logie pour Jehan Chastel, Parisien, executé a Mort, et pour les peres et escholiers, de la Societé de Jesus, bannis du Royaulme de France. Contre l'Arrest de Parlement, donné contr'eux a Paris, le 29 Decembre, Anno 1594. L'An 1610. Svo.

"Attribué a Jean Boucher Curé de St. Benoist, cette reimpression contient quatre pieces de plus que l'edition de 1595." Brunet, III. p. 525.

VERSTEGAN, RICHARD. Theatrum Crudelitatum Hæreticorum nostri Temporis. Antverpiæ apud Hadrianum Huberti, 1587. Plates. 4to.

"This first edition is very rare and desirable from the superiority of the impressions. The Latin verses under the plates are by 1. Bochius of Brussels. It is said that Verstegan being at Paris after the publication of his Book, the English ambassador complained of him to Henri III. for accusing Q. Elizabeth of the cruelties imputed to her in this work. died about 1634."

MS. note.

Verstegan

Englands Joy. Without place, name of Printer, and date. 4to. M.

An extremely rare Poem.

Six leaves. The first leaf, surrounded with a wood cut border, contains an Acrostic Elizabetha Regina" and on the

reverse is a wood cut of St. George. The Acrostic is repeated on A. 1. and the Poem finishes on the reverse of A. 4. The last leaf contains three stanzas, "For all

VESCONTE. Rithimi (sic) del Magnifico Mesere Gaspar Vesconte. Ad illustrem Dominum Nicolaum Vicecomitem et Coregiam. Gaspar Vicecomes. In fine. Ne elegan

Lords, &c."

This is a laudatory poem on Queen Elizabeth, occasioned by Lord Mountjoy's defeat of the Irish rebels under the Earl of Tyrone.

poris edacis injuria tibi lector optime aliquando periret . . . F. Tancius Corniger Poeta Mediolanensis hos Rhithmos Lingua Vernacula

compositos, quamquam Invito Domino in Mille Exempla imprimi jussit Mediolani, MCCCCLXXXXIII. 4to.

G. M.

Collation. Signatures A. to I. in eights.

K. 4.

"The works of this poet who was a Milanese Nobleman, are rare, and this is the only edition of the Rime. He also published in 1492, and again in 1495, a Poem de Dui Amanti Paolo e Daria. Quadrio. II. 211, says that in the College of St. Barnabas at Milan there is a magnificent MS. of Sonetti by this author, written in letters of gold, and presented by him to Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, in 1496." MS. note.

VESPESIANO. A qui comienca la ystoria del noble Vespesiano emperador de Roma, como ensalço la fe de Jesu Xpo por que lo sano de la lepra que el tenia et del destruymiento de Jherusalem et de la muerte de Pilatos. Este libro fue empremido en la muy noble et muy leal cibdad de Sevilla, por pedro brun savoyano, anno del señor de mill cccc.xC.VIII. a xxv dias de Agosto. With wood cuts. 4to. Thirty-four leaves. R. M.

Of this book Mr. Grenville has not found any trace in the Catalogues he has consulted. It is not noticed by Panzer. It is apparently imperfect. Signature A has only six leaves, and no Title.

VESPUTIUS, AMERICUS. Lettera di Amerigo vespucci delle isole nuouamente trouate in quattro suoi viaggi. S. 1. et a. Wood cuts. 4to.

Henrico Vicentino: et diligente cura et industria de Zamaria suo fiol nel 1507. a di iii. de Novembre. Cum gratia et priuilegio per ani. x. como nella sua Bolla appare: che per sõa del Dominio Veneto no ardisca primerlo, &c. 4to. R. M.

Collation. The title is given in a com. plicated wood cut scroll encircling the world. Then follows the Table on *ii-vi. five leaves, the verso of *vi. has a dedication. "Montalboddo Fracan. al suo amicissimo Joanimaria Anzolello Vicentino. S." The text of Cadamosto follows and the whole volume contains one hundred and twenty-six leaves concluding with the Register.

It is singular that this table of register is defective, wanting the D. which is the last signature.

Camus in his Memoire sur De Bry, p. 342, regrets that he has never been able to see a single copy of this edition.

See also Tiraboschi, VII. i. p. 246. Foscarini, Lett. Venez. p. 434. Meuselius, III. i. p. 220. Zurla Viagg. Venez. II. 109. Morelli on Letter of Co

Quatuor Americi Vesputii Navigationes. Ejus qui subsequentem terrarum descriptionem vulgari Gallico in latinum transtulit Decastichon ad lectorem, &c.

Urbs Deodate tuo clarescens nomine præsul Qua Vogesi montis sunt juga pressit opus. Pressit, et ipsa eadem Christo monimenta

favente, Tempore venturo cætera multa premet. 1507. 4to. B. M.

This small collection is extremely rare, and is sometimes preceded by an astronomical treatise. This is the only book known to Panzer as being printed at St. Dieu in Lorraine.

The 3rd voyage here agrees with the edition of 1509.

Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde in Occidentem et demum ad aquilonem. (Ab Archangelo Madrignano Careualensi Latinitate donato.) Operi suprema manus imposita est kalendis quintilibus. Ludovico galliarum rege huius urbis inclite sceptra regente. Julio secundo Pontifice maximo orthodoxam fidem feliciter moderante : Anno nostræ salutis, 1508. diolani.) Fol. R. M.

(Me

Collation. A-L. iv. in sixes, and four leaves of Table. Sixty-eight leaves.

This German edition of Cadamosto is one of the rarest of all the early books of Voyages. For a detailed account of it see Panzer, XII. 298, but he appears to have known only of one copy, which is in the Library of Nuremberg. Camus in his Mem. sur De Bry, p. 344, says that he has never seen it, so that it is not in the Royal Library at Paris.

Mundus novus. S. 1. et a. 16mo. Eight leaves.

Ejusdem editionis aliud exemplar. 4to.

This copy has quite a different title page from the preceding, viz. Albericus Vespucius Laurentio petri francisci de medicis Salutem plurimam dicit. With a wood cut beneath with the name of Jehan Lambert.

Camus, p. 129, and Meuselius, III. i. 265, describe this as the first edition, and of extreme rarity. It is in the Royal Library at Paris, &c. Lambert printed at Paris from 1493 to 1514. Camus, p. 130.

Von der neu gefunden Region so wol ein welt genempt mag werden durch den Cristenlichen Kunig von Portigal wunderbarlich erfunden. S. 1. 1505. 4to. G. M.

This is printed in a very different type from the prior edition, and with some variations though of no importance as to the Text. There is a wood cut on the Title.

Alia Editio, Germanicè versionis variæ. Leypsick, durch Martinum Landessbergk, 1506. 4to. Six leaves. With a wood cut on the Title page, being a copy of that in the Latin Edition printed by

This edition is likewise of extreme rarity and is quite a different version from the first of 1505.

Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci raccolte e illustrate dall' Abate A. M. Bandini. Firenze, 1745. 4to. L. P.

VEZILLA, PEDRO DE LA. Primera y Segunda Parte de el Leon de España, por Pedro de la Vezilla Castellanos. Salamanca, en Casa de Juan Fernandez, 1586. 8vo. R. M. Cervantes does not spare Vezilla in Don Quixote's Library.

VHAEL. Grammatica Fenniga, reserans antiquissimæ hujus ac natura sua præstantissimæ linguæ adyta, ejus peculiarem, ab aliis Europæis linguis differentem genium, flexiones et conjugationes, orientalibus, primævæ imprimis, adfines illustrans, opera et studio Barth. G. Vhael. Aboæ, 1733. 12mo.

VIA, JOHANNES À. Vita S. S. Marini Episcopi Hyberno-Bavari, Martyris, et Aniani Archidiaconi confessoris, Patronorum celebris Monasterii in Rota. Monachii, excudebat Adamus Berg. 1679. 4to.

Altra Edizione. Aldo, 1545.

R.

Viaggio da Vinegia al Santo Sepolcro, et al monte Sinai, con disegni de Paesi, Citta, Porti, Chiese, e santi Luoghi: con additione di genti, et animali, che si trouano da Vinegia fino al santo Sepolcro : con il lamento di Gierusalem, nuouamente aggionto. Vinegia, per Nicolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1538. Wood cuts. 8vo.

This voyage to Jerusalem appears to have been first printed by Zoppino in 1519. To this edition of 1538 he added the "Lamento di Gierusalem."

VIANI, PADRE. Istoria delle Cose operate nella China da G. Ambrogio Mezzabarba Patriarca d' Alessandria, &c. Parigi (Torino), 1739. 8vo.

Viani accompanied the Legate Mezzabarba to China in 1720. Sub forma diarii breviter ac perspicuè, quæ observaverat describit, ejusque narrationes, de Jesuitarum artibus astutiisque in Sinâ, præcipuè digna sunt quæ studiose perpendantur. Quo magis sacerdotes isti in librum huncce invehantur, eo certiorem fidem eidem conciliant." Meuselius, II. ii. p. 158.

VICARS, JOHN. A sight of the Trans-actions of these latter yeares Emblemized with engraven plats which men may read with out Spectacles. London, sold by Thomas Jenner, n. d.

G. M.

4to. "This is one of the rare tracts pub