called Arnalt and Lucenda, etc., calf, Thomas Parfoot, 1597, 8vo. (114) Pearson, £12 [Original edition. Desainliens, who metamorphosed his name into Holy Band or Hollyband, was a fashionable Italian teacher of Shakespeare's time (1566-93) and the author of many manuals of instruction in the principles of the Italian tongue. He is found lodging, first at the Lucrece, and later on at the Golden Ball, in St. Paul's Churchyard. Catalogue.]

5913 Desainliens (Claudius). The Italian Schoole-maister, contayning Rules for the perfect pronouncing of th' italian tongue, with familiar speeches and certaine Phrases taken out of the best Italian Authors, etc., calf extra, g. e., Thomas Parfoot, 1608, 12mo. (115) Pearson, £2 18s.

5914 Desainliens (Claudius). The French Schoolemaister, wherin is most plainlie shewed the true and most perfect way of pronouncinge of the Frenche tongue, etc., roman and black letter, morocco, William How, 1573, 8vo. (116)

Quaritch, £13

[First edition, with the rare colophon leaf.-ED.]

5915 Desainliens (Claudius, alias Holybande). Campo di Fior or else The Flourie Field of Foure Languages . . . For the furtherance of the learners of the Latine, French, English, but chieflie of the Italian tongue, vellum (last leaf in facsimile), Thomas Vautroullier, 1583, 8vo. (117)

Quaritch, £2 45.

[This book is one of the earliest polyglots which appeared in England, and from its popularity became of great rarity. The Tite copy, now in the Huth library, seems to be the only other which has occurred for sale.-Catalogue.] 5916 Desainliens (Claudius). A Dictionarie, French and English, published for the benefite of the studious in that language, etc., first edition, woodcut title, old sheep, 1593, 4to. (118) Quaritch, £7 10s. 5917 Elder (W.) Pearls of Eloquence, or The School of Compliments, wherein Ladies, Gentlewomen and Schollars, may accomodate their Courtly Practice with Gentile Ceremonies, complemental, amorous, and high expressions of speaking, or writing of Letters, both title pages, one being dated 1656, frontispiece, calf extra, 1655, 8vo. (119) Pearson, £16 5918 Elyot (Sir Thomas). The Dictionary, half calf, Londini in ædibus Thoma Bertheleti typis impress. 1538, folio (120) E. G. Allen, £4 4s.

[First edition of the earliest work of the kind in the English language. It was the foundation of the much larger dictionary known as Cooper's “Thesaurus"; Thomas Cooper, of Magdalen College, Oxford, having edited and amplified it after Elyot's death.-ED.]

5919 English Schole Master (The), or Certaine rules and helpes, whereby the natives of the Netherlandes, may bee, in a short time, taught to read, understand and speake the

English tongue, etc., engraved title, paper wrappers, Amsterdam, 1663, 8vo. (121) Quaritch, £110s. [The first edition was printed in 1646; there was another in 1658, but all are very uncommon.-ED.]

5920 Erondell (Peter). The French Garden for English Ladyes and Gentlewomen to walke in, or a Sommerdayes labour, being an instruction for the attayning of the French Tongue, wherein... are framed thirteene Dialogues in French and English . . . also the Historie of the Centurion mencioned in the Gospell, in French verses, etc., vellum, 1605, 8vo. (122) Peters, £4 4s. 5921 Haloet's Dictionarie, newelye corrected, amended, set in order and enlarged, with many names of Men, Townes, Beastes, Foules, Fishes, Trees, etc. . . . also the Frenche thereunto annexed by which you may finde the Latin or Frenche, of any Englishe woorde you will, by John Higgins, woodcut title, calf, Londini, 1572, folio (123) Pearson, £11 105.

[This publication was on its original appearance, in 1552, described as what it actually is, an ABCDarium for schoolboys. This edition was enlarged and revised by John Higgins, an Oxford Man, and one of the persons concerned in the "Mirror for Magistrates." There are only these two issues, although Higgins left a copy prepared for an enlarged reprint. Catalogue.]

5922 Junius (Adrianus). The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius, Physician, divided in two Tomes, conteining proper names and apt termes for all thinges under their convenient Titles, ... in English by John Higins, etc., old calf (last leaf of index missing), Ralph Newberie, 1585, 8vo. (124) Pearson, £3 15s. 5923 Lentulo (Scipio). La Grammatica, . an Italian Grammar, turned into Englishe by Henry Grantham, original vellum, Thomas Vautrollier, 1587, small 8vo. (125)

5924 Minsheu (John).

Pearson, £10 Ductor in Linguas. The Guide into Tongues, first edition, original sheepskin, John Brown, 1617, folio (126)

Pearson, £5

[This was Charles I.'s copy; his arms are stamped on the sides of the binding.-Catalogue.]

5925 Peacham (Henry). The Garden of Eloquence, conteyning the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorick, etc., half vellum, 1577, 4to. (127) B. F. Stevens, £12 155. [First edition, of which the only other copy offered for sale within many years was Mr. Corser's and is now in the British Museum. The work was written by Henry Peacham, the Elder of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a beneficed clergyman in Lincolnshire.--Catalogue.]

5926 Percyvall (Richard). Bibliotheca Hispanica, containing a Grammar, with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine, etc., the Dictionarie being inlarged with the Latine, by the advise and conference of Master Thomas Doyley, etc., first edition, old sheepskin, John Jackson, 1591, 4to. (128) Pearson, £8 8s.

[In the preceding year, John Thorius had published an English version of the Spanish Grammar of Anthonio de Corro, with a vocabulary or dictionary appended. The volume here described was printed in 1590, as the work of Thomas D'Oyley, M.D., "with the conference of native Spaniards," but Dr. D'Oyley appears to have handed the MS. to Richard Percival, who published it in 1591, stating on the title his obligations to the first editor.-Catalogue.] 5927 Sherry (Richarde). A Treatise of the Figures of Grammer and Rhetoricke, profitable for al that be studious of Eloquence, and in especiall for suche as in Grammer scholes doe reade moste eloquente Poetes and Oratours, whereunto is joygned the oration which Cicero made to Cesar, etc., black letter, morocco extra, g. e., Richard Tottill, 1555, 8vo. (129) Pearson, 10 IOS.

[This book, unlike those of Wilson on Reason and Rhetoric, was intended as a manual for schoolboys, and is dedicated by the author, who describes himself as a Londoner, to William Lord Paget of Beaudeest. He was at this time a tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. A copious account of the institution with which he was connected will be found in Mr. Hazlitt's "Schools, Schoolbooks and Schoolmasters," 1888.-Catalogue.]

5928 Thomasius (Thoma). Dictionarium summa fide ac diligentia accuratissime emendatum magna que insuper Rerum Scitu Dignarum, etc., original calf, covered with rich gold tooling, g.e., Cantabrigiæ, 1596, 4to. (131) Pearson, £15

[A well-known Shakespearian dictionary, this copy having the initials W. S. impressed at the four corners of each cover.--ED.] 5929 Thomas (William). Principal Rules of the Italian Grammer, with a Dictionarie for the better understandyng of Boccace, Petrarcha and Dante, etc., woodcut title, black letter, first edition, old russia, Londini, 1550, 4to. (132) Pearson, £13 [First Italian Grammar and Dictionary printed in England, and the original edition. Thomas was a scholar and a traveller, and is also known as the author of the "History of Italy," and of a defence of Henry VIII. in connection with his proceedings in regard to Anne Boleyn.-Catalogue.] 5930 Thomas (William). Principal Rules of the Italian Grammer, with a Dictionarie for the better understandynge of Boccace, Petrarche and Dante, . . . newly corrected and imprinted, woodcut title, black letter, russia, Londini, 1562, 4to. (153) Henley, £2 5s.

5931 Torriano (Gio). New and Easy Directions for the attaining of the Thuscan Italian Tongue, comprehended in necessary rules of pronuntiation, rules of accenting and the like, set forth for the special use of such as are desirous to be proficients in the said language, half calf, Cambridge, n. d. (circa 1640), 4to. (134) Drover, £25s.

5932 Torriano (Gio). The Italian Tutor, or a New and most Compleat Italian Grammer, containing above others a most

compendious way to learne the Verbs, and rules of Syntax, etc., half calf, 1640, 4to. (135) · Henley, £1 2s. 5933 Withals (John). A Shorte Dictionarie in Latine and English, verie profitable for young beginners, revised and enlarged by L. Evans, calf, London, 1599, 4to. (136)

Other Properties.

Pearson, £9 1OS.

5934 Addison (Jos.) Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703, first edition, LARGE PAPER, old calf gilt, J. Tonson, 1705, royal 8vo. (40) B. F. Stevens, £13 [Presentation copy from Addison to Sarah (Jennings) Duchess of Marlborough, with autograph inscription of the Duchess in fly-leaf: "S. Marlborough, this book was given me by Mr. Addison in the year 1705."-Catalogue.]

5935 Arnold (Matthew). Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems, by A., first edition, original cloth, uncut, with autograph of T. Burbidge on half-title, B. Fellowes, 1852, 8vo. (317)

Stephens, £2 1OS.

5936 Ascham (Roger). The Schoolemaster, or Playne and perfite way of teaching children to understande, write and speake the Latin toong, but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in Gentlemen and Noblemens houses, etc., black letter, morocco extra, g. e., Abell Jeffes, 1589, 4to. (108) E. Howell, £7 5s.

The

[This treatise was written by the author for the use and guidance of Tutors in noble families. This edition of 1589, though not the earliest, is perhaps the scarcest. printer's device appears on a separate leaf at the end.—ED.] 5937 Bacon. Francisci Baronis de Verulamo Historia Naturalis, etc., first edition, vellum, 1622, 8vo. (334) E. Howell, £3 3s. [Isaac Walton's copy, with his initials, I. W., 1622.— Catalogue.]

5938 Baines (Edward).

History of the Wars of the French Revolution [1792-1815], portraits, maps, plans and charts, 2 vol. bound in 4 and further illustrated by the insertion of 62 original water-colour and India ink drawings, executed by J. R. Cruikshank, also upwards of 360 portraits, views, plates of shipping, maps, historical subjects, plans of battles and other illustrations, some of which are scarce, half calf, uncut, 1817, 4to. (341) Moore, £36 5939 Barham (R. H.) Ingoldsby Legends, first series, first edition, half calf, presentation copy, with author's inscription on fly-leaf, R. Bentley, 1840-Second Series, first edition, in original cloth, uncut, ib., 1842, illustrations by Leech and Cruikshank, 1840-42, 8vo. (19) Hornstein, £3

5940 Beaumont and Fletcher. The Knight of the Burning Pestle, full of Mirth and Delight, morocco extra, g.e., 1635, 4to. (343) Berry, £1 15s. 5941 Braithwaite (R.) The Arcadian Princesse, or the Triumph of Justice, first edition, inner and lower blank margin of the frontispiece by Marshall restored and rust hole in Gg 1,

large copy with several rough leaves and the rare 4 leaves at end, morocco, g. e., by Mackenzie, 1635, 8vo. (194) Cane, £4 5942 Burton (Rob.) The Anatomy of Melancholy, the fifth edition, corrected and augmented by the Author, engraved title in compartments, original calf, Oxford, H. Cripps, 1638, folio (94) Stevens, £7 5943 Burton (R.) Anatomy of Melancholy, engraved title, old calf, with the arms of Sir Christopher Hatton on each side, Oxford, 1638, 8vo. (260) Quaritch, £4 18s. 5944 Daniel (Samuell). Drammaticke Poems, written by Samuel Danniell Esquire, containing The Tragedy of Philotas, 1623-Hymen's Triumph, a Pastoral Tragi-comœdia, 1623— The Queenes Arcadia, a Pastorall Trage-Comedie, 1623— The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, presented in a Maske the eighth of January, at Hampton Court, 1623-The Tragedie of Cleopatra, 1623, calf extra, g.e., 1655, 4to. (360) Stevens, £11 55.

[This copy is described in Hazlitt's "Handbook" (1867) as being unique. No other copy with this title is known.-Catalogue.] 5945 Dickens (Charles). Mr. Nightingale's Diary, a Farce in one Act, original cloth, Boston, 1877, 8vo. (200) Maggs, £2 145. 5946 Dickens (Charles). Dombey and Son, first edition, illustra

tions by H. K. Browne, frontispiece and title slightly stained, modern morocco extra, g. e., presentation copy to Lady Normanby (to whom the work is dedicated), from Charles Dickens, Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park, sixth September, 1848," Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 8vo. (27) Sabin, £21 5947 Garlands. The Loyal Garland, or a Choice Collection of Songs highly in request and much esteemed in the past and present times, made by divers Ingenious Persons on sundry Occasions for the sake of Merryment, etc., black letter, calf, g.e., 1686, 8vo. (219) Coke, £8

[Corser's copy (now in the British Museum) seems to be the only other example which has occurred for sale.Catalogue.] 5948 Garlands. The Crown Garland of Golden Roses, gathered out of England's Royal Garden, set forth in many Pleasant New Songs and Sonnets, with New Additions never before Imprinted, Divided into Two Parts, calf extra, g. e. (title in facsimile), Printed by J. M. for W. and T. Thackeray, at the sign of the Angel in Duck Lane, near West Smithfield, 1662, 8vo. (220) Coke, £3 18s.

[This work contains the ballad of "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid," which is quoted by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet," and "King Henry IV." (second part). Reprinted by Halliwell in 1842.-Catalogue.]

5949 Herbert (T.) Some yeares Travels in Persia and Industani, numerous engravings, calf, 1638, folio (258)

Pearson, £2 145.