This was Sir Kenelm Digby's copy, and has his autograph on the Title Page, and his arms on the fine old morocco binding.

Quæ extant, Græce ad Edit. Henr. Stephani accurate expressa, cum Marsilii Ficini Interpret. Præmittitur L. III. Laertii de Vita et Dogm. Plat. cum notitia Literaria. Biponti, 1781. 12 vol. Scholia in Platonem ex Codd. MSS. multarum Biblioth. primum collegit D. Ruhnkenius. Lugd. Bat. 1800. 1 vol.Timæi Sophistæ Lexicon Vocum Platonicarum ex Cod. MS. Sangermanensi nunc primum edidit D. Ruhnkenius.

Lugd. Bat. 1789.

2 vol. in 1. Lectiones Platonicæ e Membranis Bodleianis eruit T. Gaisford; accedunt R. Porsoni annotata ad Pausaniam. Oxonii, 1820. 1 vol. Svo. Together 15 vol. bound in 14.

Opera, quæ ad nos extant omnia per Janum Cornarium Medicum Physicum, Latina Lingua conscripta. Ejusdem Jani Cornarii Ecloga decem, breviter et sententiarum et genuinæ verborum lectionis locos selectos complectentes. Additis M. Ficini Argumentis et Comment. in singulos dialogos. Basil. Froben. 1561. Fol.

"I was first indebted to my learned and venerable friend Dr. Routh, the President

of Magd. Coll. Oxford, for a knowledge of

Dr.

this rare and valuable translation into Latin by Cornarius, accompanied by his Egloga, which to a Platonic student is of the greatest intrinsic importance. Routh was much gratified in meeting with a copy in the Cat. of Dyer of Exeter, from the valuable library of Portledge in Devonshire. Many years passed before I was fortunate enough to obtain the present, the only one I have since fallen in with, and which belonged to the learned Mr. Sedgwick, whose pencil notes and references are occasionally visible on the margins." MS. note by Mr. Heber.

PLATYNA. De Honesta Voluptate et Valitudine. Viri doctissimi Platyne opusculum de obsoniis ac de honesta voluptate et valitudine impressum in Civitate Austrie impensis et expensis Gerardi de Flandria, Venetiarum Duce Inclito Joh. Mocenico. Nono Kalendas Novembris мCCCCLXXX. 4to. G. M. This edition of Platyna printed at Friuli is rare. There are eighty-nine leaves of

text, followed by four leaves of Table and Register. See Panzer, I. 141, who makes eighty-eight leaves, and Brunet Manuel, vol. III. p. 90, who counts ninety-two leaves.

PLAUTUS, M. Accius. Plautinæ viginti Comœdiæ; linguæ Latinæ deliciæ, magna ex parte emendatæ per Georgium Alexandrinum (Merulam :) de cujus eruditione et diligentia indicent legentes. Impressa fuere opera et impendio, Joannis de Colonia Agripinensi; atque Vindelini de Spira. Venetiis, MCCCCLXXII. Nicolao Throno Principe jucundissimo

et Duce foelicissimo. Fol.

G. M.

FIRST EDITION. Of all the copies which we have seen of this Editio Princeps, the

Comœdiæ superstites xx. accuratissimè editæ. Amstelodami,

sent is that which we purchased from Renouard's Library, and which is now in Mr. Botfield's Collection. They are both indeed noble books.

Bp. Dampier very truly remarked that in all the copies of this edition the third page of the Persæ belongs to the eighth page of the Stichus, where it is reprinted in its proper place with a blank verso. Bibl. Sp. II. 243. Fossi, II. 369.

Uncut.

· FIRST EDITION. This first edition of Pliny is amongst the rarest and most valuable of the productions of the Fifteenth Century. Only a hundred copies appear to have been printed. It was unknown to Hardouin the editor of Pliny, and Ernesti speaking of it says, 66 vitiose expressa multa, sed tamen multa meliora sunt quam in aliis editionibus unde ad textum Plinii constituendum necessarium est." This is the distinguished copy sold at the auction of Camus de Limare in 1786 for 3000 fr., and mentioned by Brunet, Dibdin, Peignot and De Bure.

-Naturalis Historia Libri xxxVII. ex recensione et cum præfatione J. Andreæ Episcopi Aleriensis. (In fine.) Hereneus Lugdunensis Episcopus. Item Justinus ex Philosopho Martyr. Item cum Hieronymo Eusebius Cæsariensis, serio posteritatem adjurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera conferrent diligenter exemplaria, et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem ego tum in ceteris libris omnibus tum maxime in Plynio ut

fiat vehementer obsecro, obtestor atque adjuro; ne ad priora menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur. Instauratum aliquantulum sub Paulo II. impressum Romæ presidentibus Magistris Conrado Sweynheym et Arnoldo Panaratz (sic) MCCCCLXX. Fol. 2 vol.

R. M.

This is the second edition of Pliny, but taken, as it appears from the epistle prefixed by the Bishop of Aleria, from different MSS. and without the knowledge of a previous edition. Ernesti speaks highly of its merits. See also Audiffredi.

- Naturalis Historiæ Libri xxxVII. (cum epistola dedicatoria Joannis Andreæ.) Venetiis, per Nicolaum Jenson, MCCCCLXXII. Fol. R.

Epistolarum libri decem, in quibus multæ habentur epistolæ non ante impressæ. Panegyricus. De viris illustribus in re militari et in administranda Rep. Suetonius de claris Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. Julii Obsequentis Prodigiorum liber. Omnia hæc per fidelissimum aldinum exemplar impressa, &c. Parisiis, in ædibus Egidii Gourmont et Hemonis le Febure, 1511. 8vo.

Epistolarum Libri x. Ejusdem Panegyricus. Ejusdem de Viris illustrib. in re militari, et in administranda rep. Suetonii Tranquilli de claris Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. Julii Obsequentis Prodigiorum liber. Indices duo. Venetiis, in adib. Aldi, et Andrea Asulani soceri, 1518. 8vo.

Epistolæ. Panegyricus. De Viris illustribus, &c. Parisiis, ex off. Rob. Stephani, 1529. 8vo. R. M. Beautiful copy bound by De Seuil with red morocco lining, ruled.

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Epistolarum Libri decem cum notis selectis variorum ex recensione G. Cortii et P. D. Longolii. Amstel. 1734. 4to. L. P. R. M.

PLOT. The Plot in a Dream; or the discoverer in masquerade. In

a succinct discourse and narrative of the present designs of the Papists against the King and Government. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By Philopatris. London, by T. Snowden, for John Hancock, 1681. 12mo.

PLOT, ROBERT. The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an essay towards the Natural History of England. Oxford, at the Theatre, 1677. Plates. Fol. L. P.

R. M.

First Edition. Copies on Large Paper are very rare, and the impressions of the

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted by Roberte Crowley dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne. Whereunto are added certayne notes and colations in the mergyne, geuynge light to the reader. And in the begynnyng is set a brefe summe of all the principall matters spoken of in the boke. And as the boke is deuided into twenty partes called Passus : so is the summary diuided, for euery parte hys summarie, rehearsynge the matters spoken of in euerye parte, euen in suche order as they stande there. London, by Roberte Crowley, 1550. 4to. Bl. L. R.

See Warton's Hist. of Poetry, vol. I. p. 266. Herbert's Ames, p. 759.

An

Collation. A-D. in fours. Sixteen leaves. "This first Edition is so rare that I have not met with any other perfect copy. imperfect one, wanting the last leaf, was sold in the Roxburghe Sale for Ten Pounds." MS. note.

PLUNKET, Oliver. Jus primatiale or, the ancient right and preheminency of the See of Armagh, above all other Archbishopricks in the Kingdom of Ireland. Asserted by O. A. T. H. P. Printed in the year 1672. 8vo.

"This is the first tract upon the famous controversy for Primacy renewed between the two Sees of Armagh and Dublin. Plunket's tract was followed by a reply of Peter Talbot in 4to. 1674. They are both very

tat. intelliges. Paris. H. Stephanus, 1572. 12mo. 6 vol. L. P. R. M.

From De Thou Library. The Large Paper copies have only the six volumes of the Greek Text: the Latin Volumes were not printed on Large Paper. This is an Thou's Library; the sides are all tooled uncommonly beautiful specimen of De and richly gilt in compartments. The difference of the two papers is in the colour and in the thickness rather than in the measure.

Quæ supersunt Omnia, Græce et Latine. Principibus ex Edition. castigavit, virorumque doctorum suisque annotationibus instruxit J. Jacobus Reiske. Lipsiæ, 1774. 8vo. 12 vol. B. M.

Sapientissimi Plutarchi paralellum, Vitæ Romanorum et Græcorum, Quadraginta novem. (Gr.) Diis auspicibus, Libro qui Vitæ Plutarchi inscribitur, non sine maxima diligentia, multorumque antiquorum voluminum continua lectione summa manus imposita est. Florentiæ, in ædibus Philippi junta, 1517. Fol. L. P. R. M.

This is the first edition of the Lives of Plutarch and copies on Large Paper are of the greatest rarity. Mr. Wodhull observed to Dr. Dibdin that in the table of Contents only one leaf is given to the Life of Sylla, and that in his copy nine leaves of the Life of Sylla were added as an appendix after the date of the book, but that these nine leaves are almost always wanting; in this copy they follow the page named in the contents, and are therefore in their right place; they are not numbered.

Parallela; hoc est Vitæ illustrium Virorum Græci nominis ac Latini, prout quæque alteri convenire videbatur digestæ. (Græce.) Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ soceri, 1519. Fol. R. M.

Bryan and after him Reiske have ascertained, that of this book, as of the Demosthenes and Theocritus, there were two editions of the same year considerably varying in the Text. Renouard very truly

observes that the Second is the more valuable, though he is at a loss how to point out the distinctions: they are however