4333. Leggi e Memorie Venete sulla Prostituzione fino alla Caduta della Republica. Plates. Only 150 copies privately printed at the expense of the Earl of Orford (no 145). Half morocco, uncut. 4to. Venezia, 1870-72. £3 35. 4334. Leggi e Memoria Venete. Another copy (no. 146). Half morocco, uncut. 4to. Ib., 1870-72. £2 10s. 4335. Leicester (Robert Dudley, Earl of). DISCOURS DE LA VIE ABOMINABLE, Ruses, Trahisons, Meutres, Impostures, et autres tres-iniques Conversations desquelles a usé et use journellement le my Lorde Lecestre, contre l'honneur de Dieu, la Majesté de la Royne d'Angleterre, etc., traduit d'Angolis en François. Crushed red morocco, plain, inside tooled borders, gilt edges, by ChambolleDuru. Fine copy. s. I. et nom d'impr., 1585. £2 65. ¶ Very rare; a translation of "The Copie of a Letter written by a Master of Arte of Cambridge," etc., said to have been written by Robert Parsons. 4336. Leonicenus (Nicolaus). LIBELLUS DE EPIDEMIA, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Aldine edition (with leaf of errata usually wanting), some margins shaved, vellum. Small 4to. Venet., Aldus, 1497. £2 145. ¶ Extremely rare; the first Treatise published on this Malady. Syston Park copy, wanting the leaf of Errata, sold for £6 12s. 6d. 4337. Livius. HISTORIARUM QUOD EXTAT EX RECENSIONE J. F. GRONOVII. Engraved title, crushed red morocco, full gilt ornamental back, line sides, inside gilt borders, gilt on marbled edges, by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Fine tall copy. Amst., D. Elzevir, 1678. 4338. Lowndes (W. T.). BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, by H. G. Bohn. 6 vols. Half morocco. 1864. £1 Is. 4339. Lucanus. Second Aldine edition, inscription on title; “Ex dono D. L'alouette humaniss. opt. Proesidus Sedani le Chevalier de Chagny." Contemporary Venetian calf, the sides elaborately tooled in line and scroll compartments in the Grolier-Maioli manner, fleurs-de-lis and marguerites on back, gilt edges, an excellent specimen. Venet., in æd. Aldi, 1515. £7 155. 4340. Lucanus. PHARSALIA, CUM NOTIS H. GROTII ET R. BENTLEII. Old_red morocco, full gilt back, side corner ornaments, inside tooled borders, gilt edges, fine copy. 4to. Strawberry Hill, 1760. £1 145. 4341. Magallanius (F. Petrus). TRACTATUS THEOLOGICUS DE SCIENTIA Dei ad Quæstionem XIV primæ partis D. Thomæ. Contemporary Italian red morocco, with some small blue inlayings, covered with ornamental gilt tooling of small stars and scrolls, with the arms of Cardinal Altieri (afterwards Pope Clement X.) in centre, gilt edges, small 4to. Ulyssipone, J. a Costa, 1666. £5 15s. 4342. Marguerite, Reine de Navarre. L'HEPTAMERON, ou Histoires des Amans fortunez, remis en son vrai ordre par Claude Gruget. Frontispieces, autograph of "Arnauld on titles. 2 vols. Old French red morocco, full gilt floreate backs, line sides, gilt edges (Derome). Paris, J. Bessin, 1698. £5 10s. 4343. Medici (Lorenzo de'). POESIE VOLGARI NUOVAMENTE STAMPATE. Sheet O, which is usually mutilated, is perfect (but a little mended) in this copy, vellum. Vinegia, Figliuoli di Aldo, 1554. £1 145. Blue Very rare £5 55. 4344. Menagius (Ægidius). POEMATA, quarta editio auctior, emendatior. 4345. Metastasio (Abb. P.). POESIE. Large and fine paper, frontispiece and £2 6s. £3 10s. 4347. Migliore (Ferdinando Leop. del). SENATORI FIORENTINI. Frontispiece and woodcuts of arms, dedication copy to Filippo Niccolini, Marchese di Ponsacco. Bound in Italian vellum, covered in gilt fleurs-de-lis and scroll tooling, with inlaid sections and the Niccolini arms painted in centre. Firenze, 1665. 4348. Molière (J. P. B. de). Observations par M. Bret. French mottled calf gilt, Associés, 1788. EUVRES, avec des remarques Grammaticales et des Portrait and fine plates after Moreau. 6 vols. Old gilt edges, fine copy. Paris, Comp. des Libr. £2 185. 4349. Nani (Bapt.). HISTOIRE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE VENISE. Portrait. 4 vols. Old French red morocco, full gilt backs, line sides, with the arms of the Marquis de Chanaleilles on sides, gilt edges. Cologne, P. Marteau, 1682. £385. 4350. Napoleon III. DES IDÉES NAPOLÉONIENNES par le Prince Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte. First edition, portrait, autograph of the Emperor on fly-leaf, dark green morocco, with Napoleonic Bees stamped in corners and on back, imperial arms on sides, inside dentell borders, rough edges, by Petit. Paris, Amyot, 1860. £5 4351. Nostradamus (Mich.). LES VRAYES CENTURIES ET PROPHETIES, reveües et corrigées suyvant les Premières Editions, avec la Vie de l'Autheur. Frontispiece containing a view of London in the Great Fire. Crushed red morocco, full gilt floreate back, line sides, inside tooled borders, gilt edges, by Capé, fine copy of a rare edition. Amst., J. Jansson, 1668. LI 145. 4352. Noyon. STATUTS ET ORDONNANCES SYNODALES DE L'EGLISE ET DIOCEZE DE NOYON. Arms of F. de Clermont, Bishop of Noyon on title. Old French red morocco, gilt tooled back, line sides, gilt edges, with the arms of Mme. de Maintenon on sides and back (Derome), and ex-libris of St. Louis a St. Cyr in cover. Rare. Noyon, L. Mauray, 1694. £14 10S. 4353. Obsopous (Vincentius). DE ARTe Bibendi. Theses inaugurales de Virginibus, Bonus Mulier, sive de Mulieribus vel Uxoribus, etc. Editio secunda. Red morocco, plain, inside gilt borders, uncut, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet, very rare in this state. Lugd. Bat., Jo. le Mair, 1754. LI 4354. Office de la Semaine Sainte, Latin et François, a l'usage de Rome et du Paris. Nouvelle édition. Old red morocco, gilt tooled back, line sides, gilt edges, with arms and monogram of Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy, on sides and back (Derome). Paris, A. Dezallier, 1701. £4 6s. 4355. Panmure (Registrum de). Record of the Families of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin and Brechin-Barclay, etc., compiled by the Hon. Harry Maule, edited by Dr. Jas. Stuart. Portraits, views, arms, facsimiles, etc., only 150 copies printed (no. 108). Cloth gilt. 4to. Edinb., 1874. £38s. 4356. Patissier François (Le), ou est enseigné la manière de faire toute sorte de Pastisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Fine frontispiece, modern French blue morocco, back and sides tooled à petits fers, doublé with yellow tooled in line scrolls and fleurons, gilt on marbled edges, a very fine copy from 308 MS. notes £100 the Yemeniz Library (size full 5 in. by 21 in.). Amst., Chez Louys et Daniel Elzevier, 1655. The rarest of all the Elzevirs, and the summum bonum of Elzevir collectors. Mr. Benzon's copy sold in Paris, 1875, for 3,255 fr.—i.e., £130. 4357. Persius. SATYRARUM, LIB. I.; JUVENALIS SATYRARUM, LIB. V.; Sulpicia Satyra I., cum Vet. Comment. nunc primum editis ex Bibl. C. Pithoei. Old French red morocco, line sides and back, gilt edges, with arms of Charles de £4 Castellan Abbé de Saint-Epvre de Toul, and his interlaced C on back (Derome). Fine copy. Lut., M. Patissonius, 1585. 4358. Petrarcha (Fr.). LE COSE VOLGARI. First Aldine edition, stained. in margins, poor copy, with all faults. Vellum. Vinegia, Aldo, 1501. CON L'ESPOSITIONE D'ALESSANDRO VELLUTELLO, di novo 4359. Petrarcha (I1). ristampato. Woodcut title and figure of Petrarch and Laura. Contemporary Italian red morocco, the sides covered in elaborate gilt line and scroll tooling in compartments, with title "Il Petrarcha " in one centre and blank shield in the £10 155. other, gilt and gauffred edges, a fine specimen. Small 4to. Vinegia, G. Giolito, 1545. CON L'ESPOSITIONE D'ALESS. Vellutello, di novo ristam4360. Petrarcha (II). pato. Woodcut title and initials, contemporary Venetian brown morocco, with interlaced geometrical gilt ornaments of a Grolier pattern, gilt and gauffred edges, the title of the book Soneti Canzoni et Triomphi" in the centre of the upper on the under. Small 4to. Ib., 1547. £9 "di Meser Francesco Petrarcha 4361. Petronius. SATYRE DE PETRONE, par M. de Boispreaux (Du Jardin). Frontis2 vols. in I. Bright old French calf gilt, red edges, piece and vignette on title. La Haye, with the arms of Montmorency, le Maréchal de Luxembourg, and those of his first £3 55. wife, Marie Colbert de Seignelay, on sides, and devices on back. J. Neaulme, 1742. cover, 4362. Philobiblon Society. MISCELLANIES, Vols. XIV., XV. Whittingham, 1872-84. Cloth, uncut. C. £2 45. £2 35. 4363. Philobiblon Society. MISCELLANIES, Vol. XIV., XV. Cloth, uncut. Ib., 1872-84. 4364. Philomathi Musa Juveniles. Editio novissima, prioribus auctior et emendatior. Engraved title, with library stamp of Card. Albani. Old red morocco, crowned fleurs-de-lis on back, broad gilt ornamental sides, with royal arms of France (Louis XIV.) in centre, gilt edges. Folio. Paris, e Typ. Reg., 1656. £2 10S. Callimachi Hymni; OLYMPIA, PYTHIA, NEMEA, ISTHMIA; 4365. Pindarus. Dionysii de Situ Orbis; Licophronis Alexandra; Omnia Græcè (cura Aldi Manutii), editio princeps. Ruled in red, modern brown morocco, with gilt tooled line interlaced compartments and floreate scrolls, in imitation of contemporary Aldine binding, gilt and gauffred edges by C. Lewis. Fine copy (E. V. Utterson's ex-libris). Venet. in Ædibus Aldi, 1513. £1 16s. Half morocco, top 4366. Pisanus Fraxi. INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM; Catena Librorum Tacen£9 105. dorum; et Centuria Librorum Absconditorum. 3 vols. edges gilt. Small 4to. Privately printed, 1877-85. LI IS. 4367. Plinius. NATURALIS HISTORIA (CUM INDICE). First Aldine edition. 4 vols. Vellum. Venet., Aldus, 1536-35-40-38. 4368. Plinius. EPISTOLARUM LIB. X., cum comment. J. M. Catanai. Prize copy from the Jesuits' College of Catalan to P. Richelet. Bound in old red morocco, the sides covered with the monogram of Felix de Vialar, Bp. of Catalan, with the Geneva, Chouet, 1625. Bishop's arms in centre, gilt edges. 4to. £1 165. 4369. Politianus (Angelus). OPERA OMNIA, ET ALIA QUÆDAM LECTU DIGNA. Aldine edition, painted ornamental capitals in blue and red. Old English morocco, with tooled ornamental back and panels. Gilt edges (Harleian). Folio. Venet., Aldus, 1498. £4 10S. 4370. Priapus. DIVERSORUM VETERUM POETARUM IN PRIAPUM lusus. P. V. M. Catalecta. Copa., Rosæ., Culex, etc., Argumenta in Virgilii Libros et alia diver. sorum complura. Vellum. Venet. in æd. Aldi, 1517. £265. 4371. Proclus. IN PLATONIS TIMEON COMMENTARIORUM LIB. V. totius Veteris Philosophiæ Thesaurus, Græcè. Contemporary brown morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in compartments of elegant arabesque borders, the inner frame consisting of geometrical lines and scroll ornaments, with the royal arms of France in the centre, devices of St. George and Dragon, a hand holding a palin-branch, cherubic heads, a hen feeding, and on the under cover heads of Judith and Holofernes, gilt edges, the whole similar in design to the well-known woodcut titles executed by Geofroy Tory, the Printer of Bourges. Folio. Basil. Valderus, 1534. £155 A most magnificent specimen of binding from the library of Francis the First, evidently designed by Geofroy Tory, and in a perfect state of preservation. The volume forms part of the edition of Plato's whole works of the same date and printer. 4372. Prudentius. PROSPER. JOANNES DAMASCENUS. COSMUS HIEROSOLYMITANUS. MARCUS EPISCOPUS TALVONTIO. THEOPHANES (cura Aldi). The rare Aldine counterfeit. Blue morocco gilt, dotted and floreate back and sides, inside gilt, silk linings, vellum fly-leaves, gilt edges, by P. Lefebure. Fine copy. Absque nota Lugd., c. 1503. £1 25. 4373. Psalterium Græcum, cura Justini Decayde. The rare Aldine edition, finely printed in red and black, two leaves within woodcut borders, ornamental initials and headings, ruled throughout in red. Old calf gilt, small 4to. Venet., Aldus Manutius, c. 1495. £7 ¶ Sir E. Sullivan's copy sold for £11 10s., and the Syston Park for £17. Bound in the volume are 41 leaves of contemporary MS. Latin, "Orationes additæ Unicuique Psalmorum," neatly written. 4374. Rabelais (Fr.). WORKS. Translated by Urquhart, explained by Motteux, revised by Ozell. New edition, portrait and plates. 5 vols. Old red morocco, line tooled, gilt edges (Roger Payne). J. Brindley, 1750. £10 155. 4375. Rabelais (Fr.). EUVRES. Augumentée de pièces inedites, des Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, etc., et d'un nouveau Commentaire par Esmangart et Eloi Johanneau. Edition Variorum, portraits and numerous plates. 9 vols. Half morocco. Paris, Dalibon, 1823. £1 155. Bright 4376. Recueil de Romans Historiques. (Par Lenglet du Fresnoy.) 8 vols. old French calf, gilt floreate back, with devices of a crowned lozenge and a fish in each corner (Soubise ?), red edges. Lond. (Paris), 1746-7. £1 105. 4377. Redford (Geo.). ART SALES, 1628-1887. Numerous illustrations. 2 vols. Cloth, uncut. Imp. 4to. Printed for subscribers only. 1888. £3 155. 4378. Reliure (La). ANCIENNE Et Moderne. Recueil de 116 Planches de Reliures Artistiques des XVIe au XIXe Siècle. Introduction par G. Brunet. Half red morocco, gilt, royal 4to. Paris, P. Daffis, 1878. 4379. Renouard (A. A.). ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE DES ALDE. Portrait. (MS. list of some editions inserted.) Half vellum. 1834. 2 vols. £2 45. Third edition. Paris, Renouard, 4380. Responsio ad Persecutores Anglos pro Catholicis domi forisque persecu- 4383. Richardson (Sam.). HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON. 4385. Ridolfi (Cav. Carlo). LE MARAVIGLE DELL' ARTE, Vite de Pittori Veneti. 4386. Rousseau (J. J.). JULIE, OU LA NOUVELLE HELOISE. (Lettres de deux Amans). First edition. Fine impressions of the plates by Gravelot. 6 vols. Old French red morocco, full gilt floreate back, side borders of leafy tooling, with centre wreaths inclosing the motto, "Vitam impendere Vero," fancy paper linings, gilt edges. Very fine copy. Ex-libris of "Dutaillis." Amst., M. M. Rey, 1761. £56 This copy belonged to Rousseau. It was sold by Triphook to the Duke of Marlborough, at whose sale it was purchased by Mr. Heber. 4387. Sannazaro. ARCADIA. Printed upon vellum, red morocco, gilt tooled floreate back, dotted and line sides, inside gilt borders, joints, silk linings, gilt edges, by Doll (with ticket). Very rare. Venet., Aldo Romano, 1514. £10 155. ¶ Of copies printed upon vellum Renouard mentions four, all with ornamens peints; so that the present is a fifth, which he had not seen. 4388. Scott (Sir Walter). THE PIRATE. The proof sheets, with many hundred corrections and emendations in the autograph of the author. 3 vols. in 2. Calf gilt, uncut. Edinb., 1822. £86 It is well known that none of Sir Walter Scott's own autograph corrections of the novels were ever sent to press. They were sent to James Ballantyne, who transcribed them on a duplicate proof for the printer. Hence these proofs are in as good condition as when first used by the author, and have been carefully preserved by Mr. Robert Cadell, one of Sir Walter's publishers. (See Lockhart's "Life," chap. 75). 4389. Scriptores Rei Rustica (M. P. Cato, M. T. Varro, Palladius et L. J. M. Columella) ex recens. Georgii Alexandrini, etc., studio Fr. Colucia. 6 large painted and illuminated ornamental initials, capitals and running titles painted in blue and red, contemporary oaken boards covered in stamped leather. Fine copy. Regii impress. Opera et Impens. Bart. Bruschii, 1482. £4 10S. ¶ One of the earliest books printed at Reggio. On the fly-leaf is the following autograph inscription of the former owner, "Liber Johannis Kemere (sic pro |