every press since the invention of printing;-nearly all the editiones principes of the classics, printed after 1500, the El-. zevir, Variorum, Delphin, and Baskerville classics. Our limits forbid an enumeration of the principal of these precious typographical Bijoux. We can only indicate a few of the rarest: Biblia Sacra, Mogunt. 1472, and Norimberg, 1475, (two copies); Apollonius Rhodius, Florence, 1496; Homeri Ilias et Odyssea, Florence, 1488; Constantine Lascaris's Grammatica Graca, apud Aldum, 1494; J. Lascaris's Anthologia Græca, Florence, 1494; Mammotrectus, Mogunt. 1470; Philelphi Satyra, Mediolani, 1476; Terentianus Maurus, de Metris &c. Horatii, Mediolani, 1497; the only copy in England, perhaps in the world. To these may be added the following copies on vellum; Cicero de Officiis, Fust, Mogunt. 1466; Anthologia Graca, 1494; Augustinus de Vita Christi, Mogunt. 1470; Platonis Opera, apud Aldum, 1513; and the celebrated erotic German poem of Teurduncks, Norimberg, 1517. The arrangements of the college of Glasgow render the advantages of the Hunterian Museum easily attainable: the hours of attendance for strangers are from twelve to two every day, Sundays excepted.

SECTION IV.

Catalogues of the principal British Private Libraries*.

Catalogue of a portion of the valuable Library of the late STANESBY ALCHORNE, Esq. To which are added the valuable duplicates of a nobleman. 1813, 8vo.

The author had accumulated a variety of materials relative to cata. logues of the principal private libraries, both British and foreign: but, finding that most of these had been copiously and ably treated in Mr.

Dibdin's

This catalogue contains only one hundred and eighty-seven articles: most of them are rare books and first editions printed in the fifteenth century, including some of the scarcest and most interesting specimens from the presses of Gutenberg, Fust, Schoiffer, Mentellin, Vindelin de Spira, Aldus, &c. among the foreign printers; and some of the rarest articles in the infancy of printing in England, by Caxton, Lettou, Machlinia, Wynkyn de Worde, and Pynson. The following articles will convey to the reader some idea of the value of this collection.

No.

116. Speculum Humanæ Salvationis; a MS. copied by Lescle-
part, with 58 drawings, representing complete fac-
similes of the rude efforts of engraving which decorate
the original. (It was formerly the Abbé Rive's.
p. 123, supra)

See

l. s. d.

10 15 0

58 16 0

121. Johannis de Janua Summa quæ vocatur catholicon. Guten

burg, Mentz, M.CCCC.LX. 122. Ciceronis Officia. Fust and Schoiffer, Mentz, 1466, 4to.- 26 15 6 123. Thomæ Aquinatis Secunda Secundæ, Schoiffer, 1467 124. Lactantii Opera. Sweynheym and Pannartz. Romæ,

1468

13 13 0

15 0 0

127. Valerius Maximus. Editio Princeps, by Mentellin, no

date

40 0 0

128. Idem, 2d edit. by Schoiffer, folio, Mentz, 1471

26 0 0

129. Idem, by Vindelin de Spira, fol. Venice, 1471

14 14 O

26 0 0

15 15 0

132. Orosi Historia, editio princeps, Augsburg, fol. 1471

133. Tortellius de Orthographia. Romæ, folio, 1471 134. Idem, Venice, Jenson, folio, 1471

135. Justinus, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Romæ, folio, 1472- 21 0 0 146. Euclidis Elementa, Latine, by Ratdolt, Venice, folio,

1472

11 11 0

Dibdin's Bibliomania (a work in the hands of every bibliographical student), the author has, after mature consideration, deemed it right to confine his accounts to such catalogues as are either cursorily noticed by Mr. D. or have escaped his researches; or which have been printed subsequently to the publication of his work. This statement it is hoped will acquit the author of apparent negligence in a subject so interesting to the lovers of books.

No.

154. Aristotelis Politica et Economica, folio. No printer's name,

place, or date

156. Horatii Opera, folio. Edit. 2da. No place, name, or date 38 17 0

BOOKS PRINTED BY CAXTON.

166. The Game of Chess. 1474

167. The Book named Cordyale. 1480

172. The Golden Legend. 1483

173. The Boke of Consolation of Philosophie 174. The Proufitable boke for Mañes Soule

PRINTED BY LETTOU AND MACHLINIA.

180. Hylton's Scala Perfeccionis, the Ladder of Perfeccyon, 1493 18 18 0

182. Vitas Patrum, Lives of the Fathers, 1495

183. Polychronicon, 1495

184. Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, 1498

185. Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, perfect

186. Dives and Pauper, 1493

PRINTED BY PYNSON.

187. Intrationum excellentissimus liber

59 17 0

The Alchorne catalogue is accompanied by concise bibliographical notices, by Mr. Dibdin.

Bibliotheca Askeviana; sive Catalogus Librorum rarissimorum ANTONII ASKEW, M. D. 1775, 8vo.

The sale of this library continued twenty-two days, and produced £4000. Copious specimens are given in the Bibliomania, pp. 515-520. The large paper copies are scarce and dear: small paper copies, with prices, cost from £1. Is. to £1. 5s.

Bibliotheca Askeviana Manuscripta, sive Catalogus librorum Manuscriptorum Antonii Askew, M. D. His adduntur, ex eadem bibliothecâ, auctores classici in quorum marginibus scripta sunt, suis ipsorum manibus,

doctissimorum virorum notæ, nempe Bentleii Magni, Chandleri, Chishulli, Joannis Taylori, Antonii Askæi [et] aliorum. 8vo. Lond. [1785.]

Two copies of this catalogue (one with prices) produced at Dr. Gossett's sale (No. 566) £6. 6s. Dr. Askew's valuable collection of MSS. were sold by auction for £1827. 13s. On the doctor's decease in 1774, they were offered for sale at two thousand guineas, but were refused on account of the magnitude of the price. Of the printed books with marginal notes, in this collection, the greater part was a legacy from Dr. Taylor, the editor of Lysias and Demosthenes, to Dr. Askew. The MSS. marginal notes and observations, which these books exhibit, are the production of several most eminent scholars. Among them are the handwritings of Gale, Bentley, Needham, Wasse, Chishull, Chandler, Waterland, Harris of Salisbury, Askew, Isaac Casaubon, Henry Stephens, and others. We select a few articles which may serve to excite the bibliographer's attention to this catalogue, whenever he may be fortunate enough to meet with it; observing, en passant, that the British Museum possesses a beautiful copy, inlaid in writing paper, with prices and purchasers' names, and elegantly bound, which was the late Rev. C. M. Cracherode's.

No.

BOOKS WITH DR. TAYLOR'S NOTES.

40. Aristophanis Comœdiæ, Gr. Lat. a Kustero, fol. Amst. 1710, 7. 10s. Dr. Rose.

52. Apollonius Rhodius, Gr. 4to. apud H. Steph. 1574. 71. Cambridge

University.

170. Homeri Opera. Gr. fol. interfol. Glasg. 1758, 71. 7s. Cambridge University.

190. Juvenalis Satyræ. fol. Paris, e Typog. Reg. 1644, 57. 5s. Cambridge University.

284. Taylori Marmor Sandwicense, cum additionibus MS.tis Jo. Taylori,

4to. Cantab. 1743, 5l. 10s. Mr. Gough.

288. Terentianus Maurus de Literis, &c. 12mo. Apud Sanctandr. 1684, 31. 3s. Cambridge University.

289. Idem Opus, cum notis plurimis MS. 4to. Paris, apud Colin. 1531, 4to. 91. Cambridge University.

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322. Chaucer's Works, folio, on vellum. Russia, 91. 9s. Mr. Steevens. On this book are the arms of Henry Dean, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Henry VII.'s reign. "This manuscript of Chaucer was given to the British Museum by Mr. Steevens, April 28, 1786." (Note in the Museum copy of this catalogue.)

370. Chishulli Inscriptiones, 3 tom. 4to. 217. Mr. Gough.

371. Chishulli Antiquitates Asiaticæ, inedita, fol. 597. 17s. British Mu

seum.

This is the second part of Chishull's Antiquitates Attica, of which only a few sheets were ever printed the death of the learned author prevented the completion of the work.

445. Cicero de Officiis. Codex pulcherrim. 4to. 117. Os. 6d. Marquis of Lansdowne.

446.

de inventione Rhetorica, cum capitalib. illuminat. Codex pulcherrim. 12mo. 51. 5s. The same.

473. Inscriptiones Veteres. folio. 17. 17s. Mr. Astle. N. B. This book belonged successively to Lord Somers, Sir Joseph Jekyll, and James West, Esq. The writing is very beautiful.

482. Livii Historia, decas prima, 300 Annor. MS. longe pulcherrimum. In prima litera conspicitur Urbs Roma: ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl. Askevius, corio Russico, foliis et tegmine deauratis. fol. 33. 12s. Sir Wm. Burrell.

621. Evangelia Græca. Codex Membr. vetustissimus, literis grandiusculis exaratus, 2 tom. ex monte Atho, 4to. 8. 18s. 6d. Mr. Lowes. This number was again sold by Mr. Leigh for 41. 4s. and purchased for the Museum, May 15, 1786. (MS. note in the Museum catalogue.) 622. Evangelia Græca. Codex Membr. Vetustissimus. Sæc. forte XI. corio Russico. 2 tom. 4to. 291. 8s. British Museum. This is a very fine manuscript, with splendid and illuminated drawings of three of the Evangelists.

623. Evangelia Græca, Codex Membr. perantiquus, ex Monte Atho ductus. Pictis figuris, scriptus Anno 1159. A Monacho Neptune, corio Russico, fol. 271. 6s. British Museum.

624.

Græca. Codex Membr. perantiquus, ex Monte Atho, coria Russico. fol. 201. Cambridge University. Among Dr. Askew's books and MSS. was a complete collection of the editions of Eschylus, some illustrated with MS. notes, and one or two, if not more, MSS. of the same author, which were purposely collected, for the future publication of an edition of Eschylus. A specimen only was printed in 1746, which is now very rare: it is intituled, Nova Editionis Tra