Francis Bacon, Londini, apud Joannem Billium Typographum Regium, Anno 1620, folio (13in. by 811in.), (313), Feb. 23, Sotheby Maggs, £130 [See also American Art Association, April 14, $140.] Bacon (Sir F.) Opera, tomus primus, qui continet De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum Libros IX., first ed., sewn, latter portion water-stained, Londini, in Officina Joannis Haviland, 1623, folio (158), June 15, Christie Pickering, £58 Bacon (Sir F.) Saggi Morali... Con un 'altro suo Trattato della Sapienza degli Antichi, tradotti in Italiano [by Sir Tobie Matthew], first Italian translation, limp vell. (Heber vi. 226), In Londra appresso di Giovanni Billio, 1618, sm. 8vo. (35), Mar. 23, Sotheby Maggs, £18 Bacon (Sir F.) Sylva Sylvarum, first ed., engraved title and port., title slightly stained, a few small rust-stains, orig. cf. (rebacked), 1627, folio (431), Dec. 8, Sotheby Halliday, £5 [See also July 29, £6; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 2, $26; Oct. 6, ed. 1648, $4.50.] Bacon (Sir F.) Baconiana, or Remains of Sir Francis Bacon, first ed., port. by Van Hove, old cf., 1679 (584), Nov. 12, Hodgson David, £1 12s. Bacon (Sir F.) Works, ports., 3 vol., “Edmund Burke Beaconsfield" stamped on each title, old cf. (rebacked), 1753, folio, Dec. 8, Sotheby Thorp, £4 5s. [See also Hodgson, May 13, ed. 1803, 10 vol., £2 6s.; Sotheby, July 6, ed. 1824, 10 vol., £1 16s.; June 22, ed. 1825, 17 vol., £3 3s.; Hodgson, May 28, 17 vol., £3 10S.; American Art Association, Jan. 20, 17 vol., $85; Sotheby, Dec. 18, ed. 1826, 10 vol., £4 5s.] Bacon (Roger). The Mirror of Alchimy... also a most excellent and learned discourse of the admirable force and efficacie of Art and Nature, first ed. (A-L 4), inscription on title "C & P. hd N. Hillier, ex Bib. Philip Honaratiss Comes Leicester etc.," title slightly soiled and mounted, two letters on a 3 recto rubbed, a small rust-hole through sig. H 4, a small stain on the last leaf, polished pink cf., [colophon] Printed at London by Thomas Creede, for Richard Olive, 1597, 4to. (56), Mar. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £44 [See also Anderson Galleries, Dec. 2, $150.] Bacon (R.) Perspectiva . . ., nunc primum in lucem edita, opera et studio Johannis Combachii, numerous diagrams, old sheep (foxed as usual), with auto. of T. Willughby, Francofurti, 1614, 4to. (94), June 15, Christie Ellis, £4 5s. Baddeley (J. F.) Russia, Mongolia, China, being some Record of the Relations between them, numerous illustrations, col. maps, etc., 2 vol. (limited to 250 copies), bds., canvas backs, t.e.g., 1919 (621), May 28, Hodgson Lee, £8 5s. Baers (J.) Olinda, Ghelegen int Landt van Brasil, inde BAF] BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. Capitania van Phernambuco, etc., black letter, bds., vell. back, Amsterdam, 1630, 4to. (840), April 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 15s. Baffo (G.) Poésies Complètes, littéralement traduites pour la premère fois, port., 4 vol. (limited to 100 copies), blue crushed mor., t.e.g., a fine set, I. Liseux, 1884, roy. 8vo. (258), Nov. 12, Hodgson Dawes, £7 15s. Bagehot (W.) Works and Life, edited by Mrs. Russell Barrington, illus., 10 vol., 1918 (484), Mar. 23, Dowell £2 14S. Bagwell (William). The Mystery of Astronomy made plain to the meanest Capacity, by an Arithmetical Description of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, first ed. (A-K 8, including the frontispiece and the leaf of verses on the frontispiece), small hole in G I, note of ownership and pen-marks on the first page, orig. cf., gt. centre and corner ornaments, London, printed by J. Cottrell for Will. Larnar . . . 1655, 8vo. (57), Mar. 30, Sotheby [See also Mar. 30, ed. 1673, £2 10s.] Rosenbach, £31 Baildon (Joshua). The Wonders of the World, port. by W. Marshall, cf., g.e., from the Milner library, London, printed for John Andrews . . . 1656, sm. 4to. (39), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £16 Bain (F. W.) A Digit of the Moon, first ed., with Mr. Sargent's auto. signature (in pencil), 1899, 4to. (136), July Smith, £3 5s. 29, Christie Bain (F. W.) Indian Stories, 13 vol., limited to 500 copies on paper, natural-grain parchment, Bain (F. W.) A complete collection of the Love Stories of $60 [All first eds., large paper, complete. In nice clean state.] Bainbridge (John). An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet, from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following, with certaine Morall Prognosticks or Applications, first ed. (A-F 4, G 2, last leaf a blank, with a large folding copperplate), in prose with translations in verse, hf. cf. (Heber v. 1282), London, printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1618, 4to. (59), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £28 [Other copies are dated 1619.] Bainbridge (J.) An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet, from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following, with certaine Morall Prognosticks or Applications drawne from the Comets motion (A-F 4, G 2, last leaf blank and a folded plate), brown mor., Miller arms on sides, gt. inside border, g.e., by W. Pratt, Sir W. 1 1 Bolland's copy, London, printed by Edward Griffin for Iohn Parker, 1619, 4to. (60), Mar. 30, Sotheby Quaritch, £17 Baines (T.) The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, sketched on the spot, II col. litho. plates, including title, orig. cl., Day, 1865, folio (319), Oct. 27, Sotheby Bourne, £7 Baker (C. H. C.) Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, 240 illustrations (6 in colour), 2 vol. (No. 355 of 375 copies), orig. buckram, g.t., 1912, 4to. (962), Feb. 2, Sotheby Stephenson, £4 4s. Baker (George). The Composition or making of the moste excellent and pretious Oil called Oleum Magistrale... The which Oyl cureth... Wouds, Contusiōs, Hargubush shot, Cankers, pain of the Raines, Apostumes, Hemerhoids, olde Ulcers, pain of the Joints and Gout... Faithfully gathered and translated into English by George Baker Chirurgian, 1574, black letter, first ed. (A 4, B4, C2, C-R 4), coat-of-arms on back of title, a piece torn from the corner of sig. c I affecting one word, bound in at end are two 11. (the first marked ¶) containing the same verses as are found in the preliminaries c 1-2, the leaves appear to be duplicates except for the difference in the signature (the last two 11. somewhat soiled), old vell., Goddard Johnson's copy (sold 1843, No. 21), [colophon] Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Church in the Pultrie, by John Alde (1574), 8vo. (61), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £38 County of Northissued, orig. bds., Greer, £3 5s. Baker (G.) History and Antiquities of the ampton, plates, 2 vol. in 5 parts, as 1822-41, folio (263), Nov. 24, Sotheby [See also Hodgson, Jan. 14, £5; Sotheby, Feb. 9, £4 10s. ; May 25, 4; June 15, £2 5s.] Baker (Humphrey). The Well spryng of sciences, whiche teacheth the perfecte woorke and practise of Arithmeticke, bothe in whole nombers and fractions . . . Beautified with moste necessary rules and questions, not onely profitable for Marchauntes, but also for all Artificers, black letter (A 4, B-X 8, Y 4, last leaf a blank), small holes in the title slightly affecting the text, a very small wormhole through the first few ll., a few slight stains, penmarks in the margin of two or three ll., inner margin of a few 11. towards the end wormed at top, orig. cf. (back slightly defective), Heber copy, ¶ Imprinted at London, by Iohn Kyngston, for Iames Rowbothum, 1568, 8vo. (62), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £560 [According to G. E. Smith's "Rara Arithmetica," 1908, this is the first edition (see Vol. ii., p. 327), though Hazlitt (iv. 6), following Herbert (p. 1313), quotes an edition printed by Rowland Hall for James Rowbothum in 1562. This book was said by Henry Phillippes, who edited and enlarged the work in 1670, to be one of the best books on arithmetic which had appeared in this country up to that date. In the "Prologue to the gentle Reader" in the edition of 1580 the author says: "Hauing sometime now twelue yeres sithence (gentle Reader) published in print one Englishe boke of Arithmetick, conteyning as I suppose, sundry necessarie and profitable documentes for such as are vvilling to attayne any knowlege therein. I have bene often since that time, and of very late also, requested by sundry of my friendes to peruse the same vvorke, and as I shold nowe iudge it expedient, to adde something more therevnto, and to amplifye the same.' See also Mar. 30, ed. 1602, wormed, 17; Mar. 30, ed. 1612, fine, £9.] Baker (Sir Richard). A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles, by Sr. R. Baker, Knight, first ed., engraved port. of Charles as Prince, by Van Dalen, highly decorative title-page engraved by Marshall (name of a former owner on title-page, two or three small stains), old cf., London, printed for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Red Bull in Little Brittaine, 1643, folio (9), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries $55 [Note on fly-leaf says Lowndes quotes a copy as of 1641 in the Fonthill sale, but that is an error, as the Fonthill catalogue gives it correctly, 1643. Signature of Edward Whymper on fly-leaf, and the John Croker bookplate.] Balbus (Joannes). Catholicon [colophon] Conclusio libri . . . in secula seculorum, Amen, gothic letter, 370 ll., 2 columns of 67 lines each to the page, one to ten-line spaces for capitals, initial letters supplied by hand in red or blue, many filled in with elaborate pen-work in the same colours and extended into marginal decorations. smaller capitals and finials in red or blue, paragraph marks in red, initial strokes and underlinings in yellow, full 18th cent. red straight-grain mor. with inch wide gt. border in geometric and foliated design on sides, gt. leaf design over stipple ground in dentelle effect in back panels, narrow inside gt. borders, g.e., showing the orig. red edge in many places [Hain *2251], [Strasbourg. The R Printer, undated (c. 1470)], thick large folio (221), Feb. 24, American Art Association $550 [Specimen of early German printing. Large, the 11. measuring 17 by 11 inches.] Bale (John, Bishop of Ossory). The Actes of Englysh votaryes comprehēding theyr unchast practyses (some margins defective), Imprinted at Londo in saynt Andrewes Parysh, 1548-The Second part, Imprinted at London, 1551, black letter, russ., with bookplate of the Duke of Sussex, 12mo. (468), April 1, Hodgson Free, £6 5s. [See also Sotheby, Mar. 16, ed. 1545-6, £2 10s.; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 2, ed. 1560, $34.] Bale (J.) A brefe Chronycle concerning the examination and death of the Blessed martir of Christ Sir John Oldcastell Lord Cobham, collected together by Johan Bale, port. of Oldcastle on title, brown mor. gt. ex., by Roger de Coverly, fine copy, [on reverse of title] Imprinted at London by Anthony Scoloker, and Wylla Seres, dwelling wythout Aldersgate (1548), 8vo. (546) May 25, Sotheby Sawyer, £10 [A work used and referred to by Shakespeare for the creation of Falstaff.] [Bale (J.)] The epistle exhortatorye of an Englyshe Christiane. unto his derelye beloued contreye of Englande against the pompouse popyshe Bysshoppes, ... made by Henrye Stalbrydge [written from Basyle, 1544], black letter, 32 11. (A-D in eights; not quoted by Hazlitt), old red mor. (first 3 II. slightly defective), [Printed abroad, c. 1544], (533), Jan. 14, Hodgson Lee, £6 5s. Bale (J.) Illustrium Maioris Britanniæ Scriptorum, LARGE PAPER, William Camden's (the historian) copy, with his autograph inscription "Noc volumine pertentissi bonus vitam et otium concesserit pertegatier Epitome Guil Camden" on the recto of the last blank leaf and his auto. annotations, has the rare Additiones (14 pp.) following the Errata, brown mor. ex., with renaissance panels in blind between gold lines on the sides, by Bedford, fine copy, [colophon] Excusumque fuit Gippeswici in Anglia per Ioannem Overton, anno a Christi incarnatione, 1548, pridie calendas Augusti, 4to. (651), June 29, Sotheby Castle, £24 [The first book printed at Ipswich, and the first English biography. See also Christie, June 15, stained, £10 10S.] Balfour (Graham). The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, first ed., ports. and map, 2 vol., orig. cl., gt. tops, uncut, each in hf levant mor slip-case, inner cl. wrapper, London, 1901, 8vo. (718), April 20, American Art Association $30 [Several of the writings of Stevenson in prose and verse were published for the first time in these volumes. They include eleven letters written to Mrs. Stevenson between the years 1875 and 1887, and one to Miss Boodle, 1894. See also Hodgson, June 17, £1 2s.] Ballads. An Extensive Collection of over 1,900 Street Ballads, printed by J. Pitts, J. Catnach, Birt, Ryle, and Hodges of Seven Dials, W. Collard, Jackson & Son, of Birmingham, and many others, including some late 18th cent. examples, mostly with woodcut at head, mounted in 5 vol., hf. green mor., 4to. (561), June 25, Hodgson Halliday, 13 IOS. Ballads. The Motherwell Collection of Chapbook Ballads, 4 vol., mor. gt., thistles on sides, lions on backs, mor. linings (with device of R. T. Hamilton Bruce and thistles) and end-leaves (with cypher, thistles, and fleurs-de-lys), g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, 1750-1812, 8vo. (26), Nov. 10, Sotheby Dobell, £59 [Previously in the possession of William Motherwell, C. K. Sharpe, and J. Gibson Craig, whose signatures occur in Vol. iv.] |