are for sale. See also Hodgson, May 26, 12mo., bds., £1 6s.] Birago Avogadro (G. B.) Historia Africana, engraved title, old Italian red mor. gt., panelled sides, stamps of lion rampant in corners and on back, g.e., Venice, G. B. Cester, 1650, sm. 4to. (268), Oct. 7, Sotheby Bourne, £4 Birch (Dr. T.) Houbraken and Vertue. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, with their Lives and Characters, ports., 2 vol., LARGE PAPER, old cf., 1743-51, folio (115), Dec. 18, Sotheby David, £10

[See also Nov. 10, £8 15s.; June 22, £6 10s.; Kemp, June 12, £5 5s.; Hodgson, Mar. 11, ed. 1747, £4 5s.; July 23, £3 12s. 6d.; Sotheby, Dec. 18, 6 12s.; May 25, £4 5s.; Christie, July 29, ed. 1756, £3; Sotheby, May 25, £6 10s.; July 20, ed. 1811, £6 15s.; June 15, ed. 1813, £2 10s.; June 15, £4; Hodgson, Dec. 10, £2 8s.; July 23, £2; Aug. 5, £I IOS.]

Birch (W. De Gray). Cartularium Saxonicum : a Collection of Charters relating to Anglo-Saxon History, 3 vol., cl., 1885-93, 4to. (381), July 15, Hodgson Lee, £3 10s.

[See also Aug. 5, £3 12s. 6d.; Nov. 12, £6 6s.] Birchensha (J.) Templum Musicum, or the Musical Synopsis, engraved frontispiece by J. Chantry, orig. sheep, 1664, 12mo. (397), June 25, Hodgson Ellis, £2 12s. Biringuccio (Vanoccio). De la Pirotechnia, first ed., title within woodcut border, many woodcuts, old cf., fine copy, Venice, Venturino Rossinello, 1540, 4to. (85), July 27, Sotheby Everett, £3 5s.

[See also Christie, June 15, £4.] Birmingham (George A.) Irishmen All, with 12 illustrations in colour by Jack B. Yeats, cl., uncut, London and Edinburgh, 1913, 12mo. (55), Dec. 17, Anderson Galleries $5 Bishop (John). Beavtifull Blossomes, gathered by John Byshop, from the best trees of all kyndes, Diuine, Philosophicall, Astronomicall, Cosmographical, Historical, and Humane, first ed., black letter, title within border (neatly laid down), slit in c 4, hole in z 3 repaired, sig. Aa 3 defective and repaired, sig. Qq 4 repaired and errata leaf at end wanting, blue mor., gt. panelled tooling on sides, gt. back, g.e., by F. Bedford, Miller arms on sides, Imprinted at London for Henrie Cockyn... 1577, 4to. (92), Mar. 30, Sotheby Pickering, £9

Bisland (Elizabeth). The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, 2 vol., 1906-The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, 1910, first eds., each limited to 200 copies, both illustrated, together 3 vol., cl., paper labels, entirely uncut, Boston, 1906-1910, 8vo. (301), Feb. 5, American Art Association

$45

[The first mentioned contains a page of Mr. Hearn's manuscript, comprising about 75 words in his autograph, legibly written in ink.]

[Blackmore (Richard Doddridge)]. Epullia, 2 copies, orig. cl. limp, 1854, 8vo. (209), Nov. 5, Hodgson Quaritch, £6 1OS. Blackmore (R. D.) Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor, first ed., 3 vol., orig. blue cl. gt., top edges uncut, otherwise slightly trimmed, as issued, clean copy, 1869 (480), Mar. 26, Hodgson Spencer, £80 [See also American Art Association, Nov. 20, $195; Dec. 1, $165; May 4, ex-library, $110.] [Blackmore (R. D.)] Poems by Melanter, first ed., with the errata slip, autograph presentation copy to Miss Champion, "with the writer's kind regards," orig. cl. limp, 1854, 8vo. (207), Nov. 5, Hodgson Maggs, £12 Blackmore (R. D.) Clara Vaughan, first ed., with A.L.S. from the Author to his sister Ellen inserted, 3 vol., orig. cl., 1864, 8vo. (210), Nov. 5, Hodgson Quaritch, £20 [See also Mar. 26, soiled, £7 10s.]

Blackstone (W.) Commentaries on the Laws of England, first ed., Vol. i., orig. bds., uncut, in clean state, 1765, 4to. (115), June 25, Hodgson Pickering, £2 4s.

[See also Puttick, Dec. 5, 4 vol., 1768-9, £1 2s. 6d.] Blackwall (J.) The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, col. plates, hf. cf., 1860, 4to. (170), Mar. 26, Hodgson

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 15, 1861-4, £2 5s.] Wheldon, £2 Blackwell (Elizabeth). Herbarivm Blackwellianvm emendatvm et avctvm, 600 col. plates, 6 vol., hf. russ., Norimb., 1757-73, folio (392), Dec. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £5 5S. [Blackwood (Adam)]. Martyre de la Royne D'Escosse Dovairiere de France, contenant le vray discours des traisons à elle faictes à la suscitation d'Elizabet Angloise ... sont adioustees deux Oraisons funebres, et un livre de Poëmes le tout sur le mesme sujet, blue mor., panelled gt. back, inside dentelles, g.e., by F. Bedford, Gaspar Fleysben, Anvers, 1588, 8vo. (79), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Thorp, £4 10S. [The last 100 pp. are in verse. Inserted is a pen-andink portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, which was found in a short letter relating to her written by Sir Walter Scott. Scott's Bibliography, No. 174. See also Dec. 8, £2 4s.; Feb. 2, 2 5s.; July 20, £3 15s.]

Blades (William). The Enemies of Books, first ed., with port. and full-page illustrations, some etched, also head and tail-pieces, full brown crushed levant mor., sides with borders of bands of black mor., entwined at several places, enclosing a panel with a semé of floral sprays onlaid in black mor., with leaves in gt., gt. back and top, uncut, by De Sauty, in cl. slip-case, fine copy, London, 1880, 8vo. (29), Dec. 1, American Art Association $41 Blades (W.) The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of his Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges, compiled from original sources by William Blades, port. and numerous facsimile reproductions, 2 vol.-Rae

$10

(John). The Statutes of Henry VII., in Exact Facsimile, from the very rare Original printed by Caxton in 1489, edited, with Notes and Introduction, 1869, together 3 vol., bds., leather backs (bindings much worn), London, 1861-1869, 4to. (40), May 8, American Art Association Blaeu (Joannes). Nieuw Vermeerderd en Verbeterd Groot Stedebock van geheel Italie, over 250 large engravings of towns, seaports, etc., 4 vol. in 2, contemp. cf. gt., 1724, imp. folio (284), July 23, Hodgson Batsford, £4 17s. 6d. Blaeu (J.) Vyfde Stvck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welch vervat Schotlandt en Yrlandt, emblazoned title and col. maps (some loosely inserted), contemp. vell. gt., g.e., Amst., 1662, folio (478), Nov. 24, Sotheby Sotheran, £II Blaeu (J.) Theatrum Civitatum et Admirandorum Italiæ, numerous large engravings, 3 vol., old panelled mor. (rubbed), 1663, imp. folio (289), July 30, Hodgson De Ruiter, £6 15s. Blaeu (W. and J.) Toonneel des Aerdrycx, oft. Nieurve Atlas, 155 maps, including America, col. throughout, with cartouches and emblazoned coats-of-arms, some heightened with gold, Vol. 2 and 3, mor. ex., g.e., Amst., 1650, folio (151), May 27, Puttick Spencer, £18 Blagdon (F. W.) Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (including James Hunter's Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore), 68 col. plates (one frayed), old hf. cf. (broken), 1805, folio (727), Mar. 2, Sotheby

Beale, £7 15s. Blagrave (John). The Mathematical Jewel, shewing the Making and most excellent Use of a singular Instrument so called. . ., first ed., with folding table, and numerous woodcuts by the author, old sheep (1 leaf mostly cut away, worm-holes affecting title and a number of 11., stained in places, and binding worn), with autograph of Tho. Willughby, Walter Venge, 1585, folio (167), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £7 10S. Blair (Robert). The Grave, port. and 12 etchings after W. Blake, engraved title slightly cropped, hf. cf., 1808, 4to. (568), May 18, Sotheby

Bray, £4 [See also Dec. 8, £2 10s.; Dec. 18, £4; June 15, ed. 1813, £2 10s.; American Art Association, Feb. 24, ed. 1813, $135; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 12, $10.] Blake (Martin J.) Blake Family Records, 1300-1700, 2 vol., parchment, 1902-5, 8vo. (399), May 18, Sotheby

Thorp, £2 2s. Blake (William). Autograph Manuscript, 4 pp. 8vo., the unpublished portion of his poem "The Everlasting Gospel,' in a passe-partout frame (166), July 29, Sotheby

Sawyer, £98 [This manuscript comprises 54 lines of the poem, written in ink. This is followed by 16 lines of the prose termination, written in pencil. Its existence was known to

Swinburne, who makes a note to this effect in his essay on William Blake.] Blake (W.) The Book of Thel: Visions of the Daughters of Albion, illustrations in colour, facsimile of the originals of 1789 and 1793, 2 vol., wrappers, in a hf. mor. slip case, with the Quinn bookplate, No printer or date (132), Jan. 5, Anderson Galleries $30 Blake (W.) Designs for Gray's Poems, reproduced in fullsize in monochrome and colour, with an Introduction by H. J. C. Grierson (limited to 650 copies), buckram, Oxford University Press, 1922, roy. folio (296), July 1, Hodgson [See also May 28, £2 5s.] Hollings, £2 15s. Blake (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, first ed., engraved title and 21 plates, bds., fine copy, Invented & Engraved by William Blake, 1825 (wmk., J. Whatman, 1825), folio (160), July 29, Sotheby Scheur, £35

[See also Dec. 18, £40; Hodgson, April 22, £17; Puttick, Oct. 22, £36; Dowell, Jan. 26, £40.] Blake (W.) Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion [1804], facsimile reprint, 100 pp. (last leaf soiled), wrapper, Nonesuch Press, n.d., 4to. (87), Jan. 14, Hodgson

Clayton, £2 6s. Blake (W.) Little Tom the Sailor, printed in black, on a single sheet, 19fin. by 7in. (plate of Little Tom; text; plate of the widow; imprint), the illustrations col. with water-colour and opaque pigment, and one of the few examples of Blake's "woodcutting on pewter," laid down and guarded, Printed for & sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkestone for the benefit of her Orphans, October 5, 1800 (161), July 29, Sotheby Maggs, £36 Blake (W.) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, facsimile reprint in colours, bds., uncut, n.d., 4to. (425), Jan. 26, Dowell

£3 10S. Blake] W). Poetical Sketches, by W. B., engraving by Blake inserted as frontispiece, with pencil inscription below, "The parable of the relapsed sinner & her 7 Devils," first ed., contemp. hf. cf., sprinkled edges, London, printed in the Year MDCCLXXXIII., (28), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries

8vo.

$900

[The name Blake has been completed in ink on the title-page. Blake's first book, privately issued. This was George Cumberland's copy, with his signature on the title-page and his bookplate by Blake. See also Hodgson, April 1, ed. 1899, £1 5s.; April 29, £1 6s.]

[Blake (W.)] For the Sexes The Gates of Paradise Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice Such are the Gates of Paradise, 10 lines of verse, 12 plates only, LARGE PAPER, loose in a folder, from the library of W. Bell Scott; Mr. Keyne knew of 4 copies only [1793], folio (168), July 29, Sotheby £31

[The full set of plates consists of title, frontispiece, "Keys of the Gates" (2 plates), 16 numbered plates, and

epilogue-21 in all. The sheets on which the impressions are taken measure 13in. by 9fin., and are uncut.] Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, [separate titles] Songs of Innocence, 1789, the Author and Printer W. Blake; Songs of Experience, 1794, the Author and Printer W. Blake, first ed. of both parts, with 54 col. plates, old cf. gt., brown edges, No place, 1789-1794, sm. 8vo. (29), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries $5,500

[By an error of the binder, the "Songs of Experience" follow the general title, and the "Songs of Innocence" come after, with a leaf of brown paper between.] Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence, 100 copies, No. 6, Daniel Press, 1893, 4to. (169), July 6, Sotheby Maggs, £2 18s. [See also July 29, ed. 1789, plates only, £150.]

Blake (W.) Works, Poetical, Symbolic, and Critical, edited by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, plates and facsimiles, 3 vol., LARGE PAPER, hf. mor. (soiled), g.t., uncut, 1893, 8vo. (610), Mar. 2, Sotheby Maggs, £23

[See also Lot 2, orig. cl., £21 10s.; Hodgson, June 17, orig. cl., £19.] Blanchard (J. P.) Exact Narrative of [his] Third Aerial Voyage from Rouen, July 18, 1784, frontispiece (the latter and the last leaf repaired), hf. mor. gt., t.e.g., 1784, 4to. (464), Dec. 10, Hodgson Maggs, I IOS. Blancourt (H.) The Art of Glass, shewing how to make all Sorts of Glass, Crystal, and Enamel, likewise the Making of Pearls, Precious Stones, China, and Looking Glasses, 8 plates, small hole in B 5, a few slight stains, unbnd., London, 1699, 8vo. (95), Mar. 30, Sotheby

Barnard, £2 5s. Blavatsky (H. P.) Isis Unveiled, 2 vol., 1882 (543), Dec. 22, £1 135.

Dowell

[See also Sotheby, June 15, ed. 1884, £1 158.] Blavatsky (H. P.) The Secret Doctrine, third and revised ed., 2 vol., cl., 1893 (665), April 29, Hodgson

Edwards, £1 18s. Blew (William C. A.) The Quorn Hunt and its Masters, with 24 illustrations drawn by Henry Alken, 12 of which are col., also a col. map of the Quorn and surrounding countries, 1899-A History of Steeple-Chasing, with 28 illustrations chiefly drawn by Henry Alken, 12 of which are col. by hand, 1901, together 2 vol., cl. gt., g.t., London, 1899-1901, roy. 8vo. (434), Nov. 10, American Art Association $15 Blewitt (O.) [Murray's] Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, maps, cl., 1853 (44), July 27, Sotheby Spencer, £52 [Thackeray's copy, with his sketches. "Thackeray" is written on the half-title, and his monogram is stamped in blind on the title. There are eleven pencil sketches by him in the vol., which are reproduced in "Thackerayana."