" trated by 22 col. plates of cranes and their eggs, one of 170 copies printed, pictorial cl., Leiden, 1897, folio (51), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries $32.50 Black (The) Book of Taymouth, with other Papers from the Breadalbane Charter Room, ports. and facs. of the pictures in gold and colours, and other plates, presentation copy To the Revd. Thomas McLachlan from Breadalbane, Taymouth, Nov. 28, 1859" on fly-leaf, crimson mor. ex., g.e., Edinb. (privately printed), 1855, 4to. (254), Nov. 15, Sotheby £6 6s. Blackmore (R. D.) Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor, 3 vol., orig. blue cl., uncut, as issued, London, Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1869, cr. 8vo. (19), Feb. 8, Anderson Galleries $125 [First ed.; a very good copy, ex-lib., with labels removed.] [Blackmore (R. D.)] Poems by Melanter, first ed., orig. limp cl., R. Hardwicke, 1854, 8vo. (88), June 15, Puttick Nelson, £4 IOS. [Blackwood (Adam).] Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse, douariere de France, vell., Edinbourg, 1587, 8vo. (79), Nov. 15, Sotheby Hopkins, £4 158. Blackwell (Elizabeth). Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful Plants, used in the Practice of Physick, LARGE PAPER, 500 col. plates, 2 vol., cf., 1739, roy. folio (246), June 15, Sotheby Wheldon, £2 Blades (William). The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's first printer, etc., first ed., front. port. and facs., 2 vol., hf. red mor., gt. top, uncut, London, 1861, 4to. (148), Oct. 25, Anderson Galleries $21.50 Blades (William). The Enemies of Books, second ed., LARGE PAPER, blue mor., g.t., 1880, 8vo. (118), May 25, Sotheby Edwards, fi Blaeu (W. and J.) Toonneel des Aerdrücx, oste Nieuwe Atlas, dat is Beschryving van Alle Landen, engraved titles and numerous maps, col., including maps of New England, Virginia and other parts of America, etc., 2 vol., old cf., gt. backs and panelled sides (joints cracked), Amsterdam, 1642-43 (270), March 31, Hodgson Stevens, Son & Stiles, £5 5s. Blaeu (G. J.) Atlas, Inglaterra (only), maps, col. and illuminated (some 11. foxed), vell. gt., g.e., Amsterdam, n.d., folio (782), Jan. 17, Sotheby Hope, £9 15s. Blaeu (G. J.) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, engraved fronts. and maps (col.), 4 vol., vell. gt. (not subject to return), Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1644-6, folio (239), May 9, Sotheby Austen, £6 IOS. Blaeu (J.) Atlas de la Grande Bretagne, title and 62 maps, with coats-of-arms and cartouches, col. by a contemp. hand, old rough cf., Amsterdam [ca. 1648], roy. folio (287), April 13, Hodgson F. J. Nield, £5 10s. Blaeu (J.) Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium, Belgicae Regiae, Belgicae Foederatae, col. maps and views, 2 vol. (wants titles, pieces cut away from about 12 of the maps and 2 or 3 others also defective), contemp. cf. gt., g.e. (rubbed), not subject to return, Amsterdam, 1649, large folio (380), Jan. 17, Sotheby Robinson, £5 Blaeu (J.) Theatrum Urbium Belgicæ, etc., engraved plans of the cities of Holland, Belgium and Northern France, 3 vol., vell., 1649, roy. folio (417), June 16, Hodgson H. Wright, £3 7s. 6d. Blaeu (J.) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus, numerous double-page maps, including several of America, 5 vol.-Novus Atlas Sinensis a M. Martinio, together 6 vol., old vell. gt., Amsterdam, 1649-54, roy. folio (497), July 21, Hodgson Stevens, Son & Stiles, £9 Blaeu's Atlas, engraved title and maps with cartouches, col. throughout, Vol. vi. (Scotland and Ireland), old cf., Amsterdam, 1762, imp. folio (598), Dec. 1, Hodgson Quaritch, £8 5s. Blair (Hugh). Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, a splendid Association copy, bds., uncut, in full red levant mor. case, Philadelphia, Robert Aitken, 1784, 4to. (16), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $55 [First American ed. Presentation copy from Thomas Lee Shippen to George Wythe.] Blair (H.) Sermons, 5 vol., green mor. gt., g.e., 1785-1801, 8vo. (17), May 20, Puttick Brentano, £2 2s. Blair (Robt.) The Grave, a Poem, with Life of the Author, LARGE PAPER, plates by W. Blake, port. on India paper, hf. mor., g.t., 1808, folio (589), May 9, Sotheby Edwards, £2 [Sotheby, June 15, Lot 947, £1 14s.; April 22, Lot 393, £1 2s.] Blair (Robt.) The Grave, port. and 12 etchings by Schiavonetti after Blake, hf. mor., 1808, 4to. (7), April 26, Christie Sessler, £6 1OS. Blair (Robt.) The Grave, a Poem, with Life of the Author, 12 plates by W. Blake and port. by Schiavonetti, hf. mor., g.t., 1813, folio (671), July 20, Sotheby Atkinson, £2 Blake (Admiral Robert). An Encomiastick or Elegiack Enumeration of the noble Atchievements and Services done at Land and Sea by Generall Robert Blake, in verse, red mor. ex., g.e., from the Huth library, T. Roycroft, 1658, sm. 4to. (119), May 25, Sotheby Drake, II IOS. Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake, 1825, 22 plates, proofs on India paper, mounted on folio sheets, unbd., London, William Blake, No. 3 Fountain Court, Strand, 1825 (55), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries Weyhe, $102.50 [Linnell paid Blake £150, the largest sum Blake ever received for any one series, in instalments of £2 to £3 a week. Sotheby, Oct. 25, Lot 360, £39; June 15, Lot 1080, £32.] Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience-Songs of Innocence, The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1789Songs of Experience, The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1794, 54 ll. printed in orange upon one side only, the pagination consecutive through the two parts has been added by Blake with a brush in red, watermark dated 1825, red mor. gt., by Rivière, with inscription on fly-leaf, "Given to John Linnell, Junr., by John Linnell, Senr., April 28th, 1863," printed on LARGE PAPER (10 in. by 7 in.), a magnificent copy, 1789-94, 4to. (3), June 9, Sotheby Sabin, £510 [Executed by the artist for his friend, Mr. Arkwright. The work usually occurs in the form of a post 8vo. or 12mo. volume. Evidently the copy sold at the Linnell sale at "Christie's," March 15, 1918, for 700 guineas, and since bound.] Blake (W.) Facsimile of what is believed to be the last replica of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, with an introduction by E. J. Ellis, No. 29 of 50 copies, hf. sheep, 1893, 4to. (120), May 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 10s. Blake (W.) Illustrations of Dante, 7 plates, designed and engraved by W. Blake, author of "Illustrations of the Book of Job," proofs on India paper, in cl. case, n.p., n.d., atlas folio (56), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries Weyhe, $107.50 Blake (W.) Works, reduced in fac. from the orig. eds., one of 100 copies, hf. mor., t.e.g. (a little loose in binding), For private circulation, 1876, folio (205), June 15, Puttick [Hodgson, Dec. 9, Lot 230, £6.] Maggs, £5 IOS. Blake (W.) Life and Works, by A. Gilchrist, second and best ed., port. and plates on India paper, 2 vol., designed cl. ex., uncut, 1880 (724), Feb. 2, Hodgson Maggs, £8 2s. 6d. Blake (W.) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, fac. in colours, hf. leather [Edmonton, 1885], 4to. (61), Dec. 13, American Art Association $16 [Only a very limited number printed. The Edmonton Facsimile," drawn on stone and coloured by hand under the supervision of W. Muir.] Blake (W.) America, a Prophecy, fac. of the orig. ed. printed by Blake, Lambeth, 1793-The Song of Los, fac. in colours of the orig. ed. printed by Blake, Lambeth, 1795-Facsimile of the broadside sheet of Blake's Little Tom the Sailor," 1800, with wrappers of the first two bound in, I vol., brown mor. gt. (binding rubbed), Edmonton, 18871890, folio (60), Dec. 13, American Art Association $41 [The two first publications are the very restricted issues, only 50 copies printed, drawn on stone, the second coloured by hand by W. Muir and a very small staff of artists acting under his personal supervision. They are known as the "Edmonton Facsimiles." Mr. Muir's autograph is on both wrappers.] Blanchard (J. P.) The Forty-fifth Aerial Flight of the universally celebrated Mr. Blanchard at Philadelphia, folded (repaired), in hf. mor. slip-case [Philadelphia, 1781], 12mo. (60), Jan. 10, Anderson Galleries $95 [Extremely rare, unknown to Evans. This piece described Blanchard's perfected flying machine as a waggon with 6 wings, which took him, with a balance of six pounds, in one moment above 20 feet high, and then let him slowly down again."] Blanchard (J. P.) Journal and Certificates on the Fourth Voyage of M. Blanchard, who ascended from the Royal Military Academy at Chelsea, 16th October, 1784, etc., unbd., Printed for the Author, 1784-Potain (Docteur). Relation Aerostatique dédiée à la Nation Irlandaise, port., unbd., Paris, 1824-Jeffries (John). A Narrative of the Two Aerial Voyages, etc., plate, unbd., Printed for the Author, 1786-Blanchard (J. P.) An exact and authentic Narrative of M. Blanchard's Third Aerial Voyage, plate of the balloon, unbd., Printed for C. Heydinger, 1784, together 7 vol., 4to. (921), April 25, Sotheby Maggs, £15 10s. [The first pamphlet is signed by Blanchard.] Bland (Humphrey). An Abstract of Military Discipline, more particularly with regard to the Manual Exercise, Evolutions and Firings of Foot, old marbled wrappers, Boston, D. Henchman in Cornhill, 1747, 12mo. (124), Jan. 31, American Art Association $45 [Sabin gives title (short) without collation.] Blane (William). Cynegetica, or Essays on Sporting, consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting, etc., together with an Account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire, to which is added The Chace, a Poem, by William Somerville, front. and title-vignette by Stothard, engraved on copper by Heath, full crimson levant mor., a hunting scene in blind tooling on front and back covers, g.e., by Rivière, London, John Stockdale, 1788, 8vo. (81), March 1, Anderson Galleries $35 [A rare sporting book in a handsome and unusual binding.] Blaxton (John). The English Usurer, or Usury condemned (front. slightly cut into), hf. red mor., John Norton, 1634, 4to. (561), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £4 5S. [This work contains a poem by George Wither.] Blefkenü (D.) Islandia descriptio, cui de Gronlandia adjecta, vell., Lug. Bat., 1607—La Peyrere, Relation de Islande, with the rare map, vell., Paris, 1663, together 2 vol., 8vo. (426), Nov. 15, Sotheby Ellis, £6 Bloch (M. E.) Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle de poissons, 12 parts in 3 vol. and 432 col. plates in 3 vol., together 6 vol., contemp. red mor. gt., gt. back, g.e., fine copy, Berlin, 1795-7, folio (78), Dec. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, £30 [One of twelve copies in which the plates are printed on papier de Hollande larger than the text. See Brunet i., 975.] Block Book. Biblia Pauperum. Specimen Leaves from a Block Book of the Fifteenth Century, 2 ll. in each vol., [These interesting leaves are in the main pictorial, representing the worship of the golden calf, the Ark of the Covenant, the Last Supper, the healing of the demoniac woman, etc. One of the leaves is somewhat defective, but the remaining three are in very good condition.] Blome (Richard). A Description of the Island of Jamaica, with the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are related, taken from the notes of Sr Thomas Linch, Knight, Governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places, large folding maps of Jamaica, Carolina, sea-coast and rivers of Virginia, Maryland and New England, green levant mor., rough gt. edges, by the French binders, London, T. Milbourn, 1672, 16mo. (13), May 16, Anderson Galleries $85 $60 [It contains A Description of New York," occupying six pages.] [Blome (R.)} The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz., Jamaica, Barbadoes Carolina, New England, Tobago, New-found-Land, MaryLand, New York, with new maps of every place and a brilliant port. of James II., orig. sheep, London, H. Clark, 1687, sm. 8vo. (56), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries Blome (R.) The Gentleman's Recreation in Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fishing, with a treatise on Cockfighting, engraved title and plates (a few wormholes), cf., 1686, folio (243), June 15, Sotheby Ellis, £9 10s. Blomefield (F.) and Parkin (C.) An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, port., maps, plates and woodcuts, 11 vol., cf. gt., 1805-10, 4to. (473), July 27, Sotheby Brooke, £5 5S. Blomfield (R.) A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, plates, 2 vol., 1897, 8vo. (52), May 18, Sotheby Danielson, £1 18s. Blondel (J. F.) De la Distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la décoration, plates, 2 vol., hf. cf., Paris, 1737-8, 4to. (80), Dec. 2, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £12 [Sotheby, March 17, Lot 185, £10 JOS.] Blouët (Paul, Max O'Rell "). Original manuscript (in French) of the most famous of all his works, John Bull et son ile," comprising some 332 pages, bound in hf. red levant mor., 1883, 4to. (82), March 1, Anderson Galleries $22.50 Blundeville (Thomas). The Fower chiefest Offices belonging to horsemanshippe, that is to say, the Office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keeper and of the Ferrer, etc., printed in black letter, with fine woodcut borders to each of the four title-pages, and woodcut illustrations, old red levant |