House, Upton, Kent) on fly-leaf, old calf, broken, London, for H. Cripps, 1660, folio (333) Tregaskis, £2 16s. [The order of the early editions of this work is as follows: First, 1621, 4to.; Second, 1624, folio; Third, 1628, folio; Fourth, 1632, folio; Fifth, 1638, folio; Sixth,_1651-52, folio; Seventh, 1660, folio; Eighth, 1676, folio.-Ed.] 1543 Cæsar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico (cum Hirtii Supplementa ex recens. P. Just. Philelphi), roman letter, long lines, with signatures, contemporary MS. notes in margins, slightly wormed, old red morocco, with gilt frame ornaments (Harleian), large copy (the Sunderland) (Mediol.), Ant. Zarothus Parmensis, 1477, folio (334) Leighton, £6 1544 Calendrier des Bergiers. Le Grant Kalendrier et cōpost des Bergiers, avecq leur Astrologie et plusieurs aultres choses. Imprime nouvellemēt a Troyes par Nicolas le Rouge (en Prose et en Vers), lettres bâtardes, title in red, with cut beneath, calendar in red and black, numerous spirited and singular woodcuts and ornamental initials, green morocco, plain inside dentelles, gilt edges by Duru, fine copy (the Lakeland's) of a very rare edition, Troyes, par N. le Rouge, 1529, avant Pasques, folio (336) B. F. Stevens, £30 1545 Calendrier des Bergiers. Le Grāt kalēdrier des Bergiers, nouvellement imprime a Lyon, lit. goth, title and calendar in red and black, numerous spirited and singular woodcuts, bright French calf gilt, gilt edges (Yemeniz copy), À Lyon, 1510, Davril le 8 (s. nom. d'imprimeur), 4to. (255) B. F. Stevens, £41 1546 Calligraphy. Vincentino (Lud.) La Operi imparare di scrivere littera cancellarescha, etc. (16 leaves), mended, Romae, 1522 (Privilege of Pope Clement VII., dated 1525) -Il medesimo; I mode de temperare le Penne con le varie sorti de littere (16 leaves), ib., 1523-Tagliente (G. A.) Lo Presente libro insegna la Vera Arte delo excellente Scrivere de diverse varie sorti de litere lequali se fano per Geometrica Ragione (28 leaves), ornamental alphabets, etc. (some leaves mended), Venet., 1525-Fanti Ferrarese (Sigismundo). Thesauro de Scrittori; Opera artificiosa laquale con grandissima arte si per pratica come per geometria insegna a scrivere diverse sorte littere, A to K in 4's (wanted H 3, some leaves mended), woodcuts of writing materials and ornamental alphabets, Romae, A. Bladus, 1525, in 1 vol., old red morocco gilt (256) Leighton, £7 15s. [Four early pieces on the Art of Writing, mostly printed from wood blocks.-Catalogue.] 1547 Caoursin (Guillelmus). Obsidionis Rhodia Urbis Descriptio, lit. goth., long lines, with signatures, Horace Walpole's copy, with his Ex-Libris in cover, 36 fine full-page woodcuts and ornamental initials, old morocco, Ulma, Jo. Reger (de Kemnat), 1496, Oct. 24, folio (340) Hazlitt, £31 IOS. [This was Lord Crawford's, afterwards M. Gennadius's, Sold in the latter's sale for £30.-Catalogue.] 1548 Carta feodi Simplicis cum litera Atturnatoria, lit. goth.[(30 copy. leaves), signatures a to e, new limp vellum, with ties, fine [From the circumstance that most of the fictitious names used in the examples of wills, transfers, etc., are described as citizens of Oxford, it is supposed that this edition was written in Oxford in 1505. It differs from the edition described by Dibdin, as well as from that in Lowndes.Catalogue.] 1549 Cassianus (Johannes) de Institutis Cenobiorum, origine, causis et remediis Vitiorum, collationibus Patrum, lit. goth., double columns, 47 lines, woodcut of the Conversion of St. Paul, ornamental capitals painted in red, numerous MS. notes in margins, said to be in the handwriting of Ph. Melancthon, oaken boards, stamped ornamental pigskin, clasps (from the Kloss Collection), Basil. (s. nom. impressoris), 1485, folio (344) Wilton, £3 14S. 1550 Catherine of Siena. Legenda Sanctæ Catherine de Senis, Sæc. XV., manuscript on fine Italian vellum (235 leaves), written in a fine Italian hand, the beginning of the Bull of Canonization of Pope Pius II., and the "Incipit" of the text written in gold letters, fine illuminated border to first page of text of white scrolls and gold portcullises on a blue ground, with cupids and birds, a coat of arms below (argent, a cross gules between four eagles displayed sable, in escutcheon quarterly first and fourth gules, lion rampant, fork-tailed and crowned argent, second and third, barry of six, or and sable), and 51 fine large initials of similar white scrolls, etc., with marginal decorations, russia, gilt edges, in slip cloth case (circa 1450), folio (345) Quaritch, £149 [This manuscript has the name of the writer on last leaf, "Jacobus Macharius Venetus Scripsit." The fine border has the words "India fecit" below.-Catalogue.] 1551 Caviceo da Parma (Jacomo). Dialogue treselegant intitule le Peregrin, traictant de l'honneste et pudique amour, concile par pure et sincere vertu, traduict de vulgaire Italien en langue Frâcoyse par Maistre Francoys Dassy, Secretaire du Roy de Navarre, etc., lettres bâtardes, long lines, title in red and black, 3 large and fine woodcuts and ornamental woodcut initials, old French calf gilt, r. e., with the arms of the Duc de Penthièvre, fine copy, à Paris par Nic. Couteau pour Galliot du Pre, 1527 (346) Quaritch, £8 10s. [First edition of this French translation.-Catalogue.] 1552 Celtes Protucius (Conradus). Quatuor Libri Amorum, secundum quattuor latera Germaniæ, etc., fine ornamental woodcut title, and to spirited full-page woodcuts, that on reverse of title representing Philosophy with the mark of Albert Dürer, that at the end representing Daphnis et Chloe, had the Pirckheimer arms in top margin, folding view of Nuremberg in facsimile, old red morocco gilt, gilt edges (Lakeland's copy), Nurembergae, A. P. private press of Edes Pirckheimerianae, 1502), 4to. (263) Tregaskis, £15 1553 Champier (Simphorien). Le Recueil ou Croniques des Hystoires des royaulmes d'Austrasie, ou France Orientale dite a present Lorrayne; De Hierusalem et Sicile ; et de la Duche de Bar, etc., lit. goth. and lettres bâtardes, numerous spirited woodcuts and ornamental initials, red morocco extra, inside dentelles, gilt edges by TrautzBauzonnet, Venundantur in Vico Mercuriali apud Lugdunum in Officina Vincentii de Portunariis de tridino, 1510, folio (348) Stevens, £32 1554 Champier (Simphorien). Les Grans Croniques des gestes et vertueux faictz des tresexcellens, catholiques, illustres et victorieux Ducs et Princes des Pays de Savoye et Piedmont, etc., lettres bâtardes, double columns, title in red and black, with large arms of Savoy supported by angels below, 40 woodcuts, ornamental woodcut initials, and genealogical trees, old vellum, with arms, and name of Edward Gwynn in gold letters on upper cover, Paris, pour Jehan de la Garde (with device), 1516, folio (349) Ridges, £18 1555 Chanutus, sive Chenu (Steph.) Regimen Castitatis Conservatium; et Liber Arboris Judaice; cum Privilegio Suprema Parlamenti Tholosæ Curiae, lit. goth., title in large red and black gothic, with fine full-page woodcut on reverse, and other spirited woodcuts and initials (first few leaves very slightly wormed), mottled calf extra, gilt edges by F. Bedford (Lakelands copy), very rare (not in Brunet), Tolsae, Joan Le Favre, 1517, folio (350) Quaritch, £8 1556 Chaucer (Geffray). Workes, newly printed with dyvers Workes which were never in print before, black letter (lettres bâtardes), double columns, woodcuts (title, last leaf of table, folio ccclxxviii, ccclxxix and ccclxxxii, and part of ccclxxv in facsimile, some plain margins at end mended, first leaf of preface written on, otherwise in excellent condition), modern morocco extra, gilt ornaments on back, sides stamped in blind ornamental frames, Printed at Lodon by Thomas Godfray, 1532 (352) Tregaskis, £21 155. [First edition of the Complete Works of Chaucer (except the Plowman's Tale), edited by Wm. Thynne. It is the only known book to which the printer Godfray affixed a date.-Catalogue.] 1557 Chronicle of St. Albans. The Cronycle of Englande, with the fruyte of tymes (with the Descrypcyon of Englande, etc.) compiled in a boke and also imprynted by one sumtyme Scole Mayster of Seynt Albons, etc., black letter, double columns, woodcuts, clxiii numbered leaves, no title, blank leaf, and 21 unnumbered leaves for the "Descrypcyon," the latter wanted Dj (slightly wormed), modern calf gilt, r. e., Fynyshed and imprynted at London in Flete Strete by me Wynkyn de Worde, 1520, sm. folio (356) Leighton, £15 10s. 1558 Chronicon Nurembergense. Libri Cronicarum, cum figuris et imaginibus ab inicio Mundi (auctore Hartmanno Schedel), lit. goth., with the blanks and Sarmacia, numerous spirited woodcuts by Wohlgemut and Pleydenwurff (some coloured), numerous contemporary MS. additions on title and reverse, XIII. in the margins and on the blank leaves, two blanks missing, oaken boards, stamped pigskin, clasps, Nuremberg, Ant. Koburger, 1493, royal folio (353) Wilton, £20 10s. 1559 Chronicon. Cronica Cronicarum; abbrege et mis par figures, descentes, et rondeaulx; contenans deux parties principales, etc., lettres bâtardes, woodcut heads, views, genealogies, coats of arms, borders, etc., coloured by hand, the leaves pasted back to back, inner margins mended, last leaf mended and mounted, with all faults, half russia, Paris, Jaques Ferreboucq, pour J. Petit et Fr. Regnault, 1521, atlas folio (355) Leighton, £5 5s. 1560 Cicero. Orationes, Sæc. XV., manuscript on vellum (228 leaves), written in roman letters, long lines, 33 to a page, heading to each oration in red, 27 fine illuminated initials of gold letters, with white intersected scrolls on blue ground, half bound, folio (357) Quaritch, £27 [A very fine MS., containing 27 orations, beginning with "De imperatore diligendo," and ending with "Pro Aulo Cluentio." It also has Sallust's "Invective" and Cicero's 'Apocryphal Answer."-Catalogue.] 66 1561 Cicero. Orationes et Vita L. Aretini. [begins] "Marci T. Ciceronis Vita per Leonardum Aretinum e Greco in Latinum translata," Sæc. XV., manuscript on vellum (177 leaves), written in open roman letters, long lines, 36 to a page, first page had a half border of white interlaced scrolls on various coloured grounds, with birds, etc., below, a shield of arms supported by two Cupids (or, a bear passant, sable), a remarkably fine large illuminated Q (3 in. by 34 in.) at the beginning of the sixth oration, contains six Cupids, and the inside margin is finely illuminated, and there are 16 smaller initials of the same character, oaken boards, modern brown morocco extra, antique style, gilt edges (circa 1470), folio (358) Waring, £81 [This manuscript contained fourteen of the orations, the last ("Pro Aulo Čluentio ") being unfinished.-Catalogue.] 1562 Cicero. Orationes, editio princeps, finely printed in roman letter, long lines, without marks, original limp vellum, Venet., C. Valdarfer, 1471, folio (359) Leighton, £10 10s. [An interesting copy, having numerous MS. notes in the fly-leaves and margins by a former possessor, 1490-93, named Willelmus Panntz, who refers to Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and the Emperor Maximilian. Sweynheym and Pannartz issued an edition in the same year.— Catalogue.] 1563 Cicero. Tusculana Quæstiones, Sæc. XV., manuscript on vellum (84 leaves), long lines, 32 to the page, written in roman characters by an Italian scribe, with headings and side-notes in red, an elaborate painted and illuminated Renaissance scroll border on first page, with a female's head as initial, and at foot the arms of Erizzo of Venice, supported by two female grotesques, illuminated initial to each book, oaken boards, half calf, original ornamental leather sides inlaid (circa 1470), folio (365) Stevens, £32 1564 Collection de Poésies, Romans, Chroniques, etc., publiée d'après d'anciens MSS. et d'après des éditions des XVe et XVIe siècles; viz. Miracle de Nostre dame de Berthe féme du Roy Pepin, 1839–Le Mystère de la Vie et hystoire de Mons. Sainct Martin lequel fut Archevesque de Tours, 1841 -Miracle de Nostre Dame de la Marquise de la Gaudine, 1841-Le Chevalier delibere par Olivier de la Marche, 1842 -Listoyre de Pierre de Provence et de la belle Maguelonne, 1845, éditées par Francisque-Michel, Doublet de Boisthibault, et A. Veinant, finely printed in black letter, with woodcut on each title, thick paper, only a small number of each printed, 5 vol., bound in crushed morocco, each of a different colour, with gilt lettering and edges gilt on the rough, bound by Cobden Saunderson for Wm. Morris, with the latter's initials and date of binding, 1893, on upper covers, Paris, imprimées par Crapelet pour Silvestre, 183945, 8vo. (217) Bain, £33 1565 [Columna (Fr. de).] La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo cioè pugna d' Amore in sogno, etc., numerous fine woodcuts, attributed to Giovanni Bellini (the cut of Priapus unmutilated), old calf, Venezia, Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo, 1545 (370) £31 [First edition in Italian, with excellent impressions of the woodcuts, which are the same as in the Latin edition of 1499.-Catalogue.] 1566 Comestor (Petrus). Historia Scholastica super Bibliam, Sæc. XIV., manuscript on vellum (278 leaves), in neat gothic characters, double columns of 43 lines (French), titles of chapters in red, numerous large and small ornamental initials in blue and red with marginal decorations, oaken boards, stamped red buckskin, metal clasps (circa 15—), folio (371) Heppinstall, £16 [At the end of the MS. are six leaves of "Rubrics in a different hand. Catalogue.] 1567 Commandments. The Floure of the Commaundements of God, with many examples and auctorytes, extract as wel of the Holy Scryptures as of other doctours, etc., lately translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe in the yeres of our Lorde MCCCCCIX. (by Andrew Chertsey), black letter, 2 woodcuts and ornamental initials, wanted all before Ci of table, including title, corners of folios ccxxvii-ccxxxii mended, last 2 leaves in facsimile, calf, Emprynted at London in Flete Strete by Wynkyn de Worde, fynysshed the yere 1510, xiii. Sept. (374) Tregaskis, £8 155. [An extremely rare edition, the third from Wynkyn de Worde's press. It is stated there is no complete copy either in the British Museum or at Oxford.-Catalogue.] 1568 Crane (Walter). Sirens Three, a Poem, illustrated by the author, art boards, presentation copy from the author to Wm. Morris, Dec., 1885, Macmillan, 1886, 4to. (270) Tregaskis, £2 18s. 1569 Crane (Walter). The Claims of Decorative Art, fine paper copy (1 of 110), presentation copy to "William Morris |