235. BRUMOY (PIERRE). Le Théatre des Grecs. Front. engraved by Tardieu. 3 vols. 4to, full Spanish calf gilt, gilt inside borders, gilt edges, by KAUFMANN. CHOICE

SET.

Paris, 1730 Manuel du

236. BRUNET (JACQUES-CHARLES). Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, 12 vols. royal 8vo, and with the Supplement, 2 vols. 8vo. Together 14 vols. Royal Svo and 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt tops, uncut, by DAVID. Paris, 1860-1880

* LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY, of which only a small number were printed. VERY SCARCE. The Supplement is the ordinary issue in 8vo.

237. BRYAN (MICHAEL). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. New edn., revised and enlarged, edited by R. E. Graves. 2 vols. imp. 8vo, half buckram, uncut. Lond. 1886-89 238. BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN). Poems. By William Cullen Bryant. 12mo, original gray boards, entirely uncut. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1821

*FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. VERY RARE.

The Arnold copy, with label.

239. BRYANT (WILLIAM CULLEN). Poems. With portrait and fine full-page engravings by E. Leutze. 8vo, original crimson cloth gilt, gilt edges.

Phil. 1847

*Fine copy of the First Collected Library Edition of Bryant's Poems.

240. BRYDGES (SIR EGERTON). Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing Brief Characters of the English Poets down to the year 1675. By Edward Phillips, the nephew of Milton. 8vo, full brown crushed levant, ornamental tooling on back and sides, gilt inside borders, gilt top, uncut. Geneva: From the Press of Bonnant, 1824

*One of only 100 copies reprinted with the notes of Sir Egerton Brydges. The notices of Marlowe and Shakespeare have been attributed to Milton.

241. BUCHANAN (GEORGE). Rerum Scoticarvm Historia. Avctore Georgio Buchanano, Scoto. Woodcut title and initials. Small folio, full brown crushed levant morocco, panelled back and sides, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS (small hole on title and several margins neatly repaired). Edinburgi, 1582

*EDITIO PRINCEPS. RARE. With the leaf of errata.

One

of the most important works by the eminent historian, and one from which later historians derived much information regarding the early history of Scotland.

The Mackenzie copy, with bookplate.

242. BURNS (ROBERT). Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added Scots Poems, selected from the Works of Robert Ferguson. Portrait engraved by Scot. 8vo, full red morocco gilt, gilt edges. N. Y.: Printed by

THE NEW YOLK PUBLIC LIBRAT

ASTOP

TILDEN

J. & A. McLean, Franklin's Head, No. 41 Hanover-Square, 1788.

*First New York Edition, lacking the leaf of contents, with a later impression of the portrait, the title-page cut down and inlaid and the corner of one leaf torn, but containing an additional title-page (inlaid) of the extremely rare New York edition of 1799, printed and sold by John Tiebout.

The McKee copy, with bookplate engraved by French.

243. BURNS (ROBERT). Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added several other pieces not contained in any former edition of his poems, and a Life of the Author. Fine portrait by Mackenzie and aquatint view of the house in which Burns was born. 12mo, original calf

*Good copy of this rare edition. "The Jolly Beggars."

Glasgow, 1801

Contains first edition of

244. BURNS (ROBERT). The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author, containing a Variety of Particulars drawn from Sources Inaccessible by former Biographers. To which is subjoined an Appendix consisting of a Panegyrical Ode and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs. By Rev. Hamilton Paul. Portrait and engraved title. Small 8vo, full dark green crushed levant, gilt-tooled on back and sides, inside dentelle borders, gilt top, uncut, by ROUSSelle. Air: Printed by Wilson, McCormick & Carnie, 1819

* FINE COPY OF THIS RARE EDITION.

245. BURNS (ROBERT). The Poetry of Burns. Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thos. F. Henderson. Centenary Edition. With portraits on Japanese vellum paper. 4 vols. 8vo, half canvas, uncut.

Bost. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896 *Limited to 725 copies for England and America, all of which are numbered. This edition contains many valuable notes and a most complete glossary.

246. BURTON (ROBERT). The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the Kindes, Cavses, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and severall Cvres of it. In three maine partitions with their seuerall Sections, Members, and Svbsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cvt vp. By Democritvs Junior. With a Satyricall Preface, conducing to the following Discourse. 4to, full red levant morocco extra, gilt, gilt-tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by PRATT Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621.

*FIRST EDITION. Collation: 2 unnumbered leaves for the title and Latin dedication, 783 pages, and 4 unnumbered leaves for the "Conclusion" and leaf of Errata. The collection is according to that given in the Rowfant Catalogue. Very scarce. This edition differs both as regards omissions and additions, notably in containing the author's name, from the later ones, of which there are at least seventeen, eight published during the author's life. With the rare leaf of errata mended, otherwise a fine copy.

247. BURR (F. M.) Life and Works of Alexander Anderson, the First American Engraver. With 3 portraits and over 30 engravings. Royal 8vo, full vellum, gilt top, N. Y. 1893

uncut.

* ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED on Crane's parchment vellum paper, each signed by the author.

248. BURROUGHS (JOHN). WRITINGS. RIVERSIDE EDITION. Wake-Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets, with other Papers; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton and other Sketches; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman; The Light of Day. With 3 portraits, vignette titles and illusts. 11 vols. post 8vo, three

quarters green levant morocco, gilt tops, uncut.

Bost. 1895-1900 249. BURTON (SIR RICHARD F.) The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. A Lay of the Higher Law. Transl. and annotated by his Friend and Pupil F. B. FIRST EDN. 4to, full red crushed levant morocco, gilt panelled sides and back, gilt-tooled inside borders, gilt edges, original yellow wrappers bound in, by the CLUB BINDERY.

Lond. Quaritch, 1880

* Probably not more than 100 copies of Burton's Poems were published, and it is so excessively rare that Quaritch in his Bibliography of Burton (Part XI of his Dictionary of English Book Collectors) did not even mention any edition. Lady Burton published a Second Issue, considerably changed, in 1894, and of that edition there were printed only 100 numbered copies. When she died she left directions that none of her husband's works should be republished without the consent of the National Vigilance Association. There is no copy of either of the First or Second editions of the "Kasîdah" in the list of books in Burton's Library now in the British Museum.

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250. BURTON (SIR RICHARD F.) A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. With the "Supplemental Nights." Together 16 vols. royal 8vo, cloth extra.

Benares, 1885-88

* FINE SET OF THE RARE ORIGINAL EDITION, PRINTED BY THE KAMASHASTRA SOCIETY, FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. This is the most plain and literal translation in the English language, and is accompanied by Anthropological Notes of the most strange and private nature that both illustrate the Tales from present day life, and show the translator's intimate knowledge of the private life of Eastern society. Richard Burton would often recite these tales to the Arabs around their camp fires. His knowledge of them and of Arabic, places his translation far ahead of all others, reproducing in the glowing language of the East these delightful tales of love and adventure in their pure and pristine beauty.