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Bryce (J.) The American Commonwealth, first ed., maps, 3 vol., cl., unopened edges, 1888, roy. 8vo. (163), July 6, Hodgson J. Gibson, £3 5s. [American Art Association, Jan. 25, Lot 33, $37.50; Hodgson, June 2, Lot 373, £2 12s.]

Buchanan (G.) Franciscanus et fratres, quibus accessere varia eiusdem et aliorum Poemata, orig. stamped hogskin, with initials" I. C. W." and date 1572 in gold on upper cover, Basilea Rauracorum, Thomas Guarinus Nervius, n.d. [c. 1573], 8vo. (165), May 25, Sotheby Drake, £1 18s. Buchanan (G.) Paraphrasis Psalmorum Davidis Poetica nunc primum edita, Psalmi aliquot in versus Græcos nuper à diversis translati, borders to each page, orig. stamped cf., figures in panels and borders, front cover with I. R. P., 1571, brass clasps, Argent., J. Richelius, 1568, 8vo. (135), Nov. 15, Sotheby Hopkins, £6 IOS. Buchanan (G.) Psalmorum Davidis Paraphrasis Poetica, nunc primùm edita, authore Georgio Buchanano, Scoto, ejusdem Davidis Psalmi aliquot à Th. B. V. versi. Psalmi aliquot in versus itē Græcos nuper à diversis translati, vell., Apud H. Stephanum, et eius fratrem R. Stephanum, typographum Regium (c. 1564), 8vo. (133), Nov. 15, Sotheby

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Quaritch, £5 IOS. Buchanan (Robert). The Fleshly School of Poetry, first ed., orig. wrapper, 1872 (773), Feb. 23, Sotheby Dobell, £1 2s. Buck (Sir George). The Great Plantagenet, or a Continued Succession of that Royall Name, from Henry the Second to King Charles [with a second title-page, An Eclog between Dametas a Woodman and Silenus a Prophet of the Shepheards "'], brown mor., g.e., by Hering, from the Huth library, with bookplate, Nicholas and Iohn Okes, 1635, sm. 4to. (167), May 25, Sotheby Dobell, £9 10S. Buck (S. and N.) Antiquities, or Venerable Remains of Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, etc. in England and Wales, mezzotint ports. of the brothers Buck, index map and 511 views (slight defects in one or two plates), 3 vol., old cf. (worn and covers loose, one cover missing), Robert Sayer, 1774, 2 vol. folio and I vol. oblong folio (509), Jan. 24, Sotheby Godfrey, £32 Buckingham and Chandos (Richard Grenville, Duke of). Memoirs of the Court of England during the Regency, 2 vol., 1856-Memoirs of the Court of George IV., 2 vol., 1859Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria, 2 vol., a MS. note on the title of Vol. ii., 1861, together 6 vol., ports., orig. cl., 1856-61, 8vo. (584), June 15, Sotheby Hall, I 12s. Buckingham and Chandos (R. G., Duke of). Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, the Regency, George the Fourth, William the Fourth and Victoria, together 10 vol., ports., hf. russ. gt., g.t., uniform, 1855-61, 8vo. (386), May 9, Sotheby Edwards, £5

Buckler (J.) Views of English Cathedrals, Churches, etc., 52 fine two-fold aquatint plates, including several of the Oxford Colleges, engraved by F. C. and G. Lewis, T. Malton, R. Reeve, S. Alken and others, hf. crimson mor., t.e.g. (1798-1814), imp. folio (499), Nov. 25, Hodgson Spencer, £17 Buckler (J.) and Chessell (J.) Castellated and Domestic Architecture of England and Wales from the 11th to 19th Century, 114 drawings in water-colours and 3 plans in wash, some inlaid (with MS. descriptions to some), cf., inside panels (rebacked), lettered Vol. i., g.e., 1810, folio (7), June 9, Sotheby Sabin, £150 Buckler (J.) and Chessell (J.) Domestic Architecture of England and Wales, 115 drawings in water-colours and 5 in wash, together with II plans (with MS. descriptions to some), some inlaid, cf., inside panels (rebacked), lettered Vol. iii., g.e., 1814, folio (8), June 9, Sotheby Sabin, £180 Buckler (W.) Larvæ of British Butterflies and Moths, col. plates, 8 vol., Ray Soc., 1876-99, 8vo. (387), May 9, Sotheby Bumpus, £4 10S. Buckton (G. B.) Monograph of the British Aphides, col. plates, presentation copy, with A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, 4 vol., orig. cl., g.t., Ray Society, 1875-82 (7), Feb. 23, Sotheby Dearden, £4 4s. Budaeus (Gulielmus). De Asse & partib. eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idq; authore Io. Grolierio, etc., brown levant mor., by Marius Michel, in a case, Venetiis in Aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1522, 8vo. (5), Dec. 6, Anderson Galleries Budge (E. A. Wallis). Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a Series of Ethiopic texts with English translation and notes, first ed., only 250 copies printed for private circulation, this being No. 6, port. of Alexander the Great, 2 vol., hf. mor., t.e.g., uncut, 1896, 8vo. (420), July 13, Sotheby Edge, £ 2s. Budge (E. A. W.) The Gods of the Egyptians, 98 col. plates, 2 vol., cl. gt., 1904, roy. 8vo. (203), May 11, Hodgson £4 Buffon (Comte de). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, numerous col. plates of birds, 10 vol., contemp. red mor., 3-line fillet round edges, gt. panelled tooling on sides, decorated with flowers, stars, birds, etc., fine copy, sold as a binding and not subject to return, à Paris, de l'imprimerie royale, 1770-86, 4to. (472), July 27, Sotheby Wheldon, £78

$125

[Anderson Galleries, Feb. 1, Lot 73, $195; Sotheby, March 1, Lot 581, £20.] Buffonerie del Gonnella, cosa piacevole da ridere e di nuovo aggiuntovi una novella, che lui fece alla Duchessa di Ferrara, e di nuovo ristampata, in verse, no separate title, woodcut beneath title-heading, blue mor. ex., Siena, alla Loggia del Papa, 1605 (398), July 25, Sotheby

Maggs, £3 15s.

Bulleid and Gray. The Glastonbury Lake Village, a Description of the Excavations, 1892-1907, 101 plates, 2 vol., cl. gt., 1911-17, 4to. (609), Oct. 27, Hodgson

Ellis & Keene, £25s. Bullen (A. H.) England's Helicon, Lyrics from Elizabethan Song Books, etc., 4 vol.-Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 2 vol., edited by A. H. Bullen, orig. limited eds., together 7 vol., buckram, 1887-91, 8vo. (260), Oct. 27, Hodgson Maggs, £6 15S. Bullen (A. H.) English Dramatists, being the Works of Marlowe, Marston, Peele and Middleton, edited by A. H. Bullen, together 16 vol., LARGE PAPER, only 120 copies issued, 1885-8, 8vo. (825), Dec. 20, Sotheby

Dobell, 13 5s. Bullen (A. H.) Love Poems of the Restoration and of the Seventeenth Century, orig. limited eds., 2 vol., cl., cf. backs, t.e.g., 1889, 8vo. (261), Oct. 27, Hodgson Hatchards, £2 14S. Buller (W. L.) Birds of New Zealand, col. plates, hf. mor., g.t., 1873, 4to. (533), May 9, Sotheby Thorp, £4 10s. [Sotheby, April 25, Lot 238, £3 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 1, Lot 74, $25.] Buller (W. L.) A History of the Birds of New Zealand, second ed., with the Supplement, plates in colours and illustrations in the text, 4 vol., hf. mor., g.t., front wrappers bound in, Published for the subscribers by the author, 1888-1905, large 4to. (583), March 1, Sotheby

Wheldon, £17 IOS. Buller (W. L.) A History of the Birds of New Zealand (and Supplement), port., col. plates and illustrations in the text, 3 vol., new hf. green mor., g.t., 1888, 1905, folio (170), May 25, Sotheby Edwards, £15 [Hodgson, July 27, Lot 276, £10; March 22, Lot 275, £10 IOS.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 1, Lot 75, $35.] Bulliard (N.) Flora Parisiensis, col. plates, vol., green mor. gt., g.e., Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1776, 8vo. (349), March 1, Sotheby Bumpus, £15 IOS. Bullinger (H.) A Hundred Sermons uppon the Apocalipse of Jesu Christ, black letter, title within woodcut border, printer's mark on last leaf, ruled throughout in red, port. inserted, title-page mounted, a few MS. marginal notes, purple mor., ornamental panelled sides, the fore-edges having a painting of "Patmos by J. T. Beer, the other edges gt. and tooled, J. Daye, 1573, 4to. (188), Dec. 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £4 IOS. Bullock (Wm.) Virginia Impartially Examined, and left to publick view, to be considered by all Judicious and honest men, under which title is comprehended the Degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull Countries of Roanock, the now Plantations of Virginia and Mary-land, red levant mor., g.e., by the Club Bindery (small repairs to blank margins of the title

page), London, John Hammond, 1649, 4to. (24), May 16,
Anderson Galleries
$200

[A guide for prospective settlers, and abounds with details of the Virginia Colony. With the Hoe bookplate.] Bulwer (J.) Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform'd, or the Artificiall Changling historically presented, in the mad and cruel Gallantry, foolish Bravery, ridiculous Beauty, filthy Finenesse and loathsome Loveliness of most Nations, fashioning and altering their Bodies from the Mould intended by Nature, port. by W. Faithorne, engraved front. by T. Cross and numerous woodcuts, old tree-cf. gt. (repaired), g.e., rare, W. Hunt, 1653, sm. 4to. (87), June 9, Sotheby Tregaskis, £7 Bulwer (J) Philocophus, or the Deafe and Dumbe Mans Friend, red mor., by Rivière, London, Humphrey Mosely, 1648, 12mo. (39), Nov. 11, Anderson Galleries

$51

[With the leaf, "A Reflection of the sence and minde of the frontispiece," preceding the engraved title.] Bunbury (H. W.) Academy for Grown Horsemen, 1787Annals of Horsemanship (fore-edge of front. cut into), 1791, first eds., plates, 2 vol. in 1, russ. gt., ochre edges, folio (203), May 20, Puttick

Pickering, £7

[Sotheby, July 27, Lot 919, £1 15s.; Hodgson, Dec. 1, Lot 554, 43 3s.] [Bunbury (W. H.)] An Academy for Grown Horsemen [and Annals of Horsemanship], 29 col. plates by T. Rowlandson, orig. bds., uncut, with label intact (but lower part of back slightly defective), 1809 (491), Feb. 2, Hodgson Spencer, £4

[Anderson Galleries, May 9, Lot 165, $31; Puttick, June 15, Lot 344, £1.] Bunbury (H. W.) An Academy of Grown Horsemen, fourth ed., 1812-Annals of Horsemanship, 1812, 2 vol. in 1, col. plates after H. Bunbury, hf. cf., 4to. (857), July 27, Sotheby Last, £3 10s.

[Sotheby, April 25, Lot 34, £2 8s.] Bunn (Alfred). A Word with Punch, No. 1 (to be continued, if necessary), all published, illustrations, bds., lettered on side, n.d. [1847, 4to. (88), June 9, Sotheby Hollings, 125. [The rare original of the satire on Punch, particularly pillorying Douglas Jerrold, Gilbert à Beckett and Mark Lemon, satirised under the names of Wronghead," "Sleekhead" and "Thickhead."]

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Bunny (Edm.) Of Divorce for Adulterie and Marrying againe (piece from bottom margin of title, not injuring the text), hf. cf. (broken), Oxford, 1610, 4to. (742), July 27, Sotheby Last, £1 12s.

Bunsen (C. C. J.) Egypt's Place in Universal History, with the Hieroglyphic Dictionary, 5 vol., cl., 1848-67 (652), July 6, Hodgson Lawrence, £2 12S.

[Anderson Galleries, Oct. 25, Lot 209, $26.] Bunyan (John). Grace Abounding to the chief of Sinners,

first ed., modern cf. (a flaw in leaf D7 and a few headlines barely touched, hence sold w.a.f.), George Larkin, 1666, Stevens & Brown, £44 8vo. (137), July 22, Puttick Bunyan (J.) The Holy War, with folding plate and brilliant impression of port. by R. White, dark blue mor., by Rivière, in slip-case, London, printed for Dorman Newman, $350 1682, 8vo. (45), Nov. 29, Anderson Galleries

[First ed., including the unpaged leaf," Advertisement to the Reader," at the end.] Bunyan (J.) Meditations on the Several Ages of Man's Life, representing the Vanity of it, from his Cradle to his Grave, adorned with proper Emblems; to which is added, Scriptural Poems, engraved port. (soiled), crushed wine levant mor., g.e., by the French Binders, London, 1700-01, sm. $325 8vo. (24), Jan. 20, Anderson Galleries

[The extremely rare first ed. Both the Meditations and the Scriptural Poems are unmentioned by Offor, neither The are they recorded by either Lowndes or Hazlitt. Scriptural Poems has a separate title-page, and the publishers probably intended to issue it separately. Writing by a former owner appears on the blank portion of two pages.] Bunyan (J.) The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come, first ed., wants the title and sign. A 7 and sheet L (= 8 11.) in fac., inside bottom corner of one leaf (sign. F 8) torn and catchword defective, the inner "The Conclusion," defective and margin of last leaf, mended, affecting two or three letters of text, wormhole through last few ll., last leaf and a few other ll. somewhat soiled and the lower corner of a few ll. in the middle of the book stained, name of original owner on fly-leaf, "Thomas Kingsford his Book, 1678, April 8," orig. cf., not subject to return (5 in. by 3 in), Printed for Nath. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey near Cornhil, 1678— The Pilgrim's Progress, first ed., another copy, wants sign. FI and all after sign. м 8 (= the last 27 II.), inside bottom corner of sign. F 2 torn and several words defective, a small slit in sign. F 8, small piece torn from the margin of sign. H 7 and 13, slightly affecting a marginal note, a good many ll. somewhat soiled, the title is perfect and in good condition, name of original owner on fly-leaf, "William Readding His Booke, 1678," and again on the William Readding at Greens original blank before title, fordge in the parish of Wamborne, 1679," orig. cf. (back defective), in crushed green mor. case, not subject to return (5 in. by 3§ in.), ib., 1678 (498 and 499), June 28, Quaritch, £2,500 Sotheby Lot No. 499, another copy of the [Extremely rare. same book, supplies the title and 9 missing ll., the two copies together making, according to the Grolier Club catalogue collation, a perfect copy except for the slight defects noted. A copy was sold in May, 1901, with

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