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222 FRENCH REVOLUTION ALMANACK I>ES PRISONS, ou Anecdotes sur le regime 

 interieur de la Conciergerie, du Luxembourg, etc., et sur difierens prisonniers qui 

 ont habite ces maisons, sous LA TYRANNIE DE ROBESPIERRE, avec les chansons, 

 couplets qui y ont ete faits, a Paris, Chez Michel, Fan III. de la Republique ( 1 794), 

 satirical frontispiece showing the guillotine with piles of heads in front, and 

 inscription " Gouvernement de Robespierre." TABLEAU DES PRISONS DE PARIS sous 



LE REGNE DE ROBESPIERE, SECOND TABLEAU, ET TROISIEME TABLEAU, Pour Servir 



de suite a 1'Almanach des Prisons, contenant differentes anecdotes sur plusieurs 

 prisonniers, avec les couplets, pieces de vers, lettres et testamens qu'ils ont fails, 

 a Paris, Chez Michel, s.d. (c. 1795). Together 4 vols, 12 mo, with engraved 

 frontispiect to each, paper age discoloured in places, and sometimes printed on different 

 shades of paper, FINE UNCUT SET, modern boards, 303 



EXTREMELY SCARCE. From the Hbrary of Lord Ronald Gower with his bookplate in each 

 volume. 



THOMAS GRAY THE POET'S COPY. 



2>3 GRAY LIGON (Richard, Gent.) A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF 

 BARBADOES, London, P. Parker, 1673, BEST EDITION, folio, WITH LARGE FOLDING 



MAP, 3 FOLDING PLANS, AND FULL-PAGE COPPER ENGRAVINGS OF TREES, ETC., 



margin of last leaf repaired, fine tall copy, original calf, \2 125 



THOMAS GRAY'S COPY, with his autograph signature " Xho : Gray :> on title, and a note in his 

 neat handwriting at end of table of contents " cost me ^,0 3s 3d." 



UNIQUE COLOURED PANORAMA. 



224 SWISS COSTUME AN IMPORTANT AND MOST REMARKABLE PAGEANT, Lausanne, 

 Spengler et Cie (1833), IN PANORAMIC FORM, about 50 feet in length by 5 inches in 



depth, DEPICTING THE AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER INDUSTRIES, TOGETHER WITH THE. 



MILITARY AND CIVIL OCCUPATIONS OF SWITZERLAND, in a series of over 30 different 

 groups, comprising many hundreds of male and female figures-, gracefully arranged, all 

 in appropriate costumes, THE WHOLE FINELY COLOURED, mounted on linen and 

 attached to two cylinders, fitted into the original cardboard case, finely preserved, 



OF SUCH EXCESSIVE RARITY THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO TRACE THE WHEREABOUTS OF ANOTHER 

 COPY. Amongst the many groups in this wonderful panorama may be mentioned companies of 

 Swiss Guards, male and female bands, some of the former in old Roman attire, playing on 

 various instruments, including the famous Uri horn, peasants carrying garlands of flowers with 

 banner inscribed " ora et labore," Shepherds and Shepherdesses with crooks, and sheep, male 

 and female gardeners with implements and baskets of flowers and fruit, farmhands with oxen, 

 THE COLLAR OF ONE BEARING THE DATE 1833, haymakers, a May Queen on a canopied throne 

 carried by a party of girls, harvesters, smiths, pedlers, ploughmen and plough, wild men of the 

 woods with clubs, aboriginals of the country with goats, groups emblematic of the vintage, 

 including Bacchus carried by negroes, and Silenus on a Donkey with guard and band, waggons 

 with incense altars, flowers, fruit, corn, hay, dairy utensils, vine clusters, vine press, etc., etc., 

 winding up with the official classes, gentry, a general in a coach and a company of Swiss Guards. 



225 WOODCUTS (Early Italian Outline) LUCIAN, OF SAMOSATA. I dilettevoli 

 dialogi le vere narrationi, le facete epistole di Luciano Philosopho, di Greco in 

 volgare tradotte per M. Nicolo da Lonigo, et historiate, & di nuouo accuratamente 

 reuiste & emendate, In Vineggia, per N. di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1529, sm. 8vo, 

 italic letter, title printed in red and black, with fine woodcut border, containing 

 figures, a battle scene, ancient ship, etc., 30 FINE OUTLINE WOODCUTS OF THE 

 VENETIAN SCHOOL IN THE TEXT, AND THE CHARMING SEPARATE WOODCUT OF ST. 

 NICHOLAS, occupying the centre of the verso of the final blank leaf, few small worm- 

 holes in the margins and some slight water-stains, fine copy, in old Italian vellum, 

 edge of front cover a little damaged, m.e., ^2 los 



A VERY RARE AND EARLY EDITION OF THIS ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF LUCIAN, REMARKABLE FOR 

 ITS WOODCUTS. The earliest edition in the British Museum is that of 1535. 



Printed by Ceo. K. Flower, " \t Bartholomew Presse," 12-14, Verulaiu Street, E.C, 



