(1553)—3 vols. in 1, 16mo. with the signature "Nar. Luttrell: His Book 168% on the fly-leaf, old calf, RARE, £4. 4s

1553

The first of these three pieces (Gardiner's De Vera Obediencia) though of the same title and printed on the same day as the edition first above, is quite differently arranged, as the following collation will show:-12 preliminary leaves, folios (i.)-lx (number xvi is repeated, and a number xlv is inserted between 55 and 56), and six leaves of "The Translatour to the Reader."

Collation of An Admonishion: A in eight leaves. Collation of Whether Christian faith, &c. : a in eight leaves.

38214 ADMONISHION (An) to the Bishoppes of VVinchester, London and others &c. 24mo. a little cut in the side-notes, red morocco

extra, gilt edges, RARE, 35s

From Roane by Michael wood, Anno. M.D.Liii. . the first of
October. (1553)

38215 DIALOGVE (A) or familiar talke betwene two neighbours, cocernyng the chyefest ceremonyes, that were, by the mighti power of Gods most holie pure worde, suppressed in Englande, and nowe for our vnworthiness, set vp agayne by the Bishoppes, the impes of Antichrist: . . 16mo. with a portrait of Queen Mary by Delaram added, blue morocco, gilt edges, £2. 12s 6d From Roane, by Michael wodde, the .xx. of February. Anno Domi. M.D.LIIII. (1554)

:

VERY RARE. Collation A-E in eights (the last leaf having been blank). 38216 LESSELIE (Jean, Evesque de Rosse) du Droict et Tiltre de Maric Royne d'Escosse et de Jaques VI à la Succession du Royaume d'Angleterre, 12mo. with genealogical table, woodcut border to title, sd. £5.

Zürich.

Rouen, 1587

38217 HARRYSON. Yet a course at the Romyshe fox. A dysclosynge or openynge of the Manne of synne, Cōtayned in the late Declaratyon of the Popes olde faythe made by Edmonde Boner bysshopp of London whereby wyllyam Tolwyn was than newlye professed at paules crosse, openlye into Antichristes Romyshe relygyon agayne by a newe solempne othe of obedyence, notwythstadynge the othe made to hys prynce afore to the contrarye... Compyled by Iohn Harryson . . . 16mo. some leaves mended, calf neat, £2. 16s

[On front of leaf 99:] imprented at Zurik by Olyuer Iacobson.. Anno Domini . . 1543. the x. daye of Decebre

VERY RARE. This piece is attributed to John Bale, Bishop of Ossory. Collation: leaves (1)-99 (including the Title), and 17 leaves of Table. 38218 HOOPER. A Declaracion of Christe and of his offyce compylyd, by Iohan Hoper, Anno 1547 . . . 16mo. a fine clean copy, with Bishop Hooper's autograph inscription, "Sorori mee Anne Uxori Gilpini Joannes Hoper. D.D.", old calf, £4.

38219

VERY RARE.

Pryntyd in Zvrych by Avgustyne Fries. Anno .
M.D.XLVII. (1547)

Collation: A-L in eights, and M in six leaves.

An answer unto my lord of wynchesters booke intytlyd a detection of the devyls Sophistrye. wherwith he robbith the unlernyd people of the trew byleef in the moost blessyd

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

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.xliiij. in the moneth of Decembre. (1544) Lowndes says that, according to Bale, this work was

VERY RARE.

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. 38

[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. A Treatise agaynst the errour of Transubstantiation, made by .. Rydley. M.D.LVI... 12mo. black letter, calf, £3. 3s (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.

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.

Small

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 PRECONMENDACÕE HUIUS FAMOSI OPERIS SIUE LIBELLI SEQUETIS. 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