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" Mr. Nield has given us a good piece of work, for which all lovers of historical novels and all teachers of history in schools should be grateful. ... He supplies a well-written introduction, as well as a valuable bibliography of articles and books on the subject." — Journal of Edts at fault. Napoleon was born not in 1775 but in 1769. The case illustrates the necessity of verifying references before making statements. Ed. ] Adamson (John) The Muses Welcome to the High and Mightie Prince James, woodcut portrait of King James, fo., Edinb., T. Finlason, 1618 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 7). * In this volume is contained, among numerous other pieces m verse and prose by Scottish writers, the first edition of " Forth Feasting," by W. Drummond, of Hawthornden, which was also reprinted in 4to m the same year. Admonishion to the Bishoppes of Winchester, I^ondon, and others, etc. From Roane, by Michael Wood, 1553 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 8). * Consisting of 8 leaves ; of great interest on account of its being one of the first appeals against Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and Bonner, Bishop of London, who was restored by Queen Mary, immediately after she was proclaimed in 1553. 4 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Advertisement to the Jurymen of England, touching witches, together with a difference between an English and Hebrew Witch, sm. 4/0., 1653 (Nov. 16. 1885 ; 9). * The author says that this work is occasioned by an execution of witches that had lately occurred in Kent. He endeavours to combat the belief in witches, as set forth by Perkins the Puritan and Delrio a Spanish Jesuit. ^gidius Romanus. de Regimine Principuni, fo., Venet. 1498 (Feb. 26, 1900 ; 200). * De Bure has given a long account of this work which he calls very rare ; it was written for the use of Philip le Plardi, son of Louis King of France, and Warton says, in his English Poetry, was the foundation of our ancient poet Occleve's principal poem. ^lianus de militaribus Ordinibus instituendis More Graecorum nunc primum Graece editus cura F. Robortelli, woodcuts, sm. Ato., Venetiis, apud Spinellos, 1552 (July 3, 1899 ; 34). * First separate edition. Robortelli seems to have been ignorant that the work had been printed by Vascosan in 1532, at the end of Thomas Magister. JEneas S^dvius. Pii II. Pont, Max. Asise Europae que elegan- tissima descriptio, &c. Accessit H. Glareani . . . Asiae, Africae, Europaeque descriptio, Parisiis C. Chevallonium, 1534 (Oct. 29, 1900 ; 590). * Apparently undescribed by Harrisse in Bihliotheca Americana Vetus- tissima. On the last leaf there is a reference to the discoveries of Columbus and Vespucius. ./Esopus. Fabulse, Latine et Italice, ex recensione Francisci Tup- pi, lit. rom. long lines, 39 to a full page, without signs, ruled in red throughout (168 II. including blanks), 87 large and spirited woodcuts within fine renaissance borders, the first page of text within a beautiful woodcut border of floreate scrolls and winged cherubs, sm. fo.. impressae Neapoli (s. worn, impr.) sub anno domini 1485 die xiii. Mensis Februarii (May 21, 1906 ; 15). * The First Edition of ^sop with the Italian Version, and Applications from Incidents in Italian History by Francesco Ttippo ; havi'.'g the woodcut border unfolded. Esopi Appologi sive Mythologi, cum Quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant [cum Vita ^sopi, etc.] i. g., both parts, figure of Esop on reverse of title and 190 woodcuts to first part, woodcut figure of Brant kneeling before the tree of Poetry with a book in his hand {a blank leaf dividing the first part from the second), 139 woodcuts in the second part, sm. fo., Mythologi Esopi etc. per Seb. Brant nuper revisa impressi Basilee opera ac impensa Jacobi de Phortzheim, A.D. (1501) (May 21, 1906 ; 17). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 5 * An extremely fine and tall copy of this interesting early Crerman woodcut book. It measures 12 b}'^ 8 in., and might reasonably be described as Large Paper. The woodcuts of the first part are from the blocks engraved from, the Antwerp edition of 1486. Those in the second part were added by Brant, but differ in their execution from those in the Stnltifera Navis. It probably wants the blank leaf at end for .18 36 6. .^tsopus Constructus Moralizatus & Istoriatus ad Utilitatem Discipulorum, t g. (2 types) (46 //. signs a-fQ in 8's), fine full woodcut title of a judge in office, within fine ornamental woodcut border, and 63 fine woodcuts in the text, sm. Ato. impressum Mediolani par Gotardum de Ponte {with device), 1510 (May 21, 1906 ; 18). * An edition with fine Milanese woodcuts, which appears not to have been noticed by Brunet and other bibliographers. The woodcuts are remarkable. ^sopi Vita et Fabellie et Gabriee Fabellae, Grsec. et Lat. Accedunt Phurnutus de Natura Deorum ; &c. Graece, /o., Venetiis, Aldus, 1505 (June 13, 1887 ; 9). * 150 ff. some numbered by pages, others by folios, others not at all ; the Greek and Latin text on alternate leaves. In addition to an improved text of ^Esop this volume contains first editions of Babrias,. Phurnutus, Palsephatus, Heraclides, Horapollo, and Aptho. Sir John Thorold's copy sold for £20 10s. La Vida [Y Fabulas] de Ysopo Clarissimo y Sabio Fabu- lador : nuevamente Corregida : Hystoriada : y annotada : con muchas otras fabulas de Aviano ; Pogio ; y otros autores^ 196 woodcuts, fo., Valencia, por Juan joffre, 1520 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 17). * Early Spanish editions of iEsop's Fables are of the highest rarity. Senor Jalva's splendid collection of Spanish books contains nothing earlier than 1683. The early editions mentioned by Brunet appear to have been known to him only through other catalogues ; this of 1520 he does not mention at all. In the Granville Library the only Spanish edition of ^sop is that of 1547. Affaytati (F.) Phisicse Astronomicae Considerationes, Venetiis, 1549 (June 18, 1888 ; 5). * The extraordinary rarity of this curious work is attested by Lancetti in his Biografia Cremonese, who states that in all Italy there did not exist m-ore than three copies, and that 30 Zecchini has been refused for its purchase. He also attributes to its publication the extraordinary death of the Author. Ailly, see Aliaco. Ainsworth's Magazine. Etchings by G. Cruikshank, Phiz, Buss, and others, 26 vol., 1842 (June 12, 1899 ; 8) * Among many others, it was in this publication that first appeared The Miser's Daughter, Windsor Castle, Modern Chivalry, John Manesty, St. James's, all illustrated by George Cruikshank, and containing the first impressions of the plates. ,6 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Albert (M.) Repertorium de Pravitate Haereticorum, t g., double columns, fo., Valentina, s. u. f., 1494 (Feb. 26, 1900 ; 204). * A fine example of early Spanish printing and extremely rare, as are all the productions of the Valencian press in the 15th century. It is the manual of the Inquisition in the form of an alphabetical dictionary. Contains the rare leaf D iii., missing out of two of the few copies of the book known, and supposed to have been suppressed by order of the Inquisition itself. Albertanus Causidicus opus de loquendi ac tacendi modo, (. g., double columns, title in red, large outline woodcut on reverse, woodcut initials. Impressum Cuneii per Viotum de Dulcis, 1507 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 581). * The first book printed at Cuneo in Piemont. Only 3 books r.re known from this press, the first as above, the last printed in 1510. Tractatus de doctrina et tacendi t. g., 9 leaves, long lines, 32 to the fidl page, without marks, absque ulla nota (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 213). * An undescribed edition printed in a bold gothic type. Probably editio princeps of this popular treatise, so often reprinted before the close of the 15th century. Albertinus (Franciscus de). Opusculum de Mirabilibus Novae & veteris Urbis Romae, fine copy, red morocco extra, 4io., Romae, 1510 (July 1, 1886 ; 5). * On the recto of the last leaf mention is made of Vesputius and hi.* discoveries. Albertus Magnus. Albert! Magni Theologicse Veritatis Com- pendium ab Alexandre de Ales editum, 1st Edn., sm. 4to. Venetiis, Christophorus Arnoldus, 1476 (July 3, 1899 ; 36). * Probably the rarest of all the works of Alexander Hales surnamed " the irrefragable Doctor," and unknown to Lowndes. Albizzi (R. p. Bartholomeo degli) Liber Conformitatum Vitse S. Francisci ad Vitam Jesu Christi, 1st Edn., woodcuts, fo., Mediolani per Gotardum Ponticum, 1510 (June 13, 1887 ; 13). • * (IV.) ff. X CCLVI. fl. On the verso of the engraved title is a fine woodcut, the size of the page. The Absurdities recorded, many of which are omitted in the subsequent editions, have rendered the first on account of its excessive rarity much sought after, at very high prices. The La Valliere copy sold for 450 francs, and Mr. Beckford's for £10 15s. Albonesii (Thesii Ambrosii ex comitibus) Introductio in Chal- daicam Linguam, Syriacam, Armenicam et decem alias Linguas. Characterum differentium Alphabeta circiter quadraginta. Mystica et Cabalistica. Et descriptio et simul- achrum Phagotii Afranii, woodcuts, Ato., Papise, 1539 (June 18, 1888 ; 194). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 7 * Count Albonese was the friend of the celebrated Postel, as appears from the correspondence in this very curious volume. Amongst the other curiosities is a facsimile of a letter written by the Devil to Ludovico di Spoleto. Aldenburg (Johann Georg) Brassillische/ Relation/ inn America gelegen/ Sic/h- (., 2 ff. {title and 2 pages of text), and 3 folding copper plates, fo., Augspurg, hey David Francken in Verlag Wilhalm Peter Zimnicrmanns, 1624 (June 13, 1887 ; 44). * No notice of the work can be traced. It is not in the British IMuseum and the earliest edition mentioned is the 4to printed at Coburg in 1627. The 3 folding etchings correspond with plates in Part 13 of the German Version of De Bry's Voyages, — I., Bird's Eye View of the Baya de Todos OS Sanctos ; II., INIap of the same ; III., View of the great naval fight before the city of St. Salvador. Aldery (John) Theatrum Mundi : The Theatre or Rule of the Worlde, ft. t, fo., 1574 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 207). * An interesting reference to the " Theatrum Mundi " will be found in Shakespeare' s Library. Isaac Reed had only an imperfect copy. Aleman (Matheo) The Rogue, or Life of Guzman de AHarache, trans, by Don Diego Puede-ser [James Mabbe], both parts, first edition of each, in 1 vol., Edward Blount, 1622 — printed by G. E. for Edward Blount. 1623 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 582). * Copies containing the First Edition of each Part of this first English Translation of Aleman are very rare. The first part with date 1622 is not noticed by Lowndes. Ales seu Hales (Alexander, Scotus) An Expediat Laicis, Legere Novi Testamenti libros lingua Vernacula, Ad Serenissimum Scotiae Regem Jacobum V, Disputatio inter Alexandrum Alesium Scotum, & Johannem Cochlaeum Germanum Anno dni m.d.xxxiii., editio prima, [ad fin] Ex Dresda Misniae ad Albim VI Idus Junii mdxxxiii (1533) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 17). * One of the rarest works of this celebrated Scotch Reformer. It contains the very important contemporary account of the printing of Tyndale's First New Testament. Alexander de Villa Dei. Testus alexandri cum Sententiis et Costructionibus, (. g. {two types), long lines, 40 to a full page {including the head line), 103 //. with signs, title a full-page woodcut of Master and scholars ; Pynson's large device occu- pies each side of the last leaf, sm. 4to. Libro Docirinali Alex- andri Vigilanter Correcto Richardus Pynson fine felicem imprimere Juliet Anno im mccccclxvi (1516) [sic] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 19). (a) * This appears to be the foiirth edition of this Latin School Book from Pynson's Press, the first having been printed in 1492. There is also a doubtful record of an edition of 1503. (ft) * An early Latin Grammar, from which Aldus was taught Latin, and complains bitterly of its difficulties. 8 NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S Alexander (William) The Tragedie of Darivs, sm. Ato., 1604 (May 25, 1905 ; 3). * In " Darius " are some lines similar to the celebrated " Cloud Cap't Tow'rs " of Shakespeare, and to these Mr. G. Chalmers evidently al- ludes in his " Apology." " The Monarchicke Tragedies of Lord Stirling, which must be allowed to have sentiments that sparkle, though no words that burn, were entitled to the honour of James' acceptance, and to the higher honour of Shakespeare's adoption." — See also Ingleby, p. 423. Alexis of Piedmont, The Secretes of, trans, oute of the Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde, in 3 parts, each with separate title-page, 1 vol., i). \., Ato., prynted at London by Rouland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater nosier rowe, 1562-1563 (May 18, 1903 ; 155). * This is one of the most extraordinary books of the kind, and deals in an encyclopaedic manner with all the details connected with life, science and industrial art. It is evidently the result of direct observa- tion and practice on the part of the writer, and is still capable of yielding most important suggestions to the chemist, physician, goldsmith, jewel- ler, perfumer, hairdresser, and nearly every other specialist. To give an adequate notion of the scope of this volume wotild be a task of no slight difficulty, as it, in fact, embraces every department of human knowledge at the period of the Renaissance. Some of the topics tieated are : Pharmacy. Herbs, Perfumes, Colours, Precious Stones, Wines and Liqueurs, Scented Flowers, Matches and Soaps, Tooth Powders, Pommades, Washes and Lotions for the Skin, Cookery, Fruit Preserving, Confectionery, Dyeing, Varnishing, Silvering,. Gilding, Printers' Inks of different colours. Alchemy, Philters and Potions, Poisons (so frequent a feature in the drama), Sorcery and Enchantments, Angling, Fowling, Casting of Medals, Paste Gems. There are several remarkable entries in which animals, such as the hedgehog, beaver, &c. are recommended for incineration or decoction for medical and other like purposes, and there was no contemporary authority which was so likely to have led Shakespeare, when he makes the witches in " Macbeth " mix their cauldron, as the present, which was a publication long extremely popular. This is the first complete edition. Aleyn (Charles) Historie of Henrie the Seventh, 1st Edn., port. by W. Marshall. 1638 (May 25, 1905, ; 5). * Interesting to the Shakespeare collector for the de«onption of Bos- worth Field and the character of Richard III. ; noticed by Allibone in his list of Shakespeariana. Aliaco (Petrus de) i. c. Peter d'Ailly Archeveque de Cambray et Cardinal. Ymago Mundi : Epilogus Mape Mundi et varia ejusdem Auctoris ; varia atque Joannis Gersoni Opuscula, \. g., long lines, 166 II. (2 blank) with signatures, some in the early sheets placed in the side margins, 8 large woodcut diagrams of Spheres {Hain-Copinger 836), sw. fo. Absque ulla nota [Lovanii, J. de Westphalia, c. 1483] (April 12, 1899 ; 25). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 9 * Although this book was printed before the discovery of America it possesses a considerable American interest from its connection with Columbus. It is known to have been a favourite book of study with the great Navigator, and it is supposed by many that the ideas he found in it suggested to him the feasibility of the Western Pass.Tge. Las Casas is of opinion that this author's writings had more effect in stimulating Columbus to his enterprise than those of any othei writer. This work of d' Ailly was so familiar to Columbus that he filled his own copy with Latin notes in his own hand. "' This hook," says Las Casas. " I had many limes tn my hands, and I drew from, it some things written in Latin by the said Admiral Christopher Columbus to verify certain points pertaining to his history." Washington Irving also saw and handled the volume, preserved in the Columbine Library at Seville. " It is," says he, " a most curious and interesting document, the only one that remains of Columbus prior to his discovery. It illustrates his re- searches and, in a manney. the current of his thoughts while as yet his great enterprise existed in idea only." And Mr. Major says that, amongst the sources of information which Columbus availed himself of, the " Imago Mundi " of Cardinal Pierre d' Ailly was the principal. The present copy of this interesting work is very likely the only perfect one known. The Murphy Copy was said to be imperfect. [Allot (R.)] England's Parnassus, 1st Edn., 16wo., 1600 (May 6, 1901 ; 406). * Containing extracts from Shakespeare,' Spenser, Gascoigne, Dekker, Chapman, Lodge, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Daniell, Drayton and other eminent Poets. Many not to be found in any other collection. Fine copies are very rarely met with, the last perfect copy sold in these rooms, in 1899, for £43 10s. Wits Theater of the Little World, with the rare leaf of errata, 1599 (Dec. 11,1903 ; 6). * Usually ascribed to John Bodenham., but the dedication to a copy in the British Museum is signed Robert Allot, consequently there is little doubt Allot was the compiler of Wits Theater, which is practically a prose companion to England' s Parnassus, Bodenham's connection with it being merely that of patron. Almanack. Newe Almanacke and Prognostication for the yere of Oure Lorde God mdlxxi., exactly made for the Meri- dian and Pole alike of the citie of London, and may serve for al Englande, by Thomas Buckmaster, 6. t, printed in red and black, two woodcut titles, Rich. Watkins (1571) [Date lost] * This early edition seems to be totally undescribed. An account of the Almanacks of Shakespeare's day is given in the Variorum Shake- speare, vol. X, page 117, also in Halliwell's Catalogue of Shake- speareana, 1852. Almon's Political Register, Nos. 1 to 21, May 1767 to Dec. 1768, mimerous caricature and other plates, inchtding a folding plate of Kew, and the rare one entitled "The Colonies Reduced," and its companion, by Benjamin., Franklin, 3 vol. (June 2, 1908 ;51). 10 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * These volumes are largely taken up with matters relating to the American Colonies, snch as the Proceedings at Boston, the Reduction of Manila, and the Philippine Islands, and forms an exceedingly intere5-.t- ing collection of articles, criticisms, and so forth, of the most citical period in the history of North America — the period which just pre- ceded the Revolution. Franklin's prophetic plate of " The Colonies Reduced," was realised sooner than anyone anticipated. Paul Leices- ter Ford in his " Franklin Bibliography," 1889, p. 127, says that " I have only seen one impression " of the Franklin plate. According to Lowndes (p. 1907), only 11 numbers of this periodical were published. Alonso (O Alfonso) da Cartagena, Doctrinal de los Cavalleros. Este libro se llama Doctrinal de los Cavalleros en que estan copiladas ciertas leyes e Ordenanzas que estan en los fueros e Partidas de los Reynos de Castilla y de Leon . etc. hizo e Ordeno el muy Rev. S. D. Aloso da Cartagena Obispo de Burgos, etc., (. g. (Spanish), long lines, 35 to a full page, 168//. with signs. [Hain 4538 and 6313, Haebler no. 124] fo., fine impreso este libro en Burgos por Maestre Fadrique {Biel) Alenian . . Acabose a Veynte de Junio, Ano de Mill E. cccc. and lxxx,vii (1487) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 21). * The only perfect copy known is the Salva copy in the British Museum. The book is itself little known to bibliographers, and no copy is found in the sale records. Alticozio (N.) Comedia nuova intitolata Cinque Disperati (in ottava Rima). Et un altra Comedia intitolata la Nencia (in Terzine d'incerto Autore), Vinegia, par Marchio Sessa, 1526 (June 18, 1888 ; 30). * This edition was unknown to AUacci, who mentions one printed by Pinardo, in the same year, as the earliest. Mazzuchelli mentions the Cinque Disperati of Alticozzi, but seems never to have seen any edition, as he gives no date, place, or printer's name, but merely the size. Amadis de Gaula, Los quatros Libros del effor9ado y virtuoso Cavallero, h. t., woodcuts, fo., Antonio de Salamanca, 1519 (June 18, 1888 ; 239). * Only three copies are known, one in the Oporto Library, another in the Madrid National Library {since lost), and the present. El Noveno libro de Amadis d Gaula ; que es la Cronica de muy valiete y efforgado principe y Cavallero de la ardiente espada Amadis de Grecia, etc. ; Mdxxxv., (. g., double columns, titles in red and black within woodcut ornamental border with large cut of the Knight and his Squires above the letterpress, woodcut ornamental initials, sni. fo. Impresso en Burgos, en Casa del Senor Juan de Jtmta Florentin, primera dia del mes de Julio ano de md, Y.xxxv. anos a Costa del Senor Juan de Spinosa (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 23). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 11 * Only one other copy known. The edition is only mentioned without locating a single copy, by Salva, in the Repertorio Americano ; and referred to by Brunet as cited solely on the authority of Lenglet du Fresnoy. Amadis de Gaula, Munday (Anthony) History of Amadis de Gaule, 4 parts complete with all the titles, fo., N. Okes, 1619 (May 6, 1901 ; 538). * By far the rarest of the seventeenth-century romances. Steeven's copy was purchased by Douce. Isaac Reed only possessed an imper- fect copy. One of the books used by Shakespeare whilst composing " The Winter's Tale." America. Verdadera Relacion de la Conquista del Peru y Provincia del Cuzco llamada la Nueva Castilla ; conquistada por el magnifica y efforgado Cavallero Francisco Pigarro hijo del Capitan Gongalo Pigarro Cavallero de la Ciudad de Trugillo &c. embiada a su magestad por Francisco de Xerez, &c., (. g., Sevilla, 1534 — La Quarta Relacion que Fernando Cortes Governador y Capitan General por su Magestad en la Nueva Espana del Mar Oceano embio al Rey Don Carlos en la qual estan otras Cartas y relaciones que los Capitanos Pedro de Alvarado e Diego Godoy embiaron al dicho Capitan Fernando Cortes, t g. [contains 26 //. including title, sigs. a, i) and C), Valencia 1526 — Zarate (A. de) Historia del Descu- brimiento y Conquista de las Provincias del Peru . . . Sevilla, 1577 ; in 1 vol., sm. folio (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 7). * Three exceedingly rare pieces relating to the discovery and conquest of Mexico and Peru. The Pizarro Relation appears to be the first edition. The Fourth Letter of Cortes is the second edition, and is seldom found in such excellent condition. The Zarate account of Peru is the second edition and reprint of the rare original of Antwerp, 1555. See Jacquard. Anatomic of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall, dis- sected and Laid open by one that was sometime a yonger Brother of the Convent, engraving in compartments on title of a Nun at confession, the Frier Confessor, &c. with the rare leaf of explanation, 4to., 1637 (July 1, 1889 ; 917), * A volume of Shakespearean interest, it having an important reference to Venus and Adonis. Andechs. Cronick von dem hochwirdigen und loblichen heyl- tum auff dem heyligen Perg, Andechs genant, zu obern Bayren, 4 fine woodcuts, Ato.,Augspurg, Hannsen Schonsperger [circa 1510] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 345). 12 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * This work describes the marvellous relics preserved in the Abbey of Andechs in Bavaria. Among other precious relics is a piece of the sponge in which the water mingled with vinegar was offered to our Lord on the Cross ; a piece of the bread provided "or our Lord by- Martha, at Bethany ; and other treasures of equal value. In sheet D is a large separate folding woodcut of a monstrance, and twn other reliquaries in the form of candlesticks, Anderson (Jas.) Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, 2 vol., views, portraits of John Viscount Perceval and Sir P. Perceval, and genealogical tables, 1742 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 152). * This noble family is undeniably and lineally traced for seven cen- tiaries. The principal part of this valuable genealogical work was written by the Rt. Hon. John Perceval, the fifth Baronet, and first Earl of Egmont ; he was assisted in his researches, and in methodising the first vol. by Jas. Anderson, D.D., the author of " Royal Genealo- gies," and the second vol. was revised by W. Whiston, Clerk of the Records in the Exchequer. It was printed (but not originally intended for sale) by the second Earl of Egmont.*** At modern sales the price of this work has fluctuated from 15 to 30 guineas." — Moule's Bihliotheca Heraldica. Andre (Major) The Cow Chace, an heroick poem in three Cantos, written at New York, 1780, 1781 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 540). * Published on the occasion of General Wayne's attack on the Refu- gee's Block-House on Hudson's River. Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre, New York, 1817 (June 9, 1902 ; 12). * The first edition, suppressed by the author, Egbert Benson. The work includes letters by Benedict Arnold, George Washington, &c., and effectually clears Paulding and his companions from the charges of Benjamin Tallmadge, that Andre's apprehension had for its object the plunder of his person. Andreas (Joh.) Tractatus successionum, 5e;m-C}0tbiC \tXXtX,half bound, Ato., s. I. a. d. [sed Parisiis, Petrus Caesaris & Johan- nes Stoll, c. 1475] (Feb. 17, 1897 ; 25). * Klemm says in his Bibliographic Catalogue, page 381, that the pro- dt^ctions of Petrtis Cesaris and Joh. Stoll are rarer than those of Gering, Crantz and Friburger. Andreino (G. B.) L'Adamo Sacra Rapresentatione, port, of An- dreino and 40 engravings by Cesar e Bassani, sni. Ato., Milano, 1613 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 351). * From this work Milton is supposed to have taven his idea of writing his Paradise Lost, but so little was this rare drama formerly known in England that its very existence was denied by Mr. Mickle on the authority of Italian Literati, who declared that no such author as Andreino was known in Italy. Mr. Edwards's copy sold for £15 Angeli a S. Francisco, Certatnen Seraphicum Provincise Angliae pro Sancta Dei Ecclesia, engd. title and 5 portraits, sm. 4to., Duaci, 1649 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 352) NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 13 * A copy in these rooms, in 1816, sold for £17, and one at Evans's, in 1817; for £9 9s. The portraits are those of John Bulloker, Francis Bell, Henry Heath, Christopher Colman, and Martin Woodcock, four of whom were put to death for their religion in the reign of Charles I. Angelo da Picitone. Fior Angelico di Musica : nuovamente composto, sm. Ato., Vinegia, Agostino Bindoni, 1547 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 2191). * The author of this volume, a Franciscan, was born in the little town of Piccighittone, near to Cremona. Although he was looked upon as one of the most celebrated organists of his time the above volume is little known to bibliographers, and is apparently his only work. Angliae Fairfaxismos ; ou Tyrannic Angloise, contenant I'Exe- cution inouyie du Roj^ Charles Stuart, ses Conseilliers et Noblesse, portraits, plate of the execution and engraved title, by Pierre Huberts, smAto., Rouen, 1649 (Nov. 16, 1885 ;912). * An excessively scarce tract, written by a Royalist. The seven beautifully engraved portraits are of Charles I., Fairfax, Cromwell, Charles II., Lord Strafford, Archbishop Laud, and Marquis of Hamilton The title is surrounded by a border containing seven portraits, in small ovals, and is engraved by the same artist as the portraits, Pierre Huberts or Peter Huybrechts. The book appears to be altogether i-.n- described by Lowndes, and to have been known to Brunet only through the copy in the Hibbert Library. It consists of 44 pages, or signs. A-F2 in fours, including the engraved title. The engraver, Peter Huybrechts or Huberts, is unmentioned by either Nagler or Bryan. Anglorum Speculum, or the Worthies of England in Church and State . . . wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the Conquest, also the Trade, &c. of each County, 1st Edn., T. Passinger, 1684 (May 6, 1901 ; 109). * An abridgment of Fuller's Worthies with some important additions ; the authorship is given in Halkett and Lang to George Sandys, but Sandys was dead over forty }-ears before the book made its appearance. Under the heading " Warwickshire," (page 831) will be found a very interesting notice of Shakespeare, where it says : " His learning being very little, Nature seems to have practised her best rules in his pro- duction " ; it also refers to the " witty combates betwixt him and Benjamin Jonson, who (like a Spanish gallion) was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performance ; whilst Shakespeare (like an English man-of-war, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing) could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Aunalia Dubrensia upon the Yearly Celebration of Mr. Robert Dover's Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills, front., Ato., 1636 (July 1, 1889 ; 919). * Of great Shakespearean interest as helping to show the probable date of the composition of the " Merry Wives of Windsor," wherein one of the characters calls a stout fellow a Cotswold man, these games being founded in the reign of James I. Contains verses by Drayton, Ben Jonson, Marmion, Hey wood, etc. 14 ; NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S Anne of Cleves. Repudio Delia Reina Anna d'lnghilterra, Sorella del Duca di Cleves, & difesa sua con molta eloquentia in ver po il Re, tradotta di Franzese dal Cap. Gio. Battesta dei Grillandari, 4to., Bologna, 1558 (May 6, 1901 ; 198). * Account of the divorce of Anne of Cleves, whom her royal husband ungallantly described as a " Flanders mare." Answere to Papystycall Exliortacyon, pretendynge to avoyde false doctryne, under that colour to mavnteyne the same (ctVcfl 1548) (May 18, 1903 ; 11). * Of this tract (in verse) Mr. Hazlitt (Fugitive Tracts, 1875, First Series) observes : " This is a production of Edward Vlth's tim.e, and was from the pen of a reformer. Of the two copies known to be in existence, one is at Lambeth, and the second was in a volume sold among Mr. Inglis's books four years ago (1871, no. 1138). From the Answer above we learn that a piece, also in verse, was published with the title of An exhortation to avoid false doctrine, and the original and the reply are here published, we see, in alternate paragraphs." The present is Mr. Inglis's copy above-mentioned. Anthologia Grseca Literis Capitalibus (cura J. Lascaris), 4io., Florentics, Laurentium Franc, de Alo-pa, 1494 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 327). * " The first and tlie most beautiful of all the publications, printed in CAPITAL LETTERS, which came from the press of Laurentius de Alopa." — Bihl. Spenc. Antidote against Melancholy : made up in Pills composed of Witty Ballads, Jovial Songs and Merry Catches, engraving on title, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, small Ato., 1661 (June 26, 1885 ; 35). * See long note on fly-leaf respecting this Shakespearean Book, in which are two catches mentioned by Shakespeare, and another catch the first verse of which commences " Wilt thou be fatt, He tell thee how," and concludes " Drink off thy sack, twas only that Made Bacchus and Jack Falstafe, Fatt, Fatt." Antidotharius in the whiche thou mayst lerne howe thou shalt make many and dyvers' noble plaesters, salves, oyntemintes, powders, bawmes, oyles, and wounde drynkes, the whiche be verye necessarye, and behovefuU, utyle and profytable for every Surgyan, therin to be experte, and ready at all tymes of nede, i). \., woodcut on title. Imprynted by me Robert Wyer [n. d.] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 360). *0f this extremel}' curious little compendium of the medical knowledge of the day few copies appear to have escaped the wear and tear they might be expected to undergo. Herbert says : " It seems to have been from these little cheap physical treatises,which perhaps sold for an halfpenny at most for a penny, that the old v^'omeu were furnished with their nos- trums." NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 15 [Antoine de S. Denis] Les Comptes du Monde Adventureux, par A. D. S. D., A Lyon, par Benoist Rigaud, 1571. (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 366). * This volume contains 54 novels, 19 of which are taken from the Novelle of Massaccio, three are an imitation of the Petit Jehan de Saintre, three from the " Anciens Fabliaux," while two are from the Proverbi of Fabrizio. Antoninus (Archiepisc. Florent.) Confessionale volgare intitolato Spechio di Coscienza, t. Q., long lines, fine outline Florentine woodcut on title, Ato., sine nota {Florentice, c. 1490) (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 279). * Unknown to Hain, but recorded in Copinger's Supplement, No. 509. The woodcut is one of the earliest of the Florentine school. Summa Confessionum seu Interrogatorium pro simplicibus confessoribus, t. g., 132 II. long lines, 27 to a page, without marks, rubricated, capitals painted in red, sm. Ato. Absqtie ulla nota [Colon. U. Zell, 1469 (?)] (April 12, 1899 ; 43). * A rare edition, unknown to Brunet, Hain, Copinger, &c. Tractatus de Instructione, seu directione simplicium Confes- sorum, editum a dno Antonino arcpo. florentino ; (. g. (143 II.) long lines, 28 to a full page, without marks {Hain, 1163), sm. Ato. Absque nota [sed Mogunt. Fust & Schoeffer] (June 11, 1900 ; 48). * An extremely rare edition of the Summa, printed by Fust and Schoeflfer with the same types as the Durandus of 1459 Tractate Volgare di frate Antonino arcivescovo di Firenze che i intitolato, Curam illius habe, lit. rom. long lines, with signs. {Hain, 1214), very fine outline Florentine woodcut of the author writing, on title, and another of the same absolving a Penitent on reverse of last leaf, sm. Ato. impresso in Firenze per Ser Lorenzo de Morgiani & Janni di Piero de Maganza oggi questo di XXIII. de Maggio, 1493 (May 21, 1906 ; 39). * An extremely rare edition, vide R. Fisher's History of Early Italian En- graving ; Delaborde, Graviire en Italie ; and Griiger Ecriis de Jerome Sa- vonarola, 1871, where the title-woodcut in this copy is introdiiced. Antonio da Siena. Inconmincia el libro intitulato Monte Sancto di dio. Composto da messer Antonio (Bettini) da Siena Rever- endo Vescovo di fuligno, della Congregatione de poveri jesuati, lit. rom. long lines, 32 to a full page (131 II.) with signs. [Hain 1276], full-page copperplate engraving before the text ; leaf con- taining a full-page plate of the Saviour {in facsimile) ; half -page engraving below the text on p. 7, fo. per me Nicolo di Lorenzo dellamagna Florentie x die mensis Sept. A. 13. 1477 (Mar. 24, , 1909 ; 618). ... 16 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * The first dated volume with copperplate engravings. These are after Botticelli's designs ; and the half-page engraving " The tortures of the damned " is very similar to one of the designs in the Inferno in the Botti- celli Dante of 1481. Antonio (F.) Apologia Veritatis ilkisescentis pro Auro Potabili, vellum, J ohannem Legatt, 1616 vJ^ly 1, 1889 ; 200). * Curious and interesting for the names of contemporary Englishmen, their counties frequently named." — Note by Mr. Halliwell Phillips. Apian US (Petrus) Cosniographicus Liber, 1st Edn., 1.%., woodcuts of ■ spheres, &c., sm. Ato. excusum Landshutae typis ac fnrmulis D Jo.Weyssenburgers, impensis Petri Apiani, 1524(June 11,1900; 49). * Contains at end 3 leaves not mentioned by Brunet, headed "Appendix," with signature X 1,2,3. containing a sphere with volvelle and 2 other cuts with date at end, " Liber . . finis 1524." Editio alia annotationibus marginalibus illustrata, woodcuta and diagrams with volvelles, sm. Ato. Colonics AgrippincB, 1574 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 370). * This edition has a folding map of the world with the whole of America laid down, and a chapter descriptive of America is added. Inscriptiones Sacrosanctae vetustatis non illse quidem Ro- manae, seu totius fere Orbis summo studio ac maximis impensis Terra Mariquae Conquisitae, &c , sm. jo. IngoJdt. P. Apianus, 1534 (April 12, 1899 ; 44). * This copy contains the leaf with the woodcut map in 1 2 large spherical sections containing America, first executed about 1518, before it was cut up for the intended globe, 13 inches in diameter. It is said only 3 other copies are known of the map in this state. Apocalypsis Jesu Christi. Hoc est Revelatione fatta a Sancto Gio- hanni evangelista, cum nova expositione ; in lingua volgari coposta per el reverendo theologo & angelico spirito frate Frederico Veneto, Ordinis Predicatorum ; cu chiara dilucidatione a tutti soi passi ; printed in peculiar upright italic letters, double columns, title in red and black gothic, within a fine lace border, ornamental lace initials, 2 parts in 1 vol., 16 fine full-page cuts, including a large cut in the middle of the title of the part containing the cuts ; sm. fo. nova- mente deducte in luce per Alexandro Paginino in Venetia del 1515 adi. VII. de Aprile (May 21, 1906 ; 44). * Of the designs most bear the monogram of Zoan Andrea. One (Figura Decima) has his name in full (" Zoya Adrea "). They are copied from the " Apocalypsis cum figuris " of Albert Diirer. Five of the large unsigned cuts are by Domenico Campagnola, one being an original design by him, the others are free copies from the Apocalypse of Diirer, in which the peculiar charac- teristics of Campagnola are sufficiently evident. The work is undescribed by Brunet, the first part is slightly alluded to by Passavant, and the second by Grsesse. The description given in the Supplement to Brunet reads as if both parts were one single work. The separate title to the woodcuts reads : " Apocalypsis Jhesu Christi-Fluctuabit sed non demercetur," the cut on title being the Storm in the Sea of Galilee " Master save us or we perish." NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 17 Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, 48 leaves printed from wooden blocks, the cuts printed in colours and the xylographic text in brown ink {fourth impression according to Mr. Sotheby — Principia Typographica, Vol. I., p. 21), fo. sine tdla nota circa 1430 (June 13, 1887 ; 511). * This extraordinarily curious volume is generally considered as the second attempt in xylographic printing, the priority being given to the Ars memor- andi. Block Books are supposed to have preceded by nearly 25 years the discovery of printing with metal types, and the workmanship is attributed to the press of Lawrence Coster at Harlem, The acquisition of a complete Block Book is a feat worthy of the keenest bibliophile, as the likelihood of one occurring within a life-time is very problematical, and the chance of its purchase by a public library almost a certainty. The Apocalypsis next to the Biblia Pauperum is perhaps the most interesting, and the price paid proves it. Didot's copy sold for 14,500 francs (;£540), and Weigel's for 3110 thalers (;f466 10s.) Apollonii (Levini) De Peruviae Regionis, inter Novi Orbis Provincias celeberrimae, Inventione, et Rebus in eadem gestis, libri V., map, Antv., J. Bellerus, 1567 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 20). * Divided into 5 books, detailing successively the first expeditions of Pizarro and Almagro into the interior of Peru, the battles between Pizarro and the Inca Atabila, the siege of Cuzco, the arrival of Alvarado, his junction with Almagro, and their differences with Pizarro. In the last book the author gives an account of the mission of the Licentiate Gasca to Peru to pacify the country the execi:tions that he ordered, and the death of Pizarro. Apprentices Advice to the XII Bishops lately accused of high Treason (in verse), sm. Ato. Printed in the new yeare of the Bishop's feare, 1642 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 378). * This piece is usually classed among the works of John Taylor, the Water- poet, but it certainly cannot be by him, as he was a strong Royalist, and this is a most violent attack on the Bishops, and a defence of the Puritans. Aquinas — See Thomas. Aravjo (Juan Mart, de) Manual de les Santos Sacramentos en el idioma de Michuacan. sm. Ato. Mexico por la Viuda de Juan de Ribera, 1690 (Nov. 5, 1896 ; 5). * One of the rarest works in Tarascan, a Mexican Indian dialect. Not cited by Antonio or Pinelo, but there was a copy in the Fischer sale which sold for £7 17s. 6d The author was for tliirty years cure in the districts of Pan- guarchuarto. Arden of Feversham. The | Lamentable | and Trite Tragedy [ of Master Arden of | Feversham in Kent : | (36 //. including title, sigs. A-I), sm. Ato. E. Allde, 1633 (June 4, 1908 ; 618). * The Third Quarto Edition of this interesting play, which has been attri- buted to Shakespeare, and in which he was probably partly concerned. There is a full-page cut of the murder of Arden, while playing backgammon, on reverse of title. The two earlier editions of the play are practically un- obtainable. 18 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Aremberg (Carolo de), Flores Seraphici, sive Icones, Vitae, et Gesta Virorum illustrium ordinis fratrum minorum S. Francisci Capu- cinorum, qui ab Anno 1525 usque ad Annum 1612 in eodem Ordine Miraculis, ac vitse sanctimonia claruere compendiose descripta. 2 vols., 1st edn., with heautiftdly engraved title-pages and upwards of 180 engraved plates of Franciscan Fathers, each occupying an entire page, fo. Colonics, 1640-42 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1407). * An invaluable book for the history of the Franciscan Order. The portraits are of full-length size, with backgrounds containing scenes relating to the life and works of the father represented. Among them we find Benedict Canfeld, an Englishman, and Father Archangel, a member of the noble Scottish family of Gordon. Aretino (P.) Cortigiana Comedia, woodcut portrait after Titian, Ato. Venetia, F. Marcolini per Sabio, 1534 (Jun. 18, 1888 ; 435). * Casali pronounces this first and rarest edition Earissitua. The date 1534 is correct. Brunet gives it erroneously MD.LXXXXIIIL, that origin- ally printed is 1544, but one X in all copies has been designedly scratched out by the printer as an error. It was evidently printed in the same year as the Sette Salmi and in the same type. Passione di Giesu, con due canzoni, 4to. Vinegia, F. Marcolini per Sabio, 1534 (June 18, 1888 ; 437). * Pronounced by Casali " Rarissima. " The work was unknown to Fontanin Zeno, Mazzuchelli and biographers of Aretino. Argote de Molina (Gonz.) Historia del gran Tamorlan, fo. Sevilla, 1582 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 440). * The real author of this romance was Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo ; Argote is only the editor and author of the explanatory discourse mentioned in the title-page " Ouvrage tr^s recherche des curieux." says De Bure. Sold at Mr. Dent's sale for ;g22 lyibro della monteria | qve mando escrevir | el mv}' alto y mvy ponderoso | Rey Don Alonso de Castilla, y de Leon, | Vltimo deste nombre. | Acrecentado por Goncalo Argote de Molina | 34 woodcuts, sm. fo. Sevilla, 1582 (Dec. 6, 1905 ; 179). * Amongst the additions made by Argote there are accounts of sport in Mexico and S. America, and bull-fighting in Spain, with illustrations. Ariosto (h.) I Suppositi Comedia. in Venetia, 1596 (Mar 21, 1905 ; 324). * Mr. Hazlitt states that Shakespeare has shown an acquaintance with Ariosto's / Suppositi, the results of which are seen in The Winter's Tale and The Taming of the Shrew. Orlando Furioso, con cinque canti d'un nuovo libro, &c., wood- cut title and many beautiful woodcuts and pictorial letters, fo. Lione 1556 (July 29, 1901 ; 325). * A very early and important edition. At the end is a vocabulary of words by L. Dolce. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 19^ Ariosto (ly.) Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, by John Harington, fo. Richard Field, 1591 (April 18, 1904 ; 206). * First Edition. Contains a reference to the play of Richard the Third r "... and for tragedies, to omit other famous tragedies ; that, that was played at S. John's in Cambridge of Richard the 3 would move (I thinke) Phalaris the tyraunt, and terrifie all tyranous minded men, fro following their foolish ambitious humours, seeing how his ambition made him kill his brother, his nephews, his wife, beside infinit others ; and last of all, after a short and troublesome raigne, to end his miserable life, and to have his body harried after his death." Field printed the first of Shakespeare's writings, Ven-us and Adonis. On the 2nd of August, 1592, John Shakespeare (the Poet's father), was one of the number of persons employed to value the goods of Henry Field, a tanner of Stratford-on-Avon, and the father of the above- mentioned printer. Aristoteles. Ethicorum libri x per Leonardum Aretinum in Latinum translati, lit. semi-QOt\i. long lines, 25 to a full page, signs. t[-'^6in 8's (a i blank), sm. Aio. Impressum Oxoniis Anno dni MCCCCIvXXIX (1479) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 32). * The Second Book printed at Oxford, attributed to Theodore Hunt, of Cologne, and the First with a Certain date. It was formerly in the Spencer, then in the Bright and Ashburnham libraries. It was sold in the sale of the latter in 1897, and no other copy has occurred for sale since. Only seven other copies are known, all in public libraries, except that at Wilton. Armin (Robert) The Valiant Welshman ; or Life and Valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, woodcut front., sni. Ato. 1663 (May 25, 1905 ; 9). * This play first appeared in 1615, and Douce says that much of the first scene of Hamlet has been imitated in The Valiant Welshman. See his Ilhi- trations of Shakespeare, vol. II., p. 261. Arnold (Edwin) Feast of Belshazzar, First Edition, 1852 (Dec. 3^ 1900 ; 457). * Sir Edwin Arnold's first publication (Richard) Chronicle, ft. t. \N a place or date, hut printed at Antwerp hy John Doesborch about 1502] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 393). * First Edition The earliest chronicle of the City of London ; but though professedly a chronicle, it is in fact a most cuious medley of various matters, and contains among other things the Ballad of the Nut Brown Maid, which is said to be the earliest printed ballad in the English language. Arraignement of the Whole Creature, at the Barre of Religion, Reason and Experience, engd title by Droeshout, with poetical explanation opposite, 4to. B. Alsop, 1631 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 280). "■ Containing references to many well-known authors, including Bacon, Burton Marlowe, Montaigne, Holinshed, Purchas, Sandys, Raleigh, Spenser, and others, and at page 44 there is a mention of " or then wanton Venus wit/i Adonis in the Fable." •20 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Arrowsmith ( ) The Reformation, a Comedy, 1st Edn,, sm. Ato. 1673 (May 25, 1905 ; 8). * " We have some three or four, as Fletcher, Johnson, Shakespear, Davenant that have scribbled themselves into the bulk of follies and are admired to, biTt ne're knew the laws of heroick or draniatick poesy, nor faith to write true English neither." — See pp. 46-7. The author was a Master of Arts of Cambridge. Ars Memorandi. Memorabiles Evangelistarum Figurse Hexastichon in memorabiles evangelistae figuras (per »Seb. Brant), (17 II.) 15 fine full-page woodcuts symbolic of the four evangelists, sm. Ato. PhorccB, Thos. Anshelmus, 1502. (May 21, 1906 ; 52). * The First Edition of these extraordinary woodcvits, and one of the earliest books printed in Pforzheim by the first printer in that city. Rationarium Evangelistarum omnia in se Evangelia prosa, versu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens, 15 targe and curi- ous wood-engravings, Ato. [Hagenoce] 1522 (Nov. 16,1885 ; 396). * This very curious work was composed in the iliddle Ages, and originally appeared as a Block-book, but of that impression only five or six copies are known to exist. By means of the fifteen very ingenious wood-engravings one is supposed to be able to remember all the events in the Gospel historj'. Ars Memorativa. Hie nach volget ein Loblich Biichlin. Zu latein genant Ars memorativa gar mit vil selzamen schonen figuren von kiinstlicher gedachtnus, with 65 most curious woodcuts on 13 pages, sm. Ato. [O.o.o.j. 1490] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 398) * This remark.'ible little book appears to be entirely imknown to biblio- graphers. It is an entirely different work from the " Ars Memorandi " des- cribed above, of which several editions were printed, beginning with that in the form of a block-book and ending with that of Hagenau in 1 522. The present voulme has neither the name of place where printed, nor date of execution, but was most probably executed at Augsburg about 1490. It consists of 14 leaves, the first being blank on the recto, but having on the verso a large woodcut of a philosopher instructing a yo\ith ; the next thirteen pages are occupied by the text, printed in long lines, twenty-seven to a full page, the title being at the top of page 3. The remaining pages, thirteen in number, are occupied by sixty-five emblematic woodcuts, each about 2 inches square, five of them on a page ; the significatic ns being expressed on each in a single word, as ' Wasser,' ' Lufft,' ' Kalt,' ' Warm,' &c. These woodcuts are most curious ; though rough in execution, there is a quaint humiour in the designs which renders them exceedingly interesting. Ars Moriendi ex Variis Scripturarum Sententiis collecta cum figuris, i. g., long lines, full-page xylographic woodcuts, absque nota {Lip- sicB, Conrad Kachelofen, c. 1485) (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 553). * A little known edition, with remarkable woodcuts. This copj' sold for ^8 in the Weigel sale at Leipsic in 1872 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 21 Ars Numerandi. " Incipit Copendiosus tractatulz quin-tupliciu diconu numeraliu in quo docetz. luculet ' quo ordiant' variatur, Cponentz et abinuicem derivatur drictiones numerales, (. g. {contracted) (5 II.) long lines, without marks, sm. Ato. Opusculum Puu de dcoibz niieralibz finit absque nota [14 — j (May 21, 1906 ; 53). * Libri thought it was the earliest book on Arithmetic, and attributed it to the press of Ukic Zell, c. 1471 . In the Supplement to Brunet, it is attributed to the Brothers of the Common Life at Wiedenbach, Cologne, It is neither in Hain, Brunet or Proctor. See Proctor, Italian Books in B.M. Arsanes. Orations of Arsanes agaynst Philip the Trecherous Kyng of Macedone, &c. ; b. i. {collation A to K in eights). John Daye, n. d. (May 16, 1901 ; 17). * The volume is presumed to be perfect, and it agrese with Mr. Hazlitt's collation, 2nd series, 1882, as set out above, but as it is altogether diiTerent from, that given by Lowndes [who states that there were three editions printed by Day) it will be sold with all faults. Arundel (Earl of) — See Fenton. Ascham (Roger) The Schoolemaster ft. (.; Ato. A. Jeffes, 1589 (July 28, 1903 ; 108). * The peculiar snd interesting circumstances under which so eminent a personality as Ascham, intimately associated with some of the most learned personages of his day, produced this famous book, are so well known, that it is only necessary to repeat that it was a treatise drawn vip by the author at the request of one of his distinguished friends, and was designed for the use and guidance of tutors in noble families, rather than as an ordinary school- book. For som^e unexplained reason the present edition is the rarest, though not the earliest, and is a particiilarl}' desirable copy with the printer's device on a separate leaf at the end. A long account of the Shakespearean interest of this volume is given by Dr. Drake. Asplund (John) Annual Register of the Baptist denomination in North America, dated Southampton Countv, Virginia, Julv 14, 1791 , 70 pp. [Richmond, Virginia, 1791 ?J (Oct. 29, 1900 ; 635). * This work as first issued ended at page 57, Afterwards page 57 was can- celled and an appendix added (pp. 58-70) containing a list of the Baptist Churches in England. &c. Assiento : or Contract for Allowing the Subjects of Great Britain the lyiberty of Importing Negroes into Spanish America, sm. Ato. 1713 (Nov. 16, 1885 ;411). * In the first article it is agreed that the English Government shall import into America 144,000 Negroes in ten years. In the same vol. is contained A treaty between Q. Anne and Lewis XlVth, 1713. A treaty of commerce, 1713. Treaty of commerce between Lewis XIV. and Holland, 1714. De- claration of rights of British Merchants in Sicily, 1713. Treaty of Commerce between Q. Anne and Philip V. of Spain, 1714, &c. 122 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Astesanus de Ast. Summa de Casibus Conscientise, lit. semi-QOthm double columns, 56-57 lines, headings in small gothic capitals, rude outline woodcut of " Salvator Mundi," on last leaf, fo. Colonics, H. Quentell, 1479, // Kl. Sept. (Nov. 17, 1902 ; 141). * Probably the first book printed by Henry Quentell in Cologne. Auctoritates Decretorum — ,See Calderinus. Augustinus (S.) Arte Predicandi, 21 //. with 39 lines to a page, com- mencing on verso of f i, fo. Sine nota [sed Argent. Mentelin, circa 1460) (June 13, 1887 ; 228). * Very valuable as it enables us to identify the printers of the Virgil, Terence and Valerius Maximus, they being printed with the type used for the first two lines of fol. i. The name of Mentelin occurs in the Prologue, wherein is indicated that the printing was consigned to " discreto viro Johanni Mentelin Incole Argetenesi impressorie artis magro. " " Canon pro recommendacione huius famosi Operis sive libelli sequentis. de arte Predicandi Sancti Augustini," Editio Prima, \. g., parva, long lines, 39 to a full page (21 //.) without marks, rubri- cated throughout {Hain *\955), fo. absque ulla nota [sed Argent. Jo. Mentelin, c. 1465 ] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 38). * Called the " Redo " edition, because the text commences (as above) on the Recto of the first leaf. This copy has the rubricator's date at end : " 1469 ultima Augusti." The printer's name occurs on the second page of the Pro- logue, where the printing of the treatise is assigned to " discreto Viro Johanni Mentelin incole argetensi impressorie artis magistro." " Canon pro. recommendacione huius famosi Operis sive libelli se- quentis. de arte predicandi sancti augustini," Editio Prima, l.Q., parva, long lines, 39 to a full page, rubricated throughout (22 II. the last blank), without marks {Hain*l956). sm. fo. ib. {c. 1465). (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 39). * This is called the " Verso " edition, by reason of the text beginning on the Verso of the first leaf, the recto being blank. The two lines forming the title are in a different type ; otherwise the edition is the same as the above. " Canon pro recommendacione huius famosi Operis sive libelli sequetis. de arte Predicandi Sancti Augustini," Editio altera, l. g., parva, long lines, 40 to a full page, rubricated, fo. absque nota [sed Joannes Fust Moguntia, c. 1466] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 40). * The book has no imprint ; but in the Prologue the name of " discreto Viro Johanni fust incole magimtinensi impressorie artis magistro " as the person to whom the printing of the work has been committed. El Alma del incomparable San Augustin sacado del cuerpo de sus confessiones. Colegida por la Illustrissima Senora Dona Anna Condessa de Argyl, 4to. Amberes, 1662 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 578). * " The collector of these sentences from St. Augustine was the Lady Anne Douglas, daughter of William Earl of Morton, first (?) wife of Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll, who was beheaded. The book, of which I never any other copy, appears, from the arms on the covers, to have belonged to Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II. I bought it at the sale of Ph. Carteret Webb's Library in 1771. — Hor. Walpole." Autograph Note. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 23 Augustinus (S.) De Consensu Bvangelistarum, fo. Langingen, 1473 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 249). * The only known book printed at Laningen, in Bavaria, in the fifteenth cen- tury, and which Panzer thinks to have been executed by an itinerant printer, rather than by one settled in this town. Homilie beati Augustini et prinio de eo quod psalmista ait Quies est homo qui vult vitam et cupit videre dies bonos, (. (j., long lines, 27 to a full page, Ato. absque nota, sed Colonics, U. Zell de Hanau, c. 1467 (Feb. 27, 1899 ; 1791). * A very early example of the first Cologne press, to which Holtrop assigns the date of 1467. L/iber de Anima et Spiritu ; de ebrietate, ad Virgines de sobrie- tate et ebrietate, de Quatuor Virtutibus Caritatis, de contricione Cordis, de Vanitatibus Saeculi, et de Vita Christiana, lit. rom. (76 //.) long lines, 24 to a page, without marks [Hain 1964) sm Ato. s. I. et nom, impress. 1472 (April 12, 1899 ; 62). * Attributed by Laire to G. Zainer, but by Panzer to an Italian press. All the pieces are in the same small roman character, and the date is found at the end of the tract ad Virgines. lyiber Prelocutionis de Contemplatione, t. Q. (14 //.) long lines, 31 to a page, without marks, first leaf slightly defective {wormed), {Hain 2102), sm. fo. Absque ulla nota (April 12, 1899 ; 64). * Said to have been printed in the monastery of Schassenried, c. 1478, but not so thought by Hain. lyiber de Vita Christiana (20 II. 1 blank), 28 lines, et de Singularitate Clericorum (35 U. 2 blank) 27 lines, \. g., both pieces printed with the same types, sm. Ato. Per me Olricum zel de hanau clericttm diocesz. Moguntinens. anno 1467 (June 11,1900 ; 64). * One of the earliest dated specimens of Ulric Zel's Press, with the pin holes. Soliloquii di Sancto Augustino Volgari, Ato. Firenze MLXXXXI. {sic for 1491) (July 11, 1894 ; 173). * The first Italian translation of the Soliloquies of S. Augustin was unknown to Brunet and other bibliographers. It is finely printed in Roman Letters, containing signatures a-/4 in 8's. Of the Citie of God, with the lyearned Comments of Jo. lyod. Vives, Englished by J. H. (John Healy), 1610 (Dec. 7, 1905 ;399). * Dedicated ":to the Honourable Patron of the Muses and Good Mindes, Lord William Earle of Pembroke, etc. by Th. Th." This (says Mr. Sidney Lee) is the same T. T. (Thomas Thorpe) who dedicated Shakespeare's Son- nets the previous year to " W. H." whom many suppose to be William Her- bert, Earl of Pembroke. Ausmo (N. de) Liber qui dicit Supplementum ; g. (., printed on vellum double columns, 45 lines to a full column, without numerals, signa- tures or catchwords, fo. Venetiis, Bartholom^iis Cremonensis, 1473 (Dec. 11, 1903 ;232). 24 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * A splendid specimen of Venetian printing on velliim in the earliest days of typography. Probably unique, at any rate we are unable to trace the existence cf another copy on vellum. Hain never saw a copy, even on paper. Coppinger gives a full collation but makes no mention of any copy on vellum, nor does it occur in Van Praet's elaborate catalogue of books printed on vellum. [Austin (S.)] Naps upon Parnassus, 1658 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 422). * Warton, in his History of English Poetry says of this little volume, " In an old miscellany quaintly called ' Naps upon Parnassus ' printed in 1658, there is a recital of the most excellent English poets, but there is not a syllable of the writer of L' Allegro, II Penseroso, and Comus." Avery (David, Chaplain to Col. Sherburne' s Regiment) The Lord is to be Praised for the Triumphs of His Power, a sermon preached at Greenwich in Connecticut, on the 18th of December, 1777, being a general Thanksgiving through the United American States. Norwich (Conn.), Greene and Spooner, 1778 (June 9, 1902 ; 17). * The preface is dated " Camp at Fish- Kill 2nd March 1778." The sermon contains an interesting account of some events of the Revolution, and the author says it " was first composed for the particular use and instruction of soldiers." Aviendo entendido la materia que se controvierte sobri si se debe fortificar la boca del Rio de la ensenada del Dariel, y el desem- barcadero del Playon en el parage de los Cagos de las Cabacas, &c. • — Aviendo prevenido en el Papel antecedente la mejor forma de assegurar los Puertos, &c. 4io. s. I. a. a. (July 17, 1895 ; 102). * Written about 1 94 and printed in America, these two rare tracts, not mentioned by Pinelo, relate to the exploits of the Buccaneers of America. Ayala (Pedro Lopez de) Coronica del Rej^ D. Perdo, fo. En Pam- plona, P. Porralis, 1591 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 451) * The Chronicle of Peter the Cruel. He was deposed, but reinstated by Edward the Black Prince. His cruelties having again provoked his subjects beyond endurance, they once more took up arms against him vmder the lead- ership of Henry of Transtamare, his natural brother, who slew Peter Axith hs own hand in 1368. Aylett (Robert) Susanna : or the Arraignment of the Two Unjust Elders, a Poem, 1622 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 108). * Mr. Heber bought this copy at Dr. Farmer's sale in 1798, and it was pur- chased at his sale in 1834 by a former owner. Heber describes the little volume on the fly-leaf as ' extremely scarce," and no other copy, except that in the Huth Library, from the Sykes and Corser collections, appears to have occurred for sale. The latter is the only one cited by Lowndes ; but in Haz- litt's Handbook, 1867, copies are said to be in the British Museum and Bodleian — a total of four altogether. For an interesting note on Aylett, see the Huth Catalogue. Aylmer (John, Bishop of London) An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Subiectes, sm. 4to. Strasborowe, 1559 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 431). * First edition of this treatise, written in answer to John Knox's " First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women," which gave such extreme offence to Queen Elizabeth, The Fuller- Russell copy sold for • £8 15s. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 25 Ayrer (J.) Opus Theatricum Drietzig Auszbundtige schone Komedien und Tragedien von allerhand Denckwiirdigen alten Romischen Historien und andern Politischer geschichten und gedichten, &c., fo. Nuremberg, 1618 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 226). * " This extremely curious work is especially interesting to the English student, as containing early German versions of plays derived from English sources! such as Der schon Sidea, the play foimded on the same story as Shakespeare's Tempest ; Der Schov.en Phoenicia, the comedy of Much Ado about Nothing ; the tragedy of King Edward III., Valentine and Orson, cS-c. The thirty-six Witsun plays at the end, although manj' of them are extremely broad, are of a high degree of literarj'^ interest, and include The History of the English John Posset, Owleglas, &c. These latter plays appear, from the second imprint, to have been originally printed in 1610, but no separate edition or title to them has yet been discovered ; the few copies of Ayrer's work known to exist having them added in continuation with a catch word, as in the present copy. This is believed to be the first exemplar of the work sold by auction in this country." — H alliweW s Sale Catalogue, May 23rd, 1856. B. (J.) A brife and faythfull declaration of the true fayth of Christ, made by certeyne men susspected of heresye in these articles folowyng. Per me J. B., ^. X. [No place or -printer's name], 1547 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 433). * In this little treatise the author gives a summary of the doctrine held by those of the " new learning," as they were called, m.ore especially so far as regards the two Sacraments. The tract has been attributed to Bp. Bale, but the language is too temperate, and the statem.ent of doctrine too moderate for it to be likely that it proceeded from his pen Being put forth when Henry VIII. 's Six Articles were in force it is not surprising that the writer concealed his name, and that few copies of the book escaped destruction. B. (O.) Questions of Profitable and Pleasant Conceruings, talked of by Two Olde Seniors, 1st. Edn, R. Field, 1594 (May 6, 1901 ; 404). * " This piece is of peculiar curiosity as being apparently the only Warwick- shire publication of the time of Shakespeare, and indeed the only early piece connected with that county,except Laneham's Letter from Kenilworth 1575 and Gascoigne's Entertainment 1576, so that all three productions arise, as it were, from the same vicinity. Moreover, the name in the imprint is of local significance, for Richard Field, the publisher of this little volume and fellow- townsman of the great poet, had brought out the year before the Venus and Adonis, and this year followed up with the Lucrece of Shakespeare ; and the Questions of Concernings is of further interest as containing phrases and allusions of a popular character. Not more than four copies of it, one slightly imperfect, appear to be known." — Hazlitt's Bibliographical Collections and Notes, vol. III., page 277. The present copy contains five more leaves than the one referred to by Mr. Hazlitt, collation A to ]\I 2 in fours (Mr. Hazlitt says A to LI only), so that this may be a unique copy. B. (P.) Juvenilia Sacra, or Divine Youthful Meditations, 1664 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 434). * An almost unknown little volume. It is probable that the author died very young, as nothing else is known under the same initials. 26 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S B. (R.) A New Tragicall Comedie | of Apius and Virginia, | wherein is lively expressed a rare | example of the Vertue of Chastitie | by Virginias Constancy, in wishing | rather to be slaine at her owne fa- I thers hands, then to be deflow- | red of the Wicked Judge | Apius. I By R. B. | The Players names \ . . . \h.i., (16 IL), title within woodcut border, sm. Ato. imprinted at London, by William How for Richard Jhones, 1575 (June 27, 1906 ; 959). * Halliwell's notice in his Dictionary of Plays is all wrong. He makes the initials " R. P." and the only edition he mentions is dated 1576. It was entered on the Stationers Books by R. Johnes, 1567-8. Reprinted in Haz- litt's Dodsley. [Lowndes refers the searcher to the initials R.P., but the volume is not to be found under that head. Ed. ] Bacon (Sir Francis) An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those w"*" falsely and maliciously taxe him to be the only hindrance of the peace and quiet of his Countrye, 1598, to Mr. Anthony Bacon, 1598 (June 3, 1902 ; 780). * A Manuscript Copy, circulated by Essex's friends in 1598. It was not printed till 1604. The handwriting of the title (as given above) is almost certainly Francis Bacon's ; moreover, the manuscript contains corrections and additions in the same hand. It occupies 24 pp. closely written. The relations of Francis Bacon and his brother Anthony with Robert Earl of Essex, the famous favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and the large extent to which the Bacons were indebted to that nobleman for kindnesses and substantial help during many years, constitute only one aspect of a subject which in 1601 became one of absorbing and permanent importance. The affability of the unhappy Earl rendered him extremely popular, and at the same time easy of access, and one of his most intimate friends and firmest pohtical supporters was the Earl of Southampton, so universally celebrated as the early patron of Shakespeare. The close connection between Essex and Southampton in political matters, and the concurrent tie with the Bacons, dated from about 1593, when Anthony Bacon engaged himself to Essex as Secretary. It is not necessary to enter at large into these historical points farther than to indicate in what manner and measure they affected the two principal actors in the drama of real life, of which the present manuscript is an indisputable and invaluable contemporary illustration. Whatever may be thought of Southampton, the earlier indiscretions of Essex appear to have proceeded from a vain and giddy disposition and an impetuous and turbulent temper, en- couraged by the evident persuasion that the Queen would never proceed to extremities, and might ultimately grant him his own terms. This Apology, written by Francis Bacon on Essex's behalf, and addressed to his brother Anthony, had for its object the vindication of Essex from any disloyal motives This was in 1598. The personage concerned had at that date already com- mitted many foolish or unfortunate acts, and Elizabeth had virtually con- doned everything. Between 1598, when Bacon's Apology was written and circulated in manuscript, and 1601, when the career of Essex came to a tragical close, Essex was engaged in a succession of foolish enterprises. He organised, in concert with Southampton, the well-known conspiracy, having for its ostensible motive the armed protection of Elizabeth. They went so far as to exhibit at one of the theatres and in the open streets a scene from NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 27 a play of Richard II. , in which the deposition of that prince was represented on the stage, and one of Shakespeare's fellow-actors, Augustine Phillips, received forty shillings towards the expenses of the performance at the Globe. It is not proved that Shakespear himself had a direct concern in the affair, but the dramatic scene, taken from a ^IS. text of Richard II. or Henry I V. was subsequently incorporated with the great poet's Richard II. when circum- stances rendered the illusion neutral and harmless. The Queen, however, took the matter very seriously, and treated it as a direct menace, and the scene never formed part of the acted play in her lifetime. The " Apology," was not printed till 1604, when the accession of James I. equally made its publication possible and even expedient, inasmuch as it presented the more favourable side of the relations of Bacon to Essex. The intimary between Essex and Southampton brought Shakespeare into personal contact with the former, whose house was the rendezvous of all persons of culture and note. In Henry V. the Poet prefigured the triumphal return of Essex from Ireland in 1599. So that, altogether, this MS. dealing with a stirring episode, in which these two noblemen were implicated and in which Shakespeare and his fellow-actors were variously concerned, may be treated as a document of very considerable interest in connection with our national dramatist. [See next entry] . Bacon (Sir Francis) Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex and his complices against the Queen, &c., 1601 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 236). * Compiled, it is thought, by Sir Francis Bacon. Apart from the value it may have on that account, the interest it bears in connection with Shake speare's Plays may be observed in the following extract, which is of great importance : — " That the aftemoone before the Rebellion, Merricke, with a great company of others, that afterwards were all in the Action, had procured to be played before them, the Play of deposing King Richard the Second. Neither was it casual, but a play bespoken by Merricke. And not so onely, but when it was told him by one of the Players, that the Play was olde, and they should have losse in playing it, because fewe would come to it : there was fourty shillings extraordinary given to play it and so thereupon played it was. So earnest Hee was to satisfie his eyes with the sight of that 'Tragedie, which he thought soone after his Lord should bring from the Stage to the State, but that God turned it upon their owne heads." Apophthegmes, New and Old. London, printed for Hanna Barret and Richard Whittaker, and are to he sold at the King's Head in Paul's Church-yard, 1626 (May 18, 1903 ; 26). * Published the year following the first issue. It was unknown to Lowndes, and Mr. Hazlitt does not give an exact collation , which is as follows : iiile one leaf, B to X 2 in eig/its. Certaine Considerations touching the better pacification and edification of the Church of England ; 24 //., the reverse of E 1 and recto of E2 and of E3 and EA were not printed hut are filled-in in contemporary MS. and Sheet F {the last) is entirely in MS. ; sm. Ato. T. P., for Henrie Tomes, 1604 (May 6, 1901 ; 879). 28 NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S * Unique. There is a copy of the -work in the British Museum with a different imprint, the whole of Sheet E being in MS. Spedding, in his Life of Bacon, says he " never met with or heard of any perfect copy of this edition, and it seems probable that the printing was stopped befoie it was completed." A Contem- porary MS. note on title, the margin of which is cut off, reads, " The book is not . . . print, only foure s[heets] were printed and . . the Bishop of Lond[on'] {Bancroft) called in an[d] would not suflfer ] [more ] to be printed, [that ] which was not p[rinted] I put in, writt[en ] by hand as you . . see." Bacon (Sir Francis) Essaj^s or Counsels, sm. 4to. 1639 (May 18, 1903 ; 28). * This edition is dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham ; it has at the end, in addition to the 58 Essays, a table of the Colours of Good and Evil, a fragment on 19 impaged leaves, which is not noticed by Lowndes. A copy sold re- cently in these rooms for ;£20 10s. Saggi Morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, Gran Cancelliero d' Inghilterra. Con un' altro suo Trattato della Sapienza degli Antichi, 1618 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 438). * This Italian version of Bacon's Essays is an evidence of its contemporary popularity. Singer's copy sold for £3 4s., and Brindley's for £2 4s. Historic of the Raigne of King Henrv the Seuenth, 1st Edn., engd. title and port, by Payne, fo. 1622 ' (May 25, 1905 ; 29). * This history has been prominently noticed by the Shakespeare-Bacon theorists, because of the coincidence that there is no Shakespeare play of Henry VII, , and also because Bacon's work begins exactly where Shakespeare's Richard III. ends. They even go so far as to re-publish portions of it in the form of blank verse as " The Tragedy of Henrj' the Seventh." Malone, in his notes on The Tempest, also refers to the volume. Two Bookes of the Proficiencie and Advancement of Learning, 1633 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 568). * These pieces by Bacon are frequently referred to by the writers on the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Baif (Antoine de) Les Amours et Evvres [sic) en Rime, 2 vol. Paris, Lucas Breyer, 1572-3 (May 6, 1901 ; 122). * First Edition, plagiarized by Shakespeare. (Lee's Life of Shakespeare, pages 92, 350, 351, 358.) Baker (Sir Richard) Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1st Edn., portrait of Prince Charles and engraved title by W. Marshall, fo. 1643 (May 25, 1905 ; 34). * See p. 120 of " The Raigne of Queen Elizabeth " for reference to Shake- speare and som.e of his actors. See also index at end of volume. Ingleby's Praise of Shakespeare, p. 250 Another Edn., Third Edn., Engd. title by Marshall, fo. 1660 (May 25, 1905 ; 35). * Reference to Shakespeare and some of his actors on pp. 424 and 503 (see also " Index"). The passage referring to the Poet on p. 503 was quite altered in subsequent editions, his name being left out. See Ingleby's Prayse of Shakespeare, p. 315, where it is said : " It is singular that this third edition of 1660, in which the above passage first occurs, should be rare. • After a NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 29 somewhat extensive search in the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, London, Dublin, Paris, and elsewhere, the copies quoted (Bodleian, Douce Collection ; Paris, Bibl. Nationcle ; and London, Sion College) are the only three that have been found." Baker (Sir Richard) Theatrum Triumphans, or a Discourse of Plays, 1670 (June 30, 1905 ; 466)' * " A fiery defence of Stage-Plays." On p. 34 is a reference to Shakespeare's contemporaries, Allen (AUeyn) and Bourbidge (Burbage) : " And What scur- rility was ever heard to come from the mouths of the best Actours of our Time Allen and Bourbidge ? yet, what plays were ever so pleasing as where their Parts had the greatest part ? " Balbus de Janua (Johannes) Catholicon. [Summa que vocut Catho- lico, edita a f ratre Joanne de Janua, Ordinis Fratrum Predicator- um], 1st Edn., Itt semi-QOtb. parva, double columns, 66 lines (372 //. ) without marks, fo. " Hie liber egregius Catholicon dniceincar- nacionis anno MCCCCLX Alma in urbe Maguntina nacionis indite germanice, etc. (John Gutenberg ?) 1460 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 45). *' (a) The fourth book printed with a date ; confidently attributed to the press of Gutenberg, though it occurs in Schciffer's printed list of his publica- tions in 1469. This copy begins " {P)rosodia queda," ivithoid the line beginning " Incipit Summa," etc. the latter sometimes occurring in MS. at the head of the page. This is the first copy noticed, being described as early as 1649 in Naude's Mascurat. * (b) First Edition. A splendid specimen of Gutenberg's press. Its ex- cessive rarity, even on paper (Sir J. Thorold's copy sold for ^400), is too well known to require comm.ent ; and its literary merit is so considerable that the London Editor of Stephani Thesaurus Latinus has pronounced it " the best Dictionary for the Latin Fathers and Schoohr.en." This copy, printed on vellum, was considered the Gem of the Solar Collection, and sold for 13,072 francs in his sale. (June 19, 1899; 136) Baldwin (William) The Canticles, or Balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh Metres, 6. \., 4to. William Baldwin, servant with Ed. Whitchurch, 1549 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 218). * The only book knov.-n with the name of Baldwin as printer. The Biblio- theca Anglo-Poetica copy was imperfect. This copy (formerly Hearne's) is the only one which has occurred for sale within a measurable period. It is unusually interesting as a youthful production of the original editor of the Mirror for Magistrates, while he was apprenticed to Whitchurch the printer, who committed to type in a unique manner the work of his own servant. Warton, in the Hz's/orv o/ Poetry, edit. 1871, iv. 141, gives a favourable account of this remarkable volume. Bale (John) A brefe Chronycle concernynge the Examinacj^on and death of the blessed martyr of Christ, Sir Johan Oldecastell the lorde Cobham, b. (. [m. d. Printed abroad about 1546] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 454). 30 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * This edition, without printer's name or date, is evidently the first, and appears to have been printed abroad. It was unknown to either Lowndes or Herbert ; both of them mentioned the edition of Anthony Scoloker and Wm. Seres, withovit a date, but the present has no colophon whatever. On the title is a woodcut portrait of Lord Cobham, represented as a Roman warrior, with a flaming sword, which was repeated in the later editions, but the title is usually torn out, on account of the Grangerites wanting it for the portrait. Bambergische Hals-Gerichts Ordnung, g. (., 22 woodcuts, of which 7 are divided into two ; fo. Mogunt, J oh. Schoffer, 1508 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 234). * The cuts are not signed, but must have been the work of a first-rate artist. Among the most notable are a representation of the Day of Judgement ; a dinner scene, with men playing cards ; and a series of implements of torture on the title. Bancroft (Thomas) Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, 1st Edn., Ato., 1639 (May 21, 1900 ; 192). *(a)With the Imprimatur leaf before title. This leaf was unknown to Lowndes, Hazlitt, and the compiler of Bibliotheca Anglo- Poetica. The volume is of considerable interest and rarity, being one of the few books in which are found early notices acknowledging the pre-eminence of Shakespeare ; epi- grammes 118 and 119 are addressed to the great dramatist. The last copy in these rooms realised {,A2 in March, 1897. * (b) Valued in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica £20, and Lloyd's copy sold for ;£10 10s. This volume contains verses on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Shirley, Sir T. Overbury, Cokaine, LiUy, &c., &c. (June 26, 1885 ; 79) Bannatyne Club. Trial of Duncan Terig alias Clerk, and Alexander Barre Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, June, 1754, 4io. Edinburgh, \8ll (May 7, 1900 ; 561). ..''-. f:^. * This was edited by Sir Walter Scott for the Bannatyne Club. It gives a report of the last trial in Great Britain in which the evidence of a ghost (which nearly succeeded in convicting the prisoner) was admitted. Barahona de Soto (Luys) Primera Parte de las Lagrimas de Angelica, 4to. Granada, 1586 (June 18, 1888 ; 464). ... * Cervantes in his Review of the Library of Don Quixote, makes the Curate say, " Barahona was one of the most famous Poets of the World, and not only of Spain, and to have seen it burnt I should have shed tears myself." J • Barbados. Some Memoirs of the first settlement of Barbados and other the Carribbee Islands with the succession of the Governours and Commanders in Chief of Barbados to the Year 1741. Barba- dos, Wm. Beeby, 1741 (July 1, 1886 ; 16). \\ ■■ ■ flV^li.- * One of the earliest printed books in the island, and especially valuable historically, as pages 70-84 contain " A List of the Names of the Inhabitants of Barbados in the year 1638, who then possessed more than 10 acres of land." Barberiis (Phil, de) Opuscula, 15 full-page and 6 small woodcuts. Oppenheim {Jac. Koebel, c. 1498) (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 572). "■ One of the four books printed at Oppenheim in the 15th century. No copy in the British Museum. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 31 Barckley (Sir Richard) Discovrse of the Felicitie of Man ; 1st Edn., sm. Ato. 1598 (May 25, 1905 ; 40). * This volume contains the Story of the Induction of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Barclay (Robert) Apology for the Quakers, Newport, Rhode Island, printed hy James Franklin, 1729 (Oct. 29, 1900 ; 571). * One of the earliest books printed in Rhode Island. The printer, James Franklin, was the elder brother of Benjamin Franklin, and printed at Boston, before removing to Newport. Benjamin was bound apprentice to him at the age of twelve. (Wm.) De Regno et Regali Potestate adversus Buchananum, Brutum, Boucherium, & reliquos Monarchomachos, lib. VI.,sw. Ato. Paris, G. Chaudiere, 1600 (Dec. 7, 1905 ; 352). * This work contains the Account of the celebrated Hunt of the Earl of Athol in 1563, accompanied by " duo millia Scotorum Montanorum," at which Queen Mary of Scotland was present. Bardi (Giovanno di) Discorso sopra il Giuoco del Calcio Fiorentino del Puero Accademico Alterato al Gran Duca di Toscana, double-page metal engraving, sm. Ato. Firenze nella stamperia de' Giunti, 1580 (May 21, 1906 ; 65). * The most ancient edition of this Treatise on the Game of Football as played by the Florentines in the 16th century. The engraving at the end shows the game in progress in a wide court within palaces, the positions of the players being shown by numbers. Barletius (Marinus) Historia de Vita et Gestis Scanderbegi Epiro- tarum Principis, with portrait of Scanderbeg on the verso of the last leaf of the table, fo. Impressum Rome per B[ernardus Venetus de'\ V[italibus]. [Sine anno, circa 1508] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 2668). * This is the first edition of this work ; the author, Marinus Barletius, waS one of the companions of Scanderbeg. Barnes (Barnaby) Foure Bookes of Offices, 1st Edn., fo. Printed at the charges of G. Bishop, T. Adams, and C. Burbie, 1606 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 548). * A notice of this interesting book will be found in Sir Egerton Brydges' Restituta, vol. IV. At page 113 is a reference to Shakespeare's tragedy of Richard III. The present copy contains the preliminary poems by Thos. Campion, John Ford, and others ; these are not found in all copies. Barns. Bekendtnus des Glaubens die Robertas Barns zu London in Engellandt gethon hat anno 1540, Ato. (No name or place, but printed about 1540) (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 483). ■" An extremely interesting tract by the celebrated Dr. Robert Barns, the first Protestant who suffered for his religion in England. Prefixed is a short account of him during his residence in Wittemberg. Barnstaple — See Turner (Robert). 32 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Baron (Robert) Philosophia Theologiae Ancillans, &c.,12mo. Andrea' polls excudit Edward tcs Rahanus Universiiatis typographtis, 1621 (June 11, 1900 ; 80). * One of the first books printed at St. Andrews by Edward Raban before lie removed to Aberdeen. Pocula Castalia, Fortune's Tennis Ball, &c., 1st Edn., port, by W. Marshall, 1650 (May 25, 1905 ; 42). * (a] Highly- valuable for the parallel passages to Shakespeare's Venus and Adoiiis and his Lticrece. There is also an Epigram addressed to " Sir John Falstaffe," etc. See Ingleby's Shakespeare Prayse, pp. 279-80, for an account of the volume. (b) "Baron's Fortune's Tennis Ball is founded on the story of the Emperor and the Forester's Son in the Gesta Romanorum (Sir F. Madden's edition of the Roxburghe Club, 1838, p. 164) ; which also may have been in Shakespeare's mind when he made the King compass Hamlet's death by sending him to England with treacherous letters (Act III., sc. iii. ; Act. IV., sc. iii. ). Baron owed much to Shakespeare's influence, for, besides what may be the coinci- dence of his having taken the motto from Ovid to Vemis and Adonis for his collection called Pocula Castalia. Fortune's Tennis-Ball is full of words and phrases caught from the remembrance of Venus arid Adonis and Lucrece, in the earlier portion of the poem which relates the boar-hunt." Barreiros (Caspar) Chorographia de algunes lugares que stam em hum caminho. &c., 4 pts. in 1 vol., sm. Aio. Coimbra, Joan Alvarez, 1561 (Dec. 14, 1907 ; 579) * A volume of travels seldom found complete. The third part is a disserta- tion on the whereabouts of the kingdom of Ophir. Bartholomaeus Pisanus. Summa (Pisanella) : in qua de Casibus et conciliis ad animam sen Conscientiam pertinentibus studiosissime tractatus, lit. semi-QOlb. double columns, 43 lines (253 II. the first blank) [Hain, 2525], without marks, fo. [Paris. Martins Crantz, Michael Friburger and Ulric Gering] (1475 ?) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 56) * This is a rare undated issue from the second press of the first Paris printers. Their Christian names (only) are found in an epigram on the last page. There is an inscription below the epigram signed bv a certain " Professor R. Guillebert," dated 1496. Bartolomeo da li Sonetti (Zaniberto) Isolario (in Verse) [begins'] " Al Divo Cinquecento Cinque e diece | Tre Cinqz. a do Mil nulla tre e do un Ceto | nulla, questa Opra dar piu altri lecce " | t g. long lines, 37 to a full page (56 II.) without marks, 49 large circidar wood- cut maps of the various Mediterranean and other islands {with text on reverse), [Hain, 2538], sm. Ato. absque ulla nota [Venet. Guliel- mus de Piancerreto, 1485 ?] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 55). "■ (rt) Two different issues of this work exist, both formerly thought to have been printed in 1477. Panizzi, however, shov.-ed that the date was doubtful, and places it between 1478-85. The attribution to the Venetian printer above is found in the hand list to the Amherst library, compiled by Mr. Sey- mour de Ricci. {see Brunei). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 33 (Nov. 16, 1885 ;491). * (b) A very fine copy of this geographical work, written in verse, and des- cribed by Dr. Dibdin as " one of the rarest volumes of early Italian poetry." The first five pages are occupied by a metrical introduction. On the sixth the first sonnet begins, which is devoted to the Island of Cerigo, opposite to it is given a woodcut map, then follow the Sonnets on Crete, Rhodes, &c., in due succession. The maps are simple outlines, without any names of places, which in this copy are inserted in MS. in a 1 5th century hand. The subject of the last sonnet is the Island of Cyprus, the concluding leaf being the map of Cyprus. The present copy accords exactly with the description given by Brunet. It consists of fifty-six leaves, without either pagination or signatures The author gives his name on the fifth page thus — " Per aprobar questa opereta fata per me bartolomes da li soneti intendo de monstrar con veri effeti quanto che londa egiea abia cerchatta." A very inferior copy sold in the Beckford Sale, Part I., for £29. (Nov. 16, 1885; 491) Baudouin (J.) Recueil d'Emblemes Divers, avec des Discours Moraux, Philosophiques et Politiques, tirez de divers Autheurs, Anciens & Modernes, engd. title by Briot, and numerous engs., 2 vol., Paris, 1646 (May 18, 1903 ; 31). * An account of the Shakespearian interest of this book is given by Mr. Mallock (" New Facts relating to the Bacon-Shakespeare Question."). Bayard. Account of the Committment, Arraignment, Tryal, and Con- demnation of Nicolas Bayard,Esq.for High Treason in Endeavour- ing to subvert the Government of the Province of New York, in America, &c., fo. Printed at New York by order of His Excellency the Lord Cornbury, reprinted at London, 1703 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 214). * Bayard was accused of complicity in the piracies of Capt. Kidd, and also of the scheme to introduce Popery and Slavery into New York. He was tried before Chief Justice Atwood and sentenced to a barbarous death, but the pro- ceedings were annulled by anOrder inCouncil and he was re-instated in his office. Bayfius (L,.) Annotationes in L. II. De Captivis, et postliminio re- versis. In qvibvs tractatvr de re navali, lettres fleuries on a Criblee ground, and 30 large woodcuts of ancient ships, costume, and vases, aU by Geoffrey Tory, several with his mark of the Lorraine Cross, 4to. Parisiis, R. Stephani, 1536 (July 28, 1902 ; 720). * The first appearance of these woodcuts. They were reprinted in Estienne's edition of 1549, and copied for Froben's editions of 1537 and 1541. Beard (Thos.) Theatre of God's Judgements : best edition, fo. 1648 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 500). * This curious volume contains a perfect mine of quaint stories and relations, the most notable being, however (at p. 92), an account of the death of Christopher Marlow the Dramatist, who is described as " a Play-maker and a poet of scurrility." The author goes on to say, that among his other wickednesses he " blasphemed the Holy Trinity, and wrote books against it, affirming our Saviour to be but a seducer," &c. " But see what a hooke the Lord put into the nostrils of this barking dogge," and then follows a very curi- ous account of the manner of Marlow's death. 34 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Beaujoyeulx (Baltasar de) Balet Comique de la Ro5Tie, faict aux noces de Monsieur le Due de Joyeuse et ]Mlle. de Vaudemont, sa soeur, with several plates showing the order and characters of the Ballet, also songs with the music, sm. 4to. Paris, par Adrian le Roy, Robert Ballard et Mamert Pattisson, 1582 (Dec. 17, 1900). ; 71 * This book is singularly interesting, being the record of an entertainment similar to the celebrated one given by the Earl of Leicester to Queen Elizabeth at Kenihvorth about fifteen years earlier. Beaumont (Francis) A Preparative to Studie ; or, the Virtue of Sack, 1st Edn., Ato. 1641 (Dec. 6. 1905 : 120). * A poetical publication, which was, apparently, privately printed. It is re- printed in Beaumont's collected poems. The poem, which commences : " Fetch me Ben Jonson's scull, and fill 't with Sacke " is ascribed to both Thomas Heywood and Francis Beaumont. Sack is referred to by Shakes- peare in King Henry the Fourth, the Merry Wives of Windsor, and Love's Labour's Lost. Poems, 1653. (May 25, 1905 ; 48). * The first edition in octavo, containing many poems not found in the earlier edition. According to Mr. Dyce a great manj- of these poems were never written by Beaumont, some being by Ben Jonson, Donne, Randolph, Waller, Carew, and others. At sig. M is a poem " On William Shakespeare." This poem is not found in the quarto of 1640. and Fletcher (John) Poems, the Second Edition, W. Hope, 1660 (May 18, 1903 ; 32) * This edition is the first in which Fletcher's name appears on the title in conjunction with Beaumont's as the author. According to Mr. Dyce a great many of the poems were written by neither Beaumont nor Fletcher, some being by Ben Jonson, Donne, Randolph, etc. Philaster : or, Love Lies a Bleeding, fifth impression, sm. 4fo. 1652 (May 25, 1905 ; 53). * For reference to a sentiment in this play, supposed to have been copied from Shakespeare's Hamlet, see Furnivall's Alhisions, p. 61. The Two Noble Kinsmen : 1st Edn., 4to. 1634 (May 6, 1901 ; 890)- * Halliwell-Phillipps's copy (see his Sale Catalogue, 1856) with a note in his autograph, " The story of the play is from Chaucer's Knight's Tale." " Two other pieces, ' The Two Noble Kinsmen,' and 'Henry VIII,' which are attri- buted to a similar partnership, survive.' The Two Noble Kinsmen ' was first printed in 1634, and was written, according to the title-page, ' by the memorable worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shake- speare, gentlemen ! . . . . Dyce included it in his edition of Shakespeare. Coleridge detected Shakespeare's hand in Act I., Act. II., sc. i., and Act III., sc. i. and ii. In addition to those scenes, Act IV., sc. iii. and Act V. (except sc. ii.) were subsequently placed to his credit An exact partition is impossible, but frequent signs of Shakespeare's workmanship are unmistake- able. All the passages for which Shakespeare can on any showing be held responsible develop the main plot, which is drawn from Chaucer's ' Knight's Tale ' of Palamon and Arcite, and seems to have been twice dramatised previously The non-Shakespearean residue of ' The Two Noble Kins- men ' is disfigured by indecency and triviality, and is of no literary value." — Sidney Lee. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 35 Beaumont (Francis) The Wild-Goose Chase, a Comedie, 1st Edn., fo. 1652 (Mar.l7, 1902 ; 211). * Contains an introduction by the Shakespearean actors Lowin and Taylor A long account of it will be found in Payne-Collier's " Actors in Shakespeare'a Plays," (printed for the Shakespeare Society 1846). The reference to Shakespeare is curious : " If our care and endeavours to do our Authors right (in an incorrupt and genuine Edition of their Works) and thereby to gratifie and oblige the Reader, be but requited with a suitable entertainment, we shall be encourag'd to bring Ben Jonson's two volumes into one, and publish them in this form ; and also to reprint Old Shakespear : both which are design- ed by." — (Booksellers to reader). The manuscript was lost when the first folio Beaumont and Fletcher was published in 1647. Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, 2nd Edn., port, by W. Marshall, fo. 1679 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 212). * This edition contains a reference to Shakespeare which is not found in the folio of 1647. " If our care and endeavours to do our Authors right (in an incorrupt and genuine Edition of their Works) and thereby to gratifie and oblige the reader, be but requited with a suitable entertainment, we shall be encourag'd to bring Ben Jonson's two volumes into one, and publish them in this form ; and also to reprint Old Shakespear." — The Booksellers to the Reader. Beavan (Sam.) Sand and Canvas ; coloured and other plates, 1849 (April 23, 1900 ; 572). * Contains the original version of Thackeray's ballad " Little Billee," and references to Thackeray at Rome. Bedae Venerabilis Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, 1st Edn., fo. s. I. & a. sed Argentorati ; H. Eggesteyn, erica 1473 (June 19, 1889 ; 153). * stated by Dr. Dibdin " at present a desideratum in perhaps every public and private library in England." Heber's copy sold for £40 Bedford (Arthur) The Evil and danger of Stage- Plays, 1706 (AprU 21, 1904 ; 706). * Printed at Bristol. It contains numerous references to plays and drama* tists, Shakespeare especially. Serious Remonstrance in behalf of the Christian Religion, against the Horrid Blasphemies and Impieties which are still used in the English Playhouses, 1st Edn., 1719 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 33). * Not mentioned by Lowndes. A most curious and voluminous treatise upon what was regarded by the author (" Chaplain to the Most Noble Wriothesley Duke of Bedford," &c.) as the immoral practices, sayings, &c., displayed and spoken upon the Stage. The volume contains, " A Catalogue of above Fourteen Hundred Texts of Scripture, which are mentioned in this Treatise, either as ridicul'd and expos'd by the Stage, or as opposite to their present Practices." The reference to Venus and Adonis, Macbeth, &c., &c., &c. are most curious. 36 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche, 2 folding woodcuts, Thomas Dawson, 1580 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 570). ■ • -i ■ A. Pl'^fcb^- ■ • * The folding woodcuts contained in this volume are extremely curious ; they eachrepresent the pope's triple crown as the Bee Hive and the Bees flying about in all directions, some with cardinal's hats on, others with mitres, the Test tonsured, carrying incense, beads, candles, etc. ; in the background are various churches with graves, and on the right a bee is officiating at the altar ; although representing similar scenes, the cuts are quite different. Ames mentions that two such cuts belong to the volume but are rarely found in it. Lowndes makes no mention of them whatever. [Behn (Mrs. Aphra)] Female Poems on several occasions, written by Ephelia, 1st Edn., port, of the authoress, sm. 8vo. William Dow- ning for J. Courtney, 1679 (May 16, 1901 ; 38). * The only other copy we can trace was Mr. Corser's, which sold in his sale (1869) for £1 13s. It is said to be by Mrs. Behn, but Halkett and Laing ascribe it to Mrs. Joan Phillips. Lowndes mentions an edition of 1689, but does not seem to have known this one, nor the portrait. Ivove Letters between a Nobleman {Ford Lord Grey) and his Sister {the Countess of Berkley),Tonsoti, etc. 1718 (Ma5^11, 1908; 595). * In the 16 pp. Catalogue of Books printed by W.Taylor, at the end, is found the advertisement of Robinson Crusoe, apparently before the title was settled upon : " Crusoe's Miscellanies, wrote during his Solitude in the Island, with his Vision of the Angelic World, to which is prefix'd a Frontispiece, represent- ing the most remarkable incidents of his Life," TheEmperorof the Moon, a Farce, 1st Edn., 4^0. 1687 (June 3, 1902 ; 212). * Contains a curious reference to Shakespeare : — " The Defence of the first [the Pulpit] is left to the Reverend Gown, but the departing Stage can be no otherwise restor'd, but by some leading Spirits, so Generous, so Publick, and so Indefatigable as that of your Lordship, whose Patronages are sufficient to support it, whose Wit and ludgment to defend it, and whose Goodness and Quality to justifie it ; such Encouragement wou'd inspire the Poets with new Arts to please, and the Actors with Industry. 'Twas this that occasioned so many admirable Plays heretofore, as Shakespear's, Fletchers' and lohnson's, and 'twas this alone that made the Town able to keep so many play-houses alive who now cannot supply one." The Luckv Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain, a Comedy, 1st. Edn., 4to 1687 (May 25, 1905 ; 70). * There are Shakespeare references in the Preface and at page 10. See Furnivall's Allusions, p. 287, and Halliwell's Folio Shakespeare, xii., 61. Belijdenisse des Gheloofs der Kerchen in Switzerlandt, (. g. tot Nordwitz by Ant. de Solemne, 1568 (July 3, 1899 ; 1540). ■* One of the earliest books, if not the first printed at Norwich by Antony de Solempne. It was not among the two or three early Norwich books men- tioned in Cotton, Typ. Gaz. in his first volume, though he afterwards dis- covered one and noted it in his second volume. Only two other perfect copies seem to be known, both in public libraries. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 37 Bellot (James) The French Grammer ; or an Introduction Orderly and Methodically, by Ready Rules, playne Preceptes and evident Examples, teaching the French Tongue, T. Mar she, 1578 (July 28, 1903 ; 110).' * This book was never reprinted, by an author who brought out other works of a similar character all equally rare ; of his English Schoolmaster, printed in 1580, no copy is known, and of his French Meikod,1588, we never heard of one occurring for sale except Bindley's. Whatever Bellot's acquaintance with French may have been he was strangely and amusingly ignorant of English, as Mr. Hazlitt shews in his monograph of 1888 on Schoolmasters. But toward this time England began to maintain many foreign scholars anxious to earn a subsistence among us by teaching With how many of these Shakespeare must have touched elbows ! Not in the British Museum Catalogue (1884), nor in Lowndes. Benese (Sir Richard) This Boke sheweth the maner of measurynge of all maner of Lande, as well of Woodlande, as of lande in the felde, and comptynge the true nombre of acres of the same, newlye invented and compyled by Syr Richarde Benese, Chanon of Marton (Merton) Abbey besyde (I^.) ond ( ) on {sic), 0. t, 1st Edn., ■ (with a " Preface of Thomas Paynell, Chanon of Marton), title within woodcut border, diagrams etc., sm. Ato. Prynted in South- warke in Saint Thomas Hospitall, by me, James Nicolson, n. d. (1536 ?) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 64). * A very interesting book, and an exceedingly rare edition. Not in Lowndes, who notes a doubtful 16mo. edition of the same printer. Hazlitt (1882 ) men- tions it on the authority of Collier. There is no colophon at end, the imprint being on the title. , Bentley (Thomas) Monument of Matrons ; 1&. (., titles within woodcut borders, fidl-fage woodcut of the Resurrection at end of vol. I. and numerous initials, 3 vol., 4to. 1582 (May 18, 1903 ; 169). * An exhaustive account of this work is given in Dibdin's " Library Com- panion." Inglis's copy, now in the GrenviUe Library (British Museum), was stated by Lowndes to be the only perfect copy in existence. The present remarkably beautiful copy, which contains the rare blank leaf marked A 1 , sold in the Stainforth sale many years ago for £Q3. Benvenuto, ItaUan [fiseud. ] Professor of his Native Tongue for these nine yeeres in London : The Passenger [7 Dialogues in Italian and English on opposite pp.] Ato. 1612 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 131). * There was a copy of this Shakespearean volume in HaUiwell's sale, June, 1858. An early attempt to teach languages by means of familiar phrases and dialogues. They are adapted to contemporary Italian customs and manners, and as such are of no little interest as well as evidence of the common study of Italian by the educated Englishmen of Eliaabethan and Jacobean times. 38 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Bergomensis (Jacobus PhiJippus Forestus) De Plurimis Claris scele- tisq' {sic) Mulieribus opus prope divinus novissime congestum, J. g. large woodcut design and border bearing the date 1493 on reverse of title, numerous outline woodcuts designed by Ferrarese artists and 3 fine borders, fo. Ferrariae L. de Rubeis {with device), 1497 (July 29,1901 ;612). * One of the most important and beautiful of the 1 5th century Italian wood- cut books. The last copy sold in these rooms had a defective leaf, and realized f41 in July, 1899 Opus preclarum Supplementum Chronicharum vulgo appella- tum, in omnimoda historia, &.C., numerous woodcuts, fo. Venetiis, per Bernardum Ripim, 1492 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 551). * The invention of printing is given under the year 1458, and under the year 1486 is a long article on Prester John and India. vSupplementum Chronicarum, woodcuts, fo. Venetiis, Alberti- niim de Lissona Vercellenem, 1503 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 236). * The best edition of this famous chronicle, the work of Jacobus Philippus Foresti, an A^xgustinian monk from Bergamo, bom in 1434. It is a meri- torious compilation, intended to serve for the correction of all pre\'ious historical works. Each successive edition received alterations and improve- ments from the author's hands, and the same studious care was extended to the illustrations. The views of cities possess a very particular interest, as some of them were evidently copied from separate prints,like that of Florence, and confirm the probability that many such pictures of Italian cities were in existence before 1500. The large views of Rome and Venice are especially good. That of Rome first appeared in the edition of 1490, and is the earliest view of the city known. That of Venice exhibits the Doges' Palace and Piazzetta with perfect correctness. This edition also possesses great interest to the collector of early works relating to America, for on the reverse of GGl and GG2 will be found the article, " De quattuor p maximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis.4' It also contains an interesting account of the invention of printing, while the large woodcuts and their attendant borders are among the very best examples of the much sought after Venetian school of wood engraving. Berlinghieri (Francesco) Geographia (in terza Rima), 31 maps engraved in copper {including the large map of the world with the heads of the \2 winds, supposed to have been executed prior to those by B. Baldini for the Dante of 1481, and closely resembling the figures in the Monte- Sancto, published at Florence in 1478 bv the printer of Berlinghieri), fo. s. I. & a. sed Firenze circa 1480 (June 13, 1887 ; 293). * A versification of the Cosmographia of Ptolemy. The following is the Eari of Crawford's collation of the volume. The original title is printed in black on the t^fifso of f olio 1 . At a later period the following title was printed in red on the recto of the same folio. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 39 GEOGRAPHIA DI FRANCKSC O BERLINGHIERI FIORENTINO IN TERZA RIMA ET LINGVA TOSCANA DI STINCTA CON LE SVE TAVO LE IN VARII SITI ET PRO VINCIE SECONDO LA GEO G R AP HIA ET DISTIN ctione dele tauole di Ptoloineo dttm gratht & ^tixxiltQio. On the verso of this leaf is printed — IN Q V E STO VOLVME SI CONTENGONO SEP TE GIORNATE DELLA GEOG RAPHIA DI FRANCESCO BERLIN GERI FIORENTINO ALLO IL LUSTRISSIMG FEDERI GO DUCA DUR B 1 N O . At the foot of folio f. 10 the Registro is printed — Impresso infirenze per Nicoio Todescho & emendato con summa dili gentia dalle auctore. About 1478-1480. There is no doubt but that this registro was printed at the same time that the Red title was struck, and on the leaf which originally was blank. Brunet is wrong in saying that this folio was substituted for the blank, as in this, my best copy it is part of the leaf f. 1. These additions to the " Remainder " were probably made about 1520-25. (2) ff titles and contents, + (126) ff. of which nos. 36, 68 & 116 are blank + (60) ff. containing 31 maps, the maps 8 and 9 of Asia are on the two leaves of one sheet, the rest are on the inner pages of each sheet, i.e. 2 ff. to each map. The signatures run thus — 2 fF. no sign, aa 10, bb 8, cc 8, dd 7 + 1 blank ee 6, ff 8, gg 8,hh 6, ii 3 + 1 blank, a 6, b 10, c 8, d 12, e 1 1 +1 blank, ee ii verso is also blank, f. 9 + 1 f. origi- nally blank now containing the Registro. The maps are not included in the signatures, and are better placed at the end of the volume, as otherwise the signatures would be broken into if they are placed according to the Registro, notably at sigs. b and f. (June 13, 1887; 293) * (i) This is the issue with the title on the recto of the first leaf printed in red, and the register and colophon on the recto of the last leaf, which are not found in all copies. The maps in this volume are supposed by some to be the first maps engraved upon metal. Those in the Ptolomey, printed at Rome in 1478, are generally considered to be the first, but as this volume has no date it must always be a matter of doubt. They are printed from entirely different plates from those in the Ptolomey, and are engraved in a rougher manner upon very unevenly shaped plates of metal. (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 534) — Protesto facto alia Signoria di Firenze et a tucti gli altri Magis- trati per conservare la liberta & mantenere la justitia, lit. rom. [title in QOtbiC), 4 //. a fine Florentine woodcut of an interior with 2 figures on title, stamped coat of arms in blue below, sm. Ato. senza nota [Firenze'] (May 21, 1906 ; 76). 40 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * This protest was made Jan. 15, 1477, by Berlinghieri, author of Geographia in terza rima. In Libri's catalogue of 1859 (copied by Brunet) the date of printing is given as c. 1480, but the woodcut appears to be of the Savonarloa period. Bernard (J.) Discours des plus Memorables Faicts des Roys & grads Seigneurs d'Angleterre depuis cinq cens ans ; Paris, 1579 (Dec, 17, 1898 ; 968). *La Gitide des Chemins is very curious as giving the routes from " Douure 4 Londres," " Londres a Baruyk," " Londres a Walsingham," " Carnervan k Galles k Chester et ainsi a Londres," " Cokermouth a Londres," " Vermouth a Londres," " Burien en Cornwaille a Londres," &c. with notices of the an- tiquities of places passed and dangers to be avoided. (5. B. iw. 106). Bernardus (S. Abhas Clarevall.) Epistolae, J. g., double columns, 61 lines, without marks [Hain 2870), fo. absque ulla nota [Argent. Eggestein, c. 1468] (April 12, 1899 ; 87). * Printed with the same types as the first German Bible. Super Evangelic Missus est Angelus Gabriel, 1. g., 32 leaves, long lines, 26 to the full page, absque nota {Colonics, Goiswin Gaps, c. 1473) (April 24, 1899 ; 803). * Usually ascribed to the press of Ulrich Zell, but belongs to the group printed in the same type as the " Augustinus de Fide," attributed to Goiswin Gops. Examples from this press are among the rarest of the incunabula. Berquin. Pygmalion, Scene lyrique, de Mr. J. J. Rousseau, mise en vers par Mr. Berquin, Original Edition, engraved throughout, en- graved title after Marillier, and 6 vignettes after Moreau, Paris, 1775 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 468). * This copy has the frequently missing " Idylle, par Mr. Berquin," con- sisting of title and 8 pp. of engraved text, with head and tail-piece by Gaucher after Mariller. M. Gennadius' copy, without the " Idylle," was sold in these rooms for £11 15s. Bertellius (P.) Diversarii Nationum Habitus Centum, etc., most curious engravings of costumes, Patavii, 1594 (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 187). * This copy contains the two exceedingly curious folding plates at the end. There is also a moveable paper curtain to the Sedan chair (plate 31 ), and also to the palanqmn (plate 80). Bessario, Card., Sabinus, etc. Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis libri v., 1st Edn., fo. Romae, per Conrad Suueynheym et Am. Pannartz (1469) (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 543). * Although it does not bear a date it is quite certain that it was printed in the year 1469, as it stands in this order in the celebrated Epistle of the printers Suueynheym and Pannartz prefixed to their edition of De Lyra's Commen- tary upon the Bible. It is also conclusively proved from the authorities cited by Panzer, vol. 2, page 41 1, NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 41 Beza (Theo.) Icones, id est Verse Imagines Virorum Doctrina simul et Pietate illustrium : accedunt Emblemata, with 38 fine woodcut portraits and AA emblematical woodcuts, Ato. Geneves, 1580 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 552). * On the back of the title is a woodcut portrait of James VI. of Scotland, then in his 15th year, to whom the volume is dedicated. The other portraits include Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, Francis I., Cranmer, Knox, Peter Martyr, Erasmus, Savonarola, Zwinglius, Huss, &c., &c. The emblematic woodcuts are engraved with singular delicacy, and each one is surrounded by an ornamental border of elegant design. Bl BLES— Bohemian. Bibli Ceska, 6 vol., t). i. {vol. I., A ff. + 324 + 6 //. ; vol II., 442 //. ; vol. III., 234 //. ; vol. IV., 14 //. + 425 //. ; vol. V., 6 // + 295 //. ; vol. VI., 2 //. + 501 //.), Ato. Kralitz, 1579-1601 (June 13, 1887 ; 313). * First Edition of the Bohemian Version made for the Moravians, and private- ly printed by Baron John de Zerotjen at his Castle of Namust in Aloravia. It is excessively rare because after the expulsion of Frederic V. it was rigidly suppressed by the Jesuits, and nearly all the copies destroyed. The copy belonging to the Duke of Sussex sold for £AG. BIBLES— Danish. Biblia, det er den gantze Heilige Scrifft udsoet paa Danske, Ut. QOXp,, front, and port, of Christian III., woodcut title and numerous spirited woodcuts, fo. Kiobenhavn aff Lud. Dietz, 1550 (April 21, 1902; 206). * The First Edition of the Bible in Danish. The types and cuts are the same as those used by the same printer for his Low German edition printed in Liibeck in 1533 Biblia der er den gantske, heilige Scrifft paa Danske, igen offverseet, met register, &c., tg., woodcut titles and cuts in text, port, of Frederick II. of Denmark, fo. Kiobenhavn, M. Vingaart, 1589 (Mar. 11, 1896; 673). * The First Edition of the complete Scriptures in Danish, made by Paul Madsen and others. BIBLES— Dutch. Bibel in Nederduytsch, 2 vol., B.L., coloured woodcuts {wanting map), fo. Antwerpen, 1526 (June 13, 1887 ; 323). * This is the first edition of the Protestant Belgic Bible, printed by Jacob van Liesveldt, who was condemned and beheaded at Antwerp for asserting in one of the Annotations that " the salvation of mankind proceeds from Christ alone." It is of extraordinary rarity, owing probably to the various Proclamations issued at the time ordering all High Dutch, Flemish, Walloon, or French Versions of the Scriptures should be delivered up and burned under pain, after this promulgation, of forfeiting life and goods if discovered in the possession of any one guilty of disobedience. This copy sold for ;£I2 5s. in Off or 's sale. 42 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— English. Bible. The Pentateuch [Tyndale's Translation]. [The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis], etc., German blacf? ICttCr, woodcut titles and ornamental initials [Marlborough, Hans Luft, 1530-31] (Dec. 3, 1908 ;97). * This is not only the first edition of the English Pentateuch, but also the first edition of any part of the Old Testament in English, and only a very few copies are in existence. The Byble, / which is all the holy Scrip- /ture : In whych are contayned the/ Olde and Newe Testament truly/ and purely translated into En-/glysh by Thomas Matthew./ HEsaye. j./ JS^ Hearcken to ye heauens and/ thou earth geau eare : For the/ Lorde speaketh,/ M.D.XXXVII.,/ Set forth with the Kinges most gracyous lycece. / [Colophon] ITThe ende of the newe Testa- ment, /and of the whole/ Byble,/ UTo the honoure and prayse of God/ was this Byble prynted and fy-/nesshed, in theyere of oure/lyorde God a, /M,D, XXXVII., ft. (., woodcuts. [Antwerp ? printed by Jacob van Meteren ? and published in London by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch,'] 1537 (June 13, 1887 ; 332). * Bought by Jlr. Perldns in the sale of Sir M. Sykes, for £18 1 5s. , and resold in his for £195, wanting 2 leaves, since supplied. It was really edited by John Rogers, the first martyr under Queen Mary, 1555, under the nom de plume of Thomas Matthew. It was printed abroad, the expense of the work being defrayed by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, two citizens of London. By Cranmer's and Cromwell's influence it received royal authority. It now appears tolerably certain that the enterprising foreign citizen of Antwerp, Jacob van Meteren, who printed Coverdale's Bible and sold the edition to Nicolson, with cuts, map, and probably the type (lost), got up and printed this Bible also, and sold the whole edition to Grafton and Whitchurch, together with the special plant thereto belonging. Rogers and Van Meteren were relatives b)^ marriage. Dunn Gardner's copy sold for ;^150. [A colla- tion of the edition will be found in the Caxton Celebration Catalogue, and is copied in the sale catalogue. Ed. ] The same, M.D.XXXVII. (Mar. 11, 1896 ; 41). * A complete copy of this edition, which is supposed to have been printed at Hamburgh, is of such extraordinary rarity that Mr. Perkins's sold for ;;gl95, although wanting two leaves ; and others, also imperfect, have brought at auctions ;£100 and upwards. The translation is that of W. Tyndale, with a few emendations by John Rogers (the first martyr in Queen Mary's Reign), who for this publication assumed the name of Thomas Matthew as a disguise. A large portion of this edition was seized and destroyed. As J. Rogers and J. von Materen were relatives by marriage, the work was most probably printed at Antwerp by INIeteren, and the copies saved from destruction sold to Grafton and Whitchurch, who issued it by Royal Authority, influenced by Archbp. Cranmer and Lord Cromwell. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 43 BBBLES-English. II The Bj'ble in/ Englyshe, that is to saye the con- /tent of all the holy scrypture, bothe/ of ye olde and newe testament, truly/ translated after the veryte of the / Hebrue and Greke textes, by ye dy-/lygent studye of dyuerse excellent/ learned men, expert in the f orsayde / tonges. / 5f Prynted by Rychard Grafton 7 / Edward Whitchurch. / Cum priuilegio ad imprimen- / dum solum. / 1 539. / [Colophoii] The ende of the new Testamet : and of the whole Byble Fynisshed in Apryll,/ Anno. M.CCCCC. xxxix./ A dno factu est istud,/ First Issue of the Great or Cromwell's Bible, woodcuts (15{ hy 10-1), fo. 1539 (June 13, 1887 ; 334). * This splendid volume was printed in Paris by Francois Regnault, for Grafton and Whitchurch, in 1537 and 1538. Coverdale superintended the literary part and saw it through the press as reviser and corrector, while Grafton attended to the business matters. They were interrupted by the Inquisition just before the work was finished, so that they had to escape with what they could, and finish the work in London. The type and plant was apparently got up secretly for this edition (as before in the cases of the Coverdale and the I^Iatthew Bibles at Antwerp) and after the interruption by the Inquisition, found their way to London, and were used in producing the six immediately subsequent editions cf the Great Bible. Dunn Gardner's copy sold for £\2\, Lord Crawfurd's for £\\\, and the Ashburnham for £13. [The sale catalogue contains a collation, reproduced from the Caxton Cele- bration Catalogue. Ed.] The Byble in Englyshe, truly translated after the Veryte of the Hebrue and Greke Textes, by the diligent study of divers excellent learned men, &c., b. (., woodcut titles, fo. Rob. Redman and Thos. Petyt for T. Btrthelet, April, 1540 (April 24, 1899 ; 569). * Second Edition of the " Great Bible " ; no copy of this edition appeared in the Caxton Celebration Catalogue. The heading of Genesis Chapter XXXIX has " Pharaos Wife tempeth Joseph." The Byble, that is to say, al the holy vScripture... faythfully set f urth according to ye copp}^ of Thomas Matthewes Translacio, h. (., woodcuts, fo. John Day, 1551 (April 24, 1899 ; 570). * Mathew's version (chiefly Taverner's), revised by Becke, in which the Book of Maccabees appeared for the first time, with Tyndale's Prologues to the New Testament. The reading " Bugs," at Psalm xci., 5, occurs in this edition (as in others). Bible / and /Holy Scriptvres / Conteyned in / the Olde and Newe / Testament./ Translated Accor-/ding to the Ebrue and Greeke, and conferred With/ the best translations in diners langages./ With moste profitable Annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great/importance as may appeare in the Epistle to the Reader. / woodcuts, Ato. Geneva, j printed by Rovland Hall. M. D. I.X./ (June 13, 1887 ; 337). 44 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— English * First Edition of the famous Genevan version, commonly known as the " Breeches Bible," from that word being used in Gen. iii. 7, instead of Aprons. Horner's sold for £29 10s. and Sir W. Tite's for 1^1. Four prel. leaves. Text Genesis to II Maccabees, 474 folioed leaves ; New Testament, 122 leaves ; " A Briefe Table " HH.h. iii. to LLl. iii. 13 leaves, followed by one page, The order of the yeres from Paul's conuersion " etc. reverse blank. This Bible, the result of the labours of English exiles at Geneva during Queen Mary's reign, was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth — and though never sanctioned for public use in churches, continued to be the household Enghsh Bible for three-quarters of a century. The Holie Bible. The Bishop s Version, 6. \., woodcuts, with engd. title containing copper-plate portrait of Queen Elizabeth and with portraits of Earl of Leycester and Lord Burleigh on copper, fo. Richard Jugge, 1568. (June 13, 1887 ; 338). * The " Bishops' " Bible— a revision of the " Great Bible," undertaken by Archbishop Parker, with the assistance of eight bishops. It appeared :"cum privilegio regise majestatis," and its use was sanctioned by order of the Convocation in 1571, wherein it was expressly ordained that a copy should be placed in every Cathedral, and that every Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, and Ecclesiastical Dignitary should have one exposed in his hall or dining room for the use of servants and visitors. The destruction therefore, by wear and tear, renders it astonishing that any copies have escaped destruction. The present very fine copy at end of Psalms has the " Nnmenis secuvdnm Heb- raos " instead of being blank as usual. It is sometimes called the " treacle Bible," from Jeremiah viii., 22 : "Is there no tryacle in Gilead ? " rendered rosin in the Douai version, and balm in that of 161 1. The same, 1568. (April 19, 1904 ; 398). * Dr. Furness in liis Variorum Shakespeare proves, from internal evidence, that a copy of this edition of 1568 must have been in Shakespeare's possession. For further particulars see Dr. Furness' edition of The Merchant of Venice, p. 42, and Winter's Tale, p. 120. Bible/ and Holy Script vres/ conteined in the/ Olde and Newe/ Testament./ Translated according to the/ Ebrue & Greke, & conferred with the beste translations/ in diners languages./ (.•.)/ With moste profitable Annotations/ vpon all the hard places of the Holy Scriptvre, / and other things of great importance, mete for/ the Godly Reader./ Printed in Edinbvrghj Be Alexander Arbuthnot, Printer to the Kingis Maiestie, dwelling/ at ye Kirk of feild. 1579./ Cvm gratia et Privilegio Regiae/ Maiestatis./ woodcuts, fo. Edinb. 1579 (June 13, 1887 ; 339). * The first Scotch Revision of the Genevan or Breeches Bible, and the first English Bible printed in Scotland. Before the printing was completed Bassandyne died ; but in all the copies the title of the New Testament bears his name, with date 1576. In 1579 the complete volume was issued under sanction of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with a dedication to James the Sixth, and other preliminary leaves, printed by Alex. Arbuthnot. [The sale catalogue contains a collation, reproduced from the Caxton Cele- bration Catalogue. Ed.]. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 45 BIBLES— English Bible, with most profitable Annotations upon all the hard Places* Genevan Version {Breeches Bible), revised by L. Tomson, 2 en- gravings on copper {not mentioned by Lowndes or Lea Wilson), map of Canaan, S-c, fo. Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1610 (June 13, 1887 ;341). * This is the second edition of the Bible printed in Scotland. It seems to have been considered a masterpiece of handsome printing and as remarkably free from typographical errors, many subsequent editions boasting of being " conform to the edition printed by Andrew Hart." The following is a correct collation of the volume : Title, Scripture Genealogies, 18 ff. Map of Canaan, with Description, 2 ff. To the Christian Reader, 2 pp. Almanack and Calendar, 3 ff. having on reverse of last " How to take profit," &c. and not blank as in Lea Wilson's copy. Verses on the Incomparable Treasure, with Names or Order of the Books, on reverse, 1 f . + 496 ff. very irregularly marked and last numbered 513 (caused by signature Yy y and Z z z, ff. 403 to 414 being omitted). Next follows New Testament, 148 ff. + 8 ff. for Tables reverse of last blank. In Exodus xxx., 12, a line is omitted, but suppHed by a slip pasted on. In Deuteronomie, sig. P, 2 and 5, are deficient, for which those signatures from New Testament are inserted. Holy Bible appointed to be read in Churches, with Calendar and Speed's Scripture Genealogies, 1&. (., woodcuts, 32 //. + 2 //. containing map of Canaan and signatures A-Ccccc vi containing Old Testament and Apocrypha + signatures A-Aa 6 for New Testa- ment, fo. R. Barker, 1611 (June 13, 1887 ; 342). * * This is the first or standard issue of the 161 1 Version of the English Bible, which differs in almost every leaf from the second issue in the same year. The title to this copy is engraved. The first issue has obtained the name of the Great He Bible, and the second that of the Great She Bible, from their res- pective reading of Ruth III., 15, that in the first being " He went into the citie," and in the second, " She went." Holy Bible, Authorised Version revised, with Book of Common Prayer and Psalmes in Metre with Music, 3 vol., L. P., fo. Cam- bridge, T. Buck and R. Daniel, 1638 (June 13, 1887 ; 344). * Perhaps the finest Bible ever printed at Cambridge, and which served as the Standard Text for many subsequent editions. There is however a remarkable typographical error in Acts VI., 3, where " Ye " instead of " We may appoint " is printed. The blunder, printed in 1638, although repeated- ly followed by other printers, clears Cromwell from the imputation of having given a bribe of ;g 1,000 in order that the Independents might quote the Text as authority for appointing their own ministers. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, newly translated out of the Originall Tongues, Companie of Stationers, 1651 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 78). 46 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— English * The title is an architectural compartment, and the three divisions of the volume have separate titles. This is the Earliest English Pocket Bible, and precedes the Pearl Bible (hitherto considered to be the first Pocket Bible) printed at Cambridge in 1653, by two years. The type is remarkably small and equally clear, and is probabl}' the model which suggested to the Univer- sity printer his later undertaking. This edition was unknown to Lowndes, and there was no copy amongst the Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition of 1877, Holy Bible, G. Calvert, 1653 (Mar. 11, 1896 ; 52*). * This edition known as " The Quaker's Bible," and so scarce that Mr. Loftie informs us " that the only perfect copy known is in the Baptist Library, Stoke's Croft, Bristol." BIBLES— French. Bible Frangoys, translatee selon la pure et entiere traduction de SainctHierome (par Jacques le Fevred'Estaples). 2 vol. in l.b.t., woodcuts, vol. I., 12//. including title + 499//. vol. II.,8ff. including title + 99 ff., fo. Anvers -.par Martin Le7npereHr, 1530 (June 13, 1887 ; 361). "■ This splendid volume was long regarded as the first con:plete Bible in the French language. It was translated by Le Fevre of Estaples from the Latin Vulgate, and was so faithfully done as to become the basis of all other French translations, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. It is, however, now rendered certain that the entire work had previously seen the light in six small octavo volumes, between the years 1 523 and 1528, which volumes are so scarce that no library, as far as we know, possesses a complete set. The New Testament was printed by Simon de Colines at Paris in 1523, and again in 1524. By an order of the French Parliament, 28th August, 1525, the work was censured and rigorously suppressed. The New Testament was in 1524 and 1525 reprinted in Antwerp by Vosterman, and again in 1525 it was re- printed at Basle. In 1528 Martin Lempereur printed the Pentateuch and the Prophets in two volumes. The Psalms had been printed separately in 1525 by Colines at Paris. Lempereur again reprinted some of the volumes in 1529 and 1532, in octavo. La Saincte Bible en Fran^^oys, translatee selon la pure et entiere traduccion de Sainct Hierome, conferee et entierement revisitee selon les plus anciens et plus correctez exemplaires, &c. avec le Calendrier, Interpretations des Noms Hebraiques, &c. (par Jacques le Fevre d'Etaples), lettres hatardes, double columns, title in red and black, within woodcut border in compartments, numerous woodcuts and initials, fo. Anvers par Martin VEmpereur, 1534 Dec. 16, 1903 ; 98). * Reprinted from the first edition of 1530. All these early editions of the French Bible by Lefevre were placed upon the Index. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 47 BIBLES— French. La Bible qui est toute la Saincte escriture en laquelle sout cou- tenus le viel Testament et le nouveau, translatez en francovs, le viel de Lebrieu, et le nouveau, du grec, h. l, 8 //. + 186 //. + 66 ff. + 60//. + 106 ff. woodcut capitals, fo. Acheve dimprimer en la Ville et Conte de Neufchastel. par Pierre de W ingle, dit Pirot picard, Ian, 1535 (June 13, 1887 ; 362). * The WodhuU copy sold for ;£39 10s. This is the first French Bible pub- lished by the Vaudois Protestants. It was the work of P. Robert Olivetan, who had the valuable assistance of his cousin J. Calvin. Copies in good condition are exceedingly rare. The translator's name is found in an acrostic on the back of the seventh preliminary leaf, which reveals the words " Petrus Robertus Olivetanus ; " and another peculiar feature of the book is the metrical colophon at the end, out of which, by picking the first letter of every word, we obtain this couplet : — Les Vaudois, peuple evangelique Ont mis ce thresor en publique. La Bible, quant est du Nouveau Testament, il a este revueu nou- vellement et corrige sur le Grec, woodcnts, fo. A. Rebid, 1562, et C. Badius, 1561. (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 1432). *■ Tliis edition is one of those known as the ' Huguenot Bible." It is of rare occurrence in folio, as after 1572 (the year of the St. Bartholomew Massacre) all copies that could be found were seized and burnt by the Romani.sts. Saincte Bible traduicte par les Theologien"? de Louvain, 4to. Rouen, 1605 (Mar. 11, 1896 ; 34). * Much sought after on account of the French table of the Jesuit F. Har- lemius, in which he cites passages to prove the Mass and Purgatory. BIBLES— Georgian. Bible in the Georgian Language, 558 //., fo. Moscow, 1743. (June 13, 1887 ; 373). "■ Only 10 copies are known, as nearly the entire impression was destroj'ed in the burning of Moscow in 1812. For forty years the late and present I/ords Crawford hunted for this Bible, and only got it through the pressure brought to bear diplomatically. BIBLES— German. Bibel in Deutsch. Second Edition of the German Bible, printed without title-page, pagination or register, 404 //. in double columns with 60 lines to a full column, sine ulla nota, sed Straszburg, H. Eggesteyn circa 1466 (June 13, 1887 ; 376). ■* Sir John Thorold's copy sold for £80. Brunet, agreeing with Hain, con- siders this edition the first Debure informs us that there is not a copy in any library, public or private in Paris. The variations in the text (especially in the Apocalypse) do not appear in any subsequent German Bible. Ac- cording to two of the very suspicious Latin inscriptions in the Wurtemberg copy, the work was printed at Mayence in 1462 by Fust and Schoiffer. 48 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— German. Die Bibel, das ist die gmtze heylige Geschrift, (. g., red and black, double columns, 58 lines, very finely printed, without signatures numerous fine woodcuts, and a remarkable series of historiated and ornamental initials, 2 vol., fo. Augsburg {Guniher Zainer,c. 1473- 4) (Dec. 5, 1898 ; 180). * One of the finest productions of G. Zainer's Press, and remarkable for its woodcuts. Mr. William Morris has written a long and glowing account of the book on the fly-leaf of the first volume, in which he regards it as " a very remarkable book as a work of art," and considers the historiated initials as, on the whole, the best of the period. Die Deutsche Bibel ; die gantsche heilige Geschrifte, (. g., double columns, CCCCCL,XXXIII. numbered II. without signatures 107 spirited woodcuts, some with scrolls of text in the manner of the ancient Block Books, all iincoloured, large ornamental capitals, fo. Nuremb. Ant. Koberger, 1483 (Feb. 27, 1899 ; 1805). * The ninth edition of the Bible in German, and the first printed in Nuremberg Of the greatest rarity with all the extraordinary woodcuts in uncoloured state. These cuts are usually said to be the same as those used for the low Saxon edition of Cologne about 1480, but the British Museum Catalogue says : " There are numerous woodcut illustrations different from any in previous editions." (b) The extraordinary woodcuts are the same as those used for the Low-Saxon edition of Cologne about 1480. In this edition the Temptation of Joseph is attributed to Pharaoh's (not Potiphar's) "Wife. — Die Biblie mit vlitigher ; recht na deme Latine in Dudesch averghesettet. Mit vorluchtinge unde glose ; des hochghelerden postillatoers Nicol. de Lyra, unde anderer velen hillighen doctoren, i. g., double columns, numerous large and small spirited woodcuts, some repeated several times, fo. Lubeck, Steffen Arndes, 1494 {with device) (Dec. 5 1898 ; 184). * This is really the First Edition of the Bible in the Low German Dialect. The woodcuts are very remarkable and quite original. — De Biblie uth der Uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers yn dyth diidesche vlitich uthgesesset, numerous fine woodcuts, the first, of Adam and Eve, occupying the whole of the page, fo. Lubeck, Ludov. Dietz, 1523 (Nov. 8, 1897 ; 32) * The first edition of Luther's Bible in the Low Saxon Dialect. The remark- able woodcut of Adam and Eve occurs also in Mathew's English Version of 1537. — Biblia beyder Alt und Xewen Testaments Teutsch, h. J., woodcuts title + 287 //. + 76 //. for New Testament + 12 //. for Glosen iiber die Bibel, fo. Wormbs, bei P. Schofern, 1524 (June 13, 1887 ; 386). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 49 BIBLES— Gennan. * The Bible of Worms, the Anabaptist version attributed by some to Kantz and by others to L. Hetzer decapitated at Constance in 1529 and J. Denck. It is printed with the same type as that used in the first edition of Tyndale's Testament in English, the woodcut on folio LVIII (2 Thess. ), being the same as that in Tyndale. Alle Propheten nach Hebraischer Sprach verteiistscht, lit. QOtb, title within woodcut border, initials, sm. fo. Hagenaw, Wilhelm Seltz, 1528 (April 12, 1899 ; 103). * A version made by Hetzer, the Anabaptist. Apparently unknown to bibliographers. Die Gantze Bibel, das ist alle biicher altes unnd neiiws Testa- ments den Urspriinglichen Spraachen nach auflFs aller treiivvlichest verteutschet (mit Concordantzen, Argumenten, Zalen und figuren, (. g., double columns (2 parts in 1 vol.), 2 woodcut titles, 198 fine woodcut illustrations in the text, after Holbein, etc., numerous fine woodcut hisioriated initials, calligraphic and ornamental capitals, &c., large fo. Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1531 (May 21, 1906 ; 82). * This edition contains the first impressions of the woodcuts from the designs of Hans Holbein, afterwards used for a Bible published by Trechsel of Lyons, and frequently issued in separate editions subsequently. Biblia Deudsch durch Mart. Luther, blacf? ICtteC, woodcuts, 6ff. + 212 ff. + 85//. + 6//. + 114//. + 59//. + 106//. + 2//. + 200 //. (12 by 8 inches), fo. Wittemberg, Hans Lufft, 1534 (June 13, 1887 ; 388). * First edition of the entire Holy Scriptures, translated by Dr. Martin Luther, different portions having been previously published by him. The Apocrypha appeared herein for the first time. Bibel Teutsch, 2 vol. in 1, 6. (., woodcut of the creation of Eve, vol. I. 8 //. + 300 //. + 1 blank, vol. II. 286 //. Ziirich C. Froschouer, 1534 (June 13, 1887 ; 390). * This Ziirich version is remarkable for its difference from that of 1530 which was more in harmony with Luther's translation. It is evident that the change to Swiss idiomatic expressions was designedly done for the better understanding by the peasantry of Switzerland. BIBLES— Icelandic. Biblia thad er oil Heilog Ritning utlogd a Norraenu : med For- malum Doct. Mart. Luther, Ut. QOtb., 2 titles within woodcut borders, numerous woodcuts, fo. Prentad a Holum af Jone Jons' Syne, 1584 (April 21, 1903; 207). * The first edition of the Bible in Icelandic, of which only the Old Testament was issued in this edition. It was edited and partly translated from the Latin by Bishop Gudbrund Thorlakson, of Holar, who also drew and engraved the woodcuts. 50 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— Irish. Old Testament translateil by W. Eedel. Bishop of Kilmore. and New Testament by W. O'Donneil. 2 vol. in 1. Printed in Irish Ch^TAcUTS, fine uncut c-Sl (Dec. 3. 1900; 574). Probably trnique in uncut st.ite. First edition of the complete Bible in Irish and now ver>- rare in any state. BIBLES— Italian. La Bibia tradottii in Lingua Toscana, quanto al Testament© Vecchio et di Ungua Greca quanto al Nuovo (tradotto per Antonio BracioU). wooac:tt firo , . utriusq^. instru- menti novam tranlatione {sic) aeditam a reverendo . . doctore Sancte Pagnino (cum Interp. Hebraicorum Nominum, etc.), lit. rom., double columns, 55 lines, Ato. Lugduni, impressa per Ant. Die Ry, impensis Fr. Turchi iJom. Berticinium et Jac. de Giuntis, 1527 (on title 1528) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 81 ). * The first Bible divided into verses ; with a fine v.oodcut title in compart- ments, with mark I. F. Z. (Giunta). The Apocrypha in this edition is rele- gated to the end of the vol. with a separate pagination. Biblia Sacra ex Santis Pagnini tralatione ad Hebraicse lingue araussim novissime ita recognita et scholiis illustrata — Access. praeterea Liber interp. Hebraicorum, Arabicorum, etc., fo. Lugduni, 1 542 (Feb. 9, 1903 ; 964). • " This edition of Pagninus' Latin Version of the Bible was carefully re- vised by Michael Servetus, and is said to have been made by Servetus from a copy of the version corrected by Pagninus himself, and has consequently been esteemed for its correctness. This edition is, however, very scarce, as all copies that could possibly be obtained were employed in supplying the fire at which Servetus paid the debt of Nature." — Pettigrew, 52 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— Latin. Biblia Sacrosancta Testamenti Veteris et Novi e sacra Hebrae- orum lingua grgecorumque fontibus consultis simul orthodoxis, &c. fo. Tiguri, Ch. Froschover, 1543-44 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 244). * {a) The celebrated Tigurine Bible prepared by the Divines of Zurich. Principally the work of Leo Judahwho was engaged upon the translation for upwards of eighteen years. Theodore Bibbauder translated the 8 last chap- ters of Ezekiel, Job, the last 48 Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles. The Apocrypha was translated from the Greek by Peter Cholin. The New Testa- ment is Erasmus's translation revised by Rudolph Gualter. The whole work was revised and edited by Conrad Pellican. The fine series of woodcut initials represent the Dance of Death. * (h) This is not the Vulgate text, but, so far as the Old Testament is con- cerned, a new translation of the original texts made by Leo Judae with the assistance of Bibliander and others. The New Testament is the version of Erasmus revised. The first edition of Leo Judae's Latin Bible. Biblia interprete Sebastiano Castalione, una cum eiusdem Anno- tationibus, numerous fine woodcut initials, apparently from Holbein's designs, fo. Basilece per Joannem Oporintim, 1554 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 555). * This edition of the curious translation of the Bible made b}- Sebastian Cas- talio was revised by the author him.self. It is remarkable as an attempt to render the Scriptures into classical Latin, and led the translator into some considerable difficulties. In his attempt to adhere to the stj-le and language of Cicero, he translates, for example, angcJ as gevius, baptism as lotio, and the Church as respublica, &c. Biblia, Latine redditum ex auctoritate Sixtus V., Pont. Max. editum, Papal device on title and at end, fo. Roma, 1588 (July 29, 1901 ; 329). * The famous Sixtine Bible, suppressed by this Pope's successor, Gregory XIV. The copy sold in Lord Holland's sale for £45. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, edidit Brianos Waltonus vS. T. D. Re- publican copy, port., engd. title and plates by Hollar, 6 vol., fo. T. Roy croft, 1657 (May 16, 1901 ; 52). * Republican copies are very rare, and are so named because of the compli- ment paid to Cromwell in the Preface ; this Preface was afterAvards partly suppressed and other leaves substituted on the restoration of Charles II BIBLES— North American Indian. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, Ato. Cambridge {Mass.) Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663 (June9, 1902 ;27). I NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 53 BIBLES—North American Indian. * This is the famous Bible translated into the Algonquian Indian tongue by John Eliot " The Apostle to the Indians." It is one of the twenty copies sent to England for presents, and Mr. Wilberforce Eames thus describes it in his Bibliographical Notes on Eliot's Indian Bible {Washington, 1890). " An unusually large and fine copy with many rough leaves. It remained in the original binding of dark blue morocco, gilt edges, and in the finest condition until after 1870 when it was rebound in olive [brown] levant gross-grained morocco by F. Bedford. Size of the leaf T^V by 5§ inches. With the diamond shaped figure on the Indian New Testament title. As originally bound this copy did not contain the leaf of contents and therefore was like No. 17 of this list, described as a fifth variety. The leaf, however, was afterwards inserted from another copy, so that it conforms now with the description of the third variety. On the verso of the title is the stamp of the Bodleian Library of Oxford, by which institution it was sold as a duplicate. It came to the United States about the year 1863 and was offered for sale at ;£100. Mr. James T. Bruce of New York purchased it, and at the sale of his library, New York, April. 1868, it brought $1,130 .. . passing into the collection of Mr. John A. Rice of Chicago, who supplied the leaf of contents from an imperfect copy of the Bible in his possession. At the sale of his books, New York, March, 1870, it was bought for «1,050 by Mr. J. W. Bouton, the bookseller, who sold it to Mr. William ^lenzies of New York. It was then learned that the leaf of contents which had been inserted by Mr. Rice was from the edition of 1685 .... This mistake Mr. ^Menzies rectified by inserting [and inlaying] a genuine leaf from an imperfect copy of the first edition in his possession. He also had the book rebound, preserving its original size, &c., &c. Since the above was written this copy has been in the hands of several other great American Collectors, always changing hands at an increasing price. Origin- ally but twenty of these Bibles were made in this shape, with the dedication for presentation in England. Mr. Eames describes no less than eleven as being in public collections. Eight, including the present copy, are in the hands of individuals, several of them never being likely to come into the market. Collation :— Title in English 1 1. + Dedication to King Charles II., 2 11. + Contents, 1 1. (inlaid) + Text, Genesis to Malachi, sigs. A — Lllll in 4's + Mmmmm 2 11.+ New Testament title in Indian with the diamond-shaped type ornament in the centre, 11. + Text, New Testament, A2 — L and Aa^Xx in 4's, the last leaf blank, + Psalms in metre. A— N2 in 4's + " Rules," 1 1. + blank leaf. This copy is of the third variety described by Eames, in which the Indian general title-page, the English New Testament title, and the Dedica- tion of the New Testament were omitted. BIBLES— Polish. Biblia Swieta tho jest Ksiegi Starego y Nowego Zakonu, wlasnie z Zydowsldego, Greckiego y Lacinskiego, nowo na Polski jezyk z pil noscia y wiernie wylozone, Editio Princeps, (. g. engd. titles, woodcuts and ornamental initials, fo. Drukowano w Brzescia Litewskino, 1563 (Dec. 2. 1901 ; 485). * The first edition of the Bible in Polish, translated by the Socinians, under the patronage of Prince Nicholas Radzewill, Chancellor of Lithuania. Per- fect copies are impossible to obtain, and even imperfect copies rarely occur for sale. 54 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S BIBLES— Roumansch. Biblia, tradutta in lingua Rumanscha d'Ingadina Bassa, tras cumun cuost e lavur, da J. A. Vulpio et J. Dorta a Vulpera, 4 vol., curious woodcut titles containing several compartments of figures, forming fro?itispieces both to Old and New Testaments, vol. I. 6 //. + 754 pp. + blank leaf, vol. II. 286 pp. + blank leaf, vol. Ill title to New Testament -f 332 pp., vol. IV. Apocrifa, 140 pp., fa. Schuol ISchulz), Jacob Dorta a Vulpera, 1679 (June 13, 1887 ; 465). * First Edition of this Roman Catholic version, in the dialect of the Lower Orisons, and first book printed at Schuol, or Schulz, a town of the Lower Engadine Valley, and made from the Italian translation of Diodati. Brunet had never seen a copy ; nor had Dr. Cotton, for the latter, in his Typographical Gazetteer, says : " This town (Schuol) is memorable for having produced the first edition of the Romancsche, or Grison Bible, which was printed in the year 1657 (error for 1679), and is an exceedingly rare hook," &c. Hartwell Home, in his " Manual of Biblical Bibliography," is, from ignorance of the edition, equally inaccurate. La S. Biblia quei ei Tut la vSoinchia Scartira, ner tuts ils Cu- dischs d'ilg Veder a Nief Testament cun ils Cudischs Apocryphs messa gin ent ilg Languaig Rumonsch de la Ligia Grischa, 1st Edn. 3 vol., /o. Coira, 1718, 17 (June 17, 1901 ; 373). * This first edition of the Bible in the Ladinish dialect of the Roumansch language, spoken by the Ladins, who reside on the confines of Italy. It was printed for the use of the Protestants of the Grison Country under the Patron- age of George I. Some copies have a printed dedication to him. BIBLES— Slavonic. Biblia Slavonica, translata a Methodo Episcopo Mora viae et Syrilloque fratre, fo. H. Typis Joannis Theodori Jum-ex magna Russia, Ostrobia, 1581 (June 13, 1887 ; 480). * This copy contains the last page dated 1580, which was csncelled because therein the printer styles liimself the slave of the Prince of Ostrcg. This gave offence to the Czar. A very complete description of this beck is to be found in Pettigrew's Bibliotheca Stisscxiava, Vol. II., pp. 241-267. BIBLES— Spanish. Biblia en Lengua Espanola, blacl? ICttCV, 6 //. + 400 //. + 1 /. for imprint, fo. Ferrara, 1553 (June 13, 1887 ; 485). * This is the famous Ferrara Bible, translated by the Jews, of which there are three varieties, two made expresslj- for the Jews and one for the use cf Chris- tians. This copy is that issued for Christians, and has in Isaiah vii. 14, Virgen substituted for Alma or Mo^a in that intended for the Jews. The MacCarthy copy sold for 400 francs. The extreme rarity cf this edition is the consequence of its being strictly prohibited by the Inquisition. Biblia trasladada en Espanol (per Cassiodoro Re^^la), 4to. s. I. 1569 (June 13, 1887 ; 486). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 55 BIBLES — Spanish. * A scarce edition of the Calvinistic Version, known as the " Bear- Bible " on account of the woodcut device of the printer (a bear attacking a nest of bees) on title-page. Reyna, in the copy he presented to the Basle Library, states that the work was printed at Basle by T. Guarin. Cyprian de Valera, who republished it in 1602, in his introduction informs us that even in his time the work had become so rare that no copy could be obtained. BIBLES— Swedish Biblia Suecica : Thet ar, All then Helgha Scrifft, pa Swensko. [Translated from the German version of M. Luther by O. Petri and ly. Petri], 6 parts in 2 vol., ft. (., woodcuts, part I. 6 //. in- cluding title inlaid, + 124 //. part 11. 158 //. part III. 78 //. part IV. 140 //. part V. 90 //. last blank, part VI. 165 //., fo. Upsala 1540-41 (June 13, 1887 ; 489). * This is the first edition of the first Protestant Bible in Swedish. The trans- lation from Luther's German Version was commenced by Lawrence Andreas, and finished by O. and L. Petri, under the protection of Gustavus Vasa. The imperfect copy at the sale of the Duke of Essex had a letter in it from Count Bjornstjema, the Envoy Extraordinary, &c., stating that no other copy of this Bible remained in Sweden. BIBLES— Wendish. Evangelia et Acta Apostoloram, Wendice, Ta pervi deil tiga Noviga Testamenta, utim so vsi shtyri Evangelisti. inu Diane Tih Jogrou, sdai Peruizh uta Slovenski Jesik skusi Primosha Truberia, sueistu preobernen (110 //. + 430 pp. + 1 /. + 128 //. Register), 4to. Vtihingi (Tubingen), 1557 (June 13, 1887 ; 315). * The Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, in the Croat or Wendisch language, of which it is the first printed document. The volume commences with Prefaces and a Calendar, followed by an explanation of Christian doc- trine, or Commentary on the Gospels, in sixty-two chapters. Of the rarity of the volume it is unnecessary to say much ; and it may suffice to mention, that all modem writers on Biblical translations are unaware of the existence of such a book, and a cursory and doubtful notice of it only is given by Le Long. It was quite unknown to Clement, who merely says that Le Long speaks of siich a book. Biblia Wendica (VandaHca), 3 vol., woodcuts, fo. Wittenberg, 1584 (Mar. 11, 1896; 29). * Nearly the entire impression was seized immediately after completion and destroyed. The Version was made by Georgivis Dalmatinus from Luther's Translation. This copy sold for £11 in the Earl of Crawford's sale. Bible Illustrations. Enchyridion, ou Manuel contenant plusieurs matieres traictees es livres de Ivancien Testament exprimees par figures, avec le texte appartenant a icelles : & apres ce sont ad- joustees aucunes fideles prieres, etc., translatees de langue Latine en Francoys, letires batardes, 86 spirited woodcuts, and cut of S. Paul on last leaf. Anvers par Martin Lemper eur et Simon Coc, 1535 (Dec. 3, 1908:119). 56 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * Some of these cuts, and especially the one of Saint Paul on reverse of last leaf, with the engraver's mark, were used for later editions of the New Testa- ment in English. The last copy sold was the Sussex- Ashbumham in 1897. Bicknoll (Edmond) A swoorde against swearyng, b. I., Imprinted at London for William Towreolde by the assent of Richard Watkins (1580 ?) (Oct. 29, 1900 ; 566). * It is said to be the only known book bearing the imprint of William Tow- reolde the bookseller, whose shop " adjoyned to the lylle Conduite in Cheape." Bidpay. Directorium humanas vitae alias Parabole Antiqoru Sapientu [tradtictum ex lingua Hebraeas in Latinum per Joannem de Capua] lit. CiOtb., long lines, 50 to a full page, with signatures (82 lL)[Hain, 4411], 119 spirited woodcuts, some repeated, sm. fo. absque ulla noia [Argent. J. Prusz, c. 1484-5] (May 21, 1906 ; 87). * The first edition of this extremely interesting old Fable Book ; remarkable for its fine German woodcuts. Bisse (J., of Magdalen College, Oxforde) Sermons at Paul's Crose, dedi- cated to Sir Jobn Horner, \>. I. R. Waldegrave, 1585 (July 2, 1903; 88). * Unknown to Lowndes. No copy in the British Musenm. Bisselli (Jo.) Argonauticon Americanorum, sine Historiae Perictilorum Petri Govei de Victoria, ac sociorum ejus, lib. XV., front, and map, by W. Kilian, Monachi, 1647 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 30). * A very interesting volume for the narrations it affords concerning Vesputius and Columbus. Drake, who is here termed " Thalassiarchus Anglus," and his companions, are spoken of as audacious English pirates, for their attack upon Lima. There are notices of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, William Winter, and others ; as also an account of the fight between the English and Spaniards at Panama. Bizari (P.) Historia della guerra fatta in Ungheria dall' invittissimo Imperatore de Christiani, contra quello de Turchi, con la narratione di tutte quelle cose che sono avuenute in Europa, dall' anno 1564, insino all' anno 1568, Lyone, 1568 (Feb. 27, 1899 ; 1070). * The volume contains the history of the amours of Mary Stuart and Bothe- well told to Bizari by Rizzio. This account appears to be printed here for the first time. The volume was unknown to Mr. Scott, the bibliographer of Queen Mary. Blacvodsei (A. ) Opera Omnia, with the rare portrait by J. Picart, Ato. Paris, 1644 (June 26, 1885 ; 129). * This edition of Adam Blackwood's Works contains his Answer to Buchanan de Jure Regni apud Scotos, Poemata varii Generis, Martyre de Marie Stuart Reyne d'Escosse (in French), &c. Dr. Laing's copy sold for £14 14s. Blaikie (J. A.)— See Gosse. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 57 Blake (William) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the two contrary states of the Human Soul ; Songs of Innocence, The Author and Printer W. Blake, 1789 ; Songs of Experience, ib. 1794. Fifty-four leaves printed upon one side only, each plate coloured by Blake himself. The titles to each plate are gilded, and gold is also used in heightening effects. Square Svo. mounted to imp. Ato size (Nov. 4, 1901 ; 5). * The numbering of the plates is continuous, although the two parts were printed in different years ; the figures are Blake's own, and are put on with a fine brush, not a pen, in red. The colour of the printing throughout is a light brown, and where it is indistinct or blurred Blake has worked over it with a brush with the same colour as he used for numbering the plates. This peculiarity is noticeable in all copies we have examined, whether printed in green, brown, or yellow, so that it evidently was his habit to work up the text where the printing was not quite clear. In the Butts copy one entire page is so treated. A feature in this present copy, and so far as we are aware it is in this particular unique, is that round each design Blake has put an ornamental border, done with a fine brush. These borders do not exceed in any instance a quarter of an inch in width, and are of the slightest description. Some of the borders indicate a draped hanging, others are entwined branches, and the rest are merely decorative ; they are, however, very characteristic, and a great feature in the decoration of this copy. We have seen in other copies a thin line-border round the plates, but in no instance has there been any at- tempt at ornamentation. This thin line-border now and then occurs here, but with ornamentation added. This copy is one of those mentioned by Gilchrist, as follows : — " There are copies in which certain minutiae are finished with unusual care and feeling .... Occasionally the colour is carried further down the page than the ruled space ; a stream, say, as in The Lamb, is introduced. " Block Book — See Apocalypsis. Boccaccio. II Decamerone, 5 vol., plates by Gravelot, &c., also the excessively rare suite of " Estampes Galantes des Conies du Boccace " (engraved title and 20 engravings by Gravelot), Londra {Paris), 1757 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 476). * The plates to this Italian issue are superior to the French issue of the same year. A number of them are paraphSe, and the final leaf bears the publisher's initials CM. (in manuscript) denoting the earliest issue. The suite of plates " Estampes Galantes " were rigidly suppressed. The Decameron, 1st Edn., Both Vsixts, woodcut titles and woodcuts in text (both titles dated 1620), fo. Isaac Jaggard, 1620 (May 6, 1901 ;931). * The First English edition of Boccaccio, and exceedingly rare, but especially so with both titles dated 1620, a circumstance which was unknown to Lowndes Mr. B. M. Pickering said of the copy he had — " all on record are dated, first part 1625, second part 1620, this copy has both parts of the date 1620. I have seen only five copies in the course of my experience." The Earl of Ashburn- ham's copy sold in 1897 for jg49. 58 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Boccaccio. Thirteen most pleasaunt and delectable questions entituled, a disport of diuerse noble personages, written in Italian by M. lohn Bocace . . in his booke named Philocopo : Eng- lished by H(umphrev G(i£Ford) Imprinted at London, by A. J. 1587 (Jidy 1, 1901'; 67). * According to Hazlitt (who refers to Capell's copy), the translator of these celebrated " Love Questions " (frequently very licentious) from the Philo- copo was Humphrey GifTord. Besides Capell's (which formed part of his collection of Shakespeare, and is now at Cambridge), only the Townely copy seems to have occurred for sale. Ninfale Fiesolano, nel quali si contiene I'innamoramento di Africo et Mensola, con i loro accidenti & morti ; nuovamente coretto & con le Figure ristampato, 18 very fine Florentine cuts within ornamental borders (30 //.) sm. 4to. Fiorenza, Valente Panizzi, 1568 (May 21, 1906 ; 101). * With cuts from an earlier unknown edition. These early Florentine cuts are referred to by Kristeller {vol. I., p. 22), who reproduces some from this edition. Vita di Dante Alighieri. Roma, F. PrisciaJtese Fiorentino, 1544 (May 6, 1901 ; 83). * The first separate edition ; it had previously appeared prefixed to V'indelin de Spira's edition of Dante's V\'orks ; for an interesting account see Brunet, who calls it " edition rare." Historiographi prologus in libros de casibus virorum illustrium incipit, X. <{., long lines, without marks, fo. {No place or date given). (Mar. 7, 1901 ; 239). * Editio Princeps of a famous iDook, and exceedingly rare. Described bj- Dibdin in Bibl. Spenc. iv. p. 455. Lord Ashbumham's copy sold for £22 in Jime, 1897. cie Mulieribus Claris, woodcuts with xylographic inscriptions [in- cluding that of Pope Joan with Life, often deficient), fo. Ulma, J. Czeiner de Reutlingen, 1473 (July 3, 1899 ; 49). * By Laire pronounced " Editio on°inalis et rarissima." A most elaborate and interesting account of this book, one of the earliest printed at Llm, is given by Dibdin in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, vol. IV., pp. 580-87, with several facsimiles of the woodcuts. Bodenham (John) Bel-Vedere or the Garden of the Muses, 1st Edn., Imprinted by F. K. etc., 1600 (June 2, 1908 ; 275). * A Collection of Sentences from Poets dead and living at the period, which must have been known to Shakespeare. Only verj' few copies are known. Livingston only quotes the Corser and Gaisford copies, and an imperfect one. Politeuphnia, Wits Commonwealth {circa 1630) (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 46). * Apparently the third edition. This collection of wise sayings, proverbs and pithy"^ sentences (taken from Elizabethan and other authors) was extremely popular at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. See Allot. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 59 [Boemus (Jo. A.)] Recueil de Diverses Histoires touchant les situa- tions de toutes regions et pays contenuz es trois parties du monde, Paris, M. Fezandat, 1539 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 629). * This is the earliest French edition of this ctirious book. It is full of strange stories, legends, and customs of the different nations of Europe. Some of the customs of the inhabitants of England and Scotland, as related by the author, are also most remarkable. Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae (Latine et Belgice cum com- mentario Belgico), (. ((., fo. Gheprendt te Ghend by my Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485 ' (Dec. 5, 1898 ; 311). * The most important work issued in Ghent in the XVth century by the city's first printer. de Consolacione Philosophica, 1st Edn., sm. fo. s. I. Hans Glim, s. a. {Date unknown) * The only other copy known is in Earl Spencer's library, which is made up in manuscript at end. It is one of the only three works bearing the name of Hans Gilm (an apprentice of Sweynheym and Pannartz), but in what town he exercised his art has not been discovered, although it was probably at Savigliano where he printed, whilst partner of C. Bayam, an edition of Guidonis de Monte Rotherii Manipulus Curatorum. Bohemia (Elizabeth of) — See Short ; Estat. Boissardi (J. J.) Icones Virorum illustrium cum eorum Vitis, 4 vol. in 2, engd. titles and 200 -portraits by T. De Bry, 4fo Franco/urti, 1597 (June 13, 1887 ; 525) * Mr. Beckford's copy sold for ^^21. Vol. I., 4 ff. + 336 pp. reverse blank. Vol. II., 300 pp. + 4 ff. Vol. III., 296 pp. Vol. IV., 4 ff. + 344 pp. reverse blank. Amongst other rare portraits are those of Columbus, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poggio, Savonarola, Bembo, P. Aretino, Macchiavelli, Erasmus, Bp. Fisher, Sir T. More, Archbp. Cranmer, Huss, Jerome of Prague, Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingly, Copernicus, Clement Marot, P. Ronsard, Orlando de Lassus, &c., &c. Bold (Henry) I^atine vSongs, with their English, and Poems, 1st Edn., with an errata slip pasted in the fly-leaf, 1685 (May 25, 1905 ; 78) * At p. 159 there are allusions to Mrs. Quickly' s account of Falstaff's death and to Hotspur's speeches in " King Henry the Fourth." (See Furnivall's Allusions to Shakespeare, pp. 281-2). Bon Ton Magazine, complete set, 30 coloured caricatures, 6 vol., 1818-21 (May 18, 1903; 107) * An exceedingly clever, humorous, and satirical work in verse and prose, written by the most celebrated wits of the day, including the best jeux d' esprit on the trial of Q. Caroline, &c. ; Byron's Don Juan, and contributions by Moore, Leigh Hunt, &c. Bonacioli (L.) Enneas Muliebris,Iv.P., io.s.l. & a. (June 18, 1888 ; 753). * This copy is lettered Circa 1480, but as the work is dedicated to Lucretia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, who only took that title in 1502, and as the author mentions in his dedication Pope Alexander VI. as at Death's door (he died 18 August, 1503), it must consequently have been printed in 1502, or not later than 1503. Panzer and Hain are wrong in attributing the impression to the XVth century. 60 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Bonaventura (S. ) etc. Incominciano le devote Meditatione sopra la passione del nostro Signore, cavate & fundate original mentc sopra sancto Bonaventura . . sopra Nicolao de Lira ; etiam dio sopra altri doctori & predicatori approbati, Prima Edizione in Lingua Italiana (?) lit rom. (34 // signs, a. e. a-b in 8 s, c-e in 6's), 11 re- markable outline Venetian cuts in the text, printer's device at end, sm. Ato. Venetia, per Matheo di co de cha {sic) da Parma 1489 (May 21, 1906 ; 110) * An extremely interesting edition. The woodcuts are remarkable for their elegance and force. The Due de Rivoli mentions this in an article in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, and gives an account of the different editions of this compilation. Another Edn., lit. rom. (42 II.), long lines, 38 to a full page {com- mences without formal title on ai), 12 very fine large Florentine wood cuts, within slight ornamental borders, a small initial cut of the Cruci- fixion at commencement of text, and ornamental initials, sm. Ato. " Finice sono le devote meditatione del nostro signor Giesu xpo {senza nota), [Firenze, Miscomini, c. 1495] (May 21, 1906 ; 111). * Noticed in Duplessis, Histoire sur la Gravure sur Bois, 1880. All the cuts in this book (except that of the Raising of Lazarus) are from the blocks used for the Epistole and Evangelii, Florence, 1495. Dialogus in quo Anima devota meditando interrogat et homo interior mentaliter respondet, Ato. Parisiis, 1423 {sic) (Nov. 16, 1885 : 639). * A curious and early specimen of Paris printing, though the date given is manifestly an error. There is a MS. date of 1478, in an ancient hand, which is probably about the date of the impression. Booke of Common Praier noted, John Merbecke, h. \. {black and red)y with square and diamond -shaped musical notes on four-line red staves, title within woodcut border, sm Ato R Grafton, 1550 (Mar. 24, 1909 ; 723). * The First Edition of this interesting work. Its importance in connection with the English Liturgy and Plain Song is well known. The author was organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and compiler of the first English Concordance to the Bible. The last copy sold was that of F. S. Ellis in 1901, which though slightly imperfect realised ;£202. Booke of Common Prayer and Administracio of the Sacramentes, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Churche of Englande, Anno 1552, h. i., title and Calendar in red and black, the title within a woodcut figured border, the royal arms above, and Grafton's marks below, large QOtbtC capitals. In aedibusRichardi Graftoni typographi Regii excusum Anno Domini 1553, mense Martii {with device) (Mar. 24, 1909 ; 709). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 61 * It appears to be the last of the King Edward Prayer Books, and is apparent- ly unnoticed by bibliographers. An edition [imperfect) of the same date was in the Makellar Library, but that was an ordinary Common Prayer with the Psalms, which this has not. It consists of the usual preliminaries, with the Morning and Evening Prayers, the Litany, the Collects, Epistles and Gospels for the year and the usual ofl&ces. K. Edward is mentioned in the Litany, but there is no special prayer for him. Lowndes records an edition of the same date in the White Knights Library which may not be this. This, on the other hand, should perhaps have the Psalter at the end, as it finishes with the Commination. Book of Common Prayer. Liber Precum Publicarum seu Ministerii Ecclesiasticse administrandis Sacramentorum, aliorumque rituum et ceremonarum in Ecclesia Anglican a, Ato. Excusum Lond. apud R. Wolflum (1560) (May 6, 1903 ; 49). * This Latin translation by Walter Haddon of the Elizabethan Prayer Book was issued as a substitute for Aless's Version of 1549. There were two edi- tions printed in the same year, this is one of those, with the Occasional Services added for use in Ireland, in accordance with the Irish Act of Uni- formity. Book of Common Prayer. [Spanish- Anglican, K. James I.]. Litur- gia Inglesa O Libro del Rezado pubblico de la administracion de las Sacramentas, y otras Ritas y Ceremonias de la Yglesia de In- galaterra (con los Psalmos), sm. Ato. Augnstae Trinobantium {Lond.) CID.ICI.IXIIV (1623) (Mar. 24, 1909 ; 722). * Some confusion has arisen from the peculiar way of expressing the date on title ; and it seems as if Lowndes makes three separate editions out of this one. But the " Reportorio por 28. Anos " begins with 1615 and ends with 1641. Prince Charles ( afterwards K. Charles I.) and Frederick the Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth (daughter of K. James I.) are prayed for in the Litany. Book of Common Prayer, etc., with the Psalter after the translation of the Great Bible, Pointed ; (with the Ordinal, and Articles of 1 562), lb. i., woodcut titles and initials, fo. John Bill, 1661 (March 24, 1909 ; 734). * This is a remarkable edition of the Common Prayer, which seems to have been hurriedly printed directly after the Restoration as a stop-gap before the " Sealed-Book " of 1662. The King, Queen Mary, and James Duke of York are prayed for. No copy appears in Livingstone's Auction Prices. Book of Common Prayer. An Accompt of all the Proceedings of the Commissioners of both Perswasions, Appointed for the Review of the Book of Common Prayer, etc., very irregular pagination and collation, hut quite perfect, Ato. 1661 (May U, 1898 ; 742). * This volume is of great interest to Liturgical Scholars, containing, as it does, all the alterations introduced into the Sealed Book of Common Prayer of 1662. There has been no revision by PubUc Authority since. It appears to be undescribed, Hazlitt mentions an edition, but evidently a later reprint with the errors in signatures, etc., corrected. 62 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Book of Fortune (The) being marvellous for the invention, pleasant to be read or heard, and in many things very profitable to be understood, very curious full-page woodcuts, jo. 1698 (July 3, 1899 ; 216). * This is a book of almost mediaeval antiquity in its original form ; there is an edition in Italian of 1484, published at Perugia, and it was reprinted more than once. Its first appearance in English is uncertain ; Lowndes m.entions an edition of 1672 as occurring at Perry's sale in 1822 ; but only that copy and three of 1698 are known, of wliich two, including the present, are inlaid the other inlaid copy being defective, while this is absolutely perfect. The engravings which embellish this exceedingly rare volume are executed with considerable care and skill. It must have enjoyed at one time immense popvi- larity, and the copies have no doubt perished under the hands of a multitude of readers. Booth (Rob.) Encomium Heroum, Carmine Tentatum, Ato. 1620 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 114). *■ Of this slender volume of 12 leaves Lowndes cites only the copy in the British Museum, and the Dictionary of National Biography devotes a short article to the author, noticing the dedication to Francis Bacon. Booth was born about 1590 and died in 1657. The title of this almost unique tract is rather misleading, as it is not a Praise or Encomium of Heroes in general, but of Bacon, James 1st, and the Earl of Dorset. Bacon, on his elevation to the Woolsack, seems to have conferred on Booth some very vital service, in which the King himself was a party. It is not stated what it was, but the circumstance is indirectly important and interesting, as it supplies one case (and there may have been many ), where Bacon performed an act of kindness or a benefit of an apparently disinterested character on behalf of a man who was nothing more than an obscure Cambridge student or tutor. Boothby (R.) Breife Discovery or Description of Madagascar, 1646 (June 15, 1897 ; 490). * Full of details respecting the inhabitants and trade of the country, &c. It is also of interest to the American collector. Chapter XV. commencing with " The valour of the English nation against the savages in Virginia and New England." The last chapter contains many interesting remarks on the early civilization of the Cliinese. Borgo. Patiolus de Borgo (Lucas) Divina Proportione, woodcut dia- grams and 87 separate plates of Proportions {including a whole Alphabet) at end, sm. fo. Veneta Paganinus de Paguninis, 1509 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 997). * Some of the designs are by Leonardo da Vinci. The Ashburnham copy realised :620 lOs. Borne (William) A Regiment for the Sea, containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men, and travailers, whereunto is added an Hidrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages into Cattay, Newly corrected and amended by Thomas Hood, D. in Phisicke, who hath added a new Regiment, and Table of de- NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 63 clination. Whereunto is also adjoyned the Mariners guide, with a perfect Sea Carde b}' the said Thomas Hood, woodcut of a ship on iitle, astronomical diagrams ; b. t., Ato. T. Este for T. Wight, 1596 (July 28, 1903 ; 430). * The Mariner's Guide has a separate title. Of this work there were earlier editions, going back to 1575 or thereabout, and it seems to have been ex- tremely popular, since it purported to serve as a guide to travellers abroad* and doubtless furnished much curious and apt information to those who, without being travellers themselves, desired to become conversant with such matters ; and among such, we apprehend, was Shakespear. This, with the same Author's Treasure for Travellers, may have given hints to the great poet. We believe the present edition to be the one used by Shakespear, who, in Macbeth, i. 3, makes the First Witch say : — " I myself have all the other, And the very posts they blow : All the quarters that they know I' the shipman's card " [ Not in I,owndes] . [Boswell (James)] Dorando, a Spanish Tale, 2nd Edn., /. Wilkie, 6-c, 1767 (April 24, 1899 ; 766). * Mr. Keith Leask referring to this book in his Biography of Boswell says " No copy of this forlorn hope of the Book-hunter has ever been found," (Air. B. Dobell has since discovered a copy of the first edition), but no mention is made of a second edition in 12mo., the first being a 4to. pamphlet of 50 pp. Boturini Benaduci (Iv.) Idea de unan ueva Historia General de la America Septentrional, fundada sobre Material copioso de Figuras, Symbolos, y Manuscritos de Autores Indios, &c., front, and port.. Ato. Madrid, 1746 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 261 ). * This work contains much important information not before published. The author during his eight years' residence in Mexico entered into friendly relations with the Indians in order to obtain their pictures from them ; he procured also copies of many valuable MSS. which were in the Libraries of the Monasteries. The above copy contains the scarce " Catologo del Museo Historico-I ndiana," 100 pp. than which we possess few documents more curious or interesting. This collection contained numerous ancient Mexican Paintings, very important MSS. on the history of the country, dictionaries, grammars, and other books written in various languages of New Spain. The greater part unfortunately no longer exist ; but some have been recovered, and are now in the valuable collection of M. Aubin. Bouchet (G.) I^es Serees, 3 vol., Paris, 1608 (June 18, 1888 ; 426). * Sterne enumerates Bouchet's " Serees " among the treasures of Mr. Shandy's Library, but says Dr. Ferriar " This Book is now become so extremely scarce that for a long period it had escaped all my enquiries^and the most persevering exertions of my friends." Brabant (Due de) La Joyeuse et Magnifique Entree de Monseigneur Francoys fils de France et Frere Unicque du Roy, par la grace de Dieu, Due de Brabant, etc., en sa ville d'Anvers, 2 ports of the Due de Brabant, engd. title, and 21 double-page engravings by A, de Bruyn, fo. Anuers, 1582 (Mar. 27, 1906; 473). 64 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S ♦Certain of these splendid engravings were used by Halliwell-Phillips to illustrate Shakespeare's " Troihis and Cressida " ; " L' entree de Frangois, Due d'Anjou, fils de Henri II. et de Catherine de Medicis, a Anvers, oil il allait etre couronne Due de Brabant, eut lieu le 19 Fe\Tier, 1582. Le volume est orne de 21 planches gravees a I'eauforte et tr^s importantes, on y voit le cortege du due, les chars qui en faisaient partie, les arcs de triumphs, jeux d'artifice, etc. et le serment prete sur la place publique." — Brtinet. Bracelos (Don Pedro Conde de, Hijo del Rey Dionis de Portugal) Nobiliario ordenado y ilustrado con Notas y Indices por J. B. Lavana, L. P., 6//. X 402 pp. x 18 ff.,fo. Roma, 1640 (June 13 1887 ; 546). * Containing the original Text in Portugese as written, by the Royal author, who lived at the beginning of the XlVth century, and is the first author who wrote on the subject. Brahe (Tycho) Astonomiae Instauratse Mechanica, port, of author, and numerous woodcut diagrams, fo. NorihergcB, apud Levinum Hulsium, 1602 (Mar 21, 1905 ; 554). * This volume is of the very first importance to students of Shakespeare, be- cause it contains what Professor S. Arthur Strong believed to be the original source from which Shakespeare took the names of Rosevcravtz and Guildev- stern, the two Danish courtiers found in Hamlet. Around the portrait of the author upon the title-page of this work are suspended the escutcheons of sixteen Danish noblemen with their names inscribed beneath each. Among these escutcheons are those of the two courtiers introduced into Hamlet by Shakespeare : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with their names printed be- neath ; the former being spelt " Rosenkrans," and the latter " Guldestere." (with the contraction mark over the first and second e). Professor S. Arthur Strong, some years ago, conjectured that Shakespeare had seen this book (the renown of Tycho Brahe ensured his volume foreign circulation), and had not only found it attractive, but convincing. The first edition of Hamlet was not published until 1603, whereas the present work of Tycho Brahe appeared one year earlier — 1602 — and the two officials — Rosevcrantz and Guildcnstcrn — were living when the first quarto appeared, ilrs. Stokes, in a paper on " Hamlet and Macbeth," touched incidentally on the curious point involved in Shakespeare's use of the names of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern . After referring to Dr. Leo's discovery that the two officials so named were actually at the Danish court when Hamlet was written and published, Mrs. Stokes justly remarks that it was "strange to use real names of contemporaries thus." A long account of this volume will be found in The Athenaeum, number 3997. Brant (S.) Stultifera Navis, The Ship of Fooles, trans, by Alex. Barclay, b. (., wood- engravings, 1570 (June 15, 1897 ; 513). * This will always be one of the most desirable volumes among the early poetical productions of the country. This second edition contains many of Barclay's smaller pieces not in the 1509 edition from Pjmson's press, the Mirrour of Good Maners, and The Egloges, translated from Dom. Mancini and iEneas Silvius Piccolomini (P. Pius II.). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 65 Branteghem (Guilhelmus de) Jesu Christi Vita, juxta quatuor Evan- gelistarum Narrationes artificio graphices perquam eleganter picta una cum totius aniii Evangeliis ac Rpistolis nee non Piis Preca- tionibus magna commoditate adpressus, title within woodcut border, 184 principal woodcuts of the Passion, &c., and numerous minor cuts and ornaments, sm. Svo. Antwerpiae apud Matthaeum Crom pro Adriano Kempe de Boiichout, 1537 (May 21, 1906 ; 124). * The woodcuts in this volume are by Levinus Witte of Ghent, whose name appears in the verses " In laudem Pictoris tabellaruni hujus Libelli." He is mentioned by Nagler ; but these cuts were unknown to the latter. They were used (many of them) for the edition of Tyndale's New Testament, published by M. Crom in 1538. Brathwait (Richard) A Solemne Joviall Disputation, Theoreticke and Practicke, Briefly vShadowing the Law of Drinking, 1617 ; 1st Edn. 2 parts in 1 vol., front, to each by W. Marshall. (May 25, 1905 ; 82) * The prints by jSIarshall are said to be the earliest known examples of his work. Referred to by Douce in his Illustrations of Shakespeare, vol. I., p. 457, and vol. II., p. 71. A Spiritual Spicerie : 1st Edn., 1638 (May 6, 1901 ; 106). * " Some specimens of this rare volume are given by Brydges (Restituta, vol. II.). The only perfect copies known are those in the British Museum (from Corser's sale), the Bodleian, and Kersal Cell (Byrom's copy)." — Hazlitt. There is no frontispiece in this copy. Lowndes does not note that there should be one. An Excellent Piece of Conceited Poesy : divided into two sub- jects : A Voice from the Vault, and An iVge for Apes. With other exquisite Ayers, and Select Fancies ; no lesse ingeniously than modestly descanting on these lines : and Extracted from the Choicest Wits of our Age, 2 plates by R. Vaughan, 1658 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 484). * Brathwait's poetical volume " The Honest Ghost," with a hitherto un- known title, scarce in any state, but with the additional general title given above, is of extreme rarity, and believed to be unique. As the collations given by bibliographers vary the present copy will be sold according to the colla- tion here given : Title as described, a 1 ; title, " The Honest Ghost, or a Voice from the Vault," a 2 ; Verses " To My Stationer," &c. a 3 and 4 ; pages 1 to 326, and a leaf following, " Annot," not paged. On E 5 (p. 73) is a title " Two Poems. ..Loves Lottery and The Cuckow...whereunto are annexed," &c. The Arcadian Princesse ; 1st Edn., front, by W. Marshall, and poetical explanation leaf opposite. T. Harper for R. Bostocke, 1635 (May 6, 1901 ; 86). * It consists of prose and verse ; on the latter Dibdin bestows much praise, and thinks that Brathwaite shines with more lustre as a poet from some passages in this work than in any other to which his name is attached. The collation agrees with that given in the Huth catalogue, having like the copy therein the extra leaves at end, which are frequently wanting. 66 ^-OTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Brathwait (Richard) The English Gentlewoman, 1st Edn., engd. title by W. Marshall, with folding explanation, sm. 4to. 1631 (May 25, 1905 ; 84). * A verj- uncommon book, and far rarer than the same author's " English Gentleman," which appeared the year previous. There are references to Shakespeare's Vevus and Adovis at p. 139, and to his Ayitoiiy and Clfopatra at p. 197. See Funiivall's J//»5Zo»s, p. 104. The Shepheards Tales To true poore Shepheards do this Proverb find, No sooner out of sight than out of mind. 1st Edn. London, printed for Richard Whi faker, 1621 (Mav 18, 1903 ; 56). * Probably the rarest of all Brathwaite's early works. The Huth copy, which was formerly in the Mitford, Taylour, Park and Utterson collections, being hitherto the only known example. See interesting note in the Hnih Catalogue. This is the first series of tales issued under the above title ; a second instalment forms part of the volume called " Nature's Emhassie," which was subsequently re-published in 1623 under the original title in The Shcpheard's Tales. Brerewood (E.) Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions through the chiefe parts of the World, 1st Edn., woodcut title, Ato. 1614 (Mar. 15, 1907 ; 158). * This curious work contains many references to the Early Churches in America, Florida, Virginia, Jamaica, Canada, etc., with an interesting proof that the Aborigines of the New World are the " progeuie of the Tartars." Breton (Nicholas) A Dialogue full of Pithe and Pleasure, between three Phylosophers : 1st Edn., h. (., sm. Ato. 1603 {Date unknown) * For an account of this author and his works see Drake's Shakespeare and his Times. A Post with a Packet of Mad Letters, 2 parts, h. \., titles to both parts, sm. Ato. 1669 (Nov. 16. 1885 ; 727). * A curious collection of letters upon all subjects, and of great curiosity and interest as the earliest " complete letter-writer," in the English language, with a separate title and table of contents to each part ; on each title is a wood- cut of a mounted postman blowing liis horn. A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love, G. Purslowe, 1622 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 485). * Unique. A copy of an edition of a year later sold in these rooms in 1868 for 3^19, and was purchased for the British Museum. There seem to be four impressions known, and all represented by single copies. Breval (J. D.) The Play is the Plot, a Comedy, 1st Edn., Ato. 1718 (May 25, 1908 ; 91). * There is an allusion and quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Preface, and at page 41, in an amusing conversation amongst the Strolling Players, Jack FalstafI is alluded to as being one of the players' masterpieces. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 67 Breviarium de Camera secundum consuetudinem Romane curie, very handsomely printed in a gothic type in red and black, fo. Vene- tiis per Antonium Bergomensem de Zanchis et Franciscum de Balthasar de Perusia, 1500 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 731). * Roman Breviary unmentioned by bibliographers. Both Hain and Panzer notice an edition printed by Antonio de Zanchis at Venice in 1497, but make no mention of this fine book printed three years later. Brevarium Romanum, cum Calendario, Deutsch. Breuier vo de romischen latainische breuier gerechtuertiget un auszgezogen mit giiter gemainer deutsch gedeuschet...gedruckt worden auff ko.«>ten ...Christofferen von Frangepane...Furst zu Zeng vogel und seiner ...frawen Appolonia...), b. t., woodcuts, (xvi. //. the first blank X 630 //.) facing vol. I. are portraits of Conte Frangepane and his wife, 4io. Venedig. Gregorius _de Gregoriis, 1518 (June 13, 1887 ; 1273) * This is probably one of the rarest Liturgies in existence, of which perhaps no other copy has ever been submitted to auction in this country. The ver- sion was made and printed at the expense of the Prince and Princess of Frangepane during their confinement for 53 months as prisoners of war in the small island called Dorasel (Torcello) near Venire, and the edition is supposed to have been entirely distributed by them in presents. In the first woodcut are portraits of the Prince and Princess. Breviarium Novum ac Generale Omnibus Clertcis atq. Presbyteris (maxime ssecularibus) per totam Christianitatem ; juxta ex-quisita (maxime ssecularibus) per totam Christianitatem ; juxta exquisi- tam Sacrosancta? Sedis Apost. Ordinatione, &c. edidit Franciscus Quignonus Presbt. Card. lit. rom. red and black, numeroiis woodcuts. Colonice, Joannes Soter, 1536 (Nov. 13, 1902 ; 92). * This edition is a reprint of the Roman edition of Card. Quignon's Breviary, printed in 1525, with the preface to Pope Paul III., afterwards suppressed. The Roman edition is practically unknown out.side the Vatican. This edition of Soter of Cologne appears to be unrecorded ; that of John Petit of Paris with the same date occurred in W. J . Slew's sale and realized £64. All the editions of Quignon's Breviary were suppressed ; and were consulted in the formation of Edward Vlth's first prayer book. Breviarium Romanum a Paulo III. recens promulgatum ex Sacra potissimu Scriptura & probatis sanctorum historiis constans : (Editum a Card. Quignone) ; ab authore denuo recognitum ; & Antiphonis, homiliis, precibus etc., additis ; etc., J. g., parva, red and black, double columns, 42 lines, Kerver's device on title and last leaf, 2 large oval cuts, representing David and Bathsheba and The Presentation in the Temple. Excusum Parisiis per Jolanda bon- home Viduam, Thielmanni Kerver absolutum duodecima Novebris MCCCCCXXXIX (1539) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 136). 68 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * An excessively rare edition of Cardinal Quignon's Reformed Roman Bre- viary with the Revised Preface to Pope Paul III. It seems to be unknown to Liturgical Collectors. There was an edition of the same date in small quarto issued in Paris by O. Maillard. It contains the Pope's Biall against King Henry VIII. This Breviary was largely used in compiling the reformed English Liturgies. Its use was finally interdicted by Pope Pius V. in 1 588. There is a peculiarity in the heading of the Preface of tliis copy (or edition) it beginning with " strum," the top line which would read " Ad nos — " being omitted by the printers. It must be either the second or third of the Paris editions. Breviarium Romaiixim ex sacra potissimum Scriptura, et probatis sanctorum Historiis nuper confectum, jo. Lugduni, 1546 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 732). * This is the reformed Breviary, compiled by the Cardinal Quignon at the desire of Pope Clement VII. The first edition was printed at Rome in 1535, but so much opposition was raised to it by the theologians of the Sorbonne \vhen it was submitted for their approval that it was withdrawn, and it is doubtful whether more than the title and preface (which are in the National Library at Paris) are extant, unless it may be found in the Vatican Library. This edition of 1546 represents the revised version, vhich was very commonly used in the Roman Church from 1536 till the Council of Trent decreed its suppression. Breviarium, una cum Psalterio, secundum ritum et consuetudinem Monachorum de observantia S. Benedicti in Tegernsee. Pars Estivalis et Hyemalis, 2 vols., fo. Impressum Tegernsee. Expen- sis R. D. Quirini Ahhatis ibidem, 1576 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 733). * This handsomely printed Breviary is perhaps the first important work which issued from the press of the ancient Benedictine Monastery at Tegernsee in Bavaria, founded in the 8th Centur3^ Cotton cites nothing before 1732, but Brunet mentions three small volumes anterior to the present work which issued from this press. The present volumes are printed in a large Gothic type in double columns, in red and black. Breydenbach(Bern. de) Dis buch ist innhaltend die heilige reysen gein Jherusalem zu dem heiligen grab, &c., \. g., with all the folding plates and rare frontispiece, also eight large spirited woodcuts in the text. Durch Erhart rewich von Uttrich yun der Statt Meyns {Mentz), 1486 (May21, 19(X) ;253). * The first dated German edition of this celebrated work. Printed in the same year as the original Latin issue, and containing the same beautiful frontispiece and plates, but of much rarer occurrence, particularly so with all the woodcuts and free from colour. Die fart ode reysz uber mere zu dem heyligen grab unsers herren Jhesu Cristi gen Jerusalem, &c., (. g., long lines, 36 to a full page, with 8 curious woodcuts, numerous woodcut capitals. Augspurg durch Ant. Sorgen gedrucket 1488 (Nov. 20. 1899 ; 824). * Issued without the folding plates found in the editions of Mainz, Lyons, &c. The woodcuts are very seldom met ^-ith entirely free from colour, as in the present case. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 69 Breydenbach (Bern, de) [Itinerarium Terrse vSanctae] sm fo [Colo- phon^ : Sanctarum peregrinationum in montem Syon ad veneran- dum chrisfi sepulchruni in Hierusalem, atque in montem Synai ad divam virginem et martyrem Katherinam'opusculum hoc contenfi- vum per Petrum drach cive.m Spirensem, impressum 1490 (May 21, 1906; 130). * Second edition of this very remarkable book : both as one of the earliest voyages to the Holy Land, and for the views of the principal towns visited by the author. Several of these views are very large, that of Venice being nearly six feet long, Jerusalem more than four feet, and Rhodes and Candia nearly three feet each. Copies rarely occur with these large folding plates entirely complete as they are here. Brigitta (Sancta) Das Buch der Himlischen Offenbarung der heiligen Wittiwen Birgitte von dem Kunigreich Sweden, \. g. parva, large and fine woodcut of the Saint enthroned on title, two large coats of arms of Hungary and Florian Waldauff, and 56 spirited German full-page and smaller woodcuts {some repeated) in the style of Albert Durer, folio. Nurnberg, Ant. Koberger (1502) (May 21, 1906 ; 131). * * This is the first edition of this Saint's Visions in German, and is usually ascribed to the year 1500. The colophon however reads " im andern nach tausent fnyiff hundert Jaren gedrucht und am XII. tag des monat Julii . . voleiidt ist warden " ; which seems to imply the date 1502 or 1501. Brito Freyre (Fr. de) Nova Lusitania : Historia da Guerra Brasilica, Decade Primeira, 2 parts in 1 vol., fo. Lisboa, na Officina de Joam Gabratn, 1675 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 371). * The second part is entitled " Viage da Armada da Companhia do Commer- cio, e frotas do estado do Brasil. A cargo do General Francisco de Brito Freyre. Impressa por mandado de el Rey nosso Senhor. Anno 1655." Of this important volume Nic. Antonio had never seen a copy, nor had Brunet, to judge from his erroneous description of it, and his being unable to record the sale of a single copy. Tornaux, also, in his Bibliothique AmSricaine, falls into an error respecting the date. Brome (Rich.) A Joviall Crew : or, The Merry Beggars, 1st Edn., 4to., 1652 (May 6, 1901 ; 891). * Dedicated to Thomas Stanley and containing commendatory poems by John Hall, J.B., James Shirley, J. Tatham, and Alex. Brome. In the verses byTatham will be found an interesting reference to Shakespeare and his play of Pericles. The Northern Lassie, a Comoedie, 1st Edn., 4to. Aug. Math- ewes, 1632 (May 6, 1901 ; 242). * This is considered the best of Brome's plays, and it met with good applause at its appearance. There are commendatory verses prefixed by Ben Jonson, Thos. Dekker, John Ford, &c. No copy in the Huth or Locker catalogues. Bromley (Wm.) Grand Tour of France and Italy, 1st Edn., suppressed and destroyed by the Author, 1692 (Feb. 26, 1900 ; 263). * At p. 173 is a most marvellous account of the ReUcks preserved in the Holy Cross of Jerusalem at Rome. 70 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Brooke (Christ.) and William Browne {author of Briiannia's Pastorals) &c.) Two Elegies, Consecrated to the never dying memorie of the most worthily admired, most heartily loved, and generally bewayled Prince, Henr^' Prince of Wales, 1st Edn., Ato. 1613 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 168). * Probably the rarest of the numerous tributes to the memory of Prince Henry, from the pens of famous poets: Christopher Brooke, well known as a contributor to his friend Browne's " Shepherd's Pipe," 1614, as well as the author of that remarkable Shakespearian production, the " Ghost of Richard the Third." Brown (John, D.D.) Athelstan, a Tragedy, acted at the Theatre in Drury Lane, 1st Edn., uncut, 1756 (May 25, 1905 ; 95). * Garrick wrote the epilogue, which contains the following curious lines : " O Shakespeare's Plays, with shrugg'd up Shoulders stare These Plays ? They're bloody murders — O Barbare ! And yet the man has merit. — Entre Nous He'd been damn'd clever, had he read Bossu Shakespeare read French ! roars out a surly Cit. : When Shakespeare wrote, our Valour match'd our wit. Had Britains then been Fops, Queen Bess hang'd 'em, Those Days, they never read the French — They bang'd 'em." Browne (Sir T.) Religio Medici (159 pages), engd. title by W. Marshall^ Andrew Crooke, 1642 (June 1, 1899 ; 897). * This edition (which none of Sir Thos. Browne's biographers appears to have seen, and which, from his endeavours afterwards to suppress it, is now ex- tremely rare) is the surreptitious impression of which Sir Thomas complains in thePreface and Letter to Sir K.Digby,prefaced to the subsequent editions. Religio Medici, engd. title by Wm. Marshall, pp. 159, Andrew Crooke, 1642 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 148). * One of the first two surreptitious editions, but containing the truer reading on p. 108, " how much we stand in need of the precept of S. Paul " ; instead of how little as in subsequent authorised editions. Religio Medici, 1st Edn., 1642— The same, 1642. Second Edi- tion, 2 vols., 1642-3 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 755). * Mr. Wilkin, in his edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Works, says : " These impressions are extremely rare, especially the former, of which my copy is the only one I have seen." The first edition printed with the author's leave was that of 1643. The same frontispiece by Marshall was retained, but the text was revised by the author, and many passages were either omitted or altered. This renders the editions of 1642 of more value, as representing the work as it was in the original manuscript, intended only for private use. The second edition alone sold for £S 1 Os. in the Crossley sale. Browne (WilUam) Britannias Pastorals, First Editions, 2 vol., engd. title by Hole, and pages 60 and 61 curiously engraved, fo. For George Norton, n. d. [1613] and 1616 (May 6, 1901 ; 279). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 71 * A poetical volume of the highest degree of rarity ; for a careful collation see the Grolier Club, 1893, and the Locker Catalogues; the present copy agrees with both of those, except that A3 is printed correctly, instead of being in error marked A2. The only other perfect copy we can trace within the last ten years is one which was sold in these rooms in 1891. See Douce's Illus- trations of Shakespeare, Vol. I., p. 388, and Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. I., p. 155. Browning (R.) Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession, 1st Hdn., 1833 {Date unknown) * Only three or four copies known. On the fly leaf, in the autograph of Browning, is the following note :— " Pauline. — Written in pursuance of a " foolish plan I forget, or have no wish to remember, involving the assumption " of several distinct characters : the world was never to guess that such an " opera, such a comedy, such a speech proceeded from the same notable " person. Mr. V. A. (see page second) was Poet of the party and predestined " to cut no inconsiderable figure. ' Only this crab ' (I find set down in my " copy), ' remains of the shapely Tree of Life in my fool's Paradise.' " (I cannot muster resulution to deal with the printer's blunders after " the American fashion, and bid people ' for " jocularity " read " syn- " thesis " ' to the end of the chapter.) " Bruce — See Gordon. Brunes (Joh.) Emblemata, 50 beaniifid prints aitrihuted to Crispin de Pa$s,'4to. Amsi., 1661 (Feb. 26, 1900 ; 191). * The plates represent various popular Sports and Pastimes, an excellent Shakespearian illustration occurs in the first print, viz. A Barber's Shop, with citterns and lutes for the use of customers. Bruscambille ses Fantaisies, with the rare engraved title, Paris 1615 (June 18, 1888 ; 572). * This whimsical production formed a prominent article in the Shandy Library. Sterne borrowed largely from it, particularly the Prologue and Chapter on Noses. Bruscambille ses (Euvres. Rouen, 1629 (June 18, 188S ; 576). * Sterne, in his Tristram Shandy, chap. 35, mentions Bruscambille as in the Shandy Library, expressing " There are not three Bruscambilles in Christen- dom except what are chained up in the libraries of the curious." &c. Brydges (vSir Egerton ) Stemmata lUustria, praecipue Regia, 1 1 plates, including the large one of the arms of the author, with 360 guarterings, fo. Paris, 1825 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 808). * This interesting vol. contains the descents of the noble houses of Lancaster, Leicester, Vere Earl of Oxford, Sudeley, Westmoreland, Warwick, Surrey, Arundel, Clare Earl of Gloucester, Fitzmaurice, Northumberland, Cumberland, Chester, Bridgewater, Pembroke, Winchester, De la Zouch, Stafford, Earls of Ewe, Montacute Earl of Salisbury, Mountford of Warwickshire, Baron Gurney, Lord Cobham, Berkeley, Essex, Lincoln, Salisbury, Norfolk, Cour- tenay Earl of Devon, De Spenser, De Roos, Fitzwalter, Derby, Harcourt, &c. At the end is an autobiographical memoir of Sir Egerton Brydges, with caustic notices of his contemporaries. 72 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Buch der Kunst Geistlich zu Werden. Hie nach Volget ein biich der Kunnst, von Latin en teutsch gepracht, etc., t. (J., the whole of the title heading (10 lines) on first page in red ; recto of first leaf blank, with cut of Christ in prison on reverse, and 99 spirited outline wood- cuts in the text, and woodcut initials {Hain *4036), sm. Ato. {colo- phon) " Das lohlich iin nutzlich hikhlin hat getruckt imd volenndet Jo. Bdmler zn Augspurg am freitag in der andern vastwoch am Anno, etc. in den Siben un Sibenzigisten Jar MCCCCLXXVII (1477) (May 21, 1906 ; 132). * The remarkable cuts in this Manual of Instruction by the unknown German artist are of great importance and value for the History of early German Art. The cut on verso of first leaf, which the B.M. copy lacks, is a stooping figiire of Christ tied to a column, the scourgers just departing leaving broken twigs on the grounu, the Madonna looking sorrowfully through the bars of the prison. At the head of the Christ are seme rude Hebrew characters intended to represent the inscription " Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews." It has been collated by the B.M. authorities and pronoimced to be perfect. ■ The vol. really consists of 1 10 11. of which two are blank. Hain gives 107 11. only. This is the first of four editions of the same book issued from the early German presses. The " Romische Kaisenn " for whom the work was translated was Eleanor wife of Frederic III. Buck (George) History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, port, by Cross, fo. W. Wilson, 1646 (May 18, 1903 ; 248). * Probably written in Shakespeare's time, as Buck died in 1623. Hazlitt, in his handbook, assumes it was written fiftj^ years before it was first printed, but Malone doubts that Buck was the real author, although Ritscn insists on it. Contrary to all previous writers, Buck makes King Richard an admirable man, and not at all the same as Shakespeare and other authors describe him. The work is dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, and this, the first edition, is very scarce, the second issue (1647) sold in these rooms (May, 1900) for £5 10s., and the first, last year, for £6 17s. 6d. Buckingham (Duke of) The Rehearsal, 7th Edn., sw, 4to. 1701 (May 25, 1905 ; 107). * Samuel Butler (author of " Hudibras "), with Spratt and Clifford, assisted the Duke in the compilation of this piece. Dr. Johnson observes that Waller is also supposed to have added his assistance to that of Cowley in the original draught of " The Rehearsal." There are references to Shakespeare's Henry VIII. and The Tempest at pp. 19 and 42. See Ingleby's Shakespeare Prayse, p. 346. Budd (Thomas) Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in America, Ato. \ Philadelphia, William Bradford.'] Printed in the year 1685 (June 9, 1902 : 41). * Besides being a very interesting and important early book on Pennsylvania and New Jersey this little volume has the distinction of being the fir.st hook printed in America by William Bradford. That this is the case there can no longer be any doubt, after the studv which has been given to the question by the late Mr. Frederick B. Stone and the late Mr. Charles R. Hildebum. The evidence is set forth in an extended note in Mr. Hildeburn's " Issues of the NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 73 Press in Pennsylvania," where this book is giv^n the second place. In calling it the " first book," we mvist except, of course, the little almanack of 1685, which was printed by Bradford earlier in the same year. Biidd himself, had settled in Burlington, N.J., in 1678, and owned 5,000 acres of land, which cost him ;£100. His book is not a religious treatise, as are so many books of the period, but it is a good account of the country and its resources, written with a view of inducing settlers to make their homes in the country. At the end is the translation of " The Dying Words of Ockanichon," who died in Bur- lington ; also an account of a Conference with the Indians at Burlington and other places. Bullinger (Henry) Judgment in certayne matters of Religion, 0. (. (Emden), 1566 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 494). * A very scarce volume without nam.e of printer or place of printing. On the back of the title are — " The names of the matters that are treated of in this booke. 1. Of mennes traditions, rites, and ordinances. 2. Of the ministry of the Church, &c. 3. Who hath right and power to call and ordeyn ministers, 4. Of the authoritye of the magistrate, how far it extendeth. 5. That Christ is the only head of the Church and no other. " Bullock (William) Virginia Impartially Examined, 4to. John Ham- mond, 1649 (June 9, 1902 ; 42). * This is a guide for prospective settlers, and is a well-written prospectus, notwithstanding that it was finished in a week's time, as the author declares : " Had you given me more time, I should have been larger in your satisfaction, but this is what six nights could produce, which time you know is all I had ; and of this, the recollecting and reading my ancient studies took up much ; but what is done (upon examination) j'ou'll find is clear and true." As it is, the work abounds v.-ith details of the colony of the highest value and interest ; indeed, in this respect it is not surpassed by any other contemporary work. Bulwer (John) Anthropometamorphosis : pori. of Author by W. Fai- thorne, and front, by Cross, with letterpress description opposite, also upwards of 160 woodcuts illustrating the absurdities practised on the body by all the nations of the World, sm. Ato. 1653 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 782). * This is assiiredly one of the most curious volumes ever compiled. The author has been at pains to bring together everything he could meet with of the treatment of the human body by different nations, ancient and modern, and in the New World as well as the old, according to the dictates of fashion, vice, or custom. The woodcuts with which he illustrates his examples are of the quaintest character. * Used by Halliwell Philipps to illustrate Shakespeare's Hamlet, Measure for Measure and Two Gentlemen of Verona in his Folio Edition. Bunsen (C. C. J.) Egypt's Place in Universal History, translated bv C. H. Cottrell, vol. I. and II., illustrated, 1848 (May 6, 1901 ; 51 j. * Formerly in the possession of Ruskin, who has written the following notes in pen and ink on fly-leaf of vol. I., " Thrown out with other rubbish, J. Ruskin, 3rd April, 1880," on frontispiece : " A Portrait of the Author ? " on bust of Niebuhr : " Modern Art and Intelligence ! ! ! ! " On the verses opposite to this : " What ? you assured ass — you ! " there are also some paragraphs noted, pages 378-382. On fly-leaf of vol. II., " Thrown out, J. Ruskin, Brantwood, 3rd April, 1880." There are also some satirical notes and corrections in the body of this volume. 74 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Bunyan (John) Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publican, 1st Edn. 1685 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 138). * This copy has the rare frontispiece containing a portrait of the author in his fifty-seventh year ; it is missing in most extant copies of the book ; and the book itself must be unusually rare, as it is not in Huth Catalogue, nor in Hazlitt's lists. No copy was in the OfTor collection. Meditations on the several Ages of Man's Life, to which is added Scriptural Poems, 1st Edn., numerous wood engravings. J. Blare at the Looking Glass on London Bridge, 1700-1701 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 109). * Both the Meditations and the Scriptural Poems are totally unmentioned by Offor, Bunyan's biographer, neither are they recorded by either Lowndes or Mr. Hazlitt. The Scriptural Poems has a separate title-page, and the pub- lishers probably intended to issue it separately. The Pilgrims Progress from this World to That which is to Come, delivered under the Similitude of a Dream, containing portrait, title and Author's Apology (6 //.) text pp. 232, and the Conclusion, 1 leaf. Signs. A-Q3 in 8's, the portrait forming Aj, (S\y, by 3| in. being the largest copy yet known). Printed for Nath. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry near Cornhill, 1678 (May 6, 1901 ; 900). * First Edition, of which not more than five copies are known, three of which are imperfect. This copy is unique, in having the engraved portrait by R. White, which it has been supposed was only issued with the Third Edition. This portrait has the view of the City in the background labelled ' Vanity,' in that generally accompanying the Third Edition the word is " Destruction," and Mr. R. E. Graves discovered in the latter some slight remains of the original " V and y " of the first impressions. He was of opinion that the portrait was originally issued with the first edition and had the word " Vanity," which was afterward altered to Destruction as more in conformity with the allegory. [See Correspondence on this Copy in "Notes and Queries," 7th Ser. Nos. 12, 14, 17, and 19.]. The Pilgrim's Progress, fourth edn., with the rare portrait of Bunyan dreaming, by R. White, N. Ponder, 1680 (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 209). * The genuine fourth edition, and so rare that we can only trace the sale of one other copy in recent years.which, wanting portrait and otherwise defective, realized ;£12 in 1894. The portrait, besides being of great rarity, possesses much bibliographical interest, having on its back the interesting " adver- tisement from the bookseller," in which Ponder bitterly complains of the " Land Pirates," as he calls them, who had counterfeited his book, and points out the difference between the genuine and false impression, winding up thus : " This fourth edition hath, as the third had, the author's picture before the title, and hath more than 22 passages of additions, pertinently placed quite thorow the Book, which the counterfiet hath not." Lowndes states that the portrait is by Roy, but he is evidently wrong, as the quoted portion of the above-mentioned advertisement clearly shows. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 75 Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, 5th Edn., with additions, portrait of the Author dreaming, left hand {differing from that in the edition described below), and a woodcut of the Martyrdom of Faithful on p. 126 (no other plates), {5^ by 3^ in.) Nath. Ponder 1680.' (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 156) * This is tlie geniiine fifth edition. The advertisement on reverse of the portrait mentions the disposal of the fourth impression, and calls this the " Fifth Impression," for which were "provided Thirteen Copper Cuts for such as desire them." This copy is without them." Five pp. of Bonder's Adver- tisements are printed at the end. Both these editions, this and the following lot, are excessively rare, and perhaps these and Offor's copies are the only perfect ones known. Lowndes notes another " Fifth " Edition, dated 1681, of which he says " the only two copies known are in the possession of George Offor." The Pilgrim's Progress, 5th Hdii. with Additions, engraved por- trait of Bunyan dreaming, with advertisement relating to the Sixth Edition on recto, and 13 copper-plate engravings (5 pp. of advertise- ments at end), (measures 5i by 3f in.) Nath. Ponder, 1682 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 157). * Although called " Fifth Edition " on the title, the advertisement on the reverse of Bunyan's portrait shows that this is really the Sixth Edition. " Having found good acceptation among the People to the Carrying off of the Fifth Impression . . . and observing that many persons desired to have it illustrated with Pictures . . besides those that were ordinarily printed to this Sixth Impression, hath provided Thirteen Copper-plates for such as desire them." Bunyan's portrait is a very fine original impression ; he is leaning on his right, the lion in his den below, City of Destruction above his left shoulder. Christian midway above, proceeding towards the Straight Gate. The thirteen engravings [with Bunyan's Verses ] were issued separately, and those who desired to purchase them separately, and those who desired them inserted in their copies, could have them so from the publishers. But un- doubtedly some copies of this set of cuts were purchased by people who had already some edition, and inserted by themselves, hence the confusion as to copies with plates. In tliis copy the set of plates has been bound in by the original publisher. It contains six original blanks. The plate of the Martyr- dom of Faithful which is a woodcut in the above copy, is here a copper-plate treated differently. The Pilgrim's Progress, " The Ninth Edition," with Additions, port, of Bunyan dreaming, and woodcuts. Printed for N. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry, 1683 (July 29, 1901 ; 464). ■" The ninth edition is stated by Lowndes to be 1684. In Offor's Catalogue it is also given as 1684. The copy in the British Museum is imperfect, want- ing the portrait. " This," Dr. Brown says, " is the only known copy of this date." 1683 The Pilgrim's Progress, front, and numerous cuts, 1688 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 877). 76 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * This edition presents the special interest of having been the last which the author, dying in the same year, lived to see. It is of almost or quite equal rarity to the first, no copy was knovni to Mr. Offor, and it exists at the British Museum in a fragment only. On the back of the portrait is an apocryphal notice to the effect that the plates were first added to this edition, in conse- quence of the favourable reception of the tenth issue," Bunyan (John) The/ Pilgrim's Progress/ The Second Part/ third edition corrected :/ Printed for Robert Ponder, and Sold by the/ Booksellers of London, 1690 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 91). * The only other copy of this volume it has been possible to trace is that in the British Museum ; in neither copy is there a frontispiece. It is very probable that the author revised or corrected this edition immediately before his death. The second edition was published in 1686, which was followed by another issue in 1687. This third edition as will be seen was brought out in 1690. It may therefore be assumed that its publication was contemplated by the writer before he passed away. The ver)- early editions of Bunyan's PtY- grim's Progress possess certain peculiarities which add greatly to their value and interest. Pilgrim's Progress, part II., front, and 3 engravings, Boston, N. E. 1744 (May 18, 1903 ; 64). * The earliest American edition of part II. known. An edition of part I. was published in Boston in 1681, but the only copy known, formerly in Brinley's collection, in now lost sight of. Burchiello (Giovanni di Dominico) Sonetti del Burchiello, sm. 4to. s. I. et a. Venetia, circa \A11 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 787). * Dominico Burchiello was born in Florence at the commencement of the 15th century. He was the son of a barber named Giovanni, and is renowned as one of the most fantastic and extravagant of poets. Tliis is one of the earliest editions of his poems, which were so popular as to be printed thiee or four times between 1475 and 1477. Burgmaier (Hans) Images des Saints et Saintes issus de la Famille de I'Empereur Maximilien I., roy. fo. Vienne, 1799 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 789). * This splendid series of 119 large wood-engi-avings forms one of the most desirable specimens of the work of Hans Burgmaier, who was specially selected by the Emperor Maximilian to celebrate the deeds of himself and his family. These impressions are from the original blocks, engraved about 1520, but they were never printed till 1799, having been preserved till then in the Imperial Library at Vienna. Burgo (G. B. de) Viaggio in Asia, Africa et Europa del Turco, 3 vol., Milano, 1686— Hydraulica con la Guerra della Valtelina (1618-38) et altre curiosita, ib. 1689 (June 18, 1888 ; 590). * This author, Vicar Apostohc in Ireland, was a scion of the illustrious House of De Burghe, Earls of Clanricarde. The volume entitled HydrauUca, in addition to the Vaudois War contains a large collection of Spanish Proverl^s and a Jest Book, consisting of " 300 Risposte ineeenose ." Heber's copy sold for £10 10s. r 6 5 if J NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 77 [Burleigh (Lord)] Execution of Justice in England, f). t,, sm. Aio. 1583 [Date unknown]. * This vv(.)rk was put forth by Lord Burghley with a view to allay the excite- ment which the persecutions of the Catholics under Queen Elizabeth had created, and is intended to show that it was for political and not religious causes that severities had been practised. Burley (Walter) lyiber de Vita ac Moribus philosophorum poetarum- que veterum, etc., I. g., 112 II. long lines, 27 to a full page, Ato. sine nota [sed Colonice, Ulric Zell, c. 1467] (July 23, 1906 ; 379). * The first edition of the first printed Biograpliical works. It is one of the earliest and finest productions of Zell's press, and one of particular interest to Englishmen, its compiler being the celebrated mediaeval scholar, Walter Burley, FeUow of Merton College, Oxford. The date assigned to it is settled by the fact that this book is in the identical type used by Zell's dated Augus- tine of 1467, and so fresh and new in impression as to represent the very earliest use of it. Das biich von dem leben und sitten der heydnischen maister, sm. Ato. Augsburg, Anthoni Sorg, 1490 (Nov. 16, 1885, 792). * A rare edition of Walter Burley's Lives of the Philosophers. Panzer thinks that it was probably translated into German by Anthony Sorg the printer. Burne (N.) Disputation concerning the Controversit Headdys of Religion holdin in the Realme of Scotland with the Admonition (in Scottish verse), Parise, 1581 (June 26, 1885 ; 194). * Dr. Laing's copy sold for £24 10s. The .author, Professor of Philosophy at St. Leonard's College in St. Andrew's, was originally a Calvinist but turned Roman Catholic. The libidinous Translation of T. Beza de sua in Candidam et Audebertum Benevolentia (folio 103 and 104) is frequently torn out, and the Metrical Admonition with its separate title-page and signatures is so scarce that a copy sold separately produced £2 2s. 6d. in Perry's sale. The attempt to prove Pope Joan a fable is amusing. Burne- J ones (Sir Edward) A Series of 44 Woodcuts after designs by this eminent Artist to illustrate the story of Cupid and Psyche, cut on wood by Mr. William Morris and others, fo. (August 2, 1894 ; 413). * Of these beautiful designs a very few copies were printed for private cir- culation, not more than eight or ten in all. It is believed that this is the only copy that has ever occurred for sale. Burrough (Edward) Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New England, Ato. Robert Wilson [1660] (June 9, 1902 ; 44). ■" Contains the first printed account of the persecution and Martyrdom of Mary Dyer, with a copy of a letter sent by her to the Rulers of Boston, after she had received sentence of death ; also a relation of the persecution of William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, with the manner of their execution at Boston. Burton (Robert) Anatomy of Melancholy, 2nd Edn., sm. fo., Oxford, 1624 (May 25, 1905 ; 116). 78 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * The first folio edition. On p. 371 will be found a quotation from " Venus and Adonis," and Shakespeare's name is given in the margin. At p. 427 there is a reference to " Romeo and Juliet." These references are very im- portant, especially so as they appear here for the first time, the first edition of Burton being without them. [Bury (Arthur) ]The Naked Gospel; discovering What was the gospel which Our Lord and his Apostles preached ; 1690 — The Fires Con- tinued at Oxford, or The Decree of the Convocation for burning the Naked Gospel considered (bv James Parkinson), n. d. p. or n. (1690) ; in 1 vol. sm. Ato. (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 159). * The Naked Gospel was burnt by Decree of Oxford University, and the writer expelled from the University. The writer of the latter Tract was also expelled from the University. Busti (Bernardino de) Defensorium Montis Pietatis contra figmenta omnia emule falsitatis, Ato. s. I. et a. sed Mediolani apud Udalr. Scincenzeler, circa 1497 (Nov, 16, 1885 ; 798). * This is apparently one of the earliest books written on the establishment of " Monts de piete," from which Pawnbroking is descended. Mariale de excellentiis Regine celi, (.(^., double columns, outline woodcuts, Mediolani, L. Pachel 1493 '(Dec. 3. 1900; 762). * One of the earliest illustrated books produced in Milan. The woodcuts consist of two varieties of Virgin and Child, and an Annunciation, repeated over and over again. As usual, folios F 8 and A 1 are wanting. They contained heretical matter, and were cut out of most co^jies. Butler (Chas.) Feminine Monarchic, or the History of Bees (printed in Phonetics), woodcuts, Ato. Oxford, 1634 (Mar 27, 1906 ; 410). * Contains several part-songs. For an account of this .singular publication see Halliwell's Index to the Works of Shakespeare, page 37. Rhetoricse Libri Duo, CantabrigicB, Ex-officina R. Danielis Alma Academics Typographi, 1642 (April 18, 1904 ; 177). * This Cambridge edition seems to be unknown to both I.owndes and Mr. Hazlitt. On page 41 a most interesting reference to the poets occurs, in which figures the nam.e ot " Guliehnus Shakcspear " : " Quales sunt apud nos Homero, Maroni, Ovidio, caeterisque melioris notae priscis acquiparandi, D. Philippus Sidney, Edmuudus Spencer, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Josuah Sylvester, ingeniose pius Franciscus Quarles, & quem cum honore memoro, Divinus ille vares Georgius Wither, aliique ingenio & arte florentes, quorum h«c aetas uberrima est. Quibus accedat ex Poetis scsenicis, Senecae, Plauto, Terentio nusquam inferior, tragicus comicus historicus Gulielmus Shakespear, aliique singularis illius artificii a;m.ulatores non pauci." Byron (Lord) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, fourth edition {hut really a fifth edition), probably unique. 181 1 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 154). * This edition was printed, but before publication the whole impression was destroyed by Lord Byron. At p. 81 is a satirical note respecting Sir W. Cell not in the usual copies bearing Fourth Edition on title. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 79 Byron (lyord) Monody on R. B. Sheridan written to be spoken at Drury Lane Theatre at the request of D. K. (Douglas Kinnaird), 1st Edn., 1816 (June 3, 1899 ; 331). * The title-page of the above differs from the accepted first edition. The pagination is also different, this copy containing 13 pages, those usually seen only contain 11. It would appear from the blank leaf following the title that a dedication was contemplated but never published. C. (I.) A Handkercher for Parents Wet Eyes, vpon the Death of Children, a Consolatory letter to a friend, woodcut on reverse of title. London, printed by E. A. for Michael Sparkes, dwelling at the Blue Bible in Greene Arbour, 1630 (May 18, 1903,; 90). * No copy in the British Museum, and probably unique ; not in Lowndes, but Mr. Hazlitt mentions it in his Bib. Coll. avd Notes, 1882, as being " To Mistris Elizabeth Hungerford, Licensed to M. Sparke, 18 Aug. 1630," and apparently took his reference from the Stationer's Records not knowing the book had actually appeared. Caesar. C. Julii Csesaris Belli OaUici. Comment arius Primus, fo., RomcB in domo Petri de Maximis {per C. Sweynheym et Am. Pannartz), 1472 (Nov. 22, 1897 ; 648) * Third Edition of Cfesar, and the Second of these printers. It differs from the first edition in having the epistle of Andrea, Bishop of Aleria, in.serted at the end of the volume, and the titles of the books and epistle printed instead of being partly omitted and partly filled up in manuscript. Dibdin knew of only three copies. Commentaria ; nunc primum a viro docto expolita & optime recognita; additis de novo apostillis,etc.,/»V. rom. title in red C{OtbiC, having a splendid woodcut battle scene within a border of arabesques in red, the same cut repeated at the beginning of the text, large cut of " Lentulus " within the border of ornaments before the Bello Civili, and a spirited smaller cut in oiitline, and a fine ornamental initial before each book, fo. Venetiis, per Aug. de Zannis de Portesia, 1511 (May 21, 1906 ; 138). * Remarkable for its handsome title and its numerous woodcuts of the con- temporary Italian school. Ives Commentaires (translatees par Robert Gaguin), (. g. {lettres batardes), double columns, cut of the translator presenting his book to Charles VIII. of France, and 12 spirited outline woodcuts in the text {on reverse of last leaf, P3), Cy finist la translation des comen- f aires Julius Cesar...faicte & mise en francois et presentee au roy Charles huiiieme de Frace par Frere Robert Gaguin docteur en decret...L'an Mil CCCC octante viii" [Verard's device], fo. " Im- prime a Paris par Anthoine Verard libraire demourant sur le Pont Nostredame a Ivmage Sainct Johan levangeliste," &c. s. d. (Dec. 16, 1903 ; 139).' 80 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * The first edition of this French translation of Caesar. As will be seen by the Colophon e^iven above it differs materially from the edition described by Brunet, I. 1458 ; it contains 113 11. signatures a-p 3 in 8's, having 6 U.only, and p, 3 printed 11. The title contains five words only in the same small type as the text, with a grotesque initial L. Calandri (Phillippi) De Arimethrica (sic) Opusculutn, t. g., woodcut, signs, a-p. 4 in 8's. Firenze, L. de Morgiani el Giov. Thedesco das Maganza, 1491 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 502). * The first and most beautiful of all arithmetic books. The earlier pages are surrounded by a characteristic Renaissance border. Towards the end of the work there is a series of charming small outline cuts illustrating problems only a little more absurd than those which still occur in children's school books. The Ashburnham copy sold for £11 . [Calderinus (Jo.) ]Auctoritates Decretorum oem effectum tarn textus quam glosarum nuclialiter et compendiose in se continentes, I. g., double columns, without marks (Hain 4246), sm. fo. Colonie fer me Petrum de Olpe, 1470 (June 11, 1900 ; 138). * Dibdin says this book " seems to be the first in which the word Cologne oc- curs as the place of printing. One of the rarest and most desirable specimens of the early Cologne press." Calderon (P.) The Mighty Magician — " such stuff as Dreams are made of," trans.byEd.Fitzgerald,7ic title-page,\853 (July 1, 1901; 117). * These two translations were evidently intended to be embodied in the Pickering edition of Calderon of 1853. Fitzgerald was without doubt dis- satisfied with his work, and withdrew these two plaj-s from the 1853 volume. In the preface to the latter, he says, " such plays as the Alagico Prodigioso and the Vida es Sueno (I cannot rank the Principe Constante among them), require another translator and another form of translation." It was con- sequently not published, and this is one of the few copies the author had sewn together for himself ; it contains some slight corrections by him. It was unknown to the editor of Fitzgerald's Life and Letters, 3 vol. Calef (Robert) More Wonders of the Invisible World, with the rare leaf of Errata, Aio. 1700 (June 9, 1902 ; 47). * " This contains the only copy of the ' Errata ' that has ever come under my observation — from collations given it was not in Brinley, Ives or Menzies copies." — Note by Mr. Lefferts. This book was written in reply to Cottou Mather's " Wonders of the Invisible World : Being an Accoimt of the Trials of several Witches ; Lately Executed in New England." Calef was a mer- chant in Salem and opposed Mather's views in regard to witches. His book was burned at Harvard College bv order of the President Increase :\Iather. Calendar. Historisch-genealogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch der merkwiirdigstenneuen Welt- Begebenheitfiir 1784. Leipzig, 1784 (July 1, 1886 ; 47). * This dainty little volume contains 12 beautiful engravings by Chodowiecki representing various incidents of the War of Independence. It also contains a capital map of the thirteen Colonies. At the end are six more plates, one containing fine portraits of Washington, Gates, Franklin, Laurens, and Paul Jones ; two plates of American Money, one of the American flag and two depicting the uniforms of four American regiments. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 81 Callendar (James T.) History of the United States for 1796. Phila- delphia, 1797 (June 9, 1902 ; 49). * In this work were first made the charges against Alexander Hamilton in connection with Reynolds, wliich led to his famous pamphlet in which he avowed his liaison with Mrs. Reynolds. (See Hamilton) Sketches of the History of America, Philadelphia, 1798 (June 9, 1902 ; 50). * An attack on the policy of President Adams — " An hundred thousand, or even a million of dollars would be wisely bestowed to purchase his resigna- tion." Camden (Wm.) Reges, Reginae, Nobiles, et alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, 4lo. 1603 (Mar 21, 1905 ; 71). * Many of the Epitaphs in this volume are now lost. It is interesting as containing notices of Chaucer, Spenser, Skelton, &c. The translation of many of the Latin poems into English, some occupying 2 pages, renders it a volume of considerable value. Remaines concerning Britaine, 4io. 1614 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 522). * This is one of the few books printed before Shakespeare's death in which he is honourably mentioned. At page 324, after some poetical examples, occiTrs the following, "These may sufl&ce for some poeticall descriptions of our Ancient Poets ; if I would come to our time, what a world could I present to you out of Sir Philip Sidney, Edw. Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Hugh Holland, Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, Mich. Drayton, George Chapman, John Marston, William Shakespeare, and other most pregnant wits of these cur times, whom succeeding ages may justly admire." Camoens (Luis de) The Lusiad, put into English by R. Fanshawe, ports, of Camoens, Prince Henry of Portugal, and Vasco de Gama, by Cross, 1655 (July 1, 1901 ; 791 ). * The First Edition in English of Camoens. The portraits of Prince Henri and Vasco de Gama, being folded, are nearly always foimd in poor condition. Campion (Thomas) Book of Ayres, Four Parts, fo. Printed by T. Snodham (1610-12) (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 2192). * Unknown to Lowndes, and it is not mentioned by Fetis in his " Biographic des Musiciens," although he gives the titles of many other publications by the same author. Camus (J. P., Bishop of Belley) Nature's Paradox ; or, the Innocent Impostor, a Pleasant Polonian History Originally intituled Iphi- genes, compiled in the French tongue, and now Englished by Major Wright, First Edition, frontispiece by Vaiighan, with metrical explanation and a portrait of the author added, Ato., 1652 (June 3, 1902 ; 448). * The curious reference to Venus and Adonis contained in the Verses written by R. Lovedav was first discovered by Mr. Halliwell-Phillios. Vpon BEIvLEY'S IPHIGENES, better' d into English by the Inge» nious i^Pen of His Dear Brother, Major Wright. 82 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S I need not injure Truth to Blazon thee (Wer't in my pow'r) with Wit's false Heraldrie : For, but to give thee all thy due, would swell Too high, and turne the Reader Iniidell. I'le onely tell him, hee'll finde nothing here, But what is Manly, Modest, Rich and Cleare. No Dropsi'd Monster-words, all sweet and cleace As the smooth Ch^eke of bashfull Iphigene ; Who, as thy Pen has made her woo'd and wooe, Might passe for Venus and Adonis too. Canceller (James) The Alphabet of Praiers, verie fruitful! to be exer- cised and used by everie Christian : newlie drawne, into no lesse direct an order than aptlie agreeth with the name, by A. Fleming, 6. (., ornamental border to every page. Imprinted for the Companie of Stationers, n. d. (Oct. 29, 1900 ; 547). * This edition is unknown to Lowndes, and there is no copy in the British Museum, which only has the edition of 1573 (wanting a sheet). Hazlitt mentions the present edition, and gives the collation as A-O 7 in 8's, wliich agrees with this copy. He adds that " perhaps O 8 had the colophon," con- sequently as that may possibly be so, this copy will be sold not subject to return. Canne (Abednego) A New Windmil, A New, 4to. Oxford, L. Lichfield 1643 (June 3, 1908 ; 449). A tract, written in the form of a letter and dated from Boston, Jan. 2, 1642. Canne was a strong-minded puritan — he refers in this tract to the perfect crosses displayed all over the countrj* in the shape of wind-mills, adding " our brethren in New England admit of no such abomination." Canones Paenitentiales cum Notis A. Augustini Archiepiscopi Tarra- conensis, sm. 4to. Tarracone, 1582 (June 26, 1885 ; 211). * This volume contains Pa;nitentiale Romanum, Ven. Beda de Remediis Pec- catorum, Rabani Mauri Psenitentium Liber, Gregorii Nysseni Epistula Ca- nonica, Gregorii Thaumaturgi Epistolae Canonicae Canon ultimus, and Canones Paenitentiales Astensis. Cantalycius (Joan. Baptista) Epigraramata Cantalycii et aliquorum discipulorum eius, sm. 4to. Venetiis, Mathetim capeasam 1493 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 841). * The author of this volume was a Latin poet of distinction in the 15th cen- tury, and tutor to Louis Borgia, nephew of Pope Alexander VI. Cantilupe. Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Here- ford, and sometime before L. Chancellor of England. Collected by R.S.S.I. Gant, 1674 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 842). * The author of this volume was a learned Jesuit, named Richard Strange, whose initials appear on the title. NOT^ PROM SOTHEBY'S 83 [Cantipratensis (Thomas)] Dit ist der bien Boeck. Hier beghint een . goet boeck dat ghehieten is een ghemeyn guet van der naturen der byen, woodcut on title, h. (., fo. Bi mij Peter van Os prettter tot Zwolle, 1488 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 843). * The woodcut on the title is from the " Biblia Pauperum," showing that the blocks must have been in the possession of the printer at that time, and that this edition, at least, was probably of Dutch execution. The work itself is a mystical treatise on Monasteries and Convents, which the author describes under the disguise of bees in their hives. The typographical interest of the early books printed at Zwolle has been pointed out by M.Holtrop in liis "Mon- umens Typographiques des Pays-Bas." [See, also, Thomas de Canteprato]. [Caoursin]. Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem. "The Begyn- nynge and foundacyon of the holy hospytall & of the Ordre of the Knyghtes hospytallers of Saynt Johan baptyst of Jerusalem," . ftX., 25 //. commencing on H iii, long lines, 42 to a full page, woodcuts within ornamental borders, Copeland's device on last leaf, sm. folio. Robert Coplande, the yere M.V.C XXIIII. the XXIII. day of July (1524) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 169). * This is said to be probably unique as it is not in Plomer's Hand-list of English Printers. It seems to be a translation from Caoursin's Stabilimenta Rhodiorum ; and is not apparentlj- described in any bibliography. It is not noted among Copland's Works in Johnson's Typographia. Capata (L-) Carlo Famoso, Poema en Octavas, 4to. Valencia, 1566 (June 18, 1888 ; 955). * This, according to Salva, is the work to which Cervantes alludes in the examination of Don Quixote's library. In Canto XLI. the author relates the disgraceful death of Garcilasso de la Vega. Capoferro (R.) Grand Simulacro dell' Arte e dell' uso della vScherma, ports, and 42 ills., 4to. Siena, 1610 (June 27, 1906 ; 128). * This book is referred to by Halliwell to illustrate the eight fencing terms mentioned in " The Merry Wives of Windsor." Capranica. Incomincia el Prohemio della arte del ben morire cioe i gratia di dio compilato & composto per lo reverendo in Christo Padre Monsignor Cardinale di fermo negli anni del nostro Signore M.CCCCLII, lit. rom. (22 //.) with signs, long lines, 32 to a full-page {commences without a formal title on a-j), 12 large and very fine outline Florentine cuts, within slight ornamental borders, and 22 smaller cuts of various dimensions, sm. 4to. senza nota [pero Fio- renza Miscomini c. 1490 ?] (May 21, 1906 ; 146). * Very important for its very fine W^oodcuts of the early Florentine School. Some of the cuts are reproduced in Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron from this copy (which was then Dr. Rice's), the pencil memoranda of the cuts selected being still to be seen in the margins. [See also Lippman's History of Early Wood-engravings in Italy, p. 41. Duplessis, " Histoire de la Gravure sur Bois," etc. ]. Savonarola used the subject in a sermon at Florence in 1496 on the threatened famine, which was published by Miscomini with wood- cuts, two of which were reproduced from the present volume. A copy, not so good as this, sold in the " Library of an Italian Collector," in 1901, for ;£175 84 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Caracciolo da Litio (Roberto) Spechio de la Fede Vulgare, Novamente impresso diligentimente correcto & historiato, lit. torn., double columns, CLV numbered II. including title, title in large I. g., within a fine floreate frame, and a small cut of the Marriage of the Virgin within ornamental borders in centre ; large cut of a friar preaching to a mixed congregation, within border, and fine outside decorative border to A ii., 42 very remarkable small outline cuts in the text, of Scriptural Subjects, the Passion, etc., some having 2 and 3 subjects on one block, some repeated ; and ornamental initials, in Venetia Stampato per Piero de Quarengis Bergomascho, 1517 (May 21, 1906 ; 148). * With very interesting woodcuts, of which that at folio xxvi. is particularly so, some boys mocking a fantastically attired fool. Cardenas. Coleccion general de Documentos tocantes a la Persecu- cion que los Regulares de la Compania [de Jesus] suscitaron y siguieron tenazmente &c. desde 1644 hasta 1660, contra Fr. Bernardino de Cardenas, del orden de S. Francisco, Obispo del Paraguay, expeliendole tres veces de su Obispado a fuerza de armas, &c., por evitar que este Prelado entrase in visitase sus Misiones del Parana, Uruguay, e Itati, 2 vol., 4to. Madrid, 1768 {Date unknown.) * A very curious collection ; Bernardino de Cardenas was a Peruvian, whose talents led to his being created Bp. of Paraguay. He was soon involved, as were afterwards other Bishops of America, in quarrels with the Jesuits, whose missions were in his vicinity. The court of Spain, to whom both parties appealed, had great trouble in reconciling the parties. In Charlevoix's History of Paraguay will be found the details of this quarrel, Cardinalismo (II) di San eta Cheisa, 3 vol., Stampate 1668 In Villa- franca, per Georgio Paliardi (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 501). * This attack upon the Cardinals of the Roman Church' was published in 1668, but the imprint is of course fictitious. Carew (Thomas) Poems, 1st Edn., 1640 (May 25, 1905 ; 126). * The Pastoral Dialog\ie at page 77 seems to be entirely written in imitation of a scene (act III., scene 7) in Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juhet." The time, the persons, the sentiments, the expressions, are the same ; see Fumi- vall's Allusions to Shakespeare, also Ingleby's Shakespeare Prayse, etc. Carmelianus (Petrus) Carmen (de Sponsalibus inter Carolum Princi- pem Castellae et Mariam fiJiam Henrici VII. Regis Angliae), (. g., printed upon vellum, woodcuts and with Pynson's large device at end, 24 //. with signs. H.-E. sm. 4to. {Impressum Londini per Richardem Pynson, circa 1514) (Nov. 26, 1900 ; 55). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 85 * An excessively interesting book, written by the Poet Laureate to K. Henry VII., of which only one other copy on vellum is known, viz. that in the Gren- ville Library in the British Museum. This was Thos. Jolley's copy and realised £41 10s. in his sale in 1851. It gives a particular account of the Embassy from the Emperor Maximilian to England to negotiate a marriage between his son Charles, afterwards the Emperor Charles V., and Mary, third daughter of Henry VII. Carpenter (R.) Experience, Historie, Divinitie, port, by Marshall, 1642 (June 26, 1885 ; 214). * A very curious Autobiography. The author was an Eton scholar, a Cam- bridge student, a Pervert to the Church of Rome, sent over by the Pope to pervert souls, returned to the Protestant faith and became Vicar of Poling, near Arundel in Sussex. (Stephen (C.) Memoirs of the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, 2 vol. [New York] Printed for the purchasers, 1809 (June 9, 1902 ; 55) * This work was never published. A small number of copies — I think twenty — were bound, and one of them was brought to the late Samuel W. Hopkins, then a young lawyer in Auburn, N.Y., for his opinion. Mr. Hopkins read some twenty or thirty pages here and there, and informed the printer that ' he found on the average a libel to every page.' On this the Memoir was suppressed." Carrascon, Pro Maria Sanchez Nedriza, 1633 (June 18, 1888; 639). * An attack on the Roman Catholics, Miracles, Vulgate, &c. in Spanish. On account of its rarity Salva valued his imperfect copy at £12 12s. The Author was once an Augustine Monk at Burgos and subsequently Canon of Hereford, Carrera (P.) II Giuoco degli Scacchi, Ato. Militello, 1617 (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 413). * One of the rarest books on chess, and eagerly sought after by collectors. It contains valuable illustrations of Shakespeare's " Tempest," where Ferdi- nand and Miranda are shown playing chess. Carta feodi Simplicis cum litera Atturnatoria, (. g. (30 //.), signs, a-e, 4to. Impressa London per Winandum de Worde, s. a. {device on reverse of last leaf) (Dec. 5, 1898 ; 258). * From the circvimstance that most of the fictitious names used in the exam- ples of Wills, Transfers, &c. are described as citizens of Oxford it is supposed that this edition was written in Oxford in 1505. It differs from the edition described by Dibdin, as well as from that in Lowndes. Cartwright (T. ) Replye to Whitgiftes Answere agaynste the Admoni- tion to the Parliament, h. t., sm. Ato. n. d. (June 26, 1885 ; 216). * The first edition must have been printed at the private press at Wandsworth in 1573, as Whitgift published his Defence in 1574. (W.) Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, 1651 (July 8, 1897 ; 125). * Dedicated to the University of Oxford by the publisher. This copy con- tains the verses on the Queen's return from the Low Countries (pages 301 to 305 in duplicate), so rare that Dibdin says the only copy he knew containing them was Mr. Grenville's. Includes a poem by Izaak Walton. 86 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Casas (Bartolome de las) Las Obras, Complete Set of the 9 blSCl? ICttCt tracts of Las Casas, 8 in Spanish and 1 in Latin, 4to. Sevilla, en casa de Sebastian Truxillo, 1552-53 (July 1, 1886 ; 258). * These nine tracts were written between 1541, when the worthy Bishop with the Emperor was getting up the celebrated Leyes de Las Indies of 1543, and 1550, when he was going into battle with Sepulveda, to prove that the con- quest of the Indies was tyrannical, unjust and iniquitous. From the day of publication these tracts have maintained their historical importance, interest and rarity. Here follows a list of them.: — 1. Brevissima relacion de la Destrucyon de las Indias. 2. Lo qu^e se sigue es vn peda9o de vna carta, etc. 3. Aqui se contiene una disputa, o controversia. 4. Aqui se contienen treynta proposiciones. 5. Este es un tratado sobre los Indies que se han hecho en ellas esclavos. 6. Entre los remedios que Las Casas, 1542, refirio para reformacion de las Indias. 7. Aqui se contienen vnos auisos y reglas para los confessores. 8. Tratado comprobatorio del Imperio trinen sobre las Indias. 9. Principia queda ex quibus procedendum, &c. The Spanish Colonie, or Briefe Chronicle of the Actes and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, trans, by M. M. S. ft. t, Ato. W. Browne, 1583 (June 9, 1902 ; 59). * This work is historically important for the particulars it contains of the cruelties committed by the Spaniards in Mexico, Peru, and adjacent kingdoms of South America, from the year 1493, when the Spaniards first commenced to inhabit the continent, almost to the date of the present volume ; cruelties carried on for such a length of time and with a pertinacity so remarkable as to call forth even in those times a remonstrance against such inhuman barbarity. Carta, del senor don Bartholome de las Casas al Illustre y Muy Magnifico, senor don Mercurino Arborio de Gattinari Chan- cellor de S. Mag. el rey don Carlos en q suplica a s. s. q se le conceda la provincia del 9ena q se cuente entre la trra q se le senalare pa poner remedio a los agravios de los yndios en la trre firme. Ano de Mdxx.,ed. hy Henry Stevens,4to. Londres,1854{]uly 1,1886 ; 495). * Las Casas, who had taken great interest in the welfare and christianizing of the Indians, had been promised an extensive grant of land on the coast of Terra Firma, between Darien and Trinidad, for the purpose of founding a colony for improving and civilizing the natives. In this important and long autograph letter he repeats his request to Charles the Fifth through his Chancellor, and urges his benevolent scheme. It was printed in 1854 from the original autograph manuscript then in the possession of Mr. Stevens. In the epistle dedicatory to Arthur Helps, Esq. a full account of the subject of the letter is given in English. Parescer o Determinacio de los senores theologos de Salamanca sobre de que no deben ser baptizados los yndios sin examinacio estrecha de su voluntad y concepto del dho sacramento. Ano de Mdxli. [In Latin] 14 pp., ed. by Henry Stevens, 4to. Londini, 1854 (July 1, 1886 ; 496). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 87 * This important manuscript was edited by Henry Stevens, and privately printed by him at the Chiswick Press in 1854 from the original, then in his possession. It is dated the first of July, 1541. Las Casas and others had complained much of the ill-treatment and slavery of the Indians by the Spaniards in America, until finally Charles V. referred the grand question to the Faculty of the University of Salamanca, whether Indians who had been baptized could be made slaves ? This curious document is the ofiicial answer, signed by the Dean and all the Faculty. The volume has a long explanatory dedication in English to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Castell (William) A petition of W. C. exhibited to the High Court of Parliament now assembled, for the propagating of the Gospel in America, and the West Indies, 4to. [London. ] Printed in the year 1641 (June9, 1902 ;63). * " This excessively rare tract should find a place in every collection of the so-called Eliot Tracts relating to the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England (1643-1671 ) ; for herein is contained the embryo idea or suggestion that Parliament should recognize the benefits to be derived by the Colonies from cultivating the friendship of the Indians, and converting them to Christianity, and by such means preserving them, together with the Colonies, from the expected rapacity of the Spaniards,who were still claiming hereditary rights over the whole of America, by reason of the Pope's Grant." Stevens. Castelnau (M. de) Memoires, 3 vol., portraits and coats of arms, fo. Bruxelles, 1731 (June 19, 1889 ; 235). * These Memoirs were written by Castelnau during his second Embassy to England, and contain many interesting particulars relative to British History, especially respecting Mary Queen of Scots. Castelnau is the only historian who has mentioned the daughter of Mary by Bothwell, who died a nun in the Convent at Soissons. Castillo Solorzano (A. de) Entretenimientos en Extremeses, Mexico, 1625 (June 18, 1888 ; 654). * Salva tells us that this " rarissimo libro " is not mentioned by Antonio or Padilla in his list of Castillo's works. In an autograph letter prefixed Pascual de Gayangos says, " The Entretenimientos are the work of some Jew of Amsterdam. Solorzano could write much better." Catalan Dialect. Constitucions de Cathalunya, Printed upon vel- lum, fo. Barchinone Principatus Catholonie, per Reverendum magistrum Johannem Rosenbach alemanum de haydelherch, 1494 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 864). "' A probably unique volume in the Catalan dialect, undescribed by biblio- graphers, and unknown to Senor Salva. A beautiful specimen of early prin- ting at Barcelona. The first folio bears only the three words given above as title, and a woodcut coat-of-arms of Catalonia. On folio 2 the work com- mences with the following summary, printed in red, " Constitutions fetes per lo Illustrissimo e serenissimo senyor Rey don Fernando Rey de Castella de Arago, etc., en la segona cort de Cathalunya celebrada en Barcelona en lany. Mil. cccclxxxxiii." The whole of this page is enclosed within a woodcut border of very beautiful design and of remarkable execution, the figures being in white on a black ground. At the end, beneath the colophon, is the printer's device. 88 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Catechism. A bryefe and necessary Catechisme or Instruction, very needefull to be knowne of all Housholders, wherby they may be better teache and instructe theyr families, in such pointes of Chris- tian Religion as is most meete, etc., h. t. (24 II.) title withm orna- mental woodcut border {not in Lowndes), Jo. Charlewood, 1577 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 177). * This appears to be the first edition of the " Catechism for Householders." An edition dated 1582 was sold in 1885, but there appears to be no record of this one since it was sold in 1842 in Evans's sale of Valentine's books. Catechismo (II) translatato della lingua todescha in la lingua Itahana per Salomon Sveigger, Predicatore del Evangelio in Constantino- poli, Tuhinga, 1585 (June 18, 1888 ; 658). * Altogether undescribed by bibliographers. The preface is addressed " To the poor Christian slaves of the Grand Turk in Constantinople and other places throughout Turkey, chiefly Germans, Hungarians, and Croats." The author styles himself " Preacher of the Gospel to the Ambassador of the Emperor at the Ottoman Porte." It is probable that nearly all the copies were sent to Constantinople for the use of the Christians, many of whom were at that time in slavery, and hence its extreme rarity. Catherina da Siena. Dialogo de la Seraphica Virgine Sancta Catheri- na da Siena de la divina Providentia, lit. rom. double columns, 38 lines, with signs, full-page outline woodcut of the Saint distributing her book to the two dedicatees Isabella wife of Galeazzo Sfortia and Beatrice wife of Ludovico Sfortia ; and another of the Saint dictating her book to three scribes, the border half decorated, and a fidl-page cut of the Saint praying before XI, ornamental woodcut initials, sm. Ato. Impressa in Venetia par Mathio di Codeca da Parma ad instantia de Maestro lucantonio de Zota Fiorentino anno 1494, 17 de Mazo {with device of fleur-de lis) (May 21, 1906 ; 150). * An early book with the Giunta device. The edition dated 1483 mentioned in Brunet with the same imprint appears to be a forgery, as Beatrice (d'Este), one of the dedicatees, was not married to Lud. Sfortia until 1490. Epistole devotissime de Sancta Catharina de Siena, fine paper copy, fo. Venetia, in Casa de Aldo Manutio Romano, 1500 (Nov 16, 1885 ; 873). * An exceedingly beautifully printed book, most difficult to find in good preservation on account of its popiUarity in Italy, where it is esteemed among the " Testi di lingua." It is one of the finest productions of the Aldine press, being printed with the same types as used for the " Hypnerotomachia," which was issued from the same press the year before. On the verso of folio 10 is a full-page woodcut of beautiful execution, a whole-length portrait of St. Catherine. Cato Moralizatus cum comment. P. de Pergamo, t. g., 376 //. of 47 or 48 lines each, with 4 very quaint woodcuts, fo. absque nota {Lyons c. 1478 ?) (April 24, 1899 ; 850). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 89 * The only other copies on record are the ones in the British Museum and at Besangon. The woodcuts, in simple outline, are of a very archaic type, and among the earliest French examples of the art. Cavalcha da Vico (Fr. Dom.) Libro molto devoto & Spirituale de fructi della Lingua, lit. torn, double columns, 39 lines with signs, a remarkably fine full-page woodcut on title, below the line of text, representing the Assumption of Jesus, black and white, within a border, sm. fo. Impresso in firenze appresso a Sancta Maria Mag- giore per Ser Lorenzo Morgiani & Giovani di Piero tedesco da magunza, 1493, 4 Septem. (May 21, 1906 ; 153). * The first Italian edition. The large woodcut on title is a fine specimen of early Florentine, attributed by Lipmann to the School of Filippino Lippi. Cavendish (George) The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the Great Cardinal! of England, containing his Life and Death, &c., port, of Wolsey, 4to. 1641 (July 28, 1904 ; 84). * This is the first edition of Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, considered one of the most interesting and valuable specimens of biography in the English lan- guage. It is highly interesting as illustrating Shakespeare's Play of " Henry VIII.," some of the phrases and incidents being very similar in both works, notably his last advice to " Master Kingston," p. 113. It is most probable that Shakespeare had read the Cavendish manuscript, for this Life of Wolsey was written in 1557, and much circulated in manuscript ; it being dangerous to print the book, which necessarily .spoke of persons who were still alive. Cawdray (R.) Treasurie of Store-house of Similies, 1st Edn., 4to. 1600 (Dec. 11, 1903; 159). * Full of quaint Elizabethan wisdom and truly a most useful store-house for the contemporary dramatist and poet. We are unable to trace the sale of another copy within recent times. Caxton, see Dictes ; Mirror ; Mirrour. Cebes. The Table of Cebes the Philosopher Itrans. by Sir Fr. Poyngz]. How one may take profite of his ennemies, trans, out of Plutarche. A Treatise perswadyng a man paciently to sufiFer the death of his freend [by Erasmus], h. t. (B.-1k in 8's), 32mo. Im- printed at London in Flete Street, by Thomas Berthelet, cum Privile- gio.n.d. (Junell, 1900 ; 153) * The first English translation of Cebes. This edition was unknown to Lowndes, and it is evidently earlier than the one with the imprint in the house late Thomas Berthelettes. Another Edition, Z2mo. Imprinted in Flete-streete, in the house late Thomas Berthlettes, n. d. (June 11, 1900 ; 154). * The first English translation of Cebes. A different and apparently later edition than the above. The only one mentioned by Lowndes. Celestina. Tragicomedia de Calisto y MeHbea, 6. (., woodcuts, Ato. Sevilla, 1502 (June 18, 1888 ; 973). 90 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * An edition corresponding exactly with that dated Sevilla, 1 501 , which sold in Baron Seilliere's sale for ^1 10s. In the Address of El Auctor a un su amigo we are told that the work has been attributed by some to Juan de Mena and by others to Rodrigo Cota. In a Dialogue inserted in the Coplas de Jorge Man- rique it is asserted that Cota was real first " autov," probably a misprint for- having written the first auto, as from a poem of eleven octaves, by reading the initial letter of each line we get the acrostic " El bachiller Fernando de Roias acaho la comedia de Calisto y Melibca y fue nascido en la puebla de Montalvan." A copy in Techener's Catalogue was priced 400 francs. Celestine en laquelle est Traicte des deceptions des serviteurs envers leurs Maistres et des Macquerelles envers les Amoureux, |>. (., curious woodcuts. Paris, Nicolas Barbou, 1542 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 889). * In the later impression of 1 578 many passages which were thought offensive to the clergy were suppressed. The book is written in the form of a dialogue between Calisto, Melibee, Parmeno, Sempronis, Celestine, Elice, and Crito. It is full of curious matter relative to domestic life in the 15th century. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (lyes) contenant cent hystoires ou nouveanlx Comptes plusieurs a deviser en toutes bonnes compaignies par manier de joyeusete, XXXVI C. lettres bdtardes, double columns, title in red and black within woodcut border, numerous small woodcuts, sm. 4to. Nouvellemeni imprimees a Paris par Alain Latrian en la rue neufve nostre Dame, s. d. (c. 1520) (April 12, 1899 ; 165). * An edition not mentioned in Brunet, nor in the Supplement. One of the books used by Shakespeare for Much ado about Nothing. Cepio (Cornelius Dalmata) Petri Mocenici Imperatoris Gestarum lib. III., Editio Prima, finely printed in roman letter, long lines, with signs. (54 II. first and last blank), fine woodcut border of leafy scrolls to first page, white on black, with shields and ornamental initials, sm. Ato. Venetiis per Bernard Pictorem & Erhardum Ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen corrector e ac Socio, un (May 21, 1906 ; 159). * One of the earliest books in which Ratdolt' s name appears as a Venetian printer. Cervantes (Miguel de) Don Quixote, trans.. The First Part, W. Stansby for E. Blount and W. Barret, 1612 ; The Second Part of Don Quixote, E. Blount, 1620 ; 2 vol., sm. 4to. 1612-20 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 186). * The genuine first edition of each part of this celebrated first English trans- lation by Thos. Shelton, No engraved title was issued with this first edition of the First Part ; but one was issued with the Second Part in 1620 ; also one without a date for the First Part. The Second Part wants the engraved title. It appears to be otherwise complete, unless U 4 or Part I. (which is much brighter than the other 11. ) is in facsimile. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 91 Cervantes (Miguel de) The same, Both Parts, engd. title to both parts, 2 vol., sm. Ato. [1612-20] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 187). * The first edition of the whole of the First English Translation of Don Quixote by Shelton, the first part being the Second Issue, for which it is believed no printed title was issued, as none of the copies recorded appear to have one. Copies of the second issue of the first part have appeared having the genuine printed title dated 1612. Don Quixote, 25 plates, the last one a proof before any letters, by Coypel, oblong roy. folio. (1724) (Dec. 17, 1898); 266). * It is evident that the series of pistes was simultaneously published abroad and in London, but, rare as it is with the French letterpress it is much more seldom to be met with in this state. The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love, trans, by R C(odington), b. t., leaf marked A before title, Ato. 1652 (May 11, 1908; 624). * First Edition in English, and the earliest version of Cervantes' Novelas exemplares, some of which were written before Don Quixote, and all at se- parate times. They throw considerable light on many passages in his great work. [Chalkhill (John)] Alcilia. Philoparthens lyOuing Folly. Where vnto is added Pigmalion's Image, with the lyoue of Amos and Lavra, and also Epigrammes by vSir I. H. Carington and others, never before imprinted, London, printed for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery Lane,neare Sarjeants Inne, 1613 {second title) — Marston (John) The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image, ib. 1613 [third title) — [Page (S.)] The Love of Amos and Laura, written by S. P. ih. 1613, Ato., in 1 vol. (May 18, 1903 ; 189) * Only one other of this remarkably interesting volume is known, viz. that described by Mr. Corser in his Collectanea Anglo Poetica, which wanted three leaves, though described in error as wanting only two. The above is the most complete copy recorded. There were later editions in 1619 and 1628, but these two are excessively rare, and neither occurred in the collections of Steevens, Bindley, Perry, Sykes, Hibbert, Rice, Heber, &c. nor in the Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica ; indeed, such is the rarity of the first poem, that Mr. Collier speaks of it in his Poetical Decameron (vol. II., p. 112) as " quite a new discovery in the history of our poetry, "and says in another passage, that " it is a production hitherto unseen, and displays very considerable poetical talent " {see note in the Huih Catalogue to the 1628 edition). Mr. Corser strong- ly believed Alcilia to be the work of John Chalkhill, both from the initials J. C. and from internal evidence ; he was also of the opinion that the " Letter written by a gentleman to the author, his friend," which is prefixed, was the production of Isaac Walton, under the assumed name of ' Philaretes." These claims have been disputed by Mr. Grosart in his reprint, but we cannot help taking Corser' s view, when we turn to the third part of the present volume, The Love of Amos and Laura, and find it is dedicated " To my approv- ed and much r'^spected friend Iz. Wa." This is strong evidence when we bear in mind the association which has elsewhere been claimed for Walton and Chalkhill, in the publication of Thealma and Clearchus, some years later. 92 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S At this time (1613) Walton was only twenty years of age. Bibliographers hitherto have said that his known connection with literary matters did not take place till six years later (1619), but this mistaken assumption is easily accounted for by the fact that Mr. Corser's copy of the above volume, the only one which could be pre\-iously consulted, wanted the very important leaf bearing W?lton's name ; the statement therefore was based on the second edition (1619), which is in the British Museum. The present copy, exclusive of its rarity, is exceedingly valuable ; is shows, without doubt, how Walton's devotion to literature must have begun at a very early age. The portion entitled Alcilia, consists of " Passionate Soimets," and is a very pleasing and elegant production, which displays no little poetical talent, combined with much delicacy of expression, and smooth and harmonious versification. Marston's Pigmalion was written professedly to ridicule certain free and licentious poems then fashionable, such as Shakespeare's Vevv.s and Adovis and Marlowe's Hero and Leander, but itself falling into similar indecencies was liable to the same condemnation. It contains thirty-nine stanzas in the same measure with Shakespeare's poem, and had previously appeared in 1598, with Certaine Satyrs, therefore this is the second edition of Marston's work. Samuel Page's The Love of Amos and Laura, som.etimes ascribed to Samuel Purchas (author of The Pilgrimage) is written in couplets, and though not remarkable for any great or striking merit it is ot the greatest interest and importance on account of its allusions to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and his Rape of Lucrece, besides Marlowe's Hero and Leander. Thealma and Clearchus, 1st Edn., 1683 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 168). * This volume contains a preface by Isaac Walton, to whom it is now usually entirely ascribed. An exhaustive account of it is to be found in"Waltoniana." [Chambon.] Le Commerce de I'Amerique par Marseille, 2 vol., engd. titles and 22 maps and plates, 1st Edn., Ato. Avignon, 1764 (Dec. 14, 1907 ; 570). * A most important work for the colonial history of America, containing the French ordinances for the slave trade, etc., with accounts and illustrations of the culture of cotton, sugar, etc. It is of the utmost rarity, being only im- perfectly described in Sabin's Dictionary of Works relating to America. Champhora (Jac.) Loica vulgare composta e traducta da duo ualetis- simi loici e grandissimi philosofi in dialogo, fine outline woodcut on title, and ornamental initials, Milano per Magistro Vlderico Scizeze- ler, 1497 (Feb. 27, 1899 ; 1780). * The collation of this copy runs A-H in 4s, I 2 //. K 4 //. 38 //. in all or two more than in the copy described in Copinger's Supplement to Hain. Champier (Symphorien) Liber de quadruplici vita et Tropheum Gal- lorum quadruplicem eorundem complectens historiam, &c., t. g., 2 columns, woodcut title in red and black, with engravings on metal and wood, Ato. Liigduni, Jannot de Campis, 1507 (Mar. 7, 1901 ; 139). * Besides the fine woodcut borders and initials this work contains two of the remarkable engravings on metal used by Numeester of Mayence in his editions of Turrecremata of 1479 and 1481, an interesting instance of the migration of illustrations. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 93 Chants et Chansons Populaires de la France, 3 vol., front, and illustra- tions by Meissonier, and others, in the original cartonage, with the illustrated un-appers pasted over, H. L. Delloye, 1843 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 511). * According to Brivois, copies in this state are "tres recherches," the carton- age being characteristic of their originality. [Chapman (Geo.)] Ovid's Banquet of Sence, complete with the blanks, 1639 (May 21, 1906 ; 160). * The original edition of this work was published in 1595, of which copies are practically unattainable. The present edition was issued without the Commendatory Verses found in the original. Charles II. — See Masque. Charron (Peter) Of Wisdom, trans, by Samson Lennard, 1st Edn., engd. title by W. Hole, 4to. E. Blou nt an d W. Apsley (1612)(Dec. 7, 1904 ; 148). * The genuine first issue of this famous classic and containing the suppressed dedication to Henry Prince of Wales. The British Museum possesses the only other recorded copy with this dedication. " In 1611-12 Samson Lennard, a gentleman of good family, who had been a soldier and companion in arms of Sir PhiHp Sidney, exchanged, as he tells us himself, his sword for a pen, and brought out a version of Charron, dedicating it to Prince Henry. The Prince, however, died immediately after the issue, and Lennard substituted for the original inscription one to his cousin and namesake, in which he refers to the former inscription. No copy with the letter, however, appears to have been noticed until 1888, when King James's was acquired for the British Museum. Chaucer (G.) Workes, i>. t., woodcuts, fo. R. Keele, n. d. (June 26, 1885 ; 237). * This edition, unknown to Lowndes, contains the Plowman's Tale, and therefore was probably printed subsequently to that of 1542, which has 372 leaves without the Prefix, and this 355. Urry in his Preface assigns 1555, as its date, but is mistaken in asserting it has " only a cut of the Knight," as it has also a " cut of the Squier." Workes newlie printed ; with the Siege and Destruction of Thebes, by John Lidgate (ed. by John Stow), b. I., woodcut titles, woodcuts and ornamental initials, fo. Ihon Kyngston, for lohn Wight, 1561 (May 6, 1901 ; 952). * The earliest issue of the edition of 1 561 . It differs from the ordinary copies in these particulars : title in a woodcut border, the top of which represents a king (probably Edward VI.) sitting in council. Then follows signature (^^, four leaves ; ^ six leaves ; and A, four leaves, — thus making in all fourteen leaves before sig. B instead of ten, as in the ordinary issue. In the Prologue are twenty-six woodcuts of the Pilgrims, which seem to have been printed from old blocks, — probably those used in Pynson's edition of the " Canterbury Tales." They show former use, and are rudely cut. For this reason they were probably cancelled, and very few copies containing them appear to exist. (For further particulars see the Grolier Club Catalogues of early editions, 1893). 94 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Chettle (Henry ( Englandes Mourning Garment : Worne here by plaine vShepheardes ; in memorie of their sacred Mistresse, Eliza- beth, 1st Edn., 4to. Thomas Millington, n. d. but 1603 (May 18, 1903 ; 190 ). * In this volume Chettle, in an interesting manner, alludes to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Chapman, Drayton, &c. under assumed names, and notices some of their works in a quaint manner ; Shakespeare is styled the "smooth-tongued Melicent " and " the silver-tongued Melicent." A notice of the work, taken from the second edition, will be found in Collier's Bibl. Cat. I., pp. 129-31 where it says : " Chettle here alludes to Shakespeare under the name of Melicent, and seems to intimate that the great poet had received from the Queen special marks of favour, which he ought to requite by some tribute to her memory," &c. See the Huth Libry. Catalogue. Mr. Frederick Locker's copy, formerly Mr. Halliwell's, is imperfect, wanting no less than five leaves. The present copy, as far as we can trace, is the only complete one which has come up for sale since 1867 (the Corser sale). The same, 4to. (1603) (July 1, 1889 ; 251). * This is one of the few English books contemporary with Shakespeare which contains an allusion to the Great Dramatist. Very few copies are known. The present one wants the Spring Song at the end, so does another in my possession, and so also does one of the two copies in the British Museum leading to a suspicion that it was a separate and later insertion," — Note by Mr. Halliwcll Phillipps. Chiarini (G.) Questo et el libbro che tracta di mercatanti et usanze de paesi [Hain no. 4955), outline woodcut on title of Money-changers, Firenze, Piero da Pescia, g. a. {•mte 1500) (Dec. 19, 1901 ; 43). * This interesting little volume is the first work printed on Italian commerce, and is of great importance for the history of trade and banking in the middle ages. Child's Psalter, containing (i) Morning and Evening Prayer ; (ii) The Church Catechism Explained ; (iii) Select Psalms, and other parts of Holy Scripture ; (i v. ) Graces before and after meat. To which is added many profitable and delightful Instruction? for Youth, 1711 (Mar. 20, 1903; 1129). * The Child's Psalter, which we have excellent reasons for believing to be a little volume of the first order of rarity (no other appears to have occurred for sale) seems from the title-page to belong to that large and singular family of literature especially dedicated to juvenile learners or readers. Internal evidence points to Isaac Watts as the probable author of this practically unknown Uttle volume. Christian Faith. Whether Christian faith mave be kept secrete in the hearte, &c. RoaJie, 1553 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 944). * Though purporting to be printed at Rouen it is more probable that it pro- ceeded from a Strasburg press, where so many of the Protestant clergj- were in exile at the time. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 95 Chrouica Bossiana. Donatii Bossii Causidici et Civis Mediolanensis Gestorum dictorumque memorabilium et temporum, &c. ab orbis . initio usque ad eius tempora, genealogical table of the Dttkes of Milan in red at beginning, fo. Mediohni, Ant. Zarotiim 1492 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 608). * Under the year 1457 occurs the following interesting statement respecting the invention of printing : " Hoc anno salutifera doctrinarum omnium im- primendorum librorum ars auctore Joanne Gutember Germano reperta est." Chronica (Die)van der hilliger Stat Va Coelle,Ut.. C^0l\i,{Ger7nan type), long lines, with signs, with many hundred spirited German woodcuts {Hain *4989), fo. Jo. Koelhoff Burger in Coellen {anno 1499) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 208). * The first edition of the Cologne Chronicle, containing the important state- ment on the origin of printing, giving 1450 as the date of the first Gutenberg Bible, etc. [See also, Cronica. ]. Chronica de los Reyes Catholicos Don Hernando y Dona Ysabel, en Romance por Hernando de Pulgar con Adicion hecha por el Maes- tro Valles, b. i., woodcuts -\- Q ff. -\- 248 //. + 4 //., fo. Caragofa, 1567 (June 13, 1887 ; 686). * In the Adicion is a notice of the Descubrimiento de Indias por Christoval Colon in consequence of the statement of a Pilot dying in liis house. Chronica de D. Alonso VII. Rey de Castilla y Leon, fo. Madrid, 1600 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 1182). * The events recorded in this Chronicle took place in tlie t\Aelfth century. The Chronicle occupies about half the volume; the remainder is devoted to an historical account of the noble families of Spain, with large cut of their arms. Chronicle of England, i). l., long lines, contains 10 //. of table, and 228 //. of text, with signatures, sm. fo. {Ato. size) no place of printing, date or printer's name (W. de Machlinia, c. 1484) (June 11, 1900 ; 165). * The rare edition of the St. Alban's Chronicle printed in London by William de Machlinia. Earl Spencer's copy is the only perfect one known (now in the Rvlands Library, Manchester). Gibber (Colley) Lives of the Poets, 5 vol., 1753 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 287). * " The compiler of the ' Lives of the Poets ' was the first to relate the story that Shakespeare's original connection with the play-house was as holder of horses of visitors outside the doors." — Sidney Lee. Halliwell in his " Illus- trations of the Life of Shakespeare," 1874, reprints Cibber's account. Poem on the Death of our Late Soveraign Lady Oueen Mary, 1st Edn., 4to. John Whitlock, 1695 (May^6, 1901 ;'508). * This was Cibber's earliest publication and is exceedingly scarce. Not in Lowndes. Cicero. Epistolae ad Familiares, lit. rom. long lines, 41 to a full page, 146 II. without marks {Hain 5215), fo. Mediolani anno L CCCC LXXV . . opus impressit Antonius Zarothus Parmensis XII Kal. Oct. (1475) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 226). * The earliest edition of Cicero's Epistles from the press of A. Zarotus, the first printer in this city. It is said not more than four other copies are known. 96 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Cicero. Officiorum lyibri III., Paradoxa et Versus Xll.Sapientum.lst Edn., 4io. MogunticB, J. Fust, Petri {Schoiffer) manu pueri met, 1465 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 1047). * This edition derives an additional interest from its being the first classical work ever printed. The following information, in the colophon, as to the manner of its execution, is also curious : " no atrameto. plumali cana neqz aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra," &c. Officia M. T. C. Ein Buch, so Marcus Tullius Cicero der Romer, zu seynem Sune Marlio .... in Latein geschriben,&c., 103 wood- cuts by Hans Burgkmaier, including a portrait of Schwartzenherg after Albert Diirer, fo. Augspurg, H. Steyner, 1531 (Nov. 22, 1897 ; 862). * Containing illustrative German rhymes, couplets and quatrains, thus rendering it an interesting contribution to original German literature. One of the woodcuts bears Burgmair's mark and all the rest are attributed to him except the Schwartzenberg portrait which Nagler thinks was the work of Jacob Bink. Tullius de Senectute, Bothe in Latyn and Englysshe tonge, by Robt. Whittington, the Latin in italics and the English in blHC^ letter, John Byddell, n. d. {circa 1540) (May 6, 1901 ; 81). * A remarkably rare volume by the English Poet Laureate ; the two other known copies are in the Museum, one of them being imperfect. Drei Bucher an seinen vSune Marcum von Geburlichen Wercken, &c. ausz den Latin in Teiitsch verwandelt, I. g., 103 large woodcuts attributed to Hans Burgniair, fo. Franckfurt, C. Egenolff, 1550 (July 29, 1903 ; 560). . * The best German translation of Cicero's offices, and remarkable both for its woodcuts and text, the translator having inserted illustrative German rhymes couplets, and quatrains, making a valuable contribution to original German literature. de Officiis cum Aldi Mannuccii Commentario. Item in Dialogos de Senectute et Amicitia, Paradoxa et Somnium Scipionis, fo. Venetiis, Aldus, 1581 (June 18, 1888 ; 1025). * This volume contains the Dedication of Paradoxa to the Admirable Crich- ton, and contains two Odes by him, pronounced by Bp. Butler (formerly Head-Master of Shrewsbury School) in his autograph note as " of a very in- ferior kind & full of false qualities and strongly confirming my opinion of him as a man bolstered up by a sort of quack advertising reputation." Ciceronis Tusculanae Questiones, fo. Rome, Ulricum Han de Wienna, 1469 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 951). * The earliest book printed at Rome by Ulric Han, except the Meditations of Turrecremata which Panzer describes, speaking of the copy in the Public Library at Nuremberg as " Unica tanquam Phenix." That is a volume no collector can ever hope to possess. Of this edition of the Tiisculan Dispu- tations it may likewise be said that when once this copy is placed in a library, as it doubtless soon will be, it will be many a long year before another copy is to be had. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 97 Cicero. Cicero's Cato Major, or his Discourse of Old Age, 4to. Phila- delphia, Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1744 (June 9, 1902 ; 109). * This precious volume is the most celebrated example of Benjamin Frank- lin's press. He wrote the Preface and in it says that he has printed the book , " in a large and fair Character, that those who begin to think on the Subject of Old Age (which seldom happens till their Sight is somevs^hat impair' d by- its Approaches) may not, in Reading, by the Pain small Letters give the Eyes, feel the Pleasure of the Jlind in the least alla5'ed." In conclusion, he says, " I shall add to these few Lines my hearty Wish, that this first Translation of a Classic, in this Western World, may be followed with many others, per- formed with equal Judgment and Success, and be a happy Omen, that Philadelphia shall become the seat of the American Muses." The translation was made in 1 734 by Chief Justice James Logan. Cinthio (G. B. Gyraldi) De gli Hecatommithi, 2 vol., 1st Edn., Nel Monte Regale, 1565 (June 15, 1897 ; 445). * From this work Shakespeare obtained the plots for the plays of " Measure for Measure " and " Othello." It was also much used by Beaumont and Fletcher, Shirley, and other English dram.atists. Cireyo (Jean de) Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis, \. g.. 2 large spirited woodcuts, Ato. Impressus Divione per Magistrtim Petrum Metlin- ger Alemamtm, 1491 (Mar. 7, 1901 ; 136). * The first book printed at Dijon. It was not printed for sale, but reserved exclusively for the Monasteries of the Order. The binding was most likely executed in the Abbey of Citeaux, of Vv'hich Jean de Cireyo was abbot. We can only trace the sale of two copies in England within recent years, one in the WodhuU sale in 1886, which fetched ;£27, the other ;£25 10s. in these rooms in March, 1898. Clamengiis (Nicolai de) de lapsu et reparatione justicise libellus. Ejus- dem Disputatio super materii Concilii generalis, &c., sm. Ato. [s. /. et a\'\ (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 954). *Though by a Catholic author this volume was published by the reforming party in the Church as a witness against the prevalent abuses. Claudium (F.) Discours oft corte enarratie, op die beroovinghe der Catholycker Kercken gheschiet door die oude Ketteren, ende nieuwe Caluinisten van onsen tyden, with 22 woodcuts of the atrocities said to have been committed by the Hugtienots, calf neat, Tot Loven. By Jan Boogarts, 1567 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 958). * A MS. note on the fly-leaf says : " Cette traduction Flamande est plus rare que I'edition Fran9aise, publiee a Paris, 1563. L'Editeur de cette traduction a illustre sa publication de gravures en bois et de notes historiques. L'une et I'autre edition sont trds rares." Clavell (John) Recantation of an 111 Led Life, Ato. 1634 (June 27, 1906 ; 130). * Contains an account of a robbery at Gadshill (King Henry IV.). There was a copy in Halli well's sale catalogue. 98 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S dementis Tralfei (N.) Austrasice Rcges et Duces Epigrammatis des- cripti, with 63 circular portraits, beautifully engraved on copper, sm. 4to. Colonic, 1591 (Nov. 16. 1885 ; 2422). * The very skilfully etched portraits in this volume are the work of Pierre Woeriot, and were engraved some years before the publication of the book, which was delayed by the death of N. Clement, the author of the latin epi- grams attached to each portrait. This is one of the very few copies which have the portrait of Charles III., Duke of Lorraine,without the hat and plumes, thus showing that the prints are the earliest impressions. Austrasise Reges et Duces epigrammatis, per Nicolaum Clemen- tem descripti, sm. Aio. Colonics, 1619 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 960). * This edition differs somewhat from that of 1591, a crown being substituted in the place of the vignette upon the title, and the medallion of Carolus III., the last in this volume, is from a different plate, representing him wearing a hat and feathers and also a frill, whereas in the other he is bareheaded and clad in armour. Closet (A) for Ladies and Gentlemen, or the Art of preserving, con- seruing and candying, &c. also divers Soueraigne IMedicines and vSalues for sundrv Diseases. Arthur Johnson, 1608. (April 24, 1899; 714). * Apparently the first edition of this notable little cookery book. The earliest edition mentioned by Hazlitt is that of 1630. Not in Lowndes. Clusa (Jacobus de) Tractatus de apparitionibus animarum post exi- tum earum a corporibus et de earmidem receptaculis, K. ^.. 26 II. long lines, 33 to a page, without marks, sm. jo. Impressits in Opido Burgdorf anno dni 1475 (April 12, 1899 ; 183). * The first book printed at the towu of Burgdoff either in Switzerland or in Hanover. Cochlaeus. Pro Scotise Regno Apologia Johannis Cochlei, adversus personatum Alexandrum Alesium Scotuni, ad Sereniss. Scotoru rege, Ato. Lipsice, 1533 {Date unknown) * This tract is a defence of the notice that had been given in every parish in Scotland in reference to the selling and reading of the New Testament- The above is a tract of extraordinary rarity, and Mr. Maidm.ent has written in the present copy : " This is the only copy of the singularly scarce apology of Cochleius I have been able to trace. It seems to have been unknown to most bibliographers, and was formerly in the librarj- of Principal Lee." [Cockburn (Patrick, Scot.)'\ In Dominicam Orationum Pia Meditatio' qua, in Deum Animus fidelis, mirens in quodum excitatur, \2mo. Johannis Scot, in Civitate Sancti Andrea, 1555 (Dec. 7, 1905 ; 341). * It seems to be the first book which mentions Q. Mary by name, and is the second known book printed by John Scott in St. Andrews. It is dedicated to the Queen Mother, Mary of Guise. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 99 Coke (Lord) Speech and Charge at Norwich Assises. With a Dis- coverieof the Abuses and Corruption of Officers, 4^0. 1607 (Mar- 20, 1903 ; 1196). * Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps' copy, with the following note in his auto- graph : " The cur(ious) entry about playes has been collated in my provincial volume." The entry referred to will be found on H 2 obverse, and reads as follows : " The abuse of Stage players, wherewith I find the Countrey much troubled, may easily be reformed. They having no commission to play in any place without leave ; and therefore, if by your willingnesse they be not enter- tained you may soone be rid of them." Collections of Papers relating to Present Juncture of Affairs in Eng- land, the 12 collections complete, in 1 vol., sm. Ato. R. Jaiieway, 1688-9 (April 12, 1899 ; 189). * The Sixth Collection contains " A Narrative of the Miseries of New England, by reason of an arbitrary Government erected there." Collier (J. P.)An Old Man's Diary, forty years ago ; for the years 1832-33. For strictly private circulation. Complete in 4 parts, sm. 4to., 1871-2 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 981). * Only twenty-five copies of this most valuable contribution to the literary history of fifty years since are said to have been printed, and the whole of these were for strictly private circulation. In the preface, the author says, " Those who receive it must, therefore, be so good as consider it strictly in the light of a manuscript communication." Coloma (Juan) Decada dela Passion de Jesu Christo, plates, Caller 1576 (June 18, 1888 ; 810). * Ticknor gives the date of 1579 instead of 1576, and considers it the first book printed at Cagliari, as does also Cotton. This is, however a mistake, as probably " Fortunati Carmina," printed in 1574, was the earliest work printed in the Capital of Sardinia, Colonna — See Columna. Columbus (Christ.) De Insulis nuper in Mari Indico repertis (8 11.). 4 woodcuts and Spanish arms, sm. Ato. Basil. J . Bersman de Olpe, 1497 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 518). * This edition of the Letter of Columbus to Raphael Sanxis on his Discovery of America forms the last 8 11. of the Obsidio Victoria et Triumphus of Ferdi- nand II. of Spain, of Carolits Verardus ; with which work it was published in 1494. Memorial de Don Diego Colon, Uirrey y Almirante de las yndias a S. C. C. Mag*^ el Rey don Carlos, Mdxx., ed. by Henry Stevens \2pp., b. t, Ato., 1854 (July 1 , 1886 ; 493). * Edited, with Epistle dedicatory of two pages to Dr. Reinhold Pauli, from the original manuscript of the Second Admiral of the Indies, then in the possession of Henry Stevens, and printed at the Chiswick Press. The young King of Spain, Charles, had asked Columbus respecting the benevolent schem^e of Las Casas for civilizing and christianizing the Indians of Terra Firma, urging the Admiral's co-operation. This is Don Diego Columbus's favourable reply. 100 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Columna (F. de) Hypnerotoniachia Polyphili, Editio Princeps, 171 wood engravings from designs by h, vanow^ly attributed to Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli or Vittore Carpaccio. Venetiis in csdibus Aldi Manutii, 1499 (June 15. 1897 ; 539). * These woodcuts mark the highest point of development reached by the art of wood engraving at Venice in the XVth century, and their artist succeeded in creating a series of delightful and charming pictures, delicately designed, and thoroughly fulfilling the conditions of outline work. Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours dii Songe de Poliphile, wood engravings {including Worship of Priapus), jo. Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1561 (Nov. 20, 1899). * This first French edition is considered by many more correct than the ori- ginal Italian. The magnificent designs of this rare volume are greatly attri- buted to Giovanni Bellina, the master of Titian and Giorgione, although others have not scrupled to ascribe then to Raffaelle himself. Pope, the poet, however, thinks them either by Francia, who taught Marc Antonio, or else by Andrea del Mantegna. Comandamenti. lyibro delli Commandamenti di Dio del Testamento Vecchio et Novo et Sacri Canoni, composto da Frate Marco Dal Monte Sancta Maria in Gallo dell Ordine de Frati Minore della Provincia della Marcha di Ancona, lit. ram. 92 II. with signs, long lines [Hain, 11596], outline cut of a friar preaching to seated citizens on title {inlaid), fine full-page cut symbolical of "La Vita Eterna " on reverse of a ii, another at b Hi in 3 compartments lettered " Daserfco de Syna," and one on the opposite page entitled ' Monte Synay," ornamental initials, sm. 4to. Impresso in Firenze per Maestro Antonio Miscomini, anno MCCCCLXXXXIIII (1494) (May 21, 1906 ; 178). * Remarkable for its interesting woodcuts. The " Mons Pietatis " is from the larger design of Botticelli, and has been reproduced in other forms. The two other full-page cuts are also very fine, and have frequently been noted in works on art. The cut of the Deserto de Syna is truly remarkable for its crowd of figures in each of the three compartments. Commenius (J. A.) The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened, or • else a Seminarie or seed-plot of all Tongues and vSciences, &c., with ■ a Latin title, 1631 (July 28, 1903 ; 113). ♦Anterior to any edition noticed by Mr. Hazlitt, who cites nothing before 1633 which issue, like the present, was edited by John Anchorm, Licentiate of Divinity. The present copy has both title pages. Commenius is frequently quoted in Halliwell's folio Shakespeare. The British Museum Catalogue (1884) only contains the edition of 1639. Cominines. The Historic of Philip de Commines, Knight, L,ord of Argenton (trans, by T. Danett), fo. 1596 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 480). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 101 * The earliest known English version of De Com mines. ■ The impression of 1596 (which is far rarer than that of 1601, and is not qixite correctly described by bibliographers), has the powerful interest that it appeared just at the point of time when Shakespeare had in hand his " Tragedy of King Richard II.," printed in the following year, and was naturally led to look about for information about Italy, between which and England the relations had then grown regular and intimate. In the drama the author introduces the banish- ment of Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, his settlement at Venice, and death there and he elsewhere refers to the " fashions of proud Italy." " — whose manners still our tardy apish nation Limps after in base imitation." De Commines, who was well acquainted with Italy and with Venice itself, describes the country and the place in his book in flattering colours, and it was just that sort of personal, picturesque way of narrating scenes and ex- periences which would impress Shakespeare. Capel reprinted a portion of this edition of De Commines in his " School of Shakespeare." Pages 201-3. Common Prayer — See Book. Conestaggio (Jeronimo de Franchi) dell' Unione del Regno di Porto- gallo alia Corona di Castiglia, 4to. Genova, 1589 (June 13, 1887 ; 726). * This curious work under the worn de plume of Conestaggio was written by Don Juan de Sylva, Conde de Portalegre, who accompanied Don Sebastian into Africa as Spanish Ambassador. Historic of the Uniting of the Kingdom of Portugall to the Crowne of CastiU, fo. 1600 (July 28, 1904 ; 213). * Dedicated to Shakespeare's patron. " To the Most Noble and aboundant president both of Honor and Vertue, Henry Earle of Southampton." In the course of his dedication Blount says : "In such proper and plaine language as a most humble and affectionate dutie can speake I doo heere offer up on the altar of my hart the first fruits of my long growing endevors ; which (with much constancie and confidence) I have cherisht, onely waiting this happie opportunitie to make them m.anifeste to your Lordship ; where nowe if (in respect of the knowne distance betwixt the height of your Honourable spirit and the flatnesse of my poor abilities) they turne into smoake and var- nish ere they can reach a degree of your merite, vouchsafe yet (most excellent Earle) to remember it was a fire that kindled them and gave them life at least, if not lasting. Your Honor' s patronage is the onely object I aime at ; and were the worthinesse of this Historic I present such as might warrant me an election out of a worlde of Nobilitie, I woulde still pursue the happines of my choice, . . . ." &c. An account of the Shakespearean interest of this very rare Elizebethan volume is given by the poet' s most recent biographers, Mr, Lee and Mr. Hazlitt. Confessionale. Interrogationes et doctrinae quibus quilibet Sacerdos debet interrogare suum confitentem, lit. rom. (10 11.) long lines, 23 and 27 to a page, {not in Hain), sm. 4to. absque ulla nota [Scheurener, Romcs ante 1476]. (May 21, 1906 ; 182). * Attributed to John Scheurener, the oflacial Vatican printer at Rome before St. Planck. 102 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Confessions of the Faith of Christian and Reformed Churches, Cam- bridge, Thos. Thomas, 1586 (Feb. 26, 1900 ; 318). * St. Strype's Annals for a long account of the printing of this book, one of the first printed at Cambridge by an English printer. Thos. Thomas was a M.A. of King's College. Congreve (William). Incognita : or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, a Novel, 1st Edn., Printed for Peter Buck, at the sign of the Temple, near Temple Bar in Fleet Street, 1692 (May 18, 1903'; 100). * Congreve's earliest publication. Leigh Hunt (in his Works of Congreve 1840) was apparently unaware of the existence of this little book, as he refers to the Congreve's Memoirs of 1730 as the only form in which the novel is to be met with, and that very seldom. Consolato del Mar (begins after 6 prel. II. with no formal title on fol. I.) " Sequeir se lo libre de cosolat novamet corregit e Stapat. en lo qual son contengudes les leys e ordinacions dels actes maritims e mercan- tivols (6 prel. II. and fols. numbered to LXXXVIII., followed by \4 11. unnumbered, the last blank, fo. Barcelona, Pere Posa, 1494 (July 23, 1906 ; 463). * First edition with a date of this book, in the original Catalan (or Proven9al ) dialect. The work is the foimdation of modem maritime law, and is impor- tant for the History of the development of European maritime power. Constable (Henry) Diana, Spiritual Sonnets, and other Poems, ed. bv W. C. Hazlitt, 1859 (May 25, 1905 ; 180). * Malone considered that Shakespeare was probably indebted to Constable's " Shepherd's Song of Venus and Adonis," and there is some question how far Shakespeare's is an improvement on it. Constantini (Angelo) A pleasant and comical History of the Life of Scaramouche, trans, by A. R. from the French, front., 1696 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 140). * This volume is apparently quite undescribed. The frontispiece is very curious as showing a five-stringed guitar of the period. The hero is described as the player to the King of France, and one of the Italian Company of Comedians. Contareno (Card.) The Commonwealth and Government of Venice . . . trans, by L. Lewkenor, 4to. 1599 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 177). * Malone considered that this volume was one of the principal sources of Shakespeare's " Othello." Conti (Nicholas) India Recognita (Nicolaus Venetus dictavit Poggius scripsit), sm. 4to. Sine nota Thaurini, XV. Kal. Mart. MCCCC- XCII) (June 19, 1889 ; 327). * (1) f. Title, India recognita + (13) ff. Roman letter, 35 lines. Probably unique, no other copy being known. This important accomit of India in the earlier part of the fifteenth century was taken down by Poggio from the verbal relation of Niccolo Conti, about A.D. 1440, when the latter visited Rome to obtain absolution from Eugenius IV. for having lived in the East as a Ma- hommedan during twenty-five years. The narrative was known to Dom NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 103 Manuel of Portugal, who, in 1500, had it translated into Portugese along with the earlier work of Marco Polo, and the later short statement of Hieronyino de S. Stefano — the subject having acquired a powerful interest for the Portu- gese crown since the achievement of Vasco de Garaa's voyage. But Rarausio sought for it in vain, and was obliged to give it in his Viagsii in the form of an Italian translation from the Portugese. Only in 1723 was the Latin text published, for the first time, as it was supposed, and as it has been since considered, till now. In " India in the fifteenth century," (Hakluyt Society) the translation is made from the edition of 1723, alleged, in Mr. Major's preface, to be the first and only one. The only other note I can find of it is in Hain, No. 13208. Coiitile (lyuca) Historia delle cose occorse nel Regno d'Inghilterra, in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte di Odoardo VI., engd. title, Venetia, 1558 (Nov 16, 1885 ; 1310). * Mr. Proude in his History of England refers to this book as one of the most valuable authorities for the reigns of Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary. Conway (Sir John) Meditations and Praiers, h. \., within borders. Im- printed by William How, 1571 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 524). * No other copy of the present impression is traceable. There is one of a different edition in the British Museum, inlaid, and probably of later date. Cook (John, of Grav s Inn, Barrister) King Charl's his Case : or, an Appeal to all Rational Men, concerning his Tryal, 4to., 1649 (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 422). * Cooke in tliis pamphlet complains that King Charles did not study Scripture half as much as he did Ben Jonson or Shakespeare. It is not in Lowndes Cooper (Bp. T.) Admonition to the People of England answering the vSlanderous Untruethes by Martin [Marprelate] the Libeller, 1st Edn., sm. Ato. C. Barker, 1589 (June 26, 1885 ; 278). * Two editions were printed in the same year, but the first, containing the passages altered by slips, as pointed out by Martin Marprelate and corrected in the second, is by far the rarest. To ridicule Bp. Cooper s serious Confu- tation Martin issued " Hay any Worke for Cooper." Copia del Concilio Generale fatto el primo giorno di Magio dalla Dea Venere, e dal figliuol Cupido, con tutto il choro delli dei nela Isola Cittarea mandata al loco sacro delle Sante muse all' academia festa de spiriti gentili, Per L/onardo ditto il Furlano, [s /.] 1544 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1000). * This little tract seems to have been printed as a jest on the General Council of the Church, which was so much discussed just at the time it was printed. Copland (Patrick) Virginia's God be thanked, or a sermon of Thanks- giving for the Happie Successe of the affayres in Virginia, Ato. 1622 (June 9, 1902 ; 71). * At the end of this most interesting sermon " are adjoyned some epistles " by Peter Pope, an Indian Youth, baptized in London, December 22nd, 1616. Incidentally, much is learned of the State of the Colony at this period. In " James Cittie " a " faire inne " is being erected. The savages are " good natured." " King Powhatan, whose daughter Pokahuntas, one Maister John Rolfe, an English Gentleman of good worth married," &c., &c. 104 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Coppola (G. C.) Le Nozze degli Dei, favola rappresentata in Musica in Firenze nelle Reali Nozze de Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinand© II. e Vittoria Principessa d'Urbino, engd. title and 7 plates by Stephana Delia Bella, sm. Ato. Firenze, 1637 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1001). * The folding plates by Stefano Delia Bella are remarkable for their inventive genius, and for scenic display might afford hints even at the present day. Corbet (Richard) Certain Elegant Poems, 1st Edn., R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1647 (Feb. 25, 1^01 ; 525). * The earliest issue. At page 12 will be found an interesting reference to Shakespeare's Plays, and the actor Burbage. Mine host was full of ale and history ; ****** Why, he could teU The inch where Richmond stood, where Richard fell : Besides what of his knowledge he could say. He had authenticke notice from the Play ; Which I might guesse, by's mustring up the ghosts, And policyes, not incident to hosts ; But chiefly by that one perspicuous thing. Where he mistooke a player for a King. For when he would have sayd. King Richard dyed. And call'd — A horse ! a horse ! — he Burgidge cry'de. [Gilchrist remarks that " from this passage we learn that Richard Burbage was the original representative of Shakespeare's Richard the Third." ] Cordova y Bocanegra (F. de) Vida y Muerte ; port., sm. Ato. Madrid, 1617 (Nov. 5, 1896 ; 40). * The subject of the volume spent a good deal of his life in Mexico, of which city numerous particulars are given. [Cornbury (Lord)] The IMistakes : or, The Happy Resentment. A Comedy by the late Lord****, 1st Edn., Printed by S. Richardson, 1758 {Date tmknown) * This, although having a London imprint, is said to have been printed at Strawberry Hill ; the Preface was written by Horace Walpole. See Walpole's Noble Anthers, vol. 4 (18C6), p. 231 ; also Baker's Biographia Drcmatica. Baker, speaking of the comedy, says : " Prefixed to it is a Preface by Mr. Horace Walpole, at whcse press at Strawberry Hill it was printed." It is remarkable that hitherto this fact seems to have been overlooked by collectors of the Strawberry Hill Press, and the play is not included in Mr. Haven's Bibliography. Corneille. Dancer (John) Nicomede, a Tragi-Comedy, trans, out of the French of Corneille Dubhn, Ato. 1671 (May 25, 1905 ; 203). * With the 16 pp. Catalogue of Plays at end, compiled by Francis Kirkman, who, according to his address to the reader, was an ardent collector and reader of the plays themselves ; out of a total of 806 plays, which he names, he boasts of the possession of all but 30 of them ! See the interesting note at end of the Catalogue. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 105 Corneille. Theatre, Reveu et Corrige par I'Auteur, 2 vol., port, and front, by Paillet, Paris, L. Billaine, 1664 (June 15, 1897 ; 540). * In this beautiful edition Corneille published, for the first time, his La Toison d'Or. Brunet says it is an important edition to possess, because it was very carefully revised by the author himself, and contains many difTerences from the original text. Corrozet(Gilles) lyCS Propos memorables des nobles et illustres hommes de la chrestiente, Paris, 1556 (June 30, 1905 ; 489). * With the 2 11. of Faultes and Corrozet's device at the end. Containing the kisioire of " Le Jugement de Sultan Soliman grad seigneur des Turcs." This histoire is the foundation story of the Jew and the pound of flesh (immortalized in the Merchant of Venice) with slight variations. The amount of flesh to be cut by the Jew being two ounces and the question of letting blood is not introduced, the story ending with the Hebrew's discomfiture on being told he must cut neither more nor less than two ounces. Corsair (The)— See Thackeray. Cortes (Ferd.) De Insulis nuper inventis Ferdin. Cortesii ad Carolum V Rom. Itnperatorem, Narrationes ; cum alio quodam Petri Mar- tyris ad Clementem VII., Pontificem Maximum, consimilis argu- menti libello, &c., port., fo. Colonics, 1532 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 377). * The above work contains the second and third letters of Cortes to Charles v., translated from the Spanish by P. Savorgnanus ; also other pieces bearing on the same subject. Dr. Robertson was able to obtain a sight of the second only of these important letters, notwithstanding which he states, " Our knowledge of the events which happened in the conquest of New Spain is derived from sources of information more original and authentic than that of any transaction in the history of America. The Letters of Cortes to the Em- peror Charles V. are an historical monument, not only first in order of time, but of the greatest authenticity and value." Quarta Relacion, — See America. (Hernan.) Historia de Nueva-Espana, aumentada con otros Documentos ; por D. Franc. Ant. Lorenzana, Arzobispo de Mexico, front., 2 charts, plate of the Great Temple of Mexico, and one of the ancient Mexican calendar; besides 31 plates representing the facsimile of a Mexican book in hieroglyphic characters, with their transcription in Roman letters and translation into Spanish, fo. Mexico, Jos. Antonio de Hogal, 1770 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 379). * A highly important work, containing valuable documents relating to the conquest of Mexico, which may be judged of by the Three Letters of Cortez being included in it. The 31 plates made part of the celebrated collection of Boturini Benaduci. Carta de Hernando Cortes, Marques del Valle a S. C. C. Mag** el rey don Carlos Quinto Mostrandole su paresger acerca de los repartimientos de los yndios, sobre si conviene al seruj del rey q los naturales de la nueba vSpana esten todos en su cabe^a, o algunos en los Spanoles pobladores della. Ano de Mdxlii, 12 pp., ed. by Henry Stevens, 4to. Londres, 1854 (July 1, 1886 ; 498). 106 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * First privately printed from the original manuscript in 1854, in the posses- sion of Mr. Steevens. It is not dated, but was manifestly written in 1541 or 1542, when the Emperor and Las Casas were getting up the famous New Laws of the Indies, printed in 1543. The Emperor had asked Cortes's advice respecting the encomiendas and the treatment of the Indians in ^lexico. This is the Conqueror's sensible reply. Corvus (Andreas) Excellentissimi et singularis viri in chiromatia, g. I., numerous xylographic illustrations. Ahsaue nota sed Lyon, ante 1500 (June 15, 1897 ; 335). * An edition, unknown to most bibliographers, of one of the earliest printed books on Chiromancy, peculiarly interesting on account of xylographic wood- cuts, French examples of this form of engraving being remarkably few in number. It comprises signatures a to / in eights. Opera nova de Maestro Andrea Corvo da Carpi, habita alia Mirandola tratta de la Chiromantia stampata con gratia, woodcut shield containing a raven and star on title below the letterpress, on the reverse a ribbon I. H. S. ; on the reverse of leaf after title, a full-page cut of 3 figures representing Corvo reading the hand of Duke Gon zaga, and a figure of a courtier behind, the raven {Corvo' s arms) stispended on a tree above, 155 figures of hands, and printers' device on last page, stampato in Venetia per Augustino de Zannis da Portesio, etc., 1513 (May 21, 1906 ; 190). * Only the edition with the Latin text is in the British Museum, having the same date, month, and year. Cosimo III. II Mondo festeggiante, Balletto a Cavallo fatto nel Teatro congiunto all Palazzo del Gran Duca, per le Reali Nozze di Cosimo terzo di Toscana e Margherita I,uisa d'Orleans, L. P., with three large folding plates by Stefano Delia Bella, sm. Ato. Firenze, 1661 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 2312). * The large and fine plates in tliis pageant depict the grand Spectacle of a Ballet performed by Cavalry and horsemen representing the forces of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The book was printed at the Grand Duke's private press. Cosin (J.) Collection of Private Devotions in the practise of the An- cient Church called the Houres of Prayer, 1st Edn,, 1627 (June 19, 1889 ; 612). * Partly printed in Black Letter, interspersed with Hymns and other Pieces of Poetry. The Puritans nicknamed this Collection " Cosin' s Cozening De- votions," The work was written by desire of Charles I. and only 200 copies struck off. Cosmographiae Introductio, cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astrono- miae principiis ad earn rem necessariis, woodcuts and diagrams, boards. Venetiis, 1533 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 104). * Harrisse, in his Bibliotheca Americana, pt. 2, No. 100, describes this treatise as an edition of the Cosmographia of Peter Apian, but it is quite a distinct work from that of Apian. The discovery of America is spoken of on folios 22, 23. The only copy known to Harrisse was in the Library of the Univer- sity of Genoa. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 107 Cotgrave (John) English Treasury of Wit and Language, 1655 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 63). * First Edition. Halliwell had a copy which he thus describes : " This little volume contains numerous extracts from the works of Shakespeare, some with textual variations." Capell's copy, at Trinity College, Cambridge, has the Shakespearian quotations marked by Capell. Wits Interpreter : The English Parnassus, 3d. edition, front., 1671 (May 25, 1905 ;188). * " Some of the dialogues and poems are very broad, but they include several pieces not accessible elsewhere." — Sidney Lee. The frontispiece contains a portrait of Shakespeare. Counsellor Manners, his Last Legacy to his Son ; Enriched and Em- bellished with Grave Adviso's, Pat Histories, and Ingenious Pro- verbs, Apologues, and Apophthegms, 1673 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 710). * At page 89 is a curious reference to Nat Field, Shakespeare's colleague, in which the author, after advising his son in his choice of a wife, proceeds " And be not of Nat Feeld the Players humour, who vowed, that if the old Woman that crawled upon her tail at Holbom-Bridge, had a thousand pound for her portion, he would marry her and adorn her breech with a French Velvet Hood. " Courrier Facetieux (Le) ou Recueil des Meilleurs Rencontres de ce temps, front Lyon, P. Burckhardi, 1647 (Dec. 17, 1900 ; 310). * This edition is three years earlier than the first mentioned in Bruuet. The " Permission " is dated May 9, 1647. Court of good Counsell, 6. 1, sm. Ato. 1607 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1026). * A most curious volume giving many interesting glimpses of middle-class life in England at the beginning of the 17th century. It reads very like a work of Nicholas Breton, though it is not described among his works by any bibliographer. It is a tract of extreme rarity, no copy being quoted as sold since the beginning of this century. Cowper (W.) Adelphi, a Sketch of the Character and an Account of the last illness of the late Rev. John Cowper, 1st Edn., 1802 (Oct. 30, 1899). {Date unknown) * This pamphlet escaped the notice of bibliographers, and was not included in Cowper' s works. Vol. I. Poems. Printed for J. Johnson. 1782— Vol. II. The Task, a Poem, John Gilpin, &c., &c., id. 1785. First Editions of both volumes, 2 vol. (May 6, 1901 ; 871). * A very interesting copy. Vol. I. contains the suppressed Preface (8 pp. ), subscribed " John Newton, Charles Square, Hoxton, Feb. 18, 1782," of which, says Mr. Locker in the Appendix to the Rowfant Catalogue, " // is believed not more than three or four copies exist." It has also the misprint page 344, and the " Errata " as referred to by Mr. Locker, but it has in addition to these (which the Rowfant copy apparently lacks) the cancelled pp. 117-1 18, and 123—4 and the substituted pages added : there were some important alterations made in the matter contained on these pages, particularly on 123-4, and their value can be easily perceived side by side. 108 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Crabbe (Geo.) The Village : a poem, 1st Edn., 4io. 1783 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 234). ' * Dr. Johnson revised " The Village " for Crabbe, and before publication he wrote, " I have sent you back Mr. Crabbe's Poem, which I read with great delight. It is original, vigorous, and elegant .... I do not doubt Mr. Crabbe's success." Cranford (J.) Teares of Ireland, 12 etchings of Cruelties by Hollar, 1642 (June 26, 1885 ; 294). * The rarest volume in the English language relating to Ireland. Bindley's copy sold for £13 13s. and when resold in Nassau's sale was purchased by Mr. Grenville for £17. Another copy sold in 1857 for £21 10s. Cranmer (Archbishop T.) Cathechismus, 1st Edn., with 2 full pages of Errata, woodcuts by Hans Holbein. N. Hyll for G. Lynne, 1548 (June 26, 1885 ; 295). * The excessive rarity of Cranmer's Catechism, and the variations of the two Editions have been carefully pointed out by Sir W. Tite and R. Thomson in their Bibliographical Account of the Work. Sir W. Tite could only procure an imperfect copy of the first edition which sold in his sale for £7 15s. Crebillon. CEuvres, 2 vol., port, and plates after Peyron, roy. 8vo. Paris, Didot, 1797 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 209). * Genuine First Edition, which was utterly unknown to bibliographers (the edition quoted hitherto bearing date 1799). Cresap. Biographical Sketch of the Life of Capt. Michael Cresap. Cumberland (Md.) Printed for the Author by J. M. Buchanan, 1826 (June 9, 1902 ; 79). * Thomas Jefferson in his " Notes on Virginia " accused Cresap of the murder of Logan. The author of this Sketch, John J. Jacob, had been from boyhood a member of Cresap's family, and ultimately married his widow. In this little book he seeks to vindicate Cresap's character from the aspersions of Jefferson. Crescentiis (Petrus de) " Piero Crescentio de Agricultura " (tradotta in Lingua Volgare), fine large woodcut of a farmyard on title, 37 spirited small outline Italian cuts in the text, and ornamental initials, sm. Ato. impressum Venetiis die ultimo mensis Mai anno 1495 (s. n. impr.) (May 21, 1906 ; 193). * Hain, no. 5839, not having seen tliis edition, describes it as dated "MCCCCV. (pro 1495)." The copy has the full date MCCCCLXXXXV. The engraver is apparently unknown. De Agricultura Vulgare, woodcuts, Ato. Venetiis, 1511 (Feb. 25, 1901 ;551). * The woodcuts are fine examples of outline work of the Venetian School, and depict in a spirited manner scenes of husbandry and country life. Some of them are taken from the Malermi Bible and the Titus Livius of 1493, but for the most part they are original. Croft (R., Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon) The Wise Steward, being a Sermon preached in Whitsun Week at Feckenham, 1697 (July 1, 1889 ; 1038). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 109 * " One of the very rarest of Stratford-on-Avon old books. The late Mr. Wheler never met with it during his more than fifty years' search." — Note by Mr. Halliwell- Pkillipps. Cromwell. The Happy Sinner or Penitent Malefactor, being the Prayers and Last Words of one Richard Cromwell (some time Sonldier and Chj^rurgion in the late D. of Monmouth's Army), who was executed at I^ichfield for murder, 3 July, 1691 ; Ato. Sold by Mich. Johnson, Bookseller in Lichfield, 1691 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 354). * A literary curiosity. It is one of the few tracts printed for sale by Johnson's father, then a bookseller at Lichfield. The curious advertisement at the end shows that he also sold quack medicines. [Not in Lowndes. Ed. ]. Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen, b. (., numerous woodcuts, fo. Ccellen, J. Kcelhoff, 1499 (July 3, 1899 ; 63). * (a) There are few ancient books so frequently quoted and so rarely seen as the present chronicle, of which not more than three copies are known in England. The possession of it is very essential in any library of Fifteeners, as on folios 311 and 312 is an important account of the Discovery of Printing with metal types at Mayence by J. Gutenberg in 1440, which has been referred to or quoted by all Bibliographers writing on the subject. [See, also, Chronica ]. * {b) This is the work in which Kqelhoff, the printer, gives an account of the origin of printing, as described to him by Ulric Zell, the first typographer of the city, who was still living. Cronica del famoso cauallero Cid Ruy diez campeador, 6. \., fo. Bur- gos ; Fadrique Aleman de hasilea, 1512 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 953). ■" This is the earliest edition of this full and complete Chronicle of the Cid, and is a distinct work from the popular history of the same hero printed at Seville in 1498. The headlines of the Prologue have been restored and the last leaf is in facsimile, but the rarity of the book is so extreme that the finest library might be glad to secure so good a copy as the present. The pearliest edition in the splendid Spanish library of Senor Salva was that of 1593, and this edition he merely speaks of having " seen." Croniques du Treschrestien et tres victorieux lyoys de Valoys Roy de France, B.Iy, fo. {Sans lieu ni date, Lyon vers 1488) {Date unknown) * The first edition of this anonymous chronicle. Brunet, who gives a long account of this volume, says it is also well known under the title of the " Chroniques Scandaleuses." It is printed in the same types as were used by Michel Topic and Jacques Heremberk at Lyons in 1488, in the " Voyage de Breydenbach," and in 1490 in the " Cent Histoires de Troyes," folio, which came from their presses at these dates. Cronycke van HoUandt, Zeelandt end Vrieslant, g.l., wood engravings including 14 by Lucas van Leyden, fo. Leyden, 1517 (June 3, 1908 ; 563). * The numerous remarkable woodcuts which illustrate this Chronicle were apparently gathered from many sources, including " Chevalier j^elibere " printed at Gouda in 1486, of which only one copy is known ; those by Lucas van Leyden include large and fine views of the Crucifixion, large woodcut of the Trinity, angels, coats of arms, etc. 110 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Crowley (W,)— See Tyndale. Crowne (John) Henry the Sixth, The First Part, 1st Edn., sm. Ato. 1681 (May 25, 1905 ; 195). * The plot is partly borrowed from Shakespeare. There are several mentions of Shakespeare in the Prologue, the Dedication, and the Epilogue. " To-day we bring old gather'd Herbs, 'tis true, But such as in sweet Shakespear's Garden grew. And all his Plants immortal you esteem, Your mouths are never out of taste with him." &c., &c. Crowquill — See Forrester. Cruz (Soror Juana Ines de la) Intmdacion Castalida, 1st Edn,, Madrid, 1689 (June 18th, 1888 , 215). * This Mexican nun was known as " La unica Poetisa Musa Dezima." This edition is so rare that even Salva never saw it, but cites its existence on the authority of Barrera. Cuba (Joannis de) (H.) Ortus Sanitatis, first edition with a date, numerous woodcuts, fo. Moguntiae, J. Meydenhach, 1491 (Tune 27, 1906 ; 893). * The colophon stating printing to have been invented at Mayence is im- portant, Jis Meydenbach was previously an associate of Gutenberg and Fust. Ortus Sanitatis, g. (., upwards of one thousand curious cuts of herbs, beasts, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, monsters, precious stones, mining, S-c, sm. fo. 1517 (May 25, 1905 ; 198). * Used by Halliwell-Phillipps in liis folio edition of Shakespeare, to illustrate Mtich Ado about Nothing, All's Well that End's Well, King Henry IV., and Antony and Cleopatra. Cuffe (H.) The Differences of the Ages of Man's Life, together with the originall Causes, Progresse and End thereof, calf, 1607 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 289). * This is a peculiarly rare little vohur.e, of which only one other copy of the original edition seems to have occurred for sale by a Fellow of Slertcn College, Oxford, whose misfortune it was to be implicated in the conspiracy of the Earl of Essex against Queen Elizabeth in 1601. It may be said to belong to the series of bocks dealing with the Ages of Iklan, and was written the year before the event which proved fatal to its author and to Essex himself. Essex is stated to have inculpated CuiTe, who was his secretary, by naming him as a party to the plot, and he was hanged at Tyburn in 1601. There is a highly curious account of the prediction "cf his fate by cartomancy many years before, when an astrologer is reported to have produced a pack of cards from which he asked Cuffe to draw the knaves, and when the other had taken them from him, and laid them on a table, they were presently found on ex- amination to bear scenes of Cuffe's apprehension, trial and execution. [Curio (Coelius Secundus)] Pasquino in Estasi, nuovo, e molto piu pieno, ch' el primo, insieme co'l viaggio de 1' Inferno. Aggiunte le Propositioni del medesimo da disputare nel Concilio di Trento, Roma, nella botega di Pasquino [s. d.'\ (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1054). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 111 * This volume is a relation, in form of a dialogue, of the author's escape from prison at Turin, where he was coniined for preaching and disseminating Pro- testant doctrines in 1545. There is an edition in L,atin, but it is much less rare than this in Italian, -w'hich was published probably about 1560. C5'prian (Saint) Incipit liber vSancti Cipriani Epistole de duodecim abusivis Saeculi, i), (., 4to. s. I. a. et tvp. [sed Colon. Ulr. Zell, circa 1468) (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 978). * Por an account of the rarity of the work (wliich was unknown to Brunet) see Renouard. The volume has neither numerals, signatures or catchwords, and is one of the earliest productions of Ulric Zell's press. D. (E.) A Briefe and necessary Instruction very needeful to bee known of all Householders whereby they maye the better teach and in- struct their families in such points of Christian Religion as is most meete, &c., b. t., \2mo. no place or printer's name, 1575 (May 16, 1901 ; 158). * A very rare " Catechism " not known to Lowndes or Mr. Hazlitt. The dedication, which is signed E. D., contains some references to the Romance, Song, and Story books, and Tragedies of the period. Daines (Simon) Orthoepia Anglicana : or, The First Principal Part of the English Grammar, Ato. 1640 (May 6. 1901 ; 892). * The British Museum copy, apparently the only one known, is imperfect, and is referred to by Mr. Hazlitt in his Collections and Notes. (3rd Series 1887 ). Daniel (S.) The Civile Wares Betweene the Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, first complete edition, engd. tide, Ato. 1609 (May 25, 1905 ; 208). * This edition contains num.erous corrections, some of the alterations were obviously suggested by a perusal of Shakespeare's Richard II. — see Inglcby's " Shakespeare's Prayse." The Tragedie of Philotas, A Letter from Octavia, The Tragedy of Cleopatra, The Complaint of Rosamond, Musophilus. /. W. for Simon Waterson, 1607 (May 18, 1903 ; 304). * For these poems by Daniel a general title-page v.-as printed, " Certain Small Workes," Sec, and the Funeral Poem on the Earl of Devonshire v^ras added. This complete edition is excessively rare, and Mr. Ccrser described his copy, now in the Huth Library, as probably unique (" Collectanea," pt. V p. 51). There is, hov.ever, a perfect copy in the British Museum. The present copy is complete in itself, as the signatures testify. It was lot 85 in the catalogue of Mr. Corser's library, pt. v., sold on July 11th, 1870, and lot 471 in Mr. Heber's catalogue, part IV., sold on Dec. 11th, 1834. Perfect or imperfect, not more than four or five copies of this edition can be traced. Works, first collected edition, /o. Simon Waterson, 1601 (Feb. 27, 1899 ; 1273). * Privately printed for the author, and afterwards published with the title- page dated 1602. This copy has the rare cancel slip in the Musophilus. Works, sm. fo. S. Waterson, 1602 (May 25, 1905 ; 211). 112 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * First collected edition of Daniel (some copies were dated 1601 ), containing beside the Civil Wars, his " Tragedie of Cleopatra," The Complaint of Rosa- mond, and Delia or Sonnets, etc. Daniel's " Delia " was first published in 1592, and Mr. Malone considers it to be the prototype of Shakespeare's ama- tory verse, for there is reason to suppose that none of Shakespeare's sonnets were written before the appearance of " Delia." Dante Alighieri Comedia col Commento di Benvenuto da Imola, fo. {Venetia) Vendelin de Spira, 1477 )June 13, 1887 ; 767). * (374 ) if. Complete as described by Colomb di Batines, and Brunet is wrong in saying 377 leaves, as he omits that sign, h h and i i have only eight leaves, proving that if his description were correct, there would be 376 not 377 leaves. He also states the Commentary does not bear the name of its author, although if he had read the whole of the imprint he would have seen Dimola Benvenuto ...comentando il poeta, &c. The Duke of Hamilton's copy sold for £\ 1 Commedia col Commento di Christophoro Landino, First Edi- tion of lyandino's Commentary (370 //. blank), with the 19 excessive- ly rare engravings by Baccio Baldini, from the beautiful designs of Sandro Botticelli, fo. Firenze per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna, 1481 (June 13, 1887 ; 768). * The rarity of tliis edition, especially with the 19 engravings (most copies having only two), has been recorded by numerous bibliographers, and it must always be regarded as one of the most desirable acquisitions in any Dante collection. The Duke of Hamilton's copy sold for ;£380 Only 9 other copies containing the 19 plates are supposed to be in existence. lya Commedia col Commento di Christ. Landino, lit. rom. 2 types, 4 full-page woodcuts, each within an architectural and figured border of the same design, 97 elegant cuts and ornamental initials, sm. fo. Impressi i Venesia P. Bernardino benali & Matthio da Parma del MCCCCLXXXXI. a di IIII Marzo {with device) (May 22, 1906 ; 227). ■" The first edition of 1491 (according to Lippmann) having the beautiful designs, some of which are borrowed from those of Baldini in the 1481 Landino Dante. It does not appear to have been noted hitherto that the " Piirgatorio " in this edition has 2 impressions of the full-page cut, one on the reverse of the last Canto of the Inferno, and one on reverse of the prologo to the Purgatorio. In the Ashburnham copy the outside border to the large cut before the Inferno was omitted, this has it. Some of the headline ascrip- tions are very erroneous. La Commedia col Commento di Christophoro Landino, lit. rom. 2 types,long lines with signs.lOO very fine outline Florentine woodcuts, fo. Vinegia, Petro Cremonense dito Veronese A di XVIII. di No- vembro MCCCCLXXXXI. (May 22, 1906 ; 228). * One of the first editions with these remarkable cuts. Some of these are facsimiled in Dibdin's ^des Althorpiatus. At the end of the poem and after the imprint are Ca)icione della Poeta Dante Aldigeri [sic), which occupy 8^ pp. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 113 Dante. I^a Divina Commedia, col Commento di Christ. Landino (da Pietro da Figino), woodcuts, jo. Venet. Matheo di Chodecha da Parma, 1493 (Mar. 8, 1905 ; 168). * The designs are the same as in the editions of Benalius and Petro Cremonese 1491, but worked on smaller blocks. The adjective divino as applied to the Poem appears here for the first time. At the end are the Credo, Paternoster, and Ave Maria of Dante. Comedia, col expositione di Christophoro Landino, nuovamente impressa e con somma diligentia revista y emendata, &c., 99 woodcuts, fo. Venetia, Jac del Burgojranco, ad instantia di L. A. Junta, 1529 (Dec. 19, 1901 ; 56). *The woodcuts were executed from designs of superior character, and may rank among the more important examples of Italian book-illustration at the period. lya Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la Nova Espositione di Ales- sandro Vellutello, con gratia de la illustrissima Signoria di Venezia, printed in italic type, numerous fine Italian woodcuts, sm. Ato. Vinegia, F. Marcolini, 1544 (May 21, 1906 ; 230). * First edition of Vellutello' s Commentary on Dante, and one of the best of the old editions of Dante. Opera del Divino Poeta Danthe, con suoi commenti recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente (di Pietro da Figini) in littera curs- iva impresse ; In Bibliotheca S. Bernardini, printed in italics, title in red, within a woodcut border of angels and ornaments with Adam and Eve in Eden below, figure of S. Bernard in centre, full-page cut below the Inferno, with a fine border to the opposite page, numerous fine woodcuts, and small initials, sm. Ato. Impressa in Venetia per Miser Bernardino Stagnino da Trino de Monferro, 1512 (May 21, 1906 ; 229). * The second of those editions revised by Figino, and the first in which the adjective Divino is applied to the Poet on a title. II Convivio, First and Best Edition, Ato. Firenze, per Francesco Bonaccorsi, 1490 (June 13, 1887 ; 769). * 90 ff. 39 lines. One of the earliest monuments of Italian Prose in which Dante used his utmost efforts to render Itahan in the first rank of modern languages. D'Arfeville (Nicolay) Navigation du Roy Jaques Cinquiesme du nom, autour de son Royaume et Isles Hebrides et Orchades soubz la conduicte d' Alexandre Lyndsay, folding map and plate, Ato. Paris, 1583 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 554). * Techener's copy sold for £164 (it was bought in the Beckford sale for ;£140 ). It appears by the dedication to the Due de Joyeuse that Nicholay (premier Cosmographe du Roy) had made a map and a memoir on Scotland during his residence there, and that he printed this, together with a translation of Lyndsay's navigation of J a. 5, at the request of Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, who was ambassador from Henry VIII. to the French King in 1546. Lyndsay's Navigation was translated into English from this 114 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S book in 1710. Lyndsay -^as a celebrated Scottish pilot. The book was designed as a hydrographical guide, and what was termed a Rxdter. — Fr. Routier. Darius. A preaty new Enterlude, both Pythie and Pleasaunt, of the Stor>^ of King | Daryus. | Being taken out of the thyrde and fourth I Chapter of the thyred | Booke of Es | dras. H The Names of the Players. | . . . Syx Persons may easily play it. | ft. \. (32 II.) cut of St. John in Patmos on reverse of last leaf, sm. Ato. Imprinted at London in fleete streete beneath the Conduite at the Sygne of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson Anno Domini, \S11 (June 27, 1906 ; 956). * This is an apparently unrecorded Edition, it does not appear to be in Lowndes, Halliwell, Hazlitt, and other Bibliographies. The first edition was published in 1565 by J. Colwell. Darrell (John) A Survey of certain Dialogical Discourses, written by Deacon and John Walker, concerning the doctrine of Possession and Dispossession of Divels, Ato., 1602 (April 19, 1904 ; 373). * Issued without printer's name or place of printing. Dr. Hunter gives an exhaustive accoimt of this Shakespearian volume in his Notes on Twelfth Night. [Davenant (Sir W.)] The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru. Exprest by Instrumentall and Vocall Music, and by Art of Perspective in Scenes, &c. represented daily at the Cockpit in Drury Lane, Ato, 1658 (June 9, 1902 ; 82). * One of the few plays wliich give a clue to the hour of performance and the price of admission. " Notwithstanding the great expense necessary to Scenes and other Ornaments in this Entertainment, their is a good provision made of places for a shilling. And it shall begin certainly at 3 after noon." The First Day's Entertainment at Rutland House, by Decla- mations and Musick ! After the Manner of the Ancients, by Sr. W. D., 1st Edn., 1657 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 724) * One of the several pieces acted in private houses after the parliamentary proliibition of theatrical performances. " The vocal and instrumental music was composed by Dr. Charles Colman, Capt. Henry Cook, Mr. Henry Lawes, and Mr. George Hudson. Tbas piece contains curious notices of London localities. Rutland House was in Aldersgate Street .... This so called opera was first acted on Nov. 22, 1656, and the price of admission was five shillings, four himdred were expected, but only one hundred and fifty came. The piece consists of four long speeches by Diogenes and Aristophanes and by a Parisian and an Englishman respectively on the propriety of dramatic en- tertainments." Unkvown to Loiimdes. Gondibert : an Heroic Poem, 1st Edn., with leaf of errata, 1651 (June 20, 1904: 43) '■* Shakespeare is considered to have been D'Avenant's godfather, and this work is instanced by Hunter as evidence of the popularity of " Romeo and Juliet," since there are scenes laid at Verona and a character called Tybalt. Contains comphmentarj' verses by Waller and Cowley addre.ssed to the author before his voyage to America. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 115 Davenaut (Sir W.) The Platonick Lovers, 1st Edn., Ato. R. Meihen, 1636 (May 6, 1901 ; 252). * Not in the Huth or Rowfant catalogues, and incorrectly described by Mr. Hazlitt. Davenport (R.) King John and Matilda, a Tragedy, 1st Edn., sm. 4to. 1655 (May 25, 1905 ; 227). * Davenport is said to have assisted Shakespeare in the compilation of a play called " The History of Henry I." which has not come down to us. David (P. Joannes) Veridicus Christianas, engd. title and 374 copper- plate engravings by Th. Galle ? sm. Ato. Antw. ex Off. Plantin. Jo. Moretus, 1601 (May 21, 1906 ; 232). * At the end of the volume are the 4 11. of " Concentus Musicus Versibus Veridici Christiani Coaptatus " with musical notes for 4 voices (nearly always wanting. ) Davies (John, of Hereford) Microcosmos. The discovery of the Little World, with the government thereof, sm. Ato. Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1603 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1105). * It is remarkable that neither Lowndes nor Mr. Hazlitt has noticed the particular interest which attaches to this poetical volume, namely, the author's curious and affectionate allusion to Shakespeare. At p. 215 occur these lines : — " Players, I love ye and your qualitie, c. W.S.R.B. As ye are men that pass not time abus'd. And some I love for painting, poesie," etc. The reference to W. Shakespeare and R. Burbage by their initials is here obvious ; -and the notice of the latter as a painter is especially interesting. According' to Mr. Hazlitt the volume contains 2C0 leaves ; but tbis is clearly a misprint. It consists of, as stated in Lowndes, 150 leaves, including those which are not paged. Mirum in modum, a Glimpse of God's Glory and the Soules Shape, Ato. 1602 (June 27, 1906 ; 135). * This volume of Elizabethan verse is dedicated to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (Shakespeare's patron). It was the first publication of John Davies of Hereford. There was no copy in the Bibliotheca Anglo- Poetica (although not less than ten of this author's works were included in that famous collection), nor in the Huth library. Wittes Pilgrimage, Ato. 1605 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 182). * The " Amorous Sonnets " are in Number 104, and are followed by 48 " other Sonnets upon other subjects." To which succeeds " An amorous colloque 'twixt Dorus and Pamala," consisting of 52 four-line verses. The remainder of the volume is of a serio-comic description, quaintly expressed. It has been stated that this curious poetical volume was issued by the author without a title page. Mr. Lilly marked a copy with title in MS. £21, which was the Bibl. Ajiglo Poet, copy marked £25, afterwards Perry's and sold for £28 at his sale, and at Evans' for £23 10s. It was Major Pearson's and also Park's (who had written on the fly-leaf " This is the only copy I have ever seen " ). Sir M. Sykes' , Bright's, and Utterson's all had the title in MS. 116 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Davies (Sir John) Nosce Teipsum, whereunto is added Hymnes of Astraea in Acrosticke Verses, 1619 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 76). * The 8vo. edition of " Nosce Teipsum," 1619, appears to be a far rarer edition than those of 1599 or 1622. Within a long series of years, only\one' other copy has occurred for sale. The present copy contains the blank leaves A 1 and F 4. The British Museum only possesses the " Hymnes of Astraea," which is only a portion of this volume. Nosce Teipsum, 1622 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 77). * The " Hymnes of Astrea " and the " Orchestra " have each a separate title. " Orchestra" first appeared in this edition. A portion of "Orchestra" is reprinted by Dr. Furness in his edition of Romeo and Juliet, and there is a copy in the Capell collection of Shakespeareana at Cambridge. Davila Padilla (Fray Aug. ) Historia de la Fundacion y Discourse de la Provincia de Santiago de Mexico, de la Orden de Predicadores, por las Vidas de sus Varones insignes, y Casos notables de Nueva Espana, Orig. Edn., fo. Madrid, en Casa de Pedro Madrigal^ 1596 (Aug. 3, 1886; 381). * This very valuable work has escaped the researches of Brunet, De Bure, and nearly all other bibliographers. Ternaux says of it : " Ouvrage compose sur des documens originaux, et qui ofFre plus d'interet^que la plupart des ecrits de ce genre. " Decker (Adolf) Diurnal und Historische Beschreijbung der Nassa- wischen Flotten so under dem Admiral Jacob I'Heremite umb die gantze welt gefahren ist im 1623, 1624, 1625 und 1626. Jahr, 8 mafs and plates, sm. 4to. Strasburg, 1629 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 122). * The original edition of this interesting and valuable Journal, giving an account of the voyage of a fleet of eleven vessels under the command of Admiral I'Hermite, despatched from Holland by Prince Maurice of Nassau in 1623 ; the object of the expedition being to discover a more commodious passage than the Straits of Magellan by which to reach the Moluccas by the South Sea. The fleet sailed from Goeree on the 29th of April, 1623, and after having circumnavigated the world, the " Maurice," the vessel in which Decker sailed, returned to Holland on the 9th of July, 1626. On the title is a small map of the world, showing the course taken by the fleet. There is also a map of " Terra del Fuego," showing the Magellan Straits. Declaration of the true Causes of the great Troubles presupposed to be intended against the realme of England, Seene and Allowed Anno 1592 (Nov. 14, 1900 ; 237). * This violent libel against Lord Burghley and his second son Sir Robert Cecil is thought to be by Parsons the Jesuit. It was answered by Bacon. Defoe (D.) General History of the Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Commerce, Navigation, and Plantation in all parts of the World, 1st Edn., Roberts, n. d. (July 8, 1901 ; 232). * This work treats of discoveries in America and the Portugese Indies, with proposals for a New Settlement there. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 117 Defoe (D.) Robinson Crusoe, 1st Dublin Edn., front, of Crusoe by J. Gwim. Dublin, printed for J. Gill, &c., 1719 (June 3, 1908 ; 389). * This Dublin Edition of De Foe's masterpiece was published in the same year as the first London edition. It is well known the story originally appeared in " The Original London Post, or, Heathcot's Intelligencer, 1719," and it seems that this Irish Edition appeared concurrently with, if not previous to, Taylor's Edition. The edition may be described as unknown, if not unique, as it appears to have escaped the notice of bibliographers. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, 1st Edn., sm. Ato. 1702 (July 1, 1901 ; 676). * For this publication Defoe was sentenced to stand three times in the pillory, fined 200 marks, and to be imprisoned during Her Majesty's pleasure. lyife and Strange Adventures of Mr. D De F , of Lon- don, hosier, who has lived above fifty years by himself in the King- doms of North and South Britain. 1719 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1115). * This pamphlet consists for the most part of an attack on the story of Robinson Crusoe, and the author is at much, pains to point out the absurdities and impossibilities of the tale. Dekker (Thomas) The Belman of London, the third impression, large woodcut on title of the Bell-man with lantern, halbert and bell, followed by his dog, t). t, Ato. Nathaniell Butler, 1608 (May 18, 1903 ; 203). * This is an amusing production, full of curious allusions to the manners^and habits of the period, and the passing notices of the loose and fleeting fashions of the age are very entertaining and attractive,its popularity was extraordinary for it was printed three times in the same year. John Payne Collier, in his Bibliographical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, quotes a passage which he says affords a useful note to Shakespeare's " King Lear," which first came out the same year (1608). Isaac Reed also quotes the same passage, but he does not seem to have known any edition of " The Belman " prior to 1616. The Dead Tearme, or Westminster's Complaint for long Vaca- tions and[Short Termes, 1st Edn., h. t, 4to. 1608 (June 27, 1908 136). * No copy has occurred for sale since the Davis copy (a poor one) which was sold in these rooms in 1900 for £31 . There is a reference on sig. G3 to Shake- speare's Hamlet. It is quoted by Halliwell-Phillipps in his Memorials on Hamlet ; also in Fumivall's Allusions to Shakespeare, &c. The Honest Whore, 1635— The Second Part of the Honest Whore, 1630 ; both parts complete, sm. Ato. (May 25, 1905 ; 233). * This is one of Dekker's best-known pieces, and is considered one of the last of " The Taming of the Shrew " series of plays. There is a parody on Shakespeare's " Richard III." " Set down the body," &c. (sc. 1 ), and a much more important allusion to " Othello," : " Thou kill'st her now again. And art more savage than a barbarous Moor." and " The Comedy of Errors " is mentioned in sc. 12. In the Second Part there are also allusions to " Othello " and to " As you Like it." See also Fumivall's Allusions to Shakespeare, pp. U-12. 118 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Dekker (Thomas) Lanthorne and Candlelight, or the Bell-man's second Nights walke, ft. (., woodcut of the hell-man on title, Ato. John Bushy, 1609 (May 18, 1903 ; 204). * The earliest edition described by Mr. Corser was that of 1620, the Huth and Locker examples, and the copy referred to by John Payne Collier, were all of the second edition (same as the above), the first was printed in 1608, of which only one or two perfect copies exist. The work is very entertaining and was published as a second part to " The Belman " ; it has a canting dic- tionary on signature C2, and prefixed are some poems. The Owles Almanacke, 1st Edn., sm. Ato. 1618 (May 25, 1905 ; 234). * Mentions Bank's dancing horse, and there is also (p. 29) an illustration of Shakespeare's pronunciation of Aches: "Fill all thy bones with aches" (" Tempest," act 1, sc. 2). — See John Payne Collier's " Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language." Satiro-Mastix, or the untrussing of the Humorous Poet, 1st Edn., Ato. 1602 (Date unknown). * Contains references to the Comedy of Errors an'i Shallow. " Instead of the trumpets sounding thrice, before the Play begin : it shall not be amisse (for him that will read) first to behold this short Comedy of Errors, and where the greatest enter, to give them instead of a hisse, a gentle correction." {Sig. AA, back). * * * * Horace. 1 have a set of letters readie starcht to my hands, which to any fresh suited gallant that but newlie enters his name into my rowle, I send the next morning, ere his ten a clocke dreame has rize from him . . . we must have fasle fiers to amaze these spangle babies, these true heires of Ma. Justice Shallow. " Asinius. I wod alwaies have thee sawce a foole thus." {Sig. E3.) A copy sold in these rooms Nov. 1900, for £95. Delille. ly'Homme des Champs ou les Georgiques Frangaises, 5 j>lates and 8 vignettes hy Catel engraved hy Buchorn &c., printed in colours, Paris, 1805 (July 3, 1899 ; 343). * Cohen dees not mention the plates being printed in colours ; he mis describes the size of the book, and states it should only contain 4 plates. D[eloney] (T[homas]) Thomas of Reading: or, the sixe worthie yeomen of the West, lb. t, sm. Ato. 1632 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1 126). "■ The earliest edition in the library of Mr. Huth is that of 1636. The some- what thumbed leaves bear witness to the many winter evenings it has made shorter, but as a popular old Enghsh romance it is a book well worth a place in a choice library. Delphini (Petri) Epistolas, with the two leaves of Errata, fo. Venefiis, 1524 (June 26, 1885 ; 341). * Martene intended to reprint this work in his CoUectio Monumentorum, but was prevented by his publisher, who objected to the expense. He tells us that even in his time copies were so rare that one was sold by auction for 1,000 francs. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 119 Demoustier (C. A.) Lettres a Emilie siir la Mythologie, portraits, and engs. by Moreau, 2 vol., 1809 (Feb. 26, 1930 ; 344). * " Renouard affirmait qu'il serait difFcile de concevoir un livre plus elegant et dont les ornements fussent disposes avec plus de profusion et d'agrement." Denham (Sir John) Poems and Translations, with the Sophy, 1st Edn. H. Herringman, 1668 (May 6, 1901 ; 402). * This, the first edition, was unknown to Lowndes. On page 118 will be found two references to Shakespeare. Denmark. The King of Denmarke's Welcome, containing his ariuall, abode and entertainement, both in the Citie and other places, 4lo., 1606 (June 27, 1906 ; 137). * Describes the entertainments and shows given in honour of the King's visit, mcluding the songs, &c. At p. 16 a play is mentioned as being acted before the King of Denmark called " Abuses " containing both a Comedie and a Tragedie, this piece was produced, according to Hazlitt, under the direction of John Heminge, the old friend and fellow actor of Shakespeare, and one of the editors of the " First Folio." It is therefore by no means unlikely that Shakespeare was present, or gave some assistance in these representations. The King of Denmark must have been a personage of much interest to Shakespeare about this period as Iris Hamlet had been first published only three years previously, and other editions followed in 1604 and 1605. Dennis (John) The Select Works, First Collected Edition, Large Paper 2 vol. 1718 (July 23, 1906 ; 339). * For interesting Shakespeare matter see p. 354 of vol. L, where a contempo- rary MS. note is added to the margin, also mentioning Shakespeare, this is possibly in Dennis's own hand. Desainliens (Claudius, alias Holybande) Campo di Fior or else The Flourie Field of Foure Languages, T, Vauiroullier, 1583 (July 28, 1903; 117). * This book was intended for the use of those who travelled on the Conti- nent, or, as elsewhere stated by the author, who desired to perfect themselves in these languages at home without a master. It is one of the earliest poly- glots which appeared in England, and from its popularity became of great rarity, not having been like most of HoUyband's other works, reprinted. The Tite copy, now in the Huth library, seems to be the only other which has occurred for sale. • Lowndes mentions none since Hibbert's in 1829. Dictionarie, French and English, 4to. 1593 (July 28, 1903 ; 118). * The concluding item in the very long and unquestionably highly creditable instructive and entertaining series of scholastic undertakings, by the most per- severing author, a volume which did not reach a second edition, but to which we may trace some of the matter found in the later Anglo-French lexi- cographers. The Italian Schoolemaister, T. Par foot, 1597 (July 28, 1903 ; 114). 120 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * Desainliens, who metamorphosed his name into Holy Band or HoUyband, was a fashionable Italian teacher of Shakespeare's time and the author of quite a small library of manuals of instruction for his o%vn pupils and the public generally in the principles of the Italian tongvie. He is found lodging, first at the Lucrece, and later on at the Golden Ball, in St. Paul's Churchyard. His period was from 1566 to 1593, and some at least of his multifarious labours must have passed under our great Poet's eyes. HoUyband's educational works are frequently referred to by Douce and the various editors of Shake- speare. Desmoulins. Le Catholicon des maladuisez autrement dit le Cyme- tiere des malheureux, if. I. Paris, pour Jehan petit et Michel le noir. 1513 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1133). * The earliest edition acknowledged by the author. In the Prefatory Epistle he complains of the previous one having been printed incorrectly and without his knowledge. A woodcut on the title of this rare and curious volume gives something of a key to its contents. It represents a cemetery or burying- ground, where evil-doers are represented as struck down by the instruments of their vices or misdeeds. Despautere (Jean) Syntaxis, Lugduni (1528) ; Ars Versificatoria, Lugduni (1528) ; in 1 vol., Ato., 1528 (Mar. 16, 1903 ; 363). * Despautere or Despauterius was one of the most popular teachers and writers of educational works of the sixteenth century, and his publications were employed in England and Scotland as well as in France. Desportes (Philippes) Les Premieres OEuvres, lettres italiqties, Paris, M. Pattison, 1600 (May 6, 1901 ; 123). * Desportes was plagiarised by Shakespeare. (Lee's Life of Shakespeare, pages 84, 85, 90, 92, 94, 350, 351,359, 360). Destructorium Vitiorum ex similitudinum creaturarum exemplorum appropriatione per modum dyalogi, 6. I., with 122 woodcuts, jo. Impressum Lugduni, per Claudium nourry. 1509 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1137). * This is the second edition of the " Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus " under a new title. Some of the cuts were copied in the English translation printed at Paris about 1540, and reprinted by Mr. Hazlewood, but they are much less numerous, and very inferior to those in this original edition. Determinations of the moste famous and moste excellent Universi- ties of Italy and Fraunce, that it is so unlefull (sic) for a man to marie his brothers wyfe, that the pope hath no power to dispence therewith, b. t., title within woodcut border, woodcut initials. Im- printed . . in the house of Thomas Berthelet printer to the Kinges most noble grace the 7. day of November, 1531 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 419). * The original edition, described by Lowndes as 4to. He also describes^as " Another Edition " this one of Berthelet's, and calls it n. d. This has the year as well as the month, and is probably the only edition printed. This is ; a sort of square 8vo., and may have been regarded as a smaU 4to. No copy has been sold since the Aylesford in 1888, which may have been this one. NOTEvS PROM SOTHEBY'S 121 Deutsch (Der new) Bileams Esel. Wie die schon Germania durch Ar- glist und Zauberey ist zur Bapst Eselin transformiert worden, curious large woodcut of Christ overthrowing the Papacy, sm. 4to. [No place or date, but printed about 1522] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1186). * An exceedingly curious satire on the Church of Rome, in the form of a drama. The characters represented are the Pope, Cardinal, Christ, SS.Peter and Paul, an Indulgence vendor, &c. Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannicall dealing of L. Bishopps against Gods Children : with certaine Points of Doctrine wherein they approve themselves (according to D. Bridges his Judgement) to be truely the Bishops of the Divell, no place, name or date, circa 1589 (June 26, 1885 ; 126). * Probably written by Penri or Udall, in whose demonstration is it alluded to and excessively rare, as the edition was burnt by order of the Bishops. This copy sold for £4 4s. in the sale of the Bodleian duplicates, Dialogus de Fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia, 16. (., the whole ofM. 4 reverse is occupied by RastelVs fine mark {at end) Im- pressum Londini, p. Johannem Rastell, 1528 (May 18, 1903 ; 314). * The present copy has the two leaves of Errata at end after the colophon. This is the original of the celebrated " Dialogue between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student of the English Laws." Mr. Hazlitt could only refer to Lord Burleigh's copy, now at Lambeth Library, and Lowndes does not say where he has seen the copy he notes. Dialogus viri cujuspiam eruditissimi festivus sane ac legans. Inter- locutores Julius II. Genius et Petrus [Sine loco aut anno, sed BasilecB, circa 1520] (Nov. 16, 1885 : 1142). * First edition of this cautsic satire on Pope Julius II. and the Roman Church. It is generally attributed to the pen of Ulrich Hutten, and was afterwards reprinted in the " Epistolse Obscurorum Virorum." Diaz de Frexenal (Vasco) Los Veinte Triumphos, (. g., woodcuts, sm. 4to. s. a. I. et nombre del impressor (Nov. 5, 1896 ; 55). "' Printed in Orense in the house of the author in 1547. Brunet does not mention this work. Amongst the subjects of the " Triumphs " (which relate chiefly to the doings of the Empire and France at that period) there is one celebrating the Conquest of the Canaries and the Isle of Gomera. Dickens (C.) A Curious Dance round a Curious Tree, 1st Edn. (1860) (Mar. 18, 1903 ; 512). * With it is a letter of 8 pp. from T. C. Walker, Steward of the Hospital from 1849 till 1882, giving an account of Dickens' visit to the Hospital and defi- nitely ascribing the authorship of the pamphlet to him and not to W. H. Wills, who is sometimes accredited as its writer. 122 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Dickens. Illustrations of Oliver Twist, by G. Cruikshank, a com- plete set of proofs of the etchings, the first 23 being before letters on india paper, with a duplicate of No. 1852 in early state, the cancelled plate of " The Parlour Scene " in two states, and a touched proof of the substituted plate, the woodcut to the 1853 edition, and the illustrated wrapper to the monthly parts, published in 1844, Ato. 1838 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 402). * A set of proofs is most rare, no complete set was in either cf the sales of the artist's executors, and the proofs of the cancelled and substituted plates are unique. Vide an interesting account of them in " Temple Bar Magazine," Sept. 1892. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, illustrations after Phiz, an immaculate copy in the original cloth, uncut, in plush lined case. V. D. Land, Henry Dowling, Launceston, 1838-9 (Jtily 3, 1899 ; 582). * Van Diemen's Land edition, of the greatest rarity. This copy was pro- cured from a m.ember cf the publisher's family and is the last of the stock in trade that has survived, A copy in the Launceston Library is in a dirty and torn condition, and the one in the British Museum is stained and imperfect. A copy of the " Jubilee of the Launceston Examiner," the frontispiece show- ing Henry Bowling's shop, accompanies the work. Sergeant Bell and his Raree Show, numerous wood engravings by George Cruikshank and others, First Edition, fine copy, original cloth. Tegg, 1839 (Dec, 3, 1900 ; 629), * Part of the letterpress of this little book is attributed to Charles Dickens, on the authority of the publisher's son, Mr. William Tegg. See his letter on the subject in Notes and Queries, May 8th, 1875 (5th S. iii., 366), and two articles on the book which appeared in Walford's Antiquarian, July, 1887, and in The Gentleman's Magazine, December, 1889. Both external and internal evidence appears to support this idea of authorship. The book is of the utmost rarity, having been subjected to the destructive treatment of juvenile readers and possessors during the half century that has elapsed since its publication ; and not more than a dozen perfect copies are at present known to exist. For Cruikshank collectors it is also a desideratum. Dictes and vSayngis of the Philosophres, trans, by Antoine Erie of Ryuyers, Lord of Scales, b. t., sm. fo. Westmestre by me Wyllm Caxton, 1477 (June 26, 1885 ; 360). * This second edition (with 31 lines to a full page) is even rarer than the first, and by many has been considered the first book printed in England, being the earliest in which the names of place, printer and date are given. On the recto of the first leaf is Caxton's large device, proving Dibdin to be mistaken when he asserts that the copy in the Lambeth Library is unique with that mark. Dictionary. Sex Linguarum, Latinae, Gallicae, Hispanicae, Italicse, Anglicee & Teutonicae dillicidissimus dictionarius, miram quam utihs nee dicam necessarius omnibus hnguarum studiosis, Nurn- berg, 1548 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 771). * One of the earliest dictionaries of English and foreign languages. A volume which seems to be entirely imdescribed. • NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 123 Diodorus. Diodori SicuH historianim priscarum a Poggio in latinum traducti (lib. I.-V.) liber primus incipit in quo hec continentur totius operis prohemiura, fo. Bononicd, 1472 (Feb. 27, 1899 • 1274). * Editio Princeps of the Latin version with a date ; at the end of which is pro- bably the first edition of Tacitus, " De Sitvi, Moribus, et PopuHs, Germanise," it being called " Libellus Aureus." Although no name of printer is sub- joined the type is precisely conformable to the smaller character of Azoguidi, Disco vrs des Troubles nouvellement advenus a Royaume d' Angleterre avec une declaration, faicte par le Comte de Northumberland et autres grands Seigneurs d'Angleterre, Paris (1569) . (Dec. 17, 1898; 981). * This tract contains some interesting information about Mary Queen of Scots, and the suggested succession of the young prince, afterwards James VI. to the English throne. Unknown to Lowndes and Brunet ; but see Huth Catalogue, p. 434. (S.B. no. 47.) Diurnale Monasticum secundum Rubricam romanam et secundum Ri- tum et Consuetudinem Monasterii Beatae Marie Virginis al's Scotorum Viene Ordinis vSci. benedicti, 2 full-page woodctds with opposite borders. Venet. impressus L. A. de Giimta impensis L. et L. Alantsee Viennhmi, 1515 (Mar. 18, 1903 ; 518). * Diurnale for Scottish use. This pocket Breviary, in a small clear type, with numerous well-executed woodcuts, commences with a Calendar in which are some very curious verses descriptive of the twelve months. It was published for the iise of the Scottish Benedictine Monastery at Vienna called the "Schottenhof,"and still existing, but it is not local or peculiar in its scope, and includes in the hagiology German and Hungarian Saints. Some biblio- graphers, owing to the intimate relations between Venice and Vienne in Dauphiny, and to the absence of the usual distinctive addition of Pannonits, or A ustria, have questioned whether the volume was not intended for the service of a French community. Divers Pourtraicts — See Jacquard. Dobson (Austin) A Postscript to Dr. Goldsmith's Retaliation, being an Epitaph on Samuel Johnson, LI^.D., 1st Kdn., Ato. Oxford, 1896 (July 14, 1902 ; 739). * Printed in Fell's old type at the Oxford University Press for private circu- lation and intended as presents to those attending the Johnson Club Dinner at Pembroke College. Dolefull Evensong, or a True Particular and Impartial Narration of that fearefull and sudden calamity which befell the Preacher Mr. Drury, a Jesuite, and the greater part of his auditory, by the downfall of the florre at an assembly in the Black-Friers, on Sunday, the 25 of Octob. last, &c., 4/o., 1623 (Dec. 6, 1905 ; 125). * This Blackfriars tract is referred to by Malone in his " Historical Account of the English Stage " (Globe Theatre). Blackfriars is alluded to by Shake- speare in his " Love's Labour's Lost." 124 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Domenichi (L.) Facetie, Motti et Burle. Firenze, Giunti, 1564, at end L. Torrentino, 1564 (June 18, 1888 ; 935). * Curious as proving the connection between the Giunti and Torrentino presses. Moreni does not mention this rare volume containing Book VII. for the first time, but at p. 354 alludes to an edition in 1564 noticed by Haym as in 4to., though he doubts its existence. Donne (J.) Poems, 1st Edn., 4to. John Maniot, 1633 (May 18, 1903 206). * {a ) This copy has the rare preliminary leaves not found in all copies, viz. " The Printer to the Understanders," besides the usual prose epistle. At page 149 is the well-known epitaph on Shakespeare. * (6) A fine impression of Lombart's portrait, engraved in 1650-51, has been added, as often happens, a circumstance which has led to the belief that it was published with the book. The absurdity of this is evident, for Lambert made his first appearance in England in 1640, and was then about 20 years old. Dorando — See Boswell. Douland (John) A Pilgrim's Solace, 1st Edn,, fo. 1612 (May 6, 1901 ; 550). * Lowndes was unable to quote the sale of any copy of this volume ; and it is thought, that, the Museum copy, with which the present one has been com- pared, is the only other in existence. Downes (John) Roscius Anglicanus, 1st Edn., 1708 (Mar. 18, 1903 ; 522). * A most important Shakespearian volume (refer to Halliwell-Pliillipps' Calendar of Shakespearean Rarities, No. 61). Lowe, in his " Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literattire," says " The first edition is nou> prac- tically of priceless value — not over half-a-dozen copies can be located." Malone acquired his at Major Pearson's sale about 100 years ago, and Dr. Bliss notes in his copy that he was searching for a copy of tliis tract for upwards of 20 years before he could meet with it ; beyond its rarity, it is useful as supplying a link of theatrical history. Downing (George) Sommiere Aenteyckeninge ende Deductie ingestelt by de Gedeputeerden vande Hooge Mogende Heeren Staten Generael der Bereenighde Nederlanden op de lestingediende Mem- orie vanden Heere George Downing, Extraordinaris Envoye van- den Coningh van Groot Brittannien, sm. Ato. In's Graven-Hage, 1665 (Nov. 16. 1885 ; 126). * " These ' Summary Remarks ' were intended to prove to the King of France that the Enghsh were the aggressors in their war with Holland. Besides a new deduction of the Dutch title to the New Netherlands the pamphlet contains several original documents relating to the surrender of that territory to the English. These form Nos. 30 to 39 of the Holland Documents V. xi. in Broadhead's New York Collection." Catalogue of the Murphy Library. Drayton (M.) The Battaile of Agincourt, port, by W. Hole, 1st Edn., sm. fo. 1627 (May 25, 1905 ; 248). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 125 * (a) Among the Elegies is one on the Poets and Poesie (addressed to H. Reynolds), in which Drayton delivers his judgment upon the merits of vari- ous contemporary poets, including Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Chapman, Daniel, Beaumont, Spenser, Churchyard, Sidney, Drummond, Nash, Shakespeare, and others. The following is the reference to Shakespeare.: " And be it said of thee, Shakespere thou hadst a smooth and comicke vain, Fitting the socke, and in thy natural braine, As strong conception, and as cleare a rage. As any one that traffiqu'd with the stage." * (6) The portrait by Hole, found in some copies, very probably does not belong to the book, as it is exactly similar to the portrait belonging to Dray - ton's Poems, 1619. Leaf C 2 in this copv is intact Drayton (M.)The Muses' Elizium,lst'Edn., 4to. 1630 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 796). * George Steevens, the eminent editor of and commentator on Shakespeare's Plays, frequently refers to "The Muses' Elizium " in his notes on King Lear. To the Majestic of King James, a Gratulatorie Poem, 1st Edn., engd. genealogical table. 1603 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 797). * Not included in any of the subsequent editions of Drayton's Poems The engraved genealogical table is wanting in the majority of copies. Drue (T.) Life of the Duhcess of Suffolke, 1st Edn., 4to. 1631 (June 27, 1906 ; 323). * Lamb gives some extracts from the play in his Specimens, 1808, but did not know who was the author. Drummond (William) Poems, port, by Gaywood. 1656 (May 25, 1905 ; 250). * The idea of the Sonnet on p. 48 is said by Ingleby to be taken from Lover's Complaint of Shakespeare's Sonnets, see Prayse of Shakespeare, p. 116. Drury Lane. Thespis, or a Critical Examination into the Merits of all the Principal Performers belonging to Drury Lane Theatre, 1st Edn., 4io. 1766 (June 27, 1906 ; 324). * A poem by Hugh Kelly. It is disfigured by extreme coarseness and abuse of the actors, and produced several pamphlets in reply. Dry den (John) Address of John Dry den, Laureat to His Highness the Prince of Orange, in verse, 1st Edn., fo. Printed and sold by R. Taylor, 1689 (May 18, 1903 ; 277). * Not included in Dryden's collected poems, and probably published by one of his many enemies. Highly interesting when one bears in mind Dryden wrote a laudatory poem on Cromwell, afterwards hailing the restoration of Charles II. He then (1688) congratulated J ames on the birth of the Pretender and here he is supposed to welcome the coming of William III. A copy^sold last year unbound for ^14 15s. An "Evening's Love : or. The Mock- Astrologer, 4/0. 1691 (May 25, 1905 ; 254). * Dryden was indebted to Shakespeare for some hints in this play, and pre- fixed is an essay on the merits of the older dramatists, in which the remarks on their respective excellencies are made with knowledge and judgment ; this contains Shakespeare's notices, and references to the origin of some of his plays. 126 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Dryden (John) The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, in two parts, acted at the Theater-Royall, 1st Edn., fo. T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1672 (May 6, 1901 ; 553). * The most popular of all Dryden's plays, and a remarkably fire copy ; for a most careful collation, see the " Appendix " to Frederick Locker's Ro^vfant catalogue, with which this copy has been compared, and agrees, except that it has apparenth^ one leaf mere than Mr. Locker's, viz. : five leaves in sheet C, making pages 23-4 in duplicate in this copy, perhsps an " addition," not found in all copies. The prose essaj^s attached to these plays (to which F. Locker particularly refers) contain sonje very interesting Shakespeare matter, his Pericles, Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure, and Macbeth, being especially referred to. Not in I. t, 14 //. of text, sm. Aio. Roger Jackson, 1609 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 338). * Mr. Seymour Ricci could only trace one other copy. The preface gives an interesting account of the introduction into England of Foreign Grafts of Fruits, by " One Richard Harris of London, Fruiterer to K. Henry VIII., who fetched out of France great store of Graftes especially Pippins, before which time there were no right Pippins in England " ; it is the same work as " The Fruiterers Secrets," 1604, and the running titles are the same. [Faithorne (W.)] Portraits of the Kings and Queens of England, Effigies Regum Anglorum a Wilhelmo Conquestore, front, and 27 portraits, mounted on plate paper, oh. Aio. Are to be sould by Robi. Peake att his shopp neere Holborne Conduitt, [about 1630] (Nov, 16, 1885 ; 1353). * This series of portraits extends from "William the Conqueror to Charles I. and his Queen. As this was the earliest, so it may be said to be the rarest of Faithorne' s works, having been executed by him while he was apprenticed to Peake. This set, from the collection of the Rev. J. J. Hey^vood, is one of the very few known to exist of the original issue. Sir Mark Sykes's with 28 prints (the same as this), sold for ;gl5, and Mr. Huth's copy, with 26 portraits, cost him £21 ; but that has not the portraits of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria, which were engraved subsequently. Falconer (W.) The Shipwreck, a Poem, 1st Edn., map and folding plate Ato. 1762 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 196). * " This is the rare first edition which has never been reprinted : the poem was entirely revised in the subsequent issues, and there is reason to suspect by another hand. The alterations are so copious as wholly to change the character of the work." — Gosse Catalogue. Falconeto. I,ibro chiamato Falconetto delle Battaglie che li fece con lui Paladini di Franza, e della sua morte, with 28 rudely execut- ed Italian woodcuts, \2mo. Stampata in Vinegia per Bernardino de Bindoni, 1543 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1355). * This edition appears to have escaped the notice of bibliographers. Neither Brunet nor Graesse mention any impression of the book between 1521 and 1546. Fane (Sir Frances) L,ove in the Dark, a Comedy, 1st Edn., in the Savoy 1675 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 803). * The epilogue contains a reference to Shakespeare : " And bid him speak as she did Shakespeare write." 136 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Fanti (S.) Triotnpho di Fortuna, numerous woodcuts, fo. Vinegiut 1527 (June 18, 1888 ; £008). * An extremely rare Fortune-Teller, engraved throughout on wood with the exception of the sixteen preliminary leaves and the Quatrains in answer to the Questions. It may therefore be regarded as a Block Book, with move- able types inserted where required. Faria (M. S. de) Noticias de Portugal acrescentadas pelo P. D. Joze Barbosa, fo., Lishoa, 1740 (June 17, 1887 ; 857). * Containing the whole of the Vlth Discourse relating to the progress of Christianity among the inhabitants of the Portugese Possessions in Africa, which was suppressed 18 July, 1740. Farnaby (Thos.) Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum, Eorumque Latino versu a variis redditorum, 1629 (Dec. 7. 1904 ; 18). * This is an excessively rare volume of which the importance has been very greatly enhanced by the Baconian theory in regard to the authorship of Shakespeare's Plays. For the advocates of that surprising theory dwell not a little on the statement of John Aubrey, the antiquary, that Bacon was " a good poet, but concealed," as appeared by his letters. See excellent verses of his Lordship's which Mr. Farnaby translated into Greek, and printed both in his Anthology-. " The world's a bubble, and the life of man lesse than a span," etc. The verses of Bacon, of which Aubrey quotes the above opening lines, were a parody on certain Latin ones on the Seven Ages of Man, and Bacon's English rendering, which seems to have fallen into the hands of Farnaby, is printed with Farnaby's Greek on opposite pages. This poem re- minds us of the melancholy Jacques of As You Like It, and his " Miserable jvorld." The last stanza runs thus : " Our owne affections still at home to please, is a disease, To crosse the sea to any foreine soyle, perills, and toyle, Warres with their Noyse affright us ; when they cease. Oft are worse in peace. What thus remains ? but that we still should cry, Not to be borne, or be- ing born to dye." The present production may not be of Shakespearean quahty ; but it is of capital interest in connection with the Eacon-Shakespeare controversy. Fasciculus Temporum, — see Rolewinck. Feltham (Owen) Resolves : front, by Vaughan, with the leaf of verses, " The Face of the Book tmmasked " fo., 1661 (May 25, 1905 ; 316). * The first edition with the " Lustria, or Occasional Pieces (in verse)." See Ingleby's Shakespeare Prayse," p. 180, where reference is drawn to the pcem on p. 17 of this volume, viz. : " An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed stage," etc., which refers to Shakespeare's Pericles. [Fenne (Thomas)] Fennes Frutes, which worke is devided into three severall partes. The first, a Dialogue betweene Fame and the Scholler, no lese pleasant than pithie The Seconde, in- treateth of the lamentable mines which attend on warre The third, that it is not requisite to derive our pedigree from the unfaithful Trojans .... whereunto is added Hecubaes Mishaps discovered by way of apparition, b. (., sm. 4to. Richard Oliffe, 1590 . (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1367). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 137 * In verse and prose. Only three copies of this most curious volume are known besides the present one, which belong respectively to the British Museum, the Bodleian, and the Huth Library. Lowndes knew no more of it than to be able to give the bare first line of the title, and a summary of the contents taken from some other bibliographical book. Fenner (Dudley) Certain Godly and Learned Treatises .... for the behoofe and edification of al those that desire to grow and increase in true Godlines, Edinb., 1592 (May 18, 1903 ; 827). * An extremely interesting little volume containing no less than six references denouncing stage-plays. These references are of peculiar importance, being contemporaneous with Shakespeare, who at this period (the dedication of the above volume is dated December 24th, 1591) had produced Love's Labour's Lost and Two Gentlemen of Verona. The first treatise, " The Order of House- holde Government " contains, on p. 24, the following : " And if any prophane his Sabboth, by vain pastimes, going to plates," &c. In " A Table of the Principles of Religion," p. 107, we read : "... in which sort we speak some- time of women, sometime of holy matrimony, yea, sometime of the joyes of heaven and paines of hell, making foolish and vaine plaies of these thinges." At p. i08 a reference to Proverbs, c. 2, v. 1, where, the author states, " jestes " and " playes " are condemned. Again : " So Esai 58, 13. Hereby is con- futed their opinion, that take it a Sabboth kept, if they rest from their labours so in the mean time they labor in plaies, dansings, vain songs &- enterludes, &-C." Perhaps the most interesting reference, however, is that on pp. 186- 187 in the final treatise, viz. " Of lawfuU and Unlawful Recreations," where the " behavior or speech of evil men, or the feining of them in plaies " is con- demned, " because we are expreslie forbidden to take up the outward fashion or shape of the lusts of ignorance, I Peter 1,14, where the word [Suschamatizo- menoi ] which the Holy Ghost useth signifieth the verie maner of faining the outwarde shewes which are used in plaies." Fenton (E.) Certaine Secrete Wonders of Nature, woodcuts, 1st Edn., Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel's copy, with his signature on title, ■ Ato., 1569 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 481). * Fitzalan had a fine library, the greater part of which fell, at his death, into the possession of his son-in-law. Lord Lumley, and afterwards passed into the hands of Prince Henry. At the Prince's death, his father James I. amalga- mated the collection with the Royal library, which descended to the later sovereigns, and (by the arrangements of George III. and George IV.) is now part of the British Museum Library. — — (Geffraie) Certaine Tragical! Discourses, written oute of French and Latin, ft. t, 1st Edn., 1567 (April 19, 1904 ; 383). * A most interesting miscellany of tragical novels, chiefly from the Italian, and a source of inspiration to many a poet and author of the Elizabethan Era. It is dedicated to the Ladye Marye Sydney. Of the utmost rarity complete. Feme (John) Blazon of Gentrie, L. P., Ato., J. Windet, 1586 . (May 18, 1903; 213). * Lowndes only records one large paper copy. Dr. Hunter says that it was a book known to Shakespeare, and Dallaway calls it the best epitome then extant on the subject. Lord Ashburton's sold in 1900 for ;£22, * Certain of these armorial woodcuts were used by i^Halliwell-Phlipps to illustrate Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. 138 , NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Ferraud (Dr. J.) EP^TOMANIA, a Treatise Discoursing of Love, or Erotique Melancholy, Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1640 (Mar. 21, 1905 ; 135). * This exceedingly curious book has an interesting reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet : — " Were the story of as much direful woe As that of Juliet and Hieronymo.: Here's that would cure you :...." Noted in Hunter's Illustrations I., and in V-armvaW s Allusions to Shakespeare, p. 145. Festyvall (The) Quatuor Sermones. {These two words only in a riband above a large woodcut of Christ in glory), h. (., long lines, 33 to a full page, CXCV folios, including title ; and a leaf with imprint unpaged^ sm. 4to. " Thus endeth the Festyvall. Imprynted at London in fletestrete at ye Sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lord god MCCCCCXXVIII. ye fyfth day of November (1528) (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 347). * Composed of gatherings by John Mirk, or Mirkus, of Lilleshall in Shrop- shire (fl. 1403), out of the " Legenda Aurea," as he tells us in his prologue. It was first printed by Caxton in 1483, and there are several other editions. Fichet (Guillermus) Rheticorum librorum Praefatio ; lit. rom. long lines, 23 to a full page (194 II) without marks {Hain 7057), printed on very thick paper, sm. Ato. absque ulla nota [In Parisiorum Sorbona ( Ulricus Gering, Martinus Crantz et Mich. Friburger, 1471 )] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 348). * One of the first books printed in Paris by the introducers of printing into that city. Both Hain and Brunet give 191 11, as the right number ; but this copy has 194 11. though the 2 II. containing the two epistles of the author, found in some copies, are not in this. It is a fine specimen of the first Paris press ; and it is said only fifteen copies are known, twelve of which are in public libraries. [Fine (Oronce)] La Theorique des cielz mouvemes et termes prac- tiques des Sept Planetes, lettres batardes, large woodcuts of spheres, and ornamental initials, sm. fo. Paris, Simon Du Bois pour Jehan Pierre de Tours, 1528 (June 20, 1902 ; 102). * The first publication in French of the celebrated mathematician of Francis ll.'s time. Firmin (Thos. ) Some proposals for the imployment of the Poor, and for the Prevention of Idleness and the Consequence thereof, Beg- ging, front., Ato., 1681 (July 1, 1901 ; 144). * A pamphlet on the question of Charity Reform and Organisation. The author himself established a Workhouse for the Parish of Aldersgate in Little Britain. Fishe (Simon) A Supplication of the poore Commons [On c vii verso.] The supplication of Beggars compyled by Symon Fishe. Anno M.ccccc.xxiiii. lb. \. {Without place of printing} 1546 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1377). NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 139 * A most valuable and important little volume for the History of the Re- formation, and of such rarity that one copy only is quoted by Lowndes. That was in Bindley's sale in 1819, and, singularly enough, this is the identical copy. No other appears ever to have occurred. Fitzball (Edwin) Harlequin and Humpty Dumpty, or Robbin de Bobbin and the First I^ord Mayor of Lun'on, a Grand Historical Pantomime, performed at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, December 26th, 1850, 20 full-page illustrations, printed wrappers (1850) (July 1, 1901 ; 923). * The resemblance of the twenty designs to Thackeray's drawings in The Rose and the Ring and King Glumptis is so striking, and their execution so characteristic, that, as a writer to The Athenaeum, Oct.27,1900, well expresses it, "I do not think that any one well acquainted with Thackeray's peculiar manner can doubt after seeing the illustrations to Humpty Dumpty that they were designed by the great novelist. They resemble his work no less by virtue of their defects than by their merits." The wrapper bears the words " Illus- trations by W. West." It has been suggested that, as at this period of bis career Thackeray would hardly wish his name associated with such work, he used this pseudonym, perhaps having in mind those early picture pantomime scenes by West, to whom he refers in Vanity Fair. There is a copy of this very rare pamphlet in the British Museum, but it has not the plates. Fitzgerald (E.) Euphranor ; a May-Day Conversation at Cambridge {Guildford, 1882) (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 459). * Only 50 copies privately printed by the author for presentation. In this little-known edition " Euphranor " is practically re-written, among the many additions is " the beautiful anecdote of the Child and the Sunbeam, told in connection with Tennyson on page 25, and the enlargement of the character Sketch of Tennyson, on page 56." — Prideaux's Bibliography. Mighty Magician, &c. — See Calderon. Flatman (Thos.) Heraclitus Ridens, at a Dialogue between Jest and Earnest, concerning the Times, 82 weekly nos. complete, each consisting of one leaf, dated from Feb. 1, 1681, to Aug. 22, 1682, fo. (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 832). * A complete set is excessively rare. The British Museum possesses only a few nos. The author was Platman the poet. It contains an interesting re- ference to Shakespeare. Jest. Then here are a world of irons in the fire, 'tis well if some of 'em do not burn, and some-body do not burn their fingers, but let the Bees look to that, as honest Sir John Falstaff says (No. 2, Feb. 8, 1681 ). The above conclusion by Jest comes at the end of a number of statements (put in the form of Queries) on the political and religious affairs of the day. Flecknoe (Richard) Diarium, or Journal, divided into 12 Jornadas, in Burlesque Rhyme or Drolling Verses, 1656 (June 18, 1888 ; 1149). '•' This is certainly a most curious book, particularly on the manners and cus- toms of London at the time. The style of this " Journal " strongly resembles the English part of " Drunken Barnaby's Pour Journeys." 140 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Flecknoe (Richard) Epigrams made at several Times upon Several Occasions, and continued to the year 1673, 1673 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 662). * Contains a reference to Shakespeare's friend and fellow actor Burbage, and Shakespeare's grand-nephew Charles Hart : " Of an Excellent Actor : or, The praises of Richard Burbage. To Charles Hart." Fleetwood (Wm. ) The effect of the declaration made in the Guildhall by M., Recorder of London, concerning the late attemptes of the Quenes Maiesties evill, seditious, and disobedient subiectes, lb. (., John Daye [1571 ] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 2066). * This tract is specially aimed at Mary, Queen of Scots, though she is nowhere mentioned by name. The conspiracy referred to is that which was got up in 1 57 1 with the Duke of Norfolk. It is doubtless Mary who is referred to when the Recorder says, " In the North there hath ben, and yet is, a byrd of great trouble and unquietness, which hath there laid an egg of most dangerous rebellion, &c." [Flemming (Robertus)] Lucubraciuncularum Tiburtinarum Protono- tarii Angliae de Sanctissimo ac Beatissimo in Christo patre et domino nostro Sixto quarto, divina providencia summo Maximoq. Pontifice, Editio Prima, long lines, 25 to a page (38 //.), without marks {Main 7130), sm. 4to. exactus quidem completusq. Rome anno 1477, pontificatus ipsiiis domini anno septimo (June 11, 1900 ; 275). * An extremely interesting work by an English writer, a nephew of the found- er of Lincoln College, Oxford. It is a poem in praise of Pope Sixtus IV., the Papal Library, &c. Only one or two copies appear to be known, and prcftjably only a few were printed by the Vatican Printer for presents. Fletcher (John) The Elder Brother, a Comedie, 1st Edn., 4to. /. K, for J. W. and J. B. 1637 (Feb. 23, 1905 ; 91). * The first issue of the first edition having the words " Elder Brother " in capitals ; in the second issue the words are printed in roman type. Capell only possessed the reprint of 1651. (P. piineas]) The Purple Island, sm. Ato. Cambridge, 1633 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1386). * Phineas Fletcher was the intimate friend of Francis Quarles and his patron, Edward Benlowes. In reading the " Piscatorie Eclogues," one cannot but be struck with the resemblance of many of the lines to passages in Milton's " Lycidas," published five years later. Fleur des Commandemens de Dieu avec plusieurs Exemples et Auctoritez, i>. t, woodcuts, fo. Paris, A. Verard, 1499 (June 26, 1885 ; 437). * Brunet, whc was unable to quote any copy sold by auction, says " Plusieurs de ces Histoires sont assez singulieres et meme facetieuses." A translation of this singular work abounding with Tales of the wildest and most amusing improbabilitv was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1505, 1509, 1510 and 1521. NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S 141 Flora Rossica edita iussu et auspiciis Augustissimae rossorum Im- peratricis Catharinae II., magnse piae, felicis, patriae, matris, /o. Petro-poli, 1784 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 827). * Only a few copies were printed by order of the Empress Catherine the Great for presents. Only this first volume, containing 50 plates, was issued. There have been added to the above copy 67 plates intended for the subse- quent volumes which were never published. Flores (J. de) Historia di Aurelio et Isabella, tradotta da M. I^lio Aletiphilo, Vinegia, 1548 (Dec. 7, 1904 ; 300). * Contains the foundation story of Shakespeare's The Tempest. (P. F. Ildefonso) Arte de la Lengua Metropolitana del Reyno Cakchiquel o Guatomalico. Gautemama, Seb. de Arebalo, 1753 (Nov. 5, 1886 ; 66). * The existence of this Indian grammar was doubted till the discovery of a copy by Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1856. The author was professor of the native language at the University of Guatemala. Flori (lyucii Annaeii) Epitoma de cursu ac Statu Romanorum, printed in double columns, fo. [S. I. et a., sed a typis Arnoldi Ther- hoernen, Colonics, circa 1471]. (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1388). * This is unquestionably one of the earliest examples of the very rare press of Arnold Therhoemen, as is shown by the irregularity of the adjustment of the lines. At the beginning we find the title of four lines printed in red at the head of the column, a very imusual thing in a book of this date. Florio (John) Florio's Second Frutes, 1st Edn., 2 vol., 4to., T. Wood- cock, 1591 (July 28, 1904 ; 143). * On the verso of signature A 6 will be found the poem " Phaeton to his friend Florio," ascribed to Shakespeare (see Mr. Sidney Lee's Life of the Poet, page 73 ) : — " Sweete friend whose name agrees with thy increase, How fit a riuall art thou of the Spring, For when each branche hath left his flourishing And green lockt Summer's shadie pleasures cease ; She makes the Winter's stormes repose in peace. And spends her franchise on each liuing thing ; The dazies sprout, the little birds doo sing, Hearbes, gummes, and plants doo vaunt of their release, So when that all our English witts lay dead (Except the Laurell that is euer greene). Thou wilt thy Frutes our barrenes o'erspread, And set thy flowrie pleasaunce to be scene, Sutch frutes, sutch flowrets of moralitie. Were nere before brought out of Italy." PHAETON. Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues, port, by Hole, fo., 1611 (June 30, 1905 ; 589). "* Florio is the " Holofernes " of Shakespeare's play, see Hunter's " Illus- trations of Shakespeare," also Drake's " Shakespeare and His Times." 142 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Flo no (Michel) Historia de la Vita ede la Morte de riUustriss. Sig- nora Giovanna Graia, 1st Edn., 1607 (June 21, 1904 ; 256). * Lowndes could only quote the British Museum example, and Cough's,, which was sold 100 years ago. Michael Angelo Florio (father of John Florio ), a Florentine Protestant, fled to England shortly before Edward VI. 's reign, and was in 1 550 preacher to a congregation of Italian Protestants in London. Contains Lady Jane Grey's letters to Thomas Harding and her sister Cather- ine, account of her execution, particulars of Wyatt's rebellion, Bp. Ridley's dispute with Papists respecting the Eucharist, and much other important matter for English history under the Tudors. Florus Anglo-Bavaricus Leodii. 4fo. Leodii, H. Street, 1685 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 1452). * It contains a detailed account of the foundation of the English Catholic College at Liege, and cf the principal Catholics who suffered in England. Fludd (Robert) Kunst der Geomanzie in vier Bucher vertheilt, the original autograph manuscript neatly written in a cursive handy on paper, with numerous diagrams, before 1687, divided into four parts, g. e., fo. ante 1637 [sic] (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 509). * A very curious work on occultism and m)'sticism, with curious references to foretelling the future, by the celebrated Rosicrucian Robert Fludd, M.D. He was born in Kent in 1574, and died in 1637, and was the son of Sir Thomas Fludd, Treasurer of "War to Q. Elizabeth. He was the author of numerous and elaborate treatises on things divine and human, and also claims notice as a mechanician, having made a wooden bull that bellowed, &c. As a writer Fludd is the chief English representative of the School of Medical Mystics who laid claim to the possession of the key to universal science. His writings obtained more attention abroad than at home, though Seldeu highly valued them, and John Webster esteemed Fludd " one of the most Christian philosophers that ever writ." De Quincey following Buckle, makes him the " immediate father " of Free-Masonry, but he is best remembered for his connection with the fraternity of the rosy cross. Folkingham (W.) Ferdigraphia, the Synopsis of Svrveying nietho- • dized, no less remarkable for all Vndertakers in the Plantations . of Ireland or Virginia, &c., h. t, 4to., 1610 (Nov. 22, 1897 ; 787). * Probably the first practical treatise with the word Virginia on title. In that portion of the work treating on earths the author mentions a quality suitable for tobacco pipes. Unknown to Lowndes, but described by Sabin as " a rare black letter tract." Forbes (Bp. P.) Funerals, with the rare portrait, sm. 4to. Aherdene, E. Raban, 1635 (June 26, 1885 ; 442). * Containing Sermons, Orations, Poetical Tributes, &c. to the Prelate's Memory. The Work on account of its rarity was reprinted by the Spottis- wood Society. The Gordonstoun copy sold for £7 5s. Ford (Emanuel) History of Parismus, lb. (., 2 parts in 1 vol., mth . separate titles and frontispieces, 4to., 1689 (Mar. 23, 1905 ; 694) NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 143 * " Shakespeare was, probably, indebted for the names of the heroines of ' Twelfth Night ' to the first part of Emmanuel Forde's ' Parismus,' The Renownde Prince of Bohemia, for neither Olivia nor Viola occurs in the In- gannati from which Shakespeare is believed to have borrowed the plot. In the romance Olivia is Queen of Thessaly, and Violetta, the name of a lady, who, unknown to her lover, disguises herself as a page to follow him, and she also, like Viola, is shipwrecked (see F. f. 3 and D. d. 3)." — C. E. Browne. Halliwell-Phillipps had only the edition of 1704 (see his Sale Catalogue, July 1889). The early editions of this old romance have been thumbed out of existence. Ford (Thomas) Miisicke of Sundrie Kindes, set forth in two bookes, (1st Vocal, 2nd Instrumental), 23 //., fo. 1607 (June 13, 1887 ; 1477). * Curiously printed to read the different parts from Top, Alto, side Bass, and bottom Tenor... unknown to Lowndes, and its existence was doubted by the author of an Article in The British and Foreign Review. Fouquelin. La Rhetorique frany Du Fresnoy in his list of romances, and it is believed that no other copy of any edition exists. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 149 Galtheri (P.) Alexandreidos lyibri decern, printed in script-type, Ato. Lugduni, R. Granjon typis propriis, 1558 (June 18, 1888 ; 1461 * In this poetical Romance occurs the famous verse so long sought for in vain in the classical writers, " Ir.cidis in Scyllam copiens vitare Charibdim," which has been made use of by Shakespeare in his Merchant of Venice, Act III., Scene V Galvez de Montalvo (Luys) El Pastor de Philida, 1st Edn., Lixboa, 1589 (June 18, 1888 ; 1271). * This author is mentioned by Cervantes in Don Quixote's Library " as no Shepherd, but an adroit courtier, who must be carefully preserved." Gamaliel : Nuevamente traduzido en lengua castellana : anadido : hystoriado : y con mucha diligencia reconocido : y emendado : contiene ensi lo siguiente. I,a passion de nostro redemptor hy- storiada. La destrucion de Hierusalen hystoriado. La vida de S. Lazaro. y de la gloriosa Magdalena todo hystoriado. El razon- amiento que passo entre nostro Salvador y su gloriosa madre el jueues sanctos. La muerte de los innocentes hystoriada. Los agnus dei de S. juan Bautista. Tiene Anadido un sermon de S. Hieronymo soble la Triumphante y gloriosa resurecion de nostro Salvador, with 46 curious woodcuts, sm. 4to. El lihro presente fue imprimido en Valencia en la casa e officina de maestre Joannes /off re, 1525 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1436). * A book of the highest degree of rarity, undescribed by all bibliographers, and which might have been supposed to be unique but for the mention of it by vSenor Gallardo as existing in the famous Columbina Library at Seville, formed by Christopher Columbus, son of the discoverer of America ; but that, strange to say, is a different edition, having been printed at Valencia in 1522. It is most remarkable that two copies only should be known to exist of the book, and that each should be a different impression. Garcia (Barth.) Manual para administrar los Santos Sacramentos de Penitencia Eucharistia Extrema-Uncion y Matrimonio ; a los Indios de las Naciones Pajalates, Orejones, Pacaos, Pacoas . . y otras muchas diferentes en las Missiones del Rio de San Antonio, etc., sm. Ato. (Mexico), en la Imprenta do los Herederos de Dona Maria de Rivera 1760 (Nov. 5, 1896 ; 76). * Almost unknown in Europe. The Spanish and native languages are in parallel columns. The author was a Franciscan missionary m Texas. Father Fischer's copy produced £6 10s. (Greg.) Origen de los Indios de el Nuovo Mundo, port., fo., Madrid, 1729 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 390). * The author passed twelve years in American missions. His work is most exhaustive, the list of authorities occupying seven pages. One chapter is entitled " De los Cambros, 6 Ingleses, i de los Irian deses ; i si pasaron a poblar las Indias del Norte ? " 150 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Garcilasso de la Vega (El Ynca) The Royal Commentaries of Peru, rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, port, and ,10 plates, jo., 1688 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 393). * Robertson in his History states that the Commentaries of Garcilasso de ]a Vega contain some curioiis facts taken from authors whose works were never published. Gardiner (John Smallman) Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting, 1st Edn., 1750 (May 16, 1901 ; 243). *"This is the origin of Mr. Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, which he has copied into his book without having principle enough to acknowledge the obligation. The pamphlet is so very scarce that Mr. Barker of Bridge Street, Covent Garden, asks ten guineas for a copy. This scarcity is supposed to arise from its having been bought up prior to Beckford's publication." BIS. note, in Major Gaisford's copy, which sold in these rooms in 1890 for £5 17s. 6d. Gosden, in a note on the fly-leaf of the present copy, says, it is conjectured that Beckford himself bought them up previous to his own publication, having copied it throughout, yet Beckford in his own book says he never saw a copy ! (Stephen, Bp. of Winchester) Declaration of suche true articles as George Joye hath gone about to confute as false, 6. \., 180 //., 1546. (June 13, 1887 ; 928). * This very curious book is Bij. Gardiner's defence against the charge of G. Joye who accused him of having entrapped Dr. Barnes into England and harassed him with miseries until he was cruelly burnt. It is important as it contains the whole of Joye's narrative of which nov/ no copy is known to e^cist. Garlands. The I^oyal Garland, or a Choice Collection of Songs, lb. (., 1686 (July 28, 1903 ; 219). * Corser's copy (now in the Briti.sh Museum) seems to be the only other ex- ample which has occurred for sale. The Loyal Garland is a curious assemblage of festive, amatory and other miscellaneous effusions, some of them partaking of a coarse character, and all belonging to an earlier date than any known impression. Halliwell valued it for the Shakespearean songs which it con- tains, and reprinted it in 1850, but the lewd songs were omitted. Gascoigne (George) The Glasse of Governement, 1st Edn., lb. \., sm. Ato. C. Barker, 1575 (May 16, 1901 ; 242). * Not included in Gascoigne's Collected Works, and no copy in the Huth catalogue. One of the earliest English comedies. Gautier. Le Tombeau de Theophile Gautier, 1st Edn., Paris, 1871 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 1326). * It contains verses by Swinburne in English, French, Greek and I/atin. Some have never been reprinted. Among the other contributors are Victor Hugo, Auguste Vacquerie and John Payne. Gay (John) Beggar's Opera, Second Edition, 1728 — The Beggar's . Opera. Third Edition, Ato., 1729 — Polly, an Opera, being the • Second Part of the Beggar's Opera, 1729. Ist Edn., with the music, 3 vols, in 2, Ato. (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1447). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 151 * " Polly " is a second part of the " Beggars' Opera," in wluch Polly, Macheath, and some other of the characters are transported to America. When everything was ready, however, for a rehearsal of it at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden a messenger was sent from the Lord Chamberlain t hat it was not allowed to he acted, but commanded to be suppressed. Gazette de France, from no. 10, 2 Fevrier, 1776, to no. 25, 25 Mars, 1776 {wanting no. 23), jo. (July 14, 1902 ; 552). * There were two editions of the Gazette from 1762 to 1778, and the above set is of the issue described by Hatin (p. 11) as " destinee specialement aux pro- vinces." Its foreign news (including America ) is particularly exhaustive. Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteiir Universel, a set from the com- mencement Jan. 1, 1790 to 1816 inclusive, 56 vol., fo. Paris, 1790-1816 (Dec. 5, 1899 ; 169). * Historically valuable, detailing the occurrences day by day of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and contemporary events in other countries. Gemini (Thos.) Compendiosa totius Anatomic delineatio, engd. title and numerous engs., Londini, 1545 — Compendiosa totius Anatomic delineatio (with English text and an Introduction by Nicholas Udall), engd. title and numerous engs., London, Nycholas Hyll [1552] — Compendiosa totius Anatomic delineato (with English text and Dedication to Queen Elizabeth), engd. title, numerous engs., and the rare anatomical woodcut of the male and female figures with moveable slips {found in this edition only), London, 1559 ; 3 editions in 1 vol.,/o. (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 481). * The engravings which illustrate this work are amongst the earliest copper- plate engravings published in England. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth on the title-page of the 1559 edition is the earliest portrait of the Queen after her accession. Each of the three editions is rare. Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XXXIX., plates, 1769 (July 28, 1904 ; 64). * Facing page 344 is an engraving, after R. Greene, by B. Cole, of the house in which Shakespeare was born. Mr. Sidney Lee (" Alleged Vandalism at Stratford-on-Avon ") states that the earliest known engraved view of Shake- speare's birthplace is dated 1788 — nearly 20 years later. Georgievitz de Croacia (Bartholomeo) detto Pellegrino Hierosolymi- tano. Opera nova che comprende quattro libretti : si come nel sequente foglio leggendo, the title within a border composed of 14 small woodcuts illustrating the Life and Passion of our Saviour, Roma, Antonio Barre, 1555 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1459). * The first book describes the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the others treat of the sufferings of the Christians under the Turkish rule. Gerarde (John) The HerbaU, 1st Edn., engd. title-page by W. Rogers, and port, of Gerarde, by Rogers, wood engravings, fo., 1597 (April 19, 1904 ; 425). 152 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * On the fly-leaf Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps has written : " This first edition is of most rare occurrence in an absolutely perfect state. — J. O. H.P." The engraved title-page shows Gerarde's famous garden in Holborn, which Shake- speare must have had in mind when, inRicfiard III. he makes Gloucester say to the Bishop of Ely : " When I was last in Holborn I saw good strawberries in your garden there." William Rogers, the engraver of the title-page, was the first Englishman who is known to have practised copperplate engraving. The portrait of Gerarde (on B 6) is also on copper by the same artist. Lowndes had evidently never seen a copy of this first edition, as he states it to be a woodcut portrait. This copy has the leaf of Supplement to English Index so often wanting. During the last 18 years, although some more or less imperfect copies have been sold, only two that could be called in any sense perfect seem to be recorded, and when perfect there are few rarer Elizabethan volumes. Gerson (Jo.) De Imitatione Christi, t. g., double columns, 39 lines, with signs., 50 //. numbered in Arabic figures, and 2 //, of " Tabula," un- numbered, sm. 4to. Venetiis, -per Petrum loslein de langencen. ale- manum, 1483 (June 11, 1900 ; 393). * This is the first edition with a date of the Imitatio, and perhaps also the first with the name of Chancellor Gerson as the author. De Imitatione Christi et de Contemptu omnium Vanitatum Mundi lib. IV, (una cum tractatu de Meditatione Cordis), \. g., parva, double columns, 35 lines, signs. a-h9 in 8's, 65 leaves numbered in Arabic figures, sm. 8vo. Impressum Venetiis impensis Francisci de Madiis, 1486 (June 11, 1900 ; 394). * This small edition is not mentioned by Brunet, who notes the 4to. of M. de Goes of Antwerp, supposed to be of the same year. Libellus de contractibus, boards, sm. Ato. [s. I. et a. circa 1460] (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1465). * An entirely undescribed edition, consisting of 32 leaves, 29 lines to a page. Probably from the Press of Gutenberg or one of his workmen. Gesta Romanorum. Ex gestis romano hystorie noabiles de vitiis y tulibusqs tractates cu applicatioib moralizatis et misticis : Incipi- unt filiciter (auctore Elimando), g. \., in double columns, 36 lines to a full page, without catchwords, pagination or marks, 169 leaves, fo. s. . et. a. {Colonics, Ulricus Zell, c. 1473) (Jtme 18, 1906 ; 863). * {a) Panzer considers this the first edition, but Warton thinks the one printed s. 1. et a. but at Utrecht, by Ketelaer and Leempt, circa 1473, earlier, as it contains only 151 chapters, while this and the subsequent have 181 chapters. * (b) The earliest edition known to George Steevens was that of 1488. A collection of tales, romances, &c., to which Shakespeare was greatly indebted. The author of these " histories " is stated to have been Elimandus, a Cister- cian monk who died about 1227. " Of the ancient story-books, this is considered one of the most amusing, and the outlines of some of the best tales of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, Shakespeare, and their successors, may be traced in it. Boccaccio is also said to have laid it under ample contribution. For a description of its contents and merits see the dissertation in Douce' s Illustrations of Shakespeare, and Warton's History of English Poetry." NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 153 Gesta Romanorum, first edition with a date, fo. Gouda, G. Leeu, 1480 (June 18, 1888 ; 2013). * A collection of very amusing Tales indifferently taken from Holy Writ, Greek and Roman Writers, Oriental Sources or ancient and modern history. In the Dialogus Creaturarum the work is ascribed to Elinandus, and Warton thinks it was written by Petrus Berchorius, but Mr. Douce refutes this opinion and attributes its origin to some unknown German. Boccaccio, Chaucer, Bel- leforest and La Fontaine derived stories from this compilation. Gesta Rhomanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis., fo. Anno nostre salutis, 1480 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 3192). * A rare edition of this remarkable collection of mediseval stories, which has been to poets and story-tellers of modern days a perfect mine of wealth. Gesta Romanorum. A Record of Ancient Histories entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum, Discoursing of sundry examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the abandoning of Vice, no lesse pleasant in reading than profitable in practice, now newly perused and corrected, with something added by R. R.,h.i., a large wood- cut on A 1. Printed by Thomas Snodham, n. d. (circa 1600) (May 18, 1903 ; 345). * Perhaps unique, as it appears to be hitherto unknown to bibliographers.Mr. Hazlitt says there is a copy in the Bodleian Library of an edition by T. Snodham, dated 1610, but the present issue was quite unknown to him, and it is not in the British Museum. All the early editions of this collection of stories are of the utmost rarity, the Earl of Ashburnham's Library had the 1681 issue only, and that too is the earliest in the Huth catalogue. [Collation A to S in eights ]. Gheyn (Jacques de) Mainement d'Armes d' Arquebuses, Mousquetz et Piques, fits., fo., 1608 (May 18, 1903 ; 527). * Some of the illustrations are reproduced in Halli well's folio Shakespeare to illustrate Romeo and Juliet. Halliwell possessed only an imperfect copy which was sold in his sale, Jvme, 1858. Giardino de Orationi. Libro Devoto e fruttuoso a ciascun Fedel Chris- tiano chiamato Giardina de Orationi novamente con gran dili- gentia ricorretto et stampato, outline ctd on title of the Agony in Gethsemane, on the reverse a full-page cut of Christ in glory, with a small landscape below, containing a shield with a hand, and an up- right pointed finger with initials SS. {the same repeated on a leaf at end), 22 spirited outline cuts in the text, some on double blocks (2 or 3 repeated), and fine initials, Stampata in Vinigia per Agostino Bendone, 1543 (May 21, 1906 ; 312). * Important for the spirited cuts. A cut of the Salutation has the letters B. V. behind the figure of the Virgin. The initial letters are interesting. Gifford (George) A Plaine Declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists ; Also a rephe to Master Greenwood touching read prayer, wherein his grosse ignorance is detected, h. \., ^to. Printed for Toby Cooke, 1590 (July 1, 1901 ; 152). 154 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S * This treatise was written against the Brownists, a Puritan body who after- wards developed into the great sect of the Independents. Not in Lowndes. Gildon (Charles) A Comparison between the Two Stages, 1702 (Mar. 18, 1903 ; 561). * A reference to Shakespeare occurs in the preface, Gildon also refers to Antony and Cleopatra, and on page 42 Betterton's supposed invocation to Shakespeare occurs, &c. . The Laws of Poetry as laid down by the Duke of Buckingham- shire in his Essay on Poetry, and by the Earl of Roscommon, and the lyord Lansdowne, explained and illustrated, 1721 (May 6, 1901 ; 588). * Not mentioned by Lowndes or Allibone. In it will be found some very in- teresting Shakespearean references. Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, 1699 (June 20, 1904 ; 44). * Contains matter relating to Shakespeare not in Langbaine's edition, notably in connection with the Poet and Sir William D'Avenant's mother, p. 32 ; also a tradition that the Ghost Scene in Hamlet was \sT:itten in the Poet's house bordering on the churchyard. Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate, 1st Edn., Aio., 1700 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 937). * According to Steevens this is the only alteration of Measure for Measure. It is said, on the title-page, to have been " written originally by Mr. Shake- spear, and now very much altered with additions of several entertainments of musick." The prologue was written by Oldmixon, and spoken by Better- ton. The epilogue was also by Oldmixon. Miscellaneous Letters and Essays on several Subjects, in prose and verse, directed to John Dryden, Congreve, Dennis, and others, first edition,, 1694 (July 1, 1905 ; 607). * Contains " Some Reflections on Mr. Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, and an attempt at a Vindication of Shakespear, in an Essay directed to John Dryden, Esq." An interesting account of this volume will be found in Mr, Lee's Life of Shakespeare, page 272. Gilliers. Le Cannameliste Frangais, ou Nouvelle Instruction pour ceux qui desirent d'apprendre Ofiice, front, and 13 folding plates engraved by Loiha, after Dupuis, 4io., Nancy, 1751 (Dec. 17, 1898 ; 444). * " Livre rare, recherche non seulement par ceux qui s'interessent a I'his- tcire de la friandise et a I'art culinaire, mais par les artistes et les orfevres qui trouvent, dans les planches signees a gauche du dessinateur Dupuis et a droite du graveur Lotha, des modeles de pieces elegantes et gracieuses du XVIIIe siecle, telles que gobelets, gobichons, verres a tiges pour monter un fruit, mettre des neiges, surtout de table, cafetiere d' argent, &c." — Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique. Giovanni Fiorentino. II Pecorone, Ato., Milan, 1554 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 363). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 155 * " This novel Shrkespeare certainly read." — Fiirness. To the Shakespear- ian collector this work vill ever possess great interest, as in it is to be found the original story on which is fov.nded " The Merry Wives of Windsor." The rarity of this first edition is so great that in Italy the Gradenigo copy sold for 449 lire 57 centimes (about '^18), and Venzetti's for 307 lire (£12 5s.). This copy contains the leaf at end with the printer's device. Giraldi Cinthio (G. B.) Hecatommithi di nuovo rivedute, corrette & riformate, 2 vol., 4to., Vincgia, 1574 (May 21, 1900 ; 421 ). * Specially interesting to English collectors in consequence of the extensive use made of the tales by Shakespeare,Beaumont and Fletcher, Shirley, &c. In Edmund Malone's copy was the following note in his autograph :■ — " The seventh novel of the tliird decade contains the story on which Shakespeare's ' Othello ' is founded. No translation, however, of so early a date as the age of James the First has yet been discovered ; though, without doubt, this story has been translated, and in an English dress furnished Shakespeare with the subject of his play." Giustiniano (B. Lorenzo) Libro della Vita Monastica ; t g., long lines, 35 to a full page, with signs, the redo of the first leaf occupied {in lieu of title) by a full-page woodcut emblematic of the Trinity supported by SS. Peter and Paul ; on the verso of A 11 a full-length figtire of the author preceded by an acolyte, entering a monastery ; and on verso of the last leaf is an emblem of the Virgin, supported by St. John and a monk ; sm. Ato. [Venezia, fratres de Gregoriis, 1494 ] (Jan. 27 1903 ; 149). * Extremely interesting for the three-full-page woodcuts. The figure of the author is said to be taken from a picture of Gentile Bellini (1465) in the Aca- demy of Venice. Lippmann notices them in his Wood Engraving in Italy. Glanvil (Bartholomaeus) De proprietatibus Rerum, fo. sine ulla Nota [ColonicB {W. Caxton), 1470-1471] (June 13, 1887 ; 958). * 247 ff . 55 lines to the page, without any marks, gothic type. This assign- ment to Caxton is on the authority of Wynkyn de Worde and Sotheby, but it is doubtful if it be correct. The same types v/ere used in Cologne by Goetz of Sletzstat, in 1474. The work itself may be regarded as an early Encyclo- pEedia, and is a compilation from the Speculum Naturale of St. Vincent de Beauvais. His treatise on Music is very curious and valuable for the des- cription the author gives of the art during the dark ages. De Proprietatibus Rerum [fol. U a]" Incipit Prohemiu de Pro- prietatibus Rerum fratis Bartholomei Anglici de ordine fratru minorum," (. g., parva, dotible columns, 55 lines (247 II.) without marks {Hain *2498), measuring 15| by lOf in., fo. absque nota [at end of " Titttli Librorum"] : " Expliciunt titidi libroru et capitu- lorum bertholomei anglici de pprietatibus reru," Coloniae, Gotz de Sleiztat (and Caxton, qy.) c. 1472 (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 392). 156 NOTES PROM SOTHEBY'S * The first edition, identified as having been printed by Gotz de Sletztat in Cologne, in which \Vm. Caxton is said to have been concerned. It is the edi- tion referred to by Wynkyn de Worde in his English translation, in the well- known verses . . ."Wni. Caxton the first pryntcr of this booke in latin tongue, at Coleyn," etc. The leaves are numbered in roman figures to ccxliii, and the gatherings (19) in the lower margins in Arabic figures. Glanvil. Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum (trans, by John of Treves), b. (., double cohimns, 42 lines with signs.but no pagination, numerotis woodcuts, thick sm. folio [Lond. Printed bv Wynkyn de Worde, n. d.] [1495] (Dec. 3, 1908 ; 393). * Wynkyn de Worde's finest specimen of printing, on very thick paper made expressly in England by John Tate the first paper maker in England. It is remarkable that in the verses at the end, which mention Caxton as the first printer of this book in Cologne, this stout paper is characterised as thin. " John Tate the yonger . . . which late in Englonde doe make this paper thynne, that now in our englyssh this boke is printed inne." Some of the woodcuts are remarkable. Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum (trans, by John de Trevisa), 1st Edn., f). (., remarkable woodcuts and ornamental initials, sm. fo. Lond. Wynkyn de Worde, n. d. (1496) (Nov. 26, 1900 ; 118). * The finest specimen of Wynkyn de Worde's Press. The title-page has the appearance of a stencil plate and is repeated on reverse of last leaf, the recto of the latter having Caxton' s large device, which is also found at the end of Book XI. It is in the verses at the end that Wynkyn de Worde states that he printed the Work at the " Prayer and desire " of " Roger Thorney Mercer," and mentions "William Caxton first prynter of this boke in laten tongue at Coleyn," and " John Tate the yonger . . . which late hathe in Englonde doo make this paper thynne. That now in our englysshe this boke is prynted Inne." The Ashburnham copy with the first and last leaves in facsimile realized £195. Batman upon Bartholome his Booke de Proprietatibus Rerum, newly corrected, (trans, by Steph. Batman), 16. (., 1582 (May 25, 1905 ; 46). * Douce frequently refers to this volume, and says : " It will be seen in the course of these notes that Shakespeare was extremely well acquainted with this work ; and as it is likely hereafter to form an article in a Shakespearean library, it may be worth adding that in a private diary written at the time the original price of the volume appears to have been eight shillings." — Illus- trations of Shakespeare, vol. I., pp. 7-8, see also vol. II., p. 278, etc. Glasse (Mrs.) Art of Cookery. Printed for the Author, \1A1 (July 3, 1899 ; 201). * The first edition of this celebrated and often quoted work. G. A. Sala describes it as being rarer than the first folio Shakespeare, and worth £100. Not in Lowndes. Glemham. The Honourable Actions of Edward Glemham against the Spaniards, !&. t, title and 7 leaves, 4to., 1591 (June 2, 1905 ; 631). * Records one of the numerous expeditions fitted out by private adventurers in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 157 Glissenti (S. Fabio) Discorsi Morali contra il Dispiacer del Marire detto Athanatophilia, divisi in cinque Dialoghi, occorsi in cinqne giornate ; ed uno Breve Trattato nel qual moralmente si discorre qual sia la Pietra di Filosofi, the 6 parts in 1 vol., with 381 spirited woodcuts of subjects connected with death ; and 6 titles, each with printer's device, and portrait of the author on reverse, sm. Ato. Venet. Dominico Farri, 1596 (Ma^^ 22, 1906 ; 202)- * An extremely interesting work, mentioned only casually by Erunet under Holbein's Dance of Death. The large number of woodcuts are of two sorts, the designs after Holbein being set two on a page side by side, the other de- signs singly within side borders of skeletons and other Meinenti Mori. Goddard (Wm.) A Satyricall Dialogue or a Sharplye invective con- ference, Ato. (1615-16) (July 1, 1901 ; 803). * We can trace no copy besides this, except one in the British Museum, and one in the Bodleian Library. The place and date of impression are conjec- tured in the British Museum catalogue to be Dort, 1616 ; and this attribution seems to be corroborated by the fact that Goddard's Neast of Waspes is described and printed " at Dort in the Low Countries." Godfrey (Thos.) Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with the Prince of Parthia, a Tragedv, 1st Edn., Ato. Philadelphia, H. Miller, 1765 (Dec. 11, 1903"; 118). * The first play written, acted, and printed in America. The author was a native of Philadelphia and took part in the expedition against Fort dii Quesne. Contains an interesting list of subscribers, mostly inhabitants cf Pennsylvania, Maryland, N. Carolina, and New Jersey, including Benjamin Franklin. Godinho (Manoel) Relagao de novo caminho que fez par Terra e Mar vindo da India para Portugai no anno de 1663, sm. Ato. EniLisboa, 1665 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1477). * A very valuable book of early travel in India. The author travelled from Bacaim through Persia to Aleppo by land, and thence by ship to Marseilles. The experience of his ten months' journey is contained in this volume, of which Brunet remarks that it is so rare as to have been wanting in the best collections of Vo3'ages and Travels sold during many years past. Goethe. J . W. von Goethe Herzoglich Sachsen-Weimarischen Gehei- rnenraths Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklaren, 1st Edn., 3 //., 86 pages, {Hirzel, 36). C. W. Ettinger, Gotha, 1790 (July 23, 1901 ;35). * A much later edition that nevertheless has the same year 1790 on title, contains 2 11. 79 pages. Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit. Eine Dramatische Grille. Von Goethe. Achte Ausgabe, g. (., 1st Edn., 118 pages {Hirzel, 33), large 8vo. Leipzig, 1787 (July 23, 1901 ; 26). "' Many of Goethe's works, especially those published b}' Goschen, seem to have been issued without wrappers, no mention of them appearing in the bibliographies. The blue wrappers, traces of which are to be seen in items 12, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 34, are of very recent date. 158 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'vS Goethe. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Achte Ausgabe, g.l., 1st Edn., first issue of Faust in its earliest form, of the greatest rarity, \Q^]pages {Hirzel, 36), G. J. Goschen, Leipzig, 1790— Goethe's Faust, ein Fragment, in der urspriinglichen Gestalt neu heraus- gegeben von Wilhelm I^udwig Holland, Freiburg itnd Tubingen, 1882. 2 vol. (July 23, 1901 ; 33). * Holland says in his preface to the facsimile reprint that tliis edition " seems practically to have disappeared in Germany," also that Salomon Hirzel pro- cured his copy in England " whither so rr.znj rarities find their way." There was also a second issue of Faust, ein Fragment, in which the last three lines on page 144 are repeated on page 145 (claimed by Seuffert to be the first issue) as well as the third issue made up of sheets from vol. VII. of the collected works, with new title, " Feust ein Trauerspiel von Goethe, 1787 " — the date being obvioxisly a misprint. Freuden des jungen Werthers, lyciden und Freuden Werthers des Mannes. [vignette], voran und zuletzt ein Gesprach (by Chris- toph Freidrich Nicolai), Berlin, 1775, g. t, 48 pp., sm. Svo., excessive sively rare — Etvvas liber die Leiden des jungen ^A'^erthers, und iiber die Freuden des jungen Werthers, Mcgcn sie doch reden, was kummert's mich ! 1775, 48 pp., g. (., sm. Svo.. 2 vol. (July 23, 1901 ; 15). * Both called forth by the publication of Werther's Leiden. The first a satire on Goethe, the second a defence, read at a private gathering. ■ Iphigenie auf Taurus. Ein Schauspiel. Von Goethe. Achte Ausgabe, 9. (., 1st Edn.. first issue, 136 pages, very rare [Hirzel, 32). Leipzig, \1S1 (July 23, 1901 ; 24). * Egmont, Leipzig, 1788 ; Clavigo, Frankfort, 1774 ; Tasso, Leipzig, 1790 ; Iphigenie, Leipzig, 1787 ; 4 vol. reahzed £14 5s. in these rooms in 1888. Details as to the issue are not stated in Book Prices Current. It is probable that the copy of Egmont was the later issue of 177 pages, dated 1788, copies of the true first edition( 198 pages )seldom, if ever,appearing even in theGerman market. The first edition of Clavigo was published by Goschen in Leipzig. Of Tasso there were two issvies, the first of much greater rarity than the second which v;as made up of sheets from vol. VI. of the collected works provided with new title. Of Ipliigenie there were two issues, the second of much later date, and without the words " Achte Ausgabe " on title. In Dec. 1898, Eg- mont, Clavigo, and Iphigenie realized £3 5s. — again no details given in Book Prices Current as to issue. It is of the greatest importance that the latter should be known and stated, the first being in most cases by far the rarest, and sometimes (as with Tasso) the only true first edition. Lebens-Beschreibung Herrn Gozens von Berlichingen zugennant mit der Eisern Hand . . . mit verschiedenen Anmerckungen erlau- tert, und mit einem vollstandigen Indice versehen, zum Druck bedfordert, von Verono Franck von Steigerwald, QOtbtC ICttCC, front. 8 IL, 288 pages, also 30 pages, " Historische Nachrichten," &c. by W. F. Pistorius, and 8 //. index, orig. Edn. Niirnberg verlegts Adam Jonathan Felszecker, 1731 (July 23, 1901 ; 6). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 159 * A work of great interest, being the chief source drawn upon by Goethe for his play, Gotz von Berlichingen. Goethe. Maskenzug zum 30sten. Januar, 1809, 8 unpaged II. [Hirzel, 67) (July 23, 1901 ; 58). * The 20 lines under " Sterndeuter " on leaf 7, as well as the 8 lines on leaf 8, are by Goethe. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Ein Roman. Heraus-gegeben von Goethe. Erster, Zweyter, Dritter, Band, /. F. Unger, Berlin, 1795 — Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre...Vierter Band, Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1796, g. (., 1st Edn., 4 vol. {Hirzel, 43, 44) (July 23, 1901; 40). * The imprint " Frankfurt und Leipzig " in vol IV., not mentioned' by Hirzel. The date 1796 is, however, that of the first impression, copies of the later issue were dated 1795 ; the text also is that of the earliest issue. A copy realised £16 in these rooms, February 1897 ; in October of the same year, another sold for 19s. Goff (Thos.) Three Excellent Tragedies, viz. The Raging Turk, The Courageous Turk, and the Tragoedie of Orestes, 1656 (Dec. 2, 1901 ; 817). * At the end is the Catalogue of Books, printed for Bedell & Collins, amongst those advertised is " The Merry Wives of Windsor," by Shakespeare. No copy of this edition (if ever printed) is known. Golding (Arthur) Brief e Discourse of the Murther of Master George Sanders, a Worshipful Citizen of London, f). (., 1577 (July 1, 1889 ;182). * " The scene of the murder is in Kent, and the event was dramatised in the Play of the, Warning for Faire Women, 1599. Probably unique. It is not even mentioned by Herbert, Lowndes or Hazlitt, nor can I discover a notice of it in any other work." — Note by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps. Goldsmith (O.) The Deserted Village, W. Griffin, 1770 (Nov. 20, 1899 ; 578). * The only other copies that have come under our notice were one sold in Mr. Crampon's sale, June 3, 1896, for ^£25, and the other, June 27, 1898, for ^£22. It is believed to be the genuine first privatelv printed edition, before the 4to. of May, 1770. The Mystery Revealed, a Series of Transactions and Authentic Testimonials respecting the supposed Cock Lane Ghost, fo., 1742 {for 1762) (June 22, 1904 ; 517). * This is the First Edition of Goldsmith's second publication and so rare that his biographer, Mr. Forster, was unable to find a copy, and supposed it to be lost. " His first undertaking in 1762 was a pamphlet on the Cock Lane Ghost for which Newbery paid him three guineas ; but whether, with Johnson, he thought the imposture worth grave enquiry, or, with Hogarth, turned it to wise purposes of satire, or only laughed at it, as Churchill did, the pamphlet has not survived to inform us." — Forster's " Life of Goldsmith." 160 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Goldsmith (O.) A Prospect of Society, 16 pp., 4to., uncut, unique, and unknown to all Goldsmith's biographers and editors, 1763 ? (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 500). * It may be asserted without fear of contradiction that this is the most re- markable of all the printed Avritings of OUver Goldsmith. It consists of the material out of which was formed his poem " The Traveller." It is m.ost in- structive as showing the method of workmanship by which so fine a poem was evolved from what was at first hardly more than a set of unarranged and un- related verses. " A Prospect of Society " differs altogether in the order of its verses from " The Traveller." It begins abruptly, thus : One sink of level avarice shall lie, And even the worth of kings unhonor'd die. These two lines (the second of which was aftenvards much altered) form the 359th and 360th lines of the published poem ; i.nd throughout the two versions there is little or no correspondence in the succession of the lines. Everjnvhere too, a comparison of " A Prospect of Society " with " The Traveller " shows the poet's hand at work, altering, re-arranging, and usiially greatly improving upon his first thovights. The alterations of the text are very numerous, and show what an infinity of pains the poet took in order that his work might be rendered as perfect as possible. Perhaps the best way of exemplifying the relation between " A Prospect of Society " and " The Traveller " will be to quote a number of corresponding lines from each, so as to show how much they differ from* one another. The following lines are from ' A Prospect of Society." Yet think not, thus from freedom's isles* I state, I mean to flatter kings or court the great ; Think not I mean to sap my coiuitry's good ; I would not, heaven be witness ! if I could. But when I see contention hem the throne. Abridging kingly power to stretch her own, When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Senates in blood the code of justic* draw, Laws grind the poor, and opulence the law ; The wealth of climes where savage nations roam, Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home, I can't forbear, but all my passions start To tear the barb that grides my swelling heart ; I can't forbear : but half a tyrant grown, I wish to shrink from tyrants to the throne. In " The Traveller " these lines (omitting twelve which do not correspond to anything in " A Prospect ' ' ) appear thus : Yet think not, thus when freedom's ills I state, I mean to flatter kings, or court the great ; Ye powers of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; * * * * * Hf But when contending chiefs blockade the throne. Contracting regal power to stretch their own. When 1 behold a factious b£md agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 161 Each wantomjudge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law ; The wealth of climes, where savage nations roam. Pillage from slaves to purchase slaves at home ; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; ■ Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne. It would be easy to quote other and more striking examples of the differences between the two versions but for the limitations of space. It is perhaps necessary to add that " A Prospect of Society " ends with line 310. Whether any more of it was ever printed must be a matter of conjecture only. " The Traveller," as printed in the Aldine edition of Goldsmith's Poems, consists 438 lines. * The printer's errors of "isles" and "justic" for "ills" and " justice " in the first and ninth lines appear in the original text. She Stoops to Conquer, 1st Edn., F. Newberry, 1773 (May 18, 1903 ; 564). * This is a copy of the genuine first issue ; it varies considerably both in the preliminary matter and in the book itself from the other editions published the same year. The preliminary pages consist of title, 1 leaf ; dedication to Johnson, with Prologue by Garrick, 1 leaf ; Epilogue, 1 leaf ; Epilogue by J. Craddock, with Dramatis Personae, 1 leaf ; in all 4 leaves. This edition was issued without half-title, the original price coming at the foot of the title, in the other issue this occurs on the half-title. The Comedy, B to P 1 in fours, the pagination and signatures are very incorrectly marked, some of the variations are important, we note the following which were corrected in later issues : page 9, sig. CI, the catchword " Scene " is here printed in small t3rpe: ; sig. Kl, page 65, misprinted 56 ; sig. LI misprinted I, and its pagination mis- printed, but a hole is punctured by the printing of them, the headline of this page also misprinted " A Comedy " ; sig. L2, 75-76, misprinted 83-68 ; sig. L3, 77-78, misprinted 69-86, the headline of 77 misprinted ; sig. 1,4, 79-80, misprinted 87-72 ; sig. Ml, misprinted K, the headlines of this and the former page both misprints, reads The Mistakes of a Night, a Comedy, the paging is also wrong, instead of 81-2 it is marked 73-90 ; sig. M2, 83-4, mis- printed as 91-76, the headline of the last named is again incorrect ; sig. M3, 85-86, misprinted as 77-94, the headUne of the former an error ; sig. M4, 87-88, misprinted as 95-80, the headline of the last-named being in error ; sig. Nl, 89-90, misprinted as 97-98, then the pagination runs consecutively to last page which is numbered as 114, but the book really consists of 106 pages. These errors in the first issue seem to have been hitherto overlooked, and Mr. Locker's copy is incorrectly described as consisting of 1 14 pages. It is no doubt a copy of the rare first issue as this is. The catchword page 100 (reverse of N2) is a misprint, " Tony " for " Hastings." The same, 1st Edn., 1773 (June 27, 1906 ; 98). * (6) Early issue of the first edition, the price being printed at foot of title, and having the errors in pagination, p. 65 printed 56 and page 73 to 80 skipped making the volume appear to have 114 pages, whereas it has only 106. These were corrected in the later issue which was reset, and had a half-title added. 162 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Gonzalez (Estevanillo, Hombre de buen Humor) Vida i Hechos, Com- puesto per el mesmo. 1st Edn., port, and arms, Ato., Amberes, 1646 (June 18, 1888 ; 1474). * This work is sometimes falsely attributed to Vincente Espinel, but the Licence is accorded to Gonzalez, who signs the dedication to Ottavio Picol- lomini de Arragon Duque de Amalfi, in whose service he was an Buffoon. Gonzalez de'^Mendo^a (Joan) Historia de las Cosas mas notables, Ritos y Costumbres, del gran Reyno de la China, con un Itinerario del nuevo Mundo. Roma V. Accolti, 1585 (Aug. 3, 1886 ; 622). * A very interesting work, especially for the Itinerary of the New World, of Fray Mnrtiv Ignacio. Being sent to China by Phillip II. he embarked at Cadiz, visited the Canaries and St. Domingo, Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Aca- pulco. From the latter port he proceeded to the Philippines, and thence to China. Brunet is wrong in ascribing to the original edition of Rcma, Accolti, 1585 the merit of introducing Chinese Characters to Europe. Goodman (Chr.) How superior powers ought to be obej'-ed of their subiects, Geneva, John Crispin, 1558 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1487). * This little volume is an open incitement to the People of England to rise against Queen ]\Iary. One chapter is specially devoted to the praise of Sir Thomas AVyatt and his friends. The author says, " If it be treason to defend the Gospel and his countrie from cruel strangers and enemies, then was Wyatt a traytor and rebell, but if this was his duetye, and all others that professed Christe amongest you, then are all such traytours as did deceave him, and such as toke not his parte also ; when tyme and occasion by him was justly offered." Googe (Barnaby ) Zodiake of I/ife, newly translated into Englishe verse h.t, 1565 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 287). * First complete edition. A most difficult Elizabethan volume to find in a thoroughly satisfactory state, like the present. The Zodiac of Life was long a favourite book, and there is in Warton's English Poetry, 1871, iv. 323- 30, an elaborate review of it, with extracts, and a reference to Pope's obliga- tions to the work. (See, too, Collier's " Rarest Books in the English Lan- guage."). Gordon (Patrick) Famous Historie of the Renowned and Valiant Prince Robert, surnamed the Bruce, Ato. Dort, G. Waters, 1615 (Feb. 25, 1901 ; 784). * Only four copies appear to be known — of these, that in the Locker collec- tion has the title page in facsimile, while Mr. Huth's is in very indifferent state. Mr. Heber's, the only one cited by Low-ndes, is now at Britwell. Gorton (Samuel) Simplicities Defence against Seven-headed Policy or Innocency Vindicated, Ato. 1646 (June 9, 1902 ; 117). * " Master Gorton having abused high and low at Aquidneck, is now be- witching and bemadding Providence, both with his uncleane and foule cen- sures of all the ministers of this countrie." — Winslow's Hypocrisie Unmasked. Gosse (E.) Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets, by J. A. Blaikie and E. W. Gosse, 1870 (July 28, 1899 ; 441 ). NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S 163 * In Slater's " Early Editions " it is stated that " not more than about 40 copies of this book can now be in existence, as very few were sold, and the re- mainder destroyed by the authors, whose publication it was. The value of a stray copy would probably amount to £5." Gough (R.) Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain,5 vols., plates, fo., 1786-96 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1490). * The most valuable book of the kind ever published or ever likely to be produced. It is alike valuable to the Typographer, Family and County His- torian, and Antiquary. ]Mr. John Gough Nichols' copy, though not so fine as this, but in similar condition, sold for £130. Gower (John) de Confessione Amantis, b. (., 1554 (May 25, 1905 ; 352). * Shakespeare founded his play of Pericles upon the story of Appolinus, Prince of Tyre, contained in this book. Most of the incidents are found in the poem ; besides, Gower himself is introduced in the Chorus by Shakespeare. Gowrie. The Earle of Gowrie's Conspiracie against the King's Majestie of Scotland, at St. John-stoun upon Tuesday the fift of August, 1600, b. (., calf, V. Simmes, 1600 (Dec. 3, 1900 ; 814). * Knight and Elze consider that it was from this excessively rare tract that Shakespeare derived much of the "local colouring" in Macbeth. In the course of his essay on the supposed travels of Shakespeare Elze remarks : " Besides this, the Londoners must have known the details of the Gowrie conspiracy as well as the Scotch ; perhaps they even possessed a more trust- worthy accoimt of it than the good people of Aberdeen or Perth, for Knight himself mentions that a detailed and truthful report of the conspiracy was published at London as early as 1600 by the same Valentine Simmies whose press also produced several quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays, and that another accoimt in Latin appeared simultaneously at Edinburgh. Both v.-ere accessible to Shakespeare, and perfectly explain whatever there is of resem- blance between the tragedy of Macbeth and the Gowrie conspiracy." Examinations, Arraignment and Conviction of George Sprot, Notary in Aye-mouth, together with his constant and extraor- dinairie behaviour at his death in Edenborough, Aug. 12, 1608, Ato., 1609 (Mar. 17, 1902 ; 503). * One of the rarest tracts (reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany) dealing v/ith the conspiracy of the Earl of Gowrie to assassinate King James I. It contains a long preface by Dr. George Abbot, who was present at Sprot's execution. Kniglit and Elze consider that it was from accounts of the Gowrie Conspiracy that Shakespeare derived much of the " local colouring " in Macbeth. Gracian. El Heroe de Lorenzo Gracian Infanzon, Amst., 1659 (Dec, 3, 1900 ; 675). * A Shakespearian volume. " Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh." Tliis judgment is related by Gracian, the celebrated Spanish Jesuit, in his Hero, with a reflexion at the conclusion of it. ' Compite con la del Salomon la promptitud de aquel gran Turco. Pretendia un Judio cortar una onza de carne a im Christiano, pena sobre usura. Insistia en ello con igual ter- queria a su Principe, que perfidia a su Dios. Mando el gran Juez traer peso y cuchillo ; conminole el deguello si cortava mas ni menos. Y sue dar agudo corte a la lid, y al mundo milagro del ingenio.' El Heroe de Lorenzo Gracian. Primor 3." — Steevens' Notes on the Merchant of Venice. 164 NOTES FROM SOTHEBY'S Grad (La) lyoyaulte des Femmes, g. i., s. I. n. d. {circa 1495) (July 23, 1901 ; 1327). * One of the rarest poetical pieces in the French Language. Grands et Redoutables Jugemens et Punitions de'^Dieu advenus au monde, principalement sur les grands, a cause de leur mefifaits, centre venans aux Commandemens de la L/oy de Dieu, A Morges far Jean le Preux, Imprimeur de Tres-puiissans Seigneurs de Berne, 1581 (Nov. 16, 1885 ; 1494). * An extremely curious little volume, by a French Protestant writer, con- taining an immense number of interesting notices of celebrated men who come under its various heads. On page 139, under the head of " Des Fpicuriens et Atheistes " is the following paragraph: — " Fran9ois Rabelais ayant hume de ce poison, s'est voulu moquer de toute religion, comme un vilain et profane qu'il estoit. Dieu luy osta tellement le sens, qu'ayant mene une vie de pour- ceau, il mourut aussi brutalement et tout yure ; se moquant de ceux qui luy parloyent de Dieu et de sa misericorde." Following tliis is a notice of " Bona- venture des Periers, auteur du detestable livre intitule Cymbalum mundi." The volume was unknown to Brunet, and is no doubt of excessive rarity. It is one of the very few books printed at Morges, a small town in Switzerland, on the borders of the lake of Geneva. Grappa Comento nella Canzone del Firenzuola in I