with bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace, London, 1802, Lamb (C.) Letters, edited by T. N. Talfourd, first ed., portraits, 2 vol., orig. cloth, 1837 (18), May 18, Hodgson Roberts, 1 14S. Lamb (C.) Works, first ed., 2 vol., orig. cloth, labels defective, 1818, 8vo. (291), July 25, Sotheby E. Mathews, £12 [OS. [See also Hodgson, May 18, 1 10s.; Aug. 4, £1 8s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $65; Ed. 1855-Anderson Gall., Mar. 14, $10; Oct. 6, $14; Ed. 1903--Sotheby, May 16, 12 vol., £8; n.d., N. York-Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 1, 12 vol., $145; Dec. 1, 12 vol., $65.] [Lamb (C.) and Mary).] Mrs. Leicester's School, or The History of Several Young Ladies, related by themselves, first ed., with front. by Hopwood, full olive-green French levant mor., sides with triple gt. fillet borders, gt. back and top, gt. inside borders, uncut, by Bedford, London, printed for M. Godwin, 1809, 12mo. (269), Nov. 16, Amer. Art Assoc. $120 [Only three pieces were by Charles Lamb; the others were by Mary Lamb. A tear across the title-page and the Contents" leaf, and small breaks in fore-margin of several leaves have all been most skilfully repaired, and the lower corner of one leaf (pp. 95-96) has been supplied. See also Jan. 19, $25.] Lamb (C. and M.) Poetry for Children [edited by A. W. Tuer], No. 1 of 112 copies signed by the Editor, fronts., 2 vol., mottled sheep gt., t.e.g., Leadenhall Press, 1892, 12mo. (103), June 27, Sotheby Dobell, £4 [See also Lot 104, £4.] Lamb (C. and M.) Tales from Shakespear, designed for the Use of Young Persons, first ed., plates by W. Blake, 2 vol., crushed red mor. gt., g.e., inside border, by Rivière, Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, 1807, 12mo. (532), July 25, Sotheby Spencer, £54 [See also May 30, £15; Dec. 6, £39; Hodgson, Mar. 24, £40; Ed. 1809-Hodgson, Mar. 24, £6; Ed. 1909-Sotheby, May 23, £1 12s.; Nov. 8, £2 5s.; Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 16, $13.] Lamb (C. and M.) Works, edited by E. V. Lucas, plates, 7 vol., orig. cloth, 1903-5 (326), July 20, Sotheby Edwards, £3 IOS. [See also Anderson Gall., April 27, $12; Hodgson, Jan. 12, £7 12s. 6d.] Lamb (C.) and Lloyd (Charles). Blank Verse, first ed., full green crushed levant mor., gt. fillets on sides, gt. panelled back, inner gt. dentelle borders, g.e., by Bedford, London, 1798, 12mo. (734), Feb. 14, Amer. Art Assoc. $350 [Fine copy. Of the twenty poems included, thirteen were written by Lloyd and seven by Lamb. Autograph presentation copy to George Dyer, the intimate friend of Lamb, with the following inscription in the hand of Charles Lamb on fly-leaf, “George Dyer from the Authors." See also Hodgson, Mar. 24, £30; Sotheby, June 30, £9.] Lambard (William). A Perambulation of Kent, first ed., black letter, cf. (cracking), g.e., For R. Newberie, 1576, sm. 4to. (78), July 14, Sotheby Leighton, £2 [See also Ed. 1596-Hodgson, Feb. 23, £6 10s.; Sotheby, Nov. 22, £4 5S.] Lambert (William). Instructions and Rules for Playing the Noble Game of Cricket, second ed., folding plate (mended at fold), hf. cf., Sussex Press, Lewes, n.d., 8vo. (77), July 28, Sotheby Maggs, £2 2s. Lanctanius Fermianus, L. Coelii, cf. (rebacked), with old stamped leather panels, with Royal arms and initial letters R. L., inlaid, And. Cratandrum, 1524, 8vo. (92), Dec. 2, Puttick McLeish, £1 158. Landmann (George). Historical, Military and Picturesque Observations on Portugal, plans and col. plates (some folding), 2 vol., cf. (joints broken), 1818, folio (211), Nov. 8, Sotheby Edwards, £9 5s. Landor (Walter Savage). Imaginary Conversations, both Series, first eds., 5 vol. (Vol. iii. wants errata leaf; Second Series, Vol. ii., wants Nn 3-6), orig. boards and hf. cloth, paper labels (one defective), fine copies, 1824-39, 8vo. (350), June 27, Sotheby Mathews, £6 15s. [See also Ed. 1891-Dowell, Oct. 25, 6 vol., £I IOS.; Hodgson, Mar. 16, £4 2s. 6d.; July 7, £2 10s.; Ed. 1909 -Anderson Gall., Oct. 5, $18.] Landor (W. S.) Ode ad Gustavum Regem-Ode ad Gustavem [See also Lot 372, £1 5s.] Landor (W. S.) Poems from the Arabic and Persian, with Notes by the Author of Gebir, first ed., uncut, as issued, Warwick, printed by H. Sharpe, High Street, and sold by Messrs. Rivington, London, 1800, 4to. (485), Dec. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £18 Landor (W. S.) Collected Works, with Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes by C. G. Crump, fronts., 10 vol., cloth, gt. backs, J. M. Dent, 1891-93, 8vo. (139), Dec. 1, Hodgson Quaritch, £4 8s. Landor (W. S.) Works, and Life by J. Forster, library ed. portraits and plates, 8 vol., orig. green cloth (Vol. i. in brown cloth), uncut, 1876, 8vo. (51), Dec. 21, Hodgson Marks, £2 8s. ( 536 ) [LAN Lane (Edward William). Arabic-English Lexicon, Book I., Lang (A.) XXII. Ballads in Blue China, first ed., wrappers, 17s. [See also Hodgson, Mar. 24, 2 8s.; Ed. 1880-1881- £2 15s. [See also Sotheby, Mar. 7, £2 5s.; Hodgson, Feb. 9, £2 12s.] Lang (A.) Pickle, the Spy--The Companions of Pickle, 2 vol., 1897-1898 (581), April 25, Dowell £2 IOS. [The Companions" bears the inscription, "To A. H. See also July 25, £2 4s.] Millar, Esq., from A. L." Lang (A.) Works, Translations, and Works edited by:The Odyssey of Homer, done in English prose by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang, 1881-Helen of Troy, 1882--The Iliad of Homer, done into English prose by A. Lang and others, 1883-Custom and Myth, 1884-Letters to Dead Authors, 1886-In the Wrong Paradise, 1886-Books and Bookmen, 1887-Myth, Ritual and Religion, 2 vol., 1887 -Perrault's Popular Tales, plates, Oxford, 1888-Ballads Literature, 1889-Prince of Books, 1888-Letters on Prigio, Bristol, 1889-Lost Leaders, 1889 [with Paul Sylvester] The Dead Leman, 1889-Old Friends, 1890How to Fail in Literature, 1890-Angling Sketches, etchings, 1891-Elizabethan Songs, collected and illustrated by E. H. Garrett, with Introduction by A. Lang, 1893-Homer and the Epic, 1893-Lamb (C.) Beauty and the Beast, with Introduction by A. Lang, one of 100 signed copies, plates in red and brown [1893]-Ban and Arrière Ban, front., 1894-Cock-Lane and Common-Sense, 1894 -My Own Fairy Book, Bristol, 1895-A Monk of Fife, 1896-The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by A. Lang, 1897--Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Frerbois, translated by A. Lang, 1897-Prince Ricardo, plates, Bristol, 1897-The Making of Religion, 1898-The Homeric Hymns: a New Prose Translation, 1899-Magic and Religion, 1901-The Disentanglers, 1902, together 32 vol., mostly first eds., uniform hf. cf., sold as a collec-. tion, 1881-1902, 8vo. (455), Mar. 21, Sotheby Thorp, £17 10S. Lang (A.) Fairy Books, Poetry Books, Story Books, etc., first eds., col. and other illustrations by H. Ford, 23 vol., orig. col. cloth, g.e., a clean set, 1889-1911 (170), July 21, Ballinger, £10 Hodgson Langbaine (Gerard). An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, first ed., hf. vellum, Oxford, 1691, 8vo. (126), Nov. 15, Sotheby Finberg, £2 [See also Hodgson, July 21, £2 28.; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $55.] Langford (Charles). Gods wonderful Mercy in the Mount of woful Extremety, or The Recovered Captive, being a plain Relation of Gods unspeakable goodness in rescuing one of the meanest of his flock from the paw of the roaring Lyon, and pangs of unconceivable horror through long and strong temptations and spiritual desertions, orig. sheep, bookplate of J. Jolley, London, printed for Anna Brewster, 1672, 8vo. (1984), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £16 Langham (William). The Garden of Health, conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and Plants, first ed., black letter, title and lower margin of next leaf defective, orig. cf., 1579, sm. 4to. (362), June 23, Hodgson Wheldon, £6 [See also Ed. 1633-Sotheby, April 27, £3 10S.] Langland (William). The Vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde tyme imprinted by Roberte Crowlye . . . whereunto are added certavne notes and cotations in the mergyne, geuyng light to the Reader, black letter, crimson crushed mor., g.e., by Bradstreet, Imprynted at London by Roberte Crowley, dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne, 1550, sm. 4to. (2), May 4, Hodgson Edwards, £56 Langland' (W.) The Vision and Crede of Peirs Ploughman, edited by T. D. Whitaker, black letter, facsimile reprint in red and black of Reynold Wolfe's edition of 1553, bevelled mor. antique, g.e., 1813, 4to. (3), May 4, Hodgson Blackwell, £2 15S. [See also Ed. 1864-76- May 4, 7 vol., £4 IOS.; 1867-1910-May 4, 6 vol., £3 5s.; Ed. 1886-July 7, £1 s.; Sotheby, June 30, 1 IOS.] Ed. Langley (Batty). New Principles of Gardening, first ed., folding plates, contemp. boards, uncut, 1728, 4to. (75), May 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 [See also Mar. 28, £3 10s.] Langston (John). Lusus Poeticus Latino-Anglicanus . . . or The more eminent sayings of the Latin Poets collected, and for the service of Youth in that ancient exercise, commonly called Capping of Verses, alphabetically digested and . . . rendred into English, a few ll. somewhat wormed, rust-hole in P 3, orig. cf., London, printed for Henry Eversden, 1675, 8vo. (1087), Mar. 28, Sotheby Pickering, £7 10S. Lanquet (Hubert). Epistolae Politicae et Historicae, scriptae quondam ad Illustrem et Generosum Dominum Philippum Sydnaeum, Equitem Anglum, cf. gt., Francofurt, 1633 (In Officina Guielmi Fitzeri, Librarii Angli), 4to. (965), Dec. 6, Sotheby Leighton, £4 5S. Lapauze (H.) La Tour et son Euvre au Musée de Saint Quentin, 87 plates, No. 4 of 500 copies, hf. mor., g.t., Goupil, 1905, 4to. (844), June 20, Sotheby Barnard, £4 5s. Lapraik (John). Poems on Several Occasions, lower corner of title renewed, dark green mor., panelled back, g.e., Kilmarnock, 1788, 8vo. (78), June 13, Sotheby Campbell, £5 La Ramée (Pierre). Via Regia ad Geometriam: The Way to Geometry . . . written in Latine . . . and now translated and much enlarged by the learned Mr. William Bedvvell, orig. ed., orig. vellum, signature "Dan. Fleming" on flyleaf, London, printed by Thomas Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, 1636, 4to. (239), June 27, Sotheby Ellis, £8 Lark (The), complete, with all the inserts and The Epilark, numerous illustrations, 2 vol., orig. decorated canvas, uncut, San Francisco, 1896-97, 12mo. (622), Nov. 23, Amer. Art Assoc. $17 [Exceptionally fine copy, mainly written by Gelett Burgess. Inserted are autograph letters of the following contributors to The Lark:-Burgess (Gelett), A.L.s., I p. 4to., April 4, 1903; Noguchi (Yone), A.L.s., 10 pp. 8vo., July 19th, 1909, a fine, interesting and exceptionally lengthy letter in English; Tompkins (Juliet Wilbor), A.L.S., I p. 4to., October 28, 1910. See also Feb. 14, mor., $40.] [La Rochefoucauld (Francois A. F., Duc de).] Reflexions, ou Sentences et Maximes Morales, first ed., vignette on title, and engraved front. by Stph. Picart, crimson crushed levant mor., gt. back in compartments, gt. fillet borders, with centre scroll ornament, gt. over marbled edges, by Motte, fine copy, A Paris, chez Claude Barbin, 1665, 16mo. (189), Oct. 13, Anderson Gall. $40 [In this copy the pagination is continuous to 150. Maxim cxlix. is in the uncorrected state, as are also lines 3 and 4 of page 74, and Maxim clxiii. The remainder of the differences mentioned in Petit are here in the corrected state. See also Ed. 1779-Anderson Gall., Mar. 17, $22.50; Ed. 1812-Sotheby, Feb. 21, £4.] Larwood (Jacob) and Hotten (J. C.) The History of Signboards, front. in colour and numerous illustrations, one of 100 copies on LARGE PAPER, with 72 additional illustrations, boards, roxburghe back, uncut, London, 1867, 4to. (182), Oct. 6, Anderson Gall. $12 A Journal of the Last Voyage perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale to the Gulph of Mexico, folding map (torn), rust-hole in a 6, panelled cf., 1714, 8vo. (289), July 25, Sotheby Edwards, £5 La Salle (R. de) and Joutel (Capt. H.) [See also Hodgson, Mar. 24, £4 10S.] Las Casas (Emanuel Count de). Mémorial de Sainte Hélène : Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Colburn ed., maps, plan and view, 8 vol., hf. maroon mor, emblematic gt. |