2455 Smith (John Raphael). His Life and Works, by Julia Frankau, with 30 photogravures and portfolio containing 50 examples of stipple, mezzotints, paintings and drawings in colours and monochrome, 1902, 4to. (167) Bishop, £25 2456 Society of French Aquarellists. Text by the best French Critics, plates in photogravure and designs in facsimile, in 8 portfolios (wanted one plate), Paris, 1883, etc., 4to. (163) Sotheran, £2 2457 Sportsman's Magazine, or Chronicle of Games and Pastimes, portraits of pugilists and celebrated dogs, etc., 2 vol., half morocco, uncut, 1824, 8vo. (97) Nattali, £4 8s. 2458 Sporting Magazine, from the commencement in 1792 to December, 1870, with nearly 2,000 engravings of portraits of Horses, Hunting, Shooting and Fishing Scenes and other Sporting Subjects, by Sartorius, Marshall, Herring, Alken, etc., 156 vol., 1792-1870-Gilbey (Sir Walter). Index to the Engravings in the Sporting Magazine, 1892, together 157 vol., vol. 1 to 110 half calf, vol. III to 156 half calf gilt (sold, as usual, with all faults), 1792-1870, 8vo. (109) Sotheran, £160 2459 Stevens (C.) and J. Liebault. Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, original calf, from the library of James I., with his arms on the sides, 1606, 4to. (26) Quaritch, £7 10S. [Translated from the French by Richard Swiflet. The first English edition cannot be identified, but was probably published in 1588. There is a folio edition of 1600.-ED.] 2460 Surtees (R. S.) Handley Cross, 1854-Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853-Plain or Ringlets, 1860-Ask Mamma, 1858Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865, together 5 vol., first editions, coloured etchings, by J. Leech and "Phiz," half morocco, 8vo. (96) Sotheran, £15 2461 Taunton (T. H.) Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses, with their Pedigrees and Performances, plates, 4 vol., half morocco, uncut, 1888, 8vo. (103) Sotheran, £5 15s. 2462 Vasari (G.) Vite de' piu excellenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti, woodcut portraits, 3 vol., thick paper, vellum, tooled sides, gilt edges, from Bindley's library, Bologna, 1647, 4to. (62) Leggatt, £2 [MARCH 12TH AND 13TH, 1903.] PUTTICK & SIMPSON. THE LIBRARY OF BARON DE TEISSIER AND OTHER PROPERTIES. (No. of Lots, 560; amount realised, £658 4s. 6d.) 2463 Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, coloured plates, 13 vol., half calf, believed to be perfect, but sold, as usual, not subject to return, 1822-28, 8vo. (517) Thomasson, £35 2464 Behn (Mrs.) Plays, Histories and Novels, 6 vol., boards, uncut, LARGE PAPER, 1871, 8vo. (204) Maggs, £4 2465 Chatterton (T.) Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by T. Rowley and others (includes S. T. Coleridge's 'Monody" on Chatterton), LARGE PAPER, uncut, Cambridge, 1794, royal 8vo. (400) Dobell, £2 2466 Coaching. The Roadster's Album, coloured plates, cloth, 1845, folio (257) Hornstein, £32 66 2467 Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, 12 vol., half calf, 1770, 4to. (115) Beaufort, £2 6s. 2468 Edmondson (Jos.) Baronagium Genealogicum, 6 vol., copperplates, calf gilt, 1764-1784, folio (259) G. H. Brown, £6 6s. 2469 Edmondson (Jos.) Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 vol., portrait, calf, 1780, folio (260) Quaritch, £2 2470 Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, 25 vol., half calf, 1875-88, 4to. (239) Shepherd, £9 2471 Fielding (H.) Works and Life, portrait, 8 vol., calf gilt, 1771, 8vo. (43) Maggs, £2 2472 Foley (H.) Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, 7 vol. (vol. 7 in duplicate), 1877-82, 8vo. (435). Bull, £3 17s. 6d. 2473 Gay (John). Beggar's Opera, with the Music, first edition, half bound, 1728, 8vo. (398) Dobell, £3 3s. 2474 [Geneste.] Some Account of the English Stage, 10 vol., boards, uncut (MS. additions to the Index in vol. 1 and to the Contents in several other volumes, some titles additionally dated in MS.), 1832, 8vo. (201) Sotheran, £8 2475 Grammont (Count). Memoirs, by Count A. Hamilton, 2 vol., portraits, morocco, g. e., 1828, 8vo. (65) Bumpus, £3 7s. 6d. 2476 Grose (F.) The Antiquities of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, 12 vol., plates, russia, 1784-91, 410. (126) Andrews, £2 105. 2477 Hewlett (M.) Earthwork out of Tuscany, first edition, portrait, cloth, uncut, 1895, 8vo. (335) £4 12s. 6d. 2478 Lodge (E.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages, 12 vol., plates, half calf, 1835, imperial 8vo. (99) Jarvis, £2 10S. 2479 Milles (T.) Catalogue of Honour, or Treasury of True Nobility Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine, cuts of arms, calf, 1610, folio (267) Quaritch, £3 2480 Milton (John). The History of Britain, that part especially now called England, portrait by Faithorne, first edition, calf, J. M. for James Allestrey, 1670, 4to. (253) Pickering, £8 15s. 2481 Missale ad usum Ecclesie Strigoniensi, printed in red and black, with hand-painted initials, oak boards, covered with leather, Venetiis, P. Liechtenstein, 1512, folio (549) Quaritch, £12 2482 Mudford (W.) History of the Campaign in the Netherlands, coloured plates and maps (2 plates), half calf, 1817, 4to. Hornstein, £4 12s. 6d. (527) Smart, £3 35. 2483 Perry and Henman. Mediæval Antiquities of the County of Durham, plates, cloth, 1867, folio (258) 2484 Phillips (Stephen). Christ in Hades, and other Poems, first edition, uncut, wrappers, 1896, 8vo. (302) 2485 Phillips (Stephen). Primavera, first edition, uncut, wrappers, 1890, 8vo. (303) Sabin, £I IOS. Shepherd, £2 2486 Rossi (G. B. de). Roma Sotterranea Cristiana, 3 vol., coloured plates, half morocco, 1864, folio (558) Pickard, £18 10s. 2487 Shakespeare (William). Dramatic Works, revised by Stevens, numerous plates, 9 vol., russia, g. e., Boydell, 1802, folio (138) Roche, £8 2488 Sowerby (J.) English Botany, vol. 1-18, coloured plates, half morocco, 1805-13, 8vo. (71) Quaritch, £16 2489 [Stevenson (R. L.)] The Edinburgh University Magazine, parts 1 to 3, wrappers, uncut, 1871, 8vo. (300) £4 10s. 2490 Sussex Archæological Collections, vol. 1-27, plates, cloth,. 1848-77, 8vo. (64) Andrews, £6 125. 2491 [Swinburne.] The Children of the Chapel, first edition, cloth, 1864 (pub. 2s.), 12mo. (333) Quaritch, £4 5s. 2492 Theatre d'Honneur et de Chevalerie, ou le Miroir Heroique de la Noblesse, 2 vol., plates, calf, Paris, 1648, folio (265) G. H. Brown, £2 5s. 2493 Tudor Translations, comprising Florio's Montaigne, 3 vol.— North's Plutarch, 6 vol.-Suetonius, by Holland, 2 vol.Heliodorus, by Underdowne-Apuleius, by Adlington, together 13 vol., cloth, uncut, 1893-99, 8vo. (171) Shepherd, £20 10s. 2494 Warburton (R.) Hunting Songs, Ballads, etc., coloured frontispiece and plates, cloth, Chester, 1834, 8vo. (347) Ellis, £510s. 2495 Wilson (A.) American Ornithology, with Notes by Jardine, 3 vol., coloured plates, half bound, 1832, 8vo. (212) Hill, £4 2s. 6d. [MARCH 16TH AND FIVE FOLLOWING DAYS, 1903.] SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE. A COLLECTION OF ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MSS. AND EARLY PRINTED AND MODERN BOOKS FROM VARIOUS PRIVATE SOURCES. (No. of Lots, 1433; amount realised, £9,745 18s. 6d.) 2496 Ackermann (R.) The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., with upwards of 100 coloured plates by Pugin and Rowlandson, a large copy, in half morocco, t. e. g. (1811), 4to. (114) [Another set, not uniform, realised £16.-ED.] Bain, £23 2497 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Miser's Daughter, 3 vol., first edition, 20 etchings by George Cruikshank, levant morocco extra gilt, t. e. g., uncut, special copy with the plates in two states, plain and coloured, 1842, 8vo. (9) Wells, £6 2498 Alken (H.) The Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase on the 12th of March, 1829, most respectfully dedicated to Captain Ross and the Gentlemen in the Quorn Hunt, the complete set of 8 large coloured plates by C. Bentley, after Henry Alken, original impressions, Ackermann, 1830, folio (220) Parsons, £28 2499 America. Johnson (Dr. Samuel). Elementa Philosophica, containing chiefly Noetica, or Things relating to the Mind and Understanding and Ethica, or Things relating to the Moral behaviour, original calf, Philadelphia, printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752, 8vo. (20) B. F. Stevens, £4 2500 Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, a Magazine entirely appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits, complete in 13 vol., coloured plates by Alken and Cruikshank, and numerous plates by Landseer, Herring and others, morocco extra, by Rivière and Son, g. t., uncut, a specimen monthly wrapper bound up with each volume, 1822-May, 1828, 8vo. (33) Pratt, £37 2501 Apperley (C. J.) The Life of a Sportsman, by "Nimrod," first edition, with 36 coloured illustrations by Henry Alken (some plates mounted as usual), calf extra, by T. Gosden, with his bookplate, g. e., 1842, 8vo. (36) Sabin, £23 10S. 2502 Armstrong (Sir Walter). Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy, numerous plates and vignettes, with a duplicate set of the illustrations, on India paper, in a portfolio, 1900 (225) Dobell, £12 15s. 2503 Ascham (Roger). Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge, conteyned in two Bookes, first edition, with the engraved first leaf containing the arms of Henry VIII., russia gilt, 7 leaves remargined, London, in aedibus Edouardi Whyt church, 1545, small 4to. (123) Pearson, £9 10S. 2504 Bacon (Lord, Francis). The Two Bookes of Francis Bacon, of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, to the King, first edition, morocco extra, g.e., 1605, 4to. (126) Burt, £16 55. [A large copy, measuring 71⁄2 by 54 inches. Perhaps one of the large paper copies which are stated to have been printed. Every second page only is numbered, and the paging is extremely irregular throughout the volume.— Catalogue.] 2505 Bacon (Lord, Francis). The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, portrait of John Payne and woodcut title-page, calf extra, g. e., 1622, 4to. (228) Banks, £5 155. 2506 Bacon (Lord, Francis). Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Operum Moralium et Civilium Tomus. Qui continet Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi Sermones Fideles . . . Tractatum de Sapientie Veterum, Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novum Atlantidem. 2507 Bacon (Lord, Francis). The Wisdome of the Ancients, done into English, first edition, tall copy, morocco extra, g. e., by Rivière, London, imprinted by John Bill, 1619, 8vo. (48) Young, £6 12s. 6d. 2508 Beckford (W.) An Arabian Tale (Vathek), from an unpublished MS., with Notes critical and explanatory, first edition in English, LARGE PAPER, original calf, J. Johnson, 1786, 8vo. (53) Burt, £6 10s. 2509 Beckford (W.) Gordon (John, of Glencat, Aberdeenshire). Memoirs, 2 vol. in 1, frontispieces, William Beckford's copy, with 2 pages of MS. notes in his autograph, original calf, 1733, 8vo. (54) Burt, £2 35. 2510 Behn (Mrs. A.) The Emperor of the Moon, a Farce, As it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants, At the Queen's Theatre, first edition, 1687, 4to. (132) Pearson, £3 2511 Benvenuto, Italian [pseud.], Professor of his Native Tongue for these nine yeeres in London. The Passenger, [7 Dialogues in Italian and English on opposite pages,] old limp vellum gilt, J. Stepneth, 1612, 4to. (131) Pearson, £10 [There was a copy of this rare Shakespearean volume in Halliwell's sale, June, 1858. An early attempt to teach languages by means of familiar phrases and dialogues.-Catalogue.] 2512 Bertandus Petragoricus (Joannes). Encomium trium Marianum cum earundem cultus defensione adversus Lutheranos --Solemnique Missa et Officio Canonico, etc.—Horarum et Missale earundem Officium, etc., lit. goth. and roman, with woodcuts, "Prelum Ascensianum," on title and last leaf, woodcut borders and large and small woodcuts, some with the Lorraine Cross, the mark of Geoffrey Tory, the 3 parts in I vol., wanted 2 leaves in the second part without the woodcut borders, morocco gilt, antique style, by F. Bedford, Paris, J. B. Ascensius, 1529, small 4to. (837) Quaritch, £20 [A very fine and large copy (? large paper) of this exceedingly rare volume, remarkable for its woodcut borders and full-page woodcuts as used by Geoffrey Tory in his Books of Hours. Returned from the Hibbert sale.-Catalogue.] 2513 Blake. Young's Night Thoughts, first edition, designs by Blake, with the rare leaf at the end entitled, "Explanation of the Engravings," uncut copy, in half morocco, 1797, imperial 4to. (238) Pickering, £8 5s. 2514 Blake. 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