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du couronnement de Leopold, Empereur des Romains, text in Latin and French, folding plates, old cf., Francofurti ad Moenum, 1659, folio (321), March 3, Sotheby Edwards, fi 15S. Leopolita (Johan.) Vivificæ Passionis Christi Historica Explanatio, ed. princeps, lit. goth., vignette title and fullpage woodcut of the Crucifixion on reverse and headletters ornamented (title in plain, inside bottom corner defective), Cracoviæ, ex officina Vngleriana, 1537, 8vo. (505), May 20, Sotheby Pickering, £6 Le Pautre (Jean). Euvres d'Architecture, double-page engraved title, numerous double-page plates, cf. (rebacked), Paris, n.d., folio (537), July 23, Sotheby Barnard, £2 8s. Le Prince (J. B.) Divers Ajustements et Usages de Russie (and other works, a collection), together 85 etchings, in I vol., old cf. (1764-8), 4to. (252), Nov. 12, Puttick

Spencer, £2 10S. Lepsius (R.) Aeltiste Texte des Todtenbuchs, plates, bds., 1867-Index Aphabétique, 1875, together 2 vol., orig. cl., 1867-75, 8vo. and 4to. (122), Nov. 12, Puttick

Royal Asiatic Soc., £2 Lepsius (R.) Königsbuch der alten Egypter, plates, 2 vol. in I, orig. bds., 1858, 4to. (121), Nov. 12, Puttick

Royal Asiatic Soc., £2 5s. Lery (Jean de). Histoire d'un Voyage fait en la Terre du Bresil, woodcuts (title defective, some 11. stained), old vell. (loose), [Geneva], pour les heritiers d'Eustache Vignon, 1594, 8vo. (322), March 3, Sotheby C. Barnard, £4 15s. Le Sage (A. R.) Adventures of Gil Blas, trans. by M. Smart, 100 col. plates, 4 vol., mor. ex., t.e.g., by Root, fine copy, Richard Phillips, 1807, 8vo. (408), March 12, Sotheby Cross, £27

[10, mor., t.e.g., plates col., Jan. 1, Puttick, Lot 403; £15, mor. ex., t.e.g., plates col., April 30, Hodgson, Lot 24.] Le Sage (A. R.) Adventures of Gil Blas, trans. by T. Smollett, 15 col. plates by Clark, 3 vol., cf. ex., fine copy, M'Lean, 1819, 8vo. (409), March 12, Sotheby Cross, 13 IOS. [£12 12s., mor. ex., fine copy, same sale, Lot 410.] Le Sage (A. R.) Adventures of Gil Blas, trans. by T. Smollett, illustrated by Jean Gigoux, 2 vol., hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., Charles Tilt, 1836, roy. 8vo. (235), April 23, American Art Association

$12 Le Sage (A. R.) Adventures of Gil Blas, trans. by H. Van Laun, LARGE PAPER, port. and etchings (in duplicate) by Lalauze, 3 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., Edinburgh, 1886, 4to. (547), March 17, Sotheby Soames, £5

[1 15s., orig. cl., small paper, March 12, Sotheby, Lot 120.] Le Sage (A. R.) Histoire de Gil Blas, plates after Smirke and others, 3 vol., cf. gt., Paris, Lefère, 1820, 8vo. (553), Feb. 19, Hodgson Hatchards, £2 IOS.

Le Sage (A. R.) Histoire de Gil Blas, papier de chine, port.

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and plates in duplicate, 4 vol. in 2, hf. mor., t.e.g., Paris, 1879, 8vo. (411), March 12, Sotheby Maggs, f6 5s. Leslie (C. R.) Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, ports., etc., autograph signature of Constable inserted and two orig. pencil drawings by him, 3 by 5in., one dated July, 1835," mor. ex., g.e., Longman, 1845, cr. 4to. (183), Nov. 4, Sotheby Bliss, £3 15S. Lessons of Thrift, by a Member of the Save-all Club, first ed., engraved col. title and 12 col. plates by I. R. Cruikshank, cf. ex., g.e., Thomas Boys, 1820, 8vo. (118), Nov. 25, Sotheby Robinson, £5 IOS. [£6, mor. ex., t.e.g., Jan. 1, Puttick, Lot 392; £8, mor., t.e.g., April 29, Puttick, Lot 488; £7 5s., hf. mor., plate 5 in two states, March 12, Sotheby, Lot 412.] Letarouilly (P.) Edifices de Rome Moderne, 354 full-page line engravings, plans and elevations, etc., 3 vol., with vol. of text in 4to., together 4 vol., bds., Paris, 18401857, atlas folio (107), Nov. 18, American Art Association $105 Letter written by a Catholicke Gentleman to the Lady Jane Clement, the haulting Princesse of the League, from Saint Dennis, trans. out of French, black letter (some headlines cut into), unbd., J. Wolfe, 1590, sm. 4to. (484), June 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 Letters sent from Venice anno 1571, containing the certaine and true newes of the victorie of the Christians over the armie of the great Turke, trans. out of the French copie, black letter, printer's woodcut device on last page, cf. gt., Henrie Bynneman, to be sold by Anthonie Kuson, n.d., 12mo. (485), June 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 IOS. Lettres du Jappon, Peru et Brasil envoyées au R. P. General de la Société de Iesus (a few side-notes shaved), cf. gt., Paris, 1578, 8vo. (323), March 3, Sotheby Quaritch, £29 Lettres du Jappon, envoyées par les prestres de la Compagnie de Jesus. woodcut of arms of Cardinal de Bourbon on back of title, cf. gt., Paris, 1580, sm. 8vo. (324), March 3, Sotheby Quaritch, £13 Levaillant (F.) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique, 300 col. engravings, with a duplicate set uncol., LARGE PAPER, 6 vol., contemp. mor. gt., g.e., Paris, 1805-8, folio (512), Dec. 2, Sotheby Ellis, £22 Levaillant (F.) Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, LARGE PAPER, col. plates, 2 vol., mor., g.e. (torn), Paris, 1806, folio (264), July 30, Sotheby

Spencer, £17 Levaillant (F.) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, plates col. by hand (margins of a few plates and 11. discoloured), 2 vol., Paris, 1806-Histoire Naturelle des Promerops et des Guêpiers, plates, col. by hand (a few stains), ib., 1807, together 3 vol., hf. mor. ex., uncut, folio (560), March 12, Sotheby Spencer, £31 Levaillant (F.) Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, col. plates

(margin of one leaf repaired, a few plates and 11. foxed), 2 vol. in 1, mor. ex. (rubbed), Paris, 1801-5, folio (559), March 12, Sotheby G. H. Brown, £17 Lever (C.) Sir Brooke Fosbrooke, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl. (dull), 1866, 8vo. (385), April 14, Sotheby

Hatchard, £1 15S. Lever (C.) [Works.] Collection of the Novels of Charles Lever, mostly first eds., together 54 vol., of which 52 were finely bd. in mor. ex., emblematically tooled, t.e.g., uncut, by Mansell, 8vo. (249-280), April 30, Hodgson Halliday, £195

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[Though catalogued separately, the collection was sold in one lot. It was substantially the same as that reported in BOOK-PRICES CURRENT as having realised £61 (see Vol. xxvii., No. 947), but with the 2 vol. of Fitzpatrick's "Life of Charles Lever," 1879 (orig. cl.), added. Both collections contained A Rent in a Cloud," n.d. (date at end, “5/1 /69 ”), a copy of which realised £21 (orig. green cl., hf. roan, t.e.g., as issued), in April, 1914.] Lever (C.) [Works.] Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, A.L.s. of author, 4 PP. loosely inserted, Dublin, 1839-Charles O'Malley, 2 vol., ib., 1841—Tom Burke of " Ours," 2 vol., ib., 1844-Jack Hinton, advertisements bd. in, ib., 1844 -Tales of the Trains, 1845, etc., together 54 vol., all first eds. unless otherwise stated (some hf.-titles wanted), uniform mor. ex., g.t., other edges uncut, covers bd. in (except Horace Templeton and "Life," by Fitzpatrick), 1839-79, 12mo. and 8vo. (242), July 21, Sotheby Bumpus, £102 Lever (C.) Works, Copyright ed., limited to 1,000 copies, plates by Phiz," 37 vol., hf. mor. ex., uncut, 1897-99, 8vo (467), March 17, Sotheby Pickering, £15 5S.

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Lever (R.) Arte of Reason, rightly termed, Witcraft, teaching a perfect way to argue and dispute, first ed., with folding sheet of The Table of Substance and errata leaf, cf. gt., g.e., Imprinted at London by H. Bynneman, 1573, sm. 8vo. (401), Nov. 4, Sotheby Pickering, £13 10S. Lewin (J. W.) Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales, 26 col. plates, hf. roan, 1838, folio (513), Dec. 2, Sotheby Edwards, £3 IOS. Lewine (J.) Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books, illustrations, LARGE PAPER (one of 100 copies), hf. mor. ex., t.e.g., 1898, 4to. (758), Oct. 21, Sotheby G. H. Brown, £1 75. Lewis (C. T. C.) The Picture Printer of the 19th Century: George Baxter, 1804-1867, plain and col. plates, orig. cl., 1911, 8vo. (470), March 17, Sotheby Last, £I IOS. Lewis (F.) Of Prayer and Meditation. Contayning foureteene Meditations, for the seauen dayes of the weeke; both for Mornings and Euenings, trans. by Richard Hopkins, woodcut of the arms of Ferdinando Stanley,

fifth Earl of Derby, on recto of leaf before dedication, contemp. cf., with the badge of Queen Elizabeth (Tudor rose ensigned by a crown) stamped in gold in centres, Tudor roses in each of five back panels, old brass fittings for clasps, rough edges, Printed for Thomas Gosson and Iohn Perin: and are to be solde at the signe of the Angell in Paules Church-yard, 1592, thick 12mo. (403), Nov. 4, Sotheby Quaritch, £32

[Queen Elizabeth's copy of this devotional book, the work of a Portuguese Dominican, trans. into English by a Catholic exile.] Lewis (Father). Narrative of the Discovery of a College of Jesuits at Come in the County of Hereford, to which is added a true Relation of Knavery of Father Lewis, the pretended Bishop of Landaffe, now a Prisoner in Monmouth Goal, plate added (some ll. stained), hf. roan, from the Comerford library, 1679, sm. 4to. (242), Nov. 25, Sotheby Sotheran, £5 5S. Lewis (J.) Memoriall of a Christian Life (trans. by Richard Hopkins), first ed., woodcuts and woodcut initials, modern mor., black edges, Imprinted at Rouen by George Loyselet, 1586, thick 8vo. (402), Nov. 4, Sotheby Pickering, £4 4s. Lewis (M.) and Clarke (W.) Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent, folding and small maps, cf. gt., 1814, 4to. (141), April 8, Sotheby Sotheran, £5 15s. Lewis (M.) and Clarke (W.) Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent, maps, 3 vol., polished cf. gt., 1815, 8vo. (133), July 30, Hodgson H. Stevens, £4 12s. 6d. Lewis (M. G.) Journal of a West India Proprietor, first ed., bds., uncut, 1834, 8vo. (325), March 3, Sotheby

Sotheran, LI Lewkenor (S.) Discourse not altogether unprofitable nor unpleasant for such as are desirous to know the situation and customes of forraine Cities without travelling to see them, modern vell., I. W. for H. Hooper, 1600, 4to. (488), June 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £9 5s. Leybourn (Wm.) Planometria or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land, by " Oliver Wallinby," first ed., front of a protractor marked A within an ornament on verso, and diagrams, new sheep, rough edges, Printed for Nathaniel Brooks at the Angel in Cornhill, 1650, sm. 8vo. (404), Nov. 4, Sotheby Tregaskis, £4 Liancourt (Sieur de). Le Maistre d'Armes, front. and 14 plates of fencing positions by A. Perelle, port. of author (defective), 3 11. stained and lower margins of 3 plates written on, old cf., s.e., Paris, chez l'auteur, 1686, oblong 4to. (411), May 20, Sotheby Ellis, £4 6s. Libellus Agendarum, circa Sacramenta, Benedictiones et Cæremonias, secundum antiquum usum Metropolitanæ Ecclesiæ Sarisburgensis, woodcuts, orig. wooden bds.,

stamped pigskin, clasps, Salisburgi excudebat Ioan Bauman, 1557, 8vo. (86), Oct. 17, Sotheby Hirst, £2 Libellus de Natura Animalium perpulcre moralizatus ad unum quodą propossitum lit. goth., woodcut of an armed knight on horseback below title, numerous cuts of animals, birds, fishes and serpents, all within borders, and printer's mark, Impressum in monte Regali in plano Vallis per Vincentium Berrueriuz, 1508, 4to. (73), July 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £112 Liber Precum Publicarum, 2 parts in 1, Calendar, etc. in red and black, titles within woodcut borders (first title mended), printer's device at end of part 1 (shaved), mor., g.e., Apud R. Wolfrum, s.d.-Liber Psalmorum, 1571, 12mo. (1578), May 13, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 158.

Liber Precum Publicarum

Ecclesia Anglicana, roman letter, Calendar in red and black, title within woodcut border (inlaid), wormholes throughout, mor. gt., g.e., Londini, excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, 1574, 8vo. (1162), May 13, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 5s.

Liber Trojanus, MS. on vell., 13 by 9in., ff. 88, 176 pictures in the text, red French mor. 18th century, Cent. XIV. (1450), (14), June 3, Sotheby Quaritch, £1,225 [See Sir Henry Yates Thompson's Catalogue of his Collection, Series I., No. 44, and the same author's "Illustrations of 100 MSS.,” Vol. ii., pl. xxii.-xxv.]

Libro de medicina llamado Compendio de la salud humana, second ed., lit. goth., 65 11. (wants last blank), double columns, woodcuts (woodcut on verso of title defective and mended, wanted folding cut between a 6 and 7 and lower half of the fourth cut), mor., Sevila, por Jacobo crōberger, 1557, folio (1377), May 13, Sotheby Bourne, £13 Lichtenberger (Jo.) Dise Practica unnd Prenostication, lit. goth., long lines, 45 to a full page, 43 11., with 42 German symbolical woodcuts (title stained and mended, 2 or 3 11. soiled and wants D.2 and 5), bds. [Mainz], 1526, sm. folio (214), March 17, Sotheby Edwards, 1 18s. [Lichtenberger (Jo.)] Pronosticatio zu Teutsch. Eyn schöne seltzen und vornyt mer gehörte pronosticatio die uszdruckt was glücks und ungelucks dies grösse Conjunction und die Eclipsis gewest, Erste Ausgabe, lit. goth., 45 l1., with signatures, 45 German woodcuts [Hain *10086], mor. gt., g.e., by F. Bedford (Huth copy, £125 in 1914), a.u.n. [? Mogunt. or Ulmae, 1488], sm. folio (454), Nov. 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £140

[First ed. in German, the cuts being the same as in the first Latin ed. The date 1488 is on H3. Illustration in catalogue.]

Lichtenberger (Jo.) Pronosticatio Latina Anno .lxxxviii. ad magna cōiunctionē Saturni & Jovis q fuit año lxxxiiii. ac eclipsim solis añi sequentis, lit. goth., 36 11., 43 German woodcuts, mor., uncut edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet (Huth

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