CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR SALE AT THE ANNEXED PRICES, BY J. SABIN & SONS, Booksellers and Importers, 84 Nassau St., New York, and 22 Buckingham St., Strand, London. "If you'll go to the Charge, let me alone to Find your Books." FLETCHER. N. W. Act II. See back numbers of the Bibliopolist for other Catalogues. ACADEMICIANS of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royale and the Clubs of St. James'. By Charles Persius, Auteur des Memoirs de Mrs. Dyott, one of the Graces of Grosvenor Square. Colored Frontispiece. Post 8vo, half brown morocco, new, uncut. $2.25 London, 1823. ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN. By a Naval Officer. With characteristic colored Plates by Mr. Williams. Large 8vo, uncut, fine copy. London, n. d. $6.50 AINSWORTH. Windsor Castle, an Historical Romance. Illustrations by Geo. Cruikshank and Tony Johan not, with Designs on Wood by W. A. Delamotte. Portrait by Maclise. Original edition, newly bound, half morocco extra, gilt top. Scarce. London, 1843. $6.50 ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS, Historical and Romantic. Translated with Notes by J. G. Lockhart. Illustrated with numerous beautiful Woodcuts from Drawings by Harvey, Allan, Roberts, Warren, &c., and illuminated borders by Owen Jones. Fine Portrait. 4to, cloth. Best edition. London, 1859. $10.00 For a short notice of this interesting compilation see BIBLIOPOLIST for August, page 291. | APULEIUS. Metamorphosis; or, Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works, translated by Wm. Allington, and the Suppressed Passages. Small 4to, newly bound, polished calf extra. Fine copy. London, 1639. $7.00 APULEIUS. Works, comprising the Metamorphoses. Frontispiece. Post 8vo. London, 1853. $2.50 ARABIAN NIGHTS. Mille et Une Nuits Centes Arabes Tradeutes por Gallands Edition illustrée. Augmentée d'une Dissertation sur les Mille et Une Nuits por Silvestre de Sacy. 3 vols., Imp. 8vo, half morocco. Paris. $9.00 ARABIAN NIGHTS. Illustrated with Woodcuts, by F. Gilbert. 12mo. cloth, new. ARABIAN $0.75 NIGHTS' ENTERTAINments. Translated by Lane, with copious Notes on Arab Life and Customs. Several hundred beautiful Engravings by Harvey. Original edition. 3 large vols., 8vo, half calf. Scarce. $35.00 There are no means of obtaining a knowledge of the manners, habits, mental peculiarities, and general mode of thinking of the inhabitants of a country, so easy as perusing their works of imagination. Their domestic stories and incidents, whether true or false, which are often quoted, furnish the almost daily subject of conversation, and, in short, possess those exclusive qualities which entitle them to the appellation of national. They may be colored with exaggerated descriptions, they may be intermingled with gross absurdities and impossible fiction, but they are still found to be in keeping with the general hue of national ideas. The "Arabian Nights" exhibit indubitable marks of their native origin; for there is this striking difference between them and the tales of Europe, they seem intended only to amuse; at least there is no particular axiom or proposition in moral philosophy they seem intended to support or illustrate. Excepting what a few impassioned love ditties and a perusal of the chosen passages of the Koran can afford, the Turk, the Arab, and the Persian are deprived almost of all means of relaxing the mind by the charms of elegant literature. Story-telling, therefore, became a necessary substitute. In the "Arabian Nights" may be remarked that fertility of invention and novelty of incident which are to be found in all narratives of fancy portrayed by the hand of genius; but it is in regarding them as a faithful mirror of Asiatic intelligence that they are truly valuable. An attentive and reflective reader will easily be able, amidst the clouds of enchantment and the superhuman achievements of beneficent and malignant genii, distinctly to perceive the real forms of national opinion, habits, and circumstances. ART DE PÉTER. Essai Theori-physique et methodique, à l'usage des Personnes constipées, Suivi de l'Histoire de Pet-en-l'Air et de la Reine des Amazonnes ou l'on trouve l'Origine des Vuidangeurs. 2 curious Plates. 8vo, large paper, half morocco, gilt top. Westphalie (Paris), 1776. $4.00 ARTIST'S REPOSITORY AND DRAWING Magazine, exhibiting the Principles of the Polite Arts in their various Branches. With over 500 fine mezzotint Plates. 5 vols., 8vo, half morocco. London, 1794. $8.00 AUDUBON, J. Ornithological Biography. An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the etc. United States. 5 large vols., imp. 8vo, boards. Scarce. 1831-9. $50.00 This valuable work includes descriptions of the objects represented in the large edition of the "Birds of America,' and is interspersed with delineations of American scenery and manners. AUDUBON, J. Quadrupeds of North America. With 150 beautifully colored Engravings, drawn from nature. 3 vols., imp. 8vo, half calf. New York, 1849-54. $5000 BACON, TH. First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan. 2 vols., 8vo, newly bound, half calf. London, 1837. $2.50 $4.00 BACON. The Physical and Metaphysical Works, including his Dignity and Advancement of Learning. By J. Devey. 12mo, half calf. London, 1860. BALLADS. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances. Edited by J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall. Fac-simile. 3 vols., 8vo, large paper, half morocco, uncut. 1867-68. BALLADS. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; consisting of old heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets. 12mo, half bound. London, 1846. London, $30.00 3 vols., $4.00 Books for Sale by J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau Street. BALLADS. The Book of British Ballads, Edited by S. C. Hall. Illustrated with numerous Engravings on Wood by Fairhalt, Franklin, Ward, &c., &c. Royal 8vo, cloth, gilt London, 1853. $6.50 The lyric bards of the olden time were poets of feeling, not of fancy; they wrote to the heart, not to the ear; and united the most artless simplicity with the truest and tenderest touches of nature. Their ballads were addressed to a class of society who, however insensible to the flights of fancy or the perception of elegance, warmly sympathized in feelings common to us all, and of which it may be fairly doubted whether the poor have not the greatest share. Their style is humble; their language that of untutored simplicity, adapted to comprehensions on the same level with their own; and when, amid the uncouth quaintness and rugged diction in which their ideas were conveyed, we meet many beautiful thoughts, like the wild flowers of the heath, they owe that beauty to nature. However bold such an avowal may appear in this age of poetical refinement, and however barbarous the sentiment, we have no hesitation in asserting, as our opinion, that these simple ballads of the olden time, possess more real pathos, more powerful appeals to the heart, than nine-tenths of the mock simple, milk-and-water attempts at feeling, which characterize the productions of certain poets of our own day. from the Italian. 3 vols., post 8vo, calf. Le don, 1812. BOURNE. Poemata Latine Reddita Part Scripta a Vincentes Bourne. 12mo, half m extra, gilt top. London, Pickering, n. d. $: BOOK OF GEMS, or the Poets and Art of Great Britain, edited by S. C. Hall, E printed on thick paper, and illustrated with exquisitely beautiful engravings after Turner, E lake, Collins, &c. Original edition. 3 vols., half morocco extra, gilt top and edges, unc A beautiful copy. London, 1846–8. BOWER, A. The History of the Univers of Edinburgh. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf, newly bout $1 Edinburgh, 1817. BREEN, H. H. St. Lucia, Historical, Stati tical, and Descriptive. 8vo, cloth. London, 11 mark and Sweden. $5.00 BANCROFT, A. Life of George Washing- $2.50 $50.00 BAYLE. General Dictionary, Historical, $2.25 $3.00 $250 (BREVAL, J. D.) The Art of Dress: A Poez BROUGHAM, LORD. An Inquiry into th Books for Sale by J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau Street. BULWER. Lord Lytton's Novels. 20 vols., BURKE, B. Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of all Nations. With BURNEY, CH. Memoirs of the Life and BURNS, ROBERT. An Address to the Deil. BURNS, ROBERT. Poems and Songs, chiefly $2.50 BURTON. Voyage aux Grands Lacs de CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Life of Mrs. Sid- $4.50 The history of her whose name will long be identified with the British drama,and whose talent and character rendered her an ornament to British society-drawn from her own memoranda, and by the author of The Pleasures of Hope-cannot fail to be most interesting. It appears that after intimate reception of the poet into the bosom of her family, Mrs. Siddons suggested to him the idea of his becoming her biographer. He had thus the best opportunity of collecting all those delightful traits that form the charm of biography, while her own notes of events and correspondence fixed important facts with an authenticity not otherwise to be obtained Bold indeed would be the man who, without these, should portray this wonderful weman, such as we remember her in the bloom of youth and vigor of age, delighting and informing the public, and, at the same time, fulfilling all the duties of domestic life in the tenderest as well as most exemplary manner. CAMPBELL, TH. Life and Letters. Edited CANDLISH, R. S. The Book of Genesis CATS, JACOB. Alle de Wercken. Folio, CATS, JACOB. Alle de Wercken so ouden A Dutchman has as much respect for his Cats as an Englishman has for a "first folio." Go into a Dutch peasant's house and you will find in his "visite-kamer" a folio Bible and a folio Cats. CAULFIELD, J. Portraits, Memoirs and CAULFIELD, JAMES. Portraits, Memoirs CERVANTES, Don Quixote. With 50 Plates by Smirke. Original edition. 4 vols., 8vo, half morocco, uncut. London, 1818. $25.00 CERVANTES, Don Quichotte, traduit et annoté par L. Viardos. Illustrated edition, with several hundred spirited engravings by Tony Johannot. Royal 8vo, cloth. Paris, 1845. $6.00 CHALMERS. A History of the Colleges, Halis and Public Buildings attached to the University of Oxford, including the Lives of the Founders. Fine Steel Plates. Imperial 8vo, large paper, calf, uncut, gilt edges. Oxford, 1810. $5.00 CHAMICH, M. History of Armenia. Trans2 vols., lated from the Armenian by J. Aodall. 8vo., half calf, new. Calcutta, 1827. $4.00 CHANDLER, R. Travels in Asia Minor and and Greece. A new edition, with remarks by N. Revett. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1825. $2.50 Books for sale by J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau St. COLLETTA, P. History of the Kingdom of $2.00 "What London hath beene of auncient Time, men may here see; as what it is now, euery man doth behold." COOPER, F. Pages and Pictures. A Series of 38 highly finished Engravings, illustrating the principal Scenes and Characters of the Novels of Fenimore Cooper, engraved by the leading artists from drawings by F. O. Darley, &c., with Descriptive Extracts from the Novels, portrait of Cooper, View of his Residence, and 120 Vignettes on Wood. Thick 4to, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. New York, 1861. $25.00 This beautiful volume is an indispensable accompaniment to a set of Cooper's Novels. COURT ANECDOTES. With Portrait of $1.75 Scarce. DE FOE, D. The Novels and Miscellaneous DICKENS, CHARLES. Works. Globe Edi- Complete edition, including "Edwin Drood." This edition lacks our "Mutual Friend" and "Edwin Drood." DICKENS. Little Dorrit, Illustrated by DICKENS. Dombey and Son. Illustrated DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated $10.00 This is one of the finest and ablest pieces of criticism e tant. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Lives and Opin. Lan $2.75 DORAN, DR. The Book of the Princes of DUFFERIN. Lispings from Low Latitudes, A full description of this very amusing book will be found in the BIBLIOPOLIST for August, page 291. DYER, TH. H. Pompeii, Its History, Build- 12m3, $6.00 Books for Sale by J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau Street. Middlesex. Lithographic Plates (Philadelphia, Wallaston, &c.) 12mo, newly bound half morocco extra, gilt top. London, 1869. $5.50 FAIRBAIRN, J. Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, revised by Butters and edited by J. Maclaren, with 144 plates comprising nearly 2,000 neatly engraved crests and monograms. Large paper, the plates on India paper. 2 vols., 4to, half morocco, gilt tops. London, 1860. $25.00 FAUSTUS. His Life, Death, and Descent into Hell. Translated from the German, by the author of "Lavengro." Curious colored frontispiece. Very scarce. Iamo, newly bound, half morocco, gilt top. $3.25 FAUX, W. Memorable Days in America, being a Journal of a Tour to the United States. 8vo, half calf, newly bound. London, 1823. $2.75 FIELD, B. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales. Maps. 8vo, half calf, new. don, 1825. Lon$2.00 ⠀ FINDEL, J. G. History of Freemasonry from its Rise down to the Present Day. With a Preface by C. Van Dalen. 8vo, half calf. London, 1866. $4.00 FINLAYSON, G. The Mission to Siam and 1 Hue, the Capital of Cochin China in the Years 1821-2. 8vo, half calf, new. London, 1826. $2.00 FISHERMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REview. Edited by Cholmondely Pennell. Illustrated with colored Plates and Woodcuts. 2 vols., 8vo, half green morocco new, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1864. $10.00 $5.00 The only magazine which has ever appeared, devoted to fish and fishing; it comprises many interesting and valuable articles on piscatory topics. FITZ, ADAM A. The World. 4 vols. in two. 12mo, half morocco. London, 1774. $2.00 FLIM FLAMS, or the Life and Errors of My Uncle and his Friends, with Illustrations by Messieurs Rag, Tag, and Bobtail, a Literary Romance. With 11 plates by Dagley. Author's autograph, Jany, 1806," attributed to D'Israeli the Elder. Scarce. 3 vols., 12mo, uncut. London, 1806. $6.00 FROISSART, SIR JOHN. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French by Thomas Johnes. With a Life of the Author, an Essay on his Works, and a Criticism on his History. Nearly 200 capital Woodcuts. 2 vols., royal 8vo, newly bound, half morocco, top edges gilt. London, 1839. $15.00 The Same. Another edition. Numerous Woodcuts. Small folio, half roan. New York, n. d. $2.00 FROISSART. Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart selected from the MS. in the British Museum, by H. N. Humphreys. 36 fine colored plates. 4to, morocco, gilt edges. London, 1844. $35.00 Paris $40.00 GALERIES HISTORIQUES DU PALAIS de Versailles. 8 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut. 1845. With 1676 fine copperplates engraved after the pictures in the renowned Gallery of Versailles. GARSTEN, E. Greece revisited, and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840. 8vo, half calf. London, 1842. $1.50 GASPEY, TH. The History of England under the Reign of George III, George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria. Numerous Portraits and Illustrations. 4 vols., royal 8vo, half morocco. London, n. d. $16.00 GERSON. De l'Imitation de Jesus Christ, traduite d'apres un Manuscrit de 1440, par l'Abb Delaunay. Woodcuts. 8vo, halt morocco, gilt top. Paris, Tross, 1869. $7.50 One of a few copies printed on thick paper. With woodcuts representing "dance of death." Gibbon's History is a truly astonishing production; and were there nothing else to perpetuate his name, it would bo abundantly sufficient. Most historians have confined themselves to a comparatively small portion of time, or to a single epoch of events; but the daring genius of Gibbon, not content with any age in particular, could not be satisfied with a more circumscribed period than the long series of two thousand years. To record in a lively and faithful manner one solitary decade deserves high praise; what then must be his merit, who placed in imagination on the imperial seat of Augustus, could calmly follow, with the eye of judgment and discrimination, the troubled waves of change and war, till they overwhelmed the throne of the last monarch that succeeded to the honors of Constantine? Gibbon himself tells us that it was in the garden of a convent of Bare-foot Friars at Rome, surrounded by the ruins of the ancient city, while the vesper hymn of the monks hallowed the silence of the evening, and the shadows of twilight shed a supernatural grandeur over the remains of departed greatness, that he conceived the first idea of this history. A few brief moments were then sufficient to carry him, in imagination, through the long changes of causes and effects, which brought the nurs ing mother of nations from triumphing on her seven hills, to grovel in the dust at their base. Thirty years of his life were to elapse before the design then broached could attain completion. But at the instant, there is no doubt he felt as fully the exhilirating sense of his own wonderful powers as when, having finished the last page of his mighty work, he contemplated the glorious result of indefatigable industry, patient research, and surpassing genius. GILCHRIST. Life of William Blake," Pictor Ignotus." With Selections from his Poems and other Writings, by A. Gilchrist. Illustrated from Blake's own Works in fac-simile, by W. J. Linton. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth. London, 1863. $7.50 A critical notice of this interesting biography will be found in the BIBLIOPOLIST for April, page 156. GILPIN, WILLIAM. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views. Edited by J. Dick Lauder. Illustrated by Strutt's beautiful Plates. Best edition. 2 vols., 12mo, half morocco, gilt tops, newly bound. London, 1834. $6.50 |