisonné, No. 22.]

Airy (Osmund). Charles II., limited ed., hf. dark green mor. extra, t.e.g., 1901 (256), Feb. 23, Hodgson

Bumpus, £2 25.

[See also Nov. 10, £3; Sotheby, Nov. 8, £1 16s.; July 20, illus. only, 5s.]

à Kempis (Thomas). De Imitatione Christi libri quatuor, contemp. straight-grained roan, gold borders on sides, with a royal crown in each corner, entirely uncut, very rare, Parma, 1793, folio (396), Feb. 21, Sotheby

Tregaskis, £12

à Kempis (T.) Soliloquium Animæ, The sole-talke of the Soule. translated and corrected by Thomas Rogers (A, 6 11.; B-L 6 in twelves), first ed., wants A 1 (? blank or with sig. only), wormholes causing minute defects, contemp. cf. gt., panelled sides, arabesque design in red and white enamel, gt. and gauffred edges, [imprint on title] At London, printed and are to be solde in the Royall Exchange at the shop of Andrew Maunsell, 1592, [colophon] At London, printed by Richarde Yardley and Peter Short, 1592, 12mo. (539), Feb. 21, Sotheby Tregaskis, £13 10s. Akenside (Mark). The Pleasures of Imagination, a Poem in Three Books, first ed., engraved vignette by Boitard on title-page, orig. wrappers, entirely uncut (measuring 10 by 8 inches), backstrip partially chipped off, in cloth slip-case and inner cloth wrapper, very fine copy, London, 1744, 4to. (6), Feb. 14, Amer. Art Assoc. $310

[The issue with the footnote on page 9 and with page 20 misnumbered 22. Mr. Wise considers this the second issue, but Mr. Williams, in his Seven XXVIIIth Century Bibliographies, differs with him and lists it as the first, because all later editions appeared without the note, and therefore it must have been in the earliest only.] Akenside (Mark). The Poems of Mark Akenside, M.D., first collected ed., mezzotint portrait of the author engraved by E. Fisher after C. Pond, orig. cf., gt. back (repaired at joints and at top and bottom of backstrip), fine copy, London, 1772, 4to. (9), Jan. 19, Amer. Art Assoc. $65

[Jeremiah Dyson's copy, with his autograph on inside front cover. Dyson was a politician and poet, the intimate friend of Akenside, having been left his whole estate in 1770. This edition of Akenside's poems was published under his supervision, and the 4 pp. Advertisement was written by him. An autograph poem in Dyson's hand appears on the verso of the title-page, entitled "Occasion'd by Dr. Johnson's 'Life of Akenside.'' Three stanzas, 14 lines in all, denouncing Johnson in scathing terms for his unfavourable criticism of his friend. The poem is signed "J. D."]

Akenside (M.) Poems, portrait, wants title, vellum gt., a leafy border on sides, on the upper cover a charming water-colour of a shepherd with his crook and pipe, and a cherub with pan-pipes, on the lower a vase of classical design, g.e., under the gilt of the fore-edges a painting of Vesuvius in eruption, with the Bay of Naples in the foreground, a fine example by Edwards of Halifax, in a green mor. case, sold as a binding, [c. 1780] 8vo. (482), April 11, Sotheby Zwemmer, £49 A[kerman] (J. Yonge). Italian Tales: Tales of Humour, Gallantry, and Romance, selected and translated from the Italian, first ed., with 16 illustrative drawings by Geo. Cruikshank, with the plate "The Dead Rider" which was cancelled in the second ed., orig. boards, cl. back,