plates, with the additional plates in a case, 2 vol., orig. buckram, g.t., 1903, 8vo. (173), Dec. 7, Sotheby Walford, £1 16s. [See also Feb. 1, £1 6s.; Ed. 1906-Hodgson, May 20, £2 5s.; June 30, £2 2s.; Sotheby, June 21, 1 14S.; July 5, £2; Dowell, Oct. 26, I IOS.; Ed. 1909-Sotheby, Feb. 1, 1 12s.; Navarre Soc.-Anderson Gall., Dec. 7, n.d., $10.] Boccaccio (G.) Il libro... chiamato Il Decameron cognominato Prencipe Galeotto nel quale si contengono Cento Novelle in dieci di dette da sette Donne e da tre Giovani Uomini, printed in red and black, initials in blue, orig. bds., linen back, Ashendene Press, 1920 (289), April 19, Sotheby Tregaskis, £21

[See also Hodgson, Jan. 13, £13; Anderson Gall., Jan. 18, $87.50.] Boccaccio (G.) Life of Dante : Giovanni Boccaccio's Encomium on Dante, or 'Trattatello in Laude di Dante," translated from the Italian by Philip Henry Wicksteed, one of 250 copies, bds., uncut, San Francisco, printed by John Henry Nash for his Friends, 1922, folio (18), Mar. 25, Anderson Gall. $150

[Inscribed by the printer on flyleaf "Walter Gilliss, from John Henry Nash, November 14, 1922."] Boccaccio (G.) Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium, first ed., roman letter, long lines [Hain *3315, Proctor *4045], 294 ll. including 2 blanks (should be 296 11., F 176 and F 179 missing), the first page of text following the table within a fine border in brown monochrome of leafy sculptural spirals ending in a flower, in the lower border a coat-of-arms supported by two putti, at the beginning of each book an initial in monochrome containing grotesques, heads, etc., numerous other initials in red and blue, a few small wormholes in a few 11. at beginning and end, a tear in 2 or 3 ll. mended, a few 11. misbound (a note on the correct order of binding is given on the flyleaf), crushed brown mor., panelled tooling in blind and gold on sides, gt. back, g.e., by Leighton, a clean and large copy (327mm. by 227mm.), Venice, Vindelinus de Spira, 1472, folio (295), Mar. 29, Sotheby Thorp, £34

[Hain notes " exempla inter se differunt," and quotes a copy reading (as this one does) on II A "Genealogie deoru gentium," etc., and not Genealogie deorum gentilium,' etc. See also May 3, £64; May 3, ed. 1550, £8 10s.] Boccaccio (G.) Ioannis Boccaccii de Certaldo: de montibus: syluis fontibus: lacubus: fluminibus: stagnis: seu paludibi: de nomibus maris: liber icipit feliciter [colophon] Opus diligentissime ipressum finit. Venetiis, Idus Ian. cccc.lxxiii., roman type, first ed., 75 11. without pagination, catchwords or signature marks, 41 long lines to the page two pinholes in each leaf, hf. mor., sprinkled

edges, binding worn, ll. cut close at top, inner margins reinforced, first blank margin torn, last one mended, some stains, good clean copy [Venice, Wendelin de Spira, 1473], sm. folio (38a), Nov. 23, Anderson Gall.

$47.50

[This work is usually found bound with Boccaccio's 'Genealogia deorum gentilium," published by Wendelin de Spira the same year. Bookplate of Herculis de Silva. Hain 3326.] Boccaccio (G.) The Fall of Princes, translated by John Lydgate, first ed. in English, (a 2) Here begynnethe the boke calledde Iohn bochas descriuinge the falle of princis princessis & other nobles traslated ito englissh by Iohn ludgate moke of the monastery of seint edmūdes Bury ... (H 3) Here endith a compendious tretise and dyalogue of John Bochas: . . . Finysshed the xxvii. day of Janyuere, In the yere of oure lord god мCCCCLXXXXiiii. Emprentyd by Richard Pynson, dwellynge withoute the Temple barre of London, Laus Deo, black letter, in 2 columns, 9 woodcuts, 214 ll. (should be 216), wanting the first leaf blank, and the last leaf bearing only the printer's device, text of 7 ll. repaired and defective, side margins of one leaf renewed and some other blank margins repaired, several small marginal slits, in two cases entering but not destroying the text, a few ll. stained, all but about 65 11. more or less wormed, a considerable number of letters being pierced or partly destroyed, early MS. notes in some margins, old russia the Towneley-Heber copy (Heber VIII. 522) R. Pynson, 1494, folio (12ĝin. by 9in.), (73), Mar. 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £1,750

See

[One of nine known copies, seven in public libraries; all imperfect. The only other known copy in private hands (Quaritch, Cat. 369, No. 140) lacks 5 leaves. The first dated book in which Pynson used woodcuts. also Mar. 8, £185.] Boccaccio (G.) The Tragedies, gathered by Jhon Bochas, of all such Princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of Fortune since the creation of Adam... etc., translated into English by John Lidgate, old cf., margin of a few ll. with small wormhole, some of the top margins cut close, the Edwin B. Holden copy, with bookplate, London, John Wayland, c. 1553, folio (76), April 14, Amer. Art Assoc.

$65

[Inside the cover is an autograph inscription stating that the volume was presented by Philip Hone (Mayor of New York) to Peter Hastie. See also Ed. 1554Hodgson, June 10, £8; Anderson Gall., May 20, $95 ; Ed. [1555]-Anderson Gall., May 20, $140; Ed. 1558Sotheby, Nov. 2, £5.]

Boccalini (Trajano). The New-found Politicke... translated into English for the benefit of this Kingdome [by William Vaughan], a few small rust-stains, cf., g.e., by Rivière,

Miller arms on sides, London, Printed for Francis
Williams, 1626, sm. 4to. (72), Mar. 15, Sotheby

Quaritch, £21 Böckler (G. A.) Architectura Curiosa, engraved title and numerous plates of fountains, gardens, etc., old cf. [1664], folio (612), Dec. 9, Hodgson Tregaskis, £1 12S. Bode (Wilhelm). The Complete Work of Rembrandt: History, Description, and Heliographic Reproduction of all the Master's Pictures, with a Study of his Life and Art, from the German, by Florence Simmonds, ed. de luxe, one of 75 copies on Japan vellum, numerous fine photogravure reproductions, 8 vol., crushed brown levant mor., with a panel of filleted lines, with gold-tooled corner-pieces on the covers, g.e., orig. covers bound in, by Ruban, Paris, 1897-1906 (73), Feb. 8, Anderson Gall.

[See also Sotheby, Dec. 7, one of 500 copies, £32.] $610 Bodenham (John). Bel-vedere, or the Garden of the Muses. first ed., device on title-page, early 17th century brown cf., gt. back, with acorn design, small pieces of margins torn from half-a-dozen ll., and hole in one margin, Imprinted at London by F. K. for Hugh Astley, 1600, sm. 8vo. (56), May 20, Anderson Gall. $400

[An important Elizabethan anthology. Contains 215 quotations from Shakespeare's works and 23 from the curious play, Edward III., ascribed to Shakespeare by several critics. The collation of a complete copy is A-A8, 2 l. unmarked, B-R8. In this copy A 2 (as in all other copies) is reduced to a stub (with faint traces of the printed text): A 3-6 have been suppressed and replaced at the time by the two unmarked leaves which in the above stated collation come between A and B. These two leaves, printed on one side only, contain short poems "To the Universitie of Oxenford" and "To the Universitie of Cambridge." Leaves 7-8 contain verses by A. M. (Anthony Munday), A. B., W. Rankins, and R. Hathway. De Ricci could only trace eleven copies.]

[Bodenham (J.)] Politeuphuia: Wits Commonwealth, old cf., W. S. for I. Smethwicke [1600], 16mc. (49), Nov. 23, Sotheby Halliday, £5 5s. Bodin (Jean). The Six Bookes of a Commonweale, done into English by Richard Knowles, title within woodcut border, contemp. cf., Paulet arms in gt. on sides, A. Islip for G. Bishop, 1606, folio (50), Nov. 23, Sotheby

[See also July 26, £9 158.] Dobell, £17 10S. Bodrugan (Nicholas), otherwise Adams. An Epitome of the title that the Kynges Maiestie of Englande, hath to the Souereigntie of Scotlande, continued upon the auncient writers of both nacions, from the beginnyng, M.D.XLVIII., black letter (a-g 8, h 7; wants the last leaf, apparently a blank; on h7 the colophon only), inner margin of sig. h 7 renewed, green mor. gt., g.e., Constable arms on sides, Hibbert's copy, [colophon] Excvsvm Londini, in

aedibus Richardi Graftoni, M.D.XLVIII. [London, R. Grafton, 1548], 8vo. (38), Mar. 22, Sotheby Maggs, £58 Boemus Aubanus (Joannes). The Manners, Lawes, and Cvstomes of all Nations. . . translated into English, by Ed. Aston, first ed., small rust-hole in cc 7, last leaf slightly torn at foot, old vellum, Bright's copy (577), At London, printed by G. Eld, 1611, 4to. (39), Mar. 22, Sotheby Rosenbach, £38 Boethius (Ancius M. T. S.) Arithmetica [Hain-Copinger *3426, Proctor 1873], first ed., gothic letter, 2 columns, woodcut initials and diagrams, a few stains, modern vellum bds., fine copy, Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 20 May, 1488, sm. 4to. (107), Mar. 29, Sotheby Quaritch, £30 Boethius (A. M. T. S.) De Consolatione Philosophiae [Hain *3355, Proctor 7467], ? first ed., gothic letter, in single and double columns, initials, headings and paragraph marks in red, lengthy notes in a contemporary hand in margins of almost every page, bds., sheepskin_back, bookplates of the Duke of Sussex and [Cornelius] Payne, fine copy [Basel, Michael Wenssler, ? 1472 ("not after 1474"-B. M. Cat.)], 4to. (11in. by 8ĝin.), (106), Mar. 29, Sotheby Maggs, £71

[See also Ed. 1489-Hodgson, Dec. 17, £6 15s.; Sotheby, May 17, £3 15s.; Ed. 1497-Anderson Gall., May 5, $95; Ed. 1501-Sotheby, Mar. 29, £8 10s.; May 3, £15; Ed. 1609-Mar. 15, £8; Ed. 1664-Mar. 15, £3 5s.] Boethius (A. M. T. S.) Philosophorum et Theologorum principis Opera omnia, B.M. duplicate stamp on title, brown cf., large arms of Henry Frederick Prince of Wales in centre, and his badge of Tudor rose with princely coronet in corners, afterwards in the possession of James I., who has written his initials "J. R." on the top inner cover, edges painted in parallel bands of red, blue and green, rebacked, joints broken and corners worn, ties removed, sold as a binding (Heber v. 809), Basileae, ex Officina Henricpetrina, 1570, folio (74), Mar. 15, Sotheby Maggs, £31 Boethius. Summum Bonum, or an Explication of the Divine Goodness, in the Words of the Most Renowned Boetivs, translated by a Lover of Truth and Virtue [Edmund Elys], the dedication signed in pen by the Translator, orig. black mor., gt. panelled sides, g.e., the Brand-Heber copy, bookplate of the former (Heber v. 4611), Oxford, printed by H. Hall, for Ric. Davis, 1674, sm. 8vo. (78), Mar. 15, Sotheby Rosenbach, £20

[Not mentioned in the article on Elys in the D.N.B., and erroneously ascribed by Hazlitt to "P. G.," the author of the commendatory verses.] Boethius (Hector). Scotorum Historiae a prima gentis origine,

first ed., title within woodcut border with cut of printing press, inner margin of title repaired, two words (Robertus Grame) erased from the last leaf but one, old cf. over

wooden bds., Paris, Jo. Bad. Ascensius [1526], folio (40), Mar. 22, Sotheby Quaritch, £4 Bohatta (H.) Bibliographie der Livres d'Heures (Horæ B.M.V.) des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts, the only copy printed on vellum of an edition of 150 copies, vellum, Wien, 1909, 8vo. (675), Nov. 2, Sotheby Tregaskis, £3_3s. Bohemiæ Regnum Electinum, that is, a Plaine and Trve Relation of the proceeding of the States of Bohemia, from the first foundation of that Prouince by Free Election of Princes and Kings vnto Ferdinand the eighteenth King of the house of Austria, bds., 1620, 4to. (965), Dec. 7, Sotheby Barnard, £3 15s. [Boileau-Despréaux (N.)] Œuvres diuerses, plates cut into, old hf. cf., enclosed in a leather drop case, lettered Edm. Waller's copy, with his autograph signature on title, Paris, 1675, 8vo. (208), Nov. 2, Sotheby Ash, £1 4s.

[See also Ed. 1740-Dec. 14, £6 5s.; Ed. 1789-July 29, £3 10s.] Boilly (L.) Fifty-six Original Humorous Drawings, with 14 reproductions of same in coloured lithography, shewing variations, in 1 vol., straight-grained blue mor., ornamented borders round sides, with a diamond-shaped centre-piece within rectangular lines, and fan-shaped decoration above and below, c. 1830, folio (283), Nov. 2, Sotheby Howard, £28 Boissard (Jean Jacques). Icones Qvinqvaginta Virorvm illustrium doctrina & eruditione praestantium effictae, cum eorum vitis descriptis a Ian. Iac. Boissardo Vesunti, first ed., engraved titles with historiated vignettes, and 197 engraved portraits by Theodorus De Bry, 4 parts in I vol., full cardinal red French mor., Jansenist, wide gilt dentelle inner border, gt. over marbled edges, by TrautzBauzonnet, fine copy, Frankfort, 1597-1599, sm. 4to. (199), April 14, Amer. Art Assoc. $120 Boke of Noblesse (The), addressed to Edward IV. on his Invasion of France in 1475, with Introduction by J. G. Nichols, 1860, 8vo. (220), Dec. 17, Hodgson

Quaritch, £4 IOS. Bold (Henry). Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique, etc., license leaf before title laid down, imprint very slightly shaved, some head-lines shaved, tear in sig. o roughly repaired, the last 2 11. containing publisher's advts. wanting, old cf. gt., bookplate of James Marquiss of Carnarvon, London, printed for Henry Brome, 1664, 8vo. (59), Mar. 8, Sotheby Pickering, £35

[A copy in the Britwell collection was sold on Mar. 31, 1924.] Bolton (Arthur T.) The Architecture of Robert and James Adam (1758-1794), numerous plates and other illustrations, 2 vol., Country Life, 1922, folio (581), Dec. 2, Hodgson Batsford, £5 10S. [See also Anderson Gall., April 28, $32.50.]