"This Translation of the above is rare ; Abbé Rive said he sought for it many LEIGH, GERARD. The Accedens of Armory. Imprynted by Rychard Tottel, An. 1568. 4to. R. The Accedence of Armorie. years before he could procure a copy of it." London, printed by Henrie Ballard, The copie of a letter to the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Majesties forces in the united Provinces of the lowe Countreys, written before, but delivered at his returne from thence : with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Majestie at two severall times, from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Majesties answeres thereunto. London, by C. Barker, 1586. 4to. A briefe report of the Militarie services done in the Low Countries, by the Erle of Leicester : written by one that served in good place there in a letter to a friend of his. London, by Arnold Hatfield, for Gregorie Seton, 1587. Bl. L. 4to. 1597. 4to. G. M. Moule Bibl. Herald. p. 17, quotes Nisbet for saying that this work was taken by Leigh almost verbatim from Caxton's translation of a French MS. from which Ferne also borrowed largely. Leigh first printed this in 1562 and died the following year. LEIGHTON, A. An appeal to the Parliament; or Sion's Plea against the Prelacie. The Summe whereof is delivered in a Decade of Positions. Printed in the year and moneth in which Rochell was lost (1628). 4to. R. The Author, a Scotch Divine, born 1568, died 1644, for writing this book was twice publickly whipped and pilloried, his ears cut off, his nose slit, his cheeks branded with S. S. (Sower of Sedition) and eleven years imprisoned in the Fleet Prison! he wrote also" The looking-glass of the Holy War." LELAND, JOHN. Næniæ in Leycester's Ghost. Printed mortem Thomæ Viati equitis incom in the yeare 1641. 4to. R. This satirical Poem upon Lord Leicester, printed the same year with Leicester's Commonwealth, is sometimes found bound up with it, and has been by some attributed to the same author, Parsons the Jesuit. parabilis. Londini, 1542. Wood cut portrait of Sir Thomas Wyat. 4to. Genethliacon illustrissimi Eaduerdi Principis Cambriæ, Ducis Coriniæ, et Comitis Palatini: libellus ante aliquot annos inchoatus, nunc vero absolutus, et editus. Londini, apud Reynerum Wolfium, 1543. 4to. Laudatio Pacis. Londini, apud Reynerum Wolfium, 1546. 4to. Cygnea Cantio, cum Commentariis. Londini, 1545. 4to. First Edition. LE NEVE, JOHN. Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicana: or, an Essay towards deducing a regular succession of all the principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, Collegiate Church or Chapel (now in being) in England and Wales, from the first erection thereof, to 1715. In the Savoy, by J. Nutt, 1716. Fol. Monumenta Anglicana: being inscriptions on the monuments of several eminent persons deceased in or since the vear 1600 to the end of the year 1718, deduced into a series of time by way of Annals. London, 1719, 1718, 1718, 1717, 1719. 8vo. 5 vol. L. P. R. LEO X. PONT. MAX. Itinerarium Divi Leonis Decimi Pontificis Max. (Poema). Romæ, 1516. Impressa per Stephanum Guillereti. 4to. Bulla contra errores Martini Lutheri et sequacium. Impressum Romæ, per Jac. Mazochium, s. a. Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam Martinus Lutherus. Wittenbergæ, 1520. 4to. B. M. These original editions of Leo Xth's Bull against Luther and his answer to it, are of very rare occurrence. Bulla Decimi Leonis, contra errores Martini Lutheri et sequacium cum Comment. Ulrici de Hut ten (s. a.)—Adversus execrabilem Antichristí Bullam Mart. Lutherus Wittembergæ, 1520.-Doct. Marti. Lutheri, Christiana et inconsternata Responsio Cæs. Maj. Princip. et dominis Wormatie facta Anno 1521. Sexto die Aprilis.-An justa ratione M. Lutherus reformationis Tragœdiam moverit, doctum et eruditum cujusdam idyllion (s. a.) 4to. M. These four tracts are not to be found without great difficulty united: the first of them with the Commentary of Ulrichus Hutten is of the greatest rarity. LEO AFRICANUS. De totius Africæ descriptione Libri IX. Antverp. ap. J. Latium, 1556. 12mo. Historiale Description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du Monde, Escripte de nôtre tems par J. Leon African, premierement en langue Arabesque, puis en Toscane, et a present mise en François. Plus, cinq navigations au païs des Noirs, avec les discours sur icelles.-Tome second de l'Afrique, contenant les Navigations des Capitaines Portugalois, et autres, faites au dit Païs, jusques aux Indes, tant Orientales, que Occidentales, parties de Perse, Arabie Heureuse, Pierreuse et Deserte. Ensemble, la description de la haulte Ethiopie, Païs du Grand LEONELLUS. Reverendi in christo patris domini Leonelli, Chieregati decretorum doctoris, Episcopi Concordiensis, Sanctissimi domini nostri domini Innocentii papæ VIII. Referendarii domestici et oratoris, propositio habita coram serenissimo domino Henrico Angliæ Rege VII. Londoniis, Anno Domini 1490, die xxix Martii. S. 1. et a. 4to. G. M. This curious historical tract is of great rarity. Holinshed tells us that Lionel Bishop of Concordia was sent into England in 1489-90 to make peace between Henry VII. and Charles King of France, as ambassador from Pope Alexander VI. Henry opposed the marriage of Charles with the Duchess of Britanny-but the embassy failed and Charles made good his marriage. See also Bacon's Henry VII. LEONICENUS, NICOLAUS. Libellus de Epidemia quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venetiis, in domo Aldi Manutii Mense Junio MIIID. (1497). 4to. R. M. This beautiful copy has the page of errata which is very rarely found. De Tiro, seu Vipera, Ad præstantem medicum Alexandrinum Agathimerum Venetum epistola. S. 1. et a. (Sed Venetiis, per Aldum Manutium, circa MD.) 4to. B. M. This tract is without question printed by Aldus in the same characters as the Politian and Astronomi Veteres. It has only recently been discovered, but is described in the new Edition of the Annales des LE POIS, ANTOINE. Discours sur les Medailles et Graveures antiques, principalement Romaines. Plus, une exposition particuliere de quelques planches ou tables estans sur la fin de ce livre, esquelles sont monstrees diuerses Medailles et graveures antiques, rares et exquises. Paris, par Mamert Patisson, 1579. Plates. 4to, Y. M. This is a beautiful copy in yellow, red, and blue morocco, in compartments, with red morocco lining by Padeloup or Deseuil. LERY, JEAN de. Histoire d'un Voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Rochelle, par Antoine Chuppin, 1578. 8vo. De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum libri decem. E quibus septem, veterum Scotorum res in primis memorabilis contractius, reliqui vero tres, posteriorum Regum ad nostra tempora historiam, quæ hucusque desiderabatur, fusius explicant. Accessit nova et accurata Regionum et Insularum Scotia, cum vera ejusdem tabula topographica, descriptio. Romæ, in ædibus Populi Romani, 1578. With the Map. 4to. Gough in his Topogr. Brit. II. 583, says that he has seen but two copies with the map; one in the Advocates' Library, and the other in Mr. Paton's, he adds that Bp. Lesley's map of Scotland, ranks as the first printed one. A spurious edition of this book was afterwards printed at Edinburgh with the false title of " Romæ." De titulo et jure serenissimæ principis Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ, quo Regni Angliæ successionem sibi juste vindicat, libellus: simul et Regum Angliæ a Gulielmo Duce Normandiæ, qui conquestor dictus est, genealogiam et successionis seriem in tabula descriptam: Competitorum quoque a Lancastrensi et Eboracensi familiis descendentium historiam summatim complectens. Opera Jo. Leslæi Episcopi Rossensis Scoti, dum pro eadem Serenissima Principe jampridem in Anglia Oratorem ageret, patrio primum, nunc vero Latino sermone in lucem edita. Rhemis, excudebat Joannes Fognæus, 1580. With the wood cut genealogical tree. 4to. A beautiful copy from the library of Thuanus, with his arms on the sides. Bound in vellum, with gilt leaves. A treatise towching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princesse Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king James, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the Croune of England. Wherein is conteined as well a Genealogie of the competitors pretending title to the same Croune: as a resolution of their obiections. Compiled and published before in latin, and after in Englishe, by the right reverend father in God, John Lesley, Byshop of Rosse. With an exhortation to the English and Scottish nations, for vniting of them selues in a true league of Amitie. (Edinburgh) An. 1584. Woodcut portraits of Mary and James; and the large plate of the Genealogy. Svo. LEVER, CHRISTOPHER. The Historie of the Defenders of the Catholique Faith. Discoursing the state of Religion in England, and the care of the Politique state for Religion during the reignes of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary, Elizabeth, and James I. London, by G. M. for Nicolas Fussell, 1627. Frontispiece. 4to. LEWIS, JOHN. The life of mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the first printer in Engof the rise and progress of the art land. In which is given an Account of pryntyng in England, during his time, till 1493. London, 1737. Portrait. 8vo. R. |