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THE present Catalogue comprises upwards of 300 items, all carefully selected, either for their great rarity, or for their intrinsic value and interest, including the greater portion of the valuable library of a well-known London Collector, recently purchased by us privately.

In addition to the manuscripts mentioned on the title, there are several others of great interest, notably R. Dinwiddie's Survey of the British Colonies in North America in 1748; Whidbey's (Father of Whidbey's Island) holograph account of Washington State in 1793; Sir John Suckling's Discourse, and a 1397 MS. of Voragine's Legenda Aurea.

Among the Incunabula are the Expositio in Librorum Problemata Aristotelis, 1482, of the greatest rarity, and an unknown work on Palmistry in Italian, printed at Rome in 1481 by Sixtus Riessinger and Georg Herolt.

From Richard Pynson's famous press come the unique though imperfect copy of the 1494 edition of Boccaccio's Fall of Princes, with its Bibliographical Ghost, the 1527 edition of the same book; his Troylus and Creseyde, &c., 1526, and a fragment of the Ballad of Robin Hood c.1500.

Special attention must be directed to the very remarkable collection of Chaucer's Works, from the first collected edition printed by Godfrey in 1532 to the edition of 1687, embracing Bonham's 1542, Kyngston's 1561, the three varieties of the edition of 1598, and the two varieties of that of 1602.

Among other notable 16th and 17th century books are Wynkyn de Worde's excessively rare 1520 edition of the St. Alban's Chronicle, and Chronicles by Fabian, Higden (P. Treveris 1527), and the Shakespeare Holinshed of 1577; also Carlile's Discourse, 1579; Cope's Anniball and Scipio, 1561; Jonson's Works, 1616-31-40, Lupton's Siquila, 1584-81; Ovid's Heroycall Epistles, c.1567; Peacham's Meum and Tuum, 1639; North's Plutarch, 1579; Stephen's Cinthia's Revenge, 1613; and works by Bacon, Brome, Donne, Drayton, Guevara, Heywood, Knox, Langland, Lyly, Milton, Montemayor, Settle, Shakespeare, Spenser, Stockwood, Suckling, Stow, Tasso, Tomkis, and Wither, together with many old works on decoration, law, medicine, and sport.

There are the only known copies of Chauncy's Romishe Supremacie, 1580; Fleming's Footepath of Faith, 1581, and Medicine for the Soule, 15-.

Rare Proclamations of the Old Pretender, the Commonwealth, and Cromwell.

Fine bindings include choice examples of Samuel Mearne, Ruette, Boyet, Roger Payne (Aldine Horace), Charles I.'s New Testament and the Prayer Book of c.1578 in contemporary embroidered silk.

Among presentation copies are Herrick's Hesperides, 1648; Davenant's Gondibert, 1651; and American Notes by Charles Dickens.

The Catalogue also includes French 18th Century illustrated works, rare coloured plate books, valuable sets, extra illustrated books and works by Defoe, Swift, and Pope, &c.

As each item is carefully described and any defects fully pointed out, intending purchasers may rest assured that every item ordered will be found to correspond exactly with the description given. All orders from this Catalogue delivered free to any address in the United Kingom, at marked prices.

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Rare Books, Historical Documents,

Autograph Letters, etc.

ACKERMANN'S MICROCOSM.-See LONDON.

I ÆSOP'S FABLES, WITH HIS LIFE: IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND LATIN. Newly translated. Illustrated with 112 Sculptures. To this Edition are likewise added, Thirty-one New Figures representing his Life. By Francis Barlow, London, Printed by H. Hills, jun., for Francis Barlow. . . 1687. FIRST ISSUE OF BARLOW'S COMPLETE EDITION, folio, with engraved title, full-page Arms of the Duke of Devonshire, the series of 31 plates of the Life of Esop by Thomas Dudley, and a half page copper-plate engraving to each fable, including a number of hunting scenes, some margins, &c., repaired, FINE LARGE COPY, original mottled calf gilt, £15

*Very rare complete, plate 17 in the Life of Esop being usually torn out. The English verses below each engraving are by Mrs. Aphra Behn.

How GREAT BRITAIN OBTAINED CAPE Colony.

2 AFRICA. A MOST INTERESTING SERIES OF 5 CLEVER SMALL DRAWINGS, 4 OF THEM IN WATER-COLOUR, BY SOME MILITARY OFFICER, EVIDENTLY IN CHARGE OF THE BRITISH OPERATIONS AGAINST THE DUTCH NEAR CAPE TOWN, WHICH ENDED ON 17 SEPT., 1795, WHEN CAPE COLONY FIRST BECAME AN ENGLISH POSSESSION. The drawings consist of AN ELABORATE MAP OF THE THEATRE OF WAR, showing the_road_from Simons Town to Cape Town; A NORTH-EAST VIEW FROM HEAD QUARTERS, SIMON'S BAY, showing North Battery and Camp of Mensemberg (Muizenberg), with a British Man-of-War in the foreground; A VIEW OF THE POST AND CAMP OF MENSEMBERG, taken from the Dutch 7 August, 1795; SIGNALS OF CO-OPERATION agreed upon between the army and ships 7 Aug., 1795, in the joint attack on Mensemberg; and A COPY OF THE ORDER OF MARCH AND BATTLE ON 14 SEPT., 1795, for the attack on Wynberg. Accompanied by an excerpt from the Medical Journal, 11 Nov., 1799, containing Stewart Henderson's Inquiry into the Causes which produce Disease among the troops at the Cape of Good Hope. Together 6 items, loose in an envelope, £21

*These highly important items, giving valuable details of the acquisition of Cape Colony by Great Britain in 1795, come from the Letters and Documents received by Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, and intimate friend of Pitt, who was President of the Board of Control, otherwise the India Board, at the time. The operations were at first under the charge of Vice-Admiral Elphinstone, afterward Lord Keith, with General Craig in command of the few land forces supplemented by 1,000 sailors. They arrived in Simon's Bay in July, 1795, and were engaged in operations against the enemy from that time up to 3 Sept., when the arrival of Major-General Clarke with re-inforcements changed the face of affairs. Additional troops were landed, and on 14 Sept. the British force commenced its march to Cape Town, and on the 16th the colony capitulated, whereby the rule of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa was determined, a change which a Colonial Dutch writer (Judge Watermeyer) has observed, benefited every man of every hue throughout the colony.

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