edges, presentation copy from the author to the Mayor of Langingen, with inscription on reverse of title, Leipz., L. Kober, 1616, small folio (649) Selby, £1 18s. 4970 Seneca. Tragœdiæ, ruled in red, contemporary Lyonnese calf, gilt ornamental back, sides stamped in Arabesque ornaments on a rich gold ground, gilt edges (back repaired), Lugd., S. Gryphius, 1554, 12mo. (650) Toplis, £3 105. 4971 Sibyllinorum Oraculorum libri octo (Græcè), multis hucusq. seculis abstrusi nuncq. primum in lucem editi, etc.. ruled in red, brown morocco, inlaid in black geometrical scrolls and gilt ornaments, with John Grolier's name, motto, and title of book on covers, gilt edges (a fine imitation of the Hague School), Basil, Jo. Oporinus, 1545, small 4to. (651) Hyde, £3 12s. 4972 Smith (Ch. Hamilton). Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland from the 7th to the 16th Century, 60 coloured plates, calf, Colnaghi, 1814, folio (655) Mason, £5 4973 Soldus (Jacobus). Opus de Peste, editio prima, lit. goth., double columns, with signatures a-c in 8's, d and e in 6's, old calf, Impressus Bononiæ per Johannem Schriber de Anuntiata, 1478, small 4to. (658) Quaritch, £3 10s. 4974 Solinus (C. Julius). Polyhistor, cum enarrationibus F. Camerti, woodcut title and ornamental initials, with the large woodcut Map of the World for Amerigo Vespucius by Apian, 1520 ("Occidens" in the west margin cut off), old stamped ornamental calf, Viennæ Austr., F. Singrenius, 1520, small folio (659) Dawson, £10 5s. 4975 Solis (Virgil). Wappenbüchlein; Antzeygüng deren Wappen darauf des heyligen romischen Reichs grundtveste gepflantzt und geordnet ist; etc., durch Virgilius Solis Maler und Bürger zü Nürmberg, 43 plates, containing many coats of arms, some coloured by hand, old stamped calf, with clasps, Nüremb., trūckts V. Solis (1555), small 4to. (661) Quaritch, £4 17s. 6d. 4976 Spilbergen (Geo.) Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque India Navigationum, annis 1614-1618 exhibens Novi in Mare Australe transitus, incognitarumque hactenus terrarum ac gentium inventionem, etc., engraved title, maps and plates (some corners stained, title and next leaf mended), vellum (Sunderland Sale, £13), Lugd. Bat., Nic. à Geelkerchen, 1619, oblong 4to. (663) Maggs, £2 195. 4977 Spiræ. "Novum Creavit dominus super terram femina circundabit Virum. Hiere XXXI” (Sermo)—“Effectus Petitionis fabricæ Ecclesiæ Spirensis, necnon facultatum et Indulgentiarum, etc.” (Sæc. XV.), lit. goth., long lines, 33 to a page, 12 leaves, 2 blank (apparently unrecorded by Bibliographers), Absque ulla nota, small 4to. (664) Barry, £3 35. 4978 Stofflerus (Jo.) In Procli Diadochi Sphæram Mundi Commentarius, diagrams, woodcut portrait at end (stained), vellum, H. Morhartus, 1553, small folio (667) Ouseley, £5 15s. 4979 Suiset. Subtilissimi Doctoris Anglici Suiset Calculationum

Liber per Johannem de Cipro emendatum, lit. goth., parva, double columns, with signatures (Hain, 15136), vellum, Paduæ (s. a. et nom. impress.), folio (669)

Leighton, £3 17s. 6d. 4980 Tanner (R. P. Mathia). Societas Jesu Apostolorum Imitatrix, sive gesta præclara et virtutes eorum, etc., pars prima (et unica), numerous copper-plate engravings by Kilian, vellum, Prague, 1694, folio (671) Hayley, £3 15s. 4981 Tanner (R. P. Mathia). Societas Jesu usque ad Sanguinis et Vitæ profusionem militans in Europa, Africa, Asia, et America, etc., copper-plate engravings of martyrdoms by M. Küssell, vellum, Prague, 1675, folio (672) Selby, £4 10s. 4982 Telin (Guillaume, de la Ville de Casset en Auvergne). Bref Sommaire des sept Vertues, sept ars liberaulx, sept ars de Poesie, sept ars mathematiques, des philosophies, des quinze ars magicques, La Louenge de Musique, etc. (en prose et en vers), lettres bätardes, title in red and black, ornamental woodcut initials, morocco, plain, doublé morocco, dentelles, joints, gilt edges by Koehler, fine copy, Paris, par Nicolas Cousteau, pour Galiot du pre, 1533, small 4to. (673) Selby, £7 4983 Tertius Bergomatis (Franciscus). Austriaci Gentis Imagines Gaspar Patavinus incisor, 57 large engravings of portraits, etc., within borders, limp vellum, Eniponti, 1569, atlas folio (676) Deacon, £55s. 4984 Testamentum. L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christi, prais our delg Latin es our d'oters Launguax es huossa da noef Mis in Arumansch três Jachiam Bifrun d'Agnedina, corners of leaves stained, but a large copy, oaken boards, stamped pigskin, et eav Stevan Chiatauni da Chiamuastch hae aguido sthquischer delg An., 1560, small 8vo. (680) Maine, 10 2s. 6d.

[The first edition of the New Testament in the Romansch dialect of the lower Engadine.-Catalogue.] 4985 The English Pilot. The Fourth Book, describing the West India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones, including New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, etc., maps and charts, calf, imperial folio, 1761 (681) Hayley, £3 4986 Theramo (Jacob de). Der Teutsch Belial, lit. goth., long lines, with signatures, numerous spirited woodcuts, coloured by hand, contemporary oaken boards, stamped leather, Augsburg, H. Schönsperger, 1497, small 4to. (682) Leighton, £8 4987 Theseus de Coulongne. Lhystoire Tresrecreative; traictant des faietz et gestes du Noble et Vaillant Chevalier Theseus de Coulongne, Empereur de Rome; et de Gadifer son fils Empereur de Grece ; et de ses trois enfans, lettres bätardes, title in red and black, with woodcut, cut to page 1, ornamental initials, Bonfon's device on reverse of last leaf, crushed red morocco extra, gilt on m. e. by Closs, fine copy, Paris, Jean Bonfons s. d. (Vers., [1550), small 4to. (683) Mason, £5 10S.

4988 Thier. Viellerley wūderbarlicher Thier des Erdtrichs, Mehrs und des Luffts, allen anfahenden Malern und Goldtschmieden nutzlich sampt andern Künstnern, about 240 figures of real and fabulous animals on 57 leaves (perhaps by Jost Amman), with names in Latin and German (1 leaf mended, some figures coloured) (Ashburnham, £11), Franckf. a. M., Cyriac Jacobi zum Bart, 1546, sm. 4to. (684) Mason, £5 10s. 4989 Thomas de Sancta Maria, Ord. Præd. Libro Llamado Arte de tañer Fantasia assi para Tecla como para Vihuela, y todo instrumento, en que se pudiere tauer a tres, y a quatro vozes, y a mas, musical notes and ornamental initials (some leaves stained), limp vellum, Valladolid, F. Ferd. de Cordova, 1565, small folio (686) Sefton, £13 4990 Thomaso (Eudaldo). Tratado de Esgrima a pie y a Caballo, en que se enseña por principios el manejo del Florete, etc., 16 copper-plates of fencing positions, old calf, Barcelona, N. Dorca, 1823, small 4to. (687) Tyke, £2 25. 4991 Thucydides. Histoire de Thucydide de la Guere qui fut entre les Peloponnesins et Atheniens translatee de Grec en François par Claude de Seyssel, ruled in red, fine ornamental woodcut initials, large copy with wide margins, containing numerous MS. notes by H. Zaugitz, 1591, whose name is on title, old calf, Paris, M. de Vascosan, 1559, folio (688) Amos, £29 4992 Tondalus. Libellus de Raptu Animæ Tundali et eius Visione. Tractans de Penis Inferni et Gaudiis Paradisi, lit. goth., (28 leaves), long lines, 29 to a page, without marks, 21 spirited outline woodcuts, vellum, Absque ulla nota, small 4to. (689) Ouseley, £10

[Brunet mentions only 20 woodcuts. The first is an armed figure of the Hero of the Visions, with the German Legend Tondolus der Ritter." Printed "typis Reyserianis" probably by the Brothers Hijst of Spire, circa 1480. The Ashburnham copy sold for £48. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5236.-ED.]

4993 Trithemius (Abbas Ioan.) Polygraphie et Universelle Escriture Cabalistique, traduicte par Gabriel de Collange, title within woodcut border, with portrait on reverse, revolving diagrams, ornamental initials, etc., 3 parts in 1 vol., old calf, good copy, Paris, J. Kerver, 1561, 4to. (692) Petzler, £2 4994 Tuccaro (Sr. Archange de l'Abruzzo). Trois Dialogues de l'Exercise de Sauter et Voltiger en Air, numerous woodcuts, including the large folding one, vellum, clean copy, Paris, Claude de Monstræil, 1599, 4to. (693). Toplis, £3 Is. [An excessively rare and early Treatise on the Acrobatic Art. Ashburnham copy, £10. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5243.-ED.]

4995 Turchettus (Ant.) apud Nicolaum Tronum pro eodem Gratulatoria Oratio (9 leaves), roman letter, long lines, without marks, new blue and gold-flowered boards, Patavii (Padua), Barth. de Valdezochio et Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 1472, V. Mensis Maii, small 4to. (694) Barry, £2 2s. [A very rare tract, by the same printers and with the

same date as the "Fiametta" of Bocaccio, generally regarded as the first book printed at Padua.-Catalogue.] 4996 Utino (Leonardus de). Sermones Quadrigesimales de Legibus, lit. goth., double columns, without marks, fine painted and illuminated initial on first page with marginal decoration and coat of arms below, with initials O. D. S. M. E. and date 1479, rubricated, ornamental capitals in blue and red, contemporary oaken boards, stamped ornamental leather (mended), clean copy, Venet., F. de Hailbrum et Nic. de Frankfordia, 1473, small folio (696) Dawson, £2 4s. 4997 Valerius Episcopus. Epistola ad propinquum Suum ex græco in latinum Sermonem per Rodolphus Agricola truducta, lit. goth., long lines (12 leaves), with signatures, "Finit. per me Jacobum de Breda" (Daventer, circa 1480), small 4to. (698) Dawson, £1 19s. 4998 Valturius (Robertus). De Re Militari, Lib. XII., printed in roman letter, long lines, with signatures, rubricated, large ornamental initials in red, numerous verv fine and spirited woodcuts, contemporary oaken boards, leather, stamped in small circular ornaments, fine clean copy, Verona (Boninus de Boninis], 1483, xiii. Feb., small folio (699)

Leighton, £19 15s.

[The second edition of Valturius, with woodcuts differing from those in the first.-Catalogue.] 4999 Vanegas (Alexo). Primera Parte de las differencias de Libros que ay en el Universo, primera edicion, lit. goth., coat of arms on title (some leaves wormed), buckram (Harrisse Suppl., 130), Toledo, Juan de Ayala, 1540, small 4to. (700) Dawson, £5 5s.

[This rare book is the first in which the labours of the great Spanish Cosmographer Alonso de Santa Cruz are recorded. It contains also a chapter on the geographical divisions of the World, including America, the discovery of which is attributed to Vespucci.—Catalogue.]

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5000 Varthema (Ludov. de). Itinerario nello Egitto, nella Soria, nella Arabia deserta et felice, nella Persia, etc., Le fede, el vivere et costumi . . . et al presente agiontovi alcune Isole novamente retrovate, cut on title, morocco extra, inside dentelles, gilt edges, fine copy, Vinegia, Fr. di Aless. Bindone, 1535, 12mo. (701) Deacon, £10 5s.

[See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., Nos. 5270-5272. -ED.]

5001 Vasari (Giorgio). Le Vite de piu ecclenti Architetti, Pittori et Scultori Italiani da Cimabue insino a tempi nostri, edizione prima, woodcut titles and ornamental initials, large device at end, 3 parts in 2 vol., half bound, Firenze, L. Torrentino, 1550, small 4to. (702) Quaritch, £7 17s. 6d. [This Original Edition contains passages afterwards suppressed. The Ashburnham copy sold for £125s. See BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, vol. xii., No. 5273.-ED.]

5002 Vegetius (F1.) Epitome Institutorum Rei Militaris ex Comment. Cantonis, etc.-Æliani de Instruendis aciebus a Theo

doro Latinum factum-Sexti Julii Frontini Strategematicon -Modesti de Vocabulis Rei Militaris, the four works in I vol., numerous contemporary MS. notes in margins in an Italian hand, modern stamped purple morocco, Romæ, Eucharius Silber al's Franck, 1487, 4 Kl. Feb. xv.; Kl. Martii; prima Junii; et vii. Idus Junii, small 4to. (703) Mason, £2 12s. [These four works, all printed in the same small Roman letter, in the same year, without signatures, are very rarely found together.-Catalogue.]

5003 Vegetius (Fl.) Vegecius de Re Militari, an edition containing 195 full-page woodcuts on 98 leaves, folied I-CLXXXXV, and having signatures a-q8 in 6's (printed without text), new ornamental borders, Absque nota (circa 1515), small folio (704) Leighton, £3

5004 Vegetius (F1.) Flave Vegece Rene homme noble et illustre du fait de Guerre et fleur de Chevalerie, Quatre livres; Sexte Jule Frontin, Elian, Modeste, etc., traduicts aux livres anciens (par Nic. Voleyre de Seronville), lettres bâtardes, ruled in red, numerous woodcuts and ornamental initials, brown morocco, inlaid with black ornamental scrolls on a ground au pointillé, edged with gold, with initial F. on back and crowned initial F. in centres, engraved silver bosses and clasps, gilt and red ornamental edges, a fine specimen of an imitation binding for Francis I. (Hague), Paris, C. Wechel, 1536, small folio (705) Ellis, £8 5005 Vegius (Mapheus). De fœlicitate et miseria, lit. goth., long lines (20 leaves) with signatures, “ Finis per me Jacobum de Breda Anno, 1487,” (Deventer), small 4to. (706)

Maine, £5 10s. [Campbell, 1707. Only one other copy said to be known, that in the Wolfenbuttel Library.-Catalogue.]

5006 Vespuccius (Alberigus). Mundus Novus (ad fini), "Albericus Vespucius Laurentio Petri de Mendicis salutem Plurimam dicit Epistola ex italica in linguam latinam jocundus interpretes," etc., lit. goth. (4 leaves), stamp of "Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis" on title, crushed morocco extra, inside dentelles, gilt edges by F. Bedford, Magister Johanes Otmar Vindelice impressit Auguste anno Millesimo quingentesimo quarto (1504), small 4to. (708) Delaine, £102

[A fine copy of this excessively rare edition of the Letter of Vespuccius, the first with a date. A copy sold in Arthur Young's sale in 1896 for £176. This was Mr. Tite's copy, and sold at Sotheby's in March, 1864.—Catalogue.] 5007 Vespuccius (Alberigus). Pasi Novamente ritrovati per la Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut. Et da Albertutio Vesputio Fiorentino intitulato Mondo Novo. Novamente Impresso, cut of Venice on title, modern morocco, gilt scroll frame on sides, inside dentelles, gilt edges, Venet. per Zorzo de Rusconi, 1521, small 8vo. (7c9) Hyde, £10 5s. 5008 Vespuccius. Newe Unbekanthe Landte und ein newe Weldte in kurtz Verganger zeythe erfunden (in die dewtschen Sprach gebrachte durch Jobsten Ruchamer), lit. goth.,