"P. B. This souvenir of sentation inscription by the author, Robert Bloomfield. The inscriptions read as follows: With the Authors Compts. Robt. Bloomfield, 4th May 1804"; ''Market Night' best thing in book, S. T. Coleridge Shelley"; "John C. Hobhouse"; poor Shelley given me by J. C. Hobhouse. Auctor pretiosa facit. R. Southey. Keswick: Feb. 27th, 1825."] Blondel (J. F.) De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance, et de la Décoration des Edifices, numerous plates, some folding, 2 vol., contemp. cf. gt., a good copy of this rare work, Paris, 1737-8, 4to. (121), May 24, Hodgson Thorp, £12 IOS. [See also May 22, £10; Nov. 14, £10; Christie, March 2, £12.] . Blondus (Flavius). Historiarum Romanarum decades tres, Blondus (F.) Italia illustrata, roman letter, long lines, vell., [A 5 11.; B-E 4 in eights; Part ii., with separate title, G-H 6 in eights. G is repeated and F omitted, and 2 11. in H are wrongly marked. Bandinel's copy. First ed. of both parts, with a portrait, part in facsimile, of Charles II. (no engraver's name) and a plan of Boscobel House and the vicinity, and arms of Carlio.] Blume (C. L.) Flora Javæ, 239 plates, 3 vol., 1828-36— Orchideæ, front. and 70 plates, 1858, together 4 vol., the plates mostly coloured, (all pub.), hf. green mor., t.e.g., Lugd. Bat., 1828-58, roy. folio (592), Oct. 26, Hodgson Quaritch, £16 Blume (C. L.) Rumphia, sive Commentationes Botanica imprimis de Plantis India Orientalis, etc., portrait views and 200 plates, mostly coloured, 4 vol. in 3, binding uniform with the preceding, Lugd. Bat., 1835-47, roy. folio (593), Oct. 26, Hodgson Wheldon, £11 15S. Blundeville (Thomas). The fower chiefyst offices belonyng, to Horsemanshippe, black letter (a few ll. slightly stained, last 2 11. very slightly defective), old cf., Wylliam Seres, n.d. (c. 1565), 4to. (237), Nov. 14, Sotheby Pickering, £25 [See also March 13, 1580 ed., £11.] Blundevill (T.) The foure chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship, 4 parts in 1 vol., with title to each part, black letter, woodcuts of bits, etc., a few marginal MS. notes (the last leaf a little short), cf., g.e. (a little rubbed), Henrie Denham, 1580, sm. 4to. (708), March 13, Sotheby Ellis, II whereof the Blundeville (T.) Three Morall Treatises first is called The Learned Prince; the second, The Fruites of Foes; the third, The Port of Rest, in verse and prose, black letter, woodcut of English royal arms on back of title, printer's device at end, with orig. blank marked A I, contemp. signature, Henrye James," on title-page, sprinkled cf. ex., g.e., from the Heber library, Henrie Denham, 1580, 8vo. (54), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £90 Blunt (W. S.) Love Lyrics and Songs of Proteus, with the Love Sonnets of Proteus, now reprinted in their full text, printed in black and red, ornamental border and initials, the latter in red (300 copies printed), Kelmscott Press, 1892, sm. 4to., vell. (47), July 3, Christie Quaritch, £7 5s. [No copies were printed on vellum. This is the only book in which the initials are printed in red. This was done by the author's wish. See also Sotheby, Nov. 28, £4 5s.; July 24, £7; April 3, 4 10s.; Dec. 19, £5; American Art Association, April 11, $45.] Boccaccio (Giovanni). La Fiametta, roman letter, long lines, 27 and 28 to a page, without marks, wanting blank at beginning, large initial on first page, painted in gold and colours, with elongations (first 6 11. wormed slightly and mended, a few inner margins wormed), olive mor., g.e., Finis Flamecte. anno. M.CCCC.LXXII. die xx. Mensis Septebris. [? Venice, N. Jenson, 1480], sm. 4to. (35), Feb. 13, Sotheby Quaritch, £62 [No edition with the date September, 1472, is recorded. Save for the date, this copy appears to be identical with one described by Pellechet (No. 2452), and it is possible that the year 1472 as given is a printer's error.] Boccaccio (G.) Libro llamado Fiameta porque trata delos amores de una notable dueña napolitana llamada Fiamta, el quel compriso el famoso Juan vocacio (sic), gothic letter, titles in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials, printer's device at end, old vell. (Huth_copy), Lixboa por Luys Rodriguez, 1541, 4to. (4015), Nov. 7, Sotheby Quaritch, £15 10S. [This translation is attributed by Salva to Pedro Rocha of Tarragona. Though attributed to Boccaccio, the book is now proved to have been written by Alberti.] Boccaccio (G.) Il Philocopo, title within woodcut frame, ruled in red, contemp. Italian binding, interlacing fillets on sides to an oval design, with arms of Paolo Giordano Orsini in centre, round the arms the legend "Paul Iordan Urs. d'Aragon," sold as a binding, In Vinegia, per Bernardino di Bindoni, 1538, 8vo. (132), July 17, Sotheby [See also Lot 133, £3 3s.] Olschki, £5 1OS. Boccaccio (G.) A Translation of Boccaccio's Life of Dante, with an Introduction and a Note on the Portraits of Dante by G. R. Carpenter, orig. vell., uncut, Grolier Club, New York, 1900, sq. 8vo. (102), Jan. 13, Anderson Galleries [One of 300 copies on Italian handmade paper.] $21 Boccaccio (G.) Here begynneth the boke of Johan Bochas discryuing the fall of princes, princesses and other nobles translated in to Englysshe by John Lydgate monke of Bury beggynyng at Adam and Eve and endyng with Kyng Johan of Fraunce taken prisoner at Poyters by prince Edwarde, black letter, a large woodcut on the title and smaller woodcuts in the text (title slightly torn and repaired, a small wormhole damaging several letters), cf. gt., Richarde Pynson, printer unto the Kynges most noble grace and fynisshed the XXI. day of Februarye the yere of our lorde god M.C.C.C.C.C.XXVII., folio (55), Feb. 6, Sotheby Quaritch, £78 [See also Nov. 7, £22; Anderson Galleries, May 2, $225.] Boccaccio (G.) A Treatise, excellent and compēdious, shewing in maner of Tragedy the falis of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses, in verse, black letter, in 2 columns, title within a woodcut border, large cuts in the text, old sprinkled cf., from the library of Wm. Morris, Richard Tottel, 1554, folio (111), April 3, Sotheby Pickering, £29 [See also American Art Association, May 2, $90.] Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, first Aldine ed., anchor on title and at end and initial letters gt., contemp. brown mor., in the centre is an ornamental frame with the title in gold, "Il Decameronne di M. Giovanni Boccaccio," and at bottom, Io. Grolierii et Amicorum," on the lower cover, in centre, "Portio Mea Domine sit in Terra viventium,' gt. gauffred edges, binding reset, in padded case (from the Ashburnham library), sold as a binding, In Vinegia, nelle Case d'Aldo Romano and d'Andrea Asolano, 1522, 4to. (125), July 17, Sotheby Hierta, £110 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, title within woodcut frame, a large woodcut at the beginning of each day and numerous smaller woodcuts in the text (corner of a few leaves defective and neatly mended, the margin of the last leaf defective and neatly repaired, a few slight stains), crushed red mor., panelled tooling in gold and blind on sides, g.e., In Venetia per Bernardino de Viano de Lexona Vercelese, 1525, folio (126), July 17, Sotheby Olschki, £26 [The cuts are the same as in Zanni da Portese's edition of 1510, including cuts from Livy and other books mixed with those designed for the stories.] Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone (97) XXXVI. ricorretto per Messer 4 Antonio Brucioli, title within woodcut border of cherubs, [See also April 3, 2.] Boccaccio (G.) II Decamerone, 1 vol. in 2, olive mor. gt., line borders, g.e., with arms on sides of Jean Baptiste Paris de Meyzieu, by Derome le Jeune, with his ticket, sold as a binding, Lione, G. Rovillio, 1555, 12mo. (1157), July 3, Sotheby Pearson, £7 IOS. Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, containing an Hundred Pleasant Novels, wittily discoursed, between several Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen, woodcuts, London, Isaac Jaggard, 1620-The Decameron (Vol. ii.), the Last Five Days, woodcuts, London, Isaac Jaggard, 1620-The Model of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conuersation, etc., woodcuts [London], Isaac Jaggard, 1625, together 3 vol., crimson mor., by Bedford and Rivière, folio (15), Oct. 26, Anderson Galleries $1,400 [First complete Decameron in English, with both titles dated 1620. There is also included above, the re-issue of the first volume, making a most attractive set. The first two volumes are the Huth copies, with his bookplate, and the last volume is from the library of E. M. Cox, with his bookplate.] Boccaccio (G.) Decameron, titles within woodcut borders (both dated 1620) and woodcuts, 2 vol. in 1, first issue of the first English translation, old cf. (rebacked), Vol. i. with the errata-leaf (two wormholes in title of Vol. ii. and a few in outer margins), a large and fine copy, Isaac Jaggard, 1620, folio (422), Feb. 8, Puttick Kean, £180 [See also Sotheby, July 17, £49.] Boccaccio (G.) [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conuersation (collation: A6-V6, Aa8, Bb6-Nn6, first and last blanks), woodcuts, Isaac Iaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625-The Decameron the last Fiue Dayes, title within woodcut border in 6 compartments, woodcuts (a small wormhole through a few leaves (collation: 4 11. unsigned, the first a blank; 14, 116, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa6), Isaac Iaggard, 1620, in 1 vol., orig. cf., a good copy, I. Iaggard, 1625-20, folio (177), Feb. 20, Sotheby Dobell, £24 [On fly-leaf at end are written two songs in a 17th century hand.] Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron, traduit d'Italien en François par Maistre Anthoine le Maçon, Conseiller du Roy, Der nière ed., Nouuellement corrigée, orig. cf., A Paris, chez Arnould Cotinet, rue des Carmes, au Petit Iésus, 1662, 8vo. (42), Nov. 30, Anderson Galleries $36 [Not in Brunet. The earliest 17th century edition. recorded by him is that of 1697.] Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron, portrait, fronts., plates and vignettes, after Garvelot, Boucher, Cochin and Eisen, with the set of Estampes Galantes after Gravelot (two missing), 5 vol. (a few leaves discoloured), but a very large copy, old red mor., full gt. back, gt. line borders on sides, g.e., Londres (Paris), 1757-61, 8vo. (277), May 1, Sotheby Parsons, £91 [See also Nov. 24, £20; Hodgson, Nov. 30, £31; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 30, $196; Puttick, May 18, £78.] Boccaccio (G.) Decameron, 3 vol., Villon Soc., 1886, sm. 4to. (272), March 22, Hodgson £6 10s. [See also Dec. 21, covers soiled, £3 15s.; Sotheby, Dec. 12, £3 15s.] Boccaccio (G.) Decameron, translated by John Payne, Japanese vell. ed., illustrations by Louis Chalon (limited to 36 copies), 2 vol., vell., in a specially-made mahogany box, with lock and key, 1893, imp. 8vo. (373), April 11, Hodgson £II 15S. [See also Sotheby, July 24, mor., £7; March 20, £3 5s.; March 13, £3 158.] Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron [with an Introduction by Alfred Wallis], illustrated, 4 vol., 1896—Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre [Preface by Ernest A. Vizetelly], illustrated, 5 vol. [1895], together 9 vol., hf. orange mor., London, Gibings & Co., Limited [1895]-1896, 12mo. (85), Jan. 26, American Art Association $37.50 Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron faithfully translated by J. M. Rigg, edition-de-luxe, plates by Louis Chalon, 2 vol., hf. mor., Privately printed, n.d., 4to. (303), May 29, Sotheby Arthur, £4 Boccaccio (G.) Decameron, 1620, with Introduction by Edward Hutton, 4 vol., hf. buckram gt., Tudor Trans., 1909, 8vo. (7), Nov. 16, Hodgson £5 15S. Boccaccio (G.) Il Decameron, capital letters in blue, and red headings to the chapters, Ashendene Press, 1920, folio (1003), Nov. 28, Sotheby Young, £14 IOS. Boccaccio (G.) Decameron, 2 vol.-Works of Rabelais, 2 vol.-The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, together 5 vol., illustrations, white buckram, gt. tops, Navarre Society, 1921-2, 8vo. (8), May 18, Puttick Eden, £3 5s. Boccaccio (G.) Les Dix Journées, traduction de Le Maçon, avec Notice, etc. par P. Lacroix, plates by Flameng, 4 vol., mor., gt. ornamental borders, gt. backs, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, Paris, 1873, 8vo. (9), Oct. 19, Sotheby Heffer, £4 4s. |