Ainsworth (W. H.) Boscobel, first ed., illustrations, 3 vol., green levant mor., three-line fillet round sides, gt. tooled backs and inner borders, g.t., by Broca, 1872, 8vo. (17), June 29, Sotheby Maggs, £4 5s. Ainsworth (W. H.) The Combat of the Thirty, with presentation inscription, "The Rev. T. Corser, with W. Harrison Ainsworth's kind regards," orig. green printed boards, in hf. mor. slip case, 1859, 8vo. (281), Feb. 23, Sotheby Hewitt, £8 Ainsworth (W. H.) Crichton, first ed., 3 vol., presentation copy, with inscription by the Author, orig. boards (one cover gone and back strips off), R. Bentley, 1837, 8vo. (478), Feb. 2, Sotheby Spencer, f10 10S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Guy Fawkes, plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, 1841, 8vo. (275), Feb. 23, Sotheby Tregaskis, £10 [See also June 29, mor., £8 5s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Jack Sheppard, port., and plates by G. Cruikshank, with the advertisement leaf (a î) in Vol. 1, 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, 12mo. (273), 1839, Feb. 23, Sotheby Roland, £10 [See also Mar. 2, hf. cf. (frayed), £2 10s.; April 20, hf. cf., £2 5s.; American Art Association, cf., April 23, $45; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, cf., $27-50; Hodgson, Mar. 11, cl. (loose), £5 10s.; Sotheby, June 29, ed. 1840, mor., £7 10s.; Dec. 15, ed. 1840, parts, £5.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Saint James's, or the Court of Queen Anne, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., dark blue levant mor., three-line fillet round sides, gt. tooled backs and inner borders, g.t., other edges trimmed, by Broca, J. Mortimer, 1844, 8vo. (11), June 29, Sotheby Sawyer, £6 5s. [See also May 25 (foxed), £3 4s.; Dec. 15, pages from Ainsworth Mag., Mar., £1 18s.; Hodgson, Nov. 12, pol. cf. (soiled), £1 8s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Mervyn Clitheroe, first ed., plates by [See also Feb. 2, parts, £8 5s.; American Art Association, Mar. 30, parts, $30.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, first ed., plates by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, re-cased, Cunningham and Mortimer, 1842, 8vo. (9), June 29, Sotheby [See also Dec. 15, mor., £2 2s.] Maggs, £4 10S. Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's, a Tale of the Plague and the Fire, first ed., 3 vol., in the 12 orig. parts, plates by J. Franklin, orig. wrappers, uncut, in a red levant mor. case, Hugh Cunningham, 1841, 8vo. (8), June 29, Sotheby [See also Dec. 15, orig. cl. (stained), £3 ed. 1847, orig. cl., £2 2s.; Hodgson, Dec. Spencer, £41 10s.; Dec. 15, 17, cl., £2 15s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Ovingdean Grange, first ed., plates by H. K. Browne, orig. cl. gt., 1860 (581), July 9, Hodgson Maggs, £2 2s. Ainsworth (W. H.) Rookwood, 3 vol., orig. cl., paper labels, uncut, 1834, 8vo. (271), Feb. 23, Sotheby Tregaskis, £8 5s. [See also May 25, inscribed copy, rebacked, £5; June 29, 4th ed., 1836, uncut, fine, G.Ĉ. illustrations, £12 10s.] Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, an Historical Romance, first ed., in the 12-13 orig. parts, plates by G. Cruikshank, advertisements in Parts 8, 10, 11, and 12-13 only, hole (destroying part of text) in list of wood engravings, orig. wrappers, uncut (back slips slightly defective and head-line of one wrapper cut into), R. Bentley, 1840, 8vo. (5), June 29, Sotheby Sawyer, £18 [See also Dec. 15, 16; July 20, impft., £5; American Art Association, May 4, fine, $60.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor. Castle, frontispieces by G. Cruikshank, 3 vol., orig. boards, paper labels, uncut, 1843 (279), Feb. 23, Sotheby Brown, £5 [See also April 20, orig. cl., uncut (loose), 18s.; June 22, orig. cl., £2 10s.; June 29, cl., fine, £6 5s.; American Art Association, Jan. 3, $22; May 4, parts, $60; Sotheby, Dec. 15, parts, £17.] Ainsworth (W. H.) Novels, illustrations by G. Cruikshank, $200 [Set of the library edition printed on Japan paper, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 142. In Vol. I is inserted an autograph letter signed by the author. See also Nov. 20, Astral ed., $210; Jan. 20, numbered ed., $165; April 14, $90.] Air Balloon (The), or a Treatise on the Aerostatic Globe [the first English treatise on Balloons), third ed., with additions, frontispiece (inlaid), hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., 1783 (465), Dec. 10, Hodgson Spurr & Swift, £3 35. Airy (Osmund). Charles II., one of 300 copies on Japanese paper, with duplicate plates, ports. (one in colours) and views, cf. gt., with the royal arms on sides and crowned cypher on panels of back, g.t., Goupil Series, 1901, 4to. (94), June 15, Sotheby Thorp, £1 [See also Mar. 2, hf. mor., £2; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 16, hf. mor., on vell., $16.] Aiton (W.) Hortus Kewensis, plates, 3 vol., old cf., 1789, 8vo. (342), June 22, Sotheby Thorp, £4 à Kempis (Thomas). Opera [de Imitatione Christi, etc.] et libri vite fratris Thome de Kempis [Hain-Copinger *9769, B.M. Cat. II., p. 475], gothic letter, initials in red, first half of the volume rather badly wormed, blind stamped cf. over wooden boards, rebacked with vell., Nuremberg, C. Hochfeder, 29 Nov., 1494, folio (615), April 6, Sotheby Pollard, £4 15S. [See also Mar. 17, ed. 1500, £8; Mar. 17, n.d., £9 10s. ; American Art Association, Dec. 1, ed. 1585, $145; Sotheby, Dec. 8, ed. 1679, £2 2s.; Dec. 18, ed. 1897, needlework binding, £2.] A Larum for London, or the siedge of Antwerpe, with the vertuous actes and valorous deedes of the lame Souldier (A 2), wanting the title and prologue, limp buckram [London, printed for William Ferbrand... 1602], 4to. (98), Feb. 23, Sotheby Pickering, £5 5s. Alberi (E.) Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti al Senato, the three Series, with Appendix, 15 vol., hf. mor. gt., m.e., Firenze, 1839-63 (701), May 13, Hodgson Bickers, £7 Albericus de Rosate. Alfabetum iuris civilis & iuris canonici, gothic letter, 2 columns, last leaf somewhat soiled, hf. cf. (worn and covers loose), bookplate of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer, No place, printer, or date [c. 1490], folio (3), May 4, Sotheby Maggs, £13 10S. Alberti (L. B.) I Dieci Libri de l'Architettura, contemp. Italian brown mor., rebacked, the sides with gold lines, scrolls, and floral design, title on the upper cover, and initials B. B." (for Conte Bonifacio Bevilacqua, the dedicatee) on the lower, g.e., Grolieresque manner, sold as a binding, Venegia, 1546, 8vo. (448), Mar. 2, Sotheby McLeish, £5 Alberti (Mattia degli). Institutione Canonica, old panelled red mor. gt., back repaired, g.e., gauffred and painted, sold as a binding, Venice, 1569, 4to. (320), 29 July, Sotheby Hollingshead, £3 Alberti. Vues d'Afrique Méridionale [illustrating Alberti's History of the Kaffirs], title, one leaf of text and four large col. plates, orig. card wrappers (22ĝin. by 17fin.), No place or date [c. 1810], (339), Oct. 27, Sotheby Spencer, £7 Albertinus (Franciscus). Opvscvlvm de mirabilibvs novæ et veteris vrbis Romæ Editvm a Francisco Albertino floren, title in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, large woodcuts on verso of title-page and recto of last leaf, latter with monogram of Ursus Graf, printer's device on verso of last leaf, full brown cf., with a double frame of gt. tools, g.e., in cl. case, mor. back, In Inclyta Basilaeorum Vrbe [T. Wolff], 1519, sm. 4to. (253), Jan. 20, American Art Association $420 [This vol. is the most desirable specimen from Grolier's library that has been offered at public sale in recent years. With Grolier's autograph signature. See also Sotheby, May 4, £8 10s.] Albertus Magnus. Compendium theologicae veritatis, gothic letter, 159 ll., wants first leaf (blank), 2 columns, initials in red and mauve, vell. [Hain *439, Pellechet 278, Proctor *4214], Venice, Christoph Arnold, 1476, 4to. (12), Mar. 17, Sotheby Maggs, £6 15s. [See also ed. 1482, lot 13, £3.] Albertus Magnus. De Animalibus libri viginti sex, gothic letter, double columns, woodcut initials, corner of some 11. water-stained, orig. blind stamped cf., rebacked, Venetiis, impensa heredum Octaviani Scoti, 27 May, 1519, folio (324), May 25, Sotheby Tregaskis, £2 IOS. [Contains 16 chapters treating of the various kinds of long-winged hawks, noble and ignoble. Albertus (the founder of scholastic philosophy) wrote also of horses.] Albertus Magnus. De Secretis Mulierum, Libellus, scholys auctus et à mendis repurgatus; eiusdem de Vistutibus Herbaru, Lapidum, et Animalium quorunda libellus. . ., old stamped cf., with initials " B. A." on sides, with autograph of T. Willughby, and a brief comment on the author in a contemp. hand, Lugduni, 1566, 8vo. (2), June 15, Christie Lewis, £2 5s. [See also Sotheby, ed. 1637, £25.] Albertus Magnus. Mariale, gothic letter, 112 ll., last blank, 2 columns, vell. (leaf of a MS.), [Hain 464, Pellechet 301, Proctor *6008], Milan, U. Scinzenzeler, 1488, 4to. (14), Mar. 17, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 Albumasar (A.) Introductorium in astronomiam, gothic letter, 70 11., woodcut and woodcut initials, worm-holes affecting a few letters in first two leaves-De magnis conjunctionibus, gothic letter, 118 11., woodcuts and woodcut initials, bound together [Hain *612 and *611, Pellechet 415 and 414, Proctor 1880 and 1882], Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, Feb. and March, 1489, 4to. (15), Mar. 17, Sotheby Jones, £14 IOS. Alciatus (A.) Livret des Emblemes / de maistre Andre Alciat / mis en rime francoyse / (par Jehan Le Fevre), woodcuts, three 11. made up, a few letters in facsimile, mor. ex., emblematically panelled sides, including inlays of red and green, g.e., in slip case, Paris, C. Wechel, 1536, 8vo. (386), April 6, Sotheby Spurr, £7 10S. Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," 2 col. plates, and patterns of flies (a few absent), orig. cl., g.e., 1876, 4to. (856), Feb. 2, Sotheby Halliday, £2 155. Aldrich (Thomas Bailey). Père Antoine's Date Palm, orig. wrappers, uncut, Cambridge, Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Printers to the University, 1866, sq. 8vo. (17), May 4, American Art Association Aldrich (T. B.) The Course of True Love never did Run Smooth, first ed., frontispiece, autograph presentation $185 copy, inscribed George H. Boughton, with the best regards of his friend, T. B. Aldrich, March 2d, 1860," hf. cf. antique, New York, 1858, 12mo. (9), Nov. 10, Anderson Galleries $10 [Aldrich (T. B.)] Poems, first ed., earliest issue, with the word been" omitted in the third line of the first stanza, p. 102, autograph presentation copy, inscribed Bayard Taylor, with the love of T. B. Aldrich, 1865," cl., g.e., Boston, 1865, 16m0. (10), Nov. 10, Anderson Galleries $31 Aldrovandus (Ulysses). Dendrologiae libri duo, engraved title and numerous woodcuts, olive mor., with arms on sides of Jean-Jacques Charron, Marquis de Ménars, cypher and coronet six times on back, g.e., Heber copy, Bononiae typis Io: Baptistae Ferroni... 1668, folio (8), Mar. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, LIO IOS. Aldrovandus (U.) Ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII., engraved title (very slightly defective at corner), and numerous full-page and other woodcuts of birds, hf. vell., Bononiae, 1599, folio (325), May 25, Sotheby Ellis, £4 5s. Aleman (Matheo). Vida del Picaro Guzman de Alfrache, with curious plates (some slightly cut into), 2 vol. in 1, mottled cf., Amberes, 1736, 8vo. (1), July 29, Christie Sands, £1 4s. [Ales (Alexander)]. Ordo Distributionis Sacramenti Altaris sub utraque specie, et formula Confessionis faciendae in regno, haec Londini e vulgata sunt octave die Martii Anni M.DXLVIII., brown mor, [Leipzig], 1548, 8vo. (590), June 29, Sotheby Beale, £12 10S. [The Communion Office of Edward VI. and the earliest reformed portion of the English Liturgy: made known to the churches abroad by Ales, who afterwards translated the first Prayer Book of 1549 into Latin to make known the progress of the reformed doctrine.] Alexander Anglicus. Destructorium viciorum, gothic letter, woodcut border to first leaf of text (slightly cropped), lacks the first leaf (a blank), many letters damaged by wormholes, contemp. leather over wooden boards [Proctor 1242, Hain 649], Cologne. H. Quentell, 1480, folio (510), Mar. 2, Sotheby Thorp, £5 Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling). The Monarchicke Tragedies, hf. red levant mor. (2 leaves, apparently blank, missing from sig. A), London, printed by William Stansby, 1616, sm. 8vo. (1), Dec. 2, Anderson Galleries $20 Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling). Recreations with the Muses, woodcut border to title-Dooms-day, or the Great Day of the Lords Judgment-A Paranesis to Prince Henry-Jonathan, an Heroicke Poeme intended, in I vol., LARGE PAPER, black mor. tooled in gold, arms of Charles I. on sides, g.e., London, printed by Thomas Harper, 1637, folio (410), June 29, Sotheby Gough, £9 Alexander (W.) Picturesque Representations of the Dress |