5962 WASER de antiquis Numis Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum et Syrorum, sq. 8vo. cuts, cloth, 38 6d Tiguri, 1605 5963 WESTON's Historic Notices of Cities in Greece that have struck Coins, 8vo. second edition, bds. 5s 1827 5964 WICZAY (C. M. a) Musei Hedervarii in Hungaria Numi antiqui Græci et Latini, 2 vols. royal 4to. LARGE PAPER, 44 plates, calf gilt, rare, 32s Vindobone, 1814 Mr. Brockett's copy sold for £7. 78. 5965 WILSON'S Ariana Antiqua: A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of AFGHANISTAN, with a Memoir on the Buildings called Topes, 4to. map and 36 plates of Bactrian Antiquities and Coins, cloth, £2. 2s 1841 The best account of Ancient Bactria, or Modern Afghanistan, of equal importance to the Scholar and to the Antiquary. This valuable work is now quite out of print, and will never be reprinted, the plates being destroyed. 5966 NUMISMATIC TRACTS AND MINOR WORKS. A valuable collection, comprising many rare treatises, in all 20, £2. 10s Including: 5967 English Gold Coin. Henry VII., Angel, 1st Coinage, m. m. Rose and Sun united, a very rare coin, 42s CURIOSA. I. LATIN MISCELLANIES, including Mediaeval Latin Writers, Mystical Literature, Astrology, Satires, etc. 5968 BACONI (Fr.) Sermones Fideles, Ethici, Politici, Oeconomici, Accedunt Faber Fortunae, Colores boni et Mali, etc. 1644-de Jure et Judicio, 1659-2 vols. in 1, 12mo. vellum, 78 Lugd. Batav. et Hagae, 1644-59 5969 BOSSUS (M.) de instituendo Sapientia Animo, sm. 4to. sound copy in russia, gilt edges, 24s Bononiae, 1495 "Mateo Bosso, by his worth and talents, conciliated the favour of Lorenzo de Medici. Not less conversant with the writings of the ancient philosophers than with the theological studies of his own times, Bosso was a profound scholar, a close reasoner, and a convincing orator." —Roscoe. His books are both scarce and held in high estimation. 5970 Bourne (V.) Poematia, 12mo. Latin and English, calf, 3s 6d 1734 "I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him." Cowper. 5971 CAPYCIUS (Scipio) de Vate Maximo, 4to. first edition, vellum, 3s 6d Neapoli, 1533 5972 CHIRII (Consulti Fortunat.) Rhetorica; Hermogenis Rhetorica; Priscianus de Rhetoricae Praeexercit. Basileae, 1526-Musler de Scholis et praeceptoribus deligendis, Norimb. 1529-de Subventione Pauperum Hyperiorum, Antv. 1531 -Encomium Brassicarum per St. Aquaeum, Paris, 1531-Salmonii Carmina, Paris, 1531-5 scarce works, in 1 vol. 12mo. very old stamped calf, Coat of Arms on sides, 9s 5973 DECEMBRII (Angeli) Mediolanensis Oratoris clarissima, Politiæ Literariæ lit. VII. first edition, folio, Major's copy, with notes in his autograph relating to the rarity of the book, calf, gilt back, very scarce, 21s Aug. Vind. 154C Not mentioned by Maittaire, Brunet, and other bibliographers. Priced, 1842, Thorpe, £1. 5s. Sold, Aug. 1816, in the Roscoe sale for £3. 10s. "Angelus Decembrius, Uberti F. Petri Candidi frater Grammaticus, unus eorum qui tenebris capita extollere ensi sunt, saepe rari judicii scriptor, ut G. Barthio dicitur ad Claudiani IV. Cons Honor."-Saxius in Onomastico. 5974 DIBUADII (C.) in Geometriam Euclidis Demonstratio Linealis, Arnhemii, 1603 -Ejusdem in Geometriam Euclidis Demonstratio numeralis, Lugd. Bat. 1603 -Cataldi (Petri Antonii) Opusculum de Lineis rectis æquidistantibus et non æquidistantibus, Bononiæ, 1603-Cataldo (P. A.) Operetta delle Linee rette equidistanti, et non equidistanti, Bologna, 1603-Romani (Adriani) Problema Apolloniacum, Wirceburgi, 1596-a collection of 5 very scarce mathematical tracts, 4to. bound in old citron MOROCCO, with the arms of J. A. Thuanus (De Thou) stamped in gold on sides, £3. 3s 5975 DISSERTATIONES Ludicrarum et Amoenitatum Scriptores varii, 24mo. cf. 3s 6d 1644 5976 FOLENGO (Theophilo). Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum opus, 18mo. many quaint woodcuts, very fine copy in russia, 9s Venet. 1585 Opus Macaronicum, notis illustratum, cui accessit Vocabularium Vernaculum, Etruscum et Latinum, 2 vols. 4to. portrait and vignettes, hf. bd. Amstelodami, 1768-71 5977 On Alchemy, early Chemistry and Astrology. 30s 5978 GEBRI (Regis Arabum, philosophi perspicacissimi) Summa Perfectionis, 12mo. vellum, 3s 6d Gedani, 1682 5979 JOANNIS PHYSIOPHILI Specimen Monachologiae methodo Linnaeana, 4to. 3 plates of the Garments of all the Monastic Orders, hf. bd. 7s 6d Aug. Vind. 1783 the same, royal 4to. Large Paper, hf. russia, 10s 5980 5981 5982 5983 1783 the same, with the Tract " Phylantropii Specimen Antimonachologiae, 1783," 4to. hf. bd. 12s 1783 Opuscula Monachologia, Accusatio et defensio Physiophili, Anatomia Mönchologie, nach Linnäischer Methode, 8vo. 3 plates, hf. mor. 5s 1786 The late Mr. Brown, the eminent Naturalist, possessed the above 5 copies of this most cutting Satire against the Vices and Characteristics of Monks, in which they are treated as Animals, arranged according to the Linnaean system. 5984 LONGOLII (C.) Epistolæ, item Bartolomæus Riccius de Imitatione, fine copy, choice old French red morocco, gilt back, marbledand gilt edges, 12s Lugd. apud hæred. Seb. Gryphii, 1563 5985 NIPHUS (Augustinus) de Pulchro, 4to. clviii leaves printed in italic type, vellum, Niphani, 1529 15s Rare. The only edition Brunet mentions is that of Lugd. Batav. 1641.' On the colophon stands Niphani Novembris, MDXXIX,' but the permission is dated 'die vii Decembris, MDXXX.' 5986 PEUCERUS de praecipuis Divinationum generibus, in quo a prophetiis et a physicis conjecturis discernuntur Artes Diabolicae ; de Astrologia, Magia, Somniis, Incantationibus, Oraculis, etc. st. sm. 8vo. vellum, 12s Servestae, 1591 5987 PINAEUS de Integritatis et Corruptionis Virginum notis; Boniaciolus, Plater, Gassendus et Sebizius de Virginitate, 12mo. plates, vellum, 2s 6d Lugd. Bat. 1650 5988 REISCH (Greg.) Margarita Philosophica, totius philosophiæ rationalis naturalis et moralis principia duodecim libris dialogice complectens, sm. stout 4to. fine woodcuts, old calf gilt, 18s 5989 Argent. 1504 another edition, printed on THICK PAPER, with a different series of woodcuts from the preceding, 4to. calf, very neat, fine copy, 36s Venetiis, 1519 “Ouvrage singulier et fort bien exécuté, tant pour la partie typographique que pour les figures gravées en bois qui s'y trouvent en assez grand nombre, &c."-Brunet. In all the 12 subsequent editions to 1535, the first part of the title was left out. "This work has exercised a great influence upon the spreading of mathematical and physical knowledge, and Chasles has proved the importance of Reisch's Encyclopædia for the History of Mathematical Sciences."-A. von Humboldt. A work in twelve books, comprising a distinct treatise on all the seven liberal sciences."-Burney. 5990 ROSVITH. Poesies latines de Rosvith, religieuse saxonne du xe siecle, avec une traduction libre en vers français, par Vignon Rétif de la Bretonne, large 8vo. hf. bd. red morocco, uncut, 7s 6d Paris, 1854 5991 SADOLETI (Jac., Cardinalis) Epistolæ, cum Appendice et Vita Sadoleti, 5 vols. 12mo. portrait, good copy in calf, a present to Archd. Coxe from Wm. Melmoth, Esq. of Bath, in 1774, 18s Roma, 1759-67 Best edition of the Epistolae, containing: Epistolae, Leonis X., Clementis VII., Pauli III., nomine scriptae; Epistolae Familiares, 3 vols.; Epistolarum Appendix accedunt Hier. Nigri et Pauli Sadoleti Vitae ac rariora Monumenta. 5992 SIDONII (C. Sol. Apollin., Arvernorum Episc) Opera, cum notis J. Sirmondi, 4to. best edition, Louis XIVth's copy, in old red morocco, gilt edges, the sides and back covered with the crowned L and fleur-de-lys, and having the royal arms on sides, all worked in gold, £2. 2s Paris, 1652 "Sidonius, Bishop of Claremont, lived in the fifth century. He was a man learned above the age he lived in, skilled in all parts of literature and science, of a subtle and penetrating wit, and not an inelegant writer. Of his works about four and twenty poems, and nine books of Epistles, containing many particulars relative to the learning and history of the times, are still extant.". Chalmers. "His writings, very different from those of Prudentius, bear the stamp rather of Paganism than of genuine Christianity."-Herbert's Attila, p. 463. "Les temoignages de cette epoque (des Goths) contemporaine de massacres, de Pillages, d'Incendies se trouvent dans les lettres de Sidoine Apollinaire toutes empreintes de la tristesse de son temps."-Barante, Melanges Hist." ii, p. 22. 5993 SPINOZA (B. de) Opera omnia, praefationes vitamque auctoris addidit Paulus, 2 vols. stout 8vo. portrait, bds. rare, 15s Jenae, 1802-3 5993* SAINTES, Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Spinosa, 8vo. portrait, sd. 3s 6d Paris, 1842 5994 STEPHANI (H.) Principum Monitrix Musa. Ejusd. Poemata, sm. 8vo. russia gilt, Dr. Askew's and Wodhull's copy, 12s Basil, 1590 5995 TITII (Roberti, Burgensis) Locorum controversorum libri X. in quibus plurimi veterum scriptorum loci conferuntur, explicantur, et emendantur multò aliter, quàm hactenus a quoquam factum sit, Florentiæ, 1583-Ejusdem pro suis Locis controversis Assertio adversus Yvonem Villiomarum (J. Scaligerum), ib. 1589. 2 vols. 4to. Baron Meerman's copy in old Dutch red morocco, gilt edges, with his book-plate pasted on the inside covers, £2. 10s This copy originally sold for £5. 5s, and was afterwards priced by Thorpe £2. 128 6d. Hibbert's copy fetched £1. 178. These two volumes are very rare; the second, which is directed against the criticisms of J. Scaliger, under the name of Villiomarus, is so exceedingly scarce, that I never saw another copy; nor ever knew a scholar who possessed the book, indeed few know its existence. Rev. J. Mitford, 1831 "Ce traité fit honneur a l'erudition de l'auteur, et excita la bile de Joseph Scaliger, qui l'attaqua en ennemi et d'une manière tres violente. Titi defendit son livre en 1589, en vrai savant, et répondit à la critique injuste et violente de Scaliger, sans lui rendre injures pour injures." Dictionnaire Universel. 5996 TOBACCO. Cohausen, Raptus ecstaticus in Montem Parnassum, in eoque Visus Satyrorum Lusus cum nasis tobaco-prophoris, 12mo. calf, 2s 6d Amst. 1726 5997 VANINI (Jul. Cæs.) Amphitheatrum æternæ providentia divino-magicum, christiano-physicum, nec non astrologo-catholicum adversus veteres Philosophos, Atheos, Epicureos, Peripatetices et Stoicos, small 8vo. red morocco, gold borders, scarce, 14s Lugd. 1615 5998 VERGILII (Polydori) de Rerum inventoribus libri VIII. et de Prodigiis libri III. 12mo. engraved title, a portrait inserted, vellum, uncut, 18s Amst. Elz. 1671 "Des exemplaires non rognés ont été vendus 74 fr. F. Didot; 58 fr. Coulon; 44 fr. Labédoy." Brunet. 5999 VIDE (M. H.) Poemata omnia, curantibus J. A. et C. Vulpiis, 2 vols. 4to. portrait, calf gilt, 15s Patavii, 1731 6000 WOLFII (Joh.) Lectionum Memorabilium et Reconditarum Centenarii XVI. 2 vols. folio, engraved titles, portrait of the author, and numerous curious woodcuts including figures of monsters, representations of extraordinary Phenomena, etc.; original edition, with the best impressions of the woodcuts, nice clean copy, in old English calf, ornamented sides, £2. 2s Lavinga, 1600 Sold at the Roxburgh sale for £6. 16s 6d. This prodigious repertory appears never to have received that accurate and minute description to which its contents give it so decided a claim. The compiler, Wolfius, is said to have been employed on it during the greater part of his life, diligently transcribing from more than three thousand authors, chiefly Protestant, all the Anecdotes, Historiettes, Memorable Events, Sketches, Epigrams, Remarkable Prophecies, and an indescribable variety of other matters, which seemed worthy of insertion. Many of these relate to eminent Englishmen, and are probably extracted from some of our publications of the fifteenth century, with which the editor may have become acquainted during his residence in this country, as Ambassador from the Electors Palatine.-Though fragments constitute the leading feature of the work, yet frequently large and entire pieces are introduced, for example: the Satirical Poetry of Walter Mapes, (who distinguished himself for his wit, under K. Henry II., K. John, and K. Richard.)—A curious Comparison between Christ and Antichrist in verse, occupying 36 columns.-L. Capilupii Cento Virgilianus,—and various others.-The following lively notice contained in Dibdin's Decamerou may be appropriately subjoined. "On a rainy or a snowy day, when all looks sad and dismal without, my worthy friend and neighbour, Phormio, sometimes gives me a call,—and we have a rare set to at my old favourite volumes-the 'Lectiones Memorabiles et recondita' of Wolfius,-a common-place book of as many curious and extraordinary occurrences, as ever were introduced into two ponderous folios. The number of strange cuts in it used to amuse my dear children,whose parent, from the remembrance of the past, still finds a pleasing recollection in looking at them." II. SPECIMENS OF PRINTING, in curious types; Books printed on VELLUM, or Coloured Paper: Specimens of Old BINDING. 6001 GALTHERI (Philippi) Alexandreidos Libri decem nunc primum in Gallia Gallicisque Characteribus editi, small 4to. 84 leaves in Script-type (Lettres de Civilité) VERY RARE, fine copy, red morocco, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, £3. 10s Lugduni excudebat Robertus Granjon, 1558 Priced, 1827, Thorpe, morocco, £3. 38; sold in Marsh's sale for £2. 6s., in Watson Taylor's for £3. 58., in Mr. Dent's wanting the title and first leaf, for £2. 11s, and in the White Knights for £2. 18. A much inferior copy fetched at Mitford's sale, Dec. 20, 1859, at Sotheby's £3. 68. "Cette édition exécutée en caractères cursifs, dits de civilité, est peu commune et assez recherchée."-Brunet. A scarce poetical Romance. The author, a native of Lille, was Bishop of Maguelone in Languedoc, and was esteemed one of the best Latin Poets of his age. He is considered the author of the well-known Proverb "Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin," which occurs at folio 42 in this Poem. Galeottus Martius, who died in 1476, was the first to discover the author of the line in question, see Menagiana, edit. 1729, vol. i. p. 173. Erasmus was ignorant of this author, although we learn from Henricus Gandavensis de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, that the Alexandreis had been read in the schools. Barthius also, in his notes to Claudian, has words to the same effect Freinsheim, however, in his Comment on Quintus Curtius, confesses that he had never seen the work of Gaultier. Shakspeare, who caught the ray of every gem, has embodied this line in his Merchant of Venice, Act 111. Scene 5. See Steven's Shakspeare, edit. 1793, vol. v. pp. 490-2. 6002 APIANI CHOROGRAPHIA BAVARIAE: Beschreibung Obern und Nidern Bavern, ob. fol. 25 maps engraved on copper by P. Weiner, surrounded by Arabesques and Coats of Arms, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, interleaved with a MS. Contents of each map, very rare if not UNIQUE in this state, hf. bd. vellum, £10. P(1550) 6003 FEUDAL LAWS: Beau Traicté de la Diversité de Nature des Fiefs en Flandres, royal 8vo. printed, from a Manuscript written about the middle of the XVIth century, on ROSE COLOURED paper, russia extra, gilt edges and silk linings, 18s Gand. 1839 6004 FROMMENT, les Actes et Gestes merveilleux de la cité de GENEVE, nouvellement convertie à l'Evangille, redigez en fourme de Chroniques, commencant 1532; mis en lumière par Revilliod, 8vo. xxxii, 250 and ccxvi pp. numerous Etchings, printed on COLOURED PAPER, vellum, uncut, 30s Geneve, 1854 6005 GENNARI (G.) Annali della Citta di Padova, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. the only copy printed on large thick blue paper, done expressly for the Count Tomitano, with his autograph, vellum, uncut, £2. 10s Bassano, 1804 6006 MACHAZOR Italicum sive Judiacarum Precum totius Anni Italici Ritus ad Usum Hebræorum, Hebraice, 12mo. 351 leaves, printed upon vellum, unique, black morocco, gilt edges, £10. Bologna, 1558 The Headings to each division, as well as the Intitulations to each Prayer, are in LETTERS OF GOLD. Neither Van Praet nor Brunet mentions this beautifully printed edition, and no copy of it is to be found in the Grenville Collection. Sheet 32 has 10 leaves, all the rest 8 leaves each. 6007 THOMSON, les Saisons, poëme, traduit de l'anglais (par Mme. Bontemps) 8vo. beautifully printed on LARGE BLUE PAPER, cf. extra, gt. edges, 30s Par. Didot, 1795 Very few copies were printed on Blue Paper. 6008 ARISTIDIS ORATIONES, interprete Gul. Cantero, Graece et Latine, 3 vols. in 2, sm. 8vo. a beautiful copy in choice old red morocco, the back and sides elaborately tooled in excellent taste, gilt edges, a fine specimen of a rare style of tooling, £2. 10s (Genevae) Oliva Pauli Stephani, 1604 6009 BIBLE (ENGLISH). The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; the whole Book of Psalms, collected into English metre by Sternhold and Hopkins-together 3 vols. in 1, small 8vo. engraved title by Vaughan, fine copy, in old English red morocco, tooled back and sides, gilt edges, in beautiful preservation, £2. 2s Cambridge, John Field, 1661 Sold in Hollis' sale for £3. 13s 6d. A rare edition, containing an important substitution in the Acts, chap. vi. verse 3, where, instead of 'we may appoint,' is 'ye may appoint.' 6010 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRECUM, folio, ruled with red lines, a superb specimen of a rare style of red morocco binding, the back and sides covered with elaborate tooling of excellent design and workmanship, somewhat in the Grolier style, but differing by the greater freedom and by the introduction of floriated ornament; the whole has just been carefully revived by a first-rate London binder, £5.58 Lutetiae, ex offic. R. Stephani, 1550 In ordinary bindings, the above has been priced, by Treuttel, mor. £1. 128; 1847, Nattali, old calf, £1. 16s; Heath's copy in mor. fetched £4. 48; Roscoe's, £2.; Devonshire duplicate, £1. 11s 6d. "This is the splendid and critical edition of R. Stephen, which has so justly excited the admiration of the curious and learned. It contains various readings in the margin from the sixteen MSS. (including the Complutensian edition) which were consulted in the formation of the preceding ones; and the text is allowed to be not only more correct than that of the foregoing editions, but to be the parent of almost all the subsequent ones. Its intrinsic excellence has not only been acknowledged by every Bibliographer, but its celebrity has placed Stephen, the editor as well as printer, on a footing with the most distinguished literary characters in Europe." See Dibdin's Bibl. Spencer. V.p. 102. 6011 BIBLIA Sacra Vulgate Editionis, 4to. ruled with_red_lines, frontispiece and numerous vignettes, a beautifully printed book, in old red morocco, the back and sides covered with an elaborate tooling of the period, the gilding in parts slightly faded, but the design still quite perfect, £2. 2s Parisiis, e typog. Regia, 1653 For an account of the edition, see Dibdin's Bibl. Spencer., VII. p. 53. III. PROVERBS. 6012 FLORIATI Proverbiorum trilinguium Collectanea, Latina, Italia et Hispana, sm. 4to. 340 pp. vellum, clean copy, 30s Napoli, 1636 This very choice collection of Italian and Spanish Proverbs is unknown to Nopitsch and other bibliographers. 1811 6013 MACDONNEL's Dictionary of Quotations, from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian, with translations and illustrations, 12mo. hf. bd. 4s 6d 6014 MÉRY, Histoire générale des Proverbes, Adages, Sentences, et Apophthegmes, 3 vols. 8vo. sd. 12s 1822 Paris, 1828 6015 NOPITSCH, Literatur der Sprichwörter, 8vo. 2s Nürnberg, 1833 6016 SELECT PROVERBS, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, British (or Welsh), Italian, Spanish and French with English translations, 12mo. calf, 88 1707 6017 Arabic. Meidanii Proverbia Arabica, notis illustravit Schultens, 4to. 454 proverbs in Arabic and Latin, hf. bd. calf, 78 6d Lugd. Bat. 1795 6018 Chinese. DAVIS (Sir John F.) Chinese Novels, translated from the originals, to which are added Proverbs and Moral Maxims, 8vo. cloth, 38 6d 6019 Chinese Moral Maxims, with a free and verbal translation, affording examples of the grammatical structure of the Language, 8vo. cl. 78 6d Macao, 1823 6020 Danish. MEYER (J.) Dictionnaire des Proverbes Danois, 4to. 32 and 568 pp. in Danish, with a French translation, good copy in calf, 18s Copenhague, 1757 "Vol. peu commun et assez recherché,"-. '-Brunet. 6021 Dutch. TUINMAN, de Oorsprong en Uitlegging van Nederduitsche Spreekwoorden, 2 vols. in 1, with Supplements of Weather Proverbs, the School of Salerno, etc. stout sm. 4to. vellum, fine copy, 10s Middelburg, 1726-27 6022 English. JANUA LINGUARUM, turned from the Spanish into English by Wm. Welde, editio quarta, sm. 4to. containing several hundred proverbs in English and Latin, calf, 20s Lond. execudebat H. L. impensis Matt. Lownes, 1621 6023 RAY'S (Rev. J.) English Proverbs, also the most esteemed of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages, the fourth edition, 1768-Ray's Collection of English Words not generally used, with their Significations: Glossaries of North, South and East Country Words, Glossarium Northanhymbricum, 1768-2 vols. in 1, 8vo. bright old calf gilt, 10s 6024 French. BELLINGEN l'Etymologie ou explication des Proverbes François, divisée en trois livres, par chapitre en forme de dialogue, 12mo. original binding, 15s La Haye, Ad. Vlacq. 1656 Volume peu commun et rès-recherché. Vendu jusqu'à 38 fr. 50 c. Labédoy.—Brunet. |
