brary, P. 11, N. 11. It was sold at Paris in 1792, and is now in the Bibliotheque Nationale *.

Mr. R. Wilbraham has a copy with nineteen vignettes.

Lord Spencer, in 1792, purchased a copy of this edition, which has also nineteen vignettes, of which, two are pen drawings.

Mr. Fountaine, of Narford Hall, in Norfolk, has also another copy with nineteen vignettes. The following extract on the subject is from Audefreddi Spec. Historico. Crit. Ed. Ital. Sæc. p. 288.

XV.

Nonnulla exstant exemplaria in quibus præter duas priores figuras in ipsis voluminis chartis impressas, (quas nulli exemplari deesse unquam observavi) sexdecim vel septemdecim aliæ figuræ ejusdem rationis ac priores duæ, in fronte sequentium canticorum Inferni, in quibus congruum spatium vacuum pro iis capiendis relictum fuit, (quod et factum fuit in fronte non modo aliorum canticorum inferni sed et Purgatorii, et Paradisi) agglutinatæ non autem in ipsis operis foliis impressæ cernuntur. Primum ex his vidi Romæ in Bibliotheca Vaticana, duo Florentiæ, alterum in Maliabecchiana, alterum apud cl virum doctorem de Marchis, quartum Romæ in bibliopolio Mich. Ang. Barbiellini: quod exem,

* See also a minute description of this particular copy in Laire's Index Librorum, Vol. 11. p. 40.

plum

plum superioribus annis a Laerio comparatum fuisse pro Bibliotheca Brienniana audivi. Hæ figuræ aeri incisæ sunt, et peritiorum judicio satis eleganter delineate. Non est nostri instituti de iis sermonem habere: videri tamen possunt quæ de iisdem disseruerunt Bottarius NELLE LETTERE PITTORICHE et Heineckenius in opere inscripto: IDEE GENERALE D'UNE COLLECTION COMPLETE D'ESTAMPES. Alibi monuimus figuras quæ ornant montem S. Ant. Bettini et ipsas aeri incisas, totum quadriennium figuras Dantis præcessisse. Exstabat olim hujus editionis exemplum ab initio ad finem ab excellentissimo Pictore Michaele Angelo Bonarotio mirifice delineatum nec minus eleganter illuminatum; quod dum mari Romam adveheretur naufragio periisse, narravit mihi olim cl. Præsul Bottarius.

An imperfect copy of this scarce book sold at Dr. Monro's sale for six guineas and a half. It had eight plates, and appears to have been the property of our Charles the First.

The Pinelli copy sold for eighteen guineas, and was bought by Mr. Tighe.

Concerning this book the reader may refer to Hoym's Cat. p. 184. De Bure, 3324. Valliere, 3563. Pinelli, vol. 4. no. 1913. Panzer, p.

409. 4 p. n. 300. Maittaire, p. 419.

In 1805, Messrs. Payne and Mackinlay had a superb copy of this edition, with nineteen vignettes, for which they demanded fifty guineas. Earl Spencer gave 100 guineas for his copy.

DE

DE BURE,

THE curious collector of books will not be displeased to see a few inaccuracies of this excellent Bibliographer corrected, and a few deficiencies filled up.

In the second volume of his "BIBLIOGRA, PHIE INSTRUCTIVE, No. 5649, he describes LAS OBRAS DE DON BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS, printed at SEVILLE, POR SEBASTIAN TRUGILLO, Y JACOMO CROMBERGER, in 1552. He represents this most curious and remarkably scarce book, as containing only five traits of the truly christian and benevolent author.

But the genuine edition, of which there is a fine copy in the Cracherode Collection, contains eight tracts. The three not mentioned by DE BURE, are these which follow:

6 Pedayo de una carta y relacion. Sine anno, 7 Avisos y reglas para los confessores. Sevilla, por Trugillo, 1552.

8 Principia quædam ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defendendam justitiam Yndorum. Impressum Hispali in edibus Sebastiani Trugilli. Sine anno.

It may not perhaps be known to every collector of books, that there are two editions of this work, one of which is a counterfeit, having the

same

same date, and being printed in the same form. But they may easily be distinguished, as the first and genuine edition is printed in gothic cha

racters.

Bibliographie Instructive: Belles Lettres, No,

3581.

OPUS QUOD DICITUR: RECOLLECTORIUM: EX GESTIS ROMANORUM, ET MORALIZATUM

CUM PLURIBUS APPLICATIS HISTORIIS, FABULIS, &c. Impr. Goudæ, per Gerardum Leeu, Anno Domini, 1480. in fol.

Of this very scarce and curious work, De Bure calls this the first book, but it is the second. See the catalogue of the Crevenna Library, No. 791, and the catalogue Raisonné de M. Cre-, venna. Vol. 6. p. 312.

No. 4096. Belles Lettres as before.

CABBALA DEL CAVALLO PEGASEO, con l'agiunta del' Asino Cilenica, descritta da Gior dano Bruno Nolano. In Parigi, Baio, 1585. in 8vo.

De Bure expresses a doubt, whether any such book as this is to be found, but there is certainly a copy in the library of M. Hoblin: see his ca talogue, No. 2001.

No. 4030. LUCIANI SAMOSATENSIS OPERA OMNIA, GRÆCE. Florentiæ, anno 1496, in fol.

This is the first edition of Lucian, of which there is a magnificent copy on vellum, in the Duke of Marlborough's Library at Blenheim.

No.

No. 2217. CONSTANTINI LASCARIS BYZANTINI Grammatica Græca, Græcé ex recognitione Demetrii Cretensis, cujus præfixa epistola apparet in fronte voluminis. Mediolani, per Dionysium Paravisinum. Anno, 1476, in 4to.

De Bure had seen a copy of this book in a private collection at Paris, which he calls defective, as wanting l'Epitre latine de Lascaris. For Lascaris read Demetrii Cretensis.

No. 2276. Belles Lettres.

JOANNIS DEJANUA Ordinis Fratrum Prædicatorum, SUMMA quæ vocatur CATHOLICON. Opus impressum Moguntiæ per Johannem Fust et Petrum Schoyffher de Gernsheim, anno incarnacionis Dominice. 1460. in fol.

This book has often been described, and also been the occasion of many learned and elaborate discussions. It is therefore somewhat surprising that De Bure's account of it is not more accurate.

He represents it as beginning: Liber Catholicon incipit, whereas it commences thus:

Incipit Suma quæ vocat' Catholicon edita a Fratre Johanne de Spira, Ordinis fratrum Prædicatorum.

No. 2333. Belles Lettres.

De Bure describes the quarto edition of Longinus by Tollius, with the notes of Dacier, and the French version of Boileau, but he omits to make mention of the Editio Princeps of Lon

ginus,