sacrament of the aulter, sm. 4to. the text in Roman letter, but the title in Gothic, calf gilt, £5. 58

Pryntyd in Zurych by Augustyne Fries. Anno M.D.XLVII. EXTREMELY RARE. Mr. Russell's copy sold for £6. The title-page, in black letter, is printed with the same type as Coverdale's first English Bible and the first Protestant French Bible.

38220 CALVIN. A faythfvll and moost Godlye treatyse concernyng the most sacred Sacrament of the blessed body and bloude of our sauioure Chryst, copiled by Ihon Caluyne . . . translated into Englyshe by a faythfull brother . . . [with] an Epistle to the reader much more effectuous then in the fyrst edicion. Whereunto the order that the Churche and congregation of Christ in Denmarke doth vse at the receyuyng of Baptisme, the Supper of Lorde, and Wedlocke: is added. Myles Couerdale . 16mo. black letter, a large sound copy, but some of the margins stained, purple morocco extra, gilt edges, £4. 4s [Without marks] This very rare little book was probably printed abroad about the year 1553. 38221 THE DIALOGUES OF CREATURES MORALYSED. Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late traslated out of latyn into our Englysshe tonge right profitable to the gouernaunce of man. And they be to sell, vpo Powlys churche yarde. Small 4to. black letter, with numerous curious woodcuts, a few leaves at the end very slightly wormed, otherwise a fine large copy, old English red morocco extra, gilt edges, £63. [Without marks]

EXCESSIVELY RARE; the first English edition. According to Lowndes, it is supposed to have been "printed, if not translated, by John Rastell." The compiler of the Huth Catalogue, however, says, "It was probably printed at Paris," and later than 1520, to which date the British Museum Catalogue assigns it. Hazlitt suggests Thelman Kerver of Paris as the printer.

Collation:, A-X, and AA-TT, in fours (the last leaf containing only two woodcuts).

38222 HENRY VIII. A supplycacion te our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge Henry the eyght, Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, & moste erneste defender of Christes gospell, supreme heade vnder God here in erthe, next & immedyately of his churches of Englande and Irelande. . 16mo. black letter, a fine copy, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £12. 12s

Enprynted in the yeare of oure Lorde. M.CCCCC.aliiij. in the moneth of Decembre. (1544) VERY RARE. Lowndes says that, according to Bale, this work was written by Richard Tracy.

Collation: A-C in eights, and D in six leaves.

38223 (LANEHAM.) A Letter Whearin, part of the entertainment vntoo the Queenz Maiesty, at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwik Sheer in this Soomerz Progress, 1575. iz signified: from a freend officer attendant in the Coourt, vnto hiz freénd a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London.. 16mo. black letter, a very good copy,

green morocco super extra, leather joints, gilt edges, £10. 10s
[Without marks, but 1575]

EXTREMELY RARE. This "Letter" is addressed to "Master Humfrey Martin Mercer," and signed at the end, "Par me R. L. Gent Mercer; and on page 44 the author calls himself "Laneham.' It is a contemporary account by an eye-witness of the entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Kenliworth Castle by the Earl of Leicester in 1575, and has the greater interest from being written in the Warwickshire dialect. On page 34 a certain Captain Cox is introduced as a man of "great oversight.. in matters of storie; " and then follows a long and interesting list of the romantic and humorous pieces in his repertory.

Collation Title, and pages 1-87 (number 55 being omitted).

38224 [NICHOLAS (Henry).] Evangelivm regni. A Ioyfull Message of
the Kingdom, published by the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu
Christ... Set-fourth by H N, and by him pervsed a-new and
more-distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne .
16mo. black letter, calf, lettered "Family of Love," £4. 10s
[Without marks]

EXTREMELY RARE. Printed abroad, about the year 1570.
Collation leaves (1)-100, including the Title.

38225 [NICHOLAS.] Dicta HN. Documentall Sentences: eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth. . Translated out of Base-almayne. 16mo. black letter, a fine copy, half bound, £3. 3s

...

[Without marks]

EXTREMELY RARE. Printed abroad, about the year 1570.
Collation leaves (1)-47, including the Title.

38226 RYDLEY AND LATYMER. Certe godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two Reuerende Fathers, and holye Martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer Sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of theyr emprysonmentes. Wherunto is added. Ă Treatise agaynst the errour of Transubstantiation, made by Rydley. M.D.LVI... 12mo. black letter, calf, £3. 38

(1556)

VERY RARE. The book bears no name of place or printer, but was evidently printed abroad. Collation: leaves (1)-67 (including the Title).

38227 THROCKMORTON. A discouerie of the treasons practised and attempted against the Queenes Maiestie and the Realme, by Francis Throckmorton, who was for the same arrained and condemned in Guyld Hall. . small 4to. fine tall and clean copy, red morocco extra, gilt edges, £4.

[Without name of place or printer, but London] 1584

This is the original document put forth by Queen Elizabeth's ministers to justify the execution of Francis Throckmorton, son of Sir John Throckmorton, Chief Justice of Chester, on account of conspiracy in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Small

38228 [TRAVERS (Walter).] A full and plaine declaration of Ecclesiasticall Discipline owt off the word off God, and off the declininge off the churche off England from the same. 4to. black letter, with the two rare folding tables, a very large copy, calf, £5. Imprinted. M.D.L.XXIIII. (1574)

Printed abroad.

MR.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. Published according to the True Origi nall copies. 1623.

Almost all books printed in England or in English during the first century of the existence of the press in this country-or, to speak more precisely, between 1477 and 1577—may be regarded as comprehensible in the present section of the Monumenta Typographica. But, although precluded by its date from incorporation in the body of the class, there is one other book which may fittingly serve to close this chapter of English Monuments of the Press. Its printers were not particular as to the fineness of the type or the goodness of the paper, or the correctness of the press-work; but I am nevertheless proud to record here my possession of a matchless copy of

THE FIRST FOLIO SHAKSPEARE, 1623; GENUINE, SOUND, FINE, AND VERY LARGE (13 inches in height), BOUND IN RED MOROCCO super extra, in the Veneto-English style of Queen Elizabeth's time, BY BEDFORD; which I will not sell for less than £1200.

This copy, equal in size and in every other respect to the famous Daniel copy, is the only first-rate first folio which has been seen since the Daniel sale twenty-three years ago. There are perhaps not four such copies in existence; and there is therefore no possibility of measuring their value by a reference to even the highest prices paid for ordinarily good copies.

SUPPLEMENT.

GERMANY.

(1459) Strassburg.

38229 AUGUSTINUS DE ARTE PREDICANDI. Fol. la blank. Fol. 1b: CANON PRECONMENDACOE HUIUS FAMOSI OPERIS SIUE LIBELLI SEQUĒTIS. DE ARTE PREDICANDI SANCTI AUGUSTINI Fol. 21b, line 7: Virginitatis laus magnifica. BH, sm. folio, gothic letter, fine large copy in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Lortic, from Lord Crawford's library, £21.

Fol. 2a, line-34-35: Iohanni mentelin incole argētenēsi

impressorie artis mgro [before 1466, ? 1464-65] This book, with its statement, in the preface, of the printer's name is a key to the identification of several of the earliest Strassburg books. This is the earlier of Mentelin's two issues, both of them being anterior, as Mr. Madden has proved, to the edition published by Fust at Mentz, which we know must have appeared before 1466. The probability is that 1464 is the true date. 38230 BIDPAY'S FABLES. DIRECTORIUM HUMANE VITE ALIAS PARABOLE ANTIQUORU SAPIENTU, sm. folio, gothic letter, 82 leaves, with 119 rude woodcuts, fine copy in red morocco gilt, gilt and marbled edges, by Duru, from Lord Crawford's library, £36.

Sine nota (Strassburg, Johann Pryss, about 1484-85) FIRST EDITION of a book of world-wide renown. The Book of Sendebar, Kalila and Dimna, the Hitopadesa, the Panchatantra, and the Directorium, or Pilpay's Fables, are all of identical character and substance. The actual Indian (?) original is probably no longer in existence, but is represented by the two Sanscrit works above mentioned. A Pahlavi version existed in the sixth century after Christ, and a Syriac and an Arabic version were derived from it not long afterwards. From Syriac it was rabbinized into literary Hebrew; and in the thirteenth century John of Capua, a converted Jew, translated the Hebrew Sendebar into the Latin Directorium.

The headings of the pages are in Roman numerals, according to the criterion which Brunet gives for determining the first edition.

38231 PTOLEMEI (Claudii) ... GEOGRAPHIE opus nouissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum (edentibus Jacobo ESZLER et Georgio UBELIN), large folio, having a few leaves slightly wormed, but on the whole an excellent copy, with the 47 woodcut maps, hf. bd. £20.

Argentine, Joannes Schott, 1513

The most remarkable of the early Ptolemies in its geographical importance. It contains two maps which were here printed for the first time, and which may undoubtedly be held to represent the cartographical labours of Amerigo Vespucci. One of them is the Hydrographia (or "Hydrographie Portugaise as it is often called), which forms the first of the supplementary maps; the other is the Tabula Terre nove, which is the second of that series, and which might be thought to contain the New-World portion of the Hydrographia engraved on a larger scale and more detailed, but it is really quite a different map. Only one map is alluded to in the address Ad Lectorem which precedes those supplementary maps, and it is said to have been presented to the editors more than six years earlier, by René Duke of Lorraine, when they had

commenced to work on the publication of Ptolemy. This fixes the real date of the work as 1507, although it was not completed for publication till 1513. 38232 VESPUCCI. DE ORA ANTARCTICA PER REGEM PORTUGALLIE PRIDEM INUENTA, sm. 4to. gothic letter, six leaves, with two separate woodcuts on the title-page, and three diagrams of which two represent constellations of the Southern heavens; fine copy in limp vellum, £36. Impressum Argentine per Mathiam hupfuff. M.v.ov. This edition of Vespucci's letter to Lorenzo di Pietro de Medici was published by Ringmann Philesius, and in his dedicatory epistle to Jacobus Brunus he refers to the astronomical discoveries it relates, and says"Libellum ipsum Alberici casu nobis peroblatum in transcursu, et singula ferme ad Ptolomeum (cuius tabulas ut nosti non versamus nunc indiligenter) comparavimus." This was written on the 1st of August, 1505, and proves two things firstly that Vespucci's Quattro Viaggi had not yet reached Philesius, and secondly that the Ptolemy Atlas was already in contemplation, eight years before its appearance.

(1465) Cologne.

38233 RODERICI ZAMORENSIS SPECULUM VITE HUMANE. [Front of 1st leaf:] Ad sanctissimü et. B. dominū. dñm Paulum secundum pötificem maximu. liber incipit dictus speculù vite humãe. Quia in eo cucti mortales in quouis fuint statu vel officio spüali à tpali speculabunt' eiu' artis & vite pspea et adusa: ac recte viuědi documēta: edit' a Rodoico zamorēsi et postea calagaritão hispano eiusde scitatis i castro suo sci angeli castellão. Small 4to. gothic letter, a fine large clean copy, calf neat, £4.

(Sine nota, sed Coloniæ, typis Ulrici Zell, circa 1468-70) RARE. Collation: 200 leaves, and 4 leaves of Table, a full page consisting of 27 lines.

38234 TERENTIUS. Fol. 16: Terentij vita excerpta de dictis. d. F. Petrarce.. Fol. 3 a: Teretij aphri poete comici liber in sex diuisus comedias: quar' pma Andria . sm. folio, gothic letter, fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, almost uncut, from Lord Crawford's library, £84.

S. n. (Typis Ulrici Zell, Coloniæ, circa 1471)

This copy is so large that the original MS. signatures are still visible. Only two other copies are known; one is imperfect, in the Laurentian Library at Florence, the other perfect in Lord Spencer's library. Dr. Dibdin misdescribes the latter copy as having been printed by Fust and Schöffer.-Zell's edition was the first in which the text was divided into verses.

38235 BOCCACCIO. Genealogie deorum gentilium iohannis bocatij cerdaldens' ad hugonem hierusalem et cipri regem liber . . . sm. folio, gothic letter, fine large copy in an Italian red morocco binding of the seventeenth century richly and elaborately gilt, £12. Sine nota (Cologne about 1472)

This is one of the books which will never cease to arouse curiosity and interest until we have finally penetrated the secret of Caxton's connexion with the press of Cologne in 1472-74.