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Catalogue of Rare Books.

1 ÆSOPI Phrygis, et aliorum Fabulae. Lugduni, apud Seb. Gryphium, 1540. Sm. 8vo, with printer's devices on title and last leaf, contemporary calf, gilt ornaments, £3 3s.

A pretty edition in Latin, neatly printed in italic type, and containing the life of Æsop by Maximus Planudes.

2 AGRICULTURE.-Rothamsted Experimental Station Library. Catalogue of the printed books on Agriculture. Published between 1471 and 1840. With notes on the authors by Mary S. Aslin. 1926. 8vo, numerous reproductions of title-pages, cloth, 12s.

3 ALBERTUS (Abbas Stadensis), Chronicon, a condito orbe usque ad auctoris aetatem, id est, annum Jesu Christi 1256 deductum, & nunc primum emulgatum. Helmaestadii, 1587.-Genealogia Ranzouiana. Ib. 1586. Six woodcut portraits. In 1 vol. sm. 4to, FIRST EDITION, old calf, £2 2s.

The Chronicle is dedicated by the editor, Reinerus Reineccius, to Henricus Ranzovius, the Danish viceroy in Schleswig and Holstein, and has a woodcut portrait of him facing the dedication. It is printed by the first printer at Helmstadt.

4 ALDINE PRESS.-Bembo (Petrus), Historiae Venetae Libri XII. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1551. Folio, woodcut on title, old calf gilt, £3 3s.

A fine specimen of the Aldine Press, printed with types resembling those used by the founder in his folio volumes produced in the fifteenth century.

5 ALDINE PRESS.-Sophocles. Tragoediæ septem (græcè) cvm Commentariis. Venetiis in Aldi Romani Academia mense Augusto, 1502. Sm. 8vo, EDITIO PRINCEPS, some MS. notes in red, bright old red morocco, gilt borders on sides, gilt back, gilt edges, £24.

A fine tall copy (measuring 158 mill. in height) of the FIRST EDITION of Sophocles, with the title-page of the first issue as described by Brunet. Though "Commentaries are named on the title-page, none were printed in this edition.

6 ALLEN (Daniel), The Moderate Trinitarian: containing a Description of the Holy Trinity, both according to Scripture, and approved Authors for Learning, and Adherence to the Trinitarian Doctrine. London, printed for Mary Fabian at Mercers Chappel in Cheapside, 1699. Sm. 4to, sewed, 10s.

7 ALMANACH para o anno de 1798. Lisboa, Na Typog. Academia Real das Sciencias, 1798. 12mo, with portrait of Carlota, Princess of Brazil, original calf, 16s.

8 ANGLING.-Colquhoun (John), Rocks and Rivers; or, Highland Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell." London, 1849. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, cloth, 15s. 9 ANGLING.-Davy (John), The Angler and His Friend; or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions. London, 1855. 8vo, cloth, 10s.

10 ANGLING.-Franck (Richard, Philanthropus), Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland; to which is added, the Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the year 1658. New Edition with Preface and Notes [by Sir Walter Scott]. Edinburgh, 1821. 8vo, original boards uncut, £1 1s.

Franck made his tour about 1656. The interest of the book centres in the places he visited. He was the first to describe salmon-fishing in Scotland, and his rules for flyfishing cannot be improved at present." He is also the first angler to name that curious fish of the Trent, the Burbot.

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