Revolution Francoise, 20 vol. from 1790 to 1803, wanting vol. 1, 2, and 13.

La Bastile Devoilee. Par. 1789.

Sir James M'Intosh's Vindiciae Gallicae, and numerous pieces relative to the Constitution and Administration of the French Government, in its Executive, Legislative, Judicial, and Financial Departments, by Messrs. Mirabeau, Turgot, Barrere, Calonne, Necker, &c. 168 0 0

I should observe that the PRINTS or ENGRAVINGS of the Marquis, together with the _printed prices_ for which they, and the foregoing library, were sold, are usually added to the Catalogue of the Books. In the spring of 1807, the MANUSCRIPTS belonging to the same noble collector were catalogued to be sold by public auction. These manuscripts, in the preface of the _first_ volume of the Catalogue, are said to 'form one of the noblest and most valuable private collections in the kingdom.' It is well known that the collection never came to the hammer; but was purchased by parliament for 6000_l._, and is deposited in the British Museum. A catalogue of it is now _sub prelo_; vide p. 89, ante. We are next to notice the sale by auction of the library of the late Rev. John Brand. The first part of this collection was disposed of in the Spring of 1807; and the catalogue had this title: _Bibliotheca Brandiana. A Catalogue of the unique, scarce, rare, curious, and numerous collection of Works, &c., being the entire Library of the late_ REV. JOHN BRAND, _Fellow and Secretary of the Antiquarian Society, Author of the History of Newcastle, Popular Antiquities, &c. Sold by auction by Mr. Stewart_, May, 1807. This first part contained 8611 articles, or lots, of printed books; exclusively of 243 lots of manuscripts.

Hereafter followeth, gentle reader, some specimens, selected almost at random, of the 'unique, scarce, rare, and curious'

books contained in the said library of this far-famed Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries.

NO. 67. _Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spiritual Songs_, bl. lett. 8vo. Edinb. 1621. 4 4_s._ 0_d._

69. Academy of Pleasure, with portraits of Drayton, G.

Withers, F. Quarles, and B. Jonson, Lon. 1656, 8vo. 2 17 6

109. A Curtaine Lecture, _rare and curious_, frontispiece, Lond. 1637, 8vo. 0 15 0

110. A Banquet of Jests, or Change of Cheare, with portrait of Archee, the King's jester. _Rare._ Lond. 1659, 8vo. 4 10 0

227. Arnold's Chronicle of the Customs of London, a fine copy, perfect, _printed by Pynson_, fol. 1521. 18 18 0

241. An Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, by Baret.

Francof. fol. 1580. 3 5 0

242. Dyalogue of Dives and Pauper, _that is to say, the Rich and the Pore, fructuously tretyng upon the Ten Commandments_, black-letter, printed by Pynson, fol. 1493. 4 3 0

272. Allot's England's Parnassus, 8vo. 1600. 2 10 0

282. A Booke of Fishing, with hooke and line, 1600, 8vo. A Booke of Engines and Traps to take Polcats, Buzzards, Rats, Mice, &c. cuts, _very rare_, [See p. 305, ante.] 3 3 0

283. Archy's Dream, sometimes jester to his Majestie, but expelled the court by Canterbury's malice, _very rare_, 8vo.

1 13 0

337. A new Dialogue between the Angell of God and Shepherdes in the Felde, black-letter. _Pr. by Day_, 8vo. 2 10 0

381. A Dialogue betweene two Neighbours, concernyng Ceremonyes in the first year of Queen Mary, black-letter, with portrait of Mary, by Delarum, from Roane, by Michelwood, 1554, 8vo. 2 12 6

417. A short Inuentory of certayne idle Inventions, black-letter, _very rare_. 2 15 0

418. A Juniper Lecture, with the Description of all Sorts of Women, good and bad, _very rare_. Lond. 1639, 8vo. 1 16 0

454. A Quip for an Upstart Courtier; or a Quaint Dispute betweene Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches, wherein is set Downe the Disorders in all Estates and Trades, _with portraits_. Lond. printed by G.P., 1620, 4to. 2 16 0

462. Articles to be enquired into by various Bishops, &c., in their Visitations; upwards of one hundred; _a very curious, scarce, and unique collection_, 4to. 2 2 0

802. Barbiere (John) the famous Game of Chesse Play, cuts, 1673. The most ancient and learned play, The Philosopher's Game, invented for the Honourable Recreation of the Studious, by W.F., black-letter, 1563, 4to. 2 4 0

1300. A Plaister for a Galled Horse, _very rare_, 1548, 4to.

[See Herbert's Ames, vol. i. 581: and p. 239; ante.] 3 17 6

1312. A Counter Blaste to Tobacco. Lond. 1604, 4to. 0 17 0

1326. Bentley's (Thos.) Monument of Matrons, containing seven severall Lamps of Virginitie, or Distinct Treatises, collated and perfect, a very fine copy, extremely rare and curious, _imprinted at London, by Thomas Dawson, for William Seres, extremely rare_, black-letter, 1582, 4to. 8 18 6

1334. Bert (Edmund) an approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hunting. Lond. 1619, 4to. 1 10 0

1540. Burton (Wm.) Seven Dialogues, black-letter. Lond.

1606. George Whetstone's Mirrour for Magistrates of cities, b.l., printed by Richard Jones, 1584, 4to. 3 13 6

1542. Byshop's (John) beautifull Blossomes, black-letter, imprinted by Henrie Cockyn, 1577, 4to. 4 10 0

1754. Characters (viz.) The Surfeit to A.B.C. Lond. 1656.

Dr. Lupton's London and Country carbonadoed and quartered into Seuerall Characters, 1632. Essayes and Characters, by L.G., 1661, 8vo. 4 7 0

2069. England's Jests refined and improved, 1660, 8vo. 2 14 0

2326. Catharo's Diogenes in his Singularitie, wherein is comprehended his merrie Baighting fit for all men's benefits: christened by him a _Nettle for Nice Noses_, by L.T., black-letter, 1591, 4to. 2 10 0

3523. Fages (Mrs.) Poems, Fames Roule, &c., _rare_, Lond.

1637, 4to. 5 15 6

7817. Stukeley's (Wm.) Itinerarium Curiosum; 2 _vols. in_ 1, _Russia_, folio. 14 14 0

8211. The blazon of Jealousie, written in Italian, by Varchi. Lond. 1615, 8vo. 2 6 0

8223. Tracts: Dial of Witches, 1603; Lancaster Witches, 1613; Trial of Yorkshire Witches, 1612; The Golden Fleece, 1626; Cage of Diabolical Possession, 4to. 2 8 0

8224. The most strange and admirable Discoverie of the three witches of Warboys, arraigned, convicted, and executed at the last assizes at Huntington; for bewitching the five daughters of Robert Throckmorton, Esq., and divers other persons, with sundrie devilish and grievous torments; and also for bewitching to death the Lady Crumwell. _Extra rare_, 4to. 4 0 0

8230. Witches apprehended, examined, and executed for notable villanies, by them committed both by land and water, with a strange and most true triall how to know whether a woman be a witch or not: _with the plate_. _Extra rare_, 4to. 3 5 0

8269. The Pleasure of Princes, the Art of Angling, together with the Ordering and Dieting of the Fighting Cocke, 1635, 4to. 2 5 0

8296. The Knyght of the Toure; _a perfect and fine specimen of the father of English Printers_, 1484, folio. The reader (if he pleases) may consult my first volume, p. 202, of the _Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain_, for some account of this edition. 111 6 0

My copy of this first part of the Catalogue of Brand's books is upon _large paper, with the prices inserted in the margin_. The _second part_ of the BIBLIOTHECA BRANDIANA, containing duplicates and Pamphlets, was sold in February, 1808, by Mr. Stewart. There were 4064 articles. Few collections attracted greater attention before, and during, the sale than did the library of the late Mr. Isaac Reed: a critic and literary character of very respectable second-rate reputation. The public Journals teemed, for a time, with book-anecdotes concerning this collection; and the _Athenaeum_, _Monthly Mirror_, _Censura Literaria_, _European Magazine_, struck out a more bold outline of the Bibliotheca Reediana than did the generality of their fellow Journals. Reed's portrait is prefixed to the European Magazine, the Monthly Mirror, and the Catalogue of his own Books: it is an indifferently stippled scraping, copied from a fine mellow mezzotint, from the characteristic pencil of Romney. This latter is a private plate, and, as such, is rare. To return to the Library. The preface to the Catalogue was written by the Rev. H.J. Todd. It is brief, judicious, and impressive; giving abundant proof of the bibliomaniacal spirit of the owner of the library--who would appear to have adopted the cobler's well-known example of applying one room to almost every domestic purpose: for Reed made his library 'his parlour, kitchen, and hall.' A brave and enviable spirit this!--and, in truth, what is comparable with it? But the reader is beginning to wax impatient for a more particular account. Here it is: _Bibliotheca Reediana. A Catalogue of the curious and extensive Library of the late Isaac Reed, Esq., of Staple Inn, deceased. Comprehending a most extraordinary collection of books in English Literature, &c.: sold by auction, by Messrs. King and Lochee: November_, 1807, _8vo._ The following specimens of some of Reed's scarce volumes are copied, in part, from the account which was inserted in the _Athenaeum_, vol. iii., pp.

61, 157, under the extraordinary signatures of W. Caxton and W. de Worde.

NO. 5867. A Portfolio of single-sheet Ballads. 15 15_s._ 0_d._

6661. Colman (W.) Death's Duel, 8vo., _frontispiece_. 7 15 0

6685. Barnefield's Affectionate Shepherd, _very rare_, 4to.

1594. 15 10 0

6713. A musical Concort of Heavenly Harmonie, called Churchyard's charitie. _See MS. notes in Churchyard's Pieces, by Steevens, Reed_, &c., 1595, 4to. 8 15 0

6714. Churchyard's lamentable and pitiable Description of the woeful Warres in Flanders, 1578, 4to. 4 19 0

6715. ---- a true Discourse of the succeeding Governors in the Netherlands, and the Civil Warres there begun in 1565, 4to.