Blake (R.) Arrivall and Intertainements of the Embassador, Alkaid Jaurar Ben Abdella, with his Associate Mr. Robert Blake, from Mulley Mahamed Sheque, Emperor of Morocco, port., cf. ex., I. Okes, 1637, 4to. (41), June 30, Sotheby Maggs, £4 5s. Blake (W.) America, a Prophecy, 18 plates painted by Blake himself, mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Lambeth, printed by William Blake, 1793, 4to. (183), Dec. 2, Anderson Galleries $3,600

[Inserted were three orig. drawings, all col. by Blake, two of which were portions of the title-page, and the third from plate 17.]. Blake (W.) America, a Prophecy, comprising front.. titlepage and 8 leaves printed on both sides of the paper, the front. without text, all printed in blue, hf. mor., g.e. (14 by 1oin.), Lambeth, printed by William Blake, 1793, folio (221), July 28, Sotheby Sabin, £100 Blake (W.) Book of Thel, 7 engraved pages, including title, 4 pages illustrated with vignettes, the other 2 with ornamental head-piece and a tail-piece, all col. by Blake, sewed, orig. wrapper inscribed Stothard's Copy, Preserve,' in case, The Author and Printer, William Blake, 1789, 4to. (182), Dec. 2, Anderson Galleries $793 Blake (W.) Europe, a Prophecy, 17 plates by Blake, all executed in gold and colours, mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Lambeth, printed by Will. Blake, 1794, 4to. (184), Dec. 2, Anderson Galleries

$4,600 Blake (W.) Gates of Paradise, etched title, front. and 16 etched plates, old hf. cf., in case, Lambeth, published by W. Blake, 1793, sm. 4to. (185), Dec. 2, Anderson Galleries

$610

[First ed. and first issue without the verses which were added later. The plates were not coloured by Blake. One of four copies known.]

Blake (W.) Illustrations of Dante, 7 plates on India paper, without inscriptions, cl., n.d., oblong folio (224), July 28, Sotheby Bain, £30 Blake (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, engraved title and 21 plates (plate I dated 1828), orig. wrappers, 1825, folio (223), July 28, Sotheby

Rimell, £15

[LII, same state, June 18, Hodgson, Lot 568.] Blake (W.) Marriage of Heaven and Hell, hand-col. reproduction in fac., from the original in the Houghton collection, hf. mor., n.d., sm. 4to. (129), Nov. 14, Sotheby

Davis & Orioli, £3 12s.

[£5 7s. 6d., wrappers, Aug. 13, Hodgson, Lot 190.] Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1789-Songs of Experience, The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1794, 54 leaves printed in orange and red upon one side only, each plate col. by Blake himself; in some plates, gold has been used for the titles and the heightening effects, and in one poem, The

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Angel," the letterpress has been entirely gone over z
gold, the pagination is consecutive through the two pars
and has been added by Blake with a brush in red, a the
line of the same colour being drawn round each plate
watermark dated 182— (the last figure wanting), m
(c. 1830), g.e., in case, 1789-94, 8vo. (8) by 5 in.), (2
July 7, Sotheby
Sabin,

[Crabb Robinson's copy, with his bookplate inside
cover, and MS. note by him on leaf preceding title:
This copy I received from Blake himself—and coloured
by his own hand, which I present with great pleasure to
Edwin W. Field.-H. C. Robinson, March 11th, 1863, 30
Russell Square, London." On another fly-leaf is the
note: "Given to F. W. Burton by Mrs. Edwin Field, a
memory of her husband, Oct. 6, 1871"; and, below,
"Directed by my uncle, Sir Frederic Burton (when
dying) to be given to Chas Fairfax Murray, Esq., 20. 6.
1900-H. B. Burton." This copy is described and let-
tered "Q" in the list of copies given by Mr. John Samp-
son in his bibliographical preface to the works of William
Blake, Clarendon Press, 1905. Illustrations of two pages
in the catalogue.]

Blake (W.) Visions of the Daughters of Albion, orig. ed.
comprising front. (without text) and 5 leaves, including
title, printed in col. on both sides of the paper, hf. mor.
(14 by 10lin.), Printed by Willm. Blake, 1793, folio (222)
July 28, Sotheby
Maggs, 193
Blake (W.) Visions of the Daughters of Albion, fac. repro-
duction in colours of the orig. ed., 1793, mor., t.e.g., by
Zaehnsdorf (rubbed), W. Muir, n.d., sm. 4to. (189), Aug.
13, Hodgson
Maggs, £4 158.
Blanc (C.) Histoire des Peintres de Toutes les Écoles-Hol-
landaise, 2 vol.-Française, 3 vol,-Flamande, Anglaise,
Vénétienne, Espagnole, Ombrienne et Romaine, etc.,
ports. and other illustrations, 13 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g.,
Libraire Renouard, 1861-75, folio (594), Feb. 19, Hodgson
Parsons, £14 158.

Blavatsky (H. P.) Isis Unveiled, port., 2 vol., orig. cl., New
York, 1884, 8vo. (831), Feb. 19, Hodgson G. Salby, £1 185.
[1 15s., same state, Oct. 15, Puttick, Lot 24.]
Blavatsky (H. P.) The Secret Doctrine, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1888,
8vo. (832), Feb. 19, Hodgson
Ashcroft, £1 198.
Bleda (F. J. de). Coronica de los Moros de España (margin of
title cut into), woodcut borders, arms and initials, M mm I
(p. 913-4) repeated, wanting M m m 7 (p. 926-7), russ. gt.,
scroll ornaments, g.e., by Roger Payne, with British
Museum duplicate stamp, Valencia, en la Impression de
Felipe May, 1618, folio (181), Feb. 3, Sotheby

Quaritch, £10 Blew (W. C. A.) Brighton and its coaches, 20 illustrations from orig. water-colour drawings by J. and G. Temple,

orig. cl. gt., t.e.g., uncut, John C. Nimmo, 1894, royal 8vo. (232), Dec. II, American Art Association $5 Bloch (M. E.) Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 216 col. plates, 6 vol., orig. cf., Berlin, 1785-8, folio (472), Dec. 2, Sotheby Heffer, 10 IOS. Block Book, on vell., coloured throughout by hand. Nautical Ephemeris and Perpetual Calendar, 11 ll., size 3 by 4 inches, comprising 8 Compass-cards on 8 pages, nautical tables 3 pages, 4 maps (Gascony, Flanders, England and Ireland), engraved in the Portolano style, 4 pages, Compass-card for the North Star 1 page, Perpetual Calendar January to December 6 pages, 22 pages in all, followed by a folding MS. Portolan-Chart on vell. of the Coasts of England, Ireland, France and Spain, with a small portion of the North Coast of Africa, size 7 by 11 inches, with an extension on a separate leaf, 23 by 4 inches, showing the North Sea and the Baltic, with the Coasts of Holland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The volume bears no imprint or date, but, judging from the dialect of the French text, was probably engraved and printed in French Flanders about 1500 to 1520. It is preserved in a black morocco binding of a later period, probably about the end of the 17th century, when the following inscription at the bottom of the verso of the last leaf was doubtless added: "N.B.-That this appeared to S. P. to have been K. Hen. 8ths. own Book. As this book has long been preserved in the library of a descendant of Samuel Pepys, there can be no doubt that the initials "S. P." refer to him, n.d., 4to. (736), May 28, Sotheby

Baynes, £108 Block Book. See also Apocalypsis: Biblia Sacra (Opera Nova Contemplativa, c. 1510)

Blome (R.) Gentleman's Recreation. See Cox (N.) and Blome (R.)

Blomefield (F.) and Parkin (C.) Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, ports. and plates, with the rare list of subscribers, and folding pedigree of the family of Blomefield in Vol. i., plan of Norwich with leaf of reference (mounted) in Vol. ii., but without the dedication in Vol. ii., port. in Vol. iii. cut round and mounted, 5 vol., cf. gt., Fersfield, Norwich, Lynn, 1739-75, folio (652), Oct. 28, Sotheby R. Levine, £7 7S. Bloomfield (Robt.) Wild Flowers, woodcuts after Thurston's designs, russ., gold and blind-tooled, painting on the foreedge, under the gold, of a Suffolk meadow, with horses, a rustic and a sportsman, 1819, 8vo. (85), Nov. 4, Sotheby Chase, £7 Blundeville (T.) Fower Chiefest offices belongyng to Horsemanshippe, title within woodcut border and woodcuts, Wyllyam Seres, n.d.-The Order of Curing Horses' Diseases, title within woodcut border (upper margin written on)—The True Arte of Paring and Shooyng all

maner of Houes, with woodcut shapes of shoes, last leat repaired, Wylliam Seres, 1566, in 1 vol., old cf. (rubbed, sm. 4to. (89), July 21, Sotheby Maggs, 425 Blunt (W. S.) Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1892, 8vo. (8), July 30, Sotheby Masters, 9 55 Boaz (H.) The Angler's Progress, printed on a single sheet, 13in. by 10țin., with a large woodcut of a fish at top and a small one at bottom, folded to 8vo., July 4th, 1780 and bound with it a copy of the same poem (8 pp., with advertisements), illustrated with 12 woodcuts, printed on yellow paper, mor. ex., g.e., emblematic side borders, by J. Mackenzie, Printed for J. H. Burn, Maiden Lani, Covent Garden, 1820 (422), Nov. 25, Sotheby Edwards, £7 155. [A note on the end paper, signed "J. H. Burn, that On this paper certainly not more than four copies were printed."] Boccaccio (G.) Ameto. Con le Osservationi in volgare grammatica sopra esso di Hieronimo Claricio, vell., Impresso in Milano nella officina Minutiana a ispesa di Andrea Caluo, 1520, sm. 4to. (99), Feb. 3, Sotheby

states

Quaritch, £3 Boccaccio (G.) Centum Nouella, lit. goth., woodcut on title, woodcuts in text, device at end (some ll. discoloured, title mended), mor. gt., g.e., by Rivière, Strassburg, J. Cammerlaudern, 1535, folio (960), May 13, Sotheby Edwards, £7 15s. Boccaccio (G.) Contes et Nouvelles, figures en taille-douce gravées par Romain de Hooge, engraved title and vig nettes, 2 vol., old cf., Amsterdam, G. Gallet, 1697, sm. 8vo. (77), March 3, Sotheby James, £2 10S. Boccaccio (G.) De Mulieribus Claris, lit. goth., 70 leaves, with signs., including blank for Ai. [Hain 3331, Proctor 9308, Pellechet 2475], cut of Adam and Eve on A 3 and 75 cuts in the text, col. by a contemp. hand (2 leaves, K 3-4 in fac., blank portion of last leaf cut off), old russ., with Blandford crest, plain edges, Impressum Lovanii per me Egidium vander heerstraten, 1487, sm. folio (135), Nov. 14, Sotheby Maggs, £33 Boccaccio (G.) Falles of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other Nobles, trans. by John Lidgate, Monke of Burye, 12 woodcuts, including Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden," and numerous woodcut initials, old cf. (17th century), Imprinted at London in Flete-strete within Temple barve at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde 1554 (86), Nov. 4, Sotheby Heffer, £28 [Large copy, measuring 1218 by 8 inches. A few ll. at end wormed. It contains The Daunce of Machabree" (12 pp. at end), also the duplicate leaf ccxx., with Greneacres' a Lenuoy upon Bochas," sometimes missing.]

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Boccaccio (G.) Genealogie Deorum

Boccaccio (G.) Fiammette Amoureuse . faicte Françoise et Italienne, par G. C[happuis] D[e] T[ours], French and Italian on opposite pages, mor. gt., g.e., by Pagnant, Paris, chez Abel d'Angelier, 1585, 12mo. (961), May 13, Sotheby Maggs, £5 5s. Boccaccio G.) Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium [Ejusdem] De Montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, etc., editiones principe, lit. rom., long lines, 41 to a full page [Hain 3315 and *3326, Proctor 4045 and 4048], in 1 vol., contemp. painted coat-of-arms on first blank leaf, old cf. gt., Venetiis, Vindelin de Spira, 1472-3, thick folio (131), Nov. 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £29 Gentilium libri XV., roman letter, 296 II., including first blank (torn and mounted), long lines, 41 to a full page, without marks, capitals supplied in blue, initial on first leaf of text in gold on an ornamental ground, with marginal borders, coat-ofarms in centre (or, merle sable, in chief a label of 3 points gules), several 11. stained, large copy [Hain *3315, Proctor 4045], [colophon] Venetiis impressum anno salutis M.cccc. LXXII., Nicolao Throno duce foelicissimo Impe [Wendelin of Speiers, 1472]—Boccaccio (G.) De montibus, syluis: fontibus lacubus, etc., roman letter, 76 11. (including first blank), long lines, 41 to a full page, without marks, capitals supplied in blue, one leaf torn and mended (text damaged and damp-stained and some 11. foxed) [Hain *3326, Proctor 4048], Venetiis [Wendelin of Speiers], Idus Ian CCCCLXXIII., in 1 vol., orig. oak bds. (backed), 1472-3, folio (248), Dec. 2, Sotheby Last, £5 Boccaccio (G.) Genealogiæ Deorum Gentilium, rom. letter, 354 ll. (should be 356), a few capitals painted, coat-ofarms in gold and colours on lower margin of first leaf, small capitals supplied by hand in blue or red (text on p. viii., ix. defective), mor., g.e. [Hain *3319, Proctor 7250], Reggio d'Emilia, Bartholomaeus et Laurentius Bruschus, 1481, folio (958), May 13, Sotheby Ellis, £5 10S. Boccaccio (G.) Genealogia de gli Dei, tradotti per M. G. Betussi da Bassano, italic letter, woodcut border to title, historiated initials, old cf., Vinegia, 1554, 4to. (76), March 3, Sotheby Last, 16s. Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron, traduict d'Italien en Françoys par M. A. le Maçon, cf., Lyon, 1558, 16mo. (269), Dec. 2, Sotheby Quaritch, f2 12S. Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron (traduit par Le Maçon), illustrated with 5 fronts., one port., 110 plates and 97 culs-delampes by Aliamet, Baquoy, Flipart and others, 5 vol., mor. ex., g.e., Londres (Paris), 1757-61, 8vo. (130), Feb. 3. Sotheby Maggs, £95

[This copy contains the following additional states of the plates-Première Journée: Nouvelle première (unpublished trial proof by Eisen); Nouvelle huitième (proof before all letters). Seconde Journée: Nouvelle cinquième