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in North America during the late War, old cf. (rubbed),
1765 (402), Dec. 1, Hodgson
Quaritch, £13 10S.

[Anderson Galleries, Jan. 24, $55.]

Rogers (R.) Ponteach, or the Savages of America, a Tragedy, red mor., by Rivière, London, 1761, 8vo. (248), April 18, Anderson Galleries $185 Rogers (Samuel). Italy, first ed., proofs before letters of the engraving after Turner, 1830-Poems, first ed., proofs of the engravings after Turner, Stothard, etc., 1834, uniform green mor., gt. panel tooling on sides, gt. panelled back, inside dentelle border, g.e., fine copies, 1830-4, 8vo. (31), Dec. 13, Sotheby Maggs, £5

[Another copy, July 13, £21.] Rogers (S.) Italy, a Poem, designs after Stothard and Turner, first issue of this ed., green mor. gt., July 20, Sotheby

1830, 8vo. (396), Newton, £2 2s. 1838, together 2

Rogers (S.) Poems, 1838-Italy, a Poem, vol., Rogers' own copies, with the series of more than 120 exquisite vignettes after Turner and Stothard, worked separately on India paper, green mor., g.e., by Hayday, 1838, 4to. (569), April 25, Sotheby Phillips, £3

[A note on the hf.-title to each book states that the copy was purchased by D. C. M. at Rogers' sale in 1856. As usual, some of the plates are foxed, chiefly in the mounts.] Roias (Jo. de). Commentariorum in Astrolabium quod Planisphaerium vocant, woodcuts and diagrams, orig. cf., Lutetiae, 1550, etc., 3 vol., 4to. (369), Jan. 17, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 IOS Roland's Comic Songs, to which is added a choice selection of Toasts, etc., first ed., fine col. front. in three compartments by G. Cruikshank, and Pailthorpe's fac. of front. inserted, olive mor., panelled gt. back, inside dentelles, g.t., by Rivière, of great rarity, Derby, H. Mozley, etc., n.d. [1827], 16mo. (325), June 9, Sotheby Sessler, £9 10S.

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[Mr. Bruton's note says, I know of three copies only."] Roland (R.) Seven Ages (The), translated out of prose into Scottish meter by John Roland, in Dalkeith, black letter, maroon mor., broad inside borders, gt. tooled with skulls, cross-bones, cards, dice, etc., joints, by Maclehose, Glasgow, Edinb., Andro Hart, 1620, 8vo. (746), Nov. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £19 10S. Rolevinck (Werner). Fasciculus temporum, gothic letter, 72 11., 40 lines, 7 small woodcuts in the text, initials in red, the colophon and printer's device on the last page printed in red (wants first leaf, a few rust-stains damaging a few words), bds., fine copy [Hain *6918, Proctor *935], Köln, Arnold ter Hoernen, 1474, folio (127), Nov. 9, Sotheby Ellis, £6 5s. [First issue of this ed. At the end are 11 pages of manuscript in an early hand.] Rolewinck (W.) Fasciculus Temporum, gothic letter. 71 11.,

woodcuts [Hain *6924, Proctor *4486], one or two ll. slightly stained, hf. cf. (joints cracked), Venice, G. Walch, 1479, folio (352), Jan. 24, Sotheby Tregaskis, £5 IOS. Rolewinck (W.) Fasciculus Temporum Omnes Antiquorum Chronicas complectens, gothic letter, numerous woodcut views of cities, diagrams, etc. (some 11. slightly wormed), hf. mor., large copy, with rough edges, Venet., E. Ratdolt, 1480, folio (512), Dec. 20, Sotheby Edwards, £6 15s. Rolewinck (W.) Fasciculus temporum, gothic letter, 96 11., without marks, numerous woodcuts (the first and last ll. slightly_defective and repaired), red mor. gt., g.e. [Hain 6930], Rougemont, Heinrich Wirzburg, 1481, folio (1278), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £31

[The only book printed in this town in the fifteenth century.] [Rolewinck (W.)] Fasciculus Temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens (ad annum 1484), lit. goth., long lines, 6 prel. 11. and xc. numbered 11., with signs. [Hain *6916], large German cut of the author presenting his work to the king and small cuts in the text col. by a contemp. hand, white bds., fine clean copy, rare (from the Corbyn Barrow collection), Absque nota [Argent., Jo. Prussz, c. 1485], sm. folio (628), Jan. 17, Sotheby Grove Hills, £6 Rolewinck (W.) Fasciculus Temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, gothic letter, long lines, full-page woodcut on the reverse of the title, woodcuts in text, all col. by an early hand (sides-notes in one leaf cut into), hf. vell., s. n. [Strassburg, J. Pruss, 1491], folio (514), Dec. 20, Sotheby David, £4 15s. Rolewinck (W.) Fasciculus Temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, lic. goth., large woodcut on verso of title and a few small woodcuts in the text, wanting leaf at end with imprint-Esopus Fabulae, cum fabulis Aviani, etc., lit. goth., large woodcut port. of Æsopas, front. and numerous woodcuts in the text (imperfect at end), in I vol., old oak bds. covered stamped cf., sm. folio (145), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £48 Rolfe (J.) The Naval Chronology of Great Britain, col. plates, 3 vol., bds., 1820 (865), Feb. 23, Sotheby Maggs, £76 Rolle de Hampole (Richard). De Emendatione Peccatoris, manuscript on vell. [English, late xivth century], 120 ll., long lines, at the beginning of each book a large initial in blue, with pen ornamentations, red mor. gt., gt. back, XIV. cent., 4to. (309), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £19 Rolle de Hampole (Richard). Ye Prike of Consciens [Stimulus Consciencie], with his Treatise written for a Hermit," English manuscript on vell. (146 ll., 91 by 5 in.), very neatly written in red and black, long lines, 36 to a full page, ornamental pen initials in blue and red, modern vell., xv. cent. (c. 1465], narrow 4to. (629), Jan. 17, Sotheby Hope, £100 [An interesting English MS. On the front fly-leaf, in

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contemporary writing, is the inscription, "Iste liber constat dñe Alicie Burton nec nō Margarete Consobrine eius." Rolle de Hampole (Richard). Regula Perfectionis, manuscript on vell. (English, xvth century], 106 ll., initials in blue, with pen ornamentation, headings in red, at the beginning and the end a few pages in English, orig. oak bds. covered with pigskin, xv. cent., 8vo. (275), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £17

[At the end is a note in an early hand, Liber ste Marie Où ey In Sowthwerke."]

$75

Rollin (M.) Histoire Romaine depuis la Fondation de Rome jusqu'a la Bataille d'Actium: c'est à-dire jusqu'à la fin de la République, folding maps, 16 vol., red mor., by [Derome l'ainé], A Paris, chez les Frères Estienne, 17481758, 8vo. (489), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries Roman Empresses, or the Lives, etc. See Serviez (J. R. de) Romancero general, en que se contienen todos los Romances que andan impressos (edited by Pedro Flores), margin of title neatly mended, two or three signatures and catchwords shaved, citron mor., panelled back, g.e., En Madrid, 1614, 4to. (378), Dec. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 Romes Monarchie, entituled The Globe of Renowned Glorie, translated out of the French and Italian histories by E. L., in verse of 6-line stanzas, orig. ed., old hf. cf., Heber copy, The Widdow Orwin for Matthew Law, 1596, sm. 4to. (121), March 10, Sotheby Rosenbach, £125 Ronsard (P. de). Elegie sur les troubles d'Amboise, red mor., janseniste, with elaborate inside dentelles, Paris, chez Gabriel Buon, 1562 (403), June 28, Sotheby De Ricci, £6 Rooses (M.) Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony Van Dyck, plates, vell., 1900, 4to. (296), Jan. 12, Puttick

Batsford, £1 12s. 6d. Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to his Children, edited by J. B. Bishop, illustrations, hf. red crushed levant mor., New York, 1919-Bacon (Francis). Essays, hf. cf., London, 1906-New York, Valentine's Manual, 1916-1917, illustrations, mor., together 3 vol., 8vo. and 12mo. (298), Jan. 25, American Art Association $15 Roquelaure (Duc de). Secret Memoirs, by himself, now for the first time completely translated into English, Japanese vell. copy (limited to 5 numbered copies), parchment bds., t.e.g., Privately printed, 1899 (530), June 2, Hodgson Hollings, £6 10S.

[Sotheby, June 15, £4 4s.] Roscoe's Novelists' Library. Tom Jones-Joseph Andrews, Humphry Clinker-Roderick Random-Peregrine Pickle, 2 vol.-Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol., etc., together 19 vol., plates by G. Cruikshank, uniformly bd. in hf. crushed levant mor., t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf, a fine set, 1831-3, 12mo. (97), Jan. 19, Hodgson Edwards, £21

[Another copy, Dec. 9, £18 10s.]

Roscoe (Thomas). The Italian Novelists, engraved vignette titles, 4 vol.-The German Novelists, 4 vol.-The Spanish Novelists, 3 vol., together II vol., first eds., hf. mor., panelled gt. backs, g.t., uncut, 1825-32, 8vo. (324), Dec. 13, Sotheby Chandy, £5 Roscoe (W.) Monandrian Plants of the order Scitamineae, col. plates, 3 vol., limp bds., 1828, folio (196), June 15, Puttick Heffer, £3 5s. Rose (Thomas). Idaea, sive de Iacobi Magnæ Britanniæ Galliæ et Hyberniæ Regis virtutibus et ornamentis Ennaratio, orig. vell. gt., royal arms on sides, Excudebat Iohannes Norton, 1608, sm. 8vo. (1279), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £4 Rossetti (Christina G.) Goblin Market, 1862-The Prince's Progress, 1866, first eds., illustrations by D. G. Rossetti, orig. cl., 8vo. (474), March 17, Sotheby Bumpus, £I IOS. [Another copy, March 14, 8s.]

Rossetti (C. G.) Sing Song, first ed., orig. covers bd. in, brown mor. gt., with sprays of foliage, by De Sauty, 1872, 8vo. (397), July 20, Sotheby Newton, £3 15s. Rossetti (C. G.) Sing Song, a Nursery Rhyme Book, holograph MS., 128 II., the top of each page illustrated with pencil drawings, her signature on the title-page [1872]. 4to. (252A), April 4, Sotheby Dakin, £19 Rossetti (C. G.) Verses, first ed., unbd., Privately printed at G. Polidori's, No. 15, Park Village East, Regent's Park, 1847 (231), April 4, Sotheby Bain, £6 Rossetti (D. G.) Ballads and Sonnets, first ed., orig. cl. gt., 1881, 8vo. (762), May 18, Sotheby Zogheb, £1 12S. Rossetti (D. G.) Ballads and Narrative Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, printed in black and red, woodcut borders and initials, orig. vell., uncut, ties, Kelmscott Press, 1893, 8vo. (503), June 15, Sotheby Thorp, £5 10s. [Anderson Galleries, Feb. 23, $32.50.]

Rossetti (D. G.) The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), in the original metres, together with Dante's Vita Nuova, translated by D. G. Rossetti, embellished with 6 beautiful orig. pen-andink and wash drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, each signed with his monogram and forming tail-pieces to various poems, orig. cl., uncut, enclosed in leather-backed cl. case, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1861, 8vo. (553), March 1, Anderson Galleries $200

[Unique copy of the first ed., with the unpaged leaf of errata at end. The six poems for which Rossetti has drawn tail-pieces are among the earliest in the book, and it was evidently the poet-artist's intention to embellish the entire volume in like manner. It may be assumed that this was Rossetti's own copy, which he presented to a friend before he had time to finish his designs.]

Rossetti (D. G.) Early Italian Poets, first ed., cl., 1861, 8vo. (314), June 15, Puttick Newton, £1 2s. 6d. [Sotheby, April 25, £1 5s.; June 15, name on title, 16s.] Rossetti (D. G.) Hand and Soul, with printed signature at end, 12 ll. (last blank), name on p. 3, privately printed ed., wrappers as issued (slightly soiled), 1850 (229), April 4, Sotheby Dakin, £3 5s. Rossetti (D. G.) Hand and Soul, in black and red, woodcut title, borders and initials, vell., Kelmscott Press, 1895, 16mo. (983), June 15, Sotheby Ord, £3 [Another copy, Lot 495, £3.]

Rossetti (D. G.) Poems, first ed., orig. cl. gt., 1870, 8vo. (761), May 18, Sotheby Zogheb, £2 12S.

[June 15, £2 2s.; July 20, £1 10s.; May 25, L.P., £8.] Rossetti (D. G.) Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, woodcut title, golden type in black and red, limp vell., uncut, one of 310 copies, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1894, 8vo. (356), Feb. 23, Anderson Galleries

$30

[Sotheby, June 15, £6 15s.] Rossetti (D. G.) Revised proof-sheets of Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, collected by W. M. Rossetti, who adds the following prefatory MS. note: This is the privatelyprinted vol. of 1869-each leaf contains some correction by Gabriel. I have put it in order of numbered pages as far as I found possible: but there are so many repetitions of the same page printed with some different poem that I cd not succeed in doing anything beyond a mere approximation. The flowered paper used in the binding appears to have been brought by my Father in 1824 from Maltaperhaps from Naples." At the end of the vol. are some proof-sheets of the Poems as published, together with a few of the Ballads and Sonnets arranged according to the pagination as far as manageable, with many corrections by D. G. R. (228), April 4, Sotheby Maggs, £120

[A large number of the MS. alternations and additions are of considerable literary interest, e.g., The Song of the Bear in Sonnets and Songs, a complete 8-line stanza is added and successive alterations in the text of most of the Poems can be traced.]

Rossetti (D. G.) Sir Hugh the Heron, a Legendary Tale, in
4 parts, by Gabriel Rossetti, junior, 24 pp., wrapper,
London, G. Polidori's Private Press, 1843 (269), June 10,
Hodgson
Maggs, £6 5s.

[Anderson Galleries, Nov. 29, $95.] Rossetti (D. G.) Sister Helen, by H. H. H., 2 ll., numbered 9-12, being pages from the Dusseldorf Annual, the first form in which the ballad was printed, with five correc tions and additions by the author, in an almost obliterated pencil note at the top of the first page, which Mrs. Angeli has attempted to decipher, D. G. R. states that Mary Howitt, the editor, altered the word seethed" [line 1] to "melted," etc., the ll. are divided horizontally owing

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