Henri II., 1559, jusqu'à 1574, fine copy, mor., 1574 (171), Feb. 3, Sotheby Jupp £50 [Inserted in the volume is A.L.s., 1 p. folio, from Catherine de Medicis (July, 1560) to her son-in-law, Philip II. This collection of seventy-four engravings was issued by the designers, Tortorel and Perissin, probably as separate prints. They were rigidly suppressed in France.]

Medicis (Catherine de). See also Estienne (H.)

Medicis (Marie de). Twenty-five Plates, consisting of a port. of Rubens, after Van Dyck, and 24 plates (including 3 double-page) after Rubens, illustrating the life of Marie de Medicis, old cf. gt. (broken), Paris, chez Nattier, n.d., imp. folio (911), Oct. 28, Sotheby Pickering, £1 168. Medina (Pedro de). Libro de Grandezas y cosas Memorables de España, lit. goth., woodcuts, russ. gt., g.e. (Huth copy, £15 in 1916).. Inquisadores de Sevilla & impresso cō su licècia è la dicha ciudad; è casa d' dominico de Robertis q santa gl'ia aya año de 1549, sm. folio (515), Nov. 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £17

[The upper part of the title is occupied by a woodcut map of Spain. Salva believes this to be the first ed., and that the ed. of 1543 mentioned by Antonio does not exist.] Medwall (Henry). Here is cōteyned a godely interlude of Fulgens Cenatoure of Rome, Lucres his doughter. Gayus flaminius. & Publi9 Corneli9 of the disputacyon of noblenes. & is deuyded in two ptyes, to be played at ii. tymes. Cōpyled by mayster Henry medwall. late chapelayne to ye ryght reuerent fader in god Johan Morton cardynall & Archebysshop of Cauterbury, black letter, woodcut below title (some 11. damp-stained, has portion only of the blank leaf at end), unbd. (loose), [colophon] Emprynted at London by Johan rastell dwellynge on the south syde of paulys chyrche by syde paulys cheyne. n.d. [probably before 1520], sm. 4to. (226), March 20, Sotheby

G. D. Smith, £3,400

[Unique. Collation : A-G 4 in sixes, 40 leaves, not numbered; I a, title; 1 b, blank; 2-39 b, the Interlude, commencing Intrat A dicens A For goddis will What meane ye syrs to stond so still "; 39 b, colophon, above which is written in a contemporary hand, I am Miles Blomefyldes booke," while below appears the name "Mr. Ashborne" in a somewhat later hard; 40, blank, a small portion only present. The existence of this interlude has hitherto been known only from a fragment of two leaves in the British Museum, which did not disclose its authorship.-See Rastell (John) Handlists of English Printers, where it is entered as a play concerning Lucretia. Illustrations of title and last leaf in catalogue.]

Medwin (Thos.) Conversations of Lord Byron, fac., mor. gt.,

doublures, g.e., by Root. London, Bentley, 1824, 8vo.
(57), April 23, American Art Association
$27.50

Extra illustrated by the insertion of 30 ports. and views of characters and places.] Meinhold (W.) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch, trans. by Lady Duff Gordon, woodcut border, orig. bds., Vale Press, 1903, folio (484), April 14, Sotheby Maggs, £2 2s. Meinhold (W.) Sidonia the Sorceress, trans. by Lady Wilde, printed on vell., ornamental borders and initial letters, orig. limp vell., Kelmscott Press, 1893, sm. folio (376), Nov. 4, Sotheby Bumpus, £53 Meinradus (S.) Incipit Passio Sancti Meynrhadi Martyris et Heremite, lit. goth., long lines, 33 to a full page, 20 German woodcuts [Hain *12453, Proctor 7731], mor. ex., g.e., padded with blanks, by F. Bedford (the Huth copy, £29 in 1916), [Basileae, Michael Fürter, 1496], sm. 4to. (516), Nov. 14, Sotheby Maggs, £22 10S. Meissonier (E.) Exhibition of the Works of Meissonier, Japanese vell., port. of the master and a large number of reproductions of his work, all on parchment, wrappers, uncut, Paris, Georges Petit [1893], thick folio (2264), March 27, American Art Association $28

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[Of this work, 50 copies were printed throughout on Japanese vell.; other copies realised from $14 to $18 each, same state.] Melancthon (Ph.) Loci praecipui Theologici nunc denuo cura et diligentia summa recogniti (pp. 727-8 defective), contemp. oak bds. and stamped pigskin, borders in compartments representing Christ overcoming death, the Annunciation, Hic est Filius meus delectus," centre panels of foliage, clasps, Lips. in off. Val. Papae. 1556, 8vo. (224), March 17, Sotheby Maggs, £5 12s. 6d. [Melancthon's own copy, with Greek quotation from Gregory of Nazianzen, Scriptu Manu Philippi."] Melanges Asiatiques tirés du Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 8 vol., orig. cl., 1849-79. 8vo. (30), Nov. 12, Puttick London Library, £15 Melish (Jno.) Travels through the United States, maps, 2 vol., hf. cf., Philad., 1815, 8vo. (376), May 27, Puttick Barnes, 1 158. Melius de Crema (Ant.) De vero ac legitimo intellectu Privilegiorum, etc., roman letter, long lines, title with woodcut border and arms of Clement VII., 2 full-page woodcuts, woodcut initials and border (shaved), mor. gt., t.e.g., Brixiæ, I. A. Morandus, de Gandino, 1525, 4to. (1444), May 13, Sotheby Bull, £5 15s. Mellon (Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans). Memoirs of Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans, by Mrs. Cornwell Baron-Wilson, extra illustrated by 70 ports., etc., 2 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., 1839, 8vo. (80), May 20, Sotheby Hatchards, £5 Memoires de Hollande. See Lafayette (Mdme. de la) Memoirs of the Courts of Europe, illustrations on Japanese

vell. paper, 20 vol., three-quarter mor. gt., t.e.g, Boston, 1900, etc, 8vo. (526), Nov. 18, American Art Association $17.50

Ménage (Gilles). Histoire de Sablé, première partie (généalogie des maisons de Sablé et de Craon), orig. French mor. gt., corner ornaments, coat-of-arms in centre of covers, from the Heber library, Paris, P. Le Petit, 1683, folio (566), June 30, Sotheby Edwards. £7 Mendoza (J. G. de). Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome of China, trans. out of Spanish by R. Parke, black letter, some MS. notes in margins, new mor. ex., g.e., arms on sides, I. Wolfe for E. White 1588, sm. 4to. (567), June 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £60 Menewe (Gracyous). Confutacion of that Popishe and Antichristian Doctryne, whiche mainteineth ye ministracyon and receiving of the Sacrament under one kind-Plaine subuersyon or turnyng upsyde down of all the argumentes, that the Popecatholykes can make for the maintenaunce of auricular confession, together 2 vol., black letter (some marginal notes shaved) mor. ex., g.e. [Without place or date, about 1554] sq. 32mo. (118), Feb. 3, Sotheby Tregaskis, £31

Menpes (M.) Whistler as I knew him, limited ed. de luxe,
col. and other reproductions, with an orig. etching by
Whistler, cl. ex., t.e.g., 1904, sm. 4to. (464), Jan, 28,
Hodgson
H. Edwin, £3

[£3 15s., same state, March 18, Puttick, Lot 253; I 6s., cl. gt., ordinary copy, Oct. 21, 1918, Sotheby, Lot 764; 17s. 6d., cl. gt.. ordinary copy, March 18, Puttick, Lot 253.]

Mensa Philosophica. Incipit tabula in librum qui dicitur Mensa philosophica, lit. goth., long lines. initials painted [Proctor 1195] (Huth copy), Absque ulla nota, Colon., C Winters, c. 1479-80 (1446), May 13, Sotheby

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Davis & Orioli, £7 Mensa Philosophica. [On Ai.] Prohemiù in librū qui mēsa Phica appelatur." lit. goth., long lines, 37 to a full page. device of the printer on reverse of last leaf, new vell., rough edges (Huth copy, 18s. in 1916), [colophon] Impressus Colonie apud predicatores. Per me Corneliu de zyryckzee Anno salutis nostre. m.ccccc.viij. Mensis vero Martij. die. xvij., sm. 4to. (1447), May 13, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £1 5s. [Title and table, 4 11. (wanting); A, C and H in eights ; B. D and F in fours; E and G in sixes.]

Mercer (Gen. C.) Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, first ed., 2 vol., orig. cl., 1870, 8vo. (66), Feb. 19, Hodgson

J. Lawrence. £2 2s. Mercurius Anglicus: Or, Englands Merlin. Prophetically foretelling the Admirable Events and Wonderful Effects that shall befall the King of Scots, etc., 4 ll. (title mended, text

faint on 3 pp.), hf. mor. (Huth copy, 5s. in 1916), Printed by R. Wood, 1653, sm. 4to. (1448), May 13, Sotheby Bourne, £1 6s. Mercurius Trismegistus. De potestate ac sapiencia dei: interprete Marsilio Ficino Florentino, lit. goth., long lines, mor. gt., partly uncut, Moguntina, J. Schoeffer, 1503, 4to. (1449), May 13, Sotheby Bourne, £8 5s.

[£7 15s., mor. ex., presentation copy from J. Meisteter, the editor, same sale, Lot 1450.]

Meredith (G.) Evan Harrington, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, 1861, 8vo. (189), July 16, Hodgson £4 148. Meredith (G.) Jump to Glory Jane." The complete Manuscript of this poem in the autograph of George Meredith, written on 16 pp. 4to., in blue ink, and consisting of 216 lines; at top of page 1 the author has signed his name, with address, "From George Meredith, Box Hill, Dorking" preserved in a portfolio, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to. (440), Nov. 4, Sotheby Plaistow, £25

Meredith (G.) Modern Love, first ed., orig. cl., uncut, 1862, 8vo. (781), Dec. 2, Sotheby Dobell, £2

[I 12s. 6d., same state, April 29, Puttick, Lot 470.] Meredith (G.) One of our Conquerors, first ed., 3 vol., orig. cl., uncut, fine copy, 1891, 8vo. (780), Dec. 2, Sotheby Thorp, 18s. Meredith (G.) Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of the Earth, first ed., orig. cl., unopened, 1883, 8vo. (109), April 14, Sotheby Allen, 158. Meredith (G.) [Works.] Poems, with author's inscription on title, errata slip, John W. Parker & Son [1851]-The Shaving of Shagpat, 1856-Farina, 1857-The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 3 vol., 1859-Evan Harrington, 3 vol., 1861-Modern Love, publisher's stamp on title, 1862Emilia in England, 3 vol., 1864-Diana of the Crossways, 3 vol., 1885-Jump to Glory Jane, ed. by Harry Quilter, one of 100 copies on Van Gelder paper, illustrations by L. Housman, vell. covers bound in, 1892-Poems, 1892— The Tale of Chloe, 1894, etc., some vols. without the hf.titles, all first eds. (except Diana, Vol. ii.—Jump to Glory Jane and The Tale of Chloe), together 48 vol., 47 vol. in mor. gt., t.e.g., by Worsfold, and one vol. (Poems, 1851) in orig. cl., uncut, 1851-97, sm. 8vo. and 12mo. (257), July 21, Sotheby Bumpus, £124 Meredith (G.) Works, ed. de luxe, port. on Japanese vell., 32 vol. (sides of a few vol. damp-spotted), 1896-98, 8vo. (556), Aug. 13, Hodgson Fletcher, £15 5S. Meredith (G.) Works, ed. de luxe. port. on Japanese paper, 32 vol., hf. cf. gt., t.e.g., by Rivière, Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1896-1911, 8vo. (480), Dec. 11, American Art Association

$160

[£16 10s., hf. buckram (backs soiled), Jan. 28, Hodgson, Lot 390; $410, finely bd. in mor. gt., silk linings, t.e.g., uncut, April 23, American Art Association, Lot 257.]

Meredith (G.) Works, Memorial ed., including his Poems, 3 vol., and Bibliography and Various Readings, ports., photo-plates and reproductions of the orig. illustrations by Charles Keane, George Du Maurier, etc., 27 vol., with his Letters, ed. by his son, first complete collected ed., 2 vol., together 29 vol., hf. cf. ex., cl. sides, t.e.g., 1909-12, 8vo. (73), April 30, Hodgson Sotheran, £36 IOS. Meredith (Owen), pseud. See Lytton (E. R. B., Earl) Merigot (J.) Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Vicinity, first ed., text in French and English, 61 plates, 2 vol. in 1, cf. (rebacked). London, 1797-1799. 4to. (47), Nov. 18, American Art Association

$5 Mérimée (Prosper). History of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon, first ed., 2 vol. in 1, orig. cl., 1849, 8vo. (422), Oct. 21, Sotheby Maggs, £1 2s.

[From the library of W. M. Thackeray, with his monogram on title-page.]

Meriton (Thos.) Love and War, a Tragedy, first ed. (catchword and signature on 12 cut into), wrappers, Charles Webb, 1658, sm. 4to. (227), March 20, Sotheby

Tregaskis, £8 IOS. Merlin. Le premie[r] (Second) volume de Merlin: Les prophecies de Merlin, lettres bâtardes, double columns, 34-35 lines to a page, woodcuts, including full-page one containing port. of Merlin at beginning of Vol. i. (title and 5 prelim. 11. of first vol. in fac., last page defective, title of Vol. ii. in fac., title of Vol. iii. cut round and inlaid, 7 preliminary ll. in fac., several ll. wormed), sold not subject to return, 3 vol., mor. ex., g.e. by Lloyd [Macfarlane 173], [colophon] Cy finissent les prophecies merlin nouuellement imprime a paris lan mil iiiic, iiii. xx. xviii. pour Anthoine verart... (1498), folio (82), July 18, Sotheby

Edwards, £39 Merlin (R.) Origine des Cartes à Jouer, folding and other illustrations, hf. mor., t.e.g., Paris, 1869, 4to. (577), Oct. 21, Sotheby Hill, £1 8s. Merridew (J.) Catalogue of Engraved Portraits of Nobility, Gentry, Clergymen and others of the County of Warwick, 4to. sheets, gaurded and interleaved with folio sheets, with about 200 loose ports. (various sizes) inserted, hf. russ. (broken), Coventry, 1848, folio (343), Nov. 25, Sotheby James, £6 15s. Merula (Geo.) De Antiquitate Vicecomitum, roman letter, old mor. gt., g.e. [Hain-Copinger 11095, Proctor 6074], Absque ulla nota [Milan, Guillaume Le Signerre (c. 1478)], sm. folio (370), March 3, Sotheby P. M. Barnard, £5 5s. Messenger of Mathematics (The), ed. by W. A. Whitworth, C. Taylor, R. Pendlebury and others, second series, Vol. i. to xxi., hf. cf., 1872-92, 8vo. (425), March 26, Hodgson Quaritch, £8 Metastasio (P.) Opere, plates by Martini, Moreau, Cipriani,