reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a [The very rare first ed. This is an answer to John Knox's First Blast, printed the previous year. Autograph of Wm. Herbert, with others, on title. Bookplate of George Chalmers.] Aymon. Les Quatre filz Aymon, lit. goth., double columns, large woodcut beneath title of the four sons in armour mounted on one horse (repeated on reverse), (several woodcuts in the text wormed), old russ., Imprime a Lyon p. Jaques arnollet, 1502, 10 Januier, sm. folio (100), Oct. 21, Sotheby Quaritch, £84 Ayres (Philip). Cupids addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata Amatoria. Emblems of Love, engraved title signed 'I. B.," front. and 44 plates of emblems, cf., gt. and blind tooled, sprinkled edges (binding rubbed, breaking at joints, some 11. stained), London, R. Bentley, S. Tidmarch, 1683, sm. 8vo. (135), Jan. 24, American Art Association $10 With [Engraved throughout and printed on one side of leaf only. Text in Latin, English, Italian and French. signature of "John Devis, 1748," on title, stamped seal of " Will. Hy. Broun " on title and another leaf, and an armorial bookplate.] Ayscu (Edward). Historie contayning the Warres, Treaties and other occurrents betweene England and Scotland from King William the Conqueror untill the happy Union, orig. limp vell. gt., G. Eld, 1607, sm. 4to. (9), Oct. 21, Sotheby Ellis, £8 5s. Aysen (E.) A Historie contayning the Warres, Treaties, Marriages and other occurrents betweene England and Scotland, device on title, limp vell., G. Eld, 1607, 4to. (2938), Nov. 2, Sotheby Dobell, £6 5s. [Aytoun (W. E.) and Martin (Sir Theodore).] The Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill and Richard Doyle, polished cf. gt., inside dentelles, g.e., covers bd. in, by Rivière, 1849, cr. 8vo. (35), June 9, Sotheby Hollings, £2 IOS. [First issue with the Doyle illustrations.] Azara (F. de). Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los Paxaros del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata, 3 vol., hf. cf., Madrid, 1802-5-Mansfield (C. B.) Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate, map, port. and illustrations, cl., 1856, etc., together 9 vol., 8vo. (531), March 1, Sotheby Wheldon, £4 5S. Azo. Juriconsultus. Summa codicis, 226 11., including 3 blanks, gothic letter, double columns, 80 lines to a full column, with signatures, orig. Venetian binding of oak bds. with brown mor. hf. binding stamped with panels containing roses, surrounded by borders of rope-work " " pattern, clasps, many 11. uncut [not seen by Hain 2233, Copinger gives wrong collation, 224 ff"; not in Proctor], Venetiis, per Andream Calabrensis de papia, 1489, folio (2940), Nov. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £6 15S. Baccii (A.) De Naturali Vinorum Historia de Vinis Italiæ, et de Conviviis Antiquorum libri septem, with the leaf of errata, old crimson French mor. ex., containing the arms of Louis XV., Romæ, ex officina N. Mutii, 1596-7, sm. folio (97), April 21, Hodgson Myers, £18 10S. Bacon (E. R.) Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects, including Porcelains, Potteries, Jades, Bronzes and Cloisonné Enamels collected by E. R. Bacon, notes and descriptions by J. Getz, col. and plain plates, bds., uncut, t.e.g., Privately printed, New York, 1919, 4to. (200), March 17, Sotheby Parsons, £13 Bacon (Sir Francis). Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Operum Moralium et Civilum, 2 vol. in 1, contemp. cf., the back and sides covered with 'C's" within rich borders, gt. edges, Londini, 1638, folio (7), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $115 [Editio princeps of the works of Bacon. Wanting portrait.] Bacon (Sir F.) The Two Bookes. . . of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, first ed., several letters of title defective (skilfully mended), otherwise a good copy, with the last blank leaf (sign. Hhh2), crushed crimson mor., 3-line fillet round sides, panelled back, inside border, by Rivière, g.e., For Henrie Tomes, 1605, 4to. (244), March 1, Sotheby Dobell, £14 Bacon (Sir F.) Of the Advancement of Learning, or the Partitions of Sciences, port. by W. Marshall, inlaid and mended, red mor., g.e., by Lloyd, Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1640, folio (59), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £4 Bacon (Sir F.) Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, port. and extra port. inserted (sold not subject to return), vell., Thomas Williams, 1674 (150), July 25, Sotheby Dobell, £3 15S. [John Dryden's copy, with his signature and date, 1677.] Bacon (Sir F.) The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, branched into a double Tract, the one contayning a Collection of some principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, with their Latitude and Extent, explicated for the more facile Introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that Noble Profession; the other, the Use of the Common Law, for preservation of our Persons, Goods and Good Names, first ed., crushed olive levant mor., gt. and blind tooling, g.e., by Rivière, London, printed by the Assignes of I. More, 1630, sm. 4to. (6), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries $52.50 Bacon (Sir F.) The Essaies of Sr. Francis Bacon, Knight, the Kings Solliciter Generall, dark green mor. gt., g.e., very large copy, with wide margins (measures 6ğin. by 4in), a few letters corrected, Imprinted by Iohn Beale, 1612, 8vo. (331), March 1, Sotheby Quaritch, £118 [A-Q7 in eights. Title on A2 (Ar a blank, wanting). The present copy is considerably larger than that in the Huth collection.] Bacon (Sir F.) The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight... his Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion (a few ll. stained and some words damaged by rust-stains), limp vell., John Jaggard, 1613 (205), Feb. 28, Sotheby Dobell, £16 Bacon (Sir F.) Essayes or Counsels, civill and morall, newly written, the first complete ed. (wanting blank leaf for A1), brown mor., g.e., by Rivière, Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625, sm. 4to. (58), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £29 Bacon (Sir F.) The Essayes or Covnsels . . . newly enlarged, old vell., Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, etc., 1625, 4to. (245), March 1, Sotheby Pickering, 22 10S. [The first ed. containing 58 essays and the last which the author lived to see.] Bacon (Sir F.) The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, engraved port. of Henry VII. by John Payne, orig. cf., W. Stansbỷ for M. Lownes and W. Barrett, 1622, folio (474), June 28, Sotheby Richards, 10 IOS. [The extremely rare (and hitherto undescribed) first issue of the first ed., containing many differences from the ordinary first impressions. A copy of the ordinary issue of 1622 is included. Puttick, Jan. 12, Lot 333, 1 5s. ; Sotheby, Nov. 24, Lot 529, £9 5s.; Sotheby, July 13, Lot 730, £3.] Bacon (Sir F.) The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry VII., title within a woodcut border, old cf., 1641, folio (349), April 25, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3 3s. Bacon (Sir F.) History, Naturall and Experimentall, good copy, with leaf of Imprimatur at beginning and end, mor. gt., 1638, 12mo. (2941), Nov. 2, Sotheby Smedley, £4 Bacon (Sir F.) The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon, being his double Reading to the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne, crushed light brown levant mor., g.e., by Rivière, London, Mathew Walbancke and Laurence Chapman, 1642, sm. 4to. (12), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries $22 Bacon (Sir F.) Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall History in Ten Centuries, first ed., engraved title and port., cf., Printed for W. Lee, 1627, folio (732), July 13, Sotheby Hall, £1 18s. [Sotheby, July 13, Lot 738, 8th ed., 1664, 27s.; Sotheby, July 13, Lot 739, 9th ed., 1669, £2 2s.] Bacon (Sir F.) Three Speeches concerning the Post-Nati of Scotland, etc., first ed., unbd., uncut, R. Badger for S. Brown, 1641, sm. 4to. (548), May 26, Hodgson Dobell, £7 Bacon (Sir F.) Works, with Life of the Author by Mr. Mallet, 2 ports. of Bacon and front., 3 vol., old cf., 1753, folio (293), May 9, Sotheby Benn, 5s. Bacon (Sir F.) Works of Francis Bacon, collected and edited by James Spedding, Robert L. Ellis and Douglas D. Heath, port. on India paper, rubricated titles, 15 vol., bds., leather backs, gt. tops, uncut (edges slightly rubbed), Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1863, 8vo. (138), Oct. 27, American Art Association $23 translated [Complete set of the Large Paper edition. Only 100 copies printed.] Bacon (Roger). The Cure of Old Age and Preservation of Youth by Richard Browne, also a Physical Account of the Tree of Life by Edw. Madeira Arrais, hf. cf., Printed for Tho. Flesher, 1683, 8vo. (451), July 13, Sotheby Edwards, £1 12S. [Puttick, Oct. 20, Lot 449, £3 10s.] Bacon (R.) The Mirror of Alchimy, also a most excellent and learned discourse of the admirable force and efficacie of Art and Nature, first ed., hf. cf. (few ll. cropped), w.a.f., T. Creede for R. Oliue, 1597, 4to. (385), Oct. 20, Puttick Pickering, £18 Bacon (R.) Opus majus ad Clementem quartum, edidit S. Jebb, LARGE PAPER, plates, russ. gt. (rebacked), g.e., in a slip-case, 1723, folio (568), Dec. 20, Sotheby Heffer, £6 6s. Bacon (R.) Perspectiva, diagrams (paper somewhat discoloured), orig. cf. (joints broken), Francofurti, 1614— Scheiner (Chris.) Oculus, hoc est, fundamentum opticum, orig. cf., 1652, etc., together 3 vol., 4to. (350), Jan. 17, Sotheby Ellis, £3 10s. Baculus pastoralis, gothic letter, printer's device on the title (some words damaged by stains), hf. cf., Paris, F. Regnault, 1514, etc., together 3 vol. (378), Feb. 23, Sotheby Leighton, £3 5s. Baddeley. Russia, Mongolia, China: Records of the Relations between them to the Death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1602-76), with introductions, maps, etc. by J. F. Baddeley, illustrations and facs. of unique and early maps, 2 vol. (limited to 250 copies), bds., canvas backs, 1919, folio (904), Nov. 3, Hodgson Kegan Paul, £13 " [£13 10s, another copy; Sotheby, July 27, Lot 278, £10 IOS.] Badius (J.) Stultifere nauicule [a supplement to the Ship of Fools'], seu scaphe Fatuarum mulierum, roman letter, spirited woodcuts, red mor. gt., Argent, J. Pruss, 1502, 4to. (260), May 18, Sotheby Tregaskis, £5 15s. [At the end is bound up a manuscript of “A Dyalogue defensyve for Women against malycyous detractoures.' Hodgson, July 12, Lot 453, £3 3s.; Sotheby, June 5, Lot 913, 10 IOS.] Badminton Library (The) of Sports and Pastimes, edited by the Duke of Beaufort, assisted by Aired E. T. Watson, plates, 28 vol., hf. mor., g.t., 1885-96, 8vo. (549), March 14, Sotheby Joseph, £3 5s. Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by the Duke of Beaufort and others, numerous illustrations, a complete set, 30 vol., hf. blue mor. gt., cl. sides, with emblematic stamps on backs, 1890-1902 (511), June 2, Hodgson £10 Baillie (Captain William). Works, after paintings and drawings by the greatest masters, over 100 plates, contemp. blue straight-grained mor. gt., panelled sides, g.e., Boydell, n.d., folio (117), March 1, Sotheby Spencer, £20 [Puttick, May 4, Lot 210, £9 10s.; Sotheby, March 17, Lot 253, II IOS.] Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, ports. and other illustrations, from 1892 to 1913, being Vol. lvii. to c. (1905 wanting), in 42 vol., hf. crimson mor., gt. sporting emblematic stamps on backs, t.e.g. (184*), Feb. 2, Hodgson Bailey, £3 3s. Bain (F. W.) The Ashes of a God, translated from the original manuscript, LARGE PAPER, front., 1911, 4to. (520), May 9, Sotheby Hyam, 12s Bain (F. W.) The Descent of the Sun-In the Great God's Hair-A Heifer of the Dawn-The Ashes of a God-A Syrup of the Bees, etc., first eds., fronts., together 10 vol., bds., uncut, 1903-14, sm. 4to. (99), June 10, Hodgson Drake, £8 Bain (F. W.) A Digit of the Moon, a Hindoo Love Story, translated from the original MS., front., orig. bds., 1899. 4to. (256), April 25, Sotheby Quaritch, £3 5S. Bain (F. W.) Indian Stories, the Riccardi Press Books, Vol, i. to xi., II vol., 1913-4, 8vo. (778), Dec. 20, Sotheby Bumpus, £5 5s. Bain (F. W.) A Syrup of the Bees, front., 1914-The Livery of Eve, col. front., 1917, first eds., together 2 vol., sq. 8vo. (500), July 20, Sotheby Dobell, £1 8s. Baines (T.) The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, col. plates, 1865, imp. folio (579), May 9, Sotheby [Sotheby, Feb. 23, Lot 278, £4 5s.; Hodgson, April 13, Lot 282, £3 10s.] Thorp, £7 5s. Baird (S. F.), Brewer (T. M.) and Ridgway (R.) A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, plates and woodcuts, 3 vol., hf. mor., Boston, 1874, large 8vo. (533), March 1, Sotheby Wheldon, £5 10S. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. The Water Birds of North America, profusely illustrated with woodcuts, some in colour, 2 vol., cl., gt. tops, uncut, Boston, 1884, imp. 8vo. (30), Feb. 1, Anderson Galleries $45 [First ed. Presentation copy from A. Agassiz and J. D. Whitney. Fine copy.] Baird (S. F.), Cassin (J.) and Lawrence (G. N.) The Birds of North America, 100 plates in colours, I vol. text, I vol. |