mor., g.e., with the device of the Carrick House library on sides, London, printed by W. Seres (1565-6), sm. 4to. (19), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $140 Blundeville (T.) His Exercises . . . as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation, the third ed., black letter, woodcut diagrams, orig. cf., with initials "T. B." on sides, John Windet, 1606, 8vo. (311), Nov. 24, Sotheby Quaritch, £8 Blunt (W. S.) The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus, with the Love-Sonnets of Proteus by W. Scawen Blunt, now reprinted with many Sonnets omitted from the earlier eds., capital letters in red, vell., uncut, 1892, 8vo. (448), Nov. 15, Sotheby Dobell, £7 10S. Blyth (Edward). Catalogue of Birds in the Museum Asiatic Society, bds., cl. back, Calcutta, 1849, 8vo. (55), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries

$50

Boaistuau (P.) Theatrum Mundi, the Theatre or rule of the Worlde... Englished by Iohn Alday, black letter (hole through title and next 3 11. slightly affecting the text, one or two marginal notes just touched, last leaf backed), old cf., H. Bynneman for T. Hacket, 1574, 8vo. (702), Jan. 17, Sotheby Pickering, £4 [Boaistuau (P.)] Theatrum Mundi: the Theatre, or Rule of the World, wherein may be seene the running race and course of every mans life, Englished by J. Alday, black letter, old cf. (worn), London, Thomas East for Iohn Wyght, 1581, sm. 8vo. (30), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $47.50 Boccaccio (Giovanni). Geneologiae Deorum, roman letter, long lines, 62 to a full page, woodcut genealogical trees, etc., Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1494-Diomedes. De Arte grammatica, roman letter, Venice, J. Rubeus, 1511, in I vol., cf., with clasps (rubbed), 1494-1511, folio (235), May 9, Sotheby Fimet, £2 15s. Boccaccio (G.) De Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes, MSS. [H. Y. T. Catalogue, third series, No. xci.; H. Y. T. Illustrations of 100 MSS., Vol. vi., pl. liv.-lxii.], vell., 15 by 113 in., ff. 301, green velvet, probably French, of the first half of the 19th century, Cent. xv. (c. 1460-80), (72), June 22, Sotheby Sabin, £460

[Boccaccio's "Des Cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes," in the translation of Laurent de Premierfait, finished by him in 1409, was probably the most popular historical work with French readers in the fifteenth century. According to the arms on the picture pages, this manuscript belonged to Marie d'Ailly, widow of Antoine Rolin, the second son of Nicolas Rolin, the immensely rich Chancellor of Burgundy, who founded the beautiful Hotel Dieu at Beaune. There are no later signs of ownership.] Boccaccio (G.) Die Gantz Römisch histori auffs fleissigst und Kürtzst begriffen. Ein treffenliche schone Oretun M. T. Ciceronis für M. Marcellum . . . verteütscht durch Christophorum Brunonem von Hyrtzweil, woodcuts by Werditz,

Schaufelein, etc., modern russ. gt., g.e., by Clyde, Augspurg, durch H. Stayner, 1542, folio (3019), Nov. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £3 Boccaccio (G.) A Treatise excellent and compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the falls of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other Nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of unstedfast Fortune, together with their most detestable and wicked vices, first compyled in Latin by . . . Bocatius . . . and since that by me translated into our English and Vulgare song, by Dan John Lidgate, black letter, double columns, title within woodcut border, woodcuts in text (a few ll. at end slightly defective and mended in fore-margins), otherwise a good copy, with the leaf CCxx. Greneacres a Lenudy upon John Bochas, brown mor., gt. centre-pieces, g.e., R. Tottel, 1554, folio (3018), Nov. 2, Sotheby

Quaritch, £15 Boccaccio (G.) The Tragedies, gathered by Jhon Bochas, of all such Princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune . . . translated into Englysh by John Lidgate, Monke of Burye, black letter, title within a woodcut border (title mounted, one leaf torn and very slightly defective, a few words damaged by wormholes, etc.), cf., John Wayland, n.d. [circa 1559], folio (405), July 18, Sotheby £12 10S. [This copy contains A Memorial of suche Princes," one leaf, very slightly defective and repaired, which is usually wanting. Sotheby, Nov. 2, Lot 3017, £8.] Boccace (G.) Traite des Mesadventures de Personages Signalez, old cf., Paris, Nicolas Eve, 1578, 8vo. (58), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries E. R. Cole, $127.50

[Translated by Claude Witart. It is the sole book known to have been published by Nicolas Eve, the royal binder to Henri III., Henri IV. and Marguerite de Valois. Only three copies, including the present, are recorded.] Boccaccio (G.) Decamerone, front. port. of Boccaccio, engraved, contemp. red straight-grained mor., gt. monogram in centre of sides, g.e. (binding rubbed, back faded, offset from plate on title, some light fox-marks, small tear in title margin), London, Giovanni Nourse, 1762, 4to. (69), Jan. 24, American Art Association $17.50

[Fine ed., in Italian, edited by Martinelli, and with a preface, life of Boccaccio, table and observations by the editor. Lowndes states that the portrait is of Martinelli, by Bartolozzi, but the portrait in this volume is of Boccaccio, and is unsigned.]

Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, novamente corretto con tre novelle aggiunte, old French red mor., g.e., with bookplate of the Duke of Albany, Vinegia, nelle Case d'Aldo, 1522, 8vo. (125), May 25, Sotheby Olschki, £28 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio

nvovamente stampato et ricorretto per Messer Lodovico Dolce, vell., Stampato in Venegia, Curtio Nauo, 1541, 4to. (157), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $24 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone, port. of Boccaccio by Morghen after Gorzini, 4 vol. in 2, hf. cl. and bds., uncut (one title has slight tear on inner margin), Italia, co'caratteri di E. Didot, 1816, folio (22), Feb. 8, Anderson Galleries $25 [Large Paper copy of this rare ed.] Boccaccio (G.) Îl Decamerone, con un discorso critico d'Ugo Foscolo, LARGE PAPER, plates by Stothard on India paper, 3 vol., brown mor. ex., Pickering, 1825, 8vo. (110), March 14, Sotheby Edwards, £4 15s. Boccaccio (G.) Le Décaméron, traduction complete par Antoine Le Maçon, 6 vol., mor. gt., g.e., Paris, 1879, 8vo. (250), March 14, Sotheby Joseph, £3 3s. Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, now first completely done into English by John Payne, 3 vol., orig. parchment gt., uncut, g.t., Privately printed for the Villon Soc., 1886, 4to. (348), Dec. 13, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 5s. American Art Association, Oct. 27, Lot 181, $25; Hodgson, Nov. 3, Lot 564, £7 15s.] Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, translated by John Payne, plates by Louis Chalon, Japanese vell. copy (only 36 so issued), 2 vol., vell., Privately printed, 1893, imp. 8vo. (32), Feb. 16, Hodgson Gordon, £5

[Sotheby, Nov. 15, Lot 86, £6 5s.] Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, translated by John Payne, illustrated with the charming series of photogravure plates by Louis Chalon, 2 vol., cl., uncut, London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, imp. 8vo. (23), Feb. 8, Anderson Galleries $32.50 [Large Paper copy. One of 174 copies printed on Japan paper.) Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, with introduction by E. Hutton, 4 vol., hf. buckram gt., 1904, 8vo. (269), Oct. 27, Hodgson Heffer, £6 7s. 6d. Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron, translated by J. M. Rigg, illustrated by Louis Chalon, plates on Japanese vell., 2 vol., hf. buckram, g.t., Privately printed, 1920, 8vo. (112), April 25, Sotheby Wallmann, £2 48.

[Puttick, March 9, Lot 269, £2.], Boccaccio (G.) The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conuersation. The Decameron, containing one hundred pleasant Nouels, 2 parts in 1, first title within a woodcut border, second title within a woodcut pictorial border in compartments, woodcuts in the text (3 11. at the end wanting and supplied in fac., last leaf neatly mended with portions in fac.), green mor., full gt. back, gt. borders on sides with ornaments at angles, g.e., by Rivière, not subject to return, I. Jaggard for M. Lownes, 1625, folio (319), May 18, Sotheby Tregaskis, £26 [First ed. of the first English translation of the De

cameron. Sotheby, April 25, Lot 658, £40; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 11, Lot 31, $860; Sotheby, March 17, Lot 263, £41; Hodgson, Jan. 12, Lot 558, £81.]

Boccaccio (G.) The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, framed in Ten Dayes, of an hundred curious Peeces, third ed., 2 vol. in 1, engraved title, woodcuts (a few ll. slightly water-stained), orig. cf. (corners rubbed and one joint cracked), in drop mor. case, Tho. Cotes, 1634, 8vo. (262), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £26 Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron de Jean Boccace, plates after Eisen, Gravelot, etc., many marked with the paraphe," 5 vol., cf. gt., g.e., Londres (Paris), 1757-61, 8vo. (339), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £68 [Sotheby, Nov. 15, Lot 81, £31; Sotheby, March 17, Lot 25, £35.] Boccaccio (G.) The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccaccio, port., cf. (rubbed), Printed for Awnsham Churchill, 1684, folio (33), April 18, Sotheby Dobell, £3 3s. Boccaccio (G.) Novels and Tales, a Hundred curious Novels by seven honourable Ladies and three Noble Gentlemen, framed in Ten Days, port. by R. White, old cf., 1684, folio (1034), March 14, Sotheby Edwards, £4 IOS. Boccace (G.) Le Decameron, plates after Gravelot, Boucher, Cochin, etc., with the set of estampes galantes by Gravelot, 5 vol., mottled cf. gt., g.e., Londres [Paris], 1767, 8vo. (26), March 17, Sotheby Cardy, £98 Bode (W.) Adrioen Brouwer, plates, Wien, 1884-Bilderlese aus kleineren Gemaldesammlungen in Deutschland und Österreich, plates, ib., n.d., etc., in 1 vol., hf. red mor., t.e.g., 1884-8, folio (265), March 17, Sotheby Parsons, £3 Bode (W.) The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, plates, 3 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., 1908-12, atlas folio (267), March 17, Sotheby Quaritch, £26[Bodenham (John).] Wits Theater of the little World, old cf. (one cover loose), [London], I. R. for N. L., 1599, 12mo. (32), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $42.50 [Bodenham (John).] Englands Helicon, or the Mvses Harmony, orig. limp vell., London, printed for Richard More, 1614, sm. 4to. (33), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $440

[Extremely rare. The first ed. was issued in 1600, and probably not more than six perfect copies are known. The present copy is in splendid condition. The dedication, which is to the Lady Elizabeth Cary, is signed by Richard More, the latter name being scored through. This is the most important of the early collections of Elizabethan poems, representing some of the best poems by the editor's contemporaries, viz., Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Lodge, Greene, Breton, Peele, the Earl of Surrey, etc. Those of Shakespearean interest are Dumaine's song from "Love's Labours Lost" ("On a day alack the day "); Come live with me and be my

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love," by Marlowe; and Ignoto's (Barnfield's) answer, both included in the "Passionate Pilgrim " as being by Shakespeare. With bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate,

1709, on verso of title.] Bodley (Sir Thomas). Bodleiomnema, a collection of Latin poems by Members of Merton College in memory of Sir T. Bodley, vell., Oxoniæ, J. Barnesius, 1613, sm. 4to. (126), May 25, Sotheby Smedley, £6 15s. Bodoni. Anakreontos, printed in capitals, blue mor. gt., g.e., Parma, 1791, 8vo. (57), May 18, Sotheby Bain, £2 10S. Bodinus (J.) Demonomania de gli Stregoni cioé Furori et Malie dé Demoni, hf. mor., uncut, arms of the Duke of Sutherland on side, In Venetia, presso Aldo, 1592, 4to. (257), Jan. 12, Puttick Dobell, 17s. 6d. Boethius. Boecius, De consolacione philosophie, black letter, 93 ll., 29 long lines (wants the first blank leaf, one leaf in fac., the margins of several 11. damaged, in some cases injuring the text, and carefully repaired, a few words defective from rust and other stains), brown mor., stamped in blind [Westminster], W. Caxton [about 1478], folio (127), May 25, Sotheby

Sabin, £400
St. Albans
Large copy

[De Ricci's Census of Caxtons, No. 8 (8). King Edward VI. Grammar School copy. (286 mm. by 203 mm.)] Boetius de Philosophico consolatione, roman and gothic letter, numerous woodcuts (one col. by a contemp. hand), olive mor. gt., g.e., by Clarke and Bedford, Argentine, J. Gruninger, 1501, folio (320), May 18, Sotheby Leighton, £2 8s. [Boileau Despréaux (N.)] Epistre à Monsieur De Guillerragues, par le Sr. D***, first ed., A Paris, chez Claude Barbin, 1675 (292), July 25, Sotheby Boileau Despréaux (N.) ŒŒuvres, fine port. of Boileau by F. Cheveau, after Rigaud, port. of Regent Phillippe d'Orleans, by F. Cheveau, after Santerre, and 6 plates for "le Lutrin," by Cheveau, 2 vol., old cf. gt. (a little worn), r.e., A Geneve, 1716, 4to. (246), April 25, Sotheby

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Cash, £3 Boileau Despréaux (N.) Euvres, avec des Eclaircissemens Historiques, donnez par lui-meme, nouvelle ed., with port. of Boileau by Picart, and also one of Queen Wilhelmina Charlotte (George II.'s Consort), after Kneller, by Gunst, and culs-de-lampe, vignettes and initial letters by Picart, 2 vol., orig. bds., uncut (a little worn), A Amsterdam, chez Francois Changuion, 1729, folio (60), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries $225 Boileau Despréaux (N.) Euvres, plates by Cochin fils (unsigned), fleurons and vignettes by Boucher, etc. after Eisen, 5 vol., straight-grained mor. gt., by Bozerian jeune, forwarding, green silk, with gt. border, Paris, David, 1747, 8vo. (342), March 1, Sotheby Parsons, £20 Boileau Despréaux (N.) Œuvres par M. De Saint-Marc,