2751 Brunet (J. Ch.) Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur des Livres, 6 vol., half calf gilt, m. e., Paris, 1860-64-Supplément du Manuel, par Deschamps et G. Brunet, 2 vol. in 1, half calf gilt, ib., 1878-80, 1860-80, royal 8vo. (139) W. Brown, £11 158. 2752 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Bookbindings, 113 chromo facsimiles, buckram, uncut, 1891, folio (151)

Bain, LII IOS. 2753 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of a Collection of European Enamels from the earliest date to the end of the XVIIth Century, LARGE PAPER, 72 plates, including a chromo triptych, buckram, uncut, 1897, folio (154) Hopkins, £12 10S. 2754 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths' Work of European Origin, LARGE PAPER, 120 autotypes, buckram, uncut, Printed for the Club, 1901, folio (157) Hopkins, £10 5S. 2755 Burns (Robert). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, the rare original Kilmarnock edition, title washed, mended and inlaid, top plain margin of first leaf of Preface repaired, otherwise perfect and a sound copy (734 by 44 inches), morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by Rivière, Kilmarnock, John Wilson, 1786, 8vo. (163) W. Brown, £76 2756 Burns (Robert). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, first Edinburgh edition, first issue, with Addenda to subscribers' names, portrait after Nasmyth by Beugo, morocco gilt, g.e., Edinburgh, printed for the Author and sold by Wm. Creech, 1787, 8vo. (164) W. Brown, £12 10S.

[The following autograph lines by Burns, addressed to Alexander Fergusson, of Craigdarroch, in response to an invitation to drink a cheerful glass at Glenriddells, accompanies the volume: "Sir

"The king's poor blacguard slave am I,

An scarce dow (sic) spare a minute;

But I'll be wi' you by & by

Or else the devil's in it.-R.B."-Catalogue.]

2757 Burns (Robert). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, first Edinburgh edition, first issue, with Addenda to subscribers' names, portrait after Nasmyth by Beugo, old inlaid calf gilt binding, g. e., by Scott, of Edinburgh (half-title and fly-leaf transposed), Edinburgh, for the Author by Wm. Creech, 1787, 8vo. (165) Quaritch, £88

[Presentation copy "To Mr. Nicol as a small but sincere mark of gratitude and friendship, The Author."-Catalogue.] 2758 Burns (Robert). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, the second edition, considerably enlarged, portrait after Nasmyth by Beugo, 2 vol., morocco gilt, g. e., Edinburgh, printed for T. Cadell and William Creech, 1792, 8vo. (166) F. C. Murray, £187

[Presentation copy "to John McMurdo, Esquire, Drumlanrig," with long autograph inscription on fly-leaf: "Will Mr. McMurdo do me the favour to accept of these volumes;

a trifling but sincere mark of the very high respect I bear for his worth as a Man, his manners as a Gentleman & his kindness as a Friend. However inferiour (sic) now or afterwards I may rank as a Poet; an honest virtue to which few Poets can pretend, I trust I shall ever claim as mine ;to no man whatever his station in life, or his Power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the Expence of Truth. The Author."-Catalogue.]

2762 Campbell (Lord).

2759 Burton (J. Hill). History of Scotland, from Agricola's Invasion to 1688, 7 vol., 1867-70-and from the Revolution to 1748, 2 vol., 1853, together 9 vol., half calf gilt, m. e., 8vo. (173) W. Lindsay, £6 2760 Burton (Rob.) Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by the Rev. A. R. Shilleto, with an Introduction by A. H. Bullen, portrait and frontispiece, LARGE PAPER, 110 copies printed (No. 38), 3 vol., half vellum, buckram sides, uncut, G. Bell, 1893, pot 4to. (176) Walford, £1 8s. 2761 Cambridge Natural History, edited by S. J. Harmer and A. E. Shipley, vol. ii., iii., v., vi., viii., ix. and x. (all published), illustrations, 6 vol., cloth gilt, t. e. g., Macmillan, 1896-99, 8vo. (182) Hill, £3 35. Lives of the Lord Chancellors, with the Lives of Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, and the Chief Justices, 11 vol., original cloth, 1848-69, 8vo. (185) Sotheran, £3 7s. 6d. 2763 Carlyle (Thomas). Collected Works, with Translations from the German, Library Edition, portrait, 34 vol., half morocco gilt, gilt marbled sides, t. e. g., Chapman and Hall (1894), 8vo. (189) Schulze, £14 15s. 2764 Cartault (A.) Terres Cuites Grecques, d'après les Originaux des Collections Privées de France et des Musées d'Athènes, 29 photographs, morocco extra, inside dentelles, joints, t. e. g., Paris, A. Colin, s. d., 4to. (190) Schulze, £3 1OS. 2765 Causes Célebrès et Interessantes, avec les Jugemens qui les ont décidées, recueillies par Gayot de Pitaval, 22 vol., old calf, with ex-libris of the Hon. Wm. Carmichael, La Haye, J. Neaulme, 1737-45, small 8vo. (195) Amos, £3 12s. 2766 Cervantes (M. de). The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated into English by Thomas Shelton, reprinted verbatim from the fourth edition of 1620, with a set of cuts after Coypel, 4 vol., limp vellum, with string clasps, rough edges, R. Knaplock, etc., 1725, small 8vo. (200) Ellis, £2 145. 2767 Chaucer (Geoffrey). Works, with the Story of the Siege of Thebes by John Lidgate, with the Life of Chaucer, etc. (Speght's Edition), genealogical portrait, morocco extra, inside dentelles, g.e., by Hammond, Printed in the year 1687, folio (212) Young, £6 10s.

2768 Chaucer (Geoffrey). Complete Works, edited from numerous Manuscripts by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, Litt.D., etc. (with the Supplement), facsimiles, etc., 7 vol., half morocco, t. e.g., uncut, Oxford, 1894-7, 8vo. (213) Hopkins, £5 2s. 6d.

2771 Chippendale (Thomas).

2769 Chatsworth Library. Catalogue of the Duke of Devonshire's Library at Chatsworth (by J. P. Lacaita), 250 copies printed (No. 143), presented to Sir W. H. Gibson Carmichael, 4 vol., cloth, uncut, Chiswick Press, 1879, imperial 8vo. (214) Hatchard, £4 18s. 2770 Chatsworth. Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth (the Seat of the Duke of Devonshire), by J. P. Lacaita, LARGE PAPER (50 copies printed), 4 vol., cloth, uncut, Chiswick Press, 1879, folio (215) F. C. Murray, £6 2s. 6d. The Gentleman and CabinetMaker's Director, original edition, 160 plates, good, sound and large copy, old calf, Printed for the Author, 1754, folio (218) Bain, 16 10s. 2772 Clarendon (Earl of). History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, etc., now first printed from the original MS., with Notes and Life, 9 vol., calf extra, m. e., Oxford, 1849-57, 8vo. (220) Johnson, £4 5s. 2773 [Cockayn]. C. (G. E.) Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, alphabetically arranged, 8 vol., half morocco, G. Bell, 1887-98, 8vo. (224) Quaritch, £35 2774 Collection de Madame d'Yvon. Catalogue des Objets d'Art et d'Ameublement, etc., vente aux Enchères Publiques, plates, buckram, uncut, Paris, 1892, folio (228)

Maggs, £5 7s. 6d. 2775 Collection Kann. Gemälde-Sammlung des Herrn RudolfKann in Paris, 100 photogravuren, mit Text von W. Bode, 2 vol., half morocco gilt, t. e. g., Wien, 1900, 4to. (231)

Quaritch, £40

2776 Collection Camille Lecuyer. Terres Cuites Antiques, trouvées en Grèce et en Asie-Mineure. Notices de MM. Lenormant, J. de Witte, A. Cartault, G. Schlumberger, E. Babelon, C. Lecuyer, phototype plates, 2 vol., half calf gilt, t. e. g., Paris, 1882-85, imperial folio (232) Quaritch, £9 15s. 2777 Collection Spitzer (La). Antiquité, Moyen Age, Renaissance, exemplaire sur papier vélin du tirage de 600 seulement (No. 332), many hundred chromo-lithographs and woodcuts, 6 vol., morocco super extra, inside dentelles, joints, t. e. g., uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, Paris, Quantin, 1890-92, super imperial folio (236) Hopkins, £85 2778 [Columna (Fr. de).] Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet, atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat, etc., editio princeps, woodcuts from designs by Giovanni Bellino (the Priapus unmutilated), modern morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e., Venet., Aldus, 1499, small folio (239) Bain, 120

2779 Coryat (Thomas). Coryat's Crudities, reprinted from the edition of 1611, to which are now added his Letters from India and extracts relating to him, etc., plates, 3 vol., old calf, W. Cater, etc., 1776, 8vo. (249) Ellis, £6 2780 Crawford Library. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of a Collection of English Ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth

Centuries, printed for the most part in black letter, 100 copies privately printed, half vellum, t. e. g., 1890, 4to. (253) Schulze, £3 18s. 2781 Crealock (Lieut.-Gen. H. Hope). Deer Stalking in the Highlands of Scotland, edited by his brother, 40 full-page plates and numerous illustrations in the text, picture cloth gilt, t. e. g., Longmans, 1892, folio (257) Bain, £16 2782 Crowe (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle. History of Painting in Italy, original edition, 3 vol., original cloth, uncut, 1864-6, 8vo. (260) Hatchard, £ 15s. 2783 Crowe (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle. History of Painting in North Italy, and the Early Flemish Painters, second edition, numerous illustrations, 3 vol., cloth, uncut, J. Murray, 1871-2, 8vo. (261) Hatchard, £12 155. 2784 Dante. Le Prime quattro Edizioni della Divina Commedia litteralmente ristampate, per cura di G. G. Warren Lord Vernon, 100 copies printed, half morocco gilt, marbled sides, t. e. g., Boone, 1858-65, folio (266) Quaritch, £3 3s. 2785 Dante. La Divina Commedia. "Comincia la Comedia di dante alleghieri di fiorenze, nella qle tracta delle pene et punitioni de vitii et de meriti et premii delle virtu," etc., lit. rom., long lines, 30 to a full page, without marks, painted ornamental three-quarter border, with a large illuminated initial on first page and a large illuminated initial also to the Purgatorio and Paradiso, other capitals painted in blue and red, plain margins of first page backed, old English morocco, gilt back and ornamental borders, y. e. (the Sunderland copy), editio princeps with a date, Foligno Joannes Numeister, 1472, small folio (267) Quaritch, £252 2786 Dante. La Divina Commedia, lit. rom., double columns of 41 lines (91 leaves) without marks, 3 large painted and illuminated initials of involved scrolls, one to each book, painted capitals in blue and red, the first two leaves mended, but the text uninjured, numerous contemporary notes in margins, half bound, in new morocco slip case, Magister georgius et magister paulus teutonici hoc opus Mantuæ impresserunt ad juvante Columbino Veronesi, 1472, folio (268) Quaritch, £245

[The second edition of Dante, with the same date as the first. The editor was Colombino Veronese, who dedicates it to Philippo Nuvoloni. The Arms of the latter are painted upon the lower margin of the first page of text.-Catalogue.] 2787 Dante. La Divina Commedia, col Commento di Benvenuto da Imola e Vita di Dante del Boccaccio, lit. goth., double columns of 47 lines, with signatures, modern boarded morocco extra, g. e., by F. Bedford, Venet., Vind. de Spira, 1477, folio (269) Quaritch, £66

[Fine copy of a rare edition, the first with this Commentary, containing 374 leaves, perfect, and measuring 134 by 9 inches. The commentator's name is found in the sonnet on the last leaf, together with that of the printer and the date.-Catalogue.]

2788 Dante. La Divina Commedia, col. Commento di Christ. Landino, roman letter, long lines, a large illuminated initial, with marginal decoration, on first page of text, modern boarded morocco gilt, g. e. (a generally excellent copy from the Hamilton Palace and Lakelands Libraries), Firenze per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna, 1481, royal folio (270) Quaritch, £1,000

[The first edition of Dante, with Landino's Commentary, containing all the 19 designs for the Inferno by Sandro Botticelli and B. Baldini, being the largest number ever found in a copy. The first two designs are impressed in the spaces left for that purpose, the rest being taken off separately and mounted in the blank spaces. Five of the plates, viz., 3, 5, 7, 15 and 16, are slightly damaged. The inside and lower margins of the first leaf of the Inferno have been repaired. Copies with all the 19 original designs are exceedingly rare.-Catalogue. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, Vol. v., No. 3323.-ED.]

2789 Dante. La Divina Commedia, col Comento di Christ. Landino, ornamental woodcut initials and painted red capitals, vellum, a sound copy, Vinegia per Octaviano Scoto, 1484 (with device in red), folio (271) Money, 15 10s.

2790 Dante.

La Divina Commedia, col Comento di Christ. Landino, capitals painted in blue and red, numerous woodcuts (first leaf repaired), large illuminated initial with marginal decorations on first page of Inferno, modern morocco, with rough edges, Bressa per Boninum de Boninis de Raguxi, 1487, folio (272)

£54

[The woodcuts number 68, being one for each canto, the Paradiso, however, having only one for the first canto; they are mostly the size of the page, within Renaissance borders. -Catalogue.]

2791 Dante.

La Divina Commedia, col Comento di Christ. Landino, et Canzone, small woodcuts and ornamental initials, modern calf, by Binda, of Milan, in cloth case, Vinegia per Petro Cremonese dito Veronese, 1491, folio (273) Quaritch, £25

[A rare edition, with remarkable woodcuts, some of which are facsimiled in Dibdin's "Edes Althorpianæ." The "Canzone" at end occupy 81⁄2 pages.-Catalogue.]

2792 Dante.

La Divina Commedia, col. Comento di Christ. Landino, numerous woodcuts, 3 full-page, and ornamental initials, calf gilt, g. e., Venet., Bernard. Benali et Matthio da Parma, 1491 (with device), folio (274) Quaritch, £23 [A rare edition, with similar designs to those in the editions of Petro Cremonese, 1491; and M. di Chodecha, 1493. The outside border to the full-page woodcut before the first canto of the Inferno found in the Chodecha edition is omitted in this. The last two pages contain the Credo, Paternoster and Ave Maria.-Catalogue.]

2793 Dante. "Danthe aleghieri fiorentino." La Divina Commedia, col Commento di Christ. Landino (rivedute da Pietro de