orig. vell., gt. tooling on sides and back, g.e., not subject to return, Amsterdam, 1647-52, folio (964), Feb. 10, Sotheby Thring, £15 Blaeu (J.) Geographia, col. maps and plates, coats-of-arms emblazoned, 12 vol. (a few 11. discoloured and dampstained), vell., gt. ornamental borders on sides, gt. ornaments on backs, g.e., Amsterdam, 1667, folio (1221), Feb. 10, Sotheby Quaritch, £102 Blaeu (J.) Novum ac magnum Theatrum urbium Belgicæ Regiæ, engraved title-pages with blank centres for mounted printed titles, plates, 2 vol., vell. gt., central ornaments, Amstelodami, n.d., folio (1220), Feb. 10, Sotheby

Nyhoff, £12 Blaeu (J.) Theatrum Civitatum et admirandorum Italiæ, plates, 2 vol., British Museum stamp on verso of title (a few ll. stained), vell. gt., central ornaments, Amstelodami, 1663, folio (1219), Feb. 10, Sotheby Edwards, £7 15S. Blaeuw (W. J.) The Sea-Mirrour, containing a briefe instruction in the Art of Navigation, trans. out of Dutch into English, by R. Hynmers, 3 parts in i, maps, plates, illustrations, etc. (some with movable dials and pointers), orig. cf., Amsterdam, 1625, folio (669), Feb. 18, Sotheby Colnaghi, £66 Blagdon (F. W.) Brief History of Ancient and Modern India, col. emblematic front., col. plate of ports, of native judges (shaved at foot) and 24 col. plates, Edward Orme, 1805Hunter (Jas.) Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore, col. port. of Tippo Sultan and 40 col. plates, 1805, in 1 vol., hf. russ., folio (87), May 12, Sotheby

Spencer, £12 IOS. Blair (J.) Chronology and History of the World from the Creation to the Year of Christ 1753, illustrated in lvi. Tables, tables engraved, cf., Stewart crest in gt., 1756, folio (941), Feb. 10, Sotheby Clements, £1 IS. Blair (R.) The Grave, first ed., port. after Phillips and engraved title and 11 etchings by Schiavonetti after Blake, bds., linen back, tall copy, many 11. uncut, 1808, 4to. (220), July 14, Hodgson Pickering, £6 10s. [£7, hf. mor., uncut, July 19, Sotheby, Lot 859; £2 IOS., bds., paper label on side, July 28, Puttick, Lot 264.] Blair (R.) The Grave, engraved title and II etchings after W. Blake, hf. mor., uncut, 1813, roy. 4to. (56), Jan. 21, Puttick Neumayer, I 17s. 6d. Blake (W.) Book of Thel, 1789 (Muir's facsimile), the 7 plates reproduced and col. by hand from the originals, with a letter from Muir to Cotton promising to send a set of these facsimiles and trusting they will please your critic as they take a long time to do," wrapper, uncut, Edmonton, 1885, 4to. (673), Nov. 26, Hodgson Bain, £6 17s. 6d. Blake (W.) [Genesis.] Original Manuscript of an unfinished Poem entitled Genesis. The Seven Days of the Created World," written on 8 pages of small quarto size, in a

blank book of 32 pages, handmade paper, with water-
mark 1797, blue paper covers, enclosed in case (68), March
15, Anderson Galleries
$1,350

[This Blake MS. is unpublished, and as very few of his poems are known to be in existence in the original holograph, it has great value both because of rarity and literary interest. The only reference to it that can be found is in Gilchrist's Life, where, at page 349 of the first volume, Crabb Robinson writes of an interview with the author, in which he says: He showed me his version of Genesis, for so it may be called, as understood by a Christian visionary. He read a wild passage in a sort of Biblical style." What immediately follows explains why the poem was not published. There are about 200 lines in the poem, which is neatly written and with few changes. Illustration of first page in catalogue.]

Blake (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job, orig. ed., LARGE PAPER, title and 21 plates (proofs on India paper), mor., t.e.g., by Broca, Published as the Act directs, March 8, 1825, by William Blake, No. 5, Fountain Court, Strand, 1825, folio (238), March 4, Sotheby Thorp, £37

[21 10s., orig. bds., uncut, on Large Paper, as above, Dec. 17, Sotheby, Lot 474; £18 10s., hf. mor., t.e.g., uncut, proofs, Dec. 1, Sotheby, Lot 1317; $205, bds., with label, March 15, Anderson Galleries, Lot 49; £15, mor., g.e., some plates foxed, July 28, Sotheby, Lot 237; £20, wrappers, with label, proofs, June 9, Puttick, Lot 88.] Blake (W.) Milton, a Poem in Two Books, the 45 plates [comprising, as Swinburne and others have thought, some of Blake's grandest designs] reproduced and col. by hand, from the orig. in the British Museum, with Quaritch's circular giving particulars of these facs., having additional MS. notes by Muir, and of a number of rare orig. Blake plates and books, 4 pp., May, 1885, wrapper, uncut, Edmonton, 1886, 4to. (675), Nov. 26, Hodgson Bain, II IOS. Blake (W.) Poetical Sketches, by W. B., first ed. (the last three sheets in fac.), cf. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Printed in the year MDcclxxxiii., 8vo. (27), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £8 Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence, 1789 (Muir's reprint), the 31 plates, reproduced and col. by hand from the orig. copy given by Blake to Flaxman, with an additional design of The Birth of a Daisy,” and a pencil note by Muir to the effect that this is "sent to shew that we are practising Blake's strong colouring as well as his faint," also a letter to Cotton referring to his work in copying Blake's originals, 4 pp., wrapper, uncut, Edmonton, 1885, 4to. (674), Nov. 26, Hodgson Bain, LII Blake (W.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789-94, reprint in red (water-mark in paper 1831), mor., borders inlaid in red, g.e. [c. 1831], 4to. (447), Dec. 17, Sotheby

(86)

Sabin, £39

Blake (W.) There is no natural religion, a group of 10 plates, col. by Blake, loose, on sheets of varying sizes, in case, 1811 (48), March 15, Anderson Galleries $625

[The plates were presented to Mr. Forman by R. A. Potts, and the presentation letter accompanies the plates, which consist of-The Frontispiece; The Argument; I. Man cannot naturally Perceive; V. Man's desires are limited; VI. The desires and perceptions of man (2); Therefore God becomes as we are (2); I. Man's perceptions are not bounded; II. Reason, or the ratio of all we have.]

Blake (W.) Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793 (Muir's reprint), the II designs reproduced and col. by hand in fac. of the orig. in the British Museum, with a pencil note from Wm. Muir as to this being one of 7 copies printed on antique note-paper," wrapper, uncut, Edmonton, 1885, 4to. (672), Nov. 26, Hodgson Bain, £9 Blake (W.) Works, ed. by Ellis and Yeats, illustrations, 3 vol., orig. cl. gt., 1893, 8vo. (90), Feb. 17, Puttick Quaritch, £14 IOS. [II, same state, July 2, J. D.Wood & Co.] Blanc (Chas.) Histoire de Peintres de toutes les Ecoles : Française, 3 vol., Hollandaise, 2 vol., Espagnole, Flamade, Allemande, Vénetienne, Florentine, Milanaise, Bolonaise, Anglaise, Ombrienne et Romaine, together 14 vol., many hundred illustrations, mor. ex., g.e., by Chatelin (backs of 3 or 4 vol. slightly rubbed), Paris, Libraire Renouard, 1861-76, 4to. (997), July 19, Sotheby Maggs, £5 [Blanchardine and Eglantine.] The Most Pleasaunt Historye of Blanchardine, Sonne to the King of Friz, and the faire Lady Eglantine, Queene of Tormaday (surnamed) The proud Ladye in Love, black letter (ornament on first title and some headlines shaved, н2 of part ii. repaired), dedicatory epistle signed P. T. G., i.e., Pope Thomas Goodwin, 2 parts in 1 vol., mor. gt., borders of 7 lines with ornaments, gt. inside borders, g.e., by C. Lewis, Printed for William Blakewall, 1595, sm. 4to. (62), June 14, Sotheby Quaritch, £60 Blandy (Wm.) The Castle, or picture of policy shewing forth most liuely the face, body and partes of a commonwealth, the duety, quality, profession of a perfect and absolute Souldiar, black letter, title within woodcut border, unbd., Iohn Daye, 1581, sm. 4to. (62), March 15, Sotheby

Blavatsky (H. P.) Isis Unveiled, port. and vol., cl. gt., clean copy, New York, 1884, 29, Hodgson

Blavatsky (H. P.) The Secret Doctrine, 2 1888, 8vo. (514), Oct. 29, Hodgson

[Vol. iii. is on sale, but the projected

has not appeared.]

Quaritch, £41 folding plates, 2 8vo. (513), Oct. Heffer, £1 175. vol., orig. cl., Ashcroft, £2 28. fourth volume

Bleda (Jayme). Coronica de los Moros de España, woodcut

title (defective), cf., Valencia, 1618, folio (275), Nov. 5, Puttick Foyle, 6s. Blew (W. C. A.) History of Steeple-Chasing, 28 col. and other plates by H. Alken and others, hf. mor., t.e.g., 1901, 8vo. (50), March 17, Puttick David, £3 12s. 6d. Blewitt (J.) The Matrimonial Ladder, a Serio-Comic Scena, with Characteristic Symphonies, engraved title by G. Cruikshank, containing 16 subjects, uncut, in cl. folder, G. Gerock and Co., n.d., folio (69), July 5, Sotheby

Baylis, 18s. Blin de Sainmore (M.) Heroïdes ou Lettres en vers, 4 plates after Eisen and Gravelot, and vignettes (rust hole in one leaf), mor., gt. back, g.e., by Bedford, Paris, 1767-8, 8vo. (390), July 1, Sotheby Edwards, £13 IOS.

[Consists of Lettre de Biblis, 1765, Lettre de Gabrielle d'Estrées a Henri IV., 1766; Lettre de Sapho à Phaon, 1767; Lettre de Jean Calas, 1765; with general title as above.] Blith (W.) English Improver Improved, or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, plates (defective) and woodcuts, old hf. russ., 1653, 4to. (247), Nov. 5, Puttick Carter, 10s. Block Book. An early block woodcut, representing the subject of the Quindecim Signa," pasted in the front cover of an imperfect MS. Service Book of the XVth century, beginning 'De Sancto Francisco Confessore Vigilia (35 11., 6in. by 4in.), written in gothic letter, double columns, 25 lines, red rubrics and painted capitals, orig. monastic binding of oak bds. and sheepskin, with leather strap clasp, from the George Dunn library, Sæc. XV., sm. 4to. (28), July 13, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £40

"

[The woodcut, which is in outline, measures 63in. by 4in., and represents the prophecy "that the sea shall rise forty ells above all mountains and appear to stand up like a wall." The cut appears to be the upper subject of the second leaf (in a block book), the first engraved subject of the Quindecim Signa (circa 1430). (S. Leigh Sotheby, Principia Typographia," Vol. ii., p. 43.) The first figure and a corner of the text damaged.] Blomefield (F.) and Parkin (C.) Essay towards a Topographical History of Norfolk, first ed., ports., maps and plates, Vol. i. wants pedigree of Family of Blomefield, Vol. ii. wants dedication and the folded sheet with references to the plan of Norwich, A.L.s. of C. Parkin inserted in Vol. iii., Vol. v. wants the pedigree of L'Estrange, 5 vol., mor. gt., g.e., not subject to return, Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-75, folio (930), June 16, Sotheby Quaritch, £17 Blomefield (F.) and Parkin (C.) Essay towards a Topographical History of Norfolk, LARGE PAPER, plates, II vol., mor., g.e., 1805-10, 4to. (112), April 14, Puttick Edwards, £10 Blomfield (R.) History of Renaissance Architecture in

England, plates, 2 vol., orig. cl., 1897, 8vo. (24), Feb. 17, Puttick Batsford, £2 45. Bloomfield (R.) Wild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry, full-page woodcuts after Thurston's designs, russ., gold and blind tooled side borders and gt. back, painting on the fore-edge, under the gold, of a Suffolk meadow, with horses, a rustic and a sportsman, 1819, 8vo. (29), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £9 10S. Blow (Jno.) Amphion Anglicus, a Work of many Compositions for one, two, three and four voices, with several accompagnements of Instrumental Musick, port. by R. White (cut round and mounted), hf. russ., W. Pearson, 1700, folio (13), Dec. 15, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £5 10s. Bloxam (M. H.) Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, port. and woodcuts, 3 vol., mor. gt., g.e., 1882, 8vo. (417), Dec. 17, Sotheby G. D. Smith, £5 10s. [Author's own copy, with numerous additional illustrations and notes, several A.L.s., and some scarce pamphlets bound in.]

Blume (C. L.) Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon, plates, plain and col., hf. cf., Amsterdam, 1858, folio (435), June 16, Sotheby

Quaritch, £3 5s. Blume (C. L.) Flora Javæ nec non Insularum Adjacentium, adjutore J. B. Fischer, col. plates, 4 vol., hf. mor. ex., t.e.g., Lugd. Bat. et Bruxelles, 1828-56, folio (535), Jan. 28, Hodgson £13 158. Blunt (W. S.) Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus, with the Love-Sonnets of Proteus, 300 copies printed, red and black ornamental border and initials, the latter in red, presentation copy inscribed by the author, and A.L.s., 3 pp., from him, loosely inserted, vell., with ties, uncut, Kelmscott Press, 1892, sm. 4to. (261), March 4, Sotheby Smith, £18 Blunt (W. S.) "Love-Lyrics & Songs of Proteus & other Poems. By Wilfrid Blunt, January 26, 1892. Small 4to. In black and red. 300 printed. Published by Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand.” (This in textual facsimile from the original Kelmscott Press list of March 9, 1893), Kelmscott Press (21), July 26, Sotheby Maggs, £9 [Blunt (W. S.)] Sonnets and Songs of Proteus, first ed., orig. yellow cl., uncut, J. Murray, 1873, cr. 8vo. (30), Dec. 17, Sotheby Tregaskis, 14S. Boaden (Jas.) Inquiry into the Authenticity of Pictures and Prints of Shakespeare, first ed., LARGE PAPER, ports., hf. cf., uncut, 1824, 4to. (544), Jan. 21, Puttick

Dobell, £1 17s. 6d. Boaden (Jas.) Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, one of 150 LARGE PAPER copies, ports., India proofs, orig. cl., 1893, 8vo. (53),

Jan. 1, Puttick

Boase (G. C.) and Courtney (W. P.)

Greystone, I 78. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,