Literature & Linguistics

BALFOUR, Frederic Henry. The divine classic of Nan-Hua; being the works of Chuang Tsze, taoist philosopher.
Shanghai & Hongkong; Yokohama; London, Kelly & Walsh; Kelly & Co.; Trübner & Co., 1881. 8vo. With Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary blue buckram, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine. IX, [1 blank], XXXVIII, 425, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Manual of Hindustání or the stranger's Indian interpreter; A practical and easy guide to Hindustání conversation.
Calcutta, W. Newman & Co., 1890. 14 x 8,5 cm. With a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the work. Contemporary red pebble-grain cloth, with the title lettered in gold on the front board. 145, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Jocorum veterum ac recentium libris tres ... Primae aeditioni nunc adjecti sunt libri duo.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten for (colophon:) Gregorius de Bonte, 1529. 8vo. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, and several woodcut initials throughout. 18th-century mottled calf. [64] ll. Full description

BAUDIUS, Dominicus and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). Amores, edente Petro Scriverio, inscripti Th. Graswinckelio, equity.
Leiden, Joris Abrahamsz vander Marse for Franciscus Hegerus & Hackius, 1638. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces, each page has been ruled by hand in reddish brown ink. 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue-green morocco. [12], 518, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BAYARD, Émile. [Proof impressions of illustrations for Alphonse Daudet's Fromont jeune et Risler aîné].
[Paris, 1885]. Folio (35 x 29 cm). Proofs of 12 engraved plates in many different states, giving 73 prints in total, engraved by Jules Massard and Eugène Abot after Emilé Bayard (image size 10.7 x 7.3 cm; plate size 19 x 14 cm). Contemporary half goatskin morocco. Full description

BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin CARON DE Vers de M. de Beaumarchais sur Ameliswert pres d'Utrecht au Marquis de Saint Simon.
[Amsterdam, ca. 1793]. Folio. Poem written on paper in brown ink in a regular cursive hand in two columns of 46 lines each on recto and finished on one column on verso with another 8 lines, followed by an "Envoi" of 22 lines. Folded. [2] pp. Full description

[BECH, Philipp (editor)]. De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus ...
Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon:) Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556.
With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume (editor)]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.
Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With several woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut device on the title page. The Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), each board with a border made from double fillets and a floral roll, diapered with fleurs-de-lis, the spine with a double-fillet border in each of the 6 compartments, the title in the 2nd and the others diapered with smaller fleurs-de-lis, gilt edges. 31, [21]; [16], "840" [= 804] pp. Full description

BEECHER STOWE, Harriet. De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika.
Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed title-page in each volume and a tinted lithographed author's portrait as frontispiece in the first volume. Contemporary half sheepskin. [1], [1 blank], IV, 368; [1], [1 blank], 403, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BELIGATTI, Giovanni (Cassiono Da MACERATA)]. Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum.
Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1773. 8vo. With a folding table, printer's device on title-page and an elaborate woodcut tailpiece after the preliminaries. Modern vellum, green title label. XVI, 138, [2] pp. Full description

BEROALDO, Filippo. Epigra[m]mata: ac ludicra quedam facilioris muse carmina eruditissimi viro Philippi Beroaldi. Ab Afsefio nuper elucidate et eo ordine difpofita vt maxime fint omnium prima, C Ante domum cuius Martini pendet imag Rocius hec vendit pressa Dionysius.
Parijs, Denis Roce, [ca. 1505]. 4to. With a printer's device on the title-page, and 20 decorated woodcut/ metalcut intitials. Later vellum. [30], [1 blank] ll. Full description