quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa " [Fine copy in a perfect binding. Pascal's "Les Pensées" has always been one of the most important books of the 18th century, and this edition of 1683 marks the transformation of his masterpiece, as up to that time the only text accepted was the Port-Royal or Jansenist one, of 1670. In this edition of 1684 Desprez added several new Pensées," and the famous work "Filleau de la Chaise," which became Discourse sur les Pensées de M. Pascal, où l'on essaye de faire voir quel était son dessein," etc., which will be found at the end of the volume.] Pascal (B.) Euvres, portrait and plates, 5 vol., red mor. gt., full gt. backs, g.e., by J. Clarke, Paris, 1819 (686), July 20, Sotheby Bain, £4 15S. Paskell (Thomas). An Abstract of a Letter from Thomas Paskell of Pennsilvania to his Friend J. J. of Chippenham, I leaf, printed in double columns on both sides, margin neatly repaired, unbound, London, printed by John Bringhurst, 1683, folio (1438), Mar. 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £200 [Gives a very full and interesting account of conditions of life in the colony, and its natural features. See Justin Winsor, "History of America," Vol. iii., p. 499, note.] Passau (Otto van). Die Vierundzwanzig Alten [Hain *12129, Proctor 1691, Schreiber 4880], gothic letter, 201 ll., wants fol. 5 (with 2 full-page woodcuts, supplied in facsimile) and 203 (blank), 16 impressions of 7 woodcuts, woodcut initial S with grotesque heads, signed R. A., this initial and the cuts all well coloured by a contemporary hand, fol. 183-186 (numbered 178-181) slightly wormed at top affecting a few letters, otherwise a good copy, polished cf., Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 14 Oct., 1483, folio (287 by 202 mm.), (582), Jan. 31, Sotheby Maggs, II IOS. Passio Christi. Passionis Christi unum ex quattuor evangelistis textum (Studio Ringmanni Philesii), 26 11., 26 fullpage woodcuts signed V. G., the margin of first few 11. repaired, small wormholes through some ll., green mor., by Douglas Cockerell, [colophon] Ioannes Knoblochus, imprimebat Argen., n.d., folio (876), May 30, Sotheby Hertzberger, £6 5s. Paston Letters (The), edited by Sir J. Fenn, first ed., fronts. and facsimiles, 5 vol., old cf., 1787-1823, 4to. (290), Jan. 12, Hodgson Walford, I IIS. Paston Letters (The), 1422-1509, edited by J. Gairdner, LARGE PAPER, 3 vol., cf. antique, E. Arber, 1872-75 (844), Feb. 23, Hodgson Walford, £1 13S. [See also Ed. 1900-Dec. 1, £1 178.; Ed. 1904-Sotheby, Mar. 21, £6 5s.] Pater (Walter Horatio). Appreciations, first ed., hf. mor., uncut, London, 1889, 12mo. (219), Mar. 14, Anderson Gall. $6.50 Pater (W. H.) Essays from the "Guardian," first ed., one of 100 copies, orig. boards, uncut, Privately printed, 1896, 8vo. (118) Oct. 6, Puttick Quaritch, £5 IOS. [See also Hodgson, May 18, £5 15s.; Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $25; Sotheby, Dec. 6, £3 5s.] Pater (W. H.) Greek Studies, a Series of Essays, first ed., orig. cloth, uncut, London, 1895, 8vo. (97), Feb. 8, Anderson Gall. $10 Pater (W. H.) An Imaginary Portrait [The Child in the House], wrapper, with prospectus, Daniel Press, 1894, 12mo. (256), June 10, Hodgson Thorp, £4 15s. [See also Dec. 21, £3 158.; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $25.] Pater (W. H.) Imaginary Portraits, first ed., orig. cloth, uncut, 1887 (836), Feb. 23, Hodgson Thorp, £I IOS. See also July 13, £2 10s.; Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $10.] Pater (W. H.) Marius the Epicurean, first ed., 2 vol., hf. levant mor., g.t., 1885, 8vo. (38), May 9, Sotheby Maggs, £3 5s. [See also Hodgson, May 18, 1 2s.; June 16, £3 10s.; July 13, £2 8s.; Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $20; Amer. Art Assoc., Feb. 14, $20.] Pater (W. H.) Plato and Platonism, first ed., orig. cloth, uncut, 1893, 8vo. (253), July 18, Sotheby Bain, LI IOS. [See also Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $10.] Pater (W. H.) Studies in the History of the Renaissance, first ed., review copy, straight-grained green_mor., inside borders, g.e., 1873, 8vo. (153), Feb. 21, Sotheby Maggs, £4 5s. See [Inscribed on half-title: "H. R. Forbes Brown from J. A. Symonds, Feb. 22, 1873," in the latter's hand. also Jan. 31, cl., £3; Mar. 21, cl., dull, £2; June 30, cl., dull, £2 10s.; July 20, cl., £3 3s.; Anderson Gall., Feb. 8, $20.] Pater (W. H.), The Writings of, edition limited to 775 copies, finely printed in large type, portraits, 9 vol., full burntorange crushed levant mor., panelled backs, gt. inner mor. borders, g.t., the sides gt. tooled with a geometrical frame within a single black fillet border, the backs treated similarly with tooling in gt. and black, London, Macmillan & Co., 1900-1901, 8vo. (508), April 25, Amer. Art Assoc. $165 Pater (W. H.) Works, including Essays from "The Guardian,' one of 775 copies, portrait and a front., 9 vol., orig. cloth (three or four slightly soiled), 1900-1, 8vo. (322), May 16, Sotheby Dobell, £6 5s. 6d. [See also Amer. Art Assoc., Mar. 1, $105; Nov. 16, $170; Dec. 1, $110; Ed. 1910-Sotheby, July 7, £3.] Patmore (Coventry). The Children's Garland from the Best Poets, selected and arranged by Coventry Patmore, first ed., vignette on title, orig. cloth gt., uncut, in full blue mor. solander case, inner silk wrapper, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with the bookplate of Maurice Baring, London, 1862, 12mo. (955), Feb. 14, Amer. Art Assoc. $85 [Autograph presentation copy from Robert Browning to his son, with the following inscription in ink on the half-title: "With Papa's love to dearest Peni. London, Jan. 22, '62." On fly-leaf is written: "This book was given by Robert Browning to his son. Maurice Baring, May, 1919."] Paul (Herbert). A History of Modern England, 5 vol., cloth, Macmillan, 1904-6, 8vo. (198), Dec. 1, Hodgson Harding, £175. Paul (H.) Queen Anne, Japanese paper ed., with 2 sets of plates, wrappers, in case, Goupil, 1906 (261), Feb. 23. Hodgson Archer, £1 12S. [See also Nov. 10, £3.] Paul (Sir J. Balfour). The Scots Peerage, interleaved copy, 9 vol., hf. mor., 1904-14 (774), May 30, Dowell on £8 [See also Feb. 28, 7 vol., £7 10s.; Nov. 22, £6 10s.] Paul (St.), with drawn sword, an illumination cut from a manuscript, upon a background of black and silver diaper, making a harmony of five colours within a carmine letter G; an apple-green cloak hangs over his aquamarine blue tunic, and he holds a scarlet book, size 17 by 166 cm. ; framed with a fine and boldly drawn initial A, in pink, green and brown, with ornament of cherubs' heads, size 16 by 17 cm., North Italian, c. 1450 (10), July 12, Sotheby G. Wells, £60 Paul (St.) Epistolae cum commentario, manuscript vellum, 176 11. (208 by 140 mm.), written by an English scribe in a bold clear hand, the commentary in similar but smaller letters, the interlinear glosses slightly smaller than the marginal commentary, 12 illuminated initial letters (a P in each case except the Epistle to the Hebrews, which begins with an M), the body of the letter filled with interlacing fillets issuing from the mouth of a serpent or bird whose head forms the end of the loop of the P, the tail of the P seized by a fish, bird, snake, dog or other animal or monster, other initials in red, a few II. wanting (Philippians iii. 8 to end, Colossians, and 1 Thess. i.-iv. 15), small holes in the first 40 ll. causing defects, mostly in the commentary, some of these 11. worn and somewhat water-stained, last leaf slightly wormed, blue mor. gt., g.e., c. 1100, 4to. (762), April 11, Sotheby Thorp, £60 [This interesting manuscript appears to have been written in the North of England. The initials, while preserving the original design, have been re-coloured at a later date.] Paulus Venetus. Commentaria in libros posteriores Aristotelis [Hain *12510, not in Proctor), third ed., gothic letter, 147 11. (last blank), wants first leaf (blank), Venice, Johann Herbort, 1481, die uero quarta octaua Januarii-Andreæ (Antonius). Scriptum aureum super Metaphysica Aristotelis [Hain *983, not in Pellechet, Proctor †4583), 154 11., heading on a 2 printed in red, slight water-stains at end, ib. Antonius de Strata, 21 Nov., 1482, bound together, cf. over wooden boards, top cover wanting, folio (405), April 27, Sotheby Fletcher, £8 [Burger interprets the date of the first work as Sept. 26, perhaps with some reference to the feast of St. Januarius on Sept. 19; but as the types used were discarded after January, 1481, it was almost certainly printed in that month, and is therefore the first book from this press.] Pausanias (Vetus). Description of Greece, translated, with Notes [by Thomas Taylor], first ed., maps and plates, 3 vol., contemp. red mor., g.e., 1794 (211), July 21, Hodgson Dobell, £2 10S. [See also Ed. 1898-Anderson Gall., Oct. 5, $28; Ed. 1913-Hodgson May 18, £4 IOS.] Paxton (Sir James). Magazine of Botany, Vol. i. to vii., col. plates, cf., 1834-40, 8vo. (209), Dec. 6, Sotheby Chaundy, £I IOS. [See also Ed. 1834-43-Mar. 7, £2 18s.; Nov. 22, £3 15s.; Dowell, Mar. 28, £1 12s.; Puttick, June 2, £2 7s. 6d.; Hodgson, Jan. 12, 16 vol., £6.] Payne (John). Oriental Tales, now first done into English, Kirman Ed., one of 500 copies, illustrated, 15 vol., hf. brown mor., London, Printed for Subscribers only, 1901, 8vo. (240), Oct. 13, Anderson Gall. $32.50 Payne (J.) Lautrec, a Poem, first ed., wrappers, uncut (tiny portion chipped from front cover), in flannel-lined cloth case, London, 1878, 12mo. (843), Nov. 23, Amer. Art Assoc. $10 [With a label pasted on verso of front cover reading: "From the library of Algernon Charles Swinburne." Also the following autograph inscription from the author on half-title: To D. G. Rossetti with kind regards. John Payne."] Payne (J. T.) and Foss (H.) Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, 3 vol., A.L.s. from Grenville inserted, red mor. gt., g.e., 1842-8, 8vo. (198), Mar. 28, Sotheby Thorp, £3 10s. Payne (W.) An Introduction to the Game of Draughts [with Dedication and Preface by Dr. Johnson], first ed., unbound, 1756 (473), July 13, Hodgson Morris, 11 5S. Payne-Gallwey (Sir R.) The Crossbow: its Construction, History and Management, 220 illustrations, orig. buckram, g.t., 1903, 4to. (361), July 7, Sotheby Quaritch, 1 IOS. Peacham (Henry). The Compleat Gentleman, engraved title by Delaram, and woodcut coats-of-arms, mor., g.e. (stained), 1627, sm. 4to. (300), April 25, Sotheby Last, £2 12s. [See also Ed. 1612—April 25, £2; Ed. 1661-Nov. 15, £7 5s.] Peacham (H.) Graphice, or The most Avncient and Excellent Art of Drawing and Limming disposed into three Bookes, title within a woodcut border (slightly cut into), woodcuts, lacks B I, O-PI, and D 4 and II_defective, some stains, orig. vellum, with a semé of a Tudor rose and a fleur-de-lis on sides, the royal arms in the centre, and the initials E. P. outside the panel, the upper cover damaged, W. S. for John Browne, 1612, sm. 4to. (494), Dec. 6, Sotheby Pickering, £9 IOS. [Peacock (Thomas Love).] Crotchet Castle, first ed., orig. boards, uncut, 1831, 8vo. (23), April 11, Sotheby [See also Jan. 31, £6 10s.] Stonehill, £6 [Peacock (T. L.)] Headlong Hall, first ed., orig. boards, uncut, with paper label (back worn and portions of the end-papers missing), 1816 (519), May 26, Hodgson Rowe, £6 15S. [Peacock (T. L.)] Maid Marian, first ed., hf. mor., g.e. (lacks advt. leaf at end), 1822, 8vo. (21), April 11, Sotheby [See also Jan. 31, £3 5s.] King, £3 5s. [Peacock (T. L.)] Melincourt, first ed., 3 vol. in 1, hf. cf., 1817, 8vo. (18), April 11, Sotheby [See also Jan. 31, £4.] Stonehill, £4 IOS. [Peacock (T. L.)] The Misfortunes of Elphin, first ed., orig. boards, paper label, 1829, 8vo. (98), Jan. 31, Sotheby Stonehill, £5 15s. [See also April 11, £4 5s.; July 25, £6 5s.] [Peacock (T. L.)] Nightmare Abbey, first ed., hf. cf., 1818, 8vo. (96), Jan. 31, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 15s. [See also April 11, £7 5s.] Peacock (T. L.) Palmyra, and other Poems, first ed., front., margin of title slightly defective, boards, uncut (back worn), 1806 (798), Jan. 26, Hodgson Howe, £3 6s. [Peacock (T. L.)] Paper Money Lyrics, and other Poems, first ed., only 100 copies, "not for sale," old cf., gt. back, orig. front wrapper bound in, London, privately printed, 1837, sm. 8vo. (387), Nov. 15, Anderson Gall. $50 [Richard Bentley's (of Bentley's Miscellany fame) own copy, with the following inscription in his own hand: 'This little volume is the product of Mr. Peacock, the gifted author of Headlong Hall, who kindly permitted me to use such of the poem as I chose in the Miscellany, Richard Bentley, Jan. 7, 1837."] Peacock (T. L.) The Philosophy of Melancholy, a Poem, first ed., uncut, 1812 (925), Feb. 9, Hodgson King, £5 15s. [Peacock (T. L.)] Rhododaphne, or The Thessalian Spell, a Poem, first ed., having the 12 pp. of Advts. stitched in at the beginning, but lacking leaf following title, orig. boards, uncut, 1818 (462), July 21, Hodgson Stone, £1 IOS. [See also Sotheby, April 11, £3; July 25, £6 15s.] |