first published from the Originals, 3 vols., 1841; A History of the Life of Richard Coeur de Lion, King of England, 4 vols., 1842-49; The Life of Henry the Fourth, King of France and Navarre, 3 vols., 1847; and The History of Charlemagne, with a Sketch of the History of France from the Fall of the Roman Empire, 1847. Portraits. ALL FIRST AND BEST LIBRARY EDNS. (with the exception of the lastnamed, which is a Second edn.). Together 17 vols, uniformly bound in half green crushed levant morocco, backs richly tooled, gilt tops, edges scraped or uncut. VERY SCARCE. Lond. 1836-47 688. JAMES (LIONEL). The Indian Frontier War, An Account of the Mohmund and Tirah Expeditions, 1897. Maps and plans. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1898 689. JEANS (J. S.) Railway Problems. Railway Problems. An Inquiry into the Economic Conditions of Railway Working in Different Countries. Post 8vo, three-quarter crushed levant gilt, gilt top, by LAUNDER. Lond. 1887 690. JEFFERIES (RICHARD). The Pageant of Summer, Bits of Oak, Bark and Meadow, Nature and Eternity and Hours of Spring and Wild Flowers. 4 vols. 24mo, wrapPortland, Me.: Mosher, v. d. pers, uncut * Mosher's "Brocade Series," all printed on Japanese vellum paper, limited issues. 691. JESUITES (LES) et Moines en belle-humeur. Curious engraved title. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo, full orange levant morocco extra, with mosaic ornaments on the sides, tooled and gilt, gilt back, doublé with green levant morocco, extra gilt, gilt edges, by CHATELIN. Cologne, 1725 * A very curious and rare book on the manners of the Jesuits. In a morocco slip case. 692. JOHANNES DE ST. LAURENTIO. Postillæ evangeliorum dominicalium totius anni et aliquorum festorum. With initials painted in blue and red. Folio, full maroon crushed levant morocco extra gilt, gilt edges, by BRADBruxelles: [Fratres Vitæ Communis], 1480 STREETS. * Gothic letter. 198 unnumbered leaves, including last blank (missing), without signatures and catchwords. Hain-Copinger, 9410; Campbell, 1041; Proctor, 9332. "The Brothers of Common Life were the first who had a press at Brussels. Before the introduction of printing the various chapters of this brotherhood held special rights, which had been granted to them, in relation to writing, copying and illuminating-hence their readiness to accept and take advantage of the newly discovered art. Several writers have fixed upon 1472, while others have named 1473 and 1474 as the years of the first printing at Brussels. Up to this time, however, no book with a date anterior to 1476 has been discovered."-HAWKINS, Earliest Presses, p. 84. A very fine copy of this early and exceedingly rare specimen from the first Brussels press. 693. JOHNSON (CAPT. CHARLES). A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc., including the Voyages and Plunders of the most noted Pirates. Interspersed with several Remarkable Tryals of the most Notorious Malefactors. With 8 full-page plates engraved on copper. Folio, full sprinkled calf, gilt-tooled back (cracked), by PRATT. Birmingham, 1742 * This book is particularly interesting to the American reader and collector, for it contains the first and only particular account of the Adventures of Blackbeard, the Pirate, and his capture by Lieut. Maynard; the Life of Sir Henry Morgan, the Pirate who took Panama by storm; etc., etc. To the English reader it is even more important and interesting. for it contains very full accounts of the doings of Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, the German Princess, Moll Cutpurse, Capt. Hind, Du Val, Sawny Beane, and many other Highwaymen, Pirates, Robbers and Cut-throats. The plates are all large copper-plate engravings, and portray some very curious incidents. Fine copy of this very rare book, which embodies a great quantity of matter relating to the Colonial history of British America nowhere else extant. 694. [JOHNSON (SAMUEL).] The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. 2 vols. 12mo, original calf. Lond. Printed for R. & J. Dodsley and W. Johnston, 1759 * FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF " RASSELAS." MS. notes on last leaves and fly-leaf of Vol. 1. W. H. Arnold's copy, with his bookplate; also, the D. F. Appleton copy, with his bookplate. 695. JONSON (BENJAMIN). Horatius Flaccus: his Art of Poetry. Englished by Ben Jonson. With other Works of the Author never before printed. THE RARE FIRST EDN. With finely engraved front. by William Marshall. 12mo, full blue crushed levant morocco, corner ornaments on sides, full gilt back and inside borders, gilt edges, by RAMAGE. Lond. 1640 696. JONSON (BENJAMIN). Works of Jonson, with notes critical and explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by W. Gifford. Portrait engraved by Fittler. 9 vols. royal Svo, half straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut, by LEWIS. Lond. 1816 * LARGE PAPER COPY, with an unfinished proof of the portrait on India paper inserted. From the Lefferts' Library, with booklabel. VERY SCARCE, 697. JUNIUS (HADRIANUS). Emblemata ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium Eiusdem libellus ad D. Arnoldum Rosenbergum. With 58 fine emblematic woodcuts. 12mo, half vellum. Antuerpiæ: Christophorus Plantinus, 1566 * Second edition of this charming collection of emblems, which is one of the most elegant volumes issued from the press of Plantin. Many of the woodcuts are signed with the monogram G, and were probably designed by an Italian artist of some merit. ... 698. JUSTINUS. Fol. 1r.: Iustini Historici Clarissimi in Trogi Pompeii | Historias Exordium. | (Q) VVM MVLTI EX ROMANIS | etiam consularis dignitatis uiri . . . . Fol. 1v.: IVSTINI HISTORICI IN POMPEII TROGI | HISTORIAS LIBER PRIMVS INCIPIT. | (P)RINCIPIO rerum gentium. nationumq3 | imperium . . . . Fol. 122 r., line 7: Historias veteres peregrinaq3 gesta reuoluo | Iustinus. lege me. sum trogus ipse breuis. Quem manus Antoni Zarotho sanguine creti | Impressit sollers: insubribusq3 dedit. | Iustini Historici Clarissimi i Trogi Pompeii Historias | Liber. XLiiii. Feliciter Explicit. | .M.CCCCLXXIIII. Idibus Iunii. Folio, old russia gilt, with the Wodhul arms stamped in gold on the centre of the front cover. Milan: Antonio Zaroto, 1474 * Roman character, 122 unnumbered leaves without signatures and catchwords; 32 lines to the page. Hain-Copinger, 9649; Proctor, 5780. An extremely rare edition, and a beautiful and very large specimen from the press of the first printer of Milan. 699. JUVENALIS ET PERSIUS. English red morocco gilt, gilt edges. Satyræ. 8vo, old [Lyon, c. 1503] * PRINTED UPON VELLUM. The second Lyonese counterfeit, where the typographical mistakes ungues quæ for unguesque in the tenth line of Aldus' preface, Cum tene uxorem for Cum tener uxorem, and Eigat for Figat in the last three lines of the first page of the text, and other mistakes, have been corrected. ONLY FOUR COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM are known to exist, one in the Bodleian library, another in the Spencer library, a third was in the MacCarthy library, and the present, which was formerly in the Sunderland Library. 700. [KE EACH (BENJAMIN).] The Glorious Lover. A Divine Poem upon the Adorable Mystery of Sinners' Redemption. By B. K., Author of "War with the Devil." 16mo, full brown mottled calf, gilt back and inside borders, yellow edges, by JENKINS & CECIL. Lond. Printed by J. D. for Christopher Hussey, 1679 * With curious full-page engravings by J. Oliver. Fine copy. Very rare. The McKee copy, with bookplate engraved by French. 701. KEATS (JOHN). Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems. 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco extra, the sides covered with gilt toolings of flowers and leaves, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt top, other edges entirely uncut, original covers bound in, by BRADSTREETS. Lond. 1820 *FIRST EDITION. A very fine and perfect copy, with all four leaves of advertisements at the end. Very rare in this condition. In a crushed levant morocco solander case, 702. KEATS (JOHN). The Poetical Works and other Writings of John Keats, now first brought together, including Poems and numerous Letters not before published. Edited with Notes and Appendices by Harry Buxton For man. Portraits and etchings. 4 vols. 8vo, full green crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut, by STIKELond. 18-3 MAN. * Scarce. Finely printed at the Chiswick Press. The authoritative edition of the works of Keats, with many excellent notes, by the greatest living authority. Uniform with the same author's edition of the writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 703. KELMSCOTT PRESS.-Morris (William). The Story of the Glittering Plain, which has been also called the Land of Living Men, or the Acre of the Un-Dying. Printed in Golden type, with woodcut border and initials. Small 4to, full sprinkled calf gilt, gilt top, uncut, by LARKINS. Lond. 1891 *The first book printed at the Kelmscott Press, and of which only 200 copies were issued. The work originally appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine, and is here reprinted with a few small variations in the text. 704. KELMSCOTT PRESS.-The Recuyell of the History of Troy. By Raoul Lefevre. Transl. by William Caxton. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Printed in black and red in Troy type, with table of chapters and glossary in Chaucer type. Woodcut title and initial letters. 2 vols. large 4to, original vellum, with silk ties, uncut. Lond. 1892 *Only 300 copies printed. The first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type appears. It is a reprint of the first book printed in English. a 705. KELMSCOTT PRESS.-The Nature of Gothic: Chapter on the Stones of Venice, by John Ruskin (with a Preface by William Morris). Printed in Golden type, diagrams in the text, and woodcut border and initials. Small 4to, original limp vellum, with ties, uncut. Lond. [1892] * Only 500 copies printed. 706. KELMSCOTT PRESS.-The Golden Legend. By Jacobus de Voragine. Transl. by Wm. Caxton. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Printed in Golden type, with woodcut title and two woodcuts designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. 3 vols. 4to, half holland and boards, uncut. Lond. 1892 *Only 500 copies printed. The work was set up from a transcript of Caxton's first edition, lent by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library for the purpose. 707. KELMSCOTT PRESS.-Morris (William). Gothic Architecture. A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Printed in Golden type. 16mo, full russet crushed levant morocco, with a richly tooled centre ornament on each side, small circular ornaments on each corner, enclosed within three borders, two of which are tooled to festoon designs, with the outer border of rolled gold lines, |