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Credit: Sales catalogue 341: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![397 BLAKE.—Gay’s Fasues, with Life, Stock- DALE’S FINE EDITION, printed in large type, 2 vols blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by KALTHOEBER, £1 11s 6d 1793 398 BLAKE.—Darwin’s Botanic Garden, with the Loves of the Plants, 2 volsin 1, 4to, First Epition, beautiful plates by BLaKE and Fuseli, FINE COPY, bright old gilt calf nt., 12s 6d 1791 399 BLAND (J.) Looking Glass for Laprss fo see their Perfections in, with advice to beware of Fortune Hunters, Wit and Humour for the Curious, 8vo, calf very nt., 8s 6d 1733 400 BLANK BOOK, 8vo size, with white paper and guards, old red mor. extra, gilt sides, 5s 401 lock. Books and Earty Praintinc.—Falken- stein (Dr. C.) Geschichte der Buchdruckerunst in irher Enstehung and Ausbildung, thick 4to, numerous facsimiles of Buock Books, EaRLy Woopvcouts, Printing in tts infancy, etc., half calf nt., scarce, 12s 6d Leipzig, 1840 This work has long been out of print. 402 Glock Wook.—Ars fMortendt, Reproduced in Facsimile of the Unique Biock Book, the Editio Princeps of 1450, with very curious full page woodcuts, and descriptions by W. Rylands, 4to, cloth bds. nt. 15s 1450—1881 For the unique original the trustees of the British Mu- geum gave £1,072 10s. Only a few copies printed. 403 Block. %ook.—Acta Apostolorum circa 1400, facsimile reproductions of the Unique original 4to, 42 singular plates, hf. roxburghe, only 50 Copies reproduced for PrivaTE CIRCULATION, 16s 1840 404 BLORE (Ed.) Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, the SEPULCHRAL ANTIQUI- TIES OF Gt. BRITAIN, 4to, LARGE PAPER, numer- ous beautiful plates, PROOFS on INDIA PAPER, half calf gilt extra, £1 8s 1826 A beautiful and captivating! performance.—DIsp1n. Only 50 copies printed on large paper at £8 8s each. 405 BOADEN’s Life of Mrs. Jorpan, including Original Private Correspondence and Anecdotes of her Contemporaries, 2 vols, 8vo, portrait, calf gilt extra, SCARCE, 68 6d 1831 406 BOBBIN (Tim) Human Passions delineated, folio, 120 plates, droll, satyricall and humourous in the HOGARTHIAN STYLE, including the original plate 19, cloth bds., 10s 6d N.D. [1840] 407 BOCCACCIO (G.) Il Decameron, di nuovo ristampato e riscontrato in Firenze contesti antichi e alla sua vera lezioue ridotto dal Cava- lier L. Silviati, sm. 4to, FIRST EDITION of this issue, with the editor’s attestation on reverse of page 585, only a few copies printed, russia very neat, £1 1s Venezia, 1582 This edition contains the suppREssED Novets. Libri copy sold for £6 6s, Cheney’s copy £6 6s. 408 BOCCACCIO.—Le Decameron de Jean Bocace, en Francoys par ANT. LE Macon, 8vo, old brown calf nt., RARE, 15s Paris, 1559 An unmulitated version, done by express command of MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. Beckford’s copy sold £35 i0s. 409 BOCCACE (J.) Contes de (Decameron) (with SUPPRESSED NOVELS), thick 4to, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED, with engravings by Tony Johannot, ete., handsome half blue mor. extra, gut edges, 16s Paris, 1869 Italian, with all the suppressed passages, sm. folio, old calf nt., VERY SCARCE: Harty EDITION of the DECAMERON, portrait, £2 2s 1684 411 BOCCACE’s Decameron; or Ten Days’ Entertainment, thick 8vo, SCARCE EARLY ENGe- LISH EDITION, WITH THE SUPPRESSED NOVELS, FINE copy, old brown calf neat, 15s 1741 412 BODONI Press.—Hampdeni (J.) Britannia Lathmon Villa, Bromhamensis, folio, LARGE PAPER, SPLENDIDLY PRINTED, red. morocco.extra, the back and sides richly gilt, gilt edges, only 100 copies printed, 16s Bopont, 1792 Poems by the celebrated JoHN HAMPDEN, descriptive of Bromham Hall in Bedfordshire, and of places, persons, events, usages, etc. Bindley’s copy sold for £6 6s. _ 413 BODONI Press—Longinus Grace.et Latine, folio, LARGE PAPER, FINE COPY, bds., uncut, 10s 6d Parma, Bopont, 1793 A splendid printed book, only 10 copies printed, has sold at auction sales for £6 6s. Heath’s copy £8 8s. 414 BODONI Press.—Catullus, Tibullus et Pro- pertius, folio, a most splendid edition, and one of the FINEST PRINTED BOOKS FROM THE BODONI PRESS, ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED, original bds., FINE UNCUT Copy, 12s 6d Parma, Boponl, 1794 415 BODONI Press.—Theophrasti Characterum Gr. et Lat., roy. 4to, superb edition, ON THICK PAPER, portrait, FINE COPY, uncut, 6s» 1786 416 BOILEAU (Abbe) Histoire des Flagellans et Usage des Flagellations, 12mo, FINE copy, half calf gilt, RARE, 10s 6d Amst., 1732 417 BOILEAU DESPREAUX Ciuvres, par M. De Saint-Mare, 5 vols, 8vo, many beautiful plates and vignettes by Picart, &c., FINE COPY, bright old french calf gilt extra, £1 1s Paris, 1772 The Phillips copy, same state, sold for £4 4s. 418 BOLSWERT’s ENGRAVINGS. — Sucquet (Antoni) Via Vitee Aeterne Iconibus, Ilustrata par Bortium A. Botswert (the favourite book of Archbp. Laud) 2 vols, thick 8vo, numerous full page curious plates by BOLSWERT, Fink Copy, old calf nt., RARE, 18s 6d Antwerp, 1625 The engravings render these volumes very desirable. 419 %ooke of Common Prayer for the CHuRcH of ScorLanp, 4to, black Jetter, in red. and black, LARGE PAPER, boards, uncut, ONLY 10 COPIES PRINTED, 10s 6d Edinb., 1637 Reprint of ‘‘ Laup’s” PRAYER Book. A copy recently sold for £3 3s. 420 CALDER (Rev. Rob.) Miscellany Numbers, relating to the Controversies about the Book of Common Prayer, Episcopal Government, . &c., (30 nos. all pub.) in 1 vol, sm. folio, half calf gilt, RARE, unknown to Lowndes, 10s 6d Edinb., 1713 421 BOOK of Christmas, by Thos. Hervey, of Sports and Signs of the Season, stout crown 8yo, many droll plates by Seymour, half red mor. neat, gilt edges, FIRST EDITION, 98 - 1836 422 BOOK-COLLECTOR’s Hand-Book, or Li- brary Companion, 8vo, bds., 3s 1845 423 BOOK Rarities.—Catalogue of the PERKINS’ Liprary, ExTREMELY Rare Books, 4to, 10 en- gravings, representing facsimiles from the RAREST VOLUMES, with Ms. PRICES, half red morocco neat, uncut, 15s 1873 Contains splendid illuminated MSS., choice specimens of early typography, examples on vellum, rare Bibles, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157364_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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