in red, rubricated, two woodcuts, a large one on title repeated twice, and a smaller one at end of Vol. i. repeated at the end of Vol. ii., printer's device in four places, several ll. inserted from a smaller copy, including a duplicate of r ij in Vol. i. (small portions of text erased on a few 11., a few stains, contemp. MS. inscription on last leaf partly erased), 2 vol. in 1, hf. bd. [Campbell 275], Zwolle, Peter van Os, 1484-85, folio (1927), Oct. 27, Sotheby Berners (Juliana). Gentleman's Academie, or the Booke of Quaritch, £7 15s. St. Albans, containing three bookes: the first of Hawking; the second of Hunting; and the last of Armorie, reduced into a better method by G(ervase) M(arkham), (wanted sig. Ar and four 11. in fac.), russia leather, not subject to return, Valentine Sims for Humphrey Lownes, 1595, 4to. (713), Dec. 17, Sotheby Berners (Juliana). Gentleman's Academie, or Book of Saint Dobell, £9 IOS. Albans, reprinted with Literary Researches, by J. Haslewood, one of 150 copies, 2 vol., mor., g.e., 1811, folio (166), April 14, Puttick Berners (Juliana). Treatyse of fysshynge with an Angle, Maggs, £3 3s. black letter, woodcut of an angler beneath title, repeated on reverse, cuts in the text, ornamental and historiated initials, W. de Worde's Caxton device on last page, 16 ll., mor. gt., tooled with a border of interlaced fillets, a fish stamped in centres, inside borders of gt. dentelles, by C. Smith, g.e., [colophon] Imprynted by Worde dwellynge in Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne, Wynkyn de n.d. (c. 1530), sm. 4to. (1), Dec. 16, Sotheby [The first separate edition, and the only copy known. Quaritch, £1,700 From the Harleian, Gulston, Dr. Radcliffe and Haworth libraries. Illustration in Catalogue.] [Beroalde de Verville (F.)] Le Moyen de Parvenir, vignettes, 2 vol., mor. ex., ge., 100070073 (i.e., 1773), 24mo. (457), Dec. 10, Hodgson Hatchard, £3 15s. Berquin (A.) Idylles, second ed., title and 24 plates by Berry (W.) Pedigrees of the families of Kent, coats of arms, trations, several plates inserted, hf. mor., 1837, folio (1038), Dec. 1, Sotheby Lambert, £3 Berry (W.) Pedigrees of the families of Sussex, coats of arms, 2 parts in 2 vol., boards (back of one vol. broken), uncut, 1830, folio (76), May 12, Sotheby Harding, £3 Bertholdus. Horologiu devotiõis, lit. goth. (three types), long lines, 60 l. with signs. [Hain-Copinger 8930, Proctor 1482], cut of the Virgin and Child with S. Anna on title, repeated on reverse and on reverse of last leaf, the recto being blank, 32 small outline initial cuts in the text, mor. ex., g.e., fine copy, Expliciunt... per me Johanem Landen, colonie (c. 1498), (22), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £19 Betterton (Thos.) History of the English Stage, from the Restauration to the Present Time, first ed., port. by Vandergucht, cf., t.e.g., London, 1741, 8vo. (215), Oct. 15, American Art Association $11.50 Bettie (W.) Historie of Titana, and Theseus. Verie pleasant for age to auoyd drowsie thoughts, profitable for youth to eschew wanton pastimes, so that to both it brings the mindes content. Written by W. B., first ed., black letter, hole in title-page and second leaf, last 2 11. cropped and their headlines shaved, their bottom lines cut off, not subject to return, old hf. cf., T. C. for Thomas Pavier, 1608, sm. 4to. (56), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £145 [Apparently the only copy known. Hitherto the earliest edition known to bibliographers generally is that of 1636.] Betton (T.) Here begynneth a ryght profytable treatyse cōpendiously drawen out of many and dyuers wrytynges of holy men to dyspose men to be vertuously occupyed in theyr myndes and prayers, Aue. and Credo, in our moder tonge with many other deuoute prayers in lyke wyse nedefull to religyous people as to the laye people with many other moost holsomest Instruccyons as here after it shall folowe, etc., black letter, 18 11. (a-c in sixes), long lines, 29 to a full page, signatures, but without catch-words, foliation or running titles, on first and last leaves are woodcuts only, on the recto of the first leaf a small cut of St. Jerome (with his Cardinal's hat) and the lion, and on the verso a large cut of the Crucifixion as in the Abbaye of the Holy Ghost, and the Rote or myrour of consolacyon which is repeated on the verso of the last leaf, on the recto of which is Wynkyn de Worde's device, the cypher and foliage within a floral border as in the Rote, woodcut initials (first leaf strengthened, small cut. in aii., text perfect, holes in last leaf), vell._fly-leaves, mor. ex., Miller arms in centres, g.e., by F. Bedford (Wynkyn de Worde), n.d., 4to. (48), May 5, Sotheby G. Street, 120 [Betty (W. H. W.)] Young Albert, the Roscius, Exhibited in a series of characters from Shakespeare and other authors, Douglas, Barbarossa, King Richard III., Othello, [Has portion of the bodies of the full-length figures of the principal characters of the above plays, four of which are those as enacted by Master Betty," the other, Henry the Fourth, is evidently intended to represent George Bartley. These plates are cut out, with the heads of each cut off, and a small pocket or cavity behind each plate in which heads of other actors could be adapted for the same characters. The plates are col. aquatints.] Beverley (Robert). History and Present State of Virginia, first ed., front. and 14 plates by S. Gribelin, mor., London, R. Parker, 1705, sm. 8vo. (541), March 11, American Art Association $105 [First ed. of the earliest history of Virginia, after Capt. John Smith's, and written to correct Oldmixon. Published anonymously. The illustrations are reduced reproductions of engravings from De Bry. Illustration of title in catalogue.] Bevin (E.) Briefe and Short Instrvction of the Arte of Mvsicke, wrappers (some headlines shaved), 1631, 4to. (537), May 5, Puttick Ellis, £15 Bevis. Famous and Renowned History of Sir Bevis of Southampton, giving an account of his Birth, Education, Heroick Exploits and Enterprises, black letter, woodcuts, including one beneath title (hole in D 3, mended, and in E I), old hf. mor., uncut, For W. Thackeray and J. Deacon, 1689, 4to. (58), June 14, Sotheby Pickering, £10 Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, first ed., LARGE PAPER, first issue with the cut on p. 285 of Vol. i. before the bar, 2 vol., hf. cf. gt. (joint broken), Newcastle, 17971804, roy. 8vo. (10), May 12, Sotheby Maggs, £3 [£3 38., russ., roy. 8vo., Nov. 5, Puttick, Lot 48; 1 18s., old cf., roy. 8vo., Feb. 10, Sotheby, Lot 9.] Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, 2 vol., 1797-1804Quadrupeds, 1800, Imperial paper, cf., g.e., by Rivière and Son, 4to. (419), July 7, Puttick Edwards, £8 15s. Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, 2 vol., Newcastle, 1805-General History of Quadrupeds, ib., 1807, together 3 vol., thick paper, russ. gt., 1805-7, 8vo. (934), Dec 1, Sotheby Bumpus, £6 Bewick (T.) History of British Birds, with the Supplement, 3 vol. in 2, 1805-21-Quadrupeds, 1800, cuts, mor., g.e., imp. 8vo. (380), Jan. 1, Puttick Burton, £2 IOS. Bewick (T.) Select Fables, LARGE PAPER, cuts, mor., t.e.g., 1820, 8vo. (382), Jan. 1, Puttick Cubitt, £3 15S. Bewick (T.) Works, comprising: Quadrupeds, 1790-British Birds, and Supplement, first issue, see reverse of last leaf of Vol. i., thick paper, 3 vol., 1797-1804-1821Fables of Æsop, and others, the thumb-mark receipt leaf included, 1818-Select Fables, 1820, together 6 vol., first eds., mor. ex., t.e.g., uncut, by F. Bedford, 17901821, roy. 8vo. (441), May 5, Puttick Spencer, £42 Bewick (T) Works, numerous woodcuts, 5 vol., mor. backs and cl., t.e.g., uncut, Newcastle & London, 1885, roy. 8vo. (42), Jan. 19, American Art Association $10 [Memorial ed., limited to 750 copies. £2 5s., hf. mor., t.e.g., Dec. 1, Sotheby, Lot 511. Beza (Th.) Briefe and pithie sum of the christian faith, made in forme of a confession Translated out of Frenche by R. Fyll], chiefly black letter, 188 11. (A-Aa4 in eights), title within border, mor., Miller arms in gold on sides, g.e., by W. Pratt, fine copy, William How, 1572, sm. 8vo. (49), May 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £10 IOS. Bible, The Holy. Biblia, the Bible, that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated [by Miles Coverdale] out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe, woodcut titles, map, woodcuts and ornamental initials, mor., blind and gt. tooled, g.e., Prynted in the Yeare of our Lorde MDXXXV and fynished the fourthe daye of October (Zurich, Froschover, or Antwerp, Jac. Van Meteren), 1535, thick folio (56), March 22, American Art Association Rosenbach Company, $3700 [The Dent-Benson-Perkins-Lord Amherst copy of the first ed. of Coverdale's translation of the Bible. Number 99 of the Lord Amherst collection, sold in London, December, 1908, for £385, with the following catalogue description: "The first edition of the whole Bible in English, and excessively rare in any condition, no perfect copy being known. This is an uncommonly good copy, wanting only the title, first 2 11. of dedication (supplied in fac.), and map; 2 11. split across and mended, some lower plain margins mended, and a few front marginal notes at end shaved, but the bulk in first rate condition. The woodcuts are chiefly by Hans Sebald Beham, many of which were issued separately as "Bible Illustrations by Egenolph of Frankfort." Reproduction of title-page in catalogue. £49, mor. ex., very imperfect, March 29, Sotheby, Lot 141.] Bible, The Holy. The Byble, which is all the Holy Scripture: In whych are contayned the Olde and Newe Testament, trans. into Englysh by Thomas Matthew, black letter, woodcut titles and illustrations (first title cut round and mounted, imperfect at end, some side-notes shaved), old English mor. gt., g.e., not subject to return [Antwerp], 1537, folio (53), March 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £44 25, mor. ex., two leaves in fac. and 12 others repaired, portion of another leaf torn away, July 26, Sotheby, Lot 191.] Bible, The Holy. The Byble, that is the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament faythfully translated (by Miles Coverdale) in Englysh and newley ouersene and corrected, black letter, double columns, 57 lines to a full column (wants 18 11., including the first title, some 11. defective, not subject to return), modern vell. gt., Imprynted in Southwarke for James Nycolson, 1537, folio (188), April 16, Sotheby Bible, The Holy. The Great or Cromwell's, General and New Quaritch, £5 10S. Testament titles and 6 11. in fac., 7 other 11. repaired, mor. ex., g.e., by W. Pratt, R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1539, folio (192), July 26, Sotheby Howarth, £36 Bible, The Holy. Cranmer's, "The Great" Byble in Englyshe, with a Prologe therinto made by Version. The Thomas, archbyshop of Cantorbury, black letter, woodcut titles (the first cut round and mounted, last leaf cut round and inlaid, some 11. wormed, not subject to return), old English mor. gt., g.e., Richard Grafton, 1540, folio (54), March 15, Sotheby Quaritch, £26 The Great" Version (first title corner defective and inlaid, next 3 and last 3 11. in fac., 9 other leaves repaired), mor. ex., g.e., T. Petyt and R. Redman for T. Berthelet, 1540, folio (193), July 26, Sotheby Bible, The Holy. The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and Peel, £21 greatest volume (with Prologue by Thomas Cranmer), black letter, general title and title to the N. T. within woodcut border after Holbein (the arms of Cromwell deleted), titles to Parts ii., iii. and iv. within borders, each composed of 16 wood-blocks (some headlines shaved, one or two letters on last leaf mended), mor. ex., panelled back, g.e., by F. Bedford, Edwarde Whitchurch, 1541, folio (142), March 29, Sotheby Maggs, £29 Bible, The Holy. Cranmer's [The sixth Great Bible (Nov., 1541), and the Fifth Bible with Cranmer's Prologue. £8, mor., g.e., several 11. missing, others mended, July 26, Sotheby, Lot 194.] Bible, The Holy. The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture, black letter, double columns (the three first 11. inlaid and the margins of others repaired), with the blank leaf before the Apocrypha, mor. gt., g.e. (Darlow & Moule 47), Day and Seres, 17th August, 1549, folio (769), Feb. 18, Sotheby Bible, The Holy. The whole Byble faythfully translated into Quaritch, £8 Englyshe, black letter, double columns, title in red and black within ornamental border, woodcuts, title, the second leaf of Calendar and last 4 11. in fac. (fore-edges of several 11. repaired), mor. in blind, g.e., by W. Pratt [Darlow & Moule, No. 55], not subject to return, Prynted for Andrew Hester, dwellynge in Paules Churchyard at the Signe of the Whyte horse and are there to be solde, 1550, 8vo. (7), April 29, Sotheby Bible, The Holy. The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned Bull, £8 10s. in the olde and newe Testament, first ed. of the Genevan version (several 11. strengthened and repaired, some corners mended, 5 11. defective, some 11. cut into, several |