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Septima Parte de Flor de varios Romances nuevos Recopilados de muchos Autores, por Franc. Enriquez. Enmendado y corregido de muchos yerros que en la primera impression tenia. Toledo, en casa de Thomas de Guzman, 1595. Flores del Parnaso Octava Parte Recopilado por Luys de Medina. En Toledo, por Pedro Rodriguez, 1596. 12mo. In one vol.

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Flor de varios Romances nuevos, Primera, Segunda, y Tercera parte. Agora nuevamente Recopilados puestos por su orden, y añadidos muchos Romances que se han cantado despues de la primera impression. Y corregidos por el Bachiller Pedro de Moncavo, natural de Borja. En Madrid, por la viuda de P. Madrigal, 1597. 12mo. R. M. "Extremely rare and not to be found in Antonio." Salva.

Sylva de varios Romances. Agora de nuevo recopilados, los

meiores Romances de los tres Libros de la Sylva y añadidos los de la Liga. Y en esta ultima Impression van añadidos, el de la muerte del Rey, y el despedimiento y desembarcacion de la Infanta doña Isabel de la Paz. Compuesto por Juan Tiarte. Barcelona, en casa Sebastian de Cormellas, 1617. 12mo.

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Romances de Germania de varios autores; con el vocabulario compuesto por Juan Hidalgo. Madrid, 1779.

8vo.

W. V. Fitz-Gerald viandante en Espana. 4to.

A collection of seventeen Poetical romances printed chiefly at Cordova about 1800.

Coleccion de los mas célebres

Romances Antiguos Españoles, históricos y caballerescos, publicada por C. B. Depping, y ahora considerablemente enmendada por un Español Refugiado. Londres, 1825. 12mo. 2 vol. in 1.

wick and Rembrun his Son. Now ROMANCES of Sir Guy of War

first edited from the Auchinleck MS. Edinburgh, 1840. 4to.

One hundred copies only printed for private circulation, with Introduction and Notices by W. B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq.

ROMBERCH. Congestorium Artificiose Memorie V. P. F. Joannis Romberch de Kyrspe. Omnes de Memoria preceptiones aggregatim complectens. Venetiis, per Melchiorem Sessam, 1533. 12mo.

ROMEI. The Courtiers Academie, comprehending seven severall dayes discourses; wherein be discussed seven noble and important arguments worthy by all Gentlemen to be perused. Written in Italian by Count Haniball Romei and translated into English by J. K. London, Valentine Sims (1598). 4to. See Herbert's Ames, vol. II. 1291.

ROMEUS AND JULIET.

The

Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet; contayning in it a rare example of true Constancie; with the subtill consels and practises of an old Fryer, and their ill event. London, by Richard Tottill, 1562. 8vo.

One of the fifty copies reprinted by Mr. Malone, from his copy of the original edition, now, with his collection, in the Bodleian Library.

The

ROMNEY MARSH. grantes, ordinances and lawes of

Romances recogidos por Don Romeney marshe. Londini, in ædi

bus Thoma Berth. 1543. 16mo. Scriptorum Scotorum nomenclatura a

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ROOTH, DAVID, BISHOP OF OSSORY. Analecta Sacra nova et mira de rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia. Pro fide et religione gestis divisa in tres partes. Quarum, I. Continet semestrem gravaminum relationem, secunda hac editione novis adauctam additamentis, et notis illustratam. II. Parænesin ad Martyres designatos. III. Processum martyrialem quorundam fidei pugilum. Collectore et Relatore T. N. Philadelpho. Coloniæ, apud Stephanum Rolinum, 1617-1619. 8vo. G. M.

The three parts are of great rarity. The author is highly praised by Usher, to whom he supplied some documents for the "Primordia." He wrote also Answers to queries concerning the lawfulness of the present Cessation," first printed at Kilkenny 1648, and reprinted by Walsh in his scarce work of "History of Remonstrance of 1661." Sir Thomas Ryves published an answer to Rooth's Analecta, which is extremely rare.

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The first part of the Analecta was printed in 1616, but in 1617 the author added to it an address Imperatori," with 260 pages of "Additamentum" and an Elenchus.

Brigida Thaumaturga, sive dissertatio partim encomiastica in laudem ipsius sanctæ ; partim Archaica ex sacra et antiqua historia Ecclesiastica; partim etiam parenætica ad alumnos Collegiorum. In qua elucidatur prodigium ligni aridi revirescentis ex attactu S. Brigidæ Virginis, &c. Parisiis, apud S. Cramoisy, 1620. 8vo. B. M.

This scarce volume is known to be by Rooth from the signature to the Dedication "D. R. E. O. V. H."

David Rooth, Episcopus Ossoriensis

Vicarius Honorarius.

At the end of the volume, pp. 163-180, is the following tract by Dempster, "De

Thoma Dempstero edita præcidaneum.
See Harris's Ware, III. p. 125.

ROPER, WILLIAM. The Mirrour of vertue in worldly Greatnes. Or the life of Syr Thomas More Knight sometime Lo. Chancellour of England. Paris, 1626. Portrait on Engraved Title Page. 12mo.

B. M.

With a Dedication to Elizabeth Countisse of Banbury by T. P.

"This is the first edition of Roper's Life of More, and as Singer observes (in traordinary rarity. I have seen only two the preface to his new edition), is of exother copies." MS. note.

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With Notes and an Appendix of
Life of Sir Thomas More.
Letters.
and corrected by S. W. Singer.
A new edition, revised
Chiswick, 1822. Portrait. 12mo.

ROQUE, SIEUR DE LA, G. A. Histoire generale des maisons nobles de la Province de Normandie. Sans lieu et date. (Caen, 1654). Plates of Arms. Fol.

Brunet, Vol. III. p. 242. "Selon le pere Le Long, edition de Fontette, il n'a été imprimé de cet ouvrage qu'une partie du Tome second, contenant les maisons de Brossard, Du Fay et Touchet. Ces fragmens sont devenus fort rares."

"This copy contains only the Family Du Fay, and consists of 144 pages, and on p. 1. after Title as above, "Premier Volume. Lettre F."

ROQUEFORT, J. B. Glossaire de la Langue Romane, avec le Supplement. Paris, 1808-1820. 3 vol.

Svo.

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cessary remedy for all Christians to embrace in this miserable time. No place or date. 12mo.

"This book which is unknown to Lowndes and Watt was probably printed in Flanders in the Reign of Henry VIII. I do not find any trace of it." MS. note.

ROSE, THOMAS. Idæa, sive de Jacobi Magnæ Britanniæ, Galliæ et Hyberniæ, præstantissimi et augustissimi Regis, virtutibus et ornamentis, dilucida Enarratio, ejusque cum laudatissimis Regibus, Monarchis, et Imperatoribus, comparatio exacta et enucleata. Londini, excudebat Johannes Norton, 1608. 12mo.

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ROSIER, JAMES. A true relation of the most prosperous voyage

made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discouery of the land of Virginia. Where he discouered 60 miles up a most excellent Riuer; together Written

with a most fertile land.

by James Rosier, a gentleman employed in the voyage. Londini, impensis Geor. Bishop, 1605. 4to. A-E. in fours. Twenty leaves. Bl. L. M.

"This early voyage to Virginia is of very rare occurrence. This is the copy quoted by Lowndes as having sold for nine guineas at Inglis's sale. He does not mention any other." MS. note.

ROSNEL, PIerre. Le Mercure Indien, ou le Tresor des Indes. Deux Parties. Paris, 1668. 8vo. M.

"This is one of the best of the works of a very voluminous author, partly in prose and partly in verse; he had been Chaplain to Charles I., but is less known by his own performances than by the quotation from Butler's Hudibras

'There was an antient sage Philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over; certainly no very easy task." MS. note.

Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter: explaining the historical mysteries, and mysticall histories of the ancient Greek and

Latine Poets. London, for Richard
Whitaker, 1647. (Portrait of Hen.
Orinden de Barham). 12mo. B. M.

This is a presentation copy from Henry
Oxinden of Barham to Eliza Dixwell.

View of all Religions in the World. London, 1658. Portrait by Lombart 12mo.

ROSS, ALEXANDER. Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess, a Poem in the Broad Scotch Dialect, to which are added Songs by the same Author and a Glossary. Aberdeen, 1778. 12mo.

ROSS, JOHN. Johannis Rossi interioris Templi socii Britannica, sive de Regibus veteris Britanniæ usque ad exitium Gentis ad Saxonum imperium, Historia versibus expressa. Cui accessit ad præsens tempus apostrophe de horrenda in Jacobum I. Regem, eorum qui se Catholicos et Jesuitas dicunt, nupera conjuratione: et de fide et antiquitate hujus Historiæ tractatus

This copy contains two editions of the Apologeticus. Francofurti, ex off.

2nd part. One dated 1668, with the Author's name on the Title. The other dated 1667, with his initials only.

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Matthia Beckeri, 1607. 16mo.

"This author, though of the same surname and christian name with that of the Chronicler edited by Hearne, lived in the time of James I. to whom he dedicated this little work, the historical part of which is chiefly from Jeffrey of Monmouth." MS. note.

ROSS, JOHN. Tangers Rescue ; or a relation of the late memorable passages at Tanger. Together with a description of the said City with

the considerable forts thereof; as also a description of the Mores, their nature and country, in verse. London, for Hen. Hills, 1681. 8vo.

ROSS, SIR JOHN. A Voyage of discovery made under the orders of the Admiralty, for the purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage. London, 1819. Plates

and Charts. 4to.

- Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829-1833, by Sir John Ross. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark Ross and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. With the Appendix. London, 1835. Coloured plates. 4to.

2 vol.

ROSSÆUS, GUILIELMUS. Guilielmi Rossæi opus elegans, doctum, festivum, pium, quo pulcherrime retegit, ac refellit insanas Lutheri Calumnias quibus invictissimum Anglia Galliæque Regem Henricum ejus nominis Octavum, Fidei defensorem, haud literis minus quam regno clarum, scurra turpissimus insectatur excusum denuo diligentissime, digestumque in capita, adjunctis indicibus opera viri doctissimi

ardo VI. Nell' Academia Venetiana, 1558. 12mo. G. M.

This account of the occurrences in England on the death of Edward VI. was printed only four years after the marriage of Philip and Mary, of which ceremony it gives a very detailed description.

I Successi d'Inghilterra dopo la Morte di Odoardo Sesto fino alla giunta in quel Regno del Sereniss. don Filipo d'Austria Principe di Spagna scritti volgarmente da Giulio Raviglio Rosso, et una Oratione

di M. A. Lollio nel ritorno di detto Regno all'ubidienza della sede Apost. Ferrara, 1560. 4to.

"The author of this curious account of England after the death of Edward VI. was sent to London by the Duke of Este to congratulate Philip and Mary on their marriage, and he writes the reports which prevailed in this country during his short stay here. In his preface he complains of the previous edition published by the Venetian Academy without his name and without any participation on his part." MS. note.

ROSTAGNO, Gio. BATTISTA. Viaggi del Marchese Ghiron Francesco Villa in Dalmatia, e Levante. Torino, per Gio. Sinibaldo, 1668.

4to.

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Rostagno was an eye witness of the

Joannis Carcellii. Londini, (apud Siege of Candia, and Secretary to the K. Richardum Pynsonum) 1523. 4to.

R.

This is bound with Henrici VIII. Assertio, &c.

ROSSELLIUS. Thesaurus Artificiosa Memoriæ, Concionatoribus, Philosophis, Medicis, Juristis, Oratoribus, Procuratoribus, cæterisque bonarum litterarum amatoribus. Venetiis, apud Ant. Paduanium, 1579. With wood cuts. 4to. R. M.

ROSSO, RAVIGLIO. Historia delle Cose occorse nel Regno d' Inghilterra in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte di Odo

of Sardinia. The Marquis Villa commanded in the defence of Candia." MS. note.

ROTA, BernarDINO. Delle Egloghe Pescatorie del S. Bernardino Rota. Terza Impressione. Napoli, appresso Giuseppe Cacchii dell'Aquila, 1572. 4to.

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ROTTA, JOANNES. La Vita del Sophi Re di Persia et de Media et de molti altri regni et paesi e de le grandissime guerre quale ha facto contra lo signore Turcho e con altri Re et signori: et de la descriptione de dicti paesi : et de la uita e costumi de dicti popoli : et molte altre cose innumerabile: quale se questo legerai grandissimo fructo: e piacere ne pigliarai. Senza nota. 4to. "I have not found that this curious life is known to any of the bibliographers. It is the Life of the Sophi Siach Ismail whose mother was the daughter of Usuncassan." MS. note.

Das leben unnd gewonheyt, und gestalt des Sophi Kunigk der Persien unnd der Medier; und von vill ander Kungreichen und Landt: mit den aller grossisten Krigen. S. 1. et typ. n. 1515. 4to. G. M.

"This German account of the Sophi of Persia was considered, in a note of its last owner, as unique. The original was written at Aleppo in Syria: the author was a doctor in Medicine and Traveller." MS. note.

ROTULI Magni Scaccarii Normanniæ de Anno ab Incarnatione Domini MCLXXXIIII. Willielmo filio Radulfi Senescalco, quæ extant.1830. Fol.

PRINTED UPON VELLUM and given to Mr. Grenville by Mr. Petrie.

ROVENZA. Dama Rovenza dal Martello, libro d'arme e d'amore; nel quale si tratta di molte sue prodezze, e come fu morta per man di

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ROW. Memorials of the Family of Row-The Red Shankes Sermon (by J. Row). London, 1642.-A Cupp of Bon-Accord or Preaching by Mr. J. Row, from an Original MS. in the Library of D. Laing. Edinburgh, 1828. 4to. L. P.

Only twelve copies printed on Large Paper.

ROWLANDS, HENRY. Mona An archæoloantiqua restaurata. gical discourse on the antiquities natural and historical of the Isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British Druids. The second edition,

corrected and improved. London,

1766. Plates. 4to.

ROWLANDS, SAMUEL. Martin Mark-all Beadle of Bridewell; his defence and answere to the Belman of London. Discouering the long concealed Originall and Regiment of Rogues, when the first began to take head, and how they haue succeeded one the other successively vnto the sixe and twentieth yeare of King Henry the eight, gathered out of the Chronicle of Crackropes, and (as they term it) the Legend of Lossels. London, for John Budge, and Richard Bonian, 1610. 4to. Bl. L. B. M.

ROWLANDSON, MARY. The soveraignty and goodness of God, &c. being a narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Cambridge, by S. Green, 1682. 12mo.

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