A distingished collection of rare colorplate books, fore-edge paintings, extra-illustrated books, incunabula, illuminated manuscripts, original drawings: Aiken, Cruikshank, Rowlandson; the fine library of a New York collector. Unrestricted public auction sale ...

761 items.

Elegant extracts : being a copious collection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages from the most eminent British poets.

In 12 books; each book has special engraved t.p., illustrated, with title: Elegant extracts from the most eminent British poets.

A treatise on free agency : maintaining that the immutability of the divine nature is perfectly compatible with the moral freedom of the intellectual world; also, A dissertation on the Mosaic account of the creation; comprising its most remarkable internal evidences respecting the antiquity of the earth, &c. /

From the library of B. George Ulizio.

Poems /

Fore-edge paintings, v.1: Old windmill at Rye, Sussex; v.2: Blakeney, Suffolk.

The poetical works of John Milton : to which is prefixed the life of the author.

A painting of a cowboy herding longhorn cattle on the plains on fore-edge of vol.

Hādhā kitāb Ḥusn al-muḥāḍarah fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah / lil-Imām al-Mujtahid al-Ḥafīẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Asyūṭī : manuscript, 1844

Vol. 1 of a multi-volume set.

Hādhihi risālat al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth al-musalsal bi-al-Dimashqīyīn / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻĀmil al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, [1749 or 1750]

Ownership statements on f. 1r signed ʻAlī al-ʻImādī, 1175 AH [1761 or 62 AD]; Ḥāmid al-Bakrī, 1192 AH [1178-9 AD]; Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn Amīn al-Munayyir (or: al-Munīr), Jumādá al-Thānī 1243 [1827-8]. On fly leaf [1]: Muḥammad Saʻīd ... al-Ḥusaynī al-Dimashqī, Rabīʻ al-Awwal [1]282 [1865]; Muḥammad Abū al-... al-Ḥusaynī al-..., 17 Jumādá al-ūlá 1317 [1899];.

Taʻlīq laṭīf ʻalá al-Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah : manuscript, 1640 or 1641

Copied in 1050 AH? [1640 or 41 AD?].

Kitāb Sharḥ al-istiʻārāt / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Mallawī : manuscript, 1850

Author's own abridgement of his longer work "ʻIqd al-durar al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah".

Maslak al-sadād ilá masʼalat khalq afʻāl al-ʻibād / taḥrīr ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī thumma al-Madanī : manuscript, 1684

Title from f. 1r.

R.P. Francisci Suarez, Granatensis, e Societate Iesu doctoris theologi, et in Connimbricensi Academia Sacrarum Literarum primarii professoris opus, De virtute et statu religionis. Quo quid contineatur, index proximus indicabit.

Also issued as part of collection with collective title page, engraved portrait of author, biographical preface, and contents list: "R.P. Francisci Suarez Granatensis, e Societate Iesu Doctoris Theologi, et in Regia Conimbricensi Academia primarij theologiae professoris emeriti Opera omnia quorum cathalogum vide lector in vita authoris. Moguntiae, Sumptibus Hermanni Mylij Birckmanni Excudebat Balthasar Lippius. Anno M. DCXXI."

Naẓm al-Jamīʻ al-ṣaghīr, [late 15th century?].

Fine copy of Abū Naṣr al-Farāḥī's (d.1242) versification of al-Jamīʻ al-ṣaghīr fī al-furūʻ, the well-known legal treatise by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī (d.804). Excerpts from Kashf al-ẓunūn addressing these two works appear on leaf affixed to 'title page' (p.5).