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last leaf (blank), blank part of title repaired, mottled cf. [Hain *3476, Campbell *348, Pellechet 2660, not in Proctor], [Deventer, R. Paffroet], c. 1491, 4to. (175), Mar. 17, Sotheby Hayle, £14 Bonaventura (St.) Tractatus et libri quamplurimi, [colophon] per Martini Flach Argetine ciue vigilati cura impssi finiut felicit Anno gre. M.cccc.lxxxix. pridie Rat. nouembris, gothic letter, 287 11., 2 columns of 51 lines and headline to the page, spaces left for capitals, with printed guides, full old vell. (not contemp.), nice copy except for some water-stains at back [Hain 3465], [Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 1489], folio (33), May 8, American Art Association $52.50

[With inscription, "Pertinet ad Conum. Montis Čaroli R:R:n:76" on title. A note laid in states that this volume came from a Convent at Puebla, Mexico.] Bond (F.) Gothic Architecture in England, 1,254 illustrations, orig. cl. (a little loose), g.t., 1905, 8vo. (371), Nov. 24, Sotheby Batsford, £3

[See also May 18, £3 5s.; Dowell, Nov. 24, £2 12s. 6d. ; Oct. 20, ed. 1906, £2 12s. 6d.; Hodgson, April 22, ed. 1912, £3 5S.; Sotheby, Feb. 2, ed. 1913, £2.] Bone (G.) Children's Children, drawings by Muirhead Bone, Japan paper ed., signed by the Artist, parchment gt., 1908, 4to. (421), April 1, Hodgson Bent, £2 Bone (Muirhead). Glasgow: Fifty Drawings, plates, buckram, g.t., Glasgow, 1911, 4to. (158), July 6, Sotheby Joseph, £2 2s. Bonifacius VIII. Liber Sextus Decretalium, cum apparatu Joannis Andreæ, gothic letter, printed on vellum in red and black, 121 ll. only (should be 142 11.), [Hain *3586], on the first page an initial B containing a port. of Boniface, in the lower margin of the same page a decorative arabesque border, russ. (rebacked), Mainz, Fust & Schoeffer, 17 Dec., 1465, folio (16in. by 113in.), (30), May 4, Sotheby Colnaghi, £105

[The colophon, printed in red, is found in two forms. The present copy has the nine-line colophon, which is given first by M. Seymour de Ricci in his Catalogue Raisonné des premières impressions de Mayence, the last line reading "Anno dñi M.cccc.lxv. die vero xvii. mensis decemb." See also Hodgson, Mar. 26, ed. 1473, 108; Dowell, Jan. 26, £20; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, ed. 1479, $33.]

Bonington (R. P.) A Collection of Engravings, Lithographs, and Mezzotints by and after Bonington, including a few by S. W. Reynolds, mounted in an album, hf. russ., t.e.g., folio (305), July 20, Sotheby Rimell, £10 Bontier (Pierre) and Verrier (Jean le). Histoire de la première Descouverte et Conqueste des Canaries. . . par Jean de Bethencourt, port. (a few side-notes slightly shaved), cf. gt., g.e., Paris, 1630, sm. 8vo. (89), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Bon Ton Magazine (The New), or Telescope of the Times, from May, 1818 to April, 1821, Nos. 1 to 36, illustrated with the series of 32 col. plates, ports. of celebrities of the time, 6 vol. (all pub.), hf. levant maroon mor., richly gt. panelled backs, g.t., fine set, London, printed for J. Johnston, 1818-1821, 8vo. (52), Feb. 24, American Art Association $120

[Geo. Cruikshank is thought to have done some of the plates, but with the exception of a few plates signed Marks fec." the plates are unsigned.]

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Booke (A) of Christian Prayers, mostly black letter, title within woodcut border, port. of Q. Elizabeth on the verso, each page within woodcut borders depicting scriptural scenes, the Dance of Death, etc., one page slightly shaved at top, crushed brown mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, At London, printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short, 1590, 4to. (477), Dec. 15, Sotheby Johnson, £9 5s.

[See also Anderson Galleries, Dec. 8, ed. 1608, $42.50; American Art Association, Jan. 5, n.d., $50.] Book of Prayers [Italian Rite, containing the Daily Prayers, the special services for Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Tabernacles, etc.], manuscript on vellum, written in Hebrew characters on 286 11. (4in. by 3in.), inscription on first leaf to the effect that this manuscript was bought by Moses Jedidiah de Rossi from Jacob Menachem at Ancona in 1707, last page of text signed by the Censor Luigi da Bologna, bound in old red velvet (back defective), in a dark blue mor. drop case, LATE XV. CENT., 12mo. (545), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £17 Book of Common Prayer. The Boke of common praier, and administracion of the Sacramentes, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Churche of Englande, second Prayer Book of Edward VI., black letter, Calendar in red and black, woodcut initials, title and last leaf in facs., quire a guarded, a 2, A 5, and N 6 torn and mended, panelled brown mor. gt., g.e., by Bedford, Richard Grafton, 1552, folio (167), July 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £25

[Grafton's first edition of this Prayer Book. Collation: a, 8 ll.; A, 2 ll. (Act of Uniformity, inserted after a 2); b, 6 ll.; A-x 8 in sixes; Aa-cc in sixes. From the library of John Gott, Bishop of Truro.] Book of Common Prayer. Leabhar na Nanvrnaightheadh, roman letter, title in red and black within a woodcut border with arms of King James on reverse, the arms of Sir Arthur Chichester at end (repaired), 2 or 3 ll. a little soiled and slight tear in LL 1, blue mor., panelled sides in gold and blind, g.e., by Rivière, Printed in Dublin by John Francton, 1608 (imprint in Irish), folio (455), Dec. 8, Sotheby Tregaskis, £71

[The rare first edition of the Common Prayer printed in the Irish character, translated by William Daniel. On the back of the title is the autograph signature of Lord

Deputy Chichester, the promoter of the translation. See also Christie, June 15, £24.] Book of Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, 1616-The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New, 1616 [and] The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, 1612, first 2 titles within elaborate woodcut borders, 3 vol. in 1, richly bound in red mor., sides with gt. framework of small floral designs, gt. rims, g.e., (new) ribbon ties, by Clovis Eve, London, Robert Barker, 16121616, thick folio (31), Nov. 20, American Art Association $135

[Fine copy, in splendid state of preservation; joints skilfully repaired in upper part, otherwise the binding is in excellent condition.]

Book of Common Prayer. Liturgia Inglesa o Libro del Rezado publico, de la administration de los Sacramentos, y otros, Ritos y ceremonias de la Yglesia de Ingalaterra [sic], Augusta Trinobantum, ciɔ.iɔi.ixiiv. (? 1623)-The Whole Book of Psalmes, by Thomas Sternhold and others, title within woodcut border, musical notation, For the Companie of Stationers, 1621, 2 vol. in 1, olive mor. gt., panelled sides, design skilfully composed of about a dozen small tools, g.e., 4to. (180), Mar. 17, Sotheby Ellis, £5 15s. [Fine copies. "This translation was made for John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, July, 1623."-Note by Duff on fly-leaf.]

Book of Common Prayer (The), black letter, ornamental initials, 5 ll. inserted (before Morning Prayer, Litany, Collects, Psalms, and Consecration of Bishops) blank except for an engraved border (different in each case), bound for John Evelyn in red mor. gt., panelled back and sides, centre and corner pieces of intricate scroll-work on sides, Evelyn's cypher six times repeated on back and five times on each side, inside borders, ties wanting, g.e., sold as a binding, Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill, 1634, folio (181), Mar. 17, Sotheby Ellis, £18 Book of Common Prayer, title and first leaf defective, Edin., 1637, with Psalmes, translated by King James, 1636, in I vol., calendar in red and black, black letter, cf., sm. folio (461), Dec. 8, Sotheby Thorp, £3 10$.

[See also Dec. 8, Lot 464, defective, £2.] Book of Common Prayer, Edinburgh, Robert Young, 1637The Psalter, ib., 1636-The Psalmes of David, translated by King Iames, London, Thomas Harper, 1636, in 1 vol., black letter, mottled cf. gt., g.e., folio (458), Dec. 8, Sotheby Thorp, £13

[First issue of the Prayer Book, together with the first and uncorrected edition of the prose Psalter, with the first title-page. Name on first title "Tho: Leigh," and on the fly-leaf is a "Prayer for ye King's Majesty" copied

from the Liber Regalis, probably written by Leigh. Inserted in the front of the vol. is a document relating to a payment of £500 to Oliver Fleming, H.M.'s agent at Zurich, signed by five important people, viz.: Archbishop Laud, Henry Montagu, Earl of Manchester, Francis Cottington, Sir John Coke, and Sir Francis Windebank. See also Nov. 10, £12 10s.; Dec. 8, Lot 460, £5; Dowell, Mar. 23, £6.] Book of Common Prayer, black letter, ruled in red, front. by D. Loggan, ports. of William and Mary on one plate by White inserted, contemp. red mor., panelled gt. backs, at each corner a small ornament surmounted by the crowned monogram of William and Mary, a smaller crowned monogram on each panel of back, g.e., John Bill, T. Newcomb, and H. Hills, 1680, folio (466), Dec. 8, Sotheby Atkinson, £6 15s.

[Inserted at the beginning is an interesting broadside Proclamation dated May, 1702, and printed by the Royal printer, Charles Bill, ordering an alteration in the prayers for the Royal family, "after these words Catherine, Queen Dowager, insert these words the Princess Sophia.' This broadside is not in Lord Crawford's Catalogue. See also Feb. 2, £3 5s.; Lot 91, ed. 1686, £3; Lot 467, ed. 1687, £3 10s.]

Book of Common Prayer (The), contemp. black mor., gt. panelled tooling on sides, with the arms of Queen Anne in centre, g.e., upper cover slightly rubbed, London, 1706, 4to. (99), Mar. 17, Sotheby Wilson, £4 15S.

["I bought this book because it has in the Prayer Book the rare service 'At the Healing.' Anne was the last who had the Royal touch."-MS. note by Duff on fly-leaf. See also Dec. 8, ed. 1701, £2 5s.; Dec. 8, ed. 1717, £2 5s.; Dec. 18, £4 15s.; American Art Association, Dec. 1, ed. 1761, $70.]

Book of Common Prayer (first Gaelic ed.), cf. gt., 1794 (173), May 24, Dowell £I IS. Book of Common Prayer, dark blue mor., with flap, g.e., enclosed in a blue mor. drop case, lettered, Edinburgh, 1805, 16mo. (96) Dec. 8, Sotheby Smyth, £2 5s. ["Tom" Moore's copy. The first two fly-leaves are filled with notes in his autograph, signed.]

Book of Common Prayer, with a painting of the Last Supper on the fore-edge, green mor. gt. [1818], 12mo. (364), May 18, Sotheby Edwards, £7 15s. Book of Common Prayer of Edward the Seventh, woodcuts, initials and borders, printed in red and black, hf. Niger mor., oak sides, with clasps, Essex House Press, 1903 (216), April 29, Hodgson Hollings, £3 7s. 6d. Book of Common Prayer (The), first issue of the first ed. of the George V. Prayer Book, 1 vol. in 2, one of 6 copies printed on vellum, hf. mor. over wooden bds., g.t., by

Rivière (one board slightly defective), [1910], 4to. (215), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £3 Book of the Dead. The Papyrus of Ani, by E. A. Wallis Budge, cuts, 2 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., with portfolio of facsimiles, 1890-5 (288), Nov. 5, Hodgson Quaritch, £1 18s. [See also Dowell, Nov. 24, £1 2s.; Dec. 22, £1; Puttick, Oct. 22, 30s.] Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet, with supplementary text from the Papyrus of Nu, with Transcripts, Translations, etc. by E. A. Wallis Budge, plates, some in colour, hf. bnd., 1899, folio, Nov. 24, Sotheby Cash, £ 5s.

[See also Hodgson, June 11, £I 4S.]

Book (A) of Fruits & Flowers, shewing the Nature and Use of them, either for Meat or Medicine. As also to Preserve, Conserve, Candy, and in Wedges, or Dry them. To make Powders, Civet bagges, all sorts of Sugar-works, turn'd works in Sugar . . . And for Meat. To make Pyes, Biscat, Maid Dishes, Marchpanes, Leeches, and Snow, Craknels, Candels, Cakes, Broths, Fritter-stuffe, Puddings, Tarts, Syrupes, and Sallets. For Medicines. To make all sorts of Poultisses, and Serecloaths, etc. (A-F 4, G 2), engravings in the text, British Museum duplicate stamp on the verso of title, brackets round pagination in one or two cases just touched, hf. cf., London, printed by M. S. for Tho: Jenner, 1656, 4to. (105), Mar. 30, Sotheby

Quaritch, £42 Bookplates. An extensive Collection of upwards of 9,500 Bookplates, comprising Early English, Jacobean, Chippendale, Bookpiles, Armorial, Wreath, and Pictorial, and a few Modern Plates, over 3,000 are loose in 19 boxes, and the remainder are lightly attached to the 11. of 14 albums and roughly classified (628), April 6, Sotheby Thorp, £195 Book-Prices Current for 1888, 1890, 1894-96, 1898-1909, 1914, 1922, 1923, and Index Vol. 1887-96, with a duplicate of same and a duplicate of Vol. for 1898, together 23 vol., orig. cl., 1889-93, 8vo. (31), Dec. 15, Sotheby

Brewster, £5 10s. [See also Anderson Galleries, Dec. 17, 13 vol., $12; American Art Association, Jan. 5, Vol. 36 only, $10.] Books about Books, edited by A. W. Pollard, 6 vol., orig. buckram, 1893-4, 8vo. (487), July 6, Sotheby Leighton, £4 [See also Anderson Galleries, Jan. 5, Lot 147, 14 vol., $25; Lot 148, 6 vol., $13.]

Booth (E. T.) Rough Notes on the Birds observed during twenty-five years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, col. plates by E. Neale, 3 vol., hf. blue mor. (a little rubbed), g.t., 1881-7, folio (705), Feb. 2, Sotheby Shipton, £12 IOS. Boothby (Richard). A Breife Discovery or Description of . . .

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