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Bussy-Rabutin. Amours des Dames illustres de France sous le règne de Louis XIV. A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, s.d. (about 1730), 2 vols., 12mo., frontispiece by La Case after L. F. D. B. (Dubourg), and 16 plates, not signed, probably by the same artists (10s.).

Bussy-Rabutin. Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, S. L. (Paris), 1754, 5 vols., 12mo., engraved titles with divers fleurons on each after Choffard by L. L. C. (15s., and treble on Dutch paper, of which only a few copies were printed).

·.· Vol. 1 alone is by Bussy-Rabutin proper; the remaining vols., comprising some pamphlets and satirical pieces relating to the ladies of the Louis XIV. court, were reprinted from works published previously. Bussy-Rabutin. Histoire de Louis XIV., roy. de France et de Navarre adressée a ses enfants Amsterdam, G. Gallet

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1700, 12mo., frontispiece, not signed (3s.).

Bussy-Rabutin. Amours des Dames illustres de notre Siècle. A Cologne, chez Jean Le Blanc, 1708, 12mo., frontispiece, not signed (38.).

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Butler. Hudibras in three Parts with large Annotations and a Preface by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Cambridge and London, 1744, 2 vols., 8vo., portrait by Vertue and plates by Hogarth. Best edition (15s., and more than double on large paper).

Butler. Hudibras, a Poem in three Cantos with Notes (by Dr. T. Nash). London, 1793, 3 vols., 4to., portraits and plates by Hogarth, and vignettes in red, brown, and black (only 200 copies printed) (£2 to £3).

(J.). The Antiquities of St. Peter's, or the Abbey Church of Westminster. London, 1711, 8vo., plates (5s.).

The 1742 edition, having some additional plates, is worth

more.

Cabinet de Pierres antiques gravées, ou Collection choisie de 216 bagues et de 682 pierres égyptiennes étrusques, grecques et romaines, gauloises, etc., tirées de célèbres cabinets de l'Europe. Paris, Lamy, 1778, 2 vols., 4to., 2 frontispieces, not signed, portrait and 282 plates (not signed) of antique gems, finger-rings, etc. (25s.).

Cabinet de Lampsaque (Le), ou Choix d'epigrammes érotiques des plus célèbres poètes françois. Paphos, 1784, 2 vols., 16mo., 101 plates apparently by Desrais or Leclerc (50s. to 60s.).

This book appeared also under the title: Le Bijou de la Société ou l'Amusement des Grâces, Paphos, 2 vols., 16mo. (Vulliet sale, 110 frs.). Strictly speaking, it is the reprint of Le Gay's Légende joyeuse, of which part i. appeared in 1749, and part ii. in 1750 (see under these heads).

Cabinet of Genius. London, 1787, 3 vols., sm. 4to., charming plates printed in red in the style of Bartolozzi after Shelley, by C. Taylor and J. Ogborne, and views (£4 to £5). Cabinet et Magasin des Modes ou les Modes nouvelles françaises et anglaises décrites d'une manière claire et précise et représentées par des planches en taille-douce enluminées, de novembre 1785 à décembre 1789. Paris, Buisson, 1785-89, 4 vols., 8vo., 362 coloured plates, by Duhamel after Desrais, Defraine, and Pugin. The Béhague copy 570 francs, and is now worth double and more.

Cabinet des Fées, contenant tous leurs ouvrages par Mme. Amsterdam, chez Marc Michel Rey, 8 vols., 12mo., 16 plates by Fokke (10s.).

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Cabinet des Fées, ou Collection choisie des contes de fées et autres contes merveilleux, ornés de figures. Genève et Paris, 1785-89, 41 vols., 8vo., 120 plates after Marillier by Berthet, Biosse, Borgnet, Choffard, Croutelle, Dambrun, Delignon, Delvaux, Duponchel, Fessard, Gaucher, de Ghendt, Godefroy, Goumaz, Halbou, Jonxis, Langlois, Langlois jeune, Lebeau, Legrand, Leroy, Leveau, Le Villain, de Longueil, Malapeau, Mme. Demonchy, Patas, Mlle. Retor, Texier, Thomas, and de Valnet (£2 10s. to £3 10s.).

Almost all copies lack the two plates, viz. “Dans ce moment on heurta si fort à la porte," and "Le Petit Poucet s'étant approché de l'Ogre," both after Marillier by de Longueil and Delaunay. They were substituted by two others to make up the number of plates. The 12mo. edition is inferior as regards the impressions, and is worth 108. Marillier's original drawings passed from Renouard into the collection left by the late Baron James de Rothschild.

Cæsar. C. Julii Cæsaris quæ extant, etc., access. annot. Sam. Clarke. Londini, sumpt. et typis J. Tonson, 1712, roy. folio, 87 plates and numerous vignettes (25s., and more on large paper, of which only 25 copies were printed).

The 42nd plate, representing a Bull, is sometimes wanting or damaged. Cahusac. Zéneide, comedie en un acte, en vers, avec divertissement. Paris, Prault, 1744, fleuron on title and frontispiece, both by Cochin fils after Pierre (3s.).

Cailleau. Le Vauxhall populaire, ou les Fêtes de la guinguette, poème grivois et poissardi-lyro-comique en cinq chants, dédié à M. de Voltaire. A la Gaité, chez le compère la Joie, s.l.n.d., 8vo., engraved title, signed P. L. Charpentier (3s.). Callimaque. Les Hymnes, édition avec une version française, etc., et des notes de La Porte du Theil. Paris, Gail, l'an III., 2 vols., 12mo., 1 plate designed and engraved by Gaucher (38.). Calmet (Dom. Aug.). Histoiré généalogique de la maison du Chatelet, branche puinée de la maison de Lorraine-Nancy, 1741, numerous plates by Aveline (20s.).

Calmet. Suite de portraits des Ducs et Duchesses de la maison Royale de Lorraine dessinés et gravés d'après les médailles de Saint-Urban, par les plus habiles maîtres de Florence; avec la dissertation historique et chronologique de Dom. Aug. Calmet, abbé de Senones. A Florence, chez F. Moücke, 1762-63, 2 vols., fol., 2 fine frontispieces, 4 vignettes, 13 plates of emblems, coats of arms, and 56 male and female medallion portraits within borders (£3).

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