duced in this. All the other woodcuts are closely copied from
those in Reuwich's edition, but not from the same blocks.
The binder has removed all the illustrations to the end of
the book, and consequently given to the text, at first
sight, the appearance of being imperfect. The book is,
however, complete.

A very imperfect copy fetched £16 at the Gennadius
sale.

BREYDENBACH. PEREGRINATIONS, en Français. Page 1: A treshaulte . . princesse la roine de frace Marguerite. . Frere Nicole le Hue, small folio, with 7 folding plates (giving Views of Cities and a Map of the Holy Land)

Very fine and large copy in chocolate morocco extra, by Charles Lewis; from the Borluut and the Crawford libraries

Lyon, Michelet Topie et Iaques

£ s. d.

Heremberck, 1488 110 O O

EXCESSIVELY RARE WHEN IN THIS COMPLETE
CONDITION. The large View of Venice (which is the
most interesting of all the plates) is nearly always
wanting; and the same may be said of the panorama of
Jerusalem and Palestine.

These were THE FIRST COPPER ENGRAVINGS EXE-
CUTED IN FRANCE.

Le Huen went to Palestine with the Archbishop of
Cambray in 1487, but as on his return he found
Breydenbach's narrative of the 1483 Pilgrimage in print
decorated with woodcuts, he thought he could not do
better than turn it into French and publish it as his own
work with copies of the illustrations. It is true that he
mentions his predecessor, and states that he incorporated
him.

PEREGRINATIONS, en Français. . Small folio, without two of the folding plates, but containing five which include the great view of Venice; fine copy in old "Etruscan" calf Lyon, 1488 50 o o

BREYDENBACH. LE GRANT VOYAGE DE HIERUSALEM.. diuise en deux parties. En la premiere est traicte des peregrinations de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. . En la seconde partie est traicte des croisees et entreprinses faictes. . pour la recourance de la terre saincte . . smallest folio (roy. 8vo.), numerous woodcuts throughout the text, with two large folding panoramic woodcuts, one of them a map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, the other representing on the left side the Pope in council with the monarchs of Europe, and on the right side the setting forth of the Crusaders; fine copy in old French olive green morocco, with the arms of the City of Paris on the sides

Paris pour Fracois Regnault..

£ s. d.

mil cinq cens. xxii (1522) 32
the same, smallest folio (roy. 8vo.), with the
two folding plates divided into four; Didot's copy
in red morocco super extra, gilt edges

1522 25

The first part consists of Nicole Le Huen's paraphrase of Breydenbach; the second is an independent History of the Crusades, and of the Saracens from 730 to 1517.

The binding of the first copy is a pretty example of the work of the man who used to bind for Marguerite de Valois about 1600-probably one of the Eves.

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On the title there is some writing, including the
inscription Ce present liure ma este donne par
Monsieur de Fonteny Parisien au moys de May 15810.
PDesforges". The number intended was apparently

1590.

BRINTON'S Library of Aboriginal American Literature: THE IROQUOIS BOOK of RITES, edited by Horatio Hale, Mohawk and English, 8vo. cloth

Philadelphia, 1883 0 10 O

[BROSSES (Le Président Ch. de)] Histoire des

Navigations aux Terres Australes. Contenant
ce que l'on sçait des mœurs & des productions
des Contrées découvertes jusqu'à ce jour . .
2 vols. 4to. with seven folding maps; calf

£ s. d.

Paris, 1756 330

A philosophical book of great interest. The maps illustrate the latest state of knowledge concerning the Southern Hemisphere; and the text helped to stimulate those expeditions of Cook, Bougainville, and others, by which the lands of that part of the world were soon to be explored and correctly laid down.

BROWN (Alexander) The Genesis of the United States: a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-16, which resulted in the plantation of North America by Englishmen . . set forth through a series of historical MSS. now first printed, together with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts 2 vols. 8vo. 100

portraits, maps, and plans; cloth

1890 3 0 0

One of the most valuable, laborious, and scholarly contributions to Anglo-American history that have ever been written.

BRUCE (William) Gvilielmi Brvssii Scoti de Tartaris Diarivm, sm. folio, six leaves, russia extra, gilt edges, with the Buccleuch-Queensberry arms on the sides

Francofvrti, 1598 I 4 O

VERY RARE. This Scot was in Russia about 1596 or 1597, when an embassy arrived from the Sultan of the Crim Tartars. The head of the Legation was Antonio Spinola, a man of Genoese origin; and Bruce became friendly with him. The result of their conversations was this book, addressed to George Talbot, of the family of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

BRITISH MUSEUM. Catalogue of the Printed
Maps, Plans and Charts in the British Museum.
2 thick vols. atlas 4to. 4648 columns (pub-
lished at £6. 6s), cloth
BRY'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES, Col-
bert's and Count Hoym's copy.
First Edition

£ s. d.

1885 2 10 0

of the united Grands et Petits Voyages. 25
parts bound into 6 vols. folio, with an immense
number of maps and plates engraved by Theodorus
and Johannes Theodorus de Bry, and by Matthæus
Merian; blue morocco extra, gilt edges (by
Padeloup), with Count Hoym's insignia on the
back and sides

Francofurti, 1590-1634 500 o o

Count Hoym bought this copy at the sale of Colbert's library in 1728, and caused it to be bound by A. M. Padeloup for him. At that time, the appendix of Part XI of the Grands Voyages was wanting, as well as the whole of Part XII; their places being taken by the Herrera of Amsterdam, 1622 (equivalent to Part XII), and the Philoponus of Augsburg, 1621 (a useful addition). I have now caused the two imperfections to be supplied, and the set is therefore a most desirable copy of the famous collection. All the parts being of what may be called the original issue, the set does not of course comprise the Appendix to Part I of the Petits Voyages, that appendix having been issued only with the second edition of the part in 1625; nor does it contain the Elenchus which Merian printed in 1634.

As for anything which could be justly called an imperfection, the following is an exact statement :-In the Petits Voyages, Part XII, two maps are wanting (the Mogul Empire and China), and there is a hole in one leaf of text. In the Grands Voyages, Part XIII, the map of North Brazil has portion of the bottom torn away. BUCH (Leopold von) Travels in Norway and Lapland, 1806-08, translated by John Black, 4to. maps, bds.

1813 0 6 6

BRUTON (William) NEWES FROM THE EASTINDIES: OR, A VOYAGE TO BENGALLA, one of the greatest Kingdomes under the . . Great Mogull. . Small 4to. 19 leaves, with a woodcut of the Temple of Jaganat; hf. morocco

£ s. d.

London by I. Okes. . 1638 3 10 0

RARE. It is one of the earliest and most valuable of

the English accounts of India.
Masulipatam to Bengal in 1632.
wick's Voyages," and he uses
his facts are clearly stated.

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The author went from
He speaks of "Hackle-
Rogger" for Raja; but

BULLOCK (William) VIRGINIA IMPARTIALLY EX-
AMINED.. Under which Title, is comprehended
the.. Countries of Roanock, the now Planta-
tions of Virginia and Mary-land.. Small 4to.
a good copy, notwithstanding that the title is dirty;
red morocco extra, gilt edges London, 1649 12

BURNEY (James) Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, commencing with an account of the earliest Discovery . . [and continued to 1764, including a History of the Buccaneers of America], 5 vols. royal 4to. 26 maps and plates, boards, uncut

1803-17 7 0 0

the same, 5 vols. roy. 4to. a fine copy in calf

gilt

RARE AND VALUABLE. No geographical library can dispense with Burney.