POLLARD-PONTANUS.

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POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM. Odes from the Greek Dramatists. Translated into Lyric Metres by English Poets and Scholars. Edited by Alfred W. Pollard. [Device.] London, David Stott, 1890.

No. 24 of fifty large paper copies printed for presentation only.
Presented to C. Elton by the editor.

Parchment.

4to.

POLYBIUS. The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan. The fiue first Bookes entire: With all the parcels of the subsequent Bookes vnto the eighteenth, according to the Greeke originall. Also the manner of the Roman encamping, Extracted from the discription of Polybius. Translated into English by Edward Grimeston, Sergeant-at-Armes. London, Printed by N. Okes for Cornelius Bee, and are to be sold at the Kings Armes in little Brittaine, 1634. fol.

The History of Polybius, the Megalopolitan: containing a general Account of the Transactions of the World, and principally of the Roman People during the First and Second Punic Wars. Translated by Sir H. S. To which is added, A Character of Polybius and his Writings. By Mr. Dryden ... Second edition. London, 1698. 8vo. 2 vols.

The translation was by Sir Henry Savile.

PONA, FRANCESCO. Francisci Ponæ Ormundus. Libri vii. [Engraved title.] Verona, 1635. 4to.

Pona was a member of the Filarmonica of Verona and of the Incogniti of Venice. This is the Latin version of his romance "L'Ormonde."

Vellum.

PONTANUS, IOANNES IOVIANUS. Ioannis Ioviani Pontani De Aspiratione, libri duo. Charon, dialogus: Antonius, dialogus &c. Belli, quod Ferdinandus Senior Neapolitanus Rex cum Ioanne Andeganiensium duce gessit, libri sex. Colophon: Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi, et Andrea soceri, Mense Aprili, 1509. 4to.

Bound in contemporary black Venetian morocco, with Grolieresque decoration in gold ornaments, and the letters "G. A. C. " in gold on both covers.

Ioannis Iouiani Pontani Opera.

Colophon: Impressum Venetiis per Ioannem Rubeum & Bernardinum Vercellenses, Anno Salutis 1512, die octauo Nouembris. fol.

From the Sunderland Collection.
Calf, gilt.

Pontani Opera. Colophon: Venetiis in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ Asulani soceri, 1513. 8vo.

Green mor., gilt, g.e.

PONTANUS, IOANNES ISACIUS. Originum Franciscarum libri vi., in quibus, præter Germaniæ ac Rheni Chorographiam, Francorum origines ac

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PONTOPPIDAN-PORPHYRY.

primæ sedes, aliaque ad gentis in Gallias transitum variasque victorias, instituta ac mores pertinentia ordine deducuntur, authore Johanne Isacio Pontano. [Device.] Hardervici, 1616. 4to.

John Isaac Pontanus was Professor of Philosophy at Harderwick, and Historiographer to the King of Denmark.

Vellum.

parts.

PONTOPPIDAN, ERIK. The Natural History of Norway. In two Translated from the Danish original of the Right Revd. Erick Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen in Norway, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen. Illustrated with copper plates, and a general Map of Norway. London, 1755. fol.

With the signature of the Hon. Daines Barrington. One of the plates shows the "seaserpent" seen by the Rev. Hans Egede on his voyage to Greenland.

Russia, gilt.

POOLEY, CHARLES. An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset. By Charles Pooley, F.S.A., &c. With Map and Plates. London, 1877. 8vo.

PORÉE, CHARLES. Caroli Porée, e societate Jesu, sacerdotis, Fabulæ dramaticæ, editæ ab uno ejusdem societatis sacerdote. Parisiis, apud J. Barbou, 1761. I2mo.

Charles Porée (1675-1741) was Professor of Rhetoric at the Collège de Louis le Grand at Paris.

PORPHYRY. Porphyrii Philosophi Pythagorici de non necandis ad epulandum animalibus libri iiii. [Device.] Lugduni, sumptibus Claudii Morillon, Typographi Sereniss. Ducis. Montispenserii, 1620. 8vo.

With title in Greek and Latin.

From the Sunderland Collection.

Porphyrii Philosophi liber de vitâ Pythagoræ. Eiusdem Sententiæ ad intelligibilia ducentes. De antro Nympharum quod in Odysseâ describitur. Lucas Holstenius Hamburgen. Latinè vertit, &c. Romæ, typis Vaticanis, 1630. 8vo.

Title in Greek and Latin. Dedicated to Cardinal Francis Barberini, with his arms on the titlepage.

From the Sunderland Collection.
Vellum.

Moralis interpretatio errorum Ulyssis Homerici; commentatio Porphyrii Philosophi de Nympharum antro . . . Ex commentariis Procli Lycii Philosophi Platonici apologiæ quædam pro Homero & fabularum aliquot enarrationes. Interprete Conrado Gesnero, medico, Tigurino. Omnia nunc primum nata, et excusa Tiguri apud Froschoverum. s.a. 1200. The dedication is dated "anno salutis 1542, mense martis."

From the Sunderland Collection.

Calf, gilt.