hf. vell., uncut, Boston, 1908, roy. 8vo. (46), Jan. 24, American Art Association $II [Edition limited to 493 copies. Some of the original letters of Charles Dickens printed in this volume are also reproduced in facsimile.] Bibliophile Society Publication. Gray (Thomas). Gray's Elegy, etched front. and vignettes by Bicknell, title-page by Macdonald, English cf., gt. top, uncut, Boston, 1912, roy. 8vo. (55), Jan. 24, American Art Association $13 [Edition limited to 469 copies. Printed on Japanese paper.] Bibliophile Society Publication. Peacock (Thomas Love). Letters to Edward Hookham and Percy B. Shelley, with fragments of Unpublished Manuscripts, edited by Richard Garnett, etched port. by Bicknell, proof on Japanese paper, vellum back, buckram sides, uncut, Boston, 1910, 8vo. (52), Jan. 24, American Art Association [Edition limited to 483 copies.] $5 Bibliophile Society. André's Journal, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, with 2 ports. of André, one etched by Bicknell, proof on India paper, the other engraved on wood by Hopson, proof on Japanese paper, both signed, title in two states, one on vell. the other on India paper, and 44 fac. reproductions of orig. maps and plans drawn by Major André, one of 487 copies, 2 vol., vell., gt. tops, uncut, Boston, 1903, roy. 8vo. (40), March 1, Anderson Galleries $32.50 Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rich and Rare Collection of Early English Poetry, with Remarks, Critical and Biographical (by A. F. Griffiths), with separate titles, illustrated with nearly 550 ports. and plates inserted, bound in 3 vol., brown mor. ex., uncut, g.t., by F. Bedford, 1815, roy. 8vo. (101), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £16 Bickham (G.) The Musical Entertainer, engraved throughout, vignette head-pieces, 2 vol. (blank margin of title of Vol. i. mended and date rubbed, otherwise a fine copy), cf. gt. (repaired), 1735, folio (649), April 25, Sotheby [Sotheby, March 17, Lot 261, 13 10s.] Maggs, £13 10s. Biel (G.) In quartum librum sententiarum, gothic letter, 223 11. (a8, b-z, aa-ll in sixes, 16, 24, 36, wanting the blank between kk 3 and 4), Meyenberger's device, double columns, 62 lines to a full column, contemp. MS. notes (slightly wormed), green vell. [Tuebingen, 1499], folio (2999), Nov. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £10 [Very rare. Voynich, second list of books, 818, describes this copy: Printed by Otmar for Fr. Meyenberger. Apparently unknown to Hain, for, although he mentions (No. 3187) a book by Biel (which he never saw), it does not appear. to be this one. Copinger (3187) puts it down as this; but his own description proves that, if he has given the collation accurately, it must be another issue. Not in Proctor.] Biel (G.) In tertium sententiarum, gothic letter, 138 11. (AA8, BB-XX in sixes, XX6 blank, 10 11.), double columns, 62 lines to a full column, with signatures and headlines, device of F. Meyenberger on XX4 (slightly wormed), a few contemp. MS. notes, green vell., In tübingen, gymansio [1499], folio (3000), Nov. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £9 10S. [Rare. Voynich, second list of books, 817, describes this copy: From the first printing press in Tuebingen. Printed by Otmar for Fr. Meyenberger. Undescribed by bibliographers."] Bierstadt (O. A.) The Library of Robert Hoe, a Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America, with 110 illustrations taken from the manuscripts and books in the collection, olive crushed levant mor., gt. back, gt. top, uncut, by Rivière, New York, Duprat, 1895, 8vo. (132), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $12.50 Biesius (Nicolaus). De Republica Libri Quatuor, quibus universa de moribus Philosophia continetur, Antwerp, 1556-De Universitate Libri Tres, in I vol., woodcut initials and diagrams, old cf., these copies formerly belonged to the eminent poet, William Drummond, of Hawthornden, his autograph signature is written upon both the title-pages, Antverpiae, apud Martinum Nutium sub Ciconijs, 1556, folio (168), June 28, Sotheby Nesbit, £7 Bigland (John). A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, illustrated with 12 col. plates, including engraved title, hf. crushed blue levant mor., g.e., by Stikeman, Philadelphia, 1831, 12mo. (50), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries $7.25 Bigland (Ralph). Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester, Vol. i.-ii., with the History of the City of Gloucester, by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1819), and the Continuations (18381889) issued to complete the work, together 4 vol., with proofs of all the plates originally published, a complete set of the unpublished plates and other plates and original drawings added, olive mor., g.t., uncut, by Rivière, 17911889, folio (234), June 9, Sotheby H. Bruton, £150 Bigmore and Wyman. Bibliography of Printing, with notes and illustrations, 3 vol., hf. roan, 1880-86 (75), May II, Hodgson Heffer, £4 17s. 6d. [Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 115, $31.] Bigus (Ludovicus). Opusculorum Christianorum, roman letter, 76 11., 26 long lines, cf. [Pellechet 2400], Modena, Dominicus Rocociola, 1496, 4to. (103), May 25, Sotheby Olschki, £3 15s. Billings (R. W.) Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 4 vol., green mor., g.e., Edinburgh, n.d., folio (104), May 25, Sotheby Edwards, £2 25. [The text of this work was written by Dr. John Hill Burton.] (102) Billingsley (N.) A Treasury of Divine Raptures, the First Part (all published), with the cancelled title-page (last leaf slightly defective, many ll. cut into at head), red mor., g.e., 1667, 8vo. (3001), Nov. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 Binding. Ambrosius (S.) Officiorum Libri III., Parisiis, apud S. Nivellium, 1583, and 3 other pieces, all red ruled, in I vol., red mor. gt. covered with an elaborate design of flowers and leafy sprays, g.e., bound for Marie Marguerite de Valois de Saint-Remy, sold as a binding, sm. 8vo. (111), May 25, Sotheby Sabin, £31 Binding. Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum, lib. XII., Lyons, Ant. Gryphius, 1588, thick 16mo. (614), April 18, Sotheby Maggs, £50 [Contemp. English brown cf., gt. and blind line sides, with corner fleurons, four raised bands on back, with gt. lines and tooling in each compartment. On both covers is impressed in gt. the badge of Queen Elizabeth, a falcon royally crowned holding in his dexter claw a royal sceptre, perched on the stump of a tree couped and erased, from which springs a rose-bush in flower.] Binding. Aretino [Bruni] (Leonardo). Aquila Volante libro intitolato Aquila Volante, di latino nella volgar lingua: dal Magnifico et eloquentissimo messer Leonardo Aretino, tradotto (lower fore-margin of first 20 ll. slightly wormed), Venice, 1535-Alberto Magno de le virtu de le herbe, et animali, et pietre preciose, et di molte marauegliose, cose del mondo, title within woodcut border, Vinegia, 1537, 2 vol. in 1 (both slightly water-stained throughout), on each title-page is the neat autograph signature of a former owner, J. Ballesdens," the secretary of Chancellor Séguier and noted bibliophile, whose library was sold in 1677, contemp. Venetian cf. binding, the sides elaborately tooled in gold to a Grolieresque geometrical pattern of interlaced bands and arabesques, the centre of front cover having in gold the letters P. P. P., ALP. M., B. E. T., and on back cover, D., ANT., G., gt. back and gt. gauffred edges, enclosed in a velvet-lined brown mor. spring case (599), April 18, Sotheby Lamont, £24 [Ballesdens was one of the most celebrated of bibliophiles who followed Grolier, and indeed possessed many examples from the latter's library.] Binding. The Holy Bible, with the Book of Common Prayer and the Metrical Psalms, ruled in red, citron mor., gt. ornamental frame sides, interspersed with various separate floral ornaments, some touched with red, g.e., with similar ornaments, gt. ornamental joints on back, Little Gidding Ferrars binding, in fine condition, Cambridge, T. and J. Buck, 1629 (254), Feb. 23, Sotheby Ashton, 15 IOS. Binding. Booke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, black letter, title in red and black within woodcut compartment, woodcut initials (wormhole through lower margin of first few ll.), bound for Charles I., contemp. brown mor., dentelle border on sides, the centre panel with floreated arabesque corner-pieces, the background filled in with a semis of thistles and fleur-de-lys, in the centre the arms of Charles I. supported by the lion and unicorn and surmounted by a royal crown with initials C. R., gt. back, with thistles and fleurs-de-lys, g.e., sold as a binding and not subject to return, London, R. Barker and J. Bill, 1630 (107), June 28, Sotheby Edwards, £20 Binding. Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apuleii, bound for Grolier in brown mor., with plain and interlaced fillets and ornaments enamelled in red, white, green and black, oval gt. ornament in centre containing the title, lettering in gold, and lower the inscription "Io. Grolierii et Amicorum," below the colophon is the MS. inscription "Joannis Grolierii Lugdunen et amicorum," and below title the MS. inscription "Ex lib. Ro.: Gray colleg. med. Edinburg et Londin socii, 1724," with bookplate of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, from the Hamilton Palace (Beckford) collection, g.e. (repaired), sold as a binding, Bononiae, a Benedicto Hectoris impressore, 1500, folio (105), May 25, Sotheby Read, £280 Binding. Œuvres Spirituelles de feu Monseigneur François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénélon, the text throughout within an ornamental border (sold as a binding and not subject to return), 2 vol., olive mor. gt., g.e., after the style of Padeloup, consisting of an elaborate border of small anchors, acorns and foliage, with ornaments of floral design and large anchors in the angles, in the centre the arms of Bernard de Boulainvilliers, Rotterdam, chez Jean Hofhout, 1738 (377), June 28, Sotheby Case, £36 Binding. A Vindication of Robert III., King of Scotland, from the Imputation of Bastardy, by Viscount Tarbat, contemp. black Scotch mor. ex., the sides covered with blind and gt. tooling, silk tartan linings, g.e., an uncommon specimen of binding, with the arms of King William III. on sides, Edin., 1695, sm. 4to. (127), Dec. 1, Hodgson £36 Bing (S.) Artistic Japan, edited by M. B. Huish, reproductions of Japanese colour prints, illustrations of decorative design, pottery, etc., some in gold and colours, 6 vol., cl., 1888-91, 4to. (265), Feb. 16, Hodgson £4 7s. 6d. Bing (V.) and Ueberfeldt (Braet von). Costumes des PaysBas, dessinés d'après nature, col. plates, text in French and Dutch, hf. mor., Amsterdam, 1857, folio (587), Jan. 24, Sotheby Hertzberger, £3 15s. Binns (R. W.) Century of Potting in Worcester, second ed., plates, hf. mor. (rubbed), 1877, 4to. (584), April 13, Hodgson £2 10S. Porcelain, col. Binns (W. Moore). First Century of English Biorck (Tobias Eric). Dissertatio Gradualis de Plantatione Ecclesiæ Suecanæ in America, quam . . . d. 14 Jun., An. MDCCXXXI., map, bds., orig. wrappers bound in, Upsalia, Literis Wernerianis [1731], sm. 4to. (11), May 16, Anderson Galleries $25 [The map shows Staten Island, New York and parts of Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etc. The book is the first work written by a native of America, and published in Sweden. The dedication by the author is in English verse. There is a commendatory epistle, also in English, by Andrew Hessell.] Birch (G. H.) London Churches of the xvIIth and xvith Centuries, 64 photo-plates and numerous cuts, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1896, imp. folio (945), Feb. 16, Hodgson Batsford, £5 5S. Birch (Dr. T.), Houbraken (J.) and Vertue (George). Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, good impressions of the ports., 2 vol. in 1, old cf. (jonits cracked), For John and Paul Knapton, 1747-52, folio (326), July 18, Sotheby Newton, £5 5s. Birch (W. de G.) Cartularium Saxonicum, a Collection of Charters relating to Anglo-Saxon History, 3 vol., new hf. green mor., g.t., 1885-93, 4to. (112), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £5 10S. Birchensha (R.) A Discourse occasioned upon the late defeat given to the Arch-Rebels, Tyrone and Odonnell, by Lord Mountioy, Lord Deputie of Ireland, in prose and verse, from the Huth library, Printed for M. L., 1602, sm. 4to. (113), May 25, Sotheby Pickering, £16 [Birkenhead (Sir John).] Two Centuries of Pauls Churchyard, red mor. ex., from the Huth library, name or date, c. 1655, sm. 8vo. (116), May Without place, 25, Sotheby Ellis, £3 10s. [Bishop (Dr. William).] A Reformation of a Catholike deformed, by M. W. Perkins, 2 parts, vell., Printed with Priuiledge, 1604, 4to. (396), March 14, Sotheby Luski, £3 5s. Bishope (George). New-England Judged, the Second Part, being a relation of the cruel and bloody Sufferings of the People called Quakers, in the Jurisdiction chiefly of the Massachusetts, beginning with the Sufferings of William Ledra, whom they murthered, and hung upon a Tree at Boston, the 14th of the first month, 1660-1, barely for being such a one as is called a Quaker, etc., full red straight-grain mor., g.e., London, 1667, sm. 4to. (12), May 16, Anderson Galleries $22.50 Bishope (George). New-England Judged by the Spirit of the Lord, in Two Parts, contemp. cf. (back broken and title repaired), London, 1703, 8vo. (55), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries $7.50 Blaauw (F. E.) A Monograph on the Cranes, first ed., illus |