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A HISTORY OF BOOK-BINDING IN FRANCE, 1 vol. roy. 8vo. with 22 elaborate plates of Facsimiles of Ornamental bindings.

LA RELIURE FRANÇAISE

DEPUIS L'INVENTION DE L'IMPRIMERIE JUSQU'A LA FIN DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE, Par MM. MARIUS MICHEL,

Relieurs-Doreurs.

Magnifique volume grand in-8 colombier; imprimé par E. PLON et Cie, sur beau papier teinté du Marais, avec un grand nombre de figures tirées dans le texte, et 22 planches gravées par le procédé CHARREYRE et tirées en taille-douce hors texte, par A. SALMON. 50 francs (£2).

Ce splendide volume sera précédé d'un charmant frontispice dessiné et gravé à l'eau-forte par EDMOND HEDOUIN,

Quelques exemplaires seront tirés sur beau papier du Japon des fabriques du Mikado, avec le frontispice avant la lettte en épreuve d'artiste avec remarque. 100 fr. (£4).

L'ouvrage important que nous offrons aux bibliophiles est la première étude véritablement sérieuse, écrite sur ce sujet, qui intéresse au plus haut degré tous les amis des livres.

C'est l'histoire chronologique et artistique de la Reliure, depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie. La description d'objets d'art, si complète qu'elle soit, ne saurait en donner qu'une idée imparfaite et le plus petit croquis en dit à lui seul beaucoup plus que les développements les plus étendus. Les auteurs ont donc répandu à profusion dans le texte des motifs de détail de tous les styles successivement employés en reliure, pour accompagner leurs explications, et de grandes planches d'ensemble hors texte, reproduisant 22 grandes Reliures royales ou de provenance illustre.

La Bibliothèque Nationale, la Bibliothèque Mazarine, les collections particulières de S. A. R. Mgr. le duc d'Aumale, de M. le baron James de Rothschild, de M. le baron Jérome Pichon, de MM. Eugène Dutuit et Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, nous ont fourni les plus merveilleux modèles.

Voici la Bible de Robert Estienne, exemplaire de François ler avec la Salamandre, les différents styles des reliures de Grolier, précédant une série de splendides volumes où les chiffres de Henri II se mêlent aux croissants et aux arcs de la Belle Duchesse de Valentinois. Plus loin les "Henri III" et leurs lugubres emblêmes bientôt suivis des merveilleuses "fanfares" de l'illustre de Thou.

Le XVIIe siècle est représenté par les Euvres les plus célèbres de Le Gascon, pour les Condé, Séguier, Fouquet, parmi lesquels l'Adonis de La Fontaine, manuscrit de Jarry, relić pour le célèbre surintendant.

Le XVIIIe siècle nous offre ses Mosaïques les plus fameuses: le Daphnis du Règent, le Catulle du Comte d'Hoym, etc., jusqu'à la

reliure du manuscrit de Fyot relié en mosaïque aux armes de Marie-Antoinette et un manuscrit des Instructions données à la Pérouse pour son Voyage autour du Monde aux armes de Louis XVI qui termine brillamment l'ouvrage. C'est un défilé complet des types les plus purs de la Reliure française.

La reproduction de ces merveilles a été confiée à M. Charreyre, qui vient de refaire avec un si éclatant succès, par son procédé de gravure, les grandes eaux-fortes de Rembrandt. Gravées à l'eau-forte et imprimées en tailledouce avec des soins exceptionnels, par M. Salmon, nos planches sont de véritables œuvres d'art. Elles ont occasionné, vu leur importance, des dépenses considérables; mais, auteurs et éditeurs ont tenu à donner surtout à ces reproductions, une sincérité absolue. Il fallait éviter l'écueil dans lequel sont tombées jusqu'ici toutes les reproductions de reliures anciennes par la réduction des originaux.

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L'expérience pratique des auteurs fera de ce livre un véritable guide, indispensable pour la connaissance de la reliure ancienne et la richesse de ses illustrations, le placera au premier rang parmi les publicatious de grand luxe.

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Africa:

1842

1861

DAVIS (Dr. N.) Carthage and her Remains, thick 8vo. numerous plates and woodcuts (pub. at 21s), cloth, 58 HATFIELD, St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope, incidents in the missionary life of the Rev. Jas. M'Gregor Bertram, sm. 8vo. port. of the Author, cloth, 28 6d New York, 1853 LEO (J.) a geographical Historie of AFRICA, translated by J. Pory, sm. folio, MAP, calf neat, £2. 168 George Bishop, 1600 "This important work is the only original authority for the state of Northern and Central Africa during the period at which Leo wrote.' Murray.

MENDOÇA (Hieronimo de) Jornada de
Africa, copiado fielmente da Edição de
Lisboa de 1607 por Benito Joze de Sousa
Farinha, 12mo. hf. morocco, 58
Lisboa, 1785
RICHARDSON (James) Travels in the Great
Desert of Sahara, 1845-6, 2 vols. 8vo.
fronts. map, and woodcuts, cloth, 10s 1848
I-TESTAMENTE entsha Yenkosi Yetu Ka-
Yesu Kristu gokwamaxosa, New Testa-
ment in Kafir, 8vo. hf. bound, 158

E. Newton Dale, 1846 Amadis de Gaule, the fifth Book of the Most Pleasant and Delectable History of, containing the most strange and worthy Acts of ESPLANDIAN, sm. 4to. black letter, fine copy, calf, with Gollsmith's arms in gold on sides, £3. 15s

...

Printed by T. J. for A. Kembe, 1664

Amadis de Gaule, (the sixth Part) conteining The Heroick Deeds of Armes ...of Perion and Lisuart of Greece, translated by F. Kirkman, sm. 4to. with translator's autograph dedication to Anne Phillipps, title and last leaf mended, calf, Jane Bell, 1652

248 America: ADAIR'S History of the American Indians, particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia, 4to. map, half calf, £2. 88

1775 AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE: an answer to Rev. Mr. J. Wesley's Calm Address, 1775 -Molesworth's Principles of a Real Whig -Letter to Wesley, 1775 Bishop Shipley's Sermon, 1774-1 vol. 12mo. hf. bd. 78 6d

ALARCON. Coleccion da varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida y Tierras adyacentes, publicada por Buckingham Smith, Vol. I, folio, sd. all published, 15s Madrid, 1857

A collection of valuable early documents, never before published; the first piece is the instruction relative to Alarcon's expedition to California in 1541. New Mexico, Texas, and Canada, are the tierras adyacentes.

ANGHIERA. DE ORBE NOVO Petri Martyris Anglerii... Decades octo... utilissimis labore & annotationibus illustratæ,

industria RICHARDI HAKLVYTI Oxoniensis Angli, sm. 8vo. Best Edition of the text, with the celebrated map of the World, executed and dedicated to Hakluyt by F. G., showing the latest English discoveries, and far superior to any ap which had yet come into existence, vellum, fine copies, £20 Parisiis, 1587 the same, map in facsimile, old red morocco, Spanish royal arms on sides, £10 ib. 1587

Rare when perfect. The map is a remarkable example of advance in cartography and geographical knowledge. It may be said to have formed an epoch in the history of that science. It is a pity that the name of "F. G." has not been recovered from the mystery of initials; as he was evidently a worthy antecessor of Arrowsmith and Petermann. Mr. Coote's assumption that he was identical with Francisco Gualle, the Spanish navigator, is indefensi

ble.

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Most copies of the book want this map, one of the most remarkable productions of early Cartography. ANTIQUITATES AMERICANÆ, sive Scriptores Septentrionales Rerum ante-Columbianarum, ed. Soc. Reg. Antiquar. Septentr. Island. Dan. et Latine, impl. 4to. with preface by RAFN, map and plates, includ ing facsimiles of old Norse MSS. sd. 208 Hafnia, 1837-45

the same, impl. 4to. THICK PAPER, extra bound in pigskin, gilt edges, 308

1837-45 BISHOP (George) NEW ENGLAND JUDGED, not by man's, but by the spirit of the Lord; and the summe sealed up of NewEngland's Persecutions. Being a brief Relation of the sufferings of the people called Quakers, small 4to. in the origival calf binding, RARE, £5

1661

No copy was in Mr. Brinley's collection. The book is very scarce and has seldom been seen at sales. It ought to be read by those who still believe in the pious Puritans.

BURNEY (J.) History of the Buccaneers of America, royal 4to. maps, bds. uncut, 328 1816

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BURR (Aaron) Discourse delivered at New Ark in New Jersey, Jan. 1, 1755 day set apart for fasting on account of the late Encroachments of the French, and their designs against the British colonies in America, New York, 1755[Clarke (W.)] Observations on the late and present conduct of the French, with regard to their Encroachments upon the British Colonies, scarce, Boston, U.S. 1755-2 parts, small 4to. sd. 368 1755 CASAS (Bartolomé de las) Coleccion de las Obras de, dada a luz por Juan Ant. Llorente, 2 vols. 8vo. portrait, calf, 128 Paris, 1822 CORTES. Despatches of Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror of Mexico, to Charles V, in English, with introduction and Notes, by Geo. Folsom, (the Second, Third, and Fourth Letters), large 8vo. bds. 78 6d New York, 1843 Darien. Defence of the Scots Settlement answer'd by Philo-Britan (with a Descrip

tion of Darien)

1699

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AMERICA-continued. DARIEN SCHEME.

Collection of Addresses, Memorials, Proclamations, Letters, and other publick papers, relating to the Company of Scotland trading to Africa, and the INDIES, since June 1695, till November, 1700, 12mo. old red morocco, gilt edges, rare, £4. 48 1700 BORLAND (F.) Memoirs of Darien, with Account of the attempts of the Company of Scotland to settle a Colonie in that place, with a Relation of some of the many tragical disasters, which did attend that design, written while the author was in the American Regions, sm. 8vo. a curious map of Caledonia Harbour, good copy, extremely rare, £6. 6s Glasgon, 1715 One of the scarcest and most curious pieces relating to the ill-fated Darien Scheme.

DE BRY-see post. : DE BRY DESCRIPTION of the Coast, Tides, etc. in Button's Bay, and in the Welcome, the N.W. Coast of Hudson's Bay, from Scrog's, Crow's, Napier's, and Smith's Journals, (1744)-Agreement for the Discovery of a N.W. Passage, 1745— Geographical Description of TOBAGO, map, (1745)-Account of Corsica, and Memoirs of Baron de Neuhof, stiled THEODORE I, map, 1739-1 vol. 8vo. calf, 188 ELLIOTT (G. W.) The New England History, from the discovery of the continent by the Northmen, A.D. 986 to 1776, 2 vols. 8vo. portraits, cloth, 168 New York, 1857 The FASHIONABLE Tour, a guide to the Middle Northern States and Canada. 12mo. plates, hf. bd. mor. scarce, 5s

Saratoga Springs, 1830 FROGER (Sieur) Relation du Voyage de M. de Gennes au Detroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne, Isles Antilles, et Cotes d'Afrique, 12mo. numerous curious maps and plates, fine copy, calf, 108 6d

128

Amst. 1699 HIND (H. Y.) North-West Territory, Report on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, impl. 4to. large coloured maps and geological plates hf. bd. Toronto, 1859 HOOKER (Tho. of Hartford, Connecticut) Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline, wherein the Way of the Congregationall Churches in New-England is warranted and cleared-The Way of Congregational Churches cleared from the Historical Aspersions of Mr. Robert Baylie, etc. by Mr. John Cotton, Boston, N.E. ;-2 works in 1 vol. sm. 4to. with a general title, calf, 258 London, 1648 HUMPHREYS (D.) Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 8vo. with the 2 rare maps, calf, £2. 28

...

1730

Giving an account of the Missionaries' doings in North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and with the Iroquois and Mohawk Indians.

AMERICA-continued.

[HUTCHINS (Thomas)]. An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764 under the Command of Gen. Bouquet, 4to. neat MS. with portraits of the General and a Cherokee Chief, in Pencil, and Map of the Route in Pen and Ink, hf. bd. £2. 108

About 1811 KEITH (G.) Travels from New-Hampshire to Caratuck, North America, sm. 4to. half morocco, £2. 28 1706 LAFITAU (le Père) de la Compagnie de Jesus, Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, comparées aux Moeurs des premiers temps, 2 vols. 4to. many curious plates, illustrating the Religion and Customs of the Indians, calf gilt, £2. 10s Paris, 1724

"L'auteur donne des détails très-étendus jet trèsexacts sur les coutumes, les mœurs, la religion des sauvages de l'Amérique, et notamment de ceux du Canada. Il avait été à meme de bien connaitre ces peuples, ayant longtemps vécu chez les Iroquois."Biog. Univers.

"On y trouve un grand détail de mœurs. . Aussi n'avions nous rien de si exact sur ce sujet.". Charlevoix.

LAFITAU, Histoire des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde 2 vols. 4to. maps and plates, preface water-stained, hf. bd. uncut, 368 Paris, 1733

[LESLIE (C.)] Account of Jamaica

with a particular account of the Sacrifices, Libations, &c. at this day in use among the Negroes, 12mo. LARGE PAPER, calf, Edin. 1739

308

The Author's name appears at the end of the dedication.

LEWIS and CLARKE'S Travels to the Source of the Missouri River, and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean, 4to. best edition, large map and smaller ones, bds. 328 1814 LUFFMAN (J.) Account of the Island of Antigua, the customs and manners of its inhabitants white and black, 12mo. map, sd. 78 6d 1789 MAGAZINE of American History, edited J. A. Stevens, 4to. portrait of Wm. Walton, and plates, sd. 6s New York, January, 1878 MURRAY (H.) Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America,

AMERICA-Continued.

including the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a NorthWest passage, 2 vols. 8vo. map, new calf gilt, 228 1829 NORMAN (B. B. M.) Rambles in Yucatau, or Notes of Travels through the Peninsula, including a Visit to the remarkable Ruins of Chi-Chen, Kaba, Zayi, and Uxmal, 8vo. frontispiece, maps and numerous curious plates of the relics of aborigina! art, cloth, 12s New York, 1843

Including a valuable ethnological disquisition, and a vocabulary of the Maya tongue with a sketch of the Grammar. This work will serve as a companion or complementary volume to those of Stephens.

PAGAN (Blaise Francis, Count of) Historical and Geographical Description of the Great Country and River of the Amazones in America, 12mo. map, old calf, £3. 38 1661 REMESAL (ANTONIO DE) HISTORIA DE LA PROVINCIA DE S. VINCENTE DE CHIAPA Y GUATEMALA, folio, fine clean copy in vellum, with the engraved title by Diego de Astor, wanting only the licenses, etc. 2 or 3 leaves before the text; excessively scarce, LA Madrid, 1619 RINGROSE THE BUCCANEER. The SOUTH SEA WAGGONER, showing the making and bearing of all the Coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire, done from the Spanish Originall by BASIL RINGROSE, oblong small 4to. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT, containing 106 Draughts and Maps in coloured inks of the Bays, Gulfs, Islands, Ports, Coasts, etc., in the South Sea, with their Latitudes, Productions, Physical Features, etc. old calf, £10. 10s

(written between 1680-85)

Basil Ringrose, the author of this valuable MS., was one of the Buccaneers, and Joint Author with Esquemeling of the History of their Exploits. He was also the companion of Captain Sharp, in his voyage for the discovery of a New Passage into the South Sea (1679-81), and the draughts in the above volume are mainly the results of his personal observa

tion.

The ingenious Ringrose was killed February 1686, by the Spaniards whilst the Buccaneers, commanded by Captain Swan, were carelessly removing their booty from SANTA PECAQUE, a Spanish-American town on the Pacific Coast, they had taken.

SAGARD (Gabriel). HISTOIRE DV CANADA et Voyages que les Freres Mineurs Recollects y ont faicts pour la conuersion des Infidelles . . . par le F. GABRIEL SAGARD, THEODAT . . . stout small 8vo. red morocco extra, by Bedford, £63

Paris, chez Claude Sonnius, 1636

Of the excessive rarity of this book, an idea may be formed from the fact that the late Mr. Edwin Tross sought many years for a copy before he could succeed, so as to add a reprint of the Histoire to his reprint of the Voyage. In the preface he states that "on a offort, durant des années, 1200fr. d'un exemplaire de l'Histoire, sans pouvoir s'en procurer un seul." This statement has reference to twenty years ago, and as valuable old books have since then increased remarkably in price as well as in rarity, the cost of this copy is relatively low.

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