61. BAKER (W. S.). The Engraved Portraits of Washington, with Notices of the Originals and Brief Biographical Sketches of the Painters. 4to, cloth, uncut. Philadelphia, 1880

Limited to 500 copies. With presentation inscription by the author.

62. BAKER (W. S.). Medallic Portraits of Washington with Historical and Critical Notes, and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Coins, Medals, Tokens and Cards. Frontispiece. 4to, cloth, leather back, gilt top, uncut. Philadelphia, 1885

63. BAKER (W. S.). Bibliotheca Washingtoniana. A Descriptive List of the Biographies and Biographical Sketches of George Washington. Frontispiece portrait on Japan paper. 4to, cloth, uncut. Philadelphia, 1889

Presentation copy from the author, inscribed. Inserted is an etched portrait of the author also inscribed.

64. BAKER (W. S.). Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783; Washington After the Revolution. 1784-1799. Portrait. 2 vols. large 8vo, half buckram, gilt tops, uncut. Philadelphia, 1892-98

With presentation inscription by the author in the first volume.

65. BAKER (W. S.). Early Sketches of George Washington. Reprinted with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. Portrait. 8vo, boards, uncut. Philadelphia, 1894

Presentation copy from the author.

66. BAKER (W. S.). The Camp by Schuylkill Falls, 1892; An Address with similar title. 1896; Presentation of Charles Willson Peale's original study for the First Portrait of Washington. [1892]; The Camp by the old Gulph Mill. 1893. Illustrations. 4 vols. large 8vo, boards, morocco backs. Philadelphia, v. d.

Each with a presentation inscription by the Author.

WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF DORÉ

67. BALZAC (HONORE DE). Les Contes Drolatiques. Illustrated with 425 designs by Gustave Doré. 8vo, handsomely bound in full maroon levant morocco, richly gilt back and sides, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Petit. Paris, 1855

A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH THE DORÉ ILLUSTRATIONS (including the fig-leaf cuts). Inserted is a frontispiece photograph portrait of Doré, autographed by him, with sentiment; also two proof etched portraits of Balzac. There is also laid in a 2 pp. A. L. S. of Doré.

WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF BALZAC

68. BALZAC (HONORE DE).

Eugénie Grandet. Orné de huit sujets par M. Dagnan-Bouveret et gravés a l'eau-forte par M. Le Rat. Large 8vo, full light green levant morocco, the back

and sides decorated with a border of 11 lines, doublures of the same levant with large leaf sprays, silk ends, gilt edges, by Canape-Belz. Paris: Pour les Amis des Livres, 1883

Limited to 120 examples. Inserted is a subscription of three lines, signed, in the handwriting of Balzac, and an Autograph Letter of two pages by him. The plates are in 2 states.

69. BANCROFT (GEORGE). Poems. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. Cambridge, 1823

Scarce. On the fly-leaf is a bibliographical note by Mr. Avery.

70. BANVILLE (THEODORE DE). Trente-six Ballades Joyevses. Précédées d'une histoire de la Ballade par Charles Asselineau. 8vo, full blue levant morocco, richly ornamented with an elaborate gilt border and cartouche, exquisitely tooled in the manner of Le Gascon, gilt top, uncut, by Amand.

Paris, 1873

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author to Mons. A. P. Malasois, with a poetical inscription occupying one entire fly-leaf; also, an original wash drawing for a frontispiece to the work, together with a proof etching of same. With bookplate of A. P. Malasois.

71. BASTELAER (D. A. VAN). Les Gres Wallons, grescerame ornes de l'Ancienne Belgique. Illustrated with 19 plates, some in color. 8vo, wrappers, uncut. Mons, 1885

Autograph presentation copy from the author.

72. BAUCHART (ERNEST QUENTIN). Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France (XVIe, XVIIe & XVIIIe Siècles). Facsimiles of bindings and other illustrations. 2 vols. imperial 8vo, full citron levant morocco, gilt and inlaid backs, gilt inside borders, leather joints, silk doublures and flys, gilt tops, by Stikeman.

Paris: D. Morgand, 1886

One of 50 copies printed throughout on China paper.

A BEAUTIFUL AND FASCINATING COPY

73. BAUDELAIRE (CHARLES). Les Fleurs du Mal. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, full dark brown levant morocco, inlaid with brown, red, green, olive, and white, introducing flowers and leaves, death's heads, and heads of cherubs, vases, hour-glasses, torches, birds, mirrors, snakes, and other objects, inlaid or tooled in colors and gold and silver; doublures of light brown inlaid in various colors with cherubs, hearts, skeletons, and other figures in a most elaborate pattern; gilt and gauffred edges, silver clasps. In a leather case, which in turn encloses folding doors tooled in gold and inlaid, lined with satin, by Ch. Meunier. Paris, 1857

An elaborate specimen of Meunier's work, executed for Mr. Avery. The book is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 2 Autograph Letters of Baudelaire, 1 of Bracquemond, and 2 by Champfleury; 2 portraits of the author, original drawings and proof etchings and 33 ornamental head- and tail-pieces by Bracquemond.

74. BAUDELAIRE (CHARLES). Les Fleurs du Mal. Précédées d'une notice par Theophile Gautier. Paris: Levy, 1868; [also] Complement aux Fleurs du mal. Bruxelles, 1869. In one volume, 12mo, full dark brown levant morocco, with back bands tooled in the blind. Obverse inlaid with a full panel of chiseled calf bearing the design of a skeleton with foliated branches for hands, standing in a bed of flowers, painted and inlaid. Floriated inside borders, doublures and flys of crimson watered silk, gilt edges, by Meunier. Paris and Brussels, 1868-9

A CURIOUS MODERN FRENCH BINDING BY MEUNIER, especially executed for Mr. Avery. Inserted are numerous portraits and fanciful proof etchings by Rops, Bracquemond and others, together with an A. L. S. of Baudelaire. The chiseled design on the front cover is somewhat after the design of one of the Rops etchings inserted.

75. BAYSIUS (LAZARUS). De re vestiaria. Beautiful woodcuts by Geoffroy Tory. 8vo, full green levant morocco, gilt back, the sides beautifully decorated with double panels lined in gilt, enclosing blind-tooled designs of rampant lions, fleurs-de-lys, and other decorations in gold and blind, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Lortie. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1536

Very Scarce. With "Ex Libris Franchetti.''

76. BAZIRE (EDMOND). Manet. Illustrations d'après les originaux et gravures de Guerard. Large 8vo, half vellum, leather label, by Matthews. Paris: A. Quantin, 1884 One of 50 copies on Japan paper. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an Autograph Letter and a Note, by Manet, an original pencil portrait of the artist by Guerard, and a number of portraits and reproductions of his work, some of them in proof state. At the end are bound "Ed. Manet, par Emile Zola." Paris, 1867; and "Le Fleuve, par Charles Cros. Eaux-fortes d'Edouard Manet." Paris, n. d. This last is one of 100 copies, signed by Manet and Cros.

77. [BEARD (THOMAS).] Pedantius. Comœdia olim Cantabrig. acta in Coll. Trin. Woodcut border to title, and the two very rare engravings of "Dromodotus" and "Pedantus," characters in the play. Small 8vo, old calf, rebacked. In morocco case. Londini: Excudebat W. S. Impensis Roberti Mylbourn, 1631

VERY RARE. Pedantius is represented birch in hand, uttering the words, "As in praesenti,'' behind his back two boys are standing, and on a shelf above are a number of volumes. The figure of Pedantius is supposed to be a picture of Beard himself, who was schoolmaster to Oliver Cromwell. A small hole in title has been repaired.

78. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Bon-Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Portrait of Sydney Smith; cover design and grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. 16mo, buckram, uncut. London, 1893

FIRST EDITION on Large Paper, with the Beardsley designs.

79. BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS OFFICIUM. Engraved frontispieces and numerous copperplates before all letters. Small 8vo, full black morocco, gilt back in compartments, with gold stars

and dots; distinctive gold border on sides, doublures and flys of rose watered silk, gilt edges, by Derome the younger, with ticket. In black morocco solander case.

Venetiis: Apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali, 1740

FINE COPY. Engraved throughout, with one or two added plates.

80. [BEAUCHATEAU (FRANCOIS MATHIEU CHASTELET DE).] La Lyre du Jeune Apollon, ou la Muse Naissante du Petit de Beauchasteau; dedie au Roi. With frontispiece and 27 fine portraits of the personages addressed by the young poet, including one of himself (then 12 years old), Louis XIV. in youth, and Queen Henrietta Maria of England. 2 parts in one volume. Royal 8vo, full red levant morocco, Jansen style, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Hardy-Mennil.

A Paris: Chez Charles de Sercy et Guillaume de Lvynes, 1557 A CHOICE COPY OF THIS RARE WORK OF THE CELEBRATED INFANT PRODIGY, interesting to the bibliophile in consequence of the meritorious character of the verses. The portraits are brilliant impressions. Brunet mentions only 22 portraits; the present copy contains 27. With bookplate of J. Renard.

81. BEAUMONT (E. DE). L'Epée et les Femmes. Cinq dessins de Meissonier tires hors texte. Royal 8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1881

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, with an original pencil drawing by him. One of 50 copies on Holland paper with the plates in two states.

82. BEAUMONT (E. DE). Un Drame dans une Carafe. With illustrations by Louis Leloir, frontispiece in two states. Square 8vo, parchment boards, uncut, original wrappers bound in.

Paris, 1882 Dei Delitti e

83. [BECCARIA (CESARE-BONE-SANA).] Delle Pene. 8vo, contemporary red French morocco, gilt back and lines on sides, by [Fremont]. Parigi: Fr. Amb. Didot, 1780

Fine copy of this beautiful edition. With the bookplate of L. Pasquier. 84. BEERN (JOHANN CHRISTOFF). Des in JEsum verliebten Frauen-Zimmers Schmertzliche Sunden-Bereuung, Hertzlich-verlangte Verzeihung, Himmlische Seelen-Erfreuung, Oder Buss-, Beicht-, und Comunion- Buchlein, Darinnen Vermittelst andachtiger Gebete, Seuffzer und Lieder, gezeiget und gewiesen wird, wie diese drey dem allerheiligsten Gott hochst-angenehme Wercke Christgebuhrlich mogen angefangen, loblich fortgesetzet, und Seelen-erbaulich vollendet werden. Narrow 12mo, white silk over canvas embroidered with gold thread and colored silks. On the obverse is a full-length figure of The Good Shepherd; on the reverse, the figure of St. John the Baptist. The flesh parts and backgrounds are painted. The back is embroidered in flowers and leaves. Edges gilt and gauffred. In a morocco case.

Nurnberg: Otto, 1704

GERMAN EMBROIDERED BINDING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

SUPERB SPECIMEN OF LE GASCON

85. BELLARMIN (ROBERT, Cardinal). Traite de l'eternelle felicite des saints, divise en cinq livres: Et traduit du Latin du grand Cardinal Belarmin. Vignette on title-page. Engraved head-pieces with the arms of Louis XIV and tail-pieces with the initials P. R. 8vo, full red French morocco, exquisitely gold tooled. Inside of a dentelle border a double fillet of two pairs of lines separated by small joined circles, lozenges and squares, with a single dot in their centres, encloses the main framework. This is cantled with quarter circles at the corners, and small semicircular spaces at middle of sides, and encloses two large quatrefoil panels. The framework is absolutely covered with graceful scrolls beautifully gold-tooled in solid lines with ornaments and dots. Back panels gold-tooled to match, linings of brocade silk, gilt edges, with a beautiful open-work scroll and foliated silver gilt clasp, by Le Gascon. Paris: P. Rocolet, 1656

A SUPERB SPECIMEN OF LE GASCON'S BEAUTIFUL WORKMANSHIP. A name has been cut from title.

86. BENEDICTUS (ALEXANDER). Diaria de Bella Carolino. 68 leaves. 8vo, full red morocco with large panels of green morocco inlaid in the sides, gilt borders with dentelle tooling, the anchor device of Aldus in the center, gilt inside borders, silk doublures and ends, gilt edges (some marginal repairs).

Venice: Aldus, 1496 EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Printed in the types used by Aldus for his 1495 edition of Aetna. With the Syston Park bookplate.

87. BENEDITE (LEONCE). Jean-Charles Cazin. Plates on Japan paper and illustrations in the text. 4to, wrappers, uncut. Edition de Luxe, limited to 50 copies. Paris, n. d.

88. BENNETT (CHARLES). The Book of Blockheads. How and what they Shot, Got, Said, Had, Fought, Followed, Gave, Sold, etc. 28 full-page colored plates by Charles Bennett. 4to, full polished calf, gilt back, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by Rivière. London, 1863

FIRST EDITION.

89. BERANGER (P. J. DE). Euvres Complètes. Nouvelle Edition. Format Elzevirien. Ornée de 8 gravures [from drawings by Daubigny]. Foolscap 8vo, full green calf, with monogram on one side, gilt edges. Paris: Perrotin, 1847

90. BERLOT-CHAPUIT. Fables-Proverbes, précédées d'une lettre-introduction de M. de Lamartine et suivies des Souvenirs de Saint-Point, Monceau, etc. Illustrated after the designs of Rosa Bonheur, Bertall, Daubigny, Gavarni, and others. Royal 8vo, boards, uncut. Paris, 1858

With bookplate and autograph of Eugene Paillet.