trait and col. plates, one of 80 copies containing an orig. water-colour drawing by L. Bakst, vell. gt., g.t., in cl. box, Paris, 1913, folio (557), June 4, Sotheby Lewis, £21 [See also Feb. 12, £10; Dec. 18, £9 5s.] = Balaam. Relation de la sortie du demon Balam du corps de la Mère Prieure des Vrselines de Loudun, à Orleans (sign. A 4 11.), Chez René Fremont, 1635-A Relation of the Devill Balams departure out of the body of the MotherPrioresse of the Vrsuline Nuns of Loudun. Her fearefull motions and contorsions during the Exorcisme . . . faithfully translated out of the French copie, with some Observations for the better illustration of the Pageant (sign. B4-D4), last leaf mounted and blank portion torn away, Printed by R. B., 1636, in 1 vol., hf. cf., 4to. (556), July 30, Sotheby Ellis, £4 5s. Balaams Asse, or the City-Fast for Cursing the King and blessing Oliver, in verse, hf. brown cf., 1649, sm. 4to. (36), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £4 Balbus (Johannes). Catholicon, gothic letter, 312 ll., 2 columns, fine woodcut initials, device at end (some bottom corners water-stained), hf. cf. [Hain *2266, Pellechet 1715, Proctor *5199], Venice, J. Hamman or Herzog, 1497, folio (692), June 4, Sotheby Leighton, 1 18s. [July 25, one leaf from 1460 ed., £5.] Baldwin (T.) Airopaidia, containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester, Sept. 8th, 1785 [in Lunardi's balloon]-Hints on the Improvement of Balloons and Mode of Inflation by Steam, etc. . . . the whole serving as an Introduction to Aerial Navigation, 4 folding plates (2 of which are col.), old cf., Chester, 1786 (27), June 29, Hodgson Dobell, £4 `Baldwin (William). The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt, wherein are declared the causers and causes of his death, in verse, black letter, woodcut portrait of the king on titlepage, repeated on recto of last leaf, on the last page above the colophon is a woodcut representation of a man in a labyrinth, old blue mor., blind tooled borders, from the Heber library, Thomas Marshe, 1560, sm. 4to. (37), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £65 Bale (John). A brefe Chronycle concerning the examination and death of the Blessed martir of Christ, Sir John Oldcastell the Lord Cobham, black letter, woodcut on the title-page, old green straight-grain mor., N.p., n.d. [Marburg? by Hans Luft? 1544], sm. 8vo. (7), Jan. 23, Anderson Galleries $490 Sir [First ed. This is the source of Shakespeare's John Oldcastle," first published in 1600.] Bale (J.) Illustrium maioris Britanniæ scriptorum, hoc est Angliæ Cambriæ ac Scotia Summariu, in quasdam centurias divisum, large woodcut on title-page, brown mor. ex., g.e., by Rivière, Gippeswici in Anglia [i.e., Ipswich], per Ioannem Overton, 1548 pridie calendas Augusti, 4to. (497), Feb. 5, Sotheby [See also Anderson Galleries, Mar. 5, $140.] Thorp, £8 Bale (J.) A mysterye of inyquyte contayned within the heretycall genealogye of Ponce Pantolabus, woodcut title, lettres bâtardes (first leaf wormed and some soiled), cf., Emprynted at Geneva, by Mychael Woode, 1545, 12mo. (812), July 18, Hodgson Barnard, £5 Bale (J.) The Pageant of Pope, Englished by I. S[tudley], black letter (slight water-stains), old cf. (defective), Thomas Marshe, 1574, 4to. (473), Oct. 23, Sotheby Ellis, £4 5s. Balfour (G.) The Life of R. L. Stevenson, first ed., portraits (bookplate on verso of hf.-titles), 2 vol., cl., g.t., 1901, 8vo. (852), July 16, Sotheby Maggs, £1 10s. [See also Dec. 18, £1 8s.] Ballads. A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant, with Introductions, Historical, Critical or Humorous, illustrated with 45 copperplates, 3 vol., full brown mor., triple gt. fillet border on sides, uncut, gt. on the rough, London, printed for J. Roberts, D. Leach and J. Batley, 1727-1726-1725, 12mo. (102), Feb. 28, American Art Association $65 [Volume i. is the third edition, Vol. ii. the second and Vol. iii. the first edition. This copy contains all the 45 plates, including the very rare plate, "The Swimming Lady," usually extracted. Lowndes is in error when he states that the work should have 47 plates-45 is the correct number.] Balloon. The Air Balloon, or a Treatise on the Aerostatic son [The first treatise in English dealing with balloons.] Balloon (Air) and Parachute . . . Account of the Three last Aerial Voyages made by M. Garnerin... including interesting particulars communicated by himself, 18 11., limp wrapper, A. Neil [1802], 12mo. (38), June 29, Hodg£I IOS. Balloon (The), or Aerostatic Magazine, edited by Henry Coxwell, folding frontispiece and woodcuts, Vol. i. (Nos. 1-4, all published), unbound, B. Steill, 1845 (60), June 28, Hodgson Watts, £2 25. Balloons. A History of Balloons, etc., first ed., col. folding frontispiece of Garnerin's balloon and parachute, marbled paper boards, Printed for the Author by J. Rhynd, 1802 (37), June 29, Hodgson Dobell, £3 IOS. [See also Lot 35, Voyages in the Air, 1802, £2.] Baltimore (Fred Calvert, Lord). Gaudia Poetica, Latina, Anglica et Gallica lingua composita, Ao 1769, plates and engravings, one of 10 copies only privately printed for presents, contemp. red mor., gt. border on sides, gt. back, g.e., Augustae, Litteris Späthianis, 1770, 4to. (27), March 20, Sotheby Pearson, £36 Balzac (Honoré de). Les Contes Drolatiques, illustrated par Robida, 2 vol., hf. mor., gt. top, n.d. (1124), Nov. 20, Dowell £2 25. Balzac (H. de). Comedie Humaine, edited by George Saintsbury, plates, 16 vol., 1895-96 (114), Dec. 18, Dowell £2 8s. Balzac (H. de). La Comédie Humaine, now for the first time completely translated into English by G. Burnham Ives and others, beautifully illustrated with hundreds of etchings by Los Rios, Dubouchet, De Billy and others on Japan paper, with a duplicate set of all the plates on India paper, 53 vol., three-quarter red crushed levant mor., full gt. panelled backs, with floral designs, onlays of cyan-blue mor., contents lettered, gt. tops, uncut, Philadelphia, printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Son (1899), 8vo. (22), Nov. 16, American Art Association $315 [Complete set of the Edition Definitive. Limited to 1,000 sets, of which this is No. 370; printed throughout on Japanese paper. See also Feb. 12, $280; Nov. 28, $60.] Balzac (H. de). La Comedie Humaine: Scenes of Parisian and Private Life, translated by E. Sedgwick and others, original ed. (limited to 250 copies), etchings by De Los Rios, etc., 22 vol., crimson cl. gt., t.e.g., in clean state, L. Smithers, 1897-9, 8vo. (56), Nov. 8, Hodgson H. C. Ingleby, £9 15s. Œuvres Complêtes, 24 vol., hf. vell., titles 1891-2, 8vo. (39), June 27, Puttick Balzac (H. de). written on, Chadwick, £6 Balzac (H. de). A Collected Set of First Editions of his Novels, consisting of 117 vol., bound in mor., cl., cf. and orig. boards, Paris, 1822-57, 8vo. and 12m0. (27), March 5, Anderson Galleries $1,000 Banc (Jean). La Merveille des eavx natvrelles, sovrces et fontaines medicinales (some headings slightly cut into), Paris, 1606-Sacrobosco (Joannes de). Qvaestiones novae in libellvm de Sphaera, Paris, 1552, 8 tracts in 2 vol., cf., 8vo. (544). Nov. 13, Sotheby Myers, £7 10S. Bancroft (George). History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent, portrait, 6 vol., hf. green mor., gt. backs, gt. tops, New York, Appleton, 1885, 8vo. (88), Jan. 24, Anderson Galleries $22 Bancroft (Thomas). The Heroical Lover, or Antheon and Fidelta, a Poem, very rare ed., wanting blank leaf for A 1, green mor. ex., g.e., William Godbid, 1658, 8vo. (39), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £29 Bancroft (T.) Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphes, dedicated to two top branches of Gentry, Sir Charles Shirley and William Davenport, original ed., woodcut border to title, wanting blank for A I, brown mor. ex., g.e., I. Okes for Matthew Walbancke, 1639, sm. 4to. (38), March 12, Sotheby Pickering, £30. Bandello (Matteo, Bishop of Agen). Novels, now first done into English prose and verse by John Payne, 6 vol., orig. boards gt., Villon Society, 1890, 8vo. (668), May 15, Sotheby Heffer, £7 10S. [See also American Art Association, Nov. 28, $70.] Bannatyne Club. Publications, 1823 to 1857. Quarto Publications, 137 vol. and parts-Abstracts, Nos. 1 to 8 and II to 27-28, with duplicates of Nos. 22 and 24-Notices. relative to the Bannatyne Club, one of 50 copies, Edinb., privately printed, 1836-Laing (D.) Supplementary Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, 1866, together 166 in quarto-Octavo Publications, 15 vol.-Poems of George Bannatyne, 1824-Garlands, 12 vol. in 1-Duplicate Garlands, 8 in 2 vol.-Rules, 1823 to 1844, 3 vol. in I -Album, 3 vol. in 1-Catalogues, 1830 to 1854, 5 vol. in 1, together 22 in octavo-Folio Publications, 3 vol., mostly in orig. bindings (the covers stained by damp, affecting a few inside 11.), (501), May 28, Sotheby Hopkins, £74 [Apparently a complete set, with the exception of Abstracts, Nos. 9 and 10 (11 pp. in all); Catalogue of Graduates, 8vo., 1858; Folio portrait of Thomas Thomson; Fenelon's Correspondence (purchased for members), and List of Members and Catalogue for 1857.] Baptista (Mantuanus). Parthenice Catharina [? Hain 2369 (2) or 2376, Proctor 8385], Paris, T. Kerver for J. Petit (not before 5 Aug., 1499)-De calamitatibus temporum [Hain 2385, Proctor 8386], ib., 4 Sept., 1499, with two others, in I vol., orig. stamped pigskin over wooden boards, catches and clasps, from the Kloss and Dunn collections, 4to. (4938), Nov. 27, Sotheby Maggs, £5 5s. Barbon (N.) A Discourse concerning Coining the New Money lighter, in answer to Mr. Lock's Considerations about raising the Value of Money, old cf. (covers wormed), R. Chiswell, 1696, 12mo. (332), Nov. 22, Hodgson Harding, £8 15s. [Barbour (John).] The Actes and Life of the most Victorious Conquerour, Robert Brvce, King of Scotland, etc., newly corrected and conferred with the best and most ancient Manuscripts, first ed., black letter (some minute wormholes, chiefly on the inner margins, affecting three or four letters), orig. vell., Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart, 1616, 12mo. (869), Feb. 12, Sotheby Quaritch, £35 Barckley (Sir Richard). A Discourse of the Filitecie of Man, or his Summum bonum, woodcut on leaf before title, orig. cf., with the initials M. C. on sides (back slightly defective), For William Ponsonby, 1603, 4to. (29), March 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £6 IOS. Barclay (John). His Argenis, translated, the prose by Sir Robert le Grys, and the verse by Thomas May, with a Clavis, first ed. of this translation, cf. (rubbed), F. Kyngston for R. Meighen and H. Seile, 1628, 4to. (94), July 23, Sotheby Pickering, £3 IOS. [See also July 23, 1 12S.; June 11, 1629 ed., £5; Anderson Galleries, Oct. 23, 1629 ed., $10.] Barclay (J.) Satyricon, dark blue mor. gt., the sides with panels and corner-pieces, the back sprays of foliage, the background powdered with dots, Bozerian, Leyden, Elzevir, 1655, 8vo. Conciones et orationes ex Historicis Latinis Excerptae, engraved title, red mor. gt., with broad borders stamped in blind and adorned with gt. lozengeshaped ornaments, inside dentelles and silk end-papers, by Courteval, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1662, 8vo. (203), Dec. II, Sotheby Maggs, £12 5S. Barclay (William). Nepenthes, or the Vertues of Tabacco, in prose and verse, original ed., inner margins mended, red mor. ex., g.e., by F. Bedford, Miller arms in gold on sides, Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1614, 8vo. (40), March 12, Sotheby Rosenbach, £250 Bardi (A.) Tractatus ivris protomiseos sive congrui ad interpretationem Bullarum, Constitutionum, aliarumque Literarum Apostol. super aedificiis construendis ad decorum Almae Vrbis, printed on vell., roman letter (engraved title, re-margined), `dark blue mor. gt., in the Grolier style, gt. doublures, by Chas. Smith, Rome, Bladius, 1565, 4to. (30), March 20, Sotheby Maggs, £21 Barellas (Estevan). Centuria, o historia, de los famosos hechos del gran Conde de Barcelona don Bernardo Barcino, y de don Zinofre su hijo, y otros Cavalleros dela Provincia de Cathaluna (the title slightly defective and neatly repaired, otherwise a fine copy), red mor., gt. tooled border on the sides, leather joints, g.e., by BelzNiedrée, with the Seillière arms, enclosed in a slip-case, En Barcelona en casa Sebastian de Cormellas, 1600, folio (4940), Nov. 27, Sotheby Davis & Orioli, £11 [This historical romance is believed to have been originally written by a Rabbi during the period of the domination of the Moors in Spain.] Baret (M.) An Hipponomie, or the Vineyard of Horsemanship, devided into three Bookes . . . in which is plainly laid open the Art of Breeding, Riding, Training and Dieting of the said Horses, wherein also many errors in this Art heretofore published are manifestly detected, separate title, dedication, etc. to each book [collation: D2 l., including title, A-Ee, in eights], small rust-holes on a few 11., otherwise a fine copy, old cf. gt., London, printed by George Eld, 1618, sm. 4to. (172), Nov. 30, Hodgson Quaritch, £29 Bargaeus (Petrus Angelus). Cynegetica, item Carminvm libri II., Eglogae II., printed on vell., italic letter, printer's |