If the reader will refer to Buxtorf's" Epitome Radicum Hebraicarum et Chaldaicarum," under the root, he will find the following illustration of this difficult passage, which makes it at once intelligible, without altering a single letter of the original: 11, Sicut vivum ut adustum, id est, tam vivam et virentem spinam, quàm adustam et aridam, procella-perdet." The translation will then be," Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them (the thorns) away as with a whirlwind, both those that are alive and those that are burnt." The metaphor, I think, ought to be explained thus: By the thorns are to be understood the wicked, who are mentioned in the preceding part of the Psalm: By the pots, weak and foolish men, who are easily led into error and to ruin. This verse then I explain thus: "Before the wicked have made any impression upon your weak and foolish men, he shall destroy them (the wicked) by some dreadful calamity, both those who are young and in the prime of life, and those that are grown old in trespasses and sin. J. L. In funere duorum principum, Henrici Glocestrensis, et Maria Aransionensis, Serenissimi regis Caroli II. Fratris et Sororis. Indue, Melpomene, funestos indue vultus, Conveniens nostris luctibus iste dolor. An didicere igitur Parcæ et amare ducem? Ille tua spectat sceptra movenda manu; Mortalem, et superis gaudia tanta refert: Nec mora, siste (inquit) gemitus, Dea fio per altum, ION. DRYDEN. BIBLIOGRAPHY. List of the principal Books of the Duke of Marlborough's PART I. FIRST DAY'S SALE. Octavo et Infra. ÆSOPICARUM Fabularum Delectus, Gr. et Lat. ab Alsop, large paper, red morocco, by Roger Payne. Oxon. 1698. 17. 13s. Triphook Esopicarum Fabularum Collectio, Gr. et Lat. Hudsoni, large paper, red morocco, with joints. Oxon. 1718. 17. 188. Clarke Esopo, Fabule Historiate, Lat. et Ital. a Zucho, wood cuts, red morocco, with red morocco inside, rare. Venetiis, per Simonem de Prello. 1533. 57. Payne Esope's, Aryan's, Alfonce's, and Poge's Fables, in Englishe, black letter. London, by H. Wykes. 41. 4s. Rodd Anacreontis Odaria, Gr. a Forster, large paper, red morocco, gilt leaves. Londini, 1802. 15s. Triphook Quarto. Acuna Nuevo Descubrimento del Gran Rio de las Amazonas, excessively rare, red morocco, from Colonel Stanley's Collection, Mad. 1641. 197. Triphook "Acuna, a Missionary Jesuit, was dispatched by the Spanish Government to obtain circumstantial information respecting the River of the Amazons, and the best means of rendering its navigation easy and advantageous. On his return he presented the following Work, which was printed at the expense of the King. The impression was scarcely completed when the Spanish Court heard of the Portuguese Revolution, the loss of the Brazils and the Colony of Para, on the mouth of the Amazon: fearing, therefore, that this Work, no longer useful to themselves, might afford important information to the enemy, it was suppressed, and the utmost diligence employed to regain and destroy the few copies which had gone forth. This accounts for its unusual rarity." ; Esopi Fabulæ, Græcè et Latinè. Regii, per Dionysium Bertochum, 1497. 31. 7s. Payne Esopus per Laurentium Vallensem traductus, scarce, green morocco. Daventriæ, per Jac. de Breda. s. anno. Hibbert Alberti Magni Liber Secretorum de Virtutibus Herbarum, per me Wilh. de Mechlinia impressus in opulentissima civitate Londiniarum juxta pontem qui vulgariter dicitur Flete brigge, fine copy, morocco, formerly Herbert's. sine anno. 71. 10s. Triphook Mr. Dibdin says it is "the most elegant specimen of Mechlinia's press with which he is acquainted." Ames's Typographical Antiquities of England, a new Edition, enlarged by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 2 vols. large paper, 1812. 137. 13s. Booth Apuleius, his Eleven Bookes of the Golden Asse, black letter, russia. 1596. 21. 188. Triphook Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, con molta diligentia da lui corretto, 4to. a very fine copy, beautifully bound in morocco by R. Payne. Ferrara, 1528. 421. Longman "Few books are rarer than this edition of Ariosto. I cannot find it mentioned by any Bibliographer. It certainly was not known to Quadrio, Fontanini, Apostolo Zeno, Haym, De Bure, nor to Orlandini, who prefixed a critical catalogue of editions of Ariosto to his own edition of 1730, in folio. No copy has occurred in the sales of the best Italian collections that I can discover. It was not in the libraries of Capponi, Floncel, Crevenna, La Valliere, Gaignat, Crofts, Pinelli, or Dr. Monro, which sufficiently attests its extreme rarity. But its rarity is by no means its only recommendation to the collector of curious books. I consider it as a very valuable literary curiosity for the following reasons:-In 1516 the first edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso was published in forty cantos. This is so scarce, that I believe Lord Spencer's copy is the only one in the kingdom. Notwithstanding the great merit of the poem, it was not reprinted till 1521, when it was republished, but incorrectly to a scandalous degree, omitting a whole stanza in one place; and yet from this incorrect and mutilated text, the two editions of 1524 and that of 1527 were printed. At length appeared this valuable and rare edition, exactly copied from the text of the first edition, and corrected by the author himself. All subsequent editions vary from this, as Ariosto re-wrote a considerable portion of his poem after the publication of this edition, and enlarged it into 46 Cantos. This edition therefore is the only one which faithfully represents the text of the first edition, and is absolutely necessary to elucidate some passages in the text as it is now printed; for when Ariosto re-wrote his poem he omitted some incidents, and not adverting to the circumstance, refers to them as being in his poem." Stanley Catalogue. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso di nuove Figure adornato, beauti ful copy in old red morocco, in compartments, Venet. Valgrisi, 1562. 137. Clarke Folio. Æsopi, Avieni, Remicii et Aliorum Fabulæ Latinis Versibus, cum Commento, wood cuts, green morocco, extremely rare. sine ulla nota sed circa 1480. 161. 5s. 6d. Payne, See Laire Catalogue de Brienne, vol. I. p. 76. Esopi Vita et Fabulæ Rimicii cum Fabulis Aviani, Alfonsii, Poggii, et Aliorum, cum Commento, wood cuts, russia, very rare. Antverpii, per Gerardum Leeu, 1486. 27. 6s. Triphook Æsop's Fables paraphrased in Verse, by John Ogilby, portrait by Lombart, and plates by Hollar, first impressions, very fine. copy, red morocco. 1665. 47. 14s. 6d. Claude Scott Esop's Fables, with his Life, translated by Barlow, plates, fine copy, 1687. 31. 3s. Payne Agricolæ de Re Metallica Libri XII. plates, red morocco, Basil Froben, 1556. 2l. 12s. 6d. Hibbert Amadis. Los quatro Libros de Amadis de Gaula, neuvamente impressos y hystoriados, wood cuts, fine Copy from Col. Stanley's Collection, blue morocco, extremely rare. Venetia, por Antonio de Sabia, 1533. 301. Utterson Anthologia, seu Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum Græcorum, red morocco, with joints. H. Steph. 1566. 17. 13s. Triphook Arnolde's Chronicle, or the Customes of London, with the Ballad of the "Notte Broune Mayde," first edition, russia, very rare. Supposed to be printed at Antwerp about 1502. 321. Payne SECOND DAY'S SALE. Octavo et Infra. Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, 10 vols. Ancient Reliques, 2 vols. 12 vols. large paper, proof impressions of the plates. 1807-1812. 167. Major Astræa's Teares, an Elegy on the Death of that learned and honest Judge, Sir Richard Hutton, and Panaretee's Triumph, or Hymen's Heavenly Hymne, frontispiece, fine copy, red morocco. Lond. 1641. 57. 10s. Triphook Auctores Classici Editore Maittaire, scilicet Lucretius, Virgilius, Horatius, Ovidius, Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, C. Nepos, Florus, Cæsar, Quintus Curtius, Juvenal, et Persius, Paterculus, Lucanus, Martial, et Novum Testamentum Græcè, 17 vols. large paper, morocco. Lond. 1713-19. 177. 178. Boswell Augustini Confessiones, red morocco. Elzevir, 1675. 11.6s. Payne Barnabee's (Drunken) Journal under the names of Mirtilus and Faustulus, first edition, blue morocco, rare. No date. 87. 10s. Perry Bastard's Chrestoleros. Seven Books of Epigrames, extremely rare, green morocco. London, R. Bradocke, 1598. 17. 178. Longman 1 Quarto. Arthur. The most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, very fine copy, bound in russia by Walther, from the Stanley Collection. 1634. 61. 6s. Triphook Atkyns's Original and Growth of Printing, frontispiece, blue morocco. Lond. 1664. 27, 17s. Woodburn Baldwin's Mirroure for Magistrates, first edition, blue morocco, page 100 omitted in the printing. Marshe, 1559. 61. 2s. 6d. Rodd Bandello Novelle, Tre Parti, 3 vols. Lucca, 1554. La Quarta Parte, 8vo. Lione, 1573. 4 vols. original edition, fine copy, green morocco, from the Roxburghe Library. 167. 16s. Cattley Baudouyn Comte de Flandres, l'Histoire et Chronique du, black letter, wood cuts, yellow morocco, rare. Mich. le Noir, s. d. sl. 88. Arch Bayard, les Gestes et la Vie du Chevalier, black letter, wood cuts, portrait of Bayard by Mariette inserted. Compendiosa Illustrissimi Bayardi Vita Campegii, in 1 vol. green morocco. 71. 78. Arch Bellora and Fidelio, The Tragicall History of a Paire of Turtle Doves, black letter, scarce. F. Burton, 1606. 107. Heber Folio. Athenæi Deipnosophistarum Libri XV. Gr. et Lat. Casauboni, best edition, Lugd. 1657. 27. Longman Augustinus de Arte Prædicandi, first edition, red morocco, gilt leaves. Moguntiæ typis Johannis Fust. circa 1466. 5l. 7s. 6d. Heber Baccius de Naturali Vinorum Historia, in rich old morocco binding, by De Seuil. Romæ, 1597. 57. 10s. Triphook Barclay's Ship of Fooles, black letter, wood outs, fine copy, russia, with joints. John Cawood, 1570. 87. 128. Milner Baudoyn Comte de Flandres, le Livre de, first Book printed at Chambery, wood cuts, very rare. Chambery, Ant. Neyret, 1485. 201. 108. Heber Berners-The Bokys of Haukyng and Huntyng, with other plesuris dyverse, and also Cootarmuris by Juliana Beruers, a tall fine copy, but made perfect by Manuscript, red morocco, from the Roxburghe Collection. Seynt Albons, 1486. 847. 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