MYERS & Co., 59, High Holboro, London, W.C. 31 



FROM THE SIR HUDSON LOWE COLLECTION, SOLD IN 1831. 



137 NAPOLEON I. 17691821, Emperor of the French. A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED 



HALF LENGTH CIRCULAR PORTRAIT OF THK GREAT NAPOLEON, 5 inches in diameter, 

 on porcelain, representing him looking to the front, bare-headed, in a green uniform 

 with broad white facings, thf star of the Legion of Honour over hit left brfast, and the 

 jewel of another order close (>, IN A, FINE CONTEMPORARY CARVED GILT FRAME, 

 WITH NAPOL PON'S DEVICE OF THE BEE AT EACH CORNER OF IHE INNER PANFJ , 

 frntne measures 12 \ inches square, J~ t *\ 



A remarkably interesting relic of Napoleon from the collection of Sir Hudson Lowe, his custodian 

 at St. Helena. Coming from such a source, being a striking likeness, as well as an excrlknth 

 painted portrait n FORMS A CNIQL'E ITEM OF THK CRKATKST IMPORTANCE TO THF NAPOLEON 



COLLECTOR. 



[See Illustration. | 



FINE SET IN OLD ENGLISH RED MOROCCO, WITH FORE EDGE PAINTING ON VOL. i. 



138 NATURAL HISTORY SHAW (George, F.R.S.) GENERAL ZOOLOGY, or Systematic 

 Natural History, London, G. Keariley, 1800, 18 vols, 8vo, with orer 500 fintlv 

 engraved plates, mostly by Heath, illustrating thf Sections, Mammalia, Amphibia, 

 Pisas, Jnsecta and Aves, info which the work is divided, CHOICE SET IN OLD ENGLISH 



STRAIGHT-GRAINED RED MOROCCO EXTRA, hicks gl/t,g.e., WITH A (MODERN) CHARMING 



PAINTING OF ASIATIC LlONS IN' A DESERT ON THE FORE EDGE OF THE FIRST 

 VOLUME, 6 



139 NEVILLE (Sir Henry) 1549?- 1 615. Courtier and Diplomatist. Ambassador to 

 France, 1599. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, i p. folio, dated " Greneland" 4 Sept. 157(8). 

 To Richard Stafforton at Warfield, respecting a letter from the Earl of Sussex, 

 asking permission for two friends of his to kill a brace of bucks in Windsor Forest. 

 See Radcliffe (Thomas, Earl of Sussex) in this catalogue, last figure of the date lost 

 through a small hole, but the Earl of Sussex's letter sitpplies the missing year, 2 2S 



140 NORREYS (Sir Henry, FIRST BARON NORRIS OF RYCOTE) iS25?-i6oi. Courtier 

 and Ambassador to France, 1566-70. LETTER SIGNED, i p. folio, dated Rycot, 

 8 Get , 1599. To Sir Henry Neville, relating to the payment of the wages of $Q 

 soldiers in connection with his entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Rycote in 159.2, 



WITH POSTSCRIPT OF 5^ LINES ENTIRELY IN THF. AUTOGRAPH OF LORD NORRIS 



with armorial seal, 4 45 



141 NORREYS (Sir John) i547?-i597- Famous Elizabethan soldier. AUTOGRAPH 

 LETTER SIGNED, i p. 410, dated from my house at Heywoode, 20 June, 4595. To his 

 Cousin, respecting a grant of timber "for the reparations of the parsonage of Bra\" 



* 2S 



Sir John Norris was one of the most distinguished soldiers of his period, taking a leading part in 

 the Low Country Wars, served in Brittany and Ireland, and took command with Drake of the 

 expedition to the coast of Spain in 1589. 



142 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM LATINUM. BREVES VARIARUM TRANSLATIONUM 

 ANNOTATIONES, adjecta veterum Latinorum exemplarium manu scriptorum diversa 

 lectione, Partsiis, R. Stephanus, 1541, 2 vols. in i,sm. 8vo, ruled in red throughout, 

 printer s device on title of vol. i, separate leaf of colophon at end of vol. 3,/nt' top and 

 side margins at end of vol. 2 stained, VERY FINE LARGE COPY, old caff gilt, r.e., with 

 the holes for tie strings, front cover detached, 2 2s 



THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT ESTIKXXE'S LATIN TESTAMENT, with preface by 

 him, divided for the first time into chapters but not verses. Estienne learnt printing under 

 Simon de Colines and married the daughter of Radius Ascensius, became the Royal Printer, 

 and was renowned not only for his beautiful typography but for his learning. He devoted 

 himself particularly to the production of fine editions of the Bible and New Testament in 

 Hebrew, Greek and Latin. The present volume is made additionally valuable by the inclusion 

 at tin- end of an Index of the Epistles and Gospels tor Sundays and festivals according to the 

 use of the Churches of Paris and Rome, and of a tract of 8 leaves entitled Summa totius Sacrar 

 scriptune. Decem Dei verba, sive przcepta. Parisiis, R. Stephanus; 154?, with printer's 

 device on title, both stained at the top. 



