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in cover, absque nota [sed Mogunt., Fust and Schoeffer], small 4to. (48) Sotheran, £20 10s. [Printed by Fust and Schoeffer with the same types as the Durandus of 1459.-Catalogue.] 5877 Apianus (Petrus). Cosmographicus Liber Petri Apiani Mathematici studiose collectus, partes duo, editio prima, lit. goth., title in red gothic letters with sphere below and arms of the Archbishop of Salzburg on reverse, numerous woodcuts of spheres, etc., some with volvelles, which are unusually sound, one at page 63 with America on it (some coloured), woodcut portrait and reproduction of an ancient sphere inserted, boards, fine large and clean copy, Excusum Landshutae typis ac formulis D. Jo. Weyssenburgers, impensis Petri Apiani, 1524, small 4to. (49) Quaritch, L17 10S. [This copy contained at the end 3 leaves not mentioned by Brunet, headed "Appendix," with signature + 1.2.3, containing a sphere with volvelle and 2 other cuts, with date at end, "Liber. . finis 1524."-Catalogue.] 5878 Archimedes. Tetragonismus, id est Circuli Quadratura per Campanum Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinventa (editus Lucas Gauricus), fine large woodcut of an astronomer surveying the heavens on title, diagrams and ornamental woodcut initials, calf extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by W. Pratt, autograph letter of A. de Morgan inserted, 2 heads and an engraving pasted in covers, fine copy, Venet., J. B. Sessa (with device), 1503, small 4to. (51) Ellis, £8 5879 Aristoteles. Liber qui dicitur Secreta Secretorum, qui tractat de regimine cuiuslibet hominis, etc., lit. goth., long lines (22 leaves), signatures ad 4 in 6's (aj a blank leaf, wanted), initials painted in red and blue, absque ulla nota-Tractatus de Pomo et Morte incliti Principis Philosophorum Aristotilis, item Opusculum Joannis Garson (sic) de Arte Moriendi, lit. goth.. long lines, with signatures a 6, b 4 leaves (Hain, 7185), 2 ornamental woodcut initials, capitals painted in blue and red, absque ulla nota [Antw., M. Goes]Probleumata Arestotelis determinãtia multas questiones de variis corporum humanorum dispositionibus valde audientibus suaves. Cum ejusdem Aresto. Vita et Morte metrice descripta, etc., lit. goth., long lines, with signatures - 8 in 6's, rubricated in blue and red, absque ulla nota, 4 pieces, in I vol., old mottled calf, morocco back, autograph note of Francis Douce inserted, small 4to. (53) Quaritch, £13 5880 Ars Memorandi. Rationarium Evangelistarum omnia in se Evangelia, Prosa, Versu, imaginibusq. mirifice complectens, 15 full-page woodcuts, symbolic of the 4 Evangelists, scarce edition (Phorca), Thom. Anselmus, 1507-La Prenostication de Maistre Albert Songecreux bisscain (4 leaves), facsimile reprint in black letter, with 2 woodcuts, s. d., in I vol., brown morocco, blind antique ornaments, by W. Pratt, cuts inserted in cover, small 4to. (54) Ridler, £5 10s. 5881 Ars Moriendi ex Variis Scripturarum Sententiis Collecta cum

Figuris. Ad resistendum in mortis agone dyabolice suggestioni valens. Cuilibet Christi fideli utilis ac multum necessaria, lit. goth., long lines (14 leaves, including title), signatures 8, 36, with 14 full-page xylographic woodcuts (6 soiled, plain margins of Bj and B 6 mended), morocco extra, antique style, g. e., by W. Pratt, engravings inserted, absque ulla nota, small 4to. (55) Pickering, £45

[An extremely rare edition, with remarkable woodcuts. At the end were inserted five later Spanish engravings of a religious character, with Spanish quatrains, engraved by "Clemens Puich."-Catalogue.]

5882 Ars Moriendi [a Card. Capranica]. In Nomine individue trinitatis. Incipit Prohemium de Arte bene moriendi, lit. rom., long lines, 27 to a full page (20 leaves, 2 blank), without marks, paper covers (not in Hain or Brunet), absque ulla nota (Romæ, Schurener ?), small 4to. (56)

Quaritch, £6 5883 Arthur of Little Britain. History of that Valiant Knight, a Romance of Chivalry, originally translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, new edition (by E. V. Utterson), with a series of coloured plates from illuminated drawings contained in a MS., 175 copies printed, russia extra, g. e., White & Co., 1814, 4to. (57) Edwards, £3 18s. 5884 Ascham (Roger). The Scholemaster, or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children to understand, write and speake the Latin tong, etc., first edition, black letter, title within ornamental border, woodcut initials and device at end (plain corners of title and 2 or 3 other leaves mended, colophon inlaid), but a good copy, calf gilt, r. e., by W. Pratt, 2 engravings pasted in covers, John Daye, 1570, small 4to. (60) Maggs, £8 15s. 5885 Astexanus de Ast. Summa de Casibus Conscientiæ, lit. goth., double columns, woodcut border to first page of text, representing Hunting, Mummers, Grotesques, etc., with the Adoration of the Magi in the lower margin, rubricated, capitals painted in red and blue, 2 vol., oaken boards, modern leather with stamped blind antique ornaments, by J. Faulkner, old engraving pasted in cover of first vol., fine copy, Colon., per H. Quentell, Kl. Sept., 1479, large folio (61) Tregaskis, 11 IOS.

[This appears to be the first book printed by H. Quentell at Cologne. Catalogue.]

5886 Auerswald (Fabian von). Ringer Kunst, fünff und achtzig Stücke, zu ehren kurfurstlichen Gnaden zu Sachssen, etc., lit. goth., Saxony arms on title, portrait of the author, and 86 full-page woodcuts of wrestling positions, attributed to L. Cranach, sprinkled calf extra, r. e., by W. Pratt, engravings pasted in fly-leaves, fine copy, Wittemberg, H. Lufft, 1539, small folio (63) Quaritch, £12

5887 Augustine (S.) Of the Citie of God, with the learned Comments of Jo. L. Vives, englished by J. H.(ealey), woodcut

in compartments of figures of Saints inserted, calf gilt, m. e., engravings pasted in covers, G. Eld, 1610, folio (70) Bell, £3 5888 Augustinus (S. Aurelius). Liber de Vita Christiana (20 leaves, I blank), 28 lines, et de Singularitate Clericorum (35 leaves, 2 blank), 27 lines, lit. goth., both pieces printed with the same types, fine copies, in 1 vol., morocco, blind stamped ornamental borders, g. e., by J. Faulkner, Per me Olricum zel de hanau clericum diocesz. Moguntinens, anno 1467, small 4to. (64) Tregaskis, £42 10s.

[One of the earliest dated specimens of Ulric Zel's Press, with the pin-holes.-Catalogue.] 5889 Augustinus (S. Aurelius). Sermo super Orationem dominicam, super simbolum et de ebrietate cavenda, 7 leaves-Incipit Liber de Disciplina Cristiana (8 leaves), lit. semi-goth., long lines, 27-28 to a page, without marks (Hain, 1988, the Disciplina not recorded by Hain), rubricated, wrappers, absque nota [Colon., U. Zel], small 4to. (65) Quaritch, £4 8s. 5890 Augustinus (S. Aurelius). De Vita beati, de honestate mulierum; Libellus S. Bernardi de honestate Vitæ; Augustini de Fuga Mulierum; de Continencia, de Contemptu Mundi; Epistola Jeronimi ad Paulinum Presbyterum ; Sermo Augustini de Communi Vita Clericorum, editio prima, lit. goth., long lines, 27 to a page (48 leaves), without marks (Hain, 1960, 1962), rubricated, morocco extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by W. Pratt, fine copy, portrait of Augustine and old engraving pasted in covers, absque ulla nota [Colon., U. Zel], small 4to. (66) Maggs, £55s. 5891 Augustinus (S. Aurelius). De Anima et Spiritu; de Ebrietate; de Sobrietate et ebrietate ad Virgines; de Quatuor Virtutibus Caritatis; de Contricione Cordis; de Vanitatibus Sæculi; et de Vita Cristiana, in all 75 leaves in the same small neat roman letter, long lines, 24 to a full page, rubricated (Hain, 1964), half bound [colophon at end of 5th treatise], Finitus est liber seu tractatus beati Augustini . de Contricione cordis cum ceteris tractatulis eiusdem anno ab incarnacõe dnica Milesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimosecundo quinto Idus Novembris (s. I. et typ. nom.), 1472, small 4to. (67) Philip, £6 15s. Confessionum lib. XIII., finely printed in roman letter, long lines, without signatures (Hain, 2031), half morocco, russia sides, Mediol., Johannes (Bonus) Theutonicus, 1475, small 4to. (68)

5892 Augustinus (S. Aurelius).

Quaritch, £5 12s. 6d. 5893 Augustinus (S. Aurelius). De Mirabilibus Sacræ Scripturæ, editio prima, lit. semi-goth., long lines, 30 to a full page (56 leaves, 2 blank), without marks (Hain, 2075), rubricated, capitals painted in blue and red, morocco, with stamped blind ornaments, damask silk linings, g. e., large copy, 2 old engravings pasted in cover, absque ulla nota [Ultraj., Ketelaer et Leempt], small folio (69) Leighton, £75s. 5894 Augustinus de Ancona. Summa de Potestate Ecclesiastica,

lit. goth. parva, double columns, 50 lines (327 leaves), without marks (Hain, 962), wormhole through several leaves at beginning, contemporary binding in oaken boards, leather, stamped with flowers in diagonal compartments, Impressum Roma in domo Nobilis viri Francisci de Cinquinis apud Sanctam Mariam de Populo anno 1479, XX. Dec., small thick 4to. (71) Leighton, £11 158. 5895 Avela and Luniga (Don Lewes de). Commentaries, which treateth of the Great Wars in Germany made by Charles the Fifth, Emperoure of Rome against John Frederike, Duke of Saxon, and Philip Lantgrave of Hesson, with other great Princes and Cities of the Lutherans, etc., translated out of Spanish into English (by John Wilkinson), portrait of Charles V. and 4 old woodcut maps inserted, morocco extra, full gilt floreate back, line sides with corner fleurons, inside dentelles, g. e., by W. Pratt, fine copy, R. Tottell, 1555, 12mo. (72) Pickering, £5 5896 Badius. Ascensius (Jodocus). Stultifere Navicule seu Schaphe Fatuarum Mulierum, circa sensus quinque exteriores fraude navigantium, editio prima, woodcut on title and 6 in the text, old French morocco, gilt ornaments on back, line sides, black edges, fine copy, Argent., Jo. Prusz, 1502, small 4to. (74) Ridler, £4 5897 Baker (Sir Richard). Cato Variegatus, or Catoes Morall Distichs, translated and paraphras'd, with Variations of Expressing in English Verse, head of Baker and 2 old engravings pasted in covers, morocco, with blind stamped ornaments, by J. Faulkner, Printed by Anne Griffin and to be sold by Anne Bowler, 1636, small 4to. (75) Pickering, £5 5898 Balbus (Johannes, de Janua). Catholicon, "Incipit Summa que Vocat Catholicon edita a Fratre Johāne de Janua, Ord. Frat., Predicatorum, lit. semi-gotb., double columns (65 lines), 398 leaves, without marks, rubricated in blue and red, capitals painted in the same colours, and many painted ornamental initials, contemporary binding in oaken boards, leather, with stamped blind ornaments, metal bosses and clasps, the title of the book "Catholicon" under talc in a metal frame on upper cover, vellum fly-leaves, gilt and gauffred edges, a fine old engraving by Jerome Hopfer, after a sketch by Julio Romano pasted in upper cover, absque ulla nota (Argent., J. Mentelin, circa 1470), large folio (76) B. F. Stevens, £45 5899 Bale (John). Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum, hoc est Angliae, Cambriae ac Scotiae Summarium a Japheto ad annum domini 1548 (complete with the additio), cut on title, head of Wicliffe and a woodcut, and numerous ornamental initials, old calf (rebacked), Excusum fuit Gippeswici in Anglia per Joannem Overton, anno 1548, small 4to. (78) Robson, £7 2s. 6d.

[The first book printed at Ipswich.-Catalogue.] 5900 Barbour (John). The Actes and Life of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, wherein are

contained the Martiall Deedes of the Valliant Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Erle Thomas Randel, Walter Stewart and sundrie others, newly corrected and conferred with the best and most ancient manuscripts, black letter, title in facsimile (defective), corners of the leaves of printer's preface repaired, and the last three leaves of the same in facsimile, and several other leaves mended, sold with all faults, morocco extra, g. e., by W. Pratt, Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart, 1620, 12mo. (79)

Quaritch, £5 [The British Museum copy wants title, preface and table. The Bodleian copy wants 7 leaves at end and a leaf of table. With this copy was bound at the beginning a rare tract in verse of 4 leaves, intitled "Robert the III. King of Scotland his Answer to a summons sent by Henry the IV. of England, to do Hommage for the Crown of Scotland," Edinburgh, 1700, the margins of which were mended.Catalogue.] 5901 Baron (Robert). Philosophia Theologiae Ancillans, hoc est, pia et sobria explicatio Quaestionum Philosophicarum in disputationibus subinde occurrentium, morocco extra, full gilt ornamental back, broad ornamental borders, inside dentelles, g. e., by W. Pratt, fine copy, Andreapolis excudit Edwardus Rabanus Universitatis typographus, 1621, 12mo. (80) Leighton, £3 17s. 6d. 5902 Bartholus de Saxo Ferrato. Tractatus Procuratoris editus sub nomine diaboli, qñ petijt Justitiam coram deo et btā Virgo Maria se opposuit contra ipsum, et obtinuit necnon obmutuit pugna contra genus humanum, lit. goth., 10 leaves, the last blank, signatures a and b, half bound, absque nota [Romae, St. Planck, circa 1480?], small 4to. (81)

Pickering, £1 165. 5903 Beham (Sibald). Das Kunst und Lere Büchlin Sebalden Behems. Malen und Reisen zulernen nach rechter Proportion, Masz und Auszteylung des Circkels. Angehenden Malern und Kunstbaren Werckleuten dienlich, lit. goth., woodcuts (27 leaves), boards, Franckf., bei Christian Egenolffs Erben, 1557, small 4to. (82) Quaritch, £8 15s. [In the fly-leaves and covers were pasted 27 ancient and modern woodcuts, including one by H. S. Beham dated 1537, a Horse and Warrior by A. Dürer, 1505, and another old one signed L. (Lucas van Leyden ?), 1510, of a Cowherd, Cows and Milkmaid.—Catalogue.]

5904 Bellay (Wm. de, Lord of Langey).

Instructions for the Warres, amply, learnedly and politiquely discoursing the method of military discipline, three books, translated from the French, by Paule Ive, black letter, folding woodcut, ornamental woodcut initials, fine engraving inserted as a frontispiece (wormhole through several leaves), Printed for Thomas Man and Tobie Cooke, 1589-Ive (Paul) The Practise of Fortification, wherein is shewed the manner of fortifying in all sorts of scituations, etc., black letter, woodcut

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