A dying Fathers last Legacy to an onely Child: or, Mr. Hugh Peters advice to his daughter: written by his own hand, during his late imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his death. London, for G. Calvert, 1661. Portrait. 18mo.

PETRARCHA, FRANCESCO. Sonetti e Trionfi di Francesco Petrarcha. (Venetiis) Vindelinus (de Spira) MCCCCLXX. Fol. R. M.

Collation. One hundred and eighty-two

leaves, the 8th and 45th being blank. First Edition and among the rarest of the Italian Editiones Principes. See Bibl. Spenc. IV. 131.

Sonetti, Canzone e Triumphi. (In fine.) Francisci petrarca laureati poetæ nec non secretarii apostolici benemeriti. Rerum vulgariu fragmēta ex originali libro extracta. In urbe patavina liber absolutus est fœliciter. Bar. de Valde. patavus F. F. Martinus de septem arboribus Prutenus MCCCCLXXII. die vi. Novenbirs (sic). Fol. G. M.

Sonetti e Triomphi di Francesco Petrarcha. (Milano). Impressum per Antonium zarotum parmenFol.

sem, MCCCCLXXIII.

G. M.

The Sonetti et Triumphi were printed separately by the same printers in the same year. See Marsand.

Le Cose Volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha. Impresso in Vinegia, nelle case d'Aldo Romano, nel anno 1501, del mese di Luglio e tolto con sommissima diligenza dallo scritto di mano medesima del Poeta havuto da M. Pietro Bembo, etc. 12mo.

FIRST ALDINE EDITION. PRINTED UPON VELLUM. This copy of Petrarcha illuminated by Lavinia Countess Spencer, and decorated in the binding with a head of Earl Spencer, cut by Marchant, was given by them to Mr. Grenville in 1796.

Opere Volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha. (Hieronymo Soncino.) In Fano Cæsaris adi vii. de Julio, 1503. 12mo. R. M.

This is a very rare edition, and held in high estimation. Crescimbeni gives a long account of it, which is quoted in the Petrarch of Comino of Padua, 1722. It is also curious from the attack of Soncino upon Aldus for having usurped the name of Aldino for the Italick type which Soncino says was not his (Aldus's) invention. Renouard in his Annales des Aldes alludes to this attack, and disproves it very satisfactorily.

"Furono tirati alcuni essemplari di questa splendida, copiosa e magnifica edizione in forma di foglio i quali sono rarissimi." Marsand.

Rime. Passo passo riscontrate, con lunga e scrupulosa cura, su i Testi delle più approvate Edizioni, antiche e moderne, e da ogni tipografico neo terse ed emendate: da G. B. Boschini. Londra, da Torchi di Vogel e Schulze, 1809. 16mo. R.M.

PRINTED UPON VELLUM.

Rime. Edizione formata sopra quella di Comino del 1732. Venetia, 1811. 16mo. 2 vol. in 1. F. P.

Le Rime del Petrarca. Edizione pubblicata per opera e studio dell' Ab. Antonio Marsand. Padova, nella Tipografia del Seminario, 1819. 4to. 2 vol. F. P. G. M.

This copy on Vellum Paper has proof impressions of the Portraits of Petrarch and Laura.

- I Sonetti, le Canzoni, et i Triomphi di M. Laura in risposta di M. Francesco Petrarcha per le sue rime in vita, et dopo la morte di lei pervenuti alle mani del Magnifico M. Stephano Colonna, Gentil' huomo Romano, non per l'adietro dati in luce. Vinegia, per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1552, Svo.

Marsand Bibl. Petrarchescha.

Triomphi di Messer Francesco Petrarcha Excellentissimo Poeta Fiorentino. Fine de Triumphi del clarissimo poeta Francesco petrarcha. S. 1. a. et typ. n. 4to. R. M.

PRINTED UPON VELLUM. Mr. Van Praet attributes this edition to the Press of Plato de Benedictis, Bononiæ, c. 1490. He states that six copies only on Vellum are known. Vol. IV. p. 130.

Triomphi di Messer Francescho Petrarcha Istoriati. Con le Postille. Et con la sua Vita in prosa vulgare. Novamente stampati. Finiscono I triomphi di M. F. Petrarcha insieme con la vita sua con somma diligentia ben correcti et impressi in Venetia, per Nicolo ditto Zopino e Vicenzo compagno nel 1500. XXI. de Marzo. 12mo. Signatures A to F. in eights. B. M.

"I can find no trace of this very rare edition in Panzer, Gamba, Pinelli, Crevenna, Haym, Marsand, or any other Bibliographical book. Marsand quotes one of 1500 by Bap. de Zanis vi. Marci and another date at the end xxvIII. Aprilis. He quotes also an edition by Nic. Zoppino 1521, but the present edition of 1500 seems to me to be entirely unknown. Haym quotes an edition by Nic. Zoppino, 1536." Note by Mr. Grenville. This edition contains the wood cuts of Zarandrea Venetiano. See Brunet, N. R.

-The Tryumphes of Fraunces Petrarcke, translated out of Italian into English by Henrye Parker knight, Lorde Morley. London, by John Cawood, n. d. Wood cut Capital Letters. 4to. A-N in fours. Fifty-two leaves.

Bl. L.

G. M.

Secretum Francisci Petrarche de Florencia Poetæ laureati de Contemptu mundi. Incipit Fœliciter. F. Petrarchæ de Vita Solitaria Liber. S.1. a. et typ. n. (forsan Argentorati.) Fol. One hundred and thirty-nine leaves. R. M.

These two books, evidently by the same printer, have much divided the Bibliographers in their opinion. Panzer in his Index, V. 356, supposes them to have been printed at Strasburgh. Brunet ascribes them to Mentelin. See also Bibl. Spenc. IV. 535, VI. 226.

In this copy, between the two books, bound in one vol. is a single leaf of "Francisci Petrarche ad Lombardum a Serico, Patavinum, Vite hujus compendiosa Descriptio,' and at the bottom of the leaf at the end of the letter, Ulme Impressum per Johannem Zeiner de Reutlingen. S. a. which is not noted in any book. The character is quite different from the rest of the volume.

Incomincia il Libro de gli Homini Famosi compilato per lo inclyto Poeta Miser Francisco Petrarca ad instancia di Miser Francisco da Carrara Signore di Padua.

Illustres opere hoc viros perite, Franscisci ingenium vetat Petrarchæ Non scripto calamo anserisve penna. Antiquarius istud aere Felix Impressit: fuit Innocens Ziletus Adjutor sociusque rare Polliano Verona ad lapidem jacente quartum ; MCCCCLXXVI. Kl. Octobris. Fol. Two hundred and thirty-six leaves.

FIRST EDITION. The present copy of this rare book agrees with the description of that in the Cassano Library, p. 87. Undoubtedly the four preliminary leaves as they are described by Dibdin, are the first four leaves of the complete book, which is of great rarity. See Brunet, Manuel, vol. III, p. 59.

enses.

PETRONIUS. Dion Chrysostomus Prusensis philosophus ad IliIlii captivitatem non fuisse aperte demonstrat. Franciscus Filelfus e græco traduxit. Petronius Arbiter Satyricus. Impressum Venetiis, per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, Anno domini, мccccxcix. 4to. G. M.

This had always been considered as the 1st edition of Petronius till Reviczky contended for the priority of one subjoined to Plinii Panegyricus, with a date of 1476. Dibdin maintains that the date is spurious, but that it is a prior edition to that which follows Dio. This question however is of

little importance, because these two editions are word for word and letter for letter the same. They are both very rare, and the Dio Chrysostom is often wanting, though the general title names both authors.

PETTIE, GEORGE.

A Petite Pal

lace of Pettie his pleasure: contaynyng manie pretie Hystories by him set foorth in comely colours, and most delightfully discoursed. London, by R. W. (Reginald Wolfe,) n. d. 4to. Bl. L. R. M.

Collation. A-FF. in fours. One hundred and sixteen leaves.

PETRUS BLESENSIS. Epistolæ Magistri Petri Blesensis Bathoniensis Archidyaconi. S. 1. et a. (sed Bruxellis, per fratres vitæ communis, circa 1480.) Fol.

Editio Princeps. Formerly very rare, but of late years many copies have been brought to sale.

"Peter of Blois, preceptor to King William II. of Sicily in 1168, was invited to England in the following year by Henry II. who employed him, and made him Archdeacon of Bath, his letters contain interesting anecdotes of those times; he appears to have been much connected with John of Salisbury, and died about 1200, having been a celebrated writer of his time. He wrote also a continuation to Ingulphus. See Rerum Angl. Scriptores, Oxon. 1684, and Leyser attributes to him, p. 758, a Poem, "de Eucharistia." See concerning him Lyttelton's Henry IId. II. p. 325. Balæi, Cent. 13, cap. 21.

Alfordi Ann. Eccl. Angl. IV. p. 136. Saxii Onomast. II. 256." MS. note.

PETT, Sir PETER. Memoirs of Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy Seal. London, for John Dunton, 1693. 8vo.

"Very rare. Wood's Athenæ, the old edition, has not furnished much to Sir

Bib. II. 392, but in Bliss's new edition of Wood I, 553, is a more satisfactory note by Haslewood. See also Herbert's Ames, 612 and 1030, and Warton's Eng. Poetry, III. 466." MS note.

PETTIGREW, THOMAS JOSEPH. Bibliotheca Sussexiana. A descrip.. tive Catalogue accompanied by historical and biographical notices of the Manuscripts and Printed Books, Contained in the Library of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in Kensington Palace. London, 1827-1839. Plates. 4to. Vol. I. and II. L. P. R.

Fodinæ

PETTUS, Sir JOHN. Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, &c. London, for Thomas Basset, 1670. Fol.

-England's Independency upon the Papal Power historically and judicially stated, by Sir John Davis, Attorney Generall in Ireland, and by Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice in England, in two reports, selected from their greater volumes; for the convincing of our English Romanists, and confirming of those who are yet unperverted to the Court and Church of Rome. With a Preface by Sir J. Pettus, Knight. London, by E. Flesher, &c. 1674. 4to.

This is the famous case of Lalor a priest tried at Dublin for exercising the Office of

The

PEYTON, SIR EDWARD. divine Catastrophe or the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts. Or, a short history of the rise, reign and ruine thereof. London, for Giles Calvert, 1652. 12mo.

PEZIUS, BERNARDUS. Bibliotheca Ascetica Antiquo-Nova, hoc est Collectio veterum quorundam et recentiorum opusculorum Asceticorum, quæ hucusque in variis MSS. Codicibus et Bibliothecis delituerunt. Ratisbonæ, 1733. 8vo.

This is the only Volume of the Bibliotheca Ascetica worth preserving, as containing the Life of Hugh Bishop of Lincoin.

PEZZETTI in Rime, Rime Spirituali, Storie, (215) bound in 6 vol. 12mo. Printed in the 18th Century at Venice, Bassano, Padua, Brescia, &c.

This singular collection belonged to the Library of the Rev. Mr. Crofts-see his Catalogue, No. 3539.

At the beginning of each volume is a list of the contents.

PHÆDRUS. Phædri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Æsopiarum Libri v.