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CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the seller cannot decide the said dispute.

II. No person to advance less than 6d.; above ten shillings, 1s.; above five pounds, 2s. 6d.; and so on.

III. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and resold.

IV. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer's expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense, the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON and HODGE will have the option of reselling the lots uncleared either by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter.

V. All the books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but

if upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned.

VI. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates. All the manuscripts, autographs, all magazines and reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The sale of any illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or errors of description.

VII. NO IMPERFECT BOOK will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased.

VIII. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settle. ment of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale.

IX. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is sustained in the reselling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.

Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions faithfully executed by their humble servants,

SOTHEBY WILKINSON & HODGE,
Wellington Street, Strand.

CATALOGUE

OF THE

EXTENSIVE, IMPORTANT & VALUABLE COLLECTION

OF

BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS,
Autograph Letters and Engravings,

OF THE LATE

Kayes

Quarita & ACTES

Да

SIR WILLIAM TITE, C.B., M.P.,

F.S.A. F.R.S. F.G.S. &c.

FIRST DAY'S SALE.

SIZES MIXED.

LOT

Mitchell 1 Aberdeen (G. Earl of) on Grecian Architecture, 1822—Burgess (R.)
on the Circus on the Via Appia, plates, 1828
calf extra
post Svo. in one vol.
Quarie 2 Accords (G. Tabourot, Seigneur des) Ses Bigarrures et Touches, avec les
Apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes Dijonnoises,
morocco extra, g. e. by Trautz-Bauzonnet

12mo. Paris, 1662

From this scarce and curious book of drolleries Swift took many of
his puns, and from the same source Sterne drew several of his best
hits in Tristram Shandy.

3 ACKERMANN (R.) MICROCOSM OF LONDON, 3 vol. proof and coloured
plates by Rowlandson and Pugin, with the ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY O
A. PUGIN added,

half red morocco extra, g. e. A. Pugin's own copy, roy. 4to. 1808-9

IN

AT REGENSPURG (Ratisbon), &c. Translated owt of Latyne into 8
Englissh by Mylys Couerdale,

black letter, morocco extra, by F. Bedford, VERY SCARCE, 16mo. M.D.XLII
5 ACUNA (C. DE) NUEVO DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL GRAN RIO DE LAS
AMAZONAS, fine copy in red morocco, super extra, g. e. by F. Bedford,
small 4to. Madrid, 1641

EXCESSIVELY RARE

This work was rigidly suppressed as soon as published, in order to
prevent any copy falling into the hands of the enemy, who had just
wrested the province from Spain, and probably not a dozen copies
escaped destruction. Col. Stanley's sold for £16 and this copy for
£14 at these Rooms in March, 1864.

2997 758

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alkelt 26 Albin (E.) Natural History of English Song-Birds, part of Ei in MS. calf, sold with all faults

small 8vo. 1779

8vo. 1791

Alciphron's Epistles (translated by W. Beloe)
Alcoran des Cordeliers en Latin et en François, 2 vol. plates by Picart,
fine copy in green morocco, g. e. by Derome
12mo. Amst. 1734
Aldrich (H.) Elements of Civil Architecture in Latin, with English
by Rev. P. Smith, portrait and plates,
roy. 8vo. Oxford, 1789

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Maurice

Maurice 31
Jattali 32

russia

Parsons 30 ALE. The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale (in Verse),
fine copy in red morocco extra, g. e. by F. Bedford
Rare. This copy sold for £2. 6s. in G. Smith's sale.
Alfieri (V.) Vita scritta da esso, 2 vol. port. half calf, 8vo. Firenze, 1822
Alfred (King) Will in Anglo-Saxon and English, 1828-Boethius'
Metres in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred, with English Translation.
and Notes by Rev. S. Fox, 1835, calf gilt
Svo. in one vol.
Alfred's (King) Poems in English Metres by M. F. Tupper, 12mo. 1850
Allies (J.) on the Ignis fatuus and Fairies, half morocco Svo. 1846
ALLOT (R.) ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS: or the choysest Flowers of our
Moderne Poets, slightly cut in margins, but has at end the rare leaf
"Fames windy trump," mentioned by Lowndes as frequently wanting
(and justly so, as it is undoubtedly inserted from some other work by
a totally different printer),

calf, sold with all faults, very scarce
16mo. 1600
Containing extracts from Shakespeare, Spenser, Gascoigne, Dekker,
Chapman, Lodge, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Daniell, Drayton and other
eminent Poets. The Roxburghe copy sold for £21, G. Smith's
for £14. 58. and Col. Stanley's for £13. 13s.

Smith 33
Sach Kell, 34
Arthur

35

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Quaritch 36 ALLOTT (R.) ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS: or the choysest Flowers of our
Moderne Poets, with the rare dedication signed Robert Allott,
red morocco extra, g. e.

16mo. 1600

withdrawn 37 Alphabeta varia, scilicet; Brammhanicum, Romæ, 1771—Indica, ib. 1791 -Armenum, ib. 1781-Ethiopicum, ib. 1789-Cophtum, ib. s. a.Chaldaicum (Estranghelo), ib. 1636-Hebraicum et Samaritanum, ib. 1771-Grandonico-Malabaricum, ib. 1772-Barmanorum Regni Arensis, ib. 1787-Illyricum et Slavonicum, ib. 1783-Græcum, ib. 1771-Etruscum, ib. 1771-Arabicum, ib. 1715-Persicum, ib. 1783 small 8vo. in 2 vol.

Ellis

small 8vo. 1671326

Mitchell 39 Quarto 40

38 AMADIS DE GAULE, written in French by the Lord of Essars Nicholas
de Herberay, and Englished by A. Munday, 4 vol. in 1,

title mended, else fine copy in blue morocco extra, g. e. a very rare
romance of chivalry in prose
folio. N. Okes, 1618-19
Amadis of Gaul, by Vasco Lobeira (translated by R. Southey), 4 vol.
calf extra

12mo. 1803

AMERICA. MUNDUS NOVUS, Albericus Vespucius Laurentio Petri de
Medicis salutem plurimam dicit,

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beautiful copy of a very rare edition of the Latin version of Vespucius's
celebrated letter, red morocco extra, g. e. by F. Bedford
small 4to. Magister johanes otmar: vindelice impressit Auguste, 1501

10126

4210

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41 America, or an exact Description of the West-Indies, by N. N. map,
16mo. 1655

calf gilt

Quaritch 42 Amoris Effigies, autograph of "Narcissus Luttrell, His Book, 1681" Maurin 48mo. Excudebat R. Daniel, s. a. 43 Amory (T.) Life of John Buncle, old gilt russia 8vo. 1756 Amours des Dames illustres de nostre Siècle, plates, with frontispiece dated 1681,

Smith

Battal

morocco extra, gilt marbled edges, by Niedrée, small 12mo. Cologne, 1680 ** This rare edition, which is totally different from any described by Brunet, contains Alosie, Le Palais Royal, Histoire de l'amour feinte du Roi pour Madame, La Princesse, Le Perroquet, Junonie, Les fausses Prudes, La Déroute et l'Adieu des Filles de Joie, and Le Passe-temps Royal.

45 Amusemens serieux et comiques

24mo. Amst. 1629 pro 1729
46 Anacreon et Sapho, en Grec et en François, avec des Remarques par
Madame Dacier
12mo. Amst. 1716

47 Anderson (C.) Annals of the English Bible, woodcuts,
half morocco

8vo. 1862

48 Anderson (R.) Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, with Notes and
Glossary, frontispiece, calf extra foolscap 8vo. Wigton, 1808
49 ANDREINI (GIO. BATISTA) L'ADAMO Sacra Representatione, portrait
and plates by Cesare Bassani,

FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE, fine copy, in blue morocco, g. e.
with tooled border
small 4to. Milano, 1613
This drama is supposed to have suggested to Milton the idea of
writing his Paradise Lost. It is so rare, that Mickle, the translator
of the Lusiad, on the authority of eminent Italian literati, denied that
such an author or work existed. Edwards's copy sold for £15.

(50

Andreossy (F.) Histoire du Canal de Languedoc, plans, 8vo. Paris, 1800 51 Aneurin (a Welsh Bard of the VIth Century) Y Gododin, with English Translation by Rev. J. Williams ab Ithel, crown 8vo. Llandovery, 1852 52 Angell (S.) and T. Evans, Sculptures Metopes of Selinus, plates, fol. 1826 53 Angelo (H.) School of Fencing, plates, oblong 8vo. 1787-Art of Defence with Broad Sword and Sabre, plates, 8vo. 1798

(2)

51 Anglesea. Social Condition of its People in the Reign of James I,
edited by J. O. Halliwell, only 26 copies printed, crown 8vo. 1860

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Anglers, in 2 vol. woodcuts

55 ANGLING. Collection of right merrie Garlands for North Country
crown 8vo. Newcastle, 1820-44 Salkeld
*** Including Angler's Progress; Tyne Fisher's Farewell; Fisher's Gar-
land, from 1821 to 1844, inclusive; and the Auld Fisher's Invitation
to his Friend.

56 [Annett (P.)] Collection of the Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer noted Bumstead

by his Sufferings for his Opinions, 8vo. n. d.-History of the Man
after God's own Heart (King David), 1761-Letter to the Rev. Dr.

S. Chandler, 1762, MS. notes, calf extra, foolscap 8vo. in one vol.
57 Annual Retrospect of Engineering and Architecture, vol. I, crown 8vo. 1862

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