red mor. slip-case, Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900 (241), Mar. 31, Amer. Art Assoc. $225 [This is the smallest book in the world. Only 57 copies were taken from the plates on which the text was engraved, and the plates were then destroyed. Only one other copy has appeared at public sale. Accompanying the above is a copy of the mother book" from which the above miniature edition was made. Only 8 copies were printed, two of which were used for securing copyright, sq. 12mo., cloth, Cleveland, 1900. This copy was specially printed for Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole.] Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of, Edward Fitzgerald version, printed on vellum, St. Dunstan Ed., limited to 18 copies for America and 12 copies for Europe, and no two copies alike, this being No. 22, with large illuminated initial on title and 101 other initials (two on each leaf, except the first one), large illuminated design on first leaf, lateral borders on some leaves, on other leaves are to be found designs of stars, etc., all the initials and designs drawn and beautifully illuminated in leaf gold and vivid colours by hand, full dark green mor., sides elaborately gt. tooled, doublures of buff-coloured mor., inside borders of green mor. with gt. tooling, fly-leaves of buff-coloured mor., in board slip-case, [New York] George D. Sproul, 1901, 4to. (469), Mar. 31, Amer. Art Assoc. $110 [Specially illuminated throughout for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Burrage by Harold H. R. Thompson, arranged and printed by The University Press, published by George D. Sproul. See also Lot 135, $80.] Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of, rendered into English verse by E. Fitzgerald, No. 537 of 750 signed copies, col. plates by E. Dulac, vellum, g.t., n.d., 4to. (320), June 30, Sotheby Bickers, £3 15s. Omar Khayyam, The Rubáiyát of, Edward Fitzgerald's version, with 12 hand-coloured plates after drawings by Gilbert James, printed throughout on Japanese vellum paper, full crimson French levant mor; front cover-in the centre, inlaid in purple, black, fawn, blue, maroon, brown and grey levants is a figure of a girl pouring wine from a goblet, reproducing the frontispiece to this book, within a panel frame of two gt. fillets, and at the sides of this centre design are grapes, grapevines and leaves inlaid in purple, brown and emerald levants on a solid gt. stippled background, the words "The Rubaiyat of" appearing at the top, and "Omar Khayyam" at the bottom, gt. ornaments in corners; back cover-double gt. fillet border with centre panel composed of double gilt fillets; back-grapes, vines, and leaves inlaid in brown purple and emerald levants on a solid gt. background, inside gt. borders, doublures and fly-leaves of crimson watered silk, g.e., by Bayntun, fine copy, London, George Routledge & Sons, n.d., 8vo. (244), Dec. 1, Amer. Art Assoc. $75 [Inserted is an A.L.s. by the translator, "E. Fg.," 4 pp., 8vo., August 5th, 1873.] O'Meara (Barry E.) Napoleon in Exile, plates, and upwards of 50 additional plates inserted, 2 vol., red mor., panelled backs and sides, g.t., 1822, 8vo. (319), May 16, Sotheby [See also Anderson Gall., Feb. 15, $45.] Quaritch, £6 10s. Ongoys de Therouane (Jean d'). Mémoire certain des choses plvs notables passées dupuis la création du monde, first ed., 12 very fine woodcuts, limp vellum, finely gt. tooled with leafy branches on ground of tears, g.e., by [Clovis Eve], in fine condition, Paris, Jean Benard, 1589, 16mo, (153), Mar. 17, Anderson Gall. $30 [Recording many facts of interest. The woodcuts are signed "I. L. B.,' but the cross of Lorraine does not appear.] Oppé (A. P.) Thomas Rowlandson, his Drawings and his Water-colours, LARGE PAPER, limited to 200 copies, reproductions (some coloured), parchment, in cloth portfolio, 1923 (602), July 7, Hodgson Williams, £I 3S. Orbellis (Nicholaus de). Super sententias compendium, gothic letter, 2 columns, Petit's device on title, wants last leaf with colophon, contemp. English stamped cf. over oak boards, panels of St. Francis on sides (worn), Paris, Jean Petit, c. 1506, 8vo. (370), Jan. 31, Sotheby Friehold, I IOS. Ordinary of Christian Men. Here followeth a notable treatyse and full necessary to all chrysten men for to knowe and it is named the Ordynarye of Crystyanyte or of crysten men, black letter, 248 11. (should be 254 ll., wanting 4 ll. of Table at beginning of sig. A, one leaf in sig. s, and last leaf with woodcuts), (a-tt 3 in sixes), long lines, 32 to a full page, I woodcuts in text (including one repeat), woodcut printer's device at end (Caxton's cypher with foliage, white and black, wynkyn de worde beneath), several small wormholes, a few head-lines slightly cut, stamped monogram on first leaf, otherwise good sound copy, old cf. (rebacked), [colophon] Here endeth the booke named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed and translated out of Frenshe in to Englysshe. Emprynted in the Cyte of London in the Flete strete in the sygne of the sonne by Wynken de Worde the yere of our lorde M.CCCCC.ii., 4to. (159), July 11, Sotheby Quaritch, £65 [First edition in English. Only three copies are recorded in the Handlist-British Museum (imperfect), Bodleian (a fragment), and the University Library, Cambridge.] Ordo baptizandi, Ordo ad sponsalia facienda, etc., manuscript on vellum, 29 ll., written in red and black, portions of the Marriage Service in English, some top inner corners affected by damp, orig. English binding of stamped cf. over oak boards, panelled sides (back defective), English, 15th Cent., 8vo. (158 by 110mm.), (145), July 25, Sotheby Shaw, £I IS. Original Lists (The) of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels . . . who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, edited by J. C. Hotten, hf. mor. (rubbed), g.t., 1874, 4to. (659), Feb. 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £4 Origines Parochiales Scotiae, maps, 2 vol. in 3, orig. cloth, Edinburgh, 1850-5, 4to. (134), Feb. 14, Sotheby Grant, £25s. Orme (Edward). Collection of British Field Sports, illustrated in 20 beautiful col. engravings from designs by S. Howitt, in the 10 orig. parts, col. engraved title containing 20 sporting scenes in ovals (tinted in one colour), list of plates containing a large col. vignette of a hare, and 20 superb col. aquatints, orig. bluish grey wrappers, white back strips (a few slightly defective), a large engraved vignette with the number of the part written in pen pasted in the centre of each front cover, and the name of the original owner, "John Goodford, Esq." presumably a subscriber, written in the top right-hand corner, Edward Orme, 1807-8, oblong folio (183in.-19 in. by 23 in.-23 in.), (363), July 4, Sotheby Rosenbach, £2,600 [A magnificent copy, and the only one known to exist in parts. The vignette engravings on the wrappers do not appear in bound copies, and are probably unique. Sir John Arthur Brooke's copy in a modern binding, sold at Sotheby's on 1st June, 1921, is the only other copy that has been offered for public sale in this country during the past twenty years.] Orme (E.) Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, etc., with the New South Wales Supplement, fine impressions of the 110 col. plates after Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, etc., hf. green cf., full gt. back, a clean copy of this scarce book (but without the list of plates), 1813-14 (309), July 21, Hodgson Heffer, £12 5s. [See also May 4, 11; Dec. 21, £7 10s.; Sotheby, June 20, £6 10s.; June 30, 16; Nov. 8, £8 10s.; n.d.-Dec. 6, £10.] Orme (E.) Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour, col. plates, hf. red mor. [1815-18], 4to. (299), Nov. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £10 IOS. [See also Mar. 7, £8 15s.; July 20, £7 10s.; Nov. 8, II IOS.; Hodgson, Feb. 23, £7 17s. 6d.] Ormerod (George). The History of Cheshire, map, plates [See also July 13, £3 3s.; Ed. 1882-Sotheby, Feb. 14, £2; Dawson, Oct. 27, 6 vol., £3.] Orosius (Paulus). Historia [Hain-Copinger *12102, Proctor *4576], roman letter, 78 11., the first blank, first initial supplied in red, slight marginal worming, russia gt., Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 30 July, 1483, folio (635), Feb. 21, Sotheby Leighton, £6 Ortelius (Abraham). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, engraved title and 53 double-page maps, including the World and America, all col., vellum, Antwerp, A. C. Diesth, 1570, folio (263), May 30, Sotheby Edwards, £40 [See also Ed. 1573-Hodgson, July 27, 10 IOS.; Ed. 1574-Sotheby, May 30, £25; Ed. 1580--May 30, 143 maps, £66; Ed. 1584—May 30, 112 maps, £30; Ed. 1592 May 30, 154 maps, £115; July 28, 134 maps, £62; Ed. 1595-May 30, 145 maps, £75.] Ortelius (A.) Theatro de la Tierra Vniversal, first Spanish ed., engraved title, portrait and 100 double-page maps, all uncol., a few stains, cf., Antwerp, C. Plantin, 1588, folio (430 by 300 mm.), (266), May 30, Sotheby Van Duren, £32 [At the end are three pages of text headed "Navigacion, Caminos y Medios por donde y en que modo las pedrerias, especerias, y otras cosas peregrinas de los Asianos e Indianos solian venir à nuestras provincias," followed by a table of the sources from which gold, silver, precious stones, spices, etc. were obtained.] Orthographiall Declaration (The), containing a Briefe Advertisement of two new Inventions, called Lineage and Fortage, whereby Writing-paper and Parchment are decently ruled and inlined for to ingrosse or write upon ... Examples satisfactorie for Paper-Books in quarto are annexed, 2 l., unbound, Cum privilegio, 1616, 4to. (160), July 11, Sotheby Tregaskis, £5 [Apparently unknown. the Advertisement.] The "Examples" are not with O'Shaughnessy (A. W. E.) An Epic of Women, and other Poems, illustrations, auto. pres. copy, with inscription on fly-leaf "with the Author's kind regards," orig. cloth, uncut, 1870 (456), Mar. 24, Hodgson Myers, £3 17s. 6d. Osiander (A.) How and whither a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the pestilence . . . ¶ Translated out of hye Almayn in to English [by Miles Coverdale], black letter, first ed. (A-B 8, C 7), a little waterstained, a hole in the title very slightly affecting the woodcut border, one head-line just touched, unbound, William Herbert's copy, [colophon] ¶ Printed in Southwarke by me James Nicolson, for Jan Gough [1537], 8vo. (1395), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £40 [Only one other copy is known, that in the Brit. Mus.] Osler (Sir William). Incunabula Medica, portrait, boards, linen back, Bibliographical Society, 1923, 4to. (479), May 18, Hodgson [See also Mar. 16, £4 10s.] Quaritch, £3 Ottley (William Young). The Italian School of Design, plates, mor. gt., 1832, imp. folio (281), June 30, Hodgson Lee, £3 Otway (Thomas). Works, consisting of his Plays, Poems and Love Letters, portrait, 2 vol., old cf., 1712, 12mo. (501), Oct. 20, Hodgson Dobell, 1 6s. Otway (T.) Works, with Notes and Life by T. Thornton, LARGE PAPER, portrait and plates, 3 vol., polished tree cf. extra, 1813 (259), Feb. 9, Hodgson Heffer, £3 7s. 6d. [See also June 30, £2; July 27, £1; Ed. 1926-May 18, £3 5s.; May 26, £2 10s.; June 10, £2 8s.; July 13, £2 16S. and I IIS.; July 25, £6; Sotheby, July 1, £2.] [Oughtred (William).] The Circles of Proportion and the Horizontall Instrvment . . . written in Latine by Mr. W. O., translated into English . . . by William Forster, engraved title and diagrams, slight defects at top of title and next two ll., otherwise a good copy, sprinkled cf. gt., inside borders, London, printed for Elias Allen, 1632, 4to. (230), July 14, Sotheby Quaritch, LII [The Short-Title Catalogue records two copies only of this edition and two of an edition printed by Augustine Matthewes in the same year.] Overbury (Sir Thomas). His Wife, with Additions of New Newes and diuers more Characters, lacks ¶ 1, some head-lines cut into, old hf. russia, E. Griffin for L. L'isle, 1618, 8vo. (109), July 28, Sotheby Arthur, £6 [See also Ed. 1618-July 8, £4; Ed. 1638-Jan. 31, def., £1 2s.] Overs (John). Evenings of a Working Man, with a Preface relative to the Author by Charles Dickens, title in blue and red, red mor. gt., orig. cloth covers preserved, g.t., by Rivière, T. C. Newby, 1844, 8vo. (41), April 27, Sotheby Raleigh, £2 Ovid (Publius Naso). Epistole Ouidij cum commento, titlepage in black and red, text printed in one column, surrounded with commentary, woodcuts on title and throughout text, printer's device on verso of final leaf, contemp. cf. (worn, rebacked), [Lugduni, Joa[n]nes de Jo[n]velles dictus piston, 1516], sm. folio (216), Oct. 21, Anderson Gall. $9.50 Ovid (P. N.) Invective or Curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. . . by John Jones, M.A., Teacher of a private School in the City of Hereford, first ed., pres. copy, with leaf of verses by the Author in manuscript, "To his most worthily much honoured Friend, Mr. William Bridges of Tiverton," 8 lines, signed, “J. J.," margins wormed affecting a few side-notes, Printed by J. G. for Ric. Davis in Oxon, 1658, sm. 8vo. (409), Dec. 6, Sotheby Dobell, £4 [This copy contains 6 printed leaves and 2 inserted blank leaves in sig. A. According to Hazlitt there should be 8 printed leaves.] |