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1653-The Third Book . . . containing the Heroick Deeds
of Pantagruel the Son of Gargantua, etc., London, Richard
Baldwin, 1693-Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of
the Bottle, being the Fourth and Fifth Books, Londor,
Richard Baldwin, 1694-The Fifth Book .. containing
the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel,
etc., London, Richard Baldwin, 1694, together 5 vol.,
crimson mor., London, v.d., 12m0. (205), Oct. 26, Ander-
son Galleries
$255

[First English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteaux.] Rabelais (F.) Euvres augmentees de la Vie de l'Auteur et de quelques Remarques sur sa Vie et sur l'Histoire, avec l'Explication de tous les mots difficiles, first Elzevier ed., title in red and black, with the sphere, 2 vol., old French red mor. ex. with arms of Sir Charles Stuart de Rothsay on sides, gt. back, g.e., a fine copy, [Amsterdam, L. & D. Elzevier], 1663, 12mo. (496), Nov. 30, Hodgson

[See also Anderson Galleries, Nov. 30, $28.] Pearson, £6 Rabelais (F.) Euvres, avec des Remarques de Le Duchat, 2 portraits by Tanjé and Folkema, 2 fronts. and vignettes by Picart and plates after Du Bourg, etc., 3 vol., contemp. red mor., g.e., Amst., 1741, 4to. (268), May 18, Puttick Quaritch, £56

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 12, £8 5s.; May 8, ₤4 10s.; July 10, 12 10s.; May 1, 17 Ios.; Anderson Galleries, May 2, $80; Hodgson, May 10, £14 10s.] Rabelais (F.) Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated by Urquhart and Motteux, with Introduction by A. de Montaiglon, plates by Louis Chalon, one of 210 copies on large Japanese vell., 2 vol., cl., uncut, 1892, 4to. (1216), Feb. 20, Sotheby Sherratt, £3

[Another copy, cl., 1188, Edwards, £1 14s.; See also May 1, 2 2s.; Puttick, April 5, 2; American Art Association, Jan. 26, $22.50.]

Rabelais (F.), translated by Urquhart and Motteux, 1653-94, with Introduction by C. Whibley, 3 vol. hf. buckram, Tudor Translations, 1900, 8vo. (38), May 17, Hodgson [See also May 31, £4 7s. 6d.] Bain, £4 5S. Rabelais Club. Recreations of the Rabelais Club, 3 vol., orig. white buckram, uncut, London, printed for the Members, 1880-1888, sm. 4to. (657), April 11, American Art Association

$14

Rabion (Abbé). Les Fleurs de la Poésie françoise, depuis le commencement du XVIe siècle jusqu'a nos jours, hf. cf., marbled edges, many leaves uncut, in cl. folder and cl. slip-case, lettered, Tours, 1841, 8vo. (28), Jan. 26, American Art Association $280

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[Charlotte Brontë's own copy, presented to her by Professor Héger and with the following note on fly-leaf, written and signed by Miss Brontë, Given to me by Monsieur Heger on the 1st of Jany., 1844, the morning I

left Brussels. C. Brontë." From the library of Mrs. A. B. Nicholls, widow of the Rev. Arthur B. Nicholls, whose first wife was Charlotte Brontë.] Rablet (Richard). Cobbes Prophecies, his Signes and Tokens, his Madrigalls, Questions and Answeres, with his spirituall Lessons, in verse, rime and prose, original ed. (two headlines shaved), yellow mor. ex., g.e., by Rivière, Printed for Robert Wilson, 1614, sm. 4to. (562), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £100 Racine (Jean). Euvres, plates by Chauveau and Le Clerc, 2 vol., Paris, 1676-Esther, Tragédie, plate, ib., 1689— Athalie, Tragédie, plate, ib., 1692, bound in 3 vol., polished red mor., full gt. sides and backs, doublé of blue mor., broad gt. floreated panels, g.e., uniform, by Mercier, 8vo. (116), Dec. 12, Sotheby Shuratt, £30 Racine (J.) Euvres, portrait by Daullé, plates, vignettes after De Sève, 3 vol., French mottled cf. gt., Paris, 1760, 4to. (1320), March 20, Sotheby Hoare, LII

[See also May 8, 10 10s.; Oct. 19, £5 10s.] Racine (J.) (Euvres, avec des Cmmentaires, par Luneau d Boisjermain portrait and plates by Gravelot, proofs before letters, Holland paper, 7 vol., contemp. sage-green mor., Chancelier Maupeou arms in gold on the sides, pink silk linings, g.e., 1768, 8vo. (244), May 18, Puttick Pearson, £190

[See also Sotheby, Oct. 10, rubbed, £26; March 20, rubbed, £9 10S.] Racine (J.) Euvres, 3 vol., contemp. red mor. gt., g.e., by Derome le jeune, with his ticket, 1784, 8vo. (248), May 18, Pearson, £30

Puttick Racine (J.) Oeuvres de Jean Racine, 5 vol., printed on vell., blue mor. gt., doublé with red mor., by Mariius-Michel, A Paris De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aine aux Galeries du Palais National Des Sciences et Arts, An vII. (1799), 8vo (470), June 19, Sotheby Crau, £120

[Only three copies were printed on vellum. The present copy is extra illustrated with the portrait of Racine by Santerre and the suite of 12 engravings by de Sève, and a doc. s. by Racine, 15 Dec., 1672, is inserted. Racine's signature is exceedingly rare (De Bure, Vol. ii.)] Racinet (M. A.) L'Ornement Polychrome, Recueil Historique et Pratique avec une Introduction Générale, 100 plates in gold, silver and colours, hf. green mor., full gt. backs, g.e., Paris, s.a., folio (224), May 1, Sotheby

Batsford, £4 5s. [See also July 31, 1 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 13, $25.]

Racinet (M. A.) Costumes Historiques, 500 plates, 300 of which are in colours, some illuminated, 6 vol., red mor. ex., broad gt. inside borders, joints, g.t., Paris, 1888, folio (223), May 1, Sotheby Sawyer, £42 [See also May 29, hf. mor., £29; Dowell, Dec. 5, hf.

mor., £24; Anderson Galleries, May 2, $140; Dec. 13, $110; American Art Association, March 15, $95.] Radcliffe (Alexander). The Ramble, an anti-heroick Poem, together with some Terrestrial Hymns and Carnal Ejacɩlations, contemp. black mor. gt., line borders and frames with fleurons at corners, g.e., Printed for the author, to be sold by Walter Davis, 1682, 8vo. (563), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 Radcliffe (Ann). The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, interspersed with some pieces of Poetry, 4 vol., orig. cf. gt., London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 8vo. (334). Nov. 30, Anderson Galleries $50

[Mrs. Siddons' copy, with her full autograph signature on the fly-leaf of each volume.] Radcliffe (F. P. D.) The Noble Science, first ed., engraved title, portraits and woodcuts, orig. cl., g.e., R. Ackermann, 1839, 8vo. (660), March 13, Sotheby Reynolds, £2 12s. 6d. [See also Anderson Galleries, April 3, uncut, $37.50; Sotheby, Dec. 12, £2 5s.; American Art Association, April 11, 1875 ed., inor., $47.50; Hodgson, March 22, 1875 ed., £2 4s.]

Raemaekers (Louis). The Great War: 100 Cartoons, with an appreciation by H. Perry Robinson and descriptive notes by E. Garnett, hf. buckram gt., 1916, folio (290), Dec. 12, Sotheby Arthur, £9 10S. Sotheby, July 31, £8;

[See also Hodgson, May 10, £8; March 27, £6 5s.] Raemaekers (L.) The Great War, a Neutral's Indictment, 160 cartoons by Louis Raemaekers, with an appreciation by H. P. Robinson and descriptive notes by E. Garnett, 2 vol., 1916-17-The Victory Volume, 92 cartoons, 1919, folio (1170), Nov. 28, Sotheby Wansley, £21

[See also July 10, 18; Hodgson, Jan. 11, £9 10s.] Raffles (Sir Thomas S.) History of Java, folding map and plates, some coloured, 2 vol., newly bound in hf. blue crushed mor., t.e.g., 1817, 4to. (372), Nov. 2, Hodgson

Edwards, £11

[See also Sotheby, Nov. 14, £11 10s.; May 15, £8 10s.; Dowell, Nov. 7, £7 5s.] Railways, Early Views of. See Bury (T. T.) and Nichol (A.) Rainerus de Pisis, Pantheologia, gothic letter, double columns, large initials in red (Vol. i. only, some words damaged by wormholes), stamped pigskin over oak boards, Venice, H. Lichtenstein, 1486, folio (261), March 27, Sotheby Jones, £2 15s. Rainoldes (D.) The Overthrow of Stage-Playes, second ed. (title soiled), boards, Oxford, 1629, sm. 4to. (491), May 31, Hodgson Dobell, £8 5s. Raleigh (Sir Walter). The Arraignment and Conviction of Sr Walter Rawleigh at the Kings Bench-Barre at Winchester, 17 of November, 1603, copied by Sir Tho. Overbury, hf.

brown mor., g.e., William Wilson for Abel Roper, 1648, sm. 4to. (565), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £10 Raleigh (Sir W.) The Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Discabineter, published by John Milton, old cf. (rebacked), London, G. Croom, 1692, 8vo. (206), Oct. 26, Anderson Galleries $34

[First edition. Has a commendatory introduction by Milton.] Raleigh (Sir W.) A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, as well in his Voyage as in and Sithence his Returne, and of the true motives and inducements which occasioned His Majestie to proceed in doing Justice upon him as hath bene done, hf. maroon mor., London, Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1618, sm. 4to. (1213), Feb. 20, Anderson Galleries $50 [Raleigh (Sir W.)] A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores this last Sommer, betwixt the Reuenge and an Armada of the King of Spaine (wanting blank for A I), MS. inscription on fly-leaf, "e dono Thomæ Grenville, 26 Nov., 1801," cf., extremely rare, Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1591, sm. 4to. (564), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £300

Ralfe (J.) The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, 2 fronts., a coloured portrait of the Prince Regent and coloured plates of sea fights, etc., 3 vol., hf. cf., Whitmore and Fenn, 1820, 8vo. (527), July 27, Sotheby Thorp, £51 [See also Dowell, Oct. 10, £42; Anderson Galleries, May 2, $230; Puttick, Nov. 17, £35.]

Rambler (The). See Johnson (S.) Rampegolis (Ant. de). Figure biblie, title with woodcut device printed in red, gothic letter, contemp. stamped leather over wooden boards (a few letters affected by wormholes), Parisiis, N. Wolff, 1510, 8vo. (379), Aug. 2, Puttick Thomas, £2 IOS. Ramsay (Allan). The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy, aquatint portrait and plates, red mor. gt., g.t., Glasgow, A. Foulis, 1788, 4to. (376), Jan. 30, Sotheby

Hopkins, £2 158.

[See also Puttick, Oct. 19, 1796 ed., 17s. 6d. ; American Art Association, April 11, 1808 ed., $10.] Ramsay (A.) Poems, folding portrait by G. White (fine impression, very slightly defective), 2 vol., cf., gt. line borders, blind blocks in the centres, Edinburgh, 1721-8, 4to. (730), May 1, Sotheby Maggs, £2 15S.

£4 15s.

[Bound in at the end is a contemporary engraved picture letter.] Ramsæi (Andrea). Poemata, cf., Andrew Hart, Edin., 1633 (553), Feb. 13, Dowell Ramusio (G.) Navigationi et Viaggi, maps and woodcuts, 3 vol. (some leaves at beginning of Vol. iii. badly waterstained), vell., In Venetia, nella stamperia de Giunti, 1554-83-56, folio (548), July 31, Sotheby Edwards, £5

Randolph (Thomas). Poems, with the Muses Looking-Glasse and Amyntas, first ed., contemp. English dark brown mor. gt., g.e., with bookplate of David Garrick, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1638, 4to. (566), Feb. 6, Sotheby

Dobell, £:8

[See also Jan. 30, £12 10s.; Nov. 24, fourth ed., mor., 1652, £5; July 10, cf., 1668, £1.] Ranke (L. von). History of England in the Seventeenth Century, 6 vol., cl., Oxford, 1875, 8vo. (128), Feb. 8, Hodgson Walford, 1 14S. Rankins (William). A Mirrour of Monsters, wherein is plainely described the manifold vices and spotted enormities that are caused by the infectious sight of Playes, with the description of the subtile slights of Sathan, making them his instruments, original ed., black letter, woodcut head on title-page, brown mor. ex., g.e., by C. Lewis (first line of title shaved), I. C. for T. H., 1587, sm. 4to. (567), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £120 [Apparently only three other copies are known.] Rankins (W.) Seauen Satyres applyed to the weeke, including the worlds ridiculous follyes true faelicity described in the Phoenix. Maulgre, whereunto is annexed the wandring Satyre (some headlines and ornaments cut, slightly damaging the text), brown mor. gt., by Hering, Edw. Allde for William Ferbrand, 1598, 8vo. (568), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £75 Raphael. Loggie di Raefaele nel Vaticano, title (coloured) and 41 large coloured plates, cut round and mounted on stiff cardboard, in portfolio, hf. leather (worn), 1772, etc., imp. folio (1314), Nov. 14, Sotheby Rimell, £3 Rapin (Paul). History of England, translated by N. Tindal (with Tindal's Continuation), thick paper copy, portraits, maps and plans, 5 vol., crimson mor., gt. panelled tooling on sides, panelled back, g.e., by F. Bedford, fine copy, 1732-51, folio (1315), Nov. 14, Sotheby Harding, £3 18s. [See also July 17, rebacked, £1 2s.]

Rappresentatione (La) di san Grisante et daria, roman letter, Florentine woodcuts (slightly defective throughout and mended, with portions in fac.), vell. gt., Firenze, 1559, 4to. (4683), Nov. 7, Sotheby Leighton, 1 125. Rappresentatione. La diuotissima Rappresentatione delle Serafica Vergine et Sposa di Cristo Sante Chiare d'Assisi. Raccolta dal R. P. Baccelliere Fra Lodouico Nubi d'Assisi Min Con di San Francesco, roman letter, double columns, woodcuts on title and at end (a few slight stains and wormholes), hf. mor., In Siena, n.d., 4to. (4682), Nov. 7, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £2 5s. Rashdall (H.) The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, fronts. and maps, 2 vol. in 3, orig. cl., fine copy of this rare book, Oxford, 1895, 8vo. (137), July 12, Hodgson R. Trout, £8 Gulliver Revived, or the Vice of

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