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"independent creations." He visited Brazil in 1865 with a corps of assistants, when
it is stated he discovered in that region more than 1800 new fishes. To collect facts
relating to the agency of glaciers, he spent eight summers upon the glacier of the Aar,
8000 feet above the level of the sea and 12 miles from any human habitation.
publication of his theories in 1840 and 1847 created a great sensation.

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293.

It is, however, not a complete translation, for the author "felt himself at full liberty

"to expunge but not authorized to add or alter," and so far it is an improvement on
many editions which make the author express opinions contrary to his original work.
The life of À Kempis is reprinted in full (pp. 29–81) from Ullmann's "Reformers

À Kempis, Saint Thomas. [L'Imitation.] IV LIVRES DE L'IMI-

[14] TATION DE IESVS-CHRIST qu'aucuns attribuent à Iessen, d'au-

tres à Gerson, & d'autres à Thomas à Kempis, fidellement

traduits. Nouuellement mis en François par M. R. G. A.

Et reueu par le mesme Autheur en ceste derniere Edition.

A Paris chez Nicholas Gasse, au Mont St. Hilaire près la

Court D'Albret. 1626. Avec Approbation. Paris: L.

Curmer. 1856-58. 2 vols. Impl. 8vo. Morocco extra,

edges gilt.

... This is a magnificent edition of the text of 1626 from Marillac's edition. Each

page has a border copied from some ancient manuscript, the facsimiles and engravings

being collected from upwards of 360 manuscripts executed between the sixth and nine-

teenth centuries.

The first volume contains after half-title and title a Preface (pp. i.-xii.); then the

Text with a separate title and half-title (pp. 1-400) and a Table of Contents (pp.
i.-xiv.).

The frontispiece and borders are admirably executed in chromolithography by Le
Mercier. Five whole page chromolithographs are introduced as frontispieces to the
entire work and each of the four books of the Imitation.

They are (1) Louis XIV. at prayers; (2) Anne of Brittany praying, accompanied
by her Ladies of Honour; (3) The Education of the B. V. M.; (4) The Annunciation;
(5) The Nativity. These last four, as well as the twelve pages of the preface, are
copied from the Book of the Hours of Anne of Brittany in the sixteenth century. The
twelve pages forming the Calendar of the months which commences this work are
embellished in conformity with the custom of ornamenting with illuminations all Books
of the Hours. They are taken from a Book of the Hours in the Louvre Collection.
Pages 270 and 271 are printed on a plain gold ground with borders of the letter
"M" [Mary] and the motto "Car Non" twined round broken pillars. The editor has
produced an immense variety of examples and very aptly shown how "primitive" the

taste of some early illuminators was. Examples will be found both in the last-mentioned instance and on pages 276 and 277, where the text is printed in letters of gold on a bright red ground. These last are taken from a Sacramentary of Pope Gregory the Fourth at the beginning of the ninth century found in a convent near Constance and now preserved at Heidelberg.

Vol. II. is practically a Supplement. It contains (28 pages) an account by the Abbé Delaunay of the Presumed Authors of the Imitation and is illustrated with portraits of John Gersen (thirteenth century), John Gerson (1363-1429), and Saint Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), also of Michel de Marillac (1563–1632), whose edition has been followed in this work.

It has also a "Histoire de l'Ornementation des Manuscrits par Mr. Ferdinand "Denis," the librarian of Ste. Geneviève at Paris, published 1857. It is very fully illustrated with "letters” and other examples of the illuminated manuscripts described in the Essay, (143 pages.)

The volume closes with Tables (1) of the Manuscripts referred to in the "Notice" or Essay by Mr. Denis and reproduced in the Imitation; and (2) a table giving in respect of every page the name of the designer, the chromo-engraver, and the reference to the manuscript from which the illustration is taken.

By way of borders to this last index are given the figures of Jollat, Beham, and Holbein from their Dances of Death. The 53 principal wood engravings are Holbein's celebrated figures from his Triomphe de la Mort. The smaller subjects, in which two personages only are represented, are taken from Simon Vostre's Dance of Death in his Book of the Hours; and the four designs of pastoral scenes on the second and third pages of the index are from the same work. The two figures of "Marguerite" and the "Woman" immediately following Holbein's Dance are after Hans Beham The Hurdy-gurdy player," the "Painter," the "Blind man," and the "Cook" are from the "Danse de Basle de Merian;" that of "the Plague 1679" is an engraving of the seventeenth century, in which the woman who is seated at the foot of the tree represents the town of Vienna which was scourged in 1679 with a plague introduced from Turkey; the remaining two, “the Moorish King” and “the Author,” are from the Dance of Death of Garnier of Troyes.

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Albinus, Petrus.-TREATISE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND UNKNOWN ISLANDS. See Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XVI.).(a) Albizzi, R. P. Bartholomew degli.-OPUS. AUREE & INEXPLICA[15] BILIS BONITATIS & CONTINENTIE. Conformitatū scilicet vite Beati Frā. ad vită d. nri Jesu xpi. | Mediolani [Milan]: Zanotus Castilione. 1513. Folio. Boards, vellum back. Index, 22 pp. a. t.

This was purchased in 1887, and previously passed through the Pinelli Auction, and belonged (1789) to Mr. Wodhull. It is a scarce book, and a previous owner marked on the fly-leaf "Editio secunda rarissima."

The work gave great offence to the Reformers, and in 1550 Richard Grafton published an Answer, entitled "The Alcaron of barefote Friers, that is to say, an Heape "or number of the blasphemous and tryfling Doctrines of the wounded Jdole Saint

"Frances taken out of the Boke of his Rules called in Latine Liber Conformitatum." A second answer was published in 1679, entitled "The Alcoran of the Franciscans or

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a Sink of Lyes and Blasphemies collected out of a blasphemous Book belonging to "that Order called 'The Book of the Conformites,' with the Epistles of Dr. Martin "Luthur and Erasmus Alberus detecting the same."

An earlier copy was printed at Milan by Gotardus Ponticus, 1510.

Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888).—Sonnets anD CANZONETS. [16] With Portrait and Autograph. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1882. 8vo. Cloth, top edges gilt.

... This is No. 19 of a limited edition of 50 copies. It has a eulogistic Preface (pp. 5-10) and an Essay on "The Sonnet and the Canzonet" (pp. 13-35), by F. B. Sanborn, of Concord.

Mr. Sanborn ingenuously remarks that Mr. Alcott has "written with little uniformity "in the order and number of his rhymes." He might have added, or of rhymes at all —e. g., "hours" and "ours" (Proem), "beautiful" and "wonderful" (p. 85), et sim.

pass.

In Sonnet XXI., line I rhymes with nothing, and keeps a cold companionship with line 8, also unrhymed. They are 14-lined poems—not sonnets.

Mr. Alcott was an American teacher and philosopher-first in Connecticut, then in Boston, and lastly in Concord.

The Sonnets and Poems are given under numbers only, without any titles. Most of them are addresses to authors or persons of note, and this edition is accompanied by a Portrait and Autograph of the Author and 22 photographs of the persons "sonnetized," including Dr. Wm. H. Furness, Dr. Channing, Emerson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Thoreau, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Garfield, etc.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836- ).-FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTI[17] FUL BOOK selected from Cloth of Gold and Flower and Thorn. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1881.

I2mo.

Half morocco, top edges gilt.

There are eleven other pieces included in the volume.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.-XXXVI LYRICS AND XII SONNETS [18] selected from Cloth of Gold and Flower and Thorn. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1881. I 2mo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

Alexander, James W., D.D.-DISCOURSES on Common Topics of [19] Christian Faith and Practice. New York: Charles Scribner. 1858. 8vo. Cloth.

. A series of twenty sermons preached between 1848 and 1858. In 1848, 2; 1849, 1; 1850, 1; 1852, 3; 1853, 1; 1854, 3; 1855, 3; 1857, 1; and 1858, 5.

Alger, William Rounseville.-CRITICAL, A, HISTORY of the Doc[20] trine of a Future Life. With a complete Bibliography of the Subject. Philadelphia: George W. Childs. 1864. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. 4 Indexes: 2 col. 663–676; 3 col. 877-907; 2 col. 908-913; and 2 col. 914.

... The Work consists of Prefatory matter and 661 pp.

To this is added, by way of Appendix: Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life, or A Catalogue of Works relating to the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul. The Titles classified and arranged chronologically, with Notes, and Indexes of Authors and Subjects. By Ezra Abbot. This Appendix consists of Preface (679–685) and "Classification," under the three divisions of the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul (686-687).

Class I. includes Works numbered 1 to 386 g; Class II. 387 to 540 a; and Class III. 541 to 4664. Then follow, Appendix I., a List of Works (4665-4705) on Modern “Spiritualism,” or Spiritism, Ghosts, etc.; Appendix II. (4706–4894) Works on the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Souls of Brutes; Addenda et Corrigenda (pp. 874876); and Indexes.

Alison, Sir Archibald, Bart. (1792-1867).—HISTORY OF EUROPE [21] from the Commencement of the French Revolution [1774] to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. Tenth Edition, with Portraits. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1860. 14 vols. 8vo. Calf, marbled edges. Index, 2 col. vol. xiv. 315-644.

This Edition was published in 1860; the first volume of the Work was originally published in 1839. It is written by an "Ultra-Conservative" and naturally partakes of his political views, but its high value has never been seriously disputed. One feature was to set forth the words of men at great moments, wherever possible, in their own words without paraphrase or abridgment.

Each volume has at the commencement a very full analytical “Table of Contents," giving the catchword Contents of each chapter, paragraph by paragraph, which are repeated in the margins of the Text.

There is a series of 22 excellent Portraits, each volume having from one to three engravings.

A List of Authorities, with the abbreviations used in the work, is given Vol. I. xxxiii.-xlvi.

Alison, Sir Archibald, Bart.-HISTORY OF EUROPE from the Fall [22] of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon

in 1852. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1854-1859. 9 vols. 8vo. Calf, marbled edges. Index, 2 col. vol. xxiii. 1-319.

... This is a supplementary History to that of Europe from 1774 to 1815. One feature of it differs from the previous History in introducing an account of the Literature,

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