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VÆNIUS, OTHо. Historia Septem Infantium De Lara. Antverpiæ, prostant apud Philippum Lisaert, 1612.

40 Plates. Oblong 4to. VAGRANTS. Orders appointed to be executed in the Cittie of London, for setting roges and idle persons to worke, and for releefe of the poor. London, by Hugh Singleton, Bl. L. (1588.) 4to.

VAIR, LEONARD. Trois livres des Charmes, Sorcelages, ou Enchantemens. Mis en Francois par Julian Baudon. Paris, chez Nicolas Chesneau, 1583. 8vo.

VALDES, JUAN. Due Dialogi l'uno di Mercurio et Caronte l'altro di Lattantio et di uno Archidiacono. Di Spagnuolo in Italiano tradotti. Vinegia, (1545.) 12mo. R.

J. Valdes, born in Catalonia, was for some time employed by Charles Vth; he became one of the first disciples of SonCette cinus, and died at Naples 1546. traduction n'est guère moins rare que l'original." Brunet, N. R.

VALDES, DON JUAN MELEndez. Poesias, reimpresas de la edicion de Madrid de 1820 por Don Vicente Salva. Paris, 1832. 12mo. 4 vol.

VALDESIUS, JACOBUS. De Dignitate Regum regnorumque Hispaniæ, et honoratiori loco eis, seu eorum legatis à conciliis ac Romana sede, jure debito. Granatæ, 1602. Fol.

VALENTIA, GEORGE VISCOUNT. Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in the Years 1802-1806. London, 1809. Plates. 4to. L. P. 3 vol.

Only fifty copies printed on Large Paper.

Santander, IV. 14.

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Fol.

"Ce grand, excellent et magnifique ouvrage de Valentyn ne se trouve cité nulle part. Il n'est pas etonnant qu'on n'en ait aucune connoissance. Imprimé par souscription, en langue Hollandoise fort peu connu des savans Francois, il coutoit de 9 a 12 et 13 louis. Il meriteroit mieux que mille autres d'etre traduit. On peut dire que dans tous les autres auteurs ensemble on ne trouve pas la moitié de ce que ce seul ouvrage contient." Engel Mem. Geog. sur les Pays Septent. p. 231. Auctor Opus carum æque ac rarum. de historia ac geographia immortaliter meritus." Meuselius, II. i. p. 371.

VALERA, DIEGO de. Comieca la coronica de españa dirigida a la muy alta et muy excelente princesa serenissima reyna et señora nuestra señora doña ysabel reyna de españa

de secilia et de cerdeña. Duquesa de athenas, Condesa de barcelona. abreviada por su mandado por mosen Diego De Valera su maestre sala et del su consejo. The Colophon, after mentioning the Germans as the Inventors of the Art of Printing, goes on to say De los quales alemanos es uno Frederico de basilea de maravilloso ingenio et doctrina; muy esperto, de copiosa memoria, familiar de vostra alteza. Burgos.

Fue impresa por el dicho frederico, MCCCCLXXXVII. Fol. Bl. L. G. M. This second edition and the first of 1482 are both of them of great rarity.

There are also Editions of 1489. 1493. 1495. 1527. 1553, a strong evidence of the popularity of the work.

Collation. On the title page is a wood cut, and the Prologue commences on a. ii and the text on a. iii and finishes on the verso of d. vii; the other signatures are in eights.

"None of the bibliographical books have any knowledge of any edition of this book, as far as I have been able to discover. There is a curious account of the author in N. Antonio, Bibl. Vet. II. 314, who is described in terms of great praise, et inter Hispanos fortissimus et duellis aptissimus,' 'literarum et rei militaris gloria splendidus,' says Marinæus. N. Ant. quotes these two tracts as being in MS. in the Royal Library at Madrid, but neither he nor Mendez knew of any printed edition." MS. note.

VALERIANUS, PIERIUS. Amo

rum libri v. Appendix ex præludiis Castigatior. Amicitia Romana. Carpionis fabula. Protesilaus Laodamiæ Respon. Leucippi Fabula. Venetiis, apud Gab. Giolittum, 1549. Svo.

B. M.

Argonauticon Libri octo cum notis Variorum, curante Petro Burmanno. Leidæ, 1724. 4to. L. P.

R. M.

Argonauticon Libri octo cum notis P. Burmanni et Variorum. Recensuit suasque adnotat. adjecit T. Christ. Harles. Altenb. 1781. 8vo. 2 vol. R.

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Valerii Maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium Libri. S. 1. a. et typ. n. (sed Argentorati per Joannem Mentelinum, circa мCCCCLXx.) Fol.

R. M.

FIRST EDITION. The best Bibliographers agree in attributing this rare Editio Princeps to the press of Mentelin at Strasbourg probably about 1470 if not sooner. A beautiful copy with illuminated capitals.

Vålerii Maximi Romanæ Urbis jurisperitissimi, in librum factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium Cesarem, Præfatio incipit. Presens Valerii Maximi opus præclarissimum in nobili urbe Moguntina Rheni terminatum anno MCCCCLXXI. xviii. kalendis juliis per egregium Petrum Schoyffer de Gernshem. Fol.

B. M.

PRINTED UPON VELLUM. First Edition with a date. It appears from Mr. Van Praet, IV. p. 315, that six perfect and one imperfect copy of this book upon Vellum

el maestro Valles. Con una adicion hecha por Diego de Fuentes. Donde se trata la presa de Africa y assi mismo la conquista de Sena. Caragoça, en casa de Augustin Millan, 1562. Fol. Bl. L. G. M.

Historia del fortissimo, y prudentissimo Capitan Don Hernando de Avalos Marques de Pescara, &c. Anvers, en casa de Philippo Nutio, 1570. 12mo.

1794 et 1795. Où se trouve la description de plusieurs parties de la Chine inconnues aux Europeens. Publié en François par M. L. E. Moreau de Saint Mery. Philadelphie, 1797. Plates. 4to. 2 vol. in 1.

VAN DANS, ADOLPHUS. Eliza, sive de laudibus augustissimæ et serenissimæ Principis Elizabethæ, Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Reginæ. Lugduni Batav. excudebat Georgius Abrahami a Marsa, 1619.

12mo.

This Latin Poem is dedicated to Sir A prose Life of Eliza

R. M.

From the Collection of Thuanus. VALTURIUS. Roberti Valturii de Re Militari Libri XII. ad Sigismundum Pandulfum Malatestam (edente P. Ramusio). Ioannes ex Verona oriundus: Nicolai cyrugie medici filius; Artis impressoriæ magister; hunc de re militari librum elegantissimum litteris et figuratis suis sua in patria primus impressit. An. MCCCCLXXII. Fol. B. M.

First Edition; and very rarely found in such condition as the present copy with the cuts uncoloured. Probably from Gaignat's collection.

VALVASONE, ERASMO DI. Angeleida. Venetia, Gio. Battista Sommasco, 1590. 4to. G. M.

This is one of the Italian poems supposed to have been familiar to Milton. See Todd's Life of Milton, p. xxxvi. and p. 280, where he particularly refers to the 3rd book of Valvasone's Angeleida. See also pages 26-27, the Invention of Gunpowder attributed to the Devil. Tiraboschi sulla Letteratura Ital. vol. VII. p. 1177. VAN BRAAM HOUCKGEEST, ANDRÉ EVERARD. Voyage de l'Ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Hollandaises, vers l'Empereur de la Chine, dans les années

beth follows the poem.

VANDER NOODT. A Theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries and calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings As also the greate joyes and plesures which the faithfull do enjoy. An Argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely love the word der Noodt. Seene and allowed acof God. Devised by S. John vancording to the order appointed. Imprinted at London, by Henry Bynneman, 1569. 12mo. R. M.

Collation. The Signatures run regularly through the volume from A to R. in eights, and conclude on the recto of S 11 with the date.

Lowndes is wrong in the number of pages, there are 280.

A book of extreme rarity in it are found the first impressions of Spenser's visions of Petrarch. Vander Noodt printed this same work and with a French Dedication to Q. Elizabeth. 8vo. J. Day, 1568; he wrote also on the Plague, calling himself Phisicion and Surgeon admitted by the Kynge his highnesse." 16mo. for A. Veale, 1569. See Todd's Spenser. Dibdin's Typ. Ant. IV. 107, 361.

VANE, HENRY. The retired mans meditations, or the Mysterie and Power of Godlines, shining forth in the Living Word, to the unmasking the Mysterie of Iniquity in the most Refined and Purest Forms. London, by R. W., 1655. 4to.