register, several blank portions removed, new vell. [Pellechet 2735], Venetiis, opera et impensa Nicolai Jenson, 1476, folio (216), Nov. 24, Sotheby Jones, LII Bonifacius VIII. (Papa). Sextus Liber Decretalium, three illuminated initials and red and blue initials throughout, lacks first leaf (a blank), Venetiis, Thome de Blanis, de Alexandria, 1489-Clement V. Constitutiones, one illuminated initial, others in red and blue throughout, ib., 1489, 2 vol. in 1, worn old vell., old MS. notes, rare, 4to. (240), Dec. 15, Puttick Bury, £1 15s. Bonnard (Camille). Costumes Historiques des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe Siècles, with 200 engraved plates, brilliantly col. by hand and heightened with gold, by P. Mercurj, 2 vol., heavy blue burlap, Paris, 1845, 4to. (267), Dec. 13, Anderson Galleries $25 Bonpland (A.) Description des Plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre, 64 plates by Redouté, printed in colours, green straight-grain mor. ex. (back slightly rubbed and some 11. foxed), Paris, 1813, roy. folio (193), June 22, Hodgson Quaritch, £32 Bon Ton Magazine. The New Bon Ton Magazine, or Telescope of the Times, with 31 full-page coloured caricatures of scenes with the Prince Regent, members of the nobility, etc., 6 vol., hf. black mor., London, 1818-21, 8vo (130), May 2, Anderson Galleries $77.50 [A complete set of one of the scarcest periodicals of its time. Some copies occur with 32 plates. In the present copy the plate The Boxing Baroness is present. The editor was John Mitford, author of "Johnny Newcome in the Navy.' See also American Art Association, Jan. 26, orig. parts, $700.1 Books about Books, edited by A. W. Pollard, illustrations, a set of the original issue, 6 vol., buckram, uncut, 1893-4 (748), Nov. 2, Hodgson Tregaskis, £4 See also Dec. 12, £3 15s.; May 1, handmade paper, £10 5s.] Book of Beauty, LARGE PAPER, 1833-38, numerous engravings on India paper, 6 vol., loosely inserted in Vol. i., A.L.s, (5 pp.) from the Countess of Blessington, dated July 24th 1834, red mor., g.e. [1833-38], 8vo. (123), June 19, Sotheby Bain, £7 Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the ancient writers, black letter, each page within borders, wants the title and the last leaf, contemp. cf., sides heavily gt. tooled, with corner and centre-pieces, the spaces between filled with a semis of small flowers, richly gt. back (defective), gt. and gauffred edges, not subject to return (1581), 8vo. (1104), March 20, Sotheby Dobell, £8 5s. Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the ancient writers, title and text within woodcut borders, on the verso of the title a portrait of Queen Elizabeth at prayer, contemp. brown mor. gt., with a border of sprays of foliage and flowers (one title slightly damaged), Printed by Richard [This work, usually called Queen Elizabeth's_Prayer Book, is by some attributed to John Fox, others to Richard Day. See also April 3, £10; American Art Association, May 2, $42.50.] Booke of Christian Questions and Answers, title within border, black letter, 28 11., unbd., J. Harrison, 1581, 12mo. (235), July 27, Hodgson £4 15S. Book of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacramentes and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche, after the use of the Churche of England, black letter, title in red and black within a woodcut border (title defective and inlaid, sign. A.IIII. remargined, a few leaves torn and repaired and some wormholes mended, slightly affecting the text, some headlines cut into), blue mor., blind tooled, Edward Whitchurch, June 16th, 1549 (243), Jan. 23, Sotheby Ellis, £10 [The first book of Edward VI. The third issue. The last leaf with the king's proclamation about the price the book is to be sold at. See also July 3, imperfect, £2.] Boke of cōmon Prayer and administracio of the Sacramentes and other rytes and Ceremonies in the Churche of Englande, black letter, title in red and black within a woodcut border, wanting last leaf, which is supplied in fac., brown mor. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, 1553, 8vo. (114), April 3, Sotheby Ellis, £30 Book of Common Prayer. The Booke of Common prayer, black letter, title in red and black within a woodcut border (title slightly defective and re-margined, a few leaves remargined and a few letters slightly defective), some MS. notes, R. Jugge [1577]-The Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid, after the translation of the great Byble, poynted as it shal be song or sayde in Churches, black letter, title within a woodcut border, a few MS. notes, R. Jugge [1577], in I vol., dark blue mor., g.e., in a slip-case [1577], 4to. (180), Jan. 23, Sotheby Ellis, £3 3s. Booke of Common Prayer (The), with the Psalter or Psalms of David. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New [also the Apocrypha], newly translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall commandement, 1616-The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, 1612, together in a thick folio vol., richly bd. by Clovis Eve in old red mor., London, Robert Barker, 1612-16 (105), Jan. 18, Anderson Galleries $100 Booke of Common Prayer, black letter, title within a woodcut border, R. Barker and J. Bill, 1620-Whole Book of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Sternhold and Hopkins, black letter, musical notes, woodcut border to title, For the Companie of Stationers, 1621, in I vol., contemp. cf., the device of James I. (a crowned rose) in gold on sides, from the Corfield collection, sold as a binding, 4to. (115), April 3, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 10s. Booke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments The Psalter, or Psalms of David, according to the last Translation in King James, his time, in 1 vol., black letter, first issue, with the uncorrected leaf hh 3 and the catchword" Certaine " at the end of the Psalms, contemp. cf., panelled sides with angles of delicate ornamental work in relief, enclosing the royal arms of Charles I. as King of Scotland, 1 and 4 Scotland, 2 France and England, quarterly, 3, Ireland (covers a little worn), g.e., a fine copy, Edinburgh, printed by Robert Young, 1637-6, folio (968), Dec. 12, Sotheby Quaritch, £20 [See also Jan. 30, £7 15s.] Book of Common Prayer. The new Booke of Common Prayer, according to the forme of the Kirke of Scotland, our Brethren in faith and Covenant, 8 ll. (A in eight), brown mor., g.e., Printed by Iohn Ioness (sic), 1644, 8vo. (36), Jan. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 10s. Book of Common Prayer [in Greek, edited by J. Dupont], 1665, with Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalmes, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1663, 2 vol. in 1, in contemp.. red mor. ex., the sides covered with gold and pointillé tooling of floral and leafy sprays, tulips, etc., with intricate centre-device, full gt. back, g.e. [by Samuel Mearne], 1665-63, sm. 8vo. (175), June 22, Hodgson Edwards, £15 Book of Common Prayer, with the Psalter pointed, black letter, engraved title, red ruled, contemp. dark blue mor. gt., tooled to an elaborate cottage-roof pattern, with sprays in blind, cipher of King Charles II., two C's adossés, surmounted by a crown, at corners of outer borders and inner scroll frames, g.e., fine specimen, sold as a binding, 1669, folio (119), April 3, Sotheby Maggs, £15 Book of Common Prayer, with the Psalms pointed, black letter, engraved title (cut round and mounted), red-ruled throughout, contemp. English crimson mor. gt., tooled to an elaborate cottage-roof" pattern, the outlines enamelled in black and intervening spaces filled with sprays, arabesques and filigree ornaments, with the crowned cipher of King Charles II. occurring 12 times on each side, in 3 different sizes, 7 panels on back tooled and gt., each containing the royal cipher, g.e., sold as a binding, J. Bill, 1680, large folio (1167), July 3, Sotheby Whitfield, £8 Book of Common Prayer (The), together with the Psalter, red ruled, LARGE PAPER, first issue, in a Stuart binding of dark bluish-green mor., richly gt., inserted is an original proclamation of James II., dated 23 December, 1687, ordering certain public prayers, C. Bill, H. Hills and T. Newcombe, 1687, folio (537), Dec. 19, Sotheby Burghe, £6 1OS. (107) Book of Common Prayer, with the Psalms pointed, engraved throughout, red ruled, contemp. dark green mor. gt., tooled Harleian style, g.e., sold as a binding, J. Sturt, 1717, sm. folio (121), April 3, Sotheby Young, £9 15s. [See also May 1, 10 IOS.] Book of Common Prayer, vell. gt., gt. back, by Edwards of Halifax (slightly stained), with a painting on the foreedge under the gold of a mansion standing in a park, with a river in the foreground, Paris, Didot, and sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791, 8vo. (682), Jan. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 Book of Common Prayer, together with the Psalter, pointed, orig. dark blue mor., with flap, Edinburgh, Sir D. H. Blair and J. Bruce, 1805, 16mo. (495), Dec. 19, Sotheby Hackett, £11 ["Tom" Moore's (the Irish poet, friend and biographer of Lord Byron) copy. The two first fly-leaves are filled with notes in his hand (signed). These notes record the births and deaths of his children, and constitute the Moore family register.] Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, printed in black and red, woodcuts, one of 400 copies, niger mor., blind stamped arms of Edward Penton on upper cover, stamped and pierced metal catches and clasps with mother-o'-pearl ornaments inlaid, joints, g.e., by the Guild of Handicraft Bindery, Essex House Press, 1903, folio (263), Dec. 19, Sotheby S. Davies, £4 IOS. [See also Sotheby, Jan. 30, £1 18s.; Christie, Nov. 28, £1 15s.] Book of Common Prayer (The), in the Mohawk Language, plates, old cf., 1787, 8vo. (133), Nov. 30, Hodgson Stevens, Son & Stiles, £5 5s. Book of the Dead. The Papyrus of Ani, the Egyptian text, with translation, etc. by E. A. Wallis Budge, with the folio of coloured facs., hf. mor., 1894-5, 4to. (262), July 12, Hodgson £3 Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet, with transcripts, translations, etc. by E. A. W. Budge, plates, many coloured, hf. mor., 1899, large folio (249), Nov. 14, Sotheby Laurence, I 12S. Book of Fortune . . . first written in Italian, after translated into English and now newly compared in all the parts thereof, and much amended, woodcuts of wheels of fortune, heads, dice arrangements, etc., (some 11. discoloured), cf. gt., g.e., by F. Bedford, Huth copy, with bookplate, J. Heptinstall, for Brabazon Aylner, 1698, folio (4034), Nov. 7, Sotheby Maggs, £6 15S. Book of Gems. See Hall (S. C.) and New York, 1888-91, 8vo. (110), April 24, Anderson Galleries $II Booth (E. T.) Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 25 years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, coloured plates, 3 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., 1881-7, folio (269), Nov. 17, Puttick Burton, £14· [See also April 5, Parts 1-11, 13 and 15, £I IOS.; Sotheby, May 8, hf. mor., £12; Dowell, Dec. 6, hf. mor., £13.] Borde (William). The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, the whych dothe teache a man to speake parte of all maner of languages, and to know the usage and fashion of all maner of countreys, black letter, a large woodcut on the title and numerous curious woodcuts throughout the text (a margin of the title repaired, 6 11. split very slightly, affecting the text), cf. gt., Imprinted in fleetstrete at the signe of the Rose Garland, by me William Copland [below a large device], n.d. [before 1550], 4to. (60), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £210 Rose [Collation: A-N in fours. This would appear to be the first of the two Copland editions, and was printed before 1550, as it mentions Boulogne as still being in English possession. The only copy noticed in the Bibliographical Society's Hand List of English Printers with the Garland" imprint is that in the Pepysian Library.] Borde (W.) The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, the which doth teache a man to speake parte of all maner of Languages, and to knowe the usage and fashion of al maner of countreys, black letter, a large woodcut on the title and numerous curious woodcuts throughout the text (a few ll. cut into, damaging the text), brown mor., Imprented. . . in Lothbury ouer agaynste Sainct Margarytes church by me Wyllyam Copland, n.d. [circa 1565], 4to. (61), Feb. 6, Sotheby Rosenbach, £60 [From the Bindley collection; copies of this edition are also in the Bodleian and Chetham libraries. Collation: A-N in fours; sheet c in facsimile.] Borgo (Lucas Pacioli de) Divina proportione, Opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria Que ciascun studioso di Philosophia Prospectiva Pictura Sculptura Architectura Musica, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, bound to counterfeit a Grolier binding, old red mor., interlacing fillets in black edged with gold to a geometrical design with leafy gt. ornaments, on the upper cover the arms of Grolier, on the lower the motto aegre difficulter" (binding a little rubbed and mended in places), in a red mor. case, sold as a binding, Venetiis, Paganinus de Paganinis, 1508, folio (204), Nov. 14, Sotheby Parsons, £13 [See also Hodgson, Jan. 25, 1509 ed., £14 IOS.] Borlase (Ed.) The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of |