Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:: 1874

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/14

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£4. 158 Boston and New York, 1847-56 -—-— the same, 5 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco, gilt tops, uneut, £5. 1847-56 Contents of Vol. II: —Shabbathai Zevi and his followers, by Schauffler, pp. 26; Turner’s Account of a Japanese Romance, with introduction and plate, pp. 28; S. W. Wil- liams on Japanese Syllabaries, pp. 6; Smith on Geography of Koordistan, pp. 8 and map; Perkins’ Tour from Oroo- miah to Mosul; Kurdish language; Syllabus of the Siva- Gnana-Potham; Naga Language of Assam; Chinese Cul- ture; Conquest of Persia by the Arabs; Tour in Mount Lebanon; Translations of unpublished Arabic documents. American Language. Nopat, Elementos de Gramatica Quichua, 6 6 idioma de los Yneas, large 8vo. pp. xvi. 441, and 9, with a fun wsodcuts, 218 Cuzco, (1873) This is in many ways an interesting volume, being not only the best work on Quichuan Grammar that has yet appeared, but also exhibiting choice specimens of the modern Spanish literature of New Peruvia. The author in spite of his Spanish name is an enthusiastic worshipper of the old language, cultivated by himfrom childhood amongst the unmixed descendants of the Yneas. The old Ynea Cipher-language is explained in a special section; and the text of a famous Quichuan drama is given entire at the end, from MS. sources. Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, with Notes and Glossary, 2 vols. 12mo. old red morocco, £2. 2 1786 Andersoni (J.) Sevecrus DieLomMATUM ET Numismatum Scotice Tuesavrvus, auxit Ruddimannus, royal folio, with 179 interesting plates, unda ‘critical letter in the autograph J Rev. Joseph Hunter inserted, VERY FINE COPY IN RUSSIA EXTRA, gilt edges, SCARCE, £15. Edinb. 1739 Collation: 179 plates, 7. e. 3—180 and a second plate (not a duplicate) numbered 25. There are no plates numbered 1 and 2 in existence. Anglo-Saxon. Porems or Browou tr, the Travellers’ Song, and ‘the Battle of Finnes-Burh, Anglo-Sawon and English, with historical Preface, Glossary; and philological notes, by J. M. KemBxz, 2 vols. 12mo. cloth, only 100 copies printed, £2. 10s 1833-37 Boeratrt Consolationes Philosophiz libri V. Anglo- Saxonice redditi ab Alfredo, An. Sax. Rege, ed. Rawlinson, roy. 8vo. LARGE PAPER, haly mor. uncut, Sir F. Madden’ s copy, 28s Oxoniw, 1698 lecommencement en 1788 jusqu’a 1834, savoir _ Ire Série, par MM. Guyton, Monge, Borthol.- let, Fourcroy, Adet, Lagrange, Seguin, et autres, 96 vols.; Tables Générales des 60 premiers volumes, 2 vols. 1789-1815 ; 2me Série, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago, Tom. I-LVII ; avec Tables Générales aux 30 pre- miers volumes, 1 vol.—together 156 vols. bound in 78, half calf, and 3 unbound, nwme- rous plates, £15. Paris, 1789-1834 Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Series I 1789-1815, 95 vols. in 48, complete—Series II, 1816-1840, 75 vols. in 62, complete—Se- ries III, 1841-1850, 30 vols. in 16, with 5 tables—together 205 vols. in 131 vols. hf. bd. 48 in hf. russia, the remainder hf. calf, £25. The first series is known under the title Annales de Chimie” only. Botanique, rédigées par Brongniart et Decaisne,Seconde Serie, 20 vols. 1834-43 —Troisiéme Série, 20 vols. 1844-53— Quatriéme Serie, 20 vols. 1854 63 — Cinquitme Série, Vols. I to X—together 70 vols. large 8vo. with about 1020 plates, / many of them COLOURED, six vols. calf gilt, twelve in hf. calf, the rest in cloth, boards, and parts, (pub. at 1075 frs.) £21. Paris, 1834-68 —— another series, Botanique, Trotsiéme SERIE, 20 vols. 1844-53 —QuaTRIEME SERIE, Vols. 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(pub. at £55. 2s 67) 1838-70 A most valuable periodical; the first of its kind published in England. Anne of Britanny: Livre D’HEURES DI LA REINE ANNE DE BRETAGNE, exactly reproduced after the original in the Musée des Souverains, 344 pages of teat, WIT ILLUMINATED BORDERS OF FLOWERS AND Fruits, and 50 LARGE AND EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES; with @ SECOND VOLUME containing a Translation into French by VAbbé Delaunay, 2 vols. impl. 4to. ela- borately bound im red morocco extra, em- blematic tooling on sides, the edges gilt, and enclosed in a black morocco case, lined with violet silk, £40. Paris, Curmer, 1861 Now getting scarce; as only a limited number of copies was printed and the stones were destroyed. No other pub- lication of the kind has surpassed in beauty these charm- ing chromolithographs. The above copy is in the very choicest state in which the work was issued, Anthologie Francoise, ou Chansons choisies, depuis le XIiIle Siécle jusqu’a présent, with Musie to each Song, portrait and about 6 fine engravings, 4 vols. sm. 8yo. calf gilt, a gqoor copy, £2.123 6d = Privately printed, 1765-7 Antiphonary. Responsoria qua annuatim in veteri Ecclesia de Tempore, Festis, et Sanctis cantari solent, additis aliis Canticis, 12mo, with the Music on every page, bds. hogskin back, £5. Noriberga, 1576 AS