gothic letter, 35 long lines [Augsburg, G. Zainer, n.d.]Speculum peccatoris, 5 11. [Augsburg, G. Zainer, n.d.Hieronymus: De essencia diuinitatis, 16 11. [Augsburg, G. Zainer], n.d.-Ars Moriendi, 22 l., gothic letter [Hain *8589, Proctor 1570], [Augsburg, G. Zainer, before 1473]Processus iudiciarius, 9 Il., gothic letter [Augsburg, G. Zainer], n.d.-Gerson: Donatus Moralizatus, 7 11., gothic letter [Hain *8589-*7723], [Augsburg, G. Zainer, before 1473-Errores judaeorum ex Talmud extracti, 12 ll., gothic letter [Hain *8589-*6678], [Augsburg, G. Zainer, before 1473], etc., in I vol., cf., v.y., folio (214), July 31, Sotheby Pickering, £340 [First ed. of the Imitatio Christi and a scarce collection of tracts from the press of Gunther Zainer.] A'Kempis (T.) De Imitatione Christi libri quatuor, engraved title, brown mor., with elaborate gold tooling, in brown mor. case, by De Samblancx-Weckessen, Lugduni, apud Joh. et Dan. Elsevirios [1653], 24mo. (744), May 2, Anderson Galleries $42.50 A'Kempis (T.) Gerson (Johannes Charlier de). De imitatione Christi, gothic letter, double columns (a few small wormholes), bds. covered with a vell. leaf of MS., Mediolani, impensis Leonardis Pachel de alamania, 1488, 8vo. (987), July 10, Sotheby David, £2 4s.

Akenside (Mark). Poems, orig. cf. (covers loose), in hf. mor. slip-case, London, 1772, 8vo. (412), May 15, Anderson Galleries

$130 [Doctor Samuel Johnson's copy, with his autograph on fly-leaf.] Akerman (J.)

Italian Tales: Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance, selected and translated from the Italian, first ed. (with the Dead Rider plate at p. 58), plates by G. Cruikshank (some slightly foxed), cf. gt., 1824, 8vo. (4158), Nov. 7, Sotheby Kirk, £1 4S.

[See also Nov. 23, £1 2s.] Alazono-Mastix, or the Character of a Cockney in a Satyricall Poem, dedicated (as a New-years-gift) to the Apprentices of London, by Junius Anonymus, a London Apprentice (small hole in two last l., hf. red mor., g.e., R. I., 1652, sm. 4to. (7), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 Albani (Jo. Hier.) Libri de potestate Papae (margin of title and next few ll. water-stained), contemp. Venetian binding, dark red mor., gt. tooled sides, with lace-pattern border, the centre panel decorated with arabesques, etc., sold as a binding, Venetiis, 1561, 4to. (18), July 17, Sotheby Olschki, £9 10S.

Albert (The Prince Consort). The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, by Theodore Martin, first ed., with ports. and views, 5 vol., orig. cl., uncut, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875-1880, 8vo. (500), Dec. 19, Sotheby Bury, £5 [The presentation copy from Queen Victoria to her

chaplain (Principal Tulloch), with the queen's signed and dated autograph inscription in each volume.] Albert (The Prince Consort). Biography . . . compiled from Letters and Memoranda, by the Hon. C. Grey, first ed., port. and illustrations, brown mor. ex., with an interlaced A A" in gold in the centres and at the corners and the Prince Consort's arms and motto on the back together, Printed for private circulation by Smith, Elder & Co., 1866, 8vo. (502), Dec. 19, Sotheby

Bury, £3 [The presentation copy from Queen Victoria to Lady Napier, with the following inscription in the queen's hand : To Lady Napier in recollection of Balmoral, 1867, from Victoria Rg., Balmoral, Sept. 9, 1867."] Albertanus. De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, 9 11., lit. goth.; long lines, capitals supplied in red, without marks (some 11. stained), bds. [Hain *393, Proctor 7541], No place or date [Basel, M. Flack, c. 1474], folio (491), Oct. 19, Sotheby Ellis & K., £7 5s.

Alberti (L. B.) Momus, contemp. Italian dark red mor., panel on sides enclosed by a gt. border of metal-work design with floral corner ornaments, double ogee-shaped centre ornament with flower at top and bottom, very neatly rebacked, sold as a binding, Romae, ex aedib. Iacobi Mazro, 1520, 4to. (19), July 17, Sotheby Baer, £5 5s. Albertus Magnus. De mysterio missae, 135 11., gothic letter, 33 and 34 long lines to a page, without catchwords, signatures or pagination, initials in red (a few letters damaged by wormholes), hf. pigskin [Hain *449, Proctor 2494], Ulm, Johann Zainer, 1473, folio (182), July 31, Sotheby White, £5 Albertus Magnus. Summa de eucharistiae sacramento, gothic letter, 33 long lines to a page, a large woodcut ornament at the opening of the text, hf. cf. [Hain *456, Proctor *2503], fine copy, Ulm, Johann Zainer, 1474, folio (989), July 3, Sotheby' Jones, £7 Albertus Magnus. Compendium theologicæ veritatis, gothic letter, double columns, capitals in red, with pen ornamentation, without marks (a few small wormholes), orig. stamped leather (wormed and mendeci), leaves from a MS. on vell, as linings, Venetiis per Christoforum arnoldum, 1476, 4to. (386), July 31, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 3s. Insects, with Notes

Albin (E.) Natural History of English

by W. Derham, 100 coloured plates, red mor. ex., g.e., 1749, 4to. (87), May 1, Sotheby Wheldon, I IOS. Alciatus (Andreas). Livret des Emblemes, mis en rime francoyse et present a Monseigneur Ladmiral de France [par Jeh. Lefevre], lettres bâtardes (the title and last leaf in fac.), crimson mor., by Lortic, A Paris, Christien wechel, 1536, 8vo. (16), Feb. 27, Sotheby

[The first ed. of Alciat in French. including title and separate leaf at end 115 fine woodcuts. See also April 3, £5;

Maggs, £3 10S. Contains 124 ll., with device, and July 3, £6.]

Alciatus (A.) Emblemata, elucidata Claudii Minois Commentariis, woodcuts, French brown mor. gt., outer dentelle borders, corners filled with leafy sprays, arms of François de Faudoas d'Averton, Comte de Bélin, in centre of covers, within an oval ornament of leafy sprays and small flowers, g.e., by Clovis Eve, in a lined box, sold as a binding, Lugduni, apud haeredes G. Rouillii, 1614, 8vo. (992), July 3, Sotheby Wallace, £10 15s. Alcilia, Philoparthens louing folly. Whereunto is added, Pigmalions Image [by J. Marston], with the Love of Amor and Laura [by Samuel Page], and also Epigrammes by Sir I. H. [ie, John Hayward] and others, the second impression, wanting blank for A 1, old hf. cf., from the Heber library, Printed for Richard Hawkins, 1628, sm. 4to. (8). Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £34

[John Chalkhill has been conjecturally credited with the authorship of "Alcilia."] Alcyonius (Pet.) Medices Legatus de exsilio, Aldine anchor on title and at end, a large copy (8g in. by 5 in.), blank top margin of title mended, old red mor., gt. border on sides, with arms in centre of Marco Foscarini, Doge of Venice, gt. back, g.e., sold as a binding, Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, 1522, 4to. (20), July 17, Sotheby

Eisman, £5 Aldam (W. H.) Quaint Treatise on "Flees and the Art of Artyfichall Flee Making," coloured plates and patterns of flies, cl., g.e., 1876, 4to. (182), Nov. 17, Puttick [See also Sotheby, £3 5s.]

Quaritch, £2 12s. 6d. Aldine Poets, Pickering's ed., front., a complete set, 53 vol., orig. cl., 1830-51, fcap. (334), July 19, Hodgson

Spencer, £15 [See also Puttick, April 5, hf. cf., £15; Sotheby, Nov. 14, hf. mor., £30; July 31, cl., 16; American Art Association, April 11, mor., $225.]

Aleman (Mateo). Primera [e Segunda] Parte de la vida del Picaro Guzman de Alfarache, 2 parts in 1 vol., orig. vell., En Bruxellas, 1600-4, 8vo. (2), Feb. 20, Sotheby

Davis & Orioli, £5 15s. Aleman (M.) The Rogue, or Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translated by J. Mabbe-The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina, or tragicke-Comedy of Calisti and Melibea, showing the Deceits and Subtilties housed in the bosomes of false Servants and Cunny-Catching Bawds (sic), 1631, 2 vol. in 1, contemp. cf., with coat-of-arms in gt. on sides, folio (274), Dec. 12, Sotheby Pickering, £5 10S. Ales or Hales (Alexander de). Summa universae Theologiae, gothic letter, double columns, 70-71 lines, four large initials in colours on gold backgrounds, with marginal extensions, other initials in red and blue (wants 2 11. of Vol. i., the text in places damaged by wormholes, etc.), 4 parts in 4 vol., orig. stamped leather binding, with brass

centre and corner-pieces (rebacked), Nurnberg, A. Koburger, 1482, folio (153), May 22, Sotheby

Solomon, £4 15S. [Ales (Alexander).] Ordo distributionis sacramenti altaris sub utraque specie, et formula confessionis faciendae in regno Angliae (A 8, B 4), mor., g.e., Haec Londini evulgata sunt octavo die Martii anni 1548, 8vo. (4), Jan. 30, Sotheby Michelmore, £11

[The communion office of Edward VI. and the earliest reformed portion of the English liturgy.] Ales (A.) Ordinatio Ecclesiae, seu ministerii ecclesiastici, in florentissimo regno Angliae, conscripta sermone patrio, & in Latinum linguam bona fide conuersa, first ed. in Latin of the first Prayer Book of King Edward VI., made for Martin Bucer by Alexander Hales (lower margin of last 6 11. repaired), mor. gt., in slip leather case, Lipsiae, in officina Wolfgangi Gunteri, 1551, 4to. (200), Jan. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £21 [Alexander (James).] A Modest Vindication of the Proceedings of the Last Assembly of New-Jersey, in their Resolves touching a separate Governour, hf. blue crushed levant mor., each leaf neatly and skilfully protected by transparent gauze, in a permanent manner [New York, printed by William Bradford, 1729], sm. folio (12 by 7), (267), Feb. 27, American Art Association $300

[The only known copy of this interesting historical tract relative to the dispute between the Assembly of New Jersey and Governor Montgomerie on the subject of a separate governor.]

Alexander (Sir William, Earl of Stirling). The Tragedie of Darius, in verse, orig. ed., dark green levant mor. gt., by David, Robert Walde-grave, 1603, sm. 4to. (9), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £50

[See also Anderson Galleries, Oct. 26, $70.] Alexander (Sir W.) Recreations with the Mvses, title within an elaborate woodcut border (wants port., a few letters damaged by rust-stains), dark brown mor. gt., g.e., with the royal arms, Tho. Harper, 1637, folio (11), Feb. 6, Sotheby Michelmore, £36

[See also Anderson Galleries, Feb. 20, $17.] Alexander (Sir W.) Doomes-Day, or the Great Day of the Lords Iudgement, in verse, orig. ed., with orig. blank marked a, red mor. ex., g.e., by C. Lewis, fine copy [Edinburgh], Andro Hart, 1614, sm. 4to. (10), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £55

[The second part of "Recreation with the Muses."] Alexandre (A.) The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst, with notes by J. Cocteau, translated by H. Melvill, printed on tinted paper, port., coloured and plain plates, hf. vell. gt., uncut, t.e.g., enclosed in a cardboard case, Fine Art Society, 1913, folio (176), Dec. 19, Sotheby

Batsford, £7 1OS.

Alexis of Piedmount. The Secrets of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piedmount, translated out of French into English by William Warde, Parts 1 and 2. with separate pagination, title of Part 2 within woodcut border, black letter, full old cf., blind tooled, with arms of John Louis Goldsmith in gold on front cover (rubbed, front cover detached, woodcut title of Part 2 cut into), London, 1559-60, sm. 4to. (27), May 2, Anderson Galleries $50

[First eds. of each part. Part 1, 1559; Part 2, 1560. The work has been attributed to Hieronymo Rosello. The earliest ed. of Part 2 given by Lowndes is 1563-three years later than the above. The work was issued in 4 parts, and the first complete ed. was issued in 1568. See also Sotheby, July 24, £5; April 3, 3 parts in 1 vol., 1560-2, £5 10s.]

Aleyn (Charles). The Historie of Henrie of that name the Seventh King of England, in a Poem, T. Cotes for W. Cooke, 1638, 8vo. (4), Feb. 13, Sotheby Leighton, 18s. Alford (Lady M.) Needlework as Art, plates, 1886, 8vo. (20), April 3, Sotheby Walford, fi Ss. Aliaco (Petrus de). Tractatus et Sermones, gothic letter, hf. cf., Strasburg, 1490, folio (662), July 31, Sotheby

Leighton, 1 8s. Alken (Henry). Hunting, a series of 7 coloured sporting plates by Henry Alken, as follows: Going along a slapping pace, Topping a flight of rails, Charging on ox-fence, Got in and getting out, Facing a brook, Swishing at a rasper, Returning home in triumph, each plate measuring 9 by 12 inches, inlaid to imp. 4to. size and bound in threequarter crimson mor., London, S. & J. Fuller, 1815 (3), April 3, Anderson Galleries $110 Alken (H.) Hunting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Hunting, in a series of 7 coloured plates by Henry Alken, first issue, hf. mor., London, 1817, oblong 4to. (7), April 3, Anderson Galleries $100 Alken (H.) Illustrations to Popular Songs, 40 coloured plates only (should be 43), two or three margins slightly defective, hf. cf. (one cover loose), not subject to return, McLean, 1822, oblong folio (977), March 20, Sotheby Joseph, £I IOS.

[See also Puttick, May 18, 1826, £3 10s.; Hodgson, Nov. 16, 37 plates, 1823, £8 5s.] Alken (H.) Ideas, Accidental and Incidental to Hunting and other Sports Caught in Leicestershire, etc., 42 coloured plates (2 plates slightly foxed and another a little slit), otherwise a fine copy, orig. hf. mor., label on sides, g.e., M'Lean, n.d. [1830], folio (9), May 15, Sotheby

Pickering, £98

[See also Anderson Galleries, April 3, $470.] Alken (H.) A Trip to Melton Mowbray, being a series of 14 coloured plates by Henry Alken, depicting scenes by the way and fox hunting at Melton, neatly mounted on six