Cibber (C.) Plays, 2 vol. (no hf.-title to Vol. i., some ll. discoloured), old cf. (joints cracked), 1721, 4to. (91), April 9, Sotheby Braun, £2 Cicci (Maria Luisa). Poesie, printed on vell. (63 in. by 4 in.), from the library of Marshal Junot, with the leaf printed by him for his own books, bookplate inside cover of James Bindley, hf. red leather, in hf. leather slip-case, Parma, co' tipi Bodoniani, 1796, 12mo. (74), March 20, Sotheby Tregaskis, £10 Cicero (Marcus Tullius). De finibus bonorum et malorum, roman letter, painted inner border on first page, wants first blank leaf, some 11. slightly water-stained, date erased from colophon at end [Hain 5329, Proctor 4278], Venice, Filippo di Pietro, 6 Nov., 1480-Topica, 10 ll., apparently unrecorded, ib., c. 1480, in 1 vol., old blue mor. gt., g.e., folio (46), July 25, Sotheby Young, £10 10s. Cicero (M. T.) De Natura Deorum, libri tres, George Eliot's copy, with signature "Mary Ann Evans on fly-leaf and pencil notes in a few margins, cl., Edinb., 1840, 8vo. (520), June 25, Sotheby Maggs, £2 8s. Cicero (M. T.) De Officiis et Paradoxa, printed on vell., gothic letter, 88 11. (236 mm. by 162 mm.), 28 long lines to a page, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, title, etc. in red in the characters of the Bible of 1462, [colophon] Presens Marci tulii clarissimü opus. Johannes fust Mogūtinus sivis. nō atremēto. plumali cāna neqz aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra. Petri manu pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno M.CCCCLXV. [Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer, 1465], sm. folio (67), March 20, Sotheby Rosenbach, £1,300

[Fine copy. used.] Cicero (M. T.) De Officiis et Paradoxa, printed on vell., gothic letter, 88 11. (244 mm. by 167 mm.), 28 long lines to a page, title, etc. in red, large initials in red, blue and gold, smaller initials in red and blue alternately, no printer's mark (a small flaw in the vell., damaging two words of the text, and two similar but slightly larger flaws repaired before printing), citron mor. gt., g.e., Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer, Feb. 4th, 1466, sm. folio (68), March 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £1,000

The first book in which Greek type was

[From the library of Sir M. M. Sykes.] Cicero (M. T.) Tullius de Officiis cum commentariis Petri Marsi, etc., roman letter, some MS. notes and dampstains, orig. stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked [Venice, P. Pincius], 1496, folio (5098), Nov. 27, Sotheby McLeish, £2 10S.

[See also July 23, ed. 1498, £3 10s.; Nov. 27, £2 2s.] Cicero (M. T.) Thre bookes of duties, to Marcus his sonne, turned out of latine into english, by Nicolas Grimalde, wherunto the latine is adioyned, black and italic letter,

last leaf mended, cf. gt., R. Tottil, 14 April, 1558, 8vo. (3), June 11, Sotheby

[See also Oct. 23, £3 5s.]

Maggs, £6 10S.

George Eliot's copy, on fly-leaf and pencil cl., Dublin, 1842, 8vo. Manning, £2 15s.

Cicero (M. T.) De Officiis, libri tres, with signature "Mary Ann Evans notes in the margins of several ll., (521), June 25, Sotheby Cicero (M. T.) The thre Bookes of Tullyes offyces bothe in latyne tonge & in englysshe lately translated by Roberte Whytinton poete laureate, black and italic letter, title within an ornamental woodcut border, Wynkyn de Worde's device on the verso of the last leaf (a corner of one leaf torn, some few words of the text missing, some passages underlined and corrected), cf. gt., [colophon] Imprinted in flete strete by Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of our lorde god. M.D.XXXIIII. the Xxx. day of September [1534], 8vo. (69), March 20, Sotheby

.

Tregaskis, £66

[The earliest book printed in italic type by Wynkyn de Worde.]

Cicero (M. T.) Der Teütsch Cicero, numerous large woodcuts by H. Scheufelein and Burgkmair (some with xylographic inscriptions), a few ll. water-stained, Augsburg, H. Steyner, 1535-Officia . . . inn Latein geschriben Wölchs auff begere Herren Johansen von Schwartzenbergs verteütschet, etc., numerous woodcuts by H. Burgkmair and portrait of Schwartzenberg after Dürer, folio 40 slightly defective owing to faulty printing, ib., 1533 (at end 1532), in 1 vol., black mor. gt., g.e., folio (123), May 9, Sotheby

Maggs, £8 10S. Cicero (M. T.) Epistolæ familiares, illuminated MS. on vell. [Italian xv. cent.], 174 ll. (10 in. by 7 in.), written in neat humanistic characters, 31 long lines to a page, the first page decorated with three-quarter borders and a large initial, finely painted in gold and colours, of interlaced white vine-stem design, numerous ornamental initial letters in burnished gold on diapered col. grounds, modern panelled cf., xv. cent., sm. folio (368), Nov. 13, Sotheby Maggs, £19 Cicero (M. T.) Epistolae ad Brutum, Atticum, etc., roman letter, long lines, 175 ll. only (should be 181 11.) [Hain *5214, Proctor *4064], initial C on first leaf in gold and colours, the Greek passages filled-in in an old hand, initials in red and blue (small wormholes through a few 11.), old vell., Venice, N. Jenson, 1470, folio (122), May 9, Sotheby

[See also Hodgson, June 13, £4 158.] McLeish, £9 IOS. Cicero (M. T.) Epistolæ, ad Atticum, ad Brutum, ad Q. Fratrem cum correctionibus Manutii verba græca latine reddita in easdem doctiss. viri Dionysii Lambini annotationes, old French red mor., gt. back, g.e., with the arms of Comte d'Hoym on sides, by [Padeloup], Antuerpiæ,

ex officina Christoph Platini, 1567, sm. 8vo. (72), Feb. 13,
Anderson Galleries
$75
[With the Andrews bookplate. Mentioned by him in
his Sextodecimos et Infra," page 32.]

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Cicero (M. T.) [Orationes], roman letter, long lines, wants sign. 05 and a few small wormholes, old sheepskin, Venetiis, Nicolaus G[irardengus], 1480, folio (861), Oct. 23, Sotheby

David, 18s.

[See also May 3, ed. 1485, £1 10s.] Cicero (M. T.) Orationes a Nicolao Angelio Bucinensi nuper maxima diligentia recognitae et excusae, printed on vell., old black mor. gt., Florentiae sumptu Philippi Iuntae, 1515, 8vo. (71), March 20, Sotheby Newberry, £28 Cicero (M. T.) Orationes, notis illustravit P. Car. de Merouville, frontispiece, 3 vol., contemp. red mor., 3-line fillet in gold round sides, fleur-de-lys at corners, in centre the arms of Louis XIV., fleur-de-lys within panels on back, g.e., sold as a binding, Parisiis, 1684 (19), June 11, Sotheby Parsons, £12 Cicero (M. T.) Orationes et Epistolae, 4 vol., orig. cf. gt., panelled sides, titles in centre of front and Henri. Fvrstenb" in centre of back panels, g.e., sold as a binding, Lyon, S. Gryphius, 1546, 16mo. (91), July 25, Sotheby Dobell, £3 Cicero (M. T.) Tertius Tomus Ciceronis de Philosophia, continens De Officiis libros III., De Amicitia librum I., De Senectute librum I., De paradoxis Stoicorum librum I., ruled in red throughout, red mor., by Boyet, for Count Hoym, with a handsome doublure, also of red mor., the edges of the leaves marbled under the gold, Seb. Gryphius excudebat Lugduni, 1540, 8vo. (570), Feb. 5, Sotheby Lawson, £19 105. [Printed throughout in italics. See also Mar. 20, ed. 1545, £6.] Cicero (M. T.) Tullye of Old Age, Tullius de Amicicia, Declamacyon de Noblesse (translated into English by the Earl of Worcester), black letter, 120 ll. (the three blanks wanting in this copy), with signatures, 29 long lines to a page, old red English mor., hinges weak, a few manuscript marginal notes and some ll. wormed, [colophon] . . . engraved by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe at the playsir solace and reuerence of men growyng in to olde age, the xii. day of August. M.cccc.lxxxj [Westminster, 1481], folio (50), Jan. 23, Anderson Galleries Rosenbach, $9,850

[De Ricci, Census of Caxtons, 31, No. 2. With the bookplate of the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park; later in the Britwell library. This is one of the finest specimens of Caxton's press that can ever be offered for sale. It is probably the choicest of all copies, having wide margins, the text in perfect condition and being in a splendid English binding.]

Cicero (M. T.) Tulle of olde Age: Tullius de Amicicia, translated into our maternall Englissh tongue by the noble famous Erle the Erle of Wurcestre, first ed., black letter, initials and paragraph marks in red, long lines, 29 to a page, 116 11. (wants the second leaf, i.e., the first printed, which is supplied in fac., and the three blank 11.), the last word or two and signature on the recto of the third leaf and the first on the verso of the same erased, a minute hole in 3 ll. (sign. h 4, second series, a 8, e 4), a letter or two on e 3 verso defective, the inner margin of the last 2 ll. mended, a hole in the last 2 11. slightly affecting the text mended, brown mor. stamped in blind, g.e., by F. Bedford, in olive mor. slip-case, [on the recto of i 3] Thus endeth the boke of Tulle of olde age, translated out of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto at the comaundement of the noble prynce Lowys Duc of Burbon and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe at the playsir solace and reuerence of men growyng in to olde age the xii. day of August the yere of our lord M.CCCC.lxxxi. (12 August, 1481), folio (10 in. by 7 in.), (6), July 2, Sotheby Birdsall, £900

[De Ricci's Census of Caxtons, 31 (14). From the Locker-Lampson and Van Antwerp collections, with the bookplate of Frederick Locker inside cover.] Cicero (M. T.) Cato Major, or his Discourse of Old Age, with explanatory notes [by Dr. Logan of Philadelphia], orig. cf., yellow edges, enclosed in a red mor. slip-case, Philadelphia, printed and sold by B. Franklin, 1744, sm. 4to. (299), Jan. 30, American Art Association $390

[See also Anderson Galleries, Oct. 16, $100.] Cicero (M. T.) Rhetorica nova et vetus ab Omnibono Leoniceno editae, first ed., roman letter, long lines, 30 to a page, 138 ll. [Hain *5057, Proctor *4065, Pellechet 3650], initial E on first page in gold and colours, two other initials in gold on col. grounds, with white interlacings (small wormhole through the margin of the first few ll., two or three letters defective on the recto of the tenth leaf), red mor. gt., gt. back, g.e., a fine copy, Venice, N. Jenson, 1470, 4to. (10 in. by 71 in.), (70), March 20, Sotheby

Tregaskis, £180 [A very fine and rare edition. There are two variations from the details given by Pellechet, who agrees also with Hain. (i) P. 1, lines 2-3 end, "Suppeditare possimus instead of "Suppeditare/possumus." The colophon, in capitals, at end is "Marci Tullii Ciceronis Orato / Ris Clarissimi Rhetoricorvm / Veterum Liber Vltimvs Felici / Ter Explicit./M.CCCC.LXX."]

Cicero (M. T.) Opera Rhetorica, printer's device in red on last leaf (first leaf repaired and a few inner margins wormed), cf., with the Syston Park bookplate, Venetiis, per B. Alexadrinu et A. Asulanū, 1485 (450), June 18, Hodgson David, £2 10S.

Cicero (M. T.) Opera, Vol. i. and iv. only, in 1 vol., roman letter, long lines [Hain 5056, Proctor *6072], a few MS. marginal notes in an old hand, Vol. i. wants the first leaf, orig. blind stamped cf. over wooden boards, the centre panel divided into ogee-shaped compartments decorated with floreate stamps, brass corner-pieces (lower cover slightly damaged), Milano, Guillaume le Signerre, 1498, folio (64), March 20, Sotheby Todd, £5 5s. Cicero (M. T.) Opera omnia qvae hactenvs excvsa svnt, castigatissima nvnc primvm in lvcem edita, roman letter, title within an architectural woodcut border, 5 vol., green mor. gt., tooled in interlacing 2-line fillet to an intricate design, with a central compartment in the form of a hexagram, each vol. with a title on the upper cover, vell. end-papers, Venice, L. A. Giunta, 1534-37, folio (65), March 20, Sotheby Quaritch, £2,650 Cicero (M. T.) Opera, 9 vol., ruled in red, signature on titles, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1793,” contemp. black mor., oneline fillet round sides, centre panel enclosed by a twoline fillet in gold, with a fleuron at corners, gt. centre ornaments, leafy ornament repeated on back, g.e., fine copy, Parisiis, ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1543-4, 8vo. (66), March 20, Sotheby Goldsmith, £22

[See also July 3, £11.]

Cicero (M. T.) Opera, cum optimis exemplaribus accurate
collata, 10 vol., Vol. ix. with 301 pp., dark blue mor. gt.,
Leyden, Elzevir, 1642, 8vo. (237), Dec. 11, Sotheby
Maggs, £18 10S.

[See also Dec. 11, 3 10s.; Puttick, July 25, £3 15s.] Cicognara (Leopoldo). Del Bello Ragionamenti, printed on vell., blue mor., narrow gt. border round edges, gt. back, a large copy, Firenze, 1808, 4to. (12 in. by 9 in.), (75), March 20, Sotheby Tregaskis, £7 Cipriani (G. B.) A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of, portrait and 46 plates (should be 50, lacks Nos. 22, 29, 44 and 45), engraved by R. Earlom, Bartolozzi, etc., hf. green mor. (a little rubbed), g.t., two front wrappers preserved (1786-89), folio (198), May 28, Sotheby Spencer, £3 5s.

[See also April 16, 49 plates, £3 15s.; Oct. 23, 50 plates, £8 5s.; Feb. 5, 50 plates, £10.] Civil War and the Commonwealth. An Ordinance for the Leavying of Moneys by way of Excise . . . for the better securing of Trade, etc., 1643-An Ordinance for the Cutting and Felling of Wood within three score Miles of London . . . for Fewell, 1643-The Association of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, 1643-Relation of the Battaile, neare Newbery, Oxford, 1643-Articles of Impeachment against Colonel N. Fiennes touching his surrender of Bristoll, 1643, other Royal and Parliamentarian Tracts, Declarations, Orders, Broadsides, etc., some in