150 Greek Printing-LUCIAN. Excerpta quaedam Ex Luciani Samosatensis Operibus, per N. Kent, A.M., 8vo, calf rubbed, 468 pp., MS. index at end, 10s 6d Londini, J. Clarke & J. Rivington, Etonae, J. Cote (Typis J. Bettenham), 1745

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New Testament. Nouum Testamentum ; Ex Bibliotheca Regia; Stephanus had a Special Greek type cut by Claude Garamond, the chief typefounder in France, the designs being the work of Angelos Vergetios, Greek scribe to Francois I.; Proctor described the result as "by far the best type of its kind that has ever been made and it is now known as the Royal Greek Type," 2 vols. in 1, 12mo, black morocco elaborately tooled on sides, rubbed, gauffered edges, First Edition of the Stephanus Greek Testament, £3 10s Lutetia, Roberti Stephani, 1546 152 -- ORPHEUS. Argonautica opus Graecu, cum interpretatione Latina incerti autoris, recens addita, et diligentius quam hactenus emenda, Greek and Latin, 4to, limp vellum, title in text, printer's device at end, 25s

Basilea, A. Cratandri, 1523 153 ORPHEUS. Argonautica Hymni et de Lapidibus Curante Andrea Christiano Eschenbachio Noribergense cum ejusdem ad Argonautica Notis et Emendationibus Accedunt Henrici Stephani in omnia et Josephi Scaligeri in Hymnos Notae, Greek and Latin, 8vo, vellum, 329 pp, engraved title, £1

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Trajecti ad Rhenum, Guilielmum van de Water, 1689 PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia (Greek and Latin), ex nova Joannis Serrani interpretatione, 3 vols. in 2, folio, calf (rubbed), gilt back, fine large copy, £5 5s Excudebat, H. Stephanus, 1578 --Psalterium Davidicum Graeco-latinum, ad fidem veterum exemplarium, atque adeò codicis Graeci manuscripti, D. Victoris, locis quàm multis repurgatum et nitori suo restitutum. Praefixa sunt singulis Psalmis argumenta non tam breuia quam dilucida, qua vice comentarij esse possunt, parallel cols. in Greek and Latin, printed in red and black, 16 ll. +280 pp., woodcut on verso of 1.16, Parisiis, Schastianum Niuellium, 1559--bound with Libellus Sodalitatis: hoc est, Christianarum Institutionun Libri quinque, by R. P. Francesco Costero, 16 11. + 463 pp., Antverpiae, Plantini, 1587-and Christianae Pietatis, sev Paruus Catechismus Catholicorum, by Ptero Canisio Societ, 8 11+95 pp., title, tables and calendar in red and black, Antverpiae, Plantini, 1587, 3 vols. in 1, sq. 12mo, calf, blind lines, gilt ornaments on sides, £2 1559, 1587 SCAPULA (Joannes) Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum, folio, contemporary wooden boards, covered with hide and protected by four metal corner pieces, rebacked with calf, £2 Basileae, Episcopius, 1589 VEDELIO (Nicolao) S. Ignatii Episcopi Antioche ni et Martyris quae extant omnia, in duos libros distincta, Quorum Prior Continet Epistolas Genuinas, alter supposititias, sm. 4to, calf, back slightly damaged, device on title, 25s Genevae, Viduam et Haeredes Petri de la Rouviere, 1623 158 Horses-FERRARO (Pirro Ant.) Cavallo Frenato diuiso in quattro Libri; con discorsi notabili; sopra briglie, antiche and moderne nel Primo, folio, iv. ll., 159 pp., 11.; 2 11., 320 pp., 1 1., old calf, neatly rebacked, illustrated by 142 full-page woodcuts of men training horses, head-gear, bridles, bits, etc., upper part slightly water-stained, otherwise fine tall copy of this most interesting work; The author was Master of the Horse to Philip II. of Spain; Not in Brunet or Deschamps, £3 5s Napoli, Ant. Pace, 1602

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PLUVINEL (De) Le Maneige Royal, contenant plusieurs discours fais au Roy pour apprendre l'art de bien monter a cheval, et paroistre sur la carriere, a bien coure la bague, rompre des lances à la quintaine, rompre en lice et combatre à cheual, soit pour seruir le Roy dans les armées, ou pour paroistre dans les grands tournois et triomphes qui se font aux resiouissances publiques, together with l'Exercice de Monter a Cheval de M. de Pluvinel & de Charnizay, in five parts, 8vo, calf, 5 folding plates, 25s Paris, E. Loyson, 1660

160 Humour and Satire-Fitz-Florian's Alphabet; or Lyrical Fables for Children Grown up, 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt lines, 210 pp., 8s 6d

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London, J. J. Stockdale, 1819 The Man of the World's Dictionary, translated from the French, humorous, 8vo, cloth, 8s 6d London, J. Appleyard, 1822 162 MEIER (George Frederick) The Merry Philosopher; or Thoughts on Jesting, containing Rules by which a proper judgement of Jests may be formed; and the Criterion for distinguishing True and Genuine Wit from that which is False and Spurious, translated into English from the German, Svo, half calf, gilt back, 214 pp., 17s 6d London, J. Newbery, 1765 163 The Pleasant Art of Money Catching: Treating, I. Of the Original and Invention of Money; II. Of Misery of Wanting it, etc.; III. How Persons in Straits for Money, may supply themselves with it, etc., etc., to which is added, the Way how to turn a Penny; or the Art of Thriving, 12mo, calf, tooled, gilt back, woodcut front., £1

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SANSOVINO (Francesco) Setti Libri di Satire di Lodouico Ariosto, Hercole Bentiuogli, Luigi Alemanni, Pietro Nelli, Antonino Vinciguerra, Francesco Sansouino, e d'altri Scrittori, 8vo, limp vellum, 7+ 206 ff., device on title, £1 Venetio, Fabio, & Agostin Zopini Fratelli, 1583 165 Iceland-LANDNAMABOK. Sagan Landnama Vm fyrstu bygging Islands af Nordmonnum, edited by Einar Eyjolfsson, 4to, pp. 10+ 182+20. See Fiske, Icelandic Collection, pp. 335-6, lacks 2 11. (title and 1st of the preface), bound with Ari Porgilsson Frodi Schedae Ara prestz froda Vm Island, edited by Pordur Porlaksson, 4to, pp. 2+14+8, Fiske Icelandic Collection, p. 15, 4to, stained vellum, edges of leaves frayed. These early books printed in Iceland are of great rarity and it is impossible to obtain them in good condition. The above is the only copy that can be found on record in the Catalogues of English booksellers for the past forty years, £4 10s

Skalholte, Hendrick Kruse,' 1688 166 Incunabula -AUSMO (Nic. de) Supplementum Summa Pisanellæ, 4to, Gothic Type. Hain-Copinger* 2161; Pellechet 1635; Proctor 4694. The 2 outside sheets of sig. b. have been wrongly imposed. This has been corrected in the later issue possessed by the Brit. Mus. The first book issued by these printers; sm. 4to, vellum, £7 10s And. Torresanus, with B. de Blavis and Venice, M. de Paterbonis, 10 Mar., 1481

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[Strasburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg], 1483 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA, Carthusiensis. Meditationes vitæ Jesu Christi, folio, vellum, 2 vols, Gothic character, 2 cols., 60 lines to the page, 416 leaves. Not in Hain, Copinger, or Proctor. Reichling Append. II. 605, who is only able to quote one copy, which is at the B b. Nat., Naples. Spaces left for initials, which are supplied in red on a decorative background. A few bad wormholes destroy some lines of text, and piece torn from one leaf, very rare, £11 10s Milan, Jo. Ant. de Honate for Pet Ant. de Castilione [c. 1480] MOLITORIS (Ulrich) De laniis et phitonicis mulieribis, 4to, vellum, 30 leaves, 32 lines, Gothic type. Not in Hain, Proctor, or Reichling. Copinger II. 4337: Panzer IV. 332-46; the only copies known are at Besançon (701) and Versailles (130). Seven woodcuts which cannot be identified with those in any other edition. Large copy of this exceedingly rare edition of the most important 15th Century work on witches and the witches Sabbath, £30

No place, printer or date perhaps Basel, Michel Furier, c. 1495)

170 Italian Literatura-ALUNNO (M. Francesco) Della Fabrica del Mondo, da Ferrara, nella quale si contengono le voci di Dante, del Boccaccio, et d'altri buoni autori, mediante lequali si possono scriuendo isprimere tutti concetti del' huomo di qualunque cosa creata, folio, limp boards, wormholed, device on title, 33 +264 11., double columns, woodcut initials, some pp. stained, MS. notes, £2 Venetia, Francesco Rampazetto, 1562 ARETINO (Pietro) Quattro Comedie, Cioe, Il Marescalco, La Cortegiana, La Talanta, L'Hipocrito, 12mo, vellum, 288 ff., portrait on title, 18s

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Without name of place or printer, 1588 BALDINUCCI (Filippo) Opere. Cominciamento e Progresso dell' Arte del Intagliare in Rame, colle Vite dei più eccellenti Maestri della stessa Professione-Vocabulario Toscano dell' Arte del Disegno-Vita del Cavaliere Gio. Lorenzo Bernino, Scultore, Architetto e Pittore-Notozie de' Professori del disegno da cimabue in qua, 6 vols, 7 works (12 parts) bound in 4 vols, 4to, old tree calf. Arms of the Earl of Rockingham, gilt on both sides, magnificent and extremely rare collection of the works of Baldinucci. Original Edition, with a portrait of Baldinucci, one of Bernini after Gaullus, and four large folding and five other plates, Cf. Gamba, 1759, 1761, 1763, £6 6s Firenze, 1686-1728 BENTIVOGLIO (Card.) Memorie Overo Diario, 8vo, mottled calf, gilt lines, gilt back, title in red and black, 416 pp., 12s 6d

Amsterdam, Giovanni Janssonio, 1648 BOCALINI (Trajano) I ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus: in two Centuries, with the Politick Touchstone, written originally in Italian by that famous Roman, Trajano Bocalini, and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth, folio, calf, rebacked, MS. notes, 1 fine portrait by Faithorne, 292 pp., bookplate and autograph on title of E. Monckton. Thomas Guy the publisher of this book was the founder of Guy's Hospital and books with his name are not common, £2

London, Tho. Guy, 1674 BOCCACCIO (Giovanni) L'Amoroso Fiametta, with Ameto, Comedia delle Ninfe Fiorentine con la Dichiaratione dei luoghi difficili di M. Francesco Sansouino, 12mo, 2 vols. in 1, limp vellum, 30s

Venetia, Gio. Battista Bonfadio, 1586 BOCCACCIO. Della Geneologia degli Dei, libri XV. nei quali si tratta dell' origine, e discendenza di tutti gli Dei de' Gentili, etc., tradotta gia per M. Giu. Betussi, aggiuntavi la vita del Boccaccio, 4to, vellum (title soiled), 17s 6d

Venetia, 1585

CASTIGLIONE (Conte Bald.) Il Libro del Corte' Giano, 8vo, 108 11., limp vellum, last leaf a little shaved. Brunet, I. 1629, £2 Firenze, Giunta, 1531 178 MACHIAVELLI (N.) Discours Politiques de Machiavel sur la I. Decade de Tite Live, 8vo, calf, rubbed, 712 pp. + table, device on title, 17s 6d Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1711 DOLCE (Le) Transformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce, 4to, limp vellum, woodcut title, woodcuts, 320 pp., 22s 6d

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Vinegia, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1561 DOMENICHI (Lodouici M.) Detti e Fatti di Diversi Signori et Persone Private, I quali communemente si chiamano Facetie, Motti, & Burle, 8vo, limp vellum, device on title, 192 ff., stained, 12s 6d Venetia, F. Lorenzini, 1564 180A GRAMIGNA (Vincenzo) Opusculi (a series of Essays on various Philosophical Subjects), 4to, vellum loose, 278 pp., device on title, 15s Firenze, Pietro Cecconelli, 1620 Muzio (Girol.) Guismopolitano, La Poluere del Mutio, 4to, boards, unknown to any bibliography, a Theological work which condemns seriatim "all the sinful lusts of the flesh," not in Hurter L. Theol., £2 5s Milano Antonio Borgio, 1545

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Venegia, Giolito, 1550 184 Italy Bologna. Galeotti (B.) Trattato degli huomini illustri di Bologna diviso in tre parti; nella prima si contengono i Prelati; nella Seconda i Titolari; nella terza i Dottori; Cavalieri, i Capitani et il Senato, 4to, old bds. (title soiled), woodcut portrait of Gregorio XIII., and 58 coats of arms (6 of which are printed in red and black), rare, 21s Ferrara V. Baldini, 1590 Rome. Polleti (Fran.) Duacansis I.C.; Historia Fori Romani, 8vo, vellum, device on title, 17s 6d Lugduni, Franciscum Feuraeum, 1588 186- SCOTT (Leader) The Castle of Vincigliata, 8vo, cloth gilt, numerous plates, 10s 6d Florence, G. Barbera, 1897 187 Latin Modern-Bembo (Pietro) Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pontificis Max, nomine scriptarum libri sexdecim; Epistolarum Familiarum libri sex, 8vo, 743 pp., 6 11., half calf, a collection of official and private correspondence of Card. Bembo, Secretary to Pope Leo X., 25s (s.l., n.d., 1550 ?) 188 Law-FERRARIUS (Joannes, Montanus) Montani Adnotationes in IIII. Institutionum Iustiniani libros recognitae atq; auctae, Accessit libellus Pomponii laeti, de legibus Rhomanis, 12mo, old stamped calf with cameo portraits, woodcut title, MS. notes on last blank leaf, stained, £2

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Marpurgi, Franciscum Rhodum, 1533 PUFENDORF (Baron) The Law of Nature and Nations: or, a General System of the most important Principles of Morality, Jurisprudence, and Politics, in Eight Books, trans. into English by Basil Kennet, to which is prefixed M. Barbeyrac's Prefatory Discourse, done into English by Mr. Carew, etc.. folio, 883 + 20 pp., tree calf, gilt border and back, g.e., gilt dentelles, clean copy, £2 2s London, J. and J. Bonwicke, etc., 1749 The Law and Lawyers laid open, in twelve Visions to which is added Plain Truth in Three Dialogues, between Truman, Skinall, Dryboots, three Attorneys and Season a Bencher, 12mo, calf shabby, joints loose, xxxviii + 272 pp., 12s 6d London, T. Woodman, 1737 191 Levant-Tournefort. Voyage into the Levant, containing the Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Achipelago; also Constantinople, the Coast of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia and Asia Minor, with the Author's Life in a letter to Mr. Begon, 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, map and 152 plates of views, costume, and natural history, fine copy, 35s 1791 192 Machinery and Inventions-DOBRZENSKI (Iacobus I. W.) de Nigroponte Boemo Pragensi. Nova, et Amaenior de Admirando Fontium Genio Philosophia. Opusculum quod non solum Curiosis ingeniis ob plurimas et novas Hyraulicas machinas aeri delicatissime incisas voluptatem adfert, etc., folio, pp. (24) 124, original boards, fine engraved frontispiece and 56 engraved plates of hydraulic machinery, fountains, water-clocks, etc., fine copy, 30s Ferrariae, A. and Io. B. de Marestis, 1659 193 Manners and Customs -GRAPALDUS (Franciscus Maria) De Partibus Aedium Libellus cum additamentis emendatissimus, 132 numb. I., numerous fine woodcut floreated initials, Roman type, vellum, 4to, Second and Best Edition, the first was published in Parma, 1494; containing details on every subject connected with household economy, cookery, the library, fishing, etc. No copy of this edition in Brit. Mus., fine copy, £4

Parma, 1501

194 Mathematics-Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV., una cum Scholiis Antiquis, a Federico Commandino Urbinate nuper in Latinum conversi, commentariisque quibusdam illustratis, folio, 11. (12) 225, half vellum, woodcut title border by lac Chrieger, and fine historical woodcut initials, many diagrams (title soiled), £3 Pisauri, Cam. Francischinus, 1572 195 Medical-BOERHAAVE (Hermanno) Institutiones Medicæ in usus. annuæ Exercitationis Domesticos Digestæ ab Hermanno Boerhaave, 8vo, stamped calf, gilt back, 464 pp. + index, title in red and black, 15s

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Lugduni Batavorum, Johannem vander Linden, 1713 CARDANUS (Hieronymus) De Sapientia libri quinque, quibus omnis Humanæ Vitæ cursus viuendique ratio explicatur eiusdem De Consolatione libri tres. His propter similitudinem argumenti, et ipsius Cardani commendationem adiecti sunt Petri Alcyonii Viri undequaque Doctissimi de Exilio, libri duo perquam elegantes et eruditi, sm. 8vo, calf, £1

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Geneva, Petrum & Iacubum Chouet, 1624 DERENZY (George Webb) Enchiridion: or A hand for the one-handed, 8vo, half morocco, gilt back, 60 pp., woodcuts in text, fine mezzo. portrait by C. Turner, foxed, 21s London, Renshaw & Rush, 1822 KORNMANNUM (Henricum) Sibylla Trig-Andriana seu De Virginitate, Virginum Statu et Jure Tractatus Jucundus: Ex Jure naturali, divino, canonico et civili: Scriptoribus ecclesiasticis et profanis, in gratiam Physicorum, Medicorum, Theologorum et Juridicorum paratus. Bound with Henrico Kornmanno, De Annulo Triplici: Usitato, Sponsalitio, Signatorio: Tractatus ab solutissimus, in tres partes divisus, 8vo, mottled calf, gilt back, 14+424 pp., 25s Colonia, Petri Marteau, 1765

199 Letters and Essays, on the Small-Pox and Inoculation, the Measles, the Dry Belly-Ache, the Yellow, and Remitting and Intermitting Fevers of the West Indies, to which are added Thoughts on the Hydrocephalus Internus, and Observations on Hydatides in the Heads of Cattle, by different Practitioners, 8vo, quarter calf, 320 pp., 12s 6d London, J. Murray, 1778 LISTER (Martin) Exercitatio Anatomica in qua de Cochleis, Maxime Terrestribus et Limicibus, agitur, 8vo, stamped calf, 8 plates, 208 pp., 15s Londini, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, 1694 PENOTUS (Bernardus) De Denario Medico, quo Decem Medicaminibus, omnibus morbis internis medendi via docetur, 12mo, limp vellum, device on title, 203 pp. + index, 30s Berna Helvetiorum, Ioanes le Preux, 1608 202 SALMON (William) The English Herbal, 2 vols, thick folio, illustrated by thousands of curious old woodcuts, wants port. and front., Vol. I., pp. xxviii., 688; Vol. II., pp. 647, £2 London, Hawks, 1710 203 Music-CONESTABILE (G.) Vita di Niccolo Paganini da Genova, 8vo, coloured boards, 348 pp., 1 portrait, 10s 6d Perugia, Vincenzo Bartelli, 1851 204 Numismatics-Ordannantie Ende Placcaet van de Ertzhertoghen on se Souueraine princen opt stuck van de Munte inhoudende de Specion prij sende ghewichte van de Goude Silvere ende Copere numten die voortaen allaen lijck sullen moghen ganck ende loop hebben inde Landen van hunne onderdanicheydt-Bound with: Ordannantie des Coninghs op het Generael reglement van sijn Munte, 4to, vellum case, back slightly damaged, device on title, numerous illustrations of Coins, £2 Antwerpen, H. Verdussen, 1618-33 205- PATIN (Charles) Histoire des Medailles où Introduction a la Connoissance de Cette Science, 20+291 pp., Paris, chez la Veuve Mabre Cramosi, 1695. Bound with Thesaurus Numismatum Antiquorum Hollanderianus Conscriptus a Joh. Jacobo Scheuchzero, D. 12+228 pp., device on title, rare, 12mo, vellum, £1 Tiguri, ex Typographeo Bodmeriano, 1695-1717 206- SPANHEMIUS (Ezecheilis) Dissertationes de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum, 2 vols. (in 1), folio, calf, a few engravings in text. Ouvrage estimé."- Brunet, £1 10s

Londini, Smith, 1706