7 ANNUAL REGISTER, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for 1758 to 1890, being vols. I to CXXXII, with the Index, bound in 135 vols., 8vo., bright calf gilt

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8 Armorial of the year 1483. GRÜNENBERG (Conrad) Wappenbuch, in Farbendruck neu herausgegeben von Dr. R. Graf Stillfried-Alcantara und A. O. Hildebrandt. 3 vols. roy. folio, 200 coloured plates; loose in three portfolios Frankfurt-a-M. (? 1840) 10 0 0 The best medieval record of the European Nobility; all the Coats of Arms reproduced in colours. 9 LE NOUVEAU ARMORIAL Universel, contenant les Armes et Blazons des Maisons nobles de France, et autres Royaumes de l'Europe. Sm. folio, 194 finely engraved pages, containing about 1000 Coats of Arms, calf Paris, P. Bassin, 1663 10 ART (L') DE VERIFIER LES DATES des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres Anciens Monumens depuis la naissance de Notre Seigneur, commencé par Maur.-Franç. d'Antine, D. Clémencet et D. Durand; continué et publié par D.-F. Clément. 3 vols., folio, in old French green morocco, gilt edges 1783-87

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11 ART (L') DE VERIFIER les Dates des faits historiques, des Inscriptions, des Chroniques et autres anciens Monumens, Avant l'Ere Chrétienne (par D. Clément), Paris, 1820-Depuis la Naissance de Jesus-Christ jusqu'à 1769 (par Doms M. F. d'Antine, Clemencet, Durand, et Clément), 3 vols. ib. 1783-87-Depuis 1770 jusqu'à nos jours par le Chevalier de Courcelles, 4 vols. ib. 1821-38-together 8 vols., folio, russia gilt 1783-1838

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"For Chronology there is a great French work, L'Art de Vérifier les Dates."-
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"The necessity of supplying historians and antiquarians with requisite information was long since felt in France, and produced the publication of that splendid monument of learning, L'Art de Vérifier les Dates,' which has left little to be done by subsequent chronologists besides the humble duties of translation and abridgement."— Sir Harris Nicolas's Chronology of History.

"Dom Maur. d'Antine had the first idea of this celebrated work. He died before its completion: it was published by two of the brotherhood, Don Clément and Dom Durand, in 1750. It was a complete chaos. Don Clément undertook the task of reducing it to order, and published a new edition of it in 1770, which entirely eclipsed the original. After thirteen years' additional labour Don Clément announced what he modestly called the third edition. The chronological table was carried on another century; as well as that of the eclipses, calculated by Père Pingré. Other important additions were made to the three folio volumes, the first of which appeared in 1783." 13 BIOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE, ancienne et moderne, par Michaud, 52 vols. MYTHOLOGIE, 3 vols. (53-55)-SUPPLÉMENT (56-83 [of 85] A-Tey)-together 83 vols. (of 85), half vellum gilt, a neat and uniform Paris, 1811-55

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22 HEFNER-ALTENECK (J. H. VON) TRACHTEN DES CHRISTLICHEN MITTEL-
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26 MERCURI (P.) COSTUMES HISTORIQUES des XIIIe, XIVe, et XVe Siècles, extraits des Monuments les plus authentiques de Peinture et de Sculpture. Avec un Texte historique et descriptif par CAMILLE BONNARD. 2 vols., royal 4to., with 200 plates, beautifully coloured, many of them heightened with gold; half morocco, gilt tops, uncut Paris, 1845

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27 MILITARY COSTUME OF EUROPE; exhibited in a Series of highly finished Military Figures, in the uniform of their several Corps; 97 plates beautifully coloured, with descriptions. 2 vols., royal 4to., half

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29 WEISS (H.) Köstumkunde, 5 vols. in 3, 8vo., with many hundred wood-
cuts, half calf
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Contents Vol. I, Die Völker des Ostens; II, Die Völker von Europa; III-V,
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30 DROYSENS (Prof. G.) Allgemeiner Historischer Hand-Atlas, with text by
Dr. Andree. Folio, with 88 coloured maps, half bound Leipzig 1886
31 EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGE. By Oliver J. Thatcher and Ferdinand
Schwill, 1 vol. crown 8vo., with 10 coloured maps, chronological tables,
etc., cloth

1897

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4th to the close of the 15th century, which has been long felt in universities and schools.
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whom a copy has been sent, writes: “The book covers ground on which it has always
been hard to get a suitable book for educational purposes, and, so far as I can judge,-
I have as yet only examined the German History of the 10th century-it is thoroughly
sound and clear."

32 FAUCHET (C.) Origines des Chevaliers, Armoiries et Heraux . . . 12mo.,
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Paris, 1600 33 FOWLER. The History of the Troubles of Suethland and Poland, which occasioned the Expulsion of Sigismundus the Third, King of those Kingdomes with his Heires for ever from the Suethish Crown. With a Continuation of those Troubles, untill the Truce, An. 1629 Faithfully couched by J. Fovvler... Sm. folio, with 2 portraits; old calf with the arms of the Earl of Drumlanrig, afterwards Duke of Queensberry

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36 FROISSART. (Vol. I) Fol. la, title: Le premier volume | de froissart |
|
Des croniques de France. Dangleterre. Descoce. Despaigne. De
bretaigne. De gascongne. De flandres. Et lieux circunuoisins. Foll.
2-7 contain the Table. Fol. 8 has the Register on the obverse and is
blank on the reverse. The text begins on fol. 9 numbered Fueillet i. Fol.
279a, numbered Fueillet CClxxi: . . Cy finist le premier volume | de
Messire Iehan froissart sur les croniques de frace z dagle- | terre et
lieux voisins Imprime por Anthoine verard marchant libraire
demourant a paris sur le pont nostre Dame a lymage | saint Iehan
leuangeliste ou en la sale du palais au premier pil- lier Deuant la
chappelle ou lon | chate la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
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(Vol. II) Fol. 1a, title: Le Second volume | de froissart |
Foll. 2-8 contain the Table and register. The text occupies foll. 9-287,
foliated i-cclxxix. 287b: . . Cy finist le second volume de messire |
ieban froissart .... Imprime a paris pour Anthoyne verard
marchant libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont | nostre dame, and
so on as in the preceding volume, with Verard's mark beneath the colophon.
(Vol. III) Fol. la, title: Le Tiers volume de froissart | . . Foll.
2-6 contain the Table and register. Fol. 7 is numbered Fueillet i. Fol.
237 (numbered CCxxxi) b: Cy tinist le tiers volume. This colophon

Froissart, Chronique :

(under which is the woodcut mark of Verard) is in exactly the same
phraseology as the preceding two. Fol. 238 blank.

(Vol. IV) Fol. ia, title: Le quart volume de froissart |.. Foll. 1b
and 2 contain the Table. Fol. 3 (numbered i)-113 (numbered Cxi)
contain the text. Fol. 113a: Cy finist le quart volume. . This
colophon is in thirteen lines and is in precisely the same phraseology as
the three preceding.

4 vols in 3, small folio, with signatures; printed in double columns,
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first vol. a little wormed, the copy being nevertheless a large and fine one,
in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, from the library of Frederick Perkins
Paris, about 1495
According to Brunet, Verard printed two editions, the first having a colophon in
each volume precisely like that in the above copy; the other printed after 1500 as
appears from a change in Verard's address indicated in the colophons, namely "deuant
la rue neuue Nostre Dame." He also specifies another distinctive mark on the titles,
in the initial letter L; saying that there are two men's heads in the L of the second
edition and only one in the L of the first.

Now here we have two heads in the L of Vols. II, III, IV, and only one in that of
Vol. I; while the colophon is in all four volumes the one that marks the first edition.
The most reasonable deduction is that Verard possessed both forms of the L when he
first printed the book, and that either form was used in printing.

Lord Crawford's copy fetched £81, although it was a mixed one; and other copies
have brought considerably more, as for instance that of Baron Double which sold for
4000 fr.

37 FROISSART (J.). L'Histoire et Chronique de, reveu et corrigé . par
Denis Sauvage. 4 vols. in 2, folio, calf rebacked
Lyon, 1559-61
38 GAGUIN. Compendium Roberti Gaguini super Francorum Gestis. . . .
Sm. folio, engraved title, with bookplate of the Duke of Sussex; calf

? 1499
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Sabellicus de laudibus Civitatis Venetiarum; Foedus inter Sigismundum imperatorum
et Henricum v. regem Anglie, etc.

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39 GELBKE (C. H. von). Abbildungen der Wappen sammtlicher Europæischen Souveraine der Republiken und freien Stædte nebst Erklärung der einzelnen Wappenfelder und Titel der Regenten. Folio, with sixty beautiful plates of coats of arms in gold, silver and colours; red morocco Berlin, about 1830 40 GENTZ (Chev. de). Dépêches Inédites du Chevalier de Gentz aux Hospodars de Valachie pour servir à l'Histoire de la Politique Européenne (1813 à 1828). Publiées par Le Comte Prokesch-Osten fils. 3 vols., 8vo., maroon morocco extra, gilt edges Paris, 1876-77 40*GIBBON. The History of the DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE. With Notes by Milman. 12 vols.-Gibbon's Life and Correspondence. 1 vol.-together 13 vols., 8vo., with portrait and maps; cloth 1838-39 another edition. 8 vols., 8vo., with portrait and maps; tree-calf

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1862 The HISTORY of the DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE, with introduction, notes, appendices, and index by J. B. BURY. 7 vols. crown 8vo. £2. 2s; or, demy 8vo. cloth

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44 GRESWELL (E.) Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendaria. 5 vos., 8vo., bds. Oxford, 1852

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45 GUELDRE. L'Armorial du Heraut Gueldre. Manuscript of the Four-
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1890

The above is a portion of the "Armorial de France, Angleterre. Ecosse,
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VII, roi de France, which was written about 1450, but not published till 1866, when it
was edited by M. Vallet de Viriville. Dr. Woodward, the well-known genealogist, to

whom this copy belonged, has emblasoned all the coats of arms, besides adding valuable
MS. notes to nearly all of them.

46 HISTORICAL ATLAS OF MODERN EUROPE from the Decline of the
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World connected with European History, edited by REGINALD LANE
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47 KELLER (Dr. F.) The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of
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48 KоCH. Tableau des Révolutions de l'Europe, depuis le bouleversement de l'Empire Romain en Occident jusqu'à nos jours. 4 vols. 8vo., with maps and genealogical tables, hf. bd.

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49 LACROIX (P.) et F. SERE. Le MOYEN AGE et la RENAISSANCE.
Histoire et Description des Moeurs et Usages, du Commerce et de
l'Industrie, des Sciences, des Arts, des Littératures et des Beaux-Arts
en Europe [A.D. 500-1600]. 5 vols., 4to., with above 300 beautiful
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50 LEA'S SUPERSTITION AND FORCE. Post 8vo., fourth edition, revised, xvi
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Learned Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal and
Torture, all based upon authentic Records; a work necessary to students of Mediæval
Manners, Customs, Superstitions and Legends.

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51 LINDENBROGIUS. Diversarvm Gentivm Historie Antiquæ Scriptores tres . . . Frid. Lindenbrogivs recensuit & Observationibus illustravit. Sm. 4to., calf Hamburgi, 1611 52 LIVRE D'OR des Souverains, par H. R. HIORT-LORENZEN, 18mo., with portrait, limp roan

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