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5853 VIOLET (Tho.) True Narrative of some Remarkable Proceedings concerning the Ships "Samson," "Salvador," and "George," depending in High Court of Admiralty, 1653, Answer of the Corporation of Monniers in the Mint, at the Tower of London to two False and Scandalous Libels, 1653, Mysteries and Secrets of Trade and Mint Affairs, in 1 vol. folio, old morocco gilt edges, 17s. 6d. 1653 5854 VIOLET or the Danseuse, a Portraiture of Human Passions and Character, 2 vols. post 8vo. cloth, 8s. 6d. 1836

scarce.

5855 VIRGILII OPERA, Varietate Lectionis et perpetua Annotatione illustrata à HEYNE, accedit Index uberrimus (recognovit H. Porson) LARGE PAPER, with numerous elegant vignettes, designed by Fiorillo from Antique Monuments, 4 vols. royal 8vo. russia, marbled edges, £1. 5s. Londini, 1793

"The London edition of 1793, which is a reimpression of the, Leipsic Edition of 1788, is the most popular in this country; some copies are struck off on large paper, ornamented with beautiful vignettes; the splendour of the paper, and elegance of the execution, render it a truly interesting publication."-Dibdin.

5856 VIRGILII OPERA, Varietate Lectionis et Perpetua Annotatione, illustratus à C. G. Heyne, with vignettes by Fiorillo, BEST EDITION, 8 vols. royal 8vo. russia extra, marbled edges, £2. 12s. 6d. Lipsia, 1800

5857 VIRGILLII OPERA, emendabat et Notulis illustrabat G. Wakefield, 2 vols. 12mo. old blue morocco, gilt edges, 5s.

1796 5858 VIRGILII OPERA, Annotatione illustra à Heyne, edidit suas animadversiones, adjecit à Wunderlich, et Ruhkopf, 8vo. new cloth, 9s. 6d. (pub. 14s.)

1826

5859 VIRGILII OPERA, Notis ex editione Heyniana excerptis illustrata, accedit Index Mattairianus, 8vo. newly and handsomely bd. calf gilt, marbled edges, 12s. 6d.

1839

5860 VIRGILII Bucolicorum, with an English Translation and Notes by J. Martyn, map and plates, 8vo. bd. 2s. 1749 5861 VIRGIL-The First Four Books of the Eneid of Virgil in English Heroic Verse, with other Translations and Poems, by Richard Stanyhurst, 4to. cloth, 15s. (Reprint Edinb. 1836.) 1583

** Only 50 Copies privately printed. 5862 VIRGIL, the Works of, Englished by Robert Andrews, royal 8vo. bds. 4s 6d. Baskerville, 1776

5863 VITIS DEGENERIS, or the Degenerate Plant, being a Treatise of Antient Ceremonies, containing a Historical Account of their Rise and Growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to Superstition therein, translated from the French, 12mo. old binding, 5s. 6d. SCARCE. 1668 5864 VITRUVIUS, the Architecture of, translated from the Latin by Gwilt, plates, impl. cloth, 15s.

1826 5865 VOITURE'S Works, translated by Dryden, Webster, Ostell, &c. &c. por trait, 2 vols. 12mo. bd. 4s. 6d. 1736 5866 VOLNEY'S WORKS, viz. Travels in Egypt and Syria, plates, 2 vols. 1805New Researches on Ancient History, 2 vols. 1819-Ruins, or Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, plates, 1 vol 1792, together 5 vols. 8vo. new hf. calf gilt, £1. 5s. 1792-1819

5867 VOLNEY'S Travels through Syria and Egypt in the years 1783-84-85, with observations on the Manners, Customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs, plates, 2 vols. 8vo. calf, 5s.

1788

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5881 VON ORLICH'S (Captain Leopold) Travils in India, including Scinde and the Punjab, translated from the German by H. E. Lloyd, plates and woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d. or hf. calf gilt, 9s. 6d. (pub. £1. 5s, cloth.) 1845 5882 VON TROIL'S Letters on Iceland, containing Observations on the Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, and Natural History, Antiquities, Customs, and Manners of the Inhabitants, &c. &c. map, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, uncut, 3s. 6d.

1780 5883 VOYAGES, Travels, and Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby, containing a series of the most surprising and uncommon events which befel the Author in his Voyage to the Southern Ocean in the year 1739, 12mo hf. bd. uncut, 3s. 6d. 1740

Church from the earliest ages to the Reformation, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d. 1835 5894 WAGNER (G. M.) Le Feste di Elusi, Poemi di Schiller, composto e disegnato in forma d'un Fregio, 20 beautiful outline plates, oblong folio, hf. russia neat, 12s. 6d. Roma, 1817

884 VOYAGEURS' Anciens et Modernes | 5893 WADDINGTON'S HISTORY of the ou choix des relations de Voyages, depuis le cinquième Siècle avant Jésus Christ Jusqu'au dix-neuvieme siècle, avec Biographies, et Notes, par M. Charton, several hundred engravinys, 2 vols. royal 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d. Paris, 1854 885 VOYAGES and Travels, New General collection of, consisting of the most esteemed Relations which have been published in any Language, by John Green, published by Astley, numerous plates and maps, 4 vols. 4to. calf gilt, £1.8s. 1745-47

Willett's copy sold for £8. 8s. "The superior merit of this collection was cknowledged even by foreigners, and before the completion of the first volume, the Chancellor of France deemed it worthy of attention."-Clarke's Progress of Maritime Discovery.

1778

5886 VOYAGES-New Discoveries con-
cerning the World and its Inhabitants,
by Hawkesworth, Cook, Bougainville,
map and plates, 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. hf.
russia, yellow edges, 3s. 6d.
5887 VOYAGES and Travels, a collection
of, by Dana, Ellis, Pringle, and Cleve
land, royal 8vo. cloth, 8s. 6d.
1842
5888 VYSE'S (Col.) Pyramids of Gizeh,
containing a detailed account of his Ex-
traordinary Operations and Discoveries
on the Opening of these interesting
Monuments of Antiquity, with an ap-
pendix, by J. H. Perring, on the PYRA-
MIDS AT ABOU, THE FAVOUM, &c. &c.
125 plates, 3 vols. impl. 8vo, cloth, £1.15s.
(pub. £4. 4s.)
1840-42

5895 WAGNER'S (Dr. M.) Travels in Persia, Georgia, and Koordistan, with Sketches of the Cossacks and Caucasus, translated from the German, 3 vols. post 8vo. new cloth, 5s. (pub. £1. 11s. 6d.) 1856 5896 WAKEFIELD'S (E. J.) Adventures in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, with some account of the beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 9s. 6d. (pub. £1. 8s.) 1845 5897 WAKEFIELD'S (E. G.) View of the Art of Colonization, with present reference to the British Empire, 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d. (pub. 12s.)

1849

5898 WALES Illustrated, in a series of nearly 200 views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Antiquities, &c. with Historical and Topographical Descriptions, 4to. hf. morocco, gilt edges, 14s.

1830

5899 WALKER (Alex. Author of "Inter-
marriage," &c.) on Beauty, illustrated
chiefly by an Analysis and Classification
of Beauty in Women, post 8vo. cloth,
2s. 6d.
New York, 1840
5900 WALKER'S (Clement) History of
Independency, with the plate of the Royal
Oak, 3 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. calf, 8s. 6d.

1648

5901 WALKER'S (Clement) History of Independency, first part, 1648-second part, 1649 third part, 1651-fourth and last part, 1660, 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. neatly bd. all being first editions, containing variations from subsequent 1649-60 issues, with folding plate, 18s.

racter of the times, parties, and persons."-Bishop This work gives an admirable idea of the chaWarburton.

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AAGEN'S (Dr.) Treasures of Art in Great Britain, being an Account of the chief collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS. &c. &c. with a copious Index, 3 vols.-The Supplement, containing the Galleries and Cabinets visited in 1854-56, 1 vol. together 4 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1. 18s. (pub. £2. 14s.) 1854-57 5890 WACHSMUTH (W.) Hellinische 5902 WALKER'S (Clement, Author of Alterthumskunde aus dem Gesichtspunkte The History of Independency ") the Mysdes Staates, 4 vols. 8vo. sewed, 6s 6d. steries of the Two Junto's, Presbyterian Halle, 1826 and Independent, or the Serpent in the 5891 WADE'S (John) Redemption of Bosome unfolded, first edition, sm. 4to. Time, the Duty and Wisdom of Christians hf. morocco gilt, 7s. 6d. SCARCE. 1647 in Evil Days, 8vo. old calf, 3s. 1683 The Author was imprisoned in the Tower by Cromwell, 1649, for writing the History of Inde5892 WADSWORTH'S (Thos.) The Im-pency, where he died 1651. mortality of the Soul explained and proved by Scripture and Reason, to which is added Faith's Triumph over the Fears of Death, fine portrait by White, 8vo. old calf, 5s. scarce.

1670

5903 WALKER'S (G. A.) Gatherings from Graveyards, particularly those of London, with a History of the Modes of Interment among different Nations, from the earliest periods, 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. 1839

5904 WALKER'S (Rev. R.) Analysis of | 5916 WALLER (Edmund) and Sir John

Researches unto the Origin and Progress

4s.

of Historical Time, from the Creation to the Accession of Caligula, 8vo. calf, 3s. 1796 5905 WALKER'S (Rev. S. of Truro) Life and Ministry, by the Rev. E. Sidney, 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. 1838 5906 WALKER'S Manly Exercises, containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Hunting, &c. &c. revised and re-written by Craven, illustrated with 44 plates and numerous woodcuts, 12mo. cloth gilt edges, 1851 5907 WALLACE'S (Dr. J.) Account of the Islands of Orkney, with an Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients, 8vo. original binding, 3s. 6d. 1700 5908 WALLACE'S (Dr. Robert) Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times 1753-Characteristics of the Present Political State of Great Britain 1758-Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence 1761, together 3 vols. 8vo. bd. 10s. 6d. scarce. 1753-61

It is generally supposed that Malthus was indebted to the latter work, for his principles and doctrine.

5909 WALLACE'S (Dr. Robert) Disserta

tion on the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times, 8vo. bds. 3s. 1809

5910 WALLEN'S (W.) History and Antiquities of the Round Church at Little Maplestead, Essex, formerly belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, with a Historical Sketch of the Crusades, plates and woodcuts, 8vo. cloth, 5s. 6d.

1836 5911 WALLER'S (Edmund) Poems and Speeches, fine portrait, after Sir P. Lely, 8vo. calf, 2s. 6d. 1694 5912 WALLER'S (Edmund) Poetical Works, with Life, portrait, sm. 8vo. old calf, 2s. 6d. 1722 5913 WALLER'S (Edmund) Works, in Verse and Prose, including his Speeches. and Letters, fine portrait by Vertue, and plates of Coins, 4to. hf. russia, marbled edges, 7s. 6d. Tonson, 1729 5914 WALLER'S (Edmund) Poetical Works, with Life of the Author by Stockdale, 12mo. bright old calf gilt, 3s. 6d. 1772 5915 WALLER'S (Edmund) Poetical Works, edited with Memoir and Notes, by Robert Bell, 12mo. cloth, 2s.

1854

Denham's Poetical Works with Memoirs, Critical Dissertation, and Notes, by the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan, 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. 1857 5917 WALLER'S (Sir William) Vindication of his Character and Conduct, in taking up Arms against Charles I. written by himself, portraits, 8vo. hf. calf, nest 4s. 1793

5918 WALPOLE'S (Lord) Answer to the Latter part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History, 8vo. 1763 cloth, 3s. 5919 WALPOLE'S (Horace) Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works, 2 vols. MOUNTED THROUGHOUT ON FOLIO SIZED ! PAPER, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF PORTRAITS, Some very fine, and is, with the expection of a few pages, RULED THROUGHOUT WITH RED LINES, unbd. for the purpose of further illustration, £4. 4s.

1786

1759 5920 WALPOLE'S (Horace) Anecdotes of Painting in England, and Catalogue of English Engravers, with Lives and Notes, 5 vols. post 8vo. vellum, 10s. 6d. 5221 WALPOLE'S (Horace) Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a list of their Works, enlarged, and continued by Park, with 150 fine portraits, original impressions, 5 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1. 18s. 5922. WALPOLE'S (Horace) LETTERS, new edition, with numerous additional Letters and Notes, historical and biographical. edited by Peter Cunningham, fine por traits, 9 vols. 8vo. cloth, £3. 3s. (pub. £4. 14s. 6d.) 1857-58

1806

This is the new and much improved edition of Horace Walpole's Letters, now first chronologically arranged. pole's Letters wherever you can find them,—the "Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walbest wit ever published in the shape of letters."Sydney Smith.

5923 WALPOLE'S (Horace) Memoirs of the Reign of George III. edited from the original MSS. with a Preface and Notes by Sir Denis Le Marchant, portraits, vols. 8vo. cloth, £1. 1s. (pub. £2.2s.) 1845 5924 WALPOLE'S (Horace) Correspondence with the Rev. W. Mason, now first published, edited, with Notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, new. 7s. 6d. (pub. £1. 8s.) 5925 WALPOLIANA, a collection d Anecdotes, Bon-mots, Observations, & of Horace Walpole, portrait and fo simile, 2 vols. 12mo. hf. calf gilt, 4s.

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926 WALPOLE'S (Hon. Fred.) Four | 5935 WALTON and COTTON'S Com Years in the Pacific in H.M.S. " Collingwood" from 1844 to 1848, frontispiece and woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. (pub. £1. 8s.)

1849 927 WALSH'S (Rev. Dr.) Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England, map and plates, post 8vo. new hf. calf 1828 gilt, 4s. 928 WALTER'S (Rev. J.) English and Welsh Dictionary, wherein not only the Words but also the Idioms and Phraseology of the English Language are carefully translated into Welsh, by proper and equivalent words and phrases, 2 vols. royal 8vo. bds. £1. 8s. (pub. £3. 3s.)

1827 5929 WALTON'S (W.) Revolutions of Spain from 1808 to 1836, with Biographical Sketches of the most Distinguished Personages, and a Narrative of the War in the Peninsula, portraits, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 4s. (pub. £1. 10s.) 1837 5930 WALTON'S and COTTON'S Complete Angler, with variorum Notes, MAJOR'S BEAUTIFUL EDITION, portraits and numerous engravings on steel and wood, sm. 8vo. 1824-Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson, with Notes by Major and Nicol, portraits and beautiful woodcuts, sm. 8vo. 1825, together 2 vols. sm. 8vo. bds. £1. 4s. or calf gilt, marbled leaves, £1.8s. 1824-25 5931 WALTON and COTTON'S Complete Angler, with Notes, &c. MAJOR'S BEAUTIFUL EDITION, portraits and numerous engravings on steel and wood, thick sm. 8vo. calf gilt, marbled leaves, 12s. 6d. Major, 1823 5932 WALTON and COTTON'S Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation, with Notes Biographical and Explanatory, and Lives of the Authors, portraits and plates, and facsimile of the title to the first edition, 8vo. newly bd. calf, carmine edges, antique style, 15s. 1839 5933 WALTON and COTTON'S Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation, edited by J. Major, portrait and plates, 12mo. cloth, 6s. 6d. or hf. morocco uncut, gilt top, 8s. 6d.

Bogue, 1844 5934 WALTON and COTTON'S Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation, edited by Ephemera, engravings, post 8vo. hf. calf, gilt, 4s. 6d. 1854

plete Angler, with Lives of the Authors and Variorum Notes, edited by Edward Jesse, portrait and numerous engravings, post 8vo. calf gilt, marbled leaves, 6s. 6d. 1856

5936 WALTON and COTTON'S Complete Angler, with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicholas, PICKERING'S ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 61 beautiful engravings, portraits, landscapes, natural history, &c. after drawings by Stothard and Innskipp, vols. impl. 8vo. new hf. morocco, gilt, uncut, gilt tops, £2. 15s.-The same with INDIA PROOFS, £3. 10s. 1860

"Our golden age did not begin before the seventeenth century, and then with him who has never since been rivalled in grace, humour, and invention. Walton's Complete Angler, published in 1653, seems by the title a strange choice out of all the books of half a century; yet its simplicity, its sweetness, its natural grace, and happy intermixture of graver strains with the precepts of angling, have rendered this book deservedly popular, and a model which one of the most famous among our late philosophers, and a successful disciple of Isaac Walton in his favourite art (Sir Humphrey Davy) has condescended to imitate."Hallam's Lit. Hist.

5937 WALTON'S Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, and Herbert, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 8vo. fine copy in the original binding with the four portraits, 7s. 6d. (pub. 10s. 6d.)

1670

5938 WALTON'S Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson, with Notes and Life of the Anthor, illustrated with portraits, woodcuts, and facsimiles, MAJOR'S EDITION, thick 12mo. calf gilt, marbled leaves, 12s. 6d. Major, 1825 5939 WALTON'S Lives of Dr. Donne, Sir H. Wotton, Hooker, George Herbert, Dr. Sanderson, with Major's Illustrative Notes, portraits and woodcuts, 12mo. morocco, gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

1847

5940 WANDERINGS of a Pen and Pencil, by F. P. Palmer and A. Crowquill, illustrated with a large number of beautifully executed woodcuts, impl. 8vo. cloth, gilt edges, 10s. 6d.

adjoined.

1846

A most extraordinary and amusing commonplace book of thousands of marvellous stories of former times, extracted from the Greek and Latin classics and middle-age writers, chronicles, travels and miscellanies of every period and nation. Every story, however incredible, has its authority 5941 WAR and Peace Reconciled, or a Discourse of Constancy in Inconstant Times, containing Matter of Direction and Consolation against Publick Calamities, frontispiece, 12mo. old calf, 5s.

1672

5942 WARBURTON'S (Bp.) Divine Lega- | 5954 WARD'S (R. Plumer), WORKS, viz.

tion of Moses Demonstrated, edited, 3 vols. 8vo. old calf gilt, 6s. 6d. 1742 5943 WARBURTON'S (Bp.) Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, edited, with Life, &c. by Bp. Hurd, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 16s. (pub. £1. 11s. 6d.) 1846 Warburton was a kind of comet which came athwart the system of the church. His master faculty was reason, and his master science theology. His writings take their place at the head not only of English theology, but almost of English literature; combining the erudition of Hooker and Stillingfleet, the acuteness of Locke and Chillingworth, the imagination of Taylor, and the wit of Swift and Echard.

5944 WARBURTON (Bp.) Tracts by, Warburton and a Warburtonian [Dr. Parr] not admitted into the collection of the respective Works, 8vo. calf gilt, 3s.

1789 5945 WARBURTON'S (A.) Rollo and His Race, or Footsteps of the Normans, portrait and frontispiece, 2 vols. post 8vo. new cloth, 4s. 6d. (pub. £1. 1s.) 1848 5946 WARBURTON'S (E.) Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, including their Private Correspondence, numerous fine portraits, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 15s. (pub. £2. 2s.) 5947 WARBURTON (E.) Hochelaga, or England in the New World, edited by Eliot Warburton, frontispiece, 2 vols. post 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d. (pub. £1. 1s.) 1847 5948 WARBURTON'S (E.) Crescent and the Cross, or Romance and Reality of Eastern Travel, 2 vols. post 8vo. hf. bd. 10s. 6d. 1848

1849

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Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, 3 vols. De Vere, or, the Man of Indepen dence, 3 vols.-Illustrations of Huma Life, 3 vols.-Pictures of the World, 3 vols. De Clifford, or, the Constant Man, 4 vols. together 16 vols. post Sve bds. £1. 15s. (pub. £8. 8s.) 1825-41

"His writings are of higher purpose and value than to be read and forthwith dismissed; they are of the kind to be stored in private libraries, and recurred to from time to time as a still fresh solace and delight."-Sun.

5955 WARD'S (Rev. Jno.) Diary extending from 1648 to 1679, arranged from the Original MSS. (preserved in the Library of the Medical Society of London), by C. Severn, M.D. 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. (pub. 12s.)

1839

5956 WARD'S (N. B.) Growth of Plants in closely glazed cases, 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. 5957 WARING'S (E. S.) Tour to Sheeraz, Van Voorst, 1842 by the Route of Kazroon and Feroozabad, sm. 4to. calf, 4s. Bombay, 1801 5958 WARING'S (Geo.) Letters from Malta and Sicily, addressed to a young Naturalist, coloured plates and frontispiece, fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. 1843 5959 WARNER'S (Rev. Richard, of Bath) WORKS, Second Walk through Wales, 1799-Walk through some of the Western Counties of England, 1800-Excursions from Bath, 1801 Tour through the Northern Counties of England, 2 vols. 1802-Tour through Cornwall in 1808-9

-Walk through Wales in August, 1797, fifth edition, 1810-Epistolary Curiosities, both series, 2 vols. 1818-Old Church of England Principles opposed to the "New Light," 3 vols. 1819-Illustrations, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of the Waverley Novels, frontispiece, 1823-Literary Recollections, 2 vols. 1830, together 15 vols. 8vo. and 12mo. with the frontispieces, &c. bds. uncut, several presentation copies from the author, £1. 10s. 1799-1830 5960 WARNINGS of the Eternal Spirit, pronounced by the mouth of James Cunninghame, during his Imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, together with the Prayers and Hymns then also pronounced through him, with the Attesta tion signed in the AUTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR, Sm. 8vo. calf, 10s. 6d. SCARCE.

1712 5961 WARREN'S (Samuel) Now and Then-Through a Glass darkly, a Tale of Circumstantial Evidence, 8vo. hf. bd. 4s. 6d. 1848

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