389. BLANC (CHARLES-AND OTHERS). Histoire des Peintres de Toutes les Écoles. Numerous illustrations. 14 vols. folio, half orange levant morocco gilt, gilt tops, uncut (a number of pages foxed), by Masson-Desennelle.

Paris: Vve. Jules Renouard, 1861-1876

* A very choice set.

390. BLANC (CHARLES). L'Euvre de Rembrandt décrit et commenté. . Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes du maître et de ses peintures. Woodcuts, 40 etchings by Flameng, and 35 heliogravures by Durand. 2 vols. 4to, original covers, uncut. Paris, 1873

* Holland paper copy.

391. BLANC,

GUILLAUME,

MANTZ, AND OTHERS. L'Euvre et la Vie de Michel-Ange, dessinateur-sculpteurpeintre, architecte et poëte. With 5 plates on India paper, 3 etchings, and over 100 woodcut illustrations. Imperial 8vo, half red levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by Chatelin.

* One of 430 copies on papier vélin.

Paris, 1876

392. BLOUNT (SIR THOMAS POPE). De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Small 4to, maroon levant morocco, sides tooled in a design of interlaced fillets, gilt edges, by Leon Gruel, in a case.

*FIRST EDITION. London: Ric. Everingham, 1694

393. BOCAGE (MARIE ANNE LE PAGE). Recueil des Euvres. With 2 portraits by Tardieu, engraved titles, one plate and one vignette after Briad. 2 vols. 12mo, citron levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, by David. Lyon, 1762

* Extra-illustrated by the insertion of 10 plates by Chedel in Vol. 2.

394. BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI). Genealogia deorum gentilium. Roman character. 295 unnumbered leaves (including the blank 242), without signatures and catchwords; 41 lines to the page. Painted initials and arms on the lower margin of the first page of the text. Folio, brown levant morocco, gilt borders on the sides, gilt back and inside borders, gilt edges, by Thierry; washed copy and last blank missing. Hain-Copinger, 3315; Proctor, 4045.

Venetiis [Vindelinus de Spira], 1472
Contes de Bocace;

395. BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI). traduction nouvelle, Augmentée de divers Contes et Nouvelles en vers imités de ce Poëte célèbre, par La Fontaine, Passerat, Vergier, Perrault, Dorat et autres; et enrichie de Notes historiques sur les principaux personnages que Bocace a mis sur la scène, et sur les usages observés dans le siècle où il vivait. 133 plates engraved by Cochin, Delvaux, Dupréel and others after Gravelot, Bornet, Boucher, and Monnet, and including

eleven frontispieces and two portraits one of Boccaccio, the other of La Fontaine after Rigaud. 11 vols. 8vo, original boards, uncut. Paris, 1801

Large Holland Paper copy.

396. BOCCHIUS (ACHILLES). Symbolicorum Qvæstionum de uniuerso genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque. FIRST EDITION. Portrait, 1 woodcut, and 148 copper-plate engravings by Giulio Bonasone. 4to, brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru. Rare.

Bononiæ in ædibus Nova Academiæ Bocchianæ, 1555 397. BOCCUS. The History of kyng Boccus, z Sydracke how he confoundyd his lerned men, and in ye syght of them dronke stronge venym in the name of the trinite z dyd hym no hurt. Also his diuynyte yt he lerned of the boke of Noe. Also his profycyes that he had by reuelacyō | of the aungell . . . . [Colophon] Thus endeth the hystory and questyōs of kynge Boccus and Sydracke. Prynted at London by Thomas Godfray. At the coste and charge of dan Robert Saltwode mōke of saynt Austens at Cantorbury. | Cum priuilegio regali. Black letter. Woodcut of King Boccus and Sidrach on title and the arms of St. Augustin's monastery of Canterbury on the verso of last leaf. 4to, red levant morocco, gilt panelled sides; doublure of same colored morocco, richly tooled and gilt in compartments with arabesques, leaf sprays, etc., gilt edges, in the manner of the bindings executed by the Eves, by Mercier. Title skilfully mended, portion of lower margin of H2 mended with slight damage of the signature, and blank upper corners of 10 leaves and blank lower corner of 1 leaf skilfully supplied.

London: Thomas Godfray, n. d. [ca. 1530]

* COLLATION: A6, B-Z4, z 4, A-S4-170 leaves.

Translated by Hugo Caumpeden. Only four copies are said to be known of this extremely rare book, which is probably one of the first issued from the press of Thomas Godfray living at Temple Bar ca. 1530, whose books-with one exception-are undated. Outside of the slight defects mentioned above the copy is a fine and sound one.

(See Reproduction.)

398. BOCKLER (GEORGE ANDREA). Theatrum Machinarum Novum, exhibens Aquarias, Alatas, Jumentarias, Manuarias, Pedibus, ac Ponderibus Versatiles Plures, et Diversas Molas. Ex Germania in Latinum translatum opera Henrici Schmitz. Engraved frontispiece by Sommer, and 154 plates of machinery. Folio, old citron morocco gilt, gilt edges.

Coloniæ Agrippinæ: Sumptibus Pauli Principis, 1662 399. BODEL (JEAN). La Chanson des Saxons. Publiée pour la première fois par Francisque Michel. 2 vols. 12mo, red levant morocco gilt, gilt edges, by Belz-Niédrée.

Paris, 1839

*No. 5 of "Romans des Douze Pairs de France.''

rome.

400. BOËTHIUS. La Consolation Philosophique de Boëce. 2 vols. small 8vo, red morocco, gilt backs, gilt edges, by DeLa Haye Pierre de Hondt, 1744 401. BETTIGER (C. A.). Sabine: ou Matinée d'une Dame Romaine a sa Toilette, a la fin du premier siècle de l'ère Chrétienne. Thirteen plates engraved in outline. 8vo, half calf. Paris: Maradan, 1813 402. BOHN (HENRY G.). (HENRY G.). The Biography and Bibliography of Shakespeare. 19 plates. Small 4to, red morocco, doublures and guards of russia, gilt top, uncut, by Zaehnsdorf. [London: Philobiblon Society, 1863]

*The author's own copy, with his autograph.

403. BOHUN (EDMUND). The General History of the Reformation of the Church, begun in Germany by Martin Luther. Written in Latin by John Sleidan and faithfully Englished. Portraits of Luther, Charles V, Frederick III, and Melancthon, etc., by Faithorne. Folio, contemporary red morocco, back and sides richly gilt-tooled, gilt edges.

London: Edw. Jones, 1689

404. BOHUN (R.). A Discourse Concerning the origine and properties of Wind. With an Historicall Account of Hurricanes, and other Tempestuous Winds. Three copperplates. Small 8vo, sprinkled calf.

Oxford: Printed by W. Hall for Tho. Bowman, Anno Dom. 1671.

* Presentation copy from the author, with inscription, "For ye Honor'd Captain Georg Cock, from his Humble Servt R. Bohun." Captain Cock is mentioned on page 242.

Satires

405. [BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (NICOLAS).] du Sieur D ***. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. *FIRST EDITION. Rare. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1666

406. BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (NICOLAS). Le Lutrin: An Heroick Poem. Made English by N. O. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half brown morocco. London, 1682 (NICOLAS). Euvres.

407. BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX With portrait by Daule after Rigaud and vignettes by Eisen. Also 12 illustrations, including 6 India paper proofs by Moreau and a portrait of Boileau by St. Aubin inserted. 5 vols. 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, ornaments of dots and foliage on back, and covers; arms on both covers, doublure of green silk, gilt edges, by Lefebure. Paris, 1747.

*Fine paper copy, from the Yemeniz collection.

408. BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (NICOLAS). Œuvres de Boileau Despréaux. Imprimé par Ordre du Roi pour l'éducation de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Portrait of Boileau by St. Aubin, inserted. 3 vols. 18mo, blue levant morocco, fleurs