richly gilt back and the binder's signature, Relier par la Ve. Le Monnier Place Sorbonne," is stamped in gold on the inside bottom edge of the binding of all four volumes. No other similar binding is known. The widow Le Monnier was the mother of Philibert Charles le Monnier, whose remarkably beautiful mosaic bindings are so eagerly sought after.] Breviarium. Pars Estivalis [begins on A 1, without a separate title]. Sarisburiēsis portiforii volumē secūdū : pars vocari solita Estiualis, gothic letter, printed in red and black, inside lower corner of some ll. wormed), contemp. stamped cf. over wooden bds., on the upper cover a panel of the Annunciation (angel to left), with legend, Ecceancilla domini fiat michi secundum verbum tuum," on the lower cover a panel with six circular compartments formed by a leafy scroll containing a wivern, a cockatrice, etc. (binding rubbed and slightly defective), [colophon] Estiuй hoc Breuiariu impssù est i alma parisioru academia nitidissimis Thielmani Keruer. . . characteribus, Impensis . . . Francisci byrckma M.CCCCCXXII., die xiij Februarii Paris, T. Kerver, 13 Feb., 1522, 8vo. (466), April 18, Sotheby Black, £13 1OS. [Collation: A 8-G 8, 8, a 8-n 8, 0 4, AA-00 8, PP 4.] Breviary. Portiforium seu Breuiarium ad insignis Sarisburiensis ecclesie usum, title printed in red and black within an architectural woodcut border, a large woodcut on the separate title to the Psalter, many smaller woodcuts (a few letters damaged by wormholes), old stamped leather binding over oak bds., [colophon] Breuiarium ... Londini impressum Per Johannes Kyngston, et Henricus Sutton typographi. Anno dni Millesimo quingetesimo quinquagesimo quinto. Die vero septima mensis Martii, 1555, 4to. (394), March 14, Sotheby' Ellis, £31 [Collation: Pars Hyemalis 10 11. + A-P4 in eights; P4 blank +a-e in eights (colophon on e7, e8 blank). Pars estivalis a-g4 in eights + a (with title to the Psalter) + ij in eights (except T, 4 ll.) + Aa-Ii6 in eights. Sold not subject to return.] Breviarium secundum ordinem fratrum prædicatorum, lit. goth. (395 11.), printed on vell., in red and black, double columns, 27 lines to a page, without marks, a painted initial has been cut from the first leaf following the calendar and another inserted, otherwise the work appears complete, modern pale brown mor. ex., blind tooled, g.e. [Copinger II., 1287], Absque nota [Venice, c. 1473], 8vo. (195), June 28, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £22 [Apparently the only copy on vellum known.] Breviarium Romanum, cum Calendario [no colophon], printed on vell., gothic type, printed in red and black, 252 unnumbered ll. with signature marks, 2 columns of 33 lines each to the page, five-line spaces left for large capitals, some two-line spaces for smaller capitals, two large initials, gold-ruled margin and beautiful floriated border [Pellechet No. 2918 (first two parts only). Only one other copy recorded, that in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. This copy has a blank leaf at beginning and leaf of register, which are lacking in the Bibliotheque Nationale copy. The first blank leaf has some writing and stains, but otherwise the volume is almost as clean and fresh as new. Wide margins, leaves measuring 5 by 3 inches. There are four leaves in manuscript in signature L, which appear to be part of the original volume, having the same manuscript foliation continuous with that on the printed leaves. The printed leaves for this section may have been lost in assembling or accidentally left blank. This copy agrees with Pellechet's collation of the first two parts (which are complete in themselves without the third and fourth parts), with the following variations: First signature (unmarked) has eight leaves instead of six, first blank and present, calendar on second to seventh, register on eighth, followed by the Psalter, then the Breviary, thus making the collation-Signatures [*] in eight, AA to EE in twelves, FF in eight, A to O in twelves, P in eight, total 252 11. instead of 250 for this section, as given by Pellechet. There are also some slight variations in the abbreviations used in the text, but the lining-off is the same. There is no printer's colophon at the end of any of the various sections of text, the complete volume ending on leaf 418, according to Pellechet, actually leaf 420, with the words "Per Christum dominum nostrum, R | Amen." The binder has lettered the back, "Compendium Breviarii | 1461 [!] Imp. in Membranis [!]. Pellechet's placing it as printed in Venice about 1480 is probably correct, and it is a beautiful specimen of early Venetian printing, and one of the earliest books printed in octavo in small type. Bookplate of Lord Leigh.] Breviarium Romanum, lit. goth., printed on vell., in red and black, double columns, 38 lines to a page, contains 375 11. only, the calendar begins with March, decorated with historiated initials painted in gold and colours, new purple mor. ex., g.e., Absque nota [Paris? 1490], 8vo. (200), June 28, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £4 [Apparently unknown to bibliographers.] Brewer (Thomas). A knot of Fooles; but, Fooles, or Knaves, or both, I care not, Here they are; Come laugh and spare not (fore-margin of title slightly cut and there is no catchword B 4), unbd. (catchword of c 3 partly blocked over), Printed for Francis Grove, and are to be sold at his shop on Snowhil near the Saracens Head without New-gate, 1658, sm. 4to. (395), June 28, Sotheby Quaritch, £51 [A-C in fours, in verse, with a large cut of seven figures on the title. The address on the back of the title to the reader is signed Tho. Brewer. Very rare.] Brewer (J. S.) Reign of Henry VIII., edited by Gairdner, front., 2 vol. cl., 1854 (182), June 23, Hodgson [Hodgson, Dec. 16, Lot 70, £2 10s.] Atkinson, £2 125. Brewyn (William, Chauntry Priest of Canterbury). An Account of his Pilgrimage to Rome in the Fifteenth Century, and Instructions for Pilgrims thither, MS. on vell., English, xv. cent., 100 ll. (5 by 3 inches), written in Latin in small semi-gothic characters, rubricated 11. at end contain a list of relics at Canterbury, old rough cf., xv. cent., 8vo. (26), Oct. 21, Sotheby Maggs, £90 Breydenbach (Bernardus de). [Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae], ed. princeps (12 in. by 33 in.), gothic letter, front., the first page of text with a partial border of a formal floral design painted in colours, the first leaf of Part ii. with a similar border and a large painted initial, the woodcuts throughout delicately coloured (wants the last blank leaf and the joints of some of the folding plates slightly defective and repaired), brown mor., by Rivière, [Davis I.] Mainz, Erhard Reuwich, 1486, folio (139), May 25, Sotheby Olschki, £86 Breydenbach (B. de). [Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae] Reise ins Heilige Land, lit. goth., front., folding and other woodcuts (one leaf with a small portion in fac.), mor., g.e., [colophon] Dises werck ynnhaltende die heyligen reyszen gen Therusalem zu dem heiligen grab vnd Jurbasz zu der hochgelobten jungfrauwen vnd mertreryn sant Katheryn durch Erhart rewich von Vttricht ynn der statt Meyntz getrueten Ym jar vnsers heylsz tusent viērhūdert vñ lxxxvi. [1486] yn dem xxi. tag desz Braehmonedts. Endet sich Seliglichen, folio (84), Nov. 9, Sotheby Quaritch, £90 [First ed. in German. Very rare. Sold not subject to return. The collation agrees with Davies' Bibliography, No. iv. Tall copy (12 in by. 83 in.) Sotheby, April 18, Lot 183, imp., £38.] Breydenbach (B. de). Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae, gothic letter, front. by Dürer (a few letters damaged by wormholes, the plates very slightly defective and repaired), cf., Speier, Peter Drach, 1490 (416), Feb. 23, Sotheby Quaritch, £52 [Second Latin ed., the first by Drach, with the original Mainz woodcuts.] Breydenbach (B. de). Viaje de Tierra Sancta, lit. goth., double columns, 44 lines to a page, numerous woodcuts, including all from the orig. blocks in the Latin ed., in the text, and folding woodcut views of Rome, Paris, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes, etc. (all defective and mended), the view of Rome mounted on linen (text damaged and destroyed by damp in several ll. and skilfully repaired), crushed green levant mor. ex., gt. line borders, inside gt. dentelles, g.e., by Lloyd, preserved in a brown mor. slipcase [Haebler, p. 115], Caragoça, costas y espensas de Paulo Hurus, 1498, folio (596), April 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £25 [First and only ed. in Spanish. The present copy formerly belonged to Ferdinand, the natural son of Christopher Columbus, and has the following inscription in a contemp. hand on the final page, which is otherwise blank : costo esto libro en sevilla, 200 in F. es de don h. h. del almirante colon. [Esta Registrado, 2077.]"] Bricot (Thomas). Cursus questionum super Philosophiam Aristotelis, lit. goth., double columns, 64 lines (title cut round, wormed slightly throughout), vell. [Hain 3975, Proctor 7609], Absque nota [Basel, John Amorbach, c. 1496], folio (577), Dec. 20, Sotheby Thorp, £4 Bridges (John). A Defence of the Government established in the Chvrch of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters (some 11. water-stained), old blind stamped cf., gt. back, Iohn Windet for Thomas Chard, 1587, 4to. (495), April 18, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 Bridges (R.) Poems, first ed., orig. buckram, uncut, paper label, Pickering, 1873, 8vo. (148), Jan. 12, Hodgson [Sotheby, July 20, Lot 840, £2 10s.] Maggs, £2 13S. Bridges (R.) Eight Plays: Nero, Palicio, Return of Ulysses, Christian Captives, Achilles in Scyros, Humours of the Court, Feast of Bacchus, new Part ii., orig. wrappers, uncut, 1885, etc., 4to. (277), May 18, Sotheby Danielson, £2 2s. Bridges (R.) Eros and Psyche, 1885-Prometheus the Firegiver, 1884, etc., together 10 vol., 8vo. (70), May 18, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £1 15s. Bridges (R.) John Keats, first ed., port., orig. buckram, uncut, Privately printed, 1895, 8vo. (71), May 18, Sotheby Maggs, £1 14S. Brigita (Sancta). Reuelationes celestes pelecte Spōse christi beate Birgitte vidue: de regno Suecie: octo libris diuise, etc., gothic letter, double columns, title within woodcut border in eight compartments illustrating scenes in the life of the saint, full-page woodcuts of the arms of the Emperor Maximilian and Florian Waldanff (title written on and slightly stained), orig. beech bds. hf. covered with blind stamped cf. (back defective), Nuremberg, In officina Federici Peypus. Sumptibusque ... Joannis Kobergers. 1517, folio (362), Jan. 24, Sotheby Ellis, £6 10s. [Oct. 21, Lot 142, £7 15.] Brinkley (F.) Japan, its History, Arts and Literature, limited Library ed., col. photographic plates and other illustrations, with map in pocket, 12 vol., hf. mor. gt., g.e., 1903-4, 8vo. (461), Nov. 17, Hodgson Kegan Paul, £20 [American Art Association, Dec. 20, Lot 123, $370; Anderson Galleries, May 9, Lot 98, $29.] Brinley (John). A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers, old cf., London, John Wright, 1680, sm. 8vo. (82), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries $75 Brisson (A. D.) Ornithologie, plates, 6 vol., old cf., Paris, 1760, 4to. (562), March 1, Sotheby Wheldon, £2 IOS. Brissot de Warville (J. P.) New Travels in the United States of America, performed in 1788, 2 vol., contemp. dark green mor. (rubbed), London, 1794, 8vo. (83), Nov. 22, Anderson Galleries $16 [The second volume treats of the commerce of America with Europe, particularly with France and Great Britain.] Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society. Transactions, from the commencement in 1876 to 1919, 41 vol. (wanting Part ii. of Vol. xxxv.), with Indexes to Vol. i.xl., in 2 vol., and Chubb's Catalogue of Printed Maps, the first 30 vol., with first Index, Domesday Survey and Abstract of Wills, uniformly bd. in 33 vol., hf. green cf., t.e.g., remainder in 20 parts, wrappers, and a parcel of notes, etc., 1876-1919 (128), May 11, Hodgson Bailey, £4 17s. 6d. British Classics. The Tatler, 4 vol.-The Spectator, 8 vol.— The Rambler, 4 vol., etc., ports. and vignette titles, together 24 vol., hf. cf. gt. (some joints worn), J. Sharpe, 1804-10, 12mo. (86), Dec. 9, Hodgson Heffer, £3 12s. 6d. British Essayists (The), with Prefaces by A. Chalmers, with General Index, ports., 45 vol., contemp. cf., gt. backs, 1803, 8vo. (825), July 27, Sotheby Edwards, £1 British Essayists (The), with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alex. Chalmers, 45 vol., cf., contents lettered, 1808, 8vo. (62), March 14, Sotheby Edwards, £3 5s. British Essayists, with Prefaces by A. Chalmers and Index, ports., 38 vol., cf. gt., panelled back, a good set, 1823 (90), Dec. 2, Sotheby Britwell, £11 [Hodgson, Feb. 16, Lot 49, 40 vol., green mor., £4 5s.] British Flowering Plants, illustrated by 300 full-page col. plates reproduced from drawings by Mrs. Henry Perrin, with detailed descriptive notes and an Introduction by Prof. Boulger, 4 vol., 1914, 4to. (929), Dec. 20, Sotheby Bumpus, £7 British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, 150 stipple ports., |